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VIDEO: Jake Gray set to start against Luton Town, Matt Richards back in contention
Crystal Palace loan youngster Jake Gray is in line to make his first appearance for Cheltenham Town in Saturday's home match against Luton Town.
Boss Paul Buckle also says midfielder Matt Richards comes back into his thoughts after responding in the right manner to being left out of the squad altogether for last Friday's 1-1 draw with Morecambe.
Gray, 19, arrived from Premier League Palace on the day of the game and was an unused substiute, but he has impressed in training and looks set for his first taste of Football League action.
Buckle said: "Jake has settled in very well and it shows the atmosphere we have here and the togetherness among the boys.
"He has shown what he can do in small sided games and he looks an exciting prospect. When you bring players in on loan, like the three lads from Liverpool, they need to go into your team and he'll definitely be in my thoughts for a start."
Richards had been ever present in League Two games since joining Cheltenham from Shrewsbury Town on a two year deal in the summer of 2013, but Buckle left him out, demanding more aggression in the centre of the pitch.
"Matt Richards has been excellent, showing me the reaction I wanted and as a result he is back in consideration for the weekend," Buckle said.
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More of New Mexico's public land offered to oil and gas industry, price per barrel stabilizes
The BLM announced a two-week public comment period from July 15 to 26 for its November oil and gas lease sale, offering parcels of land in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
More of New Mexico's public land offered to oil and gas industry, price per barrel stabilizes The BLM announced a two-week public comment period from July 15 to 26 for its November oil and gas lease sale, offering parcels of land in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/local/2019/07/09/more-new-mexicos-public-land-offered-oil-and-gas-industry/1684921001/
Adrian C Hedden, Carlsbad Current-Argus Published 2:37 p.m. MT July 9, 2019
Acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt visits Hobbs
Watson Hopper President Finn Smith (left) meets with Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and workers at the plant, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt puts on a hard hat before a tour of Watson Hopper, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Staff from the U.S. Department of the Interior tour an oil rig, Feb. 6, 2019 at Watson Hopper in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt meets with workers at Watson Hopper, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt meets with staff at Watson and Hopper, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Lea County Commissioner Rebecca Long addresses workers at Watson Hopper, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt addresses workers at Watson Hopper, Feb. 6, 2019 in Hobbs. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
New Mexico public lands continued to be leased to the oil and gas industry for extraction operations by the State Land Office and federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
In New Mexico, five parcels were offered on about 2,492 acres in Eddy County, and five parcels were also offered in Lea County, totaling at about 921 acres.
About 2,837 acres were offered in Sandoval County, on four parcels.
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In Oklahoma, two parcels were offered. About five acres were offered on a tract in Dewey County, and another in Woodward County offered 1,360 acres.
The 16 parcels totaling in about 7,619 acres were planned to be auctioned on Nov. 7, read a BLM news release.
Revenues from oil and gas production on the federal land funds the U.S. Treasury and budgets of the host states, the release read, supporting public education, infrastructure and other priorities.
More: American oil reaches "record-high" production, driven by Permian Basin
About 48 percent of revenue from the lease sales goes to the states, with the rest going to the Treasury.
States also receive half of the revenue from royalties resulting from oil and gas development on the leased land.
“The BLM is a key contributor to the (President Donald) Trump Administration's America-First Energy Plan, an all-of-the-above strategy that includes oil and gas, coal, strategic minerals, and renewable sources such as wind, geothermal, and solar – all of which can be produced on public lands,” the release read.
The agency was required by federal law to hold lease sales quarterly each year, offering 10-year leases of federal lands to oil and gas producers.
More: Oil and gas industry, environmentalists spar over methane emissions in New Mexico
Leases are for the exploration, extraction and development of fossil fuels, and can be extended if the lessee established production.
Public comments on the sales can be made through the BLM Land Use Planning and National Environmental Policy Act Register online.
Comments can be made public, and should include an address, phone number and email address.
More: New Mexico oil and gas fees go into effect, raise funds for IT
“Please note that the most useful public comments are substantive and identify issues relevant to the proposed action. These may question, with reasonable basis, the accuracy of information, methodology or assumptions, and present reasonable alternatives other than those analyzed,” the release read.
“Comments that contain only opinions or preferences, or comments that are essentially identical to other comments, will not be specifically addressed in the environmental review process."
Local leaders witness contrast between nature and extraction
Bruce Gordon pilots a six-seat plan Sept. 6 as local leaders observe the impact of oil and gas developments on Eddy County wilderness. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
The view over southern Eddy County from a six-seat plane as local leaders view landmarks and assess the impact of the oil and gas industry, Sept. 6 at the Cavern City Air Terminal. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
CEO of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce Robert Defer exits a six-seat plane after a flight over the Guadalupe Mountains, Sept. 6 at the Cavern City Air Terminal. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
A six-seat plane sits on a runaway after flying over the Guadalupe Mountain, Sept. 6 at the Cavern City Air Terminal. Adrian Hedden | Current-Argus
The New Mexico State Land Office is planning its own lease sale of public land to the industry next week, offering tracts throughout southeast New Mexico.
The lease sale was planned for July 16, held online in sealed and open bidding formats, with bidding opening Tuesday.
More: New Mexico gets millions more in revenue from oil and gas than predicted
Bidders were charged $100 for an application fee.
The State Trust land up for auction included 919 acres on five tracts in Eddy County, 920 acres on five tracts in Lea County, and 80 acres on one tract in Chaves County.
The Land Office’s June sale offered eight tracts on about 1,800 acres in Eddy and Lea County, with only two tracts sold.
More: BLM: Protest period opens for lease sale of New Mexico land to oil and gas industry
Foreign tensions continue, oil prices stabilized
With recent news of U.S. oil breaking a production record by climbing to 12.2 million barrels per day, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – a grade of crude oil used as a benchmark for domestic pricing – appeared to stabilize this week, per data from NASDAQ.
WTI was list at $57 per barrel as of Tuesday, staying above $55 per barrel since the middle of June.
The price of WTI climbed from a dip to just less than $52 per barrel to almost $59 in the final week of June, and experts pointed to escalating tensions in the Middle East for the dramatic gain in the value of American oil.
More: BLM: Thousands of acres of New Mexico land leased to oil and gas companies
But the momentum slowed this week, read a report from Drillinginfo as global economies slowed and demand decreased.
Energy secretary says US can make oil, gas, coal cleaner
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at an energy summit hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and attended by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer, AP
About 25 protesters leave after interrupting a energy conference where U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Perry says the Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal. Perry made his remarks during a speech at an energy conference in Salt Lake City hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer, AP
About 25 protesters are escorted by police after interrupting a energy conference where U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Perry says the Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal. Perry made his remarks during a speech at an energy conference in Salt Lake City hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer, AP
About 25 protesters are escorted by police after interrupting a energy summit conference where U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Perry says the Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal. Perry made his remarks during a speech at an energy conference in Salt Lake City hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer, AP
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, center, speaks as Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, left, and and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, right, look on at an energy summit Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer, AP
The United Kingdom seized an Iranian tanker that the UK alleged was headed to Syria, violating European Union sanctions on that country.
This tension did support U.S. oil prices, read the report, by creating market concern for foreign production.
“Prices tried to keep the bullish momentum from the previous week rolling forward, but the concerns about slowing global economies and the slowing’s effect on demand took the starch from the momentum trade out,” the report read.
More: Could Eddy County committee act as bridge between citizens and oil and gas?
“Bullish momentum had been based on the geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and this week the market will have to address the seizure of an Iranian tanker by the United Kingdom.”
Prices were likely to stay between $56 and $60 per barrel, read the report, as the market balances between slowing global demand and tensions in the Middle East.
“It is unlikely that either of the issues will be solved quickly, and this recent range and the broader range – $50 per barrel to $64 per barrel – may hold prices until the market resolves the competing issues later in the year,” the report read.
More oil and gas news:
Bill giving teeth to oil and gas regulators passes the NM Legislature
Oil and gas pipelines in NM, Texas to solve Permian 'bottlenecks'
More oil and gas disposal wells to address growing waste from Permian Basin boom
How much does oil and gas give to your schools? Data shows boom towns get less than metros
Study: New Mexico loses on federal oil and gas leases, industry calls for quicker approvals
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-628-5516, achedden@currentargus.com or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.
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Microsoft » Windows 7 » SP1 X64 : Security Vulnerabilities (CVSS score >= 3)
Cpe Name:cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7:-:sp1:x64
1 CVE-2017-0166 131 2017-04-12 2019-10-02
None Remote Medium Not required Complete Complete Complete
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when LDAP request buffer lengths are improperly calculated. In a remote attack scenario, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application to send malicious traffic to a Domain Controller, aka "LDAP Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
2 CVE-2016-0040 264 +Priv 2016-02-10 2018-10-12
The kernel in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
3 CVE-2016-0020 +Priv 2016-01-13 2018-10-12
Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 mishandle DLL loading, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "MAPI DLL Loading Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
4 CVE-2016-0009 264 Exec Code 2016-01-13 2018-10-30
Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, aka "Win32k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
5 CVE-2013-3661 22 1 DoS Dir. Trav. 2013-05-24 2013-06-05
None Local Low Not required None None Complete
The EPATHOBJ::bFlatten function in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not check whether linked-list traversal is continually accessing the same list member, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite traversal) via vectors that trigger a crafted PATHRECORD chain.
6 CVE-2013-3138 189 DoS Overflow 2013-06-11 2018-10-12
None Remote Medium Not required None None Complete
Integer overflow in the TCP/IP kernel-mode driver in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted TCP packets, aka "TCP/IP Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
7 CVE-2013-2556 Bypass 2013-03-11 2018-10-12
None Remote Low Not required Partial Partial Partial
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 through SP1 allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unknown vectors, as demonstrated against Adobe Flash Player by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, aka "ASLR Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 7 allows attackers to bypass the ASLR and DEP protection mechanisms via unknown vectors, as demonstrated against Firefox by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0787.
Unspecified vulnerability in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 7 allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Nils and Jon of MWR Labs during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0912.
10 CVE-2013-1339 399 Exec Code 2013-06-11 2018-10-12
None Remote Low Single system Complete Complete Complete
The Print Spooler in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly manage memory during deletion of printer connections, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request, aka "Print Spooler Vulnerability."
11 CVE-2013-1333 119 Overflow +Priv 2013-05-14 2018-10-12
Buffer overflow in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages improper handling of objects in memory, aka "Win32k Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
dxgkrnl.sys (aka the DirectX graphics kernel subsystem) in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "DirectX Graphics Kernel Subsystem Double Fetch Vulnerability."
The USB kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 do not properly handle objects in memory, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code by connecting a crafted USB device, aka "Windows USB Descriptor Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1285 and CVE-2013-1286.
16 CVE-2013-0075 DoS 2013-02-13 2018-10-12
None Remote Low Not required None None Complete
The TCP/IP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted packet that terminates a TCP connection, aka "TCP FIN WAIT Vulnerability."
17 CVE-2013-0008 264 1 +Priv 2013-01-09 2018-10-12
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT does not properly handle window broadcast messages, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Improper Message Handling Vulnerability."
18 CVE-2013-0007 94 Exec Code 2013-01-09 2018-10-30
Microsoft XML Core Services (aka MSXML) 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 does not properly parse XML content, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, aka "MSXML XSLT Vulnerability."
Microsoft XML Core Services (aka MSXML) 3.0, 5.0, and 6.0 does not properly parse XML content, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, aka "MSXML Integer Truncation Vulnerability."
20 CVE-2012-2897 119 Exec Code Overflow 2012-09-26 2018-10-30
The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT, as used by Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.79 and other programs, do not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font file, aka "Windows Font Parsing Vulnerability" or "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability."
The OpenType Font (OTF) driver in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted OpenType font file, aka "OpenType Font Parsing Vulnerability."
22 CVE-2012-2530 399 +Priv 2012-11-13 2018-10-30
Use-after-free vulnerability in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Use After Free Vulnerability."
23 CVE-2012-1870 200 +Info 2012-07-10 2018-10-30
None Remote Medium Not required Partial None None
The CBC mode in the TLS protocol, as used in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and other products, allows remote web servers to obtain plaintext data by triggering multiple requests to a third-party HTTPS server and sniffing the network during the resulting HTTPS session, aka "TLS Protocol Vulnerability."
Integer overflow in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted TrueType font file that triggers incorrect memory allocation, aka "Font Resource Refcount Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
25 CVE-2012-1866 20 +Priv 2012-06-12 2018-10-30
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle user-mode input passed to kernel mode for driver objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Clipboard Format Atom Name Handling Vulnerability."
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle user-mode input passed to kernel mode for driver objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "String Atom Class Name Handling Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1864.
Race condition in partmgr.sys in Windows Partition Manager in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes multiple simultaneous Plug and Play (PnP) Configuration Manager function calls, aka "Plug and Play (PnP) Configuration Manager Vulnerability."
The Shell in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted name for a (1) file or (2) directory, aka "Command Injection Vulnerability."
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and Windows 8 Consumer Preview; Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Silverlight 4 before 4.1.10329; and Silverlight 5 before 5.1.10411 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font (TTF) file, aka "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability."
Use-after-free vulnerability in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that triggers keyboard layout errors, aka "Keyboard Layout Use After Free Vulnerability."
32 CVE-2012-0013 Exec Code 2012-01-10 2018-10-30
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Windows Packager configuration in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ClickOnce application in a Microsoft Office document, related to .application files, aka "Assembly Execution Vulnerability."
Unspecified vulnerability in DirectShow in DirectX in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted media file, related to Quartz.dll, Qdvd.dll, closed captioning, and the Line21 DirectShow filter, aka "DirectShow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
Unspecified vulnerability in winmm.dll in Windows Multimedia Library in Windows Media Player (WMP) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP2, and Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MIDI file, aka "MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
35 CVE-2012-0001 Bypass 2012-01-10 2018-10-30
The kernel in Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly load structured exception handling tables, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the SafeSEH security feature by leveraging a Visual C++ .NET 2003 application, aka "Windows Kernel SafeSEH Bypass Vulnerability."
36 CVE-2011-4434 264 Bypass 2011-11-11 2018-10-30
None Local Low Not required None Partial Partial
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 do not properly enforce AppLocker rules, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a (1) macro or (2) scripting feature in an application, as demonstrated by Microsoft Office applications and the SANDBOX_INERT and LOAD_IGNORE_CODE_AUTHZ_LEVEL flags.
37 CVE-2011-3417 264 2011-12-29 2018-10-30
The Forms Authentication feature in the ASP.NET subsystem in Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP2, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0, when sliding expiry is enabled, does not properly handle cached content, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to arbitrary user accounts via a crafted URL, aka "ASP.NET Forms Authentication Ticket Caching Vulnerability."
None Remote Medium Single system Complete Complete Complete
The Forms Authentication feature in the ASP.NET subsystem in Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP2, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0 allows remote authenticated users to obtain access to arbitrary user accounts via a crafted username, aka "ASP.Net Forms Authentication Bypass Vulnerability."
39 CVE-2011-3415 20 2011-12-29 2018-10-30
None Remote Medium Not required Partial Partial Partial
Open redirect vulnerability in the Forms Authentication feature in the ASP.NET subsystem in Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a crafted return URL, aka "Insecure Redirect in .NET Form Authentication Vulnerability."
40 CVE-2011-3414 399 DoS 2011-12-29 2018-10-30
The CaseInsensitiveHashProvider.getHashCode function in the HashTable implementation in the ASP.NET subsystem in Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP2, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0 computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters, aka "Collisions in HashTable May Cause DoS Vulnerability."
Csrsrv.dll in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (aka CSRSS) in the Win32 subsystem in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly check permissions for sending inter-process device-event messages from low-integrity processes to high-integrity processes, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "CSRSS Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability."
Buffer overflow in Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted query that leverages incorrect memory initialization, aka "Active Directory Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
Unspecified vulnerability in the TrueType font parsing engine in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted font data in a Word document or web page, as exploited in the wild in November 2011 by Duqu, aka "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability."
44 CVE-2011-3401 94 Exec Code Mem. Corr. 2011-12-13 2018-10-30
ENCDEC.DLL in Windows Media Player and Media Center in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Vista SP2, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .dvr-ms file, aka "Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
45 CVE-2011-2016 +Priv 2011-11-08 2018-10-30
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Mail and Windows Meeting Space in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .eml or .wcinv file, aka "Windows Mail Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
The LDAP over SSL (aka LDAPS) implementation in Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not examine Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended certificate restrictions and access Active Directory resources by leveraging a revoked X.509 certificate for a domain account, aka "LDAPS Authentication Bypass Vulnerability."
Integer overflow in the TCP/IP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a sequence of crafted UDP packets to a closed port, aka "Reference Counter Overflow Vulnerability."
Use-after-free vulnerability in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages incorrect driver object management, aka "Win32k Use After Free Vulnerability."
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Media Center in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and Windows Media Center TV Pack for Windows Vista, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka "Media Center Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
50 CVE-2011-2004 20 DoS 2011-11-08 2018-10-30
Array index error in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted TrueType font file, aka "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3402.
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UK suspends 4 players for roles in pellet gun scare
Airsoft pistol was recovered after Sunday night lockdown
UK suspends 4 players for roles in pellet gun scare Airsoft pistol was recovered after Sunday night lockdown Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/1sL9a4B
Kyle Tucker, Published 1:14 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2014 | Updated 3:08 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2014
UK running back Stanley Boom Williams pulls in a catch during the first half of the University of Kentucky Football game against the Vanderbilt Commodores in Lexington, KY. Saturday, September 27, 2014.(Photo: By Mike Weaver, Special to the CJ)Buy Photo
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky football program suspended four freshmen, including two key contributors, for Saturday night's game against South Carolina after an incident with an airsoft pellet gun caused police to lock down campus late Sunday night.
Wide receiver Dorian Baker, running back Stanley "Boom" Williams, quarterback Drew Barker and defensive end Tymere Dubose will all sit out against the Gamecocks and have "additional internal discipline for violation of team rules in relation to an incident on campus Sunday evening," UK announced in a news release.
"Proper conduct is emphasized as a core value of our program," coach Mark Stoops said in the release. "If we have a situation in which someone who does not act according to our standards, we hold him accountable."
UK police chief Joe Monroe also issued a statement Monday night, saying three "BB guns" connected with the incident were recovered during the investigation and that all involved – captured on security cameras – were interviewed.
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"We will be meeting tomorrow with the Fayette County Attorney's office to determine what actions should take place," Monroe said in the statement. "Once that investigation is completed, that information will be turned over to the Office of Student Affairs as dictated by university policy to investigate whether any violations of the code of student conduct have taken place."
Video still from campus. (Photo: University of Kentucky)
As for criminal charges for the four players, university spokesman Jay Blanton told The Courier-Journal that UK's police chief will meet with the County Attorney's office Tuesday "to determine what next steps need to be taken."
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An airsoft pistol – which fires plastic pellets – was recovered after UK police received two calls at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday about possible shots fired outside the Kirwan-Blanding residence hall complex on the school's South Campus, which is near the football practice facility. UK Police, joined by Lexington Police, advised residents to stay in their rooms while an investigation and search was conducted. Police declared the area all clear shortly after 11:30 p.m.
By Monday morning, police released surveillance images of "persons of interest," one of whom was wearing a shirt the football team had made for its special teams players.
"We absolutely respect being part of a wonderful campus community," athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in the news release. "It disappoints us when one of our student-athletes does not live up to our expectations. We respect the process of the University and are working hand-in-hand with the campus community on this issue."
While Barker and Dubose were expected to redshirt this season, Baker and Williams are big losses for a big game. Williams has scored two touchdowns and gained 174 yards on just 21 offensive touches and returned four kickoffs for 105 yards. Baker is fourth on the team with 11 catches for 122 yards and a score.
Kyle Tucker can be reached at (502) 582-4361. Follow him on Twitter @KyleTucker_CJ.
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With its rugged mountainous terrain and pristine hilly regions, Chiang Rai is a wild place to be in. Often touted as more off-the-beaten track than Chiang Mai, the jungles and rivers of Chiang Rai have become a starting point for major adventure activities. There are treks, mountain-biking tours, water-related adventure, elephant rides to remote tribal regions, and more to fuel your adrenaline-thirsty soul. Don't be surprised to find eco-tourism and nature as a big part of your adventures here.
Phu Chi Fah
One of the most popular destinations near town to get fantastic views of the valley, Phu Chi Fah is an adventure in itself. The cliff you have to stand atop in the forest park is naturally adorned with colourful flowers and the weather is cool through the year. Apart from the splendid sight, tourists visit Phu Chi Fah to gaze into the valley of mist that swifts through at sunrise.
A trip to Chiang Rai would be incomplete without a visit to the Golden Triangle, one of the two main opium-producing centres in Asia. This is where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar cross paths, in the middle of the Mekong River. Various legends of the Lanna culture find their base here. While there is a lot to do here, a selfie at the gate and a boat ride to Don Sao island in Laos are a must.
Being in the northern part of Thailand, Chiang Mai is more for the mountain lovers and trekkers. There are national parks with several hiking trails and a rich biodiversity in flora and fauna abounds in the jungles. Chiang Mai is fondly claimed by many to be the adventure capital of Thailand, with something for every kind of human spirit.
Feel the breeze gush past as you soar through time-honoured lush rainforests, which are known as one of the most magical in all of Thailand. Zip up strong cause this is a race against the wind, and an adrenaline rush few others have the privilege to experience.
Baan Chang Elephant Park
An interactive way to understand the majestic animal, Baan Chang Elephant Park offers visitors an adventure with a twist. Essentially, it's a day-care for rescued elephants, where they are given love and care, and are sheltered against all forms of cruelty. Here, you get a chance to feed elephants, give them herbal medication, take part in their daily life, and see how the park functions.
Royal Flora
Thousands of species of trees and flowers live comfortably on a 80-hectare landscaped garden in the city of Chiang Mai. Named after Thailand's national flower Ratchaphruek (Cassia fistula or golden shower tree), the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek is a horticultural exhibition with an impressive orchid pavilion. The Ratchaphruek's yellow blossom and the endless rows of orchids coupled with the ancient Lanna architecture add to the park's beauty. The teak wooden Ho Kham Royal Pavillion is a gilded hall with a multi-tiered roof and golden chofahs complementing the roof's end.
Doi Inthanon National Park
Being the highest point in Thailand, Doi Inthanon is part of the Himalayan Range and stands at 2,565 metres above sea level. Popular activities in the park involve trekking to the summit for an amazing view at dawn. There are many waterfalls and trails, along with two chedis (stupas) in the memory of the king and the queen's 60th birth anniversaries.
The ultimate unforgettable ride of your life - cruising over jungles, lakes, streams and wildlife! See the bigger picture and grab the chance to view nature in her collective glory. You'll be surprised how the small details that caught your eye up close still manage to amaze you from a hot air balloon.
Mae Sa Elephant Camp
With over 30 years of experience in taking care of elephants, Mae Sa Elephant Camp is the place for you to spend an entire day socialising with the cute 70-odd giant mammals. They are at ease in their natural habitat, so don't be surprised when they put on a show for you, or when the talented elephants parade their skills. You also have the option of watching how the mahouts go about caring for these royal animals.
Krabi has a mind-boggling array of adventurous activities to offer. Cliff climbing, canoeing and kayaking, island hopping, elephant rides to lush waterfalls, hiking across national parks and golfing, take your pick and get your adrenaline pumping
If riding through dense jungle paths and river banks is your type of adventure thrill, then an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) tour in the Ao Nang area and Phang Nga should top your must-do list for Krabi.
Clief Climbing
Krabi is designed with limestone cliffs all over, and rock-climbing enthusiasts make scaling these cliffs their personal goal. Don't worry if you're not an expert. There is a wide range of courses available for different levels of climbing ability.
With more than 32 dive sites and countless snorkelling spots off its coast, Krabi town is a popular destination for water sports. A number of first-rate dive shops offer affordable scuba accreditation (usually PADI) right from beginner up to master.
List of Dive Sites:
Hin Daeng and Hin Muang, Koh Rok Nok, The Phi Phi Islands, Bamboo Island and Koh Dam.
THAN BOK KHORANI NATIONAL PARK
Than Bok Khorani National Park abounds in natural trekking routes, waterfalls, mangrove forests, and is apt for aquatic activities like snorkelling or canoeing.
Interesting attractions include:
Limestone cliff caves
Boat-only accessed islands
Pristine mangrove forest
Than Bokkharani
Lot and Phi Hua To Caves
Dang and Hong Islands
Khao Khanap Nam
Khao Khanap Nam is regarded as the symbol of Krabi. The caves are magnificent and are adorned with stalactites and stalagmites. The only way to get there is by boat from the Chao Fah Bridge in Krabi.
Kayaking is a great way to explore Krabi’s dramatic scenery without intending any harm to the environment. The hong (Thai for 'rooms') open into lagoons, which provide spectacular views on a kayaking tour of the sea.
GO Island Hopping
Krabi has around 200 islands with characteristic tiny white sand beaches, coral reefs, and intricate cave systems.
Take the 4 ISLAND Tour for its dreamy white-sand beaches and emerald green waters. With this tour you’ll find yourself on Turtle Island, Chicken Island, Tub Island and Mor Island.
Pakasai Country Club is 6,573 yards spread over 18 holes and is the only golf course in Krabi. Set up in the middle of an exotic forest with beautiful views of the lake, this golf course makes for an extraordinary encounter with nature for any golfer.
Elephant Trekking and Huay Tho Waterfall
When in Thailand, an encounter with elephants is customary, and what better place to do that than in Krabi! An elephant ride to the lush rainforest of Khao Phanom Bencha National Park brings you closer to these royal animals. You get to see first-hand how well they are cared for, and you might even catch them smiling at you when you feed them with locally grown bananas.
HONG ISLAND GROUP & PRIVATE CANOE TOURS
Hong is the perfect place to get up and close with towering limestone mountains or hike through dense jungles to meet the exotic wildlife. The beaches here are blessed with warm white sand and emerald waters. Canoe your way through marvels of nature or snorkel around the breath-taking lagoons.
Someone rightly said, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”. Discover the treasures of this awesome city, with its fun and challenging adventures. If you are an adrenaline junkie, many heart pumping activities await you! Sojourn amongst scenic locations and indulge in these exhilarating experiences.
Bobble Football (Soccer)
Go racing, play football, or wrestle inside a zorb-like ball because when it comes to fun there are no restrictions!
Go Diving With Sharks At SEA LIFE SIAM OCEAN WORLD
This aquarium makes for a magical underwater experience with its 30,000 amazing marine creatures. High on both the entertainment and education quotient, a few hours spent here make for an exhilarating experience.
Paintball War
Paintballing is always fun, no questions asked! Take part in a well-equipped and safe paint fight and colour your friends blue, yellow and red!
Flow House Bangkok
Flow House is an artificial wave machine and beach club situated in the heart of Bangkok. This club makes for an amazing family outing and helps you stay fit while you learn a fun sport.
Safari World Public Co Ltd
Thailand's greatest open zoo and leisure park, Safari World Public Co Ltd. offers an exciting safari drive through the picturesque African wilderness without setting foot in Africa.
Water sports dominate when it comes to outdoor activities in Phuket, which boasts of multiple beaches and a rich marine life. However, this does not limit the multiple options when it comes to adventure! Get your adrenaline pumping as you soar on a zipline or opt for a soothing game of golf when you are bored of the water.
While shopping, beaches and water sports play their part in attracting tourists, golfing is another facet of Phuket that ensures steady tourism. The island’s seven golf courses coupled with the tropical climate and unique topography have turned Phuket into a world-class golf destination, suitable for every kind or level of golfer.
Baan Teelanka - The Upside Down House
Chandeliers on the floor, suspended dining tables, cars on the roof? That’s the Upside Down House in Phuket for you! The unique house features a 1,000 sq m labyrinth and a chamber of secrets where you have to solve clues to escape the locked room.
Phang Nga Bay Or Ao Phang Nga National Park
We know how difficult it can be to differentiate between the gorgeous bays of Thailand but Phang Nga Bay has you sorted on this account. Phang Nga is home to the spectacular limestone karsts that emerge vertically out of the emerald-green water. The bay is also famous for its abundant marine life that hides away in the mangrove forest. And yes, this is also known as the famous James Bond Island.
Flying Hanuman
The Flying Hanuman, an eco-friendly adventure park, is testament to the fact that Phuket’s beauty is not just limited to its gorgeous beaches. The Flying Hanuman is located on a pristine stretch of wilderness in the island's interiors and visitors can enjoy an effortless blend of adventure with nature here.
Splash Jungle - Water Park
Looking for a day away from the sun and sand, but can't stay away from water? Then Splash Jungle Water Park is just the place for you! From kiddie pools to wild rides that make you scream murder and spas that redefine luxury, this water park takes the phrase ‘something for everyone’ to a whole new level.
A yachting adventure brings you closer to some of island’s most beautiful beaches, gives you glimpses of awe-inspiring sunsets, and introduces you to Phuket’s spectacular geography all in one boat ride. Known to be sailing hub of the Andamans, Phuket sure knows how to impress.
Koh Samui’s rugged mountainous interiors, and tropical seas bordering the jungles serve as the base for numerous adventure activities. There are rocky cliffs to jump off, waves to surf on a kite board, quad bikes to explore the wildlife, snorkelling to witness the world of beautiful coral reefs, elephant trekking, golf, and much more. If you wish to take back home not just souvenirs, then there are Thai cooking classes for the chef in you too. Even spas are an adventure here, along with the breath-taking sunset cruises.
Snorkelling and Diving
The freedom that comes with snorkelling and diving lets you explore the magical underwater world of Koh Samui to its fullest. The reefs are close to the shore, which makes it ideal for snorkelers as well as divers. While there are innumerable gorgeous sites off the coast that many people will swear by, Koh Tao and Koh Nang Yuan are famous ones to try out. The months of June, July, and August are best for these two activities around the warm waters of Gulf of Thailand to explore wildlife below the waves. Full day as well as half day excursions are to made the most out of.
Ang Thong National Park Kayak Camp
Ang Thong National Park is an untarnished archipelago of 42 islands in the Gulf of Thailand with looming limestone mountains, white sand beaches, dense jungles, thick mangroves, hidden caves, and open waterfalls. While snorkelling is great here in the mornings, the preferred way to discover Ang Thong’s beauties is to take a kayak and reach out for those very same beauties. You get to choose your own pace and leisure around natural formations in your own sweet time.
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The island of Koh Samui is basically jungles, beaches, and mountains. The best and most convenient way to explore it is on a two-wheeler. Not only is it cheap, but it also provides flexibility for you to stop wherever your heart wants. There is a ring road around the island for you to ride on towards the many beaches. Navigation is absolutely not a problem, cause the island is not that complex, even without a map.
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On the Canonization of Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Fr. George W. Rutler
In a brief count of saints, there are at least 148 who were mothers, and Marie-Azelie Guerin Martin’s daughter was a saint, too—like Marie Zhao Guoshi in China whose daughters Marie and Rosa were martyred with her. Many mothers in the Middle East are appearing in heaven during these days of genocide possibly faster than ever. Every nation and race has mother saints: Eanfleda of England, Elizabeth of Hungary, Margaret of Scotland, Hedwig of Poland, Gianna Molla of Italy, all the way back to the holy mothers of apostles. There must be mother-in-law saints, though they may have been fewer. Blanche of Castille might qualify if only for her terrible zeal, like a Christianized Spartan mother, telling her son Saint Louis that she’d rather have him dead at her feet than to have him commit a mortal sin. The chroniclers have kept private what her daughter-in law Marguerite thought of her.
Ask to name the great ladies of America and you will get Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mother Frances Cabrini and Mother Marianne Cope and Mother Theodore Guerin. There is an instinct to call them Mother as a title even nobler than Saint. It is a reverberation from the Cross, when the Son gave us nothing less than a Mother. It was his last word to the human race before he died.
The canonization of Teresa of Calcutta gives the kind of satisfaction that comes from having your mother declared Mother of the Year. More important is the fact that she is a mother. Demographically, the cradles of our land are covered with cobwebs. Motherhood itself is in danger. To prefer motherhood over a corporate career may seem an insult to the autonomous self. At the 2016 Democratic convention, a speaker was cheered when she announced that she had aborted her baby for the sake of her of her professional job. A macabre acoustics twisted Rachel weeping for her children who were not, into Rachel laughing because her children were not. This also obtains in some religious orders: Reverend Mothers have refashioned themselves as presidents, declaiming “peace and justice and climate change” instead of salvation. As one cannot fool Mother Church for long, those orders are evaporating.
Experience is a relentless mentor, and hard experience teaches that Satan hates mothers, biological and spiritual. Mother Teresa was a mother for an orphaned world, and her canonization will bring out the banshees barking. The infernal vaults shudder every time a saint is placed on the calendar. But every slur and slander is the Anti-Christ’s backward Te Deum. Various websites already are denouncing the event, and I have read one by a recent graduate of a university where Mother Teresa gave a commencement address and was booed for mentioning chastity. The graduates in that crowd probably thought themselves the brightest and best of their generation, and since then, some have aborted many of their sons and daughters who might have been as intelligent and, by God’s grace, wiser than they. How many of their children might have grown up to write symphonies and paint great murals and cured cancers? To ask that question is the only utterance our libertine culture considers obscene.
As for haters, the Marxist historian of India, Vijay Prashad, has expressed his chagrin at the canonization of Mother. The odd intensity of his scorn seems exaggerated in one who considers the Church irrelevant. Mother is not his only target. Among other causes, he is a member of the advisory board of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The Pakistani radical, Tariq Ali, has indicted Mother for speaking to dictators, while he wept at the death of his hero Che Guevara and called Hugo Chavez a “political great.” In fairness to him, he called the vaudeville atheist Christopher Hitchens, a “saloon-bar boor” but only after Hitchens, like a broken clock that is right twice a day, had said that his hero Trotsky was not perfect. Those who delicately called Hitchens a curmudgeon, might also say Caligula was a tease and Ghengis Khan was hyperactive. Hitchens published some comments about Mother not suitable for print. One does not need to be a Freudian to trace his animus to the day he had to identify the corpse of his own mother after she had committed suicide. He wrote beautifully and, had he analyzed himself, he might have written pages about mother even finer than Muggeridge’s “Something Beautiful for God.” In preparing the memorial Mass for William F. Buckley in the Cathedral of Saint Patrick, I chose the hymns. Hitchens attended and sang those hymns lustily, telling someone later that he liked a good tune. It would be a high favor if on the day of her canonization, Mother was able to pull him up close to her as a son, putting the words to the music.
Mother’s Marxist defamers will have to contend with God’s elegant moral asymmetry by which Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, in present day Macedonia, and had citizenships over the early violent years as an Ottoman, Serbian and Yugoslavian. Her homeland was the notorious ground of tension between Josip Broz “Tito” and Enver Hoxha whose Albanian state was probably the world’s only officially atheist country. Its priests were slaughtered and, by May 1967, all 2,169 churches and shrines were confiscated, a decade before a new constitution prohibited all “fascist, religious, warmongerish, antisocialist activity and propaganda.” Those tyrants and their hellish utopias are now gone, while Mother’s face smiles on official postage stamps. Saint John Vianney was surprised when a dark voice growled: “If there were three priests like you, my kingdom would be ruined.” May there be more mothers like Mother Teresa, but on her own she was able to harrow a small corner of Hell in the Balkan Peninsula.
I have written elsewhere of encounters with Mother over nine years, but I cannot neglect the time I was rushing to say Mass for her and her sisters in Rome and was chased by what would be called a “junkyard dog.” Perhaps the early hour, half day and night, made him seem more vicious. After I had managed the difficult acrobatics of jumping over a high wall in my cassock, Mother was on the other side to welcome me without comment, as though this were the sort of thing that always happens. In the days before “selfies” we had no picture of the two of us walking hand in hand through a field of poppies on the outskirts of Rome, and later trying to hitch a ride because of a trolley strike—and, remarkably, no one stopped. That is etched on the memory, like the time on my way to offer the Holy Sacrifice for her and her community, I felt conflicted because of a sin—a venial one, but a sin nonetheless. Afterward, she gave me breakfast and, watching me eat, she told me quietly and without prompting exactly what was on my conscience.
She told me once after Mass that the “saddest thing in the world” was to watch people receiving the Blessed Sacrament irreverently. She motioned with her hands but she was speaking of the inward disposition of the soul and not the physical manner of Communion, whether in the hand or on the tongue. I mentioned this in a broadcast talk that was widely interpreted as Mother’s disapproval of Communion in the hand. This distressed her since the bishops had conceded both forms. She always received on the tongue and I have a photograph of me giving her Communion with the late Cardinal Mayer in Rome—he administering the Host and I with the Precious Blood as she often received both species. It may be that Communion on the tongue better avoids profanation especially in urban churches where there are many anonymous people who might abuse the Sacrament. But Mother did not want to be invoked in polemics. No sentimentalist, she ordered me to write a correction for a newspaper that had reported that she opposed Communion in the hand. I told her that I would “pray and then write” to which she replied like a Marine sergeant: “No! We need this right away! I pray! You write!” I transcribe the exclamation points I heard in her voice. I have lost count of the number of times I have explained this, and not a few have ignored and even resented what I wrote at Mother’s behest. I hope this puts the matter to rest. I doubt it will. Well-intentioned people can be their own worst enemies and not all sons and daughters want to hear what their Mother says.
On that hot and depressing August 9, 1974, when Richard Nixon made his final address to the hounds of the media, he said, “My mother was a saint.” With all his flaws that by comparison with others in our national pantheon seem adolescent, his chief anchor and steadiest ballast was his mother long gone. A munificent grace was the day I introduced my own mother to Mother Teresa. Hearing the two of them was like eavesdropping at Pentecost. She thanked Mother Teresa for all her good work. Mother ignored that and thanked my mother for being a mother of a priest. I could shrink whenever I think of that but Mother always made a priest feel big, despite his shortcomings. After Mass, she would kiss the hands of the priest and thank him for having brought Jesus to her. She also would ask the priest to remember her each time he put the drop of water into the wine in preparing the chalice at the Offertory. I try to do that each day. I shall not be at the canonization but I know she will be at every altar everywhere, watching with Mary the Mother of the Church.
(Photo credit: RAVEENDRAN/AFP)
Tagged as Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa
Fr. George W. Rutler is pastor of St. Michael's church in New York City. He is the author of many books including Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press) and Hints of Heaven (Sophia Institute Press). His latest books are He Spoke To Us (Ignatius, 2016); The Stories of Hymns (EWTN Publishing, 2017); and Calm in Chaos (Ignatius, 2018).
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Test & Measurement Handbook
By Frank Tobe | July 11, 2016
You’d have to say there are a lot of used oscilloscopes floating around. A quick search on eBay recently turned up 16,355 listings for used scopes. A Craigslist search for scopes near me in Cleveland, Ohio found 16 instruments on offer, interesting in that Cleveland is not exactly a capital of high-tech.
One wonders if the equipment in this sea of used instrumentation is worth buying. It is perhaps surprising that major scope makers, who have an incentive for selling new stuff, are willing to weigh in on this question.
Mark Briscoe, a product planner at Tektronix, admits that used scopes are a double-edged sword for instrument makers. But he says most people don’t trade in a scope because it wears out. “Everybody can build a 1-GHz scope. So manufacturers don’t necessarily differentiate themselves on banner specs such as record length. Instead, they come out with new productivity features such as the automated decoding of serial buses, or they build several benchtop instruments into the scope to make the measurement process easier. That kind of measurement automation is the reason for most replacements these days. It’s why you can resell a ten-year-old scope and get quite a bit of value,” he says.
Briscoe also says that looking for a used scope is not unlike looking for used cars. “The primary stuff that fails is customer-interface components like probes, knobs, and buttons. The flat-panel LCDs have half-lives of about 20,000 hours or so, after which they lose half their brightness. But most people don’t get to the point where they notice the dimming,” he says.
Long-time scope users might be surprised to learn about how one user-interface item is handled these days: Front-panel knobs on digital scopes long ago abandoned the use of resistive potentiometers in favor of encoders. However, encoders can degrade – typically, their outputs grow noisy. But these problems are often fixable via adjustments in firmware, Briscoe says.
Adjustments often take the form of new values read into NAND flash chips. But herein lies a potential problem: “There’s only so many times you can write to NAND flash,” points out Briscoe. “Sometimes those chips fail. They can be difficult to replace if they are surface-mounted. Similarly, some Windows-based instruments use DIMMs, and those can come unseated. We recommend power-cycling the instrument a few times to make sure it turns on every time. A glitch here can indicate a memory component that isn’t fully functional,” he says.
Memory chips on scopes come into play during calibration. In the days of analog scopes, instrument calibration involved turning pots and making other physical adjustments. Today, it consists of changing coefficients in asic registers. Consequently, there isn’t much inside a scope that can wear out because of numerous calibration cycles. And anyway, most instruments don’t need adjustments when they go to calibration, Briscoe says.
But if a digital scope really does have problems, it’s tough to repair. “Unless the issue is something like a bad electrolytic cap in the power supply, you probably wouldn’t try to repair a digital scope, says Dan Bogdanoff, product planner at Keysight Technolgies.
Nevertheless, relatively few digital scopes seem to wind up in the scrap heap, judging by what’s available on sites like eBay. “If it’s working, a scope is almost a timeless instrument,” says Bogdanoff. “People often say if you can see an accurate signal on the display, then it’s a fine instrument. It might be obsolete for an engineer at a company like Intel, but it’s still useful for somebody like a ham radio operator.”
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More reports on: Electronics - consumer, Brand Dossier, Marketing, Advertising / branding
Godrej to promote Eon LCD TV
Godrej, which launched its Eon range of LCD TVs in Andhra Pradesh, is now moving on-ground to promote the product. The company had launched Eon in September with a website and a mass campaign on TV, outdoor and print, and Eon's national launch will be in mid-2009.
Ramesh Chembath, general manager, marketing, Godrej Appliances, said that corporate promotions, residential contact programmes, mall activations are in the pipeline.
The activities have been conceptualised by Orchard Advertising in Mumbai and are being executed locally in Andhra Pradesh in cities such as Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada.
As part of the promotions, Godrej mobile vans will move around in these cities, in order to connect with the customers.
Though the campaign is currently limited to Andhra Pradesh, Chembath says that it will expand to other regions in phases, until Eon's national launch in mid-2009.
Apart from the BTL activities, the Internet played a significant role in the campaign and was conceptualised by Arc Worldwide. The website, www.cleanerimages.in, demonstrated to visitors how images appear much cleaner when viewed on Godrej Eon.
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Good TV series. What do you watch? I used to watch Lost to unwind need successor
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Re: Good TV series. What do you watch? I used to watch Lost to unwind need successor
« Reply #75 on: December 06, 2009, 01:48 AM »
Mum and I find Australian Series and Movies excellent! Real people...
-CleverCat (December 06, 2009, 01:48 AM)
How can you keep all the characters straight when they all talk & look like Crocodile Dundee?
And that's just the women! :: ducking and running ::
Grorgy
« Reply #77 on: December 06, 2009, 01:55 PM »
-Innuendo (December 06, 2009, 09:00 AM)
Some of them don't, some look more like the crocodile
Ehtyar
Ouch...good thing most Aussie women have the good sense not to hang around here
Ehtyar.
-Ehtyar (December 06, 2009, 07:45 PM)
Well, to be fair...the most famous of all Aussie women, Elle MacPherson & Nicole Kidman, looking nothing like Paul Hogan or crocodiles.
Being in South Africa for many years helps decipher the accent! Plus we lived down under for 4 years!
If u want a real challenge, watch Taggart (UK series based in Glasgow Scotland) - now there's an accent!
MilesAhead
On some of the BBCA shows here they have English subs for the characters with heavy dialects.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2009, 05:37 PM by MilesAhead »
i love it -- are there any other languages where you have to subtitle in the same language they are speaking because the accents are so thick?
housetier
Low German needs subtitles too for the others. But you rarely get to hear it these days, it's a dying language...
I have seen German subs for heavy swiss (Schwyzerdüütsch) accents too.
sunlitlaz
First off, Firefly is always first, no exceptions.
As for non-canceled shows:
NCIS - Another nod for this one as it's already been mentioned.
Lie To Me - This one is turning out to be great.
White Collar - I have been enjoying this one as well.
Burn Notice - This one is just plain awesome!
I like the IT Crowd too, but it's a whole different genre/show from Lost or the above.
After the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer our friend!
Back then I liked Profit.
JavaJones
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+1 for FireFly! In fact, it's been a while since I watched that show, and now I have it in High Definition. Woo!
-JavaJones (December 07, 2009, 04:13 PM)
That show got screwed over so badly by the network that I didn't even know it existed until well after it was cancelled and SciFi (now SyFy) was showing it. That was a very well-written show that didn't get a fair chance to succeed.
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... now SyFy ...
Oh grief no ... it sounds like some sort of STD !
We finally gave up & turned the subtitles on for "The Wire" - all that,mostly unintelligible, Baltimore argot meant that my partner was constantly asking me "what did they say?". Still one of our fave shows tho'.
-Carol Haynes (December 08, 2009, 07:15 PM)
To me it sounds more like somebody's trying to register a trade name and 'sci-fi' is already in the public domain.
-40hz (December 08, 2009, 09:24 PM)
That and they no longer show really good sci-fi. They've gone to 'sci-fi lite'...ergo, SyFy.
(Though Battlestar Galactica is one of the best TV shows you will *ever* watch...even if you hated the original version or even if you hate science fiction.)
That and they no longer show really good sci-fi.
-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 05:30 PM)
When they show sci-fi at all.
Last night SyFy channel was running an hour of "pro" wrestling on my DirectTV box.
Looking at the program schedule, it appears that ECW Smash-Ups is going to be a regular feature every Tuesday @ 10:00pm going forward. Oh well...at least it was a hour's respite from the rest of the day, which consisted of 11 hours worth of:Scare Tactics Repackaged; Scare Tactics Repackaged S1; Scare Tactics Season 3.5; and Scare Tactics Season 3.
It wasn't bad even if I never became much of a fan. But IMHO anything would have been an improvement over the original series.
But for military-themed space opera, I'd still have to give the nod to Space: Above and Beyond. Clips are up on YouTube if anybody's interested.
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AndyM
Though Battlestar Galactica is one of the best TV shows you will *ever* watch
2nd that
Looking at the program schedule, it appears that ECW Smash-Ups is going to be a regular feature every Tuesday @ 10:00pm going forward.
Going forward? Where ya been? ECW has been in that time slot for the last two years. Sad, but true.
But for military-themed space opera, I'd still have to give the nod to Space: Above and Beyond.
That show was ahead of its time. It'd do a lot better today than it did at the time. That was another show Fox sabotaged by screwing around with its time slot.
Going forward? Where ya been? ECW has been in that time slot for the last two years.
Mostly not watching SyFy - for obvious reasons.
If my GF wasn't a semi-fan of Warehouse 13, I doubt we'd be watching it at all.
Note: FWIW, WH13 is a "one-trick pony" show concept if there ever was one. But the cast is attractive and likable. And the interaction and dialog is witty, so it's enjoyable even if it's not very original or challenging. (I also must admit a certain ...um...liking for Joanne Kelly...for obvious reasons. )
Note: FWIW, WH13 is a "one-trick pony" show concept if there ever was one. But the cast is attractive and likable. And the interaction and dialog is witty, so it's enjoyable even if it's not very original or challenging.
It *is* a one-trick pony. Everything about the show screams 'hokey' and 'lame'. However, once you sit down and start watching it the cast really makes the show work. And I have to give them kudos on their season finale. The last few minutes of that episode were just...."Whoa...".
Hmmmmmm, speaking of "one trick pony" shows... after the success of All In The Family and other spin-offs, Norman Lear tried gender reversal in All That Glitters. In this show the women are the bosses and men are secretaries who are admired for their "pecs" and get their asses pinched by the arrogant women bosses. It took me 1/2 hour to find it on google. I couldn't remember the name. The show was one joke. It was funny for the first episode.
« Reply #98 on: July 14, 2010, 01:42 PM »
I enjoy Mythbusters, because they often do things I've always wanted to do myself.
wraith808
^ Blow things up in creative ways in the name of 'Science'?
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College Football: Arizona State powers past Colorado for 600th win
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Arizona State's N'Keal Harry (1) is hit by Colorado's Beau Bisharat (35) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Tempe.
Originally Published: November 4, 2017 11:09 p.m.
TEMPE — Demario Richard ran for 189 yards and a touchdown, helping Arizona State power past Colorado 41-30 Saturday night for the Sun Devils’ 600th win as a program.
Arizona State (5-4, 4-2 Pac-12) trailed by 10 in the third quarter, but turned to its power-running game to bull through the Buffaloes (5-5, 2-5). The Sun Devils had 274 of their 381 rushing yards in the second half and finished with 583 total yards.
Arizona State’s Manny Wilkins threw for 202 yards and a pair of scores, adding 95 yards and a touchdown rushing. The Sun Devils also kept Colorado’s Phillip Lindsay in check for most of the night, holding the nation’s third-leading rusher to 80 yards on 23 carries with two touchdowns.
Steven Montez threw for 345 yards and a touchdown, but the Buffaloes were plagued by multiple dropped passes, including one by Shay Fields that would have been a sure touchdown — he was 15 yards behind the Sun Devils — on a trick play.
Arizona State thought its defensive deficiencies were straightened out with impressive wins over Washington and Utah in consecutive weeks.
The Sun Devils regressed last week against No. 17 Southern Cal, allowing the Trojans to pile up 607 yards through a slew of big plays and missed tackles by ASU.
Now they had to stop Lindsay, the final of the nation’s top 3 rushers to face Arizona State this season.
The Sun Devils didn’t fare so well against the other two, allowing Stanford’s Bryce Love to run for 307 yards and San Diego State’s Rashaad Penny to pick up 216.
They did a good job of preventing Lindsay from breaking off any big runs in the first half, but allowed Montez to hurt them with the passing game to set up Lindsay for scoring runs of 1 and 6 yards .
Colorado took advantage of a coverage mistake late in the third quarter, going up 27-17 when Montez hit Fields in stride for a 54-yard touchdown.
Arizona State scored its first-half touchdowns on passes from Wilkins; 20 yards to N’Keal Harry and 25 yards to Kyle Williams .
Once the Sun Devils turned to their power-running game in the second half, the Buffaloes couldn’t stop them.
Richard scored on a 5-yard run set up by Khalyan Thomas’ blocked punt , then Eno Benjamin went on a 19-yard, multiple tackle-breaking run to put the Sun Devils up 34-30. Wilkins sealed it with a 1-yard run set up by Richard’s 63-yard burst up the middle.
Colorado was unable to spring holes for Lindsay on offense and was overpowered at the line of scrimmage on defense in the second half to make its climb to become bowl eligible a little steeper.
Arizona State limited the big plays on defense and restored its power-running game after being limited by USC last week.
Colorado hosts No. 17 USC next Saturday.
Arizona State plays at UCLA next Saturday.
CFB Preview: Arizona State faced with slowing Colorado’s Lindsay
Colorado outlasts No. 24 Arizona State, 34-31
Lindsay leads Colorado past ASU, 40-16
QB Wilkins throws 2 TDs, leads ASU past Aggies in opener
4 TDs fuel No. 21 Colorado drubbing of Sun Devils, 28-21
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price: $12.6 million
Last week, a contemporary art-filled villa tucked into the hillside overlooking Beverly Hills, Calif., sold for $12.6 million to a buyer from Mainland China. Originally built in 1964, the unprepossessing midcentury modern was radically reimagined in 2013 as a slick, ultra-contemporary architectural. The seller, Mexican heir and art collector Alex Hank, subsequently redecorated the property in an effusively bold, colorful manner.
The $12.6 million number is great deal of money, of course, but records reveal it’s also $300,000 less than what Hank paid for the crisply updated structure about five years ago, back in November 2014. Combined with taxes, fat realtor fees and maintenance costs — not to mention major moolah spent redoing the interiors — it seems likely Hank suffered a seven-figure loss on the premises.
Not that the photographer-turned-painter has to worry about such trifling monetary concerns. Hank is a son of Carlos Hank Rhon, a business tycoon who long revered as one of Mexico’s wealthiest men — Forbes estimates his vast fortune to be worth $2.1 billion. The Hank family presides over a multi-billion-dollar construction and financial empire, though they’re probably equally famous for their occasionally tense relationship with U.S. law enforcement officials, who have previously alleged the clan has deep ties to Mexico’s drug trade and are also involved in money laundering.
All that hasn’t dissuaded the younger Hank from fashioning himself enviable stateside home(s); he apparently divides his time between Manhattan and L.A., where he’s acquired and displays his significant contemporary art collection. And as his former Beverly Hills house attests, he has quite the eye for design.
In contrast to its glitzy interiors, the Trousdale Estate abode is modest to the point of obscurity from the street out front, with just the three-car garage and slab-sided front facade visible behind the driveway gate. A skylit-covered atrium leads past tall grasses to the all-glass front door, which pivots directly into a starkly modern great room with dining area and marble fireplace. The gourmet eat-in kitchen features pricey Calacatta marble countertops and a bevy of high-end appliances, while the adjacent screening room has two plush couches.
All four of the home’s bedrooms are ensuite, with the master featuring a fireplace and walls of Fleetwood sliders opening directly to the outdoors. The backyard, while not especially huge, includes a zero-edge swimming pool with raised spa, an L-shaped patch of grassy lawn, and a wee cabana with a firepit and space for lounging and al fresco dining.
Best of all, the property sports a slice of those quintessentially L.A. jetliner views, which — in this instance — sweep over downtown Beverly Hills and summit at the Century City skyline before journeying to the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island on the distant horizon.
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Duluth School Board members call transparency of superintendent search into question
Board member Nora Sandstad questioned why she and other members did not receive a request for proposal that was sent to a superintendent search consultant.
Written By: Adelle Whitefoot | Sep 10th 2019 - 9pm.
A Duluth School Board committee meeting Tuesday got heated after members questioned the transparency of finding a consultant to handle the search for a new superintendent.
Board member Nora Sandstad said at the human resource committee meeting Tuesday night that on Thursday, she had asked to see the request for proposal (RFP) that was sent out to consulting firms that could possibly be hired to handle the search. As of the end of the committee meeting Tuesday, board members had not seen the RFP that was sent to seven consulting firms around the region.
“I know I want to see the RFP and I'm betting I'm not the only one on this board who wants to see this depth of information because there is a lack of trust here and you can understand why,” Sandstad said.
Sandstad was referencing the 2018 hiring of assistant superintendent Jeff Horton. In that case, some board said they were not informed about what came back on his background check.
"This process is setting up to be one that is done behind the scenes with little bits of information summarized for the School Board," Sandstad said. "That's not how it's going to be."
Sandstad said her email Thursday night was sent to human resource director Tim Sworsky, board chair Rosie Loeffler-Kemp and superintendent Bill Gronseth.
Loeffler-Kemp said she replied to Sandstad Friday morning, saying the superintendent search update was on the human resources committee agenda and that the board would have a chance to review the responses to the RFP when they came back.
Sandstad said she then replied shortly to thank Loeffler-Kemp and ask Sworsky for the RFP to be sent to her. Loeffler-Kemp said she did not respond further because she was getting ready to head out of town for the weekend and believed it would be handled by others.
Sworsky said he was following standard practice when handling RFPs as well as what the district had done in past superintendent searches, which is why it wasn’t sent out to board members before being sent to possible consultants. He suggested Sandstad take her request up with the board chair.
Sandstad said the superintendent search is not a standard process and shouldn’t be treated as such.
“(The RFP) is something that goes into some detail about what we're looking for and what we are looking for should be determined by the board,” Sandstad said. “It shouldn't be determined by the chair and the HR director.”
Board member Alanna Oswald said she was also under the impression the RFP would be sent to the entire School Board to be reviewed before it was sent to possible consultants.
“Following the processes before have gotten us some pretty controversial past superintendents that our community has very recent memories of and I want to avoid any perception of digging in those same pools,” she said. “I would really like to recruit to our fullest abilities in places we may not have looked before because we need a special person to bring us back together.”
Board member Sally Trnka also asked to see the RFP and asked Sworsky to over-communicate in the future about the superintendent search process so it would be more transparent. Sandstad asked that Loeffler-Kemp waive her authority to determine whether information is shared with the entire board, especially related to the superintendent search, so there would be a free flow of information that is public anyway.
“The difficulty on this end is that I can’t be responding to seven different people with seven different requests,” Sworsky said. “It has to get funneled through some aspect.”
Sandstad said she understands the request and finds it reasonable but had some concerns about those requests going through Loeffler-Kemp.
“My concern is that flow is not going to happen, which is why I indicated my preference that we have a different chair on the board,” Sandstad said.
Sandstad had asked Sworsky at the beginning of the conversation if he had been directed not to give her the RFP. Sworsky did not answer the question but Loeffler-Kemp did by saying “no one gave Tim any direction on responding or not responding to this request.”
Sworsky said he would share the RFP with the entire board for them to examine. The deadline for firms to respond to the RFP is Sept. 24. The board is expected to be able to review each RFP in its entirety after the deadline and to discuss the RFPs at the Oct. 8 human resource committee meeting.
At that meeting, the board is expected to narrow the number of consultants and have the finalists come to Duluth to make a presentation to the board. A consultant is expected to be approved by the board for hire thereafter.
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Prevalence and clinical manifestations of macrolide resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in Korean children
Eun Lee, Hyun-Ju Cho, Soo-Jong Hong, Jina Lee, Heungsup Sung, Jinho Yu
Volume 60(5); May
Lee, Cho, Hong, Lee, Sung, and Yu: Prevalence and clinical manifestations of macrolide resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in Korean children
Eun Lee1, Hyun-Ju Cho2, Soo-Jong Hong2, Jina Lee2, Heungsup Sung3, Jinho Yu2
1Department of Pediatrics, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.
2Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Corresponding author: Jinho Yu, MD, PhD. Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea.
Tel: +82-2-3010-3922, Fax: +82-2-473-3725, jyu3922@gmail.com
Co-corresponding author: Heungsup Sung, MD, PhD. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea.
