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Tarek Aziz
IRAQ: TAREQ AZIZ SENTENCED TO DEATH
October 26, 2010: Iraq's high tribunal passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.
The death sentence was the first to be handed down to Aziz, who was well known in foreign capitals and at the United Nations before Saddam's downfall. He rose to prominence at the time of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Gulf War, when he was foreign minister.
"The court today issued the death sentence on Tareq Aziz and four others for committing crimes against humanity. The charge of elimination of religious parties was classified as crimes against humanity," Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib, a spokesman of the Iraqi High Tribunal, told Reuters.
"The nature of the crimes is willful killing, torture and the enforced disappearance of persons."
Last year, Aziz was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the killings of dozens of merchants in 1992 and to a further seven years for his role in the forced displacement of Kurds from northern Iraq during Saddam's rule.
Sahib said Aziz, as well as four other defendants in the case who were also sentenced to death, were expected to appeal the decision.
Iraqi law provides for an automatic appeal for all death-sentence and life-imprisonment cases, even if the defendants do not lodge an appeal themselves.
The four other defendants sentenced to death were former interior minister and intelligence chief, Sadoun Shakir, Abed Hamoud, a former private secretary to Saddam, Saddam's half brother Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan and, a former top Baath party official, Abdul Ghani Abdul Ghafour. (Sources: Reuters, 26/10/2010)
IRAQ: AZIZ- FRATTINI READY TO GO TO BAGHDAD WITH PANNELLA
IRAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI EXECUTED FOR KILLING BANGLADESHI TAXI DRIVER
ITALY: CHAMBERS ASK FOR HALT TO TAREQ AZIZ EXECUTION
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE KILLING FOR DOWRY - SUPREME COURT
MALAYSIA: TWO FRIENDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
ITALY: MOTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY AGAINST TAREQ AZIZ
IRAN: FIVE PEOPLE HANGED IN TEHRAN IN THE PAST FEW DAYS
IRAN: MAN HANGED FOR ‘IMMORAL ACTS’
ARIZONA (USA): JEFFREY LANDRIGAN EXECUTED
TAIWAN: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 3 CAB DRIVERS
KENYA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING ITALIAN PRIEST
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR RAPE, THEFT
SUDAN: SPECIAL COURT IN DARFUR SENTENCES TEN INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING FOUR CHILDREN, TO DEATH
TEXAS (USA): CONVICTED KILLER OF ELDERLY COUPLE EXECUTED
UAE: MAN ACQUITTED OF DRUG PEDDLING, DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
MAURITANIA: QAEDA-LINKED MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
IRAN: ETHNIC KURD SENTENCED TO DEATH ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES
YEMEN: AL-QAEDA SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACKS
KENYA: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING RELATIVE OVER FEES
IRAN: A WEEK WITH AMPUTATION AND PUBLIC LASHINGS
IRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED IN AHVAZ
GHANA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
INDONESIA: CONSTITUTION COURT PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPTORS
GUYANA ABOLISHES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
JAPAN: TOP COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR DOUBLE MURDER
HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION IN ZAMBIA FOR ABOLITION AND MORATORIUM CONCLUDES
HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION IN ZAMBIA CONTINUES FOR ABOLITION AND UN MORATORIUM
VIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
MALAYSIA: SECURITY GUARD TO HANG FOR DRUG CHARGE
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Method and system for sending return messages in mpls networks
A method for sending a message via a label switch telecommunications network, in particular an MPLS network. The method comprises identifying at a first router (20) an input label (B) attached to the message and using the first label (B) to identify a output label (C) that defines a forward path for the message. This is done by reading the label table (28) in the router (20). Once the output label (C) is identified, the input label (B) is replaced with the output label (C) and the message and the output label (C) together are sent to another node (22) of the network. When a return message (32) is to be sent, input labels for the forward message path are used as output labels for the return message path (34).
Willis, Peter J. (Ipswich, GB)
WILLIS PETER J
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HSU, ALPUS
NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC (901 NORTH GLEBE ROAD, 11TH FLOOR, ARLINGTON, VA, 22203, US)
1. A method for sending a message via a label switch telecommunications network, the method comprising: identifying at a first node a first label attached to the message; using the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message; replacing the first label with the second label; sending the message and the second label to another node of the network; sending a return message from the said other node together with the second label to the first node; using the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and replacing the second label with the first label.
2. A method according to claim 1 in which said label switch telecommunications network comprises an MPLS network.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the return message includes a return message identifier, preferably a label, that identifies that the message is a return message.
4. A method as claimed in claim 2 or claim 3, wherein the step of using the first label to identify a second label involves searching in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label.
5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the step of using the second label to identify the first label involves searching the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
6. A method as claimed in claim 4 or claim 5, wherein the data structure is a label table that has includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label, wherein the first label is an input label for the forward path of the message at the first node and the second label is the corresponding output label for the forward path of the message.
7. A method for sending a message via a label switch telecommunications network, the method comprising: identifying at a first node a first label attached to the message; using the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message; replacing the first label with the second label; sending the message and the second label to another node of the network; receiving a return message from the said other node together with the second label at the first node; using the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and replacing the second label with the first label.
10. A method as claimed in claim 8 or claim 9, wherein the step of using the first label to identify a second label involves searching in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label.
11. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the step of using the second label to identify the first label involves searching the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
12. A method as claimed in claim 10 or claim 11, wherein the data structure is a label table that has includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label, wherein the first label is an input label for the forward path of the message and the second label is the corresponding output label for the forward path of the message.
13. A return message that is a product of the method of any one of the preceding claims.
14. A computer program, preferably on a data carrier or a computer readable medium, the computer program being for processing messages at a node in a label switch telecommunications network, preferably an MPLS network, the computer program comprising instructions for: identifying a first label attached to a message; using the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message; replacing the first label with the second label; sending the message and the second label to another node of the network; receiving a return message from the said other node together with the second label; using the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and replacing the second label with the first label.
15. A computer program as claimed in claim 14, wherein the return message includes a return message identifier, preferably a label, that identifies that the message is a return message.
16. A computer program as claimed in claim 14 or claim 15, wherein the step of using the first label to identify a second label involves searching in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label.
17. A computer program as claimed in claim 16, wherein the step of using the second label to identify the first label involves searching the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
18. A computer program as claimed in claim 16 or claim 17, wherein the data structure is a label table that has includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label, the second label being an output label that is associated with the first label.
19. A telecommunication node or router for sending a message in a label switch telecommunications network, the node or router comprising: means for identifying a first label attached to a message; means operable to use the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message; means for replacing the first label with the second label; means for sending the message and the second label to another node of the network; means for receiving a return message from the said other node together with the second label; means operable to use the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and means for replacing the second label with the first label.
20. A telecommunication node or router according to claim 19 in which said label switch telecommunications network comprises an MPLS network.
21. A node or router as claimed in claim 20, wherein the return message includes a return message identifier, preferably a label, that identifies that the message is a return message.
22. A node or router as claimed in claim 20 or claim 21, wherein the means that are operable to use the first label are operable to use the first label to search in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, including the first label, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label.
23. A node or router as claimed in claim 22, wherein the means that are operable to use the second label to identify the first label are operable to search the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
24. A node or router as claimed in claim 22 or claim 23, wherein the data structure is a label table that includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label.
25. A telecommunications network that includes a plurality of nodes or routers as defined in any one of claims 20 to 24.
[0001] The present invention relates to a telecommunications network that uses a label switching protocol, in particular a multiprotocol label switching network, and a method of sending messages via such a network.
[0002] Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) is a new protocol that is being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to improve the speed and accuracy of internet communications. The IETF defines MPLS as a standards based label switching technology for large-scale networks. An MPLS network can be a standalone, dedicated network or it can interface with a larger telecommunications network, such as an ATM network, as shown in FIG. 1. Alternatively, an MPLS network could be superimposed over part of an ATM network as shown in FIG. 2.
[0003] MPLS networks typically use standard IP addresses to determine the desired destination of a message that enters a source node of the MPLS network. Once this is done, a label is attached to the message, which label defines the MPLS forward path. A data packet that includes the message and label combination then enters the MPLS network and is forwarded to a router that is defined by the label. At the router, the attached label is used to determine the next router to which the message has to be forwarded. Routers that support MPLS are typically referred to as label switched routers (LSR). The label switch mechanism for determining the forward path for the message will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 7.
[0004] FIG. 3 shows a multiprotocol label switch network that has a label switched router LSR1, LSR2, LSR3, LSR4 at each network node. Also provided are a source node 10 at which messages that originate from other networks can be introduced into the MPLS network and a sink node 12 at which messages can exit the MPLS network. Included in each label switched router LSR1, LSR2, LSR3, LSR4 is a table that defines the address of the next router in the forward path for the message. FIGS. 4 to 6 show examples of label tables for the source router 10, the router LSR4 and the sink router 12 respectively.
[0005] When a message is received at the source router 10, for example, message 1 of FIG. 3, the router 10 notes the interface at which it is received and checks whether there is a label attached. In the case of message 1, this is received at interface C of the source router 10 and is introduced from a non-MPLS network and so does not have a label, see FIG. 7. Receipt of message 1 at interface C causes software in the source router 10 to interrogate its label table to determine an output label for the message and so the next stage of its forward path. The software is operable to search the table to identify the relevant interface, in this case interface C, and then scan from left to right in order to identify the label that is attached to the message (NB in the case of message 1, there is no label). Once the label that is attached to the message is identified, the router software reads from left to right to identify the output interface and the output label for the forward message path. From FIG. 4, it can be seen that messages received at interface C with no label have to be output at interface B together with label L1. Having consulted the label table, the source router 10 software causes message 1 to be output at interface B with label L1. Messages output at interface B are passed to interface D of LSR4.
[0006] When message 1 is received at LSR4 a similar process is conducted to determine the forward path. As before, software in the router LSR4 looks at the label associated with the received message and consults its label table to determine the label that determines the forward path. From the label table of FIG. 5, it can be seen that messages received at interface D, and associated with an input label L1 are to be output at interface F and the label L1 is to be switched with label L2. Having consulted the label table, the router software causes message 1 to be output at interface F with label L2. Messages output at interface F are passed to interface G of the sink or egress router 12.
[0007] When message 1 is received at the sink router 12, it is interpreted to determine its label. Software in the sink router 12 then consults its label table to establish the label that determines the forward path. From the label table of FIG. 6, it can be seen that a message that is received at interface G with a label L2, is to be output at interface H, with no label, i.e. the message is to leave the MPLS network. This is sometimes referred to as “popping” a label. Having consulted the label table of FIG. 6, the exit router software causes message 1 to be output at interface H without a label. In this way, a forward message path through the MPLS network is defined by a label switching process.
[0008] An advantage of MPLS networks is that they can be readily used to engineer network traffic. Traditionally in IP based systems, traffic is always directed along the shortest route. In the network shown in FIG. 8, the shortest route from router A to router C is via router B. A disadvantage of this is, however, that in some circumstances certain parts of the network can be overloaded whilst other parts remain unused. There is no mechanism in traditional IP networks to cause messages to be sent along anything other than the shortest route. In the case of MPLS, however, because the message path is determined by the label switching mechanism, it is relatively straightforward to alter the route taken by signals in the event that network overloading occurs. In the case of FIG. 8, for example, should the forward message route A to B to C become overloaded, the MPLS network can be dynamically altered to divert messages from router A to router C via routers D, E and F, along an MPLS engineered route. This is advantageous.
[0009] A further advantage of MPLS is that it can be used to establish a virtual private network. This is because once the initial label is identified, re-direction of a message is done on the basis of the label switching mechanism and not on the basis of the IP address. Hence, the IP address can be kept secure. This means that several customers can use the same network infrastructure, as shown in FIG. 9, without compromising security.
[0010] Because of the inherent advantages of MPLS, a significant amount of effort has been invested in standardising the MPLS protocols. A disadvantage of MPLS is, however, that it can be difficult to detect and identify label switched routers that are the source of faults. This is because there are at present no developed or standardised mechanisms for returning backward defect indicators to the MPLS source. Various methods to overcome this problem have been suggested. For example, bi-directional label switching protocols have been proposed. A disadvantage of this is, however, that it requires a significant development of further MPLS standards. Another alternative is to send error messages back via another mechanism such as using the IP control plane. A disadvantage of this is that it may not always be possible to identify the IP address. This is particularly the case in virtual private networks. In addition, it may not always be possible because the label switched path that failed may be unknown or unreachable.
[0011] Various aspects of the present invention are defined in the independent claims. Some preferred features are defined in the dependent claims.
[0012] According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for sending a message via a label switch telecommunications network, in particular an MPLS network, the method comprising:
[0013] identifying at a first node a first label attached to the message;
[0014] using the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message;
[0015] replacing the first label with the second label;
[0016] sending the message and the second label to another node of the network;
[0017] sending a return message associated with the said message from the said other node, together with the second label to the first node;
[0018] using the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and
[0019] replacing the second label with the first label.
[0020] An advantage of this method is that return messages can be sent along a working data path, but in a reverse direction, without the need for bi-directional LSP routers or any mondifications to the protocol used at network nodes. Instead the label switching data structure is itself used to define a return message path.
[0021] Preferably, the return message includes a return message identifier, for example, a label, that identifies that the message is a return message.
[0022] The step of using the first label to identify a second label may involve searching in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label. The step of using the second label to identify the first label may involve searching the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
[0023] The data structure may be a label table that includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label, the second label being an output label for the forward path.
[0024] The return message may be indicative of a fault or defect in the network. Preferably, the return message includes information relating to the location of the fault or defect.
[0025] According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for sending a message via a label switch telecommunications network, in particular an MPLS network, the method comprising:
[0030] receiving a return message from the said other node together with the second label at the first node;
[0035] The data structure may be a label table that includes input labels and corresponding output labels, which output labels define a forward path for messages that are attached to the corresponding input label, the first label being an input label for the forward path of the message and the second label being an output label for the forward path of the message.
[0037] According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a return message that is a product of the methods in which the previous aspects of the invention are embodied.
[0038] According to a still further aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer program, preferably on a data carrier or a computer readable medium, the computer program being for processing messages at a node in a label switch telecommunications network, in particular an MPLS network, the computer program comprising instructions for:
[0039] identifying a first label attached to a message;
[0043] receiving a return message from the said other node together with the second label;
[0047] The instructions for using the first label to identify a second label may be operable to search in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label. The instructions for using the second label to identify the first label may be operable to search the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
[0049] According to a yet further aspect of the invention, there is provided a telecommunications node or router for sending a message in a label switch telecommunications network, in particular an MPLS network, the node or router comprising:
[0050] means for identifying a first label attached to a message;
[0051] means operable to use the first label to identify a second label associated with the first label, the second label defining a forward path for the message;
[0052] means for replacing the first label with the second label;
[0053] means for sending the said message and the second label to another node of the network;
[0054] means for receiving a return message associated with the said message from the said other node together with the second label;
[0055] means operable to use the second label to identify the first label, the first label defining a return path for the message, and means for replacing the second label with the first label.
[0056] Preferably, the return message includes a return message identifier, preferably a label, that identifies that the message is a return message.
[0057] The means that are operable to use the first label may be operable to use the first label to search in a first direction or order a data structure that includes a plurality of labels, including the first label, thereby to identify the second label associated with the first label. The means that are operable to use the second label to identify the first label may be operable to search the data structure in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify the first label.
[0059] According to a still further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a return message that is a product of the node or router in which the invention is embodied.
[0060] Various aspects in which the present invention are embodied will now be described by way of example only and with reference to FIG. 10, which shows a simplified example of mechanism for returning a message along a path in a MPLS network.
[0061] FIG. 10 shows an MPLS network that has a source router 16, a plurality of LSRs 18, 20 and 22 and a sink router 24. Each of the source router, the intermediate LSRs 18, 20 and 22 and the sink router 24 of FIG. 10 includes a label switch table 25, 26, 28, 30 and 31 respectively that has a column of input labels and a column of output labels, each input label being associated with a corresponding output label, which output label defines the forward message path. The label tables 25, 26, 28, 30 and 31 can be interrogated to identify an output label for a forward message path, as is standard in MPLS.
[0062] Included in each LSR is software that is adapted to search its label switch table 26, 28 or 30 using an input message label as a search index, thereby to identify an output message label for the forward path, so that the message can be sent to the destination address. As a simple example, when router 18 of FIG. 10 receives a message associated with an input label A, it reads its label table 26 and then switches label A for label B and outputs the message, together with its new label, B, to router 20. When router 20 receives a message associated with a label B, it switches that label for label C and outputs the message, together with its new label, C, to router 22. Likewise, when router 22 receives a message associated with a label C, it switches that for label D and outputs the message, together with its new label, D, to the next router, which is the sink or egress router 24. The sink router 24 pops, i.e. removes, the final label and onward routes the message towards its destination address.
[0063] In order to allow a return message associated with the original forward message to be sent from the sink 24 to the source 16 of the original message, the software in each LSR 18, 20 and 22 is adapted to recognise return messages 32 associated with earlier messages. This is done by including an identifier or label in the return message 32. This could be a reserved label value or any other suitable means of identification. In the example shown in FIG. 10, the return message 32 is identified using a reserved label S, which is the first label in the MPLS return message packet. The second label of the return message packet 32, which may be the inner or bottom label, contains the outer label of the original MPLS packet that was received at the sink 24 in the normal forward direction.
[0064] In the event that a return message 32 has to be sent along the reverse message path 34 of FIG. 10, an MPLS message packet is constructed and software in the sink router 24 attaches a label S to the message, so that the next router 22 knows that the message is a return message 32. An inner label that defines the path for the return message is also attached to the return message. The inner label is the label that was attached to the original incoming message in the forward direction when it was received at the sink 24. In the case of FIG. 10, the inner label attached to the reverse message is label D. Once the return message label S and the inner label D are attached, the packet 32 that includes the return message, the label D and the reserved label S is then forwarded to router 22.
[0065] Included in router 22 is software that is operable to read the label S and recognise this as being indicative of a return message. Also included in router 22 is reverse label handler software, which is used when a message is recognised as being a reverse or return message. This is a software function that is provided in each router and is adapted to search the router label table in a reverse direction or order, thereby to identify a label that defines a reverse message path 34. The reverse handler software is adapted to read the MPLS label table 30 of router 22 backwards, in order to identify a reverse path for the return message. In this way, a return message can be sent by using the input labels as defined in the label table for the forward message path as output labels for the return message path 34.
[0066] In the case of the return message 32 of FIG. 10, the reverse handler software is operable to use the label D as a search index and look for label D in the output label column of the label switch table 30. Once label D is found in the output label column, the corresponding input label is identified, in this case label C, and the software swaps the label D for the label C. The label S is then added so that the packet can be identified as a return message and the software pushes the message to router 20.
[0067] It will be appreciated that the reverse look up typically has to take into account the interface at which the return message is received on. This is because a single label can be used on more than one interface of a given router.
[0068] Once the message is received at router 20, a similar process occurs. The LSR software recognises the label S as an indication that the message is a return message, removes the label S and forwards the remaining MPLS packet to reverse handler software, which reads the label switch table 28 in reverse to identify the label C in the output label column. Doing this, identifies label B as being the next label for the return message path and so label C is removed from the MPLS packet, and label B is added, together with a label S. The resultant data packet is then sent to router 18, where the process is repeated and a return message 32 is sent to the source or ingress router 16.
[0069] At the source router 16, a similar process occurs. However, in this case, the reverse look up handler software will not find an entry in its label table 25 that corresponds to label A. The software is adapted to recognise that this means that the return message 32 is intended for processing at the source router 16. The source router 16 then processes the message 32 and routes it to another address based on a label, IP address or other protocol information in the return message. The message that is routed from the LSR will indicate the message is for local processing on the LSR or for return to a client. The client may be IP, another MPLS network layer or another protocol client. In this way, a message can be sent from the source router 16 to the sink router 24 along a forward message path and a return message can be sent from the sink router 24 to the source router 16 along an identical message path, but in the reverse direction.
[0070] An advantage of the method for returning messages described above is that it is relatively straightforward to send return messages, without the need to set up bi-directional LSPs. In particular, backward defect indicators (BDI), i.e. return messages that are indicative of faults or defects on the network, can be sent to a message source. The BDIs could include information about faults on the network, in particular information as to the location of the fault, or control messages, such as “slow down data flow rate”.
[0071] The method of the present invention involves using a label switch data structure, for example a label switch table, to define a forward label switch path for a message and reading the label switch data structure in reverse to allow a return message to be sent back along a reverse path to the source of the original message. This is an efficient process that allows a return message to be sent, with minimum complexity and without having to adapt the existing MPLS protocol standards. This is advantageous.
[0072] A skilled person will appreciate that variations of the disclosed arrangements are possible without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the description of the specific embodiments is made by way of example and not for the purposes of limitation. It will be clear to the skilled person that minor modifications can be made without significant changes to the operation described above.
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METHOD FOR DETECTING A BIOMARKER OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE
A method for characterizing oxidative stress. The method includes dosing a ratio of HNE-to-DHN-protein in blood; comparing the ratio of HNE-to-DHN-protein in blood to a predetermined interval of ratio values associated with a predetermined level of oxidative stress; and classifying the oxidative stress as having reached the predetermined level if the ratio of HNE-to-DHN-protein in blood is within the predetermined interval of ratio values.
Des Rosiers, Christine (Montreal, CA)
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COOK, LISA V
LOUIS TESSIER (P.O. BOX 54029, TMR, QC, H3P-3H4, CA)
1. A method for detecting oxidative stress using a biological sample, comprising: (a) obtaining the biological sample comprising a biomarker of oxidative stress having a measurable component, said biological sample being selected from whole blood, blood derivatives, and combinations thereof; (b) chemically stabilizing the biomarker in the sample; (c) isolating the measurable component; (d) extracting the measurable component; and (e) measuring the quantity of the measurable component.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the biomarker of oxidative stress is selected from an aldehyde-protein adduct and an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the aldehyde is 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE).
4. The method of claim 2, wherein the aldehyde metabolite is 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN).
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the measurable component is selected from DHN and [2H]DHN.
6. The method of claim 2, comprising chemically stabilizing the biomarker in the sample by reducing the aldehyde to its alcohol.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of reducing the aldehyde to its alcohol comprises adding one of NaBH4 and NaB2H4 to the biological sample.
8. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of reducing the aldehyde to its alcohol comprises reducing HNE to DHN and/or reducing HNE to its deuterated alcohol [2H]DHN.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the biological sample contains molecules selected from HNE, HNE-protein adducts, DHN, DHN-protein adducts, metabolites of HNE, and combinations thereof.
10. The method of claim 1, comprising isolating the measurable component by cleaving a protein linkage.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of cleaving a protein linkage comprises cleaving a protein thioether linkage using Raney nickel catalysis.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the Raney nickel catalysis is conducted for about 5 to about 20 hours at a temperature of about 45° C. to about 60° C.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the measurable component of the biomarker of oxidative stress is a metabolite produced by peroxidation of fatty acids.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the measurable component of the biomarker of oxidative stress is selected from: 4-hydroxynonenal, 4-oxononenal, 4-hydroxyhexenal and 4-oxohexenal.
15. (canceled)
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the blood derivatives are selected from plasma, albumin, and oxidized lipoprotein. at least one of blood and a blood derivative.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the quantity of the measurable component is measured using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry.
18. A method for detecting oxidative stress using a biological sample comprising: (a) obtaining a biological sample comprising a biomarker of oxidative stress; (b) chemically stabilizing the biomarker in the sample; (c) contacting the sample with an antibody that binds to the stabilized biomarker; and (d) detecting the presence of the bound antibody in the sample.
19. A method for determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in a mammal over time, comprising: (a) obtaining a first blood sample from a mammal at a first time point, wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; (b) detecting a level of oxidative stress in the first blood sample based on a quantity of the aldehyde metabolite present in the first blood sample; (c) obtaining a second blood sample from a mammal at a second time point wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct; (d) detecting a level of oxidative stress in the second blood sample based on a quantity of the aldehyde metabolite present in the second blood sample; and (e) determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in the mammal using the quantities of aldehyde metabolite measured in the first and second blood samples.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein said aldehyde metabolite is selected from 4-hydroxynonenal, 4-oxononenal, 4-hydroxyhexenal, 4-oxohexenal, 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE) and 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN).
31. A kit for detecting oxidative stress related events using a biological sample, wherein the biological sample is selected from whole blood and blood derivatives, and comprises an aldehyde, and the kit comprises (a) a stabilizing reactant for stabilizing the aldehyde to its alcohol; and (b) an antibody that binds a stabilizing reactant for stabilizing said aldehyde end product specifically to the stabilized alcohol.
32. The kit of claim 31, wherein the stabilizing reactant is suitable for converting the aldehyde to its alcohol.
33. The kit of claim 32, wherein the stabilizing reactant includes one of NaB2H4 and NaB2H4.
41. A method for determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in a mammal, comprising: (a) obtaining a blood sample from a mammal, wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; (b) detecting a level of oxidative stress using the blood sample based on the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite as measured according to the method of claim 1; and (c) determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in the mammal using the quantities of aldehyde metabolite measured in blood samples and a predetermined reference quantity of the aldehyde metabolite.
The present invention relates to methods for detecting a oxidative stress in a biological sample, methods of determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury, and methods of diagnosing diseases of aging, such as cardiovascular diseases, based on the presence or absence of a biomarker or a component thereof. The present invention also relates to a kit for detecting oxidative stress in a biological sample comprising a stabilizing reactant and an antibody.
Over the past 30 years, extensive experimental evidence has accumulated supporting the implication of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of aging and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) [1-3]. Admittedly, randomized clinical trials with “natural antioxidants” have been disappointing (HOPE, HPS, GISSI-prevention) and have led some to question the relevance of the oxidative stress hypothesis [4-6]. However, the majority of these studies did not evaluate the impact of the antioxidant intervention on the oxidative stress status, or used the highly criticized thiobarbituric acid reactive substances method (TBARS) [7-9]. This can be explained in part by difficulties encountered in validating methods to assess oxidative stress biomarkers in accessible fluids for human studies, which often require expensive and complex mass spectrometric technologies. Recently, isoprostanes have emerged as relatively good markers of oxidative stress-induced lipoperoxidation in vivo [7,9]. However, the measurement of a single biomarker is unlikely to provide a comprehensive picture of the various oxidative stress related events that may contribute to CVD progression.
One oxidative stress-related molecule that has generated considerable research interest over the past 10 years [10] is 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE). HNE is an aldehyde end-product generated by peroxidation of the most abundant class of n-6 polyinsaturated fatty acids [11]. Similar to free radicals, aldehydes are electrophile that react readily to nucleophilic residues of proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, but their relatively longer half-life make them candidates for the propagation of the damage to neighboring cells. Among the aldehydes, 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals such as HNE are considered the most reactive species because of their α,β-double bond [11].
The interest for HNE stems not only from its potential use as a biomarker of oxidative stress-induced lipid peroxidation (LPO), but also because of accumulating evidence indicating that HNE is able to modulate signaling pathways involved in cell proliferation, apoptosis and inflammation, which are hallmarks of CVD [12, 13]. However, much remains to be learned on the role of HNE as an active biomarker of oxidative stress-related events in CVD. Because of the rapid cellular metabolism of HNE, through either reduction to 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN), oxidation to 4-hydroxynonenoic acid, or conjugation with glutathione [14], recent studies have highlighted the potential usefulness of measuring HNE metabolites such as dihydroxynonene mercapturic acid in urine [15] or in plasma [16], rather than free HNE.
HNE-protein adducts have also been identified. Increased levels of these adducts, assessed by immunological and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) methods, were reported under conditions of oxidative stress in myocardial tissues [17-20], in circulating albumin [21] and oxidized lipoproteins [22]. However, the possibility that circulating HNE-protein adducts could reflect enhanced systemic or tissue-specific oxidative stress has not been previously examined, and methods of quantifying these adducts in whole blood, plasma or other blood derivatives samples has not been previously described. Thus, while oxidative stress has been implicated in numerous degenerative diseases of aging, including cardiovascular diseases, there is still a need to identify biomarkers of oxidative stress-related events, such as the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE) and protein thioether adducts thereof, in these diseases, and particularly in humans. In view of the above, there is a need in the industry to provide novel methods for detecting and quantifying oxidative stress in a biological sample through the use of suitable biomarkers.
In a first broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for detecting oxidative stress using a biological sample containing a biomarker of oxidative stress. The method includes obtaining a biological sample, chemically stabilizing the biomarker of oxidative stress to produce a stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress; and, after having stabilized the biomarker of oxidative stress, assessing the presence of the stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress in the sample.
Advantageously, the method allows to perform relatively complex and lengthy processes when assessing the presence of the biomarker while ensuring that levels of the biomarker inside the sample remain substantially constant during these processes.
In addition, the method is relatively easy to perform using standard laboratory procedures.
In some embodiments of the invention, the method may be performed using a kit which therefore allows to relatively effectively and simply perform the method in a relatively small number of relatively easily performed steps.
For more clarity, for the purpose of this document, the term biomarker of oxidative stress encompasses biomarkers of oxidative stress per se and biomarkers of oxidative stress-related events, such as for example and non-limitingly, biomarkers of oxidative stress-induced LPO events involved in aging and in the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases.
In some embodiments of the invention, the biomarker of oxidative stress is selected from an aldehyde-protein adduct and an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct. For example, the metabolite-protein adduct is a metabolite-protein thioether adduct. In other examples, the metabolite is covalently bound to any suitable amino acid, such as histidine or lysine, among others, or to any other suitable substance.
In specific embodiments of the invention, the aldehyde includes 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE), 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN). In these two cases, in some embodiments of the invention, the measurable component may be selected from DHN and [2H]DHN. In other embodiments the measurable component of the biomarker of oxidative stress is another metabolite produced by peroxidation of fatty acids, such as non-limitingly 4-hydroxynonenal, 4-oxononenal, 4-hydroxyhexenal and 4-oxohexenal.
In some embodiments, the quantity of the measurable component is measured using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry.
In some embodiments of the invention, chemically stabilizing the biomarker in the sample includes reducing the aldehyde to its alcohol, for example by adding NaB2H4NaBH4 or to the biological sample. In a variant of the embodiments, reducing the aldehyde to its alcohol comprises reducing HNE to DHN and/or reducing HNE to its deuterated alcohol [2H]DHN.
In some embodiments of the invention, the biological sample contains molecules selected from HNE, HNE-protein adducts, DHN, DHN-protein adducts, metabolites of HNE, and combinations thereof.
In some embodiments of the invention, isolating the measurable component includes cleaving a protein linkage. For example, the step of cleaving a protein linkage comprises cleaving a protein thioether linkage using Raney nickel catalysis. In a specific example, the Raney nickel catalysis is conducted for about 5 to about 20 hours at a temperature of about 45° C. to about 60° C.
In some embodiments of the invention, the biological sample is selected from whole blood, blood derivatives, and combinations thereof, the blood derivatives being selected for example from plasma, albumin, and oxidized lipoprotein, among others.
In a second broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for detecting oxidative stress using a biological sample comprising obtaining a biological sample comprising a biomarker of oxidative stress; chemically stabilizing the biomarker in the sample; contacting the sample with an antibody that binds to the stabilized biomarker; and detecting the presence of the bound antibody in the sample.
In a third broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in a mammal over time, comprising: obtaining a first blood sample from a mammal at a first time point, wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; detecting a level of oxidative stress in the first blood sample based on the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite; obtaining a second blood sample from a mammal at a second time point wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct; detecting a level of oxidative stress in the second blood sample based on the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite; and determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in the mammal using the quantities of aldehyde metabolite measured in the first and second blood samples.
In a fourth broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease in a mammal, comprising: obtaining from a mammal a biological sample comprising HNE-protein adduct and DHN-protein adduct; measuring the quantities of HNE-protein adduct and DHN-protein adduct in the sample; determining a predetermined relationship between the HNE-protein adduct and the DHN-protein adduct; assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease in the mammal based on the predetermined relationship.
In a fifth broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for diagnosing a cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, in a mammal, for example a human, comprising: obtaining from a mammal a biological sample comprising an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; measuring the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct in the sample; and diagnosing the mammal as having a cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, if the quantities of aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct present in the biological sample is greater than a predetermined threshold. For example, the cardiovascular disease or a risk factor thereof is selected from hypertension, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, diastolic dysfunction, fibrosis of the myocardium, and arrhythmia, cardiac hypertrophy and tachycardia. Also, for the purpose of the present specification, the term risk as it relates to cardiovascular diseases includes other diseases or conditions for which cardiovascular diseases are complications, such as diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.
In a sixth broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for diagnosing a cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, in a mammal, comprising: obtaining from a mammal a biological sample comprising HNE-protein thioether adduct and DHN-protein thioether adduct; and diagnosing the mammal as having a cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, if the ratio between the quantities of HNE-protein thioether adduct and DHN-protein thioether adduct is greater than a predetermined ratio.
In other embodiments of the invention, any other suitable relationship between the quantities of HNE-protein thioether adduct and DHN-protein thioether adduct is used to diagnose the cardiovascular disease or the risk thereof, such as for example a sum of these two quantities.
In a seventh broad aspect, the invention relates to a kit for detecting oxidative stress related events using a biological sample, wherein the biological sample is selected from whole blood and blood derivatives, and comprises an aldehyde, and the kit comprises: a stabilizing reactant for stabilizing the aldehyde to its alcohol; and an antibody that binds specifically to the stabilized alcohol. For example, the stabilizing reactant is suitable for converting the aldehyde to its alcohol.
In an eight broad aspect, the invention relates to a method of slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression in a human subject, comprising: diagnosing cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, in a human subject according to the method of claim 28; and administering a predetermined treatment known to slow or stop cardiovascular disease progression. For example, the predetermined treatment comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of Probucol, recommending an exercise program effective for slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression and administering a diet effective for slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression, among others
In a ninth broad aspect, the invention relates to a method for determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in a mammal over time, comprising: obtaining a blood sample from a mammal, wherein the blood sample comprises an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; detecting a level of oxidative stress using the blood sample based on the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite present in the blood sample; and determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury in the mammal using the quantities of aldehyde metabolite measured in blood samples and a predetermined reference quantity of the aldehyde metabolite.
In a tenth broad aspect, the invention relates to a method of assessing a response of cardiovascular disease progression to a predetermined treatment in a human subject, comprising: obtaining from a mammal a biological sample comprising an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct; measuring the quantity of the aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct in the sample; and; assessing the response of the cardiovascular disease progression to the predetermined treatment on a basis of the measured quantity of the aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct in the sample.
For example, assessing the response of the cardiovascular disease progression to the predetermined treatment includes assessing the likely outcome of a proposed treatment or assessing the progression of the cardiovascular disease in response to the predetermined treatment.
Other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent upon reading of the following non restrictive description of preferred embodiments thereof, given by way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1, in a schematic view, illustrates an overview of an experimental procedure to quantify HNE and its metabolite DHN bound to a protein via thioether linkage in blood by isotope dilution GCMS in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the symbol * indicating the measured molecules.
FIG. 2, in a X-Y graph, illustrates a standard curve obtained for DHN demonstrating the linearity of the GCMS assay; DHN standard solutions of 1 to 500 μmol were processed for analysis in duplicate; a regression line is shown including the 95% confidence intervals (slope: 1.079±0.009; y-intercept: 2.2±1.6; p<0.0001; R2=0.999).
FIG. 3, in X-Y graphs, illustrates calibration curves obtained for the GCMS assays of protein-derived HNE and DHN in increasing volumes of (panel A) blood and (panel B) plasma, the assays having been performed in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; samples for the various volumes were processed for analysis in duplicate; regression lines with 95% confidence intervals are shown: (panel A) HNE: slope=0.23±0.02, y-intercept: 12±5, R2=0.944, p<0.0001; DHN: slope=0.26±0.03, y-intercept: 34±8, R2=0.922, p<0.0001; and (panel B) HNE: slope=0.008±0.004, y-intercept: 4±1, R2=0.346, NS; DHN: slope=0.19±0.02, y-intercept: 26±7, R2=0.891, p<0.0001.
FIG. 4, in X-Y graphs, illustrates selected ion monitoring chromatograms of ion m/z 257 (upper chromatograms), m/z 258 (middle chromatograms) and m/z 268 (lower chromatograms) corresponding to DHN, HNE, and the deuterated internal standard [2H11]DHN, respectively, obtained from the processing of a representative blood sample from 30 week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), which was processed in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5, in a bar chart, illustrates the specificity of the HNE signal obtained using a method in accordance with the present invention, the specificity being demonstrated by the treatment of parallel blood samples with NaBH4 and NaB2H4, which converts HNE to DHN (ion m/z 257) and [2H]DHN (ion m/z 258), respectively; there was no detection any quantity of protein-derived HNE signal following NaBH4 treatment, while the measured quantity of protein-derived DHN corresponded to that of DHN plus HNE assessed following treatment with NaB2H4; Data are means±SE of triplicate determinations.
FIG. 6, in a bar chart, illustrates levels of HNE-protein thioether adducts in blood of SHR and Wistar rats at various ages obtained using a method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, samples (400 ml) of blood collected from 7-, 15-, 22- and 30-wk-old SHR and Wistar rats having been processed for GCMS analysis; Data are means±SE of 8-13 rats; statistics: Two-way ANOVA followed by the Bonferroni multiple-comparison post-test; effect of disease: SHR versus Wistar, øøp<0.001; øp<0.05 Effect of age, vs. 7 weeks, *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
FIG. 7, in a bar chart, illustrates levels of DHN-protein thioether adducts in blood of SHR and Wistar rats at various ages, the levels having been obtained using a method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; data are means±SE; statistics: NS; Two-way ANOVA followed by the Bonferroni multiple-comparison post-test.
FIG. 8, in bar charts, illustrates changes in diastolic function (panels A &B) and heart rate (panel C) in SHR after receiving Probucol or vehicle during 4 weeks; diastolic dysfunction is reflected by a decrease in indexes of LV compliance (EDT: E wave deceleration time) and relaxation (Vp: mitral flow propagation velocity; results are depicted as percent of pre-treatment values; effect of treatment: *p<0.05; and
FIG. 9, in X-Y graphs, illustrates correlations between circulating HNE-P and both deterioration of diastolic function (as reflected by EDT) (A) and increased heart rate (B) in SHR after receiving Probucol (•) or vehicle (∘) during 4 weeks.
The following examples illustrate the above-mentioned method for detecting oxidative stress in a biological sample, and show that this method may be performed, for example, on an aldehyde produced through peroxidation of fatty acids. In some variants of these embodiments, stabilizing the biomarker of oxidative stress includes converting the aldehyde to its alcohol.
In some embodiments of the invention, the sample includes whole blood or a blood derivative. As used herein, the term “blood” generally refers to whole blood and blood derivatives (e.g., plasma, albumin, etc.) These samples are relatively easy to obtain and have been found to contain suitable biomarkers of oxidative stress for use in the present invention.
Some example of suitable biomarker of oxidative stress for which the proposed method are useful include: 4-hydroxy-2,3-nonenal (HNE), 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN), 4-hydroxynonenal, 4-oxononenal, 4-hydroxyhexenal and 4-oxohexenal. In some embodiments of the invention, these biomarkers are in the form of an aldehyde metabolite-protein adduct, such as an aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct. In some variants of these embodiments, the method includes cliving the aldehyde metabolite from the aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct and afterwards extracting the aldehyde metabolite-protein thioether adduct from the biological sample.
In some embodiments of the invention, a suitable analytical technique, such as for example gas chromatography, is used to assess the presence of the biomarker of oxidative stress in the sample, and in some embodiments to measure or quantify a quantity of the biomarker of oxidative stress present in the sample. In other embodiments, assessing the presence of the biomarker of oxidative stress in the sample includes contacting the sample with an antibody which binds to the stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress under conditions which allow binding of the stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress to the antibody and detecting the presence of bound antibody in the sample.
The present invention also relates to a method of slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression in a mammal (preferably, a human) by diagnosing cardiovascular disease, or risk thereof, according to the methods described herein, and administering a predetermined treatment known to slow or stop cardiovascular disease progression. Examples of suitable such predetermined treatments include administering a therapeutically effective amount of Probucol, recommending an exercise program effective for slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression, and administering a diet effective for slowing or stopping cardiovascular disease progression and administering a therapeutically effective amount of Probucol.
ANIMAL MODEL EXAMPLES
The present invention is next described by means of the following examples that were performed using animal models. The use of these and other examples anywhere in the specification is illustrative only, and in no way limits the scope and meaning of the invention or of any exemplified form. Likewise, the invention is not limited to any particular preferred embodiments described herein. Indeed, modifications and variations of the invention may be apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading this specification, and can be made without departing from its spirit and scope. The invention is therefore to be limited only by the terms of the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which the claims are entitled.
Experiments were performed to assess if circulating levels of HNE-protein adducts (i) can be assessed with precision by GCMS and (ii) vary with disease progression and aging in a model of cardiomyopathy that displays enhanced oxidative stress, namely the spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR).
While they were performed in rats, the experiments described herein are expected to be predictive of biological effects in humans or other mammals and/or to serve as models for use of the present invention in humans or other mammals. These examples illustrate the above-mentioned methods, such as detecting oxidative stress in a biological sample, determining a cumulative record of oxidative injury, diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, and characterizing cardiovascular disease activity.
An experiment was performed in order to quantify HNE and its inactive metabolite, 1,4-dihydroxynonene (DHN), bound to thiol protein adducts following treatment with NaB2H4 and Raney nickel. Levels of these adducts were measured in blood and plasma collected from SHR and control Wistar rats at 7, 15, 22 and 30 weeks of age. Levels of protein-bound HNE, which were quantitated with relatively good precision in the nanomolar range in blood, but not in plasma, were significantly increased by disease (SHR) and age (p<0.0001 for both). Compared to Wistar rats, SHR showed greater blood levels of HNE-protein adducts at 22 and 30 weeks. Levels of protein-bound DHN, which were detected in blood and in plasma, were not affected by disease or age. Collectively, the results of this study conducted in an animal model of cardiomyopathy demonstrate that changes in blood HNE-protein thioether adducts with disease progression and aging can be assessed with good precision by the described GCMS method. It is expected that this method will be useful in evaluating the occurrence and impact of oxidative stress-related events involving bioactive HNE in diseases of aging, such as cardiovascular diseases, particularly in humans.
Another experiment was performed to assess the role of 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) in oxidative-stress related diseases. Further to the finding of high circulating HNE-protein thioether adducts (HNE-P) in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), this study aimed at correlating HNE-P with cardiac function and testing the impact of antioxidant therapy.
The lipoperoxidation inhibitor Probucol (10 mg/kg/day) or vehicle (corn oil) were administered daily (i.p.) for 4 weeks in 18-week-old SHR (9 rats/group). Cardiac functions were assessed by echocardiography and HNE-P by GCMS.
Diastolic dysfunction worsened in SHR receiving vehicle as reflected by changes (p<0.05) in indexes of left ventricular relaxation (increased isovolumic relaxation time) and compliance (increased E wave deceleration rate, EDR). Higher circulating HNE-P correlated with diastolic dysfunction (EDR: R2=0.518; p<0.001) and heart rate (R2=0.225; p<0.05). Probucol prevented the deterioration of diastolic function, while lowering the mean and median of circulating HNE-P by 21% and 35%, respectively. Collectively, these results support a role for HNE in the pathophysiological events linked to disease progression in SHR.
In this next example, a method using quantitative GCMS assay of protein-bound HNE in myocardial tissues [18] was modified to enable precise and reproducible serial assessments of the small level of these adducts in blood samples. Specifically, this method quantified HNE as well as its inactive metabolite, DHN, bound to thiol proteins. However, in alternative embodiments of the invention, oxidative stress may be quantified using any other suitable substance, such as for example any other aldehyde metabolite produced by the peroxidation of fatty acids. HNE-protein thioether adducts and DHN-protein thioether adducts are considered representative of the classes of aldehyde-protein adducts and aldehyde metabolite-protein adducts.
In summary, the method involves (i) stabilisation of HNE through reduction to its deuterated alcohol [2H]DHN, (ii) treatment with Raney Nickel to cleave thioether linkages, releasing protein-bound DHN and [2H]DHN(HNE), and (iii) the use of a deuterated internal standard, [2H11]DHN that enables positive identification and quantification of the DHN chromatographic peak. As used herein, the term “[2H]DHN(HNE)” refers to the stabilized deuterated alcohol of HNE. Using the modified method, the levels of circulating protein-bound HNE and DHN were assessed in 7, 15, 22 and 30-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and control Wistar rats.
The SHR is a well-established model of genetic hypertension, which displays enhanced oxidative stress that responds to antioxidant treatment [23,24] as early as 4 weeks of age in the vascular wall and in the myocardium, [25-27] including accumulation of HNE-protein adducts [19]. Collectively, the results of this example demonstrate an increase in circulating HNE, but not DHN, bound to protein thiols with disease progression and aging in SHR. These results suggest the potential of these adducts as a circulating marker of oxidative stress-related events involving bioactive HNE.
Materials and Methods (Example 3)
Chemical, Raney Nickel, 2,6-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT), organic solvents and acids were obtained from Laboratory MAT (Quebec, Quebec, Canada), Sigma Chemical Co (St-Louis, Mo., USA), Bio-Rad (Hercules, Calif., USA) and Fisher Scientific (Nepean, Ontario, Canada) respectively. Anhydrous ammonia gas for chemical ionization (Cl; 99.99% minimal purity) and helium gas (UHP) were obtained from Matheson Gas Product Canada (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Unlabeled HNE was purchased from BIOMOL (Plymouth Meeting, Pa., USA) and the derivatization agent N-methyl-N-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-tri-fluoroacetamide (TBDMS) from Regis Chemical (Morton Grove, Ill., USA). Sodium borodeuteride (NaB2H4) and trans-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-([5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,9-2H11] ([2H11]HNE) diethyl acetal were supplied by Cambridge Isotope (Andover, Mass., USA) and CDN Isotope (Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada). Publication [18] provides details about the preparation of stock solutions of [2H11]DHN and DHN, as well as determination of their concentration by measurement of HNE solution absorbance at 223 nm, prior to reduction with NaBH4. All aqueous solutions were prepared with water purified by milli-Q system (Millipore, St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada). All other reagents were of analytical grade.
Animals and Sample Collection
Animal experiments were approved by the local animal care committee in compliance with the guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care. Rats were housed for at least 7 days in a 12-h light/12-h dark cycle facility with unlimited access to water and standard chow prior to sacrifice. Male SHR and age-matched control Wistar rats (Charles River, St-Constant, Quebec, Canada) were sacrificed at 7 (n=11), 15 (n=13), 22 (n=8) and 30 (n=8) weeks of age. Body weights at sacrifice were, respectively, 187±13, 332±22, 375±9 and 406±15 g for SHR and 239±28, 442±31, 533±32 and 612±15 g for Wistar rats. Blood was collected under sodium pentobarbital anesthesia (65 mg/g, intraperitoneal; MTC Pharmaceuticals) by cardiac puncture with a 10-ml syringe pre-coated with EDTA (10.8 mg) and BHT (0.0496 mg). A sample of whole blood (500 μl) was immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen. The remaining volume was centrifuged at 1,500 g for 10 min and the collected plasma sample was also immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen. All samples were kept at −80° C. until analysis.
The procedure for sample preparation and GCMS analysis of HNE- and DHN-protein adducts in blood and plasma is outlined in FIG. 1. The previously described method for detecting protein-bound HNE in myocardial tissues [18] was modified to increase its sensitivity 20-fold to enable detection of the lower quantity of protein-derived HNE and DHN found in blood and plasma samples, as well as to improve its reproducibility and ruggedness. Routinely, blood and plasma samples (400 μl) were individually mixed with 1 ml of cold buffer (pH 7.0) containing 39 mM Hepes, 0.4 mM EDTA and 0.9 mM BHT to minimize lipid peroxidation during processing, immediately treated with 200 μl 1 M NaB2H4 to reduce HNE to its chemically stable alcohol derivative [2H]DHN, and left on ice for 30 min.
Then, proteins were precipitated by addition of saturated sulfosalicylic acid (final concentration 8% (v/v)). After 30 min on ice, samples were centrifuged at 5,000 g for 45 min. The protein pellets were washed with 3 ml methanol:chloroform (2:1) to remove lipids and with waterthree times, resuspended into 500 μl of solution containing 8 M guanidine, 13 mM Tris (pH 7.2) and 133 mM EDTA, and spiked with 0.1 nmol of deuterated internal standard [2H11] DHN. Solutions were sonicated (3×20 sec) to optimize protein dissolution, and 1 ml of water was added before treatment with 2.5 g of Raney Nickel catalysis for 20 h at 55° C. Since this treatment cleaves thioether linkages and reduces C═C bonds, free saturated derivative of [2H]DHN and DHN are released into solutions and are subsequently processed for GCMS analysis. Hence, following centrifugation, twice at 1700 g for 3 min at room temperature, the aqueous supernatants were brought to pH<2 with concentrated HCl, saturated with sodium chloride and extracted two times with 10 ml of ethyl acetate by vortexing 3 min. The extracts were evaporated under nitrogen and the residues were treated with 50 ml of TBDMS. For optimal derivatization, samples were heated during 4 hours at 90° C. Protein determination was achieved by the Bradford assay [28] using bovine serum albumin (Fraction V, Sigma) as standard. The recovery of proteins after precipitation with saturated sulfosalicylic acid was evaluated to be >99% based on protein determination in the supernatant.
GCMS Assays
All samples were performed on bench-top standard equipment form Agilent Technologies consisting of model 6890N Gas chromatograph coupled to 5973 Mass Selective Detector operated in the PCI mode using ammonia as the reagent gas, and equipped with a model 7683 Series injector. Injections (1 μl) were performed at 300° C. in pulsed-splitless mode (injection pulse pressure 35 psi). The carrier gas was high-purity helium at a constant flow-rate of 0.7 ml/min. An Agilent Technologies-type HP-5 capillary column (50 m×0.2 mm inner diameter×0.5 μm phase thickness) was used under the following conditions: 170° C. for 1 min, increased by 10° C./min until 210° C., 5° C./min until 280° C. and then by 20° C./min until 325° C. At the end of each run, the temperature was kept at 325° C. for 8 min to clean the column. The GCMS transfer line was at 300° C., the ion source and quadrupole temperatures were at 300° C. and 176° C., respectively. The electron energy and emission current was at 65 eV and 242 mA respectively, and ammonia pressure (10 torr) was maintained at 1 ml/min. The following ion set was monitored with a dwell time of 50 ms per ion for the analysis of DHN, [2H]DHN (reduced HNE), and the internal standard [2H11]DHN at m/z 257, 258 and 268, respectively. Alternatively one could also monitor the ion set 389, 390 and 400, which corresponds to the M+H+ ion, using a lower ion source temperature [18], to confirm peak identity. However, in this example, a better MS signal was obtained using the former ion.
Quantities of DHN- and HNE-protein adducts that are reported in this study represent average of duplicate or triplicate sample injections. GC peak areas for the DHN and [2H]DHN peaks, determined by computer integration, were corrected for light isotopic impurities of the internal standard [2H11]DHN and for naturally occurring heavy isotopes, respectively. Quantities of DHN and [2H]DHN were calculated using corrected areas and from the quantity of internal standard added to each sample as previously described [29].
The following method validation parameters were determined. (i) Accuracy was calculated from: [1-(GCMS measured quantity/standard quantity)]×100. (ii) Precision orthe relative standard deviation (RSD) was calculated from: SD *100/mean. (iii) The limit of detection (LOD) represents the minimum quantity of standard DHN solution that can be processed and assessed with good accuracy and precision. (iv) The limit of quantification (LOQ) represents the minimum quantity of protein-derived DHN and HNE that can be assayed in blood or plasma samples with an appreciate precision. It was determined by analyzing increasing volume (50, 100, 250, 400 and 500 μl) of blood and plasma in duplicate samples. (v) The intra- and inter-assay RSD for the GCMS analysis were determined by injecting one sample eight times in one day and (ii) five samples on three different days, respectively. Intra- and inter-assay RSD for the whole analytical procedure were determined by processing (a) on the same day, nine samples obtained from a pooled blood sample collected from Wistar rats, and (b) on three different days, blood samples collected from five Wistar rats and frozen in separate aliquots. Inter-assay RSD values were also obtained for the analyses of four different blood samples from Wistar rats before and after 9 months of sample freezing at −80° C. Finally, to test the specificity of the signal corresponding to HNE, blood samples were pooled and divided 6 fractions, 3 fractions were treated with NaBH4 and 3 with NaB2H4.
Data are expressed as mean±SD or SE. The two-way ANOVA was used to test for significant differences in the effect of (i) disease development and progression in SHR, (ii) age, and (iii) the interaction of disease and age, followed by a Bonferroni multiple-comparison post-test.
Results (Example 3)
The GCMS method depicted in FIG. 1 was evaluated for the following parameters: LOD, LOQ, precision, reproducibility, and robustness. The limit of detection (LOD) determined with DHN standard solutions, was estimated to be 50 μmol, based on the poor accuracy obtained when analyzing quantity below 50 μmol, between 16 and 76%, compared to values >90% for quantity between 50 and 500 μmol (Table 1). The calibration curve was linear in this range of DHN concentration tested (FIG. 2), with RSD values <4%.
Calibration data obtained for a GCMS assay of DHN standard
solutions used in a method for detecting a biomarker of
oxidative stress in a biological sample in accordance
with an embodiment of the present invention.
Quantity added Quantity measured Accuracy Precision
(pmol) (pmol; mean ± SD) (%) (RSD %)
1 6.3 ± 0.7 16 12
10 13.1 ± 0.8 76 6.3
100 110 ± 2 91 1.8
250 266 ± 0.4 94 0.2
500 545 ± 17 92 3.2
Standard solutions of 1 to 500 μmol DHN were processed for GCMS assay in duplicate.
As for the method LOQ, there was a linear relationship for the analysis of protein-bound HNE and DHN in whole blood (FIG. 3A), although the positive values for the y-intercepts, which fall in the LOD range, indicated a constant bias. Hence, the y-intercept values were taken as background and subtracted from all calculated experimentally determined values. A similar result was obtained for the analysis of protein-bound DHN in plasma (FIG. 3B), but values for protein-bound HNE in plasma felt below the method LOD. A good precision (RSD<12%) was obtained for the measured values of protein-bound HNE and DHN in blood, and DHN in plasma. The LOQ of the method was estimated at 60 μmol, corresponding to about 250 μl samples. However, in routine applications, the practical method LOQ chosen was ≧80 μmol, corresponding to 400 μl samples, to ensure optimal precision.
Table 2 summarizes the repeatability data for the assay of protein-bound HNE and DHN in 400 μl blood. FIG. 4 shows typical SIM chromatograms of a representative 400-μl blood sample collected from 30-week-old SHR. The intra- and inter-assay RSD were ≦11% for the GCMS analysis of whole blood samples and ranged between 10 and 20% for the whole method. Finally, the following additional data support also the robustness of our method. First, RSD values obtained for the analyses of protein-bound HNE and DHN in blood samples from Wistar rats after 9 months indicate the stability of these adducts upon sample freezing at −80° C. (Table 2). Second, the specificity of the HNE signal (ion 258) was demonstrated by treatment of parallel samples with NaBH4 and NaB2H4, which converts HNE to DHN (ion m/z 257) and [2H]DHN (ion m/z 258), respectively. While we did not detect any quantity of protein-derived HNE signal (ion 258) following NaBH4 treatment, the measured quantity of protein-derived DHN (ion m/z 257) corresponded to that of DHN plus HNE assessed following treatment with NaB2H4 (FIG. 5).
Summary of reproducibility data for the GCMS assay of HNE-
and DHN-protein thioether adducts in 400 μl blood in accordance
GC-MS GC-MS
INJECTION METHOD
Inter- Inter- 9 months of
Intra- assay Intra- assay freezing
assay (n = 5) assay (n = 4) (n = 4)
Measured (n = 8) RSD ± SD (n = 9) RSD ± SD RSD ± SD
compound RSD (%) (%) RSD (%) (%) (%)
HNE 3.4 7.9 ± 6.0 11 20 ± 9 26 ± 15
DHN 8.2 11 ± 6 11 10 ± 6 14 ± 6
The intra- and inter-assay RSD for the GCMS injection and processing of whole blood samples on different days were determined as described in Materials and Methods. Data are means±SD of 4-9 separate determinations, as indicated.
Circulating Levels of HNE- and DHN-Protein Adducts in SHR and Wistar Rats
FIG. 6 present data on the levels of protein-bound HNE assessed in blood collected from SHR and Wistar rats at various ages. According to the two-way ANOVA, blood levels of HNE-protein adducts were significantly increased with disease progression and age. Compared to Wistar rats, SHR showed significantly greater blood levels of HNE-protein adducts starting at 22 weeks. The observed differences in the circulating levels of protein-bound HNE with age, or between SHR and Wistar rats, cannot be attributed to variations in blood protein levels, which were similar at all times (between 230 and 274 mg/ml). In contrast to protein-bound HNE, levels of protein-bound DHN in blood (FIG. 7) or in plasma (data not shown) did not vary with disease or age.
In this study, a GCMS method for relatively precise quantitation of HNE- and DHN-bound to circulating thiol-containing proteins was validated. The method involves stabilisation of HNE through reduction to its deuterated alcohol [2H]DHN, treatment of samples with Raney Nickel, and the use of a deuterated internal standard, [2H11]DHN. The proposed method was characterized for the following parameters: LOD, LOQ, precision, reproducibility, and robustness. As currently described, one technician can process about 80-100 samples per week. The variation between different assays (10-20%) is smaller than that between subjects (30-40%). Further, the precision observed in the LOQ determination compares well with GC/LC-MS assay of plasma isoprostanes [30] or nitrotyrosine [31], which are used as markers of oxidative and nitrosative stress, respectively. Moreover, while the stability of LPO-derived products in biological samples has often been considered a major problem [32], we found that levels of HNE- and DHN-protein adducts were little affected by storage of samples for 9 months at −80° C. (Table 2). Although this may be attributed to the greater stability of these protein adducts compared to free HNE, Spies-Martin et al (2002) reported similar levels of free HNE in tissue samples before and storage for 22 months at −80 C [33]. Nevertheless, we consider relatively important to either freeze or process immediately all collected blood samples in EDTA as well as to rapidly treat samples with NaB2H4 to stabilize HNE.
In this study, the modified GCMS method was successfully applied to the analysis of circulating HNE- and DHN-protein adducts in rats. HNE-protein adducts were detected in blood, but not in plasma samples. This finding concurs with the observations of Kinter et al. [36] who assessed HNE free or bound in Schiff base residues as an oxime derivative by GCMS. Further, Oliver et al. demonstrated the accumulation of oxidatively modified proteins in erythrocytes [37]. Finally, HNE, which is predominantly detected in biomembranes rather in the aqueous phase [14], reacts rapidly in vitro with the sulfhydryl group of cysteine residues from erythrocyte membrane proteins to form Michael-type adducts. Little is known about the half-life of blood HNE-modified proteins, but it is likely to be greater than free HNE. In fact, HNE-modified proteins may reflect the flux, rather than the circulating levels, of this LPO product [22]. This cumulative record of oxidative injury may provide a sensitive measure of oxidative stress-related events involving bioactive HNE. By analogy, glycosylated hemoglobin reflects long term glycemic control [38].
The concentration of protein-bound HNE that was measured in blood samples varied between 0.07-0.22 mM. These values fall in the range of concentrations reported for plasma free HNE (0.026-0.85 mM) [32,33,36,39], but are lower than those for HNE-derived 2-pentylpyrroles (8-35 mM) [22], while greater than those for isoprostanes (35-356 pg/ml) [40-42] or nitrotyrosine (2-5 nM) [31,43,44]. Based on an average protein content of 250 mg/ml and assuming an average protein molecular mass of 30,000, a concentration of 0.07-0.25 mM of protein-bound HNE in blood implies that between 0.0008-0.003% of blood proteins is modified by HNE. This percentage is lower than the one that was calculated from the previously determined levels of HNE-protein adducts in ischemic hearts (approximately 0.025%)[18]. However, it is compatible with the observed 1 to 8% protein modification observed in vitro when mammalian cells are incubated with 100 μM HNE [45], if one takes into account that circulating free HNE concentration is <1 μM.
Results from this study demonstrate increased levels of HNE-protein adducts in blood of SHR with disease progression and aging, a finding that suggests that these protein adducts are circulating biomarker of oxidative stress-related events involving bioactive HNE in this animal model. The SHR develops hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy between 9 and 14 weeks [46,47]. At 15 weeks, the hypertrophy is compensated, while at 30 weeks, SHR exhibit increased cardiomyocyte death by apoptosis, the latter being linked to transition from compensated to decompensated hypertrophy [48]. The increase in circulating HNE-protein adducts found in SHR concurs with the presence of enhanced oxidative stress, which was documented as early as 4 weeks of age [27]. This raise has been attributed to increased superoxide anion production due to dysfunctional nitric oxide synthase activity [27] and/or angiotensin II-stimulated NAD(P)H oxidase activity in the vascular wall [49]. A persistently greater accumulation of myocardial HNE-protein adducts in SHR compared to control rats was also found, an effect that was affected by disease progression and age [19]. The fact that the increase in HNE-protein adducts in blood occurred at a later age than in the vascular wall or in the heart (22 versus 7 weeks) may suggest that in SHR, HNE formation occurs predominantly at an intracellular site. A greater concentration of HNE-protein adducts in tissues compared to interstitial fluids was reported by others [13], suggesting that accumulation of circulating HNE-protein adducts may reflect the global status of HNE production versus its detoxification in all body tissues and organs. In this regard, it was found that circulating levels of protein-bound DHN, which may originate from the enzymatic reduction of HNE-protein adducts by the aldose reductase [50], were not affected by disease or age (FIG. 7). Hence, the increase in the proportion of HNE-to-DHN bound to circulating thiol proteins suggest an imbalance between HNE production versus detoxification with disease progression and aging, in the favor of the former process.
In summary, the GCMS method herein described and characterized quantifies HNE-protein thioether adducts in blood with relatively good precision and reproducibility. Using this method, it was showed that circulating HNE-protein adducts increase with disease progression and age in SHR, an animal model of cardiomyopathy that displays enhanced oxidative stress [19,26]. Collectively, the results of this study suggest the potential usefulness of HNE-protein thioether adducts measured in whole blood as marker of oxidative stress-induced LPO events involving bioactive HNE in heart diseases and aging.
It is hypothesized that a kit for assessing the presence of a biomarker of oxidative stress in a sample could be used instead of the above-described method. Also, it is hypothesized that alternative method may be used to detect a biomarker of oxidative stress. In an example of such a method, the method includes contacting the sample with an antibody which binds to the stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress under conditions which allow binding of the stabilized biomarker of oxidative stress to the antibody and detecting the presence of bound antibody in the sample.
A series of studies was conducted in spontaneously hypertensive rats (55-57), which provided the basis for exploring in vivo the potential link between HNE and cardiac function. The SHR is a well-established model of genetic hypertensive cardiomyopathy associated with insulin resistance (58). It develops hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy between 9 and 12 weeks (59). At 15 weeks, the hypertrophy is compensated and functional symptoms of decompensation appear after 18-24 months of age. The SHR displays enhanced oxidative stress in the vascular wall (60), which responds to antioxidant treatment (61). Further to the finding of an accumulation of myocardial HNE-protein adducts in SHR starting at 7 weeks (57), a GCMS method was validated to quantify HNE-protein thioether adducts in blood (HNE-P) and found relatively high circulating HNE-P in SHR starting at 22 weeks of age (55). Hence, in this example, circulating HNE-P was correlated with cardiac function in vivo and tests were performed to evaluate the impact of an antioxidant treatment with Probucol (62).
Method (Example 4)
Experiments were approved by the local animal care committee in compliance with guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care. After one week of acclimatization, 18-wk-old male SHR (Charles River, St. Constant, Canada) were randomly assigned to receive daily an intraperitoneal injection of 10 mg kg-1 body weight Probucol (P) dissolved in corn oil or the vehicle (V). Body weight was assessed daily. At 22 weeks of age, rats were sacrificed. Blood was collected under ketamine/xylazine anaesthesia (87.5 mg/12.5 mg·kg-1, i.m.) by jugular vein puncture with a 5-ml syringe precoated with EDTA (10.8 mg) and butylated hydroxytoluene (0.0496 mg), and immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen.
Blood Pressure and Cardiac Function.
Non-invasive systolic arterial pressure was measured and transthoracic echocardiographic evaluation was performed at baseline and at the end of treatment, using the tail-cuff method and S12 phased-array transducer with a standard echocardiographic system (Sonos 5500, Hewlett-Packard, Andover, Mass.) under isoflurane anesthesia, respectively. We herein report echocardiographic parameters reflecting diastolic function only, since systolic function was reported to be unchanged in SHR at 18-22 weeks (13). In the apical 4-chamber view, transmitral E wave deceleration time (EDT) and deceleration rate (EDR) were measured using pulsed-wave Doppler, and mitral propagation velocity (Vp) was studied through color M-mode spectrum. LV isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) was measured in the 5-chamber view using continuous-wave Doppler and corrected (IVRTc) with the R—R interval taken from simultaneously recorded ECG. M-mode at the aortic valve level in the parasternal long axis view was used to measure left atrial (LA) dimensions in both cardiac diastole (LADd) and systole (LADs), from which we calculated LA fractional shortening (LAFS). The average of three consecutive cardiac cycles was used for each measurement.
Circulating HNE-P. HNE-P was quantified in 400 μl whole blood collected at the end of treatment, by GCMS as described in Example 1.
Data Presentation and Statistical Analysis.
Data are means±SEM. Values for the various parameters measured (body weight, systolic blood pressure and cardiac functions) are reported as percentages of pre-treatment values. Statistical significance of differences between and within groups (before vs aftertreatment) was assessed using unpaired and paired t-tests, respectively. Correlation coefficients were calculated by linear regression analysis. A value of p≦0.05 was considered significant.
Hemodynamics and Cardiac Function.
During the 4-week treatment, SHR from both groups depicted a similar 7-8% increase in body weight and systolic blood pressure (V: 7.6±0.2, P: 7.9±0.7; and V: 8.2±2.4, P: 8.3±2.0%, respectively; p≦0.05). However, SHR receiving vehicle depicted a worsening of indexes of diastolic function. Changes in (i) EDT (decreased; FIG. 9A) and EDR (increased; 18±6%; p≦0.05) reflect a loss of LV compliance or increased stiffness, while those in (ii) Vp (decreased; FIG. 9B) and IVRTc (increased: 8.9±7.0%; p≦0.05) indicate impaired LV relaxation. Heart rate was also increased by 20% (FIG. 9C). All these detrimental functional changes were not observed in the Probucol group. In this group, LV diastolic function was preserved, resulting in diminished LA structural and functional remodeling; this is reflected by changes in LADd (decreased: −17.9±6.4%; p≦0.05) and LAFS (increased; 16.1±5.4%; p≦0.05).
Circulating HNE-P.
Circulating HNE-P, which was assessed at the end of treatment in 22-wk-old SHR correlated with indexes of diastolic dysfunction (EDR: R2=0.518, p<0.001; EDT: R2=0.371, p<0.01 (FIG. 8A)) and with heart rate (FIG. 8B). Probucol treatment lowered median [min-max] (P: 170.5 [122.5-376.0]; V: 261.3 [157.0-441.5]) and mean (P: 208.2±34.1; V: 263.8±27.4) values of circulating HNE-P by 35% and 21%, respectively (p=0.1).
In this example, the link between circulating HNE-P levels and cardiac function, was examined in SHR and the impact of Probucol treatment was tested. 18-22-wk-old SHR were used based on finding of high circulating HNE-P in these rats at this age (55 and Example 1). At 18-22 wks of age, the SHR is hypertensive and depicts a compensated cardiac hypertrophy (64). The finding of a worsening of diastolic function in 18-wk-old SHR receiving vehicle for 4 weeks concurs with data from Slama et al. (2004) (63). In this study, treatment of SHR with Probucol attenuated the deterioration of diastolic function and improved left atrial function, an effect that was independent of blood pressure.
Circulating HNE-P levels, which were assessed at the end of treatment, correlated positively with deterioration of diastolic function in SHR, specifically reduction of LV compliance. Furthermore, a positive correlation between circulating HNE-P and increased heart rate was observed. Increased heart rate is factor that has been linked with morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (68). Recently, a correlation was reported between immunohistochemically determined HNE-protein adducts in the right ventricle of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and indexes of cardiac dysfunction (69). Probucol decreased circulating HNE-P levels, but only a relatively small statistical significance was observed for this result. It is hypothesized that this resulted from a type II error given the small number of animals in each group.
The correlation data presented hereinabove suggest a potential role of HNE in the pathogenesis of diastolic dysfunction and in the regulation of heart rate in SHR. A hypothetical mechanism that may explain this results is presented hereinbelow. Isolated hearts exposed to HNE depict vasodilation, reduction of systolic function and contractile failure (70). In isolated rat ventricular myocytes, HNE exerts proarrhythmic effects possibly due to modification of cysteine residues from ion channel proteins (71). It can also depress contraction, possibly through mitogen-activated protein kinase activation (72). Among many potential pathogenic mechanisms, one that appears to have specific relevance to this study is fibrosis. This process appears to be a determinant of LV stiffness, including in SHR (73-75), which could be activated by HNE through TGFb1 signaling (53), but reduced by Probucol (65).
In summary, the results of this example show that left ventricular diastolic function worsens in control SHR from 18 to 22 weeks, leading to a restrictive pattern of diastolic dysfunction, which can be improved by Probucol treatment. The observed correlations between HNE-P and both diastolic dysfunction and heart rate provide additional evidence supporting a role for this aldehyde in the pathophysiological events linked to disease progression in SHR. Ultimately, circulating HNE-P may be correlated with specific pathogenic events that could then become a target for antioxidant therapy.
Human Example
The blood levels of HNE-protein adduct was assessed as described hereinabove in 71 human subjects suffering from chronic heart failure. The HNE-protein concentrations averaged 214±67 nM. The levels were correlated to the New York Heart Association Class (R2=0.33; p<0.05), suggesting its association with disease severity.
Although the present invention has been described hereinabove by way of preferred embodiments thereof, it can be modified without departing from the spirit, scope and nature of the subject invention, as defined in the appended claims.
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UCLA Policy 401: Minimum Security Standards for Network Devices
Personal Information and Sensitive Data on Hoffman2
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Any current UCLA student, faculty or staff member with a valid UCLA Logon ID may apply for access to the Hoffman2 Cluster.
Those who are affiliated with a research group may apply for access to that group’s own virtual cluster resources. Cluster access can be authorized for people not affiliated with UCLA by written request from a faculty member who has purchased hardware on the Hoffman2 Cluster or other cluster hosted by IDRE.
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South African policeman bags 30 years in jail for killing Nigerian man
A Durban High court has sentenced South Afriacan police officer, Austin Reynold, to 30 years imprisonment for killing a Nigerian man, Ebuka Okoli.
Reynold was last week Friday November 29th, found guilty of killing Ebuka, an indigene of Anambra state, during an illegal raid in Durban, a coastal city in Kwa Zulu-Natal province in South Africa in January last year.
Reynold and another accomplice had stormed Ebuka's neighborhood for an illegal raid. He accosted Ebuka and asked him to give him money. Ebuka's refusal led to Reynold opening fire at close range on Ebuka who died instantly.
24-year-old Reynold was arraigned by the South African government after his accomplice during the illegal raid, testified against him in court.
Reacting to the sentencing, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), said it is a welcomed development.
“We are glad that justice has been done. We had always stated that there have to be consequences for actions. We are glad that this case finally came to an end and South Africa has demonstrated the political will to deal with xenophobia.” she said
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Irish: Seabhac seilge nó Seabhac gorm
Latin: Falco peregrinus
Medium-large falcon with heavy chest and bulky body. Males are approx. one-third the size of females. Upperparts are blue-grey whilst underparts are white with lower chest and belly finely barred. White cheeks, throat and upper chest contrasts with black hood and prominent 'moustacial' stripe. Juveniles have brownish upperparts and its underparts are prominently streaked on breast and belly.
Mostly found on upland heaths and remote coastal areas. Also found in farmland areas where they utilize small crags and quarries and in urban areas where they nest in a variety of buildings. Have been known to nest in the middle of Limerick, Dublin and Belfast.
Medium sized passerines such as thrushes and starlings, wood pigeons, domestic pigeons, gulls, waders and gamebirds.
Breeding:
Does not build a nest but lays its eggs on ledges of sea or inland cliffs or quarries, in old raven nests, on tall building ledges or in church spires. 3-5 eggs laid, incubation lasts 29-31 days.
The Republic of Ireland Peregrine population is estimated to be 265 breeding pairs and Northern Ireland appears to have 100 breeding pairs.
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Stations of the Cross, Book I
This sequence of 14 pieces (in two books) was premiered by David Titterington at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, on 18th November 2006, and has since been performed by other acclaimed organists, including Kevin Bowyer & Simon Nieminski.
Jesus is sentenced to death
Jesus takes up the Cross
The first fall
Jesus and his mother
The second fall
The piece itself is highly organised. Each movement is based around a key-note and these rise by a semitone between movements, giving the work some sort of harmonic progress but also mirroring Christ’s own journey. Within the movements Swayne has used a pair of eight-note modes, the first in the introduction and the second in the main body of the piece. The result could be rather dry, but certainly isn’t. You do not need to know about his construction methods, but they give the work as sense of harmonic stability whilst allowing dynamic flow and change.
Swayne’s music is tonal only in the loosest possible sense of the word, but his construction techniques ensure that the harmonic movement is always away from a base, you feel that the music is coming from somewhere and going to somewhere; this is important. Stations of the Cross is a long work, some 60 minutes, far too long to be anchored in some sort of a-tonal stasis.
Within each movement there is a strong sense of drama, though the result is not quite as theatrical as I expected. To describe the music as contemplative is wrong, but it is certainly thoughtful and rather austere, despite the wide tonal range and virtuoso feel. Swayne was clearly influenced both by the meditative nature of the Roman Catholic Station of the Cross, but also the highly dramatic and passionate sense of the crucifixion story itself.
The work is further organised into two books, two groups of seven pieces. The second group concludes with Jesus Body is Laid in the Tomb, a full scale prelude and fugue which takes Bach and extends his structures into the 21st century, a three-part trio sonata prelude leads to a five-part fugue which concludes this amazing piece.
Robert Hugill
Mr Bach’s Bottle-bank
12 short variations on “Ten green bottles”, tumbling chromatically and dramatically downwards through the octave, and culminating in a 5–part fugue in the manner of JS Bach. An entirely frivolous organ involuntary, guaranteed to make you laugh. Environmentally friendly, too. It was first performed at Christ Church, Oxford on 27th July 2005 by Kevin Bowyer, who also played it at recitals in Wells, Durham and Truro cathedrals in August.
