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Henry M. Jackson Federal Building Modernization
Balfour Beatty transformed the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building into an economically and operationally efficient high-performance green building — all while the facility remained occupied and operational, without disrupting the tenants or daily business.
United States General Services Administration
LEED Silver
Corporate Office, Federal, Green Building
DB Contractor Led
Modernization of a fully operational 1970s federal building into a high-performance green building
The Henry M. Jackson Federal Building is the largest federal building in the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Northwest/Arctic Region, home to over 35 agencies with more than 2,300 employees. The challenge presented to Balfour Beatty was to transform the 1970s flagship government building into an economically and operationally efficient high-performance green building with one caveat. The renovation must take place while the facility remains fully occupied and operational with no disruption to the tenants or daily business.
Retrofitting a Fully-Occupied Building
In 2010, Balfour Beatty accepted GSA’s challenge to deliver a deep energy retrofit without impacting the occupants. Retrofitting a 40 year-old fully operational building presented logistical challenges that impacted Balfour Beatty’s ability to easily implement the energy upgrades. To offset potential issues, Balfour Beatty crafted a design-build team centered on trust and creativity that co-located with GSA’s team to ensure real-time collaboration. By co-locating from day one, Balfour Beatty’s design-build team was able to obtain highly useful information from the building maintenance team to assist with solving the procurement and scheduling hurdles.
Keeping GSA’s goals in mind, Balfour Beatty designed the renovation around the user’s experience and comfort. Chiller and cooling tower replacements occurred in the winter months when the air-conditioning would not be used. In the warmer months, the windows were replaced as well as the other comfort based systems. Typically, deep retrofits come at the substantial price of the occupants; however because of Balfour Beatty’s thoughtful pre-planning there was not one complaint from an occupant during the entire renovation.
Keeping employees and workers safe during construction
Balfour Beatty’s safety approach for this project included an intense focus on ensuring that the public remained unharmed. The team designed system replacements that were installed overnight so that the space would be clear of construction and ready to be occupy the next day. Exterior window replacement were installed in a way that ensured the occupants couldn’t cause themselves harm or a failure of the systems. A switchgear replacement was scheduled over the weekend so that the power outage would not affect people during working hours. In addition, scheduling the replacement on the weekend ensured the safety of Balfour Beatty’s crews who were then able to work on de-energized equipment.
Through innovative thinking and early alignment, Balfour Beatty completed all required scopes, had additional funding to add value scopes, and completed the project on time and within budget. As important, the team did not impact or move a single occupant and exceeded our proposed energy savings. Though there isn’t new “architecture” to inspire, Balfour Beatty’s project is a celebration of the hidden architecture of a high-performing green building that demonstrates any building can be brought forward to cutting edge technologies and performance.
“Balfour Beatty was instrumental in ensuring the project was a success and met the energy saving goals while ensuring the missions of all tenants could continue while the project progressed to completion. All utility interruptions were carefully coordinated to ensure minimal tenant impact.”
-Christopher Helmer, Project Manager, General Services Administration
Additional highlights:
37-story, 865,000-square-foot, originally constructed in 1974
GSA’s goal to reduce the building’s energy consumption by 30 percent, increase the Energy Star score to 97, and achieve a LEED-EB Silver certification from the USGBC through multiple energy-related scopes
Scope included the replacement of all primary mechanical equipment, building management system, electrical switchgear and lighting, fire alarm systems, enclosure upgrades, and a full glazing replacement
Excellence in Teaming and National Award of Excellence in Rehabilitation/Renovation/Restoration winner, 2014 DBIA Design-Build Project/Team Awards
Howard S. Wright project wins National DBIA Merit Award
The Henry M. Jackson Federal Building wins national Award of Merit from the Design-Build Institute of America.
Jackson Federal Building Fact Sheet
Learn more about the Jackson Federal Building from the U.S. General Services Administration.
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“Pink”… A solid courtroom drama that makes solid points about the way we treat women
Had Pink been made in Hollywood, it would have been labelled “Oscar bait.” It makes all the right noises. The story is one that will launch a thousand op-ed pieces. In an echo of Shah Rukh Khan’s gesture, the leading man’s name appears after the names of the female actors. The cast makes room for well-regarded performers – Ray and Mrinal Sen regulars, Mamata Shankar and Dhritiman Chatterjee (who plays a judge named… Satyajit). The tone of the filmmaking, for the most part, is echoed in the tone of the score – ruminative plink-plonks heard every now and then, as though someone slipped a sleeping pill into the pianist’s drink. It’s a well-behaved score. Pink is a well-behaved movie. It doesn’t even have an item number over the closing credits, which is something most Hindi films feel naked without. Recall the recent Baar Baar Dekho. The hero spent the movie time-travelling through divorce and infidelity and death. After returning, you’d think he’d sleep for a week. But there he is, with sunglasses, jiving to Kaala chashma. The film says “Make time for true love.” The closing credits say “Thrust your pelvis at the camera.” Pink remains focused throughout. Over the closing credits, we see the event that sets off the story. Three girls, after a rock concert, decide to spend time with a few boys, friends of an acquaintance. Rajveer (Angad Bedi) forces himself on Meenal (Taapsee Pannu). She assaults him and flees. The boys go to court.
Pink may be the first film to literally bridge the divide between the (perceived) sensibilities of the multiplex audience and those that frequent single screens. The film is structured as two distinct types of narratives: the relatively understated pre-interval portions that show us what it’s like to be a single woman in the country’s capital, and a rip-roaring court case post-interval. (In other words, the first half could be titled Flamingo, the second half Fuschia.) It shouldn’t work – except that it does. It’s Damini for today’s times. We don’t get the ejaculatory shot of a frothing beer bottle spilling its contents over the hapless domestic help’s sari. Here, Meenal breaks a beer bottle on Rajveer’s skull. Earlier films showed upper-class men preying on lower-class women. Pink shows us that upper-class women are targets too. Indeed, all women. Which explains the representative nature of the characters. Meenal shares her flat with Falak (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang). One Delhi-ite. One Muslim. One from the North East.
As in Damini, a male lawyer stands up for the woman on trial. Should it have been a female lawyer, like Rekha in Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye? (There, a boy dumps a girl after she gets pregnant. She takes him to court.) I don’t think so. If feminism is about equality, then men who fight for women needn’t be seen as saviours. They’re just… supporters. Like any good “issue film,” Pink makes us think about these things without lecturing at us. Which isn’t to say the film has no lectures. It’s just that they aren’t pointed at us. They are addressed to the judge, in court, which may be the only place oratory doesn’t sound odd anymore. It helps that the orator is Amitabh Bachchan, who plays Meenal’s lawyer, Deepak Sehgal. Bachchan isn’t playing Deepak Sehgal so much as late-career Amitabh Bachchan. Another film named after a colour comes to mind: Black. But if it’s not a new performance, it’s still an effective one. And very entertaining too. After a particularly incompetent witness takes the stand, Deepak says, “I object. To this awkward performance. He is overacting.” I laughed, and then wondered if Piyush Mishra, who plays the prosecuting lawyer, was squirming. Every line he utters sounds like “Oink!”
A lot of the time, director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury is saying “oink” too. He gives Deepak a pollution mask and makes him look like a Hollywood serial killer. He gives Meenal a collarbone tattoo of soaring birds – we’re meant to infer the irony that her wings are so easily clipped. Or something. And he loads the odds against Meenal to the extent that her case begins to resemble an underdog story. The boys have political connections. They have the cops in their pocket. They have that smug, self-righteous lawyer, a stand-in for all Indians who get all Arnab Goswami on women’s personal lives. (The nation wants to know…!) Plus, Meenal isn’t… pure, the way Indians define the word, the way Indians define their women. As with the Jodie Foster character in The Accused, there is the suggestion that maybe this girl who drinks and makes lewd jokes was asking for it. (This is the crux of Pink’s argument: No matter what the girl may say or do, no matter what she wears, no matter what her history is with men, when she says no, it means no.) And what does Meenal have on her side? Two easily excited girlfriends who keep annoying the judge by piping up, out of turn. (The boys are impressively stoic. Or at least, they’ve been coached well.) And a lawyer who’s been diagnosed with a mental condition and who says he doesn’t want to cross-examine the first three prosecution witnesses. It’s Devina vs. Goliath!
But other parts of Pink are beautifully subtle. Consider the scene where Meenal goes running in a park and stops for a breather, when she sees Deepak staring at her. (At that point, he hasn’t yet taken up the case. He’s just a neighbour.) She stares right back. Later, another neighbour – another man – stands in his balcony and looks towards the girls’ flat. The film doesn’t make much of this by way of a plot point. But a hint is left hanging, that had this flat been occupied by three unmarried men, these neighbours wouldn’t be looking. Unless, of course, this was another kind of pink movie.
I wished Meenal had been more convincing. We’re told she’s a brave girl, and it’s not hard to see why she’s reduced to a shadow of her former self, especially after being abducted by the boys’ friends and molested in a moving car. Fear has a way of clipping your wings. There’s a moving scene that highlights the difference between our public and private selves, when Meenal is asked to repeat a lewd joke in court and she cannot because her father is present. But Taapsee Pannu overdoes the tentativeness. Kirti Kulhari, though, is marvellous. As is her character Falak, who is willing to compromise and say sorry to the boys in order to avoid legal proceedings, but when they abuse Meenal, she loses it. She loses it again in court, when the prosecution lawyer accuses her (and her friends) of soliciting. You can see in her the many women who put up with many things until they cannot put up with them anymore. Another film would have loaded these characters with sensitive backstories. We’re not even told why Deepak Sehgal takes on this case. (A daughter who found herself in Meenal’s position, maybe?) But there’s no reason, because you shouldn’t need a reason to do what Deepak does here. Pink doesn’t want sympathy. It just wants fairness.
Baar Baar Dekho = see here
Damini = see here
Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye = a remake of the Telugu film, Nyayam Kavali (see here)
Black = see here
The Accused = see here
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86 Responses ““Pink”… A solid courtroom drama that makes solid points about the way we treat women” →
Ramsu
First, the minor quibble: if you’re gonna keep waking up in alternate timelines, there’s no way you’d fall asleep after you’ve been the protagonist of Baar Baar Dekho. Given that, you could do worse than dance at a club. Might as well teach the pelvis some geometry.
As for Pink itself, and the role of the supportive men in the picture, the general tone reminds me not just of The Accused, but also of Made in Dagenham, a fictionalized version of the story of the women who went on strike for equal pay at the Ford factory in the UK. There’s a scene there in which the husband of the protagonist talks about how he doesn’t get drunk and beat her up or have an affair, and her response is, That is as it should be.
Pink doesn’t cast AB as a white knight, as much as Sunny Deol was in Damini (as entertaining as he was in that role). Then again, I wonder if I am judging that film by today’s standards.
A very solid review!
Rahul Sanwal
I agree with you,unlike your ex-colleague Sudish Kamath,that If feminism is about equality, then men who fight for women needn’t be seen as saviours. Surprisingly one gaping hole no one is pointing, Deepak not calling landlord (Vinod Nagpal) for testimony. 2nd Mamta states that Minal was absconding,Deepak could have produced records of her dance shows performed on those days. I think director took these 2 cinematic liberties to weaken the case for girls ,so that he could use Deepak to convey the main essence of the movie. Finally movie is able to pass the message effectively hence it deserves 5 stars…
P.S. My grammer is pathetic ,please ignore and oblige.
Watched the movie and wondered how come bachchan is so bad in his films but able to collect national awards.
Fantastic review as always.
That tentativeness bit about Meenal was exactly what bothered me in her performance. The other 2 girls were amazing. This would have been a perfect movie for me if the boys were not politically connected and so influential. The prejudice in society regarding how women ought to behave applies across social strata. The men could have been coworkers and we could still have a similar story. Even laymen working through the legal system could be guided to bribe the police and file a backdated FIR.
Secondly, did Piyush Mishra have to be somewhat of a caricature? He seemed like yet another one of those lawyers in Hindi movies that know they are defending the guilty party.
Finally the judge – He always seemed disgusted by the prosecution lawyer. That is not unbiased.
An Jo
**BR Saab have to disagree with regard to your take on AB’s performance and couple of other things. For now, this is a link to what I thought [and most of it is there in the review].*
This is a metro-centric film… — no two thoughts about it. This is the story of women who stand up to fight because they are privileged by the accidents of birth – just as I am writing this piece on a 500$ laptop when someone else some-where is struggling for days-on-end to make two ends meet… That the women struggle to answer questions in open-court about their sexual preferences or lives or boyfriends or whatever, throws a powerful light on these dynamics…
https://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/an-jo-on-pink/
Oh by the way, I ‘object to this awkward decision of having Amitabh recite a poem and place it during the end-credits after our ever-busy audience decides to rush out of the cinema hall because 10 minutes, those 10 minutes could decide the course of your next 7 years of birth-and-death cycle according to Hindu-philosophy of salvation..’
I am still reeling under the impact of this marvelous rendition of Tanveer Ghazi’s TU CHAL..
Vidya Murugan
“Pink..a solid courtroom drama”
I’m not convinced.
It’s a solid drama, makes all the right noises and is set in a courtroom, but where are the convincing and conclusive arguments? A court is (hopefully) not like a college group discussions where the loudest voice wins. The defense kept digressing, as AB’s Deepak Sehgal even admitted in one instance, into what would be better suited for op-eds than courtrooms. I am not sure on what basis the judge even came to a decision. I can only assume it is because ” kanoon andha hota hai, judge nahi” ( quoting Saurabh Shukla as the judge in Jolly LLB, which incidentally I thought was a better courtroom representation)
Why does Deepak Sehgal stare so creepily at the girls and the apt initially? Why does he have a terminally ill wife, who dies? Why does nobody ask Andrea, why she didn’t shout or create a scene when Dumpy molested her in the other room? Why the hell did Vishwa get away with a warning- he should have been put away for life. The girls went trusting him. In a way he lured them.
Pink is a good movie and makes some very valid points. I did like it, but it could have been much better.
P.S- ( a daughter who found herself in Minal’s position maybe?) – I think at movie mentions that Deepak and his wife are childless.
Vidya Murugan: I meant that they COULD have given him a backstory like that to justify his taking up his case, but did not — and this worked for me.
“The defense kept digressing, as AB’s Deepak Sehgal even admitted in one instance, into what would be better suited for op-eds than courtrooms.” – I am very much divided on this (generally speaking and yet to watch the film). I have not seen criminal proceedings (have heard that star prosecutor Ujwal Nikam uses plenty of rhetoric to secure convictions) but civil proceedings are definitely more sober and pretty dry compared to what they show in our films. I have observed one prominent tax laywer who used to grandstand in the podium but even he did so by showing off his knowledge of the Constitution (and making pertinent connections to the case at hand) and there was no scope for digressing into commentary. So, yes, sometimes the way films depict the courts gets a guffaw out of me.
But it’s not just our films. David Kelley, himself a lawyer in his youth, pretty much used Boston Legal episodes to air his commentary on the state of the nation. He did likewise on The Practice too, so it’s not a one-off. Given that judges everywhere struggle with a mountainous backlog of cases, I doubt judges there have the time of day for a pontificating lawyer. Maybe filmmakers feel presenting courtroom proceedings as they actually unfold sans all the spicing-up would not make for compelling viewing.
Yes that’s what you wrote. Didn’t read that bit correctly 😬.. Oops!!
Honest Raj (formerly 'V'enkatesh)
In an echo of Shah Rukh Khan’s gesture, the leading man’s name appears after the names of the female actors.
This has always been the trend with Bollywood as far as women-centric films are concerned. Except for KB, I don’t think any of the popular Tamil filmmakers gave top billing for their women in the opening/closing credits of their films – case in point: Mouna Raagam. 🙂
If feminism is about equality, then men who fight for women needn’t be seen as saviours. They’re just… supporters
Is SRK attempting to be a ‘supporter’ or a ‘saviour’?
Bharath Balasubramanian
Hi BR, thanks for a nice review. I just could not understand some plot points and almost no one is talking about it across reviews. Wonder what you or some of the commenters here think. First, how does it come to pass that Meenal’s van molestation is never brought up in any of the court discussions? After all, Deepak was an eye witness to that incident and he actually called up the police station as well as the commissioner (or someone high up). The car could have been identified back to the guys. Maybe not, but surely it must at least be brought up in a court case? Second, that flip by Falak was utterly unconvincing to me. I could have accepted even if she had said “Even if we had taken money, no means no”. But she goes beyond that and says, yes we did take money. Third, they mention the IT act as an accusation in the final sentence, but if this was identified back to the guys then that too should have been bought up to besmirch their characters. Ignoring all this, the movie was reduced to a “A few good men” like setting where the accused conveniently shouts out bad things to make it easy for everyone, not to mention a sermonizing Amitabh. In the case of “A few good men”, Nicholson was built up to that final scene. Here that was not the case. Like you mention, the guys have been coached well and don’t talk out of turn. I found this to be an important movie, but not a terribly convincing one, cinematically speaking.
@Rahul Sanwal –
2nd Mamta states that Minal was absconding,Deepak could have produced records of her dance shows performed on those days.
Deepak goes for a different line of argument though. By establishing that the SHO added the FIR in the police diary at a later date, Deepak proves that the entire police activity was influenced. He does not try to prove Meenal not guilty, he proves that the complaint done from the other side was entirely in wrong and done as a pre-emptive strike.
The courtroom drama works as a feel-good factor instead of a strong logical rebuttal. I kept thinking about My Cousin Vinnie during the entire second half (How marvellous was Marisa Tomei in that!!). The case gets resolved quite easily in both the films, with one side having glaring holes in their arguments. But the bleak tone of the first half keeps one on tenterhooks.
Also, so glad to see Bachchan get a proper Angry Old Man role – not the traditional masala hero of Buddha hoga tera baap, but the social superhero of Deewar.
Sinjini Sengupta
http://sinjinisengupta.blogspot.in/2016/09/pink-to-suzette-jordan-to-us-and-to-you.html
Mine. Read and feed me back, if you would. 🙂
@ Bharat Bala:
1.’First, how does it come to pass that Meenal’s van molestation is never brought up in any of the court discussions? After all, Deepak was an eye witness to that incident and he actually called up the police station as well as the commissioner (or someone high up). ‘
This is brought up by Deepak. Remember the scene where he says, and I am paraphrasing, ‘my client was raped,,.. molested, your honor..’
Falak was utterly unconvincing to me regarding money exchange.
Remember the earlier scene when she is shown as a person willing to compromise? The one who initiates the compromise phone-call with that common friend? She calls up the common friend and seeks to quell the matter by reaching a compromise. In the midst of the conversation with Rajveer, she loses her cool because she cannot take the chauvinistic BS from Rajveer – मुझे तुझसे कोई प्राब्लम नहीं हैं and replies: ‘But I have a problem with you!!’ and then blasts him.
She is a character unlike Andrea and Minal. She is far more matured and restrained than the other two. Hence, being of that type, it is more plausible that she bombs- out her inner hold-ups in a sequence. And that’s what happens in that scene. When Deepak mentions in the following scene that you have given the prosecution victory on a platter, she replies, and I paraphrase; ‘Bloody Hell, it doesn’t matter whether I have taken the money or not. THEY have made up their mind that money has exchanged hands. What’s the point in arguing?
This film demands a second viewing – at least for me, because I am not sharp enough to catch nuances at first screening. Hopefully I will have better understanding after that..
There was
black – for blind / disabled ppl
Blue – for brave, adventurous men
Now Pink – strong yet abused women
Next it should be ‘rainbow’ to cover for LGBTQ group???
Praveen Kumar Santhanam
Excellent Review !!! In my opinion I found that the movie spoke about Gender Exploitation on how both genders see themselves and tend to exploit each other in many ways. This movie is very important how opposite gender should see and respect each other in a society where all are coexisting with multiple social norms affecting our lives. With pertaining to all the social evils happening around in our country for both genders, the movie delivers much needed thought provoking messages
Fine discussion here..and absolutely love that she brought up that criminally under-rated movie called NISHABDH..one of the most jaw-dropping performances by AB..]
Also doubly glad that the ‘mis-use’ of laws by women are also valid points of discussion… you know, when you bring up such points, you are bound to be BOMBARDED and blown-to-smithereens by you know who…..”BENSON & HEDGES’ champions of free-speech and liberty..
AnJo, I’m so glad to see someone else who liked Nishabd. Thank you! 🙂 I thought I was the only person who liked the film. The people I know who watched the film hated Amitabh’s character; they found it skeevy.
filmynerdblog
Came across your review on Pink’s Filmzoned page. This is so well put that there is a difference between a lecturish film and a film having lectures. I know a lot of people had this issue with the film, that it seems lecturish at times. But a court room drama calls for arguments, and evidently the filmmakers chose such a setup to make their point, and it works very well in the film. Also a lot of times Deepak Sehgal’s arguments in the film seemed to not be about the case but generally about society, but actually our courts are known to be influenced by societal arguments, rather than just law at hand. So it makes sense to bring those arguments.
tu13dekh
I am still chortling over how the “nice guys” among my friends have started on a rant deriding the movie. Feminist agenda, muh bluh. In a way I am glad Deepak doesn’t have a backstory, they managed to side step the pitfall of sounding like an over eager UPSC candidate answering the ethics paper. One doesn’t need to father women, to understand gender issues eh?
BRang. Muh man, are you still annoyed over that buff garden variety?
Mani AJ
And now for the Tamil remake (let’s say PANGU – meaning share) … can’t wait for Kamal to blow the lid off the courtroom …nudge nudge – wink wink – tongue rightly in cheek … 😉
@Anu:
Yes I am one of those miniscules who loved NISHABDH. Ramu had a fantastic theme at his disposal. He did it superbly but he got carried away with Jiah’s ‘physicality’: That actually wasn’t a problem with me; but it did create problems with the audience in the sense that they got a message that Amitabh was playing a dirty old man. It actually wasn’t that at all; Amitabh’s character plays a ‘photographer’ capturing nature’s wonders stuck in the rigmarole of marriage and familial duties for 27 years; and he sees someone who is COMPLETELY devoid of the ‘pressures’ of leading a life acceptable to ‘normal’ folks. Amitabh gets attracted actually to that ‘free-spirit’. But where Ramu didn’t succeed was that he focused on Jiah’s physical attributes, while his character, Amitabh’s Vijay just focused on the ‘free-spiritedness’ of Jiah. There was a conflict between what Ramu was portraying and what Amitabh’s Vijay was sensing and experiencing.
And what a fantastic subversive tactic by Ramu to name Amitabh’s character VIJAY; you know, that Vijay who would light a dynamite in TRISHUL and walk as though he were taking a stroll in a garden, and have that very same name-sake character confess at the onset of a movie that he wants to commit suicide because he has failed everyone and cannot imagine life without a girl more than half his age!!
BTW, there were hordes of people objecting that he was part of Nabokov’s Lolita..I went to watch this movie first day evening show in Mulund and boy, was i shocked to see women-folk protesting against Amitabh romancing a younger woman!!! HOW. CAN. HE. DO. THAT??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824375/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
On positive reviews, I went to watch this film. Disappointed with the patriarchal concerns. The courtroom scenes and Bachchan’s acting leaves a lot to be desired.
PINK is a strong courtroom drama mainly catering to the urban multiplex audiences as the style of film making is niche and devoid of mass entertainment. However, that does not dent the theme’s relevance as woman security, safety and dignity is as much an urban issue in India as it is among the smaller towns and villages. Pink is a hard hitting movie with its heart in the right place. Although the pace does slack at times, you just cannot prevent yourself from getting sucked into the drama in the post interval sequence. A must watch for every Indian. Its not a movie that an ideal society needs. But unfortunately, its a movie that we as a society deserve! Read my review on :
http://simplebollywoodreviewer.blogspot.in/2016/09/different-shades-of-pink.html
certainly it’s a great movie of these times. while one can’t really pick faults on an overall analysis, I wish that part 1 of the movie could have been improved upon.
I hope we get to see more such movies rather than masala and tamasha movies we see all the time!
I think Falak had taken money from Rajveer and co. After her testimony Andrea says to Falak ( I am paraphrasing)– “Why did you implicate us along with you?” While the more logical question would have been – “Why did you lie?”
The other two girls either had come to know or had guessed about Falak’s invovlment. Understandably, the prosecution lawyer did not press this point -while it implicated Falak, her admission that she accepted money to put other two girls in a vulnerable position, implicates Rajveer and co as well.The prosecution’s strategy seems to have been to create enough doubt about the girls, not to have Falak admit to accepting money.
An Jo, I didn’t have a problem with Jiah’s physicality either. I think it was her youth and vibrancy that appeals to AB, and that made sense to me. ‘Attraction’ doesn’t need to have a rationale. Photographers are very visual people, so seeing her through the lens of the camera can only have magnified her vital attractiveness, and her absolute conviction that he needs to live life. If I remember right, she all but seduces him. Isn’t it almost a truism that we are attracted to people who are attracted to us? I wager it would have been very hard for any man to resist the person Jiah was.
I loved that film to bits. And I thought it was very very brave of Amitabh to take it on.
Deepak Jeswal
Err ermm Raaz Reboot review? 😞😞 its such a great comedy film. I thought u will have fun time dissecting it 😜
Venky
A friend of mine had an interesting point in a private email conversation – “Pink is used ( and here the literature student who- will- critique- anything- to -death comes in) is a mixture of bloody red (pure feminine energy) and sparkling white ( traditions, customs, sense of purity), exposing perhaps the dichotomy in our society.”
I thought it was interesting to read this movie from the lens of the colour..how a conventional colour like “Pink” could be used subversively in the movie. I don’t know if there were any subtle visual clues that highlighted this blend of red + white in the movie. May be, there was. I missed it.
The review is great in parts, but is it only me who feels that some ‘life’ is missing from the way this movie is reviewed here?
Ashish Madathil
The first half was great but I was actually quite disappointed with the second half of this movie. I thought it was men mansplaining women’s rights to women(a list of rules? Really?). I disagree with your point that men in this case are merely supporters. I do think this was a rescue mission by self-proclaimed rescuers. It almost seemed in the second half that all the women had to take a backseat to let Amitabh Bachchan shine and be the star. He kept “digressing” A LOT. Like…dude, finish your case and move along. It seemed like it was more about him and his star power hogging the limelight than about the women and our society’s dynamic with one (way less than)half of our species.
I don’t care how liberal and progressive Bachchan or Shoojit Sircar or Ritesh Shah are (or appear to be in public). It might be a story about women but the narrative is still set and controlled by men. i. e. the writer, the director and the most influencing entities of this film are all male. How is that empowering? I do think there are subtle differences in perspective when men write stories about women and when women do. A man cannot understand and therefore will never fully be able to do justice to a woman’s lived experiences. For instance, I do believe that in the last act of Luck By Chance, Konkona’s character would’ve forgiven Farhan’s character and they would’ve reconciled if Zoya Akhtar hadn’t also written the movie.
This might be a false equivalence, but it’s like watching a Dalit story written and made by upper class people….or a movie about the systemic oppression of black people made by white people. In all these cases, the makers are limited by their privilege – social privilege associated with their identity – and will not be able to transcend it completely. Likewise us men will never fully understand what it’s REALLY really like to be a woman in this country and thus successfully put it in film. We end up sermonizing instead of listening. I find it problematic that the gaze and the narrative in this film is still male. It runs the risk of being patronizing.
In addition, it’s presented almost as if Deepak Sehgal’s extremely creepy behaviour in the first half offsets his defense and counsel in the second half.
Also is it too much to ask to have a woman to recite the post-credits poem? An old man telling young women to “find themselves”? Wow. I’m sure they were waiting for him to tell them that.
Sorry for such a long rant. 🙂
Ramchander Krishna (@ramctheatheist)
“Pink is a well-behaved movie. It doesn’t even have an item number over the closing credits, which is something most Hindi films feel naked without.”
Rangan, although I agree with this point, I felt what Pink did in the end credits was completely unnecessary and went against the film’s core. Through the character Falak, the film makes it clear that even if the women had asked for money, even if they were indeed prostitutes, what the guy did after the Meenal said NO was wrong. Whatever may have happened within the resort doesn’t matter. Under no circumstances was it justifiable that the guy forced himself on her, against her wishes. Period.
Until the end credits, the film had also pricked the standard prejudices in society. Meenal is not a virgin. Falak was in a relationship with a widower who has a child. Andrea is a fashionably dressed North Eastern girl. The film placed these women in front of us and made us, the jury, to ponder if we’d indict them or not. Pink didn’t play it safe like Queen, where Kangana already has our pity votes after a halted marriage. And she returns a virgin from all her hungama in Europe, save only for a cutesy kiss with a European dude. They could have easily given us some bits of each girl’s past to make us feel sorry for them. But no, this film didn’t soften us towards these girls.
But, the end credits destroyed all of this. By showing what actually happened that night, it was holding us by the collar and screaming, “Hello hello mike testing 123. Ladies and gentlemen, just to make it clear, these women actually didn’t ask for money. They are good women you see. Look at these behen****** and how much lust they are having. You see there, yeah that’s how he grabbed her. You see she couldn’t free herself. Look at her trying to break free. And there that’s the bottle of alcohol that will shortly be shattered on his head. Smash! Done! Thank you. Now you may leave the theatres. Oh wait Amitabhji wants to recite a wonderful little poem.”
Ramchander Krishna:
“But, the end credits destroyed all of this….. Now you may leave the theatres”.
This is the best, the most intelligent criticism I have read on the film (I loved your “defense” of the film). Thank you, I have been educated on the film after reading your comment
“Oh wait Amitabhji wants to recite a wonderful little poem.”-
You have a problem with Bachchan reciting a poem in the end credits?! Seriously?! Heck, it’s not even a part of the film proper. I found this “opposition” completely illogical. And that “Amitabhji” bit is quite revealing- looks like Bachchan continues to ruffle some “Tamil” feathers inspite of the fact that he has got nothing to do with Tamil industry (there is an entire history to all of this w.r.t Bachchan and Tamil audiences which was evident during this year’s national awards as well). I hate to say this, but I would be happy if those Tamilians, who have issues (and by issues, I mean those issues which have got nothing to do with his acting or his on-screen work) with him, would boycott his films (I don’t think anyone loses out by not watching Pink for an instance. I do like it quite a bit, but this is no “compulsary viewing” like Visaranai). Hopefully then the more thoughtless kind of criticism of his would stop.
I would have never thought a day would come where folks in this country would object to Bachchan being “central” to a Hinfi film. Just a few years back when Bachchan did that cameo in The Great Gatsby, a number of foreign critics had great things to say about him (some of them had even said that he and Leo were the only good things in the film…one can only imagine what they would have said if he would have had a full-fledged part there). The majority opinion in the West was that he should have gotten a much bigger role and he should be doing more Hollywood films. Just to quote another example, very recently The Guardian in its Wazir review compared Bachchan favourably to Dustin Hoffman-[ “This inbuilt ambiguity – that Daanish’s second chance might just be Pandit’s power play – owes much to Bachchan’s ability to describe both a genial host and something more shaded; Hoffman would surely have struggled to summon a comparable hum of menace”]. They also have very positive things to say on Pink (and his performance). After all this, when I see people objecting to him being central to a film, I feel sorry for the audiences. Again feel free to criticise him and his performances, but atleast do it for the reasons.
Naren
Why should Tamilians only bother about Amitabhji, he will shamelessly align with Sonia and Modi, and even Mallus from Thilakan to Mammooty to Fahaad era see this overrated man get rewarded. Hopeless.
Kid, I think you are conflating two different points. I read Ramchander Krishna’s comment and he does not say he has an objection to AB being central to the film. And as to Ashish’s comment, he is objecting not at AB having a central role in particular but of the male-dominated gaze. It is a critique rooted in the PC/privilege debate. I am not enamoured of THAT debate hijacking the arts, but anyway I will decide for myself after watching the film. But I just wanted to point out that Ashish doesn’t seem to hold a grudge against AB in particular.
And by the way, AB has been vacillating (which is his wont). He is slyly pushing himself in the Modi camp (witness his unnecessarily harsh criticism of Harsha Bhogle) but also keeping a foot in the leftie one by being part of films like Pink. In an interview, he clarified that he was not a feminist. Must have urgently felt the need to clarify this so that he doesn’t lose favour with Bhakts. His big fan, comedian Raju Srivastava, has had no such compunctions about switching sides. This movie isn’t about AB’s politics, but if you want to bring it up,yes, it is understandable if people, and not just Tamilians in general, have a problem with that aspect of AB. It is his choice but we are surely allowed to point out the manner in which he negotiates these choices. As a Mumbai-born Tamilian, I like AB more than Kamal any day. But when it comes to politics, Kamal is much more honest about his positions than AB. AB has no convictions, sorry.
rajaj
This blog overrates Amitabhji because he lost his market and doing supporting roles. Number of graceless choices this man took is not being highlighted enough by Indians, never mind tamilians
Um…I have no grudges against anyone. Is Bachchan a great actor? Absolutely! Is Pink a good film, a necessary film? Absolutely. Like I said, I don’t care about the personal politics of the people involved. Indifference is not the same as hate. It was just a rebuttal to BR’s point about why it’s OK for a man to save women in a film about women and that it need not be seen as saving but supporting. A man who spent the entire first half staring into their apartment no less. Forget that he is male. And that he has Bipolar. He hasn’t fought a case in 10 years! The women could’ve asked their influential boss, who got them to file a complaint, to get a good lawyer also no? Circumstaces seemed tailored to get a star vehicle to step in. Whoever the star may be…but i digress, your honor. 😛
To my mind at least, certain creative choices made in this film cannot be justified by “But, XYZ is a great actor…” What I was expressing was merely exhaustion with the tired trope of the authoritative man saving the day. Even in a film that positions itself as a feminist film. Like in Hollywood, however diverse the cast, whatever the issue, it’s still the white man who saves the day. If these tropes aren’t subverted in the arts, where else then? Anyway, my limited observations would’ve been the same if it was Bachchan or Kamal or Rajni or Ranbir Kapoor/Ranveer Singh/.
Peace. 🙂
Madan: Not conflating anything here. That “Bachchan centrality in Pink” comment wasn’t directed towards Ramchander Krishna. I had a problem with his objection towards “Bachchan’s poem” in the end-credits of the film (and I raised the Tamilian point there after I saw the way he addressed Bachchan….). On Ashish’s comment, I don’t care whether he likes or Bachchan or not (we all have our biases. Hating a star is hardly a crime). I did however have issues with this comment of his-
“It almost seemed in the second half that all the women had to take a backseat to let Amitabh Bachchan shine and be the star.”.
So, after all these years, Amitabh Bachchan now has to make sure that Taapsee Pannu and Kirti Kulhari take a backseat so that Amitabh Bachchan can shine and be the star of Pink. Clearly Truffaut, while making the “one-man industry” comment w.r.t Bachchan, didn’t foresee the emergence of these two titans (Pannu and Kulhari)!. BTW considering Ashish brought up Luck by Chance ending, he might do well to remember Arth, but also Mahesh Bhatt’s first film “Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain” which actually has arguably the most radical kind of man-woman relationship being depicted in Indian cinema (for anyone who hasn’t seen it, he/she should. It’s made on zero-budget and is not a fully realised film, but it is very intetesting). Gulzar has number of films which are quite very progressive in this regard. There is the little known Vinod Pande who had actually has made number of works which have some really radical gestures being ( Ek Baar Phir is his best work, but there are other films which are worrhwhile as well…Yeh Nazdeekiyan, Sach etc). There are other directors as well- from Ray to Balachander to Balu Mahendra to Kangal to a number of luminaries from Bengal (in Bollywood, you have a terrific work like Sudhendu Mukherjee’s Bachchan-starrer “Saudagar”). All these films have been made by men. I do agree that when depicting female characters, a female director would bring the kind of sensibilty that a male director can’t. But it’s ratther odd to state that men can’t understand feminism and can’t make sensible works on the topic
Madan, here is the thing. Reading the comments of a certain segment (read “class”) of people (mostly from Bombay), it’s amply clear to me that had someone like Abhay Deol been there in the role of Bachchan, most people wouldn’t object half as much regarding the mansplaining/male-saviour thing as they are doing so now. The Bachchan opposition is rather evident in this regard (I mean people have him reciting poetry in the end credits…this when no one has an issue with routinely people have item songs, which have nothing to do with the film’s plot, being placed with the end-critics. These sort of commnets are rather revelatory). In one of his comments, Ashish has a problem with an “old man” reciting that poem and saying those lines. Is this for real?!.
On your second paragraph, I agree with a lot of what you are saying (I have no issues if someone harshly criticises Bachchan’s political leanings or whatever. The Harsha Bhogle commnet certainly can’t be defended. Nor the letter for that matter…and we can go on about these thins. And I cometely agree with the Kamal comparison you make regarding the “convictions” bit). But what has his ideology/political leaning got do with his performances/films?! The only place where I disagree completely is when you say that “also keeping a foot in the leftie one by being part of films like Pink.”. Firstly, it’s a bit odd to link feminism with leftist politics. But even leaving that aside, it is odd to make that comment because it’s not the first film where Bachchan has starred in recent times which has these issues being spoken about…Piku had many such gestures as well and Bachchan’s character was representative of some of the director’s ideologies on this front. But most importantly Bachchan had co-produced (Saraswati Entertainments, a company he owns has co-produced these films) these films (and he wasn’t even the central lead in Piku). These are hardly commercialy safe ventures so unless an actor truly believes in this subject, he would invest his money in it. Bachchan incidentally also is the face of the Beti Bachao campaign of UN (this has got nothing to do with Modi). He did a very progressive film, Saudagar, way back in ’73 when BJP didn’t even exist (btw notice that Bachchan has never publicly any of Modi’s political campaigns/statements/work).
On the Tamil resistance, I was talking about the resistance towards Bachchan the “actor and star”. And there is an entire history to it. Again, just about every time he gets a National Award, Tamils have an issue with it (they apparently don’t have an issue when Saif Ali Khan gets one for Hum Tum). BTW unless Bachchan gets a National Award, these awards have no meaning according to such folks. The minute he gets it, it becomes the most coveted award on planet. The dishonesty in these arguements is everyone to see.
If you had no intention of making out with a guy would you go into a hotel room alone with him, separating into pairs, especially if you had only just met that day for the first time? I found it a little difficult to believe this scenario. Perhaps they did it because they were drunk and this addled their brain a little..? And because one of them wanted to use the toilet.
I was confused at first as to whether Falak actually did take money from them, I later decided she hadn’t. But it’s difficult to see her character admitting to it in court, how much ever provoked, if she hadn’t actually.
I loved the theme, the importance of the “No” irrespective of anything else. It would be nice if the movie made even some people stop and think before judging girls for their choices, dress and behaviour. In Nirbhaya’s case too, I’d felt that maybe a difference in culture was partly responsible for the crime.
“Reading the comments of a certain segment (read “class”) of people (mostly from Bombay), it’s amply clear to me that had someone like Abhay Deol been there in the role of Bachchan, most people wouldn’t object half as much regarding the mansplaining/male-saviour thing as they are doing so now.” – Really? Much of this is news to me as a longtime Mumbaiite. (a) Nobody really talks about Abhay Deol very much anymore, he had his moment under the sun and it’s over. And even when they did, it was not by means of casting an unfavourable light on AB. As regards as the mansplaining thing, if I were to casually spring it up on unsuspecting colleagues, they might regard me as if I came from another universe. I don’t know where Ashish is from – and I don’t care as I usually dislike getting involved into heated identity discussions and regard it as the bane of the country (sadly identity dominates world discourse as well now) – but if I may hazard a guess, either he is NRI or he lives in India but happens to read American/English media a lot and is abreast with what is happening there. Neither the “I was raped” or “My choice” videos got a favourable response in India so they are yet to become mainstream issues even in the metros, heartland toh bahut baad ki baat. At any rate, I don’t think this Abhay Deol-mansplaining alliance represents a significant constituency in Bombay/Mumbai and nothing to be worried about. If you really got me talking, I would say that while I appreciate AB’s acting, I have a lot more time for Gary Oldman. And nobody in Bombay will ever tell me, “Dai, Peter adikkadhai” for holding that view, that’s the beauty of maximum city. Maximum choice. But moving on….
” Firstly, it’s a bit odd to link feminism with leftist politics. ” – It is not at all odd if you trace the rise of feminism in the 1960s in America and Britain and also pay attention to where/who coins words like mansplaining. It’s a war out there – which is why I have refused to endorse Ashish’s line of argument on this without first watching the film – and AB as usual is far sighted and keeps a foot in the leftist camp while simultaneously also aligning unobtrusively with the rashtravadi camp. To your Saudagar example, I would simply say he has always been doing this so it’s nothing new. After all, a left-right mish mash is also helpful to balance parivar and individual desires, if I may put it that way? Unlike Kamal, AB believes in the institution of marriage. 😉
As for the Tamil resistance, I don’t deny its existence and FWIW both sides have their merits. AB merely bears the brunt via a tall poppy syndrome, representing the face of Bollywood success and thus facing the barrage of criticism from the South camp which thinks their actors don’t get due recognition (this is extremely debatable as I would much rather an Ilayaraja or Mani get more recognition than any of the stars who have made tons without taking many risks at all). But back to the point, I disagree with your inference that Ashish or Ramchandra’s insertion of AB’s name is linked to these undercurrents. Even if it is, again, we have to see it not only in the context of Tamil-Hindi politics but the excessive adulation of AB in recent years. What’s the big deal if AB does guest commentary in a World Cup match and why does that become more important than the cricket itself …I mean it was being hyped up for two weeks in advance! And having first criticised Bhogle on shockingly misinformed grounds, AB proceeded to butcher the national anthem adding his own jazzy improvs in blissful disdain of the fact that the anthem is meant to be sung in precisely that much time only. My music teacher in school would have given us a GPL for doing what AB did that day and then he runs away with the plaudits because the public is blindly in love with him; the way this performance was hyped one could be forgiven for thinking it was a reprise of Whitney Houston delivering the Star Spangled Banner. It does make my blood boil – the hypocrisy of pretending to be a nationalist and simultaneously being vain enough to murder the anthem – though I am so far able to keep it aside when I watch the films he is part of.
Sifter : count me in. I felt so. But resisted saying so since everyone seemed to have liked the review.
Honestly I felt as if BR had much issues with the film but had to pen a positive review. Just a feeling.
It must be tough to judge such cases where it’s one person’s word against another. The movie made it easy for the judge by showing Meenal cying and breaking down, her face and expression the picture of innocence and by making Rajveer lose his temper and blurt out his prejudices. But in real life, in such a case, how does a judge decide if a woman is telling the truth when she says she said ‘no’.
This write up makes a point :
http://m.huffingtonpost.in/aanchal-arora/pink-is-a-powerful-film-yet-its-also-a-failure/
I have my serious doubts on how much such movies are impacting those who are completely unsensitized. Until we think of an effective trickle-down mechanism, change won’t come as rapidly as we dream it will. My brothers, father, and others who are reading this already think like Amitabh’s character in the movie. What’s needed is for the same message, and essence, to settle indelibly into the kind of audience that needs it. We need to devise ways of taking this message to the streets. Pink was powerful for me and my ilk of the educated intelligentsia, and it may have been a starting point for others, but it was a failure for the majority of Indians mindsets
@tonks: That was an interesting article. I had kind of brought up the same point where there was an intense discussion on misogyny in Rajini films once before (no, not the discussions in the aftermath of the Swati murder but about a year before that). There is a growing gap between the attitudes in metros and small town India. Why, there is a gap between say Mumbai and Chennai. I don’t really know what the solution is. But I presume there would likewise be a gap between Boston and Nashville as well (maybe not when it comes to respect for women but on other matters like tolerance for ‘other’ gender orientations). Perhaps, we should draw comfort from the fact that at least the metros have moved on somewhat in attitude (because if the gulf was less in earlier times, doesn’t it mean the metros too were more feudal/patriarchal in mindset?) if the overall box office success of Pink is anything to go by.
Vashisht Das
while on inspiring milestones like Pink, we regret to notice that the other, time-honoured kind of ‘inspirations’ that afflict the average, lazy plagiarists of hindi cinema has begun to contaminate the so-called intellectual / hifalutin beards like anurag kashyap and abhishek chaubey also :
http://thereel.scroll.in/817533/udta-punjab-versus-high-society-inspiration-or-a-striking-coincidence
Three movie this year, that had a wives in hospital taken care by husbands….. The first two…”iraivi” and “waiting” had the explicit mention of the guilt that husbands went through/is going through that probably is pushing them to show the care and affection. This one doesn’t hint anything like that….. Because that is not important. Because you shouldn’t need a reason to do what Deepak does.
Tonks, just watched the film yesterday; the girls don’t split up to go with the guys to their respective rooms on their own; they’re all together in Rajveer’s room, and the guys manipulate the situation so two of the girls leave with them. As Falak mentions later in court, she couldn’t take the smoke any more and stepped out; Rajveer signals to Vishwa to step out with her. (Andrea has already left with Dumpy because Rajveer claims that the flush isn’t working and Dumpy escorts her to his room.
The reason the girls trust these boys is that Minal and Vishwa are schoolmates, and she trusts him, and therefore, by association, the others. As we see, Vishwa is the one who does not want any part of what takes place later.
Falak admits to taking money, I think, because she wanted to get that point out of the way – the case is not about whether they took money or not. Even if they did, sexual assualt is sexual assault. She’s shown as someone who will put up with bullshit up to a certain point – witness her initial apology to Rajveer – but will, if pushed, dare you to do your worst. So here, it is, yes, we are prostitutes, so what?
@Ashish, I watched the movie yesterday, in a packed theatre that was nearly 75% women. Neither I, nor the five women who I went with, felt ‘mansplained’ to – and believe me, as independent women with strong opinions of our own, we know what mansplaining is. We didn’t see Deepak Sehgal as the girls’ white knight stepping in to ‘rescue’ them. The girls came across, even in court, even when initimidated by prosecution, as plenty strong, and able to hold their own. But yes, he came across as support in a system where the rules are different; where no one knows exactly what googly is going to be thrown at them. The fight against patriarchy cannot succeed if we do not have enough men in our corner. Not as rescuers but as supporters. Feminism needs men as much as it needs women, if we are to have true equality. We need voices – whether they are male, female or transgender.
From my corner of the world, from the many, many women who watched the film yesterday, Bachchan, Sircar, Ritesh and Roy Choudhary added their – very powerful – voices in support to ours, and we are grateful.
@Ramchander, I didn’t have the issue with the end credits that you seem to have done; in showing us what really happened that night after the film ended and the judgement passed, it forces us to place the truth of the incident against the biases we naturally bring to a he said-she said case. Would the film have been equally powerful if they hadn’t shown those scenes? Perhaps, I don’t know. What I do know is that not one person in the audience of nearly-all women (for a 10 p.m. show) got up to leave until after.
As for Bachchan reciting the poem – why is it seen as some sort of a ‘statement’? That we need an old man to tell us to go find ourselves? I saw it – again – as the voice of support. To tell us that one person has our backs. In a patriarchal society, don’t you think we need the men to give us that support, implicit and explicit?
Not negating your opinion of the film; it just goes to show how what we take away from a film is so subjective. 🙂 I’m just offering my perspective on how a few women at aleast (my friends and I stood around outside the theatre for an hour on a cold night, discussing the film, so I speak for them as well) did not feel condescended to, or in need of rescue or patronised. 🙂
I thought it was interesting to read this movie from the lens of the colour..how a conventional colour like “Pink” could be used subversively in the movie
Venky, I read somewhere that the reason they named the movie so, was because of the sexual connotation around the urban dictionary meaning of “pink” :
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pink
Anu, thanks! I need to view this a second time.
Also, regarding, my friends and I stood around outside the theatre for an hour on a cold night, discussing the film, so I speak for them as well, I’m curious as to what your discussion was about.
@Tonks: I’m curious as to what your discussion was about.
Oh, about how the film resonated with what we had felt, growing up: that the rules were different for men and women; that ‘fault’ would be assigned to us, regardless of what happened; that things weren’t so different in the new millennium; or in the US, where there was a travesty of justice in the Stanford case; how ‘feminism’ is a bad word today, and how it is not just a woman’s movement; how it needed the voices of men who felt the same way to give it purpose…
All we needed was an adda and a hot, cutting- chai to complete the experience 🙂 — especially when we were standing outside the theatre, at 12.30 in the a.m. (we went for a 10p.m. show), and it was cold, and there was a fine drizzle as well. That we didn’t feel the discomfort, or didn’t care about it, was testimony to the film’s thrall.
I wish we could watch it together. 🙂 I would love to see it a second time.
Sirish Aditya
I can’t understand what the fuss is all about; Don’t know if relevance and earnestness are enough to rate a film highly. Come to think of it, I’m not sure if it’s a relevant film anyway as this review wonderfully postulates (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pink-powerful-yet-also-failure-aanchal-arora).
The comparisons with Talvar are inevitable- Both are based on popular news, both are “foreign” in their tone and craft, both bring up important issues and are social criticisms at some level. But where Talvar is an astounding example of fabulous writing (I still marvel at Vishal Bhardwaj’s craft at making us laugh in the climax), Pink is atrociously high on cliche and narrative incompetence. What some might call restraint is in this case sheer fuckin’ laziness. Every scene feels stale, stagey, predictable and considering the stakes, terribly inert.
The acting is production line-sque, editing (and cinematography) depressingly routine and ineffective, and the music is a teenager’s discovery of post rock . I can’t believe the good reviews this film’s getting, least from you BR, considering the lack of craft, originality or passion.
But for all it’s faults, it has the good fortune of having Big B- the eyes, the voice, the man. _/_
@Anu Warrier: I’m glad you felt that way. 🙂 As did a lot of women, evidently. I can’t possibly invalidate your personal feelings about the film. I completely agree with you that feminism needs the solidarity of all sexes to thrive. We are all in this together. But my comments are also a summary of the opinions and unanimous consensus of the women with whom I went to watch the film. The conclusion was: as an audience, they loved it, but as feminists not entirely so.
My friends and I agreed that the film, the first half especially, was well made. But we couldn’t help but feel a slight disillusionment about the way the second half was handled. But then again, given that the bar on Bollywood’s ability to portray these things sensitively is pretty low and that perhaps putting Bachchan behind this made commercial sense, it seemed like legit, necessary decisions so they let it slide.
About the poem, most of us felt it should’ve been a woman. Maybe it’s the arrogance of our generation or something, but somehow at a purely symbolic level an older patriarch telling young women to break free from the patriarchal baggage that said patriarch played a part in imposing, was a bit much…I just thought I’d present that perspective as the vibrant comments section here made this a great place to voice it.
Irrespective of what you felt about the film’s intentions, don’t you think it’s high time that films about women were written mostly by women? Sure…it doesn’t always have to be that way. Unlike what someone said earlier, I do believe some men understand feminism. There is a Paul Feig for every Melissa McCarthy and the ones who made great films about women in the past had a wonderful, androgynous mind. But is that enough of a justification for the monopoly of just one sex of people in the film industry? Aren’t men taking all the credit for appropriating and shining light on the complicated whirlwind of events, incidents and issues affecting women, while the number of women behind the scenes calling the shots, like directors, writers and executives are abysmal? The creative control behind projects like these and many others on general subjects are still the domain of men and the narrative is still tightly in their control, no?
R Balasubramanian
My post is missing. Is there any benchmark? I laboured to write a post yesterday, for only then, I happened to see the film.
Film kicks off from frame one and thanks that there is no meandering in build up. Great film, nevertheless not a flaw less.
Piyush Mishra, quite jarring or is it created for a contrast.
However, subtle, the line of defence taken by Deepak is give away for the discerned in the very few frames. No complaints but a simple statement.
The casting director deserves a special mention. When I saw such a name in title card in the beginning, I was happy that there had been one. It was not a just title card.
Area that beat the logic or common sense: Of, course, these are only value additions
The landlord of the girls should have been brought to trial as a defence witness. He has been harassed over phone and also directly approached by the plaints. Though the case is on breaking the judgemental attitude of the system, it should not have harmed to have witness that can bolster it. In fact, all the witness are against the defence. Moral ground apart, landlord and even the driver of the taxi in which the girls flee from the scene of incident should have been used, to make it more realistic.
Very strange, that media is out of the equation. The place Delhi, where nature of crime is as common as brushing your teeth. Before, anything trial by media would have started. The trial by society where the girls live is cliched. A film of this maturity could have well avoided
Ironical, that the movie name itself is gender biassed. “Judgement” would have been more befitting, in terms of the cause that the film tries to establish.
I am in mid sixties fed mostly with craps all my life. I am happy that Indian cinema, apart from 100 crore club, is still afloat. Regular dose of good movies.
P.s. BR one request, I wish you avoid references movies and names. It is not that you are name dropping. For the unknowns, it will cut the flow, for the knowns they can visualise. For the writer, your reach will increase.
Thanks. I am an avid follower of your analysis. You have once said, they are not reviews
Ashish, I think you’re conflating two issues here: the arrogance of your generation (ouch!) and feminism. 🙂 Again, personal view here: I didn’t see Bachchan’s recitation of the poem as the voice of patriarchy ‘telling’ women to find themselves. To me, the words mattered, the message mattered, not who was delivering it. Secondly, from a purely aesthetic viewpoint, it’s not that easy to recite poetry effectively. Many people can’t. AB can.
don’t you think it’s high time that films about women were written mostly by women?
No. Also written by women? Sure. Otherwise you are saying that men and women should ‘mostly’ write about themselves and not about the ‘other’. Talk about the arrogance of your generation, indeed. 🙂 If we want to understand each other, and to be understood, we need to see each other from different perspectives, whether it be male or female. Or Juhi Chaturvedi shouldn’t have written about sperm donation – what the heck does she know about it? (Or Hrishida or Bimal Roy couldn’t have made their movies about female protagonists, or Tagore or Sarat Chandra couldn’t have written their strong heroines or…)
You cannot argue that Pink dealt with a sensitive issue only from the male perspective, surely? I thought it handled the women very, very sensitively. I thought it gave voice to the countless women who have faced sexual harassment, and then been harassed by the system as well.
On the other hand, I definitely think we need more women film-makers, more women lyricists, more women story-tellers, script writers, and so on. Film is essentially a male preserve, or has been. That should change. Definitely.
But in the meantime, I will take what I can get – the light being shone on issues that have been too long swept into dark corners.
“don’t you think it’s high time that films about women were written mostly by women? ” – First of all, I completely get off on this cultural appropriation business because as we can see the concept of privilege is infinitely extendable as long as somebody chooses to feel aggrieved. But assuming I accept the premise that since women themselves best know what it is like to be women, only they should make films about themselves. Now, the problem is it won’t take long for the men to stand up and say (and they already are, in America, see MRA) that they don’t women making films about themselves. It won’t take long for white men to say only white men should make films about themselves and that no black should essay a role originally written for a white (so no black Cleopatras). And in this way, the dominant, privileged demographic will gain even more control of the medium. Why? Because more men go to watch movies and white men having the biggest wallets are the most lucrative market of all. Is it not better to have different groups represented in varying lights, white, black and several shades of grey in between, in the films and in the novels than to squabble over who is best qualified to write about who? Do I think that the same subject (as Pink) approached through a woman’s gaze would be interesting (especially because we rarely get to see it in the movies)? Absolutely. Would I like to see more films made by women and about women? Absolutely again. But does it somehow invalidate the very premise of a film about women if it happens to be directed by a man? No, I don’t think so.
@Anu : Like I said, it doesn’t always have to be that way. Some of the best bro-flicks like ZNMD and Chashme Buddoor were written and directed by women. But it is worth considering the flip side also right? Could it be that Sircar is merely capitalizing on the zeitgeist and the general mood regarding gender in our country over the past few years? And perhaps it’s patting itself on the back too hard for being more than just that?
Speaking in general about appropriation, it seems a bit hypocritical , don’t you think ,when Jared Leto wins an Oscar for playing a trans woman when that role could’ve gone to an actual trans woman? If we don’t have a diverse approach in our casting decisions and hiring people, how do we give all kinds of people equal opportunity, which is fundamental to achieving equality? (Kabali was a great example of a diverse crew, with its exploration of themes of oppression and songs being written by Dalit scholars etc)
There used to be a time when in many cultural traditional art forms, female characters were performed by men in drag. But today it’s rather fluid, where women play men and vice versa. in the 90s, it was wonderful to see a Kathakali show in which my dad played Duryodhana and his friend’s daughter played Krishna. What if we had stopped at that? Would it not have been the struggle of our times? We can’t deny that there is a (upper class/caste)male hegemony that needs to be broken. Like it has been broken on a smaller scale, say. in literature and publishing.
Ok, I seem to be giving too much unsolicited gyaan now, having reached insufferable levels of mansplaining myself. 😀 I would just like to end by saying that I’m glad it resonated with you and many others and it is one of the best and most important films to have come out in recent times. Minor problems aside, it will do for now.
Anu Warrier: I have not seen the film, but you echo-ed my thoughts about “mansplaining” and “films about women being made by women”.
“Do I think that the same subject (as Pink) approached through a woman’s gaze would be interesting (especially because we rarely get to see it in the movies)? Absolutely. Would I like to see more films made by women and about women? Absolutely again. But does it somehow invalidate the very premise of a film about women if it happens to be directed by a man? No, I don’t think so.”
I think we confuse feminism with “relevant for women only”. Feminism is not against men, nor does it affect women only, it is about patriarchy and patriarchal systems hurt men as much as women. And yes, we need everyone in it.
The logic of “for women need to be by women” does not get us anywhere, else films about war victims would have to be made only by people from that particular war-torn country.
I think I will take what I get, as long as it does not paint any gender, community, generation in broad strokes. If a certain issue troubles, motivates, moves a filmmaker enough to get creative with it, I am not too sure I will look at his/her gender, community, location as long as he/she is not lazy and does ample research to represent the issue and the players in a sensitive way. (In fact, it is sometimes interesting to see what “the other side” thinks about me.)
Also: “how ‘feminism’ is a bad word today”…yeah, every time I see someone say “But I am not a feminist” or read a rant against “feminazis”…sigh!
“And perhaps it’s patting itself on the back too hard for being more than just that?”
it = the film
Apu: “how ‘feminism’ is a bad word today”
It’s not just the men, but a few educated ‘modern’ women too. Such people associate themselves with labels like “Anti-feminist but pro-gender-equality”!
@Apu: Thank you.
yeah, every time I see someone say “But I am not a feminist” or read a rant against “feminazis”…sigh!
I think they forget that the reason they can say that is because the vanguard of feminism fought for their right to speak up. They are reaping the benefits of those brave men and women who fought for equality; today, they feel perfectly fine denying those sacrifices.
@Ashish: No one here is saying that we wouldn’t like to see more female perspective; of course we would. Of different stories, not just women’s. The more light we shine on an issue, any issue, from different viewpoints, the better we can understand the problems, the easier it becomes to find a solution.
But you are again conflating so many different issues that are endemic in the industry: casting, more women at the forefront, more women’s films…
About Jared Leto playing trans: how many trans actors are available who can fit that role, not just physically, but actually? If there were, and they decided to go for Leto, because ‘economics’, then that is another part of film making. Finally, it is a business, and people who invest (usually white men) want returns. Can we change that? We should. Absolutely.
But in the case of, say, Margarita With a Straw, Shonali Bose auditioned several people afflicted with cerebral palsy to play the role of Laila, before going back to Kalki. I wish casting for a role was as easy as you seem to think. Yes, we need diversity – no one denies that, and we should work towards it. Glass ceilings must break.
What any of this has to do with Pink, I have no idea. You seem to find fault with the makers picking up sexual harassment as their theme, because it is the topic du jour – why should they not? Isn’t that what film-makers do? Make films on current, relevant social issues? That, today, in the new millennium, we are still having to discuss sexual harassment in terms of the victim – what was she wearing? Who was she with? Was she drinking? Was she a virgin? – is shameful. The kernel for the film came from there. I didn’t see anyone patting themselves on the back for being anything – they seemed surprised at just how much the film resonated with people. That, today, it’s sparked off something more than just a discussion of the film itself is a bonus.
As Apu says, I’ll take what I can get, and if one of the most relevant feminist films was written and made by men, then I say, more power to them! Please write more. In fact, please write more films that resonate so strongly with so many people – write about caste, about religion, about disempowerment, about class struggles, about misogyny, dowry ills, patriarchy, female infanticide… make content king again.
Also, you seem to confuse ‘feminist’ with women. Some of the best feminists I know are men. 🙂
Aravind Ramachandran
Watched it with my 17-year old son, and somehow felt let down.
My point is the perpetrators are so caricatured (rich kid, politician uncle, despicable lawyer and he practically incriminates himself when put on the stand) there’s just no dilemma to deal with for the judge, or for us for that matter. Take the case of the Stanford student a year or so ago where in a similar situation (a girl gets molested when she was drunk and passed out) the father wrote a touching letter asking the judge not to penalise his son for his whole life for a moment of indiscretion. That’s where the real issue and tussle is – how do you dispense with justice when the perp is not such an unlikable person but someone that is otherwise normal and everyday, but gets into momentary lapse of discretion and gives in to basal instincts.
Of course the verdict must be the same in that situation as well, and THAT should come out in our moves. Then my 17-year old, and many others like him, will relate to it. Now he doesn’t, and the movie just became another good vs evil saga, but in art-deco style.
Felt the same way seeing Rustom. And as for the refrain of movie makers that it is what our audience will understand, I beg (actually scream) to differ. That’s all they can make.
‘a moment of indiscretion’ ‘ a momentary lapse of indiscretion
Weeping softly How many moments did it take Brock Turner to drag a semi-conscious woman outside, to behind a dumpster and to assault her?
Let’s be very clear here: no ‘momentary lapse’ of discretion excuses assault. With that and ‘give in to his baser instinct’, you sound like you are excusing the assault just as turner’s father did. You thought his father wrote a ‘touching’ letter? No. He wrote an extremely brain-dead, blind-to-reality letter when he asked the judge to let his son go free because ‘he had been punished enough for 20 minutes of action.’ Does 20 minutes seem to you like moments?
Did he spare a thought for the young woman whose life will, for a long time, perhaps forever, be defined by those 20 minutes? Who spent hours and hours, days and days in the courtroom, being assaulted all over again – by the defence counsel, who impugned her character, questioned her morals, delved into her sexual history, and suggested to the jury that since she did not remember the details of what happened, they should believe what Brock Turner says happened – that the sex was consensual. [And it didn’t matter that security cameras had caught him making passes at three different women, including the victim, and being rejected each time.] Do you still think the prosecutor in Pink was ‘villainish?
I have news for you – this is how women are treated in court when they press charges for sexual assault. It is not personal. They are there to win the case for their client.
Re: there was no dilemma to deal with for the judge in Pink – there was no dilemma for the judge in the Stanford case either. Despite the jury handing a verdict of guilty, the judge, pals with Turner’s father, gave a travesty of a sentence – 6 months. Brock Turner was out in 3, never having seen the inside of a prison, where he truly belonged. If they had shown that in Pink, would you have considered it ‘realistic’ or a ‘caricature’?
You have a 17-year-old son. I suggest that, unlike Turner Senior, you teach him what consent really, really means. He doesn’t have to ‘relate’ to the young men who stand accused whether they are rich and entitled (Pink, the Stanford case) or poor and without political connections (Nirbhaya). Talk to him about the two men who found the Stanford victim, and came to her rescue; the men who cried when they saw her condition, and who not only called for medical attention, but also chased and caught Brock Turner, whose ‘momentary lapse of discretion’ ended when he ran away.
And if you want ‘touching’, I suggest you read the victim impact statement in the Stanford Case. I suggest you have your son read it too. It is the most powerful statement I have read in recent times, and lets you know in no uncertain terms what it feels like to be a woman who pays for a man’s ‘momentary lapse of discretion’ for the rest of her life.
Like AB in Pink, BR, I apologise for the digression. Back to scheduled programming, folks.
This is by far the best review, i have read.
It even made some beautiful points about the movie, which definitely made movie more impactful to me now.
I agree with some who said the film is a very important one especially for the way it spells out the importance of consent, but that as a film per se it is not a particularly good one. It was alright but felt like a remake of Accused. I watched it today on TV and some, in fact many, of AB’s dialogues were indecipherable. I had to really strain to understand at least contextually what he was saying; maybe it wasn’t so bad in the theater. He did finally kick into form around the time where he first argues forcefully about the importance of consent but until then I didn’t really enjoy his acting and the others were competent but not remarkable. Though produced by Sircar, it felt less polished than his previous work and the BGM was very intrusive. Being involved with the legal side of things (though only tax law and never criminal law) I found the proceedings engrossing but it may not have been so interesting for a general audience as there was no excitement over discovery of important evidence. The case is purely circumstantial (though it is never explained thus, curiously, by either prosecution, defence or the judge) and there is mostly suppository passing for facts. Yes, it felt more like using the case as a platform to discuss both the relevance of consent and also the patriarchy’s reaction to independent women. Which, as I had said earlier in the thread, was done in Boston Legal but it wasn’t usually done at the expense of mounting a solid case. I didn’t feel like the case was well fleshed out and yet the film was somewhat slow paced (and I say this as someone who is usually tolerant of and even fond of leisurely paced films) and struggled to make its point. Solid maybe by Hindi film standards but as such, no, did feel it left a lot to be desired. But I was happy with the larger moral/social arguments put forth which I found quite balanced and agreed pretty much all the way with.
@ Kid:
Loved reading your comments: Very individualistic in the face of ‘groupist’ comments out here.
And one thing that is noticeable in the thread is how Amitabh makes people uncomfortable, especially the ones who feel Tamil actors who tried their hand at Hindi cinema during the time of Amitabh’s reign and didn’t make a big impact was due to Amitabh! Somebody put it here better than I could ever think or write and very smartly when he said Amitabh is a victim of the tall poppy syndrome. [Amitabh ‘ji’ is a classical condescending address here.]This has gone on for too long: And it’s surprising that an actor past his box-office prime –but still calling the mega-shots when it comes to histrionics–causes so much churning amongst some, or maybe even many. And it’s ironic, that many of the Rajnikanth super-hits in the ’80s were remakes of Amitabh’s mega-hits in Hindi!!
Secondly, why is Amitabh’s political leaning or the supposed ‘lack’ of convictions so much at discussion here? And how’s that even relevant to the context of this film? Did any-one question Tapsee’s leanings? Or Piyush, Anurag Kashyap’s alter-ego [who, by the way is quite convinced living in Modi’s India is like living in North Korea]. Is there something called ‘logic’ one can add in-between the eternal struggle between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’? That a woman drinking and smiling along and enjoying drinks and food with you isn’t translated as ‘available’ should actually be pure common-sense! In any part of the world, ‘NO’ means ‘NO’ should actually be a natural behavior and reaction. That Amitabh is a major part in such a film and that he endorses such thoughts in a film should never be a problem! Why is it questioned? By acting in PINK and then supporting the ‘state’ of Gujarat tourism implies that Amitabh is hands-in-glove with Modi is a dishonest statement and reading of the highest kind. There is a section of us that believe that Modi can work toward the betterment of India, that DOESN’T imply we are hands-in-glove with anything Modi works on!! In fact, we believe — at least I –that he needs to be scrutinized with the highest microscopic power possible, because the promises his govt made, need to be delivered, at least half of them –and that’s because I firmly believe in the diktats of the Indian Standard Time: We say ‘one’ second for everything when we know that nothing can be achieved in ‘one’ second. [And by the way, not that Amitabh needs any support or endorsement, for those who are criticizing him for having his feet on both the sides, he has made it absolutely clear that he will not be a part of any ‘political’ exercises of the current govt and that he is supporting Gujarat tourism or whatever because of the ‘state’ per-se and not the ‘state-machinery.’]
And, for the sake of argument, if Amitabh is a closet-patriarch or a closet-right-wing but DID work in movies like PINK or PIKU featuring women-centric themes which are supposed to be ‘pre-rogatives’ of leftist folks, hey, doesn’t that prove that he is a top-notch actor once again?? Just as Hassan played a Vaishnav persecuted by Shivaites in DASHAVATAR as bloody convincingly as only he could, in spite of being an atheist in real life of the highest order?
Finally, the crux of the reason I wrote this comment is because Amitabh or Kamal or Salman or anybody, their ‘convictions’ or lack there-of or how they behave with their family members or whatever is of least concern to me. That’s the way I operate. What matters to me is how they connect to me as actors, and nothing more. Of course, there’s a ceiling on that. I cannot continue to see Sanjay Dutt in the same light as I did in Munnabhai if he were indeed proven that he acted willfully against his country. In my personal capacity, I will stop watching his movies in the theater. Whatever Woody did, it doesn’t diminish his cinematic brilliance. I will enjoy his art, but I will make sure that I don’t watch it in a theater or in a way, that indirectly might, or might not, affect him at all. And so, I never watch Salman’s movies in a theater: Of course, it doesn’t matter since his ‘bhai-dom’ currently has unlimited subjects: But all I say is, that’s the importance I give to actors, and that’s what I can do within my capacity if I am THAT hurt by someone’ s decisions or leanings..
“That Amitabh is a major part in such a film and that he endorses such thoughts in a film should never be a problem!” – I should hardly have a problem with that since I entirely agree with the film’s premise. Nor with the open letter he wrote to his granddaughters. I don’t however see those attitudes, which reflect a secular outlook towards life, as compatible with his blatant bullying of Harsha Bhogle. What’s wrong if a commentator merely talks, I repeat, talks about the rival team’s cricketers? Bhogle was just doing his job as a commentator. The insertion of a nationalist tone into this was completely disingenuous. It was pretty clear to me what AB’s agenda there was and I have the right to call it out. And by the way, that has nothing to do with being broadly supportive of Modi’s economic policies. It should be simple enough to pursue these without beating up imaginary/non existent foes with the stick of nationalism but apparently BJP hasn’t learnt any lessons from their 99-04 term in power. I do not believe that somebody who believes in the freedom of women to pursue their independent lives is compatible with a belief in hyper nationalism because patriarchal values go hand in hand with the latter. It is an impossible contradiction to manage. But back to AB, I admire the chameleon-like ease with which he slips from siding with the overtly-minority and lower caste votes seeking SP to the hyper nationalist BJP and given time he may even support Muffler Man tomorrow. It is admirable and disgusting for me at one and the same time. It also doesn’t have to do with only the films he takes up. He didn’t just stop with being a part of Pink. He timed the open letter to coincide with the release of the film. I don’t recall Kamal giving a long patriarchal rant in a press conference to support the release of Singaravelan. In Kamal’s case, the separation of his personal values and the films he chooses to be a part of is much clearer than it is in AB’s case.
It does not detract from my enjoyment of Pink as a film. I am able to separate ideology from cinema or any other art form. I would have a problem if the actor was really a criminal at large, hence it is difficult for me to watch Sanjay Dutt or Salman films at this point. It was not at all difficult to avoid Salman films for me since I have never been interested in them but Sanjay Dutt is a fine actor so it’s a real shame.
I think you are being extremely harsh when you use the word ‘bullying.’ That was hardly the case. Maybe he got carried away by a ‘succession’ of incidents where Bhogle was being harsher on Indian players. I don’t know but all I am saying is, Amitabh’s statement was NOT to be taken seriously at all! The weirder part is not what Amitabh tweeted, it was the fact that his tweet was taken ‘seriously’!!! Amitabh to cricket is what I am to costume designing: My knowledge of costume designing is limited to ‘gaping’ at the costumes: So is Amitabh’s knowledge on cricket. He just tweeted a random thing. Now if the board decides to drop Bhogle because of a tweet by a famous star who happens to be active on Twitter, would you really blame Amitabh or the board? Who actually is the imbecile here? Amitabh can write a bloody long essay on his blog about how Indian commentators don’t talk highly of Indian players! Who cares? [Oh by the way, none else but the captain of the Indian team M.S. Dhoni supported his tweet! Go figure..] Amitabh doesn’t even own an IPL team for Baba Ramdev’s sakes..My only contention is that whatever Amitabh might have tweeted, it is and should have been taken as a mere stand-alone ‘comment.’ If Amitabh can influence who can comment or not in a series, then Jadeja can as well start commenting on who to cast in films and render the job of a casting director impotent! The fault lies not with Amitabh, according to me, but with those idiots, IF they decided that a mere tweet from a pan-Indian star was an important KPI for hiring or firing a well-known and extremely knowledgeable commentator.
Secondly, as I mentioned before and at the risk of repeating myself, the fact that Amitabh is on manageable terms with SP or Modi or even Kejriwal maybe or whoever doesn’t even bother me. You should maybe listen to that interview of Amitabh with Arnab where Arnab is genuinely shocked to discover that Amitabh is susceptible and vulnerable to political machinations! He is afraid that the powers-that be would come after him and his family!!
Amit is a very reticent man. He exposed himself to a degree that is quite un-Amitabh of him in the Arnab show. He talks of the days when a person harassed him day-in and day-out in the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR section. It gives you a totally different facet to his personality and what he’s gone through and how it’s shaped him.
And as I said before, any actor’s political ‘ maneuvering’ is really something that I don’t want to judge. My respect toward Amitabh is just as a monolith of an actor: It starts there, and it stops there.
Dev Anand was the ONLY actor who stood-up publicly against Indira Gandhi’s emergency dictator-ship. None of the other actors [I am not sure of the South] from the HIndi film industry openly protested it. Kudos to him. At the same time, I do not want to judge other actors for NOT having put themselves in the line of fire..
asmamasood
My review- “Pink”: ‘Respect’fully Yours:
https://asmamasood.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/pink-respectfully-yours/
Madan, thank you for this interview. I never thought I would say this, but I liked Arnab Goswami in this avatar. Amitabh was honest. And I can understand why he would prefer to lay low.
I posted the Amitabh interview and comment and not Madan. I know you are not fond of me since ADHM but come on, give the devil its due where it is at least just a you-tube link!! Just kidding..old fashioned so no emojis fom my side…
Aside, just busy here protesting the elections..dunno why…it’s fun to be in rallies..until the tear-gas shows up…
An Jo, i was just about to post exactly the same thing to Anu 🙂
And speaking of elections yeh aap logon ne kya kar diya udhar , kisko jitha diya, now what use of protesting
Now RGV’s Nuclear looks just about probable 😀
An Jo, I could have sworn! yesterday that Madan’s comment and yours had been scrunched up together – the first part of his comment and the last part of yours. Or I’m even worse off than I thought!
I don’t hate you, c’mon! 🙂 I disagreed vehemently with your response to us on ADHM, but I assure you, I’m capable of agreeing with you on another thread. My responses are to particular statements, not to particular people. (Poor BR can vouch for that!)
As for the elections – I’m still in deep mourning. I am going to be in even deeper mourning in January when that clown takes oath of office.
p.s Thank you for the video. I loved it.
(MANK, now I think I’ve possibly reached the venerable age you attributed to me!)
Anu chechi , hi hi, samathichallo , athu mathi. 🙂
And cheer up, Hopefully Trump the president cant be worse than Trump the presidential candidate , so there is still hope.
btw, you have Trump , we have RGV. check this out
http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/us-presidential-election-2016-ram-gopal-varma-michelle-obama-melenia-trump-remark-4366348/
Is it possible to not be surprised but still shocked by an event? Coz that’s my reaction to Trump winning. Especially after Brexit, I was prepared for some such catastrophe like this. I was even more prepared when my prog rock loving friends across the oceans were so cocksure Clinton would win. That’s the soundtrack of hubris. Even so, the chilling realisation that this man will be President of a country in which my relatives, obviously not of the same ethnicity as the majority of that country, have lived for years has sent shivers down my spine. Cannot put into words how worried I am and yet I would rather not call them up and transfer my worries when they are probably hoping to get on with a normal life. I know Trump apparently is a big fan of Hindu whatever the heck that is supposed to mean but I wonder if his fans can tell Hindus and Muslims apart. They didn’t need Trump to mistakenly bump off Sikhs they took to be Muslims, as it is.
@Madan:
Firstly, I doubt whether Trump knows the difference between Hindi and Hindus. Secondly, bumping off Sikhs considering them as Muslims has already been accomplished in 2012 even when Obama was the chief – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting
What’s stunning is how everybody got it wrong! Everybody! The rust belt just kicked the Dems with such an unimaginable force. That belt was so frustrated that they just didn’t care..and TRUMP MEANT it when he said he could shoot somebody in NYC and nobody would say anything! This’s got to the EASIEST presidency to win in centuries perhaps: Absolutely no knowledge, no IQ, no home-work, nothing required; you could have replaced DT with a mannequin and he would have won. The gap between the coasts and the rust belt is so wide that ANYTHING Trump does or did was acceptable to them. If states like Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan*, Pennsylvania* that voted Obama twice decided to vote for him you can imagine. Just as late as last week, he could get away by saying that Hillary plans to get in 600 million refugees/immigrants in her first week as President when it took 240 years with the help of brown, black, whites, oranges to come into the country to reach around 300 million..
Get me my industrial jobs back, get those steel industries running, give me my ‘superiority’ back – to hell with everything else..
@ MANK – NUCLEAR is definitely probable but with some minor obstacles that Modi has thrown in with his 500 and 1000 rupee idea…once he figures that out, he can go back to shoving cameras up people’s arses and steering wheels and lavatory pipes..
Too many things to sink in one day…
Modi’s demonitisation..
Trump’s election – with the date in Indian format being 9-11
RGV’s Nuclear announcement..
But nothing could be more disastrous than the last one…Then he went one step ahead and started tweeting…that’s more explosive than NUCLEAR..
@ AnJo: Yeah, re the Sikh, I was referring to that incident only hence why I said they didn’t need Trump to mistake Sikhs for Muslims. They would not have self identified as Trump supporters in 2012 but they were the kind of people who would have admired his election campaign.
And there were warning signs when Sanders picked up Michigan and only lost Ohio due to the black vote in the primaries. Sanders and Trump had similar positions on trade so there was always the danger that the rust belt would in fact listen to Trump. And so they did. Trump ran an intellectually bankrupt campaign but that is because he chose to be a classic populist. I think this is where the mainstream media completely misread his approach. I am not saying we can suddenly expect a super-intellectual new Trump now that he is in the White House but he was basically campaigning like Laluji or Mulayalam (except that they are left wing socialist populists and therefore a little more palatable, gulp!). He was delivering his message in digestible capsules and threw facts to the wind. Something that Sinclair Lewis has his own demagogue do in It Can’t Happen Here which Trump seems to have adopted as his playbook and very effectively. The coasts may have cared about his lack of intellectual heft but not the Mid West which he painted red, except Illinois where my aunt lives so hopefully that is still safe for Hindu.
Madan, you’re right to be concerned, We all are. A friend’s niece was racially targeted yesterday in RI, which voted overwhelmingly Blue. So if it can happen here in a Democratic state, I shudder to think of the mood in the Red states. 😦
Trump’s win has emboldened the racists, bigots, misogynists to come crawling out of the woodwork. It’s not as the if the US is new to these attitudes; earlier, there were checks in place. As one Muslim man put it, ‘We knew the President of the USA had our backs. Now the POTUS is the one yelling at us to ‘get off the plane’ because we are terrorists!’
I floated a theory on this board that this could be a movie like “A separation” where there were no clear ethical lines and it was hard to figure out what actually happened. But nobody gave me any grass (kisi ne mujhe ghaas nahi daali)
Sakkaravarthi Kaliannan
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Interesting that they decided to remove the colour pink for a grittier look.
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Name: Zatanna Zatara
Alias(es): Mistress of Magic
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"What do you care about some leggy dame in nylons? Or have I answered my own question?"
―Zatanna[src]
Zatanna Zatara is a magician and stage performer who was the daughter of the renown magician Zatara.
Zatanna was the daughter of Zatara, an excellent magician who taught Bruce Wayne, under the name of "John Smith", everything he knows about escape artistry and "magic". Zatara was a world renowned magician, and was considered quite possibly the best in his field. He also passed on his teachings to his only child, a daughter named Zatanna. Zatanna gained her talent from her father, and became an excellent magician herself.
She also had a romantic relationship with Bruce, despite never knowing his real name. Zatanna always had close ties with Bruce Wayne, although Bruce was cautious of this relationship by never giving her his real name.
Years later in a show in Gotham City, she made the contents of the Gotham Mint disappear, to show up magic debunker Montague Kane. Unfortunately for her, Kane had not only seen through her trick, but was a thief, and stole the money while framing her for the crime. She was freed from custody and assisted Batman in bringing Kane to justice.
After their collaboration with Batman, she eventually recognized him as her old friend from long ago. She then told Batman that Zatara, who had passed away by this stage, would have been proud of him, putting his arts to use in fighting crime.
According to writer/story editor Paul Dini, the fishnet stockings Zatanna traditionally wears in the comic books were left off of her costume in the episode because they were virtually impossible to animate.
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Common English Bible (CEB)
Herod imprisons Peter
12 About that time King Herod began to harass some who belonged to the church. 2 He had James, John’s brother, killed with a sword. 3 When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he arrested Peter as well. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 He put Peter in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers, sixteen in all, who guarded him. He planned to charge him publicly after the Passover. 5 While Peter was held in prison, the church offered earnest prayer to God for him.
6 The night before Herod was going to bring Peter’s case forward, Peter was asleep between two soldiers and bound with two chains, with soldiers guarding the prison entrance. 7 Suddenly an angel from the Lord appeared and a light shone in the prison cell. After nudging Peter on his side to awaken him, the angel raised him up and said, “Quick! Get up!” The chains fell from his wrists. 8 The angel continued, “Get dressed. Put on your sandals.” Peter did as he was told. The angel said, “Put on your coat and follow me.” 9 Following the angel, Peter left the prison. However, he didn’t realize the angel had actually done all this. He thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself. After leaving the prison, they proceeded the length of one street, when abruptly the angel was gone.
11 At that, Peter came to his senses and remarked, “Now I’m certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people expected.” 12 Realizing this, he made his way to Mary’s house. (Mary was John’s mother; he was also known as Mark.) Many believers had gathered there and were praying. 13 When Peter knocked at the outer gate, a female servant named Rhoda went to answer. 14 She was so overcome with joy when she recognized Peter’s voice that she didn’t open the gate. Instead, she ran back in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.
15 “You’ve lost your mind!” they responded. She stuck by her story with such determination that they began to say, “It must be his guardian angel.” 16 Meanwhile, Peter remained outside, knocking at the gate. They finally opened the gate and saw him there, and they were astounded.
17 He gestured with his hand to quiet them down, then recounted how the Lord led him out of prison. He said, “Tell this to James and the brothers and sisters.” Then he left for another place.
18 The next morning the soldiers were flustered about what had happened to Peter. 19 Herod called for a thorough search. When Peter didn’t turn up, Herod interrogated the guards and had them executed. Afterward, Herod left Judea in order to spend some time in Caesarea.
20 Herod had been furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon for some time. They made a pact to approach him together, since their region depended on the king’s realm for its food supply. They persuaded Blastus, the king’s personal attendant, to join their cause, then appealed for an end to hostilities. 21 On the scheduled day Herod dressed himself in royal attire, seated himself on the throne, and gave a speech to the people. 22 Those assembled kept shouting, over and over, “This is a god’s voice, not the voice of a mere human!” 23 Immediately an angel from the Lord struck Herod down, because he didn’t give the honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.
24 God’s word continued to grow and increase. 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Antioch from Jerusalem[a] after completing their mission, bringing with them John, who was also known as Mark.
Acts 12:25 Critical editions of the Gk New Testament read returned to Jerusalem.
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Céline Gillain
Brussels-based artist with a pitch-black sense of humour.
16:00 rooftop bar open (playlist by Ancienne Belgique)
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Céline Gillain is an artist and pop musician from Liège who lives and works in Brussels. Her work is a hybrid mix of feminist sci-fi, pitch-black humour and storytelling. In December 2018 her debut record ‘Bad Woman’ was released on Paris’s Drama label. Often dark, sometimes danceable, always exploratory and – in Gillain’s own words – like the music of ‘a disillusioned pop diva desperately trying to make a comeback’. The result is undoubtedly pop, albeit of the contrary, alienating variety. At the same time, she has a remarkably elegant way of broaching societal topics through her parallel universe.
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43 Reasons Everything in Seoul Is Good and Nothing Is Bad (or Something Like That)
Waiting to step off a bus here in Seoul not long ago, I got an idea for not just a tweet but a whole Twitter thread. As usual, I had just tapped the exit-door reader with my transit card — but strictly speaking, it isn’t a transit card of the kind used in Los Angeles or New York, one you have to keep topped up with periodic money refills at a machine. It’s just my regular bank-issued debit card, the one I use to buy everything. It also works not only on all the buses and in all the train stations in Seoul, but on all the buses and in all the train stations everywhere in South Korea. Having by now grown used to that convenience and other, even more convenient conveniences besides, I got to wondering whether they’ve collectively made it impossible for me to live outside Seoul, let alone in any of the comparatively ramshackle cities of the West, ever again.
Right there at my bus stop, I began a thread of “things Seoul has that give me serious reservations about ever living in any other city” as follows:
The card I pay for transit with is just my regular debit card (so no need to “fill it up”) and it works in every city in the entire country
Every subway station has bathrooms, without exception, and not the kind you would only use under great duress
Almost every subway station has coin lockers (just a name, since I pay with the aforementioned debt card), so you seldom have to worry about dragging bags, etc. around all day
You save your table at a coffee shop by putting your most expensive personal item down on it. You don’t ask a nearby random to guard your stuff if you have to go to the bathroom
A Starbucks can move into a neighborhood — or more than one Starbucks — without “driving out” the smaller chains and indies, which just seem to multiply as a result
Literally everything I would ever need in life, up to and including higher education and hospitals, lies within a ten minute walk of home. (This is in no way an exaggeration)
Immediately after tweeting about my transit-compatible debit card, I thought of another point I always emphasize when describing life in Seoul to people back in the West: that all subway stations have not just bathrooms, but decent bathrooms at that. I’ve previously called the ability to use the bathroom in subway stations the most telling indicator of urban civilization, but using the bathroom in coffee shops also reveals a great deal about the state of a city. Before moving to Seoul, I was as used to holding it in until reaching street level (and most often longer than that) as I was to asking nearby strangers in coffee shops to watch over my computer before getting up to use the facilities. If I asked anyone to do that in Seoul — a city where public property crime has fallen as prosperity has risen, which stands to reason — I’d come off like some kind of paranoiac.
The crowd on the bus is the same as the crowd at the Starbucks — or anywhere else, for that matter. There’s no feeling of stepping “down a class” (or three)
If I just miss a bus and the next one won’t be there for five whole minutes, I feel grievously inconvenienced
But I know the next bus will be there in five minutes because the screen at the stop tells me so, and somehow isn’t lying
Nobody has scratched up the bus windows. (But why do they do it in America?)
No tipping. (Admittedly, this is just a complaint about America)
You don’t have to press a button to beg to cross the street
“It’s a good list,” replied one of my fellow Twitter-using Western expatriates, “but it seems to mainly revolve around you taking the subway and drinking coffee.” Yet the lives of so many urbanites everywhere revolved around those same necessities, and it now seems to me that no city that fails to provide them, and in abundance, can compensate for that lack. Of course, a list like this also risks drifting from its ostensible subject, devolving into a litany of complaints about the fear of crime, layers of filth, and thoroughgoing inconvenience that still characterize American cities even all these decades after their hollowed-out mid-20th-century nadir. Many Koreans emigrants to the West insist that Seoul suffers terribly from all those conditions — but then, they also tend to end up living not in the West’s cities but its featureless suburbs.
When you come across a pile of garbage on the street, the garbage is actually in bags
Nobody smashes coffee-shop windows because gentrification
Multi-story movie theaters that operate 24 hours, or nearly so, all of which not just slow but require the reservation of specific seats
Pojangmacha
Shoeshine stands are so numerous that I don’t even have to plan which one to go to
The area around Seoul Station, widely considered one of the worst parts of town because of its number of homeless presence, has fewer homeless than I encounter on a walk through any American city
Not that America divides city and suburb quite as sharply as does Europe or Asia: even in the most major cities of the United States, one often encounters buildings given over to a single use or surrounded by moat-like acreage of parking. But as I continued to add more tweets to this thread, I thought of other characteristically Western urban phenomena that I don’t see in Seoul, most notably the tendency for every transition a neighborhood makes to spark bitter sociopolitical conflict. In Seoul violent clashes do erupt between developers trying to demolish parts of the city and rebuild them in taller, more modern, and much blander forms, but you don’t hear of protestors smashing the windows of coffee shops because the people who run them look like “gentrifiers.” (And in fact the term “gentrification” as often used in Korean, lacking most of its American connotations, seems to mean little more than the arrival of a better class of convenience stores.)
(And none of them ask for money)
“Mixed-use” doesn’t really mean anything, because most buildings are. (And commercial activity usually extends above the first floor)
I’ve been here more than three years and never had to walk across a parking lot
My apartment costs less than $500 per month
I’d be remiss if I didn’t add something about how you can get absolutely everything delivered, which a lot of people enjoy to the point of addiction, but I haven’t had reason to try it for myself yet
I’ve been 고민ing about whether to mention how people dress. Sometimes the ambient style level here seems on the low side, but then I remember what people wear in America. And it’s not like you’re going to see any cargo shorts (other than on stray Westerners, of course)
As the thread grew, it drew attention from various sources, not least Arius Derr, host of the podcast Settlers of Seoul. Running since 2017, the show features long-form interviews with expatriates in Seoul not relegated to the usual occupations, and the subject of life as a foreigner in the Korean capital fit nicely into purview. In our interview, Arius asked me about not just Seoul’s urbanistic strong points but touched on some of the objections the thread had received as well. Many of those objections merited little consideration, to my mind, based as they seemed to be on a perception of a list of reasons everything in Seoul is good and nothing is bad — a curious failure of literacy, given how many of the objectors were journalists themselves. Other comments, such as arguments about the danger a city like Seoul poses for women, gave me more pause, underscored as they seemed to be by recent scandals like Burning Sun.
People lobby FOR subway stations to be built next to their homes (unlike in some US cities I could name)
Outdoor drinking. (When I explained to my Korean teacher why Bourbon Street is so famous, he didn’t understand what the big deal was)
The occasional coffee shop brazen enough not to provide wi-fi or outlets gets with the program or shuts down right quick
Even a modestly sized subway station has eight different exits. (This will only impress you if you’ve lived in America)
Okay, how nice the people are — but I post this knowing full well that I’ll get a fair bit of disagreement, mostly from Korean Seoulites themselves
It tore down one freeway overpass and turned it into a stream
But do those who left the comments seriously perceive a higher level of female safety on the streets of New York, Paris, or London? The perception of Seoul as unsafe has its roots less in comparative violent crime statistics than it does in the notion that the surfaces of the city — looking so much more impressively developed than those of the erstwhile “first world” — conceal a society rotten to the core. A similar notion seems to constitute a premise of Korea Exposé, one of the more respectable sources of English-language writing on Korea to appear in recent years. When the site originally launched under the slogan “Showing Korea as It Really Is,” it came off as an attempt to counter the pro-Korea propaganda, in all its forms from tourism promotion to TV dramas, that glosses over this country’s less palatable realities. The danger of such a project is that arguing against propaganda necessitates first stepping into, and thus to an extent validating, the propaganda’s worldview — and in the case of Korean propaganda, implicitly crediting it with much more influence than it has.
It closed another freeway and turned it into a park
떡튀
The straps have handles on the end. (I’d enjoy hearing the excuses about why this is impossible in the West)
You can’t just fall off the edge of the platform and onto the tracks/your death
When you walk from a subway station to the street, you pass lots of things instead of no things
When you order library books, you can pick them up and return them at these machines in subway stations
Not long ago, Korea Expose’s Sheon Han mounted an intelligent critique of Seoul through one of its many newly opened attractions: the Starfield Library (별마당 도서관), a book-filled, atrium-topped, Instagram-ready space built in the middle of a Gangnam shopping center. “Starfield Library functions much like movie theaters inside suburban shopping malls,” write Han, “honeypots that draw customers first and then naturally lead them to other spending options inside the mall, providing an unconscious and unplanned segue from a cultural activity to a consumerist one.” This reading-themed yet reading-unfriendly environment “unabashedly symbolizes how capitalistic desires are being imposed even on something as innocuous as a library in contemporary South Korea. And it’s an illustration of where South Korean conglomerates are heading as they attempt to harness the power of culture to further their business agenda.”
I don’t have to carry around any keys, of any kind
It’s officially broken down into 423 neighborhood-sized districts, making it possible to refer to neighborhoods without geographical ambiguity or dispute about what “counts as” where
Buses with airplane-style personal fans and reading lights
Convenience stores can put refrigerators full of liquor outside, unguarded, and unlocked
서울 우유
Not all that much English (though still too much regardless, which gives the more English-free cities of Japan the upper hand)
This combined used bookstore and coffee shop inside the subway station I just passed through is too big to fit into the frame
That may be. But at the same time, I’ve had many occasions to visit the Starfield Library since it opened, mostly to attend what Han describes as its “free events where both established and young writers are given an open stage to be heard and build a readership.” And at those events I notice a more robust attendance with a much wider demographic range than I do at similar literary functions in the United States. This would seem to belie the supposed, and often halfheartedly lamented, Korean lack of interest in reading. So would the specialized bookstores, book cafes, and other book-related niceties even now multiplying across Seoul — to say nothing of the book clubs I’ve visited there, which look nothing like the shambolic gatherings of eccentrics and retirees imagined in America. Maybe a cultural difference explains it. Or maybe it’s just easier to get to all these places on the Seoul subway.
Why I Left Los Angeles for Seoul
Los Angeles and Seoul, a Tale of Two Ugly Cities
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love I.Seoul.U
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Belfast To Dublin
Belfast To Dublin 173K (107 Miles) 28:18
22nd out of 55 finishers
This event had been booked a long time ago and was my long distance target event for 2018. Unfortunately due to my knee injury last year I wasn't at the level off fitness that I wanted to be, but I had been steadily improving since late last year. With the 10 in 10 in Nov/Dec as a base I had managed to hit every ultra training goal in the run up. So it was on (as long as the weather played ball). I have to say if the weather had of been forecast crap I would have seriously reconsidered starting this challenge.
But suffice to say the weather was pretty much perfect with a North Easterly over the shoulder the whole way and tempeatures between 8 and 4 (Real-feel 4 to 0) and that was very manageable. In fact I managed to do the whole race in the same clothes and took off my hat early on and didn't need to wear it again.
I felt, given my fitness level, preparation was everything. As well as being 107 miles this was the only real long run that I have done that was point to point and self navigation as well as on open roads. I knew the road pretty well having driven it for decades before the new motorway opened. But never-the-less I studied race-drone for hours and even took the opportunity to drive the course on the way back from Shanes Castle Ultra. I felt I was as prepared as I could be, had done the miles, my head was in a good place and I was really looking forward it.
Micahel
I was also attempting the challenge unaided. The course itself was not flat with >5000ft of climb over the > 4 marathon distance. Each of the marathons by themselves would have been classed as hilly.
My first good decision was to sleep in my own bed the night before and got the Aircoach from O'Connell St in Dubin at 7:30am. For the princely sum of 10 Euro I was delivered to about 100m from the start line by 10am, 2hrs before the start. I immediately met Michael McEnerney and we had some coffee in the bus station cafe, swapping strategies and experiences. I never saw Michael during the race at all as he was way ahead from the get go and he finished an hour odd ahead of me. Going round to the start at 11 they were not ready and I kept warm in the Nero coffee shop opposite. Lots of friends and competitors were there and the excitement was palpable.
I'll probably forget a few but Ger and Dinny and Collete who were there trying the distance for the first time. I was gutted for Ger when he retired early (He was back running in St Annes on Sunday however), Dinny also retired at CP2 but this was by far the furtherest he had ever run. Collette got even further and reached 100 miles for the first time in her glittering running career before retiring. Lito was there as excited as a puppy and he would go onto finish and also do another 100K the next day (amazing really). Rex was there after his 500K triumph (I was shocked to hear he retired at 80 miles). Also there was Dino and Anthony from DBRC. I had no doubts about these two and they duly delivered with strong sub 24's. I then heard an Australian accent. I immediately introduced my self and it was Annabel over from Oz. She had run with Kris 2 weeks previously at the Canberra 48 hour championships and she ran strong coming in 2nd lady sub 24 hrs. Kris herself at the exact same time was doing her own 12 hour challenge on a mountainous trail in Australia and came second. She still had the were-with-all after her own race to pass on pearls of wisdom by the magic of social media. This included the advise to turn my phone off and concentrate on running. Which I did.
