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Asia looses billions due to poor employment opportunity for women: Report - April 29, 2011
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WORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE ASSEMBLY CLOSES IN THAILAND
More than 500 senior evangelical leaders gathering in Pattaya, Thailand from October 25-30, 2008, have wrapped up their General Assembly, after five days of intensive discussion to plan the way forward in world evangelization, reports Michael Ireland, chief correspondent, ASSIST News Service.
On Wednesday, delegates agreed upon six major resolutions setting out an evangelical response to religious liberty, HIV and Aids, poverty, peacemaking, creation care and the global financial crisis, according to a media release obtained by ANS.
“The worldwide financial turmoil is, at its root, evidence of what happens when too many are captivated by greed and put their faith in, and entrust their security and future aspirations to, a system animated by the maximization of wealth. Many legitimately feel betrayed,” read the resolution on the global financial crisis.
“While we hope that the painful consequences of the turmoil will be mitigated, our concern is that its impact will continue to permeate into more regions and economies of the world. We recognize that this economic crisis will have the most painful impact on the poor, who are the most vulnerable.
“We reaffirm our faith in God and acknowledge that He is in control. We repent when we have placed our trust in money, institutions and persons, rather than God. Our security is not found in the things of this world.”
The resolution called on Christians to care for the poor during the crisis and live simply and generously.
“The Body of Christ, His Church, is living with HIV,” stated the resolution on HIV, a major focus area for the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). “With brokenness we admit that as Evangelical Christians we have allowed stigmatization and discrimination to characterize our relationships with people living with HIV. We repent of these sinful attitudes and commit to ensuring that they are changed.”
In the preamble to the resolution on the Millennium Development Goals, evangelical leaders stated, “In coping with the financial crisis of 2008, governments and international institutions have shown how quickly and effectively they can move to mobilize massive resources in the face of serious threats to our global, common economic well being.
“Yet one child dying of preventable causes every three seconds and 2.7 billion people barely sustained on an income of less than two dollars per day has yet to evoke a similar level of urgent response.
“We believe this to be an affront to God, a shame to governments and civil society, and a massive challenge to the witness and mission of the followers of Christ.”
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) international director Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe told delegates that they faced additional challenges to fulfilling the Great Commission from radical secularism, postmodernism, declining Christianity at the same time as growing interest in spirituality, trafficking and migration.
He insisted, however, that great challenges also brought great opportunities for evangelical engagement.
“We see this tremendous growth and this seismic shift in the church around the world and we are excited to what God is doing as he raises up women and men around the world in so many different places,” he said.
“As we think about the global reality of the world in which we live, [there are] immense challenges but also immense opportunities.”
Dr Tunnicliffe also said that the WEA would remain committed to integral mission “or holistic transformation, a proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel”.
“It is not simply that evangelism and social involvement are done alongside of each other but rather in integral mission proclamation has social consequences. We call people to love and repentance in all areas of life,” he said.
He reaffirmed the WEA’s commitment to world evangelization.
“If anyone tells you that we’ve gone soft on world evangelization you can tell them that we are totally committed to world evangelization because it is only Jesus Christ that changes people’s lives,” he said.
A highlight of the week was an address from the Rev Joel Edwards, who was commissioned during the assembly as the new director of Christian anti-poverty movement Micah Challenge.
In his address, the former head of the UK Evangelical Alliance told delegates that the power to rehabilitate the word ‘evangelical’ lay in their hands.
“Whatever people think of evangelical Christians, if people are going to think differently about evangelicals the only people who can actually change their minds are evangelicals,” he said.
“We must reinvent, rehabilitate and re-inhabit what evangelical means as good news. We must present Christ credibly to our culture and we should seek to be active citizens working for long-term spiritual and social change.
“Words can change their meaning. If 420 million evangelicals in over 130 nations across the world really wanted it to happen, evangelical could mean good news.”
In another key address, the head of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, the Rev Richard Howell said that an identity anchored in Christ and a universal God was an evangelical non-negotiable in an age of pluralism.
“We have but one agenda: obedience to the Triune God revealed in Jesus Christ,” said Dr Howell. “We are evangelical Christians for the sake of God.”
“Our identity has to be related back to God. Unless we do that, we will never know who we are. Our identity comes from God and God alone.”
“The Christian belief in the oneness of God implies God’s universality, and the universality implies transcendence with respect to any given culture.
“Christians can never be first of all Asians, Africans, Europeans, Americans, Australians and then Christians.”
The assembly also heard from the Chair of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE), Douglas Birdsall.
The WEA is collaborating with the LCWE in its major Cape Town 2010 meeting, which will bring together 4,000 evangelicals to assess the next steps in realizing the movement’s vision of ‘the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world’.
“You might ask is there a need for an international congress that deals with world evangelization,” Birdsall told the assembly. “I would say that throughout history, such a gathering is only necessary when the future of the life of the church is threatened by some type of challenge – either internal challenge or external pressure.”
The assembly also saw the launch of the WEA Leadership Institute, a brand new initiative to see the leaders of the WEA’s 128 national alliances trained to serve and proclaim Christ within some challenging contexts.
“Leading an Evangelical Alliance is not easy,” commented Dr Tunnicliffe. “That’s why we want to provide them with the relevant training and resources.”
Also commissioned during the week was the new leader of the WEA’s Religious Liberty Commission, Sri Lankan national Godfrey Yogarajah.
Dr Tunnicliffe rounded up the assembly with a call to evangelicals to keep in step with God’s work on earth.
“It is my prayer that we in our community will be women and men who live with divine purpose within our lives, that we will be good leaders envisioned by God to make a difference in the world,” he said.
“The most important thing that you can do with your [life] is to integrate it into the never ending story of God’s kingdom. God’s already at work in the world. He’s doing things. We just need to align with what He is doing.”
World Evangelical Alliance is made up of 128 national evangelical alliances located in 7 regions and 104 associate member organizations. The vision of WEA is to extend the Kingdom of God by making disciples of all nations and by Christ-centered transformation within society. WEA exists to foster Christian unity, to provide an identity, voice and platform for the 420 million evangelical Christians worldwide.
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Inductor in A.C. Circuit
I am reading about inductors connected in A.C. Circuits. I understand mathematically that the current lags behind voltage. But what is the physical explanation for this?
My understanding:
As the emf of the alternating source increases, an opposing emf of equal magnitude is induced in the inductor due to self induction. But if this the case, how can current flow? One emf tries to push electrons one way and the other emf tries to push electrons the other way?
I came across a similar question here:If induced voltage (back-emf) is equal and opposite to applied voltage, what drives the current? but there were so many answers that I don't know what is right)
I hope that the answer to this question will help me figure out other questions like how current increases when the emf decreases.
electromagnetism electric-circuits electromagnetic-induction induction
Gokulakrishnan ShankarGokulakrishnan Shankar
$\begingroup$ The magnetic field in the inductor wants to maintain its steady state condition (see Lenz's Law for a closely related subject). Because of this, as the polarity in the AC circuit changes, the inductor "fights" this, and it takes time for the instantaneous emf of the circuit to change the magnetic field in the inductor. Due to this, the current in the inductor always lags the emf across the inductor. $\endgroup$ – David White Aug 19 '18 at 1:10
$\begingroup$ @GokulakrishnanShankar I have added an answer to the question in the link that you have quoted which may help answer your question? physics.stackexchange.com/a/423571/104696 $\endgroup$ – Farcher Aug 19 '18 at 16:08
The answer to your question lies in the fact that you are dealing with two different electric fields which are competing with one another and that the non-conservative electric field produced by the inductor owes its existence to a changing magnetic flux produced by a changing current in the circuit.
One electric field produced by the voltage source is trying to change the current and the other electric field produced by the inductor is trying to stop the change in current but the change in current has to happen because if it didn't the electric field produced by the inductor would cease to exist.
The definition of self-inductance $L$ is $L=\frac {\Phi}{I}$ where $\Phi$ is the magnetic flux and $I$ is the current.
Differentiating the defining equation with respect to time and then rearranging the equation gives $\frac{d\Phi}{dt} = L\frac{dI}{dt} \Rightarrow \mathcal E_{\rm L} = - L\frac{dI}{dt} $ after applying Farday's law where $\mathcal E_{\rm L}$ is the induced emf which is going to try and prevent any change in the current.
Consider a series circuit which consists of an alternating voltage source and an ideal inductor.
The alternating voltage source is trying to change the current in the circuit by varying the electric field in the circuit.
The inductor is trying to oppose any change to the current and hence the magnetic flux by producing a non-conservative electric field in opposition to the field produced by the voltage source.
The strength of the non-conservative field which will oppose the electric field trying to change the current in the circuit is determined by the rate of change of current in the circuit.
Suppose the current and the supply voltage are in phase with another as in graph 1.
Just after time A the electric field due to the supply voltage is increasing which leads to an increase in the current in the circuit.
The inductor needs to generate an electric field which tries to negate small electric field produced by the voltage source.
However, at this time the rate of change of current is a maximum.
At time B the electric field produced by the voltage source is large and to negate its effect the inductor must produce a large electric field in the opposite direction yet at this time the rate of change of current is near zero.
Suppose that the current leads the supply voltage by $90^\circ$ as in graph 2.
The good news is that at this time the rate of change of current very small, but the electric field produced by the inductor would be in the same direction as the electric field produced by the voltage source.
At time B there is a large rate of change of current so that the inductor would produce a large electric field to negate the electric field produced by the voltage but again that field is in the wrong direction.
You could go on like this until you get to graph 3 where the supply voltage leads the current by $90^\circ$ and you will find that at all times the magnitude of the electric field produced by the inductor mirrors that produced by the voltage source but is opposite in direction.
In terms of energy the graphs of supply voltage, current and power produced by the voltage source look like this. if the phase difference if $90^\circ$.
The darker green areas represent energy flowing from the voltage source to the inductor and the lighter green areas represent energy floring from the inductor to the voltage source.
A corresponding power graph for the inductor would be the mirror image of the one for the voltage source.
Overall the important thing to realise is that even if two emf in a circuit look as though they negate each other there can still be a transfer of energy between the two sources of emf.
FarcherFarcher
$\begingroup$ But in the last graph (the coloured one), it looks like the current leads the voltage.... Am I getting it wrong? $\endgroup$ – Gokulakrishnan Shankar Aug 28 '18 at 15:10
$\begingroup$ @GokulakrishnanShankar You are correct and I have switch two labels in the graph to show the voltage leading the current. $\endgroup$ – Farcher Aug 28 '18 at 15:25
$\begingroup$ Thanks a lot! I understand now... Just one last question: why "non conservative" electric field? $\endgroup$ – Gokulakrishnan Shankar Aug 28 '18 at 15:55
$\begingroup$ @GokulakrishnanShankar If the work done between two points is not independent of the path taken then the field is non conservative. Have a look at this video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjl-qRy71w $\endgroup$ – Farcher Aug 28 '18 at 17:34
As the emf of the alternating source increases, an opposing emf of equal magnitude is induced in the inductor due to self induction. But if this the case, how can current flow?
But the induced emf isn't there unless the current through the inductor is changing. From the Wikipedia article Inductance:
In electromagnetism and electronics, inductance is the property of an electrical conductor by which a change in electric current through it induces an electromotive force (voltage) in the conductor.
Your first sentence in your quote above is essentially correct but you must also understand that the opposing emf, due to self induction, implies that the current is changing.
For an ideal inductor with a non-zero voltage across, the current through can be finite only if the voltage across and the induced emf are equal in magnitude. Since the emf is zero when the current through is constant, it follows that when there is a voltage across the inductor, there is a changing current through.
You might find my answer here helpful.
Alfred CentauriAlfred Centauri
$\begingroup$ 1) So in order for the induced emf to become equal to the voltage of the source, there must be current changing in the inductor, right? $\endgroup$ – Gokulakrishnan Shankar Aug 19 '18 at 3:17
$\begingroup$ @GokulakrishnanShankar, (1) in order for there to be any (induced) emf at all, the current must be changing and (2) the current must changing at just the right rate such that the induced emf has the same magnitude as the voltage of the source. $\endgroup$ – Alfred Centauri Aug 19 '18 at 12:49
The mathematical explanation is
$$ V = L \frac{{\rm d}I}{{\rm d}t}$$
which is just the mathematical definition of the term inductor.
If you turn this around,
$$\frac{{\rm d}I}{{\rm d}t} = \frac{V}{L}$$
If this tells you that, for example if $I$ is negative, and you start applying a positive current, the current will only then start to trend positive. And it won't actually reach a positive value until some finite time after you've applied the positive voltage.
Then once current goes positive, the same thing happens when you apply a negative voltage --- you have to wait before you'll get a negative current.
The PhotonThe Photon
imagine that the inductor is a mass, and the voltage is a force acting on that mass, and the current is the velocity of the mass.
we start with the mass (inductor) at rest, with velocity (current) equal to zero. you apply a force (voltage) to the mass (inductor). at the instant you apply that force (voltage), the velocity (current) of the mass (inductor) is zero. and as it then accellerates, the velocity (current) in the mass (inductor) still lags behind force (voltage).
niels nielsenniels nielsen
Your question implies that the voltage across an inductor is equal to the difference between the applied voltage (emf) and the opposing voltage (back emf) and, since the back emf is equal to the applied voltage, the resulting voltage on the inductor should be zero.
In reality, if you apply some voltage to an inductor and actually measure it with a voltmeter, you'll see that the voltage is not zero, but is, in fact, equal to the applied voltage, which causes the current in the inductor to grow according to the familiar equation: $V_{appl}= L \frac {di} {dt}$.
So, although the concept of the "back emf" is very useful, it should not be treated as a real voltage, since that would lead to the incorrect conclusion that the net voltage across an inductor is always zero. It is not.
A possible mechanical analogy is Newton's second law, $F_{appl}=ma=m \frac {dv} {dt}$. We could call $ma$ a Back Force and treat it as a real force acting on a body in response to the applied force $F_{appl}$, in which case we could, mistakenly, conclude that the net force acting on a body is zero and, therefore, the body should not accelerate.
V.F.V.F.
$\begingroup$ You are right that emf is not voltage, but unfortunately your analogy is misleading. It suggests that induced EMF is not a measure of additional force, but only a manifestation (acceleration) of the real forces measured by voltage (impressed force). But in fact in EM theory both voltage forces and induced electromotive forces are real and contribute to total force. In low ohmic resistance coil they largely cancel out though and the tiny difference is what makes the current accelerate/decelerate. $\endgroup$ – Ján Lalinský Mar 9 '19 at 23:44
$\begingroup$ @JánLalinský "In low ohmic resistance coil they largely cancel out though and the tiny difference is what makes the current accelerate/decelerate." So, if the resistance was zero, the difference between the applied voltage and EMF would be zero and the current would not "accelerate" at all? $\endgroup$ – V.F. Mar 10 '19 at 1:04
$\begingroup$ No, becase emf in ideal inductor is given by $-LdI/dt$, so if emf is non-zero, current will change in time. The lower the ohmic resistance of real coil, the lower the difference between emf and voltage needed for given $dI/dt$. $\endgroup$ – Ján Lalinský Mar 10 '19 at 2:38
$\begingroup$ @JánLalinský You've said: "...the tiny difference is what makes the current accelerate...". According to this, if the difference between the applied voltage and EMF (L di/dt) is zero, the current won't accelerate. I am saying: L di/dt term (which is the difference between the applied voltage and IR) is what makes the current accelerate. The mechanical analogy of of this difference is the difference between the applied force and the friction and this difference would be responsible for the mechanical acceleration, ma. $\endgroup$ – V.F. Mar 10 '19 at 12:48
$\begingroup$ no, you are misapplying my statement above (which was meant for a real coil) to the idealized case of zero ohmic resistance. Of course, non-zero emf alone implies non-zero current acceleration, regardless of what the difference between EMF and voltage is. But this does not mean that forces quantified by the term $LdI/dt$ alone make the current accelerate. It is the vector sum of both electrostatic forces (q. by voltage) and induced electric forces (q. by EMF) that make the current accelerate. In the ideal case of zero resistance, it is just that such difference needed is zero. $\endgroup$ – Ján Lalinský Mar 10 '19 at 19:00
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Thoughts – Wii U, E3, Community Reaction
Grubdog Industry Health 2012/06/05 2012/11/07 5 Minutes
Holy shit! This is the most excited I’ve ever been about a new game console – Nintendo blew my mind with their presentation and I loved every little thing. In fact, the little things were the best part. No catchy title here; I’m just going to run through my thoughts as I watched the conference, and then afterwards when I looked around the community.
Pikmin 3 looks absolutely wonderful; it was everything I hoped for after being such a huge fan of the original games all those years ago on GameCube. The game had my heart with a charming introduction, with the creator Miyamoto having fun with his creations and the audience. He didn’t try and convince us it was “the best”, he just showed his game. The graphics are astounding, the environments look beautiful and lively. The interaction has been stepped up a notch with MotionPlus precision and destructible objects, and the whole experience looks fleshed out and interesting with a strategic challenge mode and new abilities.
Zombi U, this game is the much-needed evolution of horror games. Inventive gameplay and brand new concepts involving multiplayer and different views with the tablet, complete with a polished look (this surprised me, after rumours of development troubles) and great graphics, with dry QTE sequences nowhere to be seen. It’s a truly terrifying thought that you can die from a single bite, and this idea is much more refreshing than recent games that have tried to evolve the horror genre by making zombies more exaggerated. Zombi U has the simplest, slowest zombies I’ve seen, yet the fear factor is unprecedented. Despite not having super-speed, rallycross skills and the ability to accurately control turret guns, these zombies are a big threat to your survival.
Nintendo Land is what got me the most excited. A park full of 12 games that use every feature of the new controller, and deliver it with Nintendo’s best franchises. The Animal Crossing game has one player defending fruit with the Wii U Tablet, while the other players use the Wii remotes and the TV to team up and outsmart the guards controlled by the tablet. The possibilities in just this one game are AWESOME, every player is going to have a different way of using the tablet, and teamwork will be a deciding factor – so will tricking the other players. The Luigi game also looks like a lot of fun; it’s what Pac-Man Vs should have been now that we don’t have to connect 4 Game Boys to the TV with cords. What’s the most exciting part of this? Seven of the park attractions haven’t been shown yet. Imagine the franchises they could use, one of them could be a Captain Falcon arm wrestling game. This game benefits from Nintendo’s diverse catalog of franchises – it’s a great wonder. Just looking at this Donkey Kong level gives me a boner.
Wow, what’s next! Lego City Stories impressed me too, the world they’ve made looks very fleshed out and has a lot of personality. In fact, almost every single game shown for Wii U was quality. Batman, an already great game that people loved and voted Game of the Year, has a new level of interactivity added with the tablet. Scribblenauts finally has open levels and will work much better on the Wii U tablet than on DS; the DS version was fun but it felt like more of a concept to me than a full game. Mario Wii U has some crazy level design, though I’m not a huge fan of the artstyle; the look is still functional. I didn’t care for New SMB’s graphics either, but still spent 100 hours with the game on Wii. We’ve got brand new Mario and Rayman platformers that use a new control method, isn’t that fucking exciting? Don’t you just want to grab people in the street and tell them all about the Wii U?
No, people don’t give a shit. While I was in my own little world with my friends enjoying, laughing, and being amazed at the Wii U concepts shown in the conference stream, the internet had a big fat whinge because it wasn’t the conference they wrote the day before. My huge grin slowly faded into a confused look as I logged into Twitter and opened up some of the most popular gaming websites and forums. Pikmin 3 is just.. some low tier Nintendo game for kids. Zombi U is somehow irrelevant because it was “shown yesterday”. God forbid Nintendo let Ubisoft talk about their own game, along with an exclusive Rayman platformer designed around the new controller. The Nintendo Land concept is apparently stupid and it will flop, because mini-games aren’t real games. Nintendo spent “too long” focusing on the games most people will be spending time with at Wii U’s launch, and a game that will probably sell 40 million copies just like those other non-games on Wii nobody asked for.
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Nintendo Land is a vessel for Nintendo’s most creative ideas for their new Wii U console, and they shouldn’t have to apologise for that.
Project P-100 was even a victim of ridicule, announced after the conference. A game that people were practically BEGGING for during the Sony and Microsoft conferences, when brown shooters and cinematic experiences were the cool thing to hate. Somehow, the director of Viewtiful Joe, Resident Evil 2, Bayonetta, Okami, and Devil May Cry will suddenly make a crap game. Not only that, but since Sega’s complete self-destruction in recent weeks, PlatinumGames no longer have a stable publisher. Until now, that is. By publishing this game, Nintendo has potentially saved this precious company from going under. Of course, there’s no time to think about that! Wii U has the spotlight and we have to voice an opinion before it’s too late! At this point the Wii U hate-train has picked up so much speed that logic is completely absent.
“Nintendo had nothing. Where’s Metroid, Zelda, Starfox?”
Does anyone really think these games aren’t coming? YOU WANT TO SEE THEM? Boot up your fucking GameCube. Oh wait, you don’t have one because you never played Pikmin either. The same people who didn’t play Skyward Sword or Other M are crying in desperation for a new Zelda and Metroid they won’t play. Can you blame Nintendo for not showing these titles when fanfare for each series is at an all-time low?
I’ve never been so ashamed and felt so disconnected to gamers, to the point where I’m questioning my place on the internet. Either I don’t belong here, or the entire world needs a fundamental change in attitude. I feel so bad right now that I can’t sleep, it’s approaching 8am in Australia and I’ve been up all night reading shit like this.
“That was the worst fucking conference i’ve seen in my life”
“You just broke my heart Nintendo.. I AM DEVASTATED”
“That’s it, I’m done. I’m selling all my Nintendo games and consoles tomorrow. You just lost a fan, and not just any fan, a big one.”
“The lack of Call of Duty on the software line up is disturbing”
“Nintendo took themselves, their fans and Core gamers and drove everybody off a cliff today”
The extreme hyperbole is psychotic. Nintendo are being treated like criminals for showing new games. Nintendo shows the world user experiences with a new console, and new interactions in games for the entire one hour of their briefing, and “gamers” cry for lists and stats to brag about. It’s embarrassing.
There’s about 6 games I want to buy on launch day for Wii U, and more to be announced. I don’t have time for this fucking bullshit internet bubble anymore. If you were disappointed by a company showing videogames, then I suggest you grow up.
The shining light is that Nintendo just doesn’t give a fuck, and will continue doing what they do. I’m confident Wii U will be their most successful console yet when it comes out in the real world. I now feel good enough to go to sleep – see you all when the dust settles.
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Matto says:
First of all, thank you for doing this. The negativity towards their conference is just pissing me off despite the fact THEY ANNOUNCE SHIT OUTSIDE OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE TOO! IGN’s conference review? Fuck off IGN, why the fuck do you review of PRESS CONFERENCE?!
Also, fun fact: Anarchy Reigns, that MadWorld sequel? Guess what? Platinum doesn’t know when Sega will release it outside of Japan. Nintendo tells Kamiya to make a new game, and it looks amazing.
FUCK THIS INDUSTRY. I quit.
ign hates nintendo its been proven fact.
cresent soul says:
pretty sure it’s proven before 😛
tofufury says:
Thank you for bringing sanity among all this negative noise on the internet. While I don’t know if I’ll buy a Wii U at launch, it’s not because of disappointment. Psyched for Nintendoland, and I have no clue as to why it’s getting all the hate. Gaming’s become too serious, people need to learn how to have fun and relax.
yeah, what i don’t understand is that the conference is treated like it was to show everything that was to come for the years to come, when people should really have kept the expectations to just launch line up.
RABicle says:
There were three problems:
1. No Iwata
2. No new Reggie catchphrases
3. No new unannounced games unless you count WiiFitU
EarthViper says:
“I like French Food” has potential lol
Urkel says:
I guess Nintendo should’ve stated beforehand that they were only going to discuss launch window titles. It seems people were expecting them to show everything they had in development.
Even if they did, people still would’ve bitched regardless.
exactly there were ready to hate from the beginning.
personally, I’d prefer these games to be shown when they are nearly done, and I also prefer more new sutff for future e3s.
Daniel Narbaiz (@Nintemple_Maxi) says:
I could probably write an entire article about my experiences today about the Nintendo Conference and the reactions it got but I think I can sum it up in one word. Entitlement.
“Nintendo lost the momentum with its fans.”
Julian, stop retweeting stupid shit.
DigitalGreenTeaV _DGTV_ says:
This is incredible – exactly my thoughts on this whole thing as well!
YOU sir have earned my respect!! I will now follow this site.
I’m so glad I found this site. You summed it up perfectly. People feel entitled to things from Nintendo. They demand a new Mertoid, Star Fox and Zelda. Nintendo never even hinted at showing those things. Someone started that rumour and the internet ran with it.
Thank you for showing me that there are still people who apprecate games in the world. The conference wasn’t what I was expecting, but I liked the games they showed nonetheless. Wii U is shaping up to be an amzing console. I really hope I can pick one up.
worldofblackheroes says:
Thanks for the positive spin on things! And as you pointed out people want Zelda and Metroid….yet skipped on Other M and Skyward Sword. lol
You made my week with this post!
Grubdog says:
In retrospect, Wii U sales have started slow but it just doesn’t seem to matter anymore. I also didn’t end up buying 6 Wii U launch games (I bought 8)
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Exodus 35:1-5 ESV The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. Bible Scripture Wall Art
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 2:14 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ... Bible Scripture Wall Art
"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains. He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz. Christian Canvas Art
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
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Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God: the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars, and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.read more.
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. Bible Scripture Wall Art
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The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ... Christian Art and Gifts
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; ...
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The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Without works of gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood our world would be confused. Our currency would be difficult to manage, our world olympians wouldn’t receive beautiful crafted metals and our homes would be less structured along with the rest of our lives. Crafting works of art is very important and it is fantastic that our Lord has gifted many with the gift of a skilled craftsman. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
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This verse is a reminder for me that all I need is Christ. When I feel helpless or weak, I don’t primarily need a practical solution or answer. I need God’s grace. God’s grace is sufficient. It is all I need. His strength shines brightly when I am weak and depending on Him. I don’t need my life to be in perfect order or all to be going well in the world around me. All I need is Christ. Bible Scripture Wall Art
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: ... Bible Scripture Wall Art
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Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Bible Scripture Wall Art
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He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains. He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
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In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. ... Bible Scripture Wall Art
And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns. People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns. As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. Christian Art and Gifts
"You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth. "As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold.read more. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
“You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. Bible Scripture Wall Art
2 Chronicles 2:14 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Christian Art and Gifts
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The Bible is full of encouraging scriptures that are such a blessing to read and memorize. Here are ten of my favorite scripture quotes for encouragement. Feel free to share these with others as these encouraging Bible verses will brighten anyone’s day. The Scriptures used are filled with hope, comfort and inspiration. These famous Bible quotes are from the Old and New Testament.
“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: ... Christian Art and Gifts
“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ... Christian Canvas Art
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Buchanan Partners, a leading real estate development firm headquartered in the Washington, DC region, has teamed with Miami-based real estate investment firm Elion Partners to acquire a 700,000-square foot industrial portfolio in suburban Washington, DC for $81.15 million. The portfolio comprises 14 buildings just off Route 28 in the northern Virginia submarkets of Westfields, Chantilly, and Dulles. The seller was a joint venture of Ares Capital Corporation and Adler Group.
“With rising raw land prices, a strengthening submarket, and accelerating residential demand, we set out to find high-quality buildings that could be positioned as best-in-class industrial space for tenants serving this rapidly evolving area,” said Colin Dove, Senior Project Manager at Buchanan Partners.” Added Buchanan Partners Principal Brian Benninghoff: “Class A industrial buildings like these provide many tenants more useful options than traditional office buildings or retail centers, at a better price.’ The new ownership plans to make capital improvements, including landscaping and amenities, while continuing to lease and manage the properties.
“This asset class aligns with our investment strategy of acquiring supply-constrained properties at or below replacement costs,” said Juan DeAngulo, Managing Principal, Elion Partners. “With sound operating fundamentals, we are excited to embark on this strategic joint venture with Buchanan Partners and look forward to continuing to grow our investments in this region.”
Northern Virginia’s Route 28 corridor features one of the nation’s densest concentrations of technology, cybersecurity, and government contractor businesses due to its proximity to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Nation’s capital. Properties lining Route 28 provide immediate access to Washington Dulles International Airport, I-495 (Capital Beltway), and the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) leading to Tysons Corner. Metrorail’s Silver Line extension to the airport and Dulles Greenway, currently under construction, has catalyzed development and planning of a large amount of residential, retail, and entertainment space in the area.
The newly acquired 14-building portfolio is spread across three different office parks along the Route 28 corridor: 3680-3863 Centerview Road in Dulles Business Park, 14420-14434 Albemarle Point Place in Westfields North; and 14280-14290 Sullyfield Circle in Sullyfield Business Park. The buildings are listed below, along with the rentable square footage of each.
Dulles Business Park
3680 Centerview Drive 59,767 SF
Sullyfield Business Park
14280 Sullyfield Circle 44,545 SF
Westfields North
14420 Albemarle Point Place 89,042 SF
ABOUT BUCHANAN PARTNERS:
Buchanan Partners has entitled, developed, and owned properties on over 2,000 acres of land in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The firm has over 4,000 multifamily and single- family residential units in its development pipeline, including The Landing at Cannon Branch in Manassas (VA), Heritage Hunt in Gainesville (VA), and Glenmont Metro Center in Wheaton/Glenmont (MD). Recently completed or acquired projects include BerkleyNet Center at Innovation Park, The Kingsley in Old Town Alexandria, and Lakeside II and III in Loudoun County. For more information about Buchanan Partners, visit www.buchananpartners.com.
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Elion Partners is a Miami-based real estate investment group with a highly differentiated strategy, focused primarily on off-market assets identified through an exclusive relationship network, with a track record of exemplary risk-adjusted returns. In executing its strategy, the investment approach has remained consistent over time: acquire or develop at or below replacement cost, use conservative leverage and manage actively to add significant value at each step of the asset life cycle. Now in its eighth year, Elion manages more than $1 billion in real estate across four funds and three stand-alone vehicles, and is a fully-registered SEC investment adviser. Learn more at elionpartners.com. For updates from Elion Partners, follow @elionpartners.
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Properties lining Route 28 provide immediate access to Washington Dulles International Airport, I-495 (Capital Beltway), and the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) leading to Tysons Corner. Metrorail’s Silver Line extension to the airport and Dulles Greenway, currently under construction, has catalyzed development and planning of a large amount of residential, retail, and entertainment space in the area.</p><p>The newly acquired 14-building portfolio is spread across three different office parks along the Route 28 corridor: 3680-3863 Centerview Road in Dulles Business Park, 14420-14434 Albemarle Point Place in Westfields North; and 14280-14290 Sullyfield Circle in Sullyfield Business Park. The buildings are listed below, along with the rentable square footage of each. </p><p>Dulles Business Park</p><p>3680 Centerview Drive 59,767 SF</p><p>3684 Centerview Drive 55,080 SF</p><p>3750 Centerview Drive 78,820 SF</p><p>3855 Centerview Drive 43,010 SF</p><p>3859 Centerview Drive 34,309 SF</p><p>3863 Centerview Drive 45,671 SF</p><p>Sullyfield Business Park</p><p>14280 Sullyfield Circle 44,545 SF</p><p>14290 Sullyfield Circle 37,845 SF</p><p>Westfields North</p><p>14420 Albemarle Point Place 89,042 SF</p><p>14424 Albemarle Point Place 31,132 SF</p><p>14426 Albemarle Point Place 33,676 SF</p><p>14428 Albemarle Point Place 33,966 SF</p><p>14432 Albemarle Point Place 49,344 SF</p><p>14434 Albemarle Point Place 59,200 SF</p><p> </p><p>ABOUT BUCHANAN PARTNERS:</p><p>Buchanan Partners has entitled, developed, and owned properties on over 2,000 acres of land in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. 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Why is my camera limited to a shutter speed of 1/250th when the flash is up?
Sometimes in bright backlight and with large aperture (f2.8) I want flash at high shutter speeds. But when I pop the flash up on D7000 it caps the shutter speed to 1/250th, which overexposes the shots and makes everything look like a nuclear bomb just went off.
What's the logic behind the limiting of the shutter speed when using flash? Is there anything I can do to get flash + faster shutter speeds?
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See photo.stackexchange.com/questions/836/… – ElendilTheTall Apr 22 '12 at 17:10
As for an alternative... if you need extra light outside, try a reflector. – rfusca Apr 22 '12 at 18:26
The limitation has to do with synchronizing the length of the exposure with the length of the flash burst. The flash does not go off immediately...it occurs a fraction of a moment after the shutter has opened, and the burst only lasts a fraction of the time the shutter is open. This is necessary to produce a proper exposure when using a full-powered flash due to the way the shutter itself works. The maximum shutter speed that can be achieved at is 1/200th or 1/250th of a second most of the time. With more precise logic and shutter timing, you can achieve 1/500th of a second flash sync, however thats more difficult (and therefor expensive) to do, which is why its relegated to only top of the line pro-grade cameras. This ensures that the front shutter curtain is fully open before the flash pulse is set off, and that it stays open long enough for the effects of flash to properly light the scene and allow correct exposure before the second curtain closes.
There is also an alternative approach to flash, called high-speed flash sync. This allows flash to be used at any shutter speed. The difference between high speed flash sync and normal flash sync is that at shutter speeds above about 1/500th of a second, the second curtain starts to close before the first curtain is fully open...a shutter "gap" transitions across the sensor. High speed flash sync uses a lower-powered flash pulse set off multiple times in rapid succession to ensure that the scene is properly lit for each part of the sensor as that shutter gap moves across it. High speed flash sync is generally not as good as standard flash, and in most cases it should not be needed...but in a pinch it can do the job.
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A lot of those pro cameras with 1/500s sync speeds use a leaf shutter (where the shutter is in the camera lens) which opens and closes like aperture blades (so there is always a point where the whole sensor/film is lit). A drawback is that 1/500s is often the shortest shutter speed possible with a leaf shutter (for mechanical reasons). – David Rouse Jun 19 '15 at 14:08
Most dSLRS use focal plane shutters with two curtains. The first curtain "opens" the shutter, and the second one "closes" it. The size of the gap between the two shutters determines the shutter speed. The smaller the gap, the faster your shutter speed. When you reach your maximum sync speed (usually around 1/200s, for most cameras), that's the fastest shutter speed where the whole sensor is uncovered by the gap between the curtains. Once you go faster than that, the gap between the curtains is smaller than the sensor.
The light pulse from a flash, however, is likely to be much faster than your shutter speed. And if you use a faster shutter speed, then either the top or bottom (or both) of the sensor will be covered by a curtain while the flash burst goes off. So you'll get dark bars at the top or bottom (or both) of the frame. Since most people don't want this, the camera will automatically limit the shutter speed to the maximum sync speed with flash.
There is a feature called high-speed sync (HSS) or focal plane (FP) flash, which can get the shutter synchronization and multiple pulses from the flash so that the entire sensor will be evenly illuminated for the length of the exposure, but this requires more sophisticated communication between the flash and the camera, and most built-in "pop-up" flashes cannot perform HSS. And you typically need a TTL-capable hotshoe flash to do this (although not all TTL-compatible flashes can do HSS, either. OEM (same brand as your camera) flashes are your best bet). Be aware, however, that HSS will lower the effective power and light output of the flash by roughly two stops.
See: Neil van Niekerk's tutorial on HSS, for more detailed information.
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After Jristas excelent answer I was interested to learn more as the exlaination was more complicated that I had anticipated.
Both these articles give very detailed explainations:
tutorial: high-speed flash sync
maximum-flash-sync-speed
Worth mentioning that High Speed Sync (HSS) on Nikons including the D7000 is refered to as "Auto FP". This can be set on the D7000 via:
menu -> Custom Settings Menu -> e Bracketing/flash -> Flash sync speed.
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Monsoon Session short, but issues important: BJP
Hindustan Times New Delhi, August 05, 2013
RJD boss Lalu Prasad probably had summed up the situation for the UPA when he said at the Thursday?s all-party meeting: ?whatever you (the government) would like to do to protect the supremacy of Parliament, do it during this monsoon session. There may not be another session before the polls.?
Prasad?s comments were in the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court judgments to bar criminals from contesting elections and holding office as MPs and MLAs.
But a large section of the opposition actually see the monsoon session as effectively the UPA government?s last major opportunity to pass key bills. The winter session will coincide with the assembly elections and closer to the general elections and many opposition parties may not allow the UPA to get away with bills.
The ruling dispensation has listed 44 legislations to be passed during the session that starts from Monday. The session offers a 16-day window to the UPA to push several long-pending bills, in both social and economic sectors. The UPA managers are also looking forward to the session to end the almost two years? ?drought? it faces in terms of passing key bills.
During the past six sessions or 24 months, the UPA had been able to pass just 49 bills and it sits on the record number of pending legislations (116). The last two years have not seen any significant financial reforms related bill getting the approval of the government.
The opposition on the other hand, plans to corner the government on the economic crisis and rake up the FDI issue to create a rift in the UPA.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday said it was willing to cooperate with the government on its legislative agenda in the monsoon session but the opposition should be given space to raise issues of national interest such as Uttarakhand tragedy and the Ishrat Jahan case.
After a meeting of NDA floor leaders at the residence of senior BJP leader LK Advani, BJP’s deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad said if legislation is crucial for the government, articulation of issues of national interest was vital for the opposition.
The meeting was attended by leaders of Shiv Sena, Shriomani Akali Dal and Haryana Janhit Congress.
BJP to back pensions bill in Parliament
The BJP has agreed to help the government get the pensions Bill, which would provide for up to 26 % FDI in pension fund management companies, passed in Parliament. The Bill also provides for assured returns, a point that the BJP had been pushing for.
The fact that the principal opposition would a reforms legislation passed at a time when there is talk of ?policy paralysis? is politically important.
This was hammered out in a meeting finance minister P Chidambaram had with Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday.
The BJP will also support the food security Bill, but with amendments. The BJP has showcased its Chhattisgarh food security model as ?ideal?, and better than that of the Centre.
While it wouldn?t risk being painted anti-poor by not supporting the Bill, the BJP would want its stamp on the bill too.
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System(s) and method(s) that facilitate dynamic remote management of consumer premise devices comprising femtocells integrated into broadband gateways are presented. A communication network platform is associated with a consumer premise device(s) and can include a remote management component that facilitates dynamic and remote management of consumer premise devices in a wireless communication network. The remote management component monitors and measures desired parameters respectively associated with a consumer premise devices and employs remote controls to remotely adjust parameters based on predetermined optimization criteria. The remote management component calculates channel capacity based on measured channel signal-to-noise ratio to facilitate determining whether to hand off a current cell to another cell, wherein at least one cell is associated with a consumer premise device. The remote management component can generate and store Quality of Service profiles respectively associated with the consumer premise devices to facilitate remote management of the consumer premise devices.
The subject innovation relates to wireless communications and, more particularly, to dynamic lightweight management of hybrid femtocell gateways.
Femtocells—building-based wireless access points interfaced with a wired broadband network—are generally deployed to improve indoor wireless coverage, and to offload a mobility radio access network (RAN) operated by a wireless service provider. Improved indoor coverage includes stronger signal and improved reception (e.g., voice or sound), ease of session or call initiation, and session or call retention as well. Offloading a RAN can reduce operational and transport costs for the service provider since a lesser number of end users utilizes over-the-air radio resources (e.g., radio frequency channels), which are typically limited.
Coverage of a femtocell, or femto access point (AP), is generally intended to be confined within the bounds of an indoor compound (e.g., a residential or commercial building) in order to mitigate interference among mobile stations covered by a macro cell and terminals covered by the femto AP. Additionally, confined coverage can reduce cross-talk among terminals serviced by disparate, neighboring femtocells as well. Femtocells typically operate in licensed portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and generally offer plug-and-play installation; e.g., automatic configuration of femto AP subsequent to femtocell subscriber registration with a service provider. Coverage improvements via femtocells also can mitigate customer attrition as long as a favorable subscriber perception regarding voice coverage and other data services with substantive delay sensitivity is attained. In addition, a richer variety of wireless voice and data services can be offered to customers via a femtocell since such service offerings do not rely primarily on mobility RAN resources.
It can be desirable to create hybrid femtocell gateways by integrating femtocells into broadband gateways (e.g., residential broadband gateways) supporting multiple WAN (e.g., DSL, 3G Wireless) and LAN (e.g., HPNA, Ethernet, 802.11g) interfaces. Integrating wireless and wireline services for the consumer market can realize significant benefits. However, there are technical challenges to realizing the potential of femtocells in areas of scalability, installation/activation management, performance management, inter-femtocell or base station hand-off, access control, crosstalk/interference management, and security and policy management.
For instance, conventionally, macro base stations are configured based on static spectrum management rules. When employing femtocells, it is desirable that femtocell spectrum management be more adaptive in the presence of interference from other femtocells or interference from macro base station cells. Also, current traditional wireless base stations management support only homogeneous services over a single wireless standard (e.g., 3G base station, etc.). With regard to femtocell management in an integrated gateway, it is desirable to employ multiple wireline and wireless protocol and policy management (e.g., WiFi, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA)) that is more complex. Current macro base stations have optimized local management capabilities and embedded operational control channels that require memory and overhead, which is not practical in femtocells, as femtocells typically have more limited resources and are less expensive than macro base stations.
Moreover, home network services, such as security and policies, and crosstalk scenarios can be more diverse and challenging. It is therefore desirable to have the ability for remote diagnosis, proactive spectrum management, and customer care. Further, self-installation scenarios that hybrid femtocell gateways will have are new and different from traditional wireless models. It is desirable to have the ability for remote profile management and customer care.
The following presents a simplified summary of the innovation in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the invention. This summary is not an extensive overview of the invention. It is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of the invention nor delineate the scope of the invention. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of the invention in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject innovation provides system(s) and method(s) for dynamic lightweight remote management of hybrid femtocell gateways. The subject innovation can provide a lightweight framework to optimally manage hybrid femtocell gateways (e.g., hybrid residential femtocell gateways, hybrid consumer premises femtocell gateways) using profile assignment, remote performance data collection and dynamic control settings. In an aspect, a plurality of consumer premise devices can be in a wireless communication network. A consumer premise device can be a hybrid femtocell gateway that can integrate a femtocell into a broadband gateway (e.g., residential broadband gateway) supporting multiple WAN (e.g., Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), 3G Wireless) and LAN (e.g., Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA), Ethernet, 802.11g) interfaces. The consumer premise device can facilitate wireless connection of communication devices (e.g., mobile wireless communication devices), such as a cellular phone or computer, to the consumer premise device when such communication devices are within range of the consumer premise device to facilitate wireless communication by the communication within the wireless communication network.
In another aspect, a communication network platform can facilitate dynamic remote management of consumer premise devices (e.g., hybrid femtocell gateways) associated (e.g., wirelessly connected) therewith in a wireless communication network. The communication network platform can comprise a remote management component that can facilitate measuring various parameters, such as Transmit Power, Channel Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Channel Bit Error Rate (BER), and Adjacent Channel Leakage ratio (ACLR), respectively associated with the consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices via web services. The remote management component can poll and calculate channel capacity of a consumer premise device based at least in part on measured Channel SNR. The remote management component also can evaluate and verify whether parameters, such as the channel SNR, BER, and/or ACLR, associated with a consumer premise device and/or associated communication devices are meeting predetermined system specifications. The remote management component also can detect and/or receive notification when a certain parameter(s), such as channel SNR, BER, or ACLR, associated with a consumer premise device and/or associated communication devices exceeds (or is below) a respective predetermined threshold level.
In yet another aspect, the remote management component can comprise one or more remote controls that can facilitate dynamically adjusting parameters, including Transmit Power, Blocking Settings, and/or Adjacent Channel Selectivity, associated with consumer premise device. The remote management component also can detect whether a particular consumer premise device is experiencing interference from a neighbor consumer premise device(s), and can employ an output power management control that can facilitate controlling output power (e.g., maximum output power) of consumer premise device to reduce or minimize interference between neighboring consumer premise device.
In still another aspect, the remote management component can facilitate remote management of Quality of Service (QoS) and Security. The remote management component can employ two tables for QoS and Security. For instance, a host table can store aggregate service bandwidth requirements and can list each locally connected consumer premise device by service with associated policy and security assignment. Another table that can contain all available interfaces (e.g., LAN, WAN).
In an aspect, assignment of communication devices to interface with the consumer premise device can be administered by the consumer premise device and the end user associated with the consumer premise device. The consumer premise device can have default selections related to assignment of communication devices for interface with the consumer premise device. Assignment of service bandwidth and Class of Service (CoS) policy for a consumer premise device can be automatically configured based at least in part on a remotely administered QoS profile associated with the consumer premise device (e.g., an iPhone can be assigned to a WiFi LAN interface, a 3G cellular phone can be assigned to a femto 3G Wireless interface, and a personal computer can be assigned to an Ethernet LAN interface, associated with the consumer premise device). To facilitate improved reliability, in the event that a particular interface is not available in a consumer premise device, the consumer premise device can select an alternate assignment option for a communication device desiring to interface with the consumer premise device (e.g., if a DSL WAN interface is unavailable in the consumer premise device, the consumer premise device can alternately assign a 3G Wireless interface as WAN for Internet Access and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) access).
In yet another aspect, authentication can be employed to facilitate security setting for each consumer premise device in a secure manner. Default security classes for the consumer premise device can be assigned by service, for example. To facilitate proactive management and updates associated with the consumer premise device, the consumer premise device can provide desired information related to the consumer premise device to the remote management component at desired times, such as on a daily basis and/or after a configuration change or reboot with respect to the consumer premise device.
In another aspect, the remote management component can facilitate management of handoffs (e.g., mobility active session handoffs) of a mobile wireless communication device between a consumer premise device and another consumer premise device, or between a consumer premise device and a macro base station. The remote management component can use location information, Channel SNR, and Channel Capacity, respectively related to communications devices and respectively associated consumer premise devices in the wireless communication network to facilitate determinations regarding handoff a communication device between a consumer premise device and another consumer premise device or between a consumer premise device and a macro base station. For instance, the remote management component can utilize the host table and triangulation across multiple consumer premise devices and/or can receive information from base station Visitor Location Register (VLR) tables reporting presence of a communication device(s) to facilitate identifying the location of a communication device(s). The remote management component can determine whether to hand off a communication device based at least in part on the location, SNR, and Channel Capacity of the communication device.
Aspects, features, or advantages of the subject innovation can be exploited in substantially any wireless communication technology; e.g., Wi-Fi, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (Enhanced GPRS), Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE), Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), or Zigbee. Additionally, substantially all aspects of the subject innovation can be exploited in legacy telecommunication technologies.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, comprises the features hereinafter fully described. The following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects of the invention. However, these aspects are indicative of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the invention may be employed. Other aspects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
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FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic wireless environment in which a consumer premise device comprising a femtocell can exploit various aspects described in the subject specification.
FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of an example system that can facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of another example system that can facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 4 depicts a flowchart of an example methodology that can facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of another example methodology that can facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 6 depicts a flowchart of an example methodology that can facilitate remote handoff of a communication device associated with a consumer premise device in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of an example methodology that can facilitate creating a Quality of Service (QoS) profile(s) for a consumer premise device(s) to facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an example methodology for assigning communication devices to interfaces of a consumer premise device to facilitate efficient management of consumer premise devices in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of an example methodology for receiving periodic updates and/or modification updates from a consumer premise device to facilitate efficient remote management of consumer premise devices in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter.
FIG. 10 illustrates an example wireless communication environment in accordance with aspects of the disclosed subject matter described herein.
FIG. 11 illustrates a block diagram of an example embodiment of a femto access point that can transmit pilot signal(s) in accordance with aspects described herein.
The subject innovation is now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It may be evident, however, that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing the present invention.
The subject innovation provides a lightweight framework that facilitates remote service and performance management that addresses desired areas related to installation, performance, crosstalk/interference mitigation, and security and policy management related to femtocells integrated in broadband gateways. The subject innovation comprises a remote service and spectrum profile that can facilitate femtocell management that is correlated to other service policies and WAN/LAN settings on the integrated femtocell-broadband gateways. The subject innovation defines desired remote data (e.g., performance data) to be collected from the integrated femtocell-broadband gateways. The subject innovation also defines a desired remote management protocol and techniques to facilitate optimizing performance, ensuring scaling, and supporting security and bandwidth policy.
As used in this application, the terms “component,” “system,” “platform,” “service,” “framework,” “interface,” “connector,” and the like can refer to a computer-related entity or an entity related to an operational machine with one or more specific functionalities. The entities disclosed herein can be either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a server and the server can be a component. One or more components may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. Also, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate via local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from one component interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the Internet with other systems via the signal).
In addition, the term “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” rather than an exclusive “or.” That is, unless specified otherwise, or clear from context, “X employs A or B” is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations. That is, if X employs A; X employs B; or X employs both A and B, then “X employs A or B” is satisfied under any of the foregoing instances. Moreover, articles “a” and “an” as used in the subject specification and annexed drawings should generally be construed to mean “one or more” unless specified otherwise or clear from context to be directed to a singular form.
Moreover, terms like “user equipment,” “mobile station,” “mobile,” subscriber station,” “access terminal,” “terminal,” “handset,” and similar terminology, refer to a wireless device utilized by a subscriber or user of a wireless communication service to receive or convey data, control, voice, video, sound, gaming, or substantially any data-stream or signaling-stream. The foregoing terms are utilized interchangeably in the subject specification and related drawings. Likewise, the terms “access point,” “base station,” “Node B,” “evolved Node B.” “home Node B (HNB),” and the like, are utilized interchangeably in the subject application, and refer to a wireless network component or appliance that serves and receives data, control, voice, video, sound, gaming, or substantially any data-stream or signaling-stream from a set of subscriber stations. Data and signaling streams can be packetized or frame-based flows.
Furthermore, the terms “user,” “subscriber,” “customer,” “consumer,” “prosumer,” “agent,” and the like are employed interchangeably throughout the subject specification, unless context warrants particular distinction(s) among the terms. It should be appreciated that such terms can refer to human entities or automated components supported through artificial intelligence (e.g., a capacity to make inference based on complex mathematical formalisms) which can provide simulated vision, sound recognition and so forth. As utilized herein, the term “prosumer” indicate the following contractions: professional-consumer and producer-consumer.
In addition, the terms “wireless network” and “network” are used interchangeable in the subject application, when context wherein the term is utilized warrants distinction for clarity purposes such distinction is made explicit. Likewise, the terms “femtocell access point” and “femto access point” are also utilized interchangeably.
Referring to the drawings, FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic wireless environment (e.g., a network) 100 in which a consumer premise device comprising a femtocell can exploit various aspects described in the subject specification. In wireless environment 100, area 105 can represent a coverage macro cell which is served by base station 110. It should be appreciated that macro cell 105 is illustrated as a hexagon; however, macro cell(s) can adopt other geometries generally dictated by the deployment or floor plan, geographic areas to be covered, and so on. Macro coverage is generally intended for outdoors locations for servicing mobile wireless devices, such as UE 120 A, and such coverage can be achieved via an over-the-air wireless link 115. The wireless link 115 can comprise a downlink (DL) and an uplink (UL), and can utilize a predetermined band of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. In an aspect, UE 120 can be a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) mobile phone.
Within macro coverage cell 105, a cell 145, served by a consumer premise device 130 (e.g., comprising an access point(s) (AP), such as a femtocell access point or femto access point), can be deployed, where the consumer premise device 130 can comprise a hybrid femtocell gateway that can integrate a femtocell into a broadband gateway (e.g., residential broadband gateway) supporting multiple WAN (e.g., DSL, 3G Wireless) and LAN (e.g., HPNA, Ethernet, 802.11g) interfaces. While in illustrative wireless environment 100 a single consumer premise device appears deployed within the macro cell, a substantive (e.g., 103 to 106) number of consumer premise devices 130 can be deployed, as desired. A consumer premise device 130 typically covers an area 125 that is determined, at least in part, by transmission power allocated to the consumer premise device 130, path loss, shadowing, and so forth. It should be appreciated that while coverage area 125 and confined area 145 typically coincide, in certain deployment scenarios, coverage area 125 can include an outdoor portion (e.g., a parking lot, a patio deck, a recreation area such as a swimming pool and nearby space) while area 145 can span an enclosed living space. Coverage area typically is spanned by a coverage radius that ranges from 20 to 100 meters. Confined coverage area 145 is generally associated with an indoor area, or a building, like a residential (e.g., a house, a condo, an apartment complex) or small business (e.g., a library, a hospital, a retail store) setting that can span a larger area (e.g., approximately 5000 sq. ft.). The consumer premise device 130 typically can service a desired number of wireless communication devices (e.g., subscriber station 120 B) within confined coverage area 145. In an aspect, the consumer premise device 130 can integrate seamlessly with substantially any packet switched (PS)-based and circuit switched (CS)-based network; for instance, the consumer premise device 130 can integrate into an existing 3GPP Core Network via conventional interfaces like Iu-CS, Iu-PS, Gi, Gn. Thus, operation with a 3GPP wireless communication device or user equipment with a 3GPP subscriber identity module (SIM) card is substantially straightforward with the consumer premise device 130, and seamless when handoff to a macro cell associated with base station 110 from a cell 145 associated with the consumer premise device 130, handoff to a cell 145 associated with another consumer premise device 130 from a cell 145 associated with the consumer premise device 130, or handoff to a cell associated with the a consumer premise device 130 from a macro cell associated with base station 110, takes place. It is to be noted that substantially all voice or data active sessions associated with users within a coverage area (e.g., area 125) associated with the consumer premise device 130 are terminated once the consumer premise device 130 is shut down; in case of data sessions, data can be recovered at least in part through a buffer associated with a gateway at the network. Coverage of a suspended or hotlined subscriber station or associated account can be blocked over the air-interface. However, if a suspended or hotlined customer who owns a consumer premise device 130 is in Hotline/Suspend status, there is no substantive impact to the customers covered through consumer premise device 130. In another aspect, the consumer premise device 130 can exploit high-speed downlink packet access in order to accomplish substantive bitrates. In yet another aspect, consumer premise device 130 can have a location area code (LAC) and routing area code (RAC) that is different from the underlying macro network. These LAC and RAC can be used to identify subscriber station location for a variety of reasons, most notably to direct incoming voice and data traffic to appropriate paging transmitters.
As a subscriber station (e.g., UE 120 A) that exploits macro coverage (e.g., cell 105) enters a coverage area (e.g., area 125) associated with a consumer premise device 130, the subscriber station (e.g., UE 120 A) attempts to attach to the consumer premise device 130 through transmission and reception of attachment signaling. The signaling can be effected via a forward link/reverse link (FL/RL) 135; in an aspect of the subject innovation, the attachment signaling can include a Location Area Update (LAU) and/or Routing Area Update (RAU). Attachment attempts are a part of procedures to ensure mobility, so voice calls and data sessions can continue even after a transition from a macro cell associated with base station 110 to a cell 145 associated with a consumer premise device 130, a cell 145 associated with a consumer premise device 130 to a macro cell associated with base station 110, or a cell associated with a consumer premise device 130 to another cell 145 associated with another consumer premise device 130. It is to be noted that UE 120 A can be employed seamlessly after either of the foregoing transitions. In addition, femto-based networks typically are designed to serve stationary or slow-moving traffic with reduced signaling loads compared to macro networks. A femto service provider (e.g., an entity that commercializes, deploys, or utilizes a consumer premise device 130 comprising a femtocell) is therefore inclined to minimize unnecessary LAU/RAU signaling activity at substantially any opportunity to do so, and through substantially any available means. It is to be noted that substantially any mitigation of unnecessary attachment signaling/control is advantageous for operation of the consumer premise device 130. Conversely, if not successful, UE 120 A generally can be commanded (through a variety of communication means) to select another LAC/RAC or enter “emergency calls only” mode. It is to be appreciated that this attempt and handling process can occupy significant UE battery, and capacity of the consumer premise device and signaling resources (e.g., communication of pilot sequences) as well.
When an attachment attempt is successful, UE 120 A can be allowed on cell 125 associated with the consumer premise device 130, and incoming voice and data traffic can be paged and routed to the subscriber through the consumer premise device 130. To facilitate voice and data routing, and control signaling as well, successful attachment can be recorded in a memory register, e.g., a Visitor Location Register (VLR), or substantially any data structure stored in a network memory. It is to be noted also that packet communication (e.g., voice and data traffic, and signaling) typically paged/routed through a backhaul broadband wired network backbone 140 (e.g., optical fiber backbone, twisted-pair line, T1/E1 phone line, digital subscriber line (DSL) either synchronous or asynchronous, an asymmetric DSL, a coaxial cable, . . . ). To this end, a consumer premise device 130 typically can be connected to the broadband backhaul network backbone 140 (e.g., backhaul pipe) via a broadband modem (not shown). Through backhaul pipe 140, the consumer premise device 130 can handle substantially any quality of service (QoS) for heterogeneous packetized traffic (e.g., various, multiple packet flows). In an aspect of the subject innovation, a consumer premise device 130 can display status indicators for power, active broadband/DSL connection, and gateway connection. In another aspect, no landline is necessary for operation of the consumer premise device 130.
FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of an example system 200 that can facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices (e.g., hybrid femtocell gateways) in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. In one aspect, the example system 200 can include a plurality of consumer premise devices 202 that each can comprise a hybrid femtocell gateway that can integrate a femtocell into a broadband gateway (e.g., residential broadband gateway) supporting multiple Wide Area Network (WAN) (e.g., DSL, 3G Wireless) and Local Area Network (LAN) (e.g., HPNA, Ethernet, 802.11g) interfaces. The consumer premise devices 202 can wirelessly connect with communication devices, such as UE 120 A or other subscriber station 120 B (e.g., computer), within the respective coverage areas of the consumer premise devices 202. System 200 also can comprise one or more base stations 204 that can wirelessly connect with communication devices within the base station coverage area to facilitate communication by communication devices in the wireless communication environment. It is to be appreciated and understood that the consumer premise devices 202, subscriber stations (e.g., 120 A or other subscriber station 120 B), base stations 204, and other components, each can be the same or similar as, or can comprise the same or similar functionality as, respective components as more fully described herein, for example, with regard to system 100. It is to be further appreciated and understood that, while exemplary numbers of consumer premise devices 202 and base stations 204 are illustrated in FIG. 2, the subject innovation is not so limited, as the subject innovation can employ less than, the same number as, or more than the respective number of consumer premise devices 202 and base stations 204 illustrated in FIG. 2.
In accordance with an aspect, the system 200 can comprise a communication network platform 206 that can be associated with the consumer premise devices 202 and base stations 204 in the wireless communication environment. The communication network platform 206 can serve or facilitate communication with communication devices, such as UE 120 A, via a macro radio access network (RAN). It should be appreciated that in cellular wireless technologies (e.g., 3GPP UMTS, HSPA, 3GPP LTE, 3GPP UMB), at least a portion of the communication network platform 206 can be embodied in a Core Network. The communication network platform 206 also can serve or facilitate communication with communication devices, such as UE 120 A, through a femto RAN that can be linked to the communication network platform 206 via a backhaul pipe(s) (e.g., backhaul pipe 140).
In another aspect, the communication network platform 206 can contain a remote management component 208 that can facilitate lightweight and dynamic remote management of the consumer premise devices 202. The remote management component 208 can employ profile assignment, remote performance data collection related to performance of consumer premise devices and respectively associated communication devices, and dynamic control settings to facilitate remote management of the consumer premise devices 202. In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can comprise a monitor component 210 that can monitor various parameters, such as Transmit Power, Channel Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Channel Bit Error Rate (BER), and Adjacent Channel Leakage ratio (ACLR), associated with a consumer premise device(s) 202 and/or respectively associated communication devices.
The remote management component 208 can include a transmit power component 212 that can measure the transmit power associated with a consumer premise device 202 and can contain information related to desired transmit power to facilitate control of the transmit power associated with the consumer premise devices 202. The transmit power component 212 can evaluate interference in a consumer premise device 202 from a neighboring consumer premise device(s) 202 to facilitate determining whether the transmit power of a neighboring consumer premise device(s) 202 is to be adjusted (e.g., reduced). The remote management component 208 also can include a channel SNR component 214 that that can measure the channel SNR associated with a communication device(s) associated with a consumer premise device 202 and can comprise information related to desired channel SNR to facilitate control of channel SNR associated with the communication device(s). The channel SNR component 214 can evaluate and verify whether the channel SNR associated with a communication device(s) is meeting predetermined system specifications for channel SNR. The channel SNR component 214 also can detect and/or receive notification when the channel SNR associated with a communication device(s) is below a predetermined threshold SNR level.
The remote management component 208 can further include a BER component 216 that that can measure the BER associated with a communication device(s) associated with a consumer premise device 202 and can contain information related to a desired BER to facilitate control of the BER of a communication device(s). The BER component 216 can evaluate and verify whether the BER associated with a communication device(s) is meeting predetermined system specifications for BER. The BER component 216 also can detect and/or receive notification when the BER associated with a consumer premise device 202 exceeds a predetermined threshold BER level. The remote management component 208 also can contain an ACLR component 218 that that can measure the ACLR associated with a consumer premise device 202 and can include information related to a desired ACLR to facilitate control of the ACLR associated with consumer premise devices 202. The ACLR component 218 can evaluate and verify whether the ACLR associated with a consumer premise device 202 is meeting predetermined system specifications for ACLR. The ACLR component 218 also can detect and/or receive notification when the ACLR associated with a consumer premise device 202 exceeds a predetermined threshold ACLR level. The various parameters, such as Transmit Power, Channel SNR, BER, and ACLR, can be exposed to the remote management component 208 via web services.
In yet another aspect, the remote management component 208 can employ a channel capacity component 220 that can poll and calculate channel capacity of a consumer premise device 202 based at least in part on measured SNR of a communication device(s) associated with a consumer premise device 202. The remote management component 208 can utilize channel capacity and channel SNR information to facilitate determinations regarding whether to handoff a communication device from a current cell to a macro cell associated with a base station 204 or another cell associated with another consumer premise device 202.
In still another aspect, the remote management component 208 can include a remote control component 222 that can employ one or more remote controls that can facilitate dynamically adjusting certain parameters, such as Transmit Power, Blocking Settings, and/or Adjacent Channel Selectivity, associated with the consumer premise device(s) 202, and/or a transmit power output management control that can facilitate controlling the transmit power (e.g., maximum transmit power) of consumer premise devices 202 in the wireless communication network. For example, the transmit power component 212 can detect whether a particular consumer premise device 202 is experiencing interference from a neighbor consumer premise device(s) 202. If interference is detected from a neighbor consumer premise device(s) 202, the remote control component 222 can employ the output power management control to facilitate controlling output power (e.g., maximum output power) of consumer premise devices 202 to reduce or minimize interference between neighboring consumer premise devices 202.
In still another aspect, the remote management component 208 can facilitate remote management of Quality of Service (QoS) and Security. The remote management component 208 can employ service/security component 224 that can maintain a QoS profile for each consumer premise device 202. A QoS profile can comprise various information, including a radio frequency (RF) spectral setting (e.g., static RF spectral setting), service QoS policy, and/or security policy, associated with the consumer premise device(s) 202. The QoS profile can comprise a host table, which can store one or more of aggregate service bandwidth requirements, agreed QoS such as minimum bit rate, and/or required QoS, and can list each locally connected communication device (e.g., 120 A, 120 B), respectively associated with a consumer premise device 202 or macro base station 204, by service with associated policy and security assignment, as well as location information related to neighboring consumer premise devices 202 and macro base stations 204. The service/security component 224 also can employ another table, contained in the respective QoS profiles, that can contain all available interfaces (e.g., LAN, WAN) for respective consumer premise devices 202. The QoS profile can include information relating to allocation of bandwidth for various services associated with the consumer profile device 202 and/or an associated communication device(s) as well as information related to routing in a femtocell, RF interface, and/or IP interface, associated with a consumer premise device 202. Also, the QoS profile can comprise information related to access control lists that are desired to be administered (e.g., verify by MAC address, verify by source IP address, . . . ). Information in the QoS profile can be further utilized to facilitate generating and implementing rules, such as firewall rules associated with communication devices.
In an aspect, the QoS profiles can be stored in a geo-coded location registry database, in the remote management component 208, that can include respective geographical location information of femtocells in consumer premise devices 202 and base stations 202 to facilitate making determinations related to handoff of a communication device from one cell (e.g., femtocell, cell associated with a base station) to another cell and for interference detection between neighboring cells to facilitate reducing interference between such cells.
In another aspect, the information in QoS profiles can be used for a variety of other desired applications. For example, the information in the QoS profiles can be used to facilitate triangulating to determine a location of a person associated with a communication device, or can be used to coordinate other applications on communication devices (e.g., iPhone can use information associated with QoS profile to facilitate WiFi communications).
In an aspect, the respective QoS profiles can be remotely administered by the service/security component 224. In another aspect, assignment of communication devices (e.g., 124 A, 124 B) to interface with a consumer premise device 202 can be administered by the consumer premise device 202 and the end user associated with the consumer premise device 202. Each consumer premise device 202 can have default selections related to assignment of communication devices for interface with the consumer premise device 202. The service/security component 224 can operate in conjunction with a configuration component 226, where the assignment of service bandwidth and Class of Service (CoS) policy for a consumer premise device 202 can be automatically configured by the configuration component 226 based at least in part on the remotely administered QoS profile associated with the consumer premise device 202.
For example, when certain communication devices, such as an iPhone, 3G cellular phone, and a personal computer are interfacing with a consumer premise device 202, the iPhone can be assigned to a WiFi LAN interface, the 3G cellular phone can be assigned to a femto 3G Wireless interface, and the personal computer (PC) can be assigned to an Ethernet LAN interface, as desired. To facilitate improved reliability, in the event that a particular interface is not available in a consumer premise device 202, the consumer premise device 202 can select an alternate assignment option for a communication device desiring to interface with the consumer premise device 202. As an example, in the consumer premise device 202, if a DSL WAN interface is unavailable, the consumer premise device 202 can alternately assign a 3G Wireless interface as WAN for Internet Access and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) access to facilitate interfacing a communication device with the consumer premise device 202.
In yet another aspect, the remote management component 208 can include an authentication component 228 that can authenticate consumer premise devices 202 associated with the communication network platform 206, where authentication can be employed to facilitate security setting for each consumer premise device 202 in a secure manner. Default security classes for each consumer premise device 202 can be assigned by service, for example.
In still another aspect, to facilitate proactive management and updates associated with a consumer premise device 202, the consumer premise device 202 can provide desired information related to the consumer premise device 202 to the remote management component 208 at desired times, such as on a daily basis and/or after a configuration change or reboot with respect to the consumer premise device 202.
In another aspect, the remote management component 208 can comprise a handoff component 230 that can facilitate management of handoffs (e.g., mobility active session handoffs) of a communication device between a cell associated with a consumer premise device 202 and a cell associated with another consumer premise device 202, or between a cell associated with a consumer premise device 202 and a macro base station 204. The handoff component 230 can receive and/or use location information, channel SNR of a communication device, and Channel Capacity, respectively related to communications devices and respectively associated consumer premise devices 202 in the wireless communication network to facilitate determinations regarding whether to handoff a communication device from a cell associated with a consumer premise device 202 to a cell associated with another consumer premise device 202, from a cell associated with a consumer premise device 202 to a cell associated with a macro base station 204, or from a cell associated with a macro base station 204 to a cell associated with a consumer premise device 202. In an aspect, a location component 232 can utilize information in the host table and triangulation across multiple consumer premise devices 202 and/or can receive information from base station VLR tables reporting presence of a communication device(s) to facilitate identifying the location of a communication device(s). The handoff component 230 can determine whether to hand off a communication device based at least in part on the location of the communication device, Channel SNR of the communication device, and Channel Capacity of the consumer premise device 202, and predetermined handoff criteria.
In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can contain a tuner component 234 that can facilitate controlling or tuning parameters related to transmit power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, ACLR, and/or other parameters of a consumer premise device 202 to facilitate improving service (e.g., improving SNR, reducing interference) related to the consumer premise device 202 and communication devices connected to the consumer premise device 202. For example, the tuner component 234 can collect and evaluate performance data associated with a consumer premise device 202 and neighboring consumer premise devices 202 in the network. When evaluating the collected performance data, if the tuner component 234 determines that a parameter(s) associated with the consumer premise device 202 is at an undesirable level, the tuner component 234 can facilitate determining a desirable parameter level(s) for the parameter(s) and the remote management component 208 can transmit the parameter information to the consumer premise device 202 to facilitate adjusting the parameter(s) in the consumer premise device 202 to the desired parameter level(s) to facilitate improving service in the consumer premise device 202 and communication devices connected thereto.
In another aspect, the remote management component 208 can comprise a web services interface component 236 that can facilitate enabling the remote management component 208 to access the remote gateway associated with a consumer premise device(s) 202 to facilitate collection of performance data (e.g., parameter levels) associated with the consumer premise device(s) 202 and/or a communication device(s) associated therewith.
In yet another aspect, the remote management component 208 can include a storage component 238 that can store information related to the communication network platform 206, consumer premise devices 202, base stations 204, and/or the wireless communication network. For instance, the information stored in the storage component 238 can include information related to parameters (e.g., transmit power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, ACLR, . . . ), Channel Capacity, QoS (e.g., QoS profiles of respective consumer premise devices 202), security, authentication, CoS, predetermined handoff criteria, assignment of service bandwidth, interfaces, etc.
The storage component 238 can comprise nonvolatile and/or volatile memory. The nonvolatile memory can include, but is not limited to, flash memory (e.g., single-bit flash memory, multi-bit flash memory), read-only memory (ROM), mask-programmed ROM, programmable ROM (PROM), Erasable PROM (EPROM), Ultra Violet (UV)-erase EPROM, one-time programmable ROM, electrically erasable PROM (EEPROM), and/or nonvolatile RAM (e.g., ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM)). Volatile memory can include, but is not limited to, random access memory (RAM), static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM), direct Rambus dynamic RAM (DRDRAM), and Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM).
The framework of the subject innovation can co-exist and can complement existing frameworks, for example, by employing web service interfaces. The subject innovation can use low overhead and limiting control messages to a specified number of desired (e.g., essential) parameters can ensure that the remote management by the remote management component 208 is efficient and scalable.
In accordance with one embodiment of the subject innovation, the remote management component 208 can utilize artificial intelligence (AI) methods to infer (e.g., reason and draw a conclusion based at least in part on a set of metrics, arguments, or known outcomes in controlled scenarios) whether to handover a communication device to a particular consumer premise device 202 or base station 204; whether transmit power associated with a consumer premise device(s) 202 is to be adjusted, for example, to reduce interference; a location of a communication device in the wireless communication network; etc. Artificial intelligence techniques typically can apply advanced mathematical algorithms—e.g., decision trees, neural networks, regression analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) for feature and pattern extraction, cluster analysis, genetic algorithm, and reinforced learning—to historic and/or current data associated with system 200 to facilitate rendering an inference(s) related to the system 200.
In particular, the remote management component 208 can employ one of numerous methodologies for learning from data and then drawing inferences from the models so constructed, e.g., Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and related prototypical dependency models. General probabilistic graphical models, such as Dempster-Shafer networks and Bayesian networks like those created by structure search using a Bayesian model score or approximation can also be utilized. In addition, linear classifiers, such as support vector machines (SVMs), non-linear classifiers like methods referred to as “neural network” methodologies, fuzzy logic methodologies can also be employed. Moreover, game theoretic models (e.g., game trees, game matrices, pure and mixed strategies, utility algorithms, Nash equilibria, evolutionary game theory, etc.) and other approaches that perform data fusion, etc., can be exploited in accordance with implementing various automated aspects described herein. The foregoing methods can be applied to analysis of the historic and/or current data associated with system 200 to facilitate making inferences or determinations related to system 200.
FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of another example system 300 that can facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. In one aspect, the example system 300 can include a plurality of consumer premise devices 202 (e.g., only one consumer premise device 202 is shown for clarity) that each can comprise a hybrid femtocell gateway that can integrate a femtocell into a broadband gateway supporting multiple WAN (e.g., DSL, 3G Wireless) and LAN (e.g., HPNA, Ethernet, 802.11g) interfaces. The consumer premise devices 202 can wirelessly connect with communication devices, such as subscriber station 120 A (e.g., cellular phone) or subscriber station 120 B (e.g., computer), within the respective coverage areas of the consumer premise devices 202. System 300 also can comprise one or more base stations 204 that can wirelessly connect with communication devices within the base station coverage area to facilitate communication by communication devices in the wireless communication environment. System 300 can further include a communication network platform 206 that can be associated with the consumer premise devices 202 and base stations 204 in the wireless communication environment. The communication network platform 206 can serve or facilitate communication with communication devices connected to respective consumer premise devices 202 or base stations 204. The communication network platform 206 can include a remote management component 208 that can facilitate lightweight and dynamic remote management of the consumer premise devices 202. It is to be appreciated and understood that the consumer premise devices 202, subscriber stations (e.g., 120 A or other subscriber station 120 B), base stations 204, communication network platform 206, remote management component 208, and other components, each can be the same or similar as, or can comprise the same or similar functionality as, respective components as more fully described herein, for example, with regard to system 100 and system 200.
In one aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can include a femtocell component 302 that can employ a femtocell to facilitate communication by communication devices in the wireless communication environment. The consumer premise device 202 also can comprise a broadband component 304 that can employ one or more desired broadband technologies to facilitate communication by communication devices in the wireless communication environment. For instance, the broad band component 304 can employ WiFi, WiMax, DSL, Cable, 3G Wireless, HPNA, Ethernet, 802.11g, etc. to facilitate communication with communication devices.
In another aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can include a parameter control component 306 that can facilitate controlling (e.g., setting, adjusting) parameters in the consumer premise device 202 related to transmit power, Channel SNR, BER, and ACLR, and/or other parameters to facilitate optimizing service associated with a consumer premise device 202 and communication devices connected thereto. The parameter control component 306 also can receive parameter information from the communication network platform 206 to facilitate assignment and configuration (e.g., automatic configuration) of service bandwidth and CoS policy based at least in part on a QoS profile associated with the consumer premise device 202, where the QoS profile can be remotely stored and administered by the remote management component 208.
The consumer premise device 202 also can include an interface component 308 that can employ desired interfaces to facilitate connecting communication devices to the consumer premise component 202. For instance, the interface component 308 can employ interfaces (e.g., wired and/or wireless interfaces), such as an ethernet interface(s), a WiFi interface(s), a WiMax interface(s), a DSL interface(s), a cable modem interface(s), a USB interface(s) (e.g., USB port(s)), a Firewire interface(s) (e.g., Firewire port(s)), and/or other interfaces.
The consumer premise device 202 also can contain a selector component 310 that can facilitate selecting or assigning an interface of the consumer premise device 202 to which a communication device is to be connected. The selector component 310 can facilitate selecting an interface based at least in part on type of communication device, type of interface(s), interface availability, and/or other criteria. The end user of the consumer premise device 202 can administer assignment of communication devices to interfaces of the consumer premise device 202, and appropriate default options for assignment of an interface can be provided by the consumer premise device 202 and/or the communication network platform 206.
In another aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can include a monitor component 312 that can monitor functions and monitor and/or measure parameters associated with the consumer premise device 202 and communication devices connected thereto. For example, the monitor component 312 can facilitate measuring parameters, such as respective signal strengths of communication devices connected to the consumer premise device 202, where the parameter measurements can be communicated to the communication network platform 206 to facilitate enabling the communication network platform 206 to render decisions or determinations regarding remote management of the consumer premise devices 202 and communication devices associated therewith in the wireless communication network.
In yet another aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can comprise an evaluator component 314 that can evaluate data, such as parameter measurements, information received from the communication network platform 206, information received from communication devices, and/or other data, to facilitate making determinations relating to setting or configuring parameters or functions of the consumer premise device 202.
In still another aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can include a storage component 316 that can store information related to communication devices, the consumer premise device 202, and/or other information associated with the wireless communication network. For instance, the information stored in the storage component 316 can include information related to parameters (e.g., transmit power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, ACLR, . . . ), controlling parameters, QoS (e.g., QoS profile of the consumer premise device 202), security, authentication, CoS, service bandwidth, interfaces, etc.
The storage component 316 can comprise nonvolatile and/or volatile memory. The nonvolatile memory can include, but is not limited to, flash memory (e.g., single-bit flash memory, multi-bit flash memory), ROM, mask-programmed ROM, PROM, EPROM, UV-erase EPROM, one-time programmable ROM, EEPROM, and/or nonvolatile RAM (e.g., FeRAM). Volatile memory can include, but is not limited to, RAM, SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, ESDRAM, SLDRAM, RDRAM, DRDRAM, and RDRAM.
The aforementioned systems and/or devices have been described with respect to interaction between several components. It should be appreciated that such systems and components can include those components or sub-components specified therein, some of the specified components or sub-components, and/or additional components. Sub-components could also be implemented as components communicatively coupled to other components rather than included within parent components. Further yet, one or more components and/or sub-components may be combined into a single component providing aggregate functionality. The components may also interact with one or more other components not specifically described herein for the sake of brevity, but known by those of skill in the art.
In view of the example systems described above, example methodologies that can be implemented in accordance with the disclosed subject matter can be better appreciated with reference to flowcharts in FIGS. 4-9. For purposes of simplicity of explanation, example methodologies disclosed herein are presented and described as a series of acts; however, it is to be understood and appreciated that the claimed subject matter is not limited by the order of acts, as some acts may occur in different orders and/or concurrently with other acts from that shown and described herein. For example, a methodology disclosed herein could alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states or events, such as in a state diagram. Moreover, interaction diagram(s) may represent methodologies in accordance with the disclosed subject matter when disparate entities enact disparate portions of the methodologies. Furthermore, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement a methodology in accordance with the subject specification. It should be further appreciated that the methodologies disclosed throughout the subject specification are capable of being stored on an article of manufacture to facilitate transporting and transferring such methodologies to computers for execution by a processor or for storage in a memory.
FIG. 4 depicts a flowchart of an example methodology 400 that can facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices (e.g., hybrid femtocell gateways) in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 402, one or more parameters related to one or more functions respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices (e.g., 202) and/or respectively associated communication devices can be remotely monitored. In an aspect, one or more parameters, such as, for example, Transmit Power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, and/or ACLR, respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices and respectively associated communication devices can be exposed via web services and remotely monitored and measured to facilitate remote management of the consumer premise devices and respectively associated communication devices. In another aspect, the consumer premise device can be or can comprise a hybrid femtocell gateway that can integrate a femtocell into a broadband gateway supporting multiple WAN and LAN interfaces. In yet another aspect, a communication network platform 206 can comprise a remote management component 208 that can facilitate remotely monitoring and measuring the parameters associated with the consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices in the wireless communication network (e.g., the remote management component 208 can remotely initiate a measurement, can remotely measure, and/or can remotely receive information related to measurement of one or more parameters related to one or more functions respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices).
At 404, one or more functions and/or one or more parameters respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices can be dynamically and remotely controlled based at least in part on predetermined optimization criteria. In an aspect, one or more functions, such as handover of a communication device from one cell (e.g., cell associated with a consumer premise device, cell associated with a macro base station) to another cell (e.g., cell associated with a consumer premise device, cell associated with a macro base station), and/or one or more parameters (e.g., Transmit Power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, ACLR) of a consumer premise device(s) can be dynamically and remotely controlled based at least in part on predetermined optimization criteria. The predetermined optimization criteria can relate to, for example, desired (e.g., optimal) parameter levels respectively associated with consumer premise devices and/or associated communication devices, threshold levels (e.g., maximum level, minimum level) for respective parameters respectively associated with consumer premise devices and/or associated communication devices, interference between neighboring consumer premise devices, handoff of communication device to another cell (e.g., based at least in part on SNR of a communication device and Channel Capacity associated with the consumer premise device), etc.
In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can remotely measure desired parameters associated with consumer premise devices and respectively associated communication devices. The remote management component 208 can remotely control (e.g., adjust) a parameter(s) to facilitate desired performance in consumer premise devices based at least in part on predetermined optimization criteria. For example, the remote management component 208 can remotely measure the Channel BER of a communication device(s) associated with the consumer premise device 202 and can determine that the Channel BER exceeds a predetermined maximum threshold BER level. The remote management component 208 can facilitate remotely adjusting a parameter(s) associated with the consumer premise device and/or associated communication device to facilitate reducing the Channel BER to a desired level that is less than the predetermined maximum threshold level. At this point methodology 400 can end.
FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of another example methodology 500 that can facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 502, one or more parameters respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices (e.g., 202) and/or respectively associated communication devices can be remotely monitored. In an aspect, one or more parameters, including, for example, Transmit Power, Channel SNR, Channel BER, ACLR, respectively associated with consumer premise devices (e.g., comprising hybrid femtocell gateways) and/or respectively associated communication devices in a wireless communication network can be monitored remotely, for example, by a remote management component 208 in the communication network platform 206. At 504, the one or more parameters respectively associated with the one or more consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices can be remotely measured. In one aspect, the remote management component 208 can remotely measure and/or receive information regarding measurement of the one or more parameters respectively associated with the consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices to facilitate remotely controlling parameters in the consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices.
At 506, a determination can be made regarding whether system specifications are met based at least in part on the measured parameter(s). For instance, the measured parameter levels from a consumer premise device(s) and/or respectively associated communication devices can be evaluated to determine whether the parameter levels are in accordance with system specifications (e.g., communication system specifications) based at least in part on predetermined optimization criteria. For example, the Channel SNR of a communication device associated with a consumer premise device can be measured by the remote management component 208. The remote management component 208 can determine whether the Channel SNR is within threshold SNR levels (e.g., higher than a predefined minimum threshold SNR level) based at least in part on the predetermined optimization criteria.
If, at 506, it is determined that a parameter(s) does not meet the system specifications, at 508, the parameter(s) and/or a parameter(s) related thereto can be adjusted remotely so that the parameter(s) is in accordance with system specifications. In one aspect, if the remote management component 208 determines that a parameter(s) does not meet the system specifications (e.g., Channel SNR has exceeded a predefined threshold SNR level), the remote management component 208 can facilitate autonomously generating a notification that a parameter(s) is not in accordance with system specifications (e.g., a notification that a parameter(s) related to SNR or BER has crossed an applicable threshold level to an undesirable or unacceptable level). The remote management component 208 can facilitate adjusting the parameter(s) in the consumer premise device 202 or communication device associated therewith remotely so that the parameter(s) is in accordance with system specifications (e.g., can adjust a parameter(s) related to the Channel SNR so that the SNR level is above the predefined minimum threshold SNR level).
If, at 506, it is determined that the parameter(s) meets the system specifications, methodology 500 can return to reference numeral 502, where one or more parameters respectively associated with the one or more consumer premise devices and/or respectively associated communication devices can be monitored remotely. Methodology 500 can proceed from that point. At this point methodology 500 can end.
FIG. 6 depicts a flowchart of an example methodology 600 that can facilitate remote handoff of a communication device associated with a consumer premise device in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 602, one or more parameters respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices (e.g., 202) and respectively associated communication devices can be remotely monitored. In an aspect, the one or more parameters, including, for example, Channel SNR of communication devices respectively associated with consumer premise devices 202 (e.g., comprising hybrid femtocell gateways) in a wireless communication network, can be monitored remotely, for example, by a remote management component 208 in the communication network platform 206.
At 604, the one or more parameters respectively associated with the one or more consumer premise devices and respectively associated communication devices can be remotely measured. In one aspect, the remote management component 208 can remotely measure and/or receive information regarding measurement of the one or more parameters (e.g., parameter(s) related to Channel SNR) respectively associated with communication devices and/or respectively associated with consumer premise devices to facilitate determining whether a communication device is to be handed off from one cell to another cell. At 606, Channel Capacity of a consumer premise device can be calculated (or Channel Capacity of a macro base station can be calculated or received). In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can calculate the Channel Capacity of a consumer premise device 202 associated with the communication device. The Channel Capacity can be calculated utilizing any suitable technique or algorithm, including techniques or algorithms as known in the art.
At 608, a location of a communication device can be determined. In one aspect, the location of a communication device can be determined in part, for example, using a host table associated with a QoS profile related to a consumer premise device 202, where the host table can be stored in the remote management component 208 and can include information related to the consumer premise device 202 and/or the communication device; employing triangulation across multiple consumer premise devices in the wireless communication network; and/or using base station VLR tables related to base stations 204 in the wireless communication network, where the VLR tables can include information reporting the presence of a communication device and can facilitate identifying a location of the communication device.
At 610, a determination can be made regarding whether the communication device is to be handed over from a current cell to another cell. For instance, the remote management component 208 can evaluate the measured channel SNR, calculated channel capacity, location information (e.g., location of the communication device and respective cells), and/or other information to facilitate determining whether a communication device is to be handed off from a current cell, associated with a consumer premise device 202 or macro base station 204, to another cell, associated with a disparate consumer premise device 202 or macro base station 204, based at least in part on the measured Channel SNR of the communication device, calculated Channel Capacity of the consumer premise device (or macro base station), location of the communication device, and predetermined handoff criteria.
If at 610, it is determined that the communication device is to be handed off from a current cell to another cell, at 612, the communication device can be handed off to the other cell. For instance, the communication device can be handed over from a current cell, associated with a consumer premise device 202 or macro base station 204, to another cell, associated with a disparate consumer premise device 202 or macro base station 204.
Referring again to reference numeral 610, if, at 610, it is determined that the communication device is not be handed off from a current cell to another cell, methodology 600 can return to reference numeral 602, and methodology 600 can proceed to remotely monitor the one or more parameters respectively associated with one or more consumer premise devices (e.g., 202) and respectively associated communication devices. Methodology 600 can continue to proceed from that point. At this point methodology 600 can end.
FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of an example methodology 700 that can facilitate creating a Quality of Service (QoS) profile(s) for a consumer premise device(s) to facilitate remotely managing consumer premise devices in a wireless communication environment in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 702, information associated with a consumer premise device (e.g., 202) can be received. In an aspect, the information can comprise information that identifies the consumer premise device 202; information regarding the aggregate service bandwidth requirements, agreed QoS such as minimum bit rate, and/or required QoS for the consumer premise device 202; information regarding communication devices locally connected to the consumer premise device 202, including the particular services being provided, respectively, to the communication devices and associated policy and security assignment; available interfaces (e.g., LAN and WAN) on the consumer premise device 202; and/or other information related to the consumer premise device 202 and associated communication devices.
At 704, a QoS profile can be created for the consumer premise device. In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can facilitate generating a QoS profile for each consumer premise device 202 associated with the communication network platform 206. At 706, the received information, or a portion thereof, can be stored in the QoS profile to facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices in the wireless communication network. In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can store at least a portion of the received information related to the consumer premise device 202 in the QoS profile. At this point methodology 700 can end.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an example methodology 800 for assigning communication devices to interfaces of a consumer premise device to facilitate efficient management of consumer premise devices in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 802, information indicating that a communication device (e.g., 120 A, 120 B) desires to connect with a consumer premise device (e.g., 202) can be received. For example, a mobile communication device can enter an area of coverage of a consumer premise device 202 and can desire to communicate in the wireless communication network via a connection to the consumer premise device 202. The consumer premise device 202 can receive information from the mobile communication device that indicates that the mobile communication device desired to connect to the consumer premise device 202. At 804, an available interface(s) on the consumer premise device 202 can be determined. In an aspect, the consumer premise device 202 can determine which of its interfaces are available, and which of its interfaces can be used by the communication device based in part on the type of communication device. For instance, the consumer premise device 202 can determine whether a desired (e.g., preferred, default) interface that is compatible with the communication device is available.
At 806, the communication device can be assigned and connected to a specified interface of the consumer premise device 202 based at least in part on the type of communication device and available interfaces. If the desired interface is available, the consumer premise device 202 can assign and connect the communication device to the desired interface (e.g., iPhone can be assigned to WiFi LAN interface; 3G cellular phone can be assigned to a femto 3G Wireless interface; a PC can be connected to an Ethernet LAN interface). If the desired interface is not available, the consumer premise device 202 can determine an alternate interface that is compatible with the communication device and can assign and connect the communication device to the alternate interface (e.g., if DSL WAN is not available, a communication device can be connected to a femto 3G Wireless interface as WAN for Internet access and VOIP ATA access). At this point, methodology 800 can end.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of an example methodology 900 for receiving periodic updates and/or modification updates from a consumer premise device to facilitate efficient remote management of consumer premise devices in accordance with an aspect of the disclosed subject matter. At 902, one or more consumer premise devices (e.g., 202) can be monitored remotely. In an aspect, a communication network platform 206 associated with consumer premise devices 202 and/or macro base stations 204 in a wireless communication network can comprise a remote management component 208 that can monitor the consumer premise device 202. At 904, information related to operation of a consumer premise device 202 can be received. In an aspect, the remote management component 208 can receive information related to operation of the consumer premise device 202 from the consumer premise device 202. The operation information can be received by the remote management component 208 on a periodic basis (e.g., hourly, daily, . . . ) and/or after the consumer premise device 202 is rebooted or has changed its configuration. As desired, the received operation information, or a portion thereof, can be stored in a QoS profile associated with the consumer premise device 202.
At 906, the consumer premise device 202 can be managed and/or updated remotely based at least in part on the received operation information. The remote management component 208 can manage (e.g., adjust a parameter(s)) and/or update the consumer premise device 202 remotely based at least in part on the operation information received from the consumer premise device 202. For example, the remote management component 208 can receive an update indicating that a particular interface on the consumer premise device 202 is defective and unavailable. The remote management component 208 can update the QoS profile of the consumer premise device 202 to indicate that the particular interface is not available. The remote management component 208 can utilize the updated QoS profile to facilitate remote management of the consumer premise device 202. At this point, methodology 900 can end.