Stations of the Cross, Book II
The women of Jerusalem
The third fall
Jesus is stripped of his clothes
Jesus is nailed to the Cross
Jesus dies on the Cross
Jesus’ body is laid in his mother’s arms
Jesus’ body is laid in the tomb
Vegetable Fiesta
Piano | Grade 1 technical level | Duration: 9½ minutes
Ten pieces depicting a basket of fresh and varied vegetables, including a downcast cabbage, an elegant French bean out for a Sunday stroll, two chirpy Spanish onions, and an exploding turnip. This rewarding and picturesque collection forms an excellent introduction to the same composer’s Stamp–album GZ 002.
Along with the composer’s Stamp-Album, Vegetable Fiesta was chosen as a set work and performed at the 2012 Contemporary Keyboard Weekend at the Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin, Paris.
THE MIGHTY CARROT: Stomp dance
VERY SAD PETITS POIS: Doleful dance
THE RUNNER BEAN: Early morning jog
HAPPY SPANISH ONIONS: Holiday fiesta
THE LONELY CABBAGE: Green lament
A SWEDE’S NORWEGIAN WEDDING: Fjord dance
THE FRENCH BEAN: Sunday promenade
PERKY PARSNIPS: A jaunty jape
THE EXPLODING TURNIP: A sorry scene
THAT’S SHALLOT FOLKS: Can–can
Ten Terrible Tunes
Piano | Grade 2-4 technical level
Ten contrasting pieces which encourage the young pianist to express moods and characters of many kinds. Although technically easier they are similar in approach to the same composer’s Scrap–book GZ 001. The sixth piece, Whistling Tune, is included in Spectrum 4, an international collection of miniatures for piano, compiled by Thalia Myers and published by the Associated Board under licence from Gonzaga Music.
Ten Terrible Tunes was a set work performed at the 2012 Contemporary Keyboard Weekend at the Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin, Paris
Catchy Tune
Silly Tune
Scary Tune
Posh Tune
Whistling Tune
Pop Tune
Hymn Tune
Sleepy Tune
Cheeky Tune
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Home > Entertainment > [Exclusive] Interview: EXID talks expectations, LA and Legoland
[Exclusive] Interview: EXID talks expectations, LA and Legoland
EXID performs at the 13th Korea Times Music Festival Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl. (Korea Times)
By Tae Hong
Three years ago, EXID visited the U.S. on vacation for a short break following a member change and a mediocre K-pop debut in a busy, busy year filled with a-dime-a-dozen newcomers.
Traveling around Las Vegas, the girls hit up Death Valley, the Grand Canyon and Hollywood. Back home in South Korea, their singles dropped and went into a pool of relative obscurity.
Then, last year, a fancam of an “Up & Down” performance hit the web and went viral. The song, released three months prior to the video, went No. 1. The entire nation joined the up, down, up, up, down craze. EXID was suddenly the focus of the industry.
It was the birth of a true K-pop fairy tale.
And three years after their first U.S. trip as a team, EXID is back stateside. Members LE, Solji, Hani, Hyelin and Junghwa are here to perform at the Korea Times Music Festival as one of South Korea’s hottest new exports.
Muses of famed K-pop producer Shinsadong Tiger, EXID’s last six months to stardom have been greeted by legions of fans used to an industry topped by big-company releases.
It may have been one masterfully crafted fan video that pushed the group into a viral miracle, but the girls are determined to take the chance they’ve been given to finally — finally! — show the world what they’ve got.
Last month, EXID started a follow-up promotion to “Up & Down” with “Ah Yeah.” It debuted shoulder-to-shoulder with top acts and continues to dominate Korean music programs.
The Korea Times sat down for an exclusive interview with the girls during the festival — minus, regrettably, Hani, who was busy all night emceeing — to discuss their new single “Ah Yeah,” Junghwa’s Hollywood Boulevard star run-ins and LE’s dedication to Legos.
Solji and LE of EXID arrive at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday for the 13th Korea Times Music Festival. (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
Korea Times: Congratulations on your first-ever U.S. performance.
Solji: Thank you!
KT: “Ah Yeah” is the first song you guys are promoting after the wild success of “Up & Down.” I imagine you faced a lot of expectations, pressure for it to be a great follow-up.
Hyelin: There was a little pressure because we received so much love from “Up & Down.” But we also found that people started recognizing us more, even listening to our older songs. So we released “Ah Yeah” trusting that people would continue to like us if we keep working just as hard as we were. I’m so glad the reception has been good. In the future, we want to solidify our musical color to show off to the masses.
LE: There was a lot of burden, to be honest. We had a lot of discussion with Shinsadong Tiger, a lot of thinking, before the thought came up that we wanted to show everyone an upgrade to what they saw with “Up & Down.” “Ah Yeah” is intentionally an extension of “Up & Down.” We’re so relieved about the great response and are working to do even better.
KT: Let’s talk a bit about how far you’ve come. There’s so many acts coming out in today’s K-pop landscape. EXID spent a few years as a relatively unknown group. What was that experience like for you?
Hyelin: The first thing for me was that it helped me understand what a precious thing it is to be able to be on broadcast. We felt it firsthand. Being able to be on stage is a great thing, and a difficult thing. It makes me try my very best for each performance. I perform with a thankful mind. And we always say this — we hope everyone can gain strength from seeing us.
Solji: I don’t think it’s fair to call them unknown, because none of them think of it that way while they work hard. But it is about not being very well-known to the masses. If you keep going, one day that opportunity will come, so I hope no one gives up on their dreams. And as fellow singers, we’ll try our best to be of strength to them. Because we know. We had that period, too. We’re going to really work hard.
KT: You’ve gone for a sexy concept with both “Up & Down” and “Ah Yeah.” Is there a concept you’d like to try?
Hyelin: I want to try all kinds of concepts. I think Junghwa and I would do cute really well, in the lines of Orange Caramel. We’re the youngest members. And I think the older line, Solji unni and LE unni, could do a collaboration.
KT: I can definitely see LE and Solji doing a really powerful concept.
Solji: That’s why I haven’t been able to do cute. (laugh)
KT: While you guys are here in Los Angeles, was there anything you wanted to check out, to see?
LE: We still haven’t been to In-N-Out Burger.
KT: Oh, no! It’s a necessity. You need to go.
LE: That’s everyone’s reaction!
Hyelin: When we came to America to go to Vegas in 2012, there was so much to see. There still is. But us and Legos –
LE: I really like putting together Legos. So we went to Legoland and bought a lot of Legos.
Hyelin: There’s such a difference in price for them between here and Korea. We were really happy about that.
Solji: I want to go to Santa Monica Beach, and Malibu. Maybe if we have another opportunity to vacation here. America is so big, you know? There’s something so peaceful about it. There’s nothing complicated and congested, so when I come I feel healed. I love how relaxed it is here.
Junghwa: We went to Hollywood last time we were here, and I met Johnny Depp there.
KT: Johnny Depp?
Junghwa: You know those cosplayers? (laugh) I took a picture with Jack Sparrow. Now that time has passed, I want to go again.
KT: EXID stands for Exceed in Dreaming. Do each of you have a dream?
Hyelin: With EXID as a foothold, I think it would be good for us to do solo activities in the future. Our team’s role model is Shinhwa. They each carry out solo activities, but they still come through with releasing music and doing concerts together. That’s my wish.
Junghwa: I agree on the team front. Personally, I’ve always liked acting ever since I was young, so a huge part of me wants to show everyone my acting. Not just acting, but hosting a variety television show as well. I like talking, organizing people’s talking points. It would be nice to show different sides of me in many platforms.
Solji: First, we’re just thankful for everything that has happened to us recently. As a team, I want each of our capabilities to shine through so that we can all be loved as individuals. Personally, because my job title is singer, I want to do more performances in which I can sing for more people.
LE: I write songs for our team. If given the chance, I want to produce for other singers as well, to show a side of me I don’t get to through the group.
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Happy for EXID’s success. That said, “Ah Yeah” is just a mediocre song.
Danny Z
Mediocre? That song is hard AF. You must be a KPOP noob to say such a thing.
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ACME AtronOmatic Releases Bandana - The Gaydar App for the iPhone/iPad/iPod
Orlando, Fla., July 1, 2010 /LGBT News/ ACME AtronOmatic, a software development company, has released their newest application, "Bandana - The Gaydar App" for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, a cool social networking application for the Gay and Bisexual community.
The application employs a patent-pending method that uses the device's Bluetooth radio to broadcast a special signal that can be picked up by other nearby users with a similarly-equipped device. The end result turns your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into an actual "gaydar detector" with a range of up to 100 feet.
"What gay man hasn't at one time thought, 'Wow, wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of gaydar detector that would tell you if someone was gay or not'," says Oscar Flemming, lead developer at ACME AtronOmatic. "With this app in your pocket, you can have exactly that."
The free application, now available on the iTunes App Store, allows users to create a public profile along with a photo. Then, in order to use the gaydar feature, the user starts the app, turns on their "gaydar beacon", and places the device in their pocket. Whenever they walk within range of another user also running the app, the device will "ping" or vibrate (depending on the device's volume settings) to let you know that another gay person is nearby. A quick check of the display shows the profile of the user (or users) in range.
"It's perfect for those occasions when you're out in a public setting, say a gym, or a grocery store, a concert ... or even a subway, and you want to know if anyone else nearby is playing for your team," says Flemming. "Want to know if that hot guy you just passed in the airport is gay? Break out your Bandana!"
The application can function in areas without Internet connectivity; any contacts made with the Bluetooth radio are stored offline, and can be reviewed later when the network is available. This allows the device to function in places like a subway or other location where Internet access is not available.
Aside from the gaydar feature, the app also supports profile browsing and private one-on-one chatting commonly found in other gay-oriented apps. Users can further customize their profile by selecting "interests", allowing users to search for profiles based on matching interests.
The app also has a "confirmed gay" feature, allowing users to configure privacy settings such that their gaydar signal is only detectable by other "confirmed gay" users. In order to become a "confirmed gay" user, you must be approved by an already-existing "confirmed gay" user.
Bandana - The Gaydar App is available now on the iTunes App Store.
ABOUT ACME ATRONOMATIC
ACME AtronOmatic is a software development company, creating applications for Internet and mobile platforms in the business and social-networking arena.
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just hoping it doesn't lead to gay bashings
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hahaha! i hope it will ;))
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Ah great! Was dreaming of an application like this!
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Hamas livid after Abbas phones Rivlin
PA chairman calls President Rivlin to express his condolences over the death of his wife, raising the ire of Hamas.
Elad Benari, 07/06/19 04:41
Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday called President Reuven Rivlin to express his condolences over the death of his wife, Nechama Rivlin, raising the ire of Hamas.
According to the PA’s official news agency Wafa, Abbas offered his condolences to Rivlin “and asked God to provide him and his family with comfort and patience.”
Rivlin thanked Abbas for the call and wished him happy holidays on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the conclusion of Ramadan, the report said.
Hamas later blasted Abbas for making the phone call.
"Abbas’s condolences are a betrayal of the Palestinian people, a knife in the hearts of the martyrs’ families, and a complete disregard of their feelings," the terror group said in a statement quoted by Yediot Aharonot.
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"Linsanity" hits the Big Screen
"Linsanity" the Movie
psalm234 July 24, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Thanks, Jlinfan#1. You Da Best!
Just for fun, I'll repost the 603rd message. My fingers just thanked me.
I have an idea. Open 2 threads at once, one with [FIGHTING and NAME-CALLING allowed] but the other one with civil discussions :D
We might get to the point where the personal fight is detrimental (and drives people away) because it takes away from the quality of discussion. Plus, "Load More" induces Carpal Tunnel syndrome. I know because my fingers agreed with me :}
It will ended up that both threads will be flooded with name calling and fighting....lol but nice try tho...
Dave T July 24, 2013 at 1:22 PM
That would be nice psalm. Flame wars are often the cause of death of forums. I hope it doesn't happen here.
psalm234 July 24, 2013 at 1:30 PM
yes Brent, people will be arguing for who needs to go to the FIGHTING thread first :D
Very true, Dave T. Sooner than later, it would be so toxic full of hatred that people just leave. I'm just sad to see it's already happening. I wish people extend more grace to others however undeserved it might be.
k gunner gold owns me July 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM
no flame wars? wut about water wars?
war o words?
Dila July 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM
I really hope I can watch this film soon.
too bad Phoenix is not in the list of cities. Lucky you who live in bigger cities :D
wilc July 24, 2013 at 3:08 PM
Almost forgot about that kickstarter pledge... the DVD should ship this Sep
yes wilc, DVD in Sept and theatres in Oct. I want them all :D
So far, it's not much fun watching those buttons they sent in mail.
ABC Baller July 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM
They did say the movie will show in 10 to 15 other cities besides LA, NY, Boston, and San Francisco. So I'm guessing Phoenix should be on the list, as well as Chicago and Houston.
thx for giving back the hope, ABC Baller. It will be great watching in a big theater.
Solidz75 July 24, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Wow.. I've been a way for a few days and this site goes to shitters. Lol
But I just wanna way this Smoothie dude is a DB just like I suspected he was.
Remember folks, this is the dude who stated that he had no idea what Clutchfan was and still uses the term LOF that originated from that site.
This is the dude who supposedly watched every game Jeremy has ever played and still states the onus is on Lin to improve -that if he plays better everything will just magically take care of itself. Now who here who HONESTLY watched every game last year truly believe that it's just a matter of Lin improving? Did u guys not see when Lin was shamelessly yanked when he was playing well? Did u guys see how Lin was just able to take over games only to see him getting yelled at inexplicably by Mchale or asked to stand in the corner the next game. So u really think his demotion had to do only with his play?
Now before this joker says that I give lin fans a bad name by blaming everyone else but Lin, u guys know I've called out Lin about his passivity and mediocre shooting as ell. But if you truly watched every game like I have, u know this organization whether morey or Mchale was never behind Lin. U guys really think they are blameless like Rico stupid smoothie says?
Remember, He points out preseason and the Miami game as the reasons why he was demoted. K smitb's initial intuition is right. This is exactly something he prototypical clutch fan LOH would say.
U guys can knock me for using foul language, being a dick, asshole and all that, but at least try to listen to what these other so called well behaved poster have to say and think a bit.
I guarantee you when (not if) Lin gets marginalized upcoming season (just like last) because Lin is forced into a position he is handcuffed at, DB's like Smoovie will be the first to blame Lin for sucking. He is just too stupid to know it yet, but he is really a Lin hater at heart.
And let's not forget blaming Lin fans for voting him the ASG? Are u effing kidding me? This is EXACTLY what LOH's say!
I think both "he been marginalized" and "Lin improving" are true. I watched every games as well, some not live tho.
Smoovies July 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Nice solidz, take my comments out of context. I have stated that last year was both a combination of Lin's inconsistent shooting, not having a big who can finish AND being marginalized. I'm one of the few people on this site who has repeatedly predicted a breakout year this season and that the signing of Howard will be good for Jeremy's game.
"I guarantee you when (not if) Lin gets marginalized upcoming season (just like last) "
Why is it you can "guarantee" and almost wish that Lin will have another mediocre year? Wouldn't a true fan say that Jeremy will once again overcome this obstacle in his life and prove his critics wrong? Do you doubt that Jeremy can adapt and remake his game and lead this team deep in the playoffs? Why must you wish him poorly so you can look good?
As far as your All Star Game comment, do you forget that Jeremy was glad he didn't get voted into the All Star Game?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/jeremy-lin-glad-wasn-t-voted-star-wants-181116202--nba.html
He knows he didn't deserve to start in the all star game, I know it, every sensible person on the planet knows it except those who want Jeremy to be something he doesn't want to be. Why would you want to go against Jeremy's own wishes?
Etane July 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM
"As far as your All Star Game comment, do you forget that Jeremy was glad he didn't get voted into the All Star Game?"
But did Jeremy go out and tell people not to vote for him and telling his fans they are hysterically stupid and shaming his "real" fans for voting for him like you are?
Etane, if you were a personal friend of Jeremy and you asked him whether you should vote for him, I bet you he would say no. But there is no way Jeremy can stop people from voting for him. If he had a way that he could have opted out of the voting, my bet is that he would have. That is the type of character I admire about Jeremy. Read the article I mentioned above. He wants to earn his way onto the all star team not just because he has the "asian" vote. Nobody with any basketball sense can argue that Jeremy had a better year than Chris Paul. Etane, you never gave a reason why you think Jeremy should have started over Chris Paul in the all star game. I'm just asking you to give me a reasonable answer.
similarly you are not a personal friend of anyone on this board. so it's not your place to tell anyone here not to vote for Jeremy.
k gunner, I just want someone to give me a reasonable answer as to why you would vote for Jeremy on the All Star Team last year over Chris Paul. Can you give me an answer?
Earn? What the fuck are you talking about Smoov? This is All Star Games, a popularity contest and not fucking 1st,2nd,3rd All NBA Team or 1st and 2nd Defensive Team which dictated certain stat numbers.
Just because Jeremy "wished" he didn't get voted in does not mean we should not vote for him. For me, Jeremy is the brightest and the only star, the rest are just fucking glitters which means I only have one option.
Also since you quickly called out Solidz for predicting another frustrating next season, why don't we use the same logic as you did for Jeremy's All Star? Why do you think if Jeremy got voted in as All Star starter is automatically a bad thing? Who knows maybe Jeremy would realize that he is truly an All Star and start acted like one or The Rockets will be forced to feature him more in offense thus increased his usage rate and production, right? So fuck you, your statement about Lin not deserving All Star last season is not very different in terms with Solidz next season prediction, you fucking hypocrite.
Also your "Do you doubt that Jeremy can adapt and remake his game and lead this team deep in the playoffs?" statement.
1. Is it the right thing to do? Jeremy's real game is already the best game that many of us believe will result the most wins. Shouldn't the teams adapt to Lin's game instead?
2. "Lead" this team deep in the playoff? This "team" will not allow Lin to lead on anything you idiot. He is not their superstars, he is not their team captain(Harden), he is not even their team vice captain(Parsons), he doesn't have the full support from the coaching staff and the front office, he absolutely have nothing with this Rockets team.
Pop Doggy July 24, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Speaking as a fan who voted for Lin like 30 times for last year's ASG, I must say that ironically I don't care what Jeremy thinks about this.
We who like him want him to be a star more than he wants to be a star himself.
Plus we think he'll be in a better position to deal with McHale if he was an All Star. So we try to boost him up.
I don't hate on CP3 but I hardly know what's up with him except that he's in the Clippers.
I don't mind Smoov's position because it's his and he says it with respect. What I like about Jeremy is every time he gets into the game, I'm living with the possibility of Spurs 38, Lakers 38, OKC 29, Toronto clutch 3, UConn scoring ferocity, Tyson/Fields/Shump alley oop (now with D12), and so on. So, I can't wait for the start of a HOU game, and I can't wait for him to be under pressure to see what he does.
Last season, he did it mostly, and where I got deflated was coaching and org support. I've meandered between CF and here, and when people feel the same about the infinite potential of a Jeremy touch, I'm in. When they flame him for disappointing play (recall Duncan's miss in the final seconds too), I don't get to live with sports as I want it to be.
To me, it's facing the challenge, and achieving greatness or accepting defeat. That to me is why I love JLin7, and so, I'll keep voting for him to be ASG if you don't mind.
Rik, let's say this year Lin has an awesome first half of the season. He's averaging 30 pts, 12 asts, shooting 50% from the floor, 40% from 3, 95% at the line. Then there is a guy on another team who is having a mediocre year averaging 7 pts a game and 3 assists, but he has blond hair, blue eyes, is a snappy dresser, funny and charismatic who can do an amazing impression of Jack Nicholson. People love him because he is an entertainer and he makes them laugh. There is also a campaign going on not to vote for Jeremy because he is "made in taiwan". Now this guy gets voted onto the all-star game over Jeremy. What would your view be then? You can't claim Jeremy is the target of racism until you take the plank out of your own eye.
JoeTeam, I respect your view and I appreciate your rational response. When Jeremy was on the Knicks I was all for Jeremy being chosen to be on the rising all-stars game. He earned and deserved it that year. However last year was an off year for Jeremy by his own admission. It partly was due to his recovering knee, partly due to his inconsisten shot, partly due to astronomical expectations of living up to Linsanity, partly due to not having a big man who could finish and partly due to coaches misuing him. He did not deserve to be a starter on the all-star team year, especially over a player like Chris Paul. To me all great people must go through adversity to achieve greatness, trials and testing makes one stronger. This year I believe Jeremy could have an all-star year to justify his selection. Maybe his opportunity will come through an injury to Harden or a slumping Parsons, Jeremy will once again shine when we least expect it! Jeremy's character is what makes him unique. There have been many talented basketball players but not may with the integrity he exhibits.
Smoovies, I'm not saying your view is wrong. It's just that you don't get the opinions of many people here.
If you are married, imagine if your wife was running for some position and you didn't vote for her because the other candidate is stronger.
If you are a father, imagine if your kid was running for little league all star and you didn't vote for him cos he's not the best player.
If you're a brother, imagine if your brother was running for class president and you didn't vote for him because you thought the other guy was better.
If you have a best friend, imagine if he couldn't count on you for support because you always take things so objectively.
You're on a Jeremy Lin fan site right? Not an NBA site, not Houston Rockets site. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Smoov, I can claim whatever I want just as you can claim whatever the fuck you want. I can claim not only Jeremy is target of racism but also the malice from people who will look absolutely ridiculously stupid when Lin outshines everybody. It is about saving face and maintaining status quo. Seriously how can anyone gain weight when everybody else eating your food and only spare little portion left. Save your hypocrite FAKE positivism or "voice of reason" for somebody else, that shit won't work for me.
Lol at Smoovie. "Taking it out of context" is a phrase uttered by people who are absolutely guilty. Why don't u take the fifth why u are at it.
Yup u got me. I really want Lin to fail so I can be proven right. How long did it take u to come up with that one, genius.
And lastly, let me tell u why the fans should vote Lin in. Because the fans are the only ones who truly believe in his abilities. We need to come together to let the NBA know that u don't eff with Lin, that he has the support of the fans and it would be in their best interest to promote him. It's a popularity contest and u let the effing NBA know what is up. He gets hated on regardless so eff those who believe he doesn't deserve it. This is when our voices get heard, u simpleton.
Without such fan support, things would be even more stacked against Lin, which u in your naive mind fail to realize.
I stand by comments that you are a LOH in disguise - u just don't know it. U use the exact arguments the haters use to insult Lin. U will prove me right.
@Solidz, good to see you back when we needed you around.
@Smoothies,
On the all-star poll:
1. A poll entails a DEMOCRATIC process for participants to vote. A popularity All-Star poll allows fans to vote for their favourite players.
2. There are fans voted for their favorite yet unproven players. Can we call these fans EXTREME fans of the unproven players?
3. If only proven players and the deemed best players should be playing in the all-star game, why do we conduct the poll in the first place?
On the so-called intelligent discussion on a particular player's FANsite:
1. Must all fans be intelligent (passed Mensa's requirement for membership score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or a score of 132) enough to post comments?
The site owner prolly needs to set a standard, or else, nobody should tell other posters to give only intelligent arguments/comments.
I post comments such as Lin's dress sense sucks at times; his smiles so lovely; his hair funny...oops, not so intelligent post...must i stop? hell no!
Smoovies July 24, 2013 at 10:12 PM
Pop Dog, I appreciate the tone of your comments so let me respond to your post. Correct me if I'm wrong but your logic is that you vote subjectively (for your wife, son, brother, friend, etc) even if you know objectively (they are not the best candidate, best player, president). On one level I understand your loyalty but I believe it is misguided and eventually hurts the person your are trying to be loyal to. For example you say
"If you are a father, imagine if your kid was running for little league all star and you didn't vote for him cos he's not the best player."
I believe my son should earn the right to be on an all star team. I wouldn't put him on the team just because I am the coach or president of the league. That's called nepotism and is plainly wrong. When I favor my son it also discriminates against another person's son who is more deserving. It also would not teach my son to be the best player he can be and instead would teach him you could cheat the system by calling on daddy. An honorable father would teach his son to earn his way onto the all star team by his own merit. Can you imagine how all the other players on the all star team would treat my son knowing he didn't really earn his way on the team? He would be outcasted and the laughing stock of the team.
Just because I want Jeremy to earn his way on to the NBA All-Star team does not mean I am a less of supporter of Jeremy than those who want to give him a free pass. Let me ask you this. Do you thing Jeremy's parents and brothers voted for him to be on the all star team? From what I know of the values and integrity of their family, I seriously doubt it. Do you think they voted for him?
You know when you are on shakey ground when you need to resort to profanity and name calling so I won't even bother responding to solidz or rik. They ridicule themselves with their classless comments.
Liv, you have every right according to the NBA rules to vote for anybody on the NBA all-star ballot. The NBA does this to generate fan participation and excitement, but it does not realistically expect lesser known players like Chandler Parsons to beat out Kevin Durant. Trust me the day Kevin Durant or LeBron James aren't voted to start the NBA all-star game is the day the NBA will change the rules. Do you remember not long ago when there was a contest where you could vote which high school you would like Taylor Swift to peform at? When the results came in and a deaf school won, they voided the results and changed the rules. The same will happen in the NBA.
In terms of your comment on intelligent discussion, there are obviously no restrictions on what anybody can post to this site. But I would rather have civil, honest and heated debate over topics than just a "your momma's fat", "no, your momma's fat" drivel that some spew on this site. If you want respect you have to give respect. I would love to hear your feedback, you don't need to agree with me, just keep it classy please.
Please reply to my post point by point. Then I will reply to yours.
Pretending to be classy to disguise your hatred towards Lin and justify the frauds that the NBA committed towards Lin doesn't work, as far as I'm concerned.
For the record, I never say anything about people's mom, people are fat, skinny, short or done any name calling.
I copied the posts of others to reply to you, and your name apparently changed to ice smoothies, so fat happened to you only...my bad...hahaha.
ooops, typo again. my bad.
fat = far
Etane July 24, 2013 at 11:08 PM
"An honorable father would teach his son to earn his way onto the all star team by his own merit."
Fucker is now preaching to others on how to parent.
Liv, I did respond to your points in my post but if you need me to spell it out I will:
"1. A poll entails a DEMOCRATIC process for participants to vote. A popularity All-Star poll allows fans to vote for their favourite players."
No argument here.
"2. There are fans voted for their favorite yet unproven players. Can we call these fans EXTREME fans of the unproven players?"
Yes, you can call them extreme fans. If you think Chandler Parsons should start over Kevin Durant in the all-star game, I would call you an extreme Chandler Parsons fan.
"3. If only proven players and the deemed best players should be playing in the all-star game, why do we conduct the poll in the first place?"
As I stated in my original response, the NBA implements a voting system to generate fan excitement and participation. It is pure marketing genius.
"1. Must all fans be intelligent (passed Mensa's requirement for membership score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or a score of 132) enough to post comments?"
It should be obvious that there is no intelligence test required to post to this site, otherwise many would be disqualified. It should be a forum where people can post their opinions and have rigorous debate about all things concerning Jeremy. I'm not sure what your point is here.
"For the record, I never say anything about people's mom, people are fat, skinny, short or done any name calling."
My point is that many people resort to name calling and not posting anything substantial. It seems that english may not be your first language so you may not understand the meaning of the "your momma's fat" context.
Anyways, hope this clarifies my repsone.
Funny Smoov. Why would I need class dealing with a Lin hater in disguise like you? I do not want your respect for it means nothing to me just as you don't want or need my respect for what your agenda here is clear to me.
You can keep hiding using your disguised "civil" comments all you want just as I will keep on responding your disguised comments.
Etane, I feel for you man. I really do. You must not have had a father figure growing up to teach you about honor. Never too late to learn though. Look to Jeremy to be good role model on how to act honorably. If you live in the Bay Area I would recommend you attend the Identity Unleashed conference he is hosting in September.
Solidz75 July 24, 2013 at 11:38 PM
Of course, Not So Smooth will cop out. He can't say shit because its all true.
Tell me which of you Lin fans use the Miami Airball game and Lin's preseason last year to point out how bad Lin played. Yup, this joker did it.
This liar also said he has never heard of Clutchfans and then uses the term LOF to mock linfans on a jeremylin fan site.
And to add to insult he thinks we are embarassing Lin by voting Lin into a popularity contest and has the balls to admonish those who did. He thinks we are the ones tarnishing Lin's image more so than morey or Mchale.
And then he calls himself the true fan of Lin.
I don't think anyone will waste their time, but if u go back and read his comments, he uses the exact same logic the haters on clutchfan espouse. It's crazy.
This is Stoopie's logic. He believes that Lin was more at fault than Morey/Mchale's improper usage of him and Lin needs to own up and play better to get mchale's respects and a more prominent role on the team.
Do you guys really believe its just a matter of Lin playing better to be considered a part of Rox's future? Does anyone, aside from false hope, believe that Rocket will support Lin to become a better player (like washing dies for John wall, or Cleveland does for irving)?
Is my pessimism based on false pretenses?
Stoopie will use excuses not to respond. It's okay. I don't need his rebuttal. I'm just exposing him for the fraud he is.
Lin needs fans support more than ever because it's obvious that rox are not looking out for his self interest.. It's a way for us to show corporate America that there are many many fans down with him, that he should simply not be ignored.
Dont fool yourselves. Lin is not on an equal footing as his peers. Doobie may naively believe otherwise but most of you know it ain't true.
Once he loses the fan support Lin will have that big if a task ahead. But I'm sure fans like Toosie will leave if Lin gets effed over again by morey and Mchale next season, blaming Lin for not being a good enough player to earn their respect.
Smoovies July 25, 2013 at 12:06 AM
If anyone has the time, please read what I actually posted rather than solidz creative reinterpretation of history.
I brought up the miami airball game as an example of Jeremy's slow start and the reputation hit he took as a result in the eyes of the media and coaches. It was a turning point in the season for Jeremy. If he hits that shot, the media would be talking about Linsanity in Houston and it would have been a big boost in the eyes of the coaches. Unfortunately he missed the shot by 2 feet and his reputation in the media and in the coaches eyes never fully recovered as the clip of him missing was played over and over on national tv.
Jeremy will redeem himself this year.
I believe your pessimism is actually a defense mechanism. Most likely you have unresolved trust issues.
smoov ... yeah people are gettin' on you because you won't vote for JLin for ASG, and you are promoting it's not right. I tend to side with the vote for your friends thing. I bet Lin's family voted for him, not because of integrity issues but it's just support as Pop Doggy said. I mean, it's not really high stakes and all in good fun (except for the ASG contract incentives for some).
On Lin's comment, I think he meant it and he was also trying to ice all the noise around him given coaching wanted to dampen out Linsanity noise and get him to be a coached part of the the team. Early in the season, it made sense, but later near the end, McHale didn't look too wise. So, I wouldn't peg what he said then as a bedrock to argue for him being AS last year. Your CP3 point is right. But voting fans don't look at it that way and it's all for hype anyway. At least the NBA ASG weekend is not as boring as some other sports, so I'm glad for the hype.
You have a point on nepotism, but this to me is a gray area just like when a friend asks you to "Like" their website to promote their wares ... even through you don't use them, you might "Like" it out of social graces or just to be nice. Let's be nice to Lin and vote him in this year :-)
Joe, I respect your reasons for voting for Lin and I'm not saying it's not "right" for you to vote for Lin, but I don't think people understand the ramifications for Jeremy if he were voted in. It would damage his credibility as a NBA player. It's like the example I gave of the son who was put on the all-star team because his dad is the coach but really didn't belong. The media would have a field day about how an undeserving player was voted onto the all-star game because of reverse racism. Also do you think the other players would sit idly by and welcome Jeremy into the starting 5 while this "injustice" was occurring? Remember what happened with Taylor Swift when Kanye West though the grammy's disrespected Beyonce? I wouldn't be surprised if other players would boycott the all-star game in support of Chris Paul. Do you think Jeremy wants that type of controversy surrounding him? That's why he was glad he wasn't voted on. Even if he was voted on, I think Jeremy would have found a way to excuse himself.
It's only speculation, but I disagree with you that Lin's family voted for him. They know the pressure and controversy that would have transpired if Jeremy were voted in. They wouldn't want to wish that on their son.
Jeremy is going to have a great year and I have hope we can vote Jeremy on to the all-star team this year based on his merit on the court.
Injustice? So Lin become a starter in ASG is injustice? What about the injustice Lin faced in his own team, his own coach, his own teammates? Why they don't talk about that? Shouldn't that be the main problem?
The real problem is that there many people who don't want him to succeed even within his own team. It is like a bunch of popular mean girls bullying a kind and very beautiful girl who is a prom queen just because she is too beautiful and don't act like a bitch like the rest of them.
So what is the lesson here? We just have the accept the environment no matter how wrong it is? We shouldn't try to change the environment for the better just to avoid being crucified by everybody that against it and want to maintain the status quo? Wait a minute, isn't that exactly what Jesus Christ did?
Pop Doggy July 25, 2013 at 6:08 AM
@Smoovies
Just a quick response to your question.
- I do believe that Lin's friends and family voted for him.
- You believe ASG qualification is about skill, but I believe in playing in the rules NBA sets out. They let us vote on who we wanted to see, and I wanted to see Jeremy x 30 votes.
- If my votes result in resentment from other players about their own lack of votes, well that's too bad. They're rich and famous already and I don't care if I hurt their feelings.
- I respect your anti-nepotism stance but I do favor Lin.
Etane July 25, 2013 at 6:11 AM
"smoov ... yeah people are gettin' on you because you won't vote for JLin for ASG"
BS JT. Smothers is an ass for being an ass.
Smoovies July 25, 2013 at 7:02 AM
Pop Dog, I appreciate your response and I respect your choice to vote for Lin. Here are my thoughts on your comments:
-It's possible, but I have a hard time believing Jeremy's parents voted for him knowing the type of backlash and negative publicity Jeremy would have received. You wouldn't wish that upon your son, would you? Now I wouldn't be surprised if his buddies voted for him because they thought it would be cool or thought he could score them some free tickets, but I'm talking about his close family.
-I agree that ASG qualification is not based upon merit, it is a marketing gimic created by the NBA. Many people vote purely on name recognition. If Michael Jordan was on the ballot he would most likely get voted on today. You are fully within your rights to vote 30x for Jeremy, I'm not taking that away from you. I'm just thinking about what's best for Jeremy and his career.
-The resentment from other players would result in a unwanted backlash against Lin. They would not respect him as a basketball player and only think he is on the team because he's asian. Would you respect their choice if they boycotted the game out of respect for Chris Paul?
-I respect your pro-nepotism stance and I too am a Lin supporter.
-If Jeremy had a somewhat decent first half of the season I would have no qualms with people voting for Lin. But he was shooting 35% from the field and only 25% from 3. It would be like if Tim Tebow started in the Pro Bowl over Peyton Manning. He would have been the biggest laughing stock of all time. I don't want to see Jeremy in the news because of his race, I want to see him in the news because of the basketball talent. If your response is I don't care if Jeremy is the biggest laughing stock of all time, you have to ask yourself: do I want Jeremy in the ASG because I want what is best for Jeremy or because of my own agenda.
-Appreciate your responses Pop Dog, keep on posting. Just look at etane's post above to see the level of intelligence I have to deal with.
Rik, did you see my quotes around the word "injustice"? I was making a statement that other players would view Jeremy getting voted on over Chris Paul as an "injustice" and wouln't sit by and accept it.
Jeremy has faced many injustices in his life and career. Voting him into the ASG would not correct those injustices, in fact it would have a reverse effect. People would focus on Jeremy's race, not basketball skill as a reason why he is in the ASG or NBA. It would confirm in people's minds that asians can't play basketball and Jeremy is only being used by the NBA to capture the asian market. We know Jeremy is an all-star caliber player because we all witnessed Linsanity, he just had an off first half of the season. I have no doubt that Jeremy will become an all-star based upon his basketball talents one year, possibly even this year.
@smoovies,
you wrote: No argument here."
- so we agree that fans are free to vote for their favorite players.
You wrote: Yes, you can call them extreme fans. If you think Chandler Parsons should start over Kevin Durant in the all-star game, I would call you an extreme Chandler Parsons fan.
You wrote: As I stated in my original response, the NBA implements a voting system to generate fan excitement and participation. It is pure marketing genius.
--- Since you don't have argument for "1, then I'ld suggest to you that you should reexamine your stance for "2 and "3.
In the spirit of democratic balloting, any action by the participant should not be labelled as extreme.
And you stated very clearly that fans are manipulated to participate in the poll, so why should you labelled NBA fans extreme and their actions tarnish the name of the voted players?
Your wrote:My point is that many people resort to name calling and not posting anything substantial. It seems that english may not be your first language so you may not understand the meaning of the "your momma's fat" context.
--- Your comment about English isn’t my first language reminds me of the English-French Rivalry : Englishmen think Frenchmen are stupid because they don’t speak English well but the Frenchmen are not motivated to learn English because they pride their national language as the most beautiful language in the world and there isn't any need to learn English…but I digress…
I definitely dislike name-calling. Maybe we can rephrase 'intelligent discussions' to 'civil discussions'.
Liv, yes, let's have more 'civil discussions'.
Ok, I think I understand what you're saying and perhaps where the disconnect is. My beef isn't with you, the fans that voted for Jeremy. I'm sure you had good intentions in wanting to see your favorite player in the All-Star game. My concern is what the ramifications would be for Jeremy, his career, and his credibility as a basketball player. There are many haters who don't think Jeremy belongs in the NBA and is only a starter to sell jerseys, and voting him as a starter in the ASG would only give evidence to these haters to make their case. I don't fault you for voting for him. If anything the system is flawed where a player like Andrew Bynum (who didn't even play last year) could potentially start over LeBron James. Jeremy would take a major reputation hit if he were voted on the ASG. I, like Jeremy, am glad he didn't get voted on.
BTW, my comment about English not being your first language wasn't meant to be an insult. "Your momma" is a urban colloquial expression here in the USA.
Solidz75 July 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Lol @ Dopie trying to defend himself.
"Oh thank you so much for being civil .. Now we can have a civil discussion about how stupid you guys are about voting for Lin for the asg."
Are u really going to thank everyone for refraining from calling you names ( which are all to appropriate I may add and u know they are thinking it as they try to be nice to u) ) and trying to kiss up to them so u won't get bashed?
U r lucky I am too lazy to go back and dig up your posts that show your true colors." What da hell is clutchfan? Btw u r acting like LOF?! It's embarassing!"
psalm234 July 25, 2013 at 10:40 AM
There is one truth that we can all agree here is NBA All-Star voting is a pure marketing genius. Should fans favorite get it even when the numbers are not the best?
Just look at how many words are exchanged only by Lin fans so NBA is relevant in people's mind. NBA wins!
So does it matter for Lin? Of course.
NBA notices when a player is so popular that it almost gets in the ASG even when the numbers are not quite there. Accommodations will be made, NBA businesses in Asia will flourish more. Ref calls might favor Lin the budding star in the future. NBA likes their money green.
The recent ASG voting result was perfect when Lin finished closed behind CP3 so he wasn't in the hot water during the SG.
Majority of Lin fans will vote but some will follow their conviction to base it on pure basketball sense. The point is we all are free to vote.
I prefer to see how it influences Lin's future so I only voted in the end to keep the numbers close. Fans voting do matter because Lin haters would say, "See, I told you even Asia and his own fans wouldn't vote for him 'cause he's just a fluke."
So vote away, folks. Keep the peace. In the end NBA wins. If we can help Lin to partake in the win, it'll be great :D
Yes, solidz, I agree with you. You are lazy. Your posts lack any substance.
I might be lazy but I'm not a naive buffoon like u. That and a freaking liar. Nice values u imparting to your kid.
Of course my posts lack any substsnce to you. U got them stupid blinders on, just like morey and Mchale do in not recognizing Lin's abilities.
Lastly, before u accuse anyone of having trust issues, perhaps u need to look at yourself and reassess if u r being a naive DB.
My pessimism ( or "trust issues" ) about the Rox are firmly grounded in how theytreated Lin last year. Tell me what makes u think we as lin fans can cntinue to trust that the rox will help Lin succeed? U don't actually believe that the rox got D12 to improve Lin's game do u?
Just because u don't curse and pretend to be civil doesn't mean you are not a huge Prick. that and a liar..
Can't wait for the season to start so Jeremy can prove you wrong solidz. I feel bad for you man, you've got so much hate in your heart.
I couldnt carel ess about you, dopie , but I feel really bad for your son. His father is a huge liar and a naive prick.
eb5attorney July 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Regrding Psalm's previous post on Mac's praise of Parsons. I have no doubt that Lin experiences racism from many in NBA organizations and NBA and Houston fans -- I actually agree with many posters regarding this. However, I do not think it's productive or wise to keep on repeating every criticism is due to racism because not only this sounds whining but may turn out flat wrong. By the way, I will refrain from making personal attacks even if other posters make personal attacks. Besides, I have nothing more to say until the season starts. :)
Word, eb :D
By all means defend yourself from attacks then just ignore them. No need to fan the flame eternally. haha
Even Lin chose to focus his time and effort on what he can do next to fight the injustice. He's definitely surrounded by wise people.
I lost my energy for NBA ever since Ray Allen nailed the winner against Spurs. Good guys don't always win in NBA or life. :)
It's worse than that. The NBA is rigged.
Before the Finals this year, Lebron James play-off record:
When Joey Crawford officiates: 23-3
All other games: 41-50
There were two games in this Finals that, if Miami had lost, the series would have either been over, or essentially over, games 2 and 6. If Miami had lost game 2, they'd be down 2 and going back for 3 in San Antonio. If they'd lost game 6, series over.
Guess who officiated both games? Joey Crawford.
The NBA doesn't care too much who actually wins, but they care very much whether the series is competitive. And that cost San Antonio the series. San Antonio was clearly the best team in this Finals and had Miami on the ropes throughout.
The shitty thing about conspiracies like this is that there doesn't need to be any communication. Crawford knows what Stern wants and he gives it to him. In return, Crawford gets to be an influential, high-profile referee in the NBA. Who knows, maybe it'll pay off even more handsomely for him down the line, under or over the table. Crawford knows which side his bread is buttered. And Stern can see the effect Crawford has on games so he assigns him where he's needed.
Tim Donaghy's book definitely knocked some sense of reality to NBA fans on how much power these refs have to influence the games. It's a business after all.
Let's hope Joey Crawford has another grand-grandson who idolizes Lin like his grandson did for Iverson.
And perhaps Joey Crawford got the final laugh after the Spurs mocked him during a Halloween party?
shu up dude, Joey crawford was seriously rigging games this year...against Miami. I kind of like this site but the LeBron hate here is unbearable. hes the best player since Jordan and might surpass him and go down as the best NBA player ever even better than Wilt and MJ. Also hes 10 times the player Kobrick Cryant is ffs.
NBA is rigged, tho, but not to favour Miami but to favour the god damn Lakers. Watch how they got in the playoffs and infront of Houston this year or the pathetically rigged WCFinals against the Kings in 2002. That shit is rigged. refs did everything they could this year to prevent Miami from repeating but it wasnt quite enough
ztrta July 24, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Exactly! And well articulated.
Look at 2011-2012 ECF: They brazenly GAVE AWAY game #2 to Miami, without which Boston would have won the series in 6 games.
I was replying to Michael Terry's comment.
Why didn't Spurs protest and ask for a different, more "neutral" ref? Not that they will get their wish but at least make the case for it?
Etane..looool Spurs had a fT advantage of like 50 more FTs over the entire series. Against a team with penetrating guards and Wade/LeBron. NBA did everything to rig that shy against Miami. Spurs got BS call after BS call. It just wasnt enough to get their old bums over the edge
The Spurs would be fined heavily if they suggested one of the refs wasn't neutral. Speaking out against the refs in any way is fined by the NBA regularly.
I don't hate Lebron at all. He's a fantastic player and a transcendent athlete. I was rooting for him to win his first title.
He isn't nearly the leader or competitor that Jordan was, though, and he doesn't play to maximize his talents. He should post up every time, but he doesn't.
He's also a choker. Finally winning doesn't make that go away. If it weren't for Crawford, his legacy would be winning 1 out of 4 championship series.
We've seen this before. At one time, Danny Crawford (not Joey), if he reffed a Dallas game, it would be a sure loss for Dallas. Mark Cuban was hated by the league. After the media started publishing articles about the Mav's record against Crawford, Dallas mysteriously started winning games when he was officiating. And then Dallas won the title!
LOL sorry but your retarded if you think that Miami got favoured in either the ECF or finals this year. it was the opposite dude both Indiana AND Spurs got heavy FT advantages... are u dumb? both teams arent even nearly as athletic as the Heat and dont attack the basket that often. How come Roy freakin Hibbert only averaged 2 fouls a game. the same Hibbert that tried to alter every single shot and hit LeBron on the Head countless times. it was emarrassing to watch and you have the nerve to say it was rigged for the Heat. i dont know what to say...
zxcvb July 24, 2013 at 6:15 PM
I agree that Miami wasn't favored during these playoffs (or in the previous Finals).
That said, Lebron and Wade (and others "stars") have long received laughable amounts of calls in their favor, esp. during the regular season. And Lebron did choke badly (twice!) down the stretch in Game 6 until Bosh and Allen saved his ass.
I can't stand the hate for Bosh. I seriously applaud Bosh -- he's the only one of the Big 3 who's actually SACRIFICING his touches and stats for the other two. Rockets should be begging to "take him off their hands."
Well, ref-calls aside, LeBron had a great Q3 in the final a la Curry against the Nuggets (twice or 3 times). And, Genobili really choked in Q4. I think 3 bad TOs, esp. the one he just threw out of bounds. That was the difference. I really wanted to see Duncan win it as I became a fan over the final series. He had a chance too. You can't blame it all on the officials if the players themselves had a chance and made mistakes. That's the 'thrill of victory and the agony of de-feet'. LOL
KHuang July 24, 2013 at 11:25 PM
Let's all remember that the NBA is "entertainment".
The NBA is not for basketball "purists". The NBA is about one thing: making money off fan hysteria.
If the NBA felt that it could make more money by having fair officiating where Lebron James can't just draw fouls by barreling into people or Dwight Howard can't elbow and shove his way to position, it would clamp down hard on the refs and clean up the game. But that would be bad for TV ratings and merchandise sales.
I personally prefer the World Championships and Olympics over the NBA Finals, mainly because the games are properly officiated without superstar bias.
I'd love to see Jeremy Lin compete against Team USA which would never take him anyway. I think Lin's game is tailormade for international play, which is more rugged and less ref protected than the NBA. I think Lin would put a major scare into Team USA in a way that no single opponent ever has.
This new season of Lin in Houston will be much worse.
Now they have Harden, D12 and Parsons to try put in the All Star.
Lin is playing well will be bench and Lin playing badly too.
Don't know about your logic.
The fact that Jeremy is healthy and becoming a great jump shooter (40% from 3 in his final 37 games) is reason enough to guarantee a better season than last.
Also, Dwight is 1000X better than Asik at finishing off the PnR and in the low-post. Finally, now that Harden is proven and Dwight is in Houston, there's much less of a need to inflate your star's stats to attract another star.
Finally, Dwight wants low-post touches...and lots of them. You need a REAL point guard to do that. Harden doesn't. Again, not saying Jeremy will flourish on this team -- he won't. But it's gonna be better than last season...maybe by a lot.
It really is like Nash in Dallas.
Jeremy's job is the prove himself as a Top 10 PG by the end of his contract (e.g. putting up 15/9 or 17/7) and then he can go somewhere else as am UFA and become the LEAD guard and realize his full potential (18/10, 20/8) while leading his team to "surprise" top seeds and playoff runs.
zx, I like your script! Go Rocky Balboa-sanity.
And how in the hell Jeremy can get 15/9 or 17/7 night in night out when he doesn't have enough playing time and the ball in his hands? Can somebody tell me?
Lin usage rate last season was 20.6 and ranked 38th among all PGs. Can somebody tell me the name of PG who have usage rate of 20.6 or less that have season average of 15/9 or 17/7? Seriously, humor me please. I desperately need it.
k.smith July 24, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Rikki M - I've been thinking the same thing for awhile. 15/9 or 17/7 is not going to be easy, at all.
I don't know what's going to happen to his usage rate and FGA's. His FGA's might down a little bit with the addition of D12.
If Lin can make Tyson Chandler such a charm, what would happen if it is Howard D12 in person. You can expect Alley ho passes everywhere to Howard, Asik, James, Parsons from Lin. These players cover lots of areas. McHale will be a fool not to spread the court even more.
Moreover, Asik has improved significantly with his outlet passes, D12 would be such a C/PF that intimidates end to end.
Again, the least comforting is the coaching that the Rockets has experienced. All those criticisms of Lin applies to McHale perfectly. From whatever angle I see, Lin is the only element who glue the pieces together unselfishly. He's the only one that the players can trust to bring the best out of them. Just don't yank him out in the 4th. McHale, do yourself a favour or else your coaching career is going to be very short after this season.
Kwok, McHale and Morey will look like bigger fools if Lin shine too much. What would people think when Harden their touted superstar who is being paid $80 million and supposedly superior than Lin in fact is not better than the "chinese" guy who is being paid $25 million?
The sad reality is it is much safer for a lot of people all around the NBA for Lin to fail than having him succeed.
@Rikki
1) His usage rate will go up as his 3pt% and Dwight's low-post touches go up.
2) Nash averaged 10.7 assists on a 19.6 usage rate in 2012 (that's why he's the master).
2) Improved efficiency (both FG% and AST%) will also lead to improved stats.
3) His continued bonding/chemistry with teammates will also lead to more touches. Sounds stupid but that's how the world works -- you help people you like personally.
4) Jeremy makes $15M in 2015. Even though the cap hit is only 8.3, that kind of money demands more attention/touches. If Jeremy made less money, you can bet Morey would have found someone to take him (and possibly bury him on the bench). Instead, he's the default starter as long as he keeps up his progress.
5) I don't expect him to get 15/9 or 17/7 this season...but he can do it by 2015. This season? I predict an efficient 15/7 with 2 spg.
Seriously, doom-and-gloomers. He averaged 13.4/6.1 this "awful" season with:
- A horrendous finisher in Asik (bless his effort and defense), who struggled to dunk a ball at point blank range for most of the season.
-A bum knee that prevented him from hitting jumpers with any consistency for the first two months.
- A coach who refused to play him at his position and benched him when he was hot...but eventually gave him MORE freedom as the season went on.
- A ballhog Harden who was desperate to prove himself as a "star."
15/7 this year and 15/9 or 17/7 next year is not a "crazy dream."
lin2improve July 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM
zxcvb wrote, "The fact that Jeremy is healthy and becoming a great jump shooter (40% from 3 in his final 37 games)".
"Lin has been criticized for his jump shooting, but after the All-Star break, Lin shot 37.5 percent from three-point range. For the season, Lin shot 36.0 percent from three-point range during home games."
it says lin shot 37.5% for the final 32 games. can you show me where he shot 40%?
also i think nash's season in 2011-12 was overrated. gortat is a better ball catcher than asik. plus lin took more shots than nash per 36 while assists get adjusted by being multiplied by 0.33.
espn hollinger's formula is: "{[FGA + (FT Att. x 0.44) + (Ast x 0.33) + TO] x 40 x League Pace} divided by (Minutes x Team Pace)".
there's no way nash's lower usage% means that lin was given more opportunities to run the team's offense.
http://rockets.clutchfans.net/4386/dwight-howard-houston-rockets-morey-asik-lin/
"Lin’s final few months of the regular season were quite encouraging — he hit 50-125 (40%) of his three-pointers in his final 37 games."
i found it, zxcvb. hmm, i wonder if clutch or bleacher is right. i hope clutch is being more accurate. can anyone confirm?
It does not matter, I rather see "Lin shoot 45% from 3 in 2013-14"
zxcvb July 25, 2013 at 12:09 AM
Even 38% is a high quality 3pt% (esp. for a PG) and great progress for a guy whose jump-shooting is likely his greatest weakness.
And that number doesn't count the 10-20 "virtual 3s" he made with his toe on the line! And now he gets a healthy offseason to keep improving/practicing his form.
"there's no way nash's lower usage% means that lin was given more opportunities to run the team's offense."
I'm not claiming that obviously. Nash's usage rate was lower but the offense was 100% built around maximizing his talent when he WAS handling the ball.
I'm just saying a lower than average usage rate doesn't mean it's impossible for Jeremy to put up quality stats. Like you said, Gortat >>> Asik (in terms of finishing). But Howard > Gortat.
So instead of Asik blowing 1-2 apg from Jeremy by attempting a weak layup or bobbling a dunk, you'll have Howard DUNKING those point-blank shots -- which means Jeremy's assist totals go up even if he doesn't increase his touches.
Rikki, I also have the feeling that McHale and Morey were trying to keep and contain Lin from giving his best effort.
They went as far as taking him out in the fourth quarter for absolutely no reason. Then put him back when the games were all but lost in the last four minutes.
The team basketball in Linsanity with everyone playing in thrills were choked. But I still think that is the most entertaining type of basketball even with Lin playing with the 2nd team. They flashed so well that the opposite teams had to call consecutive timeouts trying to stop his momentum.
When you shoot basketball, there is a risk of missing too. Taking the risk of turning over the ball in order to make a big play sometimes is just like shooting the ball. Last season, Lin made so many passes around the rim. The most eyesoring ones were passes to James Anderson with his lazy shots blocked.
Asik is great. He has turned those passes to easy baskets. Asik + Lin are imposing offensive weapons. Not nearly enough credits have been given to the improvements to Omar's catches and drives to the basket.
The chemistry is already there. Omar can shoot the ball away from the basket too. Next season, both Asik and Lin will thrive together.
We have LOFans and LOHaters. Neither side is going to silence the other. I'm just a Lin fan. I can't comprehend the logic of the Lin haters. Their attitude of anything but Lin sucks. They discredit Lin and claim that the 25 games of Linsanity a small sample. Suddenly they embrace Beverly over Lin for a much smaller sample of 3 games.
They're just trolls.
It's just latent racism. And it's even worse because it's a Texas-area team.
It's like latent homophobia -- people who say, "I don't hate gay people...but they's better not shove their issues/lives in my face!"
FanForLife July 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Nobody, but NOBODY - gay or otherwise - should be shoving their issues/lives in my face if they understand what's good for them.
The inability of so-called liberals to grasp something as simple as that is just another measure of their, well, immeasurable stoooopidity.
Uh, the problem is that nobody is actually "shoving their issues in your face."
Intolerant haters who want an excuse to be racist/homophobic/sexist just say that every time a minority of any kind comes to prominence "where they don't belong."
You know what genuinely tolerant people do? Nothing. Or they applaud.
For example, I'm not gay, but I didn't complain about Jason Collins getting media attention for coming out (like so many idiots did). It's a rare occurrence in pro sports and I applaud his courage.
FanForLife July 25, 2013 at 1:05 AM
That's right, leave your head permanently stuck in your ass.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/357084.aspx
The above is just ONE example of how the gay agenda is being shoved down everybody's throat.
What you soulless atheists fail to understand is that there are people of faith out there who try - albeit not always successfully - to live by their religious precepts. And if they're not comfortable aiding and abetting your lifestyle, then it's their prerogative to behave accordingly. Why penalize them?
You're telling me prosecuting a photographer for not wanting to take part in a gay wedding is not "shoving" gay issues in her face? Really?
Your stupidity is staggering. When intercourse involving the exchange of bodily wastes brings about a deadly sexual epidemic, you physiologically-challenged liberals are shocked! Shocked, I tells ya! And then you ululate endlessly about why the government hasn't emptied out the treasury to find a cure for AIDS.
You still think you gay-loving liberals are not shoving your agenda in everybody else's face?
Since you're not gay, why don't you go snack on somebody's feces and see how that goes down?
FYI, I don't give a tootle about gays one way or the other. It's the retardism of moronic liberals like you who don't understand causality that bugs the hell out of me.
Racism and stereotypes stink.
Specially in a free country.
You can find so many of those in the Bleach Reports.
Those writers have been so relentless in preaching their discrimination.
No other athletes in NBA have been treated like this. It's so unfair.
zxcvb July 25, 2013 at 5:14 AM
FanForLife:
I don't support overly PC behavior either, but it's nothing compared to the centuries of far more severe and common persecution AGAINST minorities (including gays).
Also, I noticed you're filled with so much hate and rage for your fellow man.
Do you think that's very Christ-like? Would he tell someone to "go snack on somebody's feces"? I'm not a Bible expert, but my guess is 'probably not.'
"it's nothing compared to the centuries of far more severe and common persecution AGAINST minorities (including gays)"
See, small-minded liberals like you obsess over persecution of centuries ago. But when was the last time you said anything about Christians and other non-believers being beheaded all over the Muslim world RIGHT NOW?
And you appear equally nonchalant about Christians in America being prosecuted for not participating in the gay agenda.
Where is your outrage about the IRS's witch-hunt against Tea Partiers and other conservatives?
You want to talk about my "hate and rage?" Why don't you take a look in the mirror? Coz that's what you liberals are exceptionally good at - projecting.
I first came on this site for news about Lin, then had to read all the anti-conservative, anti-Fox News posts from the likes of you, Bob Chan, k. smith, willy-Americans-are-Nazis-dilly, etc.
You start this crap BUT I'm the hater. Typical liberal.
Why ASS-ume I aim to be Christ-like? Telling you to go eat shit is my way of suggesting that you need to understand there's a painful price for going against the laws of nature.
You may disagree with me, but first try to explain away AIDS.
The likes of you piss me off because your weapons-grade stupidity is responsible for much of what's wrong with the world today.
And while I'm at it, here's another example of your egregious bigotry that you liberals are always projecting on to conservatives:
"It's just latent racism. And it's even worse because it's a Texas-area team."
With one arrogant, ignorant, hate-filled, sweeping statement, you're dismissing all Texans as racist.
Here's Newsflash #1: rednecks don't particularly care for the NBA; they're more into NASCAR. I'm sorry I even have to point that out to you.
Newsflash #2: From Mayweather to SAS, Lin's most bigoted critics are almost all blacks.
You know them African Americans...Obama's constituency?
Ergo, Lin haters are mostly Democrats/liberals.
As I keep saying - you're staggeringly stupid.
Nope, I didn't say all Texans were racists.
I said it's "worse" because it's a Texas-area team. And it's true that Southern states tend to be more racist then Northern states for obvious historical reasons.
But you can go on believing what you want. No one's stopping you. Enjoy! Even as you call me names and make up crap, I wish you nothing but love and peace.
Now you're just splitting hairs.
This "southern states are more racist" crap is a throwback to Republican Abraham "The Great Emancipator" Lincoln and a figment of your liberal education.
You liberals are the ones who treat blacks like they're a lower order of homo sapiens - not unlike monkeys - incapable of fending for themselves without the crutch of affirmative action.
But, of course, conservatives are the racists!
For crying out loud, just look. In. The. Mirror.
"Even as you call me names and make up crap, I wish you nothing but love and peace."
Quoting your very words back at you is making up crap. LOL.
C'mon...you wish me anything but "love and peace."
You liberals have so poisoned the political landscape for conservatives that none of them would stand an electoral chance against serial, incorrigible perverts like Bob Filner and Anthony Weiner.
Your hypocrisy is off the charts. If you'd acknowledge that about yourself and your ilk, we'd have a decent chance of civil exchanges.
I thought you said blacks are liberals. so it's black people who treat black people like lower order homosapiens. i didn't know that. but, like bill cosby said, ther's nothing worse than black on black hate.
KHuang July 25, 2013 at 9:10 AM
Kwok Wai Lai, there are a few more categories:
1) HOLF: Haters of Lin fans, with a subset of "HOLF LF" (haters of Lin fans who are also Lin fans themselves")
2) NBAOF: NBA only fans who like the entire league but appreciate Lin's basketball skills
3) COF: Clutchfans only fans
4) +LF: Christian Lin fans who are into him mainly because of his Christian faith
Any more categories?
Etane, I swear sometimes you post while under the influence. Of course most blacks are liberals; all that brainwashing and who doesn't like freebies, really?
Teen pregnancies; children born out of wedlock; fatherless households; "inner-city crime" virtually a synonym for "Democrat-run district." Tell me, which of these rampant AA realities is not a manifestation of liberal "values?"
And look at the post beneath yours. So much garbageous pointlessness.
I'd call you and KHuang the Twin Towers of Stupidville, but at 5'5", the guy towers over nothing but his own shit.
FanForLife July 25, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Hey KHuang, I've got 3 more categories for you:
1) Lin fans under 5'5"
2) Lin fans at 5'5"
3) Lin fans over 5'5"
FFL, please don't tell me you're a Christian because you sure aren't acting like one. You are so filled with rage and hatred.
Etane July 25, 2013 at 10:33 AM
LOL i am surprised you didn't accuse me of posting while liberal.
not sure race is the determining factor for broken homes. think income or lack of it is the determining factor. only reason why red neck trailer park homes are less broken than inner city ones is because red necks procreate w/ family members and think it's a sin to abort.
and, don't group me with that pathological liar.
That's because you're so filled with liberal BS.
I'd like you to think back to what you've said about people like Sarah Palin and George Bush before you ever, ever call me out again. And go back and read every one of KHuang's posts to me while you're at it, too.
You're just not used to a conservative who won't roll over for you. I'm sick of your semi-literate idiocy, if you must know.
See, "rednecks procreate w/ family members."
But hey, conservatives are the bigots!
As for grouping you with "that pathological liar"....if the shoe fits...
KHuang is clearly a liberal, too:
1) Asian American ... check
2) (Non-country) musician ... check
3) Pathological liar ... check
Yuppers...a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
You got it wrong. Older Asian Americans lean conservative. So are those at or under 5'5".
Lots of artists/musicians are conservative especially ones from arizona the jan brewer id check state.
You and Khuang are two peas in a pod!
"You and KHuang are two peas in a pod!"
Sorry, that's what I said about you and KHuang. Enough of the I-know-what-you-are-but-what-am-I, typically liberal nonsense.
No freakin' way he's a conservative. Conservatives work. You and KHuang spend far too much time here - 24/7/365, in fact - to be economically productive citizens. No doubt you're both sucking off the government's teat.
KHuang's probably living off some seriously misguided NEA grant. Speaking of which, that's another leech of a liberal body that needs to be dismantled ASAP.
Seriously you started the "i know what you are...." argument1
I stated long ago that Khuang is a conservative land you're simply jumping on the bandwagon but riding in the opposite direction!
Conservative/Red states are welfare net deficit states just like Arizona is. So, Khuang must be conservative!
You did know blue states are supporting red states welfare programs, right?
http://reasoningpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/medicare-keep-your-hands-off-my-medicare.jpg
KHuang July 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM
So now I'm being lumped in with both Etane/kgunnergoldownsme and Fanforlife.
OK, am I supposed to be insulted or flattered?
Am I supposed to be disgusted or titillated?
9 of top 10 welfare states are RED.
Top Ten (Source: Tax Foundation):
1. New Mexico Indian reservations, military bases, federal research labs, farm subsidies, retirement programs
2. Mississippi Farm subsidies, military spending, nutrition and anti-poverty aid, retirement programs.
3. Alaska Per capita No 1 recipient of federal benefits; infrastructure projects, DOT and pork projects.
4. Louisiana Disaster relief, farm subsidies, anti-poverty and nutrition aid, military spending.
5. W. Virginia Farm subsidies, anti-poverty and nutrition aid.
6. N. Dakota Farm subsidies, energy subsidies, retirement and anti-poverty programs, Indian reservations.
7. Alabama Retirement programs, anti-poverty and nutrition aid, federal space/military spending, farm subsidies.
8. S. Dakota Retirement programs, nutrition aid, farm subsidies, military spending, Indian reservations.
9. Virginia Civil service pensions, military spending, veterans benefits, retirement, anti-poverty aid.
10. Kentucky Retirement programs, nutritional and anti-poverty aid, farm subsidies.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/10/25/blue_state_red_face_guess_who_benefits_more_from_your_taxes.html
Now consider the bottom 10, i.e., the ones that give more to the federal government in taxes than they get in return. From 1 to 10, they are:
New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, Colorado.
Anything strange about that list? Yes, they are all blue states (or the deepest of purple).
Khuang, you should be titillated because FFL is almost as delusional as you are. = D
I already know YOU'RE titillated at being included with me, Etane/kgunnergoldownsme.
But like I keep telling you, I have no interest in dating you as a man.
To no small extent, I firmly believe that the idea of you and me in a pod excited not just you but Fanforlife.
Hey Etane, you and Fanforlife???
just sayin'...
You and your rubbishy stats. LOL.
Two years ago, after "bailing out" Detroit's auto industry with billions borrowed from China, Obama declared "the city is coming back." Naturally, Detroit just filed for Chapter 11.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/remember-when-obama-said-detroit-was-coming-back-20130723
As with Gov. Moonbeam's "balanced budget", you liberals just make up stats and then interpret them according to your bias. Then when a Detroit happens, you're completely dumbfounded.
Rinse lather repeat.
Just look at the numbers that were bandied about for Obamacare when it was promulgated and the harsh realities that are emerging now.
Deja stupid.
And sorry, KHuang is definitely of your ilk - the triple whammy of AA + unemployable musician + pathological liar is undeniable proof.
KHuang, you're no longer even coherent.
Since when did you ever call me "coherent", FanForLife?
I did not know your opinion of me was that high to begin with. Can you provide us all with examples where you considered me "coherent?"
So being "AA" is a "whammy" too, huh? Fanforlife, I'm interested in your views on that matter.
Perhaps you will be able to turn others here to your way of thinking.
You've seriously devolved, KHuang. You've always been stupid but at least you used to spew your drivel in an articulate way. Now, not so much.
You have no idea how many people you've put off this site with your intransigent idiocy.
I'm sure I've done my share of the "putting-off" work. For instance, the Lin-hating geronimo and the America-hating willy-dilly are nowhere to be seen these days. Sorry to deprive you of 2 of your BFFs.
Oh well, it's been fun "chatting" with you. But, alas, it's back to the salt mines for a worker bee such as moi.
Given that you're a self hating sub 5'5" Asian American male, I'm DISAPPOINTED that you weren't calling me "stupid" earlier.
Once you outed yourself as a little Asian guy who calls Asians "crazy", FanForLife, I realized that being insulted by a self loathing little dude like you means that I'm doing quite a bit that's CORRECT.
I think that you as a little Asian guy, Fanforlife, need to reevaluate your life and stop the self loathing and personal attacks on others. If you learn to accept your short Asian stature, you won't be in constant anger internally and won't spill that anger out on others the way you've done to everyone here.
"Two years ago, after "bailing out" Detroit's auto industry with billions borrowed from China, Obama declared "the city is coming back." Naturally, Detroit just filed for Chapter 11."
You're conflating the US auto industry with the city of detroit.
You're just like khuang the master of conflating! two peas in a pod!
I'm sorry khuang. I know u r sensitive and all but as a 5'6" male, u don't have the right to call anyone short. That is just messed up.
KHuang July 25, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Solidz75, it's Fanforlife who's calling people like you a "crazy Asian mental midget" and not me.
Go ask Fanforlife what he means. I'm just parroting his words back at him and you.
@via, hope you're just being busy.
Please come back to this site. I miss you already.
MXMoua July 24, 2013 at 8:55 PM
omg, so does this mean it will be aired in most cities or just major cities?
please god, I want to see it so bad!!!!!!!
Rikki M, it's strange that I have received 2 of your posts through email but they are not shown on this site.
Maybe it got deleted because it was too controversial. It happened quite often actually.
You remember that Lin lost control of the second unit to Parsons
So Lin never had control of the ball because they always played with Harden
At the end Lin also lost time to Patrick
MXMoua July 25, 2013 at 10:33 AM
exactly. everything went pretty well when Lin got to run w/ the second unit, idk why they abandoned that idea, even if he does, its PB that runs the point not lin. I don't get it Harden is more of TO machine, yet he handles more? PB isn't one either but I thought that time was for Lin, since he is ball dominant but apparently he doesn't get a chance.
Also i don't know why Parsons got to run w/the 2nd unit, he's not Lin or Harden.
Wasn't the purpose to stagger their minutes and give them each some time to have the ball in their hands? For this, I think McHale is not the coach to coach them to a championship, Lin and Harden are ball dominant players, easiest solution could've been for Lin to run w/ the 2nd as the PG, but McHale insists on letting Lin run w/PB as the PG or let Parsons run w/the 2nd unit.
I just don't know if he's hating on Lin or just clueless? or
Racha July 24, 2013 at 10:52 PM
It has been a while but I wanna chime in when I came across this on ESPN.
John Wall is expected to get a "franchise" type extension that's worth around 80 million. Looking at his stats alone, there's nothing JLin can't match or even surpass. So what is with the obsession of an unproven player as many have claimed WAll to be to receive this type of contract? While I could point to color as an overarching factor, theré's another undeniable factor: athletcism.
Athletcim sells I suppose, especially if you're freakishly athletic, and everything else can be improved on which seems to be the case with Wall. JLin is athletic but not "Wall athletic" except for speed. Having said that, JLin needs to carve out his place on the Rockets given his current situation and leverage. He's probably never going to be a franchise player as evident when no team budged during the trade. I wished JLin could be afforded another opportunity to land on a team that has a talented big where he can actually run a team like a "franchise" player but again that'll probably never happen. In retrospect, JLin could have flourished playing with Tyson even with Melo as a thorn to the side.
But let bygones be bygone. We have Dwight now and I can only see it tilt in JLin's favor. Lets be honest, JLin is not a sharp shooter and probably never will but his ability to utilize a capable big is uncanny. Harden and Parsons will not be able to match JLin in this category; moreover, I have a hunch that Dwight will not be happy if either of them tries to play hero ball. Dwight is the man on the team, not Harden or Parsons. Everything will revolve around Dwight. Dwight will demand touches and JLin will give it to him without hesitation.
I think if JLin can click with Dwight, not only will we see JLin become the primary ball-handler consistently but it will springboard him to new heights and exceed that of Linsanity. If JLIn is going have a breakout season, this will be it.
I just don buy that JLin will not be a sharp shooter talk. But, good post...
Good post Racha, I agree with much that you say. Dwight will springboard Jeremy to new heights. Jeremy will have a breakout season, but I don't think he will have peaked yet until he is 28 which means he will be even better in 2 or 3 years. His shooting will only improve with time.
The offensively inept Shumpert has turned into something of a 3-point specialist under the guidance of Dave Hopla.
Meanwhile, Lin appears happy to stick with a girls' HS coach, suspect shooting mechanics and a limp-wristed release. And wonders why he shot like a freakin' fairy in the playoffs.
Hey, Jeremy, there's a reason Doc teaches basketball to high school girls and not NBA dudes.
An Economics grad from Harvard who doesn't understand that when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys?
This situation reminds me of another Taiwanese American, Michael Chang, who had his barely-out-of-college brother rapidly coach him out of the rankings, probably because he wanted to keep all the money in the family or something.
ABC Baller July 25, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Not surprising, if it's Jeremy's parents who control his money and financial decisions.
He shot poorly in the playoffs because he was injured and OKC is a great team.
Everyone was awful in Game 1 and Jeremy was 3-7 in the only healthy half he did play in Game 2. Finally, as repeated ad nauseum, he shot well in the 2nd half of the season once his knee was full strength.
Jeremy uses elite trainers in Sparta Sports and used an "elite" trainer during his pre-draft prep, so it's not like he's averse to the idea. People are extrapolating from a bad, injury affected sample size.
I mean, who was complaining about Doc during Linsanity?
There's no excuse for a 1-7, 4 TOs to 4 assists performance (or whatever the hell his horrible stats were exactly) when you're already battling detractors left, right and center. The playoffs were his best opportunity to shine; instead, he shrank.
Yes, "as repeated ad nauseum", everyone was awful in Game 1, but unlike Lin, everyone else redeemed themselves in subsequent games.
The greatest knock against Lin is arguably his inconsistency. That's been a problem since his HS days. As the playoffs show, he no longer has the luxury of bringing it only on certain nights. One lousy game and his trade value plunges into a black hole.
I blame McHale for virtually everything bad that happened to Lin last season, but Jeremy really did himself no favors with that 1-7 display in Game 1.
And if you think that game was an aberration, go check his shooting numbers at the tail end of the regular season. He was missing with even the simplest of layups.
As for complaining about Doc during Linsanity, you know why Lin's fans still bring up the Toronto buzzer-beater after all this time? Coz it's the "blind squirrel finding a nut" syndrome; Lin hasn't repeated the feat since.
Check out the low-IQ JR Smith for a record of last-second game winners.
Another logic fail by a liberal. LOL.
Everyone is entitled to have a bad game once in a while. Lin has had many good games. He has played against with all the PGs in the league and he has held his own at the end.
Lin's in the class of the elite PGs. It takes one to know one. Ask CP3 how good Lin is. CP3 double teamed Lin every time they played. That is the kind of high respect you can get from your very competent opponent.
FanForLife
could you please go away and never come back here again???
Lin had exactly ONE bad playoff game and guess what? It was his first Playoff game, against the top seed in the loaded West and he played against the probably best and most athletic PG in the NBA, Russel Westbrook. Also he had an elite shot blocker waiting at the rim in Ibaka. The whole team moved like headless chickens and were ALL super nervous, ass you could see in the awful performce of EVERYBODY. James Hogden was 6/19 with 5 TO, Parsons i think had like 10 Points or something and Asik failed miserably on Offense. Also he was yanked FOR NO REASON AT ALL at the end of the season or sat out like 12 minutes playing time at the end of the last and most important regular season game against the Lakers. Even though he improved drastically and played at borderline All-Star level the last few month. so u have a young PG( most complicated position) who got his confidence stomped in by a racist son of a whore who appears to be his coach. He also plays with the biggest and worst ballhog in NBA history James" i spent 20.000 $ per week on hoes" Hogden ( who averaged 38,7 % FG vs OKC btw which is just atrocious for a SG). The offense of the team is without a concept so its even ahrder for a PG to shine. then with all these obstacles from his own team, he has to face the athletic freak of nature and best PG in the entire NBA, Russel Westbrook who appears to be an elite Defender as well as an experienced thunder team with great shotblocking. Also the played in probably the loudest arena in the NBA in OKC. And you except him to go ham in this game. ur dumb and beyond pathitic. you speak just like the average dumb absketball fan in America waiting for Lin to fail or even speakin like a Lin hater. Oh btw he bounced back next game and had 7 points and 4 assists at half and was 3/4 till he got injured early in the second half. His inconsistency is Bullshit, too because once he ws healthy and allowed to actually run the point for a few games, Rockets blew teams out and he averaged all star numbers. then they went back to the Harden show. Your just a Lin Hater, plain and simple. GET OUT OF HERE!
Wow...a German telling me to "GET OUT OF HERE!"
