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Cambridge Ecofiction Bookgroup
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Book group Resources (2): ‘Sealed’
Sealed (Dead Ink, 2017) is the second novel by Yorkshire-based author Naomi Booth. With a claustrophobic structure, and a solid grip on the workings of the Gothic genre, the intensity of this tale goes steadily in crescendo, from the first, unsettling chapter, to what The Guardian has called its ‘tense, gut-wrenching climax’. Booth has written that her fiction ‘tends to explore unsettling landscapes, strange compulsions, dangerous bodies and contamination’, and there is a lot of that in this powerful work. Using the transgressive power of the Gothic mode, Booth paints a more than plausible near-future, and the impact of the book derives partly from this extremely well-handled sense of immediacy, of giving the reader a vantage point of the exact moment of no return in ecological collapse. At all times the reader can relate to this version of the world, where civilization is about to end, but where a semblance of normality still gravitates, a plot device much more difficult to navigate than a ‘straightforward’ post-apocalyptic world. This threshold moment, made up of boundaries blurring between the possible and the grimmest ecological reality, is dissected under the gaze of characters desperately trying to fix some sense of normality to their lives. The book’s dark, urgent message: we are long past the moment when normality is possible.
Booth bravely tackles issues that are not usually looked at by ecological fiction, such as forced migration, sickness and disease as a result of pollutants, class inequalities, and a capitalism gone awry, all of it dissected alongside the problematic dynamics that family, partners, friends, co-workers, force us at times to engage with.
Sample ideas for discussion:
Sealed’s opening sentence, ‘We came here to begin again’, deftly poses one of the major problems of climate change, this fantasy that we ‘can leave everything behind’, or ‘start again’, or simply not look at the problem. How the book navigates the dynamics between seeing and not seeing, or between wanting to understand and deliberate denial?
The complex gender dynamics in the novel also hint at this same idea of forcibly ‘not seeing’. The gaslighting tactics of one of the characters, together with the need of another one to policy her own behavior, address at some level the problems of dealing with climate deniers. In some ways, the aesthetic choices of the novel level up this issue, by offering a blue-print of undeniable occurrences. How grounded in reality is the novel? Or is it a speculative fiction text?
The role of uncanny nature, birds, plants, but also the landscape itself, moves between the sublime and the terrifying; or maybe this two emotions are connected in the novel. Is this a Gothic text? And if it is, what are the advantages/disadvantages of putting the strategies of an emotional genre to work ?
How plausible is the vision of the near-future? Does this help, or take the text further into the realm of fantasy? How do things that we see happening already (‘heat events’, ‘water curfew’, ‘displacement camps’, ‘dense smog’) work in an speculative fiction text? One of the most shocking elements of the novel is the every-day need for ‘protected food’. Are we close to needing it?
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is the role of the archival practices of the main character, the need to bear witness and keep a memory of the events, to keep track of what is happening, specially as some of the characters deny the occurrences around them, or want to silence her voice. The theme of memory does not usually appear in climate change fiction; how importance is it for ecofiction to remember?
There is ambiguity in some of the structural decisions; it is difficult to know if the novel is going to verge into fantasy, or firmly keep to the ground of what is strictly plausible. Its uncanny atmosphere does not verge entirely into weird fiction territory. Is this a conscious decision to make the character, or the ecological message, more reliable?
Interviews & book reviews:
Author’s webpage
‘Not the Booker: Sealed by Naomi Booth Review: A Promising Debut’, The Guardian
‘Abi Curtis and Naomi Wood in Conversation’, York Centre for Writing
‘Book Review: Sealed‘, Storgy
‘Growing babies: Speculative fictions of the pregnant body’, The TLS
Other books by the author:
List of Naomi Booth’s works in Goodreads
Download our worksheet here.
(2018/2019) academic year events
[TBC]: EcoFiction Bookgroup – Easter Meeting: The End We Start From, Megan Hunter (Picador, 2017) – time and place to be confirmed
06/03/19: Eco-Storytelling Creative Writing Workshop: Writing the Environment – completed
20/02/19: EcoFiction Bookgroup – Lent Meeting: Sealed, Naomi Booth (Dead Ink Press, 2017) – completed
05/02/19: Film Screening + Discussion: Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho (2013) – completed
28/11/18: EcoFiction Bookgroup – Michaelmas Meeting: Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (2014) – completed
Exhibition Recap – EcoFiction in the English Faculty Library
Book Review – ‘Of Memory and Myth: “Fen” and “Everything Under”’
Social Event Recap- ‘Snowpiercer’ film screening, climate change, and class inequalities
Bookgroup Meeting Recap – ‘Annihilation’ & the Uncanny
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Volume 14 Supplement 2
Health Services Research: Evidence-based practice
Where should stepped-wedge designs be placed in the evidence hierarchy? Using the “within-wedge” analysis approach to generate evidence of possible bias
Terry Haines1,2,
Karla Hemming3,
Alan Girling3,
Anne-Marie Hill4,
Max Bulsara5 &
Jon Deeks3
BMC Health Services Research volume 14, Article number: P54 (2014) Cite this article
The stepped wedge research design is becoming increasingly popular, particularly in the field of implementation science. It is a form of cluster randomised controlled trial with unidirectional cross-over (normally from control to intervention). This trial design may be biased however because the effect of calendar time is unbalanced between control and intervention periods. Hence there is concern that this design may produce biased results compared to using a parallel cluster randomised controlled trial. Authors have previously compared these two designs on the grounds of data collection burden and cost. However, it is arguably more important to compare these designs in terms of whether they are equally likely to generate results that are free from bias. This paper discusses the potential sources of bias relevant to these designs, examines how empirical evidence of bias has previously been generated, and then outlines the “within-wedge” analysis approach - a new method for generating evidence of potential bias in the stepped-wedge design.
There have been four strategies previously used to generate empirical evidence of bias with different research designs. These include; i) direct comparison of results from trials that have used different designs to answer the same question, ii) meta-epidemiology, iii) resampling from existing studies, and iv) resampling from custom-developed datasets. Each approach has strengths and limitations in the evidence they can generate. For example, approach i) requires minimal variation in the study designs and populations in order to minimise confounding when making comparisons, while approach ii) requires data from large numbers of studies to be gathered.
The within-wedge analysis approach is a variation on approach i) made possible through the realisation that data from a parallel cluster randomised trial is hidden within a stepped wedge design. The two effect estimates generated (one from the stepped-wedge design, one from the parallel cluster trial design) can be compared in a ratio of ratios. The within-wedge analysis approach has an advantage over approach i) in that many study characteristics are held constant, and an advantage over approach ii) in that this approach can be applied to individual studies (and to multiple outcomes within individual studies). Meta-regression can be applied to within-wedge analysis outcomes to identify situations that may make stepped-wedge designs more or less prone to bias. We recommend that the within-wedge analysis reported as a secondary analysis from stepped-wedge designs in future.
Physiotherapy Department, Monash University Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Terry Haines
Allied Health Research Unit, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Karla Hemming
, Alan Girling
& Jon Deeks
Physiotherapy Department, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Anne-Marie Hill
Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Max Bulsara
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Correspondence to Terry Haines.
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Haines, T., Hemming, K., Girling, A. et al. Where should stepped-wedge designs be placed in the evidence hierarchy? Using the “within-wedge” analysis approach to generate evidence of possible bias. BMC Health Serv Res 14, P54 (2014) doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-S2-P54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-S2-P54
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Roller Champions Announced, and Gets a PC Demo Today
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The Google Stadia streaming service will be adding a lot more games in 2020. I'll take the educated guess that you'll be able to buy all games included in Uplay+ as standalones since Ubisoft will still have to port all of them to support Google's cloud infrastructure anyway. Ubisoft says that to start, subscribers will get access to the Ghost Recon Breakpoint beta on September 5th, followed by early access to the game on October 1st.
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According to the sources, Shikhar Dhawan's possible replacement could either be Shreyas Iyer or Rishabh Pant . He looked in considerable pain but carried on to score 117 off 109 balls.
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Joe Biden leads race for Democratic presidential contenders
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Midsummer moon, p.33
In the dim corridor, a footman standing in a pool of candlelight came to attention. Ransom hesitated. He had an order to give, but he was afraid that his tongue would not obey him. The stammer hung at the back of his throat. He closed his eyes, gathering himself, trying to collect the pieces of shattered illusion.
"Wake Mr. Collett,” he said finally. “Tell him that he is to place a"—here Ransom had to pause, to force his tongue around a word that nauseated him—"bodyguard ... with Lord Shelby. At all hours. My"—Ransom had to wait again, for the physical mastery of his tongue to speak—"brother,” he managed eventually, “is not to leave the house."
The footman bowed, impassive. “Your Grace,” he said, and turned away.
Ransom walked a few steps down the corridor. Beyond the ring of candlelight, he lost momentum. The shadows beside a marble column made a refuge. Like some mongrel dog he hid in them, leaning his cheek against the stone to suffer a wound that was only just beginning to lose its numbness and turn to agony.
The saloon door slammed. Shelby's boot heels set up an echo in the hall. He passed Ransom, saw him, and stopped.
"It's not true,” Shelby said.
Ransom wanted to believe that. He wanted it so badly that he did not trust himself to speak, or move, or think straight. He simply looked at Shelby.
"I had your bank draft delivered to Rule.” His brother stood stiffly, hands locked behind his back. The faint candlelight picked out his features in perfect profile and turned his hair to sculpted gold. “I got my notes back. I gave them to you. I did what I said I would. This—thing—you saw—” He held up the crumpled receipt. “I don't know what it is, or whence it came. I've taken no money from Rule since you told me what he was. Before God, Ransom."
"Yes,” Ransom said softly. “It would be necessary for you to claim so, wouldn't it?"
Shelby's mouth took on a grim curve. “Claim so?"
"Either way. Traitor or dupe ... you have to protest your innocence."
The grim curve became murderous. “You don't believe me."
"Shelby.” Ransom let out a slow breath. “I cannot afford to. Not anymore."
"Because of this?” Shelby cried viciously. He flung the paper to the floor and stepped forward. “I ought to kill you. I don't take the lie from man or mortal."
Ransom straightened. He was an inch taller than Shelby, and he used it. In a low, snarling voice he said, “You'll take from me what I hand out, my friend. There's enough suspicion hung around your neck now to drown an ox. Try to press me, and I'll forget family honor and do my task like any other of the King's magistrates—let the evidence swallow you whole."
"Family honor!” Shelby hissed. “Since what century have we concerned ourselves with that?"
Ransom stared into his brother's furious blue eyes. “You tell me. You tell me, Shelby."
His brother's gaze faltered; rose again. “Do you think I'm in Bonaparte's pay, then? Do you think for sixty thousand pounds I sold Merlin to that damned Corsican pirate?"
"He da-da-da ... didn't!” Light poured into the corridor from the saloon's open door. Woodrow stood in the portal, his small figure throwing a long shadow across the floor. “Ma-ma-ma ... my pa-pa-papa wouldn't da-da-da ... do that!"
"Master Woodrow.” Peale appeared in the doorway behind the boy, sounding flustered. “This won't be any of your concern, my dear child. Forgive my presumption, Your Grace—but shall I ask the boy's mother to take him to his chamber?"
"Unnecessary.” Jaqueline glided into the corridor, taking Woodrow's hand. Instead of turning away toward the stairs, she drew him with her to Shelby's side. “I wish to hear, and Woodrow, too, these accusations against his father."
Ransom glanced down the hall, where the whole party was crowding now into the cool marble corridor. He swore beneath his breath.
"It's none of your affair, ma'am!” Shelby said, equally furious.
Jaqueline lifted her head, her magnificent violet eyes calm. “It is."
"Why?” He moved away from her a step and swept a bow to the others. “Anxious to see me hanged by the neck? State your case, brother—we've judge and jury here to try me!"'
"Shelby,” Ransom said in a warning tone.
"Nay—let's go at it! I'll begin myself. The suit is watertight, Your Grace; the evidence is heavy.” Shelby flung out his arm recklessly. “You said so not a moment past! There's knowledge first—there's knowing what a muddlehead like Merlin is worth and why you brought her here. There's—"
Ransom caught Shelby's arm. “Don't do this."
Shelby jerked away, his fine nostrils flaring with temper. “No, let them hear! They deserve to know what a viper you've held to your bosom. Listen now—the tinker's camp—who took her there? I arranged it. I dangled the bait of a pinion gear, and she fell right into that little trap, didn't she?” His blue eyes glittered. “And I drugged myself, of course! To lull away suspicion. The temple was my triumph, though. Who but you and Blythe and I knew of the temple room till now?"
"No! Papa—” Woodrow tried to reach for his sleeve, but Shelby swung away.
"We took an oath on that, we three. Would I hold to a childhood oath? Look at the progress of my sorry life, ladies and gentleman,” he sneered. “Look at the fact that I sank to the tune of sixty thousand under a gentleman of French connections and make your own conclusions. Oh, yes, and that amazing, incriminating hat! It's mine, you say? Well, how shall I defend against a blow like that? I haven't lost one, nay—but it must be mine. Why, the case must be rested on that point alone!"
"So rest it,” Ransom said darkly.
Shelby turned a scornful look upon him. “Embarrassed now? You only care to assert your accusations in private?"
"I only care to recover my wife. And see that any bastard who put her in danger is drawn and quartered. If you're responsible, then count your days, brother. They have a limited number."
"But he's not!” Woodrow cried. “It wasn't my papa. Everyone knew about Miss Merlin's pinion gear and how she wanted it. And he isn't the only one who knew about the temple, either! I saw Aunt Blythe there, and she was showing Major O'Shaughnessy—"
"Woodrow!” Blythe hurried forward. “You little beast, you swore to me—"
"I'm not carrying tales! It's important, don't you see? He thinks my papa tricked Miss Merlin and put her in the temple, and he didn't."
"Oh, I feel faint.” Blythe put her hands to her eyes and moaned. “Shelby!"
He looked toward her keenly, making no move to support her as she swayed. “What's this? New evidence?"
"Mamá!” Blythe crumpled to her knees. “Oh, I'm ill. Help me!"
It was Quin who knelt quickly beside her, cradling her head against his shoulder. “Darlin',” he soothed. “It's all right; it's all right; don't be frightened, my love."
Blythe whimpered and clung to him, pressing her cheek to his Chest.
"Now, see here, Major!” Mr. Peale exclaimed in a scandalized voice.
Blythe stiffened. “No!” She struggled to sit up. “Get away from me—don't touch me! Oh, God, I can't bear—"
"Be still,” Ransom snapped. He stared coldly at Quin. “O'Shaughnessy,” he said, “I'll have the truth from you, I think."
Blythe moaned and buried her face in her hands. The officer tightened his hold on her quivering shoulders.
"Your Grace,” he said. “May I—in private—” He set his jaw. A deep flush was rising in his face. “Your sister, sir, for her sake—"
Ransom took a step forward. “I am out of patience, Major. Here and now. Did she show you the temple room?"
"Your Grace,” Quin said in a rush, “I wish to marry Lady Blythe!"
Dead silence greeted his announcement. Then Shelby began to laugh.
Quin glared up at him. His face went from red to white, but he only gathered Blythe's hands and held them to his lips. “Don't weep, love. Don't."
"How touching,” Shelby crossed his arms and leaned back against the marble pillar. “It very nearly
makes me ill."
Quin kept his head bent, but his broad shoulders went still and tense.
"When did she show it to you, Major?” Ransom asked.
Still Quin did not look up. He pulled out his handkerchief and bent over Blythe, gently applying it to her cheeks. She grasped at his hands, shaking her head violently.
"Sshh, darlin',” he murmured. “It will be all right.” He looked up finally and met Ransom's eyes. “I first went there with her not long after I arrived, sir."
Blythe began to rock and whimper. Quin held her close.
"I suppose I needn't inquire as to why,” Ransom said.
Quin took a deep breath. “Your Grace. I love her."
"Yes, I think you'd damned well better. Any other reason for your actions chills me."
Blythe buried her face in the handkerchief. “I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, I want to die!"
"Lady Blythe,” Mr. Peale said in a stricken voice. “Lady Blythe. Has this criminal used you ill? Has he ruined your good name, and for no more reason than a villainous plan to abduct Miss Lambourne?"
Quin jerked around. “You slimy little—I'll horsewhip you for that!"
"Your paltry threats do not frighten me, sir!” Peale cried. “I'm a man of God, but choose your weapon—I'll go out with you to avenge this calumny! She is far above you, and yet you've dragged her down into the muck of your base de—"
"Good God, Peale,” Ransom interrupted. “Take yourself off. I can't stomach a rejected suitor's hysterics right now."
Mr. Peale gave Quin a trembling glare. “Your Grace,” he said without looking at Ransom. He turned around, and with a jerky stride, disappeared into the dark.
The Duchess May came forward. She gave Quin a look that Ransom found unreadable. “Please help my daughter to her feet, Major O'Shaughnessy. I believe she had best retire now."
"Oh, Mamá,” Blythe said, muffled in the handkerchief. But she leaned on Quin as she rose, and let him hold her for an instant in a tighter grip before she turned into her mother's arms.
"So affecting,” Shelby said when Blythe and the dowager duchess were gone. Quin stared at a point near Ransom's feet, not answering.
"I would like to hear all of this story,” Ransom said to him. “From the beginning."
Quin's lips tightened. He glanced toward Woodrow and Jaqueline.
Ransom nodded in mocking answer to the unspoken question. “Yes, Woodrow will stay. I need one word at least that I can depend upon."
The boy looked up at him, eyes wide. He stood a little straighter.
"Major,” Ransom prompted with a nod of command.
"There's little to tell, sir. Her Ladyship is blameless."
Ransom's mouth flattened. “So blameless that you'd hang for it? I have some choice, you know. I can believe you forced yourself on my blameless sister and then blackmailed her into telling you the key to that room, or I can believe she was not so innocent, but a willing party in a flirtation that went a bit far."
"It's not—” Quin scowled. “I meant that—Damnation, what do you want me to say? I flirted with her, aye! It was a challenge at the start. And then, when she came to me—when I learned to see—” He paced away, stopped, and looked at Ransom suddenly. “You don't know her! No one here knows her, or looks past the damned Falconer fortress she's built around herself. She's lived in your shadow until she's almost lost her own will. That puffball Peale—that pompous little bag of air—why do you suppose she suffers him, but that he has your sanction? She would have married him a half dozen times over if I'd not begged her to think. If I'd not—” He turned his face away, rubbing his mouth.
"Damaged the goods?” Shelby suggested dryly.
Quin swung back. For an instant, there was murder in the air. Ransom moved a step, putting himself between them. “If you were meeting my sister at the temple, why didn't you find Miss Lambourne when she was held there?"
"We didn't go then. We hadn't gone. Not for weeks. Apparently Mr. Peale told her he had been walking in the vicinity. She grew quite ... panicked ... over the possibility that you would find out. You saw her—that day you brought the hat to me and she thought that it might have been mine! She almost swooned.” He shoved his hands in his pockets. “She was terrified. How could I have told you that I knew of the temple without explaining how and why? Without doing what she fears most in the world—lessening her in your eyes?” He set his jaw. His scattering of freckles stood out against the white lines around his mouth. “It's been a month—a full month since she's allowed me to ... meet her—in private."
"Do you believe this?” Shelby asked scathingly. “Let me tell you a different version. This fellow made love to our sister until he seduced her. He found out about the temple from her and planted that tinker with his damned pinion gear at the gate where I come and go. When Merlin and I fell right into the trap, he made his move, and put her where no one would think to look."
Ransom grimaced. “Shelby, what the devil is this damned pinion gear you keep raving about?"
"Miss Merlin's!” Woodrow said. “She needed one very badly for her wing control. We all knew it."
Ransom narrowed his eyes. “All?"
"Oh, yes. Quin and Papa and Aunt Blythe and Mr. Peale and Mamá and I. Everyone who was helping with the flying machine."
"I see.” Ransom frowned. He looked at Shelby. “It was a bluff. It wasn't ribbons she wanted from the tinker, then."
His brother shifted his feet and nodded. “I should have known, of course. I thought it an odd coincidence, that the shabby fellow carried pinion gears with his pots and pans. But that's not the point! The thing's being nailed on me, Ransom; I've been made to look as black as pitch. And now—I ask you—who pulled down that book with this supposedly in it?” He kicked at the paper on the floor. “Who made sure it would be found? I am not stupid, brother. If I had something like this to hide, for God's sake, would I put it in a book in plain sight in the saloon?"
"I don't know,” Ransom said slowly. “I don't trust myself to know."
Shelby made a sound of furious disgust and turned away. Other footsteps reverberated in the corridor. Mr. Collett, looking disheveled, came hurrying toward them with two footmen behind him.
"Your Grace!” He bobbed into a hasty bow. “I've men to stand bodyguard, as you asked. Something untoward has happened, I fear?"
Shelby twisted back on his heel. He stared at the footmen.
"A bodyguard,” he said softly. “Oh, Ransom ... Ransom ... do you think I'll forgive you for this?"
Ransom kept his gaze hard and level. He did not, could not—would not believe that Shelby could betray him. And for that alone, for that one immovable conviction, he had to let his order stand. Because blind love made a miserable substitute for reason.
He turned away to Mr. Collett. “Put a guard on Major O'Shaughnessy also. By my authority as magistrate they are both under arrest. Neither he nor Lord Shelby leave the house at any time."
"But you can't!” Woodrow's high-pitched cry rang in the hall.
Mr. Collett bowed his head. With an uncomfortable cough, he began to issue low-voiced instructions to the footmen.
"Uncle, you don't think Papa kidnapped Miss Merlin?” Woodrow gave Ransom's coat a frantic tug. “You don't! He wouldn't do that; you know he wouldn't!"
Ransom put his hand to his eyes. “Woodrow—"
"No, listen to me! I'll find Miss Merlin! I'll find out who did it. It wasn't my papa. I know it wasn't!"
Like a coward Ransom chose retreat, with no way to answer or explain, no buffer against the scared disbelief in his nephew's eyes. As he started to move away, Jaqueline stepped out of the shadows where she'd stood, half-forgotten. She placed a hand on Woodrow's arm and hushed him.
Ransom came face to face with her, and halted.
"I understand you.” She looked into his eyes. The faint flicker of candlelight turned her violet gaze to deep velvet. “You are a duke and a magistrate, and cannot be a man. But...” Holding her chin like an
Amazon queen, she reached out and lightly touched his chest. “There is the law"—she lifted the hand that had touched him to her lips—"and there is the heart. So. Woodrow and I, we do you the service, Duke. We take your heart with us ... to keep it safe where you wish it to be."
She reached down and grasped Woodrow's hand. He clung to her, giving Ransom one last trembling look. But when Jaqueline slid her arm through Shelby's in spite of his baffled frown, Woodrow instantly grabbed his father's other hand.
"Now. Come,” Jaqueline said. “Perhaps we can persuade our bodyguard to play spillikens with us until it is time to go to bed."
Ransom watched them down the hall, the footman making a hesitant foursome as Jaqueline engaged him in bright banter as if he were a newfound guest. Shelby said nothing. But he held Woodrow's hand and he kept Jaqueline's arm, and the rigid set of his spine and jaw had gone to something less than killing fury.
Brava, mi prima, Ransom thought. Bravissima one more time. He closed his eyes. Thank God you never miss a cue.
"They are the French,” Merlin hissed. “Don't you know anything?"
"Now, see here, young lady!” Mr. Pemminey's chubby mouth pursed. “I think I would know it if my sponsors were French. Why, they speak the King's English better than I."
Merlin dropped her head back against the creaking wooden settle. She put her hands over her eyes, blocking out the cluttered, book-lined interior of Mr. Pemminey's tower room. “Of course they speak good English.” She glared at him through her fingers. “It's a secret, don't you see?"
Wispy gray sideburns flew as he shook his head. “No, ma'am, I do not. They are high-minded, farsighted men, who have seen the value of my labors when others have laughed. Why, their generosity alone—"
"Yes, yes, I know it's very hard when people laugh, but you can't just go off and sell your work to the enemy!"
"The enemy!” Mr. Pemminey's round face turned as red as Ransom's crimson dressing gown. “I say, Miss—uh—what did you tell me your name was?"
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Jessica Alba shared an intimate photo
The actress is already tired of fighting with excess weight.
Photo: @jessicaalba Instagram Jessica Alba
36-year-old Jessica Alba shared a very personal photo:
it was captured the moment when the actress breast-feeding your baby
Of Hayes, who is two months. As explained by the Alba in the caption to the picture,
the photo was taken in the fitting room of a shopping center, where Jessica decided
go shopping to clear my mind – along with Hayes in the Bjorn and two senior
daughters — honor and haven. Interestingly, although the laws of the state of California
breast-feeding is allowed in public places, Alba was too shy to do it
in public. She not only hid in the dressing room, but hid behind clothes
in such a way that her Breasts in the photo barely visible.
Jessica Alba in a dull moment. After
as for New year’s eve, she gave birth to the Hayes, the actress became a mother of many children.
With two daughters — 9-year-old haven and 6-year-old honor, as he told the times
Jessica, very active and agile girl. And sometimes just turn
the whole house is “upside down”. It’s good that older be imbued with the role of senior
sisters and even trying a little bit to help mother with the younger brother. But
Junior is spinning all the time around my mother, trying to distract themselves.
Meanwhile, Alba has already begun the “battle” for the return
prenatal form. As said the actress a few days ago, it has already started
training in the gym. Moreover, although Jessica and breastfeeding, she’s already
village on a diet. This is evidenced by another photo in which the actress filmed
in that moment, when there is a “sandwich”: a piece of ham wrapped in lettuce
sheet. “A sandwich without bread — it’s no fun…” — such a sad signature
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First Look: 2011 Mazda2
by Matthew Wilson
Having had its initial launch in Europe back in 2007, the Mazda2 has finally made its way to North America for 2011. Actually, because the car is not so new anymore, the U.S.-spec Mazda2 is a mid-life refresh of the existing and extremely successful subcompact five-door hatchback (it's also available as a sedan in Europe only). So why did it take so long to arrive stateside? Probably because Mazda wanted to be sure Americans were willing to buy small cars en masse.
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And like its corporate cousin, the new 2011 Ford Fiesta, the Mazda2 is unlike previous subcompacts that Americans once came to regard as cheaply built, weak on power, and an embarrassment to be seen driving in. At least they had good fuel mileage, though. And now that gas prices are rising again, many buyers, even those who love driving, are looking for ways to save cash at the pump while still owning something that exhibits a drivers' car spirit. The 2011 Mazda2 is, quite simply, a wonderful car that leaves even the most hard-core sports car enthusiast with a smile on their face.
Perhaps the reason is that Mazda has become so good at injecting their "Zoom-Zoom" philosophy into their entire lineup. Equipped with a 1.5-liter inline-four that produces 100 hp and 98 lb-ft of torque, many may wonder how an engine that, on paper, sounds like it's meant to power a golf cart toting around a group of dentists for their Saturday morning tee-off time. Although it has about 20 fewer horses than the Fiesta, the Mazda simply feels like it has the more powerful engine. There's a couple of reasons for this. First off, buyers can choose between two solid transmissions: either a five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic.
That's right, it's just a four-speed slushbox. However, Mazda engineers claim a five or even a six-speed wasn't necessary because they managed to calibrate the four-speed unit with taller ratios and even fewer cases of gear searching. That's all fine and good, but we still prefer the manual. In terms of fuel economy, the manual is also the better choice, returning 29/35 mpg city/highway whereas the automatic is about 2 mpg less for both. These numbers could come back to hurt the Mazda because many who shop for a car in this class want something that hits the magic 40 mpg marker.
And for those who don't care enough about achieving maximum fuel economy, the Mazda2 provides a better driving experience than the Fiesta. The suspension employs MacPherson struts up front while a torsion-beam axle is at the rear. There's a bit of body roll, but not nearly that of, say, the Honda Fit or Nissan Versa. Engineers were also careful to avoid adding any unnecessary weight, allowing the car to benefit from a more nimble ride. Total weight comes in at around 2,300 pounds, depending on transmission and package choices.
This combination of weight saving, appropriate transmissions, and suspension tuning makes up the difference for having a less powerful engine. Still, the thought of a MazdaSpeed 2 sounds awfully good. The interior is the near perfect definition of elegant simplicity. While the dash is more conservative than the Fiesta's somewhat over-styled center stack, it looks like it's taken inspiration from the Mazda MX-5. Speaking of which, Mazda took the steering wheel straight from their acclaimed roadster.
Even the shift knob for the manual is reminiscent of the MX-5's. The seating position is comfortable for taller drivers and there's a decent amount of cargo space, although not as good as the Fit or the Versa. Only two packages are offered - Sport and Touring, with just one engine and two transmission choices. Pricing starts at just $14,180 for the Sport with standard 15-inch wheels and the manual. A Touring begins at $15,635, which adds, amongst other features, 15-inch alloys, rear spoiler, chrome exhaust tips, trip computer, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
So is the Mazda2 the ideal subcompact? No, but it's currently one of the best small cars for those who love driving and a fantastic bargain.
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The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
In all species, the play of the young is practice for the essential survival tasks of the adults. Human children play at many things, but the most important is the play of culture. Out of sight of adults, children learn and practice the rhymes, rituals, and institutions of their own culture, distinct from that of adults.
The Western child today is mostly kept inside his own home, associating with other children only in highly structured, adult-supervised settings such as school and sports teams. It was not always so. Throughout history, bands of children gathered and roamed city streets and countrysides, forming their own societies each with its own customs, legal rules and procedures, parodies, politics, beliefs, and art. With their rhymes, songs, and symbols, they created and elaborated the meaning of their local landscape and culture, practicing for the adult work of the same nature. We are left with only remnants and echoes of a once-magnificent network of children’s cultures, capable of impressive feats of coordination.
Iona and Peter Opie conducted an immense study of the children’s cultures of the British Isles. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959) is comparable in richness to Walter Evans-Wenz’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) on the fairy faiths, or to Alan Lomax’ collections of American and European folk music.
These children of the recent past observed what the Opies call a “code of oral legislation” – cultural institutions for testing truthfulness, swearing affirmation, making bets and bargains, and determining the ownership of property – the adult legal code in miniature. These codes universally included a subject absent from adult law, however – that of asking for respite, what we recognize as “calling time out,” and what today’s children reportedly call “pause,” a usage imported from video games.
They had call-and-response shibboleths and rhymes about Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple, but they also performed the rites of a calendar full of ancient meaning. In the northern countryside, they wore oak apples or oak leaves in their buttonholes on May 29 to commemorate the escape of Charles II – on pain of being whipped with nettles by other children. In the south, however, the children spent October preparing bonfires and making elaborate “guys” – effigies for burning on Guy Fawkes Day.
These children’s cultures recognized the existence of terrible monsters, and they were able to organize against these threats. In 1954, “hundreds of children in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were reported to have stormed a local cemetery, hunting for a ‘vampire with iron teeth.’ According to press reports at the time, they said that the vampire had ‘killed and eaten two wee boys.'” (Sandy Hobbs and David Cornwell, “Hunting the Monster with Iron Teeth,” in Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Vol. III, 1988). This incident was one of at least eight “hunts,” documented in newspaper articles and interviews, from the 1930s and continuing until the 1980s. Hundreds, or in one case thousands, of children participated in monster hunts that often lasted several nights – militias called up not just against the vampire with iron teeth, but also against such characters as Springheeled Jack, an unnamed banshee, and ghosts known as the “White Lady” and the “Grey Lady.” Adults in 1954 blamed horror movies and horror comics for the vampire hunt (much as video games would be blamed today), but Hobbs and Cornwell trace the children’s adversary back much further. Nineteenth-century parents (and perhaps generations before them) had threatened their misbehaving children with the fearsome Kinderschreck known as “Jenny wi’ the airn teeth,” and her characteristic dentition is displayed by ancient bogeymen from Yorkshire (Tom Dockin) to Russia (Baba Yaga).
In order to develop and express their culture and achieve such feats of coordination, children require time and space apart from adult supervision. In the West today, outside of tiny pockets, this independence is almost exclusively the prerogative of poor children surrounded by crumbling cultures that lack the will to monitor and protect them. Groups of these children still attempt organization and armed resistance (Act Two, “Your Name Written On Me”) to protect themselves from ubiquitous violence when adults refuse to do so.
Outside of pockets of extreme deprivation, children’s society is severely restricted by our practice of placing children under the equivalent of house arrest. In only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s safety in the world. Specifically, parents judge that there is no community beyond their doors that they can rely on to keep their children safe. Christopher Alexander’s Pattern 57: Children in the City (A Pattern Language) states that “If children are not able to explore the whole of the adult world around them, they cannot become adults. But modern cities are so dangerous that children cannot be allowed to explore them freely.” Unfortunately, this has become the case not just in large cities, but in small towns and even rural areas.
As a result, children’s society has less and less to do with the land around them – land which, anyway, they are unlikely to occupy when they become adults in our hypermobile society. Children’s society exists on the internet if at all, with raids in video games and chat rooms replacing geographically colocated monster hunts. (This is increasingly the case with adult society as well, which also lacks architectural and geographic support.) It should be noted that the internet is not the cause of these problems. Rather, the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale. And even the internet is increasingly monitored and reshaped by the same malignant tiling system that drove culture here in the first place. What will happen to culture when even this frontier is closed?
The failure of adult culture, both its physical architecture and its social institutions, has impoverished children’s culture. And in return, children no longer avidly train, in their play, to take over the burden of preserving and remaking adult culture. Somewhere a child alone in his room, wearing headphones, is fighting Jenny wi the airn teeth, a computer-controlled enemy in a video game. But perhaps at least it is a multiplayer game, and he has his fellows with him.
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michaelblume says:
This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s safety in the world. Specifically, parents judge that there is no community beyond their doors that they can rely on to keep their children safe. Christopher Alexander’s Pattern 57: Children in the City (A Pattern Language) states that “If children are not able to explore the whole of the adult world around them, they cannot become adults. But modern cities are so dangerous that children cannot be allowed to explore them freely.” Unfortunately, this has become the case not just in large cities, but in small towns and even rural areas.
http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/stranger-child-abductions-actually-very-rare-130514.htm
You are giving the parents far, far too much credit here. If children aren’t allowed to play alone outside, the problem is that their parents are superstitious cowards, full stop.
birguslatro says:
Don’t just think about abduction by private citizens; think about abduction by the government. My unschooler friends live in fear that the government will take their children, and their fears are not groundless. Even something as minor as taking their kids to the doctor risks abduction. Many children have been abducted by the government because the parents allowed them excessive freedom as determined by cultural norms.
(Still, I think it IS the case that there actually is no community beyond the nuclear family watching out for kids.)
(Also: Rotherham. Not exactly stranger abductions, but clearly barriers to maximally knowledgeable, caring parents letting kids run free nonetheless.)
Correction, they are superstitious busybody cowards, who not only don’t want their kids alone outside but are willing to retaliate against parents who do allow this, often by involving law enforcement. This makes it very hard to defect from the consensus of keeping kids Safe at all times, even if they agree factually with you.
The weird thing is that the busybody attitude doesn’t extend to actually looking after kids as they wander the neighbourhoods, or to keeping them in line if they misbehave elsewhere. If my kid is in the next street causing trouble, the neighbours there will EITHER ignore it or call the police, but they’d never think of yelling at him. Since there is no even broad consensus on appropriate discipline, they don’t know how I would react to their ministrations, so the safest thing is to “mind their own business”, and failing that, call the cops – very little middle ground.
Also worth noting how pedestrian-unfriendly modern cities tend to be, and how few spaces kids have to be out of sight of adults (forests, etc.).
wysinwyg says:
Stranger abduction is obviously not the only concern. Traffic is much heavier than it was in previous decades and, thanks to mobile devices, drivers are much more likely to be distracted. Rabid animals are much more common than stranger abductions. (As are abductions by non-strangers, come to think of it.) Children in urban areas are sometimes gunned down in crossfires resulting from gang rivalries. Other children might be considered a danger, especially since children who are wandering around unsupervised at this point in history likely do so as a result of a dysfunctional family environment and thus might be perceived as more prone to violence.
None of which is to argue that parents aren’t cowards. But the assumption that stranger abduction is the number one concern is a straw man as far as I can tell.
The question of whether such parents are superstitious is an interesting one. We use the word “superstitious” to describe people who buy into cultural narratives that we don’t believe; but our own cultural narratives would likely strike others as superstitions. I’d argue that people who get their cultural narratives from cable news are no more or less superstitious than anyone else, although their superstitions may be less useful for navigating reality than, say, superstitions about faery folk.
Also I see no harm in being charitable when it doesn’t really affect the conclusion of the argument. The sort of emotionalism that causes people to resort to pejoratives like “superstitious cowards” isn’t, in my opinion, particularly useful for understanding the motivations of other people.
these kids are playing at and being trained for their adult roles within this culture, that of individual (passive?) consumer.
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Caroline Kuhn says:
It should be the natural thing for parents to invest part of their free time and go to nature and explore it with their children. It’s part of parents duty, full stop.
Nature is not necessary harmful it can be, on the contrary, a harm relieve for both, the parent and the child. Nature is every where it is a matter of searching a bit and willing to share with our children. Parenthood is a demanding and very often not accounted job, but it is paradoxically the most important job for whom have decided to have children. Not allowing our kids to roam is like not doing our duty in the job place.The big difference is that in the job place we will be fired whereas our children will never ever fire us, they always love and seek for us. Sometimes we take that for granted! My kids are already big ones but I did devote lots of time taking care they could gather outside and hunt their monsters in the wild with me being seemingly present; hiding somewhere behind the woods while they were confronting their fears developing courage and strength which they now use in their adult life.
transcientpetersen says:
Fascinating! As terrifying as mobs are, there’s something tremendously inspiring about kids uniting against a common threat and self-organizing to take proactive measures.
Strypey says:
Why do we fear mobs? Because we’ve been fed cultural narratives that they form to target enlightened but powerless people like medicine women (“she’s a witch!”) or backyard inventors (Frankenstein). I’ve been part of many group mobilizations that could be described as “mobs” and the target was never powerless individuals, but powerful institutions that can’t safely challenged or fought as an individual or small group (eg the WTO).
One person’s “mob” is a another person’s (or group of people’s) political participation. In some ways, the key practical difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is whether or not the people can riot without getting shot at. Open revolt being open as a final channel of appeal if all other attempts to make representatives actually represent have failed. By this criteria, the US is no more a democracy than Russia or China. Food for thought.
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start seeing low leverage prosocial concerns as they are: cleansing rituals (like recycling, taking brief showers, et al)
— Gabriel Duquette (@GabrielDuquette) March 24, 2015
“well I have to do *something*” no, you really really don’t
I’m start calling them reusable bags “that’s degenerate” nice reusable bag, you’ve really made an impact
To be sure I’m understanding him, Gabriel is saying that one should cultivate impatience for busybody ethical “interventions” with ~0 expected benefit. Recycling (in the blue-boxes sense anyway) is a good example, but so are: unplugging phone chargers, endlessly haranguing smokers, posting “let’s take the stairs” signs on elevators, Raising Awareness, looking for satanic/sexist messages in rock songs and video games, etc.
I am sympathetic to Gabriel’s irritation with certain of these little “gestures”, such as the recycling ritual. But there is a thing or two to be said in defense of such rituals.
First, sometimes prosocial actions appear “low-leverage” because not many people have defected from the prosocial norm yet. (The first person to overgraze their sheep on the village green doesn’t see what the big deal is – there’s still loads of grass to spare. The first person to *fail to yell at* the first overgrazer, even less so.)
They may also appear low-leverage because practically everybody is already defecting from the prosocial norm. (There’s only a tuft of grass left; what difference does it make if my sheep finish it off?) In other words, rationalizations for defection are especially available at the beginning and the end of tragedies of the commons.
Second, prosociality rituals, even low-leverage ones, help maintain social capital. Conspicuous blue box recycling may be useless qua environmental intervention, but it signals to my neighbour that e.g. I am not the kind of person who will turn a blind eye when he fails to pick up his dog’s leavings. Social capital, supported by a huge edifice of cultural norms, is relatively invisible to the fish that swim in it every day, and like physical infrastructure it doesn’t disappear the very second its beneficiaries fail to maintain it. But disappear it eventually does, and the transition may be very swift indeed*.
It is also worth bearing in mind that norms can be a substitute for laws, usually operating in domains where the law would be too blunt an instrument. The latin formula “de minimis not curat lex” (the law does not deal in trifles) sums up this attitude. It’s not worth having a law requiring people to hold open doors for old ladies: it’s not important enough, it would cost too much in money and time, it would require all sorts of carefully specified exceptions (also it would reduce the signalling value of the behaviour, but I can’t decide whether that would be good or bad).
Yet holding doors for old ladies, while trifling, is one of many behaviours that by increments improve our social environment. Others include always giving the correct change even when you could cheat, washing regularly, thanking people, picking up your dog’s leavings, shovelling your sidewalk and maybe even your neighbour’s, and not making too much noise at night. Individually these things seem like trivialities, but failing at all of them adds up to misery by a thousand cuts. So if you want these trifles taken care of, but prefer not to have Sin Laws, get norming.
I said at the beginning that I was sympathetic to Gabriel’s point. I think the line between “Reusable Bags” in his pejorative sense and Social Capital Maintenance, which I want to boost a little, lies partly in who the audience is. When I take some low-leverage prosocial action, am I signalling at somebody whose own prosocial or antisocial actions affect my life (a neighbour, a friend, a member of my twitter circle, a family member), or am I degenerately signalling at some super-Dunbar audience of total strangers? These things feel very similar from the inside, but it is worth distinguishing them, because insufficient norming in real life leads to the soul-sucking anomie a lot of us live with, while norm enforcement chimp-outs are ruining the internet.
As usual, the opinions stated above are strongly stated, but loosely held.
* My crackpot theory is that cultural shifts in acceptable behaviour are often so swift because (trigger warning: handwaving) Common Knowledge about what social norms will be enforced easily collapses as soon as there is appreciable diversity-of-norms – look at a graph of e.g. divorce rates from 1960 to 1980.