Tel: +82-2-3010-4499, Fax: +82-2-2045-4081, sung@amc.seoul.kr
Received September 08, 2016 Revised December 01, 2016 Accepted December 21, 2016
Macrolide resistance rate of Mycoplasma pneumoniae has rapidly increased in children. Studies on the clinical features between macrolide susceptible-M. pneumoniae (MSMP) and macrolide resistant-M. pneumoniae (MRMP) are lacking. The aim of this study was to identify the macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae in Korean children with M. pneumoniae penupmonia in 2015 and compare manifestations between MSMP and MRMP.
Among 122 children (0–18 years old) diagnosed with M. pneumoniae pneumonia, 95 children with the results of macrolide sensitivity test were included in this study. Clinical manifestations were acquired using retrospective medical records.
The macrolide resistant rate of M. pneumoniae was 87.2% (82 of 94 patients) in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia. One patient showed a mixed type of wild type and A2063G mutation in 23S rRNA of M. pneumoniae. There were no significant differences in clinical, laboratory, and radiologic findings between the MSMP and MRMP groups at the first visit to our hospital. The time interval between initiation of macrolide and defervescence was significantly longer in the MRMP group (4.9±3.3 vs. 2.8±3.1 days, P=0.039).
The macrolide resistant rate of M. pneumoniae is very high in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia in Korea. The clinical manifestations of MRMP are similar to MSMP except for the defervescence period after administration of macrolide. Continuous monitoring of the occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility of MRMP is required to control its spread and establish strategies for treating second-line antibiotic resistant M. pneumoniae infection.
Key words: Child, Macrolide, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Drug resistance
Mycoplasma pneumoniae can cause a variety of respiratory tract diseases, such as upper respiratory infection and atypical pneumonia1). The clinical course of M. pneumoniae infection is diverse and ranges from self-limiting to severe pneumonia with extrapulmonary complications2). Among the diverse clinical presentations, lower respiratory tract infections with pneumonia most commonly require clinical attention.
Macrolide is considered the first-line treatment for M. pneumoniae infection3). Transitional mutations in 23S rRNA of M. pneumoniae were reported in erythromycin-resistant M. pneumoniae in 1995.4) Thereafter, especially since 2000, the prevalence of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae (MRMP) infection has rapidly increased, with variations according to region and study population5). The macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae is much higher in East Asia than in Europe and North America, with up to 87.1% in Japanese children in 20115,6,7,8). In recent M. pneumoniae epidemics in Korea, the macrolide resistance rate has markedly increased from 2.9% in 2003 to 62.9% in 20115).
In cases of MRMP infection, secondary treatment options are limited due to adverse effects of tetracycline or fluoroquinolones, especially in children9). In addition, resistance to second-line therapy is a concern given the rapid increase in MRMP prevalence. Therefore, continuous survey on the prevalence of MRMP and surveillance on the prescription for M. pneumoniae are inevitably needed in the prevailing state of MRMP.
Previous studies comparing the clinical manifestations of macrolide susceptible M. pneumoniae (MSMP) and MRMP showed inconclusive results10,11,12,13). Although a high macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae has been reported, studies on the treatment patterns of MRMP pneumonia in children are lacking. Further investigation is needed to develop appropriate treatment strategies and monitor the emergence of second-line therapy resistant M. pneumoniae.
The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of macrolide resistance in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia in 2015 and compare the clinical features and treatment patterns of MSMP and MRMP in these children.
1. Study population
This study enrolled patients aged between 0–18 years old, who were diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia due to M. pneumoniae who visited our tertiary hospital in Seoul between April 2015 and November 2015. All of the present study patients underwent chest radiography and either blood tests including specific IgM against M. pneumoniae using a LIAISON Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgM kit (DiaSorin, Dublin, Ireland) or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for M. pneumoniae using the AmpliSens Mycoplasma pneumoniae/Chlamydia pneumoniae-FRT PCR kit (InterLabService Ltd., Moscow, Russia) at the initial visit to the hospital.
During the study period, 122 children were diagnosed with M. pneumoniae pneumonia on the basis of either specific IgM positivity in a blood test or positive PCR result combined with chest radiography and physical examination14). Four children received only serologic testing for specific IgM against M. pneumoniae and showed positivity. Eight children underwent only PCR analysis of their sputum for M. pneumoniae and showed a positive result. Ninety-two children showed both specific IgM and PCR positivity for M. pneumoniae. The remaining 18 children were tested for both specific IgM and PCR for M. pneumoniae, but showed a positive result only for PCR. Among the 118 children with positive result by PCR for M. pneumoniae, macrolide resistance tests were performed for 95 children with available samples.
All of the chest radiographs were reviewed by an experienced radiologist. Infiltration on the chest radiography was defined as any poorly defined opacity in the lung field and consolidation was defined as air-space opacification. Information on clinical manifestations and prescribed medicine during the disease course was obtained using a retrospective chart review. Fever was defined as a body temperature above 38℃. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Asan Medical Center (approval number: 2015-1400).
2. PCR for identification of macrolide resistance
During the study period, PCR for M. pneumoniae was performed in children with pneumonia diagnosed on the basis of chest radiography and physical examination. This analysis was done using nasopharyngeal aspirates collected upon visiting to the hospital. For detection of M. pneumoniae, our previously reported procedure was applied15). Evaluations of macrolide resistance were performed in children with a positive PCR result for M. pneumoniae. A total of 95 M. pneumoniae isolates, including one case of a mixed type of MSMP and MRMP, were obtained from sputum samples. Domain V of the 23S rRNA gene was amplified using previously described primer pairs (GenBank accession no. X68422)16). Nested PCR primers and the conditions described by Oh et al.17) were used for the specimens. PCR products were purified using a Power Gel Extraction kit (TaKaRa Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan). The purified templates were sequenced using an ABI Prism BigDye Terminator v3.1 cycle sequencing kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) and analyzed on an ABI 3730xl DNA analyzer (Applied Biosystems).
3. Detection of respiratory virus
Nasopharyngeal swabs were taken by flocked swab and submitted in Universal Transport Medium (Copan Italia S.p.A., Brescia, Italy). Viral RNA was extracted from the swabs with NucliSENS easyMAG (bioMerieux, Marcy I'Etoile, France). cDNA was synthesized using a Revert Aid First Standard cDNA Synthesis kit (Fermentas, York, UK), and each cDNA preparation was subjected to three sets of real-time multiplex PCR with an Anyplex II RV16 Detection kit (Seegene, Seoul, Korea); this kit targets 16 respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial viruses A and B, adenovirus, rhinovirus, parainfluenza viruses 1 to 4, influenza viruses A and B, metapneumovirus, bocavirus, corona viruses OC43, 229E, and NL63, and enterovirus. These 16 viruses cause the most common respiratory infections in Korea according to weekly monitoring by the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention18).
To compare the clinical and radiologic features and treatment regimen between MSMP and MRMP, a t test, Mann-Whitney U test, chi-square test, and Fisher exact test were used, as appropriate. To control for the confounding factors, logistic regression analysis was performed. P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 21.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA).
1. Macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae and its distribution according to age
The macrolide resistant rate of M. pneumoniae was 87.2% (82 of 94) in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia (Table 1). Those with MRMP were significantly younger than those with MSMP (MSMP, 7.6±3.1 years; MRMP, 5.1±2.6 years; P=0.001) in the present study. When stratified according to age, the decreasing pattern of the prevalence of MRMP was observed with a weak trend significance (P=0.052) as follows: 0–4 years, 95.1% (39 of 41); 5–9 years, 81.8% (36 of 44); 10–18 years, 77.8% (7 of 9) (Fig. 1). The macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae was higher in late summer and fall (Fig. 2).
2. Detection of 23S rRNA gene mutations of M. pneumoniae
Among the 95 M. pneumoniae-positive samples, 82 cases were diagnosed with A2063G mutation. No other known mutations, such as A2064, in the 23S rRNA gene of M. pneumoniae were identified in the present study. The other 12 samples carried a wild type of 23S rRNA gene. The remaining one case showed a mix of wild type and A2063G mutation.
3. Comparison of clinical findings between MSMP and MRMP in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia
There were no significant differences in total fever duration and respiratory rate at the initial hospital visit between the MSMP and MRMP groups. The admission rate due to M. pneumoniae pneumonia was 72.6% (69 of 95) in the total population. The hospitalization rate was higher in the MRMP group compared with the MSMP group without statistical significance (75.6% vs. 58.3%; P=0.206) (Table 1). Blood lymphocytes were significantly increased in the MRMP group compared with the MSMP group (P=0.003), although this difference was not significant after controlling for age. Among the children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia, 58.3% showed coinfection with respiratory viruses such as rhinovirus and parainfluenza virus without significant differences between the MSMP (83.3%, 5 of 6) and MRMP (55.6%, 30 of 54) groups.
4. Comparison of radiologic findings between MSMP and MRMP in children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia
Chest radiography indicated that consolidation (MSMP, 10 of 12 vs. MRMP, 46 of 82) and effusion (MSMP, 3 of 12 vs. MRMP, 9 of 82) were commonly involved in M. pneumoniae pneumonia regardless of macrolide resistance (Table 2). There were no statistical differences in the prevalence of consolidation or effusion between the MSMP and MRMP groups.
5. Comparison in the treatment and clinical outcome of M. pneumoniae pneumonia according to macrolide sensitivity
The total duration of antibiotic administration, including non-macrolide antibiotics (beta-lactam and cephalosporin) and macrolide, was slightly longer in the MRMP group than in the MSMP group, without statistical significance. The total number of administered antibiotics was higher in the MRMP group than in the MSMP group (P=0.046) (Table 3). The most commonly prescribed initial antibiotic was macrolide in both the MSMP (80.0%) and MRMP (68.4%) groups, without significant significance. Tetracycline or fluoroquinolone were administered due to unresponsiveness to macrolide in both the MSMP (25.0%, 3 of 12) and MRMP (29.3%, 24 of 82) groups. Changes of antibiotics to other antibiotics among macrolides (azithromycin, clarithromycin, or roxithromycin) were more common in the MRMP group compared with the MSMP group without statistical significance (41.8% vs. 18.2%). The time intervals between the initiation of macrolide and defervescence were significantly longer in the MRMP group compared with the MSMP group (4.9±3.3 vs. 2.8±3.1 days, P=0.039). There was no significant difference in the period between onset of fever and start of macrolide administration (MSMP, 6.6±7.0 days; MRMP, 4.1±3.2 days; P=0.254). Fever was subsided after 1.7 days from the start of administration of tetracycline or fluoroquinolone. There were no side effects of the treatment with tetracycline or fluoroquinolone. None of the variables listed in Table 3 were confounded by age. All patients hospitalized due to M. pneumoniae pneumonia were discharged in a defervescent state with partial or total improvement in chest radiography compared with administration. There was no significant difference in the hospitalization duration between the MSMP (mean±standard deviation, 7.7±5.6 days) and MRMP (6.3±3.4 days) groups. There were also no cases in our current series who needed ventilator care or transfer to an intensive care unit due to the pneumonia.
6. Mixed wild type and A2063G mutant case
A mix of wild type and A2363G mutant M. pneumoniae 23S rRNA was detected in a 4-year-old girl, who had presented with fever and cough 4 days earlier. She was prescribed with a 3-day regimen of clarithromycin before sputum sample collection for sequencing of the 23S rRNA gene.
In our current study, we have identified a macrolide resistance rate of 87.2% in children diagnosed with M. pneumoniae in 2015. All cases of this macrolide-resistant strain showed an A2063G point mutation in the 23S rRNA gene. MRMP was detected in younger children with a higher prevalence. There were no significant differences in the clinical, laboratory, and radiologic findings between MSMP and MRMP groups. Administration of macrolide led to more rapid defervescence in the MSMP group compared with the MRMP group.
The prevalence of MRMP observed in our present study was higher than that reported for 2000 to 2011 in Korea. This prevalence increased over time and exceeded a peak of 62.9% in 20115), and was similar to that reported in Japanese children in 2011 (87.1%)8) and Chinese children in 2008–2009 (90.0%)13). However, the prevalence of MRMP in Europe has been reported to be less than 26%19,20). Recent studies on the prevalence of MRMP infection are lacking, and our present analysis is significant because it reports on the recent macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae with increasing pattern in Korean children.
We found no significant differences in clinical manifestations or laboratory findings between the MRMP and MSMP groups. Even in the MSMP group, complications of M. pneumoniae infection, such as hepatitis, high C-reactive protein levels, long-term fever, and consolidation and effusion in chest radiography, were similar to those in the MRMP group. In addition, no differences in the clinical manifestations between the 2 groups were found to be associated with the administration of tetracycline or fluoroquinolone before identification of macrolide sensitivity, even in the MSMP group. Previous studies on the comparisons of clinical manifestations between MSMP and MRMP groups also reported no significant differences12,21). However, the mean duration from the start of macrolide treatment to defervescence was longer in the MRMP group compared with the MSMP group in our present study, which is similar to the results of the previous study11). The relatively long-term period of fever in M. pneumoniae infection might be partially attributable to the immune reaction in associated with M. pneumoniae infection regardless of the macrolide resistance22). Large-scale studies on the clinical course of these infections are needed in the future to compare clinical manifestation between MSMP and MRMP infection.
In previous studies, the most common macrolide resistance mutation (up to 97.5%) was the A2063G mutation in the 23s rRNA5,21), which we also observed in our present study. Macrolide inhibits protein synthesis by binding to domain V of 23S RNA at nucleotide positions 2063 and 206421). Mutations at these sites enable protein synthesis that promotes M. pneumoniae survival. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of macrolides differs according to the specific point mutation7,8,21). A2063G and A2064G confer the most resistance to macrolides and also produce resistance to 14-ring macrolides, such as clarithromycin (MIC, 8 to >128) and roxithromycin (MIC, 0.008 to 128), and 15-ring macrolides such as azithromycin (MIC, 1 to 64)5,7,23). Compared to clarithromycin, azithromycin and roxithromycin have lower MIC levels and are preferred as an initial treatment option for M. pneumoniae infection with unidentified macrolide resistance. As widespread macrolide usage is associated with the occurrence of MRMP, continuous monitoring of the MICs for each macrolide and secondary line therapy against M. pneumoniae infection are needed to identify the advent of M. pneumoniae stains that are resistant to other antibiotics and establish treatment strategies for MRMP infection.
We identified one case with mixed A2063G and wild type 23S rRNA. Although most macrolide resistance is detected at the start of the disease course7), a conversion from MSMP to MRMP is also possible during clarithromycin treatment24). Possible underlying mechanisms of mixed type of macrolide resistance in M. pneumoniae include selected outgrowth of MRMP resulting from administration of clarithromycin. The aforementioned case might support the outgrowth of MRMP during M. pneumoniae treatment with macrolide.
In our present study series, 30.2% of the children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia were initially prescribed nonmacrolide antibiotics. Although M. pneumoniae is known to cause pneumonia in older children14), it can also cause lower respiratory tract infections including pneumonia in children as young as 6 months old25). Therefore, M. pneumoniae can be considered as a pathogen for respiratory infections, even in young children, and especially during an epidemic of M. pneumoniae.
Our present study is significant because it has compared the manifestations of MRMP and MSMP in children in a high macrolide resistance period for M. pneumoniae. However, it also had several limitations of note. All of the patients analyzed visited our tertiary hospital, and this population may therefore have included some very severe M. pneumoniae cases. However, we found no significant differences between the clinical, radiologic, and laboratory findings for the MSMP and MRMP groups analyzed. Our sample size was relatively small, and the study duration was relatively short. Therefore, our analysis lacked an evaluation of the full spectrum of M. pneumoniae pneumonia in relation to macrolide resistance. Also, there was a significant difference in age distribution between the 2 groups, which caused a selection bias. However, the prevalence of consolidation and effusion on chest radiography, which might suggest more severe pneumonia, was similar between our 2 study groups even after adjustment for age (data not shown). For the diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection, serological assays and PCR using sputum samples are widely used. However, these tests have limitations in that false responses can be obtained depending on sample collection time and remote infection in serology tests and colonization in airways in PCR.
In conclusion, there was a high macrolide resistance rate of M. pneumoniae (87.2%) in Korean children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia in 2015. MRMP pneumonia occurred across all ages, including infants. Although there were no significant differences in the clinical, laboratory and radiologic findings between the MSMP and MRMP groups, MRMP is associated with persistence of fever during its clinical course. Further large-scale, nationwide studies are required to control the spread of MRMP and establish strategies for treatment of MRMP infection.
This study was supported by the BioNano Health-Guard Research Center funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP) of Korea as a Global Frontier Project (grant number: H-GUARD_ERND2-5).
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Rate of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children according to age. P for trend=0.052.
Monthly distribution of the occurrence of MSMP and MRMP pneumonia in Korean children in 2015. MSMP, macrolide susceptible-Mycoplasma pneumoniae; MRMP, macrolide resistant-M. pneumoniae.
Clinical characteristics of study participants with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia according to macrolide susceptibility
MSMP (n=12)
MRMP (n=82)
Total group (n=94)
Age (yr) 7.6±3.1 5.1±2.6 5.4±2.8 0.001*
Male sex 3/12 (25.0) 34/82 (41.5) 37/94 (39.4) 0.353
Admission rate 7/12 (58.3) 62/82 (75.6) 69/94 (73.4) 0.206
Total fever duration (day) 8.0±6.0 8.2±3.2 8.2±3.6 0.884
Respiratory rate at the time of visit (/min) 25.7±4.4 (20–34) 27.4±6.0 (20–52) 27.2±5.9 (20–52) 0.486
Heart rate at the time of visit (/min) 118.9±13.8 122.9±16.4 122. 5±16.1 0.508
Positive IgM against M. pneumoniae 8/9 (88.9) 64/77 (83.1) 72/86 (83.7) 0.207
Whole blood cells (cells/mm3) 7,500±2,670 8,926±4,801 8,717±4,575 0.319
Platelet count (/mm3) 248.5±59.2 308.3±106.1 300.9±103.1 0.072
Neutrophil (%) 69.1±7.7 61.0±13.3 62.0±13.0 0.054
Lymphocytes (%) 21.1±6.0 28.6±11.9 27.7±11.6 0.003*
Eosinophil (%) 1.5±2.2 2.1±2.1 2.0±2.1 0.456
CRP (mg/dL) 5.9±7.3 (0.4–21.2) 4.8±5.0 (0.1–26.5) 4.9±5.3 (0.1–26.5) 0.539
AST (IU/L) 648.7±2,153.5 (23–7,487) 82.3±420.5 (17–3,746) 159.6±878.7 (17–7,487) 0.380
ALT (IU/L) 720.6±2354.0 (6–7,818) 59.2±379.1 (6–3,362) 140.9±896.3 (6–7,818) 0.374
Coinfection with virus 5/6 (83.3) 30/54 (55.6) 35/60 (58.3) 0.190
Values are presented as a mean±standard deviation (SD), number (%), mean±SD (range),
MRMP, macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae; MSMP, macrolide-susceptible Mycoplasma pneumoniae; CRP, C-reactive protein; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase.
*P<0.05.
Comparison of radiologic features between children infected with MSMP and MRMP
Total (n=94)
Infiltration 12 (100) 82 (100) 94 (100) NA
Consolidation 10 (83.3) 46 (56.1) 56 (59.6) 0.073
Effusion 3 (25.0) 9 (11.0) 12 (12.8) 0.174
Values are presented as number (%).
MSMP, macrolide-susceptible Mycoplasma pneumoniae; MRMP, macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae; NA, not applicable.
Comparison of treatment patterns and response to macrolides in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia according to macrolide sensitivity
Total duration of antibiotics (day) 12.7±6.4 13.5±5.2 13.4±5.3 0.632
Total number of antibiotics used (day) 1.6±0.7 2.1±0.8 2.00±0.8 0.046*
Initially prescribed antibiotics 0.671
Nonmacrolide 2/10 (20.0) 24/76 (31.6) 26/86 (30.2)
Azithromycin 6/10 (60.0) 23/76 (30.3) 29/86 (33.7)
Clarithromycin 2/10 (20.0) 24/76 (31.6) 26/86 (30.2)
Roxithromycin 0/10 (0) 5/76 (6.5) 5/86 (5.8)
Number of changes in antibiotics from macrolide to tetracycline or fluoroquinolone 3/12 (25.0) 24/82 (29.3) 27/94 (28.7) 0.833
Antibiotics changes within the macrolide 2/11 (18.2) 33/79 (41.8) 35/90 (38.9) 0.133
Time to defervescence after initiation of the first macrolide (day) 2.8±3.1 (0–9) 4.9±3.3 (0–15) 4.7±3.3 0.039*
Nonmacrolide antibiotics included β-lactam and cephalosporin.
MRMP, macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae; MSMP, macrolide-susceptible Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
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सोमबार, माघ ६ २०७६
काठमाडौं १८:५१
वासिङटन डिसी 08:06
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बन्दितासँग
Obituary – Mr. Manuj Kumar Shah
इनेप्लिज २०७६ असोज १४ गते १:२९ मा प्रकाशित
Dear Community Member Friends and Families, Jwajalapa – Namaste!
Recently, our Nepalese community was shocked by the untimely demise of Mr. Manuj Kumar Shah at the young age of 43, a son of prominent community member Dr. Shukhdev Shah. Dr. Shah was overwhelmed by the show of support from our community at this heart wrenching moment and prepared an obituary. NPPA is privileged to bring it to you
My son Manu died on September 9
Sukhdev Shah[1]
My son Manu—Manuj Kumar Shah—is dead at age 43.
Manu was born on December 31, 1975, in Alexandria, Virginia, and died on September 9, 2019, just a couple of miles away from the place of his birth.
Manu was American by birth but he loved Nepal, in an immense and immeasurable manner, and that love of his parents’ land grew overtime for reasons I didn’t ask and Manu never bragged about it. I was pleased of him growing up in this way carrying Nepalese pride and values and, of course, I felt good about it.
Manu first visited Nepal with family when he was just 5, in 1980, and at that very young age, he could see and wonder at the magnitude of diversity between America and Nepal, in the way people looked and facilities they had access to. After a brief time in Janakpur, I took Manu to my village some 10 miles to the East, and the first thing he noticed was the appearance of the people. He held my waist and shyly asked me: Dad, why people looked like naked? It was winter time in December but few people wore special clothing to protect themselves from cold and some of them had no clothing at all except for bare covering.
From Janakpur, I took Manu by train to Jaynagar about 20 miles away across the border in India. While returning from Jaynagar, train stopped for about an hour at Khajuri Station where I let him roam around the platform. Manu looked the same as local kids but a bit different, especially the language his spoke which attracted attention of kids he started playing hide-and-seek. Soon, there were a hundred kids joined to play with him and all of them giggling at Manu, mainly attracted by his manners and strange language he spoke. When the time came for the train to depart, hundreds of children lined up along the train route shouting Manu, Manu, Manu—a scene that was heavenly to behold which, almost 40 years later, has stayed on my mind.
While in Janakpur, a British friend Mr. John A. Tillman had come to Nepal on a World Bank mission whom I had informed that we will be in Janakpur and if he wanted to see real Nepal, he should travel there and spend some time. John came to the village and stayed overnight. For sleeping overnight, we had nothing better to offer him other than a straw padding which he didn’t mind. Next morning he travelled through the village and went out to see the farms where paddy harvesting was in season. After looking around the village, we were ready to leave for Janakpur when John spoke these words to me: “I wouldn’t have advised you to bring such a young child to Nepal, much less to Janakpur and to the village.” I appreciated John’s sentiments but it didn’t look right for me to hide the reality from my children as regards to my roots.
The next time we visited Nepal was in the summer of 1987 when Manu was 12 years old. We spent a week in Janakpur and then traveling to my village and observing plowing in muddy fields and planting of paddy. It was hot and humid most of the days but Manu didn’t mind the discomfort. Back in Janakpur, we had a comfortable hotel room but no air-conditioning. This was also a mosquito season of which a bunch of them were visible everywhere, even during the day time. Manu rarely complained of the hardships he encountered but made a remark which I found unusual coming out from such a young kid: How did you get out of this place?”
Arriving at the airport In Kathmandu, we took taxi to the Himalayan Club Hotel in Nagarkot situated on the top of a hill and, after 3 hours of leaving Janakpur, we ended up at a very different place that puzzled Manu. Temperature was about 60 degrees; mild wind racing with black clouds overhead; and no dust or insects filling the environment as in Janakpur. Manu stood close to me and asked hesitantly: Dad, is this also Nepal? It was Nepal’s diverse landscape and people that charmed Manu, because he knew my village and Janakpur both were in Nepal.
While Manu was attending primary school in Alexandria, one thought came to me of getting his early education in Nepal to get him to acquire more of Nepalese culture and learn its history for which I was advised to send him to Darjeeling that had better schools and British-type quality education. I got Manu admitted to St. Paul School in Darjeeling in the summer of 1986 but after a year of his stay in Darjeeling, I decided to bring him back to America for the safety concern because of agitation then for GorkhaLand. I also feared Manuj’s health because of the local food being served that Manu could hardly eat.
Back in Alexandria, Manu finished Middle School and then moved to New Jersey for High School where he performed remarkably well. He scored 1,480 on his SAT Exam, out of a possible score of 1,600 that made him qualified to pursue his college education at almost any of top universities in America. He applied at 3 of the premier universities—Harvard, MIT, Chicago—from which he chose Chicago that offered him very best scholarship. Manu studied at Chicago for 6 years from1993 until 1998, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, specializing in Economics and Finance. While studying in Chicago, he travelled to Mongolia where I was working at IMF resident representative. As Manu had done in Nepal, he quickly formed a group who took him around Mongolia, including to the birthplace of Chenghis Kahn. He felt that in Mongolia he had discovered a piece of ancient civilization that didn’t exist anywhere else.
After Chicago, he was eager to enter professional life and earn lots of money. His degrees from Chicago qualified him to go for work at any of the finance firm or take up work in some related fields. He chose to work at JP Morgan Bank in New York but, some years later, he switched to Options’ Group, an executive recruitment firm in New York.
After some years in New York, Manu somehow got initiated into seeking his fortunes overseas where his Chicago education and American identity would be more appreciated than in New York. He chose to take a job in Dubai with a private equity firm where he would share profits and growth in equity in the company he would be working for. His actual remuneration wasn’t as large as he expected but the owners assured him that after some years on the job he would reap in the growth of the firm. However, it turned that he was not accumulating any shares or equity and his basic earnings remained low for a number of years. At last, after some 8 years of work in Dubai, he came to know that the promised venture had been a scam and that he had made no money beyond the meager savings he had left in his bank account.
Manu returned to New Jersey in late 2014 and explored the opportunities in New York. In the meanwhile, his mother’s health had rapidly deteriorated from asthma that proved to be incurable and she died of it some months later, in January 2015. The incident threw Manu off-balance and he stopped looking for work or planning his next move. Some months later he heard of Nepal earthquake and the devastation it had caused and suddenly he decided to travel to Nepal to participate in relief work which he did, arriving in Kathmandu some months later to join the relief teams working in the affected areas. He stayed in Nepal for about a year, helping in the relief work carried out by Red Cross; OXFAM, and International Crisis Group.
After a year of work in Nepal, he returned to New York in the summer of 2016 but still he hadn’t been able to turn his mind away from the loss of his mother and he sought relief from resort to alcohol and sleeping pills that, at times, knocked him out for hours and till next day. The heavy drinking habit along with anti-depressants he used finally took his life after he consumed them in overdoses.
It appears that Manu would have done more during his lifetime and I told him many times that he should get to work with the State Department where his Chicago degrees and life experiences would shine and he can vie for Ambassador’s job to Nepal. But Manu cut short his life too much early to earn such glories.
Besides his grieving parents, Manu leaves behind two siblings, Minu and Rishi, and numerous relatives and friends, here in America and all around the world.
[1] Mr. Shah worked as Senior Economist at IMF in Washington DC…
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English to Hindi Meaning :: secretariat
English to Hindi Meaning : noun : सचिवालय, सेक्रेटेरियट
सचिवालय
Secretariat - सचिवालय Secretariats :: सचिवालयों
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Noun(1) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations(2) thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1973
(1) They marched to the state government secretariat chanting slogans condemning the administration's attitude to the dispute.(2) The al-Sadr movement has a representative in the general secretariat .(3) His successor at the peace secretariat is expected to be appointed after Sri Lanka's presidential election on Nov.17.(4) Uzbekistan joined in June 2001, when the body was restructured with a permanent secretariat headquartered in Beijing.(5) I also pay tribute to the select committee secretariat for their work.(6) This group would have its own budget, secretariat , council of ministers, and parliamentary assembly.(7) Plantlife International hosts the secretariat for Planta Europa, the network of organisations working for plant conservation across Europe.(8) The spokesman said the bureau had made arrangements to provide secretariat and administrative support to the panel.(9) The group's secretariat is usually provided by an outside body, either an NGO or a consultancy.(10) Mitterrand quickly favoured Jospin and by 1973 had already brought him into the national secretariat of the party.(11) He is a member of the national secretariat , the five-member board of the party's leadership.(12) Santa's national secretariat is embroiled in several disputes with other Santa hospitals throughout the country.(13) Significantly, neither the government information ministry nor the presidential secretariat has responded to criticisms of the raid.(14) The Parliament is helped by a large secretariat of approximately 3,500 staff, headed by a Secretary-General.(15) Now the general secretariat can only take action on the initiative of the prime minister.(16) The Council formed a permanent secretariat in Brussels to assist its work.
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Manchester is an entertaining place. We mean that literally, not figuratively. It is a city that makes a point of offering a number of explosive entertainment options, which is why it is now an established destination for travelers looking for fun.
The heart of entertainment in Manchester is musical. Along with the university and football, music is Manchester’s calling card. It is hard to walk down any of the major streets without encountering numerous pubs and clubs that regularly host live musical performances.
Manchester has produced more than its fair share of musical stars and countless other bands honed their skills on the city’s club circuit. Today, you can visit Manchester to see big-name touring acts, new bands in the ascendancy and local talent that may develop into the “next big thing.”
The musical genres on display are as varied as the venues in which they are played. From pop to jazz to blues to R&B to the latest in rock and roll, entertainment in Manchester is decidedly musical in nature.
That is true whether you are inches away from a bass drum in one of the smaller clubs or if you are enjoying well-known hit tunes from a major touring act in one of the larger venues. Manchester is a musical epicenter and even the most discerning critic will find plenty to love.
You cannot live on music alone, though. Luckily, entertainment in Manchester is a full-featured affair. The city offers a slew of great restaurants, embracing food of all types and ethnicities. If you need a quick takeaway fish and chips feast, you have countless options. If you want traditional British fare, you have scores of restaurants at your disposal. You can check out an Argentine steakhouse, a Cuban joint hidden atop a pub or some of the best Lebanese food outside of Lebanon. It does not matter what you like. Manchester has it.
Once you have refueled, you can check out other elements of entertainment in Manchester. There is the hyperkinetic gay club scene along Canal Street. There are countless pubs featuring homemade brews and great company. There are “shake it all night long” dance clubs that rival anything you will find in the largest of cities. Manchester knows how to party!
Entertainment in Manchester includes some of the best live music in the world, great restaurants, outstanding pubs, and a great club scene. If you are looking for a city that knows how to have a good time, Manchester definitely measures up. It may not be the first place one thinks of when looking for a place with a high-energy nightlife, but it certainly should be. There is never a shortage of ways for one to enjoy himself or herself in Manchester!
Enjoying Manchester is as simple as choosing from the many Manchester Hotels on offer. Most of the nightlife is in the city center so a good choice may be a Manchester city center hotel.
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Over the years, paper dolls have provided much more than countless hours of pleasure for children and adults alike. For centuries children have been making paper dolls by hand; commercial or mass production began in Europe in the early 1800s. Although intended as play things, every aspect of the paper doll provides insight into history, culture and life of the day; from costuming to historical events and political and economical trends. These little playthings are truly a representative slice of history.
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12" Die-cut German Doll with 5 Real Fabric Outfits for Boys & Girls. ..c1900
A 12" lithograph boy doll with a five (5) handmade fabric costumes for both boys and girls. With somewhat androgynous facial features he wears the costumes for both boys and girls well. The costumes are well executed with detailed trims, ruffles, cuffs, pleats, etc. Fabrics include silk, velvet, satin and cotton. Each costume has attached die-cut printed litho arms and hands. Costumes are attached to card stock and backed with paper for placement over the dolls head. Also, includes a die-cut umbrella, handbag with braided handle and die-cut hat; all presumably from different paper doll sets. .
17" Handmade Articulated Movable Watercolor Jaunty Gent Pantin. ..[c1870s]
A 17" jointed movable paper doll of what appears to be a Tyrolian gentleman. Penned on his cummerbund is "Andenken (Souvenir)". Jointed at shoulders and knees. String tie mechanisms lifts arms and legs..
3 Hand Made Paper Dolls w 15 Costumes, A Dog & 2 Cats c1910s. ..
What appear to be three sisters from the 1910s with their two cats and a dog. Well executed design on the paper dolls and costumes. The 13 costumes with 8 hats for the older sisters are interchangeable while the younger sister has two costumes. The costumes in are drawn with fine details. The hats and dresses reflect the fashions of the day. The taller dolls are 7 3/4"..
48 complete sets of Lion Coffee "Nursery Rhyme", "Occupations" and "Doll House". Lion Coffee, Woolson Spice Co..Toledo OH.c1992
This series of picture story cut-outs or paper dolls each have 4 pieces that when constructed create a scene from a "Nursery Rhyme", depict the activities of an "Occupation" or a room in a "Doll House", all with children in adult situations. Each series has 16 scenes. The pieces are between 2 1/2" and 6" in height and most scenes are no larger than approximately 6" x 6". The sets include: Nursery Rhymes - Old King Cole, No.1, Old Mother Hubbard No. 2, Mother Goose No. 3, Little Red Riding Hood No 4, Little Boy Blue No.5, Little Bo-Peep No. 6, Jack and Jill No. 7, Woman Who Lived in a Shoe No. 8, Humpty Dumpty No. 9, Rub-A-Dub Dub No. 10, Little Jack Horner No. 11, Mary Had a Little Lamb No.12, Simple Simon No. 13, Ding-Dong Bell No. 14, The Queen of Hearts No. 15, Sing a Song of Sixpence No. 16 Occupations - The Miller No. 1, The Barber No. 2, The Gardner No. 3, The Carpenter No. 4, The Tailor No. 5, The Mason No. 6, The Shoemaker No.7, The Photographer No. 8, The Butcher No. 9, The Blacksmith No. 10, The Cooper No. 11, The Baker No. 12, The Printer No. 13, The Bicycle Maker No. 14, The Milliner No. 15, The Grocer No. 16 Doll House - The Bedroom No. 1, The Lawn No. 2, The Nursery No.3, The Bath Room No 4, The Library No. 5, The Park No. 6, The Dining Room No. 7, The Furnace Room No. 8, The Garden No. 9, The Lake No. 10, The Butlers Pantry No. 11, The Hall No. 12, The Laundry No. 13, The Kitchen No. 14, The Stable No. 15, The Music Room No. 16.. The name Lion Coffee and a set number appears on the front of each piece, while on the reverse side there is an advertisement, and title for all three series. Set numbers are also printed on the reverse side of the "Nursery Rhyme Dolls" and "Occupations" series. The "Doll House" Series advertisements states that a set was given free in each package of Lion Coffee.
5 Naive 20" Folk Art Paper Dolls - Buster Brown, Robert, Bertha, Nan & Lenora . .Nebraska.1910s
Five (5) crayon drawn and decorated paper dolls created from 'make-do' materials-- the back of pressed board advertising signed. The first is 21 1/2" older girl in a blue dress with large white colors. Her face is drawn as profile with an exaggerated nose and chin. Her hair is curled in tendrils. Created in two pieces. Her feet and legs are applied and watercolor decorated. The second is a 19 3/4" younger fuller girl done in crayon. This doll is actually dressed with a silk bow in her hair, an islet lace neck choker and a handmade chiffon dress, banded at top with the same ribbon as used on her hair. Here gray and orange boots are crayon. The remaining three each measures about 18 1/2". A boy and girl in sailor influenced attire. The third is a Buster Brown look-alike, wearing the familiar red suit with black neck bow and big round eyes. This dolls appear to be created by the same individual. .
8" Handmade Watercolor Male Paper Doll named Drake Shelbourne with 11 Costumes & 3 Hats - Contemporary and Historical Attire c1940s
A 7 3/4" tall watercolor paper doll. A tidy gent with broad-set eyes. His 11 costumes appear to be both contemporary to the 1940s while others are vintage. Four are labeled on reverse - lounge suit, yacht suit, full dress suit and tennis suit. Three fine hats accompany the outfits. .
A 6 3/4" Handmade Watercolor Paper Doll w 9 Costumes & 5 Hats. ..c1910s
A 6 3/4" young woman paper doll with day dresses,party dresses and a night gown, The five (5) outfits with hats are a mixture of day and evening wear. One of the outfits is a coat with a ruffled base. Two dresses with intact tears that have been reinforced with archival tape. Three tabs lacking; otherwise fine. Reverse is blank..
A collection of 16 different Trade Catalogues of Children's Books et al. 1940-1960s. Samuel Lowe Company.Kenosha, Wis. .
A collection of 16 different trade catalogues for books and games published by Samuel Lowe Company(9 from the 1940s, 5 from the 1950s and 2 from the 1960s). Includes painting and coloring books, games, toy books, general books, toy books and games, fall and Christmas books, Bonnie books, Sturdi-Bilt books, Doll books, Linen-Like books, Lolly Pop Easter stories, doll books, wheel toy books and more. The last catalogue May of 1962 is a folio with product line sheets including such items as sticker fun pack, clean slates, animated cartoon profiles, cloth books, paper doll books and much more. The cover includes a lenticular eye where for the "O" in the word Lowe. With the exception of the last folio with approximately 40 sheets most are approximately 14 pp . Each measures 11" x 8 1/2". .
Advertisement for Chandler's Paper Dolls, or the Latest Paris Fashions. Brown Taggard & Chase.Boston.
A 6" x 4 1/2" single-sided advertisement captioned "hurrah for the Little Folks!" Chandler's Paper Dolls, of the Latest Paris Fashions. The is followed by the list of seven paper dolls produced in 1857. Published by Brown, Taggard & Chase, Nos. 25 & 29 Cornhill, Boston. And for Sale by Booksellers generally. Reverse is blank. .
Be a Li'l Miss Designer Dressmaking Kit No. 898. Neptune Plastics, Inc..Brooklyn.c1960
An unused large format book titled Be a Li'l Miss Designer - With this revolutionary new Colorful Self-Sticking Plastic Dressmaking Kit - No Glue No Sewing No Mess! Manufactured by Neptune Plastics, Inc. Brooklyn 16, NY.No. 898. Includes 4 different colors, 6 different styles (patterns), one 13" Model Doll that stands by itself, 4 storage bags for parts and many additional suggestions. "Unlimited Hours of Fun for Girls of Every Age" When opened the inside cover depict images of the various models and instructions. Affixed with plastic spirals at center is a plastic wrapped card that includes the doll, the patterns and the material including ruffled trim pieces. The back cover further promotes the product Instructions on reverse read "Choose your outfit -- cut out paper pattern - cut plastic to shape of pattern -- cut ruffles to size. Dress model with self-sticking clothes and ruffles. Dolls include Miss Holland, Miss Hawaii, Miss Western and Miss America. Measures 13 1/4" x 10 1/2". .
Betty Field Paper Dolls. Saalfield Publishing Company.Akron, OH.1943
Betty Fields was a famous stage and film actress, best know for her role in the film "Of Mice and Men". There is text beside every outfit, either describing the outfit itself or how it should be worn. For example, "An exotic pattern in silk" and "Wear under skirt belt" Punch out dolls on front and back cover. Authorized Edition. No. 2462. Book Size: 12 1/2" x 10 3/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 11 3/4" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Betty Grable Paper Dolls, A "Look-Thru" Book. Merrill Publishing Company.Chicago, IL.1953
Betty Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, and singer. She is perhaps most know for her roles in "Mother Wore Tights" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" , as well as a pin-up poster of her in a bathing suit which became the number one selling pin-up girl of World War II. The cover of the paper doll book is die cut, showing Grable 'pulling back the curtain' to reveal her paper doll. The paper doll book features several fashionable outfits, but does also include several costumes, such as a cowgirl outfit an a Swedish maid. No. 255255 Book Size: 14" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 12" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, Cut-Out Book. Whitman Publishing.Racine, WI.1942
Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour were famous for appearing in a series of seven films know as the "Road to." Two punch out dolls on the back cover. There are male and female outfits for each activity, such as date night and golfing. There is also a military outfit for Bob Hope's doll, and a female dress and outfit with military stylized elements for Dorothy Lamour. Authorized Edition. No. 976 Book Size: 13" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 11 1/2" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Boxed Set - Little Friends. Socolu, (S* C) No. 407.Germany.c1930s
An 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" litho on pressed board box titled "Little Friends" with acute accents instead of dots on the "i"s. Cover illustration depicts children at play, with one child particularly protective of her doll as others look on. Includes three (3) of four (4) unused 6" paper dolls with costumes and accessories. All are die-cut with original connective ladders in place. The Dolls are A, C, and D. Each costume and accessory is coded on the tab to indicate which accessories go with with costume. .
Bride and Groom, 6 Dolls and Clothes. Merrill Publisher Company.Chicago, IL.1949
There are six dolls in this book, a complete wedding party: groom, bride, maid of honor, best man, ring bearer and flower girl. Outfits include formal outfits for each of the wedding party. The flower girl's dress is mislabeled as a maid of honor dress. In addition to the wedding party's outfits there are more outfits for the bride and groom as well as a page of various outfits for the flower girl and ring bearer. Dolls are punch out, three on each cover. 1555-15 Book Size: 12 1/4" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 6 Doll Size:10 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Bride and Groom, Wedding and Trousseau Clothes. Western Publishing Company.Racine.1963
A bride and groom paper dolls, with their wedding and honeymoon attire. This honeymoon attire includes formal wear for fancy dinners and shows, more causal wear or sight seeing, and swim wear for the beach. No. 1818-F Book Size: 11" x 8 1/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size:8 3/4" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Cinderella, Jack and Jill Story Favorite Paper Dolls. Merrill Publishing Company.Chicago, IL.1952-1957
A variety of classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes are represented in this paper doll book. On each outfit page there are tiny illustrations that depict the fairy tale the outfits are from. The tales within the book are: Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, and Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill. Interior pages and dolls are the same as "Johnny, Janey, and Judy in Storybook Land, no. 1544:15", with one except. There are two less interior pages in this book. Punch out dolls, one on the front cover, two on the back. No. 1547 Book Size: 12 1/4" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 3 Doll Size: 10 1/2" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Cut McLoughlin Hattie, 4 Original Costumes and 4 Handmade Costumes with Envelope. McLoughlin Bros..New York.1868
A two-sided 4 " paper doll named Hattie. Four (4) two-sided costumes the reverse is blank Also includes the original An 5 1/4" x 2 3/4" folder with directions within. Hats are lacking. The reverse promotes McLoughlin Bros. Paper Dolls--Book Form priced from $3.75 - $18.00 per gross. priced at 50cents each. Part of Series No. 2. Additionally, a little cutout of a girl holding doll found with the other items. .
Cut McLoughlin Little Fred, Complete with Envelope. McLoughlin Bros..New York.1850s
A 3 1/2" effeminate paper doll named Little Fred. Includes five 2-sided costumes; reverse is blank. Also includes the original 5 3/8" x 2 1/2" folder with directions within. The reverse promotes McLoughlin Bros Amusing and Instructive Games for Children, priced at 38 or 50 cents. Neck repair. Part of series No. I..
Diahann Carroll as "Julia" Paper Dolls (Authorized Edition). Twentieth Century-Fox Films Corp...1969
An uncut paper doll book based on the tv series with 31 punch-out costumes. Costumes for Julia and Corey and Marie and Earl. Depicting the most stylish clothes for the 1960s. Four punch-out dolls; front and back covers. Measures 12 1/2" x 10". The Julia series is notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968, to March 23, 1971.
Dolly - Box Insert - J. & P. Coats Mending Floss. J. & P. Coats.New York, NY.c1910
A 3 7/8" x 1 5/8" uncut paper doll sheet inserted at the base of the box for mending floss. It is captioned CUT ME OUT - I Want to be Your Dolly. Reverse includes a poem and instructions to send 4 cents in stamps for 24 Hot Iron Patterns to embroider dolly's dress. Also includes litho on paper covered pressed board mending floss box including lid.. Dolly Says Please, oh! please make me a dress Or I must stay in bed, Be sure and sew it carefully With J. P. COATS Thread
Elizabeth Taylor, Cut-Out Dolls. Whitman Publishing Company.Racine, WI.1957
Elizabeth Taylor was a famous British-American actress and humanitarian. She is perhaps best known for her roles in "A Place in the Sun", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Suddenly, Last Summer", "Butterfield 8", "Cleopatra", "Giant", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Taylor is also particular known for her HIV/AIDS activism. Each page of outfits come with brief description: "For the Gala Opening", "On the Avenue", "Cruise Clothes", "Lazy Days", "Big Town Jogs", and "Busy Time & Sleepy Time". Authorized Edition. No. 2057 Book Size: 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 9 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Fairyland Sprites to Paint, Crayon and Cut-out. No 1202 - ABCs, Counting and Paper Dolls. 1930
Unnumbered pages. Illustrated paper covers. The first section of the book provides coloring instructions on the left page and pages to color on the right. Some pages are text explaining h which colors are to be uses; other are colored images mirroring the black and white images on the opposite page. This section depicts whimsical fairy and anthropomorphic animal paper dolls costumes and accessories. The second section is counting down animals from 10 to 1. The final section is an ABC of animals at the zoo. Each with relevant caption. Some pages in full color others in black and white to color. Measures 7 3/4" x 10 1/2". 0 OCLC No online copies. 4/25/16.Like new condition.
Fiesta Paper Dolls, No. 1773. Saalfield Artcraft..1940s
Two male dolls, and four female dolls. All the outfits are considered traditional outfits from Central and South America. Each outfit is identified by the country the style comes from. The countries represented are: Cuba, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. There are three cut our dolls on both the front and back cover. Note: Some, but not all, of the costume pages are the same as other paper doll books published by Saalfield in the Good Neighbors category. No. 1773 Book Size: 12 1/2" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 6 Doll Size: 10" No. of Costume Pages: 4 .
Fiesta Paper Dolls. Saalfield, ArtCraft, No. 1723.USA.c1960
A 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" book with six (6) paper dolls to cut out from the the covers. Each is dressed in Hispanic influenced attire. Includes four (4) pages of festive traditional costumes to cut for the dolls. Each garment is labeled with the country of origin. The countries include Uruguay, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentina, Dutch Guiana, Paraguay, Ecuador, Columbia, panama, Mexico, Peru, Chili and Bolivia, .
Fine Watercolor of Regency Era Woman with 14 Ethnic, Regional or Occupational Overlays of Women. ..1820s
A finely executed watercolor of a Regency era women with 14 intricately detailed watercolor overlays. Each character is identified by the artist at the upper left. They include Tyrolise A Peasant of Lucerne Consimiere de Bernes Bas Breton A Dutch Peasant A Chinese Lady Joan of Arc A Dutch Peasant A Lady After Vandyke A Circassian Lady A Russian Lady A Billingsgate Fisherwoman Bernoise Blanchisseuse de Paris Housed in a loose-leaf folder..
Gale Storm. Whitman Publishing.Racine, WI.1959
The actress Gale Storm was best known for her television roles in the sitcoms "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show". These paper doll book features outfits for "The Gale Storm Show", which centered around a cruise director, Susanna Pomeroy (Storm), as she traveled the world. As such there are several international fashion outfits in this book, such as a kimono. Two punch dolls, one on each cover. No. 2089 Book Size: 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 9 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Gay and Gail, Glamorous Clothes Paper Dolls. Merrill Publishing Company.Chicago.1953
Two female paper dolls named Gay and Gail, with a variety of outfits from casual wear to formal wear. There is one punch out paper doll on both the front and back covers. No. 1557. Book Size: 12 1/4" x 10 1/4". Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 11 1/2" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Glamour Models, Paper Dolls No. 177. Stephens Publishing Co.Sandusky, OH.
This book has four cut-out dolls, (two on both the front and back covers), and their names are: Sherry, Cynthia, Marilyn, and Pamela. Each doll is given one page of outfits, all of which are traditionally feminine. Pamela even has a bridal gown and veil. No. 177 Book Size: 12" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 4 Doll Size: 8 3/4 No. of Costume Pages: 4 .
Glamour Parade, Paper Dolls No. 184. Stephens Publishing Co.Sandusky, OH.
This book has four cut-out dolls, (two on both the front and back covers), and their names are: Adrienne, Barbara, Cynthia, and Deborah. Each doll is given one page of outfits, all of which are traditionally feminine. The clothes in this book appear to have a more sketch-like appearance. Some of the outfits are also 'career' outfits, like Deborah's nurse outfit. No. 184 Book Size: 12" x 10 1/2" Number of Dolls: 4 Doll Size: 8 3/4 No. of Costume Pages: 4 .
Good Neighbors Paper Dolls, No.324. Saalfield Publishing Company.Akron, OH.1944
The front cover of this book shows Mariachi band playing and looking up to some windows where three woman can be seen. All the outfits are considered traditional outfits from Central and South America. Each outfit is identified by the country the style comes from. The countries represented are: Cuba, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Paraguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. There are four female and two male dolls. All cut out dolls, three each on the inside front cover and the back cover. No. 324 Note: This is the same book as "Good Neighbors Paper Dolls, No. 2487" just without the die-cut front cover and the fact that these are cut-out not punch out dolls. All interior pages and dolls are the same. Book Size: 13" x 11" Number of Dolls: 6 Doll Size: 10 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Good Neighbors Paper Dolls. Saalfield Publishing Company.Akron, OH.1944
The front cover of this book shows Mariachi band playing and looking up to some windows where three woman can be seen. The cover is die cut with three square openings for windows and the roof line of the house. All the outfits are considered traditional outfits from Central and South America. Each outfit is identified by the country the style comes from. The countries represented are: Cuba, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Paraguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. There are four female and two male dolls. All punch out, three each on the inside front cover and the back cover. No. 2487 Note: Some of the costume pages are the same as other paper doll books published by Saalfield in the Good Neighbors category. Additionally, this is the same book as "Good Neighbors Paper Dolls, No. 324" however that book lacks the die-cut front cover and its dolls are cut-out not punch out dolls. All interior pages and dolls are the same. Book Size: 12 3/4" x 11" Number of Dolls: 6 Doll Size: 10 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Hallmark Dolls, 1990, A Collection of Ten (10) Remakes of Historical Dolls. Hallmark..1990
A collection of 10 Hallmark cards made to be paper dolls. Each doll represents a toy doll from a different era, from wood dolls, to baby dolls, to rag dolls to porcelain dolls to paper dolls. Each doll opens up as a card would. Along with the dolls came a folded sheet that has a short description of each doll in the collection, the doll's name, when the real doll might have been made, and the artist name who recreated the doll. It is unclear if each doll card in the collection was supposed to have one of theses sheets, but if so, there are three (3) out of ten still left. There are six out of ten envelopes in this collection. Card Size: 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" Number of Dolls: 10 Doll Size: 6 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 1 .
Hollywood Dollies - Series 1. Hollywood Dollies, Inc..New York NY.1925
A series of life-like miniatures of famous motion picture stars in original costumes worn in pictures.This is the First Series, including eight (8) different paper doll stars, each with three (3) actual movie costumes with accessories. They include Colleen Moore, Rudolph Valentino, Tom Mix, Mae West, Norma Talmadge, Douglas Mac Lean, Norma Shearer and Reginald Denny. Elaborate costumes as seen in the early movies. The reverse is blank. Each measures 10 1/4" x 14 1/4". Scarce. .
J & P Coats - 10 Dolls with Hats - 5 Dolls & Costumes + 3 Hats and Envelope. J. & P. Coats.New York, NY.c1895
Includes 5 die-cut paper dolls, 3 with matching costumes and hats. Two additional costumes from the set of 10. Advertising on reverse of all. Original envelope presented by the merchant; marked Series No. 3. Each holds and object. Although designed as individual sets the costumes are interchangeable. Each measures 5 1/4".. J.& P. Coats' Spool & Crochet Cottons offered two different sets of five paper dolls in color lithography. These dolls were meant as a child's plaything, but more importantly as an advertisement for the company's thread. The merchant gave the customer a doll set which the company provided free of charge to purchasers of their thread. The set shows the doll holding an object, and the same object but is pictured differently. America's Early Advertising Paper Dolls. Lagretta Mtzger Bajorek, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen PA 1999
Jane and Jill's New Frocks and Frills. The Regensteiner Corp.Chicago, IL.1925
A paper doll set containing two large dolls and outfits. The outfits of this doll are unique as the dresses' color serves as a hook to attach the clothing to the doll. This method of attaching dresses to dolls was patented by the Regensteiner Company. The dolls are meant to be cut out of the envelope, there is one on the front and one on the back. Costume pages are uncut. Envelope Size: 15 1/2" x 8 1/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 12" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Jane Powell, Cut-Out Dolls. Whitman Publishing.Racine, WI.1951
Jane Powell is an American actress, known for her ability to sing and dance. She became famous for her parts in various MGM musicals, such as "A Date with Judy", "Royal Wedding", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Hit the Deck". Several of the outfit pages have themes, such as 'Premiere Night', 'From the Studio' and 'Winter, Fall, Spring, Summer'. The latter has outfits one might wear while engaging a variety of sports, such as skiing, swimming and playing tennis. Two punch out dolls on the back cover. Authorized Edition. No. 1185-15 Book Size: 14" x 11" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 9 1/4" No. of Costume Pages: 6 .
Johnny, Janey, and Judy in Storybook Land. Merrill Publishing Company.Chicago, IL.1952
A variety of classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes are represented in this paper doll book. On each outfit page there are tiny illustrations that depict the fairy tale the outfits are from. The tales within the book are: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill, Little Boy Blue, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, and Hansel and Gretel. The dolls have a child-like appearance. Punch out dolls, one on the front cover, two on the back. No. 1544:15 Book Size: 12 3/4" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 3 Doll Size: 10 1/2" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Junior Miss Paper Dolls. Saalfield Pub. Co..Akron, OH.1942
15 5/8" x 10 3/4" uncut paper doll book with four (4) 12" adolescent girls - Judy, Betty, Molly and Patsy. Six (6) pages of costumes including play clothes, prom wear, school outfits, shoes with anklets, school books with a book strap and of course hats to match each of the outfits -- everything a Junior Miss would wish for. .
Just for You - Jean and Johnnie's Country Holiday, A Story Cut-out Book c1950s w Gender Neutral Paper Doll. 1950s
Printed in the Netherlands. Large format soft cover paper doll and story book with 12 pp story printed in black and white with relevant line drawings. Also includes 4 full color pages of paper doll clothes for a boy and a girl to cut out. A single somewhat gender neutral 10 �"� paper doll on back cover to be cut-out. Measures 12 �" x 10 �"
Kellogg's "Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat". Kellogg Company.Battle Creek, Mich.1932
This little booklet from Kellogg features the pages cut in three pieces to allow for the flipping of only certain sections which results in the revealing and changing of the scene. There are several little verses that are rewritten or based on familiar stories, which have been changed to include the purchasing or consuming of Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal. There are a few illustration that feature the cereal box along with one of the stories. Measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". .
Lady Betty, Paper Doll Set. Selchow & Righter.New York.[1900]
This set features a young girl with three outfits. Each dress comes with a corresponding hat. It is unknown if this set is complete or not. Die cut doll and outfits. The set comes housed in an envelope that on the front depicts the doll in one of her outfits. According to the book "20th Century Paper Dolls Identification & Values" by Mary Young, this is a complete set. Additionally according to the book, the numbering on the tabs of the outfits (2-1, 2-2. 2-3) means that this is an earlier printing on of the set. Envelope Size: 12 1/2" x 6" Number of Dolls: 1 Doll Size: 12" No. of Costume Pages: 3 outfits, 3 hats .
Mary Martin Dolls and Costumes. Saalfield Publishing.Akron, OH.1942
Mary Martin is perhaps most famous for her role as Peter Pan in the televised stage production of Peter Pan. Outfits include a wide variety of styles, from the more modern to historical. The dolls need to be cut out from the front cover. Authorized Edition. No. 287 Book Size: 12 1/2" x 10 3/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 8 1/2" No. of Costume Pages: 6.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Advertising Booklet and Paper Doll. J. B. Carroll Co .Chicago.c1900
Two pieces of advertising materials for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. The first item is a 16 pp (including covers) booklet advertising Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, as well as other products sold by the manufacturer, including Mother Gray's Aromatic Leaf (a medicinal tea for digestive health) and Allen's Foot Ease (a powder to help with achy feet). The Sweet Powders was supposedly an all-natural remedy developed by a nurse, known as Mother Gray, who worked at the Children’s Home in New York City. While the powders were originally meant to treat pinworms, they were also soon used to treat a variety of other ailments, such as headaches, fever, and constipation. While it is unknown if there is any truth to who Mother Gray was, the product itself was distributed and marketed by Allen S. Olmstead who owned a proprietary medicine company. The powders weren’t exactly made from ‘all-natural’ ingredients, the main ingredient was actually calomel (mercurous chloride), which could be toxic if used regularly, causing mercury poisoning. Other ingredients were licorice, slippery elm, anise, sulfur, bicarbonate of soda, sugar (hence the word sweet in the name) and mandrake (also poisonous). The second item is a paper doll of Mother Gray, who supposedly was a nurse, specializing in children's health. The "walking" paper doll has feet on the bottom that rotate as you push it across a table. The pocket of the dress has an insert so that you can have something sticking out of the pocket. The back states that the doll was made by J. B. Carroll Co. Measures 5 3/4" x3" (booklet), 6" x 2 1/2" (paper doll) . Minor toning due to age.