Lemme guess, you think I'm a Jew?
BTW, anybody who can't paragraph has no business posting entire theses on a fan blog. Just sayin'...
@Kwok Wai Lai
FWIW, I think Lin has the makings of an elite PG. We saw him outplay the likes of Steph Curry more than once.
BUT he's so inconsistent that:
a) Knicks fans can claim with a straight face that Felton is better than Lin, by comparing their stats.
b) His contract makes him hard to trade.
c) He vindicates the haters (including McHale) who suggest Lin doesn't belong on a contending team. I can just imagine how happy the booing of Lin at Dwight's welcome rally must've made McHale feel.
I'm harshing on Lin because unlike some others here, I believe he can turn into a Nash-like sharpshooter. So yes, I see his ceiling as higher than a Nash coz he plays defense.
He was injured. End of story.
If you want to call him "soft," you're free to do so. But even then, it doesn't really have anything to do with his shooting form.
All I know is that, when healthy, Jeremy has made HUGE strides in his all-around shooting while working with Doc.
I actually watched him regularly in college and he had almost NONE of the arsenal and success that he does now. For example, his floaters were non-existent and his 3pt jumper often had an ugly leg-kick.
End of story?
He was injured in the final stretch of the regular season and in Game 1? Really?
When your shooting mechanics are unsound, your shot is the first thing to abandon you in a tight game.
You realize with the way the Rox are set up, his jumpshot next season will be all-important to his game?
Like you said:
"Everyone was awful in Game 1, but unlike Lin, everyone else redeemed themselves in subsequent games."
The reason Lin didn't redeem himself later on was that he was injured. In fact, he played well in the first half of Game 2 until he got that deep chest bruise.
I don't see what was so wrong about his final stretch. Not saying he can't play better -- obviously he can -- but it's not about paying money for a "proper" shooting coach. It's about staying healthy, adjusting to his new role, and building chemistry with his new teammates.
Making 3 of 7 shots isn't exactly stellar. If he'd been halfway decent in Game 1, he wouldn't be in this position of being disrespected by all and sundry.
You don't think coaching makes a difference; I beg to differ.
I've given the example of Shumpert. There's a reason the Knicks broke the 3-point record last season out of nowhere: Hopla.
I'm an avid sports fan, and can tell you you can't overestimate the importance of a coach as a difference-maker. It's why I'm certain the Rox aren't going anywhere near a chip with McHale.
Not "all" people disrespect Jeremy Lin for having a rough 1st playoff game that his entire team did poorly with.
Similarly, many of us Lin fans see Lin as actually being a very CONSISTENT player when he's not being knocked out by injury. We Lin fans do not blame Jeremy Lin for being injured, unlike the Lin haters that love to trash his playoff games.
Also, Lin has enough detractors who love to criticize him when he gets injured. We Lin fans refuse to add our vitriol to the chorus of Lin bashers out there.
Racha, a nonAsian player with Lin's athleticism and game would be paid at least as much as John Wall.
Years ago, Jason Kidd was the darling of the NBA in his 3rd year. He had Jeremy Lin athleticism but did not have Lin's overwhelming skills. Kidd was celebrated and paid very well for his Linferior skills.
Most people don't think that Lin can play because he's Asian, no matter how badly he outperforms elite players.
START OF TRANSLATION:
We delusional Lin fans live in our own make-believe world.
We think Lin is the mostest bestest young guard in the entire universe. That's why all the other 29 GMs were falling all over themselves to wrest Lin from Morey's hands...oh wait.
We think Dwight Howard doesn't belong in ANY offense. So it's a complete and utter mystery to us why Les Alexander, Mark Cuban, Joe Lacob et all plus their entourages were genuflecting all the way to L.A. to try to sign him up.
We think anyone who criticizes Lin's playoffs performance is a HATER of the highest order, rather than someone who understands why the Rox are having a hell of a problem moving him.
We viciously rubbish Lin's teammates and expect there to be no repercussions on his relationships with them when stuff we say gets repeated on other boards.
We say the dumbest things here because we believe this blog should be renamed CrazyAsians.net. Or maybe TwitsRus. Actually, BraindeadNBonkers would work as well.
END OF TRANSLATION
Gee, I hope I didn't leave out any important stuff from KHuang's nutty tract above.
ADDENDUM TO FOREGOING TRANSLATION:
And, oh, Kevin McHale was our (read: KHuang's) candidate for COTY last season.
FFL are u trying to take away the biggest asshole of jeremylin.net from me? Lol.
I don't share all of your views, but I do agree that Lin's situation reminds me Michael chang's Changgang cult - not surrounding himself the best of the best to improve his situation. His shooting mechanics is the reason for his inconsistency and Mchale/morey is the biggest reason for the massive derailment of Lin's career at this point.
But as much as I hated it, his poor playoff showing was clearly due to injury. But It is unfair that he doesn't have the luxury of having excuses no matter how legit they are because of who he is.
According to Whopie, I apparently have huge trust issues because I refuse to believe in morey and Mchale based on all they did to Lin last year, but I do fear that we r gonna see more of the same next season and Lin being further forgotten with d12 I'm board.
And one conspiracy thought, morey will trade Lin to a bad a situation so that he doesn't t succeed.. So that he won't be embarrassed for letting Lin I twice.
Michael Chang simply doesn't have a power stroke to stay dominant no matter who's coaching him.
"morey will trade Lin to a bad a situation so that he doesn't t succeed.. So that he won't be embarrassed for letting Lin I twice."
Houston was supposed to be a bunch of young basement salary players anyways.
"CrazyAsians.net"
"TwitsRus"
"BraindeadnBonkers".
Ah, Fanforlife, you've got interesting names for this site that we're posting on.
What other cool names can you and Solidz75 and Etane come up with to mock the people on this site?
FanForLife, I'm sure there are some good points in your post but it's hard to see them through the barrage of insults.
"Houston was supposed to be a bunch of young basement salary players anyways."
You're hopelessly full of crap. What does the above statement have to do with anything said in this thread? Talk about non sequiturs.
Sure, Chang's game lacked power. All the more reason he needed the best coach money could buy to make the most of his talent. And talent he did have. One Slam and 7 Masters titles are nothing to sniff at, after all. He got to #2 after Carl took over as his coach owing to a quirk in the ranking system IIRC, then fell out of the top 100 in very short order.
Lin's shooting will probably improve incrementally under Doc, but incremental improvement is not good enough for the Rox as currently constituted. He needs a Hopla to take him to the next level of marksmanship, methinks.
And yes, I've long believed that Morey will not trade him to a team where he could recreate Linsanity. It's not a conspiracy theory; he's that devious. Unless, of course, he gets a superstar in return, in which case he could probably live with the possibility of being proved wrong about Lin again.
And Solidz, WTH do you mean by "I don't share all of your views?" Do I have to come after you as well now? ;)
KHuang, how about "Mental&ActualMidgets.net"...
CaliforniasBalancedBudgetLOL.net?
Hey, any more and I'll have to start charging you real money. Unlike you, I have to work for a living, you know.
You'd actually have a little more credibility with me if you hadn't been such a buddy of willy-Americans-are-nazis-dilly. You have no idea how pukesomely traitorous I found the lot of you who were palling around with that Eurothing.
Sorry, I feel filthy just talking to you.
Pretty good, Fanforlife.
I like how your names manage to flame everybody on this board, since that is your sole goal here.
But Fanforlife, haven't you realized by now that you post here and thus are incriminating YOURSELF?
Right now, I have this mental image of you as a sub 5'5" "crazy Asian twit who's braindead and bonkers who's a mental and actual midget who is here to celebrate California's balanced budget".
My suggestion is that instead of FLAMING YOURSELF with screennames that make you as a member look bad, you come up with alternative names that somehow set you as being superior to the average "crazy Asians" on this board that you feel are beneath you.
TVN July 25, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Jeremy needs to get rid of that clown, Josh Fan. Exactly what purpose does he serve? Supposedly, the guy is a "trainer", but The kid has a terrible physique. Never trust a chubby trainer.
Awwwww, you sound like you've been belittled, KHuang.
Poor little Khuang. Very, very little KHuang. Five-foot-five little, in fact.
Look, you dumbo shrimp, if your posts about Lin and his teammates ever get broadcast anywhere mainstream, Asian Americans everywhere would become the laughingstock of the country.
Anyone who believes otherwise needs to see a shrink.
C'mon, Fanforlife.
Are you telling me that you indeed are a "sub 5'5" crazy Asian twit who's bonkers" among other things?
How could little ol'me be insulted by one like you who's calling himself as short or shorter than I am while also calling himself all sorts of foul names.
Dude, I think you should embrace your lack of height and your Asian American heritage. Guys like you don't have to feel inferior to others, and you certainly don't have to call yourself names.
Or if you aren't a sub 5'5" Asian male, STOP CALLING YOURSELF ONE.
How is any of that babble supposed to even pass for an argument?
You've seriously lost it, KHuang. Get help.
I seem to have struck a nerve in Fanforlife.
Trust me, buddy, it's OK for you to be a 5'5" Asian male on this site that you say is for "midgets" like yourself.
Khuang why are u always fighting with people? Maybe it's not them. It's you.
No, it's because LIN ONLY HATER trolls like you and Fanforlife come here specifically bash Lin and his fans, Solidz75.
You are here for only one reason: to FLAME PEOPLE.
Yeah yeah yeah. Do u copy and paste this same exact quote every time?
And u can't blame people for making fun of your height. I mean u did put it out there. Did u say u r 5'6" and 180lbs? That translates to a BMi of 45. Damn u r obese. Stop posting and go exercise a little. Much better for your health.
Justsayno2HardensISO July 25, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Wow. Have I been gone that long? There are people attacking Psalm? Psalm is one of the least confrontational members on this board. What is going on?
khuang has flamed just about every lin fan on this forum.
he is his own self fulfilling prophecy.
"No, it's because LIN ONLY HATER trolls like you and Fanforlife come here specifically bash Lin and his fans, Solidz75.
You are here for only one reason: to FLAME PEOPLE. "
haha, Justsayno :)
not much, just a lot of nervous energy in the off-season where people take out frustrations on one another because of the uncertainty of Lin's role in Houston.
To trade or not to trade? That's the question in people's mind.
That and the missing links from via to discuss something new and interesting. Pls come back soon, via! Pls just ignore the noise from the ignoramous crowd for the rest of us, innocent folks :)
McHale has never been a good coach of guards. He just couldn't get the most out of them. There were so many guards that the Rockets simply dumped and they become franchise players now. Lowry, Gorgan...
McHale isn't good enough for big time basketball.
Or in a way, McHale's coaching infuriates his guards so much that they ended up becoming terrific in order to defy him!
Lowry didnt even want to play for MCHell anymore. If i were Lin and his treatment torwards me wouldnt change, i would start swearing at him and play completely disrespecting his orders. What shall they do? either trade him which is great or finally use him right which is even better.
they become terrific after they leave the team and have a new coach to play under.
McHale reminds me of Darth Sidious from Star Wars lol.
I agree with Kwok on this one.
Khuang, I know you felt Mchale was positive for Lin last season. Do you still feel the same way?
He just made a long post about how great Mchell is for Lin's game in the previous thread.
TN4 July 25, 2013 at 2:39 PM
really? I don't think Lowry, Gorgan are franchise players, and they did not get better after they change team or change coaches.
per 36 min, Dragic stay exact the same as last season, and Lowry was worse.
Not sure what you are talking about..... Could we support Lin without hating everybody?
McHale might not be the best coach for Jeremy, but you can't have everything lined up your way.
Justsayno2Hardeniso, my answer to your question is "I don't know".
Last season, Lin started out hobbled. In the 2nd half of the season, he played at a near Linsanity level UNDER MCHALE'S WATCH. McHale gets some credit for playing Lin 30 MPG and overseeing Lin's All Star level play in the 2nd half pf the season.
Next season, I don't know what Mchale will do with a completely different lineup. NBA coaches change their gameplans based on personnel. Thus I have no idea what McHale will do with Lin.
What I do know is that Lin will walk into training camp healthy, prepared, and seasoned. Lin will do everything in his power to play well for the Houston franchise he's signed to.
TN4, we have LIN HATERS like Etane and Solidz75 and Fanforlife who call Lin a "pussy" and say that he's a "bad shooter" and that his fans are "mental midgets who are delusional".
These three LOHs are here to try to flame as many people as they can using Lin as the tool.
They won't quit at flaming this forum which they claim is full of "delusional alcoholic crazy Asian chinks".
khuang: just to let you know that i don't take it personally whenever you say something about my sexual preference or use racial epitaphs against me. i know it's a rant sourced from a maligned and angry 5'5" asian american who blames the world for your own failings.
i know truly it's you, not me.
Both Lin and Asik's contrats are up in like 2 years from now, while Harden, Dwight and maybe Parsons won't be for like 2-3 years after them.
I don't see them winning a title or anything if both Lin and Asik are traded or leaving when their time is up. idk if Harden can even lead a team to finals, on OKC he was the 3rd option behind KD and Westbrook and they couldn't get it done. Dwight did it w/the Magics but he's already past his prime years, idk if he can make it again too.
Personally i think for the rockets since they don't have the talents like Lebron or Kobe, they're going to need a team effort to even pull an upset or to win a championship. Well unless they get some elite players to join the train, then it's possible but i think it'll take some time to build chemistry then talk about wining.
it's just too unlikely that Rox will win anything when 2 of the 5 are leaving. Reallly i think they need all Lin, Asik,Harden, Parsons, and Howard to even make a run for the title. and i do hope that Lin and Asik GTFO when they're up to leave. But then it may take them awhile to be on a team to be championship caliber, unless they happen to sign w/one that already is one and just contribute. but gosh this may make it that they might stay for a few more years w/them just to get a ring then hopefully leave?
Houston didn't upgrade with D12, they merely moved side ways.
Asik/D12 is an improvement in post points and defense. But, Houston's speed and perimeter shooting is sacrificed.
Also, Houston can never win a championship even with Lebron and Kobe as long as McHell is coach.
Still awed by the recent historic Philippine visit by LeBron James, Filipino fans get another treat as two more NBA stars are set to arrive today – James Harden of the Houston Rockets and Eric Gordon of the New Orleans Pelicans.
I wonder how popular Harden is in the Philippines due to the Lin factor?
Trying to assess how much Harden needs Lin to gain fans in Asia.
It might translate to how open he is to let Lin have a bigger role on-court.
video interview at 1:14.
Hm, no Lin questions?
Spotless mind July 25, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Don't count on it psalm. Harden at first stole jeremy nickname (beardsanity ... It's horrible) then stole the jeremy role in the team and now he's stealing the asia fanbase. He's just a fake man just like Parsons was a guy who was catching the fame... Now he's got a more popular friend in Howard.
This team reminds me of the minnesota built by Mchale: they had cassell they had kg they had sprewell maybe even szrbyak i don't remember... And they achieved nothing.
I'm just wondering if they will trade jeremy this year or they will decrease his value till pre Linsanity. See what happens. Don't think they will like to pay 15 mln to a benchwarmer. It's better for them to trade him soon and get their beloved sergio lull or whoever....
Sadly all points to sign that Lin is a redundant dominant ball-handler in Houston and Harden is unwilling to share the playmaking roles.
And there have been no signs since Game 2 of regular season that Harden wants to equally take turns of being the playmaker. Otherwise, we'll see a lot more Lin-2-Harden with Harden moving without the ball highlights rather than Harden ISOs.
Hope Lin2Dwight plays will change things around. Otherwise trade is the best way for Lin to thrive.
Spotless mind July 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM
Anyway if we think about in which situation jeremy was in two years ago ... I'm not worried what will happen to jeremy.
P.S.: Ulysses are you watching the Pope in brazil ? He's really a God's gift...
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J Pathol Inform 2019, 10:38
Clinical-grade Computational Pathology: Alea Iacta Est
Filippo Fraggetta
Department of Pathology, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
Date of Submission 18-Sep-2019
Date of Acceptance 18-Nov-2019
Date of Web Publication 11-Dec-2019
Dr. Filippo Fraggetta
Department of Pathology, Cannizzaro Hospital, Via Messina 829, Catania 95126
DOI: 10.4103/jpi.jpi_54_19
Fraggetta F. Clinical-grade Computational Pathology: Alea Iacta Est. J Pathol Inform 2019;10:38
Fraggetta F. Clinical-grade Computational Pathology: Alea Iacta Est. J Pathol Inform [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 20];10:38. Available from: http://www.jpathinformatics.org/text.asp?2019/10/1/38/272632
Many things have changed in the last few years in the field of surgical pathology. It has been suggested that with the advent of the artificial intelligence (AI), we are approaching the third revolution in pathology.[1] By citing the oneiric movie Blade Runner, “I've seen things that you people wouldn't believe,” computers are now rendering a histological diagnosis, predicting genomic mutations by just analyzing whole-slide images stained with hematoxylin and eosin.[2] Nowadays, words such as computational pathology, deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN), and AI are as common words as “differential diagnosis” and “immunohistochemistry” in our pathologist's dictionary. But, when and how to use these new words in our day-to-day practice remains unclear.
The recent article by Campanella et al.[3] shows us that computers, CNN, and AI are things that can be implemented in the pathology laboratories. Moreover, the authors give us a more stringent and a more practical definition of clinical-grade performance of AI tools in routine. In their article, the authors collected three datasets of slides: (1) a prostate core biopsy dataset; (2) a skin dataset; and (3) a breast metastasis to lymph node dataset in order to develop a deep learning model to obtain a well-accurate prediction (on the level of benign vs. malignant). The results are based on almost a total of 45,000 slides, which represents one of the largest datasets evaluated up to now. Campanella et al. propose a framework for training classification models on a very large scale without the need for pixel-level annotations. This is a step forward in the development of AI tool, thus overpassing the major limitation in obtaining consistent results due to the labor-intensive annotation process.
The results obtained are, in terms of sensitivity and specificity, very encouraging with a sensitivity of 100% (i.e., no false-negative case) for the prostate dataset. This result leads to the formalization of the concept of clinical-grade decision support systems, proposing, in contrast with the existing literature, a new measure for clinical applicability (which is one of the several reasons to implement digital pathology in routine practice).[4],[5] It is well known that current approaches gauge performance by the quantification of sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value, as well as measures such as the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, the area under the precision-recall curve, and calibration.[6] However, none of these measures ultimately reflect what is most important to patients, namely whether the use of the model results in a beneficial change in patient care.[7]
The authors argue that in future, in a fully digital pathology department, all the cases or all the slides will be presented to the pathologists already sorted through an interface that would flag positive slides and disregard all benign slides.
Although this workflow could be considered “futuristic,” it has in many ways already been realized at the Department of Pathology, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy. In this fully digital workflow, histological slides are routinely scanned and presented to the pathologists in a virtual slide tray within the laboratory information system (LIS).[8] The integration between this workflow with a commercial AI tool (INIFY™ Prostate ContextVision Sweden)[9] for the detection of prostate cancer has been validated and recently presented at the European Congress of Pathology in Nice.[10] The integration with the LIS has been validated by testing >5000 slides, resulting in a robust bidirectional HL7 connection between LIS and AI tool.
This workflow recapitulates that one described by Campanella: once slides belonging to the category of prostatic biopsies have been scanned, the AI tool is run and the pathologist is presented with the model's recommendations directly in the virtual tray. If the AI tool detects cancer, the corresponding slide in the virtual tray displayed in the LIS is flipped. The integration of the decision support tool was relatively simple and now runs automatically with no need of additional workload for technicians or pathologists. Updated version of the tool has now been implemented, showing a higher sensitivity with very low false-negative cases (belonging to a small focus of carcinoma). Moreover, in the clinical setting, pathologists may have the possibility to look at the “suspicious” areas as detected by the ContextVision algorithm and highlighted in their proprietary viewer, thus using the AI tool as a template to search and verify the eventually missed suspicious areas by pathologists. In this setting, the AI tool represents a computer-aided design tool for pathologists.
Independently by the method used in developing the algorithm of the AI tool, the article of Campanella et al. deserves and raises some comments as follows:
Although digital pathology has been said to represent the third revolution in pathology,[1] the fully digital pathology laboratories are very few worldwide.[11],[12] This is probably due to several reasons, including cost, information technology requirements, and, last but not the least, the skepticism toward digitalization in general that still exists in the pathology community.[13] As a consequence, we are facing with a proliferation of applications and tools not yet adopted or integrated into the clinical workflow
Although the possibility to disregard “negative” slides could be of great utility, one should ask whether in the real day-to-day practice, the pathologists are willing to discharge all these negative cases/slides as defined by the AI tool. It should be also kept in mind that the AI tool can only analyze what has been recognized by the tissue finder of the slide scanner and that the failure of this detection could represent a rare source of error impacting the diagnosis of clinically significant [14]
The use of AI tool in the routine practice will not only give the possibility to screen for cancer but also to forecast molecular abnormalities and prognosis,[15] underlining the need to move to a fully digital approach [16]
AI tool will change, in my opinion, even the clinical scenario of the pathologies. Future clinical studies should verify whether cases defined as false negative or false positive by the AI tool may per se represent new clinical categories, and which deserves a particular clinical approach.
“Once in a while, someone teaches you something that forces you to re-evaluate the integrity of your intellectual foundations. If proven correct, this moment of cognitive disquietude can eventually transform our understanding of the world for the better, but the initial instinct is typically more akin to fear and trembling.”[17]
It is clear that pathologists and nonpathologists will more often be faced with a “digital approach” to the disease: “alea iacta est” (we are at a point of no return).
We just need to be part of it.
Salto-Tellez M, Maxwell P, Hamilton P. Artificial intelligence-the third revolution in pathology. Histopathology 2019;74:372-6.
Coudray N, Ocampo PS, Sakellaropoulos T, Narula N, Snuderl M, Fenyö D, et al. Classification and mutation prediction from non-small cell lung cancer histopathology images using deep learning. Nat Med 2018;24:1559-67.
Campanella G, Hanna MG, Geneslaw L, Miraflor A, Werneck Krauss Silva V, Busam KJ, et al. Clinical-grade computational pathology using weakly supervised deep learning on whole slide images. Nat Med 2019;25:1301-9.
Sanghvi AB, Allen EZ, Callenberg KM, Pantanowitz L. Performance of an artificial intelligence algorithm for reporting urine cytopathology. Cancer Cytopathol 2019;127:658-66.
Saito T, Rehmsmeier M. The precision-recall plot is more informative than the ROC plot when evaluating binary classifiers on imbalanced datasets. PLoS One 2015;10:e0118432.
Shah NH, Milstein A, Bagley, PhD SC. Making Machine Learning Models Clinically Useful. JAMA 2019;322:1351-52.
Kelly CJ, Karthikesalingam A, Suleyman M, Corrado G, King D. Key challenges for delivering clinical impact with artificial intelligence. BMC Med 2019;17:195.
Fraggetta F, Garozzo S, Zannoni GF, Pantanowitz L, Rossi ED. routine digital pathology workflow: The Catania experience. J Pathol Inform 2017;8:51.
Burlutskiy N, Pinchaud N, Gu F, Hägg D, Andersson M, Björk L, et al. Segmenting potentially cancerous areas in prostate biopsies using semi-automatically annotated data. Proc Mach Learn Res 2019;102:92-108.
Fraggetta F, Lionti S, Giuffrida G, Emmanuele C, Pepe P. Implementation of the ContextVision INIFY (TM) tool for the automatic detection of prostatic cancer in a fully digital routine workflow. Virchows Arch 2019;  475, S60-S60 Abstract CP-03-007.
Retamero JA, Aneiros Fernandez J, Del Moral RG. Complete digital pathology for routine histopathology diagnosis in a multicenter hospital network. Arch Pathol Lab Med in press. https://doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2018-0541-OA.
Cheng CL, Azhar R, Sng SH, Chua YQ, Hwang JS, Chin JP, et al. Enabling digital pathology in the diagnostic setting: Navigating through the implementation journey in an academic medical centre. J Clin Pathol 2016;69:784-92.
Griffin J, Treanor D. Digital pathology in clinical use: Where are we now and what is holding us back? Histopathology 2017;70:134-45.
Fraggetta F, Yagi Y, Garcia-Rojo M, Evans AJ, Tuthill JM, Baidoshvili A, et al. The importance of eSlide macro images for primary diagnosis with whole slide imaging. J Pathol Inform 2018;9:46.
Mobadersany P, Yousefi S, Amgad M, Gutman DA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Velázquez Vega JE, et al. Predicting cancer outcomes from histology and genomics using convolutional networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018;115:E2970-9.
Madabhushi A, Lee G. Image analysis and machine learning in digital pathology: Challenges and opportunities. Med Image Anal 2016;33:170-5.
Cho CS. Radiomics: A well intentioned leap of faith. Ann Surg Oncol 2019;26:4178-9
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News from The Verdon- Part 1!
Hands up who has heard of The Verdon Gorge? That’ll be most of you I guess. If you haven’t, you probably started climbing this millennium when The Verdon has been slightly out of vogue. But when I started climbing, it was just at the end of it’s heyday and was one of THE premier climbing destinations in Europe…and to be honest , it still is. If you haven’t been, then make it a priority. Having just returned from a fantastic two weeks there, I already want to turn round and head back out there. It has been on my list of places to go for years and thankfully, I finally made it out there and am now wondering why it took me so long.
So to the trip.
Alex (Hughes) and I took a leisurely driving route down through France avoiding toll roads, which was fine but obviously took a bit longer. But I was driving my van, so driving fast on auto routes wasn’t really a priority. We arrived in the afternoon, so had a chance to check out the gorge from the belvederes along with all the tourists. Apparently, it’s the deepest gorge in Europe, so people flock there to see it and when we got our first view we weren’t disappointed. The other added bonus is the wildlife, especially the Griffon Vultures that have been reintroduced there. They were circling around on the thermals and we were all taking rubbish pictures of them on our cameras with way too small lenses, oh well. It was awe inspiring anyway to see these birds close up, they really are like flying people, massive.
We hatched a plan to climb one of THE classics � La Demande f6a � the next day. It was Alex’s 24th birthday and seemed an appropriate route to do. Ever since becoming aware of The Verdon, I’d heard about this big E1 that climbs the height of the gorge and had always wanted to do it, so that was cool. The other good thing about the route, is that it starts at the bottom of the gorge. So we managed to put off the adrenaline inducing abseils from the top and got used to the exposure from the bottom up.
Although, tired from the journey, we made an early start to avoid any afternoon storms that we’d heard are quite common (although luckily for us we didn’t encounter any of these while we were there). We found the start and set of on the first of many of The Verdon classics that we were to climb.
It turned out to be a long day with great climbing. I have to admit to not loving some of the chimney pitches near the top and was most relieved that they have been well geared in recent years. Call me a wimp but I’m just not into semi-soloing chimneys. There is a lot of varied climbing in the 12 pitches with a mixture of bolts and trad and it feels like a full body workout by the time you reach the top. The exposure is pretty wild but builds gradually. It wasn’t the quickest ascent ever (!) but we had great fun and found our Verdon heads and techniques on this uber-classic.
Funnily enough we needed a rest the next day, so we explored the area and drove the Route de Cretes which gives you great views of the gorge. Also, it gave us a chance to charge all our gizmos, which was a perpetual problem as we weren’t staying on campsites and all our modern gadgets kept running out of juice- who said technology was a great thing? It’s great when you’ve got a big fat electricity supply!
Our next route was the slightly harder and shorter classic ‘Luna Bong’ f6c. This was the scene of our first top down ab, quite a heady one too. But it’s well set up and the ab stations are easy to find, so within three long abs we were down on the Terrace Mediane. It’s a woody shady place and with the sun hotting up, was a pleasant starting point. I really enjoyed this route but found that taking little notice of the grades is helpful. On climbing like this and La Demande, the style is very traditional and applying French grades is a little strange. The English grading system works better for these types of routes as the f6a/f6a+ type pitches are not to be underestimated and really have to be climbed properly to get up them. We found jamming was an essential tool to successful top outs. Although the last and crux pitch, a stiff f6c, reverts back to classic steep burly climbing. A definite sting in the tail that saw Alex trying out some new found aiding skills. She had got through most of the hard climbing but the rain was starting to fall and getting to the top before the downpour seemed sensible, so out came the foot loops. Not the friendliest of places to learn aiding, the top of The Verdon but hey, needs must- she did a grand job. After this route, we had time to spare so bought a shower on the municipal campsite. Our first in nearly a week, it was a fitting end to the day. Then off we trotted to the bar for a welcome beer and pizza!
By now we felt we had done our Verdon apprenticeship and it was time to sample some classic Verdon wall climbing. Being stuck in large cracks is fun but has limited enjoyment value. So we got some advice from our local man on the ground � Brit Jim Burton (who proved to be very helpful and friendly) � and went in search of the four pitch ‘Reve de Fer’ f6b+. Well to cut a long story short, we had a bit of a day of it. We met a French couple on a way down who thought they were doing ‘Reve de Fer’ but weren’t really sure. So we didn’t head down but instead climbed two very good f6c pitches which were spicy but really gave us a taste of what The Verdon has to offer. We had a little rope jiggery pokery issues which were resolved but took time, so with tired brains, we headed to a busy belvedere and bumped into Jim and two German’s: Annette and Sebastian. They all recommended we finish on a single pitch f6a called ‘Wide is Love’. Wow, what a position! This route starts in the middle of one of the most exposed walls of the Verdon. You ab down to a hanging belay and it really is wild. Pulling the ropes takes a lot of bottle! Thankfully, the route is easy and actually very good climbing, if a little polished. So if you ever find yourself there, do this pitch for that Verdon heart in the mouth experience.
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Yamato 1/60 VF-1A Max and Miria
I have to admit that my heart skips a beat whenever I see these two toys together. One is the Yamato 1/60 VF-1A of Maximilian Jenius, while the other is a Yamato 1/60 VF-1A No Paint Kit that I converted to a fictionalized VF-1A in Milia Jenius color scheme.
In the 1982 Super Dimension Fortress Macross Anime, the love affair between Maximilian Jenius and Miria Fallyna was initially a side story but became a central part of the plot. Maximilian Jenius was an ace pilot under the command of the anime's main protagonist, Hikaru Ichijo. Miria Fallyna was an ace pilot of the Zentradi forces who was taunted by another Zentradi officer, Quamzin, that there was a better pilot than her in the enemies side. This slight emboldened her to seek out Max and defeat him.
Instead of defeat however, she was humiliated by him by her near destruction when she went one on one with him. In order to regain her honor, she volunteered to infiltrate the Macross ship in order to continue her vendetta by hunting Max down.
What happened however was the opposite as the two fell in love and eventually married. Their marriage was a vital political coup for the Zentradi and Human factions that wanted peace between the two civilizations instead of wanton destruction. Their union also produced Komilia, the first Zentradi-Human hybrid that further cemented the premise that Humans and Zentradis can co-exist.
One of the reasons that made the SDF Macross anime great was the realistic storyline employed when the producers decided to tackle the postwar scenario. Here was this alien race that shared the same physical attributes as humans that was cloned for war by their Protoculture masters. Knowing nothing but war and fighting, they had a hard time adjusting to a peaceful and civilian life that the end of the war forced down their throats.
The story of Max and Milia however didn't end their as it was expounded further by producers in the Macross 7 series that came out in the 90's. In the storyline, Max had risen to admiral rank (while still retaining his boyish looks) and commanded the Macross 7 Expedition fleet. Miria had left the military and become the mayor of City 7, the civilian component of the Macross 7 fleet. By then the two had separated despite siring 7 daughters between them. The anime however ended on a positive note with the implication that the two had reconciled.
The story behind my build of the 1/60 VF-1A Miria edition was that I often wondered what Miria's first VF would look like after she defected to the human side of the conflict. I assumed that she would have probably been given a VF-1A similar to her husband's but would be adorned in the red color scheme that she is usually portrayed as sporting.
I had fun with the build of the VF-1A No Paint Kit and converting it to the Miria version. Too much fun in fact that it inspired me to try building military aircraft kits all over again.
For Macross fans who are model kit builders, I would definitely recommend picking up the 1/60 VF-1 No Paint kit series of Yamato Toys. Its cheaper than the completely built up toys but definitely a bit harder than building a regular model kit because of the transformation features that have to be taken into account. I already translated the assembly manual of this into English and you can find it here.
The Max and Miria love story, definitely one of the cornerstone plotlines of the franchise and what endeared it to the fans.
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Watch Fifth Harmony Perform 'Them Girls Be Like' Live -- Just For You
#iwokeuplikethis2
Emilee Lindner 02/06/2015
Fifth Harmony are having a huge week. Not only did they release their debut album Reflection -- which you NEED to listen to -- but they're celebrating its release with MTV. On Monday, the ladies gave a special concert to Harmonizers at Webster Hall in New York City, and on Friday (that's today!), you'll get to see their goofy, beautiful, talented selves during their MTV Takeover.
All day, MTV's Fifth Harmony Takeover will feature performances and behind-the-scenes exclusives on MTV, MTV Hits, MTV.com and social (that's Insta and Twitter and such). And right now, we're giving you the girls' live performance of "Them Girls Be Like" from their NYC party.
Later today, MTV will premiere a fan-directed video for "Sledgehammer," where Harmonizers recorded their point-of-view of 5H's performance. Keep it locked to MTVNews.com!
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Tiffany Recording New Album
Former teen pop star working on first disc of four-record deal.
Former teen pop star Tiffany has signed a four-album recording
contract with independent label Modern Records, run by Randy Jackson.
Tiffany (born Tiffany Renee Darwisch) is already well into the recording
of her first LP under the deal, with its single expected out in May. She
also will release a greatest-hits album through Modern. Tiffany became
a teen idol following her 1987 mall tour, scoring hits with a cover of
"I Think We're Alone Now" and the ballad "Could've Been."
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Future - The Percocet & Stripper Joint
While the world holds their breath for his and Drake’s “surprise” project, Future resurfaces with yet another video off DS2. Following clips for “Blood On The Money” and “Where Ya At” with Drizzy, the ATLien now brings “The Percocet & Stripper Joint” to life.
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50 Cent's Shocking Slim-Down!
50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie "Things Fall Apart". In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer. He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks.
"I was starving." Now he's back on tour and says, "I've been eating. I'll be back in shape in no time!"
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June 26, 2013 Paul Mitchell 2013, Album, How To Destroy Angels, Review
I may be almost five months late in publishing a review of How To Destroy Angels first full length album, but there’s a good reason for that. It’s not a casual record at all; one of those ones that you really have to feel you want to listen to to really appreciate it otherwise it could easily be consigned to the ‘meh’ curio pile. I’ve taken my time to give it plenty of opportunity to plant itself in my conscious.
In case the band have passed you by, How to Destroy Angels is comprised of Nine Inch Nails powerhouse Trent Reznor, producer and long time collaborator Atticus Ross, and features Reznor’s wife Mariqueen Maandig on the majority of vocals. As Reznor’s work is always unique yet recognisably his, an easy and lazy description would be NIN lite with a female singer, but that would be insulting to all parties involved. There’s no doubt that Welcome Oblivion definitely fits in the NIN ecosystem, but it isn’t a NIN album.
Vocals are frequently distorted but when they are clear Mariqueen’s voice is wispy and light and at times beautiful. In the few moments when Reznor joins in (only ever briefly) it’s clearly him and the song takes on a Nine Inch Nails feel which I think is actually a real shame and a detriment to the album. I think he should have remained on the instrumental side, although even instrumentally his signature is always present. The vocal distortion means that sometimes lyrics are indecipherable, but to HTDA vocal is just another instrument to be tweaked and shaped to fit its purpose.
It amazes me how so many seemingly random bleeps, bloops and pulses can become a cohesive piece of music. Although listenable, it’s not instantly accessible unless you’re a regular listener of obscure electronica or latter-era NIN at the least. In actual fact there are a few moments I wondered if my iPod had developed a fault. There aren’t a lot of songs that follow any traditional formula – a trait I now expect from most of Reznor’s concoctions – and yet there are some great tracks that work because they are so stripped back and simple, such as the excellent “Ice Age” which features little more than a simple plucked loop and vocal. It’s easily the closest to a traditional song you’ll find on the album anyway. Another highlight for me was “And The Sky Began To Scream”, a weighty and moody piece. I’d say that the best tracks and the ones I’d go back to are the ones with clean vocal, an opinion backed up by the thought that the band’s best song to date actually came on the self titled EP in the form of “A Drowning”.
Unfortunately it does taper off a bit by the end. If you’re not really concentrating, by the end of the album most songs unnoticeably blend into the next one. You could easily cut a few and never actually notice. In essence HTDA is more like an expansion and further experimentation of Reznor and Ross’s soundtrack work as if they tired of scoring instrumentals and wanted to see what some material would sound like with a different kind of vocal.
I feel I should point out something vital to listening. If you have a great stereo or set of top-notch headphones (none of your trendy ‘Beats’ shite) then you’ll get the most out of this. The production is stellar and deserves to be treated with respect otherwise you’ll miss half of the gargantuan range on show here, especially in the low-end.
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LifeScienceHistory.com: Where the past meets the present -- A new nationwide site network is coming in January produced by Info.Resource, Inc., owner and publisher of OhioLifeScience.com.
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More than 12 percent of the U.S. population will develop a thyroid condition during their lifetime. An estimated 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and up to 60 percent of those with thyroid disease are unaware of their condition.
LifeScience Moment: Legislation in Tennessee called for a ban on the teaching of evolution.
On Jan. 21, 1925, Rep. John Washington Butler introduced legislation in the Tennessee House of Representatives that called for a ban on the teaching of evolution.
The proposed law, known as the Butler bill, would prohibit the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
In April 2012, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam refused to sign a bill that would permit discussion of creationism in classrooms alongside the evolutionary-based explanation of the origins of life, but allowed the bill to become law. Today, the term “evolution” in the Tennessee educational standards has been replaced with the phrase “change over time” which has a very different meaning that term "evolution."
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7 Oldest Spiders in the World
Determining the average lifespan of spiders can be difficult as its not easy to keep track of a specific specimen unless they’re held in captivity. For this reason, every spider on this list is a larger spider species, such as tarantulas and trapdoor spiders. More is known about the longevity of tarantulas than other types of spiders because they are fairly popular pets.
In the case of the one trapdoor spider species on this list, its age was tracked because an arachnologist dedicated her life to studying specific individuals in the wild. For all of these spiders, only the females have a long lifespan, while the males tend to have their lives cut short after mating.
7. Chilean Rose Tarantula
Average Lifespan: Females – 15 to 20+ years; Males – 3 to 10 years
County of Origin: Parts of Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina
Scientific Name: Grammostola rosea
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Sarefo
Like most of the spiders on this list, the Chilean Rose Tarantula was named for its physical appearance, which includes rose-colored hair. Also like the other spiders on this list, female Chilean Rose Tarantulas make excellent pets because they live so long (between 15 to 20 or more years). Unfortunately, like other male spiders, male Chilean Rose Tarantulas die not long after mating.
Chilean Rose Tarantulas like to hunt at night and feed on invertebrates and small vertebrates like mice, frogs, and lizards. Unlike smaller spiders, which have a more potent venom, Chilean Rose Tarantulas (like nearly all tarantulas) use their size rather than their weaker venom to take down their prey.
While the Chilean Rose Tarantula is relatively calm, it can become rather aggressive if its handled too much by a pet owner.
6. Chaco Golden Knee
Average Lifespan: Females – 20 to 25 years; Males – 5 to 10 years
County of Origin: Parts of Argentina and Paraquay
Scientific Name: Grammostola pulchripes
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via PavelSI
The Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula is one of the larger species of spider and can grow up to 8.5 inches (20 to 22 centimeters) as an adult. Like all of the spiders on this list, only female Chaco Golden Knee Tarantulas have a long lifespan. They can live between 20 to 25 years while male Chaco Golden Knee Tarantulas have a lifespan half as long (5 to 10 years).
Chaco Golden Knees are native to Argentina and Paraquay, but are a popular pet around the world, especially in the United States. According to arachnid pet owners, Chaco Golden Knees are a great spider for beginners. While they have a calm attitude, Chaco Golden Knees are aggressive eaters, making it fun for pet owners to watch.
Another characteristic that makes the Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula a popular pet is that while it does burrow like other tarantulas, it often enjoys sitting out in the open parts of its habitat.
5. Brazilian Black Tarantula
Average Lifespan: Females – 20 to 30 years; Males – 4 to 6 years
County of Origin: parts of Brazil and Uruguay
Scientific Name: Grammostola pulchra
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via André Karwath
The Brazilian Black Tarantula is covered in velvety jet black hairs, has a pretty laid back nature, and the females of this species have a long lifespan – this makes the Brazilian Black one of the most popular arachnid pet. Female Brazilian Black Tarantulas have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years while the males only live between four to six years.
Unlike other tarantulas, the Brazilian Black Tarantula grows very slowly. It takes about four to eight years for a Brazilian Black Tarantula to reach adulthood.
Brazilian Black Tarantulas can eat prey almost double their size, including small mammals and reptiles like mice and lizards.
4. Mexican Red Knee Tarantula
Average Lifespan: Females – 25 to 30 years; Males – no more than 10 years
County of Origin: Pacific Coast of Guerrero, Mexico
Scientific Name: Brachypelma smithi
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via George Chernilevsky
Mexican Red Knee Tarantulas are another popular pet because of their good looks (they are mostly black and dark brown with vibrant orange/dark red joints) and docile temperament. Additionally, like all the spiders on this list, female Mexican Red Knee Tarantulas can live for several decades when well cared for.
Like all tarantulas, Mexican Red Knees are quite large and can range in size from 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) to 5.51 inches (14 centimeters). The females are larger than the males and take longer to reach maturity; it takes females six to seven years to become adults and four to five years for male Mexican Red Knee Tarantulas.
In the wild, Mexican Red Knee Tarantulas like to make their burrows in rocky areas at the base of thorny plants like cacti.
3. Texas Tan Tarantula
Average Lifespan: Females – up to 40 years; Males – up to 2 years after reaching maturity
County of Origin: Southern Texas, USA and Northern Mexico
Scientific Name: Aphonopelma anax
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via ZooKeys
The Texas Tan Tarantula is, as its name suggests, native to Southern Texas as well as Northern Mexico. Like most large spider species, female Texas Tan Tarantulas have a significantly longer lifespan than the males. After male Texas Tan Tarantulas reach sexual maturity, it is rare for them to live for more than two years. On the opposite end, female Texas Tan Tarantulas can live over 10 times longer, with some specimens reaching 40 years of age.
Despite their intimidating looks, the Texas Tan Tarantula is a pretty docile spider and is a very desirable pet. However, like any animal, if a Texas Tan Tarantula senses a threat, it will use its hind legs to kick off some of its hairs, which can cause skin irritation to humans, towards the threat.
The Texas Tan Tarantula is one of the largest spider species in the United States, with females reaching a leg span of up to 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) and males up to 5 inches (12.7 centimeters).
2. Oklahoma Brown Tarantula
County of Origin: Southern United States (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana); and northern parts of Texas
Scientific Name: Aphonopelma hentzi
photo source: Wikimedia Commons
Not to be confused with the similar Texas Tan Tarantula, the Oklahoma Brown Tarantula (also commonly called the Texas Brown Tarantula or Missouri Tarantula) has a wider distribution across the Southern United States and tends to be a little smaller than its tan cousin. However, the Oklahoma Brown Tarantula does have a similar lifespan to the Texas Tan, with the females living up to 40 years, while the males only live a few short years.
Oklahoma Brown Spiders can grow up to 4 inches (10 centimeters), including leg span, and weigh up to 3 ounces. These long-lived tarantulas have dark chocolate brown bodies and legs with lighter reddish brown hairs.
The Oklahoma Brown Tarantula is the only tarantula species native to Missouri and is the state’s largest spider.
1. Armored Trapdoor Spider
County of Origin: Western Australia
Scientific Name: Gaius villosus
photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Toby Hudson
In the Fall of 2016, the scientific community was saddened to learn that the oldest spider in the world had died. The remarkably long-lived spider was a female Gaius villosus or an armored trapdoor spider who was 43 years old when she died. The only reason that the spider’s (named Number 16) precise age was known was because she had been studied in her natural habitat of Western Australia since she was born in 1974.
Arachnologist Barbara York Main had observed Number 16 as a spiderling and saw her establish a burrow at the study site. Main went on to catalogue Number 16 and about 100 other spider burrows over the next 40 years. Unfortunately in 2016, researcher Leanda Mason, who had taken over Main’s work as she had become to old to work in the field, noticed that Number 16’s burrow was a mess and that the spider was missing. Mason believes Number 16 was killed by a parasitic spider wasp.
While male Gais villosus leave their burrows for good when they reach sexual maturity around age 5, female Gais villosus, like Number 16, live and guard the same burrow for the rest of their lives.
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"The best show I’ve seen in 2016"
Intuitive, accessible, rebellious and evolutionary; I sincerely hope that our future is filled with high quality experiences such as this. If you were there this July, what a privilege. If you weren’t, next time, I urge you to bring your Avatar, your hologram, your best [dressed] self, your memories, your dreams. Or just an open mind...
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by Be Manzini / @BeCreates
“Welcome earthlings…” is the greeting from our bald-headed, well-spoken, inter-dimensionally styled host, Roney FM. We had already had our feel-good memories covertly stolen by space travellers and data thieves, Mission//Misplaced Memory, earlier in the Barbican Pit foyer. Now, we were to be transported to a liminal state of being on Earth, but not as we know it. Where reality and fantasy collide…Black cultural capital being uplifted and sprinkled with moon dust. A multidimensional experience where k3 media’s surrealist imagery is projected onto a wall. There are no boundaries. A golden Pharaoh with a skull for a face. Dragons and fire-breathing horned humans. Census-type boxes to be ticked in your mind that scream, ‘Who are you?’ appear and disappear.
In the show, Brexit, Trump, the policing of Black people are referenced, to be included and then excluded. For a few hours, we can acknowledge the racial reality of being a Diasporan African and celebrate Blackness without feeling defined by the weight of the current political climate. We can escape. We can breathe. Afrofuturism, a term coined by cultural critic, Mark Dery in his 1995 essay, ‘Black to the Future’ [Newton, 2014], speaks to inclusivity rather than a rigid notion of Black identity. In line with that, there are no binary wars in Nitro’s Afrofuturistic world; aboriginal art married with technology, historical references merged with science fiction, the desire to be free standing side by side with having achieved it.
Award-winning director Benji Reid’s first vignette does not disappoint. Hands raised, heads bowed, fists clenched, our performers are united from different corners of the stage as their six bodies form two lines of the Black power salute. Juice Aleem, XANA and our other cosmic host, Aina Moore, alongside the Jazz Re:Freshed band featuring Cassie Kinoshi, TJ Koleoso and Israel Shabani. An image of the tube behind them suddenly displaces what you saw. The bodies disperse while the focus shifts to MC and singer, Aina Moore in a sequined head wrap, the styling sitting somewhere between the glittering geles of West Africa (we know and love) and the unique flair of a woman from the Afro Punk movement. Like her attire, Moore is fresh, she sings and spits urban bars infused with Afrobeat rhythms on the theme of having to go work; “I have no memories just USBs…they want me to become a robot”. She has already pulled us in with a universal theme…the audience chants a chorus with her. I lean into my theatre buddy, quietly acknowledging that at some point in our lives, we all have felt the urge not to get out of bed, not to want to move at all, not to even speak. Later, as if mindreading, XANA looks in my direction and declares, “Your silence has no currency here!”
There were many moments and aspects where there was magic that at times, I had to wonder if it was serendipitous or my artistic mind taking me beyond the realm of the creative/s intention? But isn’t that the point of art? That it lives, it is a seed that is grown by the creatives and then offered to an audience who by engaging, watering it with their interpretations, it grows and lives on?
There are so many merits to the work, each performer flowing and each artistic element wonderfully executed. Like Juice Aleem’s, “Rock your hologram!”, reminiscent of the days when Hip-hop educated and inspired, Juice managed to bring a New Age tilt to Old Skool. Every so often, images of colourful Mandalas were the chosen visual. Was it a coincidence he wore his ‘Harry Potter’ scarf over a T-shirt with cursive Arabic (I associated with Mandinka scripts I’ve seen in Gambia) or a salute to courage, healing and ancient mysticism? “You can’t evolve without an open mind” was another, ‘read’ from an archaic phone by our male host with eyes hidden by vector-framed sunglasses.
When ‘Loading Your Illusion’, remember “We are the people that are born from flames, Marcus Garvey, Scott Joplin, Fredrick, Linton Kwesi Johnson and on and on and on…” I’m aware this list and the audio were male centric, but by omission, those words made me think of the wonder women. Of Janelle Monae, Grace Jones, Shingai Shoniwa. I thought of them being African-American, Jamaican and a fellow Black-British/Zimbabwean. How our music and our fashion is global. We are global. We are Alpha. We are Sun[Ra]-beings. We are pyramids. That there was a female sax player on stage, and a few feet from her, a female MC, and another few feet, a female beatboxer. That here was a triangle of women, a dreamy but real constellation of talent and femaleness.
That femaleness has many articulations. XANA’s vocal gender switching; first a funk-filled electronic George Clinton to lighter mellow mezzo-soprano vocals. Code switching from a tantalising London twang (reminiscent of Taiwah) to the patois of Kingston dancehalls. XANA’s androgyny enhances her ability to morph, the ability to be anything and at once everything. Declaring her queerness as she improvises her song on loop pedal, beatboxing, singing, rapping and chatting to us. The mic is home for XANA. As I sat there, my smile matching my friend’s, I realised XANA encapsulated so much of the honesty and comfort yearned for over the last few weeks and months. A profound talent who intermittently repeats, demanding our attention, “Your silence has no currency here!” reinforcing that Afrofuturism, at its heart, is artistic activism.
All the collaborators in this work (from the individual performers to the collectives) have a progressive vision of revitalizing and progressing the genres they work in. For nitroBEAT to bring together Jazz Re:Freshed, k3 media, Mission//Misplaced Memory, established and new found talent under the extraordinary direction of Benji Reid, made for the best show I’ve seen in 2016.
Intuitive, accessible, rebellious and evolutionary; I sincerely hope that our future is filled with high quality experiences such as this. If you were there this July, what a privilege. If you weren’t, next time, I urge you to bring your Avatar, your hologram, your best [dressed] self, your memories, your dreams. Or just an open mind – but overall, do come and join the party.
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Bow Wow And Erica Mena Breakup + Erica Claims He's Abusive To Women!
Former Love & Hip Hop New York star, Erica Mena, implies that her and Shad Moss split up!
She uploaded a series of Snapchats late Wednesday night (Dec. 9) where she hinted at a possible breakup with Shad Moss a.k.a Lil' Bow Wow.
Remember, Erica quit 'Love & Hip Hop' as she wanted to better herself and focus on her relationship and blah, blah, blah.
Rumors have been swirling around for months of the two being on and off and judging from Erica's latest Snaps, it looks like that relationship may be a wrap.
In one snap, Erica even hints that Bow Wow possibly cheated on her and f*cked one of her friends!? Say it ain't so!
Watch her Snapchat rant below:
Erica also moved out of Bow Wow's house a month ago and she briefly showed off her new house on Snapchat. She later uploaded Snaps saying her assistant thinks she should go speed dating.
The former reality star said, "Who the f*ck wants to speed date when motherf*ckers aint sh*t!"
And, if these breakup hints on Snapchat weren't enough, Bow Wow seems to be checking for his baby's mother, Joie Chavis, again!
After Erica realized this, she clapped back at Bow Wow with abuse claims!
Erica says Bow Wow is just posting pics with his baby mama, Joie, to get her upset. She tells Global Grind:
“I could have gone public about our breakup a month ago,” she said. “He does this to make headlines. Just leave me alone, I moved on; why are you still in your feelings? He’s literally posting about Joie to get on my nerves and it’s not working. He’s posting it to fuck with her head and to try to get a reaction out of me. Listen, I walked away silently. He’s an abuser.”
Erica also explained to Global Grind why she kept quiet about their breakup:
“I never wanted [his] business out there. I feel like people have seen me on reality TV having to fight, but at this point in my life, I deserve peace. I’m in a different place now. When it comes to Shad, this is the man I at one point really considered marrying. He is the one I decided to say yes to, but once the mask came off, I realized I had made a bad choice.”Fol
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Africa’s Most Successful Women introduces you to the most outstanding African women who are making giant strides in business, politics, technology, entrepreneurship and leadership on the continent and elsewhere around the world.
Mo Abudu, a 50 year-old Nigerian media entrepreneur and talk show host, is the founder of Ebony Life TV, a fast-growing black African multi-broadcast entertainment network, which showcases informative and entertaining programmes that portray Africa at its best. Abudu, who has been described by international news outlets as ‘Africa’s Africa’, is keen in her resolve to rewrite Africa’s story. And it’s time you took notice. In a recent email interview, she recounts her entrepreneurial journey and reflects on the lessons she has learned along the way.
You are the host of ‘Moments with Mo’, one of the most successful syndicated talk shows on African regional television. And now you run an African television network. Walk me through your journey as a media entrepreneur
My passion to help change the narrative about Africa began to grow as far back as when I was a teenager living in the UK, schooling in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, a town that had just a few blacks at the time. As I have said many times in the past, here, I had to learn to stand up for myself, to defend my identity and my race in an environment where you continually got asked the most ridiculous and mind-boggling questions like “Do you guys live in trees and holes in Africa?” “Do you guys dance around fires?” “What do you eat for breakfast?” Very ignorant questions. Those sort of questions could either make or break your spirit but I was very determined that I was going to stay strong. This kind of afro-pessimism simply fuelled a burning, deep-seated desire in my subconscious to one day help to rewrite the African story; to get people to talk about the issues that affect our society and to tell the African narrative in a contemporary and interesting way; to change the perception the world had of us; to let the world know that in spite of our challenges as a developing continent, Africans are not a bunch of savages but mostly a breed of gifted and remarkable people. So, after my education and a flourishing modelling career in the UK, I returned to Nigeria in my late twenties. My children had reached their teens; I had begun enjoying a successful career as Head of Human Resources and Administration for oil giant, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (ExxonMobil). I always say that this experience at ExxonMobil was the best thing that happened to me at that time because the job gave me an invaluable understanding of corporate structure and business discipline, which would eventually prove very useful in my future business endeavours, to include the Protea Hotel Oakwood Park, of which I remain a shareholder and director; Vic Lawrence & Associates, now one of Nigeria’s leading outsourcing firms, where I also remain founder, and so on.
However, as successful as all these business ventures have thankfully been, nothing perhaps has given me the most fulfilment as the prospect of exploiting the media as a tool to affect global perceptions about Africa. So, with no TV experience whatsoever, I had approached DStv back then with the Moments with Mo proposal which I had hoped would persuade them to see that it was time Africans had a talk show that projected all that was positive, progressive and celebratory about the continent. I had seen a gap in the market for talk shows that were quintessentially African on the DStv bouquet. I had observed that there were talk shows on NTA, and other Nigerian channels but there wasn’t a single Pan-African talk show at the time. I did not get a positive response from DStv as I was told they were not looking for a Pan-African talk show on the platform at the time. But interestingly, in response to the need for local content on the platform, the window of opportunity soonopened for us and that was how, in 2006, Moments with Mo was born out of the vision to build and project a new, stronger, more independent and more confident Africa; an Africa that speaks for itself; that celebrates its people and achievements and solves its own problems.Ihad taken about 5 pilots of my talk show to them back then but they were all rejected and eventually, one was accepted. And even at that point, I was told they were not going to commission, that they were only going to license, which means they would buy the content from you at an agreed price. So I was told to go and look for sponsors, which I did, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Mo Abudu
Why did you choose to then start EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first global black entertainment network, and describe the transition from talk show host to head of a television company, navigating a teething media business sector with no prior experience?
EbonyLife TV creates content that speaks to the continent’s most important demographic, the custodians of the present and of the future, the youth aged 18 to 34. We believe no one is speaking to this key demographic of the continent the way we do. This is a demographic that is extremely passionate and confident; tremendously creative and global-minded. It is one that craves a platform for self-definition and self-expression; one that sees a different Africa, an Africa that tells its own story through the showcasing of the continent’s best talents, from lifestyle and entertainment to fashion and music, education, information, love and relationships. So, with the mantra “Live the EbonyLife”, our channel is proud to be broadcasting premium, original and exclusively African programming which is both inspirational and aspirational, celebrating style and success while motivating the audience to dream and dream big. Our programming is one that leaves the viewer with a cool, glossy, polished and sophisticated experience, from reality to talk; drama to entertainment and comedy. Through our programming, we also avail companies amazing brand integration and placement opportunities like never before. We believe it is very vital to give African brands, big and small, the opportunity to be seen on a global scale, showing the world that African brands can compete with the world’s best.
What lessons have you learned in business?
I have learned that information is power. The media business in Nigeria and indeed, Africa is grossly underestimated and the windows of opportunity need to be further explored. A lot of people do not understand the power of the information. One needs to be armed with information in order to successfully navigate any venture. Information is your compass. If you know better, you will do better. Before deciding to enter into any venture, one must, to the best of their ability have explored possibilities for growth, foreseen challenges, made projections, thought exhaustively through every inch and breadth of the venture and researched what other people have done to succeed and where they failed.
What advice do you have for those who desire to follow your entrepreneurial footsteps?
Anyone who wishes to be an entrepreneur must know that bright ideas are great, however, they are not even half of the work; execution is everything. Yes, as the saying goes, ‘there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come’, but when that time comes, you must be prepared to bleed sweat, tears and blood to bring your ideas to life. For women, never ever see your gender as a handicap. Never think yourself inferior. Be ready to do twice the work for half the usual reward. When the door isn’t opened, kick down the door. Take the regular harassment and other obstacles women face in stride. In fact, be prepared for them. Be prepared to be told off, to be told you are not good enough, to go unrewarded for even doing the same work your male counterpart has done. Work with your passion, let it consume and drive you. Do not be distracted. On down days, it will keep you going. Also, surround yourself with like minds. In fact, you should exhaustively curate those who will go along with you on your journey. I can’t say that enough.
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Who manages Quixote Village?
The Village is supported by Panza, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization doing business as Quixote Communities. (Panza was named for Sancho Panza, the servant of Don Quixote in Cervantes' novel.) We have three full time staff: An executive director, program manager, and case manager/resident advocate. We also have an accountant to help with the books. We are currently in the process of building two more villages and will have similar staffing at each one.
What model do you use?
Quixote Communities offers recovery housing, a drug and alcohol free living environment for people in all stages of recovery.
We also provide permanent supportive housing. Residents can stay as long as they want and receive staff support, as well as peer mentorship and benefits of living in a community.
How do you apply to live at Quixote Village?
Quixote Village is currently full. Please contact the Community Action Council (CAC) at the Community Care Center downtown at 225 State Ave NE 1-844-628-7343 to get on our wait list.
In general, the admission process will include an initial interview with CAC and Village staff to determine eligibility, followed by an interview with the Resident Council’s Village Life Committee and an opportunity to meet Village residents.
Background checks and drugs screenings are required. Residents may not have outstanding warrants and/or sex offender lifetime registration.
Village residents are expected to be clean and sober. However, we understand the complexity of alcohol and substance abuse and work with residents on every stage of their recovery.
What is in each tiny home at quixote village?
Each 144 sq. ft. tiny home consists of:
Twin bed with linen, pillow, and storage underneath
Half bath (toilet and sink)
Table and stool
Intercom phone to call the office, neighbors, or 911
Full electricity (lights, heater, heat lamp in bathroom)
Several windows for ventiliation
Porch with room for extra storage
What is in the Community Building at quixote village?
The Community Building is 2,500 square feet
2 walk-in showers, 1 walk-in ADA shower with sitting area, and 1 bath
Full double kitchen (2 ovens, 2 stoves, 2 microwaves, 2 dishwashers, etc.) with community pots, pans, dishes, and utensils.
Dry food storage as well as multiple fridges
TV room that doubles as our yoga room
Rotating library
2 staff offices – Program Manager and Resident Advocate
How did this all get started?
It all began when Camp Quixote, a tent city, was established in downtown Olympia in 2007 to protest a city ordinance that banned lying or sitting on sidewalks in the downtown core.
When police threatened to break up the camp, the homeless residents and their activist supporters, The Poor People’s Union and Bread and Roses, asked the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation to provide space for the camp on the church's property. In February of 2007, the campers moved to OUUC, the first of seven local churches that would host the camp over the next six years.
Eventually Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and Thurston County were all convinced to pass ordinances permitting the camp on church properties, but requiring 24 hours a day monitoring by church members, strict adherence to health and safety rules, and limited stays at each location. Inhabitants of the camp elected a Resident Council that defined the rules of residency, made sure they were being followed and was in charge of admissions.
Overseeing the camp and moving it from one church parking lot to another every three to six months was no easy task! Hundreds of volunteers helped with donations, security, finances, and transportation. We are forever grateful to them and to the faith communities that offered the camp support, including sanctuary on their land. Along the way Panza, a nonprofit organization, was created to support the camp.
The founders of Camp Quixote hoped to find land and build a permanent village for themselves, consisting of tiny houses and a shared building that would house showers, laundry, and cooking facilities. In time, with support from the City of Olympia and Thurston County, as well as our many volunteers and the camp residents themselves, Panza began to advocate for a permanent solution. A LOT of hard work ensued: a campaign for funding was launched, a search for a site undertaken, changes in city code were needed (because there was nothing written in policy for single units that share a common space!) and a conditional use permit obtained. We held multiple open forums to educate the community on who we are and what they could expect. Eventually Panza cobbled together funding from federal, state and local sources to make this vision a reality on a site provided by Thurston County for $1 a year, for 41 years. Construction began.
On December 24, 2013, the 30 residents of Camp Quixote left their tents behind and became residents of Quixote Village.
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What did it cost?
The total cost to build Quixote Village, including 30 tiny homes, two of which are ADA compliant, and the community building was $3.05 million. This includes all pre-development costs (architect, engineering, etc.), infrastructure, materials, labor, permits, fees, required road and storm water improvements, and the value of the land. Thurston County leased us the site, estimated at a $333,000 value, for $1 a year for 41 years. Substantial services were donated by our architect, our civil engineer, and others.
The actual cost of construction (materials and labor) for each cottage was about $19,000. The cottages are permanently installed on sunken piers and have electricity, heating and running water (toilet and sink).
The total cost of the Village, including donated land and services, divided by the number of cottages yields a per unit cost of $101,567. This compares favorably to the estimated average cost per unit for low-income studio apartments of $200,000. Moreover, when the value of the donated land and services is subtracted, what we actually PAID for the Village was just under $88,000 per unit.
Where did the money come from?
$1.5 million in the state capital budget, which came through the state Department of Commerce’s Housing Trust Fund
$699,000 from federal Community Development Block Grant funding that came through Thurston County and the City of Olympia
$170,000 in Thurston County funding from state document recording fees
$215,000 in community donations, including the Nisqually and Chehalis Tribes, the Boeing Employees’ Fund, and individual donors
How did Panza and Camp Quixote raise the money?
The local ordinances that regulated Camp Quixote required that volunteers staff a “host desk” to control entry into the Camp and ensure safety. This meant that over the years, hundreds of faith community members and others who served as volunteers got to know people who were homeless. It was a transformative experience for everyone, volunteers and Camp residents alike, most of whom had been strangers to each other before.
The result was a remarkable coalition. When 100 or more people from diverse faith communities and 30 people living in tents packed city council meetings, council members took notice. This coalition was further strengthened by the support of local environmentalists who welcomed the idea of tiny house development.
The Thurston County Commission was an early supporter of the Village idea, and saw it as a promising model for affordable, sustainable housing. Their early commitment of land for the Village was an important first step towards raising the money to build it.
Camp residents and Panza members testified in support of a state capital budget appropriation and won a $1.5 million commitment from the state. Once we had that first big commitment, others followed.
Panza hired Community Frameworks, a non-profit low-income housing development agency based in Bremerton, Washington, to guide us through the complex processes involved in government grant applications and funding, and to manage the construction financing.
The keys to our fundraising success were:
Residents of the Camp proved they were capable of self-government, and over time they built a great reputation for the Camp as a good neighbor and an asset to the community.
Hundreds of people who volunteered at the Camp were willing to show up at public meetings to show their support.
Camp residents were willing to speak at public meetings, legislative hearings, and in media interviews alongside their allies.
Our coalition grew to include the local environmental movement, and many other interested community members.
We are very blessed to live in a progressive, generous community with elected leaders who helped and supported us.
Community Frameworks did a great job for us and was an essential part of our team.
Is the Village self-governed like the camp was?
Camp Quixote – a tent camp for homeless adults – was founded on a tradition of self-governance in 2007. The first residents established a simple code of conduct that all residents agreed to live by.
In the six plus years of the Camp’s existence, residents interviewed and voted on whom to admit to the Camp, and when to expel someone who didn’t follow the rules. They also elected leaders every six months, and the leaders assigned chores, collected dues of $20 a month and managed Camp funds to provide supplies. Over time, it was established that the supporting nonprofit, Panza, would not interfere with the internal governance of the Camp unless (1) the Camp asked it to, or (2) there was evidence that the Camp was not following its own rules.
When Panza developed and built Quixote Village, it took on the legal responsibilities of a landlord under state law. Village staff now manage the admissions process and, with the advice of the Village Resident Council and its elected Village Life Committee, have final say in selection of new residents and the outcome of rules violations. All residents pay 30% of their income (minimum $50/month) in rent and sign a lease agreement with Panza that includes clearly stated rules of conduct. Some of these rules reflect those established in Camp Quixote as well as those written by the Resident Council and its leaders. Others have been developed by Panza and are directed towards maintaining the Village facilities and ensuring that the requirements of our funders and insurers are met. A third set were written jointly by the Resident Council and Panza and apply to their cooperative efforts to ensure successful operation of the Village community.
All Village residents meet in the Resident Council once a week, and they and their elected leaders are assisted by Village staff in overseeing resident responsibilities for maintaining public spaces, such as the community building, landscaping, and the community garden. The Village Life team meets once a week with staff to set the agenda for the Council meeting and to discuss emerging issues and proposed activities and events.
Why TINY HOMES?
Residents of Camp Quixote were an integral part of the design of the village. Unlike living in an apartment with neighbors above, below, and on both sides of you, each resident has their own home. This was extremely important to them. They have their own lawn and individual porches. This brings a sense of ownership and pride. If you came to the Village, you would see 30 tiny homes each with their own individuality and uniqueness.
Our tiny homes leave a smaller carbon footprint and are eco-friendly with only 144 sq. ft.
Tiny homes are economically efficient as well, they cost less than half of what is costs to build your average apartment (this includes all our land development and cost of our large community building).
The village aspect also creates an incredible community. Residents share communal spaces and it opens up for an empowering sense of family, peer mentorship, and community.
wHO LIVES AT THE VILLAGE AND HOW DO YOU APPLY TO LIVE THERE?
The village is home to chronically homeless single adults living in Thurston County· Quixote Village is currently full. Please contact Sidewalk at the Community Care Center downtown at 225 State Ave NE (360) 515-5587 to get on our wait list. They are open Monday through Thursday from 10 am – 2 pm. If you are in urgent need of housing please call the Housing Hotline at 1-844-628-7343 for local resources.
Sidewalk is the Coordinated Entry (CE) point for homeless adults in Thurston County. They manage our waitlist. The waitlist is prioritized based on vulnerability.
In general, the admission process will include an initial interview with Sidewalk and Village staff to determine eligibility, followed by an interview with the Resident Council’s Village Life Committee and an opportunity to meet Village residents.
Background checks and drugs screenings are required. Residents may not have outstanding warrants and/or sex offender registration.
How many homes are there?
There are 30 homes at Quixote Village. We plan to have 35 at the Orting Veterans Village and 30 at the Shelton Veterans Village.
How does rent work?
All residents pay 30% of their income (earned income and/or disability, retirement, etc.). This 30% is based off of the standard for affordable housing.
We receive 25 Project-Based Vouchers from the Housing Authority of Thurston County (HATC) that supplement our rent. Our rent is marketed at $570. Residents pay 30% of their income and the HATC supplements the rest.
If a resident has zero income and a voucher, they pay a $50 minimum. If a resident has zero income and does not have a voucher, they do not pay.
What is offered at the village?
We try to offer a plethora of social and wellness activities as well as educational opportunities for residents. Our Case Manager and Program Manager work with different community members to offer activities residents are interested in.
Some examples of what we have: weekly yoga, weekly chiropractic, a regular hair dresser, quarterly nursing interns from Saint Martins, life skill classes from our partners at The Peace Center, gardening, nutrition help, participation in community events and public speaking, group walks, and weekly community dinners
Our Case Manager works one-one-one with residents to help with goal setting. They work on anything from getting a driver’s license, paying off fines, finding proper behavioral and physical health care, or helping with transportation. We strive to support and guide residents towards whatever goal they are looking to reach.
WHERE DO PEOPLE GO ONCE THEY MOVE OUT?
In the past two years, 90% of our residents who have moved out, moved into another form of permanent housing. We call that a success!
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The reliability of the Canadian triage and acuity scale: Meta-analysis
Amir Mirhaghi, Abbas Heydari, Reza Mazlom, Mohsen Ebrahimi
July 2015, 7(7):299-305
Background: Although the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) have been developed since two decades ago, the reliability of the CTAS has not been questioned comparing to moderating variable. Aims: The study was to provide a meta-analytic review of the reliability of the CTAS in order to reveal to what extent the CTAS is reliable. Materials and Methods: Electronic databases were searched to March 2014. Only studies were included that had reported samples size, reliability coefficients, adequate description of the CTAS reliability assessment. The guidelines for reporting reliability and agreement studies (GRRAS) were used. Two reviewers independently examined abstracts and extracted data. The effect size was obtained by the z-transformation of reliability coefficients. Data were pooled with random-effects models and meta-regression was done based on method of moments estimator. Results: Fourteen studies were included. Pooled coefficient for the CTAS was substantial 0.672 (CI 95%: 0.599-0.735). Mistriage is less than 50%. Agreement upon the adult version, among nurse-physician and near countries is higher than pediatrics version, other raters and farther countries, respectively. Conclusion: The CTAS showed acceptable level of overall reliability in the emergency department but need more development to reach almost perfect agreement.
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Youtube as a source of information on Ebola virus disease
Ranjan Pathak, Dilli Ram Poudel, Paras Karmacharya, Amrit Pathak, Madan Raj Aryal, Maryam Mahmood, Anthony A Donato
Background: The current West Africa epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD), which began from Guinea in December 2013, has been the longest and deadliest Ebola outbreak to date. With the propagation of the internet, public health officials must now compete with other official and unofficial sources of information to get their message out. Aims: This study aimed at critically appraising videos available on one popular internet video site (YouTube) as a source of information for Ebola virus disease (EVD). Materials and Methods: Videos were searched in YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) using the keyword "Ebola outbreak" from inception to November 1, 2014 with the default "relevance" filter. Only videos in English language under 10 min duration within first 10 pages of search were included. Duplicates were removed and the rest were classified as useful or misleading by two independent reviewers. Video sources were categorized by source. Inter-observer agreement was evaluated with kappa coefficient. Continuous and categorical variables were analyzed using the Student t-test and Chi-squared test, respectively. Results: One hundred and eighteen out of 198 videos were evaluated. Thirty-one (26.27%) videos were classified as misleading and 87 (73.73%) videos were classified as useful. The kappa coefficient of agreement regarding the usefulness of the videos was 0.68 (P < 0.001). Independent users were more likely to post misleading videos (93.55% vs 29.89%, OR = 34.02, 95% CI = 7.55-153.12, P < 0.001) whereas news agencies were most likely to post useful videos (65.52% vs 3.23%, OR = 57.00, 95% CI = 7.40-438.74, P < 0.001). Conclusions: This study demonstrates that majority of the internet videos about Ebola on YouTube were characterized as useful. Although YouTube seems to generally be a useful source of information on the current outbreak, increased efforts to disseminate scientifically correct information is desired to prevent unnecessary panic among the among the general population.
Fish oil intake and seizure control in children with medically resistant epilepsy
Diala Mohamed Ali Reda, Nesrin Kamal Abd-El-Fatah, Tarek El-Sayed Ismail Omar, Olfat Abdel Hamid Darwish
Background: There is considerable evidence which suggests that Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may have a potential use in the treatment of epilepsy. Aim: The study was to investigate the effect of Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (as fish oil supplementation) in reducing the frequency and severity of epileptic seizures in children with medically resistant epilepsy. Materials and Methods: In the case-control study, a total of 70 children with medically resistant epilepsy underwent assessment of the frequency and severity of the epileptic attacks at baseline, after one month, two months and three months from the beginning of the study; 35 children received fish oil and the other 35 children received placebo. Results: The number of children who received fish oil, having 0 epileptic attacks increased from 0%, before starting the study, up to 57.1% at the end of the third month, while the improvement was minimal in the placebo group, with a significant difference in the improvement between the intervention and the control groups. There was no statistically significant difference in improvement in the severity of the seizures either between cases and control or between the beginning and the end of the study. Conclusion: Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids elevated the seizure threshold in epileptic patients and may help in achieving seizure control.
Evaluation of the relationship between musculoskeletal discomforts and occupational stressors among nurses
Kamran Azma, Alireza Hosseini, Mohammad Hasan Safarian, Masoumeh Abedi
Background: Stress in nurses may increase the prevalence of musculoskeletal discomforts. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal discomforts and job stress among nurses and to investigate the association between musculoskeletal discomforts and occupational stressors. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 144 nurses in one of the main referral hospitals of Tehran-Iran were randomly selected and studied. Data were collected by HSE job stress questionnaire and The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire through interviews with nurses in their workplace. Results: Most reported musculoskeletal discomforts localized in the neck, back, knee and shoulder and the minimal discomforts were in wrist and elbow. On the other hand, stressors such as demand, changes in workplace, control and responsibilities had significant effect on increasing musculoskeletal discomforts of organs such as neck, shoulders and back (P < 0.001). Conclusion: There was a significant association between stressors such as demand, control, responsibilities and changes in workplace and reported musculoskeletal disorders, especially in neck, shoulders and back. It is suggested to use defined programs for management and control of stressors to control occupational stress in nurses. Moreover, prevention of musculoskeletal discomforts due to their high prevalence in the study population is important.