To provide further context for various aspects of the subject specification, FIGS. 10 and 11 illustrate, respectively, an example wireless communication environment 1000, with associated components for operation of a femtocell, and a block diagram of an example embodiment 1100 of a femto access point which can transmit pilot signal(s) in accordance with aspects described herein.
Wireless communication environment 1000 can include two wireless network platforms: (i) A macro network platform 1010 which serves, or facilitates communication) with user equipment 1075 via a macro radio access network (RAN) 1070. It should be appreciated that in cellular wireless technologies (e.g., 3GPP UMTS, HSPA, 3GPP LTE, 3GPP UMB), macro network platform 1010 can be embodied in a Core Network. (ii) A femto network platform 1080, which can provide communication with UE 1075 through a femto RAN 1090 linked to the femto network platform 1080 via backhaul pipe(s) 1085, wherein backhaul pipe(s) can be substantially the same as backhaul pipe 140. It should be appreciated that femto network platform 1080 typically offloads UE 1075 from macro network, once UE 1075 attaches (e.g., through macro-to-femto handover, or via a scan of channel resources in idle mode) to femto RAN. Also, it is to be appreciated and understood that, in accordance with various embodiments and aspects of the disclosed subject matter, the communication network platform 206 (e.g., as illustrated in FIG. 2 and described herein) can comprise the same or similar functionality as, the macro network platform 1010 and femto network platform 1080, where the communication network platform 206 can facilitate remote management of consumer premise devices 202 comprising hybrid femtocell gateways (e.g., gateway comprising a femtocell access point as well as supporting broadband access), where the consumer premise devices 202 can be associated with the macro RAN 1070 and femto RAN 1090.
It is noted that RAN can include base station(s), or access point(s), and its associated electronic circuitry and deployment site(s), in addition to a wireless radio link operated in accordance with the base station(s). Accordingly, macro RAN 1070 can comprise various coverage cells like cell 105, while femto RAN 1090 can comprise multiple femtocell access points (e.g., as contained in a consumer premise device 130, 202). As mentioned above, it is to be appreciated that deployment density in femto RAN 1090 can be substantially higher than in macro RAN 1070.
Generally, both macro and femto network platforms 1010 and 1080 can include components, e.g., nodes, gateways, interfaces, servers, or platforms, that can facilitate both packet-switched (PS) (e.g., internet protocol (IP), frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)) and circuit-switched (CS) traffic (e.g., voice and data) and can control generation for networked wireless communication. In an aspect of the subject innovation, macro network platform 1010 can include CS gateway node(s) 1012 which can interface CS traffic received from legacy networks like telephony network(s) 1040 (e.g., public switched telephone network (PSTN), or public land mobile network (PLMN)) or a SS7 network 1060. Circuit switched gateway 1112 can authorize and authenticate traffic (e.g., voice) arising from such networks. Additionally, CS gateway 1012 can access mobility, or roaming, data generated through SS7 network 1060; for instance, mobility data stored in a VLR, which can reside in memory 1030. Moreover, CS gateway node(s) 1012 can interface CS-based traffic and signaling and gateway node(s) 1018. As an example, in a 3GPP UMTS network, a gateway node(s) can be embodied in gateway GPRS support node(s) (GGSN).
In addition to receiving and processing CS-switched traffic and signaling, gateway node(s) 1018 can authorize and authenticate PS-based data sessions with served (e.g., through macro RAN) wireless devices. Data sessions can include traffic exchange with networks external to the macro network platform 1010, like wide area network(s) (WANs) 1050; and local area network(s) (LANs) 1055 also can be interfaced with macro network platform 1010 through gateway node(s) 1018. Gateway node(s) 1018 can generate packet data contexts when a data session is established. To that end, in an aspect, gateway node(s) 1018 can include a tunnel interface (e.g., tunnel termination gateway (TTG) in 3GPP UMTS network(s); not shown) which can facilitate packetized communication with disparate wireless network(s), such as Wi-Fi networks. It should be further appreciated that the packetized communication can include multiple flows that can be generated through server(s) 1014. It is to be noted that in 3GPP UMTS network(s), gateway node(s) 1018 (e.g., GGSN) and tunnel interface (e.g., TTG) comprise a packet data gateway (PDG).
Macro network platform 1010 also includes serving node(s) 1016 that can convey the various packetized flows of information, or data streams, received through gateway node(s) 1018. As an example, in a 3GPP UMTS network, serving node(s) can be embodied in serving GPRS support node(s) (SGSN).
As indicated above, server(s) 1014 in macro network platform 1010 can execute numerous applications (e.g., location services, online gaming, wireless banking, wireless device management . . . ) that generate multiple disparate packetized data streams or flows, and manage (e.g., schedule, queue, format . . . ) such flows. Such application(s), for example can include add-on features to standard services provided by macro network platform 1010. Data streams can be conveyed to gateway node(s) 1018 for authorization/authentication and initiation of a data session, and to serving node(s) 1016 for communication thereafter. Server(s) 1014 can also effect security (e.g., implement one or more firewalls) of macro network platform 1010 to ensure network's operation and data integrity in addition to authorization and authentication procedures that CS gateway node(s) 1012 and gateway node(s) 1018 can enact. Moreover, server(s) 1014 can provision services from external network(s), e.g., WAN 1050, or Global Positioning System (GPS) network(s) (not shown). It is to be noted that server(s) 1014 can include one or more processor configured to confer at least in part the functionality of macro network platform 1010. To that end, the one or more processor can execute code instructions stored in memory 1030, for example.
In example wireless environment 1000, memory 1030 can store information related to operation of macro network platform 1010. Information can include business data associated with subscribers; market plans and strategies, e.g., promotional campaigns, business partnerships; operational data for mobile devices served through macro network platform; service and privacy policies; end-user service logs for law enforcement; and so forth. Memory 1030 can also store information from at least one of telephony network(s) 1040, WAN(s) 1050, LAN(s) 1055, or SS7 network 1060.
Regarding femto network platform 1080, the femto network platform 1080 can include pilot gating platform 1020. While illustrated as external to femto gateway node(s) 1084, it should be appreciated that pilot gating platform 1020 can be an integral part of gateway node(s) 1084.
Femto gateway node(s) 1084 can comprise substantially the same functionality as PS gateway node(s) 1018. Additionally, femto gateway node(s) 1084 can also include substantially all or a desired portion of the functionality of serving node(s) 1016. In an aspect, femto gateway node(s) 1084 can facilitate handover resolution, e.g., assessment, and execution.
Server(s) 1082 have substantially the same functionality as described in connection with server(s) 1014. In an aspect, server(s) 1082 can execute multiple application(s) that provide service (e.g., voice and data) to wireless devices served through femto RAN 1090. Server(s) 1082 can also provide security features to femto network platform. In addition, server(s) 1082 can manage (e.g., schedule, queue, format . . . ) substantially all packetized flows (e.g., IP-based, frame relay-based, ATM-based) it generates in addition to data received from macro network platform 1010. It is to be noted that server(s) 1082 can include one or more processor configured to confer at least in part the functionality of macro network platform 1010. To that end, the one or more processor can execute code instructions stored in memory 1086, for example.
Memory 1086 can include information relevant to operation of the various components of femto network platform 1080. For example, operational information that can be stored in memory 1086 can comprise, but is not limited to, subscriber information; contracted services; maintenance and service records; femtocell configuration (e.g., pilot gating schedule(s), attachment data, devices served through femto RAN 1090, access control lists, or white lists); service policies and specifications; privacy policies; add-on features; and so forth.
With respect to FIG. 11, in example embodiment 1100, femtocell AP 1110 can receive and transmit signal(s) (e.g., traffic and control signals) from and to wireless devices, access terminals, wireless ports and routers, etc., through a set of antennas 1169 1-1169 N. It should be appreciated that while antennas 1169 1-1169 N are a part of communication platform 1125, which comprises electronic components and associated circuitry that provides for processing and manipulating of received signal(s) (e.g., a packet flow) and signal(s) (e.g., a broadcast control channel) to be transmitted. In an aspect, communication platform 1125 includes a transmitter/receiver (e.g., a transceiver) 1166 that can convert signal(s) from analog format to digital format upon reception, and from digital format to analog format upon transmission. In addition, receiver/transmitter 1166 can divide a single data stream into multiple, parallel data streams, or perform the reciprocal operation. Coupled to transceiver 1166 is a multiplexer/demultiplexer 1167 that facilitates manipulation of signal in time and frequency space. Electronic component 1167 can multiplex information (e.g., data/traffic and control/signaling) according to various multiplexing schemes such as time division multiplexing (TDM), frequency division multiplexing (FDM), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), space division multiplexing (SDM). In addition, mux/demux component 1167 can scramble and spread information (e.g., codes) according to substantially any code known in the art; e.g., Hadamard-Walsh codes, Baker codes, Kasami codes, polyphase codes, and so on. A modulator/demodulator 1168 is also a part of operational group 1125, and can modulate information according to multiple modulation techniques, such as frequency modulation, amplitude modulation (e.g., M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), with M a positive integer), phase-shift keying (PSK), and the like.
Femto access point 1110 also includes a processor 1145 configured to confer functionality, at least partially, to substantially any electronic component in the femto access point 1110, in accordance with aspects of the subject innovation. In particular, processor 1145 can facilitate femto AP 1110 to implement configuration instructions received through communication platform 1125, which can include storing data in memory 1155. In addition, processor 1145 facilitates femto AP 1110 to process data (e.g., symbols, bits, or chips) for multiplexing/demultiplexing, such as effecting direct and inverse fast Fourier transforms, selection of modulation rates, selection of data packet formats, inter-packet times, etc. Moreover, processor 1145 can manipulate antennas 1169 1-1169 N to provide distinct pilot signal gating; facilitate beamforming or selective radiation pattern formation, which can benefit specific locations (e.g., basement, home office, . . . ) covered by femto AP; and exploit substantially any other advantages associated with smart-antenna technology. Memory 1155 can store data structures, code instructions, system or device information like device identification codes (e.g., IMEI, MSISDN, serial number . . . ) and specification such as multimode capabilities; code sequences for scrambling; spreading and pilot transmission, floor plan configuration, access point deployment and frequency plans; and so on. Moreover, memory 1155 can store configuration information such as schedules (e.g., gating schedule(s)) and policies; femto AIP address(es) or geographical indicator(s); access lists (e.g., white lists); license(s) for utilization of add-features for femto AP 1110, and so forth.
In embodiment 1100, processor 1145 is coupled to the memory 1155 in order to store and retrieve information necessary to operate and/or confer functionality to communication platform 1125, broadband network interface 1135 (e.g., a broadband modem), and other operational components (e.g., multimode chipset(s), power supply sources . . . ; not shown) that support femto access point 1110.
It is to be noted that aspects, features, or advantages of the subject innovation described in the subject specification can be exploited in substantially any wireless communication technology. For instance, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Enhanced GPRS, 3GPP LTE, 3GPP2 UMB, 3GPP UMTS, HSPA, or Zigbee. Additionally, substantially all aspects of the subject innovation as disclosed in the subject specification can be exploited in legacy telecommunication technologies; e.g., GSM.
In addition, it is to be noted that the various aspects disclosed in the subject specification can also be implemented through (i) program modules stored in a computer-readable storage medium or memory (e.g., memory 1086 or memory 1155) and executed by a processor (e.g., processor 1145), or (ii) other combination(s) of hardware and software, or hardware and firmware. Also, it is to be appreciated and understood that, in accordance with various embodiments and aspects of the disclosed subject matter, a consumer premise device 202 (e.g., as illustrated in FIG. 3 and described herein) can comprise a hybrid femtocell gateway (e.g., gateway comprising a femtocell AP as well as supporting broadband access), which can include a femto AP, such as femtocell AP 1110.
As it employed in the subject specification, the term “processor” can refer to substantially any computing processing unit or device comprising, but not limited to comprising, single-core processors; single-processors with software multithread execution capability; multi-core processors; multi-core processors with software multithread execution capability; multi-core processors with hardware multithread technology; parallel platforms; and parallel platforms with distributed shared memory. Additionally, a processor can refer to an integrated circuit, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a digital signal processor (DSP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a programmable logic controller (PLC), a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), a discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. Processors can exploit nano-scale architectures such as, but not limited to, molecular and quantum-dot based transistors, switches and gates, in order to optimize space usage or enhance performance of user equipment. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing processing units.
In the subject specification, terms such as “data store,” data storage,” “database,” and substantially any other information storage component relevant to operation and functionality of a component, refer to “memory components,” or entities embodied in a “memory” or components comprising the memory. It will be appreciated that the memory components, or computer-readable storage media, described herein can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory.
By way of illustration, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory can include read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can include random access memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in many forms such as synchronous RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). Additionally, the disclosed memory components of systems or methods herein are intended to comprise, without being limited to comprising, these and any other suitable types of memory.
Various aspects or features described herein may be implemented as a method, apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques. The term “article of manufacture” as used herein is intended to encompass a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media. For example, computer readable media can include but are not limited to magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strips . . . ), optical disks (e.g., compact disk (CD), digital versatile disk (DVD) . . . ), smart cards, and flash memory devices (e.g., card, stick, key drive . . . ).
What has been described above includes examples of systems and methods that provide advantages of the subject innovation. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the subject innovation, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the claimed subject matter are possible. Furthermore, to the extent that the terms “includes,” “has,” “possesses,” and the like are used in the detailed description, claims, appendices and drawings such terms are intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising” as “comprising” is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
1. A method for remotely managing a femtocell access point in a wireless communication network, comprising:
maintaining, by a system including a processor, a type and a quality of service profile for a communication device and interface information representing a plurality of interfaces associated with a femtocell access point and a type and quality of service profile for a communication device representing types and quality of service of communication devices allowed to connect to the plurality of interfaces;
remotely assigning, by the system, the communication device to a selected interface of the plurality of interfaces based on the interface information and a type of the communication device represented by the type and quality of service profile, the interface information further defining an alternate interface, of the plurality of available interfaces, to which the communication device is to be assigned in reponse to a determination that the selected interface is not available;
remotely monitoring, by the system, operational information associated with the femtocell access point via a network service; and
remotely controlling, by the system via the network service, a parameter associated with the femtocell access point based on the operational information, the interface information, and a defined criterion.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the remotely monitoring the operational information includes remotely monitoring a channel signal-to-noise ratio associated with the femtocell access point.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
remotely evaluating, by the system, the operational information employing a remote manager;
determining, by the system employing the remote manager, that the operational information is not in accordance with system specifications associated with the wireless communication network; and
remotely adjusting, by the system, the parameter via the network service based at least in part on the defined criterion in response to the determining.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein:
the remotely monitoring the operational information includes remotely monitoring interference between the femtocell access point and a neighboring cell, and
the remotely controlling the parameter includes remotely adjusting transmit power of the femtocell access point in response to determining that the interference meets a condition.
remotely measuring, by the system, a signal-to-noise ratio associated with a communication device in communication with the femtocell access point;
calculating, by the system, a channel capacity associated with the femtocell access point based at least in part on the signal-to-noise ratio;
determining, by the system, a location of the communication device; and
determining, by the system, whether to hand off the communication device to a cell associated with a macro base station based at least in part on the signal-to-noise ratio, the channel capacity, and the location of the communication device.
remotely maintaining, by the system, a location registry database that includes geographical location information of a neighboring macro base station relative to the femtocell access point; and
determining, by the system, whether to hand off the communication device to the neighboring macro base station based on the geographical location information and the channel capacity.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the remotely monitoring the operational information includes remotely monitoring a transmit power of the femtocell access point.
updating, by the system, the quality of service profile associated with the femtocell access point based at least in part on the operational information.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the updating includes updating the quality of service profile based on information specifying an aggregate service bandwidth requirement for the femtocell access point.
10. A system that facilitates remote management of a femtocell access point in a wireless communication network, comprising:
a memory storing computer-executable instructions; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to at least:
maintain interface information identifying a plurality of available interfaces associated with a femtocell access point,
assign a communication device to a selected interface of the plurality of available interfaces based at least in part on the interface information and a type of the communication device according to a profile, maintained by a remote management component, that defines which of the plurality of available interfaces are associated with the type and a quality of service profile of the communication device, maintained by the remote management component, associated with the consumer premise device, and further defines an alternate interface, of the plurality of available interfaces, to which the communication device is to be assigned in response to a determination that the selected interface is not available; and
remotely monitor performance data associated with the femtocell access point over a network service, and
remotely control a parameter of the femtocell access point via the network service based at least in part on the performance data, the interface information, and a predetermined criterion.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the predetermined criterion relates to a threshold level for the performance data.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the predetermined criterion relates to an acceptable level of interference between the femtocell access point and a neighboring cell.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to measure the performance data and determine whether the performance data is in accordance with a specification related to the wireless communication network.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to remotely modify the parameter in response to a determination that the performance data is not in accordance with the specification.
15. The system of claim 10, wherein the performance data comprises a channel signal-to-noise ratio associated with the femtocell access point.
16. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to remotely measure a signal-to-noise ratio of a mobile communication device for which the femtocell access point acts as a cell, calculate a channel capacity of the femtocell access point based at least in part on the signal-to-noise ratio, and determine whether the mobile communication component is to be handed off from the femtocell access point to a different cell based on the signal-to-noise ratio and the channel capacity.
17. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to employ a remote control that modifies a transmit power associated with the femtocell access point in accordance with the performance data and the predetermined criterion.
18. The system of claim 10, wherein the quality of service profile defines a radio frequency spectral setting and a quality of service policy for the femtocell access point, and the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to remotely control the parameter in accordance with the quality of service profile.
19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to maintain the interface information in the quality of service profile.
20. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to maintain device information that identifies one or more communication devices, including the communication device, respectively connected to the available interfaces.
21. The system of claim 10, wherein the profile further defines an alternate interface, of the plurality of available interfaces, to which the communication device is to be assigned in response to a determination that the selected interface is not available.
22. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of available interfaces includes at least a Wi-Fi local area network interface, a third generation wireless interface, and an Ethernet local area network interface.
23. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a computing system including a processor to perform operations, including:
storing a type and a quality of service profile associated with a communication device and interface information identifying available interfaces of a femtocell access point and a set of respective types of communication devices permitted to connect to the available interfaces;
remotely assigning the communication device to an interface, of the available interfaces, based on the type and quality of service profile, wherein the interface information defines an alternate interface, of the available interfaces, to which the communication device is to be assigned in response to a determination that the interface is not available;
remotely monitoring operational information related to the femtocell access point using a network service; and
remotely controlling, via the network service, a parameter associated with the femtocell access point based at least in part on a defined criterion and the interface information.
24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the remotely monitoring the operational information includes remotely monitoring a channel signal-to-noise ratio associated with the femtocell access point.
25. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein:
the remotely monitoring the operational information includes remotely monitoring interference between the femtocell access point and a cell neighboring the femtocell access point; and
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THE MULTI-TALENTED BEBE BUELL
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Model, muse, rock & roll singer, and Liv Tyler’s Mom, Bebe Buell looks back at her times with Iggy, recording with Ric Ocasek, and moving to NYC to start her modeling career in the ’70s.
When I was 19, I had a boss at Sam Ash in California who grew up in New York City. He would often reminisce about hanging out with Bebe Buell and Stiv Bators back in the day and I thought he was the coolest. Since reading Please Kill Me two years prior, I had these visions of old New York. Picturing Joey, Dee Dee, and Stiv, alongside Bebe Buell at CBGB’s. Bebe Buell was just as interesting as many of these rockers.
Eileen Ford discovered Bebe as a teen in Virginia Beach, where she was whisked away to model in New York. She quickly found herself in the spotlight. She dated Todd Rundgren, and stories abounded of her hanging with David Bowie at The Mercer Arts Center, watching the New York Dolls. Buell also hit it big as Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month in 1974.
Her genuine spirit and love of music drew many musicians to her, including Steven Tyler. Writer Cameron Crowe even based part of his movie, Almost Famous, on her life. Bebe added music to her career with the release of Covers Girl in 1981, produced by Ric Ocasek and Rick Derringer. The Cars backed her up on two of the four songs, which were all covers. After that, she had a pop group called The B-Sides who were produced by Todd Rundgren and released one 12-inch picture disc, A Side Of The B-Sides. Taking a turn towards harder edged rock, she formed The Gargoyles in the late eighties. They were noticed by Joey Ramone and ended up opening for The Ramones, as well as touring heavily in Europe and the United States.
The model, muse, writer, musician, and mother of actress Liv Tyler keeps up her rock & roll lifestyle in Nashville, TN playing with her band, Bebe Buell and The Rebel Souls with her husband Jimmy Walls. Pick up her NY Times bestseller from 2001: Rebel Heart: An American Rock N’ Roll Journey, to get the whole story on her illustrious life.
Bebe took some time out of her busy schedule to answer some questions for us.
PKM: What was the craziest or most embarrassing thing that happened during your time with Iggy?
Bebe: When I look back on 1973 and that time in NYC, I’m not recalling any “embarrassing” things. We were all so young. I had just turned 20 when we met Iggy at Max’s during The Stooges stint there. Also met him at The New York Dolls show at The Felt Forum with Todd and found him to be charming and intoxicated. He banged his head and I wanted to help him. Everyone was laughing and making jokes and I went and fetched a wet rag from the dressing room and cleaned him up. There was something very magical about him even when he was wasted. I just wish I had been a little older and had more tools for keeping the bad drugs away from him. I didn’t do the opiates so I was often oblivious to him being given them by others around the scene. But there is a brilliance and honesty to him that endures. And look at him now, going strong and aiming high. He survived all that and that’s what sticks in my memory. A bonafide rock & roll unicorn!
PKM: Who was your first teen crush or musical idol?
Bebe: I was smitten with Oscar Wilde as a young girl. My favorite Beatle was Ringo, but it was The Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan that stole my rebel heart. I LOVED the fashion sense of the Stones after they met Anita. Brian Jones in a striped suit was something straight out of heaven for my 10-year-old eye. I adored The British Invasion and the entire movement that was coming out of the UK. Mick Jagger was my spirit animal then and he remains so today.
PKM: Where was the strangest place you have ever made love?
Bebe: I’m not so certain it’s “strange” per se but I’m sure it was the day I joined the Mile High Club or possibly against a vintage Volkswagen Beetle Convertible.
PKM: What is your most recent favorite book/movie/record and what about it excited you?
Bebe: I’m finding myself re-reading The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz over and over. It really helps you visualize positive goals. Reaffirms how to let the cruelty of others roll past your own quest. It’s got a lot of soul growing hints that I’m really into. As far as movies go, I had the most fun at Wonder Woman recently, but most of my favorite movies are older. I’m excited for Avatar 2. But it’s My Dog Skip that’s my go-to movie when I need to go inside my heart. The original Lost Horizon is another favorite. I’ve been listening to The Struts a lot. I like the new The National record. Living in Nashville I’m surrounded by so much music it’s almost like food for me. There’s a lot going on here. It would be impossible to nail it down. A magical vortex.
A band to watch is Blackfoot Gypsies and my desert island records would be Damn The Torpedoes, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Hurt Me, Johnny Thunders, and any and all Rolling Stones albums but especially Let It Bleed.
PKM: Who is your biggest female musical idol?
Bebe: I had the thrill of my life in the past couple of years meeting Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson and singing with Crystal Gayle. I have several female inspirations, probably started with Janis Joplin and Marianne Faithfull. Gayle McCormick from a band called Smith. Patti Smith of course and the divine and eternally beautiful, Debbie Harry. I love watching my friend Lzzy Hale onstage.
Wanda Jackson and Bebe Buell – courtesy of Bebe Buell
PKM: What’s the strangest thing that happened while you were with Todd Rundgren?
Bebe: The strangest? I’m not sure that’s even possible to answer considering we were a couple in one of the most culturally exciting times in pop culture history. To be around in the 70s was a gift from heaven. Probably tripping on something or another and wandering around 5th Ave. and finding ourselves in the gallery of an artist who ended up doing the cover of A Wizard, A True Star. It’s a pretty trippy cover! But every day was strange in those days. I’d need to write a book, Strange Days, Part ??? Once again, I was 18 when I met Todd; he was 23. We were kids and we lived a life that dreams are made of. I look back on it in wonder. The rock & roll Camelot years.
PKM: Where is your favorite spot to hang out day or night in Nashville?
Bebe: I take my walks around Radnor Lake and I seem to like everything about Nashville. That’s why I moved here in 2013. I felt a connection with the land. The people, the food and the venues are top notch. One great venue is Mercy Lounge. My next show is there on Oct. 11th – Bebe Buell and the Rebel Souls with the Dead Deads opening. My band has played a few of the best rooms in town. We’ve got so many: The Bluebird, The Basement & The Basement East, The Ryman, 3rd & Lindsley, City Winery. The list goes on and on. They don’t call Nashville Music City for nothing. It IS constant 24/7. What I’m loving about it is it has that energy and innocence that NYC had back in the 70s and 80s and people go out to see music. It’s electric. Third Man Records is fun—the decor especially. Taco Mamacita for good Mexican and there’s a slew of good vegan and vegetarian spots, too. Nashville is a warm, inviting city. We’ve got a progressive Mayor, Megan Barry, and our drag queens rival NYC and Berlin. It’s colorful here — a ton of vibrance.
Bebe Buell singing with Stephen Tyler at The Bluebird in Nashville – Courtesy of Bebe Buell
PKM: What did you expect life would be like compared to what it actually was when you were first signed as a Ford model and sent to New York?
Bebe: The funny part about that is all the things I dreamed it would be came true. All the things I “thought” it would be, never happened. It all unfolded very fast and it went even faster. I look back on it all now and I’m grateful to have kept my wits about me. Everything happens as it’s supposed to so I’ve learned to allow that. I did feel very lucky and I always knew I’d meet Mick Jagger. That kind of stuff was revealed to me at 11-years-old. I had a lot of glimpses into my future. I found my soul tribe, my people in NYC.
PKM: How and where did you meet Stiv Bators?
Bebe: We met upstairs at Max’s at a party for KISS in 1979… he was with Cynthia B-Girl (whom I adore btw) and as the impulses and hormones youth will sometimes ignite, I just told her I was going to “steal” him. And he left with me and we went out to eat with Gene $immons. Stiv said he had to save me from his advances, lol! It was hilarious! I think Gene was kind of fascinated with Stiv and the entire Punk Rock movement. As I got older I always felt bad for doing that to Cynthia. I think she really loved him. I know he loved her. I loved him, too- we definitely fell in love and played our Punk Rock Sonny & Cher role to the hilt. We were kids… kids do thoughtless things sometimes so I’ve always wanted Cynthia to know I never meant to hurt anyone.
Anyway, I have so many fond memories it would be hard to nail them all down but one thing I will always associate with him is humor, laughter and true sweetness. He was the perfect house guest and LOVED to vacuum and clean house. He also liked to fold laundry and insisted his t-shirts were folded a certain way. He was also really good with kids- he would play with Liv for hours and do all that stuff little kids love. She was only two when she met him but he would go on the monkey bars with her, etc…, and make her laugh and keep her amused for hours on end. He came up to my family’s home in Maine a few times and stayed with me there in the cottage behind the main house. He managed to charm every single member of my family. One Easter he came and put together this entire Easter Egg Hunt and even painted eggs. He was special and had a BIG BRAIN. One of the smartest people I’ve ever known. In a nutshell, he was just a nice boy from Ohio who’s parents loved him and he had the basic goodness of an innocent soul. Yes, he was a prankster and mischief maker but he was “good” in his deepest soul and that shined though his beautiful blue eyes.
He was also one of the greatest front people in pop culture history…
PKM: What was your experience working with Ric Ocasek like? I’ve heard he’s a tough guy from some people.
Bebe: Tough? Not sure about that. I was one of his first productions along with Suicide and Bad Brains. He gave me my first break, he and Rick Derringer. Ric took me into the studio and taught me how to record in a recording studio. He opened the door and I kept on going. It’s all I ever wanted — the be the singer in a band. Both Ric Ocasek and Rick Derringer made that possible for me. It was actually Ric’s idea for me to get it rolling. I owe him a lot. He saw past the “image” and what my heart wanted. He was also there to encourage my songwriting.
PKM: What’s the most dangerous situation you’ve ever found yourself in?
Bebe: You don’t know it’s dangerous until you look back on it. I survived so many dangerous situations I’m certain I have angels that look out for me. I’ve been chased by armed bandits when touring with The B-Sides in the back seat of a car being driven by an insane drunk and lived through it, having people spike my drink and being rescued before they could do whatever they were gonna do. There is no “most” dangerous. It was all dangerous and I’ve lived to not only tell the tale but to pass on what I’ve learned to my loved ones.
Bebe Buell © by Ian Keaggy
PKM: What do you believe is your biggest accomplishment in life?
Bebe: So far it’s been raising my daughter to be a grounded, self-sufficient person. But I’m not sure I’ve done the BIG BIG one just yet. That might still be to come. But one thing I’m proud of is the fight I continue to wage against the “isms”= sexism, ageism… fighting the labels that get hung on women especially. Working hard and doing my art is what I live for. That and being with my family and loved ones. Staying good friends with my daughter’s father feels real good, too. My love for animals makes me feel connected to God.
PKM: If you could meet any deceased person who would it be and what would you do with them/ talk to them about?
Bebe: That’s an easy one — Oscar Wilde. I would have tea with him, eat finger sandwiches, and discuss anything and everything. It’s a toss up. I had a youthful crush on Albert Einstein too, but at this point, it would be Oscar Wilde and Jimi Hendrix. He, I’m certain, was an alien not of this world! I’d love to visit with John Lennon again. And, of course, Bowie and Prince. To have been alive whilst they lived on this earth is all the validation I need.
PKM: What was the best dream you’ve ever had?
Bebe: My flying dreams are my favorite. I tell the person I’m with I can fly and I just do it. But often I wake up and my dreams have gone to the other dimension of which they came. I do love those dreams that leave you feeling so happy when you wake up but you have no idea what happened. But my favorite dream was when Joey Ramone came to visit me after he passed. It felt so real. Like he was really there. And then Stiv came walking in and we all had pizza!
Bebe Buell and Jimmy Walls by Emily Beaver
⚡️Check out Bebe’s next show in Nashville at Mercy Lounge on Oct. 11th! Bebe Buell and the Rebel Souls with the Dead Deads opening!
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Growing up in the wild So Cal punk scene formed Amy's aesthetic and broadened her horizons. At the age of 23, she hit NYC nightlife, working at music venues, bartending, and writing about all of her adventures along the way. Amy is currently creative director of an East Village rock & roll club, DJ, and contributor for PKM
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Data Breach at Blizzard Comprises Emails and Security Questions but not Passwords
posted Saturday Aug 11, 2012 by Nicholas DiMeo
This week we have news of another breach in the gaming world, however it is not in any way, shape or form related to Sony and their handicapping outage last year. Instead, the victim is Blizzard Entertainment and their Battle.net online gaming network. Blizzard, makers of StarCraft, World of Warcraft and Diablo, has had their internal network security compromised and the company has issued emails to customers today. Blizzard has said the email went out to all customers who have used Battle.net, however at the time of this writing, my inbox has not received any such notification. Perhaps I wasn't affected?
The good news is that Blizzard is also saying no financial information has been breached to their knowledge, so you're safe in that regard. Also, while email addresses to lots of non-Chinese users of Battle.net were snatched along with passwords, those passwords were scrambled, which cannot be said for Yahoo! and other companies' breaches as of late. Scrambling or "hashing" passwords, is a common practice in development and has become the accepted, secure way to handle all customer login activity.
Who is responsible for this and what steps is Blizzard taking to ensure this won't happen again? The path to the answers resides safely and securely after the break.
Blizzard:Important Security Update
Google Censors Search Results Again, Now Worldwide
posted Saturday Aug 11, 2012 by Scott Ertz
Google has, once again, changed their search algorithm, but it's not for the normal reasons. Normally when these changes happen it is to enhance their search result relevancy; this time it is to reduce their search result relevancy. In response to pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Google will now suppress relevant search results from websites which have had copyright claims against them.
Amit Singhal, Google Engineering SVP, wrote,
This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily - whether it's a song previewed on NPR's music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed from Spotify.
While this may be good for Hulu and Spotify, what does this mean for legitimate websites who have received false claims? Hit the break for those answers and responses from affected parties, both for and against.
PC World:Google Appeases Hollywood But Rankles Internet Freedom Watchers
US District Judge Overturns $147 Million Settlement Against Research in Motion
Good things come to those who wait long enough. For Research in Motion, the maker of the infamous BlackBerry devices which have come and gone with their popularity as fast as Kevin Federline's rap career, the wait seems to have been very, very long. Inappropriate jobs, faulty PlayBooks and marketing blunders have plagued the company until recently, where RIM has decided to set a new course for their future. Now, it would appear good things are happening in the customary set of three.
RIM's second piece of good news in five months comes from none other than a US judge, overturning a ruling of infringement between Research in Motion and Mformation Technologies. The judge said that RIM did not infringe on the plaintiff's patent involving a remote management system on a wireless device.
How much money will RIM get back and what's next for the company. We dive into the good stuff, head-first, after the break.
Crackberry:Mformation Technologies $147.2M patent verdict overturned in favor of Research In Motion
Zynga Bribes Employees to Keep Them From Quitting
It has been a rough couple of weeks for Zynga. Though the largest producer of Facebook games, their earnings report sucked this quarter, their future products have not impressed and their $200 million OMGPOP acquisition has not exactly gone as planned. The company has begun to resort to licensing tactics, including a Draw Something-branded TV show to try and keep the lights on. Combine that with an insider trading investigation and a lawsuit from EA over the similarities between their new game The Ville and EA's The Sims Social.
None of this inspires confidence from the market, but even less confidence is inside the office. Because of this, the company is expecting many employees to leave out of fear. In an attempt to prevent this, the company handed out stock to all full-time employees to encourage them to stick around. While stock options are a common occurrence within Zynga for performance within a quarter, a full-company handout is not. As of right now, Zynga has 77.4 million outstanding options worth about 76 cents apiece.
Is this a sign of the end or common practice? Hit the break to find out.
Bloomberg:Zynga Said To Give Stock To Keep Staff After Earnings Miss
Another Kidney for Apple Products
I cannot believe I am writing about this again, but here we are. Another Chinese teenager, a 17-year-old boy, sold his kidney on the black market for about $3,500 US, which he then used to purchase an iPad and an iPhone. Yes, this kid underwent surgery in order to purchase a couple of meh consumer electronic devices. As I mentioned, this is not the first time I have written about this. There was the first kidney harvest and the virginity auction, both for Apple products in China last year.
So, what is going on here? Why are people willing to give up their virginity or organs in return for Apple products in China? There are a couple of problems. First, with 1.5 million organ transplants needed in China and only about 10,000 donations, that leaves a HUGE black market open. In fact, this kid's kidney fetched about $35,000 US, most of which was split between the surgeon, hospital official and the Internet troll who found the boy in a chatroom. The fact that even the hospitals are in on the racket is a sign that something is going wrong in the culture or in the government (no kidding, right?).
The other major factor is the social impact of Apple products in the Chinese culture. Since Apple products are so unbelievably expensive, it is a status symbol for a Chinese citizen to own one. Because of the status and the fact that a round of golf is beyond most Chinese budgets, people are willing to do all kinds of crazy things to prove they are important with an iPhone. For example, the boy in question here is currently suffering renal failure and is so weak he is unable to attend the trial in which he is trying to get $350,000 US in damages from the perpetrators of this crime.
Despite the common nature of the harvesting, the practice is obviously illegal, and the people involved are currently facing 10 years in prison, which is not something anyone wants in China. The fact that it is as common as it is, suggests that generally China doesn't prosecute the crime, though they have begun to as of late with 137 recent arrests.
So, now that we have talked about this a couple of times, I need to know: is there anything you would be willing to sell a part of yourself for? Let us know in the comments.
Venture Beat:Chinese teenager: Mom, I sold my kidney for an iPhone, iPad
Acer Thinks Surface Tablet is Bad for Business, Threatens Microsoft to Reconsider
posted Wednesday Aug 8, 2012 by Nicholas DiMeo
I didn't think anybody but Apple fans would be upset when the Microsoft Surface was announced along with the stunning new accessories. Microsoft beat the first wave of apprehension when they said they welcomed other manufacturers to step their games up against the Surface, and Samsung was quick to announce they'd be launching a Windows 8 RT tablet. All is not well in the Microsoft manufacturer world, though. The last company in my mind that would seem to have an issue, however, would be Acer, but that's exactly who is causing a stir in the tech industry this week as they have told Microsoft to "think twice" about the upcoming flagship Surface tablet.
What's happening here and why is Acer upset? Are they just being childish in the whole matter? Is Microsoft going to put them out of business? We have the answers to all of these questions after the break.
Windows IT Pro:Acer Complains About Microsoft Surface, Threatens to Abandon Windows
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How does the US government decide which candidates are “worthy” to receive a security briefing?
So while the US is by far primarily comprised of two main political parties, those parties are private organizations.
That being said, soon both candidates will be officially briefed by the US government with highly classified information to prepare them for the presidency. Since there hasn't been a government run election yet, only private elections for party nominations, how does the government decide which candidates are "worthy" of receiving this briefing?
Specifically, what is the policy for the US government to decide that the Democratic and Republican Nominees can be briefed with classified information, but candidates elected as nominees of smaller minority parties cannot?
Do they just look at private polls, the media, and "wing it"? It's common sense that they're the only two who have a chance to win but processes involving sharing national secrets with people including senators, governors, and reality TV show stars seems like they would have some form of strict policy to determine how much of a following the candidate needs to receive the briefing in case of a "third party" candidate becoming popular, including a specific method of measuring each candidate's following.
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I've always found this strange, myself. It's one thing to brief them after they've won the election, but why brief them beforehand? Is there actually that much secret information? It's not like they're going to suddenly take over if the President died a month before the election. – Bobson Jul 29 '16 at 19:10
@Bobson Well, I can see how it would be important for a candidate to know a significant amount in case World War 3 starts during their first hour in office. "Sorry Generals, I'm going to have to finish this 3 hour briefing before I can give you the go-ahead on that, please politely ask the other nations to postpone launching their nukes until this afternoon." – user6048918 Jul 29 '16 at 20:10
Yes, but there's roughly two months between the election and taking office for that. Until those two months are up, it's the outgoing president and VP's job to handle that. – Bobson Jul 29 '16 at 20:23
@Bobson I would assume that it's so that they don't promise to do things that are ridiculous in the face of what we know. I.e. it is meant to influence the positions that they take while campaigning, not to get a head start on their briefings. – Brythan Jul 30 '16 at 3:45
NPR recently ran a piece about the process of giving intelligence briefings to major party candidates. It is actually the President who decides if, when, and to what candidates an intelligence briefing is given. These briefings have only ever been given to nominees of the two major parties.
Though this has never happened we can reasonably assume that if a third party was polling high enough prior to an election then the President would also grant their nominee a briefing as well.
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Did Ross Perot get briefings in 1996? – Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder Aug 3 '16 at 23:50
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JPNS3013
Japanese - English Translation
Code JPNS3013
Course subject Japanese
Dr Mark Gibeau
Dr Shunichi Ikeda
Japanese - English Translation (JPNS3013)
Preliminary Reading
The aim of the course is to develop Japanese-English and English-Japanese translation skills, to develop an awareness of the issues which arise from the cultural and linguistic differences between Japanese and English and to familiarise students with available reference and technological resources. Students will translate original Japanese and English texts from a range of fields and genres, such as: literary, economic, political, technical, and journalistic.
English to Japanese segment: On satisfying the requirements for this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to be able to translate a variety of English materials into readable Japanese on their own with dictionaries. Anyone who is seriously pursuing a translation career should feel confident to accommodate their translation skills to the nature of original texts.
Unseen Japanese to English Spot Translations (10%), Weekly Japanese to English Partnered Translations (10%), Unseen English to Japanese Translations (10%), Weekly Japanese to English Translation Homework (10%), 2 x Translation Projects (30%), and a Final Take-Home Exam (30%)
Three hours per week.
Incompatible with JPNS6513
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This is just another example of a politician looking out for his own interest and ignoring needed facets of Democracy. He talked the talk, but failed to vote. PETA, of course, had a statement on the issue as well. Lisa Lange, the senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of animals, criticized the amendment and hunting itself, calling it a “bloody pastime.” She went on to say that, “An amendment to ‘protect’ the right to hunt and fish is bizarre and frivolous.” These comments are expected coming from a PETA spokesman who freely and proudly admitted to the organization giving money, over $1,500, to a domestic terrorist group during a Fox News Channel Interview. In no way is this amendment bizarre or frivolous. In fact, as we previously mentioned, it is a historical trend that is reaching states all across the country as more and more people recognize the threat of big animal rights groups attempting to strip citizens of their rights. 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Samsung Diamond League trophy revealed
1 Samsung Diamond League trophy revealed on Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:57 pm
Samsung Diamond League Trophy unveiled in Stockholm.
As finals approach Diamond Trophy is unveiled - Samsung Diamond League
Zürich, Switzerland – With the first of two Samsung Diamond League finals to take place on Thursday (19) at the Weltklasse Zürich, 16 inaugural Diamond Race winners will be crowned at the conclusion of the action-packed programme at Letzigrund Stadium. One of the prizes for their season-long consistency and undisputed honour as the World No. 1, the Diamond Race Trophy is one of the most dazzling awards in the world of sport.
Designed exclusively by the Swiss firm Beyer Chronometrie AG for the Samsung Diamond League, the Diamond Race Trophy has a classic cup design topped with a large glass diamond with a traditional brilliant cut. Sitting on a black polished granite base, the 4.8 kilogram and 35 cm high Trophy features steel supports in the shape of a stadium track, perfectly fusing the sport of athletics with the diamond it carries.
The Trophy was designed by Carlo Mutschler, the Head Designer & Goldsmith at Beyer, a company founded in 1760 and currently the oldest watch and jewelry shop in Switzerland. A family-operated business for eight generations, Beyer owns and operates its own jewelry design atelier and a gold and silversmith workshop.
The first 16 winners will be honoured at a ceremony at Letzigrund stadium immediately following the action. The remaining 16 Diamond Race winners will be crowned at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, the final meeting of the inaugural Samsung Diamond League series, on Friday 24 August. In addition to the trophy, winners will also receive a $40,000 cash prize.
2 Re: Samsung Diamond League trophy revealed on Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:11 pm
Lameduck
Ranks well with a Stawell gift sash!
What would you prefer to race for:
6 pack of beer
guesty
Win the Diamond - comes with 40 grand and means your the best in the world for 2010. nice title to have.
5 Re: Samsung Diamond League trophy revealed on Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:54 pm
protrak
cash is important to be able to get some of the same stuff you put in.
other than that all the little prizes like a bottle of wine, 6pack of beer, vouchers and the like add to the experience.
>>> Just removed the 'c' from the Username so as not to confuse this contributor with the admin/moderators.
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Paper Count: 583
Search results for: Parallel
583 Effect of Viscous Dissipation and Axial Conduction in Thermally Developing Region of the Channel Partially Filled with a Porous Material Subjected to Constant Wall Heat Flux
Authors: D Bhargavi, J. Sharath Kumar Reddy
The present investigation has been undertaken to assess the effect of viscous dissipation and axial conduction on forced convection heat transfer in the entrance region of a parallel plate channel with the porous insert attached to both walls of the channel. The flow field is unidirectional. Flow in the porous region corresponds to Darcy-Brinkman model and the clear fluid region to that of plane Poiseuille flow. The effects of the parameters Darcy number, Da, Peclet number, Pe, Brinkman number, Br and a porous fraction γp on the local heat transfer coefficient are analyzed graphically. Effects of viscous dissipation employing the Darcy model and the clear fluid compatible model have been studied.
Keywords: viscous dissipation, porous material, channel partially filled with a porous material, axial conduction
582 Comparative Analysis of Control Techniques Based Sliding Mode for Transient Stability Assessment for Synchronous Multicellular Converter
Authors: Rihab Hamdi, Amel Hadri Hamida, Fatiha Khelili, Sakina Zerouali, Ouafae Bennis
This paper features a comparative study performance of sliding mode controller (SMC) for closed-loop voltage control of direct current to direct current (DC-DC) three-cells buck converter connected in parallel, operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM), based on pulse-width modulation (PWM) with SMC based on hysteresis modulation (HM) where an adaptive feedforward technique is adopted. On one hand, for the PWM-based SM, the approach is to incorporate a fixed-frequency PWM scheme which is effectively a variant of SM control. On the other hand, for the HM-based SM, oncoming an adaptive feedforward control that makes the hysteresis band variable in the hysteresis modulator of the SM controller in the aim to restrict the switching frequency variation in the case of any change of the line input voltage or output load variation are introduced. The results obtained under load change, input change and reference change clearly demonstrates a similar dynamic response of both proposed techniques, their effectiveness is fast and smooth tracking of the desired output voltage. The PWM-based SM technique has greatly improved the dynamic behavior with a bit advantageous compared to the HM-based SM technique, as well as provide stability in any operating conditions. Simulation studies in MATLAB/Simulink environment have been performed to verify the concept.
Keywords: Robustness, Sliding Mode Control, DC-DC converter, pulse-width modulation, hysteresis modulation, parallel multi-cells converter
581 Design of an Ensemble Learning Behavior Anomaly Detection Framework
Authors: Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad, Thierry Winter, Mohamed Hilia
Data assets protection is a crucial issue in the cybersecurity field. Companies use logical access control tools to vault their information assets and protect them against external threats, but they lack solutions to counter insider threats. Nowadays, insider threats are the most significant concern of security analysts. They are mainly individuals with legitimate access to companies information systems, which use their rights with malicious intents. In several fields, behavior anomaly detection is the method used by cyber specialists to counter the threats of user malicious activities effectively. In this paper, we present the step toward the construction of a user and entity behavior analysis framework by proposing a behavior anomaly detection model. This model combines machine learning classification techniques and graph-based methods, relying on linear algebra and parallel computing techniques. We show the utility of an ensemble learning approach in this context. We present some detection methods tests results on an representative access control dataset. The use of some explored classifiers gives results up to 99% of accuracy.
Keywords: cybersecurity, Access control, Data protection, Ensemble Learning, User Behavior Analysis, High performance computing, insider threat
580 Performance Evaluation of Distributed Deep Learning Frameworks in Cloud Environment
Authors: Shuen-Tai Wang, Fang-An Kuo, Chau-Yi Chou, Yu-Bin Fang
2016 has become the year of the Artificial Intelligence explosion. AI technologies are getting more and more matured that most world well-known tech giants are making large investment to increase the capabilities in AI. Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed, and deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses deep neural network to train a machine to learn features directly from data. Deep learning realizes many machine learning applications which expand the field of AI. At the present time, deep learning frameworks have been widely deployed on servers for deep learning applications in both academia and industry. In training deep neural networks, there are many standard processes or algorithms, but the performance of different frameworks might be different. In this paper we evaluate the running performance of two state-of-the-art distributed deep learning frameworks that are running training calculation in parallel over multi GPU and multi nodes in our cloud environment. We evaluate the training performance of the frameworks with ResNet-50 convolutional neural network, and we analyze what factors that result in the performance among both distributed frameworks as well. Through the experimental analysis, we identify the overheads which could be further optimized. The main contribution is that the evaluation results provide further optimization directions in both performance tuning and algorithmic design.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks
579 Predictive Analysis for Big Data: Extension of Classification and Regression Trees Algorithm
Authors: Ameur Abdelkader, Abed Bouarfa Hafida
Since its inception, predictive analysis has revolutionized the IT industry through its robustness and decision-making facilities. It involves the application of a set of data processing techniques and algorithms in order to create predictive models. Its principle is based on finding relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables. Past occurrences are exploited to predict and to derive the unknown outcome. With the advent of big data, many studies have suggested the use of predictive analytics in order to process and analyze big data. Nevertheless, they have been curbed by the limits of classical methods of predictive analysis in case of a large amount of data. In fact, because of their volumes, their nature (semi or unstructured) and their variety, it is impossible to analyze efficiently big data via classical methods of predictive analysis. The authors attribute this weakness to the fact that predictive analysis algorithms do not allow the parallelization and distribution of calculation. In this paper, we propose to extend the predictive analysis algorithm, Classification And Regression Trees (CART), in order to adapt it for big data analysis. The major changes of this algorithm are presented and then a version of the extended algorithm is defined in order to make it applicable for a huge quantity of data.
Keywords: Big Data, predictive analysis, predictive analysis algorithms. CART algorithm
578 Limits Problem Solving in Engineering Careers: Competences and Errors
Authors: Veronica Diaz Quezada
In this article, the performance and errors are featured and analysed in the limit problems solving of a real-valued function, in correspondence to competency-based education in engineering careers, in the south of Chile. The methodological component is contextualised in a qualitative research, with a descriptive and explorative design, with elaboration, content validation and application of quantitative instruments, consisting of two parallel forms of open answer tests, based on limit application problems. The mathematical competences and errors made by students from five engineering careers from a public University are identified and characterized. Results show better performance only to solve routine-context problem-solving competence, thus they are oriented towards a rational solution or they use a suitable problem-solving method, achieving the correct solution. Regarding errors, most of them are related to techniques and the incorrect use of theorems and definitions of real-valued function limits of real variable.
Keywords: Engineering Education, problem solving, Errors, limits, mathematics competences
577 The Design of Multiple Detection Parallel Combined Spread Spectrum Communication System
Authors: Lixin Tian, Wei Xue
Many jobs in society go underground, such as mine mining, tunnel construction and subways, which are vital to the development of society. Once accidents occur in these places, the interruption of traditional wired communication is not conducive to the development of rescue work. In order to realize the positioning, early warning and command functions of underground personnel and improve rescue efficiency, it is necessary to develop and design an emergency ground communication system. It is easy to be subjected to narrowband interference when performing conventional underground communication. Spreading communication can be used for this problem. However, general spread spectrum methods such as direct spread communication are inefficient, so it is proposed to use parallel combined spread spectrum (PCSS) communication to improve efficiency. The PCSS communication not only has the anti-interference ability and the good concealment of the traditional spread spectrum system, but also has a relatively high frequency band utilization rate and a strong information transmission capability. So, this technology has been widely used in practice. This paper presents a PCSS communication model-multiple detection parallel combined spread spectrum (MDPCSS) communication system. In this paper, the principle of MDPCSS communication system is described, that is, the sequence at the transmitting end is processed in blocks and cyclically shifted to facilitate multiple detection at the receiving end. The block diagrams of the transmitter and receiver of the MDPCSS communication system are introduced. At the same time, the calculation formula of the system bit error rate (BER) is introduced, and the simulation and analysis of the BER of the system are completed. By comparing with the common parallel PCSS communication, we can draw a conclusion that it is indeed possible to reduce the BER and improve the system performance. Furthermore, the influence of different pseudo-code lengths selected on the system BER is simulated and analyzed, and the conclusion is that the larger the pseudo-code length is, the smaller the system error rate is.
Keywords: cyclic shift, multiple detection, parallel combined spread spectrum, PN code
576 The Impact of Protein Content on Athletes’ Body Composition
Authors: G. Vici, L. Cesanelli, L. Belli, R. Ceci, V. Polzonetti
Several factors contribute to success in sport and diet is one of them. Evidence-based sport nutrition guidelines underline the importance of macro- and micro-nutrients’ balance and timing in order to improve athlete’s physical status and performance. Nevertheless, a high content of proteins is commonly found in resistance training athletes’ diet with carbohydrate intake that is not enough or not well planned. The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of different protein and carbohydrate diet contents on body composition and sport performance on a group of resistance training athletes. Subjects were divided as study group (n=16) and control group (n=14). For a period of 4 months, both groups were subjected to the same resistance training fitness program with study group following a specific diet and control group following an ab libitum diet. Body compositions were evaluated trough anthropometric measurement (weight, height, body circumferences and skinfolds) and Bioimpedence Analysis. Physical strength and training status of individuals were evaluated through the One Repetition Maximum test (RM1). Protein intake in studied group was found to be lower than in control group. There was a statistically significant increase of body weight, free fat mass and body mass cell of studied group respect to the control group. Fat mass remains almost constant. Statistically significant changes were observed in quadriceps and biceps circumferences, with an increase in studied group. The MR1 test showed improvement in study group’s strength but no changes in control group. Usually people consume hyper-proteic diet to achieve muscle mass development. Through this study, it was possible to show that protein intake fixed at 1,7 g/kg/d can meet the individual's needs. In parallel, the increased intake of carbohydrates, focusing on quality and timing of assumption, has enabled the obtainment of desired results with a training protocol supporting a hypertrophic strategy. Therefore, the key point seems related to the planning of a structured program both from a nutritional and training point of view.
Keywords: Exercise, Protein, diet, Body Composition
575 Classification Based on Deep Neural Cellular Automata Model
Authors: Yasser F. Hassan
Deep learning structure is a branch of machine learning science and greet achievement in research and applications. Cellular neural networks are regarded as array of nonlinear analog processors called cells connected in a way allowing parallel computations. The paper discusses how to use deep learning structure for representing neural cellular automata model. The proposed learning technique in cellular automata model will be examined from structure of deep learning. A deep automata neural cellular system modifies each neuron based on the behavior of the individual and its decision as a result of multi-level deep structure learning. The paper will present the architecture of the model and the results of simulation of approach are given. Results from the implementation enrich deep neural cellular automata system and shed a light on concept formulation of the model and the learning in it.
Keywords: classification, Deep learning, cellular automata, neural cellular automata
574 Modified Techniques for Distribution System Reliability Improvement by Parallel Operation of Transformers
Authors: Ohn Zin Lin, Okka, Cho Cho Myint
It is important to consider the effects of transformers on distribution system because they have the highest impact on system reliability. It is generally said that parallel operation of transformers (POT) can improve the system reliability. However, the estimation approach can be also considered for accuracy. In this paper, we propose a three-state components model and equations to determine the reliability improvement by POT, and cooperation of POT and distributed generation (DG). Based on the proposed model and techniques, the effect of POT is analyzed in four different tests with the consideration of conventional distribution system, distribution automation system (DAS) and DG. According to the results, the reliability is greatly improved by cooperation of POT, DAS and DG. The proposed model and methods are applicable to not only developing countries which have conventional distribution system but also developed countries in which DAS has already installed.
Keywords: Reliability, Distribution System, dispersed generator, energy not supply, transformer parallel operation
573 CFD Modeling of Mixing Enhancement in a Pitted Micromixer by High Frequency Ultrasound Waves
Authors: Faezeh Mohammadi, Ebrahim Ebrahimi, Neda Azimi
Use of ultrasound waves is one of the techniques for increasing the mixing and mass transfer in the microdevices. Ultrasound propagation into liquid medium leads to stimulation of the fluid, creates turbulence and so increases the mixing performance. In this study, CFD modeling of two-phase flow in a pitted micromixer equipped with a piezoelectric with frequency of 1.7 MHz has been studied. CFD modeling of micromixer at different velocity of fluid flow in the absence of ultrasound waves and with ultrasound application has been performed. The hydrodynamic of fluid flow and mixing efficiency for using ultrasound has been compared with the layout of no ultrasound application. The result of CFD modeling shows well agreements with the experimental results. The results showed that the flow pattern inside the micromixer in the absence of ultrasound waves is parallel, while when ultrasound has been applied, it is not parallel. In fact, propagation of ultrasound energy into the fluid flow in the studied micromixer changed the hydrodynamic and the forms of the flow pattern and caused to mixing enhancement. In general, from the CFD modeling results, it can be concluded that the applying ultrasound energy into the liquid medium causes an increase in the turbulences and mixing and consequently, improves the mass transfer rate within the micromixer.
Keywords: Ultrasound, Mixing, mass transfer, CFD modeling
572 Parallel Querying of Distributed Ontologies with Shared Vocabulary
Authors: Sharjeel Aslam, Vassil Vassilev, Karim Ouazzane
Ontologies and various semantic repositories became a convenient approach for implementing model-driven architectures of distributed systems on the Web. SPARQL is the standard query language for querying such. However, although SPARQL is well-established standard for querying semantic repositories in RDF and OWL format and there are commonly used APIs which supports it, like Jena for Java, its parallel option is not incorporated in them. This article presents a complete framework consisting of an object algebra for parallel RDF and an index-based implementation of the parallel query engine capable of dealing with the distributed RDF ontologies which share common vocabulary. It has been implemented in Java, and for validation of the algorithms has been applied to the problem of organizing virtual exhibitions on the Web.
Keywords: SPARQL, semantic indexing, distributed ontologies, parallel querying, shared vocabulary
571 Plasterwork Ornamentation Finds of Hoşap Castle Archeological Excavation (2007-2015)
Authors: M. Top, H. Telli
Plaster material has been a preferred material especially in the Middle East geography in terms of economy, easy process and thermal insulation since very old times. However, due to the unstable nature of the material, very little has been reached today. For this reason, both finds and studies about stucco ornamentation are very few. In this study, the excavated plasterwork finds used in the architectural ornamentation in the Hosap Castle (Van/Turkey) were considered worth examining since they are rare examples. The stucco relief finds that were found in the castle is discussed. The finds of engraved artifacts on the plasterworks were not addressed. Only the pieces found in Area II and Area III (harem) and surrounding during the cleaning and excavation work carried out at Hosap Kalesi between 2007-2015, will be discussed. This is a general assessment about the finds. It is unknown where many of the pieces found. For this reason, only general appraisal was able to done. Most of the parts are made of mold technique. The motifs on the fragments are similar to the motifs of Ottoman period tiles. Parallel to the settlement history of the castle, thought that these plaster pieces belong to the 16th-17th centuries.
Keywords: Ornamentation, stucco decoration, Eastern Anatolia, Ottoman motifs, plasterwork
570 Analysis of a Faience Enema Found in the Assasif Tomb No. -28- of the Vizier Amenhotep Huy: Contributions to the Study of the Mummification Ritual Practiced in the Theban Necropolis
Authors: Alberto Abello Moreno-Cid
Mummification was the process through which immortality was granted to the deceased, so it was of extreme importance to the Egyptians. The techniques of embalming had evolved over the centuries, and specialists created increasingly sophisticated tools. However, due to its eminently religious nature, knowledge about everything related to this practice was jealously preserved, and the testimonies that have survived to our time are scarce. For this reason, embalming instruments found in archaeological excavations are uncommon. The tomb of the Vizier Amenhotep Huy (AT No. -28-), located in the el-Assasif necropolis that is being excavated since 2009 by the team of the Institute of Ancient Egyptian Studies, has been the scene of some discoveries of this type that evidences the existence of mummification practices in this place after the New Kingdom. The clysters or enemas are the fundamental tools in the second type of mummification described by the historian Herodotus to introduce caustic solutions inside the body of the deceased. Nevertheless, such objects only have been found in three locations: the tomb of Ankh-Hor in Luxor, where a copper enema belonged to the prophet of Ammon Uah-ib-Ra came to light; the excavation of the tomb of Menekh-ib-Nekau in Abusir, where was also found one made of copper; and the excavations in the Bucheum, where two more artifacts were discovered, also made of copper but in different shapes and sizes. Both of them were used for the mummification of sacred animals and this is the reason they vary significantly. Therefore, the object found in the tomb No. -28-, is the first known made of faience of all these peculiar tools and the oldest known until now, dated in the Third Intermediate Period (circa 1070-650 B.C.). This paper bases its investigation on the study of those parallelisms, the material, the current archaeological context and the full analysis and reconstruction of the object in question. The key point is the use of faience in the production of this item: creating a device intended to be in constant use seems to be a first illogical compared to other samples made of copper. Faience around the area of Deir el-Bahari had a strong religious component, associated with solar myths and principles of the resurrection, connected to the Osirian that characterises the mummification procedure. The study allows to refute some of the premises which are held unalterable in Egyptology, verifying the utilization of these sort of pieces, understanding its way of use and showing that this type of mummification was also applied to the highest social stratum, in which case the tools were thought out of an exceptional quality and religious symbolism.
Keywords: embalming, clyster, el-Assasif, Theban necropolis, faience enema, mummification
569 An Overview of Georgia’s Economic Growth Since 2012: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Future Development
Authors: V. Benidze
After the Rose Revolution of 2003, Georgia has achieved an unparalleled socioeconomic success. However, economic growth since 2012 has been sluggish and certainly not enough to rapidly improve the county’s standard of living that still remains substantially low compared to that in developed nations. Recent poor economic performance has shown that some key challenges need to be addressed if Georgia is to achieve high future economic growth that will decrease the poverty rate and create a middle class in the country. This paper offers in detail analysis of the economic performance of Georgia since 2012 and identifies key challenges facing the country’s economy. The main challenge going forward will be transforming Georgia from a consumption-driven to a production-oriented economy. It is identified that mobilizing domestic investment through savings, attracting foreign investment in tradable sectors and expanding the country’s export base will be crucial in the facilitation of the above-mentioned structural transformation. As the outcome of the research, the paper suggests a strategy for accelerating Georgia’ future economic growth and offers recommendations based on the relevant conclusions.
Keywords: Development, Challenges, Economic Policy, Economic growth, Georgia
568 Aging Evaluation of Ammonium Perchlorate/Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene-Based Solid Rocket Engine by Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Thermal Analysis
Authors: R. F. B. Gonçalves, E. N. Iwama, J. A. F. F. Rocco, K. Iha
Propellants based on Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene/Ammonium Perchlorate (HTPB/AP) are the most commonly used in most of the rocket engines used by the Brazilian Armed Forces. This work aimed at the possibility of extending its useful life (currently in 10 years) by performing kinetic-chemical analyzes of its energetic material via Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and also performing computer simulation of aging process using the software Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS). Thermal analysis via DSC was performed in triplicates and in three heating ratios (5 ºC, 10 ºC, and 15 ºC) of rocket motor with 11 years shelf-life, using the Arrhenius equation to obtain its activation energy, using Ozawa and Kissinger kinetic methods, allowing comparison with manufacturing period data (standard motor). In addition, the kinetic parameters of internal pressure of the combustion chamber in 08 rocket engines with 11 years of shelf-life were also acquired, for comparison purposes with the engine start-up data.
Keywords: Thermal analysis, shelf-life, thrust, Ozawa method, Kissinger method, LAMMPS software
567 Non-Timber Forest Products and Livelihood Linkages: A Case of Lamabagar, Nepal
Authors: Sandhya Rijal, Saroj Adhikari, Ramesh R. Pant
Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) have attracted substantial interest in the recent years with the increasing recognition that these can provide essential community needs for improved and diversified rural livelihood and support the objectives of biodiversity conservation. Nevertheless, various challenges are witnessed in their sustainable harvest and management. Assuming that sustainable management with community stewardship can offer one of the solutions to existing challenges, the study assesses the linkages between NTFPs and rural livelihood in Lamabagar village of Dolakha, Nepal. The major objective was to document the status of NTFPs and their contributions in households of Lamabagar. For status documentation, vegetation sampling was done using systematic random sampling technique. 30 plots of 10 m × 10 m were laid down in six parallel transect lines at horizontal distance of 160 m in two different community forests. A structured questionnaire survey was conducted in 76 households (excluding non-response rate) using stratified random sampling technique for contribution analysis. Likewise, key informant interview and focus group discussions were also conducted for data triangulations. 36 different NTFPs were recorded from the vegetation sample in two community forests of which 50% were used for medicinal purposes. The other uses include fodder, religious value, and edible fruits and vegetables. Species like Juniperus indica, Daphne bholua Aconitum spicatum, and Lyonia ovalifolia were frequently used for trade as a source of income, which was sold in local market. The protected species like Taxus wallichiana and Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora were also recorded in the area for which the trade is prohibited. The protection of these species urgently needs community stewardship. More than half of the surveyed households (55%) were depending on NTFPs for their daily uses, other than economic purpose whereas 45% of them sold those products in the market directly or in the form of local handmade products as a source of livelihood. NTFPs were the major source of primary health curing agents especially for the poor and unemployed people in the study area. Hence, the NTFPs contributed to livelihood under three different categories: subsistence, supplement income and emergency support, depending upon the economic status of the households. Although the status of forest improved after handover to the user group, the availability of valuable medicinal herbs like Rhododendron anthopogon, Swertia nervosa, Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora, and Aconitum spicatum were declining. Inadequacy of technology, lack of easy transport access, and absence of good market facility were the major limitations for external trade of NTFPs in the study site. It was observed that people were interested towards conservation only if they could get some returns: economic in terms of rural settlements. Thus, the study concludes that NTFPs could contribute rural livelihood and support conservation objectives only if local communities are provided with the easy access of technology, market and capital.
Keywords: Medicinal, contribution, subsistence, sustainable harvest
566 Modelling of Hydric Behaviour of Textiles
Authors: A. Marolleau, F. Salaun, D. Dupont, H. Gidik, S. Ducept.
The goal of this study is to analyze the hydric behaviour of textiles which can impact significantly the comfort of the wearer. Indeed, fabrics can be adapted for different climate if hydric and thermal behaviors are known. In this study, fabrics are only submitted to hydric variations. Sorption and desorption isotherms obtained from the dynamic vapour sorption apparatus (DVS) are fitted with the parallel exponential kinetics (PEK), the Hailwood-Horrobin (HH) and the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) models. One of the major finding is the relationship existing between PEK and HH models. During slow and fast processes, the sorption of water molecules on the polymer can be in monolayer and multilayer form. According to the BET model, moisture regain, a physical property of textiles, show a linear correlation with the total amount of water taken in monolayer. This study provides potential information of the end uses of these fabrics according to the selected activity level.
Keywords: Modelling, comfort, hydric properties, underwear
565 Flood Modeling in Urban Area Using a Well-Balanced Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme on Unstructured Triangular Grids
Authors: Rabih Ghostine, Craig Kapfer, Viswanathan Kannan, Ibrahim Hoteit
Urban flooding resulting from a sudden release of water due to dam-break or excessive rainfall is a serious threatening environment hazard, which causes loss of human life and large economic losses. Anticipating floods before they occur could minimize human and economic losses through the implementation of appropriate protection, provision, and rescue plans. This work reports on the numerical modelling of flash flood propagation in urban areas after an excessive rainfall event or dam-break. A two-dimensional (2D) depth-averaged shallow water model is used with a refined unstructured grid of triangles for representing the urban area topography. The 2D shallow water equations are solved using a second-order well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin scheme. Theoretical test case and three flood events are described to demonstrate the potential benefits of the scheme: (i) wetting and drying in a parabolic basin (ii) flash flood over a physical model of the urbanized Toce River valley in Italy; (iii) wave propagation on the Reyran river valley in consequence of the Malpasset dam-break in 1959 (France); and (iv) dam-break flood in October 1982 at the town of Sumacarcel (Spain). The capability of the scheme is also verified against alternative models. Computational results compare well with recorded data and show that the scheme is at least as efficient as comparable second-order finite volume schemes, with notable efficiency speedup due to parallelization.
Keywords: Flood Modeling, shallow water equations, dam-break, discontinuous Galerkin scheme, MUSCL scheme
564 Performance Analysis of MATLAB Solvers in the Case of a Quadratic Programming Generation Scheduling Optimization Problem
Authors: Dávid Csercsik, Péter Kádár
In the case of the proposed method, the problem is parallelized by considering multiple possible mode of operation profiles, which determine the range in which the generators operate in each period. For each of these profiles, the optimization is carried out independently, and the best resulting dispatch is chosen. For each such profile, the resulting problem is a quadratic programming (QP) problem with a potentially negative definite Q quadratic term, and constraints depending on the actual operation profile. In this paper we analyze the performance of available MATLAB optimization methods and solvers for the corresponding QP.
Keywords: Optimization, MATLAB, economic dispatch, quadratic programming
563 Pollutants Removal from Synthetic Wastewater by the Combined Electrochemical Sequencing Batch Reactor
Authors: Amin Mojiri, Akiyoshi Ohashi, Tomonori Kindaichi
Synthetic domestic wastewater was treated via combining treatment methods, including electrochemical oxidation, adsorption, and sequencing batch reactor (SBR). In the upper part of the reactor, an anode and a cathode (Ti/RuO2-IrO2) were organized in parallel for the electrochemical oxidation procedure. Sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) with a concentration of 2.5 g/L was applied as the electrolyte. The voltage and current were fixed on 7.50 V and 0.40 A, respectively. Then, 15% working value of the reactor was filled by activated sludge, and 85% working value of the reactor was added with synthetic wastewater. Powdered cockleshell, 1.5 g/L, was added in the reactor to do ion-exchange. Response surface methodology was employed for statistical analysis. Reaction time (h) and pH were considered as independent factors. A total of 97.0% biochemical oxygen demand, 99.9% phosphorous and 88.6% cadmium were eliminated at the optimum reaction time (80.0 min) and pH (6.4).
Keywords: Metals, Adsorption, Electrochemical Oxidation, sequencing batch reactor
562 Designing a Robust Controller for a 6 Linkage Robot
Authors: G. Khamooshian
One of the main points of application of the mechanisms of the series and parallel is the subject of managing them. The control of this mechanism and similar mechanisms is one that has always been the intention of the scholars. On the other hand, modeling the behavior of the system is difficult due to the large number of its parameters, and it leads to complex equations that are difficult to solve and eventually difficult to control. In this paper, a six-linkage robot has been presented that could be used in different areas such as medical robots. Using these robots needs a robust control. In this paper, the system equations are first found, and then the system conversion function is written. A new controller has been designed for this robot which could be used in other parallel robots and could be very useful. Parallel robots are so important in robotics because of their stability, so methods for control of them are important and the robust controller, especially in parallel robots, makes a sense.
Keywords: Control, parallel robot
561 Determination of Surface Deformations with Global Navigation Satellite System Time Series
Authors: I. Tiryakioglu, M. A. Ugur, C. Ozkaymak
The development of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has led to increasingly widely and successful applications of GNSS surveys for monitoring crustal movements. Instead of the multi-period GNSS solutions, this study utilizes GNSS time series that are required to more precisely determine the vertical deformations in the study area. In recent years, the surface deformations that are parallel and semi-parallel to Bolvadin fault have occurred in Western Anatolia. These surface deformations have continued to occur in Bolvadin settlement area that is located mostly on alluvium ground. Due to these surface deformations, a number of cracks in the buildings located in the residential areas and breaks in underground water and sewage systems have been observed. In order to determine the amount of vertical surface deformations, two continuous GNSS stations have been established in the region. The stations have been operating since 2015 and 2017, respectively. In this study, GNSS observations from the mentioned two GNSS stations were processed with GAMIT/GLOBK (GNSS Analysis Massachusetts Institute of Technology/GLOBal Kalman) program package to create coordinate time series. With the time series analyses, the GNSS stations’ behaviour models (linear, periodical, etc.), the causes of these behaviours, and mathematical models were determined. The study results from the time series analysis of these two 2 GNSS stations show approximately 50-90 mm/yr vertical movement.
Keywords: Bolvadin fault, GAMIT, GNSS time series, surface deformations
560 Real-Time Data Stream Partitioning over a Sliding Window in Real-Time Spatial Big Data
Authors: Sana Hamdi, Emna Bouazizi, Sami Faiz
In recent years, real-time spatial applications, like location-aware services and traffic monitoring, have become more and more important. Such applications result dynamic environments where data as well as queries are continuously moving. As a result, there is a tremendous amount of real-time spatial data generated every day. The growth of the data volume seems to outspeed the advance of our computing infrastructure. For instance, in real-time spatial Big Data, users expect to receive the results of each query within a short time period without holding in account the load of the system. But with a huge amount of real-time spatial data generated, the system performance degrades rapidly especially in overload situations. To solve this problem, we propose the use of data partitioning as an optimization technique. Traditional horizontal and vertical partitioning can increase the performance of the system and simplify data management. But they remain insufficient for real-time spatial Big data; they can’t deal with real-time and stream queries efficiently. Thus, in this paper, we propose a novel data partitioning approach for real-time spatial Big data named VPA-RTSBD (Vertical Partitioning Approach for Real-Time Spatial Big data). This contribution is an implementation of the Matching algorithm for traditional vertical partitioning. We find, firstly, the optimal attribute sequence by the use of Matching algorithm. Then, we propose a new cost model used for database partitioning, for keeping the data amount of each partition more balanced limit and for providing a parallel execution guarantees for the most frequent queries. VPA-RTSBD aims to obtain a real-time partitioning scheme and deals with stream data. It improves the performance of query execution by maximizing the degree of parallel execution. This affects QoS (Quality Of Service) improvement in real-time spatial Big Data especially with a huge volume of stream data. The performance of our contribution is evaluated via simulation experiments. The results show that the proposed algorithm is both efficient and scalable, and that it outperforms comparable algorithms.
Keywords: quality of service, vertical partitioning, real-time spatial big data, horizontal partitioning, matching algorithm, hamming distance, stream query
559 Exploration of an Environmentally Friendly Form of City Development Combined with a River: An Example of a Four-Dimensional Analysis Based on the Expansion of the City of Jinan across the Yellow River
Authors: Zhaocheng Shang
In order to study the topic of cities crossing rivers, a Four-Dimensional Analysis Method consisting of timeline, X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis is proposed. Policies, plans, and their implications are summarized and researched along with the timeline. The X-axis is the direction which is parallel to the river. The research area was chosen because of its important connection function. It is proposed that more surface water network should be built because of the ecological orientation of the research area. And the analysis of groundwater makes it for sure that the proposal is feasible. After the blue water network is settled, the green landscape network which is surrounded by it could be planned. The direction which is transversal to the river (Y-axis) should run through the transportation axis so that the urban texture could stretch in an ecological way. Therefore, it is suggested that the work of the planning bureau and river bureau should be coordinated. The Z-axis research is on the section view of the river, especially on the Yellow River’s special feature of being a perched river. Based on water control safety demands, river parks could be constructed on the embankment buffer zone, whereas many kinds of ornamental trees could be used to build the buffer zone. City Crossing River is a typical case where we make use of landscaping to build a symbiotic relationship between the urban landscape architecture and the environment. The local environment should be respected in the process of city expansion. The planning order of "Benefit- Flood Control Safety" should be replaced by "Flood Control Safety - Landscape Architecture- People - Benefit".
Keywords: blue-green landscape network, city crossing river, four-dimensional analysis method, planning order
558 The Influence of Disturbances Generated by Arc Furnaces on the Power Quality
Authors: Z. Olczykowski
The paper presents the impact of work on the electric arc furnace. Arc equipment is one of the largest receivers powered by the power system. Electric arc disturbances arising during melting process occurring in these furnaces are the cause of an abrupt change of the passive power of furnaces. Currents drawn by these devices undergo an abrupt change, which in turn cause voltage fluctuations and light flicker. The quantitative evaluation of the voltage fluctuations is now the basic criterion of assessment of an influence of unquiet receiver on the supplying net. The paper presents the method of determination of range of voltage fluctuations and light flicker at parallel operation of arc devices. The results of measurements of voltage fluctuations and light flicker indicators recorded in power supply networks of steelworks were presented, with different number of parallel arc devices. Measurements of energy quality parameters were aimed at verifying the proposed method in practice. It was also analyzed changes in other parameters of electricity: the content of higher harmonics, asymmetry, voltage dips.
Keywords: Power Quality, arc furnaces, propagation of voltage fluctuations
557 Steady State Natural Convection in Vertical Heated Rectangular Channel between Two Vertical Parallel MTR-Type Fuel Plates
Authors: Djalal Hamed
The aim of this paper is to perform an analytic solution of steady state natural convection in a narrow rectangular channel between two vertical parallel MTR-type fuel plates, imposed under a cosine shape heat flux to determine the margin of the nuclear core power at which the natural convection cooling mode can ensure a safe core cooling, where the cladding temperature should not be reach the specific safety limits (90 °C). For this purpose, a simple computer program is developed to determine the principal parameter related to the nuclear core safety such as the temperature distribution in the fuel plate and in the coolant (light water) as a function of the reactor power. Our results are validated throughout a comparison against the results of another published work, which is considered like a reference of this study.
Keywords: natural convection, friction factor, buoyancy force, friction force, vertical heated rectangular channel, MTR-type fuel
556 Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of the IAEA 10MW Benchmark Reactor under Normal Operating Condition
Authors: Hamed Djalal
The aim of this paper is to perform a thermal-hydraulic analysis of the IAEA 10 MW benchmark reactor solving analytically and numerically, by mean of the finite volume method, respectively the steady state and transient forced convection in rectangular narrow channel between two parallel MTR-type fuel plates, imposed under a cosine shape heat flux. A comparison between both solutions is presented to determine the minimal coolant velocity which can ensure a safe reactor core cooling, where the cladding temperature should not reach a specific safety limit 90 °C. For this purpose, a computer program is developed to determine the principal parameter related to the nuclear core safety, such as the temperature distribution in the fuel plate and in the coolant (light water) as a function of the inlet coolant velocity. Finally, a good agreement is noticed between the both analytical and numerical solutions, where the obtained results are displayed graphically.
Keywords: forced convection, vertical heated rectangular channel, friction factor pressure drop thermal hydraulic analysis
555 Numerical Solution of Transient Natural Convection in Vertical Heated Rectangular Channel between Two Vertical Parallel MTR-Type Fuel Plates
The aim of this paper is to perform, by mean of the finite volume method, a numerical solution of the transient natural convection in a narrow rectangular channel between two vertical parallel Material Testing Reactor (MTR)-type fuel plates, imposed under a heat flux with a cosine shape to determine the margin of the nuclear core power at which the natural convection cooling mode can ensure a safe core cooling, where the cladding temperature should not reach a specific safety limits (90 °C). For this purpose, a computer program is developed to determine the principal parameters related to the nuclear core safety, such as the temperature distribution in the fuel plate and in the coolant (light water) as a function of the reactor core power. Throughout the obtained results, we noticed that the core power should not reach 400 kW, to ensure a safe passive residual heat removing from the nuclear core by the upward natural convection cooling mode.
Keywords: friction factor, buoyancy force, finite volume method, transient natural convection, friction force, thermal hydraulic analysis, vertical heated rectangular channel
554 Four Decades of Greek Artistic Presence in Paris (1970-2010): Theory and Interpretation
Authors: Sapfo A. Mortaki
This article examines the presence of Greek immigrant artists (painters and sculptors) in Paris during 1970-2010. The aim is to highlight their presence in the French capital through archival research in the daily and periodical press as well as present the impact of their artistic activity on the French intellectual life and society. At the same time, their contribution to the development of cultural life in Greece becomes apparent. The integration of those migrant artists into an environment of cultural coexistence and the understanding of the social phenomenon of their migration, in the context of postmodernity, are being investigated. The cultural relations between the two countries are studied in the context of support mechanisms, such as the Greek community, cultural institutions, museums and galleries. The recognition of the Greek artists by the French society and the social dimension in the context of their activity in Paris, are discussed in terms of the assimilation theory. Since the 1970s, and especially since the fall of the dictatorship in Greece, in opposition to the prior situation, artists' contacts with their homeland have been significantly enhanced, with most of them now travelling to Paris, while others work in parallel in both countries. As a result, not only do the stages of the development of their work through their pursuits become visible, but, most importantly, the artistic world becomes informed about the multifaceted expression of art through the succession of various contemporary currents. Thus, the participation of Greek artists in the international cultural landscape is demonstrated.
Keywords: Postmodernity, cultural impact, artistic migration, Greek artists, theory of assimilation
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An innovative generic platform to simulate real-time PTO damping forces for ocean energy converters based on SIL method
Xue Jiang, Sandy Day, David Clelland
This paper proposes a generic PTO (power-take-off) simulation platform which can be used to predict how devices perform in wave conditions when a simulated real-time linear or non-linear PTO damping forces is employed. The experimental platform could be used to investigate the maximum power output of wave converters(WECs) without constructing a physical PTO system and complex control strategies at the design stage of a WEC, thus making it efficient and inexpensive to explore different PTO solutions. For this purpose, a software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation method is adopted which uses an innovative control loop running on an inexpensive real-time controller coupled to a DC motor which simulates the PTO damping torque. To calibrate the proposed PTO simulation platform, 1349 drop tests are carried out. A series of relationship curves and corresponding equations are drawn for both the linear and non-linear PTO cases. Moreover, correlation curves for input gains and the produced damping force coefficients are provided. The correlation indicates the PTO simulation platform's capacity of simulating linear PTO can reach 40–220 and can reach 10–70 for quadratic damping in terms of damping force coefficient. To investigate the accuracy of the platform, uncertainty analyses are also carried out in good details. The calibrating tests and uncertainty analyses indicate that the proposed experimental platform can be used to overcome many of the limitations in modelling PTO systems at laboratory scale to simulate both real-time linear and quadratic PTO damping forces.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.10.012
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Jiang, X., Day, S., & Clelland, D. (2018). An innovative generic platform to simulate real-time PTO damping forces for ocean energy converters based on SIL method. Ocean Engineering, 170, 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.10.012
Jiang, Xue ; Day, Sandy ; Clelland, David. / An innovative generic platform to simulate real-time PTO damping forces for ocean energy converters based on SIL method. In: Ocean Engineering. 2018 ; Vol. 170. pp. 209-221.
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N2 - This paper proposes a generic PTO (power-take-off) simulation platform which can be used to predict how devices perform in wave conditions when a simulated real-time linear or non-linear PTO damping forces is employed. The experimental platform could be used to investigate the maximum power output of wave converters(WECs) without constructing a physical PTO system and complex control strategies at the design stage of a WEC, thus making it efficient and inexpensive to explore different PTO solutions. For this purpose, a software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation method is adopted which uses an innovative control loop running on an inexpensive real-time controller coupled to a DC motor which simulates the PTO damping torque. To calibrate the proposed PTO simulation platform, 1349 drop tests are carried out. A series of relationship curves and corresponding equations are drawn for both the linear and non-linear PTO cases. Moreover, correlation curves for input gains and the produced damping force coefficients are provided. The correlation indicates the PTO simulation platform's capacity of simulating linear PTO can reach 40–220 and can reach 10–70 for quadratic damping in terms of damping force coefficient. To investigate the accuracy of the platform, uncertainty analyses are also carried out in good details. The calibrating tests and uncertainty analyses indicate that the proposed experimental platform can be used to overcome many of the limitations in modelling PTO systems at laboratory scale to simulate both real-time linear and quadratic PTO damping forces.
AB - This paper proposes a generic PTO (power-take-off) simulation platform which can be used to predict how devices perform in wave conditions when a simulated real-time linear or non-linear PTO damping forces is employed. The experimental platform could be used to investigate the maximum power output of wave converters(WECs) without constructing a physical PTO system and complex control strategies at the design stage of a WEC, thus making it efficient and inexpensive to explore different PTO solutions. For this purpose, a software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation method is adopted which uses an innovative control loop running on an inexpensive real-time controller coupled to a DC motor which simulates the PTO damping torque. To calibrate the proposed PTO simulation platform, 1349 drop tests are carried out. A series of relationship curves and corresponding equations are drawn for both the linear and non-linear PTO cases. Moreover, correlation curves for input gains and the produced damping force coefficients are provided. The correlation indicates the PTO simulation platform's capacity of simulating linear PTO can reach 40–220 and can reach 10–70 for quadratic damping in terms of damping force coefficient. To investigate the accuracy of the platform, uncertainty analyses are also carried out in good details. The calibrating tests and uncertainty analyses indicate that the proposed experimental platform can be used to overcome many of the limitations in modelling PTO systems at laboratory scale to simulate both real-time linear and quadratic PTO damping forces.
KW - experimental platform
KW - ocean energy
KW - PTO damping
KW - SIL simulation
KW - uncertainty analyses
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ocean-engineering
U2 - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.10.012
DO - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.10.012
JO - Ocean Engineering
JF - Ocean Engineering
Jiang X, Day S, Clelland D. An innovative generic platform to simulate real-time PTO damping forces for ocean energy converters based on SIL method. Ocean Engineering. 2018 Dec 15;170:209-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.10.012
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Movie 50: Tangled
October 11, 2014 | Rachel's Reviews
“I am excited that with Tangled a whole new generation will have a Disney princess experience. I hope Disney keeps up the good work and doesn’t rely only on the brilliance of Pixar.”
That was my thoughts back in 2010 when I saw Tangled. I loved it then, and I love it now. Even though it won’t be my #1 movie, I have to admit if I made a movie, Tangled is the type of film I would like to make.
As Disney’s first attempt to make a romantic comedy (which I love. see my defense here), I love everything about it. It gets the opposites attract, romantic banter, witty dialogue, action, and terrific characters of a Princess Bride but then it adds beautiful music, tons of humor, gorgeous animation, and one of the great Disney villains. I watched it again tonight but I really didn’t need to because I pull it out every couple of months and give it a watch. It’s the best!
The Production-
There are a lot of reasons Tangled works so well and a lot of that has to go down to choices they made in production. Remember how I said every choice they made in Brother Bear drove me crazy? This is the exact opposite.
For starters, they went traditional fairytale, updated it a little but not as much as Princess and the Frog. Most of the updates they chose had to do with making the film appeal more to boys instead of traditional Princess movies, and each of these choices makes it a stronger romantic comedy.
For example, Flynn narrates the film which means we get to see a lot of his character, making the romantic comedy tension all the more palpable and satisfying. I can totally see Flynn being played by romantic comedy greats like a Cary Grant, Matthew Mcconaughey, Harrison Ford or even Chris Pratt in Guardians- all suave and debonair but really good at heart. Classic and tough to pull off (Mcconaughey failed many times!)
We also get ruffians and thugs which appeal to both girls and boys and they are fabulous.
They were so smart in the script also because Rapunzel is so likable. She does her best to be optimistic and hopeful while basically being a terrified prisoner. That is very likable person. In some ways she is like Cinderella in that way. She is also the ultimate homeschooler- self educated in every way 😉
And the villain, Mother Gothel, is one of Disney’s best. Here Disney had the guts to make a mother evil, and not only that but she uses the very ‘maternal’ nature of mothering to manipulate her daughter. If you really think about it it’s kind of twisted- brilliantly twisted!!
I don’t have any proof this but I wonder if they used Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods as inspiration particularly for Mother Gothel.
In the play Gothel (or the Witch) is even more manipulative and sings a song called Stay with Me to make sure Rapunzel knows how devastated she will be if she is left alone. Another song is called The Witches Lament and I think you will see similarities between it and Mother Knows Best:
In the Sondheim version she is even kind of bitter with Rapunzel for not appreciating all she did for her. A true sociopath. You get pieces of that in Mother Gothel with wicked humor I love!
The other thing about Mother Knows Best which makes it amazing is it is just 2 characters on a black background for most of the song and yet I am totally engrossed. That’s impressive!
The music was written by the great Alan Menken so no reason to assume he couldn’t have used Sondheim as an inspiration. Lyrics are by Glenn Slater who also has a broadway background.
The rest of the songs feel more like The Lion King or Tarzan with a pop vibe but I really love them.
The fact Tangled wasn’t even nominated for Best Animated Film shows what a joke the Oscars really are. I get why Toy Story 3 would win, and I love How to Train Your Dragon but they only nominated 3 films that year and they didn’t have room for Tangled? The previous year they nominated 5!
The voice cast is all great with Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Brad Garrett, Ron Perlman, and Jeffrey Tambor.
I thought I would try something different for this review. I found this video- the story of Tangled in 60 seconds and it basically does just that!
Let’s go over a few of the songs.
After our introduction to the story by Flynn, we meet Rapunzel with When Will My Life Begin and it does what Menken and Ashman used to do- like the song Belle in Beauty and the Beast it introduces a ton of narrative within the song, while creating an incredibly appealing lead character. As an audience we feel connected to Rapunzel quickly.
Next is Mother’s Knows Best which I talked about before. Flynn arrives and needs to make a deal with Rapunzel to get his satchel of a stolen crown back (classic romantic comedy plot device a bargain, deal, bet, swap gimmick to get story going and force leads to be together).
We also get introduced to Maximus, the rigid Kings guard horse, who is hilarious in his dogged behaviors and determination.
Romantic comedies always have engaging side characters and for a story about a thief and a girl in a tower I think they came up with a lot of them and unlike Princess and the Frog they don’t make the movie feel cluttered but are included just enough.
Some of those side characters are the roughians and thugs which brings us our next great song I Had a Dream. Perfection!
Eventually they break free and end up almost drowning, Flynn finds out about her hair and they finally make it to the lights.
This scene with the lanterns is one of the best in all of Disney and in 3D it was breathtaking (I saw it twice in 3D and I have a lazy eye so I usually hate 3D!)
We then get a terrific final act with Mother Gothel continuing to manipulate Rapunzel. This Mother Knows Best Reprise is so chilling and well sung by Donna Murphy.
The ending is so well done and just like a good romantic comedy should we want things to work out so badly for Flynn and Rapunzel but it seems hopeless until the bitter end. Flynn and Rapunzel understand each other better than any other Disney couple and I have more confidence in their marriage being a success. It’s one of the great Disney couples.
The perfect way to end a romantic comedy with a couple laughing and kissing!
Movie Review/Conclusion-
I really have little criticism for this film. As I’ve made abundantly clear in this review I love all the choices they made. I love the romantic comedy storytelling. I love Flynn and Rapunzel. I love the side characters and I LOVE the villain.
The music is great, animation stunning especially the lanterns, the humor all works. I guess if I was going to nitpick I’d say the eyes could have been a little smaller. That’s it.
For me it is a quick top 10 favorite and probably the Disney I could and do rewatch the most frequently. I love it!
Overall Grade- A+
Oh and Disney is coming out with Into the Woods at Christmas I believe . Yippee!!
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swanpride says:
Yeah, I love it too…pretty much one of my top Disney movies. To me, it is a romance written right.
I think the “problem” with the music is that the first song is nothing to write home about. It is good, it does exactly what Menken wants it to do, but it doesn’t exactly make a splash, and first impressions counts. Mother Knows best is more menacing in the reprise, because during the first time, Gothel can’t go really menacing, it wouldn’t fit the scene. Overall, I love the soundtrack. It might not have one of Disney’s big hits and ear worms, but it uses the music exactly like it should be used (well…duh…it’s Menken after all) and has one of the most beautiful score in the whole canon. “Kingdom dance”, “The Tear Heals”, I didn’t pay so much attention to the actual score of a movie since Beauty and the Beast.
smilingldsgirl says:
I’m glad you mentioned the score because it is fantastic.