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This reminds me of Mircea Eliade’s comments in “The Sacred and the Profane” (or was it “Myth of the Eternal Return”) on how the way people systematize their experience of the world into a larger social context, or the consciousness forms of social structure, are still based on community structures that are religious in origin even when secularized. I’m taking you are familiar with his work?
It does remind me of that aspect of Eliade’s thinking, only extrapolated in that direction away from his focus on the sociology of religion and how the same psychological needs that shape religious worldviews and institutions also are at work in secular society. (after all, the two weren’t really seen as separate until relatively late in history)
I haven’t read Eliade but it’s entirely possible I’ve absorbed his ideas via other writers. Sarah aka Birguslatro has been a big influence to notice ritualistic behaviours in apparently secular stuff, and to take ritual seriously.
Yeah, I constantly get flashbacks to Eliade in Sarah/Birguslatro’s writing but I wager that might just be a result of my limited frame of reference when it comes to the social sciences because I haven’t seen her quote or mention him yet.
Unto says:
If you look at your smartphone it’s basically slab of metal, plastic and glass with couple of button. When you look at it closer is full of small details chamfers, roundings, grooves, glossy and matte surfaces …
I think these details are similar are similar to trifles… They create quality. They are the finishing touch.
satanistgoblin says:
Obvious (at least to me) correct course: to create new, more useful signaling rituals to replace current ones, if possible.
Yes! But, keep in mind, there is often a tradeoff between usefulness and signalliness. What’s more useless than a diamond? but it signals commitment in a way that a toaster oven doesn’t.
Also, rituals need gravitas, and novelty kills it.
I spent a month awhile ago in a very nice college town. It was apparent that much of the public leftist activism on display was how you were expected to express that you were a respectable, reliable neighbor in what was really a very old-fashioned, very livable Norman Rockwell community.
Yep. You can tell the pillars of the community where I grew up by their backyard compost bins and by the stickers saying “We prefer our forests ALIVE!” on their mailboxes.
You’re aware “chimp out” is an explicitly racist turn of phrase, right? I’m a relative newcomer to this blog, so I’m genuinely not sure if you’re a casual racist.
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“Teerth Nagri”
Haridwar also names as “Theerth Nagri”, is one the most holy placesof Hindu religion and is situated in Uttarakhand. River ganga comes from mountain and enters in planes of Teerth Nagri. This holy city is one of the seven holy cities of India namely ‘Sapt Puri’. Apart from this, the way to reach the other three religious centers of Uttarakhand, Rishikesh, Kedarnath and Badrinath also goes through this place.
The city of Haridwar is also known as Mayapuri, Kapila, Mokshdwar and Gangadwar. This city is mentioned in many ancient Hindu epics. The history of this city is present from the time of King Vikramaditya. This place is known for its world famous religious centers and tourist attractions. Most religious places located here are situated on the banks of holy river Ganges.
Why Visit:
Haridwar is the place where people from across the world visit for pilgrimage and to take a holy dip into the holy river Ganges. It is an ancient and one of the most sacred cities in India. The diverse nature of the Hindu religion has attracted foreign visitors from all around the world.
Haridwar is mentioned as Kapilasthana and Mayapuri in Hindu scriptures. The name kapilsthana is in the name of “Kapil Muni”. According to Hindu mythology The Bhagiratha, the great-grandson of King Sagar whose 60000 son got died from the curse of Kapil muni, brought Ganga from heaven to earth to give his ancestor salvation. Still Hindus bring their died family members ash to Haridwar for their salvation.
Main Attractions of Haridwar:
Ganga Aarti:
Delve into devotion by participating in the Ganga aarti organised in the evening time here. The aarti song sung by all devotees praise the River Ganga. She is worshipped as living Goddess. Flowers and lighted earthen lamps are put on a stem cut and floated in the river water as offerings to the Goddess. You feel inner peace and calmness to be a part of all this.
Bharat Mata Mandir:
Bharat mata mandir is a religious shrine, it is founded by Swami Satyanandagiri. This temple was inaugurated by Late smt Indira Gandhi in 1983.
Kumbh Mela:
According to the Hindu mythology, Haridwar is one of the four places where few drops of elixir(Known as Amrit in Hindi and Sanskrit) accidentally spilled over from the pitcher (Kumbha). The pitcher of elixir was being carried away by the vehicle of God Vishnu (Garuda bird).
The drops fell on four different places. Those plces are Nasik, Ujjain, Haridwar and Allahabad. Because of this divine incident people celebrate the grand Kumbh Mela in one of these four places, one place after another, in the interval if 12 years. Millions of devotees gather from all over the world to be the part of this grand religious fest and take holy bath on the banks of the Ganga river.
Places To Visit In Haridwar:
HAR KI PAURI
MANSA DEVI TEMPLE
PATANJALI YOGPEETH
ANANDAMAYI ASHRAM
BARA BAZAR
Temperature & Altitude:
During summer: 25 to 44 C
During winter: 2 to 24 C
Altitude: 250 meter
Monthly Weather:
Avg. Minimum Temp
Avg. Maximum Temp
January 7°C 19°C
February 11°C 26°C
March 14°C 30°C
April 22°C 39°C
May 26°C 40°C
June 26°C 40°C
July 27°C 35°C
August 25°C 35°C
September 25°C 35°C
October 21°C 35°C
November 14°C 29°C
December 10°C 24°C
How To Reach Haridwar:
Haridwar can be reached easily by road from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. State transport buses are connected with these routes. Haridwar is 222 kilometers away from Delhi and after completing a total of five to six hours bus journey, you can reach here.
Distance from Delhi to Haridwar railway is 220 km. Haridwar has its own railway station, which is connected to many parts of India. This station is connected to many other cities including Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Dehradun, Varanasi, Puri and Kochi. You can reach here by express trains.
The nearest airport to Haridwar is Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun. This airport is 56 km from Haridwar.
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Iced tea, soap, shampoo: How Sri Lanka exported less tea than Kenya, but earned more
By Ian Omondi For Citizen Digital
A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Kiambu County, near Nairobi, Kenya, April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
President Kenyatta attributed this difference to Sri Lanka exporting about 50% of their tea in value added form, compared to Kenya exporting 98% of theirs in bulk form.
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board, on their website, lists samples of their value added product range as including; green tea, flavoured tea, organic tea, instant tea, iced tea, as well as ready-to-drink tea.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has decried the lack of value addition on Kenyan tea as one of the reasons why the green gold is not bringing in as much money.
Mr. Kenyatta, speaking in Mombasa said Kenya still exports its tea in bulk form while countries like Sri Lanka are adding value to theirs and end making a lot more money.
“In 2018, Kenya exported 476 million kilograms of tea, earning 140 billion shillings. Sri Lanka on the other hand exported 288 million kgs, which is about 60% of our exports. However, they earned an equivalent of 150 billion shillings,” said the Head of State.
“The higher earning for lesser tea than ours is largely due to their ability to export close to 50% percent of their teas in value added form, compared to us who export 98% of our tea in bulk form. To earn more value from our tea, we need to add value to it before exporting it.”
According to Investopedia, the term “value add” describes the enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering it to customers. It can be considered as an extra special feature added by a company or producer to increase the value of a product or service.
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Some of the relatively newer products the board also claims to have added to this range are tea-based soap, bath gel, shampoo and cosmetic products.
Sri Lanka provides more value to its tea more than the other tea producing countries and this helps it fetch a higher price in the global market.
To further help the Kenyan tea do better in the export market, President Kenyatta said: “Going forward, I have directed the National Treasury, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Attorney General to finalise and gazette the newly developed Tea Regulations (2019) within the next two weeks.”
“These regulations include: establishment of the Green Leaf Pricing Formula Committee to determine the formula for pricing of green leaf; the establishment of a self-sustaining stabilisation fund to cushion farmers against price fluctuations and ensure implementation of guaranteed minimum returns; establishment of Kenya Tea Council; and regulation of the volume of teas sold through the Auction and through Direct Sales/ Direct Contracts to be set at 80% Auction and 20% Direct Sales window.”
President Kenyatta also ordered the Agriculture Ministry and the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) to strip off roles of Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) directors as a recourse means to recoup gains for tea producers.
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Versailles Palace & Gardens Tour with Fountain Show from Paris
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Visit the opulent Grand Apartments, the State Rooms, and the breathtaking Hall of Mirrors inside Versailles while our passionate English-speaking guide marvels you with stories of the excesses of royal life, peaking under the Sun King, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
The gardens are just as impressive and far larger than the palace itself, after the tour wander them leisurely, discovering their elegant statues, fountains, and secret groves. The Musical Fountain Show will bring the fountains to life with classical music when available.
With a private air-conditioned coach, Skip the Line Access, small groups of 25 or less, and headsets to make sure you don’t miss a word we make the trip to Versailles comfortable and enjoyable for everyone.
Enjoy the unique experience of a Versailles Day Trip
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Round trip transfers in an air-conditioned coach Small groups of 25 people or fewer
Entrance tickets and reservation fee for the Château de Versailles
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Gardens of the Palace of Versailles
Indulge in the beauty and excess of the French monarchy's most extravagant palace. Counting some 700 rooms and 2,000 acres of gardens, this dazzling chateau still evokes the same sense of awe that it did over 300 years ago when it reached its apex under the Sun King, Louis XIV. Our Versailles tours from Paris cover the top sights at this famed UNESCO World Heritage Site on a half day visit, including the Grand Apartments, State Rooms and Hall of Mirrors, as well as the most exemplary parts of the Gardens of Versailles.
City Wonders will personally escort you to Versailles, where you will head straight past the long lines to enter the palace. Be mesmerized by its spectacular adornment as you enjoy captivating stories on its history and inhabitants including Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, their queens, and mistresses. Walk in the footsteps of Marie Antoinette and other historical figures to discover the moments that defined their lives, spanning the 'golden age' from the rise of France as one of Europe's most influential powers to the dramatic events of the French Revolution.
Considered among the highest achievements of 17th and 18th century art and architecture, this palace par excellence started with humbler beginnings as Louis XIII's hunting lodge in the early 1600s. Over the century that followed it became an extravagant show of power as the court's official seat from 1682 to 1789.
After the palace, explore the equally sumptuous gardens. Designed by master gardener André Le Nôtre and court painter Charles Le Brun in the 1660s, this vast French formal garden originally stretched as far as the eye could see. Admire the statues, secret groves and numerous fountains that were designed to extend the palace's interior into nature itself.
Depending on the day, your visit may include the Musical Fountain Show or Musical Gardens, during which you will see the fountains timed perfectly to classical music, or hear delightful tunes while discovering some of the most idyllic places on the grounds. If these events are not running, you will continue on a standard tour of the park's features.
This tour has been carefully planned so you get in-depth perspective into both must-see sides of Versailles with convenient transportation from Paris. See the top sights of the palace and gardens with an expert guide by your side. Check out our full list of Paris tours.
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Tickets for the Musical Fountains Show or Musical Gardens are added automatically to the price when running. When not running a standard guided tour of the gardens is provided. Some parts of the palace may be temporarily closed for renovation. If this occurs, these areas will be substituted with other important rooms depending on the day of your visit. Due to increased security measures at many attractions some lines may form on tours with 'Skip the Line' access.
Please note that Musical Gardens and Fountain show may be subject to last minute schedule changes that are not under our control.
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Foster youth say free college helps, but more could be done to help them succeed
Childcare Compliance December 7, 2019 0 comments
Just over a year since the Nevada System of Higher Education approved a fee waiver that allows foster youth to attend Nevada public college, 66 students have used the waiver. During a presentation on Friday, the Board of Regents received praise for the waiver alongside recommendations for improving the program and other foster youth support services.
“[The waiver] has been a huge financial help that has impacted me in a positive way. I am able to complete my associate’s degree,” said Truckee Meadows Community College student Aveleyra Pineda. “However, being a parent and maintaining childcare has been an issue and a worry for me.”
Pineda said she thought that working toward her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice would get easier when her children went to preschool. But being unable to afford daycare might get in the way of finishing a bachelor’s degree before she turns 26 — the age when students are no longer eligible for the NSHE tuition fee waiver. Foster youth become eligible to apply for the waiver at age 14.
“Because former foster youth have such a hard time transitioning to adulthood, due to the challenges of being raised in the system, the current eligibility and age limit are somewhat difficult for us,” Pineda said, adding a request for the Board of Regents to consider raising the age eligibility to help students who enroll in college less than four years before that age 26 cutoff.
The Foster Youth Success Initiative has helped more than 70 students with tuition assistance and campus-based support services. The initiative also allowed the hiring of a statewide Foster Youth Ambassador, Laura Obrist, to help carry out the goals of the initiative — recruiting, supporting and seeing foster youth students through to graduation.
“Over the past few months, I have discovered [that] we need more robust processes for verifying foster care history for students who indicate that status on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or through other means,” Obrist said to the Board of Regents during her presentation on Friday.
As of fall 2019, NSHE institutions have collectively spent $129,059 on the foster youth tuition fee waiver. So far, Obrist has identified 266 enrolled potential foster youth across the NSHE system and verified that 77 of those students were in foster care, leaving 189 students who still need to be verified.
Currently, the primary way for institutions to know if a student is a former foster youth is by financial aid and waiver applications. In addition to more accurately pinpointing students’ needs and program funding needs, Obrist hopes that identifying the number of students with foster care history will help NSHE increase participation in the fee waiver program.
Obrist gave the presentation alongside Washoe County Independent Living Specialist Valerie Welsh, who acknowledged that NSHE’s initiative and its fee waiver have helped students break down barriers toward obtaining degrees, such as helping them to afford a used car to get to class, or allowing them to work fewer hours at their part-time jobs and pay better attention to their course work.
Welsh emphasized that potential students no longer qualify for regional foster care system services at age 21, which can be a difficult transition as they work through past trauma and mental health challenges, paying rent, securing a job and sometimes parenting.
“Many of these youth are not ready to explore post-secondary education when they turn 18. [But] because the services, with Washoe County and with the rest of the state agencies, end at age 21, many of them feel the pressures of enrolling early in school and trying to achieve as many credits as possible, because they lose that support at [age] 21,” Welsh said, seconding Pineda’s request to consider increasing the maximum age for the fee waiver eligibility.
Clark County Human Services Administrator Tim Burch, who also presented at the meeting, said that his office has been able to use revenue from marijuana licensing fees approved by the Board of Commissioners to provide services to youth over age 18 who have aged out of the foster care system. Burch also credited revenue from the eighth-cent sales tax passed in September with allowing the county to “carve out dollars,” for case management, housing services and workforce development.
According to Burch, foster youth are likely to end up homeless within two years of exiting the foster care system.
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Making the darkness conscious
I read this article arguing that Facebook should be regulated in the same way AIM was when the ill-fated AOL & Time Warner merger happened.
AOL was forced to open up the relationship data between individuals in AIM to allow third parties to interop. You could finally use your social graph in other apps.
Pondering Doc Searls’ Thoughts about blogging
John shared a post by Doc Searls from back in February that I had missed – Doc blogs in a couple of different places and this was one I didn’t have in my feed reader.
The sands are shifting
Blogging is a particularly singular and personal act despite your posts being publicly available – the unedited voice of a person and all that.
Reading and commenting on blog posts, however, is an inherently social act carried out on a range of scales. Unfortunately, over the years, we have slipped towards the lower end of that range.
I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve been paying more attention to the #indieweb recently but striking out on your own definitely seems to be more popular lately.
Perhaps it’s just a bit of observation bias where you see (or at least pay attention to) more of what you’re focused on.
Taking on the networks
While listening to the audio from a presentation by Tantek Çelik in 2014 (video on YouTube) I was struck by his contrasting the experiences offered by social networks and blogs/RSS readers.
Aristotle may have been describing connected drainage systems when he said “water seeks its own level” but it is a perfect metaphor for the social web.
Given time and freedom from interference everything finds its level, especially our communication methods.
Blogs are thriving
If there’s one thing that backing the Micro.blog Kickstarter has taught me it’s that blogging is really holding its own.
The enthusiasm for self-hosted, independent blogging (beyond microblogging) is amazing and the range of available platforms, from CMS style set-ups to static site generators all of which I was unaware, is diverse.
Life without Twitter
For a number of reasons I decided to take a break from Twitter – some of you out there may moan “not again!” as I’ve taken social hiatuses before.
But, with the way 2016 has been, and things going on in my life offline, I decided to step away. So, on December 1st I stopped tweeting1, uninstalled the app from my phone and took the drastic step of deleting all 13K plus of my old tweets.
The smartphone as a barrier
Reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece “I used to be a human being” I was struck with conflicting emotions. He described the addiction to online life compounded by the prevalence of the smartphone.
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The state of blogging
Is blogging becoming a lost art?
Following on from my last post, and the assertions that Facebook is killing the open web, I started writing a post asking what we actually mean when we talk about blogs.
Social isn’t over, it just grew up
A couple of months ago it was reported that Facebook users were undertaking less “original sharing” – that is: personal updates as opposed to third party content. Facebook sees this as a big problem because it changes the very nature of the service.
An idea of its time
History is filled with instances of simultaneous invention, also known as multiple discovery, where more than one person or team arrives at the same point independently.
Classic examples are Newton and Wilhelm with calculus, Darwin and Wallace with evolution, or Bell and Gray with the telephone. It’s as though the answer was always there just waiting to be discovered and was destined to be found at that time.
App.net broadcast channels and an SOS.
What are ADN Broadcast Channels, what could they become? Could a variant be used to reduce the noise and save our streams?
At first glance, App.net’s new Broadcast feature could be seen as just an RSS replacement; dig a little deeper and you might see some parallels with Twitter’s emergency alerts but what exactly is it?
Thoughts: building a new global village.
“Social as a quality is still something we’re trying to (re)discover…” +John Kellden
We are social animals and throughout history have gathered in groups for various needs: protection, food, social companionship. Recently, however, we have been less social as a species than at any time in our history.
The social jigsaw.
/’sōSHəl/
of or relating to society or its organization.
needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.
Social is a series of shared experiences.
We join networks to communicate and share data with our peers. We may gather in subnets (communities or groups) to better manage resources but there is something more fundamental:
Does the IPO herald a new dawn for Twitter?
How can Twitter grow to satisfy investors after the IPO? Is change essential, will it foster much-needed engagement or does it come at a cost?
Over the past couple of years I have found myself going in circles when writing about how Twitter might develop; ideas that seemed fanciful wishes might actually become a semblance of reality. In the run up to its IPO, the company is making the news on a regular basis with much of the focus around how it will make money for potential investors, if at all, and whether a new design or functionality may contribute to this.
Jungian archetypes in the social age.
Does the spread and impact of social media allow us to redefine the archetypes behind the core of our personality and behaviour?
Jungian psychology proposes that we take on the traits of established personality archetypes – patterns and images that define our behaviour; derived from the collective unconscious and a counterpart to instinct.
Twitter going mainstream by not being social.
It’s hard to believe that it was over five years ago that I started talking about social media’s dream of going mainstream.
I said that it would happen when social services became part of everyday life, part of what we normally do and sat invisibly in the background.
A social paradox.
This is the first post in which I will be looking at the ideas of motivation and self-determination in social media, less of the “what” and more of the “why”. What affects our behaviour and how can we resolve our internal motivation with external influence.
Thoughts: Twitter conversations
Twitter recently introduced an update to make it easier to identify and follow conversations “in stream” linking related tweets by a blue line and placing the tweets in chronological order (first tweet on top).
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Western Waters AZ. vs CA.
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Title AZ vs. CA:10 California Exhibits, Vol. X; Nos. 458-528
Creator Arizona, complainant.; California, ; defendant.; Palo Verde Irrigation District (Calif.), ; defendant.; United States.; Supreme Court.
Subject Water rights; Water consumption; Rivers
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[State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits.
Holding Institution 5th Special Coll. Rare, University Library, California State University, Long Beach
Source Physical Dimensions 25 v. : ill. (some folded) ; 25 cm.
Metadata Cataloger Seung Hoon Yoo
Scanning Contractor Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67p8x9t
85th CONGRESS 1st Session Calendar No. 313 H. R. 2781 [Report No. 308] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 5 (legislative day, March 2), 1957 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services May 15,1957 Reported by Mr. Jackson, without amendment AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities for the San Diego, California area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area", approved October 11, 1951. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary 4 of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities for 5 the San Diego, California area in order to insure the exist- 6 ence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and 7 defense production plants in such area", approved October 8 11, 1951, is amended by adding the following new section: I
Source Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits.
Resource Identifier 100462-UUM-AvC-v10t509_page 1.jpg
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67p8x9t/1122035
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Yahoo – AFP, Mariëtte Le Roux, December 12, 2015
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C) with UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon (2L) and President Francois Hollande (R) on December 12, 2015
(AFP Photo/Francois Guillot)
Le Bourget (France) (AFP) - Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief.
"I see the room, I see the reaction is positive, I hear no objection. The Paris climate accord is adopted," Fabius declared.
French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent
Fabius holds up the official gavel of the
COP21 Climate Conference (AFP
Photo/Francois Guillot)
Turning to a little green hammer with which he formally gave life to the arduously crafted pact, he quipped: "It may be a small gavel but it can do big things."
The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to carry out what will be a multi-trillion-dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impacts of a shifting climate.
With 2015 forecast to be the hottest year on record, world leaders and scientists had said the accord was vital for capping rising temperatures and averting the most calamitous impacts from climate change.
Without urgent action, they warned, mankind faced increasingly severe droughts, floods and storms, and rising seas that would engulf islands and coastal areas populated by hundreds of millions of people.
The crux of the fight entails slashing or eliminating the use of coal, oil and gas for energy, which has largely powered prosperity since the Industrial Revolution began in the 1700s.
The burning of those fossil fuels releases invisible greenhouse gases, which cause the planet to warm and disrupt Earth's delicate climate system.
Graphic showing the key points from the agreement to stop global
warming. 135x138mm (AFP Photo/Jonathan Storey)
Ending the vicious circle requires a switch to cleaner sources, such as solar and wind, and improving energy efficiency. Some nations are also aggressively pursuing nuclear power, which does not emit greenhouse gases.
Ambitious global warming limit
The Paris accord sets a target of limiting warming of the planet to "well below" 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared with the Industrial Revolution, while aiming for an even more ambitious goal of 1.5C.
To do so, the emissions of greenhouse gases will need to peak "as soon as possible", followed by rapid reductions, the agreement states.
The world has already warmed almost 1C, which has caused major problems for many people around the world particularly in developing countries, such as more severe storms, droughts and rising seas, according to scientists.
Environment groups said the Paris agreement was a turning point in history and spelt the demise of the fossil fuel industry, pointing particularly to the significance of the 1.5C goal.
"That single number, and the new goal of net zero emissions by the second half of this century, will cause consternation in the boardrooms of coal companies and the palaces of oil-exporting states," Greenpeace International chief Kumi Naidoo said.
Audience members and delegates cheers after the adoption of a historic
global warming pact at COP21 in Le Bourget on December 12, 2015
Enduring money battles
Developing nations had insisted rich countries must shoulder the lion's share of responsibility for tackling climate change as they emitted most of the greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution.
The United States and other rich nations countered that emerging giants must also do more, arguing developing countries now account for most of current emissions and thus will be largely responsible for future warming.
On the crucial financing issue, developed countries agreed to muster at least $100 billion (92 billion euros) a year from 2020 to help developing nations.
The Eiffel Tower displays the message
"No plan B" on December 11, 2015 in
Paris (AFP Photo/Patrick Kovarik)
However, following US objections, it was not included in the legally binding section of the deal.
Ahead of the talks, most nations submitted voluntary plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions from 2020, a process widely hailed as an important platform for success.
But scientists say that, even if the pledges were fully honoured, Earth would be on track for warming far above safe limits.
In an effort to encourage countries to improve their ambitions, the agreement will have five-yearly reviews of their pledges starting from 2023.
Nations most vulnerable to climate change lobbied hard for wording in the Paris pact to limit warming to 1.5C.
Tears, cheers and selfies as historic climate pact sealed in Paris https://t.co/pqdS2Z435I #COP21 pic.twitter.com/kI4enQDn1c
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 13, 2015
#UPDATE Obama: Historic accord could mark 'turning point' for global warming https://t.co/FTENOtrm6c #COP21 pic.twitter.com/XhkP3mbWhm
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 4 - Energy (again)
The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade. Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity (finally). Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it. It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand. You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet again about geothermal, about tidal, about wind. Again, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!
Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities. The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much.
We've told you that one of the greatest natural resources of the planet, which is going to shift and change and be mysterious to you, is fresh water. It's going to be the next gold, dear ones. So, we have also given you some hints and examples and again we plead: Even before the potentials of running out of it, learn how to desalinate water in real time without heat. It's there, it's doable, and some already have it in the lab. This will create inexpensive fresh water for the planet.
There is a change of attitude that is starting to occur. Slowly you're starting to see it and the only thing getting in the way of it are those companies with the big money who currently have the old system. That's starting to change as well. For the big money always wants to invest in what it knows is coming next, but it wants to create what is coming next within the framework of what it has "on the shelf." What is on the shelf is oil, coal, dams, and non-renewable resource usage. It hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, has it? Now you will see a change of free choice. You're going to see decisions made in the boardrooms that would have curled the toes of those two generations ago. Now "the worst thing they could do" might become "the best thing they could do." That, dear ones, is a change of free choice concept. When the thinkers of tomorrow see options that were never options before, that is a shift. That was number four. ….”
"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)
“... Japan
Let us talk for a moment about Japan, and then I'll close the day of messages. There are thousands of souls on my side of the veil and they're just fine, more than fine. We have spoken so often of what happens at the Wind of Birth. I told you, before they even came in, they saw the potential. I looked in their eyes. "You may not last long. You know that, don't you? You're coming into this planet and you may not be here very long. And the passing that you will have with your family will not be pleasant, if any ever are. Why would you come in anyway?" I want to tell you what they said. When a soul has the mind of God, it understands fully what generates peace and what generates energy shift. You can clearly see what generates what the planet needs the most when you are about to arrive. So they said, "We're going to be part of one of the biggest compassion events the planet has ever seen." One earthquake, one tsunami. All of those who left that day will change the earth forever. And it already has. It was the same for the last tsunami as well.
Every single one of them on my side of the veil is getting ready to come back. Many old souls were involved, and just for a moment, if they could give you any information, if they could talk to you right now, if they could speak your language and look into your eyes, they would thank you for your compassion for them and those who are left. And they would say, "Be with those family members who are still alive. Enter their hearts every day and give them peace and keep them from crying, because we're OK."
Nuclear Power Revealed
So let me tell you what else they did. They just showed you what's wrong with nuclear power. "Safe to the maximum," they said. "Our devices are strong and cannot fail." But they did. They are no match for Gaia.
It seems that for more than 20 years, every single time we sit in the chair and speak of electric power, we tell you that hundreds of thousands of tons of push/pull energy on a regular schedule is available to you. It is moon-driven, forever. It can make all of the electricity for all of the cities on your planet, no matter how much you use. There's no environmental impact at all. Use the power of the tides, the oceans, the waves in clever ways. Use them in a bigger way than any designer has ever put together yet, to power your cities. The largest cities on your planet are on the coasts, and that's where the power source is. Hydro is the answer. It's not dangerous. You've ignored it because it seems harder to engineer and it's not in a controlled environment. Yet, you've chosen to build one of the most complex and dangerous steam engines on Earth - nuclear power.
We also have indicated that all you have to do is dig down deep enough and the planet will give you heat. It's right below the surface, not too far away all the time. You'll have a Gaia steam engine that way, too. There's no danger at all and you don't have to dig that far. All you have to do is heat fluid, and there are some fluids that boil far faster than water. So we say it again and again. Maybe this will show you what's wrong with what you've been doing, and this will turn the attitudes of your science to create something so beautiful and so powerful for your grandchildren. Why do you think you were given the moon? Now you know.
This benevolent Universe gave you an astral body that allows the waters in your ocean to push and pull and push on the most regular schedule of anything you know of. Yet there you sit enjoying just looking at it instead of using it. It could be enormous, free energy forever, ready to be converted when you design the methods of capturing it. It's time.
So in closing, do you understand what you're seeing? You're seeing intelligent design, quantum energy and high consciousness. You are seeing changes in Human nature. You're seeing countries putting things together instead of separating. You are seeing those who don't want war and instead want peace, good schools for their children, safety in their streets and a say in their government. We told you it was going to happen this way. I want my partner to teach these things that I have said in his 3D lectures for awhile. Many won't be able to know these things otherwise. …”
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CHAPTER 69 Cervicogenic Headache
Sarjoo M. Bhagia, Curtis W. Slipman, Craig D. Brigham
It is a common experience in clinical practice to encounter syndromes that are diagnosed and treated using a variety of methods despite limited research and/or a lack of evidence-based medical consensus. Cervicogenic headache (CH) is one of these entities. Although there is long-standing notion that headaches can originate from structures in the neck and can be treated by interventions directed at the cervical spine, it is only during the past two decades that the topic has gained attention in mainstream medical literature. CH is a syndrome and not a distinct disease process. Its symptoms constitute a ‘final common pathway’ for pain emanating from a variety of cervical biomechanical and/or inflammatory disorders. It is a diagnosis of exclusion and more serious pathology should be ruled out. Specific spinal structures such as nerves, nerve root ganglia, uncovertebral joints, intervertebral discs, facet joints, ligaments, and even muscle may give rise to similar symptoms ultimately diagnosed as CH.1,2 The absence of pathognomonic symptoms, physical findings, or imaging studies makes the diagnosis and treatment of CH challenging to the clinician. This chapter will review the history, epidemiology, pathophysiological basis, diagnostic criteria, and treatment of CH.
One of the earliest references describing a relationship between headache and the cervical spine was a series of lectures by Hilton occurring between 1860 and 1862, which were reported by Pearce.3 Almost 90 years later, a case series published by Hunter and Mayfield4 in 1949 formed the intellectual rationale for interventional techniques to treat cervicogenic headaches. Hunter and Mayfield reported that occipital neuralgia could be an important cause of headaches, with pain radiating from the occiput to the periorbital and jaw areas. Their theory was used to justify the injection of analgesics around the occipital nerves in an attempt to relieve these headaches. That same year, Bartschi-Rochaix5 coined the term ‘cervical migraine’ to label headaches presumed to derive from the neck. In 1955, Kovacs6 postulated that motion restriction of the cervical spine could lead to muscle spasm, thereby compromising the vertebral artery and nerves, and manifesting as a headache. This premise helped popularize osteopathic, chiropractic, and manual treatment of the cervical spine to relieve CH. Bogduk and Marsland7 in 1986 put forth their theory of ‘third occipital headache’ and advocated surgical intervention to treat it. This paper provided the first compelling scientific evidence that headaches could indeed develop as a consequence of a cervical spine biomechanical disorder.
The term ‘cervicogenic headache’ was initially introduced into the medical lexicon in 1983 by Sjaastad et al.,8 to describe patients with a headache associated with disorders of the neck. In 1988, the International Headache Society (IHS)9 amended its diagnostic classification system to include a category for CH. In 1990, Sjaastad et al.1 published specific diagnostic criteria for CH. Less stringent diagnostic criteria for CH was subsequently published by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) in 1994,10 and by the Quebec Headache Study Group in 1995.11 In 1998, Sjaastad et al.12 revised their diagnostic criteria for CH based on more extensive clinical research.
Few epidemiologic studies exist and these have only been done in the last decade.13–20 These studies support that CH is common. However, there is a great deal of variation in the perceived prevalence of CH. In the general population, for example, prevalence rates ranged from 0.4% to 2.5%,13,14 whereas studies looking at all patients with a complaint of headache reported estimates of 15–20%.9,14–16 The highest variation was among headache center patients, with prevalence estimates of 0.4–80%.17,18 The wide variation in reported prevalence can be attributed to the different diagnostic criteria used to define CH. The population pool each of the publications drew from was not comparable. Another factor influencing prevalence rates in headache centers is the overlap between the diagnosis of CH, tension-type headache (TTH), and common migraine headache (MH). Bono et al.19 report that 75% of patients fulfilling IHS criteria for MH also met most of the criteria for CH. One study of headache center patients reported that whereas only 16.1% were diagnosed with CH, an additional 20.1% were diagnosed with both MH and CH, for a total prevalence of 36.2%.16 Another study reported that 56.4% of CH diagnoses occur in combination with other headaches, including MH, TTH, and drug-induced headache.20
Analysis of patient descriptive data from studies where such information was given reveals that there is a preponderance of female patients with CH,21–23 with an average gender distribution of 79.1% female and 20.9% male. The mean age was noted to be 42.9 years, and the mean duration of symptoms was 6.8 years.24
NEUROANATOMIC BASIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS
Convergence theory
There is compelling circumstantial evidence that substantiates the theory of convergence to explain how cervical spine pathology can manifest as CH. The basic premise of convergence is that when primary afferents from two separate regions in the body converge on the same second-order neurons in the spinal cord, nociceptive activity along one of the afferent nerves can be perceived as pain in the other afferent nerve.25 Anatomically, both cervical and cranial afferent nerves innervate the head and face. The greater occipital, lesser occipital, and greater auricular nerves may innervate as far as the coronal sutures. Pain perceived in the forehead could be due to convergence between the trigeminal and upper cervical afferents. The cervicotrigeminal interneuron relay conveys nociceptive information to the upper cervical cord neurons. The trigeminal nucleus begins in the pyramidal decussations and descends as far caudad as C4 as the nucleus caudalis. The trigeminal nucleus is morphologically and functionally associated with the upper cervical cord and the cells form a column which is continuous with the posterior horn of the cervical cord. These anatomical relationships clearly demonstrate convergence between the trigeminal and cervical cord (Fig. 69.1). This convergence may also help to explain the systemic and sympathetic nervous system features accompanying CH.
Fig. 69.1 The cervicotrigeminal interneuronal relay. A potential overlap of central neuronal connections occurs between the spinal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve and the upper cervical cord neurons. The trigeminal nucleus develops from the pyramidal decussations and descends to the level of C2, and perhaps as caudad as C4, as the nucleus caudalis, which primarily subserves pain and temperature function to the head and neck. This trigeminal nucleus is morphologically and functionally associated with the upper cervical segments, and its cells form a column continuous with the column of cells that form the posterior horn in the cervical cord.
Kerr26 discussed the relationship of the descending tract of the trigeminal nerve to the upper cervical roots following his dissection and analyses of adult cats. He observed that trigeminal afferents formed a bundle (trigeminosolitary bundle) with the solitary nucleus leading him to conclude that the trigeminal nerve provides a visceral component to the head and neck. The descending afferent trigeminal tract was identified as far caudal as the third cervical root. Trigeminal fibers were found at the low medullary, first, and third cervical cord levels. The second cervical root of the trigeminal fibers descends to the upper half of the cervical segment, but rapidly disappeared.26 Sectioned dorsal rhizotomy specimens demonstrated that the first cervical root traversed the trigeminal tract. There was no evidence of afferent fibers descending to the fourth through sixth cervical roots.26 The spinal tract of the trigeminal nerve entered the cervical cord in Lissauer’s tract as far down as the uppermost area of the third cervical cord. These cadaveric findings provide the anatomic basis for convergence theory (Kerr principle) and may explain why cervicogenic pain can occur ipsilaterally or bilaterally.
Almost every structure in the cervical spine has been implicated as a cause of headaches. Similarly, the mechanism of action may be due to degenerative changes, a direct result of trauma or without any underlying biomechanical basis. Current theories of anatomic causes of CH are based on retrospective observation, of either a reproducible finding on clinical examination, a response to stimulation of the structure, or relief of symptoms after treatment directed at the structure. Examples include the response of patients to surgery for disc disease,27 injections of posterior facets with local anesthetics,28 and injections of cervical muscles with botulinum toxin.29
Cervical facet joint
The zygapophyseal joints are implicated as a major source for cervicogenic headaches. The medial branch of the dorsal ramus above and below its location innervates the facet joints, except C2–3. The C2–3 is innervated by the superficial medial branch of the C3 dorsal ramus, also known as the third occipital nerve (TON).25,30 Pain patterns from stimulation of the cervical zygapophyseal joints have been studied in normal volunteers31 and from clinical evaluation.32,33 These studies suggest that the cervical zygapophyseal joints produce characteristic pain patterns according to the segmental distribution.31,32 The prevalence of zygapophyseal joint pain after whiplash has been reported as high as 50% in the C2–3 joint and 49% in the lower cervical joints.34,35
Cervical discs
Cervical discs have been implicated as a possible source of cervicogenic headache.25,36 Provocative discography is required to diagnose a painful cervical disc. In provocative discography, approximately 1 cc of radiopaque contrast is injected into the nucleus pulposus and the patient’s pain response is documented.37 Grubb and Kelly38 reported the prevalence of cervical pathology and referral patterns over a 12-year period. There were characteristic pain patterns depending on the level of the intervertebral disc. The C2–3 disc level referred pain into the upper cervical area, often extending into the occipital region and head, possibly accompanied by headaches in the occiput or frontal region. The pain pattern at the C3–4 level was similar to the C2–3 pain, but extended less into the occiput; and fewer patients experienced headache. More than 50% of the patients had three levels that had concordant responses, which may change clinical decisions to operate. Schellhas et al.,39 while correlating MRI findings with discography results, found a significant number of annular tears on discography that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was unable to detect. They concluded that magnetic resonance imaging is not reliable to delineate annular tears and should be used only as screening tool. Slipman et al.40 performed symptom mapping on 41 patients who underwent provocative discography at 101 levels to outline the pain referral patterns. The pain pattern on provocation of the C2–3, C3–4, C4–5, and C5–6 disc levels involved the occipital and/or facial areas, implicating the cervical discs as a possible source of CH.
Cervical segmental nerves
Diagnostic blocks of segmental nerves C2 and C3 have been routinely performed to confirm the diagnosis of cervicogenic headache.41 Bovin et al.28 performed an anesthetic blockade of the C2–5 spinal nerves to determine their involvement in the pathogenesis of cervicogenic headache. They reported that the most convincing relief occurred with a blockade of the C2 nerve. No patients responded completely to isolated blockades of nerves C3, C4, or C5. The C2 and C3 pain dermatomes were well described by Poletti in 1991.42
Occipital nerves
Another commonly implicated structure is the occipital nerve. The greater occipital nerve originates from the dorsal ramus of the C2 spinal nerve, the lesser occipital nerve from the ventral ramus of C2 and C3 spinal nerves via the cervical plexus, and the third (least) occipital nerve is the superficial medial branch of the C3 dorsal ramus (Fig. 69.2).43 Attributing occipital pain to irritation of the greater and lesser occipital nerve was common in the past. There is no compelling evidence that occipital pain is the result of irritation of the greater or lesser occipital nerve. Lancinating occipital neuralgia is recorded as a feature of temporal arteritis,44 in which case inflammation of the occipital artery could affect the companion nerve. In the majority of cases of so-called ‘occipital neuralgia,’ however, no such pathology is evident. The commonly held but inaccurate view is that occipital neuralgia is caused by entrapment of the greater occipital nerve where it pierces the trapezius. Surgical studies do not provide any evidence of this.45–47 The medial branch of C2 dorsal ramus, known conventionally as the greater occipital nerve, at first runs transversely across obliquus inferior. Near the origin of the obliquus inferior, the greater occipital nerve turns upwards across the dorsal surface of rectus capitis posterior major (see Fig. 69.2). Here it receives a communicating branch from the third occipital nerve. It emerges onto the scalp, not by piercing the trapezius, but by passing above an aponeurotic sling. This sling blends medially and laterally, with the aponeurotic insertions of trapezius and sternocleidomastoid, respectively, and thereby attaches to the superior nuchal line. Along its middle portion, the sling lies suspended from the superior nuchal line, leaving an aperture between it and the bone, through which the greater occipital nerve and the occipital artery emerge, leaving the plane deep to trapezius and sternocleidomastoid to enter the scalp.47 When the trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscles contract, there is a ‘sling effect’ that actually relieves pressure on the greater occipital nerve.
Fig. 69.2 A sketch of a posterolateral view of the left third occipital nerve (TON) seen crossing the lateral aspect and then the dorsal aspect of the lower half of the C2–3 zygapophyseal joint. Articular branches to the joint arise from the deep aspect of the third occipital nerve or from the communicating loop to the C2 dorsal ramus.
The cardinal diagnostic criterion for greater occipital neuralgia seems to be response to blocks of the greater occipital nerve; but these blocks are not target specific when they involve volumes such as 5 mL45 or 10 mL.48,49 In such volumes, they do not selectively implicate the greater occipital nerve.
Bogduk and Marsland first explained the concept of the third occipital nerve (TON) headache.7 They provided a detailed description of the anatomy of the C3 dorsal ramus. The superficial medial branch of the C3 ramus (also known as the third occipital nerve) crosses the lateral and dorsal aspects of the lower half of the C2–3 zygapophyseal joint (see Fig. 69.2). It then passes across the lamina of C3 before turning backwards and upwards to pierce semispinalis capitis and splenius capitis to become cutaneous over the suboccipital area.7 In a later study, 100 consecutive patients with neck pain for more than 3 months were examined to determine the prevalence of TON headache.50 Seventy-one patients complained of headache associated with neck pain; in 40 of these patients, headache was the dominant complaint. In 31 patients, headache was the ‘secondary’ complaint. The prevalence of TON headache was 27%. Of those patients with headache as the dominant complaint, the prevalence was 53%.50
Dural attachments
Another theory of CH etiology comes from anatomical studies showing an attachment of the suboccipital tissues to the dura mater at the cervical–cranial junction, and the observation that mechanical traction on these tissues can cause movement of the dura.51–53 The rectus capitus posterior minor muscle53 and ligamentum nuchae52 have been shown to have direct connections to the suboccipital dura on very delicate dissection in a small number of cadavers. This suggests the possibility of the dura as a nociceptive structure in CH.