Anti-inflammatory dietary combo in overweight and obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Amany Alsayed Salama, Ezzat Khamis Amine, Hesham Abd Elfattah Salem, Nesrin Kamal Abd El Fattah
Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is of clinical and public health importance, affecting up to one in five women of reproductive age. It has significant and diverse clinical implications including reproductive, metabolic, and psychological features. Aim: The study was to investigate the effect of anti-inflammatory dietary combo on metabolic, endocrine, inflammatory, and reproductive profiles in overweight and obese women with PCOS. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 nonpregnant, overweight, and obese adult females with PCOS according to the Rotterdam criteria, were screened during the year 2012, and 75 completed the trial. At baseline and study end, fasting blood samples were drawn to measure biological markers, body fat percent (BFP), and visceral fat area (VFA) were assessed by the InBody720 device and anthropometric measurements were done for all participants who were subjected to an anti-inflammatory hypocaloric diet and physical activity for 12 weeks. Results: At study completion, we achieved moderate weight loss of (± 7%) and significant improvements in body composition, hormones and menstrual cyclicity, blood pressure, glucose homeostasis, dyslipidemia, C-reactive protein (CRP), and serum amyloid A (SAA) (surrogate measures of cardiovascular risk (CVR)). This was a clinically relevant weight loss that is associated with a reduced prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and metabolic syndrome (MS) in the general population and improved fertility outcomes in PCOS. We achieved 63% regain of menstrual cyclicity and 12% spontaneous pregnancy rate within 12 week. Conclusions: We have explored an additional dietary treatment option with good prognostic metabolic and reproductive responses to weight loss that occur in overweight and obese PCOS.
Lithium-induced minimal change disease and acute kidney injury
Parul Tandon, Natalie Wong, Jeffrey S Zaltzman
Context: Lithium carbonate is a psychiatric medication commonly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. It has been implicated in inducing nephrogenic diabetes inspidus, chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy, and acute tubular necrosis. We describe a case of lithium-induced minimal change disease (MCD) and acute kidney injury (AKI). Case Report: A 32-year-old female with a medical history of bipolar disorder treated with chronic lithium therapy presented with anasarca, fatigue, and tremors. Work-up revealed supra-therapeutic lithium levels, hypoalbuminemia, and significant proteinuria. The patient was treated conservatively with fluids and discontinuation of lithium therapy. Subsequently, she developed significant AKI and persistent proteinuria. She underwent a renal biopsy that demonstrated effacement of podocyte foot processes consistent with lithium-induced MCD. This was treated with corticosteroids, which decreased the proteinuria and resolved all the patient's symptoms. Conclusion: Lithium-induced MCD is a rare disease that affects patients of all ages. It is often associated with therapeutic lithium and is typically resolved with discontinuation of lithium. In some cases, concurrent AKI may result due to vascular obstruction from hyperalbuminuria and associated renal interstitial edema. Corticosteroids may be needed to reduce the proteinuria and prevent progression to chronic kidney disease. As such, patients on lithium therapy may benefit from monitoring of glomerular function via urinalysis to prevent the onset of nephrotic syndrome.
A rare combination of giant right coronary artery aneurysm
Imran Haider, Promporn Suksaranjit, Brent Wilson, Christopher McGann
Context: Giant coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) in adults is a rare clinical entity with an estimated incidence of 0.02%. CAA is commonly found in the right coronary artery with significant number of cases associated with fistula formation. Case Report: We describe a rare case of an 87 year-old man with large CAA with fistulous drainage into the right ventricle (RV) along with RV free wall vegetation as a cause of chronic weakness and lethargy. Conclusion: Giant CAA with fistulous drainage to the RV could present in the form of infective endocarditis. Early detection and surgical treatment would provide a significant benefit to these patients.
Statin intolerance and vitamin D supplementation: Sunny, but a few clouds remain...
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Emphysematous cystitis: A rare disease of Genito-urinary system
Shilpi Singh, Waqas Jehangir, Jay Littlefield, George Hanna, Gretchen Bowling, Abdalla Yousif, John R Middleton
Context: Emphysematous cystitis (EC) is a rare infection of the urinary tract that results in gas production in the bladder. It is more common in diabetic and female patients, and can be associated with more serious complications, including pyelonephritis. Case Report: We describe a case of recurrent bacterial cystitis caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli). An incidental finding in our patient of pneumaturia on computed tomography (CT) scan prompted further work-up. Differential diagnoses for pneumaturia include infection, trauma, and fistula, most commonly colovesicular. The patient history ruled out trauma and CT scanning ruled out a fistula; culture of the urine then showed a bacterial load greater than 100,000 E. coli/mL. The patient was then diagnosed with EC. She was treated with ceftriaxone and released in stable condition. Conclusion: The literature was scarce when it came to diagnoses of EC based on bacterial load. We present this case to increase health care providers' awareness of recurrent EC with a urine culture bacterial load greater than 100,000 E. coli/mL.
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College Tuition Increases Put Diversity in Higher Education at Risk, Report Says
By Joelle Fredman, NASFAA Staff Reporter
While a more diverse population of students has been enrolling in higher education, this trend is likely to reverse if tuition costs — coupled with relatively low per-student funding from states — continue to rise, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
The report’s authors suggested that to encourage more students to continue pursuing college degrees, policymakers should prioritize need-based aid policies and abandon performance-based funding models.
“The potential benefits of a college degree are significant, with greater lifetime earnings for those who obtain a bachelor’s degree relative to those who only receive a high school diploma,” the authors wrote. “But cuts to higher education, rising tuition, and stagnant household earnings make it difficult for today’s students — a cohort more racially and economically diverse than any before it — to secure those benefits.”
States have been increasing spending for higher education for the past few years, but per-student funding is still 13% below 2008 levels (or $1,220 less) at both four- and two-year institutions — despite the fact that state revenues have risen above pre-recession levels, the report found. Between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation, 19 states cut per-student funding by more than 20%, and six of those states cut funding by more than 30%.
At the same time, the average, published cost of tuition at public, four-year institutions rose by 37%, or $2,708, between 2008 and 2018. Specifically, tuition grew by more than 60% in seven states and by more than 40% in 21 states. While state funding for financial aid programs has increased between 2008 and 2018, the average net price at public, four-year institutions still rose by 24%, or by $2,920.
The report’s authors wrote that rising tuition costs “may harm students of color and reduce campus diversity,” citing a study that found that a $1,000 tuition increase for full-time freshman at less-selective institutions “was associated with a 4.5% percent drop in class diversity.” They also wrote that high sticker prices deter low-income students from enrolling in higher education as well, and that “low-income families’ relative lack of knowledge about the admissions and financial aid processes may exacerbate the problem.”
The authors suggested states not only invest more money to support public institutions, but that they “implement smarter state financial aid policies and ensure that dollars go to the schools that need it most.”
Specifically, they wrote that states should prioritize need-based aid, instead of focusing their limited funding on merit-based aid programs. In the 2016-17 academic year, state institutions awarded students $10.7 billion in financial aid — 98% of which went to undergraduates. Of that amount, 24% was awarded to students who earned high GPAs in high school or reported top SAT and ACT scores, regardless of their household income.
“States would be better off bolstering need-based aid programs, simplifying and consolidating programs to reduce confusion and encourage greater enrollment, and building design aspects into these programs that not only encourage enrollment but also encourage timely completion to reduce costs to both the state and students,” the authors wrote.
The authors also suggested that states move away from performance-based funding models for their colleges and universities — currently the practice in 32 states — that “benefit the most well-resourced schools at the expense of smaller regional institutions.” The authors noted that “performance funding is less effective than policymakers might hope,” in part due to years of funding cuts that have left certain public colleges, particularly two-year colleges and regional institutions with smaller endowments, struggling to meet the goals intended to boost performance.
Instead, the authors wrote, “by pursuing policies that help more students pursue affordable postsecondary education, lawmakers can help build a stronger middle class and develop the entrepreneurs and skilled workers a strong state economy needs.”
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The Salterton
The Flint street Nativity
5th. December - 9th. December 2016
About The Play
Written by Tim Firth
Long term acting and committee member Penny Hill will be directing her first production for SDC with this hilarious comedy.
Mizzis Horrocks' class of seven year olds is about to perform their nativity play at Flint Street Junior School for the proud mums and dads - and the occasional social worker. Squabbles arise when Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he's not a proper star like they have at NASA, Herod won't stop waving to his mum and dad and the subversive Innkeeper is determined to liven up the traditional script. And then the stick insect escapes...
The children are played by adults, who later play their parents so the set changes accordingly to reflect the difference in scale. This warm, witty, funny play is an ideal alternative to the usual Christmas fare with original lyrics set to the tunes of the usual Christmas carols. It was first performed to critical acclaim at the Liverpool Playhouse.
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Marc Colson
Will Hill
Tim Alsford
Mike Keep
Pat Cowey
Wendy Gomm
Fin O'leary
Dianne Nicholls
Stage Management - Kim Taylor
Headmaster - Mr Gomm
Music Teacher - Miss Ledwood
Stage Manager - Kim Taylor
Lighting and Sound - Jeremy Townley & Leigh Steedman
Set Design and Construction - Richard Gomm & Team
Props - Ann Mcallistar & Wendy Gomm
Costumes - Deborah Pearson
Prompt - Nancy Kerswill
Front of House - Elaine Wilson and Club Members
Photography - Mike Kerswill
Welcome to The Flint Street Nativity!
As many of you know, I’m normally the one on the stage, so I can honestly say that directing this play was a whole new experience for me.
My previous experiences in the director’s chair have all been directing children for panto – so what better way to use my experience than to make the adults at the Salterton Drama Club act as children! The Flint Street Nativity is a film which I have always loved for its brutal honesty of the reality of childhood, and it has almost a cult following, especially amongst die hard fans of the original cast (Frank Skinner, Josie Lawrence, Jane Horrocks, Neil Morrisey to name just a few!).
When I first found that the director Tim Firth (who also wrote Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots) had adapted his original TV Play script into one for a stage production, I knew that it was the play for me to make my directorial debut – completely bonkers and a little bit different for the Salterton Drama Club.We have had a tremendous amount of fun putting this production together, and I would like to sincerely thank everyone in the club for all of their incredible support and help throughout the last few months. For those that know me, I of course picked a challenging production, with a complicated set and technical details – but then you would expect nothing less of me.
So sit back, relax and let yourself be immersed in our festive fun.
Penny Hill, Director
Chairmans's Notes
Once again it gives me great pleasure in welcoming you to our latest production. Tonight, we have a real treat for you. This play has been a considerable challenge for our players and an even greater challenge for Penny as our director. It's her first production directing with us and she decided to do this play because she had only done pantomimes, with children before, with the local church. So, she thought I'll do a play where the adults play children! She has a large cast of experienced actors and a wonderful backstage crew to support her, so I will leave it up to you to judge the result.
Once again, if you have enjoyed tonight's entertainment and would like to join us, we would welcome you with open arms, even if it is only to make the tea on a costume making or set building day.
Richard Gomm Chairman.
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PLO Under Fire over US-backed Talks
A major faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has denounced the party’s decision to enter US-mediated indirect talks with Israel.
"The decision reflects an obvious retreat from the commitments made to the Palestinian people and a clear violation of Palestinian national consensus," Kayid al-Ghoul, who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Gaza, said on Sunday.
The PLO on Saturday agreed to resume the talks which are mediated by the United States Middle East envoy, George Mitchell.
Ghoul, whose faction is the PLO’s second largest after Fatah, said the move would "only serve Israel and unburden the US and the Middle East Quartet from their legal and political obligations." He also called on the PLO’s executive committee to review the Oslo Accords and its negotiation policy to put an end to "the ongoing violation of Palestinian rights."
The Palestinian leader insisted that Palestinians should continue to boycott Israel, its institutions and products.
Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that indirect talks with Israel had officially begun, despite Israel’s refusal to heed Palestinian and international calls to freeze its settlement expansions on lands where Palestinians hope to build their future Palestinian state.
The talks were stalled in March after Israel announced plans to build hundreds of settler units in al-Quds (East Jerusalem).
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, had warned against the resumption of the negotiations, arguing that the move would only serve to facilitate further "Israeli violations" against Palestinians.
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2019 has been another memorable year in the entertainment industry, which has seen a number of hugely successful releases for gaming fans. Previous releases have also continued to remain as popular as ever, as the industry continues to grow year on year. So as we draw ever nearer to the end of 2019, which have been the most popular games of the year?
Sitting at the top of the pile is the hugely popular release from the Call of Duty franchise. They have always been a fan favourite and this was their 16th instalment in the series. The game was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision only a few months ago, but has already broken numerous records. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare earned more than $600 million worldwide in the opening three days of its release, which has now seen it become the top-selling premium game release of the year.
It also sold more units in its opening three days than any other game in the series and became the biggest selling digital opening in Activision’s history. It also broke the record for the highest amount of digital sales on the PlayStation 4, and provided the largest Call of Duty PC launch in history. These all give an indication of just how much of a success this game has been this year.
The rules have changed. #ModernWarfare
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Since its release in 2017, it has continued to grow in popularity around the world with a vast following. This has seen fans picking up official clothing at Popgear, as it remains at the forefront of the gaming industry and so well supported. The game itself is now available across three distinct game versions, that started with Fortnite: Save the World. Following this, Fortnite Battle Royal was released.
The key growth of the game came when they released Fortnite Creative in the latter stages of 2018. This enabled players to have complete freedom to create want they want on an island, which proved to be a major success. Developer Epic games now has a game that draws in more than 125 million players and is earning 100’s of millions of dollars a month. This growth is now only set to continue moving forward.
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Dr. Phyllis-Jean Linton (Kaplan)
Phyllis-Jean Linton (Kaplan), Ph.D.
Immune function in the aged with an emphasis on dendritic cell/macrophage, and T cell alterations; relationship between autophagy and inflammation in infection and the ischemic heart.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY / B.Sc. 1977 / Biology
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY / M.Sc. 1981 / Immunology
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY / Ph.D. 1984 / Immunology
Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, CA / Postdoc. 1987 / Immunology
Positions and Employment
1984-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Immunology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA.
1987-1991 Senior Research Associate, Department of Immunology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA.
1991-1994 Assistant Member, Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
1994-2005 Guest Visiting Scientist, Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
1994-1997 Assistant Professor, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA.
1997-2009 Associate Professor, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA.
2009-present Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
2009-present Professor, San Diego State University Research Foundation, San Diego, CA.
Memberships, Honors, and Awards
1983-1984 Syracuse University Fellowship.
1993, 1998 Invited Participant, NIH Workshop on T and B Cell Memory.
1999 NIAID Focus Group.
1999, 2001-2003 GRM/NIH Study Section, adhoc member.
2000, 2005 Grant Reviewer, Pilot/Feasibility Grants, Geriatrics Center's Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
2000-2003 IMB/NIH Study Section, adhoc member.
2002, 2007, 2009 AFAR National Scientific Advisory Council.
2002, 2004 Invited Participant, NIH Workshop on Immunobiology and Aging.
2003 Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship, ad hoc reviewer.
2003-2004 SEP/NIH Study Section, adhoc member (shared instrumentation - flow cytometers).
2003 Aging Research and Education Center - Pilot Grant Reviewer.
2003-2006 CMAD/NIH Study Section, member.
2004 SEP/NIH Study Section, adhoc reviewer (Nathan Shock Aging Centers).
2004 Concept review panel for NIA Office of Biological Resources and Resource Development (genetic monitoring of NIA rodent colonies).
2006 Research in Aging, grant reviewer.
2007, 2008 SEP/NIH Study Section, reviewer (P01: Effect of Damage Autophagy and Aging).
2007 Invited Speaker, 33rd Annual La Jolla Immunology Conference.
2008 NIH SEP NCCAM ZAT1 SM Study Section, adhoc reviewer.
2008 Symposia co-chair, FASEB AAI meeting.
2008 Invited Speaker/Participant, United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program-sponsored Immunosenescence Workshop.
2008 Invited Speaker, Beeson Scholars Scientific Meeting.
2009 NIH SEP RFA "Partnering Awards to Support Collaborative Research on the Biology of Aging."
2009 NIH CMAD/NIH Study Section, adhoc reviewer.
2010-2012 NIH Study Section, Biomedical Research on the International Space Station, reviewer.
2010 NIH SEP ZRG BDA-C Study Section, adhoc reviewer.
2012-2016 ASH/NIH Study Section, member.
2012 Invited Speaker, AHA Symposia
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Kaplan, P.-J. and Garvey, J.S. (1986) Mycoplasma neurolyticum membranes: a T-independent antigen in the rat. Immunological Investigations, 15:35.
Klinman, N.R. and Linton, P.-J. (1986) The specificity and affinity of B cell triggering. In: Proceedings of 10th International Convocation on Immunology. Longman Group, Essex, England. Vol. 1, p. 125.
Klinman, N.R. and Linton, P.-J. (1988) The clonotype repertoire of B cell subpopulations. Advances Immunol, 42:1.
Linton, P.-J., Gilmore, G.L. and Klinman, N.R. (1988) The secondary B cell lineage. In: B Cell Development. UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Series. O. Witte, M. Howard and N. Klinman, eds. Alan R. Liss, Inc., NY, v. 85, p. 75.
Pinkert, C.A., Manz, J., Linton, P.-J., Klinman, N.R. and Storb, U. (1989) Elevated PC responsive B cells and anti-PC antibody production in transgenic mice harboring anti-PC immunoglobulin genes. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol., 23:321.
Linton, P.-J., and Klinman, N.R. (1989) Self non-self discrimination by precursors of memory B cells. In: Progress in Immunology, Vol. 7, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 424.
Riley, S.C., Froscher, B.G., Linton, P.-J., Zharhary, D., Marcu, K. and Klinman, N.R. (1989) Altered VH gene utilization in responses to phosphorylcholine of aged mice. J. Immunol., 143:3798.
Linton, P.-J., Decker, D. and Klinman, N.R. (1989) Primary antibody responses and secondary B cells are generated from separate precursor cell populations. Cell, 59:1049.
Klinman, N.R., Riley, S.C., Zharhary, D., Froscher, B.G., Powers, G.D. and Linton, P.-J. (1990) Alterations in B cells and antibodies of aged mice. In: Biomedical Advances in Aging '88. Proceedings of the 8th International Washington Spring Symposium. Plenum Press, p. 349.
Klinman, N.R. and Linton, P.-J. (1990) The generation of B cell memory: A working hypothesis. In: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. J. Sprent and D. Gray, eds., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 19.
Linton, P.-J., Rudie, A. and Klinman, N.R. (1991) Tolerance susceptibility of newly generating memory B cells. J. Immunol., 146:4099.
Lo, D., Sandren, E., Linton, P.-J., Behringer, R., Rexroad, C., Pursel, V., Palmiter, R.D. and Brinster, R.L. (1991) Expression of mouse IgA by transgenic mice, pigs and sheep. Eur. J. Immunol., 21:1001.
Linton, P.-J. (1992) B lymphocyte repertoire. In: Encyclopedia of Immunology. I.M. Roitt and P.J. Delves, eds. W.B. Saunders Co., London, pp. 239.
Linton, P.-J. and Klinman, N.R. (1992) The generation of memory B cells, In: Seminars in Immunology, edited by D. Gray. W.B. Saunders Co., London, England, 4:3.
Linton, P.-J., Lo, D., Lai, L., Thorbecke, G.J. and Klinman, N.R. (1992) Among naive precursor cell subpopulations only progenitors of memory B cells originate germinal centers. Eur. J. Immunol., 22:1293.
Tsiagbe, V.K., Linton, P.-J. and Thorbecke, G.J. (1992) The path of memory B cell development. Immunol. Rev., 126:113.
Linton, P.-J. Klinman, N.R. (1992) The use of the splenic focus assay to study B cell tolerance. Immunomethods, 1:1.
Linton, P.-J. (1993) Tolerance induction of newly generated memory B cells from aged mice. AGING: Immunology & Infectious Disease, 4:35.
Linton, P.-J. and Klinman, N.R. (1993) Functionality of B cell subsets in aged mice. AGING: Immunology & Infectious Disease, 4:135.
Stillman, C.A., Linton, P.-J., Koutz, P.J., Decker, D.J., Klinman, N.R. and Gingeras, T.R. (1994) Specific immunoglobulin cDNA clones produced from hybridoma cell lines and murine spleen fragment cultures by 3SR amplification. PCR Methods and Application, 3:320.
Klinman, N.R., Linton, P.-J. and Decker, D. (1995) Aging-associated immune dysfunction and strategies to delay its onset. In: Delaying the Onset of Late-Life Dysfunction. R.N. Butler and J. Brody, eds., Spring Publishing, NY, p. 53.
Decker, D.J., Linton, P.-J., Jacobs, S.N., Biery, M., Gingeras, T.R. and Klinman, N.R. (1995) Defining subsets of naive and memory B cells based on their ability to somatically mutate in vitro. Immunity, 2:195.
Linton, P.-J., Haynes, L., Klinman, N.R., and Swain, S. (1996). Antigen-independent changes in naive CD4 T cells with aging. J. Exp. Med., 184:1891.
Haynes, L., Linton, P.-J., and Swain, S.L. (1997) Age-related changes in CD4 T cells of T cell receptor transgenic mice. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 93:95.
Linton, P.-J., Haynes, L., Tsui, L., Zhang, X., and Swain, S. (1997) From naive to effector - alterations with aging. Immunol. Rev., 160:9.
Linton, P.-J. (1998) B lymphocyte repertoire, In: Encyclopedia of Immunology. I.M. Roitt and P.J. Delves, eds. Academic Press, London, pp. 359.
Haynes, L., Linton, P.-J., Eaton, S.M., Tonkonogy, S.L., and Swain, S.L. (1999) IL-2, but not other common chain (c)-binding cytokines, can reverse the defect in generation of CD4 effector T cells from naive T cells of aged mice. J. Exp. Med., 190:1013.
Bradley, L.M., Harbertson, J., Freschi, G.C., Kondrack, R., and Linton, P.-J. (2000) Regulation of the development and function of memory CD4 subsets. Immunol Res., 21(2-3):149-58.
Linton, P.-J., Harbertson, J., and Bradley, L.M. (2000) A critical role for B cells in the development of memory CD4 cells. J. Immunol., 165:5558-5565.
Linton, P.-J. and Thoman, M.L. (2001) T cell senescence. Front. Biosciences 6:248-261.
Li, S.P., Shi, W., Brunmark, A., Jackson, M., Cai, Z. and Linton, P.-J. (2002) Early antigen-specific response by naive CD8 T cells is not altered with aging. J. Immunol., 168:6120-6127.
Bradley, L.M., Harbertson, J.H., Biederman, E., Zhang, Y., Bradley, S.M., and Linton, P.-J. (2002) Availability of APC can determine the extent of CD4 effector expansion and priming for secretion of Th2 cytokines in vivo. Eur. J. Immunol., 32:2338-2346.
Linton, P.-J., Bautista, B., Biederman, E., Bradley, E.S., Harbertson, J., Kondrack, R.M., Padrick, R.C., and Bradley, L.M. (2003) Costimulation via OX40L expressed by B cells is sufficient to determine the extent of primary CD4 cell expansion and Th2 cytokine secretion in vivo. J. Exp. Med., 197:875-883.
Effros, R., Cai, Z., and Linton, P.-J. (2003) CD8 T cells and aging. Crit. Rev. Immunol., 23(1&2):61-80.
Zhang, L., Tang, Y., Akbulut, H., Zelterman, D., Linton, P.-J., and Deisseroth, A.B. (2003) Injection of Ad vector encoding secretable form of TAA/CD40L fusion protein induces T cell dependent immune response for over a year against tumor cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 100:15101-15106.
Linton, P.-J. and Dorshkind, K. (2004) Age-Related Changes in Lymphocyte Development and Function. Nature Immunol., 5(2):133-139.
Tang, Y., Zhang, L., Yuan, J., Akbulut, H., Maynard, J., Linton, P.-J., Deisseroth, A.B. (2004) Multi-Step Process Through Which Adenoviral Vector Vaccine Overcomes Anergy to Tumor Associated Antigens. Blood, 104(9):2704-13.
Linton, P.-J., Li, S.P., Zhang, Y., Bautista, B., Huynh, Q., and Trinh, T. (2005) Intrinsic vs. Environmental Influences on T Cell Responses in Aging. Immunol. Rev., 205:207-219.
Linton, P.-J., Lustgarten, J., Thoman, M. (2006). T cell Function in the Aged: Lessons Learned from Animal Models. Clin. Appl. Immunol. Rev., 6:73-97
Tang, Y., Akbulut, H., Maynard, J., Petersen, L., Fang, X., Zhang, W.W., Xia, X., Koziol, J., Linton, P. J., and Deisseroth, A. (2006) Vector prime/protein boost vaccine that overcomes defects acquired during aging and cancer. J. Immunol., 177:5697-5707.
Kovacs, E.J., Palmer, J., Fortin, C.F., Fulop Jr., T., Goldstein, D.R., and Linton, P.-J. (2009) Aging and innate immunity in the mouse: impact of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Trends Immunol, 30:319-324.
Tang, Y, Thoman, M., Linton, P.J., and Deisseroth, A. (2009) Use of CD40L immunoconjugates to overcome the defective immune response to vaccines for infections and cancer in the aged. Cancer Immunol. Immunotherapy, 58:1949-57.
Gottlieb, R.A., Mentzer Jr., R.M., and Linton, P.-J. (2011) Impaired mitophagy at the heart of injury. Autophagy. 7:1573-1574.
Gottlieb, R.A. and Linton, P.-J., (2012) Indigestible mitochondria cause heartburn. Cell Res. 22:1518-20.
Gurney, M., Muralidhar, G., and Linton, P.-J. (2012) Autophagy and the immune response, In “Autophagy in Health and Disease”, (RA Gottlieb, Ed.), Academic Press/Elsevier.
Gurney, M.A., Huang, C., Ramil, J.M., Ravindran, N., Andres A.M., Linton, P.-J., and Gottlieb, R.A. (in press) Measuring cardiac autophaghic flux in vitro and in vivo In “Methods in Molecular Biology” ( A. Alvero and G. Mor, Eds.,) Humana Press.
P01 HL112725 (Gottlieb) • 06/01/13 - 05/30/17 • NIH/NHLBI
“Mitochondrial Quality Control in Cardioprotection: Overcoming Comorbidities”
Project 2 (Linton) "Age-related changes in autophagy and effects on inflammation and the heart"
The major goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that autophagy and inflammation in the cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) model are interdependent and modulation of autophagy will affect levels of inflammation and hence the severity of cardiac injury post I/R.
R01 AG026727 (Linton) • 02/15/07 - 01/31/12 • NIH/NIA "Dendritic cells in the aged" The major goals of this project are to define age-associated changes in DC function, to determine the effect of these changes on T cell responses, and to define ways to overcome DC deficiencies.
R21 AG031511 (Linton) • 08/15/08 - 07/31/10 • NIH/NIA "Regulatory T cells in the influenza response of the aged" The goals of this project are to elucidate the mechanism for the increased presence of Tregs in the aged and to determine the relative contribution by Tregs to the overall decline with aging in the immune response to influenza virus infection.
R01 AG019249 (Linton) • 05/01/01 - 04/30/07 • NIH/NIA "Antigen responses by CD4 T cells of the aged" The Specific Aims of the proposal were: 1) examine the IL-2 deficiency in effector cell generation in vivo and in vitro; 2) examine antigen specific CD4 T cell memory responses; 3) determine if alterations in the longevity/turnover/cell death (antigen independent) of naive T cells in the periphery of the aged contribute to the deficiency in IL-2 production.
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Altrincham station
Title: Altrincham station
Subject: Manchester Metrolink, Altrincham, Trafford, British Rail Class 175, Alt
Grid reference
SJ770879
Station code
Number of platforms
4 (2 for National Rail, 2 for Metrolink)
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
Passenger Transport Executive
Original MSJA railway station opens
MSJA station replaced on current site
Name changed form Altrincham and Bowdon to Altrincham
Metrolink Service starts
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Altrincham from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal
Altrincham Interchange is a transport hub in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It consists of a bus station on Stamford Road, a Northern Rail-operated heavy rail station on the Mid-Cheshire Line, and a light rail stop which forms the terminus of Metrolink's Altrincham Line. The original heavy rail element of the station was opened by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway as Altrincham and Bowdon railway station in April 1881, changing to Altrincham railway station in May 1974. The Metrolink element opened in June 1992.
Altrincham Interchange has four platforms. Two bay platforms are used for Metrolink services. Two further through platforms serving train services between Manchester Piccadilly station and Chester railway station via Stockport railway station. A bus station on the edge of the complex provides road-based interchange, and there is also a taxi rank.[1]
1.1 Redevelopment
2 Car access
3 Rail and Metrolink services
3.1 Service pattern
4 Bus services
The station was opened on 3 April 1881 as Altrincham & Bowdon by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) to replace Altrincham (1st) railway station on Stockport Road and Bowdon station on Lloyd Street/Railway Street which both closed that day. All platforms were through, with Nos. 1 and 2 (nearest to the town) being used by the MSJAR.
The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) trains from Manchester Central to Northwich and Chester Northgate used platforms 3 and 4. The CLC also operated a service from Stockport Tiviot Dale via Northenden to Altrincham, latterly using Sentinel steam railcars, but this service ceased in late 1939.
The station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
Since 6 May 1974, the station has been named Altrincham.[2] In 1975 a new booking office was opened on platform 4 to serve the car park on the site of the former goods yard. Also in 1975 work, including the demolition of the glass covered canopy over the station entrance, began to convert the former station forecourt on Stamford New Road into a bus station which opened in November 1976. Thereafter the combined bus/rail station was referred to as Altrincham Interchange.
When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways under arrangement with the GMPTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.
British Rail electric trains between Manchester and Altrincham ceased serving the station on 24 December 1991. The former electric train platforms (1 and 2) reopened for use by Metrolink on 15 June 1992.
A new roof for platform 1 costing £180,000 was installed in 2006. This platform had been uncovered since glazed panels were removed in 2003 due to safety concerns. The new roof is made of coated steel with clear panels to let in the light.[3]
The station clock tower on Stamford New Road is a Grade II listed structure.
The Interchange is being redeveloped in 2013-14 by Laing O'Rourke. The project has been partly funded by the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. As a consequence of the redevelopment the bus station is currently closed and buses depart from various places around Altrincham, additionally the footbridge between platforms 1 and 2 is also closed and passengers are required to walk around the buffers.
Car access
There is provision for private cars to pick up and drop off passengers on the south side of the station (by Platform 4) off Oldfield Street; the two lane, six space bay marked "Passenger Drop-off" next to the car-park, with its own disabled wheelchair ramp and parking arrangements.
Rail and Metrolink services
Location of Altrincham in Greater Manchester
53°23′15″N 2°20′50″W / 53.3875°N 2.3472°W / 53.3875; -2.3472Coordinates: 53°23′15″N 2°20′50″W / 53.3875°N 2.3472°W / 53.3875; -2.3472
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone
Present status
In operation
Original operator
Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway
Pre-grouping company
Post-grouping company
Conversion to Metrolink operation
Altrincham Line
UK Trams portal
There is a basic hourly service in each direction on the Mid-Cheshire line on Mondays to Saturdays with two peak extras to/from Stockport. The through service to Blackpool ceased to run from 15 December 2008.
On Sundays there were five trains to and from Chester but these all terminated here prior to the timetable change, there being no service onwards to Stockport & Manchester. Through passengers had to use the Metrolink service to continue their journey (connections were advertised in the 2007-8 timetable and National Rail tickets were valid for through trips). From December 2008 however, the service frequency has been improved (to two-hourly each way) and through running to Stockport & Manchester reinstated for the first time since the early nineties. These services continue on to Bolton and Southport.
There is a frequent Metrolink service to Manchester and Bury, with a tram every six minutes to Manchester for most of the day (alternate trams running to Bury, avoiding Piccadilly). Monday-Saturday evening and Sunday daytime journeys run every 12 minutes to Piccadilly only with journeys to Bury requiring a change of trams at Piccadilly Gardens, while Sunday evening journeys run every 15 minutes to Piccadilly.[4]
5 trams per hour to Piccadilly
5 trams per hour to Bury
1 train per hour to Piccadilly via Stockport
1 train per hour to Chester
Preceding station
Manchester Metrolink
Following station
Terminus Altrincham – Bury Line
Navigation Road
toward Bury
Altrincham – Piccadilly Line
toward Piccadilly
Hale Northern Rail
Mid-Cheshire Line Navigation Road
Historical railways
Line and station open Cheshire Lines Committee
Mid-Cheshire Line Sale
Line and station open
Disused railways
Baguley Cheshire Lines Committee
Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway Terminus
TfGM own and maintain the bus station located on the former station forecourt, which consists of eleven stands lettered A to M. Stands F to K are located within a subsidiary traffic island that is only accessible via the marked pedestrian crossings over the main busway. There is a Travelshop, cafe and newsagents located adjoining the railway station.
Local bus services operate to locations within Trafford. Buses also operate to Manchester, Wythenshawe, Stockport, Manchester Airport, Wilmslow, Knutsford, Warrington, The Trafford Centre and Eccles. The main bus operator is Arriva North West but other significant operators include Stagecoach Manchester, Warrington Borough Transport, Warrington Coachways and Vale Travel.
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Lee Parker and his daughter Sophie while on holiday in Tenerife (Image: Deadline News)Get the biggest daily stories by emailSubscribeSee our privacy noticeMore newslettersThank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee our privacy noticeCould not subscribe, try again laterInvalid EmailAn outraged holidaymaker decided to quit his “dreadful” TUI hotel after just two hours, shelling out an extra 1,200 to change accommodation .Lee Parker found exposed electrical wiring , stained bedding, blocked plumbing and cracked tiling at the “four star” hotel in Tenerife.When the 39 year old complained, a TUI rep admitted they had wrongly graded the hotel.They told Lee, from Beccles, Suffolk, that moving to a genuine four star hotel would cost the same again as the 1,200 he paid for the original break.Mum giant boobs won stop growing and they ruining her lifeThe businessman, who is holidaying with his teenage daughter, decided he had no choice but to fork out the extra but will chase TUI for compensation when he returns home.Lee requested a four star hotel, nice beach and good night life when organising his trip to Tenerife, which started on Thursday.He complained on Facebook: “We got to our room and this is when the real horror became apparent, no way on Earth were we in a 4 star hotel, not even a 3 star!”The room had dangerous exposed wiring, the toilet didn flush, broken door jams leaving razor sharp metal, the food was disgusting and room completely filthy. Not what we asked for or expected for a 4 star hotel!”Read MoreTop news stories todayOne picture of the Punta del Ray in Las Caletillas shows exposed wiring above a bathroom mirror, creating a clear hazard if in contact with moisture.Another picture taken by Lee shows the extent of the poor drainage system from the toilet, which still had faeces floating in the water.Despite requesting good night life, the hotel he was given was located in an area which he was told translated to “Sleepy Town”.Lee added: “We arrived at about 3pm on Thursday and by 5pm I was downstairs demanding we move. The food was inedible, the toilet wouldn flush and the wiring was dangerous.”Somebody will be electrocuted there before long with wiring like that.”The rep admitted the four star rating on the booking confirmation was wrong and I had been mis sold the holiday.”Lee was told he could only move to a two or three star hotel for the money he had already paid.Instead, Lee bypassed Tui and booked a four star hotel but could not move with his daughter, Sophie Parker, 17, until the next day.
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Johnny Manziel wins the Manning Award.
It's time for Johnny Manziel to find some more space in his already crowded trophy case. The ubiquitous Texas A&M starting quarterback had been named the winner of this year's Manning Award. The award, presented by the Sugar Bowl is given to the best college QB of the year, and takes to account bowl game performance. Manziel certainly proved his worthiness for the award while emasculating Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.
"On behalf of my family, I would like to congratulate Johnny Manziel on his outstanding season," said Archie Manning. "It is very difficult for a young player to make the transition to college football, and Johnny not only made the transition seamlessly, he turned in the best year of any quarterback in the country. I would also like to thank the Allstate Sugar Bowl for all of its support and for creating this honor to recognize a great quarterback each year."
The award is named in honor of all three quarterbacks in the Manning family, Archie, Peyton, and Eli.
(via The New Orleans Times-Picayune)
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Twenty years after the book “Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps,” by Sharon Yamato with photographs by Stan Honda was published, Sharon received a grant from the National Park Service through the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program to expand the book as well as produce a documentary focusing on the barracks that remain in the Wyoming area from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center camp and the people who purchased them as homesteaders after the war. The initial project (click here for images) documented the preservation of two barracks from Heart Mountain. Sharon and Stan traveled to Wyoming in May 2015 to interview surviving homesteaders and their children and find the structures that remain in the area. In August they traveled back to Wyoming to attend the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage, a gathering of surviving camp inmates, their families and friends of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. (Album on Facebook.) Below are images from the two trips. Click here for an excellent account by Sharon of the May interviews.
An intact barrack in nearly original condition north of Cody, in the background is Heart Mountain with mid-May snow on the peak.
Heart Mountain camp survivor Tak Hoshizaki, who as a young man was a Heart Mountain draft resister, during an interview by an original barrack on the Jolovich family farm. Hoshizaki joined over 60 young men who opposed serving in the U.S. military while their families were incarcerated.
Heart Mountain is reflected in a window of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, an excellent museum on the site of the confinement camp. Click Here for more on the museum.
An original barrack on the Jolovich family farm.
We met amazing people like homesteader Forrest Allen, standing in his storage shed that was a Heart Mountain barrack.
Ruth Pfaff and Jane Chelberg, of the Blackburn family, were fonts of information about the area. They spent some of their childhood in this house, which originally was a barrack.
Square nails dating from original construction found on a farm where a barracks was used as an animal enclosure.
Evaleen George sets out the loaves of bread she makes once a month. The kitchen was part of the original barracks that was turned into a home when Evaleen and her husband homesteaded the land.
Tiny Collar in front of her home that is a former Heart Mountain barrack. As homesteaders Tiny and her late husband converted the barrack into a house.
Laverne Solberg in his house, which was a former barrack that he converted as a homesteader in the late 1940’s.
Farmer Tak Ogawa by a dilapidated barrack on his land. He came to the area after the original homesteaders had settled.
A night scene of an original barracks donated from the Iowa State University geological field camp in Shell, eastern Wyoming, now on the site of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.
The Milky Way over the original chimney and boiler room at the Heart Mountain hospital.
Stars above a dilapidated barrack on Tak Ogawa’s farm.
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Green Power EMC and Silicon Ranch Dedicate
Green Power EMC and Silicon Ranch Dedicate...
20 MW GEORGIA SOLAR FACILITY
87,000-panel solar plant will serve 27 EMCs across Georgia
HAZLEHURST, GA (December 1, 2015) – Green Power EMC, participating EMCs and Silicon Ranch Corporation today joined with state and local officials and guests to dedicate a 20-megawatt (MW) AC solar generating facility in Jeff Davis County in southeast Georgia near Hazlehurst.
Construction was recently completed on the ground-based solar facility, which is situated on a 135-acre tract and includes about 87,000 solar panels. This makes it one of the largest solar generating facilities in Georgia.
The full output of the Hazlehurst solar facility is being sold under a 25-year contract to Green Power EMC, a renewable energy provider owned by 38 Georgia Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs). Twenty-seven EMCs are receiving power from the Hazlehurst project. The solar facility is expected to produce more than 43,000 megawatt hours of clean, renewable energy annually – enough to offset 30,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Silicon Ranch and Green Power EMC are also planning a second solar facility in Jeff Davis County. That project will be a 52 MWAC solar generating facility and is expected to go into service in 2016.
Jeff Pratt, president of Green Power EMC, said Green Power and its member EMCs are excited to participate in their first large solar project, which will help produce enough energy for about 3,000 EMC households.
“Solar production in Georgia is an emerging and important energy source, and we are pleased to partner with Silicon Ranch Corporation to bring utility-scale solar energy to our member EMCs,” Pratt said. “The Hazlehurst facility and the second solar facility planned for Jeff Davis County next year will add more than 70 MWAC to our growing portfolio of renewable energy sources. This will give us more than 100 MWAC of renewable energy capacity.”
Silicon Ranch President and CEO Matt Kisber added, “Silicon Ranch is proud to be the solar partner for Green Power EMC and the Georgia EMCs. Silicon Ranch takes pride in providing the EMCs and their members competitively priced, solar-generated, renewable energy. Our solar projects provide great economic development benefits, and as long-term owners and operators our goals are aligned with the communities we serve.”
(NOTE TO NEWS MEDIA: You can access photos and video of the Hazlehurst project through this Dropbox link.) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/adenessijazkvfk/AAA6dLGod45JlqgFwdFOBRRDa?dl=0
About Green Power EMC
Green Power EMC was the first green energy provider in the state. It was created by Georgia’s EMCs in 2001 and has been selling green energy since 2003. In addition to landfill gas generation, Green Power EMC obtains green power from renewable facilities all over the state, including low-impact hydroelectric, biomass from wood waste, and solar power.
EMCs that own Green Power EMC serve more than 4.2 million Georgia residents.
For more information about renewable energy efforts in Georgia, visit www.greenpoweremc.com.
About Silicon Ranch Corporation
Silicon Ranch Corporation, one of the top 15 solar operators in the U.S., is a full-service, renewable energy provider that customizes solar solutions based upon the individual needs of its customers. Silicon Ranch’s value to its customers is its ability to develop and execute solar solutions that help companies build brand equity and pursue a socially responsible community benefit while allowing those companies to focus on their core business activities. Silicon Ranch has been instrumental in helping its partners accomplish numerous “firsts” in their respective marketplaces. More information is available at www.siliconranchcorp.com.
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Mockups for the new Game Setup UI, and a small but sticky problem.
This post is a bit of an experiment. I want to show you some mockups of the new game setup user interface (UI), but I also want to try to figure out a bit of the UI I’m stuck on, and I figure explaining it clearly here in this post might either help me figure it out, or somebody like you will have a good idea and post it in the comments. It’s a win either way!
First, let’s look at the old (which is to say, current) game setup UI flow. When you’re in a match with another player, and want to start a new game, you have to choose a bunch of stuff, at least if you’re going to be the Spy. This giant image shows all the steps.1 If you’d like, you can open this image in another window if you want to see it at the same time as you read this text by clicking this handy link.
The current/old game setup ui flow.
Going through these steps, the first two are easy: you pick to be the Spy and you pick the level. At this point, the game knows which game types and missions are available, because those vary by map.
Now the flow splits. If you are picking Any or Known game types, then you have to pick the “selected” missions for your game.2 For something like Any 3 of 5, this means you’re picking the 5 missions that will be selected for the Spy and known by the Sniper. If you choose Known 4, then you pick the 4 missions. It turns out, Known N is just a special case of Any M of N, where M equals N. This is important later. Once you pick the missions for Any or Known, you review them (which is an artifact of the current flow…remember, I’m not defending this, it’s just what we’ve got right now), and then you’re on to Casting.
Rewind back up, and if you choose Pick M of N, then you pick the N selected missions, but you also have to pick the M “picked” missions. These are the missions that you are going to try to accomplish, but the Sniper doesn’t know which M of the N you’re picking. I always think of picking as kind of like when Babe Ruth called his shot, except you’re doing it in secret as the Spy. Maybe you’re writing it on an envelope to be opened after the game. I’m not going to get into it much here, but Pick is much less popular than Any as a game type, which will be important below.
Finally, Casting is the same for all game types, and in the current implementation you scroll through the characters for each cast member you want to select. First you pick the Spy, then the Ambassador, then the Double Agent, etc. After you’ve cast the game, you wait for the Sniper to accept and then you’re playing.
Designing a New Flow
As you can see by the size of that image, that’s a lot of screens, and a lot of clicking. For the longest time there wasn’t even a back button, so if you messed up you had to do it all over again! Each screen is also confusing, because it doesn’t have any surrounding context, and sometimes very similar menus will pop up but with slightly different text, and you’ll often hear newbies who stream their first games of SpyParty say things like, “Didn’t I just pick this?” When casting the party, the title changes, and the portraits on the side fill in, but the screen looks almost identical, so people don’t think clicking even does anything if they don’t notice the subtle title changes.
It’s always been my intention to put almost all of the game setup on a single screen, and since the goal for this summer is to get the 10 new art characters playable in a new art map, John suggested making the UI better as well. I agreed it was time.
I want to be clear: the images below are early mockups, and have a lot of problems, and will change, so please don’t consider them final. But, they’re enough to show the direction I’m going, and to elucidate some of the issues I’ll need to overcome, and since I’m all about open development, here we go…
As I said above, you have to pick the level first before the game can know what options are available to you. This presents a small problem, because we really want to get the characters in front of players as early as possible, since they’re the stars of the show. As you can see in the top image of the current flow, I even added a “menu party” with silhouetted characters to try to get some personality into the ugly old art version of the menus. Even that helps a lot, so we’d like to get the characters on screen immediately.
As we were talking about the new UI, John and I came up with the idea that the casting screen should obviously be a single screen, but instead of a grid like a fighting game, we should have the characters in a kind of “group shot” pose, like we’ve shown when we’ve released each batch of new art characters.
Like this, but with twice the characters!
And, of course, they should be animated, and even respond to you when you select them. More on that below.
But as I said, the level selection has to come first, and although the new art levels are pretty, they’re not as cool as the characters, so how to solve this? The first thing I mocked up was to have them in the group shot, but in the background, desaturated, with the level select in front. I need to eventually support 20 characters, so I took the 10 and duplicated and flipped them just to get the density right.
First, level select.
I think this is a bit busy and the layout is bad, but I think a variation of this will work, probably with the level image a bit smaller so there’s more space for the characters. I’ll have to see if it’s too cluttered and distracting once they’re rendered in-game and animating. If I have time, what I’d like to do is have the map start out as an image, but if you stay on the image for a few seconds, it blends to a 3D render of the map that moves around on an attract loop. I want to be very careful about stuff like this that can impact menu performance, because I want the elite players to not have to sit through any additional time. You really don’t care about animations on your 10000th time through a menu.
After you’ve picked your level, I’m going to get all the rest of game setup (except casting) on a single screen. This is where my problem comes in, but I’ll talk about that below. For now, you can check out this image, and imagine that the “Any”, the “3”, and the “5” are dropdowns or something, and you choose the selected missions by clicking on them. I’m going to have the game type the community considers balanced set up by default on this screen (Any 2 of 3 on Balcony, Any 5 of 7 on Veranda, etc.), so it should be much faster than the current flow if you want the current meta.
Second, game type and missions.
Finally, and this should be insanely cool, you get to the casting screen. All of the cast is randomly selected when you get to this screen, so if you want all random choices, you just hit next and you’re done. If you want to manually cast the party, then you just click around on the characters. Much like the Spore creatures did when you stuck an arm on them, the characters will react to you selecting and deselecting them. I haven’t figured out exactly how to handle this yet in a way that works well for both mouse and controller, but elite players usually only use the randomizer to avoid bias, so whatever I do won’t slow them down any.
Finally, picking the cast.
I will spend some real time making sure casting the characters is nice and smooth, not only because newbies love to manually cast the party, but also because the big game design changes I’m going to make this fall to give specific characters specific characteristics (called the “dossiers design”, more on that later) will mean manual casting starts to get important at elite levels as well. Also, I’d like to leave open the possibility of a pick/ban draft phase during casting, where the Spy and Sniper can pick or ban certain characters from the party before the game starts, and I’d like all of that to fit on this single screen. I think it’s doable.
The Pick Problem
Let me reiterate: there are a ton of issues with these mockups. They’re overly busy and cluttered and there’s no unifying motif so it looks hodgepodge, but they’re a start, and they’re way better than the current flow.
However, I’m not worried about those issues, they’re hopefully easily solvable via iteration. I am worried about the issue of how to support Pick, though.
If you notice above, the middle mockup is just showing Any, but it could easily be the same for Known. Pick, however, requires another phase of mission selection, where you narrow your selected missions to you picked missions. I’m not sure how best to support this with the single screen. It seems like I have three options:
Have another listbox that comes up to the side.
Have a tri-state selector for missions.
Kill Pick.
All these options suck.
Option 1 is like the old flow, but just smashed into the screen. Imagine duplicating the Select Missions box on that screen, so when you’re in Pick mode, you get a filtered list of the selected missions in the new box, and you pick a subset of them. This means designing this page so it optionally has another major UI element, which probably means both views will be worse than they need to be. I could have different layouts depending on whether you choose Pick or Any/Known, but now the UI is moving around in response to another UI element, and that’s just terrible. If I have the pick box up all the time but it’s greyed out, then that’s wasting a ton of space, especially since Pick is almost never played right now.
Option 2 is also terrible. By “tri-state” I mean a checkbox or equivalent which has three states, for unselected, selected, and picked. Tri-state UI is pretty non-intuitive and ugly to start with, and there’s an additional issue here where the order they cycle is important. Imagine I use a tri-state checkbox with an X through it, an open box, and the check mark as the three states. Well, if you’re in Any or Known, you just want to cycle between checked and unchecked or it would look weird, so that means unchecked is the visual state for unselected. But then if you’re in Pick mode, it’d be weird to have the open checkbox mean unselected, but the X mean selected but not picked. At least, I think it would be? Maybe I could draw the X so it looks okay, meaning it looks like selected but turned off or something. There are very few standards here, which is always a problem for new UI controls—you really don’t want to innovate in user interface controls—and makes it so the player has to think about it. Also, if I’m using checkboxes, that means I shouldn’t use the highlight for selection that’s in the mockup, and should use checkboxes all the time for consistency, but that’s ugly and unnecessary most of the time due to the current unpopularity of Pick. I could use highlight, lowlight, and strikethrough as the three states, but then that’s even more confusing because strikethrough would mean selected but not picked?
If this was a AAA game, a producer would pick Option 3 before I’d even finished explaining the issue, let alone written a blog post about it. If Pick is unpopular and almost never played, why am I spending all this energy trying to solve this outlier case? Well, I like Pick, and it’s my video game. I think Pick provides some interesting decisions for the Spy at the start of the game. I agree with fans of Any that the ability for the Spy to take advantage of opportunities is great, and it is less meta-gameable than Pick, and I agree that Any should be the main competition mode, but the meta-gaming around Pick is interesting and it’s a nice way to handicap less than an entire mission (Pick M of N is slightly harder for the Spy than Any M of N, but not as hard as Any M+1 of N). So, I’d rather not remove Pick if I can help it.
So, what’s the right solution to this dilemma? Do my job for me in the comments.
Update: I’m prototyping this in the game right now, here’s an early version of the “pantheon” of characters for casting:
I had to modify the code of my lightbox plugin to work with this big image and do the (somewhat) right thing with scrolling! [↩]
Which are called “available” missions in the old flow, but that’s going to change. [↩]
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Toboshi says:
The first thing that comes to mind in regard to The Pick Problem is to give some number of missions (2, in the case of p3/5) a strikethrough, and let you drag around the strikethroughs to get the missions you want. It’s the most visually understandable option I can think of, and I think it could be fairly easy to work with if it’s done right.
Also, pick is cool. I’d love to see it stay if possible.
Josh Grams says:
Chris, can you explain why you don’t like this one? It seems like the most obvious to me…i.e. having highlight and lowlight as you show in the article, with the third state (selected but *not* picked) being highlighted with a strike through it (probably a subtle thing, not a big red strike, so it doesn’t visually override the highlight…).
The problem with the strikethrough as the third state is similar to the tri-state checkbox, where it’s not clear to the player they need to click again, and it’s not clear what order the states should go in, since the toggle of any/known would imply highlight -> lowlight which means you’d want the first click for pick to be the same, so you’d get highlight -> lowlight -> strikethrough (highlight), which is odd. Also, it’s not visually clear…is strikethrough more or less “disabled” than lowlight?
Ah, OK. I was assuming that you would randomly select a valid game state, so if you chose p3/5 there would be 5 missions already selected and two struck out, so that it would be clear.
It doesn’t seem difficult to me to make it visually clear that highlight+strikethrough is more selected than lowlight, e.g. http://www.arestlessmind.org/2014/07/29/setup.jpg
And as for the order, wouldn’t you only ever want to go from “chosen” to “chosen-but-not-picked” and vice versa? So then the only order that makes sense is symmetrical: lowlight -> highlight -> highlight+strikeout -> highlight -> back around to lowlight. I guess if you think of it as “select the three missions I’m going to do, then two decoy missions”, that doesn’t make sense. But for people used to the current “select the 5 missions that the sniper sees, then the three I’m actually going to do”…
But it’s not my game, I’ve never even played it, YMMV, and all that, so I’ll shut up now.
I don’t want to randomize because I want newbies to have to think about which ones to cut, consciously. And yeah, I dunno, I still worry the strikethrough is confusing. I guess it doesn’t have to cycle for the state, but that means you’re more than two clicks away sometimes, which seems odd? I dunno. I am not a UI expert, so I’m going to get something working and see how it feels.
kikar says:
Maybe have check boxes that appear to the left of the missions when pick is chosen? (This could also make the mission color green or some other stand out color to indicate that these missions are the ones that the spy is going to do)
Yeah, I thought of this but now I’ve got two totally different selection mechanisms at the same time in Pick mode, which seems wonky.
Pontus says:
Looking forward to better UI! Let’s see if I can contribute anything.
What I propose might be exactly what you’re thinking of, but if so, I didn’t get that from your post. I’d like the game type/mission screen to be as unmodal as possible. I propose that instead of choosing game type, focus on the mission picker and let me (in any order):
* Choose what missions you want to have enabled.
* Choose how many of them to complete.
* (Maybe) choose exactly which missions to complete.
This determines what the game mode is called (k3, a25, p34, etc.), which updates in real time as the user changes his/her mind.
Some good things about this approach:
* The user doesn’t have to know that there are different game modes, only that there are missions to choose.
* The player might be able to more easily learn about the names of the different modes.
* There is more focus on the missions themselves rather than the number of missions (which seems less important to me, except as shorthand for a mode).
* No way to choose a mode and then be confused why you can’t continue because you have chosen too few missions.
Concerning the pick mode:
I’d go with a variation on option 2, but instead of having a tri-state, have a new “pick box” appear in a new column when a mission is selected. This might be hidden for first-time players to reduce confusion.
I’ve done a mockup below, but I don’t know if the comments are fixed-width.
Which missions? | Exactly these (hidden from sniper)
x Bug amba | x
x Banana |
x Purloins | x
Statuez | (unavailable)
I should update the post with a mockup somebody in the beta forums did of this a while back. This idea of a hybrid game type is interesting, but I worry about messaging to players correctly without the game type being a first class thing. In other words, a3/5 is balanced on High-rise, but a4/6 and a3/4 aren’t. It’s hard to know that unless I can say that explicitly. It’s how everybody talks about maps and handicapping and everything, so it’s a very useful shorthand.
bl00dw0lf says:
Here’s kind of an option kind of like a 1.1
http://imgur.com/a/OHwA3
Maybe you could make it so that you have to Highlight and Lowlight the missions?
HL the one, you want to do (left click)
LL the one you don’t want to do (right click)
The Neutral ones stay as the extra missions
I thought about this (and will probably do HL/LL/NL for the character pick/ban thing), but I worry that three values will be hard to read, and it’s still a tri-state element, except now it’s extra weird. :)
rootyb says:
It *is* still a tri-state element, but it’s one that has a connection to the rest of the game. I actually really like this idea. The mechanic is already there. For people that have played, they know about it. For new people, it teaches them about highlighting/lowlighting.
Instead of just light/dark, you could add an icon next to each. (And maybe dim/lighten slightly). That prevents you from having to go TOO light/dark (for readability).
I wish I could edit. I only skimmed the original post, and didn’t notice that you basically said all of this, so now my comment sounds really stupid. :(
Nah, it’s fine, and I appreciate the comment!
Javier Flores says:
I was gonna show you a quick layout that may be useful, but then then i figured that this is a problem that comes from having the pick and choose elements of the mission always “live” before a match, there are not so many indie or aaa games that go for another solution that does not involve tons of ui work, but my suggestion would be to be able to create your own missions with its own specs. The problem would be the new “friendly” situation, Im not sure how to approach that, but as you said picking is not very popular, Spelunky did it right for deathmatchs, but the amount of options was very minimum though.
The first time i heard about spyparty i imagined been in a room with a choice for a rifle or a suitcase, very lame, almost cliche, but kinda interesting in a way.
rjwut says:
Here’s a mockup of an idea I had; which turns out to be fairly similar to some of what’s mentioned above: http://i60.tinypic.com/dz8qqg.png
Wodar says:
I actually really love Pontus’s recommendation because that opens up the the ability to do Any 3/5 missions + known Bug or Pick X soft tells + Any Y soft tells. Though this looks more complicated, if the UI is intuitive enough, people will easily pick it up.
scoy says:
How about allowing the user to “sort” the Select Missions list? For a 3 of 5 game, put a line under the top 3 and another line under the top 5 missions. Then allow the user to drag and drop the missions in the list to bring their selected missions to the top of the list. Labels and/or color can be used to identify each section of the list. It provides direction manipulation of the set of missions, strong visual feedback of the selections, and should be fairly easy to implement for both mouse and controller.
Hmm, that’s kind of interesting. Seems like it might be awkward on the controller, though. Worth more thought.
As a first cut I would use the left stick to navigate the “cursor” through the list and then the d-pad or right stick could be used to move the mission under the cursor up or down. The cursor should follow the moved mission.
Buttons could also be used but that doesn’t feel as obvious. I guess it depends on the mapping of other controls in the UI.
zamzarvideo says:
This might be too wide for the menu screen, but maybe have three columns with all missions in the center by default, and you can press LB, RB, or nothing to move each mission between the columns (which represent the three states in whatever order you find works best). It would be like the team selection option in some games but with three columns instead of two.
This also has the benefit of easily memorized button sequences (as long as the missions stay in the same order) to use a certain ruleset.
George Prosser says:
I’m all for the tristate selector, but whilst you suggested HL, LL and strikethrough, I think it should be HL, NL, LL.
http://i.imgur.com/ZrJoU7I.png
They would be very distinguishable if you put glow behind the text when it is HL.
Smash10101 says:
I really like the new UI layout. Especially how mission selection looks in the mockup. What if, for pick, left clicking on a mission turned it green, meaning you’d be doing it, and right clicking on it made it gray, meaning it was not an option? That way, the tri-state selector seems intuitive (left click to HL, right click to LL) and you avoid adding another box or check boxes or anything.
Smash: That would run into problems with color blind folks, though.
ZorMonkey says:
I like the tristate, except broken into 2 normal “checkboxes”. Click the mission name to select/deselect. Selected missions also display a checkbox (defaulted to checked?) that can be used to toggle the “picked” state. Align those checkboxes and put them under a “Picked” header, and you’re golden. Well, good enough for me anyways.
One problem with two checkboxes is that’s actually four choices, so you need to grey the pick one when it’s not selected, so it’s a bit ugly/busy, but it still might be better than a tri-state control.
Yeah, grey or hide completely.
Can you tell I’m a boring business developer? “Just add more checkboxes, gosh!” :)
essentialatom says:
Pontus has made the brilliant move of being able to see beyond the problem’s parameters and flip it, though I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I think he has the right idea, that selecting the game type isn’t as important as getting directly involved with what missions you want in whatever configuration. On the other, I think it still makes sense to decide on your game type first and be required to select the correct number of missions. Perhaps the first type makes more sense for casual play, the second type is more for competition, where rules are more important. I don’t mean to suggest that there should be separate UIs for casual and serious play though. Just thinking out loud.
I am convinced that checkboxes or some similar unambiguous visual aids are crucial to selection – highlighting and lowlighting missions ought to be part of it but they’re not always simple to distinguish, you might have a crappy monitor or some visual impairment or whatever. A box that’s filled in compared to one that’s empty is very clear, and a second box that only the Spy can see for choosing exactly which missions to do would be as clear as possible. I think Pontus’s beautiful ASCII diagram is a good way to represent this, with the “Exactly these” column not present if the game mode isn’t Pick.
And I think a positive selection should always be indicated by tick rather than a cross. A cross always confuses me. It’s like, yeah, I want to choose this, but at the same time I don’t.
A tick or a filled-in box or something, I mean. Really what I’m saying is I don’t like crosses. So negative. :)
Yeah, the cross is terrible, but the dot that some use as a tri-state checkbox is even worse!
YotaXP says:
The header icons may leave much to be desired, but how about this as a concept for a controller-friendly tri-state control? http://i.imgur.com/BH7cw3E.png
Hmm, I kinda like the drag-it-to-the-side thing, interesting. The header icons are totally crystal clear. :)
One thing I’d like to add that’s not part of this mode selection conundrum is that the mockups look hella fly. The character selection mockup in particular is fantastic, I love how the outlining and highlighting conveys the feeling of people with ulterior motives blending into a crowd, which is a pretty apposite feeling to be conveying in SpyParty. It kind of looks like a group photo where most of the people are just posing for the camera but you can tell which ones are looking shifty.
I’m sure that screen continue to change quite a bit, especially as it introduces animation, but if you can retain that feeling I think it’ll be fantastic.
Yeah, my favorite moment in Spore was when you first stuck an arm on a creature and it reared back and looked it. These guys are going to toast you when you pick them, and shake their heads when you unpick them. Should be magical.
r7 says:
Kill pick. It leads to two types of round: ones where the spy and sniper end up playing the same way they would have if this was any m/n, and ones where the spy is frustrated by something out of their control (uncooperative AI, or a sniper who chooses to camp the ‘right’ mission from the get-go – and then deservedly, but boringly, wins).
Ha! I was wondering when the first Pick-hater would show up. :)
Let’s at least wait until dossiers, recommendations, and interrogation are in and see how that changes things.
sharper says:
Here is my suggestion for a Pick solution: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4pviokm4l4wfenr/MyPickSuggestion.mov
Seizureman says:
In regards to the pick problem I liked [sharper’s idea.](https://www.dropbox.com/s/4pviokm4l4wfenr/MyPickSuggestion.mov) I think if you put pick as the last option people would be less likely to pick it, therefore gaining more experience and understanding before encountering it. That would at least make the intuition less important if they already kinda know. Having an explanation of the mode when hovering over the word pick would also be a huge help.
Also I always thought it would be nice to have the generally accepted meta at the top of the selection board. So for instance on ballroom it could have all the mission types but “recommended” would be any 4 of 6. I think it would make it slightly easier if that was first just because that is most often what people pick.
I guess markdown syntax doesn’t work here
Yeah, the current best guess balanced type will be selected by default in this.
Well the idea in the video was that this presumes you’ve already selected pick as opposed to any. My presumption is that your first selection is whether you’re doing any,known or pick and then it goes to how many missions and then, if pick, it narrows the list down. It would probably make sense for the ‘undo’ prompt to come up as soon as you’ve made the first selection, of any, known or pick.
Here’s a longer version showing my idea for the entire mission selection process: known, any and pick. https://www.dropbox.com/s/jupu1e4wjvrzpqx/sharpermenusuggestion.mov
The video player kinda sucks and may cut out halfway through if not fully loaded. Video playback, sigh!
My daughter was telling me about this new site called YouTube, you should check it out.
Yannis says:
Without reading all of it (because I do UX in a professional capacity and I’m not getting paid to do this), all I can say is that I noted that both your designs are geared for gamepad (as well mouse and keyboard) usage. So while you lose out a bit on efficiency, you gain in usability. A more M&K-centric interface would put more elements on a single screen.
One thing I’ll recommend is putting the mission/game type setting to the left of the photos instead of the right, as that is a more conventional paradigm (the whole ‘important info goes to the right’ thing is greatly exaggerated, IMO).
Additionally, assuming that you want an interface that works well with gamepad input, the character selection screen might be a little difficult to navigate.
Aside from that, fantastic work! I look forward to seeing the finished product.
I hadn’t heard of the “more important info to the right”, Is there a reference for that? I did that because the right side is the “forward” direction, so as you pick a level, it’s “behind” you, and so it goes down to the left, so there’s a sense of progress to the right (sort of).
Here’s another horrible mock up for a tri-state idea. http://i.imgur.com/4OTDpe1.png
My thought that it’d at least make more sense if it was “in character”. A typed up mission document with “top secret” stamped all over, and handwritten noted scribbled over it. “No I wont do this one” (scribble out text). “I’ll definitely do this one!” (scribble big circles over it)
Hah, that’s kind of awesome! A little too literal for my tastes, probably, but totally awesome, thanks!
CliveAtFive says:
Not sure if this was already mentioned since the length if the blog + length of comments section has far exceeded my tldr threshold, so my apologies for any redundancy.
(Functionally, you’ll have three columns…)
[Select Missions (on/off)] | [“Pick” checkbox] | [Select # of Missions Required to Win]
So there are eight missions, all listed in column one, which you can click on/off. Column two has a “Pick” checkbox. When items in Col 1 have been selected, the “Pick” checkbox becomes available. (Personally, I think “Pick” is a poor name since there’s lot of picking going on. Maybe name the column “Mission Critical” with hover-over text stating that these missions MUST be completed to win?) In column three, you simply have numbers one through eight listed, and as missions get deselected, remove 8, 7, 6 etc.
Visually, the maps should be photographs, which after selection, should be paper-clipped inside the left side of a “Top Secret” file folder. The Missions are then shown on lined paper on the right side, with a column of “Mission Critical” checkboxes next to the missions. “Column three” could be a scrolling spindle like that from a safe or lock. Not sure how that fits into the file folder montage, but I’ll let you figure that one out.
This would greatly simplify the match set-up process, and still preserve the “Pick” mechanic.
-Clive
Eh, now skimming up a bit, it seems these have all been touched on a little bit. And wow… mock-ups!
Also, I didn’t mean to sound so demanding “These SHOULD be photographs” (lol)… It’s your game, of course. But if you, Mr Checker, were to get shot by the proverbial sniper and I were to somehow be put in change of finishing your masterpiece, the aforementioned is how I would ruin your game. ;)
Definitely check out the mockup that ZorMonkey did if you like the literal “case file” design. I think it might be too literal and physical for me, but I definitely see the appeal of it!
plkupo says:
don’t throw away work you have already done over a small detail like this, that’s just wrong!
Your mockups are already pretty good, I think you can easily adapt them to pick without ruining the other modes. I edited your mockup, keeping it nice and simple (I think): http://i.imgur.com/fPOcNRe.png?1
Something like this with a small helpful description and you’ll be fine.
Also, it would be nice if the background behind the characters changed as you selected different maps. Just a thought.
They’re actually going to be animating back there, doing idles, taking sips of their drinks, etc. :)
Clementine Hecker seems to suggest this website is better for displaying video, to which I will humbly agree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-Bemi3BAM&feature=youtu.be
My suggestion for the mission selection interface. Tries to have the process for known, pick and any to be as analogous as possible and still have the sense of chronology of choice that I like about the current system. Hitting UNDO serves same function as current GO BACK button, where you go back by one of the selection stages, so if you’re selecting missions but want to change to a different variation on any, undo will revert to selecting ANY subsets.
My big problem with this is the modality. I’d like it if there weren’t modes that have to be backed up through on this page. Also, having undo and previous on the same page is weird. I think the solution needs to just be right there and stateless.
Hmmm, good point. What if you could select between missions and game type bilaterally? So, you choose any 4 of 6, are prompted for mission selection but then just hover back over any 4 of 6 and can change any part of it: the word any, the 4 or the 6. Or, while selecting subsets for any 4 of 6, you can hover over the word any and change it to pick or known.
Tyler Hanson says:
Hey. Newbie, here. Forgive my ignorance if I’m way off base, here, but:
If I may make a suggestion. This GUI May indeed need to divert from typical gameplay.
I’m classified as a casual gamer. I like tutorials to be few and far in between. (i.e. The GUI and gameplay in EVE online convinced me never to play it).
That being said, I don’t want the options. I want to play the game and having these options selected for me would really keep me interested. The less the better.
For the more practiced, experienced Spy player, this would be a good Custom Mission problem to solve. But I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
hexparrot says:
Here’s a modified mockup for your option #1. http://imgur.com/qi278Da
I actually wrote up a bit of a post about why I think this mockup is sensible for Pick (and Any) here: http://mattersofconsequence.codeemo.com/?p=31. I’d love to hear your reaction!
Hah, thanks, I’ll take a look!
Finally read the post, thanks a lot for taking the time to write it up! I like the idea of using the Spy’s mindset in the UI language (“goals” and “distractions”), but I’m worried about the two checkboxes as I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this page. I’ll have to think about it a bit more.
AsafG says:
I made an interactive demo: http://asafgartner.com/spypartyui
The mission select screen is the least complete one, but that’s all I had time for this weekend.
* I like the mission icons in the level select screen (not those specific icons, but the general idea). It makes it pretty easy to tell which missions are available (and how many) without going to the mission select screen.
* I implemented YotaXP’s tri-state sliders. At first I thought I might be able to auto-detect the game type according to mission selection, but you can only differentiate between “known” and “pick”; “any” requires additional information.
* The character selection screen is pretty terrible, but I like the text the ties the character to the mission (“Contact him”, etc.)
* At first I thought I’d implement the “Previous” and “Next” buttons at the bottom of the screen only for mouse users, and keyboard/gamepad users would be able to just hit Enter (or the gamepad equivalent) to continue to the next screen. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s possible in the mission select screen. The Enter key is used to toggle the mission state, which I think makes sense, but the result is that the user has to manually focus on the “Next” button to continue.
Very nice! You even got the color animation I had pictured in my head for the sliders!
Love the mission icons. I was able to guess what they all were. The only one that threw me off a little was inspect, since it could have just as well been swap. I’d add a magnifying glass to make the distinction. Maybe add a small statue to the swap icon as well.
Regarding the auto-detection of game mode, that’s why I had the additional number spinner at the bottom of my concept. (Though in hindsight, it should have read “Complete # Missions”.) In my world, the number would adjust itself automatically to match the number of selected missions, until you modify it yourself. (I.E. Select 5 missions, then drop the number to 3.)
The character selection is interesting, but I think I would prefer to be able to have all the options on screen at once. Not that I have a better controller-friendly idea… This is a tough one.
As for the Enter key on the mission select screen, isn’t mission state controlled by the arrow keys? Speaking of which, I’d make WASD behave as cursor keys in menus where possible.
Wow, nice mockup! Very interesting!
My worry with the icons is they wouldn’t scale to having 15 missions available very well. It’d be a sea of icons, and they’d probably be hard to differentiate. But, at least they wouldn’t need localizing…
JaminGrey says:
Here’s my suggestion for better tri-states:
https://twitter.com/JaminGrey/status/495268854629937153/photo/1
Also, for the animation when you ‘select’ a character on the setup screen, I suggest re-using the drink animation: Making a selected character raise their drink to their lips and freeze there, and lowering it if unselected.
I think we’re going to do a couple custom animations, so they toast you when you pick them, and they shake their head when you unpick them!
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Charles and Camilla: The Marriage (2005 and on)
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Royal Newbie
Location: Northern California, United States
Originally Posted by Madame Royale
To bring Diana into the equation is unecessary and not constructive for discussion. It could be considered as provocation for conversational discord as there is never a conversation regarding all three that ever ends politely. Sad, but true.
If it doesn't, then it should imo. I'm sure there is someone who is better informed than I to answer your question :)
Thank you, Madame Royale. I find this topic very interesting yet fraught with much emotion and strong conflicting opinions.
Madame Royale
Location: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
You're not wrong, Royal Newbie.
There seems very little middle ground on the matter. Personally, I'm really quite moderate in my views as I'm not the type of person who feels a need to idolize one and ridicule the other. I really like Camilla. I find her to be a particularly warm and engaging individual (from afar, anyway).
I think people, in general, need to learn to take more positives out of life. While any such decision may seem unfairly demoting to many, I see it as a significant honour, even if it wasn't initially intended as such. I think more good than harm would come of it and I truly believe Camilla would continue to flourish in the role. Perhaps (?) even more so than in the constricts of the traditional norm. They will no doubt be considerably aged by the time Charles becomes King and at a time when people would be forgiven for starting to slow down, so to speak, they will be somewhat expected to maintain a level of social engagement not dissimilar to what we see of them now. If not more more.
"Dressing is a way of life" - Monsieur Saint Laurent
Location: Spring Hill, United States
Look, I have never been a fan of Camilla, but she is Charles' wife and so she should be queen consort. They love each other for many years and to that end it is admirable. How they got to here, no longer matters. It is all over. How the British feel, is their own "real concern." For them it is not a matter of opinion.
Location: Los Angeles CA, United States
I think the British will demean themselves in the eyes of the world (that cares about such things) if they do not honor their own traditions and abide by the rules that say Camilla will be Queen Consort when Charles is King.
I don't think the British system would be demeaned at all. Technically speaking as a Brit, that is. I am but one opinion though, naturally.
Furthermore, I see it as being an entirely British matter be it with some degree of Commonwealth realm involvement. As for any other nation, I think glass houses should not cast stones where judgement on internal matters of state are concerned.
cdngirl
I think this whole debate is pretty moot. There is no doubt in my mind she will be Queen Consort. The people are liking what the see in Camilla, and quite frankly, many people have simply moved on.
What will be will be. Whatever the granted or maintained title, Camilla will in my opinion, remain a welcome asset.
Location: katonah, United States
Originally Posted by cdngirl
Again, which 'people are liking what they see'? And may I ask what evidence you are basing this on? I just cited a poll in an internationally recognised magazine in a comemorative issue for the Diamond Jubilee still on the stands. Certainly on a heavily moderated board, one might think so....but whose car was it that was attacked by the crowd? Have you looked on some unmoderated forums or for that matter on you tube? That might be an eye opener...
I dont think anyone can cotton wool the fact that a great deal of people who respond to editorial articles appear to speak rather poorly of Camilla. As such, I concede that I read more negative opinions than I do positive in this regard.
They seem to me as being opinions substantiated by prejudice and willful ignorance much of the time, but such opinions still represent a degree of public sentiment nonetheless.
I would suggest that for every person who celebrates the Duchess you're likely to find 3 that either don't like her or care nothing for her at all. And that is being realistic imo.
In my every day life, I've not come across too many people who share my pleasant opinion of her, be it either here in Australia or in Britain. And although she is accorded a significant degree of acceptance (tolerance ?) in her capacity as Charles' wife, I don't think I can justly attest to there being any significant sway in support of Camilla, the person.
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Originally Posted by scooter
Again, which 'people are liking what they see'? And may I ask what evidence you are basing this on? I just cited a poll in an internationally recognised magazine in a comemorative issue for the Diamond Jubilee still on the stands.
I just tried researching the method and population base upon which this much vaunted poll was based. Funny, for all the percentages thrown around, the one thing omitted was precisely that information.
....but whose car was it that was attacked by the crowd?
Oh good grief, not that old chestnut again! It was established both by the Police and in the Courts of Law, that the little rioting darlings hadn't a clue anyone of importance was coming their way let alone who it was. Needless to say, this subject has been discussed at length, not least on this forum. Please cease trying to rewrite history. It is tedious!
Have you looked on some unmoderated forums or for that matter on you tube? That might be an eye opener...
There are an astonishing number of truly sick units out there which is why most normal forum users avoid wallowing in filth.
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." - JM Keynes
Could not have said it better myself. There is one person on Youtube who goes on every video about The Duchess or the POW and writes the most disgusting vile 'filth'. IMO you cannot form an opinion based on youtube/internet.
My point was scooter, is that time is moving on. Children growing up who really don't care or don't know anything about the history. I am just a bit older than PWilliam. I don't care about the history. I see it for what is it, skewed and one sided. Nothing EVER is just black and white. People move on, you forgive, you live your life the best you can. YOU MOVE ON!