Dinny, Lito and Ger
Belfast - Lisburn
We started on the dot of noon and headed South. The start was an area that I was fairly familiar with having gone to university here in 1982. It had changed beyond recognition from that time but the steady uphill climb up the Lisburn Road was still there. I was very pleased how I held myself back early and settled near the back. As per usual my feet hurt like hell for the first 5 miles but settled down after that. We passed Windsor Park heading towards Lisburn. The field was spreading out and the banter was great. One of the more unusual things we came across was through Lambeg where a guy was walking along the footpath hauling a crucifix. Given it was good Friday it was understandable but unusual. I was with Ger and Charles (wearing brand new shoes) at this point and it was obvious they also had done their homework and knew the way. I pulled away when they had a walk break through Lisburn. Charles would go on to finish. Everything had been uphill to this point.
Lisburn- Dromore-Banbridge
Champ Leslie
Very quickly we were on the A1 heading South towards Dromore and Banbridge. I was with Paul Commerford who was dressed in a full wolf outfit. Amazingly he made 80 odd miles in full costume before retiring. I really wasn't looking forward to this section as its all dual carriageway and we were told to run on the left because of support vehicles. We were in the hard shoulder. This dual carriageway was busy with fast lorries and cars and fumes and beeps of encouragement everywhere. The road had long sweeping sections with long drags up and down. The field was well spread out. As we approached the 13 mile mark I caught Collette , Rebecca and Mark Haigney. At this point there was the first aid station which I didn't need anything at and pushed on. The others stopped and there already were Johnny Lindsay and some other EAMS runners who looked really comfortable and would stick together for the whole run and finish. I never saw Collette or Rebecca again. (I'll come back to Mark later).
Philip with popup aid station
I pushed on to Banbridge on my own, following a few in the distance in front. I could see the runners in front crossing the dual carriageway (across the traffic) and I followed. I immediately regretted it as all a sudden the wind was in the face. It turned out it was lorries coming against us and their turbulence. I felt jealous of those that stayed the far side. We passed Dromore on the carriage way and we eventually peeled off the A1 into Banbridge. Just off the slip road was Philip, Alma and Molly McAvoy in convoy with Carmel who was crewing for fiancee Neil (Neil would finish on minimal training). A very welcome can of coke was guzzled and a selfie taken and it was onto the town itself. I was on the lookout for Elaine McAnulty's beauty shop as I had promised to say hi on the way past. It was easy to spot in the end as there was a big crowd outside welcoming all the runners through. I was delighted to see Lesley from Monaghan Phoenix and Elaine herself looking glam as always. More selfies and I was off towards Loughbrickland on the old Newry road.
Banbridge-Loughbrickland-Poyntzpass
Fairly quickly I met up with Rosie and Amy Beggs who were running together and we all had a good old chat. Mark Haigney was just in front of us on the phone. It turns out he was on the phone to RTE and the Ray Darcy show and had bagged himself a slot on the Sat night show to talk about the race (he now had to finish sub 30 hrs to make the show). We were now on back roads that had climbed high above the A1. We spotted some runners below us who had gone the wrong way and were still on the carriage way. Lots of shouting and waving got their attention and they were soon back on track. We all went on together towards Loughbrickland.
Aidan dropped by
Mark had with him a full support crew of his wife Gillian and friend Donna (who I knew as a fabulous Ultrarunner). They had a car full of whatever you fancy in terms of food drink and medical supplies. They also had a magic chair that appeared from time to time for a rub (biggest regret was not taking advantage of this). Donna also has endless enthusiasm and experience which was infectious and brilliant. I was running very similar pace and strategy to Mark and we spent a lot of time together and ended up only 1 minute apart at the end. It meant that I had full use of Donna and Gillian's support which was great.
Passing through Loughbrickland we headed left towards Poyntzpass. This again was undulating and relatively quiet traffic wise and we all tooed and frooed togther. The two who got lost joined us and they were another Mark and Johnathon. Johnathon had run with me in Portumna 2 years previous and amazingly remembered me. Mark was a veteran of last year and would go onto finish in 26 hours.
Poyntzpass - Newry - CP1
At Poyntzpass I was greeted with the sight of my brother Aidan who stopped off on the way home. He offered to get me some stuff but I refused saying that the 30 mile aid station should be coming up soon. The aid station never materialsed and I had to rely on the kindness of strangers to get me through to CP1. Fortunately, Johnathon and the Marks support crews helped me out no end and Maryse Mackessy and Paddy Mockett were always at hand. The road from Poyntzass to Newry was hell. It was busy with traffic (including lorries) and there was little hard shoulder. Running along the side the road was the Newry canal which would have been so much more convenient but it wasn't on the course. It was also getting dusky and I pushed hard to get to Newry and the street lights before it got too dark to run without a head light. I made it just in time and as I came into Newry Mark Haigney popped out of a McDonalds car park with some soup. We decided to stay together to CP1. We passed Amy and Rosie who had hooked up with their support crew but seemed a little perplexed that CP1 was some 5 miles beyond Newry at the Carrickdale hotel. I never saw them again but they would go onto finish. I knew my way through Newry and we quickly navigated the streets in the gloom until we reached the big hill out towards Dublin. This was a slow plod to get to the top. After leaving the street lights we donned the head torches and went on some fairly minor roads (grass up the middle) until we reached the road that led to the Carrickdale and CP1. It seemed like forever to make the hotel and the Checkpoint but we eventually made it and were comfortably under the cut off. Not everyone was.
CP1 - Dundalk
Libby not impressed
My strategy for the CP's was get in, stuff my face and get out again. There was no need for a change of clothes or anything complicated. 2 pots of rice, a Red Bull and water in the backpack, a S-tab and a bottle of coke and I was off. There was a small change to the route that would bring us straight into Dundalk. Instead of going through Ravensdale forest we would now take the cycle path that was used in inaugural Dundalk marathon. I still think in particular some of the girls don't like this section as it is very remote and very dark. I can understand that. We now had a full moon and it pretty much was downhill to Dundalk. Mark had left Johnathon and hooked up with Colin and they would finish the race together.
The other Mark had run away from me but being refuelled on rice and Coke I caught him before entering Dundak and we wound our way into the town center together. We were joined by Derek Mackessey and Theresa Grimes who herself had been lost already several times and not happy. It was close to midnight now and the pubs were emptying.
Dundalk - Dunleer
Climbing out of Dundalk we hit towards Castlebellingham with Theresa powering ahead. Traffic began to get less frequent and it was really a case of hunkering down and getting the miles in. I came through Casstlebellingham which was like a ghost town about 200m back from Theresa and we climbed again out of this town towards Dunleer and CP2. We actually had 12 hrs to do CP1 to CP2 which was very very very generous. As you can probably gather the race was very settled at this stage and there was few runners around us.
One thing had started to unsettle me and nearly was the end of my run. I had noticed that my reliable ALDI inner lycra shorts had developed a hole (a bit like Greg O'Beirnes lucky pants), a hot spot had developed. I had noticed it first at CP1 and I had started to lather on the Vaseline but it only seemed to ease the issue for a few miles and it was getting worse and worse. I discovered that it was less sore if I actually ran than if I walked so ironically this issue helped my time rather than hindered it. But it did get to a stage of agony and I was really worried. In fact from when I first noticed it to I patched it up it was 10 hours and I even had to sacrifice a glove (good luck working that one out). Eventually I found a pharmacy open at 9:30am in Balbriggan and a little pot of magic called Sudocream worked wonders.
Coming into Dunleer Theresa Taffe passed in a car. She had retired earlier in Newry because of a very strict cut off some 5 miles further than some people thought. At this stage I had also lost sight of Theresa Grimes and assumed she had pulled away. I was shocked when I heard later in the race she was behind. I can only guess she got lost again. Into Dunleer and a quick CP, stuffing my face and filling up on caffeine and salt and off I went.
Dunleer - Drogheda
The climb out of Dunleer was exceptional, it was endless. I was passed by two English runners (I think). One had the brightest jacket I have ever seen. After about an hour we reached the top of the climb and the two guys where sitting on the center reservation knackered. They informed me the hill was 3.5 miles long >300ft of climb. Into and out of Monisterboyce and an aid station and what went up had to go down and it was a long 7K downhill freewheel into Drogheda.
My hot spot issue was getting really bad at this stage and I stopped on the bridge in Drogheda for adjustment. Mark Haigney and Andrew from London came through on the main bridge over the Boyne.
Drogheda - Balbriggan
At airport
We headed out of Drogheda (now in daylight) towards Balbriggan. It was yet another climb. Unfortunately with daylight also came the traffic and we were back to dodging cars for the rest of the run. From now to the airport the roads were pretty dangerous as hard shoulders were quite narrow and few and far between. I spent a lot of time with Andrew from England on this section and fortunately the road had frequent villages like Jullianstown and Gormanstown that helped break up the journey. There was a section around Gormanstown that had been changed recently and Andew was insistent that we go a different way (based on the directions on his watch). I won the argument and we took a little off road section that bypassed a particularly dangerous bit of carriage way. As we approached Ballbrigan I met a couple of Balbrigan AC members who were heading to EAMS the next day for the Knockagh challenge. Good luck with that. As we entered Balbriggan I immediately went in search of a pharmacy (Phew!).
Balbriggan - Swords
Revitalised I climbed out of Balbriggan on my own. Very soon I felt a strong presence behind me. A large group that included all the army boys (inc John Chapman and Jimmy Kelly) came past me at speed. They were relentless. Very close behind was Mazza and her pacer Danny who were keeping pace with the army boys. I just went WOW!. I also caught Andrew at this stage and pulled away from him. I didnt like this section of road as it was very fast traffic wise and I was completely knackered and it was long at around 10 miles. About 2 miles further on I spotted the army boys climbing into their support mini-bus. This surprised me as they were going so fast and I never seen them again. On my own now I headed towards Swords stopping off in a garage for breakfast and excited about seeing the planes from Dublin airport. Swords arrived on the horizon and I knew we were now into the outskirts of Dublin and roundabout country.
Swords - airport.
Out of Swords there were lots of roundabounts and it meant a lot of scrambling across them or through underpasses or climbing barriers and just trusting I was going the right direction (towards the planes). I have to say the highway code may not have been followed precisely at this stage. I noticed a group of 2 ahead of me (one wearing a Welsh bandana) who were walking. I quickly went passed and spotted another 3 at the next roundabout. I came up on them quickly and it was Derek, Mazza and Danny. We negotiated through to the airport together and managed to get every green man that was going. At 98 miles I was also visited by Crusaders colleague and neighbour Denis who was a welcome relief and a few selfies were taken. Derek was really struggling with his feet. We all came through 100 miles together in 26:16.
Airport to Home.
Pints
I still felt OK and was capable of a run/walk pace and pulled away. Through Santry is mostly gently downhill and I quickly made it past Morton Stadium and the Omniplex and the end of the R132. Dropping down to the N1 I called Lindsay who was already at the Skylon. Immediately I couldn't run anymore and knew that I was in for a last 4 miles of death march. I met with Lindsay/Libby at Whitehall police station and continued relentlessly into town, now walking. Greg O'Beirne pulled in at Fagans to wish me the best and I skirted past Croke park and was truly on the last stretch. The last twist was Mark Haigney sprinting upto me like a 5K runner at the top of O'Connel St and heading off to the finish at pace. He of course got lost and only finished a minute in front of me. I knew the way and crossed the Liffey and climbed up past the Brazen Head before turning right and then a quick left. I could see Aurthurs Bar and tried to lift a jog for the last few meters but failed. I was home in 28:18.
I got my medals and a few hugs and photos and went into the pub. Two lovely pints with my new friends were had and a taxi home. I was asleep within an hour.
Photos: Maryse Mackessy, Philip Miles, Denis Murphy, Sammy Daye, Donna Owens
Stats for today
Wow.... I had forgot most of the run until I read this Leo. A brilliant read.... just no mention of the Snake I saw... I must have been sleep running in the early hours.. I could have swore it was a Cobra. Looking forward to seeing you on the roads and trails again soon. Full respect. Mark Haigney.... of HAGNEY as Ray called me....
Leo Lundy 3 April 2018 at 13:14
Family audience Mark... btw you and Donna and Gillian were awesome.
Oh my dearest Leo, this is by far, the most challenging epic journey I have read xxx I am so very in awe of you xxx will wait to hear hear about glove/hot spot when I next see you xx congratulations and massive respect xx
The report nearly took longer than the run Somei
Susie Hewer 4 April 2018 at 10:37
Wow, Leo, what a great report. I felt your pain with the hole in your shorts as I know how much that hurts! Very well done xxx
The glamour of ultra running Susie.
John Moore 4 April 2018 at 16:03
Fantastic achievement. It's a long drive.....I just can't Imagine running that distance. "RESPECT"
And the article makes for a really good read. If you give up the day job there is an opening for you to become a writer !
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Heading into the world’s most dangerous jungle hadn’t been on Dana Sorensen’s radar until months ago when she’d gotten an email from her dying mother asking Dana to do something for her. Tell these peoples’ stories. Let the public know what was happening. It had been the last correspondence Dana had received before her mom, her brave, beautiful, accomplished mom had lost her fight with cancer.
As a surgeon involved with Doctors Without Borders, her mom had met and married Dana’s dad, who was a nurse also serving with them. She often wondered if she could even live up to her mom’s ability to be so selfless. Even as the tears moistened her eyes, Dana tried to tell herself that she had no way of knowing her mom was going to go so fast, before Dana could get home. And, with guilt pressing in from all sides, eating at her, the grief still fresh, Dana was going to fulfill her mom’s dying wish. Come hell or high water.
She’d pitched her mom’s story to the editor for Trek Magazine about migrants traveling through the Darién Gap to make it from Colombia to Panama, then up through the Central American peninsula with the final destination the US. It had all stemmed out of her mom’s last trip to Asia where she’d found out that a lot of migrants were heading through South America to bypass the routes that had dried up due to stronger restrictions. And it wasn’t just Asia, but a slew of foreigners looking for a better life free from war and persecution.
But here she was standing on a dock in Turbo, Colombia, a disreputable port town rife with violence on the coast of Colombia and in the horseshoe of the Gulf of Urabá to fulfill her mom’s wish. It was just before dawn, the sun nothing but a glimmer on the horizon. She waited for a boat that would take her and her crew into the Darién Gap, a place that was teeming with dense jungle, dangerous wildlife, impenetrable swamps, wary guerrillas, intense paramilitary, deadly drug traffickers, disreputable guides and no marked trails.
The Darién might be a ten-thousand-mile swath of inhospitable land, but Dana was a correspondent who, due to her mom and dad’s noble example, had given up reporting about the war in exchange for pieces on the human condition. She was now a writer, photographer, filmmaker and contributing editor to International Humanitarian Journal. From her war correspondent experience, she could handle stressful encounters and dangerous people as situations that were all in a day’s work. She’d had some harrowing experiences in her life, but had gotten the story every time. This piece was timely, a hot button and would allow her to showcase what people would do for freedom and a better life along with keeping her promise to her mom. But going into the Gap was risky. She was well aware of the dangers, but had never let that stop her before. These stories needed to be told.
She needed to tell them.
There were several people with her from her film company, along with porters heading to Domingodo to meet up with a representative from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, Cuba-backed guerrillas who had been at war with Colombia since 1964. They controlled the most direct route through the Gap, and it would be her best chance of meeting and talking to migrants attempting the crossing. Permission had been obtained from an official in Havana to pave the way for her and her crew to do this timely story.
The soft drone of an outboard motor broke the predawn quiet. James Quinn, a freelance videographer she’d hired to document the trip leaned over and said, “Are you ready for this?”
She smiled. “I was born ready.” He and her South African producer and naturalized American, Liam Nelson were the two crew members accompanying her on the trip. Her cell chimed and she pulled it out of her cargo pants and read the screen. Jeffrey. He had been calling ever since she’d left San Diego and her office to make this trip.
She hit the accept button and said, “Hi, there.”
“Dana, geez woman, you’ve been a hard one to get a hold of. I really needed to talk to you before you left. It was important.”
“I know, but the okays came through for this trip and I had to go. You understand.”
He sighed heavily. “I do. I know how much your mom meant to you.” At his words, her eyes filled, and she worked at not losing it. “Look I’d be the first one to say what you do is great. You have more courage than some men I know. I would never stand in the way of that, but—”
“I know, and I promise to make time when I get home.”
She wiped her slick palm on her pants. Why was this simple conversation with Jeff making her palms sweat? She swallowed and kept her voice nonchalant. Because she had been sure that he was going to pop the question. That’s what he wanted to talk to her about—getting married. She wasn’t sure she was ready for that. If she would ever be ready for that.
She squeezed her eyes closed on that thought, the unnamed emotion clogging her chest. Every time she thought about marriage it would crop up like some kind of plague. She’d been in some pretty scary situations, so why did marriage make her want to run for the hills like a scared little girl?
“Promise?” he said.
“Promise,” she replied. The motor boat pulled up beside the dock along with another boat whose engine had been drowned out by their transportation. It was a ferry to Sapzurro and Capurganá where migrants could then traverse overland to La Miel, Panama. These migrants weren’t forced to go through the Gap as they had documentation that would allow them to pass without a problem. That wasn’t the route of her story.
People without documentation were forced to hire coyotes, part of the Clan Los Piratas who would charge between five hundred to seven hundred dollars, and transport them in poorly maintained boats, often leaking. But were also notorious for conscripting migrants as mules, then disposing of them.
That was her story.
The most dangerous clan in the area, Clan Los Piratas was a neo-paramilitary group with upwards of twenty thousand members. Dana had read that they had murdered several Americans, many DEA agents in the area and were on the US government’s list. They had a stronghold in the Darién Gap, but she was confident they wouldn’t bother them with their FARC approval and their sanctioned story about the migrants.
Even as the sun rose and the misty jungle lay like a dense, dark giant across the river, she shivered in the steamy air.
As her crew loaded up their gear into the motor boat, Dana disconnected the call. She’d worry about Jeff when she got home. She didn’t need distractions on this trip. After meeting their contact, Captain Enrique Escobar, a middle-aged, dark-haired man with gray at the temples and in his close-cropped beard, his sharp eyes and features telling Dana he had seen plenty in the Gap. During the dire week, with the constant threat of robbery, kidnapping, and death, he and his men hiked the route, while she and her crew recorded one of the world’s most dangerous journeys. She and her crew had hacked through spiderinfested mangrove swamps, walking for days in muggy, ninety degree temperatures, the migrants surviving on crackers and gulping river water. Each of these people—a man from Jafar, Bangladesh trying to escape its cutthroat political gangs and miserable working conditions; another Bangladesh woman, not much more than a girl—a rural laborer who’d gone to the jam-packed cities for work and found herself locked in the bowels of unlicensed garment factories working for twenty cents an hour; and countless others, Syrians, West Africans, and Cubans. She’d interviewed many of them who told their heartbreaking stories. She and her crew documented everything on memory cards and they were carefully kept in a waterproof bag in her pack. By accident, she found some old footage of her and her mom when she’d met up with her overseas and interviewed her for a piece that had never been aired. Stupidly, she’d forgotten about it and realized this was her only copy. She’d edit this and get it aired when she got home. She’d contact someone she knew at 60 Minutes or National Geographic who would jump at the chance. Once they reached their destination, they were stopped by Senafront, Panamanian soldiers who guarded the border, the travelers’ hopes of freedom and respite were dashed. The migrants were denied entry into Panama, everything they had suffered and endured had been in vain. Fighting her sense of justice, she tried to tell the Panamanian patrol what kind of journey they had made, how courageous they had been. The officer was sympathetic, but he had no choice, he had to follow orders. There was nothing she could do. All that was left for her was to tell their story, document their journey so that their efforts meant something. A painful discomfort under her sternum along with a healthy dose of guilt suffused her as she boarded a piragua to take them to Panama City and the airport for their trip out of the Gap. Home to San Diego to civilization, concrete and glass, teeming with urbanites. But her uneasiness wouldn’t go away. She tried to think about processing this film and documenting the trip. Her heart was heavy, real sorrow for the plight of the people she’d gotten to know so well in the week of traveling with them through the dangerous and deadly Gap, an emptiness deep inside she couldn’t name for fear of… what?
As a storm came up quickly and violently out of the south, they were forced to pull to the bank to wait it out. Dana pitched her waterproof tent and settled inside, lying down on her side. As the leaded sky darkened, she fell into a fitful sleep.
She woke to the crack of gunfire, screaming and running feet. Before she could move, a gun was shoved into her back. She looked over her shoulder at the merciless dark eyes of the man holding the weapon.
“Hello, Dana Sorenson. I’ve got a job for you.”
Before she could gasp a response, he had her out of the tent.
“Who are you?” she demanded. “What do you want?”
“Oh, before too long you will know who I am and what I want.”
A black hood descended cutting off light and hope.
When she fought, someone clipped her on the back of the head and she fell to the ground.
She’d been taken.
Kidnapped.
Zoe Dawson, the author of 40+ books had always dreamed of becoming a full-time romance writer. Her other passions include traveling the world, owning a beach house (she believes she was a mermaid in another life), and seeing her books in movies. When she’s not writing, she’s painting or killing virtual MMORPG monsters in World of Warcraft. She lives in North Carolina with her two grown children and one small, furry gray cat.
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The lives of the British saints: the saints of Wales and Cornwall ..., Volum 2
Av Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)
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S. CORENTINE.
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It is meagre in historical detail, and diffuse in hortatory matter, which is conventional " padding." It was written after 848, when Nominoe asserted the independence of the Breton sees from the archiepiscopal crosier of Tours, and organized them under the metropolitanate of Dol. Dom Plaine, who has edited this Life, thinks with reason that it was composed before the Translation of the body of S. Corentine, shortly after 876. It was written for a polemical purpose, by some ecclesiastic adverse to the independence of the Breton Church, and who sought to give an historic basis for the claim to supremacy by the Church of Tours. It represents, accordingly, S. Corentine as going to Tours to receive consecration to the see of Quimper, at the hands of S. Martin, and as submitting to him a couple of abbots for confirmation.
The fraudulent composer of the Life was as stupid as he was unprincipled. He makes Corentine, who signed the decrees of the Council of Angers in 453, a contemporary of S. Martin, who died in 401. He makes him an associate with S. Padarn and S. Malo. Paternus of Vannes was, indeed, his contemporary, but the author confounds him with Padarn the cousin of S. Samson, who died about 560. And S. Malo died in or about 627. What seems to be fairly established is that Corentine was a contemporary of Grallo, King of Cornouaille, but the date of this prince cannot be fixed with any accuracy. Dom Plaine {Grallo le Grand, Vannes, 1893) makes him rule from 480 to 520. De la Borderie holds that he died in 505.
The compiler of the Life makes Winwaloe and Tudy disciples of S. Corentine, and appointed to their abbacies by him; whereas Winwaloe, born about 480, became a disciple of S. Budoc, about 492, and was established at Tibidy not before 515, and certainly did not found Landevenec much before 518.
Corentine may have known Winwaloe, but did not stand to him in the relation of master to pupil.
Relying on this most untrustworthy Life, many writers have assumed that there must have been two Corentines, Bishops of Quimper, separated from each other by the interval of a century. But the date that nails Corentine is that of the Council of Angers, 453, to the decrees of which he subscribed, and we are bound to reject all the incidents introduced by the late and interested biographer for polemical purposes.
The date of Corentine's death may have been 500, not later, probably somewhat earlier. What was his connexion with Cornwall is difficult to determine. It is probable that Cury was a foundation made by Breton settlers planted by King Athelstan after 935.
In the Exeter Martyrology his feast is marked on May 1, the day of his Translation, but in the parish of Cury it is observed on November 2.
In the dioceses of Leon, Quimper, and S. Brieuc, his day is December 12; in that of Nantes, on December 11.
Sir Harris Nicolas gives as well September 5, on which day he is commemorated at Tours, and is inserted in the French Martyrologies.
Cury parish, it will be noticed, adjoins that of Gunwaloe, dedicated to S. Winwaloe, supposed—but incorrectly—to have been his disciple.
In Brittany S. Corentine is invoked against paralysis. He has there numerous churches and chapels, especially in the diocese of Quimper. At Serignac are two chapels under his invocation.
In art he is represented with a fountain at his side, in which is a fish.
There can be little hesitation in conjecturing that to him has descended a mythological attribute; the sun is the imperishable goldfish that swims athwart the basin of the blue sky. It dies daily, and as often revives.
The same story attaches to other Saints, and therefore it is probably an early myth which adhered here and there, when the Celtic people adopted Christianity.
S. CORTH, see S. CYMORTH
S. COWAIR, see S. CYWAIR
S. CRALLO, Confessor
S. Crallo was son of S. Sadwrn Farchog by S. Canna, daughter of Tewdwr Mawr, of Armorica. His mother subsequently married Alltu Redegog, and he was thus half-brother to S. Elian Ceimiad. This "nephew, brother's son to Illtyd, came with Garmon to this island, and became a saint in Illtyd's Cor. He founded a church and a Cor at Llangrallo, where he lies buried." 1 He is also said 2 to have been "contemporary with S. Lleirwg," i.e. Lucius; a statement which does not deserve any consideration.
The only church dedicated to him is Llangrallo,3 now better known as Coychurch (for Coed Church), in Glamorganshire. It adjoins Llangan, of which his mother is patroness. A circular stone cross in Coychurch churchyard, once bearing an inscription, now illegible, has been supposed to mark his grave.4 Edward Lhuyd says his holy well, Ffynnon Grallo, is near the south side of the church, and that his festival, which does not occur in any Calendar, was observed on August 8.
Among the " Sayings of the Wise" is the following—5
Hast thou heard the saying of Crallo,
When there was nothing stirring?
"It is easy to make the wry-mouthed weep."
(Hawdd peru i fingam wylo.)
Curiously, the expression "Yr hen Grallo," "the old Crallo," is used in Glamorganshire as a term of reproach in the sense of a crazy fellow.6
S. CREDA, or CRIDA, Widow
In the Life of S. Cainnech or Canice, of Kilkenny and Aghaboe, and in a few stray notices elsewhere, is all we learn about this Saint.
She was the daughter of Senach Ron, son of Nathi of the Hy Eircc family. He is called Ron or Ron an, King of Leinster, but he was not more than a chieftain. He retired from the world into a monastery, and became an intimate friend of S. Canice, who calls him "one of my monks," or, in another copy, "one of my friends." 7 S. Canice was a pupil of S. Cadoc of Llancarfan. One day he told his monks that he had heard the voice of Senach Ron calling him, as from a great distance, and that he knew he was dead, but that he had striven with Satan to save the soul of his disciple. Senach Ron had been killed
1 Iolo MSS., p. 132; cf. also pp. 134, 220, where he is called " brother in the faith to Illtyd." 2 Ibid., pp. 100, 220.
3 Browne Willis, Survey of Llandaff, 1719, append, p. 3, errs in giving it as dedicated to S. IUog (August 8).
4 Iolo MSS., pp. 365-6. 5 Ibid., p. 255.
6 Compare with it Llelo and Iolyn, diminutives of Llewelyn and Iorwerth. '"Qui michi corpus et animam suam et stipem suosque agros obtulit." Vita in Salam. Cod., coll. 367-8.
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Free mental health training workshops to support drought-affected Western NSW
Published: 22 October, 2019
Black Dog Institute announces it will be delivering free mental health training to GPs and Allied Health Professionals working in drought-affected Western NSW.
Funded by Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSW PHN) through the Australian Government's Empowering our Communities initiative, Black Dog will train GPs and health professionals to better diagnose, treat and manage patients in drought-affected areas who present with a mental illness.
With limited access to appropriate mental health care, and already at risk of higher suicide rates, those living in Western NSW are enduring a crisis not seen before in their community.
Experiencing one of Western NSW’s most severe droughts on record, farmers and businesses in the region are facing livestock and crop losses, as well as strict water allocations that will cut production, impacting upon their livelihood and income.
It is hoped through training GPs and health professionals to better treat and diagnose mental illness for those living in drought-ravaged areas of Western NSW, it will provide the resources this community needs to address the risks placing them in greater danger of suicide and self-harm at this time.
“We’re very glad to be able to provide training in these areas to increase the mental health support offered to those living in Western parts of NSW,” said Dr Jan Orman, Black Dog Institute’s General Practitioner Services Consultant.
“We encourage any GPs and health professionals in these regions to sign-up for the training so we can ensure the community has access to a safety net of suitable mental health resources.
“Through providing these resources, we hope to help protect the community against the risk-factors that may lead to the development of severe mental illness and the danger of self-harm.”
WSNSW PHN CEO, Andrew Harvey, said of the need for this training, "communities in our region are under immense pressure because of the prolonged drought, and are experiencing a great deal of stress and anxiety."
“This training will help healthcare professionals provide the support and treatment to people who are in need during this difficult time," said Harvey.
The free training program will help health professionals identify sub-types of depression; recognise the various influences that contribute to depression; increase competency in assessing and managing risk in depressed patients; and help in the selection of suitable treatments for those experiencing depression.
Date Location Workshop
2nd November Mudgee, NSW Dealing with Depression in Rural Australia
16th November Cowra, NSW Dealing with Depression in Rural Australia
30th November Bourke, NSW Dealing with Depression in Rural Australia
7th December Broken Hill, NSW Dealing with Depression in Rural Australia
1st and 15th February Dubbo, NSW ABC of CBT – Skills for GPs (GPs only)
Media enquiries: Natalie Craig, 0448 144 999 or natalie.craig@blackdog.org.au
If you or someone you know is in crisis please call one of the following national helplines:
LIFELINE COUNSELLING SERVICE - 13 11 14
SUICIDE CALL BACK SERVICE 1300 659 467 (cost of a local call)
Fact sheets with information about depression and other mental illnesses
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Research: NZ school rugby teaching lacks character, values
September 30, 2016 fmc64
New research from the University of Canterbury reveals that rugby in New Zealand secondary schools has no clear educative or social intention, focusing on building technical skills rather than developing character, social skills or resilience.
University of Canterbury (UC) researcher Dr Blake Bennett’s original doctoral study investigated both New Zealand and Japanese secondary-school rugby environments to examine the influences and intentions of their coaching.
Interviews with secondary-school-level rugby coaches has revealed that the long-established objective of using rugby as a vehicle for character development was not at the forefront of the New Zealand coaches’ minds, according to Dr Bennett.
“With New Zealand coaches, their focus appeared to be placed on skill development and discipline with no overt mention of the types of social and cultural learning that, historically, has been used to justify rugby as a sport offered in secondary schools,” he says.
“In contrast, the Japanese coaches suggested that character development, tenacity, and a range of social benefits were the primary focus of their coaching approaches.”
Dr Bennet says his research poses the question: what is rugby’s relevance in secondary school/schoolboy development, if it does not target a learning outcomes beyond a physical level?
“The potential for participation in such sports could offer more social and cultural development of New Zealand’s young males,” Dr Bennett says.
“For instance, learning could focus more on leadership, cultural awareness, social interaction, coping skills under pressure and in the face of defeat, and so on. However, without explicit mention of these potential learning outcomes, the literature strongly suggests that such learning will not be naturally transferred to players. Instead, the notion of sport participation becomes limited to technical ability.”
Dr Bennett, guided by Professor Ian Culpan and Associate Professor Jeanne Kentel, of UC’s College of Education, Health and Human Development, recently earned his PhD at the University of Canterbury with this research.
With consideration to the high profile of rugby in New Zealand, and the growing esteem and status of rugby in Japan, Bennett says that it was also important to investigate the historical and sociocultural (social) influences acting on rugby coaches in secondary school coaches and players.
“I was keen to uncover the types of learning that rugby coaches of this age level intended that their athletes will gain from the rugby experience.”
Dr Bennett speaks, reads and writes in Japanese and conducted all the interviews in Japan and New Zealand himself.
About the research:
Analysis of data from both Japan and New Zealand secondary school rugby coaches revealed several interesting findings in his comparative study of coaching pedagogy in Japanese and New Zealand high school rugby, according to Dr Bennett.
Japanese coaches emphasised what they termed “seishin” – an ideology that stresses holistic education and the cultivation of the mind through harsh physical practices – as a principal philosophy underpinning their coaching approaches. In an extracurricular setting that often requires players to attend training up to six or seven days per week, it was suggested that this seishin ideology was a way in which to encourage a vigorousness, positive attitudes towards hard work, and overall vitality in the young men in their squad. They suggested that, ultimately, the rugby experience at secondary school age would fulfil the objective of ningen keisei – or character development – that would in turn lead to socially balanced and tenacious young men, ready to contribute to society.
Conversely, the New Zealand data revealed a strong focus on developing correct technique and skills. To this end, many coaches attempted to maintain control of their sessions, and few were willing to break away from traditional coaching approaches to allow more player empowerment. This is significant as many initiatives in the field of sport coaching and rugby in New Zealand have emphasised athlete-centred approaches that aim to empower players to make their own decisions about their training and learning. Coaches interviewed in New Zealand spoke much less frequently about development beyond the physical or technical domain, and instead, communicated their intentions as a coach to develop technical proficiency for the purpose of safety and strategic ability.
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EDF Methane Mapping Partnerships Accelerate Techno...
EDF Methane Mapping Partnerships Accelerate Technological Advances in Gas Utility Sector
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By Simi George / Bio / Published: January 5, 2017
The New York Public Service Commission recently approved plans by National Grid, the largest distributor of natural gas in the Northeast, to use advanced leak detection and quantification technologies developed by EDF and Google Earth Outreach in order to maximize the environmental and ratepayer benefits of a three-year, $3 billion capital investment program. This program includes plans to replace 585 miles of old, leak-prone pipes on the company’s systems in Long Island and parts of New York City.
The Commission’s December 16 order marks a major step forward in EDF’s efforts to accelerate the diffusion of environmentally beneficial technologies – in this case cutting edge methane emission measurement tools – by natural gas utilities.
Speeding the Process
Typically, the adoption of new technologies starts gradually, led by a few visionary leaders. Over time, with the right market and regulatory conditions, the use of beneficial technologies spreads, leading eventually to adoption at a broader scale.
The typical technology diffusion curve representing the cumulative use of a new technology over time looks like this:
Source: Carey et al., When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use (2010)
With the help of collaborators in the utility sector, along with our partners at Google Earth Outreach and Colorado State University, we’ve seen the industry move steadily along the technology diffusion curve toward the point at which best practice is adopted by a critical mass of utilities, before eventually becoming standard practice.
National Grid will consider methane emissions data drawn using advanced leak detection and quantification methods to identify and address the leakiest sections of its gas infrastructure first, which will reduce methane emissions much faster than otherwise possible. Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, is a greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year timeframe.
The company also plans to develop the means to quantify methane emissions released from its system on an ongoing basis. National Grid is the first utility to make a commitment to using these new methods on an ongoing basis, and to explore integration of these methods into its operations at scale.
Collaboration & Incentives
The Public Service Commission also blessed National Grid’s plans to collaborate with EDF on a series of pilot projects aimed at reducing methane emissions from its distribution system in New York. In approving these pilot projects, the Commission noted:
“It is unique for proposed pilot programs to be predicated on goals that provide benefits to the utilities, their ratepayers, and the environment and to come at no cost to ratepayers. We commend the parties in agreeing on these programs and encourage them to begin collaborating immediately in an effort to implement the programs […] as soon as possible. We look forward to the results of these programs.”
Under the terms of the final order, National Grid will receive financial incentives for exceeding annual leak repair and pipe replacement targets. By connecting the utility’s leak abatement performance to its bottom line, the Commission has created a powerful impetus for the acceleration of its leak abatement and pipe replacement efforts – a framework that could serve as a model for other jurisdictions.
This order represents a new milestone in EDF’s advocacy efforts by creating a pathway for the integration of advanced leak detection and quantification methods into a major utility’s operations, building on other recent precedents advanced by EDF.
A Growing Trend
Utilities are required by law to monitor their systems for hazardous leaks, and fix them quickly. But hundreds of other leaks that are deemed non-hazardous can persist for months or years on end. Our collaborations with gas utilities, centered on the diffusion of new, beneficial technologies to minimize methane emissions, are moving the ball forward in the utility industry. By making it possible for gas utilities to identify and prioritize the leakiest sections of their infrastructure as part of leak abatement efforts, advanced leak detection and quantification technologies are delivering substantial environmental and ratepayer benefits.
In November 2015, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved plans by PSE&G, New Jersey’s largest utility, to use methane emissions data gathered by EDF to prioritize a $905 million, three-year pipe replacement program, making it the first utility to do so. This new approach allowed PSE&G to reduce as much as 83% of its methane emissions early while replacing one-third fewer miles of gas lines than under a business as usual scenario.
Earlier this year, EDF successfully completed a pilot project with Con Edison, another major New York utility, in which methane data gathered by EDF was used to identify and address the largest non-hazardous leaks on its system. Using the data, we found that more than half of the emissions could be eliminated by addressing the largest 18% of the leaks.
Other major utilities including CenterPoint Energy and Pacific Gas & Electric are independently exploring the integration of such technologies into their operations.
In the coming year, EDF will focus its efforts on facilitating further diffusion of advanced leak detection and quantification technologies in the utility sector to advance our overarching objective of minimizing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. This will take time, but we’re well on our way.
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At two manufacturing plants, one in Mexico, the other in Malaysia, history is being made, in addition to a range of products.
The two sites are part of the global network at Jabil, one of the world’s leading design and manufacturing solution providers. The Florida-based company is revolutionizing its industry by creating digital, intelligent and predictive factories. These new digital factories are using machine learning, predictive analytics and the cloud to learn ahead of time when a piece of equipment might fail, instead of having it fail and dealing with the consequences and downtime.
“It’s exciting. For the first time we have been able to predict, say a solder defect, or some type of component defect, on our printed circuit board assembly before it’s occurred,” says Clint Belinsky, Jabil vice president for Global Quality. “That by itself is exciting. The fact that you can predict that and know why you predicted it is really impactful. Because the next step is to identify that as a problem and to provide specific instructions to eliminate it, so it never goes to a debug or a rework.”
The result? Yield goes up, the amount of scrap and re-work goes down, manufacturing cycle time decreases – and factory workers feel much more empowered about their jobs.
“When you’ve got individuals who are really focused on preventing a problem, it makes the whole atmosphere and culture even more quality-oriented, and that atmosphere can be very positive, very contagious,” he says.
Jabil and other companies, including Fujitsu, NEC and ZEISS, are among those working with Microsoft to reshape the way they do business in the era of an intelligence revolution.
They’re using Microsoft technology including Azure, Azure Machine Learning, Azure IoT Suite, the Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI, SQL Server, Windows 10 and Office 365 to create digital factories, developing new ecosystems of intelligence that improve the way we work and live.
Many manufacturers, for example, now use software to analyze real-time problems and defects in manufacturing for taking corrective action. But Jabil wanted to create a solution that would identify errors or failures early in the process – before they even occurred.
Jabil’s solution, which uses Microsoft Azure services, does just that, analyzing millions of data points from machines running dozens of steps through the manufacturing process, predicting failures earlier in the process, for example, at step 2 in a 32-step process instead of realizing the failure at step 15.
That’s a huge improvement. And the accuracy rate has been at least 80 percent in the prediction of machine processes that will slow down or fail, Belinsky says, contributing to a scrap and re-work savings of 17 percent, and an energy savings of 10 percent.
“What’s fantastic about this is the results that we received exceeded our expectations,” he says, adding that an 80 percent prediction reality is “really phenomenal – and I’m a natural challenger of numbers.”
If a problem can be detected at step 2, “instead of at step 12 or later, then you win, because it gives you the opportunity to stop and fix an issue, or stop a potential problem from happening,” Belinsky says.
“It may be taking out a tool and cleaning it, to having to divert some raw material to a different location, or having to reject it,” he says. “Either way, you’ve avoided a problem, you’ve avoided downtime, you’ve avoided scrap. And that’s a very positive impact on the bottom line, and generates a lot of positive accolades from the customer.”
The platform is in use at Jabil’s manufacturing plants in Guadalajara, Mexico and Penang, Malaysia. Jabil intends to roll out the solution to all facilities worldwide.
Jabil produces a broad range of products, from wearable technology, smartphones and medical devices to automotive, aerospace, defense, enterprise and infrastructure products.
“All of those industries are going to be affected in a positive way as we advance in our digital manufacturing efforts,” Belinsky says.
Jabil will be at the Hannover Messe industrial fair, along with other companies that are using Microsoft technology to create manufacturing of the future now.
Among them is Fujitsu, which is showcasing its Intelligent Dashboard for connected factories that will run on an integrated Internet of Thing (IoT) platform powered by Fujitsu and Microsoft, and uses the Azure IoT Suite and Cortana.
The Intelligent Dashboard lets customers see and understand business situations in various aspects from the global level, country level, factory level, production line level, even equipment level. Customers can compare Key Performance Indicators between countries and factories using advanced analytics.
They can ask questions and get real-time advice via a digital assistant that recognizes the voice of the person who is speaking. Using Skype Translator, customers can discuss any topics with people from different countries with different languages.
Also at Hannover Messe, NEC Corporation will demonstrate new IoT solutions for the manufacturing and retail industries that combines NEC’s award-winning facial recognition technologies and Factory Energy Management System (FEMS) with Azure IoT technology to create an end-to-end solution for factory maintenance, repair and operation.
NEC’s new IoT solution analyzes energy consumption data to identify maintenance needs and automatically create work orders to establish a preventive maintenance culture within a plant.
By integrating factory operational data with employee identification and the case management system, NEC’s solution also improves operational efficiencies and provides the basis for process improvements. The use of biometrics for identification raises security controls to new levels, and removes risks associated with entry passwords.
ZEISS, the market leader for industrial measurement equipment, including for the automotive industry and its suppliers, is also partnering with Microsoft to develop a new quality management solution for the digital factory.
The solution uses Azure Active Directory and the Cortana Intelligence Suite to monitor the health of a machine’s performance and when a breakdown might happen. The machine is able to monitor itself by collecting data through sensors, and can show how it compares to other machines in the factory when it comes to issues like utilization and errors.
The goal is to create integrated measuring devices that will improve the reliability of measurements, help optimize workloads and planning, as well as reduce maintenance through greater data transparency.
With these solutions, and others, it’s clear the digital manufacturing transformation is underway, using machine learning and intelligence.
“And once you start bettering that experience, whether it be for a homeowner who’s operating their dishwasher every day, or for some new and interesting wearable that we use when we’re exercising, that product experience is that much better for the customer,” says Belinsky. “And we’re in a business that protects our customers’ brand image.”
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The brain basis of “hatred of sound:” Misophonia
Posted June 27, 2017 by Emilie Reas in Uncategorized
“Munch, munch, munch.”
For most of us, the sounds of our lunch date chewing or a coworker clicking their pen are everyday components of an auditory landscape that go largely unnoticed. But for others, these seemingly mundane sounds are painfully unpleasant to the point of eliciting uncontrollable irritation or rage. There is ongoing disagreement as to whether this hatred of sound, termed misophonia, should be recognized as a legitimate psychiatric disorder, and many sufferers continue to shamefully hide their extreme emotional responses to common sounds. But a recent surge in interest in misophonia is encouraging many to acknowledge that they suffer from the condition, and some medical professionals to accept that this reaction to otherwise neutral auditory stimuli reflects a veritable disorder. A flurry of research, aimed to characterize its behavioral manifestations and outline diagnostic criteria, has appeared over the past decade, though few studies have sought to determine the neural underpinnings of misophonia.
Characterizing the “hatred of sound”
Since “misophonia” was first coined in the early 2000’s, efforts have been made to characterize its symptoms through patient interview. Although its prevalence remains uncertain due to its still relative obscurity, studies suggest that it typically strikes in adolescence, affects men and women equally, and may occur in much as 20% of the population. The most commonly reported trigger sounds include eating, breathing or repetitive behaviors like typing or pen clicking. Hearing such sounds often evokes uncontrollable irritation, disgust or anger, which the individual recognizes as socially inappropriate. Therefore, the misophonic may try to suppress any outward reaction, with few acting upon their urges with verbal or physical aggression. These aversive responses in fact manifest as measurable physiological arousal. Compared to healthy controls, misophonic individuals have excessive skin conductance responses to auditory stimuli, and the magnitude of these skin responses correlates with how distressing the participants perceive the sounds.
An undiagnosed disorder?
The symptoms of misophonia largely overlap with other clinically accepted psychiatric disorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder, and various phobias. Some individuals reporting misophonic symptoms also have comorbid psychiatric conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, hypochondria, OCD, or eating disorders. Although some experts advise that misophonia be identified as a unique psychiatric disorder, it has yet to be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Miren Edelstein, a graduate student at the University of California San Diego who researches misophonia, explains that
“The uncertainty surrounding the official status of misophonia as a discrete disorder stems from the fact that it does indeed have some similarities with other existing conditions. However, while some misophonics definitely do suffer from some of these other existing conditions, many do not and report no other ailments whatsoever. Because of this variation, I don’t believe another existing disorder can completely account for the specific constellation of symptoms present in misophonia.”
The misophonic brain
Despite an advancing understanding of the psychological and behavioral manifestations of misophonia, little research has attempted to clarify its neurobiological bases. Researchers suspect that misophonia is not a primary auditory disorder, but rather stems from aberrant attentional or emotional processing later in the brain’s auditory system. There is preliminary support for this explanation from one small EEG study. In an oddball auditory paradigm, misophonic participants showed a smaller N1 evoked potential than controls elicited by unexpected auditory tones, whereas the “pre-attentive” P1 component showed no group difference. The N1 is involved in early attention and detecting sensory changes, suggesting that abnormal attentional signaling early in the auditory processing stream may contribute to misophonia. Interestingly, an altered N1 peak has also been associated with impulsivity, drug abuse and bipolar disorder.
Recently, researchers used fMRI to examine brain activity in misophonic individuals while they listened to sounds that were neutral, unpleasant or characteristic misophonia triggers. The misophonics rated the trigger sounds as more distressing than the unpleasant or neutral sounds, whereas normal controls rated trigger and unpleasant sounds as similarly annoying, confirming a selective intolerance for triggers by misophonics. Critically, the misophonics showed greater activation in the insula than controls during trigger sounds, and this activity increased with greater reported distress. Furthermore, functional connectivity between the insula and other brain regions involved in attention and emotion was altered in misophonics when listening to trigger sounds. Although the insula has been promiscuously implicated in a plethora of cognitive processes, its proposed functions include internal awareness of one’s body and emotional states. Though preliminary, these findings suggest that misophonia is associated with pathological activation of a brain network supporting interception. Edelstein, who was not involved in this study, comments “There was a huge gap in the literature until recently. I think this study was a triumphant effort towards gleaning neurophysiological insights on misophonia and its findings fit nicely into the narrative emerging from behavioral research on misophonia.”
It has also been proposed that altered brain connectivity underlying misophonia may be similar to that occurring in synesthesia, a condition in which one sensory stimulus evokes sensation in a different modality (e.g., the letter “A” is associated with the color red). Faulty enhanced neural connections could theoretically lead to abnormal associations amongst sensory and emotional brain regions in misophonia, although this hypothesis remains untested.
Pacifying sound distress
Given the novelty of misophonia, effective therapies have been inadequately assessed. However, there is some support for the use of cognitive behavioral therapy and conditioning retraining. Hopefully, with further research into both its psychological profile and neurobiological underpinnings, misophonia will gain both greater social acceptance and effective treatment options.
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Emilie Reas received her PhD in Neuroscience from UC San Diego, where she used fMRI to study memory. As a postdoc at UCSD, she currently studies how the brain changes with aging and disease. In addition to her tweets for @PLOSNeuro she is @etreas.
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Emilie Reas is community editor for PLOS Neuroscience and a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego. She currently studies how the brain changes with aging and disease. In addition to her tweets for @PLOSNeuro she is @etreas.
Zinnia says:
I was born with misophonia. Since I was a baby I had severe panic attacks due to sound triggers. I hide it pretty well since I’ve dealt with it my whole life
I don’t become irritated instead I become panicked and start crying. I combat it by listening to music and distracting myself . I started taking medication for anxiety and have recently stopped taking it since it had adverse effects. But now my symptoms are getting out of hand . I cricket escaped in my room and I had a mental breakdown.until I found it and killed it. I didnt sleep for 3 days actually became irritated and angry because I couldn’t stop it. I don’t want to medicate I want to find a different coping skill that I can use during moments of distress
Chris Stehly says:
I suffer from this condition, and have discovered that hearing filters, such as Hawkes Noise Busters, are very helpful and relatively inexpensive. Ask a local audiologist or hearing aid center near you!
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I’m 15 years old and I am currently in year 9. I suffer from misophonia and have told some of my friends about it but they continuously do things at school that triggers my misophonia and they don’t stop and I’m not sure what I should do.
Ricky Smith says:
Very informative post.Too much noise can destroy our brain density.And our ear too.So we should be careful about noise.Thanks for this post.
Robert Byers says:
I don’t agree its a problem with the brain(whatever that is). instead its a problem with the triggering mechanism for the memory.
So certain sounds are triggered to be noticed more then normal. indeed a opposite coinside of the memory editing out noise(white noise). its simply a predictable thing on a probability curve of error in a normal functioning editing mechanism.
Please explain more
C. Thompson says:
Our 16 year-old granddaughter suffers from the currently incurable but manageable Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), of which misophonia is one of the many symptoms that afflict her. Hyperextended joints (arms and legs and hips cannot stay in): inability to reach for something as simple as a water glass, without a shoulder dislocation has forced her to spend months between two top national children’s hospitals. One hospital had no idea how to treat her indescribable 24-hour a day pain that turned her from a vibrant dancer to a crippled, contorted, wheelchair-bound child. The other, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, admitted her, and in a matter of six weeks got her walking again, with the help of braces and a massive self-management program (and with the help of her parents) that allows her to live with the pain that will always be there. Misophonia caught us completely off guard, as an adjunct symptom of EDS… particularly with the normal, everyday sounds of chewing food… and other sounds we take for granted as part of our daily environment.
Mike must have had the good fortune not to live with a person with misophonia. A person with misophonia experiences rage from simple things like someone eating crisps or the sound of children playing, clicking a pen may be fine for some misophonia suffers but this is a very real problem that can hurt suffers friends and family. A cure would be very welcome and articles like this help non-suffers understand friends or family with misophonia that they have a genuine problem for which a cure will hopefully be found.
Never seen so much rubbish in my life! It’s common knowledge that repetitive noise is ignored by the brain, especially ‘white noise’. It’s when the noise is not regular that the brain keeps noticing it and it’s registered as a ‘new’ noise. Pen-clickers are the problem, not those who have to put up with it IMHO
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Fisher Space Pen – Fisher Space Pens In the 1950’s there were dozens of ballpoint models, and nearly every one took a different cartridge. In 1953 Paul Fisher invented the “Universal Refill” which could be used in most pens. It was a good seller, since stationery store owners could reduce their stock of assorted refills. Not content, Paul continued to work on making a better refill. After much experimentation he perfected a refill using thixotropic ink-semisolid until the shearing action of the rolling ball liquefied it-that would flow only when needed. The cartridge was pressurized with nitrogen so that it didn’t rely on gravity to make it work. It was dependable in freezing cold and desert heat. It could also write underwater and upside down. The trick was to have the ink flow when you wanted it to, and not to flow the rest of the time, a problem Fisher solved. Fisher’s development couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. The space race was on, and the astronauts involved in the Mercury and Gemini missions had been using pencils to take notes in space since standard ball points did not work in zero gravity. The Fisher cartridge did work in the weightlessness of…
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Montegrappa – Montegrappa Fountain Pens Italia Montegrappa manufactured since 1912 stands in the same historic building on the bank of the River Brenta, in one of the most picturesque areas of the historic town of Bassano del Grappa in the prosperous north-eastern part of Italy. This Italian heritage is an important value for a Brand that is the first Italian pen manufacturer: it is his tradition, his legacy. Since 1912 Montegrappa pens embody the Italian flair. Founded as a “Manufacturer of gold nibs and fountain pens”, the Bassano factory found itself in a key position during World War I. Among the many soldiers who used Montegrappa pens (then known as Elmo) to write letters home, there were also two celebrated American writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who were both volunteer ambulance drivers at the front. Montegrappa’s pens are reserved for those who can’t live without the emotions inspired by the feel of a crafted writing instrument between their fingers, responding to their delicate movements. Whether it be the colors reminiscent of the master painters or the ornaments of Baroque palaces, it is all part of Montegrappa’s Italian heritage. In the land known for drama and love, where writers especially have…
Namiki / Pilot – Namiki and Pilot Fountain Pens and More Pilot Corporation of America prides itself on being a leading manufacturer and marketer of quality writing instruments in the United States. Sales continue to grow year after year because of the quality of the products, and the innovation of the Research and Development teams. The spirit of innovation has always focused on serving consumer’s writing needs and making writing a pleasure. About Namiki: From a culture that has revered the art of writing for more than a thousand years comes instruments that celebrate both writing and art. Where traditional techniques and modern innovations are fully realized in writing instruments that bridge art and technology, poetry and science, yesterday, today and tomorrow. For the Namiki Collections, skilled Japanese artisans use the finest materials to create a line of writing instruments that look beautiful and perform flawlessly. We introduce Maki-e lacquering, a centuries-old technique in which multi-layered patterns are drawn on the barrel and cap with urushi – sap from Japanese lacquer trees. The hand-painted designs richly interpret scenes of nature in precious metals and lavishly colored pigments. However, superior craftsmanship is just the beginning. For as beautiful as they are, Namiki writing instruments are…
Parker – Parker Fountain Pens & More For more than 120 years, PARKER has established itself as a pioneer in the Fine Writing field in both technology and design. Born out of part-time salesman George Parker’s yearning for a more reliable pen, PARKER thrives on its dedication to understanding consumer needs. The brand’s technological breakthroughs and tireless innovation have transformed the industry time and time again with products demonstrating craftsmanship and quality. PARKER’s drive to innovate? George Parker’s ethos, “Make a better pen and people will buy it.” PARKER is a forever partner, for those who strive for achievement in life and write their own story.
Pelikan – Pelikan Fountain Pens & More Since the dawn of humankind, communication has been at the forefront of our consciousness. The invention of writing is considered to be one of the most important achievements of our civilization. Writing has enabled the preservation of knowledge, the conveyance of thought, and the advent of literature. Pelikan has been dedicated to the art of writing for over 170 years. Each pen is carefully crafted in a series of 3oo individual steps before being tested by hand to ensure that nothing short of perfection leaves our European manufacturing facilities. Quality materials and innovative design are hallmarks of each Pelikan pen.
Pentel – For over 70 years, Pentel has supplied the world with the highest quality products. A leader in innovation with a commitment to excellence, Pentel is the only writing instrument company to receive the Deming Award for recognition of the highest standard of quality. Pentel pioneered graphite lead and Super Hi-Polymer Lead is the market leader
Retro 51 – Retro 51 Pens & Pencils Retro 1951’s mission is to bring fashion, fun, and value to the world of writing instruments and business accessories. They strive to bring the best quality designs to you by producing each product with the finest materials manufactured by skilled craftsmen. It is through constant evolution of style, color, and material construction, that Retro 1951 proudly remind you, Life is too short to carry an Ugly Pen! ™ In 1997, Retro 1951 introduced a pen named the Tornado in three colors: red, blue and black in our classic lacquer colors. Little did they know the impact this retractable rollerball would have in the world of gifts and writing accessories. Since that date, they have added numerous styles and designs to the Tornado Collection! Tornados come in different colors, materials, sizes and modes of writing: rollerball, fountain, ball- point, and mechanical pencil. Retro 1951 hope that you are proud of your Tornado not only for its smoothness of writing, but also for its style and design.
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Sheaffer – SHEAFFER The year: 1912. The place: Fort Madison, Iowa. Walter A. Sheaffer takes his grand idea of a pen-filling apparatus that utilizes a lever system and, with his life savings, founds the W.A. Sheaffer company. The physical space of the company is a modest one – the backroom of Mr. Sheaffer’s jewelry store – but the vision of the company is much more than modest. Nearly a century later, we continue to offer generation after generation innovative, reliable and stylish writing instruments. These pens are used worldwide by loyal and diverse friends who appreciate elegance and class. We look back to the nostalgic past, to simpler times when a look in the eye and a hand shake was the norm. We look to the abundant future, by redefining the fashion of written communication in our technological world. You have a signature. And Sheaffer gives you the power to show the world what it is.
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Visconti – VISCONTI Visconti was founded in 1988 by Dante Del Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Located in a 15th century villa, Visconti hand-crafts each writing instrument to demonstrate the highest level of artistry and beauty. Each creation is a true masterpiece, reflecting Visconti’s passion for history, art, science, literature, and human culture. Each year, Visconti debuts new and exciting writing systems as an expression of their endless search for the finest materials and cutting-edge technological innovations. The pens cease to be simple writing instruments, and instead, act as canvases on which new artistic expressions are painted and deep emotions are communicated. Visconti is one of the leading brands of fine writing instruments in the world today.
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CW’s Batwoman–Lead actresses highlight pilot for latest DC Comics adaptation
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For all the hype, CW Network’s latest series adapting DC Comics had an uneventful start this week. After Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning, and several crossovers, Batwoman is the next crimefighter to throw her dagger-lined gloves into the ring. The pilot is a straightforward introduction following the Greg Berlanti model of the other CW Network shows: A voiceover by the caped hero/heroine, backstory training in a far off strange land, and a tidy origin tied up in a bow with a closely-connected villain, to be the focus of conflict over the course of the first season. And like the other series, excepting the later introduction of Superman in Supergirl and crossovers, there’s no expectation that one of the biggest characters of the DC line-up will ever show. In this case, that means Batman, but the set-up for the first episode of Batwoman pretty much requires an appearance at some point in the show’s future.
Batwoman is Kate Kane, played by Ruby Rose, who has had cameo appearances in the other CW series, starred opposite Jason Statham in last year’s summer action flick The Meg, and she got to show her skills as a badass character in John Wick: Chapter 2, the last Resident Evil, and appeared opposite Vin Diesel in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. She brings an edgy quality that matches the comic book superheroine, complete with tattoos that would distract from any other character but works for Kate Kane. Batwoman changes the course for the CW Arrowverse, with real-world issues of lesbians in the military, gender identity, and bias, so hopefully the series ultimately finds the right balance to match that edginess. The first episode very much reflects that less-than-edgy quality of Arrow. But it’s only the beginning, and the other series in this genre took some time to get going, too. Sorry–Rose doesn’t don that cool red supersuit in the first episode.
The only question is whether Ruby Rose, who seems to fit perfectly into the superheroine role and this take on the comic book story, can match the charisma and acting of series antagonist Rachel Skarsten, who plays Alice, an Alice in Wonderland-inspired villain who isn’t really who you think she is. It feels early to let loose an identity bombshell, but Batwoman’s writers jump right in, revealing what you’d think would be big secrets (we won’t disclose them here). Skarsten has had her share of fantastic badass roles, too. She was Dinah Lance in the original Birds of Prey, Tamsin the Valkyrie in Lost Girl, and she was the young Queen Elizabeth on Reign. Skarsten’s Alice has some similarities of the Arkham Asylum variety as that millennial-favorite character Harley Quinn, but Skarsten’s level of acting is more subtle and polished than we’ve ever seen Harley portrayed.
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Casting Batman? CW’s Batwoman is the bat-story we’ve been waiting for
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Warner Brothers continues to struggle with how next to turn the DC universe of films into a cash cow like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First a report that Ben Affleck′s replacement will be Robert Pattinson, an actor known for both the lucrative Harry Potter franchise and Twilight franchise, was then followed by a report that Nicholas Hoult was being considered. Hoult, co-star of the X-Men movies as Beast, among other roles, makes more sense, as first–he has the charisma and look to be both Batman and alter ego Bruce Wayne, and second,–because he’d follow that common casting preference that already has seen two dozen actors playing superheroes flip from DC characters to Warner characters or vice versa. These reports were followed by word that two other actors were on the Batman shortlist: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (who already portrayed both Quicksilver in the MCU and Kick-Ass in his own series) and Armie Hammer. Why wouldn’t they just stop with Armie Hammer? If the studio has already ruled out Denzel Washington (just watch him in the Equalizer franchise, he’d be perfect!), then the closest to how Batman and Bruce have been drawn in the comics for 80 years is Armie Hammer. He has that John Hamm suave manner and he’s already shown he can play a great hero opposite Superman Henry Cavill in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. With the next new comics adaptation it does seem like Warner Brothers may be doing something right. It’s on television instead of at the movies, where the Arrowverse group of series has seen greater success than the studio’s movie efforts. It’s the new Batwoman series, and the CW released the first trailer for the series late this week (check it out below).
For whatever reason, Warner Brothers, the CW, etc. are hesitant to put their prime DC character–Batman–on the small screen. Just like they were hesitant showing Superman on Smallville back in “the WB” days, or giving Batman his due within the Gotham series continuity. But this new Batwoman series looks like it could be the closest viewers are going to get to a TV bat-hero. Series star Ruby Rose proved she has the charisma and physicality for a major superheroine/action role in The Meg, Resident Evil, Vin Diesel’s XXX series, and the John Wick series. Her character of Kate Kane aka Batwoman in last August’s CW Arrowverse crossover “Elseworlds,” the highlight of the event (along with John Wesley Shipp donning his 1990 Flash costume), was received well by viewers. The new trailer seems as “Batman” in look and feel as anything Warner has produced for TV–or film.
Even better, the great Rachel Skarsten (former Black Canary of Birds of Prey and star of Lost Girl and Reign) plays a villain named Alice–Batwoman’s twin sister who took on the persona of an evil Wonderlander in the comics–who looks like she can run circles around Harley Quinn.
Batwoman has been one of DC Comics′ most fascinating characters since she was re-designed by Alex Ross for DC’s 52 series in 2006, but she really came into her own in 2009 in the Justice League: Cry for Justice mini-series written and drawn by Eisner Award nominees James Robinson and Mauro Cascioli, and she was fleshed out further in 2010-2013 in the award-winning Batwoman solo series written and drawn by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman.
Take a look at the first trailer for CW’s Batwoman:
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Batwoman re-takes center stage in DC Comics Rebirth universe
One of the most popular characters and series to emerge from DC Comics’ New 52 reboot in 2011 was J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman’s Batwoman. Not only was the series popular, it received critical acclaim for Williams’ gritty storytelling and the stylish and spectacular, ethereal, and surreal artwork by Blackman. The classic B-level superheroine of the 1950s had been reintroduced as Kate Kane with a new Alex Ross-designed costume in 2006. In the DC Comics weekly series 52 the character became the most memorable legacy of the series–ex-military, a lesbian, of Jewish descent, with her ex, Renee Montoya, a Gotham police detective—rare constructs for any character in comicdom. In the best of ironies, the character created to combat accusations of Batman’s sexuality in the 1950s became a symbol of the very thing she was made to deflect.
Beyond the symbolism of the modern character and success as a new iconic character, Williams and Blackman wrote a great Bat-book. But after several successful months as a New 52 series, editorial decisions and creator ideas crossed streams and the series fizzled out. Happily for fans of the character, DC is bringing Batwoman onto center stage once again. Beginning this month in Detective Comics Issue #948 and continuing in February with Issue #949, the two-part “Batwoman Begins” arc forms the prologue for the monthly Rebirth continuity one-shot Batwoman: Rebirth in February and the series Batwoman, beginning in March.
Writers Marguerite Bennett and James T. Tynion IV are co-writing the initial story with Bennett to take over the series later in the year. Artwork will be provided by Steve Epting and Ben Oliver. Jae Lee will be creating a variant cover for the series’ first issue.
Tags: Batwoman, Batwoman Rebirth, Ben Oliver, DC Comics, DC Comics Rebirth, J.H. Williams III, Jae Lee, James Tynion IV, Kate Kane, LGBTQ characters, Marguerite Bennett, Renee Montoya, Steve Epting, W. Haden Blackman
Will new Scarlet Witch series be Marvel’s next Hawkeye?
Last week saw the release of the first issue of Marvel Comics’ latest monthly Scarlet Witch. The series is written by James Robinson with artwork by Vanesa Del Rey with colors by Jordie Bellaire. Award winning Hawkeye cover artist David Aja provides the cover to the first issue, plus variant covers are available from Kevin Wada, Bill Sienkiewicz, Erica Henderson, Tom Raney, and Chris Sotomayor. It’s not only David Aja’s cover, but Robinson’s well-paced introduction and Del Rey and Bellaire’s visuals that remind us of Matt Fraction and Aja’s successful Hawkeye series, another series about a secondary character and a life outside the scope of saving the world with the Avengers.
The new Scarlet Witch has a ghostly quality, and a style similar to DC Comics’s initial New 52 stories of Batwoman from J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman. It’s introspective look at a superheroine with a past also echoes Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto’s brilliant Black Widow series.
But this is a distinctly different story about a much different character. She is not a young heroine. She is a witch who speaks aloud with the ghost of Agatha, a dead woman she may or may not have killed in her past. Scarlet Witch–Wanda Maximoff–is a detective of sorts in the same way as Liv Moore uses her supernatural skills to solve crimes in iZombie.
Tags: Batwoman, Bill Sienkiewicz, Black Widow, Chris Sotomayor, David Aja, Erica Henderson, Hawkeye, iZombie, J.H. Williams III, James Robinson, Jordie Bellaire, Kevin Wada, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Nathan Edmondson, Phil Noto, Scarket Witch comic book review, Scarlet Witch, Tom Raney, Vanesa Del Rey, W. Haden Blackman
Catching up with… Rob Williams and Jack Herbert’s Miss Fury
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Sassy, smart, and seductive. It applies to Marla Drake, the Miss Fury of the 1940s and of today in Dynamite Comics’ time-hopping series Miss Fury. And it applies to Drake’s masked persona and the series itself. Writer Rob Williams and artist Jack Herbert have provided their response to the much-lauded Batwoman team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman. And just as the Williams III and Blackman team-up created one of the best comic book series in its first year out of the gates, so has team Williams and Herbert with their first year of Miss Fury.
Catsuits and pointy ears aside, Miss Fury is a unique take on the world’s first superheroine. Writer Rob Williams concocted the surprise hit of the year–a book that might not have been on pull lists yet it was swiped off the store shelves every week as readers couldn’t get enough of the series. Among many classic titles emerging from the publisher known for licensed works from the past like The Shadow, the Green Hornet, and the Bionic Man, Miss Fury is a non-stop, action-filled, fun read–it’s a comic book series that will remind you why you love comic books in the first place.
As a comic book artist that excels at the feminine form, Brazilian artist Jackson “Jack” Herbert is well on his way to becoming the next Adam Hughes. His Marla Drake is a sophisticate back in the 1940s. In 2013 she is a provocateur, an agent of an untrustworthy manipulator, murdering as he directs, because she believes she can save America from a dreadful alternative reality.
Tags: Batwoman, Dynamite Comics, J.H. Williams III, Jack Herbert, Jackson Herbert, Miss Fury, Rob Williams, superheroines, W. Haden Blackman
Catching up with… Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye
From its “bad romance”-themed Issue #8 in February through an issue featuring the other Hawkeye Kate Bishop in Los Angeles in its most recent Issue #14, Marvel Comics’ monthly Hawkeye series has kept up its unique brand of high-quality storytelling all year. With its visuals led by David Aja for most of the year, other artists have stepped in to backstop Aja, including none other than another Eisner winner artist, Francisco Francavilla. But the continuity and consistency of Avenger Clint Barton and his friends is thanks to the writing of Matt Fraction, who, like J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman and their Batwoman series, took a lower tier superhero and produced the best monthly series in its publisher’s line-up.
Each issue managed to maintain a slow, downward spiral of its hero as a self-deprecating lost soul who is only understood by a dog who is then taken across the country by his friend Kate. In one issue (Issue #12) his brother Barney “Trickshot” Barton takes over the entire story and we barely see Waverly, Iowa born Clint Barton. Rarely do we see typical superhero action, like Hawkeye donning his supersuit or showing his skill with bow and arrow. When we do see it, its via West Coast Avenger Kate Bishop. Clint is virtually absent from Issue #14, as Kate, with Lucky in tow, matches wits with a strange but beautiful masked villain.
One issue (Issue #13) focused on the somber events surrounding the funeral of neighbor “Grills,” the guy who grilled on the roof for tenants of his building and referred to Clint as Hawkguy. In that issue girlfriend Jessica Drew, the Spider-woman, tries to mend fences with Clint in the car procession, only to see afterward that he had fallen asleep during her entire compelling monologue. It’s a scene that defined this year for Hawkeye–everything that could go wrong, did, and every time he was close to getting a break he missed it. Yet readers are sucked in, and stick around to cheer on this everyman and his daily efforts to get back on track in a world where he isn’t the main superhero around.
Tags: Barney Barton, Batwoman, Best of 2013, Clint Barton, David Aja, Francesco Francavilla, Hawkeye, Hawkeye Issue 14 review, Kate Bishop, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Matt Hollingsworth, Spider-Woman, Trickshot
Comic-Con 2013–Multiple Eisners awarded to David Aja’s Hawkeye, Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga
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The winners of the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at a gala ceremony held during Comic-Con International: San Diego, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, on Friday, July 19. We’re particularly happy with the choice of David Aja’s Hawkeye, one of borg.com’s favorite series of 2012 and Dark Horse Presents, the source of some of the best stories last year, as best anthology series. We also liked the judge’s selection of Dave Stewart for colorist, who had such incredible work last year on several books including the Batwoman series.
Here are this year’s winners:
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
“King City,” by Brandon Graham (TokyoPop/Image)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
“Pogo, Vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash,” by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly and Kim Thompson (Fantagraphics)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
“David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil Born Again: Artist’s Edition,” edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material
“Blacksad: Silent Hell,” by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
“Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys,” by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
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Book review–Rough Justice, a glimpse into the artistry of Alex Ross
Anytime I get the chance to go behind the scenes in any industry I have tried to take full advantage of the opportunity. I once performed in a band at Disney World in Orlando and enjoyed seeing the underworld that made the Disney operation work literally underneath the city. I later worked at the Smithsonian Institution and got to witness a similar but greater operation in the vaults not under the museum but in the upstairs floors. From the standpoint of a musician it is fascinating to stop and take stock of all that is required to make a symphony perform a complex work and make it sound perfect. I get a similar level of excitement when interacting with writers and artists at conventions or via email or other encounters, and in particular watching an author build a universe where nothing had existed before. Watching any artist in action is an education, an opportunity to learn, admire, and maybe even emulate if you have the discipline and desire. Reading great words helps you become a better writer, and viewing great art gives you a better feel for design and form in general.
When an artist reveals his or her process, it is a lot like a magician showing how a magic trick works. The risk is that some of the knowledge could make later viewings somehow less meaningful. But when dealing with a great creator, no matter how much you learn about process, none of it takes away from the experience, because ultimately, merely having the knowledge of the “how it’s done,” doesn’t mean you can wander off and replicate it, because skill and artistry are greater than mere process.
Following my review this weekend of The Art of Drew Struzan, I think this is a great follow-up book in a similar vein. I received my personal copy of Alex Ross’s Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross from Alex Ross’s business partner, Sal Abbinanti around Christmas time. It was like an early Christmas present. Among other things, Sal is a long-time friend of Ross, and I can never get over the fact that Sal was a model for Ross’s classic Captain Marvel, maybe Ross’s most iconic superhero re-imagined. If you ever are fortunate enough to deal with Sal, look for a great experience.
Rough Justice is a play on words. “Roughs” are what Ross refers to as his work that is created in order to get to a final painting. He uses thumbnails to get down the big picture and often to lay out the design for an entire work. He often free-hand sketches with fluid movements, with sprawled out reference images surrounding him, in order to mock-up the image he sees in his head, well before he dips his brushes in gouache. And of course the “Justice” in the title comes from his ongoing themes underlying his great superhero subjects and the title of one of his key series for DC Comics.
Maybe artists of equal or better skill will find things to critique in Ross’s artistic process revealed in Rough Justice. But, if so, I bet that small group of artists is so small that I’d wager there would still be more praise given than not. Ross isn’t apologetic that his images are realistic (some folks prefer more abstract elements). Neither does he apologize for using actual models for his development of a scene. His process is his process, yet it is likely using any other process would get him to the same results. The same type of photo references are used by Drew Struzan and Frank Cho so it’s almost as if the very best artists use this method for a reason–it helps to make them the best.
I’ve mentioned before that I met the late Michael Turner at a convention a few years ago and he let me flip through all his great original art pages. When you page through Rough Justice, you get a similar experience. I found myself actually checking my hand for pencil smears, because the reproduction of Ross’s original pencil work is so nicely reproduced. Ross notes that he does not rely on tracing or projections in his work. Ross is as much penciller as painter, although the public rarely gets to see anything but his finely tuned painted works, and except for some convention sketch books, this book is the ultimate collection in a single volume.
Alex Ross's original sketch design for the new Batwoman
In Rough Justice the reader learns the great role Ross has in the development of sculpts for maquettes or action figures based on his version of characters. This explains why so many of the figures based on his work are so accurate to the painted renderings. We also learn Ross’s role in re-designing Batgirl and Batwoman–resulting in the singular look that became the current Batwoman. And look for a number of “What ifs”–renderings that did not make it to a final form or comic book series.
Like Struzan, unfortunately Ross has encountered the same letdowns with the industry, less collaboration and more direction by the Powers That Be to punch out a final product, and similar bumps. Yet his work reflects none of this. Rough Justice includes extensive images of Batman, Superman and Captain Marvel, as well as images from Kingdon Come, Justice League of America, Justice Society of America, and Ross’s many anniversary edition over-sized coffee table editions. Rough Justice does not include a lot of text, but what is there highlights Ross’s thoughts behind his work and process. And along with the images Ross includes all the margin notes from the original art, indicating notes to himself or others, giving the reader yet another angle into his creative process.
Rough Justice is a good companion to The Art of Drew Struzan . It’s a good reference work, a fine chronicle of Ross’s art, and its great presentation and superb images qualifies this as a nice coffee table book.
Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross lists for $30.00 but is available for much less at online retailers.
Tags: Alex Ross, Art of Drew Struzan, Batgirl, Batman, Batwoman, Captain Marvel, DC Comics, original comic art, Rough Justice, Sal Abbinanti, Superman
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Smart Move! Saansein Postponed to 25 November, Opposite to SRK-Alia’s Dear Zindagi
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How Saansein triumphed over Rock On 2?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization decision (of withdrawing ₹500 and ₹1000 currency from usage) has certainly impacted the entire country; especially cinema business has gone for a toss. This week’s new releases have hit the rock bottom. Big releases like Rock On 2, which was touted to ‘rock’ at the box office considering its first part Rock On was super successful, didn’t open on a great or at least on expected note.
However, those who took a timely action are now heaving a sigh of relief. Earlier Saansein – The last Breath, an upcoming horrance, was also supposed to hit the screens on November 11, 2016. Nevertheless, with PM Modi’s big announcement, Saansein producer Goutam Jain took a bold step and decided to push the release of his debut film at the 11th hour.
While many speculated that Saansein was being postponed as the makers didn’t want to clash with a franchise like Rock On that comes from a big banner and trade is also quite upbeat about this Farhan Akhtar starrer. But if that would have been the case then Saansein, which is now scheduled to hit the screens alongside Shah Rukh Khan & Alia Bhatt’s Dear Zindagi on November 25, wouldn’t have opted to arrive along with yet another biggie. It would have rather gone solo to arrive in theaters.
Some others even wondered if the makers of Saansein are taking an appropriate decision to shift the release, but looking at the current scenario and the way demonetization has affected the new releases, it seems Saansein team was provident and took a calculated smart move. While the film will face competition from SRK’s Dear Zindagi, but that will perhaps not deter the film from doing the required business, because by that time, things may settle for better.
Producer Goutam Kumar Jain says, “It’s a calculative move. Since we had to take a call fast, we decided to postpone the film. We aren’t scared of the competition and we are quite confident of our product. We understand it will be difficult for people to prioritize a film over other basic necessities. The money should be used for basic necessity first.”
Saansein director Rajiv Ruia says, “As per current situation, it’s not a good time to release the movie. We have confidence in our product that’s why we took a tough decision to postpone and release the film on 25th November.” Looks like being in Bollywood is all about taking smart moves irrespective of the (small or big) banner or budget!
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Russian envoy says terms agreed for new prisoner swap with Ukraine: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An international working group on the conflict in eastern Ukraine has agreed terms for a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov, Russia’s envoy to the group, was cited by the RIA news agency as saying on Monday.
Russia and Ukraine last swapped prisoners in September in a carefully negotiated rapprochement that was praised in the West and appeared to herald a slight thawing in ties after Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
OSCE says east Ukraine prisoner exchange to take place by year end
Reporting by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Andrew Osborn
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New Zealand Book Month 2013
With lots of love from Georgia – New Zealand e-book month
31 March 2013 25 December 2013 PaulLeave a comment
Money can’t buy you love, but sometimes you find one when you think you need the other. Georgia’s fifteenth year starts in pursuit of money (for a trip to see her favourite band), and ends with an unexpected pay-off – first love.
A funny and engaging novel written in a playful, inventive style.
You can read With lots of love from Georgia as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
With lots of love from Georgia is also available as a paper book.
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Ben Sanders beats the odds
31 March 2013 3 December 2013 bernicecclLeave a comment
How can you put yourself through university without ending up with a debt? Answer – become a writer.
Bestselling New Zealand crime writer Ben Sanders began “writing a bit every day” and by the age of twenty one he had two crime novels published. His first book hit the New Zealand bestseller list.
His hard man and police detective Sean Devereaux inhabits the mean streets of Auckland. He and his equally hard case friend, security specialist John Hale, deal with murder, kidnapping, corruption and general mayhem with a traditional hero’s lack of respect for rules and authority, leaving a trail of blood and broken noses behind them.
Fast paced and well plotted, these are very readable noir novels. I would never have guessed that they were written by someone so young – but that being so, they hold the promise of even better things to come.
Keep them coming, Ben!
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10 pm question – New Zealand e-book month
30 March 2013 19 August 2014 PaulLeave a comment
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man: an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 student with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head: Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer? Most of the significant people in Frankie’s world – his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend Gigs – seem gloriously untroubled by worry.
Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10pm queries. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unravelling of Frankie Parson’s carefully controlled world.
So begins the painful business of fronting up to the unpalatable: the ultimate 10pm question.
The 10pm Question is a novel which defies all age categories. It does so with a sparkling wit and an operatic cast of characters so delightful and maddening they become dear to us.
You can read 10 pm question as an e-book from our Overdrive collection and Wheelers collection.
10 pm question is also available as a paper book and an audiobook.
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When We Wake – New Zealand e-book month
In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl–playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends.
But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived.
Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.
You can read When We Wake as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
When We Wake is also available as a paper book.
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Reading Crusade: Picturing Canterbury
29 March 2013 22 May 2014 Donna1 Comment
Photo taken during the 2011 Reading Crusade. The Reading Crusade is on again for 2013 so get in amongst it.
New Zealand Book Month images
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Ebony Hill – New Zealand e-book month
28 March 2013 31 March 2013 PaulLeave a comment
It’s been two years since Ness and Dev escaped the Islanders of Dunnett, and Ness is struggling to find a place for herself in the city of Vidya where the community is struggling to rebuild itself.
Caught up in surprise attacks and ongoing land battles, and then working in the infirmary at Ebony Hill, Ness witnesses the realities of war and questions her commitment to this brave new society.
You can read Ebony Hill as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
Ebony Hill is also available as a paper book.
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The owl that fell from the sky : stories of a museum curator – New Zealand e-book month
Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell – often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories and unveils many secrets.
Read about: the fate of a tortoise given as a gift by Captain Cook; the epic international voyage of the biggest known moa egg; the admiration induced by an ape from the jungles of Borneo; the barn owl of mysterious origins; the unfortunate fate of an angry young elephant; the quest to discover how a New Zealand heron turned up in a Florence museum; the strange arrival of an Australian banjo frog and many other mind-boggling mysteries.
You can read The owl that fell from the sky as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
The owl that fell from the sky is also available as a paper book.
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A sad tale of the librarian who stopped reading New Zealand fiction
26 March 2013 9 July 2014 keenanj21 Comments
As New Zealand Book Month comes to an end and I read of the death of Barbara Anderson I have realised that I used to read a lot of New Zealand fiction with Barbara Anderson being one of my favourites, alongside Fiona Kidman, Barbara Else, Marilyn Duckworth, and Patricia Grace, and Shonagh Koea. They were all women writers and they were all writing about things that were meaningful for me at the time: home, family, relationships and children. Every now and then I branched out into the male domain and enjoyed the likes of Witi Ihimaera, Owen Marshall and Jack Lasenby but would then scuttle back to my old favourites.
Over the years I have read and enjoyed Charlotte Grimshaw and Charlotte Randall but some of my early experiences with newer writers have not been so enjoyable. I have found them almost too clever and self-conscious, and sadly I have gradually given up.
So, here is the challenge! Help me get back into reading New Zealand writers, get my literary juices flowing again and let me know who I just have to read.
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Head over heels – New Zealand e-book month
Rushing from one crisis to another, Penny Rushmore has a name to live up to, coping with a demanding job and still adapting to life without her husband Steve. The first set-back comes when she hears that the glamorous young woman Steve took off with is pregnant. According to Charlotte, Penny’s daughter, Steve and Jacinta are head over heels about each other. According to Penny’s son, Charlotte is also head over heels – about her ageing university lecturer.
But is Penny head over heels about her new boyfriend or is she too frantic running between disasters to find out? And is her elderly father still head over heels about his wife or has her advanced dementia driven him over the edge? Funny and fast-paced, this is a candid and entertaining novel about finding some sort of balance in your life while being stuck in the Sandwich Generation – sandwiched between the demands of ageing parents, teenagers, a career and a badly behaved spaniel.
You can read Head over heels as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
Head over heels is also available as a paper book.
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Inheritance – New Zealand e-book month
25 March 2013 31 March 2013 Paul1 Comment
Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. It is twenty-three years since Jeanie suddenly disappeared. They had been close when Jeanie lived in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father.
But why is Jeanie hiding her identity? Elena is intrigued to discover Jeanie has a daughter who is unaware of her Samoan ancestry. There are family secrets here – possibly dangerous ones – that Elena is determined to uncover.
Inheritance is a novel of contrasts: the tropical beauty and exuberance of Samoa in the 1960s; and the dark violence that arises from the conflict between truthfulness and love.
You can read Inheritance as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
Inheritance is also available as a paper book.
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CIPPIC Participates in CRTC Discussion on the Future of TV
In preperation for a series of hearings that will reexamine television policy from the ground up, the CRTC has encouraged Canadians to host a series of 'Flash! Conferences', with the intention of gaining views from the general public on television preferences. The Conferences were intended to canvass a range of issues. Foremost amongst these is are challenges posed to Canada's broadcasting policy objectives by the transition to new media platforms such as the Internet and other digital networks. Additional concerns related to the need to secure a level playing field by ensuring fundamental principles such as net neutrality are preserved in the new ecosystem. Finally, the discussions seeked to reconcile complex conflicts relating to maximizing viewer choice in television packaging, reducing out of control cable pricing and securing the ongoing creation of quality Canadian content. CIPPIC co-hosted a Flash! Conference in Ottawa, and helped review a report summarizing results from another series of Flash! conferences facilitated by our friends at OpenMedia.ca.
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The Power by Naomi Alderman
July 8, 2017 July 26, 2017 ~ celiamoontown
Published by Penguin, April 2017, 340 pages, £3.99
This book blew me away. A world in which young women develop electric powers to zap and kill. It was a truly thunderous read which left me feeling shocked and singed. The remnants of the story are still crackling in my thoughts, so much that I’m not sure how to convey all of them in this review.
The book follows 4 main POVs: Margot, an American mayor who acquires the power from her daughter and fast tracks her way to the White House. Alison, who runs away from an abusive foster system to a convent where she forms a new religion. Roxy, a British teen who is the daughter of a mobster and takes over his business. And Tunde, a young Nigerian man who is one of the first to record the phenomenon on his phone and quickly becomes a revered journalist, travelling everywhere to document the growth of the power.
I found this eclectic mix of characters very engaging, although at times some were more interesting than others. As the power awoke in more girls and gained momentum we see a very fascinating shift in society, cleverly traced by the author. Some are dramatic but some are subtle changes that overthrow years of social conditioning. Rape on men grew, men’s rights activists begin bombing women’s health centres and when a young man is found dead it is usually assumed a woman is behind it.
I enjoyed how a male news anchor was replaced by a young handsome man, leaving the female to assume the distinguished role. I also found it interesting when girl’s blamed boys for ‘secretly liking’ the zap (a reversal of the ‘asking for it’ culture) and how girls would ridicule others who can’t or won’t use the power, calling them names that suggest weakness.
I had heard a lot of buzz about this novel, before it won the ‘Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction’ ( the kind of prize that is ironically subverted in the book’s message- there are no ‘Men’s prizes’ after all…). But I was worried it would be too scary or violent and I wasn’t wrong. This book contains scenes of graphic rape and killing. However, at that point I was too far invested into the story, so it didn’t feel jarring or unnecessary, just a sense of grim acceptance.
I was hooked on the plot which follows the power as it snows balls into what feels like a final showdown- wars, primal cults, weapons of mass destruction, drugs, new laws… Nothing really out of the ordinary or otherworldly if you think about it. Alderman writes in an article about this book that: ”Nothing happens in this book that hasn’t happened to a woman”, which is true. It’s not a dystopia, but a reversed image of our own reality. It’s only truly disturbing in the way it exposes us, not just through division of gender but race and other forms of inequality.
And yes, I would really love to have the power.
#Passionthepower
Thank you Penguin for my review copy xxx
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Rebecca Bedding says:
I had such mixed feelings about this book. Though I wasn’t a fan of some of the narratives, I was fascinated by the small details Alderman included. The shifting dynamic between the newsreaders and political figures was particularly fascinating. I also loved the majority of Tunde’s storyline.
celiamoontown says:
Hi Rebecca, thanks for stopping by. Yes some narratives I lost a little interest, especially Allie’s Mother Eve religion. Tunde’s story did feel the most thrilling, especially how he managed to get into tight spots. I definitely feel it was the little details and social changes that captivated me. x
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Keep on going, pt. 6b
The woods were cold, so cold that fingers and toes went quickly numb. Rain pelted down, plastering clothing to bodies and hair to skulls. The four women began to shiver as wind seemingly borne of the coldest Northern climes swept through the trees.
::I don't remember it being so cold,:: Molly thought, looking around her. She and her three companions, Areahannah, Beilenya, and a third Guardian, Jenaya, stood in the centre of a small cleared space. Above them, the trees reached skeletal branches toward the heavy, ominous clouds, towering stories over their heads.
::That's because it's not,:: Beilenya reminded her. ::It's a dream, remember? It's not cold. It's an emotion. Represented.::
::Fear.:: The other three looked at Areahannah in startled agreement. The First Guardian seemed disturbed, even frightened. Molly sympathised.
::I can feel it,:: Molly added. ::Over there.:: She pointed off into the darkest, densest part of the forest, where shadows seemed to beckon and threaten simultaneously.
::I remember,:: Arrah nodded.
That was when they heard it.
::I know you're here,:: called the voice, though it didn't really speak. ::I know you're here!::
::Rick!:: Molly felt suddenly colder, if that was at all possible. ::That's Rick's voice--::
She felt a "hand" close about her arm, looked up, and saw Areahannah holding her back - she hadn't realized that she'd started moving in the direction of Rick's voice. ::It's not real, Molly. Just a dream. A memory.::
Beside her, Jenaya nodded. ::We can't affect anything here. We can only watch what's already been.::
Molly bit her lip and nodded. All four moved into the trees.
The woods themselves were more ominous even than the dream suggested - in this strange half-dream, half memory, things seemed both more and less real than they ought to have been. Everything floated by them with a strange, swift and roaring poignancy and even the wind in the trees seemed supernally loud. The walk through the trees was shortly over, and they stood at the edge of the trees, looking out on yet another clearing.
::Which way is the road?:: Belle asked. Molly pointed off to the right and behind them.
::That way. He -- he ran through the woods to the road and got in his car.::
::But what was he running *from*, is the question.:: Jenaya was moving out into the clearing, almost a valley, which stretched out before them and then dipped out of sight over the crest of the nearest hill.
::The dream always started in the trees,:: Molly said. ::Even Fiona's. That must be when he started the Sending.::
Suddenly they were elsewhere as if pulled, standing beneath the trees once more, wind roaring in their ears. In front of them was an overgrown path, and as they watched they saw a figure stumble through the trees and past them, making his way toward the road.
::Hot, greedy breath...::
::Rick!:: Molly started to step forward again, but this time she stopped herself. They watched as the shadow of Richard Krane fell, scrabbled in the dirt, struggled to his feet, and staggered on. Molly fell back as a moment later, something swept past them with a wash of foul-smelling air.
Something tugged at them, something like fire in the sounds rushing at them, and raw power being drawn from the ground beneath their feet with desperate, terrified determination.
::You might get me, monster, but it won't do you any good...::
Rick's voice rang through the trees, and she felt a sympathetic pain in her side as somewhere, Rick tired, staggered out of the trees, something old and terrible at his heels.
And then images of Fiona and Jack, and Molly - even Molly, though she didn't understand, and had been so *angry*, but he loved her, he loved her so much it hurt - seemed to swirl in the very air, and triumph, feverish jubilation, because he'd done it, he'd done it, and they were safe, it was too late now, and it would never find them--
--a gasp of pain, and fire, and smoke, an the squeal of tires, and his voice, a last burst of sound and light and strange calm, saying ::Arrah, Arrah, it's here, tell Molly--::
::Rick!::
::Molly; it's not real.::
She looked up, and Jenaya was looking at her, hand on her shoulder, clear blue eyes calm. Molly blinked, nodded.
They were back at the edge of the trees, the valley before them, a shadow looming over the hill.
There was something there.
The foul smell was fainter, but present. And It was still there, simmering with triumph and satiation, that spilled over into the valley like polluted water. The four women cringed back as, in its euphoria, it stopped protecting itself and gloated.
::Be pleased,:: came the wheedling, slimy voice. ::And soon, from beneath, devouring--::
Abruptly, the voice was gone, and they were alone but for the wind in the trees. All suppressed the urge to brush the sense of taint from their skin, instead drawn forward out of the trees, across the valley, to the crest of the hill.
Below them was a massive crater, kilometres in diameter, deeper than the trees were tall. As they looked down into it, a sense of death and utter nothingness seemed to flow from the very ground.
Molly opened her eyes, and immediately regretted it. Even the tiny light from the candle in the middle of the circle blinded her momentarily, and she blinked back tears, swaying with exhaustion. She had forgotten how draining Recall could be. Across from her, the three Guardians seemed in similar state.
Belle pushed hair out of her eyes and regarded Molly. "You all right?" she asked. Molly nodded.
"Could use a drink, though--" she stopped as a hand set down a glass of water before her. She looked up to see Katia, a full jug of water in one hand, the sides beaded with moisture.
Katia smirked at them. "I swear, if it weren't for me, you would all dwindle away in a week."
Arrah reached for the glass Katia handed her, smiling gratefully. "Good thing you're here, then."
Katia settled herself on the floor with them, handing out two more glasses to Belle and Jenaya. "So. Any luck?"
Areahannah stilled, the smile disappearing from her face. She looked at Molly, who suppressed a shiver.
"There's something in that park," she said.
Matt Hamilton was sitting at his window, wondering at the strange sense of creeping urgency that was slowly filling him, when a knock came on his door. It startled him, and he'd leapt halfway to his feet before realizing that it couldn't be anything untoward, not here. His heart slowing back to normal pace, he crossed the room and opened it, to find Belle and Fiona standing in the hall, Fiona's arms full of parchment and in Belle's hands...
He blinked down at it. It was one of the glass sheets that the old Circle had once used to encase important documents. The pages would be enclosed in two panes of glass then sealed, so that whatever it was they were protecting would not be harmed by time.
"Matt, we have to ask you a question. It's about the Watchers," Belle said, then pushed past him into he and Katia's rooms, Fiona close on her heels.
Five minutes later they had spread out the various parchments in two rows across the living room table, and Belle still held the glass in her hands.
"We found these in the old chronicles, looking for the Registry," Fiona explained. "But they're not Circle chronicles, at all. They didn't even look like they'd been written by any of the Circle chroniclers - all of them have their own mark, they put it at the base of the page, here -" Fiona pointed to a sigil marked in the bottom right corner of each page - each was different, but similar, he could see that. "But then we found this tucked in with them..." She pointed to the bottom row, and Matt saw that these pages were different, random, and lacking the chroniclers sigil. They seemed to have been ripped out of a book, and in a moment he realized that these were pages from someone's journal.
"And underneath those was... that." Fiona now pointed to the glass in Beilenya's hands. Belle met his eyes, and he felt simultaneously confused and concerned.
"What is it?" he asked, starting to reach for it, but Belle held it just out of his reach.
"What's the Schism, Matt?" she asked.
Matt blinked at her, and all of a sudden froze, realization dawning. "The... Schism?"
Belle must have sighted the understanding in his eyes. She nodded. "What is it? All we know is that it's got something to do with the Watchers."
She handed him the glass plate, and he took it. This page *did* bear the mark of a Circle chronicler, but must have been one of the oldest documents he'd ever seen on the Island. As he stared at it, he groped blindly for a chair and sat down, feeling heavy, his mind reeling.
"The... my god. I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner."
"What?" queried Fiona, looking intensely at him. "What is it?"
Matt sighed. "I... you'd better sit down. This could take a while."
They sat, and he set the glass plate on the table in front of him. "The Watchers - the ones that document the Circle - have been around almost as long as the Circle itself. That seems incredible until you know that... well, the Watchers themselves have been around since before the Circle ever existed."
He heard Fiona's wordless gasp, but continued. "The Watchers were originally created... oh, millennia ago, for a different purpose. They existed, then, solely to watch the Slayer."
He looked up at the ensuing silence, and saw Belle looking at him in shocked disbelief. "You mean they're the same - I always thought--"
"They were once the same. One Watcher's Council. When the Circle appeared it offered a lot of alliances to the great powers of the time - you know that much. It offered such an alliance to the Watcher's Council, but by that time they'd... well, they'd gained a rather inflated opinion of their own importance. They refused. They believed their purpose was higher, was more important..."
"But they didn't all feel that way," supplied Belle.
Matt nodded. "The Schism... happened when roughly half of the Watcher's Council - mostly the younger ones - decided that the Circle needed them, that they had a duty to..."
"So... two Watcher's Councils?" asked Belle.
Matt shook his head. "The ones that left never formed a Council - they felt that the bureaucracy was the reason that they'd become stagnant to begin with. And yet they remained somewhat removed, for the most part, from the Circle, unless absolutely necessary, because what the Watchers are meant to do is watch, and document, and... there are still times when they're needed to do other things, and as a whole that's the reason that records are sparse and a bit fragmented over the centuries - knowing their history, the Circle handed over responsibility for their record-keeping to the Watchers that joined them, and... well, things happen." He shrugged.
"I guess being pillaged every fifty years doesn't help," mused Fiona.
"No. It doesn't." Matt sighed. "And at the same time, the reason the current Slayer's been having so much trouble is that the way the original Council runs things hasn't changed in the last... four hundred years or so."
"And that's why that mess in Devonshire? When Arrah had to..." Belle trailed off, looking a bit pale. Several months back there had been an apocalyptic threat in Southern California, one that could only be aided by the intervention of Arrah, alone. The rest of the Eight hadn't known the entirety of what was going on, still didn't - only, in fact, Matt and Katia, as Matt had been the one to inform her of the threat to begin with - and afterward they'd been told only the slimmest of details, that it had involved the Slayer, and a coven in Devonshire loyal to the Circle.
"That's one of several very good reasons, yes," Matt told her. "We - the Council and the rest of us - don't have much to do with one another. Most Watchers on either side don't even know about the Schism at all - we don't dwell on their stuffiness and they like to pretend that we don't exist. They don't even teach their initiates about the Circle beyond its mere existence, and that much only because it's a nigh on impossible to remain unaware of its existence once one gets more than peripherally involved in anything of the paranormal variety."