Recent studies have implicated inflammation as the cause of various spine-related conditions, including CH. When intervertebral discs are injured they have been found to release inflammatory mediators.54–56 Interleukin (IL)-1β and TNF-α increase the molecular events of inflammation.57 As well, a marked increase in the nitric oxide (NO) pathway has been demonstrated in patients with migraines or cluster headaches.58 Martelletti et al. observed increased levels of IL-1β and TNF-α in patients experiencing cervicogenic headaches during periods of spontaneous fluctuating basal pain and during mechanically induced attacks. There were statistically significant differences in cytokine levels as compared to controls.59,60 An increase in NO formation in the presence of reactive oxygen species may interact with IL-1β and TNF-α. This signals a cascade of proinflammatory/pain mediators such as prostaglandin and bradykinin, which play a role in neuronal sensitization. These interactions and responses implicate CH as an inflammatory consequence of cervical trauma. More importantly, they suggest that a myriad of pathological processes in different structures can manifest with similar or identical symptomatology (CH).
The inability to find a singular involved anatomic structure or pathology as the cause of CH has led some to believe that CH does not represent a single pathological entity, but rather a pain syndrome resulting from the nociceptive stimulation of almost any structure in the cervical spine.61
Other headaches, such as cluster headache, migraine (MH), chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH), hemicrania continua (HC), and tension-type headache (TTH) must be included in the differential diagnosis (Table 69.1). Intracranial pathology, infection, neoplasm must be ruled out prior to assigning the patient the diagnosis of CH. Headaches associated with sinusitis, temporomandibular joint syndrome, and visual or auditory disturbances are rarely confused with CH because each possesses unique distinguishing characteristics.
Table 69.1 Differences and Similarities Between the Different Types of Headaches
CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
The term CH, although adopted by a number of organizations, is not universally accepted. Given this lack of consensus it is not surprising that a variety of labels are used to discuss headaches associated with disorders of the cervical spine. Perusal of literature published prior to 1983 emphasizes this point. Before that date, a number of terms such as vertebragenous headache,62 vertebrogenic headache,63 spondylotic headache,64 cervical spine syndrome,65 cervical migraine,66 cervical headache,67 cervicogenic syndrome,68 greater occipital neuralgia,69 and third occipital headache8 appear to have referred to the same clinical entity. Providing a consistent label for CH is not the only aspect of this entity that has been afflicted by a lack of unanimity. A similar problem arises when one considers the diagnostic criteria for CH. The most widely used diagnostic criteria are those proposed by Sjaastad in 1990, which were subsequently updated in 1998.12 These criteria have been adapted by the Cervicogenic Headache International Study Group (Table 69.2). Three other expert groups, the International Headache Society (Table 69.3),9 the Quebec Headache Group,11 and the International Association for the Study of Pain10 have published their own criteria. Table 69.4 summarizes the prominent features of the diagnostic criteria published by various expert groups.
Table 69.2 The Cervicogenic Headache International Study Group
I. MAJOR CRITERIA OF CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE
A. Symptoms and signs of neck involvement
1. Precipitation of head pain, similar to the usually occurring one
a. By neck movement and/or sustained awkward head positioning, and/or
b. By external pressure over the upper cervical or occipital region on the symptomatic side
2. Restriction of the range of motion in the neck
3. Ipsilateral neck, shoulder, or arm pain of a rather vague non radicular nature or, occasionally, arm pain of a radicular nature
It is obligatory that one or more phenomena in point (A) are present. Point (1) suffices as the sole criterion positivity within group (A); points (2) or (3) do not (Table 2).
B. Confirmatory evidence by diagnostic anesthetic blockades
Obligatory point in scientific works.
C. Unilaterality of the head pain, without side shift
For scientific work this point should be preferably adhered to.
II. HEAD PAIN CHARACTERISTICS
A. Moderate–severe, nonthrobbing, and nonlancinating pain, usually starting in the neck
B. Episodes of varying duration, or
C. Fluctuating, continuous pain
III. OTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS
A. Only marginal effect or lack of effect of indomethacin
B. Only marginal effect or lack of effect of ergotamine and sumatriptan
C. Female sex
D. Not infrequent occurrence of head or indirect neck trauma by history, usually of more than only medium severity
None of the single points under (II) and (III) are obligatory.
IV. OTHER FEATURES OF LESSER IMPORTANCE
A. Various attack-related phenomena, only occasionally present, and/or moderately expressed when present
1. Nausea
2. Phonophobia and photophobia
3. Dizziness
4. Ipsilateral ‘blurred vision’
5. Difficulties in swallowing
6. Ipsilateral edema, mostly in the periocular area
From Sjaastad et al.13
Table 69.3 International Headache Society Criteria for Headache Associated with Disorder of the Neck
I. Pain localized to the neck and occipital region. May project to forehead, orbital region, temples, vertex, or ears
II. Pain is precipitated or aggravated by special neck movements or sustained neck posture
III. At least one of the following:
Resistance to or limitation of passive neck movements
Changes in neck muscle contour, texture, tone, or response to active and passive stretching and contraction
Abnormal tenderness of neck muscles
IV. Radiologic examination reveals at least one of the following:
Movement abnormalities in flexion/extension
Abnormal posture
Fractures, congenital abnormalities, bone tumors, rheumatoid arthritis, or other distinct pathology (not spondylosis or osteochondrosis)
Comment: Cervical headaches are associated with movement abnormalities in cervical intervertebral segments. The disorder may be located in the joints or ligaments. The abnormal movement may occur in any component of intervertebral movement, and is manifest during either active or passive examination of the movement.
Adapted from IHS, Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia 1988.9
Table 69.4 The Characteristics and Definitions of Cervicogenic Headache
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International Women’s Day Profile: Cnk Catering Founder, Khrissy Visscher
March 7, 2017 9:49 pm Published by the CNK team
Our Boss Lady Khrissy Visscher is an absolute boss! She started Cnk from the ground up eight years ago, and we decided International Women’s Day is the perfect occasion for telling her story!
What was the path that led you to where you are today?
I grew up in Queensland and got my first job at Sizzler! It was THE restaurant in the 90’s and I got a job in the salad bar. It was where I learnt how to carry three plates at once.
I was studying a bachelor of tourism and after uni, I applied for a job at a fine dining restaurant on Hayman Island. That’s where my passion for food and the hospitality industry really began. I tasted lobster sashimi for the first time. I learnt how to change a tablecloth without exposing any of the table. I learnt how to silver serve Peking duck pancakes. I served celebrities and high profile clientele, the likes of Kevin Costner and Rupert Murdoch. I learnt that service and presentation really are key. This was the job that really helped me get my foot in the door and opened up a lot of opportunities in the industry.
Then I went overseas and worked in London, before getting a job on the QE2. I was like Julie from The Love Boat – the social secretary, who organised all the parties for the adults and the kids.
A stint at a boutique hotel in New York and an event coordinator role at the Opera House in Sydney eventually led me to Melbourne. When I arrived here, it really felt like home and I decided to stay.
How did you start Cnk?
My business partner and I lost our jobs! It was the GFC, no one was hiring, and we decided to give it a go. If it didn’t work, we figured we had nothing to lose. We made the most of the opportunity we were http://nygoodhealth.com faced with and the risk certainly paid off over time!
What is your greatest achievement?
Having my daughter.
What is the biggest challenge you’ve had to face?
Running the business itself and everything that comes with it has been challenging and a major learning curve, as I didn’t have any business experience before starting Cnk. It taught me to make the most of the opportunities I’m faced with and surround myself with good staff.
What is the best lesson you’ve learnt in running your business?
Failure is often a blessing and mistakes help you improve (as long as you learn from them!). Good things and new opportunities tend to follow – make the most of them.
And sales is queen!
How do you get inspired?
By listening to successful entrepreneurs and their journeys, and how they succeeded through their challenges and became even better. I find it very inspiring, and have learnt that persistence and passion are so important.
Is there a particular woman who you find inspiring?
Janine Allis of Boost Juice. Her path has been inspiring. She has a lot of grit.
What drives you?
Hectic success, robust reds and our dark chocolate fondant!
What advice can you give to women starting out in business?
Try and find a mentor early – listen to their stories. Think about how they can help inspire and innovate you. Take risks, make the most of your opportunities and don’t be afraid to fall down.
Do you think there are challenges that face women in business?
I don’t think that being a woman has stopped me in any way. I’ve never felt discriminated against. But I think that comes from your own confidence, your own self-esteem.
In some ways, I think women can be better leaders, as they’re more empathetic.
You know what bothers me though? If a woman is hard-core, she’s called a b****. When it’s a man however, they’re praised. That’s something that needs to change.
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The Real Laritza Bacallao – read the interview and watch this video of this young Cuban singer
It was then when the woman appeared, barely wearing make-up, looking just as in the videos, eating a package of homemade fries as a regular citizen. I couldn't believe that.
The other image came in the concert of Zuchero Fornaciari in Havana. Laritza Bacallao was the only one of the new artists to be included in such a historic show. "Well, we'll see what she can do", the whole country might have wondered. What does she do? What didn't she do? The duets of the Italian singer with David Blanco and Pedrito Calvo spoke for themselves. Hers, left the crowd mute. The girl killed it, convinced everyone, made the people drool. And one might ask out loud: Where had this phenomenon been all this time?
In the few interviews you have given, you make particular emphasis on a very sacrificed childhood because of music. A prodigy child?
"My passion and vocation for music comes with the family. I'm a granddaughter of Felo Bacallao, ex-member of the Aragon band. But it has been a long way full of sacrifice. At the age of seven I registered at the music school, it was a night course at that time. I finished at 4:20 pm from the primary school, I got home, took a bath, got dressed and left to school again until 10 pm. It was a lot, but I don't regret it. My childhood was subjected to music in order to prepare myself for what I wanted in the future. I've always knew that singing was my thing"
You feel comfortable with Cuban popular music, but your best performances have been in the jazz and electronic genres…Even with Zuchero you showed us a different Laritza.
"I like all genres. I can't deny that I enjoy temperamental songs, I'll do them very well, I think. I also like to see people dancing at the beat of the drums. I always let the audience choose for me".
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Off Broadway review: Kate Hamill’s ‘Little Women’
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Date: June 4, 2019Author: Thom 0 Comments
Over the last decade, actress-playwright Kate Hamill has devoted herself to spiky reworkings of classic 18th-century novels like “Vanity Fair” and “Sense and Sensibility” — seen through a deliberately contemporary lens and often reserving a plum role for herself in the process.
Her new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” which opened Tuesday in a Primary Stages production at Cherry Lane Theatre, shows a similar flair for turning a doorstop of a novel into a relatively fleet two-hour theatrical entertainment (with intermission).
But Alcott is no Jane Austen, and you can feel the lightweightness of the material here, which is further emphasized by the broadness of Sarna Lapine’s direction. She emphasizes the radial differences in the March sisters, from the older, practical-minded Meg (Hamill) to the shy peacemaker Beth (Paola Sanchez Abreu) to the flighty, malaprop-prone Amy (Carmen Zilles).
Hamill’s biggest departure comes in her reimagining of the young writer Jo (Kristolyn Lloyd) as not merely a tomboy but, as the script notes, a young woman who “does not fit comfortably within the given parameters of her given gender role.” Poor Laurie (Nate Mann), an anachronistically progressive male ally who’s willing to support her ambitions, doesn’t stand a chance in seeing his affections returned.
Purists will be surprised by other departures in plot and characterization from Alcott’s original text, and may cringe at the way that the production makes Jo both a barrier-breaking rebel as well as a petulant Peter Pan figure unwilling to allow for her sisters to grow up and out of their childhood roles.
She remains true to herself, even at a time Alcott herself could not imagine her heroine to choose such a defiant path. But Lloyd’s performance also makes her seem more stubborn and childish than truly bold.
Perhaps that approach is intentional — updating a girlhood classic for a new generation while not being too stuffy or grown-up about it. And there are moments of pure theatrical delight, as in Michael Crane’s scene-stealing turn as great-aunt March’s parrot (he also doubles as a tutor and as a “forward-thinking” publisher who’s willing to pay a female writer, though less than her male peers).
At its best (and worst), “Little Women” plays like children’s theater for the NPR crowd.
Read my full review at TheWrap.
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Termites, copper dust, fierce heat, remoteness… these were just some of the challenges facing Cummins when it set out to design and build a new power station for a copper mine in north-west Queensland.
The power station for Cudeco’s Rocklands copper mining project is one of the largest power generation projects undertaken by Cummins in Australia.
Sixteen Cummins generator sets, delivering a total of 18 MW, will be vital to the operation of the Rocklands processing plant which will produce copper, cobalt, gold and magnetite at a rate of 3.0 million tonnes per year.
The Rocklands project is 15 km west of outback Cloncurry, a town that claims to have the highest official temperature recorded in Australia at 53.1 °C. Obviously the region is parched by intense heat, a major factor influencing the design of the power station.
Cummins was selected to design and build the power station by Chinese giant Sinosteel Equipment and Engineering Co. Sinosteel is currently building the Rocklands processing plant which it owns and expects to complete by mid-2015.
“Cummins is a well proven brand in China, one of the key reasons we were selected by Sinosteel for the Rocklands project,” says Shane Rigney, who has headed up the all-encompassing project for Cummins.
“Our ability to design, supply, install and commission a complete turnkey power station was another key factor behind Cummins being awarded the contract.
“In fact, with the exception of laying the concrete, we built the entire power station on a site that was nothing but a patch of red dust and dirt covered in termite mounds.”
Sinosteel’s commercial manager for the Rocklands project, Yu Peng, says the turnkey power station “reflects Cummins’ reputation globally…we’ve had no concerns from day one”.
He describes the power station as “very impressive” and an example of what can be achieved when two companies like Cummins and Sinosteel forge a partnership.
The Rocklands power station is a showcase facility, certainly a credit to the Cummins team – steered by project leader Shane Rigney and general manager of power generation projects Birol Guler – who ensured it was completed on time.
Cummins’ scope for the project extended well beyond the supply and installation of the 16 generator sets powered by one of Cummins’ biggest diesel engines, the 60-litre QSK60.
“Our work included all civil, electrical and mechanical engineering; design and construction of the steel-framed acoustic building housing the generators; design and construction of the high voltage switch room and supply of all low voltage switchgear; supply and installation of the Cummins digital master control system; and supply and installation of an auxiliary transformer in a kiosk,” says Shane Rigney.
He points to other features such as the dust filtration system which incorporates 48 filters and two massive fans per engine with the ability to deliver 26 cubic metres per second. The fans draw air through the filters, pressurising the room and supplying cooling air for the generator sets.
Cooling is also provided by remote-mounted radiators supplied by Air Radiators which allow the C2250 D5 generator sets to operate continuously in ambient temperatures of 50°C. The vertical exhaust stacks are 20 metres high, an EPA requirement.
The C2250 D5 generator set has a prime power rating of 1600 kW but in the case of the Rocklands project the units are rerated to 1349 kW to allow for continuous operation in high ambient temperatures. The fully integrated system incorporates Cummins PowerCommand digital paralleling equipment and a Cummins DMC200 digital master control system. All underground cabling for the power station – 20 km of it – is chemically treated for termite resistance.
The noise level requirement for the acoustic building housing the generators is 80 dBA at 1.0 metre.
Engine oil and coolant changes are a simple procedure via a remote control system. A 10,000-litre fresh oil tank is installed on site along with a 5,000-litre waste oil tank and two 20,000-litre diesel day tanks.
OH&S was a key consideration in the design. In fact, the heaviest item a Cummins technician will have to lift during routine maintenance is an oil or air filter.
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What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?
What kind of world do we live in when freeways are valued as of greater cultural significance than the practice of the oldest living culture in the world?
Originally published on The Conversation – 22 August 2019
Authors: Libby Porter, Amaara Raheem, Blanche Verlie, Bronwyn Lay, Marianne Jago, Mick Douglas
The Victorian government has announced it is seeking heritage listing for parts of the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne. We heard this news on Wednesday as we sat under a grandfather tree in solidarity with Djab Wurrung people whose cultural heritage is being threatened by the same government.
A Major Road Projects Victoria proposal to extend the Western Highway will destroy sacred Djab Wurrung trees and places. They have been protecting these trees for more than a year, but faced eviction – from their own Country – by today’s deadline. All this is happening as the government is conducting treaty negotiations across the state.
What kind of world do we live in when freeways are valued as of greater cultural significance than the practice of the oldest living culture in the world? Threatening to evict Djab Wurrung while proposing heritage status for the Eastern Freeway is a surreal perversion of law, heritage and community value.
These matters raise important questions about how cultural heritage value is determined and by whom. They also attest to the continued power of roads and transport infrastructure in a climate-changing world.
Scorning an ancient cultural heritage
The proposal to expand the Western Highway has been around for decades. The on-Country presence of Djab Wurrung people was sparked when it became clear the new duplicated section between Buangor and Ararat would destroy their sacred trees, which include an important directions tree and birthing site.
This is not merely about protecting individual trees – some of which are up to 800 years old. It’s about the way those trees relate to each other, the landscape, Djab Wurrung people and their law, which have been here for thousands of generations.
Victoria supposedly has a legislative system for protecting this Aboriginal heritage. The government asserts that it has followed the “due process” of this system in relation to the Djab Wurrung trees. The fact that Djab Wurrung Elders and leaders have been protesting on site for the past 15 months raises serious questions about what constitutes “due process”.
Many concerns have been raised about a flawed system. At the very least, it has been exposed as a blunt instrument clearly not sensitive enough to cope with these complexities.
Not only is the government unwilling to negotiate on Country in good faith, Djab Wurrung people are being actively silenced and criminalised. One of the leaders, Zellanach Djab Mara, was recently held on remand for 26 days on a charge of driving without a licence, which his supporters saw as a move to “get him off Country”. A magistrate later saidZellanach’s time in custody was too long for a minor offence.
But Djab Wurrung people will not be silenced. More than 500 people arrived at the campon Wednesday in solidarity. The campaign has gained international media attention and more than 130,000 people have signed a petition.
Celebrating 50 years of freeway culture
Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway certainly has history, a notorious one. Traversing Wurundjeri Country, its construction caused massive destruction of Wurundjeri places and heritage. It also displaced working-class communities in inner Melbourne, triggering one of Australia’s most significant anti-freeway campaigns.
Tony Birch has written eloquently about the scar the Eastern Freeway created psychologically and geographically. The damage included:
[…] obliteration of a vital section of the river at its confluence with the Merri Creek, a once majestic waterway winding its way into the north across Wurundjeri land.
But these are not the histories the government seeks to honour by heritage-listing the Eastern Freeway. These histories are silenced in favour of bridge design. Just like the concurrent attempt at erasing Djab Wurrung heritage. Listing the Eastern Freeway would assert that the destruction such roads create is something we collectively value as heritage.
Heritage in an upside-down world
Both these decisions expose just how upside-down and perverse our way of collectively cherishing place and heritage has become. And both advance a transport system that continues to encourage high-carbon mobility, despite Victoria’s legislated commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
A viable and cheaper route for the Western Highway duplication is available, just as a viable alternative to the Eastern Freeway once existed.
Road safety is vital, certainly. But surely it would be better achieved by reducing freight traffic on roads, rather than enabling everyone to drive faster. Freight rail offers an alternative solution to some of the key issues that advocates of the Western Highway project use to justify it.
It is possible to have highway safety and efficient mobility at the same time as protecting sacred places and actual cultural heritage through genuine processes.
Proposing a freeway for heritage listing is a clear statement of a government willing to cherry-pick what counts as heritage. As Djab Wurrung Traditional Owner and former state MP for Northcote Lidia Thorpe asserts:
The protection of high cultural and natural values must be part of any treaty process, rather than brazenly destroying those values while the treaty process is under way.
A way forward
We call on the Victorian government to immediately establish a respectful dialogue with Djab Wurrung people by accepting their invitation to come to Country and talk with Elders and leaders in good faith. To do so the threat of eviction must be immediately withdrawn. As Zellenach said to us while we were at camp, “no one can effectively negotiate while under duress”.
If the Victorian government is serious about Treaty, this is the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of what respectful recognition of Indigenous sovereignty looks like.
The world is watching.
Marianne (Ria) Jago at the Victorian Women’s Legal Service is a collaborator on this article.
We wrote this article on Djab Wurrung Country at the invitation of Djab Wurrung people to help protect their Country. We pay respects to Djab Wurrung Elders past, present and emerging and the sovereign Aboriginal peoples on whose lands we each live and work.
Academic petition to stop the destruction of the Djab Wurrung sacred trees
Willum Warrain Gathering Place: Connecting Country, culture and community
Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
Buy, protect, resell: Revolving natural heritage protection?
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Header image: Sign at the Djab Wurrung embassy. Photo by Blanche Verlie, Author provided.
Professor Libby Porter
Convener of Critical Urban Governance Program
Blanche Verlie
Associate Lecturer
Critical Urban Governance
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How Savings Groups Assist the Poor and Support Broader Development Goals
By John Jepsen
Tags: economic-growth • resilience
In November, DAI inclusive economic growth specialists Colleen Green and Kirsten Weeks attended the SG2015 Savings Groups Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, where approximately 350 practitioners from 44 countries shared experiences and opinions. Green and Weeks recently discussed savings groups and how DAI uses them across its programming with John Jepsen, DAI’s Global Practice Lead for financial services.
What was DAI’s new role for SG2015?
Green (above left): At the previous conferences in Arusha, Tanzania, and Washington, D.C., DAI led panel discussions; for SG2015, we were among the organizers—contributing to planning, event preparation, and panels on nutrition and vulnerable populations. The Financial Sector Deepening Zambia program, led by Joanna Ledgerwood, was also pivotal in the success of the event.
Why has DAI been focused for years on savings groups as a tool for development?
Green: Savings groups are crucial to communities where traditional banks don’t reach, and where people might not meet the rigid requirements set by formal or informal financial institutions. They provide what is needed by vulnerable, ultra-poor households, such as a way to save for children’s education. Savings groups also can play a role on the pathway to improved livelihoods, such as helping fund the purchase of basic tools or supplies.
Weeks (above right): Savings groups also appear to provide durable solutions. There is growing evidence that after donor-funded projects and direct support ends, savings groups remain, providing a self-sustaining safety net to help families withstand shocks and contribute to growth.
This infographic helps show on DAI’s work in savings groups. Where has DAI promoted them?
Green: Most recently, in a variety of programs, including ones funded by PEPFAR [President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] and the U.S. Agency for International Development that focus on economic strengthening of HIV-vulnerable households. This includes the IMARISHA project in Tanzania and Urban Gardens Program in Ethiopia. Others include agriculture and nutrition programs such as Feed the Future Malawi Integrating Nutrition into Value Chains and the Feed the Future Liberia Food and Enterprise Development project, and in Financial Sector Deepening programs in Zambia and Mozambique.
The connection between savings group participation and improved livelihood outcomes in Tanzania was subject to quantitative analysis. What did that show?
Green: Under the USAID/IMARISHA project, we promoted savings groups as a tool to support vulnerable households affected by HIV/AIDS. We trained and mentored more than 100 local organizations to facilitate local savings groups in more than 14 regions of the country. These partner organizations—ones that support orphans and vulnerable children—took up this model with great gusto, encouraging household members to join or start groups to save money. In addition to basic savings, these groups often set up special internal funds to support the most vulnerable local children or pay insurance premiums into the community health fund so a family could get health services. By the time IMARISHA ended in December 2014, our partner organizations had formed more than 4,100 savings groups supporting 100,000-plus members. Members had saved more than 17 billion Tanzanian shillings, or about $7.9 million.
This work was important to show the Tanzanian government the value of savings groups. We conducted a study of the USAID Pamoja Tuwalee project partners—civil society groups that work with orphans and vulnerable children—that showed how important savings groups were from an income standpoint as well as making impacts in nutrition, food security, and other areas.
Weeks: There appears to be a correlation between savings group participation and improvements in household food security, as well as increases in dietary diversity, which we shared at the SG2015 conference. In Tanzania, households that participated in savings groups were more likely to be food secure and have greater levels of dietary diversity. Beneficiaries reported that savings groups allowed households to access loans to withstand economic shocks during the lean or hungry season. They also helped households accumulate assets related to livelihoods—such as garden tools—to increase their income and potentially contribute to growing and purchasing more diverse foods.
How else does DAI promote savings groups in combination with other development activities?
Weeks: In some projects, savings groups are a financial platform. They create an environment for participants to exercise democracy, where members decide on how their group is structured and how funds are used. Savings groups develop leadership skills—particularly for women, who tend to lead these groups.
People came to SG2015 from all over the world. What was the most exciting person, panel, or presentation?
Green: One was the new research conducted by INSEAD and the University of Oregon on inclusion of poorer, more disadvantaged households in savings groups. It used a random controlled trial to show that groups with some vulnerable households have the potential to save and also change behavior of those poorer members. But it also showed diminishing returns: groups that have half or more their members from vulnerable, poorer households save less, ration credit to wealthier members, and do not benefit poorer members as much.
Also notable was to see the tools being developed to use information and communication technologies to record passbook and ledger at savings groups meetings. There are many technologies being developed and piloted by Grameen, CARE, CRS, and bank partners, among others. Smartphone-based technologies have the potential to capture savings and lending data that then allows groups to be banked (for deposit or credit services). Some of the technologies are complicated and sophisticated, though, and not accessible for less literate group members. Some are also being developed in partnership with banks, which begs the question, “Who owns the data?”
Weeks: And who owns the privacy. The ICT innovations are exciting but raise questions. There is a new MasterCard Foundation project seeking to identify new services and products to further bridge the gap between the poor and the formal financial sector. We need these types of products and services, but it was also good to be reminded that we need to scale up savings.
In addition to literacy, privacy, and data, what else is potentially concerning or lacking in savings group work?
Weeks: We still don’t know that we are reaching the poorest. And there are continuing challenges for groups who are illiterate and innumerate. There are large groups of people whose needs are not met, and for people in savings groups, it does not meet all of their needs for financial services. We need to not fear asking the hard questions and pushing each other to better understand the opportunities and limitations of savings groups.
How are you planning to continue engaging projects around this topic?
Weeks: I am excited to see how we can continue to expand savings within our work, but also how can we better document and understand what is working and what is not. I am particularly interested in better measurement of the nonfinancial benefits—and potential disadvantages—of savings groups for health, education, and gender outcomes. Do we need to add health, gender, and education messaging to savings groups to achieve these outcomes, or is that overburdening them and the outcome changes will happen as households have more security and assets without project add-ons?
We also need to find better ways to integrate with traditional savings groups not supported by outside donors and projects as well as with groups that struggle to help them identify solutions that meet their needs.
Finally, we need to better engage with local financial service providers about the benefits of savings groups and explore collaboratively the development of new financial services for individuals and groups to help bridge the gap for financial inclusion. It was great to see so many investors and service providers at SG2015 who were ready to engage and invest.
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Arts, Discover, Literature
Former Dallasite Lawrence Wright wrote the seminal book on 9/11 history
by Christina Hughes
How Dallas shaped the prolific, peerless reporter-author Lawrence Wright, and how his family shaped Dallas.
Author Lawrence Wright. Courtesy Penguin Random House.
If you think you know what there is to know about Sept. 11, 2001, you might.
Aircraft, crashing; bewildered news reporters; smoke from skyscraper windows; falling (dear, God, jumping) figures; crumbling towers; epic powder clouds, dust-encrusted humans emerging from them; bedlam and blood; destruction and death—these are the images seared into the American brain.
But the roots — the tale of a tiny coalition of men whose delusions and calculations culminated in the catastrophic events — often have escaped us. Particulars lining the path to 9/11—stories of others who were convinced such an attack was imminent and their desperate attempts to stop it—get lost in the overwhelm.
“The Looming Tower” won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction
If you only read one book about 9/11, make it “The Looming Tower” by Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer-winning author who grew up in Dallas.
Wright (who also delved into “Scientology” and more recently wrote about home in “God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State”) painstakingly examines the worlds, beliefs, dogmas and details that bred the suppliers of 9/11 and those who would follow in their footsteps.
He introduces us to characters we cannot believe are real—heroes such as F.B.I. agent John O’Neil, who worked frantically to stop Osama Bin Laden, only to die that day in the World Trade Center.
Lawrence Wright’s tome, while delivering a full-curriculum 9/11 history course, unravels a narrative that reads like a fantastic fictional thriller. If only.
Perhaps the most painful revelations describe how close we came, on several occasions, to preventing the attack.
Not a reader? Try the Hulu show based on the book.
Lawrence moved to Dallas when he was in middle school. He attended Long. His dad had a new job — president of Lakewood Bank.
It’s small, but it’s in Dallas, endorsed Lawrence’s dad, the WWII veteran of seven years, discharged a major at age 36 with no choice but to “hit the ground running,” Lawrence recalls.
While most kids hung out at ye ol’ pharmacy soda fountain, Lawrence Wright loitered at the library. Photo by Danny Fulgencio
The writer remembers Dallas, in his early years, as a place he did not belong. (Though after what he told us, I’m not sure the kid would have belonged in many public junior high schools.) “I was not popular,” he says. “I spent more time reading in the Lakewood library … I’d take cardboard boxes and load up on books.”
It was during his years at Woodrow Wilson High, however, where seeds of shame related to his hometown were sown.
The morning of John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas, Lawrence found on his family’s front doorstep a flyer that looked just like a WANTED poster. It was Kennedy; the text said he was “Wanted for Treason.” Below that his crimes were listed, seven items such as: betraying the Constitution, giving support to communist-inspired racial riots, appointing anti-Christians to federal office, and lying to the American people about his previous marriage and divorce.
Lawrence Wright recalls finding this flyer on his doorstep the day of JFK’s assassination.
“I was in class when it happened,” he says. “Algebra with Mr. Irvin Hill. “Three tones came over the speaker … the principle began to speak.” There was a choked pause before the principal said, “The president has been shot.”
Lawrence remembers looking around at his classmates — shocked, dazed, excited, scared. Some grinned with nervous anticipation. How were they supposed to react, he wondered. Finally he would turn to Mr. Hill.
Tears streamed down the teacher’s cheeks and his chest heaved as he tried to control sobs that turned into barks before he left the room.
“As he left I felt the first prodding overture of shame,” wrote Lawrence in his last book.
Lawrence Wright’s most-recent book details his life in Dallas.
“I went off to college at Tulane,” he tells us, “because it seemed the furthest thing from Dallas — I thought of New Orleans’ so-different, liberated spirit.”
By Lawrence’s ’65 graduation the world had stigmatized Dallas. The city of hate. The city that killed Kennedy.
In “God Save Texas,” Lawrence, now an Austin resident, reckons with Dallas and comes to respect it like no other city.
“It is a human city, flawed and ambitious but with a self-knowledge that many another bustling town will never learn,” he writes.
Dallas very much shaped Lawrence Wright, who would become one of the most respected reporters and writers in America. And the Wright family, literally, helped shape Dallas.
When the family first came here, the elder Wright, disheartened by Dallas’ lack of natural beauty, took risks most bankers would not.
The landscape surrounding his bank had some of the most charming homes and amenities around, but it was in decay.
“He made loans to young couples who had almost no equity except a willingness to rehabilitate those old homes,” Lawrence says of his father, who also went to every Lakewood Shopping Center tenant pleading with them to spruce-up their stores, remove trash in back, consider planting trees.
Lakewood Shopping Center, circa 1960
Wright’s lending program became a model for the nation.
“What Lakewood looks like today has a lot to do with my father’s work,” Lawrence, now 70, says.
The neighborhood fought the elder Wright over the last thing he built in Lakewood, the banking tower, wherefrom, today, I sit, typing away on its top floor.
Look for further discussion with Wright in an upcoming issue of Lakewood Advocate magazine.
Tags: 9/11, Lakewood Shopping Center, Lawrence Wright, Looming Tower
Christina Hughes
A reckoning looms for America—Ben Fountain's new book expounds
Dallas police officer arrested for DWI on September 11
Christina Hughes September 11, 2018
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1995 VORTEX CHILL S-Band Weather Radar Data [CSU/CHILL]
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Posts Tagged ‘Maryland ballparks’
Bugle Field – Home of the Baltimore Elite Giants
Bugle Field was located in East Baltimore at the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway, just a few blocks south of Baltimore Cemetery and approximately one and a half miles off I-895.
1601 Edison Highway, Baltimore, Maryland, Former Site of Bugle Field
In 1912, Edward C. Lastner of the Simpson and Doeller Company (a company that printed can labels), with seed money provided by his employer, leased a cow pasture from Mrs. Carrie Snyder at what is now Edison Highway and Federal Street and constructed the ballpark. From 1912 to 1917, the ballpark, known as “Label Men’s Oval,” was home to a semi pro club known as the Label Men.
The Label Men at Label Men’s Oval Circa 1913, Edward C. Lastner in Inset and Wearing Straw hat (Sun Papers)
About 1924, the ballpark was purchased by Joe Cambria, a scout for the Washington Senators. Cambria christened his ballpark Bugle Field, after the Bugle Coat and Apron Supply Company, a company he owned. In addition to football, boxing, and wrestling matches, Cambria brought baseball teams he owned to Bugle Field, including the Bugle Coat and Apron Nine, at first a member of the Baltimore Amateur League and later a semipro team, and the Hagerstown Hubs (exhibition games), a minor league team that played in the Class D Blue Ridge League (see Brian McKenna’s SABR Biography of Cambria for additional information).
According to newspaper accounts of the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore Afro-American, the Black Sox first began playing games at Bugle Field in 1930. On September 2, 1930, the first night game was played at Bugle Field, a contest between the Black Sox and the Bugles. In 1932, Cambria purchased an interest in the Black Sox and became their general manager. Cambria made Bugle Field the Black Sox’s home field starting in 1932 (that year the Black Sox were members of the East-West League). Previously, the Black Sox had played their home games at Westport Park and Maryland Baseball Park.The Black Sox played at Bugle Field in 1933 as well, as members of the Negro National League. By 1934, the Black Sox were playing under new ownership and the team disbanded later that same year.
In 1938 a new negro league team arrived in Baltimore, making Bugle Field their home park. The Baltimore Elite Giants (pronounced EE-lite) originated in 1918 in Nashville, Tennessee. They played their home games in Nashville through the 1935 season. The Elite Giants then moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1937, and Washington, D.C. , in 1937.
Baltimore Elite Giants Circa 1949 (Paul Henderson Photographer, courtesy of Maryland Historical Society and hendersonphotos.wordpress.com)
According to hendersonphotos.wordpress.com, the Elite Giant players in the above picture are:
Top row, left: Joe Black; Leroy Ferrell; Charles (Specs) Davidson; Lenny Pearson; Al Wilmore; Bob Romby; Johnny Hayes; Jim Gilliam; Jesse (Hoss) Walker;
Bottom row: Butch Davis; Silvester Rodgers; Henry Kimbro; Vic Harris; Henry Bayliss; Henry (Frazier) Robinson; Frank Russell; Tom (Pee Wee) Butts; Leon Day.
Baltimore Elite Giants Standing in Front of Bugle Field Scoreboard (Paul Henderson Photographer, courtesy of Maryland Historical Society and hendersonphotos.wordpress.com)
The Elite Giants played in the Negro National League from the time of their arrival in Baltimore in 1938, through the 1948 season. In 1949 the played in the Negro American League. The team brought Baltimore two league titles, the Negro National League championship in 1939, and the Negro American League championship in 1949.
Baltimore Elite Giants (Paul Henderson Photographer, courtesy of Maryland Historical Society and hendersonphotos.wordpress.com)
Elite Giant players of note include Hall of Famers Roy Campanella and Leon Day, Joe Black (1952 NL ROY), Junior Gilliam (1953 NL ROY), Lester Locket, and Bill Wright.
Hall of Famer Leon Day
The first two games of the 1949 Negro American League Championships were played at Bugle Field. After the Elite Giants went on the road to play the remaining games, the owners of the property began demolition of the ballpark in preparation for sale of the land. From newspaper accounts, it appears that the last sporting events held in Bugle Field were a exhibition by Daredevil Don Robey (automobile demolition) on September 30, 1949, and a Baltimore Soccer Club match on December 28, 1949.
Demolition of Bugle Field Commencing in Late September, early October 1949. The Third Base Grandstand Ran Parallel to Edison Highway
A classified ad that ran in the Baltimore Sun on September 30 and October 1, 1949, announced the quick demise of Bugle Field:
“WRECKING BALL PARK – Used 2×4 to 8×8, 10, 60 foot Creosoted poles,
plus other lumber. Apply Bugle Field. See Mr. Reinhold PE 0371″
As shown in the Sanborn Map below, Bugle Field’s grandstand sat near the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway.
1936 Sandborn Map Showing Location of Bugle Field
The 1937 aerial view (thanks to Bernard McKenna) shows Bugle Field and its irregularly shaped outfield fence.
Maryland Port Administration Aerial View of Bugle Field Circa 1937 (Thanks to Bernard McKenna) (Map Located at jscholarship.library.jhu.edu)
The southwest corner of the Rockland Industries Building near the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway sits in the footprint of the original grandstand.
Rockland Industries Building, Former Site of Bugle Field Grandstand
The asphalt parking lot in front of Rockland Industries was once the gravel parking lot for Bugle Field.
Rockland Industries, Former Site of Bugle Field
The first base line to the right field corner ran parallel to Edison Highway.
Former Site of Bugle Field, First Base Side and Right Field Corner
Some references to Bugle Field identify its location as being the Intersection of Edison Highway and Biddle Street. However, Biddle Street, which runs parallel to Federal Street, sits four blocks south of the ballpark site. Beyond what was once right and center field is a line of trees that most likely mark the outer limits of the ballpark site.
Former Site of Bugle Field Looking from Former Right Field Corner Toward Center Field
The Sports Legends Museum, located next to Orioles Park at Camden Yards, includes a tribute to the Elite Giants, including a mock up of a bus similar to the type that Negro League players once road.
Sports Legends Museum Negro Leagues Display
In 1950, the Elite Giants moved their home games to Westport Stadium, which was located on Annapolis Road between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Patapsco Avenue. This should not be confused with Westport Park, which was located on Russell Street, and is where the Baltimore Black Sox played their home games from 1917 to 1920.
Bugle Field has been gone for more than half a century. No portion of the old ballpark remains at the site, nor does it appear that there are any buildings surrounding the site that date back to the days of Bugle Field. Even without any tangible ties to the old ballpark, its former site certainly is deserving of at least a Maryland historical marker noting the significance the area once had to Baltimore history and the history of baseball in the United States.
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Resting in the Hiddenness of God
May 22, 2018 By Kevin Cochrane Filed Under: Articles
Christ has deposited spiritual treasures in each of our lives—talents, experiences, and perspectives that invigorate our capacity to minister. But have you ever thought that, if you possessed a more visible platform or were placed in a more prestigious position, you would produce more abundantly for the kingdom of God?
The temptation doesn’t solely exist for those in ministry. I think, on one occasion or another, every Christian experiences this longing, because we want to witness the redeemed lives and restored communities in as considerable a quantity as possible.
But for a lot of us, neither the quality nor quantity of abundance is there. We wonder, why does God have me working this job, in this location, at this church, with these kinds of believers?
Such times feel like a senseless beating, causing us to question whether we heard God’s voice correctly. Then, Satan blitzes, manufacturing disorder and scheming to put our backs in the dirt. Before long, we withdraw, yearning for a promotion or an exfiltration strategy.
Colossians 3:1-3 reads, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
Every believer will jovially give an amen to that verse. It gives us that warmth, the assurance that Christ has, does, and will protect us. But what if we’re not hearing and believing the verse’s entirety?
Set your minds on things above. What if, in your current and seemingly substandard situation, God is instructing you in the ways of His hiddenness? Could it be that He’s asking you to deposit your treasure no matter the real estate you occupy?
Let’s look at three Old Testament figures and observe how each of them never wasted a good beating.
No Need for Optimal
We’ve all heard the story of Joseph in childhood Sunday school lessons or church sermons, and the story reads so simply to most: Bible character takes hard knocks but gets the spoils, authority, and reconciliation in the end.
But Joseph’s narrative nurtures something richer—God’s hiding of his elect. The young dreamer got shanghaied into slavery by his brothers; was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife of attempted sexual assault; tossed in prison; and forgotten by Pharaoh’s chief butler for a time, even when he interpreted the man’s dream.
Yet amidst that hiddenness, God made provisions for Joseph. Potiphar gave Joseph authority over his household affairs. The prison warden established Joseph as the other prisoners’ keeper. And Joseph remained committed to honoring God despite the chaos created by his brothers, by the lies of Potiphar’s wife, and by the short memory of Pharaoh’s chief butler.
All the time, God placed responsibility upon Joseph’s shoulders, even though life gave him nothing but beating after beating.
We know how the story ends. At age 30, Joseph ascends to second-in-command of all of Egypt after interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams. He gained jurisdiction over Pharaoh’s house, the matters of the kingdom, and the sustainability of food supplies in preparation for the years of famine. His family was reconciled to him, and God used Joseph’s presence in Egypt to settle the Israelites there, which catalyzed their eventual bondage, release, and endowment as God’s covenant people.
Before his breakthrough, Joseph’s experiences were anything but optimal. However, Joseph sustained himself on God’s mercy, holding onto what God was doing in the midst of those quagmires instead of murmuring about his hard knocks or clamoring to return to Israel after interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams.
God didn’t need Joseph to be in the optimal circumstances, with the optimal resources, or with the optimal people. He deployed Joseph in affairs that galvanized him, preparing him for the ultimate role he would fulfill.
Out of Sight, Not Out of His Plan
The next Biblical hard knock hall-of-famer is Nehemiah. His name evokes images of rebuilt walls and restoration, but before then, he was continually taking a beating. Though a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes, Nehemiah remained in exile, mourning the city of Jerusalem’s annihilation.
Even the king noticed his cupbearer’s grief and inquired into what troubled him. That’s when Nehemiah took the initiative and poured out his heart to Artaxerxes, explaining his longing to rebuild the Jerusalem’s walls.
God had hidden Nehemiah in the king’s palace for such a time. Artaxerxes not only gave his permission but also resources and protection.