Naive Pennsylvania Paper Cuts - 2 Woman, a Horse and Cart with Rolling Wheels.
c1900. Includes two approximately 5" mirror image cutwork (folded in half and cut so left and right sides are identical), a free hand horse with vertical slices in the tail to give the appearance of hair and a folded paper cart constructed of a base, harness and wheels all held in place with straw. Naive pencil decoration on the two woman.
Pat Boone, a Paper Doll Folio. Whitman Publishing Company.Racine, WI.1959
Pat Boone is an American singer and actor. He was a successful pop singer in the 1950s and 1960s. He starred on his own variety show, "The Pat Boone Show" (also known as The Pat Boone Chery Showroom) from 1957-1960. Both dolls included in this folio are of Pat Boone himself. Included in the outfits for Boone are a variety of accessories, including two cooking aprons. Two punch out dolls with stands. Authorized Edition. No. 1968 Folio Size: 12" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 9" No. of Costume Pages: 8 folding pages .
Real Life in Dolly Land, for Cutting Out and Dressing. Stanton and Van Vliet Company.Chicago, IL.1913
A unique paper doll book that allows the child to color in the dolls and their costumes. The book provides first a page of a doll with its outfits in full color, while on the opposite page is a duplicate of the same doll and outfits, but just as black and white outlines. This way the child can color in the dolls and outfits by either copying the colors and styles or making their own coloring choices. There are fourteen original dolls in the book, but twenty-eight (28) in total with the duplicates. The dolls are: Mother, Nurse, Baby, Bride, Groom, Beth, Marjorie, Betty, Teddy, Tom, and four unnamed dolls. The four unnamed dolls are surround by furniture either for the playroom or the kitchen. Two of these dolls are stand alone dolls, the other two are playing on toys (a wagon and rocking horse). The cover of the book features an illustration the majority of the dolls walking in the park. The interior pages are bound by staples, so it is easy to rip out the costume pages. The book is complete except for five (5) of the printed costume pages have been torn out and the majority of the dolls and outfits on those pages have been cut out. With the exception of 4 missing outfits belonging to the dolls Teddy and Tommy, and a few small furniture/accessory items from the kitchen, all the dolls and outfits are included. All of the coloring costume pages have been colored in. See pictures. All in all a near complete set. Book Size: 15 1/2" x 10" Number of Dolls: 28 (14 individual dolls) Doll Size: 8" No. of Costume Pages: 14 leaves (5 pages have been cut out), and 16 total leaves if title and instructional page included.
Rhonda Fleming Paper Doll and Coloring Book, Authorized Edition. Saalfield Pub. Co. .Akron, OH.1954
Paper doll book with an illustration of Rhonda Fleming in portrait view, surrounded by brightly colored decorative elements. Two dolls printed on back cover as punch outs, 11" tall. 4 pages of costumes, all uncut, with a decorative border mimicking the pattern on the cover. 48 coloring pages, unused, with captions on the bottom of each coloring page to create a narrative of Rhonda Fleming's life: describing a normal day for a famous actress, presenting her as an ideal for women and young girls to strive for. 14" x 10 3/4"..
Set of 6 Diamond Dye Paper Dolls w 6 Dresses. J. Ottmann Lith. Co..New York, NY.c1895
A complete set of 6 die-cut easel-backed paper dolls, each holding an object plus 6 die-cut dresses also holding an object. The costumes are interchangeable among the dolls. The base of each dress indicates which dye color was supposedly used to dye that particular dress. Each with a different advertising promotion both front and back of the dolls and costumes. Each measures 5 1/4". The set was mailed free for two two-cent postage stamps. .
Shakespeare's 7 Ages of Man Advertising Paper Dolls - Kirkman's Borax Soap. Kirkman's Borax Soap.Brooklyn, Buffalo.c1890s
Includes a 4 1/4" self-standing die-cut paper doll of an infant. Captioned 1st Age - The Seven Ages, Shakespeare' The reverse reads "First Age- THE INFANT. Baby's clothes its little stockings -- its cunning little undershirts -- its sweet snowy dress -- should all be washed with Kirkman's Borax Soap. Don't use cheap and nasty soaps in washing the dear child's things". Shakespeare's verse reads AAt firt the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. The remainder of this advertising set includes six (6) different costumes and hats. They include The School Boy The Lover The Soldier The Judge An Old Man The Ancient Each captioned with age appropriate information re the Borax soap. .
The "Naughty Lady" & 3 of her Costumes.c1840s
A 7" two-sided litho on light card. The doll is adorned in knee-high hosiery and a necklace. The doll is anatomically correct, both front and back. Also includes two-sided wedding or communion gown, a ballet costume and a day dress, holding a hand fan.
The Bob Cummings Fashion Models, Statuette Dolls and Clothes. Samuel Lowe Company..1958
Bob Cummings was an American film and television actor known mainly for his comedic roles in such films as "The Devil and Mis Jones" and "Princess O'Rourke". He was also known for some dramatic roles, particularly in several Alfred Hitchcock films, such as "Saboteur" and "Dial M for Murder". The paper doll book was made for one of his television roles, "The Bob Cummings Show" which was a sitcom that ran from 1955-1959, and featured Cummings as a former WWII pilot that had become a professional photographer. The character was a ladies man, and the show was known for its very risqué humor. This item is a paper doll folio containing 2 dolls and 6 fold pages of outfits and accessories. One doll is Bob Cummings. The other is an unknown model. All the outfits are for the unknown model, there are no male outfits, however the doll itself is dressed. No. 2732 Folio Size: 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 9" No. of Costume Pages: 6 folded pages .
The Dolly Dressmaker, B.B. Ltd. No. 509 Printed in England. C1950s â“ An unusual twist on a paper doll book- Patterns, Swatches and Trim.
Large format soft cover book with a single page of patterns for Mary, Kitty, Billy and Sally with six (6) pages of paper âœfabric swatchesâ� and one page of trims (buttons and bows). The four paper dolls are on the covers. The largest is 9 1/2"�� high. The book measures 12 1/2" x 10 1/2.
The First Seven Year of Penny; A Doll Book. Abbott Pub. Co..Kenosha, WI.n.d c.1950.
Eight (8) punch-out paper dolls—one for the ‘baby’ and one each for ages 1-7 years. 4 pp. of age relevant pages and accessories. Minimal cover wear. .
The Munsingwear Family Cut-outs. Munsingwear.Minneapolis, MN.c1917
An uncut 7 fold concertina style flyer with color photographic images of people depicted in their underwear as paper dolls ,each adult with one costume, the children have two each. The costumes closely reflect traditional gender roles --the boys play baseball and "Indians" and the girls play with dolls and frilly fans. The narrative on the reverse promotes the product and all of their best selling points with relevant caricature illustrations and the exterior of their factory with the caption" Munsingwear Stands for Perfection in Underwear. Measures 6" x 3 1/4" when folded. 25 1/2" long when open flat.. Tag line: The children will enjoy playing with these pretty paper dolls. Men Women and Children of all ages enjoy wearing Munsing Wear - Let it cover you with satisfaction.
The Partridge Family - A Paper Doll Book. Columbia Pictures Industries, Artcraft..1971
Authorized Edition. 6pp. Cover image of the popular television singing family as segments on an LP record with a die-cut opening to the first page depicting their touring bus. Seven punch out dolls first and last pages. 4 pages of punch-out costumes with that special 1970s entertainment flair. Striped and plaid bell bottoms and ruffled skirts and blouses. Note both editions have the same costume designs.. The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Authorized Edition. 6pp. Cover image of the popular television singing family with a die-cut opening to the first page depicting their touring bus. Six punch out dolls first and last pages. The back cover has a large punch-out of a seated David Cassidy. 4 pages of punch-out costumes with that special 1970s entertainment flair. Striped and plaid bell bottoms and ruffled skirts and blouses. Note both editions have the same costume designs.. The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Patriotic Dressing Dolls. Farm and Home.Springfield, MA & Chicago, IL.c1917
Two uncut paper dolls, John (No. 600) and Gladys (No. 717). Each doll comes with five uncut outfits. During World War I, these dolls were given out as rewards by American Colortype for selling subscriptions a magazine called "Farm and Home", a national monthly magazine about rural life. The outfits themselves depict various military and patriotic themes. The outfits in this collection are Boy Scout No. 823, Soldier No. 847, Our Jackie No. 900, Colonial Drummer No. 901, Our Sammy No. 902, Miss Liberty No. 903, Red Cross Nurse No. 904, Miss Patriot No. 906, Glory on Parade No. 907, and Miss Knitting No. 908. Collection comes with original envelope, that features a black and white engraving of three children - a girl in a nurse outfit and two boys as soldiers. Measures 6 1/4" x 2 1/4" (doll), 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" (envelope)..
Two Near Identical Handmade Watercolor Paper Dolls - One made in 1856, the other 1905. ..
A 6 1/2" handmade paper dolls with fine brown ringlets dressed in pantaloons and a slip (pencil drawn) and brown watercolor shoes. Her top fold costumes are pink and rose dress with a white pinafore. One with faint polka-dots; the other plain - each with different ruffle at base of pinafore. Accompanied by a Rose trimmed bonnet with a pink ribbon. A second near identical doll presumably was created in 1906, as a note on the reverse reads "50 years old 1906"..
Two-sided Psyche - Costume de Mme Penco with 9 costumes and 5 hats - One costume Holds Psyche Paper Doll. .Journal de Modes - Literature, Arts, Theatre, Musique.1860s
A heavy stock two-sided die-cut paper doll. It is a Psyche doll and identified as the Costume de Mme Penco from Fiorina. Theatre Italien. The nine (9) two-sided costumes are mostly holding an object in one hand. One holds a Psyche paper doll. Other objects include a riding crop, a hand fan, a hanky, a nosegay, a basket of flowers, an umbrella and another hanky. . Mademoiselle Penco was a French singer and actress House in a box with applied cutout photocopy of Psyche in a costume on the cover...
Un-Cut Paper Doll Book - At Our House; Mothers & Daughters, Saalfield 1960s. ..
The front cover depicts a little girl playing on a porch in front of a door with a die-cut window, exposing her mother on the next page. The last two pages have an additional mother and daughter--could be two sets of twins. There names are Dawn, Celia, Amy and Bonnie. Punch-out dolls and costumes to cut. Measures 12 1/2" x 8 1/2". 6 Costume pages..
Un-Cut Paper Doll Book - Trudy in her Teens, Merrill 1943. ..
A young teenager in her frilly bedroom with a punch-out paper doll and dog. Sweet 1940s outfits including hair ribbons, cardigan's with pearls, knee-highs and jackets with padded shoulder. Die-cut front cover. Measures 11" x 6 3/8" 4 costume pages..
Un-Cut Paper Doll Book Eve Arden, Authorized Edition. Saalfield No. 158510..1953
Smart costumes for the statuesque actress for various roles she played.12 5/8" x 10 3/4". Number of Dolls:2. Doll Size: 11 1/2"<. No of Costume Pages: 4.
Un-Cut Paper Doll Book Skating Stars, Whitman 1954 - 3 Dolls. ..
Skating Stars in three different poses. All of their costumes are designed for the ice, including a hula skirts, a sailor suit, princess, rag-a-muffin and much more. Measures 12" xc 10". 6 Costume pages..
Uncut Indian & Cowboy Cutouts. The Platt & Munk Co., Inc...[1950s]
A 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" pressed board box with applied litho with images of "Indians and Cowboys" in traditional attire on the box top and side aprons. Includes 8 uncut sheets with 60 pieces of Native American in traditional attire presented in what appears to be historically accurate images (vs. stereotypical). It also includes 7 uncut sheets with 45 pieces of "cowboys", again presented in what appears to be historically accurate images. Printed on one side only.
Uncut Joan & John Paper Dolls Promote Talon Zippers. Dritz-Traum Co., Inc. .New York, NY.1938
A two-fold sheet that depicts 7" John and Joan with their easel back stains on one sheet clothing and accessories for the twins on the other three. The title is captioned "Tell your mother you could dress and undress yourself if she sewed in dainty flexible 'TALON' Slide Fasteners in all your clothes". The commonality amongst all of the garments is that they all have zippers, presumably Talon Slide Fasteners. Each item is identified as to wearer and purpose. The reverse is blank. Measures 20 3/4" x 16".
Winkie Wiggle Dress-Ups - Eyes Wink, Ears Wiggle w 4 Costumes to Cut out and Fit. ..1922
A 13 1/2" die-cut rabbit paper doll with a die-cut eye hole and grommeted ears- allowing both the eye and the ears to move. Easel back. Includes four (4) uncut costumes.-- US military, golfer, hunter and tennis player. Housed in a pressed board box with blue and white checked litho. No maker identified. .
12 Embossed Victorian Scraps - British Royals
A group of 12 early Victorian embossed die-cut scraps depicting English royalty through the ages. Each measure approx. 2 ½ x 6””, depicting a full body image of the ruler. Three include a second small scrap that includes name, information on life span, reign and significant events during the reign. Condition: excellent. Some light edge wear at base.
13” Embossed Die-cut Victorian Scrap of Young Boy in Sailor Suit with Fishing Net, Probably Tuck
A 13 1/4" embossed die-cut Victorian scrap depicting a young boy in sailor suit and red cap with fishing net. Holds a small tin in his hand. Not marked but most likely Raphael Tuck & Sons. Condition: very light neck bend and light edge wear along left leg. Overall fine.
2 2-Sided Articulated Dollies Up to Date with 8 Front and Back Costumes. Misch & Co..London.[1910]
Two (2) 12" card stock articulated or jointed paper dolls that move at the neck, shoulder, hip and knee. The limbs and head are attached to the body form with unique circular inserts. The costume bodices slip beneath the arm joints and the sleeves slip over the arms. This was originally part of a boxed set with two sets of dolls and a car. Designed in England, printed in Germany. . Photocopy of poem found in original box titled Up-to-Date Domes.
2 Bright Eyed Girl Paper Dolls w 6 Costumes & Accessories - Alberta & Albertas. ..[1920s]
Two (2) approximately 7" hand made paper pen and ink and watercolor paper dolls. Depict bright eyed school aged girls who have that 1920s look with short skirts and big hats. Six (6) interchangeable costumes including four (4) dresses and two (2) coats. The dresses hod objects including a book, a doll and bottle and a football. Each with a hat or two. The coats do not have hats but each holds a muff, plus one handbag. Made on card stock. .
2 finely executed paper dolls with 2 costumes and 2 hats done after 1850s Brave Boy and Little Girl . All Two-sided.. ..c1940s
A 7 3/4" male and slightly shorter female two-sided paper dolls. They are drawn in the style of the Brave Boy and the Little Girl He in dashing finery with a sword and feathered hat, she in her outing attire with her dog at her side. Both with creative license, but well executed in the style of. .
2 Large Format Paper Dolls & Costumes Dearie Dolls 1915
Toddler boy and girl approx. 18 1/2" tall heavy card stock paper doll, each with two (2) costumes and two (2) hats. Believe they are Dearie Dolls, published by M.T. Shehan in 1915 or perhaps Tippy Toes or Curly Locks produced by Charles E. Graham -- all were the same dolls, produced by one of two publishers. They are similar to "Woolworth" paper dolls in size and style. Condition: neck and knee bends; generalized light/moderate wear. Soiling on reverse.
2 Sisters - Naive Handmade Paper Dolls. ..[1950s]
Two (2) pen and ink and watercolor paper dolls depicting sisters. The older sister is 5" with 9 costumes for school and play. The younger sister is 3 1/4" with 6 costumes. Each includes night ware. Well drawn and colored in an array of 1950s fashions. .
3 S.H. & M. Bias Velveteen Skirt Bindings Head and Shoulders Advertising Paper Dolls. Sackette & Wilhelms Litho Co..NY.c1895
Three (3) different die-cut advertising head and shoulders paper dolls compliments of S.H. & M. Skirt binding tape. Each depicts an elegant lady of means, dressed for various social events. Perhaps designed as an aspiration the for average child. The reverse of the dress promotes the various bindings available for sale. Printed on the reverse of the front of the dress is information on obtaining the three figures shown by sending five 2 cent stamps to the S.H. & M. Co. NYC. Each measures 8 1/2"..
3 Uncut Series No. 0100 - 3 Young Girls with costumes. McLoughlin Bros..New York NY.1911-1913
Three (3) different 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" uncut sheet with a 6" paper doll with 5 costumes and 3-5 hats or wigs for each. Each costume is holding an object and includes a school outfit, party dress, night shirt, a coat and additional type of garment specific to the individual. The hats are two-sided for placement on the dolls head. Matching letters provide instructions for easel assembly. Instructions upper right. .
3 Uncut Series No. 0104 - Mother and 2 children and costumes. McLoughlin Bros..New York NY.1911-1913
Three (3) different 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" uncut sheet of paper doll with costumes and hats for each. Sheet A is a 2 1/2" infant with 7 outfits a carriage, bath tub and many accessories. Sheet B is a 5" little girl with 5 costumes and two-sided hats and numerous toys relevant to the costumes. A charming approx. 5 year old redhead. Set C is 6 1/2" mother with a wedding gown and 4 elegant costumes, 2 tiaras and a hat..
3” Grandmother Handmade Paper Doll with 2 Costumes c1860s
A rather unusual hand made paper doll. The 3" paper doll is a cutout from a magazine and depicts a rear profile of an older woman. Her two hand made costumes, each have applied shawls and aprons. Costumes constructed of polished and coated paper. Appear to be from the 1860s. Condition: horizontal crease on paper doll waist level. Nice addition to any collection of early paper dolls or as a doll in a miniature doll house.
4 Bizarre appearing Infant Toddler Embossed Die-cut Victorian Scraps
Four (4) different 6" embossed die-cut Victorian scraps of infants or young toddlers. Each with a different flowing gown. Three of the four hold objects. One is in a high chair with the tails of the gown tucked under the legs of the chair. What makes these items particularly unusual is the maturity of their faces and the deep set eyes. REverse is blank.
4 Handmade Watercolor Paper Dolls with a Dolly and Profusion of Costumes, created by Mary Hale Cutler, 1894.
Four (4) approximately 4" paper dolls neatly and compulsively created by Mary Hale Cutler who writes in the handwritten note on the envelope in which they were found "The dresses for all the family. Hat, Dresses, Coats". Dated 1894. Note the wax on the chest of the one doll--this was used to affix the costumes without having to use tabs. Last but not least, not the 1" dolly presumably shared by the girls..
4 Handmade Watercolor Paper Dolls with a Dolly and Profusion of Costumes, created by Mary Hale Cutler, 1894.. ..
5 Fine Snow Angel Scraps - White Winter Wear Toys & Holly
Five (5) different 6 1/2" x 3 1/4" embossed die-cut Victorian scraps. All are snow angels in white fur trimmed coats and hats, with white leggings or boots, standing in the snow. Each with a different object or group of objects. Two with toys and presents, one with a French horn, one with a basket of holly and the final holding a book of carols with a single lit candle. Condition: overall excellent. The last described angel, is missing a small portion of the base; otherwise fine.
5" Handmade Paper Doll with 10 Costumes c1870s. ..
A 5" watercolor paper doll with hand cutaway to properly position it on costumes. The costumes are constructed with plain, polished and 'make-do' paper. Intricate detailing with applied lace paper, pleated paper, handcut 'fringe' and last but not least applied fur.
7” Dressed Victorian Scrap Paper Doll Sailor Girl with Pond Boat - Lace Paper Ruffles & Red Tissue Paper Sash c1890s
A 7” handmade paper doll constructed of an embossed die-cut Victorian scrap bodice of a young girl holding a pond boat. Note the anchor on her sleeve. A heavy card stock body form and legs with red and black watercolor stockings and boots. She is dressed in a tissue paper skirt with lace paper trim. All pulled together with a large red tissue paper sash with with fringe tassel. Applied easel back to allow doll to stand. Condition: excellent.
7” Watercolor paper doll w 15 handmade costumes. C1900. ..
Lovely well executed young women paper doll dressed in a slip, black stockings and a hair bow. Costumes with a wide array of design elements and style. Includes one tissue paper dress – the remainder are watercolor. Includes all of the fashion of the day including a middy dress with bloomers, sailor dress, pleated and flounced dress with bead decoration, dress with geometric design and pleats, one with a pinafore, lace color and ruffled base and many others. .
9" Black Americana Embossed Jointed Scrap Paper Doll Toddler
A 9" embossed die-cut jointed or articulated paper doll. The pretty face child has ebony skin-tone and is adorned with a shell necklace and black shoes white anklets. (Littauer & Boysen, Berlin Germany - founded 1887, Sold in 1920.) Comprised of five embossed die-cut pieces and body form. Pieces held in place with brass brads. Excellent condition.
9” Late Victorian Newspaper Paper Doll with 9 Elaborate Handmade Costumes c1903
A 9” newspaper paper doll with nine (9) two piece handmade paper costumes. Many are interchangeable. Late Victorian period transitioning to Edwardian fashion. Each costume has it’s own charm, many with applied layers of paper ruffles polished paper trim, applied or cut wallpaper and more. Condition: the doll has some wear and is lacking a hand.
A booklet collection of 25 Cut Paper Characters with Numerous hand made costumes. .France.c1860
Housed in an 8 1/2" x 6 3/4" plain blue booklet that when opened reveals a collection of 25 cut-out paper characters from fashion plates. Each of the characters has been affixed to a page and captioned with the name of an individual and their age. The child who created the book then created hand made costumes for each of the characters. They are meticulously constructed with applied or hand drawn details. - one doll or character Mathilde Louise Baumgarten, 13 years old has 6 costumes. Many are constructed from printed papers while others are watercolor or pen and ink. A charming selection of dolls and costumes..
A Large Family of 19 Handmade Watercolor Paper Dolls c1890s
This rather large late Victorian family includes a mother and father and 11 girls and 6 boys. Note that each of the boys is wearing a hat of some form. The older girls are also wearing hat and the younger boys are in short pants.. The dolls range in size from 5 3/4” high to 1 1/2” high. The dolls have simple yet expressive faces. Various emotions portrayed -- just like a real family A charming group of folk art paper dolls. Few small imperfections with minimal detraction.
A Loving Gift of Two (2) Handmade c1860s Paper Dolls with Numerous Decorated Paper Costumes Presented as a Valentine to a Young Child
A 6 ½” pencil drawn adolescent girl paper doll with 19 handmade costumes and 15 pinafores. Note the cut bow closure at back and a 3 ½” infant with 11 layettes, 4 dresses and 2 mantles. Many constructed of decorated paper. They were given with a hand constructed pop-up valentine note for Myra H. Gould of Vermont, presumably the receiver of the paper dolls. The dolls were most likely made by the giver at an earlier time in her life. Dolls appear to be c1860s-70s and note from the 1880s..
A. W. Macy Women's World Magazine, Promotional Booklet - Horoscopes - An exposition of Occult Laws of Stars and Planets Affecting the Lives and Destinies of Men and Women. Cruver Manufacturing Co..Chicago.1913
28 pp. booklet. Illustrated wraps. The cover depicts an astronomer gazing at the heavens. Designed with advertisments printed on the left and the introduction and horoscopes by sign printed on the right hand page. The horoscope pages are in color and present an overview for those born under the sign. The advertisements are for premiums available from the magazine with the purchase of a subscription. Measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
A.W. Scribner Our Annual Sketch Book: Souvenir of the Exhibition . Heliotype Printing Company.Boston.1889
The sketchbook combines advertisement and a year end exhibition to show the work of the students from a free evening drawing school. 10 pages with paper wrappers. The inside front and back covers have the names that correspond with the works of art that were being presented, as well as the graduating class. Each page has several, highly decorative and elaborate advertisement works from various local businesses in or around North Adams, Massachusetts. 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" .
Advertising Paper Doll for The New Home Sewing Machine Co.. Forbes Co. .Orange MA.c1895
A front and back paper doll created by Forbes Co. consisting of multiple parts to be joined to create the object. The 81/2" x 5" card Compliments of The New Home Sewing Machine Co has a main figure of a sewing machine that folds at top for insertion of head and shoulder component of one of two women - a young lady or an older woman--your preference. It is accompanied by a 9 1/2" x 3 1/2" card is to be cut and constructed to create a back drop for the sewing woman. It is an image of a house and is captioned "Our New Home". Reverse of both cards blank..
Advertising Premium - 3 S&C Die-cut Paper Dolls with Die-cut Clothes - Unused - Promoting Sorosis Shoes Hunters. S & C.Germany. Printed in Austria.[1930]
A four-page folded booklet with die-cut heart on the cover exposition one of the paper dolls. It promotes Sorosis Shoes Hunters, most likely a shoe emporium. When opened it reveals three (3) die-cut 4 3/4" paper dolls, each with 3 costumes and hats all arranged on a die-cut sheet. The sheets are intact--all of the ladders still attached. The dolls are believed to be made by S & C, German paper doll maker. The tabs on each of the costume sheets have numbers on the tabs of corresponding hats and costumes; 2, 4 and 6 - a, b, and c . The dolls are easel back. The folders are cleverly designed with two horizontal slits at center to insert the dolls easel, thus holding the doll and costumes in place. Folded measures 5 1/2"' x 3 1/2> .
Air Hostess Push-Out Paper Dolls and Dresses. Saalfield.Akron OH.1947
A 13 3/4" x 10 5/8" book with six (6) punch out paper dolls on the covers including an Air Hostess. Six (6) costume pages. Note that the costumes are formal, as one would have worn on an airplane in the 1940s. Additionally the costumes are for an affluent family vacationing. Notably there is only one additional costume for the Air Hostess, which is an additional uniform (all work and no play). Airplane motif background decoration. .
Angela Tuite Price Un-Cut Paper Doll Book Pretty as a Picture . Saalfield No. 2703..1948
The cover of the book depicts proper young girl of yesteryear reading an album, with a die-cut frame above with a cellophane window showing portraits of the dolls on the second . The next page shows the to characters i a room scene. The costume pages show fashions of the day for young girls in the late 1940s with stylish accessories including a double locket with faux pictures and elements of charm including a "Gone with the Wind". Of note is a riding outfit with jodhpurs. A mixture of sentimental and 1940s modern. The actual punch-out dolls are on the back cover. 11 1/2" x 10 3/4". Number of Dolls: Size: 10". No of Costume Pages: 5 with a 6th page depicting the girls posing on stage...
Anon. Manuscript Adaptation of The History of Little Fanny . ..c1810s
Wraps. 8 pages. Each page is a different scene from the original book of the History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in A Series of Figures. This manuscript adaptation paraphrases the original toy book with different original watercolor costume for each scene. it focuses on the morality lessons. A single head and neck is moved from scene to scene. Includes five (5) of the seven (7). Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". . come all ye little ones, and quick draw near. A gift I offer for the approaching year. A little doll who boasts a pretty face, And wondrous strange! her clothes a moral trace"
Army and Navy Wedding Party Cut-out Dolls . Saalfield Pub. Co. No. 2446..
6 pp with ten approx. 7" - 8" paper dolls. Patriotic themed throughout with stars and a V for Victory and die-cut bells exposing some of the paper dolls on the next page through the front cover. Punch-out paper dolls. Each doll and outfit are identified with a message in a shield. The individuals are identified as to wedding party role. The costumes are identified as to military role. The first page includes female roles include AWUS outdoor worker, WAAC auxiliary, OCD canteen worker, Am. Red Cross aide, WAAC officer etc. The page is captioned -- All working for Uncle Sam. This is followed by wedding clothes where all of the men are attired in appropriate rank dress coats. Also includes civilian clothing. Measures 13" x 11"..
Art Tanchon - Illustrator Circus Day - Cut-out Book No. 135.. Stephens Publishing.Sandusky, OH.n.d. c1950s.
6 page paper doll book with heavy stock covers. Paper dolls printed on back cover. Each character has a page of costumes and accessories. They include Bosco the Bear, Monk (monkey), Elmer the Elephant, George the Giraffe and Laffie "the Clown. The final costume page is the circus ring and animal cars. Measures 10 1/2" x 10 3/4"..
Au Bon Marche 3D Movable Die-cut Toddler Paper Doll in High Chair with Toy Wheeled Lamb
A 3” x 4 1/2” advertising trade card for Au Bon Marche department store in Paris. A first glance it has the appearance of a die-cut card of a child in a high chair. By pushing the base upwards and side flaps inward it creates a 3D chair with a child in a high chair with a standing wheeled lamb toy at front Light wear. Few areas of missing surface litho. The reverse promotes the department store. One of a number of exceptional novelty cards created by the store.
Barbara Plummer & Barbara Barnett A Collection of 28 Paper Doll Sets by the Jones Sisters. 1987-2011
This collection of 28 paper dolls by the Jones Sisters, a pair of women, named Barbara Plummer and Barbara Barnett, who designed paper dolls. The majority of the collection are limited edition runs that were sold at the yearly Paper Doll Convention. The collection date from 1987-2011, with the bulk of them dating from the late 1980s. What is unique about these paper dolls are the outfits, as the majority of them are constructed from wall paper. The wall paper is used as 'fabric patterns' to form the base of the design, and are flushed out with ink and color markers. The collection has been organized into four categories: Military, Career, Fashion and Miscellaneous. Each paper doll set contains one, uncut paper doll and a variety of cut (by the designer) outfits and accessories. Two of the sets have two dolls - a mother and daughter pair, and a child and doll pairing. Each set comes with a title page with the name of the doll, its series (were applicable), date (three of the dolls sets in the collection are undated) and designer. Often times the title page would also list if any portion of the sales of the dolls were going to a charity, such the American Cancer Society, Make a Wish Foundation, Breast Cancer Research and Multiple Sclerosis. The sets are stored in a custom made wallpaper folder. Three of the paper doll sets in the collection, under the Military category, do not have the same design aesthetic and packaging. One was made in 2002, and feature uncut outfits, not made with wallpaper. The doll itself has its look based off of a real female combat pilot, and her outfits span several centuries, and comes in pairs. Each period represented include one fashion outfit and one combat or nursing outfit. The other two were made by Barbara Barnett in 2011 for the Paper Doll Convention in Dayton, OH. They both are Military women, (WAC: Women's Army Corp & SPAR: Semper Paraus Always Ready, the USGS Women's Reserve Force), and each set features two uncut pages of a paper doll, and her outfit/accessories. These pages are printed copies of dolls that look like they were drawn by ink and marker, without the use of wallpaper like the rest of the sets in the collection. During the over thirty year span Barnett and Plummer worked together, they alternatively worked under the names of the Jones Sisters and Two Bs' Design. Some of the items in this collection are made solely by Barnett. A database of the dolls is available upon request. Measures (wallpaper folder) 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" .
Betty Campbell Boxed Set - The Costume Party Dolls to Dress w A Story of the Dolls and Their Masquerades by Susan S. Popper. Sam'l Gabriel & Sons Co. No. D137.New York.[1940s]
Two (2) 8" die-cut paper dolls; one blond, Phyllis and one brunette, Patricia. with wooden bases (one lacking). The costumes for Blond Phyllis include American Costume of 1860 - "Betsy Ann" American Costume - "Jenny Lind" Czechoslovak Costume "Magda" Chinese Costume "Ming Toy" Spanish Costume "Dolores" Gainsborough Costume "Blue Boy" Costumes for Brunette Patricia include English Costume of 1860 - "Lady Sybil" Hungarian Costume "Katuska" Japanese Costume "O-Tama-San" Lawrence Costume "Pinkie" Indian Costume "Little Faun" Dutch Costume "Hilletje" Each of the costumes has a separate sheet with the head and hat of the doll to place over the head of the paper dolls. All are uncut with the exception Hungarian "Katuska" and "Jenny Lind". That said, the background portions of the sheets have been retained. Each page in captioned with the name of the character. Includes a 32pp (unnumbered) booklet by Susan Popper explaining what a costume party is and introducing each of the characters and explaining their costumes. Measures 5" x 4". The 10 3/4" x 16 1/2" pressed board box has an applied litho cover depicting all of the characters descending a staircase. .
Betty Sue clothes and playthings to cut out: A Cut-Out Doll. slight wear on cover
Betty Sue, a curly blond with blue eyes, has outfits that include a skating outfit and sled, golfing equipment, and a school dress. There is a cut out suitcase with her name. Measures 10 1/2" x 9 1/2": Whitman Publishing Co. Illustrated: Florence Winship1941. 1 Doll, 4 costume pages. slight wear on cover
Bobby Blair - Uncut Boy Newspaper Paper Doll by Dan Rudolph 1923
A 17 ½” x11 5/8” uncut color newspaper paper doll sheet. It is 10” Bobby Blair, a bit of a stout little lad with his New suite, hiking shoes, cap, cane, his beany, and his bath robe. The paper doll depicts Bobby in his “undies”. Edge wear
Boxed Set - Five o'clock Tea - 2 Sided German Paper Doll Set No. 28. .Germany (for French market).c1900
A 9" x 14 1/2" pressed board box with applied litho depicting the afternoon tea. Includes four compartments for the cut two-sided dolls, costumes and accessories including undergarments for beneath the dresses, hats, fans and everything a young woman would have at tea. There are seven (7) of the eight (8) original dolls and three remaining metal stands. Also includes an instruction sheet printed in French. The instructions are addressed to the children and the parents advising the parents that it will help develop the child's fine motor skills (not in those terms) and to the children that they should be neat, tidy and above all good. It concludes with the verse (in French) Have order my children; we save pain and time Nothing is so beautiful as a little girl Kind, careful and neat. The instruction sheet references eight versus four compartments. One would think they elected to use one set of instructions for two different sets.
Boxed Set - Nellie and Her Costumes. Saml Gabriel Sons & Co. No. D-95.New York.c1920
A 7 3/4" x 5" attached lid side opening box designed to appear as a steamer trunk with a luggage label reading "Nellie". Content includes a 7 3/4" easel back Nellie and four (4) numbered costumes and hats. Costumes for school, play, party and a coat. Die-cut .
Boxed Set - Uncut Walt Disney's Snow White Cut-out Doll and Dresses. Whitman Publishing Co..Racine Wis..1938
Copyright 1938 by Walt Disney Enterprises. A 10 1/4" x 7" pressed board box with applied litho depicting Snow White and two squirrels. Content includes a 9 1/4" punched out paper doll and a 5 page sheet of uncut costumes with one costume on each page. Believed complete.
Brenda Sneathen (Mattox) 100 Years of Bridesmaids 1892-1992 No.33782
A collection of 9 loose sheets of paper, featuring a doll and eleven different bridesmaid dresses, one design for each decade from 1892-1992. The illustrations are done in black and white. It appears that this collection was made as a wedding favor, by Brenda Sneathen (Mattox) for her wedding. Sheet Size: 11" x 8 1/2" Number of Dolls: Doll Size: 1 No. of Pages: 9 (1 title page, 1 doll sheet, 7 costume sheets) .
Brenda Sneathen Mattox 18th Century Hollywood. ..2002
This set of uncut sheets features 18th century costumes made for various Hollywood movies in the 1900s. Film costumes included are: Dubarry was a Lady, Madame Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Unconquered, The Glass Slipper, Tom Jones, The Rebels, Dangerous Liaisons, and Jefferson in Paris. Black and white drawings on heavy white card stock. Two pages each are placed in a plastic sleeve, all the plastic sleeves have been stapled together. One cut out doll on first page. Uncut Sheet Size: 11" x 8 1/2" Number of Dolls: 1 Doll Size: 8 3/4" No. of Costume Pages: 9 .
Brenda Sneathen Mattox Victorian Bride and her Trousseau Paper Doll. Dover Publications Inc.New York.1994
The book contains clothes for two dolls, a bride named Jessamine and her Maid of Honor named Jacintha. Along with a Victorian wedding dress and bridesmaid dress there are several other outfits. Each outfit is labeled with the style of dress, such as "Afternoon Dress", "Promenade Dress", "Riding Habit" and "Negligee". Two cut out dolls on a cover flap. Book Size: 12 1/4" x 9 1/4" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 10" No. of Costume Pages: 8 .
Bruce Patrick Jones Leyendecker: The Look, A Tribute to Joseph Christian Leyendecker. ..2010
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was a German-American illustrator who was considered to be one of the foremost American illustrators of the early 20th century, best known for his poster, book, and advertising illustrations. This paper doll set by Bruce Patrick Jones is done in the style of Leyendecker as a tribute to him. It contains two cut out dolls. A Leyendecker was most known for his advertisements for men's fashions, there is only one outfit for the female doll and four outfits for the male doll. One is a football jersey, the second is a business suit while holding an old fashion telephone, third is a jacket and cane, while the fourth and last look is a tux which also features a woman dancing with him in a red dress. Comes in an envelope with a clear window. Envelope Size: 12" x 9" Number of Dolls: 2 Doll Size: 10" No. of Costume Pages: 4 folded pages (booklet stapled) .
Bruce Patrick Jones The Beauties of Bollywood, Glamour and Drama in the Cinema of India. .2004.
This paper doll book features four different Bollywood stars and costumes that they wore in some of their movies. The stars featured in this book are: Alman Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Sushmita Sen. The costumes portrayed in this book are from the following films: Dastak, Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, Devdas, Mission Kashmir, Fiza, Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge, and Radheshyam Sitaram. This book was designed by Bruce Patrick Jones as a souvenir for the 2004 Paper Doll Convention in Providence, RI. The theme of this convention was 'Cavalcade of Stars'. Four cut out dolls. Book Size: 12" x 9" Number of Dolls: 4 Doll Size: 10" No. of Costume Pages: 6 (includes cover page that has one outfit) .
C.M. Henderson & Co. Cut Out New England Red School House Cutout Village. C.M. Henderson & Co. .Chicago.c 1890
The Little Red School House was a trademark of the C. M. Henderson & Co., and an image of it was stamped on the bottom of one of each pair of shoes it sold. In order to promote the company's 'Red School House Shoes', this cut out school house was given out to any boy or girl found wearing or purchasing a pair of the Henderson shoes at participating stores. Printed in red and black the uncut sheet includes the red school house, plus cutouts of people, a chimney, trees, and a fence, all which could be assembled with a series of folds and a bottle of glue in order to "construct in miniature the famous little building." Measures 12" x 61/4", uncut. The cut-out compliments of J & A Van Kuren, Whitehall, Mich..
c1700 Dressed Picture Cutwork Mezzotint Engraving with Fabric Background - Iosephus Leopoldus
A “dressed picture” of Iosephus Leopoldus I Hungaria Et Romanorum Resc . G. Valek engraver. c1700. A cutwork mezzotint engraving with fabric in background, illustrating the fashion of the day. A precursor of the paper doll… Measures 11” x 7 ¾”. Fragile condition. Scarce
Iosephus Leopoldus I , House of Habsburg (Austria) son of Ferdinandus III 1658–1705
VALCK (Gerard) a Dutch engraver, who died about 1684. He came to England with Booteling, and was some time employed by Logan.
C1830s Watercolor Overlay Transformation Set – Lovely Woman with Six (6) Overlay Personae in Handcrafted Box
A 4 ½” x 4 ½” sheet with profile view of lovely lady accompanied by six (6) different watercolor costumes that overlay the woman creating a different personae with each overlay. Some as men, others as woman of different age and class, or travelers from different lands. Found in a handcrafted box with a marbled paper silhouette of the woman on the cover..
Chanticleer Paper Doll. J Ottmann Litho Co.New York.[1905]
Chanticleer is a character in a variety of tales, but perhaps most known for its appearance in the Aesop fairy tale "Reynard the Fox". The character is an anthropomorphic rooster. The set comes with a die-cut doll, a rooster costume with bird head hat, and three additional outfits with hats. All the outfits and accessories have been cut out. Missing the hat that corresponds to the red dress. The envelope the doll comes in a has black and white illustrated rooster on the front. Envelope Size: 10" x 5" Number of Dolls: 1 Doll Size: 9" No. of Costumes: 3 dresses with 2 hats, 1 bird costume with bird head hat .
Childhood Letters of Emily Hockaday Blair (Henrotin). .Missouri.1888-1894
A wonderful collection of over 40 items of a child's letters to her parents. Emily Hockaday Blair was only five years old when her mother and father sent her away to her aunt's house in 1888. Emily spent at least several months there a year while her parents were traveling between various cities in Missouri, Chicago, Washington, DC, and New York. Eventually it appears she also began to go to school year around near her Aunt's house. For the next six years Emily sent letters to her father, Francis Preston Blair III, and mother, Florence Price Blair, keeping them updated on her education and constantly asking to see them soon or if they were sending her any dolls. The collection includes correspondence and drawings done by Emily Hockaday Blair. The letters written by Emily are addressed to Faver and Mudgie, presumably pet names for her father and mother. The envelopes within the collection are either addressed to Florence Price Blair or Francis Preston Blair. The first few letters are from 1888 when Emily would have been about five years old. These early letters mostly consist of Emily practicing her writing on one side, normally writing either her or a family members’ names or the alphabet. Occasionally there are also some drawings accompanying her practice letters. The actual letter on the other side was written by her Aunt Lizbeth. However they are the words of Emily herself as the letters end with "this is just as she dictates." As Emily grows and begins to become more proficient in her writing she begins to write to her parents herself. These letters mostly consist of her stating her wish to see her parents soon and either requesting a new toy or thanking them for one they sent. By 1893 she has started writing more detailed letters about her education and the time she was spending with her cousins. She even sent them two maps she drew of the United States for school. The last two letters in the collection were sent in 1894. They were written on the same day, August 23, with one addressed to Faver and one to Mudgie. They are the only two letters not handwritten, and were produced by a typewriter. In addition to the letters there is a hand embroidered handkerchief that was Emily's New Years gift in 1892 to her parents. There is also a photograph of Emily herself. Based on the stamp on the back it taken by Joseph L. Douglass, a commercial photographer in Columbia, Missouri who was active from the 1890s into the early 1900s. She is wearing a large hat and appears to be about six years old. Additionally, there is a small name card/visiting card, with Emily's name printed on it and a note stating to "Mudgie and Faver". Lastly there is a poem "The Queen's Gift" written by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, which was transcribed by Emily at some point. There are 8 envelopes in the collection. Based upon the address present, it is obvious her parents traveled a great deal. Several of them are to Kansas City, Missouri. Two others were sent to Muskogee and South McAlister in Indian Territory (now known as Oklahoma). The last three are addressed to two different addresses in Chicago, presumably from when her father started to set up his law practice there. Additionally several of the letters themselves make reference to her parents travel to New York and Washington DC. To view this collection please click on the following link: https://goo.gl/photos/PJAKxHjqGoVdccyF7 . Emily was born on November 16, 1883 in Missouri. Both her mother and father were a part of well-known and prestigious families in the 1800s. Her mother was from a prominent, pioneering Missouri family, the Prices. Her grandfather Robert Beverly Price was a well-known banker and gentleman farmer, who was active in local politics. He was also greatly involved in the financial success of his alma mater, the University of Missouri. He served as Treasurer for the university for over forty-five years. Emily herself attended the university in 1907. On her father's side of the family, she was a part of one of the most powerful political families of the 19th century, the Blairs. Emily was the granddaughter of Francis Preston, Jr, and the great granddaughter of Francis Preston, Sr. Preston Sr. was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and influential figure in national politics advising several U.S. presidents across the party lines. He was an unofficial adviser to presidents Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln. Preston Jr. was an American jurist, politician and soldier. During the Civil War he held the rank of Major General, and commanded a division at Vicksburg under Sherman. He even took part in Sherman's March to the Sea. He was a Missouri Senator, and in 1868, he was Horatio Seymour's vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Party losing presidential ticket. The Blair family was particular close to Mary Todd Lincoln's family and therefore Abraham Lincoln. In fact, Emily's father, Francis Preston Blair III, reported even played 'town ball' with Abraham Lincoln during his visits to their family's estate in the mid-1860s. Emily's father, Francis Preston Blair III, unlike his forebears and siblings, did not follow in his family's footsteps of national political ambitions. As a young man he graduated West Point and was stationed at Fort Hamilton. Later he studied law at Columbia University in New York. After receiving his degree, he met and married Florence Price. After his marriage, he opened up a law practice first in St. Louis and later Chicago. Emily herself would eventually marry into a prominent Chicago family, the Henrotins. Her in-laws were the Chicago power couple of Ellen Martin Henrotin and Charles Henrotin. Ellen was a writer, activist and staunch suffragette, while Charles was a prominent banker who founded the Chicago Stock Exchange and eventually became an influential person in global politics as he was Consul to both Belgium and Turkey. Emily married their elder son, Edward, and would eventually move to Cherryplain, New York, where she and her husband were involved in farming and sheep breeding. Emily H. B. Henrotin would die in 1965.
Collection of 20th Century Paper Dolls used in Fashion Advertising to Children Directly. .United States.1917-1996
In the 1880s companies saw a way of reaching a wider audience by creating advertising material that was directed towards a young audience. The hope was that children might help to direct their parent's spending habits. By the early 1900s, advertisers had perfected this technique and had come up with a wide variety of paper games and toys meant to attract a child's attention. One such paper toy that was used by advertisers was paper dolls. With the combination of cheap printing and a surge in the popularity of paper dolls, manufacturers of all kinds of household goods took advantage by using them to promote their wares. The fashion and clothing industry in particular used this to great effect, as these ads were designed to mainly target young girls, and encourage them to desire to dress like their favorite paper doll. This collection consists of 11 items (25 dolls) of advertising paper dolls. Below is a brief description of the items within the collection. Dandyline Company Paper Doll (1917) The Dandyline Company, based in Chicago, IL, made dresses for young girls in the early 1900s. It then sold them to retail stores across the country along with an advertising paper doll. While the two dolls in this section are extremely similar, they are slightly different. This is mainly seen in the details of the yellow dress they are both wearing. The back of the doll had a space for the retail store to print its name and address. This is the "Little Sister" series and includes two dolls and 14 costumes. Note the gender specific objects being held by the costumes. The back of each out had a Lot No. so that one could order the exact outfit. The two stores on the back of the dolls in this collection are E. M. Devine in Philadelphia, PA, and Hirsch D. G. Co. in Decatur, IL. 2 Dolls + 13 outfits, CUT, Measures 7" x 2 1/4" (Doll) FA Quality Family (c1920) During the 1920s a company by the name of FA Quality Trimmings, which sold various ribbons and trimmings meant to accent clothing, started a line of dolls called the FA Quality Family. It was a set of 4 dolls- Mother, Sister, Betty, and Buddy (Buddy is missing from this collection) with three outfits each. On each sheet is the advertising phrase: "These cut out dolls serve two purposes; to amuse the children and to give you the style suggestions designed by experts." 3 UNCUT SHEETS (3 dolls + 9 outfits), Measures 7 3/4" x 5" Stories and Fashion (1934) Like the title suggests, this 16 pp. black and white booklet contains both paper dolls and short stories. Published by Mabley & Carew, a prominent department store in Cincinnati, Ohio, its goal was to help sell the clothing available at its store. The book contains six dolls: Mary, Tommy, the twins Betty & Bobby, Billy and Baby Jane. Beside each outfit is the price and department store floor in which it can be found on. The stories in this booklet are: The Little Boy and the Brook, My Fairy, and the Baby Stuart. Cover is detached. 6 Dolls + 10 outfits with accessories, UNCUT Booklet, Measures 7 1/2" 5 1/4" Miss Sunbeam Paper Doll Set (1949) Sunbeam Bread used their Miss Sunbeam doll to not only encourage the purchase of their baked goods, but also as a mean of selling their "Simplicity Printed Patterns". These sewing patterns allowed mothers to recreate the dresses Miss Sunbeam wore for their daughter. Next to each outfit was a product code that correlated to a specific sewing pattern. There are two pages for this item, the first page, with the doll, is in color, while the second page is in black and white. This would allow the child to have even more fun with the toy by coloring in the outfits. These two sheets are stapled together. 1 Doll + 9 outfits with accessories, 2 UNCUT SHEETS, Measures 12" x 8 3/4" Miss Sunbeam Paper Doll Set (c1950) The same paper doll as mention in the previous item, but with new outfits, mean for a new season. These outfits, along with the product code also gave an age range. Additionally this version had a teddy bear paper doll as well. 1 Doll + 9 outfits with accessories, 2 UNCUT SHEETS, Measures 12" x 8 3/4" Gibbs Kids Paper Dolls (c1950) Produced by Gibbs Underwear Company, based in Philadelphia, PA, Gibbs Kids was a series of paper dolls intended to help local retailers sell their clothes. The doll featured is the "10 year old Sister", and it showcases 4 outfits. What is unique about this item is not all the outfits paired with the doll are made or sold by Gibbs. Additionally, on the back of the sheet is a stamp that says "Compliments of Paperdoll Gazette, Shirley Hedge, Editor, Route 2, Princeton IND. 47679" 1 Doll + 4 outfits, 1 UNCUT SHEETS, Measures 12" x 9" Carter's School Wise Cut-Ups (Sept 1952) Printed in the September 1952 issue of McCall's, a monthly American women's magazine that ceased publication in 1992, was a printed ad for Carter's. Carter's was a clothing store for children selling clothes from 'cradle through school'. This ad features two dolls, a Big Sis, and a Baby Sis, each with their own outfit. The ad speaks directly to the child stating that their outfits mean that "Daddy saves dollars galore!" 2 Dolls + 2 outfits, 1 UNCUT SHEET, Measures 13 1/2" x 5 1/4" Pretty as Picture (1961) In a children's magazine, entitled 'Jack & Jill', a paper doll was printed for Vogue Patterns, a company that sold patterns for fashionable clothes. This doll was designed by Betty Jaxon and was meant to capitalize on the Easter holiday. In two sheets, a doll named Jill (there are two version of the same doll, each in a difference stance) is surrounded by colorful, fashionable outfits. Each outfit has the pattern number printed on its tabsThe Pretty as a Picture sheet was a store give-away, the second sheet is a proof presumably for future designs. 2 Dolls + 10 outfits with accessories, 2 UNCUT SHEETS, Measures 14" x 10 1/4" (Larger sheet) Bendel's Cut-Out Dolls (1962) Henri Bendel was an innovator when it came to high end luxury fashion and his boutique shop in New York City soon became a beacon of luxury for the cities elite. He also was a strong proponent fashion-centric illustration, and since paper dolls are a natural progression of that he soon had several books of them that he used to sell his clothes. The item is a 12 pp. booklet with paper wraps. The cover is an illustration of a cut out sheet of paper dolls. The book includes three (3) paper dolls and four (4) pages of outfits. The reverse of the page provides a narrative description, sizing information and pricing for each of the paper doll costumes. There is even an introductory note in the beginning of the book that asks the children not to cut out the dolls until mother has ordered the desired outfits. 3 Dolls + 21 outfits with accessories, UNCUT Booklet, Measures 9" x 7" Vind Garn Til Vinterens Dolls (1966) Published in Familie Journalen, Denmark's longest running weekly family and women's magazine (it was started in 1877), are two paper dolls. The advertisement is for Dale Crepe, a yarn company in Europe. The dolls are meant to help selling knitting patterns, and each sweater is a pattern you can purchase. There is a both a boy and girl doll, each with fours knit sweaters, and at least one knit hat and pair of mittens. In Danish. 2 Dolls + 8 sweaters with accessories, 2 UNCUT SHEETS, Measures 13 1/2" x 10" Look Book Holiday (1996) This advertising pamphlet was aimed directly at both young boy and girl fashionistas. This is evident even in the title, as a 'Look Book' is a collection of designs compiled to show off a style or clothing line. Even the names of the outfits advertised in this accordion folded pamphlet are titled to reflect that. Such as "Glamor Girl", "Updated Classics", and "Long, Lean Look". Published for the holiday season by The Children's Place, an American specialty retailer of children's apparel and accessories since 1969. It comes with two dolls, a boy and a girl with several outfits each. The pamphlet is printed in color and is double sided. As such, it is impossible to cut out both dolls and all the outfits from the same pamphlet. 2 Dolls + 13 outfits with accessories, UNCUT, Measures 5" x 3 1/4" (folded), 26" x 5" (unfolded) To view this collection, please click on the following link: https://goo.gl/photos/XwvcVTTJih1xvwYr7 .
Corinne and Bill Bailey (illustrators) Fashion Shop Paper Dolls. Saalfield.Akron OH.1937
The front cover is a die-cut window exposing the fashion dolls on the next page through the windows. Note the awning lifts to allow the book to open. The first page is heavy card stock and has the three (3) punch-out models Henry, Marie and Cecile and three (3) additional models Phyllis, Donna and Annette on the inside back page. There arey four (4) costume pages at in the center of the book laid out as though they were displays in a boutique. The back cover includes a mannequin and two (2) display heads for displaying hats. All one would need to set up shop. Measures 12 1/2" x 10 1/2". .
Demorest's Family Magazine - Advertising Paper Doll with 2 Costumes. ..1895
An 8 1/2" paper doll attired in corset and petticoats with printe d message on reverse "Please remember that a new dress for this doll will be given to you each month. It will be presented to you by the dealer as a gift from DEMOREST'S FAMILY MAGAZINE. All the favor they request of you in return is that you will ask your mother, or the grown people of your family, to read the "Contents" of the Magazine that will be printed on the back of the dress each month. Our object is to interest them in the Magazine; so, after calling for a new dress each month, be sure to perform this little duty, and then you will feel at liberty to call for another dress the following month." Compliments of Ames and Bates Newsdealer & Stationers, Boston. Accompanied by two dresses cut from Demorest's promotions from 1819. Guess the child didn't appreciate being used as an advertising pawn after a couple of months....
Die-cut book - The United States Sailors Punch Out Book - Stand-p Sailors and Punch-outs . Samuel Lowe Co..Kenosha WI.1942
10 die-cut graduated size pages. Each side of each page depicts a different rank and class of a sailor from Apprentice Seaman (3rd Class) to Admiral. It also provides sleeve and shoulder patches. As the page size increases begins including additional punch-outs of vessels and weapons and much more. A great educational tool on sailors in WWII. Book measures 9" x 11 3/4". .
Doris Davey after Helen Waite My Dolly's Home (a paper doll house with characters). Arts and General Publishers Ltd..London.1921
12 pp. story. 26 leaves "doll house". 2 leaves characters to cut. Applied litho on board. Illustrated by Margarethe Stannard. A charming interactive children's book. Begins with a 12 pp story titled Betty's Adventure - The Story of My Dolly's Home". A story of Betty, her mother, her nannie and Betty's Birthday doll Priscilla. The story also references the character's to be used "In Dolly's Home". This story with relevant in-text black and white illustrations is the basis for pretend play associated with the 26 leaf "house" that follows printed in full color with illustrations on both sides. Fine design with die-cut pages and die-cuts within a page. Most of the pages are a room or yard scene and include a door that opens to the next page. The last two leaves of the book are the uncut characters to cut-out and interact with the house including Cook, Alice, Nurse, and Dolly's family and her dearest friends including her self, parents, brother and cat and dog. Dolly's Home is rather elaborate - gated with a fountain, formal parlors, play rooms, dining room, nursery, a crochet field and much more. The inside back cover has an applied envelop for placing the characters once they have been cut. Measures 9" x 11 3/4"..
Doris Lane Butler - Designer Uncut Bobby Socks Cut-out Dolls. Whitman Publ. Co..Racine Wis. .1945
An uncut 14" x 11" uncut paper doll book with 2 pages of two each punch-out dolls. They are named Beau Boy, Slick Chick, Sweet Stuff and G. I. Joe. Includes 6 costume pages plus costumes on back cover. Each page has sock hop vignettes surrounding the costumes. .
Dr. Miles Paper Doll - Katrina Knickerbocker - I talk for Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. Dr. Miles Medical Co. .Elkhart In..1902
A 20 3/4" tall die-cut easel back paper doll depicting Katrina Knickerbocker holding a bottle of Dr. Miles New Heart Cure. The reverse introduces Katrina, a character in Rip Van Winkle and of course promoting the various Dr. Miles with brief narratives and a complete product listing including pricing. Also includes three costumes and hats. The costumes are identified e.g. for a stroll on the Bowling Green. Each costume has product information on the reverse. The paper dolls were offered as premiums for a product label and five 2 cent stamps. .
Dr. Miles Paper Doll -Dorothy (Dolly) Quincy - Holding a Bottle of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine. Dr. Miles Medical Co. .Elkhart In..1902
A 20 3/4" tall die-cut easel back paper doll depicting Dorothy (Dolly) Quincy holding a bottle of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine. The reverse introduces Dolly, the future wife of John Hancock and of course promoting the various Dr. Miles with brief narratives and a complete product listing including pricing. Also includes three costumes and hats. The costumes are identified e.g. the gown she wore when first she met John Hancock. Each costume has product information on the reverse. Includes original mailer from Dr. Miles Medical Co. The paper dolls were offered as premiums for a product label and five 2 cent stamps. .
Eliza Leslie Miss Leslie's Paper Doll Overlay. Miss Leslie's Magazine.Philadelphia, PA.1843
This doll is supposedly the first paper doll in a magazine. It was printed in "Miss Leslie's Magazine" which was a monthly women's magazine of literature and fashion that ran from January 1943 to July of 1846. In its first year of publication it was edited by Eliza Leslie before Timothy Arthur Shay took over. The magazine also underwent several name changes after its first year (The Ladies' Magazine of Literature, Fashion, and the Fine Arts in 1844 and Arthur's Ladies' Magazine in 1845) before it merged in 1846 with Godey's Lady's Book. The doll itself is known as the "City Bell", and is an overlay. The doll itself features a woman in white dress with floral accents, and overlay piece is her shawl and overcoat. This doll was published in "Miss Leslie' Magazine, Volume 1, 1843". This doll has been cut away from the original overlay. Number of Dolls: 1 Doll Size: 5 1/4" No. of Pieces: 2 (Doll + outfit) .