The songs are more pop in feel like Tarzan, but I also really enjoy them and I think Mother Knows Best is so manipulative rather than menacing. We all know what she is doing but Rapunzel doesn’t which is gold for a movie. It makes the song so wicked- a mother leading her child astray, manipulating her. What a brilliant villain!
If I was just going on what movie I want to rewatch the most often Tangled would be my favorite! I’m glad you love it too! 🙂
I think the effect is quite chilling, because “Mother knows best” basically does sound like the stuff mother tell their children. It’s really a fine line between “being worried” and “manipulating someone into something”.
Well, you read what I wrote about Rapunzel and Tangled, so there is no need to repeat again why I appreciate the story so much.
For sure. Thanks so much!
Matthew David Cline says:
Awesome review once again! Yeah, I at least give this one an A because I definitely liked it better than Lilo & Stitch and Treasure Planet, I can tell you that. Want to hear a possibly interesting story? I went to a Disney On Ice Show last year at Christmas. Anyway, Tangled was one of the films in the show and they of course performed then all. I sang along to all of them except for “I See The Light”and “Mother Knows Best” even though I like those ones as well. (Oops for me singing along to the songs! Guess I just got carried away).
By the way, did you see see the bonus feature on this movie where they show a clip from every single Disney film at least up to Tangled?
Fun! Go ahead and sing along! I did it when I saw Les Mis in theaters, quietly but I did.
I did see that bonus feature and really enjoyed it. They did a smaller version of it at the theater and I don’t think many of us realized it was up to 50! What an accomplishment.
My thoughts exactly! Though I went to another one earlier this year where they had older stuff like Mulan, Aladdin, Pinocchio, you name it. Anyway, I sent a couple videos of me singing along to a couple of the songs from Mulan. Anyway, my mom said that unless the staff asks you to sing along, it’s considered rude to do that since it would likely be distracting to other people in the audience. Oh well! But if you insist, I could maybe continue the mini-tradition anyway. Who knows though?
That’s awesome that they did a smaller version of the 50 animated feature countdown at the theater that you went to. Are there a lot of movie theaters in the Salt Lake City area where you live?
How about compromise and sing quietly so it doesn’t distract others?
There are a lot of theaters by me but it can still be hard to see smaller more obscure pictures. You’d think the home of Sundance would do better in that regard. I wish I got to the theater more. I’ve been 5 times this year- Lego, Apes, Boyhood, Guardians and Edge of Tomorrow. All awesome movies!
The Animation Commendation says:
It took me forever to decide whether I’m on the team of people who prefers ‘Tangled’ to ‘Frozen’ or the team who prefers ‘Frozen’ to ‘Tangled’. After days and days of thinking it over, I had to go with the fact that I prefer ‘Tangled’ to ‘Frozen’, although very minutely more.
The reason why 3 or 5 movies are nominated in the category has to do with the amount of animated films that are shortlisted to be considered to be nominees.
I take it you’re excited for Disney’s upcoming ‘Into the Woods’?
I’d agree I like Tangled better than Frozen but both are very strong.
I still think it is outrageous Tangled didn’t get nomimated. Outrageous!
So excited about Into the Woods! But I am usually excited about musicals and Meryl Streep is a great singer so I’m hopeful. I think you’ll see some Sondheim influence on both Frozen and Tangled when you see Into the Woods
Well, if only 3 films had to be chosen, I feel ‘Toy Story 3’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ deserved the nomination. But, I haven’t seen ‘The Illusionist’ yet, so it all depends on whether ‘Tangled’ is better than ‘The Illusionist’ or not.
I’ve never even heard of ‘Into the Woods’, much less seen it until I heard about the Disney film. But I’m very interested in seeing it and hoping it has good songs.
Not a big Broadway fan I take it? Sondheim’s music is different, so it will be interesting to see what someone new to him thinks. He doesn’t write big musical numbers with rousing choruses so I’m curious to see how they pull it off. Sondheim is a musical genius and if you want to see some cool creative work look up ‘John Doyle and Sondheim’. John Doyle is amazing director who has all the cast playing instruments while they preform. Anyway, Sondheim is amazing and so I am excited about Into the Woods. We’ll see if they can pull it off.
I guess I haven’t seen The Illusionist either but I still think Tangled should have been shortlisted or whatever and been nominated. That said, I usually disagree with the Academy on just about everything so I really don’t care. Oh well.
Well and the process to be shortlisted is so convoluted and political it’s quite silly. Same thing with the ridiculous system that is used to determine how many Best Picture nominees they have. Groan.
Eh, I enjoy the Oscars and enjoy making my predictions and all that, so it’s a fun tradition for me. Once in a while, there’s a nomination that I believe was just snubbed, but in the end, I don’t hold the Oscars with much importance, so I don’t get mad/frustrated with any of the categories. I just see it as something fun, a fun event.
And I enjoy musicals, but I’ve never been to a Broadway play or anything, so all my musicals I know from film adaptations of them: ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Oklahoma!’, ‘Carousel’, ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘South Pacific’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’, ‘Oliver!’, etc.
So, I’m looking forward to this ‘Into the Woods’ and hoping it can join my list of musicals I like!
It’s true. The Oscars can be fun. I guess I just feel frustrated when anyone gets snubbed when they deserve it no matter the competition or award.
I’m a broadway nut and if you get a chance to ever see one on stage I highly recommend it. Sondheims music is different than other musicals so it will be interesting to see what you think.
I mean there are people who deserve awards, but the Oscars is a competition between nominees, so maybe even if their performance was amazing, maybe there were more “amazing-er” performances that year.
Like, people get upset that Leonardo DiCaprio nor Peter O’Toole have won any Oscars. And they are amazing actors, no doubt, but maybe every year that they were nominated, there was always that one other actor who had a better performance than them, hence deserving of the award.
It’s not putting down Leonardo DiCaprio or Peter O’Toole at all, but it just says that having an Oscar isn’t really the litmus test in determining who’s a good actor or not.
And yeah, I definitely wanna see a musical play sometime in my life. My fave non-Disney musical is ‘Les Miserables’.
Fair enough. It’s true. I guess it just seems like there should have been 5 but you’re right
I don’t know, I would say that I like Frozen to Tangled. Though, to be fair, the one thing I did like better about Tangled than Frozen was the fact that the main characters parents aren’t killed off at some point during the film. Still, I say both are very great films though.
I agree that it was stupid for Tangled to not get nominated for Best Animated Feature. Though, to be fair, that might have been because they didn’t think it would win, especially against say Toy Story 3.
Both are great! Totally agree.
Who knows what they were thinking on Tangled but I think we all agree it deserved the nomination. Oh well
I can do that. Anyway, have you seen the new Maleficent movie yet?
Not yet. Will let you know what I think when I do
Will do. I’ve seen it and I gotta tell you, it was definitely an interesting take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. But I won’t spoil anything. Just go see it and you’ll know why is all I can say.
Agreed! All the movies you mentioned are great movies.
The Lawn Gnome says:
Another film I enjoyed, but really don’t remember much of. I plan to see it real soon. I don’t feel my thoughts will be any different, because I remember loving that horse.
The horse is hilarious! 🙂
Agreed! The horse is great. Still, he does have a little bit or resemblance to the horse in Tangled, except with more personality.
It is the horse in tangled. This is the tangled review your commenting on
anii654 says:
This film is a good film. Not a favorite of mine, but still a good one nonetheless. I found Rapunzel to be a bit too close to a Mary Sue for my liking, and Flynn was so unoriginal that it bothered me. The story and animation is really engaging, and the characters are likable, though the music is only eh to me. It should have at least been nominated for Best Animated Film at the Academy Awards.
Right! Totally should have been nominated. And I can totally see why it wouldn’t be everyone’s favorite, but I’m glad you enjoyed it.
By the way, did you think this film was a little bit similar to films like say Hunchback of Notre Dame or even Little Mermaid?
Interesting question. Hunchback, No aside from prisoner cooped up. Tones so different. Little Mermaid I dont really see it. Ariel is never confused about her choices. She knows what she wants from beginning.
They all have Alan Menken music so there’s that
Ariel may never be confused about her choices, that’s a given. However, the love song in both films is followed by something bad (I mean what after “Kiss The Girl” in Little Mermaid, the eels flip Eric and Ariel’s boat over and then in “I See The Light” in Tangled, Flynn’s former sidekicks spy on him and Rapunzel, which causes him to hold his kiss from Rapunzel). Yes, you’re absolutely right, all three movies have songs by Alan Menken. Very interesting, as is the case for Beauty & The Beast. Oh, there’s another minor similarity with Beauty & The Beast! In both films, the heroine ends up crying, shedding tears, and brings the love interest back to life. How interesting!
Very interesting. You make good points!
That’s true. As for the horse thing, I know I’m commenting on Tangled. My point was is that Maximus looks very much like Altivo the horse from Road To El Dorado. However, Maximus has more personality. Does that make sense now?
Ah, Ok. Didn’t get that but now I see. Haven’t seen El Dorado but have heard good things.
Oops! I typed the wrong title. I meant to say Maximus resembles the horse in The Road to El Dorado, except with more personality. My bad!
NP. Thanks for the comment. Will have to check out El Dorado one of these days.
Cool! If you ever get the chance to see it, let me know what you think of it.
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velociraptor256 says:
I finally got round to watching this film the other day and really enjoyed it. The villain feels fresh and interesting, the two main characters have great chemistry (though I would have liked to see their relationship develop over a longer period) and its emotional scenes really hit the mark. I was especially impressed (and heartbroken) by that little scene with the King and Queen just before the lanterns go up: any dialogue would be totally unnecessary – their expressions tell you everything.
I’m so glad you liked it! Thanks for sharing. I agree with all of your responses. The King and Queen are very well done. I love in a movie when they have the courage to not have the characters speak.
Tangled does such a great job entertaining all age groups and boys and girls. That makes it such a fun family film.
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I did wish that we could have seen more of the King and Queen – but on the other hand, that could have cheapened how effective they are when they do appear. Have you watched Tangled Ever After? The Queen does get one line there, but it may not count since it’s in a sort-of dream sequence.
Yes Tangled Ever After is super cute!
Tangled Evee After was hysterical. I’d watch that again any day.
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oscarstainton says:
When ‘Tangled’ first came out in cinemas, being the fool I passed over thinking very little of Disney at the time, after all their attempts to get back into 2D animation with ‘Princess and the Frog’ I thought they’d just dropped the ball. Big mistake, as soon as my university friends hosted a Disney themed party, ‘Tangled’ was recommended to me by everyone, many calling it as good as the Renaissance classics. I finally saw it and I’m glad to say it charmed the pants off me! I don’t think they were trying too hard to recapture the Disney feel, even though I’m not sure how much I enjoyed the songs. I know lots of people who enjoy them, but they just seem too poppy for me. But that’s my only real nitpick with it, I guess the songs need time to grow on me.
I think in many ways, ‘Tangled’ manages to tell a better “abusive parent/innocent adopted child” story than ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’, and while I enjoy that film’s grittiness, grand scale, darker tones and fairly inspiring moments, I have to admit this film just feels a lot more cogent and true to form as far as Disney goes. I’ve heard mixed opinions on the voice acting and many people do recognize Mandy Moore as Rapunzel. But I had the advantage of knowing nothing about the voice actors for this film, went in blind and overall I think what could have been a distraction just went up in smoke before it could materialize! For children and future generations, I think it will be the same for them because they aren’t as exposed to their off-screen personas as most media-savvy people are. It truly is the modern Disney fairytale that audiences have waited for, more so than Frozen if I might say so myself. All in all, I’d say ‘Tangled’ is coming closer and closer to earning its classic status.
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Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children
M. J. Giannini, E. J. Protas
This study compared aerobic capacity and highest work load completed by children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and healthy children during bicycle ergometer exercise. A secondary purpose was to determine the relationship between measures of disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Aerobic capacity was measured using an open-circuit computerized gas analysis system. Sixteen patients with JRA and 16 healthy children were matched for age, sex, and body surface area. The healthy children achieved a significantly higher aerobic capacity than their respective control (p < 0.001, paired t test, two-tailed). The healthy children were able to complete higher work loads than their respective control (p < 0.01, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test). There was no relationship between measures of articular disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Results of this study provide specific direction to clinicians to initiate aerobic conditioning programs for children with JRA soon after diagnosis. Additionally, an individual's functional exercise capacity is not directly related to the severity of the articular disease.
Arthritis Care and Research
Juvenile Arthritis
Body Surface Area
Giannini, M. J., & Protas, E. J. (1991). Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children. Arthritis Care and Research, 4(3), 131-135.
Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children. / Giannini, M. J.; Protas, E. J.
In: Arthritis Care and Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1991, p. 131-135.
Giannini, MJ & Protas, EJ 1991, 'Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children', Arthritis Care and Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 131-135.
Giannini MJ, Protas EJ. Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children. Arthritis Care and Research. 1991;4(3):131-135.
Giannini, M. J. ; Protas, E. J. / Aerobic capacity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy children. In: Arthritis Care and Research. 1991 ; Vol. 4, No. 3. pp. 131-135.
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AU - Protas, E. J.
N2 - This study compared aerobic capacity and highest work load completed by children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and healthy children during bicycle ergometer exercise. A secondary purpose was to determine the relationship between measures of disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Aerobic capacity was measured using an open-circuit computerized gas analysis system. Sixteen patients with JRA and 16 healthy children were matched for age, sex, and body surface area. The healthy children achieved a significantly higher aerobic capacity than their respective control (p < 0.001, paired t test, two-tailed). The healthy children were able to complete higher work loads than their respective control (p < 0.01, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test). There was no relationship between measures of articular disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Results of this study provide specific direction to clinicians to initiate aerobic conditioning programs for children with JRA soon after diagnosis. Additionally, an individual's functional exercise capacity is not directly related to the severity of the articular disease.
AB - This study compared aerobic capacity and highest work load completed by children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and healthy children during bicycle ergometer exercise. A secondary purpose was to determine the relationship between measures of disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Aerobic capacity was measured using an open-circuit computerized gas analysis system. Sixteen patients with JRA and 16 healthy children were matched for age, sex, and body surface area. The healthy children achieved a significantly higher aerobic capacity than their respective control (p < 0.001, paired t test, two-tailed). The healthy children were able to complete higher work loads than their respective control (p < 0.01, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test). There was no relationship between measures of articular disease severity and (a) aerobic capacity and (b) highest work load completed among the JRA patients. Results of this study provide specific direction to clinicians to initiate aerobic conditioning programs for children with JRA soon after diagnosis. Additionally, an individual's functional exercise capacity is not directly related to the severity of the articular disease.
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Edmonton-Strathcona Green Party candidate quits, endorses NDP
Green Party candidate Michael Kalmanovitch (Edmonton-Strathcona) speaks during the Proud to Vote federal election forum at Evolution Wonderlounge on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Liberal candidate Randy Boissonnault (Edmonton-Centre) and NDP candidate Katherine Swampy (Edmonton-Centre) joined them on stage. Photo by Ian Kucerak/Postmedia IAN KUCERAK / POSTMEDIA
The Green Party candidate running in the riding of Edmonton-Strathcona announced Wednesday he is ending his campaign and encouraging supporters to vote strategically and vote for the NDP.
The closely contested race in the riding now has one less person after Green Party candidate Michael Kalmanovitch announced he was stepping down during a forum at The King’s University and in a news release.
According to 338Canada‘s latest poll shows the riding as a toss-up between Conservative Party candidate Sam Lilly and NDP candidate Heather McPherson.
“The Climate Crisis is too important for people and parties to play politics as usual,” said Kalmanovitch in the release. Kalmanovitch was also on hand with Extinction Rebellion during their protest on the Walterdale Bridge on Oct. 7. It stalled traffic the group demanded political action on climate change.
“I am, first and foremost, a person of conscience. I have devoted my life to caring for my fellow humans and our shared home,” said Kalmanovitch, who is a longtime activist.
“But personal and even business actions can only go so far. We need systemic change in order to address the climate emergency, and that is why I decided to run for office.”
According to the release, Kalmanovitch and his volunteers ran a low-carbon campaign that including distributing over 9,000 flyers on recycled paper and over 120 signs, many of which were hand-made out of reused materials.
“I ran this campaign with the goal of winning the Edmonton Strathcona riding, but based on polling projections, it has become clear that success is unlikely under our first-past-the-post system,” Kalmanovtich said.
“My goal has never been personal political power. My goal has always been policy change. That is why I am ending my campaign effective today, and calling on supporters to consider voting strategically for the candidate and party with the next best climate action plan. I believe that candidate is Heather McPherson of the NDP.”
Kalmanovitch also acknowledged those who may have voted for him during advance polls.
“I deeply appreciate their support, and hope they share my conviction that advancing policy change is more important than personal or party power.”
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/election-2019/edmonton-strathcona-green-party-candidate-quits-endorses-ndp
Ken Burch
Good for him. If there was a situation where the Green candidate could beat the Con but the NDP candidate couldn't, I'd hope the NDP candidate would do the same thing.
KarlL
Doesn't that constitute an extreme form of strategic voting, i.e., I am withdrawing your capacity to vote for a committed Green candidate and would suggest that you vote for your second choice (and now my first choice party)?
I think it is actually too late for him to withdraw officially, so he will be on the ballot with the Green label beside his name. I suppose, that people could still vote for him despite his withdrawal and General Phil Sheridan-esque "if nominated, I will not stand. If elected, I will not serve".
So the race in this riding has been between the NDP and the Conservatives and apparently it is close
He should have done it before the early voting.
This was Linda Duncan’s seat
http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/10/where-did-pollsters-find-elusive-liberals-edmonton-strathcona
Ken Burch wrote:
The closest to that might be E.May's riding. Most everywhere else the Greens seem to be trying to win NDP seats. The worse case scenarios on Vancouver Island are three way races because the Conservatives have an unwavering base.
May will be in my riding this week trying to defeat Gord Johns who is arguably the most effect environmentalist the House has seen. Gord even worked with her on one of his bills but partisan politics come in Green as well as Orange or Red or Blue.
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https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/10/16/elizabeth-may-slams-jagmeet-singh-over-disgraceful-ndp-flyers.html
There is no conservative candidate here
https://www.burnabynow.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-svend-robinson-pulls-slightly-ahead-in-burnaby-north-seymour-338-canada-1.23976499
The candidate is still running, and still using the Conservative signs.
my mom thinks Gord Johns is amazing. she's been all over her friends in the riding getting them to support and campaign.
don't know much about him other than he's done a bunch for the riding in 4 years as a new MP.
i think this Edmonton seat will now go NDP.
That would be a very unfortunate outcome if May succeeds. Gord Johns is a great MP.
Ciabatta2
Not cool Green guy, not cool. Don't tell people how to vote. If you're willing to stand for a party, stand for it for the full 40 days. This is awfully arrogant and obnoxious.
Ciabatta2 wrote:
You missed the point. He was standing for the planet first not a party, duh.
Ciabatta2 would have cheered if the Green candidate had endorsed the Liberal party, me thinks.
Not cool Green guy, not cool. Don't tell people how to vote.
Uh...it's an election campaign...telling people how to vote is kind of the point, isn't it?
Misfit wrote:
Nope. I think it is unkind, unfair, and unclassy to ask or offer to be a candidate, use the party's finances and airtime and logistics and support, use their membership's money and time and energy - to then make a unilateral decision to drop out near the end and support someone else. And to do so with your name still on the ballot to boot is asinine. Telling the people that supported you and your party they should vote for someone else now - simply because you think it is best - is insulting to the max.
If you can't forsee representing a party for a grand total of 40 days then being a candidate is not for you. These types of moves increase cynicism in politics, not combat it.
I thought it was stupid when it happened to the Liberals in 2011 and the NDP in the last election.
(And, as a side note, maybe one of the reasons this place has become a discussion graveyard over the past four or five years is the exhausting habit that is calling anyone a Liberal when their views don't perfectly align with your orthodoxy.)
This place definitely used to be more open and more fun. I suppose we're all to blame for letting it degenerate into name-calling.
Ciabatta yet May endorsed JWR. she set the precedence imv.
Today at the final Green rally in Vancouver Granville, there was a surprise guest speaker. Of course it was ... JWR!
And Green candidate Louise Boutin had no idea she would be coming to her rally to see Jody speak.
May campaigned against her own candidate.
You only show up during elections and only to trash for the Liberal party.
voice of the damned
Obviously, there is no legal way to stop someone from dropping out right before the vote. But I'm kind of suspicious of his claim that he didn't realize until that late in the campaign that he was likely to lose. It isn't as if the Greens were expected to sweep up a whole bunch of new seats coast-to-coast, and so of course Edmonton would be a part of that.
But then, this is a party that sent a request to London for the Queen to issue a statement criticizing Harper, so maybe some of their members really are that detached from reality.
To be fair, it was likely that he felt that he was likely to take enough votes away from the NDP to allow the Conservatives to win. That of course hasn't stopped the Greens elsewhere.
if you go through the 338 aggregator for BC the GP will be giving major seats to the Conservatives and the Conservatives will be winning the seat with under 35% of the votes.
Badriya
quizzical wrote:
This is yet another example showing why it is crucial there be electoral reform federally, with some version of mixed-member proportional representation.
voice of the damned wrote:
Did they at least send it to the RIGHT London?
I only show up for elections because that's the only time this board has any participation anymore. Even this election, it's been pretty silent til now.
I do not trash anyone or any party. I feel bad if my opinions don't jibe with yours, or make you feel iffy, insecure, or just generally unhappy in any way. It's certainly not my intent.
Apparently, they did at least manage to get that part right....
https://tinyurl.com/y6xcy9ds
NDP won the riding.
The Greens still got about a thousand votes in the riding, even with no candidate. If there was ever one riding in Alberta to not vote Conservative it would be Edmonton-Strathcona.
I think Mclellan's riding was Edmonton-North or Edmonton-Centre just going from memory.
Ross Harvey won the same riding back in the early 90's (if memory serves correct) for the NDP.
^Ross Harvey represented Edmonton East, parts of which became Edmonton Northwest. Anne McLellan represented Edmonton Northwest, then Edmonton West, and then Edmonton Centre. I think those ridings all evolved from each other via boundary-shifts, but I don't have the details.
Hurtin Albertan wrote:
That was Rahim Jaffer's riding.
My mistake. I was going to the U of A back when Harvey won his seat. And the ridings sure have changed over the years but IMO the U of A will always pull things left whatever riding it's in, federally or provincially or probably even in mayoral elections. Edmonton has always been called Redmonton for lots of reasons.
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09.03.2019 Featured Story
Tropical storm conditions possible Friday as hurricane passes to east
By Riverhead News-Review
The East End may receive a glancing blow later this week from the outer edge of the deadly hurricane that has been stalled over the Bahamas and threatening the east coasts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook, warning of tropical storm conditions possible Friday into Friday night. The center of Hurricane Dorian is on track to pass “well south and east.” However, wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph and locally heavy rain are still possible.
The slow-moving storm is expected to gain speed early Thursday morning once it’s off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. The center of the storm should stay over water as it tracks up the East Coast.
The storm is currently a Category 3, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is expected to remain a powerful hurricane during the next few days. It had reached the maximum Category 5 status as it pummeled the Bahamas.
On Monday afternoon, residents were startled when a tornado warning was issued for areas in Manorville and Calverton. The NWS confirmed Tuesday that an EF0 tornado touched down in Manorville with estimated peak wins of 85 mph. The tornado warning went into effect shortly after 4:30 p.m. and was lifted at 4:56 p.m.
“The tornado traveled 1.6 miles before lifting and leaving behind a path of damage,” the NWS said.
The tornado touched down on Dayton Avenue, then continued northeast through the south end of Rosewood Street and then across its intersecting cross street of South Street. The tornado crossed the LIE near Exit 69 while lifting just before reaching Riverhead Town.
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News Release - June 1, 2010
FDA Approves Amgen's Prolia(TM) (Denosumab) for Treatment of Postmenopausal Women With Osteoporosis at High Risk for Fracture
Given As An Injection Every Six Months, Prolia Reduced Risk Of Fracture At The Spine, Hip And Other Sites
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 1 (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq:AMGN ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Prolia™ (denosumab) for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, defined as a history of osteoporotic fracture, or multiple risk factors for fracture; or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. Prolia, the first and only FDA-approved RANK Ligand inhibitor, is an every six month 60 mg subcutaneous injection administered by a health care professional.
"Today's FDA approval of Prolia is the culmination of a scientific journey that started more than 15 years ago with Amgen's discovery of an essential pathway that regulates bone metabolism," said Kevin Sharer, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Amgen. "Prolia is the result of this discovery and offers an important new medicine for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. Amgen is proud to make this new treatment option available to physicians and patients."
Prolia's approval is based on a pivotal three-year Phase 3 study involving 7,808 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Treatment with Prolia resulted in greater bone density, stronger bones, and reduced risk for vertebral, hip and non-vertebral fractures measured at three years.(i)
"For the many osteoporosis patients who are at high risk for fracture, Prolia's approval marks the first new class of medicine introduced in nearly a decade," said Felicia Cosman, M.D., clinical director of the National osteoporosis Foundation and medical director of the Clinical Research Center at Helen Hayes Hospital in New York. "Prolia is a new treatment that reduces the risk of fracture at key sites, including the hip and spine, and is given as a convenient twice-yearly shot just under the skin. It will be a welcome new option."
"While this is an important milestone for Amgen, it is even more important for the postmenopausal patients with osteoporosis who are at high risk for fracture," said Robert A. Bradway, president and chief operating officer of Amgen. "We have priced Prolia responsibly while reflecting its strong therapeutic value and expect to make it commercially available in the U.S. within the next week."
Prolia Clinical Data
The pivotal three-year Phase 3 Fracture REduction Evaluation of Denosumab in osteoporosis every six Months (FREEDOM) study in 7,808 women with postmenopausal osteoporosis demonstrated that Prolia, administered as a 60mg subcutaneous injection every six months, compared with placebo at three years resulted in: (ii)
A 68 percent reduction in vertebral fractures (4.8 percent absolute risk reduction). The incidence of new spine fractures was 2.3 percent with Prolia vs. 7.2 percent with placebo;
A 40 percent reduction in hip fractures (0.3 percent absolute risk reduction). The incidence of hip fractures was 0.7 percent with Prolia vs. 1.2 percent with placebo;
A 20 percent reduction in non-vertebral fractures (1.5 percent absolute risk reduction). The incidence of non-spine fractures was 6.5 percent with Prolia vs. 8 percent with placebo;
Significant bone density increases at all key sites measured (8.8 percent at the lumbar spine, 6.4 percent at the total hip, and 5.2 percent at the femoral neck).
Prolia is contraindicated in patients with hypocalcemia. Pre-existing hypocalcemia must be corrected prior to initiating Prolia. Hypocalcemia may worsen, especially in patients with severe renal impairment. All patients should be adequately supplemented with calcium and vitamin D.
In the pivotal study, serious infections leading to hospitalizations were reported more frequently in the Prolia-treated patient group. Serious skin infections, as well as infections of the abdomen, urinary tract and ear, were more frequent in patients treated with Prolia. Patients should be advised to seek prompt medical attention if they develop signs or symptoms of severe infection, including cellulitis. Endocarditis was reported more frequently in the Prolia-treated patient group. Epidermal and dermal adverse events such as dermatitis, rashes, and eczema have been reported. Discontinuation of Prolia should be considered if severe symptoms develop.
Prolia resulted in significant suppression of bone remodeling. The significance of these findings is unknown. The long-term consequences of the degree of suppression of bone remodeling observed with Prolia may contribute to adverse outcomes such as osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), atypical fractures, and delayed fracture healing. ONJ has been reported in patients with Prolia. Patients should be monitored for these adverse outcomes. The most common adverse reactions (> 5 percent and more common than placebo) were back pain, pain in extremity, musculoskeletal pain, hypercholesterolemia, and cystitis. Pancreatitis has also been reported with Prolia.
Amgen has worked with the FDA to create several programs to help physicians and patients make treatment decisions for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture based on the most comprehensive and current Prolia benefit:risk information and to facilitate post-marketing safety surveillance. These include:
A Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) to communicate the risks of Prolia, which consists of a communication plan for health care providers and a medication guide for patients.
Comprehensive post-marketing surveillance. Amgen continues to gather data from extension studies in more than 4,500 women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who will have exposure to Prolia for up to 10 years. In addition, Amgen will implement an international Prolia long-term safety observational study to assess pre-specified adverse events of special interest based on seven existing data systems from five countries, which will include healthcare administrative databases, electronic medical records, and national health registries. These women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who received Prolia will be followed long term. Finally, Amgen is launching the Prolia Post marketing Active Safety Surveillance Program to monitor the long-term safety of Prolia and improve the quality of data collected in the post-marketing setting. This program is intended to enhance the adverse event reporting system by soliciting reports of pre-specified adverse events of special interest.
Why New Options are Needed to Treat Postmenopausal osteoporosis
In the U.S., one in two women over the age of 50 with postmenopausal osteoporosis will experience a fracture in her remaining lifetime.(iii) These fractures can have severe clinical consequences. (iv)(v) In 2005, osteoporosis-related fractures were responsible for an estimated $19 billion in costs and by 2025 experts predict that these costs will rise to approximately $25 billion.(vi)(vii)
Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who have experienced a fracture are at increased risk for another fracture.(viii)(ix)(x) An analysis of data combined over multiple U.S. health plans showed that approximately 50 percent of patients discontinue oral bisphosphonate therapy within the first year.(xi) Some patients cannot tolerate available osteoporosis therapy. Among patients who discontinue these treatments, many do so because of side effects including intolerance. (xii)(xiii)(xiv) Poor adherence can increase fracture risk and has been associated with more fracture-related hospitalizations. (xv)
There remain opportunities for new therapeutic options for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, which include those with prior osteoporotic fracture, or those with two or more risk factors, or patients with osteoporosis who are intolerant to available therapy, or patients with osteoporosis who have failed available therapy. Prolia may be considered for these patients.
Introducing ProliaPlus™
ProliaPlus is a multi-faceted product support program designed to provide comprehensive assistance to healthcare providers, patients, and their caregivers to help facilitate access to Prolia for appropriate patients.
ProliaPlus provides information and assistance on issues related to product insurance coverage to physician offices. Additionally, upon request, ProliaPlus will remind patients and providers about when the patient's next dose is due, thus helping to support patient adherence to therapy. ProliaPlus will also have information on the availability of potential financial assistance programs.
Providing Value at a Competitive Price
Prolia will cost $825 per 60 mg injection (based on "wholesale acquisition cost" or WAC). Prolia's price is competitive with other branded osteoporosis therapies while reflecting its positive clinical profile for patients at high risk for fracture.
Reimbursement Pathways for Prolia
Payers will determine, based on the prescribing information including the instruction that Prolia should be administered by a Health Care Professional, whether Prolia is covered under their medical and/or pharmacy benefit. Amgen is prepared to support both medical and pharmacy benefit paths based on the payer's reimbursement decisions. Product will be stocked at wholesalers within a week of approval and Amgen is fully prepared for rapid replenishment to the wholesale level as required. In addition, single unit syringe ordering will be available to health care providers from their distributor. Because Prolia has been approved in June, most patients who receive Prolia will only receive one dose this year.
To view the Prolia Prescribing Information and REMS materials, visit: www.amgen.com.
About Prolia™ (denosumab)
Prolia is the first and only approved therapy that specifically targets RANK Ligand, an essential regulator of osteoclasts (the cells that break down bone).
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(i) Cummings SR et al. Denosumab for Prevention of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women with osteoporosis. N Engl J Med. 2009; 361(8):756-65.
(ii) Prolia Prescribing Information.
(iii) osteoporosis Fast Facts. Washington (DC): National osteoporosis Foundation. Accessed on May 10, 2010 at http://www.nof.org/osteoporosis/diseasefacts.htm#Symptoms
(iv) National osteoporosis Foundation. http://www.nof.org/professionals/pdfs/NOF_ClinicianGuide2009_v7.pdf, Accessed May 13, 2010.
(v) Cooper C. The crippling consequences of fractures and their impact on quality of life. Am J Med. 1997 Aug 18;103(2A):12S-17S; discussion 17S-19S.
(vi) Burge R et al. Incidence and economic burden of osteoporosis-related fractures in the United States, 2005-2025. J Bone Miner Res. 2007 Mar;22(3):465-75.
(vii) osteoporosis Fast Facts. Washington (DC): National osteoporosis Foundation. Accessed on April 29, 2010 at http://www.nof.org/osteoporosis/diseasefacts.htm
(viii) Kanis JA et al. A Meta-Analysis of Previous Fracture and Subsequent Fracture Risk. Bone. 2004;35(2):375-82.
(ix) Lindsay R et al. Risk of new vertebral fracture in the year following a fracture. JAMA. 2001 Jan 17;285(3):320-33.
(x) Klotzbuecher CM et al. Patients with prior fractures have an increased risk of future fractures: a summary of the literature and statistical synthesis. J Bone Miner Res. 2000 Apr;15(4):721-39.
(xi) Weycker D. et al. Compliance with drug therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis. Osteoporos Int. 2006;17(11):1645-52. Epub 2006 Jul 22.
(xii) Ettinger B et al, Clinic visits and hospital admissions for care of acid related upper gastrointestinal disorders in women using alendronate for osteoporosis. Amer J Man Care,1998 Oct; 4(10):1377-82.
(xiii) Tosteson A et al. Early discontinuation of treatment for osteoporosis. Am J Med 2003 Aug 15;115:209-16.
(xiv) Lewiecki EM et al. Adherence to and gastrointestinal tolerability of monthly oral or quarterly intravenous ibandronate therapy in women with previous intolerance to oral bisphosphonates: a 12-month, open-label, prospective evaluation. Clin Ther. 2008 Apr;30(4):605-21.
(xv) Siris ES et al. Adherence to bisphosphonate therapy and fracture rates in osteoporotic women: relationship to vertebral and nonvertebral fractures from 2 US claims databases. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006 Aug;81(8):1013-22.
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The last time I tried to work out what the first animals might have looked like I decided fossils probably weren’t much help. So, today I’m going stop looking back into the depths of time, and see if any modern creatures might provide clues as how animals got their start in life.
Remember from the last post, the major challenge for ideas about the origin of animals is explaining how a group of single celled organisms, each with their own evolutionary interests, can join together to create a mutli-cellular creature in which almost all of the cells can never reproduce in their own right. Our glance at earliest animal fossils record showed us that the resolution of this record just isn’t fine enough for us to isolate the first cells to go in for this sort of arrangement, but there are a wealth of modern organisms that seem to have gone some way down this road, and they provide useful models for us to study.
Let’s start by looking at the closest living relatives of animals the choanoflagellates:
(photo is CC 3.0 from Choano-wiki (really!) user Mark J. Dayel)
Choanoflagellates are a widespread a diverse group of single-celled creatures that live in the ocean as well as freshwater. At first glance it might seem a stretch to propose a relationship between these ten micrometre long cells and animals, but there is good reason to believe the relationship is real. Choanoflagellates, with their characteristic ‘collar’ around the tip of the cell body and the the flagellum extending from it are almost identical to a class of cells called choanocytes found in sponges. In fact, the two cells work in exactly the same way – the flagellum pushes water and nutrients into the cell body through collar were than are digested or, in the case of sponges, moved from one cell to another. By comparing molecular sequences, biologists have confirmed the choanoflagelletes are close relatives to animals, and also established they aren’t simply a lineage discended of a sponge1 that gave up the multi-cellular lifestyle
The shared anatomy and feeding methods of sponge cells and choanoflagelletes gives us a clue as to how animals might have evolved. If a sponge is a bunch of cells that are held together by proteins that feeds using choanocytles, could the first animals have evolved from choanoflagellates that formed colonies? You don’t have to imagine too hard here, because there are modern choanoflagellates that do just that:
In fact, colonial behaviour appears to have evolved multiple times within the choanoflagellates. This behaviour might crop up so often because even the solitary species have a wealth or sticky proteins that they use to trap bacteria and other food items in their collars. However it arises, colonial behaviour is obviously worthwhile for some choanoflagellates because they been doing it for millions of years, either forming spheres like the Sphaeroeca shown above, clusters like Protero below or as small groups sitting on a stalk like Proteospongia 2
Colonial choanoflagellates might well have been the first step on the road to true mulit-cellularity, but an agglomeration of cells each doing well out of their association with each other is still a long way from the specialisation we see in modern animals. Thankfully, there are organisms out there that give us a glimpse as to what the next step might have looked like. And some of them are stunningly beautiful:
(photo is CC 2.0 from Wellcome Images)
The sphere you see above us an alga called Volvox that makes blurs the line between a colony of single celled organisms and a multi-cellular life form. Of course, algae are only very distantly related to animals, but we are looking for models of how simple multi-cellular life might work, and Volvox is interesting because it’s a very simple organism that has a clear distinction between reproductive cells and the rest of the organism. The closest realtives of these beautiful creatures are single celled algae called Chlamydomonas. Most of the time Chlamydomonas are free swimming cells, propelled about in search of sunlight for photosynthesis by two flagella:
When it comes time for them to divide they draw their flagella in and begin a series of cell-divisions, keeping between two and eight daughter cells within the ‘old’ cell wall before they burst out and get back to the swimming lifestyle
Volvox has ditched this two-stage life cycle, instead, the individual (or colony if you’d rather) simultaneously contains reproductive and ‘swimming’ cells. That dotted sphere is made up of thousands of cells very similar to swimming Chlamydomonas each connected in an extra-cellular matrix of proteins and carbohydrates. Importantly, those outer cells don’t divide. Reproduction is down to a set of immobile cells within the sphere, called gonidia. Each gonidia can go through a set of programmed cell divisions that create all the cells that make up a new Volvox individual. Volvox is probably the simplest example of an organism that displays a division of labour between ‘body cells’ (in this case the swimming cells that move the individual around) and reproductive ones. As I said, algae are not closely related to animals, but the larvae of some sponges seem in some ways analogous to an individual Volvox. Like all sedentary animals, sponges have larvae that can move, and in sponge larvae that movement comes courtesy of a set of ciliated cells that form the lower portion of the larva:
A glass model of a sponge larvae, photo provided by Welsh Museum
So, between Volvox and sponge larvae we have an idea of what a very simple free swimming animal with specialised cell types might look like. But how might that division of labour between different cell types have evolved? Now we really are heading into some murky waters. Animal multi-cellularity happened once, at least 600 millions ago. Obviously any answer we offer as to why this happened is going to be at best a tentative explanation, but I’ve always like an idea developed by New Zealand evolutionary biologist Paul Rainey (and not just because he has been the head of a Centre for Research Excellence of which I’m a member!)
Rainey is an experimental evolutionary biologist, taking advantage of the speed at which miroogranisms reproduce to answer questions those of us that wander about in the field couldn’t even begin to ask. One of his experiments involved growing bacteria in a stable environment, which reliably procudes mutants that are rather charmingly called “wrinkly spreaders”. The wrinkly spreaders form mat-like colonies on the top of the tubes that they live in:
To be part of that mat each cell has to pay a small cost in the form proteins that stick the cells together, but that cost is more than repaid by the fact only cells in that mat can access oxygen from the barrier between the fluid in the cell and air above it. For this reason wrinkly spreaders soon take over the population in the tubes. Natural selection acts on individuals, not colonies, and very often selection acting on cells within the mat will lead to its destruction. Cells within the mat can take advantage of their neighbours by not producing the adhesive proteins that hold the mat together while still enjoying the benefit of being within it. In time, the small advantage these mutant cells gain by not paying the price in adhesive proteins will be enough to see them out compete their neighbours. But, of course, once such ‘cheating’ cells predominate the mat won’t be able to sustain itself and it will fall apart.
Here’s were is gets really interesting. Each mat seems like an evolutionary dead end, because the mats themselves can’t reproduce (a prerequisite for evolution by natural selection) – when the mat falls apart the cells fall into the oxygen-free zone and die. But ‘cheating’ cells can reproduce and they can leave the mat and, most remarkably, because there are so many cells in a population that, in time, it’s likely one of them will mutate back to the co-operative wrinkly spreader type. Now stand back and think about the big picture here. You have a larger stationary structure, the mat, that can give rise to small, mobile cells (the cheaters) that can each go on to establish a new large structure. That sounds very similar to a larval-adult life cycle, or even the distinction between body cells and reproductive cells that we are trying to explain. Since the ‘cheater’ cells probably arise by mutations that break existing genes, the switch between cheater and wrinkly spreader could, in time, be controlled by gene expression rather than by waiting for mutations.
Of course, I’m not trying to argue that animals evolved from wrinkly spreaders specifically, or even this sort of pattern generally. The really neat idea in Rainey’s description of the dynamics of wrinkly spreaders is the way the cohesive nature of multi-cellular organisms might have evolved from competition rather than co-operation. Hundreds of co-operative systems have been identified within colonies and populations of single celled organisms and all of them are prone to sabotage by cheaters, so it’s definitely something to think about, but, like all the ideas in this field, it is speculative and may turn out to be wrong.
So, modern organisms can give us a few clues as to animals might have got their start. Colonial choanoflagellates are an example of how simple colonies that feed in the same way as modern sponges could form. Volvox is an example of a very simple organism that has a distinction between reproductive and body cells and Rainey’s wrinkly spreading bacteria show us one possible route to how that distinction would arise in the first place. In this peice of really presumed that the first animals fed in much they way modern sponges do, but not everyone thinks is the case. Next week I’ll turn to genes, genomes and the family trees we can estimate from them to explain some of the slightly more outre ideas about the origin of animals.
1 I really wanted to call this post “To be descended of a sponge“, but I called the first “The first animals” so I guess I’m stuck with it for the series
2 The world’s number one protist fan, Psi Wavefunction, would like it to be known that the Proteospongia species you might read about that is meant to have specialised cell types similar to a sponge’s ameboid cells probably doesn’t exist (being recorded in error a in the 1880s and not seen since)
Lots of references today:
Choanoflagellate biologists have their own wiki, and it’s pretty cool
The free online version of Molecular Biology of the Cell has a section on the evolution of multi-cellularity including Volvox as does Scitable, Nature‘s education website.
Paul Rainey’s ideas are more thoroughly explained in:
Rainey, Paul B. 2007. ’Unity from conflict.’ Nature 446 (7136): 616. doi:10.1038/446616a.
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One Furious Llama says:
Awesome post, nicely done!
It’s a subject I have a bit of an interest in as it relates to my aspirations to build a reasonable artificial life simulator.
Thanks, making an artificial life simulator that sounds like a very worthy but very difficult goal!
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Why would Severus Snape hang out with future Death Eaters?
Severus Snape seemed like a complete lone nerd type from whatever details about him are in the books.
Why would he bother hanging out with future Death Eaters (Nott etc...) in Hogwarts when the downside was basically extra bad for him (Lily drifting away and not liking him) and the upside was slight (for Snape's personality type, hanging out with a clique isn't a great deal of an upside). He seemed too logical and analytical for such a poor decision.
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I agree that Snape was extremely logical and analytical, and that he was academically brilliant. But Snape's emotional quotient was very low and underdeveloped. Snape's Worst Memory in OotP showed us that Snape came from a loveless home and had an alcoholic father. The memories in The Prince's Tale in DH show how starved for affection and friendship he was. He was bullied and the idea of a brethren (the Death Eaters) was appealing to him. Even the most logical, brilliant mind sometimes cannot overcome these kinds of emotional vulnerability. My two cents anyway. :) – Slytherincess Aug 26 '12 at 0:44
I don't know why A Slytherin didn't make her comment an answer. It is perfect in that is true to both the world of HP and real life. I've known kids just like that. Way to smart to hang with a group of good-for-nothings, but they find a belonging there where they are counted on for their intelligence and protected from bullying. The group becomes the emotional family for kids that don't know their worth in other ways. – balanced mama Jan 13 '13 at 23:46
JKR explains this:
Q: Lily detested Mulciber, Avery. If Snape really loved her, why didn't he sacrifice their company for [Lily's] sake?
J.K. Rowling: Well, that is Snape’s tragedy. Given his time over again he would not have become a Death Eater, but like many insecure, vulnerable people (like Wormtail) he craved membership of something big and powerful, something impressive. He wanted Lily and he wanted Mulciber too. He never really understood Lily’s aversion; he was so blinded by his attraction to the dark side he thought she would find him impressive if he became a real Death Eater.
THE LEAKY CAULDRON 7.30.07
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Frankly, I would downvote JKR if I could. Does she even know a SINGLE smart geek? When it's a choice between ANY "membership" and affections of a girl, THE GIRL WINS no questions asked! – DVK-on-Ahch-To Aug 26 '12 at 2:39
@DVK - Heh, especially at that age :) – Slytherincess Aug 26 '12 at 5:34
I disagree with DVK and Keith's assessment. At that age, most guys have little concept of long term consequences of their actions. Snape desired Lily for her company and for her kindness, but did he love her yet? Was he truly willing to live his life for her instead of for Snape? I don't think so. I think that's why Rowling calls it Snape's greatest tragedy. He was unwilling to put Lily's needs before his own, and chose the Death Eaters companionship for what they could give him: power. All the people who mocked "Sniveling Snape" would certainly fear Snape the Death Eater. – Gabe Willard Aug 26 '12 at 14:54
Snape had a clear choice to make: he could love Lily, and live his life with her in peace and quiet, or he could choose the Death Eaters, and finally end his years of torture at the hands of his enemies. As a child who grew up in a loveless world, I don't think Snape truly understood love. He understood fear and power far more. I don't think Snape really loved until he found out that Lily was a target of Voldemort. It was then that Snape chose to love her more than his own position. He knew he would be largely hated and mistrusted by both Death Eaters and most of the Order from then on. – Gabe Willard Aug 26 '12 at 14:59
Well, not going to keep arguing in comments, but again.. I say as one, with background that you really don't know (and thus, really shouldn't assume much about), you may have seen them, but not having been one, you really don't understand them. (Internal reasons and external signs are NOT the same thing; that's why DSM warns about self-diagnosis) The situation you describe actually REINFORCES what I'm saying; the girl in question becoming an icon/avatar for everything he never had and wants. Regardless; if you would like to continue this debate offline one in chat with me, feel free :) – K-H-W Jan 18 '13 at 18:03
Snape came from a loveless marriage. Hogwarts was his fantasy escape. However, from his first moment on the Hogwarts express, he is emotionally attacked by James Potter. His low self-esteem meets the reality that Hogwarts is no paradise. At the speech before the Sorting ceremony, Minerva McGonnigle tells the new students that their "House will be like their family". Hermione doesn't initially find this - possibly, neither does Severus. What he does experience is being attacked by James Potter and his friends (He later constantly refers to being attacked four against one). Where can he find allies, helpers and possibly friends - his house - Mulciber and Avery. Bad choice possibly, but Severus's immediate need is help and protection from James Potter and co. Moreover, James Potter NEVER ceases to bully Severus - Even Sirius Black admits this - "Because he exists". Is this any different from the Nazi or Deatheater attitude to Muggles? In sum Snape becomes a deatheater because of James Potter and his bullying
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Conveniently left out: Snape's first verbal attack on the others was entirely unprovoked. And I daresay that when the opportunity presented itself, Snape retaliated against James and Sirius. – EvilSnack Jul 16 '16 at 21:58
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In Review: Giles #2
This story and its visuals are leaving me a little discouraged.
by Patrick Hayes April 2, 2018
The covers: A very different twosome for this second issue. The Regular cover by Steve Morris has Giles in a dark location using a flashlight to examine the floor, where he finds some peaches, their seeds, a hot dog, and a broken dog leash. If only he looked behind himself he’d see a tentacled demon making moves to throttle him. This is a good, creepy cover, but spoils the reveal of the book’s big bad. The Variant cover by Arielle Jovellanos with Comicraft has Giles and Roux sitting close to one another while the vampire circles a spot on a map. Giles isn’t really looking at what she’s doing, instead being too smitten with her and thinking, ‘Mission: find brain-draining demon, locate missing teachers and Truman…kiss Roux.’ A cute cover, but the art looks unfinished; it looks like a sketch rather than a finished piece. And Giles’s head is almost double the size of Roux’s head. Overall grades: Regular B and Variant C-
The story: This issue again begins in a future moment, where Giles is confronted in a locker room by five hoodie wearing teens. The former Watcher has a chain around his neck as the gasps at the leader, who is a purple version of himself. The doppelgänger calls him “Mother” and the story moves back to the present with Roux fallowing him down the halls of school. She wants to know what their plan is to help the school. He says they have to stop the brain drain, whose signal he believes is transmuted through the walls. Suddenly there’s an earthquake, which Roux says happens often. Separated, Giles comes across an old friend, with him being older and Giles being younger. This friend reveals that a sinkhole opened up behind the school three months ago. “Something unholy was released. And, Giles, it smelled like peaches.” This friend’s erratic behavior leaves Giles concerned and ready to go to his rendezvous point, which has a funny surprise at the top of Page 6. This issue, co-written by Joss Whedon and Erika Alexander reads better than the previous issue now that the premise and characters have been established. The dialogue between Giles and Roux is outstanding, with the latter always seeming to be coming close to killing the title character. The interrogation on 8 is funny, but doesn’t really help the immediate threat to the students and faculty. I admit to having issues with the overall threat to the student population: no one’s odd behavior has caused issues at home that’s led to the authorities being contacted? An angry parent always gets attention in a school or district. Ditto for the missing teachers. That’s not caused concern? Then again, Sunnydale didn’t have those issues either with its high school. However, reality takes a backseat when Giles ventures into the lion’s den on Page 11. This is when the story gets very entertaining. A cause of trouble is revealed and this individual is fantastic. It’s dialogue is fantastic. The idea behind future threats is good and it’s explained very smoothly. I wasn’t keen on the final three pages, with it seeming as though a Buffy-Angel or Buffy-Spike relationship is being established: will they fall in love or kill one another. It’s a great story idea, but it’s been done…with Buffy. This issue reads quicker than the previous, but I’m having moments of disappointment for too much familiar ground being retread. Overall grade: B+
The art: Jon Lam’s visuals are also still giving me concern. The first ten pages of the book has Giles looking very stylized, but it’s not a style I associate him with. It’s the close-ups that are giving me issues, but from a distance or when in action he looks fine. I like his pose at the bottom of the first page, it looks very natural, though there are background lines going through his left hand, so I thought that Giles had suddenly become a ghost. Roux looks terrific. The smiles she gives Rupert make her incredibly warm and friendly, though when she frowns, in human mode, there’s something dangerous about her. When she goes into vamp mode she’s outstanding. The settings in this book are also nicely done, with the school’s hallways, offices, and closets looking good. What’s behind the school is really well done, creating a great sense of dread just with a visual. The position the principal is in for her one page is fantastic; I’ve not seen that done to a school leader before and it made me laugh. The big bad of the book looks tremendous. Its design is great: threatening, yet completely at home in the Buffyverse. The large panel on Page 15 is great and is the WOW visual of the book. The next two pages feature some solid action sequences, with the involvement of another character slick; the reactions that end 17 are awesome. Fire becomes a key element of the climax and it looks terrific. The conversation for the final three pages limits how much Lam can do with the characters visually, but he deftly moves the point of view around to keep the book visually engaging. I’m enjoying the art, save the lead character, and that’s not good. Overall grade: B+
The colors: Violet is the color used to denote the supernatural in this series. Dan Jackson uses it heavily in the first panel to shade a locker room. It comes to the forefront again in the third panel, but the colors are too dark, with the background matching the flesh of Giles’s evil twin. Paired with the color of the hoodie, my comic book brain defaulted to Doctor Doom when initially looking at this panel. Thankfully, bright colors appear once in the present, with red lockers making the leads pop. There’s a slick coloring job done on a character’s cellphone, giving it a reflective effect. The principal stands out strongly due to her bright orange jacket, making her the focus of every panel she’s in. In the book’s climatic setting, there’s a fire which gives Jackson several opportunities to show how well he can illuminate the scene. A ghastly, luminescent green is used for a monitor device and once the big bad goes into action the violets return. The spreading fire is fantastic, with the last two panels on 18 excellent. Overall grade: A
The letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt are responsible for this issue’s narration, story title, dialogue, sounds, signage, scene settings, demon speech, and vampire speech. This pair’s vampire dialogue has always been a perfect match for the bloodsuckers’ faces and continues to impress in this book. The demon speech is also well done, with it looking massive and frightful. The sounds are big and bold, with there being several memorable ones in this issue, including a concluding punch. Overall grade: A
The final line: I’m wanting new exploits of Buffy characters, but this story and its visuals are leaving me a little discouraged. I’ll continue to follow, though my expectations aren’t going to be high. Overall grade: B+
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In Review: Avengers #685
by Patrick Hayes - Apr 2, 2018
In Review: Ninja-K #5
by Oral Frier - Apr 3, 2018
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Thanks Patrick I appreciate your very thoughtful review. It’s my first time dipping into the Buffyverse. I’m learning as I go, so it’s very interesting to read your thoughts. I hope next two issues are better. Rock on. e.
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Surveillance: Have We 'Big Brother-ed' Ourselves?
Giulio Saggin
. June 21, 2019
When does the use of surveillance technology by governing bodies and law enforcement agencies cross the line and become an invasion of privacy?
Cities around the world are employing technology like facial recognition and GPS tracking in an effort to safeguard their citizens, not to mention CCTV cameras by the dozen, hundreds, even thousands, to assist in the prevention of crime.
The town of Yizhuang, China, (pop. 12,000) covers 18 sq km (7 sq mi). Within its boundary are more than 2,200 high definition security cameras, 277 vehicle recognition cameras, and 267 facial recognition cameras. It also has six patrol vehicles with mobile cameras, and officers equipped with video capture equipment, sending live video to a main control centre that operates around the clock.
(On a far broader scale, China has over 170 million CCTV cameras spread across the nation, all with facial recognition algorithms able to track down a citizen in seven minutes. An estimated 400 million new cameras will be installed by 2021. BBC News video)
Half a world away, the extent of surveillance in The Big Apple is unknown. That said, there are around 2,000 cameras scanning the streets, sidewalks, rooftops, parks, bridges and tunnels, 7,000 in public housing and 4,000 in the subway. The NYPD can also tap into 4,000 private security cameras scattered throughout the five boroughs. Many of these cameras are equipped with infrared sensors that help capture high resolution images even in very low light.
London is one of the most heavily surveilled cities in the world and its 'ring of steel' comprises more than 620,000 CCTV cameras (one for every 14 people). Of these, 15,000+ cameras are in the London Underground. According to CCTV.co.uk, "It is thought that an average person commuting to work and back, with a one hour lunch break walking around London, may be captured on as many as 300 CCTV cameras during their standard working day."
Darwin, Australia's most northern city, has installed poles outfitted with speakers, WiFi, and cameras (The City of Darwin states: "The CCTV system does not include facial recognition"). These 'monitoring stations' keep track of people's movements, as well as respond to triggers, such as when a 'virtual fence' is breached. An alert is sent informing authorities that e.g. "There’s a person in (an area) around which you've put a virtual fence ... look at camera five."
The Washington County Sheriff's Office presides over Hillsboro, Oregon, and lays claim to be the first US law enforcement agency to use Rekognition, the AI-powered facial recognition tool from Amazon. This is the first real world use of Rekognition and the concern is that wrongful arrests happen because one person will resemble another ... with a criminal record. More than 300,000 Washington County jail mugshots have been uploaded into Rekognition. These can be cross-referenced with images from security cameras, social media accounts, or even a deputy's mobile device. All without a warrant.
We are concerned for our wellbeing and surveillance provides a layer of security. But at what cost? We fear the world of Big Brother depicted in George Orwell's 1984, yet, with time, we are becoming immune to 'cameras on every street corner'. Have we unwittingly 'Big Brother-ed' ourselves?
Sources: Webroot, Next City and CCTV.co.uk
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Friends Like These: Back Stabbing in the GMO Labeling Movement?
Organic Consumers Association, February 18, 2016
Last week, we were told that introduction of a Senate bill to kill GMO labeling was “imminent.” When the bill never materialized, its sponsor, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), toldthe press that it “wasn’t ready yet.”
Now we know why. It seems that Gary Hirshberg, chairman of the board of JustLabelIt (JLI), along with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), are working behind the scenes to broker an (unacceptable) compromise, and to sell that compromise to the GMO labeling movement.
Reliable sources tell us that the compromise Hirshberg, Vilsack and Stabenow are floating is one that would delay implementation of Vermont’s GMO labeling law for two years, while giving corporations the option to adopt QR barcode technology to label GMO ingredients.
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Softbank invests Rs 2,800 crore in Indiabulls Housing Finance's associate OakNorth
"With this investment, the total equity capital in the bank will be Rs 7,000 crore," Indiabulls Housing Finance said in a regulatory filing.PTI | February 08, 2019, 13:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: Indiabulls Housing Finance Friday said Japan's Softbank is investing Rs 2,800 crore of equity capital in its associate OakNorth, a commercial bank in the UK.
"With this investment, the total equity capital in the bank will be Rs 7,000 crore," Indiabulls Housing Finance said in a regulatory filing.
Indiabulls Housing Finance said OakNorth is the fastest growing new bank in Europe, leveraging technology tools for fast and efficient disbursals to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector. The bank has no physical branches.
"The current loan book of OakNorth is Rs 21,390 crore and the bank has no delinquencies as on date," the company added. OakNorth was seeded by Indiabulls Housing in October 2015 with Rs 650 crore to own a 40 per cent controlling stake in the bank.
Last year, Indiabulls sold a part of its holding to the government of Singapore for Rs 900 crore. Shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance were trading 4.98 per cent lower at Rs 620.25 apiece on BSE.
Tags : Allied Industries, Softbank, Indiabulls Housing Finance, oaknorth, money matters, housing finance companies
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Best phones to buy in 2016
By Alex Todd
What are the best mobile phones to buy in 2016? We round up the phones with the best cameras, the most powerful mobiles around, smartphones with excellent battery life and more, so you can pick the perfect phone for you. And we’ve broken them down into different budgets, from pricey flagships to affordable handsets.
Looking for a new phone to replace your old one, but not sure where to start? Still deciding between iPhone or Android? No worries, as we’ve rounded up the very best mobiles that we’ve tested in the past year, from great value budget phones to feature-packed premium handsets. No matter what you’re after, these are the best mobile phones to suit all budgets and tastes.
And if you’re after something specific, then check out the following mobile phone guides:
Best Android phones in 2016
Best Sony Xperia phones in 2016
Best Samsung Galaxy phones in 2016
Best Motorola phones in 2016
Best phones for £50, £100 or £150 in 2016
Best mobile phones coming soon in 2016
Best phones to buy in 2016: Best iPhones and Android phones
If you want the best of the best, look no further. These are the best full-priced flagship mobile phones that you can pick up on contract or SIM-free in 2016.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 is a solid all-round smartphone that boasts the best camera out of all of the mobiles we’ve tested in 2016. You can capture brilliant shots in dim light as well as any other time of day, with no effort at all.
The Galaxy S7 also boasts strong performance, over a day of battery life between charges and a sharp Quad HD screen. As usual it’s a super-vibrant Super AMOLED display, so you can expect rich hues and colours that really pop.
Oh, and the Galaxy S7 is a real beauty too. Those gorgeous curves don’t just look amazing but make for a comfortable grip, while the glass rear adds a touch of class. And if you want a truly head-turning design and an even bigger screen to enjoy your movies and shows on the go, check out the 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge.
Read the full Samsung Galaxy S7 review
On the other side of the coin to Samsung is as ever Apple and whilst 2015 saw a more classically refined take on last year’s iPhone 6 with the 6s, it still served as an innovator and trend-setter in its own way.
Apple finally upped the camera resolution to double digits, giving you one of the fastest quality camera phones on the market with even more megapixels to play with. A new processor means it also boasts excellent 4K recording now too, not to mention blisteringly fast performance overall and a super-snappy fingerprint sensor with (Apple Pay functionality).
The 6s and 6s Plus also debuted strange new technology in the form of their 3D Touch displays, which let you push into the screen to carry out new types of interactions, something that’s completely fresh to the smartphone space.
Read the full Apple iPhone 6s review
HTC really bounced back in 2016 after a couple of lacklustre flagship phones, impressing us all with the mighty HTC 10. This is one of the best all-round smartphones of 2016, boasting a camera that’s almost as strong as the Galaxy S7’s as well as dependable performance, excellent battery life and a very funky Freestyle version of Android.
As with the other big flagship phones of 2016, the HTC 10 also boasts a supremely crisp Quad HD screen which makes for gorgeous images.
Read the full HTC 10 review
LG really tried something different with its 2016 flagship phone, the LG G5. Not content to merely pack in a beautiful Quad HD screen and powerful Snapdragon 820 processor, LG also added a modular-style expansion feature. Just pull open the bottom of the G5 and you can replace the battery with a fresh one as well as add new components.
But that’s not all, kiddies. The LG G5 also packs a funky dual-lens camera, which can snap sharp, colourful 16-megapixel shots, as well as unique 8-megapixel wide-angle photos. That’s particularly handy if you’re snapping a landscape or trying to capture a mighty group photo.
Read the full LG G5 review
Sony’s Xperia X doesn’t boast the most powerful processor here, while the Full HD screen isn’t as sharp as the Quad HD panels found on the Galaxy S7 and other flagships here. However, you still get Sony’s impressive camera tech, with the 13-megapixel front-facing camera particularly impressing (especially in low light). Performance is still smooth and battery life is fantastic, keeping you going for close to two days.
We also love the Xperia X’s sleek design, with a metallic frame that feels hardy and really looks the business.
Read the full Sony Xperia X review
Best phones to buy in 2016: Best mid-range mobiles
If your budget is a bit tighter and you can’t afford the most premium mobile phones of 2016, then check out our pick of the best mid-range phones that we’ve tested and reviewed this year. These mobiles cost around £300 SIM-free, and can be picked up for under £30 a month on contract.
Thanks to its sexy metallic design, the OnePlus 3 is certainly a looker – and the gorgeous, colourful 5.5-inch AMOLED screen adds even more beauty. But it’s the OnePlus 3’s features and components that make it one of the best mobiles of 2016, despite the relatively low £300 asking price.
The Snapdragon 820 processor backed by 4GB of RAM makes this one of the most powerful phones of 2016. That responsive fingerprint sensor is as good as any you’ll find on a full-priced handset, and the incredibly impressive Dash Charge tech means the phone powers up to almost full battery capacity in roughly an hour.
Read our full OnePlus 3 review
Samsung’s mid-range Galaxy A5 is a fantastic alternative to its full-priced Galaxy S7 flagship phone. Although it costs around £200 less than the S7, you still get an attractive glass and metal handset that packs in a dependable 13-megapixel camera, smooth performance and absolutely fantastic battery life. A single charge should keep you going for two full days.
Samsung has also found room for a fingerprint sensor, so you can unlock the Galaxy A5 quickly and securely. In fact, the only problem is the old verison of Android that comes pre-installed.
Check out our full Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 review
Another 5.5-inch phone like the OnePlus 3, the Moto G4 Plus offers incredible value for money. Just £199 gets you slick performance, impressive battery life, an accurate fingerprint sensor, Full HD visuals and a pleasingly vanilla version of Android.
If you’re willing to pay a little more, you can also customise the design of your Moto G4 Plus online, using Motorola’s Moto Maker service. Pick your colours and even print your own slogan on the back cover.
Read our full Moto G4 Plus review
Best phones to buy in 2016: Best mobiles from 2015
If you can’t afford one of the latest flagship phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S7, HTC 10 or LG G5, then there’s another option besides buying a mid-range mobile. You can also get some great deals on some of the biggest and best phones from 2015. Handsets that used to cost £500 SIM-free a year ago can now be picked up for half the price, or quite cheap on contract.
Here’s our selection of the best mobiles from 2015 that you can buy for less in 2016.
We couldn’t make this list without including Samsung’s top dog from last year, the Galaxy S6. We awarded it Phone of the Year at the 2015 Recombu Awards and it’s easy to see why.
Samsung scrapped the plastic band-aid aesthetic 2014’s S5 and in its place we were met with a thin sliver of finely milled metal and glass that packed one of the sharpest, most colourful screens in the business, tons of power and a killer camera experience.
We also commended Samsung for squeezing fast and wireless charging into the S6’s recipe, as well as continuing its commitment to mobile virtual reality with the Samsung Gear VR experience that felt better than ever on the S6.
Read our full Samsung Galaxy S6 review
The Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6s both sport excellent cameras, but Sony’s Xperia Z5 family take the cake, with a new 20.3-megapixel sensor that really is in a league of its own.
We favour the smaller Z5 Compact as along with the same killer camera and excellent performance of the standard Z5, the more compact form and lower demands of the display give you epic battery life. We consistently managed over two days per charge, without even going near a wall plug – a feat few other smartphones can manage right now.
It’s also worth mentioning that Sony continues its streak as being the only top smartphone maker with waterproofing built into its top handsets and the user experience on the Z5 Compact is now more refined than ever, so it feels consistently fast and fluid.
Read our full Sony Xperia Z5 Compact review
Another Recombu Awards winner, the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 blew us away with the price/performance balance it managed to strike.
If you can overlook the vanilla design aesthetic, you’ve got a 5.5-inch 4G-ready Android smartphone with respectable performance, battery life and an astoundingly good 13-megapixel camera for the price.
The Ultra 6 is also one of a select group of handsets that retains a microSD slot for memory expansion and the whole package can be had for just £125. It’s just a shame it’s a carrier exclusive.
Read our full Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 review
Luckily for those who aren’t with Vodafone, the new Moto G is a great affordable alternative that takes customisability to the next level.
Previous iterations of Motorola’s Moto G made waves for being able to offer more for less in the smartphone space and as the company wasn’t willing to let a rival produce a ‘Moto G-killer’ to knock the 2014 model off the top spot, it decided to make its own, in the third-generation, 2015 incarnation.
The latest Moto G features the same 13-megapixel camera from the Nexus 6, great battery life, respectable performance and interestingly, water resistance. The kicker though is Moto Maker, which lets you customise your handset before purchase.
Everything from the colours of the device’s external elements to the startup message and wallpapers can be personalised to your specifications to make a truly individual device and practically nobody else out there can offer such a unique feature in the same vein.
Read our full Motorola Moto G (3rd gen) review
We’re as surprised as you are, but there’s no denying that BlackBerry has earned the five star reviews it landed with the new Priv.
The name still needs work (short for both ‘privacy’ and ‘privilege’ apparently), but the hardware is unquestionably solid and the transition from BlackBerry OS to Android feels like the smartest move the company’s made in recent memory.
The Priv handles like a dream and has internals powerful enough to go toe to toe with many other top smartphones. What’s more, BlackBerry has made useful, meaningful customisation to the stock experience and managed to elegantly interweave its secure apps and services in there without issue too.
Read our full BlackBerry Priv review
Whilst Google’s reasoning behind continuing the Nexus program in its current incarnation is unclear, we can’t fault either of the offerings we were given in 2015, especially the Nexus 6P.
Not only is it Chinese smartphone maker-Huawei’s first foray into Nexus land, but it’s a beautiful blend of clean, clear stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow and premium hardware, both from a design and a performance perspective.
Huawei’s 6P puts the best camera on a Nexus device, a killer 2K screen and some of the slickest performance around, all in one place.
Read our full Google Nexus 6P review
Best phones to buy in 2016: Best value phones
If you’re on a really tight budget then you’ll be looking to spend no more than £50 to £150 on a SIM-free phone, or probably £20 or less on a monthly contract.
If that’s the case then check out our guide to the very best budget phones that you can buy in 2016.
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DAYNA POLEHANKI
Polehanki Bill to Require Training for School Board Members
LANSING — Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D–Livonia) today introduced legislation that would require school board members to complete training on the basic responsibilities and legal parameters of serving on a board of education.
“School board members have enormous impact on children’s lives. They set policy, hire and evaluate superintendents, and manage the finances of our school districts,” Sen. Polehanki said. “It is in the best interest of our students, and the future of our districts, that they are properly prepared to carry out their duties and correctly follow Michigan laws.”
Senate Bill 540 would require all board members to complete five basic training courses within two years of being elected or appointed to a board, covering the topics of conflicts of interest, labor relations, education law, finance, and board governance. The courses must be approved by the Michigan Department of Education and they may be taken in-person or online. The courses will likely take under 20 hours to complete in total.
School districts whose board members take these courses would be reimbursed for the cost of the courses. After two years of school board service, each school district would be required to post whether board members had completed the mandatory training.
A 2013 study by Dr. Michael Ford found that school boards play a significant role when it comes to the success of their students such that improving school board governance is a legitimate approach to improving academic achievement for children.
“Providing education for school board members serves to encourage them to set sound educational policies while having a comprehensive understanding of their personal roles and responsibilities,” Sen. Polehanki said. “This legislation is a good, first step toward the continuing work of making our schools some of the best in the nation.”
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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis plan to raise their daughter sugar-free
The new parents have firm rules. One of them is to keep 18-month-old Wyatt away from sugar so she won't grow up with an 'addiction'
New dad Ashton Kutcher has given fans a sneak peek into his and wife Mila Kunis’ parenting techniques, one of which is their firm rule that their daughter, Wyatt, would grow up without consuming anything with sugar.
The purpose? So she won’t develop a sugar addiction.
Last easter, instead of allowing her to taste chocolate, they gave her an artificial egg full of raisins.
He revealed in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he and Mila are not planning on opening that “can of worms”, saying, “We didn’t want to put candy in her Easter basket because she’s one-and-a-half and she’s not quite ready. We’re not quite ready for her to be ready for candy, so we did Cheerios and raisins. She loved the raisins!”
photo: Yahoo Celebrity
In fact, Ashton’s questioning if they should even introduce the Easter Bunny to her at all.
He and Mila have had serious conversations about fictional childhood traditions.
“We actually were debating whether or not we were going to explain to her that a bunny was laying eggs. So, we had a legitimate conversation as to whether or not we’re going to go down that path,” he confessed.
READ: 6 Ways to raise sugar free kids
But they’re pretty set on allowing Santa Claus into Wyatt’s life, that’s for sure. The Easter Bunny, however, is still up for debate.
“It’s tough because it’s like, ‘Why is a bunny laying eggs? Mommy, does a bunny lay eggs?’ … ‘No, but the Easter Bunny does.’” quipped Ashton.
We wonder if they’ll introducer her to the Tooth Fairy one day.
READ: Ashton Kutcher says the best part about having a baby is his wife, Mila
If you have any insights, questions or comments regarding the topic, please share them in our Comment box below.
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Shafer News
Making TCA a Relic of the Past
New technology offers TCA-free corks
Paraffin has replaced flour paste and aluminum wedges replaced those made of wood
Plastic pallets replaced those made of wood
At Shafer the Aromas and Flavors of ‘Corked’ Wine Are History
For more than 20 years the winemaking team at Shafer has been fighting TCA on multiple fronts and they’re winning.
“The future of Shafer wine is TCA-free,” says Doug Shafer. “We’ve been working toward this for a long time and are thrilled to reach this historic point.”
While Shafer runs an extremely clean cellar, making TCA an infrequent issue, the goal for more than two decades has been 100 percent eradication.
“Once we started really looking for it in the early 1990s, we found more and more places where TCA could be present in the cellar,” says winemaker Elias Fernandez. “The difficult thing about TCA is that it hides in places you don’t even think to look.”
Knowing Your Enemy
TCA is an acronym for the chemical compound 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, which is responsible for the aromas and flavors often called “corkiness” in wine or “cork taint,” though if a winemaking team only looks at corks, they will miss many other places it can hide. TCA is a compound that is most at home in porous organic substances such as wood, cork, and cardboard — materials that are found in abundance in the traditional wine cellar.
“The first thing we did was to eliminate as much wood as possible from our cellar,” says Fernandez.
One of first things to go was the use of wooden pallets for storage. Shafer uses plastic pallets throughout the facility. In addition, in the cellar all the wooden barrel racks were replaced with stainless steel and the wedges used to hold barrels in place were replaced with new ones made from aluminum.
Because TCA is a compound formed in the presence of chlorine, the winery also stopped using chlorinated water and found new ways to sterilize tanks and equipment.
Putting a Cork in It
The most recent advances in this battle come from a new approach to corks and barrels.
In two of our wines — Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay and Merlot — Shafer has moved to corks produced by French company Diam. The manufacturer grinds natural cork, and using a process like that of removing caffeine from coffee beans, purifies the cork of contaminants at the molecular level. This material is re-formed into a wine cork and Diam guarantees them to be TCA-free.
While Shafer has tested Diam corks for seven years and finds them to be free of TCA taint, how do they hold up over 10 or 20 years? We don’t yet know. In the meantime the natural cork industry now offers traditionally made wine corks that are individually tested for the presence of TCA. Shafer is now using these corks in wines that customers tend to age the longest — Relentless, One Point Five, and Hillside Select.
Barreling Toward a Solution
A few years ago Elias Fernandez identified a source of TCA hidden in the process of traditional barrel making.
“The two main parts of a wine barrel are the body, made of staves, and at each end there’s a round wooden piece called the head. The head seats into a round groove cut inside the staves and traditionally a seal is created there using a flour paste — essentially bread dough,” says Fernandez.
When barrels would arrive at the winery, Elias would check each one, first smelling each to see if he could detect TCA and then running a light around the interior.
Over time he began to realize that the flour paste used to seal the grove where the staves met the head was a problem.
“Imagine leaving bread dough out on your counter,” he says. “What happens? You get mold.”
He found instances in which mold had developed inside the barrel thanks to the presence of the flour paste. He strongly suspected that when he did find the scent of TCA inside an otherwise clean-looking barrel, the flour paste was offering a hiding place for it.
Break with Tradition
But getting barrel makers to change decades, if not hundreds of years, of tradition proved difficult.
One barrel maker, Demptos in Napa, listened to Elias’s reasoning and developed a system for sealing their barrels with a neutral paraffin wax as a replacement for the flour paste.
“We are very pleased with the change to food-grade paraffin and are not only making the change to our barrels here in the U.S. but in our cooperages in France, Spain, and Australia as well,” says Will
Jamieson, master cooper/managing partner, Demptos Napa Cooperages.
At Shafer, Elias agrees it’s been a successful change. “My hope is that I will get the other barrel makers we work with to move in this direction too,” he says.
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ROYAL NEWS: The Palace has addressed claims that Meghan Markle is relaunching her lifestyle blog
The Duchess of Sussex wrote about all the pieces from magnificence and trend to meals and journey
September 19, 2019 – 16:49 BST Aisha Nozari There has been numerous hypothesis that Meghan Markle could be relaunching her lifestyle blog after it was revealed that emblems had been filed to increase rights to the blog’s title
There has been numerous hypothesis that Meghan Markle could be relaunching her lifestyle blog, The Tig, after it was revealed on Friday that Andrew Meyer, who is the Duchess of Sussex’s enterprise supervisor, had filed paperwork to resume the trademark for The Tig. Andrew used the US firm, Frim Fram, to increase the rights of the title till 2021. However, a palace supply spoke to HELLO! on Thursday and confirmed that there aren’t any plans to relaunch The Tig, explaining: “The lasting trademark is to prevent false branding, to avoid others purporting to be the Duchess or affiliated with her.”
Meghan is passionate in regards to the trend business
Meghan’s blog was described as “a hub for the discerning palate – those with a hunger for food, travel, fashion and beauty” and on it, the Duchess would put up about all of her favorite issues. The new mom launched the web site in 2014 and named it after Tignanello, which is her favorite Italian wine. Meghan even promoted her favorite designers on The Tig, together with eco-conscious Everlane, which has since change into a favorite amongst royal followers worldwide. Before the blog was closed in 2017, Meghan wrote about all the pieces from magnificence and trend to meals and journey.
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Meghan and Misha are shut pals
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The information comes initially of a busy weekend for Meghan, who on Thursday touched down in Rome with husband Prince Harry forward of their pal Misha Nonoo’s wedding ceremony. According to The Sun, the couple had been noticed arriving in Italy forward of Saturday’s nuptials and child Archie was nowhere in sight. No doubt he’s enjoyable at dwelling in Windsor whereas mum and pop take pleasure in a child-free few days! On Monday the Sussexes will start their tour of southern Africa, however are scheduled to reach in Cape Town the day earlier than.
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Goff Scholarship winner shares history
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Every child passing through the Texas Public Education System receives an introduction to history. I say an introduction, because they may not remember all of it, but they are definitely shown it. Elementary students begin learning about their own community history in third grade, eventually
Depot sign returns to New Braunfels
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman – Imagine it’s 1920. You’re making your way north on Seguin Street and you can just see the roofs of Landa’s flour mill and cottonseed oil gin over the tree line. You get to the “Y’ where Landa Street and N. Seguin split and you stay
Prince Solms Inn still boosting tourism
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Besides the Plaza Hotel on the Main Plaza, another grand hotel was built around the turn of the century, the Comal Hotel (now Prince Solms Inn). What was the reason for more large hotels in the little town of New Braunfels? Hotels are built to
Local Masons dedicate new lodge
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Yesterday (Feb. 9) a historic event took place for New Braunfels Masonic Lodge No. 1109. The cornerstone leveling of a new lodge building at 1353 Wald Rd. took place. This is the fourth home for this lodge. It is believed that the history of the
Christmas icons help us celebrate the season
By Myra Lee Adams Goff I’m writing about iconology, the study of icons. The word “icon” has been stretched thin over the years. Originally it referred to “a painting of religious personages on a wooden panel in the Eastern Church”. In advertising, we have icons for almost everything. Christmas icons
Locke nurseries business of the past
By Myra Lee Adams Goff When I think of Botanists in New Braunfels, I immediately think of Ferdinand Lindheimer. Lindheimer was given property on the Comal for his botanical garden. No doubt his accomplishments were many, but there were others in the field who contributed much to the beauty of
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Syrian War Report – November 25, 2019: Syrian Army Developing Advance In Southern Idlib 4.7142857142857 out of 5 based on 14 ratings. 14 user reviews.
Syrian War Report – November 25, 2019: Syrian Army Developing Advance In Southern Idlib
Tensions are heating up around the militant-held parts of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
On November 22, the Syrian Army conducted a wide-scale missile strike on militants’ positions in western Aleppo. According to pro-militant sources, at least 15 improvised rocket-assisted munitions were employed. 2 large weapon depots belonging to radicals were targeted. The strike came in response to the November 21 incident, when militant shelling killed or injured at least 37 people in the city of Aleppo.
On November 23, the army eliminated several militants with anti-tank guided missiles and artillery strikes around Rakaya Sijneh and the al-Nar hilltop. On the same day, a Russian airstrike destroyed a headquarters of Jayish al-Izaa, mostly known for its ties with al-Qaeda, near Kafr Nabl.
On November 24, the army resumed its ground operation against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other radical groups in southern Idlib. Backed up by air and artillery strikes, army troops liberated the town of Misherfah and secured several positions around it. Militants carried out two counter-attacks to recapture Misherfah, but they were repelled. According to pro-government sources, up to 9 militants were eliminated.
Earlier in November, government forces liberated Luwaybidah and the Khaznah Hill in the same area. It’s expected that the army and its allies will continue their counter-terrorism efforts and further steadily cleaning southern Idlib.
On November 23, a coalition of Turkish-backed militant groups, known as the Syrian National army, launched a wide-scale attack on positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Army near Ayn Issa in northern Raqqa. By November 24, they had captured the villages of Saida, Mu’laq and al-Wasta, and reached the vicinity of Ayn Issa itself.
Then, united forces of the SDF and the Syrian Army pushed Turkish-backed militants back recapturing Saida, Mu’laq and al-Wasta, and once again securing the area. Despite this, artillery duels along the contact line north of Ayn Issa continued.
Over the past weeks, the Turkish Army established several fortified positions near the M4 highway in northern Raqqa and eastern al-Hasakah. Taking into account that Turkish proxies cannot carry out any large-scale offensive actions without Ankara’s approval, the Turkish leadership is likely aiming to use the instability in northeastern Syria to occupy more area. The M4 highway, which is the main transportation line in this part of the country, is an apparent target.
Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie revealed on November 23 that around 500 US troops remain deployed on the eastern bank of the Euphrates and in al-Hasakah. These troops will soon resume their anti-terrorist activities, General McKenzie added.
The US withdrawal from northern Syria allowed it to avoid the involvement in the ongoing standoff over the so-called Kurdish question. Washington used the gained time to fortify its positions in oil-rich areas of eastern Syria.
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S Melanson
Idlib will be brought back into Syria eventually and if Erdogan cuts off the escape routes, the rat infestation in Idlib will be deservedly eradicated – sooner the better.
Yemenpress.org reports a major announcement coming in the next few hours on a major military operation by Ansarullah against the Saudi Coalition – although the Coalition on paper is a large multinational force, the new reality is Saudi Arabia IS THE Coalition – along with some press ganged mercenaries skilled only at fleeing the battle field, surrendering and conduct supply chain management to keep Ansarullah well supplied.
The Houthis are expected to reveal that the glorious Coalition has achieved a stunning victory over the Houthis…. oh sorry, wrong universe. I cannot wait to find out… it is like Christmas Eve…
occupybacon
I’m still waiting for the Houthis announcement
The announcement was made shortly after I posted. Go to yemenpress.org November 26 article on ballistic missile and drone attack on Coalition forces on West coast of Yemen. 350+ casualties and destroyed ammo, radar and Patriot installations.
The announcement was not as dramatic as the September operations but there is something very important that was demonstrated if the reports are true – generally, Ansarullah has a good track record on accuracy of what they report. Coalition has also not denied claims either.
What is important I think is the destruction of radar and Patriot installations. First, I was not aware that Patriot Systems were operating in Yemen. Two, Ansarullah has shown ability to not only neutralize, but actually destroy systems. This combined with the strike on Aramco is a huge blow to US credibility on the purported capabilities of Patriot Systems. This may also be why the silence in the MSM.
Ansarullah has been increasingly vocal about the role of the US in supporting the war on Yemen and importantly, the ability to bring the war to an end – see also Zaid and Larson articles , October 20 and November 7 respectively, both at Yemenpress.org. By demonstrating ineffectiveness of US military systems, continuing the war carries with it the likelihood of further embarrassments that could harm US arms exports.
So this is how I see it:
Bringing the war into KSA and hitting Aramco is to push KSA to the negotiating table. Revealing to the world the ineffectiveness of US military systems will push the US to reevaluate their support for the Coalition. Add to this the increasing military capabilities of Ansarullah – read November 28 article on French politician discussion of Western worries of growing Yemen military capability – yemenpress.org
Also article in Yemenpress.org November 24 on forcing a Coalition F-15 to turn back. One example of increasing air defence capabilities.
Do you agree with my take? And what do you think is keeping the Coalition and western backers invested in this lost cause?
“Advance” does not mean full offensive action on Idlib. Without a full offensive action on Idlib, this is just a wasting of time, money, soldiers, and weapons.
Hasbara Hunter
Another bad day for the CIA…
Willing Conscience (The Truths
Yesterday the village of Um al-Khalakhil was liberated, and today it’s Dahret a-Zarzour, al-Sayeer and al-Musheirfeh farms also back under SAA control, and right now the SAA are in the process of liberating Furayji township as well, not bad for just one days work, LOL.
But there was no massive bombardments by the SAAF today, which means they’ll probably be celebrating tomorrow, sadly that may mean no more territory will be reclaimed tomorrow, so we may have to wait until the following day for our next bit of good news.
Inch by inch and day by day it’s all returning to government control.
EmilyEnso
Do not forget the Golan.
Syria is Golan.
That’ll be a battle for another day, let’s get this one done and dusted first. When we get some experience under our belts [Assad negotiating with UN], then we can move onto a new phase of territorial reclamation [Golan], hopefully getting Syria’s new friend the UN to help out, since they’re now helping write up the new Syrian constitution and have a stake in the game.
And there’s also a problem with my hero Trump, who despite the fact he is my hero for a whole lot of reasons, when it comes to Israel he’s definitely not. So while he’s in power I don’t think we’ll have too much success with that particular endeavour, so perhaps waiting until he’s out of office would be a better way to tackle that problem.
As it stands now, Erdogan controls about 20 times as much Syrian territory as the Israelis do, so as much as they still seem to be the biggest problem, they aren’t really, Erdogan is eclipsing them by a factor of 20, and that’s just taking territory into account. The Israelis haven’t been calling for Assad to be removed from power since June last year, but Erdogan’s never stopped saying it, and now Israel’s also strongly condemning Erdogan’s actions in Syria, and also calling for him to remove his forces, I think we should just put Golan on the backburner for now, and just let the Israelis anti Erdogan rhetoric help our cause.
Isn’t politics funny, Erdogan is about the worst politician in the world from my perspective, and yet as far as Palestine’s concerned, he’s just about their most ardent supporter, and also the biggest thorn in Israel’s side [the only thing he does good].
And on the opposite side of the coin, Trump from my perspective is just about one of the best politicians in the world atm, and yet he’s done nothing but hurt the Palestinian cause helping the Israelis steal even more land, which just like you I totally oppose.
Israel’s calling for Erdogan to get out of Syria and Erdogan is calling for Israel to get out of Palestine, and funnily enough, Assad agrees with both if them, so if Assad could get the Israelis to help him do what they want first [get the Turks out of Syria], and then he later helped Erdogan do what he says he wants to do [get the Israelis out of Palestine], shouldn’t they all be happy in the end, LOL, as I said politics is funny.
Unfortunately politics means we never ever get everything we want, ever.
Golan may not be big but its one massive oil well.
Check out Genie oil and its shareholders.
As an array of US and Israeli politicians and banksters plan to steal the oil via Genie Oil into their own pockets.
A bit like Albright and Clark in their massive personal robbery of Serb gold mines under islamic occupation, thanks to them
Yep Golan is on the back burner but it is Syria – internationally recognised a Syria and must be returned.
Thats the bottom line, WCTT….
http://www.iamawake.co/the-shady-oil-company-behind-syrias-hidden-war-golan-israel-genie/
https://www.trunews.com/article/genie-oil-the-syria-goldman-sachs-israel-isis-connection
If the Israelis do end up pumping oil out of Golan it’ll cost them more than it’s worth, constant repairs to infrastructure, beefed up military presence ect, I’m pretty sure Assad would make them pay a higher price maintaining/defending/repairing the oilfields than they actually get for the oil.
There was a change in the Israeli political dynamic a few days ago, the White and Blue party, which is traditionally a Zionist political party [but not ultra hard line like Netanyahu’s Likud Party], actually sat down with 2 Arab parties and began discussing the possibility of forming a minority government with them.
That just by itself was nearly a miraculous occurrence, but even more miraculously, it was actually looking like they could effectively form a new coalition government, right up the the moment 4 missiles were launched from somewhere in Syria that is, unfortunately that’s when any chance of Israel ending up with a White and Blue and Arab coalition Israeli government ended.
I suspect Netanyahu and the Likud party were actually responsible for that False Flag attack, they had the most to gain from that missile strike, it ended any chance of a White and Blue/Arab coalition government, and gave Benji and some of the other Likud party members some more time before they have to face up to corruption charges, charges that will most likely put them in jail. :]
I think that over the last 40 years that I’ve been paying attention to Palestine, the Israelis are now probably at their weakest point ever, world opinion, US wanting to leave Syria, Iran’s parity in certain military tech, Russia and China creating their own IMF, the Arab parties nearly forming a minority government with the W+B’s ect, so the Israeli Zionist are just barely treading water now and only just holding their heads above the water, just a few more helpful shoves and some of them should start going under soon. :]
If the Israelis do end up pumping oil out of Golan
I think we should forget the money side of it.
That is largely unimportant in the scheme of things.
Let us look at te bigger picture – the rule of international law.
If the Israelis take that oil it will be a gross violation of international law.
It is not their country – it is internationally recognised as part of Syria and will remain so.
Regardless of whether Trump gives US sanction for them to take it – matters not.
The USA is not the world’s judge and cannot itself violate international dicktat.
If the Israelis take that oil they are guilty of plunder by force and of piracy and frankly I would hope to see sanctions against them imposed by the UN in support of the UN charter and the rights of nation states.
If Israel takes that oil – it means that the looting and plunder of weaker states becomes acceptional and the norm.
I have every faith that Israel will not cross that line.
But the greed of some of their nationals might.
Murdoch. Rothschilds and USA politicians of dual nationality for a start.
International law only applies to weak countries, sadly that’s the truth, look at Israel, Turkey, the US, Russia, China, England, France, and others, there are no real meaningful consequences for those lawbreakers according to International Law, they seem exempt. BTW not all International laws are good, some are complete rubbish and should be ignored if they’re enforced.
Unlike you I don’t have faith the Israelis will do the right thing, their past behaviour makes me think that the exact opposite would actually be the case, even with a Blue and White/Arab coalition minority government in power self interests would still be the main concern, Golan won’t be safe until it’s back in it’s rightful owners hands. One day soon hopefully.
I would have agreed about the Israeli position until just recently but I think things are on a bit of a change.
And I agree with much of the rest
However that international law still stands and is some deterrent.
What I find disturbing though is the sudden disappearance of the ‘security council’.
With the USA – and sometimes Britain vetoeing any Israeli and islamic ally transgression – I think it seems any victim has given up.
Russia seems to have and decided – whats the point with the western MSM now nothing but government propaganda and brainwashing machine.
However People are beginning to ‘woke’ even so.
And not just the leftist ones.
Many people are ‘woking up’ to the real truth and exactly what is happening to these weaker states and by whom.
And its not by the Russians.
Icarus Tanović
Well done SAA, just blast the heck out of them blood sucking criminals. No more bravery and yelling at airplanes, now they are shiit scared, seeing that kingdom of evil is colapsing, after so many time. And mister Mega Bull Shiit is not helping anymore, because he is bit busy in Yemen.
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Smell the Leather…
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Beyond Tuesday
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When the Australian players walk out to begin the test match in Adelaide in a few hours, they will still be hurting like hell.