Location: Some City, United States
I personally think that Charles and Camilla make a wonderful couple, but I think it's true that most people don't think so. Most people however, don't follow royalty in the same way we do and don't see the tremendous support of Camilla and how she has benefited Charles and the family. It's a shame to me, but there it is.
What will allow Charles to take the throne, and Camilla to be at his side as legally the Queen but known by another title if the fact that MOST Britons and other members of the Commonwealth are looking forward to William and Kate. They're the real stars to most people. But I also think, and we're starting to see it now, is the very serious PR campaign to continue boosting Camilla's image.
It's also true (and I have mentioned this) that as time goes on, younger people don't really know who Diana was. 10 years from now and those under 25 will not even have been alive when Diana died, and how many others would have been just children? If Charles has his parents' and grandmother's longevity (and no reason to think he won't) he'll simply outlive having a majority who oppose his taking the throne.
Daria_S
Location: My own head, United States
I think that these concepts are simply foreign to some people, and what I find rather amusing, is that the people who matter seem to have no issues with them whatsoever. I think that if William and Harry (and the rest of the Royal Family) were able to look past everything, then the public shouldn't be sitting there, and holding a grudge. It's not healthy to dwell on something that cannot be changed. You cannot turn back time, and fix whatever it is that is upsetting you today. Better to move on, and realize that the person who's right in front of you has a great deal to offer and deserves to be given a chance. Again, if the sons of the Prince of Wales were able to do this (and are doing it still), then there's no reason for the rest of us to obsess over 'what has been'.
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring".
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Originally Posted by Daria_S
Yes, Diana's own children are past this, and they are the ones who were on the frontlines. That was their mother, for crying out loud, but a few tabloid readers seem to be more emotionally invested, and suffer more angst over this than the two of them. That really tells me something. It really makes me shake my head when that same tabloid crown insists "the Palace made them say those things." I don't think so, first of all, and even if there was some pressure, they would not have expressed it in as glowing terms as they did if it were untrue. There's nothing in the boys' body language to suggest any of it were untrue.
EIIR
Location: Somewhere, United Kingdom
Of course Camilla will be Queen, of that I have no doubt. Charles announced an intended course of action in 2005 - that Camilla would be 'Princess Consort'. It's 7 years on now, and intended courses of action change all the time.
I suspect that, after the Queen's death, with the nation uniting in genuine grief and sympathy for the RF, a planted question will be asked in Prime Minister's Questions probably by a monarchist Conservative MP along the lines of 'Does the PM agree with me that, given the Duchess of Cornwall's X years of dedicated service to our late much-loved Queen and the nation as a whole, that she should take her rightful place alongside our new King at his coronation and henceforth be known as 'HM Queen Camilla'?'. All the PM needs to do is say that he agrees with his honourable friend, that Camilla has demonstrated her valuable support of our new King over the years, and that she should not be denied her rightful title of Queen. Cue the usual cries of 'hear, hear' from the mostly monarchist members. These sorts of planted questions, whether overtly planned or not, are very common in PMQs. That would be the signal for King Charles III to announce a change to his earlier intention that Camilla be 'Princess Consort'.
David Starkey has said the biggest ally that monarchies have in trying to survive into the future in inertia. Will everyone love the idea of Queen Camilla? No. Did everyone love the idea of Camilla marrying Charles in the first place? No. But ultimately, we've all got more pressing issues to worry about.
Location: virginia, United States
Hello I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the place to post it. Is it true in 1994 Camilla's father warned Charles to stay away from her and her daughter Laura also screamed at Charles on the phone to stay away from Camilla?
Kataryn
Location: alpine village, Germany
Originally Posted by teeyah
I have never heard that Major Shand or Laura uttered one word to the media or an authorized biographer about their feelings of Charles' and Camilla's relationship. Thus no first hand source can exist for that story - thus probably made up or at least not proven.
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Location: On the west side of North up from Back, United States
Originally Posted by Kataryn
Actually I think both Tom and Laura have always had quite a good relationship with Charles. In fact, Charles is Tom Parker-Bowles godfather.
Recently in an interview, Tom had this to say:
" I know I probably shouldn’t ask, but is it true that he calls Prince Charles, his stepfather, Sir?
“Oh yes,” he says heartily. “But it’s not any sort of obligation, it’s just a nickname really, like Bob or Jim. When we were little, my mother would tell my sister and I that Sir was coming to visit, so the name stuck and to call him anything else would be very odd and unnatural.”
Prince Charles? I still call him Sir - Telegraph
It really seems like everyone gets along and everyone's happy with the way things are.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson~~~
Originally Posted by Princess Peach
I think William and Harry are not the types to be 'told' what to say. They have enough sense to not embarrass themselves or their family, and the notion that the Palace would dictate what they should say in regards to their father's wife is nothing but ridiculous (or course the DM and other tabloids don't care if they come off looking like idiots, but that's besides the point). I feel that if either one of these men didn't feel respect towards Camila or disliked her in any way, they would not have said it outright, but would have been less than enthusiastic in terms of praising her.
Originally Posted by EIIR
Regardless of what you have doubts or suspitions or personal hopes about, this is all complete speculation and wishful thinking, unsupported by any facts or statistics or official statements from the BRF. At present, the official position is that she will be known as the Princess Consort, NOT Queen Camilla, regardless of how many years they are married at the time of QEII death. The women in the family seem to live to be a ripe old age. However,given how young the Windsor men have died historically ....George V 61, George VI 57, Edward VII 69.... it may be a moot point.
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Who’s That Man?
By Rixon Stewart on January 21, 2008
It’s Saddam Hussein of course. Or so western media and Coalition authorities would have us believe. But was the man sentenced and supposedly executed in Baghdad really Saddam Hussein?
Category: Behind The "News", Essential Reading
Scallywag Magazine article on Lord McAlpine and Derek Laud
By wmw_admin on November 15, 2012
We repost this original 1990s article as it marks the beginning of an ongoing saga of depravity in British politics
Category: Essential Reading, Jimmy Savile scandal, Sexual abuse/historic sexual abuse
Who Are The Illuminati?
By wmw_admin on April 24, 2004
Conspiracy theory is now an accepted turn of phrase but sometimes one hears the expression, sometimes whispered rather than spoken. “The Illuminati”.
Category: Essential Reading, The New World Order
CEO of MGM Grand – Which OWNS Mandalay Bay Casino Hotel Where Shooting Took Place – SOLD-OFF HIS MGM STOCK in the weeks before the attack!
By wmw_admin on October 9, 2017
Did he have prior knowledge of the attack and got rid of the stocks before the price plummeted?
Category: 'False flags', Essential Reading, Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay Hotel Shooting
Photo surfaces of ‘The Craft’ mobile communications van at Boston marathon
By Mike Adams on April 19, 2013
This story is quickly becoming the biggest media cover-up in history
Category: 'False flags', Essential Reading, The Boston Marathon Bombing
The Oklahoma City Bombing: 30 Unanswered Questions
By wmw_admin on July 11, 2003
Timothy McVeigh may have been tried and executed, but there are still too many unanswered questions about the Oklahoma City Bombing
Fake Terrorism: The Road to Dictatorship
By wmw_admin on October 10, 2008
Throughout history “terrorist” acts have been carefully staged and used to further the power of the ruling elite. In the light of the latest “terror” plot we repost an old favourite as a reminder
Category: Essential Reading, Political Intrigue
Do John and Tony Podesta Have a Connection with Missing Child, Madeleine McCann?
Explosive allegations made against Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Backed by some convincing evidence
Category: Essential Reading, Sexual abuse/historic sexual abuse
The Essene Gospel of Peace I
Based on texts found in the Vatican library and the Royal Library of the Hapsburg’s and dated to the first century AD, the following is considered by some to be the real words of Christ
Category: Essential Reading, The Unexplained: esoteric and hidden knowledge
Did New York Orchestrate The Asian Tsunami?
With Afghanistan and Iraq already lost, the Wall Street bankers were all desperately looking for other ways to control our world, when suddenly and very conveniently, the Sumatran Trench exploded. Trick or Treat? Joe Vialls investigates
Out of Control Weather
Mark Sircus., AC, OMD – Natural News July 31, 2011
Bizarre reports of weather extremes continue to come in from all over the world. As the northern hemisphere bakes in record breaking heat the southern half of our earth is suffering record breaking cold. In South Africa, for instance they have just experienced one of the worst storms and extreme weather conditions with snow and ice in areas never seen before. A week of the COLDEST freezing weather in 100 years has created a national emergency with roads closed everywhere with thousands of motorists stranded.
Dreadful Combination of Man and Nature
Russel Mead writes, “Politics, economics, international relations, religion: Everything in our world is getting weirder, and the weirding is happening faster all the time. This change is rapidly propelling us into a century that will be radically different from everything humanity has known before. We have all been given tickets on the wildest rollercoaster ride in the history of Planet Earth. Our governing classes, our academics, our journalists, and our professionals mostly hate this and, with eyes firmly fixed in the rear view mirror, try to pretend that the world of the 20th century can never, will never break up.”
Climate catastrophes, harvest failures, droughts, dust and firestorms are raining misery on an increasingly unstable earth. What do we expect when our entire planet has shifted on its axis and unexplainable increases in gamma radiation are being detected, both affecting the weather? Everything is changing around us; even thousands of miles beneath our feet the earth is rumbling loudly with a record number of volcanoes now in various stages of eruption. Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other extreme weather have left a trail of destruction during the first half of 2011.
There were jaw-dropping heat indexes — measured asa combination of temperature and humidity — across the Midwest. It felt like 131 degrees in Knoxville, in central Iowa, and 124 in Freeport, Ill., the Weather Service said.
These “extreme weather” events will become more numerous and deadly as atmospheric conditions across the planet become more and more unstable. The sheer force of Nature is increasing (for some reason) and she is deadly, often striking without warning. In the space of hours or even minutes, in the case of tornadoes, unbridled forces of nature can obliterate everything man has created. It’s time to face the fact that the weather has changed dramatically in a very short period of time and it’s threatening to spin out of control.
In Chicago those looking for some kind of a break from the heat of the last week got it overnight — a rainstorm that dropped temperatures into the low 70s. But like the heat wave that preceded it, this rainstorm was anything but ordinary. According to ChicagoWeatherCenter.com, the total rainfall at O’Hare — 6.91 inches as of about 6:50 a.m. — is the largest single-day rainfall since records began in 1871. – Chicago Tribune
Reports of these kinds of storms have been pouring in from all around the world. Some people are calling them cloudburst storms, which are very intense thunderstorms. In many instances these storms appear to come out of nowhere. Most of them develop late at night where the atmosphere has been heated by record daytime temperatures. They are characterized by very intense lightning strikes. Some unleash hailstones and monstrous amounts of rainfall that often lead to dramatic flash-flooding events like we witness in the video below where we actually see, to our horror, people getting swept away by a very sudden flood.
Video: Patalpani Accident, Indore India (Live)
Climate change is dramatically increasing the scale of natural disasters threatening world security as predicted years ago by a 2007 Pentagon study. Though science cannot yet explain all the reasons behind the radical changes in the world’s climate, “a changing climate is a reality,” and one that effects all sectors of society, said Achim Steiner, director of the U.N. Environment Program.
While Chicago dealt with too much water, Arkansas was preparing for forest fires due to drought. Fires have been burning down millions of acres around the world. Some 40,000 wildfires have torched over 5.8 million in the United States alone and conditions threaten to worsen through the summer months.
The hot weather in the nation’s breadbasket also posed a threat to farmers’ top cash crop, corn, as it enters its key growth stage of pollination. The wet spring led to late planting of corn, and dry hot weather was adding concerns. “Right now we are seeing real stress in the corn plants,” said Mark White, adviser to the Missouri Corn Growers Association. Drought, unlike earthquakes, hurricanes and other rapid-moving weather, could become a permanent condition in some regions.
Temperatures in many states have spiked to more than 100 degrees for days at a stretch. And the day of dust storms is suddenly back as dryness overtakes much of the country. Dozens of wildfires raged across much of northwestern Ontario on the weekend as hot, dry weather swept the province, leaving forests tinder-dry. The provincial Ministry of Natural Resources says there are 92 active fires burning in the remote northwestern region.
Overnight rains dumped nearly seven inches of rain on Chicago early Saturday, breaking a record for the city, canceling flights, and causing parts of highways and train lines to shut down.
July 18, 2011 – SCOTLAND – A flash flood created havoc for residents and businesses in Perth by turning streets into rivers. About a foot of water collected in some places around East Bridge Street during the one-hour downpour. Chris McCulloch, 44, said: “I’ve never seen rain like it in Scotland. All the streets coming down off the hill turned into streams.” – BBC
July 13, 2011 – CANADA – Heavy rains in central Alberta caused flooding in the town of Eckville Monday. “People are just kind of dumbstruck,” resident Sharon Walker said. “We have had washouts of roads. Some people have got 10 to 14 inches of water in their basements … we’ve never seen anything like it.” On the same day we saw flash floods in New Brighton Minnesota burying people and cars waist-high in water.
July 12, 2011 – NIGERIA – Lagos experiences 178 mm of rain in 18 hours. It was destructive, but the rains will boost harvest. The Sunday heavy downpour that continued up until yesterday has thrown some families into mourning as no fewer than ten persons lost their lives in the accompanying floods. Last Sunday Lagos experienced a torrential downpour that literally grounded the entire city, sacking homes and paralyzing economic activities. – Business Day
July 10, 2011 – SEOUL, (Yonhap) – At least eight people were killed and four were missing after torrential rains hit southern parts of South Korea over the weekend, emergency officials said Sunday. Since Friday, as much as 40 centimeters of rain has fallen in South Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces, leaving tens of thousands of hectares of farmland submerged and nearly 90 homes flooded. – Yonhap News
July 22, 2011 – PYONGYANG (BNO NEWS) – Heavy rains and resulting landslides last week have caused widespread damage in parts of North Korea. Some areas received more than 400 millimeters (15.7 inches) of rain. “Footage from other regions showed flooded fields and damaged crops. Landslides in Sunchon, Tokchon and Pukchang destroyed bridges and railways, scores of homes, public buildings, roads, and tens of thousands of hectares of farmland. Dozens of coalmines were also flooded throughout the country.” – Irish Weather Online
It’s not just extreme weather but changes in an areas basic climate that is concerning people. For instance lengths of winter, summer and rainy seasons in Bangladesh have increased, while spring has decreased, changes that are likely to have an adverse impact on agriculture, said a study based on farmers’ perceptions. Winter, traditionally around two-and-a-half months long, now prevails for three-and-three-quarters, while summer takes five months, almost double the past usual length. On the other hand, rainy season, normally two-and-three-quarters, prevails for around three-and-a-half months, while spring is now one-and-a-half months, nearly half a month less than before.
Record Hot and Cold
North Korea’s food shortage has reached a crisis point this year, aid workers say, largely because of shocks to the agricultural sector, including torrential rains and the coldest winter in 60 years.
Just when it is hottest and we are totally convinced that global warming is not just a hallucination we get a report urging motorists in Europe to pre-order cold-weather tires because next winter will “break all records” in terms of snowfall and freezing temperatures. Specialist long-range forecaster James Madden, of Exacta Weather, correctly predicted the harsh conditions experienced over the last two years and gave his forecast. He warns: “The U.K. is to brace itself for well-below-average temperatures and widespread heavy snowfall throughout winter 2011/2012 which will result in the fourth bad winter in succession, and will prove to be the worst of them all. “I fully expect records to be broken, with the Highlands of Scotland being once again particularly hard hit. It is vital to start preparing now.”
You might have thought not too much out of the ordinary about these super storms if you have not lived through one yet. Lightening striking down from the heavens from these storms is killing unusual numbers of people and a few days ago we had a lightning strike actually cause the derailment of a train in China. We have heard of planes having problems occasionally with lightening, but trains?
The weather has changed dramatically in a very short period of time. One has to be almost brain-dead to not get the implications to our civilization as the world’s climate careens out of control. We can’t say we did not have any warning but no one alive saw how violent the weather would turn out to be in this first half of 2011. In 2007, NASA scientists also developed a new climate model that indicated that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common.sun has been in a low activity phase so something else has to be the cause of warming even as we suffer through cooling due to diminished solar output. So the question remains, what is causing our violent weather?sources and more articles, please visit Dr. Mark Sircus blog.
The media has been falling all over itself denying any connection between these historic, violent storms and climate change. Most meteorologists have been claiming the storms have been due to an out-of-place jet stream. The
For all the references,
Mark A. Sircus, Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) http://www.imva.info/.
Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus’s IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book, The Terror of Pediatric Medicine, is a free e-book offered on his web site. Humane Pediatrics will be an e-book available early in 2011 and then quickly as possible put into print.
Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.
He has recently released a number of e-books including Winning the War Against Cancer, Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, Sodium Bicarbonate, Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment, New Paradigms in Diabetic Care and Bringing Back the Universal Medicine: IODINE.
Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and seawater.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of conditions. His second edition of Transdermal Magnesium Therapy will be out shortly. In addition he writes critically about the political and financial crises occurring around us.
International Medical Veritas Association: http://www.imva.info/
http://publications.imva.info/
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Whose War Is It Anyway
By Brother Nathanael Kapner on January 20, 2020
Brother Nathanael asks: why is President Trump making EXACTLY the mistakes as his predecessors?
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts
Trump Second Term Likely – Along with War with Iran
Why Trump has a good chance of a second term in office – and why this opens the way for war with Iran
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts, Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway, Iran
I do Believe that George Soros Could Well be The Anti-Christ
By Les Visible on January 20, 2020
He is a major player. Yet no one, outside of certain media figures says anything about him. Why?
Category: Commentary, Current Affairs, Feature Posts, The Oligarchs
Mamilla Pool
By Israel Shamir on January 20, 2020
Written by Israel Shamir nearly 20 years-ago but as relevant as ever
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts, Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
Putin, a criminal and incompetent president, is an enemy of his own people
By wmw_admin on January 20, 2020
After events in Salisbury and Boris Johnson telling Putin that there has been no normalisation UK-Russian ties, this article suggest a hardening of Western attitudes
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts, Russia
“Hexed” — Hexagram Holds Humanity Hostage
Symbol reveals the age and continuity of the satanic conspiracy
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts, Satanism, the Satanic salute, demon worship, the Black arts and occult abuse, The Unexplained: esoteric and hidden knowledge
In 2011 1.4 percent of Swedes said they had been the victim of some sort of sexual offence. By 2018 that figure had risen to 6 percent
Category: Feature Posts, The migrant crisis
A New Climate Religion for Idiots
By Kevin Boyle on January 19, 2020
Kevin Boyle on why belief in “global warming” is a matter of faith, not science
Category: ClimateGate, Commentary, Feature Posts
Trump, Iran Coordinated De-escalation… for Now
By Finian Cunningham on January 19, 2020
Trump’s unhinged hostile rhetoric towards Iran suggests that the off-ramp from war is only a temporary pause.
Category: Feature Posts, Iran
Trump Warns Allies to Abandon Iran Nuclear Deal
If they don’t comply Trump threatens to impose a 25 percent tariff on European car exports to the U.S.
Category: Economics, Feature Posts, Iran
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Rebel Bingo
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 • Blog, Events •
What Is Rebel Bingo?
I first heard about Rebel Bingo from a friend who quoted it as being “bingo, but, like crazy bingo – where people draw all over you”. That pretty much sums it up.
I went home and looked it up online. The official website was a little secretive claiming that to be informed about tickets I would have to join a mailing list for which I promptly obliged. Now I play the waiting game.
At the end of January an email finally came through letting me know that tickets were going on sale at midday sharp the next day stating that they were sold out in 2 hours last time. “Sure they were, like hundreds of cool people are rushing online to go and buy tickets for some bastardised form of bingo” I thought to myself. Midday the next day arrived and I went online to buy a handful of tickets. The booking page kept crashing when finally after 30 minutes and countless page refreshes I was in. Tickets were bought and half an hour later they had sold out. I guess cool people do want to play bingo.
Fast forward 6 weeks and Rebel Bingo day had arrived. I was informed via email beforehand that the dress code stated that no plain white t-shirts, suits or fancy dress was allowed. That meant is was going to be ripped jeans and a dark t-shirt for the night, which I was more than happy to wear to Rebel Bingo.
Upon queueing we were given various coloured Crayolas and a couple of different bingo cards. It was time to go in and see what all the fuss was about.
We enter the venue (The Scala, King’s Cross). The bar is absolutely heaving with people already as everyone pushes passed each other trying to get the drinks in before the evening explodes into life. We decide to head to the balcony bar thus avoiding the main bar before making a beeline to the dance floor in front of the main stage. A very wise choice.
2 rums and 2 shots of tequila later it was time to start drawing all over each other, everybody was a blank canvas and everybody wanted to get involved. A girl I didn’t know started drawing on the back of my neck saying it was a “smiley face”. Needless to say I knew it was a giant penis. I know the difference between a penis and a smiley being drawn. I certainly wasn’t that drunk, but it was there and I certainly wasn’t the only one with a giant cock drawn somewhere on my body.
The penis drawn on my neck.
After dancing for an hour to such musical talents including *NSYNC and The Spice Girls, the host finally appeared on stage getting everybody fired up to “Killing In The Name” by “Rage Against The Machine”. Needless to say the crowd went wild! Dancers appeared on stage, half-naked “rockabilly” clad women rolled in 2 bingo wheels. It was going CRAZY!
The 2 half-naked women would call out the numbers. But not in the traditional way with old classics such as “legs 11”. Oh no. It was more along the lines of “number 9, the age I broke my hymen, number 9” or my favourite (and probably the most vulgar) “number 1, I fingered my hamster, went too far and punctured its lung, number 1”. Each number was genuinely funny and well thought out. The crowd was in stitches.
The Rebel Bingo crew on stage.
Finally when somebody had all of the numbers they had to jump on stage and give the host a hug, at which point the numbers would be verified. If they didn’t have all of the numbers they would be booted off stage shadowed in a red light with the word “loser” flashing on the screen all to the tune of the Ludicris classic, “Move Bitch”. If they won on the other hand, they would have been given one of the following prizes, a bike, t-shirt, umbrella, portable speaker/dock or a stuffed toy panda.
After the highly eventful bingo games finally came to a close the party carried on into the wee hours where we were still having penises drawn on us and dancing away to *NSYNC – 2 essentials for an unforgettable night out.
What to wear to Rebel Bingo.
The dress code says “no plain white tees”, but they’re not going to kick you out for wearing a white t-shirt. If you do wear a white t-shirt, chances are it will be covered in pen by the end of the night. Wear trainers. Wear a vest so people can draw all over your arms.
Try and position yourself at the front of the stage to see the numbers properly – it’s where all the action is!
Embrace the madness, get involved as much as you can!
Only go once. Like most things, it’s never the same second time around.
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Cascades - at bali's top
Cascades restaurant is the gourmet restaurant of the world-class hotel Viceroy Bali, located in the lush jungle around Ubud. The property is perched on a cliff above the Petanu river and all private villas, the infinity pool, the bar and Cascades restaurant offer stunning views on the green valley. For more information about this incredible hotel, please consult our hotel section. The restaurant is located just next to the infinity pool, between the bar and hotel’s spa. It is an outdoor, covered restaurant in a unique, relaxing location with an unforgettable view. The decoration is typical Balinese and luxurious. Brown, red and white colours enhance the warm atmosphere and relaxing music sets the right mood.
Executive Chef Nic Vanderbeeken is responsible in the kitchen of restaurant Cascades. The chef hails from Belgium and started working at Cascades in 2013. In just a few years, he transformed the restaurant into one of Indonesia’s culinary hotspots. Nic gained experience in several top restaurants in Belgium, France, the United States and Vietnam. At Cascades he bundles this experience to create a unique kind of fusion cuisine, built upon a French base. The chef manages the various cuisines perfectly, offering the guests the opportunity to sample the best of what Indonesia and Europe have to offer. He always uses one ingredient as a basis (which can be European like foie gras, or Indonesian like Bumbu Bali spiced red snapper) and completes the dish with several international ingredients and creative touches. He uses the latest cooking techniques and brings ingredients in different structures to add extra layers to his dishes. Nic and his team often organise culinary events where they invite guest chefs from all over the world. This way, the chef not only puts Cascades, but also Bali, as a region on the culinary world map.
At Cascades, guests can choose dishes from the extensive à la carte menu, or between a European or Indonesian degustation menu. There is also a separate menu for hotel guests with dishes like the Thai beef salad, a Balinese satay or a luxury burger (prepared with Wagyu beef). It is also possible to order fresh lobster, served directly from the refrigerated aquarium in the restaurant. One of Nic's signature dishes is the tomato starter: marinated heirloom cherry tomatoes are combined with beetroot, basil crème, watermelon, parmesan crisps, basil sorbet, red onion, and lavender oil. A beautiful, light dish that brings a welcome refreshment in the Balinese heat. Another outstanding dish is the Tasmanian salmon, which is served as cured salmon gravlax and comes with radish, pickled cucumber, daikon cress, and wasabi crème.
The restaurant boasts one of Bali’s most impressive wine menus, offering a broad selection of European wines as well as new-world ones. The Viceroy’s general manager Anthony Syrowatka is responsible for the wine selection and also offers a pairing wine arrangement to complement the chef’s menus. The wine menu is structured according to the different grapes and offers bottles suiting a wide variety of tastes and budgets.
Cascades restaurant is a very special restaurant for many reasons. Located on a breathtaking location inside one of the world’s best hotels, this place is not only memorable for the views. Executive chef Nic Vanderbeeken does a tremendous job in the kitchen and offers delicious dishes and menus with some of Europe’s and Asia’s best flavours. With his event initiatives he also puts Bali as a culinary destination on the map and demands respect as a culinary pioneer in Indonesia. A restaurant that cannot be skipped when travelling to Bali.
Cascades scored 81 points of 100 points in our rating system. View our Top 60 of the world. Back to the reviews.
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Cascades - Viceroy Bali
Jalan Lanyahan, Banjar Nagi, Ubud, Kec. Gianyar
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兰总理答理解Some of China's practices are also worth learning, such as how it trains its officials美记美国没收She is now helping the development area build a China-South Korea Industry Park, and she has already brought in three South Korean companies to invest in the city's high-tech zone
提支法What is your impression of President Xi Jinping? I think he is a determined man问不为何After finishing middle school and high school studies in the city, Cho's elder son was admitted to Peking University for undergraduate studies, and then returned to Hefei later for his MBA at the University of Science and Technology of China紧枪The Obama administration had done everything it could to internationalize the South China Sea issue and had used the Philippines, a US ally, to advance the American strategy新西However, the Pew survey finds that Duterte and his policies are widely popular at home despite concerns expressed by some governments, in particular the US, over Duterte's clashes with drug cartels and alleged human rights violations兰总理答理解A quarter now name China as the world's leading economy, up from 14 percent the last time the Philippines was surveyed
美记美国没收At the same time, 78 percent believe the current economic situation is good, and 57 percent are satisfied with the direction of the country, a 21 percentage-point increase from 2014, the last time this question was asked in the Philippines提支法And despite the Philippines being the most pro-Trump nation in Pew's spring 37-country survey, confidence in Trump now is lower than it was in then-President Barack Obama in 2015问不为何They kept practicing from morning until night, trying to master the basic skills of lion dance, routines and instrumental music within a short period
紧枪The cultural center of the Jinpu New Area also arranged some courses for them to know about other traditional Chinese culture such as Chinese calligraphy, seal cutting, folk dance, paper-cutting, and pottery新西The cultural center of the Jinpu New Area has undertaken the course for three consecutive years since 2015兰总理答理解During the 35-day training course, they learned from Li Mingxu, the fifth generation successor of the Jinzhou Lion Dance, a provincial intangible cultural heritage that has been passed from generation to generation for more than a century美记美国没收Ten students from Nigeria and Zambia learned how to perform Chinese lion dance at the Jinpu New Area in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province
These changes may look pleasant, but not quite so to Derek Hyra, an associate professor at the American University School of Public Affairs and an expert on neighborhood changeChen Weihua/China DailyHaving lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoods
Hyra described how the "dark ghetto" has been turned into a "gilded ghetto"To Hyra, it has caused not just residential displacement for African Americans but also political and cultural displacementHis book this year, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, is the result of his many years of field research on the issuesWhites are the majority now, accounting for 55 percent of the community
The 14th Street near U Street, a traditional African American neighborhood, is now lined up with hip restaurants and bars in this photo taken on SundayThe area, a 90 percent black neighborhood just a few decades ago, was only 30 percent African American by 2010Hyra described the massive transformation in the U Street/Shaw area, where the city's once most infamous open-air drug market has become a farmers' market now selling grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioliThe Wharf residential and business project I visited recently is probably one of the biggest
The same urban renewal is happening in other parts of WashingtonThe U Street/Shaw and 14th Street area has fast been turned into an upscale neighborhood in recent years, with many new restaurants and shops opening and new apartment construction
Only a short walk from the National Mall, it looks like a good place to live, work and hang outThe area has seen a sharp increase in the white population and skyrocketing property prices, a sign of gentrification in the Washington DC
He saw major issues of gentrification and segregation in Washington beneath the surface of rapid urban renewalLocated in southwest Washington along the waterfront next to the famed Maine Avenue Fish Market, its first phase will open on Oct 12"An effort to reduce sugary drink intake of teenagers is urgently needed," Liang Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, saidAccording to the US Department of Agriculture, global production of sugar is up 9 million tons to a record of 180 million metrics tons a year and consumption hovers at the 172 million metric ton level, also a record high levelThe American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that people should drink no more than three cans of soda (about 450 calories) a week, but men drink 175 and women 94 calories a dayOne sign says you're looking at 45,485 pounds of added sugar - the amount that Kind says children in the United States consume every five minutes
As early as 2006 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified sugar drinks as one of the main culprits in rising obesity ratesThe numbers are spun out by Kind from there: children consume 13
"In addition, I have found that sugar imports are increasingUntil the 18th century, when the technology for extracting sugar from cane was developed, and 19th century, when we learned how to get it from beets, sugar was only available when the fruit ripened or the bees got busy
About 12 percent of children aged 7 to 18 in the survey were overweightJudy Zhu / China DailyA 24-foot-tall pyramid of boxes marked "sugar" in the middle of Times Square makes a point that's kind of hard to ignore
The world does consume too much "added sugar" - a term the USDA began using in 2000 to help people spot processed foods that have added energy with no added nutrition"Every country that has adopted the Western diet, one dominated by low-cost, highly processed food, has witnessed rising rates of obesity and related diseases," the journal Nature commented recentlyHigh fructose corn syrup, raw, brown and white sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses make up about 16 percent of the calories Americans consume and have zero nutritional valueAs the researchers in Nature put it: "In recent years, sugar has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice
5 million children in the US are obese, the CDC says, blaming snacks and foods high in sugar and saltFor children aged four to eight, the AHA suggests no more than three teaspoons of sugar a day, about 130 calories of a 1,600-calorie diet
1 million pounds of added sugar a day - enough to fill 273 yellow school busesA can of soda has the equivalent of seven to 12 teaspoons of sugar
剑网分分一二三分3少林打什么五彩石"A report from a survey of 14 provinces in China found that the daily intake of sugars for Chinese people was lower than the level recommended by the World Health Organization, but for children between the ages of 3 and 17 it was much higher because of the growing popularity of sugary drinks, China Daily reported in MayA display in Times Square includes a sugar tower that is 15 feet wide by 24 feet high
It is made of cartons depicting more than 45,000 pounds of sugar, surrounded by life-size models of "crystallized" childrenThe top domestic consumers, in descending order, are India, the EU, China, the US and BrazilStanding sentinel around the mound are ghostly sculptures of small children, apparently made out of sugar-like granular material, wearing tags that read: "I am 9 years old and weigh 64 poundsAccording to the National Soft Drink Association, the industry produces 600 12-ounce cans of sugary drinks per person per year, most of it what they call the full-sugar variety, and supplies more than a quarter of what Americans drink
The publicity stunt, created by Magnetic Collaborative agency to promote power bar-maker Kind's new line of fruit snacks, which have no added sugar, is meant to sound an alarmIn descending order, Brazil, India, the EU, Thailand, China and the US are the top producers
The survey, conducted in 2014 by China's health, education and sports authorities, found that the sugar intake of males 13 to 17 surpassed 8"There are now 30 percent more people who are obese than who are undernourished
The average child takes in 21 teaspoons a day, the AHA saysThe white paper went to great lengths to define China as one of the "destabilizing factors" along with Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Smart Speakers: A new way to listen to old radio
Rick Limpert
With smart speaker sales projected to total 44 million units this year, per the Consumer Technology Association, radio companies are moving fast and furious to create an optimum user experience for their brands on the platforms – and devise creative promotional strategies and tactics to drive consumption.
While launching skills that provide access to station streams has been job number one, some broadcasters are now going far beyond the basics—exploiting the interactive and on-demand functionality that smart speakers provide to make the listening experience inherently different from traditional AM/FM radio.
Earlier this year, iHeartRadio added Samsung’s virtual assistant Bixby to its platform lineup, making the streaming audio service available on all major voice-activated virtual assistants. Consistent with its iHeartRadio master brand strategy, the company has launched umbrella iHeartRadio skills through which each of its stations can be accessed. In addition, the audio service added to its offerings with the launch of a lineup of nearly a dozen high-profile Flash Briefings for Alexa-equipped devices, featuring such popular shows and personalities as “On Air With Ryan Seacrest,” “The Brokaw Report,” “The Rush Minute” and several NBC News Radio category briefings. The radio giant says it plans to develop more original skills that let listeners engage with iHeartRadio via voice, while also providing advertisers opportunities to integrate with its content in new and innovative ways.
Far more than just a speaker, voice-activated devices, of course, enable new ways to interact with content and brands. Six in 10 smart speaker owners agree that “having your smart speaker is like having someone to talk to,” according to “The Smart Audio Report” from Edison Research and NPR.
Capitalizing on this interactivity, iHeart launched a skill for Google Home that let device owners use their voice—and in a new and quite successful experiment, employ more free-form language/word options—to engage Google Assistant to vote in one of the categories for the 2017 iHeartRadio Awards. During South By Southwest, music fans on iHeartRadio could play Austin music trivia by talking to their Google Assistant. And last December iHeart launched a seasonal skill that let Amazon Alexa users “talk to Santa Claus.”
Federated Media, one of the first companies joining the smart speaker party, is already rolling out second-generation skills. The top takeaway from its early mover experience, says chief strategy officer and director of programming James Derby, is that simple is better. “What we’re starting to realize is the more options delivered on a skill, the more likely retention will be lost as those options are presented,” he says. So Federated is now working with tech provider Xappmedia to build individual skills for each of its top content offerings, supplanting its existing all-in-one station skills that provide access to the live stream, podcasts and custom on-demand music channels. “We’re taking our top custom music stations and top podcasts, based on data usage, and offering them as individual skills,” Derby explains.
Cumulus Media, too, has kept its local station skills simple, primarily using them as a means to access the live stream. Podcasts and on-demand listening options will be added later.
Sister network Westwood One, meanwhile, is pushing the technology envelope with its on-demand – and interactive – user experience, which is at the core of the sports skill it recently launched. To increase listening and interactivity for its March Madness play-by-play coverage, the network allowed Amazon Alexa users to access a live stream of Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and other NCAA games. Users that enabled the network’s sports skill could also access play-by-play highlights and request the day’s schedule, ask for a specific game or score or play a broadcast recap of the game.
The network plans to launch similar on-demand offerings throughout the year for tent pole sports events for which it holds the rights. Since the sports skill launched in February to coincide with the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, WWO says it has had 115,000 play events.
“Once again it proves the power of radio to educate about the Westwood One skill and the power of great content to drive usage,” says Suzanne Grimes, executive of VP Marketing, Cumulus Media and president, Westwood One. The network plans to use the Alexa platform to drive incremental listening to other sports and entertainment programing throughout 2018.
But while much of the industry’s smart speaker attention has focused on returning radio to a more prominent position in the home, the voice opportunity transcends a specific location. “AI and voice assistant technology will be at the core of the car cockpit experience in the not too distant future,” Tim Clarke, VP of Audience & Content for Radio at Cox Media Group, says. “This will be how listeners tune to our radio stations. The speakers are a great warm-up for us to be ready for that reality.”
Creative Promotional Strategies
Radio is using the bullhorn power of its own airwaves and digital assets to grow awareness and adoption. Broadcasters that have launched smart speaker skills say heavy promotion triggers a sizable jump in usage, which isn’t surprising given the newness of the technology.
“Every time that we have a station that does a major promotion around Alexa, we can see significant increases in listenership on those platforms,” says Beasley Media Group executive VP of Digital Steve Myers. “What’s more, it tends to be pretty sticky. In other words, once people get onto the platform and get used to using it as their home or office radio we tend to see the numbers stay there. They don’t go down very far.”
After launching Alexa skills for 300 local brands late last year, Cumulus Media stations began airing promos for them in hourly 10-second sweepers around the Christmas holiday season and immediately afterwards. Since then it has pulled back to about eight promos per day. The result: 300,000 people activated one of its skills in the first two months of the promotion, the company says.
While Cumulus corporate provided basic directions, the language of the promos was left to local stations. “Each station has the opportunity and responsibility to create local messages so it’s in the voice that they think will speak directly to their listeners,” Grimes says.
Stations are using every tool in their arsenal to promote their skills, from instructional online videos and social media, to on-air promos and jock chatter to leveraging text and email club databases. For some broadcasters, bringing Alexa into the studio and having the jocks enable the app right on the air has been the most effective promotion. “That lets listeners hear how it’s done and how the skill is presented,” Derby says. Federated stations also air sweepers voiced by Alexa herself and have an Alexa tab or icon on their websites that links to a dedicated Alexa page with instructions on how to enable the app.
But even before the promotion begins, digital experts say it’s important that the invocation name – the actual voice command that will launch the station’s content on the device – actually works. “This is tricky. We have all been through the experience of requesting a station on Echo and getting the wrong one,” says Clarke.
And all across the industry, broadcasters are having an ongoing dialog about the most effective language to use in promoting the skills. “We’re trying to grow the audience in aggregate and deliver the content wherever people would like to consume it,” says Larry Linietsky, VP of Operations and Business Development at Cumulus Media and Westwood One. “How we help listeners discover what we’re doing it is a big part of that.”
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Column: Kick (not) off: Bartollota, Wyman are perfect on season
By Tom Keegan
Photo by Nick Krug
Kansas kicker Nick Bartolotta (14) watches as T.J. Millweard takes the snap during practice on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015.
Team Imperfect has been Team Perfect in the kicking department. Meet Mr. and Mr. Perfect, aka Nick Bartolotta and Matthew Wyman.
Combined they are 4 for 4 on field goals and 7 for 7 on extra points for the erstwhile kicking-challenged Kansas University football team. Bartolotta is responsible for 10 of those kicks, Wyman one.
They share field-goal responsibilities. The long and the short of it is that the long three-pointers are handled by the long guy, 6-foot-1 Wyman, and the short kicks, including extra points, are handled by the short guy, 5-5 Bartolotta, better known as “Yoda.”
With plenty of yards to spare, Bartolotta has made field goals of 23, 30 and 33 yards. Wyman made his lone attempt, from 51 yards.
Bartolotta, a transfer from College of DuPage, is in his sophomore season. Wyman, in his third year on the football team, watched from the stands three years ago.
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Yoda explained how the flexible line between his kicks and Wyman’s is drawn in pencil.
“Pregame is when we decide,” said Bartolotta, who stands 3 feet, 3 inches taller than the Yoda of Star Wars fame. “It kind of depends on when coach (Gary) Hyman comes up to me first and asks, ‘What are you feeling? What can you hit from?’ Some days I say 48 and in. I’m 100 percent consistent because we don’t want 80 percent. We want 100 percent. I don’t want to be 80 percent consistent. I have to tell the truth. I can say 10 times out of 10 times I can hit it from 48 and in.
“If it’s beyond 48, that’s when Wyman comes into play. It’s based on what we decide in pregame and it depends on the wind and every other aspect.”
KU’s plan to use two field-goal kickers seemed risky given that confidence plays such a big part in a kicker’s production. Bypassing one kicker for another created the possibility of denting the confidence of the player watching.
“I was concerned about it, initially, to be honest with you,” said head coach David Beaty, whose concern has vanished. “I think each one of those kickers have kind of taken their own identity and they’ve run with it.”
One of the creative ways the coaching staff has ensured that the kickers “compete together, not against each other,” as Yoda put it, has involved daily putting the kickers in situations where the entire team has reason to root strongly for them. At the end of practice, they are put under the pressure of attempting field goals that if made subtract the number of up-downs players owe.
Above all, though, the kickers naturally became friends and have found it easy to root for each other.
“We warm up together and we march on the field together,” Bartolotta said. “We bang each other on the helmet in pregame. We know how to get each other ready for games. We’re a team.”
The friendship doesn’t end when football activities do.
“Wyman’s like my big brother,” Yoda said. “We hang out on weekends. We chill in the players’ lounge.”
When the Kansas offense has the ball, the kickers can be seen together, getting loose. They are too busy preparing mentally and physically to track field position closely in practice and games.
“We hear: ‘Field-goal alert,’ we run over there together and coach Hyman says, ‘I want Wyman,’ or, ‘I want Yoda.’ ”
Bartolotta’s path to KU kicker is no less interesting than Wyman’s move from spectator to center of the entire crowd’s attention.
A soccer player and wrestler at Fox High in St. Louis, Bartolotta and wrestling teammates were clowning around with a “foam football,” in practice and when he was spotted kicking it, a wrestling teammate and coach who also were in the football program tried to convince him to join the football team. The football coaches took the baton from there and tried to contact him. It wasn’t until the wrestling coach called Bartolotta’s father, a Sicilian immigrant, to pitch the idea that the soccer player/wrestler decided to try a new sport that quickly became his favorite.
Yoda, given the nickname by Wyman, was ranked the No. 2 junior-college kicker in the nation by one service. He weighs 190 pounds and is built somewhat like a fire hydrant. He also was treated during the recruiting process a bit like man’s best friend treats a fire hydrant.
“I was very underrated at C. o. D. because of my height,” he said. “A lot of teams passed on me. How is the No. 2 junior-college kicker in the nation not getting these offers when the No. 5 is and other people below me (in the rankings) are?”
Rhetorical question.
“A lot of people had interest in me, but passed on me,” Bartolotta said. “Because of my height, they thought: ‘I’m going to have someone who’s 5-foot-5 kicking for a Division I school? I can’t let that happen.’ The coaches didn’t say that to me, but my kicking coach let me know that was the reason I wasn’t getting these offers. I love it when that happens. It just fires me up.”
Jamie Kohl, who holds camps across the nation, was his kicking coach. Hyman called Kohl and told him he needed a kicker and Kohl poured on the praise.
“Coach Hyman found me,” Yoda said. “He didn’t care about my size. He knew I could kick. He believed in me.”
Hyman, Wyman and the rest of the players and coaches have no reason not to believe in him. And Yoda believes in Wyman.
“He made one from 67 yards (Monday) in practice,” Bartolotta said of Wyman. “Pretty impressive. That’s a lot of leg.”
So far, two legs have been better than one. Perfect, to be precise.
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Brett McCabe 4 years, 4 months ago
So much to comment on here....
First, I thought the short/long approach would be a complete catastrophe. I guess that's why they didn't ask me.
Second, Wyman has finally taken his job seriously enough to get off-season coaching, which has had a huge impact on his technique.
Third, Wyman's kick-offs have mostly been stellar.
Fourth, I don't think I've ever seen a team's biggest weakness be turned into a true strength so quickly. Hats off to the coaches for finding Yoda through Jamie Kohl - who used to kick for Iowa State.
Bartolotta's got a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and I'm glad he'll have a full three seasons here to get rid of it. His story of being discovered at his high school reminds me of an even greater kicker discovery - Jan Stenerud. If you haven't heard his story, look it up, it's amazing how a Hall of Fame kicker was discovered.
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Armen Kurdian 4 years, 3 months ago
I'll be in New Brunswick this weekend, probably going to be a tiny KU contingent, but I'll be there to root them on!
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Drivers. Fans. Lovers of the true motorsport. Brace yourselves. And get ready. The race track is cal...
Drivers. Fans. Lovers of the true motorsport. Brace yourselves. And get ready. The race track is calling. More loudly than ever before. And with an intensity not felt for quite some time. Defensive? Routine? As if. Better to go on the attack. A challenge awaits, one that will push you beyond your comfort zone for a change. Where unfiltered fascination feels at home: in the chicane, in the banked turn, on the long straights.
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Its race track chassis will show you what it means to confront the tarmac head on. Eye for an eye. Lap after lap. The fixed rear wing is a flagrant provocation to do battle. To the opponent. And to the opposing headwind. The rear silencer as well as the tailpipes in titanium are a visible sign of what the new 911 GT3 RS is promising: unadulterated sound, pure performance, and a challenge that nobody whose heart beats for sports cars can shy away from.
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High-performance sports car with highrevving naturally aspirated engine, rear drive, aerodynamics adapted for maximum downforce, chassis engineered for the race track, dynamic engine mounts, rear-axle steering with sports setup.
Carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) for front lid, front wings, rear lid and rear wing, lightweight polyurethane for front and rear aprons, lightweight glass for rear screen and rear side windows, magnesium roof, titanium rear silencer.
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Large front air intakes with titanium-coloured grilles, front spoiler optimised for aerodynamic downforce, two NACA air intakes on the front lid for improved supply of air to the brakes and side air intakes for combustion air, louvres on the front wings, greater downforce thanks to the fixed rear wing.
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Duck away. Or full-on confrontation? Headwind is like any challenge. The best thing to do is face wh...
Duck away. Or full-on confrontation? Headwind is like any challenge. The best thing to do is face whatever is coming head-on. With no nonsense. Not blindly, of course, but with ingenuity.
The special challenge in the design of the new 911 GT3 RS: keeping the drag coefficient low and, at the same time, sustaining high downforce. For optimum tyre contact pressure, especially in the corners. Then there is the issue of fresh air, because the engine and brakes must not be allowed to overheat even under full load.
Optimum cooling is provided by large air intakes with titanium-coloured grilles incorporated in the front end. The extra air outlet ahead of the front lid increases flow through the centre radiator – and, by diverting the air flow, simultaneously reinforces aerodynamic downforce at the front axle.
The front spoiler lip is now even wider than the lip of the predecessor model, and downforce has been increased as a result. The sideskirts have also been further widened, a measure that has enlarged the overall surface area of the underbody – for another increase in downforce.
The louvres on the front wings combine striking aesthetics with high-level functionality. These eye-catching black slats of the wheel arch vents have the effect of reducing the overpressure generated by the turning wheels, thereby improving the downforce on the vehicle.
Typical of the 911 GT3 RS: two air intake openings for the engine, on the left and right in the rear side sections respectively.
The NACA air intakes on the CFRP front lid are new. These are used to supply air to the brakes and that's without negatively affecting the drag coefficient. Their shape was developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA. Space technology – for supreme performance in absolute proximity to the ground.
If we had just one word to describe the design language of the new 911 GT3 RS, then ‘squat’ would be the fitting attribute. If the word eluded us, however, then we’d make our point by showing you the rear end. Based on the wide body of the 911 Turbo, the rear end of the ‘RS’ explains in the clearest terms how it sits on the road: squat, assured and unshakeable.
Positioned right down by the tarmac are the two central tailpipes of the sports exhaust system. The rear silencer and tailpipes are made of titanium and are integral to the characteristic sound of the 911 GT3 RS.
The slimline tinted LED taillights visually reinforce the car’s wide appearance. The fixed rear wing in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) produces tremendous downforce at the rear axle and helps to provide high driving stability even at top speed. The wing uprights painted in black are made of forged aluminium.
In short: optimum aerodynamics for the race track and an equally good drag coefficient for everywhere else. So no reason to duck away. Time to take the offensive.
A material challenge: losing weight to go faster. And, at the same time, ensuring considerable stiff...
A material challenge: losing weight to go faster. And, at the same time, ensuring considerable stiffness both in the physical design and in the corners. For these reasons, too, the new 911 GT3 RS is made of an aluminium and steel composite. This keeps the vehicle weight low. And power potential high.
The front end consists of lightweight polyurethane with hollow glass microspheres and carbon-fibre elements. This high-tech material is not only particularly robust, but also – as the name suggests – exceedingly light.
Carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, or CFRP, is used for the contoured front lid, the front wings, the rear lid and, not least, for various interior components.
The roof is made of magnesium and, like the front lid, is purposefully contoured. Not only does this contouring visually distinguish these lightweight components, it also increases their stiffness.
The rear screen and rear side windows are made of lightweight glass. This material is as light as polycarbonate and, unlike polycarbonate, offers particularly good scratch and fracture resistance as well as being significantly less prone to buckling at high speeds.
If you do mean business on the race track, you could even dispense with the sound system or two-zone automatic climate control on request.
In total, all these weight-reduction measures add up to a weight-to-power ratio of only 3.73 kg/kW (2.75 kg/hp). A value that not only looks good on paper, but is also quantifiable by the seconds saved on the race track.
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Engine power increased. Weight reduced. Outstanding lap times in every test going – our engineers could well have settled for the advancements achieved by the predecessor to the new 911 GT3 RS. Instead, they have honed the character of the new 911 GT3 RS once more. With the optional Weissach package.
Since the Weissach package was first offered in a similar form for the Porsche 918 Spyder, it has stood for consistent lightweight construction. And for the closest possible proximity to motorsport.
Aesthetics and lightweight construction here form a real synthesis in which the particular focus is on saving weight. As a result, the Weissach package will reduce the weight of your 911 GT3 RS by approximately another 18 kg. That's because, for example, the anti-roll bars on the front and rear axles, their coupling rods and the roof are made of carbonfibre reinforced plastic (CFRP). The Weissach package can optionally also be fitted with forged magnesium wheels painted in Platinum.
Visually, on the other hand, there have been gains. With the front lid and roof in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with a carbon-weave finish, and the large ‘PORSCHE’ logo on the rear wing.
The principle of lightweight construction continues in the interior. The bolt-in roll cage is made of titanium and is approximately 12 kg lighter than the steel roll cage of the Clubsport package.
Every gramme counts, and so does every detail. For this reason, the ultra-light gearshift paddles and the steering wheel trim are in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with a carbon-weave finish. In their search for further weight savings, our vehicle developers have even made the carpet trim lighter.
There were two things that we didn’t want to do without: the Weissach package logo on the headrests and the plaque on the cupholder cover. Their one and only function: to express the pride we have for the Weissach package.
Time and time again, the cynics would have you believe that the potential of a six-cylinder horizont...
Time and time again, the cynics would have you believe that the potential of a six-cylinder horizontally opposed and naturally aspirated engine mounted in the rear has been exhausted. And our engineers? They smile. And prove over and over again the exact opposite.
For the new 911 GT3 RS, the specs read as follows: naturally aspirated engine, 4.0-litre displacement, high-revving concept. A maximum power output of 383 kW (520 hp) – 20 hp higher than that of the predecessor model. Maximum torque 470 Nm, i.e. 10 Nm more than before. Up to 9,000 rpm on the rev counter makes it clear what we mean by a high-revving concept.
As a result, the new 911 GT3 RS with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.2 seconds and top speed isn’t reached until 312 km/h.
Especially robust and high-performing, the engine is based on that of the 911 GT3 Cup. Also derived from motorsport is the oil supply principle, which uses a separate engine oil tank, fully variable oil pressure pump and an additional supply of oil via the crankshaft.
Four valves per cylinder with cam followers and a rigid valve train is another concept matured on the race track. The engine block and cylinder heads are made of aluminium, the titanium connecting rods have been forged and, thanks to VarioCam, the camshaft timing is precisely matched to the engine speed and load.
As far as the efficiency of the engine – and its power output – is concerned, direct fuel injection (DFI) makes a decisive contribution. And it does so with millisecond precision and a pressure of up to 200 bar. For optimum mixture formation and combustion in the combustion chamber.
High-revving concept
The valves are operated by cam followers – another principle from motorsport. Clearance compensation between the camshafts and valves of the new 911 GT3 RS is realised not by hydraulic means, but by shim plates as part of a solid arrangement. This provides greater robustness as well as enabling remarkably high engine speeds and hard use on the race track.
Dry-sump lubrication
The way in which oil is supplied to the engine is also successfully proven in motorsport. Continued lubrication is vital, especially at very high engine speeds of up to 9,000 rpm and under the effects of the extremely high lateral and longitudinal acceleration that can be experienced on the race track. Seven scavenge pumps in total return the engine oil quickly and efficiently to the external oil tank.
Together with the oil pressure pump offering fully variable displacement, optimum oil pressure is assured in all operating conditions. This system provides reliable lubrication of hard-working components and increases the robustness of the engine under hard use on the race track. The efficient defoaming of the oil by a centrifuge before it is delivered to the separate oil tank is a solution originating in high-performance motorsport and is also used in a similar form in the Porsche 919 Hybrid, an LMP1 class competitor.
In interaction with the sports exhaust system, the variable intake manifold in synthetic material and featuring two switchable resonance flaps helps to ensure efficient gas cycles. This results in an impressive torque curve, a high maximum torque and high power output across a broad engine speed range.
The sports exhaust system of the new 911 GT3 RS has two front silencers, two catalytic converters, o...
The sports exhaust system of the new 911 GT3 RS has two front silencers, two catalytic converters, one rear silencer and two central tailpipes made of titanium. The large volume of the exhaust system reduces exhaust backpressure – and increases power output. In response to data provided by two Lambda sensors, the stereo Lambda control circuits regulate the composition of the exhaust gas separately in each exhaust tract. Another pair of sensors monitor pollutant conversion in the respective catalytic converters.
Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK)
The main thing to do on the race track: act fast. Of course, the same applies to the transmission. A...
The main thing to do on the race track: act fast. Of course, the same applies to the transmission. And that’s where Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) sets standards. With gear changes that take place in milliseconds and with no interruption in the flow of power – for acceleration figures that would impress any driver. And every opponent.
For the 911 GT3 RS, PDK boasts an even sportier setup. With direct gear ratios and the crisp, short movements of the gearshift paddles. With seven performance-oriented gears, where even seventh gear has a sports ratio and is engineered for maximum speed. Back to shift up, forward to shift down – manual operation of the gear selector is based on the established motorsport principle.
This is how it works. PDK is essentially two gearboxes in one and thus requires two clutches. This double-clutch arrangement provides an alternating, non-positive connection between the two half gearboxes and the engine by means of two separate input shafts. During a gear change, therefore, one clutch simply opens and the other closes at the same time, enabling gear changes to take place within milliseconds. This has consequences: positive ones, of course. Not least for acceleration, overall performance and fuel economy. Driving feels even more dynamic and agility is increased.
What about the gear changes themselves? You’ll feel them and you’ll hear them. The electronic transmission control logic of the Intelligent Shift Program (ISP) offers more immediate and faster traction-induced upshifts and downshifts on overrun. In PDK SPORT mode, downshifts under braking are more aggressive while, under acceleration, the shift points are raised to higher engine speeds. So changing up a gear becomes a physical experience – and an emotive one.
Banking left-hand corner ahead. That means rebounding from the compression experienced in the dip on...
Banking left-hand corner ahead. That means rebounding from the compression experienced in the dip on the right-hand side of the tarmac. Approaching the imminent left-hand corner from the outside and turning into the apex to ride the kerbs. Preferably not just the once. But again and again and again. That’s exactly what the chassis of the new 911 GT3 RS has been engineered for.
In conjunction with a series of specifically tuned chassis components, this means that the new 911 GT3 RS offers extraordinary agility, a high degree of driving safety in the high speed range and extremely stable handling.
The lightweight, independent front suspension combines McPherson-type struts with helper springs and longitudinal and transverse links. The rear axle has a multi-link suspension with helper springs and chassis subframe following the LSA concept (lightweight, stable, agile). Camber, track and the anti-roll bars can be individually adapted for use on the race track.
Our engineers spent plenty of hours fine-tuning the driving dynamics setup. Based on established racing strategy, the ride rates of the springs at the front and rear axles of the new GT3 RS have been significantly increased. At the same time, the roll rates have been reduced by the use of a softer antiroll bar. Damping characteristics have been optimally adapted to these new parameters.
Positive result: a significant increase in traction and stability when cornering at speeds of over 250 km/h.
For the absolute maximum level of performance possible, all suspension joints have also been replaced by ball joints. These provide a particularly firm connection between the suspension and the body. For precise, sharp and direct handling.
Result: a further increase in dynamic performance – and precision. The nicest challenges are still the ones we encounter time and time again.
Fitted as standard, rear-axle steering with sports tuning combines performance and everyday driveabi...
Fitted as standard, rear-axle steering with sports tuning combines performance and everyday driveability. An electromechanical adjustment system at each rear wheel enables the steering angle to be adapted based on the current driving situation, steering input and vehicle speed.
Advantage at low speeds: the system steers the rear wheels in the opposite direction to that of the front wheels. This has the virtual effect of shortening the wheelbase. Negotiating tight corners becomes a more dynamic experience, while manoeuvring becomes easier to manage and the turning circle is reduced.
Advantage at higher speeds: the system steers the rear wheels in the same direction as that of the front wheels. Thanks to this virtual extension of the wheelbase, driving stability and agility are increased – especially in the event of fast lane changes or during overtaking manoeuvres on the race track.
Dynamic engine mounts
This electronically controlled system minimises the perceptible oscillations and vibrations of the e...
This electronically controlled system minimises the perceptible oscillations and vibrations of the entire drivetrain, especially the engine, and combines the benefits of a hard or soft engine mounting arrangement.
A hard engine mounting delivers optimum dynamic performance because it offers the highest degree of handling precision possible. Soft engine mounts, on the other hand, minimise oscillations and vibrations. While comfort is improved on uneven road surfaces, this comes at the expense of dynamic performance.
Our engineers have solved this problem by enabling the stiffness and damping performance of the engine mounts to adapt to changes in driving style and road surface conditions. This has been achieved by the use of a fluid with magnetic properties in interaction with an electromagnetic field.
With a harder engine mounting, handling is perceptibly more stable under load change conditions and in fast corners. The dynamic engine mount system also reduces the vertical oscillations of the engine when accelerating under full load.
The results are greater and more uniform drive force at the rear axle, increased traction and faster acceleration. Whenever a less assertive driving style is adopted, the dynamic engine mounts automatically soften to provide a heightened level of comfort.
This electronic active damping system offers continuous adjustment of the damping force on each whee...
This electronic active damping system offers continuous adjustment of the damping force on each wheel based on the current driving situation and your driving style. At the press of a button, you can select between two different modes. ‘Normal’ mode is designed for sporty driving on public roads and on wet race tracks. ‘Sport’ mode is specially tuned for maximum lateral acceleration and offers the best possible traction on the track.
PSM automatically maintains stability even at the limits of dynamic driving performance. In addition...
PSM automatically maintains stability even at the limits of dynamic driving performance. In addition to the anti-lock braking system, it includes Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and Traction Control (TC).
Sensors continuously monitor the direction, speed, yaw velocity and lateral acceleration of the car. Using this information, PSM is able to calculate the actual direction of travel at any given moment. If the car begins to oversteer or understeer, PSM applies selective braking on individual wheels to restore stability. What’s special about PSM in the new 911 GT3 RS? The systems intervene with exceptional sensitivity and precision and can be completely deactivated in two stages, for deliberately sporty handling.
PTV Plus has been specially adapted to the new 911 GT3 RS. In conjunction with PDK, fitted as standa...
PTV Plus has been specially adapted to the new 911 GT3 RS. In conjunction with PDK, fitted as standard, the system operates with an electronically regulated and fully variable rear differential lock.
Numerous driving parameter inputs are the basis for the system’s active control of the differential lock. The results are greater traction, particularly at the limits of dynamic performance, increased lateral dynamics and a significant improvement in driving stability under the effects of load changes in corners and when the car changes lane. In addition, the system strategically brakes the right or left rear wheel. This means that, whenever the car enters a corner, brake pressure is applied to the inside rear wheel. Consequently, a greater amount of drive force is distributed to the outside rear wheel, almost pulling the car into the corner. Turn-in capability is improved, agility is increased.
Available as an option, the front-axle lift system raises the new 911 GT3 RS 30 mm at the front end....
Available as an option, the front-axle lift system raises the new 911 GT3 RS 30 mm at the front end. This minimises the risk of grounding on kerbs, ramps and car park entrances when manoeuvring. For the first time, the system no longer works pneumatically, but hydraulically. As a result, the lift system is almost 50% lighter than it was before. In our approach to lightweight construction, not a single component is spared scrutiny.
20-inch at the front axle, 21-inch at the rear axle. Or, in other words: wide wheels for a large con...
20-inch at the front axle, 21-inch at the rear axle. Or, in other words: wide wheels for a large contact surface – and excellent driving dynamics as a result.
The exact dimensions: 265/35 ZR 20 tyres on 9.5 J × 20 wheels at the front, 325/30 ZR 21 tyres on 12.5 J × 21 wheels at the rear.
Specially developed sports tyres* raise the performance of the new 911 GT3 RS to a new level. Thanks to their road approval, you can nevertheless drive on them to the race track. For the first time, specially developed race track tyres are available for the new 911 GT3 RS separately. While these tyres are also road-legal, they place even more focus on maximum track performance.
As standard, the wheels are forged alloys painted in aurum. The central locking device in black bearing the ‘RS’ logo is derived directly from motorsport and facilitates faster wheel changes. Another advantage over a conventional five-hole connection: enhanced performance thanks to the reduction in rotating masses. Tyre Pressure Monitoring (TPM) is fitted as standard. Not only does it issue warnings in the event of a gradual or sudden loss of pressure, it also features a race track mode. This factors in the lower inflation pressure of cold tyres before an outing on the circuit.
* The reduced tread depth increases the risk of aquaplaning on wet surfaces.
The new 911 GT3 RS also displays maximum performance in terms of negative acceleration. The new 911 ...
The new 911 GT3 RS also displays maximum performance in terms of negative acceleration. The new 911 GT3 RS is equipped as standard with a particularly powerful brake system with a specifically matched brake booster. The red six-piston aluminium brake calipers on the front axle and the four-piston equivalents at the rear are designed as monobloc units. This makes them highly resistant to deformation and enables a more rapid response and release of the brake, even under heavy loads.
The composite brake discs are 380 mm in diameter, front and rear. Thanks to their two-piece construction with aluminium brake chambers, they save weight and thereby reduce unsprung and rotating masses. The brake discs are cross-drilled and internally vented for powerful braking even in adverse weather conditions. Or when pitted against the challenges of motorsport.
Motorsport technology in a car on the road: Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB). In numerous race...
Motorsport technology in a car on the road: Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB). In numerous race series, including the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, it has been proven to withstand the harshest demands of the track.
PCCB dimensions are sized to match the performance potential of the new 911 GT3 RS. That’s why the cross-drilled ceramic brake discs have a diameter of 410 mm at the front and 390 mm at the rear – for even more formidable braking performance.
The use of six-piston aluminium monobloc fixed brake calipers on the front axle and four-piston units at the rear – all finished in yellow – ensures extremely high brake forces which, crucially, are exceptionally consistent. PCCB enables shorter braking distances in even the toughest road and race conditions. Safety under high-speed braking is also improved thanks to its excellent fade resistance.
The key advantage of PCCB is the extremely low weight of the ceramic brake discs, which are approximately 50 % lighter than standard discs of a similar design and size. As well as enhancing performance and fuel economy, this represents a major reduction in unsprung and rotating masses. This results in better roadholding and increased comfort, particularly on uneven roads. Plus greater agility and further improved handling.
Porsche Side Impact Protection System (POSIP)
Advanced airbag technology is integrated in the form of full-size driver and passenger airbags, whic...
Advanced airbag technology is integrated in the form of full-size driver and passenger airbags, which are inflated in two stages depending on the severity and type of accident. The Porsche Side Impact Protection System (POSIP) also comes as standard. It comprises side impact protection elements in the doors and two side airbags on each side: an integral thorax airbag in each seat side bolster, and an upwards-inflating head airbag incorporated within each door.
Clubsport package
The ideal platform for any sporting challenge: the Clubsport package, available at no extra cost for...
The ideal platform for any sporting challenge: the Clubsport package, available at no extra cost for the new 911 GT3 RS, provides additional protection on the race track. It comprises a roll cage with paint finish in black or Lizard Green bolted to the bodywork and a six-point racing harness supplied ready to install for the driver including two shoulder belt designs for use with or without HANS safety device (Head And Neck Support).
The package also includes a fire extinguisher with bracket and preparation for the battery master switch. The battery master switch itself, and the front roll cage add-on option to form a full cage for race events, are available to purchase separately from the Porsche Motorsport department.
You feel awe before you get in ... then satisfaction afterwards. In the cockpit of the new 911 GT3 R...
You feel awe before you get in ... then satisfaction afterwards. In the cockpit of the new 911 GT3 RS, it soon becomes clear what it’s all about. Optimum ergonomics. Information that is quick to process. Sporty purism – of the kind that does not prohibit the driver from concentrating on the road ahead.
The instrument cluster speaks a clear language. Porsche language, to be precise. Five round instruments with the rev counter in the centre. The dial of the titanium-coloured rev counter is marked with the ‘GT3 RS’ logo. The other dial faces are in black, with needles and increment markings in yellow.
Directly next to the rev counter is a high-resolution 4.6-inch touchscreen display. Its multifunction display lets the driver see data from the on-board computer. Viewable information includes engine power, longitudinal and lateral acceleration (g-force), Tyre Pressure Monitoring (TPM) values, information on communication and audio settings, or the map of the navigation system.
GT3 RS Steering wheel
Change gear like a motorsport professional – the GT3 RS Sports steering wheel is manually adjustable...
Change gear like a motorsport professional – the GT3 RS Sports steering wheel is manually adjustable for height and reach and its gearshift paddles offer short, sporty shift actions. Gearshifts are even more direct and precise as a result. The steering wheel rim in black Alcantara® is easy to grip and remains in firm hands even on sporty drives. Pointing the way: the coloured top centre marking.
The materials represent a clear, sporty line and superlative quality. Black Alcantara® and black lea...
The materials represent a clear, sporty line and superlative quality. Black Alcantara® and black leather dominate the interior. Accents are created by interior parts in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with a carbon-weave finish.
Alcantara® is easy to grip, wash and maintain. For this reason, it is used mainly on surfaces where occupants will come into direct contact with it: on the steering wheel rim and PDK gear selector, for example, as well as on the door handles, door panel armrests and the storage compartment lid in the centre console. The roof lining and the A-, B- and C-pillar trims are also finished in Alcantara®. The seat centres? Also in Alcantara®.
A carbon-weave finish is found, for example, on the dashboard decorative trim, the centre console trim and the door sill guards with ‘GT3 RS’ logo.
In black leather: the seat bolsters, the headrests, the airbag module in the centre of the Sports steering wheel, the side sections of the armrests – both on the door panels as well as on the storage compartment in the centre console.
Part of the standard specification: full bucket seats in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with...
Full bucket seats*
Part of the standard specification: full bucket seats in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with a carbon-weave finish. Not only do they look sporty and provide good lateral support, they also offer a height adjustment function, enabling the full bucket seat to be positioned 30 mm lower or 20 mm higher. Height adjustment is electrically powered, while the fore/aft position is manually adjustable. These seats are upholstered in black leather with perforated seat centres in black Alcantara® – or, as an option, Lizard Green. Through the aeration holes in the seat centre shimmers a second layer of fabric in black. The ‘GT3 RS’ logos embroidered on the headrests are in GT Silver.
Sports bucket seats*
An optional alternative: bucket seats with folding backrest for easier access to the rear compartment, integrated thorax airbag and manual fore/aft adjustment for the driver and passenger. The seat shells are made from glass- and carbonfibre reinforced plastic with a carbon-weave finish. The backrest pivot points are positioned high in the side bolsters – allowing very good lateral support even in the pelvic region.
The seats are upholstered in black leather with seat centres in perforated Alcantara® in black or, alternatively, Lizard Green including headrests with the ‘GT3 RS’ logo in GT Silver.
Available as an alternative, adaptive Sports seats Plus blend sport with comfort and are suitable for everyday driving or the race track. They feature side bolsters in leather, seat centres in black Alcantara® and the ‘GT3 RS’ logo embroidered on the headrests in GT Silver. Here, again, seat centres in Lizard Green are available on request. Offering 18-way electric adjustment, the seats can be optimally adapted to meet your needs in terms of seat height, squab and backrest angle, seat depth, fore/aft adjustment and four-way lumbar support. The side bolsters on the seat surface and backrest can be individually adjusted for precision lateral support on winding roads and added comfort on long journeys.
* Child seats are not compatible with full bucket seats or Sports bucket seats.
Chrono Package
In addition to the analogue and digital stopwatch on the dashboard, the optional Chrono Package boas...
In addition to the analogue and digital stopwatch on the dashboard, the optional Chrono Package boasts even greater functionality. PCM is upgraded to include a special performance display, enabling you to display, store and evaluate recorded lap times. In this way, you can view the current lap time and distance, number of laps completed and other times achieved so far. It is also possible to view the current fastest lap and range until empty. Any travelled distances can be recorded and benchmark times defined.
Porsche Track Precision app*
Your performance can be measured and evaluated in even greater detail with the Porsche Track Precision app. The app enables your driving stats to be accurately displayed, logged and analysed on your smartphone. The lap timer can be stopped automatically by means of the precise 10-Hz GPS signal of PCM, manually using the control stalk of the optional Chrono Package or, for even greater precision, by the optional lap trigger available from Porsche Tequipment. Recorded times can be compared directly from the smart device.
On the race track, dynamic performance is visualised on your smartphone and, in addition to sector and lap times, the app is also able to show how the current lap compares with a previously defined reference lap. Graphical analyses of driving data plus a video analysis help the driver to keep improving driving performance. Recorded stats and circuit and driver profiles can be managed and shared from the smartphone itself.
For even greater precision in your lap time measurements, a lap trigger is available from Porsche Tequipment. This can be placed next to the start/finish line on the circuit where it will clock and share your lap times automatically.
* App usage permitted on closed land only. Operation of this product (including the video recording feature in particular) could be prohibited by laws or regulations in specific markets or events. Before any use of this product, please check that this is permitted under local laws and regulations.
Sound Package Plus, with eight loudspeakers and a total output of 150 watts, delivers excellent soun...
Sound Package Plus, with eight loudspeakers and a total output of 150 watts, delivers excellent sound. The amplifier integrated into PCM optimally adapts the acoustic pattern in the vehicle interior to the driver and passenger.
The optional BOSE® Surround Sound System has been specially developed for the 911 models and is optimally tuned to the specific interior acoustics of these particular vehicles. The audio system features 12 loudspeakers and amplifier channels including a patented 100-watt subwoofer integral to the vehicle bodyshell. This fully active system setup enables each individual loudspeaker to be optimally adapted to the vehicle interior. Total output: 555 watts. Should you ever want to drown out the resonant sound of the engine. For whatever reason.
A smartphone compartment in the centre console transfers the signal of your mobile phone to the external aerial of the car – conserving phone charge and providing optimum reception. In addition, you can connect your smartphone for recharging or to play its media content.
Our wealth of experience goes back a long way. Since the very beginning, we at Porsche have been dedicated to realising customer wishes as part of our special request service. Known until 1986 as the Porsche ‘Sonderwunschprogramm’, today we call it Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur. The philosophy has remained the same. Hand on heart.
We love what we do. We love our work. Every seam, every square inch of leather, and every single other fine detail receives the same devotion. It’s how we bring dreams to life. And how we create something unique. Directly from the Manufaktur.
None of this would be possible without originality, inspiration and enthusiasm, beginning as early as the consultation stage. That’s because we keep in mind one thing above all else: your particular wishes and requirements. We fulfil them with composure and meticulous care, by means of precision handcrafting and the use of exquisite materials such as leather, Alcantara®, carbon or aluminium.
Added value is achieved through dedication and finesse. In other words, we handcraft a product that blends sporty performance, comfort and style and reflects your own personal taste. A Porsche with your signature touch.
With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for your 911, you can style ...
With the Porsche Tequipment range of accessories developed specifically for your 911, you can style it entirely to your own preference. From the start, the same rules that apply to our vehicles also apply to the products of Porsche Tequipment: developed, tested and proven at the Development Centre in Weissach. By the same Porsche engineers and designers who made your car. Designed with the complete vehicle in mind and precisely tailored to your Porsche.
And your original car warranty? It will remain completely intact, whichever Tequipment products you ask your Porsche Centre to fit.
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Authors: Karen Cleveland
BOOK: Need to Know
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
âOSCAR WILDE
I stand in the doorway of the twins' room and watch them sleep, peaceful and innocent, through crib slats that remind me of bars on a prison cell.
A night-light bathes the room in a soft orange glow. Furniture crowds the small space, far too much of it for a room this size. Cribs, one old, one new. A changing table, stacks of diapers still in their plastic. The bookcase Matt and I assembled ourselves, ages ago. Its shelves now sag, overloaded with the books I could recite by heart to the older two, the ones I've been vowing to read more often to the twins, if only I could find the time.
I hear Matt's footsteps on the stairs and my hand clenches around the flash drive. Tight, like if I squeeze hard enough, it'll disappear. Everything will go back to the way it was. The past two days will be erased, nothing more than a bad dream. But it's still there: hard, solid, real.
The hallway floor creaks where it always does. I don't turn. He comes up behind me, close enough that I can smell his soap, his shampoo, the smell of
that's always been oddly comforting, that now inexplicably makes him more of a stranger. I can feel his hesitation.
“Can we talk?” he says.
The words are quiet, but the sound is enough to stir Chase. He sighs in his sleep and then settles, still curled into a ball, like he's protecting himself. I've always thought he's so much like his father, the serious eyes, taking everything in. Now I wonder if I'll ever truly know him, if he'll keep secrets so heavy they'll crush anyone close to him.
“What's there to say?”
Matt takes a step closer, puts a hand on my arm. I move away, enough to free myself from his touch. His hand lingers in the air, then falls to his side.
“What are you going to do?” he asks.
I look at the other crib, at Caleb, on his back in his footed pajamas; cherubic blond curls, arms and legs splayed like a starfish. His hands are open, his pink lips open. He has no idea how vulnerable he is, how cruel the world can be.
I always said I'd protect him. I'd give him the strength that he lacks, make sure he has every opportunity, keep his life as normal as possible. How can I do that, if I'm not around?
I would do anything for my kids.
. I uncurl my fingers and look at the flash drive, the little rectangle, nondescript. So small, but with so much power. Power to fix, power to destroy.
Rather like a lie, when you think about it.
“You know I don't have a choice,” I say, and I force myself to look at him, my husband, the man I know so well, and at the same time not at all.
“Bad news, Viv.”
I hear Matt's voice, words anyone would dread, but a tone that's reassuring. Light, apologetic. It's something unfortunate, sure, but it's manageable. Anything truly bad and his voice would be heavier. He'd use a complete sentence, a complete name.