Elizabeth S. Tucker (Artist) Famous Queens and Martha Washington Paper Dolls. Frederick A. Stokes Co..New York, NY.1895
This pressed board box with applied litho cover depicting all 7 of famous queens, along with Martha Washington. With applied label promoting G. A. Schwarz Toys, Phila. Each of the cut paper dolls is approx. 7 1/2" tall, single sided and identified on the reverse of each doll, costume or hat. Each women has 3 costumes and headpieces or bonnets. Included in the set are Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Margherita, Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen Isabella, Queen Victoria, Queen Louise, and as stated previously Martha Washington. The original art used for this set was drawn and water-colored by Elizabeth Tucker. An single fold introductory pamphlet is included with a statement of accuracy and directions for use It describes in some detail the cutting an placement of the costumes and accessories. Box measures 10" x 8". Also includes original clipping promoting the paper dolls from the Ladies Home Journal, Dec. 1895. . Touted as historical features of great value, which will at the same time entertain and instruct any child. Especially recommended for Kindergartens and schools of children.
Elizabeth S. Tucker A Year of Paper Dolls . Frederick Stokes Company .New York.1894
A cut paper doll set, lacking original wrapper. The passing of the year can be joyfully marked with the help of this doll. A cardboard double-sided, paper doll that is meant to be dressed according to the month of the year. Drawn and water-colored by Elizabeth Tucker. All twelve costumes are included in this set, however it is lacking a few of the accessories. This set does not include the calendars. Four (4) hats lacking. 7" doll.. This set does not include the monthly calendars printed on the costume; a second version has a calendar month per costume.
Elizabeth S. Tucker Princes and Princesses Paper Dolls. Frederick Stokes Company.New York.1895
This set of seven, single sided, paper dolls represent princes and princess. Illustrated by Elizabeth Tucker. A popular subject matter of the time. Each with several costumes, as well as some with a few accessories. Wilhelmena - 3 costumes 1 hat Marguerite - 3 costumes Princess - 3 costumes 3 hats Friedrich - 3 costumes 2 hats Prince of Wales - 3 costumes 1 hat Louis - 3 costumes 1 hat Mary - 3 costumes (1 with hat included) Dolls measure 7" each. . Illustrated by Elizabeth Tucker.
Elizabeth S. Tucker Queen Victoria of England Paper Doll . Frederick A. Stokes Company.New York.1895
A single paper doll set with the same character and costumes as included in "Famous Queens and Martha Washington" a larger boxed set. Illustrated by Elizabeth S. Tucker. It includes Queen Victoria and three period costumes. The doll is wearing a white petticoat covered with a white peignoir tied with a blue bow. the costumes include a walking gown, court robe, and reception robe. Additionally the set includes a booklet with a brief introduction to the doll and instructions on use and play. and the original box top with an applied litho of the queen. Doll 7" tall and booklet and box lid approx. 10" x 8”. .
Ella Hall . McLoughlin.New York.1892
One sided printing. 4 3/4" cut paper doll with five (5) d dresses and no hats. Also includes a portion of the envelope front. Top section with the name of the doll has been cut away. Note the original doll only had four costumes. The fifth is believed to be a variant from a later printing.. Not pictured, nor described in Howard.
Embossed Die-cut Paper Toys - Wild Animals - Lion Family & Hyaena
An intricately detailed little group of embossed die-cut card stock toys. Includes a lion, lioness and two cuts, who appear somewhat docile with a nearby dish of milk. It also includes a less then docile hyeana who has presumably grabbed meat from the wagon. c1900. Light wear. The lion measures 4 1/2” x 3”.
Emma C. McKean Boxed Set - Animated Alice in Wonderland Dolls - 7 Wonder Scenes - No cutting Necessary. Milton Bradley Co. No.4109..Springfield MA.
A 7" x 11 1/4" pressed board box with applied litho depicting Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mouse and the Mad Hatter at the tea party. Content includes four (4) die-cut dolls. The tallest is "big" Alice at 7 1/2" and the smallest is the Queen of Hearts at 3 1/4". Also includes "little' Alice and the White Rabbit. Each of the has one to four costumes designed into the scenery - with a die-cut slit at the top of the costumes to allow placement of the doll behind the scene. Each scene has a narrative the base. Scenes numbered 1-7. Reverse is blank. Set is complete..
Ethel Hays (illustrator) Cinderella Paper Dolls. Saalfield.Akron OH.1950
Measures 12 1/2" x 10 3/4" with four (4) 7 1/2" paper dolls on the back cover - Cinderella, Prince Charming and the not so ugly step-sisters. Note the Cinderella on the front cover looks like a statuesque movie star. Six (6) costume pages with costumes for Cinderella before and after, her step-sisters and the prince and of course an array of slippers with "question marks". .
Ethel Hays Cinderella Paper Dolls No. 1817. Saalfield Publishing Company.Akron, OH.N.D.
A Cinderella paper doll book featuring Cinderella, Prince Charming, and the two step sisters. All four dolls are cut outs, and located on the back cove. Included are Cinderella and Prince Charming's wedding outfits, as well as a variety of formal and casual wear. Designed by Ethel Hayes. No. 1718 Book Size: 12 1/4" x 10 1/4" Number of Dolls: 4 Doll Size: 7 3/4" No. of Costume Pages: 4 .
Exceptional Metamorphosis Overlays of a Man and Women with 97 Overlays - Clothes Make the Man. Netherlands.1808
Comprised of 3" x 2 2/4" portrait cards of a nude woman and man in an undershirt. The women has forty-six cut-paper watercolor overlays and the man has fifty-one cut-paper watercolor overlays. In all ninety-seven different possible portraits, spanning professions, fashions and extraordinary hairstyle One of the female overlays (no.10) is dated 1808. . Each with a half-length or head and shoulder drawings with cut-outs to expose the face of the portrait. Some with more intricate cuts to provide accessories for the costume or change the character of the face. Somewhat unusual is the fact that the set represents both female and male faces in two separate base portraits. Housed in a paper covered pressed board box with a separation at center. The box most likely is not contemporary to the piece and added at some time in the 19th century. Each is numbered. Changements Inattendus, metamorphic (or protean) games are examples of early optical toys which demanded an act of interpretation, a way of looking that searched for hidden images in every day items. As part of the growing 18th Century interest in recreational science, metamorphic games also have a classical precedent, with Ovid's Metamorphosis the most famous and enduring of all the tales of transformation. "Understanding such ways of seeing - the modes of human perception - opened the way to the 'philosophical toy', devices that played with the vagaries of visual capacity and conjured images." (Quoted from Marina Warner in Eyes, Lies and Illusions, exhibition catalogue pp.113, 218-19).
F. Gere, Illustrator. 13 Anna Belle Newspaper Paper Dolls. ..1908-1913
Color newspaper paper dolls series of a good little girl who is always very careful about her dress. Printed on newspring. Each segment includes at least one paper dolls with costumes and accessories and a narrative promoting good behavior, caring and living in a perfect world. A segment captioned New Fall Clothes - Fall 1911 is a narrative on how being proper requires wearing nice new clothes and organizing a sewing society and instead of making things for ourselves we will give them to poor little girls and boys who never have nice things. Anna Belle was unexpectedly elected president and know they will make children happy with the clothes they make. All an interesting approach to socialization. Titles include Anna Belle goes to the seashore, Anna Belle's Grandpa, Anna Belle Visits Sister Mary, Anna Belle's school furniture, new fall clothing, playing moving pictures (Native American costumes), Anna Belle's brother Harold and Baby Sister (note his rifle and sword), Brother Harold's Birthday, School Gymnasium, Getting Ready for School, Anna Belle's Dining Room Furniture, Anna Belle Visits Arabia and Anna Belle's Valentine Party. Several mention the Sewing Circle. Each measures approximately 10" x 7 3/4", cut from a newspaper. . Anna Belle newspaper paper dolls first appeared May 1908 in the Seymour Daily Republican Newspaper, Seymour Ind.
Faith Jaques Tilly's House . Margaret K. McElderry Book.New York.1979
32pp. Dust jacket. Both written & Illustrated by Faith Jaques, the book tells the story of a doll named Tilly, who leaves the her doll house in search of a place of her own. Along the way she befriends a teddy bear named Edward, who helps her find her way in the world. Tilly shows herself to be a strong, independent individual who is not afraid of hardwork. The illustrations in this children's book are the real gem, as they are extremely rich and detailed and make Tilly's world come to life for the reader. Measures 10 x 8 1/4" . Very minor edge wear, due to rubbing. A small amount of brown speckles on the front cover.
Fanciful 15" Articulated Dresed Matador
A truly fanciful fellow with a printed face,and card stock body parts that have been decorated with applied and layered polished and foiled papers. His exaggerated hat has a large applied flower. His bodice begins with pleated paper dickey and velvet bow tie; a crest is applied beneath the dickey. His waistcoat is constructed of various foiled papers with red embellishment and embossing. His topcoat is velvet with studded border trim topped with a large red silk bow. The arms and legs are jointed at the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees..
Fanny's First Flirtation - Dressed Paper Doll. Peterson's Magazine 1872 . ..
A copper engraving cut-out from the February 1872 Peterson's Magazine that has been dressed in both paper and fabric. It is captioned "Fanny's First Flirtation". Sight view 7 3/8" x 6". Housed in period frame which measures 9" x 8". When researching the image an editor's note from Peterson's reads "This charming engraving, published in our February number, receives praise everywhere. The New Jersey Enterprise says, 'What a Frenchman would call, but what some of our juvenescent Americans translate 'the piece of resistance'...
Fantaisie-Fantasia-Fantasie-Fancy- Scenes for Ladies of Leisure to Construct. ..c1840
A large folio with die-cut opening in cover to create a "picture frame". It includes 2 plates and an array of cutout hand finished engraved images of women, children and accessories. The two 12" x 9 1/2" plates have numerous slits at the base Each of the images has a tab at the base. The individual women are placed in the incisions or slits creating elegant scenes from the serene to the severe. Includes two pattern sheets with eight (8) different scenes. Endless scenes can be created beyond the scenes shown. Twenty-four (24) images and accessories..
Female National Costumes of Europe Paper Dolls. ..c1840s
A set including two (2) single-sided 6 3/4" female paper dolls and eight (8) costumes depicting regional variances from various nations in Europe. Each of the costumes is lithograph with an egg wash finish. Also includes a 6" x 8 1/2" sheet depicting all eight costumes, again with egg wash finish and the name of the country printed in English, German, French and Italian. The countries include Spain, Hungary, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland and France. The original box is lacking. .
Fern Bisel Peat The 8 Ages of Judy. Lowe.Kenosha, WI.1941
A 13 1/2" x 11 1/2" uncut paper doll book with seven (7) different paper dolls. Each of the punch out dolls with age appropriate accessories depicts Judy at a different age. .Eight (8) pages of costumes. Each page and doll page with printed signature Fern Bisel Peat. Light edge weaer..
Fine 12" Watercolor Dressed Scotsman with Articulated Legs c1890s
A 12" Scotsman dressed in a traditional kilt with with shoulder sash and belt. Embellished with feathers on his hat and belt. Finely detailed facial and hand features. Not the detail on his stockings. A simple string mechanism allows him to dance..
French Paper Dolls - Pauline Baby and Annete. McLoughlin Bros..New York.1895
A 7 1/4" cut-out two-sided Annette the nurse paper doll and baby Pauline. In original envelope with additional two-sided costume a cloak for baby Pauline. Printed on heavy stock. Note that these are only so-called "French Paper" doll, just an advertising promotion by McLoughlin of a nurse in French regional attire. The set is believed to be complete. See Howard pg. 191..
Friendship Press Paper Doll 1933 - Italian Angelina
This listing is one of two different Friendship Press paper dolls we have acquired. They are Friendship Paper Dolls - United States. Friendship Press, 150 Fifth Avenue. New York. Illustrated by M. Pugh. Copyright 1933 by G.Q. Le Sourd. Each paper doll is a vividly colored depiction of an American minority of the day. The doll is in "American" attire with the costume in a more traditional or stereotypical attire. Fine cultural Americana. This listing is Angelina, Our Italian Friend. Depicts an 8" girl in a school dress. His "traditional" attire is gaily colored outfit in red, white and green. Sheet measures 8" x 10 1/2". Condition: surface soiling. Otherwise fine.
Friendship Press Paper Doll 1933- Wenonah Indian Friend
One of two different Friendship Press paper dolls we are offering. They are Friendship Paper Dolls - United States. Friendship Press, 150 Fifth Avenue. New York. Illustrated by M. Pugh. Copyright 1933 by G.Q. Le Sourd. Each paper doll is a vividly colored depiction of an American minority of the day. The doll is in "American" attire with the costume in a more traditional or stereotypical attire. Fine cultural Americana. This listing is Wenonah, our Indian Friend. Depicts an 8 1/4" Native American girl with braids. His "traditional" attire is a fringed colorful Native American costume complete with "papoose". Sheet measures 8" x 10 1/2". Condition: light surface soiling otherwise
Front and Back McLoughlin style paper doll promotes Brook's Spool Cotton - 3 Costumes. ..1890s
A 5 1/4" front and back paper doll stylized after McLoughlin's 1890s Clara and Alice. She holds a card that reads Brook's Spool Cotton is the best. There are spools of thread at her feet. Her three (3) costumes appear to be regional attire from various countries, perhaps Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands. Appear to be cut from a sheet with advertising on reverse. Missing surface litho on the reverse of back side of each costume and doll presumably had been glued down at one point and carelessly removed..
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Cutting Edge- Edge Textile Artists Scotland – Gallery 2
Saturday 3 May, 2014 - Saturday 17 May, 2014
Cutting Edge- an exhibition of exciting contemporary textiles.
In 1988 the three leading textile art groups in Scotland shared a platform to exhibit work in a highly successful exhibition entitled ‘Three Strands’. After several other individual exhibitions, this arrangement was formalised when edge – textile artists scotland was formed in 1999 with the merger of those three textile art groups – Embryo, ‘One,6,7’ and SETA. The original groups, although coming from different parts of Scotland, shared a common higher educational base in the Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh art schools where observed drawing was the foundation of the creative process. Now the membership is from a much broader background, although everyone has followed some formal recognised education in textiles.
Edge returns to Edinburgh Palette building on the success of their previous 2010 exhibition at St Margaret’s House ‘Starting Points’ and their subsequent Scottish touring exhibition ‘ a Stitch in Rhyme’ based on Scottish poetry.
As one of Scotland’s foremost groups of contemporary textile art practitioners Edge aims to bring the work of Textile Artists to a wider audience and to elevate this art form to a higher level. Members of Edge pride themselves in taking a challenging and innovative approach to contemporary textile art. The strength of the work produced by the members lies in the technical expertise, diversity of subject and the approach to design. Pay this exhibition a visit and be inspired by these ‘Cutting Edge’ approaches to Textile Art.
Hours of opening : Saturday 3 May 2-6 – Daily 11-6 except Thursday 1-7 – Saturday 17 May 11 – 2
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Little girl's scar over her heart is a constant reminder of beautiful twin sister she tragically lost
‘I’m sorry but one of your baby’s hearts has stopped beating’
Hannah Kane
Smiling Elly Read, from Benfleet (Image: Tamba)
Elly Read looks like a healthy and happy seven-year-old - but she has a constant, heartbreaking reminder of a very special person she will never get the chance to meet.
Elly, from Benfleet, has a small but distinctive scar over her heart - something that reminds her every day of her beloved twin sister, Abby.
Elly's scar (circled) is a constant reminder of sister Abby (Image: Tamba)
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The identical sibling tragically passed away inside the womb after her heart stopped beating part-way through mum Eve's pregnancy .
Elly's life was also at risk so she had to be injected with blood to keep her alive - it was this procedure which resulted in the circular scar on her chest.
Elly was born on June 26, 2010 and is now in year 3 at school. But she is faced with the reminder of her beloved Abby everywhere she goes.
Eve said: “Elly wouldn’t have survived without that injection and the scar on her chest will always be special to us.”
Elly and Abby suffered from TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrome) while they were still inside their mum's womb.
The potentially fatal condition can affect identical twins who share a placenta, and can claim one or both babies’ lives.
Eve has bravely shared her family's story with Mirror Online on TTTS Awareness Day, which takes place on December 7 every year.
She wants raise awareness of the UK-based charity Tamba (Twins and Multiple Births Association) and its TTTS Registry.
The research project, which was set up in 2015 and collects data on twins with the condition, aims to improve outcomes for TTTS babies.
Eve and her husband Andy, both 40, unexpectedly found out they were pregnant with twins just before Christmas, almost exactly eight years ago to the day.
The mum, who lives in Essex and works in financial services in London, said: "We were quite surprised, but obviously embraced the news.
"We went for our first scan at Southend Hospital in January 2010 and found out it was identical twins. We were over the moon and felt really blessed.
"The midwife then pulled us aside and said, because we were having identical twins and they shared a placenta, she had to tell us about a condition called TTTS.
"It did take the wind out of our sails – we’d been so happy when we were told it was twins, then the talk of it being life-threatening and the risks involved really brought us down."
What is TTTS?
Elly survived a blood transfusion when she was still in the womb (Image: Tamba)
TTTS occurs when there is an imbalance of blood supply from the placenta to the twin babies, according to Tamba.
One baby receives less blood (the donor) and often becomes smaller and anaemic. They can also suffer from a reduced amount of amniotic fluid and become stuck to the side of the womb.
Meanwhile, the twin who receives more blood (the recipient) becomes bigger and the higher blood volume can put a strain on their heart.
At 16 weeks into the pregnancy, Eve and Andy were referred to King's College Hospital in London, a specialist centre for multiple births.
They were asked to return in two weeks.
At their second appointment, they were told there were some size differences in their twin babies – which can be an early sign of TTTS.
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A week later, they returned again.
And this time, they were dealt some devastating news.
“I woke up on the morning of the appointment and my stomach had changed shape,” recalled Eve.
“It was still round, but it definitely looked different to before. We had the earliest appointment anyway, so I headed into London.
"A consultant started the scan and then quickly went to get a colleague of his and she told us the bad news.
"She said ‘I’m sorry but one of your baby’s hearts has stopped beating’. It was just awful. Even now it still upsets me to think about it.”
The couple, who later named their deceased twin Abby, then discovered doctors were also concerned about their other little girl.
The medical team told them her outcome wasn't looking very positive.
Eve explained: “When Abby died it created a kind of vacuum and they suspected Elly’s blood oxygen levels were really low.
"They suggested giving her a small amount of my blood – a very small blood transfusion of just 5ml – to keep her alive.
"They were operating on her heart while she was still in my womb, so it was a very risky procedure.
"But we just thought ‘why wouldn’t we try to keep her alive?’ and said yes.”
Some blood was taken from Eve and left to settle so that only red blood cells were injected.
Life-saving surgery
Elly and her dad, Andy, on holiday in Rome, Italy, this year (Image: Tamba)
Then, an hour later, a needle was inserted through the mum's stomach into one of Elly’s heart chambers.
Eve and Andy, a landscape gardener, watched the incredible surgery on a screen, while surrounded by a huge team of medics.
“It was incredible seeing them and that’s how I will always remember Abby,” said Eve. “I know they’re identical but I don’t look at Elly and imagine another girl her age – I’ll always picture her as that little baby.”
At the same time as the blood transfusion, doctors took some of Elly’s own blood and found the oxygen levels to be dangerously low.
The team made it very clear to the Reads that the prognosis was not good.
“There was a really strong indication we’d still lose Elly,” said Eve.
“After the operation they told us to go and do something nice and try and take our minds off things so we did a few little things over that weekend, including buying her a cuddly toy.
"On the Monday, we went back to Southend and there was still a heartbeat – it was such a relief. But on Tuesday we went to King's and they explained there was still a chance she could be severely brain damaged, but they wouldn’t know for sure until much further into the pregnancy.”
The couple returned for fortnightly check-ups and scans. And at 32 weeks, when Elly had grown much bigger, an MRI scan was performed.
Two days later, she was fortunately given the all clear for brain damage.
Still fighting
But even though there appeared to be no major damage, her parents were warned there could still be other problems ahead.
Eve said: “After we lost Abby I was told I didn’t have to proceed with the rest of the pregnancy if I didn’t want to.
"But the thought of losing both babies was just horrendous to me.
"Elly had fought to stay alive, albeit with some help, so why should we deny her that chance?"
She added: "I had hoped to carry Elly to 37 or 38 weeks and the consultants wanted me to have an induction, but I felt she’d been through enough trauma and asked for a natural delivery.
"It turned out she had her own plans anyway, as my waters broke at 35 weeks.”
Baby Elly is born
Elly was born healthy on June 26, 2010 (Image: Tamba)
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At 5.17am, Elly was born, weighing 4lb, 15oz, at Southend Hospital. Named after one of the consultants, she was perfectly healthy.
“I had to go into theatre to have my placenta and Abby removed," Eve said.
"They asked me if I wanted to see her and prepared us that she didn’t really look like a baby, as we’d lost her quite early on in the pregnancy.
"We still wanted to see her and they were incredibly nice and respectful about it – they laid her in a little cot with a blanket.
"All the staff were incredibly empathetic about our situation but one nurse in particular still stands out.
“The joy of Elly arriving was amazing, but we were obviously devastated about Abby. But I think because we lost her earlier in the pregnancy, we’d already had some time to grieve and were able to enjoy their birth day.”
Eve is now a supporter of other parents who have experienced TTTS (Image: Tamba)
Elly now has a younger brother, Joshua. Pictured with mum, Eve (Image: Tamba)
Eve is now a supporter of other parents who have experienced TTTS, offering them comfort and answering questions from a parent's point of view on a private Facebook group.
Since the girls' birth, she and Andy have also had a son, Joshua, now three.
“Elly does ask about Abby sometimes and as a family we find it difficult when we see identical twin girls," said the mum.
"She sometimes says she misses Abby or she wishes she was here – we told her she is in heaven. We’re not actually religious but we want her to be able to visualise her somewhere nice.
“It does help knowing I’m able to help other people too and support them when they have been told their babies have, or may have, TTTS.”
Essex ladies who helped deliver Tottenham Hotspur legend Ledley King's baby meet in queue to see star 13 years on
On TTTS Awareness Day, parents are offered the chance to remember lost babies. It is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the condition.
Tamba CEO Keith Reed said: “What happened to Eve and Andy is incredibly upsetting but sadly, we’re all too often reminded that theirs isn’t an isolated case. In the next year, hundreds of families will be told their twins have TTTS – the pain of hearing those words is just unimaginable.
“That’s why we set up the TTTS Registry – to look further into this harrowing condition in the hopes that outcomes can improve in future.
Tamba set up the TTTS Registry to collect data on twins with the condition throughout the UK. Anyone who wishes to donate funds so it can continue running can visit the charity's JustGiving page here .
For more information about TTTS, click here .
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Home / News / Rumour: Tegra K1 Equipped Acer CB5 Chromebook Spotted
Rumour: Tegra K1 Equipped Acer CB5 Chromebook Spotted
With Intel and Samsung dominating much of the Chromebook market, there hasn’t been a lot of options out there for those who want something a little different, at least until now. The new Acer CB5 Chromebook looks set to take a different approach by using the new Nvidia developed Tegra K1 SoC.
The Chromebook offers up the Tegra K1 CPU with 4GB of RAM, a 32GB SSD and a 13.3 inch HD display. As well as the usual array of audio jacks, USB ports and an Ethernet port.
Since it was leaked in an Acer product listing the page has since been pulled, but the product images did remain and were quickly downloaded. The page said that the device would be available from August 1st, but there is no indication if this was only a place-holder, so we’ll have to wait for an official announcement for more details.
With no other commercial Tegra K1 devices on the market, it’s not known how fast the CB5 will be compared to rival offerings from Intel and Samsung, but giving the previous successes of Tegra, we have high hopes and expectations.
Thank you AndroidAuthority for providing us with this information.
Image courtesy of AndroidAuthority.
Topics: Acer, chromebook, google, K1, news, notebook, nvidia, Tegra
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Etheria Film Night Proudly Presents the Official 2019 Lineup of Short Films & Inspiration Award Recipient
May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 by etheria
(Hollywood, CA – May 7, 2019) Etheria Film Night (www.etheriafilmnight.com) is proud to present the 2019 Official Lineup of Shorts on Saturday, June 29. Eight Short Films will be screened at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA followed by a Q&A with directors in attendance conducted by Rebekah McKendry (Blumhouse’s Shock Waves Podcast). The 2019 Inspiration Award will be presented to producer Gale Anne Hurd at the live ceremony by legendary filmmaker Roger Corman. The 2019 Stephanie Rothman Fellowship winner will be announced. Tickets can be purchased directly from Fandango: https://fandan.co/2H0cuV9.
Etheria Film Night is the world’s most respected annual showcase of genre films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans. Past official selections have included films from directors Axelle Carolyn (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Christine Boylan (The Punisher TV series), Anna Biller (The Love Witch), Amber Benson (SheVenge), Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist), and Roseanne Liang (Shadow in the Cloud).
“I am so excited to show our audience the amazing films we found this year,” says Etheria programmer Heidi Honeycutt of the shorts lineup. “I’m very impressed with what these filmmakers have created and you will be too.”
Etheria’s 2019 Inspiration Award recipient, prolific, award-winning producer Gale Anne Hurd, says “I’m absolutely thrilled to receive the Inspiration Award from the Etheria Film Festival. Growing up as a huge genre fan, I was told over and over that science fiction, fantasy and horror simply wasn’t meant for girls. Luckily I had Roger Corman as my mentor, and he encouraged me to dream big, genre dreams! Those naysayers were dead wrong, but sadly that misconception continues to this day. With women directors accounting for only 4% of the 2018 Top 100 Box Office releases, it’s clear that women aren’t being hired to direct genre films. Etheria showcases the work of women directors who I’m confident will be the future Steven Spielbergs, Jordan Peeles, Kathryn Bigelows and Guillermo Del Toros.”
After graduating from Stanford University with degrees in Economics and Communications, Gale Anne Hurd worked in various capacities for legendary producer Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. In 1984 she produced and co-wrote her first feature film, genre classic The Terminator. She then produced the legendary Academy Award-winning Aliens, followed by Academy Award®-winning films The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Ghost and the Darkness, and Armageddon. In television, she is an Executive Producer of AMC’s The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, the Amazon streaming series Lore, and serves as a Consulting Producer on AMC’s top-rated talk show, Talking Dead. In 2012, Hurd received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She will be present on June 29, 2019 at the 6th annual Etheria Film Night showcase to receive the award in person and will act as a finalist judge of the 2019 Etheria Selections.
Etheria Film Night 2019 is co-presented by the American Cinematheque and will take place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on June 29, 2019. The evening will include a courtyard cocktail reception and red carpet ceremony sponsored by Blumhouse, SHUDDER, Ving Vodka, Founders Brewing, Topo Chico, and Franca Rebecci Truffles. 2019 Etheria awards are sponsored by The BloodList, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Final Draft, Fangoria Magazine, and Paramours and Poltergeists. 2019 Etheria community partners include Horrible Imaginings, Slaughter Movie House, Midsummer Scream, and Days of the Dead. The start times, screening schedule, and detailed information can be found on the official Etheria website at www.etheriafilmnight.com.
The 2019 Etheria Jury includes John Skipp (Book of the Dead), Peter Block (Saw), Phillip Kobylanski (Hell Fest), Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator trilogy), Rachel Talalay (Dr. Who), Kailey Marsh (The BloodList), Paul Feig (Bridemaids), Stephanie Rothman (The Student Nurses), Scott Bradley (Hellbent for Horror), Martin Olson (Encyclopedia of Hell), Amanda Reyes (Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999), Darin Scott (Tales from the Hood 1 & 2), Kier-La Janisse (The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies), Rebekah McKendry (Shock Waves Podcast), and development executives from Shudder, Monkeypaw Productions, Dread Central Presents, Blumhouse, Fangoria Magazine, Crypt TV, Snowfort Pictures, and Atomic Monster.
Etheria Film Night 2019 Official Short Film Selections:
Hair Wolf
Directed by Mariama Diallo (12:00) (Horror Comedy) (USA)
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Directed by Mai Nakanishi (12:45) (Horror) (Korea/Japan)
A college student goes for a part-time job interview and hired on short notice by a single working mother to be a babysitter for her four-year-old daughter Hana. But when she is left alone with Hana, strange things start to happen.A
Directed by Sarah K. Reimers (10:40) (Horror, Comedy) (USA)
A mysterious and violent encounter sends a dog on a night of adventure and possibility.
Directed by Jessica Sanders (14:30) (Fantasy) (USA)
A lonely man goes to the pet store and buys a tiny man in a cage.
Lucy’s Tale
Directed by Chelsea Lupkin (17:00) (Horror) (USA)
Between mean girls, her first romance, and budding hormones, Lucy begins to realize that she’s not quite like the other teenagers in her class.
Atomic Spot
Directed by Stephanie Cabdevila (15:00) (Science Fiction) (France)
Cotis is the last survivor of a small, amphibious community of mutants living in the ruins of a nuclear reactor and is crushed by loneliness. Until a group of dumb surfers visit his beach.
Cupid’s Paradise
Directed by Ivy Liao (15:00) (Science Fiction) (USA)
Jenn lives in a world in which everyone is rated on superficial factors such as looks and skin color. Jenn is desperate to find a match before she becomes Cupid’s slave.
Directed by Elaine Mongeon (12:30) (Horror) (USA)
A young woman and her father adapt to terrifying changes they never expected.
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Lebanese army firms grip on Palestinian camp
Lebanese troops are working their way through the Nahr-al-Bared refugee camp, searching for booby-traps, after finally winning their battle with Islamic militants who had been holed-up there. The government says the leader of the Fatah-al-Islam group and 38 other fighters were killed in clashes yesterday. Five soldiers are also believed to have died in the fighting that brought the three-month-long siege to an end. Fifteen militants were said to have been captured as they tried to escape.
The conflict has taken a heavy toll on civilians, many of whom fled to the nearby Beddawi camp. More than 40 civilians were killed and many have lost their homes. Nahr-al-Bared lies in ruins and some in Beddawi fear they have nothing to go back to. “We’re going to rebuild our homes and lives”, one man said. “When we left our homes were ok, now I think everything is gone,” a woman said.
It was Lebanon worst internal violence since the civil war of 1975 to 1990. For the government this is a crucial victory as previously Palestinian camps had been beyond the control of the state.
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Mount Anvil launches Royal Eden Docks, E16 – a new community designed around health and wellbeing with green space at its heart
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On Thursday 19th September London developer Mount Anvil, in a joint venture partnership with ExCeL London, will launch Royal Eden Docks, E16, a new community comprising 796 studio, one, two and three-bedroom homes, of which 35 per cent will be affordable.
Designed by globally renowned architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the firm behind the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai, these homes have been designed with health and wellbeing in mind. Situated less than 100m from the edge of Royal Victoria Dock, 5,000 sq m of the site has been dedicated to green space, which equates to more than 20 tennis courts and almost a quarter of the site itself. The development also delivers an impressive 800 sq m of amenities including a rooftop running track.
Outdoor living is central to the ethos at Royal Eden Docks. Quality time spent in nature is widely acknowledged as increasing happiness and wellbeing and residents at Royal Eden Docks will have a generous slice of clean, green space all to themselves. With an emphasis on integrating nature into the scheme landscape architects, Planit-IE, have created a central courtyard that lies at the heart of the development and connects the surrounding buildings, creating a hub in which residents can come together.
A notable feature is the raised walkway that circles the lawn, connecting sun-trapped seating areas and wildflower meadows to activity areas where residents can play table tennis and badminton.
Acting as a wharf jetty that rises above the marshland that once existed, the walkway speaks to the site’s industrial past. Elsewhere, smaller nooks and paths are outlined by stepping-stones and timber beams that weave through silver birch, maple and copper beech trees.
Royal Eden Docks offers an array of amenities for residents with modern living in mind including a business lounge, complete with Wi-Fi-enabled flexible working space and a separate meeting room – ideal when working from home – and a 24-hour concierge to help residents keep up with the demands of London living.
A further range of facilities are solely dedicated to resident wellbeing, including a swimming pool, sauna and steam room, gym, spin studio, yoga studio and treatment room. The rooftop running track and reflexology walkway is the jewel in the crown offering panoramic views of the Royal Docks and city beyond - ideal for residents wanting to run in the fresh air without needing to venture far from home.
A cinema room and entertainment space are also available for private hire. Electric vehicle charging points, 1,190 cycle storage spaces and a car club scheme with three-years membership and £50 credit are available as standard.
Jon Hall, Sales Director at Mount Anvil, said: “Over centuries of development, this area of London has lost its sense of nature– but Royal Eden Docks brings greenery and tranquillity back to this part of the city. Our inspiration for the development originates from the site’s unique past and the transformative present and future of the area.
“The area’s set to witness a rise in house prices over the coming years of over 11% , thanks to the volume of regeneration taking place in the area. Not only is Royal Eden Docks a promising investment opportunity, it’s set to become one of the best-connected neighbourhoods too, being just a three-minute walk from DLR station and future Crossrail hub, Custom House.”
With interiors designed by industry experts, Johnson Ribolla, all homes at Royal Eden Docks benefit from a design that reflects the verdant greenery and waterside location that surrounds it, creating an aesthetic that will stand the test of time.
The kitchens in all studio and one-bedroom apartments pair soft blues and greys with wood-effect flooring. Handleless wall cabinets in a timeless shaker style are complemented by low-level cabinets with black metal handles for an industrious edge. Meanwhile, kitchens in the two and three-bedroom apartments have a soft stone palette with lighter wood-effect flooring, alongside lacquered cabinets with vertical groove detailing that emphasise the height of the space and add texture.
Stylish brushed nickel finishes tie together the bathrooms and en suites which feature bespoke vanity units and white marble porcelain tiles, creating a spa-like atmosphere. The three-bedroom master en suites are marked by a striking central vanity unit finished in black, marble-effect porcelain, cleverly concealing the WC and shower behind.
Stainless steel ironmongery is used in addition to timber-effect flooring to the hallway, communal spaces and bedrooms. Each apartment also benefits from its own private balcony or terrace, inviting natural light to pour into the internal spaces while maximising the views of nature from the lush gardens.
Jeremy Rees, CEO at ExCeL London, comments: “Royal Eden Docks marks the first joint venture between ExCeL London and Mount Anvil, and we are proud to play a part in delivering this remarkable scheme that harbours a unique focus on the health and wellbeing of residents.
“Our partnership with Mount Anvil is built on a shared ambition to transform the Royal Docks into a unique destination that is recognised as a great place to live, visit and do business. We are excited to contribute to the shaping of one of London’s key regeneration projects; not only through the delivery of new housing, but a brand-new lifestyle destination too.”
Already well-connected by bus routes, the DLR and Emirates Air Line, the area offers fast and efficient journey times of just 10 minutes to Canary Wharf. Life at Royal Eden Docks puts you three minutes’ walk from Crossrail’s Custom House station, where Elizabeth line services are set to begin in 2020. That gets you to Canary Wharf in three minutes and the City in 10.
The Courtyard, aptly named after the communal green space it overlooks, will be the first release of homes at Royal Eden Docks.
Prices start from £355,000 for a studio apartment. Homes are scheduled for completion from winter 2021, with the entire scheme due to complete in 2025.
For more information please call 020 3944 8648 or visit www.mountanvil.com/royal-eden-docks
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The iPhone 8 could be the first step to making Apple great again
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Apple celebrates the iPhone’s 10th anniversary this year, a product that revolutionized the smartphone business. And Apple’s iPhone has been “doomed” for as many years, with plenty of pundits predicting the iPhone’s imminent demise — that all happened while many of Apple’s competitors saw their own destruction, including Palm, Nokia, BlackBerry, and Microsoft. In 2016 the inevitable happened, and Apple shipped fewer iPhones than a year before, drawing more criticism from some people. But Apple’s about to experience a series of upgrade cycles like never before, and it’s all starting with the iPhone 8. Apple sold 212 million iPhones in fiscal year 2016, down 8% compared to 2015. But Apple added more users to its installed base, which is a critical resource for Apple’s future iPhone business. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi Jr. said in a research note seen by Business Insider that the installed base of iPhone users is “so massive” that it’ll practically ensure a series of self-generating “supercycles” in the years to come, starting with the iPhone 8. “Our analysis indicates that iPhone’s installed base will be nearly ~80% larger entering the iPhone 8 cycle than it was entering the strong iPhone 6 cycle,” he said. The installed base
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FAU student deciphers ‘cave art’
The lines and cave clouds in the Mäanderhöhle were examined with a 3D scanner. (Image: Karina Rottner)
'Stone age art' in Upper Franconian cave not an archaeological sensation after all
The Mäanderhöhle cave near Bamberg was previously regarded as an archaeological sensation. It was thought to contain some of the oldest cave art in Germany. However, Julia Blumenröther, a former student at FAU’s Institute of Prehistory and Early History, has demonstrated in her Master’s thesis that the markings discovered inside the cave in 2005 are not fertility symbols carved by humans as previously thought. In fact, these lines occurred as a result of natural processes, the archaeologist says.
One of the caverns in the 75-metre long cave is full of spherical deposits of minerals known as cave clouds that form on rocks in a similar way to stalactites and stalagmites. In 2005, cave researchers discovered a large number of lines that looked like they could have been made by humans on the rock-hard surface of these cave clouds. An archaeologist studied these lines several years later and published his interpretation of them in a preliminary report, in which he said that the between 14,000 and 16,000 year-old lines were made by humans and probably depicted a phallus and abstract female figures.
Two new explorations produced clear results
‘The preliminary report required further scientific investigation,’ says Julia Blumenröther. Together with her project partner from the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann and with support from the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, she examined 138 lines that were presumed to have been made by humans over the course of two explorations. ‘If these lines were made by humans, there would be clear evidence that Stone Age tools were used, as well as similar depictions in other locations,’ explains PD Dr. Andreas Pastoors, an expert on Stone Age art from the Neanderthal museum.
Image from a 3D scan of the cave clouds and lines in the Mäanderhöhle cave. (Image: Andreas Pastoors)
Julia Blumenröther, who was a student at the time she conducted her research, used a wide range of archaeological methods to document and analyse the lines in the Upper Franconian cave. She also used new technologies such as digital microscopy and structure-light 3D scans to examine the depth and shape of the lines. The young researcher compared the digital images showing cross-sections and the course of the lines with carved lines in other examples of cave art, as well as with lines created in the laboratory. To do so she had lines carved into samples of the rock taken from the cave using specially designed engraving tools.
A detailed examination led to the conclusion that humans most likely did not play a role in creating the lines in the Mäanderhöhle cave. ‘The scientific analysis showed that the courses and cross-sections of all of the lines contradict the hypothesis that they were carved by humans using a hard, sharp object. Furthermore, none of the 138 lines depict any kind of known Stone Age motif,’ Julia Blumenröther says. ‘The Mäanderhöhle with its cave clouds is certainly of great interest for cave research, but it cannot be regarded as containing the oldest Stone Age cave art in Germany,’ she concludes.
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by Rik Offenberger on December 20, 2005 Holly Golightly talks about SCHOOL BITES2016-10-04T03:04:16-07:00 - Interviews, Talking About...
Holly Golightly is the High Priestess of Production, Colourist and Vice President of Jim Balent’s BroadSword Comics. Along with that, Holly is also a talented comic book creator in her own right, and is just starting work on the third issue of her current project, School Bites. Holly took some time out to chat with First Comics News about BroadSword and School Bites.
First Comics News: First off, what’s School Bites about?
Holly Golightly: It focuses on Cherri Creeper, a newbie Vampire who’s been recruited by an academy for First Time Vampires and such.
1st: School Bites looks to be a mixture of manga and American style comics. In your view, what’s that miixture like?
Holly: It’s totally eye candy! Lots of colour, texture , patterns….and I switch art style all the way through to support the situations that my characters are going through… romantic-heroic-silly-yummy… I really didn’t want to be nailed down to any style, it’s very schizo.
1st: Stepping into the personal for a moment or to, Holly you make no secret of the fact that you’re a witch. Were your parents witches or did you convert?
Holly: My Father as a boy escaped from Yugoslavia during World War 2, because his dad was Jewish and broke out of a prison camp. His Mum was I believe Catholic, but neither were very religious, possibly all the horrors they saw at the realize of religion labeling made they wary of it. Yet Mimi & Artie always celebrated the feasting part and the festivities like a Christmas tree and egg hunts! They lived on a farm where they once raised chickens, upstate New York, it was heaven for me being a city gal! My Mom is Jewish and she grew up on Long Island. I didn’t feel the pressure of ‘religion’ from her parents either. Nana & Popop were more about tradition, having the fam for Passover and all. I was taken to temple once or twice and the odd Barmiztva, but was way uncomfy when I saw them separate the women and the men. I started reading Tarot at the age of 8. Being a Witch is more a Craft and a science than a Religion. I believe the Religion would be Wicca or Pagan. Me, I’m a Witch, I celebrate the positive in every culture! I ‘m interested in Eastern Cultures as well… I prefer to just keep an open mind . I feel blessed by just being alive and creating.
1st: How did your family react to your becoming a witch?
Holly: Pleeease, have you seen how I dress, That’s always been more of an issue! I don’t really think it matters to them as long as I’m happy, productive and am a basically good person.
1st: What got you interested in witchcraft?
Holly: My mom was approached by a coven back in the 70s, she’s also very sensitive to whatever you need to be sensitive to for Reading the Tarot, that and she’s a hottie what Coven wouldn’t want her! They gave her a Tarot deck. She didn’t join the Coven to my knowledge but the deck was in our apartment, I was just drawn to it. Taught myself, Then other components of the Craft came to my attention, gems, herbs, astrology and then candle Magick.
1st: What is candle Magick?
Holly: It’s a ritual done with candles, glyphs, glitter, oils, incense and certain intent to focus on a particular situation in your life and change it for the better.
1st: How do you go from being interested in witches as an esoteric concept to actually becoming a witch?
Holly: Don’t know . That’s not how it happened for me. I didn’t know I had a name, ‘Witch’. I learned and did all those things before I ever knew about ‘WitchCraft’.
1st: Where does the average person even find a witch?
Holly: Gee, I grew up in New York City. So you may meet any kind of individual there. So…I guess there, the internet, Salem, Mass and probably in the town you live in.
1st: Can you actually perform Magick?
Holly: Everyone can.
1st: What I am trying to get at is it possible to do the type of Magick that breaks the laws of physics?
Holly: I guess what I was trying to express in the Magick is a Science as well as an Art. It comes done to there is not action that doesn’t have a reaction. You drop a pebble in a pond and you can see the ripples roll from the centre out to the shore. You create a ritual, the pebble, to send your thoughts and desires out into the universe, the pond. I’m very practical… Practical Magick! LOL! Now if you’re talkin about flying, as far as I’ve seen that is Hollywood entertainment and Puritan propaganda kinda stuff… but if I ever leave the ground while doing something witchy, I’ll email you! I Promise!
1st: What is Magick like in the real world as opposed to what we see on TV?
Holly: True Magick is more as you see Native Americans express or even what the Jedi do. It is ritual, honoring and respecting the world around you, connecting with the life force. What you see on TV is for entertainment purposes, Magick is to become more in touch with yourself and knowing you are a component in existence.
1st: What are some of the biggest misconceptions people have about witches?
Holly: They all worship Satan.
1st: Have you ever faced prejudice because you are a witch?
Holly: Yes. Printers have not worked with us, strangers have been rude to me not to mentioned some individuals in our comic book field. You know I’m dying to name a name…but I’m going to first re-approach this person and inform him that he should never tell anyone that their ‘powers’ come from Satan. At the time I was so stunned and my nature is not to attack but to explain, but since then I thought what if this guy was rude to a Reader like that! No, I think that we as artists need to be kind and appreciative to our readers! And I approached him as a Reader… grrrr, I’m still PO’ed. Mean people suck.
1st: Getting back to Love Bites, many of the titles at Broadsword are not all age appropriate. Is School Bites intended as an all age comic?
Holly: First off ‘All ages ‘ should be judged by a parent not an industry. We do have Mature Reader on some our comics, but I’ve met more mature 14 year olds and less mature 30 some-things so when I sat down to tell the story of “School Bites” I didn’t say -“this should be all ages!” I wanted to draw what I wanted to draw and have fun doing it. But after I finished, I did feel that it would be groovy for 13 and up if I had to put an age scale on it. I did have to obscure a booby or 2, poor things, for distribution… basically it was like in Terminator, when Arnold was sent back to the past all naked like… that’s what happens when you step into another realm in my book-clothes must be shadow proofed or else POOF!… It’s weird that if you show what we are under our clothes, each and every one of us, everyday! It’s “naughty!” but it’s okay to show people beating on each other senseless, so I never refer to them as ‘naughty bit’ but as ‘happy bits’! If you notice there is almost no blood or beating of people in my comic, that was a personal decision, I rather concentrate on relationships, my characters having fun and their cute accessories.
1st: For readers who may not be familiar with School Bites lets go over the main characters. Charlotte Webb/Cherri Creeper is the main character, how does she become a vampire?
Holly: She became bored with a lame Halloween party at the Limelight in NYC, left through an alley exit and became a midnight snack.
1st: Annie Mia is an interesting take on a vampire, has anyone ever done a story with a Vegan Vampire before?
Holly: Err, not to my knowledge, I just know a lot of Vegans and thought it would be an interesting conundrum.
1st: What is the story behind Cleo Batra?
Holly: ah, that will appear in upcoming issue, sooo you’re gonna have to wait.
1st: Fair enough, but how does Sugar Shock end up with pink wings?
Holly: She is just sooooo girlie and sweet, hence Pink Wings! Any other info would come out in the future.
1st: Fujiko transforms into a cat. Don’t all vampires have the same abilities?
Holly: No, not in my Vampire world. Fujiko is based on a Japanese Legend I read when I was young. About a beautiful Japanese Princess that would turn into a huge cat at night and drink the blood of the villagers. Fujiko most always is in a Cat/Human form. That’s her normal appearance, she is not, nor was she ever Human. There are soooo many legends and Myths of what Vampires are, I wanted to create a whole world of them and they’d all have different strengths…kinda like the X-Men of Vampires!
1st: So what is a Vampire school like and how does it differ from a normal school setting?
Holly: Last time I was in college there wasn’t a Blood Drinking or Vampire hygiene class.
1st: How frequently is School Bites published?
Holly: So far once a year, I do everything on that baby and there are 64pgs of full colour!
1st: When can we expect the first two issues to be reissued?
Holly: They are being reoffered through Diamond for on shelves Feb 2006, but are available immediately through our web site JimBalent.com or our all ages web site CryptChick.com
1st: What’s happening with issue #3 and when can we expect to see it?
Holly: It’s bubbling in my brain right now! We’ve set an August date for release.
1st: Your title is High Priestess of Production, Colourist and Vice President of BroadSword Comics. What is the job of the High Priestess of Production?
Holly: Well, I do all the production on the book. Lettering, back pages, organizing printers, number crunching, whatever it takes to get our books out! Plus I do the merchandising with Jim as well as build and maintain our 4 web sites: JimBalent.com | BooCat.us | CryptChick.com | PrettyChibi.com
1st: You have said “I love to use Colour Magick when I colour my book.” What is Colour Magick and how does it affect the way a comic is coloured?
Holly: In the Craft, different colours are used for different rituals, or to symbolize different energies or Gods and Goddesses. For example, Pink and Green are Venus colours, in Magick I use they symbolize, Love, growth, prosperity… so if there’s a scene that is particularly romantic, I may lean toward those colours. The best example would be in our SpellCards!
1st: How noticeable is the difference in coloring to the average reader?
Holly: Probably none.
1st: One of the things that impress me about Broadsword is the marketing. From baby clothes to clocks, from bumper stickers to underwear, including soap and drinking glasses. There is a huge amount of merchandising. How do you decide what is right for baby clothes and what will sell as a dog t-shirt?
Holly: I was a children’s fashion designer for 7 years before I went into my true Bliss of Comics. I ran my own company from the age of 21 to 28… and before that my Mom was in the fashion industry and I worked with her and learned from many professionals about marketing and design. Then after being in Comics for nearly 13 years, I just blended the two together.
1st: You were a child actor, how did your parents get you into acting?
Holly: My Dad was in politics. He was Commissioner of NYC transportation during the 70s & 80s but my Mom was a Model and did a couple of Horror movies in the 60s, she signed me up when I was a baby.
1st: What did you act it?
Holly: I did off Broadway, some commercials and NYU student films. I was in the Blondie video for Rapture.
1st: How did this affect your childhood?
Holly: It kept me busy ! I loved the theatre, I took theatre classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, singing lessons, art lessons, went to the theatre all the time as well as the movies! My everyday life and brain were full, I never did a drug in my life…I was happy being way busy..!
1st: Why did you stop acting at 16?
Holly: I had a bad experience during a play I was in and realized I didn’t want morons telling me how my hair should look or how I should be… but I was lucky enough to act with Genna Davis in that Play though. I decided that I enjoyed watching theatre more than dealing with the stupid politics.
1st: Then why did you graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in Acting, if you didn’t want to continue with an acting career?
Holly: I wanted to experience the Craft of the art without the politics. and Marymount Manhattan College has the best acting program!
1st: You said you were a children’s fashion designer for 7 years, what took you from acting to children’s fashion?
Holly: I love kids. I did child care all though college to pay bills and such. When I graduated I wanted to do something that mattered . So I went for a teaching position at Dalton. I loved my head teacher that I assisted and the kids were the best! But stupid politics came up again… and it wasn’t about the kids also I missed creating , so I took the two and started my own hand- painted Kids Tee company.
1st: Where did you work as a fashion designer?
Holly: Out of my apartment. I love working at home.
1st: How do you break into that field?
Holly: I went from boutique to store with samples and built a client list..
1st: When did all of this lead to K-9 fashion design?
Holly: Never did, I just recently did a couple of tees on Cafe Press.
1st: How did this branch into a children’s party planning and entertaining business?
Holly: The fashion industry wasn’t my true Bliss, so I needed to bridge that career with the comic art career I wanted. So I moved into the Kids Catering biz.
1st: Did you dress up and attend the parties yourself or did you only run the company?
Holly: I did all the above! I even caught chick pox from some kids at one party!
1st: You appear in costume quite a bit, do you make your own costumes?
Holly: No, I either hire seamstresses or put them together from bought clothes
1st: Given the crossovers in your own career(s), has Broadsword been able to break into mass market wholesale to places like Hot Topic?
Holly: Hot Topics will not have anything with the word ‘Witch’ in it. Weird! they’ll have ‘Bitch” or ‘Porn Star’ but not Witch… But we’re more interested in creating Comics, telling fun stories and doing groovy things for our readers on our web sites… mass marketing sounds like a massive headache. But if a groovy merchandiser would approach us, hey we’re always open to good and honest ideas!
1st: Other then School Bites you are also know for Vampfire, what is Vampfire about?
Holly: EEp! that’s a tall order. I usually describe it as a Gothic Romance/Vampire Soap Opera. It deals with Love, Hate, Conflict, motherhood, daughterhood and all the complicated things in-between. Someone once said it was “Strangers in Paradise with fangs”.
1st: The lead character, Bethany, has it pretty rough – not only is she a Vampire she is also a demon, why mix the two?
Holly: Actually she’s a very kind being…I think I wanted her to be of two worlds, a fish out of water. The Demons in my story or NOT what’s common to our culture. There are just another race of beings. They have a strict moral code, I see them more like Samurai.
1st: When you first started working on Vampfire you did so under the pen name Fauve, why use a pen name?
Holly: I was working in the Children’s Field and wished to keep it separate from my Comic career.
1st: You use a much more traditional comic book art style in Vampfire, why change your style?
Holly: I guess I feel like drawing and singing are similar. If you wish to sing a certain type of song you sing in a certain style…It’s fun to sing or draw in all different ways
1st: Vampfire has been options as a movie, where does it stand right now?
Holly: It has been optioned, again for a movie, first time was Steward Gordon who did Reanimator, awesome movie! Buuut – gee this thing has been in Hollywood for nearly 10 years now the screenplay writer is working on it with an indy film studio, they changed my story a whole bunch, soooo I have no idea what’s up with it now
1st: Who would you like to see star as Bethany?
Holly: …Me, I want Bif Naked, a very groovy Rocker Girl, to be Bethany , but I get the feeling, my brain is too Goth/left of centre for them. Bif if your out there reading… email me! You should be in that Movie!!
1st: What about Manon Kelly reprising her role as Vampfire?
Holly: Manon is a beautiful woman. The way the writers have changed the character is that Bethany is, err, I think 16 or17.
1st: You have also modeled in two new calendars for 2006, Tarot’s Monthly Magick Calendar and the Holly G! Calendar. Is this something new, or does Broadsword publish these every year?
Holly: This is something new.
1st: What’s it like being a calendar girl?
Holly: Hmmm? I don’t think I’d even call myself that. I’m first off a Comic book artist, then a writer, then I model for Jim. Jim is an awesome photographer and we both thought, Hey we have all these groovy pictures from the inside front cover of our Comics and Model shots I do for him as ref for posters, covers and such… Let’s do a Calendar! I’m glad people will enjoy all the work we do together! Since we enjoy creating it!
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Holly Golightly is the High Priestess of Production, Colourist and Vice President of Jim Balent's BroadSword Comics. Along with that, Holly is also a talented comic book creator in her own right, and is just starting work on the third issue of her current project, School Bites. Holly took...
Rik Offenbergerrik.offenberger@firstcomicsnews.comAdministratorRik Offenberger has worked in the comic field as a retailer, distributor, reporter and public relations coordinator since 1990. He owns and operates the e-mail bases Super Hero News service, and his published works in print can be seen in The Comics Buyers Guide, Comic Retailer, Borderline Magazine, Comics International and Alter Ego. On the internet he has worked as a writer and/or editor for Silver Bullet Comicbooks, Comics Continuum, Comic Bits Online, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama and here at First Comics News.First Comics News
About Rik Offenberger
Rik Offenberger has worked in the comic field as a retailer, distributor, reporter and public relations coordinator since 1990. He owns and operates the e-mail bases Super Hero News service, and his published works in print can be seen in The Comics Buyers Guide, Comic Retailer, Borderline Magazine, Comics International and Alter Ego. On the internet he has worked as a writer and/or editor for Silver Bullet Comicbooks, Comics Continuum, Comic Bits Online, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama and here at First Comics News.
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AFTER DARK VAPOURS a conversation with bestselling horror author Brad Dunne
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Chefs Chevron Right
John Besh: Stop Beating Up Fish
By Food & Wine
© Courtesy of John Besh Restaurant Group
Chef John Besh knows fish.
New Orleans–based chef John Besh released his second cookbook this week: My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking, a collection of simple, comfort-food recipes. The longtime Louisiana booster has also been making moves to support Gulf seafood. In the New Year, Besh will open his ninth restaurant, Borgne, which emphasizes the region’s coastal cuisine. He shared recipes for shrimp bisque and swordfish picatta in this month’s Food & Wine, and even features a chapter in his new book called “How to Cook a Fish.” Since this "What Not to Do"series revolves around disaster prevention, we asked Besh to describe the worst offenses you can commit against seafood.
1. Buy bad fish. The easiest way to foul a fish dish is to not have a relationship with your fishmonger. If you don’t know where the fish is coming from and when it was caught, you’re making the first mistake.
2. Over season. You can mask a fish's delicate flavor with too many spices. We're in this day and age when everyone has a can of something they love to shake over food. But not all cans are created equal, and fish requires restraint; a little touch of salt will go a long way. An exception would be a really firm fish that's great for grilling, and can also handle heavier seasoning.
3. Cook it like chicken. People beat up fish by treating it like chicken or beef. Fish should be cooked as little as possible. When you overcook it, it pulls apart and gets very dry, since there's not that much fat. People who don’t like rarer fish can cook it, but no more than medium. You can test for doneness the same way you would with any other meat—to the touch. You want to cook it so the flesh slightly springs back when you push on it with your finger. Beware of carryover cooking, which is when food continues to cook even though it's been taken off the heat. Unlike meats that take 10 to 20 minutes to rest, fish are made to be eaten straight from the pan.
4. Disregard the style of fish. The texture will tell you how to cook it. A white, light, flaky fish like sole is easy as sin to overcook. Sole is meant for a little flour and brown butter in a pan—a squeeze of Meyer lemon and you’re in business. If you grill something delicate, you’ll taste the smoke instead of the fish. Mahi mahi and tuna, on the other hand, are great for the grill.
5. Make a heavy sauce. Fish are delicate, and when they’re fresh, you should be able to taste the sea. Fish have a lot of flavor and you want to sauce them in a way that will elevate the flavor, not steal the show. Vinaigrettes are under-rated; grilled salmon needs just a citrusy, sweet-sour vinaigrette. Lemon and butter are two things that white flakey fishes crave.
Related: John Besh's New Orleans Recipes
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Drinks Chevron Right
'Animal-Free’ Lab-Grown Milk Is in the Works for Vegan Milk Lovers
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Plenty of milk substitutes are on the market—soy, almond, even hemp—but none of them completely match the real thing in taste or texture. One milk startup believes this problem can be solved with a little science.
Muufri launched this year with a simple concept: “to make real milk from the bottom up” (as opposed to “from the cow out”). The company wants to create authentic-tasting cow’s milk that eschews all the negative effects of industrial dairy farming, including the inhumane treatment of animals and global warming concerns.
Starting with the core belief that milk isn’t that complicated of a chemical structure to fake, Muufri began attempting to synthesize milk in the lab. According to Modern Farmer, “They add chemically synthesized cow DNA to yeast cells, then harvest the cultures the yeast grows…. From there, they added things like calcium and potassium and emulsify the mixture into milk.” Additionally, as the company stresses, since they choose what goes into their product, they can also choose what is left out, such as lactose or bad cholesterols. Plus, their milk wouldn’t require pasteurization, leading to an “unprecedentedly long shelf life.”
So how does lab-produced milk taste? Apparently not quite good enough yet. “The technology needs time to develop, and we don’t want people to get too excited — or worse, upset — before there’s even anything to talk about,” Muufri’s CEO Ryan Pandya was quoted as saying. But someone believes in their vision: the company got funding and support from SynBio Axlr8r and Horizon Ventures, the same technology incubators that initially backed Spotify. Pandya said the company hopes to have more news early next year.
Until then, we’ll just have to suffice with drinking the stuff that comes out of a cow’s teat. Eck. When I say it that way, I kinda suddenly have a serious desire for some lab-grown milk.
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2 men facing charges as deputies investigate burglaries in Wright Co.