"But that's..." Fiona sputtered.
"Stupid. Yes. A bit."
There were what seemed like minutes but must have been moments of silence, before Matt spoke again. "I just can't believe I didn't realize it sooner."
"Realize what?" asked Fiona.
"Well... we keep an eye on them, as a matter of course - they like to interfere, you know. Think it's their right. Doesn't much matter anymore, of course."
"Why not?" Fiona asked exasperatedly.
"Because a few weeks ago, every major headquarters of the Watcher's Council was blown to Kingdom Come. And now I think I know why."
"Why?" both Belle and Fiona asked in unison, glaring at him impatiently.
Matt looked at them, blinked in surprise. "How much do you know about the Slayers, Belle?"
She shrugged. "In every generation, one girl, strength and skill to fight the monsters, etcetera, etcetera."
Matt grinned at her. "That's about it, yeah. One girl at a time - but there's also Potential girls, who *can* be Slayers but don't end up *as* Slayers unless the current one... well... dies."
"Dies?" Fiona looked pale.
"We've been getting reports of dozens of mysterious deaths for weeks now," Matt went on. "And over a quarter of them in the Western United States. Almost as if they were all on their way to California." His expression was now grim.
"Where the current Slayer just happens to be," murmured Belle.
"Yes," agreed Matt. "Gods, I'm so stupid."
"So... somebody's been killing Potential Slayers," Fiona said, her voice small. "And then that same somebody went and blew up the Watchers, who would have been able to figure out what was going on -"
"In which case we would have known, through spying on them," Matt said, nodding.
"But they weren't all girls," Fiona said suddenly. "They weren't even all young."
Matt shrugged. "Arrah did have you looking for the Delegate Registry, didn't she? The truth is that we simply don't know how many old families just never got brought back in. They could be Delegates we don't know about."
"And Marya was killed - because she walked right in on whatever it was, doing its thing..." Belle looked a little green. "Which means it knows about us, and it knows how to find us."
They were all quiet for a moment, and then Matt stood up, gathering parchments. "I think we'd better go talk to Arrah."
Although at first glance it seemed green, bright and utterly mundane, Aislinn Park was no less unpleasant in daylight than it had been at night, in the rain. In fact, as the group of nine stepped through the Gate at the heart of the trees, most of them alternatively stumbled or cringed at the sudden, overwhelming sense of wrong that hung over the place like smog. Annie felt momentarily weak with the sheer revulsion she felt for the place.
"Terren? Are you sensing anything?" Katia turned to look at Terren, who was staring into the trees with a contemplative expression on his face. He looked up, shook his head.
"I don't *see* anything, not yet," he said. "But I do feel - something. That way." He raised his arm and pointed off through the trees.
"That's where the crater was, in the dream," Molly said.
"We might not be close enough yet," Terren added, then gave Katia a wry smile. "Don't worry, though - you'll know when I do."
Terren, until several years ago, had worked as a criminologist with the RCMP in Calgary. He'd ended up in that field because of his particular, and very rare Gift - known as Touch, it allowed him to see events connected with objects and places simply by touching them, or even being in close proximity to them. He'd told Annie once that in his earlier years with the RCMP he'd had several unfortunate close calls with walking into traffic, nearly falling off balconies - simply because of the tendency of his gift to activate itself without much instruction from him, with often debilitating side-effects. He said he didn't mind, though, as the information gained from the use of his Gift always outweighed any discomfort it caused him.
"Well, *I* feel something," Annie said. "I can't even describe it, really. It just feels... wrong."
"As if there's... nothing," Jack said. "Nothing alive, anyway."
"There's not much in the way of animals here, either, in case you hadn't noticed," Belle said uneasily.
"If I were a squirrel I think I'd steer clear of this place, too," Fiona muttered as they started walking.
Annie trailed along behind everyone else with a queasy feeling in her stomach. Laan eyed the rest of the group warily and kept pace at Annie's heels.
The sense of lack, of flatness, grew more pronounced as they neared the lighter edge of the woods. Presently they came out of the trees into the valley, and the hill loomed to their right. The queasiness in Annie's middle intensified.
"I feel like I'm going to be sick," she said, clutching her stomach.
"It's not really your stomach, Annie," Katia said over her shoulder. "You're reacting to the... whatever it is."
"What - my mind is playing tricks on me?"
"Pretty much literally," Katia agreed.
"Great," grumbled Annie, but looking around she saw that she wasn't alone. Fiona looked apprehensive and unhappy, and Jack looked positively green. And she couldn't see Arrah, but she would have been willing to bet that she was suffering the effects more than anyone else.
As they neared the top of the rise, Katia made them stop. "Anyone not shielding, do it now.Meaning you, too, Arrah," she admonished the First before she could protest. "We don't know what's here, and we don't want to be finding out when someone passes out. Doctor's orders."
The rest of them complied, only Beilenya grumbling about it.
Then they crested the hill, and saw it. Annie barely managed to keep her footing as it struck her.
Fiona saw Annie begin to topple and grabbed her elbow before she could fall - at the same moment, she saw Terren stumble, catch himself, and turn to where Fiona was holding a pale Annie up by her elbows. Katia turned simultaneously, eyes wide. Laan crouched at Annie's feet, ears flat against his skull.
"Annie? What is it?" Katia hurried to her side as Fiona eased her to her knees. Annie merely clutched at her reeling stomach.
"I feel... I don't know," Annie croaked. "It's like noise, but it's not noise. Like..."
"Screaming?" Annie looked up and saw Terren looking at her. She nodded.
"But not people. Not animals, even. I don't think. Nothing I've ever heard."
Fiona looked around - everyone looked faintly ill, and being in close proximity she even felt a little of what Annie meant. She couldn't hear it, but it didn't seem like anyone else was hearing it, either. Except--
"Do you hear what she's talking about, Terren?" asked Fiona, looking at him.
Terren looked up from Annie to meet Fi's eyes. "I think she's hearing echoes, Fiona," he said, and Fi saw that his normally olive complexion had turned a shade or two greener. "Of something that's no longer here."
"Like you hear?"
He nodded. "More starkly, maybe - she wasn't prepared for it. I think Annie might have a little bit of Touch." He looked to Katia, who was holding Annie's wrist.
"More than a little, I'd say," Katia said, sounding strained - as a Healer she couldn't help but sense some of Annie's discomfort. She crouched down. "Has this ever happened before, Annie?"
Annie shook her head vehemently.
"Sometimes it takes something really strong, the first time," said Terren. "It did for me. And I think this probably qualifies."
"Fiona, maybe you should stay here with Annie while the rest of us go on -" Katia began, but Annie made a noise of protest.
"No, I want to go on," said Annie. "It's going to drive me crazy, otherwise."
"It'll be safer if we stay with everyone else," added Fiona, nodding. She didn't add that she really didn't *want* to be left behind, just the two of them - plus Laan - in this place where everything felt wrong. She met Jack's eyes, for he stood looking down at them worriedly, and he nodded.
Katia sighed exasperratedly, and beckoned to Jack, who came over and helped Fiona pull Annie to her feet.
"I don't exactly like the idea of leaving them alone either, Kay," Arrah said quietly. "We don't know that what *was* here is gone."
"And if it isn't, it's certainly not going to hesitate just because there's a few more of us," said Matt from behind Katia. "Not if it's even close to what I think it is."
No one asked.
They started down the hill, gradually more and more drawn to whatever it was in the valley below. And when they came upon it, they almost missed it, because of the way the ground tilted upward - they came upon the edge of it and stood staring in mute horror.
The crater that stretched out before them must have been kilometres across - it was so wide that the other side vanished in a haze, and so deep that the bottom was only darkness and vague shapes. Jack stepped back from the edge, slightly dizzy. He turned to see Fi and Belle lowering Annie to sit on the ground between them - Annie bent over, eyes screwed shut, head in her hands. Jack clasped her shoulder but she didn't seem to know that he was there. She was leaning against Fiona's legs, Laan curled up at her feet, his eyes wide and dialated.
"There's nothing down there," came Arrah's murmur.
Beilenya leaned out, looked down. "I don't see anything, but--"
"No," the First said, shaking her head. "I mean there's *nothing*. Nothing at all. Not a weed, not an insect, not a microbe. There's... there's nothing. It's as if the life was sucked right out of the ground."
"That must be what Annie's--" Terren began, but stopped abruptly.
He heard the muttered exclamation and turned his head just in time to see Terren stumble again against Arrah, who steadied him. "It's over there," he said, pointing along the edge of the crater. "There's something over there."
"I'll get it," said Jack, easing out from under Annie's arm and ignoring his mother's tentative gesture in his direction.
Jack set off at a jog, skirting the edge but keeping well back from it. After five minutes he sighted a telltale gleam in the bushes along the edge, made his way toward it - he was nauseated, though strangely unsurprised, by what he found there. He took several steps back out into the open, fighting the urge to retch, as Fiona caught up with him. His sister gave him a strange look, went into the bushes, and came out moments later looking slightly ill.
"What is it?" called Belle from the knot of their companions.
"There's somebody - something - um, in the bushes over here," Fiona answered. She seemed to hesitate over whether the mangled remains were really a person, or a thing. Jack found it difficult to decide, himself.
He heard a muttered curse and the others approached them. Annie now seemed to be walking on her own, though Katia and Belle were walking alongside, watching her carefully. Terren looked like Jack felt, weak and nauseated, and somewhat overwhelmed - Arrah walked next to him, just as pale, clasping the hand Terren had laid on her shoulder. Matt walked just behind them, understandably the least severely affected - Matt was virtually un-Gifted - but wearing an expression of intense apprehension. He looked merely unhappy instead of ill. Jack couldn't decide whether or not he envied him.
There was a moment of silence and hesitation - broken by Belle, who patted Annie on the shoulder, edged past Matt, Arrah and Terren, and nodded to Fi. "Come on," she said. "Let's have a look," she said. Fiona, still looking pale, but determined, nodded, and followed her. Jack marvelled silently at his sister - though she'd always been the one with the stronger stomach. He took after his mother - who was currently leaning against a tree, apparently trying to decide whether or not she *wanted* to see what it was her son and daughter had discovered. Jack credited his mother with an adequate enough imagination, though, to guess.
Less than a minute had passed before Fiona and Belle emerged from the trees. "There's more than one," said Belle. "Three, at least - I think. It's a bit... hard to tell." She grimaced.
"Three?" Arrah said, frowning.
Belle nodded. "One was Marya. Again - I *think*. She was here, though. We found --" she turned to look at Fi, who held up something silvery and metallic. Jack caught a glimpse of a medallion imprinted with the Chronauchus, the symbol of the Circle, as it was handed across the intervening space to Arrah.
"This was Marya's," the First Guardian confirmed. "But who were the other two?"
"One way to find out," said Terren, and Arrah looked at him apprehensively. "It's why we came, remember?" he reminded her. She sighed and opened her hand.
"I should warn you all," he said as he reached for the medallion in Arrah's hand, "I'm not up to much in the way of shielding at the moment. This might hurt a bit."
With that, he closed his hand around Arrah's oustretched palm.
It seemed to Annie that the world had jerked suddenly out of alignment - a moment later she realized that it was, in fact, her own eyes that seemed wrong, out of perspective. A moment after that, she realized that it was because she was viewing everything through someone else's eyes.
Marya's eyes, she realized presently. It was bizzarrely familiar, and she was reminded of the dream, but the sense of urgency was diminished. She felt only confusion, curiosity - determination. She saw the crater, felt its empty pull, and to her right the rustle of bushes caught her attention. Everything felt strangely vivid, unnaturally bright, bright auras of rainbow colours surrounding everything, so bright that the colours seemed to actually *hum*.
She heard a moan, and it sounded human, and her feet carried her to the edge of the trees. Half-concealed by bushes a man lay, bleeding from a deep gash that looked as if some animal had tried to rip a piece from him and only partially succeeded. The sense of wrong prevalent in the park intensified, a feeling of anxiety spiking in her middle before his eyes fluttered open, wide and dialated and latching onto hers like a lifeline, though it was clear in his eyes that he knew he was dying, *would* die.
"They killed her," he croaked, and Marya heard an accent in his voice, similar to her own but more provincial - it would have been haughty but for the circumstances. The Englishman's eyes rolled in their sockets. "They went away - they'll be back."
Marya stepped forward, knelt down next to him. There was blood on his hands - not his own, judging by the way it had splashed across the arm of his tweed coat. "What happened?" she asked, reaching for his hands. "What happened in this park? Who did they kill?"
"'Llita," he said, choking on the name as tears spilled down his face. "My Slayer. They killed her."
The word struck a familiar chord in Marya's mind. The Slayer. She couldn't remember in any great detail what she'd learned in her youth about the Slayer, but knew it was important. A Chosen One - not that there weren't many kinds. This one was a girl who killed vampires.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Her Watcher," he replied, and then, to her surprise, "You're one of them - aren't you?"
"One of what?" Marya asked, bewildered.
"Guardian?" he said the name with such strange, frank curiosity - it seemed wrong to say it with such flat casualness. But then, she remembered, he was one of those other Watchers, the ones Matt Hamilton had told Tilia about, the ones who had rejected the Circle. He didn't even know.
"Not one of them, no," she said, shaking her head.
"One of her people, then," he ammended. She nodded. "You must tell them, then--"
He coughed, and little droplets of blood spattered across her hands. "It knows about them," he said. "They stopped it, last time. It happened here. And it's happening again - Sunnydale - and damn Travers, anyway, the arrogant bastard, he's doomed us all..."
The dying Watcher was nearly delirious now - and Marya felt the hair on the back of her neck prickle. He said they'd be coming back, and she didn't doubt it.
"But what did this?" she asked, leaning over him. "What's happening? Do you know who's been killing--"
"The First Evil," he said, his breath rattling and shaky. "Ancient - older than us. Than you. You must tell them -" The shiver of fear carried by his words ran deep as instinct, the same inborn terror inspired by the night and the smell of blood, inexplicable in the rational language of Modern Man but irrefutable in the sense that explanation was unneccessary.. But she had little time to consider it.
Marya stiffened as she heard the bushes rustle - stealthy footsteps, like someone trying not to be heard. A foul stench suddenly permeated the air - her heart leapt into her throat as she recognized it. That smell had been all over Rick's body when they'd found him.
The Watcher seemed to have heard it as well. He looked at her, his eyes bulging, desperate: "Go!" he gasped. "Run!"
Marya made no pretense to noble rescuer - he was doomed and he knew it. She closed her eyes briefly, drew her shields around her, then rose to her feet and threw herself into motion. She broke cover and swiftly crossed the distance between the treeline and the hill, slowing briefly only to look over her shoulder, across the crater - regretting it instantly when she saw two great black shapes gliding around the edge of the gaping hole. Behind her she heard cracking, ripping - something falling on the dying man in the trees like a wild animal to carrion. He didn't even scream as she felt him die. After that she didn't look back.
The sun had been setting when she'd found him, and now only the weak orange light of dusk showed her the path. And then the clouds that had been threatening all day finally gathered and struck. Thunder boomed across the sky, lighting flashing at its heels, lighting the forest for a moment before it was abruptly darker, her eyes dazzled. The rain started almost as if a dam had broken.
Freezing rain soaked her to the skin in moments, and branches whipped into her face as she thrust them out of her way. A thin mist clung to the ground, making the forest look surreal, ethereal. The forest itself seemed to stretch on forever in every direction.
Her breath caught in her throat, her lungs burning from running - what a moment ago had been merely dark shapes became a hungry force surging after her. She could feel it at her back. She could feel its hunger, an alien savagery from a mind she could not comprehend, and she dared not try. This was a monster, with a single purpose...
::...Blood...::
Marya blinked against the sweat coursing into her eyes, obscuring her vision, the stitch in her side from running too far, too long. Suddenly, abruptly, a fatalistic calm descended upon her - he was right, they knew her, knew what she was, and they were not going to let her escape. They had driven her, herded her - she was lost, and would not find the Gate now. She would not risk leading them through it, chance that they might follow her. Only one thing remained.
::...Bright Blood...::
She stumbled, fell, struggled to her feet again. She raked her hair out of her eyes, and as she ran she reached into her jacket -- groping for the inner pocket, for the shard of crystal within, she clutched the crystal to her chest, muttering words whose meaning she had never fully understood, though she knew their purpose well enough. There was heat in the palm of her hand, then pain, and then the stone was gone, and the pain in her side was too great, and she fell again, head-over-heel, her face buried in the forest floor.
And as she looked up, looked back, the monstrous glee of the thing behind her filled the world, and everything went bright, wavering red, then white, and then black.
It seemed as if hours had passed and Fiona was surprised to discover that it had been only moments. She looked around her, looking up just as Terren went down like a felled tree, his face white as paper. She leapt forward as Arrah caught him under one arm, steadying him under the other so that he missed burying his face in the grass. Fi saw Areahannah shoot her a grateful, though pained smile before turning to survey the damage in the others. Fiona followed her gaze and saw that fortunately, most of them seemed to have weathered it much better than Terren, with the possible exception of Annie, who seemed inordinately proud of herself merely for remaining conscious.
Arrah looked, however, at Matt first.
"Matt?"
Matt stood staring into space, paler even than Terren. He jumped at the sound of his name, and looked down at Arrah as if surprised to see her there. Fiona saw, in his eyes, such terror that it made her go abruptly cold.
"It's worse than we thought," he said, his voice a hoarse whisper. "My god, it's so much worse."
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Ewart: Harper-era NEB coming to an abrupt end under Trudeau
Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald
Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand speaks with the media following the release of the 2015 Fall Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development in Ottawa on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2016. Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS
The “Harper era” for the National Energy Board — with so much focus on speeding up the regulatory review process for new oil pipelines — is quickly coming to an end in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada.
The idea of “one project, one review” conducted by the NEB within a two-year window was a key element of the omnibus Bill C-38 unveiled by then prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in 2012 to eliminate duplication and inefficiency and deter use of the regulatory process to delay major energy developments.
It also gave cabinet the right to overrule the NEB if it rejected an application.
Harper’s pipeline-backing government made it perfectly clear that “strong economic growth” was the primary outcome Ottawa desired from the changes to energy regulation.
Almost four years later, the three big projects proposed to move crude for Alberta’s oilsands to tidewater ports and on to global markets — Enbridge’s Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion and TransCanada’s Energy East — are each mired in delays or controversy and remain closer to the drawing board than putting pipe in the ground.
Now concerns are emerging from Trudeau’s government over the NEB’s mandate and its ability to carry it out.
A report by the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons warned the federal regulator needs to keep better track of pipeline projects just as Ottawa plans to add the impact of greenhouse gas emissions to the criteria for the NEB to determine if a project is in the public interest.
It said the NEB hasn’t done enough to ensure companies are complying with conditions set out when projects are approved. Northern Gateway, for example, had 209 conditions to be met before Enbridge can proceed.
The NEB conducted 950 compliance verification activities from 2012 to 2014 and found “deficiencies in company compliance” in more than one-quarter of them, the report said. The commissioner’s office examined 42 of those cases of “deficiencies” and determined the NEB didn’t properly follow up more than half of the time.
“It is clear the Board needs to do more to keep pace with the rapidly changing context in which it operates,” commissioner Julie Gelfand said in Ottawa.
Gelfand made six recommendations for tracking compliance and emergency preparedness as well as attracting and retaining staff to do the work. The board said they reflected areas the NEB had recognized as needing improvement and expects to “comprehensively” address them by the end of 2016.
Trudeau promised to overhaul the NEB — he accused Harper of turning the federal regulator from a referee to a cheerleader during last year year’s election campaign — and a new federal pipeline safety act is expected by June.
The NEB dates to 1959 and relocated from Ottawa to Calgary in 1991. It regulates about 73,000 kilometres of interprovincial and international pipelines.
If built, the $25 billion in proposed projects would nearly double Canada’s pipeline capacity by 2020. NEB chairman Peter Watson has said the regulator is at a “critical juncture” given the complexity of the issues and public scrutiny and he’s been implementing a “modernization” plan for more than a year.
Pipelines regulated by the NEB transported oil and gas valued at more than $162 billion in 2014 but industry has said a lack of capacity led to steep discounts on Canadian crude.
Watson previously said he doesn’t “quibble” with the need for climate debate but maintained it is up to politicians to determine if that’s part of the NEB’s mandate. As for staffing concerns, Gelfand isn’t alone in raising the issue. The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association told a Senate committee on pipeline safety the same thing last year although widespread oilpatch layoffs may resolve that issue.
It’s evident tinkering with the NEB’s mandate or its operations won’t satisfy the critics and even major efforts to address climate issues have done little to quiet opponents. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley introduced a carbon tax and set a 100-megatonne cap on annual GHG emissions from the oilsands in November but it’s done little to quell the debate.
Notley and Trudeau have offered support for pipelines in response to criticism this week of Energy East by Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre. Trudeau said Tuesday it’s “the responsibility of the federal government is to establish a clear process whereby people can evaluate the projects in a rigorous and open manner.”
The response from the U.S. environmental group 350.org to a climate test for pipelines was “it’s time Canadian politicians stopped squabbling over this pipeline or that pipeline and woke up to the 21st century.”
Politicians can empower regulators or make polluters pay — and should for a number of reasons — but there’s not going to be any quid pro quo from environmentalists for those efforts. As with Harper, they don’t want a rigorous review of pipelines, they simply want their way at any cost.
Either way, Canadians pay the price.
Stephen Ewart is a Calgary Herald columnist
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Defining Photos of 2018
Posted on %2$s by kmoore
Each fall, photos from the previous summer are compiled to create a picture book for prospective campers, current families, and alumni. Here are a few favorites, enjoy!
Chillin’ with Lit – Tom reads August Heat to an audience in Lower Baker during the early July hot spell.
Weird Science – A popular Nature occupation.
Camp friendships are the best friendships.
Fourth of July festivities included fireworks for the first time since 1922!
L. Larabie navigating Lower Baker Pond in a Sunfish.
A. Andersson receives a one-on-one tutorial from Pierce Haley.
Pemi’s trip program continues to expand boys’ horizons.
C. Bell on the bump for Pemi’s flagship, the 15 & Under Baseball Team.
M. Hadden making it look easy on his way to earning his Tournament Level in Waterskiing.
The Sailors from H.M.S. Pinafore!
…and finally drops in the West.
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#7: Danny’s Final Toast and Clive’s Review of Pinafore
Posted on August 10, 2018 by dreed
We now seem, in some impossible way, to have gotten to the last day of the 2018 season. It has been an excellent one, by almost every measure. As though to add their own exclamation point, the weather gods have provided us with a magnificent August day for our various closing rituals: the annual USA vs. The World soccer match, featuring our best soccer talent in all age groups; messhall reprises of various numbers from this week’s Pinafore production (for more, see below); an afternoon of closely-supervised packing; the final Bean Soup, featuring the always serious and meaningful “Person of the Year” awards; the final camp fire of the summer; and finally individual cabin parties, which often end with all of the boys pulling their mattresses onto the floor and sleeping contentedly in a pile, like puppies.
Last night featured our Final Banquet, one of our best ever in terms both of the fare and of the warmth with which the community celebrated the various accomplishments and sterling character of their peers. One signal moment for a lot of us was when the winner of the Nature Program’s “What Is It?” Award in the staff category was announced. Garnering the prize for correctly identifying more items in the daily contest rotation than any other employee was Ned Roosevelt, best known at camp for his sunny and energetic personality (his nickname is appropriately “Rosie”) and for being a superb baseball and tennis player. Here, though, was a “jock” being recognized for the time he had put in each day of the season to learn more about the natural world in our little valley. It didn’t dampen the instructive impact that, the two nights previous, Rosie had also played a fetching Victorian lass in Pinafore, participating in our Gilbert and Sullivan show for the first time in his ten-year Pemi career. He’s always made it cool to thrash Tecumseh from the baseball mound or the tennis baseline, but now he’s made it clear that he thinks it’s cool to hang out in the Nature Lodge and even to rock a nineteenth-century dress and bonnet. We often pride ourselves on being a kind of Renaissance camp, but when a standout counselor like Rosie embodies true breadth of interest and commitment in as symbolic a venue as the banquet hall, that’s something special.
Let’s observe recent tradition and begin the body of this newsletter with Danny’s toast at the very start of last evening:
Danny’s Toast to 2018
Here’s to 2018!
Here’s to the summer of 2018 at Camp Pemigewassett, the 111th in Pemi’s rich and significant history. A summer that has come and gone, as it always seems to, in the blink of an eye, though in some ways it seems a lifetime ago when the Gloucester Six met in May to plan for the summer and also when the staff began to arrive in early June, back when campers and young counselors were still attending graduation parties, the Mess Hall tables were getting their shiny new coat of paint, and Russia (not the USSR) was readying for the start of the World Cup.
Truth be told, the summer of 2018 really began before that, way back in October when scores of our returning campers and families sat by their computers until the stroke of midnight on Oct 15th to apply for the present season. Congratulations, by the way, to Jacob Kunkel, whose application was the very first one we received that early morning. Who will be the first camper to apply for 2019?
Here’s to a summer that concludes as the leaves on Route 25A take on an autumn tint and Pemi boys are returning to their cabins for an 8:30 taps with barely a shred of day light left…a summer that by all accounts has been a marvelous success, although, in truth, every summer is filled with its own particular nuances, personality, and a fair share of curve balls.
Here’s to the 253 (exactly) campers who graced the shores of Lower Baker Pond this summer, campers from 28 states, more than half of the states in the Union, and from eight countries around the world. And here’s to the new Vietnamese flag we added to our array of international banners that grace the mess hall in recognition of Dahn Le joining the kitchen crew this summer. Here’s to the 75 campers who made the decision to attend sleep-away camp for the first time, the 26 who have, or will, collect their five-year bowls, and, yes—Kevin Miller, Jamie Acocella, Eli Brennan, and Will Ackerman—campers in their eighth summer.
Here’s to Pemi’s talented and dedicated counselor staff in 2018. What an exceptionally strong crew we have this summer! Thank you to the cabin counselors and assistant counselors, the young men who share such close quarters with their boys, and who, for some magical reason, are able to inspire, mentor, and capture the imagination of their campers in ways even their own parents and we senior staff cannot.
Cheers to the incredibly hard working crew that Reed Harrigan leads each day with such vigor, dedication and love: Frank, Dennis, Aaron, Marcus, and Tess. Cheers also to our Office Managers extraordinaire, Heather and Kim, who organize all our lives. And here’s to Dottie, who always has time for us, attending to tasks both large and small and caring for our community with a heaping dose of maternal wisdom, grace, and love.
Big ups to the chefs and kitchen crew this summer (led by our Dining Service Director Tom Ciglar) who tackled the herculean task of providing a community of 275 with delicious meals three times a day and did so with a smile, a sincere desire to meet the needs of every soul, and with freshly baked bread each and every day. Was there ever a better summer for food at Pemi?!
Here’s to Kenny, our new father and fellow director, whose love for Pemi is so evident as he manages staff, campers, alums, transportation, the daily and weekly schedule, and so much more.
Cheers to Deb Pannell and all the creative endeavors down in Art World (Wow, what an Art Show!), to Charlie, our wise and big-hearted Athletic Director, and to all the coaches in the athletic program who always put Pemi’s values of sportsmanship, improved skills, and participation first. Boom!
Kudos to Dan Reed and the Trippies who sent scores of trips tramp, tramp, tramping over the mountains despite some un-cooperative weather…and thanks to them, too, for the quick thinking they provided in managing these trips and keeping our boys safe.
Here’s to Jonathan, Taiko, and Deb Fauver for another remarkable G&S performance and to Michaella, Donald, and their friends for another summer of beautiful music.
To Chloe, Charlotte, Nick, Will, and Molly and all the exhilarating, yet safe, fun we had in the water…to Brian for his “grateful” approach to running wood shop…to Chris on the tennis courts, Larry and Deb in the Nature Lodge, Steve on the archery range…and to all of the other instructors who brought major energy and mojo to occupation periods every day. And let’s not forget Head of Occupations, Dan Reed, and his understudy Wendy Young, for overseeing the schedule of 253 boys this summer with proficiency, thoughtfulness, and a positive vibe each and every day. Here’s also to Head of Staff Nick Hurn, who, despite his tender age, offered leadership and accountability at every turn.
And thank you to our wonderful nurses, Emily, Jamie, Billy, and Sabrina for the countless hours, Band-aids, doctor’s appointments, and TLC administered at all hours of the day and night!
Here’s to the things that were unique at Pemi in 2018: Winston Moore’s first (but far from last, I am thinking) summer at Pemi; Molly’s newly designed slalom course in water skiing; broad-brimmed straw hats on seemingly every head; a heat wave in July and another this week that tested our resolved and begged for a return of TRJR’s “Chillin’ with Lit;” X-Treme games at every turn; more dogs at Pemi than I can recall, and that one dog whose presence will always be a part of the Pemi landscape for me.
Here’s to all-camp events at Pemi: Bean Soup, when we laugh ourselves and anticipate “Things to Look For”; Campfire, when we treat ourselves to great acts some of the most majestic sunsets one will ever see; and to Sunday Meeting, when we hear about fabled Pemi horses like Prince Hellie and Mary Oooch, the gift of music therapy, and the adventures of the 2018 Allagash paddlers.
And here’s to the beauty of Camp Pemigewassett: the mist on Lower Baker Pond each morning; the stunning reflection we enjoy off of the lake each evening; the spectacular sunsets…and that mesmerizing sound of the water lapping up against the shore as campers fall into a warm and deep sleep each night.
Here’s to our twenty-four 15-year-old campers, to their combined 108 summers at Pemi (Yes, you heard that right!) and to the lifelong friendships they’ve created. I know from personal experience that someday they’ll participate in each other’s weddings, be godparents to each other’s children, and hopefully become the next generation of counselors at Pemi. The system works!
And of course, here’s to the Fauver Family and the Reed Family who, in their loving, wise, and supportive way, continue to expect nothing short of excellence from each of us every summer and who see the stewardship of Camp Pemigewassett as their chance to make the world a better place, one boy at a time.
Here’s to Camp Pemigewassett 2018. Good Luck, Long Life, and Joy! ~ Danny
And now, as the customary second act of this tradition final missive, let’s turn to fabled backwoods theatrical critic Clive Bean’s review of this year’s production of H.M.S. Pinafore.
Clive Bean Reviews H.M.S. Pinafore
Director Jonathan Verge
Those lucky enough to be vacationing in the Wentworth area last Tuesday and Wednesday were treated to a positively scintillating performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S Pinafore. The maiden effort of Director Jonathan Verge, the production was as well received as any in recent memory. Knowledgeable theater-goers leaving the house were overheard saying that they had been as lucky to grab a ticket as they would have been had they scored a pass to Hamilton or The Band’s Visit.
Braden Richardson
Positively stealing the show was Braden Richardson as Little Buttercup. Despite the diminutive name, Braden’s performance was anything but small. Sporting a flowing, blond, Beyoncé wig and a costume that found the common ground between the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper gear and Scarlett O’Hara’s most thrilling gown from Gone with the Wind, Braden consistently wowed the audience with his stellar if-calculatedly-over-the-top acting and his sultry, sub-contralto crooning. Honestly, this guy could make it on Broadway, and his performance ranks with the best-ever by a Pemi camper. No surprise he was the hands-down winner of this year’s Gilbert and Sullivan Award.
Nick Paris
Partnering Braden strongly was Nick Paris, as the Pinafore’s Captain Corcoran. His was a hugely demanding role that involved his being on set for virtually all of the second act, and Nick’s performance, steadily matured through the full season’s rehearsals, was unquestionably one of the highlights of the show, garnering him the camp’s legendary Johnnie’s Plaque for Dramatics. Balancing pathos with baffled incredulity, Nick handled the complex assignment with aplomb, garnering his best laughs with an understatement that was a joy to see. Perhaps his most brilliant invention was to signal Corcoran’s fall in social rank (following revelations about some bad choices at a Victorian childcare facility) by switching from a crisp BBC accent to a Cockney drawl that could have come straight out of a Geico commercial. Well done, Nick.
Michaella Frank, Nick Bertrand
Speaking of Nicks, Nick Bertrand strode the Pemi boards for the first time as Ralph Rackstraw, the lowly deckhand who has the rank-defying chutzpah to fall in love with Captain Corcoran’s daughter, Josephine. Nick looked every bit the romantic dreamboat, as evidenced by the avid ogling and dreamy sighs he provoked amidst the female chorus. His acting was especially strong, as he delivered tongue-twisting lines about “plunging into the Cimmerian darkness of tangible despair” with the comfort you’d expect of someone ordering a hot dog at the ballpark.
Ralph’s love interest was played wonderfully by Michaella Frank, a veteran of Pemi’s shows who stepped for the first time into a lead. Her powerful soprano was entirely equal to the demands of a sophisticated piece of operatic writing, and her acting matched her pipes. Speaking of Scarlett O’Hara’s best gown, Michaella wore it—and she positively rocked the thing.
Eli Brennan, Scout Brink
Rackstraw’s rival for Josephine’s hand, Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty, was played by long-time camper Eli Brennan, veteran of countless Pemi shows. Rumors abound that Eli secured the services of Paul Manafort to bribe Tom Reed, Jr. to give up his wonted role, but those rumors are Fake News. Eli totally mastered the accent, the bearing, and the condescending diction of the British Born Elite, and his delivery of the justly renowned “When I Was a Lad” was flawless. His character may be a bit of a social drone, but Eli’s performance was a huge contributor to the show’s drive.
Scout Brink shone as Cousin Hebe, Sir Joseph’s constant companion whose only goal in life seems to be landing a beau who’s related just-distantly-enough to avoid legal repercussions. Scout played her to coy perfection. Also joyous to watch were John Kingdon, as the Pinafore’s staunch and dependable Boatswain, and Pierce Haley, as the Carpenter’s Mate.
Larry Davis
Finally, Larry Davis reprised a role that he has been playing to perfection for the last forty years: Dick Deadeye, a man about as handsome as Shrek, as cheery as Eeyore, and as charitable as Voldemort. Larry spat out Deadeye’s bitter lines with the vitriol of a swamp adder, and his duet with Captain Corcoran (in which he rats on the Good Guys) was a masterpiece of musical maliciousness.
Pemi operettas are only as good as their choruses, and this year’s were superb—lively yet disciplined, supporting the leads to perfection and never hi-jacking the audience’s attention. Kudos to the Relatives’ Chorus of David Kriegsman, Oliver Giraud, Noah Anderson, Chris Ramanathan, Jake Landry, Elijah Dorroh, Ned Roosevelt, Cole Valente, Gray Klasfeld, Owen Wyman, Luke Larabie, and Finn Wilkins. Powerful praise is also due the Pinafore’s amply-tattoed crew: Nathan Gonzalex, Augie Tanzosh, Aslan Peters, Thaddeus Howe, Felix Nussbaum, Teo Boruchin, Owen Gagnon, Charlie Bell, Henry Moore, Nelson Snyder, Andreas Geffert, Ben Herdeg, Dexter Wells, Lucas Gales, Nate Broll, Will Menike, Jacob Kunkel, and Tom Reed, Jr. You’d never want to battle yard-arm-to-yard-arm—or sashay into a quay-side dance hall—with anybody else.
I’ve mentioned Jonathan Verge as Director. He may have been a Pemi rookie, but his unique combination of vision, high standards, realism, patience, organization, imagination, and fun vaulted him straight to the top. The players claim he was terrific to work with from casting to cast party, and the quality both of the singing and acting and of the pure physical look of the show testify heartily to his professionalism.
Taiko Pelick, Musical Director and Pianist
Speaking of professionalism, Taiko Pelick was equally stellar as Musical Director and Master Pianist for every rehearsal and both performances. Relegated to accompanying the show from an improvised orchestra pit that might have induced claustrophobia in a groundhog, Taiko continued to demonstrate the meticulous musicality that has made her one of the truly great additions to the camp’s 2018 staff.
Hats off, too, to Director Verge’s Crew: Emmet Kelly, Ailer Thomas, Will Haughton, Andrew Muffett, Ryder McCoy-Hanson, Simon Taylor, Quinn Markham, Max Blohm, Ted Applebaum, and Landon Burtle. The sets were gorgeous, thanks to the labors of Reed Harrigan, Frank Roberts, and TRJR (whose mother, Betsy, first painted them sixty years ago!) And a final shout out to Costumer Extraordinaire Deborah Fauver who, for yet another year, handled the prodigious task of measuring, outfitting, dressing, and equipping more than forty cast members with her always dependable grace and good cheer.
H.M.S. Pinafore, 2018
So, the set is struck, the house is dark, and another Pemigewassett G&S has gone into the history books. If you missed it, it’s not too late to order a DVD. Nor is it too early to book your box for the camp’s 2019 production—as yet undesignated, but sure to generate more buzz than the full complement of bees at the annual Chelsea Flower Show. Be there!
Well, that feels like a wrap. We’ll leave any further accounts of Pemi’s 111th season to your sons—to be delivered in your cars on the way home…or around the dinner table as you relish your first post-season meal together as a family…or perhaps muttered by your Pemi boys in their sleep, as you stand in their doorways just before you go to bed yourself, grinningly happy to have your summertime adventurer back under the your own roof. Do stay tuned, though, in the coming weeks for emails about the enrollment schedule for the upcoming season. (Yes, planning is already underway!) The sun is setting farther south with every evening, but that equator-approaching process is unlikely to keep going forever. So, to borrow a notion and a turn of phrase from Danny, here’s to Pemi 2019! Meanwhile, best wishes for a happy and productive Fall.
—TRJR
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#6: Tecumseh Day 2018
Posted on August 1, 2018 by dreed
As promised, this week’s newsletter comes from Charlie Malcolm, Pemi’s Director of Athletics for decades. No one is better positioned than he to give you an account of our annual battle with Camp Tecumseh, our avid arch rivals ever since the opening years of camp. For those who have experienced it, our longtime rivalry is as spirited and intense as any between Harvard and Yale or Ohio State and Michigan. It is also marked by the highest level of sportsmanship, something of which both they and we are especially proud. Now, with no further ado, here’s Charlie.
Introduction: The Challenge
In all my years as Athletic Director of Camp Pemi, I can’t remember an earlier start to mess hall cheers directed at lifting the community for our upcoming contest with Tecumseh. In the very first week of camp, the seniors started chanting the number of days left to Tecumseh Day. It felt a little odd, given half of the boys chanting were first half campers. With each week, the spontaneous cheers grew a little louder. After victories over Camp Moosilauke and Kingswood, our local rivals and friends in the Baker Valley, the cheers grew louder yet, and more spontaneous. At the core of this vocal group are our fifteen-year-olds who have been on the shores of Lower Baker for six or seven years, many remembering the euphoria of defeating Tecumseh in 2012 and desperately wanting to finish their Pemi career with an historic victory.
Taking on Tecumseh, a significantly larger camp (220 enrolled there to our 170) driven almost exclusively by athletic competition, Pemi has won “The Hat” five times in the last five decades (1967, 1970, 1983, 1998, and 2012). We’ve tied a few days and have had some bitterly close defeats over the years, but our friends from Lake Winnipausake have good reason to enter these contests with an air of confidence. Their teams tend to be a little deeper, and their camp’s unyielding commitment to sports prepares kids to grind out close matches with consistently commendable sportsmanship.
As for your boys from Pemigewassett, it takes a special blend of talent, tenacity, and moxie to win a majority of the twenty events and take home the bronze “Hat” that is bequeathed to the camp with the most wins. With five age groups competing in baseball, soccer, swimming, and tennis, the day is a challenging endeavor filled with essential lessons that serve our boys well as they define and shape their character through their experiences and actions.
With the arrival of our second-session campers, the Pemi community started to shape its respective teams for the upcoming contests. Starting every season on Monday of Week 5, the teams practice during our daily occupation schedule. This year coaches and campers endured some tropical rainforest weather as the camp and lake received some much needed water. On Friday last, we woke up at 6:20 AM as our Seniors lined the Intermediate Hill, blasted music, led morning exercises, and finished with a communal polar bear at the Senior beach. After a quick breakfast, the Eleven’s, Twelve’s, and Thirteen’s departed for Camp Tecumseh while the Ten- and Fifteen-and-unders waited for the arrival of Tecumseh at Pemi
Morning at Pemi
15’s tennis
The day kicked off at Pemi with two outstanding contests. The Ten-and-under baseball team scored three runs in the first inning and held a 3-1 lead heading into the last stanza. Paul “Bagels” Schwaegler pitched a gem, striking out seven batters in three-plus innings of work. Unfortunately, Tecumseh rallied in the last inning and scored six runs with aggressive base running, timely hitting, and a few Pemi errors. This was a young Pemi team featuring three eight-year-olds from Junior One (Noah Littman, Clayton Johnson, and Wyatt Dolinsky) in the starting line-up, suggesting this team has a bright future. While the Tens battled on the diamond, the Fifteens locked into a very competitive tennis match. Pemi eventually lost another close contest 4-3, but anyone who watched the doubles team of Andrew Roth and Will Ackerman battle their equally impressive Tecumseh partners witnessed one of the best doubles matches of the day. After dropping the first set 6-4, our boys made some tactical adjustments as Roth lobbed the ball a little deeper and Ackerman moved more centrally and aggressively eliminated dangerous lanes. The boys eventually forced a tiebreaker after tying the second set 6-6, and then forced a super tiebreaker after winning the first tiebreaker 7-5. In the super tiebreaker, Ackerman and Roth dominated, delivering a well deserved 10-4 win. The sportsmanship and mutual respect of all four participants made for a great match and set the tone for the day.
10’s soccer
The Fifteens would have to shake off their disappointment losing that close tennis match and take on a very talented Tecumseh baseball team with a polished high school pitcher on the mound. Unfortunately, our team fell 2-0. Nevertheless, Pemi received a courageous effort on the mound by Charlie Bell and great leadership from Jamie Acocella behind the plate. Kevin Miller made a nice catch in center field, and Marshall Neilsen delivered Pemi’s best hit of the day, but it wasn’t enough to push Pemi to a much-needed victory at home. As with the Ten’s baseball team, the core of this fifteens’s team is made up of fourteen-year-olds who will be returning next summer to avenge their loss. As for the Ten’s soccer team, they fought gallantly against a very strong Tecumseh squad. The score was knotted at 0-0 until Tecumseh took the lead with five minutes to go in the first half. Bagels Schwaegler had nearly pushed Pemi ahead when his long chip from midfield was parried off the crossbar by the agile Tecumseh goalie. Jake Landry anchored the Pemi defense and kept Tecumseh’s dangerous players at bay while Robbie Judd made dangerous runs on the attack and relentlessly pressed the ball all over midfield. Unfortunately, Pemi’s lack of depth eventually caught up to them and they conceded five second-half goals before a thunder clap delivered some mercy, ending the match 6-0 for Tecumseh.
Morning at Tecumseh
While Pemi found themselves down 4-0 at home, our Eleven’s, Twelve’s, and Thirteen’s got off of the bus and immediately put Tecumseh on their heels. Our Elevens consist of only twenty-five campers to build four teams: ten boys need to play tennis, fifteen for soccer, nine for baseball, and ten to swim. Historically, this age group has struggled against Tecumseh because we just don’t quite have the numbers to create the depth and experience to beat a formidable opponent. Internal prognosticators and Las Vegas were predicting a tough day for this age group, however, none of us fully understood the character and strength of the group that is split between Lower Lowers and the Junior Camp. The magic started with Eleven’s tennis where two athletes found themselves down in their respective matches and Tecumseh looked like they had three matches well under control and just needed one more to win. First, Oliver Phillips came back from 5-2 deficit in an eight-game set and proceed to win the next six straight games to prevail 8-5. Sam Young was down 3-0 and worked his match back to 7-7, then delivering an inspiring and clutch tiebreaker 7-1 to push Pemi to their first victory of the day, 4-3.
According to Tecumseh, the Twelve’s are their deepest and most athletic age group, and they began the day with soccer. Their Pemi counterparts wisely chose to come out in a defensive shape and spring counter attacks wide on the flanks. Charlie Orbin and Jacob Kunkel anchored the defense in front of goalie Alex Rolfe. Rolfe was outstanding, making critical saves throughout the match to keep Pemi in striking range. Nate Broll worked tirelessly at midfield as Pemi held Tecumseh’s best team to two goals. When news arrived at Pemi of the 2-0 Tecumseh victory, a Tecumseh coach commented, “Wow, you must have a great soccer team. That Tecumseh team is easily our best team in camp.”
Down at Tecumseh’s impressive waterfront, the Thirteen’s swim team also delivered an inspiring effort in their swim meet. Coach Ken Moore’s mermen unleashed a scintillating performance in the individual events, as they delivered a series of first and second place finishes. Ben Herdeg and Andreas Geffert finished 1-2 in the breast, John Kingdon and Dexter Wells the same in the butterfly, and Will Sewell and Finn Wilkins ditto in the freestyle. Not finishing in the top three but equally impressive was Lucas Gales, who knocked twenty-nine seconds from his freestyle time. Well done Lucas! At the wrong end of a 28-14 tally heading into the two relays, Tecumseh delivered an incredible comeback as they snatched a first and second place finish in both the medley and free relays to leave the meet at a 30-30 tie. The Thirteen’s would have to shake off their resulting disappointment and go up to the soccer pitch and play a talented Tecumseh team, but part of the magic of Tecumseh Day is watching how the athletes and coaches deal with large momentum swings, as each age group must reset its emotional energy and focus for the next challenging event.
11’s baseball
The Eleven’s carried their momentum to the baseball field, and Sam Young stepped on the rubber and delivered one of the most dominant pitching performances in Pemi baseball history. He recorded 17 of his team’s 18 outs, striking out fourteen batters to push Pemi to a dominating 10-1 victory. Giacomo Turco, a former Tecumseh camper who took a fair amount of ribbing for switching camps, delivered a 4-4 effort at the plate, driving in six runs to pace Pemi to an impressive win.
The Thirteen’s quashed their disappointment after tying the swim meet and garnered the strength and perseverance to play an incredible soccer match on Tecumseh’s imposing Grant Field. Pemi found themselves down 1-0 on a deflected shot taken from a poor angle. Six minutes later, Pemi’s Daniel Rudolph lofted a shot that slipped through the tips of the Tecumseh goalie’s fingers and into the back of the net. Tecumseh responded with a scrappy corner kick goal just before the end of the half. With three minutes to play and Tecumseh still holding a majority of the possession, Pemi scrapped and hustled their way to create opportunities. Aidan Chiang, who provided Pemi with box-to-box pressure, launched a shot with the outside of his foot. The Tecumseh keeper made the initial save, but the hustling Will Sewell raced in and pushed the rebound past the scrambling net-minder to tie the game 2-2. It is this type of perseverance and competitive spirit that is also the hallmark of the day.
The Twelve’s also rebounded from their challenging 2-0 loss in soccer to deliver a dominating 7-0 victory in tennis. The four singles players of Ryder McCoy-Hansen, Luke Brown, Chris O’Connor, and Nate Broll made quick work of their Tecumseh counterparts. The doubles team of Charlie Orben/Brady Waldron ran their opponents all over the court while the pairings of Fischer Burke/ Wim Nook and Alex Rolfe/Logan McManus methodically seized control of their respective matches and finished the morning at Tecumseh on a powerful note. The Eleven’s, Twelve’s, and Thirteen’s went 3-1-2 in their six matches to keep Pemi’s overall chances alive heading into the lunch break.
Friday Afternoon Events
The Ten- and Fifteen-and-unders began their contests under increasingly threatening skies. After four or five games in tennis and 20 minutes of scoreless soccer in the 15’s soccer soccer match, the boys were cleared from the field and the games were postponed until Sunday. At Tecumseh, the weather held long enough for the Eleven’s, Twelve’s and Thirteen’s to complete the first events of the afternoon. The Eleven’s soccer team ran into a formidable opponent determined to win their first event. The team held strong and were only down 1-0 at halftime, but the depth and speed of Tecumseh eventually was too much and the team fell 6-1 in the second half. The 12’s baseball team received great pitching from Fischer Burke, however, a porous defense put the team down five runs. In the top of the 4th inning Pemi was squaring up on the ball and cut the lead to 5-2. Wim Nook sparked the rally with a base hit. Unfortunately, a distant thunder clap ended Pemi’s comeback and the remainder of the game was cancelled when Pemi clearly had the momentum. Thirteen’s Tennis fell 5-2 to a talented Tecumseh team with Owen Wyman and Jonah Reay winning for Pemi. With the thunderstorms settling in around Tecumseh, the camps would need to complete Eleven’s and Twelve’s swimming, and Thirteen’s baseball.
After parent’s visiting day at Pemi on Saturday, the boys had an early lunch on Sunday and restarted their competition with Tecumseh. The locations were changed for the different age groups to avoid having the same kids ride on the bus for second day.
The Ten’s and Fifteen’s traveled to Tecumseh to finish their soccer and tennis match, followed by their swim meet. The Fifteen’s soccer match started with a combined 50 minutes of scoreless soccer. Both teams generated a handful of quality chances and competed aggressively. The defense led by Will Ackerman, Luca Tschanz, Kevin Miller and Timmy Somp held strong in front of goalie Gordon Robbins. Mac Hadden and Luca McAdams battled Tecumseh for the middle of the pitch. Tecumseh held a little more of the play, but Pemi countered with dangerous counter attacks that generated critical corner kicks and throw-ins. With eight minutes to play Tecumseh sent a corner kick into the Pemi box and the eventual scrum and failure of Pemi to clear the ball resulted in a scrappy, opportunistic goal. The Fifteen’s fought hard to the end, but could not find the equalizer and suffered a 1-0 loss.
10’s swimming
The Ten’s tennis team was swept by a deep Tecumseh tennis team 7-0 so both teams slowly walked down to the waterfront for the final swim meets of the day. One of the important and more meaningful aspects of the Tecumseh Day is the pairing of our Ten’s and Fifteen’s. Both age groups needed to dig a little deeper for the last event of the day. The Ten’s, consisting of only eight swimmers, swam their hearts out and were only down four points heading into the final relays. Pemi received commendable efforts from Ben Kriegsman who won the backstroke, Nick Vitale first place finish in the freestyle, and a second place finish by James Cullen. The Medley Relay team of Kriegsman, Vitale, Henry Radin, and Cullen delivered a critical first place to keep the meet close. Unfortunately, Tecumseh’s depth was too much as they won the meet on the final freestyle relay leaving the final score 35-23 for Tecumseh.
The Fifteens having lost close matches in tennis, baseball, and soccer needed to reach a little deeper and finish strong. As they left the soccer pitch they knew the Ten-and unders would look for their leadership. The Fifteen’s swimmers received an outstanding coaching effort from Charlotte Jones who began training this team the first week of camp. From the opening whistle it was all Pemi as they dominated the individual events. Mitchell Chin and Simon Taylor went 1st and 2nd in the backstroke, Nick Ridgeway and Matt McDonough 1st and 2nd in the butterfly, and a 1st and 2nd in the breast by Thomas Nielson and Max Blohm, and first place finish by George Fauver in the freestyle. Fauver went on to lead his Medley Relay team with Mitchell Chin, Thomas Nielson, and Nick Ridgeway to a first place. In the final relay of the day, with Pemi well in the lead, the free relay team of Fauver, Eli Brennan, Nick Ridgeway, and Mitchell Chin finished the meet with an emphatic 43-17 victory that lifted the spirits of everyone who traveled to Tecumseh. It was a great finish for an age group that provided excellent leadership in our preparation for Tecumseh Day, but it was also a clear statement of the incredible impact a dedicated coach can have on a group of young athletes.
At Pemi, the Eleven’s and Twelve’s swim teams finished their respective meets with grit and determination. The Eleven’s were swimming for their third victory of the day while the Twelve’s entered the meet 1-2. A deep Tecumseh Twelve’s swim team made quick work of Pemi and rolled to an impressive 49-11 win. Pemi Eleven’s, an age group that had already delivered a gutsy win in tennis and a dominant victory in baseball, went out and won every race of the meet. In the individual races Pemi received first places from first time swimmer Bauer Brown in backstroke, Boone Snyder in the breaststroke, Ben Cavanaugh in the butterfly, and Hayden Davis in the freestyle. Lucas Vitale swam against five Tecumseh challengers in the Individual Medley and delivered an impressive first place. Not surprisingly, the Pemi Eleven’s medley relay team of Vitale, Snyder, Davies, and Davis won as did free relay team of Davies, Cavanaugh, Brown, and Vitale. With the 37-23 victory in swimming, the 11’s finished 3-1 on Tecumseh Day, an incredible effort for 25 campers.
The last event of the day to finish was the Thirteen’s baseball game and those fortunate to watch this game thought it was likely the best contest of the “day.” Tecumseh jumped out to 3-0 lead on two singles, a catcher’s interference, and some aggressive base running. Pemi responded with a run in the bottom of the first as Jonah Reay got the offense going with a base hit, stolen base, and some contact hitting. Oliver Giraud locked into a pitchers’ duel with Tecumseh and bought the team critical time to get back in the game. With two outs, and the game tying run on third base, a swinging bunt led to the Tecumseh catcher racing back to home and diving to tag the Pemi runner to end the game, 4-3 Tecumseh. In many respects it was a fitting end to the 2018 Tecumseh Day. The final score was 13-5-2 in Tecumseh’s favor. However, there were plenty of opportunities at all different age groups to win close matches in Pemi’s favor. Our boys competed , experienced some adversity, learned about perseverance, celebrated some victories, and felt the disappointment of a defeat. Many thanks to our Tecumseh friends for their wonderful blend of competitive spirit and sportsmanship. We look forward to Tecumseh Day 2019!
~ Charlie Malcolm
And many thanks to Charlie for his inspiring leadership on the athletic front all year long, and especially for his wise and balanced handling of the highlight event of our sporting summer. We too look forward to Tecumseh Day 2019—and, in the shorter term, to Larry Davis’s newsletter on Pemi’s Nature Program in the upcoming newsletter.
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#5: Pemi Legacies…Pemi Family
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After four days of as-close-to-perfect summer weather as we can ever remember, spanning from Wednesday to Saturday last week and blessing us with cloudless blue skies, fresh and cooling breezes, and air so clear that the distant hills seemed as close to being on top of you as that next wave just about to break over you at the seashore, we are experiencing a rainy interlude. Actually, given how dry it’s been, the precipitation is welcome—greening our fields, damping down the dust on our dirt thoroughfares, and making today’s a perfect Rest Hour for a nap. Naps this week, in fact, are a particularly good thing. I believe we hinted in our last number that our annual athletic extravaganza with our storied rivals from Camp Tecumseh is coming up this Friday, and amid frenzied preparation for competition in four events (baseball, tennis, soccer, and swimming) in five separate age groups (10-and-under, 11’s, 12’s, 13’s, and 15’s) and equally frenzied “Beat Tecumseh” cheers in the Mess Hall, it’s great to have some southerly wind, grey skies, and drizzle on the cabin roofs working alongside a spectacular roast pork and potatoes lunch in all our bellies to inspire a little restorative slumber.
Athletic Director Charlie Malcolm will take pen in hand to record for you some of the highlights of the coming Big Day, but know for now that the tone he set for the staff at last night’s post-Taps meeting was classic Charlie. While the odds-makers in Las Vegas are not necessarily choosing us (as opposed to their favorable prognosticating prior to our recent and plentiful triumphs over Camps Moosilauke, Kingswood, and Walt Whitman), the day is important and it makes us a better camp, regardless of the final tally. Tecumseh is a sports camp. We are an all-around camp. They build their entire summer around playing us. We build ours in part around playing them, but also around, for example, caving in upstate New York, the annual Gilbert and Sullivan production, the Allagash canoe trip, singing in the Mess Hall and at the Campfire circle, the annual loon and butterfly counts, the Pemi Week Art Show, our weekly serving of Bean Soup, etc., etc. But if they, year after year, are the best competition around, we become better competitors getting ourselves ready for them, doing everything we can to match them on the pitch or on the courts, diamonds, or docks, celebrating the victories we’re hoping for and accepting the defeats that sometimes come our way—shaking their hands afterwards, though; cheering them and their grit and their skill; sitting down with ourselves afterwards and acknowledging that we really did give our all, that we and our teammates really did leave it all on the field, and that (darn it!) we really had fun! Given this somehow stirring but still settling key note speech by Charlie, the coaches are now working with their charges to get them prepared for their time in the sun—this despite the lingering showers. We know you’ll all stay tuned!
In the mean time, Associate Director Kenny Moore has put together some thoughts about one of the demographic rather than programmatic distinctions that we think sets Pemi apart from a lot of other institutions. Kenny, consistent with his role as Director of Alumni Relations, is our contact person for legacy families, one of his special purviews being the recruitment of sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of Pemi veterans.
Since 1908, the Fauver and Reed families have built a solid foundation, ensuring Pemi’s success long into the future. We believe that Camp Pemigewassett is the oldest residential boys’ camp in the country under the same continuous family ownership, and the central emphasis on family extends into every facet of our camp. Each cabin group, division, occupation, sports team, and hiking group, together with the collective staff, operates similarly to a family unit. All Pemi individuals take on specific roles, provide leadership, care for one another, and take responsibility for their actions.
Pemi creates opportunities for boys to work together within their newly established family groups on a daily basis—say, eating as a group in the Mess Hall, encouraging each other on a mountain trip, or cleaning the cabin for daily Inspection. Beyond that, the interaction that boys have with different Pemi generations is particularly unique and valuable. The annual Gilbert and Sullivan show is one of the best examples of multiple generations coming together. The cast this year for H.M.S. Pinafore ranges in age from 8 to 71 years old, with our youngest campers in Junior 1 practicing and performing alongside venerable camp folks and cast members Tom Reed, Jr. and Larry Davis. Experiences shared across generations allow traditions to carry forward in an extremely organic and effective way, clearly defining who and what we are at Pemi.
Legacy campers—those boys whose fathers, uncles, grandfathers, or even great grandfathers attended Pemi—offer another snapshot of family at Pemigewassett. This year, close to 30% of our enrollment is made up of legacy campers. Will Silloway, a First Session camper, is our first fourth-generation camper (excluding children of the founding Reed and Fauver families, who are on the 5th generation). Will’s father Roger, grandfather Skip, and great-grandfather Stewart (counselor in 1928) were all Pemi boys!
Alumni parents contemplating sending their boys to Pemi often comment on the wave of Pemi nostalgia that comes over them as their sons near camp age. Treasured stories and memories from their own past pave the way for new experiences for their boys. While father and son are not physically at Pemi at the same time (except, perhaps, for drop-off, pick-up, or visiting days for Full Session campers), this type of shared experience is extremely special. Accustomed to singing traditional American, Pemi, and college songs in the Mess Hall in their various respective decades, more than one “extended” family has been known to croon at their own family dining tables when the nostalgic spirit moves them.
I asked a few of our current legacy campers about the lead-up to their first summer at Pemi. What was the conversation like with their fathers and family members before camp? What sort of advice did their forebears give, and how did that prepare them for their own experience at Pemi? What happened when they returned home?
Fischer Burke, son of alumnus Jeff and Kirby Burke, lives just north of San Francisco and is in his second year as a camper at Pemi. “It was exciting,” Fischer reports, “to hear the stories about camp from my dad. He told me about all the fun he had, the camp records he broke, the activities he did.” When Jeff came to pick Fischer up last August at the end of the 2017 season, Jeff had firsthand knowledge of Fischer’s experience. “Dad knew what I was talking about, and that got him excited to tell more stories from his day.” This story swapping continued well into the fall and winter.
Wim Nook, son of alumnus Bill and Melissa Nook and grandson of alumnus William Nook, loved hearing camp stories from his family. “I remember hearing about singing in the Mess Hall, the Polar Bear swim, even though it was different then (a bit more au naturel!), playing baseball, taking Nature with Larry. Everything was still here for my first year.” Wim commented on Pemi’s living history: “The markings on the cabin show me the guys that were here before. To see their names and dates is pretty cool.” [Editorial comment: Wim’s sense of “cool” runs distinctly counter to our official policy against leaving names carved or Magic-Markered into cabins, but we suppose there’s a “Kilroy” in all of us, and it is always fun to know who got here before we did!]
Angus Williams, grandson of alumnus John “Torpedo” Lewis and wife Cathy, son of Cara Lewis, and nephew of alumnus Will Lewis, is in his fourth summer and is one of our fifteen-year-old leaders. Before he first came to camp, Angus remembers hearing about the classic elements of Pemi: singing in the Mess Hall, campfires on Senior beach, and all the sports his grandfather and uncle played. “They told me what Pemi was about, that it was a home away from home, and when I came here I really understood. It seemed like home to me.” He distinctly recalls driving back to his winter home, answering questions from his family about his camp experience. “My grandfather would ask me if we sang this song, and then we would just start singing it together. He asked me if I did my Distance Swim, and when I told him the story, he just laughed. We did so many of the same things.”
This summer, Angus’ cousin Richard Lewis is in his first year as a camper, and Angus loves having him at Pemi. “I really want to be there for Richard in his first year, to help him out if he needs anything.” These shared camp experiences across multiple generations are an unparalleled way to create bonds between family members.
The traditions and customs of a family or institution bind its members together, giving each individual a strong sense of belonging. The familial nature of Pemi, with its varied and rich traditions, allows worthy and rewarding customs to be passed down to each generation. These customs provide structure for individual members and make it easier for us to be good citizens of the broader world. By living amid the rhythms and rituals of a thoughtful and humane institution, we are included in a community that transcends time. ~Ken Moore
Many thanks to Kenny for his evocation of the way the Pemi Experience, over the years and generations, can bond not only individuals who share the same genes but also those who share only Polar Bear dips, rousing Mess Hall choruses of “We’re From Camp Pemigewassett,” accomplishing their Distance Swims, and drinking in the sunset view with their cabinmates outside Greenleaf Hut high on the shoulder of Mt. Lafayette. They say it takes a village to raise a child. We count it among our blessings that, in playing our small part in raising children, we somehow manage, decade after decade, to create a village.
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#4: “Things to Look For!”
2018: Newsletter #4
Pemi’s infamous journal, Bean Soup, is celebrating its 109th season this summer, having come into being in the same year as The Wind in the Willows, “To Build a Fire,” and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. As far as we know, it’s the oldest and longest-running such camp publication in the country, and boys and staff alike look forward to its Monday night ladlings with all of the excitement of fans awaiting the next season of Madmen, Game of Thrones, or The Handmaid’s Tale. The only difference is that there’s no binge-watching Bean Soup, as every pot is boiled up fresh every week. Even the editors never know what will go into the pot until hours or even minutes before they take their places on top of their table/bully pulpit at the front of the Lodge.
By now, you’ve noticed that the metaphoric language used to refer to this time-honored Pemi institution (e.g. “ladling,” “boiled up fresh,” and “pot”) are very much in line with the admittedly odd title: Bean Soup. Even as you quietly approve of the way Pemi exposes your sons to figurative language at an early and impressionable age, you may be wondering, “Why Bean Soup?” Honestly, we don’t know. Maybe the best guess is that the first editors were taking a subtle (or not-so-subtle) dig at the monotonous and dollar-conscious menu-planning in Pemi’s early seasons. Whatever the explanation, some regrettable hazing evidently surrounded the first “servings.” Boys new to Pemi, it seems, were assured that the potage about which they had heard so much was very literal soup—and that, in order to down theirs, they would have to carve a wooden spoon for the steaming, after-dinner snack. We weren’t personally there to witness the “gotcha” laughter that must have transpired, but we’re glad that Pemi has grown softer and more humane in this sense at least. That said, some of the lampooning that goes down on a regular basis is often fairly spicy. We continue to believe that satire, when it observes appropriate limits, is a potent tool of collective social awareness, helping people laugh at themselves in a way that makes them better for the chuckles and, finally, parts of a jovial and accepting community. Think best friends making fun of each other playing softball, or at a bridal shower, or at a rehearsal dinner.
Printed, bound up, and distributed to the whole camp family just before the Winter Holidays, Bean Soup has always aimed to be something of an historical record of the season. Look back to the oldest numbers and you’ll find directorial newsletters, accounts of mountain trips and athletic events, reviews of vaudeville and Gilbert and Sullivan shows, rosters of various athletic teams in all of the different age groups, the names of the recipients of our major awards, and so forth. To ring a change on the old New York Times motto, “All the news that fits, we print.” We must admit in this age of charges of “fake news” that Bean Soup (as it is democratically written by editors, general staff, and campers alike) has sometimes allowed zaniness and imagination to take scrupulous verity hostage—yielding something more like The Colbert Report or even SNL than the PBS News Hour. Favorite genres over the years have included supposed transcripts of the directors’ financial schemings to host a new Woodstock, say, or to open an Elvis theme park; or “intercepted letters” from Junior campers who are, sub rosa, Russian spies or feasibility experts looking into a new MacDonald’s franchise in the mess hall; or re-writes of various Pemi or public-domain songs that turn melody to mayhem in all the ways you might expect of zany and creative individuals having a good time at staid decorum’s expense.
Way, way back, servings of Bean Soup began by just diving into the real news of the week. In the fifties and sixties, however, brief “introductions” became increasingly common, taking a minute or two to suggest, for example, that a recent four-day spate of rain had Mr. Jefferis up in the shop secretly building an Ark. One marked initiative of the nineties was to send up the contents of the previous (Sunday) evening’s edifying talk—as, just last week, superlative 2018 editors Harry Cook, Wes Eifler, and Dan Reed made gentle fun of Larry Davis’s hyper-informative but amusing Sunday talk on insects’ place in the food chain, entitled “What Good Are Black Flies?” Their parodic PowerPoint presentation? “What Good Are Juniors?” Last week, this inventive trio had kicked off the Soup with an hilarious edition of Pemi Jeopardy, with categories you probably have to be a Pemi person to appreciate fully: “Wretched Waiters,” “Things that Flush and Things that Don’t,” or “Things that Larry Doesn’t Like.” To be honest, much of today’s Soup is more performative than simply aural, but judging by the volume of laughter generated, it is still preternaturally adept at striking the collective funny bone.
Every ladling of the Soup ends with “Things To Look For,” which first became a staple back in the late fifties. Here’s where the foibles or fixations of a number of our company can be brought to light in a grin-inducing way. If there’s a Senior who tends not to respond to Reveille, the Thing To Look For might be a nuclear alarm clock or a special bunk featuring a water slide into the lake. If a pitcher has had a spectacular game against Camp Moosilauke, the Thing To Look For might be a contract from the Yankees (sure to bring resounding “Boos!” from any Red Sox fans in the room.) If a counselor has notoriously forgotten his Nalgene on a Mt. Cube trip, the Thing To Look For might be a personal drone from the Poland Spring bottling plant. And always—always—the last Thing To Look For is “A better Bean Soup,” that final item chanted out knowingly by every person in the room as they rise from their seats, applaud the editors, and head off to their cabins to get ready for bed. There’s something charming about this weekly acknowledgement that we can, all of us, do a little better next time—even if that particular night’s serving had us weeping repeatedly with laughter.
Oh. One more thing, and then we’ll turn to a couple of example of articles that really do capture the content and feeling of the 2018 season. I just mentioned the collective response of “A better Bean Soup.” For a good half dozen years now, before the editors first stride into the room to thunderous applause, the gathering crowd is as likely as not to fall into the call and response patterns of Loony Toon’s infamous “Duck Season/Rabbit Season” cartoon. Two or three boys will stand up and call out, say, the name of one of our twins—e.g. Ollie Fauver—and eight or ten will pick up the game and leap up shouting the name of Ollie’s brother, Leo. Soon, half of the room (100 souls) will be popping out of their seats to yell “Ollie Fauver,” only to be countered by the other half jumping up to scream “Leo Fauver.” The reciprocal chants run on for some incalculable interval until a pair of staff brothers might supplant the Fauvers: “Per Soderburg”…“Kai Soderburg,” perhaps; or “Matt Kanofsky”…“Andrew Kanofsky.” It can go on for minutes at a time, either until the editors come in and begin the formal proceedings or until, as often happens, all rise spontaneously to sing the National Anthem as though we were all in Fenway Park or Camden Yards rather than the Pemi Lodge. It can all seem a little crazy, but it’s the ritual that has sprung up here as mysteriously and amazingly as mushrooms after a summer rain. It’s what we do, and everybody seems to love it.
Now, let’s turn to a couple of “real,” “substantial,” “historical” accounts—the items that, once all the laughter has died away, will remind readers come December of all of the great and substantial things that have happened at Pemi in 2018. The first is from our wonderful third-year Nature staffer, Scout Brink, who reports on one of the life-changing trips that sally forth from Pemi every year.
CAVING 2018
On July 2nd, in the year 2018, nine of our bravest Pemi 15’s embarked on a trip into the depths of the Earth. With Larry Davis, Reed Harrigan, and Scout Brink as their trusted leaders, the group traversed over 6,000 feet of caves within the Schoharie County of New York. Our departure from home base was slightly delayed due to an overactive dumpster and a blind spot behind the van. Our men, however, would not be deterred; a replacement van was drafted and we were able to head out around 10:30 AM.
We stopped for lunch on the way to our base-camp, which was at Larry’s sister Emily’s house. Once we arrived at her place, we put our gear on and set out for our first adventure: Knox Cave—a wonderful introduction to caving, as the entrance was a slanted rock that we had to slide down, followed by a 15-foot ladder. Once in The Big Room, we discussed how jointing of the Earth’s crust can cause rocks to collapse and passages to develop into large caves. From here, we split up into two groups. Four campers went with Scout to The Dungeon, where we had to climb up the wall and then crawl through a hole to a secret room. Our campers came in waves of four to find this secret room, but only after they had army-crawled through a small tunnel to look down the infamous Gun Barrel. Our first mission was exceedingly successful for several reasons. First, Hisashi [Lonske] overcame his fear of heights, earning the new title of Hero-shi, and Angus [Williams] saved an amphibious friend who had been washed into the cave.
Back at Emily’s, we could relax with a delicious chicken dinner and s’mores over a campfire for dessert. Larry showed how proud he was of our campers’ accomplishments by telling a secret campfire story, just before the storm came. Lightning began to flash in the distance, and we made our way to our sleeping bags. There was a bat singing “Strangers in the night” with us in the attic where we bunked, which was no surprise considering that Emily (a world-renowned caver) is an avid bat lover.
Our final day began at 7:00 AM, with an amazing buffet-style breakfast, with juice-tube-straw-thingies, to fuel us for our double-cave extravaganza. On July 3rd, we dominated Schoharie and Clarksville Caves, both of which were created by water saturated with carbon dioxide dissolving limestone as it followed the paths of least resistance, through joints and faults within the crust. Because of this, our mission was to wade through an underground stream, and as we got up to our waist in 40-degree water, our men got tough skin and took it in stride. Both caves ended at sumps, which are areas in a cave where the ceiling drops down and the tunnel becomes so full of water that it would require the use of scuba gear for passage (which we didn’t try!) It was here, at the sumps’ beginning, that we sat in a circle, turned off our headlamps, and experienced total darkness!
All three missions were deemed successful, and we celebrated at Chelsea’s Royal Diner. Eli Brennan, Angus Williams, Ailer Thomas, Matthew McDonough, William Ackerman, Hisashi Lonske, Quinn Markham, Ian Hohman, and Mitchell Chin all became better men throughout those two days. They toughed through phantom smelly water, hornets, clogged toilets, and came back to Camp Pemigewassett wiser, more patient men, with a new appetite for adventure.
And now we move to a poetic but excruciatingly factual account of a recent soccer match, penned by Trip Specialist John “JP” Gorman, who moonlights as a football coach. JP’s effort confirms that there’s something in the Gaelic blood that lends itself to verse of an epic sort. (Please note that the names included in [brackets] are there only for informational purposes and are not to be sounded as you read either silently or aloud! There is true, metrical music in JP’s lines!)
15’s SOCCER VS MOOSE
P-E-M-I Sis-Boom-Bah
This game belonged to Isaiah [Abbey].
When Pemi toiled to conquer Moose,
He decided to let loose—
First one, then two, and finally three,
Each met by cheers from ol’ Pemi.
A hat trick on the day for him,
But this was more a Pemi win.
From Gordo [Robbins] standing tall in goal,
To Andrew Roth with each through ball,
We showed true class with grit and skill,
And Luca Tschanz prepared to kill
Any soul who tried to score!
Our defense held, a solid core,
Then [Sebastian] Soto cutting from the flank
Let loose a rocket that will rank,
Among the best that Pemi’s seen.
He’s so much skill for just fifteen.
One not enough, he struck again,
Enabled by the other ten,
Who moved and passed with poise and grace.
[Luca] McAdams touch and Tristan’s [Land’s] pace
Brought only grief to each Moose boy,
Then aided by Coach Malcolm’s ploy:
He played the squad’s trump card of depth.
With each fresh sub the Moose team wept—
First H.Mo [Henry Moore], Bennett [Braden], Cam [McManus] and [Eliot] Jones,
Then Simon [Taylor] shook them to their bones.
Braden [Richardson] followed, [Nick] Ridgeway, too,
With [Timmy] Somp and Teddy [Applebaun] in the groove.
Marshall [Nielsen] held at left full back,
Helped of course by mighty “Wack”—
Will Ackerman that is, you see.
Our centre back of steel is he.
[Jacob] Smalley started number nine
With Nelson [Snyder] sprinting down the line.
Moose had no chance; we could not fail!
With [Coach Will] Meinke’s tactics we prevailed.
They did strike once, from a P.K.,
But all-in-all a Pemi day.
So P-E-M-I Sis-Boom-Bah!
We’re coming for you Tecumseh!!
Tecumseh Day, against our ancient rivals from Lake Winnepesauke, is indeed coming up in just a couple of weeks—the unquestioned highlight of our athletic season. We’ll offer in these very pages a full account of this annual encounter in a coming number, but for now, let us just say that JP’s poem is a great example of the tony-ness of Bean Soup over the years. In a world increasingly dominated by fast-paced, video-based narrative and sound bites, it’s refreshing to witness on a weekly basis a medium that still celebrates finished, grammatical, and amusing language. I owe a lot of being a writer myself to Bean Soup, to which I contributed as a camper well before I had any dreams of becoming an editor. Storied American novelist Rick Moody’s first published works were in the pages of BS, where the satiric incisiveness of The Ice Storm and other Moody classics was already appearing and being nurtured by an appreciative audience. And this year, Dexter Wells, son of novelist Susan Choi, is regularly contributing pieces that read more like something from Trevor Noah’s atelier than from a 13-year-old camper. In sum, while Bean Soup entertains us and makes us laugh, we like to think it also makes us more appreciative of our language’s capacity to embody and proclaim wit and wisdom. So, as the editors always conclude their Introduction, may it always be joyously urged, “On with the Soup!”
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#3: The Elephant in the Room
Posted on July 10, 2018 by dreed
It’s a spectacular Monday afternoon—temperature in the low eighties, humidity at thirty percent, breeze out of the northwest at twelve miles per hour, and the sky a cerulean blue with nary a cloud in sight. As we sit here in the West Wing, the action around the ping-pong tables in the Lodge is as lively as at Wimbledon, minus the strawberries and cream. Tennis balls plunk out on our own courts (red clay rather than green grass), and the water-ski boat is growling down the lake with Dylan Vigue in tow, tossing up modest rooster tails on his slalom ski. Last week was a great one, despite the heat, including over a dozen challenging mountain hikes, a full Fourth of July program (including fireworks for the first time since 1922!), two canoe trips, and a winning day of competition against our neighbors at Camp Moosilauke. There are dozens of new occupations slated for this week, Pinafore has definitely weighed anchor and is warping out of the harbor, Uppers 3, 4, and 5 will all be headed up to the Appalachian Mountain Club’s splendidly-situated Greenleaf Hut (high on the shoulder of 5200-foot Mt. Lafayette) in the coming days, and Saturday brings both our first parents’ visiting day for full-session boys and a full day’s competition with Camp Kingswood. Oh, and did we mention that the food this summer is perhaps the best we can remember? In short, 2018 is shaping up very sweetly.
This week, Director Danny Kerr fires up his MacBook Pro and confirms our sense that Pemi really is a kind of Renaissance camp, something that we feel gives everyone a chance to carry on in an area they already know and love and to feel both comfortable and inspired to extend themselves in various novel directions. With no further ado, here’s Danny.
Greetings from the sun-drenched shores of Lower Baker Pond! While I am no scientist, I do know that the Theory of Relativity states, among other things, that time is relative, which helps explain how we can possibly be heading into the last week of Session One and making plans for the Birthday Banquet, first-session awards, and the arrival of our second-half boys. The moments, hours, and days slip by in the blink of a smiling eye! Indeed, we look forward to Week Three and all of the enjoyment it will bring. We are so pleased to be spending this time with your sons!
One of the things I am frequently asked by families who are first learning about Pemi is, “What type of camp are you?” The question always makes me think of the old story about four blind men who lived in a village. One day the other villagers told them, “Hey, there is a new and strange creature called an elephant in the village today.” They had no idea what an elephant was but they bravely declared, “Even though we will not be able to see what an elephant is, let us at any rate go and feel what an elephant is.” Every one of them touched the elephant and was asked to describe it in terms of what they felt. “The elephant is a pillar,” said the first man, who had touched his leg. “Oh, no! It is like a rope,” said the second man, who had touched the tail. “Oh, no! It is like a thick branch of a tree,” said the third man, who had touched the trunk of the elephant. “It is like a big hand fan,” said the fourth man, who touched the ear.
They began to argue about the elephant, each blind man sure that he knew best. Then a wise man overheard them and asked, “What is the matter?” They said, “We cannot agree on what the elephant is like.” The wise man calmly explained to them, “All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently is because each of you touched a different part of the animal. So, actually the elephant is like all those things together.”
My immediate thought is that Pemi is like that elephant. If I walked into the Nature Lodge or Art World and heard the instructions that Deb Kure, Larry Davis, or Deb Pannell were giving in their occupation, I might say Pemi is a like a place of learning, for great instruction in art or the ecology of the area. If I went down to the soccer fields or tennis courts and heard Charlie Malcolm or Chris Johnson instructing a group of athletes in the finer points of soccer or tennis, and if I noticed the level of play there, I might insist Pemi is a sports academy. Could this level of instruction really happen at a boys’ camp? If I sat in the West Wing and listened to a rehearsal for the annual Gilbert and Sullivan performance and heard the instructions that Director Jonathan Verge is giving, I would surely think Pemi is a music or theatre performance camp. If I came upon Dan Reed discussing a list of required equipment for a high-mountain hike in the Whites, I might think Pemi is an outdoor adventure camp. If I happened upon a conversation between one of our counselors or a fifteen-year-old Senior and a younger or new camper trying to find his way at Pemi, I would think we are a place for boys to learn and practice leadership skills where learning about how to be a fine young man is the paramount objective. And, if I sat by the campfire on a Saturday night, watching another amazing sunset glimmer on Lower Baker Pond, and seeing the close friendships, spirit, and traditions, I might think that Pemi is a family, where lessons about kindness, community, and love are the great, overarching objectives.
Of course, all of these ideas about what Pemi is are correct. Pemi is a place where boys can learn how to be artists and scientists, athletes and performers, community leaders and loyal friends and companions. Pemi boys grow in confidence, stretch themselves in ways they never imagined, learn to thrive independently, live joyfully in an unplugged community, and make friendships that last a lifetime. No wonder so many Pemi boys and counselors want to return to our little valley each summer. A summer at Pemi isn’t just one thing. Like the elephant, it is many things to many people. As we all know, there are countless ways to be a Pemi boy, and yet all that we do is guided by our traditions and a set of core values and beliefs that help us uphold our mission.
The boys in the trenches had a few opinions on Pemi’s identity as well! I asked four of them what they thought about the question, “What type of camp is Pemi?” and here is what they reported.
Lucas Gales, a sixth-year camper from Vermont in Upper Four, said, “We’re kind of a mix of a sports and nature camp, but we also do so many other things! I love the variety each day brings!”
Grady Gore, a first-year camper from New Jersey in Junior Four, said that he thinks Pemi is an “outdoor camp with a great deal of creativity.” Grady reported that he’s been to “art, music, and tennis occupations,” but that it’s “so cool that we can always go to the Nature Lodge or anywhere else we like.”
Ollie Schiff-Stein, a third-year camper from New York City, said that while Pemi is an “all-around camp,” he thinks the trip program makes Pemi “kind of a trip camp,” based on his very recent experience of going on a “gnarly” three-day Uppers’ trip in the Pemigewassett Wilderness, where the group “summited seven mountains and went 25 miles in total!”
And finally, Dexter Wells, in his sixth year from New York, said, “I get frustrated when my friends at home think that Pemi is a sports camp based on the fact that we are an all-boys camp.” Dexter said one of the things he loves most about Pemi is, “seeing the starting pitcher from the baseball team also spend time at nature-photography and then go on a hike that afternoon!”
One of my time-tested beliefs is that there are many ways to be a Pemi camper, and nothing I have heard or seen thus far this summer makes me worry that this maxim has changed or will change anytime soon! So here’s to a wonderful final week for our first-session boys—and to an amazing final four weeks for our full-session boys and the second-session boys who will be joining us very soon.
We eagerly second that motion. Thanks, Danny, for your revealing folkloric perspective on the programmatic diversity that makes Pemi what it is. Thankfully, our boys are not completely in the position of those four visually-challenged villagers. On a daily basis, they see in unmistakable ways the full variety of things going on at camp, watching their compadres throw themselves into an ever-changing array of offerings and then energetically following suit. With that, farewell for a week. We’ll be back in touch very soon!
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#2: Pemi’s Program…On A Roll!
(July 1) – Greetings from the unusually steamy shores of Lower Baker, where the thermometer has just nudged up into the nineties for the first time in recent memory—not to drop below that decade, midday, until this coming Friday. But then any of you in the Northeast will be coping with the same torrid conditions, while the rest of you will be reading about them in your newsfeeds. Waterfront Head Charlotte Jones has responded by organizing a camp-wide swim meet for the entire afternoon, and we expect even the most inveterate land-lurkers will be drawn to the competition, whether or not they have any ambition to become the next Michael Phelps. Danny Kerr was slated to conduct Sunday’s Weekly Meeting in the Lodge, but the prospect of casting his pearls before row upon row of sweating boys and staff led him to postpone until the mercury drops a mite. Instead, Tom Reed is slated to reinstitute his “Chillin’ with Lit” series down at the Senior Beach at about 8, when the campers will prove yet again that listening to a retired professor read short stories is entirely worth it as long as you’re able to sit, up to your neck, in the gently lapping waves. (Actually, past victims report that Tom’s wonted choices aren’t all that bad, and might actually help out with future SATs.) So, given tonight’s cookout supper was always planned to be outside, our chances for surviving this first scorching day seem excellent. As for tomorrow, we’ll exercise good judgment when it comes to physical activity, drink plenty of water, slather on the sunscreen, and perhaps even consider “Chillin’ with Bean Soup.”
Meanwhile, the 2018 season is off to a great start on all programmatic fronts—sports, trips, nature, and music and the arts. Yesterday saw ten Baker Valley Tournaments in five age groups at three different camps: four tourneys in basketball (10s, 11s, 13s, and 15s), two in ultimate Frisbee (13s and 15s), two in soccer (10s and 12s), one in baseball (11s), and one in lacrosse (12s). On the trails, lakes, and rivers, eighteen cabin groups have enjoyed one sort of trip or another. Lowers 3 and 4, Uppers 1 and 2, and Uppers 4 and 5 all summited Mt. Cube, a sporty 2800-foot peak right at the head of our valley and climbed by virtually all Pemi-ites since our opening season. Lowers 1, 5, and 6 and Upper 3 experienced elegant al fresco dining at the Pine Forest, just a canoe’s ride across the lake from the Lodge. Meanwhile Uppers 4 and 5 and Senior 3 canoed across to the storied Flat Rock Café (so named after the huge, table-like granite boulder hunkered on the far lakeshore.) A select group of Seniors joined Athletic Director Charlie Malcolm for a dash up Mt. Moosilauke (4800 feet and the largest free-standing mountain in the state), some of the same souls are currently out on the Connecticut River with Nick Davini and Fiona Walker as part of their training for the upcoming five-day canoe trip on Maine’s Allagash Waterway, and the first backpacking trip of the year completed the scenic but challenging Kinsman Range in what turned out to be thrashing rain (details below.)
The Nature program has sponsored open trips to the Palermo Mine, a world-class site for various rare minerals, and also to the Quincy Bog Nature Reserve for a talk on environmental change. Week One’s “occupations” (as we inexplicably but quaintly call our instructional activities) included Ponds and Streams, Animal Evidence (just what it sounds like), Birding, Junior Environmental Exploration, Wilderness Survival (not quite as exacting as it sounds), Environmental Sculpture, Butterflies and Moths, Junior Nature Book, Photo-Darkroom, Rocks and Minerals, Plant Printmaking, Wild Foods, Exhibit Making, Photo-Digital, Wetland Ecology, Spider Sculpture, and Nature Drawing. Jonathan Verge, Teiko Pelick, and the other staff in the Drama and Music program have offered Ukelele, Acting, Piano, Advanced Guitar, Band Camp, Pemi Chorus, Soundpainting (ask your sons to explain, but it’s marvelous), Beginning Guitar, Improv, Musical Theater, and A Capella. Oh, they have also held auditions for this year’s Gilbert and Sullivan production, H.M.S. Pinafore. Actually, the cast list just went up today, so let’s grab a moment to talk about this annual highlight of the Pemi dramatic and musical season.
We have been doing G&S shows at Pemi since the early 1950s, when Betsy Reed (mother of Tom Reed, Jr. and grandmother of Dan Reed) teamed up with former Camp Tecumseh and legendary Pemi counselor Scott Withrow to launch the first Pinafore. We have since mounted Trial By Jury, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, and Iolanthe, most recently the last three in rotation with Pinafore. (There has admittedly been some talk of late about the cultural appropriateness of The Mikado in the twenty-first century, so whether or not it will be next year’s show we can’t currently say.) It’s hard to be objective about the aesthetic merits of our own dramatic productions, but more than a few outsiders have assured us that what we offer up every August is well beyond what anyone could reasonably expect of a seven week camp for boys, let alone one that doesn’t focus centrally on the arts. If you haven’t already graced our audience and if your son happens to be in the cast, we hope you can be with us on the evening of August 7th or 8th to give us your considered opinion. For now, here’s the cast list, all but complete, save for a few TBDs.
Cast as Josephine, the fetching daughter of the Pinafore’s captain who unfortunately falls in love with what would seem to be the lowliest swab on the boat, is veteran staff member Michaela Frank, erstwhile instructor in ukelele and basketball. Interestingly for the moment, three counselors and one camper are in the running to be her nautical beau, Ralph—pronounced “Rafe”—Rackstraw: Nick Bertrand, Nick Davini, Will Meinke, and Charlie Bell. How Jonathan and Teiko will choose among the four is yet to be seen, but Michaela is reportedly thrilled to have four handsome aspirants to her make-believe hand. “It’s a little like being The Bachelorette,” she claims, “but in a Victorian dress.” Josephine’s father, Captain Corcoran, will be played by Nick Paris, although it’s not clear that Nick is yet aware that the play will reveal him to be one of a pair of accidentally switched-in-the-nursery babies and that his resulting fall from Captain to Able Seaman will be as meteoric as Johnny Manziel’s. Cast as mixed-up (and mixing-up) nursemaid, dear Little Buttercup, will be Braden Richardson. Buttercup makes her living selling the Pinafore’s crew all manner of knick-knacks, what-nots, and thingamabobs, so Braden has been apparently been reading Jeff Bezos’s forthcoming biography to prepare.
Also very much interested in Josephine is the high-and mighty Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B., a coveted role secured this year by Eli Brennan, who proved in last season’s Iolanthe that he can play arrogant presumption to perfection—and that’s just what the role calls for. In this era of governmental cabinet members possessed of questionable experience, it will be interesting to see how Sir Joseph’s patter song goes down—the one in which he confesses that his only qualification for being “ruler of the Queen’s Navee” was his time in a legal partnership. All we know is that Eli will perform it with panache, ably assisted by Scout Brink as Sir Joseph’s rather snooty Cousin Hebe. Last but hardly least, Nature Director Larry Davis will play perennial malcontent Dick Deadeye, easily one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most Voldemortian roles.
However good its leads, Pemi G&S productions are always carried by their choruses, and this year’s promise to be exceptional. Sir Joseph goes nowhere without his voluminous following of Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts, and Eli will be able to count on the support of David Kriegsman, Oliver Giraud, Owen Wyman, Luke Larabie, Noah Anderson, Christopher Ramanathan, Jake Landry, Elijah Dorroh, Jacob Kunkel, Cole Valente, and Ned Roosevelt as his plenteous petticoated relations. Sure to be ogling them with an appropriate blend of passion and politeness will be the sailors’ chorus of Nathan Gonzales, Augie Tanzosh, Aslan Peters, Thaddeus Howe, Felix Nusbaum, Teo Boruchin, Owen Gagnon, Henry Moore, Nelson Snyder, Andreas Geffert, Ben Herdeg, Dexter Wells, Lucas Gales, Nate Broll, and Julian Hernandez-Webster, with John Kingdon providing his steadying leadership as Boatswain’s Mate Bill Backstay. In sum, we can’t wait to make our way down to the quay come August and watch Pinafore 2018 set sail. It’s bound to be a fantastic voyage.
Speaking of fantastic voyages, we’ll close with a brief report on the Kinsman Traverse mentioned above, penned by co-leader Fiona Walker. To be honest, it contains a few examples of things not going quite as they were planned, but the judgment shown by the two trip leaders and, just as impressively, the pluck and determination shown by the boys makes it a worthy account to pass along.
Pemi’s 2018 Trip Program got off to a great start last week with our first 3-day (turned 2-day) trip of the season. Led by trip specialists J.P Gorman and Fiona Walker, our party was made up of seven gnarly Lowers, Emmett Itoi, Jack Greenberg, Hayden Garbarini, Tristan Roth, Brian Wolfson, George Devlin, and Jacob Kunkel. We managed to conquer the Kinsmans, North and South respectively, through what turned out to be trying conditions. Day one of the 3-day was a fairly easy and simple day. We left camp following lunch and hiked four miles up the Reel Brook Trail, taking about three and a half hours to reach the Eliza Brook Shelter. The weather was perfect—not too cold or hot—and we were able to enjoy a nice hot meal of stuffing and mashed potatoes and called it an early night. Unfortunately, at around 9 PM, it started absolutely pouring rain, seriously taxing all of our careful waterproofing efforts. Despite our best efforts, we left the Eliza Brook Shelter Thursday morning with an extra ten pounds of water weight added to each of our packs. The boys, however, had great attitudes and trudged along the trail as if there were blue skies shining above us. At around 11:45 AM, we made it to the top of South Kinsman, where we decided to unpack and have lunch, admiring the intermittent view across Franconia Notch amid the roiling clouds. At around 2:00 PM we made it to North Kinsman. At this point the rain and winds had not given us a break, and with the boys pretty wet despite their high spirits, J.P and I decided it would be best to get the boys down to the bottom of the mountain, adding our planned day-3 miles to our completed day-2 miles. Once we got down the infamous Fishin’ Jimmy Trail, we stopped at the Lonesome Lake AMC Hut, where the boys refilled their water bottles and enjoyed some well-deserved Swedish Fish. By that time it was 4:30 and we planned to meet the van at 5:30 at the Lafayette Campground. Unfortunately, J.P and I miscalculated which trail would get us to the trailhead most directly, and when we apologized to the boys for adding even more mileage to a long day, they all had incredible attitudes and simply responded, “Woohoo! Let’s hike down the mountain!” One of the benefits of the delay, by the way, was that we stopped at the local McDonald’s for supper! Overall we hiked sixteen miles, twelve of them on Thursday in the pouring rain and wind. Watch out Uppers, this may be the gnarliest group of Lowers I know!
With that engaging account—confirmation of Pemi’s belief in full disclosure—we’ll close this week’s number. More to come in seven days’ time. Meanwhile, thanks for lending an ear (or eye).
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#1: Welcome to the 2018 Season!
Posted on June 26, 2018 by dreed
Welcome to the inaugural Pemi Newsletter of the 2018 season, our 111th, supplemented this week by an introduction to this year’s stellar staff.
Except for a few latecomers whose arrivals we knew would be delayed, all of our first- and full-session campers have safely arrived—many of them by parental car, two dozen on the chartered bus from New York, and the rest via air to Boston or Manchester and then in Pemi vans. One of the highlights of the automobile influx was, for yet another year, the public-minded “Cans from Campers” initiative, which yielded hundreds of meals of canned and packaged goods to be distributed by the Plymouth Food Bank. Especially seeing families new to Pemi rolling up to the cornucopial kayak in which Dottie Reed was stashing the donations—with Mom or Dad leaning out the window shouting “Here’s a can from our camper!”—boded wonderfully well for the speed with which our community will come together as a caring and supportive family. Within minutes of their arrival, boys old and new had their luggage unpacked, their beds made, and their lockers filled, then heading out for their first game of tennis, pick-up soccer, or roof ball. Come six o’clock, we all headed up to the mess hall for the traditional opening night supper of pizza (shamelessly calculated to appeal to every camper’s palate for this all-important, first-impression meal.) Unable to find the wonted Hood’s Rockets for dessert, food service director Tom Ciglar substituted Hoodsie Ice-cream cups, the ones that come with the paper-wrapped wooden spoons. The boys seemed delighted by this retro treat, and at our table, it was especially fun teaching our British Head of Staff, Nick Hurn, that not licking the residual ice-cream off the lid as soon as you’ve removed it constitutes the social gaffe—not the opposite.
As many of you know, every week of the season will bring a newsletter from one hand or another. Together with your boys’ personal communiqués and, after the season, the questionably veracious articles in Bean Soup, these epistles will provide what we hope are informative and entertaining glimpses into life on Lower Baker Pond and beyond. Before we get any more newsy, though, let’s briefly set the historical and geographical stage.
Pemi was founded in 1908 by Dudley Reed and the Fauver twins, Edgar and Edwin. The trio had been friends since grade school, when the first thing their teacher did every year was shoo them out of the back row and disperse them to three corners of the room so as to improve everyone’s odds for learning. They carried their youthful energy and exuberance through their four years at Oberlin College and their medical studies at Columbia University, Gar spinning off from his comrades in the summer of 1905 to take a job at nearby Camp Moosilauke. The following year, Gar was joined by both Win and Dudley, and the summer after that, the three resolved that the best thing for them to do was to start a camp of their own. After looking for sites all over the Northeast, they settled on a spot just a mile down the valley from Moosilauke, opening Camp Pemigewassett in June of 1908. Doc Reed had finished his final medical school exams earlier than the Fauvers, so they sent him ahead to New Hampshire to dig out the lake (as he claimed), build a mess hall, lay out a baseball diamond, and establish five tennis courts. The job was well underway when the Fauvers arrived, followed within days by the fifteen campers who made up the first Pemi family. History records that everyone pitching in together to get the place built made for a very tight community, something we have endeavored to maintain even in these days when a week’s worth of staff work before opening day means that today’s campers arrive to an immaculately prepared camp.
The founding trio might well have felt they were beating back the wilderness, and to this day one of the charms of Pemigewassett is that our beautiful grounds are used only nine weeks out of fifty-two. We are the only concern going on Lower Baker Pond, and we own over six hundred acres stretching up to the tops of the hills on both sides of the valley. By the first of September every fall, well before the leaves turn, Pemi’s small but loyal maintenance staff is putting the camp to bed for the winter, when no one will be living anywhere within two miles of us. If one of your goals is to get boys comfortable living in Nature—or at least on her threshold—you have to give Nature a chance to flex her muscles, knit herself back together. As a result, a mere ten days before opening day, casting a glance to the left as we drove across the bridge into camp, we could see a great blue heron fishing on the shore of the Lower Lake, just opposite the aptly-placed “Moose Crossing” sign on Route 25A. Just a little farther on was a loon’s nest, the first we can ever remember seeing on our waters, with Mom and Dad Loon trading off incubation duties. Meanwhile, just across the waters slouched a sizeable beaver lodge, its gnawed rafters and roofing material deftly interwoven with a few standing trees to provide stability in what can be the swift currents of the Lower Lake. In counterpoint to the rumbling of the bridge planks as we drove over them, we could hear the deep croak of bullfrogs, different sizes of them sounding different notes. There were deer tracks on the sand of the Senior Beach, criss-crossing with the labored tracks of a snapping turtle, and as we drove up the hill to our cabin, we could see a skunk scuttling under the Big House—Gar, Win, and Dudley’s common residence in the summer of 1909, when they and their wives decided against a second summer in tents but before they decided that three married couples under one roof was two couples too many. Regarding the skunk, word had it that a red fox had been seen scuttling under the same porch a few days earlier. In other words, you can bring campers to camp, but the natural world and its denizens are thriving all the while. Even those boys who throw themselves into athletics more than into our nationally renowned Nature Program are better off for it. There’s nothing like waking in the morning to the sound of a loon’s call echoing eerily off the distant shore. If, for some reason, you were to doubt that, just ask the next Pemi camper you find yourself conversing with.