The rawness of Phillip Hughes’ death will barely have abated, and they will need to find their own way to get through the game, to take that necessary step that allows them to get on with their own lives while still leaving space to mourn the hole in their lives where Phillip Hughes used to be.
The unpredictability of grief means we should expect and accept pretty much any reaction. There may be players who simply can’t allow themselves to contemplate the grief and will put it to one side for the whole game, while others may be overwhelmed by it. There is no one-size-fits-all response to the fathomless loss of a loved one. As spectators, our response to the players should be only compassion.
But where does cricket go beyond this test match when it comes to remembering Phillip Hughes?
So far, the reaction has been extraordinary. Much of its intensity has come from the genuine, heartfelt and remarkably beautiful words written and spoken by those close to the young batsman and to the game. I can’t remember the last time such a rush of perfectly-chosen words came flowing from the pens of cricket writers, bloggers and even tweeters. And Michael Clarke’s eulogy? Well, that was something else.
People have revealed their true selves in recent days, inspired by sheer grief to throw off the shackles of expectation and societal norms. Suddenly the fragility of human existence and the flimsiness of the masks we wear were there for all to see. We are all the same beneath the differently-coloured caps and sport is, after all, sport. Hughes’ team-mates and the wider cricketing fraternity grieved openly and with dignity for the life that will remain unlived.
I hope this honesty can remain. My fear is that it will be overtaken.
In our modern society where anomie and despair make uncomfortable bedfellows and result in ostentatious displays of collective grief, we may find the visceral, searing, truth-telling honesty of Clarke et al’s reaction is subsumed by grand, calculated, institutionalised gestures.
Of course collective grief is useful and necessary sometimes. It allows communities to find a shared understanding and consequently some much-needed consolation. Clearly what has happened since Phillip Hughes’ death, such as the putting out of bats in solidarity, has been of great comfort to his family, friends and team-mates who can never be in any doubt that he was loved.
But with Cricket Australia planning a series of events to remember Phillip Hughes, I find myself urging them to play it low-key, to give people opportunities to grieve but not to create an unstoppable institution, not to make it into 63notout the brand. Once it reaches this corporatised level, then the connection with the real feelings expressed so eloquently in recent days is lost. Suddenly everyone will find themselves obliged to behave and react in a certain way, and the natural rhythms of their own grief process will be lost.
It’s not hard to picture batsmen in a few months’ time, reaching 63 and feeling they ought to raise their bat to the sky for fear of being the first not to do so, and risk showing disrespect where none was meant. Similarly the spectator who would rather share a tacitly-understood glance with a friend or simply have their own private thoughts is obliged to stand and applaud because that is what everyone else in the ground is doing. And suddenly Phillip Hughes’ death is no longer about Phillip Hughes but is about people being anxious to be seen to be doing the right thing.
Everyone has their own way to deal with these things. They don’t need other people to tell them how. Just look at the events since the tragedy happened. Leave people to express their own thoughts in their own way, and we hear the truth. Truth about them, about their friends, about cricket, about life.
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CTO'D1959 said:
I notice the state memorial for Hughes has been scrapped, which I think is the right decision as his funeral in Macksville ticked every box on its own. As Hughes was such a popular figure on our shores, having played for three counties, I would love to see the first test of Ashes 2015 at Cardiff played without sledging. I believe it is possible to play with intensity without resorting to verbal intimidation. It would be a way to remember Hughes and evoke the spirit of cricket, which we see talked up off the field of play, but often disregarded on it.
nickcampion175 said:
Agreed re: the scrapping of the state memorial. A step in the right direction. I hope that this incident does indeed make people think twice about the way they play the game. In the honest and raw emotion of recent days, all the nonsense that goes with international cricket has been exposed for the façade it really is, so let’s hope players just play now, and do away with all the needless studied aggression.
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Graduate Awards and Accomplishments
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C.A. Smith - Publication- Smith, C. A. (2019). The uses of pilot studies in sociology: A processual understanding of preliminary research. The American Sociologist, , 1-19. doi:10.1007/s12108-019-09419-y
Yoselinda Mendoza - Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Equity and Inclusion Student Fellowship
Youngmin Yi - Article publicationin Journal of Marriage and Family: "Leaving Home, Entering Institutions: Implications for Home-Leaving in the Transition to Adulthood" (link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12616
Loredana Loy -American Studies Graduate Research Grant and Provost Diversity Fellowship Award
Katherine Zaslavsky -American Studies Research Grant
Thomas Davidson's paper, "Black Box Models and Sociological Explanations: Predicting High School GPA from Neural Networks," is forthcoming in Socius.
9 graduate students in the Field of Sociology presented papers at the 2019 American Sociological Association meetings. 10 graduate students presented papers at the 2019 Population Association of America meetings.
Mauricio Bucca (PhD 2018), Mario Molina, and Michael Macy have a forthcoming paper in Science Advances entitled, "It’s Not Really About How the Game is Played: It’s About Whether You Win or Lose."
Erin McCauley was selected to the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Research Training Program in the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights.
Jan Spieker was a co-winner of the 2019 Robert McGinnis award for his paper, "Introducing a Life Course Perspective to Studying the Intergenerational Reproduction of Wealth: The Impact of Parental Wealth Trajectories on Children's Wealth Accumulation in the United States."
Youngmin (Min) Yi was co-winner of the 2019 Robert McGinnis award for her paper, “Instability in Care and Living Arrangements: Putting Foster Youth in Context.” The McGinnis award celebrates excellence in methodological innovations, broadly defined.
Bridget Brew won the 2019 Robin Williams, Jr Award for Best Paper for "The Increasing Significance of Race: Discipline in North Carolina State Prisons during the Prison Boom."
Yunsub Lee was co-winner of the department's 2019 award for excellence in teaching for his work as a TA in Sociology 2220: Controversies about Inequality and in Sociology 2460: Drugs and Society.
Kaye Nantah was co-winner of the department's 2019 award for excellence in teaching for her work as a TA in Sociology 2208: Social Inequality.
Ningzi Li and Abdullah Shahid won best paper award by the Canadian Sociological Association in Economic Sociology for "Liberalization and Legitimacy: Relationship Formation in a Newly Liberalized Market."
Mario Molina and Filiz Garip published "Machine Learning for Sociology" in Annual Review of Sociology.
Alexander Ruch won the PyTorch Scholarship Challenge from Facebook.
Peter K Enns, Youngmin Yi, Megan Comfort, Alyssa Goldman, Hedwig Lee, Christopher Muller, Sara Wakefield, Emily A. Wang, and Christopher Wildeman published “What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated? Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)” in Socius 5:1-45 (March 2019).
Yoselinda Mendoza won a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, a Latino/a Studies research grant, and was selected to participate in the Summer Dissertation Proposal Workshop, organized by the Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University and the Institute for Research on Poverty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Xinwei Xu: Research Grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Mauricio Bucca and Daniela Urbina's paper, "Lasso regularization for selection of log-linear models: an application to educational assortative mating" (Sociological Methods and Research, Feb 2019) won the 2019 Clifford Clogg Best Paper award from the ASA's section on Methodology.
Hall, Matthew, John Iceland, and Youngmin Yi. “Racial Separation at Home and Work: Segregation in Residential and Workplace Settings.” (Population Research and Policy Review)
Hall, Matthew, Kelly Musick, and Youngmin Yi. "Living Arrangements and Household Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants." (Population and Development Review)
Erin McCauley: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Erin McCauley: Lead workshop on using administrative data from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at the Society for Social Work and Research Conference
Berry, George, Christopher J. Cameron, Patrick Park, and Michael Macy. : "The Opacity Problem in Social Contagion" (Social Networks)
Matthew Hall, Emily Greenman and Youngmin Yi "Job Mobility among Unauthorized Immigrant Workers" (Social Forces)
Megan Doherty Bea and Youngmin Yi "Leaving the Financial Nest: Connecting Young Adults’ Financial Independence to Financial Security" (Forthcoming in Journal of Marriage and Family)
Megan Doherty Bea "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Consumers' Economic Expectations." (Forthcoming in Socius)
Tom Davidson "Black Box Models and Sociological Explanations: Predicting High School GPA Using Neural Networks" (Forthcoming in Socius)
Tom Davidson and Mabel Berezin “Britain First and the UK Independence Party: Social Media and Movement-Party Dynamics” (forthcoming in the December issue of Mobilization)
Lauren Griffin received the Family Strengthening Scholars Grant from the Administration for Children & Families in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Erin McCauley received the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) Analyzing Relationships between Disability, Rehabilitation and Work (ARDRAW) Small Grant Program distributed by Policy Research Inc.
Lisha Liu won the 2018 SASE Early Career Workshop Award
Alex Ruch received the NSF Grant Award (1756822): Testing Unpredictability with Multiple Worlds
Lucas Drouhot won the 2018 Aristide Zolberg Student Scholar Award from the ASA's section on International Migration for his paper, "Cracks in the Melting Pot: Religiousity and Assimilation Among the Diverse Muslim Populations in France."
Lisha Liu, along with her chair Victor Nee, won the Lehman fund award for their project, "Inter-Firm Corporate Governance Networks, Business Groups, and Strategic Alliances in Transitional China."
Yuanyuan Liu was awarded a one-semester C.V. Starr Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.
The Outstanding TA award this year is shared by Loredana Loy and Xinwei Xu. An honorable mention goes to Paul Muniz.
The Robin Williams Jr award for the best paper goes to Mauricio Bucca for his paper, "Black-white differences in intergenerational mobility in the US: evidence from heterogeneous sibling correlations.
The Robert McGinnis award for best contribution to the methodological literature, broadly defined, goes to Sang Kyung Lee for his paper, "The politics of anti-austerity protest: South Korea in 1997-98 and Greece in 2009-10."
Hilary Holbrow’s paper, “The Role of Ethnic Bias in Wage Inequality,” won the 2017 Robert B. McGinnis Award for the best paper in social psychology, broadly defined.
Meg Doherty Bea and Alyssa Goldman are co-winners of the Robin M. Williams award for best graduate student paper. Meg’s paper examines racial and ethnic differences in consumer expectations. Alyssa’s paper examines how mothers’ health is affected when their adult children are incarcerated.
Theresa Rocha Beardall and Emily Sandusky are co-winners of the 2017 Departmental award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. Theresa Rocha Beardall also won a SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award from the Sage Publishing Company.
Lucas Drouhot was awarded the Cornell Institute for European Studies’ Sidney Tarrow Paper Prize for his paper, “Cracks in the Melting Pot? Religiosity and Assimilation Among the Diverse Muslim Population in France.”
9 Cornell students presented papers at the 2017 annual meetings of the Population Association of America in Chicago.
Tom Davidson and Paromita Sanyal’s paper, “Associational Participation and Network Expansion: Microcredit Self-Help Groups and Poor Women’s Social Ties in Rural India,” is forthcoming at Social Forces.
Lauren Griffin won the prestigious Buttrick-Crippen Award from the Knight Writing Institute. This year-long fellowship will allow Lauren to design and teach her own Freshman Writing Seminar, “Modern Romance,” about contemporary families
George Berry’s paper with Sean Taylor, “Discussion Quality Diffuses in the Digital Public Square,” was accepted for the Proceedings of the 2017 World Wide Web conference in Perth, Australia.
Ningzi Li won the competitive C.V. Starr Fellowship in East Asian Studies from Cornell’s East Asia Program.
Youngmin Yi’s co-authored paper with Kristin Turney and Christopher Wildeman, “Mental Health among Jail and Prison Inmates,” was published in the American Journal of Men’s Health.
Paul Muniz was selected for the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which celebrates academic excellence, recognizes outstanding service and leadership, and promotes diversity in doctoral education and the professoriate.
Alyssa Goldman’s solo-authored paper, “All in the Family: The Link Between Kin Network Bridging and Cardiovascular Risk among Older Adults,” was published in Social Science and Medicine.
A paper off of Daniel DellaPosta’s dissertation won the Organization and Management Theory section award for the best unpublished graduate student paper at the Academy of Management meetings.
Hilary Holbrow and her collaborator Hiroshi Ono won a $37,000 grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a $10,000 award from the BEST Alliance, a joint venture by the governments of Japan, China, and Korea to foster excellence in global business leadership training. Hilary’s paper (with Kikuko Nagayoshi), “Economic Integration of Skilled Migrants in Japan: The Role of Employment Practices,” is forthcoming in International Migration Review.
Dafna Gelbgiser’s paper with Kim Weeden and Cornell PhD Sarah Thébaud (UC-Santa Barbara) on gender segregation in doctoral education by field of study and program prestige is forthcoming in Sociological Science.
Lucas Drouhot’s qualifying paper, “Reconsidering ‘Community Liberated’: How Class and the National Context Shape Personal Support Networks,” is forthcoming in Social Networks.
Emily Taylor Poppe’s solo-authored paper, “Homeowner Legal Representation in the Foreclosure Crisis,” is forthcoming in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. She also published a first-author paper (with Jeffrey Rachlinski) entitled, “Do Lawyers Matter? The Effect of Legal Representation in Civil Suits,” in the Pepperdine Law Review.
Alicia Eads’ co-authored paper with Mabel Berezin, “Risk is for the Rich? Childhood Vaccination Resistance and a Culture of Health,” is forthcoming in Social Science and Medicine.
Alex Currit’s paper, co-authored with Erin York Cornwell, on “Racial and Social Disparities in Bystander Support During Medical Emergencies on US Streets,” was published in American Journal of Public Health. It received press attention in 11 media outlets, including the Washington Post.
Daniel DellaPosta, Yongren Shi, and Michael Macy’s paper, “Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?,” won the 2016 Outstanding Article Publication Award from the Mathematical Sociology section of the ASA.
Yongren Shi‘s dissertation, “Study of Political and Cultural Polarization Using Book Co-purchases and Reviews,” won the Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award from the Mathematical Sociology section of the ASA.
Cornell graduate students solo- or co-authored 18 papers that were accepted for presentation at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Seattle this August.
An abridged version of Dafna Gelbgiser’s paper, “College for All, Degrees for Few: For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Inequality in Bachelor’s Degree Attainment,” was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Management and selected as a finalist for the 2016 William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation from the Academy of Management.
Fedor Dokshin’s solo-authored paper, “Whose Backyard and What’s at Issue? Spatial and Ideological Dynamics of Local Fracking Opposition in New York State, 2010-2013,” is forthcoming in American Sociological Review. An earlier version of this paper won the Robin M Williams, Jr. award.
Yongren Shi, Fedor Dokshin, Michael Genkin, and Matt Brashears are co-authors of “A Member Saved is a Member Earned? The Recruitment-Retention Trade-Off and Organizational Strategies for Membership Growth,” which is published in the American Sociological Review.
Rachel Behler’s solo-authored paper, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Network Determinants of Relationship Inactualization in Adolescence” is in press at Social Science Research. An earlier version won the Department’s Robin M. Williams, Jr. award for best paper.
Mauricio Bucca’s paper (coauthored with Kim Weeden and Youngjoo Cha) on trends in the gender wage gap, the motherhood page penalty, and the fatherhood wage premium is forthcoming in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences.
Alicia Eads and Laura Tach published a paper in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences entitled, “Wealth and Inequality in the Stability of Romantic Relationships.”
Mauricio Bucca published a solo-authored paper, “Merit and Blame in Unequal Societies: Explaining Latin Americans’ Beliefs About Wealth and Poverty,” in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Alyssa Goldman’s paper (coauthored with Susan Fleming, Shelley Correll, and Catherine Taylor), “Settling In: The Role of Individual and Departmental Tactics in the Development of New Faculty Networks,” was published in the Journal of Higher Education.
Lucas Drouhot won the 2016 Robin M Williams, Jr. award for his paper, “Cracks in the Melting Pot? Explaining the Puzzle of Delayed Religious Assimilation Among Muslim Immigrants in France.”
Tony Sirianni won the 2016 Robert B McGinnis award for the best paper in social psychology, broadly defined, for “Taking One for the Team: The Specialization of Violence in Professional Ice Hockey.”
Paul Muniz won the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Apprentice award in the department for his outstanding work in Introduction to Sociology and in Urban Sociology.
Cornell Sociology graduate students presented 9 papers at the 2016 Population Association of America meetings in Washington D.C.
Youngmin Yi’s paper (co-authored with Christopher Wildeman and Kristin Turney), “Paternal Incarceration and Family Functioning: Variation Across Federal, State, and Local Facilities” was published in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Xirong Shen’s solo-authored paper, “Negotiating Authorship in Chinese Universities: How Organizations Shape Cycles of Credit in Science” was published in Science, Technology, and Human Values.
Lucas Drouhot was awarded the Michelle Sicca Research Grant from the Cornell Institute for European Studies to conduct dissertation fieldwork in France.
Rachel Behler’s paper (with Erin York Cornwell), “Urbanism, Neighborhood Context and Social Networks,” was published in City and Community.
Emily Taylor Poppe’s paper (with Stephen Morgan), “A Design and a Model for Investigating the Heterogeneity of Context Effects in Public Opinion Surveys” was published in Sociological Methodology.
Lisha Liu won a Clifford C Clogg Fellowship to attend the 2015 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.
Dan DellaPosta’s paper, “Bridging the Parochial Divide: Closure and Brokerage in Mafia Families,” won awards for the best graduate student paper from both the Economic Sociology and the Rationality and Society sections of the ASA.
Hilary Holbrow published a solo-authored paper in Work and Occupations entitled, “How Conformity to Labor Market Norms Increases Access to Job Search Assistance.”The paper is based on her MA thesis research.
George Berry was awarded one of the highly competitive Data Science Intern positions at Facebook for Summer of 2015, and was invited to return in 2016.
Rachel Behler was awarded a 12-month Health Services Research Dissertation Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of NIH/DHHS.
Cornell Sociology graduate students will present 18 papers at the 2015 American Sociological Association meetings in Chicago.
Daniel J DellaPosta and Yongren Shi are co-authors (with Michael Macy) of a 2015 paper in the American Journal of Sociology, “Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?” Dan has also published solo-authored papers in RSSM and Social Forces.
Yongren Shi won a 2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. Shi’s work, which looks at opinion dynamics in social networks, was also recognized with a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award.
Alicia Eads’ paper with Laura Tach, “The Economic Consequences of Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution”, is forthcoming at Demography
Alicia Eads won the 2015 Robert B McGinnis Award for her paper “The U.S. Foreclosure Crisis: Government Agency Cultural Environments and Policy Responses”. She also won the 2014/2015 departmental citation for excellence in teaching.
Dafna Gelbgiser was awarded the 2015 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for her paper “College for All, Degrees for Few: The Expansion of For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Differences in Degree Attainment”.
Alison Dwyer Emory was a blue-ribbon winner at the 2015 Population Association of America meetings for her poster, co-authored with Laura Tach, entitled, “The Spillover Effects of HOPE VI Redevelopment on Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Composition.”
Hilary J Holbrow was awarded a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship for 2014-2016 for her project on Japanese companies’ strategies for economic revitalization. She is an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies and a Visiting Scholar at Sophia University in the 2015/16 academic year.
Fedor Dokshin’s paper (with Ben Cornwell), “The Power of Integration: Affiliation and Cohesion in a Diverse Elite Network,” was published in Social Forces.
Dafna Gelbgiser co-authored a paper (with Stephen Morgan) in Sociological Scienceon Mexican ancestry and educational attainment. Dafna is also co-author on two papers in Social Science Research, one with Steve Morgan and Kim Weeden, and one with Sigal Alon.
Chan Suh’s paper, “Differential participation in professional activism: the case of the Guantanamo Habeas Lawyers” was published in Mobilization in 2014.
Allison Dwyer Emory’s paper (with Maureen Waller) on unmarried and divorcing parents in separated families was published in Family Court Review.
Fedor Dokshin was awarded the 2014 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for his paper “Fuel for Institutional Change: The Diffusion of Local Anti-Fracking Ordinances in New York State, 2010-2013”.
Hilary Holbrow won the 2014 Robert B McGinnis Award for her paper “How Conformity to Labor Market Norms Increases Access to Job Search Assistance: A Case Study from Japan”.
Kyle Albert published two solo-authored papers off of his Master’s thesis on labor union political strategies, one in Sociological Inquiry (2014) and one in Sociological Forum (2013).
Dafna Gelbgiser and Chan Suh were awarded the 2013-2014 Department Citation for Excellence in Teaching, going above and beyond the call of duty in for their students.
Michael Genkin‘s paper (With Robert Braun) “Cultural Resonance and the Diffusion of Suicide Bombings: The Role of Collectivism” (forthcoming in the Journal of Conflict Resolution) won an honorable mention from the Elise Boulding Graduate Student Paper competition hosted by the ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section. He also won the ASA’s Mathematical Sociology Section 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for his co-authored paper with Alexander Gutfraind “How Do Terrorist Cells Self-Assemble? Insights from an Agent-Based Model.”
Rachel Behler was awarded the 2013 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for her paper “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Structural Determinants of Compromised Ideals In Intimate Behavior”.
Matthew Hoffberg was awarded the 2012-2013 Department Citation for Excellence in Teaching for his work in Sociology 1840 Six Pretty Good Books and Sociology 2160 Health and Society.
Daniel J DellaPosta published two solo-authored papers, one in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility on the economic returns to military service and one in Social Forces on immigration and the dynamics of Front National voting in France.
Hilary Holbrow received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program and was awarded a Robert J. Smith Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. She published a co-authored paper (with Victor Nee) in Daedalus called “Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream”
Emily Taylor Poppe and Scott Golder were awarded the 2011-2012 Department Citation for Excellence in Teaching: Emily for her work in Sociology 6020 Linear Models, and Scott for his work in Sociology 2208 Social Inequality.
Daniel J. DellaPosta was awarded the 2012 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for “Competitive Threat, Intergroup Contact, or Both? Immigration and the Dynamics of Front National Voting in France.”
Jessica Houston Su‘s paper, “Pregnancy Intentions and Parents’ Psychological Welll-Being,” was awarded the 2012 Robert B. McGinnis Award and was published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
Kyle Albert was awarded a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His fellowship was awarded for a proposed program of research that considers the implications of the emergence of “green” occupations on socioeconomic inequality.
Matthew Hoffberg won the 2012 Best Graduate Student Paper award from the ASA Rationality and Society section and the 2011 Robin Williams Jr. Best Paper award from Cornell’s Department of Sociology. In 2010, he was awarded an NSF dissertation improvement grant for his project, “Reciprocity and Perceived Sincerity in Organizational Workgroups.” Matt also served as a Buttrick Crippen teaching fellow at Cornell’s Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, where he designed and taught an undergraduate writing seminar on the topic of authenticity and modern capitalism.
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Tag Archives: End of the World
One World Government, Paranormal activity, Priory of Sion, Spirituality Government Messianism Apocrypha Religion
Of course, in the eyes of men? I, am? Clinically, insane. But, in my own eyes? Things have never appeared, to be clearer.
After 60 years, of consideration? I have decided, to just go with it. And, I am claiming? My hereditary position, as: le Gouverneur.
Apparently? I was born, to it. And, as a small child? I was trained for it, by my grandparents. My, grandfather? Apparently? Was le Gouverneur, before me. And, he? Inherited it, from his grandfather; an old Scotsman, borne out, of Ireland.
This, position? Allegedly came down, through the family line. From long before, Jasper Tudor. From long before: Yeshua, the Nazarene; and, Solomon; and, Noah. From long before, the pyramids were ever built. It came down, from the caves of the Caucasus Mountains. Where the second-oldest bones of modern humans, have been found.
Our, history? Starts, with a single sentence: “We stayed close to the mountains, because of what happened the last time, that all of the ice, melted.” There are 135,000 years of family history, contained within that single, weighted sentence. But? I know a lot, about them: what, they thought; what, they said; what, they knew..
For throughout, the many generations? The, attitudes? Stayed much, the same. And, the Knowledge? Is, essentially? The same, as At the Beginning.
Even, so? I wouldn’t even pay the least bit of attention to all it, anyway; if it wasn’t for that singular day, and the Miracle of the Eratapokriseis, with the Men In Black. Where they, essentially? Rehashed everything, that I had been taught. And? Added, to it. And? Clarified it, even further.
Still? I thought the whole Men In Black thing over, for 28 years; before finally accepting, who I am; and, what I was born to. Which I did, less than two weeks ago.
If you do not believe in, or Know Of, a Higher Power? Then, by default? I have to be considered, as: clinically; scientifically; insane. Can there be any other, possibility?
And if you do believe in, a Higher Power? The teachings, of the church of man? Will, almost inevitably? Still lead you to, the same, exact conclusion.
Still: I have to, go with it. For my latter, occupation? In the city, of my father? In the city, of my birth? My father’s, occupation? While, a coincidental, historical, anomaly? Has led me, to take my early training, seriously. It has caused me, to reflect upon: history; and, the world; and, the nature, of man; and, the Universe; and, each and every one of us; and, our relationship, With the Creator, Of All.
It has hit the nail, on the head…
We? My, extended family? Have been around, for millennia. And man, and history? Have known us, over the centuries, by many names: Hashishins; Masons; Templars; Illuminati. You? Can name, it. But it never, ever, changes. It has been the same, for us? Forever. No mater what mantle, you cover us over, with.
Many of our brothers, and our sisters – For we are open, to all – Have made the egregious mistake, of thinking that, the Kingdom? Can Be Realized, through the work of the hand, of this world. But? The, Two Swords? Are, Enough. The, One? Is, Written; Is, Engraved; Upon, the Thigh. And, the Other? Is, a Tongue of Flame; Come Out Of, the Mouth.
Name; Word. One.
Yeshua? Tried To Tell you, All About This.
No amount, of beheadings; nor? Burnings, at the stake; can ever rid the earth, of us. For, we? Are like, the Hydra. Cut off, one head? And, two grow up, in its place. We? Are, everywhere. Hidden, within. But? Living, without. A Nation, Apart.
Our, Sacred Duty? Has never, changed. And, it is? To protect the Pilgrim, Who Is Upon the Way; Who Has Taken the First Step, Unto, the Holy Land. Upon, the Path; Unto? Gan Eden.
And This, Duty? Can never, change.
How, do we protect them? With, the Two Swords; Given Unto us, By YHWH. The Word, Deeply Incised; the Word, Sparingly Spoken.
Beneath, the Name? Is our, True Covering. For, the Name? Is, our Bower. Is, our Chuppah.
The taking, of Jerusalem? Was done, merely to secure, specific ancient artifacts. Which are now, well hidden away, elsewhere. They, seek; but they do not, find.
My, grandfather? Used to laugh out loud, about it. He said, that they had even suckered F.D.R., into it.
We were only in Jerusalem, of course, for 199 years. And, some of our brothers? Fell into the ways, of the world. And, of course? The, Holy Land? Was lost, unto them. With all of the attendant, bloodshed.
For they abandoned YHWH, for earthly gain.
But, we? Had our own reasons, for embarking upon, the Crusades. And, we? Were hidden amongst the Host, even then. As we still are, today.
But, the Way? The, Path? Always Passes Through, the Holy Land. And, the Holy One? Fills, the earth.
So where, exactly, Is This, Holy Land? Can it be pinned down, to a singular plot of earth? Can man ever build a house, with which, to contain: He, Who Fills the Universe?
The, Kingdom? Is, All Around you. It Is, Within you. Do not let anyone tell you, that it, is over here; or that it, is over there; that it, is found above, or below. That it, Has Come; or that it, Is Coming; or that it, Is gone. It Simply, Is.
The, Kingdom? Has always been, at hand. But can you, Ever Grasp it?
We, of the Shadow Government? Know, that our sisters, and our brothers, exist. And we know, that we fill the earth; albeit, amongst men. But we have shrunk our cells, even more. Down, from the former, 5 or 6. For where any 2, Are Gathered, In His Name? There?
We, Are.
There Are Signs, by which we know one another, when we meet. It is mostly, in the eyes…
Of course, it is crazy! For, the entire world? Is, crazy!
My grandfather, and my grandmother? Both, had told me? That the world is not ready, for the Revelation, Of the Mystery. Of, the Truth. My grandfather said, that perhaps? It would be ready, in my lifetime. And perhaps, not…
Perhaps, it would never be, ready? Perhaps, the world will come to its End, never having been, ready?
Why, am I finally telling the world, all of this?
It is because, I have no heirs. No, grandchildren. No one to pass the position, down to…
And I cannot let the Knowledge Of the Ages, just whither, upon the vine.
So? I am passing some of what I Know, along. For, perhaps? Someday? Someone, will read this; and will, become? The next: Gouverneur.
It is not at all up, to me. It is strictly between le Gouverneur, and YHWH…
For no man, can appoint anyone, to such a position. Colleges of Cardinals, besides. No king, can assign the position, to another king. No scrap of paper, Can Work, YHWH’s Will…
YHWH Will Choose, His Hidden Grand Master. No matter what any king or commoner, or the church of man, thinks, or designs unto.
The only thing in this world and Beyond, which makes perfect sense, to me? Is the Eternity, Where the Men In Black, Are. And? You, have most likely, met them yourself. And have said afterwards, frowning to yourself: “Now, that? Was really, weird…”
YHWH? Is, Truly Accessible. If you manage To Approach the Unknowable, In: the, right way; at, the right time; for, the right reason; with, the right heart.
And if you Meet YHWH, Along, the Way? Then? You Are a Part, of Something Bigger.
Think of the ceiling, in the Sistine Chapel. With? The Touch, Of God. He, and the Seraphim? At, the Center? Float, In a Cloud – Shaped just like, a human brain.
The, Kingdom? Is, At Hand…
Is, Within.
Michelangelo? Was one, of us.
Within, the chapel’s ceiling? Are coded, our symbols. Which were placed there, to train you, subliminally.
Le chat? Montres, la plus petite souris. Et, le chien, derrière elle? Montres, le chat. Et, nous? Sont, les Chiens, de YHWH.
Anyway? The Shadow Government? Is looking for a few, good: Sénéchages; Doges; Cavaliers.
But? Don’t take it up, with me. It is between you, and YHWH. You need To Approach, the Unknowable…
You’re, Protected. So, don’t worry. As crazy, as that sounds.
Wouldn’t you like To Feel the Touch, of the Finger, of YHWH?
And, perhaps? You, and I? Will meet, Upon the Way.
The, Templars? Still, Are. And, the Grail? Still, Is. Albeit?
As, a small child? I was shown, the maps.
And, perhaps? My grandfather merely imagined, that he was: le Gouverneur? He either, was; or? He, was not. Crazy, as it is.
My, grandmother? Told me confidentially, more than once? That, my grandfather?
“Is the Hidden, Grand Master.”
And he, told me? In, secret? That, my grandmother?
“Is like, the High Priestess.”
Yet, still; I wouldn’t pay the least bit of attention, to it; except, for? That enigmatic day, with the Men In Black.
Because of the confidences, of John Daniel, and Gil? I have, decided? Finally? To just, go with it. And you will simply have to bear with me, for a time.
If you spent a few years on the internet, and put it all together? Perhaps? You could present a facsimile, of an Eratapokriseis. But only, an insider? Can have the skill to do it, perfectly; correctly. It is something – I guess?
That you are just, born to…
The, Way? Is Always, Before you. It Has Always, Been. All you need, to do? Is to take, that first step. And, all fear?
Will fall away, from you.
Are you watching the Templars, on: The History Channel? Here are, some clues; as crazy, as it seems. Entombed, in the rock? Is, the root, and the trunk, and the living branch. And, the line? Leads upward, to the box. The, box? Is hidden beneath, the green bower. And within, the box? Is Found, the Grail; Hand-formed, out of base clay. The, line? Passes through the living branches, of the Oranges; ever, green…
The, orange? Is, seen; upon, the green.
The second, clue. If you are given, a lemon? As bitter to the taste, as it is? You make, lemonade! And that is why Stewie’s head, on: Family Guy? Is shaped, just like a lemon.
It is all, symbolism. Presented, for your subconscious training, by: us. And why, you ask? It is so that, when you finally Are Confronted, By the Mystery? You are hopefully prepared well enough, to be able to handle it.
Think, about it: the, Stuarts? Got, the lemon. And, the Oranges? Currently? Have possession, of the box.
For, now…
A third, clue. Yellow? Is symbolic, of: gold. The kingdoms, of this world. And, the Coming Mashiach? According to, the Muslims? Comes from, the East – Wearing, a shirt of yellow.
Yellow? Is, the Light. The, Bright Morning Star; In, the East.
And, the West? Is to, the East – Of, Jerusalem.
Red? Is, for: the, Bloodline. Flowing as deep, as the horse’s bridles. Remember, the Revelation?
Red? Is also, the bloodmoon. The Spirit, Become Flesh. Which, Overshadows, and Consumes? The kingdoms, and the kings, of this world.
And, Stewie? Wears, This Covering; This, Chuppah. He’s just another, brilliant kid; in an average, dysfunctional family. Who: in, reality? Knows: deep down, inside? That, He Is? The One True Emperor, of this physical, world.
Despite all of the bullshit, around him. And who, is his best, friend?
Just the dog, who morally supports him: Brian Griffin; Ivy League student, at Brown University.
Essentially? That, Stewie? Is: clinically, insane.
You, most likely? Have absolutely no idea at all, how well you are being mentally prepared For, the End Time. Man? Can; and, will; deny, Shekinah. But, YHWH? Never denies, His Own.
There are particular surnames, in that line, through the branches: Stuart; Tudor; Williams; Browne. The, list? Is quite, long.
There are particular first names as well, in the line: Henrietta; Maria; Mary; Martha; Margaret; Sarah; Rebecca; Alexander; William; Henry; George; Abraham; James; John; Thomas; Charles. And there are many, many, more.
And that is why, I often say: “And that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.” It is an acknowledgement, of the line.
After, the millennia? Almost everyone, on the earth? Is related to that line, by blood…
We? Are all, kinsmen, and womankind…
As crazy, as that sounds.
We, of the Shadow Government? Speak to man, through: Symbolism.
The first four-syllable word, that I was ever taught? When I, was less than two?
Was: “Sim-bowl-is-‘em.”
We manipulate, the mind, of man; via the things, of this world. And, through them? We Reveal, the Eternal Presence, Of the Grail. You can call it: “Brainwashing,” if you want to. But: art; literature; architecture; music; culture; philosophy; Spirituality?
Are, our children.
Yet, man? Chooses; every time? To create the church of man, out of That Which Is Given Unto them, freely.
The hearts, of many men, and women? Are invariably, good. But it is the cares of this world, which get right in, their Ways. And, the church of man? Plays you; through? This physical, world. They hold, your soul? Manacled high, above your head; unreachable; untouchable; in, a hangman’s noose…
But you can Pick Up the Sword, Freely-Given; and you Can Free yourself, from that very noose.
Know Well, the nature, of the Beast.
Man’s arrogance, and self-will? Is, actually? Almost, but not quite? An admirable, quality; In the Eyes, Of YHWH.
Like, Abram? You Just Have To Know, How To Negotiate, With YHWH. But don’t try this at home, folks.
Call yourself, what you will: Jew; Catholic; Protestant; Sufi; Hindu; Buddhist; New Ager; Templar; Mason. The, label? Does not matter in the least, To YHWH…
For, the Presence? Reads, the heart.
And, Eternity? Is Calling Unto you, To Join In.
What, exactly, are you waiting for? The End, Of the World? There Is a Parade, Right In the Path; so won’t you join it, today?
Yeah; I’m, crazy…
Science? Was created, by Godly men; who wanted to explain, the unbelievably-ordered underpinnings, of YHWH’s Universe. Science? Was created, specifically? To demonstrate God’s, Inherent Validity.
But, because it deals with, the physical world? In: quantifiable; containable; constrainable; measurable, terms? Science? Was soon hijacked, by, the atheists.
Charles Darwin? Said that, as a young man? He was kicking around, some ideas. And, man? Created an entire religion, out of those very, ideas.
The foremost, bastard-child, of the now atheistic religion, of science? Is: psychology. For, psychology? Denies the Very Ability of YHWH, To Touch this world, With His Own Hand, and Breath.
It Can not possibly Be, YHWH! He Does not, Exist. So? It has, to be? A clinically definable, aberration. The, Prophets? Were All, delusional! Yeshua? John the Baptist? Were, insane!
But who defines, what is, an aberration? Fallible, man?
Man? Has completely fucked up everything, that he has so much as breathed upon.
And because half of the world, will not allow itself to accept, a Higher Power? Those, Who Are In the Spirit? Are said, To Be: “Touched.” Which, makes me? By psychology’s somewhat fuzzy-edged, hazy, indeterminate, adjustable-to-the-moment, definitions? Already, half-crazy.
Touched, By YHWH? And what is so wrong, with that? Michelangelo even painted it on the ceiling, of the Sistine Chapel. Front, and Center.
I only know, that when I shook the hands of John Daniel, and Gil? I Felt the Awesome Power, Contained, Within Them. And, They? In Their Manifestations, Within the Avatars, Of men? Are As Close As any man alive can get, To Realizing God, In the Spirit.
“I? Will, Pass: By? You. But, you? Will only, see? My, Backside.”
To, a desert dweller? All which is seen, from behind? Is, the Covering; the, Mantle; the, Chuppah.
Oh, any atheist, can tell you: I’m crazy, alright. By, clinical definition. For there can be no other alternative, for any man…
To consider, any other implications? Is far too hard for the closed minds, of many men.
The, choice? Is always, yours. For? You Have Been Invited, In. So: what will, you do? Just stay outside of the Door, in abject fear, of the darkness? Or will you Light your own Lamp, and Come In? And Join In, the Wedding Party?
Everyone? Is Truly, Invited.
And our, Sacred Duty? Is To Guard, the Ancient Path. To Keep it Swept Clean, of all stumbling distractions. To Close Off, the many byways. To Make Level, and To Raise Up, and To Make Straight, the Way; Unto, the Holy Land. The, Path; Unto, Gan Eden. Unto, the World, To Come.
It Is Already, Here…
The Kingdom, Of God? Is, At Hand. It Has Always, Been…
But? The Big Question, Is: Are you Willing, To Grasp it?
The, Shadow Government? I was born, to it. And I was trained, for it; throughout, a lifetime.
And, perhaps? You were, too. Weren’t, you? For, the reigns? Are always passed down, to someone, else. Throughout, the generations. Throughout, the many millennia.
As crazy, as it seems…
I am obligated To YHWH, For Everything. So? After 60 years, of careful consideration? I Have To, Go With it. With, the Spirit. There Is no other, Choice.
Go, Up…
As insane, as that probably sounds.
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Siddarth Kaul (Cricketer) Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More
Real Name Siddharth Kaul
Nickname Sidders
Profession Indian Cricketer (Fast bowler)
Height (approx.) in centimeters- 170 cm
in meters- 1.70 m
in feet inches- 5' 7"
Weight (approx.) in kilograms- 70 kg
in pounds- 154 lbs
Body Measurements (approx.) - Chest: 38 inches
- Waist: 30 inches
- Biceps: 12 inches
Eye Colour Brown
International Debut ODI- Did Not Play
Test- Did Not Play
T20- Did Not Play
U-19- 17 February 2008 against Papua New Guinea U-19 at Kuala Lumpur
Jersey Number #9 (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
Domestic/State Team Punjab, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Records/Achievements • He took his first five-wicket haul of the Ranji-Trophy career in his debut match in the 2007-08 season and finished with figures of 5 wickets for 97 runs.
• With 10 wickets under his belt, he was the joint-leading wicket-taker for India U-19 in the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup. Kaul averaged merely 15 in the tournament.
• In the 2012-13 season of Ranji-Trophy, he was the second highest wicket-taker of the tournament.
• While playing against Uttar Pradesh in Ranji Trophy 2016-17, Kaul trashed the opponents with his remarkable 6-wicket haul, which made Uttar Pradesh see their clan dipping completely for just 95.
Career Turning Point His performance in the 2018 (IPL 11), after which he was selected in India's squad for the bilateral series against England.
Date of Birth 19 May 1990
Age (as in 2018) 28 Years
Birth Place Pathankot, Punjab, India
Zodiac sign/Sun sign Taurus
Hometown Chandigarh, India
Family Father- Tej Kaul (Physiotherapist)
Mother- Sandhya Kaul (Gymnastics coach with Sports Authority of India)
Brother- Uday Kaul (Cricketer)
Sister- None
Caste Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit)
Tattoo(s) Left forearm- His parents' name "Sandhya" and "Tej" written
Left shoulder- Lord Shiva's face and Maha Mrityunjaya mantra written
Right shoulder- Gautam Buddha's face
Controversies In April 2018, he got a bit carried away while celebrating after taking the wicket of Mumbai Indians' spinner Mayank Markande at the Wankhede stadium, Mumbai. He was reprimanded for breaching the IPL code of conduct and was admitted to the Level 1 offence under 2.1.4 of the IPL Code of Conduct for Players and Team Officials and accepted the sanction.
Favourite Cricketer(s) Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar
Girls, Family & More
Affairs/Girlfriends Not Known
Wife/Spouse N/A
Salary (approx.) ₹3.8 crore (IPL 11 in 2018)
Some Lesser Known Facts About Siddarth Kaul
Does Siddarth Kaul smoke?: Not Known
Does Siddarth Kaul drink alcohol?: Not Known
Siddarth was born into a cricketing family as his father and brother played cricket in an Indian domestic circuit.
His father, Tej Kaul, played Ranji Trophy for Jammu and Kashmir, and had worked with the Indian team as a trainer and physiotherapist in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
His elder brother Uday was an India U-19 player, who toured with an India U-19s to England in 2006.
Being raised in a cricketing atmosphere, he has always been passionate about cricket and started playing cricket at the age of 6 under the guidance of his father and brother.
It was a proud moment for his family when he made his debut in the first-class cricket for Punjab against Orisha in the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy, as he played alongside his elder brother.
He was a part of victorious Indian cricket team which had won the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia under the leadership of Virat Kohli.
Rewarding his performance at the U-19 World Cup 2008, Shah Rukh Khan‘s team Kolkata Knight Riders drafted him to its squad for the following IPL season. He was, however, given no opportunities to bowl in that season.
He had once bowled a maiden over to the former Indian cricketer, Rahul Dravid.
His breakthrough came in 2016 when Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) drafted him for IPL 9.
Though MS Dhoni smashed 15 runs in the final over bowled by him to snatch the match away from SRH in May 2017. The former, however, after the match, told Kaul: “Acha ball kar raha hai tu. Pace bhi bhadd gaya hai tera aur yorkers bhi ache jaa rahe hain. Aise hee sharp ball rakh.” (You have been bowling well. The pace has increased and your yorkers are also accurate. Keep bowling sharply like this).”
He is known for his signature style of wearing a headband before bowling.
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Just One More Of The Many Ways Liberalism Has Screwed Up America: A Nation Of Out-Of-Control Crime
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. — 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Oh, yes. God knew you would come, Democrat.
Buried in the body of a recent article in the Los Angeles Times is an indictment of what ought to be the CRIME of liberalism:
In Los Angeles County, with a quarter of California’s jail population, male inmates often are released after serving as little as 10% of their sentences and female prisoners after 5%.
Fresno County logs show the jail is releasing criminals convicted of crimes that used to rate prison time: fraud, forgery and trafficking in stolen goods.
Law enforcement officials say that criminals have been emboldened by the erratic punishment.
“Every day we get guys who show up in the lobby, stoned out of their minds,” said one parole agent who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the issue. “I’ll have 15 arrested, and 12 to 14 will be released immediately.”
“We are, for lack of a better term, completely impotent,” he said.
For law enforcement agents, the jailhouse revolving door is frustrating.
Leopoldo Arellano, 39, was in and out of custody at least 18 times from 2012 to 2014 for violating parole, criminal threats and at least four incidents of domestic battery, according to Los Angeles County jail logs.
San Diego County let parolee Demetrius Roberts go early 12 times; mostly for removing or tampering with his GPS tracker, which he was required to wear as a convicted sex offender.
Here was a statistic from the same article that ought to be utterly shocking to you:
From a relatively stable population of less than 25,000 in the 1970s, the number of state prisoners rose to a high of 174,000 in 2007.
For the record, the prison population in California was 287,444 in 2010, according to page one – the “CDCR Population Highlights” – of the California Prisoner and Parolees report provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as of 2010.
That, for the record, is a 1,050 percent change from that stable population we used to have just a few short decades ago. And we aint seen nothin’ yet.
My God, what the hell happened? By which I mean, how did this HELL happen?
I want you to note carefully which political ideology is COMPLETELY AND ENTIRELY responsible for this shocking moral travesty:
Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.
I quoted that fact here in a different article focusing on the economic ruin of liberalism upon the state of California.
Liberalism is a cancer that begins with a diseased moral will and then metastasizes through the brain until it ultimately kills the body.
What we’re seeing in Obama’s incredibly stupid and liberal foreign policy regarding the treatment of thug regimes and terrorism we are similarly seeing in liberalism’s incredibly stupid and depraved domestic policy regarding the treatment of thug criminals: abject moral weakness inspires evil and savage brutality.
Under Obama, the number of terrorists has DOUBLED. Even the liberal Politifact has been forced to acknowledge this FACT.
The Associated Press reports that al Qaeda groups have surged and that terrorism has spiked under Obama. And just since Obama was re-elected in 2012, there has been “a 43 percent increase in the number of terrorist attacks in 2013 from 2012, according to statistics provided by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.”
Obama mockingly called the ISIS terrorists “JV” and declared that the Islamic caliphate they wanted to create was a “feckless delusion” “that is never going to happen.” But it was OBAMA who was “JV” and the terrorists now have the caliphate that Osama bin Laden DREAMED of all because of Barack Obama’s liberalism – by which I mean Barack Obama’s foolishness, depravity and moral cowardness that define liberalism.
Sarah Palin predicted that a Russia emboldened by a weak Obama would seize Ukraine. Under Obama, Putin DID it.
The shambles and wreckage of Obama’s disastrously failed foreign policy is as amazing as it is humiliating.
The outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency testified under oath that the threat of terrorism is worse than it’s ever been.
I still remember the left going utterly batpoop over Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s observation that “you go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” See here, here and here for a few examples of that batpoopage. The thing was, that statement was simply necessarily factually TRUE as any FOOL should know. I mean, hell, do liberals believe that Democrat Woodrow Wilson didn’t go to war with the army he had in World War I? Is it their belief that Democrat FDR didn’t go to war with the army he had in World War II? Do these sick fools think that Democrat Harry Truman didn’t go to war with the army he had in Korea? Do they actually think that Democrat LBJ asked the communists to please allow him to go to war with a more prepared army in Vietnam??? Liberals are morally sick and morally depraved and therefore as a result they are intellectually idiotic. And they are nothing but naked hypocrites and liars without shame or honesty.
That’s why conservatives have for DECADES been arguing that America needs to have a powerful military and project the powerful willingness to use that power so that our enemies will fear us and not want to push us into a war that they will lose. But liberalism is abject moral cowardice and abject moral evil. And so they weaken us every chance they get – from when Bill Clinton gutted the military before 9/11 and therefore emboldened Osama bin Laden to attack an America that he called a “paper tiger” to when Barack Obama gutted the military to the weakest levels since BEFORE World War II and emboldened pretty much EVERY thug to do whatever his evil heart desired.
When you project strength and resolve, you win. When you let an Obama lead from behind, you lose and lose bigger and bigger until the fool is gone or until you’ve imploded and collapsed.
What we see in Obama’s foreign policy is the same identical weakness that we’re seeing at home. Obama ROUTINELY releases criminal illegal aliens who are guilty of crimes including murder and rape.
Our criminal justice system is a sick joke.
And liberals want to disarm the American people and leave them helpless to every criminal thug so they can also be ultimately helpless against their fascist government dictatorship.
And yet I note that it was – AGAIN as ALWAYS – morally depraved and morally idiotic liberalism that beginning in the 1960s began to decide that it was somehow immoral to confine mentally ill people against their will. And now we are completely helpless against our lunatics because we can’t put them away. Just as I note that if you are black, or Hispanic, or a young person – by which I mean if you are a damned LIBERAL according to the statistics of who votes Democrat – you are so many more times likely to murder somebody with a gun than somebody who is likely to vote Republican it isn’t even funny.
You can mock God all you want, fool liberal. But His Word is truth and it will ultimately echo in your ears from the fires of hell as your folly is manifest to all men.
The passage describing the perilous times that will characterize the last days notes the dilemma of “silly women.” And I cannot help but note the following fact:
Gender Gap in 2012 Vote Is Largest in Gallup’s History
Obama wins women’s vote; Romney has eight-point edge among men
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama won the two-party vote among female voters in the 2012 election by 12 points, 56% to 44%, over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Romney won among men by an eight-point margin, 54% to 46%. That total 20-point gender gap is the largest Gallup has measured in a presidential election since it began compiling the vote by major subgroups in 1952.
“Silly women” indeed. And just as Paul told us would happen in God’s prophetic word, the correlation between silly women and perilous times is 1oo%. with the increase of the former directly causing the increase of the latter.
Now, as a caveat, my godly mother is more likely to vote conservative than I am. But she is not the face of women anymore; the liberal entitlement-whore and, yes – for what its worth – slut, Sandra Fluke is. And the feminist of today desperately wants evil on top of evil.
Liberalism is powerless against evil primarily because it IS evil and wants evil to spread like the cancer that evil is.
The Los Angeles Times had the following article – from which I pulled the above quote – on its front page Sunday, August 17, 2014:
Early jail releases have surged since California’s prison realignment
By Paige St. John
Sharelines:
-In L.A. County, male inmates often are released after 10% of their sentences, and female prisoners after 5%
-Across California, over 13,500 inmates a month are being released early to relieve crowding in local jails
Jesus Ysasaga had been arrested multiple times and ordered by the court to keep away from his ex-girlfriend. Two parole boards sentenced him to nearly a year in jail for stalking, drunkenness and battery..
But the Fresno County jail would not keep him.
Four times in the summer of 2012, authorities let Ysasaga go, refusing two times to even book him. The jail had no room.
Ysasaga’s attorney, Jerry Lowe, said the parade of convicted offenders being turned away from the jail was common. “It became quite a joke,” he said.
Across California, more than 13,500 inmates are being released early each month to relieve crowding in local jails — a 34% increase over the last three years. A Times investigation shows a significant shift in who is being let out of jail, how early and where.
The releases spring from an effort begun in 2011 to divert low-level offenders from crowded state prisons to local jails. The move had a cascade effect, forcing local authorities to release their least dangerous inmates to make room for more serious offenders.
“It changes criminal justice in California,” said Monterey County Chief Deputy Edward Laverone, who oversees the jail. “The ‘lock them up and throw away the key’ is gone.”
State and local officials say that they are making every effort to ensure the releases pose little danger to the public, freeing those believed to be the least risky convicts, usually parole violators and those convicted of misdemeanors.
But an analysis of jail data has found that incarceration in some counties has been curtailed or virtually eliminated for a variety of misdemeanors, including parole violations, domestic violence, child abuse, drug use and driving under the influence.
In Stockton last year, a furor erupted over the repeated releases of Sidney DeAvila, another convicted sex offender. He had been brought to the San Joaquin County jail 11 times in 2012 and 2013 for disarming his GPS tracker, drug use and other parole violations.
He was freed nearly every time within 24 hours, even when he was brought to the jail by the state’s Fugitive Apprehension Team.
Days after being let out early in February 2013, DeAvila went to his grandmother’s house, raped and killed the 76-year-old woman, then chopped her body into pieces. He was found later that day with the woman’s jewelry around his neck.
The family is suing the state and San Joaquin County for negligence. DeAvila pleaded guilty to murder and rape last month and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), a former City Council member, said the parole system has no teeth. “It’s justice by Nerf ball,” she said. “We designed a system that doesn’t work.”
The problem stems from the huge increase in the number of state prisoners over the last four decades, spurred by increasingly harsh sentencing laws passed during the war on drugs. Felons could serve decades behind bars for repeat convictions of drug use and other nonviolent crimes.
Crowding reached dangerous levels, leading federal judges to rule in 2009 that the conditions were unconstitutional. When Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, the state was under orders to cap prison counts at 110,000.
Brown’s solution, called “realignment,” shifted the responsibility for parole violators and lower-level felons to the counties, putting inmates closer to home and potentially improving their prospects for rehabilitation.
Lawmakers tried to ease the load on counties by expanding credits for good behavior and jailhouse work, cutting most sentences in half. Even with that, state officials concede, they knew jails did not have enough room.
The shift flooded county jails, many of which already were freeing convicted offenders under a melange of local court rulings, federal orders and self-imposed caps.
“If you’ve got a prison population and a jail population, if you’re going to release anywhere, you might better release at the lower level,” said Diane Cummins, Brown’s special advisor on realignment and criminal justice policy.
The number of prisoners released from county jail because of crowding has grown from an average of 9,700 a month in 2011 to over 13,500 a month today, according to state jail commission figures. In October, those records show releases surged to over 17,400.
Jailers are struggling to decide whom to let go.
Monterey County simply reduces everyone’s sentence by five days. Jailers call it the “five-day kick.”
Fresno County uses a ranking system that considers the type of crime, the sentence and other factors. Each day, the first to be released are those at Level 1: unconvicted individuals accused of misdemeanors. Several times a month, the jail releases those at the top of the scale, Level 11: sentenced felons.
Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Gonzales said the jail he manages hits its maximum capacity two or three times a week. When that happens, inmates must go, 20 to 30 at a time. Parolees and those who have served the most time on their sentences leave first. Those who have committed violent crimes or molested a child stay the full term. The county is experimenting with a risk-assessment system that tries to gauge the likelihood an offender will commit future crimes.
Gonzales does not pretend the decisions are foolproof. “Every release is a bad release,” he said. What happens after “is a crap shoot.”
In counties with crowded jails, the releases have lowered the penalties for a host of misdemeanors, such as drunk driving, parole violation and spousal abuse.
In Fresno County, misdemeanor offenders were sentenced to an average of three months in jail but served 19 days, according to an analysis of jail logs. Drunk drivers got an average of 60 days but served 16.
In Los Angeles County, those convicted of child endangerment had sentences averaging six months but served 74 days.
Contra Costa County went decades without releasing a single inmate early, but had to start doing so in 2013. “We still have capacity for misdemeanors, DUI,” said Undersheriff Mike Casten, but minor “drug possession? Not in jail.”
Law enforcement authorities and other officials say that releasing prisoners has raised safety issues, although there have been no studies on the effect.
At a shelter for battered women in Stanislaus County, where the jail releases more than 500 inmates early each month, caseworkers are convinced that decreasing sentences has emboldened abusers.
“They say, ‘Go ahead and call the police, because nothing is going to happen to me anyway,’ ” said Belinda Rolicheck, director of the Haven Women’s Center.
Jail records show the average sentence in Los Angeles County for disobeying a restraining order was 108 days, but violators were free in 28.
Last month in Fresno County, a domestic batterer was returned to jail on a one-year sentence for a probation violation after ignoring court orders to stay away from his partner. He was freed in nine days.
Time served varies considerably around the state — a situation that UC Berkeley law professor Barry Krisberg called “justice by geography.”
That is especially true for parole violators, who used to serve their time in state prison. Now they are locked up in jails and are frequently the first to be released, or not booked at all.
State logs obtained under California’s public records law show the time served for parolees jailed for spousal abuse ranged from 80 days in Placer County to 17 in San Joaquin and seven in Shasta.
Krisberg said stopping the early releases would require a fundamental change in California’s criminal justice system. Just “shifting the location of incarceration” from prisons to jails doesn’t change much, he said.
The Little Hoover Commission, an independent state policy agency that released a report last year that was critical of early releases, has recommended that California reform its complex sentencing laws, which have overwhelmed prisons with long-term inmates.
The commission has also recommended reducing bail so more inmates can afford to leave. State records show nearly two-thirds of the space in county jails is occupied by suspects awaiting trial.
But even political supporters of such reforms say the issue is an electoral land mine likely to stir campaign accusations of being soft on crime.
Sheriffs have launched their own silent reform by letting out prisoners when there is no room.
“We actually have a de facto sentencing commission in our sheriffs,” said Carole D’Elia, acting executive director of the Little Hoover Commission. “You have a crazy system of ‘Is the jail full today?’ “
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Richard A. Vlavianos said that allowing jailers to override judges “does nothing but undercut integrity.… It loses public confidence. You lose integrity with the defendants.”
“All the way around, it is a bad thing,” he said.
All the way back in 2008 when I first began blogging as I saw the true evil and true danger of liberalism I provided an example of what we’re seeing documented in this Los Angeles Times story of what would happen as liberalism corrupted the police departments and law enforcement tactics and the criminal justice system in general:
A family is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by a gang of violent predators. They tie up the father, and then take turns repeatedly raping the wife and daughter until dawn, and then they take all the valuables and leave. The next day, the father hears that the thugs have been captured. He storms into the police station shouting, “Where are they?” And the police say, “We let them go.”
“You let them go? Didn’t you have any evidence?”
“Oh, yes. We confiscated several of the articles that were stolen from your home, and DNA from the men matches the semen found in your wife and daughter.”
“Then why did you let them go?”
“Because we’re a loving police department, that’s why.”
You tell me that isn’t happening now as you re-read the opening words of the LA Times story:
You wicked voters sowed the wind and now increasingly you’re going to reap the whirlwind.
Liberal feminist women can keep declaring they’re opposed to rapes and beatings all they want; but they keep voting for rape and for the rapists who rape and abusers who abuse to be freed over and over and over again.
Nihilistic elf-destruction is the essence of liberalism, just as it is the essence of evil. The fact that everything you people want and everything you people do will ultimately lead to your burning in hell forever is the proof of that.
That’s why liberals keep demanding policies that will ultimately destroy lives as they seek to impose a big government totalitarian system that will result in the coming of the god they truly yearn to worship, a.k.a. the Antichrist.
I tried – in vain, I’m sure – to explain this to a liberal in my comments (see here as an example) from this article that the founding fathers predicted that his precious antichrist “separation of church and state” (i.e. the separation of God from America) would lead to America’s destruction as bad people overwhelmed the system and seized control of a country that would no longer be good as it kicked out God.
Liberals have booted God out of America. And hell has moved into our house to take the place He used to have.
As I pointed out a couple of days ago regarding the trumped-up race-bating vicious destruction going on in Ferguson, Missouri, it is LIBERALS who are violently rioting. Just like it is ALWAYS liberals who are violently rioting because the real essence of liberalism is ugly fascism.
And of course the liberal, secular humanist media that favors everything godawful is writing feverishly to foment as much fury in the shooting in Ferguson while steadfastly refusing to report on the fact that violent black-on-black gun crime has skyrocketed BECAUSE a liberal refused to implement the successful conservative stop and frisk policing technique that WORKED in reducing violent crime. Nor do they seem to have the stomach to report on the massive systemic black-on-black gun crime in liberal thug Democrat bastion Chicago that are rampant AS WE SPEAK.
We were told that the shooting victim in Ferguson was a victim of racism. Seriously, other than the fact that the police officer was white, what evidence do we have to believe that? If a black police officer shoots a white perp, are white people entitled to erupt in racist rage knowing for certain without any other evidence beyond the officer’s color that he killed that poor, innocent white boy entirely because of his race? You ought to have an inkling just how EVIL liberals are for that kind of thinking. But that’s exactly how they think all the damn time. We were told that Michael Brown was shot in the back. That’s what the witnesses the breathless leftist media kept interviewing. False, we now know. He was shot in the front. That’s a rather huge difference, isn’t it? We were told that Michael Brown was an innocent angel and shown pictures from five years ago just like what they did with a punk we later learned was a brutal thug by the name of Trayvon Martin. False. He was a 6’4″, 290-lb thug who physically assaulted a store owner during the commission of a strong arm robbery that took place just before the shooting.
In other words, everything the media told us up to this point was a lie.
We now have the report of what almost certainly took place. The thug had his hands up in feigned surrender, but bum-rushed the officer who was forced to shoot and keep shooting as the thug kept running at him.
But thug liberal vicious, violent fascists riot in Ferguson and that’s the story. No matter how false the story is. And the fact that their story is pure bunk has nothing to do with anything; because to be a “liberal” is to be a LIAR.
Every time a new piece of evidence or information comes out that disconfirms the liberal race-baiting lies, the liberal roach-thugs in Ferguson violent riot. Because liberals are fascists who hate truth. I think of Acts 7:57 when I think of the left in Ferguson. Truth is hate to those who hate the truth. And Jesus may just as well have been thinking of the Democrat Party when He told the first Christians, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first.” Every time an effort is made to provide peace – every crowd control measure, every request for the National Guard to come in – and the liberal-roach thugs violently riot. Because liberals are fascists who despise peace unless it’s the “peace” of militant Islam where they have all the power and get to impose all THEIR laws by brutal force.
And then Obama comes on television and presents a false moral equivalence between the violent fascist mobs who keep rioting and the police who are doing everything they can to somehow keep law and order in a lawless town of leftist mob thugs. Just as Obama’s White House within just the last few days repeatedly presented a false moral equivalence between Israel for trying to protect itself from attack and the terrorist group Hamas that kept attacking Israel.
Obama claims that the black crime rate is the result of poverty and discrimination. Which is a LIE. The black crime rate today is CONSIDERABLY higher than it was in 1960 before the Great Society and the War on Poverty and the Civil Rights era. So my question to you, liberal, is which is it? When were you lying? When you claimed that your Great Society, your War on Poverty, and your Civil Rights was helping rather than hurting, or now in the words of your wicked Fool-in-Chief??? Because either your last forty years was a complete lie or your Obama is a lie. Or they were BOTH lies. Which is correct???
The question comes to this: should the entire modern Democrat Party be impeached, or should Barack Obama be impeached? Because at least ONE of them is viscerally dishonest. And I for one am beyond sick of the lies and the false race-baiting bullcrap that is such a huge part of the Democrat Party’s playbook to divide America along with their gender divide, their wealth divide and their age divide that they’ve also created as partisan political gimmicks.
To be a progressive liberal is to be a demon-possessed moral lunatic who yearns for more baby genocide, more homosexual sodomy, more perversion of marriage and the family, more societal breakdown, and therefore more crime while they race-bait and lie their way to more and more fascist government thuggery as a tool of political vengeance against the opponents of liberalism.
But God knew that this would happen and told us all about it in His Word. Just as He told us that the ultimate hero of liberalism – the Antichrist – was coming to take over the control of government and “fundamentally transform” it into the godlike state that the Democrat Party has been dreaming about since the mid-1960s.
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Alanazi, Ibrahim and Grant, M. Helen and Watson, David and Henderson, Catherine (2016) Comparison of the metabolism of mephedrone in cultured and in freshly isolated primary rat hepatocytes. Applied in Vitro Toxicology, 2 (4). p. 241. ISSN 2332-1539
Khreit, Osama IG and Grant, Helen M and Henderson, Catherine and Watson, David G and Sutcliffe, Oliver B (2016) Identification of novel metabolic pathways of sitagliptin (STG) by LC/MS and LC/MS2 after incubations with rat hepatcoytes. Drug Metabolism and Disposition, 7 (4). 1000220. ISSN 1521-009X
Woods, N. and Niwasabutra, K. and Acevedo, R. and Igoli, John and Altwaijry, N.A. and Tusiimire, J. and Gray, A.I. and Watson, D.G. and Ferro, V.A. (2016) Natural vaccine adjuvants and immunopotentiators derived from plants, fungi, marine organisms, and insects. In: Immunopotentiators in Modern Vaccines. Academic Press, London, pp. 211-230. ISBN 9780128040195
Zhang, Tong and Watson, David G. and Zhang, Rong and Hou, Rong and Loeffler, I. Kati and Kennedy, Malcolm W. (2016) Changeover from signalling to energy-provisioning lipids during transition from colostrum to mature milk in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Scientific Reports, 6. pp. 1-10. 36141. ISSN 2045-2322
Alonezi, Sanad and Tusiimire, Jonans and Wallace, Jennifer and Dufton, Mark J. and Parkinson, John A. and Young, Louise C. and Clements, Carol J. and Park, Jin Kyu and Jeon, Jong Woon and Ferro, Valerie A. and Watson, David G. (2016) Metabolomic profiling of the effects of melittin on cisplatin resistant and cisplatin sensitive ovarian cancer cells using mass spectrometry and biolog microarray technology. Metabolites, 6 (4). ISSN 2218-1989
MacRitchie, Neil and Volpert, Giora and Al Washih, Mohammed and Watson, David G. and Futerman, Anthony H. and Kennedy, Simon and Pyne, Susan and Pyne, Nigel (2016) Effect of the sphingosine kinase 1 selective inhibitor, PF-543 on arterial and cardiac remodeling in a hypoxic model of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Cellular Signalling, 28 (8). pp. 946-955. ISSN 1873-3913
do Nascimento, Ticiano Gomes and da Silva, Priscilla Fonseca and Azevedo, Lais Farias and da Rocha, Louisianny Guerra and de Moraes Porto, Isabel Cristina Celerino and Lima e Moura, Túlio Flávio Accioly and Basílio-Júnior, Irinaldo Diniz and Grillo, Luciano Aparecido Meireles and Dornelas, Camila Braga and Fonseca, Eduardo Jorge da Silva and de Jesus Oliveira, Eduardo and Zhang, Alex Tong and Watson, David G. (2016) Polymeric nanoparticles of Brazilian red propolis extract : preparation, characterization, antioxidant and leishmanicidal activity. Nanoscale Research Letters, 11. 301. ISSN 1931-7573
Scott, Fraser and Khalaf, Abedawn and Suckling, Colin and Carter, Katharine and Grant, Mary and Henderson, Catherine and Westrop, Gareth and Watson, David (2016) An evaluation of minor groove binders as anti-lung cancer therapeutics. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. ISSN 0960-894X (In Press)
Siheri, Weam and Zhang, Tong and Ebiloma, Godwin Unekwuojo and Biddau, Marco and Woods, Nicola and Hussain, Muattaz Yassein and Clements, Carol J. and Fearnley, James and Edrada Ebel, RuAngelie and Paget, Timothy and Müller, Sylke and Carter, Katharine C. and Ferro, Valerie A. and De Koning, Harry P. and Watson, David G. (2016) Chemical and antimicrobial profiling of propolis from different regions within Libya. PLOS One, 11 (5). e0155355. ISSN 1932-6203
Tusiimire, Jonans and Wallace, Jennifer and Woods, Nicola and Dufton, Mark J. and Parkinson, John A. and Abbott, Grainne and Clements, Carol J. and Young, Louise and Park, Jin Kyu and Jeon, Jong Woon and Ferro, Valerie A. and Watson, David G. (2016) Effect of bee venom and its fractions on the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines in PMA-differentiated U937 cells co-stimulated with LPS. Vaccines, 4 (2). 11. ISSN 2076-393X
Paladino, Eleonora and Watson, David G. and Passarelli, Melissa K. and Lamprou, Dimitrios A. (2016) Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) in pharmaceutical sciences. In: 2016 UKICRS Workshop & Symposium, 2016-04-21 - 2016-04-22, Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. (Unpublished)
Omar, Ruwida M K and Igoli, John and Gray, Alexander I and Ebiloma, Godwin Unekwuojo and Clements, Carol and Fearnley, James and Edrada Ebel, Ru Angeli and Zhang, Tong and De Koning, Harry P and Watson, David G (2016) Chemical characterisation of Nigerian red propolis and its biological activity against Trypanosoma Brucei. Phytochemical Analysis, 27 (2). 107–115. ISSN 0958-0344
Zhang, Rong and Zhang, Tong and Ali, Ali Muhsen and Al Washih, Mohammed and Pickard, Benjamin and Watson, David G. (2016) Metabolomic Profiling of Post-Mortem Brain Reveals Changes in Amino Acid and Glucose Metabolism in Mental Illness Compared with Controls. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 14. pp. 106-116. ISSN 2001-0370
Ali, Ali Muhsen and Burleigh, Mia and Daskalaki, Evangelia and Zhang, Tong and Easton, Chris and Watson, David G. (2016) Metabolomic profiling of submaximal exercise at a standardised relative intensity in healthy adults. Metabolites. ISSN 2218-1989
Zhang, Tong and Zhang, Rong and Zhang, Liang and Zhang, Zhihe and Hou, Rong and Wang, Hairui and Loeffler, I. Kati and Watson, David G. and Kennedy, Malcolm W. (2015) Changes in the milk metabolome of the giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) with time after birth - three phases in early lactation and progressive individual differences. PLOS One, 10 (12). e0143417. ISSN 1932-6203
Griffiths, Kate and Hou, Rong and Wang, Hairui and Zhang, Zhihe and Zhang, Liang and Zhang, Tong and Watson, David G. and Burchmore, Richard J. S. and Loeffler, I. Kati and Kennedy, Malcolm W. (2015) Prolonged transition time between colostrum and mature milk in a bear, the giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Royal Society Open Science, 2 (10). p. 150395. ISSN 2054-5703
Zaid, Abdel Naser and Abualhasan, Murad N and Watson, David G and Mousa, Ayman and Ghazal, Nadia and Bustami, Rana (2015) Investigation of the bioequivalence of montelukast chewable tablets after a single oral administration using a validated LC-MS/MS method. Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 9. pp. 5315-5321. ISSN 1177-8881
Westrop, Gareth D and Williams, Roderick A M and Wang, Lijie and Zhang, Tong and Watson, David G and Silva, Ana Marta and Coombs, Graham H (2015) Metabolomic analyses of Leishmania reveal multiple species differences and large differences in amino acid metabolism. PLOS One, 10 (9). e0136891. ISSN 1932-6203
MacAskill, Mark G. and Watson, David G. and Ewart, Marie-Ann and Wadsworth, Roger and Jackson, Andrew and Aitken, Emma and MacKenzie, Graeme and Kingsmore, David and Currie, Susan and Coats, Paul (2015) Improving arteriovenous fistula patency : transdermal delivery of diclofenac reduces cannulation-dependent neointimal hyperplasia via AMPK activation. Vascular pharmacology, 71. pp. 108-115. ISSN 1879-3649
Gill, A. M. and Scott, N. B. and Abbas, M. and Watson, D. G. and Place, K. and McDonald, David (2015) Ropivacaine plasma levels following high-dose local infiltration analgesia for total knee arthroplasty. Anaesthesia, 70 (7). pp. 784-790. ISSN 0003-2409
Omar, Khaled M. K. and Grant, Mary and Henderson, Catherine and Watson, David (2015) LC-MS analysis of the metabolism of the dietary constituent hesperidin by rat hepatocytes. In: 13th European ISSX meeting, 2015-06-22 - 2015-06-25, TIC Building, Strathclyde University.
Alwashih, Mohammad and Watson, David and Grant, Mary and Henderson, Catherine (2015) Metabolomics as a tool to investigate mephadrone as a drug of abuse in rat hepatocytes. In: 13th European ISSX meeting, 2015-06-22 - 2015-06-25, TIC Building, Strathclyde University.
Creek, Darren J. and Mazet, Muriel and Achcar, Fiona and Anderson, Jana and Kim, Dong Hyun and Kamour, Ruwida and Morand, Pauline and Millerioux, Yoann and Biran, Marc and Kerkhoven, Eduard J. and Chokkathukalam, Achuthanunni and Weidt, Stefan K. and Burgess, Karl E. V. and Breitling, Rainer and Watson, David G. and Bringaud, Frédéric and Barrett, Michael P. (2015) Probing the metabolic network in bloodstream-form Trypanosoma brucei using untargeted metabolomics with stable isotope labelled glucose. PLOS Pathogens, 11 (3). e1004689. ISSN 1553-7366
Daskalaki, Evangelia and Blackburn, Gavin and Kalna, Gabriela and Zhang, Tong and Anthony, Nahoum and Watson, David G. (2015) A study of the effects of exercise on the urinary metabolome using normalisation to individual metabolic output. Metabolites, 5 (1). pp. 119-139. ISSN 2218-1989
Kamleh, Muhammad Anas and Snowden, Stuart G. and Grapov, Dmitry and Blackburn, Gavin J. and Watson, David G. and Xu, Ning and Ståhle, Mona and Wheelock, Craig E. (2015) LC-MS metabolomics of psoriasis patients reveals disease severity-dependent increases in circulating amino acids that are ameliorated by anti-TNFα treatment. Journal of Proteome Research, 14 (1). pp. 557-566. ISSN 1535-3907
Omar, Khaled and Grant, M. Helen and Henderson, Catherine and Watson, David George (2014) The complex degradation and metabolism of quercetin in rat hepatocyte incubations. Xenobiotica, 44 (12). pp. 1074-1082. ISSN 0049-8254
Siheri, Weam and Igoli, John O. and Gray, Alexander I. and Nasciemento, Ticiano G. and Zhang, Tong and Fearnley, James and Clements, Carol J. and Carter, Katharine C. and Carruthers, John and Edrada-Ebel, RuAngelie and Watson, David G. (2014) The isolation of antiprotozoal compounds from Libyan propolis. Phytotherapy Research, 28 (12). 1756–1760. ISSN 0951-418X
Kardar, M. N. and Zhang, T. and Coxon, G. D. and Watson, D. G. and Fearnley, J. and Seidel, V. (2014) Characterisation of triterpenes and new phenolic lipids in Cameroonian propolis. Phytochemistry, 106. pp. 156-163. ISSN 0031-9422
Zhang, Rong and Watson, David G. and Wang, Lijie and Westrop, Gareth D. and Coombs, Graham H. and Zhang, Tong (2014) Evaluation of mobile phase characteristics on three zwitterionic columns in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography mode for liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry based untargeted metabolite profiling of Leishmania parasites. Journal of Chromatography A, 1362. 168–179. ISSN 0021-9673
Omar, Khaled and Grant, M. Helen and Henderson, Catherine and Watson, David G (2014) The abundant dietary constituent ferulic acid forms a wide range of metabolites including a glutathione adduct when incubated with rat hepatocytes. Xenobiotica, 44 (5). pp. 432-437.
Zhang, Tong and Omar, Ruwida and Siheri, Weam and Al Mutairi, Sultan and Clements, Carol and Fearnley, James and Edrada-Ebel, Ruangelie and Watson, David (2014) Chromatographic analysis with different detectors in the chemical characterisation and dereplication of African propolis. Talanta, 120. pp. 181-190. ISSN 0039-9140
Storm, Janet and Sethia, Sonal and Blackburn, Gavin and Chokkathukalam, A and Watson, David and Breitling, R. and Coombs, Graham and Muller, S. (2014) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase identified as a key enzyme in erythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum carbon metabolism. PLOS Pathogens, 10 (1). pp. 1-14. e1003876. ISSN 1553-7366
Daskalaki, Evangelia and Easton, Chris and Watson, David G. (2014) The application of metabolomic profiling to the effects of physical activity. Current Metabolomics, 2 (4). pp. 233-263. ISSN 2213-2368
Abbas, M. and Ahmad, L. and Shah, Y. and Gill, M. and Watson, D.G. (2013) Development of a method to measure free and bound ropivacaine in human plasma using equilibrium dialysis and Hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry. Talanta, 117. pp. 60-63. ISSN 0039-9140
Chintapalli, Venkateswara R and Al Bratty, Mohammed and Korzekwa, Dominika and Watson, David G and Dow, Julian A T (2013) Mapping an atlas of tissue-specific Drosophila melanogaster metabolomes by high resolution mass spectrometry. PLOS One, 8 (10). e78066.
Zhang, Tong and Watson, David G and Wang, Lijie and Abbas, Muhammad and Murdoch, Laura and Bashford, Lisa and Ahmad, Imran and Lam, Nga-Yee and Ng, Anthony C F and Leung, Hing Y (2013) Application of holistic liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry based urinary metabolomics for prostate cancer detection and biomarker discovery. PLoS ONE, 8 (6). e65880.
Abualhasan, M.N. and Batrawi, N. and Zaid, A.N. and Watson, D.G. (2013) A validated and stability indicating HPLC method for analysis of diminazene aceturate and antipyrine combination in a ready injectable solution. Drug Research, 63 (6). pp. 300-304. ISSN 2194-9379
Watson, David G and Tonelli, Francesca and Al Osaimi, Manal and Williamson, Leon and Chan, Edmond and Gorshkova, Irina and Berdyshev, Evgeny and Bittman, Robert and Pyne, Nigel J and Pyne, Susan (2013) The roles of sphingosine kinases 1 and 2 in regulating the Warburg effect in prostate cancer cells. Cellular Signalling, 25 (4). pp. 1011-1017. ISSN 1873-3913
Tonelli, F. and Alossaimi, M. and Williamson, L. and Tate, R.J. and Watson, D.G. and Chan, E. and Bittman, R. and Pyne, N.J. and Pyne, S. (2013) The sphingosine kinase inhibitor 2-(p-hyroxyanilino)-4-(p-chlorophenyl)thiazole reduces androgen receptor expression via an oxidative stress-dependent mechanism. British Journal of Pharmacology, 168 (6). pp. 1497-1505. ISSN 1476-5381
Watson, David G (2013) A rough guide to metabolite identification using high resolution liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in metabolomic profiling in metazoans. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 4 (5). e201301005. ISSN 2001-0370
Khreit, Osama Idris Gibreel and Grant, Mary and Zhang, Tong and Henderson, Catherine and Watson, David and Sutcliffe, Oliver Brook (2013) Elucidation of the phase I and phase II metabolic pathways of (+/-)-4'-nethylmethcathinone (4-MMC) and (+/-)-4'-(trifluoromethyl)methcathinone (4-TFMMC) in rat liver hepatocytes using LC-MS and LC-MS2. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 72. pp. 177-185. ISSN 0731-7085
Alzweiri, Muhammed and Watson, David G. and Parkinson, John A. (2013) Metabonomics as a clinical tool of analysis : LC-MS approaches. Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, 36 (1). pp. 94-115.
Zheng, Liang and Mackenzie, Elaine D and Karim, Saadia A and Hedley, Ann and Blyth, Karen and Kalna, Gabriela and Watson, David G and Szlosarek, Peter and Frezza, Christian and Gottlieb, Eyal (2013) Reversed argininosuccinate lyase activity in fumarate hydratase-deficient cancer cells. Cancer and Metabolism, 1 (1). 12. ISSN 2049-3002
Tonelli, Francesca and Alossaimi, Manal and Natarajan, Viswanathan and Gorshkova, Irina and Berdyshev, Evgeny and Bittman, Robert and Watson, David G and Pyne, Susan and Pyne, Nigel J (2013) The roles of sphingosine kinase 1 and 2 in regulating the metabolome and survival of prostate cancer cells. Biomolecules, 3 (2). pp. 316-333. ISSN 2218-273X
Bawazeer, Saud and Sutcliffe, Oliver B and Euerby, Melvin R and Bawazeer, Sami and Watson, David G (2012) A comparison of the chromatographic properties of silica gel and silicon hydride modified silica gels. Journal of Chromatography A, 1263. pp. 61-67.
Knottenbelt, C. M. and Bawazeer, S. and Hammond, J. and Mellor, D. and Watson, D. G. (2012) Nicotine hair concentrations in dogs exposed to environmental tobacco smoke : a pilot study. Journal of Small Animal Practice, 53 (11). pp. 623-626. ISSN 0022-4510
Peretz, Hava and Watson, David G. and Blackburn, Gavin and Zhang, Tong and Lagziel, Ayala and Shtauber-Naamati, Meirav and Morad, Tova and Keren-Tardai, Elena and Greenshpun, Victoria and Usher, Sali and Shalev, Hanna and Landau, Daniel and Levartovsky, David (2012) Urine metabolomics reveals novel physiologic functions of human aldehyde oxidase and provides biomarkers for typing xanthinuria. Metabolomics, 8 (5). pp. 951-959. ISSN 1573-3882
Watson, David (2012) Pharmaceutical Analysis. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 9780702046216
Chintapalli, Venkateswara R and Terhzaz, Selim and Wang, Jing and Al Bratty, Mohammed and Watson, David G and Herzyk, Pawel and Davies, Shireen A and Dow, Julian A T (2012) Functional correlates of positional and gender-specific renal asymmetry in Drosophila. PLOS One, 7 (4). e32577.
Zhang, Tong and Creek, Darren J. and Barrett, Michael P. and Blackburn, Gavin and Watson, David G. (2012) Evaluation of coupling reversed phase, aqueous normal phase, and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with orbitrap mass spectrometry for metabolomic studies of human urine. Analytical Chemistry, 84 (4). pp. 1994-2001. ISSN 0003-2700
Scullion, Paul and Edwards, Darren and McKinnon, Heather and Miller, Stewart and Watson, David and MacIntyre, Lynsey (2012) Analysis of changes in triacylglycerol ratios in mouse liver and plasma in response to a liver X receptor agonist. Metabolomics, 8 (1). pp. 74-85. ISSN 1573-3882
Al-Tannak, N. F. and Cable, C. G. and McArthur, D. A. and Watson, D. G. (2012) A stability indicating assay for a combination of morphine sulphate with levomepromazine hydrochloride used in palliative care. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 37 (1). pp. 71-73. ISSN 0269-4727
Bratty, Mohammed Al and Chintapalli, Venkateswara R and Dow, Julian A T and Zhang, Tong and Watson, David G (2012) Metabolomic profiling reveals that Drosophila melanogaster larvae with the y mutation have altered lysine metabolism. FEBS Open Bio, 2. pp. 217-221.
Payne, Christopher J and Thomson, Alison H and Stearns, Adam T and Watson, David G and Zhang, Tong and Kingsmore, David B and Byrne, Dominique S and Binning, Alexander S (2011) Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of vancomycin continuous infusion as prophylaxis for vascular surgery. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 66 (11). pp. 2624-2627.
Frezza, Christian and Zheng, Liang and Folger, Ori and Rajagopalan, Kartik N and MacKenzie, Elaine D and Jerby, Livnat and Micaroni, Massimo and Chaneton, Barbara and Adam, Julie and Hedley, Ann and Kalna, Gabriela and Tomlinson, Ian P M and Pollard, Patrick J and Watson, Dave G and Deberardinis, Ralph J and Shlomi, Tomer and Ruppin, Eytan and Gottlieb, Eyal (2011) Haem oxygenase is synthetically lethal with the tumour suppressor fumarate hydratase. Nature, 477 (7363). 225–228.
Frezza, Christian and Zheng, Liang and Tennant, Daniel A. and Papkovsky, Dmitri B and Hedley, Barbara A and Kalna, Gabriela and Watson, David and Gottlieb, Eyal (2011) Metabolic profiling of hypoxic cells revealed a catabolic signature required for cell survival. PLoS One, 6 (9). e24411.
Xiao, Xiaolin and Dawson, Neil and MacIntyre, Lynsey and Morris, Brian J. and Pratt, Judith A. and Watson, David G. and Higham, Desmond J (2011) Exploring metabolic pathway disruption in the subchronic phencyclidine model of schizophrenia with the generalized singular value decomposition. BMC Systems Biology, 5. 72. ISSN 1752-0509
Khan, Abad and Khan, Muhammad I. and Iqbal, Zafar and Shah, Yasar and Ahmad, Lateef and Nazir, Shabnam and Watson, David G. and Khan, Jamshaid Ali and Nasir, Fazli and Khan, Abbas and Ismail, A.F. (2011) A new HPLC method for the simultaneous determination of ascorbic acid and aminothiols in human plasma and erythrocytes using electrochemical detection. Talanta, 84 (3). pp. 789-801. ISSN 0039-9140
t'Kindt, Ruben and Jankevics, Andris and Scheltema, Richard A. and Zheng, Liang and Watson, David G. and Dujardin, Jean-Claude and Breitling, Rainer and Coombs, Graham H. and Decuypere, Saskia (2011) Towards an unbiased metabolic profiling of protozoan parasites: optimisation of a Leishmania sampling protocol for HILIC-orbitrap analysis (vol 398, pg 2059, 2010). Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 400 (2). p. 635. ISSN 1618-2642
Sha, L. and Macintyre, L. and Machell, J.A. and Kelly, M.P. and Porteous, D.J. and Brandon, N.J. and Muir, W.J. and Blackwood, D.H. and Watson, D.G. and Clapcote, S.J. and Pickard, B.S. (2011) Transcriptional regulation of neurodevelopmental and metabolic pathways by NPAS3. Molecular Psychiatry, 17 (3). pp. 267-279.
Mullen, Alexander and Watson, David (2011) Antifungal chemotherapy. In: Pharmaceutical chemistry. Churchill Livingstone, pp. 495-510. ISBN 9780443072321
Iqbal, Zafar and Elliott, Moira and Watson, David and Holyoake, Tessa and Jørgensen, Heather (2011) Analysis of imatinib in bone marrow and plasma samples of chronic myeloid leukaemia patients using solid phase extraction LC-ESI-MS. Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 24 (3). pp. 285-291. ISSN 1011-601X
MacIntyre, L. and Zheng, L. A. and Scullion, P. and Keating, P. and Watson, D. G. (2011) Metabolomic profiling of biomarkers of liver X receptor-induced toxicity in mouse liver tissue. Metabolomics, 7 (1). pp. 54-70. ISSN 1573-3882
Alzweiri, Muhammed and Parkinson, John and Watson, David and Steer, Steven (2011) Microscopic trends in methanol/water and acetonitrile/water systems. Jordan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4 (1). pp. 20-28.
Al-Tannak, Naser F and Bawazeer, Saud and Siddiqui, Tahir H and Watson, David G (2011) The hydrophilic interaction like properties of some reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography columns in the analysis of basic compounds. Journal of Chromatography A, 1218 (11). pp. 1486-91.
Vincent, Isabel M and Creek, Darren and Watson, David G and Kamleh, Mohammed A and Woods, Debra J and Wong, Pui Ee and Burchmore, Richard J S and Barrett, Michael P (2010) A molecular mechanism for eflornithine resistance in African trypanosomes. PLOS Pathogens, 6 (11). e1001204.
t'Kindt, Ruben and Scheltema, Richard A and Jankevics, Andris and Brunker, Kirstyn and Rijal, Suman and Dujardin, Jean-Claude and Breitling, Rainer and Watson, David G and Coombs, Graham H and Decuypere, Saskia (2010) Metabolomics to unveil and understand phenotypic diversity between pathogen populations. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4 (11). e904. ISSN 1935-2727
Raghukumar, Raghavendra and Vali, Leila and Watson, Dave and Fearnley, James and Seidel, Véronique (2010) Anti-methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) activity of 'Pacific propolis' and isolated prenylflavanones. Phytotherapy Research, 24 (8). pp. 1181-1187. ISSN 0951-418X
Watson, D G (2010) The potential of mass spectrometry for the global profiling of parasite metabolomes. Parasitology, 137 (9). pp. 1409-1423.
Zheng, Liang and T'Kind, Ruben and Decuypere, Saskia and von Freyend, Simona John and Coombs, Graham H. and Watson, David G. (2010) Profiling of lipids in Leishmania donovani using hydrophilic interaction chromatography in combination with Fourier transform mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24 (14). pp. 2074-2082. ISSN 0951-4198
Jourdan, Fabien and Cottret, Ludovic and Huc, Laurence and Wildridge, David and Scheltema, Richard and Hillenweck, Anne and Barrett, Michael P and Zalko, Daniel and Watson, David G and Debrauwer, Laurent (2010) Use of reconstituted metabolic networks to assist in metabolomic data visualization and mining. Metabolomics, 6 (2). pp. 312-321.
Goodwin, R J and Macintyre, L and Watson, D G and Scullion, S P and Pitt, A R (2010) A solvent-free matrix application method for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging of small molecules. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24 (11). pp. 1682-1686.
Goodwin, R J A and Scullion, P and Macintyre, L and Watson, D G and Pitt, A R (2010) Use of a solvent-free dry matrix coating for quantitative matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization imaging of 4-bromophenyl-1,4-diazabicyclo(3.2.2)nonane-4-carboxylate in rat brain and quantitative analysis of the drug from laser microdissected tissue regions. Analytical Chemistry, 82 (9). pp. 3868-3873.
Sills, G. and Alzweiri, M. and Leach, J. and Brodie, M. and Robertson, C. and Watson, D.G. and Parkinson, J.A. (2010) Response to drug treatment in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a pilot study of 1H NMR- and MS-based metabonomic analysis. Epilepsy Research, 88 (2-3). pp. 189-195. ISSN 0920-1211
Scheltema, R. A. and Decuypere, S. and Dujardin, J. C. and Watson, D. G. and Jansen, R. C. and Breitling, R. (2009) Simple data-reduction method for high-resolution LC-MS data in metabolomics. Bioanalysis, 1 (9). pp. 1551-1557. ISSN 1757-6180
Markopoulou, Catherine and Tweedle, Tracey and Watson, D.G. and Skellern, G.G. and Reda, Houssam and Petersson, Patrik and Bradstock, Hannah and Euerby, Melvin R. (2009) A study of the relative importance of lipophilic, π-π and dipole-dipole interactions on cyanopropyl, phenyl and alkyl LC phases bonded onto the same base silica. Chromatographia, 70 (5-6). pp. 705-715. ISSN 0009-5893
Hobani, Y.H. and Kamleh, A. and Watson, D.G. and Dow, J.A.T. (2009) Taking a rosy look at the drosophila metabolome by mass spectrometry. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 153A (2). S83-S83. ISSN 1095-6433
Zheng, L. and Watson, D.G. and Johnston, B.F. and Clark, Rachael L. and Edrada-Ebel, Ruangelie and Elseheri, W. (2009) A chemometric study of chromatograms of tea extracts by correlation optimization warping in conjunction with PCA, support vector machines and random forest data modeling. Analytica Chimica Acta, 624 (1-2). pp. 257-265. ISSN 0003-2670
Awan, M.A. and Agarwal, P.K. and Watson, D.G. and McGhee, Charles N.J. and Dutton, G.N. (2009) Penetration of topical and subconjunctival corticosteroids into human aqueous humour and its therapeutic significance. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 93 (6). pp. 708-713. ISSN 0007-1161
Pournamdari, M. and Saadi, Ahmed and Ellis, E. and Andrew, Ruth and Walker, Brian and Watson, D.G. (2009) Development of a derivatisation method for the analysis of aldehyde modified amino acid residues in proteins by Fourier transform mass spectrometry. Analytica Chimica Acta, 633 (2). pp. 216-222. ISSN 0003-2670
Shah, K. and Watson, D.G. and Campbell, C. and Meek, R.M.D. (2009) Intra-articular injection composed of steroid, iohexol and local anaesthetic - is it stable? British Journal of Radiology, 82 (974). pp. 109-111. ISSN 0007-1285
Kamleh, M.A. and Dow, J.A.T. and Watson, D.G. (2009) Applications of mass spectrometry in metabolomic studies of animal model and invertebrate systems. Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics, 8 (1). pp. 28-48. ISSN 1473-9550
Zheng, L. and Watson, D.G. and Tettey, J.N.A. and Clements, C.A. (2008) The determination of iron as its EDTA complex in Helix aspera by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled to Fourier transform electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. Talanta, 76 (5). pp. 1165-1169. ISSN 0039-9140
Alzweiri, Muhammed and Watson, David G. and Robertson, Chris and Sills, Graeme J. and Parkinson, John A. (2008) Comparison of different water-miscible solvents for the preparation of plasma and urine samples in metabolic profiling studies. Talanta, 74 (4). pp. 1060-1065. ISSN 0039-9140
Labyad, N.S. and Watson, D.G. and Pournamdari, M. and Cable, C.G. and Stanley, E. (2008) Evaluation of the stability of morphine sulphate in combination with Instillagel. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 33 (3). pp. 263-271. ISSN 0269-4727
Wei, L.Q. and Watson, D.G. and Fearnley, J. (2008) Analysis of sugars in bee pollen and propolis by ligand exchange chromatography in combination with pulsed amperometric detection and mass spectrometry. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 21 (1). pp. 78-83. ISSN 0889-1575
Mohanty, S. and Hollinshead, J. and Jones, L. and Jones, P.W. and Thomas, D. and Watson, A.A. and Watson, D.G. and Gray, A.I. (2008) Annona muricata (graviola): toxic or therapeutic. Natural Product Communications, 3 (1). pp. 31-33.