Davion Allyn and Brendan Durant
OTSEGO, Minn. (FOX 9) - Two men are facing burglary charges in Otsego, Minnesota after a string of overnight thefts in the city.
Brendan Durant and Davion Allyn, both age 18, were arrested after deputies were called for an interrupted burglary on the 17000-block of 54th Street NE in the City of Otsego Monday morning.
At the scene, homeowners told investigators they had seen a man in an upstairs bedroom who had told them to "mind your own business" when confronted. Inside the room, deputies found the man was gone, but a window was open and a screen was kicked out.
However, another responding deputy happened to spot two men sitting on bikes at a nearby intersection. The men, later identified as Durant and Allyn, road away when the deputy turned around, but were later tracked down.
In a backpack left at the scene, deputies found Allyn's driver's license, a check, and a pill box they say was stolen from a vehicle in Otsego. They say they also later determined the bikes were stolen from another home where someone had also taken a Sony television and golf clubs.
Investigators said surveillance video shows the suspects on properties in the city, at first walking, but then later riding bikes.
The arrest comes as police investigate a larger string of burglaries across cities in the Twin Cities metro. But, at this time, the Wright County Sheriff's Office says that while the thefts are similar in nature, they have not filed any additional charges against Durant and Allyn for any other case.
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What's Barack Obama's Message Now?
By Greg Gutfeld, | Fox News
So we've got a new president and damn if he's not delicious.
I'm serious: I'm no liberal (I don't like scented candles), but Obama is smart, inspiring and sexy. In short, he's an amazing messenger.
But I don't like messengers, I like messages. And if the message sucks then I don't care how great the messenger is.
And that's the real story behind Tuesday night: The message Obama carried was one of "change," which can mean anything and everything, rendering it every bit as meaningful as lint. But in politics, you need a message and you shouldn't let a messenger's charm distort your faculties. See Chris Matthews.
So what's Obama's message? Beats me. Worse, it's been so long, that most people forget what liberalism smells like: big government; high taxes; weak foreign policy; patchouli.
I'd like to think Obama hit the center because he'll have to. Fact is, our country, as a whole, hates liberalism. Even its practitioners avoid the word. It's the soiled diaper of labels.
But if Obama does shift right, it's one thing we can thank McCain for. Seriously, McCain did more than Obama himself in shaping Obama's future presidency. By focusing on Obama's socialist rhetoric, his queasy tax plan and his creepy friends, maybe America might start doing the same, and that could keep Obama in line.
The fact is, Obama knows what Republicans do right. Under Bush, we've had no terror attacks in seven years, a free Iraq, an impotent Libya and a powerless Syria. If it wasn't for the crap economy caused by the Robin Hood practices of the left, the election results would be far closer.
A final irony: A candidate considered soft on terror will be forced to prove otherwise, as Biden pointed out. Obama, to prove himself a force to be reckoned with, will have to blow the hell out of a country.
Fine by me. I hope it's Belgium.
And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler.
Greg Gutfeld hosts "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld" weekdays at 3 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: redeye@foxnews.com
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Shot of Life
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A Bigger Picture
The Impossible Breaks Free
Passera'
Julius Plays His Winning Ace
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An imaginative set from a troubadour whose songwriting career promises even greater things to come.R2 Magazine
A breathe of fresh air. Music Week
Franc Cinelli excels in the sincerest and most heartfelt song-craft whilst tipping his hat to melancholic heroes and six-string comradery. Mojophenia
All the ingredients within his sound to create a recipe for success. Alt Sounds
’I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight’ signals the arrival of a very singular musical talent in singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter FRANC CINELLI. On this warm, strong album, Franc’s insightful, reflective songs are delivered in a deep, gravelly, ‘well-travelled’ vocal style and his guitar gently finger picked in sympathetic support. He plays all the instruments on the new album apart from those used in the horn sections (Phil Baer sax, Rob Bell trumpet), the double bass on ’Passera’’, ’Fat Charlie Sings The Blues’ and ’Abracadabra’ (Jim Dytham) and vocals on ’Shot Of Life’ and ’Julius Plays His Winning Ace’ (Claire Inglis).
All of the songs were written in the Summer and Autumn of 2012. After Franc had finished touring the previous record, he took a complete break from music for a few months before returning ”to my first love - the guitar. I developed a finger-style technique which is something very new for my own music” he says. ”This style is loosely based on studying such players as Ry Cooder, Mississippi John Hurt, Erid Madis & Kelly Joe Phelps. I found this style of playing offered me various, different new writing opportunities in that this kind of playing is based more on melody and accompaniment as opposed to the straight rhythm playing in which melody is offered more or less only by the vocal accompaniment. So I tended to write the musical melodies first and then put a story to the melody. I found this a really rewarding way to work. I put together these characters from different places and said what I wanted to say through them and their search to answers the big questions.
”I mixed the record with Marco Meloni at my studio” he continues ”and Pete Maher at TopFloor Music did the mastering. The recording was done during December 2012, at SongCircle Studios London. (SongCircle Studios is part of Songwriters Circle; it’s something that I set up in 2011 to encourage new songwriters at a grassroots level. We run weekly live nights at places like the Alley Cat on Denmark Street and the Luxe, and there’s also a little studio where I'm always pushing for a back-to-basics approach to making records.)”
Starting with the alt. country ‘Shot of Life’ and closing with the anthemic ‘Julius Plays His Winning Ace’, the brand new album flows from the waltz/blues of ‘Fat Charlie Sings The Blues’, to the romantic runaway ballad of Bonnie & Clyde in ‘Fall into Heaven’ (an outlaw theme that Franc has drawn on before for inspiration). A first for Franc’s music, ‘Passera’’, is a travel song sung in his native Italian. The record ventures into new arrangement territories for Cinelli with horn sections & spaghetti western style choruses blending together with traditional finger style picking and Franc’s trademark Rhythm and Blues sound. ’I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight’ is by far his bravest album.
Franc Cinelli talks about the songs on his new album
The rhythm of this is loosely-based on Kenny Rogers “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town”; taking a straight country rhythm and adding an extra kick in the off-beat puts the song entirely in its own space & time. Comparing the eternal search for love & happiness to the search for that one perfect note; the thought of it made me smile. I think that thematically this songs sets up the whole record. I wanted to keep the arrangement as lean as possible so the full attention is on the lyrics. Less as they say, is more.
I was home over the summer in Montepulciano visiting my folks. My mother tends daily to a beautiful rose garden. So one day in the midst of my complaining about something or other, I said to her wouldn’t it be great if life was as simple as a rose garden, the lyrics to the song are pretty much what she told me.
Alfred the Great Magician! This was one of the first character-based songs I wrote. Elsmere Road is in Willesden Green, North London and I used to walk by it most days when I was recording the previous record at Battery Studios. It’s an ordinary road, nothing special about it but I just wondered who could live there and what would they do in life. Alfred just popped up in my head and I had just watched the film The Illusionist so the idea of a magician seemed to fit. Alfred keeps trying, keeps striving for perfection in his art.
I’m Your Man
The road song. I didn’t write this song about a person. It’s about me getting back to my songs, my song writing and finding that immediate reaction again which is what turned me onto music in the first place. I’ve found it again and this song is a way for me to remind myself of that.
I’ve played gigs in Denmark Street, London, more times than I can count. When I was a kid I used to go there on Saturdays just to look at the guitars. It’s a very special place and there are a few Fat Charlies I could introduce you to down on Denmark Street.
Bonnie & Clyde and their runaway love ballad. I recorded this first take as I wrote it. Just one vocal, one guitar and a great story. I wanted to write a song about John Dillinger after reading that he’d burn the debt ledgers when he robbed banks so they wouldn’t know who owed them money, and that’s what really made him a hero among the people... I got side tracked in my research and thought Bonnie & Clyde being in love and thinking nothing could stop them was a better song to write. And my mate Rob plays trumpet at the end!
I was listening to a lot of Tinariwen and trying to get my head round their amazing song structures and rhythmic timings. Around the same time I’d gone to see the David Hockney exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy, which just blew me away. I just loved how he took something so traditional, maybe even ordinary like landscape painting and then seeing it in a completely different way to make it new and exciting again. I tried doing something different with the rhythms and percussion on this track. Its an album highlight for me.
This song was inspired by Philippe Petit and the film ’Man On Wire’.
This is the first song I’ve ever written in my native tongue. I was in Corsica with my brother and this tune popped out. It’s a road song about getting through troubled times. I was listening to ’Tell Tale Signs’, the Dylan bootleg record and I just love how he makes sure to find space within his arrangements so that the story always comes first. That’s what I tried to do with this song.
This song went through many different incarnations. It’s a song about rolling the dice, taking a big chance on life and hoping that it pays off. Its pays off nicely for Julius and I think his jubilation is represented well in the arrangement of the song. I was going through a period when I couldn’t sleep so I was staying up late watching those poker shows and all those guys are great characters and they really know how to put on a show. But then I thought of someone who HAD to play poker or find another way to get through. So there’s all that tention, teeth grinding, nail-biting in the first section of the song and I tried to put in as much detail as possible. I think in one word what makes a great song is detail. What I love the most about working outside of the traditional band framework is I can surprise myself with putting elements together that on paper just shouldn’t work. Playing this one live is going to be a challenge to say the least!
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Fête de la Gastronomie – Goût de France: a tempting taste of France
By The editor , Published: 5 July 2018, 18:06
© Atout France/Cédric Helsly
Gourmet events galore from tastings to picnics, masterclasses and mouth-watering rendezvous are on the menu of Fête de la Gastronomie - three days dedicated to French gastronomy.
From 21 to 23 September, all of France will set the table for the 8th edition of the Fête de la Gastronomie - Goût de France. It’s a perfect opportunity to (re) discover the multitude of scrumptious specialties that make up French culinary heritage, and to get to know of the contribution of many innovative chefs.
And, taste won’t be the only one of the five senses to be at this party, the theme for the 2018 is: "Taste in all its senses". Because if we condense a tasting experience to the simple act of taste, it’s easy to forget that it all begins with our eyes, followed by texture, the aromas and sometimes even the sound of a product.
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Indulge in a taste journey at the many events that will take place throughout France over these three delicious days. Start your culinary journey on the banks of the River Seine in the heart of Paris, at the International Village of Gastronomy showcasing popular cuisine, located at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The capital will also host the Food Temple at Carreau du Temple (3rd Arrondissement). With three banquets seating 600, the nouvelle cuisine of French chefs will take centre stage.
In Orleans, in the Loire Valley, classic dishes from New Orleans will be in the spotlight to celebrate the tricentenary of the city of New Orleans. American chef Kevin Belton, famous for his creole cuisine, will be starring.
In Valence, gastronomy and culture go hand in hand: The Museum of Art and Archeology will offer a tempting taste visit with nibbles, created especially for the event. And in Drôme, "Valence Gastronomy Festival" promises to be irresistible with many delectable workshops and activities.
Face of Fête de la Gastronomie: Fanny Rey, "Female Chef of the Year 2017"
The 2018 edition comes under the patronage of Provençal chef Fanny Rey, of the Auberge de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. A former French Top Chef winner, she was elected Woman Chef of the Year by the Michelin Guide in 2017.
In 2019, the Fête de la Gastronomie will take place in the spring, as part of the international event "Goût de France/Good France".
By The editor
The editorial staff of France.fr follow the trends and news of destinations to bring you stories from France that reveal its innovations and traditions revisited and make you long to (re) discover its territories.
From 21 to 23 September 2018
Find out more links about this event:
Fete de la Gastronomie - Goût de France (French only)
The Village International de la Gastronomie - website (French only)
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Solo bass ....
Friday, September 30, 2011 Solo Bass 2 comments
Solo bass, I love it. By definition almost. I love the sound of the wood, the raw physicality, the deep resonance, the velvety plucking sounds, the screeching overtone bowed phrases, the power, the predisposition for subtlety and nuance, if played well, its potential for tonal range, the variation between pizzi and arco, the living room proximity of the sound. And in the hand of majestic improvisers, the joy is doubled.
Nina de Heney - III (Found You Recordings, 2011) ****½
Nina de Heney, Swedish bassist and one-time student of Miroslav Vitous, is releasing her third solo bass album, and it is of staggering power and variation, ranging from the highly rhythmic repetitiveness of "Cerebella Mill" over the bowed and percussive explorations on "Eardrum Peak" to the gutwrenching howls of "Rev Dong Lick" or the hypnotic multiphonics on "Karma Deer Up".
Even if she is uncompromosing in her approach, it is the real stuff, authentic and enveloping ... impossible to remain unmoved by the sheer musical power of her art.
Strong.
William Parker - Solo Bass/Crumbling In The Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (AUM Fidelity, 2011) ****½
There is no doubt that all readers of this blog know bassist William Parker and possibly most of us have seen him perform at one time or another. He is the king of contemporary jazz bass, if such a title can be used. On this triple CD box set, he offers us three solo performances, one being a re-issue of "Testimony" from 1994, the other two bringing the live performance in Brooklyn in August last year.
The first CD starts with a long bowed piece, a stunning example of how to bring sound to live and to expression, with shimmering shades of tonal color reflecting the subtleties of the underlying emotions. It is only after thirty minutes, halfway through the second piece, that he starts playing a melodic and repeated phrase, as a kind of intro to start plucking his strings, first in a kind of dialogue between bowed and plucked sequences, then on the third track evolving into fully plucked, calmer, more meditative, with sparse moments of increased intensity.
The second CD starts darker, gloomier, with the aptly titled "Night Density". for another journey through musical excellence and variation. Fans of his work as the rock solid rhythmic time keeper as a sideman, will appreciate "Velocity", the track that introduces a more uptempo and regular rhythm, as a kind of moment of upbeat refreshment before the long but equally rhyhtmic last track.
The box comes with a booklet of stories and poems by Parker, and they all illustrate his deep feeling for peace and human freedom.
Cosmic music, indeed!
The Spanish Donkey -XYX (Northern Spy, 2011) ****
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Piano Guitar Drums Trio No comments
You could try approaching XYX actively listening to every nuance and rhythmic shift, analyzing and digesting every note. Or, you could let it wash over you, letting its sonic sandpaper exfoliate your mind. Either way, you will not be able to escape the tingling rawness it inflicts.
I've tried both approaches, during the same listening session. The tracks "Mid-Evil" and "XYX", coming in at 38 and 22 minutes respectively, give ample time to tune in and out, as they evolve. Joe Morris' clean punctuating electric guitar, Jamie Saft's dark shifting array of keyboards and electronics (and occasional electric bass) and Mike Pride's tough and precise drumming lay down a sonic wash that nary lets up in intensity and constantly shifts in shades and tone. The group pushes and pulls time and texture to create a fantastic world of aggresively ambient sound and music.
At times, the electronics and percussion burble darkly laying a foundation for Morris's percolating melody lines. Pride's percussion adds flare to the ferociousness and helps propel the furious improvisations. Employing rhythm and sound over distinct melody, Saft amps up the intensity, and all three musicians are of equal importance in the mix. Midway into 'Mid-Evil', Saft's electronic tones, uncompromising sine waves and atonal shearings build into a gut wrenching climax that is just not to be missed.
While you may wonder what comfort you may find under this blanket of barbed wire (though it's certainly is more comfortable than the device gracing the album's cover), you may be surprised. This collection is an impressive display of texture, tone and dynamics and is a good, challening listen. Go in, be prepared, be ready, it's a little mean and rough but quite exhilarating.
Peter Evans & Nate Wooley - High Society (Carrier Records, 2011) *****
Saturday, September 24, 2011 *****, Trumpet Duo No comments
By Joe Higham
Being a musician and playing a wide variety of music means that my family (kids and wife) are used to hearing wild sounds emanating from the hi-fi from time to time. But in certain cases I realise that maybe some music is not for wholesale consumption, and this .... is one of them! It's almost like a dream come true for a horn player (in this case trumpets) to be able to sound like Jimi Hendrix playing with feedback, however, it's more difficult to set fire to your trumpet, even with lighter fuel, you can hear Wooley and Evans had great fun making this recording. 'High Society' is as fascinating as it is unforgiving, there's no way out and no reference points to the trumpet as we know it. If you've heard Nate Wooley's Trumpet/Amplifier record then you'll already know how Wooley's starting to develop his style using this set up, here we have both Peter Evans and Nate Wooley blowing hot and cold through their trumpet/amplifier set ups.
It's almost impossible to give musical images for these tracks. Tracks such as I (track 3) make you wonder if the microphone is inside a turbine in a rocket engine, or is that the sound of something out in the desert somewhere? The two horn players use flutter tonguing, blowing, sucking, singing, spitting, banging the pistons, hitting the trumpet, it's all there. The fourth track LXVII starts like two wild animals in a fight, there are growls and screams, rattling, industrial crashes and explosions, music that's not for the faint hearted. However each track is so fascinating that you find yourself absorbed by the sounds as they change throughout each piece, each idea worked on and pushed to it's extreme and obvious conclusion. The sixth track XC is a fascinating piece as .. shock horror .. you get to hear a real muted trumpet sound as it's starting point. The track develops over 13 plus minutes into a real tour de force of sounds, feedback, screams, singing and real trumpet sounds, never dull moment.
Finally I should say I was surprised at how much I enjoyed listening to this one, and for something that is rather abstract. The music which although very intense is (I found) always interesting to come back to and I'm intrigued to see how they'll develop and follow up wonderful recording. I can only finish with a often used phrase from our chief critic and editor Stef ......... Highly Recommended.
Tags for this music could be - the wind, the sea, the washing machine, car engines, radio interference, food blenders, vacuum cleaners and the list goes on!
Live at The Zebulon in August 2011.
Sonic explorations into the realm of the unknown unknowns
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Avant-Garde No comments
I'm not sure whether the "free jazz" name of this blog is still appropriate for the music reviewed, but with the records below, we go deep into sonic explorations, with no need for any reference, or any tradition. Just sounds and sounds and sounds doing what they are supposed to do : surprise us, captivate us. The great thing about attentive listening to this music is that it forces you to listen differently, as if music and background sound of whatever nature mingle, as if the sounds you hear represent something that is happening in your own immediate environment, as if the sounds are not just sounds but the result of real life things happening around you. It opens new doors of perception.
Lucio Capece & Birgit Ulher - Choices (Another Timbre, 2011) ****
Lucio Capece plays bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, effects, while Birgit Ulher plays trumpet. None of those instruments sound as you would expect, sometimes as percussion, sometimes like whispers or far-away engines, shimmering layers of sound, yet the result is often perplexing.
Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris, Sara Schoenbeck - Next (Porter Records, 2011) ****
Taylor Ho Bynum plays cornet, flugelhorn, bass trumpet and piccolo trumpets, Joe Morris is on guitar and Sara Schoenbeck on bassoon. The trio brings a sequence of fragile interactions of embracing sounds. These are intimate chamber improvisations, sweet and cuddly even at times, enveloped around silence, with the instruments being played at minimum volume, and despite the dissonance, the abstract phrasing, the end result is one of a contradictory soothing, unhurried calm.
Jennifer Allum & Eddie Prévost - Penumbrae (Matchless, 2011) ****
Speaking about silence, violinist Jennifer Allum and free improv giant Eddie Prévost on bowed percussion create a subtle and refined sound sculpture, on which notes barely change, tones barely surface the silence, and in which both instruments strangely merge until violin and percussion become one. The result is absolutely mesmerising at times.
Ernesto Rodriguez - Suspensão (Creative Sources, 2011) ****
Silence with two is one thing, but silence with eight musicians is a real feat. The band is Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, harp, metronomes, objects, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Gil Gonçalves on tuba, Nuno Torres on alto saxophone, Abdul Moimeme on prepared electric guitars, Armando Pereira on accordion and toy piano, Carlos Santos on electronics and piezo elements, and José Oliveira on percussio. The "suspense" in the title is well chosen, as the music's minimalism creates the kind of tension that you wish would explode, come to a paroxysm, come to an orgasm, but it doesn't. The sound is the calm before the storm, the fear before the killing, the sensitivity before the climax. That kind of tension. Slowly evolving, close to silence, with instruments adding shades of sound, whispers, scrapings, bows, ...
Kim Myhr - Live at Ringve Museum (Audition Records, 2011) ****
I already praised Norwegian guiatist Kim Myhr for his collaboration in "Nectars of Emergence". On this album he plays 12-string, baroque and nylon string guitars, zithers, small percussion, and is accompanied by Burkhard Beins on percussion and objects, Kari Rønnekleiv on viola, violin and hardanger fiddle, and Nils Ostendorf on trumpet. This Norwegian-German quartet uses the same minimalist approach of built-up tension without real release, with an intensity that is almost tangible. It is very short, but the result is absolutely impressive.
Silencers - Balance Des Blancs (Sofa, 2011) ****
We find guitarist Kim Myhr and trumpeter Nils Ostendorf back in the company of French pianist Benoît Delbecq and percussionist Toma Gouband, for another mesmerising journey into sonic unknowns, played with incredible control and mastery of the instruments. Delbecq shows the same restraint as Christian Wallumrød in "Dans Les Arbres", a band that can serve as a good comparator.
Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher, Christoph Schiller - Grape Skin (Another Timbre, 2011) ****
This trio of Michel Doneda on sax, Jonas Kocher on accordion and objects, and Christoph Schiller on spinet, is possibly the most bizarre line-up you've ever heard, but the listening experience is again staggering. The sound you hear is impossible to describe or to qualify. It is zen music in a way, but again with the same impression of a sonic illusion, depending on how you listen, it can be equally terrifying. It is soothing and nerve-wracking at the same time. The listener decides.
What can I recommend? All of them, but that's of course too easy. I must admit that my interest and enjoyment of this music has come only in the last years, and because there are no references, it's hard to compare, but the quality is obvious in all of them. My suggestion : pick any one of them. Don't try to understand the music, just let go and experience without preconceptions. See how it affects you, then look out for the other albums. Musical enjoyment is guaranteed.
Somehow, the future of art music lies on the road these bands have taken.
Premier Roeles - Ka Da Ver (Vindu Music, 2011) ***
Friday, September 23, 2011 Quick Review No comments
Dutch quartet with Fred van Duijnhoven on drums, Nico Huijbregts on piano, Gerard van der Kamp on sax, and Harm-Jan Roeles on bass. Free jazz in the best tradition, if that's not a contradiction. Some short melodic pieces, some longer improvisations. EP. Nice work. Freedom with soul.
My Silence - It Only Happens At Night (482 music, 2011) ****
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Fringes of Jazz No comments
When drummer Mike Reed presents the idea to bass clarinetist Jason Stein and guitarist, keyboardist, turntablist Nick Butcher to form a trio, the music on this album is created, but the real touch of genius comes when they invite vocalist Sharon Van Etten to join.
Even if free in nature, the music is close to prog rock, with sweet melodies and harmonies evolving slowly and freely, with Van Etten's soft and crystal clear voice adding a dimension of folk and naive innocence. Yet this dreamworld of light textures is then broken by bouts of illogical instrumental parts, of an uncanny and eery nature, sometimes dissonant, but not always nightmarish, just hard to comprehend, hard to grasp, yet inviting. You have to undergo the sounds, like you have to play the lead role in the weirdest of your dreams, with shifting backdrops and contexts and characters, a victim of your own imagination.
The overall result may be too much prog rock for jazz fans, and too wildly free for rock fans, and too much of this and too much of that, but the blending of boundaries, and the surprising shifts in perspective works incredibly well on this album. All music fans will enjoy this, yet it will require some to be willing to open up.
Heberer, Niggenkemper, Hertenstein and Badenhorst - almost times two
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Avant-garde jazz, Chamber Jazz 1 comment
I love the music of these guys. They sound fresh, inventive, clever, and utterly soulful and compelling. They are Thomas Heberer on trumpet, Joachim Badenhorst on clarinet, Pascal Niggenkemper on bass, and Joe Hertenstein on drums. The first three already made the excellent "Clarino" on No Business last year, while Heberer, Niggenkemper and Hertenstein released "HNH" on Clean Feed. And now they are back, with one trio and one quartet.
Thomas Heberer's Clarino - Klippe (Clean Feed, 2011) ****½
The incredibly impressive percussion-less chamber music on this album is the result of Heberer's own "Cookbook" notation, by which improvised phrases are played, repeated and then reintroduced into an agreed structure. The approach requires astute listening and concentration, an aspect which is audible in the music, and adds a kind of dimension of caution and fragility. In contrast to many other musicians of their generation, they hardly ever resort to extended techniques, yet they use their instruments in the most "voiced" traditional way, but with the skills of virtuosi.
The overall sound as a result is calm, precise and subtle, sometimes grave, sometimes playful, often full of wonder, full of surprise. There is an incredible tenderness for the notes played, and intense feeling of cohesion despite the freedom the musicians have. Even if some of the pieces sound abstract at first listen, this is easily compensated by the sensitivity in each musician's timbral richness and the emotional delivery.
I could start describing the music, but as usual words fail me. You have to listen to it yourself (here, on eMusic, for instance). Trust me, you won't be disappointed,
Joe Hertenstein, Thomas Heberer, Joachim Badenhorst, Pascal Niggenkemper - Polylemma (Red Toucan, 2011) ****½
The album's title "Polylemma" means : "a choice from multiple options, each of which is (or appears) equally (un-)acceptable or (un-)favorable". And this is basically what you get, but with staggering result. Half the tracks are penned by Heberer, also in his Cookbook notation, the other half by Hertenstein, who is the leader of this band.
It is interesting to hear the same "Clarino" trio with the addition of drums, but it is not the same music plus a drummer. Yes, for sure, there are similarities, but this is music largely led by a drummer, and you can sense that immediately, in the steady pulse of the opening track, the references to old swing jazz, the sweet theme of "Sugar's Dilemma" turning into a real violent fight, a peak of volume that is absent on the trio album, or the last track "Nupeez", with its boppish bass line and crazy soloing. Also Heberer's compositions are tighter than on "Klippe", with unison lines, as on the clever "One Ocean At A Time", in which the rhythm section gets the dominant role, interrupted by sudden and changing themes.
It is obvious that a lot of thought went into these songs, lots of weighing of alternatives and possibilities, of selecting and discarding as its title suggests, yet the end result sounds nothing like a cerebral exercise, because of its incredible sense of spontaneity and musical joy that reverberates with every note.
These guys are really fantastic!
The choice is simple : buy both albums. Both are fresh, inventive, clever, soulful and compelling. The trio is more intimate and introvert, the quartet more expansive and extrovert, and hence they complete each other quite well. No choice this time. Both.
Rob Brown Trio -Unknown Skies (RogueArt, 2011) ****
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 No comments
'Unknown Skies' posseses an intriguing quality: it seems to be precisely imprecise, the strength of its cohesion built upon the tensions of it coming apart. Song heads could almost be improvisations, they seem so naturally unfolding, yet unison accompaniment belies their composition. Rhythms unfold loosely yet totally in control, and it makes for quite a masterful mix.
Rob Brown's alto sax is in command here, it both soars and digs deep, beckoning you to follow but also suggesting that you may want to stand back from time to time. Craig Taborn's acoustic piano veers expertly both inside and outside the lines, supporting Brown, but also cutting free like on his angular and intense solo on the opening tune 'A Fine Line'. In fact, this track on the whole is an exciting statement that serves as a harbinger for the rest of the concert recording.
Throughout, Nasheet Wait's drumming is fantastic. Whether it is his kinetic intro to the album or providing urgent counterbalance to Brown's unbound solo on 'Bounce Back', the drumming is energetic and loose but detailed in the right places.
Though I had read of Brown before, I had not heard any recordings. Thus, while I cannot say how this recording relates to his discography, it seems like a fine introduction to my ears. His tone is evocative, full of bite, passion and melody. The tunes, while grounded (though bass-less) are not afraid to break free of their moorings and take the listener with them (but, you'll be pleased to know they return you safely - albeit a little roughed up - too). And througout the recording, the energy level is high. In my humble opinion, this is some good stuff.
(c) 2011 Paul Acquaro
Drummers, percussionists, glockenspielers, and bell wizzards
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Solo Percussion 2 comments
Nothing as boring as a solo percussion album, you might think. Until you hear what can be done with it. Below, a short overview of new solo, duo, retrospective albums by percussionists, artists who not only have something to tell (ideas, concepts, ...) but also know how to tell them (technical mastery, inventiveness, ...) in such a way that the listener is drawn in the story and wants to hear what's coming next.The lack of melodies and harmonies make it very difficult to pigeonhole solo percussion albums within genres. So, for sure, this is not all jazz, mostly avant-garde. In any case innovative and worth listening to.
Lucas Niggli & Peter Conradin Zumthor - Profos (Not Two, 2011) ***½
The way Swiss percussionists Lucas Niggli and Peter Conradin Zumthor start this album makes my point. It is repetitive, minimalist and incredibly hypnotic. They move through various styles, ranging from "tribal experiments" to high-pitched whistling noises, yet a really strong performance. The "pièce de résistance" is the half-hour long last track, a magnificent acoustic soundscape.
Zlatko Kaučič - Emigrants (Leo Records) ***½
Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič came to my attention with "Tolminski Punt", a collaboration with Peter Brötzmann. Now we find him back for a solo performance on a variety of percussion instruments, ranging from ground drums, gong, glockenspiel, sansula, kalimba, marimbula, self-made instruments to voice and flute. Because the latter two, world jazz may apply as a subgenre, with folk elements. No doubt he is the strongest story-teller of the whole lot, evoking the emigrant's voyage. A universal story.
Llorenç Barber - Retrospective 1994-2001 (Audition Records, 2011) ****
Incredible piece of music by Spanish percussionist and bell wizzard Llorenç Barber. Very avant-garde, but also incredibly majestic and overwhelming, fireworks included.
Listen and download free EP here.
Paul Hession - 40 Years Of The Drummer (Audition Records, 2011) ***½
True, this is not a real solo percussion album, yet this EP is a great tribute to Paul Hession, one of the most innovative avant jazz drummers of the last decades. Enjoy him here in the company of Joe McPhee, Simon Fell, Mick Beck, Ewan Stefani, although the percussion really dominates, and how!
Listen and download free album here.
Watch Lucas Niggli and Peter Conradin Zumthor
Andrew Lamb Trio - The Hues Of Destiny (CIMP, 2011) ***½
Sunday, September 18, 2011 Sax trio 1 comment
Jazz, and free jazz especially, is about directness, freedom, and a lack of formalism, and few other players combine these elements so well with the deep spiritual, festive and bluesy origins of the genre than saxophonist Andrew Lamb, here joined by Tom Abbs on bass and tuba (?), and Warren Smith on drums. And all three artists have performed and recorded a lot together. It's a real trio album, with a perfect cohesion among all three of them.
This album is more down to earth than the expansive predecessor "New Orleans Suite", although at moments, and especially in the title track, Lamb's playing is absolutely hypnotic, even sounding like North-African trance music.
On the other hand you have also pieces of less relevance, nice to listen to, like "Festival Di Mama" on which Lamb switches to flute, but with less gravity. On the last track Lamb switches to pungi, an Indian reed instrument, offering the album a nice touch of universal spirituality.
The album's lack of ambition is at the same time a weakness and a strength, because it is not groundbreaking while being very authentic and human at the same time.
Listen and download on iTunes.
Undivided - Moves Between Clouds (Multikulti, 2011) ****½
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Modern jazz 1 comment
Last year, Undivided's "The Passion" won the "Happy New Ears Award", organised by this blog after a vote among you, readers. So it was with more than genuine interest that we started listening to its successor, which has again great artwork, both on the cover and inside the album.
Thematically, the music shifts from Christian spirituality to Judaism, with the reference of "Ohr Ein Sof" on the inside package, or the "infinite light" as described in the torah, of the creator's state of being before he created.
The band consists of Waclaw Zimpel on clarinet and bass clarinet, Perry Robinson on clarinet, Bobby Few on piano, Mark Tokar on bass and Klaus Kugel on drums. Adding Perry Robinson on clarinet was a clever idea, because both clarinets give each other depth and contrast.
The music is as before clearly indebted to the Coltrane legacy, including Alice Coltrane, with long and slow thematic developments, post-bop, but then less focused on the musician's individual soloing as it is on the overall effect created by the entire band. As the spiritual theme might suggest, the compositions are full of reverend, solemn drama, exalted and expansive, trying to capture this state of being where there are no boundaries, no demarkations, no differences. Yet this does not mean that there is no musical substance here, quite to the contrary, the compositions, the harmonic development, the playing itself is again fantastic, with its own yearning aesthetic, and its integration of elements of various jazz subgenres, including today's music, but also klezmer. And all this is brought with the ambition of a classical symphony, flowing endlessly, full of majesty and grandeur.
A band with a great musical vision, and pitch perfect delivery. Again a great achievement.
Motif - Art Transplant (Clean Feed - 2011) ****
Friday, September 16, 2011 Modern jazz 2 comments
Motif is a Nowegian band with Atle Nymo on tenor, Håvard Wiik on piano, Ole Morten Vågan on double bass, and Håkon Mjåset Johansen on drums. They are joined for the occasion by German trumpeter Axel Dörner. All five musicians form the traditional bop quintet, and that's how they sound. With music that is composed, fully arranged and structured .... but with a twist. They are indeed the masters of deconstruction and reconstruction, abandoning their themes for wild or fun or experimental explorations, yet always falling back on the composed backbone of the piece.
This kind of explains the "Art Transplant" in the title, elements are taken out and replaced by different stuff, invented on the spot and integrated in the old structure. Critics could say that this is a nice trick to keep jazz artificially alive, yet the contrary is true : the band demonstrates how much of the jazz tradition is still of use today, and what a rich treasure trove it is for today's language of expression. The music is also fun to listen to with lots of playful elements. The playing and the stylistic shifts are really exceptional, yet they at times seem to overshadow the emotional power needed to make this a truly great album.
In contrast to "Facienda", the band's triple CD of live and sturio recordings released earlier this year, "Art Transplant" is much more coherent in its approach.
A strong stylistic achievement.
1,000,000 visitors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, September 16, 2011 10 comments
Dear readers, we have reached the 1 million "unique visitors" threshold, a remarkable feat for avant-garde and adventurous music. Today's technology allows me to announce that the 1 millionth visitors came through the "Jazzrochester" link, and that she/he is based in Brooklyn, NY. There is nothing to win, unfortunately, we are not McDonald's.
I truly hope that the musicians and labels have benefited from the exposure this blog has given them.
I equally hope that many of these 1 million visitors have come across musical discoveries in the past few years.
Keep reading, keep listening!
Open ears make open minds.
Sax and drums
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Avant-Garde, Avant-garde jazz, Sax-drums duo No comments
A short overview of new and worthwhile albums in the noble art of sax and drums duets.
Don Dietrich & Ben Hall - Spitfire (Brokenresearch, 2011) ***½
From the very first seconds till the very last on the second side of this vinyl album, you are tormented by the most violent and relentless sax-drums duo imagineable. Many have tried this before, and even if it is not or no longer ground-breaking, the absolute excess of energy and power raises this LP above the average. The take-no-prisoners approach of Don Dietrich and Ben Hall is not really suitable for breakfast, but at the right moment and mind-set, it is rewarding.
Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - Under A Double Moon (Roaratorio, 2011) ***½
One of my favorite musicians Joe McPhee teams up with punkjazz drummer Chris Corsano, better known from his collaborations with Paul Flaherty. But the album does not offer a situation of both musicians meeting half-way. It is a McPhee album with Corsano playing drums. Mcphee introduces his soft-toned spiritual lightness on the first track, and truth be told, Corsano deals with it well, leaving the space, then adding percussive subtlety of a nature that sounds surprising coming from him. McPhee picks up his pocket trumpet on the second track, adding variety to the recording. We have heard McPhee in better shape and with more depth on his recent Trio X albums, but it is good to hear him in a different context.
Tatsuya Nakatani & Michel Doneda - White Stone Black Lamp (Kobo, 2011) ****
The most adventurous of the three reviewed sax-drums duets, although not comparable, is the collaboration between drummer Tatsuya Nakatani and saxophonist Michel Doned. I know my mind has opened up to this kind of music in the past few years, because of its subtle, vibrating, oscillating, mesmerising, soft sounds. Because of its absolute lack of violence and volume, it's impossible to call it noise - although some will certainly catalogue it as such - but in my opinion it resonates, it resonates deeply, almost organically, like nature.
At moments, both musicians open aural experiences that you will never have heard before, refined and piercing, uncomfortable but authentic. The future sound of music.
Gianni Gebbia Trio - Empedocles (Horo, 2011) ***½
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Modern jazz, Sax trio No comments
Italian altoist Gianni Gebbia has developed his own kind of musical journey in the past decades, exploring the stylistic subgenres of jazz, from traditional over meditative or modern funkish to world jazz and world folk and avant-garde, yet always with a great sense of taste and authenticity, and with a story to tell. On "Empedocles", he is joined by Stefano Senni on bass and Francesco Cusa on drums, a fantastic rhythm section.
Upon first hearing, you can hear the legacy of the greats of modern jazz : Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell come to mind when I first heard the rhythm section : warm, with great pulse and inventiveness, yet free too.
Gebbia turns into his most playful element, using his warm and soaring approach for tunes of absolute joy, sometimes quite simple in their foundation, but so much fun, and so well developed that the listener gets easily in the same mood of pure musical enjoyment.
The long "Zoogony" is the centerpiece of the album, mid-tempo, with slow and somewhat jubilant sax phrases being propulsed forward by a wonderful hypnotic rhythm, underpinning Gebbia's further development of changing moods, weeping, then it becomes boppish like hell, then slowing down again and picking up from the beginning, increasing the tempo for a majestic finale in which all three musicians let go the brakes and just go for it.
You get a solo improvisation by Senni, a mambo even, the Charlie Haden composition "Song For Che", and a long "Blues For Aldo" to end the album, with some Ornette Colemand phrases included (that being said, Gebbia's sax-playing is by far superior to Coleman's, both in tone, expressivity and lyricism).
The album brings nothing new, nothing world-shocking, or even memorable in the totality of things that are being produced, including other material by Gebbia, but the result of the album is so good, played with so much skill and heart, and such a lack of pretense, that I can only recommend it.
The joy of jazz!
William Parker & ICI Ensemble - Winter Sun Crying - (Neos, 2011) *****
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 *****, Avant-garde jazz 3 comments
The ICI Ensemble Munich (International Composers & Improvisers) is a loose group of German musicians, with varying line-ups. They have developed their "Composer in Dialogue" concept to which they invite modern composers, with so far Olga Neuwirth, Barry Guy, Pierre Favre, George Lewis, Giancarlo Schiaffini und Vinko Globokar as invitees. From what I could find, only the collaborations with Neuwirth and Lewis were released on record, but I must say that - like most avant-garde music - their promotion is as amateurish as their music is good.
In 2009, the band invited William Parker to compose for them, and the result is absolutely staggering. Parker has of course composed for improvisational orchestras with his own Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, music of incredible density and freedom.
After some questionable side-steps in the past years, we find the New York artist back in full glory. In fifteen relatively short compositions, Parker develops incredibly coherent gems of sound, with the gravity and solemnity of a Bill Dixon, all forming one single suite, and with a lightness of arrangements that belies the size of the octet, because instruments come and go, for short bursts of sounds, a few phrases. Parker seems to try to evoke the strong memory imprints of his life or youth : "Bells", "Train", "Explosion", "Tears", or the space around : "Earth", "Moon", "Sky", but then in a deep and meaningful way : full of emotion and sprituality : "Hope", "Revolution", "Winter Sun Crying". The "Train" sounds like a train, or rather the shadow of a train. "Earth" is all angular and hard and unpredictable. "Moon" is slower and eery with unison howls and crescendos. "Explosion" is built around incredible tension, with weird background noises and dark rumbling drums laying the backdrop for innocent flute playing, juxtaposing Not surprisingly, the last piece, "Let's Change The World" is as fragile as it gets, almost transparent music with Parker's bamboo flute adding a kind of universal song for mankind.
Credit also goes to the entire band, who really move as one, with a great sense of direction creating sonic environments that are open in nature. To be clear, this is not all improvisation : this is well thought-through and structured music, with room for exploration and emphasis, and it makes it all the powerful for the listener.
This is jazz in its most modern shape and at its best : intelligent, complex, compelling, technically superb, surprising, deep, emotional.
Not to be missed and to me for sure one of the contender of album of the year.
The band is :
William Parker, double-bass, piccolo, trumpet, shakuhachi, double reeds
David Jager, soprano & tenor saxophones
Roger Jannotta, alto saxophone, piccolo, flute, clarinet
Markus Heinze, baritone & tenor saxophones
Christofer Varner, trombone, sampler
Martin Wolfrum, piano,
Johanna Varner, cello,
Gunnar Geisse, laptop & laptop guitar
Georg Janker, double-bass,
Sunk Poschi, drums
Nate Wooley / Scott R. Looney / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter - Scowl (ugEXPLODE, 2011) ****½
Monday, September 12, 2011 Avant-garde jazz 4 comments
I wonder what would make music like 'Scowl' of interest to the 'lay' listener? I suppose this is a question that has been asked in varying ways many times before, and no doubt will continue to be asked as members enter and (dare I say?) leave the fold of avant garde jazz. I don't pretend to have an answer, nor will I even posit a theory, all I can offer is that It is a compelling listen that offers the small raptures of pleasure in each one of its five sermons.
I believe that a fair comparison can be drawn to the efforts of Evans, Halvorson and Walter's recent release 'Electric Fruit'. In writing about that release, I said it was "a celebration, a joyous racket, a jumble of adjectives and superlatives running roughshod on the expected. The songs are ever shifting and building explorations of texture, tonality and expression." That description fits decently well here too. While the actual connective tissue between efforts is percussionist Weasel Walter, 'Scowl' is a like-minded excursion into purely improvised music that eschews any traditional song structures, harmonic cliches and expected rythmic figures. The music feels uninhibited, flowing and natural, capturing the spirit, even as it at first presents disorder to the ears.
All acoustic, Nate Wooley's trumpet, Damon Smith's bass, Scott R. Looney's piano and Walter's percussion exploit all the angles, sides, valves, keys, strings, and resonant surfaces available. Unbound from convention and expectations, the tracks veer from full throttle collective improvs to quiet exploits between the various combinations and extended techniques of the instruments. While describing each track would be a lexical adventure, an exemplar is 'Tomb Trisects' which begins with shards of bowed bass and leads into a dense mix with voices rising and receding, the musicians creating a journey through sound and time. The piano lays down a spontaneous figure that blends into the trumpet performing a solo that is more texture than sound. Walter lays out at times, and then bursts into the scene with clicks, clacks, thuds, executed with expert timing. Quiet moments appear as well, with Wooley playing short melodic phrases with a tone that brings to mind 1960's Miles Davis.
While 'Scowl' is a recording that requires repeated and intense listening, it is not without reward. It is smart, suggestive, hedonistic and cathartic. Though I have yet to answer the questions I began with, it with assurance that say that on each spin it reveals more and more.
© Paul Acquaro
Mark Hanslip & Javier Carmona - Dosados (Babel Label, 2011) ****½
Friday, September 09, 2011 Sax-drums duo No comments
Mark Hanslip is a name that appears regularly along with Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Mike Hurley, the excellent trio with Olie Brice and Tony Marsh 'Tom-Mix', and also more recently the splendid Twelves 'Adding Machine', reviewed here in March 2011. Along with colleague Javier Carmona, another mainstay of the lively UK free scene, the two have been working towards this CD, a much anticipated set of duets, the fruit of regular duo gigs and sessions throughout the past years. A duo recording is certainly a brave step for any improvising musician to take, John Coltrane's Interstellar Space (maybe the first sax/drums duo album) has been followed by the pairings of Jackie McLean and Michael Garvin, Anthony Braxton/Max Roach, Archie Shepp/Max Roach, David Murray/Kahil el Zabar or Evan Parker/Tony Oxley etc, it's a difficult area in which to work and certainly not very 'user friendly' when selling albums! On this CD outing Hanslip and Carmona have taken a similar direction to Coltrane - i.e. they 'almost' play it straight, working more on lines and rhythms as a focal point.
In fact the first word that came to mind on hearing this CD was 'pointillism' - a method developed by some impressionist painters. The two instruments work together, splattering (or is that spraying) notes and beats onto the sonic landscape. The attention taken over details by the drums/percussion is refreshing, no notes are wasted and space and dynamics play an important role. The sax takes just the right balance between lines and sound, sometimes integrating subtle multi-phonics as in 'ffs' then later letting the notes create intense free flowing melodies. 'Preamblo to Nipple 2' seems to have a theme but quickly dissolves into an exciting and detailed dialogue between the two players. 'Mucha Mierda' builds little points of sax and drums, dabbed onto the canvas building into an intense free wheeling improvisation. Much of the work here could be re-titled using painters and painting from American artists such as Jasper Johns, Brigit Riley and Jackson Pollock. Track 11 - 'Jowls, and a Beard' is maybe what a Jackson Pollock painting would sound like ... if they could speak! The track starts delicately, carefully placing notes and beats until the music takes it's own direction, an almost Zen Archery approach?
These are just ways to describe music which for me strongly conjures up images that are often abstract, but never without direction. The album is certainly an intense listen, not a bad sign in this day and age. The music is never short of invention, it's atmospheric, colourful, full and yet has space, and actually it's all quite approachable. One hopes that the duo will continue to develop especially if the results of this first recording are a peek into the window of the future.
Note : The CD was originally released a few months ago, withdrawn and then rescheduled for release at a later date so we suggest you contact Mark Hanslip directly at markhanslip79@gmail.com for more information.
David S Ware - A World Of Sound
Friday, September 09, 2011 Video No comments
The David Lynch Foundation Television released a short documentary on saxophonist David S. Ware. You can watch the video here.
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Emo Albino - Lady Lord (Sofa, 2011) ****
Thursday, September 08, 2011 Avant-Garde 2 comments
I don't have much time today. Hence a very short review about some exceptional minimalist noise by Norwegians Ingar Zach and Ivar Grydeland. On their first album the former played percussion and the latter guitar. Now, they are credited with "music". And that's how it sounds : shades of sounds, hovering in the air like dark fog obfuscating any sense of clarity and direction, really dark, ominous, foreboding. The soundtrack for nightmares.
I have praised Zach's vision of music before. This is in the same vein. And equally compelling.
This is not jazz. This is not noise. This is not electronic music. This is something else.
Jon Corbett's Dangerous Musics - Kongens Gade (Leo, 2011) ****
Wednesday, September 07, 2011 Trumpet trio No comments
A kind of sophomore album to Jon Corbett's "Dangerous Musics '91", an album of half-forgotten music, revived in 2008. Now Corbett is back with Nick Stephens on bass and Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums, doing as then, only better. And for trumpet trio lovers, I can also recommend "Today's Play" with Corbett, Stephens and Tony Marsh.
The playing is strong, with Corbett using his short phrases, vocalised mostly, creating dynamic sonic landscapes of raw intensity, with notes and beats splattered all around creating a sonic equivalent of action painting, lots of energy but then with a good vision of what the end result is expected to sound like, a glorious flux of crisp and fresh in-the-moment playing, full of urgency and immediacy, the here and the now, without false pretense or show or tinsel.
Corbett's trumpet is setting the tone : he can yearn, sigh, sing weep or rant, but the phrases are always short, with a kind of surprise feeling of wonder on them, like musical question marks. If anyone is well placed to interact with the trumpeter, it's Nick Stephens, his long time musical partner, the one with the deep sound and round tone, and the equally sudden improvisational surprises. Moholo-Moholo is equally fantastic, and the moments are many when the listener - me, you - can do nothing else than smile or laugh because of the pure percussive joy he is hearing, inventive, precise and yes .... right. The band's energy creates an incredible pulse and drive, and that without explicit rhythms, quite an achievement.
You could argue that the trio format limits the possibilities of musical development, and even if some moments of the four tracks are easily interchangeable, each track still has its specific quality due to the variation of instruments Corbett uses - trumpet, valve trombone, bamboo flute - but at least the last track has its slower, more resigned parts.
A real trio, more concerned with the joint result and dynamics than about their individual performance, and a trio of musicians who've done it all, who no longer need to prove anything, excelling once again and on record, relaxed and intense.
I absolutely love every second of it.
Evan Parker - At Somewhere There (Barnyard Records, 2011) ****
Monday, September 05, 2011 Sax trio 1 comment
Evan Parker has played in many formats and line-ups, but his trio recordings with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton are possibly among the better knowns, having changed the sax-bass-drums trio concept over the past decades. On this album, the British master is joined by Canadians Wes Neal on bass and Joe Sorbara on drums, with a trio building on Parker's legacy, yet somehow more accessible.
Anyone wondering how music is evolving, should listen to this album. The fourty-minute improvisation has three musicians moving in perfect symbiosis through soft and subtle and sensitive shifts of sentiment, with Parker exploring the incredible richness of his timbral pallette on the saxophone, a wealth of tones, and slight variations and technical finesse that he showed the world existed in this instrument, and that is now being copied by many, or at least attempts thereto. This is a story of human feelings, expressed as a universe of sound, warm and intelligent, and only possible with deep knowledge of the instruments and of social empathy to make it work coherently.
Anyway, the gentle approach, of intimacy and respectful interaction is kept throughout the album, with rare increases of volume or density, but more likely developed around silence. The music flows nicely and both Neal and Sorbara - having played together often before - are Parker's ideal companions on this journey, being inventive themselves, expressive and as said, moving forward in an excellent stylistic coherence, even when the music becomes more adventurous and fragile towards the end, with Parker's short, evaporating "whimperish" phrases perfectly embraced and comforted by bass and drums, and taken along on more solid ground for the finale.
A strong performance.
Watch a video from a more recent performance by the trio.
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Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day 2 (Songlines 2011) ****½
Sunday, September 04, 2011 Modern jazz 7 comments
Personnel: Nate Wooley: trumpet; Matt Bauder: tenor saxophone; Chris Dingman: vibraphone; Eivind Opsvik: bass; Harris Eisenstadt: drums, compositions.
One might expect daring musical adventures from this group of forward thinking musicians, yet the album the second in the Canada series, is not as avant-jazz as one might expect, however that doesn't mean it's not original. The compositions are excellent, dynamic and complex, the playing (as expected) top quality, and that's what counts in my books. Eisenstadt's 'Woodblock Prints' (2010) was very high up on many 'best of' lists and I find that the compositional work and playing far out-rates the 'Woodblock Prints' set.
The themes on this CD are comparable to the 'Woodbock Prints' album, but here the line up (being smaller) gives a very different sound, more compact and thus agile. The lightest tune - dedicated to his son - on the CD is probably 'Song for Owen' (TK3) a tune played as if the last dance of the evening, maybe it should have been the last track? In fact the accessibility of the album, which brims over with melody, is one of it's great advantages. The music is never throw-away, on pieces such as 'Now Longer' (TK5) or 'To See/Tootie' (Tk7) the group cooks away over dark ostinato bass lines, a device which Eisenstadt seems to like. Both tunes move through different atmospheres and where the vibes really come to the fore, although it's 'Cobble Hook' and 'To Be' where you get the best chance to hear Chris Dingman really stretch out. All tunes have been finely crafted in terms of detail including the solo sections also, pieces such as 'To Seventeen', 'To Eh' and 'Now Longer' (which has a nice bass feature) all unfold as if mini-suites. The aforementioned tune 'To See/Tootsie' is one such multi layered pieces, highlighting all the soloists in one way or another.
As for the soloists it's the two horns who get plenty of space to stretch out. Matt Bauder manages to play some strong solos cutting a line between a straight ahead approach and more jagged ideas. There's an interesting exchange between the sax and drums on the first track (Cobble Hook), which shows off Bauder's playing to great effect. In fact anyone who doesn't know Bauder will be in for a surprise, a little like Zoot Sims in the 21st Century. Nate Wooley also seems inspired and manages to lay down excellent fiery solos which whilst edgy and searching remain mostly melodic. It's also nice to hear him in this acoustic situation away from his 'amplifier mode'. Eisnestadt, Opsvik and Dingman all function as a unit keeping the music firmly anchored around the various riffs, unison passages, ostinatos and general rhythmic groundswell which swings when needed.
The use of vibraphone over guitar or piano gives this group an open and very modern sound which borders on the free but always remains firmly routed in fine crafted melody. Altogether this album carries on the original idea laid down by such bands as Ralph Peterson's F'Otet, the Theo Jorgensmann 4tet (on HatHut) or Chris Menten's Jazz Van. Anyone who enjoyed 'Woodblock Prints' will enjoy Eisenstadt - Canada Day 2, ....... heartily recommended!
Footnote - anybody know why the band is called 'Canada Day'?
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5 arrested on prostitution, drug charges in Warren neighborhood
Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer: five people arrested Thursday on prostitution, drug charges in effort that targets such crime in neighborhoods.
5 arrested on prostitution, drug charges in Warren neighborhood Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer: five people arrested Thursday on prostitution, drug charges in effort that targets such crime in neighborhoods. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2019/05/24/warren-prostitution-drugs-arrest/1220222001/
Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press Published 12:45 p.m. ET May 24, 2019 | Updated 4:56 p.m. ET May 24, 2019
The Warren Police Department is continuing its crackdown on prostitution and drugs.
This time, it's in a neighborhood.
A week after arresting nearly three dozen people in the first phase of a human trafficking operation, officers again targeted prostitution and drugs through a separate initiative that focuses on lower-level operations in the neighborhoods.
Five people were arrested on prostitution, drug and related charges when police executed a search warrant Thursday as a result of a tip in a residential area in the 6100 block of 10 Mile, Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said Friday.
Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer discusses a three-day human sex trafficking crackdown in Warren during a news conference on May 17, 2019. (Photo: Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press)
The strike at this location was part of Operation P.A.I.D. — People Against Illegal Drugs — which Dwyer said is an effort that has targeted drugs and prostitution in the neighborhoods since late 2017. A person who provides a tip that leads to an arrest can receive a $500 reward from the narcotics forfeiture fund, he said.
More: 35 arrests in human sex trafficking sting in Warren
Three women were charged with prostitution — keeping a house of ill fame, possession of cocaine, use of a computer to commit a crime and prostitution/accosting and soliciting, Dwyer said.
From right, Joanne Abdenour, 49, Michael DePew, 44, Lindsey Krantz, 25, Shila Martnick, 38 and Theron Mosley, 45. (Photo: Warren Police Department)
Police identified them as Joanne K. Abdenour, 49, and Shila A. Martnick, 38, both of Warren, and Lindsey A. Krantz, 25, of Hazel Park.
Abdenour was ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on a $100,000 bond while Martnick and Krantz each were ordered held on $60,000 bonds during their arraignments, according to 37th District Court in Warren.
Police said Michael M. Depew, 44, of Detroit was charged with delivery of methamphetamine and cocaine and disorderly person — loitering at house of ill fame. Theron L. Mosley, 45, of Mount Clemens was charged with possession of cocaine and disorderly person — loitering at a house of ill fame, police said.
Depew was ordered held on a $150,000 bond, and Mosley was ordered held on a $30,000 bond during their arraignments, police said.
Dwyer said the arrests came after police developed information through a website. An undercover officer then arranged for a date and gained needed information for a search warrant to be executed, he said.
Dwyer said police seized two vehicles, multiple cellphones, methamphetamine and crack cocaine.
He said he wants to remind residents of the initiative, which is an attempt to clean up neighborhoods and keep them safe.
Here's how Dwyer said the effort has fared the last year-and-a-half:
In 2018, there were 162 tips; 12 search warrants, and 40 arrests
This year, there have been 39 tips; two search warrants (includes Thursday), and 11 arrests (includes the five Thursday)
More: Madison Heights man charged with human trafficking
In a separate effort last week, police arrested 35 people from across metro Detroit in Operation Crusade, a separate multiphase effort to combat human trafficking that initially focused on hotels and motels in the city.
While no one was charged specifically with human trafficking, Dwyer said Friday that police are looking at adding those charges in discussions with the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office.
A Warren Police poster of the nearly three dozen people arrested in a three-day human sex trafficking crackdown in Warren. (Photo: Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press)
Contact Christina Hall: chall@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter: @challreporter.
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Don’t deregulate electricity in Michigan
Free Press readerse share their opinions on energy legislation, criticism of Gov. Snyder and more.
Don’t deregulate electricity in Michigan Free Press readerse share their opinions on energy legislation, criticism of Gov. Snyder and more. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/27FTcdM
Michigan Published 10:41 p.m. ET May 19, 2016
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Michigan’s Legislature is considering key energy policy changes that could widely impact our state for decades. Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3), proudly headquartered in Michigan for 25 years, works with energy providers in southern states where electric markets are responsibly regulated and in Midwestern states with deregulated markets.
Our clients in well-regulated states are growing their businesses, creating jobs, making investments and helping strengthen communities. Clients in deregulated states have struggled to serve their customers and make necessary investments.
Michigan’s utilities have invested in Michigan over the past 100 years, building the energy infrastructure that powers our communities and economy. They employ tens of thousands of Michiganders and have a proven commitment to the future of Michigan.
The energy sector is undergoing significant transformation, and our state needs a policy that ensures critical investments in affordable, reliable and clean energy. That means maintaining fair choice for Michigan customers while responsibly closing an unfair and costly loophole that lets out-of-state energy providers avoid investing in Michigan’s energy infrastructure.
We know that Michigan needs the energy policies put forth in the comprehensive and reasonable Senate Bills 437 and 438. We support them because we live here, work here and employ people here — and have seen the outcomes in other states without such provisions and safeguards.
Cindy Pasky
President and CEO, Strategic Staffing Solutions
Fair criticism?
With all due respect, Gov. Rick Snyder should not be admonished repeatedly by certain liberal columnists in the Freep just because of the “R” next to his name and title. Flint and Detroit have been ruled by the Democrats for the majority of the past several decades with diminishing results. I can't honestly believe ex-Govs. Jim Blanchard and Jennifer Granholm would have been criticized as much as Snyder has. They had their years of chances to correct problems and issues in Flint and Detroit. Where were they then?