With those historical and natural prefaces out of the way, let’s get back to the Pemi present and the camp population. Shortly after our pizza and Hoodsie supper, we all headed down to the Lodge for the first Saturday-night campfire of the season. There had been intermittent showers all afternoon, so we elected to go for an inside version, although a roaring fire blazed in the fireplace at the northwestern end of the building and the feeling was cheery as the boys settled, cabin-by-cabin, on the floor. Staff impresarios Matt Kanovsky and Cole Valente got the show underway by introducing Junior Three counselor Nick Gordon, who told the charming old African tale of Anansi and how he came to be the first spider. Next up was Luke Larabie, one of the stars of last season’s Fourth of July vaudeville and hyper-solid chorus member of Iolanthe, who entertained the crowd with a brisk rendition of Oasis’s “Wonderwall.” (It was particularly good to see mention of a wall bringing an audience together in appreciation rather than dividing them in mistrust.)
Following Luke, Oscar Anderson came to the front of the room to demonstrate “How to Hold a Tennis Racquet.” If anyone thought this was going to be way of kicking off the sports season on the first possible day, it quickly emerged that Oscar’s aims were comic rather than athletic. Almost all of us had played enough tennis to realize that holding the racket as though he were strangling a chicken was not going to allow Oscar to drive a winner to any baseline corner in the State of New Hampshire. Even assistant Tristan Barton seemed perplexed as he fed Oscar balls, only to see them spray around the room like popcorn exploding from an lidless pot. More demonstrative of true hand-eye coordination was Carmen Facciobene’s riveting performance with the devil sticks, Carmen taking up where he left off last season with an incredibly deft, spinning and flipping, tour de force effort.
Next up was Nature Staffer Scout Brink (named, indeed, after the hero of To Kill a Mockingbird!), who read Richard Nelson’s moving short poem ‘The Island Within” as a tribute to the spiritually-settling community that is Camp Pemi. Scout was followed by four-year veteran Michaela Frank, who came forward with her tiny ukelele to offer a lovely rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” as modified and performed by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. In entertaining counterpoint to a mainland American channeling an inspired Hawaiian, first-year Scottish counselor Donald Turvill strapped on his guitar and delivered a cogent rendition of Johnny Cash’s signature “Folsom Prison Blues.” His performance reminded the older folks among us who were fans of Average White Band that being from north of Hadrian’s Wall doesn’t keep anyone from shredding American classics. Just to be sure that Donald wasn’t feeling as though working at Pemi was like being in the slammer, I asked him how the summer was going. He said he was having a terrific time.
Scout returned with another short poem—Joseph Wood Krutch’s “Man’s Ancient and Powerful Link to Nature”—a paean to the natural world that seemed just right, considering our sylvan setting. Danny Kerr and Tom Reed, Jr. next stepped into the spotlight, seriously inflating the average age of the performers. With Danny on guitar, they delivered Bob Dylan’s lyrical but enigmatic “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” in a way that somehow managed to get the audience singing along. Call it politeness or call it catching the spirit, the house sang along with the chorus with the tuneful gusto you might hear at a Grateful Dead concert. Following Danny and Tom and furthering the golden years trend was Larry Davis with “Huntin’ Lessons,” the classic Down East tale that Larry tells more and more colorfully every year. There wasn’t an un-enthralled eye in the house.
As always, we closed the evening’s festivities with Doc Reed’s classic “Campfire Song,” penned in the opening decades of the last century but still capturing the question we like to ask ourselves every night as, getting ready for bed, we run through the doings of the day: “I wonder if anyone’s better for anything I’ve done or said, and whether good will in the heart may offset mistakes of the head.” Timeless questions indeed, and perhaps seldom more urgent than now. Even as the last notes echoed in the old Lodge rafters, boys and their counselors filed thoughtfully out into the night, wending their ways back to the cabins what will be their homes for the coming weeks. It seemed like a good beginning.
With that, we’ll end this week’s edition, promising you in coming weeks accounts of the instructional program, various athletic events and wilderness outings, and special events. For now, let me just add that, two nights ago, we were treated to the most animated vocal sparring of barred owls we have ever heard. Oh, and earlier that day, a few of us spied a deer with her fawn and the first bald eagle of the summer. We think it was taking the measure of our early preparations for the Fourth of July.
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Introducing Pemi’s 2018 Staff…
Pemi’s 2018 staff during pre-season, on the summit of Mt Cardigan
Danny Kerr – Director: I am originally from New York City and will always think of myself as a New Yorker, though my wife Julia and I have now lived in New Hampshire for almost ten years. During the summer, when not doing the director thing, I look forward to coaching baseball, teaching guitar, and just hanging out with our campers. I am looking forward to my 46th summer at camp, 25th as a camp director, and ninth at Camp Pemi! Let the games begin!
Kenny Moore – Associate Director: This will be my 20th summer at Pemi as a member of the staff and 26th summer in total. I thoroughly enjoy my year-round role at Pemi, overseeing a few areas from Alumni Relations to Buildings and Grounds, to the Pemi Program and the Counselor Staff. My wife, Sarah, and I are excited to have our son Winston join the Pemi family this summer and have already started to indoctrinate him on being a Cleveland sports fanatic.
Tom Reed – Consulting Director: I have spent well over fifty summers at Pemi—as a camper, counselor, head of staff, and director. After roughly four decades heading up our trip program, I have passed the Trip Vulture’s clipboard to son Dan Reed, who will be the fourth-only ongoing Head of Trips since 1908. In my new position as ‘Consulting Director,’ I will continue to write and organize the weekly Newsletters, lead mess hall singing, help out with HMS Pinafore, pen the odd anonymous Bean Soup article, and shamelessly promote my forthcoming novel, Seeking Hyde. Oh, I used to be a professor of English literature and film at Dickinson College, but that was then….
Allyson Fauver – Administrator: This year, I am continuing to help with parent support and Forms (everyone’s favorite), mainly during the off-season. My favorite form is the Camper Questionnaire, where I get to read what campers are looking forward to, concerned about, and what they think makes a great counselor. Fun fact: I am learning to bugle, because–bugling!!! Unexpected benefit: increased lung capacity and aerobic power. Unanticipated challenge: tarnish. My grandfather (Al Fauver) used to play a silver tuba. I live in Bozeman, Montana, but return to New Hampshire and Maine whenever I can, and always look forward to my time at Pemi.
Heather Leeds – Administrator: I have been teaching and working with children for over 25 years. I am currently the co-director of a rural elementary school in western Massachusetts, and live at Northfield Mount Hermon with my husband and 3 children. For the past 11 years, I’ve enjoyed spending the summers working in the Pemi Office.
Kim Malcolm – Administrator: This is my 27th year at Camp Pemi. During the off-season I live at Northfield Mt. Hermon School with my husband, Charlie, and 2 children. I am also a physical therapist.
Dottie Reed – Administrator: Hello from my 31st (?!) summer at Pemi, where I enjoy being a member of the team that manages the administrative and communication responsibilities of the Pemi season and orchestrate the postings of our Thursday/Sunday photos. Though I’ve been handing tasks off to eager and capable hands, I continue to relish every minute of involvement with our campers and staff as we share summer months in this gorgeous place! Tom and I will be at Pemi until the leaves fall in mid-October, at which point we’ll head south to Sarasota, Florida where we relish daily outdoor living and an abundance of cultural events and opportunities.
Cabin Counselors (CC) and Assistant Counselors (AC)
J1 – Zach Leeds (CC): This will be my 10th summer at Pemi and 3rd on staff. I’m from Gill, MA and am part of the large Northfield Mount Hermon crew at camp this summer. I am majoring in Neuroscience at Colgate University where I am also a member of the alpine ski team. This coming fall I will be studying abroad in Copenhagen. I am excited to coach soccer and baseball this summer.
J1 – Johnny Seebeck (AC): This will be my first year on staff at Pemi but my 10th summer at camp (I attended camp for nine years including the Pemi West program). I just graduated from Walter Payton College Prep and will be attending Caltech next fall. This year I hope to share my love for photography, drawing, and a multitude of different sports with campers.
J2 – Per Soderberg (CC): My name is Per Soderberg (pronounced pear, like the fruit). I am 19 years old and studying mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute Indiana. I’m from Sarasota, Florida (as of the beginning of 2016), however, I have spent most of my life in upstate New York. This will be my 11th summer at Pemi. I hope to teach on the archery range, the arts and crafts building, and the woodshop. I like to draw, paint, and make things out of whatever I can find.
J2 – Pierce Haley (AC): I am a rising senior in high school and this will be my eighth summer at Pemi. I recently left my hometown of Boston to spend my spring semester living and studying in Washington, D.C., but I’m excited to be back to work as an assistant counselor. I love to sing, play guitar, row crew, and hike, and I plan to teach music, and a bunch of other things over the summer.
J3 – Nicholas Gordon (Co-CC): I am super excited for my 10th summer at Pemi! I am from Hopewell, NJ (just down the road from Princeton). I just graduated from high school and will be heading to New York University next year. I will likely be spending most of my time in the Nature Lodge this summer helping teach all the usual nature occupations with some new ones sprinkled in! I’ll also hopefully be participating in and/or helping with this year’s Gilbert & Sullivan production. I can’t wait to meet all of you and I hope we have a great summer!
J3 – Kai Soderberg (Co-CC): My name is Kai Soderberg, and I’m from Sarasota Florida. I’ll be starting my freshmen year at St.Lawrence this coming fall where I will be running track and Cross country. I am exploring the pre-med track in hopes of becoming a doctor. This will be my 10th year at Pemi and my second year on staff. I enjoy running, archery, art and I have started to play the guitar. I’ll be helping out at the archery range, art world, and track. I’m very excited to start the 2018 season!!!
J4 – Jack Davini (CC): I am from Plainfield, NH, and I am excited to join the Nature Program and Junior Camp. These places were formative in the values I hold today. This will be my first summer on staff but my ninth with Pemi. My personal interests are in storytelling, local agriculture, and public design.
J4 – Thaddeus Howe (AC): After four years as a camper, I will add a fifth this year on staff! I am a rising senior at Northfield Mount Hermon School, a boarding school in Gill, Massachusetts, where I row crew, and am a DJ and co-manager at campus radio station. I am from Newton, MA, and am excited to spend another summer on the shores of Lower Baker. This summer I will be helping out down at the archery range and on the lacrosse field!
J5 – Harry Cooke (CC / Division Head / Bean Soup Editor): This marks summer number nine at camp, my third on staff. A New Yorker and now a senior at Dickinson College, I was fortunate to spend the prior year studying abroad in London and Norwich. I will instruct occupations in the nature and music departments as well as coach swimming during Tecumseh prep week. I look forward to ruling – erm – running Junior Camp, a role that returns me to the very cabin where I began my Pemi career in 2007!
J5 – Sam Stone (AC): I am 17 years old, just graduated from NMH, and I live in Warwick, Massachusetts. I have never been to Pemi but I have heard much about it from my peers at school. I love reading, hiking, and playing soccer or Ultimate frisbee. I’m looking forward to spending my summer with you all!
J6 – Daniel Bowes (CC): I am a lifelong resident of Washington D.C. I recently finished my first year at Lehigh University in the College of Business and Economics. I am excited for my ninth summer at Pemi, and second on staff! Last summer, I helped out with lacrosse, basketball, and swimming. I plan to work again in these program areas, and am sure to learn and try some new things along the way!
J6 – Gaelin Kingston (AC): I just graduated from high school, and will be attending Wesleyan University in the Fall of 2018. My main hobbies where I live in Putney, Vermont, are soccer, ultimate frisbee, and pretty much everything outside. I will play college soccer, and intend on studying environmental science among other things. I am a very outgoing, excited person, and am looking forward to the opportunity of working at Pemi for the first time this summer.
L1 – Ed Hunt (CC): I’m from Buckinghamshire in England and am currently studying Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. I play hockey and soccer, as well as music too. This will be my first summer at camp. I can’t wait to get started!
L2 – Donald Turvill (CC): I’m from Edinburgh, Scotland, and this is my first year on staff. I’ve been hearing about Camp Pemi for several years from my cousin Andy MacDonald. I’m very excited to be spending a summer in the beautiful state of New Hampshire and the very scenic Camp Pemi. I have just finished my second year studying Journalism, however my main passion lies in music, which is what I will mainly be teaching and helping coordinate at camp.
L2 – Andrew Kanovsky (AC): I am from Briarcliff Manor, New York, and I just completed my junior year at Briarcliff High School. I look forward to contributing to a number of areas this summer, such as soccer and lacrosse on the athletic fields and photography in the nature department. I am very excited to be back for my tenth year at Pemi, my first on staff.
L3 – Jamie Nicholas (CC): Hi! I’m from Cornwall CT and currently at Saint Lawrence University. I am 19 years old and was last at Pemi when I was 13. I spent five years as a camper at Pemi most of which were full-time sessions. In my summers away from Pemi I was either playing soccer or working as a fly-fishing guide. Soccer, baseball, and the outdoors are my passions and I hope to share these passions with campers and my fellow counselors!
L3 – Nick Markosian (AC): I am a first time Camp Pemi staff member haling from Park City, Utah. I plan to work specifically with lacrosse and on the water or wherever else I am needed. People tend to tell me I am intimidating due to my size. I stand at 6 foot 4 and weight 210#, but I am a goof and like to have fun. I just graduated from high school a year earlier than scheduled so that I can spend time traveling, working, and trying to solidify the area of study I want to focus on before attending college. I enjoy snow skiing Utah’s killer snow. My favorite resort is Snowbird, where I have worked as a Junior Ski Instructor. I also enjoy mountain biking, boating, water sports, and playing lacrosse. This last year I picked up playing the bass guitar, and joined a band. Our band competed and won a local Battle of the Bands. I also play the alto, baritone, and soprano saxophones. If I could live on one food the rest of my life it would be popcorn, which also happens to be something I am very good at making (not in the microwave). I am excited to be a part of Camp Pemi this year and hope that I add to the experience of others who are there with me.
L4 – Wes Eifler (CC / Division Head / Bean Soup Editor): I am from New Canaan, CT, and am a 5th Grade teacher in Potomac, Maryland. This will be my 15th summer at Pemi. I will be coaching baseball, writing Bean Soup, and serving as division head of the Lowers.
L4 – Reed O’Brien (AC): I’m from Wilton, Ct, and I will be entering my senior year in high school. This is my 10th year at Camp Pemi where I have previously been a camper for 8 years along with going on Pemi West the year before. I hope to teach archery, track and field, and other activities. Cheers to another year!
L5 – Ben Ross (CC): I am from Brookline, MA. I just graduated from BB&N in Cambridge, MA where I rowed and wrestled, and in the fall I’ll attend Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. I was a camper at Pemi for four years, and I went on Pemi West. This year will be my second year on staff. I can’t wait for another great summer.
L5 – Nolan Katcher (AC): I am returning for my first year on staff after six as a camper and one on Pemi West. I am from Needham, MA and this coming year I will be a senior at Needham High School where I will be playing on the cross-country and track and field teams. I look forward to helping out in athletic and nature occupations.
L6 – Patterson Malcolm (CC): This will be my 12th summer at Pemi and second on staff. I graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School last spring, and decided to take a gap year before attending Swarthmore College. Over the last year, I have studied Mandarin in Taipei, Taiwan, and worked for Senator Jeanne Shaheen in Washington DC. In the fall I will begin studying engineering and playing soccer at Swarthmore. I return to Pemi this summer as a counselor, soccer coach, and baseball coach.
L7 – Ned Roosevelt (CC): This summer will be my 10th on the shores of Lower Baker Pond. I am a rising junior at Wheaton College where I am majoring in Business. I am also am a member of Wheaton’s tennis team. I compete in both doubles and singles. I look forward to meeting you all and extending the same warm welcome to you that I received back in the day. I’ll be helping out with the sports program, focusing mainly on tennis and baseball. See you on the courts and on the fields.
U1 – Cole Valente (CC): Hello! I am from Princeton, New Jersey. I am a retired swimmer and water polo player. I love to be outside and love to eat and to try new things. I returned to Pemi last summer, 2017, as a counselor after three great years as a camper, and I can’t wait to be back this summer!
U1 – Kevin Heynig (see bio under Program Staff)
U2 – Henry Day (CC): I am from Canaan NH and I go to St. Lawrence University. I am on the baseball team and hope to major in Business and Economics. I was a Pemi camper for 4 years and my last year was the first time in a while that we beat Tecumseh. I plan on being a baseball coach.
U2 – Victor Daiber (AC): My name is Victor and I am from Berlin, Germany. I was a camper at Camp Pemigewasset for 3 years. I am currently in my gap year between high school and university. I will start studying mechanical engineering this fall. I did spend this year doing multiple things, for example, I was working as a volunteer in Cordoba, Argentina for 7 months as well as doing an internship in a mechanical engineering company in Germany. Right now I am really looking forward to teach soccer or to be at the waterfront in Pemi.
U3 – Andy MacDonald (CC / Division Head): I can’t wait to return for my fourth summer at Pemi! I look forward to adding to my experiences and memories of the last three summers. For 2018, I’ll be the Upper Division Head and Charlie Malcolm’s number two for the camp athletics program. As well as this, I’ll be involved in soccer, tennis, canoeing, waterfront and shop occupations. As always, I eagerly anticipate the campers mocking my Scottish accent and shouting Shrek quotes at me. I love it. I’m counting down the days until the campers arrive. Each summer I’ve had at Pemi has been better than the last 🙂
U3 – Will Adams (AC): Hi! This is my 9th year at Pemi and I’m excited to be back for another season. I’m really looking forward to my first year as a member of the Pemi staff. I hope to coach soccer, play guitar, and hike as much as I can. I can’t wait to be back and see everyone there!
U4 – Emmet Flynn (CC): Hi, I am currently a rising sophomore at Notre Dame University. I plan to study either computer science or math. This will be my first summer at Pemi. Some of my hobbies include climbing and running, and I love anything involving the outdoors. I look forward to helping out with lacrosse and track this summer.
U4 – Sam Papel (See bio under Trip Leaders)
U5 – Julian Hernandez-Webster (CC): I am from New Jersey, and am a rising senior at Bucknell University. This summer at Pemi will be my second as a counselor, and my seventh in total. I love to play and teach soccer and swimming, and I expect to be on the field and on the beach a lot of the time. I am excited to see what this season will have to offer!
U5 – JP Gorman (See bio under Trip Leaders)
S1 – Nick Bertrand (CC): I will be returning for my 12th summer this year, 3rd on staff. I am a rising junior at Case Western Reserve University where I am studying biomedical engineering and play for the varsity soccer team. At camp I am looking forward to coaching a collection of sports including soccer and baseball. Looking forward to another great summer at camp!
S1 – Nick Davini (See bio under Trip Leaders)
S2 – Will Meinke (CC; Division Head): I’m excited to be spending my twelfth summer on the shores of Lower Baker! I grew up in Westport Connecticut and spent six years as a Pemi camper and five on staff. This year I will be working mainly on the ski boat as well as helping out on the soccer field. Can’t wait for another memorable summer!
S3 – Matt Kanovsky (CC): I am from Briarcliff Manor, New York, and just finished my sophomore year at Harvey Mudd College in Southern California studying computer science. This will be my 13th summer at Pemi and my fourth year on staff, which means I am running out of original ideas for my staff bio. This summer, I am excited to teach nature and photography, as well as to give advice on making sound investments and when campers should restructure their portfolios.
LT – Nick Hurn (CC; Head of Staff): This year will be my third summer at Pemi, and I’m excited to be back on the shores of Lower Baker Pond. When not at camp I study at Manchester Medical School in England, and I love to go hiking in my spare time. You’ll be sure to find me around art world, the lake, and the woodshop, and this year I’m excited to be taking on a new role as Head of Staff.
Nick Davini – Trip Leader: I recently graduated from the University of New Hampshire, where I studied anthropology. This coming fall I’ll be a manager at a nonprofit that works to end human trafficking. I’m looking forward to leading the canoe program this season, marking my tenth summer at Pemi and my sixth on staff. I feel at home outdoors, and some of my best memories were made on Pemi trips.
JP Gorman – Trip Leader: This will be my third summer as a trip counselor at Pemi. I come from a farming background in rural Ireland where I am in the process of beginning a dairy farm partnership with my father. I spend my free time playing soccer, woodworking, bashing the piano keys, and herding goats in the Sierra Nevadas. One of those may be bending the truth a little but the other three form the basis of my role at camp when I’m not leading trips. I can’t wait to be back!
Sam Papel – Trip Leader: I’m from Nashville, TN, and I am very excited for my 13th summer with Pemi! This will be my second year as a trip counselor, and I’m looking forward to an even better 7 weeks of hiking. I also help out in the woodshop, on the ski boat, and on the Ultimate field.
Fiona Walker – Trip Leader: I hail from Portland, Oregon and recently completed my Junior Year at Kenyon College where I am currently studying Psychology and Anthropology. This will be my second year at Pemi as a Trip Leader. I’ve always been an outdoor enthusiast and love sharing the joys of hiking and backpacking with Pemi Campers. I also look forward to helping out with swimming and track & field as well as assistant coaching 10s baseball.
Program Staff and More…
Andy Bale – Visiting Professional: I was born and live in Harrisburg PA and since 2013 I’ve been a full-time Lecturer of Photography at Dickinson College in Carlisle PA. I was a photography team member for the Ese’Eja Cultural Mapping Project, supported by a National Geographic Genographic Legacy Fund Grant, and the photo editor for the documentary style book, Ancestral Lands of the Ese’Eja, the true People. This will be my fourth or fifth time at Pemi and I’m looking forward to expanding the photographic vision of the energetic campers.
Scout Brink: Hello! I will be on the Nature Staff this summer, spending most of my time in the Nature Lodge though I hope to be on the archery range now and then. This will be my second summer at Camp Pemi, and I am so excited not only to see everyone again, but also to meet new faces! I have my undergraduate degree in environmental science and am currently getting my Master of Arts in Teaching, for 7-12 graders. When not busy at Pemi, I will be exploring the White Mountains.
Steve Broker – Visiting Professional: I am a retired high school science teacher and university administrator. I taught for 25 years in the New Haven, Connecticut Public Schools. I served also as associate director of the Wesleyan University Graduate Liberal Studies Program and as director of programs for the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. I was adjunct lecturer at Quinnipiac University, University of New Haven MES Program, and Yale Teacher Preparation Program. My interests include historical archaeology, colonial gravestone symbolism, antiques and decorative arts, and the study of birds. This is my sixth year at Pemi. My father, Tom Broker, was waterfront director at Pemi in the 1930s.
Steve Clare – Head of Archery: I live in Cornwall, the extreme SW of England. I’m a freelance teacher, supporting schools with specialist lessons. I’ve coached youth soccer teams for 9 years, most recently my son’s U18s team. I coordinate a weekly community soccer programme for players aged 5 – 11. This will be my 4th summer at Pemi as Head of Archery & 13s soccer. I’m keeping additional responsibilities quiet this year, so I don’t get roasted in Bean Soup. Still have the burns from last year!! As always, I’m looking forward to playing my part in the Pemi family for another summer.
Larry Davis – Director of Nature Programs and Teaching: I will be in my 49th year as Pemi’s Director of Nature Programs and Teaching. I hold AB and AM degrees in Earth Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Rochester. I am Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New Haven (but will be officially retired as of the end of August). Besides geology, my areas of special interest include: caves, wild foods, waterfalls, and getting children away from their screens and into the outdoors. I play the flute, tell Down East stories, and love cooking.
Jim Dehls – Visiting Professional: I first came to Pemi 59 years ago and have been in touch ever since. I was here for eight years as camper and assistant counselor. I am now a Hospice Music Therapist and my whole life revolves around family and music. In recent years I have gratefully served as a music visiting professional. I still love to perform G&S that I first learned at camp. Great to be back.
Michaella Frank: Back for another spectacular Camp Pemi Summer! This will be my fourth year teaching basketball and music (ukulele & guitar). I’m looking forward to teaching kids to express themselves through music and to ROCK the shores of Lower Baker! I’m from Avon Lake, OH but Camp Pemi is where my heart belongs.
Cara Grime: I’m coming to teach in the woodshop at Camp Pemi for the first time this summer all the way from my home in Chester, England. I am currently studying for a BA in Music Technology and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. At university, I work in the backstage team of the Student Theatre group, am an officer cadet in the University Royal Naval Unit, and play for the Women’s Rugby League team. I am also a big fan of country music, do dog showing with my Wheaten Terrier, Carrie, and most of all I am really into my woodworking and arts & crafts having made a dining table and activity box for children in the past. I’m so excited to be working in the woodshop and can’t wait to meet all of the amazing campers and most of all I really hope you enjoy all of the activities and being in the woodshop as much as I do!
Kevin Heynig: Hello! I’ll be returning to Pemi for my third summer as a Nature Instructor and I am really looking forward to it. I am from Michigan, and have a close connection to the Great Lakes. I am a field naturalist with experience in many different ecosystems including the northern forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as the high desert and alpine forests of central Idaho. I plan to teach in depth insect, plant and ecology occupations this summer. Look for me in the Nature Lodge!
Chloe Jaques: Hello Everyone! I am from London, UK and have just completed my History degree at the University of Nottingham. This will be my second year on the shores of Lower Baker. At Camp, you will usually find me around the waterfront. I can’t wait to make the most of this summer and enjoy everything Pemi has to offer.
Chris Johnson – Head of Tennis: I am very excited to return for my fifth year as Head of Tennis at Camp Pemi. My wife and kids will once again join me at camp and I am very excited to have my son spend his first full summer in junior camp! I reside in the Cleveland area during the year where I teach 4th grade and coach high school girls and boys tennis. I was fortunate this fall to coach my school’s first-ever individual state tennis champion to go along with our three team championships. I look forward to coaching all ability levels this summer on some of the finest red clay courts in all of New England!
CJ Jones – Head of Swimming: I’m Charlotte, from England, and this is my fourth year at Pemi! Cannot wait to get back to the shores of LBP to resume my position as head of swimming – and am hoping for less dramatic weather this year. Looking forward to seeing the returning staff and campers again and to finding new ways to contribute to the Pemi family! There’s no way I’d rather spend my summer.
Deb Kure – Associate Head of Nature: After studying Geological Sciences at the University of Rochester, I attended the Nature Instruction Clinic at Pemi – its inaugural season, and now at its 25th Anniversary! That led to outdoor science instruction work through trips programs, natural history museums, and outdoor schools throughout the U.S. ever since! My husband Brian and I are excited to learn a new region, as we moved just before camp from southern NH to Reno, NV! Very glad to be in my 11th summer in the Nature Program at Pemi.
Charlie Malcolm – Director of Athletics: I have been spending my summers on Lower Baker since 1976. My Dad attended Camp in the 1930s and his counselor was Tom Reed Sr. Since the early 1990s I have been Camp Pemi’s Athletic Director. When I am not at Pemi I teach history and coach soccer and baseball at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The NMH soccer team has won several New England Prep Championships (NEPSAC) and many of the players have gone on to work at Pemi. I am joined at camp with my wife Kim and our two kids, Patterson and Victoria.
Molly Malone – Head of Waterskiing (2nd Session): I am working with the waterski program for my 4th summer. My passion in life is slalom skiing as I train in the gym year round for it, and ski every moment possible on a private ski lake. I flew to Florida for 48 hrs this past March to get on the water! My day job is a HS orchestra teacher, and I’m active in our community orchestra where I am a violin section leader and occasionally play piano. I am excited to be back in such a fantastic community surrounded by incredible views!
Hattie McLeod – Bugler: I can’t wait to be back for my second summer at Pemi! I’m excited to return to my position as timekeeper of camp, by taking control of the bugle once again! I will also be helping in canoeing, music, and swimming. I am from a small town near Windsor, UK (where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just got married!) and I will be graduating from the University of Oxford, UK with a BA in Geography after summer. I look forward to seeing old faces, meeting new ones and having another great summer!
Deb Pannell – Head of Art: During the school year, I am a fifth-grade teacher at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. In my leisure time, I enjoy creating a wide variety of art and craft projects, cooking, taking long walks along the ocean, and reading. In addition to teaching art at Pemi, I have enjoyed being a Pemi parent as well. I am looking forward to another wonderful summer with the Pemi boys!
Taiko Pelick – Pianist: I am originally from Gainesville, Florida and currently reside in Arlington, Texas. I am an adjunct professor of piano at Mountain View College and Tarrant County College, as well as a collaborative pianist for the music departments at the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Christian University. This is my first year at Pemi and I am excited to be joining the staff as the camp pianist!
Dan Reed – Head of Occupations / Head of Trips / Bean Soup Editor: I have been fortunate to spend nearly every summer of my life at Pemi. I began my years on Lower Baker as the roaming toddler of Tom and Dottie Reed, and have spent subsequent summers in a medley of roles: camper, Pemi West participant, assistant counselor, cabin counselor, trip counselor (at both \ Pemi East and Pemi West), division head, and now Head of Occupations, Head of Trips, and Bean Soup editor. As always, I look forward to passing along the joys and passions I developed as a camper to the current generation of Pemi boys. Thanks largely to my summer experiences at Pemi, I’ve joined the other family business – teaching – and teach English at Loomis Chaffee in Windsor CT, where I also coach squash and tennis, and where this fall I will take on the role of Dorm Head.
Brian Tompkins – Head of Woodshop: a sculptor, dry stone mason, and former teaching snow pro, I was shaped and formed by camps as a kid, then burnished at ‘Camp Dartmouth.’ I have lived and breathed stone and trees and have steeped in their very physical culture up here ever since. I come to Pemi’s venerable wood shop from nearby Norwich, VT and hope to inspire designing minds and to safely guide the good work and instruction.
Jonathan Verge – Head of Drama: I grew up in Lebanon, NH and graduated from Lebanon High School in 2000. I studied Musical Theatre at Syracuse University, followed by training at The Globe Theatre in London. After a professional career in performing, directing and producing in NYC and Chicago, I returned to the Upper Valley where I is now the Director of Choral Music and Dramatic Arts at Lebanon High School.
Wendy Young: I will be spending my first summer on the shores of Lower Baker Pond working on camp programming. No stranger to the summer camp life, I spent all of my summers growing up at a similar boys’ camp where my parents were senior staffers. My last significant camp experiences were as a counselor at the sister camp of my childhood summer home. I am excited to share my love of sports, the outdoors, and creating community with the Pemi boys. During the school year, I serve as the senior athletic trainer at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts and have done so since 1997.
Caretakers of Our Physical and Mental Well-Being
Tom Ciglar – Director of Food Service: This is my 16th season at Pemi. During the school year I am the Director of Operations for Hampshire Country School in Rindge, where I live with my wife, Anna, and son, Jonathan.
Emily Crow – Medical Staff: Hi everyone! This is my first year at Camp Pemi and I am so excited to join the team! I graduated from Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH this past May with my Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. I am originally from southern NH and love camping and the outdoors. Looking forward to this summer at Pemi and can’t wait to meet you all!
Nancy Cushman – Kitchen Staff: I live in West Fairlee, Vermont. This will be my 12th summer in the kitchen at Pemi. I am one of the breakfast cooks, and I also make all of the desserts.
Sabrina De Stefano – Medical Staff: As the mother, sister and cousin to a handful of Pemi campers, I am delighted to join the medical staff during the second session of summer 2018! I live in Mendham, NJ with my husband and three children: Matteo (12), Noah (8) and Grace (4). I work as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Goryeb Children’s Hospital in both Morristown and Summit, NJ. I am passionate about children’s health, their physical and emotional wellbeing and recognize the importance of nature and play in a child’s development. As such, I consider it a privilege to be part of the Pemi staff and to share my expertise in caring for the campers this summer.
Necati Enoz – Kitchen Staff: I’m 22 years old. I’m from Turkey. I’m studying psychology. I grew up Istanbul. Istanbul is most big and famous city of Turkey. I love sports very much. I am doing a lot of sports. I like playing basketball. When I was high school, I played our school’s basketball team. In my university we have a big olympic swimming pool. I am swimming two times a week. I usually play soccer with my friends. I have a bike group. Sometimes we are going to mountain trip with our bike.
Santy Franco Benjumea – Kitchen Staff: I live in Columbia and my family is mainly formed by my mom, my sister, my brother in law and two aunts. I finished my primary and high school and I did a technic in Marketing and Advertising in Manizales. Now I’m studing at Mariana’s University about to start my second semester. I’m a social person. I like to much travel and know different people, my interests are all kinds of music, movies (in special the horror movies), technology, outdoor walks and the environment, drawing, painting, dancing, most of things related with art. I like food. I like business and to sell things. I sell candies and snacks to my classmates to help me with the materials and copies that the teachers ask us. I spend my free time in fun activities, dance, share with my friends and parents, and I go to travel and swimming too. I love to walk for an ecological pathway. I like to camp too. That is a great experience because you have to work as a team to reach the goal. We have to learn ourselves, how manage that hard situation and how survive without so many privileges. My future plans are begin a fast food business with a friend. I’m gonna study in the morning and afternoon, and I’m gonna dedicate to my business in the nights and the weekends. In a two or three years, I hope to grow my business and will have the first branch. In a five years, when I finish to study, I think in will go to travel and know Egypt, this is my first dream, I want to visit the pyramids and the mythology of that country. After to travel, I think to regress to Colombia, and follow to investing in my business.
Wojtas Gorzynski – Kitchen Staff: Hi, I’m Wojtek! I’m from Poland. I am a student at the University of Technology. I also work as a production planner at 3M company. I’m interested in sport and music. It will be my second year at the camp. This year I will also work in the kitchen. See you at the camp!
Reed Harrigan – Head of Buildings and Grounds: I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and graduated from Frostburg State College with a degree in Parks and Recreation. I decided that New England was where I wanted to be and took a job as recreational director at Waterville Estates, a resort community in Campton, NH. I then worked at a local high school, working with special education students and as a seasonal Forest Ranger in the White Mountain National Forest. I began working at Camp Pemi eight years ago, first as a bus driver and maintenance person, then as an instructor in canoeing and kayaking. This is my sixth year as year-round Facilities and Grounds Director.
Ricardo Hincapie – Kitchen Staff: I am from Colombia. I am 23 years old, my hobby is to go to the gym, listen to music and going out with my friends, I don’t drink alcohol, I hate it, and I hate cigarettes too. Also I play drums on my free time. I hope to have best summer I ever had at Pemi and improve a lot of my english level and meet a lot of people from other parts of the world.
Jamie Jackman – Medical Staff: I am attending Camp Pemi for the first time with my two boys, ages 17 and 13, and my 4 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback, named Cali. I was born and raised and still reside in Park City, Utah. Park City is home due to the seemingly endless mountainous terrain to ski and mountain bike on. I have a diverse background in nursing and love my career choice because I get to promote and provide healthcare to a diverse patient base. I have been accepted to Gonzaga Universities PMHNP program, which I will be starting in Spring of 2019. I would best describe myself as a tomboy who enjoys motocross, downhill mountain bike racing, competing in triathlons, water sports, and snow skiing. I seek opportunities to meet and adventure with new people and I am excited to meet and care for the community of Camp Pemi. I want all to know that I am always happy and available to address any concerns of staff, campers, and their families. My favorite food is anything spicy and I often challenge others to eat hot spicy food items to see if they can match my tolerance. I enjoy spending time with my boys, the outdoors, traveling, going to concerts, listening to music, and doing resin artwork.
Danh Le – Kitchen Staff: Hi everyone, My name is Danh, I am from Vietnam, but I am studying economics in Poznan, Poland. I really love traveling and experiencing new things. That is why I am here, this summer at Pemi, to make new friends, try and do what I have not done yet. And this is also the first camp in my life. Hope it will be great. Thank you so much.
Jakub Litkowski – Kitchen Staff: Hello everyone. My name is Jakub and I come from Poznan, a city located in the west of Poland. I am going to be at the Camp for the second time, and I will be really happy to have opportunity to help our chefs to cook meals for all of you. Last summer I was very thrilled, I could get to know a little bit of American culture. I was so impressed, that I decided to come back. See you at Pemi!
Michael McMurray – Chef: Hello Camp Pemi! I am Michael McMurray and I will be working as one of the chefs. I grew up in the Merrick Valley in Massachusetts and I have been living in New Hampshire for 12 years. I live in Milton, NH where I work in the Milton Elementary School in the winter months. I am looking forward to a great summer of hard work and lots of good times at Camp Pemi!!”
Frank Roberts – Buildings and Grounds: This will be my second season at Pemi working with the Buildings and Grounds crew. My wife Erica and I live in nearby Groton NH with our brand new daughter Hazel. We enjoy growing organic vegetables, hiking, and canoeing. Looking forward to another exciting season on Lower Baker!
Marcus Rosa – Buildings and Grounds: I live nearby in Hill, NH, and this is my first year on the Buildings and Grounds team. I love being outside and hiking.
Jon Spivak – Chef: This is my first year as a chef at Pemi, but I bring 40 years experience in food service. I live in Springfield NH.
Sergen Tastan – Kitchen Staff: I am from Istanbul Turkey and this is my first year working in the Pemi kitchen.
Dennis Thibodeau – Buildings and Grounds: This is my fifth season at Pemi and I live in Rumney, NH.
Aaron Warner – Driver: My name is Aaron Warner, and I am from a sleepy, little town in Vermont called Lunenburg. I have been involved with summer camps for many years in a full-time capacity. Within the last year, I decided to change careers, so I am working on my teacher’s certification to teach middle school science. With my summer off, I was delighted to find an opportunity to work at this camp as the bus driver. I look forward to this experience with all of the other great staff and will strive to be the best possible driver for the campers!
Erdem Bulut Yavas – Kitchen Staff: My name is Erdem Bulut. I am from Turkey. I am 19. I study Aerospace Engineering at Izmir Univercity of Economics. I like reading books, watching movies, and observing satellites. Also, I like to travel. I want to learn American and other countries’ culture at Pemi and I want to teach culture of my country. I will try to do my best in the kitchen at Pemi. I am looking forward to work and live at Pemi.
Moose Scoops: perfect end to a busy day of staff training sessions
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Alumni Newsletter – 2018 Preview
Posted on June 20, 2018 by kmoore
Welcome to the next installment of the Pemigewassett Alumni Newsletter. In this edition, we will preview the upcoming summer giving one and all an update on the 2018 Pemi campers, staff, and facility.
Our camper population in 2018 demonstrates another healthy year of enrollment. We are so fortunate to have Alumni and current families share Pemi through word of mouth, and we love meeting prospective families during our Winter Open Houses and visits to their homes.
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For the 2018 season, we have 88 full season campers, which is a recent record number of full season boys. A total of 166 boys will attend Pemi in either the first session or second session. All told, 254 boys will attend Pemi this summer. 76 boys, or 30% of the camper population, will be at Pemi for their first summer. On the veteran side of things, 26 boys will receive their Five-Year-Bowl this summer and 21 boys climb the ranks to their 6th, 7th, or 8th summer.
Geographically, campers travel to Pemi from nine countries: Spain, China, Germany, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, and 28 of the United States. Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee return to the list in 2018. Six states boast double-digit numbers of campers, including the Granite State with 19 boys. Our campers hail from 140 different cities and 209 different schools. We are proud of our geographic diversity, fulfilling the Campfire Song lyric of a group of the nations best.
We are thrilled with the staff for the 2018 summer. Stay tuned to the Pemi blog over the next few days, as staff members introduce themselves. Before getting those details, here is a big picture look at our staff.
The classic color remains.
Many of Pemi’s program heads are returning including Chris Johnson (year five!) in Tennis, Steve Clare in Archery, and Charlotte Jones in Swimming. We love that continuity, yet also enjoy the energy and direction that a new Head of Wooshop, Brian Tompkins, and Music, Jonathan Verge, will provide for us this summer.
In the cabins, 18 of the 22 cabin counselors were once Pemi boys and 17 of them have previous experience on the staff. We anticipate strong leadership from our Division Heads, three of whom return from last summer. All four trip counselors return from last summer to help our new Head of Trips launch his tenure. That’s right, after 42 years of running the Trip Program, Tom Reed handed his clipboard to son, Dan, who will help a new generation of Pemi boys explore the mountains and rivers of New Hampshire.
A strong group of Assistant Counselors, including ten former campers (seven are Pemi West veterans) provide more than adequate coverage in our cabins and programs. Those who know the inner workings of Pemi understand how vital the ACs are to the success of a Pemi season. While Pemi West is on a year hiatus, we are pleased to report that the Counselor Apprentice Program (CAP) continues with six participants. Led by Ben Walsh, these CAPs are a glimpse of our future counselors.
Buildings and Grounds Update
Maiden voyage in Lucky!
Another busy year for the Buildings and Grounds team as Pemi continues to enhance its facility while camp is not in session. Throughout the winter and spring, Reed Harrigan and his hardworking crew spent countless hours first stripping away the paint from the Mess Hall tables and applying a fresh, durable, extra tough, and glossy paint in the familiar turquoise. These will surely make the block game faster without the need for salt!
After years of service to Pemigewassett, we retired the DockSide, Pemi’s tried and true Safety Boat. Now, a 13ft Boston Whaler with bimini will patrol the sailboats, canoes, and kayaks. All current and former Safety Boat drivers will rejoice over the ease of starting and maneuvering our new boat, aptly named Lucky! Also on the waterfront, the brand new high dive will grace the shores of Senior Beach. Climbing the ten-foot ladder provides a wonderful birds-eye view of camp. The height is impressive and may give the counselors second thoughts about their aerobatics during the counselor hunt.
HIGH Dive!
A few other additions dot the landscape, including a hefty addition to the weight room. The increased space and new equipment will allow for counselors to continue training for high school and college sports seasons. In the library, we have installed a new two-stall bathroom for women and guests, replacing the outdated one stall design. These new toilets are composting, furthering Pemi’s green efforts. Down in Junior Camp above the Junior field and nestled into Pemi Hill is a new staff cabin. The Moore family are the first inhabitants, and Winston (aged 9 months) likes it so much he’s slept through the night for the first time.
Good luck, long life, and joy! –Kenny
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My first 20 minutes of sleep away camp were awesome. The first thing I did was make my bed and put away my clothes and then we hung out in our cabin. My counselors are so nice! I love my new friends.
The food is unbelievable. It is so good. I really do not know what to write because I am having so much fun!
Pemi is great. I had the best corn dog and rice in a red sauce. Yesterday I climbed Mt. Stinson. After the hike, at the dope stop I got a 23 liquid ounce Arnold Palmer drink, the brand I love.
I can sail by myself now!
The showers are going okay. I’ve taken one so far.
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I got up on waterski’s a few days ago. It was awesome!!! I just got back from a 3-day that was also awesome. Also, you told me to think about my birthday dinner. I’m feeling linguini and clams.
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Today, I made toothpaste in the rocks and minerals advanced occupation.
In baseball, I caught 6 innings, went 3 for 3, had 3 rbi’s and 2 runs. Best game of my life.
My occupations this week were soccer, sailing, shop and guitar. Next weeks occupations, I signed up for all new activities including archery, rocks and minerals, a capella, butterflies & moths and rugby.
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‘Broadband?’ says Mr Silver, scratching his head. ‘No, we don’t have broadband here. Whatever that is when it’s at home.’
‘The internet,’ I say. ‘Are you still on dial up round these parts, perhaps?’
He looks around for someone else to ask, but there is no-one else in the shop.
‘It’s OK, I can manage without it for now,’ I say, sensing his embarrassment. It is well known that fibre optic coverage is poor in rural areas. I don’t want to come across as too metropolitan.
‘Sorry,’ he says, sheepishly.
‘But I do need an aerial for my TV,’ I say.
‘We don’t actually stock them,’ he says. ‘But we can probably order one for you. You want one that gets BBC and ITV, I expect. It will take about two weeks. And then if you want we can get Mr Eager to fit it for you. Mr Eager has a ladder.’
‘Is that all you can get here, BBC and ITV?’ I say. ‘No digital?’
‘We’re a hardware store not a magic show,’ he says, fiddling with the buttons on his knitted waistcoat. ‘You’ve moved into the Devlins’ cottage by the old mill haven’t you?’
‘I moved in yesterday,’
‘How are you settling in? ‘
‘It’s OK,’ I say. ‘But it’s not well equipped.’
‘You’ll probably be needing a kettle then. Would you like a whistling one or a standard one? We’ve got both types.’
‘I’ve got a kettle,’ I say. ‘An electric one.’
‘An electric one, eh? I don’t think I’ve seen one of those.’
‘But I will need a new plug. At the cottage they are still using the round pin sockets.’
‘We do have plugs. How many would you like?’
‘I’d better take a dozen then while I’m in here.’
‘Anything else we can help you with?’
‘I can’t seem to get a signal on my phone. I suppose that it drops out a lot out here in the sticks. I know Vodafone is not the best, so I might have to change networks. I thought you might know.’
I take out my Samsung and show him. It’s as if I’ve shown him the Orb or the Diadem.
‘What the blazes is that?’ he says.
‘You are a bit behind the times here,’ I say. ‘It’s a 3G smartphone,’
‘A 3G smartphone. Well, I never. What does it do?’
‘Well, not very much without a signal.’
The shopkeeper’s bell rings and another customer comes in. He exchanges a rustic greeting with Mr Silver. I am anxious not to become the centre of attention in this small community. I have come down to this hinterland to keep a low profile. I tell Mr Silver I will call in later for the plugs.
I had not been to view the cottage before taking on the six-month tenancy, as it was too far away and due to the turn of events, I felt I needed to move quickly. Conway and Tillotson were very helpful in finding me somewhere, but the pictures they sent did little to convey the degree of isolation of this community. I realised that Littlechurch was something of a backwater, but I had expected it to have a few concessions to modernity. The juggernaut of progress tends to take no prisoners as it ploughs its path, but somehow it seems to have completely bypassed Littlechurch.
But, shouldn’t I have realised when I first arrived yesterday that something was odd? The sit up and beg bicycles left unlocked outside the houses were relics from a bygone age. The fact that all the cars were old and that there were so few of them should also have given me a clue. How could I have missed the headline on the board outside the grocers come newsagents about Sputnik? Or the poster advertising The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness at the village hall next Thursday afternoon. Yet I noticed none of these things. All I can say in mitigation is that I was tired after a long drive.
I make my way back to the cottage to take stock. As I drive up, some boys in grey flannel short trousers take a keen interest in my Ford Focus. It’s an everyday sort of car but they behave as if they have never seen anything like it before. Concerned by their interest, I decide to park it round the back out of harm’s way.
The prices in the village are still in pounds, shillings and pence. Surely this is taking heritage and preservation too far. It occurs to me that my cash might not be accepted here, nor I imagine my Visa or Barclaycard. Fortunately, I do still have a cheque book. I can use this to make purchases and just write the cheques in the old money. On the plus side, I expect everything will seem remarkably cheap, which is just as well because I do need a whole range of provisions. I do not even have milk to go in my tea. For that matter, I do not even have tea to go in my tea.
I figure that it is best to try and fit in here while I discover what is happening. I call in to Coward’s General Store and Newsagents, a brown and gold double fronted shop with period detail. You don’t see those cutaway typefaces much any more. The art of the sign-writer is disappearing. A vintage green and cream BSA Bantam is parked on the pavement. There are adverts outside the shop for Senior Service, Craven A, Gold Flake, and Woodbine. My first cigarette I recall was a Woody in the bicycle sheds in my last year at Frank Portrait Junior School, over forty years ago. I was sick and could not go into Mr Crudd’s afternoon class. But somehow this did not deter me. Smoking for young lads was less of a life choice then, it was almost compulsory.
I step inside. The shelves resemble Robert Opie’s packaging museum. Brooke Bond Dividend Tea, Bovril, Fray Bentos, Bournvita, Golden Wonder, Daz, Omo, Sunlight, Brylcreem, Alka Selzer, all these forgotten brands. Ah Bisto! brings back memories of Sunday lunches, beef one week and lamb the next, my sister Sarah and I subjected to the horrors of Two Way Family Favourites on the radio while we waited for the joints of meat to catch up with the stewed vegetables. There was no daytime TV then.
A middle-aged man wearing a starched white shirt, striped braces with a polka dot bow tie emerges from a cloud of cigarette smoke and interrupts my reverie.
‘Hello. I’m Mr Coward,’ he says. ‘Mr Silver was telling me about you.’
I don’t introduce myself by name.
‘You’ve moved into the Devlins’ cottage by the old mill haven’t you? he says.
‘News travels fast in these parts,’ I say.
‘Long John said something about a strange phone you have,’ he says.
Given my situation, I should know better, but Mr Coward seems one of life’s innocents, so I show him the phone. He thinks that it is very clever that you can take photos, add up numbers and type into it, but he is disappointed that you can’t use it as a telephone.
‘LJ also said you were talking about something called the enternet,’ he says. ‘He thought I might know what is was, but I’ve never heard of it. I even had a look through my Pears’ Cyclopaedia. What is this enternet?’
‘Internet, not enternet,’ I say.
‘Internet,’ he repeats, waiting for me to elaborate.
It is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to link several billion devices worldwide, and it is an integral part of our everyday lives,’ though simplistic, seems too complicated an explanation for this situation. How can I begin to explain browsers, search engines, surfing, emails, streaming, gaming, social networking, VOIP and podcasting to someone who has not come across the Internet.
‘It’s a bit like the post office,’ I say instead. ‘But a lot quicker with its deliveries.’
Mr Coward tells me it can take as long as two weeks for a letter from London to reach them, then launches into a brief history of Littlechurch which is brief because Littlechurch has little history. It used to have a lot of sheep and there are now not so many. They built a little church in the fourteenth century but parishioners stopped going so it was de-consecrated in the 1930s. It has never been a market town and the railway missed it by ten miles. Most of the houses now have electricity. There is a pub called the King’s Head and the police station is open every second Wednesday.
After I have put away my provisions, I venture up the hill to the King’s Head, thinking I might be able to have a hearty meal there along with a pint or two. The King’s Head it turns out does not serve food.
‘Never has, never will,’ says Amos, the landlord. ‘Pubs are for supping.’
‘I’ll just have a pint of your best,’ then I say.
‘Fraid we’re right out of beer,’ he says. ‘Been waiting for a delivery for over a week. All we’ve got is farmer’s cider.’
‘I’ll have a pint of that then,’ I say.
‘Draymens’ strike,’ Amos continues. ‘I’ve lost nearly all me regulars. There’s just these two left.’
Albert and Joss look up from their cloudy green liquid.
‘You’ll be the new bloke what’s just moved in to the Devlins’ place,’ says Albert.
‘What’s it like up there since old Ma Riley got butchered?’ says Joss.
‘What?’ I say. I am surprised that Mr Coward omitted this from his potted history. This elevates Littlechurch from a sleepy backwater to somewhere where something happened.
‘You mean you didn’t know about Ma Riley,’ says Albert studying the look of shock on my face.
‘Right gruesome it was. Cut her into little pieces and put her in plastic bags in the dustbin, he did.’
‘Place has been empty ever since,’ says Joss. ‘Couldn’t let it. No bugger wanted to live there. How long has it been, Amos? A year or more do you think?’
‘Take no notice of them,’ says Amos. ‘They’re pulling your pisser.’
I don’t know if you have ever found yourself in a place where there is no stimulation whatsoever. A place where you wish there were church bells to liven things up or wish that Jehovah’s Witnesses would drop by for a chat. You will be familiar with the expression stir crazy, especially if you know someone that has been in prison. Perhaps you yourself have been in prison. Well, let me tell you, you don’t need to be locked up to be stir crazy. After two weeks of living in Littlechurch I am climbing up the walls. I am completely without home entertainment. Although I have fitted round pin plugs to my laptop and to my phone charger there is no sign whatever of wifi and no hint of a phone signal no matter where I take them in the village. Not only is there no wifi but I have no TV and LJ’s store has just sold out of radios. To to cap it all the mobile library which is seen as a bit of a highlight here has stopped coming. I go in to Cowards to get an evening paper each day but for some reason they have always just sold out.
‘Local people have become very interested in news about Sputnik,’ Mrs Coward says. ‘The Gazette says they might send a man into space soon.’ Mr Coward has not been in the general store much lately. Perhaps he’s been selected as a candidate.
Mrs Coward is a much duller conversationalist than her husband. Yesterday was a good day for drying the washing but today not so good. The best day was about a week ago when the washing dried in a matter of hours. I am wondering what Mr and Mrs Coward get up to that requires her to do so much washing.
The draymens’ strike has not been resolved and the Kings Head hasn’t had its delivery of beer. Even the supply of farmers’ cider has run out. Without even Joss and Albert to entertain, Amos has closed the pub altogether. There is not another pub nearby, in fact there is not another village nearby. Sputnik’s progress aside, people in Littlechurch appear so incurious. They don’t appear to venture outside their houses very much. It is rare to meet anyone on the street. When I do come across someone, they have that faraway look in their eye. About half a dozen of them come along to the village hall screenings. It turns out that The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness was not just a one off, they show it every Thursday afternoon and on a Friday evening as well. After the third viewing, the jokes begin to wear a little thin.
I decide it is time to find out if the heat has died down back home. One day I suppose I will have to go back and face the music. While it is hard to imagine vandalism being a big problem in Littlechurch, I find to my chagrin that both phone boxes have been vandalised. Perhaps it was the boys in grey flannel short trousers I have seen a couple of times. I take a trip to the Fina filling station a mile or so from the village, but as I feared it does not sell unleaded petrol. To add to my isolation, they have just started major road works on the only road in and out of Littlechurch. The signs say that the road will be closed for seven days. LJ explains that this is due to a recently discovered geological anomaly which if not attended to will cause dangerous subsidence in the future. They have to reroute a stretch of two hundred yards of road. I tell him that they seem to have closed about four miles and they have an armed guard.
‘You should have had a notice through your door about it,’ he says. ‘Quite interesting geology we have around here. There are elements of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.’
‘No, I didn’t get anything through the door.’
‘No, neither did I, come to think of it, but that’s the Ministry of Transport for you.’
‘Aren’t you worried that it will affect your business?’ I ask.
‘I only run the shop as a kind of hobby,’ he says. ‘I started off making nesting boxes and before I knew it I was making raised planters and garden furniture. People started buying things that I made and I couldn’t keep up with demand. But, still it keeps me off the streets.’
‘I’ve been meaning to mention that, there never seems to be a soul on the streets.’
‘Oh really! I hadn’t noticed that myself. I’ve always thought of Littlechurch as a busy little place. There was even talk not so long ago of having a coffee morning at the community centre. That was before it closed of course.’
Just a few days behind schedule the road opens again and I manage to get the Focus to a filling station that sells unleaded. It is touch and go, with the fuel gauge on red all the way. I am fortunate, the forecourt attendant says. They are one of the first garages to stock unleaded. He is curious about my car. Did I import it? he wonders. He finds the number plate a little puzzling too. I just play along with him. It’s astonishing how backward things are in this part of the world.
From there I am able to drive the final ten miles to Biggerchurch. Biggerchurch is a thriving metropolis compared to Littlechurch. It still has a church I notice as I drive around looking for a quiet spot to park. Apparently Biggerchurch even used to have a branch line railway station before the Beeching cuts and was once a market town. It looks much more cosmopolitan than its neighbour. It has a fish and chip shop, an off-licence, a laundrette and even has some 1960s housing. Vodafone still isn’t connecting though. I spot an un-vandalised phone box. All I need now are some coins that fit.
I see from a psychedelic poster on the bus shelter that there is a free festival in a farmer’s field nearby starting later with Jethro Tull, The Pretty Things and The Incredible String Band. This explains why the town is packed with hippies. Groups of them in uniform of jeans with sewn in patches to make them flared topped with tie died green and orange safari jackets maraud the narrow streets. One such group gathers outside Keith Shakespeare Radio and Television to watch an old black and white set showing footage of the moon landings.
‘Far out, isn’t it, man,’ says a flower child lost in a menagerie of decorative neck-scarves. ‘Those cats are too much.’ It takes me a moment to realise firstly that he is talking about the astronauts on the TV and secondly that he is addressing me.
I give a non-committal reply and turn down the spliff he offers me.
‘Hey! Look! He’s jumping up and down. What a gas!’ says a hippie chick with lank blonde hair and a plague of nasal jewellery. She nudges me in case I miss the action. She is wearing an Afghan coat. In July.
On the screen, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in their spacesuits are demonstrating zero gravity. It is difficult to get excited about something that happened so long ago. I am more concerned about my own here and now, or my own here and then. But, whatever is happening in my own personal hyperreality, at least, I am a dozen years further along.
‘They’re not really on the moon of course,’ says a swarthy freak with big Afro hair and chin curtain beard. ‘Look at the shadows, man. They’re just like you would see from studio lights on a Hollywood film. The whole thing’s a fake.’
This sounds a familiar argument. Is this the very genesis of conspiracy theory? I ask them if any of them have change for a five pound note so that I can make some phone calls.’
‘You’re jiving me, man,’ says the dark skinned one in the brightly coloured Moroccan hat. ‘That’s Monopoly money or something you have there.’
This has the effect of killing negotiations with any of the others.
I take my fiver into the nearest shops and I find a similar reluctance to acknowledge the currency. The man in the saddler’s holds it up to the light, before shaking his head. The butcher waves a meat cleaver at me. The lady in the pet shop threatens to call the police.
This was how it had all started. With the police. The arrest. Perhaps I overreacted by disappearing before the court case. Perhaps I shouldn’t have come down here. I might have got off with a community sentence. After all, it was an innocent mistake. You’ve probably done the same. Purely by accident you’ve probably put the shop takings for the week into the wrong account. Into your account. I have to admit that I did think at the time the cashier at the bank looked a little surprised. Did you find this too?
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Crypto Exchange Offering Revenue Sharing and Copy Trading to Launch in Arabic and English
An upcoming crypto exchange says its revenue-sharing model and advanced copy trading features differentiate its platform from current market leaders.
A new exchange is vowing to offer a streamlined user experience that eliminates crashes and slow transactions when volatility and peak demand is high
A crypto exchange says it aims to offer “an exceptional user experience for all traders on its platform, regardless of their experience level,” delivering support for multiple languages and sharing revenue among users.
Pukkamex argues that many of the services dominating the industry right now are clunky, slow and vulnerable to crashing during crucial trades, something that can be disastrous for seasoned traders when prices are volatile. The company claims that its infrastructure eliminates unscheduled outages, meaning trades “will always be processed instantly, even during times of peak demand.”
The exchange says that its support for multiple languages is one of its main points of difference — and at launch, Pukkamex will be available in both Arabic and English. In explaining why it believes this support will open up its platform to a wider market, the company’s white paper states “The Arabic language is used by a substantial proportion of the global population, and is becoming increasingly important in the online world.” Compatibility in other languages — including Mandarin, Korean and Russian — is set to follow within the first year of its launch.
Pukkamex is initially going to focus on delivering Bitcoin/USD and Ethereum/USD pairings, but plans to diversify by adding BTC pairings for ETH, XRP, Litecoin, Monero, EOS and Bitcoin Cash soon after launch.
The exchange also has its own utility token, PUX, which is going to be available for trading on decentralized exchanges that support ERC-20 tokens. Those who hold PUX tokens will be eligible to participate in Pukkamex’s revenue-sharing initiative, the team says.
Pukkamex is available here
Intuitive copy trading
Several other crypto exchanges currently deploy copy trading to some extent, but according to Pukkamex, its platform is going to offer this feature at a scale that has never been seen before.
The exchange plans to offer a leaderboard of traders that crypto users can emulate if they so wish, and all of those who are featured in these rankings will have been verified by Pukkamex in advance — or will have amassed at least three months experience on the platform with a minimum trade volume of 25 BTC.
Users who choose to copy a trader’s transactions are able to allocate a set amount of their balance, and can stop copying whenever they please. Pukkamex’s leaderboard will also set out each trader’s average return on equity (ROE) and clearly state how much commission they are charging for their services, enabling the community to make an informed decision about which trader they wish to follow.
Pukkamex says it hopes to generate awareness about its exchange — and the revenue sharing and copy trading it offers — through a referral program. Users who recommend the platform to a friend are going to be entered into a raffle where they could win tickets to the North American Bitcoin Conference, an Audi A6, a lifetime of free trading on Pukkamex and other crypto prizes.
In explaining why it believes its platform has the potential to thrive in a crowded marketplace, the exchange’s white paper adds: “We see a strong market opportunity for a simple, secure and highly reliable leveraged cryptocurrency derivative trading platform. Delivering an exceptional user experience is a core focus of our vision. We intend to offer a feature-rich platform that combines highly secure infrastructure with a simple, streamlined user interface.”
Pukkamex has completed a seed stage of funding, and a private sale is taking place between March and May 2019. A presale of PUX tokens will follow in May and June, with a public sale commencing in July 2019.
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San Diego Int'l Children's Film Festival - Program 4
Rod Maxwell
One woman’s quest for love takes her to a wishing well. An all-time festival favorite. Directed by and starring Rod Maxwell, star of the SyFy Channel series “Face Off.” Rod Maxwell in person at the screening! (L/A) (USA)
Jennifer Oxley
A girl devises a creative solution to get her kite from the branches of a tall tree. (A) (USA)
Pl.nk!
Anne Kristin Berge
A minimalist painter works in silent concentration on a series of hopeless squares. Suddenly, help arrives. (A) (Denmark)
Pingu's Bouncy Fun
Marianne Noser, Otmar Gutmann
The world's favorite penguin enjoys testing gravity's limits. (A) (New Zealand)
Terry Mitchell
Little frogs learn not to stray too far. (A) (USA)
Head Dwellers
Eszter Szoboszlay
A peek into the inside of a head, where we find...the head dwellers. (A) (Hungary)
Boy and the Dragon Kite
Animated Film School Croatia
A kite into the clouds. A boy right behind it. (A) (Croatia)
Ari Carillo
The story of a piñata heroine, based on the legend. (A) (USA)
Joseph Barker/Ben Rivet
A bird goes on a journey to build a home for his family. (A) (USA)
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Queen Elizabeth II appears on screen accompanied by actor Daniel Craig during the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
OPINION: James Bond on Her Majesty's Secret Service
Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and the novel "All Summer Long." He appears on "CNN Newsroom" Sundays during the 5 p.m. ET hour. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene. See all of Bob Greene's columns at CNN Opinion.
(CNN) - During the Olympic Games in London, which will end with Sunday's closing ceremony, there have been many memorable moments:
The triumph of Michael Phelps.
The dazzling talent of Gabby Douglas.
The countless displays of lustrous skills honed by the world's finest young athletes over years of arduous practice.
But one of the most lasting memories may be the one provided by an 86-year-old woman who was not exactly an obscure footnote to history when the Games began.
Read Bob Greene's full column at CNN Opinion.
Posted by Bob Greene -- CNN Contributor, Gavin Godfrey -- CNN
Sunday Playlist: End of the Road
By Lisa Desjardins, John Sepulvado, Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, Jonathan Binder and Gavin Godfrey, CNN
(CNN) - Usually on Sundays we present some of our favorite listening discoveries produced by other audio storytellers.
This week, we depart from the usual and highlight our own work. We want to focus on a series CNN Radio has been presenting for the past several weeks, "Embed America."
The series was an attempt to take a different approach to election coverage: to turn away from the scripts of the presidential campaigns and, instead, focus on the issues important to voters where they live.
We invite you to explore the variety of stories our reporting teams produced from all over the country. Our reporters and producers worked very hard to bring these stories about a nation in the midst of a pivotal election year.
– Chip Grabow, Senior Editor, CNN Radio
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At Wheat Street Gardens farmers see a connection between their work and the work of Auburn Avenue's most famous residents.
Birthplace of MLK looks forward after 'endangered' designation
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN
(CNN) - Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, the street which gave the world Martin Luther King Jr. is endangered. That's according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The group is concerned about a lack of commercial development along the historic Auburn Avenue corridor in downtown Atlanta.
This designation is the second for Auburn Avenue. It drew curiosity and questions from business owners along the street itself. Windsor Jones opened a bakery here five years ago in large part because of the historical nature of the neighborhood:
[4:55] "You definitely lose a sense of what the town was built on because Auburn Avenue was the richest black street in America. So for it to be on the endangered list, it's kind of sad because I mean less than 60 years ago it was thriving."
People along the street also worry that history might get in the way of sorely needed development. Eugene Cook, for one, has incorporated history into his farming work:
[5:40] "Humans, every human, definitely deserves to eat good food so it is absolutely in that lineage of human rights issues."
Cook now works a few acres right in the middle of the district, known as Wheat Street Gardens. He trains new farmers and tends to organic produce. All of it, he says, is following the work done in service of social justice and human rights.
It's one small project in an area that preservationists say needs many more to avoid losing precious buildings and the history that lives inside their walls.
Mary Alex Romero and Caleigh Derreberry contributed to this report.
Posted by Emma Lacey-Bordeaux -- CNN, Gavin Godfrey -- CNN, Jonathan Binder -- CNN
Vice Presidents: Historical do-nothings
(CNN) - The job of vice president of the United States was once a consolation prize. It was literally given to the runner-up in the presidential election.
That led to some strange political bedfellows and laid the foundation for a job full of handshake photo ops and thumb twiddling.
John Adams, the very first vice president of the U.S., had some pointed words for the position:
[0:58] “I am vice president, and in that I am nothing.”
But despite the minimal power the office holds, the choice of a running mate can make or break a presidential campaign. And once elected, a president's poor veep choice can weigh heavily on an administration's reputation.
Take Martin Van Buren for example. He chose war hero Richard M. Johnson to be his number two. Historian Bill Kelter is author of the book, “Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance.” Kelter says it quickly became apparent that Van Buren's choice was a bad one:
[4:08] “The doorkeeper of the U.S. Senate called Johnson the most vulgar man of all vulgar men in this world. One of his slaves, Julia Chinn, was his common-law wife before she finally died in the cholera epidemic. After her death, he took up with another slave but she ran off with another man, so to punish her he had her caught, sold her at auction and then took up with her sister.”
Van Buren disliked Johnson so much that his taste for vice presidents soured all together. He ran for re-election without a running mate and lost.
So Mitt Romney better choose wisely. Because, while his political cohort may be little more than a last name on a bumper sticker, that lucky person could ultimately join a long line of historical gaffers, do-nothings, and even, some scoundrels.
Posted by Susanna Capelouto -- CNN, Tommy Andres -- CNN
The term "dog days" has a celestial origin.
Why the hottest days of summer are the "dog days"
(CNN) – The hottest days of the summer in the Northern hemisphere are commonly called the "dog days."
It turns out the name has nothing to do with man's best friend.
It comes from the star Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. Sirius is also called “the dog star” because it is found in the constellation, Canis Major, or “the greater dog.”
Dr. Ann Marie Cody, Astronomer with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, said this time of year, Sirius is situated in the sky very close to the sun.
[1:40] “The Romans and other ancient people knew this and they understood that when the sweltering summer heat set in, Sirius was right up there next to the sun even though it was not visible,” said Cody. “They concluded that the presence of this bright star was actually contributing heat and all the associated summertime misery to the Earth.”
But now we understand that it's the tilt of the Earth on its axis, the angle of the light rays and the duration of daytime that makes the difference in heating, not the “dog star.” That still doesn’t stop us from using the “dog days” as an excuse to escape.
Some take last minute trips to cooler spots like the beach. Some take time off from work to relax and stay out of the heat. And for others, because so many school districts are starting earlier, these hot, sticky days mark the end of their summer.
[2:57] “In August you’re school-supply buying, going to the dentist, get your check up, filling out this form, football practice. It’s no longer summer vacation,” said Celina Simic, a mother of four with kids spread from kindergarten to high school.
How do you spend the "dog days" of summer? Let us know in the comment section below.
Posted by Dan Szematowicz -- CNN, Jim Roope -- CNN, Susanna Capelouto -- CNN
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Regents eye metrics to measure system, campus successes
Board agrees on ‘guide to where we’re going’
The University of Colorado Board of Regents agreed on a set of metrics that will give tangible evidence of the university’s progress, as well as a clear picture of areas where it must improve.
In Tabernash at its annual summer retreat July 11-13, the board heard from Vice President for Finance and CFO Todd Saliman, who spearheaded the project.
“This is a tool for you to judge the progress and the performance of the president, chancellors, campuses and all of us,” Saliman said.
He worked with campus chancellors and their teams over several months to home in on the key measures of the university’s success under the broad headings of affordability and access, student success, fiscal sustainability, and reputation and impact.
The process was guided by the regents’ Strategic Vision framework. The resulting metrics outline is a living document the regents and administration agreed will provide a solid overview of CU’s key imperatives.
“It’s like our guide to where we’re going,” said Regent Irene Griego.
Many of the metrics have specific numeric goals, such as four- and six-year graduation rates, degrees awarded, enrollment, gift revenue and economic impact. Each has a 2017 baseline number and a five-year goal projected to 2023.
Saliman said a particular metric will be addressed in depth at each upcoming board meeting.
“We want to have an ongoing conversation and an in-depth conversation on particular metrics,” he said.
CU Denver Chancellor Dorothy Horrell said the approach will let campuses dive deeper into each metric.
“It will allow us to spend time with regents talking about how we manifest each issue, and examining the underlying factors,” she said. “It keeps us moving in the direction we’ve already started. Aligning all that and leveraging that is certainly an opportunity.”
The wide-ranging metrics effort will also explore factors such as alumni satisfaction ratings, patents awarded, online enrollment, student debt and the ratio of institutional aid vs. tuition.
“We don’t want to just look at them as check marks, we want to look at the broader implications – things like retention rates, internships, how we’re engaged in the community,” said UCCS Chancellor Venkat Reddy.
Some of the regents suggested things that were missing or needed more prominence, intellectual diversity chief among them.
“Diversity of thought needs to be much more prominent,” said Regent John Carson. “This is the very heart of what the American university is all about. We have got to present our students with a full range of thought.”
Regent Heidi Ganahl echoed Carson’s point.
“Many of us on the conservative side feel under-addressed in higher education. We want to measure this somehow and we want to move the needle. We’re here to represent our constituencies and our communities,” she said.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Lightner said the university should focus on its areas of greatest need.
“We hire based on expertise, we don’t hire based on political affiliation,” he said.
Yet he also said there is no place for any kind of discrimination on campuses, including political thought.
Saliman said his group will refine the metrics to reflect the regent discussion and would continue the conversation at each upcoming board meeting.
Board of Regents, Griego, Carson, Ganahl, Horrell, Reddy
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UMass wins two over weekend, sneaks into A-10 Tournament
By Mike Mastone
The Massachusetts women’s soccer team surged into the Atlantic 10 Championship hunt after qualifying for the conference tournament for the first time since 2004, with a shutout victory over Richmond on Senior Day.
The Minutewomen (6-10-2, 5-6-0 A-10) entered the weekend as long shots to make the postseason, but used a pair of 1-0 victories to ascend from the cellar to the sixth seed in the tournament. The defense stepped up in the clutch and proved to be a deciding factor in the team’s victories over George Washington (7-8-4, 4-5-2 A-10) and Richmond (8-10-2, 4-6-1 A-10).
“It’s a great reward for these kids,” UMass coach Angela Napoli said after earning a playoff berth. “They have been working hard since preseason and we’ve been pushing them hard … They’ve worked hard since the beginning and it’s just great to see them get their reward.”
UMass and Richmond combined for 23 shots on Sunday, with only one proving to be the difference. Midway through the 36th minute, sophomore Lauren Yelinek scored her first goal of the season. Freshman Meredith Fox brought down a serve-in by sophomore Lindsey DiOrio, with Yelinek flicking it past the goalie and giving UMass the only goal it needed. The assist gave DiOrio the first point of her collegiate career.
Senior Lauren Luckey started her third consecutive game in net for UMass and had a strong showing in her final game at Rudd Field. She tallied two saves in 45 minutes of action, including a key stop on a two-on-one fast break. She also stopped a shot by sophomore Liza Koch near the four-minute mark.
Richmond came close to taking a 1-0 lead nearly 16 minutes in, but a shot by sophomore Emily Dale was high and hit the crossbar. The Minutewomen had several chances to increase their lead in the first half, but Sydney Stoll, DiOrio, and Yelinek sent open shots sailing over the crossbar. Junior Therese Smith attempted the only shot of the second half for UMass.
Freshman Emily Cota took over in net in the second half and finished off the shutout with two saves.
“It was one of the best, most complete games we’ve played all year,” Napoli said. “It was nice to see (the seniors) come out well on the last day. Senior day is always tough. They were focused from beginning all the way to the end.”
Luckey and fellow seniors Cristina Adams, Katie Ruggles and Jacquelyn Desjardins were honored with a pregame ceremony for Senior Day.
“It’s usually hard to win both games on Friday and Sunday,” Ruggles said, “but we did and it’s a great way to leave Rudd Field, which is a home away from home.”
In Friday’s match up versus George Washington, Stoll came up big in crunch time and provided the game’s only goal. With less than five minutes to play, the redshirt junior tucked a kick in behind the goal keeper off of a rebound. She was assisted by Smith and Yelinek.
Like yesterday’s match up against Richmond, Friday’s effort was dominated by defense. The Minutewomen attempted eight shots, with Smith and Stoll firing the only two that were on goal. The duo finished the regular season tied for the team lead with five goals apiece, with Smith also tallying a team-high 13 points.
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Luckey, Adams, Ruggles, Desjardins and the Minutewomen return to action on Thursday night against third-seeded Fordham to conclude first-round play. The Rams defeated the Minutewomen 3-2 in double-overtime on Oct. 11 and finished the season with a 6-4-0 conference record (7-11-1 overall).
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Meet Alusine Petema Sheriff. CEO of Big things Company Limited which is a poultry Farm at Mange Road Mabanta Village Gbanti Chiefdom, Makeni, Bombali District. He is a vibrant hardworking young farmer. He has been a household name in the poultry business in Makeni and its environs for fresh, organic farm eggs for hotels, motels, restaurants, and households. We had a tete a tete discussion with him and we are excited to share that with you all.
Q. Big thing’s give readers a brief background about yourself.
A. I am from a very humble home. Both parents were teachers. I grew up in a rough and impoverish neighborhood know as “Portuguese town” constituency 126 wards 433. As a family, we struggled, as my parent’s meager salaries were never enough to care about us. My mother has to complement their salary by doing petty trading and that requires us to be selling for her just so to make ends meet. I had a nickname in secondary school and university because of my love for music. I was known then as “Don Co”. Upon entering the university I founded the music group INDIGENES with two of my talented friends. Indigenous was one of the best music group in the history of Sierra Leone. Then the music industry was dominated by dropout and been that we were all at the university we were able to change the narratives. Our songs top the chart for weeks leading to indigenes winning all the RnB awards in 2005/2006 music year. I graduated in 2007 Bachelor of Art. That same year the music business and industry lost its momentum and started a steady decline. Owing to poor management and industry pressure we could not hold it together so fall out, went our separate ways. Going solo was never easy, after three years of no record deal or shows I have to make up my mind to leave that dream of mine. So I immediately start looking for a job which was also not easy. So I had to take some IT courses before I was able to secure one as a promotion supervisor. Working for people for me was the best thing that happens to me as I got to learn a lot of things that I am using today to run my poultry. I had worked for two privately owned businesses and one NGO when I decided its time in 2014 to start my own business. So I resigned and then start the process of establishing Big things poultry.
Q. Why poultry in the first place?
A. I chose poultry after a series of prayer and fasting, this might sound cliche but I am a very prayerful person and the holy spirit dropped it in my heart. Sierra Leone has high infant mortality and malnutrition rates, diseases and low life expectancy; mainly due to low levels of protein in our diets. After a series of research, I realized that eggs are one of the most nutritious food in the world and the fact that they are cheap and affordable makes this industry more attractive to me. I thought if I go into this business I can produce large quantities of the egg from mainly organic feed components, it will go a long way in solving some of the aforementioned health-related issues most people encounter from not getting enough protein or from consumption of rotten frozen imported eggs.
Q. Why Makeni?
A. I chose Makeni because of the increasing economic activity in makeni at that time, the increase in the expatriate community around the Bombali district due to mining and other industrial activities. Malnutrition is also an issue in the district. In short, there was a massive market for eggs in makeni and its surroundings.
Q. Describe your leadership Skills and experience?
A. I started not knowing anything about poultry or the business aspect of it. I was just fueled by my passion, so by God’s grace, I was taught the principles of business the hard way by employing families and friends I almost lost everything before making the hard decision of letting them go and not mixing business with pleasure. I have also learned to at least get the basic knowledge of any business you want to enter into or invest in. I am a people’s person and a good listener so these are some of the skills that have helped me to this day.
New structures for expansion
Q. How long have you been in the poultry business?
A. I started in 2014 with relatively small savings and help from my parents. We had to purchase the land, clear and build the structures for the chicks, office, store, mill, procure feeders, drinkers, feed and a day old chicks.
Dasalone_titi, flanked by bigthings and Idris
Q. Did you get the support of your parents? As most times our parent wants us to be Lawyers, Doctors, or Accountants.
Man of the moment Alusine Petema Sheriff alias Bigthings, alian Don Co.
A. Sure! In the first place, the two teachers; my parents out of the little salaries were able to send me through school up to university. They were there for me through my music days and after college when I could not get a job. Even after securing a job they were not bothered about stressing me for money and that was how I was able to save so much to finance my startup, they still support me through prayers and advice. They are the best parents anyone could ask for and I love them.
Chickens with their drinkers.
Q. What your motivation or what keeps you going every day?
A.this entity was mainly established out of the twin desire to provide fresh farm eggs and affordable food for the people of the Nation and to create jobs for the youths of this country because I know first hands how it is to be jobless, so these are still my motivation for doing what I do.
Q. How are you able to get and feed the birds?
A. When we started, we got our first 4000-day old chicks locally from a Jah and IJ limited Company, but we also do get some from overseas companies. Drinkers we get from Guinea and feeders the rest of the drinkers were made locally. To feed the birds we really around farmers who are very supportive. We feed them maize, rice husk, and some seashells. Other components like concentrate and wheat bran we bought from suppliers in Freetown.
Q. How do you keep them healthy and protected from diseases and breakout?
A. Mortality in any farmhouse is inevitable. But notwithstanding it must not rise above certain levels. Any mortality above 2% within 2 days is a cause for concern. In order to reduce the risk of a high mortality rate, a strict vaccination schedule has been developed for the sub-region which, we follow to the letter. Vaccination usually starts from a day old at the hatchery and continued in the farmhouse, we treat them with vitamins in their feeds also. We have strict biosecurity measures to totally avert these outbreaks or minimize them as much as we can.
Q. What are some of your personal achievement?
A. I can proudly say through my business I have been able to further my studies. I have just completed my MBA Entrepreneurship Altis Business School, the Sacred Heart Catholic University of Milan and the University of Makeni. I won the 2017 entrepreneurship award organized by Africa and life by design. We also operate an out-grower scheme with a membership of over 100 poultry farmers in the surrounding communities and others within the northern regions. We have also brought electricity in the community making power accessible to hundreds of households. We have a total of 5.5 acres of land yet to be utilized. I am also the first in the country to run a poultry training course for youths. I have also established the big things entertainment multimedia and advertisement companies that aim at creating a platform for youth and local celebrities to develop and showcase their talents. Big things had also partnered with a young women empowerment group “awakening women/girls the only miss high school north which is personally funded. I have as part of my cooperate social responsibilities a fund that provides egg for children that are under the age of two within my community to fight against malnutrition. Big things poultry is also amongst the first top ten runners in the poultry industry for the year 2018 in Sierra Leone. I am the founder and chairman of the northern region pig and poultry farmers association, Sierra Leone. Finally, I have undergone a series of mentorship and business development and management training from NGO’s like Cordaid Sierra Leone, Adam Smith International SOBA Project, Pum Netherlands, Kepro, Hendrix Genetics e.t.c.
Q. What are your positive Moment or Success stories?
A. When I win awards like the youth entrepreneurship award. When I see my employees coming to work very early and happy and that we all can contribute to national developments. When Ministers and key stakeholders in the Ministry of Agriculture came to see my poultry. When I was asked to represent Sierra Leone in an Ecowas meeting and finally when I get to see every day what’s started in my mind as thought is alive and running that is, the “Big things poultry”.
Q. What are some of your challenges?
A. Increase in feed cost due to a yearly scarcity of main maize during the dry season. Which can effects cash flow and profit margins? Access to reliable suppliers of a day old chicks within the country and the subregion, 95% of poultry farmers get their chicks from holland at a high cost and inconvenient timing because of MOQ policies. Lack of appropriate machinery to conduct effective operation e.g. mixers. Another challenge is also the lack of trained and qualified veterinary personnel and outlets to procure medicines during the time of outbreaks.
Q. Where do you see Bigthings Poultry in the next five years?
A. To be the leading producer of fresh and affordable farm eggs in Sierra Leone, exporting the excesses to neighboring countries and beyond owing to the highly organic nature of our products.
Q. Advice to young people readers out there who are anticipating to go into the poultry business like you.
A. Poultry is a very profitable venture and according to statistics $40,000,000.00 is spent annually to import eggs into this country. Meaning for an even if we are able to only take care of the national demand that will be $ 40,000,000.00 in the pockets of Sierra Leoneans. But also just bear in mind that poultry is a capital intensive project so one must be ready not just financial, but mentally and physically ready. And must have some knowledge of how to run poultry. Lastly, talk to people who have been in the business for long, surf the web or better still take hands-on training on-site in a poultry farm, volunteer or enroll in any poultry training course. At Big things we offer full, half and basic training courses on poultry management for starters. You can reach us on the following; email at bigthingsdon@live.com, facebook@bigthings donor call us on +23278882777.
You don’t just sit there because there is no job. Take baby steps in building your dreams so you can be an employer like Alusine. Salone youth be like Alusine Petema Sheriff. There is no job available for the number of graduates leaving university every year. Take charge of your destinies and take charge of Sierra Leone to be self-motivated, go get what you want in life, you can do it just believe in yourself. I am talking to you reading this, yes you! You are in control take the wheels. #itssalonewayornoway# peace out.@dasalone_titi
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Hydroponic farms use less land, water to grow vegetables
Greenhouses allow year-round growing and protection from freezes and extreme rainfall.
Greenhouse Farms hydroponic greenhouse occupies nearly 3 acres. It expects to yield 750,000 pounds of premium leaf green produce through the year.
Growing lettuce and other leafy greens indoors is gaining traction nationwide, as such big players as New Jersey-based Aero Farms and Bowery, are producing huge quantities in giant warehouses fueled by millions of dollars in investment.
The push comes as farmland becomes increasingly expensive and in short supply, and consumers demand locally grown produce that’s fresher because it hasn’t been transported hundreds of miles
In Palm Beach County two new hydroponic farms—Green Life Farms and Patagonia Green Leaf— are being launched in greenhouses off U.S. 441 west of the Lake Worth Beach/Boynton Beach area. Hydroponic farming uses no soil. Instead, crops are grown in perlite, coconut fiber or nutrient-rich water in a controlled and enclosed environment.
Art Kirstein, agricultural economic development coordinator with the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service, said that hydroponic farming offers advantages such as year-round growing, increased capacity on a smaller amount of land and protection from freezes and weather events such as extreme rainfall.
Green Life Farms harvested its first crop of baby arugula, baby romaine and baby spinach in mid-July. Its greenhouse occupies nearly 3 acres and will yield approximately 750,000 pounds of premium leaf green produce throughout the year, said Mike Ferree, vice president.
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Literature on women and policing has grown in the past 40 years.
Gender focused work on women and policing was found to be lower in mainstream criminology and justice journals (72.9%) when compared to policing (78.5%) or gender (100%) specialty journals.
Specialty publications account for 65.3% of all research on women and policing, and the topic is still underrepresented in mainstream publications.
In the article, “Scholarship on Women Policing: Trends and Policy Implications,” Kringen reviews literature on female police officers from 1972 to 2012 to examine how gender was incorporated in research over time. To conduct her research, Kringen analyzed and coded 604 studies that were scholarly and peer-reviewed works sourced from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Sociological Abstracts, and SocINDEX. Kringen found that 83.2% of her sample was published in specialty policing (36%) or gender (18.3%) specialty journals or general criminology or justice (28.8%) journals. Gender was the primary focus of 81.4% of the works, and 4.8% of the works highlighted gender even when it was not the focus. Studies primarily focused on gender were lower in mainstream criminology and justice journals (72.9%) when compared to policing (78.5%) or gender (100%) specialty journals. Kringen concluded that overall the scholarship on women and policing has increased but specialty publications account for 65.3% of research on women and policing and that the topic is generally underrepresented in mainstream journals.
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Throughout his career, A.-L. Breguet consistently demonstrated his exceptional mastery of time measurement. His strong involvement and his revolutionary developments earned him significant recognition and numerous honours. Renowned the length and breadth of Europe, Breguet found a particularly active admirer in Louis XVIII, king of France. In 1814, the latter appointed him a member of the Bureau des longitudes in Paris. This body created in 1795 by the National Convention was dedicated to the advancement of the various branches of astronomy and their applications to geography, navigation and geodesy (the measurement and understanding of Earth’s physical properties). Its tasks included the annual publication of reference documents such as astronomical ephemerides. The Bureau des longitudes was a prestigious organisation whose 20 or so members included geometers, astronomers, seafarers and associate artists. The only representative of his profession that was eminently useful to physicists and navigators, Breguet became the horological authority, notably for the calculation of longitudes at sea. As an extension of this distinction, through an ordinance issued on October 27th 1815, Louis XVIII awarded A.-L. Breguet the official title of chronometer maker to the French Royal Navy.
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Following in the wake of this unique heritage, the House of Breguet now launches a worldwide exclusive model named the Marine Équation Marchante 5887. This “Grande Complication” marks the start of a new era for the contemporary Marine collection.
The equation of time is one of the rarest and most fascinating horological complications. It serves to display the difference between mean solar time, corresponding to civil or standard hours and minutes, and true solar time, meaning the actual solar hours and minutes.
Since Antiquity, the sun has been used as the basis of time. Nonetheless, the visible motion of the sun – the true solar time indicated on sundials – is irregular. With the improvement of timekeeping precision, watches and clocks became the basis of time and true solar time was replaced by mean solar time, within which each day has the same duration of exactly 24 hours. Mean solar time may show a discrepancy with true solar time ranging from minus 16 minutes to plus 14 minutes. On just four days a year, the two times are exactly the same. Given that the sun’s various positions in the sky are reproduced in an identical manner on the same dates, watchmakers can “program” them by means of a special cam. The latter is shaped like a figure 8 and mechanically reproduces the path of the sun’s successive positions, called an analemma curve. Requiring extremely accurate execution, the cam is coupled with a feeler-spindle that drives an equation lever serving to indicate the difference between civil time and solar time (-16 to +14 minutes). This read- off is generally provided on a sector or subdial. It is then up to the user to mentally add or subtract the difference displayed in relation to mean time in order to calculate true solar time. The new Marine Équation Marchante from Breguet supersedes this principle. It simultaneously indicates civil time and true time by means of two separate minutes hands. The running solar hand, adorned with a facetted golden sun, provides a direct reading of solar time minutes that is both quicker and more user-friendly. This apparently simplicity conceals an arduous construction process that few watchmakers are capable of achieving. The solar minutes hand has to meet two imperative demands: it must sweep in a conventional way around the dial, like the civil minutes hand, while also daily moving away from the latter by a distance that varies in accordance with the analemma curve, in order to display the equation. Breguet was able to accomplish this by equipping its running solar hand with a differential gear powered by two rotation sources operating entirely independently: the rotation of civil minutes, and that controlled by the lever in contact with the equation of time cam, which makes one full turn per year. Breguet has developed an extremely slim equation cam borne by a transparent sapphire disc also serving to correct the equation of time by month.
The complexity that the running equation of time brings to this model is naturally complemented on this “Grande Complication” by a perpetual calendar. Two apertures – one between 10 and 11 o’clock and the other between 1 and 2 o’clock – respectively display the days of the week as well as the months and the leap-year cycle. The date appears inside the chapter ring by means of a retrograde hand tipped with an anchor motif and sweeping across an arc running from 9 to 3 o’clock. The dial layout of the information has been carefully designed to ensure simple and intuitive linear reading, along with impeccable visual appeal.
Based on the self-winding 581DR calibre, the new Marine Équation Marchante by Breguet also flaunts a third complication that is noteworthy in its own right: a 60-second tourbillon with a titanium carriage housing a Breguet balance with a silicon balancespring. This innovative characteristic notably enables the balance wheel to achieve a 4Hz frequency, while maintaining a particularly comfortable power reserve for a self-winding model. This 80-hour autonomy is displayed through an aperture between 7 and 9 o’clock.
The ingenuity of this spectacular model is accentuated by the precious expertise of the artisans exercising their skills within the House of Breguet. The front dial features two types of engine- turning, including a “wave” pattern specifically developed for this new creation. The inscription “Marine royale” is engraved on the tourbillon bar, whose execution naturally draws the gaze. Visible through a sapphire caseback, the bridges have been delicately chased to depict in meticulous detail the Royal Louis, a first rank vessel in the French Royal Navy. The barrel is adorned with a windrose motif, in reference to astronomical navigation. Thanks to the carefully chosen positioning of the oscillating weight on the rim of the calibre, the self-winding movement deploys the full splendour of its decoration.
A truly magnificent timepiece, the new Marine Équation Marchante by Breguet sets the tone. It features new aesthetic signature codes giving it a modern and dynamic appearance: central lugs combining polished and satin-brushed surfaces; more open fluting, with visible flanks; a crown topped with a polished “B” against a sandblasted background; as well as a crown adorned with a chamfered and satin-brushed wave motif. This “Grande Complication” comes with a 43.9mm-diameter case in rose gold or platinum. The rose gold version frames a silvered dial and an anthracite movement, while the platinum interpretation has a blue dial and a rhodium-plated movement. Elegance, legibility and aesthetic balance are the keynote features of these two equally sumptuous models.
BREGUET MARINE ÉQUATION MARCHANTE 5887
SPECIFICATIONS OF THE WATCH REF. 5887PT/Y2/9WV
Case in 950 platinum with delicately fluted caseband. Sapphire-crystal caseback. 43.9mm diameter. Water- resistant to 10 bar (100m).
Blue dial in gold, engine-turned. Individually numbered and signed Breguet. Hours chapter with Roman numerals and luminescent dots. Breguet facetted hands in 18k gold with luminescent material. Running solar hand with facetted golden sun. Days of the week in an aperture between 10 and 11 o’clock. Months and leap- year cycle in an aperture between 1 and 2 o’clock. Retrograde dates indication on an arc running from 9 to 3 o’clock. Power reserve in an aperture between 7 and 9 o’clock.
Self-winding movement with running equation of time, perpetual calendar, tourbillon and 80-hour power reserve, Cal. 581DPE. Numbered and signed Breguet. Small seconds and equation of time cam on the tourbillon axis. 163⁄4 lignes. 57 jewels. Silicon escapement wheel and inverted lateral lever with silicon horns. Silicon balance spring. Balance frequency 4Hz. Adjusted in 6 positions.
Alligator leather strap with gold folding clasp.
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RNC Can't Figure Out Debates, So They'll Let Fox News Decide
They'll let anyone run for the nomination, but that doesn't mean they have to let them debate.
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Since everyone and their brother (I'm looking at you, Jeb) is running for the 2016 Republican nomination this year, there's a real problem with how to handle the debates.
Will they allow all of them to take the stage, some of them, or stagger them? It's hard to imagine any of us sitting through a debate with 20+ candidates including the likes of Donald Trump and Ben Carson on the same stage, after all.
According to Slate, the RNC is so flummoxed they're just going to hand it over to the "networks" to decide.
The situation has grown so fraught that the RNC has begun scrambling to publicly foist much of the responsibility for who get’s invited—and who doesn’t—onto the network that will televise each debate. “Ultimately, it’s the networks’ decision,” RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said over the weekend. “There’s an obligation for the party to make sure the standard is fair. But it’s not our decision.” Translation: If you don’t like what you see on stage, blame the media!
While it’s true that the networks are traditionally the ones to decide which candidates get an invite, no one expects the Republican Party to cede complete control over the guest list. The party simply has too much at stake. The debates will represent a rare chance to impose order on what promises to be a chaotic field, and the RNC can’t risk staying on the sidelines entirely.
Making matters more interesting still is the fact that party officials chose Fox News to host the first RNC-sanctioned debate, set for August 6 in Cleveland. While there’s nothing preventing CNN—which will host the second debate the following month—from inviting a candidate that Fox News excluded, anyone who doesn’t make it on stage in Cleveland is likely to lose ground to the bevy of candidates who do, making their case for standing on the CNN stage or the ones that follow that much weaker.
So it came to pass that the Fox News Primary is now a real thing. GOP voters will have to tolerate it. All hail Ailes, GOP Kingmaker. He's finally gotten what he wanted most.
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Cover Focus: Corneal Refractive Surgery | Jul 2016
Jeffrey Whitman, MD
https://crstoday.com/articles/2016-jul/the-latest-on-presbyopic-correction/ link
The treatment of presbyopia has been wide and varied. This article describes what is available and what may be coming down the pike.
Monovision with both contact lenses and IOLs is the most established strategy for addressing presbyopia. It is also the easiest and cheapest by far, provided that the patient accepts some loss of stereopsis as well as distance vision in one eye. The ideal amount of residual myopia for correction remains a subject of debate and can vary from -1.25 to -2.00 D.
Accommodating IOLs
The only approved accommodating IOL in the United States is the Crystalens (Bausch + Lomb), which provides good distance and intermediate vision in addition to variable amounts of near vision. Potential drawbacks to this technology include fibrosis (Z syndrome) and a more frequent need for refractive touchups relative to multifocal and monofocal IOLs. An advantage of this IOL is that it may be used for patients who have mild age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, or a history of radial keratotomy or laser vision correction. A toric version of the lens (Trulign; Bausch + Lomb) is also available. (For more information on the Crystalens and Trulign IOLs, visit beye.com/1146 and beye.com/1135, respectively.)
Multifocal IOLs
The recently released low-add versions of the AcrySof IQ ReStor lenses (Alcon) and Tecnis Multifocal IOL (Abbott Medical Optics) provide patients with a better-accepted coverage of near, intermediate, and distance vision than the original high-powered models. Glare, halos, and problems related to contrast sensitivity are generally less noticeable if these lenses are not implanted in patients with high aberration values. Centration of the IOLs can be an issue, and hitting the refractive target of less than 0.75 D of cylinder is important for the highest quality of vision. Pupillary size can have a strong effect on both distance and near vision. (For more information on AcrySof IQ Restor and Tecnis Multifocal IOLs, visit bit.ly/dellCRST716.)
Corneal Inlays
The Kamra (AcuFocus) is the first FDA-approved corneal inlay. The procedure is performed in a deep corneal pocket, and centration is critical. The inlay provides good near vision with some compromise of distance vision in the nondominant implanted eye. Downsides of the technology include the expense of and need for access to a femtosecond laser that makes pockets and an instrument to help center the inlay. Contrast sensitivity is poor in the operated eye, but binocular contrast sensitivity can function well. Problems with fibrosis of the inlay and cosmesis can be corrected by removal of the inlay.1 (For more information on this corneal inlay, please see Dr. Rebenitsch’s article and visit beye.com/840.)
Figure 1. Retroillumination of an eye in which the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay has been implanted.
The FDA approved the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay (ReVision Optics; Figure 1) on June 29. The device is indicated to improve near vision in presbyopic patients who have emmetropic refractions (+1.00 to -0.50 D). This transparent hydrogel implant is 2 mm wide and 30 µm thick. It can be placed either under a LASIK flap or in a 150-µm corneal pocket. No special instrumentation is needed to place or center the inlay. Fibrosis has led to the removal of the device in a small percentage of cases, and an average loss of 1 line of distance vision in the treated nondominant eye is typical.2 (For more information on this implant, please see Dr. Chu’s article and visit beye.com/841.)