I have some bad news, Vivian.
I hold the phone to my ear with a raised shoulder, swivel my chair to the other side of the L-shaped desk, to the computer centered under gray overhead bins. I guide the cursor to the owl-shaped icon on the screen and double-click. If it's what I think it isâwhat I know it isâthen I only have a bit longer at my desk.
“Ella?” I say. My gaze drifts to one of the crayon drawings tacked to the high cubicle walls with pushpins, a pop of color in this sea of gray.
“A hundred point eight.”
I close my eyes and take a deep breath. We've been expecting it. Half her class has been sick, falling like dominoes, so it was only a matter of time. Four-year-olds aren't exactly the cleanliest bunch. But today? It had to happen today?
“Just the temp.” He pauses. “Sorry, Viv. She seemed fine when I dropped her off.”
I swallow past the tightening in my throat and nod, even though he can't see me. Any other day and he'd pick her up. He can work from home, at least in theory. I can't, and I used up all my leave when the twins were born. But he's taking Caleb into the city for the latest round of medical appointments. I've been feeling guilty for weeks that I'll have to miss it. And now I'll be missing it and
using leave I don't have.
“I'll be there in an hour,” I say. The rules say we have an hour from the time they call. Factoring in the drive and the walk to my carâit's in the outer reaches of Langley's sprawling parking lotsâthat gives me about fifteen minutes to wrap up work for the day. Fifteen minutes less leave to add to my negative balance.
I glance at the clock in the corner of my screenâseven minutes past tenâand then my eyes shift to the Starbucks cup beside my right elbow, steam escaping from the hole in the plastic lid. I treated myself, a splurge in celebration of the long-awaited day, fuel for the tedious hours ahead. Precious minutes wasted in line that could have been spent digging through digital files. Should have stuck to the usual, the sputtering coffee maker that leaves grounds floating at the top of the mug.
“That's what I told the school,” Matt says. “School” is actually our day care center, the place where our youngest three spend their days. But we've been calling it school since Luke was three months old. I'd read it could help ease the transition, lessen the guilt of leaving your baby for eight, ten hours a day. It didn't, but old habits die hard, I guess.
There's another pause, and I can hear Caleb babbling in the background. I listen, and I know that Matt's listening, too. It's like we're conditioned to do so at this point. But it's just vowel sounds. Still no consonants.
“I know today was supposed to be a big dayâ¦,” Matt finally says, and trails off. I'm used to the trailing off, the evasive conversations on my open line. I always assume someone's listening in. The Russians. The Chinese. That's part of the reason Matt's the first one the school calls when there's a problem. I'd rather him filter some of the kids' personal details from the ears of our adversaries.
Call me paranoid, or just call me a CIA counterintelligence analyst.
But really, that's about all Matt knows. Not that I've been trying in vain to uncover a network of Russian sleeper agents. Or that I've developed a methodology for identifying people involved in the highly secretive program. Just that I've waited months for this day. That I'm about to find out if two years of hard work is going to pay off. And if I stand a chance at that promotion we desperately need.
“Yeah, well,” I say, moving my mouse back and forth, watching Athena load, the cursor in the shape of a timer. “Caleb's appointment is what's important today.”
My eyes drift back to the cubicle wall, the bright crayon drawings. Ella's, a picture of our family, stick arms and legs protruding straight from six round happy faces. Luke's, a bit more sophisticated, a single person, thick jagged scribbles to color in hair and clothing and shoes.
MOMMY,
it says in big capital letters. From his superhero phase. It's me, in a cape, hands on my hips, an
on my shirt. Supermommy.
There's a familiar feeling in my chest, the pressure, the overwhelming urge to cry.
Deep breaths, Viv. Deep breaths.
“The Maldives?” Matt says, and I feel the hint of a smile creep to my lips. He always does this, finds a way to make me smile when I need it most. I glance at the photograph of the two of us on the corner of my desk, my favorite from our wedding day, almost a decade ago. Both of us so happy, so
. We always talked about going somewhere exotic for our ten-year anniversary. It's certainly not in the cards anymore. But it's fun to dream. Fun and depressing at the same time.
“Bora Bora,” I say.
“I could live with that.” He hesitates, and in the gap I hear Caleb again. More vowel sounds.
Aah-aah-aah
. In my head, I'm calculating the months Chase has already been making consonant sounds. I know I shouldn'tâall the doctors say I shouldn'tâbut I am.
?” I hear from behind me, faux-incredulous. I put my hand over the mouthpiece of the phone and turn. It's Omar, my FBI counterpart, an amused expression on his face. “That one might be hard to justify, even for the Agency.” He breaks into a grin. Infectious as ever, it brings one to my own face, as well.
“What are you doing here?” I say, my hand still covering the mouthpiece. I can hear Caleb babbling in my ear.
's this time.
Ooh-ooh-ooh
“Had a meeting with Peter.” He takes a step closer, perches on the edge of my desk. I can see the outline of his holster at his hip, through his T-shirt. “The timing may or may not have been a coincidence.” He glances at my screen and the grin fades ever so slightly. “It was today, right? Ten
I look at my screen, dark, the cursor still in the shape of a timer. “It was today.” The babbling in my ear has gone quiet. I roll my chair so that I'm turned, just a touch, away from Omar and remove my hand from the mouthpiece. “Honey, I have to go. Omar's here.”
“Tell him I said hi,” Matt says.
“Love you, too.” I set the phone down on its base and turn back to Omar, who's still sitting on my desk, denim-clad legs outstretched, feet crossed at the ankles. “Matt says hi,” I tell him.
“Aaah, so
the Bora Bora connection. Planning a vacation?” The grin's back, full force.
“In theory,” I say with a half-hearted laugh. It sounds pathetic enough that I can feel color rise to my cheeks.
He looks at me for a moment longer, then thankfully down at his wrist. “All right, it's ten-ten.” He uncrosses his ankles, crosses them the opposite way. Then leans forward, the excitement on his face unmistakable. “What have you got for me?”
Omar's been doing this longer than I have. A decade, at least. He's looking for the actual sleepers in the U.S., and I'm trying to uncover those running the cell. Neither of us has had any success. How he's still so enthusiastic never fails to amaze me.
“Nothing yet. I haven't even taken a look.” I nod at the screen, the program that's still loading, then glance at the black-and-white photograph tacked to my cubicle wall, beside the kids' drawings. Yury Yakov. Fleshy face, hard expression. A few more clicks and I'll be inside his computer. I'll be able to see what he sees, navigate around the way he does, pore through his files. And hopefully prove that he's a Russian spy.
“Who are you and what have you done with my friend Vivian?” Omar asks with a smile.
He's right. If it wasn't for the line at Starbucks, I'd have logged in to the program at ten
on the dot. I'd have had a few minutes to look around, at least. I shrug and gesture at the screen. “I'm trying.” Then I nod toward the phone. “But in any case, it's going to have to wait. Ella's sick. I need to go pick her up.”
He exhales dramatically. “Kids. Always the worst timing.”
Movement on the screen draws my attention, and I roll my chair closer. Athena's finally loading. There are red banners on all sides, a slew of words, each signifying a different control, a different compartment. The longer the string of text, the more classified. This one's pretty darn long.
I click past one screen, then another. Each click is an acknowledgment. Yes, I know I'm accessing compartmented information. Yes, I know I can't disclose it or I'll go to jail for a very long time. Yes, yes, yes. Just get me to the information already.
“This is it,” Omar says. I remember he's there and glance at him out of the corner of my eye. He's looking away purposefully, studiously avoiding the screen, giving me privacy. “I feel it.”
“I hope so,” I murmur. And I do. But I'm nervous. This methodology is a gamble. A big one. I built a profile for suspected handlers: educational institution, studies and degrees, banking centers, travel within Russia and abroad. Came up with an algorithm, identified five individuals who best fit the pattern. Likely candidates.
The first four turned out to be false leads, and now the program's on the chopping block. Everything rests on Yury. Number five. The computer that was the hardest to break into, the one I had the most confidence in to begin with.
“And if it's not,” Omar says, “you did something that no one else has been able to do. You got close.”
Targeting the handlers is a new approach. For years, the Bureau's been trying to identify the sleepers themselves, but they're so well assimilated it's next to impossible. The cell is designed so that sleepers don't have contact with anyone but their handler, and even that is minimal. And the Agency's been focused on the ringleaders, the guys who oversee the handlers, the ones in Moscow with direct ties to the SVR, Russian intelligence.
“Close doesn't count,” I say quietly. “You know that better than anyone.”
Around the time I started on the account, Omar was a hard-charging new agent. He'd proposed a new initiative, inviting entrenched sleepers to “come in from the cold” and turn themselves in, in exchange for amnesty. His reasoning? There had to be at least a few sleepers who wanted to turn their covers into reality, and we might be able to learn enough from the turned sleepers to penetrate the network as a whole.
The plan was rolled out quietly, and within a week we had a walk-in, a man named Dmitri. Said he was a midlevel handler, told us information about the program that corroborated what we knewâhandlers like himself were responsible for five sleepers each; he reported to a ringleader who was responsible for five handlers. A completely self-contained cell. That got our attention, for sure. Then came the outrageous claims, the information that was inconsistent with everything we knew to be true, and then he disappeared. Dmitri the Dangle, we called him after that.
That was the end of the program. The thought of publicly admitting there were sleepers in the U.S., of admitting our inability to find them, was already barely palatable to Bureau seniors. Between that and the potential for Russian manipulationâdangling double agents with false leadsâOmar's plan was roundly criticized, then rejected.
We'll be inundated with other Dmitris,
they said. And with that, Omar's once-promising career trajectory stalled. He fell into obscurity, plugging away, day after day, at a thankless, frustrating, impossible task.
The screen changes, and a little icon with Yury's name appears. I always get a thrill out of this, seeing my targets' names here, knowing we have a window into their digital lives, the information they think is private. As if on cue, Omar stands up. He knows about our efforts to target Yury. He's one of a handful of Bureau agents read into the programâand its biggest cheerleader, the person who believes in the algorithm, and in me, more than anyone else. But still, he can't access it directly.
“Call me tomorrow, okay?” he says.
“You got it,” I reply. He turns, and as soon as I see his back, heading away, I focus my attention on the screen. I double-click the icon and a red-bordered inset appears, displaying the contents of Yury's laptop, a mirror image that I can comb through. I only have minutes until I need to leave. But it's long enough for a peek.
The background is dark blue, dotted with bubbles of different sizes, in different shades of blue. There are icons lined up in four neat rows on one side, half of them folders. The file names are all in Cyrillic, characters that I recognize but can't readâat least not well. I took a beginning Russian class years ago; then Luke arrived and I never went back. I know some basic phrases, recognize some words, but that's about it. For the rest I rely on linguists or translation software.
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After the successful release of his latest album, By The Code, Wes Krave returns with another single from the album, “Goin Hard”
After the successful release of his latest album, By The Code, Wes Krave returns with another single from the album, “Goin Hard.” The Last Of The Mo Records release follows the successful release of his previous single, “Shake & Bake,” which garnered Wes Krave over 100,000 collective streams. “Goin Hard” plans to follow in excellence’s footsteps,…
Wes Krave sets the tone for one epic year with a new video “Shake & Bake”
Wes Krave sets the tone for one epic year with a new single, “Shake & Bake.” Coming with upper echelon flows on top of smooth production, the track hits on real-life topics like jealousy, false paternity claims and fraud rappers. “Shake & Bake” shines in Wes Krave’s ability to keep it genuine, painting vivid pictures…
Wes Krave sets the tone for one epic year with a new single, “Shake & Bake”
Wes Krave sets the tone for one epic year with a new single, “Shake & Bake.” Coming with upper echelon flows on top of smooth production, the track hits on real life topics like jealousy, false paternity claims and fraud rappers. “Shake & Bake” shines in Wes Krave’s ability to keep it genuine, painting vivid…
Last Of The Mo Records presents Wes Krave’s official video for his chart topping single “Dream Of Getting On”
Last Of The Mo Records presents Wes Krave’s official video for his chart topping single “Dream Of Getting On.” The visual was filmed by Tré Loren in Destin, Florida. Produced By Fourtune Ave.
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Gulfstream delivers final G450
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Tatjana Obrazcova
Country: United States Aircraft: Airplanes
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that it has delivered the final Gulfstream G450 as it prepares to usher in the next generation of business aviation with the all-new Gulfstream G500.
“For the past 12 years, the G450 has been one of the best-selling business jets in the industry, beloved by pilots and passengers alike for its technological advances, smooth handling, impressive range and unsurpassed passenger comfort,” said Mark Burns, president, Gulfstream. “During its 30-year history, the GIV series transformed business aviation, and the G500 is already well on its way to doing the same, with the industry’s first active control sidesticks and the most integrated application of touch-screen controls in the flight deck.”
A performer from the start, the G450 entered service in 2005 after demonstrating even more range than originally anticipated – 4,350 nautical miles/8,056 kilometers at Mach 0.80. The aircraft can sprint 3,500 nm/6,482 km at Mach 0.85.
The G450 fleet, comprising more than 360 aircraft, has amassed more than 964,000 hours and more than 461,000 flights.
“The G450 made its mark in aviation history and remains an important member of the Gulfstream family. We will continue to provide industry-leading product support and sustaining engineering for our G450 customers,” Burns said.
Like the G450, the G500 will deliver more range than originally announced. The aircraft will fly 5,200 nm/9,630 km at Mach 0.85 and 4,400 nm/8,149 km at Mach 0.90. Five G500 aircraft are undergoing flight testing, with type certification anticipated in early 2018.
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Actor Mark Wahlberg hopes ‘Deepwater Horizon’ movie honors victims
September 28, 2016 EntertainmentSharif Nouman
28 Sep, 2016 8:55 am
LOS ANGELES – Actor Mark Wahlberg said “the biggest responsibility” for himself and the makers of the new movie, “Deepwater Horizon,” was to honor the real-life victims of the 2010 oil rig disaster.
“The oil can ultimately be cleaned up, (but) those 11 men can’t be replaced,” Wahlberg told Reuters at the film’s London premiere on Monday.
“Those were fathers, brothers, husbands, uncles, cousins. We can’t replace those guys and so when they approached me about doing this film, I thought, ‘What better way to promote their story’,” he added.
“Deepwater Horizon,” due out in theaters on Friday, focuses on the hours before and after the BP Plc rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, leading to the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history. Eleven workers were killed and millions of barrels of oil spewed onto the shorelines of several states for nearly three months.
In the movie directed by Peter Berg, Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, one of the last people to escape from the burning rig.
The real-life Williams joined Wahlberg at the premiere that was also attended by cast members Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich and Kate Hudson.
“The focus wasn’t really on who made what mistakes and who was responsible. Really, it was about the heroics of the 11 people and the inspiring things that they did to survive and help one another,” Wahlberg said.
“Deepwater Horizon” examines the decisions concerning safety made by BP executives leading up to the disaster, highlighting the pressure that workers were under to save money as drilling fell behind.
British oil major BP in July estimated costs from the disaster will total about $62 billion. “I never faulted BP for being a company for profit. That’s what fuels our economy. We all use fuel. I get that they’re a company for profit,” Berg said.
“Where I think they erred was when they got behind schedule and behind budget, some of the guys from BP pushed too hard, they moved too quickly.” In October 2015, U.S. officials announced an agreement of more than $20 billion to settle federal and state claims against BP over the spill. -Reuters
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Employee of Orange Julius Says Robbery Was Prank
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Last week's robbery of Dairy Queen/Orange Julius's daily cash deposit at the Columbia Center Mall was an elaborate prank according to the store's former employee.
The robbery occurred during the week of Christmas when two employees of Dairy Queen and Orange Julius conspired to steal the daily deposits of the mall restaurant.
Manager Nadia Rodriguez, 31, and employee Raheem Mayberry, 19, were arrested after police discovered inconsistencies in their statements concerning the parking lot robbery at the Columbia Center Mall that resulted in $5000 being stolen.
Police recovered all but $677 in the botched attempted robbery.
Mayberry is saying that he was playing a practical joke on the owner of the restaurant while Rodriguez says that the robbery wasn't a prank and that they were trying to get the cash.
Police are still investigating and you can check out more details on the case here
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MediaMath Gets A $175 Million Credit Line, Led By Goldman Sachs
by Ryan Joe // Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 – 4:42 pm
You gotta give credit to MediaMath. At least, Goldman Sachs did.
MediaMath said Tuesday that it had received a $175 million credit facility led by the finance giant. Santander Bank also partnered.
CFO Stacey Bain said MediaMath’s previous debt facility was coming due, and the company will use its new line of credit to refinance some of that old debt and fund growth goals.
While Bain didn’t reveal specifics, she acknowledged “there are benefits from increasing our borrowing capacity and consolidating within a single debt facility with a strategic set of lenders.”
And those benefits, as well as that additional line of credit, will come in handy considering MediaMath’s hope to reach its next growth stage, which will require product innovation and solidifying its existing markets.
“We’re getting a lot of pull from the market, where people are solving for their internal marketing needs,” Bain said.
Big shifts happen so often in ad tech that it sometimes feels like the sector is built on a fault line. While about two-thirds of MediaMath’s business comes from agencies, President Mike Lamb previously told AdExchanger that brands last year were particularly interested in having direct relationships with vendors. It got to the point where MediaMath’s US business was split nearly evenly between agencies and brands.
Of course, both brands and agencies are fickle, and the demands they place on their tech partners can be onerous. Look no further than what happened to AudienceScience. So, constant innovation in ad tech is a must, and that requires a steady stream of money.
“We need to make sure we have the capacity to deliver,” Bain said. “We’ve expanded and invested in our global footprint and continue to invest in our products.”
When asked if the company is profitable, Bain said: “We are positive.”
She added that MediaMath needs a track record of profitability and positive cash flow to take advantage of expansion opportunities that aren’t “organic."
Robin Caller June 6, 2017
Wow. Imagine if profitable companies actually got some credit! Or even some media coverage 🙂
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Written by XU Magazine
Receipt Bank is expanding fast and showing no signs of slowing. In September, they launched their most requested feature to date, Sales Invoices, alongside Line Item Extraction and Bank Match.
We chat to John Connolly, Receipt Bank’s Chief Product Officer (CPO), to see what life is like inside the company changing the lives of bookkeepers and their clients for good…
I started my involvement with accounting during bookkeeping lessons at school, learning to write E&OE at the bottom of every page before I wrote a single figure. I confidently explained to my teacher that I’d never need to know any of this. I was going to be a scientist,” begins John. We speak on a rainy September morning in Shoreditch, where Receipt Bank is headquartered.
“It surprised me perhaps more than most that I found my home in bookkeeping. There have been many clues in my family history; my great aunts used to run a school for comptometer operators. Bookkeeping is in the blood.”
“Yet, I should say I came to this industry through scientific publishing. So I didn’t completely lie to my secondary school teacher (hello Miss Lester if you’re reading).”
John joined Receipt Bank in February 2018 after spending almost two decades in the healthcare, travel and science industries; industries that John describes as those that “collectively help to keep you alive and make your life worth living”. Does Receipt Bank buck the trend? Quite the contrary.
“There is a joy to doing something well. Pushing the boundaries. That’s what I want to do. It’s what I want you to do too.”
“I’m happy to leave planes, trains and automobiles to somebody else. I also tend to joke that we are in healthcare…as true healthcare is about avoiding bad health, not curing the sick. I believe that Receipt Bank, along with all of the advisors that use it, can do more for people’s mental health and free time than possibly anything else I could give value to.”
“We cannot and should not underestimate the impact of financial insecurity, whether that’s the hours of lost sleep or stress it brings into our homes. When the majority of people work for small businesses, there’s a potential to change the lives of tens of millions of people. The megalomaniac in me wants to be a part of that.”
And on Receipt Bank, John likens it to a “bridge between two people with very different needs, desires and areas of interests, a bridge that helps them love working together. It’s something that lets people focus on what they’re good at. Whether that’s being a physiotherapist, running a plumbing company or taking care of people’s books – maybe even giving them some great advice to boot.”
Indeed, the way that we manage admin has been crying out for disruption for years.
“I believe between one to three days a month are currently spoiled by doing, fearing or avoiding admin. I hope to at least take the sighs out of those three days, and maybe even fill them with smiles,” says John. “For instance, rather than having to pull invoices from suppliers manually, you can fetch them automatically with a tool like Invoice Fetch.
“While this might seem incredibly self-serving, I’ve had more people at dinner parties smile when I say that I work at Receipt Bank than any other company I’ve worked at.”
On the role of a Chief Product Officer
John leads a team of more than sixty people worldwide, driving the development of products that meet the needs of everyone who works in and with small businesses.
“As Receipt Bank’s CPO, I lead a ‘product’ team. If sales sell ‘it’, marketing market ‘it’ and engineering build ‘it’, product decides what ‘it’ is. We are the diplomat, the middle child. We try to bring everyone together so that when we finally launch, it’s to everyone’s benefit.”
This collaboration and human centricity is reflected in John’s approach to leadership.
“I was lucky early on to work with some genius people (borderline mad) who made me expect the best from work and great things from my career. This drove me to be ambitious and kind. Business is all about people. Even our machine learning is built by people. When you need to make tough decisions, you can still do them with an appreciation of everyone’s humanity.
“In fact, the proudest moment in my career so far has been here. As you become more senior in the product space, the product you build shifts. It moves from the product in someone’s pocket to a team that can build those amazing products. I now look at my team and see that they work really well together. We’ve learned to grow together.
“People really want to know that what they’re doing is good. That it is good for society, good versus competitors and good for using and growing their talents as part of a team and company. You need a culture that promotes great work rather than gets in the way of it.”
On automation and machine learning
Time-saving and efficiency is key to Receipt Bank’s popularity. With a care bordering on obsession over the details, Receipt Bank now turns everything from bank statements to receipts plus cost and sales invoices into accurate data. They process around ten million documents a month with an average turn-around time of just nine minutes. Yet, that’s just scratching the surface.
“I love how Optimize, our most advanced product, takes the nagging out of a client partner relationship by helping you identify and obtain missing paperwork; or how you can automatically extract line items from digital receipts and invoices to offer clients a flexible, detail-focused service. It’s this level of automation that we’re striving for – the kind that makes your everyday interactions more meaningful.”
“If we do this right, more people than ever can be supported by a brilliant advisor. And in turn, those advisors can truly shine,” says John.
Does John see automation as a threat to the accounting and bookkeeping profession?
“When we first invented the calculator, I’m sure we thought it would remove accountants altogether. Then came Excel, then came general ledger software. We often misunderstand where the true value is. That value is in the reassurance and the skills that another person can bring to bear. It’s in software recognising duplicate transactions before they appear, so you can publish paperwork to coded transactions in just one click.”
And he’s right. One thing that surprised him since joining Receipt Bank has been the love and care shown by accountants and bookkeepers.
“It shines through every conference I go to and every interaction I have,” says John. “Accountants and bookkeepers look after an enormous segment of our economy. They help people who go into business not because they necessarily wanted to be in business, but because they wanted to practice their craft or follow a dream. It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling that I never expected to have.”
Developing a holistic one-stop solution
Last month, Receipt Bank launched the first installment of Sales Invoices, a feature that brings the world-class data extraction of cost invoices to the world of sales invoices. Just four weeks into the launch, more than 100,000 sales invoices were submitted. Just over 30% of those were published to Xero.
“Long before launching something, we spend all of our time obsessing about what a bookkeeper and their client might love. What do they say they want, what do they need, what’s easy to adopt and what’s worth learning? This process involves nearly everyone in our company in a shared obsession.
“It lines up with our desire to take care of all of your paperwork and become a more holistic, solution. We are also very lucky to live in an ecosystem of brilliant interconnected solutions. We benefit from the focus of other companies and vice versa.”
Describing what’s next for Receipt Bank, John breaks the fourth wall. “You know that my own product team would beat me if I tipped our hat too early.”
“What I can say is: more obsession with bookkeepers. More assistance with workflows. More ease of use for clients and yourselves. And greater help in freeing up even more time to focus on what you love doing.”
Find out more at: receiptbank.com
About Receipt Bank
Receipt Bank is the world’s leading pre-accounting tool for accountants, bookkeepers and small business-owners. We digitise receipts and invoices to track, process and manage financial data in real-time so you can work smarter, grow faster and go further
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Terracotta Table Tiles
This set of six coasters can be artfully arranged to form a tiled trivet. The illusion of 3D through color and geometry allows for endless permutations, encouraging playful mosaic building on your table. Ideal as a housewarming gift for those with discerning taste or as decoration for your own intimate gatherings.
Table Skin – Embroidery
Take an art piece of the Rijksmuseum home. DeJongeKalff made a white silicone cast of the elegant geometric “embroidery example with rectangular shield” carved in wood between 1507 – 1521 by Albrecht Dürer. The inverse engraving is a table cloth much like classical white damast table linen but durable, waterproof and easy to clean.
Material: silicon rubber, stretch textile. The tablecloth can be cleaned using warm water and soap, don’t use bleach and/or any other dissolvent. After cleaning you can rub the top side of the tablecloth with a thin layer of talcum powder to make it less static.
Table Skin – Strings and Things
Show off with classical white damast table linen without the hustle of bleaching and ironing. This table cloth is a silicone cast of traditional Dutch ribbons and piping embroidery that has almost been forgotten through the passage of time. You can preserve culture, plus have a durable, waterproof and easy to clean classic table cloth with a twist.
Soft Vase by Hella Jongerius
This flexible vase highlights the beauty of imperfection. Air bubbles which are usually carefully removed become the decoration.
Red revisited – Bowl
Medieval pottery from the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom has been brought into the modern times by being cast in shiny red plastic. It has also been modernized with the use of a bright red to replace the clay red of the originals. The imperfections of the handmade earthenware are included.
Tableau tablecloth by Maurice Scheltens
Using photogram technique, this tablecloth is decorated with the silhouettes of the aftermath of a dinner party. The shadows tell the story.
Red Revisited – Large Plate
Red Revisited – Small Plate
Chest of drawers by Tejo Remy
Chest of drawers had its première in 1991 and has since become a true Droog classic, an icon of conceptual design collected by museums such as MoMA and Museum of Art and Design in New York. A criticism on consumerism, Tejo Remy collected found drawers, gave them new enclosures and loosely bundled them into a chest. His pioneering vision was to make one’s own paradise with what one encounters, as Robinson Crusoë did on his island.
Chest of drawers XS by Tejo Remy
Chest of drawers had its première in 1991 and has since become a true Droog classic, an icon of conceptual design collected by museums such as MoMA and Museum of Art and Design in New York. A criticism on consumerism, Tejo Remy collected found drawers, gave them new enclosures and loosely bundled them into a chest. His pioneering vision was to make one’s own paradise with what one encounters, as Robinson Crusoë did on his island. Sixteen years later, Tejo Remy has created Chest of drawers XS; a limited edition in a tabletop size—a collector’s ‘wonder cabinet’ for their collections.
Come a little bit closer bench by Nina Farkache
This bench creates a unique, almost unexplainable kind of atmosphere between people. The seats sliding across the marbles combined with the sound of rolling glass mean it’s hard not to have fun and the experience unites you with your neighbour, even when you are not moving at all.
Cow chair by Niels van Eijk
Each chair is naturally unique, consisting of nothing more than a single cowhide. The untreated cowhide is stretched around a form when soaking wet and then left for one week until it has dried into a solid form.
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Missouri’s senate race heats up, but don’t count Robin Carnahan out
Poll: Blunt takes lead in MO Senate race
Massachusetts’ senate race important but not that pivital, November’s only ten months away
Brown’s election to Massachusetts’ senate seat a referendum on the need for government reform
Polling data released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports indicates that the race for the U.S. Senate is really heating up.
Previous polls had shown Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, with a comfortable lead. Congressman Roy Blunt (R-MO) had been behind, but yesterday’s poll shows him leading by six points.
Many believe that Democrats across the nation are in trouble because of Tuesday’s special election in
Massachusetts where Republican Scott Brown claimed a senate seat long held by the late Ted Kennedy. Analysts, and President Obama himself, believe Brown was able to defeat opponent Martha Coakley because of the Democrat’s mishandling of healthcare reform.
Carnahan and Blunt both support some type of healthcare reform, but the popular backlash against the congressional plans sponsored by House and Senate Democrats has had a positive impact for Republicans. This is probably the source of Blunt’s jump in the polls.
Though she did not directly endorse it, Carnahan issued a statement of support for the congressional healthcare plan in December, saying:
Missourians need health care reform that provides accessible, affordable and stable health care for our families and small businesses. For too long, big insurance companies have been raking in profits while the rest of us are left holding the bag.
She also attacked proposals put forward by Blunt, saying they would increase insurance premiums and leave many Missourians uninsured. Blunt denies this claim.
Though Democrats are nervous, President Obama has shifted his attention to the economy.
Today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) went on the offensive against several Republican candidates, saying that people like Congressman Blunt may “pretend to be a friend of the taxpayer, but they oppose and in many cases, obstruct, all the common-sense, pragmatic steps Democrats are taking to protect consumers and improve the economy.”
Despite the fact that Blunt’s name is well recognized throughout
Missouri, he’s not part of a political dynasty.
On the other hand, Robin Carnahan’s name carries with it, a lot of weight. Her family is extremely popular in
Missouri politics, and this true political dynasty has a long standing record of civic service. Her grandfather was a congressman and ambassador. Her father was governor of
Missouri. Even though he died, Mel Carnahan still won an election to the U.S. Senate. Her mother then took over as U.S. Senator. And her brother is a congressman from
Missouri.
What’s more is that the same poll that has Carnahan trailing behind Blunt, also shows her as being viewed more favorably than her opponent. This could be a bad sign for Blunt if one also considers the fact that Carnahan received more votes in 2008 than any candidate for statewide office has ever recieved in the history of
State Senator Chuck Purgason is also running, and is challenging Blunt for the Republican nomination.
For more info about the candidates: Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt, Chuck Purgason.
A closer look at the fundraising battle between Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan in Missouri
Nevada Senate race heats up: Money and visibility rise in the Silver State
California's governor race heats up with a tea party candidate in the mix
Cochise County 2010 Elections heats up: District 8 race
Massachusetts' senate race important but not that pivotal, November's only ten months away
Win or lose in Mass senate race, Obama could be biggest loser but healthcare safe
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Rakhine Crisis, Burma (Myanmar) – Sitrep
April 10, 2014 August 3, 2014 / aidleap
(Photo Source: UN News Centre)
Who, what, where?
Violence in Burma’s western Rakhine State has left hundreds dead, thousands of homes razed to the ground and over 140,000 displaced – dependent on international aid for food, water and basic health facilities. And since mob attacks against INGO compounds prompted the mass evacuation of all humanitarian organisations from the area, the situation has deteriorated severely, with the UN warning that the situation could reach critical levels within a week.
So what exactly is going on?
The Rohingya are a persecuted minority Muslim group, hailing from Rakhine State where many have lived for centuries. They are denied citizenship and subject to endemic and state-sponsored discrimination and abuse so severe that rights groups have identified actions as crimes against humanity. The Rakhine people, government and many Burmese reject the ethnicity and name Rohingya, favouring ‘Bengali’ and consider the Rohingya illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Bangladesh refuses to recognise the Rohingya.
In a broad sweep, the violence in Rakhine can be characterised as ethno-religious and symptomatic of a much wider anti-Muslim sentiment that is on the rise across the country. As reforms have allowed greater space for public dissent, so too has nationalist Buddhist fervour and hate speech against Muslim minorities – exemplified by the anti-Muslim ‘969’ campaign and virulently anti-Muslim monk Wirathu.
Targeted attacks have been perpetrated against Muslim communities in Yangon and elsewhere – such as the killings in the central town of Meikthila in 2013, when houses and shops were burned, and over 40 murdered, including a group of students and their teachers massacred at a school.
Sectarian tensions are not new to Burma, and conflict not isolated to religious divides – Burma is home to some of the world’s longest running civil wars (e.g. Kachin conflict) where appalling human right abuses have been committed against minority groups. However, the waves of anti-Muslim violence starting in 2012 is the most severe seen in decades – and the Rohingya have to date suffered the brunt of this violence.
Rakhine State suffers extreme levels of poverty, and the dominant population, the Rakhine people- echo grievances of longstanding neglect from the central state. Some have suggested a political root for recent events, with reports of groups of extremist youths turning up to carry out the worst of the violence – seeking, ostensibly, to destabilise the local area and garner support for the leading USDP party.
Certainly much of the violence is fed by fear: rumours abound that if officially recognised, the Rohingya would demand a separate state within Rakhine – or even attempt to establish Muslim rule and ‘wipe out’ Buddhists – fears that are happily fanned by extremist monks such as Wirathu, and not helped by violence against Burmese migrants in Malaysia.
So what is happening now? I hear that all the INGOs have been kicked out?
After several months of relative calm, the situation has deteriorated rapidly since Christmas when reports began filtering out of a massacre of 48 in the northern village of Du Char Yar Tan. The government has repeatedly denied these reports.
MSF stated that it had treated 22 people for injuries in the area, adding fire to a simmering hatred of INGOs in Rakhine State – most of whom are seen as partisan for their needs-based approach to aid delivery (which ultimately ends up skewed towards Rohingya, who constitute the vast majority of victims). Protests against INGOs in general and MSF in particular escalated until in March all MSF operations were suspended nationwide (later resumed, except in Rakhine). Further protests degenerated into mob violence, systematically targeted at INGO compounds and forcing agencies to evacuate. Negotiations are now ongoing for UN and INGO return.
These attacks appears to have been exacerbated in part by Wirathu’s visit to the region in recent weeks, to conduct a series of anti-Muslim rallies, and the UN-backed national census –which until recently would have allowed Rohingya to register. Under pressure, this has now been rescinded and Rohingyas forced to register as Bengali or not at all.
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lotenna
thanks for the exposure on what’s happening in Myanmar. it really seems to be under reported.
http://lotenna.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/the-worlds-most-persecuted-minority-a-case-for-the-rohingya/
Reblogged this on Lotenna Blog.
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December Security Release Schedule Update
The OpenSSL project announced today that they will be releasing security updates for versions 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 on the 3rd of December UTC. The updates will fix a number of security defects, the highest of which is classified as “moderate” severity according to their severity scale:
MODERATE Severity. This includes issues like crashes in client applications, flaws in protocols that are less commonly used (such as DTLS), and local flaws. These will in general be kept private until the next release, and that release will be scheduled so that it can roll up several such flaws at one time.
Node.js versions v0.10.x and v0.12.x depend on OpenSSL v1.0.1 and versions v4.x (LTS Argon) and v5.x depend on OpenSSL v1.0.2. As the Node.js build process statically links OpenSSL into binaries, we will be required to release patch-level updates to all of our actively supported versions to include the upstream fixes. While we are unaware of the exact nature of the OpenSSL vulnerabilities being fixed, we must consider it likely that Node.js releases will be required in order to protect users.
Since the OpenSSL release schedule is two days after our announced updates for v0.12.x, v4.x and v5.x, we have decided to postpone our security releases to coincide with OpenSSL release availability. We will also be including v0.10 in our set of releases.
Therefore, we are moving our planned security releases for Node.js from Wednesday the 2nd of December 2015, UTC to the Friday, the 4th of December 2015, UTC (Thursday the 3rd of December US time). We understand that the timing of this during the work-week is unfortunate but we must take into account the possibility of introducing a vulnerability gap between disclosure of OpenSSL vulnerabilities and patched releases by Node.js and therefore must respond as quickly as practical. Please be aware that patching and testing of OpenSSL updates is a non-trivial exercise and there will be significant delay after the OpenSSL releases before we can be confident that Node.js builds are stable and suitable for release.
An updated summary of the release inclusions is available below:
CVE-2015-8027 Denial of Service Vulnerability
A bug exists in Node.js, all versions of v0.12.x through to v5.x inclusive, whereby an external attacker can cause a denial of service. The severity of this issue is high and users of the affected versions should plan to upgrade when a fix is made available.
Versions 0.10.x of Node.js are not affected.
Versions 0.12.x of Node.js are vulnerable.
Versions 4.x, including LTS Argon, of Node.js are vulnerable.
Versions 5.x of Node.js are vulnerable.
CVE-2015-6764 V8 Out-of-bounds Access Vulnerability
An additional bug exists in Node.js, all versions of v4.x and v5.x, whereby an attacker may be able to trigger an out-of-bounds access and/or denial of service if user-supplied JavaScript can be executed by an application. The severity of this issue is considered medium for Node.js users, but only under circumstances where an attacker may cause user-supplied JavaScript to be executed within a Node.js application. Fixes will be shipped for the v4.x and v5.x release lines along with fixes for CVE-2015-8027.
OpenSSL Moderate Severity Update
The OpenSSL project has announced a set of releases which contain fixes for multiple vulnerabilities, the highest severity being labelled “moderate”. Consult the OpenSSL security policy for details on this definition. New releases of all actively maintained Node.js release lines are required in order to protect users against potential vulnerabilities in their applications. We do not have details on the nature of any of the included vulnerabilities or their fixes, users should plan for upgrades as soon as practical.
Versions 0.10.x of Node.js may be vulnerable.
Versions 4.x, including LTS Argon, of Node.js may be vulnerable.
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Home Sports Conquerors beat Espana on Tuesday; FC Belize vs Puntarenas FC tonight
Conquerors beat Espana on Tuesday; FC Belize vs Puntarenas FC tonight
Whatever the result of tonight’s return encounter at the MCC in Belize City between UNCAF’s defending champion Puntarenas FC of Costa Rica, featuring Belize’s own Shane Orio in goal, and our national champions FC Belize, Belizean football fans have enough reasons to hold our heads high, following the commendable, respect-gaining performance of our sub-champions Revolutionary Conquerors against Honduras’s Real Espana a couple days ago at the Carl Ramos Stadium in Dangriga. A good showing for FC Belize tonight would further enhance the image of Belizean football in all of Central America.
The Semi-pro League, and now its latest incarnation, the Belize Premier Football League (BPFL), had been denied the opportunity to represent Belize in UNCAF’s club competition for a few years (around 2001-2004) by the FFB, which has been at odds with the professional league for one reason or another. As a result, Belizean football has suffered, with our image being severely tarnished in regional competitions where national teams travel under the direct control and management of the FFB. But when our professional teams are allowed to represent Belize, the results have been much more encouraging.
Last Wednesday, August 8, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, home standing Real Espana defeated Belize’s sub-champions, Revolutionary Conquerors, 2-1 in a tightly contested match, with their game winning goal coming in the last minute of the match. And, just in case anyone doubted if the Conquerors’ performance was a fluke, in the return match in Belize on Tuesday of this week at the Carl Ramos Stadium in Dangriga, the Conquerors returned the favor, with a sensational 2-1 defeat of Real Espana in regulation. Conquerors’ Dennis Serano again opened the scoring after receiving a pass from Harrison Tasher at the 15th minute. Just over ten minutes later, midfielder Norman “Tilliman” Nunez was savagely taken down by an Espana player who received a yellow card that could have been a red. While Tilliman was on the sidelines receiving medical attention, Espana took advantage of the numerical advantage and turned loose striker Jose Carlos Diaz, Jr., whose cannon was unstoppable; 1-1 ball game. Tilliman returned a couple minutes later, and the game remained tied until a minute into injury time of the first half, when a Ryan Simpson corner kick found the leaping head of Conquerors’ Elroy “Bibbs” Kuylen, who struck gold for the 2-1 lead going into the intermission.
The story of the second half was the stellar and heroic performance of Conquerors’ goalkeeper, Woodrow West, who somehow managed, despite the onslaught of Espana attacks and powerful shots, especially from their main striker, Jose Carlos Diaz, Jr., to hold the 2-1 lead for the Conquerors through regulation and the three minutes of injury time. Finally, the long whistle and the sweet taste of victory, 2-1, for the Conquerors; but it wasn’t all over yet. With both clubs tied in goal aggregate after two games with identical 2-1 scores, competition rules required penalty kicks to decide which team advances in the tournament; and it was Real Espana winning the penalty duel 4-2. Incidentally, the controversial veteran Norman “Tilliman” Nunez, who the FFB has failed to include in our national teams, was the midfield general leading the Conquerors in this historic series that has earned a handsome measure of respect for Belize.
Belize’s other representative in this year’s UNCAF tournament, FC Belize, did not fare as well, despite a gallant effort, in their first game with Puntarenas FC, losing 3-nil in Costa Rica last week Tuesday, August 7. Tonight, the home boys will try to turn up the heat and prove why they are the national champions. Puntarenas FC is a top quality opponent, though, and few knowledgeable fans give FC Belize much of a chance to return the 3-nil score to Puntarenas. But our teams have traditionally done much better at home, and Belizean fans will be riding hard for a win tonight.
Noteworthy is the fact that in Costa Rica, Puntarenas fans were seen via Gol TV waving the Belizean flag beside their Costa Rican flag, no doubt in respect and appreciation for their Belizean goalkeeper, Shane Orio. Belizeans will all be 100 per cent behind our home team FC Belize tonight; but if we lose, it won’t hurt as much as it would if our boy, Shane, was not with the winners. Respect is due to the Puntarenas/Costa Rican fans.
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Hommerin' the Leather
A WORD WITH OUR BOYS.
by J. J. Wainwright
Volume 2, no. 2, 1891/92, pg. 422-428
At that period of my life when I was a dunce at syntax, but a dab at taw, we lived in the quiet little country town of Guzzleton. In those days British youth shod itself with boots called "bluchers," and my bluchers were always made by old Jemmy Clark, surnamed by his customers "Old Hommerin' Clark," or simply "Old Hommerin'," without the Clark.
I daresay he was at bottom a very harmless old fellow, but he looms on me through the mist of years as the ogre of my early life, the chief bane of my existence, next to Greek irregular verbs and going to church twice on a Sunday.
He was a very fat old chap, and, at home, was never seen by mortal except in shirt-sleeves and paper cap, and with a large "leather lapstone" on his knees. His wife was a little parched-up old woman who seemed to never leave off stitching patten leathers, except when she laid them down to serve a ha'porth of toffee, or sugar-stick, or "black-ball," this last being a sweetmeat originally invented, I believe, to facilitate the cutting of the young Briton's second teeth, by gently extracting his first set at as early a stage as possible.
Old Hommerin' used to come to our house periodically and measure us all round for boots or shoes. Knowing his "masterly inactivity"--Fabius could not hold the candle to him in that respect--my father always ordered our boots months before they were really wanted, but no matter how distant might be the date agreed on for delivery, they never by any chance came on time.
"Good morning, Mr. Clark."
He always spoke very slowly, and seemed to weigh each word before he parted with it. He would reply,
"Hel-lo! hel-lo! Well now, if it ain't Master Johnnie. Good mornin', Master Johnnie. Missis, here's Master Johnnie. Now I shouldn't wonder if he ain't come about his bluchers."
"Yes, Mr. Clark."
"Ah, now. Well, now, I reckoned so. How's thee feyther, Master Johnnie?"
"Pretty well, thank you, Mr. Clark. Are my boots finished?"
"Let--me--see, now. Let--me--see." Reflectively.
The aggravating old villain knew well enough they were not finished, perhaps not even begun; but he always put on an abstracted look as if he were diving fathoms deep into the wells of his memory.
"Ah, now. Them bluchers. Let--me--see. How art thee gettin' on wi' thee schulin', Master Johnnie? Get any prizes last half?"
"Yes, Mr. Clark; writing and arithmetic."
"Well now. Hark at that, missis! Chip off the old block. Thee feyther was a rare 'un at quilldrivin', and so he was at sums."
"Was he, Mr. Clark?" I had heard him say the very same thing a hundred times before, but I always thought it good manners to seem interested.
"He just was that. He could do that sum about the hoss's shoes, a farthin' for the first nail, you know, and keep doublin'."
"Yes, Mr. Clark; so can I."
"Hark at that, missis! Chip off the old block. Ah! I knowed thee feyther when he was just such a whipper-snapper as thee art."
"Did you, Mr. Clark?"
"I did. I was a 'prentice in them days, and my master used to mak' his boots, and thee grandfeyther's as well, and all the uncle's boots."
"Yes, Mr. Clark. Please are mind done?"
"Quilldrivin' now. Can thee do German Tex'?"
"And Old English?"
"And printin'?"
"Hark at that, missis! Chip off the old block, ain't he? Thee feyther was a rare 'un at German Tex' and Old English, and print he could wonderful--Roman and Gothic and all sorts. Can thee flourish?"
"Yes, Mr. Clark; Ms and Ws."
"So could thee feyther. He was a rare 'un at flourishin'. He could flourish all through the alphabet wi' his eyes shut. Can thee flourish angels and eagles?"
"No, Mr. Clark."
"Thee feyther could. He could do 'em like winkin'. He could flourish angels and never take his pen off."
"Mr. Clark, it couldn't be done."
"Couldn't be done!"
"No, Mr. Clark, it couldn't be done. How could he do the features without taking his pen off?"
"Feeturs!" scornfully.
"Yes, features, Mr. Clark; they couldn't be done."
"Perhaps they couldn't be done, now--a--days, but they could in thee feyther's time."
This with supreme contempt.
"Very well, Mr. Clark; but when will my boots be done?"
"Ah! Boots. Let--me--see. Tongues now. Do thee learn tongues?"
"Yes, Mr. Clark; Latin and Greek."
"Hark at that, missis. Chip off the old block. Thee feyther was a rare 'un at tongues. Can thee say bonus bonum?"
Then I had to decline bonus, while he listened in rapt attention with his head critically on one side until I reached bonorum, when he would stop me with "Ah! bonorum," and remark that I was "a chip off the old block, but I should never be so well grammared, or such a quilldriver, as my feyther."
"But the boots, Mr. Clark; the boots, you know?"
Then after pondering deeply for a minute or two, he would say, "No, my lad, no. They ain't what you may call quate finished. Not quate; but" (and her he would brighten up quite cheerfully)--"but I'm thinkin' about hommerin' the leather, my lad; I'm thinkin' about hommerin' the leather."
It was ever thus. For weeks he was always "thinkin' about hommerin' the leather;" for weeks longer he had really "begun hommerin' the leather;" then he had actually "finished hommerin' the leather;" then he had "cut 'em out;" then he had "closed the uppers;" then he had "put 'em on the lasses;" then he had "took 'em off the lasses;" and so on by easy stages until the devoutly wished for consummation was reached at last, and the boots came home in triumph.
On one occasion his everlasting excuses drove me to the verge of despair. It was nearing Christmas; the holidays had begun; frost had set in, and skating on the pool was imminent.
"Mr. Clark," I said, "if the leather was finished hammering, could they be done by Christmas Day?"
"Well now. Let--me--see. Well, happen they might."
"Very well, then, Mr. Clark, if you'll give me the leather, I'll finish hammering it myself."
"Eh! Eh, my lad!"
"Yes, Mr. Clark," I continued, recklessly; "there's a stone in our garden as big as your lapstone, and if you'll give me the leather for mine and Tom's bluchers, we'll hammer it all day long; take it in turns, you know."
"Eh, my lad!" he repeated, looked quite bewildered.
"Yes, Mr. Clark; everybody says the pool will bear by Christmas Day, if not before, so we must have our new boots by Christmas Eve. We must, Mr. Clark; and please make them lace very tight for skating."
The old man gazed at me through his spectacles in a kind of stupefaction, pushed his paper cap to the back of his head, took off his spectacles and wiped them carefully while still gazing, and at length gasped feebly.
"Hark at that, missis! Hommer the leather hisself! Ever hear o' such a thing? Chip off the old block. Skatin'! Thee feyther was a rare 'un for --well, well, thee sha't ha' thee boots; thee sha't ha' thee boots o' Christmas Eve."
And I did have them on Christmas Eve; and on Christmas Day I went through the ice at a part marked "Dangerous" in company with another young barbarian, but was fished out, and being taken home very cold and was promptly threshed warm again by my father. He used invariably to scourge us for anything of this kind, but whether it was for escaping danger, or for running into it, or merely on general principles, he never took the trouble to explain.
Now you will understand that this o'er true tale is told merely to point the moral of what follows.
This "hommerin' the leather" is what we are all at, more or less, from cradle to the grave. If I were a church parson, or, indeed, any other sort of parson, I could preach a fine sermon on this text; but here is not the place for it, so I will confine myself strictly to the secular aspect of "hommerin' the leather."
Take my fellow-clerk Jack Vivian. The great ambition of Jack's life is to be sent out to our branch in South America--at least Jack is always saying it is. There will be a good vacancy next year, and twelve months ago the governor promised it to Jack on condition of his learning the Spanish language before going out. Jack is always going to learn Spanish, but is never learning. He is always going to buy the requisite books, but is never buying. He is always going to look out for a teacher, but is never looking. He is always going to chuck up lawn-tennis, you know, and work up Spanish, you know; but lawn-tennis still remains unchucked, and Spanish still remains unworked. Like Mr. Pecksniff's horse, Jack is always going to go and never going. The last time I goaded him on the subject he told me that he really was now giving the whole of his mind to it, and as soon as he had time to get some bookshelves put up in his bedroom he should buy a heap of Spanish books, look out for a Spanish teacher, and learn the language at a rate that would astonish my feeble mind.
All things are possible, but I shall be astonished, and more than astonished, if Jack should learn Spanish, or, indeed, if he should ever get those bookshelves put up until it is too late; for time is flying, and young Ollendorf, one of our junior clerks who came over from Deutschland only a year ago, has already learned Spanish; and moreover he talks and writes it grammatically, which is what the young Briton who "just picks it up, you know," never does. He has actually learned that language since he made his descent on this country--German, English, and French he brought with him--and I have little doubt that it is he and not Jack who will go out to the South American branch. Jack has spent a whole year in merely thinking about hommerin' the leather, and in the meanwhile young Ollendorf has not only finished hommerin' the leather but has got his Spanish boots on, well made, well fitting, and he is quite ready for marching orders.
But, bless you! those dreadful Teutons are always going; they never stay "going to go." They always keep plodding on. When Ollendorf arrived here, fresh from the village of Nichtszuessen in Krautundwasserland, his handwriting was of the most exasperating Teutonic fashion, and his apparel was that of his own native wilds; but now his writing is fair and goodly as that of a law stationer, and his apparel is as that of the ordinary civilised Briton. I must admit, however, that in this latter respect he cannot for a moment be compared with Jack, whether Jack be arrayed modestly in Christian garb, or gorgeously in full lawn-tennis costume. In such comparison Ollendorf is simply "nowhere," while Jack is unquestionably "all over the place." Ollendorf's pay is only a pound a week at present, but on that he contrives to live respectably and pay for lessons in Spanish, or shorthand, or anything else that will help him to get on in the world. He never halts; his motto is always the same as old Blucher's on that memorable day of June, "Vorwarts. Wir mussen vorwarts." It will be the same in South America, and out of his salary of fifteen hundred or two thousand hard dollars, he will save a thousand or more, while his English fellow-clerk at the same salary will save a hundred or less. And Ollendorf's salary will increase much faster than his expenses. In seven years he will be a partner in the house, or if not, he will start for himself, with, perhaps, only a moderate capital in money, but with a practically unlimited capital in the shape of education, thrift, knowledge of business, and above all, unremitting industry. If you look for Jack in seven years, you will probably find him--still thinking about hommerin' the leather.
You do not catch the Teuton of these days mooning away his life without any sane object in view. The young Werthers of Fatherland do not bring their miserable "sorrows" to this country; indeed I am strongly of opinion that the historical idiot of that name was the last of his race, and one ought to rejoice if the species to which that young man belonged is extinct. There is a very fair prospect of Young Ollendorf crowding Young Bull out--commercially at all events. And here comes the gist of my remarks. To prevent extinction, Young Taurus, you must get yourself educated--yes, educated. Do not storm. What you are fatuously pleased to call your "education" has cost about four times as much as Young Ollendorf's education cost, but Young Ollendorf has acquired about four times as much knowledge as you have; I mean knowledge of the kind that is likely to aid either him or you to rise in life. Also, Ollendorf does not delude himself with the childish idea that when he has left school he has "finished his education;" he is not such an idiot as to believe that any man ever does that on this side of the grave, even if he should ever do it on the other. He keeps pegging on at studies of some direct practical use; and this is the reason why Ollendorf so often passes the winning-post, while Bull is so often distanced. I know all about scrificing to the Graces, sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, dulce est desipere, and all the rest of it. I know it all by heart, but I also know that all these things, though good enough in loco, must invariably be your second consideration, and never be your first, if you have any wish whatever to hold your own in the nowadays world.
And now, as the preachers say, "One word before we part." Get rid of your stupendous British conceit, Young Bull; lay yourself to work in earnest, Young Bull; or rest assured that Ollendorf will have put his boots on, will have marched ahead, and will have crowded you out, while you, my Tauriculus, are only just beginning to think about "hommerin' the leather."
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Innovation still undecided on Sharp rescue plans as Foxconn raises bid, tries to allay job fears
Friday, January 29, 2016, 07:00 am PT (10:00 am ET)
In the bidding war for Sharp, Innovation Network Corp. has yet to decide on a possible rescue plan, even as rival Foxconn is raising its bid and promising not to cut Japanese jobs, a report said on Friday.
Innovation —a fund backed by the Japanese government —was expected to come up with a bailout plan on Friday, according to Reuters, but executive director Tetsuya Hamabe told reporters that "no formal decision" had been made after a meeting of the fund's upper echelons. Sources told Reuters that the group has been considering injecting over 300 billion yen ($1.7 billion) into Sharp, which would be paired with another 350 billion yen ($2.9 billion) in assistance from the company's two principal lenders.
Foxconn, meanwhile, has reportedly raised its bid from 625 billion yen (about $5.2 billion) to 659 billion ($5.4 billion). The claim that it won't cut jobs is presumably a means of appealing to leaders in Japanese government and industry worried about the damage a foreign takeover could cause.
As recently as Wednesday, Sharp was said to be leaning towards Innovation despite its nominally lower bid.
Whatever the outcome, the resulting entity will end up having Apple as a major client. Foxconn is Apple's main assembly partner, while Innovation would likely merge Sharp's display unit into Japan Display, an Apple supplier it formed out of parts of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi.
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The system for queuing music is frustrating. If you are trying to add a new song onto the queue and accidentally press on a station or album it will clear your carefully curated queue which is pretty annoying. I love the recently played menu because I often come back to music I’ve discovered or played recently but there are some things seriously wrong with it. For example if you click on an album you listened to recently, it will play one song from the album and only one song. Or it will choose a few and leave a bunch of others out. I’m not sure why this happens or how it chooses which ones to keep but it seems totally arbitrary and is even more frustrating because when I click on the details and try to view the whole album it only brings up a few songs, and won’t have the option below to view the full album. Also this may be patented I wouldn’t put that past apple but when you are adding songs to a playlist it would be easier if the one you had started adding to would jump to the top so you could add to it easier especially if you are making a huge playlist. Also maybe I’m dumb but I can’t figure out how to reduce the in between song gap to 0. Please read this I hope it’s helpful and I’m sorry for my last review which was scathing and came from a place of unproductive frustration. Thanks
SodaPopBears , 04/24/2019
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I love this app! There's a few bugs but for the most part the app runs well. Rarely do I have to skip songs to get it to continue playing; sometimes it forgets where it's at in the song once I've hit paused so it'll replay from the beginning but I don't mind that. I love that I can listen to just about whatever I want for free. I just wish you could customize stations or that it was easier to find specific stations (There may be a way and I just haven't found it yet). I'd like to have an 80s, 90s, and today station just because it's all my favorite at one time. Oh well, I'm enjoying my random solely 80s music days so it's good. I also like the exposure to new music as well. Overall, love this app; very minimal complaints. I'd give 4.5 stars if I could.
Reduced to 3 stars. The has gotten buggy. It crashes every so often and takes several tries to restart it. I still like the ease of use and it's the only app I use for music however I'd like to see some updates pertaining to customer complaints.
Back to 4 stars. Fewer crashes! Some bugs still when paired with Bluetooth but overall a great app
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I am currently subscribed to the unlimited and will be done with it for good after June is over. Short version; of you have prime then it’s included, great. Otherwise save your money.
I like to listen to stations as it gives me a better variety; first off the variety of similar artists was soo off pace for the first few days I was pressing thumbs down more than I was anything else. These were stations I created and couldn’t believe there were algorithms out there saying they were similar artists, furthermore it would continually throw the same artists I thumbed down MULTIPLE Times in there with different songs that weren’t any better. Secondly and possibly even more frustrating is that when I paused a song and then would go to press play on that song 5-10 minutes later I would just get the “loading song” description and that’s it. I would then need to skip or push to the next song ,then press play again in order for it to start playing music. Lastly if I searched an artist and then created a station off of that artist I would notice that if paused that station and then resumed within 5-10 minutes it wouldn’t resume on the station it would resume on most previously searched artist.. free pandora is a better choice than the current state
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HenryAlan said:
Looks awful in my opinion. They just took the old sign and welded it on to a new building, but the font and style of that sign in no way works with the style for the building. I hope this is just a quick mock-up and not any kind of real plan. The sign needs to both say, "yes, this is definitely State Street, but no, it's not the old stodgy version, look at the wave of this building, that's our new corporate brand."
Yea, it's a boring as can be. Signage on buildings is unfortunately a bit part of Walsh's Boston but the companies should at least be trying. Ideally, it would be integrated into the building the way it was on the old one.
citylover94
stick n move said:
Cesar Pelli died yesterday. This tower is probably his last to break ground, crazy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boston25news.com/amp/news/famed-architect-cesar-pelli-dies-at-92/968705211
He also designed the South Station Tower so assuming that ever happens that would end up being his last tower to break ground.
KentXie said:
Not sure if this was posted before but State Street's LinkedIn posted a rendering with their name on the building.
Makes me wish they would rename the bank "Congress Bank" just to sync up with the new iconic location.
citylover94 said:
This was probably the last tower to break ground while he was alive, as it happened 2 weeks ago, but yea SST could end up being the last tower to be built of his legacy, that would be an honor to have that as well. Imagine if thats the case having those 2 on the skyline, awesome.
Now just go ahead and raise One Congress up another hundred feet in his honor.
The signage has the Boston tradition thing going on. That's something. Love it,
hate it, or whatever in between.... The font has always looked good, imo:
Certainly nothing egregious. Happy to see the tower getting built,
and the site eventually become a strong addition to Downtown & Greenway.
https://flic.kr/p/2gGfVuE
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atlantaden
BeeLine said:
Is that brick monstrosity of a structure (what exactly is it?) coming down? I don't seem to see it in any of the renderings.
atlantaden said:
That is the elevator bank for the two top office floors. Not sure when, but I suspect it will be demolished when the section of the garage over Congress Street comes down. The remaining office floors are still in use. By whom I have not a clue. (Government??)
DowntownDave
I notice that the crappy Rapids parking is shown here with trees and pavers. Is removing that parking part of this project?
I'm pretty sure it has to come down for One Congress to go up. Looking at the renders, the tower extends to the existing sidewalk on Congress Street. I've been thinking about asking someone in the lobby if there is a timetable for closure, which would give us some perspective on demolition timing, but I haven't been in that area recently.
Lrfox
DowntownDave said:
I'm fairly certain that it's not part of this project. There are actually a handful of trees along that stretch already (not dissimilar to what's displayed in the rendering), so I imagine the pavers/empty parking lot are just "artistic license." Though I'd love to see the hand written "Special! $20 Enter after 1pm" sandwich board sign depicted in the renderings.
meddlepal
Gotta imagine that parking lot will come up for development at some point. Would love to see a tall-ish flat iron there.
It's a shame this new tower is going to have such a corporate sterile ground floor because that could turn into quite the dense little square in time.
Missed opportunity... typical Boston.
What's the deal with that lot anyway? I'm assuming it can be developed. Does the owner just want waaaaay too much money?
Once One Congress is up there will be a lot of economic and political pressure to redevelop that surface parking lot and bring more ground level activity and restaurants to the square.
tmac9wr
meddlepal said:
Is this sarcasm?
As you can see in some of BeeLine's pictures, New Chardon Street, part of Merrimack Street, and Part of Congress Street have been narrowed by one lane to accommodate relocated pedestrian passage around the site. Fencing bumped out all the way to streets.
Also drill rig on site.
FitchburgLine
Semass said:
And the brick office entrance is fenced off and closed
It was more snark than anything and yes I think it is pretty typical of Boston (and Massachusetts as a whole) to screw up execution of things just enough so that they end up missed opportunities.
Understood. I have to disagree it's a missed opportunity though. It's an office tower, so of course it's going to have a corporate ground level. It's not as great as a retail filled base, but how often do we see that with office towers? The good news is that this is just one piece of a larger development, and if I'm not mistaken the other projects are supposed to be very street level oriented.
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Is threatening to kill anyone who goes into his neighborhood, or burn down the houses of people holding a candlelight vigil considered… ‘problematic’?
This kid has officially lost his ever-loving mind.
It’s really bad to hate people based on the color of your skin, right?
Isn’t that something we all agreed on after Charlottesville?
So does this kind of talk get a free pass?
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Antifa has a violent day planned for Columbus Day — here’s what they’re going to do in your city
By Chris Enloe | 8 Oct 2017
What is planned?
Antifa factions nationwide plan to deface and destroy statues of Christopher Columbus on Monday, the day Americans nationwide will celebrate the Italian navigator who was the first European explorer to discover the Americas.
In September, a New York City-based radical anarchist group known as “Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” called on Antifa groups nationwide to participate in “Deface Columbus Day,” where anarchists plan to “decorate” their local neighborhoods. RAM is an “extremely militant group that advocates for the violent redistribution of property” and for “the abolition of gender,” according to Far Left Watch.
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The Pitfalls of Single-Payer Health Care: Canada’s Cautionary Tale
By Candice Malcolm | April 13, 2017
In the Netflix series House of Cards, President Frank Underwood campaigned for the White House by telling Americans, “You are entitled to nothing.” The fictional president — a Democrat, no less — was forthright with American voters about the unaffordable and unsustainable structure of America’s entitlement programs, and he was rewarded at the polls. In real-life America, unfortunately, there is no such courageous honesty from the political class. Even many in the Republican party, once the stalwart force fighting against the growth of big government, are now resigned to contemplating a government takeover of the health-care industry in the wake of their failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. Charles Krauthammer, for example, woefully predicts that President Trump will opt for single-payer health care. F. H. Buckley, meanwhile, optimistically calls for Trump to look to the Canadian model of universal coverage.
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People Are Calling For A Total Ban On Cotton Because — You Guessed It — Racism
By Jenna Green | 18 Sep 2017
A woman in Texas berated Hobby Lobby last week for selling cotton as a decorative home accessory.
Daniell Rider posted her complaint to the craft store’s Facebook page:
There is nothing decorative about raw cotton. A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves. A little sensitivity goes a long way. Please remove this decor.
Daniell Rider, then received backlash for her sensitivity and responded to her critics:
All those who are offended by cotton being a decoration need to quit buying any product made of cotton!
Below is my response to this race-baiter ~Angel
The following is a short list of products that are made with cotton or cotton/synthetic fabric blends:
Sweatshirts, Sweatpants, and Hoodies (I suppose one could always go with fleece)
Bandanas (Antifa loons are gonna have to find something else to cover their cowardly faces with)
Denim (I am picturing protesters wearing polyester pants LOL)
Terrycloth (Towels, bath robes)
Sheets and Pillowcases (Most use cotton or cotton blend)
Canvas (Some is made using *gasp* cotton, some using linen)
Flannel (Some flannel is made using wool or synthetic fiber but a lot is made using cotton)
Underwear (For those of you who like the saggy pants look this includes boxer shorts)
Tampons and Sanitary Pads (I suppose women can start using menstrual cups)
Bandaids and Gauze
Cotton seeds are delinted by a similar process to ginning. Some linter is used to make candle wicks, string, cotton balls, cotton batting, paper, and cellulose products such as rayon, plastics, photographic film, and cellophane.
Cottonseed oil is used in some margarines, salad dressings, cosmetics, soap, candles, water proofing agents
Q-tips and Cotton Balls
Tires (Use of cotton in tires is limited – used mostly as a processing aid now)
Did you know that cotton remained a key crop in the Southern economy after emancipation and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Across the South, sharecropping evolved, in which landless black and white farmers worked land owned by others in return for a share of the profits. Some farmers rented the land and bore the production costs themselves.
And did you know that China and India are the two biggest cotton producers in the world? Also on the list: United States, Pakistan, Turkey, Australia, and Mexico.
And did you also know that slavery – yes slavery – is alive and well in the Middle East? Are you offended by THAT?
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/region/middle-east-north-africa/
https://www.amren.com/features/2017/02/black-slavery-middle-east/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter3.shtml
‘WRONG on SO many levels’: Woman demands Hobby Lobby stop selling cotton decor because it’s ‘insensitive’ to African Americans
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The Left’s Cultural Revolution intensifies.
By Matthew Vadum | 18 Sep 2017
The vandalization of a statute of University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson by students and Black Lives Matter rioters suggests the Left is escalating the ugly Cultural Revolution-style upheaval that President Obama encouraged in office.
This iconoclastic insurrectionism is spreading, as angry left-wing mobs topple statues of figures from the past they dislike. In Chicago, Bishop James Dukes of Liberation Christian Center is demanding that the names and statues of George Washington and Andrew Jackson be removed from parks. Others want Woodrow Wilson’s name excised from buildings and schools because he supported racial segregation. The list goes on and on.
The disorder in Charlottesville comes as a monument in Baltimore honoring Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was spray-painted with the words “racist anthem.” Leftist writer Jefferson Morley suggested on Tucker Carlson’s TV show that the vandalism was justified, but more on that in a moment.
As about a hundred students chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no racist UVA,” the Jefferson monument on the school’s main quad was draped in black and adorned with signs reading, “Black Lives Matter,” “TJ is a racist,” and “Fuck white supremacy.”
Salon: Statue of Liberty No Longer Represents American Ideals
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Here’s the antidote to St. Louis riots and rage
By Jesse Lee Peterson | 18 Sep 2017
The more you give in to angry people, the worse they get.
Case in point: black protesters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Violent Black Lives Matter protesters clashed with police after ex-St. Louis cop Jason Stockley was acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of drug dealer Anthony Lamar-Smith.
Smith was attempting to flee from police when he slammed his vehicle into a police cruiser and took off, causing a dangerous high-speed chase. Stockley, who is white, claimed he shot the suspect, who is black, in self-defense because he thought Smith was reaching for a gun.
According to St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson, the prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Stockley did not act in self-defense.
Smith was out on parole for convictions of drug distribution, theft and illegal gun possession at the time of the shooting.
But facts don’t matter to angry blacks. The acquittal of Stockley gave Black Lives Matter license to riot and assault police. What began as a protest march erupted with a wild mob tearing through downtown St. Louis and through the city’s affluent areas. Protesters said they wanted whites to feel the pain.
Protesters burned American flags, damaged police cruisers and destroyed businesses. At least 10 officers were assaulted with bricks and bottles; 23 suspects were arrested. The violence caused local businesses to cancel major venues. Protesters also temporarily shut down a major mall in St. Louis. They chanted, “You kill one of us, we kill your economy,” and they carried Black Lives Matters signs.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/heres-the-antidote-to-st-louis-riots-and-rage/
Racist Black Lives Matters Thugs Trash St. Louis Library
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Tour Code: TSS-005
Tour Price: 25
Tour Category: Transportation
Angkor Focus Travel providing private luxury car reservation to all cities of Cambodia with special rates and easy booking. We arrange all the transportation and amazing tour to small and grand to Angkor.
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Tour by Car Getting to Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
The majority of visitors arrive by air from Phnom Penh and Bangkok, though there are also flights from several other major cities in Southeast Asia. See international/domestic flight schedule page for detailed international and domestic flight information and a list of airlines that service Phnom Penh and Cambodia. For international overland travel from surrounding countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos) see the international border crossing/overland travel page.
Cambodian visas are available on arrival at both airports and most international border checkpoints. The crossing at Aranyaprathet/Poipet is closest and most convenient to Siem Reap. The road from Phnom Penh is very good condition and there are regular buses, taxis and vans running between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap as well as a daily river ferry service.
Cambodia is a golden city, pollution free and eco-friendly it attracted over two million tourists in the world last year and the figure continues to climb. Cambodia's cultural and diverse attractions can be attributed to its cultural diversity that reflects the country's rich history and heritage.
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Explore the ancient temples of Angkor in Angkor Focus Travel by special Private Car Holiday. Travel in style as your are shuttled around the highlights of the angkor temple complex and get around to watch the view of angkor area.
Car to Grand Tour
Arrive at Siem Reap airport where you will be greeted by your tour guide and driver. You will then be transferred to your selected or our recommended hotel. After that we arrange your travel to Angkor Thom, Angkor Area and so on by Angkor Car Driver.
Car to Banteay Srey
Banteay srei: This temple of the magnificently preserved Xth century, is the most charming of Angkor, (served now by one good road). It's a jewel sculptured in of wills pink who changes colour following the period of sunshine. Several very well preserved pavilions, facades of which are finely sculptured by a multitude of flowery motives and by scenes of the Indian mythology.
Car to Kulen Mountain
Phnom Kulen National Park is a National park in Cambodia. It is located in the Phnom Kulen mountain massif in Siem Reap Province. During Angkorian era the relief was known as Mahendraparvata (the mountain of Great Indra) and was the place where Jayavarman II had himself declared chakravartin (King of Kings), an act which is considered the foundation of Khmer Empire.
Car to Kbal Spean
Kbal Spean is an Angkorian era archaeological site on the southwest slopes of the Kulen Hills to the northeast of Angkor in Siem Reap District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. It is situated along a 50 metres (160 ft) stretch of the Stung Kbal Spean River, 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the main Angkor group of monuments.
Car to Beng Mealea
Distance from Siem Reap to Beng Mealea temple is around 80km (90-120 mins) either via Banteay Srei and Phnom Kulen or through National Road 6 (Siem Reap to Phnom Penh). You can visit Beng Mealea at any time of day as most Angkor temple tours and tour bus crowds do not venture here. A Beng Mealea temple plan can be useful for orientation but the ruined nature of the temple can be confusing.
$80.oo
Car to Chong Kneas (Floating Village)
Chong Kneas, as you know, is a floating village at the edge of the Tonle Sap Lake. This is where the boat docks if you’re arriving from Battambang or Phnom Penh. It’s about 20 – 30 minutes from the center of Siem Reap.
Car to Kompong Phluk (Floating Village)
Tours of Kompong Phluk are a bit pricier than the Chong Khneas tours, but they are well worth the difference. Kompong Phluk is a set of villages based on the floodplain of the Tonle Sap Lake, near Siem Reap. There are about 3,000 villagers, most of who live in stilted houses. The people depend largely on fishing and tourism for their incomes.
Car to Poipet
Poipet is a Cambodian town on the Cambodia/Thailand border, in Ou Chrov district, Banteay Meanchey Province. It is a key crossing point between the two countries, and also extremely popular as a gambling destination as gambling is popular, but illegal in Thailand. There is a strip of casinos and hotels between the Cambodian and Thai passport control counters, enabling Thais to gamble in Cambodia without needing to go through Cambodian immigration.
Car to Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the main capital city and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security, politics, economics, cultural heritage, and diplomacy of Cambodia.
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Angkor Focus Travel provided you a choice for car rental to every provinces of Cambodia, Comprise of the 24 provinces of Cambodia. So we can arrange all the transportation you needed.
Angkor Focus Travel Bring you to the temple ruins are located in Siem Reap Province, most within the boundaries of the Angkor Archaeological Park near Siem Reap City. The temple sites with the Angkor Archaeological Park represent the ruins of the ancient Angkorian capital cities and include most of the most famous Khmer temples including Angkor Wat and Bayon.
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Rosana Broadway Enjoy our famous Cambodian Traditional Dance and International Cabaret Show which provides a unique mix of entertainment on stage. Our Stunning Performers are trained by a Professional Choreographer to bring you several varieties of dancing, with magnificent costumes to sweep you away on a magical and musical journey of song and dance.
Buffet Set + Apsara Theather Show Buffet Set + Apsara Theather Show Siem Reap, It is the first class Restaurant Buffet that serve you the convenience of comfort, efficiency service, with total capacity of over 650 seats, full decoration of tropical plants and flowers make guests fell refreshing and evergreen whenever come in.
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Takeo Tourist Attractions
Tourist Attractions Overview
Introduction To Takeo
Takeo Geography
Takeo Climate
Takeo Population
Takeo Economy
How to Get To Takeo
What to See In Takeo
Where to Stay In Takeo
Shopping In Takeo
Takeo province is often referred to as the cradle of Cambodian civilisation Takeo province has several important pre-Angkorian sites built between the 5th and the 8th century. The provincial capital, Takeo town is an easygoing place that possesses a fair amount of natural and manmade beauty. The natural beauty is in the Scenic River and lake area that faces a pleasant town parkway. The low-lying area seems to include much of the surrounding province area, which is probably why a kingdom that once had its heart here was referred to as Water Chenla. There seems to be water everywhere in the surrounding countryside during the rainy season.
The man-made beauty mostly comes from a series of canals and waterways that were cut through the surrounding countryside, many a very long time ago, connecting towns, villages, rivers and Vietnam. Nearby Angkor Borei town (connected by water to Takeo town) may have been the heart of the Funan Empire, which is called the Cradle of Khmer Civilization by Cambodians. Much older than Angkor, the Funan empire had its heyday between the 1st and 6...
Takeo province is 3,563 square kilometres big. It's located in the South of the country bordering to the North and East with Kandal, to the West with Kampong Speu and Kampot and to the South with Vietnam. The low-lying area seems to include much of the surrounding province area, which is probably why a kingdom that once had its heart here was referred to as Water Chenla. There seems to be water everywhere in the surrounding countryside during the rainy season.
Therefore the province consists of the typical plain wet area for Cambodia, covering rice fields and other agricultural plantations. The province also features one of the biggest rivers of the country (symbolizing the provincial border to the East), the Tonle Bassac (also known as the ?Red River?).
The country has a tropical climate - warm and humid. In the monsoon season, abundant rain allows for the cultivation of a wide variety of crops. This year-round tropical climate makes Cambodia ideal for developing tourism. Travellers need not to fear natural disasters such as erupting volcanoes or earthquakes, and the country is not directly affected by tropical storms.
Climate: Cambodia can be visited throughout the year. However, those plans to travel extensively by road should be avoided the last two months of the rainy season when some countryside roads may be impassable. The average temperature is about 27 degrees Celsius; the minimum temperature is about 16 degrees. December and January are the coolest months, whereas the hottest is April. General information about the provincial climate:- Cool season: November- March (22-28c)
- Hot season: March- May (28c -36c)
- Rainy season: May - October (24-32c, with humidity up to 90%.)
The current population in this province is about 924,758 people or 6.4% of the country's total population (14,363,519 person in Cambodia, 2007, provincial government data), with 445,000 male and 479,758 female. The population density is therefore 259.5 people per square kilometre.