But the beatings didn’t end there. During the wall’s reconstruction, Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab spread disinformation, writing a letter to the king claiming that Nehemiah was going to lead a rebellion.
They were furious at the progress being made, so they mocked the Jews, then conspired to attack the builders to incite confusion and terminate the construction. When the Israelites armed themselves and posted lookouts, their enemies went for the man at the top. They tried to arrange a meeting with Nehemiah on the plains of Ono, where they would ostensibly gut him like the proverbial fish.
When Nehemiah refused, his enemies placed a secret informer, Shemaiah, who tried to draw him into the temple, claiming that enemies were coming to assassinate him. The ulterior plan had been to kill Nehemiah inside the temple.
As we know, Nehemiah survived all of the machinations and guided the restoration of Jerusalem. His natural reaction could have been to hunker down, maximize his comfort, and seek better pastures back in Artaxerxes’ court.
He had every right to adopt an Eeyore mindset, complaining that God had forgotten about him, as well as Israel. Yet, like Joseph, he grasped a critical element of God’s hiddenness—that God required him in exile and servitude so he could accomplish the forthcoming reestablishment of Jerusalem. God took the treasures in Nehemiah, namely his repentant heart for Israel’s sins and his craving for Jerusalem’s reconstruction, and deposited them in His eternal arrangements.
Lesson learned. God will export your calling exactly where it needs to be, even when you see yourself as out of sight and out of mind.
Anomaly in Plain Sight
Our final case study is Daniel, another familiar character. But his story isn’t just about the miracle in lions’ den. He was part of a select group of Jewish exiles in Babylon who were gathered to serve in Nebuchadnezzar’s court.
Daniel’s wisdom, academic acumen, and integrity allowed him to soak up the foremost of Chaldean language and literature. We know that Daniel stood first among equals in providing expert advice and interpreting dreams. Through the Holy Spirit, Daniel revealed the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams, explained the prophetic significance of the handwriting on the wall to Belshazzar, and was made a ruler of a province and chief administrator over the wise men of Babylon.
Not bad for a Jewish exile, yet still, he was a captive in a pagan land. Nonetheless, he practiced the art of hiddenness, setting himself apart from other wise men in the king’s court. He refused to partake of the king’s delicacies, openly prayed three times a day toward Jerusalem, and would not obey the decree to worship Darius as a god.
Honoring Daniel’s steadfastness, God sent an angel to shut the lions’ mouths, which convicted Darius of God’s sovereignty.
The study of Daniel reveals that God requires many of us to be an anomaly in unfamiliar territory. We can’t bring glory to Christ when we’re operating just like our peers. God hid Daniel in the king’s court so that He could employ him at the opportune times, eventually causing multiple pagan kings to acknowledge the God of Israel.
The Refuge in Hiddenness
What did Joseph, Nehemiah, and Daniel all have in common? Each man likely didn’t see his location as the choicest. They were in unfamiliar territory, in pagan nations. Yet God hid them in centers of influence. Joseph was summoned to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams. Nehemiah had direct access to Artaxerxes as his cupbearer. Daniel worked as an advisor in the Babylonian court. And the Almighty functioned silently until each man’s time of revelation occurred.
So what can we take from these stories? First, we can be content in God’s hiddenness, though we may think we don’t get our due or enough opportunities. When we understand that God places us where He needs our labor, not where we attain the most visibility or acclaim. Servanthood doesn’t require third-party documentation of each moment; the Father’s sovereignty takes care of that. Read Joseph’s story to trace this sovereignty in action.
Second, we can rest in the reality that God reconfigures that which looks like hell into a resource for spiritual increase. What appears to be your exile could end up becoming your prime placement. The forgotten corners of this country (and world) need ministers who understand what it’s like to be hidden. Look at Daniel’s narrative to recognize that God’s hiddenness has a precision for the right moment, right time, and right place.
Third, when the Spirit calls you to move, get going and don’t fall into double-mindedness about it. Whether God is calling you into a suboptimal situation (in your eyes) or directing you toward that promotion you’ve labored for, mind the gap when others can’t see the vision God’s given to you.
God never hides his faithful without decisively arranging their skills for a critical moment when others must recognize His glory. The number of those who bear witness is not your concern, for clicks, views, and crowds will always fluctuate.
It’s these questions that believers must answer: Will you be humble in your hiddenness? Will you view your misfortunes as opportunities to rely on Christ? And will you act faithfully when the moment demands your ascension and servanthood?
Heavy questions, I know. Yet the Colossians 3 anchor holds steady, reminding us that we are under the same adoption as Joseph, Nehemiah, and Daniel. And our hiddenness does not confine us to the dark, but rather, every beating in life we suffer can be an opportunity for redemption, especially when we take refuge under the Almighty’s outspread wings.
About Kevin Cochrane
Kevin Cochrane is a writer and student at Geneva College. He's also an avid hockey fan and runner. Follow him on Twitter @kev_cochrane to receive the latest updates on his posts.
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Is TV better than ever before?
The Sopranos. Mad Men. Westworld. The Wire. The Americans. House of Cards. Transparent. More and more, critics are lauding the rise of the ‘prestige’ television series, which undoubtedly began to rise in popularity back in 1999 with the debut of The Sopranos. All of the sudden, the offerings on cable TV were rivaling what you could see on the big screen, and more and more people began compiling their lists of “best TV shows to watch” if you wanted to join in on this cultural zeitgeist.
Ever since those early days of HBO event television, the past 2 decades have been marked by a renewed interest in television. All of the sudden, the office water cooler talk is no longer about new release movies – people are talking about television instead. This is the era of peak TV, and personally speaking, it has been taking me ages to get – and stay – caught up with all of the amazing television programs on both cable and network stations. I find that TV series box sets can really help, allowing me to catch up when I have a chance.
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One thing you will usually notice is that the most prestigious television trends seem to start on the most elite cable channels. Yes, the HBOs and the Showtimes out there always seem to set the trend when it comes to the best TV shows. Just think about it – The Sopranos and The Wire were both on HBO, Mad Men showed on AMC, and Homeland and Dexter were on Showtime.
After this trend was set by the mid ‘00s, all of the other smaller cable channels followed their example (including FX, TBS and The USA Network ), attempting to launch their own ‘prestige’ television series and garner accolades and awards, no matter how incongruous their brand may be when considering this goal. The more mainstream American networks, such as ABC, NBC and CBS, have all also tried to capitalise on this style of TV, and over the past decade they have all premiered their own series in this same vein.
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If there is one thing that I have gained after seven weeks of summer internship, it is the sound knowledge of the working of Eastern Railways and the Kolkata Metro. This story is a direct culmination of all that knowledge. Also, pardon my Hindi if in some places it is incorrect. (Update : many thanks Vishala Arya for the corrections :P )
"Poroborti station, Belgachia. Platform dan dike."
"Agla station, Belgachia. Platform, dahine taraf."
"The next station is Belgachia. The platform is on the right side."
Rajat looked up from the magazine he was reading as the automated voice sounded over his head. He gave an exasperated groan, and cursed the Kolkata Metro announcements to himself. A 40 minute trip from one one terminal station to the other, spanning the whole of Kolkata from the south to the north, fraught with annoyances such as cackling automated female voices and sweaty co-passengers, wasn't the sort of start he had been expecting to an internship. Also, he had missed the new air-conditioned metro by a whisker, and that added to his present miseries.
As the train reached a standstill, it struck him, that his destination was now only a few minutes away, so he should better ready himself if he wanted to make the most out of the rush when the sliding doors gave way.
With a lurch, the train pulled away again, and Rajat nearly toppled to one side as he tried getting up. Clinging onto the handlebars, and cursing under his breath he steadied himself on his feet. And simultaneously, the automated female voice cackled once more.
"Shesh ebong prantik station, Dum Dum. Platform baa dike."
"Agla aur antim station, Dum Dum. Platform, baai taraf."
"The next and terminal station is Dum Dum. The platform is on the left side."
Rajat heaved a sigh. There, that had to be the last of them all.
He looked around. The crowd had thinned considerably. He had been praying and praying that it does. Seeing the exodus of passengers into and from the train at the stations in central Kolkata, he had remained mortally scared of his turn at Dum Dum.
Needless to say, Rajat wasn't the type of person who had frequently availed of public transport during his twenty odd years of his life in this city. He had remained confined to the luxuries of air-conditioned private cars, and rarely would one see him taking a bus or an autorickshaw. At worst, it would be a cab.
He looked out of the windows. It was still as dark as the insides of a blue whale. He had seldom been on the metro, but whenever he had, he had never travelled to the Dum Dum terminal where the new extension of the track made it come up to the surface and then travel in broad daylight. That was one little thing he was looking forward to. The transition from the darkness to the daylight, and how it happened.
A vibration in his right pocket brought him back to his senses, and he heaved a sigh realizing that he had once again come within the usual network coverage of his mobile service provider. The intermittent availability of the network throughout the boring 40 minutes of journeying in the underbelly of Kolkata had given him yet another thing to crib about.
He took out his phone and noticed that it was a text message from a friend, Sup it read. At work?
On the way. Shit crap this thing, he replied, and looked out of the window again, wondering when exactly would he start feeling the ascent.
And then suddenly, there was light all around. He frowned. That's it? The thing just goes out from darkness into light? Without any funny feelings in your tummy. On second thoughts, what else would have happened. I really shouldn't have expected something like a roller coaster here.
The train had now slowed down. It was drizzling outside, and the spray from the window wet his shirt. He moved away from the windows and approached the door.
A few more minutes later, the train pulled into the station. And once again, the now murderous-feeling-inducing automated voice was back
"Jatrider onurodh kora hocche, je ei prantik station e jeno garir kamra khali kore dei."
"Yatriyo se anurodh kiya ja raha hai ki is antim station par gaadi khaali kar di jaye"
"Passengers are requested to completely vacate the metro at the terminal station."
And the train gave a final lurch and stopped. The doors slid open and the customary rush ensued. Rajat went with the flow and soon found himself on the platform. He looked around, clutching his bag close to his self, before swinging it around and straddling it on his back. He knew that now he had to make his way to the railway station at Dum Dum. He looked around and fortunately saw a big red sign showing the way down the stairs to the same. This close, huh. All good.
The scene at the railway station was chaotic. It had all the attributes of the usual Indian railway station, random filth scattered in random places, malnourished and half naked children sleeping in front of the counters. Beggars and decrepit old men lying neglected. An involuntary shudder went down Rajat's spine as he made his way and stood at the end of the queue at the ticket counter. Thankfully enough, the queue was moving pretty quick and it was within a minute or two that he had bought a two way ticket to Agarpara, his intended destination. Dropping a coin in the pleading hands of a woman in tatters, he made his way to the platform. Credits for afterlife, he smiled. He did not look it, but actually was extremely religious and believed in doing good things to people in return of a grateful smile from them. Doesn't hurt. Does it?
On the stairs up to the platform he stopped at yet another blind old man, and dropped a coin into his steel bowl. On the platform however the scene was healthier. Passengers flocked around. Some aimlessly strolled smoking bidis. Quite a few of them were on the tracks, cutting across it, instead of taking the overhead bridge in their haste. A lungi clad person who was standing a few feet away was making weird facial gestures and holding a glass of what appeared to be water in his hand. Rinsing his mouth, Rajat realised, when the person squirted out the contents inside his mouth onto the track.
He looked around. A few hawkers lined the side of the platform: magazine stalls, tea stalls and the sort. He walked up to the magazine stand and the latest copy of the Top Gear magazine caught his eye. He grinned. Not so bad after all. He turned away and looked at his watch. The next train, the Barrackpore Local was due in less than 5 minutes. He resumed his aimless strolling, checking his watch at regular intervals.
Soon enough, the green and yellow electric locomotive was in sight. It was approaching the platform quite steadily, blaring it's horn now and then. And another cackling voice, and this was far worse in tone than the mildly respectable one in the metro, blared from the loud speakers.
"Barrackpore Local arriving at platform number 1."
"Barrackpore Local arriving ar platform number 1."
Ugh. Rajat frowned.
The people who were cutting across the track scattered, and clambered up on to the platforms on either side, as the train lumbered in slowly. These oafs will die like this, Rajat grimaced. Much as he was cautious in most of the things that he did, he loathed cutting across railways tracks. What is the overbridge for then?
When the train had come to a halt, he heaved himself up and was relieved to see it almost empty. He went and occupied a window seat, two seats away from an old man reading a newspaper.
Accha dada, eita Agarpara jabe toh? (This train will stop at Agarpara, right?) he leaned to his right and asked him, just to reassure himself.
The person did not take his eyes of the newspaper, Haan. Duto station pore (yes, two stations from this).
Rajat heaved a sigh and leaned back, took off his bag and placed it on his lap. Shouldn't be a long journey, he thought.
The train had started moving by then, and it steadily kept putting on speed. A candy seller had boarded too, he noticed and he kept moving around, asking one passenger after another. He came to Rajat as well, and thrust his colourful lot of candies at him. Rajat turned him down and gazed out of the window. When was the last time I had boarded a local train? He couldn't recollect. But he was more than glad that this one was not crowded, like the ones he usually saw at level crossings - local trains with people hanging onto the doors. Like bats. As he would say.
The next station was Belgharia. The train halted there for a minute or two before lurching off again. Rajat yawned. He had been up all night watching the Champions League Final. A disappointing game, for the Manchester United Fanatic that he was, and had thus lost most of this night's sleep. He wished he was home, happily snoring in his bed. Curse internships. He muttered.
Dada, time ta koto holo? (What's the time?)
He turned around and saw a young man looking at him and pointing at his watch.
Showa Nota. (A quarter past nine) he replied. He took out his phone and whiled some time away playing some random games, till he noticed that the train was slowing down again. Realising that this was Agarpara, he got up again, and headed for the door. An old woman sat huddled, on the edge, who peered up at him when he arrived. Rajat frowned again. What's with the fascination for edges?!
A few others flocked around him, all readying to disembark. The train kept rolling, slowing down with every passing second. The impatient passengers leapt off the train and hurried away. Rajat rolled his eyes. Won't ever learn, will they?
It was a few seconds later, when the train had come to a halt, that he jumped off, and looked around. He had to reach platform number 4, and then take a rickshaw from there, he had been directed. Reaching platform 4 would mean taking the overbridge. He glanced down, along the platform and saw one some feet away.
He started walking towards it. The platform he noticed, was far less crowded than the one at Dum Dum. The hawkers and stall keepers however were the same. His eyes wandered around at the colourful advertisement bill boards. There was a new Raymond's showroom at Agarpara, and they were giving 20% discount. He read the Bengali script slowly. He had studied Bengali for twelve long years in school, and still found reading Bengali to be a challenge.
The train had started moving again. He glanced at it, as it slowly moved out of the platform. The old woman was still huddled on the edge of the door, and was looking at him queerly. For some reason he kept staring at her, till his ringing phone made him break away his eye contact.
It was his mum.
Hullo? Yeah, I've reached, ... yeah, am okay. Bye!
He dropped his phone into his pocket, and turned around once again to catch that old woman. She had gone forward by quite a distance. However, he could still see her, and the hair at the back of his neck tingled when he realised that she was still staring at him. There was something she wanted to convey. He didn't know what.
In fact, he would never know what.
The next thing he knew a metal rod had sliced through his body. He fell down. His phone dropped upon the platform and split open. People around him gasped and rushed to lift him up.
It was too late.
Twenty odd kilometers away, Anindita stood outside her house, and locked the door. She looked at her husband.
Rajat's reached. Says he's ok.
Her husband nodded. You told him to collect the key from the darwan when he returns? As it is, we won't be done by then. We'll be late.
Oops. Hang on, will tell him, she called his number, and frowned. Says coverage kshetra se bahaar hai. (says that it's outside network coverage)
Network problems. Send him a message then.
Yeah Ok.
This story is a work of fiction. But it is based on a true story. Check this : http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/four-killed-in-freak-accident-at-aligarh-junction-113485
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Let us keep it at 50% and no more !
Nickspinkboots said…
This story has one of the most real morals I've come across. That you can die even while crossing the street in spite of being cautious in all walks of life.
So just fuck it and cross those railway tracks instead of taking the overbridge.
A tribute to JK Rowling, and Harry Potter
What exactly has Google+ stolen from Facebook?
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AT&T migrates massive mission-critical databases to Oracle Cloud in historic partnership.
By Mike Faden
AT&T, like other large companies, is moving to the cloud to ensure it can continue to innovate and stay ahead in a fast-moving industry. The world’s largest communications company by revenue has led the telecom and pay-TV industries in virtualizing and software-controlling its global wide area network, providing a foundation for introducing new services and responding to customer needs more quickly.
The company operates a private cloud based on proprietary virtualization to support its software-defined network services. And it has moved thousands of its smaller Oracle databases to another virtualized private cloud designed for more general-purpose use.
Until recently, AT&T has lacked a cloud-based solution to run its roughly 2,000 largest mission-critical Oracle databases—those greater than 8 TB in size. Though AT&T’s general-purpose private cloud provides an agile, automated IT environment, it cannot provide the required performance for these very large, transaction-intensive databases, many of which contain customer data and must remain on premises for regulatory, privacy, and security reasons.
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Oracle Cloud at Customer
AT&T selected Oracle Cloud at Customer—which provides the same hardware and software platform that Oracle uses in its own cloud data centers and puts them into a “cloud machine” that lives in the customer’s data center—to run its largest mission-critical Oracle databases. Under an agreement described as “historic” by Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, AT&T and Oracle announced a strategic five-year partnership in May that includes moving AT&T’s large, high-performance databases to Oracle Cloud using Oracle Cloud at Customer. The agreement also includes global access to Oracle’s cloud portfolio, including Oracle Field Service Cloud Service, which AT&T will use to further optimize scheduling and dispatching for its more than 70,000 field technicians.
Oracle Cloud at Customer will enable AT&T to run mission-critical databases up to 100 TB in size in an Oracle-managed cloud that’s as flexible and scalable as a public cloud—but is located in AT&T facilities. These databases will be run on Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer, which provides the most-scalable and most-reliable platform for running Oracle Database. “What is very intriguing about Oracle Cloud at Customer is that it offers all the benefits of a public cloud with the security and performance of a private cloud,” says Claude Garalde, AT&T lead principal technical architect. Application performance is also optimized because Oracle Cloud at Customer connects directly to AT&T’s data center network infrastructure, he adds. “For performance, you want the database to be really close to the application and middleware layers—you don’t necessarily want to be going out over a public internet link or even a VPN,” he says.
What is very intriguing about Oracle Cloud at Customer is that it offers all the benefits of a public cloud with the security and performance of a private cloud.” –Claude Garalde, Lead Principal Technical Architect, AT&T
Moving the databases to Oracle Cloud will significantly increase business agility and automation. AT&T expects to halve the time required to implement big, complex databases, and it will be able to quickly increase capacity to meet demand peaks and reduce usage when demand recedes. “We want the solution to give us an elastic environment where we can scale up as the need arises and similarly scale down,” says Venkat Tekkalur, director of technology development at AT&T.
Dialing Up Databases
AT&T has more than 17,000 Oracle databases overall, storing a massive 19 PB of data. The company has been progressively migrating them to the cloud as part of a broad initiative that began more than five years ago; to date, it has moved about 5,000 of them to its general-purpose cloud. That cloud can support databases that are up to around 8 TB in size, Tekkalur says.
But until now, larger and more performance- intensive databases have still required a bare metal configuration. Although that approach delivered the required performance, AT&T faced challenges that are typical of those experienced by many large enterprises, Tekkalur says.
Factors such as the additional time required to order, deliver, and install hardware and software meant that it took roughly twice as long to implement a big database in a bare metal on-premises configuration compared to implementing databases in the cloud, he explains. The process was also more difficult to automate. As a result, it presented an obstacle to AT&T’s efforts to increase agility. “The mean time to implement was not aligned with the Agile methodology or the DevOps model,” Tekkalur says.
The approach also limited the ability to quickly scale to meet changes in business demand. “We often have to support major launches, such as new phones, with very little time to prepare,” Tekkalur adds.
In addition, the large databases and their supporting hardware were often dedicated to specific applications. That meant it was difficult to achieve savings by sharing infrastructure. “Once we brought in that hardware, there was no way to use it for anything else,” he says.
Claude Garalde, AT&T lead principal technical architect, says that over the long term, AT&T is also looking to further increase agility by replacing big, monolithic applications with multiple microservices.
With Oracle Cloud at Customer, AT&T plans to solve those challenges, slashing implementation times for databases up to 100 TB while greatly increasing flexibility, with an elastic shared environment that facilitates scaling and allows resources to be easily reallocated based on demand. Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer will provide the performance required for the large transaction-intensive databases. And because those databases will run at AT&T facilities behind the company’s firewall, they will also meet regulatory, privacy, and security needs.
Furthermore, AT&T is integrating Oracle Cloud at Customer so that to users, it looks and behaves just like part of AT&T’s overall cloud environment; from a single AT&T portal, users will be able to provision databases in Oracle Cloud at Customer, in AT&T’s general-purpose private cloud, or in public clouds. To achieve that integration, an abstraction layer below the portal will orchestrate a highly automated provisioning process across AT&T’s clouds using Oracle’s open cloud APIs to interface with Oracle Cloud.
Accelerating Migration
To plan and implement the migration, AT&T is working closely with Oracle Consulting, which is providing a toolset to facilitate the migration process, including helping to size the required cloud database configuration and automate database provisioning. AT&T is also applying lessons gleaned from its private cloud experience to accelerate and automate the process, says Andy Ferretti, lead system engineer at AT&T. The net result is that AT&T expects to cut by 50 percent or even more the time it currently takes to complete the entire procurement and deployment process for big, complex databases. The time required to implement these large databases in Oracle Cloud at Customer will be similar to the time required to implement much smaller databases in AT&T’s private cloud today.
AT&T is also exploiting techniques learned in previous migrations to minimize downtime of these mission-critical databases as they move to Oracle Cloud at Customer, Ferretti says. After building a target database instance in Oracle Cloud, AT&T will take a snapshot of the source on-premises data and begin moving it to its new home in the cloud. During the time it takes to move the multiterabyte databases, AT&T will continue to capture the changes to the live on-premises database. Once the snapshot has been copied to the cloud, a synchronization method such as Oracle Active Data Guard or Oracle GoldenGate will be used to bring the target database up to date with the latest changes, so AT&T can quickly cut over to Oracle Cloud at Customer to support the live application. A reverse synchronization method will be put in place just in case there’s a need to revert to the original database.
After testing by early adopters in late 2017, the first Oracle Cloud at Customer databases are set to go live in early 2018, Ferretti says. Following that, the databases will progressively move to Oracle Cloud in phases. Ultimately, the plan is to implement Oracle Cloud at Customer at roughly 19 AT&T locations.
Low on Risk, High on ROI
Like AT&T, many other large enterprises are viewing Oracle Cloud at Customer as a way to solve data-protection as well as performance concerns as they migrate to the cloud, says Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president for database server technologies at Oracle. “For companies that have regulatory concerns or privacy concerns about customer data, this is a very low-risk way to go. Customers get all the agility and business model of the cloud, but they run in their own data center.”
We want the solution to give us an elastic environment where we can scale up as the need arises and similarly scale down.” –Venkat Tekkalur, Director of Technology Development, AT&T
The fact that the databases are in the customer’s data center and on the same network as the company’s business applications “eliminates the performance latency that you would have between an on-premises application and a database in the public cloud,” Mendelsohn adds. “And it is a stepping stone to a public cloud. If and when companies feel comfortable using the public cloud, it will be easy for them to move these databases.”
Garalde says that over the long term, AT&T is also looking to further increase agility by replacing big, monolithic applications with multiple microservices, each potentially with its own database, linked together via open APIs. This approach would allow AT&T to create and update new services more quickly by plugging together different combinations of microservices.
For AT&T, the cloud partnership with Oracle is a crucial step in its drive to deliver a seamless and intuitive experience for customers and to maintain industry leadership. “We believe that the future of the network is to be data-powered, to be software-centric, and to be fast and responsive,” says John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications. “This collaboration with Oracle accelerates our network transformation and migration to the cloud to expand efficiency, [increase] performance, and reduce cost while improving overall customer service.”
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Announcing New Subscription Options for Windows 10 and Surface for Businesses
By Yusuf Mehdi / Corporate Vice President, Modern Life, Search & Devices, Microsoft
Today, I will speak to thousands of our partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto. WPC is our largest partner conference of the year, bringing together over 15,000 attendees from around the globe to increase partner profitability and accelerate business growth. It’s exciting to see the energy and creativity from our partners and we have several new opportunities to share with them today, including new subscription service offerings for Windows 10 and Surface.
New solutions are required as it’s a unique time for all of us. We’re in the midst of a digital revolution – overwhelmed with data, with increasing risks to the security of our information, and confined inside a 2D world of monitors and pixels as technology takes over every aspect of our business and personal lives. The digital revolution creates the opportunity for a digital transformation, with all new ways to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations, and transform products.
We will help enable digital transformation by delivering more personal computing across Windows and our devices. With this next wave of computing, all new opportunities are available for our partners – across Windows, Surface, Surface Hub, and Microsoft HoloLens.
Introducing Windows 10 Enterprise E3 for CSP
More than 350 million active devices are running Windows 10 and our business customers are moving faster than ever before, with more than 96% of them in active pilots. And, Windows 10 customers are already experiencing improved productivity and cost savings with an average ROI of 188% with a 13-month payback.*
In most instances, organizations are moving quickly to Windows 10 due to the heightened security risks they face and the industry-leading security features in Windows 10 that can help protect them. Companies of all sizes face real security threats from sophisticated hackers and cyber-terrorists, costing an average of $12 million an incident. In the US alone there are more than 56 million small to mid-sized businesses, in critical sectors like healthcare, legal and financial services that need strong security similar to what our large enterprise customers get through volume licensing agreements.
Today, we are announcing Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP. Starting this fall, businesses can get enterprise-grade security and management capabilities at just $7 a seat per month for the first time through the Cloud Solution Provider channel.
CSP partners will be able to provide a subscription to Windows 10 Enterprise Edition as part of a managed service offering, which is ideal for businesses who do not have dedicated IT resources or limited IT staff, and want their licensing and IT needs managed by a trusted and experienced partner.
Partners can now offer their business customers the ‘full IT stack’ from Microsoft, including Windows 10, Office 365, Dynamics Azure and CRM as a per user, per month offering through a single channel, which businesses can scale up or down as their needs change. Key features include:
Increased Security: Offering the sophisticated security features of Windows 10 to help businesses secure sensitive data and identities, help ensure devices are protected from cybersecurity threats, give employees the freedom and flexibility to access sensitive data on a variety of devices, and help ensure controlled access to highly-sensitive data.
Simplified Licensing & Deployment: Helping businesses lower up-front costs, eliminating the need for time-consuming device counting and audits, and making it easier to stay compliant with a subscription-based, per-user licensing model. This new offering allows businesses to easily move from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise E3 without rebooting.
Partner-managed IT: Configuring and managing devices by a partner experienced in Windows 10 and cloud deployments. Partners can also help businesses develop a device security and management strategy with the unique features of Windows 10. Businesses can view subscriptions and usage for Windows 10 Enterprise, and any other Microsoft cloud services purchased, in their partner portal for easier management with one contract, one user account, one support contact, and one simplified bill.
Windows 10 Enterprise continues to be available through our regular licensing programs and is part of our newly-announced suites Secure Productive Enterprise E3 and E5 launching later this year.
Introducing the Surface as a Service Program and Additions to the Surface Enterprise Initiative
The digital revolution is changing the traditional workplace environment, making us more reliant on our peers to share knowledge and work together; while more people are working remotely and need to be productive from anywhere. And, the workforce demographic is shifting towards millennials who are more collaborative, multi-task more, and use multiple devices.
We continue to invest in our Surface family of products because we have seen how innovative devices shift people’s behavior, inspire ideas, catalyze collaboration, accelerate progress, and transform business. And in the past year, the Surface business has grown from generating $1B in revenue in a year to $1B in revenue per quarter. With our growing portfolio, we are creating not just great devices, but breakthrough categories that open up a world of new opportunities for partners to build capabilities in new areas, and to create solutions and services for customers. This year, we are investing in programs that increase partner revenue and profitability.
Today we are expanding the Surface Enterprise Initiative with a set of new partnerships and programs that will empower our customers of all sizes – from SMBs to multi-national enterprises – to transform the way their people and the organizations work.
Today, we announced the ability to sell Surface as a Service. Now our Cloud Solution Providers (who are also Surface Authorized Distributors) can offer Surface devices through a managed service offering to all of our resellers and customers, alongside managed cloud services, Office 365, Windows 10, and relevant ISV software. This new offering enables flexibility of solutions, faster device refresh and ensures customers can have the latest Surface devices that evolve with the best Windows and Office have to offer. We launched this program with ALSO, a leading CSP out of Europe, and look forward to working with other partners to expand this program globally
Today we also announced an expansion of our Surface Multi-National Purchasing Program with the addition of CDW, Insight, SHI and Zones. Now, each of these resellers can provide their enterprise customers Surface devices and accessories. As a result, enterprise customers can have added choice in how they purchase Surface devices, benefit from a streamlined path for getting Surface on company-wide standards lists, and see cross-country adoption for line of business scenarios.
Last year, we announced a partnership with Dell as part of our Surface Enterprise Initiative – and we’ve seen great results. Since then, our customer and partners have told us they need help creating tailored solutions that digitize workflow across core business processes. A transformation like that requires Surface devices that are not only highly portable, powerful and versatile, but also bring the industry leading security and productivity capabilities of Windows 10. Today we announced an expansion to the Surface Enterprise Initiative with two new partnerships with IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton to deliver industry specific solutions to our shared customers. IBM will draw on their data and analytics expertise to create new industry-specific solutions for the financial services and consumer packaged goods sectors that take advantage of the unique capabilities of Surface devices. Booz Allen Hamilton will develop scalable and more secure solutions for Governments, the Public Sector and Healthcare.
“We see an immense opportunity to help our customers meet their business goals with Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP and the Surface as a service program. Now, we’ll be able to offer a complete managed service workplace solution from device to operating system to productivity with a level of scale not previously possible.”
— Gustavo Möller-Hergt, CEO, Chairman, ALSO
These new programs and partnerships, combined with our network of more than 5000 business resellers provide great opportunities for our partners and for our customers to transform their businesses to a more modern way of working.
Opportunities for Microsoft HoloLens
More personal computing is enabled by the devices of today and by the potential of all new ways of interacting. Mixed reality will enable us to connect better with each other, where people – not devices – are the center of everything, and where technology no longer gets in our way and embraces who we are. By 2020, 80 million mixed reality, virtual reality and augmented reality devices will be shipping every year. And we recently opened Windows Holographic to make it easy for our partners to build an ecosystem with us. Microsoft HoloLens is already enabling mixed reality experiences – changing the way cars are designed at companies like Volvo, redefining how medical students learn at universities like Case Western Reserve, and helping scientists explore the surface of Mars.
Our agency partners around the world are building incredible mixed reality experiences using Microsoft HoloLens. You can see some of their incredible work in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37HcSPKJk6k
Today, PGA TOUR CIO Steve Evans and Vice President of Digital Operations, Scott Gutterman, joined me to show how the PGA Tour is embracing Windows 10 and Microsoft HoloLens. Assisted by Microsoft Partner CDW, the PGA TOUR is an early adopter of Windows 10, deployed to over 60% of their devices, with a goal of 100% by the end of this summer. They’ve built custom apps on the Universal Windows Platform to enable volunteers to track scoring and statistical information for every shot on every hole, and for fans to use the Windows 10 Tournament Companion app to track tournament data in real-time to get deeper insights. Working with Taqtile, the PGA TOUR built a solution on Microsoft HoloLens for golf pros, enthusiasts and fans.
“Microsoft HoloLens is an amazing tool for golf course design and for planning major events on each course. It is an incredible opportunity for players and caddies to plan their attack on a course, visually identifying the best tee-off locations and hazards and reviewing how they played each hole after the round is complete. Finally, a shared HoloLens experience provides valuable coaching for a class of golfers to learn how to approach different courses and scenarios,”
— PGA TOUR Senior Vice President and CIO Steve Evans
Windows 10 is off to a great start and we’re excited to see business customers embracing it faster than ever before. With all new ways of selling Windows 10 and Surface, and with incredible innovation on the horizon – we’re excited to create all new opportunities for our partners. We can’t wait to see what’s ahead.
* Forrester Consulting on the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Windows 10.
Tags Microsoft HoloLens Microsoft Surface Hub Office 365 Surface Windows 10 Windows Security WPC 2016
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Available August 2
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Interactive Constitution: Live!
Interactive Constitution: Live
Where Your Student Body Interacts with a Bi-Partisan Political Panel
Contact Constituting America at constitutingamerica@yahoo.com
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Dear Educator,
Kids are Bored with Speakers
I am pleased to announce the premiere of my foundation, Constituting America’s, special and one of a kind new lecture series, “The Interactive Constitution: Live.” This series will be a two-part session that will occur in the fall and the spring of your school year. It will involve your high school student body in an interactive way. Kids are bored with routine speakers speaking “at” them. Thus, we have created a speakers series that has the speakers speaking “with” them. Your students will be involved in an exciting and inspiring interactive discussion. This series will bring to life the U. S. Constitution in a Bi- PARTISAN way. It will include speakers from a specially hand picked list, (available upon confirmation), that represents the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches from BOTH parties. In order to explain the relevancy and importance of the U.S. Constitution we are providing speakers that encompass all aspects of the Constitution from the federal, state and local arenas – just as our founding fathers intended it. Many kids are familiar with the President only and are unaware of the necessities of the “people’s branch,’ – the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch – not to mention the crucial role States play and their own local communities.
Fall and Spring Sessions
To incorporate all levels of government, our exciting Interactive Constitution: Live series will represent the Federal Government in the fall session and the State and Local governments in the spring session. In the fall session we will have speakers from the United States Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches. In the spring we will have speakers from the States, Local and Community governments. The speakers will sit at a panel and be presented with Constitutionally relevant questions, (that are attached), regarding each branch. My 16 year-old daughter, Juliette Turner (author of the best selling book, Our Constitution Rocks), and I will moderate. A natural “debate” will occur between the “branches,” encouraging your student body to “interact” with questions per topic, or per inspiration!
We Value Bi-Partisan Politics
We VALUE bi-partisan politics as we BELIEVE that the U.S. Constitution is non-partisan. Both parties will be represented simultaneously, thus a natural exchange of views will occur which will inherently sharpen the reasoning skills of your student body. We encourage you to spend a class or two before our visit with the prepared questions to stimulate a lively interaction and debate between the panelists and your student body.
We are enthusiastic about out new speaker series, The Interactive Constitution: Live. Please book your school now. Demand is high. We want your school to be included!
Actress, Northern Exposure Founder & Co-Chair
————–Panel Questions————
Legislative Branch Questions
Do you believe it is the right of the branches of government to expand and alter the Constitution or the people’s rights through the Amendment Process?
Where do you believe the people’s representatives, in all branches, have crossed the line?
How important is the Senate approval of Supreme Court Justices?
Do Senators make impartial decisions or party decisions?
George Washington said in his Farewell Address that the party system would be the demise of the country because people would care more about their party than America and Americans. Do you believe this is happening today?
How are political parties beneficial?
How are political parties detrimental?
Chairman Michael McCaul’s Border Security Bill was only 23 pages, including amendments. Are you willing to try to curb the length of bills and make them more transparent for the people?
James Madison said that in Federalist 62 that it is of no avail to elect men of our own choice if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. Do you believe this is happening today?
How are the mammoth comprehensive bills beneficial?
How are the mammoth comprehensive bills detrimental?
Do you believe the Legislative Branch is legislating themselves right out of the people’s heart and understanding?
What can the Legislative Branch do to compete with the Executive Branch’s simplified messages?
Do you believe the Executive Branch has usurped the Legislative Branch?
Do you believe the Judicial Branch has usurped the Legislative and Executive branches?
What has been the best Judicial decision in curbing the Legislative Branch?
What has been the best Judicial decision in curbing the Executive Branch?
Executive Branch Questions
The military seems to be most in keeping with George Washington’s warning about the party system
– that it would be the ruin of America. The military is non-partisan. It answers to all presidents of all parties. Please explain the importance of both of these points in regard to defending the country.
How could this non-partisan way of working benefit America and Americans?
Discuss the history of the Defense Department and how it fits under the Executive Branch umbrella.
Discuss how the Founding Fathers wanted a check on the President in the Executive branch and how they separated the powers. One example is the House holding the purse strings.
Discuss how the President in the Executive Branch often circumvents this “check.”
Discuss the “War Powers Act” that the Legislative Branch passed, giving the President unilateral powers regarding war and declaring war for a limited time.
Do you think this Act is beneficial or detrimental?
Discuss the chain of command within the Defense Department.
How has war changed over the years?
What is America’s greatest threat?
Please discuss how all Armed Forces swear allegiance to protect the U.S. Constitution.
Judicial Branch Questions
What is the most important Supreme Court Decision in preventing tyranny in American history?
What is the most important Supreme Court Decision affecting the American people positively?
What is the most important Supreme Court Decision affecting the American people detrimentally?
What are your views regarding many judges “legislating from the bench?”
Do you believe the Supreme Court or Federal Courts usurp the people’s branch – the Legislative Branch?
Do you believe that the Supreme Court is as our Founding Fathers intended?
Do you believe the impact of Marbury vs. Madison was in keeping with the Founding Fathers’ vision?
What American President in American history did the most to alter the checks and balances of the U.S. Constitution?
State Legislature Questions
So many kids are focused soley on the Federal government, most especially the President. Explain why our Founding Fathers wanted a multi-tiered government.
Explain some of the responsibilities of the State Legislature
What are the responsibilities of the Governor?
Do you believe the Federal government is usurping States’ Rights?
Give some examples
In what way do the states need the Federal government?
Do any of these ways breach the Constitutional limitations
How can the States regain independence?
How do you explain to the voting populace why State elections matter?
How does one get involved in State politics?
How old do you have to be?
How do you feel the 17th Amendment has helped or hurt States’ rights?
How did the 17th Amendment help or hurt the people’s rights and/or liberties?
Local Government Questions
What are examples of local government?
Why does local government matter?
Why is it important that people vote in local elections?
How can one be informed about local candidates?
How is local government different now than what our Founding Father’s envisioned?
How do these differences affect liberty?
How do these difference protect liberty?
Explain how the local government best represents the community’s needs?
What is the hardest part about the job?
What is the most rewarding part about the job?
How does one run for office and how old do you need to be?
Community Civic Duty Questions
Explain why it is important to be an active citizen in the community even if you do not hold a political position.
Why do so many people not understand why being involved in liberty is so important?
How does a citizen not get discouraged in the political process?
What are some example of citizen duties, responsibilities and opportunities?
How old does one have to be, to be involved?
How do you feel that the Federal government helps or hurts the needs of the local community?
How do you feel the State government helps or hurts the needs of the local community?
Do you believe the Founding Fathers’ vision is being honored?
How has it changed?
What changes are better?
What changes are worse?
June 2, 2014 /2 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
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Mandy Bell says:
I am interested in this series for my class. I previously emailed about this but never received a reply. Thanks for your efforts.
Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:
Howdy Mandy! It’s Cathy Gillespie, Co-Chair of Constituting America. We would love to work with you to help you utilize this in your class. Could you email me at constitutingamerica@yahoo.com and I can send you my cell, and let’s discuss how we can help. Thank you so much! So sorry for the delay.
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Masons Gin
From their microdistillery in the market town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, Karl and Catherine Mason craft some of the most distinctive artisan gins around and have placed Yorkshire firmly on the craft gin map.
The story of Masons Gin begins with a Facebook page started by Karl called ‘Gin & Tonic Friday’. Karl and his wife Catherine were both keen gin enthusiasts and decided to write a blog about their favourite gin & tonics, showcasing new gins that they had tasted and gin related news and features. The page quickly gained in popularity and, before long, they had over 10,000 followers! With this public endorsement spurring them on and despite having demanding jobs in publishing and teaching, Karl and Catherine set about creating the first gin to be distilled in their home county of Yorkshire.
Their initial idea was to work with a local distillery to produce the gin but they discovered that there had been no operational distillery in Yorkshire for many years. The couple realised that this presented an exciting opportunity to bring craft distilling to Yorkshire. They began searching for suitable locations and found an ideal site in Bedale around 25 miles north of Harrogate.
While the distillery was being planned and constructed, they worked with a distiller in Cambridgeshire to perfect the recipe for their gin. Karl and Catherine had already decided they wanted to create a gin with a distinctive personality. After dozens of different trial runs and tasting sessions with friends, family and a steady stream of Yorkshire-men and women happy to sample experimental gin blends, they found exactly the right balance of flavours.
The final botanical line-up of juniper, coriander, almond, bay leaf, schezuan pepper, cardamom, fennel, lemon, lime and orange peel is an eclectic mixture of the classic and exotic, with an emphasis on herbs and spices. Since establishing the distillery, Karl and Catherine have begun to grow some of the botanicals in their own back garden, including a selection of Yorkshire juniper bushes which are proving to be exceedingly reluctant to produce any berries!
They ordered a custom made 300 litre alembic pot still from Portugal, which on arrival in Bedale was promptly christened Steve (and has since been joined by an identical brother, allowing them to double capacity) and production at their new micro-distillery started immediately. The distillation method is traditional and, to create a smoother spirit, the heads and tails of the distillation are discarded and not redistilled, with only the heart selected for the final gin which is then cut back to a bottling strength of 42% ABV. The bottles are distilled in small batches of around 275 and are then hand filled, labelled and numbered on site at the distillery.
Masons Gin has a huge aromatic nose of herbs, spices and orange zest. The palate is bold with juniper, orange and coriander spice followed by herbal notes of fennel, liquorice and citrus. Without doubt one of the most distinctive and individual gins around – we highly recommend a Masons gin and tonic, a brilliant mixture of sweetness, spice and herbs.