Topical Drops
Presbyopia Therapies is developing a pharmacological approach to presbyopic correction that expands depth of focus. PRX-100 provides miosis without stimulating accommodation. According to the company, the drops provide a pupillary size of 1.6 mm for about 8 hours. (For more information on this technology, visit bit.ly/dell716.)
Figure 2. The FineVision lens is a trifocal design.
The acrylic FluidVision lens (PowerVision) features anterior and posterior optics with a central cavity between them. The compressible haptics contain a silicone oil-based fluid. The two large haptics are connected to the central fluid cavity, and they work together with the eye’s natural processes to aid accommodation. When accommodation occurs, the zonules release tension on the capsule, compressing the haptics. This pushes the silicone fluid between the two optics and creates an accommodative effect. At present, a 4-mm incision is required for the IOL’s implantation, but future injectors may decrease the size needed. Alcon recently got involved with support of this technology. (For more information on this IOL, visit beye.com/1147.)
The Sapphire AutoFocal IOL (Elenza) features an electroactive liquid crystal optic encapsulated in an aspheric monofocal lens. The lens combines nanotechnology, artificial intelligence (neural networks-based memory), and advanced electronics to seamlessly and automatically focus an optic from far to near without movement. The IOL does not rely on precise contact with ciliary muscles to move and accommodate properly. Instead, it reportedly senses the pupil’s size and acts accordingly. The technology is still in development. (For more information on this lens, visit bit.ly/donnenfeld716.)
Trifocal IOLs
The FineVision (PhysIOL; Figure 2) and AT LISA Tri (Carl Zeiss Meditec) use the optical principle of constructive interference to capture and redistribute incoming light that would otherwise be lost to diffractive effects. More light can be directed to intermediate vision with this design than with a true multifocal lens. Trifocal IOLs also reportedly have fewer issues with glare and halos than a typical multifocal lens. (For more information on these IOLs, visit bit.ly/mertens716 and beye.com/1157.)
Extended Depth-of-Focus IOLs
Howard Gimbel, MD, shares an edited-down version of the Kamra inlay procedure.
James Katz, MD, and Mark Kontos, MD, discuss scleral implant technology for presbyopic correction.
The Tecnis Symfony (Abbott Medical Optics) has rings but is not a true multifocal IOL, so patients will have fewer problems with glare and halos. This technology increases depth of focus with diffractive optics to expand the field of vision and decrease chromatic aberration. The compromise lies in fine near vision, but again, a real plus is that halos and glare can be comparable to that associated with monofocal lenses. (For more information on this IOL, visit bit.ly/dellCRST716.)
Adjustable IOLs
The Light Adjustable Lens (Calhoun Vision) has been available in Europe since 2008 but is in clinical studies in the United States. The lens is composed of macromers. Exposing these biocompatible photosensitive materials to a certain profile of ultraviolet light causes photopolymerization, which changes the shape and thus the power of the IOL. Light adjustment can induce asphericity centrally in the nondominant eye to provide an increased depth of field. This can reduce distance visual acuity in the treated eye. (For more information on this lens, visit beye.com/1158.)
The Flexivue Microlens (Presbia) also has the CE Mark. Available with three add powers, the hydrophobic acrylic implant has a diameter of 3.2 mm, a central hole of 0.5 mm, and an edge that is 15 µm thick. This clear lens is placed in a corneal pocket and provides a refractive add power of between +1.50 and +3.50 D. (For more information on this device, please see Dr. Maloney’s article and visit beye.com/842.)
Scleral Expansion
VisAbility scleral implants (Refocus Group) are placed in the oblique quadrants of the sclera to strengthen the ciliary accommodative reaction. The procedure has become more automated in recent years, but no submission has yet been made to the FDA. (For more information, visit refocus-group.com.) /p>
1. FDA approves first-of-its-kind corneal implant to improve near vision in certain patients. US Food and Drug Administration website. April 17, 2015. http://1.usa.gov/28JWLs1. Accessed June 20, 2016.
2. Whitman J, Dougherty PJ, Parkhurst GD, et al. Treatment of presbyopia in emmetropes using a shape-changing corneal inlay: one-year clinical outcomes. Ophthalmology. 2016;123(3):466-475.
• president and chief surgeon, Key-Whitman Eye Center, Dallas
• financial disclosure: consultant to Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, Refocus Group, and ReVision Optics
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Ray Barbee Meets the Mattson 2
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Artwork by Geoff McFetridge
Ray Barbee Meets The Mattson 2 is a rare creative collaboration that came into my life at just the right time. Ray Barbee first entered the public eye in the 80s as one of the first famous African-American skaterboarders. It wasn’t until 2003 when he released his home recorded debut EP, Triumphant Procession, on Galaxia Records that he gained a reputation as a musician. Now it’s hard to distinguish the musician from the skatboarder, and Barbee’s effortlessly smooth and improvisational approach to skateboarding could not be more apparent in his music.
Twin brothers Jared and Jonathan Mattson make music under the name The Mattson 2. The Southern California guitar and drum duo have a truly unique take on straight-ahead instrumental jazz. Their sound is only amplified by their innate talent and twin telepathy. Like Barbee, the Mattsons found an eager advocate in Thomas Campbell—filmmaker, artist, and co-owner of Galaxia Records. Campbell had been following and encouraging the Mattsons since they were 15. He slowly brought them into the Galaxia family, recruiting them to play art exhibition openings, movie premiers, and gigs with some of the Galaxia roster.
While recording their debut record in 2005, Introducing the Mattson 2, Campbell suggested Barbee guest on a track. Although Barbee’s part was just added to the studio recording, the collaborative potential was undeniable and the creative seed was planted. Not long after, Barbee was scheduled to play two nights at {open}, a bookstore in Long Beach. Not wanting to do the same performance twice he asked The Mattson 2 to play one of the shows with him. As expected, the rehearsal for the performance went exceedingly well and the three knew they needed to strike while the iron was hot and make a record as a proper trio. After 3 months of preperation they were ready. Ray Barbee Meets The Mattson 2
was recorded in August of 2006 at The Hangar Studios in Sacramento California, and aptly produced by Campbell. Melding the Mattson’s fluid musicianship with Barbee’s sunny guitar work, the record is a love letter to jazz and California summers.
Geoff McFetridge’s whimsical jacket artwork brings the endeavor together. McFetridge reinterprets the jazz LP cover, replacing the traditional portrait with a delightfully simple drawing of the three meeting represented by their hands holding tiny instruments.
I’ve listened to Ray Barbee Meets The Mattson 2 in headphones on the train, I’ve blasted it out of the boombox in my garage, I’ve listened to it in the car on road trips, and I’ve played it out of shitty phone speakers while cooking dinner. I haven’t listened to it the way you are supposed to listen to jazz records though. I haven’t pulled it off the record shelf, taken it out of the sleeve and put it on the turntable. This is my favorite way to enjoy music—archaic, tactile, intentional. I needed that experience with this record.
There are a number of sources for one off vinyl records. I recommend researching which method will work best for your needs. Our original goal was to press one copy just for us—the entire 52 minutes. This wonderful album is just too long for a single LP though. It’d have to be a double. An investment that would have to wait for the time being. Arbitrarily lobbing off a few track didn’t seem right, neither did a 4-6 track sampler. After a bit of research, we decided that a 12″ single would be the most natural choice. Two studio tracks on side A and a live recording exclusive to the Japanese CD release on side B.
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Bialgebras in Rel Academic research paper on "Mathematics"
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Abstract of research paper on Mathematics, author of scientific article — Masahito Hasegawa
Abstract We study bialgebras in the compact closed category Rel of sets and binary relations. We show that various monoidal categories with extra structure arise as the categories of (co)modules of bialgebras in Rel. In particular, for any group G we derive a ribbon category of crossed G-sets as the category of modules of a Hopf algebra in Rel which is obtained by the quantum double construction. This category of crossed G-sets serves as a model of the braided variant of propositional linear logic.
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ELSEVIER Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 265 (2010) 337-350
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Bialgebras in Rel
Masahito Hasegawa1'2
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
We study bialgebras in the compact closed category Rel of sets and binary relations. We show that various monoidal categories with extra structure arise as the categories of (co)modules of bialgebras in Rel. In particular, for any group G we derive a ribbon category of crossed G-sets as the category of modules of a Hopf algebra in Rel which is obtained by the quantum double construction. This category of crossed G-sets serves as a model of the braided variant of propositional linear logic.
Keywords: monoidal categories, bialgebras and Hopf algebras, linear logic
For last two decades it has been shown that there are plenty of important examples of traced monoidal categories [21] and ribbon categories (tortile monoidal categories) [32,33] in mathematics and theoretical computer science. In mathematics, most interesting ribbon categories are those of representations of quantum groups (quasi-triangular Hopf algebras) [9,23] in the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces. In many of them, we have non-symmetric braidings [20]: in terms of the graphical presentation [19,31], the braid c = X is distinguished from its inverse c-1 = X , and this is the key property for providing non-trivial invariants (or de-notational semantics) of knots, tangles and so on [12,23,33,35] as well as solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation [9,23]. In theoretical computer science, major examples include categories with fixed-point operators used in denotational and algebraic semantics [5,15,16], and the category of sets and binary relations and its variations used in models of linear logic [13] and game semantics [29]. Moreover, the Int-construction [21] provides a rich class of models of Geometry of Interaction [3,14]. In most of them, braidings are symmetric, hence X is identified with X .
1 This work was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 20500010.
2 Email: hassei@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
1571-0661/$ - see front matter © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2010.08.020
Although it is nice to know that all these examples share a common structure, it is also striking to observe that important examples from mathematics and those from computer science are almost disjoint3 . Is it just a matter of taste of mathematicians and computer scientists? Or is it the case that categories used in computer science cannot host structures interesting for mathematicians (non-symmetric braidings in particular)?
In this paper we demonstrate that we do have mathematically interesting structures in a category preferred by computer scientists. Specifically, we focus on the category Rel of sets and binary relations. Rel is a compact closed category [25], that is, a ribbon category in which braiding is symmetric and twist is trivial. We study bialgebras and Hopf algebras in Rel, and show that various monoidal categories with extra structure like traces and autonomy can be derived as the categories of (co)modules of bialgebras in Rel. As a most interesting example, for any group G we consider the associated Hopf algebra in Rel, and apply the quantum double construction [9] to it. The resulting Hopf algebra is equipped with a universal ^-matrix as well as a universal twist. We show that the category of its modules is the category of crossed G-sets [12,34] and suitable binary relations, featuring non-symmetric braiding and non-trivial twist.
Hopf algebras in connection to quantum groups [9] have been extensively studied: standard references include [23,28]. The idea of using Hopf algebras for modelling various non-commutative linear logic goes back to Blute [6], where the focus is on Hopf algebras in the ^-autonomous category of topological vector spaces. As far as we know, there is no published result on Hopf algebras in Rel. Since Freyd and Yetter's work [12], categories of crossed G-sets have appeared frequently as typical examples of braided monoidal categories. In the standard setting of finite-dimensional vector spaces, modules of the quantum double of a Hopf algebra A amount to the crossed A-bimodules [23,24], and our result is largely an adaptation of such a standard result to Rel. However we are not aware of a characterization of crossed G-sets in terms of a quantum double construction in the literature.
Organization of this paper
In Section 2, we recall basic notions and facts on monoidal categories and bialgebras. In Section 3, we examine some bialgebras in Rel which arise from monoids and groups, and study the categories of (co)modules. Section 4 is devoted to a quantum double construction in Rel, which gives rise to a category of crossed G-sets. We discuss how this category can be used as a model of braided linear logic in Section 5. Section 6 concludes the paper.
3 An important exception would be dagger compact closed categories used in the study of quantum information protocols [2], though they do not feature non-symmetric braidings. We shall note that our category of crossed G-sets is actually a dagger tortile category in the sense of Selinger [31].
2 Monoidal categories and bialgebras
2.1 Monoidal categories
A monoidal category (tensor category) [26,20] C = (C, &,I,a,l,r) consists of a category C, a functor & : C x C ^ C, an object I E C and natural isomorphisms aA,B,c : (A & B) & C ^ A & (B & C), lA : I & A ^ A and rA : A & I ^ A subject to the standard coherence diagrams. It is said to be strict if a,l,r are the identity morphisms.
A braiding [20] is a natural isomorphism ca,b : A & B B & A such that both c and c-1 satisfy the following "bilinearity" (the case for c-1 is omitted):
(A & B) & C —+ A & (B & C) —+ (B & C) & A
CA,B ®C
(B & A) & C a-- B & (A & C) —- B & (C & A)
A symmetry is a braiding such that ca,b = cBa. A braided/symmetric monoidal category is a monoidal category equipped with a braiding/symmetry.
A twist or a balance for a braided monoidal category is a natural isomorphism 9a : A ^ A such that 9i = idi and 9a®b = cb, a 0 (9b & 9a) ◦ ca,b hold. A balanced monoidal category is a braided monoidal category with a twist. Note that a symmetric monoidal category is a balanced monoidal category with 9a = idA for every A.
A (left) dual of an object A in a monoidal category is an object A* equipped with a pair of morphisms d : I ^ A & A*, called unit, and e : A* & A ^ I, called counit, making the composites
d®A / * i aA,A*,A * / A®e * T rA
A 4 I ® A (A ® A*) ® A A ® (A* ® A) A ® I 4 A _1 -i A* rA A* ® I A-4d A* ® (A ® A*) (A* ® A) ® A* "A I ® A* A
the identity morphisms. A ribbon category [33] (tortile monoidal category [32]) is a balanced monoidal category in which every object A has a dual (a*,^a : I A & A*,£A : A* & A —I) and moreover 9A* = 9A* holds, where, for f : A —B, f * : B* A* is given by (omitting l, r and a)
B* B"^nA B * & A & A* B*fjA* B * & B & A* £B^A* A*.
It follows that (—)* extends to a contravariant equivalence, there is a natural isomorphism A** ~ A, and the functor (—) & A is left (and right) adjoint to (—) & A*. Note that a ribbon category in which twist is the identity (and braiding is a symmetry) is a familiar compact closed category [25].
A traced monoidal category [21] is a balanced monoidal category C equipped with a trace operator TrXb : C(A & X,B & X) —► C(A, B) satisfying a few coherence
axioms. Alternatively, by the structure theorem in ibid., traced monoidal categories are characterized as monoidal full subcategories of ribbon categories. Any ribbon category has a unique trace, called canonical trace [21] (for uniqueness see e.g. [16]). For a morphism f : A ® X ^ B ® X in a ribbon category, its trace Trx B f : A ^ B is given by
Trx,bf = (ids ® (ex ◦ (idx* ® Ox) ◦ cx,x*)) ◦ (f ® idx*) o (idA ® nx).
For monoidal categories C = (C, <8>,I,a,l,r) and C' = (C, <gi',I',a',l',r'), a monoidal functor from C to C' is a tuple (F, m, mj) where F is a functor from C to C, m is a natural transformation from F(—) & F(=) to F(—<8> =) and mj : I' ^ FI is an arrow in C, satisfying three coherence conditions. It is called strong if mA, b and mj are all isomorphisms. A balanced monoidal functor from a balanced C to another C' is a monoidal functor (F,m,mj) which additionally satisfies ms,a ◦ cfa,fb = Fca, b ◦ mA.B and F(OA) = Ofa.
For monoidal functors (F,m,mj), (G,n,nj) with the same source and target monoidal categories, a monoidal natural transformation from (F, m, mj) to (G, n, nj) is a natural transformation p : F ^ G such that pa®b ◦ mA,B = nA,B o pa & PB and pj o mj = nj hold. A (balanced/symmetric) monoidal adjunction between (balanced/symmetric) monoidal categories is an adjunction in which both of the functors are (balanced/symmetric) monoidal and the unit and counit are monoidal natural transformations.
2.2 Monoids, comonoids and (co)modules
A monoid in a monoidal category C = (C, &,I,a, l, r) is an object A equipped with morphisms m : A & A ^ A, called the multiplication, and 1 : I ^ A, called the unit, such that the following diagrams commute (for the sake of simplicity, we omit the coherence isomorphisms a, l, r, and pretend as if C is a strict monoidal category).
A & A & A -- A & A
When C is braided and m o ga,a = m holds, we say A is commutative.
Dually, a comonoid in a monoidal category C is an object A equipped with morphisms A : A ^ A & A, called the comultiplication, and e : A ^ I, called the counit, satisfying
€®A
When C is braided and cA A o A = A holds, we say A is co-commutative.
Suppose that A = (A, m, 1) is a monoid. A gives rise to a monad A & (—) whose multiplication is m & X : A & A & X — A & X and unit is 1 & X : X — A & X. An A-module is an Eilenberg-Moore algebra of this monad. More explicitly, an Amodule consists of an object X and a morphism a : A & X — X, called the action,
satisfying . 1®* „ V , , V ^ , V
X -- A & X A & A & X -- A & X
A morphism of A-modules from (X, а) to (Y, ß) is a morphism f i X — Y satisfying
л ^ A®f ^
A ® X -- A ® Y
Let us denote the category of A-modules and morphisms by Mod(A).
Dually, given a comonoid A = (A, A,e), an A-comodule is an Eilenberg-Moore coalgebra of the comonad A ® (—) whose comultiplication is A ® X i A ® X — A ® A ® X and counit is e ® X i A ® X — X. Explicitly, an A-comodule consists of an object X and a morphism а i X — A ® X, called the coaction, satisfying the axioms dual to the those of modules. A morphism of A-comodules from (X, а) to (Y, ß) is then a morphism f i X — Y making the evident diagram commute. We will denote the category of A-comodules and morphisms by Comod(A).
2.3 Bialgebras and Hopf algebras
Now suppose that C is a symmetric monoidal category with a symmetry cx,y i X ® Y ^ Y ® X. A bialgebra in C is given by a tuple A = (A, m, 1, A,e) where A is an object of C and (A, m, 1) is a monoid in C while (A, A,e) is a comonoid in C, satisfying
A ® A
А®А
A ® A ® A ® A
We say A is commutative (resp. co-commutative) when it is commutative (resp. co-commutative) as a monoid (resp. comonoid). For a bialgebra A, we can consider the category of modules Mod(A) as well as that of comodules Comod(A). The functor A & (—) is both monoidal and comonoidal. Moreover, as a monad A & (—) is comonoidal, while as a comonad it is monoidal. It follows that (cf. [7,30]) both
Mod(A) and Comod(A) are monoidal categories. Explicitly, in Mod(A), the tensor unit is (I, A & I ~ A — I) and the tensor product of (X, a) and (Y, 3) is
/ tr ir A tr T^ A®x®Y . . ,, T-r A®CA,X®Y ,.ra®8 ,r
(X & Y, A & X & Y ®—® A & A & X & Y -— A & X & A & Y X & Y).
The monoidal structure of Comod(A) is given by dualizing that of Mod(A).
A Hopf algebra is a bialgebra A = (A,m, 1, A,e) equipped with a morphism S : A ^ A, called an antipode, such that
A ® A -- A ® A
A ---- I -1-- A
A V / m
A ® ^^^^^ A ® A
commutes.
Lemma 2.1 If C is a compact closed category and A is a Hopf algebra in C, every object in Mod(A) has a dual, where a dual of a module (X, a) is
A ® X* A X* ® A X* ® A ® X ® X* X'-A** X* ® X ® X* X
2.4 Braiding and twist on (co)modules of a bialgebra
If a bialgebra A is co-commutative (resp. commutative), the monoidal category Mod(A) (resp. Comod(A)) has a symmetry inherited from the base symmetric monoidal category. However, (whether A is (co-)commutative or not) there can be some non-trivial braiding and twist on Mod(A) or Comod(A): we shall look at the case of Mod(A). Suppose that Mod(A) is braided with a braiding a (while we use c for the symmetry of the base symmetric monoidal category). Since A = (A,m) is a A-module, we have aA,A : A ® A — A ® A, and ca,A o aA,A o (1 ® 1): I — A ® A which we shall denote by R. Conversely, from this R : I — A & A we can recover ax,Y : X & Y — Y & X for modules X = (X, a) and Y = (Y, 3) as
X & Y ®x-® A & A & X & Y --X A & X & A & Y X & Y — Y & X.
In fact, there is a bijective correspondence between braidings on Mod(A) and mor-phisms of I — A & A satisfying certain equations [23,28]. Such a morphism of I — A & A is called a universal R-matrix or a braiding element. A bialgebra equipped with a universal R-matrix is called a quasi-triangular bialgebra.
Next, let A be a quasi-triangular Hopf algebra and suppose that Mod(A) is a ribbon category, i.e., not just braided but also with a twist O. We then have a morphism v = Oa o 1 : I — A, from which we can recover Ox : X — X for a module X = (X, a) as X —x A & X X. It follows that we have a bijective correspondence between twists on Mod(A) and certain morphisms v : I — A satisfying a few axioms [23,28,33]. Such a v is called a universal twist or a twist
element. A quasi-triangular Hopf algebra equipped with a universal twist is called a ribbon Hopf algebra.
Proposition 2.2 (cf. [23,33])
(i) If A is a quasi-triangular bialgebra in a symmetric monoidal category C, then Mod(A) is a braided monoidal category.
(ii) If A is a ribbon Hopf algebra in a compact closed category C, then Mod(A) is a ribbon category.
We will give a non-commutative non-co-commutative ribbon Hopf algebra in Rel in Section 4.
2.5 Examples
We shall look at a few basic cases.
Example 2.3 As a classical example, let us consider the category Vectk of vector spaces over a field k and linear maps. Vectk is a symmetric monoidal category whose monoidal product is given by the tensor product of vector spaces, and k serves as the tensor unit. A monoid in Vectk is nothing but an algebra in the standard sense. Similarly, a comonoid in Vectk is what is normally called a coalgebra. Modules, comodules, bialgebras and Hopf algebras in Vectk are exactly those in the classical sense; a detailed account can be found in [23].
Example 2.4 Let Set be the category of sets and functions. By taking finite products as tensor products, Set forms a symmetric monoidal category. A monoid in Set is just a monoid in the usual sense. For any set X, the diagonal map X X x X and the terminal map X 1 give a commutative comonoid structure on X — and this is the unique comonoid structure on X. Given a monoid M, its modules are just the M-sets, i.e., sets on which M acts, and Mod(M) is isomorphic to the category M-Set of M-sets and functions respecting M-actions. For any set X, a comodule (A, a : A — X x A) of the unique comonoid X = (X, A,e) on X is determined by the function n o a : A — X, and Comod(X) is isomorphic to the slice category Set/X. A bialgebra in Set is a monoid equipped with the unique comonoid structure. A Hopf algebra in Set is then a group with the unique comonoid structure, where the antipode is given by the inverse (—)-1.
3 Bialgebras in Rel
Now let us turn our attention to the category Rel of sets and binary relations. Rel is a compact closed (hence ribbon) category, where the tensor product is given by the direct products of sets. First, we shall note that there is an identity-on-object, strict symmetric monoidal functor J : Set — Rel sending a set to itself and a function f : X — Y to a binary relation {(x,f (x)) | x E X} from X to Y, and recall a standard result:
Lemma 3.1 A strong symmetric monoidal functor preserves the structure of monoids, comonoids, bialgebras and Hopf algebras.
¿From this and Example 2.4, it follows that a monoid M = (M,-,e) (in Set) gives rise to a co-commutative bialgebra M = (M, m, 1, A,e) in Rel, with
m = {((a1,a2),a1 • a2) | a\,a2 e M} : M x M m M 1 = {(*,e)} : I m M A = {(a, (a, a)) | a e M} : M m M x M e = {(a, *) | a e M} : M m I
M is commutative if M is commutative. Similarly, a group G = (G, -,e,(-)-1) gives rise to a co-commutative Hopf algebra G = (G, m, 1, A,e, S) in Rel, with an antipode S = {(g, g-1) | g e G} : G m G.
Let us examine the category Mod(G) for a group G = (G, •,e, (—)-1) (it makes sense to think about Mod(M) for a monoid M, but when M is not a group the description of Mod(M) can be rather complicated). A module of G is a set X equipped with a binary relation a : G x X m X subject to the two axioms given before. It is not hard to see that a is actually a function, in fact a G-action on X: for g e G and x e X, by letting g• x be the unique x' e X such that ((g,x),x') e a, we have e • x = x and (g • h) • x = g • (h • x). Therefore we can identify objects of Mod(G) with G-sets: a morphism from a G-set (X, •) to (Y, •) is then a binary relation r : X ^ Y such that (x, y) e r implies (g • x,g • y) e r. Since G is a co-commutative Hopf algebra, Mod(G) is a symmetric monoidal category with duals, i.e., a compact closed category which is actually very similar to Rel. Explicitly, the tensor of (X, •) and (Y, •) is (X x Y, (g, (x, y)) ^ (g • x,g • y)), while the tensor unit is ({*}, (g,x) M- *). A dual of (X, •) is (X, •) itself.
Next, we shall look at Comod(M) for a monoid M = (M, ^,e). A comodule of M is a set X with a binary relation a : X m G x X subject to the comodule axioms — but the axioms imply that a is a function whose second component is the identity on X. Hence an object of Comod(M) can be identified with a set X equipped with a function |_| : X m M; a morphism from (X, |_|) to (Y, |_|) is then a binary relation r : X m Y such that (x,y) e r implies x = |y|. Comod(M) is a monoidal category, with (X, |_|) ® (Y, |_|) = (X x Y, (x,y) m x • |y|) and
I = ({*}, x m e). Proposition 3.2
(i) If G is a group, every object (X, |_|) of Comod(G) has a dual (X, |-|-1) (and Comod(G) is pivotal [12]).
(ii) If G is an Abelian group, Comod(G) is a compact closed category.
(iii) If M is a commutative monoid, Comod(M) is symmetric monoidal.
(iv) If M is a commutative cancellable monoid, Comod(M) is a traced symmetric monoidal category.
(v) If M is a left (resp. right)-cancellable monoid, Comod(M) has a left (resp. right) trace in the sense of Selinger [31].
Thus we can derive a number of monoidal categories with symmetry, duals, and trace as categories of (co)modules of (the associated bialgebra of) a monoid or a group. However, they do not have a non-symmetric braiding; in the next section we give a Hopf algebra in Rel whose category of modules has a non-symmetric braiding and a non-trivial twist.
4 A quantum double construction in Rel
In the previous section, we have observed that every group G = (G, ■,e, (—)-1) gives rise to a co-commutative Hopf algebra G = (G, m, 1, A,e, S) in Rel. We shall apply Drinfel'd's quantum double construction [9,27] to G. Here we recall the quantum double construction given in terms of Hopf algebras in compact closed categories:
Proposition 4.1 (cf. [8,23,24]) Suppose that C is a compact closed category and A = (A,m, 1, A,e,S) is a Hopf algebra in C, where the antipode S is invertible. Then there exists a quasi-triangular Hopf algebra D(A) on A* & A.
For lack of space, we shall only give an outline of the construction and some informal remarks. Given a Hopf algebra A = (A,m, 1, A,e,S) with S invertible, let Aop* = (A*, A*,e*, (mop)*, 1*, (S-1)*) be the dual Hopf algebra (where mop = m o ca, a, and we omit the isomorphisms (X & Y )* ~ Y * & X * and I * I). It follows that there are suitable actions of A on Aop* and Aop* on A, and with them we can form a bicrossed product [27,28] of Aop* with A, which is the Hopf algebra D(A). We shall note that D(A) is almost like a tensor product of Aop* with A itself — except some clever adjustment on the multiplication and antipode. Also let us remark that Mod(Aop*) is isomorphic to Comod(A), and Mod(D(A)) can be regarded as a combination of Comod(A) and Mod(A), as we soon see for the case of G in Rel below.
Since the antipode S of G is invertible, we can apply the quantum double construction to G, and we obtain a quasi-triangular (in fact, ribbon) Hopf algebra D(G):
Theorem 4.2 Suppose that G = (G, ■,e, (-)-1) is a group. There is a ribbon Hopf
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algebra D(G) = (G x G, md, 1d, Ad,ed,Sd,R, v) in Rel, with
md = {(((g, hi), (h-1 ghi,h2)), (g, hh)) | g, hih e G} 1d = {(*, (g,e)) I g E G}
Ad = {((gig2,h), ((gi,h), (g2,h)) | gi,g2,h e G} ed = {((e,g), *) I g e G} Sd = {((g,h), (h-ig-ih,h-i)) I g,h E G} R = {(*, ((g,e), (h,g))) | g,h e G} v = {(*, (g,g)) | g e G}
where R is the universal R-matrix and v is the universal twist.
When G is not Abelian, D(G) is neither commutative nor co-commutative. Below we shall observe that modules of D(G) can be identified with the crossed G-sets [12,34].
4.1 Crossed G-sets
Let G = (G, ■,e, (—)-i) be a group. A crossed G-set X = (X, •, |_|) is given by a set X together with a group action • : G x X — X and a function |_| from X to G such that, for any g e G and x e X, ^ • x^ = g ■ H g-i holds. For instance, G itself can be seen a crossed G-set with g • h = g ■ h ■ g-i and h = h. Another trivial example is a G-set with | x| = e.
Proposition 4.3 For any set X, there is a bijective correspondence between D(G)-modules on X and crossed G-sets on X.
Indeed, if a : G x G x X — X is a D(G)-module, for any g e G and x e X there are unique h e G and y e X such that (((h,g),x),y) e a, and X carries the structure of crossed G-set where g • x is this uniquely determined y and x is the unique h such that (((h,e),x),x) e a. Conversely, a crossed G-set (X, •, |_|) gives rise to a module {(((|g • xlg),x),g • x) | g e G,x e X} : G x G x X — X.
A morphism of crossed G-sets from (X, •, |_|) to (Y, •, |_|), corresponding to the morphism of D(G)-modules, is a binary relation r : X — Y such that (x,y) e r implies (g • x,g • y) e r as well as x = |y|. The identity and composition of morphisms are just the same as those of binary relations. Let us denote the category of crossed G-sets and morphisms by XRel(G) which is isomorphic to Mod(D(G)). We note that the category G-XSf of crossed G-sets of Freyd and Yetter [12] is the subcategory of XRel(G) whose morphisms are restricted to functions and objects are restricted to finite ones. A variant of XRel(G) where G is not a group but a commutative monoid has appeared in [1].
4.2 The ribbon structure on XRel(G)
By Proposition 2.2, Mod(^(G)), hence XRel(G), is a ribbon category. In XRel(G), the tensor unit is I = ({*}, (g,x) — x, x — e), and the tensor product of X = (X, •, |_|) and Y = (Y, •, |_|) is
X & Y = (X x Y, (g, ^^ y)) — (g • x,g • y), (x, y) — x ■ y).
The tensor product of morphisms, as well as the coherence isomorphisms a, l, r, are inherited from Rel. For this monoidal structure we have a braiding ax,Y : X & Y — Y & X induced by the universal R-matrix R as
ax,Y = {((x У), (|x| •y,x)) | x G X,y G Y}.
There is a twist Ox : X — X induced by the universal twist v:
Ox = {(x, ^^ x) | x G X}.
For a crossed G-set X = (X, •, |_|), its dual is X* = (X, •, ^|_1), with unit nx = {(*, (x,x)) | x G X} : I — X&X* andcounit ex = {((x,x), *) | x G X} : X* &X — I. We note that the canonical trace on XRel(G) is given just like that on Rel: for f : A & X — B & X, its trace Tr-B f : A — B is
Trx,B f = {(a, 6) G A x B | 3x G X ((a,x), (b,x)) G f}.
4.3 Interpreting tangles in XRel(G)
To understand how a crossed G-set gives rise to an invariant of (oriented, framed) tangles, it is helpful to consider the rack [10] associated to the crossed G-set4 . Given a crossed G-set (X, •, |_|), let us define operators >, : X x X — X as x> y = ^^ x and x >_1 y = | y |—1 • x. Then (X, >,>_1) forms a rack; that is, the following equations hold 5 .
(x > y) >—1 y = x = (x>—1 y) >y (bijectivity of (—) > y) (x > y) > z = (x> z) > (y> z) (self-distributivity)
Now the braiding and twist can be described in terms of this rack: ax Y = {((x,y), (y>x,x)) | x G X,y G Y} and Ox = {(x,x>x) | x G X}. The interpretation of a tangle diagram in XRel(G) with a crossed G-set X is then determined by all possible X-labelings of the segments from a underpass to the next underpass satisfying "y under x from left gives y>x" and "y under x from right gives y>—1 x".
4 Indeed, another name for crossed G-sets coined by Fenn and Rourke is augmented racks. They have shown that every rack arises from an augmented rack, hence a crossed G-set.
5 However, this may not be a quandle in the sense of Joyce [22], since the idempotency x>x = x does not hold in general.
^y> ix
y/ \ X X/ x>x x/^X x>_1 X
For instance, the self-distributivity justifies the Reidemeister move III:
x/ Xy>x
(x> y) > z z / \
\ (x >z) > (y > z)
5 A model of braided linear logic
In this section, we outline the notion of models of (fragments of) braided linear logic, and see how XRel(G) in the previous section gives such a model.
5.1 Models of braided linear logic
By a model of braided multiplicative linear logic (braided MLL), we mean a braided ^-autonomous category [4]; note that a ribbon category is braided ^-autonomous, hence is a model of braided MLL. A model of braided multiplicative additive linear logic (braided MALL) is then a braided ^-autonomous category with finite products.
For exponential, we employ the following generalization of the notion of linear exponential comonads [18] on symmetric monoidal categories: by a linear exponential comonad on a braided monoidal category we mean a braided monoidal comonad whose category of coalgebras is a category of commutative comonoids. A model of braided MELL is then a braided ^-autonomous category with a linear exponential comonad. (An implication of this definition is that braiding becomes symmetry on exponential objects: /j-X ¡y = (r¡y,¡x .) A model of braided LL is a model of MALL with a linear exponential comonad (or a model of MELL with finite products).
5.2 XRel(G) as a model of braided linear logic
XRel(G) is a ribbon category with finite products, hence is a model of braided MALL.
There is a strict balanced monoidal functor F : Rel ^ XRel(G) which sends a set X to FX = (X, (g, x) ^ x, x ^ e). F has a right adjoint U : XRel(G) ^ Rel which sends X = (X, •, |_|) to UX = {x <E X | \x\ = e}/^ where x ~ y iff g • x = y for some g. By composing F and U with a linear exponential comonad ! on Rel (e.g. the finite multiset comonad), we obtain a linear exponential comonad F!U on XRel(G) whose category of coalgebras is equivalent to that of !. Hence XRel(G) is a model of braided LL. As a result, there exists a linear fixed-point operator on XRel(G) as given in [16].
XRel(G) is degenerate as a model of LL in the sense that it cannot distinguish tensor from par. As an easy remedy, by applying the simple self-dualization construction [18] to XRel(G) we obtain a "non-compact" model of braided LL
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(XRel(G) x XRel(G)op). 6 Concluding remarks
We have demonstrated that there are many non-trivial Hopf algebras in the category of sets and binary relations. In particular, by applying the quantum double construction we have constructed a non-commutative non-co-commutative Hopf algebra with a universal R-matrix and a universal twist, and the ribbon category of its modules turns out to be a category of crossed G-sets.
Technically, most of our results are variations or instances of the already established theory of quantum groups, and we do not claim much novelty in this regard. What is much more important in this work, we believe, is that our results show that it is indeed possible to carry out a substantial part of quantum group theory in a category used for semantics of computation and logic. Although we have spelled out just a particular case of Rel, we expect that the same can be done meaningfully in various other settings, including
• the category of coherent spaces and linear stable maps [13], and its variations used as models of linear logic,
• various categories of games, in particular that of Conway games [29], and
• the category of sets (or presheaves on discrete categories) and linear normal functors [17], as well as the bicategory of small categories and profunctors.
The first two would lead to models of braided linear logic and braided game semantics. The third case is a direct refinement of Rel, in that we replace binary relations X x Y — 2 with Set-valued functors X x Y — Set (which amount to linear normal functors from Setx to SetY).
Finally, we should say that the computational significance of braided monoidal structure is yet to be examined. A potentially related direction would be the area of topological quantum computation [11].
I thank Shin-ya Katsumata and Craig Pastro for helpful discussions.
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Two teens arrested with 10,000 firecrackers (updated)
Turkey says its troops to stay in Iraq until Islamic State cleared from Mosul (Updated)
Workers prepare a tent camp in Khazer west of the Kurdish regional capital Erbil for people expected to flee Mosul because of the battles with Islamic State
By Tulay Karadeniz and Ercan Gurses
A planned US-backed operation to drive Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul could cause “blood and fire” in the region if not carefully handled, Turkey warned on Wednesday, saying it would keep troops nearby despite Baghdad’s opposition.
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, locked in an escalating row with Iraq over who should take part in the planned Mosul assault, would do all it could to prevent the operation from deepening sectarian conflict on its borders.
Mosul, home to up to 1.5 million people, has been the headquarters of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate in northern Iraq since 2014. The battle for the city, expected later this month, will help shape the future of Iraq and the legacy of U. President Barack Obama.
“We will use all our resources to prevent our brothers in Syria and Iraq from being crushed under the wheels of global power games, and to keep us from suffering a similar fate,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.
“We are determined to deflate the balloon of sectarian conflict aimed at drowning the region in blood and fire.”
Soldiers from Turkey, a regional power with the second largest armed forces in Nato, have been training Sunni Muslim and Kurdish Peshmerga units at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq and want them to take part in the expected battle for Mosul.
But their presence has sparked a row with the Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad, which is keen that its forces be at the forefront of the offensive.
The United States on Tuesday urged the two governments to resolve the spat, which could affect the planned US-backed assault. It said any foreign forces in Iraq should be there with the approval of the Baghdad government and under the umbrella of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State.
Turkey is part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State and has played a frontline role in Syria. It says its troops are in Iraq as part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State.
“Turkey does not move on orders from others … Turkey’s presence in the Bashiqa camp will remain until Mosul is rid of Daesh,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, using an acronym for Islamic State.
“Whoever the Mosul population is, Arabs or Turkmen, they have lived together for centuries and will continue to do so. If you change the ethnic structure here, the people there will not allow it … This is our perspective as Turkey. Turkey’s force in the region cannot be questioned,” he said.
“RANTING AND RAVING”
Turkey’s parliament voted two weeks ago to extend the deployment of an estimated 2,000 troops across northern Iraq by a year to combat “terrorist organisations” – a wording broad enough to refer to Kurdish militants as well as Islamic State.
Iraq condemned the vote, and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned Turkey risked triggering a regional war. His government has requested an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the issue, and both countries have summoned each other’s ambassadors in a mounting diplomatic stand-off.
Erdogan warned Abadi in a speech on Tuesday that he should “know his place”, saying: “You are not my interlocutor anyway. You are not on my level, you are not of my quality. You ranting and raving from Iraq is not of any importance to us.”
Abadi responded tersely on Twitter.
“Yes, we sure are not your equal, because we liberate our land with men not via Skype,” he wrote, in apparent reference to an attempted coup in Turkey in July in which Erdogan addressed the nation via a video chat service on a cellphone.
On Wednesday, Erdogan lashed out at those criticising Turkey’s position on the Mosul operation, saying Ankara was being “indecently attacked” because it was daring to disrupt the regional balance of power.
Turkey shares a 1,200 km border with Syria and Iraq and faces threats from Islamic State militants in both. But it is concerned that international efforts to destroy the radical Islamists will leave new dangers in their wake.
The Turkish army launched an incursion into Syria in August to push back Islamic State and prevent the US-backed Kurdish YPG militia from seizing ground. Ankara is furious at Washington’s support for what it sees as a hostile force.
Erdogan slammed comments by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a debate on Sunday that she would consider arming Kurdish fighters in Syria, describing her words as “unfortunate and amateurish”. He accused Washington of “working with one terrorist organisation to destroy another”.
The Turkish military, shaken by July’s failed coup and already busy with its Syria offensive and a Kurdish militant insurgency at home near the Iraqi border, could be stretched by conflict on a third front.
Security sources said soldiers and military equipment, including armoured vehicles, had been deployed near the Iraqi border with Iraq in recent days. The head of the armed forces, General Hulusi Akar, and force commanders visited army units in the border province of Sirnak on Wednesday.
Kurtulmus said Turkey would participate in the Mosul operation if the Kurdish YPG was not also involved. Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the PKK militant group, which has fought a three-decade insurgency in southeastern Turkey and has bases in northern Iraq.
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FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY (Chahar Shanbeh Suri) (director/writer: Asghar Farhadi; screenwriter: Mani Haghighi; cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian; editor: Hayedeh Safi-Yari; music: Peyman Yazdanian; cast: Hamid Farokhnezhad (Morteza), Hedye Tehrani (Mojdeh), Taraneh Alidoosti (Rouhi), Pantea Bahram (Simine), Matin Heydarnia (Amir-Ali, the couple’s young son), Houman Seyadi (Abdolreza, the maid’s groom-to-be), Sahar Dolatshahi (Mojdeh’s sister), Hassan Tasiri (Simine’s ex-husband), Forough Ghojabeyglou (The caretaker’s wife); Runtime: 104; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Seyed Jamal Sadatian; Facets; 2006-Iran-in Farsi with English subtitles)
“Delves into the messy lives of modern-day Iranians living a tense life in bustling Tehran.”
Director Asghar Farhadi (“The Beautiful City”/”Dancing in the Dust”) delves into the messy lives of modern-day Iranians living a tense life in bustling Tehran. He follows a day in the life of an Iranian family when things are boiling over with both personal angst and the lively spirit of a national holiday. Farhadi is the cowriter with Mani Haghighi. They give the westerner a rare look at the private lives of a much maligned people who are often misunderstood by the outside world. “Fireworks” eschews politics and the loud rhetoric of its belligerent real-life controversial leader to instead focus on universal problems such as social hierarchies, the everyday life of the common people and domestic conflicts. It’s more interesting to me than a similar themed Hollywood rocky marriage melodrama because it’s set in the unfamiliar confines of Iran and gives me a greater knowledge of the people than one would get from the headlines. Farhadi’s film is impressive in the realistic and matter-of-fact way it depicts both the urban middle and lower classes and in how it handles extra-marital affair complexities in a patriarchal society, as the film is seen through the eyes of a naive soon-to-be bride.
The title refers to the celebration on Wednesday of March 21st of the traditional Iranian New Year and the celebration of the festival of fire that falls on the last Tuesday evening before the Iranian New Year. That night celebration will call for people gathering in parks and mobbing the streets while setting off firecrackers and building bonfires. The holiday also signals a time to do one’s spring cleaning.
It’s during this hectic time that the young sweet cleaning lady temp named Rouhi, a soon to be bride, who works for an employment agency, is hired for the day on Tuesday to clean the apartment of a middle-class couple who live on the other side of town and who are going away on holiday for the New Year. The wide-eyed innocent is soon drawn into the unhappy couple’s marriage problems, as she cleans up the messy apartment after they had a spat the other night. The wife, Mojdeh, suspects her husband of eleven years, Morteza, of having an affair with the divorced next door neighbor hairdresser Simine, though hubby vehemently denies this.
Whether the accusation is true or not won’t be determined for the viewer until the third act. In the meantime Rouhi is taken into confidence by all three parties (she has her eyebrows plucked for her wedding by Simine, as Mojdeh sends her there as a spy) and gets an eyeful of what a bumpy marriage is like—giving the happy woman a bit of a fright about her upcoming marriage. Through the women depicted in such an open manner, we get an idea of how women struggle in that limited society, the mistrust between the sexes and the attitudes of the woman gossipers to adultery. By late at night when Rouhi is driven home by Morteza, she is a more experienced woman and glad to be returning to her less complicated future husband and less complicated life and away from the neurotic couple and their child Amir-Ali—even though she sort of likes that family.
The film is great on atmosphere (the noisy and crowded street scenes with merrymakers are contrasted with the sullen couple battling alone in their spacious luxury apartment), keeping things real and is intelligently told from more or less a woman’s point of view, but elements of the thin story seem padded.
It won the best film prize at the Chicago International Film festival.
REVIEWED ON 3/15/2009 GRADE: B+
Dennis Schwartz: “Ozus’ World Movie Reviews”
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Why Not to Buy Your Home Entertainment System Online
It’s the day your surround system that you purchased online is to arrive, “somewhere between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.” At 5:30, the delivery guy finally drops your system off and bolts, leaving you to find the box cutter. As you begin unpacking, you ponder where to best place your speakers and how on earth you are going to hide the speaker wires that run from each speaker to the receiver. A little overwhelmed, you open the last box and are shocked to find the subwoofer is punctured. Did you read the return and service policy from your online retailer? Who is going to pay to ship this 95-pound behemoth back to the manufacturer, and who will pay to have a new one shipped to you? Using a reputable independent retailer or custom installer allows you to sidestep all these headaches and more. Here, you’ll find our top reasons to buy from a brick-and-mortar retailer versus an online electronics retailer. See. Feel. Touch. Walking into an electronics showroom, you instantly “get it,”—seeing all of the components in one place—eliminating the uncertainty of what an A/V experience might be like. Shopping online doesn’t offer the true demonstration experience you should have before deciding on what products to buy for your space. For example, with an independent A/V retailer, you can compare TVs firsthand, demo a speaker system, or decide which projector you like best. You wouldn’t purchase a car without a test drive; why should it be any different for an electronics purchase? Leave the research to the experts If you have ever shopped online, you know that a considerable...
Control4 and Sony Partner to Blend Automation and Receiver Technology
Throughout the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association’s (CEDIA) Annual Expo, held here in Indianapolis, Indiana, all the buzz seemed to circulate around a very intriguing partnership – home automation leader, Control4 and consumer electronics powerhouse, Sony. During the highly-anticipated Sony press conference, the manufacturer shared the exciting news that it had integrated Control4® automation technology into its new ES receivers (introduced at CEDIA Expo). Even more exciting is the fact that the marriage of these two technologies promises to deliver best-in-class AV performance and home automation within one easy-to-install and easy-to-use product. This is a powerful partnership redefining the AVR category by delivering an unprecedented integrated AV and automation experience in a single device. Consumers will enjoy top AVR performance, unmatched 4K content and a stunning selection of streaming media services, plus the added lifestyle benefits of personalized automation that can transform a house into a smart home. With companies like Sony embracing and marketing the benefits of home automation, the custom installation industry benefits as a whole. Together, Sony and Control4 have created an exciting new avenue to drive consumer awareness for the category. “We are delighted that Sony selected Control4 technology to revolutionize their receiver line and deliver a fantastic automation experience,” said Martin Plaehn, Control4 CEO. “Enthusiastic dealer feedback validates the power and promise of our integrated solution. Together, Control4 and Sony are delivering a unique and strategic product for our dealers – providing them with a high impact addition to their product portfolio to grow their business.” “Sony has delivered many firsts to the industry and now we elevate the category standard again by...
CE Pro 100. Again.
Digitech Custom Audio and Video has called its location along Station Drive in Carmel, Indiana home for a decade now, but we’re proving to be equally comfortable in another locality… The CE Pro 100. For the fifth time in the last six years and for the seventh time overall, Digitech has earned a spot in the consumer electronics magazine’s prestigious list of the industry’s top 100 revenue earners. CE Pro’s list, a veritable who’s who of the A/V world, is compiled according to billed business from residential installs that incorporate home audio, lighting controls, security systems, structured wiring, networking, etc. Digitech’s acumen with all of the above — and more — landed it firmly within the roster. Landing a spot on a list that also includes industry giants like ADT is no small feat — especially considering Digitech boasts just one location and more employees than only 23 of the 100 — and company president Mark Vyain is justifiably proud of the accomplishment. “Digitech is very appreciative to again be included in the CE Pro 100,” Vyain said. “Our inclusion in such a prestigious list is both humbling and rewarding, and is a testament not only to our commitment to excellence, but to the hard work of our staff as well. It will feel good to hang another CE Pro 100 plaque on the wall – I’d like to think it means we’re doing things...
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Gross, Dorothy Bercu, 1917-2015
Naomi Dorothea (Dorothy) Bercu was born June 14, 1917 in Douglas, Wyoming. Her father George Bercu owned the Chicago Hide, Fur and Wool Company in Douglas and in Denver. He married Olive Mistachkin and the couple became parents of Dorothy (1917-2015), Harryette (1918), Robert (1919), Bernard (1921), and Berverly (1935). From 1925-1928, Dorothy and Harryette danced on the Orpheum Vaudeville circuit around the west. They were later joined by Bob and Bernard and the whole troupe performed from New York City to Juarez, Mexico. The sisters also danced from 1936 to 1939. Dorothy attended the University of Utah in Ogden, Utah beginning in 1930 at the age of sixteen. She started a theatrical booking agency in Salt Lake City and taught dancing. Dorothy married Norman Gross in 1941 after he had signed up for her dance class. They raised three children, Valerie (Schreiber), Gary, and Dennis in Dallas, Texas. She also taught fitness classes. She died in Dallas in 2015.
Articles, Ads and Biographical Information, 1917-2015
Identifier: B356.02.0005.0002
Overview The file contains newspaper articles and ads for the Chicago Hide, Fur, and Wool House. It also has biographical information on George D. Bercu and the Mistachkins and an obituary for Dorothy Bercu Gross. George Bercu married Olive Mistachkin, arranged probably through correspondence of the families.
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B356, Bercu Gross Family Collection / Bercu Mistachkin Family and Chicago Hide / Box 5
Bercu Sisters Advertisements, 1925-1936
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes papers, records, correspondence, photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspapers and newspaper clippings, framed photographs, documents, quilts and needlework, Vaudeville costumes and instruments, books, and record albums.
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B356, Bercu Gross Family Collection / Vaudeville / Box 3
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Gross, Gary (Child, Person)
Bercu, George D., 1886-1947 (Parent, Person)
Schreiber, Valerie Gross (Child, Person)
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SATURDAY NIGHT JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, NEW ORDER.
Jean-Michel Jarre with the album Oxygène.
Early eighties electronic music. You may or may not recognize the tune beginning at 18:54.
New Order. True Faith.
A 1987 single. New Order was essentially Joy Division minus singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide.
Goede nacht dames en heren. Best regards from the Kingdom of Fools aka Belgium.
GERMANY: CITY OF HAMBURG RECOGNIZES MUSLIM HOLIDAYS.
Germany's islamization my seem less spectacular than France's or Sweden's, but is just as relentless:
Number of Christian holidays in Turkey: 0 [zero - MFBB]. But oh yeah, there's only some 0.13 per cent of a Turkish population of 73 million that's still Christian. Egypt? Ah, they still have one (1) Christian holiday - Christmas.
For now, that is.
P.S.: Collaborators should be aware that ultimately a price will have to be paid.
MUSLIMS TERRORIZE FRENCH TOWN OF AMIENS.
This is how De Standaard reported on the heavy rioting that held Amiens, France in its grip on Monday and Tuesday:
"On Monday evening, the northern French city of Amiens was the scene of heavy rioting by youths [sic], with reportedly extremely violent clashes. The youths pulled drivers from behind the wheel to subsequently speed away with their cars. They also torched a school and a youth centre.
'The clashes were very, very violent', said Amiens mayor Gilles Dumailly. On Tuesday evening, sixteen police officers had been wounded.
The riots only ended when the local police was backed up with federal police units. The rioters' hard core consisted of about a hundred diehards. What their motives were, is not clear yet.
Fifteen trouble areas.
Earlier this month a list was publicized identifying fifteen French districts designated as troublesome areas. Amiens is one of those fifteen. The government said that these fifteen areas need special attention and that more money will be poured into them.
Did you read that? No kidding:
"THE GOVERNMENT SAID THAT THESE FIFTEEN AREAS NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION AND THAT MORE MONEY WILL BE POURED INTO THEM."
Ah, oh yes, IF ONLY more community centers had been built for Ahmed, Mohammed, Abdelkader and Ali!!!
This is how De Standaard's buddies from the BBC reported on the 'disturbances':
Same story by Christian Fraser. We are left in the cold regarding the number of Juliens, Marcels, Jean-Maries, Louis and Pierres among the rioters, but the troubles must have something to do with unemployment, the state not stepping sufficiently in, boredom etc etc etc.
Look out for more Amiens, as the demographical situation will get progressively worse. For some reason, European autochtons have more or less stopped procreating. I myself cannot say anymore how many singles, both male and female, I have met over the past couple of years who are, or should be, in a stage of their life where they should be building a house and raise kids. Instead it's one gigantic freewheelerfest. A renowned brewery engineer whom we recently invited, together with his wife, for dinner in our house, bitterly complained of his daughter's relationship with a thirtysomething eternal student who managed to secure a three-year stint at some archaeological find near Canterbury, after which he 'would see further'.
Our men and women are sterile and/or impotent. By contrast, muslims in our countries are literally procreating like rats. What we now see in Amiens is only the beginning, as those scoundrels are becoming more and more aware of the terror they are capable of stirring in the hearts and heads of Europes dwindling and ageing insurance and pension-addicted populace. True, these descendants of middle eastern sand apes are unemployed - is it any wonder? They barely make it past kindergarten, wield 70-80 something IQ's, spit on female teachers and co-workers, not to mention bosses etc. But is their being unemployed in se the motor behind these riots? Will hauling their lame assed and incompetent bods on government desks and behind municipalité computers miraculously change their behavior?
No. It won't. For inside their heads victory over the filthy infidels is imminent, and atavistic fantasies of ruling their streets and striking terror in their hearts, like their ancestors did over caravans and jews in the seventh century arab peninsula, fuel their frenzy. This is the dawn of a new age, and it won't be a nice one. Fools may pour taxpayer money in this witch cauldron ad infinitum, but it won't help. The only thing that could possibly help would be tanks in the streets, firing heavy machineguns into muslim masses attacking police officers and torching schools, and mass deportation of the perpetrators AND their families to their countries of origin. IN THIS MANNER the Europe as we know it might perhaps be saved. Might.
However, we do not have politicians who would have the guts for that. In France itself, even Marine Le Pen would not come even close to such a politician, and already the world's most public whore aka Madonna pops up every now and then depicting her with a swastika.
No, Europe and especially France do not have such politicians, but they have plenty of politicans like... the mayor of Amiens, who last week, just prior to the riots, gave 4,200 square meters of city grounds to the Al-Fath association to build a new mosque:
The text informs us that, as the El Fath mosque [El Fath = the conquest, MFBB] on the Boulevard Beauvillé cannot hold the growing number of worshippers, the mosque should be relocated to a terrain of 4,200 square meters on the angle formed by the Boulevard de Roubaix and the Rue des Cambrésis. If everything goes according to plan, the building permit will be issued in March 2013 and the first bricklaying will follow six months later.
Oh yes, al-Fath (the magnificent victory or the conquest) is a reference to a koranic sura of the Medina epoch, of which the number of verses is 29. This al-Fath sura is named after its very first verse, which goes 'Truly, we handed you a magnificent victory'. The al-Fath sura deals with the moment when mohammed breaks the al-Hudaybiyah peace treaty with the meccans in the sixth year of the 'hégire' (which was intended to last ten years). In the conquered city, mohammed notices a 17-year old girl, Safiyya, which he proposes to buy for ten units of cattle. When the girl goes in hiding, he tortures her husband, finally decapitating him. The prophet then forces the young widow to marry him (at that time he had already married 6-year old Aisha and 'consummated' the marriage when the latter was nine).
So then, the al-Fath Amiens mosque, soon to be relocated to bigger premises under the benign eye of mayor Gilles Dumailly, is named after an important episode in islamic history when mohammed, that leery siphylis-ridden pervert and murderer, broke a peace treaty and butchered a man so that he could screw the young widow.
A PERFECT EXAMPLE for muslims indeed! Truly a great name for a mosque in the City of Amiens, home of cowering frogs pissing their pants and feral hordes of paedophile worshippers roaming the streets and torching infidel cars and schools!
Maybe, if mayor Gilles Dumailly would just free another 4,200 square meters, no make that 8,400 square metres, hey, why not Amiens Cathedral???? then maybe the riots will stop???
Mayor Gilles Dumailly is a member of the PARTI SOCIALISTE.
But, I suspect you suspected that already.
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DZone > DevOps Zone > The Difference Between Black Box And White Box Testing
The Difference Between Black Box And White Box Testing
Black box testing and white box testing are two different types of software testing strategies, that are equally powerful, and even better when combined.
Graham Church
Jan. 13, 20 · DevOps Zone ·
Do you know the difference?
Software testing is an essential activity in the software development process. Without testing, you’ll end up with a buggy product that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do — a lemon. Black box testing and white box testing are two different types of software testing strategies, that are equally powerful, and even better when combined.
We’ll explore each, in turn, to see how it helps to shape a successful, performant end product.
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What Is Black Box Testing?
If you’re a non-programmer, when you hear the words “black box” you probably immediately think of the (almost) indestructible flight recorders that record flight details and communications and can be recovered in the event of a crash, even if it’s catastrophic.
In software, black box testing is also handy — but to reduce the risk of catastrophic (software) crashes. What might a catastrophic software crash be? Oh, perhaps your system crashes in the middle of updating your customer database and you don’t have any backups. In that case, you would have just lost all your customer data. Gah!
How Does Black Box Testing Actually Work?
There are three types of black-box testing: Functional testing, non-functional testing, and regression testing.
Functional Black Box Testing
With functional black-box testing, we can check if the software does what it’s supposed to do without knowing how it does it.
Software is written in modules or components. It’s a series of many little different components that come together to make up a whole system. By writing software in this way, in small components, we can test each component to make sure it functions as expected, instead of just testing some huge big system we’ve written in a big blob and hoping there are no bugs. The “big blob” approach will always have bugs.
So, with each small component, we have inputs and expected outputs. To conduct black-box testing, you need to create a list of valid and invalid inputs, including boundary cases.
Here’s a simple functional black-box testing example. Let’s say you have a software module that takes in a number and adds seven to it.
Your simplified test inputs would be:
A positive number.
A negative number.
A decimal point number.
A non-number value.
A null input.
You can see that your first four inputs should return a valid and correct result, whereas the last two should give an error message.
Non-Functional Black Box Testing
There are other expected system behaviors that we can also test with black-box testing. These can include things like system response times, expected screen flows, handling of large network traffic, etc.
Non-functional testing will include things like setting up simulated test environments to see how systems perform under pressure. There are various tools that help us achieve these testing goals and automate the processes involved.
Regression Black Box Testing
This is when we do black-box testing of the whole system (including functional and non-functional tests) when we make a change in one place — to ensure it hasn’t impacted other parts of the system unexpectedly.
Obviously, this process needs to be automated otherwise it would take forever!
What Is White Box Testing?
White box testing is when we test the internal structure of a software module: the code itself. Why do we need to do this if we already know the system works? Well, there are various reasons that white box testing is a good testing strategy to employ.
For Security Reasons
Sometimes code is inherently “unsafe” — whether it’s because it references and uses an insecure function from an external source, it accidentally causes data leaks, or it uses the wrong structure.
To Fix Inefficiencies
There are infinite ways to create a software module that can all do the same thing. While something can always work, that doesn’t mean it has been configured in the best way. If the code structure can be more efficient from a performance perspective, white-box testing can discover this.
To Check Paths or Data Flows
Should a financial transaction be recorded in your system before or after it’s confirmed? Maybe it needs to be recorded both before and after? White box testing allows you to examine the inner workings of paths and flows of data to see whether they make the most sense, and/or conform to system requirements.
There are also plenty of other reasons for white box testing, too.
Systems Need a Combination of Black Box and White Box Testing
Black box testing, as you can see, is essential to make sure a system works as expected. This kind of testing can be performed without much knowledge of coding necessary — as it doesn’t require examining the code itself. Knowledge of how software systems work is far more important in this case.
White box testing is more difficult and needs to be conducted by experienced programmers, utilizing advanced tools.
Both types of testing have a large toolset available to help out — but that’s beyond the scope of this article.
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Easta Medical » Voice Disorders Treatment Korea » Types Of Voice Disorders Therapy Korea
Types Of Voice Disorders Therapy Korea
Voice disorders are medical conditions involving abnormal pitch, loudness or quality of the sound produced by the larynx and thereby affecting speech production. These include:
Vocal Fold Paralysis
Vocal Dysphonia
Spasmodic Dysphonia
Functional Dysphonia
1) Vocal Fold Paralysis
What is Vocal Fold Paralysis?
The vocal folds of the larynx which is a major source of sound in speech, is controlled by the vagus nerve, the 10th of the 12 cranial nerves. By the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the superior laryngeal nerve inside the vagus nerve, the muscles inside the larynx and the vocal folds move together naturally to cause sounds and breathing, and to prevent food from going down through the trachea.
The vocal folds are brought together by the action of laryngeal nerves, so that air pressure builds up beneath the larynx, generating sound through the rhythmic opening and closing of the vocal folds. However, when the nerves are paralyzed, the vocal folds do not open or close properly and remain open, leaving the airway passage and the lungs unprotected. It causes hoarseness and coughing because the food goes down and gets stuck in the trachea.
This condition is called vocal fold paralysis. When only one side is paralyzed, it is called unilateral vocal fold paralysis, and when both sides are paralyzed, it is called bilateral vocal fold paralysis.
However, it is very important to know that laryngeal nerve paralysis for voice disorders therapy is not the only cause for abnormal movement of the vocal fold. There may be other reasons such as:
– A tumor inside the larynx
– Arytenoids dislocation from trauma
– Damage to the joints
– Congenital malformation
– Inflammation
– Infection of the larynx
– Scarred vocal fold
Therefore, it is important to find out the exact reason why this has occurred.
How is vocal fold paralysis diagnosed?
Vocal fold paralysis can be caused by many reasons. It is important to examine how far it has developed, whether it can recover, and the time of recovery. Therefore, different evaluations must be performed according to the cause. Brain computed tomography, and brain MRI is performed when necessary, to examine brain disorder brain tumor, a disorder in the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. To identify neck tumors or disorders in the blood vessels or nerves, cervical computed tomography is necessary, and sometimes thyroid functional test and ultrasonography might be necessary. Laryngoscopy and laryngeal stroboscopy are performed to identify inborn disorders, inflammatory diseases and functional disorders.
How can vocal fold paralysis be treated?
The treatment of unilateral vocal fold paralysis and voice disorders therapy started a long time ago.
In 1911, Dr. Wilhelm Brunings first started the treatment for paralyzed vocal folds by injecting paraffin to the paralyzed vocal fold muscle. The method of voice disorders therapy in Korea was used mainly to treat vocal fold paralysis until the 1970’s, but it is no longer in use due to its side effect of forming granuloma.
Later in 1915, Dr. Erwin Payr first developed the method of operating the thyroid cartilage which was a laryngeal structure. From then on, there was no systematic theory until 1950, and not many operations were performed. After Dr. Isshiki systematically established the operation of the laryngeal structure in 1974, thyroplasty became common. Another laryngeal structure operation is the arytenoid adduction, first performed to 12 patients by Dr. Slavit and Dr. Maragos in 1992. Recently the method of using thyroplasty and arytenoid adduction simultaneously is being attempted.
In 1977, the method of partially cutting off the omohyoid muscle for voice disorders therapy which is connected to the hypoglossal nerve branch and implanting it to the vocal fold muscle (thyroarytenoid muscle) was newly attempted by Dr. Tucker. Namely, it was the method of replacing a paralyzed nerve in the vocal fold with another nerve. However, it is not used commonly because it requires too much time for the vocal fold to recover its function.
Later in 1984, Dr. Ford first attempted the method of injecting collagen into the vocal fold, and in 1991 Dr. Mikaelian introduced the method of using fat transplantation.
The latest operation method in use is the Percutaneous EMG-guided Injection Laryngoplasty developed and presented at national and international conferences by Dr. Hyung-tae Kim, adjunct professor at Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine and current director of Yeson Voice Center. This method involves the injection of artecoll to the vocal cord ligament layer using the electromyogram.
Types of Vocal Dysphonia-
Vocal Nodule
Vocal Polyp
Vocal cyst
Granulomatus laryngitis
Reinke edema
Sulcus Vocalis
Laryngeal Papillomas
Vocal fold nodules are caused by strenuous or abusive voice practices especially in those who use their voice in their profession. In infants, it is very important to distinguish nodules from vocal fold cyst and arrive at proper diagnosis.Symptoms:
Continuous hoarseness and fatigue of the voice are symptoms of vocal fold nodules. Nodules do not cause pain or difficulty when swallowing food. Through a scientific view, a vocal fold nodule developed in the center of a vocal fold can be observed. The nodules are usually formed on areas of the vocal folds that receive the most pressure when the folds come together and vibrate. Vocal fold nodules do not grow over a certain size, and do not cause breathing difficulties.Treatment:
It is important to receive a voice disorders therapy which focuses on eliminating the abuse of the voice and teaches proper use of voice. Nodules are often removed through voice therapy itself, and no surgeries are required. When nodules are not removed through voice therapy, surgical treatments are necessary. Surgeries include laryngo-micro surgery and CO2 laser. Currently, endoscopic microfracture surgery and PDL are performed.
Like vocal nodules, a vocal polyp is caused by voice abuse. However, it may be caused by a temporary damage or an upper respiratory infection.Symptoms:
Vocal polyps cause the voice to be hoarse, and the symptoms may differ depending on the size and location. In some cases, the symptoms occur broadly and severely, and disseminated polyps may result in breathing difficulties.Treatment:
Polyps require microlaryngoscopic surgery of PDL to be removed. When they are caused by the abuse of the larynx, voice therapy should be done together.
A cyst is a mass made-up of a collection of material, usually mucus that is surrounded by a membrane. It is found underneath the mucosa, within the superficial lamina propria, the layer that is important for normal voice function.Symptoms:
Cysts generally cause painless hoarseness. The hoarseness results from irregularities in vocal fold closure as well as irregularities in vibration, both the result of the bulk and location of the cyst. In some cases, the voice change may be accompanied by a sensation of a foreign body at the level of the vocal folds, or a feeling of wanting to clear the throat or cough.Treatment:
Most commonly, a cyst can be removed by Microlaryngeal surgery and Pulsed Dye Laser surgery as well at the same time. It is important to remove the root completely to prevent the recurrence.
Granulomatus laryngitis Causes:
Intubation granuloma is often caused after a laryngeal surgery, bronchoscope test, or endotracheal intubation.Symptoms:
A granuloma is usually found at the back of the vocal fold over the part of cartilage. At the beginning, the granuloma becomes larger in size, but after certain days, it starts to degenerate. In many cases, the granuloma comes bilaterally, and hoarseness is not severe. It is usually found in females.Treatment:
Vocal rest and steroid can improve the condition. While the granuloma is growing, antibiotics can be helpful. If the granuloma does not improve after these steps, a laryngeal microsurgery or steroid injection after an incision using CO2 laser may be effective. The recently developed Pulsed dye laser surgery using a laryngoscope can also remove the granuloma under local anesthesia.
Reinke’s edema is caused by chronic voice abuse and vocal damage. It is also related to smoking.Symptoms:
Reinke’s edema is one of the chronic laryngitis and its main symptom is continuous hoarsenss. Biopsy of the vocal fold is used to help diagnosis. Reinke’s edema causes the vocal folds to swell giving them a sac-like appearance.Treatment:
The conservative treatment involves removing the source of irritant in the larynx, vocal treatments, and smoking cessation. Surgeries include laryngo-micro surgery using laryngo-micro equipments or CO2 laser which removes the submucosal edema to help restore the normal vocal fold tissue.
Sulcus vocalis is a thinning or absence of a special layer of tissue, which is the tissue covering the vocal cord requires to vibrate in order to produce sound.Symptoms:
Sulcus vocalis causes a characteristic harsh, reedy hoarseness. People with sulcus frequently must exert unusual effort to produce voice, and find it more difficult to be heard over background noise.Treatment:
Microlaryngeal surgery can be treated to incise the sulcus vocalis, or Injection laryngoplasty can be another treatment option. Recently, Pulsed Dye Laser surgery procedure brings a great outcome of the patients.
Laryngeal Papillomas are benign epithelial tumors that are caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) of types 6 and 11. Since the disease is most commonly found in children the disease may be caused by an infant contracting HPV from the mother during vaginal child birth.Symptoms:Adults- In adults the symptoms Laryngeal papillomatosis are hoarseness, or a strained or breathy voice. Size and placement of the tumors dictate the change in the person’s voice. Breathing difficulties may occur but more commonly are found in childrenChildren- In babies and small children the symptoms include a weak cry, trouble swallowing, noisy breathing, and chronic cough. Noisy breathing may be a stridor, which can sound like a whistle or a snore, and is a sign that the laryngeal or tracheal parts of the airway are narrowing.Treatment:
Yeson Voice Center implemented the Photo Genica SV PDL (Pulsed Dye Laser) from Cynosure Inc. U.S. This implementation is the first domestically, but also used in Asia. This equipment can perform Laryngeal Surgery without general anesthesia using digital laryngoscope. This laser equipment is totally new, high tech laser surgery equipment, which is a Pulsed dye laser Laryngeal Surgery equipment, and it only requires partial anesthesia. This Pulsed dye laser selects and solidifies only blood vessels at vocal band. It does not damage the healthy tissue. It selects and destroys only the abnormal tissue.
Laryngeal cancer is a disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the larynx (voice box). Most laryngeal cancer is found in smokers. Smoking is one of the most certain causes for laryngeal cancer. If you are a smoker, it is crucial to quit immediately. Just like in any other cancers, the best way to treat laryngeal cancer is early diagnosis.Symptoms:
Sore throat or pain when swallowing, voice change, ear pain, etc.Treatment:
There are 3 types of standard treatment for patients with laryngeal cancer.
– Radiation therapy : uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells.- Surgery : removes all parts where cancer has developed.- Chemotherapy : uses drugs to kill cancer cells.
Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is the inflammation of the larynx or pharynx (throat) caused by stomach acid or food backing up into the esophagus.Symptoms:
The symptoms of laryngopahryngeal reflux are the following:
– Chronic hoarseness- Frequent or dry cough- Sensation of a lump in the throat- Difficulty and pain swallowing foodSome people may also have heartburn or have phlegm in the throat. If you have above the symptoms, and especially if you are a smoker, It is recommended to see an otolaryngologist and get a checkup for LPR. If possibilities of LPR are found, then you will first have your throat examined and then the larynx and the deep parts of the throat. If the larynx and throat are swollen or inflamed, then a special examination or proper medical treatment will be required.Treatment:
Medication prescriptions will differ according to the person; your doctor will suggest to you the most adequate medications.
The general treatments for LPR are
Diet modifications to reduce reflux.
Medications to restrain stomach acid.
Surgery to prevent reflux.
Anyone who has LPR must change his diet and body posture. He must also take appropriate medicine. At times, antacids such as Mylanta, Almagel, Amphojel, and Curan, or drugs that accelerate the gastroesophageal sphincter muscle and prevent reflux like Cisapride and Motilium can be used. Drugs that strongly restrain stomach acid secretion like Pariet and Omeprazole can also be used.
However, these drugs must always be prescribed by a medical specialist.
3) Spasmodic Dysphonia
Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder caused by the excessive tension in the laryngeal muscles. Individuals with spasmodic dysphonia have breaking voices and face difficulty to start and continue communication.
The number of people suffering spasmodic dysphonia of unknown origin in U.S. ranges from 50,000 to 100,000 based on the U.S .statistics. Korea has no accurate statistical data on spasmodic dysphonia, but the number is assumed to be from 5,000 to 10,000.
Spasmodic dysphonia is often classified according to the age the symptoms develop. When symptoms develop before the age of 20, it is called infant type. When symptoms develop after the age of 20, it is called adult type.
Many doctors thought that mental problems were the cause of spasmodic dysphonia, because symptoms would get better when taking alcohol or tranquilizers, or get worse when being stressed or talking on the phone.
In the 1980’s, as researches of the cranial nerve brought the thought that the cause of spasmodic dysphonia was the abnormal spasm of the laryngeal muscles due to the inharmonic function with the basal ganglia where the integration of the central nerves takes place.
However, Dr. Ludlow, from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorder (NINDS) of National Institute of Health (NIH), proved that the cause of spasmodic dysphonia is the abnormal nerve system in the Nucleus Tractus of Solitarius, so patients lose control of their vocal fold muscle which makes it hard to talk and breaks off sounds.
Types of Dysphonia
Spasmodic dysphonia is classified according to each symptom and characteristic.
Adductor type: approximately 80%- glottis
– supraglottic
– dystonia tremor
– adductor type with tremor
Abductor type: approximately 4%
Mixed type: approximately 11%- Abductor-adductor type (abductor type with symptoms of adductor type)
– Adductor-abductor type (adductor type with symptoms of abductor type
Respiratory dysphonia: approximately 2%. The term ‘paradoxical vocal fold motion’ is more often used today.
Adductor spasmodic dysphonia is the most common type which involves spasm of the muscles that close the vocal folds. Glottic type is relatively common. Its symptoms develop from improper and irregular movements of vocal cords. Glottis type reacts better than Supraglottic type to botulinum toxin (Botox).
Electromyogram specialty of Spasmodic Dysphonia
First, you will receive an acoustic vocal test. Then a test will be performed to measure the muscular spasm of vocal cord when speaking, and examine excessive spasm or tremor of the laryngeal muscle using a laryngoscope.
Acoustic Analysis
Next, we will measure the changes in the basic vocal frequency with acoustic tests and observe the vocal waveform through spectrogram. Then we run the electro-glottography test and measure the resistance of the larynx through the aero dynamics test.
Laryngeal stroboscopy
Laryngeal stroboscopy examines the movement of the larynx, and the laryngeal electromyography helps find the abnormal movements of the larynx and vocal fold muscle. Using the laryngeal electromyography we can find pathophysiological problems and estimate the possibilities of recovery by checking laryngeal reflex.
High speed vocal fold filming system
We also use thehigh speed vocal fold filming system which was introduced for the first time in Asia, to find the exact place of spasm. Botox injection, where a small quantity of Botox is directly injected to the affected muscle, enables the voice to stay in good condition without the period of hoarseness.
Treatment :
Currently, there are three types of treatments for spasmodic dysphonia; medicinal treatment, surgical operation, and botulinum toxin (Botox).
Medicinal treatment
uses anti-choline type drug, tranquilizer, baclofen, and dopamine antagonist, etc. However, medicinal treatment has serious side effects and is used only for serious myotonic disorders. Medicine treatment for spasmodic dysphonia is just secondary treatment.
Hemilaryngectomy: Dedo reported the first treatment in 1976. It requires amputation of vocal fold nerve so it prevents the excessive contraction of the vocal cord. However, there is a 64% possibility of a relapse within 3 years.
Thyroid chondroplasty: It is a method of incising the front part of the thyroid cartilage and widening the vocal fold to reduce tension. It prevents excessive closing of the vocal fold even when spasm occurs. However, the muscle tension receptors inside the vocal cord can bring the voice back in bad condition over time.
Laser vocalis muscle cordotomy: Using laser, it removes a part of the vocal muscle to make the muscle thinner.
Nerve stimulator transplantation: Transplants nerve stimulator of the vocal cord to prevent excessive contraction of the vocal cord. This type of treatment does not cure completely, and it may relapse within a few months or a few years based on long period tracking.
All surgical methods do not bring complete treatment, and long-term observations show that symptoms return within months or years.
The injection of botulinum toxin (Botox)
The injection of botulinum toxin (Botox) is currently the most effective treatment. However, this is a temporary treatment which improves the voice for a period of three to six months after which the voice symptoms gradually return. The treatment requires continual injections to maintain a good speaking voice.
Until a few years ago, the treatment involved injecting certain muscle in the vocal fold or injecting in one side of the vocal cord. In this case there was no study of the effect on the cerebrum, so the other side of vocal fold tries to match the balance and creates over spasm on the other side. Therefore, this treatment might make the vocal cord worse due to the side effect.
So, the treatment has changed to multiple laryngeal muscle injections with Botox. The treatment normalizes the voice by injecting small amounts of Botox in the abnormal laryngeal muscles. This treatment extends the period of having a good voice and minimized the term of hoarseness after Botox injection, helping the normalization of voice by cranial reflex rehabilitation.
Multiple laryngeal muscle injection is currently being performed at Yeson Voice Center and is bringing very satisfactory results for our patients.
Botox :
Clostridium botulinum is a bacterium that produces botulism, the toxin botulin. This bacterium produces 7 different types of botulin toxin which can paralyze the myoneural system. These 7 types of toxin are called botulinum toxin (Botox) and are labeled as A, B, C, D, E, F, and G types.
The Structure of Botox
Each type of Botox consists of 2 polypeptide chains by S-S bond. The large cane-like polypeptide is called the heavy chain, and it is the same in all 7 types. The small cane-like polypeptide is called the light chain, and the forms are different according to the vernation type.
The History of Botox and its Medical Uses
Development and use of botulinum toxin as a possible bioweapon began at least 60 years ago. Botulinum toxin is the most poisonous substance known. It is about 6 million times stronger than the poison of a rattlesnake, and a single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled, would kill more than 1 million people. Consequently, researches on the use of botulinum toxin as a bioweapon began..
The US biological weapons program first produced botulinum toxin during World War II at Port Dittrick of Maryland. Because of concerns that Germany had weaponized botulinum toxin, more than 1 million doses of botulinum toxoid vaccine were made for Allied troops preparing to invade Normandy on D-Day. The US biological weapons program was ended in 1969-1970 by executive orders of President Nixon. However, Dr. Edward Schantz of the food research institute and the Erick Johnson Research Center and produced the toxin for research activities.
For 10 years, Dr. Alan Scott used botulinum toxin in animal experiments, and in 1968 he used it for the first time in humans to treat strabismus. Later, Botox received FDA approval for treatment of strabismus, torticollis, and spasmodic dystonia.
In 1984, Dr. Blitzer first used botulinum toxin for spasmodic dysphonia, and it is still used for treatment.
The Fine Art of Making Poison” Tom Waters, Discover, Aug, 1992. 2. Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon, JAMA Vol. 285 No. 8, Feb. 28, 2001.
The Medical Uses of Botox and its History
In the late 1960s, Dr. Alan Scott of Smith-Kettlewell Institute and Dr. Edward Schantz, of Wisconsin made a research about a substance that would relax the eye muscle which causes strabismus. As a result, they developed the botulinum toxin type A as a treatment medicine for blepharospasm, facial spasm, and various dystonias
Allergan Inc (U.S) produces botulinum toxin type A by the name ‘Botox’ and type B by the name ‘Myobloc.’
In 1989, Botox was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of blepharospasm, and in 2000, both Botox and Myobloc were approved for the treatment of cervical dystonia. Currently, they are used for treating various types of dystonia.
Mechanism of Action of Botulinum Toxin
The Neuromuscular
The part where the muscle and nerve join is called ‘neuromuscular junction,’ and it is where the signal from the nervous system releases ‘acetylcholine,’ a chemical deliverer that is stored in bubble-like forms at the nerve ends.
The Inner Structure of
the Nerve Ends
In the nerve endings, there are various types of proteins that release the acetylcholine stored inside the synaptic vesicle and allows it to fuse with the nerve endings. The proteins include SNAP-25, VAMP, and syntaxin. Botulinum type A and E cleave SNAP-25, and types B, D, F, and G cleave VAMP, while type C1 cleaves syntaxin and SNAP-25.
Botulinum Fusion
Botulinum toxin intentionally paralyzes the neuromuscles. The injected botulinum toxin enters the heavy chain of the muscle and fuses with the nerve endings.
Penetration of
The injected botulinum toxin fuses with the nerve ending and goes inside. Then the botulinum toxin cleaves SNAP-25, the protein inside the nerve ending, and blocks acetylcholine release.
Regeneration of
Nervous Sprouts
When acetylcholine is not released any more, the nervous signals cannot be delivered to the muscle. The muscle will not contract, and will have chemical paralysis. When time passes, new sprouts will grow at the nerve endings. This is called ‘sprouting.’
Formation of
a new Neuromuscular
The newly sprouted nerve joins the muscle to form a neuromuscular junction, removing the effects of Botox.
With the general amount injected, Botox cannot bring a permanent effect. When large amounts are injected into the muscle, the muscle will weaken more than expected. However, this is not permanent, and the action in the neuromuscular junction will happen again due to the regeneration of the nerves.
Some may think that Botox injection for spasmodic dysphonia might weaken the vocal fold muscles, but this is not true. The amount of Botox injected in the vocal fold is about 1/50-1/100 of that injected for cosmetic treatments. Therefore, it is wrong to think that Botox weakens the vocal fold muscles.
In 1984, Dr. Blitzer first used Botox to treat a patient with spasmodic dysphonia, and there were no reports of vocal fold muscles being weakened until now. In 1996, Dr. Hyung-Tae Kim of Yeson Voice Center performed the percutaneous Botox injection guided by electromyogram for the first time in Korea, and no symptoms of vocal fold muscle weakening have been found up to now.
Currently, Botox is used to treat spasmodic dysphonia, facial spasm, blepharospasm, hyperhidrosis, migraine, and other myotonus disorders.
4) Functional Dysphonia
Functional dysphonia is the abnormal use of voice despite normal anatomy and function of the vocal folds and the larynx which produce the voice and the pharynx and mouth which produce resonances. This condition can be related to the abuse or misuse of voice or habituation of compensatory techniques developed from the condition of the larynx.
Functional Dysphonia is often classified into 5 types.
– conversion aphonia
– habitual hoarseness
– inappropriate falsetto
– vocal misuse/abuse syndrome
– postoperative dysphonia
– relapsing aphonia
Symptoms of Functional Dysphonia
Mutational falsetto under a normal laryngeal system causes the voice to be high-pitched, weak, and thin like the voice of a female. The voice is easily fatigued, and difficult to sing.
The voice tone stays high, monopitched and it is difficult to make low-pitches. High-pitched songs cannot be sung.
It can be classified by two different factors; functional & organic.
Most of the functional factors are caused by psychological problems. Young males of pubertal age fail to accept their adult role or suffer emotional stress from the changes of adolescence and raise their sounding pitch.
Most of the organic factors are caused by the abnormality in the vocal membrane. Contractions or scars in the mucosal membrane or the underdevelopment of the larynx cause the focal folds structure to become like a female’s.
Diagnosis of Functional dysphonia
When functional dysphonia is caused by functional factors, the vocal folds appear normal on laryngoscope or laryngeal stroboscopy. The outer laryngeal muscles are excessively used to make a sound, and the larynx elevates. In organic factors, you can notice the abnormalities in the mucous membrane or the underdevelopment of the larynx and the vocal folds.
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A Visit with Old Friends
Posted by Candace Robb in Owen Archer and Lucie Wilton, The Writing Life
A Gift of Sanctuary, A Vigil of Spies, Archbishop John Thoresby, Brother Michaelo, Brother Wulfstan, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Magda Digby, The Apothecary Rose, The Lady Chapel
I’ve spent a few weeks working with the Owen Archer novels to be re-released in eBook 28 July, and in trade paperback a month later. The tasks have seemed endless—writing fresh “flap copy” for each book (what do you call it when it’s also used to describe e-books, which, of course, have no “flaps’?), spot checking the text files to make certain that I’d updated my own files with the copyedit and final proofreading corrections—in some cases trying to reconstruct this from years ago, finding old errors that can now (happily!) be fixed, suggesting major symbols from each book for cover copy. A busy time, and, although I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed going back over the books, I’ve felt overwhelmed. Until a friend’s comment helped me shift my attitude.
She thought it an incredible opportunity that few people have, to read back over my career, appreciate what I’ve accomplished, see where I’ve been. Few people have careers that are, essentially, written down and saved.
She’s right. Along with the work, I’ve been visiting old friends, some I’ve not encountered in a long while.
“Wulfstan believed that if he obeyed and did his best, he could not fail to win a place, though humble, in the heavenly chorus. To be at peace in the arms of the Lord for all eternity. He could imagine no better fate. And rules showed him the way to that eternal contentment.” Brother Wulfstan, infirmarian at St Mary’s Abbey, The Apothecary Rose
“A woman loves a poet’s praises, the promise of fame and immortality in his songs. But she lusts for a soldier and marries a man of property.” Dafydd ap Gwilym, bard, A Gift of Sanctuary
Others who continue to be much on my mind.
“I see. Either way, I am to lose you. Pity. I liked that you hated the work. It is what keeps a man honest.” Archbishop Thoresby to Owen Archer, The Apothecary Rose
“I have spies all over France and Brittany. And spies spying on the spies.” Archbishop Thoresby, The Lady Chapel
“All our mortal lives we totter at the edge of a bog, Archer. The higher we sit, the deeper we sink when we lose our footing.” John Thoresby The Lady Chapel
“Magda Digby once forgot that her gift as a healer was for all folk, not only those she thought worthy folk. She forgot that her opinion must count as naught, that she must step aside from herself. I is not for a healer.” Magda Digby to Archbishop Thoresby in A Vigil of Spies
And characters about whom I’d completely forgotten, such as Brother Florian, Thoresby’s chief clerk who’d expected to replace Jehannes as Thoresby’s secretary when Jehannes is promoted to Archdeacon of York. Florian resents Brother Michaelo for this.
Brother Florian arrived at Windsor on the third afternoon of Thoresby’s visit. He was soaked through, having shared a barge with a group of jongleurs who had contrived to fill the enclosed area with their gear and persons before the clerk boarded, forcing him to make the trip as unprotected as the bargeman. Fortunately the sleet of the previous few days had subsided to a chill mist and occasional drizzle, but it was enough moisture to weigh down Florian’s cloak and his mood.
“Might one ask, Your Grace, why these papers could not be entrusted to Brother Michaelo, your secretary, who sits so cozily in your chambers in London? Can he really have so much to do with the ordering and shipping of supplies to York that he could not be spared for this journey?” Brother Florian, white-haired and confident from years of experience, was not one to mince words.
“You have asked, Brother Florian, and I am happy to answer.” Thoresby smiled. “I do not entrust the papers to Brother Michaelo because I cannot be certain that he will not trade their contents for some of the luxuries he finds irresistible. Whereas Michaelo is very good at the tasks to which I have set him because he knows that he will share in the enjoyment of these items if they reach my houses in Yorkshire. It is all actually quite tidy. Do you not enjoy being indispensable?”
Brother Florian snorted. “Had I been truly indispensable, you would not have passed me over when looking for a secretary to replace Jehannes, Your Grace. It is no doubt Brother Michaelo’s Norman wealth that is truly indispensable.” Florian raised his cup to his lips, discovered it was empty, and thumped it down with a growl.
And then Florian seems to vanish from the books. Hm… I wonder what he’s been up to?
Owen Archer’s men Alfred and Colin first appear in The Lady Chapel—I thought their debut was in The Nun’s Tale. My, how Alfred changes over the years.
At some point I stopped Magda’s amusing practice of referring to people as the animals they resemble, except for a few—Thoresby is Old Crow, Owen is Bird-eye.
When I was experimenting with a new book last year I wondered whether Brother Michaelo had ever been on horseback in the books. I’d forgotten all about his playing messenger between Windsor and York in The King’s Bishop. And, of course, his journey to St. David’s on the west coast of Wales is largely on horseback.
Yes, I’ve been far busier than I’d imagined I’d be in high summer, but how can I resent spending time with such dear old friends?
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What were the biggest social media trends of 2016?
By Nikki Gilliland December 8th 2016 12:40
In the latest instalment of our yearly roundups, we’re looking back at the biggest trends in social media from 2016.
From the demise of Vine to the introduction of Instagram Stories – there’s been lots going on. But what were the most important developments?
Here’s some insight from several social media experts, and for more, be sure to get involved with the following resources from Econsultancy:
Fast Track Social Media Training.
Social Media Best Practice Guide.
Live video taking off
Will Francis, founder of Vandal London:
It felt like Facebook Live really took off in 2016, and this will become more important as more viewers tune into important streams.
Like many things, mainstream adoption has been and will continue to be driven by major world events such as the US Election and who knows what else in 2017.
Kirsty Price, senior community manager at PSONA Social:
From Buzzfeed’s Tasty to 360° tourism videos and celebrity livestreams – video has undeniably become the most scroll-stopping social media content format.
Facebook reports that by 2020, 75% of all mobile data will be video. In 2016, we’re already seeing that brands that don’t create and publish video content are trailing behind competitors that have invested heavily in this captivating medium.
Alice Reeves, associate director of social and outreach at Jellyfish:
Live video really took off this year. Since Facebook Live launched in April, we’ve seen a wide variety of uses – from TheLADbible gaining almost 800,000 viewers by stacking biscuits live and seeing which tower would fall over first, to CNN live-broadcasting a man scaling the Trump Tower in NYC which attracted over 8m views.
It is such an exciting development. What I found particularly interesting when watching the CNN Broadcast was how people were interacting with the news story, telling the person filming to move the shot back to the man when they panned over the crowd.
It was intriguing watching the live reactions changing from amused to angry as soon as viewers weren’t seeing what they wanted. This opens up a whole new dimension to how we engage with news, brands, and organisations.
Jordan Stone, deputy head of strategy at We Are Social:
Live video has taken off in a big way both among consumers and brands, and with Facebook, Periscope, and Twitter all introducing new ways for brands to livestream more professional-looking content – streaming shows no sign of slowing down as we move into the new year.
The rise of chatbots
Kirsty Price, PSONA Social:
Back in April, Facebook announced that bots could be developed for Facebook Messenger. So far, the applications have been incredibly innovative.
Over 11,000 bots have been built for customer service delivery, concierge-style services, ordering products and more. While they’re definitely still a work in progress, we’ve seen some promising early efforts from brands such as KLM, Estee Lauder and Domino’s.
Jordan Stone, We Are Social:
2016 has definitely been the year of the chatbot. We’ve seen bots cropping up for the likes of Domino’s, Skyscanner, British Airways and even Miss Piggy.
Chatbots are a fantastic way for brands to relieve the pressure on customer service teams and drive deeper engagement with brands; they are quick and simple to use, and as AI capabilities develop, they should become far more sophisticated and ever more indispensable.
Joanna Halton, Head of Client Strategy at MyClever:
Brands have been launching more and more sophisticated bots and with Messenger’s new payment functionality, it’s been a non-brainer for the likes of Dominos.
As a trend, it’s raised awareness of automation and I don’t see take-up slowing down any time soon.
Disappearing content
Alice Reeves, Jellyfish:
The trend for disappearing content has boomed this year. I love how it allows a more personal connection with people, mimicking a conversation more closely than one on Facebook or Twitter. Knowing the content won’t stick around and pop back up in Timehop a year later encourages users to share more freely.
Plus, there’s a sense with Facebook that the more you invest the more history you rack up with the platform – so you end up being committed to it. With Snapchat it’s gone almost immediately. There’s something liberating about that.
Politics and fake news
Will Francis, Vandal London:
The politicisation of social media has been extraordinary during the Brexit referendum and US election. The two events generated huge engagement spikes for the big two platforms – Facebook and Twitter – but left them both cast in a negative light.
News coverage of how the platforms fostered mono-cultural echo chambers and disseminated fake or heavily biased news has eroded trust. But growth seems to be holding for both so far.
From a brand perspective, vociferous commentary and political rants further crowd out their messages and smarter brands are looking to other platforms for more authentic organic engagement.
Politics has dominated social media throughout 2016, with pictures of cats and babies being replaced by political posts on Facebook feeds in the UK, US and around the world.
Social media played a huge part in influencing voters in the EU Referendum and the US presidential election and, crucially, social media data correctly predicted their outcomes, while the vast majority of traditional polls were wildly inaccurate.
But what this has brought sharply into focus is the fact we are all existing in social media ‘bubbles’ with algorithms on platforms like Facebook only showing us the news we want to see.
This may have been going on for some time but it’s only now that these two seismic events in history have taken place that the pressure has really increased for social platforms to address the issue.
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All the digital news stories you missed this week
It’s a mixed bag of digital news this week.
There have been some big announcements, a dramatic data scandal, and some seriously silly social media stuff, too.
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Five things to appreciate about Missguided’s first ever physical store
Missguided is all about fast fashion and fast delivery.
It is well-known for targeting the ‘I want it now’ generation – girls who want an outfit for Saturday night but don’t want to spend loads of money or time trawling the high street.
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If you’re not too busy filling your face with mince pies or panicking about all the gifts you’ve got left to buy, why not take a few minutes to enjoy some stats?
It’s far more pressing, surely.
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Brain, Developmental, Educational January 10, 2019
Time For A Fresh Approach To Learning Difficulties? The Cognitive Profile Of Kids Struggling At School Bore No Relation To Their Official Diagnoses
The study used “machine learning” to organise children into clusters based on their cognitive profiles. (Figure 4 reproduced from Astle et al, 2018. See their open-access paper for description.)
By Emma Young
Around 30 per cent of British children fail to meet expected targets in reading or maths at age 11. These children face a future of continuing difficulties in education, as well as poorer mental health and employment success. Understanding why some kids struggle – and providing them with tailored support as early as possible – is clearly vital. Some will be diagnosed with a specific disorder, such as Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder or dyslexia, and get targeted help. But many will not. And even many conventional diagnostic labels may be misleading, and fail to capture the true picture of a child’s problems, according to new work by a team at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, which has come up with a radical, alternative approach.
Duncan Astle and his colleagues studied 520 children aged between 5 and 18 years (average age 9) who had been referred to a research clinic at the unit for problems with attention, memory, language or poor school progress in reading or maths. Setting aside these diagnoses, they gave all the children a battery of assessments of their cognitive and learning performance, which included measures of working memory, phonological processing, spelling, reading, and maths. Their communication skills were measured using a separate checklist. A parent or carer also completed behavioural assessments of each child – reporting on their impulse control and emotional regulation, for example. The team then fed the cognitive and learning results for each child into an artificial neural network, which looked for any patterns in the data, grouping kids with distinct similarities into clusters.
One hundred and eighty-four of these children also had MRI brain scans – as did 36 typically performing children, for comparison – allowing the researchers to look for any group differences in patterns of communication between brain regions.
As reported in their open-access paper in Developmental Science, according to the artificial neural network analysis, the children fell into four distinct groups. But these bore no relationship to their previous diagnoses. As the researchers write, “children referred primarily for problems with attention, poor learning or memory were equally likely to be assigned to each group”. This finding is worth stressing. The conventional diagnostic labels already given to the children did not reflect their cognitive profiles identified by the thorough testing in this study: “The four groups cut across any traditional diagnostic groupings that existed within the data,” the researchers wrote.
So what did characterise these groups?
More than half of the children in the sample fell into two extremes. Those in the “age appropriate” group in fact scored typically for their age on the cognitive tests; they did not have learning difficulties. But they did have an elevated level of behavioural difficulties, which presumably accounted for their problems in school. Meanwhile, members of the “broad cognitive deficits” group had widespread and severe cognitive problems, scoring in the bottom 5 per cent of the population on measures of spelling, reading and maths, and also experiencing difficulties with communication.
“Generalised cognitive deficits therefore appear to constrain multiple aspects of learning,” the authors note. Relative to the other groups, kids in this group also showed reduced connectivity between some specific areas of the brain that have previously been identified as playing a role in multiple higher-order cognitive skills (such as problem-solving). “These general struggling learners are rarely studied, but our data suggest that they are common amongst those coming to the attention of children’s specialist services,” the researchers write.
Children in the other two groups scored in between the two extremes, overall – but they also showed some specific deficits.
One group was particularly poor at phonological processing – processing sounds in words – and verbal short-term and working memory. As might be expected, these children had trouble with speech, syntax and general coherence. And the brain imaging data showed reduced connectivity between regions implicated in language processing, supporting the AI analysis. However, these children were also poor at maths, which was unexpected. Though impaired phonological processing is typically associated with problems with reading, this data suggests that it’s likely to indicate more general learning deficits.
Members of the fourth group had distinct difficulties in working memory, scoring significantly below average on spatial, short-term memory and on verbal and spatial working memory. (There was no obvious differences in the brain connectivity patterns of these children.)
One of the striking findings is that though the two intermediate groups had different specific deficits, their performance at maths and reading were almost identical. This contrasts with earlier research linking phonological problems to reading difficulties (dyslexia) and spatial short-term and working memory problems with trouble with maths (dyscalculia). This may be because previous studies have tended to recruit kids with these specific deficits – i.e. reading but not numeracy problems, for example. According to the new results, such specific learning problems may in fact be relatively rare in the general population of struggling learners (which chimes with a recent study of dyscalculia prevalence that found most children with dyscalculia also had language problems).