Dennis Berg
A double standard
You want to know why people hate government? Here’s why — about five years ago I received a letter from my city telling me that I could have my house number stenciled on the curb in front of my house for a fee. I had never thought about it before but it seemed like a good idea. But why pay someone else when I could buy the paint and do it myself? Fast forward five years, I received a letter in the mail telling me that I violated a city graffiti ordinance by painting my address on the curb. What a travesty!
Laurie Malek
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GasLog Ltd. and GasLog Partners LP Announce CFO Transition
MONACO – January 16, 2017 – GasLog Ltd. (NYSE: GLOG) (“GasLog”) and GasLog Partners LP (NYSE:GLOP) (“GasLog Partners” or the “Partnership”) announced today that, following a period of successful growth and the transformation of the Company, Simon Crowe has advised the Boards of both companies of his decision to step down from his position as Chief Financial Officer on June 30, 2017. In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Mr. Crowe will remain in his current position as the search for his replacement proceeds.
Peter Livanos, Chairman of GasLog and Director of GasLog Partners, said, “Simon joined GasLog at a critical point as it evolved from a private business into a leading publically traded LNG transportation company. During the years Simon has held the role of CFO at GasLog, he has been instrumental in building a strong finance team and executing a great number of successful capital market transactions, the most significant of which was the IPO of our MLP, GasLog Partners. I would like to wish Simon every success in his continuing career.”
Paul Wogan, GasLog CEO said, “I have thoroughly enjoyed working closely with Simon over the last 4 years, absorbing his energy and passion for the business. His support and influence on the business will certainly be missed. Simon is committed to ensuring a smooth transition for his replacement and we are hopeful that an announcement on this will soon be forthcoming. We all wish Simon well as he moves onto other opportunities.”
Andy Orekar, GasLog Partners CEO, said, “Simon has been a trusted and valued partner to me since the inception of our MLP. He has developed an outstanding finance and accounting organization and served as a mentor to our high performing group of professionals. I am confident that Simon will bring his many talents and expertise to his next endeavor.”
Simon Crowe commented, “Since joining GasLog, I have been part of something very special as we have profitably grown from 10 vessels in 2013 to 28 today. It has been very rewarding to help build what is certainly a world class operator of LNG carriers, and develop a first class finance team. With the Company strategically and financially well positioned, I feel the time is now right for me to seek new challenges outside of GasLog and GasLog Partners. I wish the Company well and look forward to watching it flourish.”
About GasLog
GasLog is an international owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers providing support to international energy companies as part of their LNG logistics chain. GasLog’s consolidated fleet consists of 27 LNG carriers (22 ships on the water and 5 on order). GasLog also has an additional LNG carrier which was sold to a subsidiary of Mitsui Co. Ltd. and leased back under a long-term bareboat charter. GasLog’s consolidated fleet now includes nine LNG carriers in operation owned by GasLog’s subsidiary, GasLog Partners. GasLog’s principal executive offices are at Gildo Pastor Center, 7 Rue du Gabian, MC 98000, Monaco.
About GasLog Partners
GasLog Partners is a growth-oriented master limited partnership focused on owning, operating and acquiring LNG carriers under multi-year charters. GasLog Partners’ fleet consists of nine LNG carriers with an average carrying capacity of approximately 149,500 cbm, each of which has a multi-year time charter. GasLog Partners’ principal executive offices are located at Gildo Pastor Center, 7 Rue du Gabian, MC 98000, Monaco.
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Netflix Cancels ‘The OA’ Sci-Fi Series After 2 Seasons
By Genevieve Scarano 08.05.2019 :: 2:40PM EST 08.05.2019
Netflix's sci-fi series 'The OA' will not have a third season. (Photo Credit: JoJo Whilden / Netflix)
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The OA, Netflix’s sci-fi series that involves alternate dimensions and missing individuals, has been cancelled after two seasons.
The series, which premiered its eight-episode second season on March 22, will not have a third season, according to a Netflix statement obtained by The Wrap. A source told The Wrap that the streaming service analyzes viewing versus cost when it comes to cancellations and renewals and that The OA was a “big creative swing” that Netflix was “proud to take” for the past three years.
the end of #theoa “🐙🍷😭🙏🏽🔑” – last text to Grandma Vu
A post shared by Brit Marling (@britmarling) on Aug 5, 2019 at 10:05am PDT
“We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of ‘The OA,’ and are grateful to [co-creator/star Brit Marling and co-creator/executive producer Zal Batmanglij] for sharing their audacious vision and for realizing it through their incredible artistry,” Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of original content, said in a statement. “We look forward to working with them again in the future, in this and perhaps many other dimensions.”
PART II. NOW STREAMING. pic.twitter.com/1LY5bicicj
— The OA (@The_OA) March 22, 2019
The OA, which stars Marling as Prairie Johnson/The OA (the “Original Angel”) a young woman who mysteriously appears after disappearing for seven years and can see, even though she was blind before this time frame, first aired in December 2016. For The OA Part II, Johnson navigates a new dimension, one where she has a completely different life as a Russian heiress and one where she becomes Hap’s captive again. Teaming up with Karim Washington, a private eye, Johnson tries to find a missing teen that might be involved with a supernatural residence.
Netflix didn’t explain why The OA was cancelled, however, the show has an 84 percent and 83 percent rating on RottenTomatoes.com from television critics and viewers, The Hollywood Reporter noted. The OA Season 2 received a Rotten Tomatoes score of 92 percent, while The OA Season 1 earned a Rotten Tomatoes score of 77 percent.
“While we cannot finish this story, I can promise you we will tell others. I haven’t figured out any other effective coping mechanism for being alive in the anthropocene,” Marling wrote in an Instagram post. “And maybe, in some ways, it’s okay not to conclude these characters.”
Netflix’s ‘The OA’ Season 2 Trailer Teases Alternate Dimension Mayhem
Netflix to Premiere ‘Enter the Anime’ Documentary
Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix in August 2019
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FDA May Put Strong Warning on Breast Implants
Before receiving breast implants, women should be told of the possible risks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says in a draft proposal.
The agency suggests a boxed warning and a checklist outlining potential harms, such as pain, fatigue and further surgery.
"We have heard from many women that they are not fully informed of the risks when considering breast implants. They've stated that they need more information to facilitate meaningful conversations with their doctors and to make appropriate decisions for themselves," said FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy Abernethy and Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Many of those women suggested that a boxed warning and patient decision checklist could provide this information, Abernethy and Shuren added in an agency news release.
The FDA wants breast implant makers to warn women that breast implants are not lifetime devices, and that the risk of complications rises the longer a patient has the implant. Also, additional surgery may be required to treat the complications. Other possible complications include a risk of developing breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, as well as problems such as fatigue or joint pain.
Breast implant makers should also include a checklist at the end of a patient informational booklet or brochure to help guide discussion when a woman is consulting with a surgeon, the FDA said.
Along with giving patients the opportunity to review the specific risks of breast implants, the checklist should encourage them to ask about the surgeon's experience, education, training and credentials.
The draft guidance also includes revised rupture screening recommendations for patients with silicone gel-filled breast implants. Currently, MRI screenings are recommended beginning three years after implantation and every other year thereafter.
The new guidance proposes that patients without symptoms undergo either ultrasound or MRI screening five to six years after implantation and every two years thereafter. An MRI is recommended for patients who have symptoms at any time or uncertain ultrasound results for breast implant rupture.
Easy-to-understand ingredient information should also be included on breast implant labeling, the FDA said.
The proposal changes are now open to public comment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more on the risks and complications of breast implants.
Copyright © 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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liquidchild: Unfortunately I no longer work in the vicinity of this popular cache so archiving it to give someone else a chance of giving it a rethink.
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Quick cache and dash overlooking Beaconsfield station.
About SideTracked
We have Motorway Mayhem. We have A-Road Anarchy (cos there aren’t many Motorways in Wales!). But what about public transport users? SideTracked Caches are intended to provide quick Cache-and-dashes at Train Stations.
SideTracked started at Evesham station on August 10th 2007, placed by schnarff & bikermel76. It took a while to get started, but is now spreading across the country!
History of Beaconsfield Station
Beaconsfield railway station is the railway station of the town of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. The station is served by Chiltern Railways trains from Marylebone towards High Wycombe and Birmingham Snow Hill and is situated between Seer Green & Jordans and High Wycombe stations.
The station was opened in 1906 as part of the construction of the GWR/GCR joint line. The original station layout was four track, with two through roads and two platform roads, but the through roads removed in early 1974 and trains now use the platform roads. Recently, as part of Chiltern's Project Evergreen 2 the platform roads were upgraded to increase the line speed for through trains from 40mph to 75mph. A taxi cab company is based at the station.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.
In October 2007 work began on installing ticket barriers: these became operational on 10 March 2008. Prior to this the station was a popular through pedestrian route from one side of Beaconsfield to the other. Since the barriers were installed this walk is no longer possible, and a quarter-mile detour is now necessary.
In the early 2000s the station car park was made into a two story multi-storey car park. In March 2008 the top deck was closed for work to start on adding a third storey. This opened on 1 September 2008 bringing the total available spaces up to 696.
The typical Monday-Friday off peak service from Beaconsfield is:
4 trains per hour (tph) to London Marylebone, of which:
2 call at Gerrards Cross only
1 calls at Seer Green and Jordans, Gerrards Cross, Denham Golf Club, Denham, West Ruislip, Northolt Park and Wembley Stadium
1 calls at Seer Green and Jordans, Gerrards Cross, Denham, South Ruislip, Northolt Park, Sudbury Hill Harrow and Wembley Stadium
2 tph to High Wycombe
1 tph to Princes Risborough, calling at High Wycombe and Saunderton, which extends to Bicester North every two hours (calling at Haddenham and Thame Parkway)
1 tph to Bicester North, calling at High Wycombe, Princes Risborough and Haddenham and Thame Parkway, which extends to Stratford-upon-Avon every two hours (calling at Kings Sutton, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Hatton, Claverdon and Bearley)
Fictional Identity
Beaconsfield railway station features in a number of episodes of television crime drama series Midsomer Murders, where it is portrayed as 'Causton railway station', in the county town of Midsomer, the fictional county in which the series is set. For these appearances temporary 'Causton' station nameboards are erected, but other fixtures and fittings are unaltered, and in some cases local Beaconsfield advertisements may be observed in the background of shots.
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https://www.govinfosecurity.com/
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The Art of the Steal: FIN7's Highly Effective Phishing
Cybercrime Gang Phoned Victims to Increase Phishing Attack Success Rates Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 7, 2018
A FIN7 phishing email (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Criminal indictments against three alleged high-level members of a prolific cybercrime gang called FIN7, unsealed last week, reveal the low-tech attack tactics that had high levels of success.
At an Aug. 1 press conference, prosecutors alleged FIN7 stole 15 million payment cards from more than 150 companies in the U.S. and abroad. Security experts, meanwhile, as of 2015 had already tied the gang's activities to more than $1 billion in fraud.
One of FIN7's primary targets has been businesses that gather payment card data. "FIN7 most commonly focused on fast-food and casual dining restaurants, hotels, casinos and businesses with a high frequency of point-of-sale transactions," the U.S. Department of Justice says.
That's no surprise, because stolen payment card data can be sold on underground marketplaces, giving attackers a quick way to monetize their hack attacks.
Popular Target: Catering and Group Bookings
Law enforcement officials alllege that the FIN7 gang would make telephone calls to individuals handling catering or group bookings inside businesses in an attempt to trick them into opening malicious emails that would unleash malware in the employee's network and potentially give attackers remote access. Sometimes, the emails carried a version of Carbanak malware, which is designed to steal access credentials as well as take screenshots of a victim's PC screen, prosecutors say.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Jay S. Tabb Jr. of the FBI's Seattle field office describes how a typical FIN7 phishing attack might unfold.
"If you look at the detail in these emails, they [FIN7] did a lot of work to decide who to target, how to target, and they sent the email, they followed with a phone call, they knew quite a bit about the company, because most companies have public-facing websites, where you can figure out who the head of catering is," as well as find their email address, FBI Special Agent in Charge Jay S. Tabb Jr. of the FBI's Seattle field office, said at the press conference.
"Because legitimate businesses need to get business" - and for businesses that offer catering, some of those communications are sure to be handled by emailing the catering department - "it's probably not uncommon to have a Word document attached that says 'catering request,'" Tabb said.
Samples of phishing emails sent by FIN7 (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
The Justice Department says FIN7's victims included Arby's, Chili's, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Jason's Deli and Sonic Drive-In, among many others.
Federal officials announce in an Aug. 1 press conference that three alleged members of the cybercrime group "FIN7" are in custody.
Security firm Trend Micro has also tied the group to payment card thefts from Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, noting that the stolen payment card data ended up for sale on March 28 on the carder forum Joker's Stash. Previous victims of FIN7, it said, had included Trump Hotels and Whole Foods, among others.
Education Has Limits
Because phishing emails rely on trickery, security experts say that user education remains essential (see Hello! Can You Please Enable Macros?).
U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes describes why phishing attacks are so difficult to defend against.
"It's hard to defend against this; it's part of why we want to talk about how it happens so that folks really understand what they're looking for," said Annette L. Hayes, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington.
But no one is immune to being tricked. Numerous studies have found that even highly technical users occasionally fall for phishing attacks. False positives can also be a problem. In those cases, users discard legitimate emails because they suspect that they're fake.
Reality: Salespeople Need to Sell
Gary Warner of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Whatever rules a business sets for handling an attachment, it's unlikely that someone whose job is in sales, for example, is going to refrain from opening an email about a potential sales opportunity, provided the email it looks good enough to be real.
"Imagine that your job is booking hotel rooms for group travel, or handling large catering deliveries for business meetings from your restaurant," says Gary Warner, director of research in computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in a blog post. "A new potential customer calls and says: 'I'd like to book 40 hotel rooms for our sports team that is coming to play in a tournament in your town next month. What email should I send the details to?'"
Or someone says they want to place a big lunch order and would prefer to email the details through. "What sales person is not going to open that attachment?" Warner asks. "Right: Every single one will do so." And that's exactly how FIN7 allegedly operated.
Source: Justice Department
As a result, telling employees to beware of fake emails is an incomplete strategy.
Many security experts recommend organizations take another step, requiring employees to use some type of two-factor authentication to access their email and other business-critical systems. That way, attackers may have a tougher time stealing and reusing authentication credentials (see Reddit Says Attackers Bypassed SMS-Based Authentication).
Anyone at greater risk of being targeted online should already be using two-factor authentication to secure their accounts, security specialists advise (see Nation-State Spear Phishing Attacks Remain Alive and Well).
Another good piece of advice for fighting phising: Never open attachments from strangers. But like "learn to spot dangerous-looking attachments," that's not a foolproof strategy.
"Every organization has a least a few persons [who are] required to 'open attachments from strangers.' HR open CVs from strangers, sales open RFIs from strangers, etc.," says Tal Be'ery, security research manager at Israel-based blockchain cryptography firm KZen networks, via Twitter.
Plenty of scammers have also infiltrated legitimate email accounts and used their contact lists to distribute social engineering attacks to the victim's friends. One example: the "stranded traveler" scam, in which a friend apparently needs money immediately to pay a hotel bill after being robbed of their smartphone and passport while vacationing abroad. These phishing emails get sent from what appears to be a trusted account.
Quarantine Attachments in the Cloud
Maciej Cegłowski, who administers social bookmarking site Pinboard, says a good phishing defense for many organizations might be to always open attachments in the cloud from a device that doesn't run a desktop operating system.
"Talking about attachments is like abstinence education. 'Never open attachments' is correct but untenable advice. ... The safest way to view email is likely on an iPhone, iPad or Chromebook with attachments opening in GDrive," Cegłowski says via Twitter. "If you save [an] attachment to your laptop and upload it to GDrive, take care to delete the local file, or two weeks later you'll wonder 'what was this?' and double-click it."
Don't consider an attachment safe because it came from a trusted party. When they come for your account, it will be in the guise of an attachment or phishing link from someone you know well, and that you've opened dozens of times in the past.
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 3, 2018
But Warner says that while such a strategy might be viable for smaller organizations - especially newer ones without "a legacy of complex Word and Excel docs" - it likely wouldn't fly for larger businesses, or be foolproof.
"While Google does an excellent job, every company I've worked with has had some emails 'get through,'" he says. "Would moving to Google Docs help stop some of those malicious docs from triggering? Definitely. But are most corporate environments be ready to abandon Microsoft Office? I really don't think so."
Phishing Defense: Do Something
More sophisticated strategies are available, such as blocking known phishing domains. Organizations can also use technology to scan attachments or ensure that all inbound content gets intercepted and defused (see Safer Content Handling: Extract Information, Leave the Rest).
Regardless of technology, Warner says that rather than just educating users, "activating" employees to serve as part of an organization's phishing defense is key. "Making sure employees know how and have the tools to handle those suspicious emails is a key to success," he says. So too is ensuring that the security team follows them up.
Whatever the defensive strategy, as the FIN7 case makes clear, phishing attacks succeed by targeting people.
So don't leave users to fend for themselves.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
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Something Nice Actually Happened on The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is all nice now, but how long can it last? WARNING: Spoilers
By Freddie Campion
Gene Page/AMC
Last week's episode of The Walking Dead had a lot of explosions, but last night there were fireworks of a different kind thanks to Rick and Michonne. In case you've forgotten, let me tell you again: they got it on.
I'll just give you a moment to absorb that. I know, damn.
Michonne and Rick. I know, damn!
Looking back, there were subtle hints Rick and Michonne have had chemistry brewing between them for a while, but it was still a shock. Mainly because nice things like this rarely happen on The Walking Dead. So what does their new romance mean for the rest of the season? Is The Walking Dead going all soft?
Going off this episode alone, maybe.
Walking Dead Fan Really Goes for It, Bites Norman Reedus
Reedus, to his credit, is being really nice about it
By Nicole Silverberg
At the start of this week's episode we meet back up with Rick and co a few weeks after the events of last week. The community is still rebuilding and supplies are starting to run low, but Alexandria is no longer in panic mode and it looks like the residents have a handle on things for the first time in months. Alexandria feels a lot like the prison felt at the start of season 4—when Rick decided he just wanted to be a simple farmer. If you remember that, however, you'll remember that it didn't last long (there's no need for simple farmers in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland) and it wasn't long before Rick was forced to shed his farmer persona and embrace his inner savage. According to the formula, whatever stability Rick and co are enjoying right now, it almost certainly can't last.
The carnage left behind at Alexandria last week.
Oh look, Rick and Daryl are heading off on a "routine" supply run. I bet they're going to run into Negan, who has long been overdue an appearance, and who is exactly the kind of person to throw a spanner in the works. I'm right, aren't I? Tell me I'm right.
No, I'm wrong. All Daryl and Rick find is Jesus. And by that I mean they literally find a guy called Jesus who, in a very un-Jesus-like move, steals a truck full of supplies they were bringing back to Alexandria with them. Rick and Daryl steal the truck back, but the resulting fracas ends with the truck at the bottom of a lake. Womp womp.
Daryl and Jesus play an adorable game of tag.
Although the people at Alexandria probably needed those supplies, the whole debacle feels more like a raucous comedy of errors, and the tone of it—from Jesus' key-stealing wizardry to the slapstick way Rick and Daryl chase him around a field—feels uncharacteristically jolly. Especially when compared to the carnage of last week.
This is only echoed when Rick, who wanted to close ranks at the beginning of season 6 and not let any more outsiders in, convinces Daryl to let him bring Jesus back to Alexandria with them. Rick alludes to them still needing to be cautious about the obviously slippery character, but I think it's clear they're all going to be friends.
The undeniably terrible Spencer.
Meanwhile, back at Alexandria, the mushiness only continues.
Spencer—a.k.a. the new worst character on the show—heads off into the woods with a shovel. Michonne, who we learn earlier in the episode has been living with Rick and Carl, follows him, and finds out that he is attempting to find and bury his mother's zombified corpse. He completes his task, but only thanks to help fro Michonne and Carl, who also just randomly happens to be out there. God, Spencer, you suck so much.
Sneaky Jesus be sneaking.
Spencer finally laying his mother to rest, and Carl telling Michonne he would do the same for her, point to the big theme in last night's episode: family. Or, to be more precise, the question of whether or not it's possible to have a new family when your old one is roaming around in the woods feasting on humans.
It would be sweet if it wasn't for the fact this is something the show has returned to time and time again, and feels a little stale after six seasons to ponder the meaning of family again. Maybe Michonne and Rick hooking up is a way of asking this same question but with a slightly different backdrop?
The only silver lining to all this sentimentalism is the fact when the show ventures into sweet territory like this, it's usually as a way of resetting the plot, and setting the scene for some diabolical force to come in and ruin it all. Back at the prison it was the mysterious infection, and based on where this season has been going so far it's pretty clear it's going to be Negan this time. I guess we'll see more of him next week.
Yes, yes, I know I said that last week too. But I have a good feeling about it this time.
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Sheriff curbs cars, demands replacements
Mike Tischio
The Union County sheriff has parked two of his cruisers at the county’s Government Center building to make a point.
Sheriff John Schrawder said the continued wear and tear on his cars — due to the trips his department makes to move county prisoners to other jails — has made those cars unsafe to use.
The Union County jail had been overcrowded for a long time. In fact, the commissioners had a study done in 2003 that recommended a solution to the crowded conditions be researched and acted upon starting this year. Specifically, the study said the county was better off transporting prisoners to other counties until the jail reached an average inmate population of 90-plus prisoners per day.
Schrawder was upset with the lack of a response he received Tuesday from the commissioners when he apprised them of the situation. In an interview before the commissioners meeting Tuesday, Schrawder said he had warned them of the possible need for a new or replacement vehicle sometime this year.
“These two vehicles have a combined market value of only $6,000,” Schrawder said. “The bill to fix them both would come to almost $4,000; I would rather one or both be replaced.” One vehicle, a 2001 Crown Victoria has 103,173 miles and needs a new transmission and work on the differential, while the other, a 1999 Crown Victoria has 157,723 miles and needs just differential work, according to Schrawder.
“I won’t have my deputies, or Union County prisoners put at risk any more,” said Schrawder in explanation of why he parked them at the Government Center. “The liability would fall on me and my department.” He went on to say he wants to continue to support the county jail with transport, but wants safe vehicles.
“I realize that we save the jail and county money because our deputies are already trained to transport,” Schrawder said. “To train jail personnel in transport would cost extra dollars.” He added that although the jail’s daily population hasn’t reached the point the 2003 study indicated would require other options, the need for transportation of prisoners continues to grow.
Union County uses several other county jails for the number of prisoners exceeding 33, Union County’s jail capacity. Most recent reports put the daily average number of county prisoners at 75. That means 42 prisoners must be taken to other jails. But the transportation doesn’t end there.
In prior meetings, both Schrawder and the jail’s warden, Douglas Shaffer, have reported that Union County is responsible to transport their own prisoners in other facilities to court hearings, doctor’s and other similar appointments. Therefore any one prisoner in another jail is likely to require transportation several times during the course of his or her sentence.
When asked about the situation during their meeting on Tuesday, the county commissioners responded by saying they had only just learned about the vehicles in need of repair. Chairman Preston Boop said the commissioners would be considering Schrawder’s report soon, but that they had no immediate plans to announce to the public.
Contact Mike Tischio at miket@standard-journal.com.
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Sheikh Hamdan approves DFF's three-year strategic plan
Sheikh Hamdan has consented to the foundation’s three-year strategic plan during the meeting. The plan outlined the objective and work structure of the foundation in the coming years.
Ruler of Sharjah, CP sign last piece of Hope Probe
His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, in the presence of Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, received on Sunday Sarah Bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences, responsible for the file of the scientific team to explore Mars, and a number of members of “Hope Probe” project team, at the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences and Technology (SAASST).
Sharjah has burst onto the global Fringe scene with the launch of its first Fringe festival on Jan.16, transforming the city into a vibrant family entertainment canvas painted with a diversity of acts spanning the genres of theatre, comedy, circus, dance and children’s entertainment.
Khalifa University study on UAE genetics pool concludes
A three-year Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi) study has revealed that the genetics pool of the Emirati population is highly complex and highly diversified.
UAE aims at sustainability in all areas
Dr Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the minister for climate change and environment of the UAE, emphasised cooperation in environmental sustainability among countries.
Mohamed Bin Zayed expresses solidarity with Filipinos after Taal volcano eruption
The UAE stands in solidarity with the Philippines in these difficult times and is ready to provide all support and assistance, tweetd Sheikh Mohamed.
Qasr Al Watan wins 'Best Favourite Attraction' award
Qasr Al Watan opened its doors to the public on March 11, 2019, providing visitors with an opportunity to learn about the UAE’s governing traditions and values
Emirati man catches huge shark weighing 350kg
It is not clear how he caught the shark. Gulf Today could not reach Suleiman for details about the shark. It is not clear how he caught the shark.
Nights will continue to be cold, rain likely
The National Meteorological Centre (NMC) expected the country would experience light to moderate rain as of Monday to Wednesday.
Missing Sharjah boy’s father rewards youngsters for finding son.
From sharing a room to a flat in Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa lit up with Philippine flag colours
Sharjah brings tradition alive with Ramadan Iftar cannon
Sharjah Dhow fire
Sheikh Nahyan arrives for the Al Khaleej conference
Sharjah rain
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Electric Power – The Future of Racing
December 1, 2017 December 1, 2017 by Hydrogeit
Forze VII, © TU Delft
By now, it should be glaringly obvious that times are changing: Mercedes-Benz is exiting the German Touring Car Championship and entering the Formula E in 2019, alongside Audi, BMW and Porsche. Electricity is also increasingly driving Formula 1. The fossil fuel to electric power transition is in full throttle. Technologies that used to be visions (see also Eco-marathon) are becoming reality.
Categories Germany, worldwideTags Championship, Delft, Eco-marathon, FIA, Formula 1, Forze, Jean Todt, RacingLeave a comment
ThaiGer H2 Wins Eco-Marathon
November 2, 2017 November 3, 2017 by Hydrogeit
Prof. Luschtinetz (left) and the ThaiGer H2 racing team, © FH Stralsund
Racing around the track in small-size H2 cars might look like fun, but it has a serious purpose. An event like this is designed to impart crucial engineering know-how, prompt design ideas, solve technical issues, encourage improvisation and, most of all, promote deep immersion in a new technology. This and much more is being offered at competing events such as the Shell Eco-marathon and the Formula Student.
Categories Europe, GermanyTags career options, design, funding, H2 cars, performance, Racing, selling pointLeave a comment
H2 Race Car to Compete Against Fossil Fueler
September 29, 2016 September 30, 2016 by Hydrogeit
The hydrogen industry isn’t new to electric race car development: As far back as 2007, the Delft University of Technology had launched Forze, a project which brought together engineers and students for the purpose of designing and constructing a fuel cell race car. The aim of the project has been to combine racing and clean technologies.
Categories EuropeTags Compete, Forze, fossil, Fueler, Gamma Racing Day, Jan Lammers, Max Verstappen, Nürburgring, Race Car, Racing, Red Bull, Supercar, TU DelftLeave a comment
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You could have thought of that.
Fire Suppressant Missiles
Fireproof Housedrape
Giant Lever Fire Escape
Halo tanker
Hose grinder
Instant fire hole
iphone holographic dispay glasses
Laser Fire Exit Pointer
deck out water tankers with large vertical & horizontal sprayers
The Halo unit is a bolt on addition to any water tanker or water carrying road train to make these vehicles fire suppressing tanks.
The device has piping mechanisms to draw, pressurize the water and and spray the water in protective bubble around the tanker. I'm imagining a series of circular pipe frames periodic fitted with nozzles spraying water in all directions creating a cacooning wet environment. The more presure the greater the sancutuary but the shorter it will last. Fuel for the pump can be drawn out of tanker's fuel tank through a specialised fuel cap.
These tankers can run rescue lines and set up protective zones in support of actual appliances. If the tankers are 4WD, a convoy could make inroads into drivable sections of a forest fire and set up stragetic positions for crews to carry out their valiant work.
The only problem is, like it always is, sources of water.
EATR (robot) https://en.m.wikipe...mous_Tactical_Robot
Wikipedia page [sninctown, Dec 30 2019]
Spiderbot (old videogame for Commodore 64) https://youtu.be/XZSObFVfI5E
Youtube link. Kind of intense [sninctown, Dec 30 2019]
Forest fire power generation Forest_20fire_20power_20generation
Prior Art, [sninc] ... [8th of 7, Dec 30 2019]
Crablogger https://thunderbird...com/wiki/Crablogger
More Prior Art ... [8th of 7, Dec 30 2019]
M-69 https://en.wikipedi...wiki/M69_incendiary
We love the smell of napalm ... well, pretty much any time of the day or night, actually. [8th of 7, Dec 30 2019]
Pulaski https://en.wikipedi...wiki/Pulaski_(tool)
Every home should have one. [8th of 7, Dec 31 2019]
Fu-Go https://en.wikipedi.../Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
Launch balloons and start fires with them. [8th of 7, Dec 31 2019]
The Hexapod. https://www.youtube...watch?v=46Uod3QHsuM
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 31 2019]
Hitchhiker's Guide on voting https://www.goodrea...mocracy-you-see-you
"...because the wrong lizard might get in." [sninctown, Jan 03 2020]
Hitchhiker's Guide on presidents https://www.goodrea...y-much-a-figurehead
"...job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it." [sninctown, Jan 03 2020]
A firefighter I know mentioned that fighting a large fire can rapidly consume as much water as is available. A water truck is better than nothing, but a lake is preferred. Also, a fire may consume enough oxygen to choke and stall out a firetruck engine attempting to drive through the blaze.
— sninctown, Dec 30 2019
True the battles have to be picked that can be won. Maybe Batteries or electrolysis?
I'd propose a wood-fired fire truck. Actually, less of a truck and more of a Spiderbot. Specifically, the "EATR" robot (fueled by internal combustion of biomass) on an articulated-leg chassis (like a spider) with a wood chipper maw at one end. For creation of fire breaks, current practice is a team of people to fell trees and rake the ground, which is often insufficient to stop the fire. What I propose resembles a giant mechanical Shelob, which when unleashed would clear a wide path in its dread progress, articulated mandibles uprooting trees and feeding all organic matter into its terrible jaws, as its abdomen churns with internal energies and glows with the red heat of combustion, leaving in its wake a 40 foot wide swath of churned earth and bare rock.
We did consider having the unit towed by a wood-fired steam traction engine, but given its vast size a conventional turbo-electric drive is much more practical.
Unlike the EATR mentioned, our design is specifically intended to pre-empt forest fires, not just to scavenge.
Shirley the whole forest fire problem can be solved by having more of them, more often. Just get aircraft to drop incendiaries every couple of square miles every few years, burning out any small patches of forest that are overdue for a fire. As with food and murder, "little and often" is best.
Yes, that's what the USFS do. Cute little incendiary pellets, ping-pong balls filled with a mix of isopropanol and potassium permanganate, self-igniting, cheap, nonpolluting, and very effective at igniting underbrush.
Not nearly as much fun as a vic of B-52's loaded up to max with M-69's, tho ...
//a mix of isopropanol and potassium permanganate, self- igniting//
Whoa there. Surely that mixture would self-ignite as soon as it was made?
There's a diaphragm; the mechanism that ejects them from the aircraft has a pin that punctures it just as it exits the chute. The pellet lands and almost immediately ignites.
Acceptably unsafe for a civilian application; no detonants, no white phosphorus or alkali metals, no primary explosives.
//a pin that punctures it just as it exits the chute// Ah. That explains it. For a moment there I thought you'd come up with something clever.
The level of innovation in the Forest Service is commensurate with the challenges they face, and rarely goes beyond items more sophisticated than, for example, the Pulaski <link> - which is, however, magnificently "fit for purpose".
The air dropped incendiary pellets probably originated with NASA, although the Japanese made a significant contribution to the concept in the 1940's <link>.
// Shirley the whole forest fire problem can be solved by having more of them, more often. //
That is a very good point.
I am old enough to remember when we used to do controlled burns at times of the year when the trees could be kept from igniting while destroying the underbrush.
In fire season the dead limbs and needles can be several feet thick in places and may as well be comprised of matchsticks for how fast it can all go up. Between that and fire-breaks wild fires were far more manageable.
First the tourists began complaining about hazy air quality.
Then the Eco activists determined that several feet of matchsticks piled under bone-dry forests are a good thing...
...and now we just can't seem to put the dang things out the way we used to.
//First the tourists began complaining about hazy air quality. Then the Eco activists determined that several feet of matchsticks piled under bone-dry forests are a good thing...//
Crucially, not doing things is cheaper than doing things. If you can not do things and explain how you're a good environmentalist at the same time you're on to a political winner. Under the surface, there have been grumblings about forestry mismanagement in California, but all local responsibility has now been absolved in favor of the universal boogy man of global warming.
— bs0u0155, Dec 31 2019
Logically, the steps should be:
1. Move all human activity away from forested regions.
2. Leave the forests completely alone and let nature determine when, where and how much they burn.
What's wrong with that ?
// 1. Move all human activity away from forested regions.
What's wrong with that ?//
1. We refuse to stabilize our numbers.
2. See # 1.
Nature, if left alone, would have roving packs of wolves and solitary predators which reshape their own ecological niches by controlling prey activity, rampant beaver construction damming and creating maximized wetland areas, and roaming herds of herbivores as far as the eye can see keeping the grasslands from desertification.
Way fewer devastating wild fires by working with nature rather than logging, burning, and paving it...
...but I wasn't alive to be consulted then, and now that I am... well, it's like really hard to be heard whilst screaming into seven billion lungs worth of wind-storm.
// We refuse to stabilize our numbers //
We suggest some sort of cull - discriminating, or indeed indiscriminate - is clearly indicated.
There are a number of possible mechanisms.
...or we work on a gradual de-populization while sporing into space using all of the tech which the general public has been purposely kept at least fifty years behind the times of...
Some will need to stay behind to help clean up the damage of course. A cooperative stable five billion or so should do nicely.
// A cooperative stable five billion or so should do nicely. //
Indeed. Perhaps if they were organised into a single efficient Collective consciousness by some sort of process of absorbtion, that would be even better.
The sooner you start, the better.
Seeds planted take time and nurturing.
Just waiting to reap what's already been sown. Forging a plowshare from a sword was the hard part.
// tech which the general public has been purposely kept at least fifty years behind the times of //
Interesting theory. It'd pain me to learn that my engineering work had been made ineffective on purpose by suppressing useful technology.
Strangely enough, I have been unable to find any suppressed technology on the usual archive sites. I have however found doctored photographs, a lot of descriptions of half-baked prototypes that don't work, and eager statements by people who are also on record saying verifiably wrong things. It's odd that I have not found a single suppressed technology. Sure, there are expensive-to-build technologies, and there seem to be trade-secret technogies, but these are differences of degree not of kind.
One big one here would be an inertial-suppression device. The leading suppressed-tech theory seems to be that strong electromagnetic fields negate mass, so making a superconducting metal sphere and setting up standing waves (both electrical and mechanical) in it makes it and the surroundings have less mass. I see no actual evidence to support this though.
Another big one would be AI. However I don't see chip manufacturers suppressing technology, instead the goal is to keep up with Moore's Law. The sense I get is that whoever owns it all would love to deploy AI to outnumber humans, but the tech isn't ready yet.
Another big one would be magic/psi/esp or something like that. Here again it sounds like there's nothing definitive although many subjective experiences seem real to the guy having the visions.
As much as I'd love there to be a secret space program with inertial- suppressed near-light-speed ships, with helpful AI and psychic space marines onboard heading for the Korpulu sector, this appears not to be reality.
Believing that any government has the ability to keep anything secret for any length of time goes against all experience, and is a sure sign of feeble-mindedness.
An excellent example is nuclear proliferation.
In 1945, the USA wanted to keep "atomic secrets" unto itself, which worked for a few years; but they could only conceal the details, not the principles. In fact, the possibilities of fission as an energy source had already been openly discussed in newspapers across the world prior to 1939.
Altho the USSR obtained valuable information by espionage, other nations obtained the technology by simple applied engineering, although Britain had a head start, having kicked off the whole development process with Tube Alloys.
The same uncomfortable fact is that if you have a supply of yellow cake, 1940's level engineering capability, some reasonably clever people, and enough money, you can join the Nuclear Club*.
Any useful technology (poison gas, bioweapons, nukes) will eventually be deployed. Once it is known to be practical, methodology will be deduced from first principles by others. Even if it isn't, advances in adjacent fields will reveal a "shadow" in information (like the DDT/Sarin confusion between the Allies and the Axis). Since it is possible to deduce a great deal about something by the shape of the space it occupies, secrecy is never permanent.
*defined as "Everywhere except Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra and the Seychelles"
If 8th and Max agree that there's no significant suppressed tech, then it must be true. Good.
— sninctown, Jan 01 2020
Heck, the UK government couldn't even keep the lid on its development of postcode-specific viruses for more than six months.
Hang on. That was general knowledge, wasn't it?
Suppression by the public's ability to obfuscate is different from not being allowed in the public domain in the first place. Governments still have secrets that are not allowed public.
— wjt, Jan 01 2020
//public has been purposely kept at least fifty years behind the times of //
////Interesting theory. It'd pain me to learn that my engineering work had been made ineffective on purpose by suppressing useful technology.////
Check in with The-Donalds' uncle and those who raided Nikola's allotted hotel room shortly after his death.
//As much as I'd love there to be a secret space program with inertial- suppressed near-light-speed ships, with helpful AI and psychic space marines onboard heading for the Korpulu sector, this appears not to be reality.//
Appearances are almost always deceiving and none of the shit we are currently using as power sources would pass an engineers' scrutiny if said engineer were given their druthers.
It's a bit of a joke really. The inherent inefficiencies which we, (I mean you), are forced to work around.
// Believing that any government has the ability to keep anything secret for any length of time goes against all experience, and is a sure sign of feeble-mindedness. //
Boom! There it is. The Godwin's law of debunkery.
No human beings could keep and maintain such secrets therefore no such secrets exist.
Not that no such secrets exist, but that no group of human beings would be capable of keeping and enforcing the suppression of such secrets.
— 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 01 2020
... for any significant period of time.
It's possible to conceal information about human actions for extended periods; it's not possible to effectively conceal information about science or technology for more than a few years, much as governments desire that.
By their nature, governments are almost incapable of acting preemptively except on the most critical threats, and even then they struggle. The "conspiracy" theory of history is in a way correct, but instead of the conspiracy preceding events, it follows them; a desperate attempt to somehow cover up the appalling cockup they have made (again).
In the end, it always fails. The object of those in power is to stave off disclosure until they are out of power, retired, or best of all for them*, dead.
*and indeed everyone else.
Governments, seems plausible. But smart and ambitious people sometimes join secret societies instead of working for a government salary. However, this is an unfalsifiable theory. The secret society drinks from Russell's Teapot as far as I know.
//this is an unfalsifiable theory// It's falsifiable by the application of a small amount of intelligence.
Buchanan's Third Law (it may not be the third; I lose count): there is no conspiracy theory so idiotic that nobody will believe it. In fact, it's generally the case that the number of believers increase with the ludicrosity of the conspiracy theory, as does their vehemence in defending it.
Yes, conspiracy theories are easy arguments to straw-man that's for sure.
Can we agree on this statement?;
"Everything is rigged in favor of the one percent who hold the most wealth."
I will make the assumption that we can agree on that rather than wait for your reply since it is patently obvious to everyone on the planet.
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a sham perpetuated by wealthy middle easterners with very little left of their once tropical countries to barter on the world market therefore gas and oil have been forced onto the world at large in favor of much more efficient and elegant solutions just so that status quo of distribution if wealth is maintained.
Capitalist countries are basically for sale to the highest bidder and so our governments are able to be manipulated by lining pockets and extortion.
The internal combustion engine would be lucky to win a high school science project if developed today because of how monumentally inefficient it is.
In the 20's Tesla had figured out how to amplify the vibrations of a simple crystal AM radio to charge the batteries of a car which worked from a single antenna and a radio tower.
Westinghouse, Edison and a bunch of other POS engineered the bullshit we see around us today in order to squeeze every last drop of profit to be had from the uneducated shills which were the general public of the day and it has been perpetuated ever since both economically and scholastically with the dumbing-down of North America.
No conspiracies my ass...
I think the charge of "Oath Breaker" should be introduced to the criminal justice system on both a political and public scale for those who abuse positions of trust to further themselves at the expense of others.
//In the 20's Tesla had figured out how to amplify the vibrations of a simple crystal AM radio to charge the batteries of a car which worked from a single antenna and a radio tower.// Alas, no. Given a high- power radio transmitter, you can pick up a tiny, tiny fraction of that power and use it. The only way to pick up all the power is to make your car spherical and build it around the transmitter which, alas, isn't very useful. It's tantamount to trying to run a solar- powered car from an electric lightbulb.
Your overarching conspiracy theory relies on the embarrassingly stupid assumption that every competent or innovative engineer is somehow inducted into a Secret Circle of international conspiracists, and persuaded to give up the fame, glory and money that he or she could make from their invention.
The thing about most conspiracy theories is not just that they're wrong, it's that the nutjobs haven't even made the effort to make them interestingly wrong, by thinking them through. Please try harder! Oh, and happy new year.
Happy New Year to you too [MB]!
Do you deny that there is evidence that Tesla had figured out how to amplify AM radio waves to charge batteries which ran an electric car and wireless transmission of electricity in the 20's, and that Westinghouse shut him the fuck down?
That's no theory. That's a fact. Our education systems and modern infrastructure stem directly from that fuckery which has since been perpetuated by those in authority with the help of those who willingly and quite vocally turn a blind eye while belittling those who do not.
The punishment for Oath Breaking should involve prison time... and not the club-med prison time the pasty faced white collar crime asswipes usually see either.
General population... just like their constituents.
// Tesla had figured out how to amplify AM radio waves to charge batteries which ran an electric car and wireless transmission of electricity in the 20's, and that Westinghouse shut him the fuck down? //
It is possible that <italics> at the time <italics/> Westinghouse did that for commercial reasons.
However... such technology has clear military applications. If any nation had posessed it during WW2, it would have been unhestitatingly deployed, just as the'secret' cavity magnetron, VT-fused artillery shells, Enigma/Purple/JN25 decoding, acoustic torpedoes and ultimately fission weapons were. Lots of service personnel would have seen the equipment even if they didn't grasp the physics; an electric aircraft with infinite range could not be kept secret indefinitely, and ironcally it's the politicians who are most likely to blab for transient popular gain.
Secrecy is like a party balloon- it only takes the tiniest leak and pretty soon everything gets out.
// Secrecy is like a party balloon- it only takes the tiniest leak and pretty soon everything gets out. //
As far as that statement pertains to humans I do not doubt it...
So what does that leave us with?...
It leaves us with the internal combustion engine as a primary power source and Donald-fucking-Trump as president of the most, (publically endorsed), militarily armed country on the planet.
That's what it amounts to.
I for one have had it with the con-men I see running the show.
Why am I anonymously voting, (with absolutely no way to ensure that my vote goes where I said it went), for individuals who are for sale rather than voting un-anonymously on policy?
Can anyone in their right mind please answer me that question?
As far as I can tell a persons vote literally only entitles them to bitch about the consequences of the lying assholes they have no way of knowing if they actually elected or not.
Am I the only sane person on this planet?
I'm okay with that and am leaning more and more towards that determination every friggin day of my life, and dealing with the fact that it may very well be so...
I just need to know one way or the other is all.
That knowledge would... determine certain things.
This gets into advocacy territory.
// voting un-anonymously //
interesting concept. the secret ballot dates back to the French Revolution. which is more of a risk: reprisals against non-anonymous voters or fraud against anonymous voters? i still lean toward the secret ballot plus exit polls, but there are other systems.
// voting directly on policy //
interesting but recent California history suggests that people would pass bills that contradict each other as well as pass bills that bankrupt the State. so in practice this was mostly baked and ran into issues.
// voting for individuals who are on sale //
yeah... a leading conspiracy-theory opinion is that Epstein didn't kill himself, but i'm not sure how useful it is to discuss this. if there is some secret ruling cabal, they're very well-hidden. by definition, politicians are more popular with voters than non-politicians. there's still plenty of tea in the stores so it's not all bad.
to supply water to the Halo tanker, I would propose a ballistic water cannon. this would be a conventional fire hose and nozzle with a few additions:
1. high-pressure high-power pump to create the high pressure and flow rate needed.
2. a nozzle resembling rocket nozzle material, with a porous surface and air pumped in through small holes to create a boundary layer, such that there is a layer of air between the water and the nozzle wherever the water is moving at high velocity.
3. a thin plastic sleeve which is continuously extruded around the plume of water, streamlining it to enable laminar flow over a longer distance. think a giant spool of Saran Wrap just above the nozzle orifice. the spray of water pulls the Saran Wrap to unroll and wrap and seal around the far side of the water spray. the Saran Wrap material is unspooled at a high rate to match the water velocity. ideally this would be a biodegrateable material. the biodegradeable Saran Wrap would stretch to accommodate the water stream's diameter increase as its velocity decreased (the opposite of why a stream of water from a faucet gets smaller as it gets closer to the sink -- smaller area at higher speeds, larger at slower speeds, for constant flow rate).
4. a heavily reinforced "umbrella" attached on top of the Halo Tanker to redirect the incoming plume of ballistic water into a "halo" around the vehicle.
I have not done any calculations regarding the feasibility of this.
I also like the idea of dropping water from orbit to fight forest fires, but that concept would have even more issues.
//Do you deny that there is evidence that Tesla had figured out how to amplify AM radio waves to charge batteries which ran an electric car //
Yes, I do deny it. If I'm wrong, find me proof that he ever did such a thing successfully.
Yes, in theory you can charge batteries via AM radio waves. After all, you can power a crystal radio from AM waves alone. However, you will capture - at most - a tiny tiny fraction of the broadcast power. So, using AM radio waves to charge a car battery is not really feasible, and certainly not efficient. A crystal set with a very long antenna captures a few *microwatts* of power from a strong signal.
Tesla had some very good ideas, but also a few fruitloopy ones. His Westinghouse power "transmitter" was based on a misunderstanding, and it's now known that it couldn't work except at a very low efficiency (akin to the AM radio/crystal set problem). He did power some lights, but I can power a fluorescent tube (ie, it will glow dimly) just by going and standing underneath a high-voltage cable - the amount of power collected is pitifully small.
You've got an open mind, [2fries], but having an open mind makes you vulnerable to people dumping trash in it.
// the internal combustion engine as a primary power source //
Primary mobile power source.
Don't confuse generation with transmission. Even if Nikolai had cracked wireless transmission of energy at high efficiency (it would need to be the same order of magnitude as conventional cables) there is still no free lunch.
Most compact, reliable energy sources are Carnot heat engines; even nuclear plants use steam turbines. Seebeck and photoelectric generators are still heat engines, and of low efficiency compared to their rivals.
Let's say you have a nice, shiny personal drone from Nikolai-Buchanan Corp. that uses wireless power and can stay aloft until you die of starvation or dehydration (or anoxia if you fly high enough). That doesn't solve the issue of where the energy comes from. Tesla never claimed that Wardencliffe was in any sense an over-unity machine.
Even if every device on your planet could be powered by a network of Tesla Towers plonked down every 2000km or so, each tower would still need to be ringed by a herd of Terawatt-range fusion generators to feed it - unless he had also cracked Zero-point energy.
Thanks [sinctown], would lowering the temperature of the water, or some other physical manipulation, help with molecular orientation of the laminar flow? therefore avoiding the biodegradable Saran Wrap mechanism.
well, one solution would be to freeze the water before launch. a ballistic hailstorm would get big aerodynamic chunks of water to the fire, but it might be prudent to keep the Halo tanker well clear of the hail impact area.
A below zero water object would probably travel through flame, if velocity was too frantic. Frozen water/surfactant bubbles?
Sorry [wjt], went off on a bit of a tangent there.
//a ballistic hailstorm// I like that idea very, very much indeed.
Indeed; an application that is simply crying out for the reckless and inadvisable deployment of an extremely large trebuchet ... or several thereof ...
I'm sure a long-range ice-cannon could be developed. I've got some of Gerald Bull's notes and sketches somewhere...
<Looks round furtively, slides unabelled Blu-Ray disk concealed in folded newspaper to [MB]/>
I've mentioned before that that sort of video doesn't really do it for me. I've never understood what people see in herring.
Just give it back to Sturton. Use as much force as is necessary. Or more, if you feel so inclined. In fact, you might as well just go ahead and use excessive force just for the sake of it.
// That was general knowledge, wasn't it? //
Oh yes, like the latest public touchscreens - particularly the ones at transport hubs - being configured to acquire fingerprints from users ...
I always carry a spare finger to use on public touchscreens.
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Trial of Catalan political prisoners
Press release from EFA MEPs J-M Terricabras & Jordi Solé
EFA MEPs from Catalonia have spoken out in the European Parliament this week as the trial gets underway in Madrid of the Catalan political prisoners - government ministers, civil society leaders and former Speaker of the Catalan parliament - for seeking to assert Catalonia's right to self-determination by peaceful and democratic means.
Speaking in the European Parliament, EFA Group President Josep-Maria Terricabras said:
"There now begins in Madrid a court case against members of the former Government of Catalonia and against the most cherished and respected social leaders of our country. This is clearly a political trial. Neither German, Belgian nor Scottish courts recognised the crimes with which those detained have been charged, and for which they have been held in custody for over a year.
"A rancid and anti-democratic post-Franco judiciary is at work, with the support of the former PP government and the consent of the current socialist government.
"This 12th of February, I remember another 12th of February, forty six years ago, when Carlos Arias Navarro, successor of Carrero Blanco, proclaimed what he called 'the spirit of the 12th of February'. And indeed we seem to be carrying on in the spirit of the Francoist Spain of forty six years ago, as if Franco was still alive. Eternal Spain continues to impose itself on modern Spain.
"And in this Chamber, our President and the majority have nothing to say about it. How absolutely shameful."
EFA MEP Jordi Solé said:
"In Madrid we have witnessed the start of the most shameful political trial that the European Union has ever seen. Twelve people are on trial in Europe for having organised a self-determination referendum in accordance with a democratic mandate. This court case is a triumph for state nationalism and vengeance politics, but it represents a failure of European values and of the primacy of politics in the face of repression. Official Europe has failed us.
"But you are well aware that treating honest politicians like criminals, that abusing and twisting the rule of law to sustain false accusations, that a far-right party nostalgic about Francoism exercises the popular accusation. You know that all of this clashes head-on with European values.
"And yet it will be our stubborn defence of these values and of European justice itself that will end up repairing the injustices committed and eventually see a return to the path of democracy, justice and freedom."
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Kim Cattrall Is Down With 'Sex and the City' Killing Off Samantha
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Sarah Jessica Parker broke Sex and the City fans' hearts around the world last week when she confirmed a third film isn't happening. The reason why is still a mystery, but tabloids—and, let's face it, Willie Garson's tweets—are implying Kim Cattrall is the reason.
The actress flat-out denied these claims—first via Twitter, and then during a very lengthy chat with Piers Morgan for his ITV series, Life Stories. Cattrall contends she never expressed interest in the film and that her answer was always a "firm 'no'" when producers approached her about it.
This doesn't mean she has hard feelings about it, though. In fact, Cattrall told Morgan producers should go forth with a third movie if it's what they want.
"It’s a great part," she said. "I played it past the finish line and then some, and I loved it, and another actress should play it. Maybe they could make it an African American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones?"
But this isn't the only suggestion Cattrall has. Apparently, she's also cool with Sex and the City just killing off Samantha Jones.
That's what this Twitter interaction suggests, at least. Here's what went down: In a tweet about the SATC drama, Perez Hilton wrote, "RT if you think #SexAndTheCity should make a third movie and just kill @KimCattrall's character!" And Cattrall actually retweeted. Check it out for yourself, below:
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Of course, it's possible this retweet is an accident. Then again, that's unlikely, because Cattrall probably would have deleted it by now. Either way, making a third movie without Samantha would be a big mistake. As Garson said in one of his less-shady tweets, their cast is "all for one and one for all." The franchise simply can't exist without Samantha.
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The Evolution of Pubic Hair
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A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to you to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline is the all-new follow up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful hybrid tactical strategy game. The game gives you real-time cont...
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A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to you to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline is the all-new follow up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful hybrid tactical strategy game. The game gives you real-time control over a squad of four elite Special Forces tasked with tracking down information on the source of the infestation.
Enthralling Action: Adds real-time strategy to a franchise already acclaimed for its tactical combat. New Modes: An all-new Command Mode gives total control over the entire squad for on-the-fly tactical planning.
Deep, strategic gameplay: Plan and execute detailed strategies as you encounter a wide assortment of enemy types and combat scenarios.
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Inclusion and work performance: What you need to know
Everybody wants to feel valued – and here’s how those feelings of inclusion affect employee creativity.
BY Juliette Willow 03 Jun 2014
If you want to make employees more innovative then make sure they feel included. That's what research from nonprofit business organisation Catalyst shows.
The group surveyed more than 1,500 employees across six countries to discover the way that perceptions of inclusion affect employees’ contribution to innovation at their companies. To measure innovation, they asked about whether employees identified opportunities for new products and processes, and whether they tried out new ideas and approaches to problems.
In every country, Catalyst found that employees who felt included were more likely to report that they also innovated – although different countries were affected to differing extents.
Australia: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 22% of innovation
China: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 78% of innovation
Germany: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 21% of innovation
India: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 62% of innovation
Mexico: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 51% of innovation
US: Employee perceptions of inclusion account for 19% of innovation
“Characteristics like humility and courage are absolutely essential for creating more inclusive, dynamic workplaces around the world, where women and men can advance and thrive,” said Catalyst CEO Deborah Gillis. “This report shows that small moments can have a big impact on innovation, performance and productivity. Leaders must be mindful of what makes employees feel included, and excluded, and develop skills that can help their companies attain inclusion for the long term.”
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Rhino calf is Christmas "miracle"
15 December 2010, 10:42 | Updated: 15 December 2010, 14:00
A tiny Asian rhino calf born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire has been named “miracle” in its native language after keepers hand-reared it to save her life.
Karamat, which means miracle in Nepalese, was born breeched to mum Beluki and as a result was traumatised and unable to suckle properly. Despite attempts by keepers and vets to entice the calf to latch on, things were looking bleak when after 24 hours she still had not taken any of her mother’s milk.
Staff, who were camped out in sleeping bags in the next door hay barn took the rare step of intervening and fed the youngster by bottle, containing the vital colostrum she needed, sourced from local cows. Over the next few days and nights keepers and vets worked relentlessly to keep the youngster alive. Finally, after three long days and two overnight vigils the calf responded to their efforts and started feeding by herself from Beluki.
Veronica Watkins, deputy team leader explained: “Although Beluki is a great mum and she did everything she could during the labour, the breech birth really affected the health of the calf.
“Apart from being very weak and in shock, the calf was also hypothermic. It really was touch and go for a while. We used colostrum to help build the calf’s strength and bottle fed her every few hours,” said Veronica. “And although it’s been a very stressful, worry-filled few days, it was great to be part of such a dedicated team.”
The team’s hard work has paid off, the calf, the fourth of this endangered species to be born at the zoo in recent years, is doing well and it’s hoped she’ll soon be outside and playing in the winter sunshine.
Visitors can see the lively calf, born on 16th November, at the Rhinos of Nepal exhibit.
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Campus Profile: Hannah Norum
By OR State Contributor October 1, 2016 at 11:05am
This week's Campus Profile is Chi Theta Phi recruitment chair, Hannah Norum. Read on to learn more about the organization and Hannah’s experience here at Oregon State.
Name: Hannah Norum
Hometown: Pepperell, MA
Major/Minor: Apparel Design and Merchandising Management with a Minor in Business and Entrepreneurship
Year: Junior
HC at Oregon State: What do you like most about fall term on campus?
Hannah: I love seeing both new and familiar faces and getting to do more classes in my major. This term I’m especially excited because I’ve been getting more involved on campus with fall recruitment for my sorority and making friends on the sailing team.
HC at Oregon State: I see you’re a design major. What do you like most about the design programs here at Oregon State? What has been your favorite class so far?
Hannah: I think what I like the most about the design programs at OSU is the association with college of business. At the end of the day, we need the business skills as well as the design skills to be more prepared to succeed in the industry. It’s also pretty cool to be so close to Nike. We may hear that name a lot in our programs but it’s given us the opportunity to do projects that allow us firsthand experience as a designer or merchandiser. So far my favorite class has been apparel construction. I’ve been sewing most of my life but I’m finally getting to learn all of the standards that are necessary to becoming an apparel designer. I also enjoy sewing so it’s fun getting to do it for a class.
HC at Oregon State: When did you join Chi Theta Phi? What initially drew you to the organization and made you want to get involved in a leadership position within it?
Hannah: Initially I was looking for a community of like minded girls in the design program. I wasn’t interested in greek life but I found that Chi Theta Phi was a good fit for me regardless. When elections came around, I was hesitant to run for a position but I felt that I could do a good job as the recruitment chair since I had enjoyed the process of becoming a member so much myself and wanted to be a part of passing that experience onto future members.
HC at Oregon State: What do you think sets Chi Theta Phi apart from other sororities here on campus?
Hannah: I think what sets Chi Theta Phi apart is the close knit, community feel with the focus on art and design. There’s also something special about being a local independent sorority, which lends itself well to our unique and great group of girls. I always felt overwhelmed by older more established sororities and I think Chi Theta Phi felt like a unique sorority home for me.
HC at Oregon State: What has been your favorite experience that you’ve had as a member of Chi Theta Phi?
Hannah: I’ve actually really enjoyed being the recruitment chair this year. I love that it’s given me the new experience of planning and executing events and allowed me to grow and work with my sisters toward a goal of bringing new girls to our sorority family.
HC at Oregon State: What organizations or activities have you been a part of here on campus besides Chi Theta Phi?
Hannah: Besides Chi Theta Phi, I’ve been involved with the OSU repair fairs, helping to mend clothing and most recently I’ve joined the sailing team which has turned out to be really fun. I also like to participate as a designer in the fashion shows that are put on throughout the year.
HC at Oregon State: What do you like most about being a part of the Greek community here at Oregon State? What resources or opportunities do you think you’ve gained by being a part of the community that you wouldn’t have otherwise?