Seidel, Veronique and Peyfoon, Elham and Watson, David G. and Fearnley, James (2008) Comparative study of the antibacterial activity of propolis from different geographical and climatic zones. Phytotherapy Research, 22 (9). pp. 1256-1263. ISSN 0951-418X
Zhang, T. and Watson, D.G. and Lu, D. and Carr, D. and Trager, L. (2008) Determination of cross-linking residues in a pharmaceutical polymer by liquid chromatography-high resolution full scan mass spectrometry. Talanta, 76 (3). pp. 509-512. ISSN 0039-9140
Kamleh, M.A. and Barrett, M.P. and Wildridge, D. and Burchmore, R.J.S. and Scheltema, R.A. and Watson, D.G. (2008) Metabolomic profiling using Orbitrap Fourier transform mass spectrometry with hydrophilic interaction chromatography : a method with wide applicability to analysis of biomolecules. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22 (12). pp. 1912-1918. ISSN 0951-4198
Zhang, Tong and Khadra, Ibrahim and Euerby, Melvin R. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, David G. and Tettey, J.N.A. (2008) Simultaneous analysis of basic, acidic and neutral compounds on an endcapped octadecylsilane silica-based monolith by pressure-assisted capillary electrochromatography. Electrophoresis, 29 (4). pp. 944-951. ISSN 0173-0835
Lyon, R.C. and Johnston, S.M. and Watson, D.G. and McGarvie, G. and Ellis, E.M. (2007) Synthesis and catabolism of gamma-hydroxybutyrate in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 (36). pp. 25986-25992. ISSN 1083-351X
MacKenzie, E.D. and Selak, M.A. and Tennant, D.A. and Payne, L.J. and Crosby, S. and Frederiksen, C.M. and Watson, D.G. and Gottlieb, E. (2007) Cell-permeating alpha-ketoglutarate derivatives alleviate pseudohypoxia in succinate dehydrogenase-deficient cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 27 (9). pp. 3282-3289. ISSN 0270-7306
Ghimire, M. and McInnes, F.J. and Watson, D.G. and Mullen, A. and Stevens, H. (2007) In-vitro / in-vivo correlation of pulsatile drug release from press coated tablet formulations: a pharmacoscintigraphic study in the beagle dog. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 67 (2). pp. 515-523. ISSN 0939-6411
Watson, D.G. and Husain, S. and Brennan, S. and Baird, J. and Finlayson, D. (2007) The chemical stability of admixtures of injectable corticosteroid and local anaesthetics. CME Orthopaedics, 4 (3). pp. 81-83. ISSN 1367-8957
Boibessot, I. and Tettey, J.N.A. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2006) The metabolism of isometamidium in hepatocytes from control and inducer treated rats. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 29 (6). pp. 547-553. ISSN 0140-7783
Watson, D. G. and Peyfoon, E. and Zheng, L. and Lu, D. and Seidel, V. and Johnston, B. and Parkinson, J. A. and Fearnley, J. (2006) Application of principal components analysis to 1H-NMR data obtained from propolis samples of different geographical origin. Phytochemical Analysis, 17 (5). pp. 323-331. ISSN 0958-0344
Vu Dang, Hoang and Gray, Alexander I. and Watson, David and Bates, Catharine D. and Scholes, Peter and Eccleston, Gillain M. (2006) Composition analysis of two batches of polysorbate 60 using MS and NMR techniques. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 40 (5). pp. 1155-1165. ISSN 0731-7085
Stumpe, M. and Miller, C. and Morton, N.S. and Bell, G. and Watson, D.G. (2006) High-performance liquid chromatography determination of σ1-acid glycoprotein in small volumes of plasma from neonates. Journal of Chromatography B, 831 (1-2). pp. 81-84. ISSN 1570-0232
Short, D.M. and Lyon, R.C. and Watson, D.G. and Barski, O.A. and McGarvie, G. and Ellis, E. (2006) Metabolism of trans, trans-muconaldehyde, a cytotoxic metabolite of benzene, in mouse liver by alcohol dehydrogenase Adh1 and aldehyde reductase AKR1A4. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 210 (1-2). pp. 163-170. ISSN 0041-008X
Adu, J.K. and Lau, S. and Watson, D.G. and Euerby, M.R. and Skellern, G.G. and Tettey, J.N.A. (2005) Capillary electrochromatography of therapeutic peptides on mixed-mode butylmethacrylate monoliths. Electrophoresis, 26 (18). pp. 3445-3451. ISSN 0173-0835
McInnes, F.J. and Thapa, P. and Baillie, A.J. and Welling, P. and Watson, D.G. and Gibson, I. and Nolan, A. and Stevens, H. (2005) In vivo evaluation of nicotine lyophilised nasal insert in sheep. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 304 (1-2). pp. 72-82. ISSN 0378-5173
Selak, M.A. and Armour, S.M. and MacKenzie, E.D. and Boulahbel, H. and Watson, D.G. and Mansfield, K.D. and Pan, Y. and Simon, M.C. and Thompson, C.B. and Gottlieb, E. (2005) Succinate links TCA cycle dysfunction to oncogenesis by inhibiting HIF- prolylhydroxylase. Cancer Cell, 7. pp. 77-85. ISSN 1878-3686
Watson, D.G. (2004) Highly hydrophilic fused aggregates (microsponges) from a C12 spermine bolaamphiphile. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108 (24). pp. 8129-8135. ISSN 1520-6106
Atsriku, C. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. (2004) The effects of inducing agents on the metabolism of pentamidine by isolated rat hepatocytes. Toxicology, 194 (3). pp. 234-235. ISSN 0300-483X
Atsriku, C. and Skellern, G.G. and Grant, M.H. and Watson, D.G. (2003) The effect of inducing agents on the metabolism of trypanocidal diamidines by isolated rat hepatocytes. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 146 (3). pp. 297-305. ISSN 0009-2797
Jairaj, Mark and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M. Helen and Skellern, G.G. (2003) The toxicity of opiates and their metabolites in HepG2 cells. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 146 (2). pp. 121-129. ISSN 0009-2797
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) Metabolic profiling of the antitussive drug pholcodine in rat hepatocytes. In: Gordon Research Conference on Drug Metabolism, 2002-07-14 - 2002-07-19.
Atsriku, C. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) The application of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to in vitro metabolic studies of pentamidine by induced isolated rat hepatocytes. In: 50th Meeting of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2002-06-02 - 2002-06-06.
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) Comparative biotransformation of morphine, codeine and pholcodine in rat hepatocytes: identification of a novel metabolite of pholcodine. Xenobiotica, 32 (12). pp. 979-986. ISSN 0049-8254
Atsriku, C. and Watson, D.G. and Tettey, J.N.A. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) Determination of diminazene aceturate in pharmaceutical formulations by HPLC and identification of related substances by lC/MS. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 30 (4). pp. 979-986. ISSN 0731-7085
Boibessot, I. and Grant, M.H. and Turner, M.C.J. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Goldie, E.I. and Connel, G. and Macintosh, A. (2002) Metabolism and distribution of phenanthridine trypanocides in trypanosome Brucei brucei. Acta Tropica, 84 (3). pp. 219-228. ISSN 0001-706X
Oliveira, E.D.J. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2002) Metabolism of quercetin and kaempferol by rat hepatocytes and identification of flavonoid glycosides in plasma. Xenobiotica, 32 (4). pp. 279-287. ISSN 0049-8254
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) Toxicity of codeine, codeinone and oxycodone in hep g2 cells: identification of a codeinone-glutathione conjugate by lC/+ECI-MS/MS. In: 50th Meeting of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2002-06-02 - 2002-06-06.
Atsriku, C. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2002) The effects of inducing agents on the metabolism of pentamidine in isolated hepatocytes. In: Pfizer Drug Discovery 2002, 1900-01-01.
Atsriku, C. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2002) The effects of inducing agents on the metabolism of trypanocidal diamidines by isolated rat hepatocytes. In: RSC-DMG 2002: New Technologies in Drug Discovery, 2002-12-12 - 2002-12-13.
Atsriku, C. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2001) High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of diminazene aceturate in the presence of its related substances. In: British Pharmaceutical Conference, 2001-09-23 - 2001-09-26.
O'Hare, R. and Muir, A. and Chapman, S. and Watson, D.G. and Hudson, S.A. (2001) Identification of the pharmaceutical care issues of rheumatoid arthritis patients in secondary care. Pharmacy World and Science, 23 (5). pp. 183-184. ISSN 0928-1231
Denk, Oliver M. and Watson, D.G. and Skellern, G.G. (2001) Chiral analysis of methylphenidate and dextromoramide by capillary electrophoresis. Journal of chromatography. B, Biomedical sciences and applications, 761 (1). pp. 61-68. ISSN 1387-2273
Watson, D.G. and Oliveira, E.D.J. and Boyter, A.C. and Dagg, K.D. (2001) A rapid and sensitive method for the determination of the amount of theophylline in blood spots. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 53 (3). pp. 413-416. ISSN 0022-3573
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2001) Identification of metabolites of pholcodine by lC/MS. In: Proceedings of the Spring Symposium of the Chromatographic Society, 1900-01-01.
Boibessot, I. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. (2001) Isometamidium metabolism and distribution in rat hepatocytes. In: 26th Meeting of the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control, 2001-10-01 - 2001-10-05.
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. and Skellern, G.G. (2001) Metabolic profiling of the antitissive pholcodine in rat hepatocytes : identification of a novel metabolite by lC/+ESI- mS. In: 49th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, 2001-05-27 - 2001-05-31.
Atsriku, C. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2001) RP-HPLC determination of dimanazene aceturate in pharmaceutical preparations. In: 26th Meeting of the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control, 2001-10-01 - 2001-10-05.
Jairaj, M. and Skellern, G.G. and Watson, D.G. and Grant, M.H. (2001) Study of the in vitro metabolism of the antitussive pholcodine: metabolic profiling and pharmacokinetics in isolated rat hepatocytes. In: British Pharmaceutical Conference: science proceedings, Glasgow, September 23rd - 26th, 2001. Pharmaceutical Press, GBR. ISBN 9780853695127
Jairaj, M. and Watson, D.G. and Skellern, G.G. and Grant, M.H. (2001) The metabolism of the antitussive pholcodine in isolated rat hepatocytes: identification of a novel metabolite and toxicological implications. Toxicology, 168 (1). pp. 135-136. ISSN 0300-483X
Dufès, Christine and Schätzlein, A.G. and Tetley, L. and Gray, A.I. and Watson, D.G. and Olivier, J.C. and Couet, W. and Uchegbu, I.F. (2000) Niosomes and polymeric chitosan based vesicles bearing transferrin and glucose ligands for drug targeting. Pharmaceutical Research, 17 (10). pp. 1250-1258. ISSN 0724-8741
Carter, S.M.B. and Watson, D.G. and Midgley, J.M. and Logan, R.W. (1996) Synthesis and characterisation of acyl glycines. Their measurement in single blood spots by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to diagnose inborn errors of metabolism. Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Applications, 677 (1). pp. 29-35. ISSN 1572-6495
Carter, S.M.B. and Midgely, J.M. and Watson, D.G. and Logan, R.W. (1991) Measurement of urinary medium chain acyl glycines by gas-chromatography negative-ion chemical ionization mass-spectrometry. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 9 (10-12). pp. 969-975. ISSN 0731-7085
Tahraoui, A. and Watson, D.G. and Skellern, G.G. and Hudson, S.A. and Petrie, P. and Faccenda, K. Comparative study of the determination of bupivacaine in human plasma by gas chromatography mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 15 (2). pp. 251-257. ISSN 0731-7085
Khan, Abad and Khan, Muhammad I. and Iqbal, Zafar and Ahmad, Lateef and Shah, Yasar and Watson, David G. Determination of lipoic acid in human plasma by HPLC-ECD using liquid-liquid and solid-phase extraction: method development, validation and optimization of experimental parameters. Journal of Chromatography B, 878 (28). pp. 2782-2788. ISSN 1570-0232
Bawazeer, Saud and Watson, David G. and Knottenbelt, Clare Determination of nicotine exposure in dogs subjected to passive smoking using methanol extraction of hair followed by hydrophilic interaction chromatography in combination with Fourier transform mass spectrometry. Talanta, 88. pp. 408-411. ISSN 0039-9140
Zhang, T. and Watson, D.G. and Tettey, J.N.A. and Stearns, A.T. and Binning, A.R. and Payne, C.J. Determination of vancomycin in serum by liquid chromatography-high resolution full scan mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography B, 857 (2). pp. 352-356. ISSN 1570-0232
Garofalo, A. and Rowlinson, M. and Amambua, N. and Hughes, J.M. and Kelly, S.M. and Price, N. and Cooper, A. and Watson, D.G. and Kennedy, M.W. and Bradley, J.E. The FAR protein family of the nematode caenorhabditis elegans: differential lipid binding properties, structural characteristics, and developmental regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278 (10). pp. 8065-8074. ISSN 1083-351X
Mcilroy, George D. and Tammireddy, Seshu R. and Maskrey, Benjamin H. and Grant, Louise and Doherty, Mary K. and Watson, David G. and Delibegović, Mirela and Whitfield, Phillip D. and Mody, Nimesh Fenretinide mediated retinoic acid receptor signalling and inhibition of ceramide biosynthesis regulates adipogenesis, lipid accumulation, mitochondrial function and nutrient stress signalling in adipocytes and adipose tissue. Biochemical Pharmacology. ISSN 0006-2952
Scheltema, R.A. and Kamleh, M.A. and Wildridge, D. and Ebikeme, Charles and Watson, D.G. and Barrett, Michael P. and Jansen, Ritsert C. and Breitling, R. Increasing the mass accuracy of high-resolution LC-MS data using background ions - a case study on the LTQ-Orbitrap. Proteomics, 8 (22). pp. 4647-4656. ISSN 1615-9853
Kamleh, M.A. and Watson, D.G. and Hobani, Y. and Dow, J.A.T. Metabolomic profiling of Drosophila using liquid chromatography Fourier transform mass spectrometry. FEBS Letters, 582 (19). pp. 2916-2922. ISSN 0014-5793
Al Bratty, Mohammed and Hobani, Yahya and Dow, Julian A. T. and Watson, David G. and Watson, David Metabolomic profiling of the effects of allopurinol on Drosophila melanogaster. Metabolomics, 7 (4). pp. 542-548.
Calder, Alyson and Bell, Graham T. and Andersson, Martin and Thomson, Alison H. and Watson, David G. and Morton, Neil S. Pharmacokinetic profiles of epidural bupivacaine and ropivacaine following single-shot and continuous epidural use in young infants. Pediatric Anesthesia, 22 (5). pp. 430-437. ISSN 1155-5645
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A Deeper Look at ‘Michele’s List’ of Independent Local News Sites Reveals a Gloomier Picture
July 30, 2015 July 30, 2015 by Tom Grubisich
After taking a second, closer look at “Michele’s List,” I’m more worried about independent community news sites than I was last week. I got gloomier when I graphed all the startups based on their revenue.
This is what I saw:
More than two thirds of the sites are weighted toward the wrong end of the chart. I was surprised to see that more than half of them generate only $50,000 or less in revenue, hardly enough to run a “Ramen-noodle”-type operation. Only 14 of the 80-some sites produce revenue in the ranges from $101,000-$250,000 to more than $1 million.
Just two months ago, a community publisher on “Michele’s List” who was generating $150,000 in ad revenue on his two editorially respected platforms in suburban Charlotte went out of business. He was David Boraks, who closed down his Davidson News and Cornelius News because he couldn’t attract enough advertising from local businesses — many of whom preferred to place their marketing messages with Google and Facebook.
If $150,000 isn’t enough revenue to make it at two clustered community sites, then only 20 and possibly fewer of the 90-some platforms on “Michele’s List” may be certifiably sustainable — or less than one quarter. One quarter: That’s a scary number because 35 sites are at least five years old; time enough, I would guess, to develop best practices. Boraks started Davidson News in 2006.
The issue goes beyond “Starting a New Business 101” — it’s the increasingly urgent question of whether most Americans have access to enough information to make democracy work at the community and neighborhood levels. Local digital sites continue to proliferate, but how many of them tell us what we want and need to know about where we live?
As of May 29, when the Davidson News was closed, the Town of Davidson (pop. 11,750) in metro Charlotte’s North Mecklenburg County has been without a reliable sources of local news. Davidson is the home of Davidson College and, despite its relatively small size, wrestles with fair-housing and other diversity issues which Boraks’ site covered. But wait, what about Facebook? Well, here’s Davidson’s page on Facebook. A featured news item is about the Davidson Committee on Aging “hoping to establish an organization to help older adults ‘age in place.'” Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg and your team, for helping to strengthen the senior community in Davidson.
Michele McLellan, the diligent monitor of independent digital news platforms who compiled “Michele’s List,” has produced a follow-up analysis on the “value of professionalizing ad sales operations at news startups.” McLellan did her report for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at City University of New York, which collaborated with her on “Michele’s List.” The study details “a number of [best] practices” that she found among 22 community sites, including ones that were not part of “Michele’s List.” McLellan highlighted three best practices:
“Professional sales staff: Hiring a sales rep or bringing on a partner to focus on revenue may prove critical to many operations. … Ask David Boraks. ‘Finding a full-time sales person earlier would have made a difference,’ Boraks said. ‘We tried. We couldn’t find the right person who could work for us for what we could pay. They were six-figure persons…’
“Realistic rate structure: A rate structure has to reflect revenue requirements of the site and it should be consistent.
“Avoid CPM pricing: Successful sites have developed a following that enables them to charge premium rates. Most favor multi-month contracts. … Sites that rely mostly on CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) or network rates, struggle.”
McLellan doesn’t say how many of the 22 community sites in her report have actually professionalized their sales. But my look at the spreadsheet accompanying the report shows that 11 of the sites generate revenue that doesn’t appear to be enough for sustainability. The 11 sites reported revenue in the range of $100,000-$200,000 in 2014. I don’t see how a site with revenue even at the high end of that range could pay for a professional sales staff — even if the “staff” is just one person — plus a publisher, reporter, freelancers, office-equipment-miscellaneous expenses. All these expenses would surely add up to more than $200,000.
I asked Kelly Gilfillan, co-founder and CEO of Home Page Media Group, whose four news sites in suburban Nashville are in the $501,000-$1 million tier on “Michele’s List,” how important McLellan’s best practices in sales were to her operation, which is in direct competition with news media giant Gannett’s Nashville Tennessean:
“The first two people we hired were straight commission sales professionals,” says Gilfillan. “It is important, if you can, to go straight commission at the beginning so that they do not cost you unless they sell. I am still using straight commission in year six. On potential advertisers, we made a list of targets and that list has changed over the years. Our goal this year was to get in front of as many agencies as possible as we try to broaden our customer base to more stable large-budget advertisers. On rates, ours have always been monthly and we find that our small business owners like that for budgeting purposes. It can be more challenging when dealing with an agency who is used to a CPM model but we can usually overcome any objections.
“The decision to hire a sales professional directly correlates to the business strategy you have in place. Do you want to stay one site? Are you in growth mode vs. maintain mode? If you want to grow beyond where you are, a sales professional is a logical next step.”
I put the same question to Scott Brodbeck, founder and CEO of ARLnow’s four sites in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia and one of the publishers in McLellan’s 22-site study of best sales practices:
“Having professional, full-time sales help is key to growing revenue,” said Brodbeck. “We did okay for awhile with advertisers approaching us directly, but that will only get you so far. You need an active sales and client support effort. Having a well thought-out rate card based on market pricing and effective advertising options also helps greatly.
“We could have kept running ARLnow without a salesforce. But we could not have expanded. I do think that if you have great content and a big audience, that you will attract smart advertisers to reach out to you.”
Brodbeck did not participate in the 2015 “Michele’s List” survey. His sites are in the $251,000-$500,000 revenue range.
Tom Grubisich (@TomGrubisich) writes “The New News” column for Street Fight. He is editorial director of hyperlocal news network Local America, and is also working on a book about the history, present and future of Charleston, S.C.
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Comic Art Friday: Let’s make some REAL news
I’m just back from my annual junket to the Trivia Championships of North America (TCONA) in Las Vegas, and man, is my brain fried.
I’ve attended every TCONA since the first one in 2011, and it seems as though it’s even more of a blast each successive year. It’s my one opportunity every summer to interface in person with fellow quizzers (including many other former — and some yet future — Jeopardy! champions) from all over the continent (and in a few cases, from other continents), amid the diz-busting, face-melting heat of Vegas in August.
Once again, I managed to keep my six-year medal-winning streak alive, with a bronze in the Team Trivia Championship (shared with five of the nicest and smartest people you’d meet anywhere). When you can’t be the brightest bulb in the room, it’s good to be one of the luckiest.
Best of all, the Pirate Queen joined me as usual at the end of the convention for a few days of Vegas-style R&R, as we are wont to enjoy.
But you’re here for the comic art, aren’t you?
All righty then.
Today’s featured artwork is this tremendous effort by Tom Derenick, a leading contender in the Why Isn’t This Artist More Famous? sweepstakes. Our latest dip in the Common Elements theme pool matches The Creeper, one of Steve Ditko’s less prominent creations, with the Golden Age hero Starman. What in the wide world of DC Comics might these two have in common, you ask? Perhaps more than you’d think.
When we first encounter the man who would become The Creeper in Showcase #73 (March 1968), he’s Jack Ryder, an obnoxious blowhard TV personality. Starman in civilian life is Ted Knight, who shares his name with an actor (sadly, no longer with us) best known for playing… wait for it… an obnoxious blowhard TV personality. There’s your first common element.
I say “first” because sometimes when I devise a new Common Elements concept, I’m so focused on the idea I have for the project that I miss entirely plausible alternate connections between the characters involved. My good friend and colleague, the legendary commission collector Damon Owens, was quick to point out one here that I didn’t even think about.
The alter egos of these two characters go together to form “Knight Ryder,” a title differing only in spelling from that of a popular action-adventure program from the 1980s. That series, coincidentally, starred David Hasselhoff, a man who also fits the description of… wait for it… an obnoxious blowhard TV personality.
(Incidentally, any additional connection, real or imagined, to an obnoxious blowhard TV personality currently in national public office is 100% serendipitous. *cough*)
So, there’s another common element — one you’d suppose that a self-professed trivia maven such as your Uncle Swan would have picked up on from Jump Street.
Alas, no. Therefore, my thanks to Damon for sweeping the glass and snatching the uncontested rebound.
Back to our spotlight heroes for a moment. As noted previously, The Creeper sprang from the fevered imagination of Steve Ditko — probably best known as the artist co-creator of Marvel’s Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, but also the source of such characters as The Question, Hawk and Dove, and Shade the Changing Man.
In his debut adventure, Jack Ryder becomes The Creeper through the most unlikely of circumstances. In his capacity as a security expert for the television network that recently fired him from his talk-show-hosting duties, Ryder hunts down the subversive agents who kidnapped a famous scientist. While tracking the kidnappers, Ryder crashes a high-society masquerade ball wearing a costume he threw together from random items — the costume that later becomes The Creeper’s signature look. When Ryder finds the missing scientist, the man gives him a serum that speeds healing from injury, along with a device that enables Ryder to transform his apparel from his everyday clothes to his Creeper garb in the blink of an eye. The scientist is soon murdered, leading Ryder to devote himself to battling evildoers.
Starman’s history dates back to Adventure Comics #61 (April 1941), wherein astronomer Ted Knight invents a device he dubs a gravity rod. This handheld implement allows Knight to fly and to fire blasts of energy at his opponents. Almost a year later, in All-Star Comics #8 (January 1942 — the same issue in which Wonder Woman makes her debut appearance, although in a separate story), Starman and blind crimefighter Doctor Mid-Nite join the Justice Society of America, the original superhero team.
Starman faded from the scene (like most Golden Age superheroes) in the late 1940s. In the intervening decades, several other DC characters have used the Starman identity — some connected by legacy to the original Ted Knight version, others completely unrelated. A cynic might opine that DC keeps creating new Starman types merely to keep its trademark alive… but we’re not cynics here, are we?
Returning to our artwork: Not only does Tom Derenick draw with classic style and razor-sharp precision, but he also employs a brilliant twist of perspective here. If you look closely at the background, you’ll notice that the “bottom” of the scene from a real-world point of view is actually the right-hand side of the frame (in other words, that’s where the “ground” is). Thus, in portrait orientation — which is clearly how Derenick expects the viewer to see the image — it appears that The Creeper is jumping down onto an upwardly rising Starman, in attack mode. But when we adjust the angle, and put the bottom of the frame where it would actually be, we observe that it is in fact Starman who has the upper hand, and The Creeper is leaping (or falling) backward, away from his opponent. (See the rotated image below.)
It’s a masterful shot, perfectly designed and executed. When Tom sent me his preliminary sketch early on in the project, the background was merely suggested by a handful of lines. Only when I saw the finished piece fully rendered could I understand and appreciate what the artist envisioned. I was completely blown away. You might be too.
As with so many things in this life, it’s all in how you look at it.
Categories: Comic Art Friday, Hero of the Day, Jeopardy!, SwanStuff, That's Cool!, Trivial Pursuits, Vegas, Baby, Where in the World is Uncle Swan?
Back to the ‘burbs: a transition
All my adult life, I wanted to live in my favorite city. Today, I do.
Now, having realized that dream for less than three years, I’m heading back to the suburbs.
Before you get all distraught, let me assure you that this is a good thing. The Pirate Queen landed an excellent new job earlier this month, and after years of exhausting commuting hither and yon – the last six of which saw her trekking daily between San Francisco and San Jose, which is more of a haul than you non-Bay Areans probably realize – she decided she wanted to live within a few minutes’ drive of her new office.
Given that my commute most days is the several steps from the bedroom to my studio space, I can hardly argue with that desire.
We managed to find a lovely house in the East Bay city of Walnut Creek, a mere stone’s throw from the Pirate Queen’s workplace (assuming that you throw your stones with a howitzer). We both knew that the Kasbah — as I nicknamed it, for its fortress-like frontage and ginormous palm tree — was our new home the moment we first stepped inside.
Following the usual negotiation and paperwork craziness, escrow closed on the property this morning. Our action plan is to move by mid-August, after which we’ll put our San Francisco home on the market and say a bittersweet farewell to this first chapter in our life together.
I have loved living in The City. Its vibrant energy, diverse culture, and unparalleled urban landscape make it a fascinating place to spend one’s days. It’s impossible to place a value on being able to glimpse the Pacific Ocean (a tiny slice of it, anyway) from my living room window. I will miss that view, and the joy it brings me every day. Looking on the positive side, however, as I am wont to do, there are some things I’ll eagerly embrace about our new suburban environs:
A real, full-service supermarket just blocks away. In fact, an impressive shopping complex – complete with a drugstore, a Starbucks, a dry cleaner, and several inexpensive eateries – surrounds the supermarket, all of which is within comfortable walking distance from the new house. One of my ongoing challenges in The City is that many of these types of businesses aren’t conveniently located, at least not where we live. (If you ever want to experience a rush of first-world-problem compassion, just visit the Monterey Boulevard Safeway. Then tell me you don’t feel pity for the neighborhood denizens for whom it’s the primary grocery option.)
Easy parking. I will never underappreciate the blessing of going to a local shop or restaurant secure in the knowledge that ample parking awaits. Few factors frustrate me more about big-city life than the debacle that results every time I have to circle several blocks hunting down a place for my car, or parallel park along San Francisco’s notoriously jam-packed streets. In the suburbs, there’s almost always a big parking lot near where you need to go.
Warm summer weather. Okay, when I say “warm” in regard to the East Bay beyond the Oakland hills, I really mean “hot” for two-thirds of the year. As much as I’m not a fan of blazing heat, I’ll scarcely miss the relentlessly gloomy, blustery, semi-Antarctic climate of our San Francisco hillside neighborhood. Besides, we’ll have air conditioning. And a pool.
East Bay life will also have an advantage over my former digs to the north. Venturing into San Francisco from Sonoma County requires a long, tedious drive in often stupefying traffic, plus the aforementioned parking challenge. By contrast, our Walnut Creek home is convenient to two BART stations – the trains, in fact, pass a few hundred feet from the house – from which we can whisk to and from The City at relative leisure. Heading downtown to dine or catch a play will hardly take more effort than it does for us living in SF.
Our new abode has many features to recommend it.
First, no stairs, no hills. Our San Francisco house, like many single-household residences throughout The City, is what’s termed a “soft-story” building. The primary living space is all on one level, but that level is built on top of the garage. This means that entering and leaving the house – or even going to the garage to do laundry — involves mounting a tall, steep, narrow staircase. The older my knees and back get, the less fond they are of that adventure. Conversely, the Walnut Creek property is a traditional California ranch-style house. (There’s a sunken living room, but seriously, that’s two steps.) It will be wonderful to simply walk through a door to carry the laundry basket out, or heavy bags filled with groceries in. Likewise, the entire neighborhood sits on flat terrain. The views are uninspiring, but it’s a lot more conducive to long walks.
Second, both the Pirate Queen and I will have our own individual office spaces. In our little two-bedroom in The City, the second bedroom does quadruple duty as a two-person office, guest room, pet bedroom, and dressing room (because most of my clothes reside in its closet and dresser). The new house has four bedrooms, one of which will give the Pirate Queen a dedicated home office that she doesn’t have to share with my desk, my clothes, the guest bed, or the Studio Assistant. Another bedroom will convert into my combination office and studio, which will liberate my recording equipment from the corner of the living room where it has resided for the past three years. I’ll be able to do a lot of things with my workspace that I simply didn’t have room to do here, including install a proper, fully contained recording booth.
Third, two bathrooms. The importance of this development cannot be overstated.
Fourth… did I mention the pool?
Make no mistake, the move will be a monumental adjustment. It will be even more so for the Pirate Queen, who has lived in The City for nearly 20 years, than for me, who spent the better part of three decades in North Bay suburbia. But it’s a change we’ve contemplated for some time. Last year, we actually looked at houses in the South Bay, thinking that we might move closer to the location where the Pirate Queen was then working. When her new opportunity emerged, there was no question for either of us that this was the right time to switch sides of the Bay.
I’ll miss being a San Franciscan. In the immortal words often sung by Tony Bennett, I’ll leave a bit of my heart here – a bit that I will return to visit as often as I can.
But if you’re looking for me at the Porthole Palace, look quickly.
My new crib is the Kasbah.
It rocks.
Categories: My Home Town, SwanStuff, That's Cool!, Where in the World is Uncle Swan?
Our Hawaiian honeymoon: Day three
[Catch up on what happened on the first day and the second day of our adventure.]
Day three began with breakfast at a joint called Cheeseburger in Paradise. We did not — repeat, not — have cheeseburgers for breakfast. We did, however, have a sweet view of Waikiki Beach through the restaurant’s open window.
In case you were curious, this outlet is part of a chain that is apparently unrelated to the similarly named chain owned by singer Jimmy Buffett, whose similarly named song clearly inspired both chains. Now you’re not curious, merely confused. Join the club.)
Appropriately stoked with high-protein, high-carbohydrate fuel, we were itching to break in the snorkeling equipment we’d purchased the day before. Thanks to a tip from a guidebook and a recommendation from our Cheeseburger waiter — whose name was not Spicoli, but could well have been — we loaded up our rental car and headed for the north shore of Oahu. Specifically, we aimed for a spot dubbed Shark’s Cove.
We did not — repeat, not — see any sharks. We did, however, spend a couple of joy-filled hours swimming with a variety of gorgeous tropical sea life, including an array of colorful fish that would do justice to any aquarium. In fact, snorkeling at Shark’s Cove offered a taste of what it might be like to swim in an aquarium, were one thus inclined.
A few tips we’d pass along to other snorkelers who make the trek to Shark’s Cove:
Get there early in the day. Parking is limited, and somewhat challenging to negotiate.
Leave your flippers in the car, or better yet, at your hotel. The rocky seascape here renders fins useless — or worse, makes them an encumbrance. Unless you’re venturing well out into deep water — which we would heartily advise against — flippers won’t benefit you in this environment.
Do, on the other hand, wear water shoes. The reef and rocks at Shark’s Cove are razor-sharp, as the numerous gashes they ruptured in my knees will demonstrate.
Currents here can be very powerful. As alluded above, it’s easy to get beaten up here by waves dashing you against the rocks. It’s easy to imagine that if you venture out beyond the relative shelter of the cove, fighting the motion of the ocean could quickly develop into a losing battle. Be careful out there.
Take a cheap waterproof camera. We didn’t, and wished we had.
As is true anywhere in Hawaii, don’t leave anything of value visible in your car. Predators abound. We didn’t encounter any problems ourselves, but all those signs posted everywhere warning you about thievery are there for good reason.
We give Shark’s Cove high marks as a snorkeling venue. It’s well worth the drive around the island from Honolulu to check it out.
On our way back into the city, we stopped for lunch at Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck in Kahuku. There are probably a couple dozen food trucks and shacks of every description as you drive through Kahuku on the Kamehameha Highway, all specializing in freshly caught local shrimp. (Imagine if Forrest Gump and his pal Bubba had moved to Hawaii and chosen the slacker life, rather than opening that gaudy chain of touristy restaurants.) Of these, Giovanni’s enjoys the most widespread reputation — a reputation we found well deserved.
We shared a plate of the hot and spicy shrimp; they were indeed as volcanic as advertised (a sign cautions that they don’t offer refunds if you find the dish too hot) and quite delicious. Or, to say it local-style, “Da shrimps stay so ono, broke da mout’! Chee!”
Giovanni’s surrounds its truck with a nice permanent set-up, featuring picnic tables shaded by an open-air roofed structure, sinks for postprandial hand-washing, and indoor restrooms. There’s also a shave ice truck on site in case you need help cooling your mouth after downing the shrimp.
Appetites sated, we continued on to Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in Kahaluu. This multicultural cemetery features a half-scale replica of the ancient Byodo-In Buddhist temple in Uji, Japan. It’s a stunning building nestled in a lush, serene location at the base of the Ko’olau range.
We spent a blissful hour wandering through the temple and its grounds, soaking in the quiet, admiring the architecture, and watching the fog creep in over the mountains. The Pirate Queen enjoyed seeing the massive Buddha statue inside the temple (she’s seen me shirtless often enough that you’d think this wouldn’t be much of an attraction, but apparently it was) and ringing the colossal bell in the courtyard.
I watched as a black swan scudded along the surface of the pond. I think she and your Uncle Swan shared a bonding moment.
Our next stop, Nu’uanu Pali, offered a breathtaking view of the windward shore of Oahu from 1200 feet up the side of the dormant volcano. When I say “breathtaking,” I’m not speaking hyperbolically. The wind rips through the mountain pass with gale-like velocity, producing sufficient chill to make you forget for a few minutes that you’re in the tropics. Despite the briskness, the view is nothing short of incredible.
One can see all the way to the offshore island called Mokoli’i (“little lizard” in Hawaiian), also known as Chinaman’s Hat — or, as we might put it in these more ethnically sensitive times, Asian Person of Chinese Extraction’s Hat. We were, however, eager to get back into the cozy, cyclone-free confines of our rented Toyota in fairly short order.
Safely back in Waikiki, we ventured across the street from our hotel for dinner at Sansei. The Waikiki branch of a local chain of upscale sushi restaurants, Sansei serves up an intriguing spectrum of dishes, some of which can best be described as “experiments in seafood.” Some of the experiments work better than others — one or two of the combinations we ordered seemed to be outré for the sake of outré -ness — but on the whole, we enjoyed the dining experience, bizarre flourishes and all. It was pleasant to relax on the restaurant’s third-floor lanai in the relative cool of the evening, tucked around the street corner from the bustle of the main drag. Plus, there were those mediocre Hawaiian-tinged cover tunes wafting across from the tiki bar to serenade us.
Thus ended our third day in the islands. I’ll regale you with tales of Day Four soon.
Categories: Hawaii, Reminiscing, SwanStuff, That's Cool!, Where in the World is Uncle Swan?
Our Hawaiian honeymoon: Day two
[If you missed what happened on the first day of our adventure, read about it here.]
Our first full day in Hawaii — and all of our days in the Islands proved remarkably full — began with breakfast at LuLu’s Waikiki, conveniently located just around the corner from our hotel. With its spacious open-air dining room and decent food, LuLu’s quickly established itself as our go-to spot for morning fortification. (The popular breakfast choice on the Waikiki strip is a joint called Eggs and Things, centrally located in the hotel district, but we never saw a morning where that place didn’t have a line out the door. We didn’t fly all the way to Oahu to stand in an hour-long queue for an omelette.) LuLu’s is primarily a sports bar — judging by the decor, the owners are major Boston Red Sox fanatics — but they dish up a perfectly acceptable breakfast, and we never had a problem getting seated quickly so we could speed along with our touring.
Appetites sated, we headed for our first sightseeing stop: Iolani Palace, former residence of the Hawaiian royal family and the only royal palace located on U.S. soil. Iolani was high on the Pirate Queen’s list of must-dos, and she was duly impressed with the spectacle on display. After donning handmade cloth booties that fit over our shoes (to protect the palace’s vintage hardwood floors from thousands of clumsy tourist feet), we joined our docent, Cousin Tino — everybody’s your cousin in Hawaii — for a guided tour. You can’t take photographs inside the palace, but trust me when I tell you that you’ve never seen a house quite like this one.
Between the opulent furniture, museum-quality artwork (mostly portraits of the Hawaiian royal family, and other monarchs whom they befriended), and fascinating history, we thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Cousin Tino made the time both informative and entertaining (we were his last tour of the morning, and a relatively small group, so he treated us to an extended stay with “extra stories”).
Following our stroll around Iolani Palace, we ventured across the street to check out the exterior of Ali’iolani Hale (“House of the Heavenly King”), the building that formerly served as the seat of Hawaiian government and today houses the state’s Supreme Court. It’s most recognized for the familiar statue of King Kamehameha I that decorates its courtyard. If you watch the current version of the TV series Hawaii Five-O, you might also recognize Ali’iolani Hale as the headquarters of Steve McGarrett and company. I regret to inform you that the Five-O team does not actually work here, and in fact, does not exist. Sorry… fiction. (Viewers of a certain age might recall that the original Hawaii Five-O used shots of Iolani Palace as the team’s home base. Sorry… also fiction.)
Ali’iolani Hale’s Kamehameha statue has a rather amusing back-story. Commissioned in 1878 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s arrival in Hawaii (an arrival that didn’t turn out all that well for the captain), the Kamehameha statue was designed by Thomas Gould, an American sculptor living in Italy at the time, and cast in bronze in Paris. Unfortunately, the ship carrying the statue from France to Hawaii sank off the Falkland Islands, and the statue was thought lost to the Atlantic. The forward-thinking Hawaiian government had taken out a hefty insurance policy, the payout from which paid for a recasting of the statue, which Gould promptly shipped. But wait! Enterprising local Falklanders recovered the original statue and sold it back to the wrecked ship’s captain, who in turn sold it to the Hawaiian government. Finding themselves with two identical statues, the Hawaiians installed the original on the Big Island’s Kohala Coast, near Kamehameha the Great’s birthplace, and mounted the replica — which you’re looking at here — in front of Ali’iolani Hale.
Next, we made a stop at a Wal-Mart to purchase snorkeling gear that we’d use during the trip. We scored complete sets of equipment — snorkels, masks, fins, and water shoes — for a relative pittance. Wal-Mart in Hawaii is pretty much like Wal-Mart on the mainland, only with more aloha shirts and macadamia nuts, and with an L&L Hawaiian Barbecue concession instead of a McDonald’s.
Our travels next took us up into the hills overlooking downtown Honolulu, to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Puowaina. Lodged in the lush green concavity of an ancient volcanic crater (hence the nickname “Punchbowl”), the cemetery houses the remains of thousands of military veterans. Punchbowl is also home to a group of ten marble memorials to Service personnel from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War whose remains were never recovered — “whose earthly resting place is known only to God.”
It’s a touch ironic, I suppose, that in a place as teeming with tropical life as Oahu so many of the attractions that draw attention are memorials to the deceased. Having grown up in a military family, however, I’m acutely conscious of the sacrifices our Servicemen and Servicewomen are called upon to make. For that reason, it was important to me to take the drive up to Punchbowl with the Pirate Queen, whose father was a sailor during the Second World War.
Overseeing Punchbowl from the head of an enormous staircase is a statue of Columbia, the mythic female figure who personified the young United States in the 18th and 19th centuries — hence the name of the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia. (Moviegoers know her better as the logo of a popular film studio.) Columbia pretty much got shoved aside in American symbology in favor of Lady Liberty around the turn of the 20th century, but when Punchbowl was dedicated in 1949, she received her corner in the limelight.
Our day transitioned from reverence to revelry in the late afternoon, when we and a few dozen of our new closest cousins boarded a bus bound for the Paradise Cove Luau. When planning our luau experience, the Pirate Queen and I had debated driving our rental car out to Ko Olina on the far western edge of the island, where Paradise Cove is located. Our decision to take the shuttle instead proved perspicacious, as the slog through Honolulu’s rush-hour gridlock took nearly two hours to traverse. Much better to relax in air-conditioned comfort while letting a professional manage the stress.
Now, you might be thinking, “Isn’t a commercial luau all touristy and whatnot?” Um, hello… we’re tourists.
Never having been to Hawaii before, the Pirate Queen wanted to take in a few of the classic essentials: see the kalua pig rise from the imu (the underground fire pit in which the pig is roasted); taste some poi; get a temporary Polynesian tattoo; watch some hula and a fire knife dance. Paradise Cove delivered on all of her expectations, in fine style. We scored front-row seats for the imu ceremony. The Pirate Queen was chosen as one of the audience participants in the always hilarious poi tasting (a culinary undertaking she will not eagerly repeat). She got a lovely flower drawn on her arm by a handsome, shirtless young Hawaiian gent. (She had mostly perspired through the tattoo by the time we got back to Honolulu.) We had a pretty fair meal and a great view of the entertaining show, complete with the requisite hula and fire knife dancers. We shared our table with a nice young couple from Australia, from whom we learned that Burger King franchises Down Under are called Hungry Jack’s (hey, you never know when trivia like that might come in handy) and whose accents I struggled to commit to memory for future voiceover projects. And, we saw an amazing sunset over the Pacific.
All in all, we enjoyed a delightful evening of stereotypical aloha.
And that was our second day on Oahu. I’ll regale you with the Day Three doings next time.
Our Hawaiian honeymoon: Day one
Some of you have been clamoring for information about our little Hawaiian excursion. Well, for that subset of this rowdy crowd, this is your lucky day. That is, the first of your lucky days. This is going to take a few posts.
Our adventure began in the predawn hours of a chilly San Francisco morning… but I repeat myself. After being ferried to SFO by an upstanding member of the taxi-driving fraternity Hakka Cabba Dei, and thorough cavity searches performed by the ever-charming staff of the Transportation Security Administration, the Pirate Queen and I boarded a spacious Hawaiian Airlines Airbus and winged our way across the Pacific – a third of the way across the Pacific, at any rate – for the Land of Aloha.
With our suitcases crammed into the rear of our rented Toyota, we traversed the traffic-choked streets of Honolulu toward our Waikiki hotel. That’s far less easy than it sounds, because Honolulu currently holds the title of Gridlock Capital of America. Seriously – you can look it up. Driving in Hawaii’s largest city – okay, Hawaii’s only large city – involves navigating excruciatingly narrow roadways laid out with the organizational linearity of a bowl of spaghetti in the company of nearly a million people in no great hurry to get anywhere. Factor in the presence of tens of thousands of clueless tourists buzzing about blindly at the mercy of GPS or wandering blithely across intersections in flagrant violation of traffic signals, and you’ve got a prescription for automotive apocalypse.
But we got there: Waikiki Beach, U.S.A.
Upon our arrival at our hotel, we found ourselves confronted with a conundrum: What to do with our fine rental vehicle? The entrance to what appeared to be the parking area was rendered inaccessible by a massive delivery truck dropping off the day’s linens. We could spot no valet to whom we could hand over the keys. After several circuits of the crazily designed block, complicated both by one-way streets and hordes of fellow visitors, the Pirate Queen bailed out to seek aid in the hotel lobby while I sat in the blazing sun praying that the local gendarmerie didn’t happen by and cite me for double-parking. Eventually, the Pirate Queen returned with two fresh-faced young chaps, one of whom cheerily loaded our belongings onto a cart while his compatriot whisked the Toyota away for safekeeping. (Or joyriding. We didn’t really know at that point.)
Despite those frustrating first few moments, Hotel Renew turned out to be an excellent choice of lodging for our purposes. Located near the south end of Waikiki Beach, it’s far enough away from the major portion of attractions to be reasonably quiet – except for first thing in the morning, when the garbage trucks come clattering through the block – yet close enough to the beach that one can be sprawled on the world-famous sand after a mere two-minute stroll from the front door.
The Japanese-influenced décor, all straight angles and darkly painted wood, makes a soothing change from the typical chain hotel, and the staff is uniformly friendly and polite, if not always as Johnny-on-the-spot as they might be. The Pirate Queen, who’s known to be fussy about where she sleeps, found the bed and bathroom to her liking, while I was relieved to discover the in-room safe capacious enough for my mammoth laptop as well as all of our other valuables. All in all, we were glad we selected it.
Having settled into our accommodations, we launched ourselves on a leisurely promenade along Kalakaua Avenue, the street that traverses the tourist district. It had been 23 years since my last trip to Waikiki, and as KJ was heavily pregnant at the time, we didn’t do much extended walking. But I remembered traveling this stretch, and I was surprised both at what had changed in three decades and at what remained pretty much the same.
What hadn’t changed:
An ABC Store on every corner, and sometimes two or three within a block. For the uninitiated, the ubiquitous ABC Store is Hawaii’s native mash-up of convenience store and touristy gift shop, and they are almost literally everywhere. I kept expecting to walk into a public restroom only to discover that they’d put an ABC Store in one of the toilet stalls.
This weird tree. This ginormous banyan should be transplanted to the grounds of Hogwarts. It’s freakin’ creepy. Albeit in a cool way.
The crowds. We actually visited during one of Hawaii’s least jam-packed windows – the fallow period between the end of spring break in April and the start of summer travel season on Memorial Day weekend. But even in a traditional down time, Waikiki attracts tons of guests.
The International Marketplace. Imagine every cheesy jewelry, T-shirt, and souvenir shop in every tourist trap in America crammed into a colorful labyrinth of carts, stalls, and stands that winds along seemingly forever, and you’ll get the general picture of the International Marketplace. No wallet is safe.
Tall buildings. Did you know that Honolulu has more skyscrapers than any American city outside of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago? Just a tidbit of architectural trivia from your Uncle Swan.
What was new:
Panhandlers. Having lived around, and now in, San Francisco – Mecca for America’s down and out – for 35 years, I’m no stranger to homeless people cadging change on street corners. I was startled, however, to see so many mendicants on the sidewalks of Waikiki. I understand how so many homeless folks get to The City; Greyhound offers a dirt-cheap bus ride from almost anywhere in the contiguous United States. But if you’re flat broke, how the heck do you get to Hawaii? I’ll say this, though — if you have to sleep outdoors, better to do it in balmy Honolulu than in the Arctic chill of San Francisco.
Upscale shopping. The spending experience along Waikiki has always been pricey, but it used to feature much more local flavor. It’s kicked up several notches now with the presence of numerous internationally renowned high-end retail stores. I’m guessing this marketing strategy must be successful, but I question the logic. Does anyone really come to a tropical beach town to buy a Coach bag or a Rolex?
Insane traffic. I mentioned this earlier, but it warrants repeating. Honolulu totally sucks if you’re behind the wheel of a car. I don’t remember it being anywhere nearly this wretched in decades past.
We consumed our first Hawaiian repast at a restaurant called Tiki’s Grill and Bar, conveniently located on the third floor of the hotel right next door to ours. The place features an extensive menu of vaguely tropical themed cuisine, most of which was reasonably tasty; a killer view of the Waikiki sunset; live music in the evenings – Honolulu is the universal nexus of lame cover tunes performed on public stages by guys wearing aloha shirts – and yes, oodles and oodles of tikis. A roving photographer snapped our photo (which we were able to purchase for a nominal fee, because there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch in Hawaii) to commemorate the event.
And that was our first day on Oahu. I’ll tell you about our second day in my next post.
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Exploring the connections between technology and art
Show Notes for Technology and the Arts Podcast #28
Posted on February 6, 2008 by Brian
In this installment of the Technology and the Arts podcast, we discuss the Qtrax debacle and Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! Plus, we’ll take a look at whiteboard application Skrbl.com, instant messaging site Meebo.com, and Library of Congress images on Flickr. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney. File size: 13 MB. Time: 26 min., 20 sec.
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This podcast was recorded at Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton, N.J. Thanks, Triumph!
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John promotes some future talks he has coming up: Brookdale Computer Users Group talk on open source software (especially GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus) and server technologies in March, Trenton Computer Festival in April, and Princeton Public Library Tuesday Tech Talk on using technology to lose weight.
Brian talks about his return to the stage as he played organ and — believe it or not — accordion for his friend Christian Beach on Feb. 2, 2008, at Paul’s Tavern in Lake Como (formerly South Belmar), NJ. Watch the video at the very bottom of these show notes to see Brian playing tambourine and organ (far left…I show up every now and then) during Christian’s performance of “Poet of the Great Plains” at Saturday’s show.
After something was misstated in the last podcast about timeline Web site Viygo.com, John and I are hoping to talk to viygo.com’s Matt Collins and Duncan Meech for an interview to appear in a future podcast.
Microsoft has officially made a bid for Yahoo! John and Brian are among the many who are not happy about this.
John loves these Vibe Body Sound Headphones.
Periodic Table Printmaking Project – another topic discussed by John and the reason for the image above.
Martin Sargent of TechTV fame has a new show…Internet Superstar.
John discusses a few applications he has implemented on his blog at lemasney.com: whiteboard application Skrbl.com and instant messaging site Meebo.com.
WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier – This blog features letters written by a World War I soldier that are posted online exactly 90 years after they were written, according to the dates on the original letters.
The Library of Congress is putting 3,000 public-domain/copyright-free images on Flickr (let’s just hope Microsoft doesn’t screw that up if it gets its hands on the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site).
BBC Worldwide has opened up its MySpace and YouTube videos to the entire world…Brian has already posted a “Doctor Who” video on his MySpace profile.
The similarly named “Technology in the Arts” blog writes about JotYou.com, an SMS service that takes geography and time into account.
Finally, read all about one of the legendary tech-related disasters of all time…Qtrax! This P2P file-sharing service spent $1 million to announce it had struck deals with all four major record labels to distribute free DRM-encrypted tracks through an ad-supported service. Hours after the announcement, it became apparent that Qtrax had deals with NONE of the major labels. The Globe and Mail’s Matthew Ingram called Qtrax “one of the most bungled launches in Web 2.0 history.” Meanwhile, Ken Fisher of Ars Technica writes: “I can’t recall a launch this hyped that failed so miserably in recent years. None of the key pieces are there—the licenses, playable music, well-tested client code, the web site itself—yet they opened it to the public.” And GizmoRepublic.com referenced a famous Monty Python sketch by saying this about Qtrax: “It‘s like opening the doors to your new cheese shop, without stocking any actual cheese.”
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And, as promised, here is the YouTube video I found of Christian Beach peforming “Poet of the Great Plains” at Paul’s Tavern in Lake Como, NJ, on Feb. 2, 2008. I enter the frame every now and then playing tambourine and organ. Enjoy!
“Poet of the Great Plains” © 2007 C.J. Beach
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Gaming startup Phoenix Labs raises Series C funding to expand studio operations and development of action-RPG, Dauntless
TechStartups Team Posted On October 22, 2018
Phoenix Labs, an independent game studio startup that specializes in creating AAA multiplayer games, has raised undisclosed sum in a Series C financing to expand their Vancouver and San Mateo studios and increase live service operations and rapid development of new content for their debut title, Dauntless. The latest round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued support from Everblue Management and other current investors. In addition, Phoenix Labs plans to continue to build upon the momentum of Dauntless, and bolster platform availability for Dauntless as player community grows beyond 2 million players on PC shortly after launching into Open Beta in May 2018, and reach brand new audiences.
Phoenix Labs was founded in 2014 by Jesse Houston, Sean Bender, and Robin Mayne. The startup focuses on providing its clients with online co-operative experiences with strong narratives. It is based in Vancouver, British Columbia and San Mateo, California. The company’s goal is to create games for it’s passionate community and evolve the way great games are made and enjoyed. They aspire to create new AAA gaming experiences that their community will share for years to come. Their debut title Dauntless, a co-op action RPG, is being created by a veteran team from BioWare, Riot Games, and other acclaimed studios.
“The continued support from Sapphire Ventures and the rest of our current investment team is a testament to our vision of building the next evolution of online cooperative gameplay experiences,” said Jesse Houston, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs. “The soul of Dauntless is in the ever-evolving online world which has kept millions of players and their friends coming back over the last year. The latest funding will help expand our live service operations at Phoenix Labs and create new and exciting content even faster, keeping the heartbeat of Dauntless steady and vibrant for years to come.”
“Phoenix Labs has established themselves in the online gaming world, and we’re excited to help them expand their passionate audience and presence in the global market,” said Dave Hartwig, Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures. “They have ambitious plans for 2019 that will shake up the online world in new and exciting ways, and we’re proud to play a part in their journey.”
Phoenix Labs is made up of industry veterans from BioWare, Riot Games, and other acclaimed studios, helmed by co-founders Jesse Houston, Sean Bender and Robin Mayne. Dauntless is the next evolution of online cooperative action games, built upon a living, breathing world that will continue to grow and expand for years to come.
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Doug Strahm Promotes Inclusivity in Music Video for Latest Single, “Freedom Rings”
“Freedom Rings” takes viewers on a musical journey through the struggle for equal rights in the U.S.
Fort Wayne, IN, April 16, 2019 – Fort Wayne-based singer/songwriter Doug Strahm has debuted a new music video for his song “Freedom Rings” ahead of the release of his latest album Souvenirs. The video, directed by renowned music video director Nigel Dick, traces the history of the struggle for equal rights in the U.S., from the nation’s Founding Fathers through to the present day, with iconic images of the nation’s past and present alongside Strahm’s powerful lyrics and soulful vocal performance. “Freedom Rings” is one of 17 songs that Strahm recorded with Sweetwater Studios Senior Producer/Engineer Mark Hornsby and Producer Dave Martin for inclusion on Souvenirs, which is set to be released on May 3, 2019.
Doug Strahm on the set of the "Freedom Rings" video. Photo Credit: David Lengel
A lifelong resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Strahm was one of Sweetwater’s first customers, even recording his own songs on the eight-track recorder in Sweetwater Founder and CEO Chuck Surack’s basement during the company’s early years. As time passed Strahm continued making music on the side while raising a family and running his own local Italian restaurant, Strahmboli’s, until he began working at Sweetwater in 1999. Starting out as the Client Amazement Specialist, Strahm later managed the service department and the warehouse, and he now serves as Vice President of Facilities, in charge of all facilities on the Sweetwater campus, in addition to his role overseeing Sweetwater’s Downbeat Diner.
Doug Strahm's "Souvenirs". Photo Credit: Petro G Photography. Art Work: Adam Strahm
Strahm has also become a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusivity through his music in both the local Fort Wayne community and beyond. With music videos for singles from his 2013 album Everything Has Changed now garnering over a million views on YouTube, the new album embraces the same core values that have appealed to Strahm’s growing following of listeners and viewers. “I really wanted to look for the promise and the hope that freedom does ring when you go into battle,” Strahm explains. “From the birth of the country, when the Pilgrims fled religious persecution, to the Suffragists and the Civil Rights Movement and now the LGBT movement — it’s the same struggle: the struggle for equality. And I want to draw parallels for anybody that fought for that struggle.”
As a longtime friend and colleague at Sweewater, Hornsby has watched Strahm’s musical success grow in recent years. “Doug was always pitching songs and going to Nashville when he was younger,” Hornsby explains. “But since he came back to it in the past ten years with YouTube and social media, he’s gotten hundreds of thousands of plays. It’s really resonated worldwide.”
To watch the video for “Freedom Rings,” please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43GW6JHBEg
To learn more about Doug Strahm’s latest album, Souvenirs, please visit http://www.dougstrahm.com/
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China reports sharp rise in SARS-like virus cases as holiday travel begins
China on Monday reported a sharp spike in the number of people infected with a new SARS-like virus – as millions begin traveling for the Lunar New Year, fueling fears of a global outbreak. Health officials in Wuhan, where the viral pneumonia apparently originated, said an additional 136 cases have been confirmed in the central...
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Oklahoma School Drops Debate Class Assignment Discussing How Trump Has 'Openly Lied' to American People
Mustang Public Schools admits that high school question on President Donald Trump's 15,413 purportedly misleading or false claims was one-sided.
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Global stocks stay near record highs; focus turns to central banks, earnings
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Prince Harry’s 2-year feud with Prince William is over
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Porn site suffers massive data breach, including credit cards, social security numbers
The data of “models” on an adult website has been exposed, says a cybersecurity firm.
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Senators make final campaign push in Iowa before impeachment trial
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How Lunar New Year became a shopping holiday for Western brands
Brands like Gucci and Adidas Originals have partnered with Disney to release limited-edition capsule collections for Lunar New Year. | Wang Gang/VCG/Getty Images Gucci, Nike, and Sephora have released new merchandise for the Year of the Rat. The stretch of time between end-of-year celebrations and Valentine’s Day is usually bleak. People are physically and financially drained from the holidays, and there’s not much to celebrate — a dry spell that has led brands to create a deluge of fake holidays like National Shortbread Day (January 6) and National Shop for Travel Day (January 14). Within the past decade, a spate of brands both luxury and affordable have adopted a new holiday into their calendars, one that’s already celebrated by more than a billion people annually: Lunar New Year. In the US, the holiday is generally referred to as Chinese New Year, but Lunar New Year seems like a more accurate description, given that the event is also observed by non-Chinese people. What is Lunar New Year? While Lunar New Year 2020 officially falls on January 25, the holiday is celebrated across multiple days and even weeks in places like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Under the Gregorian calendar used by most countries worldwide, the new year starts on January 1. Lunar New Year is the celebration under the lunisolar calendar — which is based on cycles of the moon — and typically falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. The specific celebrations and formal dates encompassing the holiday vary by country and culture, but it’s an important day reserved for festivities to ring in the new year. Celebrants host elaborate meals with extended families, exchange money or gifts for good fortune, party in the streets, and set off fireworks. Lunar New Year in China, which is called the Spring Festival, has 15 days of festivities, South Korea’s Seollal celebration lasts 12 days, and Vietnam’s Tết Nguyên Đán is a week long. Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images China has 15 days of festivities prepared for its Lunar New Year celebration, which is called the Spring Festival. There are numerous other lunar calendar-based celebrations that fall later than January 25, usually during or after the spring equinox. For example, Losar, the Tibetan new year, begins on February 24, while Cambodia starts its new year celebration on April 14. It’s likely that the growth of Asian immigrant populations in the US, especially those of Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese descent, has contributed to the overall popularity and cultural awareness of Lunar New Year. The largest celebrations from these communities typically occur in urban centers like Los Angeles, New York City, or San Francisco. Lunar New Year is a holiday steeped in tradition. It’s also an occasion to spend. As with most holidays, Lunar New Year has become an opportunity for retailers to sell shoes, jackets, or handbags on the premise of being culturally observant. While there are various other lunar-based celebrations in the months that follow, Western companies have notably latched onto Lunar New Year, given the scale of its celebration. Well-known Western brands like Apple, Gucci, Nike, and Sephora have launched new advertising campaigns and capsule collections overseas, primarily aimed at Chinese customers, but these activities have also bled into the American market. Malls, shopping centers, and entertainment venues in major US cities are hosting attractions tied to Lunar New Year. Despite the financial gains made from it, however, Lunar New Year is not yet a federal holiday. The commodification of major holidays and events is nothing new. Brands have long had a corporate incentive to pander to customers by aligning themselves with certain political and social goals. Yet there’s a stark disconnect that emerges when brands try to commercialize a holiday, especially one tied to cultures that celebrate it abroad like Lunar New Year. Despite the financial gains made from it, however, Lunar New Year is not yet a federal holiday “There’s this flattening of the world taking place in regards to marketing trends and themes,” Deb Gabor, a brands expert and CEO of Sol Marketing, told Vox. “It mostly started with the luxury brands, but we’re seeing more and more mainstream brands doing this,” like Sephora and online beauty companies. Lunar New Year appears to be yet another branded holiday where products are marketed with culturally specific colors, themes, and motifs — with the intention of courting an Asian market that holds significant spending power. Brands, especially luxury retailers, are actively chasing China, which will be the world’s largest apparel market by 2030. The “Lunar New Year effect,” as Gabor called it, is reflected in how American retailers are participating in Chinese shopping events, like Singles Day. According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, Chinese consumers in 2019 spent $149 billion across the week-long Chinese New Year holiday. China is also a hot spot for luxury retailers, spending about $7 billion each year on brand-name goods, according to McKinsey. Every year, retailers have the opportunity to create new merchandise that correlates with the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which symbolizes a given year. A person’s zodiac sign depends on their birth year, and even American consumers have a semblance of knowledge of the zodiac, if not their affiliated animal. Given our collective enthusiasm at identifying ourselves through unscientific, ambiguous ways, brands are relying on zodiac imagery to sell their products. sees what you’re up to Apple. Alot of the emoji engraving options also match the Chinese Zodiac animals so you can engrave the year of your birth. pic.twitter.com/kxvM21ltfw— Brian Suda (@briansuda) January 3, 2020 2020 is the Year of the Rat, which might not be the cutest animal on earth, but that hasn’t stopped fashion retailers and makeup brands from releasing rat-related merchandise: Gucci and Adidas Originals have both partnered with Disney on capsule collections that feature Mickey Mouse, arguably the most famous rodent in the world. Rag & Bone has a pizza rat sweater, and Moschino released products with its Mickey Rat logo (which looks like Mickey Mouse but with a long jagged snout). Other retailers have opted to use more traditional motifs, like Nike, which has a series of subtly intricate shoe designs inspired by traditional Chinese paper cutting. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gucci (@gucci) on Jan 3, 2020 at 3:14am PST Despite their best efforts, Western companies haven’t escaped the inevitable criticism (mostly by Western consumers) that they’re commodifying a cultural holiday for their bottom line. In addition to Lunar New Year, brands have also capitalized on China’s Mid-Autumn Festival and the Muslim holiday Ramadan. In a 2015 piece for Racked, Fareeha Molvi wrote about the slow commercialization of Ramadan, and about grappling with how her culture “could be the next lucrative frontier,” like other holidays before it. “At its core, Ramadan is about doing more with less. Literally, you’re asked to do more good deeds while physically consuming less,” she wrote. When companies try to co-opt a cultural holiday for material gain, they risk subverting or even trivializing the tradition behind the event. Despite Lunar New Year’s deep-seated traditions, it has devolved into somewhat of a consumerist holiday: It’s tradition for people to buy loved ones gifts or exchange money (which encourages spending), and it’s even considered good fortune to ring in the new year with new stuff. For the most part, Asian consumers abroad don’t appear to take issue with the cultural marketing. Nike and Apple have received praise for releasing poignant ads that focus on family and tradition. However, foreign customers are quick to notice failed marketing ploys and point out where brands have erred. For example, Burberry’s Chinese New Year campaign in 2019 featured stoic, heavily stylized family portraits, which Chinese netizens found creepy and tone-deaf. Amid tensions between China and the US over trade and geopolitics, however, Chinese shoppers might not be as receptive to Western brands’ Lunar New Year efforts. They’ve become especially wary of American companies and critical of international retailers overall, according to a Wall Street Journal piece on how America is losing the Chinese customer. “This past Christmas is a good indication that [retailers] don’t have much up their sleeves besides promotions and discounts,” Gabor said. In a way, Lunar New Year has been a saving grace for some retailers, another opportunity to get more customers to buy. That might change in the future, as surveys show how Chinese shoppers prefer to buy from domestic brands, partly for patriotism’s sake. On Singles Day, the country’s largest shopping holiday, up to 78 percent of respondents surveyed said the trade war would affect their purchase of American brands. It doesn’t help that a string of missteps in 2019, which left companies scrambling to scrap together corporate apologies, has soured China’s perception towards Western brands. It was just in 2018 that a Chinese fast-fashion company had to set up shop in London to gain appeal in Beijing. The opposite effect might be taking place now. Analysts predict that Chinese shoppers alone are expected to spend as much as $156 billion on new year festivities. Still, it’s uncertain whether it’ll benefit the bottom line of Western companies. Sign up for The Goods newsletter. Twice a week, we’ll send you the best Goods stories exploring what we buy, why we buy it, and why it matters.
How Lunar New Year became a shopping holiday for Western brands Brands like Gucci and Adidas Originals have partnered with Disney to release limited-edition capsule collections for Lunar New Year. | Wang Gang/VCG/Getty Images Gucci, Nike, and Sephora have released new merchandise for the Year of the Rat. The stretch of time between end-of-year celebrations and Valentine’s Day is usually bleak. People are physically and financially drained from the holidays, and there’s not much to celebrate — a dry spell that has led brands to create a deluge of fake holidays like National Shortbread Day (January 6) and National Shop for Travel Day (January 14). Within the past decade, a spate of brands both luxury and affordable have adopted a new holiday into their calendars, one that’s already celebrated by more than a billion people annually: Lunar New Year. In the US, the holiday is generally referred to as Chinese New Year, but Lunar New Year seems like a more accurate description, given that the event is also observed by non-Chinese people. What is Lunar New Year? While Lunar New Year 2020 officially falls on January 25, the holiday is celebrated across multiple days and even weeks in places like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Under the Gregorian calendar used by most countries worldwide, the new year starts on January 1. Lunar New Year is the celebration under the lunisolar calendar — which is based on cycles of the moon — and typically falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. The specific celebrations and formal dates encompassing the holiday vary by country and culture, but it’s an important day reserved for festivities to ring in the new year. Celebrants host elaborate meals with extended families, exchange money or gifts for good fortune, party in the streets, and set off fireworks. Lunar New Year in China, which is called the Spring Festival, has 15 days of festivities, South Korea’s Seollal celebration lasts 12 days, and Vietnam’s Tết Nguyên Đán is a week long. Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images China has 15 days of festivities prepared for its Lunar New Year celebration, which is called the Spring Festival. There are numerous other lunar calendar-based celebrations that fall later than January 25, usually during or after the spring equinox. For example, Losar, the Tibetan new year, begins on February 24, while Cambodia starts its new year celebration on April 14. It’s likely that the growth of Asian immigrant populations in the US, especially those of Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese descent, has contributed to the overall popularity and cultural awareness of Lunar New Year. The largest celebrations from these communities typically occur in urban centers like Los Angeles, New York City, or San Francisco. Lunar New Year is a holiday steeped in tradition. It’s also an occasion to spend. As with most holidays, Lunar New Year has become an opportunity for retailers to sell shoes, jackets, or handbags on the premise of being culturally observant. While there are various other lunar-based celebrations in the months that follow, Western companies have notably latched onto Lunar New Year, given the scale of its celebration. Well-known Western brands like Apple, Gucci, Nike, and Sephora have launched new advertising campaigns and capsule collections overseas, primarily aimed at Chinese customers, but these activities have also bled into the American market. Malls, shopping centers, and entertainment venues in major US cities are hosting attractions tied to Lunar New Year. Despite the financial gains made from it, however, Lunar New Year is not yet a federal holiday. The commodification of major holidays and events is nothing new. Brands have long had a corporate incentive to pander to customers by aligning themselves with certain political and social goals. Yet there’s a stark disconnect that emerges when brands try to commercialize a holiday, especially one tied to cultures that celebrate it abroad like Lunar New Year. Despite the financial gains made from it, however, Lunar New Year is not yet a federal holiday “There’s this flattening of the world taking place in regards to marketing trends and themes,” Deb Gabor, a brands expert and CEO of Sol Marketing, told Vox. “It mostly started with the luxury brands, but we’re seeing more and more mainstream brands doing this,” like Sephora and online beauty companies. Lunar New Year appears to be yet another branded holiday where products are marketed with culturally specific colors, themes, and motifs — with the intention of courting an Asian market that holds significant spending power. Brands, especially luxury retailers, are actively chasing China, which will be the world’s largest apparel market by 2030. The “Lunar New Year effect,” as Gabor called it, is reflected in how American retailers are participating in Chinese shopping events, like Singles Day. According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, Chinese consumers in 2019 spent $149 billion across the week-long Chinese New Year holiday. China is also a hot spot for luxury retailers, spending about $7 billion each year on brand-name goods, according to McKinsey. Every year, retailers have the opportunity to create new merchandise that correlates with the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which symbolizes a given year. A person’s zodiac sign depends on their birth year, and even American consumers have a semblance of knowledge of the zodiac, if not their affiliated animal. Given our collective enthusiasm at identifying ourselves through unscientific, ambiguous ways, brands are relying on zodiac imagery to sell their products. sees what you’re up to Apple. Alot of the emoji engraving options also match the Chinese Zodiac animals so you can engrave the year of your birth. pic.twitter.com/kxvM21ltfw— Brian Suda (@briansuda) January 3, 2020 2020 is the Year of the Rat, which might not be the cutest animal on earth, but that hasn’t stopped fashion retailers and makeup brands from releasing rat-related merchandise: Gucci and Adidas Originals have both partnered with Disney on capsule collections that feature Mickey Mouse, arguably the most famous rodent in the world. Rag & Bone has a pizza rat sweater, and Moschino released products with its Mickey Rat logo (which looks like Mickey Mouse but with a long jagged snout). Other retailers have opted to use more traditional motifs, like Nike, which has a series of subtly intricate shoe designs inspired by traditional Chinese paper cutting. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gucci (@gucci) on Jan 3, 2020 at 3:14am PST Despite their best efforts, Western companies haven’t escaped the inevitable criticism (mostly by Western consumers) that they’re commodifying a cultural holiday for their bottom line. In addition to Lunar New Year, brands have also capitalized on China’s Mid-Autumn Festival and the Muslim holiday Ramadan. In a 2015 piece for Racked, Fareeha Molvi wrote about the slow commercialization of Ramadan, and about grappling with how her culture “could be the next lucrative frontier,” like other holidays before it. “At its core, Ramadan is about doing more with less. Literally, you’re asked to do more good deeds while physically consuming less,” she wrote. When companies try to co-opt a cultural holiday for material gain, they risk subverting or even trivializing the tradition behind the event. Despite Lunar New Year’s deep-seated traditions, it has devolved into somewhat of a consumerist holiday: It’s tradition for people to buy loved ones gifts or exchange money (which encourages spending), and it’s even considered good fortune to ring in the new year with new stuff. For the most part, Asian consumers abroad don’t appear to take issue with the cultural marketing. Nike and Apple have received praise for releasing poignant ads that focus on family and tradition. However, foreign customers are quick to notice failed marketing ploys and point out where brands have erred. For example, Burberry’s Chinese New Year campaign in 2019 featured stoic, heavily stylized family portraits, which Chinese netizens found creepy and tone-deaf. Amid tensions between China and the US over trade and geopolitics, however, Chinese shoppers might not be as receptive to Western brands’ Lunar New Year efforts. They’ve become especially wary of American companies and critical of international retailers overall, according to a Wall Street Journal piece on how America is losing the Chinese customer. “This past Christmas is a good indication that [retailers] don’t have much up their sleeves besides promotions and discounts,” Gabor said. In a way, Lunar New Year has been a saving grace for some retailers, another opportunity to get more customers to buy. That might change in the future, as surveys show how Chinese shoppers prefer to buy from domestic brands, partly for patriotism’s sake. On Singles Day, the country’s largest shopping holiday, up to 78 percent of respondents surveyed said the trade war would affect their purchase of American brands. It doesn’t help that a string of missteps in 2019, which left companies scrambling to scrap together corporate apologies, has soured China’s perception towards Western brands. It was just in 2018 that a Chinese fast-fashion company had to set up shop in London to gain appeal in Beijing. The opposite effect might be taking place now. Analysts predict that Chinese shoppers alone are expected to spend as much as $156 billion on new year festivities. Still, it’s uncertain whether it’ll benefit the bottom line of Western companies. Sign up for The Goods newsletter. Twice a week, we’ll send you the best Goods stories exploring what we buy, why we buy it, and why it matters.
Many college-educated people think they are deeply engaged in politics. They follow the news—reading articles like this one—and debate the latest developments on social media. They might sign an online petition or throw a $5 online donation at a presidential candidate. Mostly, they consume political information as a way of satisfying their own emotional and intellectual needs. These people are political hobbyists. What they are doing is no closer to engaging in politics than watching SportsCenter is to playing football.For Querys Matias, politics isn’t just a hobby. Matias is a 63-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic. She lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a small city on the New Hampshire border. In her day job, Querys is a bus monitor for a special-needs school. In her evenings, she amasses power. Querys is a leader of a group called the Latino Coalition in Haverhill, bringing together the Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Central Americans who together make up about 20 percent of the residents of the city. The coalition gets out the vote during elections, but they do much more than that.They have met with their member of Congress and asked for regular, Spanish-speaking office hours for their community. They advocate for policies like immigration reform for Dreamers and federal assistance in affordable housing. On local issues, the demands are more concrete. Dozens of the group’s members have met with the mayor, the school superintendent, and the police department. They want more Latinos in city jobs and serving on city boards. They want the schools to have staff available who can speak with parents in Spanish. They want to know exactly how the city interacts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Querys is engaging in politics—the methodical pursuit of power to influence how the government operates. If she and the community she represents are quiet and not organized, they get ignored. Other interests, sometimes competing interests, prevail. Organizing gives them the ability to get what they want. Much as the civil-rights movement did, Querys is operating with clear goals and with discipline, combining electoral strategies with policy advocacy.[Read: Democrats should be worried about the Latino vote]Unlike organizers such as Querys, the political hobbyists are disproportionately college-educated white men. They learn about and talk about big important things. Their style of politics is a parlor game in which they debate the issues on their abstract merits. Media commentators and good-government reform groups have generally regarded this as a cleaner, more evolved, less self-interested version of politics compared to the kind of politics that Querys practices.In reality, political hobbyists have harmed American democracy and would do better by redirecting their political energy toward serving the material and emotional needs of their neighbors. People who have a personal stake in the outcome of politics often have a better understanding of how power can and should be exercised—not just at the polls once every four years, but person to person, day in and day out.In the United States, political habits vary significantly by race and education. In a 2018 survey, I found that whites reported spending more time reading, talking, and thinking about politics than blacks and Latinos, but blacks and Latinos were twice as likely as white respondents to say that at least some of the time they dedicate to politics is spent volunteering in organizations. Likewise, those who are college-educated report they spend more time on politics than other Americans—but less than 2 percent of that time involves volunteering in political organizations. The rest is spent mostly in news consumption (41 percent of the time), discussion and debate (26 percent), and contemplating politics alone (21 percent). Ten percent of the time is unclassifiable. Furthermore, the news that college-educated people consume is unlikely to help them actively participate in politics because, as the Pew Research Center has found, they are more likely than non-college educated Americans to rely on national rather than local sources of news. Daily news consumers are very interested in politics, so they say, but they aren’t doing much: In 2016 most reported belonging to zero organizations, having attended zero political meetings in the last year, having worked zero times with others to solve a community problem.What explains the rise of political hobbyism? One important historical explanation is the culture of comfort that engulfs college-educated white people, a demographic group that is now predominately Democratic. They have decent jobs and benefits. There has been no military conscription for some fifty years. Harvard’s Theda Skocpol argues that as the percent of Americans with a college degree has increased over time, they have come to feel less special, less like stewards of their community, less like their communities depend on them. As the college-educated population has grown over time, community participation has, surprisingly, plummeted.[Read: America is divided by education]In other words, college educated people, especially whites, do politics as hobbyists because they can. On the political left, they may say they fear President Trump. They may lament polarization. But they are pretty comfortable with the status quo. They don’t have the same concrete needs as Querys’s community in Haverhill has. Nor do they feel a sense of obligation, of “linked fate”, to people who have concrete needs such that they are willing to be their allies. They might front as “allies” on social media, but very few white liberals are actively engaging in face-to-face political organizations, committing their time to fighting for racial equality or any other issue they say they care about.This article has been adapted from Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, by Eitan Hersh.Instead they are scrolling through their news feeds, keeping up on all the dramatic turns in Washington that satiate their need for an emotional connection to politics but that help them not at all learn how to be good citizens. They can recite the ins and outs of the Mueller investigation or fondly recall old 24-hour scandals like Sharpiegate, but they haven’t the faintest idea how to push for what they care about in their own communities.If you think the status quo in politics isn’t great, then the time wasted on political hobbyism is pretty tragic. But political hobbyism is worse than just a waste of time. As I argue in my new book, Politics is for Power, our collective treatment of politics like a sport incentivizes politicians to behave badly. We reward them with attention and money for any red meat they throw at us. Hobbyism also cultivates skills and attitudes that are counter-productive to building power. Rather than practicing patience and empathy like Querys needs to do to win over supporters in Haverhill, hobbyists cultivate outrage and seek instant gratification.In the Democratic Party coalition, racial minorities have long operated in tension with the well-educated, cosmopolitan wing of the party. It’s a tension between those who have concrete demands from politics and seek empowerment, versus those who have enough power that politics is more about self-gratification than fighting for anything. Only if you don’t need more power than you already have could you possibly consider politics as a form of consumption from the couch rather than as a domain of goals and strategies. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a brief movement of activism by “amateur” or “club” Democrats, as they were called. These were middle-class white professionals who met regularly in well-to-do neighborhoods to talk about politics and push a liberal agenda, including civil rights. A criticism levied against these groups was that they were all talk. In 1967, for instance, in their book, Black Power, Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) and political scientist Charles Hamilton wrote that African-Americans have tried for too long to work with groups like the club Democrats. The authors argued that liberal white professionals didn’t really value black empowerment, often actually impeded black empowerment, and failed to understand the life-and-death consequences for political power. “Let black people organize themselves first,” they wrote, “define their interests and goals, and then see what kinds of allies are available.”Liberal white hobbyists living in well-to-do white enclaves, especially in blue states, might look at politics today and think the important stuff is happening elsewhere—in poorer areas of their own state, in swing states, in Republican states, in Washington—anywhere but where they live. Ture and Hamilton saw this pattern back in the 1960s. “One of the most disturbing things about almost all white supporters,” they wrote, “has been that they are reluctant to go into their own communities—which is where the racism exists—and work to get rid of it.” Fast forward to the present day—to a world of increasing inequality in resources, where rich neighborhoods will feature yard signs claiming everyone is welcome but where zoning rules claim otherwise: If you don’t think there is any work to do in your own town in advancing the cause of racial equality, you are not looking very hard.In immigrant communities, minority communities, in poor communities, politics is about empowerment. When politics is about empowerment, like it is for Querys, community service and political engagement are closely connected. Helping parents navigate school systems, helping neighbors fill out government forms, making sure families have healthcare and food and security—this is both community service and a fight for basic human needs. Those needs can also be served through attaining political power. And how does one gain power for their values, in the way that Querys does? By working in local organizations that demonstrate to a community of people you care about their needs. Then, when an election comes or an important meeting happens, the community shows up. That’s is the basic formula. That’s real politics. It’s precisely the kind of work that political hobbyists expect someone else to perform while they nod along to MSNBC.College-educated hobbyists can engage in real politics too. They’ll need to figure out what needs are unmet and how they can serve them. They’ll need to find local organizations in which they can serve. More fundamentally, they’ll have to figure out which communities they’re willing to fight for. As things stand, their apathy suggests that they already have figured that part out.This article was adapted from Hersh’s upcoming book, Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change.
Political Hobbyists Are Ruining Politics Many college-educated people think they are deeply engaged in politics. They follow the news—reading articles like this one—and debate the latest developments on social media. They might sign an online petition or throw a $5 online donation at a presidential candidate. Mostly, they consume political information as a way of satisfying their own emotional and intellectual needs. These people are political hobbyists. What they are doing is no closer to engaging in politics than watching SportsCenter is to playing football.For Querys Matias, politics isn’t just a hobby. Matias is a 63-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic. She lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a small city on the New Hampshire border. In her day job, Querys is a bus monitor for a special-needs school. In her evenings, she amasses power. Querys is a leader of a group called the Latino Coalition in Haverhill, bringing together the Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Central Americans who together make up about 20 percent of the residents of the city. The coalition gets out the vote during elections, but they do much more than that.They have met with their member of Congress and asked for regular, Spanish-speaking office hours for their community. They advocate for policies like immigration reform for Dreamers and federal assistance in affordable housing. On local issues, the demands are more concrete. Dozens of the group’s members have met with the mayor, the school superintendent, and the police department. They want more Latinos in city jobs and serving on city boards. They want the schools to have staff available who can speak with parents in Spanish. They want to know exactly how the city interacts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Querys is engaging in politics—the methodical pursuit of power to influence how the government operates. If she and the community she represents are quiet and not organized, they get ignored. Other interests, sometimes competing interests, prevail. Organizing gives them the ability to get what they want. Much as the civil-rights movement did, Querys is operating with clear goals and with discipline, combining electoral strategies with policy advocacy.[Read: Democrats should be worried about the Latino vote]Unlike organizers such as Querys, the political hobbyists are disproportionately college-educated white men. They learn about and talk about big important things. Their style of politics is a parlor game in which they debate the issues on their abstract merits. Media commentators and good-government reform groups have generally regarded this as a cleaner, more evolved, less self-interested version of politics compared to the kind of politics that Querys practices.In reality, political hobbyists have harmed American democracy and would do better by redirecting their political energy toward serving the material and emotional needs of their neighbors. People who have a personal stake in the outcome of politics often have a better understanding of how power can and should be exercised—not just at the polls once every four years, but person to person, day in and day out.In the United States, political habits vary significantly by race and education. In a 2018 survey, I found that whites reported spending more time reading, talking, and thinking about politics than blacks and Latinos, but blacks and Latinos were twice as likely as white respondents to say that at least some of the time they dedicate to politics is spent volunteering in organizations. Likewise, those who are college-educated report they spend more time on politics than other Americans—but less than 2 percent of that time involves volunteering in political organizations. The rest is spent mostly in news consumption (41 percent of the time), discussion and debate (26 percent), and contemplating politics alone (21 percent). Ten percent of the time is unclassifiable. Furthermore, the news that college-educated people consume is unlikely to help them actively participate in politics because, as the Pew Research Center has found, they are more likely than non-college educated Americans to rely on national rather than local sources of news. Daily news consumers are very interested in politics, so they say, but they aren’t doing much: In 2016 most reported belonging to zero organizations, having attended zero political meetings in the last year, having worked zero times with others to solve a community problem.What explains the rise of political hobbyism? One important historical explanation is the culture of comfort that engulfs college-educated white people, a demographic group that is now predominately Democratic. They have decent jobs and benefits. There has been no military conscription for some fifty years. Harvard’s Theda Skocpol argues that as the percent of Americans with a college degree has increased over time, they have come to feel less special, less like stewards of their community, less like their communities depend on them. As the college-educated population has grown over time, community participation has, surprisingly, plummeted.[Read: America is divided by education]In other words, college educated people, especially whites, do politics as hobbyists because they can. On the political left, they may say they fear President Trump. They may lament polarization. But they are pretty comfortable with the status quo. They don’t have the same concrete needs as Querys’s community in Haverhill has. Nor do they feel a sense of obligation, of “linked fate”, to people who have concrete needs such that they are willing to be their allies. They might front as “allies” on social media, but very few white liberals are actively engaging in face-to-face political organizations, committing their time to fighting for racial equality or any other issue they say they care about.This article has been adapted from Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, by Eitan Hersh.Instead they are scrolling through their news feeds, keeping up on all the dramatic turns in Washington that satiate their need for an emotional connection to politics but that help them not at all learn how to be good citizens. They can recite the ins and outs of the Mueller investigation or fondly recall old 24-hour scandals like Sharpiegate, but they haven’t the faintest idea how to push for what they care about in their own communities.If you think the status quo in politics isn’t great, then the time wasted on political hobbyism is pretty tragic. But political hobbyism is worse than just a waste of time. As I argue in my new book, Politics is for Power, our collective treatment of politics like a sport incentivizes politicians to behave badly. We reward them with attention and money for any red meat they throw at us. Hobbyism also cultivates skills and attitudes that are counter-productive to building power. Rather than practicing patience and empathy like Querys needs to do to win over supporters in Haverhill, hobbyists cultivate outrage and seek instant gratification.In the Democratic Party coalition, racial minorities have long operated in tension with the well-educated, cosmopolitan wing of the party. It’s a tension between those who have concrete demands from politics and seek empowerment, versus those who have enough power that politics is more about self-gratification than fighting for anything. Only if you don’t need more power than you already have could you possibly consider politics as a form of consumption from the couch rather than as a domain of goals and strategies. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a brief movement of activism by “amateur” or “club” Democrats, as they were called. These were middle-class white professionals who met regularly in well-to-do neighborhoods to talk about politics and push a liberal agenda, including civil rights. A criticism levied against these groups was that they were all talk. In 1967, for instance, in their book, Black Power, Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) and political scientist Charles Hamilton wrote that African-Americans have tried for too long to work with groups like the club Democrats. The authors argued that liberal white professionals didn’t really value black empowerment, often actually impeded black empowerment, and failed to understand the life-and-death consequences for political power. “Let black people organize themselves first,” they wrote, “define their interests and goals, and then see what kinds of allies are available.”Liberal white hobbyists living in well-to-do white enclaves, especially in blue states, might look at politics today and think the important stuff is happening elsewhere—in poorer areas of their own state, in swing states, in Republican states, in Washington—anywhere but where they live. Ture and Hamilton saw this pattern back in the 1960s. “One of the most disturbing things about almost all white supporters,” they wrote, “has been that they are reluctant to go into their own communities—which is where the racism exists—and work to get rid of it.” Fast forward to the present day—to a world of increasing inequality in resources, where rich neighborhoods will feature yard signs claiming everyone is welcome but where zoning rules claim otherwise: If you don’t think there is any work to do in your own town in advancing the cause of racial equality, you are not looking very hard.In immigrant communities, minority communities, in poor communities, politics is about empowerment. When politics is about empowerment, like it is for Querys, community service and political engagement are closely connected. Helping parents navigate school systems, helping neighbors fill out government forms, making sure families have healthcare and food and security—this is both community service and a fight for basic human needs. Those needs can also be served through attaining political power. And how does one gain power for their values, in the way that Querys does? By working in local organizations that demonstrate to a community of people you care about their needs. Then, when an election comes or an important meeting happens, the community shows up. That’s is the basic formula. That’s real politics. It’s precisely the kind of work that political hobbyists expect someone else to perform while they nod along to MSNBC.College-educated hobbyists can engage in real politics too. They’ll need to figure out what needs are unmet and how they can serve them. They’ll need to find local organizations in which they can serve. More fundamentally, they’ll have to figure out which communities they’re willing to fight for. As things stand, their apathy suggests that they already have figured that part out.This article was adapted from Hersh’s upcoming book, Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change.
'Power' Spin-Off: Starz Series Teases New Tommy Egan West Coast Sequel
"Power" has multiple spin-offs coming to Starz and a prequel that follows Tommy starting his life over in California may be among them if Season 6, Episode 13 is anything to go by.
'Power' Spin-Off: Starz Series Teases New Tommy Egan West Coast Sequel "Power" has multiple spin-offs coming to Starz and a prequel that follows Tommy starting his life over in California may be among them if Season 6, Episode 13 is anything to go by.
The next mega disasters that could happen at any moment (and kill us all)
As wildfires so hot that images can be seen from space ravage Australia — creating toxic smoke that clogs the country’s major cities, killing over 25 people, burning 18 million acres and slaughtering up to a billion animals — many around the globe are wondering what catastrophe is next?
The next mega disasters that could happen at any moment (and kill us all) As wildfires so hot that images can be seen from space ravage Australia — creating toxic smoke that clogs the country’s major cities, killing over 25 people, burning 18 million acres and slaughtering up to a billion animals — many around the globe are wondering what catastrophe is next?