The researchers do acknowledge a few imitations with the study. For example, as a total of only 220 children were included in the neuro-imaging comparison portion of the research, only the largest and most consistent group differences are likely to have been revealed. (Which could explain why the team did not observe brain communication differences in a few of the groups.)
But there are clearly potentially important insights here. If, as this work suggests, children can struggle with maths and reading for very different reasons, which do not necessarily align with diagnoses made in the conventional way, then surely the diagnosis and referral process has to be looked at – and the interventions that might help these children will surely have to be differently tailored, too.
—Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school
Emma Young (@EmmaELYoung) is Staff Writer at BPS Research Digest
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1 Adolescent/Young Adult Individual Treatment Demographics Client name: Today s Date: Parents names: Siblings with ages: Client lives primarily with (circle one): MOM DAD Mom & Dad Other Please specify other: Phone Numbers: Home: Mom s cell: Dad s cell: Client cell: Mom s work: Dad s work: Addresses: Client: Mom: Dad: Home Address: Street City, State, ZIP CODE School: Grade/year: Age: Birthdate: Therapist Name (please specify past or current): Therapist Phone Number: How long with that therapist? Any experience doing DBT with current or prior therapist? (circle one) YES NO Is it ok to contact current or prior therapist? (circle one) YES NO Psychiatrist Name & Phone Number: Primary Care Physician Name& Phone Number: List ALL prescription medications (Please include dosage/frequency & date started. Use back if needed.) Please list any MEDICAL or PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis: Please list all OTC medications used once a week or more: I hereby confirm that I have/my child has had a complete physical examination by a licensed medical doctor within the last 12 months. And I authorize Mary Waldon, MSW, LCSW to provide psychotherapeutic treatment to me/my child. Signature of client, date Signature of parent/guardian if client is under the age of 18 years old, date Last updated 3/14/15
2 PAYMENT POLICY Thank you for choosing me as your child s therapist. I am committed to working with you, your child, and your family to make the treatment successful. Please take a moment a read over the important administrative details of our work. BILLING Payment in full is required at the time of each session. You will receive a statement of all services and payments on a monthly basis. Any outstanding balance will be billed monthly. Full payment is due within 10 days of billing date. A10% service charge will be added after that date, and every 30-day billing cycle thereafter. Any financial difficulties that would prevent you from meeting this contract should be discussed with me before accruing a balance. INSURANCE I am not contracted with any insurance company, and I do not accept insurance payments. You are entirely responsible for full payment. I will provide you with a statement that includes a diagnosis code(s), treatment codes, and my license information; and you may elect to file the statement for possible reimbursement. Your insurance policy is a contract between you and your insurance company. Please be aware that some, and perhaps all, of the services provided may not be covered under your insurance policy. Any time I spend on the phone with your insurance company will be billed at my in-office, psychotherapy rate. TELEPHONE CONSULTATION You may be charged for telephone consultations with other providers including psychiatrists, pediatricians, and hospital personnel. You will be charged for telephone consultations relative to any legal proceedings, whether they involve family court, your attorney, representatives of the Court, or any other party connected to a legal matter. I will make you aware of the content of these interactions as is required/allowable by law. These charges are based on time and are equal to my normal fee for in-person psychotherapy. Telephone consultation of any kind is typically not paid for by insurance. Phone coaching for the person who is in-treatment, and attending sessions at least once per week is available free of charge on a limited basis. Extended phone calls, texts, and s will be billed solely at my discretion. IN-PERSON CONSULTATION Occasionally it is necessary for me to attend a staffing at your child s school or other community location. I will only do this with your consent. Charges for my attending these meetings are based on time and are equal to my normal fee for inperson psychotherapy. You may also be charged for travel time to and from the meeting place. In-person consultation and/or testimony for ANY legal matter with be charged at twice my in-office rate. Travel to and from the court-related event will be billed at the same rate. REPORT WRITING You may be charged for preparation of reports or letters required by you, your child s school, the Court, a healthcare provider, etc. These charges are based on time and are equal to my normal fee for in-person psychotherapy and are typically not covered by insurance. CANCELLATIONS and MISSED APPOINTMENTS Appointments must be canceled within 12 hours to avoid fees. For appointments canceled within 3 to 12 hours of the scheduled time, the fee is $150. For appointments canceled less than 3 hours before the scheduled time, during the scheduled time, not canceled, or completely forgotten, the fee is the full amount for the entire time scheduled. To cancel an appointment, I can be notified 24/7 via text, voice, and/or . You need not speak directly with me to initiate a cancellation. A message canceling your appointment left on voic , text message, and/or within the aforementioned time frame is sufficient. COLLECTIONS If you fail to uphold your agreement to pay for your counseling services in a timely manner, your account may be forwarded for legal collection proceedings. At that time, information including your name, demographic information, and the amount you owe may be released to my agents for the purpose of collecting monies owed. The cost of collection will be added to your balance due. I have read this payment policy. I understand and agree to its contents. Signature of Financially Responsible Party Name of patient Date
3 Consent for Treatment - Signature Required (see page 2 of this form) Full Name: Date of Birth: Address: Phone Number: Parent/Guardian Information (Please complete if client is under the age of 18) Name of parent(s)/guardian(s) with whom child is currently living: Address: Phone Number: Should an emergency arise and I (Mary Waldon, LCSW) needs to reach you to reschedule the appointment, what number would you like her to call: If this number has an answering machine or voic , is it ok to leave a message? If someone else answers the phone, is it ok to leave a message? Confidentiality: Minors & Parents: In the state of Illinois, children less than 18 years of age cannot independently consent to or receive mental health treatment without parental consent. While privacy in psychotherapy is very important, particularly with adolescents, parental involvement is also essential to successful treatment and this may require that some private information be shared with parents or guardians. Children & Treatment Consent: To provide consent for treatment for a child you must either have sole legal custody OR shared legal custody OR legal guardianship. If you share legal custody and your divorce decree notes that you must inform the other parent of health appointments, my services fall under this, and you may be in violation of a court order if you fail to inform the other parent of my services with your child. By signing this form you are stating that you have the legal right to consent for this child. Confidentiality & Patients Rights: Confidentiality is your expectation that the information you disclose to me will be kept private, including the fact that you consult with me at all. Please note that I do discuss cases in peer supervision (client names are not shared), and by signing you give permission for these discussions when consultation is to aid me in providing effective therapy. Peer supervision is clinical consultation with another professional who is also bound to keep client information confidential. As a general rule, outside of peer supervision, I will not disclose information regarding a client unless authorized to do so by the client in writing. There are legal exceptions to
4 confidentiality; these are described in the attached Notice of Privacy Practices, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA is a federal law that provides privacy protections and patient rights with regard to the use and disclosure of your Protected Health Information used for the purpose of treatment, payment, and health care operations. The law requires I obtain your signature acknowledging I have provided you with this information; by signing below you are certifying that you have been given a copy of the Notice. You may revoke this Agreement in writing and that will be binding on me unless: I have taken action in reliance on it; or if you have not satisfied any financial obligations. Please understand that all files are kept confidential. Your written consent is required for any release of information. There are important exceptions to confidentiality that are legally mandated. Exceptions include: (1) If I believes the client intends to harm herself or someone else; (2) if I suspect child abuse, elder abuse, or neglect; and, (3) if subpoenaed and ordered to share confidential information. Consent for Therapy: Please sign below to indicate that you have read the preceding information in full, and understand the information. Please ask for clarification of any information you are unclear about. Your signature indicates that you have read this document & agree to its terms during our professional relationship. I have read and understand the policies and agree to the conditions. I agree to the statements herein. If the patient is under 18 years of age, I certify that I have the legal right to consent to treatment. Signature of legally responsible parent or guardian Date
5 Acknowledgement and Consent to Use Electronic Communication I have been advised and understand that the use of , cell phone texting, and other forms of technology in psychotherapy has not been defined as a best-practice strategy. I have also been specifically advised of the following: /text communication with Mary Waldon, LCSW will be used for the purpose of simplifying and expediting scheduling/administrative matters only. /text communication is NOT to be used to provide/receive treatment services or take the place of therapy sessions. Therefore, /texting should NOT be used to communicate: Suicidal or homicidal thoughts or plans Urgent or emergency issues Serious or severe side effects or concerns Rapidly worsening symptoms In a life-threatening emergency, clients should: Call 911 Proceed to the nearest hospital emergency room Call your psychiatrist or primary care physician Any information exchanged electronically or with the use of technology increases the risk of confidentiality breaches. No technology is 100% secure and Mary Waldon, LCSW cannot guarantee protection from unauthorized attempts to access, use, or disclose personal information exchanged electronically. The use of , cellphone,or other forms of technology is not a reliable way of obtaining urgent help from the therapist in an emergency. I have thoroughly considered all of the above information, and I have obtained whatever additional input and/or professional advice I deem necessary in making an informed decision regarding /texting communication. By signing, I consent to the use of /cell phone texting as needed for scheduling and administrative purposes only, within the guidelines above. If more urgent help is needed, I will utilize the crisis services listed above. Furthermore, if at any time Mary Waldon, LCSW or I believe /texting is interfering in my therapeutic process or is being used ineffectively, either of us can revoke this consent verbally, refuse to respond to s/texts, and insist upon a verbal conversation before proceeding with treatment. Client Signature Date Parent Signature Date (if client is under 18 years old) Therapist Signature Date
6 MARY WALDON, LCSW 874 GREEN BAY ROAD, SUITE 380 WINNETKA, IL April 1, 2014 RE: CANCELLATION POLICY CHANGE Effective date: April 1, 2014 CANCELLATION Session cancelled more than 12 hours before scheduled appointment Session cancelled less than 12 hours before appointment, but more than 3 hours before scheduled appointment A call/ /text to cancel within three hours of the session, a call during the scheduled session time, or a no-show FEE no fee $150 The full session rate for the entire time frame scheduled. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Please contact me with questions or concerns at
7 THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. NOTICE OF PRIVACY POLICY Effective May 1, 2012 The following is the privacy policy ( Privacy Policy ) of Mary Waldon, LCSW and Change Therapy, LLC as described in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and regulations promulgated thereunder, commonly known as HIPAA. HIPAA requires Covered Entity by law to maintain the privacy of your personal health information and to provide you with notice of Covered Entity s legal duties and privacy policies with respect to your personal health information. We are required by law to abide by the terms of this Privacy Notice. Your Personal Health Information We collect personal health information from you through treatment, payment and related healthcare operations, the application and enrollment process, and/or healthcare providers or health plans, or through other means, as applicable. Your personal health information that is protected by law broadly includes any information, oral, written or recorded, that is created or received by certain health care entities, including health care providers, such as physicians and hospitals, as well as, health insurance companies or plans. The law specifically protects health information that contains data, such as your name, address, social security number, and others, that could be used to identify you as the individual patient who is associated with that health information. Uses or Disclosures of Your Personal Health Information Generally, we may not use or disclose your personal health information without your permission. Further, once your permission has been obtained, we must use or disclose your personal health information in accordance with the specific terms that permission. The following are the circumstances under which we are permitted by law to use or disclose your personal health information. Without Your Consent Without your consent, we may use or disclose your personal health information in order to provide you with services and the treatment you require or request, or to collect payment for those services, and to conduct other related health care operations otherwise permitted or required by law. Also, we are permitted to disclose your personal health information within and among our workforce in order to accomplish these same purposes. However, even with your permission, we are still required to limit such uses or disclosures to the minimal amount of personal health information that is reasonably required to provide those services or complete those activities. Examples of treatment activities include: (a) the provision, coordination, or management of health care and related services by health care providers; (b) consultation between health care providers relating to a patient; or (c) the referral of a patient for health care from one health care provider to another. Examples of payment activities include: (a) billing and collection activities and related data processing; (b) actions by a health plan or insurer to obtain premiums or to determine or fulfill its responsibilities for coverage and provision of benefits under its health plan or insurance agreement, determinations of eligibility or coverage, adjudication or subrogation of health benefit claims; (c) medical necessity and appropriateness of care reviews, utilization review activities; and (d) disclosure to consumer reporting agencies of information relating to collection of premiums or reimbursement.
8 Examples of health care operations include: (a) development of clinical guidelines; (b) contacting patients with information about treatment alternatives or communications in connection with case management or care coordination; (c) reviewing the qualifications of and training health care professionals; (d) underwriting and premium rating; (e) medical review, legal services, and auditing functions; and (f) general administrative activities such as customer service and data analysis. As Required By Law We may use or disclose your personal health information to the extent that such use or disclosure is required by law and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law. Examples of instances in which we are required to disclose your personal health information include: (a) public health activities including, preventing or controlling disease or other injury, public health surveillance or investigations, reporting adverse events with respect to food or dietary supplements or product defects or problems to the Food and Drug Administration, medical surveillance of the workplace or to evaluate whether the individual has a work-related illness or injury in order to comply with Federal or state law; (b) disclosures regarding victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence including, reporting to social service or protective services agencies; (c) health oversight activities including, audits, civil, administrative, or criminal investigations, inspections, licensure or disciplinary actions, or civil, administrative, or criminal proceedings or actions, or other activities necessary for appropriate oversight of government benefit programs; (d) judicial and administrative proceedings in response to an order of a court or administrative tribunal, a warrant, subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process; (e) law enforcement purposes for the purpose of identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person, or reporting crimes in emergencies, or reporting a death; (f) disclosures about decedents for purposes of cadaveric donation of organs, eyes or tissue; (g) for research purposes under certain conditions; (h) to avert a serious threat to health or safety; (i) military and veterans activities; (j) national security and intelligence activities, protective services of the President and others; (k) medical suitability determinations by entities that are components of the Department of State; (l) correctional institutions and other law enforcement custodial situations; (m) covered entities that are government programs providing public benefits, and for workers compensation. All Other Situations, With Your Specific Authorization Except as otherwise permitted or required, as described above, we may not use or disclose your personal health information without your written authorization. Further, we are required to use or disclose your personal health information consistent with the terms of your authorization. You may revoke your authorization to use or disclose any personal health information at any time, except to the extent that we have taken action in reliance on such authorization, or, if you provided the authorization as a condition of obtaining insurance coverage, other law provides the insurer with the right to contest a claim under the policy. Miscellaneous Activities, Notice We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. We may contact you to raise funds for Covered Entity. If we are a group health plan or health insurance issuer or HMO with respect to a group health plan, we may disclose your personal health information to be sponsor of the plan. Your Rights With Respect to Your Personal Health Information Under HIPAA, you have certain rights with respect to your personal health information. The following is a brief overview of your rights and our duties with respect to enforcing those rights. Right To Request Restrictions On Use Or Disclosure You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your personal health information about yourself. You may request restrictions on the following uses or disclosures: to carry out treatment, payment, or healthcare
9 operations; (b) disclosures to family members, relatives, or close personal friends of personal health information directly relevant to your care or payment related to your health care, or your location, general condition, or death; (c) instances in which you are not present or your permission cannot practicably be obtained due to your incapacity or an emergency circumstance; (d) permitting other persons to act on your behalf to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, X-rays, or other similar forms of personal health information; or (e) disclosure to a public or private entity authorized by law or by its charter to assist in disaster relief efforts. While we are not required to agree to any requested restriction, if we agree to a restriction, we are bound not to use or disclose your personal healthcare information in violation of such restriction, except in certain emergency situations. We will not accept a request to restrict uses or disclosures that are otherwise required by law. Right To Receive Confidential Communications You have the right to receive confidential communications of your personal health information. We may require written requests. We may condition the provision of confidential communications on you providing us with information as to how payment will be handled and specification of an alternative address or other method of contact. We may require that a request contain a statement that disclosure of all or a part of the information to which the request pertains could endanger you. We may not require you to provide an explanation of the basis for your request as a condition of providing communications to you on a confidential basis. We must permit you to request and must accommodate reasonable requests by you to receive communications of personal health information from us by alternative means or at alternative locations. If we are a health care plan, we must permit you to request and must accommodate reasonable requests by you to receive communications of personal health information from us by alternative means or at alternative locations if you clearly state that the disclosure of all or part of that information could endanger you. Right To Inspect And Copy Your Personal Health Information Your designated record set is a group of records we maintain that includes Medical records and billing records about you, or enrollment, payment, claims adjudication, and case or medical management records systems, as applicable. You have the right of access in order to inspect and obtain a copy your personal health information contained in your designated record set, except for (a) psychotherapy notes, (b) information complied in reasonable anticipation of, or for use in, a civil, criminal, or administrative action or proceeding, and (c) health information maintained by us to the extent to which the provision of access to you would be prohibited by law. We may require written requests. We must provide you with access to your personal health information in the form or format requested by you, if it is readily producible in such form or format, or, if not, in a readable hard copy form or such other form or format. We may provide you with a summary of the personal health information requested, in lieu of providing access to the personal health information or may provide an explanation of the personal health information to which access has been provided, if you agree in advance to such a summary or explanation and agree to the fees imposed for such summary or explanation. We will provide you with access as requested in a timely manner, including arranging with you a convenient time and place to inspect or obtain copies of your personal health information or mailing a copy to you at your request. We will discuss the scope, format, and other aspects of your request for access as necessary to facilitate timely access. If you request a copy of your personal health information or agree to a summary or explanation of such information, we may charge a reasonable cost-based fee for copying, postage, if you request a mailing, and the costs of preparing an explanation or summary as agreed upon in advance. We reserve the right to deny you access to and copies of certain personal health information as permitted or required by law. We will reasonably attempt to accommodate any request for personal health information by, to the extent possible, giving you access to other personal health information after excluding the information as to which we have a ground to deny access. Upon denial of a request for access or request for information, we will provide you with a written denial specifying the legal basis for denial, a statement of your rights, and a description of how you may file a complaint with us. If we do not maintain the information that is the subject of your request for access but we know where the requested information is maintained, we will inform you of where to direct your request for access. Right To Amend Your Personal Health Information You have the right to request that we amend your personal health information or a record about you contained in your designated record set, for as long as the designated record set is maintained by us. We have the right to deny your request for amendment, if: (a) we determine that the information or record that is the subject of the request was not created by us, unless you
10 provide a reasonable basis to believe that the originator of the information is no longer available to act on the requested amendment, (b) the information is not part of your designated record set maintained by us, (c) the information is prohibited from inspection by law, or (d) the information is accurate and complete. We may require that you submit written requests and provide a reason to support the requested amendment. If we deny your request, we will provide you with a written denial stating the basis of the denial, your right to submit a written statement disagreeing with the denial, and a description of how you may file a complaint with us or the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( DHHS ). This denial will also include a notice that if you do not submit a statement of disagreement, you may request that we include your request for amendment and the denial with any future disclosures of your personal health information that is the subject of the requested amendment. Copies of all requests, denials, and statements of disagreement will be included in your designated record set. If we accept your request for amendment, we will make reasonable efforts to inform and provide the amendment within a reasonable time to persons identified by you as having received personal health information of yours prior to amendment and persons that we know have the personal health information that is the subject of the amendment and that may have relied, or could foreseeably rely, on such information to your detriment. All requests for amendment shall be sent to Mary Waldon, LCSW 874 Green Bay Road, Suite 380 Winnetka, IL Right To Receive An Accounting Of Disclosures Of Your Personal Health Information Beginning April 14, 2003, you have the right to receive a written accounting of all disclosures of your personal health information that we have made within the six (6) year period immediately preceding the date on which the accounting is requested. You may request an accounting of disclosures for a period of time less than six (6) years from the date of the request. Such disclosures will include the date of each disclosure, the name and, if known, the address of the entity or person who received the information, a brief description of the information disclosed, and a brief statement of the purpose and basis of the disclosure or, in lieu of such statement, a copy of your written authorization or written request for disclosure pertaining to such information. We are not required to provide accountings of disclosures for the following purposes: (a) treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, (b) disclosures pursuant to your authorization, (c) disclosures to you, (d) for a facility directory or to persons involved in your care, (e) for national security or intelligence purposes, (f) to correctional institutions, and (g) with respect to disclosures occurring prior to 4/14/03. We reserve our right to temporarily suspend your right to receive an accounting of disclosures to health oversight agencies or law enforcement officials, as required by law. We will provide the first accounting to you in any twelve (12) month period without charge, but will impose a reasonable cost-based fee for responding to each subsequent request for accounting within that same twelve (12) month period. All requests for an accounting shall be sent to Mary Waldon, LCSW 874 Green Bay Road, Suite 380 Winnetka, IL Complaints You may file a complaint with us and with the Secretary of DHHS if you believe that your privacy rights have been violated. You may submit your complaint in writing by mail or electronically to Mary Waldon, LCSW 874 Green Bay Road, Suite 380 Winnetka, IL A complaint must name the entity that is the subject of the complaint and describe the acts or omissions believed to be in violation of the applicable requirements of HIPAA or this Privacy Policy. A complaint must be received by us or filed with the Secretary of DHHS within 180 days of when you knew or should have known that the act or omission complained of occurred. You will not be retaliated against for filing any complaint. Amendments to this Privacy Policy We reserve the right to revise or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. These revisions or amendments may be made effective for all personal health information we maintain even if created or received prior to the effective date of the revision or amendment. We will provide you with notice of any revisions or amendments to this Privacy Policy, or changes in the law affecting this Privacy Notice, by mail or electronically within 60 days of the effective date of such revision, amendment, or change. On-going Access to Privacy Policy We will provide you with a copy of the most recent version of this Privacy Policy at any time upon your written request sent to Mary Waldon, LCSW 874 Green Bay Road, Suite 380 Winnetka, IL or at the following address:
11 Acknowledgement of Receipt of the HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices Federal law requires that we obtain your written acknowledgement of receipt of the Notice of Privacy Practices. Please sign or initial below. I acknowledge that I have received the Notice of Privacy Practices. Patient Name (Print): Patient Signature: Patient Date of Birth: Parent Name (Print) (if patient is under 18): Parent Signature: Date: For Internal Use Only Patient refused to provide signature for acknowledging receipt of privacy practices Mary Waldon, LCSW and date Patient was incapacitated and unable to provide signature for acknowledging receipt of privacy practices Mary Waldon, LCSW and date Mary Waldon, LCSW Change Therapy, LLC 874 Green Bay Road, Suite 380 ~ Winnetka, IL ~
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-011 - Critical
Security Update for Microsoft Uniscribe (4013076)
This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Windows Uniscribe. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted website or opens a specially crafted document. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Version 1511, Windows 10 Version 1607, and Windows Server 2016. For more information, see the Affected Software and Vulnerability Severity Ratings section.
The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by correcting how Windows Uniscribe handles objects in memory. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Vulnerability Information section.
For more information about this update, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 4013076.
Affected Software and Vulnerability Severity Ratings
The following software versions or editions are affected. Versions or editions that are not listed are either past their support life cycle or are not affected. To determine the support life cycle for your software version or edition, see Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
The severity ratings indicated for each affected software assume the potential maximum impact of the vulnerability. For information regarding the likelihood, within 30 days of this security bulletin’s release, of the exploitability of the vulnerability in relation to its severity rating and security impact, please see the Exploitability Index in the March bulletin summary.
Note Please see the Security Update Guide for a new approach to consuming the security update information. You can customize your views and create affected software spreadsheets, as well as download data via a restful API. For more information, please see the Security Updates Guide FAQ. As a reminder, the Security Updates Guide will be replacing security bulletins. Please see our blog post, Furthering our commitment to security updates, for more details.
**Operating System** **Windows Uniscribe Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: [CVE-2017-0072](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0072) [CVE-2017-0083](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0083) [CVE-2017-0086](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0086) [CVE-2017-0087](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0087) [CVE-2017-0088](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0088) [CVE-2017-0089](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0089) [CVE-2017-0090](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0090)** [**Windows Uniscribe Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - CVE-2017-0084**](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0084) **Windows Uniscribe Information Disclosure Vulnerability: [CVE-2017-0085](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0085) [CVE-2017-0091](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0091) [CVE-2017-0092](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0092) [CVE-2017-0111](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0111) [CVE-2017-0112](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0112) [CVE-2017-0113](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0113) [CVE-2017-0114](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0114) [CVE-2017-0115](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0115) [CVE-2017-0116](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0116) [CVE-2017-0117](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0117) [CVE-2017-0119](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0119) [CVE-2017-0120](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0120) [CVE-2017-0122](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0122) [CVE-2017-0123](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0123) [CVE-2017-0124](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0124) [CVE-2017-0125](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0125) [CVE-2017-0126](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0126)[ ](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library////c(v=Security.10))[CVE-2017-0127](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0127) [CVE-2017-0128](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0128)** **Windows Uniscribe Information Disclosure Vulnerability: [CVE-2017-0118](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0118) [CVE-2017-0121](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0121)** **Updates Replaced**
**Windows Vista**
[Windows Vista Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
[Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
**Windows Server 2008**
[Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
[Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
[Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
**Windows 7**
[Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012212) (4012212) Security Only[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012215) (4012215) Monthly Rollup[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure [3212646](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212646)
[Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012212) (4012212) Security Only[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012215) (4012215) Monthly Rollup[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure [3212646](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212646)
**Windows Server 2008 R2**
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012212) (4012212) Security Only[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012215) (4012215) Monthly Rollup[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure [3212646](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212646)
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012212) (4012212) Security Only[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012215) (4012215) Monthly Rollup[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure [3212646](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212646)
**Windows 8.1**
[Windows 8.1 for 32-bit Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012213) (4012213) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows 8.1 for 32-bit Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012216) (4012216) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205401](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205401)
[Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012213) (4012213) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012216) (4012216) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205401](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205401)
**Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2**
[Windows Server 2012](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012214) (4012214) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2012](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012217) (4012217) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205409](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205409)
[Windows Server 2012 R2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012213) (4012213) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2012 R2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012216) (4012216) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205401](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205401)
**Windows RT 8.1**
Windows RT 8.1[2] (4012216) Monthly Rollup Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205401](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205401)
**Windows 10**
[Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012606)[3] (4012606) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3210720](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3210720)
[Windows 10 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012606)[3] (4012606) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3210720](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3210720)
[Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4013198)[3] (4013198) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3210721](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3210721)
[Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4013198)[3] (4013198) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3210721](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3210721)
[Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4013429)[3] (4013429) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3213986](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3213986)
**Server Core installation option**
[Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (Server Core installation) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
[Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012583) (Server Core installation) (4012583) **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure 3196348 in [MS16-147](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=834947)
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012212) (Server Core installation) (4012212) Security Only[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012215) (Server Core installation) (4012215) Monthly Rollup[1] **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Critical** Remote Code Execution **Important** Information Disclosure **Important** Information Disclosure [3212646](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212646)
[Windows Server 2012](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012214) (Server Core installation) (4012214) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2012](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012217) (Server Core installation) (4012217) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205409](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205409)
[Windows Server 2012 R2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012213) (Server Core installation) (4012213) Security Only[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure None
[Windows Server 2012 R2](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4012216) (Server Core installation) (4012216) Monthly Rollup[1] Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3205401](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3205401)
[Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems](http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb4013429)[3](Server Core installation) (4013429) Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure Not applicable **Important** Information Disclosure [3213986](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3213986)
[1]Beginning with the October 2016 release, Microsoft has changed the update servicing model for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. For more information, please see this [Microsoft TechNet article](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/).
[2]This update is only available via Windows Update.
[3]Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 updates are cumulative. The monthly security release includes all security fixes for vulnerabilities that affect Windows 10, in addition to non-security updates. The updates are available via the Microsoft Update Catalog. Please note that effective December 13, 2016, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 details for the Cumulative Updates will be documented in Release Notes. Please refer to the Release Notes for OS Build numbers, Known Issues, and affected file list information.
*The Updates Replaced column shows only the latest update in any chain of superseded updates. For a comprehensive list of updates replaced, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog, search for the update KB number, and then view update details (updates replaced information is provided on the Package Details tab).
Update FAQ
Why is security update 4012583 in this bulletin also denoted in MS17-013?
Security update 4012583 is also denoted in MS17-013 for supported releases of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 due to the way fixes for vulnerabilities affecting particular products are consolidated. Because bulletins are broken out by the vulnerabilities being addressed, not by the update package being released, it is possible for separate bulletins, each addressing distinctly different vulnerabilities, to list the same update package as the vehicle for providing their respective fixes. This is frequently the case with cumulative updates for products, such as Internet Explorer or Silverlight, where singular security updates address different security vulnerabilities in separate bulletins.
Note Users do not need to install identical security updates that ship with multiple bulletins more than once.
Multiple Windows Uniscribe Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in Windows due to the way Windows Uniscribe handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities:
In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit these vulnerabilities and then convince a user to view the website. An attacker would have no way to force users to view the attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to take action, typically by getting them to click a link in an email or instant message that takes users to the attacker's website, or by opening an attachment sent through email.
In a file sharing attack scenario, an attacker could provide a specially crafted document file designed to exploit these vulnerabilities and then convince a user to open the document file.
The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by correcting how Windows Uniscribe handles objects in memory.
The following table contains links to the standard entry for each vulnerability in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list:
**Vulnerability title** **CVE number** **Publicly disclosed** **Exploited**
Windows Uniscribe Remote Code Execution Vulnerability [CVE-2017-0072](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0072) No No
### Mitigating Factors Microsoft has not identified any [mitigating factor](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/dn848375.aspx) for these vulnerabilities. ### Workarounds Microsoft has not identified any [workarounds](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/dn848375.aspx) for these vulnerabilities. Multiple Uniscribe Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities --------------------------------------------------------- Multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities exist when Windows Uniscribe improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities, such as by convincing a user to open a specially crafted document, or by convincing a user to visit an untrusted webpage. The update addresses these vulnerabilities by correcting how the Windows Uniscribe handles objects in memory. The following table contains links to the standard entry for each vulnerability in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list:
Windows Uniscribe Information Disclosure Vulnerability: [CVE-2017-0085](http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-0085) No No
### Mitigating Factors Microsoft has not identified any [mitigating factor](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/dn848375.aspx) for these vulnerabilities. ### Workarounds Microsoft has not identified any [workarounds](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/dn848375.aspx) for these vulnerabilities. Security Update Deployment --------------------------
For Security Update Deployment information, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article referenced in the Executive Summary.
Microsoft recognizes the efforts of those in the security community who help us protect customers through coordinated vulnerability disclosure. See Acknowledgments for more information.
The information provided in the Microsoft Knowledge Base is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Microsoft disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the foregoing limitation may not apply.
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Enterprise Service Bus Documentation
Working with Services
Security for Web Services
Created by Jackie Wheeler, last modified on Aug 08, 2013
Web Services Security, or to be more precise, SOAP message security, identifies and provides solutions for general computer security threats as well as threats unique to Web services.
WSO2 Carbon supports WS Security, WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy specifications. These specifications define a behavioral model for Web services. A requirement for one Web service may not be valid for another. Thus, defining service-specific requirements might be necessary.
The WSO2 SOA platform provides important security features to your service. By default the security features are disabled.
The following actions are available:
Enabling Security Features
Disabling Security Features
Understanding the exact security requirements should be the first step you should take when planning to secure Web services. For example, consider what security aspects are important to your service, whether it is the integrity, confidentiality, or both.
Follow the instructions below to enable a security feature.
1. Sign in. Enter your user name and password to log on to the ESB Management Console.
2. Click on "Main" in the left menu to access the "Manage" menu.
3. In the "Manage" menu, click on "List" under "Web Services."
4. The "Deployed Services" screen appears.
5. Click on the service name for which you want to add security features. The "Service Dashboard" page appears.
6. Click "Security" in the "Quality of Service Configuration" panel.
7.The "Security for Service" page appears. To enable security for the service, in the "Enable Security" list, click "Yes."
8. A list of available security features is displayed.
Use the icon to see the scenarios in detail.
9. Select the suitable security features by clicking on the corresponding options, and then click "Next." The "Activate Security" page appears. You can configure the security features on this page. The configurations depend on your previous selections.
9.1. If a feature that includes "Username Token" was chosen, choose the users who are allowed to access the service in the "User Group" panel.
Select the users and click "Finish."
9.2. If a feature that requires signing or encryption was selected, the "Trusted Key Stores" panel appears. Select the "Trusted key store" (wso2carbon.jks) and the "Private key store" (currently only the wso2carbon.jks keystore is available).
10. Select the keystore and click "Finish."
This function is used to disable active security features for a particular service.
Follow the instructions below to disable a security feature.
6. The "Security for Service" page appears. To disable security for the service, in the "Enable Security" list, click "No."
7. Confirm your request in the "WSO2 Carbon" window.
All security scenarios are described in the wizard.
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Being a part of St. Petersburg Contemporary Music Center, the publishing house – and the label reMusik.org — specializes exclusively on publishing new music, being engaged in its activities along with the other profile areas of the Center that aims primarily and principally at support of composers and musicians who are in constant search for unique ideas. In addition to publishing music scores, audio and video recording, Edition reMusik.org is engaged in publishing musicological, critical and scientific essays on modern music, and, as a label, acts in support of initiatives of ensembles, orchestras and soloists — performers of new music.
Among the profile directions of the Edition reMusik.org are:
— Scores
— Science articles
— Musical-theoretical works
— Interview
Being integrated into the structure of the Center, Edition reMusik.org provides a platform for business communication between composers, musicologists, artists, music groups and concert organizations in Russia and abroad.
You may send your materials for consideration with a view of publication. To do this, please send us an email: edition@remusik.org
You can also follow our new publications and events in the News section or by subscribing to the mailing list.
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Opportunities to boost trade with Canada via CPTPP
Opportunities to boost trade and investment with Canada are promising since the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) took effect, experts said at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28.
VNA Friday, June 28, 2019 18:00
Vietnam, Canada eye stronger defence ties
CPTPP to help promote Vietnam-Canada economic, trade ties
Friday, April 19, 2019 17:57
Vietnam, Canada intensify cooperation in operational audit
Vietnam, Canada step up parliamentary cooperation
HCM City (VNA) – Opportunities to boost trade and investment with Canada are promising since the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) took effect, experts said at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28.
Speaking at the event, Honorable Executive President of Canada Trade Link Bryon Wilfert said with CPTPP entry, Vietnam and Canada could offer mutual support to develop markets and expand investment.
He said the CPTPP is the first and only deal involving the two countries, creating an important legal framework to reinforce bilateral trade and investment. Canada wants to make the best use of the CPTPP to further bilateral ties via cutting almost tariffs.
Canada pledged to remove 95 percent of tariffs, including 78 percent on imports from Vietnam, opening up chances to increase export of aquatic products, wooden furniture, apparel, footwear and farm produce.
Vince Lalonde, Director of Immigration and Investor Services at Pace Law Firm, said Vietnamese investors could choose to open companies, branches or buy firms in Canada on the back of the CPTPP, which has become a trend recently.
Business owners do not need to stay in Canada for 24 months to be eligible for permanent resident card, or for 36 months to earn citizenship. Instead, their relatives or employees could stay in the country for required time to seek the status.
Lalonde suggested hiring experienced consultants before deciding to invest in the nation to minimise possible risks.
Canada also considers Vietnam an attractive destination for the fields of its strength such as high-tech, clean energy, waste treatment and wants to extend collaboration with ASEAN markets via Vietnam, he said.
The event was co-hosted by the Vietnam Asia-Pacific Economic Centre, the Saigon Times and the Vietnam Consulting Group.-VNA
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Top 10 events that shaped Hanoi in 2017
A seven-year-high growth rate, being listed among the world’s top 10 cities with fastest tourism growth and breakthroughs in administrative reforms were some of Hanoi’s achievements in 2017.
VNA Wednesday, January 03, 2018 10:58
Tourist arrivals in Hanoi, Thua Thien-Hue up during New Year holiday
Hanoi: First foreign visitors of 2018 receive warm welcome
Hanoi to host cultural activities to welcome New Year
Saturday, December 30, 2017 15:18
Hanoi supports local firms to access new technologies
Thursday, December 28, 2017 16:49
Hanoi targets 10 percent growth in rural industry in 2018
Visitors to the Book Street in downtown Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A seven-year-high growth rate, being listed among the world’s top 10 cities with fastest tourism growth, and breakthroughs in administrative reforms were some of Hanoi’s achievements in 2017.
The capital city has selected 10 of its outstanding events last year as follows:
1. Reviewing the five-year implementation of the 11th-tenure Politburo’s Resolution 11-NQ/TW on plans and tasks for developing the capital city between 2011 and 2020
The Politburo recognised Hanoi’s efforts and attainments in the resolution’s implementation. While local economic growth was 1.5 times faster than the national average, per capita gross regional domestic product in 2016 was 1.7 times higher than in 2011.
2. Actively implementing the Politburo’s Resolution 30 and the Resolution of the sixth meeting of the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee on apparatus organisation, personnel downsizing and restructuring of officials and public employees
3. Achieving all 20 socio-economic targets for 2017, seven of which were surpassed
Hanoi recorded gross domestic product growth of 7.3 percent – a seven-year high, and export revenue of 11.8 billion USD, up 10.3 percent from 2016. It collected 208 trillion VND (9.17 billion USD) for the state budget, rising by 1.6 percent from the targeted revenue and 16 percent from the previous year.
4. Tourism develops strongly, turning Hanoi into the world’s top 10 cities with fastest tourism growth
The capital city welcomed about 23.83 million tourists, including 4.95 million foreigners, in 2017. The tourist numbers respectively increased by 9 percent and 23 percent. Local tourism revenue was estimated at 70.96 trillion VND (over 3.1 billion USD), up 15 percent year on year.
Some prestigious websites like Business Insider, Discovery, CNN and TripAdvisor gave Hanoi third place among the 20 top destinations and listed the capital of Vietnam among the world’s top 10 cities with fastest tourism growth and most attractive destinations.
5. Breakthroughs in administrative reforms, investment climate improvement, and start-up ecosystem development
Hanoi climbed six places in the Public Administration Reform Index (PAR Index) to third nationwide. Its Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) rose by 10 places to 14th position among the 63 provinces and cities of Vietnam.
While carrying out solutions to support start-ups, Hanoi remained an attractive investment destination, with more than 3.4 billion USD in FDI capital poured into the city in 2017.
6. Leading in new-style rural area building and poverty elimination
Thirty communes in Hanoi were recognised as new-style rural areas in 2017, raising the total to 285, or 73.8 percent of the city’s 386 communes. The city now has four new-style rural districts (Dan Phuong, Dong Anh, Thanh Tri, Hoai Duc) after two districts gained the title last year.
The local household poverty rate also fell 0.68 percent from the previous year to 1.69 percent according to the city’s poverty line.
7. Support for house construction and repair for revolutionary contributors
The city provided 955 billion VND (42.1 million USD) for house building and repair for 8,211 revolutionary contributors’ families.
8. Education-training and sports-physical training received more attention
Hanoi had 108 new national-standard schools recognised, raising the number of public schools meeting national standards to 1,313. It also led in national competitions for excellent students with 146 prizes, including 11 first-place prizes. At regional and international Olympiads, local students won 138 medals, including 39 gold medals.
Hanoi athletes pocketed 2,063 medals last year, 453 of which were obtained in international competition.
9. Celebrating the 45th anniversary of the “Hanoi – Dien Bien Phu in the air” victory (December 1972)
10. Publishing the encyclopedia of Hanoi’s expansion period
The 14-volume encyclopedia covers multiple sectors of the city’s expanded region, which consisted former Ha Tay province, former Me Linh district of Vinh Phuc province and four former communes of Luong Son district, Hoa Binh province.-VNA
Hanoi Top 10 events 2017 seven-year-high growth rate fastest tourism growth administrative reforms achievements outstanding events tourism new-style rural area poverty elimination house construction Education sports encyclopedia of Hanoi Vietnam Vietnam news Vietnamplus Related stories Ha Noi
Vietnamese-Cambodians receive new houses after blaze last year
Three families of Vietnamese-Cambodians, whose houses were burnt down in a blaze in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district last year have received new houses.
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Vietnam always welcomes Russian enterprises, says PM
Vietnam always welcomes and is willing to create favourable conditions for Russian enterprises to do business and invest in the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed.
PM hails active developments in relations with Russia
Deputy PM chairs meeting of Vietnamese, Russian businesses
PM visits Vietnamese Embassy in Russia
Official welcome ceremony for PM Phuc in Moscow
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s activities in Saint Petersburg
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the forum (Source: VNA)
Moscow (VNA) - Vietnam always welcomes and is willing to create favourable conditions for Russian enterprises to do business and invest in the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed when addressing the Vietnam-Russia Business Forum held in Moscow on May 22.
PM Phuc, who is on an official visit to Russia from May 21-23, said that the forum aimed to seek better and more effective and timely measures to ensure that bilateral cooperation matches the Vietnam-Russia sound relations.
He briefed participants on Vietnam’s socio-economic achievements after more than 30 years of renewal. Last year, the country’s GDP growth rate made an 11-year record high at 7.1 percent, while its import-export turnover reached nearly 500 billion USD. Inflation was curbed under 4 percent and the macro-economy remained stable.
According to the government leader, at present, Vietnam has 28,000 foreign-invested projects from 131 countries and territories, with a combined capital of over 350 billion USD. Last year, the country welcomed 15.5 million foreign tourists, a year-on-year rise of 20 percent.
PM Phuc attributed these positive results to improvements in Vietnam’s business environment and its efforts to integrate into the global economy by signing 11 free trade agreements (FTA) and preparing for the signing of an FTA with the European Union (EU).
He underlined the positive impacts of the Eurasia Economic Union-Vietnam FTA on Vietnam’s trade and investment, thus contributing to a 28.6-percent increase in its trade turnover with Russia to hit 4.57 billion USD in 2018.
Vietnam is now the 23rd biggest trade partner of Russia and is running 20 projects worth 3 billion USD in the country, while Russia has 123 projects (excluding those related to oil and gas) totaling 1 billion USD in Vietnam.
However, the PM said that these results have failed to match with potential of both nations.
He expressed his hope that two-way trade can reach 10 billion USD by 2020 after non-tariff barriers on major commodities are removed and a bilateral payment channel using local currencies is launched.
For his part, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov noted that economic and trade cooperation between Russia and Vietnam has been built on the firm foundation of the time-honoured bilateral friendship.
Vietnam has affirmed itself as a key partner of Russia in Southeast Asia as it accounts for one-third of Russia’s imports from the regional countries, the Deputy PM stated.
He suggested that both sides intensify collaboration in high technology, affirming that Russia is willing to support Vietnam in the fields of digital government and smart city building, as well as cybersecurity.
Earlier the same day, PM Phuc laid flowers in tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his statue in Moscow.–VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc Vietnam-Rusia Business Forum Russian enterprises Vietnam Russia official visit to Russia Vietnamplus Vietnam News Agency Related stories Russia Related stories Vietnam
Cars which provide passenger transportation via ride-hailing platforms like Grab will have to put on top TAXI sign or carry logo stickers showing that they are contract vehicles.
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10th Chief minister of Indian state of Tripura
10th Chief Minister of Tripura
Assumed office
9 March 2018[1]
Tathagata Roy
Kaptan Singh Solanki
Ramesh Bais
Jishnu Dev Varma
Manik Sarkar
President, Tripura State unit, Bharatiya Janata Party
(1971-11-25) 25 November 1971 (age 48)
Rajdhar Nagar village, Gomati district, Tripura, India[2][3]
Niti Deb
2 (1 daughter and 1 son)
Tripura University
Biplab Kumar Deb (born 25 November 1971)[4] is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Tripura. He has been the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura since 7 January 2016. He led the BJP to victory in the 2018 Legislative Assembly Election, defeating 25 years rule of the Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He took his oath as the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura on 9 March 2018.[5][6][7].
2 Political career
3 Controversy
Biplab Deb was born on 25 November 1971 in Rajdhar Nagar village, Udaipur, Gomati district, Tripura.[4][8] His parents had migrated to India as refugees from East Pakistan before his birth.[9][10] His father is a citizen of India since 27 June 1967.[11] He spent his childhood and schooling days in Tripura, completing his graduation from Tripura University before shifting to New Delhi to join RSS.[4][12] He later returned to Tripura after an absence of 15 years.[13]
Political career[edit]
See also: 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Biplab Deb was elected the President of Tripura state unit of BJP in January 2017 replacing Sudhndra Dasgupta who was BJP's longest serving state president. He started his political career by campaining for the 2018 state election. He began his campaign from the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council which was believed to be the base of the then governing CPI(M).[14]
On 8 August 2017 Biplab Deb helped bring about the defection of Indian National Congress MLAs led by Sudip Roy Barman to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He led the local BJP into the 2018 Legislative Assembly election, attempting to gain office after 25 years of Left Front rule. He contested the election from Banamalipur Constituency in Agartala and won by a margin of 9,549 votes , which was held by Indian National Congress MLA Gopal Roy. Deb led the Tripura's Election campaign and successfully defeated Left Front after 25 years by winning 44 seats with his ally Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura out of possible 60 seats in Tripura.[15][16][17]
Biplab Deb campaigned on the subject of youth employment opportunities, which he promised to improve if elected Chief Minister of Tripura.[18] He also promised the employees of Tripura that he would implement the 7th Pay Commission once get elected.[19] Deb brought in key BJP ministers from across India to campaign for the party in Tripura.[20][21]
Controversy[edit]
In April 2018, Deb stirred nationwide controversy by claiming that internet and satellite existed since the Mahabharata era.[12] He also made controversial remarks on the Civil Service Examination, stating that only civil engineers should sit for civil service exams.[22] He also stated that international beauty pageants were a farce, and claimed that the decision to award Miss World and Miss Universe titles to Indian women for five years in a row was market-driven rather than based on the beauty of the participants while questioning the rationale behind awarding Diana Hayden the Miss World pageant.[23]
Biplab Kumar Deb ministry
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^ "Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tripura". Tripura Government.
^ "Biplab Kumar Deb--RSS member to Tripura CM". The Economic Times. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
^ a b c "Biplab Deb to be next Tripura CM, Jishnu Deb Burman his deputy; swearing-in likely on Friday". Firstpost. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "From Manik Sarkar to Modi's sarkar: End of the road for India's poorest CM". The Economic Times. The Times Group. 3 March 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
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^ "Twitter roasts Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb's claims on internet during the Mahabharata era". Mumbai Mirror. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ Bhattacharya, Amava; Bhattacharjee, Biswendu (6 August 2018). "NRC battle plays out on Biplab's Wiki page over 'Bangla birth' claims".
^ Chandpur, Ibrahim Rony (4 March 2018). "Tripura CM-elect Biplab has ancestral ties in Chandpur". Dhaka Tribune.
^ Khokon, Sahidul Hasan (9 March 2018). "Tripura's new CM phones Bangladesh PM, seeks cooperation". India Today. Dhaka.
^ "Tripura CM's birthplace not in Bangladesh: CMO". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 6 August 2018.
^ a b "Internet and satellite existed since Mahabharata era, claims Tripura CM Biplab Deb". Times of India. The Times Group. Asian News International. 18 April 2018.
^ Karmakar, Rahul (6 March 2018). "Biplab Kumar Deb, the man who engineered a 'revolution' for the BJP". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^ "Biplab Deb elected new Tripura BJP chief". United News of India. Agartala. 7 January 2016.
^ IANS (4 March 2018). "BJP's probable Tripura CM candidate meets Sarkar". GulfNews. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ "BJP's Biplab seeks Sarkar's blessing - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ "Personal enmity to blame for post-poll violence in Tripura: CM Biplab Kumar - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ "Will create 7 lakh jobs within 30 months: Tripura CM Biplab Deb - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ "Interview with Biplab Deb, BJP State Party President". tripurainfo.com. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
^ "Sunil Deodhar and 3 Others Who Led the BJP Campaign in Northeast". The Quint. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ Varma, Gyan (3 March 2018). "How BJP fashioned Tripura win?". livemint.com/. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ "Civil, and not mechanical, engineers should go for Civil Services: Tripura CM Biplab Deb". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 28 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
^ "Tripura CM Biplab Deb courts controversy again, says 1997 Miss World Diana Hayden not 'an Indian beauty' like Aishwarya Rai". The New Indian Express. 26 April 2018.
Lists of chief ministers of Indian states and union territories (and current incumbents)
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Trivendra Singh Rawat
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Nripen Chakraborty
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Babulal Marandi
Arjun Munda
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D. V. Sadananda Gowda
Jagadish Shettar
Sunder Lal Patwa
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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Biplab Kumar Deb (incumbent)
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B. C. Khanduri
Trivendra Singh Rawat (incumbent)
Kalyan Singh
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About endometriosis
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Brasilian Society of Endometriosis targets women in the workplace
The Brazilian Society of Endometriosis (SBE) launches its third awareness campaign with the objective of providing information to the general public on endometriosis. Its actions are aimed at providing information to the populations of four geographical areas of Brazil and to female employees of large Brazilian companies.
The Brazilian Society of Endometriosis and Minimally Invasive Gynaecology (SBE) – founded by a team of Brazilian experts – has been growing, every day, on the international scene of endometriosis.
Scientific researches and published papers signed by its members are the certification of this development, some of them winning prizes at major events of this specialty, as happened at the World Congress on Endometriosis, in March last year, in Melbourne, Australia.
But SBE did not forget to look at the population of Brazil, so devoid of information about this serious disease that affects up to six million women of reproductive age in the country.
Therefore, practical actions of social demand are among its projects. For 2009, in particular, two actions will be undertaken: the Project Best Women and the Itinerant SBE.
The Best Women is a bold project that aims to bring information and clarification on endometriosis to the largest possible number of women in a very special way: in their workplace. For this purpose, SBE will work together with the Great Place to Work Institute, bringing such information through lectures with experts to the 50 best companies for women to work in Brazil. Thousands of women could learn more, ask questions and clear doubts on endometriosis, so they can know symptoms and possible treatments of the disease and become agents for changing a hard reality for about 6 million of Brazilian women.
And, the Itinerant SBE is an action that will facilitate the exchange of experience between gynaecologists from all over the country, through discussion of clinical cases and surgeries demonstrations, when the local structure permits. The major mission of this project is to bring information to the most distant places of the country, the small and poor towns, to provide re-training for a larger number of physicians.
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The Night Rules by Gabriel Barone
Giles and Aidan are childhood friends who grew up together but went separate ways. Aidan is a successful, nominally straight, businessman; Giles is a sex worker, risking himself with unpleasant and sometimes unstable clients to pay his rent. A lifelong bond holds them together, restricted to an occasional night’s passion by strict rules Aiden requires to protect his public image. One night though, as Aiden sleeps off the evening’s sexual adventures, Giles makes a decision that changes everything for the two of them. (M/M)
A Well-Placed Pinch by Jean Roberta
The King and Queen of the Fairies love to watch the human world through their magic mirror. When they see three young women rehearsing for a university production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night, the observers see more than the performers know they are showing. Will the shy butch disguised as a page win the heart of her idol, who plays the countess? And will the countess’ maid play a few tricks that aren’t in the script? The royal couple make a bet about how the real drama will be resolved. When the prize is sex, everyone wins! (F/F+)
Sensual Showers by Alicia Cameron
While Sascha is busy, Syrus and Cash find a way to entertain themselves. Sy’s hesitations make sense in the context of his history, and Cash realizes just how close they can get. (M/M)
Begging by Alicia Cameron
While Sascha is busy, Sy and Cash find a way to entertain themselves. Sy’s hesitations make sense in the context of his history, and Cash realizes just how close they can get. (M/M)
Scars by Alicia Cameron
Old scars cut deep; this is especially true for slaves. When Cash offers Sascha the opportunity to be rid of some of those scars, it brings up memories and questions for Syrus. (M/M)
Heat, Steam, and the Vital Machine by Alex Douglas
James spends his days guarding the Machine at the heart of the complex, the device that supports all life in the underground complex. He spends his nights mostly alone in his cramped sleeping cubicle. When he catches one of the mysterious saboteurs who repeatedly attack the Machine, he succumbs to the man’s intimate offer, and forsakes duty for human touch. (M/M)
The Facts in the Case of Miss Casimir by M.E. Litman
Edgar Dalman, a repressed researcher, stumbles upon an ancient artifact that leads him to the mysterious Miss Casimir. Tormented by lustful dreams of this woman, he seeks her out, coming at last to confront the object of his desires and the weird secrets hidden beneath her estate. (F/M)
A Good Soldier by Alicia Cameron
Syrus has always been a good soldier. When his loyalty and bodyguard skills are put to the test, he realizes that duty has far more meaning when the target is someone you care for. (M/M)
Jonquil and the Three Hunters by Margot North
What happens when a young, headstrong girl defies the wishes of her parents and tests the boundaries of her small, stuffy town? It is 1898, and Jonquil is nineteen, beautiful, and bored with the boys in her village. One drowsy August morning, she takes a walk through the woods and discovers a seemingly abandoned cabin, where she will meet the three hunters that will widen the boundaries of her world and show her what she has been missing. (F/M+)
Dragon’s Surrender by Ariel Dalziel
Waiting for her plane, Natasha becomes fascinated with an intricate tattoo, and the woman wearing it. Victoria, the tattooed woman, happens to be on the same plane, and the two share a flirtatious flight. Things get hot after the plane lands; and Nat finds herself a play party with the hottest femme dom she’s ever met. Where the night will end, Nat can’t guess, but the truth is stranger than she could ever imagine. (F/F)
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Structure-centered portal for child psychiatry research
Pallavi Rane, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Christian Haselgrove, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Steven M. Hodge, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Jean A. Frazier, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
David N. Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Medical School WorcesterFollow
Department of Psychiatry; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
Databases and Information Systems | Developmental Neuroscience | Mental and Social Health | Neuroscience and Neurobiology | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology
The real world needs of the clinical community require a domain-specific solution to integrate disparate information available from various web-based resources for data, materials, and tools into routine clinical and clinical research setting. We present a child-psychiatry oriented portal as an effort to deliver a knowledge environment wrapper that provides organization and integration of multiple information and data sources. Organized semantically by resource context, the portal groups information sources by context type, and permits the user to interactively "narrow" or "broaden" the scope of the information resources that are available and relevant to the specific context. The overall objective of the portal is to bring information from multiple complex resources into a simple single uniform framework and present it to the user in a single window format.
MRI, data integration, knowledge environment, neurodevelopmental disorders, neuroinformatics
Copyright 2014 Rane, Haselgrove, Hodge, Frazier and Kennedy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
10.3389/fninf.2014.00047
Rane P, Haselgrove C, Hodge SM, Frazier JA, Kennedy DN. Structure-centered portal for child psychiatry research. Front Neuroinform. 2014 Apr 30;8:47. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00047. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24817850; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4012203. Link to article on publisher's site
Frontiers in neuroinformatics
Rane P, Haselgrove C, Hodge SM, Frazier JA, Kennedy DN. (2014). Structure-centered portal for child psychiatry research. Psychiatry Publications and Presentations. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00047. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/697
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Avril Lavigne Details Her Battle With Lyme Disease: ‘I Was In Bed For F***ing Two Years’
By Alyssa Croezen. 18 Oct 2018 12:42 PM
Avril Lavigne is back and better than ever – both musically and physically.
In a candid interview with Billboard, the Canadian songstress opens up about her intense battle with Lyme disease, sharing how it inspired her new song “Head Above Water”, her first single in almost five years.
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“I was in bed for f***ing two years,” Lavigne shares of her battle with the infectious disease. “It’s a bug – a spirochete – so you take these antibiotics, and they start killing it.”
“I had accepted that I was dying,” she adds. “I felt in that moment like I was underwater and drowning, and I was trying to come up to gasp for air. And literally under my breath, I was like, ‘God, help me keep my head above the water.’ ”
That’s when it all clicked for the 34-year-old and she began penning her newest single.
“I was able to write songs from my bed, and ‘Head Above Water’ is a song that I wrote a night that I felt like I was actually dying and had kind of accepted it,” Lavigne tells Billboard. “Definitely wasn’t planning on writing in that moment, but I went through something so heavy and so emotional.”
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The “Complicated” singer hopes that “Head Above Water” will touch other people in a positive way, as the song is so important to her.
“We all have stuff that we go through on different levels, and [I am] just happy and grateful to have had music through this entire process,” she says. “Especially through fighting a disease and having my art to pull me out of everything that goes with battling a disease.”
Fans can look forward to more music from Lavigne, as a new album is set to debut in early 2019.
Check out Lavigne’s full interview with Billboard here.
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Seahawks/Ravens Preview
Photo Credit: Seahawks.com
Matchup: Seattle Seahawks at Baltimore Ravens
Site: M&T Bank Stadium (Baltimore, Maryland)
Kickoff: 10:00am
Before the regular season started I picked the Baltimore Ravens to represent the AFC in Super Bowl 50. With this game originally scheduled for Sunday Night Football many people including me thought this game could shape the postseason picture for both teams. As it turns out only the Seahawks are vying for playoff position heading into this week. Seattle heads to Baltimore for the first time since 2003 to take on the Ravens. After a 38-7 thrashing of the Minnesota Vikings last week the Seahawks are 7-5 and are in prime position to make a serious push for the #5 seed in the NFC. The Ravens however struggled out of the gate and never recovered. Poor play and a wide array of injuries to key players have put the Ravens at 4-8 on the season. The all-time series between these teams is tied 2-2 with Seattle taking the last two meetings. These two teams last met in Seattle in 2011 where the Seahawks upset the Ravens 22-17. Here is what I will be watching out for in this game.
The main offensive key for the Seahawks this week is to remain consistent in order to carry over the success from last week. In the games we have won in recent weeks the running game led by Thomas Rawls has been superb. The Seahawks will likely establish the run again but it is only a matter of time before Rawls has an off game. Could this week could be that game? Baltimore ranks 10th in run defense allowing only 97.5 rushing yards per game. This may be a game where Russell Wilson has to do more through the air to score points instead of relying on Rawls for big pickups. With the emergence of wide receiver Doug Baldwin as Wilson’s go-to target over the past two weeks it would not surprise me to see Baldwin receive extra coverage from the Ravens secondary. This should open up looks for our other receivers. With the Ravens only allowing 39 yards receiving to tight ends per game look for Jermaine Kearse to make a significant impact in the passing game.
This could be a fairly easy day for the Seattle defense. We will not be facing regular Ravens starters Joe Flacco, Justin Forsett, and Steve Smith. There are two keys to victory on defense I will be focusing on. The first will be to put pressure on whichever Ravens quarterback starts. I believe the slightest bit of pressure will throw either Matt Schaub or Jimmy Clausen off and he could be more prone to forcing the ball and throwing bad passes. The second key is to make sure we tackle well and do not give up yards after contact. With a backup quarterback comes the very high probability of them throwing a lot of high percentage passes. High percentage passes means the ball carrier or receiver will have space to make big plays potentially happen. Look for linebackers K.J. Wright and Bobby Wagner to make a huge impact in the middle of the field.
Like I previously mentioned the Baltimore Ravens have one of the more depleted offenses in the league. On the offensive side of the ball running back Javorius “Buck” Allen will have to have a big game to take the pressure off of either Matt Schaub or Jimmy Clausen in the passing game. If Baltimore has any shot to win this week it will come on the shoulders of an extremely impressive defensive performance. Similarly to the Pittsburgh Steelers a couple weeks ago, the Ravens have lost dynamic leaders on the defensive side of the ball over the past few years. Future hall of famers Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are gone. All-Pro linebacker Terrell Suggs is also injured and out for the season. Defensive end Elvis Dumervil leads all Ravens defenders in sacks with 6 but my focus will be on the second level of their defense. There are two guys I will have my eye on in particular and they are both responsible for defending the middle of the field. My X-Factor Players to Watch are inside linebackers Daryl Smith and C.J. Mosley. Smith is in his 12th NFL season and is on pace for the best statistical season of his career. Mosley is in his second season after being drafted in the first round by the Ravens last season. These two guys have combined for 174 tackles so far this season which is good for nearly one quarter of the Ravens total tackles. They can also get to the quarterback and drop into coverage. They each have 3 sacks this season while Mosley has dropped back to record 5 passes defensed. Watch out for how these two players attack Russell Wilson, Thomas Rawls, Luke Willson, and all the Seahawks receivers on short crossing routs to the middle of the field.
Random Thoughts: The Seahawks will wear white jerseys and college navy pants. No word on what color jerseys the Ravens will wear but there is this stat: The Ravens have only worn their black alternate jerseys once this season. With three home games remaining including this week and one more eligible opportunity to wear their alternates, there is a 33 percent chance the Ravens will sport black in this game… Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis have the call for FOX with Tony Siragusa commentating from the sidelines. Many complain about other announcers such as Joe Buck and Chris Myers but I think Seahawks fans will be really annoyed with the broadcast this week. Why? Siragusa is a former Raven who could have a biased loyalty towards the home team. If you watch this game and get frustrated because the commentators are not giving the Seahawks proper credit this is probably why… Walt Coleman is the referee for this week’s game… It looks like it will be another abnormally warm week weather wise. The game-time temperature is slated to be in the low to mid 60’s and cloudy. It’s funny because that is pretty much the same weather the Seahawks had in Washington D.C. for a game in early OCTOBER last season… Quite frankly I am glad this game got flexed out of Sunday Night Football and the reason I am glad is because of the players. A primetime game on the east coast starts at 8:30pm which means the game won’t end until close to midnight. After meeting with the media, driving to the airport, and a cross-country flight, the Seahawks likely would not land back in Seattle until about 5:00am pacific time. This would make for an epically cruel and tiring Monday. Having the game start at 10:00am pushes that itinerary back. Now the Seahawks will likely land back in Seattle around the same time Sunday Night Football ends, which is about an 8 hour difference… Fantasy playoffs start this week and I made it to the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Shoutout to my starting lineup: Aaron Rodgers, Amari Cooper, Marvin Jones, Jonathan Stewart, T.J. Yeldon, Thomas Rawls, Gary Barnidge, Graham Gano, and the Carolina Panthers defense.
Seahawks Playoff Outlook: With a win the Seahawks take control of the #5 seed in the NFC. If the Seahawks lose they will still hold the #6 seed if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also lose. The Seahawks fall out of the playoff picture if they lose and the Buccaneers win. Here are other games this week with playoff significance. Teams to note are bolded.
New Orleans (4-8) at Tampa Bay (6-6)
Atlanta (6-6) at Carolina (12-0)
Prediction: This game will not be as close as the score indicates. Both Husky receivers Jermaine Kearse and Kevin Smith will catch touchdown passes from Russell Wilson, Smith’s being the first of his career. Thomas Rawls will also gallop for a 52-yard touchdown in the second quarter. The Ravens will score two garbage time touchdowns but the Seahawks will have the game wrapped up. The Seahawks will head home 8-5 with two straight home games on deck in the middle of the holiday season.
Seahawks 30, Ravens 17
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EJNMMI Physics
Simultaneous emission and attenuation reconstruction in time-of-flight PET using a reference object
Pablo García-Pérez1 &
Samuel España ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9092-45971,2
EJNMMI Physics volume 7, Article number: 3 (2020) Cite this article
Simultaneous reconstruction of emission and attenuation images in time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) does not provide a unique solution. In this study, we propose to solve this limitation by including additional information given by a reference object with known attenuation placed outside the patient. Different configurations of the reference object were studied including geometry, material composition, and activity, and an optimal configuration was defined. In addition, this configuration was tested for different timing resolutions and noise levels.
The proposed strategy was tested in 2D simulations obtained by forward projection of available PET/CT data and noise was included using Monte Carlo techniques. Obtained results suggest that the optimal configuration corresponds to a water cylinder inserted in the patient table and filled with activity. In that case, mean differences between reconstructed and true images were below 10%. However, better results can be obtained by increasing the activity of the reference object.
This study shows promising results that might allow to obtain an accurate attenuation map from pure TOF-PET data without prior knowledge obtained from CT, MRI, or transmission scans.
In order to obtain quantitative images in positron emission tomography (PET), corrections such as attenuation, scatter, and randoms must be implemented. Attenuation information in early PET scanners was obtained using transmission sources, while attenuation maps are currently derived from computed tomography (CT) images on hybrid PET/CT scanners.
In combined PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners, MRI provides anatomic images with better soft tissue contrast than CT and no ionization radiation is used, reducing the dose delivered to the patient. In addition, other applications such as spectroscopy or molecular imaging are also possible with MRI [1, 2]. Furthermore, development of stand-alone PET scanners dedicated to specific anatomical regions like the brain [3, 4] or breast [5] has been pursued in the last decade motivated by the need of improved scanner performance. However, hybrid PET/MRI and stand-alone PET scanners lack accurate methods for attenuation correction. Therefore, simplified attenuation maps are derived from MR images [6,7,8] or when no transmission data is available [9,10,11]. A promising approach suggested the joint reconstruction of emission and attenuation images from time of flight (TOF)-PET data using algorithms like maximum likelihood estimation of attenuation and activity (MLAA) [12,13,14,15]. However, as pointed by Defrise et al. [16], a major drawback of this approach is that the attenuation sinogram can be only determined up to an additive constant. This limiting factor is considered to be the main reason why these methods are still not implemented in clinical practice [17].
Several methods have been proposed to overcome this limitation. Some of these methods rely on available CT data [17,18,19,20] which might not be available in most cases where the use of simultaneous reconstruction of emission and attenuation is valuable like PET/MRI and stand-alone PET scanners. Other methods propose searching for an optimal initialization of the attenuation map based on MR images [14, 20, 21], which are prone to segmentation and misclassification errors, are limited by data availability, and rely on patient databases. Other authors attempted to accomplish this task by adding transmission sources in the scanner [22, 23], using the lutetium background radiation source as the transmission source [24], or trying to use scattered events from emission data [25, 26].
In this work, we evaluated a strategy suggested by Defrise et al. [16] that uses a reference object external to the patient with known attenuation values to overcome the limitation of the additive constant. For that purpose, a modified MLAA reconstruction algorithm was proposed and different configurations of the reference object were evaluated.
Reconstruction algorithm
MLAA algorithm is based on two iterative procedures. For the reconstruction of the activity distribution, a maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) procedure is used with the TOF-PET sinogram and the attenuation map as input. On the other hand, the reconstruction of the attenuation map is performed using a maximum likelihood gradient ascent procedure with the TOF-PET sinogram and the activity distribution as input. As both activity and attenuation images are unknown, these procedures are concatenated every iteration or few iterations leading to the mentioned simultaneous reconstruction of both images.
The MLEM algorithm used in this work can be expressed as:
$$ {\lambda}_j^{\left(n+1\right)}={\lambda}_j^{(n)}\bullet \frac{\sum_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}{c}_{ij}^{\mathrm{TOF}}\frac{y_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}}{b_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}^{(n)}}}{\sum_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}{c}_{ij}^{\mathrm{TOF}}{a}_i^{(n)}} $$
where \( {\lambda}_j^{(n)} \) is the estimated activity at iteration n on image voxel j, yi, TOF is the measured number of coincidences in sinogram entry (i,TOF), \( {c}_{ij}^{\mathrm{TOF}} \) is the system matrix which reflects the sensitivity of pixel j with respect to sinogram entry (i,TOF), \( {a}_i^{(n)} \) is the estimated attenuation sinogram, and \( {b}_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}^{(n)} \) is the estimated emission sinogram. \( {c}_{ij}^{\mathrm{TOF}} \) was estimated using a Siddon’s ray tracing algorithm [27] and the TOF resolution model was included with a Gaussian profile according to the employed coincidence resolving time (CRT). \( {b}_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}^{(n)} \) and \( {a}_i^{(n)} \) can be expressed as:
$$ {b}_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}^{(n)}={\sum}_j{c}_{ij}^{\mathrm{TOF}}{\lambda}_j^{(n)}\ {a}_i^{(n)}=\exp \left(-{\sum}_j{l}_{ij}{\mu}_j^{(n)}\right) $$
where \( {\mu}_j^{(n)} \) is the estimated attenuation coefficient and lij is the intersection length of the line of response (LOR) for sinogram entry i with pixel j.
The maximum likelihood gradient ascent algorithm used for the reconstruction of the attenuation map can be expressed using the following equation:
$$ {\mu}_j^{\left(n+1\right)}={\mu}_j^{(n)}+\frac{\alpha_p}{D}\left(1-\frac{\sum_i{c}_{ij}{y}_i}{\sum_i{c}_{ij}\left({a}_i^{(n)}{b}_i^{(n)}\right)}\right) $$
where αp is a relaxation coefficient and D the diameter of the PET ring [12, 14]. Note that no TOF information is used in this case. The results shown in this study were obtained after 1000 iterations updating the attenuation map according to Eq. 3 every 3 MLEM iterations (see Eq. 1) and with αp = 2 and D = 903 mm.
As pointed out by Defrise et al. [16], the MLAA algorithm allows to calculate the attenuation sinogram up to an additive constant. They also mentioned that if the attenuation coefficient is known for some LORs, the emission data determine in a unique way all the attenuation factors. For that purpose, they proposed using a reference object with known attenuation and activity placed outside the convex hull of the scanned object to recover the attenuation factors for all LORs. This is possible because the attenuation is thus known for any LOR that crosses this reference object but does not cross the scanned object. However, to the best of our knowledge, this strategy has not been tested to date.
In order to implement this technique, the MLAA algorithm was modified as follows. Every time the attenuation map is updated by (3), an additive constant is added to the entire map forcing the pixels within the reference object to have an average attenuation coefficient according to its known value (\( {\overline{\mu}}_{\mathrm{ref}} \)). For that purpose, the difference between \( {\overline{\mu}}_{\mathrm{ref}} \) and the mean attenuation coefficient within a region of interest (ROI) drawn inside the reference object in the attenuation image at current iteration (\( {\overline{\mu}}_{\mathrm{ROI}}^{(n)} \)) is obtained, and the entire attenuation map is corrected by this difference as follows:
$$ {\mu}_{j,\mathrm{corr}}^{(n)}={\mu}_j^{(n)}+{K}_{\mathrm{corr}}^{(n)} $$
where \( {K}_{\mathrm{corr}}^{(n)} \) is given by
$$ {K}_{\mathrm{corr}}^{(n)}={\overline{\mu}}_{\mathrm{ref}}-{\overline{\mu}}_{\mathrm{ROI}}^{(n)} $$
In this way, \( {\mu}_{j,\mathrm{corr}}^{(n)} \) is used as the attenuation map for the next iteration.
2D simulation
To test the proposed algorithm, multiple 2D simulations were performed. As input, reconstructed PET/CT images for a patient were extracted from an online database [28, 29] and one slice from the thoracic region was selected (see Fig. 1). The PET image used as true activity distribution has 128 × 128 pixels with a pixel size of 5 mm. CT image was resampled to the same voxel size as the PET image in order to obtain true attenuation images. Attenuation map was obtained by conversion from Hounsfield units (HU) to attenuation coefficients at 511 keV using the bilinear conversion proposed by Carney et al. [30] for the corresponding energy (130 kVp). True emission and attenuation sinograms were generated by forward projection of the true activity and attenuation images (see Eq. 2). Attenuated emission sinogram was generated as the product of both sinograms as follows:
$$ {y}_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}={b}_{i,\mathrm{TOF}}\cdotp {a}_i $$
Reconstructed emission and attenuation images and percentage difference maps of emission images obtained with standard MLAA reconstruction (no reference object) and with proposed MLAA reconstruction including a bias correction based on known attenuation of a reference object. True emission and attenuation images are also shown as a reference
The sinograms obtained had 90 angular samples over 180°, 256 radial samples with 2.5 mm bin size and 13, 27, or 81 TOF-bins for 540, 300, or 100 ps CRT, respectively.
Attenuated emission sinograms including noise were generated using an acceptance-rejection Monte Carlo (MC) method. For that purpose, a random sinogram entry (i,TOF) is chosen and a random number is generated between 0 and the maximum value of the noise-free sinogram. The event is added to the new sinogram if the random value is lower than the noise-free sinogram at entry (i,TOF). This process is repeated until the desired number of events is reached. In that way, a new sinogram is built with a predefined number of events distributed as the noise-free sinogram. The number of coincidences to be simulated was established by obtaining attenuated sinograms of a cylinder with 20-cm diameter filled with water and uniform activity with different number of coincidences. Those sinograms were reconstructed using standard MLEM algorithm with 100 iterations including known attenuation map. The standard deviation (SD) was computed in a ROI at the center of the reconstructed image and the number of events leading to a SD of 5% was selected as a reference for simulations with patient data which corresponded to 107 coincidences for a CRT of 300 ps. In addition, simulations with lower number of coincidences (106 and 105) were also tested to evaluate the method at different noise levels.
In order to provide an initial estimate of the attenuation map for the MLAA algorithm, we performed a non-attenuation corrected MLEM reconstruction and the body contour was segmented using a Gaussian filter followed by a watershed algorithm. The attenuation coefficient within the patient volume was initialized as water. True attenuation values for the patient table and the reference object were included as a template in the initial attenuation map.
The proposed algorithm was tested with different configurations of the reference object including variations of the geometry, material composition, and activity. Initially, the reference object was defined as a water cylinder with 4-cm diameter inserted in the patient table with an activity concentration equal to the average activity concentration within the patient (A0). In addition, other activity values were tested including no activity, A0/4, and 4·A0. The geometry of the reference object was also tested including 2 and 4 water cylinders each one filled with A0/2 and A0/4, respectively, to preserve the total activity within the reference objects. For the case of 2 cylinders, an additional cylinder was placed on top of the patient and for the case of 4 cylinders, 2 more cylinders were added on both lateral sides of the patient. Finally, two other materials for the reference object were tested using one cylinder with A0 made of lung or bone equivalent materials with attenuation coefficients of 2.76·10− 3 and 12.01·10− 3 mm− 1, respectively.
A CRT of 300 ps was chosen to study all the configurations mentioned above which is similar to the TOF resolution of most recent PET scanners [31,32,33]. In addition, two other CRT values were studied to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in the previous generation of PET scanners with a CRT of 540 ps [34, 35] and in PET scanners with improved CRT (100 ps) that might be available in the future [36,37,38].
The accuracy of the obtained reconstructed images was evaluated as follows. The patient volume was segmented into four tissue types (t) including lung, bone, soft tissue, and adipose tissue according to the attenuation coefficients included in the CT-derived attenuation map. The mean percentage difference (∆t) between the reconstructed (xj) and the true (\( {x}_j^{\mathrm{true}} \)) emission images and the standard deviation of the percentage difference (SDt) were calculated for each tissue
$$ {\Delta }^t=\frac{1}{n^t}\sum \limits_j\frac{x_j-{x}_j^{\mathrm{true}}}{x_j^{\mathrm{true}}}\bullet 100 $$
where nt is the number of pixels in the tissue t. In addition, pixel-wise maps with the percentage difference between the reconstructed and the true emission images were obtained.
First, the standard MLAA algorithm was applied without any reference object and therefore, Eqs. 4 and 5 were not applied (see Fig. 1). Reconstructed emission and attenuation images show a large deviation (> 50%) compared with true images due to the limitation mentioned by Defrise et al. [16]. The reconstructed images obtained with proposed method including a reference object and using the reference configuration (CRT = 300 ps, 107 coincidences and reference object as one water cylinder with A0 activity) are also shown in Fig. 1 obtaining a much better agreement (mean differences are below 10% for all tissues).
In order to study the influence of the activity concentration within the reference object, different cases were simulated and the resulting images are shown in Fig. 2. The bias of the reconstructed image increased when the activity was reduced while a similar SD was obtained for all cases when A > 0 (see Table 1). On the other hand, very large differences were obtained when no activity was placed in the reference object as the LORs with measured coincidences that cross the reference object are also crossing the patient and then, the limitation mentioned by Defrise et al. [16] remains. Therefore, some activity must be placed within the reference object to be able to implement this method. This activity should be high enough to improve convergence although a very high activity might deliver an unnecessary dose to the patient. Percentage difference maps of attenuation images are also shown in Fig. 2 where larger deviations can be observed at patient edges and lung interfaces with other tissues.
Reconstructed emission and attenuation images, percentage difference maps of emission images, and percentage difference maps of attenuation images obtained with proposed MLAA reconstruction using one water-filled cylinder with different activity concentrations (A). A0 is the average activity concentration within the patient. True emission and attenuation images are also shown as a reference
Table 1 Mean percentage difference between the reconstructed and the true emission images and SD for each tissue type obtained for all configurations included in this study. Reference configuration corresponds to proposed MLAA with reference object defined as one water cylinder (cyl) filled with A0 activity concentration, CRT = 300 ps and 107 coincidences. Results obtained with fixed attenuation values in air pixels (F.A.) are included below
Other studied configuration parameters were the material and geometry of the reference object. Figure 3 shows the results obtained with one lung, water, or bone cylinder as well as with 2 and 4 water cylinders. Very large differences were obtained for the lung cylinder whereas all other cases show similar results as can be also observed in Table 1. Therefore, for simplicity, the case with one water cylinder and A0 activity concentration can be considered the best choice among tested options. This configuration of the reference object was also studied using different CRT and counting statistics and the results are shown in Fig. 4. As expected, the accuracy of the results improved with lower CRT and better results were obtained with a higher number of coincidences.
Reconstructed emission and attenuation images and percentage difference maps of emission images obtained with proposed MLAA reconstruction using one cylinder filled with reference activity concentration (A0) and materials with different attenuation coefficients (water, lung, and bone) and using 2 and 4 cylinders filled with water and the same total activity as for the one cylinder case. True emission and attenuation images are also shown as a reference
Reconstructed emission images and percentage difference maps of emission images obtained with proposed MLAA reconstruction using one water cylinder filled with reference activity concentration (A0). Results are shown for different CRT values (100, 300, and 540 ps) and different number of coincidences (105, 106, and 107)
In all previous cases, the attenuation values were updated inside and outside the patient except for the patient table. In order to facilitate the convergence of the reconstruction process, we also tested some of the cases previously reported fixing the attenuation values outside the patient corresponding to air (see Fig. 5). Using this strategy, the lung equivalent material in the reference object provides good results while other cases with lower or no activity in the reference object still show large deviations.
Reconstructed emission and attenuation images and percentage difference maps of emission images obtained with proposed MLAA reconstruction with fixed attenuation values in air pixels. Reconstructed cases include using as reference object one water-filled cylinder with different activity concentrations (A) and one cylinder filled with reference activity concentration (A0) and materials with different attenuation coefficients (lung and bone)
Table 1 summarizes the mean percentage difference and the standard deviation obtained for all segmented tissue types on each of the configurations evaluated in this study. Finally, Fig. 6 shows the mean percentage difference obtained for soft tissue, as a function of the number of iterations, in order to compare the convergence of different configurations. The reliability and robustness of the proposed iterative method is illustrated in Fig. 6.
Mean percentage difference for soft tissue as a function of the number of iterations obtained for reference object with several activity concentrations (a), materials (b), and number of cylinders (c), and for different CRTs (d). All other options were set as in the reference configuration (CRT = 300 ps, 107 coincidences and reference object as one water cylinder with A0 activity). All pixels of the attenuation image except for the patient table were updated during the reconstruction
The simultaneous reconstruction of emission and attenuation images using a modified MLAA algorithm has been evaluated in this study trying to solve the fact that the attenuation sinogram can only be determined up to an additive constant with standard MLAA (see Fig. 1). As proposed by Defrise et al. [16], a reference object with known attenuation could be used to overcome this limitation but to the best of our knowledge no prior studies have been presented evaluating this option. In this study, we proposed a modification in the MLAA algorithm including a bias correction on the attenuation image based on the difference between the reconstructed values on the reference object and its known attenuation values. This strategy was tested in 2D simulations using different configurations of the reference object (material, activity, and geometry) using a CRT of 300 ps and 107 coincidences in all cases. Obtained results suggest that the best configuration corresponds to one water cylinder filled with an activity concentration equal to the average activity within the patient although a higher activity would produce more accurate results and faster image convergence (see Fig. 5a) but delivering a higher dose to the patient. The addition of more cylinders around the patient produced minor differences after 1000 iterations although slower convergence was achieved (see Fig. 5c) and would require more complexity in the patient setup. Other geometries as full ring or larger cylinders were also studied (results not shown) but no improvements were obtained and those options were discarded due to the extra complexity of those setups [23, 39].
The chosen configuration for the reference object was tested with different CRT values and number of coincidences. For the high statistics case (107 coincidences), mean percentage differences below 10% are shown in all cases except for adipose tissue and lung for a CRT of 540 ps. However, the larger differences obtained in lung and adipose tissue might be due to the fact that the activity concentration in the selected patient was much lower on those tissues than in bone and soft tissue and therefore, were more susceptible to noise variations. Hence, the proposed technique might be applicable in available TOF-PET scanners with both 300 and 540 ps.
When counting statistics become very low (105 coincidences), as would be the case of short frames in dynamic studies, very large deviations were obtained for all CRT values. However, we must consider that the attenuation map could be obtained with the proposed method using a longer acquisition from the end of the dynamic study and later used in standard MLEM reconstruction for the dynamic data.
Further improvements could be included during the reconstruction process to avoid high noise levels and slow convergence of the algorithm [40]. However, the aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the reference object under different conditions and further improvements of this method were left to future studies. In addition, this study was based on simple 2D simulations that did not include random or scatter events. Therefore, futures studies must evaluate this technique in complete 3D simulations and on measured data that should include phantom and patient data. Regarding patient data, other regions as the brain, prostate, or breast imaging should be also studied. One possible limitation of the proposed technique is its implementation in stand-alone PET scanners. Some of these scanners are very compact and there might not be enough room for a reference object. In that case, a more compact geometry of the reference object would be required.
In this study, we tested a modified MLAA reconstruction algorithm that corrects the bias in the attenuation image using a reference object with known attenuation. Different configurations of the reference object were studied including geometry, material composition, and activity. An optimal configuration was defined. In addition, this configuration was tested using different CRT values in order to evaluate its performance in current and future PET scanners and under different noise levels to evaluate its accuracy in scenarios like low injected dose or dynamic PET scans. In conclusion, this study shows promising results that might allow to obtain accurate attenuation map from pure TOF-PET data without prior knowledge from CT, MR, or transmission scans. However, further studies are needed to test this method under more realistic conditions.
Data and materials are available on request to the authors.
CRT:
Coincidence Resolving Time
Hounsfield Units
LOR:
Line of response
MLAA:
Maximum likelihood estimation of attenuation and activity
MLEM:
Maximum likelihood expectation maximization
Region of interest
TOF:
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This work was supported by a grant from the Comunidad de Madrid (2016-T1/TIC-1099). The CNIC is supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCNU); and the Pro CNIC Foundation, and is a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence (SEV-2015-0505).
Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, IdISSC, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Palestine’s Mahmoud Sarsak ‘rejects’ FC Barcelona invite to match with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 28 September 2012
Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud al-Sarsak in Gaza City on 10 July 2012
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Palestinian national footballer and hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak has, according to several reports, rejected an invitation by the FC Barcelona football club to watch its El Clásico game against Real Madrid on 7 October, along with Israeli occupation soldier and ex-prisoner of war Gilad Shalit.
In a 27 September statement, FC Barcelona invited Sarsak, along with two Palestinian Authority officials, in a bid to placate the growing anger over the invitation to Shalit, which has been condemned by dozens of Palestinian football clubs and sporting associations, and by Palestine solidarity activists in Spain.
In response to the move, Sarsak told EI blogger Shahd Abusalama that he rejected the offer. After speaking to Sarsak this morning, Abusalama tweeted that Sarsak “told me his definite denial of going [to FC Barcelona’s] match if Shalit is there calling this normalization.”
Just called @mahmoudsarsak regarding this. He confirmed me that he'll NEVER accept 2 be in a place hosting a murderer. http://t.co/GtK3QsCB
— ShahdAbusalama (@ShahdAbusalama) September 27, 2012
Proud of @mahmoudsarsak! Just told me his definite denial of going2 @FCBarcelona's match if Shalit is there calling this NORMALIZATION. #BDS
@mahmoudsarsak strongly confirmed 2 me that he'll never betray his principles 4 a match of @FCBarcelona even if that has been always a dream
Ma’an News Agency’s Arabic website also carries a report quoting Dr. Ramy Abdu, the Gaza manager of the Council for European Palestinian Relations, stating that he spoke personally to Sarsak who “confirmed” he would not attend the match “under any circumstances” and that he rejected any equivalence between his struggle and those of thousands of fellow prisoners on the one hand, with the situation of an occupation soldier, on the other. Abdu also posted his account of his conversation with Sarsak on Twitter and Facebook.
تحدثت قبل قليل مع اللاعب الخلوق الصديق محمود السرسك وناقشنا سويا فكرة حضوره لمباراة الكلاسيكو التي من المقرر ان... http://t.co/0q4Tm9xk
— Ramy Abdu| د. رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) September 28, 2012
In a 28 September TV interview, Sarsak confirmed he had received the invitation and explained why he would not accept it.
FC Barcelona distances itself from Shalit
In a 27 September statement on its website, FC Barcelona responded to the uproar over Shalit, claiming, “The Club did not invite Mr. Shalit to the game, but accepted a request to watch a match during his visit to Barcelona.”
This apparent distancing came after senior club officials had told the media that the invitation to Shalit had come at the request of an Israeli ex-minister.
From the FC Barcelona statement:
In the same manner as Mr. Shalit’s request was accepted, the Club has also accepted the Palestinian embassy’s request to extend three invitations to three Palestinian delegates. Musa Amer Odeh, Palestinian Authority ambassador; Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Football Union, and the Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Al Sarsak will also watch the Clásico at the Camp Nou.
FC Barcelona’ attempt to draw an equivalence between Shalit, an occupation soldiers who was taken prisoner from a tank while enforcing Israel’s brutal and illegal blockade of Gaza, and Sarsak, who spent three years in detention and isolation without charge or trial by Israel until he forced Israel to free him after an epic three-month hunger strike, has backfired.
Normalization promotes “false symmetry and balance”
Moreover, apparently misunderstanding the nature of Palestinian objections to the Shalit invitation, the FC Barcelona statement went on to boast of joint activities it had organized by Israelis and Palestinians in the name of “peace and harmony”:
In addition, during the inauguration of La Masia. Centro de Formación Oriol Tort, last October, FC Barcelona - through its Foundation - contributed to the peace process between Israel and Palestine. A total of 31 children, 16 Palestinians and 15 Israelis, trained for the first time together with La Masia residents. The goal of the exercise was to cultivate an athletic relationship between the two groups.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) specifically rejects such initiatives. As PACBI explains in its guidelines:
Cultural events and projects involving Palestinians and/or Arabs and Israelis that promote “balance” between the “two sides” in presenting their respective narratives, as if on par, or are otherwise based on the false premise that the colonizers and the colonized, the oppressors and the oppressed, are equally responsible for the “conflict,” are intentionally deceptive, intellectually dishonest and morally reprehensible. Such events and projects, often seeking to encourage dialogue or “reconciliation between the two sides” without addressing the requirements of justice, promote the normalization of oppression and injustice.
Update, 28 September: In TV interview, Mahmoud Sarsak confirms FC Barcelona Clasico invite, says he won’t attend with Shalit
Mahmoud Sarsak
Gilad Shalit
For once, I beg to differ.
Permalink Danii Amir replied on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 13:51
For once, I beg to differ. While fully aware of the cruelty and moral corruption of the Israeli occupation - I was imprisoned for three months for refusing to serve the occupation back in 1979, and have never bought into any Israeli justification of this horrendous ongoing racist enterprise - I consider both Shalit and Sarsak as young men who paid a dear price for the very same occupation. Moreover, while agreeing that the effort to create "balance," between the oppressed and oppressor are usually sickening, FC Barcelona's initiatives, and most initiatives that bring young Israeli and Palestinian soccer players together, offer a glimpse of hope for future generations, since both peoples will, hopefully, eventually share the land equally. Furthermore, Israeli soccer is one place that often offers this very hope: I beg to remind you that only two seasons ago, Hapoel Tel Aviv won the "double," at the stadium of Beitar Jerusalem, the well known racist team of Jerusalem, whose diehard fans - in opposition to most Beitar fans - would never have an Arab on their team. Hapoel's beloved captain, who celebrated wildly - the winning goal was scored in extra time - is Walid Badeer whose grandfather was among the victims of the 1956 Kafr Kassem massacre. Soccer, and sports, can sometimes offer a glimpse of hope for different times.
Naturally, I write this a non-Zionist Israeli who only suffers indirectly from all the evils of the occupation in particular and Zionism in general, but my two cents say that Shalit too, is a victim, after spending so many years in complete isolation. Israel's disgusting policies should be confronted wherever possible, and I've personally as a citizen and musician have done my little best, but I'm not positive this is the best arena. That said, of course I respect Sarsak's decision, since I'm in no position whatsoever to criticize it.
"victim"
Permalink Ali Abunimah replied on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 14:02
Shalit gives up any claim to being a victim — plausible or otherwise — the moment he agrees to be part of Israeli state hasbara (propaganda), and that is what he has being doing for the past year. He has not attended all these events as an individual, but as part and parcel of Israel’s propaganda efforts. This is crucial.
That may be correct, even
That may be correct, even though google hasn't helped me in finding any such event. Still, if both Shalit and Sarsak were to be photographed together in a Barca game, I believe the effect would be to underline the grim price of the occupation, rather than any sort of "balance." Furthermore, as far as I know, apart from thanking those who helped sponsor his release, I'm not aware of any public "Zionist" deceleration on his part since his release, as any such utterance would present a field day for the "hasbara". Possibly, the only public side of his activities since his release, has been to go to sports events, since it turns out he always was an avid sports fan. I don't mind being corrected on this matter, but I still insist that even if he did take part in any "hasbara" event, he is nonetheless a victim of the occupation. No one should be subjected to over five years of solitary confinement without due medical treatment. And, again, even if he were to take part in any hasbara event, I would withhold judgement, considering what he has gone through. But then again, I sometimes tend to be overly patient when dealing with individuals who suffered what no human should suffer.
There's no plan for them to
Permalink Ma replied on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 18:33
There's no plan for them to be photographed together, that's not a point. There's a lot of propaganda being spread about this story, people should try to stick with the facts.
Also, none was "invited" by the club, the club just accepted requests for them . So Sarsak can't "reject Barcelona's invitation". The Palestianian embassador asked for tickets for him, Barcelona gave the tickets to the embassador, so he's in fact rejecting the invitation of the Palestinian embassador.
Also this: "FC Barcelona has always wanted to promote peace and harmony in the Middle East. On July 21 of 2011, Mahmuod Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, was officially hosted at Club facilities during his visit to Barcelona. On that occasion, Mr. Abbas thanked “FC Barcelona for its hospitality,” and noted that “Barça is a Club that represents a civilization and a group of people with a great set of values.”"
shalit didn't suffer
Permalink k replied on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 04:14
he got to play vidya with his minders.
To put his incarceration on the same level as that of thousands of palestinian non-combatants in terms of serverity is to piss all over them.
Zionist normalization is insidious terrorism
Permalink Philip Gunnell replied on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 08:37
There is no grey area, let it be clear, israel is not a country, Palestine is.
There may be non-zionists israelis in occupied palestine, this does not justify the illegal occupation. Any person or group supporting israel or zionism is an enemy to freedom everywhere.
While the occupation continues, we are all prisoners.
I condemn any one or any group or club that supports the zionist occupation of Palestine.
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A Conversation with director/editor Todd Douglas Miller.
By Noel Manning on October 18, 2019 • ( 0 )
The Critics Choice Association (CCA) recently announced the nominations for the year’s best in documentaries. Apollo 11 earned six nominations (Best Documentary Feature, Todd Douglas Miller for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Science/Nature Documentary).
Here, Noel T Manning II interviews Apollo 11 director/editor Todd Douglas Miller. Miller talks about the monumental effort in creating a new story from thousands of hours of previously unreleased footage, and interviews of the first manned flight to the moon. Miller also shares the unique approach to original score for this CCA-nominated documentary.
Click below to watch the 5-minute interview.
For an audio-only version, head to the WGWG soundcloud stream.
Noel T. Manning is a member of the CCA and the NCFCA and is also the host of the television program and radio show Meet Me at the Movies. He’s the founder of the Real to Reel Film Fest and is an adjunct professor of film studies. When he’s not teaching cinema in the classroom, he enjoys digging into the world of movies by chatting with principle individuals involved in various aspects of the filmmaking industry.
You can listen other interviews, as well as the audio from his television program Meet Me at the Movies on C19.TV and WGWG soundcloud stream
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Categories: Filmmaker Interviews
Tags: Apollo 11, Cinemascene, CNN Films, direction, documentary, editing, Gardner-Webb University, interview, Neon, Noel T. Manning, Todd Douglas Miller, WGWG
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COMING SOON: The Italian Collection
T'was The Month Before Christmas...
A little holiday fun, written by a friend of mine about 35 years ago....
T’WAS THE MONTH BEFORE CHRISTMAS
T’was the month before Christmas, and all through the store
Each department was dripping with Yuletide decor
The Muzak was blaring an out-of-tune carol
And fake snow was falling on “Ladies Apparel”
I’d flown many miles from the North Pole this day
To check on reports which had caused me dismay
I’d come to this store but for one special reason
To see for myself what went on at this season
I hid in a corner and in a short while
I saw the store President march down the aisle
He shouted an order to “Turn the store tree on!”
And also “NOEL” in blinding pink neon
Up high hanging grandly from twin gold supports
Four hundred pink angels flew over “Men’s Shorts”
And towering up over the rear Mezzanine
A 90-foot, day-glow “Nativity Scene”
The clock on the wall said a quarter to nine
The floorwalkers proudly stood in a line
I watched while the President smelled their carnations
Then called out his final command—“Man your stations!”
When out on the street there arose such a roar
It rang to the rafters and boomed through the store
It sounded exactly like street repair drilling
Or maybe another big mafia killing?
I looked to the door and there banging the glass
Was a clamouring, shrieking, hysterical mass
And I felt from the tone of each scream and each curse
That the “Spirit of Christmas” had changed for the worse
The clock it struck nine and the door opened wide
And that great human avalanche came thundering inside
More fearsome than Sherman attacking Atlanta
Came parents and kiddies with just one goal—“Santa”
In front stormed the Mothers all brandishing handbags
As heavy and deadly as twenty-pound sandbags
With gusto they swung them, the better to smash ears
Of innocent floorwalkers, buyers, and cashiers
Straight up to the Fifth Floor the mob penetrated
And soon reach the room where the store Santa waited
I followed them closely, the better to see
This bearded imposter who dared to play me
He stood six-foot-five and weighed all of one-thirty
He’d lost half his teeth, and his costume was dirty
His beard dangled down like a wad of cheap cotton
His breath needed “Scope” and his “Ho-Ho” was rotten
Egged on by their parents the kids had one aim
To get to this man who was using my name
They mobbed him and mauled him, the better to plead
For the presents they sought in their hour of greed
The President watched with a gleam in his eye
As he thought of the toys that the parents would buy
Of all Christmas come-ons this crowd would attest
That visit to “Santa” was clearly the best
It was all too much for my soul to condone
And I let out a most UN-professional moan
The crowd turned quickly, and I’ll say for their sake
That they knew in an instant I wasn’t a fake
“I’ve had it,” I told them, “with fast-buck promoting!
“With gimmicks and come-ons, and businessmen gloating!
“This garish display of commercialized greed,
“Is so very UN-Christmas it makes my heart bleed.”
With that I departed up an emergency stairwell
Deaf to each plea, and hysterical yell
On reaching the roof to my sleigh I went forth
Where my reindeer were waiting to take me back North
The crowd came behind me and begged me to stay
And before they could stop me, I was off in my sleigh
But I turned to exclaim as I flew from the mob
“Happy Christmas to all—I’m resigning my job!”
My first "sweet" romance in years is soon to be released by The Wild Rose Press, and I'm so excited about it!
Bella Signorina...
Based in part on the music of
Patrizio Buanne
In one of Rome’s trendiest caffè’s, Bianca comes to dance, and escape the loneliness that haunts her world. For many weeks she's been watching a special man, a handsome, charming stranger who dances, flirts, and leaves alone. Bianca is not anxious to fall in love, and yet… Something about the enigmatic Stefano has captivated her heart, and she is drawn to him in spite of herself. When she finally gathers her courage to approach him, and ask him to dance, little does she know that her entire world is about to change.
COMING SOON from Lucy Monroe!
Coming NOVEMBER 27th from Kensington Brava!