Hannah: I like that I get to meet so many people I may not have otherwise by being a part of greek life. I’ve gotten the opportunity to be in a leadership position where I’ve learned more than I expected to and resources of just knowing more people in the design programs and being able to consult or ask their advice is amazing.
HC at Oregon State: What would you say to a transfer student or non-traditional student interested in joining your sorority or Greek life in general? What advice would you give them and what do you think they could gain from the experience?
Hannah: I would say that we’re open to most anyone who wants to join whether a design major or just interested in art and design and that it’s awesome when you find a like minded community to get involved with. I didn’t join until fall term of my sophomore year because I wasn’t sure if Greek life was for me and it turned out to be just what I was looking for. At the end of the day, it’s really about finding a community that you can see yourself being a part of and making the most of it.
HC at Oregon State: Does Chi Theta Phi have any upcoming recruitment events during fall term that those interested can attend?
Hannah: We will be tabling all of week 1 in the Memorial Union quad as well as a meet and greet that Friday at Dutch Bros. There will also be some info and activity nights on Oct 4th and 6th at 7pm in MU 208. Come say hi, we’d love to meet you!
If you are a woman here on campus interested in joining Chi Theta Phi: shoot them a message on Facebook, visit them on Instagram, check out their Center for Fraternity & Sorority Life profile here, or check out their website.
Stay tuned next week for another member of the Greek community here at Oregon State to join us in celebrating fall recruitment season!
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Saurav Ghosal enters pre-quarterfinals of PSA World Championship
The Indian No. 1 had faced the Frenchman only twice in his career, with their most recent meeting also coming in the second round of a PSA World Championships, in Chicago in February. read more
Saurav Ghosal sails into second round of World Championship
It wasn’t smooth sailing for Saurav as the third game put the two Indians on the edge. However, the world No. 11 had the last say, winning on extended points to take the game and match. read more
Time to start winning at the top: Saurav Ghosal
Ghosal, who turned pro in 2003, had been on the fringes of the big-time for a few years. Five Mays ago, he was world No. 15. read more
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Saurav Ghosal suffered an unexpected exit with sixth seed Greg Lobban of Scotland chalking out a 6-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-8 win for a last four place. read more
World Squash Championship: Saurav Ghosal enters quarter-finals
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The 32-year-old Indian, seeded 11th, won 11-13, 11-7, 11-7, 13-11 but the success did not come easily, thanks to the way his unseeded opponent fought for every point. read more
Saurav Ghosal skips Senior Nationals, aims to defend International title
Saurav Ghosal is skipping the Senior National Championships and instead will be looking defend the title in the Kolkata International meet. read more
Asian Games 2018: Indian men’s squash team lose to Hong Kong, settle for bronze
The Indian men’s team comprising Saurav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, Ramit Tandon and Mahesh Mangaonkar was no match for Hong Kong, who had won bronze in the last edition at Incheon, South Korea. read more
Asian Games 2018: Indian women’s squash team enters final; assured of silver medal
The Indian team, comprising Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Sunayna Kuruvilla and Tanvi Khanna, defeated Malaysia 2-0 to assure itself of at least a silver here. The Indian men’s team will play Hong Kong in the semi-finals later in the day. read more
Asian Games 2018: Indian men’s and women’s squash teams enter semis, assured of medals
India dished out a dominating performance as both the men’s and women’s teams won their respective matches by an identical 3-0 margin. read more
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Tajinderpal Singh Toor was the undoubted star of the day for India as he broke Asian Games’ record with a throw of 20.75 meters to win gold. read more
Asian Games 2018: Squash players assure India three medals by reaching semifinals
This was India’s best performance in singles competition in an Asian Games, bettering the two medals won in Incheon four years ago when Saurav Ghosal secured a silver and Dipika Pallikal claimed a bronze. read more
Asian Games 2018: Ghosal-Sandhu quarters face-off assures medal, Pallikal, Chinappa in last 8
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Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal, who won silver at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, arrived back in Chennai to an enthusiastic welcome. read more
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The Indian pair of Dipika Pallikal, Saurav Ghosal went down to Australian duo of Donna Urquhart and Cameron Pilley in the Squash mixed doubles final. read more
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Home / TV / Bigg Boss 13: Devoleena Bhattacharjee warns Rashami Desai to end relationship with Arhaan Khan, says ‘it’ll get tough’
Bigg Boss 13: Devoleena Bhattacharjee warns Rashami Desai to end relationship with Arhaan Khan, says ‘it’ll get tough’
Bigg Boss 13: Devoleena Bhattacharjee has said her friend Rashami Desai need not give boyfriend Arhaan Khan another chance and should end the relationship.
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Bigg Boss 13: Devoleena Bhattacharjee is not in favour of Rashami Desai forgiving Arhaan Khan for hiding his past.
Former Bigg Boss 13 contestant Devoleena Bhattacharjee, who made an early exit from the show due to her back injury, has said her friend and colleague Rashami Desai lost the plot after the entry of Arhaan Khan. She says Arhaan spoiled Rashami’s game and she should end their relationship at the earliest.
Salman Khan had announced on national television that Arhaan had a child and he had hidden this from Rashami. She chose to forgive Arhaan and also confessed her love for him. Commenting on this, Devoleena told ETimes in an interview, “I don’t think it was wrong as Salman sir was just trying to save her from further embarrassment on national television. I think it was the right time for the truth when Salman sir revealed Arhaan’s past.”
Stressing on why Rashami should break up with Arhaan, Devoleena said, “I don’t think she needs to give time to Arhaan and her relationship; she needs to end it. It is going to be emotionally very tough in the future. I know it gets tough because you get attached to the person when you are in a relationship. But aage jaake pachtane se accha she should end now. When a person lies to you and you forgive him, he takes you for granted and one thing leads to another. Arhaan has kept her in the dark for so long, there’s no point in giving him another chance. Then you get trapped in that relationship and there is no way out. Rashami doesn’t need to think even one per cent over it. It will be tough, but time will heal everything.”
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Devoleena also accused Arhaan of feigning ignorance about Rashami’s past rivalry with Sidharth Shukla as he has been with her for two years. Commenting on how Rashami is playing right now, Devoleena said, “At present, Rashami is doing great especially after Arhaan left the show. She is taking her own decisions and she can do well. She’s ignoring Sidharth and living her life in the game. She can do better and needs to stop abusing people.”
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DJ Tiesto Live in Hong Kong Review
At first, it was hard to imagine what this event would be like. Would it standout amongst Hong Kong’s many attempts at a rave-like party? Would it be in the shadow of the former HITEC music events? Would Hong Kong appreciate hard trance, techno and driving progressive beats?
Turning off the highway onto a narrow road the taxi driver slowed down to avoid human obstacles that were meandering towards a blur of light far in the distance. The road widened to a car park where crowds were queuing. The walk from the ticket-check area to the event was pretty long. As we walked music changed from a dampened bass to a clear, crisp sound. When it came in sight, it was impressive! A large (in-ya-face) rig, lighting, lasers, a sea of people, incredible! Finally, Hong Kong had got it right!
Arun R (one of Hong Kong’s rising talents) kicked things off with progressive trance, his deep melodic beats enthused the crowd. The music changed to pumping dirty electro (awesome); however, some might say wrong place, wrong time. On occasions the sound was clipping, slightly too loud and the lighting was blinding. The setup was definitely stadium size but the area it dominated was too small.
The crowd a mixture of Chinese and Western, old and young (very young it seemed) were bopping and jumping. Yoga instructors were bending and twisting to the tunes. And adding to the rave-like atmosphere many had dressed reminiscent to the cyber-kids of Gatecrasher. It was pretty cool and wet. The fine drizzle of rain didn’t let up.
Tiesto came on and true to his form, the energy spiked and the place was electrified. He shook the foundations of the rig with his hard driving tech edged tunes. As expected the crowd reacted when he dropped his famous tracks. He took the crowd on a journey of ups and downs, and they stayed loyal till the end.
It summary, this was/ IS exactly what Hong Kong needs. Location will always be a problem as well as other hindrances that prevent a return to the good ol’ days but this was a move in the right direction and it was welcome by clubbers. More please!
Review by Jay
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World Exclusive Clip from The Gift
By: Daniel Benson
Joel Edgerton's brilliant and chilling The Gift is out now on Digital HD and Blu-ray and DVD December 7th and we have a World Exclusive Clip here to whet your appetite for scares...
In the new movie, Simon (Jason Bateman; Horrible Bosses, TV’s Arrested Development) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall; Transcendence, Iron Man 3, The Prestige) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon’s high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn’t recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, her world unravels and she starts to ask the question: how well do we really know the people closest to us?
Allison Tolman (TV’s Fargo) also stars in this chilling feature directorial debut from acclaimed actor and writer Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior) who produces alongside Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Sinister, Insidious, The Purge).
DVD/Blu-ray Special Features:
Karma For Bullies
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The Gift is available on Digital HD now and Blu-ray & DVD from December 7th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK
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Fuelled mostly by coffee and a pathological desire to rid the world of bad grammar, Daniel has found his calling by picking holes in other people's work. In the rare instances he's not editing, he's usually breaking things in the site's back end.
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March 31 National Day of Action for a New Health Accord
BC HEALTH COALITION
The current Health Accord expires March 31st, 2014 and the federal government is refusing to renegotiate it. Expiration of the accord will result in a $36 billion dollar cut to public health care, and an additional $16.5 billion dollar cut to health care equalization payments.
On March 31, people across the country will be holding rallies to sound the alarm and let their MP's know that it is time to step forward and ensure that our health care system has a future. Here in BC, 8 communities are holding rallies - see list below.
HSA Annual Report 2014 now available
International Women's Day events around BC
March 8 at 1:00 pm
Come by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Robson Street side, wearing something that is white, purple and green, and show your support for the statement "Women's Rights are Human Rights". Presented by We Can BC, Amnesty International, Oxfam, VDLC, Maureen McGrath, and UFCW Local 247.
Celebrating International Women's Day - Inspiring Change
Thursday March 6 and Friday March 7, 2014
HSA Head office
HSA invites women in our union to join us for two days of sharing to celebrate International Women’s Day. HSA is providing the opportunity for members to participate in a workshop that combines attending IWD events and in-house HSA training.
• the significance of International Women’s Day
• women’s struggles and achievement
• the history of women in politics and the labour movement
Join the telephone town hall on HSPBA agreement Thursday
HSA will hold a telephone town hall meeting on Thursday, December 5, to update members on the tentative agreement reached earlier this month.
The phone call is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. PST and will last an hour. You will have an opportunity to hear from your negotiators and ask and hear questions and answers about the contract.
It's easy. You just have to be at home at 7 p.m., and you will be connected to the call.
2014 Canadian Labour Congress WINTER SCHOOL
One of Canada's best labour schools, held at Harrison Hot Springs, in January and February 2014
The CLC Winter School offers a wide variety of week-long, quality labour oriented courses. To support HSA's ability to represent HSA members effectively and help build a stronger union, members can apply to take courses chosen to meet these objectives.
Help celebrate National Aboriginal Day
Ottawa (21 June 2011) - The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is pleased to encourage all members to join with Aboriginal Peoples and Canadians across the country in celebrating National Aboriginal Day on June 21.
National Aboriginal Day is marked each year on the same date to honour the achievements of Aboriginal Peoples in all areas, including the arts, language, reverence for the land and spirituality.
HSA celebrates Nursing Week: Psych Nurses are a leading force for change
In celebrating Nursing Week, HSA President Reid Johnson thanks Registered Psychiatric Nurses across the province for their expertise and dedication. "The theme of this year's Nursing Week is 'a leading force for change,' and BC's psych nurses are lighting the way," Johnson said.
"With their specialized intensive training, Registered Psychiatric Nurses have long been recognized as the caregivers of choice in mental health," he said.
April 28: National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job
On April 28, workers and their families are invited to pay tribute to those who have been injured or killed on the job, or stricken with occupational disease.
Every day in Canada, three workers are killed on the job and 685 workers suffer work-related injuries or occupational diseases. Last year in British Columbia, 181 workers died as a result of workplace accidents or diseases and more than 17,000 BC workers were injured.
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It’s a pleasure to work with our customers to build what they need. And after the work is finished, we love it when our customers take the time to say something nice about us. Here are our latest customer testimonials:
Huff and Puff built our dream!
Sherborne ArtsLink and Youth Centre shared a dream to build a tranquil, inside- outside space which could be used for therapeutic, creative and community activities. We wanted to use sustainable building practices, incorporate artistic elements made by young people, involve the community in the building process and make a beautiful building.
This was a considerable list of needs for any building project, but Phil from Huff and Puff embraced our ideas and, due to his specialism in sustainable straw bale buildings, was perfectly placed to take up the challenge.
Huff and Puff was the ideal company to work together with us on this project – Phil translated our ideas into a design, encouraged and supported community involvement, was generous in sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm, was flexible and responsive to ideas and was totally committed to building a space which was appropriate to its environment and fit for its purpose.
We would recommend Huff and Puff Construction to anyone who wants to build the sustainable way. Phil is not just a builder, but also an educator, who advocates for sustainable practices and has the skill of being able to work with people of all ages, including young people.
We are absolutely delighted with our Art Cabin roundhouse and welcome anyone to come along and take a look.
Jennie Loader
TakepArt Community Arts Coordinator Sherborne ArtsLink
We originally chose to work with Huff and Puff Construction as we felt instantly that they would be able to translate our vision of the building into a reality. Equally important to us were the shared values they held, and their approach to a community build and community ownership.
Phil worked along side us, and his approachable manner meant that he could get to know us in more depth and use this to inform how he would translate our wishes into a physical space. Huff and Puff were able to work alongside other people such as our stained glass artist, and incorporate young peoples ideas into the build. Phil’s flexible approach meant that we were able to try out different ideas, and at all times, we felt we were included in all of the decision making.
As well as the physical build, Huff and Puff were very keen to educate the community and share practical teachings of construction. Overall, the experience for the community and ourselves of working alongside Huff and Puff has been fun, educational, rewarding and left us all with a huge sense of achievement.
Rachel Fraiz-Brown
Sherborne Art Cabin Project Team,
Sherborne Area Youth Worker and
Sherborne Youth and Community Centre Manager,
Dorset County Council
Mr Christopher was always prompt, discussed fully the way we would like the work done and did an extremely good job, keeping to the plan and keeping us in the picture at every stage. He was polite and courteous and we would definitely employ him again and would not hesitate to recommend him.
Mr & Mrs C, Yeovil – wooden fencing and car port renovation:
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Make the most of your garden this summer with Coletta & Tyson
This leading garden centre in Woodmansey has everything you need
William RamseyCommercial Editor for Trinity Mirror Humber
You'll find a wealth of ideas on how to make the most of your garden this year at Coletta & Tyson (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Feeding your imagination for a summer of outdoor enjoyment, East Yorkshire’s premier garden centre Coletta & Tyson has all you need.
When you visit this inspirational centre, you will be presented with a wealth of ideas on how to make the most of your garden this year.
The centre stocks a range of barbecues by Weber, a brand that has been celebrating the perfect barbecue since 1952 and is now one of the world’s leading providers of barbecue products, from portable and charcoal models to high-tech electric and gas versions.
There's a great range of barbecues at the centre (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Coletta & Tyson even has four members of staff who are specifically trained in Weber products to help customers with advice about the barbecue to best suit their needs and space, and to demonstrate how these fantastic barbecues work. You can be sure of the best deals available, with some extras being provided for free, such as a pizza stone, a poultry roaster or a chimney starter.
The centre is also a stockist of Landmann barbecues, another top name in performance barbecues that are built to last, and sells all the fuels you need to fire up your barbecue all summer.
A variety of chimineas, fire pits and patio heaters can also be found at the garden centre, ready for when the temperatures do drop a notch or two.
A variety of chimineas will provide warmth when the temperature drops (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Coletta & Tyson boasts what is arguably one of the biggest outdoor furniture departments in the area, with traditional and modern designs to suit all situations, and ranges in everything from wood, wicker and rattan to iron and aluminium, all at prices to suit every pocket.
And there are all those accessories available, from cushions and parasols, to solar lighting and citronella products, to enjoy all your outdoor entertaining in comfort and style.
The big range of outdoor furniture includes traditional and modern designs to suit all situations (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Of course, as a long-established garden centre and nurseries business, Coletta & Tyson also has a beautiful array of plants in stock to inject some colour into your garden for the summer months.
This second-generation horticultural family company ensures the quality of its plants by growing most of the lines itself in its own East Yorkshire nurseries.
You can browse an extensive plant area (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Its extensive plant area is a pleasure to browse around and, where you need instant colour without getting your hands dirty, Coletta & Tyson will be able to help with its ready-planted containers and hanging baskets.
The garden centre also has one of the largest pet departments in East Yorkshire, catering for small animals, reptiles, birds and fish, and a newly extended toy section to appeal to younger visitors to the centre.
Faced with so much choice, it could be that you need to sit back and take stock a little, before making your final decisions, which is where Coletta & Tyson’s new café experience comes in.
The welcoming, remodelled cafe at Coletta & Tyson (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Completely remodelled earlier this year, The Old Glasshouse – so-named because it is set within an original glasshouse that dates back more than 70 years – has a traditional but modern feel to it.
Designed with an “outdoors in” atmosphere in mind, The Old Glasshouse has its own pergola hung with modern bulb lighting and a living wall, perfect for Instagram opportunities.
With an open, airy feel, the vibrant café stands up to comparison with any city centre establishment and offers a dining experience that is very different for a garden centre, and unrivalled anywhere in East Yorkshire.
The theme is Yorkshire with an Italian twist, reflecting the heritage of the Coletta name, and the menu also acknowledges these links.
The Old Glass House has an open, airy feel (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
Wherever it can, Coletta & Tyson uses East Yorkshire suppliers for its ingredients – it has linked with a local baker, butcher and fishmonger for its provisions, and all the food is freshly prepared to order.
The café has a larger kitchen with an open pass so that customers can see in, and Coletta & Tyson decided to move away from the self-service offering of its previous Oasis café and introduce waiter service to The Old Glasshouse, making it a more personal and relaxing experience for customers.
Coletta & Tyson is at 324 Hull Road, Woodmansey, HU17 ORU. It is open from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday, and 10am to 4pm, Sunday. Call 01482 865410, visit www.colettagardencentre.co.uk for more information. Also find Coletta & Tyson on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
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Toyota and Mazda May be Looking to Expand Their Relationship
Toyota Will Hybridize the Land Cruiser
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2016 Scion iA (Credit: Scion)
According to a report from Automotive News, Toyota and Mazda are looking to expand their relationship beyond the scope of the Mazda2 and Scion iA. The report claims that the two are also working on a deal that would involve them sharing their fuel-saving and emission-cutting secrets with one another.
Toyota has mastered the art of the hybrid car, and is well on its way toward becoming a leader in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (FCV) with the Mirai. Mazda, on the other hand, has perfected the refinement of current technology to squeeze every mile from a gallon of fuel. Be it gasoline or diesel, Mazda’s SkyActv technology does more with less than most other fuel-saving advancements. Thanks to high compression ratios, lightweight materials, and tight tolerances, Mazda has pushed the balance of performance and economy about to its limits with its SkyActiv technology.
The one area that Mazda has fallen behind is in alternative fuels, but it’s not because of lack of interest. According to the Auto News report, Mazda has been attempting to create its own FCV, but has yet to have much success with it. Collaborating with Toyota, who is set to release the first mass-produces FCV, would be a great way to speed up this process.
For Toyota, Mazda could share its advancements in building supremely efficient vehicles without loads of expensive technology. This could help boost the performance and the range of future FCVs, giving Toyota and Mazda quite the leg up on what most experts consider the most logical replacement for the internal combustion engine in the near term.
According to Nikkei business daily, the two have yet to officially ink the deal, but it’s expected to happen soon.
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Budget Session of Parliament to commence on Jan 31
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Afghan suicide bomber kills 33 and injures dozens in Jalalabad
By Vasudevan Sridharan
Updated April 18, 2015 07:34 BST
A suicide bomb attack in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 33 people and injured dozens.
There appeared to be another explosion though it remains to be confirmed.
The motorbike-borne bomber blew himself up outside a bank at about 08:30 am local time.
Most of the injured were civilians, local police chief General Fazal Ahmed Sherzad said.
"Dozens of people are killed and wounded and ambulances have not reached the spot so far," an eyewitness named Mohammad Ayub told Pajhok Afghan News.
The death toll is higher as the bomb went off in a busy market on the first working day of the week, which is the norm in Afghanistan.
The second explosion is said to have taken place near the Da Afghanistan Bank, which is just 60 metres away from the site of the first blast. No casualties have been reported from the second explosion.
No group including the Afghan Taliban, which has been waging a deadly Islamist insurgency in the country, has claimed responsibility for the attack as yet.
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This Week In Running: May 26, 2015
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The holiday weekend was characteristically thin in racing volume. The weekend was, however, full of well wishes toward Dave Mackey. The Boulder, Colorado runner, long called one of the most humble men in the sport, suffered an incredibly unfortunate fall and serious leg injury on 8,461-foot Bear Peak. As Mackey undergoes multiple surgeries and what is likely to be a long recovery, filmmaker Billy Yang hopes to capture some of the messages of support in a video.
Jemez Mountain Trail Runs 50 Mile – Los Alamos, New Mexico
After a long break from racing, Nick Clark returned to the Jemez Mountains, and a race he’d won twice previously. Under blue skies and on dry trails–two things Clark hasn’t seen in Colorado lately–he finished first in 8:27.
“Always a fun time down in Los Alamos,” Clark said. “The best part was being stoked to be on a start line again. I’ve been able to get a really good block of training in over the last couple of months, after a long winter break, and I feel as fit and motivated as I have in a couple of years.”
As for the race, Clark said it went smoothly. “My stomach cooperated and I was able to hold up a good steady effort for the full 53 miles. It was exactly the kind of run I was looking for in the lead up to Lavaredo [Ultra-Trail], and it has me excited to put in a couple more weeks of hard work before tapering things down to see if I’ve still got what it takes to compete in the big stage.”
Behind the race winner, Chris Price and Joe Grant were second and third in 8:49 and 9:11, respectively.
Bethany Lewis ruled the women’s race, just missing a sub-10-hour finish with 10:00:04 on the clock. She outpaced second-place Hannah Green by 18 minutes. Meaghen Brown was third in 11:14.
In the accompanying 50k, Jon Severy and Erica Baron finished first in 4:45 and 5:42. Neither was a course record, but instead both marks rank second on the all-time charts.
Full results.
Sutallee Trace Trail Challenge – Canton, Georgia
Six races into the 10-race La Sportiva Mountain Cup and the men’s division is almost certainly decided. Ryan Woods added a fourth win, in four starts, with a 1:08 finish time at the 10-mile race here, on a course thought to follow old Cherokee trails. Bret Ferrier was second in 1:10 and remains third in the Cup standings. Jason Bryant was third in 1:14.
Absent any Cup participants, the women’s race saw Tara Mooney edge Erin Sutton by just over a minute, 1:23 to 1:24. The two were ninth and 10th overall. Camilla Ferreira Wenceslau was third in 1:31.
The seventh race of the Cup will be the Rothrock Challenge on June 6 in Pennsylvania.
Kasie Enman, a former World Mountain Running Champion, won the Vermont City Marathon in 2:49. Michael Wardian was sixth in the men’s race at 2:29. Neither currently holds an Olympic Trials Marathon qualifying mark. Full results.
A small group of experienced ultrarunners attempted to run 300 miles point-to-point through Georgia, from the mountains to the ocean, at the first-year Peach State 300 Mile. Jeff Dean and John Gordon both finished within the 120-hour cutoff. Dean set the inaugural year course record at 105 hours, 2 minutes. Gordon completed the route in 116 hours, 53 minutes. Full results (when available).
Next Weekend – Cayuga Trails 50 Mile – Ithaca, New York
The third annual Cayuga Trails 50 Mile–in and out of the area’s famous gorges–is again the USATF 50-Mile Trail National Championships and will split a $9,000 cash purse amongst the race winners.
The men’s race is highlighted by three road-to-trail converts, while the women’s race features a number of regional standouts.
Of the three favored men, Tyler Sigl is the most experienced, but he’s only run 50 miles three times. He did however win each of those races, which includes The North Face Endurance Challenge – Wisconsin, twice, and the Door County Fall 50 Mile. Sigl has run as fast at 5:27 for 50 miles (TNF EC – Wisconsin 2014) and 2:17 for the marathon (2009).
In his ultra debut at March’s Chuckanut 50k, Andrew Benford nearly ran down race winner David Laney. Benford, a 1:05 half marathoner and former University of Richmond standout, said of Chuckanut, “if anything I raced too conservatively and just ran out of real estate at the end. Better than the other way around for my first ultra, I guess. After Chuckanut went well, I figured what the hell, so I decided to sign up (for Cayuga) a few weeks ago.”
Benford is also a former U.S. Mountain Running Team member and explained, “I grew up running the trails and mountains of West Virginia, so it was only a matter of time before I got back to my (trail) roots.”
C. Fred Joslyn holds a marathon best of 2:18, dating to 2011, but he appears to have taken a step back from running the last two years. He ran 2:32 at this year’s Boston Marathon and 2:26 at the Pocono Marathon on May 17. His 2014 best was a 2:22. Limited ultra results fail to reveal his potential and instead show a 15th-place finish at the 2014 Ice Age Trail 50 Mile and a 12th-place finish at the 2015 Caumsett 50k.
Anna Piskorska, Maggie Guterl, and Kristina Folcik are all East Coast standouts seeking a potential first national championship. Piskorska was seventh at last month’s Bull Run Run 50 Mile. Guterl was fourth at the IAU 24-Hour World Championships, also in April, and Folcik was ninth at last year’s Cayuga race.
The three are likely to be joined up front by Jen Benna. She won April’s American River 50 Mile, and Cayuga is drawing her east, from Reno, Nevada, for a number of reasons.
“It draws a great field and I like the challenge of running a tough course with a national title on the line,” she explained. “It also fits really well in my build up to Angeles Crest 100 Mile and Ultra-Trail Mount Fuji. Since I have two little ones at home now, I am choosing to race less but with more purpose this year.”
Next Weekend – Comrades Marathon – Petermaritzburg, South Africa
On Sunday, May 31, defending champion Ellie Greenwood returns to the world’s biggest ultra. This year’s Comrades Marathon is an 87k (54-mile) uphill race from Durban to Petermaritzburg, South Africa. Greenwood won last year’s race in the reverse direction in 6:18, five minutes ahead of second-place Elena Nurgalieva, of Russia.
Russia’s Nurgalieva, an eight-time champion, and her sister Olesya Nurgalieva, a two-time champion, are likely to again be strong contenders, particularly given Greenwood’s limited build up to the race following a broken hand suffered during a cycling accident. Greenwood did, however, run 2:47 for third place at the May 3 Vancouver Marathon.
Caroline Wöstmann, a South African who won this year’s Two Oceans Marathon, is also likely to challenge for the win.
Also expected at the front of the race are Charné Bosman, of South Africa, and Devon Yanko, of the U.S. The two were fifth and seventh at Two Oceans in April. American speedster Liza Howard is also running, but she’s planning to run with her husband and not race. [Update May 27: The U.S.’s Devon Yanko has decided not to start Comrades. The U.K.’s Joasia Zakrzewski is another late entrant; she was third place at the IAU 100k World Championships last year, and has finished Comrades three times, including two fourth places.]
Legendary South African Olympian Zola Budd Pieterse, now nearly 50 years old, finished inside the top 10 at last year’s Comrades race and could also repeat such a performance.
In the men’s race, each of the last three champions, all of South Africa, return in Bong’musa Mthembu (2014), Claude Moshiywa (2013), and Ludwick Mamabolo (2012). Mthembu won last year’s race in 5:28.
Max King, last year’s IAU 100k World Champion, and Sage Canaday, fresh off a 2:19 Boston Marathon, will both seek to become the first American to win the famed race since Alberto Salazar in 1994.
Next Weekend – IAU Trail World Championships – Annecy, France
More than 30 countries are said to be competing at the fifth IAU Trail World Championships, held in conjunction with the Tecnica MaXi-Race. The 53-mile race (85k) circumnavigates Lake Annecy and incredibly includes over 17,000 feet of elevation gain and drop. Similar to other European races, runners are required to carry a cell phone, survival blanket, and other items.
The entrant list reveals an especially strong Spanish team, including Luis Alberto Hernando and Manuel Merillas. Other eye-catching names included France’s Xavier Thévenard, Lithuania’s Gediminas Grinius, South Africa’s Iain Don-Wauchope, and the U.K.’s Tom Owens.
Competing for the five-man U.S. team are Yassine Diboun, David Laney, Alex Nichols, Tim Tollefson, and Alex Varner. The first three of those men to cross the finish line will score in the team race.
Varner earned a big win at the Lake Sonoma 50 Mile earlier this year, and now enters an especially busy racing stretch. Following the April 11 Lake Sonoma 50, he had seven weeks to recover and ready for this race. And then two weeks until The Dipsea Race and another two weeks until the Western States 100.
“I put everything on the line at [Lake] Sonoma and am feeling recovered. I’ll have five solids weeks of training, including one week of taper, under my belt heading into the IAU race,” Varner said. “I’m confident that I’ll be able to put out a strong effort. As for [Western] States after that, well, we’ll see. The priority has become this IAU race, but I’m also hoping it provides a nice springboard heading into [Western] States.”
Just three U.S. women appear on the start list, something lamented earlier this year when awarded spots were declined. Krissy Moehl, Amy Rusiecki, and Cassie Scallon will represent the U.S.
Both Rusiecki and Scallon are coming off recent races that likely are to compromise their races. Rusiecki was second at the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile and Scallon was eighth at The North Face 100k-Australia.
Rusiecki though shrugs off any potential adversity. “Massanutten was just a good last long training run on technical trails with big climbs, perfect for the IAU race!”
As with the men’s race, the Spanish women’s team looks to be high powered with Uxue Fraile. Fraile was seventh at the recent Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon.
The French team is also favored with the likes of defending champion Nathalie Mauclair and Maud Gobert both entered.
iRunFar has previewed the incredibly deep men’s and women’s fields separately, and will be providing live coverage of the races.
Full entrant list.
Tagged: Andrew Benford Anna Piskorska Bethany Lewis Bret Ferrier C Fred Joslyn Cayuga Trails 50 Chris Price Comrades Marathon Devon Yanko Ellie Greenwood Erica Baron Jason Bryant Jemez 50 Mile Jennifer Benna Jo Zakrzewski Joe Grant Kasie Enman Kristina Folcik La Sportiva Mountain Cup Maggie Guterl Max King Michael Wardian Nick Clark Ryan Woods Sage Canaday Tyler Sigl
Justin Mock is a family man, finance man, and former competitive runner. He gave his 20s to running, and ran as fast as 2:29 for the marathon and finished as high as fourth at the Pikes Peak Marathon. His running is now most happy with his two dogs on the trails and peaks near his home west of Denver.
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tomridl May 26, 2015 at 9:44 am
One correction, Comrades runs from Durban to Pietermaritzburg this year. Official distance for the "up" run this year is 87,72km (54.5 miles).
The IAU World Champs is going to be an awesome race, can't wait.
justinmock1 May 26, 2015 at 9:59 am
Thanks Tom, edited accordingly.
@pdx_runner May 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Just curious, why did you remove Portland's Trail Factor 50k results?
justinmock1 May 26, 2015 at 8:33 pm
I'm not sure what happened there. I didn't include those initially yesterday, but then added this AM, but seem to have lost them when making the above Comrades edit.
Real quick –
Mario Mendoza 3:31, Tommy Puzey 3:33, Ryan Bak 3:35
Teagen Andrews 4:44, Heather Bretschneider 4:59, Jenny Souders 5:05
http://ultrasignup.com/results_event.aspx?did=312…
@Speedgoatkarl May 26, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Hey Justin, you missed one thing this week. Jurek is on the AT, headed Northbound, he started this morning, the 27th. Should be entertaning to say the least.
Oh, that is newsworthy!
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Vision-Box strengthens strategic partnership with home affairs
Posted: 16 October 2019 | Vision-Box | No comments yet
Vision-Box and Australian Government Department of Home Affairs extend SmartGates Departures programme until June 2026.
Aiming to provide solutions for an ever-improved passenger experience across all airports in Australia, Vision-Box, the leading provider of biometric-based travel and digital identity solutions, has entered into an extended five-year contract with the Department of Home Affairs for Departure SmartGate services, reinforcing its long-term strategic partnership.
In the short term, the focus will be on the extension of the Support & Maintenance agreement until June 2026 together with some innovation in the area of Departures SmartGates for Automated Border Control. Vision-Box will support Home Affairs in implementing several initiatives that improve the operational efficiency of border processes.
Mark Hilton, Vision-Box Managing Director APAC, hailed: “As air traffic in Australia continues to intensify, Vision-Box is proud to enhance its support to Home Affairs to facilitate travel at the border and beyond. This extended partnership has efficiency at the core of what is our mid-term innovative and strategic vision for the country, with immediate focus on Departures SmartGates technology.”
With Asia-Pacific in the driver’s seat of a growing aviation industry − IATA suggests passenger numbers could double up to 8.2 billion by 2037 – biometric-enabled automated border control is the primary means by which the Australian government plans to tackle its expected seven per cent annual growth in traveller numbers.
Vision-Box’s award-winning Advanced Border Control platform is at the kernel of the departures programme, with additional capabilities to support the enhancement initiatives Home Affairs aims at exploring.
The relationship between Vision-Box and Australia’s Department of Home Affairs was initially sustained by a very successful programme that began in 2015, after the Australian government selected the company to provide biometric border control SmartGates at all airports’ departures.
This programme extension, celebrated through the establishment of a strategic partnership, is foreseen as a critical cornerstone of the future of border control and efficient travel in the country, at the benefit of the entire aviation ecosystem with the passenger at its epicentre.
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Black Hills National Forest - Invasive Species, Noxious Weeds & Aquatic Nuisance
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Neighbors: 'Slow down' after woman hit, killed
Jeanette Hurst was crossing State Street near the 1900 block when she was struck by a car driven by David Green.
Neighbors: 'Slow down' after woman hit, killed Jeanette Hurst was crossing State Street near the 1900 block when she was struck by a car driven by David Green. Check out this story on jconline.com: http://on.jconline.com/2hr3Lhp
Joseph Paul, Journal & Courier Published 12:35 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2017 | Updated 1:47 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2017
A sign on State Street in Lafayette asking drivers to slow down.(Photo: Joseph Paul/Journal & Courier)
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The sound of a fatal crash Oct. 14 has stuck with Joseph Mathews, who lives on State Street where a woman was struck by a car and killed.
"I'll never forget that sound," Mathews said. "It was a really unique sound of a car hitting a body."
Emergency personnel were called at 11:15 p.m. Hurst, 53, was taken to a local hospital, where she died of her injuries.
The crash prompted complaints from neighbors, who posted signs asking drivers to slow down, and additional patrols by Lafayette police officers.
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"Neighbors got together along here and decided to put up the signs because people really cruise down this road," Mathews said. "It was night time, but the driver was going over the limit definitely, so we just wanted to make people aware to kind of slow down on this stretch. I know the limit is posted, but it doesn’t stop people from driving recklessly."
Green, 23, was cooperative with police and submitted chemical tests required by state law, Sgt. Matt Gard said Oct. 27. Those tests are pending, and the crash remains under investigation.
The speed limit on the road is 35 mph.
"I think it’s a little high for what it is because people always drive over a little bit, anyway," Mathews said. "This is all residential right through here ... Every house along here almost has children in it. They play outside."
Sgt. Will Carpenter, who heads Lafayette Police Department's traffic division, said since the crash the agency has received complaints about speeding on State Street, prompting LPD to add patrols in the area.
"That was in direct response to the complaints that we received from the neighborhood since that crash has occurred," Carpenter said. "However, I will say we are not indicating that speed was a cause or a factor in the crash."
Before the crash, Carpenter said he couldn't recall speeding problems on State Street, which he called a "secondary thoroughfare."
"We get complaints about speed on a daily or weekly basis ... I just don’t remember a specific time or a specific complaint about State Street," Carpenter said.
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Home » Home » Acritas Survey Reveals Top 20 Law Firm Brands
Acritas Survey Reveals Top 20 Law Firm Brands
By Jim Vassallo
Legal research company Acritas released data from a survey it conducted that found the leading law firm brands amongst in-house counsel, with the law firm of Baker & McKenzie topping out the list for the third straight year. The survey began back in 2009, according to a report from Law.com’s Corporate Counsel.
In the survey from Acritas, the following statement was made by the legal research firm that said:
“The figures reveal that [the magic circle’s] grip is weakening relative to their positions in previous years. This is perhaps due to their greater focus on the largest clients and because of increasing competition. Nevertheless, the magic circle firms compensate for lower favorability levels with their strength in multi-jurisdictional consideration for top-level work.”
The CEO of Acritas, Lisa Hart Shepherd, said, “Our research suggests a changing future distribution of global law firm brands, leading to a structure more akin to the international accountancy market, but with a big-15 group of law firms, as opposed to a ‘big four’. In light of this, the top law firms face a fundamental strategic decision between working to secure a position as one of these dominant global players and reacting according to market forces, or choosing a more specialist role, and becoming more ‘boutique’ as a result. Certainly to achieve a dominant global position, PEP [average profit per equity partner] will have to be sacrificed and long-term investment will be crucial to the successful execution of such an ambitious strategy. For most, this will be too large a sacrifice.”
The statement from Acritas in the survey continues with the following:
“The US is a very crowded market leading to a lower awareness share to leverage into the global mix. This means that outside the domestic market, it’s harder for US firms to gain traction due to a relative lack of awareness and strong competition from long-established international players such as the magic circle and Baker & McKenzie .”
The survey revealed the following standings:
1. Baker & McKenzie
2. Freshfields
3. Linklaters
4. Clifford Chance
5. DLA Piper
6. Allen & Overy
7. Skadden
8. Hogan Lovells
9. Norton Rose Group
10. White & Case
11. Jones Day
12. Herbert Smith
13. Mayer Brown
14. Latham & Watkins
15. Gibson Dunn
16. King & Wood Mallesons
17. Sidley Austin
18. Eversheds
19. CMS
20. Morgan Lewis
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Railroad Worker Injury – FELA
Many occupational hazards exist for railroad workers. The job is tough – and dangerous – in the rail yard, with workers subjected to long hours, strenuous activity and challenging physical labor. These workers suffer twice the fatality rate of the average American worker.
Yet unlike most other workers, railroad employees and their families cannot collect workers’ compensation for injuries or work-related deaths. Instead, they must pursue compensation through the Federal Employers Liability Act, or FELA.
Passed by Congress in 1908, before workers’ compensation laws were firmly in place, FELA was initiated after President William Henry Harrison declared the hazards akin to those faced by a soldier at war. The goal of the legislation was to make it so costly for railroads to cover expenses for worker injuries that they would do everything possible to protect those workers. Unlike workers’ compensation benefits, there is no monetary limitation on compensation under FELA.
At the Boston Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman, our experienced railroad injury attorneys in Massachusetts know injury and fatality rates of railroad workers have plummeted since then. Still, it continues to be a serious problem.
Railroad Worker Hazards
An analysis by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found more than 1,220 railroad workers killed over a recent, 10-year span. Of those, 24 percent involved workers in the railroad transportation industry and another 14 percent were railroading workers in other industries. (The other 62 percent were non-railroading workers, such as truck drivers.)
Of those railroading worker fatalities, the most common causes were:
Transportation accidents
Railway accidents (including falls in, on or from railway vehicles)
Pedestrian workers struck by vehicle
Pedestrian workers struck by railway vehicle
Highway crashes not involving trains
Homicides
More than three quarters of these deaths occurred on railway lines, in railway yards or in similar locations.
A number of FELA claims in Massachusetts since the 1960s stemmed from industrial use of toxic solvents, which has been linked to brain damage in both current and former workers. These injuries are characterized by short-term memory loss, anxiety, depression and other diminished function.
In fact, CSX, the country’s largest railroad company, has shelled out more than $35 million to workers who have suffered brain damage due to solvent exposure – yet the company (and the industry at-large) continues to deny there is a connection between such exposure and illness.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration promotes and regulates safety throughout the railroad industry. Eight regional offices nationally are responsible for conducting safety inspections and enforcing compliance in:
Operating practices
Train and signal control
Railroad safety and customer training
Accident and employee death investigations and reports
Unfortunately, these inspection offices are spread thin. Technological improvements have helped to some degree, but workers continue to sustain serious injuries nearly every day.
Advantages of FELA
FELA covers most all railroad employees, thanks to an amendment passed in 1939. This includes everyone from clerical workers to conductors.
Although the law exempts injured railway workers from pursuing workers’ compensation benefits, which would bar litigation against an employer, FELA grants injured workers permission to pursue compensation in either federal or local state courts.
Additionally, the law lowers injured worker’s proof burden by requiring that they show simply they sustained injuries in whole or in part due to the railroad’s negligence. In workers’ compensation cases, negligence need not be proven in order to collect benefits. But the flip side for workers covered under FELA is that even if they do hold some degree of liability for their injuries, they need only show the railroad contributed to the accident or illness.
Further, if a worker can show the railroad violated a safety regulation or statute, Congress has imposed a standard of absolute liability. What that means is there is no need in these circumstances for injured workers or families of deceased workers to prove negligence.
A worker’s own comparative fault will be weighed and the award reduced accordingly.
Bear in mind statute of limitations on FELA cases is three years, as set by federal law. Claims not brought within that time frame may be permanently barred, which is why it’s critical for injured railroad workers to immediately seek experienced representation.
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MEET THE JAGUAR EXPERTS
Deep within the Gaydon engineering HQ, hundreds of technical wizards are working on making future Jaguars even greater. Meet a diverse but magnificent seven representing the many, from specialists in virtual reality to self-learning cars and acoustics
Orla Murphy, 25
Day job: Audio calibration engineer
Education: Electronics Engineering degree
Spare time: Playing viola in the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra and 15-a-side camogie (similar to the Irish sport of hurling)
My job is about the perception of sound in the car. In an orchestra you listen to all kinds of sounds, from the really low frequencies of a tuba to really high frequencies from a piccolo, so my ears are good at knowing what to listen for. I wrote a research paper recently on 3D surround sound and working on that is really exciting. But zonal audio – where specific noise cancellation can create different listening zones – is the Holy Grail. We can balance and fade sound in certain sections of the car now, but for the future we’re looking at a scenario where someone in the back of the car making a private phone call wouldn’t be bothered by what the driver’s playing, or the front passenger could be listening to rock while the rear passenger streams classical with no interference. It’s not just about music either. We have to deal with vocal integration, parking sensors and every other sound inside a car.
Brian Waterfield, 49
Day job: Virtual reality technical lead
Education: VR & Gaming Tech Masters
Spare time: ‘I stopped rugby, as coming to work with black eyes didn’t go down well. Now it’s the gym and TED Talks.’
Our virtual reality cave was the biggest in the world when we first set it up. It has three walls and a ceiling and is rear-projected with resolution up to four times HD. Normally we’d put an interior ‘buck’ in there and visualise the rest of the car around it. It’s a one-to-one scale when you’ve got these glasses on. It was originally intended mainly for the packaging team and the management of space. But we found more and more departments within JLR wanted to use it so we built a 2D and 3D power wall which interacts with the cave. The cave would only fit so many people inside but the power wall has a 52-seater stadium where people can experience exactly what’s going on in the cave. A physical test of a car relies on many factors – with ice- or off-road testing you’re reliant on the weather – but in the virtual world you’re not reliant on anything. As we develop more ways to simulate we will be able to control time and space with any weather conditions.
Lee Skrypchuk, 35
Day job: Human Machine Interface (HMI) specialist
Education: Electronics & Computing, Display Systems Technologies degrees and currently working on a Automotive Interface Systems PhD
Spare time: Bringing up two kids and supporting Nottingham Forest FC
Bonus fact: Lee’s surname only has one vowel, added by his Ukrainian grandfather to make it easier for other Europeans to pronounce
Orla Murphy is a musician with a degree in Electronics Engineering who harnesses her powers to enhance the perception of sound within cars.
When the iPhone launched in 2007 it changed how we interacted with personal screens. We want something as intuitive and desirable but balanced with controlling a car at the same time. My research group focuses on a lot of speculative stuff that may or may not make it, but there are still 25 of us. In 2007 there were only four. We’re working on what we call ‘off-surface touch’ with a capacitive system that senses your finger from 15-20cm away – so you can wave your hand to open and close the sunroof for example – using the sensor I’m holding. It could be in production in three years. We’re trying to make our systems more sympathetic so people can quickly switch off from one task and get into another by how we design it. We’re trained at some level to drive but no one really trains us to do the other stuff at the same time. For aviation pilots it’s their job, but for many drivers it’s not.
Kris Kobylinski, 30
Day job: Research technology delivery manager, self-learning car project
Education: Masters in Computer Science
Spare time: Spending time with my wife and daughter, playing football, snowboarding, surfing and electric guitar lessons
Inspiration: Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein ‘for their beautiful minds and amazing inventions’
I lead the development of technologies that don’t exist yet in a team of machine-learning engineers, big-data scientists and human factors specialists. Our aim is to develop the first truly intelligent car that recognises each driver, learns their preferences and offers predictive options. My advice to budding engineers looking to get into this line of work would be to grow a passion for automotive – if you don’t already have one – look for hands-on work experience opportunities and study maths, physics and computer science...hard!
Brian Waterfield leads the virtual reality tech team in the cave to visualise the cars in 2D and 3D and even defy time and space.
Dr. Thomas Popham, 33
Day Job: technical Specialist, Self-Learning Car Project
Education: mechanical Engineering Degree, Ph D in Computer Science
Spare Time: skiing and Other outdoor pursuits
We’re working on research that uses machine-learning techniques to learn driver preferences. This area is interesting because it is so varied – we need electrical and mechanical engineers, computer scientists, project managers, psychologists and more. Obviously a solid educational background is important, but after that, communication, teamwork and stamina are absolutely essential. Vehicle intelligence is going to be such a big improvement – especially as cars become connected to each other and ‘the cloud’. The car industry is making some great progress in terms of CO2 performance, but I’ll be really excited to see the day when this problem is solved.
Linh Nguyen Slater, 29
Day job: Human Machine Interface specialist for self-learning car project
Education: Bachelor and Master of Science degrees
Spare time: Cooking and eating. ‘My friends call me the Iron Chef or the Vietnamese Martha Stewart’
I’m involved in developing the interfaces for artificial intelligence in the self-learning car. Engineers build the back end while I focus on the front end, the customer-facing design. I conduct user testing to ensure interfaces we design are safe, usable and delightful. I stumbled upon human factors design, also known as ergonomics, HMI or user experience, when I was studying medicine. It’s a field that combines people, engineering and design – just the thing for an artsy scientist who loves people. I cannot wait until the self-learning car is ready in the next six years. It will be the first time that machine-learning techniques will be used in a car and will also serve as a natural transition into autonomous driving.
John Pepperell, 49
Day job: Senior business and product planning manager
Education: Mechanical Engineering degree
Spare time: Running half marathons, motorcycling and bringing up four kids
At school, when everyone else was playing football, the guys I was hanging out with were into fixing old cars like Humber Sceptres, Vauxhall Vivas and Hillman Avengers. The base parts of an engine have been the same for 100 years but what has changed is some of the peripheral technology. A lot of what I do now is about electronic adaption of the engine. It needs to be great in all conditions so we have to adapt the timing and fuelling and for that you need lots of sensors and actuators. In 15 years I think there will still be conventional engines but by then hybrids will be ‘conventional’ technology and we’ll be at the front-end of fuel cell technology perhaps.
"VEHICLE INTELLIGENCE IS GOING TO BE SUCH A BIG IMPROVEMENT – ESPECIALLY AS CARS BECOME CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AND ‘THE CLOUD’."
DR. THOMAS POPHAM
Technical Specialist, Self-Learning Car Project
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Jay Cobb Anderson (vocals, lead guitar, harmonica) / Kellen Asebroek (vocals, rhythm guitar, piano) / Mimi Naja (vocals, mandolin, electric & acoustic guitar) / Jeff Leonard (bass) / Tyler Thompson (drums, banjo)
On their fifth full-length, Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition transform pain and heartache into something truly glorious. With their songwriting sharper and more nuanced than ever before—and their sonic palette more daringly expansive—the Portland, Oregon-based band’s full-hearted intensity ultimately gives the album a transcendent power.
“The songs are mostly breakup songs,” says Asebroek. “There was love and now it’s gone—we fucked it up, or some outside circumstance brought it to an end. It’s about dealing with all that but still having hope in your heart, even if you’re feeling a little lost and jaded.”
In a departure from their usual DIY approach, Fruition teamed up with producer/mixer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, First Aid Kit, case/lang/veirs) to adorn their folk- rooted sound with delicately crafted elements of psychedelia and soul. Showcasing the sublime harmonies the band first discovered during an impromptu busking session in 2008, Watching It All Fall Apart also finds Fruition more fully embracing their rock-and-roll sensibilities and bringing a gritty vitality to each track. “We’ve been a band almost ten years now, and we’re at the point of being comfortable in our skin and unafraid to be whatever we want as time goes on,” Anderson notes.
Recorded in ten days at Flora Recording & Playback in Portland, Watching It All Fall Apart came to life with the same kinetic urgency found in Fruition’s live sound. “It’s kind of an impossible task, this idea of transmuting the live energy into something you can play on your stereo, but I feel like this record comes close to that,” says Asebroek. At the same time, the band pursued a purposeful inventiveness that resulted in their most intricately textured work to date. “Tucker helped us push ourselves to create something that glistens in subtle little ways that you might not even pick up on at first,” says Asebroek. “We got to play around with all this analog gear and these weird old keyboards we wouldn’t ordinarily use, like a bunch of kids in a toy store where everything is free.”
On lead single “I’ll Never Sing Your Name,” that unrestrained creativity manifests in a fuzzed-out, gracefully chaotic track complete with sing-along-ready chorus. Built on brilliantly piercing lyrics (“And all those kisses that you were blowing/Somehow they all got blown right out”), the song echoes the album’s emotional arc by painfully charting the journey from heartache to acceptance. “It’s about going through a breakup, moping around, and then finally getting to the point where it’s like, ‘Okay—I’m done with feeling this way now,’” says Anderson.
Throughout Watching It All Fall Apart, the band’s let-the-bad-times-roll mentality reveals itself in ever-shifting tones and moods. On the stark and sleepy “Northern Town,” Naja’s smoldering vocals channel the ache of longing, the track’s twangy guitar lines blending beautifully with its swirling string arrangement. One of the few album cuts to have already appeared in Fruition’s setlist, “There She Was” sheds the heavy funk influence of its live version and gets reimagined as a shimmering, soulful number documenting Asebroek’s real-life run-in with an ex at a local bar. Meanwhile, “Turn to Dust” emerges as a weary but giddy piece of psych-pop chronicling the end of a failed romance. The song’s opening lyric also lends the album its title, which partly serves as “a commentary on the general state of the world today,” according to Asebroek. “Even if you’re mostly an optimistic person, it’s hard not to feel down when you look at all the insanity happening right now,” he says.
While those unflinchingly intimate breakup songs form the core of Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition infuse an element of social commentary into songs like “FOMO” as well. Written on the Fourth of July, with its references to wasted white girls and cocaine cowboys, the mournful yet strangely reassuring track unfolds as what Anderson calls “an anti-party party song.” “It’s about one of those situations where you said you’d go to party but you really don’t want to go, because you know it’s going to be the same old bullshit,” he says. “The song is a call to defuse that guilt in your brain.” And on the sweetly uplifting “Let’s Take It Too Far,” the band offers one of the album’s most purely romantic moments by paying loving tribute to music as solace and salvation (“But don’t you worry ’bout dyin’/’Cause there’s no better way to go/We’ll sing until we’re out of honey/Then pour the gravel down our throats”).
From song to song, Fruition display the dynamic musicality they’ve shown since making their debut with 2008’s Hawthorne Hoedown LP. Through the years, the band has evolved from a rootsy, string- centric outfit to a full-fledged rock act, eventually taking the stage at such major festivals as Bonnaroo and Telluride Bluegrass (a set that inspired Rolling Stone to praise their “raucous originals filled with heartfelt lyrics and stadium-worthy energy”). Following the release of 2016’s Labor of Love, Fruition again made the rounds at festivals across the U.S., prompting Rolling Stone to feature the band on its “8 Best Things We Saw” at DelFest 2016.
In choosing a closing track for Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition landed on “Eraser”—a slow- building, gently determined epic delivering a quiet message of hope in its final line: “Let it help you heal.” “Because there’s so much heartbreak on this album, we wanted to end on Kellen singing that last line very sweetly,” explains Anderson. “The whole point of having all these sad songs is helping people to let those emotions out—and then hopefully when they get to the end, they feel a little better about everything they’ve gone through along the way.”
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At best, people look into the idea of time travel with much skepticism and disbelief. This is not very difficult to understand considering that it has not been known to have been successfully carried out physically. But how about time travel through the mind? IKEA takes us to this possibility one more time through its Time Travel Experiment No. 2, this time with couple Jeff and Beth.
Imagining Possibilities
Most people would indulge into thinking about their future but it is not always easy to do so in a realistic manner. How do we create a situation that can possibly approximate our future? IKEA helps its customers imagine possibilities right in its own bedrooms and bathrooms. Through the help of world-renowned hypnotist Justin Tranz, Jeff and Beth do not only get to imagine their future but experience it as well like it was happening now.
Experiencing Possibilities
For couples like Jeff and Beth, taking their relationship to the next level is the nearest possibility. How would Jeff pop the question? How would Beth react?
After marriage comes kids. How they would fare as spouses and parents will always be special points of interest for them. How would they fare with a five year-old son or a fifteen year-old son for that matter?
How will Jeff as a father answer his five year-old son's awkward question of "Where do babies come from?" Will he be able to provide an acceptable answer or will he just skirt the issue like most parents are wont to do?
How will the couple fare with a fifteen year-old son who considers what most people would call noise as music? Will seeing a glimpse of that future prepare them more?
Jeff and Beth got to experience all of these moments with the assistance of Justin. They were allowed to go through different future periods of time while in a deep state of hypnotism. While the power of suggestibility was very much expected to work with Beth who was open to this kind of ideas, skeptic Jeff still proved highly-suggestible enough to go through the motions while believing that everything presented to them was real.
It was very interesting to hear Jeff say that he will be a good dad. Beth was hinting on changing a few things. Experiencing the future probably has a way of making what we really want a lot clearer.
To complete our story, here is the full video of Jeff and Beth's time travel through hypnotism.
I have always wondered what I would do if were to know what will happen in my future. Sometimes I feel like knowing but then again sometimes I'd rather not know. Families make more memories at home than in any other place. Every room tells its story. Find your future bedrooms and bathrooms in IKEA as you and your family make memories together.
That said, remember that while we cannot totally control our future, we can always manage it a little more with wise decisions at the present time.
Tags: future bedrooms and bathrooms, home and living, IKEA time travel, IKEA time travel experiment no.2
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The Controversial Nature of Privacy - how far are we willing to go to protect our privacy?
Datum: 31 januari, kl. 15.15 –16.00
Plats: Ångströmlaboratoriet Ångströmbiblioteket
Föreläsare: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
Arrangör: Uppsala universitetsbibliotek
Kontaktperson: Sarah Meier
Privacy appears to be a very important issue today when ICT permeates more and more aspects of our life...
Mainly this is understood as a risk of breaching the privacy of persons, and possibly the privacy of groups, organizations, corporations and states. If we make an effort to describe the nature of privacy we can easily and rather fast come to the conclusion that privacy is not only something that has to be protected. Although this is important, it seems that privacy sometimes has to be intervened in order to satisfy important interests and values, for example, the need for correct information.
About the presenter: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos is a professor at Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction.
This seminar is part of “The Glass Room Experience”, an exhibition about our lives online. It will be exposed during 28 January - 1 February (in association with the Data Privacy Day) at some of Uppsala University's libraries.
During these days, we will also hand out Data Detox-kits and organize different seminars and lectures according to the theme. Don’t miss this!
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Escape to living, Escape to fun, Escape to Kenmare
Every Thursday 8pm Tickets €8/Students €6 This is the latest list of film titles we are screening over the coming months. All films are open to everyone and start promtly at 8pm. Ask for your Movie Loyalty Card at the box office and check out the trailers if you are not sure. Hope to see you soon.
Kenmare Tidy Towns volunteers meet every Tuesday at 7pm in the Square and we are always looking for extra help. If you have an hour or 2 to spare,please join us.
Kenmare Troubadour Club will meet weekly at the Brewhouse from 9pm. All musicians, instruments, supporters and spectators encouraged.
Kenmare Farmers Market
Kenmare Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday. Local speciality food, craft, plants and produce makers setup stalls early to sell their tempting wares to the public.
Film'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'(2019)(18)Comedy/Drama
'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' - Please note this screening was originally scheduled for March 5th and has been switched with 'Joker '. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age Tickets €8/Students €6
Kenmare's Couch to 5K
The ever popular Couch to 5K programme is back! Taking place in Supervalu's underground carpark from 8pm-9pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights for 8 weeks beginning on Monday 13th Jan. Registration will take place on Monday 13th Jan at 7.15pm, €40 per person.