Two police officers killed in Hawaii by suspect with history of false 911 calls
Two police officers were shot and killed in Hawaii Sunday by a man who had a history of making false 911 calls. The suspect Jerry Hanel also set a fire that destroyed seven homes. Jamie Yuccas reports.
Two police officers killed in Hawaii by suspect with history of false 911 calls Two police officers were shot and killed in Hawaii Sunday by a man who had a history of making false 911 calls. The suspect Jerry Hanel also set a fire that destroyed seven homes. Jamie Yuccas reports.
“King-Lee Day” and other ways states bend MLK’s legacy
Zac Freeland/Vox How can some places use the federal holiday to honor “human rights” and Confederate generals — and not the civil rights leader? Welcome to Laboratories of Democracy, a series for Vox’s The Highlight, where we examine local policies and their impacts. The policy: States have stretched the meaning of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to honor everything from “human rights” to Confederate generals. Where: Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, Idaho, Virginia, New Hampshire Since: 1986 The problem: In March 1990, the NFL delivered Arizona an ultimatum. The league approved Phoenix as the host of the 1993 Super Bowl — a sure economic boon — on one condition: The state needed to finally recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday. In a scramble, state legislators placed MLK Day on the ballot in 1990, confident it would be approved. But when the vote tally came in that November, officials were shocked to discover the proposal had failed. “We honestly don’t believe our kids and grandkids should revere him as a national hero,” one anti-MLK Day activist told the New York Times. True to its word, the NFL pulled the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona. The Arizona vote revealed something sinister about American race relations: Although MLK Day is generally viewed as a way to mark the country’s supposed racial progress and the life of King, who fought for that progress, many white Americans still refuse to honor the civil rights leader. States are not required to observe any of the 10 federal holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In many cases, they don’t: Columbus Day, for example, is only recognized in 21 states. But state authority over how to designate holidays has given rise to an ominous downplaying of MLK’s legacy. Congress first considered making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday in 1968, the year of the civil rights leader’s assassination. Annual bills were introduced for more than a decade, but none of them made it out of committee because of lingering hostility toward King, particularly among several Republican representatives. But activists and labor unions continued to push for the holiday, delivering a petition that garnered more than 6 million signatures to Congress in the early 1980s. President Ronald Reagan had initially opposed MLK Day, citing the cost of another paid holiday for federal workers, but after the Reagan administration’s campaign against affirmative action and welfare, the president decided he needed to shore up his black support somehow. In 1983, he signed a law proclaiming that the third Monday of January would become Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But contempt for King’s legacy remained. Much of it stemmed from an insistence that King’s work in desegregating the South and advocating wealth redistribution across the country was fundamentally “un-American.” Misinformation about King as a communist sympathizer spread widely. Although many states followed the example of Congress and quickly recognized a holiday in his honor, some of the holdouts decided to get creative. How it works: In April 1984, a pair of white supremacists crawled under a synagogue in Boise, Idaho, and placed three sticks of dynamite beneath the kitchen. The duo, members of the violent white nationalist organization Aryan Nations, later said they intended it as an “act of war.” When the bomb went off, no one died. But it became one in a string of Aryan Nations attacks, which included the murder of a Jewish radio host, that shook the nation in the mid-’80s. The festering racism in Idaho, one of the whitest states in the country and the main base of the Aryan Nations, became fodder for national news stories. The state needed an image change, so Idaho Gov. John Evans devised a simple solution: Idaho would, at long last, push for a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. after years of refusing to recognize it. But the legislation to make MLK Day official didn’t pass. The legislature tried in 1986, then again in 1987, and in 1989. Opposing legislators claimed they were concerned about cost, but as Boise State University history professor Jill K. Gill noted in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, many Idahoans distrusted King, if not civil rights in general. In King, they saw a man who had committed marital infidelities and supposedly harbored communist sympathies. But other legislators did not bother to hide that their opposition was rooted in racism. State Rep. Emerson Smock complained to the Post Register, “A black holiday is what they’re wanting.” The legislature eventually forged a compromise: Rather than create a state holiday that honored King alone, the state would broaden it to include, in theory, anyone. In April 1990, the state announced it would celebrate King’s birthday as “Martin Luther King Jr.-Idaho Human Rights Day.” Although King remained the primary honoree, the extended name was explicitly about mollifying King’s detractors. Idaho isn’t alone. Alabama and Mississippi still celebrate a “King-Lee” day that lumps King together with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose birthday is January 19. Until 2000, Virginia took this idea even further, creating a “Lee-Jackson-King Day” that also honored Confederate leader Stonewall Jackson. “Bundling the holidays remains a form of resistance to racial justice in America,” Gill told Vox. By putting King alongside Lee, she added, “it also remains a vehicle for obscuring white supremacist aims, past and present.” Other states tried an array of strategies to quite literally take Martin Luther King Jr. out of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Until 2000, Utah’s holiday did not mention King by name: MLK Day was known simply as Human Rights Day. South Carolina took a different tack, passing a standalone holiday honoring the civil rights leader but making its observance optional. There, state workers could choose between MLK Day and three separate Confederate holidays as their paid day off. Arizona voters, by contrast, refused to approve a ballot proposal for MLK Day until 1992, two years after the NFL boycotted the state. And in 2000, New Hampshire became the last state in the country to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day under any name, closing out an effort that included multiple failed bills since 1979. The winning compromise: New Hampshire would call its holiday “Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Day” instead of just “Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” Attempts to lump King together with other historical figures have not disappeared. In 2010, the Utah legislature considered a bill that would add gun manufacturer John Browning to the state’s celebration of King. When Desert News asked Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins whether he saw any conflict in honoring a gun manufacturer alongside a proponent of nonviolence, Jenkins replied, “Guns keep peace.” Many of the same states that have renamed MLK Day also routinely downplay anti-black violence in their discussions of America’s past. According to the Washington Post, Massachusetts, which observes the holiday, mentions slavery 104 times in its K-12 public school history guidelines. Compare that to Alabama, which only mentions it 15 times, or Idaho, which only mentions it twice. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, key events in the civil rights movement like the murder of Emmett Till have at times been ignored entirely. According to Gill, maintaining a joint King-Lee holiday “continues that tradition of prioritizing white people’s reconciliation and image of patriotic nobility over acknowledging the historical truths of racial injustice and culpability.” Black activists have long pointed out the ways political leaders have diluted King’s legacy on his birthday. Instead of focusing on his commitment to radical policies like wealth redistribution, politicians are quick to generalize King as a unifier, proof of America’s supposedly harmonious racial present. Three years ago, the FBI even tweeted its support for King’s “incredible career fighting for civil rights” — even though the agency cast King as a domestic threat during his lifetime. That some states still refuse to celebrate King, even in this diluted form, is perhaps an indictment of how far America remains from any semblance of racial equality. Michael Waters is a writer covering the oddities of politics and economics. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed, and the Outline.
“King-Lee Day” and other ways states bend MLK’s legacy Zac Freeland/Vox How can some places use the federal holiday to honor “human rights” and Confederate generals — and not the civil rights leader? Welcome to Laboratories of Democracy, a series for Vox’s The Highlight, where we examine local policies and their impacts. The policy: States have stretched the meaning of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to honor everything from “human rights” to Confederate generals. Where: Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, Idaho, Virginia, New Hampshire Since: 1986 The problem: In March 1990, the NFL delivered Arizona an ultimatum. The league approved Phoenix as the host of the 1993 Super Bowl — a sure economic boon — on one condition: The state needed to finally recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday. In a scramble, state legislators placed MLK Day on the ballot in 1990, confident it would be approved. But when the vote tally came in that November, officials were shocked to discover the proposal had failed. “We honestly don’t believe our kids and grandkids should revere him as a national hero,” one anti-MLK Day activist told the New York Times. True to its word, the NFL pulled the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona. The Arizona vote revealed something sinister about American race relations: Although MLK Day is generally viewed as a way to mark the country’s supposed racial progress and the life of King, who fought for that progress, many white Americans still refuse to honor the civil rights leader. States are not required to observe any of the 10 federal holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In many cases, they don’t: Columbus Day, for example, is only recognized in 21 states. But state authority over how to designate holidays has given rise to an ominous downplaying of MLK’s legacy. Congress first considered making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday in 1968, the year of the civil rights leader’s assassination. Annual bills were introduced for more than a decade, but none of them made it out of committee because of lingering hostility toward King, particularly among several Republican representatives. But activists and labor unions continued to push for the holiday, delivering a petition that garnered more than 6 million signatures to Congress in the early 1980s. President Ronald Reagan had initially opposed MLK Day, citing the cost of another paid holiday for federal workers, but after the Reagan administration’s campaign against affirmative action and welfare, the president decided he needed to shore up his black support somehow. In 1983, he signed a law proclaiming that the third Monday of January would become Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But contempt for King’s legacy remained. Much of it stemmed from an insistence that King’s work in desegregating the South and advocating wealth redistribution across the country was fundamentally “un-American.” Misinformation about King as a communist sympathizer spread widely. Although many states followed the example of Congress and quickly recognized a holiday in his honor, some of the holdouts decided to get creative. How it works: In April 1984, a pair of white supremacists crawled under a synagogue in Boise, Idaho, and placed three sticks of dynamite beneath the kitchen. The duo, members of the violent white nationalist organization Aryan Nations, later said they intended it as an “act of war.” When the bomb went off, no one died. But it became one in a string of Aryan Nations attacks, which included the murder of a Jewish radio host, that shook the nation in the mid-’80s. The festering racism in Idaho, one of the whitest states in the country and the main base of the Aryan Nations, became fodder for national news stories. The state needed an image change, so Idaho Gov. John Evans devised a simple solution: Idaho would, at long last, push for a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. after years of refusing to recognize it. But the legislation to make MLK Day official didn’t pass. The legislature tried in 1986, then again in 1987, and in 1989. Opposing legislators claimed they were concerned about cost, but as Boise State University history professor Jill K. Gill noted in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, many Idahoans distrusted King, if not civil rights in general. In King, they saw a man who had committed marital infidelities and supposedly harbored communist sympathies. But other legislators did not bother to hide that their opposition was rooted in racism. State Rep. Emerson Smock complained to the Post Register, “A black holiday is what they’re wanting.” The legislature eventually forged a compromise: Rather than create a state holiday that honored King alone, the state would broaden it to include, in theory, anyone. In April 1990, the state announced it would celebrate King’s birthday as “Martin Luther King Jr.-Idaho Human Rights Day.” Although King remained the primary honoree, the extended name was explicitly about mollifying King’s detractors. Idaho isn’t alone. Alabama and Mississippi still celebrate a “King-Lee” day that lumps King together with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose birthday is January 19. Until 2000, Virginia took this idea even further, creating a “Lee-Jackson-King Day” that also honored Confederate leader Stonewall Jackson. “Bundling the holidays remains a form of resistance to racial justice in America,” Gill told Vox. By putting King alongside Lee, she added, “it also remains a vehicle for obscuring white supremacist aims, past and present.” Other states tried an array of strategies to quite literally take Martin Luther King Jr. out of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Until 2000, Utah’s holiday did not mention King by name: MLK Day was known simply as Human Rights Day. South Carolina took a different tack, passing a standalone holiday honoring the civil rights leader but making its observance optional. There, state workers could choose between MLK Day and three separate Confederate holidays as their paid day off. Arizona voters, by contrast, refused to approve a ballot proposal for MLK Day until 1992, two years after the NFL boycotted the state. And in 2000, New Hampshire became the last state in the country to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day under any name, closing out an effort that included multiple failed bills since 1979. The winning compromise: New Hampshire would call its holiday “Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Day” instead of just “Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” Attempts to lump King together with other historical figures have not disappeared. In 2010, the Utah legislature considered a bill that would add gun manufacturer John Browning to the state’s celebration of King. When Desert News asked Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins whether he saw any conflict in honoring a gun manufacturer alongside a proponent of nonviolence, Jenkins replied, “Guns keep peace.” Many of the same states that have renamed MLK Day also routinely downplay anti-black violence in their discussions of America’s past. According to the Washington Post, Massachusetts, which observes the holiday, mentions slavery 104 times in its K-12 public school history guidelines. Compare that to Alabama, which only mentions it 15 times, or Idaho, which only mentions it twice. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, key events in the civil rights movement like the murder of Emmett Till have at times been ignored entirely. According to Gill, maintaining a joint King-Lee holiday “continues that tradition of prioritizing white people’s reconciliation and image of patriotic nobility over acknowledging the historical truths of racial injustice and culpability.” Black activists have long pointed out the ways political leaders have diluted King’s legacy on his birthday. Instead of focusing on his commitment to radical policies like wealth redistribution, politicians are quick to generalize King as a unifier, proof of America’s supposedly harmonious racial present. Three years ago, the FBI even tweeted its support for King’s “incredible career fighting for civil rights” — even though the agency cast King as a domestic threat during his lifetime. That some states still refuse to celebrate King, even in this diluted form, is perhaps an indictment of how far America remains from any semblance of racial equality. Michael Waters is a writer covering the oddities of politics and economics. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed, and the Outline.
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Employees and former employees of brands like Sephora and Chipotle are going viral on TikTok. | Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for Sephora Employees and former employees are the best brand ambassadors money can’t buy, but companies aren’t partnering with them. Kyra Gallego never intended to be an influencer. It all started this summer, on her last day working at Sephora, when she created a TikTok video that would instantly go viral: “A Sephora Girl Takes Off Her Makeup.” Building on the immediate success, she posted a follow-up video titled “Sephora Worker Pet Peeves,” followed by “Sephora Hacks.” The views and “Likes” started racking up; 10,000, 30,000, 100,000. “If you want to learn how to cheat the system at Sephora, then keep on watching,” Gallego says while filming from her iPhone in the bathroom mirror. “You can get your birthday gift any time, even if it’s not your birthday month, just ask.” She continues, “You can get a sample of as much as you want, don’t listen to them, there is no limit.” While Kyra was sleeping, the video hit the “For You” page, the app’s equivalent to a website homepage, and went viral. The video currently has 9.6 million views, more than all of the verified Sephora TikTok videos combined. “I saw the opportunity to speak about a popular brand and help people. I saw the ease and quickness that comes with TikTok. ... It was more accessible for people who would want to watch and learn from me. Then I posted that video and it went off,” said Gallego. “I’m basically doing anything I would have done at work, but on my own platform now.” Kyra is not the only inspired employee creator on the app, which boasts 1.5 billion users around the world. In the pursuit of sharing real-life content to gain and entertain followers, cashiers, baristas, and floor employees are introducing the TikTok community to their day-to-day lives working for the world’s most popular brands. The formal influencer programs brands like Sephora dream up in the boardroom can be easily surpassed by those they hired to work the counter — and their worker’s videos can be seen by millions around the world. TikTok has been fueled by Generation Z, digital natives that value transparency, authenticity, and online influence. According to a survey conducted by Morning Consult, 86 percent of Americans aged 13 to 38 would like to become a social media influencer, and TikTok, the newest platform in the game, is a channel primed for the taking. It is less saturated than Instagram and YouTube for those who aim to become influencers and more welcoming to quick, replicable content that is easy to produce and make viral. For a TikTok to go viral, sophisticated agency work or corporate savvy is not required or rewarded, even from global brands. One dance video from the “Queen of TikTok,” Charli D’Amelio, a 15-year-old from Connecticut, may easily garner 24 million views, while a TikTok on the NBA’s official account, a celebrated brand with one of the largest followings on TikTok, may obtain hundreds of thousands. Charli’s bedroom is her set, sweatpants are her wardrobe, and production is courtesy of her iPhone. This evens the playing field for regular teens and big advertisers alike (for now), creating an open space for new, uninhibited voices to rise to the top of the influence chain — and many of them are just starting their careers behind the counters of our favorite retailers and restaurants. In June, Starbucks baristas were dumbfounded when young customers began to order the “TikTok” drink, an off-menu item that was never promoted or officially recognized by the brand. Seemingly overnight, there were two camps: baristas who knew what was going on and those who didn’t. Employees active on TikTok knew what to do: start with a Strawberry Açaí Refresher, three scoops of strawberries, three scoops of blackberries, blended with ice or lemonade. After all, #TikTokDrink has 52.6 million views and counting around the world. Starbucks is a lifestyle on TikTok, but with no officially endorsed account, passionate employees have stepped in to promote their favorite drinks and provide barista commentary on their personal accounts, unsponsored and uninfluenced by their managers. Videos of brightly colored, creative drink recipes are described from behind the counter to the tune of 4.5 million views, as in this TikTok about the “IT” frappuccino by user @StarbucksRecipesWithM. This is the kind of exposure marketers dream of. By searching the hashtag #starbucksbarista, you’ll find videos of employees providing insight into not only their favorite drinks, but also why they love to work at Starbucks, and yes, making fun of customer interactions or exposing the mundanity of their jobs. You can’t help but smile when you’re introduced to the local baristas in Port Richey, Florida, or see customers sing their orders to the baristas, just to make them smile (and for the “Likes,” of course). (Starbucks did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Of their own volition and without any special compensation, employees representing all sectors are lifting the corporate curtain that once hid the backstage workings of major brands. The viewers of their viral videos receive raw exposure to brand values right from their device, from people they can relate to (and order from). And it works. The potential for employees to influence brand perception on TikTok is limitless; this opportunity can be a risk when less-favorable videos are distributed straight to the masses, unfiltered by corporate finesse. Take the power of the unofficial employee influencer @Brinaraelanee, who made national news when her video went viral for “exposing” the preparation of Panera Bread’s mac & cheese (spoiler: It’s frozen, a standard industry process to ensure quality control) and was subsequently fired. It’s safe to assume most customers had never demanded, or had access to, information about how their favorite dish was made. But thanks to Bri, we know. All 7.3 million of us that viewed it. “Employees can be your best advocates because they know and love the brand, they know all the ‘hacks’ and insider info,” said Mae Karwowski, CEO of influencer marketing agency Obviously. “The first step is to give guidelines to employees,” she continues. “Show that corporate actually knows that this is an app that exists, then monitor and reward positive behavior.” And brands have done just that, which is why it’s no coincidence that Kyra Gallego started posting TikToks on her last day working for Sephora. Corporate social media guidelines are standard practice and may indirectly or explicitly discourage employees from posting content related to their work or the brands they represent. For creators who depend on social media to promote their personal brand or portfolio, these agreements may restrict professional growth, especially as an influencer. Sources report that Sephora has a policy discouraging the discussion of makeup brands on personal social media channels unless you are within the approved “Sephora Squad,” a group of influencers that apply and are selected by Sephora to collaborate on content and campaigns. Sephora denies this practice but confirms there is a social media policy in place. Former employees no longer restricted by company policy are free to publish videos (like @MakeupbyMaritza’s “Sephora Worker Tea”), which makes possible the skyrocketing fame of free agents like Kyra Gallego. Karwowski points out that these employees are “essentially providing authentic, free advertising” but admits that you also run the risk of someone having a bad day and going on a rant. “I would argue that the person is already on TikTok and is going to rant anyway,” Karwowski says. “Why don’t you capture the good and create parameters for the rest?” Some brands have been early movers to capitalize on positive employee content and harness it to create a successful TikTok strategy.Chipotle utilized the passion of employees to dream up sponsored challenges like the “#FlipYourLid” challenge, born directly from an employee on the line that did the fun trick when creating bowls. With the success of the challenge, Chipotle went on to formally partner with TikTok to promote the “#GuacDance” around National Avocado Day and “#BooritoChallenge” for Halloween. In addition to promoting user-generated content, Chipotle tapped already popular TikTok creators to promote the hashtag. For the #GuacDance campaign, popular creator Loren Gray, who boasts 37.2 million followers, feeds a friend guacamole while she bops along to the “guacamole song,” a sound inspired by a viral internet video. At its core, it is a zero-budget, eight-second video promotion for free guacamole if you visit a Chipotle on the holiday; but what it lacks in production value it makes up for in relatability and nearly 700,000 “Likes.” The TikTok community embraces the brief, authentic, and often ordinary in contrast to the aestheticized expectations of other platforms, and some brands have taken note. “Young people have grown up with branded content, so they are its biggest fans and harshest critics. They can sense when something is inauthentic or forced,” said Karwowski. “Brands have to understand this content is not going to be like a TV commercial,” she advises. So Chipotle kept it true to the platform. They tapped current employees and customers to shoot videos in-store; used trending “sounds,” dances, and memes to increase the chances of going viral; and uploaded content that looks like it was shot from a cellphone. Because it was. “We want to be where our customers are,” said Tressie Lieberman, VP of digital marketing and off-premise at Chipotle, when asked about joining TikTok. “We are creating content at the restaurants and we bring in team members to create content with us. A lot of our employees are following TikTok, so it’s a special moment for them, too.” In her video titled “I <3 Chipotle,” popular creator and former Chipotle employee Zahra, username @Muslimthicc, gushes about how to make the perfect burrito bowl. “Anyone that knows me relatively well knows that I love Chipotle, like I could absolutely live off of it, it is my favorite thing to eat when I go out. And I also used to work at Chipotle for two-and-a-half years,” she tells her 1.7 million followers. “You gotta ask for honey, I swear its life-changing … it’s so worth the mild embarrassment and social anxiety.” (Honey is available; it’s an ingredient used in their homemade vinaigrette.) The video has nearly 775,000 views and is not sponsored or tagged for Chipotle to see and potentially sponsor. You can’t help but believe that Zahra genuinely wants you to have a good experience at her favorite restaurant — that’s it, plain and simple. Her channel is not loaded with paid posts and we often see her studying or driving around with her little brother. She is the exact brand of influence that users on TikTok can trust. Lieberman, speaking to me from corporate headquarters in Newport Beach, California, knew exactly what video I was referring to made by Zahra, a college student in Albany, NY. “There are all these creators that love the brand and are creating really cool content that people enjoy watching, because we are a place where people have so much passion,” Lieberman said. Thanks to her inside knowledge of Sephora and internet savvy, Kyra Gallego has hit a sweet spot of influence serving the burgeoning Gen Z beauty community on TikTok (Kyra is not currently sponsored by Sephora and she has not heard from corporate regarding her videos). She wants to stay focused on helping others learn beauty tricks and guide her now-320,000 followers through the often overwhelming world of skin care and beauty. “I want people to know that Sephora is not a scary, mean place; they value customer service and experience. I just want people to know Sephora wants to make you more beautiful than you already are,” said Gallego. As for the future, Kyra is about to begin her last semester of college, then she’s off to pursue her master’s degree in education. “If I can have this much success within one month of being on TikTok, who knows what will happen by the time I’m ready to teach,” said Gallego. Sign up for The Goods newsletter. Twice a week, we’ll send you the best Goods stories exploring what we buy, why we buy it, and why it matters.
TikTok is full of Sephora and Chipotle employees spilling secrets. That can get complicated. Employees and former employees of brands like Sephora and Chipotle are going viral on TikTok. | Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for Sephora Employees and former employees are the best brand ambassadors money can’t buy, but companies aren’t partnering with them. Kyra Gallego never intended to be an influencer. It all started this summer, on her last day working at Sephora, when she created a TikTok video that would instantly go viral: “A Sephora Girl Takes Off Her Makeup.” Building on the immediate success, she posted a follow-up video titled “Sephora Worker Pet Peeves,” followed by “Sephora Hacks.” The views and “Likes” started racking up; 10,000, 30,000, 100,000. “If you want to learn how to cheat the system at Sephora, then keep on watching,” Gallego says while filming from her iPhone in the bathroom mirror. “You can get your birthday gift any time, even if it’s not your birthday month, just ask.” She continues, “You can get a sample of as much as you want, don’t listen to them, there is no limit.” While Kyra was sleeping, the video hit the “For You” page, the app’s equivalent to a website homepage, and went viral. The video currently has 9.6 million views, more than all of the verified Sephora TikTok videos combined. “I saw the opportunity to speak about a popular brand and help people. I saw the ease and quickness that comes with TikTok. ... It was more accessible for people who would want to watch and learn from me. Then I posted that video and it went off,” said Gallego. “I’m basically doing anything I would have done at work, but on my own platform now.” Kyra is not the only inspired employee creator on the app, which boasts 1.5 billion users around the world. In the pursuit of sharing real-life content to gain and entertain followers, cashiers, baristas, and floor employees are introducing the TikTok community to their day-to-day lives working for the world’s most popular brands. The formal influencer programs brands like Sephora dream up in the boardroom can be easily surpassed by those they hired to work the counter — and their worker’s videos can be seen by millions around the world. TikTok has been fueled by Generation Z, digital natives that value transparency, authenticity, and online influence. According to a survey conducted by Morning Consult, 86 percent of Americans aged 13 to 38 would like to become a social media influencer, and TikTok, the newest platform in the game, is a channel primed for the taking. It is less saturated than Instagram and YouTube for those who aim to become influencers and more welcoming to quick, replicable content that is easy to produce and make viral. For a TikTok to go viral, sophisticated agency work or corporate savvy is not required or rewarded, even from global brands. One dance video from the “Queen of TikTok,” Charli D’Amelio, a 15-year-old from Connecticut, may easily garner 24 million views, while a TikTok on the NBA’s official account, a celebrated brand with one of the largest followings on TikTok, may obtain hundreds of thousands. Charli’s bedroom is her set, sweatpants are her wardrobe, and production is courtesy of her iPhone. This evens the playing field for regular teens and big advertisers alike (for now), creating an open space for new, uninhibited voices to rise to the top of the influence chain — and many of them are just starting their careers behind the counters of our favorite retailers and restaurants. In June, Starbucks baristas were dumbfounded when young customers began to order the “TikTok” drink, an off-menu item that was never promoted or officially recognized by the brand. Seemingly overnight, there were two camps: baristas who knew what was going on and those who didn’t. Employees active on TikTok knew what to do: start with a Strawberry Açaí Refresher, three scoops of strawberries, three scoops of blackberries, blended with ice or lemonade. After all, #TikTokDrink has 52.6 million views and counting around the world. Starbucks is a lifestyle on TikTok, but with no officially endorsed account, passionate employees have stepped in to promote their favorite drinks and provide barista commentary on their personal accounts, unsponsored and uninfluenced by their managers. Videos of brightly colored, creative drink recipes are described from behind the counter to the tune of 4.5 million views, as in this TikTok about the “IT” frappuccino by user @StarbucksRecipesWithM. This is the kind of exposure marketers dream of. By searching the hashtag #starbucksbarista, you’ll find videos of employees providing insight into not only their favorite drinks, but also why they love to work at Starbucks, and yes, making fun of customer interactions or exposing the mundanity of their jobs. You can’t help but smile when you’re introduced to the local baristas in Port Richey, Florida, or see customers sing their orders to the baristas, just to make them smile (and for the “Likes,” of course). (Starbucks did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Of their own volition and without any special compensation, employees representing all sectors are lifting the corporate curtain that once hid the backstage workings of major brands. The viewers of their viral videos receive raw exposure to brand values right from their device, from people they can relate to (and order from). And it works. The potential for employees to influence brand perception on TikTok is limitless; this opportunity can be a risk when less-favorable videos are distributed straight to the masses, unfiltered by corporate finesse. Take the power of the unofficial employee influencer @Brinaraelanee, who made national news when her video went viral for “exposing” the preparation of Panera Bread’s mac & cheese (spoiler: It’s frozen, a standard industry process to ensure quality control) and was subsequently fired. It’s safe to assume most customers had never demanded, or had access to, information about how their favorite dish was made. But thanks to Bri, we know. All 7.3 million of us that viewed it. “Employees can be your best advocates because they know and love the brand, they know all the ‘hacks’ and insider info,” said Mae Karwowski, CEO of influencer marketing agency Obviously. “The first step is to give guidelines to employees,” she continues. “Show that corporate actually knows that this is an app that exists, then monitor and reward positive behavior.” And brands have done just that, which is why it’s no coincidence that Kyra Gallego started posting TikToks on her last day working for Sephora. Corporate social media guidelines are standard practice and may indirectly or explicitly discourage employees from posting content related to their work or the brands they represent. For creators who depend on social media to promote their personal brand or portfolio, these agreements may restrict professional growth, especially as an influencer. Sources report that Sephora has a policy discouraging the discussion of makeup brands on personal social media channels unless you are within the approved “Sephora Squad,” a group of influencers that apply and are selected by Sephora to collaborate on content and campaigns. Sephora denies this practice but confirms there is a social media policy in place. Former employees no longer restricted by company policy are free to publish videos (like @MakeupbyMaritza’s “Sephora Worker Tea”), which makes possible the skyrocketing fame of free agents like Kyra Gallego. Karwowski points out that these employees are “essentially providing authentic, free advertising” but admits that you also run the risk of someone having a bad day and going on a rant. “I would argue that the person is already on TikTok and is going to rant anyway,” Karwowski says. “Why don’t you capture the good and create parameters for the rest?” Some brands have been early movers to capitalize on positive employee content and harness it to create a successful TikTok strategy.Chipotle utilized the passion of employees to dream up sponsored challenges like the “#FlipYourLid” challenge, born directly from an employee on the line that did the fun trick when creating bowls. With the success of the challenge, Chipotle went on to formally partner with TikTok to promote the “#GuacDance” around National Avocado Day and “#BooritoChallenge” for Halloween. In addition to promoting user-generated content, Chipotle tapped already popular TikTok creators to promote the hashtag. For the #GuacDance campaign, popular creator Loren Gray, who boasts 37.2 million followers, feeds a friend guacamole while she bops along to the “guacamole song,” a sound inspired by a viral internet video. At its core, it is a zero-budget, eight-second video promotion for free guacamole if you visit a Chipotle on the holiday; but what it lacks in production value it makes up for in relatability and nearly 700,000 “Likes.” The TikTok community embraces the brief, authentic, and often ordinary in contrast to the aestheticized expectations of other platforms, and some brands have taken note. “Young people have grown up with branded content, so they are its biggest fans and harshest critics. They can sense when something is inauthentic or forced,” said Karwowski. “Brands have to understand this content is not going to be like a TV commercial,” she advises. So Chipotle kept it true to the platform. They tapped current employees and customers to shoot videos in-store; used trending “sounds,” dances, and memes to increase the chances of going viral; and uploaded content that looks like it was shot from a cellphone. Because it was. “We want to be where our customers are,” said Tressie Lieberman, VP of digital marketing and off-premise at Chipotle, when asked about joining TikTok. “We are creating content at the restaurants and we bring in team members to create content with us. A lot of our employees are following TikTok, so it’s a special moment for them, too.” In her video titled “I <3 Chipotle,” popular creator and former Chipotle employee Zahra, username @Muslimthicc, gushes about how to make the perfect burrito bowl. “Anyone that knows me relatively well knows that I love Chipotle, like I could absolutely live off of it, it is my favorite thing to eat when I go out. And I also used to work at Chipotle for two-and-a-half years,” she tells her 1.7 million followers. “You gotta ask for honey, I swear its life-changing … it’s so worth the mild embarrassment and social anxiety.” (Honey is available; it’s an ingredient used in their homemade vinaigrette.) The video has nearly 775,000 views and is not sponsored or tagged for Chipotle to see and potentially sponsor. You can’t help but believe that Zahra genuinely wants you to have a good experience at her favorite restaurant — that’s it, plain and simple. Her channel is not loaded with paid posts and we often see her studying or driving around with her little brother. She is the exact brand of influence that users on TikTok can trust. Lieberman, speaking to me from corporate headquarters in Newport Beach, California, knew exactly what video I was referring to made by Zahra, a college student in Albany, NY. “There are all these creators that love the brand and are creating really cool content that people enjoy watching, because we are a place where people have so much passion,” Lieberman said. Thanks to her inside knowledge of Sephora and internet savvy, Kyra Gallego has hit a sweet spot of influence serving the burgeoning Gen Z beauty community on TikTok (Kyra is not currently sponsored by Sephora and she has not heard from corporate regarding her videos). She wants to stay focused on helping others learn beauty tricks and guide her now-320,000 followers through the often overwhelming world of skin care and beauty. “I want people to know that Sephora is not a scary, mean place; they value customer service and experience. I just want people to know Sephora wants to make you more beautiful than you already are,” said Gallego. As for the future, Kyra is about to begin her last semester of college, then she’s off to pursue her master’s degree in education. “If I can have this much success within one month of being on TikTok, who knows what will happen by the time I’m ready to teach,” said Gallego. Sign up for The Goods newsletter. Twice a week, we’ll send you the best Goods stories exploring what we buy, why we buy it, and why it matters.
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Anatomies of (Dis)Appearance:
Charles Borkhuis, Disappearing Acts.
(Chax Press, 2014. $18. ISBN: 9780989431682)
Charles Borkhuis enacts “disappearing acts” in the actual structure of his seventh book of poetry. The poetic sequence, “Dead Reckoning,” has five parts, each with a subtitle and each consisting of six sections of unrhymed, unpunctuated free-verse couplets, and each of the parts is separated by another poem. (And these poems, some of which are sequences as well, have differing stanzaic patterns and in one case, a cross between Olsonian composition-by-field and contemporary visual poetry.) The fourteen, fourteen-line, tercet-dominated “Hypnogogic Sonnets” that separate the first and third parts of “Dead Reckoning” consist of powerfully enigmatic narratives that all feature some form of undoing, and most make reference to the material traces and effects of language: “black pronoun on the frozen lake/ where the foot stops/ white between words” (27). Each time “Dead Reckoning” disappears, we find that it will reappear, and in fact, the binary of appearance/disappearance is crucial to the poem’s movement, as in the opening lines: “to each his own double/ loitering inside the ruins// body echo to go/ so easy to be displaced” (11).
A cliché about individual choice is transformed into a splitting of the self. And what keep appearing and disappearing—that is, displacing one another—are particular components of the multiple self. The “double” haunts “the ruins” of what is thought to be an “original” self, but is the “body” an “echo” of the mind that “goes” (does not remain stable?) or is the socially structured self a ruined, transient echo of the body? Fragmentary syntax waxes ambiguous and will not answer, but any seeming foundation or after-effect seems easily “displaced.” The poem’s speaker calls attention to his own problematic status as the one who is supposed to deliver a “self” to the audience: “whispers through the static…/ which of you insists on speaking for me” (12).
Even if the “you” may be read as an apostrophe for readers, it is more likely that this second-person plural refers to the many versions of self that might, at a given time, occupy the blank spot of the “me” representing the concept of a speaking subject. “The static,” then, involves this confusion of multiple images/tropes of identity, as though they vie in space and time for recognition—or perhaps even dominance. Because of this, as well as the perpetually othering process of self-contemplation, no mirror (literal or figurative) works to deliver stable self-identification for the individual “behind” the words: “you’re not a reflection// you’re a person who just can’t see/ his face in the glass anymore” (14). The question is whether s/he ever could see accurately. Indeed, versions of the self’s narrative depend on particular perspectives about reality/illusion and success/failure, and none seem to have staying power:
In one scenario he’s his father’s favorite
in another he’s dishonored and disowned
in one version he’s the author of too many books
in another he’s a beggar with too few limbs
one moment an intrepid world traveler
the next the man who never left his room
in still another only one world is real
and the others just soap bubbles that pop (15)
Whereas the “beggar” with one or no “limbs” and “the man who never left his room” suffer experiential immobility, a “dishonored’ identity defined by lack, the one who has authored “too many books” seems to have an excess of “limbs” that make recognition of an author traveling through time with a unified oeuvre impossible.
Various moments in the second and third parts of “Dead Reckoning” address how a constituted self is measured through the experience of intimate relationships. For example, as he is “lost on a train of thought,” a speaker’s mother (perhaps long gone) is remembered or imagined to intone a superego-like admonition: “I am speeding back to mother// spying me in the mirror’s eye/ ‘you’d never anything to make me// ashamed of you would you’” (36). This alarming utterance is punctuated by the continual “ringing” of an “alarm clock…// in the suitcase overhead.” Flashes of memory and temporal disjunction are alarming to both the speaker and his fellow travelers.
Borkhuis represents love as a source of tantalizing incompleteness, to be supplemented by poetic language and thus granted some degree of success: “’maybe we never truly touch/ and in love remain unknown’// a cat crossing at the green smiles back/’only in metaphor may we meet’” (39). The metaphorical sense of erotic unity is as unsettling as it is arresting: one who has “dreamt [he] was still alive/ but woke up dead” finds that he is “within” the erotic “other,” perhaps willingly trading an individual identity for the unification of the “egg” or sphere in Plato’s Symposium echoed in Yeats’s “Among School Children”: “and I returned to live inside you//… impossible to detect precisely// when my body stopped/ and yours started” (65). Even when “truth” seems to be exposed, it amounts to “no more than a dented can of bug spray”—a feeble defense against annoying environmental intrusions—“on a despoiled shore”; nevertheless, even in these degraded circumstances, “love will still wash up/ on my worn out loafers looking for a bone” (68).
Of course, the title “Dead Reckoning” can be read in various ways: as the calculation of a position in navigation (in either a literal or figurative sense), as the attempt of the living to interpret the dead and death itself, and as the “reckoning” performed by the dead. Especially in some of the later sections of the poem, tropes that posit reversals of the binaries living/death and person/ghost further develop the exploration of the appearance and disappearance of selves in ways that disrupt commonsensical ways of keeping track of past, present, and future: “you watch yourself acting in a film/ but your ghost is squeezed// by a story you didn’t write” (84). The self that one perceives in the “mirror” of a movie is already a “ghost” of one’s past, and in the present, he does not recognize himself as the author of the narrative of those past actions, but as an actor submitting to external forces. Yet the “dead” individual seems to inhabit the border between life and death, desperate to know his “true” status: “he awakens in a tunnel on a train// and asks the woman sitting next to him/ ‘please tell me … am I still alive.’”
For the ghost, the prospect of eternal life is a nightmare, not a consolation; it is entertained that one “in death remain[s] on call,” like a physician who cannot rest, and there is also “the call of other lifetimes inside this one” (88). “To pretend to live/ and make a show of it” mocks the quest for authenticity. Indeed, “real life” is shockingly termed “this afterbirth” (104). “Ghosts inside the minds of others” reinforce what Derrida characterizes as the hauntology of ontology; individual identity is ghostly in its failure to establish enduring temporal and spatial presence and ability to make itself wholly present: “I am what haunts and what is haunted/ / but is absent at its core/ without a clear beginning or end” (108).
The speaker of “Spasm,” a seven-page text in blocks of verse with bursts of wholly unpunctuated units of syntax, has a similar “ghostly” problematic. He is a patient in a mental institution who is acutely aware of how his “keepers” limit his freedom and reify him: “we were so much left luggage” (73); “someone turns me in like a bad bill” (77). Against the idea of shock therapy and other depersonalization attacks” (76), the speaker opens the poem with the imperative: “shock the therapy back to the spark” (73), yet he acknowledges that the bleak environment has disoriented him to the extent that his possibilities of resistance are severely challenged: “wake me hands shaking from this place I can’t/ keep words to things anymore so objects pass/ in fever” (74). Even if the disruption of links between signifier and signified, in other contexts, permits an expansion of imaginative capacity, here it stymies his already fraught negotiation with the keepers.
“Spasm” is fueled by the fascinating interplay of delusion, insight, and in-between states in the inmate speaker’s associative flow. Whereas, at one point, he has the paranoid delusion of “hearing” the keepers laughingly “sawing off patients’ limbs” in the institution’s “storage room” (76), he can detect “the nothing in their eyes” (74) that indicates the keepers’ disillusionment about the impact of their jobs, their burnout, yet he also understands the psychological power of creativity: “thought can ignite a bud inside the skull blossom….” Of course, as a response to his own immense self-doubt and lack of agency, a fantasy of mastery over his “captors” is a natural move: “stand motionless sun-/ captured tree so they will never know the/ circuitry secret sky code lips aflame so I may/ eat the sun…” The concluding trope in this passage, acknowledged as “a trick,” suggests a sublime influx of vibrant energy. All of this is not a manifestation of mere insanity, but an unsentimental call for the recognition that, behind the elements of his character that most would consider dysfunctional, he experiences a significant range of human emotions and desires. And the intricacy and subtlety of language, it should be emphasized, are the means by which the poet delivers approximations (not full re-presentations) of a being’s thought processes. Poetic language questions the policing of boundaries: “I disappear inside the/ keeper’s brain burrow deeper there until one/ night he hears my voice as if it were his own” (79).
The title of “Trace Elements” can be read as a command to investigate what is elementary or fundamental and/or as a gesture identifying the poem itself as a container of such elements. Does Borkhuis presume the possibility of capturing what is irreducible—like the most sub-atomic of entities—in his poem, or does he signal in a Derridean fashion that one cannot follow traces back to the telos of absolute origins? He poses the problem of totalized explanation, of comprehensive understanding, knocking against ubiquitous uncertainty; this gives a poem of varied imagery, tropes, and abstractions its primary dynamic: “that I might try in vain/ to explain the universe/ to a dying vole” (91); “explain till you have explained away/ all explanation// swept under the rug/ except for the silence/ between things” (92). Directly mentioned twice more in the poem (and perhaps indirectly, several other times), the vole seems a trope for whatever denizens of his environment strike the speaker as wholly other, as a severe test to his efforts to communicate. If the poet hopes to supplant “the silence” with an account of the salient relations “between things,” it is a massive challenge, and part of the problem is to find “words” that “know/ which self is knocking at the door/ and which is burrowing/ through the earth” (93)—the precise dilemma articulated so forcefully and variously in the sprawling “Dead Reckoning.”
The horizon of possibility for such an investigation is marked, of course, by what language can do: “status of the sentence/ where the noun prostrates itself/ before the verb/ for deeper clarification” (94). Like Pound, Olson, New York School poets, and many others, Borkhuis suggests that too much attention to “the noun” promotes an illusory sense of status and that one should honor the reality of process, the primacy of “the verb,” in the effort to be faithful to the interaction of elements and transformation of natural and conceptual entities. Such an approach necessitates “correction/ steeped upon correction” (92) rather than the attempt to represent a single fixed truth. We can also find a celebration of what Wallace Stevens terms the pressure of the imagination on reality: “when metaphors collide/ I see sparks from a distant alphabet/ come crawling/ infant on my tongue” (96). Unlike the “distance learners” of current web education, the poet is a “distant learner” (93); his “motive for metaphor” (to cite Stevens again) is to overcome the spatial and temporal remoteness of both prior experience and much natural and world history through establishing “infant” (fresh) linguistic correspondences.
Although poetic language can “coax/ a little life from this chronic ‘yes’ and ‘no” (95), the variegated flux of “Trace Elements” questions any efforts to achieve a comprehensive explanation or transcendence through linguistic means. Indeed, language affords no protection against death: “words will fail us in the end” (99). As when the speaker declares a sublime, surreal perception at the end of the first section, “there the convulsive sun/ hanging from a branch” (91), poetic imagination can be viewed as fostering vital energy and presenting intimations of sublime terror. The dominance of textuality—“the words want to claim us/ as their own” (97)—is something to be feared as much as overwhelming silence is. And “the world eating itself/ word by word// or simply language// stretched over everything/ in a sticky embrace” (98) may offer temporary transport, but words’ “imaginary/ doubling of this world” (100) occasions the same skepticism to be found in the appearances/disappearances of “Dead Reckoning,” “Spasm,” and Disappearing Acts as a whole.
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Corruption, lies, and emails 17
The number of persons in government agencies known to have lied to protect Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton from public knowledge of their wrong-doing, mounts up continually. The full count may never be known.
The very fact they needed to lie is a glaring indication that the cause they supported was a bad one. But if any of them realized this, it apparently didn’t trouble them.
Judicial Watch reports:
Judicial Watch [has] obtained 44 pages of records from the State Department through court-ordered discovery revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records concerning then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecure, non-government email system.
That 2012 request had been made by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). They did not get what they asked for.
Months after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded … falsely stating that no such records existed.
CREW’s general counsel, Anne Weismann, submitted a FOIA request to the State Department on December 6, 2012, seeking “records sufficient to show the number of email accounts of or associated with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those of or associated with Secretary Clinton.”
On May 10, 2013, [Information Programs and Services] replied to CREW, stating that “no records responsive to your request were located.”
So Judicial Watch made a court application to obtain the information that CREW had been denied.
Judicial Watch’s discovery is centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department acted in bad faith in processing Judicial Watch’s FOIA request for communications from Clinton’s office.
They were lucky that their case came before a nonpartisan judge.
U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as E.W. Priestap [assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division], to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. …
So certain agency records have fallen into the hands of Judicial Watch at last, recording the intention to lie, and proving that lying and evasion were what Obama required.
They “include a January 2013 email exchange discussing Clinton’s departure from the State Department in which Agency Records Officer Tasha M. Thian specifically stated that Secretary Clinton ‘does not use email’.”
But also include this, directly contradicting that statement:
The State Department’s Office of Inspector General issued a report in January 2016 saying “At the time the [2012] request was received, dozens of senior officials throughout the Department, including members of Secretary Clinton’s immediate staff, exchanged emails with the Secretary using the personal accounts she used to conduct official business.” Also, the IG “found evidence that [Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills] was informed of the request at the time it was received …”
On whose orders – in addition to Secretary Clinton’s – were the lies told and the CREW request not complied with?
Several documents answer that question: the Obama White House.
The State Department produced records in response to court-ordered document requests that detail Obama White House involvement in the Clinton email FOIA request [and the refusal to grant it].
In a December 20, 2012, email with the subject line “Need to track down a FOIA request from CREW”, Sheryl L. Walter, director of the State Department’s Office of Information Programs and Services (A/GIS/IPS), writes to IPS officials Rosemary D. Reid and Patrick D. Scholl and their assistants:
WH called – have we received a FOIA request from CREW (Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington) on the topic of personal use of email by senior officials? Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give me the details so I can call the WH back? I think they’d like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl
In the same email chain, Walter on December 20, 2012 also emailed Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison, describing the CREW FOIA request:
Hi Heather – Copy attached, it was in our significant weekly FOIA report that we send to L and S/ES also. Do you want us to add you to that list? It’s a subset of things like this that we think likely to be of broader Department interest. More detail below re this request. As a practical matter given our workload, it won’t be processed for some months. Let me know if there are any particular sensitivities. If we don’t talk later, happy holidays! All the best, Sheryl
Sheryl: The request is assigned Case #F-2012-40981. It was received on 12/6/2012 and acknowledged on 12/10/2012. The request is assigned for processing.
On January 10, 2013, Walter writes to Samuelson that she is not including “personal” accounts in the FOIA request search:
Hi Heather – did you ever get any intell re what other agencies are doing re this FOIA request that seeks records about the number of email accounts associated with the Secretary (but isn’t specifying “personal” email accounts so we are interpreting as official accounts only). We are considering contacting the requester to find out exactly what it is they are looking for. Do you have any-concerns about that approach?
Soon afterward, Samuelson responds, “White House Counsel was looking into this for me. I will circle back with them now to see if they have further guidance.” …
The White House counsel found that Clinton had no email accounts.
Which was exactly what Secretary Clinton wanted them to find.
She was very pleased with Heather Samuelson.
Samuelson became Secretary Clinton’s personal lawyer and in 2014 led the review of Clinton’s emails to determine which ones were work-related and which were personal. She was also one of five close Clinton associates granted immunity by the Department of Justice in the Clinton email investigation. …
Further proof that President Obama was involved in the deception – can be said to have presided over it – is found in the sworn testimony of Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division:
[He] admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically the Executive Office of the President.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch concludes:
“These documents suggest [prove – ed] the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “A federal court granted Judicial Watch discovery into the Clinton emails because the court wanted answers about a government cover-up of the Clinton emails. And now we have answers because it looks like the Obama White House orchestrated the Clinton email cover-up.”
And Judge Lamberth is taking the matter as seriously as it needs to be taken. He added a comment to his order: “The Clinton email system” he said, was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency”.
It remains to be seen if there will be any consequences for the officials who cheated and lied for Obama and Clinton. To expect that Obama himself will be so much as mildly reproached for “orchestrating” the cover-up, or Clinton punished for breaking the law, is probably, tragically, to expect too much.
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HomeItalian Air ForceItalian Air Force T-346A and RAF Hawk T2 jet trainers conduct joint training at Decimomannu airbase
Italian Air Force T-346A and RAF Hawk T2 jet trainers conduct joint training at Decimomannu airbase
April 10, 2017 Alessandro "Gonzo" Olivares Italian Air Force, Military Aviation 1
The Italian and British most advanced jets conducted some Air-to-Air sortie in 1vs1 and 2vs1 scenarios combined with rear seat exchange for a cross training and experience sharing during their firing campaigns in Italy.
On Mar. 31, the 212° Gruppo (Squadron) of the 61° Stormo (Wing) from Lecce Galatina airbase, has completed the first Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground training campaign of the year at Decimomannu airbase in Sardinia.
The deployment lasted two weeks and involved six examples of the most advanced jet trainer in the world, the T-346A (as the M-346 is designated in Italy) “Master” operated by the ItAF as well as the Israeli, Polish and Republic of Singapore Air Force.
The pictures in this post, taken by Gian Luca Onnis (one of the most active aviation photographers in Sardinia), show the T-346As carrying two BRD 4-250 (Bomb and Rockets Training Dispenser) loaded with four Low-drag BDU-33D/B bombs for use in the ranges.
3-ship formation departs the range
The image at the top of the article shows the Master at the Apex of a PUP attack (is the top point of the Pull Up Attack).
The 212° Gruppo is responsible for Phase IV pilot jet training and this deployment represents the last part of the LIFT (Lead In Fighter Training) track, the most advanced and challenging segment of the fighter jock training during which trainees are called to perform air-to-air as well as air-to-ground sorties with multiple threats and complex set ups, to deliver state-of-the-art multirole training.
Every scenario can be used thanks to the advanced ETTS (Embedded Tactical Training Simulation) which simulates air-to-air and ground-to-air threats and moving targets, and it is also capable to generate synthetic targets overlapped with real features on the ground allowing a realist Targeting Pod usage.
Drop of a practice bomb
The 212° Gruppo is also involved in the Aggressor role, taking part in the TLP (Tactical Leadership Programme) at Albacete, Spain, with a state-of-the-art trainer and its accompanying simulation system to deliver the perfect “Bandit”: fast, maneuverable and very well equipped.
The Aggressor also dubbed “Red Baron” is part of the TLP’s “Game plan” and together with the Red Forces is also one of the most important “training tool” in the exercise.
In my experience as Instructor Pilot of 212° Gruppo in charge of advanced tactics and combat of the LIFT course, I have taken part in TLP exercise as part of Red Forces. The Aggressor role isn’t easy: pilots need to use all their experience to adhere as much as possible to the requested threat profile in order to make the scenario as realistic as possible and be useful to the Blue Forces training. Many time people think to the Aggressor as a fighter pilot tasked to engage all aircraft and shot them down; in reality, with new scenarios, sometimes border line and not well-defined, the Aggressor’s task is to “incite or harass” the Blue Forces in the right place, in the right moment, with the correct “numbers” (speed, Aspect Angle – AA – etc). In order to do that, the Aggressor is requested to know in-depth the Blue plan, how and where the “package” is flying second by second.
Among all the missions that I’ve flown I’ve had the possibility to face several different scenarios: for instance, one of my task has been to “POP UP”, undetected, just before the attack to disrupt the strike package’s plans and force the attackers to look after me.
Hawk formation take-off
Decimomannu AWTI (Air Weapons Training Installation) provides a full integrated training installation with air-to-air and air-to-ground as well as an EW (Electronic Warfare) range. For this reason, is one of the best places for trainees who need to gain experience at planning and executing missions tactically.
As the Italians carried out their missions with the T-346s, the Royal Air Force’s No. 4 (Reserve) Sqn from RAF Valley was also deployed to Decimomannu for the first time.
Part of the 4 Flying Training School (4 FTS) also known as the fast-jet ATTU (Advanced Training and Tactics Unit), No. 4 (R) Sqn is responsible for tactical weapons training, a role carried out with the Hawk T2.
Whilst advanced flying training is assigned to the 208 (Reserve) Sqn, flying the Hawk T1, RAF students assigned to the 4(R) Sqn will learn how to use the Hawk as a weapons platform, flying in tactical formations at low level to attack targets. Students will basically learn how to drop bombs, strafe targets and the basics of air-to-air combat. Indeed, the Sardinian deployment was part of the A/A training.
The 4(R) Squadron chose Decimomannu for the deployment mainly for the presence of the ACMI (Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation) range availability and the permissive weather conditions allowing simulation of “full war” scenarios.
The ItAF and RAF training squadrons also conducted some joint training sessions: air-to-air sorties in 1vs1 and 2vs1 scenarios combined with rear seat exchange for a cross training and experience sharing. The cross-training was absolutely exciting and an important opportunity to share different aircraft performance. According to the Italian pilots, their British colleagues were extremely impressed by the T-346A’s superior thrust and agility during the fight.
RAF Hawk T2 on the ground at “Deci”
All images: Gian Luca Onnis
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Senate Finance Retirement Savings Bill Falls Short of Offering Comprehensive Solutions
Erica York
The recent tax reform bill left the taxation of household savings, including retirement savings accounts, largely unchanged. Last Thursday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018 (RESA), a bill designed to encourage retirement savings, add flexibility to Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs), and make several other changes. Though this legislation includes a wide variety of changes to retirement savings policy, it falls short of offering more comprehensive solutions, like universal savings accounts, that would simplify how the tax code treats saving and help remove the tax code’s bias against saving.
Under the current system, a large portion of retirement savings are rightly subject to just a single layer of personal income taxation, but subject to an extremely complex and confusing regulatory structure. For example, there are almost a dozen tax-neutral retirement savings accounts, each with its own set of rules and restrictions. And, saving outside of tax-neutral retirement vehicles is subject to multiple layers of taxation, which reduces the after-tax return to saving. This treatment is nonneutral and creates a bias that favors immediate consumption over saving, the effects of which are harmful to individual financial well-being as well as economic growth.
The changes proposed in RESA indicate that lawmakers recognize that many Americans are not saving enough to maintain their current standard of living once they reach retirement and that access to tax-neutral savings should be expanded. RESA is similar to the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016, which unanimously passed the Finance committee in 2016. Summaries of the 34 modifications the current version would make to retirement savings, as well as how the 2018 bill has been updated from the 2016 version, can be viewed here.
The bill is largely designed to encourage small businesses to adopt retirement plans. For example, it would expand access to MEPs, which would allow small businesses to enjoy economies of scale by pooling together to share the costs and administrative burdens of adopting a retirement savings plan. It would also expand a credit for small business retirement plan startup costs and create a credit for small businesses that add an auto-enroll feature to their plans.
RESA would also make changes to a wide variety of other restrictions and rules. For example, it would remove the 10 percent cap that applies to automatic increases in employee contribution rates in auto-enrolled plans. Interestingly, though RESA would remove a prohibition that prevents individuals who have reached age 70½ from contributing to traditional Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), it keeps a rule that individuals reaching that age must begin taking Required Minimum Distributions from their IRAs. The bill would clarify safe harbor rules for employers, making it easier for them to offer annuity options for retirees, and it would permit these types of retirement options to be rolled over into an IRA offering similar benefits; for example, when an employee moves to a new job or when plan rules change.
And, in an effort to encourage individuals to save more, the bill would require at least once a year that benefit statements include a lifetime income disclosure. This disclosure would illustrate what level of retirement income a saver should expect to receive during retirement based on their current account balance, similar to a disclosure that some government employees receive, showing how much monthly income their savings would generate in retirement.
Expanding access to tax-neutral retirement accounts would be beneficial for many Americans, and the more Congress does to reduce the burden on saving, the more people will save. Though RESA would make several changes, it largely maintains the current structure and regulations facing retirement savers today, as well as the biased tax treatment of savings outside of tax-neutral retirement vehicles. Legislative efforts should be designed to simplify the entire system, reduce the tax burden on all saving, and make the tax code neutral between immediate consumption and future consumption, which could be better achieved through traditional-style universal savings accounts.
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YC-Backed Kickback Offers An Easy Way To Play Minecraft Competitively
Kyle Russell @kylebrussell/ / 5 years
From Starcraft to League of Legends, the e-sports market has gone through a massive expansion over the last decade in a half. Millions of dollars are now at stake over video games played in front of audiences of thousands, both at live events and in matches broadcast online.
Y Combinator -backed Kickback is looking to expand the scope of that market by building competitive ecosystems around pre-existing games. Its initial release is built upon Minecraft, the adventure toolbox now owned by Microsoft.
Kickback’s approach treats the entire experience as one product. While the games take place within the Minecraft app, the startup runs servers hosting the matches, arranges games, designs the “maps” games take place in, codifies the rules of each map type and keeps track of player wins and losses.
The server architecture is based on the work done for Triangle, a free server hosting service Kickback created for the Minecraft community last summer. More than 200,000 servers have been hosted on Triangle since its launch, bringing in a healthy number of players for the team to test its primary platform.
Minecraft is rather easy to modify with new weapons, rules, and maps, so Kickback has a fine level of control over the the kind of matches it can implement. Matches can range from two to tens of players, with different rules for deathmatch-style play and team-based combat. Volunteers from the community contribute maps for different player counts and match types, letting the startup add new venues to play in at a faster rate than most studios can crank out downloadable content.
As with Triangle, Kickback’s matchmaking system is offered free to those who just want to play for bragging rights. The startup plans to make money from players willing to bet actual money they’re better than other players. For $1 per match, confident Minecraft players can pitch in to a pot for a chance to win money in ten to twenty minutes.
These paid matches offer just as much variety as the free options, though the number of competitors obviously affects the potential payout. Kickback co-founder Vlad Nov says that paid dynamic has helped the startup in two ways.
First, there’s the unique experience that comes with having some money on the line during a competitive game, making each match feel a bit more exciting. There’s also the fact that the game’s biggest winners have also tended to be the most vocal activists, recruiting more friends to play on the platform than the free players who might just see Kickback as a convenient way to get their Minecraft fix but could otherwise find servers elsewhere.
On the topic of bringing in the community, Kickback’s other co-founder, Mark Prokoudine, says the startup is looking at the aspects of the Minecraft community that make it unique. They’ve made a promotional video in partnership with one of the community’s most popular animators (which you can see a preview of in the GIF below) which they plan to release in concert with a popular Twitch streamer in the weeks to come.
To take advantage of the massive amount of attention Twitch can bring to a game or event, the startup is also working to let users jump into Twitch streams for current matches from within the web app, making it a destination both for playing and watching others play each other.
Going forward, the 10-person startup’s two biggest focuses are adding more maps and match types for Minecraft and bringing other games to the platform. It won’t have some of the advantages that came with Minecraft when it starts working with new games, but Prokoudine says that the hardest work — making the scalable backend and matchmaking systems — was designed to carry over without much of a hassle.
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Wrecked Cancelled at TBS
By Dave Nemetz / April 26 2019, 4:59 PM PDT
Courtesy of TBS
Wrecked‘s chances for another season have crashed and burned: TBS has cancelled the survival comedy after three seasons, TVLine has confirmed.
The Lost-inspired spoof followed a group of mismatched strangers forced to band together on a remote island to survive after their plane crashes into the ocean. The ensemble cast included Zach Cregger (About a Boy) as flight attendant Owen, Asif Ali (The Mick) as sports agent Pack, Jessica Lowe (Man Seeking Woman) as fiery feminist Florence and Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords) as New Zealand native Steve. The show also welcomed a number of guest stars across its three seasons, including Rob Corddry, Eliza Coupe, Jemaine Clement and Erinn Hayes.
Debuting in June 2016, Wrecked was renewed for a second season the following month. It wrapped up its third season in October; the cancellation caps the show’s run at a total of 30 episodes. Wrecked joins fellow TBS comedy People of Earth on the scrap heap; that show got the axe in June after two seasons, despite an earlier renewal.
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Stem Cell Scientist Hans Keirstead Battles Crow’s Feet And Vies For A Congressional Seat
by The Christine Report
ROOT OF SKIN Brand Launching This Month! Check Our 1st Press Piece From The Wonderful Beauty Independent Site and Daily Newsletter. By Rachel Brown.
Hans Keirstead is campaigning for good looks and good government: the first with new skincare brand Root of Skin and the second with a congressional run.
An outgrowth of AiVita Biomedical, the brand is launching after four years of stem cell exploration to help finance the clinical research company’s efforts to develop cancer therapies. Priced from $48 to $57, its three debut products are the 1-oz. Revitalizing Face Serum, .5-oz. Revitalizing Eye Renewal Lotion and 1-oz. Revitalizing Tinted Renew Primer. Formulas rely on the so-called SourceCode Technology combining a cellular communication system with 52 skin-enhancing ingredients.
“The vast majority of skincare on the market is versions of fillers, hydrators and light reflectors. I decided to take an entirely different approach,” says Keirstead. “As a pioneer of the stem cell field, I recognized that all of the stem cell skincare products were marketing ploys rather than reality. We have generated a product that’s a true innovation. Try this stuff. You’ll see the effect.”
As a scientist and biotech entrepreneur, Keirstead is more familiar with a laboratory than skincare marketing. Prior to founding AiVita Biomedical, he was a professor at the UC Irvine School of Medicine and sold the company California Stem Cell for $126 million.
Explaining Root of Skin, Keirstead gets rather technical. He shares, “We took human stem cells and pushed them to become pure populations of human skin precursors. My team is the best in the world at generating pure populations of stem cells. We generate populations that are 99% pure, the next best are 70% pure. That’s a big deal because, if you are generating something that’s 70% pure, you have to ask yourself, what is the other 30%?” He stresses, “We are not adding anything life doesn’t create naturally.”
Root of Skin is far from the only skincare offshoot of a biotech company. The brand Algenist was founded as part of TerraVia, which used to be named Solazyme, and its fellow Sephora offering Biossance is a branch of Amyris. Beauty businesses offer these companies the promise of short-term returns as they chase scientific breakthroughs taking longer to materialize.
“If I make more money than I burn, then I don’t have to raise money,” reasons Keirstead. “The skincare product is projected to generate far more money than I require to run my clinical trials. That’s tens of millions of dollars. Skincare products are very widely used and are high revenue generators, and we are pouring that money back into treating women with cancer.”
To improve its chances in the beauty segment, privately-held AiVita been amassing skincare expertise through a scientific advisory board that includes Michael Gold, Mary Lupo and Zoe Draelos. The company also hired Christine Oddo, formerly of Cristophe Products Inc. and the defunct Kardashian beauty brand PerfectSkin, as chief marketing officer.
Aimed at both men and women, the unscented Root of Skin products will initially be sold online. Medical offices are also potential points of distribution. AiVita has produced a professional edition of Root of Skin that’s pricier than the general retail line and amplifies the active components in the formulas.
AiVita’s skincare business doesn’t rest solely on Root of Skin. The company is promoting its active ingredients broadly to companies for applications in their skincare products. Keirstead divulges AiVita has been in discussions with nine skincare firms considering harnessing the ingredients.
Meanwhile, the budding beauty executive is challenging 18-term Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a strong supporter of President Trump who has been under scrutiny for close ties to Russia, to represent the 48th district that stretches along the Southern California coastline in Orange County. Keirstead, originally from Canada, argues the time he’s spent in the trenches of scientific discovery and policy gives him an understanding few members of Congress have of healthcare in this country.
“We need field experience in Congress. The vast majority of congressmen are lawyers. The deficits in our society are a direct result of that lack of field experience,” he says, continuing, “Our healthcare system quite frankly is a mess, and I intended to fix that. My mission is to facilitate the development of 1,000 companies like mine and to better everyone’s healthcare. Right now, I’m working on cancer, but I would like to facilitate treatments for multiple human diseases.”
Christine C. Oddo is the Chief Marketing Officer for ROOT OF SKIN™ cosmetic and skin care products, author of The Christine Report blog and founder of Madison Luxe Group; a beauty and luxury product retail sales and digital strategy agency.
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The Himalayan Times > Entertainment > Words’ worth : Causes, consequences and kinds of communism
Words’ worth : Causes, consequences and kinds of communism
Published: June 18, 2005 12:00 am On: Entertainment
Tulasi Prasad Acharya
Kathmandu:
There is a reason why the Maoist movement flourished in Nepal, a country steeped in chaos, conflict and cold war. No doubt, the Maoists took advantage of political instability and politicians’ fight for the chair and corruption. But take ‘Nepal’s Maoist movement and Implication for India and China,’ written by Nishchal Nath Pandey, scholar and well-known analyst on international affairs, regional cooperation and internal security of Nepal. The book takes the reader through the labyrinthine history of Nepal’s communist movement, start of the Maoist “warâ€, basic causes behind the growth of the insurgency, implications of 11 September developments, the appalling saga of human rights violations, the cat and mouse game of talks and its political implications for the neighbouring India and China. To be specific, the book delves deep into the Maoist movement and how it all started. Abject poverty and ailing economy was the first and foremost factor in furthering the Maoist rebellion that had actually conceptualised as far back as 1974.
The book examines the facts as to how human rights violations have occurred from both the government’s and the Maoists’ sides. The present problem of the country is disunity and disintegration between the three powers – the monarchy, political parties and the Maoists. The book traces the crisis from political instability to an unfair societal system affecting all levels of the kingdom’s polity. The book is one of its kind as it also highlights the implications for India and China of a sustained political instability and festering insurgency inside this crucial buffer zone that is of geostrategic importance to both the Asian giants. What makes Pandey’s book particularly relevant for the contemporary reader is his unbiased detailing of causes and consequences of the Maoist movement.
The book seizes upon the weaknesses of both Maoists and the government and their operations. Even the titled sections in the book are divided into subtitles and history is observed minutely. Pandey begins with the example of Karl Marx’s ideologies and ends in the forecast of Samuel P Huntington. For Karl Marx, “it is not the consciousness that determines the social being rather it is the social beings that determine the consciousness.†So for him the base (material, products, economy) determines the superstructure (religion, institutions, ideology, etc.) Huntington quotes in his book ‘The Clash of Civilisations’: “In this world the most pervasive, important and dangerous conflicts will not be between social classes, rich and poor, or other economically defined groups, but people belonging to different cultural entities.†Pandey’s power in the book lies in his masterly assimilation of both of these ideas and the conclusion that the Maoist movement flourished not only on the basis of class, political ideology and economics, but because it had a few important insights made on the basis of the politics race, religion, ethnicity and culture. The more we read the book the more we get abundant information. But one needs to have political knowledge for a more serious study. (‘Nepal’s Maoist movement and Implication for India and China, Nishchal Nath Pandey, RCSS Policy Studies, 175 pages)
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TMD Friction brake pads at Panamericana: Long-distance driver Rainer Zietlow is set to attempt to break his own world record
Leverkusen, 28th of May 2019. In mid-June 2019, long-distance driver Rainer Zietlow is set to attempt to break his own world record. The German world record driver plans to set a new long-distance world record on the longest road of the world, the Pan-Americana Highway, which stretches more than 16.000 miles (22500 km) through 14 countries from Alaska to Argentina. In less than 11 days and 17 hours Rainer Zietlow and his team aim to break their own world record on the Panamericana from 2011 in a Volkswagen Touareg. The car of the German adventurer will be a standard Volkswagen Amarok V6 with 224 hp produced at Volkswagen Argentina. The only modification is an additional fuel tank of 120 liters.
Textar is supporting the team attempting to break this record and also supported Rainer Zietlow’s previous successful long-distance record attempt on the Dakar-Moscow route back in 2017. The Volkswagen Amarok V6 has been kitted out with brake pads by TMD Friction. The OE and copper free brake pads have passed all the tests required to deal with the special challenges.
Mid of June 2019, Rainer Zietlow and the team will start the world record attempt from Alaska to Argentina by crossing the Darien Jungle between Panama und Colombia in a scheduled cargo plane as the Panamericana is interrupted between these both countries. The road trip can be followed “live” on www.panamericanaworldrecord.com.
Since 2005 Rainer Zietlow supports the international organization “SOS Children`s Villages” with his projects. For each driven kilometer he will donate 15 Euro Cents during his world record drive for a SOS Children’s Village in Goiorere, Brazil.
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Caption 1: The Volkswagen Amarok V6 has been kitted out with brake pads by TMD Friction.
Caption 2: Mid of June 2019, Rainer Zietlow and the team will start the world record attempt from Alaska to Argentina.
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Texas Tech Alumna Feels the Heat in Her Chosen Field
Angie Reid is now a fire ecologist in Florida.
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Abundances of refractory elements in the atmospheres of stars with extrasolar planets
Gilli, G.
Israelian, G.
Ecuvillon, A.
Santos, N. C.
Mayor, M.
Aims.This work presents a uniform and homogeneous study of chemical abundances of refractory elements in 101 stars with and 93 without known planetary companions. We carry out an in-depth investigation of the abundances of Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Na, Mg and Al. The new comparison sample, spanning the metallicity range -0.70< [Fe/H]< 0.50, fills the gap that previously existed, mainly at high metallicities, in the number of stars without known planets.Methods.We used an enlarged set of data including new observations, especially for the field "single" comparison stars . The line list previously studied by other authors was improved: on average we analysed 90 spectral lines in every spectrum and carefully measured more than 16 600 equivalent widths (EW) to calculate the abundances.Results.We investigate possible differences between the chemical abundances of the two groups of stars, both with and without planets. The results are globally comparable to those obtained by other authors, and in most cases the abundance trends of planet-host stars are very similar to those of the comparison sample. Conclusions.This work represents a step towards the comprehension of recently discovered planetary systems. These results could also be useful for verifying galactic models at high metallicities and consequently improve our knowledge of stellar nucleosynthesis and galactic chemical evolution.
10.1051/0004-6361:20053850
arXiv:astro-ph/0512219
2006A&A...449..723G
15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Consumer Electronics | Digital Camcorders | Review
byJim Fisher Aug 17, 2016
Editor Rating: Good (3.0)
Best-in-class 360-degree video. Attractive price point. Compact design. Protected from dust and splashes. Solid battery life.
Difficult to edit video. No editing support on OS X or iOS. Only works with specific Android handsets. Lens can fog in some circumstances. Overheats when transferring longer clips to phone. Slightly hollow audio. No external mic support. Doesn't shoot in 24p.
The Samsung Gear 360 captures the best video we've seen from a 360-degree camera, but editing is a real pain and you need a premium Samsung phone to get the most out of it.
It looks like 2016 is the year in which 360-degree video cameras hit big. With more 4K models now available—that's the minimum amount of pixels that you'll want in a camera that stretches footage for spherical viewing—you may be tempted to jump into the fray and add one to your kit. Single-lens models like the 360fly 4K and the Kodak SP360 4K are already on the market, and dual-lens shooters, including the upcoming Nikon KeyMission 360, should be trickling out before the end of the year. The Samsung Gear 360 ($349.99) is a few weeks from shipping, but I got an early look. The camera itself has a lot of potential—video is the best I've seen from a 360-degree cam so far—but the editing workflow is cumbersome and there are some issues with the hardware.
The Gear 360 is a white oblong spheroid with a flat bottom, a little smaller than a baseball. It measures 2.2 by 2.6 by 2.4 inches (HWD) and weighs about 5.4 ounces. Two bulbous lenses sit on either side, with a standard tripod socket on the bottom; a mini tripod is included. You can expect to record video for about 90 minutes before you'll need to recharge the battery.
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The camera uses microSD memory cards—they're installed by opening a flap on the side. Also behind the flap is a removable, rechargeable battery, and a micro USB port. You'll use that to connect to a PC to offload video, or to charge the Gear. On the opposite side of the flap you'll see the Menu/Bluetooth and Power/Back buttons. The Record/OK button sits on the top, along with a monochrome display that shows battery capacity, shooting mode, and status.
You can use the physical controls to switch between recording modes, change video resolution settings, and capture images and video clips, but to get the most out of the Gear, you'll want to pair it with a smartphone. If you use an Apple phone, or even an Android handset from LG, Huawei, OnePlus, or the like, you're out of luck. The Gear 360 will only connect with a Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 edge+, Note 5, S7, S7 Edge, or Note 7.
The connection to your phone is made via Bluetooth, and is pretty seamless. There's no need to go diving into menus once you've completed the initial setup. The control app, available for download from the Google Play store, shows a Live View feed, gives you access to camera and exposure settings, and can be used to snap a photo or video.
In-app editing is extremely basic. You can trim individual clips and send the trimmed footage to different services via the Android Share menu, but that's it. You can also slide your phone into a Gear VR and watch the video that way. There are some limitations in quality, as resolution is cut to just 1,696 by 848—a little more than half the pixels of which the Gear is capable of capturing.
I ran into trouble when copying footage from the Gear to the phone. I was able to get about halfway through copying an 8-minute clip before the Gear 360 stopped copying the file and the app told me that the camera was overheating. This happened in a cool, air conditioned office.
For serious editing you'll want to use a computer. The Gear 360 includes a license code for Gear 360 Action Director. It's a Windows-only editing app by Cyberlink. As an editing suite, it offers some very basic functionality—you can drag clips onto a timeline and trim them, and add titles and music. If you're an experienced video editor, you won't want to use it.
But you can't edit on the desktop without using Action Director for one key task—converting the native video format, which shows a circular view from each lens, into an equirectangular projection that is recognized by YouTube and Facebook as 360-degree video. But there's a serious problem with the conversion process: It takes forever. I loaded footage onto the Lenovo Ideapad Y700 Touch and was shocked to discover that the laptop required a full 90 minutes to convert an 8-minute clip for editing.
If you want to do anything beyond basic trimming of footage, consider using Action Director to convert footage and then edit using Premiere Pro CC or the NLE suite of your choosing. You'll have to go through an extra step of injecting metadata before uploading to YouTube, but you'll end up with better results.
Samsung has opted to use H.265 (HEVC) compression with the Gear 360. It keeps file sizes down, and offers better quality than H.264 footage. But it requires more horsepower to view and edit, as you can see from how long it takes to convert video using the desktop software. At the end of the day, you'll be exporting footage in H.264 for upload to YouTube and Facebook.
There are numerous resolution settings available—3,840 by 1,920, 2,880 by 1,440, 2,560 by 1,280, and 1,920 by 960. For the most part, video is locked at 30fps—but you can opt for 60fps capture at 2,560 by 1,280. That's a plus if you're into shooting fast action, or if you just want to be able to slow footage down without sacrificing smoothness. For the opposite effect, you can capture time-lapse videos using the Gear 360. If you're into the cinematic look, you'll be disappointed that 24p recording isn't available at any resolution.
You can also use the Gear as a traditional, single-lens action cam. It captures wide-angle footage footage at 1440p, 1080p (in 30 or 60fps), or 720p.
When using both lenses, you'll want to shoot at 3,840 by 1,920—4K—for the best possible quality. You have to remember that after footage is stretched the output resolution is 3,200 by 1,600, a little better than 2.7K resolution in terms of horizontal lines of resolution, and, to my eye, not nearly as crisp as even flat 1080p footage.
With that caveat in mind, the Gear 360 leads the pack of current models in terms of video quality. Details are just slightly crisper than you get with the Kodak SP360 4K and 360fly 4K, and purple fringing isn't visible in test footage. Video captured in dim indoor light is fairly detailed—in part due to f/2 lenses—bettering the quality delivered by either the Kodak or 360fly alternatives. And, of course, the Gear 360 is a dual-lens solution, so you get a full sphere to navigate.
But it's not perfect. The seam from stitching footage from the two lenses is visible if you know where to look—you'll definitely want to try and point one of the lenses at your subject to avoid it traversing the seam. You can see what happens in that case at 1:05 in our waterside test clip above; the sandpiper walking along the rocky shore gets close to the seam and causes a strange artifact to be visible. Still, it's world's better than attempting to manually stitch together footage from two Kodak SP360 4K cameras—even with a custom mount designed specifically for that purpose, the stitching process leaves a very visible seam.
I also had to deal with some fogging of the lens. The Gear 360 is rated IP53 for protection against dust and splashes, so I had no worries placing it near the water to set up a test shot. It wasn't a particularly hot day (for late July), but it was on the humid side. After rolling for about 20 minutes, in hopes that a pair of sandpipers foraging on the shore would get up close and personal with the camera, the lens nearest the water began to fog. My best guess is the cooler air coming off the water caused the condensation. You can see the fog develop at the end of our test clip.
Sound is a mixed bag. The Gear 360 picked up my voice clearly in our test studio, but there's a bit of a hollowness to the audio. It's not muffled like the 360fly 4K, but not as loud and clear as the Kodak SP360 4K. There's no way to connect an external mic.
Photos are recorded in 25MP resolution and must also be stretched for viewing using the smartphone app or Action Director software. Image quality looks to be on par with the stills-first Ricoh Theta S. It's good to be able to capture still images, but more folks seem to be interested in ingesting 360-degree video content, and the Gear 360 is definitely a video-first camera.
If you're going to buy a 360-degree camera right now, the Samsung Gear 360 will deliver the best video quality. But there are definitely some caveats. First, you'll want to be a Samsung phone owner in order to get the most out of the camera—you can use it without one, but you won't be able to preview shots, and adjusting settings via the small camera display is clunky. Second, you'll need to be a Windows user. A lot of video editors prefer working on the Mac platform, but the Gear 360 requires Windows software for editing. And third, I experienced a few issues in testing, including a fogged lens when shooting near a body of water and overheating when transferring long video clips to a smartphone.
And while I'm describing the video quality as strong, it's important to note that it's strong for a 360-degree camera. Despite being billed as a 4K camera, it will not deliver the same quality as you are used to seeing from flat 16:9 4K footage. Video is tack sharp when viewed in the dual circle view, but by the time it's been remapped into a square format and uploaded to YouTube, details suffer and footage appears softer than you'd expect from traditional 1080p video. Still, the Gear 360 is less expensive than competing single-lens models, so videographers excited about 360-degree capture may be willing to live with these issues.
My advice is to wait a bit on a 360-degree camera. Once you get around the wow factor of being able to navigate through a video, you'll realize that the clip doesn't look nearly as good as flat 4K footage. I hope to see better results with the inevitable 6K and 8K 360-degree cameras that are going to appear in the next few years. But even if you want to be an early adopter, it's worth it to wait and see how the forthcoming Nikon KeyMission 360 does when it comes to market later this year.
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Senior digital camera analyst for the PCMag consumer electronics reviews team, Jim Fisher is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he concentrated on documentary video production. Jim's interest in photography really took off when he borrowed his father's Hasselblad 500C and light meter in 2007.
He honed his writing skills at retailer B&H Photo, where he wrote thousands upon thousands of product descriptions, blog posts, and reviews. Since then he's shot with hundreds of camera models, ranging from pocket point-and-shoots to medium format digital cameras. And he's reviewed almost all of them. When he's not testing cameras and gear for PCMag, he's likely out and about shooting with ... See Full Bio
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President Trump, Please Stay the Course
It would behoove President Trump to keep faith with his base and remain hardcore on his signature issue, immigration, both because it's the right thing to do and because it's the wisest political course.
Commentators are speculating as to Trump's motives in conducting a televised bipartisan conference, during which he appeared open to solutions he had previously rejected. Was he using the meeting to contradict the picture author Michael Wolff painted of him in his new book, "Fire and Fury," as being disengaged? Was he strategically presenting himself as more conciliatory for public consumption in anticipation of the inevitable battle over immigration reform? Or is he actually softening on this issue?
I don't see why these choices are mutually exclusive. At least for a fleeting moment, he got some favorable press from his usual detractors for his bipartisan demeanor and his apparent ownership of the room. If optics were part of his calculation, then he also benefits from getting some of these Democrats to have endorsed, on the record, the notion of beefing up border security.
But if his performance was just posturing and he is still thoroughly hard-line on all aspects of the immigration issue, how do you explain his similar overtures on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program some months ago to Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi? How do you rationalize his comments that he is not adamant about a full-blown physical wall and that he would sign whatever bill they sent him?
In subsequent statements, he seemed to revert to a tougher position, for example, putting out this talking point, in all caps: "ANY DEAL ON DACA MUST END CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATE THE VISA LOTTERY, AND FULLY SECURE THE BORDER, INCLUDING WITH A WALL."
So, what do we make of all this? Some argue we shouldn't read too much into Trump's meeting, saying he was merely engaging in 4-D chess or "Art of the Deal" negotiations. I am skeptical about that, but if I'm wrong, I still believe he would be ill-advised to engage in such gamesmanship to the point of alienating his base.
Trump may be thinking that he has nothing to lose by pretending to have relaxed his position on DACA because he knows Democrats will never compromise on any enforcement conditions in exchange -- that this can only help his image and won't hurt him because it will never happen. To the contrary, it very well may hurt him with his base.
This is because many of the most intense members of Trump's base will probably reject any compromise on DACA, even if in exchange he secures all the other concessions -- the wall, beefing up border forces, ending chain migration and the visa lottery, and instituting E-Verify -- with the possible exception of a watered-down version of DACA amnesty that precludes any path to a green card or voting, a feature of the proposed Goodlatte bill in Congress.
Many Trump critics counter that his base is ideologically rudderless and will cultishly follow him regardless of his policies. Perhaps some will, but many know exactly why they voted for Trump, and though draining the swamp was part of it, so was an America-first philosophy, which Trump would abandon at his peril.
This philosophy promotes America (and Americans) first -- from ending illegal immigration to bolstering domestic energy to having fewer American boots on foreign ground to getting better trade deals to providing corporate and individual tax relief to growing the economy and jobs to rebuilding our military and otherwise reinvigorating our national security against all threats, including terrorism, to restoring market forces to fixing health care.
Though I don't agree with every aspect of the agenda (e.g., trade protectionism), America-firsters are adamant about protecting America's sovereignty and security and American workers. They are committed to thwarting the Democrats' transparent scheme, in the name of compassion, to relax and eliminate immigration enforcement and to expand amnesty to import and empower millions of new Democratic voters. They are also serious about the rule of law, which is undermined every time amnesty legislation is passed. Not only did Barack Obama ratify acts of illegal immigration with DACA; he also flouted the Constitution by accomplishing through an administrative program that which he had repeatedly admitted was the sole prerogative of Congress.
Even Trump's critics admit that he had a successful first year on policy. He needs to remember that his future success depends not on pacifying an implacable Democratic Party but on fulfilling his promises and advancing his agenda. Policy success breeds electoral success. A great economy and more secure America will compensate for a lot of self-inflicted tweet damage.
I don't know for certain where Trump's heart is on immigration or whether he's being pressured by family and some advisers to moderate. Nor do I know how firmly conservative he is, but I do believe he has been moving in that direction and, more importantly, primarily governing as a conservative, and that's why he has been so successful.
It is not Trump's tweets, if anything, that could jeopardize his re-election but getting in bed with Democrats on their issues or cooperating with the very establishment he has promised to uproot.
If Trump betrays his base on his signature issue hoping to thereby expand his base, he will have a very difficult time being re-elected. He will never get liberals to vote for him, no matter how many concessions he makes, and in the process, he will lose the intensity radiating from his base.
I have doubted him several times before, so I want to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one and simply encourage him to remember those who brought him to the dance, to keep honoring his promises and to continue governing as a conservative.
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Frontal Assault
Posted: Feb 24, 2016 12:01 AM
Does the Republican field have the sense to change tactics when the very nature of the party and country are at stake?
Ted Cruz, who bears some responsibility for the rise of Trump, keeps aiming his Jimmy Swaggart-style pitch to the choir, unctuously proclaiming his status as truest, bluest conservative in the race, and as such the logical tribune of the grass roots. Cruz encouraged them to destroy the "Washington cartel" and boy did they listen -- except not to his benefit. Irony: The greatest crony/corporate Democrat in America is alive and Ted Cruz's campaign is nearly dead.
John Kasich and Ben Carson are deaf to everything except their own egotism.
Unlike Cruz, Marco Rubio didn't spend months praising the semi-fascist joker in hopes that the "anti-establishment" vote would one day drop into his lap, but he didn't attack him frontally either. He hopes that clearing the field of competitors will permit him to defeat Trump one-on-one because a majority of Republicans have voted not-Trump. But campaigns are dynamic. A winner attracts many opportunists, and Trump is on the verge of seeming unstoppable.
Those hoping that Trump will say or do something to disqualify himself have surely seen by now that we are in a new world. His gaffes (I don't need to list them, do I?) have not hurt him. The more he vomits venom, the more free press he gets. While Cruz keeps impotently pounding Rubio as insufficiently harsh on immigration, Trump -- a corrupt Democrat promising trade wars, universal health care and war crimes -- is winning.
If ever there were a moment for a Republican establishment -- a powerful cabal of donors, officeholders and power brokers -- to intervene, this would be it. Because if Trump is the Republican nominee, it spells the end of the party as a conservative vehicle. It will be transformed into a contemptible platform for the worst excesses of American life: using government for personal gain, bullying minority groups, undermining civil liberties and enhancing centralized power even more than has been accomplished under Barack Obama. Deluded voters who imagine they are getting the anti-Obama by voting for Trump are in for the biggest disillusionment yet.
But, of course, the "Republican establishment" is not going to ride to the rescue, because it is itself mostly a shell. Money doesn't buy elections (see "Bush, Jeb"), and there is no one behind the curtain.
I believe Rubio to be the most viable non-Trump candidate left. But above all, he and the others (who have plenty of money) must abandon the strategy of fratricide. The winner cannot rely on anti-Trump votes alone. He must undermine support for Trump.
"Can't be done"? How about "hasn't been tried"? Of the $215 million spent so far by super PACs this year, only 4 percent has been spent against Trump. It's been the longest free ride in recent political history.
Trump is not strong; he's frighteningly weak. He arguably suffers from narcissistic personality disorder -- meaning his wobbly self-esteem needs constant, mantra-like invocations of his own fabulousness and endless affirmation from others. He goes ballistic when suffering even the smallest slight. He's an ignoramus. Ads should remind voters, for example, that he doesn't know what the nuclear triad is. His whole foreign policy experience is being on a TV show with Vladimir Putin, who he praises because his pathetic need for approval utterly distorts his judgment. Putin said something nice about Trump, and Trump praised him in return. What's a few murders between amigos? He is completely immoral, recommending torture and the killing of wives and children of suspected terrorists.
Trump is a Clinton-class liar. Split screens ought to clarify that. He didn't oppose the Iraq War. He was for it. He's not self-funding his campaign. He's collected millions in contributions. He evaded the draft and then offered that sleeping around and risking STDs was his "personal Vietnam." He's beyond vulgar. He complained publicly about his first wife's breast implants. Nearly nude pictures of wife No. 3 are everywhere.
Unlike, say, Mitt Romney, who Democrats effectively caricatured as a cruel business tycoon, Trump really is one. He has a history of paying off elected officials to get special treatment, stiffing business associates and abusing those who work for him (such as the "Polish brigade" of illegal immigrants who helped build Trump tower). He ran four businesses into bankruptcy and profited from a scam called Trump University that defrauded credulous people. He's not a self-made man who "built a great company." He inherited millions from his dad. That said, he's almost certainly vastly exaggerating his net worth. Where are those tax returns? He donated more to the Clinton Foundation than to veterans' charities. And how much of the money he collected for veterans at the Iowa stunt has been distributed?
That's a start, gentlemen. There's plenty more. The con man must be unmasked.
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Why are airlines against the transferring of tickets to other persons?
Airlines usually either don't allow the transferring of tickets to another person after they've been purchased, or they do it at an extremely inflated price. What is the reason for doing this?
One idea I came up with would be to allow authorities to do background checks, but one could buy a ticket at the airport shortly before the flight. Of course, it would be more expensive and there would be the risk of a fully booked plane, but it is not impossible.
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How about greediness? If you will not fly, they can just resell your ticket and get double amount of money. If you will give it to someone else, just normal amount of money? – Salvador Dali Oct 17 '14 at 10:28
@SalvadorDali : If I don't fly, how would they know it? By the time I fail to turn up at the check-in it would be too late to sell my ticket again. – vsz Oct 18 '14 at 15:08
They always sell more tickets then there are sits in the plane. They have some statistics how many people on average are missing the plane. So if on average for 100 sits 2 people are not coming, they are selling 102 sits. If everyone is coming, they just try to tell some 2 people "we are sorry, can you take another plane". – Salvador Dali Oct 19 '14 at 6:45
just write overbooking in google and you will see huge amount of such examples. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is just statistics. smartertravel.com/travel-advice/… – Salvador Dali Oct 20 '14 at 3:14
@vsz - overbooking is totally and completely normal, yeah – Fattie Sep 9 '16 at 5:48
Airlines have a pricing strategy known as "yield management" or "revenue management" - they charge less for some seats than others, and expect these seats to be bought a long time in advance. They know that only a certain percentage of their customers are able to buy seats well in advance, and that those customers wouldn't fly if they couldn't get inexpensive seats.
A speculator could buy a $100 ticket and then offer it on eBay close to the flight date for $200. If more than half the seats this speculator bought were sold this way, the speculator would be making money. But the airline, which wants to sell seats close to the flight date for $500, would not. In fact very quickly the speculator enjoying selling 75% of tickets for $200 would see it fall to 0% because of another speculator selling them for $150, and then later another for $110 and so on. This is just how reselling markets tend to work.
By insisting that a ticket is not a commodity to be bought, traded, resold, and passed around from hand to hand, the airline is able to keep its complicated pricing structure in place. Overall, this is a good thing, because those last-minute high-price tickets cover a LOT of the cost of the flight - their existence is what keeps the long-advance-notice tickets so cheap!