The new release from fabulous romance author Lucy Monroe! Mark your calendars and get ready for a wonderful adventure!
Lucy is having wonderful contests and lots of fun at her Blog, too, so drop over and say hello -- the link is here on the sidebar! And don't forget to watch the video trailer that's right under this post!
Deal With This!
This is the wonderful new novel from Lucy Monroe!!! ENJOY!!!
New review!
As Fate Decrees
Review by ellen george
This is a superb story of the Pantheon of Ancient Greece - the backstory is on the back cover - there is just a slight mention of the prophecy and fate in the early text of the book, but the back cover explains the start and emphasis of this story so we know what we need at the start - The Oracle of Delphi tells Ares, Greek God of War, that he is to find a Champion of the Gods in a very lowly place - Find her and you will find the savior...
…In ancient Greece, slaves are being sold - out comes a fiery girl who fights against her captor - A stranger comes in and bids for her - no one else dares outbid him. She goes with this mysterious new master not knowing her new master is Ares, God of War… Then the world shifts. We are in 1999 Athens, Greece - Someone is destroying shrines and holy places in an effort to destroy the religions of the world and create a new religion - one religion - one god - and ancient holy places in Greece are being destroyed in an effort to show the world their old religions aren't as powerful as the new religion...
Both tales, as they merge, are masterfully told. The mythology is vivid, and the story of everlasting love and honor of the ancients is amazing. Am and Ares are together until the Fates decree she is to go and champion them at another time...
There is a possibility of a sequel to As Fate Decrees - further adventures of Ares and Amarantha, his now love, are truly a story fit for the Gods.
As always, the serial is FREE, and this newest chapter is the lead-in to some very traumatic events in our hero's life... it's getting good, I hope you decide to ride on and stay with the adventure!!
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A kiss... or something more?
We all know the song, Casablanca is a classic in all ways. But, when writing all this romance, how do you approach the simple yet crucial aspect of a kiss and what it means? How critical is that first sweet touch to your story, your relationship, and your mood?
We’ve watched, those of us who love classic movies or are old enough to remember it, the evolution of this special moment over the years. From the romance novels we love to read and write, to the movies that have become so entrenched in our minds that they’re part of our culture.
Remember Gone With The Wind? What was more risqué than the sight of Clark Gable whisking Vivien Leigh into his arms and climbing that staircase with more passion than many more explicit scenes could ever evoke. And on the bridge, before he leaves her to the Yankees in the last days of the Civil War — isn’t that image, that kiss, burned into our memories as a kind of iconic representation of romance at its best?
Casablanca has its share of passion and romance, too. What new movies do you think come close to these in the embodiment of what we dream about, sigh about, and mostly just wish for in our private hearts?What about our books? At what point, do you think, a book crosses the link from romance to erotica, and can the two really merge and blend well without treading into the area of language so explicit it takes away rather than enhances? And, again, what about that crucial kiss?
Do you like the first kiss to be a tender discovery of passion that’s hinted at and now coming to the surface? Or do you prefer a smoldering clash of emotions and raw need? Is it the mood of the story that’s altered and shifted over the years do you think, or the perceptions of a society that’s become somewhat desensitized to gentler and more subtle interpretations of love and passion? Our books leave little or nothing to the imagination. No more fade to black after a passionate, lingering kiss between the hero and his love. Is that, do you think, a good thing, or something that leaves the reader with nothing to contemplate when the book reaches its end?
Music is explicit, movies are intensely so, and books tread ground that would make angels cower in terror at times. So, what are your thoughts on this diverse and somewhat controversial subject? What constitutes too much, and why?
Anyone recognize the guy in the picture? He's The New Voice of Romance.... If you'd like to be enchanted, click on his image and you'll discover something rather magical in this man's voice....
New Concepts Publishing
4 Angels: Adam Walker had always been a touchy subject for Shainna Barton. As her assigned partner by the Company, he was one of the most dangerous men she had met. The moment she saw him there was an instant attraction. He had a certain aura to him. Then again there was Kiku, and Shainna knew as long as Kiku Shimoda was in the picture, Adam would never be but a working partner to her. When Kiku is beaten, raped and her neck broken, her death becomes national news, leaving some to believe Adam was the killer. Shainna is certain he is innocent. Adam is well-trained and considered one of the Company’s best field agents. Inside, he carries a secret that others are not aware. He is a ninja and one of Japan’s death warriors who loves Kiku. After her death there is only one person he can lean on for support and that is Shainna. He never realized that deep down he harbored stronger feelings, for her that are about to surface in a most sensual way.
Silent Death is a story that pulls one into the action. The suspense mounts especially after the death of Kiku. Shainna and Adam are both refreshing characters that light up the pages. I liked how the marital arts was brought into the story and showed different sides of Adam. This reader could see the different layers of expression on his face with, grief, action or passion. Denysé Bridger packs a punch into a tale that shows love, compassion and wide ranges of emotions while finding a way of escape for a brighter tomorrow. I look forward to more of her stories.
Reviewed by: Linda L.
Fallen Angel Reviews
Newsletter Posted
I just wanted to let you all know that I've just posted my newsletter, on the theory that it's better late than never, right?
Lots of cool stuff to explore in this issue, so if you're not subscribed and would like to be, here's the link.
Romance and Fantasy Newsletter
AND, if you want a copy of the newsletter once you've subscribed, drop me a note and I'll get one out to you straight-away!!
Denysé
NEW release - Available NOW!
Publisher: Forbidden Publications
Genre: Vampire
Heat Index: Erotic/Sensual
Book Length: Novella
Cover Artist: Rene Wilson
Editor: Rene Wilson
When Detective Faith Prentice is assigned as a liaison to the police force in Montreal, intent on helping the detectives there capture a killer who’s MO matches one she’s hunted at home in Los Angeles, she is ill-prepared for what awaits her in the beautiful jewel city of Canada’s French province. Mysteriously drawn to her temporary partner, Adrian Blackthorne, she rebels against his allure, only to be drawn into an even deeper darkness when Adrian’s past snares her—and she becomes a pawn in the deadly battle between the vampire Blackthorne and the powerful master he has long denied…
Drop in and have some fun!
I'm "on" today at the Romance/Erotica Writer's Blog.... and I'd love to hear your thoughts on today's little mindless amble... so pop over and comment, and at the end of the day I'll spring a surprise on someone!!
The topic is: Music as Creative Motivation
BLOG: http://romeroticawriters.blogspot.com/
Have a great one, folks!!
A new review!
Title: Another Man's Wife
Author: Denysé Bridger
Genre: Western
Reviewed by: Aviana, for Two Lips Reviews
"LIVE" Interview on October 18th
This was supposed to happen on September 13th, at 6 PM (CT), but is now rescheduled for October 18th, same time!! I will be the guest author interviewed for on Internet Radio for the University of Regina. This is one more part of the promotional work for As Fate Decrees, which is in stores now -- all over the US and Canada!
To connect, visit the website here: http://www.cjtr.ca/, and click on Tune In. The interview will be audible via your Windows Media Player, or your MAC system's Media Player. Interviews are broadcast live with streaming audio.
I hope you'll tune in and let me know your thoughts, as always.
Drop by to WIN!!
Blogging today -- the Morning After -- at Silver Expressions, and will be giving away a copy of my new erotic anthology, Passionate Kisses, to someone who drops by to comment!! Pop in and say hello!!!
SEx: http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/blog
An exciting and sizzling new anthology collection will be released from Liquid Silver Books later today! Lots of diversity in the material, too, everything from Historical to vampire, to action adventure. Some material is being re-released, since it hasn't been available for awhile, and several stories are brand new! Some are highly erotic, others are sensual and seductive. I hope you'll sample this one and savor my Passionate Kisses....
Passionate Kisses
Genre: Multi-genre Anthology (erotic)
Date: September 3rd, 2007
Passionate Kisses is a collection of seven short stories, three of which have been previously published. In this single volume you’ll meet agents who risk not only their lives but their hearts as they struggle to survive in an often harsh and heartless world; a jaded Colonel returning from the Civil War who finds solace for his soul in the arms of woman he’s just met; a vampire who unknowingly condemns all of his kind to the eternal night; a couple who live busy lives that often keep them apart, so they make their own special magic hidden away in the mountains
The collection includes the following tales of erotic romance:
ANY OTHER WAY, (Contemporary, previously published by Amber Quill Press): Protected Federal Witness, Carlos D’Alejandro and Agent Jade Whinton have had a relationship of convenience over the years, but when the people they love are killed, these two unlikely lovers are forced to face a truth neither of them has been willing to examine too closely, that their passion is more than intense attraction…
DESTINY MET (Post-Civil War): As the soldiers of the defeated Confederacy slowly make their way to the broken South, a jaded hero finds unexpected comfort in the arms of a lovely woman who has waited a lifetime to meet her destiny…
BOUND (Contemporary, previously published by AQP) : Halloween is the setting for a very private party between two lovers, one of them a world-class, sophisticated intelligence operative who’s trying to teach his young and innocent lady that curiosity can sometimes take you places you’d be better not to go…
PERDITION (Historical vampire): Set in the ancient city of Alexandria, approximately 300 B.C., a High Priest in the Temple of Ra is seduced by an enigmatic woman who gives him immortality. Later, in the court of Pontius Pilate, at the trial of a man revered as the son of God, the Priest whispers a word of advice into the wrong ear, and condemns all of his kind to an eternity in darkness…
DREAM SEQUENCE (Contemporary, previously published by AQP): Two modern lovers, living often separate lives, discover that making time for romance isn’t always easy, but the romance of their secret getaways is purely the stuff of dreams…
1-900-SURPRISE! (Contemporary): Late home from a Congressional Hearing, agent Martin Fowler decides to introduce his young lover, Daniella Renault, to the intimacies of sex via the telephone…
THE HUNT: (Contemporary/Vampire, previously published by AQP) Nicholas is ancient, and his current lover, Callandra, is one of the few women he has known over centuries who not only enjoys the hunt, she glories in it. Tonight, their lust for blood and each other will take them to a murky underground nightclub, where the vampires will quench all their hungers...
I hope you enjoy this collection of tales both erotic and highly sensual. Let me know, okay?
AND, don't forget that my first major print release is now available in bookstores everywhere! As Fate Decrees, a new fantasy novel based on the mythology of Ancient Greece! It's also available online direct from the publisher, (who is offering FREE shipping in North America), and at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca! Details on my website!!
This the website of the very talented young man who's designed/created the amazing trailer for my fantasy novel. Check out what other great stuff he does!! Click on the logo and have a peek!
Book Tour Featured Author
I received a lovely surprise mail this morning! Thanks so much to everyone who made this one happen!!!
Have a look: Book Tour Featured Author
If you're an author who wants to register to use this FREE service, click on the sign up link on the sidebar, or HERE
Hey Denyse—
I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on being Book Tour's featured author today (Sunday)! You referred more authors to the site than anyone else.
-Adam Goldstein
CTO, BookTour
Musings and wanderings...
Sometimes you find yourself wondering and wandering, doing all kinds of mental aerobics as you contemplate written words and how worthwhile they might be to someone other than yourself. I’m having one of those days, can’t you tell? So I thought I’d just have a mindless amble along my own internal pathways and do it with words! Hey, writers do this stuff and call it therapeutic, don’t ya know?
It’s been an exciting and exhausting week, the release of my first major book, the idea of publicly sitting down to talk to an audience about the book, it’s creation, my thoughts on the process, and actually signing copies of the thing for total strangers. It’s overwhelming and exciting and somewhat terrifying, even though this is supposed to be the pay-off at the end of a long and excruciating process. I say supposed to be because the jury is still out on how rewarding it will all be to my over-taxed nerves and brain! You’re laughing now, I can feel it. People who know me are laughing… and they haven’t seen me face my audience yet!
Have discovered, via a much more observant friend, that I’ve been listed with Barnes and Noble, too, which is majorly exciting… What can I say, it doesn’t take much to make me happy as a rule, so I’m easily amused. Oh, and somewhat self-deprecating in case you haven’t noticed that before! Irony is a lovely thing…
I have about a dozen new projects on the go at the moment, but today is one of those days when none of them look good, honestly. Have taken to actually reading some of it, and that’s never a good idea for me. I usually don’t read anything I write, unless I have to, then it’s usually only to do the line edits. I love the story in my head, I’m not always wild about it once it’s on paper.
At any rate, I’ve probably babbled more than enough with this, so I will close this post with a wish that all of you are having a fabulous weekend. I’d love to hear from you once you’ve read the new fantasy, As Fate Decrees, since it is a real achievement and authors love to hear their readers comments, believe me. Take care of yourselves, one and all, and thank you for staying with me on this amazing journey…
I'm giving away a book today!
I'm on at SEx today... drop by and leave a comment on today's topic and at the end of the day, I'll be giving away a copy of my latest erotic romance, The Gates of Infinity!!!
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Interviews and other cool stuff!!
SO, the first mass market release is now a reality, and I really hope you all enjoy the book and will let me know your thoughts!!
For those who want to hear me chat about this book, a new podcast interview has been posted, and you can listen here: New Audio Interview
Also, and exciting new promotional page is setup here:
Book Tour Author Page
If you’re an author and want to register, click here: Book Tour Sign Up
In BOOKSTORES tomorrow!
WANT TO TOUR THE WORLD IN TEN MINUTES? NEED SOME GOOD "GUIDE" BOOKS?
If time could be altered and you could take a 10 minute trip around the world, where would you go? What "guide" books might you need?
We have some suggestions:
Your first stop in this 10 min. tour should be Greece.
Who doesn't like Greece, with their ruins, culture, and extreme heat. To prepare for this first stop, read As Fate Decrees by Denysé Bridger and brush up on your Greek mythology. Set in ancient Greece herself, this book becomes available tomorrow (August 15th, 2007) through amazon.com, amazon.ca, and directly from the EDGE website. Let Denysé be your guide. Her
recent interview podcast even has some great advice on writing and getting published.
If you don't like the heat, perhaps this second stop will be more to your liking.
Strap on your skis and go to The Colorado Book Awards (see below for the link) where Rebecca K. Rowe's novel "Forbidden Cargo" is a finalist. The awards are held on October 17th 2007. After the awards, curl up by the warm, cozy, stone fireplace and follow the adventures of the Imagofas of "Forbidden Cargo" in their daring attempt to return to Mars from Earth.
Perhaps you would prefer to travel further south?
Then come down to Mexico and experience the infamous Gypsies' lifestyle. Amber Hayward's novel "Darkness of the God" follows Ana in her outright battle with Caldos for psychic supremacy.
This trip would yours to take, if only you could travel around the world in 10 minutes.
For now, we hope you can be satisfied by reading these "guide" books:
Darkness of the God
Forbidden Cargo
The Colorado Book Awards Page
Always remeber to practice safe reading!
Justyn Perry, Marketing Manager
(http://www.edgewebsite.com)
Box 1714, Calgary, AB, T2P 2L7, Canada
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EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing now includes Tesseract Books
2007 Releases (Spring):
Hydrogen Steel by K. A. Bedford (March 2007)
i-Robot Poetry by Jason Christie (April 2007)
Tesseracts Ten edited by Edo van Belkom and Robert Charles Wilson (May 2007)
Righteous Anger by Lynda Williams (June 2007)
2007 Releases (Fall):
As Fate Decrees by Denysé Bridger (August 2007)
Keeper's Child by Leslie Davis (September 2007)
Darkness of the God by Amber Hayward (October 2007)
Tesseracts Eleven edited by Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips (November 2007)
2008 Releases (forthcoming):
JEMMA 7729 by Phoebe Wray
Petrified World by Piotr Brnyczka
Clan of the Dung-Sniffers by Lee Danielle Hubbard
The Hounds of Ash and other Tales of Fool Wolf by Greg Keyes
Contest / Reminder
As some of you already know, the deadline for our "As Fate Decrees" giveaway is close at hand. You have just four more days to enter your name. Visit the video page, and answer these questions.
1. What is the name of the song playing in "As Fate Decrees"?
2. What is the name on the cardboard box in "The World is Too Small for Sarcasm Poem" in i-ROBOT video?
We have had a few people already answer, however we still encourage more to participate because there are still some copies of the book left to give away!
To enter your name, visit our website, watch the videos that are linked off of the main page, and fill out the newsletter form complete with your name, address and email so that we may contact you if you win. Be sure to state your answers in the comment field. We strive for privacy, and we will not sell your information, or give it away, to any third party companies. And don't forget to prepurchase your copy off of Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or through us - CLICK HERE - and take advantage of our free shipping in North America.
Amazon.com (USA)
Amazon.ca (Canada)
EDGE (Publisher)
ISBN-13: 978-1-894063-41-8
$15.95 US
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Calgary, AB,
T2P 2L7, Canada
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Summer fun...
So, a fun new mini-interview and very COOL cookbook download to celebrate the hottest season of the year! Click on the banner, or here... and have fun!!!! Don't forget to check out the latest installment in my Island Escape fantasy series... wicked is a very good word for it!!
Gothik Pyrates - Coming August 20th!
Greetings, mates!
For your consideration, we offer this, the cover for GOTHIK PYRATES - Voyages into Darkness, which goes to press on Wednesday, July 25th, and which will debut at Dragoncon in Atlanta in August!
Included in the collection is the erotic romance Alchemy, a dark tale of pirates and vampires.... by Denyse Bridger
Fair winds,
Barbara and William
Come for the Treasure, Stay for the Voudou!http://www.cyphrevoudou.com/
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Something sweet to ponder
Occasionally I find something that really makes me smile, and this was one of those things so I thought I'd share it with everyone.
A Dog's Purpose - (from a 4 year old)
Being a veterinarian, I was called to examine a ten year old Irish wolfhound named Belker.
The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for the four-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.
The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker's family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.
The little boy seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or confusion.
We sat together for a while after Belker's death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives. Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, "I know why."
He said, "People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life -- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right? Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay as long.
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."
Interview - Contest - Promo
Yes, it is all three, but in such a beautiful presentation. If you have a moment, drop by and leave a comment, and you'll be entered in the contest. The book being given away is the darkly seductive vampire thriller Descent Into Darkness, and of course, I always appreciate your thoughts and comments much more than you may realize.
New Interview (and you can listen to this one!)
Greetings from Greece!
Justyn here with EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing.
Yesterday morning, I had the privilege to sit down and talk to the one and only Denysé Bridger about her new novel coming out in August 2007, "As Fate Decrees". With her permission, I recorded the conversation and posted it up on our Podcast website (www.edgewebsite.com/podcast.html).
In the interview, she discusses things such as her characters, e-publishing versus print publishing, and the various aspects of writing fantasy.
Denysé is a kind, sincere person whose passion for writing comes through into her work.
Our podcast website is constantly getting updated and added to. You can catch previous podcasts at the link below, as well as subscribe to them.
Watch our website for a special addition coming soon. You won't want to miss it!
http://www.edgewebsite.com/podcast.html
*** CONTEST ***
As most of you know, I'm in the midst of crafting a beautiful romance set in Italy. So, ALL this week, I'm going to ask you to send me facts about Italy!! Amalfi in particular and Rome, of course. Places to visit, shop, nightclubs... anything and everything Italian is fair game.
If you mark your posts "Italy" -- I'll save them all, and at the end of the week, I'll make a random draw for a gift pack to be given to the winner. The draw will be made next Sunday, July 8th, and the winner announced on Monday morning.
All the posts must be made to my newsgroup, and I'm sure this can be a whole lot of fun!! Thanks in advance for participating, and I'll post the contents of the goodie bag later in the week, too.
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How will your Fate be decided?
News from the EDGE
Good morning Friends of EDGE,There has been a lot of "buzz" around the office lately. All of it surrounding the discussion of fate, and how we are all affected by our past, present and future. One of the big questions being asked here is, "What if your fate was determined even before you were brought into this world?" Thankfully two of our authors have expressed their notions of Fate in their novels; one set in an ancient Greek civilization, and the other in a futuristic Cyborg/Robotic society. These books are indeed food for thought and are available from book sellers now. See details below. In other news, and in keeping with the "fate" theme of this newsletter, our fate has been changed this week - Mr. K. A. Bedford has signed a publishing contract with EDGE for his next novel. Yay! We've slated it for release in the fall of 2008. And from what we've read, his new book just might change your perception of fate. More to come.
AS FATE DECREES (Available August 15th 2007)
The gods of ancient Greece must find a mortal champion to defend their fate.
"Go and seek the one I have told you about, she is frailand in need of help. Look not of upper blood, for I haveseen her down in the dirt. She is held against her will.Find her and you shall find your savior." - The Oracle of Delphi
In ancient Greece the young maiden, Amarantha, is captured and sold in the slave market of Athens."What fates await?" she wonders. "And what divine design will the Olympian gods have for me?"As unexpectedly as she had found herself placed in chains, Amarantha finds herself purchased by a mysterious master who refuses to reveal his true identity.But he is no ordinary man, nor she an ordinary slave. Under her master's tutelage, Amarantha is trained as a fighter and challenged to prove herself in battle after battle until her skills are perfected and she is granted the right to know his true identity. He is Ares, god of war and the son of Zeus. And she is to become Champion to the gods of Olympus; bound forever to serve and vanquish all foes until the gods themselves grant her peace.
But even gods are not immune to the fickle twists of fate, and Amarantha is soon ripped from her quiet resting place and cast through time itself to do battle with a modern day reincarnation of an old foe - a madman bent on rewriting history to suit his own twisted desire. She must act quickly to win this battle, for the fate of all Olympian gods hangs in a delicate balance between immortality and the realization that even the gods themselves may be returned to the dust from which they arose.
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ABOUT HYDROGEN STEEL (Available now)
When retired top homicide inspector Zette McGee, late of Winter City, Ganymede, gets called out of her mysterious retirement to help Kell Fallow, a desperate former android accused unjustly of murdering his wife and children, she knows she has to help him, for Zette has a secret she is desperate to keep, and Fallow knows all about it. With the help of her best friend, the elderly but very suave former secret agent Gideon Smith, and his ridiculously impressive personal starship, the Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Zette sets out (a) to help the accused man, but also (b) to keep Gideon from finding out her own awful secret, even as everything they learn in the investigation keeps pointing to it. But when Kell Fallow is killed by a bomb he didn't know was buried in his guts, and when a homebrew android identical to Zette destroys her home on the luxurious Serendipity habitat, Gideon and Zette go on the run, only to run afoul of sabotage, spies, nasty infections, and bad guys galore and ordinary machines come to relentless, murderous life. The case will take Zette and Gideon on a terrifying journey into the darkest reaches of human space, in pursuit of an ancient truth -- and will bring her into deadly contact with that truth's keeper, the awesomely powerful firemind, Hydrogen Steel, an artificial consciousness evolved far beyond its original design, and which is utterly determined to keep that same truth from getting out, at any cost.
HYDROGEN STEEL
These books will leave you wanting more.
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2007 Releases (USA):
Righteous Anger by Lynda Williams (May 2007)
Tesseracts Eleven edited by Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips (November 2007) and more...
Author musings....
I think we’ll chat about something serious for a few minutes. You know me, once in awhile I like to contemplate the written word, what it means, and how it affects people. The past few months have been a real education for me in some ways, as I’ve discovered there’s always a dark side to the way people perceive motives that often begin purely and are genuinely born of love and inspiration and admiration. As artists we draw on everything that touches us, be it music, images, emotions, words overheard entirely by accident from strangers; these are all things that stir the imagination and begin building a story. Life itself is filled with the tools writers use to craft their tales. Every song, every look, every scent. It’s all part of what brings words to life when they’re put in the correct order for a reader to absorb and live.
In romance writing, you take your readers on a journey that is very clearly defined from the first page. This is a story of two people who will go through the same journey every heart that loves goes through. What will make it a unique and pleasurable trip for the people reading their story is how we present it, and how well we present it as writers. Boy meets girl – girl meets boy, however you want to look at it, that must be where it all begins. These people HAVE to be real, first to the writer, then to the reader, of course.
Personally, I often find it easy to cast a creation in my mind before I begin to write, and let than image show me where to start. For the most part who I begin with in my head is seldom who I end up with on the page. No matter how strong the face is, the person, and their unique heart, becomes an entirely different entity as the story unfolds. My current projects have strong, solid images as inspiration, but already both these heroes are emerging as very different men than the ones who gave them their faces in my mind. So, when that happens, is the new person on the page at all connected to the image that brought him into existence? What do you think? In my heart, I always see the original face, but the person who has come into being is also very special and totally apart from his/her image.
It probably won’t surprise anyone who’s read a romance to discover that very often, the author falls in love with the hero/heroine along the way, too. I often love my hero, and wish I was more like my heroine. There is always one trait of mine in every heroine, though I try consciously not to make her me. I think we need to have an anchor that ties us to our characters so we can understand them and bring them to you, the reader, as whole people. A minor trait, be it hair colour, or a personality quirk, that’s the thing that gives a writer the starting point to build a well-rounded and empathetic character. If you can’t relate to the people, how can you care about them and their happiness.
So what makes an unpleasant, unappealing hero or heroine, do you think? I’d love to hear some thoughts on that subject, so please let me know? At the same time, feel free to tell me what traits you like best in your favourite heroes and heroines, too, of course.
Also, as a final thought to consider, I’d like to offer a challenge to you. I am writing a very special novel at the moment, and if you’d like to be part of it, this is how it will work. I’m looking for a sensual, romantic scene to be used in the book. If you have a romantic “scenario” in your mind that you would like to read in a published novel, tell me about it. If I use your scene in my final draft, with your permission, it will be included in the manuscript that I submit. You will receive credit for your contribution, as well as a signed ACR (Advance Reader Copy) once the book is prepared for press. Sound like something you might like to get in on? Leave comment here, or email me, and I promise I will get back to you ASAP, okay?
*NEW* Rebel Knight posted
AMC1902, the American Motorcycle Company, welcomes you to the world of Nick Red Cloud, REBEL KNIGHT.
Set in 2010, Rebel Knight is an on-going adventure story. Join us every two-three months for a new installment in this series. Nick Red Cloud is a private investigator with a haunted past, hunting down the people/person responsible for the loss of several hundred lives, including his wife. Red Cloud Investigations is a division of the Sky-Hawke Group, a conglomerate owned by Nick’s cousin, Robert Sky-Hawke. It was in one of the corporate buildings, targeted by industrial espionage, that Nick lost his wife, and ended up hospitalized for many weeks. Nick’s office is in San Francisco, but the base of his real operations since his wife’s death is a high-tech fortress near Death Valley. He is able to move around the country at will, usually with the aid of the Sky-Hawke corporate jet, and his preferred mode of transportation: a motorcycle.
To learn more about the bikes that will be featured in these stories, visit us at
http://www.amc1902.com
The story begins here…
Chapter Four: HUNTED has just been posted!
New Release Today!
by Denyse Bridger
Read An Excerpt Online
Available now: Buy Here
Length: Short Story
Price: $2.50 (US)
Cover art by Scott Carpenter
Passion flares between a federal marshal and his enemy’s wife.
Outlaws descend on a stagecoach winding down its long journey between Missouri and Wind River, Wyoming. Federal Marshal Chris McQuade is one of the two occupants of the stage, and the ensuing battle leaves three dead men on the trail.
McQuade’s unlikely partner in the deed is a woman he’s been attracted to from the start of the trip. It isn’t until they’re forced to go on alone together that he realizes he’s falling for the wife of the man he’s been sent to bring to justice. Despite the ring on her finger and the role he plans to play in making her a widow, passion ignites and McQuade is surprised to discover that Elizabeth Davis is as helpless as he is to deny their need for each other.
But Elizabeth’s husband has witnessed a much-too-intimate encounter between his enemy and his wife…and now he is out for revenge.
Warning: This title contains explicit sex, mild language.
The newsletter is finally back, and the June issue has just been posted. Aside from lots of news about my upcoming releases, there is a new feature where you get to meet very talented authors whose books are highly recommended! The newsletter is a single mailing that is issued once a month, or every 4-6 weeks. So, if you're not already subscribed, drop by and sign up!
Romance - Italian style...
Tomorrow is blog day at Liquid Silver Books for me. I've chosen a shocking topic -- it's called Romance - Italian style... It's about the fascination we in North American have with European men as heroes. I hope you'll stop by when the post appears in the morning... about 8 AM ET. I can't wait to see what kind of replies are left, and of course, as usual, there will be a prize given away at the end of the day!
SEx: Silver Expressions
The first kiss... (an excerpt)
For everyone's who asked about a little more of the novel I'm presently writing, here's a little glimpse of things to come in the story that was inspired by Patrizio Buanne.... A special moment that the romantic in you will love...
Patrizio Bartolinni watched the sadness coming back into Jillian's eyes, the bleakness that hadn't been there since he'd brought her to his home in Amalfi to recover. They talked more and more about things that he'd never thought to speak about with other women, and he suspected he was hearing things from her that she'd never said aloud to anyone in her life. It was comforting, and the intimacy was something rare and special to him. Not at all like the sexual intimacies he enjoyed with many other women who'd passed through his life in recent years.
He reached over and touched the smooth curve of her cheek, letting his thumb caress silken skin as he waited for her to look at him again. When she did, the pulse of his heartbeat quickened, and he wondered at it for a moment before he spoke to her, forcing his mind to put the words in English, rather than the Italian that flowed so naturally from him when he was caught by emotion.
"No man has the right to take away the beauty of a woman's self-confidence, bella," he whispered, the seductive sound a warm breath that caressed her spirit as much as it reassured her injured heart, "do not let someone so unworthy of you take yours."
Tears glistened in her eyes, and in the afternoon sunshine the moisture that clung to her thick lashes caught the rays like fine crystal. Her smile was tentative and he finally allowed himself to move, to take what he'd wanted from the moment she'd stepped into the morning light and joined him for breakfast. Patrizio's fingers slid into the thick, waving mane of her hair and he leaned forward to touch her lips with his, tasting the hint of coffee that lingered, before he deepened the kiss into something that spoke of passion and awakened desire…
A new book from Margaret L. Carter
AQUATIC ARDOR
by Margaret L. Carter
Publisher: Amber Quill Press
Mortal and immortal meet at the boundary of land and water: An undine who loves a mortal gains a human soul. Melia doesn't want that. She intends only to seduce the owner of her lake into preserving the land around it from development. But love ensnares both of them. She risks losing her heart and winning what she never wanted -- humanity.
Margaret's Website
My inspiration.... Always
Another beautiful voice for you to discover
This young man calls Nashville home, and he's an amazing, talented singer of Classical music. You should definitely check out his official website and his MySpace. I promise you won't be disappointed in the least!
Spanish Romance
Romance has a face and a name in Spanish, too.... It's this incredible, romantic singer... He's absolutely magical, and a truly special man.
César Mesa
Click on his image to go directly to his website, or if you'd like to visit MySpace and enjoy his music there: César's MySpace
Coming Soon from Forbidden Publications
Here's the first look at my debut with new publisher Forbidden Publications...
Vampire thriller (erotic)
Forbidden Publications
Tentative May '07
Thought you might like to see this very cool news. Please pass the word along, that Canada's Grande Dame of Speculative Fiction has had such wonderful recognition!
The New York Times Sunday Book Review included Élisabeth Vonarburg's 'A Game of Perfection' in their round up of "Fiction in Translation".
Reviewer David ITZKOFF summarized the novel and concluded with, "... it is fascinating to watch Vonarburg grapple with the psyche of a man who might live for centuries or more, whose desires and motivations need not conform with those of us who'll get a mere 75 years if we're lucky." [MORE on A Game of Perfection]
Thanks for helping share the news.
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i-Robot Poetry by Jason Christie by Jason Christie (April 2007)
Petrified World by Piotr Brnyczka (September 2007)
Tesseracts Eleven ed. by Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips (November 2007)
Five-star review for SILENT DEATH
Available from: New Concepts Publishing
A "Love Bites" short story ($2.50)
Five Roses:
Adam Walker is a finely honed killing machine. As one of the Company’s finest field agents, he holds a closely guarded secret - Adam is in fact a ninja, one of the deadly race of Japanese mythical warriors. When his lover and friend, Kiku, is brutally killed, Adam seeks out his revenge in the deadliest fashion. If he is to keep his actions secret from the Company he must enlist the help of Shainna Barton, a fellow agent and the only person Adam truly trusts. While Adam dishes out his revenge, Shainna covers for him on a mission. What neither of them could predict is the depth of their friendship and where that friendship will lead them…
Silent Death is a mere eighteen pages in length, but those few pages had this reviewer riveted to the seat! Ms Bridger has an evocative style of writing that draws the reader into the story from the opening paragraph. I was shocked to see Adam loose someone so early in the story, but the relationship he has with Shainna is both touching and thrilling. If you are looking for an erotic respite, a brief read, a well thought out plot and intriguing characters, you would do well to dip into Silent Death.
Reviewed in March 2007 by Donna,
for A Romance Review
New Review for Rebel Heart
This story has long been near and dear to my heart, because it's the forerunner to my serial story, REBEL KNIGHT with Branscombe Richmond, the story officially sponsored by the American Motorcycle Company. So, seeing a review like this is a real pleasure. I had to share it with everyone!!
Amber Quill Press
Contemporary / Interracial / Multicultural / Suspense / Thriller
Reviewed by Jo
for Joyfully Reviewed
Francesca Daniels lives alone with her art, as a matter of fact she has always been a loner her entire life. Francesca once let a man into her life and that proved to be a grave mistake that she took to confirm her way of life. Nick Red Cloud, a private investigator, came riding into Francesca’s life one night. They were instantly attracted to one another and the attraction soon lead to flames.
Nick has not told Francesca the entire truth about himself and why he is there. When he discovers that he has brought her worst nightmare to her door, Nick fears he might have lost the love he just found. Nick pulls every string he has to help Francesca, but can he convince Francesca that he really loves her and wants a life with her forever?
Rebel Heart deals with a subject matter that can be tricky. Francesca has survived an attack, which leads her even further into her life as a loner. Nick has accepted a job thinking its just going to be a simple job. Neither anticipates nor realizes just how their lives will change forever, both good and bad, by this simple meeting. I was truly touched by how Ms. Bridger worked her story around the background of physical assault. The compassion, fear, rage and love that were expressed by the characters made Rebel Heart a love story that all women can relate to. I recommend Rebel Heart as a story that any type of reader would like in their library. I know I am happy to have it in mine and I plan on re-reading it several times.
It's official! August 2007
3-Day Novel Contest winner, Timothy J. Anderson says that Science Fiction Authors Deserve More Credit.
[Calgary, AB, March 31, 2007]
Timothy J. Anderson, author of Resisting Adonis, is the winner of the 2007 Book Television Three-Day Novel reality TV series.
In an email interview conducted earlier this week, Mr. Anderson revealed his thoughts on how it felt to win...
"Well, mixed. There were two science fiction manuscripts in the competition, and I am sorry to say mine wasn't one of them. Good science fiction is hard to write. SF writers don't get enough credit for how hard they work to make SF live on the edge. I knew I couldn't do a good enough job of SF in 3 days."
"I'm thrilled to have won, but I also have a great deal of respect for the work other writers turned in."
"One of the prizes is a writing retreat at the Banff Centre courtesy of the Writers Guild of Alberta. The Centre is where I wrote the first draft of "Resisting Adonis" ... It will be a joy to return to the scene of those crimes and spend a week working on a project."
To view a short video interview with T. J. Anderson please click here
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THE GATES OF INFINITY
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure erotic romance
Cover art: April Martinez
Thaer is a world that mirrors our own, but in many ways it is both the past and future of Earth. Magic and sorcery are commonplace, and beneath the vast sands of Cairos and the waters of Venicia, lie secrets that may hold the key to travel between worlds and time itself. All things are tied to the presence of a legendary pirate captain, a skilled mage, and a sorceress who has never known her true origins.
As the spells weave amid treachery, and betrayals both known and unknown, the tempestuous storm gates are opened and salvation or destruction looms in their swirling, fiery depths. Will time be turned inward, or can the Fate of two worlds truly rest on the success of a terrified reporter from modern day New York? A woman whose fate was written in another world and time, and who now holds the key to the unpredictable power contained within the Gates of Infinity?
This is my next release from Liquid Silver Books, and if you'd like to read an excerpt, click on the publisher link above. I think this one is going to be very good, and I hope you'll really enjoy the adventure once it's released!
New Interview!
I’ve just done a new interview with Love Bites Romance Reviews. Aside from interviews, this site is loaded with wonderful extras and things for all readers of romance to enjoy, so do take a few minutes and have a look around!
My interview can be read by clicking on the banner above. Don’t forget to let me know your thoughts on things, as always!!
A wonderful debut novel!
Available March 26th
THIEF OF A GODDESS HEART
By Colleen Love
Ivy Jones has had a challenging life. She's learned to distrust men, and has sworn off the male population, she firmly believes she has no use for a man. Even her cotton candy pink chopper is a not-so-subtle defiance to all things masculine.
As an Archeologist, Ivy is excavating in an ancient temple and has the good fortune to make the find of a life time-an intact and perfect Athena. But the statuette is more than it appears, there's an ancient curse associated with the Athena-a curse that lies in wait, to be discovered by a believer of the Goddess herself. It takes possession of Ivy and life begins to take on some unexpected twists. Aside from the fact that she can't leave the statue for long without ill affects, things get steadily worse when The Athena is stolen and she is forced to rely on a smooth and persistent man on whom her life may depend.
Dane Knight knows trouble when he sees it. As a Navy SEAL turned Private Investigator, he has encountered more then his fair share, and has sworn off taking any new cases. Until the theft of The Athena is brought to him. He's drawn into the assignment, unable to resist, especially after he meets Ivy Jones, the Museum's Head Curator. Dreams haunt him, dragging him deeper into the case, and he begins to soothe her angry, neglected spirit. As she learns to trust him, he begins to peel back the layers, and soon discovers there is more to the case than a mundane theft.
Working together Dane and Ivy do find the statue, and Ivy discovers something more precious than anything else, the cure to her curse.
The Ripper Murders revisited!
Jack The Ripper -- So, did that get your attention?
Seriously, if you have an interest in the infamous Ripper, you might just enjoy my mystery/romance series The Devane Files. Set in Victorian London, a few short years after the Ripper murders, this set of stories/books introduces you to the fictional Inspector Michael Devane. Devane is a complex hero, flawed, scarred emotionally, and suffering the tortures of opium addiction and clairvoyance.
In the first book, OUT OF HELL, Devane is called upon to investigate a gruesome murder in the Kensington district. When he meets the not-so-grieving widow, Michael senses a soul-mate worth living for, if he can prove she’s not the one who killed her husband.
Book Two is AN UNSPOKEN BETRAYAL, and once again, the roads of a current investigation into blackmail take Devane back to the streets of Whitechapel and the ghosts and memories of the infamous, unsolved Ripper murders. As he delves into the present case, things surface that make him wonder just who the Ripper was, and if he is indeed, still alive, and known to the police department that was meant to catch him and stop him?
To read excerpts from these books, please visit my website, or here to read reviews and purchase information.
Vampires and darker desires...
At the end of this month, my vampire anthology, A WORLD IN DARKNESS, will no longer be available. The book is a collection of erotic vampire tales, four in all, and have been among my best sellers. So, I thought it might be time to introduce you to my entire vampire catalogue. The following titles are currently available as electronic books, and there are excerpts and reviews to be read on my website. If you like a tale of dark, obsessive passion, some of these books just might appeal to your inner demons!!
Blood Wine and Pales Roses (novella) that features a lonely artist who finds inspiration and danger in the eyes of a ghost who is much more deadly than she could ever have imagined.
The Hunt (short story) takes you to an underground Goth bar, and the two decadent and passionate vampires who are seeking prey and pleasure as they indulge their twisted longings.
Whom Gods Have Favored (novella) is a trip back in time to the ancient city of Pompeii, where a proud General of Rome finds life and death with a devoted slave girl he buys at the market on a whim.
Storm-Singer (short story) moves into the world of Nyx, to an isle inhabited by a dark Prince and his consort, both of whom are creatures not quite human, but with all too human needs and desires.
These four books are the titles of A World In Darkness, now available at Amazon.com
ALSO AVAILABLE are the following tales of dark desire:
Descent Into Darkness is my first full-length novel, and it’s a story that transcends time, moving from the ancient world of Mesopotamia, to modern San Francisco, where a master vampire catches a glimpse of the woman he once loved and abandoned to an angry mob in Colonial America. As he draws her back into his seduction web of deception and madness, history begins to repeat itself, with deadly consequences.
Alchemy (short story) combines the ageless appeal of pirates and vampires, and begs the question, do vampires dream as they sleep and if they do, what do they see?
Join me, and find out!! All these titles, and their “previews” are available on my website. Click on the link below and take a few minutes to explore the darkness… You might find something sensual and alluring waiting in the shadows for you…
Click here to learn more about my Vampire Tales
The beautiful cover art for A World In Darkness is available as a desktop download from my site as well: Click here
For some reason, Amber Quill Press has decided to dump this book from their site. So, for anyone who would like to get a copy of the paperback, it looks like Amazon is it. If you click on the image, you'll be taken to the right page.
A World In Darkness is an anthology collection of four of my best rated vampire tales, and I hope you'll enjoy them. If you like sensual, driven, obsessive vampire lust, then this is definitely the collection for you to indulge in!
To check it out, or offer a review, click here, or on the image to the left!!
NEW Release available!
Genre: Erotic Action/Thriller
Shainna Barton has long struggled with her feelings for Adam, her partner in assignments by the Company. As worried as she is that Adam has turned to her only in grief because of Kiku's death, though, she can no more resist the desire he so expertly arouses in her than she can refuse his request to cover for him in his mission of vengeance.
Rating: Contains violence, adult language, and graphic sexual content.
Excerpt available at my website or at New Concepts Publishing
Preview excerpt from AS FATE DECREES
I've just posted the Prologue of my forthcoming Greek Mythological Fantasy novel, AS FATE DECREES. The entire first chapter is now available for you to read at my blog in MySpace. Feel free to comment! This book will be my first mass market paperback, and it's very exciting to see how things are being prepared for the launch! That's still a few months away, but I can't wait to see it happen! If you have any comments to offer, as always, your thoughts are very welcome. You can reach the excerpt via the link below.
Denyse's Romance and Fantasy Blog
5 Angels for OUT OF HELL
Available from: Liquid Silver Books
5 Angels
Haunted by the Ripper murders, Michael Devane now faces another gruesome murder. It is no secret that he uses opium to help with his visions that help him solve some of his toughest cases. Unfortunately, his visions also cause him pain and anguish. Hoping to solve the murder of Robert Bradshaw, Michael questions Bethany Davenshire-Bradshaw for some clues. However, he soon realizes that there is more to Bethany than meets the eye, and the attraction between the two is making the case harder to solve. Not to mention the fact that one of his visions shows Bethany in the room at the time of the murder. Can he prove she is innocent and have her for his own?
This story brings us into a time when gruesome murders were not an everyday occurrence. Michael Devane’s personality reflects that of a cop who has dealt with pain, and Ms. Bridger does an excellent job in describing his emotions and the turmoil he feels. There were parts of the book that made you look over your shoulder to make sure there wasn’t anyone behind you. The attraction between the main characters is immediate, and one can’t help but hope for Bethany’s innocence in the murder of her husband. The secondary characters also brought life to the story blending into the plot line with ease. Out of Hell is a different look into the times of the Ripper murders.
Reviewed by: JoAnn
Featured Author & Wicked Escapes chat!
Hello again, everyone!
Just to keep you current, I’m now the featured author in MySpace with The Faeri Group! The feature looks great, so I hope you’ll all take a minute to have a peek. Let me know what you think, too, okay? I will be adding a couple of new book covers soon, since I’ve just signed two new contracts this week! (You can click on the link below, of the banner!)
I will also be chatting with my fellow Wicked Escapes columnists at Joyfully Reviewed on Friday, February 23rd, between 12-6 PM – Eastern Time, so if you’d like to drop in and say hello to us, or talk about the zine, everyone’s welcome! The URL is listed below.
That’s it for the moment, I’m off to get more work done!
Thanks — always!!
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Updates on Forthcoming Releases
Another busy period is coming up, but I wanted to let everyone know what progress things are making. So, to keep it current, this is what's been taking place over the past two days!
I've just completed edits on my next book, Silent Death, my first with New Concepts Publishing, and it looks like a March release. Silent Death is an erotic thriller, with a heavy dose of Martial Arts, as the hero is a ninja! It was great fun to write, believe me.
The next one will be my first book with Forbidden Publications, and if you're a lover of paranormal/vampire tales, then A Whisper of Humanity will be one you don't want to miss! I believe it's also scheduled for March, but I'm not certain of that, so will have to keep you posted.
Another Man's Wife will be out with Samhain Publishing, tentatively in June. This is the revised reprint of my very first pro release, A Safer Haven, which won the Amber Heat Contest back in 2004 -- and won me my first five-star reviews as well!! It's a Western, and I have a great fondness for it, so I'll be happy to see it back on my catalogue!
I've also just been offered contract for a new fantasy novella called The Gates of Infinity. This one involves pirates, time loops, and magic! Liquid Silver Books will be the publisher!
I think that's it for today, as you can see, busy weekend already! I have to finish my Wicked Escapes column today, and will announce when it's ready for reading!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
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Swansea City’s win at Aston Villa on Saturday saw Bafétimbi Gomis hit a sixth consecutive Premier League game without a goal.
The Frenchman began the season on fire, scoring four goals in his opening four games. However, if the 30-year-old fails to find the net at home to Arsenal next weekend, it will be his eighth game without a goal in all competitions.
Fantasy football game www.oulala.com have taken a look at the stats and have revealed exactly where it’s going wrong for Gomis.
Oulala’s stats show that the Swansea City striker was caught offside three times against Villa at the weekend. In total, Gomis has been caught in an offside position 23 times in his opening ten league games this season. Twice as many as any other player in the Premier League.
Gomis’ closest challengers are Southampton’s Graziano Pellè and Harry Kane of Spurs. Each player has been caught offside 9 times.
The Premier League’s top six players to be adjudged offside the most this season is completed by Arsenal’s Theo Walcott, Marko Arnautovic of Stoke City and Chelsea’s Diego Costa. All have tallied 8 offsides.
Oulala dissected the data further, braking it down into minutes. The Frenchman is giving away a free-kick for offside at a rate of once every 35 minutes.
In contrast, of the top six, Theo Walcott comes closest, being pulled up for offside every 63 minutes.
Gomis’ knack of finding himself offside more than any other Premier League player will be a cause for concern for manager Garry Monk, as will his drought of goals.
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Sheldon Harnick is a site favorite. I have known him for many years. This 2-CD Set honors one of the most fecund minds and fertile careers ever to grace our Great White Way. It is an astonishing collection of work – considered as a whole – it will take your breath away. As Seth Rudetsky would say, “Sheldon’s got it!”
In this historic release, the great lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! shares with musical theater fans 53 of his HIDDEN TREASURES — rarely heard songs from 17 musicals, with many songs performed by Harnick himself and his late composer-partner Jerry Bock.
Three cuts feature Harnick as recorded just last year for this special collection, and other archival recordings star three-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Brian d’Arcy James, Charlotte Rae and more.
The 2-CD set is a grand celebration of Harnick’s 90th birthday on April 30th and the 50th-anniversary year of “Fiddler on the Roof.” That musical’s iconic “Sunrise,
Sunset” is being released for the first time in its original demo recording by Bock and Harnick.
Harbinger Records producers Ken Bloom and Bill Rudman have worked closely with Harnick for two years on this project. The deluxe package includes a 60-page booklet with extensive notes by Harnick and a Foreword by famed Broadway producer Harold Prince, who comments: “This magnificent set is testimony to Sheldon’s extraordinary gifts, and to his place in the pantheon of Broadway musical creators.”
Sheldon Harnick – Hidden Treasures 1949 – 2013
Tracks: Disc 1
1. How Could I?
2. Ballad of the Shape of Things
3. I Can’t Get Used to These Clothes
4. Merry Little Minuet
5. Garbage
6. At the Basilica of St. Anne
7. Isms
8. Let’s Evolve
9. The ABC’s of Success
10. Two by Two
11. All of These and More
12. Every Man for Himself
13. Just My Luck
14. A Relatively Simple Affair
15. Summer Is
16. ’Til The Bootlegger Comes
17. Where do I go From Here?
18. Little Old New York
19. I Wonder What It’s Like
20. The Picture of Happiness
21. Mr. A
22. Worlds Apart
23. Tell Me I Look Nice
24. Merry Christmas Bells
25. My North American Drugstore
26. Christmas Eve
1. We’ve Never Missed a Sabbath Yet
2. What a Life
3. A Butcher’s Soul
4. Letters From America
5. Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine
6. Get Thee Out
7. When Messiah Comes
8. Sunrise, Sunset
9. What Was That?
10. Talkin’ Truth
11. I Worry/If You Never Try
12. Vengeance
13. Nelson
14. Glory is my Object
15. That’s How Much I Missed You
16. In my own Lifetime
17. We’re a Family
18. Elizabeth
19. Tell Me, Daisy
20. I Brought you a Gift (first Recording)
21. The Pears of Anjou (first Recording)
22. My Star
23. One Family
24. Precious Little
25. Wine, Wine, Wine
26. You Made my Day
Artists: Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, David Baker, Margery Grey, Audra McDonald, Brian d’Arcy James, Charlotte Rae, Danny Meehan, and Buster Davis
Songwriter: Sheldon Harnick
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The following case studies are representative of the work that we engage in on behalf of client law firms:
Age Discrimination In Termination
The Case: Age Discrimination In Termination
A former employee sued a high tech company for age discrimination following a company-wide reduction in force.
Researched steps company undertook in formulating RIF policy, including severance.
Analyzed resume and job search strategies employed by individual.
Initiated review of business opportunity started by employee.
Prepared detailed report for the company attorney.
Case settled. Our report was instrumental in preventing case from going to trial.
Breach of Employment and Defamation
The Case: Breach of Employment and Defamation
President/CEO of a North American subsidiary of a European-based conglomerate terminated for cause.
Reviewed the job search efforts of former employee and opined relative to employability, earnings potential and mitigation of damages. Reviewed impact of “for cause” termination in the marketplace for former executive and testified regarding the negative impact of alleged defamatory statements to the business community.
Jury found in favor of the Plaintiff awarding $13 million in compensatory and punitive damages, which at the time was believed to be the largest award of this type of case in U.S. history. The trial court’s judgement was subsequently affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court.
Employability And Earnings Potential
The Case: Employability And Earnings Potential
In a divorce case, our client required an analysis of a highly paid practicing surgeon changing careers and attending law school.
Reviewed and analyzed available empirical data regarding fields of employment and earnings potential for individuals with MD/JD degrees. Conducted telephone interviews of medical malpractice and/or personal injury plaintiff attorneys, as well as prominent MD/JDs who have made the transition to full-time legal professionals in the relevant geographical area to determine potential employability and earnings potential.
Case settled after a short trial with content and opine of our report provided as a basis for projected employability and earnings potential.
Employability Of A Senior Executive
The Case: Employability Of A Senior Executive
An international corporation requested an assessment of the executive job market to determine if suitable positions in the industry existed, following the termination of the company’s U.S. president.
Analyzed the leading trade publications and built a database containing the announcements of the senior position filled for the time period in question.
Determined that many similar positions were filled utilizing networking techniques and executive search firms.
Analyzed and validated senior executive compensation in public companies to determine potential compensation levels of the highest compensated executives.
Determined a reasonable compensation level for this executive to seek.
Determined that there were over 90 positions that the former executive could have considered for employment.
Our analysis and testimony were part of a larger case concerning the termination and were instrumental in mitigating damages to our client.
Equitable Distribution Of Executive Compensation In Divorce Proceeding
The Case: Equitable Distribution of Executive Compensation
Initiated a thorough review of all compensation components submitted by one spouse and identified potential and reasonable additional long-term components for that spouse.
Performed various analyses on all compensation components.
Provided all relevant compensation information to an economist for valuation.
Determined reasonable employment and compensation prospects for the other spouse.
Provided examples of actual appropriate employment opportunities.
The case settled before trial. Our findings were accepted in the settlement.
Excess Executive Compensation
The Case: Excess Executive Compensation
In a derivative shareholder suit, our client claimed that senior executives of a corporation received excessive compensation and therefore there were no profits left to distribute to the shareholders.
Analyzed all executive salary and bonus history, employee benefits and executive perquisites in accordance with the factors that the IRS considers when evaluating excessive compensation.
Constructed and provided analysis on various compensation models.
Developed short and long-term compensation models.
Deposed by opposing attorneys, assisted in developing the rebuttal to the opposition’s expert witness.
Case settled immediately after the trial began based on the attorney’s opening statement that referenced the opinion and content of our report. The corporation bought out the minority shareholder at a significant premium.
Severance Payment
The Case: Severance Payment
Following an acquisition of one Savings Bank by another, the purchasing Bank terminated over 20 senior executives at the acquired Bank as part of the integration of the two banks. The acquired Bank had change in control provisions which provide significant severance payments to the executives terminated as a result of change in controls. The acquiring Bank challenged to propriety of the change in control provisions in terms of market practice, questioned the interpretation of the Change in Control provisions as proposed by the terminated executives in terms of individual payments and refused to make any payments to the terminated executives. The issue went to Arbitration.
We reviewed the change in control provisions in terms of typical industry practice and determined that the Change in Controls were reasonable.
We developed a recommended interpretation of the rather vague Change in Control provisions
We developed a model that identified what was owed to each executive based upon the recommended interpretation.
Presented expert report to the arbitrators of the case.
Testimony accepted. There was a successful decision in favor of the terminated executives.
Unreasonable Compensation
The Case: Unreasonable Compensation
IRS vs. electronics/computer distributor. The IRS questioned the compensation of the president/owner of the company for three previous years.
The 12 critical factors identified by the IRS were addressed when the duties and responsibilities of the owner were analyzed. The owner’s position was market priced and a methodology developed that determined the compensation was reasonable. Various databases were analyzed assuring a reliable and valid sample. Presented expert report to attorneys and testified during the trial.
Testimony accepted. There was a successful decision in favor of the business owner.
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Celebrating 20 Years and Places and Faces That Have Been Part of Our Journey
It's official. We're 20 years old, and boy oh boy does it feel great.
When FLAIR® Strips first debuted at the 1999 Breeder's Cup at Gulfstream Park, we never could have imagined this double-decade milestone in our timeline, but now - 20 years later - we are looking back on all the places and faces that have been a part of our journey, we are so thankful.
Without the support from all of our equestrian friends and fans, we don't know where we'd be. So, let’s rewind the clock a bit and see just how far we've come...
The year is 1995 (or somewhere around there). After first meeting at Littleton Large Animal Clinic, two equine veterinarians, Jim Chiapetta and Ed Blach, formed a life-long friendship and to this day continue to actively evaluate and support solutions to problems impacting the health of the horse and the equine industry in general.
For years, the duo witnessed that horses hard at work experienced an anatomical deficiency that could impede their natural ability. Having a basic understanding of airflow dynamics, they observed that horses experienced a collapse of their nasal passages during exercise when inhaling. And as veterinarians, they knew this was a significant issue for sport horses at all levels of competition. This led Jim and Ed to invent FLAIR Equine Nasal Strips.
Given that horses are obligate nose breathers (meaning that a horse only breathes through its nose during intensive exercise), Jim and Ed came to the discovery that this partial collapse or narrowing of the nasal passages during exercise reduced airflow efficiency to the lungs. This, they knew was problematic, since horses require increased oxygen when facing the physical demands of their competitive environments.
Their curiosity and determination to solve the problem at hand led them to the hypothesis that perhaps an external nasal passage support system (similar to that of the BreatheRight® strip used by human athletes) could be the answer to the very issue they'd spent years observing.
Realizing a deficiency of concrete evidence and research regarding the role of the nasal passages in horses' breathing and respiratory health, the two pioneering veterinarians developed prototypes, spent countless late nights designing and testing their equine nasal strip prototypes and worked with talented product development engineers until finally coming up with a product that not only improved airflow, but was safe to use and easy to apply. EUREKA!
Fast forward to 1999. The Florida sun peeked its way out from the wispy clouds overhead. Below, roughly 45,000 attendees stood wide-eyed in beautiful Gulfstream Park, watching the first 14 thoroughbreds take their marks at the starting gates. Today was the day. The day FLAIR Strips would show themselves to the world. In the crowd, some 90,000 eyes watched as winning and losing streaks ended and long shots reigned. Even more importantly, some 90,000 eyes watched as three of the eight winners that day - Cat Thief, Anees, and Cash Run - crossed the finish line with FLAIR Strips on their nose.
Is there something wrong with that horse? Why's it wearing that thing on its nose?
Questions like these reverberated from the sidelines as each of the winning horses made their way into the limelight. The truth of the matter was that, no there was nothing wrong with the horse, but there was a new protection for the horse which was such a new idea that no one had a clue.
Fast forward another year and FLAIR Strips made their debut at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Needless to say, competitors and spectators were getting curious. Researchers and equine scientists even more so.
BreatheRight® strips for horses? What a funny concept.
For the next decade or so, clinical studies started ramping up. More and more evidence was being brought to the table about how FLAIR Strips were changing the game in horse breathing and respiratory health. With eight clinical studies, numerous physiology and veterinary textbook articles, several symposia, presentations, discussions, and debates, both Jim and Ed's original hypotheses were confirmed. FLAIR Strips were finally generating buzz in the equine industry as the safe and effective drug-free product that provided support for horses to breathe and perform more efficiently. Over 25 patents were granted around the globe.
25! Can you believe that?
Returning to the present day, we look back at our humble beginnings, blessed with the chance of being able to make an impact of the lives of so many horses. We are fortunate for the love and support we received over these past 20 years. Proud of the impact we have made on all the lives (both horse and human) that have been with us from the very beginning. So, thank you for making these last two decades the greatest years of our lives. We couldn't have done it without you.
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Marc Bolan’s rock shrine – a place of modern-day pilgrimage
20th Century · Barnes
September 16, 2014 February 4, 2019 Caroline14 Comments
Scenes of tragic road traffic accidents are very often turned into temporary shrines – loved ones of the unfortunate individual killed leave flowers and other tributes at the site. Sometimes, these little shrines are maintained for years – in my hometown of Preston I still often go past a regularly replenished floral tribute at a set of traffic lights where a lady was killed in an accident in 2004. One such shrine in south west London has become a permanent fixture and a place of pilgrimage for fans of man it commemorates, the musician Marc Bolan, most famously the frontman of glam rock band T. Rex, who was killed in a car crash on Queen’s Ride in Barnes in 1977.
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Eel Pie Island: hippie commune, legendary music venue & artists’ enclave
20th Century · Twickenham
June 29, 2014 February 4, 2019 Caroline4 Comments
The River Thames has long attracted artists, and today many of them have made their home on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham. This narrow island, also known as Twickenham Ait, is only accessible by boat or footbridge and is not usually open to the public. However, twice each year the artists of the island hold an open studios weekend where members of the public can visit the island and purchase the work of the artists who have studios there.
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A very strange grave in a suburban churchyard: Pinner’s ‘floating coffin’
Taking a walk through history at Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Memento Mori: symbols of death in St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh
Uncovering the story of Roman London’s mysterious Mithraeum
Knights, Jacobites and a rebellious duchess: the effigies of All Hallows, Great Mitton
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Remains of a medieval charnel house, Bishops Square, Spitalfields. Located just outside the old walls of London, this charnel house - used for storing old bones disturbed when new graves were dug - was part of the priory & hospital of St Mary Spital, & was rediscovered during redevelopment in the 1990s. The ruins were preserved & are visible to the public. . . . . . . #charnelhouse #ruins #spitalfields #london #medieval
Gorgeous churchyard at St Peter, Petersham (SW London). Beautiful gravestones from the 18thC to present day, including a number of people from aristocratic families who lived locally #churchyard #graveyard #petersham
This week's new article is about one of the strangest graves in Greater London: the Loudon monument, with its 'floating' coffin, in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, Pinner Link to blog in bio ☠️ . . . . #graveyard #churchyard #pinner #tomb #cemetery
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What’s happening to Greenland will affect the whole world – and our leaders need to understand why
May 24, 2019 by World Economic Forum 1 Comment
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: John Dutton, Head of Forum Foundations, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum & Silje Ditlefsen, Program Design and Impact Specialist, World Economic Forum
“The stability of nature can no longer be taken for granted,” David Attenborough said recently. If anyone still thought they could ignore the climate crisis, recent reports and drastic changes to our planet should shatter that perception. Nowhere is this more visible than in Greenland. Today a group of 20 Young Global Leaders heads for Greenland to witness devastating local changes that have global consequences, and commit to being part of a movement to reverse these trends.
Why Greenland?
Because it’s essentially one big sheet of ice – the second largest ice sheet in the world in fact. Covering 81% of the island, and 2.3 km thick, it makes Greenland the keeper of roughly 8% of all of Earth’s freshwater, and contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 7.3 metres, threatening to inundate many of the world’s biggest coastal cities. Between 1993 and 2016, this ice sheet lost an average of 286 billion tonnes of ice per year, and April 2019 has just been acknowledged as the month when sea ice in the Arctic shrunk to a record low as early as April. With Arctic air temperatures rising twice as fast as anywhere else, this ice sheet is critical to our survival. What happens in Greenland will not stay in Greenland: it affects people everywhere.
Despite these undeniable facts, many global leaders have yet to awaken to the climate crisis and what needs to be done. But younger generations know that their future is at stake and have shown over the last 10 months that they are up for the fight and will hold our leaders accountable for their policies and decision-making. Nonetheless, more people in leadership positions need to take these younger generations seriously, to step up and act. We need to champion leaders who are strong-willed and interested in taking the lead, in order to make a difference in this dash for human survival.
The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) every year highlights 100 global leaders under the age of 40 who have showcased strong ethical and responsible leadership in their fields. From Catherine Howarth, who is working to make investment a force for good and ensure investors take responsibility for where they put their money, to Rhea Mazumdar Singhal, who took on the single-use plastic market in India, this community is already pushing boundaries and represents an unparalleled cadre of impact-oriented leaders. The five-year leadership programme equips next-generation leaders to address our most important global challenges. It provides access to world-class executive education, opportunities to learn with and from an unparalleled cadre of impact-oriented young CEOs, professors, political leaders and civil society changemakers as well as access to the World Economic Forum’s network of events and activities. But this isn’t enough. It is time for us to push the environmental challenges to the top of the agenda and we have evolved the YGL activities to stimulate this shift.
Strengthening collaborations and mobilizing commitments to global compacts, like the Convention on Biodiversity, are vital, and each one of us has a role to play in making the environmental agenda come alive. But how do we move from talking to action? How do we move from learning to understanding, and how do we bridge the process of knowledge to practice?
Too many leaders today are taking decisions about issues originating hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away that they have never experienced or seen up close. It is more important than ever to understand how nature works and how we can and must help it for our own survival.
To accelerate our progress, we need therefore to accelerate learning and understanding. At the Forum of Young Global Leaders we have developed a series of Impact Expeditions that challenge our members to confront, contextualize and assess how they, and the institutions they represent, can make a tangible different to nudge the world in positive directions.
From 23-27 May, the Forum of Young Global Leaders will lead, in partnership with Three Squares Inc, and Active Philanthropy, 20 YGLs from 16 countries to Greenland to experience the effect of climate change first hand. They will visit the city of Ilulissat, where the Jakobshavn glacier is located. The glacier is one of Greenland’s 12 protected areas and one of the four key glaciers contributing to the freshwater loss of the overall ice sheet. The YGLs will meet with Inuit leaders to discuss the effect of climate change on Greenland’s inhabitants. They will be challenged to connect what they see to taking action in their own sphere of influence with industry, regional and even global impact.
Vivid experiences such as the Impact Expeditions have been proven to dramatically impact an individual’s mindset. It increases engagement levels; it is personal and influences emotions as well as enhancing knowledge and skills. The participants will be immediately involved in taking ownership for the future of the planet.
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OT: Google Map Turns into "Dragon Quest" on April 1st
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
I still remember the April Fool's Day joke from Google that Google was starting a new phone service that uses toilet sewer pipes. I thought, "That can't be... but..."
It looks like Professor Hayakawa of Gunma University is taking it seriously now, and wondering how a Nintendo machine can use Google Map.
Labels: Google, OT
"Sakura" in Full Bloom in Kyoto at Disaster Debris Campaign Event Yesterday
"Sakura" in Japanese usually means cherry blossom trees, but these days it increasingly mean "a shill" for the government or for big corporations. Yesterday in Kyoto, it was the latter.
These turned out to be men from Junior Chamber International (JCI). The signs they are holding says "Support, by Wide-Area Disposal" (though you can't see in this particular picture)：
This guy, with short hair, pinstripe suits, a big wrist watch and a "juzu" bracelet sticks out among ordinary Kyoto residents who were there with their families. His signs both say "Wide-area disposal is a big step toward recovery", neatly printed in black and red:
The person who posted the photo says this guy tried to pick a fight with a person who took a picture of him on his smartphone, in a way that a yakuza would do. Therefore, the conclusion was that he was a low-level official at the Ministry of the Environment.
I don't know about that, though it is possible. I thought he was from the waste disposal industry.
Minister Goshi Hosono shamelessly said "Look, we have supporters for the wide-area disposal here today!"
And here are people who tried to stage manage the event only to fail spectacularly, gathering after the minister departed:
For the video of the entire event, go to my previous post.
(Photos from @naasansan)
Labels: disaster debris, Kyoto
Germany's Das Erste: Fukushima Children Having Health Problems
Some strange translations here and there, but I think you get the idea. (I'll wait for the comments from German readers.)
German TVs tend to do the voice-over instead of captions, and the voice-over is too loud for me to hear what exactly the Japanese are saying. Sometimes their voice-over does not match what people are actually saying in Japanese.
Labels: Das Erste, Fukushima, radiation exposure for children
#Fukushima Fruit Growers: To Grow or Not to Grow This Year (With Tree Barks with 40K Bq/Kg of Cesium)
Is it even a question after what happened in last year? Well, clearly it is, for many farmers who grow fruits in Date City in the middle third of Fukushima with elevated radiation levels.
40,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was detected on the surface of peach trees in the city's orchard in the mountain. One grower is determined to grow this year again, the other has given up.
From Sankei Shinbun (4/1/2012):
「それでも作るしか」「もう無理」…果樹農家悲鳴 死活問題に
"Still no choice but grow", "Can't grow any more..." Matter of life and death for fruit growers
生産者にとって死活問題になりかねない放射性セシウムの基準値超え。特に年１回の収穫に懸け、日々の作業を続ける果樹農家は大きな不安を抱えている。
Radioactive cesium exceeding the safety standard can be a matter of life and death for the producers. Particularly, fruit growers who have only one harvest per year have big worries.
３月下旬、特定避難勧奨地点が点在する福島県伊達市。山間部の畑に立つカキの木の幹は、真っ白な木肌が目立つ。四方に枝を張るブドウの木も痛々しい赤茶色。いずれも高圧水による除染で樹皮が剥がれた結果という。
Late March in Date City in Fukushima Prefecture, where "specific evacuation recommendation spots" are scattered throughout the city. In an orchard in the mountain, the trunk of a persimmon tree is white. Grapevines are reddish brown. Both are the result of high-pressure washing that blasted off the barks.
「基準がどうあれ、木がある以上、とにかく作るしかない」。１ヘクタールの畑でブドウ、モモ、カキを育てる男性（５０）はつぶやく。昨季、周辺で収穫されたモモから１キロ当たり８０～９０ベクレルの放射性セシウムを検出。同５００ベクレルの暫定基準値は下回るが、同１００ベクレルの新基準値ならギリギリの数値だ。「除染すれば大丈夫なはずだが、ゼロでないと消費者も手にしてくれない」
"No matter what the standard is, as long as there are fruit tries, I have no choice but grow fruits", says a man (age 50) who grows grapes, peaches and persimmons in his 1 hectare orchard. In the last growing season, 80 to 90 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was found from peaches harvested nearby. It was below the 500 becquerels/kg provisional safety limit, but with the new 100 becquerels/kg standard, it would be close to the limit. "Once [the trees are] decontaminated, it should be OK. But the consumers won't buy it unless there is zero cesium."
東電の補償は出たが「補償のためじゃない。おいしかったと言ってもらうため作っている」という。
He was compensated by TEPCO, but he says, "I'm not growing for compensation. I'm growing so that people would say it is tasty."
あきらめた農家もある。同じ山沿いで長年モモを育ててきた菅野重治さん（６５）は昨年、除染で出る廃棄物の仮置き用スペースを作るため、木の半分を引き抜いた。しかし残り半分の木の表面から１キロ当たり４万ベクレルを検出。「もう無理だ」と観念した。
There are farmers who has given up. Shigeharu Sugano [could be Kanno] (age 65), who has grown peaches for a long time in the same area, pulled out half his trees last year in order to make room for temporary storage for the decontamination wastes. However, from the surface of the rest of his trees, 40,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was detected. He gave up. "I can't do it any more."
値下がりを受け周辺農家が養蚕から果樹に転換したのは半世紀前。「また新しい何かを見つけないと若い人は戻ってこない」と菅野さん。その「何か」は見つかっていない。
It was a half century ago that the local farmers switched from sericulture to fruit growing because of the drop in price in sericulture. "Unless we find something new, younger people won't come back", says Sugano. That "something new" hasn't been found.
With due respect to Mr. Sugano (at least he has given up growing peaches on his highly contaminated orchard), I don't think it's a matter of finding something new to grow.
Last year, Fukushima Prefecture even used school children to push Fukushima peaches, and they were widely sold all over Japan, even to customers who had never seen peaches from Fukushima in their local supermarkets.
Why not do that again this year? It worked last year. Just keep smiling.
Labels: Date City, Fukushima, radioactive fruits
Disaster Debris Wide-Area Disposal PR in Kyoto: Ministry Official Wearily Says "Unprecedented Number of Protesters..."
Yomiuri Shinbun Kansai version did carry the report on the Ministry of the Environment event in the Kyoto Station yesterday.
From Yomiuri Shinbun Kansai version (4/1/2012):
京都へのがれき受け入れ要請に反対派４００人抗議
400 protesters against disaster debris acceptance into Kyoto
環境相がチラシ配布断念
Minister of the Environment canceled the distribution of the fliers
東日本大震災で発生したがれきの広域処理問題で、細野環境相が３１日、ＪＲ京都駅前（京都市）で山田啓二・京都府知事らと受け入れへの理解を訴えた。細野環境相は「自分のことだけでなく、宮城や岩手のことを考えて下さい」と呼び掛けたが、受け入れに反対する市民ら約４００人に取り囲まれ、予定していたチラシ配布を中止した。
On March 31 in front of the Kyoto JR Station (in Kyoto City), Minister of the Environment Hosono appealed for accepting the disaster debris in Kyoto. He was flanked by other officials including Keiji Yamada, governor of Kyoto. The minister called to the crowd, "Please think about Miyagi and Iwate, not just about yourselves." But residents opposing the debris acceptance surrounded him, and he had to cancel the distribution of the [promotional] fliers.
環境省の「みんなの力でがれき処理プロジェクト」の街頭イベント。３月１１日に東京から始まり、関西では初開催となった京都が５か所目。市民らは「広域処理反対」「ガレキいやどす」などと書いたプラカードを掲げ、「帰れ」「子どもを守れ」などと声を上げた。
It was a street event rolled out by the Ministry of the Environment, "Disaster Debris Disposal Project, by Joining Hands". It started in Tokyo on March 11, and this Kyoto event is the 5th event, and the first in Kansai Region. Citizens held up signs that said "We are against the wide-area disposal" "Debris, No" [in Kyoto dialect], and shouted "Go back" and "Protect children".
同行していた同省職員が「今までにない反対派の数だった」という騒動になったが、細野環境相は終了後、「諦めることはできないので、できるだけ多くの地域で受け入れていただけるよう（広域処理を）前進させていきたい」とやや疲れた表情で話した。
An official at the Ministry of the Environment who accompanied the Minister admitted, "This was an unprecedented number of protesters." Minister Hosono spoke after the event, looking a bit tired. "I cannot give up. I want to proceed on the wide-area disposal, so I hope to persuade as many locations as possible."
It was not just a number of people against it that was unprecedented; ordinary citizens shouting down the minister of the national government and other politicians was unprecedented.
If I strictly translate what Yomiuri called "反対派", it is "opposing faction", as if this was an organized movement by an established/existing organization. From what I saw, the only "organized" movement was those few men holding up signs that said "Kizuna (ties that bind)", "Let's promote wide-area disposal", with characters neatly printed.
To view the Kyoto residents shouting down the politicians including Hosono, chanting "go back, go back", or "protect children", go to my previous post.
Labels: disaster debris, Goshi Hosono, Kyoto, radioactive debris
(UPDATED with Video) Goshi Hosono Is Being Shouted Down by Protesters in Kyoto
Hosono and his officials are right now in Kyoto, trying to persuade Kyoto residents that they have to accept disaster debris, and the protesters want to have none of that. Hosono has to shout to be heard over the ruckus.
He's trying to appeal to the people in Kyoto by showing some craft piece made by a Miyagi elementary school child. "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?"
Live at Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ UStream: http://t.co/nk7UkkdN
Here's the recorded video of the event.
At about 7 minutes into the video: No.3 guy at Ministry of the Environment (politician) starts to speak, appealing to the small crowd at Kyoto Station how important it is to help out the people in the disaster affected area whose towns are still buried under the mountain of debris. "See this photo?" he says.
Shouting starts about 8 minutes. "We're against it!" (Hantai!)
At 8:55, you see two guys in bright green vests holding up signs that says "Kizuna". How much more blatant can you get, to show you are the Ministry's shills?
At 11:30, Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment, takes the stage. He is immediately being shouted down by angry crowd. He has to change the microphone to be heard above the shouting.
At 16:00, Hosono desperately grabs a craft piece made by an elementary school kid in the disaster affected area, and tries to tell the angry audience "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?" People keep shouting at him, "Kaere, Kaere (Go back, go back)".
At 23:00, Governor of Kyoto takes the stage. People keep shouting him down.
At 27:40, Fukuyama, DPJ politician from Kyoto and advisor to then-Prime Minister Kan when the disaster struck, takes the stage. People keep shouting "Go back, go back". Fukuyama pleads with them that he is from Kyoto, and he comes back here. People keep shouting "Go back, go back".
People are telling him to go back to where he belongs, which is the center of the central government who wants Kyoto to accept and burn debris.
At 32:00 Fukuyama resorts to citing "democracy" as the reason why these protesters should quietly listens to him. People keep shouting "Go back, Go back".
That was rich. "Democracy". Was it a democracy to simply decide to spread the disaster debris all over Japan without even asking people?
Good for Kyoto people. I've never seen anything like this where people refuse to quietly listen to a politician, and instead they shout them down.
I am surprised that they didn't call in the police, but as Iwakami's IWJ was there netcasting live, that would have really made the already ugly scene for the Ministry of the Environment even uglier.
There is ZERO coverage of this incident in the national newspapers, not even in their local Kyoto versions. All there are in the local versions of the national papers is how eager and willing and ready Kyoto is to accept and burn the disaster debris.
Labels: Goshi Hosono, Kyoto
Japanese Magazine Says Hitachi May Be Pulling Out of Nuclear Business (or Maybe Not..)
The subscription-only magazine called "FACTA" has the first paragraph of the article available for everyone.
Hitachi has been enjoying the stellar quarterly results, after getting rid of loss-making HDD manufacturing. The company has completely pulled out of manufacturing TV sets in Japan. The only burden now is the nuclear business. Hitachi has the smallest nuclear business compared to Toshiba and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and we're hearing from Hitachi insiders that the company is "moving out of nuclear". The senior management vehemently denies it as "impossible", but Hitachi today is not what it used to be...
It may just mean the company is getting out of building new reactors. The company is still part of the government's working group to develop new technologies for decommissioning Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The company could commercialize these technologies to sell to the world, I suppose.
Hitachi is also a big player in incineration plants and equipments, and alternative energy (wind turbines).
The company looks set to profit no matter which direction Japan may take. The same can be said for other two nuclear companies, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. They are also big in incineration plants and wind turbines.
(UPDATE)
Hitachi just secured an agreement with the Lithuanian government to build a nuclear plant in Lithuania. (Nuclear business is too good to pass up.)
From Power Engineering Magazine (3/30/2012):
Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) said it has agreed to a concession agreement with the Lithuanian Energy Ministry regarding construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant planned for Lithuania. The concession agreement will be officially concluded after the approval by the Lithuanian parliament which has been in session since March 2012.
Lithuania is planning to construct a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas in the northeastern part of the country, with the aim of having an operational plant in 2021. In 2008, the project company Visagino Atomine Elektrine (VAE) was established to further the development of the project and conduct negotiations relating to investment into the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant. In 2009, the Lithuanian parliament passed a bill permitting the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas.
Hitachi and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd. proposed to provide an Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) to the Lithuanian government. Hitachi was selected as the strategic investor in July 2011, and in December 2011 initially signed the term sheet for the concession agreement.
Following the approval of this agreement by the Lithuanian parliament, the concession for power plant construction will be granted to a project company to be established by investment from Hitachi, VAE and regional partners. The project company will conduct negotiations regarding engineering, procurement, and construction. The project company will aim to conclude contracts by around summer of 2012.
Labels: Hitachi, nuclear plant
TEPCO's Answer to the Leak of Concentrated Water after Reverse Osmosis at #Fukushima I: Sandbags
TEPCO has a countermeasure to the leak of highly concentrated, contaminated water after the reverse osmosis treatment. Sandbags. And some shiny steel "barrages" as TEPCO calls them.
From TEPCO's photos for the press (3/28/2012):
Note a heap of hoses in the 2nd photo, upper right. Also the hoses under the temporary bridge. How about the hose hanging on the side of the drain?
40 more years (or more) until they can even begin the decommission.
Labels: contaminated water processing, Fukushima, reverse osmosis, TEPCO, water leak
It's Official: Canned Fish from Tohoku Will Go to Developing Countries, With the Help from UN
Another "win" for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who operates the ODA (Official Development Assistance). They have managed to obtain support from the United Nations on this one.
I first wrote about this particular ODA in June last year, with the follow-up post in September when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally requested the appropriation for the 3rd supplementary budget.
Now it's official, with the help of the UN. Canned fish from Tohoku will be given to people in developing countries in the world so that the fisheries in the disaster-affected areas can recover and "baseless rumors" disappear.
The fish cans will go to Cambodia and 4 other countries and will be used in school lunches to feed school children.
食料支援で風評被害解消 被災地の缶詰を途上国に
Food aid to dispel baseless rumors, by sending canned food made in disaster-affected areas to developing countries
政府は、東日本大震災の被災地で製造された水産加工品を発展途上国の人々に食べてもらうため、国連機関の世界食糧計画（ＷＦＰ）と政府開発援助（ＯＤＡ）に関する書簡を交換した。食料支援を通じ、被災地の水産業振興と風評被害の解消につなげるのが狙いだ。
The Japanese government exchange letters with the UN WFP (World Food Programme) regarding the ODA (Official Development Assistance) so that people in developing countries will be able to eat processed marine products made in the areas affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The purpose is to promote [the recovery of] fisheries industry in the disaster-affected areas and to dispel baseless rumors [that food in Japan is contaminated with radioactive materials].
政府が平成２３年度第３次補正予算に計上した１０億円を元手に、ＷＦＰが青森、岩手、茨城、千葉の４県の水産加工場で製造されたイワシやサバなどの水煮の缶詰を調達。カンボジアなど５カ国で学校給食などに役立ててもらう。加藤敏幸外務政務官は書簡交換の式典で、「甚大な被害を受けた被災地の水産加工企業は、操業の全面再開に向け努力している」と強調した。
The Japanese government allocated 1 billion yen in the fiscal 2011 3rd supplementary budget. Using this money, WFP will purchase cans of boiled sardines and mackerels made in factories in Aomori, Iwate, Ibaraki, and Chiba Prefectures. The cans will be shipped to 5 countries including Cambodia for the use in school lunches. Toshiyuki Kato, parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [No.3 politician at the ministry] emphasized in the letter exchanging ceremony, "The marine product processing companies in the disaster-affected areas have sustained grave damage, and they are doing their best to resume full operation."
このＯＤＡをめぐっては、東京電力福島第１原発事故の影響を懸念する一部の市民団体などが反発。外務省幹部は「放射線量を検査し、安全性に問題がないものを輸出することで、海外に根強い風評被害の打破を図りたい」と説明している。
There are a few citizens' groups who oppose this particular ODA program as they are worried about the effect of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident. The top officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explain that the radiation measurement will be conducted, and only those products without any worry of safety will be exported so that the baseless rumors that still persist overseas are dispelled.
When the Japanese government officials say "without any worry of safety", their safety equals 100 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium starting April 1, 2012.
I couldn't find any press release on this, and no information as to other 4 countries receiving the canned fish from Japan.
Here's from the feedback page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You can contact them by mail or by phone, or you can contact the embassies and consulates around the world.
The UN's WFP contact information is here: http://www.wfp.org/contact
Labels: baseless rumor, canned fish, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ODA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Has Started Propaganda Campaign to Invite Foreign Social Medial Writers to Japan
(Applicants can download an application in Excel file at the Embassy's site. Go to the end of the post for more.)
Remember that harebrained project that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it would do after grabbing some extra money in the supplementary budget last year? Well it has just started.
"An Invitation Program to Japan for SOCIAL MEDIA WRITERS: Hello social media writers!--the Government of Japan invites you to participate in an opportunity to travel to Japan and share your experience through social media."
Here's the screen capture of the Facebook page of the Japanese Embassy in Canada:
The post (23 hours ago) says the following (emphasis is mine):
An Invitation Program to Japan for SOCIAL MEDIA WRITERS: Hello social media writers!--the Government of Japan invites you to participate in an opportunity to travel to Japan and share your experience through social media.
- objective: to share your impressions, positive experiences, and attraction to Japan through social media i.e blogs, Facebook, &Twitter. Witness a vibrant Japan as it recovers from the disasters of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
- visit places that would help you understand Japan's politics, economics, society, and culture + meet with persons in your area of interest
- area of interest: pop culture, fashion, design, science & technology, Japanese food culture, sports, academia, art, etc.
- You should have more than 1000 followers per social media profile. After returning to Canada, participants will be required to write at least three articles about their visit.
- duration: 7 days sometime after April 2012
- expenses covered: accommodation, travel to and from Japan, transportation in Japan, and accident insurance
- deadline: April 4.
Please find the application form & procedure @ http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_e/JapanCanada/2012/social_media_writers_april_2012.html
*Embassy of Japan may request candidates to visit the Embassy for an interview.
Please apply & spread the word!
The anon reader who gave me the link says the Embassy people (or whoever is managing their Facebook page) keep deleting the negative comments.
The Japanese people I know are all disgusted with the government scheme and they are extremely ashamed. And angry that their tax money is being used like this by their government.
This is hilarious. I clicked on the link in the Embassy's Facebook post to take a look at the application form. IT'S AN EXCEL FILE! Are we still in the late 1980s, when companies that were very much behind the curve about computers were using Excel spreadsheet as word processor?
So these Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials do not even know how to create a simple form either in editable PDF format or web format, and they want to invite social media writers.
It was probably created by a local secretary who doesn't know anything about social media...
(What an atrocious color scheme... What has happened to the fine sense of design and color that the Japanese want to think they possess?)
Labels: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, social media
(Update: Checked the corporate site of Maruha Nichiro. It is "pink salmon" or "humpback salmon", in northern Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Japan Sea, Iwate Prefecture, and Hokkaido.)
Seikatsu Club is a co-op that has been publishing the results of its own analysis of food items it sells.
In the latest results on March 30, 2012, there are several items with radioactive cesium including a can of salmon from a major seafood company (Maruha Nichiro):
30 Bq/kg from lemon
32 Bq/kg from Kiyomi tangor (hybrid of satsuma mandarin orange and regular orange)
18 Bq/kg from a can of boiled salmon
For people trying to eliminate as much radioactive cesium as possible from the food they eat everyday, it's not getting any easier after one year.
Labels: internal radiation exposure, radioactive salmon
Woods Hole Scientist's Latest View on Ocean Contamination from Fukushima Accident: "We Haven't Gone Very Far" in Assessing the Extent, Damage
Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute researcher Ken Buesseler wrote a special article for CNN on March 11, 2012 about the effect that radioactive materials released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant have had on the ocean and marine life. He led a team of international researchers last June to survey the ocean where the contaminated water was dumped by TEPCO.
He seems more concerned now than when the initial report of the June survey was released (see my previous post).
From CNN (3/11/2012):
What Fukushima accident did to the ocean
By Ken Buesseler, Special to CNN
(CNN) -- One year ago, a series of events began with an earthquake off the cost of Japan that culminated in the largest accidental release of radioactivity into the ocean in history.
We have to be careful and say "accidental" because in the late 1950s and early 1960s, 50 to 100 times more radioactivity was released worldwide as fallout from the intentional testing of nuclear weapons. The word "ocean" is also important, since Chernobyl in 1986 was hundreds of miles inland, so it had a smaller impact on the concentrations of radionuclides in the sea than was measured directly off Japan in 2011.
One year later, we have to ask, what do we know about Fukushima's impact on the ocean and levels of radioactive contaminants in water and fish?
In many ways we were fortunate that impacts were largely confined to the ocean. Certainly, the Japanese people continue to feel devastating effects of so large a release within their country, and many people may never be able to return to their homes. But in general the winds during the height of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were blowing offshore. As a result, more than three-quarters of the radioactivity fell on the ocean. This is important, as any that lands on soil remains in place, resulting in the potential for greater human exposure and increased chances of contamination to food supplies and property.
In the Pacific, however, the strong Kuroshio Current (similar to the Atlantic Gulf Stream) helped move any contamination quickly away from shore and diluted it by mixing it into deeper water.
This allowed us to report that by June 2011, even when we sampled within sight of the nuclear power plants, levels of cesium-137 and cesium-134 in the ocean, two primary products of nuclear fission, were elevated, but still below those considered of concern for exposure to humans. They were also well below biological thresholds of concern to the small fish and plankton we sampled, even if these were consumed by humans.
Several other groups have now confirmed our findings about levels of radioactivity up to 400 miles offshore.
Other measurements show trends that are more worrisome. Levels of radioactivity found in fish are not decreasing and there appear to be hot spots on the seafloor that are not well mapped. There is also little agreement on exactly how much radioactivity was released or even whether the fires and explosions at the power plant resulted in more radioactive fallout to the ocean than did direct releases of radioactivity caused by dumping water on the reactors to keep them cool.
Japan is taking what some think of as a precautionary measure by lowering the limits of radioactive contaminants in drinking water and food supplies, including seafood, on April 1.The new level for fish will be one-tenth of the acceptable level in the United States. Will Japan's new limits build consumer confidence or raise fears and questions about why more fish are considered unsafe for consumption? And why were fish caught last year considered safe, but now are not?
Despite the announcement in December that operators of the power plant had achieved cold shut down, we know they are still using tons of water to cool the reactors and that not all the water has been collected or treated. As a result, the ground around the site is like a dirty sponge, saturated with contaminated water that is leaking into the ocean.
Marine sediments are also collecting radioactive contaminants, exposing bottom-dwelling fish, shellfish and other organisms on the sea floor to higher levels of contaminants than those in the waters above. Little is known, however, about the level of contamination in the groundwater and on the seafloor and whether these will be a source of contaminants long after levels in the ocean have become diluted to the point that only the most sensitive instruments can detect them.
We do know that we can detect cesium at very dilute levels, well below those considered harmful. Using these sensitive techniques we can track the Fukushima contaminants as ocean currents carry the peak releases across the Pacific where they are expected to reach the U.S. West Coast in 2013-2014 at levels that are much lower than we measured off Japan in 2011 and thus not of concern to human health.
Two weeks ago, we held the largest international gathering of marine scientists studying radioactive substances in the ocean originating from Fukushima. Although we shared freely what each of us has learned in the last year, what we need today is also what we needed on March 11, 2011 — greater international coordination of long-term studies of the fate and consequences of the radiation. We've done the initial assessments. Now we need to begin answering the tougher questions, building public confidence in scientific studies by having multiple, independent groups at work, and ensuring we have the resources to build comprehensive, long-term studies.
As a scientist and a marine radiochemist, I am trained to provide answers about radioactivity in the ocean—how much is out there, where it is, and what its fate is likely to be in the future. Today, we haven't gone very far beyond the first question, which was key on March 11, 2011, but hardly seems sufficient one year later.
We're no wiser one year after the accident, whether it is about:
the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident itself;
how much radioactive materials have been released so far;
degree of contamination on land or in the ocean;
effect of radiation on heath of humans (the national government is not taking health statistics in Fukushima Prefecture), animals, and plants
The Japanese government and government researchers cannot deal with any of these effectively. The Kan administration turned down the offer for help from the US and other nations for the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident, citing some "national security" concerns. Mr. Edano, current Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and then-Chief Cabinet Secretary under PM Kan, still says he, as Chief Cabinet Secretary, did not turn down the offer but told the US and others "We will consider your offer". That is, as fans of Sir Humphrey Appleby know, a bureaucrat/politician speech for "get lost". Will this change? Not very likely.
As Mr. Buesseler would know, there are different movements of seawater depending on the depth and proximity to the coast in addition to a major move by a major current like "Kuroshio". Significant amount of radioactive materials moved south along the coast, creating ever-shifting hot spots along the way, contrary to what the government researchers had assured the public (that they would be carried away by Kuroshio and disperse rapidly and evenly in the Pacific Ocean).
Mr. Buesseler may also be interested to know that squid, crab, and abalone have been found to highly concentrate radioactive silver from the ocean environment with ND level of radioactive silver (see my post on abalone). The ND levels of radioactive materials can still become harmful, because of bioconcentration.
The Chinese survey ship was finding radioactive strontium in the firefly squid 800 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima, back in August 2011. They also found radioactive silver. (See my post from August 2011.)
(H/T reader JP for CNN article)
Labels: Ken Buesseler, marine contamination, Woods Hohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifle
Woods Hole's Study of Radioactivity in Pacific Ocean in June 2011: "Not Likely to Be Direct Threat" to Marine Life
(UPDATE: The researcher seems to have had a change of heart somewhat since December. See my latest post.)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute did the only marine survey by international researchers approved by the Japanese government in June 2011. The summary of the survey result, I just found out, was posted on their website on December 6, 2011.
Their conclusion:
Their study finds the levels of radioactivity, while quite elevated, are not a direct exposure threat to humans or marine life, but cautions that the impact of accumulated radionuclides in marine sediments is poorly known.
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute press release (12/6/2011; emphasis is mine):
Researchers Assess Radioactivity Released to the Ocean from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Facility
With news this week of additional radioactive leaks from Fukushima nuclear power plants, the impact on the ocean of releases of radioactivity from the plants remains unclear. But a new study by U.S. and Japanese researchers analyzes the levels of radioactivity discharged from the facility in the first four months after the accident and draws some basic conclusions about the history of contaminant releases to the ocean.
The study, conducted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemist Ken Buesseler and two Japanese colleagues, Michio Aoyama of the Meteorological Research Institute and Masao Fukasawa of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, reports that discharges from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plants peaked one month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that precipitated the nuclear accident, and continue through at least July. Their study finds the levels of radioactivity, while quite elevated, are not a direct exposure threat to humans or marine life, but cautions that the impact of accumulated radionuclides in marine sediments is poorly known.
The release of radioactivity from Fukushima—both as atmospheric fallout and direct discharges to the ocean—represent the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history. Concentrations of cesium-137, an isotope with a 30-year half life, at the plants's discharge point to the ocean, peaked at over 50 million times normal/previous levels, and concentrations 18 miles off shore were much higher than those measured in the ocean after the Chernobyl accident 25 years ago. This is largely due to the fact that the Fukushima nuclear power plants are located along the coast, whereas Chernobyl was several hundred miles from the nearest salt water basins, the Baltic and Black Seas. However, due to ocean mixing processes, the levels are rapidly diluted off the Northwest coast of Japan.
The study used publically available data on the concentrations of cesium-137, cesium-134, and iodine-131 as a basis to compare the levels of radionuclides released into the ocean with known levels in the sea surrounding Japan prior to the accident. Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants on Marine Radioactivity is published in the latest issue of Environmental Science & Technology and is available on the journal's website. Buesseler received funding support for this work from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation’s Chemical Oceanography program.
The investigators compiled and analyzed data on concentrations of cesium and iodine in ocean water near the plants’s discharge point made public by TEPCO, the electric utility that owns the plants, and the Japanese Ministry of Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The team found that releases to the ocean peaked in April, a fact they attribute to “the complicated pattern of discharge of seawater and fresh water used to cool the reactors and spent fuel rods, interactions with groundwater, and intentional and unintentional releases of mixed radioactive material from the reactor facility.” They also found that the releases decreased in May by a factor of 1000, “a consequence of ocean mixing and a primary radionuclide source that has dramatically abated,” they report.
While concentrations of some radionuclides continued to decrease, by July they were still 10,000 times higher than levels measured in 2010 off the coast of Japan. This indicates the plants “remain a significant source of contamination to the coastal waters off Japan,” they report. “There is currently no data that allow us to distinguish between several possible sources of continued releases, but these most likely include some combination of direct releases from the reactors or storage tanks, or indirect releases from groundwater beneath the reactors or coastal sediments, both of which are likely contaminated from the period of maximum releases.”
Buesseler says that at levels indicated by these data the releases are not likely to be a direct threat to humans or marine biota in the surrounding ocean waters, but says there could be concern if the source remains high and radiation accumulates in marine sediments. “We don’t know how this might impact benthic marine life, and with a half-life of 30 years, any cesium-137 accumulating in sediments or groundwater could be a concern for decades to come,” he said.
In June, Buesseler led the first international, multidisciplinary assessment of the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean off the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plants—a major research effort also funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. During the research expedition, a group of 17 researchers and technicians spent two weeks aboard the University of Hawaii research vessel R/V Kaimikai-O-Kanaloa examining many of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the ocean that determine the fate of radioactivity in the water and potential impact on marine biota. The results of their initial assessments will be presented in Salt Lake City in February 2012 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, an international gathering of more than 4,000 researchers sponsored by The Oceanography Society, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, and the American Geophysical Union.
While international collaborations for comprehensive field measurements to determine the full range of isotopes released are underway, it will take some time before results are available to fully evaluate the impacts of this accident on the ocean.
"However, due to ocean mixing processes, the levels are rapidly diluted off the Northwest coast of Japan." - Uh... northwest? Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is in the northeast part of Japan.
That aside, I am puzzled by their conclusion that the releases of radioactive materials into the seawater, which is on-going, are not likely to be a direct threat to marine life, when fish and abalones from the coastal water of northeast Japan have been found with high concentration of radioactive cesium and radioactive silver. Researchers have found plankton far off the coast of Fukushima with concentrated radioactive cesium.
Is it possible that all the Woods Hole researchers took as samples was ocean water, and not marine life (plankton, seaweeds, fish, shellfish, etc.)?
Or are they saying few hundred becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium won't affect the fish?
Labels: marine contamination, Woods Hole
The minister in charge of the Fukushima nuclear accident and the Minister of the Environment Goshi Hosono has just started tweeting.
You can follow him if you want, at @hosonogoshi54.
So far, only two tweets, following no one, and 1,097 people following.
Let him know what you think of his:
"decontamination" scam that benefit largest construction companies in Japan;
wide-area disposal of disaster debris that has been contaminated with radioactive materials, toxic chemicals;
his handling of the Fuku-I accident, etc.
Just be aware that Twitter Japan is run by a person with ties to the Japanese government. (But at this point, who doesn't have ties to the government, among TPTB?)
When the nuclear accident started last March, he was an assistant to then-Prime Minister Kan. He was the one who said "We knew it was a meltdown but just didn't feel like telling anyone", as soon as a few days after March 11, 2011.
Most recently in Kitakyushu City in Kyushu where he descended to drum up support for wide-area disposal of disaster debris, he didn't even know how many tonnes of disaster debris were there in Ishinomaki City, when asked by a reporter. He froze, and then looking for someone who could assist him. Before that, he was apparently making up a story of Kitakyushu City building a temporary incineration plant. The city officials later said, "That's news to us."