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Awesome Photos, Hilarious Jokes, Interesting History... all while walking to the top of the Hollywood Sign and back. We meet at the closest possible point for the shortest Hollywood Sign Tour where we'll take photos in front of the Sign (10 minutes). Then we'll walk 1.3 miles (2km) on a paved road, up a steep hill, to the very top of the Sign (45 minutes) and take your picture with the sign in the background and all of Los Angeles at your feet (10 minutes). Then it's a casual walk back down to where we started (25 minutes) and the tour is over. Throughout the entire tour we'll entertain you with a spoken performance covering the history of the Sign, celebrities, Los Angeles, the surrounding nature, and various other interesting tales you won't find anywhere else. Think of this as a walking "show" set on a spectacular stage. We show you how to take once in a lifetime photos in the absolute best locations throughout Griffith Park including a stunning panorama from above with the sign in the background and Los Angeles below. Remember to check us out on Instagram or Facebook @hollywoodsignwalk and @officialwalkingtours Have fun along the way while learning about the unique wildlife, sordid history, eccentric celebrities, and much more... better than a guide, let us be your new local friends in LA and help you discover the very best this city has to offer.
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After meeting at the closest possible viewing area for photos in FRONT of the Hollywood Sign we'll walk a paved road through Griffith Park up to the top of Mt. Lee where we'll stand above the Hollywood Sign and enjoy spectacular 360 degree views of LA. Literally the best views in LA, see the Griffith Observatory, Studio City, Historic Homes, Lake Hollywood, Wisdom Tree, Hollywood Bowl, Forrest Lawn, The Valley and so much more!
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Celestial Atlas
Galaxies Listed Only By J2000 Coordinates
(place holder)
Page last updated Oct 18, 2017
A magnitude 19(?) compact galaxy (type S0?) in Boötes (RA 14 30 37.5, Dec +11 52 35)
Physical Information: No distance estimate appears to be available for SDSS J143037.48+115234.8. Given its very small size (about 0.05 by 0.05 arcmin) it is probably very distant, but since its distance is unknown, its physical size is also unknown.
Above, a 1.4 arcmin wide SDSS image centered on J143037.48+115234.8
Also shown are PGC 51844 and 4126457 and NGC 5647
Below, a 0.6 arcmin wide SDSS image of the galaxy and part of PGC 51844 and NGC 5647
WORKING HERE: Clean up PanSTARRS image, edit Physical Information
Terzan 5 (= J174805-244648)
Discovered (1968) by Agop Terzan
A magnitude 12.8 globular cluster in Sagittarius (RA 17 48 05, Dec -24 46 48)
Physical Information: Physical diameter about 5 to 6 light years. Distance about 17 to 20 thousand light years; located near the central bulge of the Milky Way's nucleus. Its central half parsec (about 1.6 light years) contains about a million solar masses, which represents a stellar density about ten million times greater than in the region near our Sun. Like most globular clusters, Terzan 5's stars are mostly around 12 billion years old, but an unusual episode of intense star formation about 4.5 billion years ago produced a large number of relatively young (and therefore relatively massive and bright) stars with a much higher metallicity (the fraction of the stars' mass that is anything other than hydrogen and helium). For this reason it is sometimes thought to be a captured dwarf galaxy, rather than a globular cluster; but a recent study of the motions of 36 pulsars located within the cluster indicates that it does not contain a large central mass (characteristic of most galaxies), so it is probably just an ancient remnant of the formation of our galaxy which happens to have had an encounter with another object of large mass near the time of its more recent burst of star formation.
Above, a 12 arcmin wide DSS image centered on Terzan 5
Below, a 2.4 arcmin wide DSS image of the cluster
Below, a 1.2 by 1.8 arcmin wide PanSTARRS image of the cluster
Below, a 1.5 by 3.0 arcmin wide HST image of the cluster (Image Credit )
Below, the central 1.2 by 1.5 arcmin portion of the image above (Image Credit as above)
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Good Consumption
MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Installation. Photo: Arup
The Milan Triennale’s USA Pavilion, curated by two engineers, asks us to rethink our use of materials
By Russell Fortmeyer and Frances Yang
It turns out efficiency is not enough. If engineering has primarily concerned itself with optimizing the quantity of material, energy, or water used in our built environment – designing artificial systems to efficiently address natural phenomena – the current global situation of climate change, resource scarcity, and stressed nature demands that we change engineering. We have to ask ourselves: how can design transform the landscape of consumption?
For Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, the international design exhibition that kicked off the XXII Milan Triennale in March and runs through the summer, Arup curated an exhibition for the United States pavilion called RECKONstruct that argues for a radical overhaul of how architects, designers, engineers, and contractors create the built environment.
Bio-fabricated stool created using mycelium mushroom and agricultural waste. Photo: Arup
In the United States, construction and demolition waste from buildings accounts for over 20 percent of total solid waste generated in the country. In 2015, the last year the US Environmental Protection Agency publicly assessed the industry, that amounted to more than 160 million tons of debris. More generally, the country is on track to produce more than a billion tons of solid waste every year, with an average national rate of recycling of only 35 percent. At the other end of our industry, demand for new materials for construction exceeds 2.2 billion tons per year and growing, by far the largest consumer of raw materials in the country. We cannot recycle our way out of this – we have to find ways to use much less.
This massive materials economy exceeds our borders, exacting an enormous toll on environmental, economic, and social systems across the planet. Very little of it is quantified, tracked, or even generally understood in terms of how it fuels resource depletion, carbon emissions, or impacts to public health and ecosystem viability. Yet, we find that from academia to design, government to industry, the forces shaping the built environment in the United States increasingly acknowledge the expansive system boundaries governing the circulation of materials in the economy. Our industry must now consider boundaries beyond the project site, where the installation of materials as part of a project is viewed as merely one point along the systemic value chain of consumption, rather than the only point we value. Rapidly growing programs like the Carbon Leadership Forum, Cradle to Cradle, the American Institute of Architects’ Materials Matter initiative, mindful MATERIALS, International Living Future Institute’s Living Product Challenge, and Environmental and Health Product Declarations, are galvanizing our domestic industry toward integration of life-cycle considerations into design.
With our exhibition in Milan, we wanted to take stock of the opportunities these new developments present to engaged designers and engineers. Many manufacturers are developing new markets for materials to redirect waste toward new products. Our exhibition highlighted three stools designed and manufactured by the furniture company Humanscale that explored three different models of sustainable practice. The UBQ stool relies on post-consumer landfill waste (think diapers and potato chip bags) combined with recycled plastic to create a hard substrate for the stool, which is then topped with a felt pad made of recycled garment scraps. Another approach, which Humanscale called the Venus stool, used plastic to feed a three-dimensional print from a design based on mimicking nature’s minimalist constructs, in this case the Venus’s flower-basket sea sponge. In sustainable design, this tactic is called biomimicry, or using inspiration from nature. While this version of the stool focused on material efficiency, the designers envisioned the plastic could be replaced with recycled nylon from ocean-harvested fishing nets to further reduce impacts.
RECKONstruct US Pavilion Triennale XXII International Exhibition. Photo: Arup
The Venus Stool, inspired by the Venus Flower Basket sea sponge. Photo: Arup
But we can also scale up these approaches. Developing biological material loops creates new categories for design engagement. In 2014, Arup collaborated with the New York–based design studio the Living to use the firm’s mushroom bricks, made with Ecovative Design’s mycelium biofabrication platform, to create a durable, freestanding tower capable of occupancy. A similar approach was taken with Humanscale’s mycelium stool on exhibit in Milan. Both the tower and the stool can be disassembled and composted, returning nutrients to the earth when they are no longer needed. Today – by design, not necessity – very little of our existing built environment can be treated similarly.
How is it possible to know whether these radical design changes are making a difference? How do we take a quantifiable pulse of the planet? Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is the scientific means of tracing back the history of how our building products were made, how they were transported from one stop to the next, and what toll they took on our environment in getting to us. It accounts for the raw materials and their spoils that need to be extracted from the earth, or for the waste picked out of material graveyards and made good for a new life. It considers whether the energy used comes from dirty or clean sources, and whether the mode of travel emitted heavy pollutants over many miles or merely hitched a short zero-emissions ride across town. It also reflects if the material itself has helped to clean the air during its growth from a small seedling or if it displaces climate-warming emissions emanating daily from landfills and incinerators.
LCA is the big data problem of the century for the built environment, and we have a lot of work to do. And this type of life-cycle accounting is only as reliable as the data, and only as useful as it is accessible. Tools like openLCA give us the power and the knowledge to test if new design approaches lead to smaller environmental footprints. The data are on par with those of commercial LCA tools, while the open-source, free-access attributes break down normal barriers to entry. Using openLCA on the three Humanscale design concepts led to deeper understandings, as well as some surprising results.
Not surprising was that all three concept stools had lower environmental impacts than a generic metal stool with a composite agrifiber seat. The impact reductions varied from 20 to 90 percent, with the largest reductions in energy consumption, marine and freshwater toxicity, waste, fossil fuel use, and carbon emissions. Surprisingly, water consumption did not improve much for the mycelium and Venus designs because they relied on plant oils that still incurred high agricultural water demands. LCA on the Venus stool design showed that material efficiency isn’t necessarily good in and of itself – the material still needs the ability to serve a second life if it is to stay out of a landfill. If we substituted recycled nylon fishing nets for the virgin plastic, while also ensuring a means for recycling that plastic again after the use life of the stool, we could reduce impacts by a remarkable 90 percent when compared to the conventional 3-D printing materials.
It was also not surprising that developing a robust LCA for three simple stools took a lot of time. We interrogated data we didn’t trust, compared alternative data sets, and debated what the results meant to understand what we could have changed to effect greater reductions. With the current state of the LCA process, it’s unreasonable to think we could do this for everything we consume, hence we have to start with the materials, assemblies, and products that account for the biggest impacts.
A stilll from the RECKONstruct immersive film. Photo: Arup
The LCA process we undertook was developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SHINE program—Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise—which used what we call a regenerative LCA process to confirm and quantify the impacts. While a sustainable approach to materials LCA would result in a neutral outcome—doing less harm—the challenges we collectively face require a more progressive approach. Materials consumption could capture and store carbon in circulation already, creating a net positive impact.
In the logic of SHINE, if we can know our footprint in terms of the impact we leave, can we start to know our handprint—the intentional mark we make to positively affect the planet?
In a state of broken nature, transforming America’s entrenched market is not an easy task. It requires thinking beyond recycling or merely reducing consumption. We must usher in a new circular economy by constantly reimagining the nature of “raw” materials as the availability of whatever stock of ingredients is already in play. Simultaneously, we must account for the full impact of materials use, whether that is valuing the health of an ecosystem, registering the carbon emissions associated with the life of a product, or forcing the elimination of hazardous materials from supply chains. The material life cycle and material choice offer us massive hidden opportunities and a collective call to action to design for and with nature.
Russell Fortmeyer, chief curator of RECKONstruct, is an associate principal and sustainability consultant who leads the consulting practice in Arup’s Los Angeles office. Trained both as an engineer and architect, Russell addresses issues including climate change, resilience, resource scarcity, and social equity in the context of creating healthy and efficient buildings and cities.
Frances Yang leads the sustainable materials practice in the Americas region for Arup, a global design and engineering firm. Frances has more than 12 years of experience in green building design, engineering, and sustainable materials strategies across global projects. She is coauthor of Prescription for Healthier Building Materials: A Design and Implementation Protocol.
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RECKONstruct
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3D Reconstruction of Luxor Temple
There are plenty of ground plans of ancient Egyptian temples available and recreating the actual buildings is not so difficult if you’re familiar with 3D CAD or other such software.
The shapes of the buildings are quite simple – the pylons and columns are made from modified cubes and cylinders and elements such as cornices are easily shaped.
The real difficulty is reproducing the decorations. When exploring an Egyptian temple it’s common to find whole sections of wall worn away, broken or missing and the paintwork, in most temples, was long ago destroyed. But from time to time it is possible to finds places – usually beneath ledges or under eaves – where the colour still remains. So there is enough surviving information to be able to make an educated guess of the pigments and colours used.
Sometimes it is difficult to make out the carved details of time worn walls. On large buildings the details are high up and hard to see. However, I over come these problems with a combination of research, photos enhanced in Photoshop to bring out the details and a bit of artistic license.
photos stitched together
Luxor Temple complex Wire frame scene
Luxor Temple was surrounded by a mud-brick wall - only the pylon was visible from outside
The Temple precincts contained chapels, a scared lake and store houses
the structure of the temple before the image maps are applied
Close up of the gateway
detail of the wall decorations
Over the years I’ve got to know Luxor temple quite well and on my 2005 visit I’d already planed how to photograph it before traveling to Egypt. My wife and I took over 400 detail photos of the pylon. They were made by dividing the walls of the pylon into an imaginary grid then taking overlapping photos along the grid framework.
The photos were then stitched together to make one very large photograph. The actual size of the image above is nearly four meters (about 12 and half feet) wide.
After the stitching was complete many of the details of the relief carvings cannot be seen without some further processing in Photoshop.
I traced over the enhanced photo on a separate layer to make a new image which was mapped to the surface of my model pylon. You can see the city of Kadesh surrounded by defensive walls, regiments of chariots parade across the walls and the details of a battle scene with Rameses II driving his chariot over the defeated enemy.
The battle of Kadesh
The finished drawing of the battle of Kadesh is called an ‘image map’ and is applied to a 3D object just like wall paper – In this case to the walls of the model pylon.
The six statues of Rameses II were the most complicated part of the reconstruction. The Pylon itself is all straight edges and made up of simple cubes that are easy to form into the right shapes. But the form of Rameses II has many curved shapes made up of thousands of polygons. There are also two small figures of his wife Nefertari that form part of the throne for the two seated statues. The easiest method was to break the statues up into components then to fit them together to create the finished object. The movie above demonstrates this in a simplified way – many of the components in the movie were themselves made up of separate components and the whole statue took over a week to complete
From above photo I was able to make a detailed drawing.
The Obelisks are easy to make but the image maps are highly detailed and are exact copies of the carved hieroglyphs. To archive the level of accuracy I divided the obelisk into sections and made a photo of each section but leaving an overlap. Then when I returned to England I joined these photos together using the photo merge facility in Photoshop. This gave me a 300dpi photo which is 2832 X 13369 pixels (9.5” X 44.5” inches) – (23.98 X 113.19cm)
I now have a scene with multiple objects and all their image maps – a pylon, gateway and gate six statues of Rameses II, the ground and two obelisks.
Temples in 3D
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Electrochemical modulation of sickle cell haemoglobin polymerisation.
Iqbal, Z.; (2008) Electrochemical modulation of sickle cell haemoglobin polymerisation. Doctoral thesis , University of London.
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Sickle cell haemoglobin differs from normal haemoglobin by a single amino acid in its chain. This amino acid replacement, from glutamic acid to valine, causes polymerisation of proteins into defined long insoluble fibres with a typical diameter of 21.5 nm. The polymerisation is triggered by the formation of deox haemoglobin from oxyhaemoglobin in low oxygen partial pressures, which results in a conformational change in the secondary structure of the protein. Pathogenesis in sickle cell disease depends on the polymerisation and gelation of deoxygenated HbS molecules. In this work, an electrochemical method has been described to modulate the oxygen concentration in an optically transparent thin layer cell to produce deoxyhaemoglobin whilst monitoring the extent of polymerisation using turbidity measurements. The oxygen was depleted in the vicinity of the electrode and triggered the polymerisation. The dependence of protein concentration, temperature, pH and ionic strength on the nucleation and elongation of HbS polymerisation was characterised at the electrode surface and the kinetics of polymerisation was investigated using a model for fibrillogenesis describing a two-step process of nucleation followed by elongation. The rate constants, determined for a number of conditions, showed that nucleation is far slower than the growth whilst polymerisation at the surface was demonstrated to occur in three stages with an initial time delay when no structures were observed followed b growth of fibrous hair-like strands and finally gel-like aggregation. An understanding of the factors which affect polymerisation at a surface and an insight into the dynamics and mechanism of polymer aggregation and the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease has been provided. A screening method for substances that effect the fibre nucleation and/or growth that could be valuable to the pharmaceutical industry for treating sickle cell disease is also presented.
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Coffee and the art of being unique
The other day I described friends reunited as a way to show you were different to others, and facebook as a way to show you were the same. The tug-of-war between the normal and the abnormal is coming to a head - a networked singularity that spins off into a bi-polar condition struggling to fit in while standing out.
The struggle to defend Totnes from a Costa outlet raises some useful questions. What is it to be "unique" in a world in which we are used to an economic force towards normalisation? Where should markets step in over local politics? Why is the coffeehouse so important to us, socially?
I must admit that the argument to "let the market decide" has lost favour with me in recent years. Markets aren't equal. Markets don't think long term. Markets don't care about art or aesthetic. Should we let the markets decide what our buildings look like? Or to rephrase, we let the markets decide what our buildings look like, and then we knock them down for being ugly.
There is something about "place" as a concept rather than a medium for getting about. "Place", with a capital P, can inspire people as much as simply allow them to circulate. In often the same way that people spend money to decorate their homes, public and common space is subjected to a smattering of "street art" intended to put some vim in where consumerism took over. Google know the importance of environment to inspire, and Yahoo! seem to be agreeing.
Brand Unvalue
But why should we define "art" as inspiring, and not the inherent fabric of the brands - the context - within a Place? What separates the artistic object from the artistic background, and why is one OK to leave to "the market" but not the other? What is it that makes the "colourful mixture of small and diverse shops" in Brighton's North Laine not just a tourist attraction to drive spending, but also something that makes you feel empowered as you walk through it?
Totnes has always been independent, with the Totnes Pound (part of the Totnes Transition Town project) standing as a symbol for that. The "area of value" inhabited by the Totnes Pound and a culture for independent coffee takes in much more than economic output - it includes a thirst for a sustainable set of skills (e.g. how to run a successful coffee shop), a pride in personal preference, and a form of resilience that comes from being able to marry these two together. In sum, it is about defining the value as you - whoever "you" is - rather than outsourcing value to the lowest bidder.
If early trade forced open global networks, instant communication has made these networks amorphous, like slow-cooked soup. Under instant travel, everything is everywhere and everything is the same - a muddy purple as you wash up at the end of art class. Identity becomes Identical.
The power to be unique is a vital part of existing within that system. Without an identity - a self-brand, as it were (though "brand" is too much of a prescriptive term) - the self gives itself over to this "miscellaneousness" and becomes part of the background entropy. Universal hiss, with little to do except provide a benchmark against which other entities can stand out.
Caffeine Co-construction
Constructing that identity is not in itself an independent action, and this is where coffee interjects itself. Not just coffee - tea, beer, even cheese can stand in, given the right context. But the important thing is that a physical object is involved, which is subjected to the laws of time and, in the case of coffee, thermodynamics.
If we could drink coffee instantly, why would we meet people over it?
The natural nature of the physical object - its leisurely cooling process, the interval required to taste and digest it - makes it perfect for setting a duration on a meeting. The power of coffee is to last as long as the human brain can make social and semantic sense of a conversation. A pint of beer should equally not be measured in any volumetric unit, but in conversational units.
This conversation is key to identity. Identity itself is merely a social construct. The body doesn't care about identity, just about food in and poop out. Identity happens when we realise we are surrounded by other people.
Embracing Costa or Starbucks or Nero's does little to boost the inspiration behind an Identity. This has nothing to do with the extent to which the staff go to know your name, or engage with the community. This has everything to do with you, as a customer, knowing that the Place you are sitting in is unique - in terms of brand, in terms of ambience, in terms of price, in terms of product.
In other words, coffee has nothing to do with coffee.
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16.600 Yale Library Special Collections Fellowship
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Colleagues: The Yale Library is pleased to announce that the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation has provided funding for a series of library special
collections fellowships. We ask you to share this information with
colleagues, subject specialist lists, and other appropriate venues.
Thank you, Ann Okerson/Associate University Librarian, collections
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Special Collections Humanities Fellowship
The Yale University Library invites applications for its new post-doctoral
special collections humanities fellowship program. The two-year
fellowship offers recent Ph.D. recipients (within 5 years of earning their
degrees) an opportunity for in-depth research using the Library's special
and archival collections, as well as an opportunity for limited
undergraduate teaching responsibilities. Among the selection criteria is
a preference for applicants who demonstrate an interest in
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Materials should be sent directly to Alice Prochaska, Yale University
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Caliendo, A., et al. (2013). Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases. Clin Infect Dis 57(3), S139-170.
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Chicago: The Teachers’ Strike Brings a Sea-Change in Education Policy
Craig’s Chicago Business acknowledges that the children in Chicago public schools need what the Chicago Teachers Union won in their contract negotiations. But still, they wonder, are taxpayers willing to pay the price?
Now that financial details of the pact are starting to trickle out, it’s clear that the mayor was telling the truth—that is, for the teachers. And that truth raises a very significant question of whether the unprecedented, potentially $1.5 billion mayoral bet will be worth the cost to already struggling Chicago taxpayers.
That $1.5 billion figure comes from the Chicago Public Schools’ budget office. It’s at the high range of what officials say the new CTU deal will cost over the next five years cumulatively…
“The union won the strike. They absolutely won,” says Paul Vallas, a former CPS CEO who was one of Lightfoot’s rivals in the February mayoral election. “It’s going to be impossible for them to come up with that much dough without major tax increases if (Gov. J.B.) Pritzker does not fully fund the state’s new school-aid formula.”
Pritzker is working on that. But as Vallas noted, doing so likely depends on voters next year enacting the governor’s proposed graduated income tax amendment, and that’s no sure thing.
Overall, there is little dissent that putting increased staff resources into particularly needy schools—as the contract requires—is the right thing to do. Eventually, that should result in higher graduation rates and kids better prepared to enter the job market.
It is always good to get Vallas’ views, since he privatized schools in Philadelphia and New Orleans as his budget solution and ran unsuccessfully for mayor, governor, and lieutenant governor.
Are the voters in Illinois willing to pay higher taxes to improve conditions of learning, to assure smaller class sizes, and to get better prepared youth?
The Chicago teachers’ strike represents a change in Chicago, for sure. The harsh policies of Daley, Duncan, and Emanuel are over. A new day has dawned, with national implications.
“It’s a definitive shift in the entire landscape, not just in Chicago, but throughout the U.S., away from privatization, school closures, charter schools, and the kind of Koch Brother-funding of private schools instead of public schools, a threat we’ve been fending off for the last 30 years,” said Jackson Potter, a high school teacher and union bargaining member in Chicago.
Potter continued, “This contract really represents advances—and not just trying to preserve what we had or prevent the annihilation of the public system—but how to expand it, fortify it, and have a considerable [investment] in low income students of color and their communities that starts to look more [like] what we see in wealthy white suburbs.”
The contract dealt a blow to the charter industry, with “hard caps on charter school expansion and enrollment growth.” The rightwing Heartland Institute called the settlement “a death blow to charter schools in the Windy City.”
Alas, the sustained efforts of the Disrupters foiled by one powerful teachers’ strike, joined by Chicago’s progressive new mayor! Their policies of austerity and privatization undone. Calling the world’s smallest violin.
Thanks to the invaluable organization “In the Public Interest” for assembling these sources in one place.
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Chicago, Corporate Reformers, Democracy, Disruption, Duncan, Arne, Education Industry, Education Reform, Emanuel, Rahm, Funding
So…they won the fight, but they didn’t win the war.
from what we’ve learned about the school reformer war game, there will never be let up unless federal law changes dramatically and intentionally to keep ed. funding profiteering in check
Why is it that schools, social programs, etc. always require new taxes, but there’s always money already in the budget for pork and corporate giveaways? I mean, Chicago built a basketball stadium for a private university for pity’s sake. I think they can afford to fund schools.
bethree5 says:
Yup. That’s 33million right there that could have gone to schools. But that’s only 1/10 of one year’s allotment of this 5yr 1.5billion plan. Maybe there were 30 more such giveaways under Rahm, still would leave them 600million short. Googling around, IL is in the bottom third of states, economy-wise. Looks like they can afford neither the giveaways nor this plan.
“The contract dealt a blow to the charter industry, with “hard caps on charter school expansion and enrollment growth.””
That still means that charters can expand and grow, just somewhat more slowly.
I don’t think that enrollment in charters can grow under the new contract.
LeftCoastTeacher says:
Struggling taxpayers? Tax. The. Wealthy.
Outstanding work for Chicago and the country, CTU members. So proud!
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What is the importance of mixing caused by outgassing in the ocean?
I have been asked the following question for which I have no clear answer: What is the relative importance on mixing of the vertical flow of gases (e.g., Oxygen produced by photosynthesis, CO2 produced in respiration, methane produce from hydrates) in the ocean water column? How does the mixing compare with physical mixing (e.g., wind, internal wave breaking) and molecular diffusion?
My first thought is that the ocean tends to not be saturated in oxygen and CO2, but is there some outgassing as a result of those processes? The question of methane hydrates is probably more complex and likely has links to climate change.
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$\begingroup$ I am curious, but I am having a hard time understanding the question - there seem to be a few questions embedded in here. Is it possible to construct a single, more concise question? $\endgroup$ – Isopycnal Oscillation Nov 2 '14 at 7:11
$\begingroup$ @IsopycnalOscillation: I think it's pretty clear: The ocean is mixed by a number of processes (meridional overturning, thermohaline overturning, diffusion, eddies, giant squid...). One of those sources of mixing is up-welling gasses released by the ocean floor. How important is that source relative to all of the others combined (once you take absorption into account)? $\endgroup$ – naught101 Feb 9 '16 at 1:42
$\begingroup$ @naught101 Totally agree. Not sure what I was thinking. Great question. $\endgroup$ – Isopycnal Oscillation Feb 9 '16 at 23:45
Outgassing is a process by which $O_{2}$, $CO_{2}$ and other chemicals are released as a result of heat or increase in temperature. It is different from advection and diffusion which are mixing processes as a result of temperature and concentration gradient. Outgassing is an abrupt release of gases from where they are stored trapped dissolved, in this case $O_{2}$ and $CO_{2}$ in the ocean. Like the ocean some materials are prone to outgassing when heated. For example chemicals released from plastics (e.g. the odor of a new car).
What is the relative importance on mixing of the vertical flow of gases in the ocean water column? How does the mixing compare with physical mixing (e.g., wind, internal wave breaking) and molecular diffusion?
The rate of outgassing in ocean is comparable to molecular diffusion of the gases. However, the mechanisms of outgassing and diffusion are different,i.e, outgassing occurs due to some sort of pumping mechanism but diffusion occurs due concentration gradient. Both mechanisms are important to stratify saturation,i.e. homogeneous distribution of chemicals. Having said this, comparison of diffusion and outgassing needs further investigation. However, I don't think outgassing like diffusion can be triggered by saturation. Some kind of pumping mechanism attributed to difference in surface layers (e.g. the creation of temporary vacuum layer) may trigger outgassing. In connection with climate change, ocean oxygen and carbon dioxide outgassing into the atmosphere are decreasing ocean oxygen and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxde. Both events have negative consequences. Decrease in ocean oxygen has impacted ocean plants and animals. So, outgassing if occurs within the ocean can be taken as a mixing process but if it throws out the molecules out of the ocean has negative consequences both for the ocean and atmosphere.
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$\begingroup$ Would you be able to address the question itself? As it stands it merely defines outgassing. See @naught101's comment underneath the question. $\endgroup$ – Isopycnal Oscillation Feb 18 '16 at 6:33
$\begingroup$ It is a good question! But difficult to compare outgassing with diffusion and advection without data on those processes. It is a research question by itself, I think. $\endgroup$ – Gemechu Fanta Garuma Feb 19 '16 at 0:31
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by mamirian | Nov 20, 2019 | Christmas, Holiday, Winter
Looking for something FUN to do with the family this holiday season? We made it easy to find the best shows being offered at popular theatres in the city and the ‘burbs. Plus, tickets to shows make unique gifts that create lasting memories.
Suburban Theaters:
Little Red Robin Hood: A Musical Panto, People’s Light Theatre, Malvern This brand new holiday panto brings together two classic fairy tales! Robin Hood is dead, his merry men are in hiding and Nottinghamshire is taken over by a greedy villainess. Can a new hero or heroine emerge from Sherwood Forest and save the day? Set in the 1940’s with a dash of medieval, this is a hilarious and inventive musical mashup. November 13th, 2019 – January 5th, 2020, Tickets: $53 – $93
A Year with Frog and Toad, Wolf Performing Arts Center, Bryn Mawr Come along with two best friends through a year filled with adventure! From season to season, Frog and Toad explore gardening, swimming, sledding, baking and learning life lessons together. Based on the well-loved books of the same name, A Year with Frog and Toad KIDS features animals large and small as they embark on a year with their dear friends, Frog and Toad. December 4th – 8th, 2019, Tickets: $10
Philadelphia Dance Theatre Presents Holiday Traditions, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell Philadelphia Dance Theatre presents the holiday favorite “The Nutcracker” performance highlights, including the magical Kingdom of the Sweets scene, set to the nostalgic score by PytorIllyich Tchaikovsky. This is a special performance specifically designed for a sensory friendly audience. Start a new holiday tradition with Lively Arts Series. December 7th 2019, Tickets: $10 – $20
The Nutcracker, Upper Darby Performing Arts Center, Drexel Hill For over 25 years, The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet has been bringing the holiday classic ballet “The Nutcracker” to our stage. A fun way for families to kick off the holiday season, the annual tradition features professional soloists and many of the region’s best dancers. The enchanting music by Tchaikovsky is one of his best-known works and the ballet has become an American holiday tradition. November 22nd – 24th, 2019, Tickets: $10 – $23
Jack Frost Saves Christmas, The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts, Media The popular one-hour musical for children is now in its fifth year on stage at the Media Theatre. This show, that is quickly becoming a tradition, highlights the special gifts we all have. And, its lesson of acceptance is perfect for the holidays. November 24th-December 29th, 2019, Tickets: $14 – $17
Elf The Musical, The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts, Media A must see holiday musical based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, ELF. This modern day classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner elf. After all, the best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear! November 13th, 2019 – January 12th, 2020, Tickets: $34 – $59
Mikey the Elf and the Case of the Missing Mistletoe, Act 2 Playhouse (Ambler Playhouse), Ambler Toyland’s magical mistletoe has been stolen, and a new detective elf is on the case! A crazy robot, zany new inventions and a daffy penguin are just some of what Mikey will face when Mrs. Claus calls him to the North Pole. But Mikey will need your help to find the mistletoe and save Christmas! December 17th – 31st, 2019, Tickets: $10 – $18
A Christmas Story, Steel River Playhouse, Pottstown Beware of frozen flagpoles and other rogue pitfalls of childhood as you take a stroll down memory lane with Ralphie Parker. This Christmas Classic will come to life this holiday season. Make sure you’re not on the “naughty list” so you can join in on all the fun! December 6th – 22nd, 2019, Tickets $17 – $29
Nutcracker, performed by Rock School West, The Rock School West, West Chester The whole family will enjoy this twist on the beloved holiday classic performed at the The Haverford School’s Centennial Hall. This ballet tells the tale of two children entrusted with an enchanted key and Nutcracker that lead them far from their home in colonial Philadelphia. The young hero and heroine embark on the adventure of a lifetime, meeting Benjamin Franklin and George Washington along the way. December 14th and 15th 2019, Tickets $15 – $25
Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG Playhouse Christmas Show, Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope It’s hard to believe only five quick-changing actors play dozens of roles in this fast, funny and highly theatrical reimagining of one of the most beloved holiday stories ever told. Terrorizing the good citizens of Bucks County, Ebenezer Scrooge’s rediscovery of the Spirit of Christmas comes in this Dickens mashup set in New Hope. December 6th – 29th, 2019, Tickets: $55 – $60
Matilda The Musical, SALT Performing Arts, Chester Springs Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, Matilda the Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life. November 29th – December 15th, 2019, Tickets: $17 – $25
Miracle on 34th Street, Acting Naturally Theater, Langhorne A holiday classic takes the stage, with the story of Kris Kringle, an old man in a retirement home who gets a job working as Santa for Macy’s. Kris unleashes waves of good will with Macy’s customers and the commercial world of NYC by referring parents to other stores to find exactly the toy their child has asked for. December 12th – December 20th, TIckets: $14 – $18
Disney’s FrozenJr., Delaware Children’s Theater, Wilmington Just released by Disney, Frozen Jr. takes your family into a spellbinding winter wonderland with Elsa and Anna. This captivating show also features an audience participation Princess Parade. November 16th – December 14th, 2019, Tickets: $15 – $16
Philadelphia Theaters:
Shrek The Musical, Walnut Street Theatre, PhiladelphiaThe greatest fairytale never told comes to life as never before in Shrek The Musical, the award winning Broadway musical based on the Oscar winning movie. Featuring all new songs and outrageous humor, Shrek The Musical is ogre-sized holiday fun for the whole family! November 5th, 2019 – January 5th, 2020, Tickets: $27 – $107
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia A holiday classic not to be missed at the historic Walnut Street Theatre is the heartwarming tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. We all know this grumpy old miser’s response to holiday cheer is “Bah, Humbug.” Scrooge is a bitter old man who can no longer feel joy or affection, even for his family. But on one remarkable Christmas Eve, he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. November 30th – December 22nd, 2019, Tickets: $17 – $25
The Snow Queen, The Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Based on Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale, The Snow Queen celebrates the adventure of growing up and the magical power of friendship. When Gerda’s best friend is captured by the Snow Queen, it is up to her to rescue him from the icy palace. Be prepared to be transported on a journey through the four seasons in this magical production! November 27th, 2019 – January 26th, 2020, Tickets: $25 – $40
George Balanchine’s Nutcracker, Academy of Music, Philadelphia It simply isn’t the holidays without a trip to the Academy of Music for a performance of The Nutcracker! For decades, this amazing production has been Philadelphia’s most beloved holiday tradition. Set to Tchaikovsky’s famous score, the incredible dancing and lavish sets and costumes bring to life a story of young girl’s magical dream—a dream that never loses its appeal. December 6th – December 31st, 2019, Tickets: $45 – $174
The Spongebob Musical, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Merriam Theater, Philadelphia Broadway’s best creative minds reimagine and bring to life the beloved Nickelodeon series with humor, heart and pure theatricality. The New York Times declares, “BRILLIANT!” Explore the depths of theatrical innovation in THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL where the power of optimism really can save the world. December 3rd – December 15th, 2019, Tickets: $62 – $197
A Charlie Brown Christmas – Live on Stage, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Merriam Theater, Philadelphia Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the whole Peanuts gang as they produce their own Christmas play and ultimately learn the true meaning of the season. A Charlie Brown Christmas Live on Stage is a present that the whole family will enjoy! December 20th – December 21st, 2019, Tickets: $33 – $103
Cirque Dreams- Holidaze, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Merriam Theater, Philadelphia Marvel at soaring acrobatics, gravity defying feats and extravagant theatrical production for audiences of all ages. Cirque Dreams Holidaze lights up the 2019 holiday season with its popular and electrifying stage spectacular. Over 300 imaginative costumes, 20 world-class astonishing acts, the finest singers, original music and seasonal favorites. December 26th – 29th, 2019, Tickets: $40 – $99
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Increased inflammatory markers in the exhaled breath condensate of cigarette smokers
G.E. Carpagnano, S.A. Kharitonov, M.P. Foschino-Barbaro, O. Resta, E. Gramiccioni, P.J. Barnes
European Respiratory Journal 2003 21: 589-593; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00022203
G.E. Carpagnano
S.A. Kharitonov
M.P. Foschino-Barbaro
O. Resta
E. Gramiccioni
P.J. Barnes
Cigarette smoking induces an inflammatory response in the airways that may play a key role in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Noninvasive markers of inflammation may, therefore, be useful in monitoring the airways of smokers as well as in the screening of subjects at high risk of developing airway obstruction.
The aim of the present study was to determine whether the concentrations of the pro-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin (IL)-6, is increased in the exhaled breath condensate of smokers and whether the number of cigarettes smoked has any influence on the exhaled concentrations. The possibility that exhaled IL-6 levels are related to exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and lung function has also been explored. Another inflammatory marker, leukotriene (LT), was also measured.
Twenty-one smokers (39±7 yrs, 13 male) and 14 nonsmokers (45±6 yrs, eight male) were recruited. IL-6 and LTB4 levels in the breath condensate were measured with an immunoassay kit and exhaled CO examined by means of a modified electrochemical sensor. Higher IL-6 and exhaled CO concentrations were found in current smokers (5.6±1.4 pg·mL−1 and 16.7±5.5 parts per million (ppm)) than in nonsmokers (2.6±0.2 pg·mL−1 and 2.1±0.6 ppm). Elevated concentrations of LTB4 were also observed in smokers compared to nonsmokers (9.4±0.4 pg·mL−1 versus 6.1±0.3 pg·mL−1). In addition, there was a correlation between IL-6 concentrations, the number of cigarettes smoked per day, exhaled CO, LTB4 and lung function.
Exhaled interleukin-6 and leukotriene B4 levels may be useful noninvasive markers of airway inflammation in cigarette smokers.
airway inflammation
leukotriene B4
Cigarette smoking is associated with neutrophilic inflammation of the airways which, in 15–20% of cases, is followed by the obstruction of the small airways 1. Several studies have demonstrated that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with an inflammatory process that takes place in the peripheral airways 2. However, the mechanism by which the inflammation causes airway obstruction remains unknown 3.
An increased number of neutrophils in the airways has been found in cigarette smokers and this is related to the number of cigarettes smoked 4. The profile of pro-inflammatory cytokines measured in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is also related to the number of cigarettes smoked 5.
Interleukin (IL)-6 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine produced by epithelial cells and macrophages in the airways 5. Increased concentrations of IL-6 have been found in the BAL 5 and the induced sputum of smokers 7. These invasive methods do not allow frequent monitoring of the inflammatory response 8.
The aim of present study was to measure IL-6 levels in smokers using a completely noninvasive method, the exhaled breath condensate. To exclude a possible salivary contamination of the breath condensate, measurements of this cytokine in saliva were also taken. Leukotriene (LT)B4 was also measured in the exhaled breath condensate in some of the subjects, as this is another marker of inflammation and has previously been shown to be elevated in induced sputum of smokers 9. Any correlation between IL-6 in the exhaled breath condensate, number of cigarettes smoked, lung function, LTB4 and exhaled carbon monoxide (CO), was also evaluated. Exploring the mechanisms underlying the inflammatory process and cigarette smoking may be useful in understanding the pathogenesis of inflammation in COPD and may uncover the predisposition to develop airway obstruction in smokers.
The study population consisted of 21 smokers (13 male, 39±7 yrs, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) 104±4% predicted, forced vital capacity (FVC) 107±6% pred, carbon monoxide diffusing capacity of the lung (DL,CO) 100±2% pred and DL,CO corrected for alveolar volume (carbon monoxide transfer coefficient (KCO)) 101±3% pred) with normal lung function (defined as a FEV 1>80% pred) and 14 age-matched healthy nonsmokers (8 male, 45±6 yrs, FEV1 101±18% pred, FVC 119±9% pred, DL,CO 102±3% pred and KCO 105±4% pred). All of the subjects were recruited by the Respiratory Disease Institute of the University of Bari (Italy) and written informed consent was obtained from them all. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee.
Smokers (all of them for ≥10 yrs), were divided into three subgroups: subjects who smoked <1 pack·day−1 (n=7), subjects who smoked 1 pack·day−1 (n=7) and subjects who smoked >1 pack·day−1 (n=7).
All subjects were also characterised with methacholine challenge and measurement of DL,CO, taken to exclude those with asthma or emphysema. None of the subjects showed any bronchoconstriction in response to the methacholine challenge (the provocative concentration of methacholine giving a 20% fall in FEV1 (PC20) >16 mg·mL−1) or any impairment in diffusing capacity.
None of the subjects presented any symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection (dyspnoea, cough and/or purulent sputum) for ≥3 months prior to enrolment. The exclusion criteria for the study were as follows: 1) antimicrobial treatment during the previous 4 weeks; 2) treatment with oral corticosteroids in the previous 3 months; 3) hospital admission during the previous 3 months; and 4) the presence of any severe comorbidities (e.g. severe immunosuppression, malignancies and coagulopathies).
This study was designed to assess whether the concentrations of IL-6 and LTB4 were increased in the exhaled breath condensate of smokers and whether the number of cigarettes smoked had any influence on the exhaled concentrations.
Pulmonary function tests were performed ≤1 day of the measurement of the breath condensate. FEV1, FVC and the FEV1/FVC ratio were measured using a spirometer (PK Morgan Ltd, Gillingham, UK).
Measures of diffusing capacity (DL,CO, KCO) were performed by a single-breath technique (Transfer Factor; Erich Jaeger, Wurtzburg, Germany). The best value of three procedures was expressed as a percentage of the predicted normal value.
Methacholine challenge
A series of methacholine chloride solutions were prepared, ranging from 0.05–25 mg·mL−1. These solutions were prepared in doubling concentration intervals, with 2 mL of each dilution being administrated by a nebuliser. After inhalation of the aerosol, FEV1 was measured at 1, 3, 5 and 10 min, and the concentration was increased by one step until a 20% drop in FEV1. PC20 was then determined by interpolation.
Exhaled breath condensate
The exhaled breath condensate was collected by using a condenser, which permitted noninvasive collection of the nongaseous components of the expiratory air (EcoScreen; Jaeger, Wurzburg, Germany). The subjects breathed through a mouthpiece and a two-way nonrebreathing valve, which also served as a saliva trap. They were asked to breathe at a normal frequency and tidal volume, wearing a noseclip, for 10 min. If the subjects salivated they were instructed to swallow. The condensate, ≥1 mL, was collected as ice at −20°C, transferred to Eppendorf tubes and immediately stored at −70°C.
Measurement of interleukin-6
A specific enzyme immunoassay kit (Cayman Chemical, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) was used to measure IL-6 concentrations in the breath condensate. The assay was validated directly by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The intra-assay and inter-assay variability were ≤10%. The detection limit of the assay was 1.5 pg·mL−1.