The X Factor Community Games Talent Show
For details on rules and entries contact your teacher or call John Daly on 0871325665 or Email ; info@seandaly.com Entry Fee €3 per person or €10 for a family of 4
Film 'Downton Abbey'(2019)(PG)Drama/Romance
Downton Abbey The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century. Starring Maggie Smith,Matthew Goode & Elizabeth McGovern Tickets €8/Students€6
Film'Blinded by the Light'(2019)(12A)(KFS)(UK)Comedy/Drama/Music
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen. Tickets €8/Students€6
Music-'A Salute to the Crooners'Preformed by Dave Lawlor
A Salute to the Crooners This spectacular audio-visual Show A Salute to the Crooners sees Dave Lawlor, one of Ireland’s greatest singers pay tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Matt Monro, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Perry Como and Dean Martin. Not only do you witness the crooner classics come to life with Dave’s velvet voice but see the fabulous portrayal of images of all the artists on a large circular screen. With a career spanning over thirty years, Dave Lawlor, star of the highly acclaimed ‘Reeling in the Showband Years’ Show was chosen by music promotions company Linden Productions to front this visually stunning show. Only an entertainer of Lawlor’s exceptional calibre could pay homage – accurately, respectfully, and with the appropriate humility – to so many musical icons in one show. Acknowledged by his contemporaries as one of Ireland’s best singers, Dave has received many accolades to date, including 3 top ten hits in the Irish Charts. Dave’s vibrant stage presence will bring the audience through the great crooner songbook and some of the best know hits of the twentieth century such as Born Free, New York, New York, Portrait of my Love, The Wonder of You, Sway, Please Release Me, Moon River, That’s Amore, My Way and many more. With a penchant for sentiment, romance and charm, Dave will enthral in this visually stunning audio-visual show and take you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, superbly enhanced by the rare images of the stars. As Red Hurley enthused about A Salute to the Crooners, ‘Lawlor stands in the shoes of Giants…….and they’re a perfect fit’. Tickets €20
Kenmare Annual Offshore Regatta
We look forward to welcoming crews from all over the country to Kenmare’s Offshore Rowing Regatta.
Vikingdom Raft Race
Vikingdom is back June 20th 2020 The Vikings have been spotted building their rafts in secret locations,they have sent word to their clansmen and more are arriving bringing with them demonstrations of the Viking way of life
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The Anterior Intraparietal Sulcus Mediates Grasp Execution, Independent of Requirement to Update: New Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Nichola J. Rice, Eugene Tunik and Scott T. Grafton
Journal of Neuroscience 2 August 2006, 26 (31) 8176-8182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1641-06.2006
Nichola J. Rice
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Eugene Tunik
Scott T. Grafton
Although a role of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) in grasping is becoming evident, the specific contribution of regions within the IPS remains undefined. In this vein, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was delivered to the anterior (aIPS), middle (mIPS), and caudal (cIPS) IPS in two tasks designed to dissociate the potential roles of the IPS in either grasp planning or execution (task 1) and its involvement in error detection or error correction (task 2). Determining the involvement of specific regions of the IPS in perceptual (planning and error detection) versus motor (execution and correction) components of grasping allowed us to assess the ecological validity of competing computational models attempting to simulate reach-to-grasp movements. In task 1, we demonstrate that, when no on-line adjustment is necessary, TMS to aIPS (but not mIPS or cIPS) disrupts grasping; this disruption is only elicited when TMS is applied during the execution (but not the planning) phase of the movement. Task 2 reveals that TMS to aIPS (but not mIPS or cIPS) disrupts grasping in the presence of a perturbation; this disruption is only elicited when TMS is applied during the error correction (but not error detection) phase of the movement. We propose that the specific contribution of the aIPS in grasping is in the on-line computation of a difference vector based on motor goal, efference copy, and sensory inputs. This computation is performed for both stable and perturbed motor goals.
grasping
intraparietal sulcus
dorsal stream
computational models
perception and action
Our everyday interactions with objects are characterized by smooth reach-to-grasp actions that can be efficiently modified in the presence of perturbations to the sensorimotor system. Electrophysiological recordings in nonhuman primates (Sakata et al., 1995; Murata et al., 2000) and imaging data from humans (Binkofski et al., 1999; Culham et al., 2003; Frey et al., 2005) have identified a frontoparietal reach-to-grasp network, lesions of which in both humans (Binkofski et al., 1999) and monkeys (Gallese et al., 1994; Fogassi et al., 2001) lead to pronounced deficits in hand preshaping during grasping. The induction of brief virtual lesions through transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers a unique window in causally attributing anatomy with function to understand the specific role of nodes within this network in goal-directed reach-to-grasp actions.
A recent study has demonstrated that TMS to the anterior portion of the intraparietal sulcus (aIPS) disrupts goal-dependent on-line adjustments of grasp (Tunik et al., 2005) when compared with movements for which no explicit update is required; these deficits were elicited when TMS was delivered within 65 ms after the perturbation of the object, leading the authors to suggest a role of aIPS in error detection. A slightly more posterior region within the IPS has also been implicated in on-line control. TMS to this portion of the sulcus disrupts on-line corrective responses when reaching toward perturbed targets (Desmurget et al., 1999) and grasping perturbed objects (Glover et al., 2005).
Although the involvement of the IPS in on-line control is becoming well established in both reaching (Desmurget et al., 1999; Pisella et al., 2000; Grea et al., 2002) and grasping (Glover et al., 2005; Tunik et al., 2005), its specific contribution to the computations used in on-line control is not understood. Because this region is implicated in grasping in stable contexts (Binkofski et al., 1999; Culham et al., 2003; Frey et al., 2005) and for representing the goal of an intended action (Hamilton and Grafton, 2006), there is strong reason to attribute a broader role for IPS than the planning of hand configurations. Although the abovementioned TMS studies attribute a causal relationship between the IPS and on-line control, the increase in complexity from the no-perturbation to perturbation condition may have made the IPS more susceptible to TMS-induced deficits. Additionally, because visual feedback was continuously provided, these studies could not dissociate a role of IPS in error detection from correction.
The present study probes the specific involvement of the IPS in the control of prehension by using TMS to disrupt the anterior (aIPS), middle (mIPS), and caudal (cIPS) aspects of the IPS during grasping. Specifically, we ask whether these regions play a role in (1) generating versus executing a reach-to-grasp movement performed in a stable context, and (2) detecting a mismatch between the intended action and a new context versus correcting the adaptive response. This is the first attempt to map the precise roles of regions along the IPS in grasping behavior. In addition, we assess the ecological validity of competing computational models simulating reach-to-grasp movements.
Ten healthy subjects participated in the study after providing written informed consent (six females, four males; mean ± SD age, 24.9 ± 4.83 years old). Dartmouth Institutional Review Board approval was granted for all procedures. All subjects were right handed, as determined using the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (Oldfield, 1971).
Subjects were seated at a table with their chin positioned in a chin rest to minimize head movement. Each trial began with subjects placing their thumb and index finger on a start button directly in front of them. Subjects were required to grasp a rectangular object (8 × 2.5 × 1 cm) that was mounted on the shaft of a motor (model S6MH4; Kollmorgen, Brattleboro, VT), positioned at shoulder level; the position of the motor from the subject was adjusted to ensure that each subject could comfortably reach the target (57 cm from the edge of the table). The object was to be grasped using a precision grip, with their index finger and thumb oriented along the vertical dimension. Two different trial types were tested: trials in which the motor rotated at the start of movement to perturb the orientation of the object (perturbation task), and trials in which the motor kept the object motionless (no-perturbation task). In both tasks, visual feedback was controlled by liquid crystal shutter glasses (Plato System; Translucent Technologies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), which remained opaque between each trial. The opening of the shutter glasses always served as the “Go” cue. The two tasks are detailed below.
No-perturbation task.
The shutter glasses were programmed to open for 200 ms at the start of each trial. During this viewing period, subjects received visual feedback of the starting orientation of the object, which had an equal probability of being either horizontal (grasp the small dimension) or vertical (grasp the large dimension). The shutter glasses then closed for the remainder of the trial. On a given trial, TMS was delivered (1) during the viewing period, i.e., during the planning/detection phase (TMS 1), (2) at start button release, signaled by release of the start button, i.e., execution phase (TMS 2), or (3) not at all (no TMS) (Fig. 1a). The no-TMS trials were included to control for interblock fatigue or practice effects. In the TMS conditions, the first pulse was delivered simultaneous with the opening of the shutter glasses (TMS 1) or hand-button release (TMS 2), the second pulse was delivered 100 ms after the first.
The timing of experimental events in the no-perturbation task (a) and the perturbation task (b). Filled gray boxes indicate the time when the shutter glasses are closed; white boxes indicate the time that the shutter glasses are open. The black rectangle represents the target, which is presented vertically (large grasp) or horizontally (small grasp).
Perturbation task.
The viewing period was the same as in the no-perturbation task. After closure of the shutter glasses, the motor reoriented the object by 90°, which was not perceived by the subjects. The release of the start button, at the onset of the reach-to-grasp movement, triggered the reopening of the shutter glasses for 200 ms, allowing subjects to view the perturbed object orientation. Thus, a horizontal-to-vertical perturbation necessitated a small-to-large adjustment in grasp aperture, whereas a vertical-to-horizontal perturbation necessitated a large-to-small adjustment in aperture. On a given trial, TMS was delivered (1) during the second viewing period, i.e., during the error detection phase (TMS 1), (2) immediately after the second viewing period, i.e., during the error correction phase (TMS 2), or (3) not at all (no TMS) (Fig. 1b). The no-TMS trials were included to control for interblock fatigue or practice effects. In the TMS conditions, the first pulse was delivered simultaneously with the opening of the shutter glasses (TMS 1) or closing of the shutter glasses (TMS 2), and the second pulse was delivered 100 ms after the first.
The experiment consisted of six blocks of 60 trials. Within each block, there was an equal number of perturbation and no-perturbation trials, presented randomly. This ensured that subjects were forced to make a movement plan during the early viewing phase of each trial because, in the no-perturbation trials, they would not receive any additional information (whereas in the perturbation task, subjects were then required to update this initial plan using visual feedback provided during the second viewing phase).
Localization of brain sites and TMS
Three cortical sites in the left hemisphere were chosen for stimulation: (1) the most anterior region of the IPS (aIPS), located at the junction between the anterior extent of the IPS and the inferior postcentral sulcus (Culham et al., 2003; Frey et al., 2005); (2) a region located near the apex of the IPS, near the middle of the sulcus (mIPS); and (3) a region in the most caudal part of the IPS (cIPS) (Fig. 2). The cortical sites for each subject are depicted in supplemental Figure 1 (available at www.jneurosci.org as supplemental material). The proximity of the three regions robustly controlled for the spatial specificity of TMS-induced effects. TMS was delivered to each of the sites on a block-by-block basis, with two blocks per brain site to control for fatigue effects. The order of the blocks was counterbalanced across subjects. Ear plugs were provided to dampen the noise associated with the discharge from the TMS coil as well as the rotation of the motor.
A three-dimensional rendering of one subject’s structural MRI. The white dots indicate three cortical sites chosen for stimulation: the most anterior site representing aIPS, the middle site representing mIPS, and the caudal site representing cIPS.
A high-resolution three-dimensional volumetric structural magnetic resonance image (MRI) was obtained for each subject (3 T magnetic resonance imaging scanner; Philips, Aachen, Germany), and the cortical surface was displayed as a three-dimensional representation using Brainsight Frameless Stereotaxic software (Rogue Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Each targeted cortical site was demarcated on the three-dimensional image using the same software. The position of the coil and the subject’s head were monitored using a Polaris Optical Tracking System (Northern Digital, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). Positional data for both rigid bodies were registered in real time to a common frame of reference and were superimposed onto the reconstructed three-dimensional MRI of the subject using the Brainsight software (Rogue Research). Thus, the center of the coil (stimulation locus) was continuously monitored to be over the site of interest. For all sites, the TMS coil was held tangential to the surface of the skull, with the handle pointing downward. An adjustable frame was used to hold the TMS coil firmly in place. The coil was held to the subject’s skull by the experimenter using their left hand, and the right hand was used to stabilize the head to the coil. Head movements were restricted by the use of a chin rest, and the position of the coil to the head was monitored continuously on-line using Brainsight (Rogue Research). In a previous TMS investigation (Schenk et al., 2005), head movements during a reach-to-grasp task were monitored and shown to be negligible under such conditions.
A Neotonus (Marietta, GA) PNS stimulator (model N-0233-A-110V) with an air-cooled iron-core butterfly-shaped coil was used to administer TMS. Pulse duration for this stimulator and head coil is 180 μs (at 100% of operating power). Double-pulse TMS (interstimulus interval, 100 ms) was applied at 110% of motor threshold. Motor threshold was determined as the intensity required to produce a visible contraction of the intrinsic hand muscles 50% of the time with the coil positioned over the hand area of the left primary motor cortex.
Previous TMS studies investigating the role of aIPS in grasping have shown that a single pulse of TMS to aIPS produces a delay of, on average, 88 ms in time of peak aperture and 146 ms increase in movement time (Tunik et al., 2005). This provides an indication of the behavioral effects of a single pulse of TMS to aIPS on this sort of task. As such, it would be anticipated that a single pulse of TMS during either the initial viewing period (i.e., planning phase) or the second viewing period in the perturbation task (i.e., error detection phase) would not be enough to disrupt the perceptual phase (given that the goggles were open for 200 ms). We intended for the double-pulse TMS, with an interstimulus interval of 100 ms, to disrupt aIPS during the entire perceptual time windows used in this study. It is important to note that the double-pulse TMS applied in this study must be distinguished from other investigations using paired-pulse TMS, in which the two TMS pulses are typically spaced between 1 and 30 ms apart (Kujirai et al., 1993; Oliveri et al., 2000; Koch et al., 2006). It has been shown in these studies that, at specific interstimulus intervals, the second TMS pulse can abolish the effects of the first; for example, Oliveri et al. (2000) have shown that the second TMS pulse abolishes the effects of the first when paired-pulse TMS is applied to posterior parietal cortex but only with an interstimulus interval of 5 ms (significantly shorter than our interstimulus interval).
After completing the experiment, all participants were required to complete a side-effects questionnaire, as recommended by Machii et al. (2006). Five subjects reported neck pain, which they all attributed to sitting with their head in a chin rest. Four subjects reported headache, two subjects reported scalp pain, and one subject reported difficulty concentrating as a result of TMS stimulation. All of these side effects were rated as being mild.
Kinematic data were obtained by localizing the three-dimensional position of infrared light-emitting diodes (sampling rate, 100 Hz; Optotrak 3020; Northern Digital) attached to the tip of the right index finger, thumb, and the first metacarpophalangeal joint (MPJ). Off-line, missing samples were interpolated and the data were filtered at 10 Hz using custom-written Labview (National Instruments, Austin, TX) software. The onset and offset of the movement were defined as the time at which the velocity of the MPJ marker exceeded and then fell below 50 mm/s, respectively. Trials were excluded from analysis when subjects failed to make a successful grasping movement and when missing data made it impossible to determine the onset or offset of the movement. In the perturbation task, 95.3% of trials were included in the analysis (94.3% of aIPS trials, 96.7% of cIPS trials, and 95.7% of mIPS trials), and, in the no-perturbation task, 96% of trials were included in the analysis (95% of aIPS trials, 98.7% of cIPS trials, and 96.3% of mIPS trials).
To determine that our TMS 1 and TMS 2 pulses were delivered at appropriate times in each task, preliminary analysis was conducted. For the no-perturbation task, average reaction time for all of the no-TMS trials from each block was determined, defined as the time of movement onset. This analysis revealed that subjects initiated their responses after the initial viewing period (mean ± SD reaction time, 312.31 ± 62.02 ms). This confirms that our planning (TMS 1) and execution (TMS 2) pulses were delivered at the appropriate times (i.e., the execution phase of the movement was not occurring within our initial viewing period and, as such, was not overlapping with the planning phase). For the perturbation task, latency of adaptive response was computed. This was computed by determining the time at which the group mean grip aperture of the no-TMS trials in the perturbation condition (i.e., small-to-large perturbation) diverged from the group mean ± 1 SD grip aperture of the no-TMS trials in the no perturbation task (i.e., small); Figure 3 illustrates the time at which this adaptive response occurred (group mean ± SD, 352 ± 46.14). This confirms that the implementation of the adaptive response occurred well after the effective TMS 1 epoch but was within the effective TMS 2 epoch. In other words, the pulses in the TMS 1 condition were time locked to the error detection of the perturbation, whereas the pulses in the TMS 2 condition were time locked to the error correction stage of the adaptive response.
Latency of adaptive response. Group mean aperture trajectory profiles in the no-TMS condition for the small-to-large perturbed object condition (thick solid black line) and the small object in the no-perturbation task (thick dashed gray line). Thin dashed gray lines show ±1 SD in the small-object condition. The latency of the adaptive response is represented by the time at which the small-to-large grip profile diverges from the small-object grip profile ±1 SD.
Kinematic data were analyzed separately for the transport and grasp components of the movement. Transport-related dependent measures included the following: movement time (MTt), defined by the time interval between movement onset and offset; peak velocity (PVt), defined as the maximum value of the first derivative of the three-dimensional position of the MPJ marker; and time of peak velocity (TPVt), defined as the time interval between peak velocity and movement onset. Grasp-related dependent measures included the following: maximum grip aperture (MGAg), defined as the three-dimensional distance between the index and thumb markers; time of MGA (TMGAg), defined as the time interval between MGA and movement onset; and peak velocity of grip aperture (PVg), defined as the maximum value of the first derivative of grip aperture.
Empirical evidence suggests that adaptive corrections for small-to-large perturbations become detectable, on average, 329.8 ms after movement onset (Paulignan et al., 1991) or at 40% of movement time (Glover et al., 2005), falling within the epoch of our TMS 2 condition in the perturbation experiment. Conversely, large-to-small adjustments become detectable much later, at ∼60% of MT (Glover et al., 2005), well after the time window during which we delivered TMS to disrupt error correction processes. For this reason, only the small-to-large trial types could be analyzed in the perturbation task. Despite this, including both small-to-large and large-to-small perturbations in the testing session added a dimension of complexity on each trial that was not present in the study of Tunik et al. (2005). To ensure equal power of analysis across experiments, only the trials in which the subjects grasped the large object (i.e., vertically orientated object) were analyzed in the no-perturbation task. Data for the no-perturbation and perturbation tasks was analyzed using separate 3 × 3 repeated-measures ANOVA for each dependent measure, with factors TMS site (aIPS, mIPS, and cIPS) and TMS time (TMS 1, TMS 2, and no TMS). For both tasks, preplanned t tests were used for subsequent analysis; this involved comparing TMS 1 and TMS 2 conditions with the no-TMS condition for each TMS site. A significance threshold of 0.05 was adopted. For conciseness, only significant findings are discussed, but data for all variables are presented in Tables 1 (no-perturbation task) and 2 (perturbation task).
Summary of results for trials in which subjects grasped the large object in the no-perturbation task
Summary of results for trials in which the subjects grasped the target that perturbed from small to large in the perturbation task
No-perturbation task
The no-perturbation task was conducted to investigate the role of the IPS in planning (TMS 1) versus executing (TMS 2) a goal-oriented reach-to-grasp action. A significant brain site × TMS time interaction was observed for TMGAg (F(4,36) = 3.178; p = 0.025) and PVg (F(4,36) = 2.909; p = 0.035). Subsequent preplanned t tests were conducted to determine the source of these interactions. Figure 4a illustrates that an earlier TMGAg (t = −2.283; p = 0.048) was observed when TMS was applied to aIPS during the execution phase (i.e., TMS 2), relative to the control condition (i.e., no TMS); p > 0.198 for all other comparisons. Figure 4b illustrates that an increase in PVg (t = 1.942; p = 0.084) was observed when TMS was applied to aIPS during the execution phase (i.e., TMS 2), relative to the control condition (i.e., no TMS); p > 0.531 for all other comparisons. Conversely, no significant interactions were noted for the transport component, although a significant main effect of TMS time was observed for PVt (F(2,18) = 4.551; p = 0.025). The overall increase in hand-transport velocity was observed in the TMS 1 condition. However, this effect was consistent across brain sites and therefore unlikely accounts for the interactions noted in the grasp-related measures. Overall, these findings suggest a disruption in the grasp (but not the transport) component induced by TMS to aIPS (but not control sites); this disruption was only elicited when TMS was delivered during the execution phase (TMS 2) of the movement.
Group mean and SE for TMGAg (a) and PVg (b) in the no-perturbation task. Light gray bars represent TMS 1, dark gray bars represent TMS 2, and white bars represent no TMS.
Perturbation task
Whereas the no-perturbation task investigated the control of reach-to-grasp actions in stable contexts, the perturbation task probed cortical involvement in on-line updating. Specifically, this task was designed to differentiate roles in detecting a need to adapt a grasp (TMS 1) from the implementation of the corrective response (TMS 2). A significant brain site × TMS time interaction was noted for MGAg (F(4,36) = 3.897; p = 0.010) and PVg (F(4,36) = 2.905; p = 0.037). Subsequent preplanned t tests were conducted to determine the source of these interactions. Figure 5a illustrates that an increase in MGAg (t = 3.713; p = 0.005) was observed when TMS was applied to aIPS during the corrective phase (i.e., TMS 2) of the movement, relative to the control condition (i.e., no TMS); p > 0.424 for all other comparisons. Figure 5b illustrates that an increase in PVg (t = 2.998; p = 0.017) was observed when TMS was applied to aIPS during the corrective phase (i.e., TMS 2) of the movement, relative to the control condition (i.e., no TMS); p > 0.299 for all other comparisons. A significant main effect of TMS time was observed for MGAg (F(2,18) = 4.224; p = 0.031), with an overall increase in MGAg in the TMS 2 condition; this effect was consistent across brain sites and therefore unlikely accounts for the interactions noted in the grasp-related measures. No significant main effects or interactions were noted in the reach (transport) kinematics. These findings suggest that a disruption in the grasp (but not the transport) component was induced by TMS applied to aIPS but not control sites, but only when TMS was applied during the error correction phase (TMS 2) of the movement.
Group mean and SE for MGAg (a) and PVg (b) in the perturbation task. Light gray bars represent TMS 1, dark gray bars represent TMS 2, and white bars represent no TMS.
Using TMS, we sought to investigate the specific role the anterior, middle, and caudal aspects of the IPS in prehension. Subjects were required to reach and grasp an object in a stable context (no-perturbation task) or under conditions in which an adaptive response was required (perturbation task). TMS was applied at specific time intervals in each task to map the role of these regions in (1) generating and executing a grasping movement performed in a stable context, and (2) updating the ongoing movement by detecting a mismatch between the intended action and context and correcting the action. In the no-perturbation task, it was shown that TMS to aIPS (but not mIPS or cIPS) disrupted grasping when applied during the execution phase of the movement. In the perturbation task, it was shown that TMS to aIPS (but not mIPS or cIPS) disrupted grasping when applied during the correction phase of the movement. Our findings support previous studies suggesting that aIPS is involved in grasping (Binkofski et al., 1999; Culham et al., 2003; Frey et al., 2005; Tunik et al., 2005). However, this study provides us with important new insights regarding the specific role of this region in grasping.
This is the first study to provide evidence of a functional role of aIPS in grasping when there is no explicit requirement to update the movement. Moreover, the temporal specificity of the TMS-induced deficit was time locked to the execution of the movement. In addition, the present data replicate previous findings that aIPS is involved in on-line updating (Tunik et al., 2005), but we extend these findings by localizing the role of aIPS to one of error correction. It is likely that the results from our no-perturbation and perturbation tasks reflect a common role of aIPS in on-line control. That is, we contend that aIPS is critically involved in the integration of sensory and motor components for orchestrating an action, regardless of an explicit need to update the movement. Such a proposal has important implications for neural networks modeling reach-to-grasp movements.
Hoff and Arbib (1993) proposed a model that uses sensory information about the limb and target (e.g., distance and size) to estimate the movement time of the transport and grasp before the movement is initiated. Independent transport and grasp controllers are then activated simultaneously during execution. This model allows for modification of the transport and grasp components, in response to perturbations, through feedback mechanisms. Ulloa and Bullock (2003) proposed a model that represents the limb and target as vectors. A difference vector is computed by determining the difference between the target vector and the current position vector. A common gating signal multiplies both components of the difference vector to specify movement speed. The system responds to perturbations by recomputing the difference vector. Both of these models simulate a system that can respond on-line to perturbations of either the transport or grasp component. Additionally, both models account for synchronous ending of the transport and grasp components of the movement.
A critical difference between these models is in the premovement phase. In the Hoff and Arbib (1993) model, sensory information is used to estimate movement time of the transport and grasp components before the movement is initiated. Although there might be other brain areas that perform this sort of estimate, our results suggest that this is not calculated within the IPS. Ulloa and Bullock (2003) eliminate the need for such a planning phase by continuous updating of the difference vector. The present findings, by localizing TMS-induced deficits to the execution stages of the movement, support the Ulloa and Bullock model. It has been proposed that the gating signal for updating the difference vector is generated by the basal ganglia, the current state of the sensorimotor system is represented by the hand area of primary motor cortex, and the difference vector may be computed in the posterior parietal cortex (Bullock and Grossberg, 1988; Ulloa and Bullock, 2003). Given that the basal ganglia send projections to the anterior intraparietal (AIP) area in monkeys (Clower et al., 2005), these two regions may form a functional network involved in on-line control. Our findings support this thesis and indicate a critical role of aIPS in the computation of a difference vector.
Another finding, consistent with the Ulloa and Bullock (2003) model, is that TMS to aIPS produced deficits in the grasp but not the transport component. This model would predict that a perturbation in either the transport or grasp component of the movement would effect only the respective component. Paired with recent functional imaging evidence demonstrating that aIPS represents the goals of grasping actions (Hamilton and Grafton, 2006), the computations performed by aIPS seem to be restricted to the action/solution pertaining to the goal (in our case, grasp aperture). This hypothesis is strongly supported by the finding that TMS to aIPS can induce deficits in either grasp aperture or hand–forearm orientation, depending on the goal of the task (Tunik et al., 2005). As such, we would predict that, if we had used a perturbation in the transport component, we would expect to observe TMS-induced deficits in transport but not grasp.
Previous TMS investigations have suggested that the IPS is only required when explicit on-line adjustments are required for both grasping (Glover et al., 2005; Tunik et al., 2005) and reaching (Desmurget et al., 1999). A possible explanation for the difference between the results of the present study and previous investigations is that, previously, the increase in complexity from the no-perturbation to the perturbation condition may have made the IPS more susceptible to TMS-induced deficits. Moreover, because the no-perturbation condition served as the control condition in these studies, deficits in this condition could not be analyzed. The present study overcame this limitation by analyzing the no-perturbation condition independently. An additional element of control and complexity was added by controlling the precise timing of the visual feedback and by randomly interleaving the perturbation and no-perturbation trials. These design issues allow us to make a compelling case that aIPS is involved in grasping when there is no explicit requirement to update the movement. This thesis is supported by neuroimaging (Culham et al., 2003; Frey et al., 2005) and patient (Binkofski et al., 1999) studies suggesting that aIPS is involved in grasping when there is no explicit requirement to update the ongoing movement. However, the data expand on such studies by localizing the involvement of aIPS to one of grasp execution.
One might argue that, in the no perturbation task, subjects initiated and executed their responses differently than in the perturbation, because subjects may have gained some information concerning trial type based on the timing of the TMS pulses (i.e., if TMS was delivered during the first viewing phase, the trial was always a no-perturbation trial). We feel this is unlikely. In the kinematic data presented in Table 1, there are no significant differences between the early TMS condition and no-TMS condition in any of these variables, for any of the TMS sites. In addition, the presence of a significant interaction that is specific to the late TMS condition, and only so for the aIPS site, is indicative of the high degree of specificity for our effects.
This study opens several interesting directions to pursue. First, if the IPS is involved in executing and correcting a grasping action, which regions of the frontoparietal reach-to-grasp network are involved in planning the grasp and detecting changes in the sensorimotor context that would necessitate an adaptive response? A possible candidate may be the ventral premotor cortex (PMv). This thesis is validated by electrophysiological recordings in nonhuman primates showing that neurons in this region code specific actions, respond to visual stimuli (including graspable stimuli), and respond during action observation (Rizzolatti et al., 2002). Furthermore, PMv is known to share connections with AIP (Rizzolatti et al., 2002), which we have demonstrated is critically involved in execution and updating of goal-directed grasping. Finally, a recent TMS study (Davare et al., 2006) has shown that repetitive stimulation of PMv early in the movement disrupts grasping, suggesting that it may be involved in grasp preparation. However, the availability of visual feedback and the fact that TMS was only delivered after the Go signal in that study made it impossible to dissociate planning from execution.
In conclusion, the present experiment was designed to map the specific role of regions along the IPS in prehension. By applying TMS to various regions along the IPS as subjects were required to perform a grasping movement, it was shown that the area within the IPS responsible for grasping behavior can be localized to the aIPS. More importantly, this study has shown that aIPS is involved in executing a grasp when there is no requirement to update the ongoing movement, and, in the presence of an explicit perturbation, it is also involved in executing the correction. Finally, we contend that this computation may involve the continuous updating of a difference vector, based on efference copy of the motor command and sensory input.
This work was supported by United States Public Health Service Grants NS44393 and NS33505.
Correspondence should be addressed to Scott T. Grafton, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, HB 6162 Moore Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Email: scott.t.grafton{at}dartmouth.edu
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COMPANY: Four Cousins
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Five Guys Burgers and Fries is one of America's most successful hamburger concepts, not just for its food, ranked the #1 burger in America by the Zagat survey, but also because of its employees.
We have a unique work environment where you're trained to work every position in the restaurant. From the register, to the grill, to morning prep and evening close, our crew members become a team working in all aspects of the restaurant.
We also have a unique crew bonus program that provides the opportunity to earn cash bonuses two times per week giving our crew members the opportunity to earn much higher incomes.
We have an open kitchen experience so it's fun and it's loud with lots of team communication. The crew's burger creation is part of the customer experience.
So, what's it take to be a successful Five Guys crew member?
Energy & Stamina - it's a team-based work environment and crew energy is important.
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Eee Pad Transformer Prime First Look: What We Like, What We Don't
By Avram Piltch - LAPTOP Online Editorial Director 2011-12-01T01:01:28Z
Today, we finally got our hands on ASUS's Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201, the first tablet powered by Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Though we've only had the device for a few hours, our early tests show that the new CPU is living up to its billing with record-breaking benchmark speeds and the ability to show added detail in games.
Like the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 that came before it, the Transformer Prime has a 10.1-inch IPS screen with a 1280 x 800 resolution, runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb, and has an optional keyboard dock that, when attached, turns the tablet into a clamshell-style Android notebook that can swivel open and closed. In addition to its speedy new processor, the Transformer Prime sports several other improvements over its predecessor, including an 8-MP camera with F2.4 aperture and 1080p capture, a new series of power-saving modes, and a slimmer design.
Though we have early access to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, retail availability isn't far behind. ASUS told us that the tablet will hit retail stores during the week of 12/19 and may be available for order online the week before that. The Prime will be available in two colors, Amethyst Gray and Champagne, in 32 and 64GB capacities for $499 and $599 respectively. The keyboard dock will go for $149.
We'll be posting a full review of the Transformer Prime TF201 in the next day or so, but we've already made several observations in playing with it for a few hours. Here are our initial impressions.
What We Like About the Eee Pad Transformer Prime
Design: The original Eee Pad Transformer had a functional aesthetic, but it wouldn't win any beauty pageants. The Transformer Prime has a gorgeous back with an amethyst gray (in our case) circular spun metallic pattern that looks very much like the lid on the ASUS ZenBook UX31 notebook. At only .3 inches thick, the Prime feels a lot slimmer than its .5-inch thick predecessor and, at just 1.3 pounds, this is one of the lightest 10-inch tablets we've tested, on par with the iPad and only .1 pounds heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
We also appreciate that the front bezel is completely black, not rimmed with extra plastic like the original Transformer. However, the bezel is noticeably thicker than the Galaxy Tab 10.1's.
Blazing Benchmarks: On most synthetic benchmarks we ran, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime blew away Tegra 2-based tablets like its predecessor. However, on certain tests like An3DBench, the new tablet scored a little lower than the original Transformer. We can only attribute this to older benchmarks not knowing what to do with the quad core chip.
Benchmark Eee Pad Transformer Prime Eee Pad Transformer TF101 ThinkPad Tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 Sony Tablet S Linpack (Single Thread) 47.36 N/A 36.8 29.4 28.9 Linpack (Multi Thread) 70.27 42.4 63.3 53.7 58.3 Nenamark 59.7 35 42.2 42.1 30.4 Benchmark CPU 4096.7 3125.8 3089.3 3057 3193.8 Benchmark Graphics 581.79 344.8 402.5 442.7 427.6 An3DBench 8050 8579 7703 7616 7624 NBench Integer 5.11 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 NBench Memory 4.4 2.8 3.36 3.34 3.33 NBench Float 1.57 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.17
Enhanced Visuals: Nvidia says the Tegra 3 chip's greater speed allows faster frame rates and more rendering effects in games and our experience lives up to the hype. Our Eee Pad Transformer Prime came with a number of games preloaded, including a special Nvidia demo called Glowball, which allows you to roll a ball around a 3D environment using the tablet's accelerometer.
On the Prime, the ball rolled quickly with plenty of lighting effects, reflections, and billowing cloth flags on the borders of the play table.
However, when we copied Glowball over to a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (LTE version), which uses a 1-GHz Tegra 2 CPU, the image was so dark that we couldn't see the giant clown head that was visible on the Prime and the ball moved so slowly that we could hardly control it.
When we turned off all the effects on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the image was hideously ugly and the ball was still slow as molasses.
We also tried playing Riptide, a jetski racing game, the Prime showed more movement in the water and even displayed splashes when we landed after jumping.
Even when we weren't splashing around, we noticed detailed light effects on the water with the Transformer Prime.
The motion remained smooth when we played the game on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, but the water was much less detailed and there were no splash animations.
Super IPS+ Display: By default, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime displays up to 380 nits of brightness with 178-degree viewing angles, much more than you'll find on most tablets. But wait, there's more. If you enable Super IPS+ mode, the brightness turns up to an eye burning 600 nits for improved outdoor viewing. We haven't had the chance to test the display in direct sunlight yet, but we were impressed with the image brightness when testing the tablet indoors.
Three Power Modes: Unlike any other Android tablet we've seen, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime allows you to speed up or slow down its CPU to focus on performance or battery life. With the quick launch control panel, users can choose between Normal mode (full performance), Balanced mode (1.2-GHz cap), and Powersaver mode (1-GHz cap with 1-2 active cores, 700-Mhz cap with 3 active cores, and 600-Mhz cap with 4 cores active). Powersaving mode also caps frame rates at 35 fps and puts the display into a low-power state. We ran all our tests in Normal mode, but we'll test the other modes more in the future.
Sexy, Secure Keyboard Dock: The Transformer Prime's keyboard dock looks and feels even better than we remember from our testing of the Transformer TF101's dock (the two docks are not compatible). The keys have a more tactile feel and the metallic deck shares the same luxurious amethyst gray color as the back of the tablet.
The locking mechanism seems greatly improved from the original Transformer keyboard. Where it took us several tries to pop the original Transformer into its dock, the Prime popped in with one try and locked securely.
What We Don't Like About the Eee Pad Transformer Prime
We haven't found a lot of things we dislike so far, but here are a couple of small nitpicks:
Tiny Power Button: You'll need to hunt around for what could be the world's smallest power button. It's on the top, near the camera.
No USB Charging: ASUS told us that the Prime would charge via USB connection to our PC, but that didn't happen in our tests. Like most of its competitors, ASUS is also guilty of using a proprietary docking port for charging and syncing, which means you can only use the bundled cable.
Weak Haptic Feedback: We're pleased to see that the Transformer Prime has haptic feedback, even though it is disabled by default. Unfortunately, it's very faint and there's no lever to increase the force.
Stay tuned for our full review of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
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How to Fix an Apple Watch That Won't Turn On
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Check out these troubleshooting tips before contacting Apple
Daniel Nations
Daniel Nations has been a tech journalist since 1994. His work has appeared in Computer Currents, The Examiner, The Spruce, and other publications.
If your Apple Watch is not turning on, there could be a few issues causing the problem. A dark screen doesn't mean disaster.
Most of these issues can be solved quite quickly, even if you have already tried charging your Apple Watch overnight. Unless your watch is completely drained, you should be able to turn on your Apple Watch in just a few minutes following some simple steps.
Turn On the Apple Watch With a Hard Reboot
The most common reason for an Apple Watch's display to go dark and the watch to become unresponsive are battery issues, but unless you've been wearing the Apple Watch all day, the first troubleshooting step you should perform is a hard reboot. After all, we don't want to wait a half-hour or more for the watch to charge if that isn't the problem.
The Apple Watch may have experienced a software issue, or you may have simply triggered a mode that caused the Watch to go dark. A hard reboot will force the device to turn off allowing us to then turn on the Apple Watch. This should solve almost any problem except a dead battery.
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First, hold down both the Apple Watch's crown, which is the dial that spins on the side, and the small button just below the crown.
Continue to hold both buttons down until you see the Apple logo appear on the screen, which signifies the Apple Watch is restarting.
The watch should reboot within 10 seconds, but keep both buttons down for at least 30 seconds before giving up on the hard reboot. In some rare cases, it can take up to 30 seconds to reboot.
If your Apple Watch turns on, you should be set. However, if your Apple Watch continually becomes frozen with only the time being displayed when you click the crown, skip down to the directions on how to fix this issue.
If Your Apple Watch Won't Turn On, Charge It!
This might sound like a no-brainer, but just because you think you are charging your watch doesn't mean you are actually charging it. If your Apple Watch turns off at the end of the day, it is likely a battery issue. But if you are having problems in the morning or afternoon, your Apple Watch may simply not be getting enough battery power when it is charging.
Check the bottom of the Apple Watch to ensure there is no plastic wrap stuck to the watch. The Apple Watch uses induction to power up while sitting on the charging pad, and anything stuck to the bottom of the watch can cause a problem.
Verify that the charging station is actually plugged into a wall outlet. This sounds simple, but someone might unplug the charging station in order to use a hairdryer or other appliance and it's easy to forget to plug the thing back into the wall!
Inspect the cable to ensure there are no cuts, worn-out spots or other damage. If someone else in the household also has an Apple Watch, you can use their watch to check and ensure the charging station is properly supplying power. The watch's display will show the power icon (a lightning bolt) when it is charging.
Check Your Apple Watch Settings for Screen Curtain
The Apple Watch's display can also be turned off via an accessibility feature called Screen Curtain. This feature is part of the VoiceOver assistance given to the vision impaired and allows the watch to be operated by sound rather than sight. If you have performed a hard reboot, charged your phone and inspected the charging station to no avail, you should check the Apple Watch settings to ensure VoiceOver is turned off. Don't worry, you don't need your watch for this!
Launch the Watch app on the iPhone you have paired with your Apple Watch.
Tap My Watch at the bottom if you aren't already on the My Watch screen.
Scroll down and choose General.
Tap Accessibility.
VoiceOver is the first setting. If it is turned on, tap VoiceOver and then tap the on-off switch to turn the feature off. When VoiceOver is turned off, Screen Curtain is automatically turned off as well.
Is Your Apple Watch Frozen Showing Just the Time?
Apple Watch has a power reserve mode similar to the low power mode for the iPhone, except that it is even more extreme than the iPhone's version. In power reserve mode, the Apple Watch shuts down almost all functionality and the screen will go completely dark. When you press the crown button, the Watch will quickly display the time before going dark again.
In order to exit from power reserve mode, you need to reboot the watch. You can do this by holding down the side button (not the crown) until the Apple logo appears. If this does not work, try holding down both the crown and the side button to perform a hard reboot.
How is power reserve mode activated? The Apple Watch will prompt you if you get down to 10% battery power, making it easy to accidentally turn on the power-saving mode. You can also turn it on if you tap the battery icon in the Apple Watch's control panel.
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Grubhub just agreed to a big change. What you need to know about the food delivery service
New York City lawmakers called out Grubhub last fall for its phone call fees, saying they hurt restaurants. The company has now changed its phone system.
Grubhub just agreed to a big change. What you need to know about the food delivery service New York City lawmakers called out Grubhub last fall for its phone call fees, saying they hurt restaurants. The company has now changed its phone system. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/01/10/grubhub-restaurants-new-york-phone-number-new-options/4430805002/
Sarah Taddeo, New York State Team Published 11:31 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2020 | Updated 6:12 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2020
Grubhub has been under scrutiny from New York lawmakers and restaurants for phone call fees.
The company has changed its phone system to allow customers to indicate whether they plan to order food.
The company charges restaurants when customers use app-generated phone numbers to order food. It was accused of also charging for calls to restaurants about hours or menus.
Grubhub will change its phone system after an increasing outcry from lawmakers in New York who accused the company of inappropriately collecting fees from restaurant owners.
The company has added a new, “common sense” step to its phone ordering process that will allow “diner intent from the beginning,” it said in a Thursday letter to New York City Council.
Customers calling a restaurant through Grubhub or Seamless, another mobile delivery platform, anywhere in the U.S. will have the ability to press 1 for a food order, and 2 for everything else, the letter read.
“We will continue to be fully transparent with restaurant partners about billing for phone orders,” the letter read.
GrubHub is delivering more food but less profit. (Photo: Getty Images)
Grubhub offered the solution after accusations about fees for customer phone calls to restaurants using Grubhub’s app-generated phone numbers.
Grubhub lists a number for each restaurant active on the app, typically used for ordering food over the phone. The company charges restaurants a fee per call.
But if a customer simply asks a restaurant for its hours or inquires about gluten-free items, Grubhub may still charge a fee, New York City Council members argued, ultimately causing the establishment to lose money on the call.
Last summer, the Chicago-based company insisted its algorithm would screen out calls that didn’t result in orders, ensuring restaurants weren’t charged for them.
The company also doubled the period in which restaurants could submit allegations of erroneous call fees from 60 to 120 days.
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New York City Council members, 30 of which submitted a frustrated letter to Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney in October, called the measure “insufficient” and demanded the company hire a third party to evaluate the legitimacy of Grubhub’s call fees.
“We are asking Grubhub to rectify this unfair policy,” the lawmakers' letter read. “In the event that you do not take corrective actions, we will explore legislative solutions.”
In its recent letter to City Council, Grubhub also committed to nearly doubling its account advisers to assist restaurants with phone order inquiries and help them increase revenue and order volume.
Grubhub engineers are working on a new phone transcription and review process, which the company said would “enable us to further refine our model for order identification.”
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Lastly, the company will continue its regular roundtable meetings in New York to hear feedback from restaurant partners, the letter said.
It took the company long enough to come up with its so-called "common sense" solution, said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York Hospitality Alliance, which represents over 2,000 New York City restaurants.
“Despite the improvement, the burden still rests on restaurants to listen to messages and determine which fees are bogus," he said.
"Grubhub can’t be allowed to grab fees from restaurants when customers intend to call a restaurant directly to place an order. Now that Grubhub’s greed is in the open, when are they going to pay back all of the money they took in the first place?”
The company addressed this issue amid rumors it was considering “strategic options,” including a sale, based on a Wall Street Journal report.
The company has since denied it is looking into that option.
Grubhub’s shares have been periodically volatile in recent months; the company announced disappointing earnings results in October, followed by rising and then plummeting shares this week as news broke about a sale possibility.
STADDEO@Gannett.com
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Meet the Keris Craftsman of Perak
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Meet Pak Mazin, the keris maker of Kuala Kangsar, and discover how he uses traditional methods to keep this ancient cultural heritage kept alive. This 2-hour workshop will give you a taster of this trade.
Keris is a traditional Malay weapon and spiritual object, which is said to possess magical powers, as evident in folktales. Some blades are said to carry good luck while others carry bad luck. They may be used for display, as a talisman, a sanctified heirloom, a ceremonial accessory and a status symbol.
Having started at the age of 12, Pak Mazin is a fourth-generation keris maker who is passionate about sharing this tradition with the world. He has even crafted the keris for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and members of the royalty. In this workshop, you will learn the art and techniques behind making a keris. You will understand the different types of metal used for the blade, how to forge the blade in fire and how to carve the sheath of the keris.
By joining this workshop, you are helping Pak Mazin and his family sustain this tradition as they share these stories to the world.
Meet the Keris Crafter
In this 2-hour workshop, Pak Mazin will share the history and symbolic significance of the Keris. Discover the meaning behind the structure of the blade, and the variety of blades used across the Malay empire such as the Taming Sari.
He will then show you how keris is made, from the selection of metals to form an alloy, to the hammering of the blade in a fire, and the carving of the hilt and sheath.
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• St John the Baptist upon Walbrook was a church in the City, so named because a small stream (the Walbrook) ran past its west wall.
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• Destroyed in the Great Fire, by September 6 the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed. In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but St John the Baptist in Walbrook Ward was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt. Following the fire it was united to St Antholin, Budge Row.
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12 cases of brutal animal cruelty and neglect that shocked Merseyside in 2017
Hopes that tougher sentences will tackle crimes against animals (Warning: graphic images)
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Cruel owners letting their pets suffer to save cash were among the shocking acts of animal cruelty and neglect that made the headlines in 2017.
Offenders brought to justice by the RSPCA and police included a woman who left a dog with a football-sized tumour, a drunk who claimed he couldn’t remember kicking his daughter’s dog to death and a woman who allowed her rabbit to starve to death.
One of the year’s most horrific cases saw a Wirral man appear in court after beating a hedgehog to death with a brick – a crime he was unable to explain.
Wirral RSPCA Inspector Anthony Joynes, who investigated many of the cases covered by the ECHO this year, thanked members of the public who played a crucial role in bringing offenders to justice.
Sadly in many of these investigations, the animals involved did not survive to find a loving new home.
He said: “It’s been a bad year for animal cruelty cases.
“The most demoralising part was cases like Alan Pownall (who kicked his daughter’s dog to death), where you’re dealing with a dog who is already deceased.
“All you can do at that point is make sure you investigate and put people in front of the courts.
“The gold standard for us is obviously to be able to rescue an animal and find them a new home.”
The Government is now considering imposing tougher sentences for animal cruelty – and Inspector Joynes is among those backing the move.
Man admits kicking terrified dog up into the air in Liverpool street
The current maximum sentence, if prosecuted under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, is six months in prison and/or an unlimited fine.
The RSPCA and other animal charities want to see this increased to five years in jail.
Inspector Joynes praised retired Wirral district judge Michael Abelson, who was outspoken about the need for sentences that sent out a clear message to the public.
He said: “Mr Abelson has left quite a legacy – in the government’s new proposal for longer sentences, they have got three examples of cases, and I investigated two of those.
“In those cases he jailed them both for the maximum amount of time. He said his hands were tied and he would have jailed them for longer if he could, and it looks like the government is taking heed of those words.”
Inspector Joynes said members of the public were rightly appalled by animal cruelty cases, and it was often difficult to explain sentences handed out to offenders.
He added: “You can see on social media that the public feel animal cruelty is abhorrent and are absolutely astonished by the sentences. Some can be inconsistent across the country.
“I’m walking away from court reasonably happy but the overwhelming feeling is that people do expect higher sentences.
“In most of the cases I deal with, the animals who are mistreated are in completely the wrong hands. By punishing these people properly it will do these animals justice.
“The mentality is that if you neglect an animal, you’re going to be fined.
“The time has come that people who are cruel to animal should expect to spend time in a cell.”
Liam Aitken who beat a hedgehog to death with a brick
Man beat hedgehog to death with a brick
A Wallasey man beat a hedgehog to death with a brick - but couldn’t explain why.
A shocked neighbour saw Liam Aitken, 24, battering the defenceless creature as he returned home from a dog walk.
He was reported to the RSPCA by shocked neighbours who witnessed the killing.
Aitken, of Wood Lane, appeared in court in August and admitted one charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a hedgehog by crushing the animal to death.
He was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, and told to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Jamie Weir, 21 and of Home Farm Road in Birkenhead, was jailed
Thug stabbed, hung and burned dog
A Wirral man was disqualified from keeping animals for life after he tortured a dog by hanging him by his collar, stabbing him and burning him alive.
Jamie Weir, 21, of Home Farm Road, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a crossbreed Staffordshire bull terrier named Jack, resulting in his death.
In an interview Weir admitted he had carried out the horrific attack, which included Jack being hung from his collar on a coat hook, as “he had never liked the dog.”
Weir was sentenced in April and was given a 24-week prison sentence, to run consecutively to the four-year prison sentence he was serving for an unrelated offence.
Eric and Ronnie Wheeler with Topper their shirehorse on their fruit and veg round on the streets of Kirkdale. September 1999 (Image: Liverpool Echo)
Father and son neglected donkeys
A father and son who run a well-known Liverpool donkey ride business admitted leaving five of their animals dangerously thin and struggling to walk.
Liverpool Magistrates Court heard in June that the donkeys owned by Eric and Ronald Wheeler of Daisy Chain Donkey Rides were underweight and had overgrown hooves, while one had skin disease.
Eric Wheeler snr, 84, of Thomas Lane, Old Swan, pleaded guilty to five charges of causing unnecessary suffering to five donkeys by failing to address their poor bodily conditions.
His son Ronald, 40, of Haydn Road, West Derby, admitted the same charges, along with three further offences of failing to meet the needs of three of the donkeys by not tending to their overgrown hooves.
A district judge at Liverpool Magistrates Court sentenced Wheeler snr to a two-month community order and his son to a three-month community order.
They were also ordered to pay costs of £800.
Michelle Woods, 30, of Woodward Road, Birkenhead, was banned from keeping animals for five years
Woman left dog with football sized tumour
A Wirral woman was banned from keeping animals after leaving her dog in agony with a tumour the size of a small football.
Michelle Woods admitted causing unnecessary suffering to Staffordshire bull terrier called Sasha after failing to seek treatment for tumours on her body.
In October, Wirral Magistrates Court heard an RSPCA inspector visited Woods’ house in Birkenhead and through a window saw Sasha lying on the sofa - but the full extent of her suffering was initially hidden.
Her tumours were so large she was unable to move and she had a further two tumours the size of golf balls.
Sasha had to be put to sleep to end her suffering.
Woods, of Woodward Road, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to Sasha and failing to meet her needs.
The court was told she did not get Sasha the treatment she needed because of financial reasons.
She was banned from keeping animals for five years, given an 18-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and told to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.
Alan Pownall, 59, of Borough Road, Seacombe, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his daughter's dog Halo
Drunk “couldn’t remember” kicking daughter’s dog to death
A man who claimed he couldn’t remember kicking his daughter’s puppy to death was jailed for the “horrific act of cruelty”.
Alan Pownall, 59, was sent to prison for 23 weeks after a court heard he repeatedly kicked six-month-old Staffordshire bull terrier Halo.
He then dumped her body on top of a children’s paddling pool and a pile of rubbish in an alleyway in full view – where she was later found by the RSPCA.
Pownall, who initially claimed Halo had been hanged by her own collar in a freak accident, was due to stand trial in October before admitting causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
He was jailed for 23 weeks and banned from keeping animals for life.
Cats Bagheera and Akeera were owned by Kristian Murphy when the injuries were sustained
Man’s kitten died from horrific injuries
A man was jailed for three months after his kitten died from horrific injuries.
Kristian Murphy, of Mill Lane, Wallasey was sentenced at Wirral Magistrates Court in September for unnecessary suffering to a black cat called Bagheera between August and September 2016.
Bagheera died after suffering “catastrophic injuries” caused by numerous acts of physical violence.
The black cat had a fractured left and right thigh bone, fractured pubic bone, dislocation of the ribs and a trauma on the right side of his head.
Murphy pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and banned from keeping animals for five years.
Dog was left with a 10cm gaping hole in his face
A dog was left with a 10cm gaping hole in his face after his owner tried to treat an infection using advice from the internet.
German Shepherd cross Lenny was in “excruciating pain” from the wound, which extended from an ear to the corner of his mouth - and had maggots inside.
Owner Theresa Dixon, 57, claimed the hole on Lenny’s face had opened up half an hour before she took him to Upton Veterinary Surgery on May 31 - but vets said he was likely to have been in agony for days, if not weeks.
Dixon, of Boundary Road, Prenton, was convicted in her absence after failing to turn up to court and was handed a lifetime ban on keeping animals and a 20 week custodial sentence, suspended for two years.
She was also told she must carry out a two year community order, including a 20 day rehabilitation activity requirement, 60 hours of unpaid work and pay £500 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.
Breeder left his dog in labour for four days
A breeder left his dog in labour for four days - meaning she became so ill she had to be put to sleep.
Mark Hardy, 55, of Sandymount Drive, Wallasey pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to Jenny, a black giant schnauzer during an appearance at Wirral Magistrates’ Court in April.
The court heard how Jenny had been in labour for four days when she collapsed on February 27 last year - however despite contacting a vet who advised she was brought into the surgery, she was left suffering for a further two days.
A post-mortem examination showed she had been suffering from a bacterial infection in the uterus which should have been treated when she fell ill.
Hardy was given a two-year conditional discharged and ordered to pay £1,582 in court costs.
Couple left dogs with severe skin condition
A couple who left their dogs to suffer with a severe skin condition were banned from keeping dogs for five years.
Barry Faulkner, 49, and Liza Johns, 41, both of Harcourt Street, Birkenhead , appeared at Wirral Magistrates’ Court in March after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the two Collie dogs, named Custard and Tippy, by failing to provide veterinary treatment.
As well as the five-year ban, magistrates also each gave them a 12-month community order. Faulkner was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £620 in costs. Johns was ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £455 in costs.
The court heard that the RSPCA were alerted by concerned members of the public who had seen the dogs with large amounts of fur missing.
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Woman allowed rabbit to starve to death
A mum who allowed her rabbit to starve sobbed in the dock as she was banned from keeping animals for five years.
Samantha Bevan failed to provide a “nutritionally balanced diet” to the family pet, named Rocco, which died of malnutrition.
The 31-year-old, of Fleet Lane, St Helens, was ordered to complete 40 hours unpaid work after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.
Bevan was interviewed and initially denied the offence, claiming she had been feeding Rocco broccoli because he had stopped eating rabbit food.
However she later admitted she “didn’t know what she was doing” in terms of looking after a rabbit.
RSPCA photo from inside the former home of Andrea Davies, 23, now of Cherry Lane in Walton
Mum locked dogs in a house and never returned
A Walton mum locked two dogs in a house and never returned - condemning them to an agonising death.
Andrea Davies failed to tell anyone that the male ‘Labradoodle’ cross-breeds, named Koda and Hachi, were in the property, in Stepney Grove, after she moved in with her mum and sister.
Her then landlord later called the RSPCA after entering the property, around two months after 23-year-old Davies abandoned the house in a filthy state.
Davies, now of Cherry Lane, pleaded guilty to two charges of animal neglect and in January was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months and given a 16 week curfew. She was also banned from keeping animals for life.
CCTV footage shows Carl Gallimore attacking a dog
Drunken thug beat elderly dog
A drunken thug beat a cowering elderly staffy in a “fit of anger” - despite horrified witnesses pleading with him to stop.
In October Carl Gallimore was slapped with a 12 month ban on keeping dogs for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal after being found guilty of beating Kiya, a 12-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier on a street corner.
Gallimore of Pasture Avenue, Moreton , was witnessed by several members of the public hitting the elderly dog so hard she fell to the ground.
The 32-year-old was captured on two different CCTV cameras punching the “terrified” dog in the back of the head as punishment for slipping her lead.
As well as a 12-month disqualification order on keeping dogs, Gallimore was given a 12-month community order, fined £50 and ordered to pay £350 costs as well as an £80 victim surcharge.
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Book the Carriage House for your next meeting today!
The Carriage House at the Mathematical Association of America offers modern meeting space in a classic setting. Located just two blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro Station, the Carriage House is easily within walking distance of the Dupont Circle's many restaurants and hotels. With three rooms to choose from, it is the ideal setting for small to mid-size meetings, workshops, and conferences.
The MAA Carriage House is located behind the MAA headquarters building. It stands alone as an entirely separate building, with its own entrance. The address is 1781 Church Street NW, Washington DC 20036. Please call for an appointment to take a tour.
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Note: The Carriage House is not available to be rented on evenings, weekends, federal holidays, or during MAA's National Meetings, as follows:
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To reserve the Carriage House for your next meeting, complete the Meeting Request Form, and return the form by email (maach@maa.org) or mail (Mathematical Association of America; Attn: Carriage House; 1529 18th St NW; Washington, DC 20036).
About the MAA Carriage House
The MAA received a $3 million donation from Paul and Virginia Halmos to establish a Mathematical Sciences Conference Center in Washington, DC. The Association has restored the exterior to its former charm and renovated the interior completely.
For more information about Paul and Virginia Halmos and their gift to the MAA, please see "Major Donation Announced for New MAA Conference Center" by G.L. Alexanderson in the February 2003 FOCUS.
History of the Carriage House
The Carriage House belonged to the residents at 1529 18th Street, and was built in 1892. It is older than the five-story townhouse where the MAA headquarters are currently located, which was completed in 1903. The MAA Carriage House would have been used by the owners as a livery stable and to house the family carriage, though little else is known about its history today. There are huge sliding doors that are characteristic of a carriage house as the entrance for horses and carriage. Iron rings can still be seen on an adjacent building, which were used to tie up horses. Perhaps the carriage house would have also been used as living quarters for a coachman, as was typical for the time period.
Directions to the MAA Carriage House
1781 Church St. NW
On the Metro
Take the Red Line in the direction of Shady Grove to Dupont Circle. Exit the Q St. NW exit and go East on Q St. Take a right on 18th St. NW and go a block south to Church St. Take a left on Church St. and the Carriage House is the first building facing the street, directly across from St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
From Reagan National Airport:
Take the George Washington Memorial Pkwy North for 2 miles. Then take the exit on the left toward US-50 W. At the traffic circle, take the 1st exit onto Arlington Memorial Bridge for a half a mile. Make a slight right at Lincoln Memorial Cir SW then turn left at 23rd St NW. At Washington Cir NW, take the 3rd exit onto New Hampshire Ave NW. Turn right at Dupont Cir NW then again turn right at New Hampshire Ave NW. At Q St. NW turn right. Turn right at 17th St. NW and the first street you come to is Church St. NW. Take another right and go almost to the end of the block where the MAA Carriage House will be on your right.
There is no parking at the MAA Carriage House facility. There are two public lots on 18th St. in between N St. NW and Massachusetts Ave. NW
Carriage House Contact
Kate Fries
Meetings and Events Coordinator
maach@maa.org
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Carriage House Address
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