Takeo's economy consists basically of agricultural farming, fishery, rice and fruit cropping. Especially the rural households depend on agriculture and its related sub-sectors.
Phnom Penh and Takeo province are linked by the National Highway No 2, which remains in reasonable condition with a few potholes to slow the velocity down. Hour Lean and PPPT bus companies both run air-con buses between Phnom Penh and Takeo (6000riel, 2hours, 77km). They leave from the Central Station just southwest from the Central Market in PP. Leaving of to PP from Takeo you may find the buses in front of the Phsar Leu. Both buses have to pass Tonl? Bati and Phnom Chisor, both interesting sides of attraction.
Share Taxis/Moto:
The price from PP by share taxi is around 6000riel, by minibus around 3000riel. Travellers continuing by road to Kampot should take a moto (5000riel) for the 13km journey Angk Tasaom and then arrange a seat in a minibus or share taxi (5000riel) on to Kampot. For 1000 riel you can get anywhere in town. The daily rate is US$ 5 plus fuel for distant sights.
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On your trip to the small low-land province in Cambodia, you will find a number of things to do in Takeo. It is famous for its scenic beauty and hillside scenery, picturesque landscape and also known as a treasure trove for the archeologists. While on a tour to Cambodia, you can also explore the province in Takeo and see the attraction that the place has to offer. It is a fine spot for a one day trip and while on a one day tour, you can indulge in a few activities. There is a comprehensive guide which tells you about the things to do in Takeo.
Nestled between Kandal, Kompong Spue and Kampot provinces and Vietnam, Takeo is a small lowland province with various historical sites and is a fine base for archeological excavations. Takeo province is home to a selection of minor attractions and historical sites. You can go for sightseeing in Takeo and learn about the heritage and the Khmer civilization.
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There are some reasonable options to get your head on a bed in Takeo, although the proximity of Phnom Penh means that few travellers actually spend a night here. Backpacker options could also be found at the empty Phsar Nat (also overlooking).
Mittapheap Hotel:
This hotel might be an option for those who have a particular attraction to Cambodian Independence Monuments, as this one overlooks Takeo's. There is good cheap food nearby, a fortune. Don?t be put of by the old house at the front, s the owners have added a new wing in a leafy green garden at the back, with the smartest air-con rooms in town. Prices range from $5-10.
Angkor Borei Guesthouse:
That's a friendly family-run place, which has a bewildering array of rooms available and all at the same price. Some of them are bigger, some are smaller, some have TV and air-con, some don't, but in the interest of equality everyone pays the same. Have a look before, than choose.
As it is quite common in Cambodia even small cities, such as Takeo have at least one bigger market (some small marts too). So you may also find a market in Takeo centre, which is a busy area with local shops dealing the local daily consumer products, like fish, fruits, vegetables, meats and packed products (also a lot from Vietnam). Most of the food and drink shops are surrounding the market.
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Articles |6 March 2007
Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection
Kurt Kroenke, MD; Robert L. Spitzer, MD; Janet B.W. Williams, DSW; Patrick O. Monahan, PhD; Bernd Löwe, MD, PhD
Kurt Kroenke, MD
From Regenstrief Institute for Health Care and Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, New York; and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Robert L. Spitzer, MD
Janet B.W. Williams, DSW
Patrick O. Monahan, PhD
Bernd Löwe, MD, PhD
Acknowledgments: The authors thank Monika Mussell, PhD, and Dieter Schellberg, PhD, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, for their invaluable assistance in some data analyses.
Grant Support: Pfizer Inc.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: Consultancies: K. Kroenke (Eli Lilly Inc., Pfizer Inc.), J.B.W. Williams (Eli Lilly Inc., GlaxoSmithKline); Honoraria: K. Kroenke (Eli Lilly Inc., Wyeth); Grants received: K. Kroenke (Eli Lilly Inc., Pfizer Inc., Wyeth), R.L. Spitzer (Pfizer Inc.), J.B.W. Williams (Pfizer Inc.), B. Löwe (Pfizer Inc.).
Requests for Single Reprints: Kurt Kroenke, MD, Regenstrief Institute, 1050 Wishard Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202; e-mail, kkroenke@regenstrief.org.
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Kroenke: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, 1050 Wishard Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
Drs. Spitzer and Williams: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Unit 60, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10533.
Dr. Monahan: Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Indiana University, 1050 Wishard Boulevard, RG4 101, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
Dr. Löwe: Klinik für Psychosomatische und Allgemeine Klinische Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, J.B.W. Williams, B. Löwe.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, J.B.W. Williams, P.O. Monahan, B. Löwe.
Drafting of the article: K. Kroenke.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, P.O. Monahan, B. Löwe.
Final approval of the article: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, J.B.W. Williams, P.O. Manahan, B. Löwe.
Statistical expertise: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, P.O. Monahan.
Obtaining of funding: K. Kroenke, R.L. Spitzer, B. Löwe.
Collection and assembly of data: J.B.W. Williams.
Anxiety, although as common as depression, has received less attention and is often undetected and undertreated.
To determine the current prevalence, impairment, and comorbidity of anxiety disorders in primary care and to evaluate a brief measure for detecting these disorders.
Criterion-standard study performed between November 2004 and June 2005.
15 U.S. primary care clinics.
965 randomly sampled patients from consecutive clinic patients who completed a self-report questionnaire and agreed to a follow-up telephone interview.
7-item anxiety measure (Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD]-7 scale) in the clinic, followed by a telephone-administered, structured psychiatric interview by a mental health professional who was blinded to the GAD-7 results. Functional status (Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-20), depressive and somatic symptoms, and self-reported disability days and physician visits were also assessed.
Of the 965 patients, 19.5% (95% CI, 17.0% to 22.1%) had at least 1 anxiety disorder, 8.6% (CI, 6.9% to 10.6%) had posttraumatic stress disorder, 7.6% (CI, 5.9% to 9.4%) had a generalized anxiety disorder, 6.8% (CI, 5.3% to 8.6%) had a panic disorder, and 6.2% (CI, 4.7% to 7.9%) had a social anxiety disorder. Each disorder was associated with substantial impairment that increased significantly (P < 0.001) as the number of anxiety disorders increased. Many patients (41%) with an anxiety disorder reported no current treatment. Receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis showed that both the GAD-7 scale and its 2 core items (GAD-2) performed well (area under the curve, 0.80 to 0.91) as screening tools for all 4 anxiety disorders.
The study included a nonrandom sample of selected primary care practices.
Anxiety disorders are prevalent, disabling, and often untreated in primary care. A 2-item screening test may enhance detection.
Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, et al. Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:317–325. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-146-5-200703060-00004
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Reaction: Blues 2 West Brom 3
Posted by bcfc.com 14 December 2019
Although West Brom got the points today it doesn't hide the fact that I saw a Birmingham side putting their heart and their soul into the game and providing such a good derby
Pep Clotet.
Pep Clotet's comments after seeing his side narrowly lose out to West Brom at the St. Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium.
Pep Clotet asked if he felt hard done having seen his team take the lead twice and still lose the game…
“It’s hard. But let me start by congratulating West Brom for the result and for the good game that both teams had because it was a fantastic derby. When it comes to the game, I'm a bit disappointed but there are so many positives that we can take from it. We managed to get ahead a couple of times in a game that we knew was going to be very difficult against a good West Brom side. Thery are a lot of points clear of the third-place team. We had to prepare for it very well especially coming from that game ion Wednesday (against QPR) that we were not happy with and we wanted to bounce back. We tried to cut out as many differences between the two teams as possible because we knew we could not fight West Brom on the possession, we needed to find other ways and maximise our own strengths and abilities."
On the number of attempts his side created…
“We wanted to try to get as many shots on target as possible. We had 16 shots in the game and six on target and we scored two and possibly deserved to score another one. Kristian (Pedersen) had a clear chance and (Jeremie) Bela at the end as well. They (West Brom) had three shots on target and they scored three goals. But I did see a Birmingham side that played for the shirt and played for the fans and bounced back from Wednesday, so I'm proud of the lads and their efforts. There were a lot of positives."
On the impact that West Brom sub Charlie Austin had with his two goals…
“The last few games Austin has been very effective. When it came to the goalscoring department today, Austin made a difference when he came on because he had that cutting edge. But I think our players today put everything they had into trying to get the points and I think they deserved to get a point.”
On Blues going head to head with a West Brom side pushing hard for promotion…
“Although West Brom got the points today it doesn't hide the fact that I saw a Birmingham side putting their heart and their soul into the game and providing such a good derby. We didn't get the points, but we are continuing to take huge steps forward and that's the mentality we want to keep having. We have another game next week and we need to keep repeating that.”
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The introduction of Android Oreo last year brought along a lot of thoughtful little changes that make the user-experience a whole lot more enjoyable. One of those new features is a native picture-in-picture (PiP) mode that allows users to tuck away the current window to a corner while switching to another app. The shrunk-down window can then be moved around from one area on the screen to another as need be.
The feature is available for third-party developers to implement, and as you’d imagine, Google has taken the lead in implementing it in a number of its popular apps, including Google Maps, desktop Chrome, YouTube and more. However, third-party apps have also now started to implement the feature, with WhatsApp now believed to be working on the new feature for Android.
According to WABetaInfo, the messaging app recently submitted a new update through the ‘Google Play Beta Program’, bringing the version up to 2.18.234. Once rolled out publicly, the feature is expected to allow users to continue their video calls on a minimized screen while browsing through the rest of their conversation.
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“WhatsApp is working very hard for past many months in order to add this feature, adding new improvements in the next updates. After implementing the feature on WhatsApp for iOS, we can finally affirm it will be possible, in the next updates, to view YouTube and Instagram videos in WhatsApp, using the Picture-in-Picture mode”, WABetaInfo reported late on Thursday.
However, the feature is not available to users for development reasons and it needs to get many other improvements before it is officially enabled for all WhatsApp users. “For this reason, it’s ok if you have updated your WhatsApp version and it’s not working for you”, the report added.
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Massive Easter Island Statues have bodies buried below the surface
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As it turns out, the famous MOAI statues –dubbed by some the ancient TITANS of Rapa Nui— are not just massive heads. These enigmatic statues are complete and have massive bodies buried under the surface.
One of the greatest archaeological mysteries are without a doubt the mysterious MOAI statues located on Easter Island.
According to excavations, the massive statues are more than just heads. Some statues have even been found underwater.
Speaking to Life’s Little Mysteries, Van Tilburg from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California said: “The reason people think they are [only] heads is there are about 150 statues buried up to the shoulders on the slope of a volcano, and these are the most famous, most beautiful and most photographed of all the Easter Island statues.”
“This suggested to people who had not seen photos of [other unearthed statues on the island] that they are heads only.”
The enigmatic Easter Island Statues are a set of hundreds of MASSIVE, ancient carved figures that stand guard on the hilly Pacific landscape of Easter Island.
Now, excavations have proven that these massive statues aren’t just massive heads. Ever since the earliest excavations in 1914, the mysterious statues have been heavily debated in the archaeological community.
Who built them, what are they depicting? What is their purpose and how were they made?
The statues –traditioanlly called ‘moai’ were carved in ancient times out of volcanic rock by the ancient Poylnesians. So far researchers have discovered statues ranging in different size, and the tallest of the statues rises a staggering 10 meters in height.
Their significance is still heavily debated although some scholars believe they were representations of the indigenous peoples’ ancestors.
However, the Moai statues are more than just massive heads and staggering bodies built out of volcanic rock, elaborately carved by the Rapa Nui people on a remote Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean.
As it turns out, the Moai statues may also hold the secrets of the fountain of youth.
A drug called Rapamycin —a bacterial by-product—was found to live in the shadow of Eastern Islands famous Moai statues and is believed to increase lifespan and improve a number of conditions related to aging.
As we mentioned in previous articles, some 50 years ago researchers at Easter Island found a natural drug that was hiding in plain sight inside the soil at Easter Island.
As it turns out, half a century later, experts are calling it the anti-aging fountain or the fountain of youth.
The drug called Rapamycin is a bacterial by-product which can be found living in the shadow of Eastern Islands most famous statues the Moai.
The bacterial by-product has shown to increase lifespan and improve a number of conditions allegedly related to aging.
As you can see the Moai statues are shrouded in mystery. They are huge, they aren’t only massive ahead. They have bodies. Scientists are still unsure as how they were built. Their meaning is not fully understood. And living in their shadow is a bacterial by-product which has shown to increase lifespan and improve a number of conditions allegedly related to aging.
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New Photos Reveal Giant Easter Island Moai Statues are Covered in Mysterious Symbols
New images from the 2012 excavation of Easter Island’s iconic statues reveal the renowned heads are not only connected to giant bodies, but the bodies are covered in mysterious designs and symbols, which researchers have likened to tattoos.
News.com.au reports that a previously unseen series of photographs show in fascinating detail the excavated bodies of the distinctive stone humanoids. Archaeologists were surprised to find that the stone bodies, shielded from environmental weathering beneath the soil, are decorated with ancient details —whirls and crescents believed to be tattoos.
Researchers say the crescent shapes might represent the canoes of local Polynesians, though this is just one theory.
Detailed markings are visible. Credit: The Easter Island Statue Project
The Rapa Nui people who originally settled the island centuries ago erected 887 amazing giant stone statues called moai. The moai have proved to be an enduring mystery with many lasting questions; how and why were they built; were they purposefully buried or did time bury the statues under silt; why do some face away from the sea and towards the island; how were the heavy stones moved around the island; why do some sport heavy red stone hats? Researchers hope to answer these questions and more with investigations.
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Moais (stone statues) on Ahu Nau, Anakena Beach, Easter Island. Wikimedia Commons
Director of the Easter Island Statue Project, Jo Anne Van Tilburg says, “The reason people think they are [only] heads is there are about 150 statues buried up to the shoulders on the slope of a volcano, and these are the most famous, most beautiful and most photographed of all the Easter Island statues. This suggested to people who had not seen photos of [other unearthed statues] that they are heads only,” reports news website IBTimes.
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Initial excavations in 1914 revealed some of the bodies of the giant volcanic rock statues, which can weigh up to 88 tons and be up to 10 meters (33 feet) tall. The hands of some of the statues can be seen to wrap around to the navel.
Academics speculate the stylized figures represented ancestors or high status tribal figures. It is theorized that the stone was quarried on the island, and next it was carved and decorated at the quarries, and then finally the statues were “walked” slowly across the islands to their final positions as guardians protecting against disaster.
Explorer and author David Hatcher Childress wrote in a 2013 article:
Jean-Michel Schwartz says in his 1975 book ‘The Mysteries of Easter Island’ that he believes the statues were not moved by wooden rollers or sleds but rather by using ropes around the statues which ‘walked’ the statues in the same way as one might walk a refrigerator; by tilting it first to one side, shifting the airborne portion forward, and setting it down again. By this method, the statues would truly walk in a waddle fashion around the island.
Later, a Czech mechanical engineer named Pavel recreated this method along with Thor Heyerdahl. With twenty other men, they tied ropes around a statue and leaned it from side to side while pulling it forward with the rope, a slight variation on Schwartz’s method. The method worked, but was excruciatingly slow. It is an ingenious theory which takes into account the legends of the walking statues […]
Easter Island was settled between 300 AD and 1200 AD by Polynesians who eventually became the Rapa Nui. Between the 10th and 16th centuries the island community expanded steadily, with settlements being set up along practically the entire coastline. Following this period, however, the population took an extremely rapid decline dropping from 15,000 to approximately 2,000. Past theories explained their demise as the result of economic and social crises due to environmental deterioration: deforestation leading to land erosion. However, recent studies suggest the arrival of Europeans in the 1700s, and slavery and smallpox, are factors which probably devastated the population of the Rapa Nui.
Work continues on the island through university-led research, and the Easter Island Statue Project, along with assistance from the Rapa Nui people.
Galleries of images of Easter Island discoveries can be seen at the EISP.org site, and others are currently being viewed on social media site Imgur.
The famous moai of Easter Island (BigStockPhoto)
Featured Image: The intricately carved details as recorded in 2012. Archaeologists believe the decorations are tattoos. Credit: The Easter Island Statue Project
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Suspect arrested in Reno abduction, slaying
James Michael Biela, 27, a Sparks pipe fitter, was arrested Tuesday night and booked into the Washoe County Jail on suspicion of killing Brianna Denison in January. He's also charged with kidnapping and sexual assaulting another college student in Reno on Dec. 16, 2007, Reno Police Chief Michael Poehlman said at a news conference.
Authorities said they arrested Biela after a tipster and DNA linked him to the slaying, and detectives said they were investigating whether DNA evidence connects Biela to other crimes in the area.
Biela was arraigned before a justice of the peace Wednesday morning and requested a public defender, Washoe County sheriff's spokeswoman Brooke Keast said. Biela, who was being held without bail, was not asked to enter a plea. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 10.
District Attorney Dick Gammick said prosecutors have the option of seeking a death sentence in the case.
Lauren Denison, Brianna Denison's aunt, thanked the community and law enforcement for their support and determination.
"We're pleased that this person is off the street and he cannot hurt anyone else," she said at the news conference.
Detectives began focusing on Biela after a Secret Witness tip on Nov. 1 -- one of more than 2,200 tips they received in the case, Poehlman said.
In the call, a woman reported that Carleen Harmon, Biela's girlfriend, confided to her that she found a pair of women's underwear in Biela's truck while traveling back from Washington state in September.
Biela had left the Reno area in March, around the time authorities began releasing details of their investigation, including that additional women's underwear had been found with Denison's body, Poehlman said.
Poehlman said Biela's Toyota Tacoma extended cab pickup truck had been sold in Idaho, but the truck was recovered and will be checked for evidence.
Biela first declined to provide a DNA sample when investigators met with him Nov. 7, said Reno Detective David Jenkins.
After that, Harmon, who has a 4-year-old son with Biela, allowed investigators to obtain a DNA sample from the boy, which was compared with evidence from the December rape case and Denison's killing.
Forensic scientists concluded that Biela, as the biological father, could not be excluded as a suspect, a police affidavit shows.
Police then obtained a warrant and Biela, who was under surveillance, was arrested Tuesday afternoon while picking his son up from preschool.
A DNA sample taken from Biela matched police evidence, Poehlman said.
Denison, 19, a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College in California, was visiting her hometown during when she vanished early Jan. 20. Authorities say she had been sleeping on a couch at a friend's rented home near the University of Nevada, Reno.
Her body was found Feb. 15 in a brush-covered lot in south Reno. An autopsy showed she was raped and strangled.
From the beginning investigators said they believed the suspect, who taunted police by leaving two pair of intertwined women's panties with the body, lived in the area.
Records show Biela has lived in the Reno area since 2002.
Reno police spokesman Steve Frady said Biela served in the Marine Corps but he could not provide more details. Records show Biela was at Camp LeJeune, N.C., in 2000.
Gary Grate, of the Charles Graci Jiu Jitsu Academy in Reno, said Biela had trained at the martial arts center on and off for about year.
"It's been a long time, and he hasn't been in probably a year or close to that," Grate said.
Biela obtained a blue belt, one belt above beginner, Grate said.
No one at the academy, which is frequented by police officers, recalled anything suspicious about Biela, he said.
"There was never abnormal behavior at all from anyone I can recall," he said.
Biela's father, Joe Biela, told the Reno Gazette-Journal he hasn't seen his son in years.
"I did not do this, he did, and now he's going to have to suffer for it," Joe Biela said. "The cops have evidence."
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Bronx fire victims describe climbing through windows to get out
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BELMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- The Bronx fire not only killed at least a dozen people, but forced residents out into the freezing weather on Thursday night.
It is like pouring salt on a wound, some residents lost everything and now they are out in the cold.
It's so cold they can't feel their bodies, but they can feel the pain of loss.
One resident told Eyewitness News she couldn't find half her family.
"We have to find her," the resident said.
Everything at the scene is frozen, except for her tears.
"I came out through the window," resident Matthew Igbinetion said. "Yeah, there was smoke everywhere. I couldn't see the door. The door was, I couldn't see the door. Was covered in smoke already."
Igbinetion says he got out on his second floor fire escape without his wallet, phone or keys.
Shivering violently, all he has right now is the blanket a stranger gave him. And now he also has something else from a thoughtful neighbor.
"I just gave him socks that's it. (Why, you're worried about what?) The feet. You got to keep them warm. Frost bite. That's the first thing," the neighbor said.
Another neighbor was out warming up feet of random strangers. His kindness, in some ways, was enough to give these residents hope.
"I've been through three fires. It's not easy," he said.
He's not the only neighbor out there opening up their arms to those in need.
The Red Cross responded to the site, and women from next door brought out piles of jackets and sneakers.
"It's human nature. It's fine. It's fine," she said. "They're going to need it more than I am."
Meanwhile, to stay warm we saw some residents jumping in and out of random running cars.
The Office of Emergency Management and the MTA sent buses to serve as temporary relief from the elements.
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HomeNewsFamily anger at discharged blind patient's canal fall
A family is demanding answers after a blind, 80-year-old man with dementia fell into a canal after being discharged from hospital.
Manchester Royal Infirmary staff placed Neville Tyldesley alone in a taxi, which was given the wrong home address.
The Manchester Evening News reported he became confused and stumbled into a canal.
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has apologised and expressed its "sincere regret".
Mr Tyldesley, who was still wearing a pyjama top and had a cannula tube in his arm, was rescued from the water by a passing jogger.
His daughter Beverley Stringer learned of his accident when she received a phone call as she went to collect him from hospital.
"I literally screamed the hospital down," she said.
Mr Tyldesley's daughters say their father could have died
Ms Stringer said she was told by a nurse on the ward her father had been sent home in a taxi, but to an address she realised was his former home in Miles Platting, Manchester.
His other daughter Diane Brannan said her father was in a "shocking state" when the jogger brought him to her house.
'Unbelievable'
She added: "He was freezing to death... he was shaking that much he couldn't sit down on the sofa."
Ms Brannan said her father would have died if the jogger had not spotted him.
"It doesn't bear thinking about. We want a lot of answers," she said.
Ms Stringer added: "It is unbelievable, it should never have happened."
In a statement, the Trust said: "Our patients' safety is our utmost priority and Mr Tyldesley was assessed by a member of our team before his discharge.
"We have launched a full investigation into how this decision was reached."
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Bike Theft Task Force officers host ride-along on the Springwater Corridor
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on August 1st, 2016 at 2:02 pm
PPB Officers Dave Sanders (right) and Ben Labasan on the Springwater Path Saturday.
(Photos: Portland Police Bureau)
Leaders of the Portland Police Bureau’s Bike Theft Task Force did a ride-along on the Springwater Corridor path on Saturday.
The ride was a spontaneous event that founder of the Task Force, PPB Officer Dave Sanders, posted to Twitter just a few hours before he set out. He was joined by fellow Officer Ben Labasan and the two of them were joined by a handful of citizens who showed up to ride with them. It was all part of the Bike Theft Task Force’s ongoing effort to involve the community in the work they are doing to prevent bike theft and recover stolen bikes.
Why the Springwater? “I’ve been wanting to see the issues along the Springwater firsthand and have been wanting to address some of the ongoing tips and complaints that we have received regarding bike theft in this area,” Ofcr Sanders said via email this morning.
Here’s more from Sanders:
My hope was to allow the community to be involved in navigating some of their concerns/problems that present themselves along the corridor. I wanted to be able to listen to these concerns on a deeper level and to allow the community see first-hand how we follow up on these bike-theft related complaints and the challenges that we are sometimes faced with. Some folks who offer up these bike theft tips/complaints sometimes feel that these go into a black hole and are not addressed, so I wanted to encourage the public that we do take these seriously and address them as we are able. I believe that the community’s involvement in stopping bike theft is crucial and we are never going to get a handle on it if we can’t come together on this as a larger community.
Recovered bike found along the Springwater path.
The officers found lots of parts, but didn’t see any high-end, complete bikes.
Beyond the community-building, the ride led to results. Within a few hours the officers recovered a nice new Public road bike. Sanders and Labasan were excited to recover that bike, but wish they could have run serial numbers on the “hundreds” of other bikes that looked suspicious. “We weren’t able to address many of the bikes we saw,” he wrote, “but tried to follow up on the ones that we thought may be reported/registered and were in decent condition.” Sanders said there was one trove of bikes in particular that he wanted to check out but was unable to due to a “very aggressive dog” that was guarding the area.
While he was dismayed at the conditions he saw along the path, Sanders was encouraged to see so many people out riding. “We received dozens of positive comments on Saturday and many expressed appreciation for being out on the trail,” he wrote. “I wish we could be out there riding every day. I can say, after riding the trail, I understand more deeply the legitimate concerns that are presented by the community around the corridor, and hope that we can continue to address those better.”
Stay tuned for future opportunities to join Sanders and other Portland Police officers on a bike ride. Learn more about the Bike Theft Task Force by following them on Twitter @PPBBikeTheft and on the web at PortlandOregon.gov.
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dan August 1, 2016 at 2:09 pm
Thanks, Bike Theft Task Force! If there were BTTF jerseys or some other way to directly support/contribute to your work, I would be interested — are there any opportunities like that?
Josh Chernoff August 1, 2016 at 2:17 pm
I want to organize a group of people to post out at the trail heads and monitor the bikes going in/out. Its way more safer then getting into the camps and can aid at triangulating stollen bikes. I have walkie talkies and a couple means of surveying bikes as they pass. If there are any takers I want to doe this pairs per group for safety concerns.
Beth H August 1, 2016 at 9:24 pm
So explain how you would “monitor” the bikes. Since you would not have the authority to stop every person and inspect his/her bike, what would your criteria be for suspecting whether a bike might be stolen? And what would you do if you spotted a bicycle — or rider — who looked “suspicious”?
I think more details would be needed here.
Josh Chernoff August 2, 2016 at 11:34 am
I have surveillance tools that will help us Identify the bikes from a distance and archive them for later lookup. I will not be stopping people, since I don’t want to attract attention since it would likely spook the thief.
The idea is simple:
1: ID Bikes
2: Record whos riding it and where it was last seen and when.
3: Broadcast it (“twitter, facebook, PortlandPD ect..”) if certain stolen ASAP.
4: Cross-reference stollen bikes on BikeIndex.org and report general locations.
I’d reach out to Sanders to organize when we would be doing this to see if he would be available.
If we have many people at different sections of the the trail we can approximate where the bike was last seen and notify the appropriate people. Using walkie talkies we can list off bikes to keep an eye out for and check last seen entry points on the trail to see just how far the bike went on the trail.
At the very least just having more people on the tail makes it feel that much un welcoming to bike thieves.
Paul Cole August 3, 2016 at 10:35 am
“I will not be stopping people, since I don’t want to attract attention”
Also because you have no right to be stopping people.
And water is wet, I’m sure everyone else is happy you took the time to establish this.
For the record there is no law stating I cant attempt to engage with people as they pass by too. If they choose to stop is there own choice.
BB August 1, 2016 at 2:41 pm
The take away I get from this is that as long as there is an aggressive looking dog present, one can get away with crimes in the presence of the police.
still riding after all that August 1, 2016 at 3:25 pm
“Sanders said there was one trove of bikes in particular that he wanted to check out but was unable to due to a ‘very aggressive dog’ that was guarding the area.”
The *POLICE* are afraid to enter an area filled with likely stolen property because it’s guarded by a dog? I guess they get the same “we don’t care” attitude from Animal Control that I got when I called to report being attacked and cornered by 2 large dogs. Something is very wrong here.
Bjorn August 1, 2016 at 3:47 pm
Just a note that today could have been the day we saw the trail cleared of aggressive dogs as well as aggressive people if Hales had an ounce of follow through. Instead we’ve got another month of violence, garbage, pollution and chop shops operating openly along the MUP.
Random August 1, 2016 at 4:34 pm
” Instead we’ve got another month of violence, garbage, pollution and chop shops operating openly along the MUP.”
Try another five months. You don’t seriously think that Hales is going to do something about this before he leaves office, do you?
Kate August 2, 2016 at 9:54 am
I’m frustrated at the delay as well, but I’d attribute it less to a lack of “follow-through” from Hales and more from the lawsuit from homeless advocates through the Oregon Law Center.
http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/07/27/faced-with-legal-threat-mayor-charlie-hales-delays-springwater-corridor-homeless-sweep/
eddie August 3, 2016 at 11:41 pm
“Clearing out” the area isn’t going to solve the problem. These are people who have nowhere to go.
If you’re talking about sending them away, they’ll come back. If you’re talking about sending them to jail, you’re talking about making their situation worse. And having more people come around to replace them.
These are people with real problems and talking about them as if they are zombies isn’t going to help anyone. It’s also completely unrealistic. And impossible. Blaming the Mayor is ridiculous. The issues which underlie the problem go beyond any elected official.
The best idea, as mentioned elsewhere, is to have the cops patrol the area as much as possible to keep down the drama and for social workers to visit the place to help folks out.
Ultimately, one has to address the root causes here… this problem isn’t going to go away until this is done.
J_R August 1, 2016 at 4:11 pm
I’d really like to see the mayor and the four city commissioners visit the corridor. Preferably alone or at least incognito without a horde of staffers and the media.
Perhaps they ought to camp out there for a couple of days, and be responsible for getting their own food without carrying a credit card or extra cash…
KristenT August 1, 2016 at 4:22 pm
Sounds like the PPB and associated cities that the Springwater runs through need to mount a bike patrol and ride through here as visibly as possible, as often as possible– not just once in a while, or in conjunction with a big event like Hood To Coast in a couple of weeks.
My daughter will be running in the Hood to Coast. My wife will be a volunteer at one of the transfer points on the Springwater corridor at night. I’ve written to the mayor asking for increased police presense during the event but haven’t had any response.
Jeff J. August 2, 2016 at 9:32 am
Let me Google that for you:
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/hood-to-coast-will-add-security-along-springwater-trail/283714069
J_R August 2, 2016 at 10:53 am
I was aware of the plans by the Hood to Coast organizers, but I don’t consider hired “security officers” in radio contact with the “command center” to be equivalent to Portland Police Officers on site. Do you?
JeffS August 2, 2016 at 8:37 pm
Why does this one day deserve any more or less attention than every other day on the springwater? Sorry, but you’re just feeding into the idea that city government exists primarily to service the tourism industry.
Ted Timmons (Contributor) August 2, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Why not improve for one day? It’s better than improving for zero days.
Todd Boulanger August 1, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Perhaps the next Policy Makers Ride will include a portion of the Springwater Path…as part of the inspection of the “good, bad and the ugly”…not for design issues but for post project operations.
Backstory for new readers:
The Policy Makers Ride is an annual [well] organized bike ride of elected officials, bikeway design professionals, and local bike advocates visiting proposed or completed bikeways as a way of group education, building support for future regional connections and building networking. Typically such rides have not focused on facility “security/ safety” issues but when these concerns rise to where the Springwater is now [when all but the A+ riders feel safe using it 24/7] then it is similar to a high speed roadway with a subpar/ outdated design or missing network link/ barrier.
I used to commute to work on the Springwater corridor, but no longer feel safe using the Springwater corridor unless I’m with a group. The design of the facility makes no difference at all now.
SE August 1, 2016 at 8:33 pm
What do we consider “Springwater” ?? I regularly ride SW from 122nd to Ochocco and do not recognize the area in that lead pic (PPB Officers Dave Sanders (right) and Ben Labasan on the Springwater Path Saturday.)
Just rode SW today. Saw NO Police presence.
Did see the remnants of departed campers (garbage & dead grass) , lots of bike parts. shopping carts , garbage , entrenched homeless campers, garbage , poop ..oh, and did I mention GARBAGE ?
last week saw a large Latino resident pushing a LightSpeed titanium road bike down the MUP. No way was it legally his. Oh, and a large deluxe BBQ that they’d liberated somewhere ..with a FOR SALE sign on it . 🙁
IMHO..CH is going to keep kicking the can down the road as a gift to Wheeler.
Spiffy August 2, 2016 at 8:02 am
to me it looks like where it comes from Oak’s Park and is about to cross the road by Sellwood Park and then go up into Sellwood proper… you don’t continue this far on your ride…
kittens August 1, 2016 at 8:36 pm
meow meow meow meow meow
Ted Timmons (Contributor) August 1, 2016 at 10:32 pm
I’m annoyed (at myself) that I didn’t see this. Would have loved to go.
KristenT August 2, 2016 at 9:28 am
My brother and I are also running HTC. He volunteered to run the first Springwater leg, which should hopefully be in the daytime. Even though the HTC organizers have promised extra patrols, I’m a little leery of any of our teammates being on the trail.
I had also heard that the HTC organizers were considering re-routing the event to stay off the Springwater because of the homeless camps and aggressive campers.
Lance P August 2, 2016 at 9:36 am
On Sunday, while riding home, I saw a short woman and man steal a soma bike and ride up the burnside bridge heading east. The Soma was black. I took a video of the bike and person and was hoping to hear someone ask here on bike portland. If you recently had your Soma bike stolen downtown, let me know and I can pass on the video for whatever good it may do.
bikeindex August 2, 2016 at 2:09 pm
Hey! can you send me that video and I’ll crosslist it with our stolen bike listings? bryan @ bikeindex dot org
Can I have a look at the video?
Paul H August 2, 2016 at 2:01 pm
If the current situation doesn’t improve and I were faced with an election choice for a bond for a new recreational corridor in Portland, I’d probably vote against it.
I would vote for a well conceived bond or tax specifically to deal with housing and homelessness, but not for a project that promises to be one thing (recreation, transportation) but is in reality something else (a horrible housing situation).
And I say that as someone who commutes along Springwater 170 to 180 days every year.
SE August 4, 2016 at 6:41 am
maybe they should ride the stretch from 82nd to 111th where the chop shops are ?
Homeowner regrets letting campers live in backyard
http://koin.com/2016/08/03/homeowner-regrets-letting-campers-live-in-backyard/
Edward August 4, 2016 at 8:53 am
I’d like to know what the “Bike Theft Task Force” actually is. It’s a great name, and it looks like they (whoever “they” might be) are doing some cool stuff. Bike lock publicity and give away? Super cool. An outting ride-along to check out visible chop shops … also a good thing.
But most other public / government focus projects have a clear genesis and mandate and organizing documents, principles, and opportunities for public input and participation.
Right now it looks like this “Task Force” is basically these two officers and whatever it is they choose to do on a particular day (which is still better than nothing). But public participation can harness more power and more ideas.
Is there a non-profit 501(C)(3) set up to accept donations and direct cash flow? The bike lock give away is so cool, but a lot of people I talked to would be willing to purchase a lock (at the give away) plus make a donation to the give away fund.
I don’t want action to get bogged down in portland-process, but there is an advantage to harnessing public involvement (beyond announcinthg things on the Twitter).
‘Hood To Coast’ to avoid Springwater Corridor
http://koin.com/2016/08/04/hood-to-coast-to-avoid-springwater-corridor/
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway is a 100-mile long corridor along Interstate 90, stretching from the Seattle waterfront to Ellensburg in Central Washington. It features hiking and biking trails and a regional trail network used by pedestrians and bicyclists for recreation and transportation. The 3.6-mile trail project in Bellevue will close a gap in the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trail between Factoria Boulevard and Lakemont Boulevard.
Construction begins Sept. 23
Construction begins September 23 to build a 12-foot pedestrian/bicycle path, a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Factoria Blvd, a tunnel under the existing I-405/eastbound I-90 ramps and relocate portions of the trail and install additional lanes on I-90 eastbound off-ramp to Factoria Blvd. Details in construction alert (Aug. 2019). Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
In 2013, the city began the final design on the Greenway Trail between Factoria Boulevard Southeast and 150th Avenue Southeast. The design follows recommendations made in the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trail Design Study. The alignment was chosen as part of a study of the entire Eastgate/I-90 corridor. Sections of the trail in Bellevue include:
Interstate 405 to 132nd Avenue Southeast: Provides a tunnel crossing under the I-90/I-405 ramp and a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Factoria Boulevard Southeast to ensure bicycle and pedestrian safety. Portions of the trail will be relocated to improve capacity for the eastbound I-90 off-ramp to Factoria, helping to avoid long backups onto the highway. Status: Under construction Sept. 2019-end of 2020.
132nd to 150th Avenue Southeast; This section will include a 12-foot-wide paved pedestrian and bicycle path on the north side of Southeast 36th Street. It will include walls, traffic signal modifications, new lighting and new pavement.
156th Avenue Southeast to Southeast Lakemont Boulevard: Section will include a new 12-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycle trail, along the south side of I-90.
Several ideas were considered as part of the Eastgate/I-90 Land Use and Transportation Project on how to address the “Eastgate Gap.” Community input and feedback indicated that bicyclists preferred the southern alignment because it is the most direct and continuous route. A citizen advisory committee endorsed the pathway depicted in the proposed Mountains to Sound Greenway alignment. The city, in partnership with the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, completed a design study of trail alignment along the south side of Interstate 90.
Construction begins September 2019 on I-405/132nd Avenue Southeast segment and is expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
Construction funding for I-405 to 132nd Avenue Southeast segment is $17.7 million. Construction funding for the section of trail between 132nd Avenue Southeast and 142nd Place Southeast is expected to be available by 2022. Design and construction funding for the segments from 142nd Place Southeast and Lakemont Boulevard is not yet available.
Construction Alert for I-405 to 132nd Ave SE (Aug. 2019)
Open house: Displays, Design Corridor Plan, Design Rest Area Plan (June 25, 2015)
Open house: Greenway Trail Conceptual Plans, Trail Displays (Sept. 26, 2012)
Final Trail Design Study (2012)
Final Trail Design Study Appendices (2012)
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According to Article 44 paragraph 1 of the Constitution (Ústava Slovenskej republiky) „Everyone shall have the right to a favourable environment.“ According to Article 44 paragraph 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitution: “Everyone shall have a duty to protect and improve the environment and to foster cultural heritage, no one shall imperil or damage the environment, natural resources and cultural heritage beyond the limits laid down by a law and the State shall care for economical exploitation of natural resources, for ecological balance and on effective environmental policy, and shall secure protection of determined sorts of wild plants and wild animals.” According to Article 45 of the Constitution „Everyone shall have the right to full and timely information about the environmental situation and about the reasons and consequences thereof.“ According to Article 46 paragraph 1 of the Constitution „Everyone may claim his or her right by procedures laid down by a law at an independent and impartial court or, in cases provided by a law, at other public authority of the Slovak Republic.“ According to Article 46 paragraph 2 of the Constitution „Any person who claims his or her rights have been denied by a decision of a body of public administration may come to court to have the legality of the decision reviewed, save otherwise provided by a law. The review of decisions in matters regarding the fundamental rights and freedoms however shall not be excluded from the jurisdiction of courts.“ According to Article 44 paragraph 5 of the Constitution: “Details on the rights and duties according to Article 44 paragraphs 1 to 4 shall be laid down by a law. According to Article 51 paragraph 1 of the Constitution „The rights defined in Articles (...) 44 to 46 of this Constitution may be claimed only within the restrictions of the laws implementing these provisions.“
Citizens can invoke the constitutional right to favourable environment directly. Individual implementing acts specify this right. Therefore citizens in administrative or judicial procedures invoke rights set forth in the implementing acts. According to Article 7 paragraph 5 of the Constitution “International treaties on human rights and fundamental freedoms and international treaties for whose exercise a law is not necessary, and international treaties which directly confer rights or impose duties on natural persons or legal persons and which were ratified and promulgated in the way laid down by a law shall have precedence over laws.” Public authorities have to apply provisions of international treaties, if these are sufficiently concrete. Several court decisions exist in which courts have explained provisions of national law in conformity with the Aarhus Convention in order to reach the objective of the Aarhus Convention. Based on these decisions, the public authorities, afterwards, applied the Aarhus Convention in administrative proceedings.
The Slovak court system consists of district courts (okresné súdy), regional courts (krajské súdy), a Specialised Criminal Court (Špecializovaný trestný súd), a Supreme Court (Najvyšší súd) and a Constitutional Court (Ústavný súd). According to the Constitution “The judiciary in the Slovak Republic shall be administered by independent and impartial courts. The judiciary shall be independent of other state authorities at all levels.” The court agenda can be divided into civil matters, criminal matters and administrative matters. Constitutional Court also decides cases when constitutional rights of citizens could have been denied by decisions of other courts and it can thus revoke such decisions. In civil matters courts also decide cases concerning property rights and when another infringes these rights (these typically concerns emissions of noise, chemical substances etc.). In administrative matters, courts determine the legality of decisions of public authorities or they can order the public authority to issue a decision when the public authority remains inactive. There are no special courts or tribunals to decide environmental matters in Slovakia. Cases related to environmental matters are decided by administrative panels of regional courts or by the Supreme Court. According to the Civil Procedure Code (Občiansky súdny poriadok) if more than one court is competent, the proceedings can be held by any one of them. According to the Civil Procedure Code the competent court is the court that has jurisdiction over the place of residence of a citizen. A complaint can be sent also to other competent courts. For example, according to the Civil Procedure Code the competent courts shall also be the courts that have jurisdiction over the defendant's permanent place of work, over the place where a transaction or occurrences took place that gave rise to the damage claim or over the organisational unit of the defendant – legal person – if the dispute concerns this unit.
Parties to judicial procedure can appeal the decision of the first instance court. A court of second instance – appellate court – reviews the decision. In cases set forth by law, the decisions of appellate courts can also be challenged by a specific appeal (appeal on the points of law). Appeal on the points of law (dovolanie) can be filed in cases when serious procedural failures of the appellate court lead to unlawfulness of the decision or when the appellate court has been deciding a case of major legal significance. The right to file an appeal on the points of law in administrative matters is limited. The Prosecutor General (generálny prokurátor) can file an extraordinary appeal on the points of law (mimoriadne dovolanie) against court decisions under extraordinary circumstances. After the exhaustion of all legal remedies, the Constitutional Court can review the lower court’s decision – a party has to file a constitutional complaint invoking infringement of a specific constitutional right by the court decision. Administrative courts only have cassation rights. They can only revoke a decision of public authority and send the case back to a new proceeding. However, in matters concerning access to information the courts can order public authorities to disclose the information requested. In environmental matters, specific expert knowledge from the environmental field is often needed. In civil matters, for example cases concerning infringement of property rights by emissions (imisie), expert opinions are used, which often decide the whole case. Environmental NGOs are exempted from court fees. According to the Civil Procedure Code the court may commence proceedings on its own motion for example in cases involving custody of minors, permission to place or holding a person in a medical institution, legal capacity, guardianship, declaring a person dead or probate. In environmental matters the proceedings shall commence on a petition. The court may not commence proceedings in environmental matters from own motion.
If the public authority fails to satisfy the request for information, even partially, it shall issue an administrative decision to that effect within the period of eight working days. Applicants requesting access to information may file an appeal against the public authority's decision refusing to disclose the requested information within 15 days from the delivery of such decision. According to the law if the public authority failed to provide information within the period set for disposition of the request, or to issue a decision, it shall be deemed that the public authority issued a decision denying the information. It is a so-called “fictive” decision. This fictive decision can also be challenged by an appeal. The court can examine the decision of the appellate body under the Civil Procedure Code (in a system of administrative judiciary). Administrative section of the office of the public prosecutor may upon the request of the applicant propose revocation of an unlawful decision refusing the request for information and file a ´protest´ (protest) against such decision. If the public authority does not accept his protest, the public prosecutor can file a complaint against the decision of public authority to the court within the administrative judiciary. Refusals of request for information must include information on remedies available. Every decision on refusal of request for information must include instructions on the possibility and time limit for an appeal and also on the possibility of judicial review of the decision. The request for information may be filed in writing, orally, by telephone, fax, e-mail or any other technically reasonable means. It must be clear from the request which public authority it is addressed to, who filed it, what information it concerns and the means of disclosure the applicant prefers. Applicants may file an appeal against the public authority’s refusal to disclose requested information within 15 days from the delivery of such decision or lapse of the period for request disposition. The appeal shall be lodged with the public authority that issued or should have issued the decision. The court may review the decision rejecting the appeal under Civil Procedure Code. The legal action may be taken to the court within 2 months from the delivery of decision rejecting the appeal. The information requested should be part of the administrative file. In some cases, the court does not have the information requested at its disposal and therefore rules on its accessibility only in the abstract without the opportunity to get familiar with the information itself. The court can order the public authority to disclose the information. This is subject to judicial discretion.
The Administrative Procedure Code (správny poriadok) is the fundamental procedural act to lay down rules for the conduct of public authorities in administrative procedure in environmental matters. Administrative procedure in environmental matters commences upon a petition (e.g. request for a permit of conduct) or from own motion of the public authority (e.g. when the public authority finds violation of law by a certain person, it opens proceedings to impose sanctions against the person). Participants in administrative procedure are persons, whose rights or interests protected by the law are likely to be affected by the final administrative decision, or who claim they can be affected until the contrary is proven. Special acts/statutes can state, that other persons shall also be participants in administrative proceedings. Participants in administrative procedure are entitled to information from the (administrative) file, to move for additional evidence, express their position, and the public authority is obliged to deal with what was abducted by the participants. Administrative procedure is concluded when the decision on the matter of the case is issued. All participants must be notified of the decision. An appeal against the administrative decision can be lodged to a superior administrative authority. Administrative decisions can be taken to court only after exhaustion of all ordinary administrative remedies, so only after the appeal has been decided. Courts review both the procedural and the substantive legality of administrative decisions. If in administrative proceedings, the procedural rule has been infringed to such an extent that it could have affected legality of the final decision, the court has to revoke such decision. Verification of technical findings is limited. According to the Civil Procedure Code „In respect of a decision issued by an administrative authority on the basis of legally allowed discretion (správne uváženie), the court shall only review whether such decision goes beyond the scope and points of view set forth by the law.“ The court, however, reviews whether the public authority satisfactorily dealt with the objections of the participants on the correctness or sufficiency of material and technical findings and calculations.
Slovak laws do not explicitly provide for the court review of land use plans or other normative types of environmentally relevant decisions defining the use of space. The state prosecutor is entitled to file a petition to the court to abolish an unlawful land use plan.
A right to file a court petition within administrative judiciary is granted to a person, who claims his/her right has been denied by a decision of public authority. If a decision has been issued within administrative procedure, all its participants are entitled to file a court petition should the decision deny or infringe their rights. Current Slovak legislation in force does not explicitly set forth that courts can review EIA screening decisions on the basis of petition filed by the public. EIA screening decision is not being issued within administrative procedure and it is very questionable if the public can claim that its right has been denied by an EIA screening decision. Courts cannot review EIA scoping decisions. Courts cannot review the outcome of the EIA procedure (EIA final statement - stanovisko). But administrative permit decisions issued on the basis of the EIA final statement (EIA decisions or EIA permits) can be reviewed by courts. The right to file a complaint against the permit decision is given to the participants in the administrative proceedings in which the permit decision was issued. It has to be filed within two months after the permit decision has been notified to them. The regional court decides this complaint. The court should also review the lawfulness of the documents, on which the permit decision was based, therefore also legality of the EIA final statement. If the court finds the EIA final statement unlawful, it should also revoke the permit decision. Courts review both procedural and substantive legality of EIA decisions. Their review of material and technical findings and calculations and expert accuracy of the Environmental Impact Study is, however, limited. On the other hand, courts do review whether the permitting authority satisfactorily dealt with the objections of the participants on the correctness and accuracy of material and technical findings and calculations and expert accuracy of the Environmental Impact Study. Standing before the national courts is granted to NGOs and other persons, who submitted comments in the public consultation phase of the EIA procedure. These persons thus become participants in the administrative permit procedure and only the participants of the administrative permit procedure are granted legal standing according to the Slovak legislation. Standing before the court is also granted to persons, who did not make comments in the public consultation phase of the EIA procedure, but are participants in the administrative permit procedure. The court may grant a preliminary injunction (predbežné opatrenie), which means suspension of the enforcement of the permit decision. According to the Civil Procedure Code “Upon the request of a party to the proceedings, the presiding judge may suspend by a resolution the enforcement of the administrative decision, should there be a threat of a serious damage in case the administrative decision challenged was promptly enforced.” There are no special rules applicable to EIA procedures besides the general provision stated above.
Courts can review IPPC decisions or authorizations. The right to file a complaint against IPPC permit decisions is given to the participants of the administrative proceedings within two months after the delivery of the IPPC permit decision. Regional courts decide the complaint. The court should also review the lawfulness of the documents, on which the IPPC permit decision was based. If it finds them unlawful, it should cancel the IPPC permit decision. Courts review both the procedural and the substantive legality of IPPC decisions. Their review of material and technical findings and calculations and expert correctness of the IPPC documentation is, however, limited. On the other hand, courts do review whether the permitting authority satisfactorily dealt with the objections of the participants on the correctness and adequacy of material and technical findings and calculations and expert accuracy of IPPC Documentation. Standing before the court is granted to every participant of the permit proceedings, who claims that his/her rights have been infringed or denied by the IPPC permit decision. If the IPPC project is subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), environmental NGOs and persons who submit their comments in the public consultation phase of the EIA procedure are participants of the administrative proceedings, in which the permit is issued. There are also other persons who are participants without the need to participate in the public consultation phase of the IPPC procedure. This concerns e.g. owners of property that are likely to be affected by the IPPC permit decision. Participants in the proceedings are also persons who claim that their rights or legally protected interests are likely to be affected by the IPPC permit decision, until the contrary is proven. Eligible participants in the proceedings are also environmental non-governmental organisations or civic associations with at least 250 members (natural persons) older than 18 years (at least 150 of them must have permanent residence in the municipality, where the IPPC activity is to be permitted) if they submit their application to be participants in the IPPC permit proceedings in writing. Courts can issue a preliminary injunction, which means suspension of the enforcement of the IPPC permit decision. According to the Civil Procedure Code “Upon the request of a party to the proceedings, the presiding judge may suspend by a resolution the enforcement of the administrative decision, should there be a threat of a serious damage if the administrative decision was promptly enforced.” There are no special rules applicable to IPPC procedures besides the general provisions stated above.
Claims against private individuals or legal entities in environmental matters can be submitted to court directly. A person can submit a complaint to the court if the exercise of his/her property rights is unnecessarily bothered by emissions produced by another person. According to the Civil Code “the owner of a thing must omit all that unnecessarily bothers another person or that seriously denies the exercise of his rights.” According to the Civil Code (Občiansky zákonník) “the owner must in particular not jeopardise the neighbour's building or plot by arrangements of his plot or by arrangements of his building placed thereon without taking sufficient measures for stiffening of the building or plot; furthermore, the owner must not unnecessarily bother the neighbours with noise, dust, ashes, smoke, gases, vapour, smells, solid or liquid waste, light, shading and vibrations (emissions)”. An affected neighbour can ask the court to prohibit the person’s production of the emissions. A person can also claim damages for material loss that was suffered due to the unlawful conduct of another person. If a public authority during administrative proceedings remains inactive, a participant in the administrative proceedings may file a complaint against inactivity to the court. The court is entitled to order the public authority to issue a decision in a given time or to make another motion in a given time. A person can also submit a petition to the court against unlawful denial of his/her rights by the public authority in case its consequences are pending or in imminent threat of repetition of the unlawful action. The court is entitled to order the public authority to cease the unlawful action. According to the Act on prevention and restoration of environmental damage, competent authorities in environmental liability matters are the Ministry of the Environment, regional environmental offices (krajské úrady životného prostredia), district environmental offices (obvodné úrady životného prostredia) and Slovak Environmental Inspectorate (Slovenská inšpekcia životného prostredia). The owner or lessee of the property, who may be affected by environmental damage, a person whose rights or legally protected interests may be directly affected by the environmental damage or an environmental NGO may notify the competent authority that environmental damage has occurred. This notification must be filed in writing and must include the name of the operator of the harmful activity, and if it is known to the one notifying the authorities, s/he should also include the place where the damage occurred, a description of the matter, a set of evidence proving the content of the notice and information about the one notifying. If the competent authority finds out that the environmental damage has occurred, it may require the operator to take necessary restorative measures or it may take the necessary restorative measures and then recover the costs incurred. The competent authority informs the one notifying of the steps taken in writing. The owner or lessee of the affected property, municipality affected by the damage or a person whose rights or legally protected interest may be directly affected by the damage occurred are participants in the administrative proceedings on imposing the restorative measures. Environmental NGOs existing for more than a year, which filed a notification on the environmental damage, may become participants in the proceedings upon request. Every participant of administrative proceedings on preventive or restorative measures may bring legal action before the court to review lawfulness of the administrative decision on preventive or restorative measures. This complaint is dealt with within the administrative judiciary.
Apart from an appeal (odvolanie) against the administrative decision and an administrative petition (správna žaloba) against the appeal decision to court, there are other means of remedies available. A person can open an extra appellate procedure (mimoodvolacie konanie) by filing an application for review of the administrative decision after the time limit for an ordinary appeal expired. Based on this application, a superior administrative authority may revoke an unlawful decision of a subordinate administrative authority. A person may also file a petition to the administrative section of the office of the public prosecutor asking the public prosecutor to lodge a so-called protest against an unlawful administrative decision. A complaint can also be filed against an unlawful conduct of public authorities. The head of the office of the public authority concerned usually handles this complaint. The Ombudsman reviews citizens´ petitions claiming infringement of their rights. If a claim concerns an enforceable administrative decision of public authority and the ombudsman finds it unlawful, he may advance the case to the public prosecutor, who can lodge a protest. There is no specific environmental ombudsman in Slovakia. A superior administrative authority may cancel an unlawful administrative decision of a subordinate body within a so-called extra appellate procedure. Public prosecutors may lodge a so-called protest against an unlawful administrative decision and may also propose the authority, which issued the decision, to revoke it. If neither this authority nor the superior authority satisfactorily handles the protest, the public prosecutor may file a court petition against unlawful administrative decision.
Criminal prosecution is executed only by public authorities represented by the public prosecutor.
Administrative Procedure
Judicial Procedure
A person, whose right is to be determined in the administrative procedure, a person, whose rights or legally protected interests, may be directly affected by the administrative decision (e.g. property rights) or a person claiming s/he may be adversely affected by the decision until the contrary is proven.
In proceedings on permission of activities subject to EIA procedure, a natural person who submits comments to the intended activity in the EIA procedure and from this his/her interest in the final decision is evident, becomes participant to the proceedings.
The following rules are applicable for all actors:
A right to file a court petition within administrative judiciary is granted to a person, who claims his/her right has been denied by a decision of public authority.
If a decision has been issued within administrative procedure, all its participants are entitled to file a court petition should the decision deny or infringe their rights.
A court petition can be filed also by the person who was not a participant in the administrative proceedings, but should have been.
All NGOs whose right is being decided on, or which may be directly affected by the administrative decision.
Concerning the activities that are subject to EIA procedure, environmental NGOs, which submitted comments to the intended activity in writing within the EIA procedure, become participants in the consequent administrative permit proceeding.
Environmental NGOs or civic associations with at least 250 members older than 18 years (at least 150 of them must have permanent residence in the municipality, where the IPPC activity is to be permitted), become participants in the IPPC permit procedure, if they submit their application for participation in writing.
Environmental NGOs can also become participants of administrative permit procedure concerning the activities that fall within the scope of the Nature Conservation Act, if they exist for at least a year and notify the public authority of its interest to be a participant in the specific administrative proceeding.
Other legal entities
All legal entities, whose rights are being determined or may be directly affected by the administrative decision.
Legal persons may become participants of administrative permit procedure concerning the activities that are subject to EIA procedure, if they submit their comments within the EIA procedure, from which their interest in the final decision is evident.
Municipalities, in which the concerned activity is to be held, can become participants of the administrative permit procedures according to the Building Act or IPPC Act.
Ad hoc groups
In the permit procedures concerning the EIA activities, citizens´ groups with at least 250 members (natural persons older than 18 years), which submit collective comments to the intended activity within the EIA procedure and their interest in the final decision is evident.
foreign NGOs
There are no specific rules for foreign NGOs explicitly stated.
Different sectoral acts set forth different scopes of participants in administrative procedures. This includes the Building Act, Nature Conservation Act, EIA Act or IPPC Act. The general rules of participation in administrative procedure are included in the Administrative Procedure Code (Act Number 71/1976 Coll.). There is no actio popularis in Slovakia. As already mentioned above, the public prosecutor may lodge a protest against an unlawful administrative decision and may ask the public authority that issued the decision to revoke it. If neither this authority nor the superior authority satisfactorily handles the protest, the public prosecutor may file a court petition against unlawful administrative decision. The public prosecutor may also lodge a protest against unlawful resolution or generally binding decree of a municipality or a region, and if these authorities do not satisfactorily handle it, the public prosecutor may file a court petition against an unlawful resolution or a generally binding decree. The public prosecutor may also file a court petition against inactivity of public authority if it remains inactive even after the prosecutor’s notice. The Prosecutor General (generálny prokurátor) may lodge an extraordinary appeal on the points of law (mimoriadne dovolanie) against an enforceable court decision in civil proceedings. The Public prosecutor may also become a party to the pending judicial proceeding i.e. when one of the parties is the state, state enterprise, legal entity with state share, municipality or region (self-governing territorial units).
In environmental matters, in general, the following rule applies to legal standing: a participant in the administrative proceedings is a person whose right is being decided on, a person whose rights or legally protected interests may by directly affected by the decision, or a person who claims s/he may be affected until the contrary is proven. A right to file a court petition against an unlawful administrative decision is granted to a person, who claims his/her rights have been infringed/denied by the administrative decision. If the decision has been issued in administrative procedure, all participants have a right to file a court petition should they feel that the decision infringed their rights. A person who was not a participant although s/he should have been can also file a court petition.
Lawyers can represent participants in administrative procedure and parties to judicial procedure. According to the Civil Procedure Code that also regulates judicial review of administrative decisions the plaintiff must be represented by a legal counsel/attorney (advokát), unless the plaintiff or his employee (member) acting on the plaintiff’s behalf before the court has a legal education (this means a full university degree in law). This compulsory legal counsel only concerns administrative matters. In civil matters (i.e. cases concerning infringements of property rights, which include emissions) the plaintiff does not have to be represented by an attorney. However, in order to file an appeal on the points of law the applicant must be represented by an attorney unless s/he or his/her employee (member) acting on his/her behalf has a legal education. Likewise in proceedings before the Constitutional Court, the plaintiff has to be represented by an attorney. The number of lawyers specializing in environmental cases and matters is low in Slovakia. These lawyers often cooperate with environmental NGOs. There is no specific list of these lawyers available to the public, but if someone seeks their assistance, the contacts are distributed via environmental NGOs.
According to the Civil Procedure Code “Means of proof are any means that allow to establish the facts, in particular examination of witnesses, expert opinions, reports and statements of bodies and legal persons, documents, inspection and examination of the parties.” Parties to judicial proceedings have the right to give comments on any adduced or admitted evidence. According to the Civil Procedure Code “The court evaluates evidence at its discretion, evaluating each item of evidence separately and in its entirety, while taking due account of everything that has transpired in the proceedings, including statements made by the parties.” According to the Civil Procedure Code documents issued by courts of the Slovak Republic or other state bodies within the bounds of their authority, and documents declared as public deeds certify the truth of the facts they certify or confirm unless there is a proof to the contrary. According to the Civil Procedure Code, parties to judicial proceedings are obliged to adduce evidence to uphold their claims. The court may take evidence that has not been adduced by the parties, if this is necessary to decide the case on its merit. Parties to judicial proceedings may request an expert opinion through the court. According to the Civil Procedure Code “Where the establishment of the facts necessary for the decision requires expert knowledge, the court shall appoint an expert after the examination of the parties. The expert will be heard by the court which may also request the expert to present his opinion in writing.” Parties to judicial proceedings may also provide expert opinion individually upon agreement with the expert. The expert opinion is not binding on the judge. The rule of judicial discretion (that the court evaluates evidence at its discretion) is again applicable. Should the court not respect the expert opinion, it has to give due reasons for it.
An appeal against an administrative decision lodged to the administrative superior does have a suspensive effect. A court petition against an administrative decision does not suspend the enforcement of the administrative decision it concerns. A public authority may expel the suspensive effect of an appeal. According to the Administrative Procedure Code “If a public interest is urgently requesting it or if an irreparable harm may occur to one of the participants in the case that the decision is not promptly enforced, the administrative authority may expel the suspensive effect. However, the urgency has to be duly reasoned. Together with the petition against the administrative decision, a plaintiff may also file an application for preliminary injunction at the court. Based on this and prior to the trial, a court may suspend execution of the administrative decision to be reviewed. In civil proceedings (e.g. proceedings concerning denial property rights by emissions) a court may order the other persons to do something, to abstain from doing something or to suffer something to be done. This is called a preliminary measure (predbežné opatrenie). According to the Civil Procedure Code “Upon the request of a party to the proceedings, the presiding judge may suspend by a resolution the enforcement of the decision, should there be a threat of a serious damage if the decision challenged was promptly enforced.” According to the Civil Procedure Code “Preliminary measure shall be issued by the court on application. No application for preliminary measure shall be required in the proceedings that can be initiated on the court's own motion.” In principle, the court may issue a preliminary measure if the situation of the parties must be temporarily adjusted or if it fears that the execution of the judicial decision could be endangered. According to the Civil Procedure Code “The court may issue a preliminary measure mainly with a view to … ordering the party to do something, to abstain from doing something, or to suffer something to be done. A preliminary measure may be issued to impose an obligation on other than a party to the proceedings only where this represents a fair and just request.” Since the preliminary measure is at the plaintiff’s own disposal, there is no deadline set. There is an appeal against the decision on the preliminary measure. This appeal, however, does not have a suspensive effect – so it does not exclude enforcement of the preliminary measure.
According to the Civil Procedure Code costs of the proceedings include primarily cash expenses of the parties and their representatives, court fees, lost earnings of the parties and their legal representatives, costs of taking evidence and legal counsel fees when the representatives are attorneys. A petition against the administrative decision costs EUR 66. For an appeal against the court decision within the administrative judiciary a fee of EUR 66 has to be paid. A petition to protect one’s property rights against emissions costs EUR 99.5 fee. A petition on damages costs 6 % from the sum that is being claimed, which is a minimum of EUR 16.5 and a maximum of EUR 16 596.50. A court fee to lodge an appeal on the points of law is twice the fee of a court petition. An attorney’s remuneration is based on a mutual agreement between him/her and the client (contractual fee). It is based on an individual agreement, therefore it cannot be estimated in general. If such an agreement does not exist, the attorney is entitled to remuneration laid down by law (tariff fee). In the case of success in judicial proceedings, the court awards the successful party the reimbursement of attorney costs only in the amount of tariff fees. However, the successful party has to pay the full costs (contractual fee) to the attorney. A tariff fee for one motion of legal assistance in administrative justice (i.e. filing a petition, consultations with the client, court representation, lodging an appeal) is approximately EUR 127. A tariff fee for one motion of legal assistance in matters concerning ownership rights is approximately EUR 58. A tariff fee for one motion of legal assistance in matters concerning damages is counted as a percentage of the damages claimed. Experts can agree with the client on a contractual remuneration. If such an agreement does not exist, he is also entitled to a tariff fee. The court reimburses the expert the tariff fee. Its amount is determined by the number of hours spent on the expert opinion (basic hourly fee is approximately EUR 13) or as a percentage of the value of the subject matter (if it concerns expert estimation of a price of property). An application to suspend enforcement of the administrative decision to be reviewed is not subject to any fee. An application for preliminary measure costs EUR 33. When filing an application for preliminary measure, no deposit is necessary.
According to the Civil Procedure Code the court shall award the successful party the reimbursement of the costs incurred by the party against the unsuccessful party. According to the Civil Procedure Code “Under specific circumstances, the court may exceptionally decide not to award the costs of the proceedings in whole or in part.” In administrative justice, the ´loser pays principle´ does not apply and the public authority is not entitled to reimbursement of the costs even when it was successful.
According to the Act on court fees (zákon o súdnych poplatkoch), ecological organisations or municipalities and regional self-governing units in proceedings on public and public-benefit matters are exempted from court fees. Ecological organisations shall prove their mission by submitting their statutes. According to the Act on court fees, proceedings in matters concerning inactivity of public authority, protection against unlawful conduct of public authority or claiming damages for unlawful decision or conduct of public authority are relieved of a court fee. According to the Civil Procedure Code „On a petition filed by a party, the presiding judge may exempt a party from all or part of court fees if the party is destitute and if the petition does not constitute an arbitrary or manifestly unfounded attempt of exercising or defending one's right.” Exemption from court fees is awarded to a person in material need. This person must prove to the court his/her weak material condition. In judicial proceedings on the review of legality of an administrative decision, the public authority is not entitled to reimbursed costs even when it is successful. No other information about financial mechanisms to provide financial assistance to applicants is available. Some NGOs provide pro bono legal aid in environmental matters, but their capacity is limited. Attorneys provide legal aid and ask for financial remuneration. Its amount is based on a mutual agreement between the attorney and the client. Conditions for natural persons and NGOs are in principle the same. Free legal aid in civil and administrative (including environmental) matters is provided by the state Legal Aid Centre. Free legal aid is available only to natural persons in material need or whose income is not higher than 1.4 multiple of living subsistence and they therefore cannot afford legal assistance. If a person’s income is higher than 1.4 multiple of living subsistence but it does not exceed 1.6 multiple of living subsistence, s/he pays 20 % of the costs of legal assistance and the Legal Aid Centre provides it. Environmental NGOs are not entitled to legal aid from the Legal Aid Centre. No information is available on the law firms´ regular pro bono legal assistance. If such assistance is provided, it concerns ad hoc pro bono legal assistance. There are no legal clinics dealing with environmental cases. There are a few lawyers dealing with public interest environmental law cases, but their capacities are limited. There are one or two NGOs, which also handle public interest environmental law cases, but their capacities are limited.
An administrative authority is obliged to decide in the merits of the case within 30 days and, if the matter is exceptionally complicated, within 60 days. An appellate body can adequately prolong the timeline if, due to the nature of the matter, it is not possible to decide even in the longer timeline. It is not possible to sanction the administrative authority for delivering a decision in delay. A person may, however, claim financial compensation for loss caused by delays of the administrative authority in administrative proceeding. A person must file a complaint against an unlawful decision of public authority within two months s/he has been notified. According to the Civil Code, a right to damages becomes time barred after two years from the day when the aggrieved party learned about the damage and who is to be held liable. At the latest, the damage claim is time-barred in 3 years (or in 10 years if the damage was caused deliberately) after it occurred. If it concerns personal harm or injury, the damage claim cannot become time-barred. A person has to file a damages claim in the time limits mentioned above, otherwise s/he will not be successful in the proceedings. Ownership rights cannot become time-barred therefore a court action to protect them against unlawful denial or infringement can be filed any time in the course of denial or infringement. The court does not have a legally stipulated time limit to decide the case. In principle, a court decision has to be produced in writing and notified within 30 days after it was delivered. An appeal against the court decision must be lodged within 15 days from its notification to the court, which delivered it. The court does not have a legally stipulated time limit to decide on the appeal. In cases set forth by law, an appeal on the points of law against the decision of an appellate court can be lodged within one month after the decision entered in force. It has to be sent to the court, which decided the case in the first instance. A constitutional complaint has to be filed in two months after the final decision entered in force. In administrative judiciary, the usual duration of proceedings is half a year to a year. This concerns one court instance. There is no legal deadline set for the court to deliver its decision. Once the decision is delivered, it must be, in principle, produced in writing and notified within 30 days. There are no sanctions against courts delivering decisions in delay. A party to the judicial proceedings may file a complaint against court delay to the presiding judge and if the court continues to act in delay, s/he can file a constitutional complaint. Constitutional Court can order the court to act without unnecessary delay and award the party financial compensation for delay in court action.
In order to be effective, the public has to participate in administrative proceedings as its participants, and lodge an appeal against the first-instance administrative decision. Only when members of the public become participants in administrative procedure, are they entitled to file a court action against the administrative decision. In practice, members of the public often do not participate in the proceedings because they do not know them. Therefore they often challenge administrative decisions only after the administrative proceedings have been concluded, which is much more difficult. NGOs and public authorities provide relevant information to the public in a structured and accessible manner on their official websites according to the Act Number 211/2000 Coll. on free access to the information. All published decisions by public authorities have the charge/instruction of possibility how to appeal the decision (take access to justice). Mediation (mediácia) and arbitration (rozhodcovské konanie) exist in Slovakia. Arbitration means that the parties may agree by contract that property disputes that have arisen or may arise between them in respect of a given contractual or other legal relationship will be dealt with by arbitration. Since arbitration is applicable only in property disputes, its applicability in environmental matters is limited. There is no information available on the use of mediation in environmental matters.
According to the Article 47 paragraph 3 of the Constitution: All parties to any legal proceedings before courts, other public authorities or bodies of public administration shall be treated equally. The use of different languages is allowed in court proceedings. According to the Article 47 paragraph 4 of the Constitution: “A person who claims not to know the language used in the proceedings before courts, other public authorities or bodies of public administration shall have the right to an interpreter.” According to the Civil Procedure Code “The parties shall participate in civil proceedings on an equal footing. They have the right to use their mother tongue in the proceedings. The court shall have to guarantee the parties equal opportunities to exercise their rights.” Translation is provided and paid by the government in court procedures.
According to the EIA Act, if another state notified the Ministry of the Environment of an intended activity, which may have a significantly negative impact within the territory of the Slovak Republic, the Ministry must declare its intention to participate in the EIA procedure to the other state. Upon request of another state, the Ministry shall provide accessible information on the possible impacts of the intended activity on the environment in Slovakia. After the EIA Documentation from another state is delivered to the Ministry, it shall be made public and the public may send its objections to it. The Ministry of the Environment shall also publish the decision of another state concerning permission of the activity. According to the EIA Act, the Ministry of the Environment shall provide information to and notify other states of intended activities that may have a significant impact on its environment. If the affected state declares its intention to participate in the EIA procedure, the Ministry will send it the EIA documentation. The EIA final statement has to deal with the objections of the affected state and of the public of the affected state. A decision concerning permission of the activity has to be notified also to the affected state. Participation in administrative proceedings of individuals and environmental NGOs is not limited to Slovak citizens or environmental NGOs founded in Slovakia. Foreign members of the public or environmental NGOs are given the same procedural rights as the Slovak citizens and NGOs. It is not possible to choose between courts of different countries in environmental matters.
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JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet
Name: John William Jones
Spouse: Maggie Jones (née Jones)
Parent: Ellen Jones (née Roberts)
Parent: David Jones
Occupation: author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet
Area of activity: History and Culture; Literature and Writing; Poetry; Printing and Publishing
Author: Meredydd Evans
Born 5 March 1883 at 4 Caerffridd, Tanygrisiau, Merionethshire, son of David Jones, ‘Glan Barlwyd’, and his wife Ellen (née Roberts), Llwynogan, Llanedwen, Anglesey. He was educated at Glan-y-pwll school until he was twelve years old, and then he spent a further two years at the Higher Grade School in Blaenau Ffestiniog. In 1897 he went to work at the Oakley quarry where he laboured diligently for 53 years until his retirement after injuring his hip. He married Maggie Jones, Minffordd, Oakley Square, Tanygrisiau, 11 June 1913, and they had one son. In 1936 J.W. Jones was elected an elder in Bethel chapel (CM), Tanygrisiau, and he was also a devoted and interesting Sunday school teacher for many years. He provided ready support for young boys and girls in his district who were fond of reading.
He was generally known as ‘Joni Bardd’ in his neighbourhood and he fulfilled the function of folk poet conscientiously. He had a burning interest in Welsh and English poetry, and particularly in collecting and publishing the work of some of the poets of his own and neighbouring areas. He edited some of the works of Ap Alun Mabon, Gwrid y Machlud (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1941); Ioan Brothen, Llinell neu Ddwy (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1942); Gwilym Deudraeth, Yr Awen Barod (Llandysul, 1943); Rolant Wyn, Dŵr y Ffynnon (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1949) and R.R. Morris, Caneuon R.R. Morris (1951). One of his close friends was Ellis Humphrey Evans (‘Hedd Wyn’) and he assisted J.R. Jones with the publication of Cerddi'r Bugail. He assisted with collecting the contents of O Drum i Draeth by Eliseus Williams (‘Eifion Wyn’), and with the preparation of biographies of Owen Griffith Owen (‘Alafon’) and John John Roberts (‘Iolo Caernarfon’). He also assisted T. Gwynn Jones in collecting material for his book Welsh Folklore and Folk-custom (1930). He took particular delight in his friendship with T. Gwynn Jones and received several manuscripts from him, including the ode Gwlad y Bryniau after the bard himself had written it (‘wedi i'r bardd ei hun ei hysgrifennu’).
He lectured a great deal to literary societies on the poets of his locality and he collected many of the works of the poets and authors of Gwynedd, e.g. Alafon, Elfyn, Isallt, W. Pari Huws, Gwilym Prysor, Carneddog (Richard Griffith), Glaslyn (Richard Jones Owen), Barlwydon, Gwilym Morgan, Awena Rhun, Glyn Myfyr, Llifon (William Griffith Owen, and others. He also ensured that the poets, authors and musicians of the locality were commemorated in a worthy manner. He arranged the erection of a gravestone for Robert Owen Hughes (‘Elfyn’), and a memorial stone (a stone from Cwm Pennant) to ‘Eifion Wyn.’ With another friend and T. Gwynn Jones, he insisted on having a slate tombstone on the grave of Robert Roberts, ‘Y Sgolor Mawr’, 1834 - 1885 in Llangernyw churchyard. He was responsible for the memorial near the home of Thomas Lloyd (1841 - 1909; ‘Crych Elen’) in Dolwyddelan — the money for this project came from a lady in America. He saw to it that a memorial stone was erected to Edward Stephen (‘Tanymarian’) at Rhyd Sarn, Maentwrog, and he arranged a meeting to commemorate Morgan Llwyd and to unveil a memorial to him at Cynfal Fawr. He later collected and edited a substantial memorial volume, Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd: Coffa Morgan Llwyd (1952). He also collected money for the Sir O. M. Edwards memorial fund. He was a regular contributor to the newspapers and journals of his time: Y Glorian; Y Rhedegydd (a great deal, for many years); Y Genedl (he contributed a weekly column for some years — ‘Nodion Meirion’); Yr Herald Cymraeg (many essays on poets and authors); Y Brython; Y Faner; Y Dydd; Y Cymro (in which the popular column ‘Y Fainc Sglodion’ appeared); Cymru; Y Genhinen; Cymru'r Plant; Trysorfa'r Plant; Y Drysorfa Fawr; Yr Eurgrawn; Yr Haul; Y Goleuad; Seren Cymru. Shortly before his death he saw the publication of Y Fainc Sglodion: casgliad o rai o straeon y chwarel a'r capel … (1953). Over many years he sent various materials which were valuable (particularly to the social historian) to the National Library of Wales, including numerous scrap-books; hundreds of letters (some personal ones and some by notable Welsh people); manuscripts of the works of several poets and authors; various documents such as the accounts of local institutions, craftsmen and industries; minutes and reports of ecclesiastical and secular bodies; poems and election addresses — local and county; local folktales; programmes of eisteddfodau, concerts and literary societies; pictures of Ffestiniog people; memorial poems and cards. He sent similar materials to the library of the University College of North Wales in Bangor. He died 6 January 1954, at his home, and was buried with his wife (who had pre-deceased him twelve years previously) at Bethesda cemetery, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He was a notable example of a cultured common man, ready to help others, and motivated in all his activity by his concern for matters of culture.