Measurement of leukotriene B4
A specific enzyme immunoassay kit (Cayman Chemical) was used to measure LTB4 concentrations in breath condensate of 10 smokers and 10 healthy controls. The intra-assay and inter-assay variability were <10%. The specificity was 100% and the detection limit of the assay was 3 pg·mL−1.
Measurement of exhaled carbon monoxide
Exhaled CO was measured using a modified electrochemical sensor with sensitivity from 1 part per million (ppm) to 500 ppm of CO. Measurement of CO was carried out by a LR2000 chemiluminescence analyser (Logan Research Ltd, Rochester, UK) using an external resistance of 0.40±0.05 kPa (3±0.4 mmHg) and an exhalation flow of 5–6 L·min−1. The subjects exhaled slowly from total lung capacity (TLC) over 10–15 s, maintaining a constant flow. The mean of two reproducible measurements with <5% variation was recorded. Ambient CO was recorded before each measurement and subtracted from the mean value obtained during the procedures.
Data is expressed as means±sem. A Mann-Whitney U-test was used to compare the groups and the correlations between variables were calculated by means of the Spearman's rank correlation test. A p<0.05 was considered significant.
Exhaled IL-6 levels were significantly higher in smokers (5.6±1.4 pg·mL−1) than in control subjects (2.6±0.2 pg·mL−1; p<0.01) (fig. 1a⇓). Differences were found between subjects who smoked <1 pack·day−1 (4.4±0.1 pg·mL−1), subjects who smoked 1 pack·day−1 (5.0±0.4 pg·mL−1), and subjects who smoked >1 pack·day−1 (7.4±0.9 pg·mL−1) (fig. 1b⇓).
Interleukin (IL)-6 concentrations in a) the exhaled breath condensate of cigarette smokers and control subjects and b) the relationship with the amount currently smoked. **: p<0.01.
IL-6 levels were correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked (r=0.9, p<0.0001) (fig. 2a⇓), exhaled CO (r=0.6, p<0.005) (fig. 2b⇓), FEV1 (r=−0.5, p<0.05) (fig. 2c⇓) and FVC (r=−0.5, p<0.05).
Correlation between exhaled interleukin (IL)-6 concentration and a) exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) (r=0.6, p<0.005) and b) per cent predicted forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) (r=0.5, p<0.05).
IL-6 was undetectable in the saliva of all subjects studied.
Exhaled LTB4 levels were significantly higher in smokers (9.4±0.4 pg·mL−1) than in control subjects (6.1±0.3 pg·mL−1; p<0.001) (fig. 3⇓). LTB4 levels were significantly correlated with exhaled IL-6 (r=0.5, p<0.005).
Exhaled leukotriene (LT)B4 concentration from cigarette smokers and control subjects. ***: p<0.001.
Exhaled carbon monoxide
Exhaled CO was higher in smokers (16.7±5.5 ppm) than in control subjects (2.1±0.6 ppm; p<0.0001 (fig. 4⇓)).
Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) concentration from cigarette smokers and control subjects. #: p<0.0001.
This study demonstrated that IL-6 concentrations were increased in the exhaled breath condensate of cigarette smokers and correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked, lung function, and exhaled LTB4 and CO.
Monitoring airway inflammation in smokers may be important as inflammation may play a key role in the pathogenesis of COPD 1. Noninvasive markers of inflammation may, therefore, be useful in monitoring airway inflammation in smokers and may identify subjects at increased risk of developing airway obstruction 2. Increased numbers of neutrophils are found in the BAL of smokers and are related to the number of cigarettes smoked and the degree of airflow limitation 4. The inflammation of the airways in smokers may also be reflected by increased levels of exhaled CO, which has been extensively used as a noninvasive inflammatory marker. However, this is not a useful marker, due to the high CO content of cigarette smoke and therefore is likely merely to indicate cigarette smoke 11.
Other inflammatory markers, such as levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, for example IL-6 3, IL-8 3, IL-1β 3 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α 3, may therefore, be better markers of inflammation.
The authors also investigated LTB4 in the breath condensate of smokers, as a marker of neutrophilic inflammation. It was demonstrated that smokers had significantly higher values than normal subjects and this is consistent with the increase in neutrophil numbers in BAL and induced sputum observed by Keatings et al. 16. In agreement with results from the current study, this leukotriene has been found previously to be elevated in sputum 17 and in the BAL of smokers 18.
IL-6 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in the resolution of acute and chronic inflammation, via the induction of glucocorticoid release, as well as via the induction of antagonists of IL-1β and TNF-α 19. Elevated levels of IL-6 have been reported in the BAL 5, in induced sputum 7, in the blood 7, and in the cervical mucus of smokers 22.
The authors chose to measure IL-6 levels in exhaled breath condensate of these subjects as they have found that this is the most reliable and reproducible of the pro-inflammatory cytokines. This method allows for the collection of samples that may reflect the composition of the epithelial lining fluid and provides a noninvasive way of monitoring the presence of inflammation and of oxidative stress in the lung 23. Higher levels of IL-6 in smokers than in control subjects were observed. However, this cytokine was absent in saliva, indicating minimal salivary contamination and that the increase in IL-6 is not a general phenomenon, but confined to the respiratory tract.
The second aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the intensity of smoking (quantified as a number of cigarettes smoked daily) and exhaled IL-6 concentrations. An increase in the amount of cigarettes smoked was found to be associated with a higher concentration of exhaled IL-6, with a significant correlation between these two variables. Kuschener et al. 24 studied several cytokines in the blood in relation to pack-yrs of cigarettes, but found a dose/response only for IL-1 and IL-8. Data from the current study suggests that the intensity of exposure to cigarette smoke is a determinant of exhaled IL-6 concentration and, therefore, the intensity of airway inflammation.
Increased inflammation of the peripheral airways has been implicated as a cause of airflow limitation in smokers. However, the relationship between subclinical decrements of pulmonary function and inflammation in smokers is still uncertain 25. It could be possible that the elevated concentrations of IL-6 reflect the loss of laminar flow in smaller airways, favouring aerosolisation of the airway lining fluid.
A negative correlation between exhaled IL-6 concentrations, FEV1 and FVC was observed, thus suggesting that measurement of inflammation may be useful in predicting the early onset of lung function impairment. A positive correlation between this exhaled cytokine, CO and LTB4 that was expected considering that both these exhaled markers reflect airway inflammation and that might support the authors suggestions, was also found.
In conclusion, results from this study show an increase in exhaled interleukin-6 that is related to current cigarette-smoke exposure. The measurement of interleukin-6 and leukotriene B4 in the breath condensate may serve as a noninvasive marker, useful in monitoring inflammation of the airways, and the correlation with forced expiratory volume in one second may suggest that it might be an early marker for the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Received March 19, 2002.
Accepted December 20, 2002.
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Newcastle Disease Virus Virulence: Mechanism of the Interferon Antagonistic Activity of the V Protein and Characterization of a Putative Virulence-Specific Antibody to the Attachment Protein: a dissertation
Judith G. Alamares, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Microbiology and Physiological Systems
First Thesis Advisor
Ronald Iorio, Ph.D.
Newcastle disease virus, Virulence, Viral Fusion Protein, Viral Proteins, HN Protein, Interferons
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a member of the genus Avulavirus of the Paramyxoviridaefamily of enveloped negative-stranded RNA viruses. The virus causes respiratory, neurological, or enteric disease in many species of birds, resulting in significant losses to the poultry industry worldwide. Strains of the virus are classified into three pathotypes based on the severity of disease in chickens. Avirulent strains that produce mild or asymptomatic infections are termed lentogenic, whereas virulent strains are termed velogenic. Strains of intermediate virulence are termed mesogenic.
The envelope of NDV virions contains two types of glycoproteins, the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) proteins. HN mediates three functions: 1) virus attachment to sialic acid-containing receptors; 2) neuraminidase activity that cleaves sialic acid from progeny virions to prevent self-aggregation; and, 3) complementation of the F protein in the promotion of fusion.
Though it is widely accepted that cleavage of a fusion protein precursor is the primary determinant of NDV virulence, it is not the sole determinant. At least two other proteins, HN and the V protein, contribute to virulence. The V protein possesses interferon (IFN) antagonistic activity. The long-range goal of these studies is to understand the roles of HN and V in the differential virulence patterns exhibited by members of the NDV serotype.
The first aim is to compare the IFN antagonistic activity of the V protein from a lentogenic and a mesogenic strain of the virus. The results of this study demonstrate that the V protein of the mesogenic strain Beaudette C (BC) exhibits greater IFN antagonistic activity than that of the lentogenic strain La Sota. Hence, the IFN antagonistic activities of the two V proteins correlate with their known virulence properties.
Comparison of the C-terminal regions of La Sota and BC V proteins revealed four amino acid differences. The results demonstrate that the IFN antagonistic activity of La Sota V increases when any one of these residues is mutated to the corresponding residue in BC V. Conversely, the IFN antagonistic activity of BC V decreases when any one of these four residues is mutated to the corresponding residue in La Sota V. However, no single residue accounts for the difference in IFN antagonistic activity between the two V proteins. Also, analysis of La Sota V and BC V proteins with multiple mutations in these positions revealed that the four residues are collectively responsible for the difference in the IFN antagonistic activity of the two V proteins. Finally, characterization of chimeric La Sota/BC V proteins showed that the N-terminal region also contributes to the IFN antagonistic activity of V.
Contrary to an earlier report, results described here demonstrate that the NDV V protein does not target STAT1 for degradation. However, both La Sota and BC V proteins target interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-7 for degradation and promote the conversion of full-length IRF-7 to a lower molecular weight form (IRF-7*). This is the first demonstration that IRF-7 is targeted by a paramyxovirus V protein. The amount of IRF-7* decreases in a dose-dependent manner in the presence of a proteasome inhibitor, suggesting that IRF-7* is a degradation product of IRF-7. Furthermore, the BC V protein promotes complete conversion of IRF-7 to IRF7*, whereas the La Sota V protein does so less efficiently. Again, this is consistent with the difference in IFN antagonistic activity of the two V proteins, and in turn, with their virulence.
The second aim is to characterize an HN-specific monoclonal antibody called AVS-I. A previous study suggested that AVS-I recognizes an epitope that is conserved in lentogenic strains and raises the possibility that this epitope may colocalize with a determinant of virulence in HN. To further characterize antibody AVS-I and the epitope it recognizes, we (i) determined its specificity for several additional strains of the virus, (ii) mapped its binding to HN in competition with our own antibodies, (iii) determined its functional inhibition profile, and (iv) isolated and sequenced an AVS-I escape mutant. The results demonstrate that AVS-I binds to a conformational epitope at the carboxy terminus of HN. This suggests that this region of HN may define a determinant of virulence. However, it was also shown that AVS-I, which was previously thought to be specific for avirulent strains of NDV, actually recognizes individual mesogenic and velogenic strains.
In conclusion, the data presented in this dissertation contributes to a greater understanding of the molecular basis for NDV virulence and may aid in development of antiviral strategies and generation of recombinant NDVs suitable for use in cancer and gene therapy.
Alamares JG. (2008). Newcastle Disease Virus Virulence: Mechanism of the Interferon Antagonistic Activity of the V Protein and Characterization of a Putative Virulence-Specific Antibody to the Attachment Protein: a dissertation. GSBS Dissertations and Theses. https://doi.org/10.13028/jpm2-pn40. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/372
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Mise à jour accomplie: Première révision de la formation en renseignement criminel
Du 13 au 17 janvier 2020, des formateurs nigériens en renseignement criminel se sont réunis pour la première fois afin de retravailler leur mallette pédagogique – soutenus par EUCAP Sahel Niger. Abdoul Karim Ousmane est formateur depuis 2015. Le lieutenant, après avoir lui-même reçu plusieurs
Author: EUCAP Sahel Niger - Press and information team - Publication date: 20/01/2020
Modern Equipment for Effective Water Use in Uzbekistan
On January 17, 2020 at the Ministry of Water resources of Uzbekistan in the framework of the “Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Rural Areas in Uzbekistan” project financed by EU and implemented by UNDP, 28 sets of Level- Leica Sprinter-250 M were officially handed over. This equipment
The 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
The 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is just around the corner!
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to CAMBODIA - Publication date: 20/01/2020
Author: Delegation to TIMOR-LESTE - Publication date: 20/01/2020
Ceremonia de premiación del concurso de vídeos 'Jóvenes inspirando acción climática en México'
Acompañados de sus familiares, los jóvenes ganadores recibieron sus premios y diplomas de participación.
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to MEXICO - Publication date: 17/01/2020
St Thomas Creative wins first staging of European Union Short Film Competition in Jamaica
St Thomas creative, Deron Douglas, is the winner of the 2019 environment-themed European Union Short Film Competition, Jamaica, with the film The Tree Speaks. It's the first time the EU is staging the competition in Jamaica. Deron was announced the winner during a ceremony on January 15, 2019,
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to JAMAICA - Publication date: 17/01/2020
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Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle
Stephen L. Rogers, Gregory C. Rogers, David J. Sharp, Ronald D. Vale
Physiology & Biophysics
EB1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein that localizes to the plus ends of growing microtubules. In yeast, the EB1 homologue (BIMI) has been shown to modulate microtubule dynamics and link microtubules to the cortex, but the functions of metazoan EB1 proteins remain unknown. Using a novel preparation of the Drosophila S2 cell line that promotes cell attachment and spreading, we visualized dynamics of single microtubules in real time and found that depletion of EB1 by RNA-mediated inhibition (RNAi) in interphase cells causes a dramatic increase in nondynamic microtubules (neither growing nor shrinking), but does not alter overall microtubule organization. In contrast, several defects in microtubule organization are observed in RNAi-treated mitotic cells, including a drastic reduction in astral microtubules, malformed mitotic spindles, defocused spindle poles, and mispositioning of spindles away from the cell center. Similar phenotypes were observed in mitotic spindles of Drosophila embryos that were microinjected with anti-EB1 antibodies. In addition, live cell imaging of mitosis in Drosophila embryos reveals defective spindle elongation and chromosomal segregation during anaphase after antibody injection. Our results reveal crucial roles for EB1 in mitosis, which we postulate involves its ability to promote the growth and interactions of microtubules within the central spindle and at the cell cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200202032
Spindle Apparatus
Embryonic Structures
Spindle Poles
Interphase
Anti-Idiotypic Antibodies
Rogers, S. L., Rogers, G. C., Sharp, D. J., & Vale, R. D. (2002). Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle. Journal of Cell Biology, 158(5), 873-884. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200202032
Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle. / Rogers, Stephen L.; Rogers, Gregory C.; Sharp, David J.; Vale, Ronald D.
In: Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 158, No. 5, 02.09.2002, p. 873-884.
Rogers, SL, Rogers, GC, Sharp, DJ & Vale, RD 2002, 'Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle', Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 158, no. 5, pp. 873-884. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200202032
Rogers SL, Rogers GC, Sharp DJ, Vale RD. Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle. Journal of Cell Biology. 2002 Sep 2;158(5):873-884. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200202032
Rogers, Stephen L. ; Rogers, Gregory C. ; Sharp, David J. ; Vale, Ronald D. / Drosophila EB1 is important for proper assembly, dynamics, and positioning of the mitotic spindle. In: Journal of Cell Biology. 2002 ; Vol. 158, No. 5. pp. 873-884.
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AU - Vale, Ronald D.
N2 - EB1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein that localizes to the plus ends of growing microtubules. In yeast, the EB1 homologue (BIMI) has been shown to modulate microtubule dynamics and link microtubules to the cortex, but the functions of metazoan EB1 proteins remain unknown. Using a novel preparation of the Drosophila S2 cell line that promotes cell attachment and spreading, we visualized dynamics of single microtubules in real time and found that depletion of EB1 by RNA-mediated inhibition (RNAi) in interphase cells causes a dramatic increase in nondynamic microtubules (neither growing nor shrinking), but does not alter overall microtubule organization. In contrast, several defects in microtubule organization are observed in RNAi-treated mitotic cells, including a drastic reduction in astral microtubules, malformed mitotic spindles, defocused spindle poles, and mispositioning of spindles away from the cell center. Similar phenotypes were observed in mitotic spindles of Drosophila embryos that were microinjected with anti-EB1 antibodies. In addition, live cell imaging of mitosis in Drosophila embryos reveals defective spindle elongation and chromosomal segregation during anaphase after antibody injection. Our results reveal crucial roles for EB1 in mitosis, which we postulate involves its ability to promote the growth and interactions of microtubules within the central spindle and at the cell cortex.
AB - EB1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein that localizes to the plus ends of growing microtubules. In yeast, the EB1 homologue (BIMI) has been shown to modulate microtubule dynamics and link microtubules to the cortex, but the functions of metazoan EB1 proteins remain unknown. Using a novel preparation of the Drosophila S2 cell line that promotes cell attachment and spreading, we visualized dynamics of single microtubules in real time and found that depletion of EB1 by RNA-mediated inhibition (RNAi) in interphase cells causes a dramatic increase in nondynamic microtubules (neither growing nor shrinking), but does not alter overall microtubule organization. In contrast, several defects in microtubule organization are observed in RNAi-treated mitotic cells, including a drastic reduction in astral microtubules, malformed mitotic spindles, defocused spindle poles, and mispositioning of spindles away from the cell center. Similar phenotypes were observed in mitotic spindles of Drosophila embryos that were microinjected with anti-EB1 antibodies. In addition, live cell imaging of mitosis in Drosophila embryos reveals defective spindle elongation and chromosomal segregation during anaphase after antibody injection. Our results reveal crucial roles for EB1 in mitosis, which we postulate involves its ability to promote the growth and interactions of microtubules within the central spindle and at the cell cortex.
KW - Dynamics
KW - EB1
KW - Microtubule
KW - Mitosis
KW - Spindle
U2 - 10.1083/jcb.200202032
DO - 10.1083/jcb.200202032
JO - Journal of Cell Biology
JF - Journal of Cell Biology
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superdreadnought
Trope-a-Day: Mile-Long Starship
Mile-Long Starship: Some bigger classes easily fall into this category or above: dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts, grapeship megafreighters, the top end of highliners, colony seedships, mobile factories, that sort of thing, and – of course – city-ships.
Special note here to most lighthuggers, which have to accommodate vast quantities of deuterium and antideuterium and whose antimatter-pion-torch engines are so ridiculously lethal to be near that you want them on the end of a very long spine indeed.
Tagged city-ship, dreadnought, highliner, lighthuggers, megafreighter, mile-long starship, seedship, starships, superdreadnought, trope-a-day
Ships of the Fleet
So, in today’s piece of worldbuilding, have an analysis and explication of the different classes – or the different types, rather – of military starships operated by the Imperial Navy. (The basis for the ternary plot I’m using is, of course, Winchell Chung’s analysis here, so you might want to go read that first if you’re not familiar with the concept, then come back here.)
The chart on the right illustrates the differences between the various types and classes of warship in common use by the Imperial Navy by their P/D/W ratio – i.e., the relative trade-off between propulsion, defenses, and weapons (i.e. offensive armament):
“in common use” should be read as “not counting all the weird-ass specialist ships we build for special cases”; also, it doesn’t include auxiliary vessels (oilers, hospital ships, etc.) since they’re not operated by the IN, but by the Stratarchy of Military Support and Logistics.
Battleships, Dreadnoughts and Superdreadnoughts
“I am an Imperial Mandate-class dreadnought, and you are within a million miles of me. Ergo, you continue to exist solely on my sufferance.”
– an early experiment in AI captaincy
Battleships, dreadnoughts, and superdreadnoughts (B, D, S on the chart) are capital or supercapital ships mounting heavy long-range firepower as their primary function.
These types, the ships of the wall, are the kings of the outer engagement envelope, engaging each other with powerful weaponry at ranges of up to two light-minutes, and rarely closing beyond one to two light-seconds range (a zero/zero intercept at this residual range is considered a “set-piece” battle). They are the purest of all naval vessels in function, existing simply to counteract each other in the battlespace of major fleet actions, or to own the volume of space they can dominate if not opposed; the ultimate argument of star navies.
The principal difference between two of the three types is simply mass and volume; doctrinally, the majority of the ships of the wall of any given time should be of battleship classes, with their larger cousins the dreadnoughts providing heavier stiffening formations to the wall and occasional nasty surprises.
Because while it sure would be nice to build nothing except dreadnoughts, even nearly-post-scarcity economics doesn’t stretch to overbuilding everything just in case.
Superdreadnoughts, while sometimes referring to particularly large dreadnought classes, more typically refer to ships falling in the dreadnought type by mass, while using much of their internal volume for specialized systems: typical examples would include the command superdreadnought, the information-warfare superdreadnought, the anti-RKV superdreadnought, and so forth.
Mauler Superdreadnoughts
One example of this listed separately (L on the chart) since its P/D/W ratio moves it well outside the standard range is the mauler superdreadnought. In this case, the specialized systems in question are a very, very large mass driver or laser, with propulsion and defensive systems stripped back to accommodate it.
Mauler superdreadnoughts are not considered ships of the wall, but rather are specialized vessels used to attack specific hardened targets. Since their low speed and weak defenses render them vulnerable “glass cannons”, they are typically operated as part of a task force including close-in point-defense cruisers, and only brought up once opposing fleets and mobile defenses have been cleared away; however, in their specialty role of cracking hardened fixed bases, they’re unequalled.
Hyperdreadnoughts
The “hyperdreadnought” is a peculiarly unique version of the superdreadnought type, of which the Empire fields three, each unique within its class; Invictus, Imperiatrix, and God of War. In order, they are the home of Admiralty Grand Fleet Operations, the Imperial Couple’s personal flagship, and the literal embodiment of the archai/eikone of war. Any one of them turning up in the battlespace would have implications that, by and large, no-one wants to think about thinking about.
Battlecruisers and Cruisers
The backbone of the fleet, battlecruisers and cruisers (C on the chart) are middle-weight combatants, more heavily armed than destroyers and frigates, and yet more maneuverable than battleships and larger ships of the wall. Most cruisers also maintain limited AKV facilities. They are perhaps the best balanced (between operational aspects) of any of the Imperial Navy’s standard types. The distinction between cruisers and battlecruisers is simply one of mass and volume, with battlecruisers identifying the significantly larger and heavier classes of the type.
In fleet operations, battlecruisers and cruisers serve as screening elements and operate on the fringes of the close-in battlespace, maneuvering aggressively for advantage. For the most part, however, these middle-weight combatant types are intended for patrol operations and long-endurance “space control” missions, sometimes alone and sometimes in flotillas, as well as serving as the IN’s go-to types for independent missions of almost any type. In areas of heavy patrol activity, cruisers may lead destroyer or frigate flotillas into action.
Cruisers are also the type within which most variation exists, and cruiser classes may wander quite far from the indicated P/D/W ratio. Of particular note here is the point-defense cruiser (“pd” on the chart), the one type which you might see as a ship-of-the-formation, stripped of most of its offensive armament in exchange for point-defense enhanced to the point of augmenting that of other ships, but many other specialized varieties exist: the assault cruiser (optimized for planetary assaults, i.e., heavy on the ship’s troops and capable of launching drop shuttles and drop pods into atmosphere; some of these are aerospace cruisers, which atmospheric interceptors can sortie from before there’s an orbithead established); the diplomatic cruiser (a big stick to transport the softly-speaking); and the interdictor cruiser (specializing in the volume-security mission, which is to say, to chase down, capture and board other starships). The primary battlecruiser variants are the command battlecruiser (optimized to carry the admiral commanding a CC/BC task force) and the carrier-battlecruiser (which carries AKVs – see below – as well as its internal armament; this is the type of battlecruiser usually found operating alone, due to its significantly enhanced operational envelope and capabilities).
Due to their versatility, the IN maintains a greater tonnage of battlecruisers and cruisers in commission than starships of any other types.
Destroyers and frigates (D, F on the chart) are small, fast, maneuverable ships used for screening larger vessels, as escorts, and for patrol work. On their own, their capacity is severely limited, for which reason they typically operate in flotillas assigned together.
As with the above two types, the most obvious difference between destroyers and frigates is their mass and volume. That said, the strict difference between these two types is that while a destroyer may possess very limited broadside armament, due to its limited volume, it does possess it. A frigate, however, possesses no broadside armament; its spaceframe is essentially constructed around its primary gun.
Like cruisers, destroyers and frigates are designed for the “close-in” battlespace – with the understanding that close-in, in space terms, means anything under one light-second of separation. Indeed, these types arguably dominate this battlespace, since they form the majority of the IN’s screening forces, whereas cruisers are largely incidental to “set-piece” naval engagements. In this area, they use their superior maneuverability to both engage each other with wolf-pack tactics and to swarm larger ships at close-in range. Their lesser defensive capabilities than their larger cousins reflects the intention that they should substitute speed and maneuverability, avoiding being hit, for the ability to withstand taking one.
Destroyers and frigates are also intended to serve in escort and patrol roles in relatively safe space, where antipiracy patrol is the main concern (a flotilla of destroyers or frigates is considered an effective counter to a single cruiser-class vessel, which would be a rare high-end encounter under such circumstances); and in small numbers and specialist classes as scouts, avoiding engagement entirely.
Some frigate classes, uniquely among naval vessels, are capable of atmospheric entry and landing. Such frigates occasionally serve an additional role with Imperial Naval Intelligence.
Autonomous Kill Vehicles (AKVs)
AKVs (A on the chart) – autonomous kill vehicles – are extremely smart multi-bus, multi-munition, multi-mission missiles. An AKV is, in effect, a small, stripped-down, AI-piloted starship – capable of much higher acceleration and greater maneuverability than a standard design, albeit with much less endurance – designed to act in multiple roles: as a mobile reconnaissance platform; as a “fighter craft” used to swarm and destroy larger starships from inside their own point-defense zones; or, when it loses all other fighting ability, as a kinetic energy weapon in its own right.
As indicated on the chart, AKVs have essentially no defensive weapons of their own; the intent is that they should substitute their vast advantage in speed and maneuverability for armor and point-defense.
A monitor (M on the chart), in essence, is a fixed base – an orbiting station or asteroid base – used for local defense. Their W/D ratio is skewed more towards defense than the ship-of-the-wall types, since unlike those, they lack even minimal maneuverability to avoid incoming fire or to retreat from the battlespace; on the other hand, their lack of concern for acceleration or other propulsive matters means that there is effectively no upper limit on the mass of the weapons or defenses that a monitor can mount, and asteroid-based monitors may make extensive use of the asteroid’s mass as armor and heatsink both.
Carriers (V on the chart) are battleship or dreadnought-sized vessels which eschew armament of their own in exchange for carrying a large number of AKVs, along with AKV replenishment supplies, strap-on AKV thruster packs, observation platforms, etc. Since they are not generally maneuverable enough or well enough protected (the massive flight deck of a carrier is essentially a corridor through the armor into the heart of the vessel) to survive heavy attack, they are usually held back from engagements, and as such their designs heavily emphasize point- and local-space defense over additional propulsion.
Assault carriers
Assault carriers – i.e., those carrying dropships rather than AKVs – also fall into this category. The same general operational rules apply; they are held well back from any engagements, and do not move in to the target area until the high orbitals have already been cleared of the enemy.
Starfighters / Scouts
Starfighters (“sf” on the chart) are not manned fighter-class vessels. (The intersecting rules of physics, economics, and tactical effectiveness do not, in the general case, support a fighter-class of spacecraft in direct analogy to fighter aircraft. Rather, such craft can be replaced trivially by an equivalent vessel removing the biosapient pilot, their life support, and the ensuing limitations on maneuverability, acceleration, and computational performance, and replacing them with a computronium block; in effect, converting the spacecraft into an unmanned AKV.)
Rather, starfighters and scouts are essentially mini-carriers, suitable for operation by a very small crew, or even on occasion a single sophont, dedicated to the special operations and reconnaissance roles. They are small, no-frills starships designed to carry a limited, but still useful, number of AKVs or observation probes in exterior clamps. On arrival at their target, the AKVs or probes are then released to carry out the mission, while the starfighter itself serves as a command post, repair and replenishment depot, and coordination node in the tactical ‘mesh.
Couriers (“o” on the chart) are simply militarized (in construction standard) versions of the equivalent civilian type. While remaining, for the most part, “all engine”, military couriers add limited defensive and extremely limited offensive capability to give them at least minimal survivability in the event that they must pass through an engagement envelope; doctrine, on the other hand, demands that couriers should avoid engagement at all costs utilizing their superior acceleration and maneuverability to any other warship type.
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Tagged AKV, assault carrier, autonomous kill vehicle, battlecruiser, battleship, carrier, carrier-battlecruiser, courier, cruiser, destroyer, dreadnought, frigate, God of War, hyperdreadnought, Imperial Navy, Imperiatrix, Invictus, mauler superdreadnought, military, monitor, scout, starfighter, starships, superdreadnought, worldbuilding
Trope-a-Day: Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
Standard Sci-Fi Fleet: Well, most of these classes exist – although it is particularly important to realize that the Empire alone fields literally thousands of specialized class vessels that don’t fit neatly into any of these categories, and that to a certain extent, trying to shove everyone’s ship designs into the approximate same paradigm is an exercise in futility…
Ignoring the permanent city-ships, and starting with the military classes, we have, first, the regular fighting-ship classes. These begin with the frigate and destroyer (including the latter’s stealthy recon variant), small and fast ships used in “wolf-packs” for scouting, escorts, and screening elements, but which don’t themselves have the resilience or firepower to stand up in the wall of battle.
The middleweight combatants, and the most maneuverable/versatile, are the cruisers and battlecruisers, which also serve as screening elements for heavier ships, but are more often seen as the standard patrol and task-force element, often operating in flotillas (a cruiser wing with a battlecruiser or two thrown in for stiffening) or even independently (especially the battlecruisers). And since this type of operation (power projection, anti-piracy patrol, general keeping the peace of the spacelanes) is the bread-and-butter of the Powers and their naval forces, most navies, the IN included, field more cruisers and battlecruisers than just about any other type of starship.
These are also classes that come with a large number of variants. Most recognized among the cruiser classes are the assault cruiser (optimized for planetary assaults, i.e., heavy on the ship’s troops and capable of launching drop shuttles and drop pods into atmosphere; some of these are aerospace cruisers, which air fighters can sortie from before there’s an orbithead established); the diplomatic cruiser (a big stick to transport the softly-speaking); the point-defense cruiser (the one type of cruiser you might see in the wall, designed specifically to augment the point-defense of other ships); and the interdictor cruiser (specializing in the volume-security mission, which is to say, to chase down, capture and board other starships). The primary battlecruiser variants are the command battlecruiser (optimized to carry the admiral commanding a CC/BC task force) and the carrier-battlecruiser (which carries AKVs – see below – as well as its internal armament; this is the type of BC usually found operating alone, due to its significantly enhanced operational envelope and capabilities).
Then we come to the actual ships of the wall, battleships, carriers, and dreadnoughts. The battleships are the mainstays of the wall, large and slow vessels mounting heavy, long-range firepower for fleet engagements; and the carriers, even larger vessels, carrying an extensive complement of AKVs (autonomous kill vehicles, the missile/attack-drone fighter-interceptor hybrids described under Space Fighter, to swarm and destroy enemy starships at sub-“knife fight” range – i.e., hopefully inside the minimum effective range of their point defenses). The dreadnoughts are effectively “super-battleships” built on carrier hulls, used in relatively small numbers to stiffen the wall.
Superdreadnoughts are either dreadnought-class vessels built on even larger hull frames, or regular dreadnoughts with only battleship armament, using the extra internal volume to hold specialized systems; common examples are the command superdreadnought which houses the admiral in charge of a large task force or fleet; the information-warfare superdreadnought; the loadout-heavy mauler superdreadnought, the anti-RKV superdreadnought, etc., etc.
At the top end of the regular classes, we have the hyperdreadnought – taking the design principles of the superdreadnought classes even further – of which the Empire fields three, each unique within its class; Invictus, Imperiatrix, and God of War. In order, they are the home of Admiralty Grand Fleet Operations, the Imperial Couple’s personal flagship, and the literal embodiment of the archai/eikone of war. Any one of them turning up on the battlefield would have implications that, by and large, no-one wants to think about thinking about.
Less regular military classes include the starfighter, a frigate-sized mini-carrier with four to eight AKVs clamped to its outer hull, used primarily for covert operations and commerce raiding; the fleet carrier, a giant (and not itself offensively armed) lighthugger starship on the lugger model (see below) whose purpose is to ferry naval task forces to systems not connected to the stargate plexus; the fluffships – whose design is implicit in their name – that police systems for debris, ricochets, and misses after battles; and the relativistic kill vehicles for practicing MAD on an interstellar scale with giant lighthugger missiles capable of shattering planets, given a good run-up.
Among civilian ships, there are also various recognizable classes of starship for different purposes:
For freight transport, for example, one can recognize both the immense grapeships (from the appearance of the external cargo pods) or megahaulers, which transport vast amounts of containerized cargo along the largest and most dependable trade routes, and their smaller cousins the haulers, smaller freighters which handle more volatile but still regular traffic everywhere, and are willing to handle breakbulk as well as containerized cargo, and of course the volatiles-hauling tankers; and finally, picking up irregular and speculative trade and filling in the gaps, the thousand different classes of free traders (and their somewhat more combative overlapping variants beloved of smugglers and irregular commerce-raiding privateers, the blockade runner and corsair.) For routine transportation of volatiles, ore, and other such bulk and fungible cargo, fully automated slowhaulers often take up the task.
For passenger transport, likewise, we begin with the luxurious highliners and liners – analogous to the megahaulers and haulers in size and usage upon routes, and their express cousins the fastliners. And then, for those travelling off the regular routes or seeking a more unique experience, a great many free traders are just as happy to carry passengers as they are to carry anything else. Of course, the relatively wealthy and privacy-desiring have the option to travel in their private yachts, as ever, and at the other end of the scale, steerage-class transport is available to the relatively indigent on any number of iceliners, ships – often used as colonization transports – designed for the specialized task of transporting bodies in cryostasis or nanostasis, and minds recorded on data substrate.
In more specialized uses, dedicated classes abound: when messengers, mail, and packets need to get there really fast, within the stargate plexus at least, engine-heavy couriers are on the job; wrecks, debris, and flotsam are salvaged by debris recovery vehicles; hospital ships provide medical services (and reinstantiation services) to military fleets and disaster or epidemic-struck regions; logistics ships provide repair and construction services wherever they’re needed; oilers and tenders provide fuel, supplies, and other necessities to other starships; science, research, and exploration are done in the ubiquitous, customizable service/operations vehicles; smelterships render down asteroids into usable metal and other elements; and tugs and their larger cousins, the antimatter-torch equipped superlifters, move ships, modules, materiel – and in the case of the latter, entire habitats, asteroids, and even small moons – to where they’re needed to be…
…and if we’re willing to classify flying cities that are as much drift-habitats as starships, then we must include the civilization-backup ships, preserving archives, museums, and mind-states in the far reaches, ready to flee news of existential disasters; All Good Things, ICC, spreading the good word of commerce to underdeveloped regions with its skymalls; the empire ships, massive floating conferences/exhibitions/showpieces/parties flying endless loops around the Imperial Core and its many distant exclaves keeping population, culture, and knowledge well-distributed; and the embassy ships, similar exhibitions paying diplomatic calls on foreign polities and recently contacted worlds, bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies and suchlike.
For local transport, small craft abound. For freight, lighters scurry about transporting cargo ship-to-ship, ship-to-station, and ship-to-ground; for passengers, pinnaces provide the same service, and in moving about between local stations or habitats in a cluster, the automated commutersphere provides rapid transport. Skydivers skim gas giants for fuel; maintenance and construction are carried out by the ubiquitous workpod; and other myriad local functions are served by the flexible, customizable cutter.
All of these, of course, exist within the framework of the stargate plexus. Outside that, a different type of ship entirely is required – lighthuggers need much more powerful engines (antimatter torch drives, for the most part) to reach the high fractions of c that make interstellar travel practical, sophisticated particle shielding to survive it, etc., etc. Let us leave aside for the moment the shardcruisers (not true lighthuggers, but hybrid ships built to service outposts in the outer cometary cloud of star systems, whose longest-range examples fade into slow, short-range luggers); and also the starwisps, ultra-light – a matter of pounds – light-sail vessels propelled by lasers at their point of origin, carrying information, tangle, or the smallest probes across interstellar space.
These then divide into clippers – high-acceleration, relatively low-mass vessels carrying premium cargo and passengers at the highest possible speeds, including, in the limiting case, the private staryachts of the very wealthiest; and luggers, their relatively low-acceleration higher mass vessels carrying passengers and freight in larger quantity. Specialized classes of lugger include the shiphauler (designed to transport docked starships rather than cargo directly; the military fleet carrier is an example of this type); the seedship (carrying ecopoesis packages and a startup colony); and the linelayer (transporting one half of a stargate pair to its destination system).
Tagged aerospace cruiser, AKV, anti-RKV superdreadnought, assault cruiser, battlecruiser, battleship, blockade runner, carrier, carrier-battlecruiser, civilization-backup ship, clipper, command battlecruiser, command superdreadnought, commutersphere, corsair, courier, cruiser, cutter, debris recovery vehicle, destroyer, diplomatic cruiser, dreadnought, drop pod, drop shuttle, embassy ship, empire ship, fastliner, fleet carrier, fluffship, free trader, frigate, grapeship, hauler, highliner, hospital ship, hyperdreadnought, iceliner, Imperial Navy, information-warfare superdreadnought, interdictor cruiser, lighter, linelayer, liner, lugger, mauler superdreadnought, megahauler, oiler, pinnace, point-defense cruiser, relativistic kill vehicle, seedship, service/operations vehicle, shardcruiser, shiphauler, skydiver, skymall, slowhauler, smeltership, Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, starfighter, starwisp, staryacht, superdreadnought, superlifter, tanker, tender, tug, workpod, yacht
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This Week On TV: June 10-16
By Brent Furdyk. 10 Jun 2019 9:52 AM
This Week: Kate Gosselin goes looking for love in “Kate Plus Date”, Martin Scorsese’s documentary on Bob Dylan’s mid-’70s Rolling Thunder Revue, Carla Gugino plays a top thief who pulls one last heist (or so she thinks) in “Jett”, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston solve a “Murder Mystery”, Kevin Bacon heads gritty crime drama “City on the Hill” and Zendaya plays a teenage addict in HBO drama “Euphoria”.
Macall Polay/FX
Erica Parise/FX
Next Gallery: Cast Reunions
This Week On TV: Jan. 20-26
'Kate Plus Date' - Series Premiere
First came "Jon & Kate Plus 8",
* Monday, June 10
'Ice on Fire'
This documentary from exec producer Leonardo DiCaprio takes on climate change from a hopeful perspective, focusing on a number of never-before-seen solutions designed to slow down the escalating environmental crisis — offering proof that it is possible stave off the worst effects of global warming.
* Tuesday, June 11
'Pose' - Season Premiere
The second season of this acclaimed, edgy series set in the ball culture of the 1980s returns, with the culture's emerging mainstream popularity offering both opportunities and challenges.
'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese'
Martin Scorsese helms this highly anticipated documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue, a somewhat ramshackle tour that eschewed huge arenas for small theatres while inviting a rotating group of special guests ranging from Joni Mitchell to poet Alan Ginsburg. In addition to a wealth of never-before-seen concert footage,
* Wednesday, June 12
'Press Your Luck' - Series Premiere
The long-defunct game show known for its game-changing Whammys is back with a new revamped primetime version, and new host Elizabeth Banks.
'Krypton' - Season Premiere
This DC Comics series, set on Superman's home planet in the time prior to its destruction, kicks off its second season. With General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) now in control, he embarks on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe.
'Baskets' - Season Premiere
Big life changes are in store for Chip and the rest of the Baskets family when Zach Galifianakis' quirky comedy returns for a new season.
* Thursday, June 13
'Jett' - Series Premiere
Carla Gugino stars as the titular Jett in this taut crime drama, playing a professional thief who's forced to pull one last heist for a powerful mob boss — which, naturally, becomes complicated and draws her back deeper into the life of crime she's been desperately trying to escape.
* Friday, June 14
'Murder Mystery'
Adam Sandler reunites with his "Just Go With It" co-star in this Netflix comedy in they play a married couple who go on a long-planned European vacation, where they manage to score an invitation aboard the yacht of a billionaire (Terence Stamp). When said billionaire winds up murdered, they become the prime suspects, and most go on the run while trying to find the real killer and clear their names.
'Butterfly'
CBC is airing all three parts of this provocative British miniseries back to back, telling the story of a divorced couple at odds with how to handle their young son's unwavering desire to transition to female, a situation that affects every member of the extended family in different ways.
* Sunday, June 16
'City on a Hill' - Series Premiere
A straight-arrow Brooklyn DA (Aldis Hodge) takes a job as DA in Boston, where he forms a reluctant alliance with a corrupt FBI agent (Kevin Bacon)
'Euphoria' - Series Premiere
Zendaya stars in this edgy coming-of-age drama, playing a drug addict who exits rehab
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'''Metropolitan Kirill''' (Митрополит Кирилл), born as Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev (Владимир Михайлович Гундяев), on [[November 20]] 1946, [[w:Leningrad|Leningrad]], [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], is a [[Russian Orthodox Church]] (ROC) bishop, the Metropolitan of [[w:Smolensk|Smolensk]] and [[w:Kaliningrad|Kaliningrad]] since 1991, the Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate since November 1989, permanent member of the Holy Synod.
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His Holiness '''Kyrill (Gundyayev) of Moscow''' (Кирилл), born as Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev (Владимир Михайлович Гундяев), on [[November 20]], 1946, [[w:Leningrad|Leningrad]], [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], is the current Patriarch of [[Church of Russia|Moscow and All Russia]].
''[[Locum tenens]]'' of the Patriarchal See since December 6, 2008.
==Early career==
He took [[Monk|monastic vows]] [[April 3]], 1969, and April 7 of the same year was [[ordination|ordained]] hierodeacon and [[June 1]] - [[hieromonk]].