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(+1) It's also useful to enforce the “non-changeable” fares which is another price discrimination strategy. Also, the airline would be loosing at the other end too: Price-sensitive passenger might forgo travelling entirely because cheap tickets would be immediately bought by the speculators who hope to capture some of the airline's margin. – Relaxed Oct 13 '14 at 17:04
It's worth noting that event tickets such as concerts are treated as commodities, and that industry is completely FUBAR. I'm glad the same thing isn't affecting airlines... – Thebluefish Oct 13 '14 at 19:28
In the case of things such as concerts, "more trading" really means "The people who bought the cheap tickets first will almost always turn around and resell them for abnormally high prices". There's even now a big controvery with restaraunt reservations going on now with similar issues. – Thebluefish Oct 13 '14 at 20:10
No, that's the other way round (hint: you book plane tickets before the plane leaves; you buy an iPhone after it's launched). The customers for whom time is critical - those who must fly tomorrow, or those who must have the latest iPhone - pay more. (In fact Apple doesn't tend to hike then cut the price of new iPhones over a short space of time, but in general technology products drop in price as time goes by after launch.) – nekomatic Oct 14 '14 at 13:27
Airlines don't have their pricing structure as some sort of public service, @ShivanDragon. They have it because it makes them money given the strange mix of customers they attract. And many of their rules support their pricing structure. The fact that Apple has a different pricing structure, or that concert tickets have a different pricing structure, or my time as a consultant has a different pricing structure, is really not relevant. The products are different. – Kate Gregory Oct 15 '14 at 8:04
Another factor--sometimes life happens and you can't fly. In the old days you could simply sell your ticket to someone else, now you either have to eat a hefty change fee or lose it outright. That's money in their pockets that they didn't use to get.
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With most airlines, in such situations You can ask for a refund. – ISAE Oct 14 '14 at 23:31
@ISAE most situations? Not really true. A large number of tickets sold are cheap tickets that are non-refundable. Generally, only "full price" tickets are refundable, and they tend to be expensive. – Andrew Ferrier Oct 15 '14 at 21:26
I'd say that it's possible to get a voucher for the value you paid, but I've never seen a cash refund... at least without some type of fee. I had to make a change (flight + hotel) I noticed 15 minutes after purchasing, and the hotel 'no-refund' policy wanted to try and charge $80 to adjust it. The hotel themselves had no issue changing dates for free. – Xrylite Oct 15 '14 at 23:50
@AndrewFerrier In my experience, it depends mainly on the airline. A decent airline will have an interest to satisfy the customers, and they'll offer you some kind of refund, perhaps through a voucher. – ISAE Nov 5 '14 at 0:15
@AakashM Since English is not my native language, I'm not going to claim to be sure. I've asked about it on ELLSE instead. From your profile it looks like you may be British, so I'm certainly not going to claim to have a better knowledge of English grammar than you. – Revetahw says Reinstate Monica Aug 16 '16 at 10:00
Airlines aren't just in the business of selling "tickets" to seats. They are selling tickets to seats on different days. It's the "different days's" part that means that the same seat will sell for a lower price "in advance" and a higher price closer to the flight date.
If you could re-sell the ticket to a friend, you could (theoretically) get the advantage of the "different days." More to the point, speculators could do the same. The airline doesn't want to allow this opportunity.
The best solution is for the airline to refund your "cheap" ticket, so they can re-sell the same ticket at a higher price on a "different day" to another passenger. Many airlines will do this. Some will not, because they don't value customer service/relations enough.
This may result in an abuse situation. You can think that a non-registered travel group bought so many tickets with different names on a certain flight, then start selling the tickets but for larger price.
Unchangeable tickets will get rid of this situation and only registered travel companies can have legal deals with the airlines.
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Number of years ago I saw an ad where a young man was seeking a young woman named <specific female name> to share a free week-long flight and Banff ski trip. Seems he'd paid for the vacation for himself and his girl-friend <same specific name>, and then broken up with her. No refund, no credit, but he if he found someone with the same name, the airline couldn't tell the difference – DJohnM Oct 16 '14 at 4:49
So you mean that it's better, when the flight company does this abuse itself? – maaartinus Oct 19 '14 at 20:51
Another reason might be that airlines tend to overbook planes, if they can. They expect a certain percentage of passengers to cancel their flight and want to prevent empty seats. If everyone found a replacement, there would not be enough seats on the plane for everyone!
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How common is this really?? – curiousdannii Oct 17 '14 at 7:16
@curiousdannii not very. Airlines do know they're going to have a certain percentage of no-shows, but it's not a very high percentage on most flights. There's some flights with many no-shows, and on those they sometimes go overboard on the overselling. Flights like CUR-AMS where every flight tends to get several dozen drugs couriers either getting cold feet and never showing at the airport or caught trying to get through customs and be arrested. On such flights they safely sell more than one or two more seats than there are available positions. – jwenting Oct 17 '14 at 9:25
@jwenting in the USA overbooking is absolutely everyday, several airlines have automated processes where you are offered a "bump voucher" during checkin, kiosk or on-line. – chx Oct 25 '14 at 23:07
I realize there's already an accepted answer about "yield management" but, while their price discrimination strategy certainly exacerbates their rationale, I think that misses the point. I think the bigger reason is quite simply that they can get away with it. Let me expand on that. When most people book an airline ticket it's because they're planning to fly themselves so they discount the chances that they'd want to transfer the ticket to someone else. This means when most people book a flight they're completely willing to agree that the seat they're buying can only be used by them even though objectively that's an unreasonable condition of the sale.
There's frequently this assumption that speculators being involved means gouging, well they will certainly try to gouge people but there's no guarantee they'd be successful. There's certainly a guarantee that buying a group of plane tickets that are refundable will be a profitable strategy since any tickets that can't be sold for a profit will be refunded the original purchase price. However, most tickets are nonrefundable and, as such, this strategy wouldn't work out so well.
Dean MacGregorDean MacGregor
Most flights these days are almost full. That suggests that it would be a completely viable strategy to buy tickets early and selling them later on at, say, 90% of what the buyer would have to pay to get a ticket from the airline on that date. And that's without anybody getting gouged: the passenger gets a discount on the airline's price and the reseller still makes a tidy profit. – David Richerby May 21 '16 at 0:09
@DavidRicherby This sounds viable except that the airlines wouldn't sit idly by while that happened. For one, they'd stop discounting the fares for the far future. – Dean MacGregor May 31 '16 at 14:31
Well, if the airlines change their policies, remove restrictions and make the tickets transferable, this would create a whole new market niche for resellers. If this happen there would be many complications related to liability of the resellers, quality guarantees, safety rules and more. It would be virtually impossible for the airlines to operate within the same legal terms, as the do now.
When I read the original questions and then the answer that explains "yield management" or "revenue management" I'd asked myself would I fly on the ticket I bough through an auction website? I would not.
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Transfers can be two ways. If they have to register the transfer then of course they should be able to control the flow of cash. HOWEVER, if they don't register it, as for example might the situation if I gave you my bus ticket then, apart from the economic factors, there are clearly a few accountability and safety factors.
If the plane crashes for some reason, the airline would not be in a position to state who was on board. So they would then end up reporting that the ticket seller/donor had died, when in fact it was the recipient.
If the plane is hijacked, or even brought down by terrorists, it could be that the terrorists were the ones who bought the re-sold ticket. And the airline would think it was the original buyer.
Ditto for the situation where someone might have been smuggling drugs or other contraband.
I'm sure you can come up with other safety and security aspects if you think hard enough.
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1, 2, 3: All wrong, as there are loads of controls before boarding. You can't board without a passport/ID and it gets read electronically, so there's no overhead in storing the data instead of just checking it against the database. – maaartinus Oct 19 '14 at 20:55
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by Alice Mitchell
17 November 2015, at 6:00am
This article from Christine Heinrichs explains the symptoms of Marek's Disease in poultry and how to prevent it occurring in small flocks.
The good news about Marek’s Disease is that it is rare in small flocks. Personally, I’ve never seen a case or even heard of anyone I know having a case. It’s nearly completely preventable.
The bad news is that the virus that causes it can be anywhere. It’s considered globally endemic in poultry. If your flock catches it, there isn’t any treatment for it and chickens that get infected are likely to die.
Causes, symptoms and how it spreads
Marek’s Disease is caused by one or more of three herpes viruses, in the same family that causes chicken pox and cold sores in people. Marek’s is not the same and you cannot catch it from your chickens. They can catch it from each other, though, and once it’s in the flock, it’s difficult to get rid of it. Young chickens less than five months old are more likely to catch it than older chickens.
Marek’s Disease causes tumours in chickens. The tumours may grow in the eyes, on the skin, in the nerves or the internal organs.
Usually the first sign is a chicken that goes lame. She’s paralysed by the tumours growing on her nerves. The skin form shows up as enlarged feather follicles and white bumps on the skin that turn into brown scabs. The eye form turns the eye grey and the iris becomes misshapen.
Tumours on internal organs are only diagnosed by cutting the chicken open, which is done in a necropsy to determine the cause of death. Some government offices offer free or low-cost necropsies as part of infectious disease programs.
All forms of Marek’s build up virus in the feather follicles, and it remains able to infect other chickens for months. All litter from chicken houses that have had Marek’s infection need to be completely cleaned and disinfected before vulnerable chickens move in.
The virus can be as airborne as a sneeze and it can live in the dirt chickens scratch up. You can carry it on your clothes. It isn’t carried in eggs, but chicks can be infected as soon as they hatch.
How to protect your flock
That’s where the miracle of vaccination comes in. Chicks can be immunised before they even hatch, usually on the 18th day of incubation. All the hatcheries I know of immunise all their chicks.
If you are hatching at home, you may want to immunise your chicks on their first day. Feed stores sell the vaccine and yes, you can give your chick a tiny injection. K.J. Theodore shows you how online. Follow all manufacturer’s directions and handle carefully. But of course you are always careful with all your chicks!
If your flock isn’t vaccinated and hasn’t had Marek’s, it simply may not exist in your area. That doesn’t mean it can’t come in, though.
If your entire flock has not been vaccinated, as many as 60 per cent of them could catch it, and most will die. Even those that appear to recover may have internal tumours that will eventually kill them.
Marek’s also affects the white blood cells that fight infection, so chickens that survive the initial infection are at risk of catching something else and succumbing to that.
Chicks hatched by their mothers will get some of her immunity. That will protect them for about three weeks. After that, they will need the protection of vaccination. Since it takes ten days to two weeks for the vaccine to develop antibodies in the chick, vaccinating on Day One is the safest policy.
The vaccine given to day-old chicks isn’t as effective as the one given to eggs. Vaccines are available against all strains of virus, and are sometimes given in combination.
As with many diseases, there are highly virulent forms of Marek’s that could still sicken even vaccinated chickens. If Marek’s is reported in your area, check with local poultry veterinarians and breeders to learn which kinds are occurring and vaccinate accordingly.
The best things small flock keepers can do to prevent Marek’s from infecting their chickens are:
Buy stock from hatcheries or breeders who vaccinate their birds. If you breed your own, vaccinate day-old chicks.
Keep the coop clean and well-ventilated. Even vaccinated chicks can be overwhelmed by virus-laden litter.
Separate a sick hen from the flock. If she has Marek’s, kill her humanely and take action to limit damage by vaccinating and observing the flock closely for others that may develop paralysis or other symptoms. It takes two weeks for the chicken to develop immunity.
Commercial producers have bred Marek’s Disease Resistant strains of chickens. I wasn’t able to determine whether any traditional breeds are resistant to Marek’s, but that trait comes from somewhere. Please contact me if you know of naturally resistant chicken breeds.
Chances are good that you, like me, will never see a case of Marek’s. Make that true for everyone by vaccinating your flock.
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Crane operators may strike Thursday, halting $10 billion worth of construction
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As the Thursday contract deadline approaches, contractors and developers who hire the engineers have been aggressively campaigning to eliminate “no-work” mechanics and oilers, who, they said, get compensated highly — around $700,000 per year — but do little graft. By eliminating the positions entirely, $67 million could be saved at the World Trade Center site over three years, they said.
Managers and owners have also been urging the city to begin national licensing exams for operators to increase safety standards. Labor leaders, however, see the exam proposals as a means to leverage concessions from unions.
The industry has zeroed in on Locals 14 and 15, which did not sign on to cost-saving agreements to aid construction after the financial crisis and have little incentive to compromise. Crain’s said.
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When it comes to setting our goals, and visions, so much of our choosing only includes some parts of ourselves — the part we show to the outside world, the achiever in us. You may not even be conscious of it, but many of us are on achievement autopilot.
It’s too much about outer attainment instead of inner attunement. And it’s burning us out. Because we’re going after what we think we want with a vengeance. Faking it to make it. Sucking it up. Endurance. Achievables…
You’re not chasing the goal itself — you’re chasing the feelings you hope attaining those goals will give you.
When you get clear on how you want to feel (and I’ll talk more about that in a minute) you may find yourself going after different things, and you may find yourself going after them in a different way. In a way that’s less… anxious, nuts, uptight and totally stressed out. “Less,” as one of my favorite Buddhists monks said to me, “less pushy.”
I asked him about the nature of desire, since so many mystical teachings think desire leads to a lot of suffering. Being a modern woman with plenty of ambition and desire, I had to sort this out. I asked Lama Mark if there was a “right way to desire.” He told me you can’t get rid of desire. (Thank God. Thank Buddha.) Instead, “The art of it is to keep asking yourself: Am I being pushy? Is my desire tainted with all kinds of emotional overtones?”
Let’s review: We are naturally going to desire things and enlightenment, even. Having deep desire for freedom is an especially good thing — it moves us in the right direction, closer to our true nature. But if we’re a neurotic mess or a pushy mofo with regard to our longings, it all backfires. You with me so far?
We have the procedures of achievement upside down. Typically we come up with our to-do lists, our bucket lists and our strategic plans — all the stuff we want to have, get, accomplish and experience outside of ourselves. All of those aspirations are being driven by an innate desire to feel a certain way.
Here’s the guiding question — the potentially life-enhancing, soul-rocking question:
HOW DO YOU WANT TO FEEL?
How do you want to feel when you look at your schedule for the week?
When you get dressed in the morning?
When you walk through the door of your studio or office?
When you pick up the phone?
When you look at your bank account, accept the award, make the sale or fall in love?
A lot of us are craving a new way to make things happens in our lives. Less driving and more inspiration. Deeper meaning but without compromising prosperity, cash, style. I for one, want more love and way less judgment. Way less.
What if, first, we got clear on how we actually wanted to feel within ourselves, and then we designed our to-do lists, set our goals and wrote out our bucket lists?
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life.
We need to make our feelings the heart of the matter. Feelings are magnetic. Each feeling is a beacon that attracts a reality.
Love attracts love. Generosity elicits a generous response. Anger creates more things that could make you even angrier, if you let them. What we focus on expands, so choosing to focus on life-affirming feelings is the surest way to create the experience you want.
Being deliberate about how you want to feel is at the root of self-reliance, and it’s also a collaborative effort you make with the universe.
I’ve seen countless women change their lives for the better when they declared that they wanted to feel “connected,” or “vitality,” or “light,” or “divine feminine.” Or any number of what I call your “core desired feelings.” Identify four or five of your core desired feelings and make those the center of your ambitions and you will turn on your true power source. You will do a lot less pushing and proving and way more living and creating. And that’s the ultimate reset.
Danielle LaPorte is an invited member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, and author of the newly released White Hot Truth: Clarity for keeping it real on your spiritual path—from one seeker to another; The Fire Starter Sessions, and The Desire Map.
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April 19, 2019 December 10, 2018 by Les Luchter
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It took three decades, but come May, you can finally choose between two 24/7 channels featuring live courtroom trials and analysis: a rebooted Court TV and the streaming-only Law & Crime Network.
Back in 1990, both the American Trial Network and In Court were rushing towards cable launches. But they soon merged into the original Court TV, which launched in 1991, eventually to be replaced by TruTV.
E.W. Scripps’ Katz Networks has now acquired Court TV from WarnerMedia’s Turner Broadcasting and will relaunch the network in May, primarily as a free over-the-air channel. Court TV’s lead anchor will be Vinnie Politan, who presided at Court TV and Tru TV for more than a decade starting in 2001.
Law & Crime Network was created two years ago by Dan Abrams, a Court TV reporter from 1994-1997, who’s also chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and host of A&E’s Live PD.
Katz – whose other over-the-air channels include black-focused Bounce, female-focused Escape, male-focused Grit and comedy-focused Laff – said Court TV will be available via antenna at launch to more than 50 percent of US households, including those in the top five markets (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth).
Law & Crime Network is available right now at lawandcrime.com; on YouTube, Xumo and Pluto TV; through various apps, and right here:
About Les Luchter
Les Luchter is a former managing editor of Multichannel News, editor-in-chief of Cable Marketing, and news editor of Broadcast Week.
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Not the 39 Steps…
I’m happy to report that I’m writing this from the comfort of my favourite armchair beside a roaring fire at Baker Street. My companion is tentatively fingering another of Mrs Hudson’s tea-time delights and I’m ashamed to say I’ve just finished off her hot muffins. It seems unthinkable that only a few hours ago Holmes and I faced such peril as I have rarely imagined. Only this morning, as we struggled against our bonds, I remember thinking that perhaps this would be our last adventure. But I digress…
When that wizened old crone gurgled Moriarty’s name, I admit that my blood ran cold. I turned to Holmes but his attention was on the staircase. I barely had time to follow his gaze when the crunching of splintering wood caused me to jump backwards in fright. The staircase (or what was left of it) had split in two halves, each section moving up and to the sides revealing a secret chamber beneath.
“I say,” came a voice behind us. “What’s all the kafuffle about, chaps?” Hannay squeezed between us, saw what we saw and immediately gave way at the knees. Holmes grabbed his arm and hauled him to his feet.
“Stiff upper lip, Hannay,” he barked. “Don’t let the side down.” Then switching his sharp eyes to me, muttered. “Don’t suppose that’s a gun in your pocket, Watson?”
I glanced down at myself and adjusted my stance. “Ahm, no, actually, Holmes. Just a little…excitement, don’t you know?”
My companion nodded. “Perfectly understandable, Watson, considering the gargantuan intellect that is now upon us.” And turning to the space where the staircase had been, he smiled and gave a short bow. “Ah. Professor. How lovely to see you again.”
Moriarty strode up the steps from the underground room, followed by a brace of disagreeable henchmen. “Shirley, Johnnie and Dickie. Glad you could join us.” He made a small gesture and the henchmen moved forward waving their weapons.
“Get dahn the stairs,” said one, pointing his gun at my head.
“An don’t try no funny stuff neither,” said the other.
Holmes groaned. “It’s Don’t try any funny stuff, you dullard.”
And so it was that we were ushered unceremoniously into the nerve centre of Moriarty’s villainous emporium. In a matter of minutes we were trust up on three chairs against the back wall. Moriarty advanced toward us waving a pointy knife.
“It never fails to amaze me how stupid you are, Holmesy. Even now, as you face certain death at the hands of your arch enemy – ”
“What? Again?” Holmes laughed contemptuously.
“Don’t bloody interrupt me!” Moriarty jumped up and down several times, rather like a small child might react to having their favourite toy confiscated. He took a deep breath. “As I was saying – even now you have no clue what is going on.”
“Hah!” said I. “Holmes knows exactly what’s going on, don’t you Holmes?” I turned to my companion but he merely shrugged.
“Actually I’m not entirely sure. Perhaps the Professor might care to enlighten us?”
Moriarty straightened up, preening himself. “Why, of course, I should take great delight in doing so…”
Over the next few hours Moriarty explained his elaborate plans for world domination and other mad ideas. He went into great detail regarding the subterranean passages that (apparently) ran under the city, connecting his various hideouts, arms depots and sundry meeting places. I was beginning to grow rather tired, but then I noticed Holmes was shuffling around in his chair. I suspected he’d managed to free himself using some clever device he’d had the foresight to secrete about his person in case of such an emergency. But then he let out a loud phart and I realised he was simply suffering from his usual stomach trouble. I also realised something else – if Holmes couldn’t get us out of this, nobody could.
Moriarty’s rambling continued. “…and that is why I sent a message to that fool Lestrade.” He glanced at his pocket watch. “Ah. We are to meet in a few minutes, after which I shall kill him and then all of you. Mwah, hah, hah.”
When the staircase had closed behind him and his henchmen, I turned to Holmes. “Well?”
“Well what?” said he.
I sighed loudly. “You do have a plan?”
“Of course, Watson.” And he smiled.
Posted by colingarrow on March 2, 2016 in Detective Fiction
Tags: Doctor Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mrs Hudson, Professor Moriarty, Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes
Some Murders are Announced…
By Carrier Pigeon to Inspector Lestrade
My Dear Lestrade
I am writing to advise you of the current situation vis a vis Messrs Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John (Big Boy) Watson. If you have been exercising your underemployed observational skills recently, you may be aware that the aforementioned pair evaded your constables and boarded a train to Edinburgh, and further, that the well-known novelist and misanthrope Richard (mine’s a pint) Hannay had engaged them in a bid to solve a mystery pertaining to yet another of his lacklustre tales of woe, ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’.
I am at this moment entertaining this trio of tiresome tricksters at one of my lodging houses near the Anatomical Museum – an unintentional, but rather fitting geographical location, considering the procedures I have in mind for the three unfortunates.
Naturally, I wouldn’t as a rule choose to enlighten ‘The Fuzz’ regarding my preparations for what I imagine you would term ‘a triple murder’, but my enjoyment of a good brawl has thus far remained unfulfilled (Holmes in particular is being somewhat droll in his attempts at retaliation, and Watson is a useless twat at the best of times). I should be obliged, therefore, if you would be good enough to hop on the next train. We could meet for a drink in a quaint little hostelry just off Fleshmarket Close known as The Stab Inn, where I shall take pleasure in availing you of my plans. This will allow you, should you so wish, to attempt a rescue, and that in turn, will add (I hope) the necessary modicum of excitement to the proceedings to make it worth my while.
Should you not wish to attend, I shall be happy to post the various body parts back to Baker Street for the delectation of that slattern Mrs Hudson, labelled, of course, as ‘Finest Scottish Beef’. It would tickle me to imagine the silly cow stuffing her favourite detective into one of her ghastly pies.
I look forward to killing you seeing you later,
Yours murderously
Tags: Doctor Watson, Mrs Hudson, Professor Moriarty, Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes
The House of Hell…
Clattering through the dark streets to our proposed abode was not a journey I’d wish to repeat – Holmes had nabbed a seat next to the driver, leaving Hannay and myself to make the most of the meagre space in the back of the cart. Perched on a sack of coal with the night air stinging my face undoubtedly brought a new freshness to my cheeks, but otherwise did nothing to endear me to my companion.
“Come along Watson,” Holmes barked as we pulled up outside a drab-looking residence. “A hearty meal and a warm fire awaits!” Grasping my arm as I half-fell onto the wet cobblestones, Holmes turned away from the driver and gave me a hard stare. “Be vigilant Watson,” he muttered. “I fear we may be undone.”
Turning back to the driver, he resumed the hearty bonhomie and clapped a hand on the man’s back. “This way is it, old bean?”
The house was not what I expected. Or rather, it was (in some manner at least) exactly what I’d expected: the building resembled a collection of rotten timbers and crumbling stone that appeared to have been dropped between two rather more substantial structures on either side. The words ‘ramshackle’, ‘demolition-job’ and ‘shithouse’ loomed large as we entered the murky dwelling.
A small, wiry woman of indeterminate age sprang upon us on entering. She glared up at me and screeched “No room at the Inn!”
As I stared into her bloodshot eyes, her cackling laughter sent more than a chill up my spine and I swear one of her bony hands found its way into the crevice between my buttocks (though I may have imagined it). However, I was rescued from the woman’s mad gaze and probing digits by the Driver, who, pulling her aside, whispered in her ear, after which the woman’s expression changed to one of quiet expectancy.
We were shown into the parlour – a room whose only advantage was a roaring fire. The three us pulled up chairs and warmed ourselves in front of the blaze while our harridan-like host scuttled off to fetch food.
As soon as she’d gone. I leaned across to Holmes. “What’s afoot, Sherl?”
His sharp eyes flicked between myself and Hannay. “You haven’t worked it out yet, Watson?”
The man was infuriating. “No, I haven’t.”
He chuckled and began playing with his Meerschaum.
“You know, Holmes,” I muttered with some pique, “You could just tell us.”
“Actually, that’s quite true Mr Holmes,” said Hannay, coming to my assistance. “You are being a bit of an arse.”
My companion grinned and shook his head. “No. I shall share my theories only if the perceived menace threatens to overcome us.”
Half an hour later, having consumed large quantities of mince-and-something pies, Holmes and Hannay had dozed off in their chairs. I decided to go upstairs to our rooms (intending to take advantage of choosing the least appealing one of the three for myself). At the foot of the stairs, a familiar hand caught the back of my trousers.
I whirled round to find myself staring into that face again, her brown teeth smiling up at me like a Cheshire cat whose face has died, been buried, and dug up again.
“Fancy a bit of the other?” She purred.
I stepped back to remove myself from her fetid breath. “Ahm, no, actually. I’m rather tired.” I feigned a yawn. “Really must get to bed.”
“That’s what I were thinkin’ too, my dear.” And she grasped my hand. “Let us ascend the thirty-nine steps to heaven.”
She started up the stairs dragging me behind her, but I pulled her back sharply. “What? The thirty-nine steps? What do you know about the thirty-nine steps?”
Tags: Doctor Watson, Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes
The Train Now Standing…
It was late when we chugged into Edinburgh Waverly and I was doubtful of us being able to secure suitable transport, however, Holmes set off at a gallop, leaping from the train and grasping the lapel of the nearest porter.
“Ah, my good man,” said he. “Be so good as to arrange transport for myself and my colleagues and I shall compensate you to the tune of one new penny.” So saying, he produced that very item and waved it in front of the man’s face.
“Och, get tae fuck, ye great ninny.”
“Now, now, there’s no need for that sort of talk.” He pulled the surly fellow aside and whispered a few words to him. As he did so, I noticed he pointed me out to the porter as if I were of some significance. A moment later, the man had thrown aside his clipboard and advanced towards the exit, a broad grin across his features.
I clambered down from the carriage and helped Hannay step down (he was feeling a little queasy from the trip). “I say old man, what on earth did you say to that chap?”
Holmes grinned. “I merely told him he was in the presence of the eminent consulting detective Mr Sherlock Holmes.”
“But you were pointing at me!
He nodded. “Indeed. I believe the fellow will expect some recompense for his efforts – ah! Here he comes now.” He stepped forward and spoke in low tones amid the throngs of travellers that were now pouring from the train.
I pushed my way through the crowds and reached Holmes just as the porter turned to greet me.
“Och, I’m fair chuffed to dae a service fer the famous Mr Holmes. I hope yous gentl’min enjoy your stay at the but an ben.” And with that he handed Holmes a piece of paper, and disappeared into the crowd
“What was all that about?” Hannay was clinging to my arm.
“Come along, now,” said Holmes. “We’ve a cabbie waiting.” He turned to go but I caught his arm.
“To Newton Stewart?”
“Of course not, Watson, are you mad?” He clipped me playfully round the ear. “It’s past ten o’clock and the place is over a hundred miles away! No, I’ve arranged for us to stay with Effie McThick at her private hotel for prominent gentlemen. The porter is her husband.”
And he was off. I hurried along behind him, Hannay clinging to me like a drunken limpet. As I caught sight of the ‘cab’ (in reality, a ramshackle horse and cart) my heart sank and I had the awful feeling that whatever payment was due for the coming night, was going to involve me and some indescribably sordid act…
To Bonnie Scotland (Again…)
At the sight of Lestrade’s grinning visage, it was clear there was only one course of action open to me – I smacked him in the mouth.
Lestrade barely flinched. He reached up and touched his lower lip. “That right hook of yours is improving, Watty.” His voice had dropped an octave and the familiar Baker Street drawl took me completely by surprise.
“Holmes!” I cried. “What on earth…?”
My old pal peeled the rubber mask from his face and rolled it up carefully. “Only way I could evade Lestrade and his poncy peelers – they’re all over the station like a dose of clap.”
“But, but, but…” I tried.
“Don’t but me no buts, Watson.” Holmes held onto the luggage rack as the train began to pull away. “Now, tell me what you know…”
Hannay and I sketched out the details of our adventure so far. When the sketch was finished, we added cartoon-type balloons containing the text. I could tell Holmes was, on the whole, fascinated, but after an hour, his attention began to wander.
“Might I ask what you are currently working on, Mr Hannay?”
“Oh, well, as you can see from the sketch here…”
“No, no, no, just tell me in your own words.”
Hannay was clearly overawed by the presence of the great detective, but he managed to explain the basic plot of ‘The 39 Steps’, its barely-concealed subtext and the underlying themes.
“Very interesting,” said Holmes, adopting that ‘yes-but-you’re-hiding-something’ tone I knew so well. “I wonder if I might expand on a theory of my own…?” He smiled winsomely and touched Hannay’s knee, making the other man visibly tremble with excitement.
“Of course, Mr Holmes, of course,” gushed Hannay like a simpering girl. “I’m all ears.” He shuffled forward in his seat, so his knees were almost touching those of my companion.
I began to feel a little put out. I tapped Hannay on the leg. “I say, old man, would you mind swapping seats with me – travel sickness, you know?” He acquiesced at once and I was again able to command the full attention of my detecting friend.
“On second thoughts,”said Holmes, giving me a sly wink. “I’d prefer to keep my theory close to my chest for the moment, if you don’t mind? However, I am looking forward to visiting Newton Stewart.”
“You think we’re right to go there, Holmes?” said I.
He nodded. “I do, Watson, and I think within a few minutes or arriving, we shall know all there is to know about this affair.”
And with that, he curled up and went to sleep.
Tags: Doctor Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes
To Bonnie Scotland (or Not…)
It wasn’t until Hannay and myself had boarded the 18:47 to Edinburgh (having avoided the usual ticket-buying process) and squeezed ourselves into the toilet compartment on the Flying Scotsman, that it occurred to me we’d neglected to do anything about the body.
“What’s wrong,” whispered my companion. “You eager to get moving?”
“Not that – we forgot Scudder.”
He blinked several times. “You think we ought to have brought him with us?”
“No, of course not,” I chided, slapping his stupid face. “But we should have bundled him into the laundry chute or something.” I cursed my own stupidity and idly wondered how Holmes would phrase his chastisement on my lack of forethought. “Never mind, I don’t suppose the body’ll be discovered for several days.”
At that point I became aware of a newsvendor touting his wares on the platform. At first I couldn’t make out what he was saying – it sounded like ‘Cliff Richard’s Stash of Meth in Bed on the Escarpment’, but that didn’t make sense. I leaned past Hannay, pulled down the window and the vendor’s chilling message rang out clearly above the noise of the station: ‘Stiff Found Stabbed to Death in Famous Author’s Apartment’.
I looked at Hannay. “That’s torn it.”
“Oh God – you don’t think the police will board the train suspecting we’re headed for a sleepy Scottish village?”
I considered this for a moment. “No, but I think they might board the train suspecting that you’re headed for a sleepy Scottish village.” I chuckled. “They’re hardly likely to suspect me, are they?”
His face fell floorwards faster than Mrs Watson’s underwear on a Friday night.
“Don’t worry, old chap,” said I. “I’ll put them right.”
He pouted like a spoilt child, then began to smile as the newsvendor’s next words came to our ears:
“Police search for Missing Murderer Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes Outraged.”
I said nothing and spent a few minutes in quiet contemplation, assessing the viability of my plan. Just then, the train began to move and I dared to think we might have escaped any police intrusion, at least for the time being.
But our safe haven was destined not to last – as the train lurched forward, the toilet door thudded open and a familiar face hove into view.
“Ah, Doctor Watson,” murmured Inspector Lestrade. “Sorry, old bean, but you’re under arrest.”
Tags: Doctor Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mrs Watson, Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes
A Deadman’s Pockets…
There was little need to check the man’s vital signs, but I went through the motions nevertheless. Given my companion’s somewhat heightened sense of terror, I decided to break the news to him as gently as possible:
“He’s snuffed it.”
“My God! I’m next!” Hannay’s hands flew to his face, cupping those rosy cheeks in a girlish manner that put me in mind of my own dear wife and the ‘swooning maiden’ act she sometimes adopts when I show her my rhododendrons.
“We must fetch Sherlock Holmes,” he cried, tugging at my lapel. “Only he can save us.”
I brushed him aside. “Don’t be such a nancy-boy, Hannay. Pull yourself together.” I checked through the dead man’s pockets and found two items: a picture postcard of some obscure Scottish village and a small white card displaying a silhouette of a man and the slogan ‘Scudder’s Marital Aids’. Slipping both articles into my pocket I stood up. “His name’s Scudder and judging from his business card I don’t believe him to be involved in creative writing. Now, Hannay, this is very important – the word he uttered before he fell…”
Hannay rubbed his chin. “I thought he was asking for the Post Office.”
I shook my head. “No, that’s meaningless. I thought he said ‘Ostovich’, which is obviously Russian. This man is a secret agent.”
“But what’s that got to do with me?”
I walked over to the window and retrieved my cup of tea. “I think this has something to do with your writing, Hannay, but it’s also got something to do with spies.”
“But I don’t know anything about spying,” he wailed.
“Ah,” said I. “But in your recent novel ‘The Forty-Seven Arsewipes’ you went into great detail about the process of creating false passports.”
“Oh, you read my books?” His manner changed abruptly and he began pawing at my chest like a lovesick pig.
“Indeed,” I muttered, moving out range. “I didn’t like to say so before, but I’m rather fond of a good story and the depth of research that goes into your work might easily prompt a less intelligent casual reader to think you were involved in spying yourself.”
He shrugged. “Actually, I make it all up, but I suppose it’s possible…”
“Not only possible, but highly likely. You said yourself that someone was trying to steal your new novel.” I rubbed my chin the way I’ve seen Holmes do in such situations. “I believe that the men who have been following you are enemy agents. Scudder here was obviously involved – perhaps he was a double agent. A triple agent, even.” I peeked through the curtains and noted with a grim nod that the two men at the phone box where still there. “We have to leave.”
“And go where?”
At that precise moment in time I had no idea, but then a thought occurred to me. Pulling the postcard out of my pocket I studied the picture closely – it depicted a traditional Scottish village and the slogan ‘Frae Bonnie Scotland’. “We need time to consider our next move,” I said, waving the card. “We’ll catch the next train to Edinburgh and head for Newton Stewart – no-one will think of looking for us there.”
Posted by colingarrow on January 29, 2016 in Detective Fiction
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Deep State Two ;The Evangelical Road to Serfdom “
Is This The Evangelical Deep State?- Part TwoThe Evangelical Road to Serfdom
By. Rev. Thomas Littleton
Part One of this article was published on December 18, 2017. Over a month later, interest in the issues raised in the article remains high, and the questions over associations of evangelical leaders like Al Mohler, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and Marvin Olasky continue to linger. Efforts to dismiss the well documented findings as the “ramblings of a crazed conspiracy theorist” by Ed Stetzer and others have failed to deflect attention on the facts. There are serious problems with the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission and The Gospel Coalition’s rhetoric and common source of communications with Libertarian think tank, The Acton Institute. SBC and PCA pastors and ministers who have followed the Reformed theological leaders in these circles have little if any clue that they were actually following Jesuit / Catholic Liberation Theology and social policy wrapped in historic Reformed Protestant teaching.
Acton in Evangelical Seminaries
Acton Institute, mentioned in Part One of this research, is headed by Father Robert Sirico, who has a history as a radical “homosexual faith activist.” Acton Institute is celebrated by Philanthropy Roundtable as a key player since the 1990s in synthesizing religion and democratic capitalism. Acton’s blog boasts such bold goals as rethinkingLiberation Theology and Marxism from updated and fresh approaches of application, while oddly accusing Trump supporters of folk Marxism. The ironies run much deeper.
According to the “The New Evangelical Social Engagement” by Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, Acton Institute founder Father Sirico, “’combining free market approaches with Catholic social thought,’ argues that ‘there is no social justice without economic freedom …Instead of a vast welfare state, social justice is about people fulfilling their responsibilities in justice to their neighbor.’ Therefore, with the support of the Kern Family Foundation, Acton has sponsored curriculum initiatives at thirteen evangelical seminaries.” (p. 63)
These seminaries include Dr. Albert Mohler’s Southern Seminary which sponsors The Commonweal Project. Note the “Social Gospel” with a strong emphasis on “Social Justice” in this initiative in the videos by Mohler and Os Guinness. With the help of Acton Institute and over a dozen partners of the same persuasions, Dr. Mohler appears to be endorsing a Rethink of Marxist social policy, while partners like “Poverty Cure .org” – an Acton offshoot – are marketing a RETHINK of Missions to a ”Social Justice” mandate.
Other Reformed seminaries, including the PCA’s Reformed Theological Seminary and Beeson Seminary (now on itsthird Kern grant since 2015), are also using the Acton-inspired, Kern-funded Social Justice curriculum programs which are designed around the “Faith and Work” ideology famously touted by Tim Keller. Some seminary partners have possibly jumped on board with the popular ideology and trendy nature of the Social Justice mantra; however, “rethinking Liberation Theology” and a fresh approach to “Marxist-inspired ideology” on the part of Sirico / Acton and Mohler / Commonweal Project is a bridge too far to simply dismiss as poorly thought out eagerness for cultural engagement on their part.
The Kern Family Foundation
The Kern Family Foundation which is very active in funding education at every level is considered to be a well-anchored Christian funding source. However, the Kern website shows that their partners in K-12 “Bright Minds Good Hearts“ program funding include organizations like Teach for America, whose work in K-12 public education includes a well-defined focus on pro-LGBTQ policy with radical LGBTQ organizations like Human Rights Campaign, Campus Pride, The Trevor Network and the most radical Gay and Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Teach for America also promotes Gay Pride Month with GLSEN in public schools each June, even celebrating the notorious “Dear Colleague Letter” – the pro- transgender bathroom directive from the Obama Whitehouse in May 2016. The current focus of all such pro-LGBTQ efforts in public schools is on showcasing LGBTQ History.
Kern also shows its partnership with liberal education giant Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and the Frankfurt School inspired “Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,” which is a major influence on Tim Keller and others in the Civilitas Group and Cultural Engagement camp. When asked about the funding in an email exchange on January 15th, the Kern Family Foundation denied the funding in the thirteen evangelical seminaries though it is widely touted in the news, press releases and on the websites (of Southern Seminary’s “Commonweal Project” for example) but Kern contacts did link us to Acton University’s site and confirmed the Acton / Kern Curriculum is in five evangelical universities as well.
Acton Institute and the Confusing Messages of Albert Mohler
Acton Institute’s and Father Sirico’s attachment to the conservative political and religious community is disturbing to Liberals as well. According to a defender of Classical Liberalism, Sirico’s Acton Institute was and is heavily supported by Atlas Foundation, which had been a trusted ally of the Left until it began taking Conservative money. Sirico’s work with Atlas was not a problem because of his homosexual faith activist history which is recounted in detail in the research. The concern for the Liberal researcher is the recent drift of both Atlas and Acton toward the Right from their historic “Libertarian values”—which pose no threat to the social agenda of the Left. Sirico had gained the confidence of the Left:
“By 1977 Sirico was listed by the LA Times as the ‘organizer of Libertarians for Gay Rights. When it was later revealed that the ACLU once cooperated with the FBI in building files on radicals Sirico told the Times: ‘We turn out to be to the left of the ACLU.’”
Incidentally, the Liberal article exposes Father Sirico as being “back in the closet”:
“Acton officials got heavily involved in the debate on gay marriage. With Sirico back in the closet the position they have been taking has been to pander to bigots on the Religious Right.”
“When or if Sirico tried to go back into the closet is hard to determine. But certainly by the time he was taking money from the anti-gay Templeton network it would have been prudent for him to be closeted. Certainly by 1997 Sirico was criticizing another priest for telling his congregation that he was gay. Sirico told the Grand Rapids Press that honesty about the matter was ‘irresponsible’ and that the priest should have kept it a secret between him and a few close friends.”
“Father Sirico is a perfect example. He went from a hard-core libertarian to promoting just the economic agenda. He then started covering up his past and went so far as to try to go back into the closet in regards to his own homosexuality. From pioneering gay marriage, to being silent on it, he now heads an organization with notorious antigay bigots who openly attack gay equality in the name of his organization.” Father Sirico is not the only one who appears to be living in contradiction to himself.
Father Sirico is a Catholic priest who views his Jesuit-inspired Catholic social policy as being “theological” and NOT political. Dr. Mohler says the Catholic Church teaches a false gospel: “During a 2000 television interview on Larry King Live, Mohler said of the Holy See and the Pope: ‘As an evangelical, I believe that the Roman Catholic Church is a false church. It teaches a false gospel. And the Pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office.’”
And during a March 13, 2014 podcast of The Briefing: “Evangelical Christians simply cannot accept the legitimacy of the papacy and must resist and reject claims of papal authority. To do otherwise would be to compromise biblical truth and reverse the Reformation.”
Dr. Mohler has either changed his views on core Catholic teaching or is contradicting himself to the spiritual detriment of the students at Southern Seminary and of the Southern Baptist Convention. These statements are from 2013 which was the same year that the Acton Institute / Kern Family Foundation launched the Catholic Social Justice Curriculum in Southern and 12 other evangelical seminaries.
Moreover, Dr. Mohler “has denounced Pope Francis for moving the Catholic Church to the left and failing, during his address to Congress last autumn, to denounce abortion and gay marriage with the necessary zeal.” Pope Francis being the First Jesuit Pope would certainly support the curriculum of Acton and, true to long-term Jesuit efforts to undermine the Reformation, would be proud to see it in Southern and other Reformed seminaries. Pope Francis also shares the political leanings of a Marxist history with Rev. Sirico.
What does Dr. Mohler think of Marxism? From his blog, “No, Marxism has been as wrong as it is possible for a theory to be wrong. Addicted to ‘the self-deification of mankind,’ it continually bears witness to what Kolakowski calls ‘the farcical aspect of human bondage.’ Why then was Marxism like moral catnip–not so much among its proposed beneficiaries, the working classes, but among the educated elite? ‘One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people,’ Kolakowski notes, ‘was the fact that in its simple form it was very easy.’ Marxism–like Freudianism, like Darwinism, like Hegelianism–is a ‘one key fits all locks’ philosophy. All aspects of human experience can be referred to the operation of a single all-governing process which thereby offers the illusion of universal explanation.” Dr. Mohler’s partner Father Sirico describes his journey as “I went to seminary in the early 1980s, when a baptized form of Marxism was next to godliness. When you take all of that into account, my sojourn on the left has about it almost the inevitability of Marxist dialectic.”
Even if Father Sirico and Acton Institute are now truly Libertarian, does this make them compatible partners with the conservative Reformed Christian SBC, ERLC, TGC or Southern and other Seminaries? Mohler has argued that” libertarianism is idolatrous and as a comprehensive world view or fundamental guiding principle for human life is inconsistent with Christian ideals. He is a proponent of personal liberty, but believes such liberties can run into problems when applied in the political sphere. The more limited economic libertarianism, on the other hand, Mohler says can be consistent with the “comprehensive world view that Christianity puts forward.” (Moody Radio, 3/5/2016). Again to Sirico, his and Acton’s social policy is theological not political or solely economic.
Given the end all be all assertions of the Social Justice mantra to answer human need and provide “Human Flourishing” by Mohler and Sirico, Russell Moore and Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer and every published messenger boy of The Gospel Coalition, are they not all offering the “illusion of universal explanation” in utter contradiction to the Gospel they espouse to be at its center? For all the shaming TGC, ERLC, Keller, Carter and others have done to evangelicals for supporting President Trump and Judge Roy Moore (the Alabama Senate race), it may be fairer to ask if the truly conservative evangelicals and reformed individuals in the SBC and PCA can survive the influence of ERLC, TGC, and the Acton influence in Reformed seminaries? In the case of the Alabama Senate race, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and Joe Carter have once again aided and abetted the LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign to empower Leftists like Senator Doug Jones who beat Roy Moore the Alabama Senate election.
Father Sirico and Acton Institute have also had a very strong connection to the U.S. State Department, the Intelligence Community and the Vatican. On the Acton Institute Advisory Board was Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles,who was “the son of a prominent New York Presbyterian family whose father was John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under President Eisenhower and whose uncle was Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. “…he had been a convert to Catholicism during his years at Harvard University after having declared himself an agnostic in his first year there….In 2001…Fr. Dulles was elevated by Pope John Paul II to being a Prince of the Church, Avery Cardinal Dulles. He was the first American theologian to be given that title without being made a bishop first.” This history as well make some nervous.
What Color is the Money; Any Green in The Rainbow?
Some would say that, as Christians eagerly seek to engage the world around us, it is easy in today’s culture to inadvertently partner with or fund organizations whose mission may be antithetical to our own. It may fairly be asserted that the motives of some of those involved are only to seek and avail themselves of any open door to inject Christian influence in important areas like education. However, organizations like the ERLC and The Gospel Coalition in partnership with Acton Institute, urge Christians to “disengage the culture” from historic Christian views on moral issues like gay marriage, LGBTQ inclusion, immigration reform, drug legalization, etc., while they are instead expected to “Seek Social Justice”* as the new approach to the all important mission of the Church. (*example of Acton influence on the same partners in 2010)
IRONICALLY, today’s young pastors in The Gospel Coalition and believers who follow them are trying to escape being viewed as Christian Right Wingers, and choosing to be Social Justice Warriors instead. As they strive to “love well” while “doing community,” they are actually falling for far Left Wing social policy which, in this case, is written by the right wing Heritage Foundation and Libertarian Jesuit / Catholic Acton Institute. It can really give one vertigo to watch the convergence of these political operatives on the unsuspecting Evangelical community.
Considering Libertarian Acton and its founder – Catholic priest, Father Sirico (who refuses to discuss his homosexuality when interviewed) – and millions in funding from the Kern Family Foundation for radical pro-LGBTQ partner, Teach for America, can we simply take their inclusive curriculum in 13 Evangelical seminaries, like RTS, Southern Seminary, Beeson and others, at conservative face value?
Are the commandments and warnings in both Old and New Testaments – “be not unequally yoked with believers” for “two cannot walk together except they are agreed” – null and void for today? Can we walk with God on mission when we and our partners in the quest have so little we agree upon?
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Among Dr. Mohler’s devout fan base there is a common thread of justifying his every action. In Deep State Part One, the most commonly disputed issue among the many respondents concerned Mohler’s promotion of the books and theories of the pro-LGBTQ Urban Planner, Richard Florida.
“Florida’s work is not without its critics, but the basic argument he presents is difficult to refute. For the intelligent Christian reader, the book raises several issues. The clustering of creative populations seems to correlate with areas evangelical churches have found difficult to reach.” In Richard Florida’s books, Rise of the Creative Class and Who is Your City, “Creative Class” is a euphemism for “LGBTQ” community. Florida’s theory is that economically disadvantaged cities such as Detroit would experience revival if they were injected with the “creativity” of the LGBTQ community.
The following additional information should put an end to any justification of Florida’s failed ideology of “the Creative Class.” Here are the facts of Florida’s radical pro-LGBTQ concepts.
The main inspiration and mentor for Richard Florida is Marxist urban activist, Jane Jacobs, who was instrumental in the gay rights movement in both New York City and Toronto. Jacobs is a central figure celebrated in LGBTQ urban history. Today LGBTQ history walks are done in her name in cities internationally.
As Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a co-founder and editor at large of “CityLab,” Richard Florida tracks “Homophobia” by “Mapping” the places it is most prevalent globally. This information is then used to strong-arm cities and regions into taking a more affirming stance on LGBTQ inclusion with grant and economic development funds.
Census number Crunching is done by Richard Florida protégé, Gary Gates of the Williams Institute for LGBTQ Inclusion and Advancement. Gates submitted a brief in the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision which was cited in Justice Kennedy’s pivotal vote and opinion which made gay marriage legal in the United States, in spite of its complete lack of Constitutional Standing. Gates and Williams take Florida’s Creative Gay Class assertions to major places of influence, including census data gathering. The 2020 U.S. Census is a major focus for this work with Florida’s inclusive goals.
LGBTQ activists remain loyal to Richard Florida’s ideology for obvious reasons. However, Evangelicals who endorse the LGBTQ agenda are essentially asserting that the Church could thrive in Sodom and Gomorrah today if we would only apply the “wisdom of Richard Florida.” Dr. Mohler, Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer and others in The Gospel Coalition need to explain why they encourage our church planters and ministers and Christians in general toward these ideasin any way!
Acton and the Road to Serfdom: A Closer Look
Valid concerns exist about Acton Institute and the Reformed camp of Evangelicals now guiding the ERLC and The Gospel Coalition, the most obvious of which is the Catholic theology behind Acton’s Social Policy. According to the 2017 Acton conference in Rome, the social justice and economic policies Father Sirico is introducing to Reformed seminaries is a Jesuit contribution and Catholic historians openly assert that the mission of the Jesuits is to undermine the Reformation. Do TGC and ERLC leadership need to be reminded why the Reformation took place and that 2017 marks its 500th anniversary? Did the Reformation not involve theological differences and a divide that is even more profound today than it was 500 years ago?
Acton also has the issue of its being a Libertarian, not a Conservative, political think tank. Do TGC and ERLC claim to promote Conservative theology? If we live out the Gospel should not our social and political engagement involve sharing the Gospel at the core? Why do TGC and the ERLC consistently land on the progressive (left of center) on every single social issue of concern to biblically faithful Christians? This is a very fair question that many in the ranks of the SBC and PCA are asking.
Acton is a political organization and TGC and ERLC leaders are also acting politically while they shame every believer in their realm for their conservative political engagement. Why is the ERLC located in Washington, DC if not to be engaged politically? Why do Russell Moore and Albert Mohler shame Christians in the Washington Post and other political media? Why is TGC so focused on church planting in and around the Beltway? Are Christians only allowed to engage the culture if we are moving left of center? Is it not political for the Kern funded Curriculum used in Reformed seminaries to be training students in Libertarian, Catholic, Jesuit, recycled Liberation Theology and Social Justice provided by a Political Think Tank like Action Institute? How is this not deceitful? How is it serving the Gospel or preserving and fulfilling the Great Commission?
Acton boasts its inspiration from Friedrich Von Hayek, author of “The Road to Serfdom.” Though the book is often referenced as a source exposing the tyranny of centralized planning and advocating for a free market economy, Hayek’s Fabian Society has a history raising many of the same questions raised by Father Sirico’s liberal history. According to many historians, Hayek’s book “moved American Conservatives in a more libertarian direction.” The Mont Pelerin Society appeared “when classic liberalism appeared dead” and “Hayek’s movement marked a decisive moment in liberalism resurgence, becoming the Fabian Society of renewed classical liberalism.” (Ayn Rand Cult, Jeff Walker, p. 292). It was the homosexual founder of the socialist Fabian Society, Edward Carpenter, whose book, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, became a foundational text of the LGBT movement of the 20th century. (Socialism and LGBT Rights)
Centralized Planning or Not?
Consider the open collectivism being espoused by Tim Keller in the name of individual faith in action. How is the collective push of the Acton / Kern Curriculum toward a Faith and Work, Doctrine of Vocation and Halftime (the give back ideology of Bob Buford which is a continuation of LBJ / John Gardener’s Great Society), in fact, not centralized planning being done covertly inside the reformed seminary and eventually within the church walls?
Marvin Olasky, a Senior Fellow of the Acton Institute, is considered the father of Compassionate Conservatism who helped birth the Bush W. era Faith Based Partnership programs. Rev. Sirico seems to be calling for an end to these programs while espousing deeper involvement in Social Justice by evangelicals and Catholics. So whose funding (besides the massive corporate and private foundations) will pay for its expansion? Who gets to hold the purse strings if the funding is to be persuaded out of the churches and believers as they are sold wealth redistribution as a gospel mandate? And where does all of this circular and ideological, economic, theological, sociology, public relations, rebranding, blending of Reformation and Jesuit doctrine of Social Justice end – if not on an evangelical road to serfdom?
And who thinks it is intellectually honest to have taken the approach of a low flying stealth bomber upon trusting and unsuspecting evangelical borders in order to achieve these goals? If these are Gospel-centered mandates, there is no need for sleight of hand or radar masking technology. No shaming of Evangelicals out of even the use of the name “evangelical” or any other classic self-identification Christians may choose to actually identify as being part of the broader body of Christ. There is no need for the use of the same tired talking points to counter vintage Christianity in America and replace it with something devised by Acton or any other think tank in the Western Hemisphere. How is it that this new underground movement is now the historic Christian faith? They continue to tell us we must “rethink” our historic position on every major issue of the day. Which is it? How important is doctrine and theology to those at the ERLC and TGC if they have no caution or discernment about yoking with Acton (Sirico ) and Kern (who funds radical LGBTQ groups through Teach for America) and many other questionable partners? How much does Father Sirico’s reported closet homosexuality influence Acton’s Communications Officer, Joe Carter, who is simultaneously employed by the ERLC and the TGC?
And how do the ERLC and TGC assume we should respond to their efforts to redefine the faith for our families, our churches, our children and our grandchildren? Are we willing to sell the mission of the Church for liberal social justice? Are we blind to the realities Europe is facing with immigration and Islam while our evangelical leaders push for open borders with organizations funded by George Soros and Open Society Foundation? Do partners like Acton, Sirico, or the Kern Family Foundation share any of our biblically (as opposed to culturally relevant) views on human sexuality? Or are we failing to recognize the “beast” we are loosening with sexual liberation in the name of “loving our gay and lesbian neighbors,” Dr. Moore? Can you chart this path for us and for the Body of Christ and be guiltless before man and the Son of Man whose eyes are as a flame of fire and whose Word divides joint and marrow and discerns both the thoughts and intents of the heart?
It seems a mute-point to ask how we got here given all we see the ERLC, TGC, Mohler, Keller and a host of others doing – acting like a rum-soaked Jack Sparrow with a broken compass, attempting to tell us where to find True North. There has never been a set of policies on the part of church leaders and its allies in government, think tanks, Institutes and halls of learning in the US that has so impacted both the mission and doctrine of the church and posed a more clear and present danger to collective religious freedom and living out personal deeply held Christian convictions. The question that remains is how do we, the Body of Christ, recover ourselves from the bondage of this misguided leadership?
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Happy New Year from The Gay Lobby
Happy New Year from the LGBTQ ‘Rights’ Lobby AKA HRC
by Rev. Thomas Littleton on 3 January, 2018
Living in Alabama has provided Christians and conservatives with a front row seat for the movements of the LGBTQ lobby. We saw Project One America launched by Human Rights Campaign in 2014 which lead to the formation and organization of HRC Alabama. This provided massive outside funding, staffing and training to focus on closing the deal on the LGBTQ package for Full Equality in the Heart of Dixie. Given Alabama’s long civil rights struggle the effort has had a historic stage on which to play it’s public and political discourse.
All Politics are Local … Not Really
In the recent Roy Moore / GOP defeat (still in dispute from voter fraud allegations) in the State Senate special election the local HRC leadership boasted of their role in securing the Democrat Doug Jones victory as the HRC and LGBTQ organizations had staffed his campaign. Here is that HRC quote on the extent of resources brought to the Jones campaign dated December 13th 2017.
“I don’t take the time to acknowledge the incredible work HRC does here in Alabama enough. But HRC had over 10 staffers working to elect Doug Jones here in Alabama. Coupled that with over 160 volunteers we logged over 580 hours of volunteer time for the campaign. Fellow board members flew in from Texas to help us on the ground, and steering committees from NYC, Atlanta, DC, and San Francisco logged hours in phone bank time for Doug Jones. HRC Alabama hosted over 20 volunteer events for the campaign. HRC partnered with Equality Alabama and others on all these efforts.
The point: Winning takes hard work, partnership, strategy and team work. Tonight it paid off. I am so grateful to all of you that volunteered, staff that came to help, and HRC family from all over the nation!”
Politicians Can Never Do Enough – Loyalty is Not a Virtue HRC Recognizes
The same LGBTQ lobby machinery on a smaller scale was used to elect a new Mayor, Randall Woodfin and unseat the City Council head in Birmingham, Alabama just a short time (October 4 2017) before. This is in spite of the fact that the previous Mayor William Bell was celebrated on the HRC blog in 2016 for rolling out the red carpet for a national HRC Board meeting in the city and, as an African American leader facilitated that welcome to include the piggybacking of LGBTQ equality on the Civil Rights history here. Bell’s city Council head Jonathan Austin (celebrated as well on the HRC 2017 victory blog ) had pushed through an LGBTQ antidiscrimination ordinance in the city just prior to the election guaranteeing protection in -access to public use- housing – and employment for LGBTQ in the city.
The ordinance includes intrusive limitations to the rights of Churches and religious organizations to allow access /use of their facilities and hiring of staff (with a narrow exception for those “performing a specific religious duty” ) to be done in keeping with the moral and spiritual convictions of the organizations faith. A Human Rights Commission paid for by tax payers and including members of HRC and paid activist is being established to enforce the ordinance. Offenders will be brought before the tribunal /Commission and given a chance to recant of be recommended to the Municipal Court for trial and fines. Once more this is at tax payers expense.
The Commission will then recommend the plaintiff to pro bono legal help for a Civil Court lawsuit. Birmingham residence have little knowledge of how their city is changing or of who is making it has happened. Councilman Austin had introduced the ordinance in 2013 but was apparently too slow for the gay activist in getting it passed and failed in his reelection bid as did Mayor Bell. Perhaps there is something to be learned from this HRC political betrayal for politicians everywhere. “What have you done for me lately?” appears to be the mantra of the LGBTQ rights lobby.
Local Focus by a National / International Cartel
HRC has big local plans nationwide for your city, county and state.
The $27 million ( likely double that by now ) budget was announced mid 2017 for 2018’s expansion of the Project One America nationwide. The local focus is continuing past criteria of grading your leadership while sharpening it’s efforts methods and emphasis in these three areas:
“ANTI-BULLYING Beginning next year, the School District Anti-Bullying Policies standard will be replaced with a new bonus criterion—City Services Youth Bullying Prevention Policies. This category will reward cities with a maximum of two points for implementing policies that prohibit bullying on the express basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in all youth-facing city facilities and services.”
“RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS To reflect the true scope of the citywide nondiscrimination laws assessed in Part I of the MEI scorecard, the 2018 MEI will deduct points for nondiscrimination ordinances that allow discrimination through religious exemptions that single out sexual orientation and/ or gender identity. Cities will lose one point for each Part I criterion to which a religious carve-out that singles out the LGBTQ community applies.”
“NEW CRITERIA Finally, the 2018 MEI will add two new bonus criteria—Single Occupancy All-Gender Facilities and Laws Protecting Youth from Conversion Therapy—as well as reintroduce the City Employee Domestic Partner Benefits standard as bonus points. Starting in 2018, cities that require all single-user sex-segregated facilities within the city like bathrooms and changing rooms to be all-gender will receive two bonus points. Cities that designate all single-occupancy facilities within its own buildings as all gender will receive half credit. All residents deserve the dignity and safety of equal access to facilities in accordance with their gender identity. Additionally, cities that enact laws to protect youth from the harmful and discredited practice of so-called “conversion therapy” will garner two bonus points. Conversion therapy refers to any effort to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It is based on the false notion that being LGBTQ is an illness that needs to be “cured.”
To be clear your elected officials will be pressured to make your city compliant with ALL LGBTQ concepts of equality. This includes the “All Gender” bathroom access in all public restrooms, the abandon of Reparative Therapy which, based on definitions from South Florida and other recent ordinances, will criminalize any non- affirming council on the part of church Pastors, School Counselors and even parents. Fines and punishment await those who dare tell a child that the LGBTQ lifestyle is harmful, sinful, or not recommended for healthy happy future. Perhaps the CDC should be indicted as well for it’s warnings on the health risk of LGBTQ.
In addition, Corporate America, which is under its own shakedown with the HRC Corporate Equality Index ,is being used to apply pressure your local leadership. Gay lobby supporting corporation Amazon.com dangled a potential 60,000 new jobs before Birmingham residence and City Council in an announcement the same week as the local LGBTQ antidiscrimination ordinance vote came to the council room. HRC activist who spoke on behalf of their ordinance pointed to this “all important inclusive culture to attract corporations like Amazon to our city”.
No doubt 2018 is going to be an interesting year -take a deep breath and consider doing something to “just say no” to the insanity – and the hijacking of your local representation. Happy New Year.
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Jan 4, 2017, 10:44 PM
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The correct name is "Rahxephon". The capital X is a localization quirk stemming from the appearance of the series's two logos, particularly the one from the eyecatch. You may see a capital X in some Japanese sources, but this is rare and clearly an error unless you choose to argue that the lowercase X is itself an error. Actually, I've personally never seen a capital X in Japanese sources...
This is strikingly similar to the Sailormoon name. In Japan, that name is almost always written as "Sailormoon" whenever possible, which also leads to things such as "Supersailormoon". Spaces were added when the series was localized. With Crystal, spaces were also added. You may also choose to argue that the compound form was always an error, but even if you did there is no clear alternative like there is with Rahxephon's logos.
The end result is that very few people outside of Japan are at all aware of these discrepencies, which means you will never find any real number of "reliable sources" that could support an argument in favor of the correct spellings. Despite being inaccurate, these series will forever be known as "RahXephon" and "Sailor Moon" in English-speaking countries without exception. I guess I'm an exception, but I don't really count.
Fun fact: Rahxephon: Soukyuu Gensoukyoku has a different series logo for no discernable reason.
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Conor McGregor reveals name of daughter – and it has a cute meaning
Conor McGregor has named his daughter Croia.
The UFC star’s second child was born last month and her name has been revealed on the birth certificate, reports the Daily Star.
Croia, pronounced "cree-ah", means "of the heart" in Gaelic and she joins brother Conor Jr in the McGregor clan.
The birth certificate also reportedly lists McGregor’s occupation as "athlete", and partner Dee Devlin’s as a "housewife".
The Dubliner is currently in Miami with Dee and his two children.
McGregor has recently been accused of cheating on his partner and fathering a daughter during a three-day party in Liverpool.
Terri Murray, 26, claimed her one-year-old daughter Clodagh was born nine months after she allegedly slept with McGregorin 2017.
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For general inquiries about the auction and how to participate, please email us or call us at 818-727-7829
All bidders must be registered for the auction and approved for bidding in order to place bids. Register for online bidding here. It may take 24-48 hours for Prop Store to review and approve bidder registrations. If your approval has taken longer than this or you have any questions about your online bidder status, Please email us or call us at 818-727-7829 for an update.
Bidders can begin placing online absentee bids from Friday February 1st until the live auction begins on February 28th. Bidders may also bid in real-time during the auction on February 28th and March 1st. A live stream of the auction will be embedded on all auction pages so that users can follow the action in the room as they bid.
All online bidders must be registered for the auction and approved for bidding in order to place bids. Register for online bidding here. It may take 24-48 hours for Prop Store to review and approve bidder registrations. If your approval has taken longer than this or you have any questions about your online bidder status, Please email us or call us at 818-727-7829 for an update.
Telephone bidders must provide Prop Store a list of lots on which they intend to bid at least 24 hours prior to the auction. Please Download the Phone Bidder Form Here, complete it and return it to auctionla@propstore.com. All phone bidders must be approved prior to the auction and will be contacted prior to the live auction to confirm that they are approved for phone bidding. If you have any other questions about phone bidding, please email us or call us at 818-727-7829.
Written Absentee Bidding
Bidders may also send written bids to Prop Store which will be executed by a Prop Store agent in the room during the auction. Please Download the Absentee Bidder Form Here, complete it and return it to auctionla@propstore.com. All written absentee bids will be executed by Prop Store at the lowest possible amount until the absentee bid has been eclipsed by other bidding activity. For example, if you placed a $1,000 absentee bid, and the next highest bid was $500, your bid would be executed at the next interval of $550. If the bidding on the same item exceeded $1,000 the absentee bidder would not lose this lot. If you have any other questions about write-in absentee bidding, please email us or call us at 818-727-7829.
Bidding in the Room
Bidders may also attend the auction at Prop Store's facility in Valencia, CA on February 28th and March 1st. All attendees must register for the auction in order to place bids. We advise bidders to arrive early in order to register for the auction in-person prior to the auction beginning. If you have any other questions bidding in the auction room, please email us or call us at 818-727-7829.
Reserve Prices
Certain Lots in this auction are sold without a Reserve Price; the majority of Lots in this auction are sold with a Reserve Price. The Reserve Price is the minimum price the Seller will accept for a Lot. The Reserve Price will not be more than the lowest estimate given by Prop Store. Prop Store may disclose or keep con?dential the Reserve Price at its entire discretion.
The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping, handling, and delivery costs. Prop Store can help you arrange packing and shipping through FedEx for smaller items or PackAir Airfreight, Inc. for larger items, or you can use your own licensed carrier, approved by Prop Store. Customers are strongly advised to request a shipping quote prior to bidding. Email our shipping department and we will aim to provide you with a comprehensive shipping quote within 2-3 working days, though freight quotes for oversized items may take longer. Please be advised that certain Lots are highly fragile and should be handled with caution. Prop Store recommends that the Buyer collect such Lots locally from Prop Store if possible.
By participating in this auction you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. The full terms and conditions can be found in the "Terms and Conditions" window (to the right on desktop and below on mobile).
We strongly advise all bidders to request a shipping quote prior to bidding.Email our shipping department here for quotes and all other shipping inquiries.
THE TWO-DAY LIVE AUCTION WILL BE HELD THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28th AND FRIDAY MARCH 1st AT PROP STORE'S FACILITY IN VALENCIA, CA. BIDDING WILL START AT 11am EACH DAY OF THE AUCTION.
These Terms and Conditions of Sale (“Conditions”) set out the agreement between the Bidder/Buyer, on the one hand, and Prop Store and the Seller, on the other hand. By registering to bid and participate in a Prop Store Auction, the Bidder/Buyer will be deemed to have read and agreed to be bound by these Conditions and the accompanying Buyer’s Guide, as set forth in the catalog for the Auction and online at www.propstore.com.
In the event of any conflict between the Conditions and the Buyer’s Guide, the Conditions shall take precedence.
When the following capitalized words or terms are used in these Conditions, they shall mean:
A live sale by auction hosted by Prop Store
Any person, properly registered and approved by Prop Store to participate in the Auction who makes or considers making a bid to buy a Lot at Auction
The person or Company making the highest bid or offer for a Lot accepted by the auctioneer, including a principal bidding as agent
Prop Store’s Buyer’s Guide, from time to time as may be amended, a copy of which appears in the catalog for the Auction
and online at www.propstore.com
A commission of twenty-three percent (23%) of the Hammer Price charged to the Buyer for each Lot of Property purchased at Auction
Any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or any other business entity duly organized and qualified to conduct
business under the laws of its state of formation
The highest bid for a Lot accepted by the auctioneer at the Auction
Each item or group of items consigned by the Seller to Prop Store to be made available for sale at an Auction, as detailed in the catalog
The Prop Store of London, Inc., d/b/a Prop Store, located at 28014 Harrison Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355
The Hammer Price plus the Buyer’s Premium, and any applicable sales tax, charged to the Buyer
The person or Company offering the Lot for sale, including their agents or personal representatives
2. Catalog Descriptions and Conditions of Lots
2.1. All Lots are sold subject to their condition at the date of the Auction. The nature and age of the Lots mean they are often unique and are likely to have wear and tear, damage and other imperfections. By making a bid, the Bidder accepts the actual condition of the Lot and acknowledges that if a bid is successful, the Buyer will buy the Lot “as is.”
2.2. Prop Store’s staff are not professional restorers. Accordingly, the descriptions of, and images and statements of condition of the Lots contained in Prop Store’s catalog or on its website are for illustrative purposes only. Prop Store cannot guarantee that colors are properly shown. All Lots are sold “as is”. Bidders are encouraged to inspect the Lots and satisfy themselves as to the Lots’ condition before bidding. Where necessary, Bidders should seekand obtain independent professional advice.
2.3. Condition reports are available for each Lot upon request.
3. Before the Auction
3.1. Bidder Registration
3.1.1. Every person or Company wishing to make a bid in the Auction is required to register with Prop Store before participating at an Auction.
3.1.2. To register, each person or Company must complete and return a bidder registration form available in this Buyer’s Guide or online at www.propstore. com, which must include a valid Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit card details to be held on file.
3.1.3 Each person registering to bid must also provide Prop Store with an up–to-date, valid, government-issued photo identification (e.g. passport, driver’s license). If the photo identification does not list the Bidder’s current address, proof of current address (such as a utility bill or bank statement dated within the last three (3) months) will also be required.
3.1.3. Each Company registering to bid must provide a certified copy or original articles of incorporation, articles of organization, or other documents satisfactory to Prop Store – contact Prop Store at +1 818 727 7829 for confirmation of what will be acceptable.
3.1.5. Any person seeking to participate in the Auction as an agent on behalf of a registered principal must complete and submit an Agent Information Form, and provide an up-to-date, valid, government-issued photo identification (e.g., passport, driver’s license), as well as a written authorization from the principal confirming the agent’s authority to participate in the Auction on the principal’s behalf.
3.1.6. The Bidder agrees and consents that all personal information provided by the Bidder at registration may be used by Prop Store to:
3.1.6.1. Ship Lots purchased at Auction to the Buyer;
3.1.6.2. Process the Buyer’s payment;
3.1.6.3. Conduct credit checks, as deemed necessary by Prop Store in its sole discretion; and/or
3.1.6.4. Inform the Bidder about other auctions, products and services provided by Prop Store and its affiliates (please contact Prop Store by
email at enquiries@propstore.com or by phone +1 818 727 7829 if you do not wish for your information to be used for such a purpose).
3.1.7. By participating in and/or attending the Auction and signing the registration form, each Bidder consents to be filmed and/or photographed and agrees and authorizes Prop Store to use and publish such film and/or photographs and likeness for use in (1) providing online access to the Auction,
(2) recording the results of the Auction, (3) print, digital, online and all other media for marketing purposes (including without limitation, on Prop Store’s website, YouTube and other online platforms), and (4) in any other Prop Store publications of whatever nature. The Bidder releases Prop Store and holds it harmless from any reasonable expectation of confidentiality or privacy associated with such images and releases Prop Store and any third parties involved in the making, creation or publication of the images, or any marketing or other materials derived therefrom from all and any liability for claims made in respect of such publication. Publication of the images in whatever format confers no right of ownership on the individual or right to royalties or payment.
3.2. Pre-Auction Viewing
3.2.1. During the Pre-Auction Viewing period, as set forth in the Auction catalog, any Bidder may preview the Lots free of charge by appointment with Prop Store.
3.3. Delivery Costs
3.3.1. At Bidder’s request, without any liability therefor, Prop Store can provide shipping estimates before the Auction. Any Bidder requesting such estimates should email support@propstore.com with the Lot number and shipping address at least three (3) days before the start of the Auction. Real-time shipping estimates are also available on many Lots through the online bidding platform.
3.4. Bidders Outside the US.
3.4.1. If the Bidder is located outside the United States, it is the Bidder’s sole responsibility and obligation to ensure in advance of the Auction that any Lot purchased in the Auction can be exported from the United States and imported into the country of destination. No sale will be canceled because the Lot may not be imported into the country of destination. PackAir Airfreight, Inc., a third-party, independent freight vendor, can advise Bidders on relevant export licensing regulations and can submit export license applications upon request. Neither Prop Store nor PackAir Airfreight, Inc. can guarantee that any licenses, permits, or consents will be granted, and shall have no liability arising out of or relating thereto.
4. At the Auction
4.1 No Reserve Auction
4.1.1. Certain Lots in this auction are sold without a Reserve Price; the majority of Lots in this auction are sold with a Reserve Price. The Reserve Price is the minimum price the Seller will accept for a Lot. The Reserve Price will not be more than the lowest estimate given by Prop Store. Prop Store may disclose or keep confidential the Reserve Price at its entire discretion.
4.2 Bidding Process
4.2.1. Prop Store reserves the right to refuse admission and/or participation at the Auction and to reject any bid.
4.2.2. Bids may not be accepted from unregistered bidders and all Bidders must be eighteen (18) years or older. All bids must be made in US dollars.
4.2.3. When making a bid, every Bidder acknowledges that such bid is a binding offer to buy the Lot at that price (plus the Buyer’s Premium all applicable taxes, and any and all shipping charges, storage fees and/or other costs).
4.2.4. All bids are by individual Lot unless the auctioneer states to the contrary during the live Auction. Lots will usually be sold in their numbered sequence, unless the auctioneer announces otherwise at the Auction.
4.2.5. The auctioneer may accept bids from Bidders present in the sale room, via telephone, or via online at the time of the Auction. The auctioneer may also accept proxy or absentee bids delivered to Prop Store before the start of the Auction. Proxy or absentee bids must be submitted either by using the form in the Buyer’s Guide or the online form at www.propstore.com. Proxy or absentee bids will be executed at the lowest possible price. If Prop Store receives proxy or absentee bids on a particular Lot for identical maximum bids, and at the Auction these proxy bids are the highest bids on the Lot, the Lot will be sold to the Bidder whose written bid was first received by Prop Store.
4.2.6. Any Bidder wishing to place bids at the time of the Auction via telephone must provide to Prop Store a list of Lots on which they intend to bid at least twenty-four (24) hours before the start of the Auction.
4.2.7. In addition to Prop Store’s Conditions, any Bidder placing bids online must comply with the terms for use of the online auction platform access provider.
4.2.8. Except as expressly stated in the Buyer’s Guide or the Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability arising out of or related to any errors or omission
with respect to bids made online, by telephone, or by proxy.
4.2.9. The Auction will be tracked on a video or digital screen, which may display, among other things, a photograph of the Lot offered for sale and the then-current bid. Bidders understand and agree that errors may occur in its operation and, except as expressly stated in the Buyer’s Guide or these Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability arising out of or related to any errors or omission in respect thereto.
4.3 Auctioneer's Authority
4.3.1. The auctioneer has the right to exercise reasonable discretion in refusing any bid, advancing the bidding in such a manner as he or she may decide, dividing any Lot, combining any two or more Lots, and whether during or after the sale, in the case of error or dispute, determining the successful Buyer, continuing the bidding, cancelling the sale, or reoffering and reselling the Lot in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, then, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the sale record maintained by the auctioneer will be conclusive.
4.3.2. The auctioneer shall have sole discretion to accept or decline any bid.
4.3.3. Subject to the auctioneer’s reasonable discretion, the Bidder placing the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer will be the Buyer and the striking of his/her hammer marks the acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion of a contract for sale between the Seller and the Buyer. Each Bidder understands and agrees that Prop Store, as auctioneer, is not a party to any contract for sale that results from the Auction. Risk and responsibility for the Lot (including frames or glass where relevant) passes to the Buyer upon the fall of the hammer and the Buyer should arrange insurance cover for the Lot, if required.
5. After the Auction
5.1. Payment by Buyer
5.1.1. When making a bid, every Bidder acknowledges that such bid is a binding offer to buy the Property at that price (plus the Buyer’s Premium, all applicable taxes, and any and all shipping charges). All sales are final.
5.1.2. A Buyer’s Premium at a rate of twenty-three percent (23%) will be applied to all winning bids. The Purchase Price of the Property shall consist of the Bidder’s winning bid on the Property plus the Buyer’s Premium. The Purchase Price does not include any duties, taxes, sales tax, VAT, and/or customs fees (where applicable), and shipping and handling charges.
5.1.3. Prop Store will notify the Buyer and send (by email unless requested otherwise) a payment invoice setting out the Purchase Price and itemizing the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium, plus any applicable sales tax, within seven (7) business days of the end of the Auction.
5.1.3.1. For all sales within California, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 9.50%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.2. For all sales within Washington state, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 6.50%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.3. For all sales within Illinois, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 6.25%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.4. Delivery addresses outside the states listed above will be exempt from sales tax.
5.1.2. Payment of the invoice is due within seven (7) business days from receipt of the invoice and must be made by the Buyer. Payments from any other source will not be accepted and shall be returned by Prop Store.
5.1.3. Payment plans may be available in increments of up to three (3) months. Buyers wishing to utilize the payment plan service, if approved by Prop Store, shall be required to pay a deposit of twenty percent (20%) of the Purchase Price (the “Deposit”), within seven (7) business days of being invoiced. The balance of the Purchase Price shall then be split over up to three (3) months, at the Buyer’s option. The payments of the remaining balance shall be made as follows:
5.1.3.1. If the one-month payment plan is selected, the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.3.2. If the two-month payment plan is selected, forty percent (40%) of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction and the remaining forty percent (40%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within sixty (60) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.3.3. If the three-month payment plan is selected: twenty-six and sixty-six percent (26.66%) of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction; twenty-six and sixty-six percent (26.66%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within sixty (60) days of the close of the Auction; and the remaining twenty-six and sixty-eight percent (26.68%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within ninety (90) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.4. Prop Store offers no grace period on payment plan deadlines. If the Buyer does not adhere to the payment deadline as set forth above, the Buyer shall be deemed to be in default. In the event of default, all funds already paid to Prop Store shall be retained by Prop Store as liquidated damages. Moreover, Prop Store and/or the Seller shall also be entitled to any other remedies available, whether in law or equity.
5.1.5. No title to any Property shall pass to the Buyer except upon payment in full of the Purchase Price, and any and all other sums due to Prop Store and/or the Seller, even in circumstances where Prop Store has released the Lot to the Buyer. Among other remedies available to Prop Store and the Seller for failure to render full payment of the Purchase Price, Prop Store and/or the Seller shall be entitled to immediate possession of the Lot purchased by the Buyer, if delivered to the Buyer. The Bidder shall return the Property to Prop Store within 3 business days of written demand by Prop Store of the return of the Property.
5.1.6. Prop Store vouchers and other discount codes are not valid as payment for Auction items.
5.1.7. Only the memorabilia item shown in the photos of a given product listing is included in the sale. Mannequins, display stands, and scale measures
are not included with your purchase, unless expressly stated in the product description.
5.1.8. The Buyer agrees that Prop Store will charge the credit card provided at registration for all items purchased at auction, and any future Prop Store auctions in which the Buyer participates if not paid within seven (7) business days after invoicing.
5.1.9. Payment must be in US dollars and may be made by electronic transfer, debit card, credit card (up to a maximum of $25,000), bankers draft or check (drawn on a US bank account – note check clearance can take between five (5) to ten (10) working days), or cash (up to a maximum of $5,000). Please note the Lot number, invoice number, and Bidder registration number when making payment to ensure it can be processed as efficiently as possible.
5.1.10. If payment is made by credit card, the Buyer expressly agrees that such payment is nonrefundable nor may be credited to any other purchase, and that the Buyer will not undertake any action or effort to stop payment, seek a refund, or attempt a charge back of such amounts by the issuer of the credit card.
5.2 Default by Buyer
5.2.1. Failure to timely make payment of any amounts due to Prop Store and/or the Seller shall constitute an event of Default by the Buyer. In the event of Default for nonpayment, Prop Store may charge interest on the unpaid amount at the rate of five percent (5%) a year above the base lending rate of Bank of America from time to time. The base lending rate shall be the average lending rate of Bank of America for the six (6) months preceding the date of default. If such interest rate exceeds the legal rate permitted by law, then the maximum legal rate permitted by law shall apply. This interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount. The Buyer must pay Prop Store interest together with any overdue amount.
5.2.2. If any applicable conditions herein are not complied with (to a material extent), the Buyer will be in Default and in addition to any and all other remedies available to Prop Store by law, including, without limitation, the right to hold the Buyer liable for the total Purchase Price, including all fees, charges and expenses more fully set forth herein, Prop Store, at its option and to the extent permitted by law, may (i) cancel the sale of that, or any other items sold to the defaulting Buyer, retaining as liquidated damages all payments made by the Buyer, (ii) resell the purchased item, or (iii) effect any combination thereof. In any case, the Buyer shall be liable for any deficiency, any and all costs, handling charges, late charges, expenses of both sales, legal fees and expenses, collection fees and incidental damages.
5.2.3. Prop Store may, in its sole discretion, apply any proceeds of sale then due or thereafter becoming due to the Buyer from Prop Store or any affiliated company, or any payment made by the Buyer to Prop Store or any affiliated company, whether or not intended to reduce the Buyer’s obligations with respect to the unpaid item or items, to the deficiency and any other amounts due to Prop Store or any affiliated companies. In addition, a defaulting Buyer will be deemed to have granted and assigned to Prop Store and its affiliated companies a continuing security interest of first priority in any property or money owing to such Buyer in our possession or in the possession of any of its affiliated companies, and Prop Store may retain and apply such property or money as collateral security for the obligations due to Prop Store or to any affiliated company. Payment will not be deemed to have been made in full until Prop Store has collected good funds.
5.2.4. Prop Store may further reject at any future auction any bids made by or on behalf of the Buyer or require a deposit from the Buyer before accepting any further bids.
5.2.5. Prop Store may take such other action as Prop Store deems necessary or appropriate.
5.2.6. At its option, Prop Store may pay the Seller the entirety of the balance due from the Buyer. If Prop Store pays such amount to the Seller, the Buyer acknowledges and agrees that Prop Store shall have all of the rights of the Seller against the Buyer.
5.2.7. Prop Store shall be entitled to retain the Lots sold until all amounts due have been received in full in good cleared funds or until the Buyer has performed any other outstanding obligations as Prop Store shall reasonably require.
5.3 Shipping and Storage
5.3.1. The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping, handling, and delivery costs. Prop Store can help you arrange packing and shipping through FedEx for smaller items or PackAir AirFreight, Inc. for larger items, or you can use your own licensed carrier, approved by Prop Store. Please contact Prop Store at +1 818-727-7829 or supportLA@propstore.com for further details. Prop Store does not warranty the Lots against, and shall have no liability for, any damage that any Lot may incur or suffer during the shipping or delivery process.
5.3.2. If within fourteen (14) calendar days after the close of Auction, the Buyer has not made arrangements for and paid the shipping cost of the Lots purchased, or has otherwise failed to collect the Lots, a storage fee of three percent (3%) of the Hammer Price per month shall be charged to the Buyer. If the Buyer has failed to pay the Purchase Price and the cost of shipping and handling within fourteen (14) calendar days after the close of Auction, Prop Store, at its option, may cancel the sale.
5.3.3. It is the Buyer’s sole obligation and responsibility to be aware of, to comply with, and to pay for all relevant import duties, taxes, VAT, customs and other fees charged in the area of delivery. Prop Store will ship all packages with the full value of the Lot declared. The Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for any import duties, taxes, VAT, customs, shipping or other charges for the Lots shipped. Failure by the Buyer to pay all necessary amounts may result in the relevant authorities returning the Lot to Prop Store and in those circumstances the Buyer will be charged and will pay storage cost and Prop Store’s additional reasonable costs and expenses.
5.3.4. It is further the Buyer’s sole obligation and responsibility to ensure that any Lot purchased from Prop Store enters the shipping location lawfully, that all duties and taxes have been paid and that all required export procedures, regulations, and laws were properly complied with. The Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for complying with any export procedures, regulations, or laws applicable to the Lot.
5.3.5. Unless otherwise agreed by Prop Store in writing, the fact that the Buyer wishes to apply for an export license does not affect or postpone the Buyer’s obligation to make payment in accordance with Prop Store’s payment terms nor Prop Store’s right to charge interest or storage charges on late payment. Prop Store shall not be obligated to rescind or cancel a sale or to refund any monies paid by the Buyer to Prop Store as a result of or related to the Buyer’s failure or inability to obtain an export license.
5.3.6. In the event that the Bidder refuses to accept a shipment due to import duty charges, and the item is returned to Prop Store, the Bidder shall be subject to a charge of twenty percent (20%) of the Purchase Price of the returned item, plus all shipping charges incurred in the shipment and return shipment of the Property. The balance of the price paid for the Property will be issued only as a store credit to be used against future purchases. Store credits are proprietary to each office of Prop Store and may not be transferred to another office.
5.3.7. Should the Buyer make own arrangements with third parties for shipping, handling, or delivery of any Lots, Prop Store shall not have and accepts no liability or responsibility for the acts or omissions of any such third parties. Similarly, where Prop Store suggests other handlers, packers or carriers, its suggestions are made on the basis of its general experience of such parties in the past. Although Prop Store shall use reasonable efforts to take care when selecting third parties for shipping and delivery, the Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store is not responsible to any person to whom it has made a recommendation for the acts or omissions of the third party concerned.
5.4 Prop Store's Liability
5.4.1. Except where expressly stated to the contrary above, under no circumstance will Prop Store incur liability to any Bidder or Buyer in excess of the purchase price actually paid.
5.4.2. Prop Store will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of its obligations under these Conditions that is caused by an event outside its control, that being any act or event beyond Prop Store’s reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lockouts or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks. Prop Store’s obligations shall be suspended and time for performance extended until such time as the event outside its control is over, following which a new collection or shipping date can be agreed.
6. Terms of Guarantee.
6.1 Prop Store guarantees the following: (i) that each lot of Property is what is stated in the title block of that lot of Property in the Auction catalog, subject to any revisions (which may be given in writing or online before or during the Auction at which the lot of Property is offered for sale); and (ii) that each lot of Property is genuine and authentic, and not a counterfeit or reproduction. Certain lots of Property have been assigned a “grade” by an independent, third-party. Prop Store does not guarantee the accuracy, veracity, or quality of the grades assigned to the Property, and shall have no liability or responsibility therefor. Prior to the Auction, it is the Bidder’s sole responsibility and obligation to inspect each lot of Property on which the Bidder wishes to place any bid to determine its condition.
6.2 If a Bidder demonstrates, to Prop Store’s reasonable satisfaction, that the guarantees as set forth in paragraph 6.1 made by Prop Store are materially incorrect, the sale will be rescinded if the Property is returned to Prop Store in the same condition in which it was at the time of sale. In order to satisfy Prop Store that the guarantees are materially incorrect, Prop Store reserves the right to require the Bidder to obtain, at the Bidder’s expense, the opinions of two experts in the field, mutually acceptable to Prop Store and the Bidder.
6.3 In the event a sale is rescinded in accordance with clause 6.2 herein, Prop Store shall repay to the Buyer the Purchase Price. Repayment of the Purchase Price shall be the Buyer’s sole remedy for an incorrect guarantee, to the exclusion of all other remedies to the extent permissible at law. It is specifically understood that this will be considered the Buyer’s sole remedy under this clause 6. The Buyer expressly agrees that Prop Store shall not be liable in whole or in part, for, and the Buyer shall not be entitled to recover, any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages including loss of profits or value of investment or opportunity cost.
6.4 Bidders are aware that description revisions may occur on some Lots, and should inquire before the Auction whether any description revisions have occurred on a given Lot and/or examine a Lot before bidding on it. Prop Store will make all commercially reasonable efforts to make description revisions readily available during the Auction. While Prop Store uses commercially reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in this auction, Prop Store makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Prop Store assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Auction. Any reference images appearing within Prop Store’s auction listings are solely for reference purposes and are not intended or deemed to be a representation or warranty of the item depicted within the image. Except as expressly provided in these Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability to the Bidder in respect of any Property and all and any implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
7. Warranties and Representations
7.1. The copyright in all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Prop Store relating to this Auction (the “Images”), is and shall remain at all times the property of Prop Store. The purchase of any Lot of Property does not include ownership in or to the trademarks registrations, copyrights and/or any other intangible intellectual properties associated with the Property. Therefore, purchase of the Property does not permit the Buyer to replicate or to otherwise exploit the Property. The Buyer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Prop Store and its directors, employees, affiliates, contractors and agents from any third-party claims, actions, suits, judgments, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) asserted against or incurred by Prop Store that arise out of or result from any act or omission by the Buyer arising out of or relating to the Buyer’s infringement of any copyrights, trademarks, or intellectual property in or to the Property or Images.
7.2. Prop Store neither warrants nor represents that the Buyer’s use of any materials displayed on the site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with Prop Store.
7.3 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PROP STORE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY FOR ANY PROPERTY OFFERED FOR SALE IN THE AUCTION. SAID PROPERTIES ARE SOLD AND DELIVERED TO THE BIDDER “AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS.” PROP STORE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPERTY OFFERED FOR SALE, SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR WARRANTIES ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE, ALL OF WHICH WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.
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CutisPharma, Inc., based in Wilmington, MA, is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that has been the industry leader for over 20 years in providing innovative solutions to pharmacists. CutisPharma’s FIRST Unit-of-Use Compounding Kits have benefited millions of patients who are unable to swallow conventional oral dosage forms such as tablets and capsules and whose needs are not served by other commercially available therapies. In April 2018, CutisPharma announced the launch of FIRVANQ® (vancomycin hydrochloride for oral solution), the only FDA-approved vancomycin oral liquid therapy for patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea. For more information, visit www.cutispharma.com, www.firvanq.com or contact us at media@cutispharma.com.
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Are You Designing or Inspecting?
The differences betweeen guidelines and heuristics in designing and testing UIs.
Article No :514 | April 9, 2010 | by Dana Chisnell
Guidelines and heuristics are not interchangeable, but many UXers treat them that way. It’s common to hear someone saying that they’re doing a heuristic evaluation against X guidelines. But it doesn’t quite work like that.
“Let’s check this against the Nielsen guidelines for intranets,” she said. We were three quarters of the way through completing wireframes for a redesign. We had spent four months doing user research, card sorting, prototyping, iterating, and testing (a lot). At the time, going back to the Nielsen Norman Group guidelines seemed like a really good idea. “Okay,” I said. “I’m all for reviewing designs from different angles.”
There were 614 guidelines.
This was not a way to check designs to see if this team had gone in the right design direction. Designing is an act of creation, whether you’re doing research, drawing on graph paper, or coding CSS. Inspecting is an act of checking, of examining, often with some measure in mind.
Guidelines are statements of direction. They’re about looking to the future and what you want to incorporate in the design. Guidelines are aspirational, like these:
Add, update, and remove content frequently.
Provide persistent navigation controls.
Index all intranet pages.
Provide org charts that can be viewed onscreen as well as printed.[1]
Heuristics challenge a design with questions. The purpose of heuristics is to provide a way to “test” a design in the absence of data and primary observation by making an inspection. Heuristics are about enforcement, like these:
Visibility of system status
The system should always keep users informed about what is going on…
Match between system and the real world
The system should speak the users' language…
User control and freedom
The system should provide a clearly marked "emergency exit" to leave the unwanted state…[2]
Creating or diagnosing?