Dr Meredydd Evans
Papers at N.L.W.;
information from his son John Penri Jones and his daughter-in-law;
Trysorfa y Plant, 1941;
personal acquaintance.
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Evans, M., (2001). JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 20 Jan 2020, from https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-WIL-1883
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April 6, 2019 • bazerdzan • Bosnia and Herzegovina • history • holiday • love • persistence • Sarajevo • tradition
Maybe some of you might notice that the title of this post is our slogan of sorts. We use it as a quick identifier on social media to show people who’s who and how we roll. And although we are 100% Bosnian as those t-shirts found all over Baščaršija say, Sarajevo is special to us in many ways. It helped raise us and it helped shape us into the people we are today. Sarajevo is love.
This is not the first story we did about this city nor will it be the last. On this day, Sarajevo’s most important date for multiple reasons, we share this little extra something right out of our hearts.
One date, two anniversaries
Today is April 6, Sarajevo’s birthday (sort of - officially it’s ‘the Day of the city of Sarajevo’) and a day when a number of cultural and sports events happen throughout the city in a rather festive mood. This year marks 74 years of liberation from fascism in World War II and 27 years since the beginning of one of the longest sieges in modern warfare. Add the fact that 557 years since the foundation of the city will be thrown in there for good measure so you can see why April 6 is deeply embedded in the history of Sarajevo.
But all those dates are just plain numbers torn from history’s calendar without the underlying reason that really makes this day important: the spirit and willpower of all Sarajevans for universal human rights and values. Throughout its history, Sarajevo has been an important intersection, a place where East clashed with West and ultimately merged. That’s likely why we have a habit of saying (or writing) that Sarajevo’s soul and doors are always open to all kind-hearted people.
And we follow along those lines. The moment you enter our shop, we try to uphold that mantra, and then some. If anything, you’ll be greeted with tons of Sarajevo-related stuff that would take too long to mention even just half of it. Sarajevo is not just our city, regardless of where some of us were born - it’s our home. And make no mistake - we do this with a purpose and a clear goal, not because we have to or because it’s “cool”. This is our way of contributing to Sarajevo and the rest of the country to shine with the brightest of lights.
The majority of our photo shoots are done right here, on the streets in and around our shop, further away from the old core, or on the adjacent hills and mountains. When you walk through this city, you can pass small, wooden buildings that seem distant and out of time before you come up to narrow passageways and cobblestone streets with clay tile roofs and domes. The background of that oriental feel quickly changes to a backdrop of Austro-Hungarian architecture with symmetrical stone buildings and decorative flourishes. The overlap of those two styles, along with the socialist, concrete-inspired buildings and more modern projects make you wonder about the past of this place, about where you want to be.
A gem among emeralds
But Sarajevo is so much more than looks. In fact, we’d argue (ferociously, in some cases) it’s more about feels than anything. Sarajevo is a city full of beauty as much as it is full of defiant spirit, with an undeniable charm that very few can resist. Some of the very first streets still see off thousands of people every day and ooze of simpler times gone by. There’s some sort of natural harmony with its surroundings, from bordering hills and mountains to stretching rivers. You can feel its sense of belonging, that rebellious ethos that we at Bazerdžan try to keep alive in our own little way.
The more I think, the less I understand
A cave of sadness yawning inside me
I handle rhymes much harder
My eyes are full of Sarajevo
The more I think, the more I suspect
Find someone else to sing
This song I'll stay silent
There's no song without Sarajevo
Even when it's quiet, Sarajevo is singing
Even when it's squinting, his eyes are shining
Rain of tears in the gutter interflowing
Sarajevo will be, everything else will pass
Sarajevo će biti, sve drugo će proći - Zlatan Fazlić Fazla and Dorđe Balašević
That song was made in 1992, during the period of aggression and what’s generally perceived as the most horrifying time in Sarajevo’s history due to the sheer scale of raging war. Those were some hard times but full of emotion and warmth because people came together and persevered. That sense of togetherness is one of the reasons why the final verse of that song graces our shop window.
It also reflects how we do things. Almost every person we work with is a story worth telling, one whose central theme is persistence, whether it’s persistence to create what you love and believe in or persistence to stay true to yourself despite everything. It’s a huge part of what inspires and drives us to be better every day. That’s the spirit that Bazerdžan reflects: love, beauty, and defiance. In other words: that’s Sarajevo, so deeply ingrained in us.
In these fast-changing times, we see ourselves as a stronghold honoring our rich cultural heritage, our local and traditional ways meshed with a modern touch. But most of all, we see a little part of Sarajevo within us. And when we do, it’s the best day ever.
For Sarajevo, with love.
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New York Rangers Prospect Rankings 20-11
Josh Khalfin Sep 6, 2017
Time for the latest addition of my prospect rankings. If you missed it, here are rankings 35-29 and rankings 28-21. Without further ado:
20 – Ty Ronning (RW) – Ronning is admittedly one of my favorite prospects in the system. I am drawn to the small pests who can also chip in on offense, it is why players like Brad Marchand and Brendan Gallagher are among my favorite players. Ronning has been cursed with two things that have diminished his value as a prospect, his size at 5’8″ and the absolutely horrible Vancouver Giants team that he plays on.
The story with Ronning is simple, he is a buzz saw. Great on the forecheck, knows how to get to the front of the net and also has the quick hands that actually make him effective there too. Unfortunately for him, being part of a poor Vancouver Giants team hasn’t exactly allowed him to display his skills at that level consistently.
Here is the kicker. Just like his dad who was absolutely fearless on the ice, during Ronning’s brief stint with the Hartford Wolfpack, we not only saw his game transfer against bigger pros, but also saw it being used successfully. Ronning was still forechecking like a mad dog forcing turnovers from players who may be five inches taller than him simply because of his speed and smarts. He was a big component of his line actually being able to cycle the puck for an extended period of time which Hartford hasn’t been able to do much that season.
He still will need a few years of development, he may spend another year in thee WHL but given how bad that team will be once again, he may benefit from splitting time in the ECHL/AHL in my opinion. I would assume should he continue to work hard we may see him get a cup of coffee in 2 years.
19 – Dominik Lakatos (C) – We are definitely getting into the range where I find at least one thing I love about every prospect. I don’t know about you folks, but when I was younger, I absolutely loved watching Sean Avery. I have had a lot of family friends growing up still waiting for the Rangers to find a replacement for him and I would just like to say that if Lakatos works out, he is the perfect answer. Lakatos is a great grinder. He is constantly the first person in the corner, battling for the pucks and creating havoc in front of the net. That is his bread and butter, as almost all of his goals are scored from around the crease. It is even more impressive when you realize that he was such a force at only 19 years old playing against grown men.
Lakatos also walks the line when he plays, but sometimes he oversteps boundaries and starts making a mess. He is a hot head but there is a bit more to it. The head coach of his team is Filip Pesan, one of the youngest and brightest minds among coaches in the entire world. He has garnered praise from almost every hockey playing country for his strategies and player usage. It almost seems as though Lakatos is a personal project of Pesan, he has brought him along slowly giving him much more responsibility as the season goes along. This is seen with his production not only getting better as the year went by but also him turning into his teams secret weapon during the playoffs.
A great example of how Pesan has helped Lakatos out and gives him chances to succeed happened only a week ago in the CHL. Lakatos made some questionable decisions which resulted in 15 minutes of penalty time. Most coaches would bench someone for that, especially when they are young. Pesan briefly changed the usage of Lakatos during the game and put him back on the ice resulting in the goal that tied the game.
Even though he was drafted this year, he is a bit older than many players in the 2017 draft. I hypothesized that the Rangers drafted a bunch of overage players because they are farther along in the development, looking closer to NHL ready and would rather get players who can be NHL bottom-six guys than take a risk on a player in a perceived bad draft. There may be more to Lakatos than just being a bottom-six pest, he was one of the highest ranked players in SEAL adjusted scoring thanks to his incredible late season play. It is possible that he can be a valuable asset to come but he must be developed properly.
18- Aleksander Georgiev (G) – When the Rangers invited Georgiev to the prospect development camp my ears perked up. It’s rare that an invite would have a chance to walk out with a contract but I felt that Georgiev is certainly one of the few who are talented enough to do that. Low and behold, Georgiev was soon signed to a contract to continue to make the goalie pool as strong as ever. Georgiev is an athletic goaltender who as a teenager has been playing pro hockey in Liiga, slowly getting more and more responsibility.
After the Rangers lost three goalies this offseason, they needed another goalie who can split time with Chris Nell and Brandon Halverson. May as well get a kid who has a shot at the NHL and has already been lights out in pro hockey. I am not a goalie scout or expert, but using stats I have broken Georgiev down when we signed him here. Overall, Georgiev provides a possible 3rd string goaltender this season in case Ondrej Pavelec falters. He has the history of being successful against pro hockey players so bringing him up with split duty in Hartford would give the Rangers some options in case of injury.
17- Tarmo Reunanen (D) – I really liked the Reunanen pick and it is comparable to the Calle Sjallin pick in this draft as well. The concept with Reunanen is in line with a theme of the Rangers taking talented players sliding down draft boards either due to injuries or attitude. Reunanen’s game is sometimes considered that of an offense first defenseman, but I think he is just pigeonholed into that due to his wonderful passing ability. Reunanen is great at setting his teammates up in the offensive zone because he is simply so calm on the ice. He never seems to force or rush a pass, he also doesn’t panic as he is about to get pressured from the winger covering the point. That steady play is why I think he is better than his stat line last year in Finland’s second tier league.
This season, he will be a player that can lead to discussion among prospect watchers among Rangers fans. Reunanen is poised to be playing for TPS, the same team as Georgiev –before he signed– and Patrik Virta. Thanks to the Champions Hockey League, in which TPS is a part, we have been given an early glimpse of how Reunanen plays against better competition and how the coaching staff will use him. At first it seemed a bit bleak, Reunanen was playing pretty well and was showing he is not one dimensional by making some pretty good breakups at the neutral zone, but he only got less than four minutes of ice time.
However, as the tournament has continued we have seen Reunanen not only get more ice time but also contributing to the teams in a way that is not just offensively. Reunanen has been one of the best skaters on TPS in generating shot attempts while also blocking shots in the defensive zone as well. One negative that that has become clear was his difficulty in adjusting to defending on the rush against faster players. We will see how that gets worked on as his season with TPS progresses. As much as becoming a point producer would be a great indicator for Reunanen’s improvement as a prospect, I want to see him continue to be one of TPS’ best shot generators. Luckily, Liiga is one of the few leagues that records advanced stats so we will be able to get more data behind Reunanen outside of just a simple stat line.
16- Gabriel Fontaine (C) – Do you like smart players? If you do, I have a Gabriel Fontaine that would make you absolutely giddy. Fontaine reminds me a lot of Dominic Moore. He is put into serious defensive deployments by his coaches due to his aptitude in the area. Thing is, he succeeds in these situations every game both at even strength and the penalty kill. After he steals the puck a couple of times and prevents an opposing team from cycling the puck, he goes all Dominic Moore on them and somehow dangles around the opposition when least expected to generate a scoring chance.
I get really excited about players like this. It would be preferred for the Rangers to have big boom bust players in the system, but at the moment it looks like their last two years of over age draft picks are developing nicely towards pro hockey. It is extremely likely that Fontaine may never make the NHL, but his skating and ability to always be in the right place at both ends of the ice definitely makes him seem like someone who will get a chance at some point in the NHL.
15 – Brandon Halverson (G) – Halverson is an intriguing situation. He was on a pretty good team during his junior career and put up respectable stats. He then played in the ECHL before getting called up to play for the Hartford Wolf Pack earlier in the year. If we look at the stats he has in the AHL and combine it with being our first pick in his draft it does seem like a disappointing season. But he has the size, he has the coach, and at only 21 he still has the time to become an NHL goaltender.
Halverson will be splitting time with Georgiev this season, but this Hartford team should theoretically be much better defensively. We have better AAAA players on offense and the improved defense should help Halverson after dealing with a defense from hell. Goaltenders take a while to develop but Halverson has all the physical tools to make it work. Time is running out though, and if he falters Georgiev can overtake him. With Adam Huska and Tyler Wall nipping at the heels of pro hockey, Halverson has to make a name for himself right out of the gate.
14- Calle Sjalin (D) – Sjallin was one of the few choices the Rangers made after the first round who were actually first-time eligibles for the draft. Similar to Filip Chytil, Sjalin was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft, and while maybe not being as dynamic as many of the Swedish D-men drafted this season, he was probably one of the best defensively sound defensemen from Sweden. Sjalin is an interesting prospect because someone who can skate like he does can truly develop into a complete two-way guy.
The thing is, development and usage is so important in evaluating a prospect.His usage was primarily babysitting the defensive tire fire in Westerlund, so Sjalin may develop as a quiet defensive defenseman who can skate similar to Anton Stralman. He was given top pair minutes this summer in the U20s 4 Nation tournament, which suggests him being one of the top choices to play in the World Juniors. Now a year removed from an injury, it would be great to see him add even more offense to his already strong defensive game this year.
13- Cristoval Nieves (C) – Hartford really wasn’t a good environment for prospects last year. Nieves’ season was another one of those that would’ve benefited from a talented veteran on his line during his first full year as a pro, but in regards to production, he wasn’t horrible. Nieves has the physical traits that suggest that he can become a good pro as well. He has the size, the blazing speed, and would theoretically fit well with the way the Rangers are developing their team.
Nieves also faced a couple of injuries that completely derailed his season. When he came back Hartford had absolutely no help on offense either. Pretty hard for a guy to jump right back into it as a first-year pro. Nieves will not be the top-six forward that we were hoping for when he first got drafted, as after a promising first year in college he didn’t improve so much, and at 23 years old the clock is ticking for him to make himself an NHL pro.
Good news? The Rangers lack of center depth, Jesper Fast will start the season injured, and Boo Nieves’ game built on speed. He might be given a long look at training camp. Should he make it, having another speed guy with Michael Grabner could be a fun thing to see on the fourth line. It’s never fun for a secnd round pick to miss the NHL, they still have high hopes as prospects for fans. we need Nieves to become a quality depth guy because it certainly doesn’t seem like he will be the speedy winger/center we were hoping for.
12- Tim Gettinger (LW) – Gettinger is rising up the rankings as a favorite among Rangers fans. The big 6’6″ winger for the Greyhounds oddly fell to the Rangers last year in the 5th round. Big guys like him who can’t skate somehow ended up getting drafted in rounds 2 and 3 but somehow the Rangers ended up with a big guy who actually can skate decently well in the 5th round? My hypothesis is that during his draft year he didn’t exactly man-handle players, creating the perception that he is just a friendly giant.
Honestly, I feel that Gettinger has a big chance to make the NHL as a player simply because of all the things that he can do. He is great at protecting the puck and winning board battles, he gets respect around the OHL and his team for being a leader on the ice, and after last season he showed he can start scoring goals at great levels. He put up 54 points in 62 games, which isn’t sexy but if we look at his season trends, Gettinger was consistently a great goal scorer all year, and among the elite in the OHL at 5v5.
He has been consistent in generating shots even with increased ice time and responsibility while also being reliable to produce goals for his team. Gettinger used to only make his point totals rise by being in front of the net banging home rebounds, but this year with more offensive responsibility we also saw him taking more shots from the circles.
My only problem with Gettinger’s shot is that his release is a bit slow. But as we saw with Ryan Graves, a good coach can really help a player out in his last year in Juniors. Gettinger has all the things that make fans fall in love with a prospect, and ideally we can see him become a valuable bottom-six player who can be huge in keeping puck possession due to strong cycle play. Improve the skating a bit more and the release of his shot and we can get pretty excited about a guy, who was also asked to play for Team USA in the U20s.
11- Robin Kovacs (RW) – Some may be upset that I am giving the player essentially a redo after the extremely poor season he had but honestly, the 19 year old shouldn’t have been rushed into the AHL. Let’s be real here, how many 19 year olds are actually good players in the AHL? How many of these players came from being top producers in better leagues than the Swedish 2nd League? How many of the players were likely top picks? Kovacs should have been brought up slowly and the AHL should have been saved for later, especially when the team was as bad as it was. It’s simply not the correct environment to develop a young player who is playing in North America for the first time.
We know how Kovacs plays, he is a slick skilled forward who also likes to agitate the opposition. He needs to be put in the scenario to make the best of his skill set, he can’t be plastered on a poor 4th line during his first year in the AHL. Don’t get me wrong I expected him to do much better than his four points, but in my mind since he wasn’t even supposed to be there so I am not as distressed. Kovacs definitely fits the mold of recent draft picks by the Rangers, not elite talent but the kind of guys who have the skating ability that can put them in many places in the lineup while also playing an up tempo game that will frustrate the other team. Kovacs showed he was able to do that job extremely well in Sweden’s second league, hopefully, he can do that in the AHL and then eventually the NHL.
"New York Rangers Prospect Rankings 20-11", 4 out of 5 based on 10 ratings.
Alex Georgiev Brandon Halverson Calle Sjalin Cristoval Nieves Dominik Lakatos Gabriel Fontaine Robin Kovacs Tarmo Reunanen Tim Gettinger Ty Ronning
SalMerc says:
One thing on Ronning, he is on the Travers City roster where I think his pesky style can impress the club. Many there are smooth skating forwards, but his get-under-your-skin style is clearly different.
thanks for this prospective. It’s not so easy to get info about these prospects so greatly appreciate the update.
MBN says:
Thanks Josh. Appreciate the effort you put into these reports for each player.
Bobby B says:
Is Ty Ronning the son of former NHL player Cliff Ronning??
Reenavipul says:
Yes. A little ball of hate more like Ray Ferraro than his Pop.
No point sending Ronning back to Vancouver unless he gets dominated physically in Hartford. A good job by the team nabbing players that aren’t stuck in the NHL/Junior paradigm.
As for Reunanen, TPS’ competition in the CHL is meh(bar Bern) and most teams treat it as a glorified exhibition(Nottingham doesn’t, hence their leading the group.) Undersized, under weight; hasn’t put up decent numbers, let alone eye popping ones since he was 16. Just don’t see how he translates to Hartford, let alone Broadway.
How many teams have blown high picks on dwarves, hoping they get the next whomever, when their production is nowhere near those greats and undersized D are either feast or (mostly)famine. It just seems a waste of resources even to grab them in the 3rd round. It seems that teams are getting away from big guys who can’t skate, but while D can be taught, any defender should show a semblance of how, you know, to play the position without the puck. That’s how you avoid the Jared Cowens & Braydon Coburns of the world.
Again going back to Reunanen, if you’re counting on advanced stats in a tertiary league to push your narrative, you’re missing that advance stats are designed to slice pubic hairs of difference.
If the primary numbers ain’t there in the Mestis, fat chance they’re there in the AHL.
Kovacs is the mystery, as he hadn’t even proven himself beyond AIK and he had plenty of time left on the clock to bring him over. He would have gotten more minutes at Rogle, was he going to go to the KHL?
You hope he can show u weighing closer to 190 this year.
Richter1994 says:
Thanks Josh, great as always.
Didn’t something happen in Sweden regarding Kovacs this past summer? Car accident? Or something?
It appears like Gettinger is becoming a very interesting player.
I’m disappointed in Halverson. I thought he might be Henrik’s heir apparent.
Goalies always have a long development process, but Halverson has some serious holes in his game that need to be eliminated. Otherwise he’s just a big body. Bad angles, bad glove positioning, bad awareness.
Sounds like Bishop, lol.
wwpd says:
Bishop has great diagonal movement though
He’s a terrible goalie IMO. Just takes up a lot of the net. If the Rangers used the same formula in Game 7 as they did in Game 6 (making Bishop move side to side) then the Rangers would have gone to the 2015 SCF.
Kovacs pinched for reckless driving, racing on the highway that resulted in a death.
Yeah, that’s what I heard. Sad, and thanks for the info pal.
Nonsense like that is probably why they brought him over early.
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Eh, what the hell. →
Now that the first year is in the books…
I’m curious to hear from you about something.
If the spectrum of expectations for Georgia’s 2017 season runs from “another throwaway season” at one end to “great leap” at the other, where do yours fall?
185 responses to “Now that the first year is in the books…”
“Regression to the mean” is a phrase in use here a bit recently. I’d think that in year 2, regression to our 15 year mean of 10 wins is a reasonable expectation.
VoxDawg
I’m cautiously optimistic, expecting 10-2 and winning the East not being off the table.
Better be a great leap. Don’t the metrics all indicate if the new guy doesn’t have it going by year 2, he probably will never get it going? Either way, next year UGA will have 2 stellar recruiting classes in the bag, almost 2 years of The Process, continuity at QB and with the staff (it appears). As Big Ed Bookman says in Texas, “It’s time to stop talking about the picture of the dog.” I don’t expect a national championship next year, or even an SEC title, but I expect to see something a lot better than what I saw this year.
I’m with you. If it’s not a great leap, we did not get our man, IMO.
parrishwalton
Dabo would disagree, but yes, for the most part he who doesn’t win early in his tenure doesn’t stay long enough to right the ship.
You mean Deshaun would disagree with you. 😉
Tahj Boyd got Clemson to 11-2 and beat Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. People keep sleeping on Dabo like he’s some chump…the dude can build a staff and recruit. Clemson isn’t good because of Deshaun alone.
How good can he be? After all, that bum Mark Richt beat the pants off of him in Athens, and nearly did the same at Clemson.
I will admit that Dabo has built a pretty strong team around Watson. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them win tonight.
Todd Gurley did a lot of the heavy lifting in those games
Who recruited him again? eh oh yea Mark did.
Yes, he did. CMR recruited his share of incredible players. Depth of recruiting was an issue though, and Kirby fixed that in a hurry (assuming the class signs and doesn’t implode once it gets to Athens).
in fact, didn’t MR beat Dabo for Gurley? Dabo seemed to think they were getting him right up to the end, or pretty close.
No, but if Watson and Venebales left after this season, I’d be very skeptical of Auburn with a Lake next year.
Venables isn’t going anywhere as nothing is open worth his time. And Clemson might dip to 9-3 next year, but that’ll be because they’re in between QBs. If 9-3 is a bad year you’re doing something right.
gatriguy
You could maybe say that about Jimbo too. His 2nd year was pretty underwhelming. Then he got rolling downhill and smoked fools.
Agree Parrish. I don’t understand the reluctance to give credit where it is due where Dabo is concerned. I also don’t understand the tendency people have to or the need they seem to have to characterize him as buffoonish and not to be taken seriously. They can do that if they want t to but they do it at their own risk of being made fools of themselves. I don’t have real strong feelings about the guy either way but dude is legit as a coach. Some of the self styled intellectuals may not think he’s cool enough for them but he did t trip and fall into the success he’s had. Clemson was a perennial “close but not quite” sort of team for what seemed like forever. Dabo has made them into the real thing.
Dabo seems to be an outlier, metrics wise, which I guess goes to show that metrics aren’t everything. For the record, I think Dabo is a hell of a good recruiter and coach, and it wont surprise me one bit to see Alabama go after him when Saban decides to hang it up. A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
AuditDawg
A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
Can you imagine a guy like Dabo with the unlimited resources and administration support he’d get at Alabama? Me, I hope they hire another Mike Shula or Ray Perkins.
Saban has transformed the culture. They’re more likely to hire Bill Belichick than Mike Shula for their next coach.
well, Belichik is a great coach, but he’s getting old, isn’t he? Can Bama boosters offer him eternal youth or something? Talk about attention to detail.
Rpcpisme
How good was UGA the last time Clemson made a run at the national title?
Perhaps the Dawgs can get something going next season?
Georgia was not a good team in 2015.
But they won 10 games
Yeah – but the question was how good was Georgia the last time Clemson contended for a national title which was a whole year ago.
FWIW – that 2015 team was better than this 2016 team by nearly any objective measure you want to use.
I don’t argue that. 2015 had 2 5 year SR tackles, Malcom Mitchell, Leonard Floyd, and Jordan Jenkins. It was still the worse 10 win team you’ll ever see.
You must have missed that Iowa team that went to the Rose Bowl last year. Absolutely mediocre team that got lucky it missed Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State in the regular season. Hell – Northwestern won 10 games last year and got obliterated by Tennessee in its bowl game. There’s plenty of average as grits 10 win teams in the modern era of CFB with 12 game schedules. You keep acting like Georgia 2015 is unique in this respect.
bing good call on Iowa last year.
In all seriousness – there’s like 3 Power 5 teams that finished with 10 wins last year that fell below Georgia’s #32 in S&P+. I just don’t see why people feel the need to continuously shit on the 2015 team. As far as I’m concerned, 2016 was a far more unenjoyable viewing experience. At least that 2015 team put Spurrier in the retirement home. That’s a redeeming quality for an average season in and of itself.
To each their own. I’m not saying 2016 set the world on fire, bc God knows it didn’t, but 2015 was the most miserable season I had as a UGA fan since the 2000 disappointment. Probably just me.
Tri, you have a warped perspective. How much did you like the 2010 6-7 team? ’09? The ’09 team looked all season like a it would have a losing record but pulled the fat out of the fire at the end to go 8-5. The 2015 team was a decent albeit not great team that actually could have won the SEC East if Chubb hadn’t gotten hurt in the UT game and CMR had not made the biggest game-planning blunder of his career in the FU game.
OK, you got me…I was referring to early 1980s. My attempt was making a correlation between Clemson national title run and UGA national title run. Just looking for a silver lining to UGAs benefit from the CU run. Their QB is special, it will be interesting to see how they look next searon.
I was just being a smartass, but I knew what you meant.
Jack Klompus
As would Mike Macintyre.
Agree. Not winning the East, considering the schedule and the state of our division, would be a colossal failure
Grathams replacement
10-4,11-3. Defense improves to 17-20 ppg, even more improvement if a dominant pass rusher emerges. OL,WR, and Eason improve as the season goes on. Kicker is the wildcard with the Blankenship drama.
Kicker has been the wild card for the last two years, and not just because of the befuddling situation with Blankenship. For a program with a long long history of great kicking and punting to have come to this is some kind of existential bitch-slap. Its like we done pissed somebody off, there.
Well.. since you asked.. Our weakest points were first, an undersized and out maneuvered O line who had difficulty run blocking. And if we can run with Chubb, Michel et al in the backfield we are in trouble. Second, Eason wasn’t quite up to the hype he came with. He is a great talent and a nice young man. But, he overthrew a lot of open recievers or didn’t see them at all. He did show some promise in the Liberty Bowl by running when flushed out of the pocket instead of getting sacked or throwing the ball away. We have a favorable schedule next year, but we had that this year too. If we get the O line organized and BEAT FLORIDA who knows?
Derek Dooley 2.0
You mean an undersized and improperly coached Offensive Line. I see improvement coming in with this new OL class. I’m not certain we have the coaches in place to capitalize. Let’s hope so.
Be in the SEC championship game. That is the bar for me and anything less would be a disappointment. No reason to not run the table in the East with the amount of talent returning AND coming into the Fall.
+1 agree completely!
yep better compete for the big prize this year not be out of it in October
I don’t know how it will go, but it better go to the SECCG and an east division title.
9-3. Losses to Notre Dame, UF and Auburn.
Auburn. If you had said any other team, I could be on board. But AU.
I like how we just chuck up a loss to Florida, naturally (I do too)
But hey, frat beach! Barbara Jean’s in October! Good times, I guess.
Well he is saying Losses and naming teams, losing to ND at their house, could see. Losing to UF, 50-50 ok. But in the last 10 years, UGA has owned AU. So there I draw the line.
I would consider the program being on schedule the East coming down to the WLOCP win or loss in a 4Qtr game. Smart needs to get the program to a point where is .500 or slightly better against UF.
The UF QB situation will be interesting to watch. McElwain catches flack for the QB situation but he was having a solid 1st yr before the QB was ruled ineligible, and a good 2nd yr when the starter was injured. They red shirted a QB who was ranked just behind Eason and Del Rio is back. UF should be favored to win the East again.
GT is a must win or Smart hot seat talk starts. UGA coaches don’t start 0-3 to the nerds.
Year 3 is the big year. Smart recruited OL heavy this year, Hopefully they sign and then develop in year 2. Chubb and Sony are great but they can’t create miracles with a mediocre OL.
I was thinking ND but I’ll take a SEC loss over a non conference loss any day.
Middlin
If anyone says Kirby will succeed, they’re lying. No one knows. Any throwaway season will only be excused in hindsight… if he actually builds something. The caveat I’ll give is that I’m not going to bitch too much about his 1st year, despite some real head scratching moments (games). 2nd year doesn’t get a pass. I can’t put a number on that, but all I can say today is I need to see significant progress
rchris
If you look at raw athletic talent on hand, the only teams that will be remotely close to us are Notre Dame (coming off a losing record), and Auburn (who we beat). Unfortunately we have to play them both on the road as well as Tennessee, and we play the Gators in Jax. If Kirby can get as much out of his talent as the opposing coaches do theirs, then we should win at least 2 of those 4. 10-2 in the regular season is a reasonable expectation.
Also, if Kirby & Co. weren’t killing it on the recruiting trail, I think there’d be a lot more restlessness amongst the natives.
He better recruit well. To compensate for coaching.
Win the east, beat Florida, lose pretty handily in the champ game, but not by five TDs
I think that all the indicators will point to an East title or 9-3, 10-2 a top 15 type of team.
What I would be more interested in is being able to pull up Bill C stats at the end of the season and seeing 2+ games in 90+ range, 5-6 games in the 75-90 range and maybe 4 games in the 60-75 range. No games in the single digits. No game below 50th percentile.
Regardless of the wins and losses that would indicate that this team was moving towards being a competitive national title team. Maybe a team that ends the year better than they started.
My guess is that we see something a little better than a throwaway season, but the drive home is still nothing but guys telling you that we just dont have the players and talent in athens to beat Mizzou.
So , basically, get back to where CMR / Bobo left us
Year 2 yes, Year 3 I would want a WLOCP W, and a SEC CG trip playing closer than our last meeting with Bama.
…and by Year 2 yes I would say 2011-2012 Richt/Bobo not ’13+ Richt/Bobo.
I was let down because Smart was so rigid in his philosophy that he didn’t go after the wins. I think he learned a lot though, and I bet we see more out of the offense next year. I expect there to be changes in the OL if someone gets beat like Catalina, I expect Eason to be under center as much as he can handle, I expect to see Mr Chubb and M Michel to get the ball more often.
I still think Smart will be successful. His recruiting is incredible, the East sucks, and I’m an eternal optimist.
Looks like I’m on the same page as most others…win the East and be competitive in the SEC championship game, at least. It’s not as much about our team, but the competition and next year is looking like an even more down year for the SEC East (if that was even possible). Also, the offense is going to have to pass the eye test and appear more in sync and fluid in Chaney’s offense. No doubt there will still be struggles with a new OL, but I need to feel better about the offense and see improvement.
I feel like 2017 is going to have a lot of similarities to 1997. So I’ll go with 10-2. Whether that’s good enough to get to Atlanta or not, idk. Obviously it depends on how the rest of the conference shakes out.
I want to see two things (drastically) improve next season.
1: Eason has to get better and take advantage of the gimme plays. I don’t need him threading the needle 25 yards down the field with regularity, but I need him to hit the open receiver for the big play. He failed to do so far too often this year, but since he’s a true freshman learning a complicated system I’ll give him a one-year pass. That pass expired Dec. 30th, however.
2: Kirby’s in-game coaching has got to get better. I expected there to be some issues and he didn’t disappoint. His time out usage is awful for the most part and truth be told his demeanor is too up and down. I know we all wanted Richt to be a little bit more emotional, but Kirby seems to be a classic overcorrection to that. He needs to settle himself down a bit while keeping some of the emotion that makes him who he is. That’s not an easy thing to manage but it’s part of the gig.
As for the season outlook, it’s just so hard to tell this early. Players will be hurt. Players will transfer. While I’m somewhat bullish on the offensive line, I still think UGA is one year away before contending for anything special. That doesn’t mean UGA can’t win the SEC East. In fact I would be disappointed if it didn’t. But it could very well be a sacrificial lamb should Bama find itself in Atlanta again a la Florida the past two years. I think 10-2 is a very real possibility with 9-3 being more realistic. Road games at Auburn (who will be much better next year), Tennessee and Notre Dam plus Florida in Jax isn’t an easy 4 game deal. Then you have to worry about losing to a team you shouldn’t, because UGA showed it was more than capable of doing that this year.
The first team to 15-0 ever!
(See what I did there?)
I’ll second that. LOL.
As many have pointed out, if a new coach doesn’t win big by Year 2, they usually don’t end up winning big at all. I’m not saying I’m expecting it, but anything less than an East title isn’t going to look good for the future. And I would add at least being competitive in the SECCG too. Barely winning a weak East division then getting blown out in the SECCG wouldn’t be a huge step forward in my opinion.
I mean… UGA went 7-5 this year, so winning the East and playing in Atlanta would most definitely be a major improvement. Doesn’t matter if UGA gets blasted in Atlanta or not.
I see your point……I’m just saying that let’s say we swapped places with UF this year – I wouldn’t feel drastically more optimistic about the future if we’d had their season instead of ours.
I think thats why so many people here see getting to Atlanta as the baseline. UF has been a very bad team and still won the east two years running. We should at least be able to do that.
Bulldog Gemes
A great throwaway season
Win the East or have compelling reasons why not. Demonstrate a willingness to use our talent to their best advantage.
Bill Glennon
I look at Kirby this year like I would a true freshman QB in the SEC. I think he will make good progress this year, and the game will slow down for him. However, he might not yet be seasoned enough.
Kirby is absolutely lights out in the “off the field” coaching aspects like recruiting and building enthusiasm. He has experience in these areas. His “on the field” coaching has been bad, although the D has been OK. His media and press dealings have been bad. His bad coaching areas are those that that he never handled under Saban.
Kirby has the right personality. He is a motivated, intelligent grinder. A gym rat. Those types of people are resourceful and learn from their mistakes. They figure out how to win over time. I expect we will see steady progress but not a championship for a few years.
He won’t get a “few” years
7-5 gets him at least 3-4, IMHO..
He better because no other SEC team may win a championship while Saban is still coaching. I don’t consider the SECE a championship. UGA might go to the SEC Championship game but lose to Alabama. If they do that, I will accept it till Saban retires.
Cpark58
Improved with flashes of greatness, hitting on all cylinders by whatever Florida bowl we go to. SEC East Champs or missed by a thin margin and added depth another top 5 recruiting class.
The O-Line could be a liability as it will be super young but with leadership in the RB position, more experience at QB and a more talented receiving corps, we should be much improved on offense. Next year’s line will have more upside but still be mighty young to motor-grade but now that Eason is possibly 1/3 through his career, the game should be slower for him so playbook should open up and its reasonable to expect he have the command of the offense and be better able to make changes at the line away from doomed plays.
No one is asking for an all shotgun, 5 wide, air raid spread attack. UGA can still be the pro-style, run first, wear down the defense, play action team it wants to be but Mr. Cheney will have no excuse but to adapt or die until the motor-grader is ready.
I guess I’d ask what’s going to be different? Our OL was a huge problem, will freshmen from this lights out recruiting class be enough to fix that problem? As this blog has noted, our general offensive approach has been… undynamic. Is there reason to think that will change? Is there someone in-house who can help develop Eason into the QB we all want to see? For everyone calling for the 10/11 win season this year, I’d ask why specifically you think you’ll see improvement?
Because we won’t be playing a true freshman, 18 year old QB?
it’s reasonable to expect an improvement between year 1 and 2 as everyone becomes more comfortable with everything. It ain’t like UGA’s offense was prolific or dynamic before Cheney got there and he wrecked it.
FarmerDawg
So yur sayn there’s a chance?
RCBRick
Talent improves, but Chaney is still calling the O and Kirby is still in over his head. 50/50 shot we win a bad east, and could win anywhere between 4 and 11 games, because that is just how football is, but it would be surprising if UGA finishes top 15 in S&P+. I’m guessing somewhere around 30th.
I don’t expect anything. If they take a leap forward, Smart may end up being a good hire. If not, he’ll probably be fired a year or two later.
SEC East champs and at least nine wins in the regular season. Anything less is going to put Kirby and staff on the hotseat – and considering the 2017 schedule, rightfully so.
I think we need to see some dramatic improvement. Having said that, we could easily still lose three games while playing vastly better than last year. We need to see the things we were promised THIS year: no face plants, attention to detail and a team that gives it’s best effort on every play of every game. It would also be nice NOT to see the coaches stubbornly insisting on pounding square pegs into round holes.
There’s not a loss on that schedule, but there are 5 tough games. We would have expected not less than 10 – 2 with an East Division title pre-Kirby. Given all of the issues this coaching staff needs to overcome, I think they come up one game short at 9 – 3 and miss winning the East again.
I don’t expect an SEC championship next season because (1) Jim Chaney will still be calling the plays and developing the offensive game plan and (2) I’m not bullish on the offensive line play being championship quality. After saying that, I expect what we got in year 2 of the previous guy … an appearance in Atlanta and a team that fights like mad and lets the chips fall where they may. If there’s not an appearance in Mercedes Benz Stadium on the first week of December, someone’s seat is going to be hot entering 2018.
I think with our talent and schedule 9-3 would the expectation given a perfectly average coaching job. So I expect we’ll go 8-4. I expect we’ll be unhappy with that.
Beat Tech and don’t ruin my trip to Chicago.
We are going to ND as well. I sure hope the restaurants aren’t the highlight of the trip.
Ditto. Already booked our house in South Bend for the weekend.
Have you been to South Bend? It’s not Athens.
We’re flying to Chicago Thursday, Cubs day game on Friday, partybus to and from ND on Saturday, Chicago fun until Wednesday. Is there a Ferris Bueller tour?
We’re staying in Chicago as well. South Bend is a beautiful campus but rather isolated.
I’ve not been to South Bend, but have a few alumni friends here in Atlanta recommending things to do. If nothing else, we’ve got a large enough crowd to have a good time in our house before and after the game.
We’re flying into Chicago on Thursday and thinking about catching that Cubs game on Friday as well. Haven’t decided if we’re renting a car or taking a train to South Bend from Chicago. I’m certain there’s got to be a Ferris Bueller tour if you search for it. The wife and I are heading back to Chicago later that month for a wedding so not planning on spending much time there after the game other than to fly home.
More Arizona, Less Colorado.
To you South Bend Travelers, I am looking to go in on a house for my UGA Junior son and myself.
Saltwater Dawg
Beat Florida
Win the SEC East.
Beat Tech
Competitive game in SEC Championship
Seems like most folks would be happy if we got to the SEC Championship game…and got beat.
If that’s the happy spot, wtf did we go through all this drama and pain for?
I more or less understand the process, that next year should be better than this year and I can almost guarantee that next year will be better than this year.
But that’s hardly the point, is it?
I will not be happy next year or any year we are not playing in the national championship game and winning it.
Oh, silly Scorpio, don’t you know Smart needs to time to purge the losing mentality that Richt instilled in the program for all those years?
Its not a losing mentality Kirby is trying to correct, it’s a mentality of doing just enough to get by is what he’s trying to root out of program.
Yep, fourth-most wins in the nation from 2001-2015 = just barely scraping by. Kirby has indeed put a stop the mentality that produced those results, whatever it was.
How many championships of any kind do we have to show for all of those years?
Two SECS, five east titles, but yeah, no rings.
About the same as any team not coached by guys named Meyer or Saban
2 SEC titles in 15 years while sitting in the 4th best recruiting state in the country. Yeah that’s really lighting it up there champ. Keep dancing to that 10 win drumbeat.
Yeah I’d take 10 wins in a heartbeat right now. You?
Most of them wouldn’t. For a lot of people, an 11 win season with a 3-1 or 4-0 record against rivals that doesn’t result in a title might as well be a 0 win season. I don’t get it personally, seems like a miserable way to live your life, but they’re calling the shots for our program now.
Tim in Sav
Rick……he’s gone, get over it. He had 15 years to get the job done and he didn’t(notice I didn’t say couldn’t) Mark Richt is a great man and a good coach but he’s gone. Lets give Kirby at least three or four years and see what he can do.
Of course we can and should give Kirby time, but I don’t see a point in faking optimism for a situation that looked bad when the staff was hired and has only gotten worse (other than recruiting, which is going gangbusters). We’re likely to be looking for a new coach in a couple years, so we might as well remember how monstrous of a fuck-up this was and who is responsible. If that means I am not ‘letting it go’, so be it. It will be great if Kirby defies the odds, otherwise I am stoked about the guy we hire after McG is sent to the un-hireable purgatory he so richly deserves.
Not all championship game appearances are created equally. If they go 9-3 and squeak in only to be blown out, that’s a far different thing from going 12-0 or 11-1 and losing a competitive game. The latter will still only get him to a fifth year (barring a dropoff of Muschampian proportions) if he doesn’t follow it up with anything.
losing a competitive game in the SECC? You mean like 2012?
I see you didn’t read beyond that to my pointing out it wouldn’t buy him much time.
Your last sentence would make for a pretty miserable year most of the time. You’re not very happy are you? 🙂
No I am pretty happy most of the time because I don’t have unrealistic expectations about my football team.
To want any other result than a national championship for my football team is kinda stupid, no?
I am bored with all this bullshit about what is acceptable.
If 10+ wins a year for 15 years is not acceptable, then by God I want the big enchilada, the glass do hickey, the confetti bath…
To want, or expect, anything else is stupid.
It is possible to develop the right strategy, coach players to be great and play great as a team, to have the right game plan, and still lose. Consistently playing down to or losing to teams with inferior talent has been the UGA way recently. I believe we all expect that to change quickly, and starting next year.
I have seem many teams in many sports get to a championship game for the first time (players and/or coaches – not ever), play extremely well, and not quite have that secret sauce to win while playing under that pressure. I’ve also seen those teams and coaches come back the second time and kill it.
From my own comment, that’s what I meant by competitive in the championship game.
Guess we will know more about the secret sauce tonight, huh?
Looks like they found it.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
-Jean Luc Picard.
Picard was the defensive coordinator at one of those Mississippi junior colleges, right?
Picard was no James T. Kirk! And he had drenched accent. Not that there is anything wrong with that. 🙂
Well, we were in the driver seat for that in 13 14 and 15 but flunked even that test.
If we could get a little improvement along the O line, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to beat anyone on the schedule. I expect we lose a game or two but get to Atlanta and play a competitive game. I don’t “expect” to win in Atlanta, but even if its Bama we play, it should be competitive into the fourth quarter.
Compete in every game. Beat Florida. Win the SEC East. Finish the year looking like 2018 will be special. This is what I expect.
Those are pretty reasonable expectations. Well stated.
We really, really have to get back to beating Florida on a regular basis. The importance of that cannot be overstated.
Totally agree … 1990 was a long time ago.
I think that is the key as well. Not only do we need to beat them, but we need to kick the shit out them and get used to doing it. The road to Atlanta for us always runs through Jacksonville.
Absolutely … The OBS brought that mentality to Gainesville when he showed up. We need to kick them in the teeth. I’m still not sure Kirby gets it based on his team’s performance in Jacksonville this year, but it was a throwaway year.
All of you predicting or wanting big years forget we play at UT this year and you can expect some devastating injury to come out of that,
We should take a forfeit in K ‘Ville, either that or refuse to play anyone on the two deep. They’ll be fighting hard to defend their 2016 Life Championship and we can’t risk the knees of our kids.
I expect UGA to be a strong favorite to win the East, and would be disappointed if they don’t make it to Atlanta. While I don’t expect any/many more votes for us to be in the Top 10 next year, we should start somewhere around 15th as a consensus rating, and could be competitive with all teams by the end of the year. Biggest question marks are OC deficiency, whether Eason makes good strides, and whether we get better with in-game management issues (timeouts, challenge communication issues, and personnel groupings.)
Last year I was overly optimistic at 8 1/2 wins, but next year I see 10-2 as the most likely record, assuming no surprise changes before September. This is based on returning personnel, and a soft schedule of opponents, more than us having closed the gap from a team rated in the 60s last year to a Top 15 team by September.
What is a ‘great leap’? I don’t know, but I fully expect us win the East. Can we compete with the West in the SECCG? If compete means not get embarrassed then I think we might be able to do that. Win it all the next year (2018). By the way, if we can get tickets, we’re going to South Bend – I actually think we are going to win that one.
The mythical Year 2. Key juniors on offense a defense returning, coupled with a slew of talented, experienced freshmen & sophomores who have shown great early promise. Back-to-back elite recruiting classes to add depth. A weak division and a relatively easy schedule. Everything is set-up to make this another in a long line of national championship caliber “Year 2’s”.
Given the uninspiring performance of the coaching staff and the fact that this is Georgia, I’m certainly not predicting that it will be, merely thinking that the ingredients and environment dictate that it should be a SEC-title / BCS playoff type of year. Anything less will be a disappointment. Anything less will be what Mark Richt delivered for 15-years.
Unfortunately for Kirby, he is the victim of expectations raised not by his own hand, but by the way in which he was hired and the man he replaced. Another 10-2 season where we wind up on the outside of the national championship race and again pointing to next-year might be realistic, but it is not what Kirby was hired to deliver. He was hired to be better than CMR, not simply a younger, more irritable version with very, very good, but not elite, results.
In short, 2017 is exactly the type of year, and the type of team that Kirby was hired to turn from really good-to-great. Anything less should be viewed as a huge disappointment and the cause for many tough questions to be directed at not only Coach Smart, but also our beloved AD and his cronies in the hydration business.
Rocksalt
With next year’s schedule? Win the East is the bar.
drewh07
10-2 and an SEC Championship game appearance. If Kirby doesn’t deliver that then I don’t think we have our guy.
I personally want to see the coaching staff focus on winning games over “establishing an identity”. I want to see reins loosened on Eason so he takes a few more chances, like throwing a deep ball that his receiver can catch rather than worrying too much about a turnover. I want to see CPJ make excuses of why he can’t beat Georgia in Mark Richt field. I want to see Gator tears after the Cocktail Party. I want to see Auburn smoked so badly that Gus has to answer lots of hard questions about his leadership. And I want to see the Fighting Irish get their asses whipped by the Dawgs (I hope to witness that one personally). They’ll still be a top ten team after the loss by the way. If those things happen I am pretty secure in thinking that would mean a good season.
My heart: We’ll beat Florida, Auburn and Tech, plus Notre Dame at South Bend, win a weak SEC East and give Bama all it can handle in Atlanta.
My head: this is CKS’s second year, following a spotty first season, and nobody should expect miracles. But it would be nice to get back at least to where Richt left us. I truly felt we regressed last season. That was a major disappointment. A repeat of that will portend a short stay in Athens for CKS.
Another throwaway. Btw, no former Saban assistant has beaten him head to head. Still.
Keep beating that drum while ignoring that Jimbo is a badass. Saban hasn’t played an assistant that has had the time, support, recruiting, etc. to build a program that can complete with him. That certainly doesn’t mean it’s not possible. It means he hasn’t run into it yet.
MLB2
Season opener in 2017. Dome christening.
I doubt there is any school in the known universe that supports its football program with the gusto of the University of Ala by God Bama…really. What other school would have the consummate gall to put “having championship football” in its mission statement?
Hell, Jimbo can’t even get out of the ACC.
Except in 2013 when he won an NC with a team where every single starter was drafted. All 22.
Gawd, yer right, how quickly I chose to forget. I am suitably chastened.
Georgia is one of 3 teams in the East that expect to compete for the SECE Title most every year. Next year is no exception.
Kirby’s going to get it done.
You’re being optimistic PTC, seems like that’s not a very popular view to have around here nowadays.
Medium leap tripped up by occasional coaching learning curve events:
-Clock management trip up
– ‘Impose your will’ mentality that ends up playing against personnel strengths
– Critical bad call on offense
– Over coaching on D that leads to a devastating penalty
I expect an SEC east championship, but with perhaps some needed help from other east teams.
I expect a loss to UF until I see the rise of a game changer like Jarvis Jones. UT will be a shootout and I’ll be left wondering what happened to the high octane offense a few weeks later when they struggle due to the ‘impose your will’ mentality.
We will see flashes of greatness from the new kids that will leave us wanting more in 2018.
That’s what I expect. Would be ecstatic to be proven wrong on any or all of the above statements (except the SEC east prediction of course).
Let me add that a Group of Six Bowl would be a nice touch..we haven’t been to a bowl of that magnitude since the 07 Season…unless my memory is failing me.
Expecting a step in the right direction. The main concer being that, yes we have some awesome recruits coming in on the O-Line….but does anyone really expect them the perform at an elite level until year two?
The defense will be as nasty as we’ve seen in 10 years.
Eason will make a significant jump in year two.
Chubb and Michel are an obvious advantage.
Receiving corps will have more experience.
But that O-Line????
Expect 9-10 wins with a good shot at winning the East and a close loss in the SECCG due to a nasty Defense and an Ine that just can’t push us over the finish line. 2018 will be the year I expect a slot in the playoffs.
South FL Dawg
Max 1 loss
Win the weak SEC east
Don’t get embarrassed in the Dome
Squatch
Expect much improvement and making it to Atlanta unless there’s some major implosion. I still think Kirby’s model will yield results so I won’t be jumping off the wagon though if this doesn’t happen.
The wild card is Eason. I want to see him improve on accuracy and check downs. I can do without another season of Sony and/or Chubb jumping up and down in the flat waiving their arms with nobody with 30 yds of them.
No expectations or opinions until Jacksonville 2018. We’ll know for sure by then. As far as getting to Atlanta and losing this year or any year, there is no bigger screwover in college football than to be the loser of the SECCG. If you don’t play in it and are the next highest ranked team, you get a New Year’s 6 bowl. The SEC gives no shits about teams that aren’t from Florida or Alabama. Thus I give no shits about any teams that aren’t UGA.
The suspense of the season is one of the things that makes college football so great.
I believe we should be equal or better in all areas of the team.
QB – will be more experienced and possibly pushed by the next guy.
DL – will be more experienced and should be better
DB – many coming back with experience and pushed with new talent coming
WR – see DB
RB – needs no comment
OL – here is the big question and concern – we would have to expect to be better just because we stuck so bad this year. Pittman will have another year with the current players and the influx of all the new-improved talent coming. This will be were the offensive coaches prove they earned their pay.
K – who knows. it’s such a fickle part of the game.
We should be able to claim wins against App St and Samford now (hope I don’t regret saying that)
The trip to South Bend could be tricky but they didn’t have the best year themselves. Their best win was against Miami.
I won’t claim a win at UF until I see one.
Even though we struggled with UK and Mizzu and lost to Vandy this year I expect us to be MORE improved than they will ber next year.
USC and MissSt had bad years and I didn’t see anything to make me think they’ll improve by more than UGA.
Auburn, GaTech and UT seem to be the 3 games that could make or break the season…although I expect UT to struggle with the change at QB and we seem to have Auburn’s number. Tech is Tech.
I will go with a 10-win season but don’t know which 2 to pick as losses. All are winnable but many are lose-able. September can’t get here quick enough.
Ken Dorfman
•SECE
•SECC
•NATTY
•Heisman
•Bronko Nagurski Trophy
•Chuck Bednarik Award
•Dave Rimington Trophy
•Davey O’Brien Award
•Dick Butkus Award
•Doak Walker Award
•Fred Biletnikoff Award
•Jim Thorpe Award
We should win the east. We didn’t fire a 9-10 win/coach, and excellent human being, for a 4-5 year rebuilding job. Considering the state of the east, winning the division isn’t expecting too much, either.
We were in a rebuilding job either way.
artful codger
If offensive philosophy and offensive line play jell, and if better supported by sideline management, I would expect to play in the new dome in early December. And that would suit me just fine heading into ’18.
wewoof
If we lose to any team from the State of TN next year ,I’m going to be harder on Smart than I already am. (2) I thought we hired Smart so we could compete with the Process not just concede that we’ll never beat them in the Championship game. (3)The goal is to win the SEC and let everything else take care of itself…that has been the goal since Dooley.
lightbud
right now the SEC East pecking order is:
Until Smart starts beating those guys, he’s third tier.
NoAxeToGrind
9-3. It takes time to develop an OL, and the verdict has not yet been rendered regarding Chaney/Pittman.
9-3 would be great, I’d take it.
But how do we go from 7-5 to 9-3 with largely the same coaches, same schedule, and same players?
doiknowu
We won’t have to, Consider that UF, UT, and UGA won’t be returning their 2016 lineups intact.
Sorry, hit “enter” before adding that our returning players look to be better than UF’s and UT’s, and our entering class appears (on paper) to be better than theirs.
If UT gets Helfrich for OC, they’ll be the favorite for sure.
I’m surprised the Viles haven’t fired Booch to hire Chip Kelly.
Waiting on Gruden and Peyton to sign on.
I feel we are looking at a 6-6 or 7-5 season. Here’s why I say that.
We are a non-championship team trying to change the entire culture
without any Championships since 1980.
1- Saban struggled at Mich St to do that going 6 or 7 wins for 4 years.
2- Sweeney went from 9 wins down to 6 wins in 2nd year at Clemson.
3- Dantonio went from 7 wins down to 4 in his 2nd year.
4- Harbaugh won 9 games in his first 2 years at Stanford.
My point is it’s tough changing a culture used to non-championships, even for great coaches.
Here’s how most see it:
Top 25 finish in 2017
top 10 in 2018
Win Natl Champ in 2019
Sorry, show me a list of coach’s with that 3 year pattern.
More likely will be like:
6-8 wins in 2017
I don’t see how the heck we could lose the sec east in 2017. It would be a fail of epic proportions.
fu lost their best coach (Collins) and much of their talent. ut lost their entire offensive backfield and a few of their best defensive players. We have 7 returning starters on O, 10 on D, all the ST players except Imac, most of the backups return, and we have a huge recruiting class.
If any other team in cfb was this stocked they’d be in the top 5. But at underachievement U the nation has come to expect screw ups. If we don’t win 10 the whole organization should be scrapped.
Returning players don’t mean a lot if they don’t win but 8 games together.
Saban lost his DC and went undefeated the next season.
Oklahoma, FSU, Michigan, LSU, has good recruits every year and rarely wins a Championship.
It depends on whether Kirby Smart is the HC B-M thought he would be when they hired him or if he is the bozo he looked like during certain games this season. I am hoping for the former but I fear the latter. The former is 10-2 regular season next year. The latter is 6-6.
6-6, yep.
The losses to Vandy, Tech, and Tenn are puzzling, as were some of the close wins.
Could have easily gone 5-7.
Smart did not achieve anything in his first year in wins, for sure.
I don’t know what his record should or would be in 2017 but I do know that any UGA coach that starts his career 0-2 to Florida and 0-2 to GT will not have a long career. If by some total freak of the fates he should also lose to Vanderbilt again, he will not get to 2018. He took a team that lost some good players and was 10-3 and managed to totally waste the best backfield tandem we have had since Worley and Henderson and through stupid play calling on offense and the worst red zone defense in college football win 8. Tell me when the damn OC finally called the right runs for our offensive line in the TCU game it didn’t make you slap your forehead. 2015 and 2016 were the worst offenses since Ray Goff but at least 2015 won 10 and beat Tech.
Kirby is a stubborn guy with the sideline demeanor of Will Muschamp but apparently not the vocabulary. He better take self control lessons or he will continue to be a great assist coach for somebody sooner rather than later. He can’t continue to “coach the defense” it confuses the players. Why are we paying Tucker?
I know he’s a great recruiter but if he can’t win damn games he is just insuring that his successor will have a great lineup.
By the way Fromm has a better touch on his passes than Jacob. He does not try to knock the receiver down with the ball. Chaney better go back to QB school because I was not impressed with Eason’s matriculation of the ball down field.
I’d say with this AD, Smart could survive a 6-6 season with losses to UF, Tenn, GT, and Vanderbilt.
It’s not an AD who really knows what he’s doing.
Agree on recruiting, so what, 7-5 sux.
Agree on Fromm, hope he gets a real chance, those Stafford/Eason types get a lot of drops trying to impress people with their arm.
The AD will do what the money says do.
Senator, when are you going to post a post-mortem on the entire season?
Sometime in January.
Don’t lose to tech. Ever.
Never ever lose to Tech!
2016 we averaged 3 touchdowns and a field goal per game. In 2017 if we average 4 touchdowns and a field goal per game we should win the east and have a good year. With the talent we have coming back on both sides of the ball and the easiest schedule in memory, anything less will get Chaney fired and put Kirby on the proverbial hot seat in 2018.
I’m not overly optimistic.
I thought they should have gone 9-3 regular season. Should have won 2 of these 3 home games(UT,Vandy,GT). 10 wins should be doable next year.
Regular season expectation is 9-3 with a good bowl bid.
I will be pretty disappointed if we don’t win the east.
I will be satisfied if nick and Sony have noteworthy success, they deserve to be treated to quality football.
I will be surprised if we win the east being undefeated, but honestly, there is no reason to lose any of our conference games looking at our roster. Kirby needs to embrace the pressure.
The oline will be worse, losing 3 starters and special teams will be worse without IMac.
Same QB, RB’s, TE’s, and WR’s (No All SEC winners this year) who only went 7-5 and average 24 points a game.
Nothing I saw showed me Kirby knows how to play defense in the red zone. Virtually no improvement there all season.
Here’s the 6 potential losses:
Notre Dame,UT, Vandy, Auburn, UF, GT.
And that assumes you get through App State, Miss St, Mizzou, and South Carolina.
Pit Dawg
I know I’m late to the game here, folks, but we need to come to grips with a few things. As I type this, I’m watching Clemson get theirs for the first time in 35 years- and here we collectively sit- still waiting.
I am so sick and tired of the “CMR and the 10 win season argument”. Wins and losses do not tell the whole story here. Since 2008- his teams to put it mildly-underperformed and to be completely honest-sucked with the exception of one year (2012) and he chose not to spike the ball-thus losing all of his capital with the majority of constituents. His teams failed to finish in the top 25 in 4 of his last 7 seasons in Athens. The numbers of players drafted before 09 and after 09 are staggering. The 2013 recruiting class has one NFL player and he went pro in 2015. There’s this incredible misconception that the program was in good shape. It wasn’t. I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom. Most likely another throwaway year may be headed our way- only because what we EXPECT as fans and what the players and coaches are CAPABLE of at this moment are not parallel. This team lost to Vanderbilt and Tech at home, and almost lost to Missouri, Nichols St and Kentucky. Realism stings sometimes. But what I have seen for the last 4-6 years is a collective team that was not all that good. Yes, we’ve had some great individual players who have won us some games. But generally speaking I saw nothing that gave me a confidence in our overall ability to win games we are supposed to, put inferior opponents away early, and compete with superior opponents and occasionally steal a win against them.
I get that there is a glimmer of optimism to hold onto (19 returning starters- easy schedule- the clown circus that is the SEC East to name a few olive branches). But a realistic win total for 2017 is 8-9. In other words, more football purgatory.
The Smart hire is about a total reconstruction of the football program- not some magical quick fix. There were just too many massive deficiencies to expect an immediate turnaround. How fast the program improves is going to be based on how well he accumulates talent and develops the talent into elite players. He learned this “process” from one of the best. If he can’t perform, he will be excused and we will find another poor sucker to try to get us back to the glory days. But the further I grow away from the 10 year old who watched us play on that glorious New Year’s Day I become less and less convinced that it’s possible. Nevertheless, it ain’t next year.
I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom.
Quite the contrary. I’ve noted the “we’re Georgia” attitude that a substantial portion of the fan base subscribes to and found it unrealistic.
That being said, I think you’re overcompensating. Richt certainly had his flaws, some of which were of a magnitude that justified a change, but “massive deficiencies” over the past 4-6 years? Come on, man, there were two trips to the SECCG in that time period and the 2013 team would have made a third but for the rash of injuries on offense.
Unless you mean by that phrase “not in the same league as Alabama”. But it’s not like Georgia was alone in that regard.
Don'tStandSo
Next year will be a disappointment and the year after and the year after that and so forth and so on until Kirby is fired. Kirby has no clue what he is doing. Hopefully, we will hire a proven head coach from a smaller school next time, not another untested coordinator.
RLJ
Improvement–possibly an Eastern Division title–but no conference title. At least 10 wins. It is year 3 of the Kirby era that I say championship or bust.
ugadawgguy
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HIGH POINT, N.C. – (February 25, 2019) – The Bobby Labonte Foundation, founded by NASCAR champion racecar driver and High Point businessman Bobby Labonte, has earned the Business High Point – Chamber of Commerce’s prestigious Community Organization of the Year award. The recognition came last week at the annual Membership Awards Celebration, on the heels of the foundation’s most successful charity bike ride yet.
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Por A. Whitelaw
which were immediately sent to his house, exciting the joy and congratulations of all his relatives and friends.
Thus finding himself one of the richest men in his trade, and with the credit of having realised his fortune by his own ingenious experiments, Fazio began to think of living in a more splendid manner, and of sharing some of his happiness with his friends. In the first place, therefore, he bought an estate, and then a handsome house, besides making several other rich purchases; and investing his money in such advantageous concerns as offered, he soon assumed the manners and establishment of a prince. He added to the number of his domestics, and set up two equipages, the one for himself, and the other for his lady; his sons were distinguished for the richness of their apparel; and he continued to live on the happiest terms with his wife, enjoying together the luxuries and pleasures which they had at command. Pippa, to whom such a life was totally new, became somewhat vain of the change, and was in the habit of inviting her acquaintance to witness it, among whom was an old lady, with her fair daughter, whom she invited to come and stay some time with her. Fazio, to whom she said that they would be of use to her in a variety of ways, was induced to give his consent, happy to perceive that they assisted his wife in the cares of her establishment, and that they all lived on the best terms together.
But fortune, the constant enemy of any long continued enjoyment and content, was preparing to change the colour of their fate, and turn this summer sweetness and glory of their days, into the chilling winter and sorrow of despair. For it was the cruel lot of Fazio to become enamoured of the young charms of the fair Maddelena, the daughter of their guest; and such was his continued and violent passion, that he at length succeeded, by the most consummate art, in leading her from the paths of innocence. Their intercourse continued for some time unknown to his poor wife, and he conferred on his unhappy victim the most lavish proofs of his regard. But as they became bolder with impunity, the unsuspicious Pippa could not, at length, fail to be aware of the truth, and she displayed the indignation of her feelings on the subject in no very gentle terms. She reproached her fair guest with still more bitterness, and one day took occasion, in Fazio's absence, to drive her with the utmost fury and opprobrium from her house. Fazio, on returning home, was greatly incensed at these proceedings, and continued, with the same infatuation, to lavish the same favours upon the young Maddelena as before. On this account, scenes of the most cruel and distressing nature were continually occurring between him and his wife; the demon of jealousy had taken possession of her bosom, and family peace and love were thenceforward banished alike from their bed and board. It was in vain that Fazio now attempted to soothe or to subdue her irritated feelings. She spurned his divided affection, and she met his threats with still more violent passion, treating them with merited indignation and contempt. In order to avoid these reproaches, her husband went to one of his villas, at some distance, whither he invited his young mistress, and continued to lead the same abandoned course of life, while his wife remained plunged in the profoundest wretchedness and despair. These feelings, however, were soon absorbed in rage and jealousy, when she found, after some months, that her husband did not return, and was lavishing still greater proofsof tenderness and favour upon her rival. Thus dwelling with ceaseless anxiety and pain upon one hateful idea, the sense of her wrongs became too great to bear, and in a short time she came to the resolution of accusing her faithless and abandoned husband to the state, by revealing the transaction which had led to his sudden elevation and prosperity. And this appearing the only resource she had left to revenge her injuries upon the author of them, without further warning or consultation, she proceeded alone, to consult a magistrate, who holding an office similar to that of the Council of Eight in Florence, took down her deposition, comprehending every thing she knew relative to the aflairs of her husband. She, moreover, directed them to the exact spot where the remains of the miser had been buried, in the cellar of their former house, and where the officers of justiceaccordingly found them. Then still retaining her in custody, the magistrate despatched the captain of the band to the residence of her husband, where they found him enjoying himself in the society of his fair Maddelena. Immediately seizing him as a prisoner of the state, they conducted him back to Pisa, overwhelmed with the most abject despair; and when brought up for examination, he refused to utter a syllable. But his wife being ordered to appear against him, he cried out with a loud voice, at the sight of her, " This is justice, indeed!" and then turning towards her, he added: "My too great affection for you has brought me to thisand, taking one of the magistrates aside, he freely revealed to him the truth of the affair, exactly as it had occurred. With one accord, however, the whole court refused to give credit to the story, asserting that there was every appearance of his having himself robbed and murdered the unfortunate Gugfielmo, and threatening instantly to put him to the torture if hedid not confess. This, upon his maintaining his own story, they proceeded to do, and by dint of repeated trials, they at length compelled him to say what they pleased and afterwards proceeded to sentence him to be broken alive upon the wheel, while the state appropriated the whole of his possessions. The remains of the miser, Grimaldi, were then ordered to be removed, and interred in sacred ground; the beautiful Maddelena and her mother were driven with ignominy from the villa to their former abode; and the establishment of Fazio was completely broken up; his wife, with her family and domestics, being compelled to take refuge wherever they could. On being released from court, where she had appeared in evidence against her own husband, the wretched Pippa returned home; but to a home desolate and deserted by all but her children. In the agony of her grief, she wept, she raved, she tore her hair, too late perceiving, with feelings of remorse, the grievous error she had committed.
The tidings spread rapidly throughout all Pisa, and the people joined in expressing their astonishment, no less at the supposed enormity and deceit of which Fazio was accused, than at the strange treachery and ingratitude of his wife. Even her own relatives and friends, who assisted her, unanimously agreed in condemning her conduct, reproaching her bitterly for the degradation and ruin which she had brought upon her family; besides the inhumanity of having thus betrayed her husband to a painful and ignominious death. Having said this, they left her weeping bitterly, and overpowered with intolerable remorse. On the ensuing day, the wretched Fazio was led forth, and drawn through the streets of Pisa on a sledge; and after being thus exhibited to the people, he was conducted to the place of execution, there, having been first broken upon the wheel, he was executed in the presence of the people, and left on the same spot, by way of example, during the rest of the day.
The tidings of this terrific scene coming to the ears of his wife, whom he had continued cursing and reviling to his latest hour, in a fit of desperation, she resolved to take vengeance upon herself. About dinner hour then, there being few people to observe her, she seized her two little boys by the hand, and led them, weeping, towards the great square, the scene of the execution; while such as met her by the way only bestowed their maledictions on her, and allowed her to pass on. When she arrived at the foot of the platform, where the body lay, few spectators being present, she proceeded, still weeping bitterly, to ascend the steps of the platform, with the children along with her, no one around offering the least resistance. There, affecting to lament over the wretched fate of her husband, she was sternly and severely upbraided by all who stood near, who said aloud: "See how she can weep, now that it is done! It is her own work; she would have it so; and let her therefore despair!" The wretched wife then tearing her hair, and striking her lovely face and bosom with her clenched hands, while she pressed her burning lips to the cold features of her husband, next bade her little boys kneel down to kiss their father; at which sight, the surrounding spectators, forgetting their anger, suddenly burst into tears. But their distracted mother, drawing a knife from her bosom, with remorseless fury, hastily plunged it into the breasts of her sons, and before the people were prepared to wrest the deadly weapon from her hand, she had already turned it against herself, and fallen upon the lifeless bodies of her husband and her children. With a loud cry the people ran towards the fatal spot, where they found the dying mother and her two infants, pouring their last sighs as they lay weltering in their blood. Tidings of this tragic scene having spread rapidly throughout all Pisa, crowds of people came hastening from all sides filled with lamentation and terror, to witness so heart-rending a spectacle; where the yet warm and reeking bodies of the father, the mother, and the children, were piled indiscriminately upon each other. And surely nothing we have heard of the woes of Thebes, of Syracuse, or of Athens, of Troy, or of Rome, can be said to equal the domestic sorrow and calamity which Pisa thus witnessed in the lot of a single family, the whole of which was swept away in one day, the innocent victims of mistaken justice. The terror and surprise of the inhabitants of Pisa, shortly spreading through other parts of Italy, caused so great a sensation in the ^different cities, that people left their houses to visit the fatal spot, lamenting over the bodies of the innocent children, lying, with smiling countenances, as if buried in a profound slumber, on their parent's funeral bier. It was impossible for them to restrain their tears at the sight, a sight sufficient to soften a heart of stone, and at which justice herself now dropped her fatal sword. For she at length consented to grant to the prayers of Fazio's relatives that the bodies of the hapless children should be decently interred in the burial ground of Santa Catharina; while those of the parents, who had died a desperate and unrepentant death, were to be placed without the sacred bounds, under the walls of the city. The procession was accompanied with the tears and lamentations of thousands, whose outcries against the cruelty and injustice of their fate, and whose expressions of pity for their sufferings, were loud and vehement.
THE DEATH-BED.
We watch'd her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro I
So silently we seemed to speak—
So slowly moved about!
As we had lent her half our powers
To eke her living out!
Our very hopes belied our fears
Our fears our hopes belied—
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died I
For when the morn came dim and sad—
And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed—she had
Another morn than ours! Thomas Hour'.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulnes?,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing- sun:
Conspiring with him how; to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core:
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or in a half-reaped furrow sound asleep.
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while the hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes, like a gleaner, thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourne;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
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Acceleration: Acceleration of an object is defined as its rate of change of velocity at that instant. It is usually denoted by ‘a’ and is measured in the units of m/s2. Any object experiencing an unbalanced force, constant or variable, shows acceleration. In other words, any object undergoing a change in its velocity, either magnitude, or direction or both is said to be accelerated.
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\(Average Acceleration = v_{1}+ v_{2}+ v_{3}+…..+v_{n}/ t_{1}+ t_{2}+ t_{3}+….+t_{n}\)
Real Life Example
If the velocity of a marble increases from 0 to 60 cm/s in 3 seconds, its average acceleration would be 20 cm/s/s. Meaning that the marble’s velocity will go up by 20 cm/s each second.
Average acceleration Problems
Example 1: A bus accelerates with an initial velocity of 10 m/s for 5s then 20 m/s for 4s finally for 15 m/s for 8s. What can be said about the average acceleration of the bus?
It is given that, the velocities of the bus at different time intervals is, v1 = 10 m/s, v2 = 20m/s, v3 = 15m/s
The time intervals for which the object possesses these velocities are t1 = 5s, t2 = 4s, t3 = 8s
Hence, over the interval, the total velocity can be given as the sum of these velocities.
\(\Delta v = 10+20+15=45 \frac{m}{s}\)
Similarly, the total time interval can be given as the sum of these intervals,
\(\Delta t = t _{1}+ t_{2}+ t_{3}= 5+4+8 = 17s\)
Using the above formula for average acceleration, we get,
\(Average acceleration = \frac{45}{17} = 2.65 \frac{m}{s^{2}}\)
Question 2: A sparrow, while going back to its nest accelerates to 6 m/s from 3 m/s in 5s. What can we say about its average acceleration?
As given in the question, the initial velocity vi = 3m/s,
And the final velocity vf = 6m/s
Also, the total time interval over which the velocity changed can be given as, t = 5 s
Using the above mentioned formula for average acceleration, we get,
\(Average acceleration = \frac{6-3}{5} = 0.6 \frac{m}{s^{2}}\)
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Dorian power outages mean no water to fight fires in parts of Inverness County
People in parts of Cape Breton's Inverness County are being warned not to use candles or anything else that might spark a fire because post-Dorian power outages have knocked out local water treatment plants.
Several communities don't have any water for fighting fires. The municipality has issued a warning on social media to residents of Inverness, Port Hastings, Judique, Port Hood, Whycocomagh and Mabou.
The local treatment plants can't supply water because of the ongoing power outages.
"It puts up the risk for a house fire," Inverness County Warden Betty Ann MacQuarrie said Tuesday.
She said community reservoirs typically set aside 40 percent of their water for emergency use by fire departments. But she said the supply "is not there" in several communities where the power has been out since the weekend.
MacQuarrie said there have been instances in the past when local treatment plants have been out of power for a day or two, but can't remember a prolonged outage affecting several at a time.
The outages also mean customers hooked to the municipal water supply in those communities have little or no water for drinking or bathing.
Comfort centres in local fire halls are supplying free bottled water.
MacQuarrie said even though she expects the power will be restored in those communities by late Tuesday or Wednesday, it will take "some time" for the reservoirs to replenish.
Officials with the county have said it could take up to a day.
It's another symptom, she said, of aging water infrastructure across the municipality that must be upgraded or replaced.
County council will discuss the most recent outages at a later debriefing, said MacQuarrie, and will likely talk about possible solutions, such as generators to power the treatment plants.
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How to lose everything in three short days
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider
When VAWA is used as a weapon of destruction
The story of a man who describes how to lose everything in three short days: “I later learned that a legal aid group called Civil Society Helps had assisted with my wife’s abuse claims to expedite her immigration application. This outfit helps many immigrant women to file false abuse claims under the Violence Against Women Act.”
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My Wife Became Legal and I Became Illegal
By Carey Roberts on Feb 22, 08
Each year the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and similar federal laws funnel $1 billion to help abused and battered women – or so we are led to believe. A good part of that money goes to immigrants who claim to be victims of domestic violence.
Last Fall I wrote a three-part exposé that revealed how an immigrant woman’s restraining order becomes a gold-plated meal ticket that entitles her to preferential treatment by immigration authorities, free legal services, and a generous helping of welfare services.
One woman whose father had been falsely accused of abuse and forced from his home wrote me, “I believe the Violence Against Women Act should be called the ‘Women Get What They Want Act.’” [ www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/070912 ]
Following those columns I received an unending stream of horror stories from persons falsely accused of domestic violence. One came from Sean Moffett of St. Paul, Minn. whose wife is from Guatemala. Soon after the wedding he discovered to his dismay that her real aim was different from what she had pledged in her wedding vows.
This is his story:
My wife’s family came to visit for a few months and they repeatedly attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and me. Ultimately, my wife assaulted me by punching me in the neck. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way.
I was arrested for 5th Degree Domestic Assault and spent three days in jail for a crime I did not commit and for not leaving my home under duress. While I was behind bars, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account.
I later learned that a legal aid group called Civil Society Helps had assisted with my wife’s abuse claims to expedite her immigration application. This outfit helps many immigrant women to file false abuse claims under the Violence Against Women Act.
Shortly after my release from jail, my wife asked me to write a letter to immigration stating I was an abusive husband. She promised if I wrote the letter she would help me get my home back….(Full Story)
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