In 1970 Kyrill completed a degree from the Leningrad Theological Academy, where he was retained as a professor of dogmatic theology and aid to the Academy's Inspector.
He took [[Monk|monastic vows]] April 3, 1969, and April 7 of the same year was ordained hierodeacon and June 1 - [[hieromonk]].
Since [[August 30]], 1970, he was a personal secretary to [[Metropolitan]] [[Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod|Nikodim (Rotov)]], Metroplitan of Leningrad.
In 1970 Kirill completed a degree from the Leningrad Theological Academy, where he was retained as a professor of dogmatic theology and aid to the Academy's Inspector.
On [[September 12]], 1971, he became [[archimandrite]] and was posted as a representative of the ROC to the [[World Council of Churches]] (WCC) in [[w:Geneva|Geneva]].
Since August 30, 1970, he was a personal secretary to [[Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad|Nikodim (Rotov)]], Metroplitan of Leningrad.
On [[December 26]], 1974, he was appointed [[Rector]] of the Leningrad Academy and Seminary.
On September 12, 1971, he became archimandrite and was posted as a representative of the ROC to the [[World Council of Churches]] (WCC) in [[w:Geneva|Geneva]].
In December 1975, he was appointed a member of the WCC Central Committee and Executive Committee.
==Episcopal career==
In 1976, Kyrill was consecrated [[Bishop]] of [[w:Vyborg|Vyborg]]. In 1977, he became [[Archbishop]]. Since 1978, he has been the manager of the "Patriarch's parishes in [[w:Finland|Finland]]" (the name of the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland). In 1984, he became Archbishop of Smolensk and [[w:Vyazma|Vyazma]]. The title was changed to Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in 1989. In 1991, he became Metropolitan.
In 1974-1984 he was the Rector of the Leningrad Spiritual Academy and Seminary.
In 1971 he was appointed representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the [[World Council of Churches]] and has been actively involved in the ecumenical activity of the Russian Orthodox Church since then. In 1978, Kyrill was appointed Deputy Chairman, and in November 1989, Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate and permanent member of the [[Holy Synod]]. He is known as active and efficient diplomat.
On December 26, 1974, he was appointed Rector of the Leningrad Academy and Seminary.
On [[December 6]], 2008, the day after the death of [[Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow|Patriarch Alexei II]] (1990-2008), the Holy Synod elected him ''Locum tenens'' of the Patriarchal throne.
On [[December 9]], 2008, during the funeral service for Patriarch Alexei II in the [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)|Christ the Saviour Cathedral]], which was broadcast live by Russia's state TV channels, he was seen and reported to have fainted at one point.<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B822020081209 Russians bid farewell to Patriarch at grand funeral, Reuters, December 9, 2008, accessed 2008-12-09]</ref>
On [[December 29]], 2008, when talking to journalists, he said he was "categorically opposed to any reforms" of a liturgical or doctrinal nature in the Church.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081229/119215944.html Russia's prospective church leader says opposed to reforms], RIA Novosti, December 29, 2008.</ref>
Since 1994 Kyrill has hosted a weekly Orthodox TV program on [[w:Channel One (Russia)|ORT/Channel One]].
Conservatives in the ROC criticized Kyrill for his ecumenical activities throughout the 1990s. However, in a recent statement Metropolitan Kyrill stated that there could be no doctrinal compromise with the Roman Catholic Church, and that discussions with them did not have the goal of seeking unification.<ref>[http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5605 Russian Church against compromise on belief-preaching with Catholics - Metropolitan Kyrill], Interfax, January 21, 2009.</ref>
In 1976, Kirill was consecrated Bishop of [[w:Vyborg|Vyborg]]. In 1977, he became Archbishop. Since 1978, he has been the manager of the "Patriarch's parishes in [[w:Finland|Finland]]" (the name of the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland). In 1984, he became Archbishop of Smolensk and [[w:Vyazma|Vyazma]]. The title was changed to Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in 1989. In 1991, he became Metropolitan.
On [[January 27]], 2009, Kyrill was elected as Patriarch of Moscow, and was enthroned as the sixteenth Patriarch on Sunday [[February 1]], 2009.
In 1971 he was appointed representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the [[World Council of Churches]] and has been actively involved in the ecumenical activity of the Russian Orthodox Church since then. In 1978, Kirill was appointed Deputy Chairman, and in November 1989, Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate and permanent member of the Holy Synod. He is known as active and efficient diplomat.
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On 6th December, 2008, the day after the death of [[Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow|Patriarch Alexei II]] (1990-2008), the Holy Synod elected him ''Locum tenens'' of the Patriarchal throne.
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On 9th December, 2008, during the funeral service for Patriarch Alexei II in the [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)|Christ the Saviour Cathedral]], which was broadcast live by Russia's state TV channels, he was seen and reported to have fainted at one point.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B822020081209 |location=[[Moscow]]|title=Russians bid farewell to Patriarch at grand funeral|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=December 9, 2008|accessdate=2008-12-09}}</ref><ref>{{ru icon}}{{cite web|url=http://gazeta.ru/social/2008/12/09/2907600.shtml|location=[[Moscow]]|title=Упокоился с миром|publisher=[[Gazeta.ru]]|date=December 9, 2008|accessdate=2008-12-09}}</ref>
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On December 29, 2008, when talking to journalists, he said he was "categorically opposed to any reforms" of a liturgical or doctrinal nature in the Church.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081229/119215944.html Russia's prospective church leader says opposed to reforms] [[RIA Novosti]] December 29, 2008.</ref>
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The conservative wing in the ROC criticized Kirill of practising [[ecumenism]] throughout the 1990s. However, in a recent statement Metropolitan Kyrill stated that there could be no doctrinal compromise with the Roman Catholic Church, and that discussions with them did not have the goal of seeking unification.<ref>[http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5605 Russian Church against compromise on belief-preaching with Catholics - Metropolitan Kirill] [[Interfax]], January 21, [[2009]].</ref>
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His Holiness Kyrill (Gundyayev) of Moscow (Кирилл), born as Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev (Владимир Михайлович Гундяев), on November 20, 1946, Leningrad, Soviet Union, is the current Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1 Early career
2 Episcopal career
He took monastic vows April 3, 1969, and April 7 of the same year was ordained hierodeacon and June 1 - hieromonk.
Since August 30, 1970, he was a personal secretary to Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov), Metroplitan of Leningrad.
On September 12, 1971, he became archimandrite and was posted as a representative of the ROC to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.
Episcopal career
In 1976, Kyrill was consecrated Bishop of Vyborg. In 1977, he became Archbishop. Since 1978, he has been the manager of the "Patriarch's parishes in Finland" (the name of the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland). In 1984, he became Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazma. The title was changed to Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in 1989. In 1991, he became Metropolitan.
In 1971 he was appointed representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches and has been actively involved in the ecumenical activity of the Russian Orthodox Church since then. In 1978, Kyrill was appointed Deputy Chairman, and in November 1989, Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate and permanent member of the Holy Synod. He is known as active and efficient diplomat.
On December 6, 2008, the day after the death of Patriarch Alexei II (1990-2008), the Holy Synod elected him Locum tenens of the Patriarchal throne.
On December 9, 2008, during the funeral service for Patriarch Alexei II in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, which was broadcast live by Russia's state TV channels, he was seen and reported to have fainted at one point.[1]
On December 29, 2008, when talking to journalists, he said he was "categorically opposed to any reforms" of a liturgical or doctrinal nature in the Church.[2]
Since 1994 Kyrill has hosted a weekly Orthodox TV program on ORT/Channel One. Conservatives in the ROC criticized Kyrill for his ecumenical activities throughout the 1990s. However, in a recent statement Metropolitan Kyrill stated that there could be no doctrinal compromise with the Roman Catholic Church, and that discussions with them did not have the goal of seeking unification.[3]
On January 27, 2009, Kyrill was elected as Patriarch of Moscow, and was enthroned as the sixteenth Patriarch on Sunday February 1, 2009.
Kyrill (Gundyayev) of Moscow
— Archbishop of Vyborg
— Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
Philaret (Vakhromeyev) 5th Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate
November 14, 1989 - February 1, 2009 Succeeded by:
Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Alexei II (Ridiger) Patriarch of Moscow
2009-Present Succeeded by:
Some material from "Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk" at Wikipedia
↑ Russians bid farewell to Patriarch at grand funeral, Reuters, December 9, 2008, accessed 2008-12-09
↑ Russia's prospective church leader says opposed to reforms, RIA Novosti, December 29, 2008.
↑ Russian Church against compromise on belief-preaching with Catholics - Metropolitan Kyrill, Interfax, January 21, 2009.
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Assisi Vidyaniketan
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Assisi Vidyaniketan is a public school situated in Kakkanad, Kochi in the state of Kerala, India. Popularly known as AVPS or Assisi it was founded by the Jesuit fathers (late Rev.Fr. Kannikal) in June 1994.
Assisi Vidyaniketan has a school in Vypeen, which is also called Assisi Vidyaniketan.
Assisi has two indoor swimming pools, computer labs in each building and two indoor courts for badminton and basketball. A fleet of nine buses plies to most parts of Kochi and outside.
Set in a beautiful compound in Chembumukku, Assisi is easily accessible. The school is set away from the busy hustle and bustle of city life.
Notable alumni include Hannah Reji Koshy and Shyam Kumar.
Coordinates: 10°00′45″N 76°19′03″E / 10.012407°N 76.317529°E / 10.012407; 76.317529
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On invite-only betas
Fred Wilson wrote about the value of blogging and building social capital, demonstrated by the hundred requests for invites he received on his post on his recent investment, Boxee, an invite-only service.
Now, while I find the behavior of public invite-requesting curious, I understand it.
I also think there’s another side to this equation that I’d like to point out, being one of the fortunate early adopters who happens to get invited to a lot of early alphas and betas… and that’s understanding the relationship between the creator of the beta and the testers. Or, to put it another way, requesting an invite to a service for one’s own benefit is one thing; understanding that an invite is a privilege given in exchange for feedback and suggestions provided is another. And the secret to getting early access to beta programs is, perhaps obviously, to be a good beta tester.
There are any number of ways to demonstrate that you’re worthy of an invite to an invite-only alpha or beta program. One problem is that a lot of beta feedback is submitted privately, outside of public forums. Whenever I can, I attempt to use more public forums, both for my own recollection, but also for the benefit or other testers, developers and later users.
In other cases, I’ll use Flickr or Twitter, leading to interesting phenomena, similar to what Fred describes.
In particular, I’ve been alpha testing a music player called Spotify for some time. It’s an incredible service and recently opened up with three levels of service, although it’s sadly not available in the US yet owing to licensing issues. Now, the only way to get an account with the service is to request an invitation.
It just so happens that I screenshotted an element of the new interface, uploaded it to Flickr and titled the photo “Spotify Invites“. That photo is now the second result for that phrase on Google and people have noticed, quickly exhausting my supply of invites.
The problem with this scenario, and with Fred’s, is that many folks seem eager to get access solely for their own benefit, without thought to the quid pro quo that makes beta programs successful (and ultimately benefit both the developer and subsequent users!). And I think it’s worth it to point out that beta programs aren’t just freebie give-aways: the gate is there for a reason!
I wrote this post in 2005, back when Gmail was an invite-only service (!!) and I was thinking about the relationships we were attempting to cultivate with the Flock alpha tester program:
So what of all these invite-only (or formally invite-only) services where you have to know someone on the inside to get a golden ticket? Does it artificially increase desire? Does it help services grow organically and cut down on trolls and spam, creating more value for invitees? Does it create more investment from the user community and perhaps establish even minor connections between invitor and invitee? Or does it create a false hierarchy around an inner circle of well-connected geeks?
What I do know is that it’s a curious trend and happening rather profusely across the web. Good or bad? I can’t quite say — except that in the case of Flock, we’re using the invite system to start out slowly on purpose. We want to not only be able to scale up organically, but we also want to cultivate relationships with our brave early adopters so that we can build the best experience possible over time. And to that end — we want to make sure that when we do launch publicly, we’ve hammered out all the glaring issues — as well as minor ones — so that sum total Flock makes you more productive, more explorative, and more voraciously social on the web. So for now, Flock will remain available to few kindred souls with enough courage to shove through our bugs and dodge the sharp edges. In the meantime, do add yourself to our invite lottery so that your name will be there when the next round of invites go out.
Not much has changed in terms of the structure of invite-only betas (even though the tools for managing them have improved), but I think something of the intimacy and purpose of these programs have been missed as more of the mainstream have gotten used to handing out just their email address for access to such initiatives.
As Fred points out that there’s value in building up social capital so that you can help stoke interest in new projects and draw the interest of potentially valuable contributors and testers, but it’s just as important to highlight the value of diligent and hard-working testers who have an interest in improving products and becoming partners in the potential success of such projects. I think there’s the potential for mutually reinforcing and ongoing relationships in the execution of a productive beta program, and that those longer-term relationships should not be overlooked.
To that end, I’m looking for some highly motivated and qualified testers for LittleSnapper, Real Mac Software’s new webpage screenshot utility. Be one of the first ten to leave a comment with your proper email address and a description of how you approach beta testing and I’ll send you info on where you can sign up. As I’m eager to see LittleSnapper mature, I won’t settle for just anyone — prove to me that you’d add value to the alpha tester program! 😉
Author Chris MessinaPosted on Nov 19th Categories design, Life online, TechnologyTags beta testing, littlesnapper, spotify
10 thoughts on “On invite-only betas”
I would like to betatest LittleSnapper. As a webdesigner I take screenshots everyday of websites to keep my inspiration in one place and Skitch i a good tool for it but i need a better one and I hope that this is going to be a killerapp.
Amos Griffin says:
You know Chris, the truth is in the past I think I have failed at being a good beta tester. Maybe for the reason you present above. I was in it for myself, but much more so because I was lazy and trigger shy. You know the old saying, “there are no stupid questions?” Well there are, and I’ve asked plenty of them.
So often I’d find myself noticing a bug or something amiss and let it pass – “Oh they already know this,” or “Geeze, I’ve never built an application. Who am I to tell them it stinks?”
Perhaps these were justifications for inaction, and I don’t mean to spill my insecurities on your weblog, but in the past I think I’ve missed the point with betas. That I’m the user. That if something seems wrong it’s my responsibility, not just to the developers, but to other users to mention what might not be working, to mention it with grace and wit and humility, but to mention it nonetheless.
Anyway, this is all to say in the past and on occasion I have stunk at beta testing, which seems a funny way to ask for an invite – give it to me I suck balls – but I kinda feel as if I have an idea about what the responsibilities and tradeoffs are of a beta tester, much more so that one or two years ago.
So, with that said, and in light of my past missteps, I think I might make a good beta tester for LittleSnapper because I use Skitch everyday and have a good relation point from which to work, I like to use an application like this for the blogging, and, most importantly, I want LittleSnapper to rock for us all and will due my part to insure that it does.
A little long here but such is my style.
Todd Sieling says:
For projects I work on, whether we go with an invite-only or wide-open approach depends on a number of factors, but primarily on what the project team thinks they can handle. Even with a beta label, there’s a measure of confidence in the readiness of a product or feature that comes with a wide-open approach. By using invites, the team can ensure a slower rollout that doesn’t get people’s hopes up only to lose their interest because the product isn’t *that* ready or the team can’t keep up with the amount of feedback. So for me, the decision comes down to “are we ready for everyone and anyone to take a kick at this?” and as such an invite-only path means a more controlled rollout, until we’re confident about opening the doors to everyone.
An extra benefit of invite-only and the slower pace they bring is that those answering feedback can take more time to have good discussions with testers, get followup data, and from that bring better feedback into the project. With a doors-wide-open approach, that’s not as easy, and the relationships that might have been built through an invite-only process might not happen.
I’m also a Skitch user, and would love to give LittleSnapper a try to see how it compares and contrasts, as I know what does and doesn’t work for me with Skitch.
james vreeland says:
During the course of -our- invite only beta, my team has been passing a tremendous amount of screenshots back and forth to hunt down active issues and space for improvements.
By beta testing -your- product, I hope we can improve -our- product, to improve -your- experience. Very ouroboros.
Adam Bandy says:
I think you I could be a good beta tester for LittleSnapper. Some of the reasons to ‘invite’ me are:
1) I’ve been eagerly waiting for LittleSnapper.
2) I’m a software developer who can help ‘explain’ bugs to other developers more easily
3) I use screenshots everyday, and looked at a number of screenshot applications, for both Mac and Windows.
grah! says:
I would love to help give feedback on ls.
I’ve got folders full of screencaps as I haven’t yet migrated to a management utility.
AdamD says:
Nov 20th at @ 9am
Just yesterday I told someone I wasn’t a good choice to alpha test his product because I wasn’t in his target demographic. I think that while testers have had the wrong idea, so have some who give out invites. Their motives are sometimes for buzz rather than good feedback and measured growth.
That said, I take screenshots all day as I write for Webmonkey. Currently I use a combination of Mac’s built-in tools, the Pearl Crescent Page Saver extension for Firefox, Pixelmator and Skitch.
I’m always on the lookout to improve my workflow and I’d be happy to provide feedback from the standpoint of a daily user.
Nicolas D says:
I would love to have an Invite.
By the way thank you Chris for everything you do for the open web.
David Horn says:
I’m going to play the devil’s advocate for a bit and pretend I’m not a developer who craves feedback.
There is definitely a difference between a beta user and a beta tester. The problem with beta testing invite-only tools is that a lot of these services are like blind dates. You don’t know what you’re in for until you’re committed for dinner, and sometimes you’re so turned off afterwards you can’t wait to get away.
When I asked you for a Spotify invite, all I had to go on (beyond your advocacy) was https://www.spotify.com/en/about/what/
“Spotify is a new way to enjoy music.”
How is that going to help me decide if I want to commit to being a good beta tester? The cost of requesting an invite is so low, it’s easier to ask for an invite first and decide once you’re in. A lot of web sites with invite-only programs don’t let potential users know what they’re in for, and do a poor job of cultivating their community.
If you use something that’s invite-only that you enjoy, the quid-pro-quo should follow naturally. It can be valuable feedback or strong advocacy, but that requires that the tool is igniting some passion in users, and that’s impossible to know sometimes without trying. You’ll get both beta testers and beta users in your invite-only phase, but in my opinion beta testers graduate FROM beta users. The graduation percentage depends on how well the service cultivates its beta community, and that community begins before invite codes are even sent. I suspect, like how to implement the login page, is an aspect that’s never given much thought by developers.
So, uh, given my stance…you don’t have to send me a LittleSnapper invite. =P
@Dave: I think you make a good point.
But I think it reinforces my broader point that there are two ways to approach beta programs — from a selfish perspective (i.e. “an invite is the only way I can access this app”) or from a generous perspective (i.e. “I want to help make this product better.”).
Certainly people just pounding on an app are going to reveal issues — scaling and whatnot — so it is useful to get “bodies in the room” so-to-speak.
But I think it can be counterproductive for your later ambitions if people sign up just to try-before-they-commit and write it off because it’s too “buggy”. This certainly happened to Flock, and I imagine it’s happened to Songbird and other apps in the past. People didn’t really think about what the “beta” meant, or didn’t care, and evaluated the app prematurely. And I think that’s damaging.
Instead, they should have been patient and waited until the final product had been released (or something close to final) to evaluate it. Unfortunately, betas are so commonly used and abused now that by the time you get around to getting access, you forget why you were interested in the first place.
In any case, I still think it’s worth thinking about one’s approach, as either a developer or as a tester, and optimize to whatever is more important to you at the time.
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Reykjavik on a Friday night.
It’s not the most obvious of places to cast an eye over, but there will be more than a few of you keeping up with events in the Icelandic capital at the end of your working week.
At the time of writing, Fulham’s Brede Hangeland features in 13.9% of Fantasy Premier League teams, with John Arne Riise – his fellow defender for both Fulham and Norway – popping up in 8.3% of them.
Given that the amount of Fantasy bosses has now exceeded 2.3million, then that makes for a fair chunk of you who’ll be anxious to hear of the fate of Hangeland and Riise on international duty in Reykjavik, where an injury could wreck your week.
Norway play Slovenia at home next Tuesday too. A pull here or a strain there and suddenly the duo are out of their club sides, and more importantly they throw your plans into disarray as well.
International breaks have long been the scourge of club managers, but what about the problems they cause Fantasy ones?
Without the power of Sir Alex Ferguson you can’t tell the Holland boss Louis van Gaal to leave Robin van Persie out of the World Cup qualifier in Budapest next Tuesday because you’re thinking of making him your captain when Manchester United face Wigan at Old Trafford the following Saturday and you want him to be fresh.
Similarly, Eden Hazard might not have far to travel for Friday’s qualifier in Cardiff, but the Belgian has got another game at home to Croatia on the Tuesday and you want that little assist-making machine in top condition for Chelsea’s highly-charged trip to QPR.
And what’s that Roy? Ashley Cole has got an ankle problem that’s keeping him out of the Moldova game? Good. Now send him back to Chelsea, get them to find all the cotton wool they can get their hands on and don’t you dare think about picking him when England play Ukraine.
Fantasy bosses have to be selfish when watching their players in club action in cup competitions too of course – although you might have a team in one of those leagues on the side – yet somehow it is easier to take when a blow affects one of your boys when in their club colours as opposed to their national shirt. Club 1 Country 0.
For the clubs who lose those players for a week to 10 days, it almost becomes a case of the bigger they are the harder they fall.
Manchester United have published a list of 24 of their players who are on international duty over the next week or so on their website, as have Liverpool for their 19 – which is probably the size of their entire squad as a whole after recent dealings – whilst Chelsea have six in the England squad alone.
It’ll be next Wednesday at the earliest before their managers see all of them again, as air miles are clocked up and tired limbs are transported across all four corners of the globe.
Will they be back in top shape? Has the jet lag affected them? Is it possible for Luis Suarez to get from Montevideo to Sunderland’s Stadium of Light in less than four days? Do they do direct flights?
All are questions that many will consider in the days to come, as eyes dart furiously from Argentina to Amsterdam and virtually everywhere in between.
Is it Reykjavik or bust for your Fantasy team?
It could be both.
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Gameweek 2 preview: Forwards to earn their Spurs?
Maybe earning his Spurs is a bit less important to Emmanuel Adebayor than earning AT Spurs, but after completing his move to White Hart Lane from Manchester City at least he’s added another quality striking option for Fantasy managers.
The Togoloese forward (£9.5m) is likely to go straight into the squad for Saturday’s clash at home to West Brom after eventually turning his loan switch into a permanent one, with ‘Ade’ adding much needed strength in depth to Andre Villas-Boas’s striking department after the Portuguese was left with just Jermain Defoe (£7.5m) as a solitary senior forward for last weekend’s loss at Newcastle.
Defoe scored there of course, and he’ll be looking to take that form into the meeting with the Baggies, where he could still start despite the arrival of his new/old team-mate.
The England man continues to be linked with moves away, but it is unlikely that you’ll see Defoe depart North London at least until Villas-Boas is able to bring in yet another forward, and even then all talk of a transfer seems premature.
Now nearly 30, Defoe has seemingly spent a career on the fringes despite consistently finding the net.
There always seems to have been the feeling that managers can do better than him – either at club or international level – but with Adebayor likely to take a while to settle in after having no pre-season to speak of, Spurs are sure to have to turn to him over the coming weeks. Their next four matches see them face West Brom (h), Norwich (h), Reading (a) and QPR (h). The potential for goals is there for all to see.
That should draw you towards Tottenham’s forwards – perhaps with your Sergio Aguero money – and also to the men playing behind them. If Villas-Boas is to persevere with just the one attacker, then Gareth Bale (£9.5m), Gylfi Sigurdsson (£9.0m) and Rafael van der Vaart (£9.0m) will all be looking to get into scoring and assisting positions behind him.
Elsewhere this Fantasy weekend, the lack of a double Gameweek, the advice to avoid Chelsea players who’ll be inactive next weekend and some very intriguing fixtures make it somewhat of a tough one to predict.
After losing so heavily at West Brom, it would be just like Liverpool to bounce back and get a positive result against Manchester City, but it would take the most confident of Fantasy bosses to turn to the likes of the £9.5m pairing of Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez against the champions, despite City’s concession of goals against Southampton and the Liverpool pair’s rest from the trip to Hearts in midweek.
City will miss Aguero of course and so a stalemate could ensue, which is probably what Arsenal would settle for from their tough trip to Stoke where Gunners forwards should probably be avoided.
Manchester United will be determined to bounce back from their loss to Everton on Monday, and with many put off by Robin van Persie’s price tag (£13.0m) it could well be the other home debutant Shinji Kagawa (£8.5m) who impresses against Fulham at Old Trafford, where it goes without saying that the Whites’ players who impressed on the opening day against Norwich – Mladen Petric (£6.0m), Damien Duff (£6.0m) and Alex Kacaniklic (£4.5m) – will find it tougher to shine again.
Other opening day stars Michu (bumped up to £6.7m) and Marouane Fellaini (£6.5m) could have it a little easier at home to West Ham and away to Aston Villa respectively, whilst in the battle of the two teams beaten 5-0 last week, it could pay to focus on QPR’s players ahead of those from Norwich.
Junior Hoilett (£6.5m) – a scorer home and away against Norwich for Blackburn last season – might well shine the brightest.
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Yo Momma Monday: Karen LePage
Meet Karen LePage, 42, a sewin’ mama from Michigan. I met her through Oh My! Handmade and I instantly swooned over all of her work. She not only sews up a storm, but she also creates patterns, sells custom-made garments and shares tutorials on her website at One Girl Circus! Oh, and she also co-wrote a sewing book for boys, appropriately named Sewing for Boys.
Before she started working for herself, she sang at weddings, sold cars, managed a coffee shop, taught German and worked in Strategic Planning. To say she is well-rounded would be an understatement.
Karen started a blog after she read and loved blogs from other people. Initially, it started as a means for documenting her children’s special moments.
“I guess it’s not surprising that I’m not very consistent with it, however, because I was never a child who could keep a journal beyond “dear diary” for more than a few weeks.”
Photo from Karen LePage
After her mother bought a sewing machine when Karen was five, she started experimenting and made every project in the booklet that came with the machine. From there, she spent several years making wardrobes for all of her dolls. As a kid, she started watching Sewing with Nancy when it came on PBS, a show she still watches to this day.
“I always say Nancy Zieman taught me to sew…I still watch it. I still love it.”
Karen still remembers her first sewing project – a drawstring bag – and she says there have been plenty of disasters along the way. When she first got started, she would wear her disasters; now, she tucks them away until she’s ready to try again. Her latest creation was a Japanese double-gauze newborn outfit that was in a box for six years because she couldn’t stand to look at it.
“I’m so happy I could rescue it!”
As a mom, Karen says that her children not only inspire her work, but also keep her balanced and admits that if she didn’t have her kids, she would probably just work all the time.
“I love making things, and having humans relying on me for comfort, food, and shelter ensures that I nourish myself with their companionship while meeting their needs, too.”
The creativity bug has definitely hit both of her kids, as her son likes to design the garments she makes for him, and her daughter is a quilter. Her son also shops at thrift and vintage stores, so he has become quite the master at button replacing, and he already has an eye for what can be fixed, and what cannot. Her daughter will often work up a patchwork when she’s in the sewing space.
“She has an amazing eye for color and pattern.”
Karen describes her workspace as chaotic yet comforting. While she is always moving things around in there, she still keeps an open space for her kids to visit while she’s working. She does like to take some time tidying up in between projects.
“But as soon as I have a clean space I’m inspired to start making again – immediately.
Although there’s no such thing as a normal day, there is one consistency in her morning routine – coffee (ain’t that the truth). Her daily activities are determined by deadlines, inspiration and commitments – and she does try to get some sewing in every day.
“I start to get twitchy when I’m away from my sewing machine for too long.”
Karen says that the best and scariest thing about running her own business is that everything – from what get made to what gets published – is all her.
“Sometimes it’s wonderful and sometimes it’s terrifying and sometimes it’s wonderfully terrifying.”
She started teaching classes after someone asked her to do it, and that is one of her favorite things about what she does.
“There’s something super-satisfying about nudging my students toward sewing confidence. I love that it’s a skill they can use forever. I love holding their hands through the tough part and saying “Look how awesome you are!” when they make it through and realize they can make something they didn’t think they could make.”
When Karen is not teaching classes and making clothes – or thinking about new classes and new projects – she loves reading, hiking with her daughter, yoga and cooking.
“Actually, strike that, I like reading cookbooks.”
And of course, she loves all forms of crafting. There isn’t a craft she hasn’t stopped, and thanks to Creative Bug and the craft section in her local bookstore, that won’t be ending anytime soon. She loves making anything from baby clothes to formal gowns – all of it.
“If it goes on a body, someone will wear it and love it, and that’s something that makes me happy and keeps me going. There’s always something new I want to try, whether it’s a technique or material I haven’t yet attempted; I incorporate my latest learning into each new project.”
She gets the majority of her fabric from local fabric stores and loves visiting new stores in any town she visits. When she cannot find a fabric she wants locally, she will shop online.
“I spend my dollars locally whenever possible.”
Karen loves being a part of the handmade community because she has always been just one of a handful of people she knows that love sewing. Of the four high schools she attended, she only found one friend who could sew. ONE! Now that she has a whole community of friends who also love the same kind of things, she counts it as a blessing.
“I feel so energized and inspired when working collaboratively; even when working on my own thing amongst fellow makers. The handmade community is what has made my 30s and 40s the best years of my life.”
She currently has two patterns in the Stitch Magazine Spring issue and there will be another one in the Summer issue. She is also working on a handmade garment line and is hoping to hire some local people to help with the sewing and sales of her products.
“I’m really excited about it, but I’m also thrilled to have a steady stream of consultancy projects.”
Karen hopes to inspire people by being an advocate of all things handmade – whether its making, buying, spreading the word, or all of the above.
“I also hope I can inspire people to try something new every once in a while, and to really enjoy the process of making.”
Thank you to the lovely and wonderful Karen for participating in this series! You can find her blog here, buy her stuff here and read the book she co-wrote here.
If you enjoy this series and would like to be a part of it, or know someone who should, please leave a note in the comments or connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest and Instagram. Next month, I will be talking with Jane Skoch from Maiden Jane!
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Willie Mayhew
Willie Mayhew is listed in the 1920 census as a 46-year-old farmer.
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Board index » Phoenix Wright » Prosecutor's Lobby
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Your feelings of the game
Zinle
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Location: Suomi, Finland, Perkele!
Rank: Ace Attorney
Ok, let's face it.
We are going to get at least few of these, so why not do it beforehand?
*And if I've forgotten that we already had this, lock it up*
So, those who have allready beaten it...How did ya like it?
That's it in a peanut, I guess :P
Personally; I can't wait for next week.
Propably going to get it allmost right away.
Lets see...19th day...it's friday, 'ight?
Hmm...Propably getting it in week after that.
Saturday or sooner.
My expections are still pretty high, eve though I've been spoilered pretty badly.
(thanks a lot for some people)
Yet; I still want to see everything in action.
The new game style? Heh...I think it suits more prosecutors and that stuff.
I really wish that all future games where you are prosecutor will go like this,
while GS5 would continue old Nick/Apollo style.
This is propably only me, though...
But like I said: I'm getting my hands on it sooner or later.
When I myself have completed, I'll sum my thoughts up here.
To sum up this pretty...confusing message...Begin!
Re: My feelings of it
My favourite Ace Attorney game. I really liked GK/AAI. The character development was awesome and I loved the plot :)
It doesn't help that the music was orchestral and really, really, awesome.
So I just finished...(Mega Spoilers)
KingRei
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Location: McNeil Village
Rank: Desk Jockey
I have to say, this game was amazing. If Apollo Justice was at level 2, AAI was at level 10. Although not quite as good as Phoenix Wright, it was very close. The thing that really pissed me off was that there was no Phoenix (although tons of references to him, his appearance was not there and neither was his name.)
I give the game 9.1 out of 10.
Click pic below.
Re: So I just finished...(Mega Spoilers)
Akbey Hicks
Humph.
Rank: Prosecutor
Re-play Case 3. Phoenix DOES appear in a boat with Maya and Pearls. Done.
Also, why is thread even alive?
EDIT: This was, actually, a different thread. I never replied here, it's a small 2 post thread about "how I beat the game" and so on. I was replying to the guy above me who made a pointless thread.
Ace Attorney MIDI rips!
Please visit my forum!
Engaged to P!ATD.
Bought an apartment at the Otaku.
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Edit: Way to throw me under the bus.
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Re: You feelings of the game
Eduds
Louco é quem me diz e não é feliz
Rank: Medium-in-training
Just finished the game some minutes ago :)
My thoughts: I really like it. I think the plot of the game is one of the best.
I hope in the future games as a defense attorney the investigation part will be like the AAI-walking-in-the-background-with-your-little-sprite :D
GigaHand
ALL GLORY TO... SOMETHING
Location: Not in a courtroom, that's where.
I didn't like the ending. It ended.
Seriously, case 5 was too long for me (for an unsatisfying breakdown IMO), case 3 had some deductions that made no sense, and my favorite characters got arrested.
Spoiler: The ones that got arrested
Tyrell Badd, Ernest Amano and Quercus Alba.
On the other hand, it has an awesome soundtrack, the cases were interesting, and the deductions were enjoyable, save half of case 3. I would call it on par with the other 4 games.
Dylia
Wherever you go, I will be there.
Location: Tachibana Dynasty, Koga
It is my favourite, but at most points, I found myself yelling 'LET ME FUCKING INVESTIGATE!'
Waaaaaaaaaay to many Rebuttals/ Cross-Examinations in this game.
Even AA1-AA4 didn't have this many...
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justis76
[Words]
Location: Right beside you... You looked, didn't you?
I love it, probably my favourite AA game ever. I prefer cross-examining people outside of court because it's nice to have a change of pace,
Spoiler: Case 4 spoilers
although the showdown with Callisto Yew in court was awesome!
and I liked a lot of the new characters. Case 3 was probably my least favourite case, but the rest were good, plus there was a ton of cameos in this game, lots of awesome lines, and I liked the new gameplay mechanics. I'd give this one a 10/10 because it just seems to surpass all the other already awesome AA games.
UberWill
The joint-best AA game I've played. It's got a fantastic storyline, the characters are brilliantly developed and the music is pretty good too. The only problems I had about it was that there were no court scenes...so we're going to have to wait to properly play as a prosecutor and that there wasn't much humour in it as the past AA games, where I've had a good laugh. I'll give it 92% out of 100%, the same score I would give T&T and just a couple of percent ahead in front of the first game.
Watch me as I gravitate...ahahaha
My thoughts so far...
Naruhodou
Why did I have ham in my pocket...?
Just finished the third chapter, and here are some of my thoughts so far.
One of the only bad things I've seen so far is that Miles himself just sorta becomes Phoenix when he's out and about. He's just playing the straight man character and I feel like he loses some of his identity. He might as well be Phoenix Wright.
However I must say the flow of the game is the best yet. Because all of the main parts of the game are structured around "Arguments" and "Rebuttals" it makes the game less credible and more ridiculous. In the first games at least being in a courtroom gave the game credibility when it came to forcing people to talk. Here it makes you REAAAALLY wonder why people don't just shut the hell up and stop incriminating themselves.
However because the investigation and arguments are seemlessly blended together there is no down time. Every person I've talked to would agree that the courtroom scenes in the first games are FAR superior to the investigation sequences. Here there is never a period of time when you're just anxiously waiting to go back to the courtroom, which is great in my opinion. Again though it adds to the silliness factor in return.
Re: My thoughts so far...
shadowofedgeworth
Real men are gray-haired in their 20s.
Finished it just today. Definitely a good game with nice music and a solid script.
Still... Even if there are copious cross-examinations...I sorely miss the thrill of the courtroom and the epic burden of proving your client innocent. I'd rate it significantly above GS3 and slightly below GS2. For reference, here's how the games stack up to me:
1. GS1
4. GK
I'm not at all trying to say that GK is bad, it's just that the others are that good, so however enjoyable GK was, the others rank higher still.
Totally not my sig...
Re: Your feelings of the game
Kartoon Kween
Location: Hazakurain
I rushed through the game because I was afraid of getting spoiled before I finished. :P I still enjoyed it, though, and I look forward to playing it again at a more leisurely pace so I can give it a better review!
First of all, I have to admit that I'm biased. I love Edgeworth, Franziska and Gumshoe, so of course I was gonna love a game that had them as main characters. But was the game itself good? I'm not sure. I will say that I had a lot of fun being able to see the whole environment and all the characters on screen at once. It made investigating a lot more fun.
My biggest praise for the game is that all the cases were connected together as one single storyline, which is a first for an Ace Attorney game. It certainly was interesting! My one real complaint is the last case. It dragged out, and ultimately the conclusion was unsatisfying. The final boss was basically a Gant clone. :(
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Kartoon Kween wrote:
The final boss was basically a Gant clone. :(
An imperfect Gant clone at that! No one can match the wonderful mannerisms, smooth dialogue, and impeccably eccentric design of the original!
Plus,
Alba resisted defeat for ENTIRELY too long! I love an AA villain that holds out until the bitter end, but I really think they overdid it a bit with that one!
Mostly human
Location: Blighty, old chum.
Rank: Moderators
Finished it this evening. I probably had a rather diluted experience compared to others, I'd spoiled myself on all of the killers and characters beforehand (due to poor self-control, but it helped me to mod the section at least) and I'd already played through the 1st 3 cases on my emulated version before buying the game and playing it through fully. Despite that, I still lapped it up, there's just nothing quite like Ace Attorney.
I think like a lot of people what I really like about the game is the whole change in perspective. Being able to properly poke around in the crime scene is a lot better than being cemented to one spot in each location in the first 4, and being able to see everyone in an area at once gives conversations a much better flow and allows for more far out situations like Lang's 100 man army. Edgeworth himself was also a highlight, being very competent yet so often unintentionally hilarious and it was good playing as someone who really knew what they were doing.
Spoiler: nitpicking-spoilers for the whole game
It has its problems though, I thought the game itself was a bit too formulaic in terms of its murderers, in almost every case it was the character that you had clashed swords/talked with least. The nature of the plot also meant that most of the villains also have essentially no motives either, combine that with the previous point and you end up with villains with little characterisation or backstory (the only real case where this was averted was Yew), this is probably most irritating with Alba; how did he become leader? How did he go from a distinguished War hero to a "you are all beneath me" smuggling overlord? Compared to the villains of the last few games he certainly looked the part, but otherwise he pales in comparison.
The use of cameos was a mixed bag. Case 4 handled cameos well, unexpected use of characters and one that gave us new insight to Edgeworth's backstory. On the other hand, case 3 goes way overboard, with none of the cameos being necessary or important, as a result the characterisation and backstory of the 4 new characters for the case suffered.
All in all though these are fairly minor complaints, and given the lack of the original director I'm surprised at just how good a job they did, I'm looking forward to the next game they churn out, be it GS5 or AAI2.
Lucy_Verity
Lucy Verity: Ace Attorney
Location: hiding from Kristoph
Rank: Suspect
I thought the game was great, imho. I really liked how they used the sprites during the dialog scenes, to me it's more interesting to watch than just being the main character's POV of seeing the other character talk. I also liked actually controlling the character to move to other areas as opposed to just pressing and choosing where you wanted to go. (I guess this is basically just what Nose said.) Does anyone think they should make the other AA games play like this?
Am I the only one who thinks "snackoo" should be an onomatopoeia? *snackoo* *snackoo* *snackoo*
Klavier = piano, Phoenix fails at both, the end.
I could've sworn Klavier was an actual name...
Steel Samourai's Fan
Location: Stalking Will Powers...
Rank: Decisive Witness
I've finally got the game! Today! Only a hour ago! So I'm still in the first case, but I already LOVE it! I have one thing to say... I want that Steel Samourai's doll!!! NOW!!!!
And calling a
Rabbid Fan-Boy
was priceless!
Godot and his coffee cup, an eternal love!
Mr. Bear Jew
Idol of Polar Bears
This is the most focused and cohesive Ace Attorney game Capcom has made. Not a single episode is wasted to introduce major plot points and characters and to give them relevance at the end. This game is all about the bigger picture; minor roles like
Jacques' and Cammy's
were significant enough to be mentioned during the endgame portion. Even the characters who were merely mentioned
(Cece, Deid, Colin/Oliver, etc.)
were given high regard. The ending was a treat too; it didn't just conclude the game, it left a lot of space open for a sequel (e.g. incarcerating the rest of the smuggling ring).
Praise aside, the game didn't spend too much time in explaining the smugglers' motives nor did it expand on Lang's distaste for the law and the courts. Something to consider in future games? I think so.
Spoiler: Case 2
Like Cammy; she actually seemed pretty shocked that she took a life with her own hands. She doesn't seem like the cold-blooded killer type to me. Maybe she was a stewardess who was coerced or forced into working for the ring? Maybe she discovered the ring's actions and they threatened to off her if she didn't help their operations? PERHAPS THE PLANE CAPTAIN WAS IN ON IT TOO?!
I agree with Nose; these characters need more backstory than the "They're evil by default" treatment.
In summary, a great job by Capcom and like I said earlier, "Bring on the sequel".
Mia Shoe
A mean lean loving machine
Location: In your dreams
I got to say I really liked it, it's not my favorite AA game but it's up there. I really loved the whole logic system however deducing was kinda a lifebar pain. The new introduced characters were great to specially Kay,Lang and Badd however the game could have cut down a tad bit on the cameos. This game felt more like one big case instead of five little ones which I liked and disliked at the same time. Finding how everything connects is interesting but they never really got into the murderers back stories a lot and that disapointed me. As for the dialog there were plenty of really great lines in that mostly from the people I mentioned above plus gumshoe. I actually wish gumshoe would of had more lines at the end though an epic monolague would have been really cool from him. I think his relationship with kay though was one of my favorites of the whole series. Miles was a good lead character but dear god if you were to make a truth drinking game you would be plastered in like 10min it just felt like he repeated the same lines over and over again.