Labels: disaster debris, Goshi Hosono, Ministry of Environment, radioactive debris
#Radioactive Bamboo Shoots (Takenoko) from Inzai City, Chiba
Inzai City is located in the northwest corner of Chiba Prefecture, sitting in the immediate east of the high-radiation "Tokatsu" region that includes cities like Kashiwa, Nagareyama, and Abiko.
Chiba Prefecture announced on March 27, 2012 that bamboo shoots (spring delicacy in Japan) harvested in Nagareyama City and Inzai City exceeded the soon-to-be implemented new safety standard for radioactive cesium (100 Bq/kg), and requested the majors of these cities to instruct farmers to voluntarily withdraw the bamboo shoots from the market.
Again, if it's done "voluntarily", the local or national government does not need to compensate the farmers.
Nagareyama City is the one who quietly shipped the ashes from the garbage incineration plant by rail to Akita Prefecture to be buried last July. Akita Prefecture found out that the ashes contained 28,100 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium (link is in Japanese) and they angrily returned the ashes back to Nagareyama.
From Chiba Prefecture's press release (3/27/2012; I added the English labels):
放射性ヨウ素131
放射性セシウム134
放射性セシウム134と137の合計
Cs total
（3.9未満注）
Inzai
Tonosho
Isumi
Kimitsu
The last city on this table is where the controlled final disposal site is located for industrial and now radioactive waste. On March 22, a large amount of chloride ion was found in the well water at the disposal site that monitors contamination. The prefectural government thinks it is leaked from the disposal site, not because of the snow melting agent as the disposal site operator claims.
One of the readers of this blog lives in Inzai City. He has photos of how the "decontamination" is done in one elementary school in the city and "black dust" that measures close to 0.7 microsievert/hour. It looks to be a half-hearted attempt to show the residents that the city is doing something but not much effect:
"Re-decontamination" of the school yard:
The pit to bury the dirt removed by "decontamination":
Radiation level of the removed dirt: 0.224 microsievert/hour
Radiation level of the dirt that 1st graders play with: 0.268 microsievert/hour
Air radiation level near the classroom for 1st graders: 0.275 microsievert/hour
So the radiation level of the dirt that 1st graders play with and the air radiation level near the classroom are higher than the dirt removed as part of "decontamination" effort. I wonder if the school knows what it's doing.
"Black dust" on the side of the paved surface:
Radiation level near the surface: 0.683 microsievert/hour
Inzai City is located here (at the blue arrow) on the radiation contour map by Professor Hayakawa of Gunma University (version 6):
(H/T Chibaguy for the photos)
Labels: Chiba, Inzai City, radioactive bamboo shoot
JNST: "A scenario of large amount of radioactive materials discharge to the air from the Unit 2 reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident"
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology has a paper by Fumiya Tanabe of Sociotechnical Systems Safety Research Institute published online on March 28, 2012.
Tanabe is the one who said last August that there was a second "meltdown" in Reactor 3 on March 20-21, in which the melted fuel dropped through the Reactor Pressure Vessel onto the floor of the Containment Vessel, releasing a large amount of radioactive materials that caused the spikes in radiation levels in wide areas in Tohoku and Kanto.
In November last year (11/19/2011), he also disclosed his analysis of the Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber, and concluded that it may have been damaged by the earthquake. This paper looks to be that analysis, now peer reviewed and published.
The paper was received on December 9, 2011, accepted final version for publication on January 24, 2012.
So it is possible to disclose the outline of the analysis before submitting the paper to a peer-reviewed magazine, and the magazine has no problem accepting and publishing the paper. (All those researchers in Japan and elsewhere in the world who withheld their data, analysis, research until their papers were published by peer-review magazines, what would you say now?)
From Taylor & Francis Online:
A scenario of large amount of radioactive materials discharge to the air from the Unit 2 reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident
Fumiya Tanabe
Based on an analysis of the measured data with review of calculated results on the core melt accident, a scenario is investigated for large amount of radioactive materials discharge to the air from the Unit 2 reactor. The containment pressure suppression chamber (S/C) should have failed until the noon on 12 March 2011 only by seismic load due to the huge earthquake on 11 March or by combination of seismic deterioration and dynamic load due to steam flowing-in through safety relief valve. Opening of the two safety relief valves (SRVs) at 14 March 21:18 should have resulted in discharge of large amount of radioactive materials through the S/C breach with the measured air dose rate peak value of 3.130E-3Sv/h at 21:37 near the main gate of the site. The containment drywell (D/W) should have failed at 15 March 06:25, at the cable penetration seal due to high temperature caused by the fuel materials heating up on the floor of the D/W, which had flowed out from the reactor pressure vessel. Then large amount of radioactive materials should have been discharged through the D/W breach with the measured air dose rate peak value of 1.193E-2Sv/h at 15 March 9:00.
Is Tanabe saying that venting of Reactor 2 on the night of March 14, 2011, with the Suppression Chamber already broken due to the earthquake, caused a discharge of a large amount of radioactive materials through the Suppression Chamber?
What a tragi-comical sequence. Amateur hours.
If the Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber was already damaged by the earthquake, what about other Reactors?
Labels: Fumiya Tanabe, Reactor No.2, Suppression Chamber
Disaster Debris Wide-Area Disposal: Tokyo Univ. Students to the Rescue with the Help from Largest Ad Agency in Japan
Students at the prestigious (at least hard to get in) Tokyo University have formed a group called "Project to Think About 3.11 Debris". The group held a public symposium on March 28 on the Tokyo University Komaba campus, co-sponsored by Jiji Tsushin and others with "special support" from the Ministry of the Environment.
Their message: More information disclosure from the national government should help; there is a "silent majority" who would gladly accept disaster debris.
From the event co-sponsor Jiji Tsushin (3/28/2012):
不安解消へ情報開示を＝東大生ら、がれき処理で提言
Tokyo University students make proposals on disaster debris processing - information disclosure to dispel fears
東日本大震災で発生したがれき処理の問題を東京大の学生らが議論する「３・１１のガレキを考えるプロジェクト」（共催・時事通信社など、特別協力・環境省）は２８日、放射能汚染に対する国民の不安を解消するため政府に一層の情報開示などを求める提言をまとめた。近く環境省に提出する。
"The Project to Think about 3.11 Debris", where Tokyo University students discuss the issue of disaster debris from the March 11, 2011 earthquake/tsunami, issued its proposals to the national government to further disclose information to dispel citizens' fears of radiation contamination. The Project is co-sponsored by Jiji Tsushin and others, with the special support from the Ministry of the Environment. The proposals will be submitted to the Ministry of the Environment shortly.
提言は、がれきの安全性への理解が広がらないのは、東京電力福島第１原発事故後の政府の情報提供の遅れが背景にあると指摘。がれきの安全基準（放射性セシウム濃度が１キロ当たり８０００ベクレル以下）を決定した検討過程を公開するなど、国民が放射能の危険性を冷静に判断できるよう情報開示を強化し、悪循環を断ち切るよう求めた。
The Project pointed out that it was the delay in disclosing information by the government after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident that has hindered the understanding by the citizens of the safety of the debris. It requested that the government strengthen the effort to disclose information so that citizens could determine the danger of radiation calmly [in a scientific way] and break a vicious cycle. The group suggested the government disclose the decision process when they had decided on the safety standard for the debris (8,000 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium).
また、岩手県釜石市でがれきを使ったラグビー場建設が計画されていることを紹介し、被災自治体でのがれき処理の取り組みをデータベース化するよう要望。がれき処理と復興に向けたまちづくりが切り離されている現状を批判した。
The group also told the audience that a construction of a rugby field was being planned in Kamaishi City in Iwate Prefecture using the debris, and suggested the government create a database of the projects at local municipalities in the disaster-affected areas. It also criticized that the debris disposal and rebuilding of cities and towns were being considered separately.
さらに、がれきの受け入れをめぐっては反対意見ばかりが目立っている一方で、「被災者には遠慮があり不満や要求をすることが少ない」と強調。実際には受け入れに理解を示す「サイレントマジョリティー」がいるとして、意見交換の場を充実させる必要性を訴えた。
Further, as to the disaster debris acceptance, the group said only the opponents were getting the air time, but "the disaster victims are reserved, and they don't complain or demand". In reality, there was a "Silent Majority" who wouldn't mind accepting the debris, the group said, and emphasized the need for more dialogues.
If this seems contrived to you (I don't see why it shouldn't), it's because it is, contrived. This "Project to Think about 3.11 Debris" seems to have been organized by a joint educational venture between Tokyo University and Hakuhodo called "brand design studio". Hakuhodo is Japan's one of the two largest ad and PR agencies who has been getting a lot of jobs from the government ever since March 11, 2011 to spin the government policies and appropriately guide the general public.
This entity is the "others" in the Jiji article above, who co-sponsored the event on March 28.
If the national government thinks Tokyo University, Hakuhodo (or Dentsu for that matter), and the Ministry of the Environment exude honesty and truthfulness after one year of misinformation, and the citizens are willing to fall for this, there will be not much I can say.
Labels: disaster debris, Hakuhodo, Tokyo University
The article by Pico Iyer at New York Times (3/22/2012) seems to say "Nothing has changed about Japan, only better". The author says he's been living around Kyoto for the past 25 years:
...The 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that hit the country on March 11, 2011, claimed almost 20,000 lives, overturned an economy that had already been foundering through 20 years of recession, and demoralized a citizenry dealing with one suicide every 17 minutes, a loss of direction, and what is now seven prime ministers in fewer than six years.
Yet it also highlighted the resilience, self-possession and community-mindedness that are so striking in Japan; suddenly, the country that had seemed to insist on its difference from the rest of the world could be seen in its more human, compassionate and brave dimensions. Japan has long been what the globally savvy magazine Monocle called, in a recent issue, “The World’s Most Charming Nation”; now it is also one of those most grateful for visitors.
You can read the entire article at the link.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Japan Tourism Agency can't be happier.
Labels: Japan Tourism Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New York Times
Radioactive Fallout in Futaba-machi, Fukushima in January 2012: 19,120 MBq/Square Kilometer
The Ministry of Education and Science released the data on radioactive fallout by prefecture in January 2012, on March 23.
For Fukushima Prefecture, it is measured in Futaba-machi, where Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is located. The measurement for the month of January, 2012 was:
Cs-134: 8,020 Mbq (megabecquerels)/km2
Cs-137: 11,100 MBq/km2
Total cesium: 19,120 MBq/km2
The measurement in Fukushima in Futaba-machi started in September 2011. From September to November, the numbers were in 4 digits. The fallout amount jumped in December, as you see in the table below (created from the data at MEXT website):
There was a similar jump, albeit much smaller, in the fallout measured in Fukushima City starting December 2011. The increase in Fukushima City has been attributed to winds blowing the dusts. (FYI, here's the latest fallout data for Fukushima City.)
West of Shizuoka, it's all ND. Miyagi is supposed to have started measuring the fallout in March this year.
From MEXT announcement on March 23, 2012, "Reading of environmental radioactivity level by prefecture (Fallout)(January, 2012)"
Prefecture City
Fallout#
Other detected nuclides
1 Hokkaido Sapporo ND ND ND
2 Aomori Aomori ND ND ND
3 Iwate Morioka ND 1.6 2.0
4 Miyagi - - -
5 Akita Akita ND 0.069 0.086
6 Yamagata Yamagata ND 3.0 3.9
7 Fukushima Futaba ND 8020 11100
8 Ibaraki Hitachinaka ND 15 18
9 Tochigi Utsunomiya ND 16 20
10 Gunma Maebashi ND 3.3 4.1
11 Saitama Saitama ND 7.6 9.8
12 Chiba Ichihara ND 7.1 11
13 Tokyo Shinjuku ND 8.9 11
14 Kanagawa Chigasaki ND 2.6 3.2
15 Niigata Niigata ND 0.084 0.087
16 Toyama Imizu ND ND ND
17 Ishikawa Kanazawa ND 0.068 0.090
18 Fukui Fukui ND ND ND
19 Yamanashi Kofu ND 0.41 0.54
20 Nagano Nagano ND 1.3 1.6
21 Gifu Kakamigahara ND ND ND
22 Shizuoka Shizuoka ND 0.34 0.51
23 Aichi Nagoya ND ND ND
24 Mie Yokkaichi ND ND ND
25 Shiga Otsu ND ND ND
26 Kyoto Kyoto ND ND ND
27 Osaka Osaka ND ND ND
28 Hyogo Kobe ND ND ND
29 Nara Nara ND ND ND
30 Wakayama Wakayama ND ND ND
31 Tottori Touhaku ND ND ND
32 Shimane Matsue ND ND ND
33 Okayama Okayama ND ND ND
34 Hiroshima Hiroshima ND ND ND
35 Yamaguchi Yamaguchi ND ND ND
36 Tokushima Myozai ND ND ND
37 Kagawa Takamatsu ND ND ND
38 Ehime Matsuyama ND ND ND
39 Kochi Kochi ND ND ND
40 Fukuoka Dazaifu ND ND ND
41 Saga Saga ND ND ND
42 Nagasaki Omura ND ND ND
43 Kumamoto Uto ND ND ND
44 Oita Oita ND ND ND
45 Miyazaki Miyazaki ND ND ND
46 Kagoshima Kagoshima ND ND ND
47 Okinawa Uruma ND ND ND
Labels: Ministry of Education, radioactive fallout
Fukushima Medical Univ. Researcher: "If People Do Their Own Decontamination, They Can Feel Secure"
The researcher, Shinichi Niwa, is talking about people in Fukushima Prefecture where the soil is very contaminated (probably with the exception of Aizu Region, although even there hot spots or hot areas do exist).
Mainichi Daily reports from the original Japanese article which is about the fear of radiation caused by the accident and how that affected the Fukushima residents. (You can read more on that topic by reading the post about Ms. Emiko Numauchi of Minami Soma City, Fukushima.)
Professor Niwa's comment is at the end of the article.
From Mainichi Daily News (3/26/2012):
Fear of radiation from Fukushima accident led to psychiatric disorder hospitalizations
Some 24.4 percent of people who were hospitalized in Fukushima with psychiatric disorders in the wake of the outbreak of the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had done so possibly because of fears of radiation exposure, according to the results of research conducted by psychiatrists at Fukushima Medical University.
It has also been found that of all the outpatients at 27 hospitals in Fukushima Prefecture, 30 percent of them visited hospital apparently for reasons related to the nuclear crisis, according to the research conducted by psychiatrist Akira Wada and others at Fukushima Medical University. There is no data available in the world on the effects of nuclear accidents on psychiatric diseases that were taken immediately after a nuclear accident, and therefore Fukushima Medical University plans to conduct a follow-up study on the effects on patients of the major nuclear accident and prolonged lives as evacuees.
Wada and others at Fukushima Medical University carried out a survey at 30 hospitals in Fukushima Prefecture for two months from March 12, 2011, and 27 of them responded to the survey.
Of the 610 inpatients who were admitted or readmitted to hospital, with men accounting for 49 percent and women for 51 percent, excluding those who were transferred to other hospitals because of the nuclear disaster, 74 of them, or 12.1 percent, were diagnosed as being related to their fears of radiation exposure, while 75 others, or 12.3 percent, were diagnosed as being possibly related to their fears of radiation exposure. People from the Soma, Futaba and Iwaki areas, which are close to the troubled nuclear power station, account for 23 to 27 percent of such inpatients.
Of all the 74 inpatients whose hospitalization was diagnosed as being related to their fears of radiation exposure, nine of them had never had consulted psychiatrists before. Most of the 74 people were admitted or readmitted to hospital within one month from the outbreak of the nuclear disaster, and nearly half of them were in their 40s and 50s. There were cases of people who were suffering from stress from living in evacuation centers in addition to their fears of radiation exposure.
At the same time, Itaru Miura, assistant professor at Fukushima Medical University, and others conducted a survey on outpatients at 77 hospitals and clinics in Fukushima Prefecture once a week for three months from March 12, 2011, to which 57 medical facilities responded.
Of the 410 outpatients at the medical facilities who were suffering from depression or anxiety disorders, 78 of them, or 19 percent, were diagnosed as being linked to the nuclear disaster, and 55 others, or 13.4 percent, were diagnosed as being possibly related to the nuclear disaster. Of all the 133 patients, 47 of them were suffering from depression and 38 others were suffering from acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and 38 other outpatients were also suffering from adjustment disorders. Nearly half of them had stress from their lives as evacuees, 40 percent of them were worried about the effects of radiation on themselves, and 30 percent of them expressed fears that their children and families could be affected by radiation.
There were reports on the mental effects of radiation from the troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but the research was conducted about 10 years after the outbreak of the nuclear disaster. Shinichi Niwa, professor at Fukushima Medical University, said, "I have the impression that the nuclear accident had such a great impact (that many people were admitted to hospital). Take decontamination work for example, people can feel secure if they do it themselves, rather than if they ask others to do it. It is also important to ease anxieties over radiation exposure with participation of local residents in such a program."
Labels: Fukushima, radiation exposure
NRC to National Labs Last Year Who Wanted to Help With Fukushima Radiation Analysis: "Knock It Off"
From Enformable (2/28/2012) quoting from the official transcript of NRC's meeting (audio file) on March 12, 2012, from page 161 (emphasis is mine):
MR. SHARON: This is Brian Sharon. Quick question, well, not question, but I’ve gotten a couple of emails here today, from some of the National Labs, and they’re all — there are a couple of them chomping a the bit, you know, saying, “Ghee, can we help? Ghee, can we go calculate this,” with the codes and all that stuff.
I keep telling them, “No, you don’t know the scenario,” but you know, somebody might want to call DOE and tell them to tell their labs to cool it, because the last thing we want is the labs going off, talking to the press, talking about consequences and all sorts of other stuff, because you know, they’re chomping at the bit, to do something, and I’m not sure, Eliot, maybe you’ve got a point of contact up there at DOE?
MR. BRENNER: I’ll send a note to their Press Secretary, asking him, through his chain, to reach out, down to the labs and tell them to back off. If we’ve got other chains, we might as well –
MALE PARTICIPANT: If I could chime in on that? On the Deputy’s call yesterday, I was on with the Chairman, and Pete Lyons was one of the principals at DOE. Lyons may be a good source to contact at DOE.
MR. JOHNSON: This is Mike Johnson. My other thought was, it may be just to cut to the chase, just to pass the same, to call the lab directors and say, “Knock it off,” or whatever messages we want to get to them.
There are a number of ways we can do this.
So, I agree, Brian, we’ve got to do it soon.
MR. McDERMOTT: Okay, we’ll take that action from headquarters.
In this particular transcript, there is also a mention of GE engineers who were present at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant when the earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, 2011. See my previous post here.
Labels: FOIA, Fukushima, National Labs, NRC
Video of the 2nd Probe of Reactor 2 Containment Vessel at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant, 3/26/2012
I watched the longer versions, and still couldn't figure out what it was that I was seeing. It looks like yellowish substance is being scraped by the camera or the tube.
Longer versions are at TEPCO's page: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2012/201203-e/120327-01e.html
For more on this 2nd probe, see my post here (for March 26 operation) and here (for March 27 operation).
Labels: CV, endoscope, Fukushima, Reactor No.2
(UPDATED) INES Level 1 Contamination at Fukushima II (Daini), Caused by the Spill of Contaminated Water from Fukushima I (Daiichi), Says NISA
UPDATE: These are the 20-liter plastic containers that transported the contaminated water from Fuku-I to Fuku-II. They are wrapped in plastic. That's spill-proof, isn't it? TEPCO claims the lid in one of the containers was loose. From METI's press release on 3/27/2012:
TEPCO transported 140 liters of the water after being treated by the cesium absorption towers (SARRY, Kurion) from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to Fukushima II (Daini) Nuclear Power Plant for nuclide analysis, but somehow the water spilled and contaminated the buildings in Fukushima II.
Duh. Why TEPCO needed to transport a large quantity of contaminated water just for analysis, no one knows. The water contained maximum 700 becquerels/cubic centimeter of radioactive materials, so the 140 liters of this water could contain 700 x 1000 x 140 = 98 million becquerels of radioactive materials.
First, the overview of the incident from Jiji Tsushin (3/27/2012):
分析用汚染水漏れる＝運搬先の福島第２原発で－東電
Contaminated water from Fukushima I for analysis spilled at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant, says TEPCO
東京電力は２７日、福島第１原発から分析のため福島第２原発に運び込んだストロンチウムなどを含む汚染水が容器から漏れ、机や通路などを汚染したと発表した。経済産業省原子力安全・保安院は、汚染水の取扱規定に違反している可能性が高いとして、運搬状況を報告するよう指示した。
TEPCO announced on March 27 that the contaminated water spilled from the container and contaminated desks and corridors at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant. The water contained radioactive strontium and other nuclides, and was brought from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant for analysis. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has instructed TEPCO to report the details, as the company is likely to have been in violation of the regulation that specifies how the contaminated water should be handled.
東電と保安院によると、汚染が見つかったのは第２原発３、４号機サービス建屋の机と通路など７カ所。水が付着した場所からは最高で１平方センチ当たり約７００ベクレルの放射性物質が検出された。作業員の被ばくはないという。
According to TEPCO and the NISA, contamination was found at 7 locations in the service building for Reactors 3 and 4 at Fukushima II Nuke Plant, on the desks and corridors. Maximum 700 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive materials have been found from the locations of the spill. There is no worker exposed to the contamination.
"140 liters" information comes from the ad hoc NISA press conference on March 27 at 9:15PM (that's unusual these days).
More detailed information from the press conference, by Ryuichi Kino:
東電の発表では、汚染は２０６Bq/cm2 [sic] という話だったが、保安院の発表では、最高７００Ｂｑ／ｃｍ３と聞いているとのこと。ただ、運んでいた量が全部で１４０Ｌ。なんでこんなに多量の汚染水を運んでいたのかは、今のところ不明。保安院によれば今回の漏洩量は少ないが場合によっては汚染された水のすべてが漏洩した可能性があり、その場合に想定される放射性物質の量などからすると、国際原子力事象評価尺度（ＩＮＥＳ）の対象になり、暫定でＩＮＥＳレベル１と判断しているとのこと。
TEPCO announced the contamination as 206 Bq/cubic centimeter, but NISA says max 700 Bq/cubic centimeter. Total amount of the water was 140 liters. It's not known why such a large quantity of contaminated water was being transported. According to NISA, the amount of leak this time was small, but depending on the situation the entire amount could have leaked. If that was the case, INES (International Nuclear Event Scale) should be applied to the incident because of the amount of radioactive materials that would have been released; consequently, NISA considers the incident as INES Level 1, on a provisional basis.
もうひとつ疑問。東電は夕方６時からの会見で、この経緯をごく簡単に説明。汚染は１か所だけと発表していた。けれども保安院の発表では、汚染は全部で７か所と。事態の発生は午後０時４２分とのことなので、それから５時間後の会見で詳細が発表されなかったのは、対応が遅すぎ。
Another question. TEPCO touched on this spill very lightly at the 6PM press conference, and said there was only one contamination. But NISA says there were 7 locations that were contaminated. The spill happened at 12:42PM, and TEPCO didn't have the details at the press conference, 5 hours after. Too slow.
Kino also reports this was the second time TEPCO transported a large quantity of contaminated water from Fukushima I to Fukushima II.
(Additional information)
Kino also says that the contaminated water is routinely sampled by the affiliate companies (probably Toshiba, Hitachi, and other top-tier contractors) for testing at their facilities.
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Real Nazi Show in Madrid, Spain
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BasqueStorm
The Wettest Blanket
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands
This happened this last weekend in Sala Caracol:
https://twitter.com/shul_evolution/status/1203769059013283852
Another video here:
https://www.lasexta.com/noticias/sociedad/asi-se-gesto-el-engano-de-la-sala-caracol-por-parte-de-grupos-neonazis_201912105defbc540cf29ed3ddb3ff95.html
This band was announced and booked by the venue (Valhöll-Dûm):
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Valh%C3%B6ll-D%C3%BBm/3540435953
Those two played (Iberian Wolves and Brigada Totenkopf):
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Iberian_Wolves/3540374297
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Brigada_Totenkopf/3540446753
The venue has been CLEARLY cheated:
https://twitter.com/salacaracol/status/1203475118405668870
But people is shitstorming them:
And this latin dance party had to be canceled his following show same night:
https://twitter.com/GuacamayoTropic/status/1203429315515441152
Police (surprise!) advised to continue with the show (alluding to staff's security) and didn't identify attenders. This is Spain! There's no zero tolerance with franquism like with nazism in Germany and the dictator was exhumed just some months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain#Legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos#Controversy
There was a fight on the streets after the show too.
What a shame! It's quite common in soccer but not in music venues.
It's a sensitive issue and people should be WAY MORE careful when tagging anyone.
P.S: So excuse when some of us laugh at those weekly "[Internationally established and famous metal band] are nazis" threads based on sensationalistic rumours or obscure lyric lines.
Like I stated, we've not been in front of a nazi band in all our lives.
Spam me with dating sites. Or, even better, let my antispam do the dirty work, ask me for a date and kiss me, fool. Yeah, kiss my shiny metal ass, pathetic clown.
Last edited by BasqueStorm on Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:01 am, edited 7 times in total.
Unorthodox
The only words I understand from all this is "Sieg Heil", so if someone could translate or find a translation that would be nice. Either way, American's have a patriotic duty to stand only one way on these issues.
Unorthodox wrote:
I would like to have texts to translate via Google Translator but they only posted statement images.
Anyway, I'll try to find an article in english.
DrummingEdge133
Haha! Captain America vs Red Skull round 666!
OpsiusCato
Mexican Metal Inquisition
At the request of dear handsome Eros, here's an English summary of the situation:
It seems like a show promoter booked the venue for a concert. It was meant to be a "farewell gig/private party" for a band named Valhöll-Dûm for "friends and family only". The promoter told the venue that as a private event there would be no need to publicize it as it would be invite-only. But instead of that, it was a NS concert by the bands Iberian Wolves and Brigada Totenkopf. The police found out about it, and contacted the venue owners to inform them about it being a nazi gig, and adviced the owners NOT to cancel it because the police wouldn't be able to guarantee protection to the place, the employees or to the neighborhood from the violence resulting from cancelling the gig at the last minute. So the gig happened. The venue mentions three other instances of venues being cheated by promoters booking the place for nazi concerts using unrelated bands' names. And now the venue is being accused of being NS and crucified by the public, as well as the band Valhöll-Dûm who wasn't even informed about or present at the gig. Oh and 4/6 of the Valhöll-Dûm members quit the band as a result from the harassment
The stance the police took isn't unheard of in Spain, I must point out.
There's also videos of an audience consisting almost entirely of boneheads throwing the naziarms and shouting sieg heil as well as the bands doing the same.
Uncolored, on being a law-abiding citizen wrote:
I'm going to an illegal AnarchoPunkfest in an abandoned disco near a beach. If I'm not here tomorrow look for me in jail.
PhiloFrog, making accurate statements as usual, wrote:
Opsius is Metal as fuck.
Oxenkiller
So, if I understand, that Valholl-Dum band were not actually a NS band, but rather, a bunch of NS bands used that band's name as a front, to "Trick" the promoter into letting them have their nazi gig.
So if that's the case... That is beyond chickenshit; it's bad enough that they have such a fucked up ideology, but to trash the reputation of a respectable band to play their crap, is really really fucking low.
OpsiusCato wrote:
Thanks, OpsiusCato! I think that was perfectly what happened.
P.S: Seems like Valhöll-Dûm is no more after they published a statement too.
And police tend to "protect the bad guys" in Spain, yeah. Ironically, this venue was quick to cancel a basque metal show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berri_Txarrak) because of their "simphaty with basque political prisoners":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_conflict#Prisoners
What a shitty country we live in.
Lord_Jotun
Oxenkiller wrote:
This. I'm also completely flabbergasted at how these fuckheads got to have their gig and goosestep away without a scratch while the band that had its identity stolen and the venue that got hoodwinked (plus advised to just suck it on their own by the goddamn police) are basically drowning in a shit tsunami. What in the actual fuck?
Bands I'm in:
Phenris
In Corpore Mortis
Orgiastic Pleasures
Black Druid Hymns - my projects on YouTube
false_icon
In the additional notes:
Iberian Wolves split up due to problems arising from being considered a right-wing band.
It would be more accurate.
Ishida Ira wrote:
To separate art from entertainment doesn't make sense anymore.
Lord_Jotun wrote:
Plus advised to just suck it on their own by the goddamn police.
Yeah, they say they only can make something in the street. Cool, identify and process them because of preconstitucional symbology before/after the show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_Francoism
false_icon wrote:
I saw it:
Iberian Wolves split up due to problems arising from being considered a right-wing band. In June 2016, they announced their reunion and the recording of a second album.
Seems like they keep on going after an hiatus.
Gravetemplar
Location: Antarctica
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 10:58 am
Not only that, there's a police station near the venue. Pretty sure members of the police attended the show.
It should also be noted that the guitarist of Valholl-Dum plays in Iberian Wolves and the rest of the members of Valholl-Dum knew. Some of the members of the band have apparently left in the past few days because of it but all of them already knew about his ideas and were OK with it.
BlackFlag
Well, it said "Iberian Wolves split up due to problems arising from being mistakenly considered a right-wing band" before my suggestion on October, 9th:
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/689705
They "are considered" a right-wing band because they actually are.
Gravetemplar wrote:
Since this info is not on Metal-Archives, source would be great, thanks.
BlackFlag wrote:
BasqueStorm wrote:
And, now, the other side of the coin:
(...) the guitarist of Valholl-Dum plays in Iberian Wolves (...)
Is there any way you can prove this? To update the info accordingly.
Not sure what's proof enough to update this kind of stuff but I know people with friends in the band who recently posted info about this subject in socia media. I'll send you a PM.
And now the venue is being accused of being NS and crucified by the public, as well as the band Valhöll-Dûm who wasn't even informed about or present at the gig. Oh and 4/6 of the Valhöll-Dûm members quit the band as a result from the harassment
Ah, makes you wonder who the real fasist are...
droneriot
incelgender
Location: Spahn Ranch
If you're wondering, I can help you: Fascists are the real fascists, because fascists are fascists and in order to be a fascist, you need to be a fascist.
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Confirmation that some of the members of Valholl-Dum left the band:
https://www.fotoconciertos.com/caso-car ... lholl-dum/
Again, there are people in the comments claiming both band shared members and that the members of Valholl-Dum that recently left were aware of the show and had already liked the post from their guitarist in Facebook that announced it.
Wait, weren't we trying to find a source for this?
Ah, I didn't know. Just type valholl dum on Twitter, that's how I found out.
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=valholl%20dum
https://twitter.com/Carol_Ingstad/statu ... 2347879425
https://twitter.com/Rattitude_/status/1 ... 0438829057
In theory, Iberian Wolves Singer (Esteban Garrido) = Valholl Dum guitarist (Morghûl).
Not sure about it being a valid source but thanks, man.
Right, forgot to mention I did get your PM. Thanks.
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Daily Stormer Deleted by Google and GoDaddy
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Google pulled its web domain support for the Daily Stormer just three hours after the neo-Nazi website moved to the search engine’s registry system following its rejection from another.
"We are canceling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service," a Google spokesman said. Google also terminated the website’s YouTube channel.
The Daily Stormer had moved its domain registry to Google after GoDaddy said it had 24 hours to find a new provider. GoDaddy cited Daily Stormer’s support of the "Unite the Right" march in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend that ended in at least one fatality as violating the company’s terms of service.
After the Daily Stormer signed up to Google's hosting service, the search giant determined that the site didn’t meet its rules for web support and advertising, which prohibit content that incites violence.
It’s likely the controversial website will find another willing domain host, said Jay Westerdal, who runs the registry firm .Feedback. "This situation is not going to be apocalyptic for the Daily Stormer," he said. "They’re just going to have to move."
Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin has registered the domain until 2020, according to its domain registry site. If the site does not transfer to a new provider, Google’s suspension will prevent it from refreshing its site with new content.
"I disagree with the website," Westerdal said. "But frankly, when registrars play politics like this, it’s really bad for free speech."
The Daily Stormer site appeared to have been hacked by internet collective Anonymous yesterday, but the group denied involvement and said it was a hoax.
"We have no confirmation that Anonymous is involved yet," said a Twitter account associated with the collective. "Looks more like a Daily Stormer stunt. Wonder if they are having issues finding a new host."
Visitors to the site on Tuesday were met with a note from Anglin that said the Daily Stormer would be running on encrypted messaging platform Internet Relay Chat.
"We're having an outage, it'll be a minute, for the time being. Those that know how please come chat on IRC," said Anglin. He also asked for financial support in bitcoin.
Google last week was dragged into a fraught political battle when it fired an engineer, James Damore, after he wrote a memo criticizing its diversity policy and arguing that biological differences between men and women explain in part why so few women work in software engineering. That dismissal ignited a strong backlash from commentators on the right, who accused Google of suppressing free speech.
Self-proclaimed members of the "alt-right," a group that includes some organisers behind the event in Charlottesville, are planning to march on Google's offices in at least five cities on Saturday in protest of Damore’s firing.
GoDaddy and Google weren’t the only tech companies responding to the Charlottesville march. Room-rental app Airbnb said it removed some users from the site after learning they were using it to book accommodations and hold parties while in the city for the event. Brian Chesky, Airbnb chief executive, said the company requires members of its community to accept all people.
“When we see people pursuing behavior on the platform that would be antithetical to the Airbnb Community Commitment, we take appropriate action,” he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...oogle-godaddy/
Now Russia blocks neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer
The country's media watchdog asked for it to be taken down because of extremist content.
"The Daily Stormer website promotes neo-Nazi ideology, incites racial, national and other types of social discord," Roskomnadzor said in a statement on Thursday.
American tech companies had canceled the site's registration earlier this week after it published a derogatory story about Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It surfaced briefly again on Wednesday when the Russian Network Information Center (RU-CENTER) registered the domain Dailystormer.ru.
"I should point out that registry is automatic, so RU-CENTER registers thousands of domains per day," spokesperson Egor Timofeev told CNNMoney on Wednesday.
RU-CENTER said Thursday it had canceled the registration following Roskomnadzor's official request.
If it's unable to find a new domain registrar willing to provide its services, The Daily Stormer will be forced into the "dark web." That means it can't be accessed through standard web browsers.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/tech...ked/index.html
Twitter latest to send white-supremacist Daily Stormer site packing
The Twitter account of the white-supremacist website the Daily Stormer is no longer on Twitter Inc. TWTR, -1.79% after the social-media platform apparently suspended it for violating its policies. Twitter said it is not able to comment on individual accounts, but the account is listed as suspended on the platform. "The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies," a Twitter spokesperson said in response to a MarketWatch inquiry on the account. The suspension comes after the site was banned from the domain-registry company GoDaddy GDDY, -2.53% and Alphabet Inc.'s Google GOOG, -1.72% GOOGL, -1.76% which reportedly led the site to re-register under a Russian domain name. Facebook Inc. FB, +0.27% took down an event page related to the white-supremacy march in Charlottesville, Va.,. and also said it was removing links related to a Daily Stormer post that demeaned Heather Heyer, a counterprotester who was killed in Charlottesville, according to the Guardian.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/twi...mer-2017-08-16
Panchaea
Thursday, August 24th, 2017 @ 10:43 PM
I think good riddance.
Its a website that has never achieved anything for nationalism but just demonised it from its start to end by making nationalists look like imbeciles with online slogans such as "Pokémon GO Nazi" and "The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website". The owner of the website (Andrew Anglin) even admits to being a troll whose purpose is to be as provocative and offensive as possible. No surprise the website got terminated from its host after Anglin posted a very crude and disgusting post trying to justify the killing of the woman who was killed at Charlottesville.
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RoyBatty
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 @ 08:34 PM
Rightwing / Socialist
Your claims are rubbish, Pancake.
Daily Stormer continues to do a great job at ridiculing leftist fags and freaks and driving them to the point of such rage and hysteria that they dispelled all remaining notions and fallacies about them being "tolerant" and "respectful" as they stomp down their pink jackboots on Freedom of Speech and tolerance for beliefs and ideologies that don't coincide with their own.
These same Interwebs Tycoons and Controllers continue to assist and protect ISIS and Al-Qaeda websites citing "Freedom of Speech" excuses yet they are now supposedly "so disgusted" by DS trolling against Leftards that they conspire to censor the Internet. They've now opened that Pandoras Box and it's just a question of time before more and more of their Internet Censorship will follow,.
These people have finally outed themselves for being Cultural Marxists and Leftist Authoritarian bigots who despise WHITES, and WHITE & European Culture and Race, including Germanics.
4Chan, followed by 8Chan and DS raised public awareness of and achieved with humour, trolling and baiting against the slimy Left what very few if any others from the pro-White and European factions have managed to achieve.
They may be brash, insensitive and uncouth, and so what? They get the message across in ways that all the other pretenders and hopefuls could only dream about.
~ **** Democracy! It's 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what's for dinner.
Originally Posted by RoyBatty
I'm not at war with leftists: they're voters. My goal is to convert them and win their votes. This is what Marine Le Pen has being doing for the FN. If nationalism doesn't have public appeal, then what is its purpose? You're preaching to the already converted (a very small minority) and not gaining any new support. Seems pointless.
The Daily Stormer doesn't appeal to the masses, but just an extreme minority of dysfunctional people, including internet troll culture. 99.9% of people consider content on the Daily Stormer to be extremely offensive and disgusting - so it just demonises nationalism by association, giving it a bad image. Its also achieved nothing. I find it bizarre that you think "ridiculing" people in cyber-space is somehow a success.
North Vinlander
Thursday, December 28th, 2017 @ 09:01 AM
Ethnic Nationalism
It's back. DailyStormer.lol
Edit: Nope, it's down.
Originally Posted by Panchaea
I find it bizarre that you think "ridiculing" people in cyber-space is somehow a success.
It's way more bizarre to accept and capitulate to Leftist and Islamic insanity which is what most of these effeminate "whites" nowadays tend to do. Call a spade a spade and ridicule the ridiculous. If it causes shocks and discomfort to their polite systems so be it. They're useless traitors and surrender merchants anyway so what does matter if DS annoys and upsets them? It's not as if many if any of them were going to come to their senses.
4Chan / 8Chan has had enormous success at bringing good folks together, winning hearts and minds and making it socially acceptable to be White again using exactly the kinds of tools you're deriding. The war is fought on many fronts, this is one of them.
Sunday, August 20th, 2017 #7
Huginn ok Muninn
Anachronism "Friend of Germanics"
Germany, Norway, England
Nordeby
Farther right than you.
I do think some of the things said on TDS are out of hand, like calling the dead (Germanic) antifa girl a fat, childless slut. Maybe those shock tactics will work on some young women, but most of the better ones (the conservative ones on the fence about outright racialism) will just be put off by it. As much as feminism is incompatible with Germanic preservation, so is MGTOW, and no one is fit to lead our people who is at war with half of them.
Most people think as they are trained to think, and most people make a majority.
The idea is to make headlines. Daily Stormer is successful, so we should learn from it.
Exactly. ^
All publicity is good publicity.
Fact is there's a complete and total media vacuum with regards to Conservative & Rightwing & Nationalist media. And please don't tell me that Fox News or these ZOG infested NeoCon #FakeNews "Conservative" news outlets are in any way at all sympathetic to or aligned to White (even Germanic) interests because the facts are that they're not. Not a single one of them. If prodded they will, each and every one of them, denounce any kind of pro-White and pro-White Nationalist sentiment.
That's the state of the real world and the world we live in. We have no mainstream pro-White media whatsoever. It's drowned out by the endless stream of jewish financed and controlled #FakeNews #FakeConservative #Cuck media.
The only avenue that's left, that has any kind of effect and that's actually yielding any kind of results and response (because let's face it, most Whites have already given up, retreated behind their locked doors) is what's happening in the troll-os-phere as represented by the likes of TDS, 4Chan, 8Chan and similar.
They've made it fashionable to be White & Proud again. Something you don't and won't see anywhere in the #FakeNews #MSM.
Are TDS and similar ideal and the standard to aspire to? Obviously not, but at least they're doing something and reaching an audience - unlike most of the other white losers of this world who sit around debating and going nowhere.
It's a war for whatever can be salvaged from White Civilisation out there. The fact is that we're losing it and losing it fast.
Playing nice in the real world will get one nowhere except for polite applause and recognition by polite and hopeless peers who achieve nothing.
Winning a war requires resources, sacrifice and getting through a lot of dirty and unpleasant work.
Sunday, August 20th, 2017 #10
Dude, how many people will vote for "its the jooz!", Holocaust denial, "race and IQ", and other nonsense? If I'm not mistaken, The Daily Stormer was also promoting flat-earthism at one point. Its crazy stuff that makes nationalists look like clowns and a freak show. You might as well talk about David Icke's reptilians.
I believe nationalism should be sensible and rational.
Enemies of nationalism of course love all the crazy stuff to demonise nationalists with; its why its impossible to falsify the claim that Anglin is an ANTIFA. If he doesn't work for them, he might as well, because there's no difference.
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Rainbow Rowell is an author I’ve reviewed before, for her novels Carry On and Wayward Son. Still, her older book, Eleanor and Park, is so moving that I just have to write a review on it. Mature, sweet, and heartbreaking, this story of two teenagers in love is unlike any you’ve seen before.
Set in 1986, this book explores the love of Eleanor and Park, two sixteen year olds in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor is one of many siblings, and lives on the line of poverty with her younger sisters and brothers, her mom, and her abusive stepfather. Park has a more solid family life, but as an Asian-American in the middle of Nebraska, he isn’t exactly welcomed. The two meet on the bus ride to school, as Park shares his comics and music with Eleanor. They hit it off, and start dating.
What makes this novel so different from others of the same breed is its self-awareness; readers mock the Twilight franchise as “cringey”, and most teenage dramas can get a bit… well, dramatic. But Eleanor and Park is fully aware that it’s really just a teen love story. They take themselves too seriously, and the novel knows that. When Park makes an offhand remark about marrying Eleanor some day, she shuts him down, telling him that they really are just kids. On the other hand, Eleanor gets upset when she realizes that, while Park was her first kiss, another girl was his. The book points out the overreaction, but does not diminish the emotion that Eleanor really was feeling at that moment.
Towards its end, Eleanor and Park really kicks into high gear. When the two realize that Eleanor’s stepfather, Richie, has been writing sexually explicit notes in her textbook, and had discovered her stash of music and comics from Park, they run away immediately. With Park’s parents’ permission, the two drive up to Eleanor’s aunt and uncle’s house for her to stay indefinitely. They each deal with losing each other in different ways – Park writes her letters as often as he can, and tries to keep their lives normal. Eleanor never responds, but holds every card close to her.
When she does respond, in the very last line of the novel, it’s a small postcard delivered to Park the day after his prom.
Only three words long.
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The minister’s comments came after Germany, France and Malta pledged to host in total 150 migrants from the two ships, responding to a request for help by Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday.
Conte said in a tweet on Sunday that Spain and Portugal had also promised to accept 50 asylum seekers each.
Salvini, who is also the head of far-right League and a prominent member of the new Italian government, is leading a high-profile campaign to exclude humanitarian rescue ships from Italian ports.
He also argues that European countries should find a way to block the migrants before they leave Africa or send boats with asylum seekers back to the ports where they came from, including to Libya’s harbours.
Under international law, refugees cannot be returned to a place where their lives are in danger. Both the United Nations and EU have ruled that Libya is not safe.
“I am monitoring the situation of two ships travelling in Italian waters… there are 16 mothers and 11 children who will disembark in the next few minutes, hours…,” Salvini told the broadcaster.
These are in addition to eight other migrants who landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Saturday.
Salvini did not say when the rest of the migrants would be allowed to disembark and when Berlin, Paris, Valletta, Madrid and Lisbon would take the 50 people each, as promised.
Other EU countries could join in after Conte sent letters to the heads of state and heads of government of the 27 other EU members asking them to share responsibility for the migrants, who had sailed from Libya.
“Spain will take in 50 of the people rescued yesterday in the Mediterranean. This shows our commitment to offer solutions to migration flows and solidarity with the humanitarian drama,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted.
Malta had rejected pressure from Rome on Friday to rescue them, but said on Saturday it was ready to host 50 asylum seekers. France will take another 50, Conte said in a message posted on his Facebook profile.
The Czech Republic, however, refused the request.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis tweeted that the country would not accept any of the 450 asylum seekers.
Babis reiterated his stance that boats should be stopped and turned back and that migrants should be helped in their countries instead of being allowed into the European Union.
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by Christina Rees January 15, 2016
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 2015. Pit fired raku clay, brass, glass.
To me and a lot of other art people in North Texas, a new Celia Eberle show is something to look out for. She’s still obscure, in a sense, compared to the shiny young hustling artists on the scene or the veterans who we’ve developed certain expectations about. She lives about an hour south of Dallas, near Ennis, on a windswept chunk of land that hosts her house and studio, and while there are some other artists living out that way, her isolation is becoming inextricable from her image. It fits her and her work (which can come off as almost deceptively folksy) but it also keeps her at an odd distance from the hearts and minds of this region’s art lovers, and increasingly this disturbs me.
Eberle has a show up at Cris Worley’s gallery right now (her second solo show there), and it’s good—some of the work is exceptional, which is no surprise—and when I walked into the opening I felt a familiar rush of being wowed by what she’s made and despairing that it’s not destined for a museum show. She’s a longtime critical favorite who’s had to jump from gallery to gallery over her career, and her cultish fan base is a discriminating hodgepodge of regional curators, mid-tier regional collectors, and—tellingly—other good artists. (Last year she also was awarded a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.)
Her work is complicated and weird, and its unexpected poetry demands a kind of viewer engagement that might scare away those looking for easy gimmicks. This means that her work is built to last, and a lot of the pieces she made ten or more years ago still resonate fully, and even feel a bit creepy in their prescience. Eberle, out there on her scrubby, chigger-laden acrage, knows which why the wind blows. She’s like a seer or a prophet, but I think the best artists are.
Hero, 2015. Ceramic, wood, music box mechanism.
She had a quasi-retrospective at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont last year, but it didn’t travel and there’s no indication that she’s up for a show at any of the bigger museums or non-profits here in North Texas. The trick to unlocking Eberle’s appeal would depend on masterful presentation of the work. Because she makes so many different types of things in both two and three dimensions, she needs a very sharp curator to make sense of it for a wider public, but doesn’t every artist deserve this? Unlike Eberle, a majority of professional artists find their niche and stick with it, which eases a curator’s job considerably. In terms of guiding philosophy, Eberle has a solid, centered through-line, but she changes her work (sometimes drastically) for every show. More on that in a minute. In Beaumont, lacking any real input from the organizers, Eberle’s instinct was to pile years of her work into a monolithic, mountainous snake down the center of the gallery. It wasn’t unlike Maurizio Cattelan’s solution to his Guggenheim retrospective, and doubtless for the same practical reason. It was a clever and apropos near-narrative approach for the extremely varied forms her art takes.
Altar, 2015. Ceramic, acrylic, perfume.
It boils down to this: Eberle is a conceptual artist. She starts with an idea and then teaches herself (from scratch) how to produce the things that communicate that idea. A lot of artists think they’re doing this when they’re not. Most artists know their skill set, and all their ideas, or “ideas,” fall safely within the limits of that skill. Like Cattelan, Eberle recognizes no such limits. The whole world of possible materials is available to her and is in service to her idea, and she masters whatever she needs to. She carves, sews, stacks, gathers, glazes and fires. She paints, renders, borrows, steals, and collects. And the result is that all of it looks perfect (or perfectly imperfect if that’s what’s called for)—undeniable, resolved—like it’s sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus.
Secret Ceremony, 2015. Wood, metal, glass, snowflake obsidian, coral, music box mechanism.
On that note, I’ll point out that the underlying theme of Eberle’s work has to do with the mythologies mankind has built for itself in the face of staggering cognitive dissonance. Eberle’s a walking, breathing bullshit detector who knows how to charm the pants off a viewer while pointing out just how corrupt and deluded our species can be, and just how far we’ll go to exploit and twist anything we can. He work doesn’t communicate outright rage, not explicitly, but at the bottom-most layers of her work’s meaning, there is some outrage. The destruction of nature and the willful oppression of women is a running theme of Eberle’s, though her treatment of it is never pedantic. In the end, she makes gorgeous objects that are material symbols of our darker history and future. This is the work that should be worth a fortune, and not just because it often involves precious materials.
Love Me Two Times, 2015. Ceramic, acrylic, howlite.
Sexy Beast, 2015. Ceramic, acrylic.
Her show at Cris Worley’s is called the Mythology of Love, and it’s about how our collective hard-on for romance has skewed and deformed both the hard and soft reality of love. She’s made giant, grotesque perfume bottles, which are so fresh and surprising (the images here do not begin to capture their presence or the impact of any of the work in the show), and she’s used music boxes within sculptures, and created four distinct perfumes (one for each letter of the word “l-o-v-e”), and made a wall of flying ceramic bats. She’s hooked contemporary mythologies—including ones driven by advertising and consumerism—to the more ancient ones which were driven by superstition and religion, but the tone of the show is never heavy handed. It’s her bid to point out the absurdity of time always bending back on itself, because human nature never changes. It’s a dig at the idea of “the heart wants what it wants,” which Eberle knows is a piss-poor excuse for the self-indulgent, vain way we seek and define our experience of romantic love. In a way, she’s shooting holes in the very foundation of romanticism, while giving viewers a new set of weird and wonderful and very romantic things to look at.
Celia Eberle’s The Mythology of Love is at Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas through Feb. 13.
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Yesterday — Katelyn Ferral reports Wisconsin National Guard’s response to sexual-assault allegations ‘an absolute train wreck,’ federal investigator says.
Today — Katelyn Ferral, Molly Beck, and Patrick Marley report Email shows former DOJ leaders coordinated with Wisconsin National Guard to keep feds out of sexual assault investigations:
“I’m hoping if I keep doing him favors, I’ll get a ride on an F-35,” Delanie Breuer, former chief of staff to former Attorney General Brad Schimel, joked about Adjutant General Donald Dunbar in a Sept. 13, 2018 email to her boss.
The email was obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Cap Times just after federal investigators completed an investigation into whether the Wisconsin National Guard was properly handling allegations of sexual misconduct — a review called for by Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
The DOJ in October 2018 agreed to make available investigators to the Wisconsin National Guard to review such allegations. Earlier this year, a guard spokesman said all reports made by victims who want an investigation are first referred to the DOJ or local law enforcement.
But in the 2018 email, Breuer said the purpose of the agreement was to keep the National Guard Bureau out of state investigations and would not add any new responsibilities to the department.
“The purpose of the (agreement) is mainly to get the federal National Guard Bureau off the back of (Dunbar) – (the National Guard Bureau) is currently stepping in on all investigations that don’t otherwise have a neutral third party,” Breuer wrote. “It basically spells out what (Division of Criminal Investigations) would already do. … It’s just putting it in writing for (Dunbar).”
Molly Beck, Katelyn Ferral, and Patrick Marley also report in a separate story Sweeping investigation into sexual misconduct in Wisconsin National Guard could trigger overhaul:
Federal investigators have completed a sweeping investigation into how the Wisconsin National Guard handles allegations of sexual assault and harassment among its ranks — a review that will soon be made public and could trigger major changes within the Guard.
Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that within days he will make public the findings of a seven-month investigation by National Guard Bureau’s Office of Complex Investigations into whether the Guard allowed sexual predators to go unchecked and retaliated against victims.
The governor said he will then announce next steps to “ensure that our men and women in uniform work in an environment free from sexual assault, sexual harassment and retaliation.”
The results of the investigation, called for by Evers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldin in April, come just days after The Capital Times revealed federal investigators conducting the review believe guard officials’ response to sexual assault allegations were “an absolute train wreck.”
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Harvard Baseball Kicks Off 2014 Season at Oral Roberts
Harvard (0-4) 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 5 12 3
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2B: Jack Colton; Ethan Ferreira
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2B: Jack Colton
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3B: Jose Trevino; Logan Domenico
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard baseball team will make its way west to open up the 2014 campaign, as the Crimson looks to start the new year with a visit to Oral Roberts this weekend. Harvard and ORU will play a pair of doubleheaders, set for Friday and Saturday.
The Crimson, which finished last season 10-31 (7-13 Ivy League) looks to improve with a full roster and the addition of five newcomers. Harvard features 15 position players and 19 pitchers (14 righties and five lefties) this season, owning a deep roster built for the long-haul.
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Harvard played yet another tough slate in 2013, and opened up the season with a thrilling extra-innings win over Bucknell. The Crimson had to wait awhile for its next win, but it won the series at Houston Baptist with 4-3 and 6-1 wins over the Huskies. Harvard split four of its five Ivy League series last year, only dropping a four-game set to Dartmouth to close out the season. The Crimson ended the year with a 7-2 loss to crosstown rival and ACC foe Boston College in the Beanpot Consolation at Fenway Park.
Last year's leading bat, Brandon Kregel, returns to the lineup, but so do the dynamic duo of Jake McGuiggan and Kyle Larrow. Kregel led the Crimson last season with 156 at bats, 23 runs, 45 hits, 13 doubles, a pair of homers and 21 RBI, while batting .288 and slugging .436.
McGuiggan and Larrow return after a year off in the hopes of adding more firepower to the Crimson offense. Now a junior, McGuiggan hit .352 as a sophomore, piling on 17 runs on 43 hits with 21 RBI. Larrow, now a senior, batted .350 the last time he saw the field, crossing the plate 13 times with 12 RBI.
Sam Dodge returns to the hill for the Crimson, looking to lead the deep Harvard staff. Dodge hurled a team-high 49.2 innings last season, owning a 4.89 ERA and a 2-7 record in nine starts. The senior struck out a staff-high 40 batters last year on the bump as well.
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A Look at Oral Roberts
ORU enters the weekend with a 1-7 record, having just been swept by Texas Tech before a weekday loss to Missouri State on Tuesday. The Eagles, who have scored 22 runs this season, are led by Matt Brandy and Brandon Healy. Brandy is hitting .393 through the first few games with a team-high 11 hits and six RBI. Healy is batting a team-high .438 for ORU with three runs scored and five RBI.
On the hill, the Eagles sport a trio of starters in Gavin Glanz (1-1, 1.69 ERA), Guillermo Trujillo (0-1, 5.68 ERA) and Kurt Giller (0-2, 6.10 ERA). Colin Hightower and Haden Holley are the go-to relief arms, as both have seen at least three games so far.
This will be the first time in each program's storied histories that the Crimson and Golden Eagles will have met on the diamond.
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How Many Golf Clubs Can You Carry?
By Timothy Bodamer
Carrying the right clubs may help in better golf scores on the course.
Knowing how many clubs you're allowed to carry is vital if you're playing in a match play competition or open tournament. The United States Golf Association (USGA) has rules that many local and state golf associations adhere to about the number of clubs allowed in a player's bag. Having too many clubs may result in penalties that could make a quality round of golf go South.
Club Limits
According to the USGA, a golfer is allowed to have 14 clubs in his bag. This may include three woods (driver, 3-wood and 5-wood), eight irons, (3-9 iron and pitching wedge), and putter. These are the standard 12 clubs in many golf bags. If the golfer starts with a number of clubs in his bag less than 14, he can add to the number of clubs until he reaches 14.
Borrowing Clubs
In 1988, the USGA altered a rule about club-borrowing that allowed a player to borrow a club from anyone. The borrowed club could be used throughout the remainder of the round. However, in 1992, the USGA changed the rule back to the pre-1988 interpretation that allows you to borrow a club only from a partner you're teaming up with during a tournament.
The penalty for excess clubs is assessed in various golf formats, including the popular stroke and match play formats. The USGA requires that golfers in violation of the club limits have the excess club be declared out of play. The club is declared out of play by the golfer's match-play opponent or fellow competitor in a stroke play competition. A golfer will incur a two-stroke penalty for each hole where the extra club was used, with a maximum penalty of four strokes per round. Match play penalties require a golfer to deduct a hole he won for each penalty up to a maximum of two holes per round.
Extra Clubs
When choosing your 14 clubs, you can usually add two clubs to the normal allotment of 12 clubs in the bag. The last two clubs can be a hybrid driver for use on the fairway and a wedge for the golfer's short game. Or you may choose to use two wedges, which can include a lob wedge or sand wedge. The lob wedge provides better lift, while the sand wedge may help with those tough bunker shots.
The hybrid golf club is a combination of a wood and iron that can help condense the number of clubs in a bag. Some hybrids look like an iron and some more resemble a 3-wood. The hybrid is counted as one of the clubs in the golf bag but can serve multiple purposes on the course. A hybrid can be used off the tee, as a replacement for long irons and sometimes for chip shots around the green. By using a hybrid, you may be able to eliminate a fairway wood and 3-iron, allowing you to add another wedge in your bag.
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Tim Bodamer is a freelance writer based in Seminole, Florida. He attended Edinboro Univerity of Pennsylvania where he studied journalism. He has 15 years of writing experience and specializes in sports, business and general interest topics.
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Identification of intrace… - Göteborgs universitet
Identification of intrace…
Identification of intracellular proteins associated with the EBV-encoded nuclear antigen 5 using an efficient TAP procedure and FT-ICR mass spectrometry.
Alma Forsman
Ulla Rüetschi
Josefine Ekholm
Lars Rymo
Journal of proteome research
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Institutionen för biomedicin, avdelningen för klinisk kemi och transfusionsmedicin
dx.doi.org/10.1021/pr700769e
Affinity Labels, Cell Line, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromatography, Affinity, methods, Chromatography, Gel, Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigens, genetics, metabolism, Genetic Vectors, genetics, HSC70 Heat-Shock Proteins, analysis, metabolism, HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins, analysis, metabolism, Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Group M, analysis, metabolism, Humans, Immunoprecipitation, Peptides, genetics, Protein Binding, Protein Interaction Mapping, methods, Protein Isoforms, analysis, metabolism, Reproducibility of Results, Staphylococcal Protein A, genetics, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, methods, Transfection, Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Peptides and Proteins, analysis, metabolism, Viral Proteins, genetics, metabolism
Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 5 (EBNA5) is one of the first viral proteins detected after primary EBV infection and has been shown to be required for efficient transformation of B lymphocytes. EBNA5 is a protein that has many suggested functions but the underlying biology remains to be clarified. To gain further insight into the biological roles of the proposed multifunctional EBNA5, we isolated EBNA5 containing protein complexes using a modified tandem affinity purification (TAP) method and identified the protein components by LC-MS/MS analysis of tryptic digests on a LTQ-FT-ICR mass spectrometer. The modified TAP tag contained a Protein A domain and a StrepTagII sequence separated by two Tobacco Etch Virus protease cleavage sites and was fused to the C-terminus of EBNA5. Our results confirmed the wide applicability of this two-step affinity purification strategy for purification of protein complexes in mammalian cells. A total of 147 novel putative EBNA5 interaction partners were identified, 37 of which were validated with LC-MS/MS in split-tag experiments or in co-immuno precipitates from HEK293 cell extracts. This subgroup included the Bcl2-associated Athanogene 2 (BAG2) co-chaperone involved in protein folding and renaturation, the 26S proteasome subunit 2 involved in regulation of ubiquitin/proteasome protein degradation, and the heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein M (hnRNP M) involved in pre-mRNA processing. These EBNA5 interactors were further verified by co-immunoprecipitations from cell extracts of three EBV-positive lymphoblastoid lines. The combination of the Hsp70, Hsc70, BAG2 and 26S proteasome subunit 2 interactors suggests that EBNA5 might have a functional relationship with protein quality control systems that recognize proteins with abnormal structures and either refold them to normal conformation or target them for degradation. Our study also confirms previously identified interactors including HA95, Hsp70, Hsc70, Hsp27, HAX-1, Prolyl 4-hydroxylase, S3a, and alpha- and beta-tubulin.
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G. WINSTON JAMES
Poet, Author, Editor
Shaming the Devil
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Praise for Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories
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Reviewed By Stanley Bennett Clay, July 3, 2009
Poet G. Winston James makes a remarkable fiction debut with SHAMING THE DEVIL, a collection of short stories that examine black, predominantly homoerotic experiences with beauty, passion and a boldness that renders it both transcendental and deeply personal. One need not be gay or black to enjoy these well-honed nuggets of literary art that twist, turn, enthrall, and provoke in ways that only a poet can. Mr. James is not merely a fantastic storyteller and thinker but a wordsmith Michelangelo whose nearly every sentence is painstakingly crafted into well-cut diamonds. Forgive the hyperbole, but I am simply overwhelmed.
The collection opens with UNCLE, innocently, even sweetly, narrated by a little boy celebrating his sixth birthday while his body celebrates feelings for his uncle that he does not understand. An empathy-inducing reminiscence of new and uninformed sensations, desires and longings, it will take many a reader back to those first frightening and fantastic pre-pubescent shivers engendered by the very presence of a hero-worshipped same sex relative.
While RAHEN (my personal favorite) boldly tackles gay bashing and rivets until the heartbreaking end, CONFINING ROOM flips the script on homie-sexuality. And take note of this beautifully written phrase from THE SPACE BETWEEN: “He opens her with four fingers. He speaks rivers inside her. She does not know what to do with her hands. The rest of her body. Or the thoughts, like famine and harvest, roiling in her head.”
UNDER AN EARLY AUTUMN MOON is the tale of a late night tryst with a surprising twist set in the fuckable landscape of a public park. PATH and SICK DAYS are thematically linked both in tone and content; tracking the light hearted—-in fact downright hysterical—escapades of a metrosexual homosexual’s quest for transient trade and the attended consequences of infidelity.
JOHN poignantly examines a self-loather’s confrontation with his demons via a therapist and a hustler, and although I’m not much of a fan of sadomasochism, I found SOMEWHERE NEARBY brilliant in its mix of cruel sex, brutal assault, intellectualism and the power of brooding self-examination at death’s door.
A seventeen-year-old boy weathers a violent physical and psychological storm in his native Jamaica as his older gay brother, banished years earlier by a now-absent father, lays dying of AIDS in the brief but powerful STORM. And CHURCH returns a prodigal world traveler to his hometown congregation where his moving revelation restores faith in a true and loving God.
This twelve-story collection ends with THE EMBRACE, a bright and buoyant story of three friends and their sexual fantasies that slowly turns erotically haunting when one of them introduces another to a mysterious lothario. THE EMBRACE is sure to leave you breathless.
As in any story collection, some are better than others. But there is not a weak one in this bunch, as the author gives each narrator a unique voice, each story its own fascinating twist, and writing as appealingly grandiose and artful as Morrison and Baldwin.
Indeed, Baldwin and Thomas Glave are the only BGM writers to win the prestigious O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. Based on a couple of the best stories in SHAMING THE DEVIL, it would not surprise me one bit if G. Winston James was chosen to make this a literary trinity.
Book Marks by Richard Labonte, May 18, 2009
Shaming the Devil, by G. Winston James. Top Pen Press, 160 pages, $14.95 paper.
James, with two poetry collections to his credit, brings a poet’s ear for resonance, a poet’s eye for detail and a poet’s voice for characters to his first book of fiction, a dozen powerful, unflinching stories depicting a black gay cultural and sexual landscape. In Rahen,” a desperately lovelorn schoolboy lusts for both a star athlete and a best friend; in “The Embrace,” a hesitant young man opens himself to gay sexual variety; in “Sick Days,” a 42-year-old man with a graduate degree and a Fortune 100 day job finds himself in a holding cell when he’s charged with public lewdness for subway sexual pickups; and in “Confining Rooms” – crafted with rhythmic Southern black dialect: “I on’t go to school no more…on’t nobody wanna hire you if you black” – a high school dropout with a devoted girlfriend is enthralled by a boy whose sexual suggestiveness both arouses and terrifies him. On one level a collection of same-sex loving erotica, James’ stunning, vulnerable stories also consider issues of racism, class and violence with clear-eyed candor.
Minutes and men’ by Grady Harp, February 28, 2009
G. Winston James explodes on the literary scene with a collection of short stories SHAMING THE DEVIL that introduces him as not only a writer of some of the most erotically charged fiction in the manner of Jean Genet, but also a writer so skilled in his craft that no matter the topic he is able to suffuse his stories with intelligence, challenging concepts, sophisticated imagery, and a way with idiomatic dialogue that is as fine as any being written today. Born in Jamaica and schooled in Brooklyn, James has the courage to take the African American experience into challenging territories – the particular milieu of the gay black male – and succeeds in not only sculpting very fine short stories that cover many aspects of his chosen subject but also in maintaining a high quality of craftsmanship in his mastery of the English language.
SHAMING THE DEVIL surveys the many dynamics of the African American male in the ‘forbidden zone’ of male sexual preference from childhood to adulthood. He skillfully opens his collection with ‘Uncle’, a subtle tale of awakening desires in a young child who focuses his safety of nebulous choice on a loving uncle: avoiding anything approaching inappropriate behavior between curious young Jake and his kind Uncle Paul, James allows us to feel the isolation of a child with different proclivities responding to a family unaccepting of anything but the established norm of behavior. It is a very tender and very intuitive examination of the sexual awakening of a small child. And from this beginning James moves us through the stages of growth that include abuse by peers, experimentation, arrests for seeking gratification in public areas and the humiliation associated with dropping the daytime successful role type to joining the low life in a jail and in addiction therapy (‘Paraphilic behavior. …what you do in here is tell the truth and shame the devil. Victimization starts and ends with abusing someone’s trust. You want to build trust again. This is as good a place as any to start if you want to avoid recidivism. That’s the only way you’ll get your lives back on track.’), desire for dangerous liaisons that clouds the judgment of even the most stalwart men, and even the spectre of AIDS and the associated need to return to the family in the days before dying.
In one of the many exceptional stories, ‘Church’, James takes a character into a return to home situation that is planned to include a calling out of the Church atmosphere for the irresponsible handling and castigation of young black men who have ‘strayed’ into same sex lifestyles. The manner in which he paints the atmosphere of this church together with the decisions he makes in communicating his emerging end of life loathing of a world that has not supported him, altered by the presence of the congregation and the spirit of the sanctuary is one of the finer portraits of the importance of the Church in the African American life. ‘The Church was a venue where you could witness the Black family defining itself: the faithful wife, the obedient young children, the disappearing older children and the often-absent husband.’
SHAMING THE DEVIL, then, introduces a very powerful writer who is capable of creating all of the aspects of same sex eroticism with equal amounts of desire and danger while using his rich vocabulary and polished skills as a writer to make his subject go far beyond simply sensationalized tales. G. Winston James is a multitalented artist, a man who understands raw visceral grit as well as he defines elegant prose. He is a writer who will become better known in time. This is a very fine introduction publication. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, February 09
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G. Winston James Pens Introduction to Photographer Thomas Roma’s “In the Vale of Cashmere”
Top Pen Press Inaugural Title, Shaming the Devil, Named Multiple Literary Award Finalist
© G. WINSTON JAMES 2020
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Aliff Aziz Flashes Himself & Threw Chair Outside Restaurant
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Imagine just going about your day normally, then out of nowhere, a man who looks like Aliff Aziz comes looking for a fight.
But is it really him?
Now, to be fair, we aren’t 100% sure if this is Aliff Aziz. The original video uploaded to Facebook page Official_Fidz refers to the person as Aliff Aziz, but it is not known when and where this is taken. TodayOnline, for instance, refers to the person in the video as “a man who resembles the singer and actor”.
On hearing that name, you’d have one of two reactions:
1. Aliff…Who?
Unless you regularly watch shows in Malaysia, I don’t exactly blame you for not knowing who Aliff Aziz is.
The 28-year-old won the Anugerah 2007 when he was 16, and after a few shows in Mediacorp, he had to serve his NS.
Then after ORD-ing in 2011, he moved to Malaysia to further his showbiz career. Which means Singaporeans don’t see much of him.
It doesn’t mean he’s not relevant. He’s pretty popular in Malaysia but still carries a pink IC. By popular, I mean one of his singles’ music video received a whopping one million views in less than 24 hours of release. In addition, he’s become an actor as well, making him a popular celebrity up north.
But since you clicked on this, perhaps your reaction was leaning more towards the second.
2. Aliff Aziz At It Again…?
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Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective), us Singaporeans typically choose to ignore larger issues and pretend we have nothing to talk about except gossip.
Juicy gossip which Aliff Aziz provides to us pretty regularly for us to talk cock sing song over.
In May 2019, he cheated on his wife not just once, but four times. Oh yeah, and every one of those times was with different women.
For obvious reasons, his wife divorced him.
That’s when shit really turned bad for him though.
In June 2019, he was accused of stealing cash from an Indonesian actress while in a hotel room at Clarke Quay.
In September 2019, he was then accused of stealing a packet of cigarettes and a lighter worth $15.60 in total, at the Starbucks outlet in Plaza Singapura.
This is a man who had fallen so far since he was given basically everything from the age of 16 to stealing something worth less than two hours of part-time work.
And then in November 2019, he was arrested for brawling while being drunk at Orchard Road.
Now at the very least, we know that he was depressed. And at the very least, he was kind of drunk, which we can somewhat blame the alcohol for.
For things to really get worse, you have to tell me that next, he starts flashing his dick while in publ-
Aliff Aziz Flashes Himself During Dispute in Public
Image: Facebook (Official_Fidz)
In the video, which seemed like somewhere outside a restaurant in Singapore, a man that resembles and sounds like Aliff Aziz (you know, just in case this turned out to be a doppelganger) can be seen taunting a man while another tries to hold him back.
He can be heard shouting things like “Tell your boss to come here!”
He then threw a red plastic chair, which the camera doesn’t show if it hit anyone.
Then the moment all of you have been waiting for: the dick flash. For those of you screaming at GoodyFeed for giving NSFW footage, relax. To my own relief, his penis can’t actually be seen in the footage, but I just felt obligated to censor it anyway.
Which ironically, now makes it seem more like he actually flashed his dick. Crazy how censorship works huh?
He can also be heard saying “Eh, you don’t record this.” to the person recording.
And if you were looking for more shit to stir…
Just A Week Back, There Were Hints He Was Back With His Wife
Yep. The wife he cheated on four times before.
Image: Instagram (aliffaziz91 and bellaastillah)
Aliff’s Instagram story showed him taking a selfie with his unaware ex-wife Bella Astillah.
Then on Bella’s Instagram, she shared an image of her hugging a man’s arm who people believed to be Aliff because of the white shirt.
There’s also the fact that Bella reposted a post by Aliff’s mother, which was a piece of inspirational advice from Zimbabwean Muslim cleric Mufti Menk:
“Your past is a mirror to your present. Learn from it and aim to not make the same mistakes again.”
I don’t know about you guys, and I’m not saying that I’m hoping to see someone descend further into the depths. But I have a feeling we might be seeing more news like that around.
Eep.
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Best things on streaming HULU this month : Donald Glover’s ATLANTA leads the pack
It took me a while to get aboard the ATLANTA hype train, but catching the whole 1st season of the series courtesy of HULU, it lives up to the hype,
The multi-talanted Donald Glover crafting an ethnic focused drama, with echoes of Twin Peaks (the first interesting season, not the 2nd horrendously boring 2nd season of twin Peaks) mixed with a wonderful filmic vibe of WHAT’S HAPPENING meets HAPPY DAYS meets MENANCE TO SOCIETY.
I binged the entire ten episode 1st season, and look forward to season 2 breaking on HULU or Blu-ray/DVD.
Other recommends or items of interest this week from the VOD/Streaming service are:
GAME SHOWS or LIFESTYLE PROGRAMMING (I’m not a fan of the term Reality TV)
FARGO -Just SEASON 2, Season 1 is okay, Season 3 is pretty unwatchable, Season 2 is great.
STAN AGAINST EVIL – Horror/Comedy/Drama…. it is great’
THE MUSKETEERS- These two BBC shows, SPOOKS and THE MUSKETEERS are two of my favorite shows of all time. I’m buying the BLU-RAY of both against the day they get pulled from streaming. Or one of the actors in the future gets villified and they call for all the shows to be burned/removed. That’s right mofos I still have all my ISPY, FAT ALBERT and COSBY shows. As well as the Grammy winning albums. So sit on it and spin. 🙂 (I really don’t know what that means. 🙂 ) And if you don’t know what I’m referring to, go check out my earlier post.
THE BIG VALLEY
THE ROCKFORD FILES
AMERICAN GANSTER
ROCKY V – A lot of people hate on this fifth entry in the series starring real life Boxer Tommy Morrison (who gives a really good performance), but I love this movie, and its generational overtones. It is a nice, at the time, capper to the series. Rating the movies I would have to go the first two ROCKY films, CREED, than my next favorite one by far, is this film. ROCKY V. ‘I didn’t hear no bell, Tommy. I didn’t hear no bell.’ I Love this movie.
AWAKEN THE SHADOWMAN
STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITORS OF MARS
78/52:HITCHCOCK ‘S SHOWER SCENE
THE HANGMAN
Still waiting on Season 2 of LEGION and RUNAWAYS to drop on HULU.
That’s it for this installment. Come back for more, or feel free to suggest a VOD channel you want me to do an installement on. Till then be well, be kind, and don’t let big media decide your Gods or your Demons.
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Television Reviews: Dan Harmon’s COMMUNITY Season I DvD!
Having just watched all of the first season of COMMUNITY, I thought I would jot off a quick review, that I think would have been very helpful to myself before purchasing this series.
I was swayed by the reviews which unfortunately had this being the best thing in the universe, with little to no moderating reviews. Having watched the series, I have to say while not horrible, I did have some problems, and in the scheme of things find myself far closer to the 2 star grades than the 5.
The show is not horrible. It has its moments, at times it’s brilliant, one of the standout episodes being PAINTBALL.
And the cast has talented character actors, that could be interesting characters. Unfortunately by the time you get halfway through the season writer/creator Dan Harmon, has fallen into the rut of not developing most of the characters beyond stereotypes.
While I think he’s trying to do something interesting with some of the characters, most notably the character of Abed played by Danny Pudi, who I think is great (Though I understand how Arabs may not really dig the idea of an Indian playing an Arab. Not an isolated incident in Hollywood). Unfortunately for every Abed it seems you also have to get a Troy.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Donald Glover, but I think the character of Troy falls back into the happy medium of White writer writing weak or flawed or sexless or emasculated or non-threathening Black Male characters. You see that a lot in television, and hell going back to vaudville, writers working out their issues of fear and race through “humor”/ridicule. But god we’ve seen that same tune sung so often, that it is a glaring, and boring, and uninteresting stereotype. I would rather a writer not have Black characters in the show, rather than drag the characters into the show to do his version of Step and fetchit. To bring characters of color in, only to break them down. Be it Buffy, or Smallville or the first season of the new Dr. Who, etc.
And the craziest thing is these writers think they are being edgy, and cutting edge, and original, and liberal, when what they are being is very predictable, very 1920s, very tired, and very bigoted. Note to Dan Harmon… tokenism… it is just what it sounds like.
The dumb over-compensating funny Black jock was just about passable the first half of the year, because at the very least you had the romantic subplot that gave you a hint there could be more there. But by the end of the season you have the dumb-over compensating funny Black Jock eunuch, which is oddly enough also a reoccurring Hollywood staple.
Nice one, Dan. Didn’t see that coming.
It’s just tired, tired writing.
I mean, and this is not to fault the actors, they do the best in the horrible stereotypes they are given to work in, and it’s a testament to their skill that I like them, despite the limitations. But I’m nagged incessantly by the fact that I would like them a lot more if they were more than their foibles. I would like them a lot more if they had contrasting cool Black characters to play off of. It would be great the day Black characters can be represented by their “Peirce” but also have their “Jeff”. Or have their “Shirley” but also have their “Britta”. Have the same diversity of quirky and cool characters that White actors get.
Unfortunately, that’s what tokenism does, it gives only a narrow view, to a broad people. And usually it’s the worst, most dismissive, most denigrating view possible. Which listening to Dan Harmon in the commentaries he comes across as more than a bit dismissive and denigrating.
All in all, by the end, I felt the show does a disservice to Harmon to write it, and it does a disservice to Glover to perform it. Add to this the character of Shirley (My God, is that a call back to “what’s happening?”!!) the sassy, but matronly, Black woman. My God we haven’t seen that a thousand times. Black women seemingly to White writers in Hollywood, can only be perceived as Hors (ala Halle Berry) or as sassy, bossy matrons, but nothing in between.
Good, one Dan. Way to be original.
Let’s try something new. How about something crazy, Black guy gets the girl. The hot Black, smart girl. Or the Hot White, smart girl. Wow, imagine that. Oh, wait… that would mean moving out of the 1920s.
So yeah by the end of the season, the blatant stereotyping, took away from what I thought was otherwise an interesting show.
I mean at the price it currently is of like $12 for the entire season, it’s worth getting if only to see the paintball episode. Then sell the thing when done. You’ll make out far cheaper than renting. But just realize, you’re going to see something perhaps a little more flawed than Amazon reviews lets on. Grade: C+.
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Forlizzi To Receive Honorary Doctorate from TU/e
During the forthcoming MomenTUm, Eindhoven University of Technology will take the exceptional step of awarding two honorary doctorates - this usually happens only during a lustrum year. This has been prompted by the remarkable quality of the nominations, Rector Magnificus Frank Baaijens let it be known at a recent University Council meeting. The lucky recipients are the Austrian specialist in optical communication Peter Winzer and American Jodi Forlizzi, who researches the interaction between people and computers.
Two honorary supervisors
The American professor of Human-Computer Interaction Jodi Forlizzi has the luxury of having two honorary supervisors: Berry Eggen and Aarnout Brombacher. This isn't uncommon, according to Eggen, professor of Design for User Experience in Ambient Intelligent Systems. “It's partly due to the fact that Aarnout, as then Dean of Industrial Design, and I as Director of Research worked with Jodi Forlizzi some eighteen months ago during the successful research assessment of our department; she was on the assessment committee.”
But both professors have known Forlizzi longer than this, tells Brombacher. “Our department has close links with Carnegie Mellon University, where Jodi works. For example, two of our co-workers, Kees Overbeeke and Joep Frens, have held the Nierenberg Chair of Design there. Her research covers both Berry’s field and mine, and actually that of our whole department. Jodi is one of our own, you could say, and that makes her the ideal candidate for an honorary doctorate. What's more, as the Rector has already said, she is, of course, a very good researcher. Ten years ago Industrial Design nominated Bill Buxton for an honorary doctorate, and we see Jodi as being of the same caliber.”
Design-oriented
Forlizzi combines an interest in artificial intelligence data and machine learning with a design-oriented approach, Eggen explains. “These are precisely the core areas of our department.” These days almost everyone is working on artificial intelligence and data, Brombacher points out. “What makes her unique is her ‘research through design’ approach to these subjects. Not just theoretical, but also going right ahead and making something and seeing how people use it. That's entirely consistent with our own research philosophy.”
The professors expect Forlizzi to be in Eindhoven often. “She also recently joined our department's Advisory Council,” says Brombacher, “so for that reason alone we expect to see her here more often.”
In her reaction, Forlizzi herself stresses her gratitude to the people around her. "I wish to thank my students and colleagues, without whom I could have accomplished very little. The collegiality and support I’ve received over the years have been tremendous, spanning institutions worldwide."
Forlizzi will receive the honorary doctorate on Friday, September 27, 2019 during the TU/e MomenTUm: the academic celebration of the year.
Original story "TU/e awards two honorary doctorates this year" published by "Cursor: This is News at TU/e"
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A warm welcome back to school from the HeadStart teaching staff. 2019-2020 academic year…HERE WE COME!
Upcoming events can be found on the calendar on the website School Life → Calendar but we have outlined upcoming events here for easy reference. For daily updates and news follow the HeadStart Facebook Page
2 September 4:00-5:00pm Football/Swimming Academy Parent Meeting Sports Hall
5-11 September All day World Scholars team Travel Trip Manila, Philippines
7-8 September All day CAPA Academy weekend rehearsal TBA
12 September All day “Are you OK?” day In school
16 September After school Free & Paid ASPs begin After school
21 September 8:30am BISP Open - Swim Academy BISP
23 September 12:00pm Sixth Form University Fair BISP
28 September 9:00am Saturday Thai Culture Club TBA via email
28 September 7:00am U9 to Over 15 PISAC Football UWCT
Jennifer Blackweir
Director of Academics
Again we celebrate another year of academic success for our examination students…
A Level (Year 13)
We are delighted to announce the outstanding A Level results achieved by our Year 13 students, who achieved a 97% pass rate across 11 different subjects. Special mention must be made of Bomnuri Kim, Natanicha Chaloemtoem (our Head Girl), Natalia Kotova and Marco de la Rosa (our Head Boy) who achieved A-A* grades in all of their A Level subjects.
AS Level (Year 12)
Our Year 12 students also achieved a 97% pass rate at AS Level, across 12 different subjects. Our highest performers this year were Ha-Yeon Song, Marc Baeuerle and Thanaphat Frederiksen, who each achieved the maximum possible outcome of A grades in all 4 of their AS subjects.
We are very proud of our Sixth Form students who worked extremely hard all year to achieve such great results.
IGCSE (Year 11)
HeadStart is pleased to report another outstanding set of examination results at IGCSE. This year, 90% of grades were A-C and 28% of all grades were A-A. Our top students, all of whom achieved 9 or more A*-A grades, were Elizaveta Stashevskaia, Charlie Suzuki and Hyunseung Lee. We are now delighted to commence the new academic year with 36 students enrolled in our Sixth Form to begin their A Level and BTEC courses. We look forward to seeing what you will achieve in the next 2 years!
Checkpoint (Years 6 and 9)
We also celebrate with 32 of our younger students for scoring 6.0 in at least one of their Checkpoint subjects – especially India Smuthkochorn and Natt Kritchanarat, who achieved perfect scores in all three subjects (Mathematics, English and Science). Overall, 89% of all scores were 3.0 or higher: “A sound understanding of the curriculum” 37% of all scores were 5.0 or higher: “An excellent understanding of the curriculum” 16% of all scores were 6.0 (The maximum score available)
Our warmest congratulations go out to all HeadStart students and teachers for the effort and hard work that was necessary to gain these fantastic results.
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Pailin Issalam
Head of Thai
My name is Pailin Issalam and my nickname is Dia. I attended Assumption University, where I achieved my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business. Graduating in 2009, I majored in English and gained additional credits in Hospitality and Tourism Management. After graduation, I applied for a position at HeadStart International School as an Assistant Teacher. I have since worked here for almost nine years. During 2012, I not only worked as an Assistant Teacher, but I also gained the trust of the Thai Department and have been afforded the opportunity to teach Thai to non-native students. This has been a great experience that has allowed me to develop my knowledge and skills to become a better teacher. Furthermore, I have gained the trust of parents enabling me to become a private tutor of English and Thai to Foundation, Primary and Year 10 students. In 2014, I was promoted to the role of Thai Teacher teaching the Thai as a First Language, Thai as a second language and Thai as a foreigner language programme. I am grateful for this opportunity and am confident that it will give me a rewarding experience. I have made it my goal to strive to become the best teacher that I can be and will do my best to develop and encourage my students to speak, read and write in Thai, inspiring in them a love of Thai studies so that they can usefully apply their knowledge to all aspects of their lives. In 2018, I am currently promoted to the position of Head of Thai Department for this coming year. Last year I have been training to be the Thai Co-ordinator. That interest which has lead me to my current position. I am grateful for this new professional opportunity that I have been given by HeadStart International School and I am very proud to be a member of the professional team of management at HeadStart. I look forward to the start of the new school year and to working productively with students, colleagues and parents. Please contact me at: [email protected]
Thai Etiquette Competition
On August 16th, HeadStart entered eight Thai students into the annual Thai Etiquette Competition at the Sapan Hin stadium: Napat and Gail in Year 1, Natcha in Year 3, Tete in Year 4, Jomnang in Year 6, Oskar in Year 7, Tangton and Pailin in Year 11. The event was organised by the Phuket Municipality Office. Over 300 students from schools on the island competed. HeadStart was the only international school to participate in the event and has won for the 4th year running. Certificates were awarded by Khun Somjai Suwansupana, the Mayor of Phuket town.
Congratulations to the following students:
Napat , in Year 1 won 1st place
Oskar, in Year 7 won 3rd place
A big thank you to Kru Way and Kru Yui for training and preparing these polite young students and the excellent effort they put in to making this project a great success. We are really proud of them all and very thankful for the support we had from this group of parents during the training and during the competition.
Anisa Van der Laan
Founder/After School Activities Manager
ASP (After School Programmes) News
We run an outstanding range of over 160 After School Programmes (ASPs) for our Primary and Secondary students. Most ASPs are included in school fees and run from 3:30 - 4:20pm, Monday to Friday.
Primary and Secondary students can sign up to a maximum of four free ASPs per week. Parents may also register their child for additional fee paying classes. EAL (English as an Additional Language) students can sign up for a total of five free ASPs. Primary students ASPs are to be booked by parents. Secondary students can book on their own ASPs by logging into the Student Portal.
Please take a look at the school’s policy on the ASP programme by clicking on the After School Programmes Policy on the website..
Here is a step by step guide on how to book your child’s ASPs:
Sign in to the parent Portal. For Parent Portal support email [email protected]
Click on the tab that says ‘Book Activities’ under your child’s picture.
Select what type of activity you would like to choose (Free or fee paying ASPs)
Click on days of the week to view options available for your child.
Click and drag your choices into the options box.
1 September Preview ASP options on Parent Portal. Click on the box that says ‘Preview Activities’ under your child’s picture
7-11 September Book ASPs on the Parent Portal. Click on the box that says ‘Book Activities’ under your child’s picture
15 September Check Portal to find out what ASPs your child has been enroled in
16 September ASPs begin.
LAMDA Courses Now Available
We are very excited to announce that HeadStart is officially a LAMDA center! The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts examine over 100,000 students in 30 countries annually. It is one of the UK’s oldest and most respected awarding organisations. We will be offering classes in Communication (Public Speaking), Performing (Acting) and Musical Theater to students from Reception to Year 13. If you are interested in signing up please contact Ms Cramp by writing to [email protected]
Parent Portal (Engage)
If you are new to the Parent Portal, you may find it helpful to click HERE for a tutorial on how to create an account. There is also a ‘Commonly asked questions’ section that is extremely helpful to newcomers. If you still experience trouble with the portal, write to [email protected] and our team will be happy to assist.
Follow these three easy steps in order to download the Parent Portal (Engage) App on your phone.
Open Apple store or Google play and search for Engage School App (by Doublefirst)
Install the app.
Open the app and login using your school portal username and password (The School Code ID is 765876)
Richard Cramp
Hi, my name is Rich and I’ve been teaching History at HeadStart International School since 2015. Previously, I was an English and History teacher at Bromsgrove International School in Bangkok. My experience as an English and History teacher in international schools, along with a strong EAL background, has given me the tools to effectively teach students of differing abilities from all over the world. I am also in a position to empathise with international school students, having been one myself (I spent my first 12 years in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan). As HeadStart’s History teacher, I will ensure that students not only access the History curriculum, but do so in a lively, engaged classroom that inspires a love of history while developing their knowledge, skills and historical concepts. Every student has a potential that must be nurtured and encouraged. I do this by trying to instil a sense of personal connection or relevance to the topic, which in turn ignites his or her curiosity and motivation. In an increasingly globalised world, it is essential that students understand, and connect, to the issues we currently face by understanding how they came to be in the first place. This, along with the skills they learn, they can become truly equipped for new and future challenges. Apart from teaching, other passions include environmental activism (I help organise Trash Hero Phuket’s beach cleans), music (listening and composing), travel and being a consistently disappointed Tottenham Hotspur fan. To be able to live near the coast and teach a subject I’m so passionate about is fantastic. My wife and I are enjoying teaching and living in Phuket, especially because the lifestyle here gives our two children (also at HeadStart) an opportunity to grow up in the great outdoors.
Plant Trees by Searching the Internet
Staff and students at Headstart are planting trees by searching the internet! Sounds too good to be true? Read on. Ecosia is a fully legitimate internet search engine based in Berlin, Germany, that plants trees by donating 80% or more of its profits to nonprofit organizations that focus on reforestation. On average, 45 searches plants a tree. They estimate that they have, to date, planted 65 million trees since 2009.
Let’s Get Involved!
If all staff search an average of 5 searches a day that will plant 13 trees a day. Over the working year that equals about 2,405 trees from just staff. With students and parents too, we can increase that to 18,500 trees a year. 18,000 fully grown trees absorb roughly 410 tonnes of C02.
Headstart staff and students are currently being asked to use this as our default search engine and we’d like to extend the request to you! You can add Ecosia as an app on your phone or as a Chrome extension:
Open the Ecosia Chrome Extension page HERE!
Click on ‘Add to Chrome’.
Click on Accept and then continue to Ecosia.
Search and save the world! Your search tally will appear in the top right hand corner.
Asa Sanderson
My name is Asa Sanderson. I’m from Winchester, Hampshire and I started playing football aged four. At youth level, I played for Bournemouth Football Club, helping the team to win the Dorset Youth League Championship and Dorset Cup. Whilst at University I captained the football team where I began coaching. During this time, I also coached four-to-14 year olds at Stoke City and Southampton Football Club. After completing my degree, I moved on to manage sports academies at Winchester College and Richmond College. I have always enjoyed coaching sports alongside my career in education management and consultancy where I fulfilled quality improvement and teacher training roles. My career highlights have been to work with the Under 18s and Under 16s teams at Tottenham Hotspur Football, delivering coach education workshops for Arsenal Football Club internationally and to have coached current England captain Harry Kane. I feel extremely fortunate that HeadStart International School has provided me with the opportunity to work in a position I thoroughly enjoy from the moment each school day begins. Managing the boys and girls Football Academy allows me to live an active lifestyle and work with an excellent group of people whilst fulfilling a purpose I am truly passionate about; Supporting, developing and improving young people to provide them with the skills they need to succeed on their journey throughout life.
Football Announcements
Girls and boys football academy sessions are on Wednesday and Friday from 3.30 to 5.00pm (all girls are welcome). All players to wear shin pads.
HeadStart are hosting a Goalkeepers workshop on 21st September, more details to be released shortly.
Attention all Secondary Girls
The Football Academy will be hosting open sessions on Wednesday and Friday next week from 3.30pm to 5.00pm. Please wear shin pads and bring water to the sessions!
Please note girls DO NOT HAVE TO: Be in the academy. Be able to attend every session. Have played football before.
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Zak Brown
Head Swim Coach
My name is Zak Brown. I’m from Bakersfield, California and started swimming at the age of 10. During High School, I helped lead our team to becoming league champions 4 years in a row. After High School, I attended Bakersfield College and continued swimming for Bakersfield Swim Club. During this time, I competed all over California as well as traveling to other states for national level competitions. After 2 years of junior college; I moved to Niagara Falls, New York and competed at Niagara University as a Division One Swimmer. During my stay at Niagara University, I was able to set three school relay records and I received a degree in marketing and logistics. I've enjoyed coaching swimming for over 9 years and have worked with athletes on all levels from beginners to Olympians. I feel very fortunate that swimming has given me the opportunity to meet incredible people from all over the world. Swimming is more than just a sport to me, it's become a lifestyle. The lessons learned through swimming stay with you your entire life. This is my second year with the HeadStart and I am really excited to work with the students to further develop their swimming abilities. Last season our Aqua Panthers hit best times and won the league championships. We have a lot of momentum building into this year and I am excited to lead the team into new heights!
Swimming Academy News
Thank you everyone who came to the Aqua Panthers tryouts this week. Please give congratulations to the swimmers who made the trial team or official team if you see them. Please note that all swimmers must attend the parent/swimmer meeting on Monday at 16:00 in the Sports Hall.
Trial Period Swimmers:
Annie An, Liza Gudimova, Mark Zvarich, Maxim Vinogradov, Mika Caspi, Minkyu Song, Nadia Hauke, Nana Ismagilova, Nina Sonthayanawin, Oleg Gordzievskii, Platon Gudimov, Sasha Kazakova, Susanna Lee
New Official Aqua Panthers:
Champ Schmid, Colin Wanamakok, Erica Ilstam, India Smuthkochorn, Joshua Burton, Kyungkuk Kim
Early Years welcomed back 17 children who have graduated from Preschool to start Early Years this year, and also welcomed 23 children for whom it’s their first time going to school ever. The children have been very brave saying goodbye to their parents for the first time, and the parents have also been very brave too. They’ve had a lovely time exploring the great facilities, playing with new toys and showing off their skills, and are just starting to make the first new friendships that may last a lifetime. We are so happy to be spending time at school with you, learning all about you and your interests! By Miss Amy and Miss Saki
Reception Blue and Yellow had a fun and busy messy morning today. The children loved playing in the water with their friends in both classes. They fished for sounds out of the foamy water and experimented with mixing paint colours. They are settling so well into Reception! By Ms Candice and Ms Milly
David Pollicutt
Head of English & Humanities
My name is David Pollicutt and I joined HeadStart International School in 2018. I am from the UK and grew up in the large port city of Bristol. I studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia, and trained to teach at The Institute of Education in The University of London. I taught in East London for four years, before moving to teach for eight years as Head of English in Viet Nam and China. I am a firm believer in developing students to be natural enquirers, following the Sir Ken Robinson model of best preparing students to use transferable skills for the shifting landscapes of their futures. I seek to encourage an epistemological approach in my lessons, urging students to evaluate the efficacy of the information they consume and the validity of interpretations. I am passionate about literature and will often be chortling at David Lodge’s tragicomedy or swooning at Ian Mcewan’s literary sleight of hand. Outside of the classroom I am a keen student of Philosophy, Politics and Psychology. I am a particular fan of the intellect and charisma exuded by Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and the late and much missed Christopher Hitchens. I have a terminal case of devotion to Tottenham Hotspsur Football Club; it teaches me patience and humility.
World Scholars News
Next Thursday, Sabrina An, Yan Pintusov, Hannah Snyders, Matvey Zakharov, Valeriya Sirotinina will all be proudly representing HeadStart International School at the Global Round of the World Scholar’s Cup in Manila. Students will be pitting their wits against other international school students from all over the world. This week we went through final arrangements and preparations before we set off. The students are both excited and prepared and I’m sure you will all join me in wishing them luck. I would like to personally thank Ms. Hayley Milner in her hard work in coaching the students for this event and organising much of the trip.
I will be sending out emails in the coming days to parents of students who I think would particularly benefit from attending the World Scholar’s Cup After School Programme in the next academic year. If you would like to know more, please contact me by writing to [email protected].
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This is Year One Yellow’s first trip to the library where they learned all about being quiet and respectful as the library is a place for quiet reading. They then got to choose their favourite book and spend some time immersed in the stories. By Ms Lauren Rose
A huge welcome to our new IGCSE art class. This week we have jumped right in at the deep end and began creating some detailed observational drawings of pineapples and dragonfruits. I can’t wait to see the final outcomes! By Ms Samantha Gill
Are you or your children interested in learning Spanish? Contact Mr Luis Endara for more information.
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Section D10-D36
C00-C14
D00-D09
Code D36.16
ICD-10-CM Code D36.16
Benign neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system of pelvis
D36.16 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of benign neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system of pelvis. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD code D361 is used to code Ganglioneuroma
Ganglioneuroma is a rare and benign tumor of the autonomic nerve fibers arising from neural crest sympathogonia, which are completely undifferentiated cells of the sympathetic nervous system. However, ganglioneuromas themselves are fully differentiated neuronal tumors that do not contain immature elements.
Specialty: Oncology
MeSH Code: D005729
CT scan of a large ganglioneuroma within the chest cavity
DRG Group #564-566 - Other musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diagnoses with MCC.
DRG Group #564-566 - Other musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diagnoses with CC.
DRG Group #564-566 - Other musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diagnoses without CC or MCC.
ICD-10-CM Neoplasms Index References for 'D36.16 - Benign neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system of pelvis'
The ICD-10-CM Neoplasms Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code D36.16. Click on any term below to browse the neoplasms index.
lumbosacral plexus
plexus +
lumbosacral
nerve(ganglion) +
peripheral NEC
Other benign neoplasm of connective and other soft tissue, site unspecified (approximate match)
This is the official approximate match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that while there is no exact mapping between this ICD10 code D36.16 and a single ICD9 code, 215.9 is an approximate match for comparison and conversion purposes.
Parent Code: D36.1 - Benign neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system
Source: http://icd.codes/icd10cm/D3616
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