Heuristics are often cast as pass/fail tests. Does the UI comply or not? While you could use the usability.gov guidelines to evaluate website designs, they were developed as tools for designing. They present things to think about as teams make decisions during their creative process.
Both guidelines and heuristics are typically broad and interpretable. They’re built to apply to nearly any interface. But they come into play at different points in a design project. Guidelines are things to think about in reaching a design; they are considerations and can interact with one another in interesting ways. Heuristics are usually diagnostic and generally don’t interact. But they might.
Don’t design by guidelines alone
On the intranet project, we looked at guidelines about homepages. One directive says to put the most important new information on the homepage, and the next one says to include key features and company news on the homepage. A third says to include tools with information that changes every day. But earlier in the list of guidelines, we see a directive to be “judicious about having a designated ‘quick links’ area.” Guidelines may feel complementary to one another or some may seem to cancel others out. Taken together, there’s a set of complex decisions to make just about the homepage.
And it was too late on our intranet to pay attention to every guideline. The decisions had been made, based on stakeholder input, business requirements, and technology constraints, as well as user requirements. Though we were thoughtful and thorough in designing, anyone scoring our site against the guidelines might not give us good marks.
Don’t evaluate by heuristics alone
Likewise, when looking at heuristics such as “be consistent,” there’s a case for conducting usability tests with real users. For example, on the intranet I was working on, one group in the client company was adamant about having a limited set of page templates, with different sections of the site meeting strict requirements for color, look, and feel. But in usability testing, participants couldn’t tell where they were in the site when they moved from section to section.
Guidance versus enforcement
What are you looking for at this point in your design project? In the intranet project, we were much closer to an evaluative mode than a creation mode (though we did continue to iterate). We needed something to help us measure how far we had come. Going back to the guidelines was not the checkpoint we were looking for.
We sallied forth. The client design team decided instead to create “heuristics” from items from the user and business requirements lists generated at the beginning of the project, making a great circle and a thoughtful cycle of research, design, and evaluation.
I don’t know whether the intranet we designed meets all of the guidelines. But users tell us and show us every day that it is easier, faster, and better than the old intranet. For now, that’s enough of a heuristic.
[1] From Intranet Usability: Design Guidelines from Studies with Intranet Users by Kara Pernice Coyne, Amy Schade, and Jakob Nielsen
[2] From Jakob Nielsen's 10 heuristics, see http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
Dana has helped hundreds of people make better design decisions by giving them the skills to gain knowledge about users. She's the co-author, with Jeff Rubin, of Handbook of Usability Testing Second Edition. (Wiley, 2008) Visit Dana's website at usabilityworks.net or follow her on Twitter @danachis.
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CS Security Research in the News
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On Sunday 3rd November, we re-visited Gilwern Quarry, Powys, to hunt for trilobites and other Ordovician goodies!
Gilwern quarry is privately-owned and is situated on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, in beautiful and isolated moorland. Gilwern is famous for its trilobites, which are generally very well preserved, and can be found in abundance. Gilwern Hill is made of Lower to Middle Ordovician volcaniclastic rock, which form part of the Builth Inlier. The site has rocks from the Llanvirn series (approximately 460 million years old) and exhibits the following beds:
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The site has been interpreted as a near-shore, shallow water environment, which due to the number and range of ages of Ogyginus found here, was identified as a breeding ground for the Ogyginus trilobite.
A small group of us were met by the landowner, Emma, at the on-site shepherd’s hut. Emma gave us her amazing warm welcome, with hot teas and coffees at the ready! For those of us who had travelled far, this was most welcome!
We were very lucky with the weather, as the previous week had seen torrential downpours, with part of the quarry under several feet of water. Despite this, we found a great selection of whole and partial Ogyginus and Bettonolithus trilobites.
Bettonolithus trilobite plate found by Paul
The beautiful view from the shepherd’s hut
Ogyginus trilobite found by Emma and Gemma
Beautiful little Bettonolithus trilobite
A colony of trilobites found by Emma and Gemma!
Large Ogyginus trilobite!
We would like to thank all for attending – we hope you had a fantastic day! A special thank you goes to Emma for her fabulous hospitality!
Access to the quarry and rental of the self-catering shepherd’s hut can be requested via https://www.uppergilwernquarryhut.co.uk
For further information on Gilwern fossils, please refer to https://www.asoldasthehills.org/oath_homepage.html
Leader selfie! (Sam, Terry and Mike)
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UKAFH field trip to Folkestone Sunday 6th October 2019
Another week another hunt! Great stuff! This week we were visiting the late Cretaceous deposits of the Gault Clay and Lower Greensands at Folkestone, Kent. The geology at Folkestone is Albian age, between 90 and 112 million years old. Although there are chalk exposures east of Folkestone, our focus today was west from the beach entrance at the Warren heading towards Copt Point.
We assembled in a quiet residential street (I think the locals have got used to our occasional assemblies of yellow jacketed, hard had wearing groups!) and Sam gave a superb talk with some great show and tell fossils. The rocks at Folkestone we’re formed in a shallow marine environment so the fossils include molluscs such as ammonites, belemnites snd bivalves as well as corals, sharks and other fish, urchins, turtle and occasional marine reptile remains. However the seasonal dryness in the locality is evidenced by scarce dinosaur footprints. Many fossils are exceptionally preserved, retaining original shell preservation, due to the soft and highly anaerobic clay which preserves aragonite and calcite shells in beautiful, iridescent colour. Chris, our leader on the day, briefed the group on the locality and a couple of health and safety messages and we headed down to the beach carefully, then heading West from the chalk to what we hoped would be much exposed clay.
We totally beat the weather forecast, with many of us stripping off the full waterproofs for much of the excursion, and got away with only a couple of showers. Unfortunately we could not contend with the abundance of sand covering a lot of the clay so a chunk of the areas we are used to hunting were covered. This did not mean it was an unproductive hunt though and more than I was expecting was found! Yay!
The first fossils encountered were from the freshly slipped clay. The colourful shells of the bivalves within were evident but were too fragile to collect and we also found an unusual number of equally fragile heart-shaped urchins.
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A very large and exceptionally well preserved shark tooth was found by Jo and Isabel and Peter Bines continued his hot streak, finding a little tooth that would have gone unfound without his persistent sieving efforts as well as part of a chimaeroid fish tooth palate which has a distinctive spotted texture and can be found in both the Gault clay and Greensand.
Jo and Isabel’s shark tooth
Peter’s chimaeroid tooth palate
Suzanne, a first time guest was pleased to find some iridescent ammonite sections and see the beautiful but fragile bivalves which look gorgeous on the beach but have a short shelf life once exposed. Meanwhile Louie Fleckley found some beautiful complete ammonites!
Louie with ammonites
Louie and his finds
Other finds on the day included crinoid stems, a fish vertebra, a solitary coral, many ammonites and ammonite fragments including sections of heteromorph (irregular/uncoiled) ammonites which are unusual but quite common at Folkestone and yet another great find from hawk-eyed Peter who found a beautiful small crab carapace.
crab found by Peter Bines
solitary coral
gastropod with coloured stripes
crinoid stem
section of heteromorph ammonite
fish vertebra
Everyone had a fun time and it was absolutely lovely to wander up to Sam and hear that our youngest guest of the day Louie wanted to tell her before he went home that he had a great time and thought we were all lovely! Thanks for the great feedback and that is exactly why we do this. We love to encourage and inspire and share our love for fossils!
Examples of the varied complete ammonites to be found at Folkestone
Jo and Isabel with their finds
Roll on the next hunt!
Chris Tait
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UKAFH field trip to Withington, near Cheltenham, Saturday 5th October 2019
Posted on October 13, 2019 Updated on October 13, 2019
UKAFH hosted its largest field trip ever on Saturday 5th October when we welcomed 50 members, many of them new joiners, to privately owned ploughed farm fields near Withington which we had obtained permission from the landlord to visit. The proximity of the topsoil to the Inferior Oolite below in this locality means that ploughing brings rock to the surface which contains a large variety of fossils. A field hunt (with landlord permission) really is an excellent way to find fossils with little effort other than to look patiently and “get your eye in”. It is comparatively easy to find rocks on the surface of the topsoil and inspect them for fossils, many of which are already loose from the rock. No tools or equipment are required other than a container for your finds and, at this location, a bucket was ideal as fossils were plentiful and they are easy to carry and drop the robust fossils into as you go along.
The weather conditions were dry and overcast, making it an ideal day to fossil hunt as the rock was relatively clean and easy to spot so plenty of finds were made.
a small echinoid in situ
an echinoid in matrix as found
oolitic rocks containing fossils are abundant on the surface
Once assembled at the farm, our guest leader and local expert for the day, Mark Baggott, gave us an introduction to the local geology and fossils. After enjoying Mark’s marvellous display of sample fossils and information sheets and his introduction to the site the group spread out to hunt across the two newly cleared fields and finds were quickly being made. The lower field produced a good variety of abundant brachiopods, bivalves and regular echinoids and some gastropods, whereas the upper field yielded complete and partial Clypeus ploti as well as larger molluscs and a fragment of ammonite, which is unusual as ammonite finds at this location have historically been quite uncommon. The changes in types of find was indicative of and helped demonstrate the stratigraphy of the area, with the upper field being at a higher elevation and therefore exposing younger rocks than the lower field and, therefore, younger and older fossils.
Irregular echinoid
The Cotswold Escarpment rocks are almost exclusively marine and were deposited mainly in warm tropical seas. Plate tectonics has transported this part of the Earth’s crust northward over the last 150-200 million years to its current location. The Middle Jurassic rocks here are the characteristic ‘Cotswold Limestone’; soft, yellow, sandy limestone at the base of the Inferior Oolite (literally egg stone), a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Towards the top of the Inferior Oolite the limestone becomes more fossiliferous and is referred to as ‘grits’ due to its coarser texture. Such an Inferior Oolite exposure is exposed at the farm and the fossils that this limestone contains date from between 167 to 175 million years ago at a time when this farm was at the bottom of a warm tropical sea. The rocks exposed near the farm comprise the Salperton and Aston Limestone and, from a fossil perspective, the most interesting layers are the Grits (Clypeus, Upper Trigonia Grit and Lower Trigonia Grit), named from the index fossils found in those rocks.
The commonest fossil found at this location is the sea urchin (echinoid) Clypeus ploti. These are more commonly known as Chedworth Buns (after the nearby village where they were often found) or Pound Stones, because their weight was usually a good approximation to 1lb. Clypeus lived in burrows on the seafloor, and burrowed their way through the sediment to get nutrients. They had fine hair-like spines and are an example of what is known as an “irregular” echinoid because they are shaped, not rounded. Because these irregular echinoids lived in the sediment, they didn’t need the spiky and sometimes poisonous spines that the spiny sea urchins (known as regular echinoids) that we can see on the seafloor today have for protection. As well as the Clypeus Ploti we find other echinoid species which are “regular” and would have had sharp spines. Unfortunately the spines rarely fossilize still attached, but they can frequently be found individually in the same sediment.
Clypeus ploti echinoid
Trigonia bivalve
Trigonia bivalves gave their name to the second grit since they are very common at this horizon. Trigonia are a family of saltwater clams, noticeable because the exterior of the shell is highly ornamented. Other fossils to be found comprise of brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. Brachiopods are a marine animal that had hard valves (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces. They are distinguished from bivalves which also have two valves/shells but in a left/right arrangement rather than upper and lower.
Brachiopods are bottom dwelling marine animals and, although rare today, in Jurassic times they dominated the sea floor and were frequently found in large colonies. One characteristic unique to brachiopods is the pedicle, which is a long, thin fleshy appendage which is used to burrow into the sea floor as an anchor while the brachiopod could feed clear of the silt. Although the fleshy pedicle itself does not preserve in the fossils, the opening at the top of the animal from whence the pedicle connected (known as the foramen) is clearly visible. Brachiopods are filter feeders, gathering microscopic organisms and bits of organic matter from the water that flows by them using a specialized organ called a lophophore. This is a tube like structure with cilia (hair like projections). The cilia move food particles down the lophophore to the mouth.
A selection of bivalve and brachiopod finds by Sarah Scott
Suzi and mussel
Freya and bivalve
Jonty and gastropod
Brachiopods are often known as lamp shells as the curved shell of the some classes look rather like Roman pottery lamps. There are two main groups of articulate brachiopods from the Jurassic, terebratulids and rhynchonellids. A common example of a telebratulid brachiopod found here is Stiphrothyris tumida; their main characteristics are their ovoid/circular shape, presence of a clear hinge line and a circular pedicle opening located in the beak. This brachiopod is a type example for lower Trigonia grit. The second of the main orders of articulate brachiopods is the rhynchonellids. The main characteristics are their strongly ribbed wedge shape, the absence of a clear hinge line, the line between the valves/shells is often zigzagged and a circular pedicle opening located in the beak. An example of such a brachiopod found here is Burmirhynchia sp. The rhynchonellids were able to extrude their lophophore out of the shell in water, whereas the terebratulids maintained their lophophore within the shell. The ability to extrude the lophophore led to more efficient food-gathering and is probably why rhynchonellids survived the mass extinction events better than the terebratulids.
Bivalves include such animals as clams, oysters, cockles, mussels, and scallops are also found at Withington. The majority are filter feeders and often they bury themselves in sediment where they can be safe from predators. Others lie on the sea floor or attach themselves to rocks or other hard surfaces, a few such as scallops are able to propel themselves through the water. The shell consists of two usually similar valves, and is joined at the hinge line by a flexible ligament with interlocking teeth on each valve. This arrangement allows the shell to be opened and closed for feeding without the two halves becoming disarticulated. Bivalves found here include Thracia (a member of the clam family) and Pleuromya (a member of the mussel family).
Duncan and Trigonia
Ellie, Sophie and Rachel with their finds
Sam and Suzi with their finds
If we compare brachiopods and bivalves, although they resemble bivalves, brachiopods are not even molluscs. They are so unique that they have been placed in their own phylum, Brachiopoda. Brachiopods are shelled marine organisms that superficially resembled bivalves in that they are of similar size and have a hinged shell in two parts. However, brachiopods evolved from a very different ancestral line, and the resemblance to bivalves only arose because of a similar lifestyle. The differences between the two groups are due to their separate ancestral origins. Different initial structures have been adapted to solve the same problems, a case of convergent evolution. In modern times, brachiopods are not as common as bivalves. Brachiopod shells are often made of calcium phosphate as well as calcium carbonate, whereas bivalve shells are composed entirely of calcium carbonate.
Gastropod found by William Taube Navaraj
Unusual gastropod found by Mark Baggott
Also to be found at Withington are gastropods. They are called univalves because they build a single coiled shell to protect their soft bodies. Ancient fossilized gastropods are related to living gastropods of today and are snails. Gastropods can be carnivorous or herbivorous. Their tongue is covered with thousands of tiny teeth to tear apart food.
Hugo’s fab ammonite find
Flint scraper found by Hugo
A scarce partial ammonite found by Chloe
UKAFH would like to sincerely thank the landowner for allowing us access to the fields. Special thanks also to Mark Baggott for organising the visit and providing a fantastic display of local fossils and information for us all to refer to throughout the day. Thank you also to Mark and to Alan Banyard for bringing along some very nice examples of undamaged and prepared Clypeus ploti and ammonites from nearby locations for members to take home and to Andy Crawte and Alan Banyard who gave their time to assist our attendees in identifying their finds.
All in all we had a great day out and it was wonderful to welcome so many enthusiastic new members and see so many families enjoying what was for many of them their first fossil hunt. Everyone went away with finds and I saw many happy smiles! This is exactly what UKAFH is all about and I really hope we see many of you on future fossil hunts. Our 2020 hunt calendar has now been published so please take a look and I hope to see you all soon!
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Lee-On-The-Solent 22nd September 2019
The 22nd September will go down in history…. ok that’s an exaggeration but it will certainly be remembered by those who attended as the wettest UKAFH hunt of recent times.
Lee had some choice weather to test our resolve. I arrived early hoping to grab a cuppa and a bacon sandwich from The Shack but the owner had clearly seen the forecast and stayed home! Nicky arrived shortly after and having given her the bad news about no bacon sandwich, we donned our waterproofs and waited for people to arrive.
Once we had all assembled I gave a truncated talk in the pouring rain about the “Eocene optimal climate period” and Nicky and I showed examples of what we could expect to find. Then we headed off to the fossils, pleasingly close to the car park at this location.
The first hour hunting was spent in heavy rain and was a bit lean with the finds, although within a minute of getting to the shingle Nicky found a shark tooth that gave everyone encouragement.
We got lucky for about half an hour around low tide when the rain lifted and finds increased.
Quite a few Ray plates and shark teeth were found as well as the some nice bivalves and gastropods. Aside that there were a few different finds; Lesley found a wonderful Micraster echinoid, easily the best example I’ve seen from here.
Nickynoid (oops did I reveal her nickname 😀) loves echinoids was very excited to see that.
Daniel Free was lucky to find a piece of turtle carapace from Emys with a rib attachment showing.
One young man had an exceptional days hunting. Peter Bines found by far the largest shark tooth of the day at over 4cm, the smallest tooth of the day and a chunk of bone I tentatively identified as alligator rib. (Corrections welcome) and a lovely shark tooth on the way back to the car park.
It was lovely to encourage our young guests. They ran over with various pebbles for me to identify, occasionally hanging around in case there was something to find. Sometimes there was and they “found” a plate or a tooth. I loved drawing the square in the shingle and having not only Aaron but also his Dad searching. Aaron’s cool reaction when he finally found it was funny!
The rain returned in earnest at about 12 and by then many had got wet enough. I don’t blame them at all. A few people stayed till the end and Peter was rewarded with the last nice tooth of the hunt.
Despite the weather it was a great hunt with some good finds from some enthusiastic people! Not going to lie, hope when we next go back we get luckier with the weather!
UKAFH field trip to Doniford Bay, Somerset on 15th September 2019
On 15th September 21 UKAFH members set out to explore the geology and fossils of Doniford Bay in Somerset. Our group assembled at Doniford Farm Park with their kind permission, since the nearby public car park was closed at the start of the year. This allowed us to park and gather easily as well as providing a wonderful opportunity to purchase delicious lunches and a variety of local produce and wares as well as meeting the farm animals!
In the glorious sunshine of a late September heatwave, we walked as a group to the nearby beach access and descended to the bay. Sam set off to check the terrain and rock exposures on the beach and Aidan, the group leader for today’s event, provided some information to the group on the geology of the area and what the group might expect to find. Directing our gaze to the distant cliffs in the direction of Watchet, Aidan explained that the red layers which were clearly visible displayed a history of interchanging desert and aquatic conditions, with water encroaching on the landmass then retreating to give way to desert conditions. These varying states, occurring as Pangaea broke up and the Triassic period came to an end, finally gave way to full inundation by the ocean as the Jurassic period commenced. The change in condition brought marine life to the area which leaves its record in the rocks beneath and around us in this location.
The rocks at Doniford Bay represent the very earliest part of the Jurassic period beginning 201 million years ago. The most abundantly evident fossil is the ammonite Psiloceras planorbis, which is a zone fossil, which means it is recognised as being the defining biological marker for the start of the Hettangian stage 201.3 ± 0.2 million years ago, the earliest stage of the Jurassic period. All ammonites with the exception of the genus Psiloceras went extinct at the end of the Triassic so all Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonites are descendants of this genus.
Paul’s wonderful plate of Psiloceras
Psiloceras
Iridescent Psiloceras
Aidan continued to explain that the other ammonites we were likely to see demonstrate the evolution of this ammonite as it adapted and evolved to different niches of the newly opened up marine environment following the mass extincions of the end Triassic. Firstly we will notice Caloceras johnstoni, which, like Psiloceras planorbis is always crushed flat but maintains aragonite (mother-of-pearl) shell preservation which often demonstrates spectacular rainbow iridescence but which evolved a ribbed shell which would have afforded advantages, possibly affecting buoyancy and swim control or resistance to predation or other damage. This was succeeded by larger and more ribbed species like Arnioceras and Coroniceras which we hoped to see in situ in the wave-cut shale platforms.
The post-extinction sea quickly refilled with new life and Aidan informed the group that alongside the abundant ammonites we could also hope to find fishes, marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs and plant remains.
We headed off as a group towards an area of loose rocks on the foreshore where we knew ammonites could be commonly found. Aidan pointed out some examples that were clearly visible and demonstrates how best to split the fragile shales, reminding group members to be safe using goggles and ensuring others were not close and vulnerable to flying chippings. He added that the delicate ammonites benefitted from preservation to bring out their colours and prevent deterioration and shared a tip that a smear of lemon juice was often effective in helping bring out the colour. Finally Aidan reminded members that they should only collect a few examples as no-one needs many identical specimens and there should be plenty left for others.
The group dispersed over the pebbly area and were quickly finding examples of Psiloceras and some Caloceras ammonites as well as some fragments of 3D ammonite. Chris Tait found a beautifully preserved example of Brachyphyllum, a cone- bearing plant which is known from the late Carboniferous to the Cretaceous.
Brachyphyllum specimen found by Chris Tait
ammonite fragments found by Emma Stone
Caloceras johnstoni found by Jonah
After the group searched the loose foreshore pebbles Aidan took the group to the ledges of shale along the beach where we could observe the later, larger ammonites like Arnioceras and Coroniceras. The site is SSSI so hammering if in-situ rocks is mot permitted and these specimens cannot be extracted but we were all able to view, photograph and enjoy the many beautiful examples visible on the rock surfaces.
Bivalve in situ
Crinoid in situ
We were fortunate to observe, on close inspection, a small fossilised fish exposed in the rocks and one lucky group member found a small ichthyosaur vertebra. Also visible were crinoid ossicles and sea urchin spines.
Fish found by Aidan Philpott
Small ichthyosaur vertebra found by Deborah
As we returned to the slipway to leave the beach accompanied by the sound of the steam train whistles there was still a surprise yet to come – a beautiful, unusually preferved brachiopod found by Jonah.
UKAFH would like to thank Doniford Farm Park for allowing us to park for the duration of our excursion. Your pasties and pies make delicious lunches and we wish we could have stayed for the delicious looking carvery!
We hope everyone had an enjoyable day at Doniford and we hope to see you all again on future field trips.
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UKAFH field trip to Burnham on Crouch, Essex on Sunday 7th July
On a warm but comfortably overcast day a group of 20 UKAFH members met at the marina car park at Burnham on Crouch to study the geology and collect fossils from Butts cliff at Burnham on Crouch. Our leader for the day was Eliott Mills, who has lifelong experience of this and other London Clay locations. Eliott brought a number of superb specimens collected at Burnham on Crouch and other London Clay localities to illustrate the quality and diversity of fossil specimens to be found at this location. Fossils include over 20 species of shark tooth, crabs, lobsters, turtle, birds and fish as well as invertebrate fossils and derived fossils from the chalk such as sea urchins.
The London Clay (Eocene ~50 mya) from the Ypresian of the Eocene is well exposed at Burnham on Crouch. The beds dip westwards and there is a large amount of the sequence exposed. This is some of the oldest London Clay that is accessible.
The London Clay banks here still provide the collector with a rich assemblage of fish taxa, almost exclusively of elasmobranchs (cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, rays and skates). The tidal river cliffs and foreshore exposures reveal a section through the marine rich London Clay, Division D. The main cliff, known as ‘The Cliff’ or Butts Cliff locally, forms a 2 -3 metre thick outcrop on the north shore, which contains the fish fauna (mostly of sharks) which wash out onto the foreshore.
Large cementstone nodules from the London Clay are found here and resemble those found at Sheppey sites. However, at Burnham-on- Crouch, the concretions are largely unfossiliferous when broken open.
At the western end of Cliff Reach, the Upper Chalk is sometimes exposed on the foreshore in boulders. These can contain shells from the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper Cretaceous. This bed is directly beneath the London Clay.
After a walk if some 40 minutes the group arrived at the cliff and began searching for fossils. Many fossils are small and require careful searching through fine shingle but finds were quickly made.
Claire and Sam quickly found small shark teeth in the shingle and Jenny then found a cidarid sea urchin spine derived from the chalk. Xiang then found a bird bone, a rare and excellent find! Leon found a large and very well preserved striatolamia (sand tiger) shark tooth and Aidan found a complete ray tooth plate file.
As we continued to search the beach everyone was able to find and share examples of their finds. Many attendees were able to find small crab nodules and fragments amongst the shingle and Jack found a number of larger crab nodules at the margin where the shingle gave way to the clay which he kindly shared with group members. Steve found a fish jaw with clear tooth sockets and several fish vertebrae were also found.
The find of the day was made by Eliott, whose goal of many years was finally achieved when he found a Hexanchus (6 gilled cow shark) tooth. These tiny teeth are uncommon and many years of searching without success were finally paid for.
Finally the group began the long walk home as the tide came in. Always remember to be safe and to fossil hunt on a falling tide, along time to return safely taking account of any points along the route where there is risk of being cut off. Thank you to Eliott, Sam, Jack, Salma and Aidan, our UKAFH volunteer team for leading and supporting this event.
Hock Cliff – 30 June 2019
On Sunday the 30th July, UKAFH embarked on a fossiling foray in Gloucestershire, on the River Severn near a small village called Frampton on Severn – a location known as Hock Cliff.
We met at a private car park for which we were very grateful to have received permission to use. (Please note that if visiting Hock Cliff individually parking would need to be sourced elsewhere along the road heading north west from Frampton on Severn). From here, group leader Lizzy Hingley guided us on a short walk through fields before arriving on the riverbank where a cliff, at most 20m tall, is exposed for a stretch of just over 1000m.
The cliff and foreshore exposed at Hock Cliff are made up of the lower portions of the Blue Lias formation, an early Jurassic formation about 200 million years old. As well as Gloucestershire, The Blue Lias formation is exposed along the Somerset Coast, in Dorset near Lyme Regis, South Wales and even parts of Yorkshire, so the material here was not unfamiliar to many of the seasoned hunters on this trip. The Blue Lias consist of repeating bands of a blueish limestone and darker shale (The name Blue Lias is derived from the blue colour of the limestone, the colour itself is derived from the high concentration of pyrite in the stone). These sediments were formed in a warm, placid, shallow sea which would have been much closer to the equator than present day. The surprisingly formulaic nature of the repetitive limestone and shale bands can be interpreted as resulting from a Milankovich Cycle. This is a cycle in which the earth wobbles on its longitudinal axis – a result of gravitational influence from other celestial masses – which result in earth’s polar regions becoming closer, then further from the sun and so effecting global climate and sea level; and consequently the sedimentation of this Jurassic sea as finer sediments travel further from their source, effecting the type of sediment produced. Amazingly we can calculate the length of this cycle and so can interpret each section of limestone and shale to represent about 90,000 years of time, which unlike more homogeneous strata allows us to visualise the passage of time throughout the formation.
This location is incredibly fossiliferous with well-preserved examples from much of the familiar early Jurassic marine forna abundant here. Most notably the bivalve Gryphaea (Often called Devil’s Toenails) can be found in quantity but are remarkably well preserved, often with both valves intact and with pronounced growth rings, allowing you to calculate its age when it died. Ammonites are also common, often small and preserved in pyrite, hints of gigantic ammonites can be spotted in the limestone ledges. There is also a crinoidal bed where, if exposed, mudstone packed full of crinoid beautifully preserved in calcite can be found. Hock cliff also has its share of vertebrates including fish, Hybodus sharks and marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Further down the River Severn the pterosaur Dimorphodon was found in the Blue Lias above Aust cliff so the chance of terrestrial fauna is not unimaginable.
After a short introduction to the geology and paleaontology of the area, fossils were being found by the group almost immediately. Matilda Brewer was first in with a fantastic Promicroceras ammonite preserved in pyrite and Barry Taylor found an exceptional example of crinoid bed which was not very abundant on this trip. I think everyone found a great example of Gryphaea, some with the tube casts of creatures who made their home on the shell preserved. Rob Howe struck lucky when he found a small, fairly worn but significantly uncommon ichthyosaur vertebra. However, the star of the show was by far the exceptionally rare and beautifully preserved Hybodus shark tooth found by Tegan Watts.
Hybodus Tooth found by Tegan Watts
Gryphaea in matrix found by Matilda Brewer
Ichthyosaur Vertebra found by Rob Howe
Ammonites and Crinoid in sity found by Lizzy Hingley
Loads of Gryohaea!
Bivalved found by Emma Perrins
Ammonite found by Matilda Brewer
Crinoid bed found by Barry Taylor
We were not just lucky with our fossil finds but also lucky with the fine weather, which had cooled slightly from the 30C+ the previous day. Importantly the ground was solid – if visiting this site in winter months or after heavy rain it is important to take extra care as the solid ground becomes dangerous mud.
Hock Cliff is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and so the cliffs and foreshore must not be hammered or dug into. However, there are plenty of loose fossils to be collected along the foreshore.
A big thank you to everyone who attended our hunt at Hock Cliff, it was a great day with a great group of fossil hunters! See you all again soon.
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Whitehaven, 9th June 2019
On 9th June we descended on Whitehaven beach to chance our arm at finding some fossils.
The foreshore and cliffs at Whitehaven are famed for their Silesian (Upper Carboniferous) plant remains. Many of the plant fossils that can be obtained here are of exceptional preservation and whilst the section in the cliff provides good collecting opportunities, the section of foreshore beneath exposes beds of Bolsovian age (311.7–306.5 Mya) from the Westphalian Stage and generally consists of far better fossil material.
Fossil plants found here represent a time when plant life flourished and forests were populated by giant cycad trees and ferns. A substantial river once flowed to the southwest through this environment and the Countess Sandstone, provides us with evidence of this.
There are some 30 recorded species of plant remains found at Whitehaven. The foreshore is full of fossil roots in between layers of plant material. The most common plants include Annularia, Neuropteris and Asterophyllites, and many of these can be found in their original life positions, which makes this location extremely important.
A selection of finds is shown below. We had a lovely group, some fantastic fossils found and an excellent day in the sunshine! Thank you to everyone who attended!
Beautiful Alethopteris
Lepidodendron branch
Lepidodendron
Neuropteris leaves
Leaders Terry and Mike! (obligatory selfie)
Cayton Bay, North Yorkshire, 5th May 2019
On Sunday 5th May we met at Cayton Bay beach car park and made our way down the steep slope to the beach to see what this area could offer us!
The rocks at Cayton Bay are from the Callovian of the Jurassic and are 166 million years old. They contain bivalves such as Gryphaea, in addition to ammonites, belemnites, gastropods and occasionally, shrimps.
There was a short briefing on the beach and a look at a selection of fossils that we might find, and then we starting searching.
A selection of finds is below. Thanks to everyone who attended – we hope you enjoyed your day!
Runswick Bay, 3rd May 2019
On Saturday 3rd May 2019 we met in Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire.
Runswick Bay is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the bedrock and cliffs are protected by law from the use of hammers, although we were free to hammer at loose material on the beach. We stayed away from the cliffs and looked for fossils on the foreshore.
The early Jurassic here is represented by Pleinsbachian age rocks (190-‐195 Ma) from the Early Lias and Toarcian age (180-190 Ma) from the Late Lias. This Lower Jurassic site is in the Upper Lias of the Whitby Mudstone Formation, consisting of deposits of the Grey Shale Member, the Mulgrave Shale Member and the Alum Shale Member. The Lower Lias consists of the Cleveland Ironstone Formation, whose deposits consist of the Penny Nab Member and the Kettleness Member.
The view of Runswick Bay from the cliffs
After a short briefing on health and safety and the likely fossils we could find, we made our way down to the beach to begin the hunt.
The fossil Gods were with Peter today as he found a bumper crop of fabulous ammonites!
Large belemnite found by Terry
Lovely Dactylioceras ammonite
Hayden’s ammonite
Obligatory leader selfie!
Thank you to all who came. We hope you enjoyed the day and went home with some great finds!
UKAFH field trip to Smokejacks pit, Sunday 12th May 2019
Posted on May 26, 2019 Updated on May 26, 2019
On a comfortably warm and dry Sunday 12th May UKAFH was privileged to gain access to internationally renowned Smokejacks quarry – a large clay pit operated by Weinerberger located close to Walliswood in Surrey. The pit is famous for the near complete dinosaur specimens that have been discovered there, including Iguanodonts and the first discovery of the spinosaurid Baryonyx in 1983 by amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker. Baryonyx and many other specimens from Smokejacks can be seen in the dinosaur hall of the Natural History Museum in London.
The pit cuts through a section of the Weald Clay member of the Wealden group, dating from the Barremian stage of the Cretaceous period about 130-125 million years ago. During this period England was located in the mid-latitudes and experienced a highly variable climate of alternating searingly hot dry seasons with forest fires and baked ground and stormy wet seasons with flash floods which created lakes in a floodplain environment. The resultant ecosystem was highly diverse, supporting a vast number of aquatic and land-dwelling organisms, from tiny creatures like concostracods and multitudinous insects to large herbivores and predators like Baryonyx and Iguanodonts.
A great attraction of Smokejacks pit is the enormous diversity of fossils to be found here. Whether specialist or generalist, there are spectacular fossils to be found if you have the patience, work ethic and eye to locate them. There are beautifully preserved insects and the early flowering plant Bevhalstia in fine siltstones, concostracods (shrimp-like shelled creatures), abundant plant material, fish scales, teeth and death assemblages, as well as crocodile, pterosaur and dinosaur remains which can be unearthed here with a good eye and a bit of luck.
Our guides for the day were Weald Clay expert and PalAss English Wealden Fossils author Peter Austen and his wife Joyce and local Smokejacks regular Mike Webster, who has discovered a number of previously unknown insects at Smokejacks. Peter provided us with a fantastic, in depth presentation on the Weald Clay and showed us some fine examples of what could be found in the pit, as well as supplying a number of handouts describing the pit and the fossil discoveries made, illustrating the pit’s stratigraphy and providing drawn examples of some of the insect types commonly found. Peter’s roadshow introduced us to the diversity of insects for which the pit is known and covered in detail the discovery of Baryonyx and also a juvenile Iguanodont which was found together with Baryonyx teeth, suggesting predation or scavenging, which was later recognised as Mantellisaurus atherfiedensis. Smokejacks is also known for a very rare, early flowering plant called Bevhalstia Pebja. We also saw articulated fish death assemblages, an arthropod trackway, gastroliths (the stomach stones swallowed by dinosaurs to aid digestion), plant remains and the well-known concostracans, small shrimp-like creatures which bear superficial similarity to bivalves.
We walked as a group to the pit head, from where UKAFH leader Sam was able to point out the stratigraphical layers and indicate where people might start hunting depending on what they might hope to find.
Some attendees began by walking the slopes in search of any fossils which had been brought to the surface by recent erosion. This is often fruitful and has yielded dinosaur bones and fish teeth and scales on previous occasions. Others chose to work the “dinosaur” plant debris bed towards the top of the quarry; a rich seam of carbon and lignite where plants have been fossilised and which has been found to often also contain dinosaur remains. Those in pursuit of insect remains headed towards the bottom of the quarry to find and split the finely grained stones in which their remains are preserved.
Soon after our arrival; finds began to appear. Mark Goble and Sam Caethoven returned to a small siltstone exposure in the lower part of the quarry which had proved fruitful on a previous visit and were soon finding blocks containing a very rich layer of jumbled fish bones which is overlain by insect remains. Some of the fish remains are articulated and very well preserved. Mike Webster also began to find some fine insect specimens. Many of the group came a long to see what was coming out of the insect bed and went on to find their own insects after seeing examples of the right stone and how and where to split it.
The area of the quarry we had access to has not been worked for several months and has been well-visited over that time, with little inclement weather to erode the surfaces. Consequently finds were less common than in the past, however no-one went home empty handed. Those digging into the plant debris bed like Andrew Marsh found some beautifully preserved seeds and leaves and surface hunters and diggers with keen eyes like Vicky Lane found Scheenstia fish scales and teeth. Adam Ward was rewarded for his digging efforts with the day’s only dinosaur bone find and Peter Waring did very well, finding part of a hybodont shark fin spine.
It is uncommon to have access to a working quarry where the extraordinary, fossil-filled stratigraphy of the Wealden clay can be observed and explored in a way that is impossible in a coastal cliff setting and everyone enjoyed the experience.
UKAFH would like to thank Peter and Joyce Austin, Mike Webster and Weinerberger for allowing us to visit and making the outing successful, enjoyable and informative!
Sam Caethoven
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UKAFH Visit Seaford, Sussex 28th April 2019
Searching for Echinoids
On Sunday 28th April, UKAFH ventured along the coastline of Seaford in East Sussex – a small town about 10 miles east of Brighton with towering white cliffs.
As we arrived in the carpark at Seaford Head we were grateful that storm Hannah had passed the night before, not least for the erosional effects of the storm but for the light winds, mild temperatures and intermittent sunshine that greeted us.
Dan Slidel explains the local geology
The weather was fortunately settled
We began with an in depth talk about the local and surrounding geology by UKAFH leader Daniel Slidel. Exposed in the towering white cliffs of Seaford is the Upper Chalk, a Cretaceous deposit (Santonian-Campanian) about 89-83 million years old. Chalk is essentially a soft limestone formed from the tiny platelets of coccolithophores – phytoplankton that was abundant in the deep, warm sea that existed here. This striking white sediment helped preserve the creatures dwelling on the sea floor, which included bivalves, sponges, corals, bryozoan and the echinoids (sea urchins) this stretch of coastline is famous for. Within the cliffs are horizontal bands of flints which are visible as far as the horizon allows and atop, the undular pattern formed by dissolution pipes – where mildly acidic rain water has dissolved the chalk to form channels.
Echinoid preserved in flint found by Tara Scott
In situ Micraster found by Susan Harley
After a short walk from the car park we descended the concrete steps onto the beach. The abundance of fossil echinoids was immediately noted as within the exposed bedrock on the foreshore were the tell-tale circular marks of weathered echinoids in situ. Tara Scott made the first discovery with a lovely echinoid preserved in flint just meters from the steps, then Susan Harley found an exquisite Micraster echinoid in situ – we could not extract these as the bedrock here is protected as a site of special scientific interested, however we continued heading west where loose boulders gave us the opportunity to carefully extract some specimens. Leo Leclerc manged to extract a great Echinocorys and Xiang Yan extracted a fantastic Micraster, both of which with their delicately preserved calcite teste intact. It is important not to overlook the loose flint shingle either as these can contain robust but often sea word specimens such as a big Echinocorys found by Aidan Philpot and a lovely little on found by Susan Harley. Other finds on the day included small bivalves, shapely sponges, coral and bryozoan.
Great echinoid extracted by Leo Leclerc
Careful extraction from a loose boulder
Beautiful Micraster extracted by Xiang Yan
Remains of sea sponge found by Aidan Philpott
A worn Micraster echinoid
A big Echinocorys extracted by Harry Jarvis
A flint Echinocorys found by Aidan Philpott
Two echinoids found by Dan Slidel
A lovely little echinoid found by Susan Harley
Thank you to everyone who attended this fossil hunt. It really was a great and friendly group of people, it was a pleasure to guide you through the Cretaceous geological history of Seaford.
Further Reading.
Hampton, M.J., H.W. Bailey, L.T. Gallagher, R.N. Mortimore and C.J. Wood 2007. The biostratigraphy of Seaford Head, Sussex, southern England; an international reference section for the basal boundaries for the Santonian and Campanian Stages in chalk facies. Cretaceous Research, v. 28, no. 1, p. 46-60.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged Chalk, cretaceous, echinocorys, echinoid, fossil, micraster, sea urchin, seaford.
UKAFH field trip to Beltinge, Herne Bay, on Sunday 14th April
Posted on April 21, 2019 Updated on May 11, 2019
Nicky briefs the group and shows example finds
We had a full house for our fossil hunt at Herne Bay, with 30 attendees joining our foray into the Cenozoic period. Kitted out in hi-vis but otherwise lightly equipped, this family-friendly fossil hunt was ideal for beginners and old hands alike. Fossils are easy to find at Beltinge and require only a sharp pair of eyes and a little patience to find.
Beltinge beach yields fossils from the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs of 56 – 54 million years ago which were laid down in a warm marine climate when the UK was closer to the equator than now and the locality was submerged. Nicky Parslow, our leader on the day, explained the geology of the area and the types of fossils that could be found and how to find them. Nicky brought many examples with her for the group to look at, giving them a good idea of what to look out for and demonstrating the vast variety of shark teeth and diversity of other fossils to be found in this rich location.
The Paleocene rocks of the Thanet Formation are exposed on the foreshore and in the cliffs towards Reculver. The younger Palaeocene and Eocene rocks overlay this and are exposed in the gently dipping strata. At Beltinge, the Beltinge Fish Bed of the Upnor Formation (Palaeocene) is brought down to beach level. West of the car park, the Oldhaven Beds slope towards beach level, exposing the Oldhaven Fish Bed. The fossils at this location erode slowly from the cliffs and the beds which form the beach. Beltinge is renowned for a diversity of fossil shark teeth (around 24 species) as well as marine vertebrate remains such as fish and shark vertebrae, eagle ray and chimaeroid fish dentition and bones and carapace of marine turtles along with rarer finds such as snake vertebrae.
On the date of our visit the tide wasn’t particularly low and the sea has been very calm, meaning that a lot of sand was deposited on the beach and the best search areas were covered by either sea or sand. However fossil hunters should not be deterred as a location like this is so rich in fossils that even a “bad” day will yield finds with a little patience and effort.
The plan for the day was to walk east toward Reculver following the tide out and arriving at the Thanet Formation shell beds as they became exposed so we could see the many bivalves in situ. We’d then return, searching the newly exposed shingle, until we reached the spit below the car park where teeth can be found amongst the mussels and pebbles or can be sieved for by scooping and wet-sieving the sand and shingle to find smaller teeth.
As we proceeded along the foreshore, we searched the gravel and shingle on the foreshore for fossils and soon the group was finding shark teeth and other small fossils.
Continuing onward and outward, as the low tide peaked we reached the Thanet Formation which we were fortunate to find exposed. Here it was possible to observe many bivalves in situ, although on the whole they are too fragile to remove, being supported by silty sand and mud. However, some of the bivalves have become pyritised inside so occasional examples of intact shell over solid centres or the beautiful metallicised casts of the bivalves can be safely collected. Fossilised wood is also common at Beltinge, particularly at the Thanet Formation horizon, although it is very friable and not worth retaining. Pyrite specimens are a little harder wearing but prone to pyrite disease (rust!). Members were able to find and enjoy numerous specimens. Star finds were Victoria Morris’s chimaeroid palate and a rare fossil pine cone found by Aidan Philpott.
Close attention to the areas between the pebbles and the clay on the foreshore began to reveal a greater number of shark teeth. These were larger and better preserved than those found in the shingle, being more newly eroded from the clay, and were predominantly Striatolamia macrota. This is the most commonly found shark tooth at this location and is black in colour and distinguished by striated enamel. However Betty Brocklesby-Sum found the grail shark tooth fossil find – a partial Otodus Obliquus!
We have received several emails with thanks and positive feedback from members who attended the event. We very much enjoyed hosting the hunt and are delighted that members had a great time too! As always, we look forward to meeting you again on future hunts.
Wren’s Nest, Sunday 3rd March 2019
On Sunday 3rd March 2019 we paid a return visit to Wren’s Nest, Dudley, Midlands. We had a great turnout for the day with 25 people in attendance, of all ages.
Wren’s Nest is a former Victorian Quarry, which provided building material and material for production of flux in the iron for industries in the Black Country. 20,000 tonnes of limestone was quarried annually until the quarry operations ceased in the 1920s, when it was abandoned. The “Nest” was England’s first National Nature Reserve (NNR) in 1953 and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to the geology and fossils that can be found here. Wren’s Nest is famous for the Calymene blumenbachii trilobite, known as the Dudley Bug, and featured on the Dudley County Borough Council Coat of Arms until 1974. The site, however, is known for a wide variety of fossils, including trilobites, gastropods, brachiopods, corals and crinoids. In fact, over 700 different species of fossils can be found here, over 80 of which can be found nowhere else on earth. Wren’s Nest contains the most diverse and abundant fossil fauna found in the British Isles and the fossils are among the most perfectly preserved Silurian fossils in the world.
The site is composed of limestone from the Silurian Wenlock Group, which was deposited around 425 million years ago, when the area would have been a warm, shallow, tropical sea.
Poleumita discors gastropod
The SSSI designation means that the site is protected under UK law , and the Warden at Dudley Council was made aware of our visit as they are required to monitor the numbers of visitors and to protect the site from malicious damage. No tools are allowed on site so our hammers stayed safely at home this time! Unfortunately, several people have been caught in the past removing large amounts of material from the site, which is prohibited. Warnings aside, Wren’s Nest is still a fantastic place for fossil hunting as there is plenty of loose material on the ground in which to find fossils.
Trilobite tails
We had an initial briefing on the fossil code of conduct and health and safety, before passing around examples of the various kinds of that we could expect to find. The first few hours of hunting were spent at the reef mounds, before moving onto the fossil trench, from where we had a lovely view of the ripple beds.
UKAFH members found lots of fabulous fossils, including a bumper crop of trilobite cephalons (heads) and pydigiums (tails)!
Calymene cephalon (head)
Stromatopura typica sponge
Thank you to everyone who braved the persistent drizzle to come along! We hope you all had a great day with lots of fabulous finds!
A map of Wren’s Nest National Nature Reserve and the fossil collecting code can be found here, courtesy of the Black Country Geological Society:
http://bcgs.info/pub/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wrens_nest_geology_map.pdf
UKAFH visit to Golden Cap, 9th of February 2019
On Saturday the 9th of February UKAFH visited Golden Cap on Dorsets Jurassic coast. We met at the car park at Seatown and then headed to the beach where UKAFH leader Steve Snowball gave us an informative talk on the stratigraphy of the fossil rich area that we were about to hunt and a overview of the Jurassic coast.
As a group we then began the long walk over the pebble beach to the fossil rich clays which can be found at the base of the landslides at Golden cap. Before we reached our intended hunting grounds one member found this fantastic ammonite from the Junction bed (more commonly known from the other side of the bay – towards Thorncombe beacon)
Upon reaching the the base of Golden cap many members began finding Tragophyloceras and Androgynoceras ammonites, crinoids, bivalves, gastropods and belemnites from the fossil rich Green ammonite beds, we also found a few nodules containing ammonites.
Some collected clays to look through after the hunt for micro fossils – resulting in some very tiny gastropods – Coelodiscus and Tatediscus.
We had a great time at Golden Cap – we hope you all enjoyed it too, thanks to all who came.
UKAFH field trip to Overstrand, Sunday 25th November
Posted on December 11, 2018 Updated on May 11, 2019
On Sunday 25th November, UKAFH members met for a fossil hunt along the coastline of Overstrand, a village a few miles south-east of the popular holiday destination of Cromer in Norfolk. Despite the time of year, the weather was dry and pleasant and lacking the strong, cold wind of the previous day.
We began with a show and tell presented by UKAFH leaders Sam Caethoven and Nicky Parslow, discussing the local geology and providing examples of what could be found.
Sponge in situ in chalk
Belemnite in situ in chalk
Gryphaea found by Claire Hempstead
Selection of fossils found by Tammy Edwards
Overstrand and the surrounding coastline is somewhat unique in its geology, providing a glimpse into three very distinct periods of time. Firstly, and most prolifically, we find the Boulder clay, a glacial till which consists of sludge, rock and chalk rafts. Campanian and Maastrichtian in age, this chalk is some of the youngest exposed in the UK at around 70 million years old. Chalk formed as a sediment in a relatively deep, warm sea which would have been close to the Mediterranean in latitude at the time. Life was abundant in the sea, not least in the profusion of coccolithophores, a phytoplankton whose calcareous plates formed the striking white sediment – but also in echinoids, belemnites, corals, brachiopods and sponges whose fossils we came to find today.
Whilst boulder clay and chalk is abundant along the Norfolk coastline, it is not local, having been gouged out and transported in huge rafts by advancing glaciers during the ice ages. As a result, the chalk represents an unconformity, overlying younger rocks. Below the chalk, but younger in age, at Overstrand is the Wroxham Crag formation and Cromer forest bed. These deposits are a lot younger than the chalk; in fact they formed 600-500 thousand years ago during an interglacial stage when Norfolk was a vast river basin and flood plain frequented by giant mammals such as the famous Runton elephant (steppe mammoth), woolly rhinoceros, bison and deer as well as small mammals, amphibians, fish and a plethora of freshwater bivalves – remains of which can all be found, washed out from these sandy sediments. The Wroxham and Cromer Forest beds are mostly covered by the slumped boulder clay of the cliffs or are at or below beach level, so are rarely exposed except in scouring conditions, however fossils of this age can be found, many washed ashore from exposures out at sea.
Fossil hunting conditions at Overstrand have not been the best of late; several feet of sand have covered the foreshore for some time and the wave baffles and sea defences significantly reduce coastal erosion. Much of the chalk from which many of our finds are to come from is currently only exposed on the foreshore at low tide as sparsely dispersed pockets. Despite these unfavourable conditions, UKAFH fossil hunters quickly began finding great fossils derived from both the chalk and crag deposits.
Small echinoid found by Sam Caethoven
Sponge in chalk
Mammal bone fragment
Among the shingle built up along the coastal groynes and beyond, UKAFH members found echinoids preserved in flint – mostly of the genus Echinocorys but also including Micraster and Galerites – as well as belemnites and sponges. Numerous Pleistocene mammal bone fragments were also found, several of them quite sizeable, washed out from the Wroxham Crag and Cromer forest bed.
Large bone found by Rachel Fuller-Field
Large bone found by Eric Hempstead
As the tide retreated and we advanced beyond the sea defences we moved from the shingle towards the pockets of chalk exposed further on the foreshore. Here we could see a vast diversity of fauna preserved in situ: echinoids, brachiopods, corals and Ventriculites and other sponges with beautifully preserved detail.
Although the beach was in unfavourable condition, the hunt was unexpectedly productive, particularly as we progressed further along the beach. With fascinating geology and many superb finds, the group proved that even six feet of sand can’t stop our eagle-eyed intrigue.
Beautiful flint Echinocorys echinoid found by Sarah Woodthorpe
Large chalk echinoid found by Sam Edwards
Belemnite colonised by entobia boring sponge found by Rachel Fuller-Field
Highly detailed gastropod cast found by Tammy Edwards
Ventriculites sponge found by Claire Hempstead
Thank you to everyone who came and made the day a great success!
Please remember, the cliffs exposed at Overstrand are protected and should not be dug into. Fossils can easily be collected along the foreshore.
UKAFH visit to Seaham, Sunday 11th November 2018
On Sunday 11th November, UKAFH met on the coastline of Co. Durham, just outside Seaham, a small town about 6 miles south of Sunderland.
Unusually for a coastal hunt, we were focused on the spoil heap of the former Dawdon colliery that operated close by. Dawdon colliery began extracting coal in 1907, mining the Carboniferous coal seems far below the Permian bedrock the cliffs at this location are composed of. The spoil from the colliery consists of inferior coal, shales and mudstone which were dumped over the cliff edge, creating, in places, a second cliff of carboniferous material in front the Permian cliffs. Although once the most productive colliery in County Durham, employing over 3800 people, Dawdon colliery ceased extracting coal in 1991. Since then, most of the carboniferous sediment had been eroded away by the sea, but there is still ample opportunity to find spectacular fossils here.
Some sunshine
The “shelf” like spoil from the former colliery
The spoil consists of Carboniferous material about 320 million years old. At the time the sediment was created, County Durham was a vast and boggy forest. The upper canopy was densely foliated with the likes of Calamites trees – related to modern day horsetails, and Lepidodendron trees – related to modern day club mosses, although their modern-day ancestors are diminutive, these trees would have towered over 100ft above the forest floor. The forest floor, where abundant pteridosperms (seed ferns) such as Neuropteris thrived was hydrated and boggy, an ideal environment to preserve the foliage and timber which over millions of years built up to create the coal seems which were so highly prized here during industrial times. Also present in this forest of giant tree like plants were the giant insects the Carboniferous is also famous for – huge dragon flies would have traversed the dense canopy while monstrous millipedes up to 6ft in length would have scurried below. Although insect fossils are extremely rare, it is still something to keep an eye out for.
In complete contrast, the cliffs behind the carboniferous spoil is Permian in age, about 290 million years old and is formed of limestone from a shallow marine environment. Although Seaham is one of the best locations to find carboniferous plant fossils in the UK, the limestone originating from the cliffs should not be overlooked as these can contain bivalves, crinoids, corals and rare but possible fish remains.
Looking for Fossils
Many fossils were found on the foreshore
After some examples of possible finds provided by Mike Greaves, we took a steep path from the national trust carpark at Nose Point down to the beach. We didn’t know it until we were on the beach that the path we followed and the apparent shelf we were now standing on was in fact the spoil from the former colliery. Here, Katherine Combe MSc provided a talk about the geology and where we were likely to find fossils. It wasn’t long before fossils were found, although the first fossils were that of crinoids originating from the Permian limestone of the cliffs. As we stepped off the spoil onto the beach the first plant fossils were found. Alice Brooks found a great Stigmaria fossil (part the of rhizomatous root of a Calamites tree) and Terry Newsome found some incredible fronds by carefully splitting shale.
Fronds found by Terry Newsome
Later we headed towards the foreshore where large sections of Lepidodendron trunks could be seen. Here, denser mudstones could be split with a hammer to reveal an abundance of well-preserved pteridosperm such as Neuropteris within. Jake and Matt Ellison found some delicately preserved Calamites leaves, Ben Simpson found some great Sigillaria and Ethan Wale found some beautifully preserved fronds. Mike Greaves found a stunning example of Calamites amongst the shingle.
The remains of the pteridosperm Neuropteris
Leaves from Calamites found by by Jake and Matt Ellison
Stigmaria
Section of Sigillaria found by Ben Simpson
Stigmaria and fronds found by Alice Brooks
Section of Lepidodendron trunk found by Aidan Philpott
Leaves of the pteridosperm Neuopteris
We were grateful for the calm weather, apart from a few spots of drizzle, the temperature was mild, the wind was light, and we saw a glimpse of sunshine at times.
Being remembrance Sunday, we gathered and observed a two-minute silence at 11am. As an important supplier of coal to Britain during the Second World War, Dawdon Collier was bombed by the Luftwaffe in August 1940 which killed 12 and left 119 people homeless. This then, was a poignant place and time to remember those who have given their lives, not only in battle but also supporting the war effort back home, such as here, producing the supplies needed to win the war.
Left to Right: UKAFH Leaders Terry Newsome, Mike Greaves, Aidan Philpott and Katherine Combe MSc.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. A great group of people and some fantastic finds!
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged calamites, Carboniferous, coal, durham, fossils, lepidodendron, neuropteris, permian, plant.
UKAFH field trip to Cross hands quarry, Warwickshire on 21st October 2018
Posted on November 3, 2018 Updated on May 11, 2019
We were blessed with a warm sunny day on the 21st October to Cross Hands Quarry which is located on private land owned by Mr Newman. Mr Newman had kindly created a couple of fresh spoil heaps especially for our trip, so our party had fresh pickings as will be seen below lots of fossils were found. As the trip is now centred around these spoil heaps, this location is perfect for families to visit. Therefore we had quite a few families on our trip.
The quarry was once used to supply building stone for the local town of Chipping Norton, which is located in the Cotswolds famous for its rich honey coloured stone buildings.
Cross Hands Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its geological features. The rocks exposed in the quarry faces are mostly limestones, formed from the remains of shelly creatures living in the warm tropical seas which covered large areas of England in the Middle Jurassic Period, about 175 million years ago.
Cross Hands Quarry exposes rocks of Middle Jurassic age that were deposited in a shallow marine environment, not too dissimilar to that of the modern-day Bahamas. These rocks belong to the Inferior Oolite and comprise the Clypeus Grit, overlain by the Chipping Norton Limestone and the Hook Norton Limestone.
Towards the end of Upper Lias times sea levels fell somewhat, bringing a change of conditions which initiated the Middle Jurassic. Low sea levels persisted for 15 million years and in clear, warm, shallow waters the most important sediment was calcium carbonate. The accumulations of carbonate mud and carbonate sand have been transformed into a variety of limestones which are grouped into two series called the Inferior Oolite and the Great Oolite.
The word Oolite refers to a rock containing a proportion of polite. These are little spheres of calcium carbonate, typically half to one millimetre in diameter. The name comes from the Greek word on – meaning egg – because a densely oolitic limestone has the appearance of fish eggs.
The Inferior Oolite group of formations is so called not because of any inferior quality but because it’s rocks are older than, and therefore stratigraphically below, those of the Great Oolite. This limestone makes excellent building material as has been used in the Cotswolds to give the buildings there distinctive golden yellow colour.
SSI Noticeboard showing Geology and typical fossils that can be found at location.
During the Inferior Oolite and Great Oolite times this area was low-lying between shallow sea to the south-west and a swampy, coastal region to the north-east. In these shallow, variable environments the deposition of sediment varied greatly in amount and type from place to place and time to time. As a result the strata exhibit rapid lateral changes in thickness and character and some beds may be restricted to small areas.
Geology Map of Whiltshire
In the early 1960’s remains of a partial right femur from a Cruxicheiros(meaning “cross hand”) is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaurwhich lived in the Middle Jurassic of England. The type species is C. newmanorum,described by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley in 2010. The 2010 paper recognized differences between the Cross Hands Quarry discovery and those attributed to Megalosaurus. These differences include lower and broader spines along the animal’s back, and differences in leg and hip bones. The authors renamed the Cross Hands Quarry specimens Cruxicheiros newmanorum; the generic name Cruxicheiros comes from a mixture of Latin and Greek, Latin crux meaning “cross” and Greek cheir meaning “hand,” in reference to the Cross Hands Quarry locality where the fossils were discovered. The specific name newmanorum honors the Newman family, who own the quarry. Cruxicheiroswas a large theropod, but the known material is very limited. The holotype, catalogued as WARMS G15770, is a partial right femur. Additional material from the site probably comes from the same individual as the holotype, based on examination of the matrix of sandy limestone and calcite which make up all the fossils. The additional material consists of “an anterior dorsal or posterior cervical vertebra; a dorsal neural arch; a partial dorsal vertebra; the anterior half of a middle-distal caudal vertebra; a partial right scapulocoracoid; a partial left ilium; the proximal end of a left pubis; [and] numerous rib and bone fragments”. The specimens are now stored at Warwickshire Museum Service (Source Wikipedia).
Typical fossils found at this location are bivalves, brachiopods, gastropods, echinoids (such as Clypeus ploti).
Nice big articulated bivalve – Pholadomya fidiculá
Lovely piece of Coral showing polyps
Echinoid probably a Clypeus Ploti
Echinoid – possibly a Nucleolites sp
Gastropod- Bactroptyxis bacillus
Gastropod – Purpuroidea morrisea
Many thanks to Mr Newman for allowing our party to visit his quarry.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged bivalve, brachiopod, clypeus, echinoid, event, excursion, fossils, gastropod, hunt, oolite.
UKAFH field trip to Charmouth, East beach, Dorset on Saturday 6th of October 2018
Posted on October 27, 2018 Updated on May 11, 2019
On a very wet, windy and cold day UKAFH members braved the elements and visited Charmouth’s East beach. This Jurassic coast location yields many pyrite ammonites, belemnites and occasionally marine reptile bones. When in the right part of the beach, in the right conditions, it’s possible to collect many ammonites.
Once everyone met in the car park and got kitted out we walked to the beach where UKAFH leader Steve Snowball gave us a informative talk on the Jurassic coast and an explanation of the stratigraphy and ages of the Jurassic Coast which stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in West Dorset – 95 miles covering 185 million years, showing a near complete record from the Triassic to the Jurassic and then the Cretaceous period. The cliffs on Charmouth beach are Jurassic in age (195 million years) and show us what life was like when the area was a shallow tropical sea with the fossils people pick up every day on the beach. Then, UKAFH Leader Lizzie Hingley explained where the group would walk to along the beach, to hopefully find some of these fossils.
Once we reached a good area of the beach, under Stonebarrow (where there was a large landslide in 2015 which resulted in a lot of pyrite ammonites being distributed on the beach) the group started looking through the areas of pyrite, which were scattered along the strand line and in among the rocks on the foreshore, as the sea retreated. Soon we started to find some brilliant small pyrite ammonites and belemnites. Here are some of our finds:
A small beach pebble showing Ichthyosaur bones – possibly a partial Ichthyosaur jaw.
A small worn piece of Ichthyosaur bone and a couple of smaller pyrite ammonites
Some pyrite ammonies – the large on the left is an Oxynoticeras and on the right an Echioceras.
A large Eoderoceras ammonite segment and a smaller Eoderoceras in it’s pyrite matrix.
Over the course of the hunt our numbers dwindled slightly, which was understandable as we were very exposed to the elements! Apologies on the limited photos – this was also because of the weather (as leader’s cameras would not work in the rain)!
Thanks to all who attended and we hope to see you on another hunt soon!
UKAFH field trip to Ketton quarry, Rutland on 13th October 2018
UKAFH were fortunate to gain access to this remarkable mile-wide working quarry on Saturday 13th October. A small group of us gathered on this unseasonably mild but breezy day for an excursion into the Middle Jurassic. We assembled in the site canteen for a briefing from UKAFH leader Sam Caethoven and the site management, taking time to enjoy the displays of some of the more exceptional finds to have been previously found at the quarry, before heading into the quarry itself.
Ketton Quarry is an enormous site which provides an extensive exposure of the middle Jurassic from rocks of Bathonian age (dating to around 165 million years ago) to Bajocian age (around 175 million years old). The mile-wide quarry has been worked for many decades and is now 115.6 hectares in size. With full access, this huge quarry provides opportunities to collect fossils from many different beds, however we were limited to an area of spoil where operations were not currently ongoing for safety and practical reasons. Despite this, fossils were still abundant.
Regular echinoid found by Sam
Small oyster
Clypeus ploti echinoid found by James
The geology at Ketton is complex, with a range of Jurassic-aged rocks recorded. Mostly, three formations are visible in the quarries: the lowest is the oolitic Lincolnshire Limestone which was laid down in the middle Jurassic about 160 million years ago. This large, blocky, rock was formed from small grains of calcium carbonate which were deposited under a warm, shallow sub-tropical sea which was subject to reasonably strong currents. Above this is the Rutland Formation – bands of delta and shoreline muds and sands carried by rivers. Each band, with shelly remains at its base and tree roots at the top, was formed when sea-level rise topped the layer below. Many colours can be seen in fresh exposures of this formation. The exposures at the working quarry (Ketton Main Quarry) are the type formation for the Rutland Formation. Above the Rutland Formation is the Blisworth Limestone, laid down under quiet, shallow, warm conditions during a marine transgression. The Blisworth limestone is full of fossil corals and shells.
Pholadomya lirata, the commonest bivalve at Ketton
Echinoid spines, fish and shark teeth found by James
Gastropod found by Leon
Clypeus ploti found by John
Ammonites can be found but bivalves, corals, brachiopods, gastropods, echinoids (such as Clypeus ploti), shark teeth and fish remains are more common. In the past, dinosaur footprints have been seen, along with fragments of their bones, but we were not that fortunate on this occasion.
Clypeus echinoid found by Sam
Regular echinoid found by Claire
Gastropods in block found by ERic
Clypeus echinoid in a block
Blocks of limestone are often full of bivalves, brachiopods, or corals but you need a good geological hammer and a chisel to extract them as they can be very solid, although some rocks will have weathered to the point that fossils can be easily picked out. There were also many loose fossils to collect. Throughout our time on site we were able to find many bivalves and echinoids as well as a few brachiopods and gastropods. Special mention goes to James who took the time to carefully search the fine matrial for quasi-microfossils and found numerous echinoid spines, fish teeth and an Acrodus sp. shark tooth.
Comparing finds in the canteen
Some special finds on display in the canteen museum
At the end of our hunt we gathered in the canteen for refreshments and to enjoy seeing each thers’ finds. It’s quite unusual on a UKAFH hunt for us all to finish together and have somewhere to gather for show-and-tell afterwards and it is always a highly enjoyable part of the day. As well as seeing all the finds and learning more about the site, the quarry staff can also see what we have found, both to share in our enjoyment and to ensure that anything rare is reported and recorded.
UKAFH would like to thank Hanson Cement and the staff at Ketton quarry for allowing us to visit and taking care of us throughout the day, including briefing us, showing us the site and allowing us the use of their facilities.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged bivalve, brachiopod, echinoid, event, excursion, fish, fossils, gastropod, hunt, quarry, shark.
UKAFH field trip to Withington, Gloucestershire on Sunday 30th September 2018
We were blessed with a warm, dry day for our first hunt at Withington in ploughed farm fields. The proximity of the topsoil to the Inferior Oolite below in this locality means that ploughing brings rock to the surface which contains a large variety of fossils. A field hunt really is an excellent way to find fossils with little effort other than to look patiently and “get your eye in”. The weather conditions were dry and overcast, making it an ideal day to fossil hunt as the rock was relatively clean and easy to spot so plenty of finds were made.
Once assembled at the farm, which we obtained special permission to visit, our guest leader and local expert for the day, Mark Baggott, gave us an introduction to the local geology and fossils. After enjoying Mark’s display and introduction to the site the group spread out to hunt across the two newly cleared fields and finds were quickly being made. The lower field produced a good variety of abundant brachiopods, bivalves and regular echinoids and the upper field yielded complete and partial Clypeus ploti. A number of members also found ammonites, which was unexpected as ammonite finds at this location have historically been quite uncommon. Some beautiful gastropods were found and one lucky hunter even found a flint scraper!
Mark Baggott’s fantastic display of Withington finds and geology and ID sheets
The Cotswold Escarpment rocks are almost exclusively marine and were deposited mainly in warm tropical seas. Plate tectonics has transported this part of the Earth’s crust northward over the last 150-200 million years to its current location. The Middle Jurassic rocks here are the characteristic ‘Cotswold Limestone’; soft, yellow, sandy limestone at the base of the Inferior Oolite (literally egg stone), a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Towards the top of the Inferior Oolite the limestone becomes more fossiliferous and is referred to as ‘grits’ due to its coarser texture. Such an Inferior Oolite exposure is exposed at the farm and the fossils that this limestone contains date from between 167 to 175 million years ago at a time when this farm was at the bottom of a warm tropical sea. The rocks exposed near the farm comprise the Salperton and Aston Limestone and, from a fossil perspective, the most interesting layers are the Grits (Clypeus, Upper Trigonia Grit and Lower Trigonia Grit).
Clypeus ploti found by Sam Caethoven
Regular echinoid found by Mark Baggott
Carrie Lyneham’s regular echinoid find
Large ammonite found by Sarah Scott
UKAFH would like to sincerely thank the landowner for allowing us access to the fields. Special thanks also to Mark Baggott for organising the visit and providing a fantastic display of local fossils and information for us all to refer to throughout the day. Thank you also to Mark and to Alan Banyard for bringing along some very nice examples of undamaged and prepared Clypeus ploti and ammonites from nearby locations for members to take home.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged ammonite, bivalve, brachiopod, clypeus, echinoid, event, excursion, fossils, gastropod, hunt, oolite.
UKAFH visit to Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, 1st September 2018
On Saturday 1st September we ran a fossil hunt at Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Salthill is a former limestone quarry, which ceased working in 1959 and is now a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its geological features and wildlife. Salthill is famous for its crinoids and is one of the best sites for Lower Carboniferous echinoderms in Northern Europe.
The reserve is also known for its wildflowers, insects and birds and a variety of curious-sounding species can be found including cowslips, birds-foot trefoil, lady’s bedstraw, bee orchid, blackcap, willow warbler, garden warbler and chiffchaff.
Photo courtesy of the Cincinnati Museum Centre (https://www.cincymuseum.org/blog/post/4235/A-World-Class-Crinoid-Fossil-Assemblage)
Although they resemble plants and are often called “Sea Lillies”, crinoids are actually marine animals of the phylum Echinodermata, a group of animals that include starfish and echinoids. The name comes from the Greek word krinon, “a lily”, and eidos, “form”. Some species of crinoids are alive now and they can live in both shallow and deep waters.
Crinoids attached themselves to the seafloor by way of a holdfast, and at the top of the vertical stem would sit the calyx, which housed the gut, mouth and anus. From the calyx led the arms and cilia, which would gather food and pass it down the arms to the mouth.
Some crinoids would be free-floating in the water column and some were capable of “walking” across the sea floor.
Close up of the crinoid seat
Andrew gives his talk
We had a lovely mixed group of adults and children, who crowded around the “crinoid seat” – a bench made of crinoidal limestone with a sculptured crinoid back – where Andrew gave us a rousing talk on the site, crinoid structure and morphology, and how to identify them. It went something like this:
Make a starfish out of your hand
Put your elbow on top of your hand and put your arm upright
Splay your fingers
Wave your arm around in the air
Now you have a crinoid!
Andrew also reminded us that shark’s teeth could be found in the area, but any teeth found were effectively his property as he mistakenly discarded one many years before.
Then we were off!
The whole exposure was jam-packed with partial crinoid columnals but with some careful looking through the soil we started to find more interesting fossils. Soon enough we found some large diameter columnals and we were very lucky to find quite so many crinoid calyces.
Esme Hollows with her crinoid columnal and calyx
Ellis Hollows with his crinoid calyx
Crinoidal limestone with partial arm attached found by leader, Andrew Eaves
Calyx found by Darren Simons
Calyx found by leader, Terry Newsome
John-James Riley looking mighty pleased with his columnals and crinoidal limestone
A selection of crinoid calyces found by Darren Simons
The award for bulk find of the day goes to Darren Simons, who found no less than 19 calyces!
Mike Greaves found this embedded rarer blastoid. This unfortunately had to stay behind as we are not allowed to collect from the bedrock (SSSI rules):
Obligatory leader “selfie”. From left: Andrew, Katherine, Terry and Mike. Photo courtesy of Ellis Hollows (skills) and Andrew Eaves (hardware) 🙂
A massive thank you to everyone who attended this hunt. We hope that you enjoyed it and we will see you again!
Salthill LNR is managed by Lancashire Wildlife Trust and is open entry | Hammering of the rock face is not permitted | Please collect responsibly and abide by the fossil code
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UKAFH visit to King’s Dyke Nature Reserve, Sunday 19th August
On 19th August UKAFH visited King’s Dyke Nature Reserve at Whittlesey near Peterborough. This highly productive, family-friendly location is always a popular hunt and places quickly filled up so we had a full house of 35 with leaders Aidan Philpott and Sam Caethoven.
The geology of the location consists the Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation, representing the middle Jurassic period of circa 180 million years ago. The clay is quarried for brick making but a spoil heap is provided in a designated area for fossil hunting and it was to this area we were destined today.
We were fortunate to enjoy warm but overcast weather, making hunting comfortable and dry. We kitted up we headed down to the dedicated fossil-hunting area where Aidan gave the group an introduction to the fossils that can be found. The commonest finds are ammonites (especially Kosmoceras), belemnites (especially Hibolithes) and gryphaea, an oyster often called “Devil’s toenail” because of their curled, scaly appearance. However marine reptiles have also been commonly found in the quarry as well as teeth and bones from fish including the ray-finned Leedsichthys, probably the largest fish ever to have lived. An abundance of bivalves and brachiopods can also be found.
The location has an enormous quantity of fossils available and they are very easy to find, making it equally perfect for beginners who want to take home a treasure or two and for old hands who want to find something special, be it a bone, fish remains or a particularly large, complete or well-preserved specimen. The clay is easy to dig into and split so it is never a question of finding fossils; rather of narrowing down the large volume of finds into “keepers”. Soon we had good finds turning up, including calcite Kosmoceras ammonites, plenty of belemnite sections and an abundance of gryphaea.
Silas’s shark tooth
Daniel’s ammonite
Oscar’s ammonite
Although on this occasion no-one was fortunate enough to find any reptile bone, a Hybodus sp. shark tooth was found by Silas Shaul – the first I’ve personally encountered from this site. Well done Silas! Some sharp-eyed hunters like Billy Currie found small fish scales, bones and vertebrae and Tracey Herod found a beautifully preserved calcite-filled gastropod with its aragonite shell still in place.
As events drew to a close we received many kind remarks from attendees who commented on how they had enjoyed their day and were pleased with their finds. We always love to hear your comments and see pictures of your finds, whether from one of our hunts or your own forays so please do share your news on our website and facebook pages! Also please do sign up to our mailing list or keep an eye out on our website for forthcoming 2019 hunts which will be published soon.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged ammonite, ammonites, belemnite, clay, event, fish, fossils, oxford clay, plesiosaur, shark, shark teeth.
UKAFH visit to Betteshanger Country Park, Kent
Posted on August 14, 2018 Updated on October 2, 2018
Betteshanger fossil spoil heap
On a scorching, sunny Sunday 5th August UKAFH members and guests headed to the south east corner of Kent to Betteshanger Country Park (near Deal) to hunt for Carboniferous plant fossils.
Betteshanger is a RIGS spoil heap at the old Betteshanger Colliery, which was the largest in Kent but was closed in 1989. Betteshanger Country Park was created by regeneration of the former Betteshanger colliery site and provides a large green parkland and recreation area ideal for walking, cycling and other outdoor activities. However as part of Geoconservation Kent (http://www.geoconservationkent.org.uk/), there is agreement to retain a fossil hunting area within the country park. The fossil collecting spoil heap, which is northeast of the original site, is set aside for the study of the fossils to be found in the coal measures formerly mined there and this was our destination for the day.
Our group of 25 assembled outside the visitor centre, which offers toilets, showers, information on the park and a small cafe alongside a childrens’ play area. From there it was quite a short walk to the fossil hunting area where Andy Temple of GeoConservation Kent awaited us as our special guest leader for the day. Andy regularly supports school and group trips and visits to Betteshanger and other Kent locations and is expert on the many, varied plant fossils to be found in the coal deposits. Sam Caethoven welcomed the group and introduced Andy who gave an overview on the site and what can be found.
Andy Temple and his display
Examples of Betteshanger finds
Images of possible finds along with examples
Images of possible finds with examples
Betteshanger is Upper Carboniferous (Silesian) in age, from the mid-Westphalian Stage (Asturian Substage of 323.2–315.2 Mya) to the Stephanian Stage (Stephanian B Substage of 315.2–307 Mya). The rocks are from between 316–311 Mya and mostly consist of the Kent 5 coal seam, with some Kent 7. Kent 5 is assigned to the Upper Coal Measures (Warwickshire Group) and Kent 7 to the (South Wales) Middle Coal Measures. Fossils show that there were areas of forest and river levees, with overbank deposition taking place.
Mariopteris seed fern
Alethopteris seed fern
Fossils at Betteshanger are found either lying on top of the spoil heap or by digging into the spoil. Remains of Arthropleura, a large arthropod, have been found at the site. However, unlike other coal measures sites in Europe, no insects have been found at Betteshanger.
When we arrived at the fossil area we were delighted to be informed by Andy that a digger had just been in to turn over the coal spoil and dig out fresh areas, removing the old spoil that had already been examined many times previously. As a result we were extremely fortunate to be able to find abundant, varied plant specimens!
Neuropteris seed fern
Club moss cone
A selection of finds
Fossils were quickly being found, both in quantity and variety. Kath Kemsley found a smashing Neuropteris seed fern and Aiden Philpott found an exquisitely preserved Alethopteris seed fern. Jake Ashley found a very nice example of Lepidodendron (also known as a scale tree) which is an extinct lycopsid club moss. Kaitlin Asher found a fantastic selection of plant fossils and Nicky Parslow uncovered a beautifully detailed example of asterophyllites horsetail.
Asterophyllites (Calamites horsetail leaves) found by Nicky Parslow
Superb Alethopteris seed fern found by Aiden Philpott
The swampy Carboniferous landscape was dominated by three types of plant: ferns (true ferns and seed ferns), lycopods and sphenopsids. Ferns were at their most abundant and diverse in the Carboniferous period but persist today. Giant lycopsids – clubmosses – such as Lepidodendron and Sigillaria grew to the height of trees and their fossilised bark is characterised by leaf scars. The fossils of the root systems of both these plants are called Stigmaria because they look so similar. These are examples of form taxa, where a collection of organisms is given a taxonomic name but is known to be a grouping based on similar morphological characteristics, rather than more extensive biological similarity. Finally the sphenopsids consist horsetails which were gigantic in the Palaeozoic but persist today in much smaller and less diverse forms. The leaves of horsetails, which form in whorls around the stem, are termed annularia but the root fossils are known as calamites.
Huge thanks to Andy Temple for bringing a fabulous display, expert advice, identification and preservation tips and plenty of very useful spare newspaper for wrapping finds!
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged annularia, calamites, Carboniferous, event, fern, fossil, horsetail, lycopod, plant, seed, sigillaria.
Gilwern Quarry, Powys – Saturday 26th July 2018
On Saturday 28th July, we landed at Gilwern Quarry, Powys, for the annual UKAFH trilobite fest!
Gilwern quarry is privately-owned and is situated on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, in beautiful and isolated terrain. Gilwern is known for its trilobites, which are generally very well preserved, and can be found in abundance. Gilwern Hill is made of Lower to Middle Ordovician volcaniclastic rock, which form part of the Builth Inlier. The site has rocks from the Llanvirn series (approximately 460 million years old) and exhibits the following beds:
Upper Didymographus murchisoni Shales.
Pale flinty, tuffaceous beds.
Main Rhyolitic tuffs, with Lower Didymographus murchisoni Shales.
Rhyolitic tuffs and agglomerates.
Upper Didymographus bifidus Beds.
Lower Didymographus bifidus Beds
Oxyginus trilobite
The site has been interpreted as a near-shore, shallow water environment used as a breeding ground for the Ogyginus trilobite (pictured above), due to the number and range of ages of Ogyginus found here. However, other trilobite species such as Meadowtownella and Bettonolithus can be found, as well as graptolites.
Emma, the lovely landowner, greeted us at the shepherd’s hut as we arrived with hot teas and coffees, which was a lovely surprise, and was very welcome after the long journey that many of us had made. First stop of the day was the “trilobite wall” – a stack of fossiliferous rocks lining the shepherd’s hut car park – you know it’ll be a good day when you find your first fossils in the car park!
Once we were suitably refreshed and kitted up, Sam and Aidan gave an introductory session on the quarry and showed the group some example fossils from previous hunts, including various species of trilobites, graptolites, orthocones and conulariids. We then moved up to the main quarry, where the good finds started rolling in!
Massive trilobite in situ found by a very happy Peter Waring!
Lingulella brachiopods:
Lingulella found by Paula Borthwick
Bettonolithus trilobites:
Bettonolithus chamberlaini found by Peter Waring
Bettonolithus found in the car park by Darren Simons
The quarry is packed full of loose rock so there was plenty of material for us to chisel and hammer our way through.
Leader Terry with a possible partial starfish arm!
Although the weather looked promising on arrival, after several hours it had clouded over and distant rumbles of thunder could be heard. Unfortunately, this then developed into torrential rain and hailstones (in July!), which felt like being stoned to death with frozen peas! A mad dash to the safety of our cars was in order and with it, an unfortunately abrupt end to the hunt!
We would like to thank all for attending – we hope you had a fantastic day! A special thank you goes to Emma for her fabulous hospitality and we look forward to the next hunt!
Access to the quarry and rental of the self-catering shepherd’s hut can be requested via https://www.uppergilwernquarryhut.co.uk.
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First impressions: Ukip forays while Labour falters
Some thoughts on the results so far.
1. Despite what much of the media is saying this morning, this is not – so far – a Ukip “surge”. I’d describe it more as a foray into local government. A surge implies a consistent and considerable advance right across the country. This hasn’t happened. Instead, Ukip has made a series of limited advances in a variety of places, which has so far given them around 100 councillors, but they’ve come nowhere winning control of an actual council.
2. Labour‘s ambitions have faltered, but not failed. The party has missed out on some key targets, including Worcester, Walsall and Swindon. But it’s hanging on elsewhere and is doing remarkably well in London, capturing Hammersmith and Fulham: somewhere I’d previously described as a safe Tory council.
3. The Liberal Democrats‘ pain is not abating. In each set of local elections since 2010 the party has lost hundreds of councillors and slipped further and further behind parties with which it used to enjoy a parity. That shows no sign of stopping this time. Losing Cambridge to Labour and Kingston-upon-Thames to the Tories are two high-profile calamities.
4. And yet the Lib Dems aren’t completely down and out. They beat off competition from strong Ukip candidates in Eastleigh, and increased their hold on Sutton. Nick Clegg‘s position as leader is safe.
5. The Tories are still failing to pick up support in areas they need to win in next year’s general election. In London and the north, the party has gone backwards. This hasn’t just been a consequence of votes going to Ukip; Labour has seen its own vote hold up and sometimes increase. Conservative politicians really need to think up ways of appealing to voters in these areas, but in a way that doesn’t put off its supporters elsewhere, specifically…
6. South-east England. It’s where Ukip has denied Tories control of Basildon, Castle Point and Southend councils, and done the same for Labour in Thurrock. Ukip made 11 gains in Basildon and five in both Southend and Castle Point. We’ve got Colchester, Epping Forest and Rochford still to come. The region feels like the one that has most to offer for Ukip – and yet it’s crucial to both the Tories and Labour come the general election. The south-east could be where that particular contest is won and lost.
Published on: 23 May 2014 23 May 2014 Author: Ian Jones
3 responses to ‘First impressions: Ukip forays while Labour falters’
Richard Smith 23 May 2014 1.17 pm • Reply
Going to be glued to your analysis this weekend. One correction though: UKIP won no seats in Brentwood, so didn’t deny the Tories the council. It was the Lib Dems and Labour who gained at their expense, though that may well be due to the local Tories’ blunder for several years over a big retail development behind the High Street.
Ian Jones 23 May 2014 1.26 pm • Reply
Thanks Richard – that’s now corrected. Interesting to see how opposition to the Tories was split in a number of directions, rather than channelled towards the Lib Dems, the next biggest party on the council.
Yeah, was quite surprised by the Brentwood outcome, didn’t think Tories would lose control, let alone lose two seats to the Lib Dems, but as I said I suspect it’s mainly a local thing. I think the independent might be from Brentwood First, which splintered off from the Tories since the last election.
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Wolf’s Lair Makes the New York Times Home Section At Last
April 29, 2011 § 4 Comments
There was a beautiful spread on Moby’s $2 million renovation of Wolf’s Lair in the New York Times yesterday. The castle is not only restored structurally but redecorated in an understated and tasteful way. I wouldn’t have expected anything less.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/garden/28moby.html?_r=1
Albert Kothe: A German Immigrant’s Life in Hollywoodland, Part I
Straight Outta Hamburg/All Photos Albert Kothe Family Archive, courtesy Harry Williams, unless otherwise noted
Albert Hendrick Kothe was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1893. After World War I, he made his way to America and settled in Los Angeles, where he found work and a new home in Hollywoodland. Like so many Canyon residents, Kothe lived out his life here, in the process becoming a neighborhood fixture, a Zelig-like figure–and something of a local legend.
Kothe's Employee Card in Hollywoodland
Albert Kothe in his Youth, Undated
Albert Kothe may or may not have helped to build the Hollywoodland Sign, but he certainly was its caretaker upon its completion in July, 1923. His job, which probably lasted until 1939, was to change the 4,000 lightbulbs that lit the Sign at night, a Sisyphusian task for which ladders were kept permanently propped against the Sign’s back. Though Kothe undoubtably spent a great many daylight hours on Mt. Lee, he didn’t actually live there. (The myth that Kothe “lived in a shack behind the first L” is so pervasive that Leo Braudy repeats it in his new book The Hollywood Sign [Yale University Press, 2011] Oops.) Although there was a shed behind the Sign, it housed lightbulbs and other equipment, while Kothe resided in a cabin at the north end of Beachwood Drive. (The cabin was probably built for the foreman of the stonemasons who built the Hollywoodland walls and stairs from 1923-25. The stonemasons lived in adjacent tents.) The cabin, which was torn down for houses 50 years ago, looked like this:
Kothe's Cabin/Courtesy Lamonta Pierson
When the Hollywoodland Realty Company stopped maintaining the Sign in 1939, Kothe found work at Wolf’s Lair, a house large enough to require a full-time handyman. Kothe’s employment by Bud Wolf has satisfying parallels in literature and movies, for the two men at first glance were polar opposites: Wolf a rich, companionable bon vivant; Kothe a poor laborer and lifelong bachelor. But in truth, they were flip sides of the same coin–uncompromising, somewhat eccentric men who discovered their niche in Hollywoodland, and stayed.
Next time: Kothe’s latter years–and automotive adventures.
Castillo del Lago and Wolf’s Lair: Works in Progress
Castillo del Lago on 11/12/10/All photos Hope Anderson Productions
Two months into the massive repainting job at Castillo del Lago, all traces of Madonna have been removed from its exterior. Gone are the jaunty red ocher stripes; the new look is stark white with grassy green trim. The paint accomplishes the task of making a vast house look even bigger while illustrating the sobriquet white elephant. (But I’m sure Crosby Doe, the real estate agent and neighbor who has complained at length about Castillo del Lago’s previous incarnation, is delighted.)
Castillo del Lago's Retaining Wall
The retaining wall is also white, a risky move in an area known for tagging. Fortunately, vines have been planted along its base; eventually, they will turn the wall into a giant topairy.
Wolf's Lair, 11/12/10
Over at Wolf’s Lair, the extensive repair work continues. The new owner, Moby, has undertaken the kind of crucial and costly structural work–reframing exterior walls, replacing windows–that most homeowners would skip altogether. While remaining faithful to the original design, he is essentially rebuilding an old estate. It must have needed it.
The John Lautner-designed guest house, now largely reframed, is being turned into a recording studio. This development probably would have pleased Lautner, a modernist who didn’t place form over function. You can see the before pictures here: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/04/tour_of_wolfs_lairs_lautner_guest_house_and_future_studio.php
Onward, toward the end of renovations–and two festive housewarming parties!
The Hills Are Alive with California Holly
November 13, 2010 § 1 Comment
Toyon on the Castillo del Lago-Wolf's Lair Trail/All photos Hope Anderson Productions
My search for native holly (toyon) has brought mixed results over the past five years. The year I moved to Beachwood was an exceedingly dry one, and the next fall saw very few berries. Without them, the toyon is unimpressive–just another tree along the trail. Then there’s the question of when the berries, if any, will turn red, an event of brief duration that is easily missed. Disappointingly, the berries seem to turn red well before Christmas–but again, it depends on rainfall.
So while hiking the trail between Castillo del Lago and Wolf’s Lair yesterday, I was surprised to come upon a riot of red berries on the trees there. The fact that it we’ve had four rainstorms since the beginning of October must be the cause: the trail is as lush as it normally is in January.
The tree pictured at top is enormous, a wall of green leaves and red berries.
Merry Christmas from Hollywoodland!–six weeks early.
Mega Home Improvement in Hollywoodland
September 22, 2010 § 1 Comment
Castillo del Lago 9/20/10/All photos Hope Anderson Productions
Nothing endears a new homeowner to the neighborhood like an exterior renovation. I found this out in 2005 when, shortly after moving into my Beachwood Canyon house, I had the peeling garage and fence repainted. When I finally scraped up the money to repaint the house itself last summer, my neighbors were nearly as happy as I.
On a far grander scale, the exteriors of two famous Hollywoodland houses are being tranformed at the same moment. Castillo del Lago, which finally sold in July for $7 million (down from $14.95) is losing its terra cotta paint; the red ochre stripes on the retaining wall have been painted over. (I miss you already, striped wall!) At present, the new paint is pale yellow but that might be a base coat.
At the other end of the trail, Wolf’s Lair’s exterior transformation is much more ambitious. It has been re-roofed and is undergoing a partial reframing. Some of the turrets are being rebuilt, after which a massive re-stucco job will begin. There’s nothing better than a house-proud new owner!
Wolf's Lair 9/20/10
Autumn Colors–and Graffiti–on the Castillo del Lago-Wolf’s Lair Trail
The Trail on 9/20/10/All photos by Hope Anderson Productions
Exactly nine months have passed since I posted “Lost (Mulholland) Highway: The Trail from the Madonna House to Wolf’s Lair.” https://underthehollywoodsign.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/lost-mulholland-highway-the-trail-from-the-madonna-house-to-wolfs-lair/ Hiking the trail today, I was struck by the seasonal difference: some of the green foliage in last year’s pictures is now brown and rust, giving the trail a distinctly autumnal appearance that to my mind is as beautiful.
What isn’t beautiful is the graffiti that mars the trail in places, most disturbingly on “Face Rock.” Apparently someone thought the rock needed a more permanent face than the one that passing hikers fashion daily from leaves, stones, flowers and branches. So he spray-painted one on it.
This happened a while ago, and though it’s not the first incident of tagging on the trail, it certainly followed my previous post. In the intervening months, I’ve wondered if, by writing about the rock, I may have indirectly caused it to be defaced. If so, I’m deeply sorry–but somehow I doubt the tagger in question read this blog. Whoever he is, I wish he hadn’t done it.
Welcome to Hollywoodland, Moby!
April 1, 2010 § Leave a comment
Wolf's Lair, or perhaps Whale's Lair/Hope Anderson Productions
I promised a certain realtor not to write about it until after escrow closed–not that LACurbed and the LA Times didn’t–but now that it’s official I can say this: the new owner of Wolf’s Lair is a New Yorker named Richard Melville Hall. He’s also known as Moby. This week, he takes possession of a 1927 storybook manor with sweeping views of Lake Hollywood and the Hollywood Sign, a guesthouse by John Lautner, a pool, 3 acres of grounds and a subterranean speakeasy.
Properties of historical and architectural significance cry out for owners with the means and sensibility to restore and care for them. In this regard, Moby is ideal: a successful, work-at-home artist who has already expressed his commitment to Wolf’s Lair’s improvement.
It also doesn’t hurt that we neighbors might be less likely to mind hearing his noise bounce around the Canyon than anyone else’s. In a natural amphitheater like Beachwood, the quality of the music really matters.
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