Now for where they'll go with the sequal who knows I have a lot of ideas one comes from a certain line from the third case
gumshoe will say he was involved in a event when he was 16 now i wouldn't really think twice about it but he said this in AA1 to and it just seems weird to bring up if they aren't going to do anything with it maybe I'm just wishfully thinking though.....
Currently thinking up an genius siggy ...
I like it, but I feel like it's shorter and easier than the other games. At times, it feels more like a fanservice game than a full entry into the Ace Attorney series.
Marche Tobaye
Best game in the series IMO. My list goes like this:
1. AAI
2. JFA
3. T&T
4. PW:AA
5. AJ:AA
My thoughts on the cases:
Spoiler: Contains spoilers for all cases, you have been warned
Case 1: Turnabout Visitor
Heh, this was not exactly perfect, but it was a good way to start the game. Taking down Portsman was fun. When you first finish it it doesn't feel like you've accomplished anything since there are still some holes (like the "visitor" and the evidences Portsman needed for example) but at the end of case 3 it starts to make sense. Also Maggey went from "cute" to "hot".
Case 2: Turnabout Airline
Another good case. I really liked the pacing and how they used the Logic feature in this one. I mean, putting things together in Edgeworth's head was fun. The villain was a bit predictable though, but what the heck, it's only the second case. I also liked the characters - Lablanc is obnoxious but he does feel like a great addition to the cast, Rhoda is cute and I love her interactions with Edgeworth, Cammy is okay.
Case 3: The Kidnapped Turnabout
This is where things start to get really good. There was a lot of fanservice in this case though. The Troupe Gramarye sign, the empty stage with a Gavinners logo and of course Phoenix, Maya and Pearl in a boat. I liked the park setting and Lauren. Also it introduces your assistant and your rival, both of which are cool characters. The twist with Amano came as a surprise to me, I really didn't see it coming. It was sort of like 2-4 except more lighthearted.
Case 4: Turnabout Reminiscence
Best case IMO. It's about as long as it needs to be and it's genuinely mysterious, unlike most cases. I liked Tyrell and Calisto. The part where Calisto pulls off a gun was... cool. I also liked it when Tyrell talked about Yatagarasu.
Case 5: Turnabout Ablaze
Epic, but not as awesome as 4. I liked the "war between too fictional countries" thing, because let's face it, politics > spirit channeling. Wouldn't mind seeing more of that in future games. Shih-na's revelation was... whoa. I'm still shocked. It was like 5 Crowning Moment of Awesomes in a row followed by a Tear Jerker (Tyrell retiring). Amazing work with that one scene. As for Alba, he was a decent main villain but to be complete honest... He could have been better. He was like a mix of Gant and von Karma, and the final boss battle dragged on for way too long. I like the fact that he would have gotten away if it wasn't for one spilled drop of blood though.
Spoilerfree, quick review:
Writing: Uh... I don't know much about writing, but it was better written than in AJ and 1-5, that's for sure. 8/10, I guess.
Story: 9.5/10. The storytelling is great and all the cases are connected in a neat way. It's also somewhat unpredictable and pulled of well. Best story in the series, I dare say.
Characters: 9/10. The characters are as quirky as they should be - JFA/T&T quirky but not AJ quirky. Some of them were really interesting. There are too few of them, that's the only thing I didn't like. And to be honest.
Music: 10/10. 'Nuff said.
Gameplay: 8/10. It's better than in games 1-4 and I didn't miss the court phases at all.
Visuals: 8/10, mainly because the sprites are more "animated" and less pixel-y than before.
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Sarrawei
Bee Enthusiast
I just beat the game a few minutes ago and I loved it! I couldn't possibly have asked for anything better. It was funny, quirky, beautifully rendered, had a strong story, and everyone remained lovable. Also, it was fun to be Edgeworth--very different from Phoenix, but still excellent. Oh, and lots of Gumshoe! How can you beat that?
Aevitas
Location: somewhere in La-La Land
I just finished the game a while ago too, and I loved every minute of it. I loved the level of detail on the sprites, and I like how there's a bit more conception of space in the locations. And as already mentioned, I loved how every single case was tied to each other. One of the things that bugged me about previous GS games was that there would usually be at least one filler case in the middle before you get to the epic last case or two. In AAI, you have to play all the cases to get the full picture.
A couple of things did bother me though.
It seemed a bit redundant with who the killers turned out to be, and not to mention that the accused in the cases almost always happened to have something missing on their person that makes them look suspicious (at least in the first 3 cases).
Case 1: The master key stolen from Maggey
Case 2: The The security key stolen from Rhoda
Case 3: The gun dropped from Meekins
I also didn't like the fact that in almost every case, the initially accused person is someone we know isn't the real killer:
Case 1: Maggey (we know her from previous games, and she's too klutzy to kill anyone)
Case 2: Rhoda (she's the only exception)
Case 3: Meekins (we know him from 1-5, and we know he's not capable of anything)
Case 4: Gumshoe (he's been in every single game, which by now tells us he's too much of a softie)
Case 5: Kay (it just doesn't make sense that she would kill anyone because of her morals, but imagine what a twist it would've been if she WAS the killer XD)
Oh yes, and I actually loved the fact that in Case 5:
Larry and Oldbag actually contributed to the case instead of merely supplying fanservice.
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Kaiami
My list goes
2. PW: AA
4. AJ Tie
Of course, I like the all. But.
I really miss the courtroom gameplay. I didn't let myself into any spoilers before I played, so I thought I was supposed to go up against defense attorneys, which never happened ;;
Spoiler: case 3 somewhat spoiler? Not really
I wish Phoenix was in it more. That one boat scene wasn't enough for me ;; Actually I kind of missed it. Going to replay later
I do like playing as Edgeworth though, since he's my favorite character and all. I just kind of miss his interaction with Nick
Ben Credable (PI)
The Potatoe's NOT a lie!! *cheers*
Location: Having fun in the land of potatoes! (Ahh! Potatobadger!)
A mixed feeling of gratification and dissapointment to be precise.
Don't get me wrong, the game was great, and I enjoyed every moment of it. However...
You don't even meet Kay or Shi-Long until the third case, and left too little for me to fully absorb their characters. They make up for it in case 4 for Kay...but still I wish there was more Shi-Long in there.
I think everyone has pretty much already stated my main sentiments, however...
Allow me to begin by saying that this is definitely the highest quality AA game yet. The sprites are beautiful, the music was splendid, and the gameplay was airtight (save some strange logic instances). It really seemed to be simply "next generation" instead of how AJ was just kind of... the same.
The story was great, too. Each case was isolated, but still weaved together by a common thread. It was pulled off excellently, and I enjoyed the darker, more serious atmosphere it conveyed. Not only that, but the new characters, especially Badd, Kay, Lang, and Yew (just her personality) were all freaking awesome.
It was not, however, without its faults as well. As others have mentioned, it is far too redundant at times, with who the killers turn out to be and certain instances surrounding the cases. Also:
Spoiler: "case 5"
Yew disappointed me. Her entire backstory ended up just being, "She was always part of the Ring, liek, OHNO!" Not only that, but the Alba battle was built up too much for only an anticlimactic breakdown. He avoided capture for way too long, but this is also due to how freaking convoluted the case was. I used to think the more crazy the better, but this case went a tad overboard. And finally, Alba's character himself was weak. We never found out about his motives or history, besides a few comments, or, really, anything about the character.
All in all, it was great, and is right there under the original AA and JFA. However, they could have done better.
Also, I miss being in court!
Kaiami wrote:
Capcom were actually wise to not include him as a prominent character. Besides, Edgeworth references him plenty of times during inner monologue.
momento wrote:
Not only that, but the Alba battle was built up too much for only an anticlimactic breakdown. He avoided capture for way too long
Like how a final villain should be; persistent until the definite end.
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Sorry to 'revive' it, but time for my own thoughts.
...Meh...Forget the previeous apology...
It hasn't been that long yet.
Anyway; I just finished the crap a moment ago and...maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan...
That was...Amazing!
I try to put this short, but it just might be the best AA -game (at least for me) yet!
...Sad fact that it happens to be a spinnoff game....
It like...Godot drinking tea instead of coffee, or at least using milk and sugar in it.
Could I have been able to put it more confusing?
The fact that three of five cases are actually flashback was kinda confusing at first,
but in the end player gets it nicely.
The new game style...It's actually nice for a change, though I hope the future games have the same defence attorney style.
Let this thing to be just for possible AAI sequels.
The logic system was a clever idea and is prettty cool.
Finally YOU have to think and not just let the game say what is the correct answer, though there are still much of that stuff too.
The only bad thing i that sometime you have totally the right idea, but the game accepts it with just and only whit these two things, even though you'd get the same thing with other one.
That's not that big deal though, since it doesn't happen more than only twice in the game if I recall right.
Though you might get annoyed by it...Meh...Your fault, you thought it wrong! :D
The thing with sprites and music...Frankly, I like the sprites in AA and AJ style more than the works in AAI style.
Those are just so colorful that they're kinda easy to make, though it limits the recolor works we'll see.
It's just that...They had to use limited colors with AA and AJ ones making them more like art to me.
I'm not saying AAI sprites are ugly or anything, no for heavens sake.
They're too cool infact, but I just find them to be too colorful in my taste; that's all.
If you like them more that's your business so don't go moaning over this, K?
The other thing with the sprites is that I find some of the poses too used.
I mean...Far too many villains seem to have a leaning pose and then just madly laughing.
The breakdown are too familliar with eacothers.
Though it is quite hard to make anything totaly new after five games and 23 cases so it is understandable.
Though I still complain a bit about the fact that every villain seems to have that mad laugh thing when they're done.
Yup. The music?
Fit's to game really well and is so Edgey like in my taste.
At first, when I listened the OST for first time, I didn't like that many songs in it.
Kay's theme, Badd's theme, Lang's theme, ItT and Pursuit theme were the only ones I actually really liked,
but the I actually hated the confrontation themes and so I did all the case five music.
However, after playing the game I found them quite good actually.
Prologu musics fit well, investigation music fits well; and even though you'll hear LOT of it, it won't matter. They just fit to mood that well.
At first I thought that the tricks theme sounded too much like just random blibgs and blungs, but after hearing them for quite many times...Well...You know.
Really loving the whole ost now, even the two embassies theme. Relaxing and fits whenever Palaeno is somwhere.
I find it nice and relaxing and...well as you can see from reading this; I've totally changed my mind over it.
As the plot? Well in that are this is simply far the best game yet.
The cases ]or at least the characters in them] finally had some deeper meaning to background story,
and there wasn't just five random cases with some bigger backstory.
Allthough AJ did get close to that, just AAI has made it so far.
You guys know what I mean...If not; please don't ask me to try clear this...I already did try to type what I mean more clearer in this message, but let's just say I went bit over too much...
Anyway, the story is great. So far most and best plot twists yet and the last cases villain...Just perfect!
Maybe nothing as they were in 1-4, 1-5, 2-4, 3-5 or 4-4, but he surely knew how to fight back.
Can't wait what kind creep they come up with in the next game.
I even have something to say 'bout the ending.
When I made it to the end and the "victory" (I prefer the using of conclusion in AAI) theme began playing;
It felt so awesome. Like I'd achieved something really big by beating that...Last villain...*Damnit spoilers! :D*
The end was so relaxing but the heart still didn't stop beating fast.
It's the first time I've felt this way with AA game, though I did have the same feel of joy and wistful feelings with me too.
I don't know what but this just felt bit different...somehow.
Overally, like I said, this just might be the best AA game yet.
Kinda ironic that it has to be the spinnoff serie one, but still.
I'd give it out of /10.
+ Cool new features like the logic system and the new gameplay style
+ Nice easter eggs for the players who have played the other games. All from bellboy to Lotta.
+ No Phoenix. It is a good thing, since if he would have appeared it would have ruined Edgeys game. Nice that he is still referred to, and best that not directly mentioning him.
+ Music, sprites and backgrounds
+ New cast of characters who stay typical to other AA games
- You might get stck for long time during the investigation, just because you've forgotten to check one dust ball in the corner that ends up being a murder weapon (...Well...Not exactly but soemthing like this)
- The game may be bit easy, allthought in some parts it can be quite hard. It's in minus list because overally the hardness level bounces too much.
- Somehow you just want just a little more, even though you don't know what
This concludes my...well I guess you could call this as review in some way.
Good game and really worth of all the money you're going to spend over it.
stienerguy
As a normal game it's awesome, as an Ace Attorney game it's solid. What surprisingly annoyed me is that there is just too many cameos and characters returning from previous games, while isn't really a bad thing but it does cut down the number of suspects. Case 5 is a good example. It just loses some of the mystery of the case. The amount of returning characters does make it feel a bit too much like fan service sadly.
Best thing is for me is that all cases were pretty well made. I only really had issues with case 2 but it wasn't that bad. You can tell Capcom put a lot of effort into it. I personally didn't see any holes in the overall story. I would give it 8.7
DefenceLawyer
...Well, I was really looking forward to a great new ace attorney game... but sadly I was dissapointed, I give this game a 3/10 at most, (And I would rate it Less then that if Shi-Long-Lang wasn't in it.) But hopefully Capcom havn't lost their magic, and will make a great new GS5.
machinimator
I wouldn't call it the BEST Ace Attorney game, but only because the previous ones have a lot to live up to.
+The music. I was really psyched hearing the new Cross Examination music, especially because those are the most interactive moments in the game. My impression had always been that the Examination music for both GS3 and GS4 were completely unfitting and not 'tense' enough, even in the Allegro. Confrontation ~ Presto made up for it all though.
+Plot/how it happened. Nothing was unsatisfying about the intense revelations that came of the last case, and even the twists behind some of the leading cases were good. The only thing missing at times was a bit of personal involvement, something which usually comes with defending someone innocent.
+Characters. AJ sort of annoyed me with its characters being way too caricaturistic (just drilling in one word like "GANGSTER!" or "SCHOLAR!") and uncreative, or just plain annoying. Though Edgeworth himself is kind of a stick in the mud, it does fit well with the cast presented. Even people like the flight attendant and 'Juliet'-esque girl were pretty well-done. I also appreciated the change from Trucy to Kay. She's not a 'damsel' (the trouble Maya had) and she takes the situation seriously without getting sidetracked or teasing the protagonist (the trouble Trucy had) while still making amusing (and occasionally idiotic) commentary during investigation. All is as it should be!
+The changes to investigation seemed to go well. I remember one huge complaint people had for earlier games was being stuck not knowing which insignificant item to present to the one person who hasn't disappeared yet, and such. Logic was occasionally reduced to some kinda small figures; making me wonder if it might have been better even if a few red herrings were thrown in.
-I dunno about anyone else, but there's something a bit less dramatic about making accusations in a hallway than in a courtroom.
-Waaaay too much beating about the bush at times. I remember crossexam objections where they would go through a 15-part tangent conversation about the Steel Samurai's performance and Oldbag's love, before Edgeworth even reveals the item in question you presented. Worst part was that it wasn't even funny. The quotes gallery for this game is quite noticably smaller than in others, like at times they were just trying too hard. This could be an issue with the protagonist; Edgeworth is a bit less prone to humor than others. Of course, I also feel it might be from the streamlining of investigation.
-Might have been too easy at times. It's probably hard to know for the designers to know when the player has it, or how far the hints should be, but still, there were some really inexcusable times. Like such.
Edgeworth: Hmm...is there anything I can use to prove that?
Me: Yup, the autopsy report. Give me the prompt.
Edgeworth: But is there anything connected to the body I can use?...
Me: The autopsy report. I know. The contradiction is right there.
Edgeworth: Wait! That report I got from Detective Gumshoe earlier...!
Me: Oh, come on. There's only one item in the CR that's labelled a "report"...
Edgeworth: IT MUST BE THE AUTOPSY REPORT! WHERE DID I PUT IT? (touch your response below!)
Me: ....................that's it, I'm gonna present his prosecutor's badge just to see what happens.
I'm gone for so long, and the colors got all psychedelic! Woohoo!
Lord Seth
I've just beaten it. My thoughts, which are a bit jumbled.
This was definitely better than Apollo Justice. There were five cases instead of four, and the ending wasn't a giant anticlimax (it actually felt like I won the game and the final question wasn't "Do you want to win the game? Yes/No"). I did have one problem with the final part, though, and that's how often "everything is doomed!" followed by someone saying "hold it!" was used. I liked it at first and gave me the same kind of feeling back in 1-4 of it being a team effort, but they overdid it unfortunately.
One problem was the villains. For the most part their stories feel...unfinished. This applies especially to Shih-Na, whose departure from the game is extremely abrupt and I expected the whole time we'd see something more of her at the end. Also, how DID Alba go from a decorated war hero into the head of a smuggling ring? This was the only game in the series where I was actually sort of hoping we'd see some of the villains in the epilogue (in prison obviously).
I did like the fact we saw a lot of old faces, but seriously...why was Ema in this game? Now I like Ema, but she contributes pretty much nothing. Larry and Oldbag contributed something to the story, Ema's appearance was extremely brief and may as well have been written out.
Also, why did they never even say Phoenix's name? I don't mind him not appearing, but I don't get why his name is somehow taboo.
Stuff I liked:
Larry and Oldbag. I'm sorry, but they just cracked me up.
The fact your lifebar doesn't go down as much when you mess up. The previous games practically forced save scumming (at least for me), so I think it was nice that this game was more lenient on mistakes. One thing I do wish they had done, though, was not kept the penalties so fixed. You always lose the exact same amount. Would've been nice if they had alternated it a bit, like sometimes making it higher than normal or lower than normal. Not too often, but it would've been cool to have it happen a few times.
Playing as Edgeworth was just plain great. Edgeworth isn't quite as funny as Phoenix in his verbal dialogue, but he more than made up for it with his hilarious inner snarking.
Franziska's back! Woohoo! I thought her younger self was also great, and especially loved the fact she had a smaller whip.
Kay was great, hope to see her in another game.
Overall, though, a very good game. I really wouldn't mind seeing another game in the Ace Attorney Investigations series. In the meantime, guess it's time to wait for the next normal Ace Attorney game...whenever they release it. Hopefully it'll also be really good!
Bad Player
1000% Knight
I really liked it.
My rankings:
AA>=(AAI/T&T?)>AJ>JFA
I know I don't like it more than AA. But I don't know if I like it the same as AA, or less than AA, and if I like it less than AA, I don't know how I like it compared to T&T. It's different, so I don't really know how to place it... Oh well, I'll figure it out eventually :P Either way, they're all great games (except 2-4 )
Credit to Evolina for the sig+avatar!
Fangames: New Year's Turnabout - Turnabout Substitution - Silence of the Turnabout - Turnabout Pairs - Two Sides of the Same Turnabout
Watatata~!
call me crazy
I can definitely say the game is amazing, and the case characters are by far I can say (but just my opinion), the most interesting and easily likable. Particularly the interaction between them (like comments in-game about Kay upstaging Gumshoe) and each to everyone's own unique quirks and quotes.
Though I think the deal of the game though is that I feel it really won't have the same impact to someone who is new to the realms of Ace Attorney, compared to a beloved fan from the start. Starting off with the many references and cameos, that are also somewhat important in certain scenarios, that really won't hit off with someone unfamiliar with them. Plus certain jokes that will kinda seem flat to someone without outside knowledge.
But overall, I find it great, but hopefully it will not replace the original format of the series...but it's also one of those things were you truly have to experienced in the older games to really appreciate it.
davech1987
OBJECTION.I object that is objectionable
I finished the game afew years ago and I am currently replaying it I have just got up to case 4 and from what I have so far and what I remember, Overall it is an excellent game. The music is very well done my fav theme is persuit lying coldly and confess the truth and can't beat the yatagarasu theme. Case 3 has some odd inconsistances and logic leaps as I worked out 3 pieces of evidence that you could use to contridict a statement but the game only lets you use one :(
Overall i give it a 9 out of 10
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth- Sherlock Holmes
randomly_ren09
currently stuck in P3 pitfall
Location: the abode of peace
justis76 wrote:
Yeah, same here too!! AAI1 is my all-time favourite AA game so far!! Also, the other reason I like AAI1 is because of more explanations between Edgeworth and Franziska (yep, I'm a sucker for the two of them XD).
uhh... still waiting for a new sig to be made...
WaitingforGodot
[Whip the cream!]
It was good fun, I liked it more than I thought I would. The "big bad" was frustrating as hell, though, it took such a long time, and, hah... Uhm. But overall it was a really nice game with grand music and many fun characters.
Gimme a "P"! Gimme an "I"! Give me a "P" and an "E"! What's that spell?! Pipe!
Nearavex
Y'know
I disliked Turnabout Reminiscence. It was perfect at the start, but something really went wrong, when Edgeworth and Franziska kept saying something about "being considerate" or "being brave little girl" about Badd/Gumshoe and Kay respectively near the end.
I mean, are you serious...? I get it Miles and Franziska are close to each other and that is cool, but come on... Why would they care about whether or not that incompetent detective or that detective in charge of the case is considerate or not... That characterization was terrible.
Also, am I the only one who cringed at that courthouse design? Courtyard placed that way and that unnecessarily long hallway just to the restroom... I can't even imagine how the building itself should look, really.
I mean, this. This would have worked exactly the same. Actually, I think I'm gonna pretend it did.
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Nearavex wrote:
...How? You can barely see the hallway from the restroom.
(The only point of Udgey's testimony was that he looked in the hallway through the window and saw Gummy wasn't there, but if he can only see a small part of the hallway, that testimony is meaningless.)
JesusMonroe
It's not nearly as bad as Edgeworth's parking spot in 1-5 with a giant wall behind him
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May 14th - 16th, 2020
Edgewood College | The Stream
Wisconsin Wrights and Forward Theater Company support and develop new theatrical work, awarding three Wisconsin playwrights with the rare opportunity to develop their plays in a professional public reading series.
We are currently selecting the three plays for this year's festival, and will announce them soon!
WHAT IS WISCONSIN WRIGHTS?
Our biennial new play festival that features up to three works by Wisconsin playwrights. After a submission and selection process, selected playwrights communicate with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors to develop their plays, culminating in public readings at the festival. Each night is dedicated to a single play.
The next WI Wrights Play Festival is May 14th-16th, 2020. It will be presented in The Stream performing arts center at Edgewood College (1000 Edgewood College Dr., Madison, WI).
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Wisconsin Wrights was created in fall 2006 through a partnership between the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies in Theatre, the UW-Madison University Theatre, and Madison Repertory Theatre. The founding partners were joined by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in 2007 and Forward Theater Company in 2009. Edenfred/Terry Family Foundation supported the Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project from the beginning by providing one-week residencies for the three finalists in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2013. Forward Theater Company accepted stewardship of the Wisconsin Wrights program from the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies in the summer of 2014 and will continue to coordinate the program as a reading series for new works.
Hamm in Love and War by Eric Appleton (Madison)
Synopsis: Benton Hamm, condiment magnate, has come to the island kingdom of Rhipidos to acquire the world's finest olive oil. This hysterical farce follows his travails as he braves chain-smoking artists, hard-drinking art dealers, amateur cookbook authors, tennis with the King, lusty Russian diplomats, and a coup d'etat.
Dionysus on the Down Low by Michael Proft (Cedarburg)
Synopsis: LGBT activist David Okello flees his native Uganda after an anti-homosexuality bill is proposed in Ugandan parliament and his life is threatened. Settling in Boston, MA, with Matthew Teitman, an ACLU LGBT expert who helped him obtain political asylum, the two men embark on a relationship. The play explores where the sexual and political meet, and where disparate cultures, values and desires struggle to find common ground. NOTE: This play contains strong language and sexual situations. It is intended for mature audiences.
No Wake by Erica Berman (Madison)
Synopsis: With determination and a bullhorn, elderly Peter Michaels is on a mission to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee, who are dying in record numbers. His summer expectations are thwarted by Sarah, a townie teenager hired to clean the house next door. No Wake tells the story of an intergenerational bond sprung out of loneliness and loss that forces this unlikely pair to confront their fears and teach each other how to move on.
Additional Development:
- Full production at Chamber Theatre in February/March 2020 as part of their 2019-20 season.
- Staged reading at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in April 2018 as part of the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series.
In a Clearing by Karen Saari
Synopsis: Set in a small town in Northern Wisconsin, In a Clearing centers around Mark, a newly recovering alcoholic embarking on a relationship with Pam, a childhood friend who has returned home in the wake of a family tragedy. As Mark copes with sobriety, he begins to suffer from flashbacks to an event that may eventually threaten his relationship and the life he is trying to rebuild.
- In a Clearing was accepted into the PlayLab at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska (2017).
- Playwright Karen Saari named finalist for the ATHE Award for Excellence in Playwriting for In a Clearing. (ATHE is the Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
- Member Open Play reading at Playwrights Center in Minneapolis on Oct. 16, 2016.
- Semi-finalist in Capital Stage's Playwrights Revolution (Sacramento).
- Semi-finalist in IATI Theater's Cimientos 2017 (New York City).
Faithless by Michael Proft
Synopsis: In 1906 Boston, journalist Sibyl Wilford O’Bryne interviews the renowned Mary Baker Eddy, 86, founder of Christian Science. Eddy has recently been under attack by Joseph Pulitzer’s gutter press, who dispute Eddy’s mental and physical competency. As the women’s relationship grows, it becomes clear that Eddy is not the only one who is in crisis.
- Staged reading at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in May 2016 as part of the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series
Learning to Stay by James DeVita
Synopsis: Adapted from the 2013 novel by Madison-based author Erin Celello, Learning to Stay asks what you would do when the person you're married to is no longer the person you married. Attorney Elise Sabatto is thrilled when her husband returns home in one piece from his military service in Iraq. But as the after-effects of his trauma set in, Elise must find a way to help him – and save herself.
- World Premiere - Commissioned as part of Forward Theater Company's 2016-17 mainstage season, produced in March 2017
Waiting by Kimberly Megna Yarnall
Synopsis: Crystal and John are married professionals who shop at REI, and eat canned soup sometimes because it's easier. They also can't get pregnant. Armando and Darla guide the audience along on Crystal and John's quest for a baby, often playing the other characters Crystal and John have to deal with: fertility doctors, nosy colleagues, overly-friendly dentists. It's a story about wanting something and having to wait for it, and how to negotiate life in the interim.
- Staged Reading at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in October 2013 as part of The Montgomery Davis Play Development Series
Discovering Austen by Kristin Hammargren
Synopsis: Visit the dressing room of an actor who has been cast as Jane Austen herself. Still searching for the essence of her character only hours from opening, she explores Austen’s writing in an attempt to find the author in the pages of her novels and letters.
- On April 15th-24th of 2014, Kristin performed the show at 6 libraries around Madison through a Beyond the Page grant.
Coyote Moon by Sam D. White
Synopsis: Life can be hard for a young man just starting out. Especially if you just lost your job, your girlfriend is having your baby and marrying another guy, and, on the next full moon, you're pretty sure you're going to turn into a were-coyote. Maybe the best thing to do is go out back at your mom's country-side tavern, lock a tow chain around your neck, and hope for the best... but then again, maybe not.
- Produced by the Bartell Theatre in April 2016
- Staged Reading produced by The Bricks Theatre on April 21, 2014, at the Bartell Theatre in conjunction with their production of Oatesland which premiered on April 17, 2014
Oatesland by Sam D. White
Synopsis: A small 3-person, covert military intelligence team is stationed in an old, abandoned weather station in a remote Antarctic location. Their dubious mission - to spy on a nearby Russian research station. From the onset, things are out of whack. The weather is too warm, rare animals not normally seen are abundant, and a ghostly presence is haunting the station. The long hours and isolation take their toll on the soldiers. A complex set of events and deteriorating mental states send the team spiraling into a dark and inescapable conclusion.
- Produced by Bartell Theatre in April 2014
- Workshop and staged reading with Forward Theater in May 2012
- Workshop and Staged Reading with The Bricks Theatre in May 2013
October, Before I was Born by Lori Matthews
Synopsis: In the early hours after an industrial explosion, three family members await word on the fate of their loved ones employed at the facility. Martha, Anne and Houston are stranded together in a rural farmhouse, without a car and with only limited information about the unfolding disaster. As Martha attempts to diffuse Anne’s rising hysteria, Houston’s misguided efforts only serve to fuel the emotional explosions building in the family kitchen.
- Workshop and Staged Reading as part of the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights in Abingdon, VA in August 2011
- Workshop and Stage Reading with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in September 2011
- Full Production by The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia in October 2012
- Full Production by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, February 19-March 9, 2014
The Kid Thing by Sarah Gubbins
Synopsis: Lesbian couples Lee & Darcy and Nate & Margot are the closest of friends - that is, until a dinner party announcement brings major change. It’s all fun and games until someone mentions “the kid thing” in this new play about attraction, maternal instinct and parenthood.
- Full Production by the Chicago Dramatists Guild in October 2011
Broken and Entered by Kurt McGinnis Brown
Synopsis: Vern and Wally inherit the house in the poor neighborhood they grew up in. Vern hatches a plan: throw out everything and then break into houses to fill up the house again with itemsfrom what he imagines are other people's better lives. Wally secretly plans another kind of escape with Jamila, who has moved back to this neighborhood where she too grew up. When these plans clash, this play about race, poverty, rage, and love reaches a brutal climax that reveals the consequences of trying to become a stranger to one's past.
- Full Production by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in September 2012
- Staged reading at ART/New York, New York, NY, June 2010. Thom Rivera, director
- Finalist in Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest, 2010
- Workshop and staged reading by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in March 2010 as part of their Montgomery David Play Development Series. Susan Fete, Renaissance Theaterworks, director
The Lightning Bug by Rand Higbee
Synopsis: The year is 1939. The offices of the Magnopolis Daily News are buzzing over the rumored return of Dr. Kasady, the evil genius intent on global domination. As the reporters fight to get the scoop, little do they realize that one of their own, the unassuming Rishamie Reid, holds the key to defeating Kasady and saving the world.
- Full production at Prince William Sound Community College in Valdez, Alaska, in April of 2011
- Full production at St. Mary's University in Winona, MN, Sept 2010
- Finalist in Lionheart Theatre's 2010 Make the House Roar contest
Kiritsis by David Ray Schanker
Synopsis: The play tells the true story of a small-time real estate developer who in 1977 abducted the mortgage broker who foreclosed on the property where he had hoped to build a strip mall. Anthony Kiritsis held his hostage for three days, venting his frustration on live radio and ultimately on television. The play explores the relationship between the two men - one volatile and anti-religious, the other conservative and devout - in the pressure cooker of the hostage situation.
- Workshop and staged reading of “Kiritsis” by Forward Theater Company in May 2010
- Forward dedicated their Monologue Festival in February 2011 to David and featured the premiere of a monologue written by him.
Choke Cherry Corners by Ludmilla Bollow
Synopsis: Tavern & Dance Hall Victims of the Great Depression, a Wisconsin family is forced to live in a closed down tavern and dance hall, once the scene of immigrant celebrations. Auntie Iris, the colorful and gaudy traveling relative arrives for her annual visit on the evening of Celia's twelfth birthday. A night of celebration and family intrigues follows. By morning, all these intertwined lives have been frayed and shredded. A bittersweet portrayal of a Midwest family surviving Depression hard times.
The Front Steps by Marcia Jablonski
Synopsis: The Front Steps chronicles the transformation of a Chicago neighborhood from the mid-1970’s through the start of the new century. An unexpected community of characters is formed as the residents watch their surroundings change from a refuge for immigrants, to a haven for artists and eventually a magnet for real estate speculators. The play also explores the definition of “family.”
- Staged Reading by Merit Theatre & Film group at Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre in New York City in March 2013
- Recipient of the first New Work Development Grant, a cooperative effort of the Wisconsin State Arts Board, Edenfred and Overture Center for the Arts
- Full Production at The Alley Stage in Mineral Point, WI, July/August 2010
- Selected by the Madison Repertory Theatre for their 2009 New Play Festival. Unfortunately, the Madison Rep folded prior to this event happening
A Thousand Words by Gwendolyn Rice
Synopsis: When a box of photos and personal papers belonging to Ernest Hemingway is discovered in the back room of a bar in Havana, Cuba, lots of people lay claim to them, including a powerful museum and a woman who says she is the long-lost granddaughter of the photographer. The nature of art, authenticity, marketing, and the power of pictures versus words are explored in this story that alternates between the 1930s and the present day.
- Co-production by Forward Theater Company (Madison performances Jan/Feb 2012) and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Feb/March 2012)
- Staged reading with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in March 2009
The Queen of Janesville by Greg Lawless
Synopsis: After a series of disappointing Irish girls, Adam Haviland hires the daughter of an ex-slave to keep his house, which, after a string of lousy investments, he stands to lose. But a far greater threat is the escalating rivalry between his identical twin sons, who stake out opposite sides of the impending Civil War. Caught in the middle is Nettie, who manages business and survival in this dramatic satire about love, money, bigotry and war.
Recovering the Real Me by Kurt McGinnis Brown
Synopsis: It’s a great time to be an alcoholic. Medical science has created a pill that eliminate one’s craving for a drink. You’re cured! And yet. And yet. Boo Champagne, retired from professional baseball at age 30, steps out of a treatment center loaded with pills that eliminate his cravings. He’s a new person, and he intends to say goodbye to his destructive way of life. Yet real people were involved in that life, and Boo becomes entangled in dramas that endanger his recovery. In this play about addiction and identity, Boo finds that killing his former life might involve killing somebody else.
- Abingdon Theatre Company, New York, NY, January 2009. Tom Rowan, director
- Abingdon Theatre Company, New York, NY, March 2008. Julie Hamberg, director
- Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, IL, October 2007. Richard Shavzin, director
- Madison Repertory Theatre, Madison, WI, October 2007. Trevin Gay, director
- Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK, June 2007. Kurt McGinnis Brown, director
Normal Human Beings by Bruce Murphy
Synopsis: Normal Human Beings is a comic drama set at the time of Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Three old friends, a married couple and their male friend, all in their 40s, see their relationship change when the friend introduces his new “swinger” girlfriend, a former student who happens to resemble the couple’s daughter. The question of what are the boundaries of acceptable sexual behavior drives the action.
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Official Minecraft iOS, Android Release Coming Later This Year
February 21, 2011 | By Mike Rose
More: Indie
Markus Persson, founder of Mojang, the Swedish developer behind indie phenomenon Minecraft, has exclusively revealed to Gamasutra that an official iOS version of the hit open-world game is currently in the works for iPhone and iPad.
The port is being developed by Aron Neiminen, a new recruit to the Mojang team, and will be released later this year.
Persson said that the iOS edition will not receive every update that the original browser and download version gets, but rather will be granted those features that "make sense" for the touch-screen platform.
The game has received numerous unofficial Minecraft releases on iPhone and iPad, but this is the first official iOS release from the Mojang team.
[UPDATE: Weblog Kotaku is reporting that an official Android-compatible version of Minecraft is also in the works for later this year.]
Minecraft is currently in the beta stages, with a full release planned sometime this year. So far over 1.3 million copies of the game have been purchased, with nearly five million registered accounts on the official site.
Gamasutra talked to Persson recently as part of the Road to the IGF series. The developer discussed his inspirations for Minecraft, including the likes of Dwarf Fortress, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Dungeon Keeper.
He said, "I knew from the start that I wanted it to be a fantasy resource-based first person adventure type of game, but it took quite a while to reach that point."
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Separate Leaderboards - A Proposal/Idea
Started by Velvet, November 20, 2019
Velvet 199
Here we go, kiddos. Grab your snacks and a capri sun, it's time to rock'n'roll.
If you saw “leaderboard” in the title of this thread and immediately rolled your eyes, I feel you. Roll away, boo. But hear me out while you’re rolling around, as (hopefully) you might cling on to something in here. Looking for a civil conversation/debate about this.
The LBs have been hot topic for... well, years now. “They’re cheating”, “they’re a team”, “he’s a hack”, “this isn’t fair”, etc etc. We’ve all heard it, read it, watched the disastrous arguments that have come from it all while sharing a giant bowl of buttery popcorn. So I have a proposal. Full disclosure, this is not solely my idea. I’m the one posting because sometimes that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I also don’t really care about my personal position on leaderboards (unless I know you and I'm close to passing you, then I care a lot because I'm trying to take you down, lol), but I’m not oblivious to the fact that something is wonky with them right now. This also isn’t meant to tear down any specific top-of-the-leaderboard people. It’s simply to level the playing field. The timing of this going up is questionable, but I assure you, it’s unrelated to recent events. This has been an ongoing discussion with some friends for a few now.
The proposal is simple. Two separate leaderboards – One for individuals, one for teams. Again, just… hear me out.
How do you separate them? With one little checkbox. Mind you I know very little about coding/setting up sites, but what if a checkbox was added to your profile settings that simply said “Team Account”. Checking this box will remove you from the Individual Leaderboard and move you to a Team Account Leaderboard. There won’t be any sort of red flag on your profile, no sort of “shaming”, no bright colored “T” to go next to that shiny “P” and “H”, none of that. Just a crisp and clean separation on the leaderboards.
“As if people are going to admit to being on a team”. You might be right, but the proposal continues. Along with the checkbox is just very simple and clear instructions/guidelines regarding the separation. If you claim to be a team and check that box, good on ya - but that action cannot be undone. Once you’re claimed as a Team, you’re a Team forever. If you want Individual status, a new account would be the way to go (or a really, really, really nice message to a Mod asking to overturn it). If you’re a Team and you do not check that box, then tread lightly. If it comes out (with proof of course) that you are a Team account, your account will be marked as a Team and you’ll be moved over to the correct leaderboard. Further actions can be taken if staff so wish, but the separation is delicious enough imo. No dispute thread (no matter how entertaining they can be to read at times).
How is a team account defined? That’s the gray area that needs to be worked out. I had a friend help with the Crushing run for UC 2. Because he helped, does that make me a team account? I don’t think so, I think it just means I suck at games like that, lol, but others might think differently. If you actively have multiple people earning trophies/playing games on your account, that would better qualify as a team account obviously, but again, gray area. Make it a %, make it a certain # of games, make it whatever your heart desires. Just define it as best as possible.
What will this change? Well, for starters, Joe with the fulltime job earning his own trophies doesn’t stand a chance against Larry, Moe, and Curly who are all playing on the same account. It would be nice to see Joe go up against someone in his same boat, the same playing field, if you will. Larry, Moe, and Curly on the other hand, are better to go up against Ike, Mike, Jake, and Sam who all play on the same account.
Team vs Team.
Individual vs Individual.
Obviously this is a rough draft that is far from perfect and far from clean, but it’s a proposal none the less. Just to reiterate, this is not meant to tear anyone down or take anything away from anyone (emphasis on anyone). That's not my gig. It's simply an attempt to level things out.
zenovka 40
Well articulated and thought out . I dont see why it couldn't be done. I think it would be interesting to see what teams could do if they weren't hiding. Just my 2 cents
Doucet-182 328
Well said, Velvet.
Love the idea and hope something like this gets implemented.
Tuffinz_ 39
As you know, I love this idea
sepheroithisgod 368
I support the idea, but I see problems.
1) How can you prove there is a team account?
You are allowed to play multiple games on different systems as it stands now. (i.e playing a telltale game on your ps3 and playing Uncharted 4 on your PS4). That means it is already accepted that if a timestamp is identical, it's ok. I could be missing something obvious here tho.
2) You're relying on the honesty of your fellow gamers.
Let's be honest, not everyone is honest. And if there isn't a reliable way to catch this, it turns into he said she said argument. This would probably be the mods nightmare.
3) You suggested a one-time click checkbox.
I think this would probably be a nightmare as well. I guarantee new members would play around with the settings and would need a mod to fix this. I think it needs a few "Are you sure about this?" popups.
1 minute ago, sepheroithisgod said:
It's definitely mostly honesty based and far from perfect.
That being said I think it's still an improvement over the current system.
I agree a few extra "are you sure? this is reversible" type popups would help with new users playing with settings etc.
Edited November 20, 2019 by Tuffinz_
4 minutes ago, sepheroithisgod said:
Team accounts are usually outed due to a lapse. 72 hours straight of trophy earning, people being outed, people coming clean. The ways it happens varies. There's even an instance of someone playing COD alongside I think it was a Dragon Age game, like ok sure that's possible lol.
2) That's the big issue with it and my main beef with it. If you're going to be a team account and are currently #5, you'd move up by moving over to the Team Leaderboard, which I would think would be a positive, but you'd have a much more difficult time keeping that rank because you're going up against other teams.
3) Yeah the checkbox is a WIP, but the gist is there. Definitely at least a warning of "this action can't be undone". Agreed on that, 100%.
AvengedEvil 611
+1 👍
Squirlruler 1,908
I like the idea but it will never happen for a number of reasons, mostly being that team accounts are doing it specifically to rank on the "individual" leaderboard and thus will never voluntarily check that box.
4 minutes ago, Squirlruler said:
And that's a fair point. But as velvet said it's not hard these days to figure out with almost certainty which accounts are teams
Just now, zenovka said:
So we are going to have mods going through and marking accounts then?
freddie1989 1,748
Love the idea, not sure how it work but all for it if ti can be done.
Position on the leaderboard is determined by a couple of things, one of them being time available to play and the other being a willingness to play trash just for trophies. I myself am happy with the games I play but know that my place is pretty much where it is now as I don't have the additional time and am not willing to play multiple stacks of the same 15 minute plats to move up because its kind of embarrassing in truth.
At least this idea would help move some of them out to a place where they are competing on a level playing field.
24 minutes ago, Velvet said:
That's a pretty fair point. I didn't think about ridiculously long trophy earning sessions as an indicator.
Edited November 20, 2019 by sepheroithisgod
1 minute ago, Squirlruler said:
Just look towards the top of them and it should stick out.
1 minute ago, freddie1989 said:
And then you have mods marking them, the owners getting pissed that they don't think they are a team account and you have lots of drama. Sounds fun.
I have lots of ready.
The last thing I want this to turn into is a finger-pointing game of people being accused of being a team account simply because they binged out on trophies for 3 months. The finer details will need to be worked out and every account will have the option to be honest up front. We all know of team accounts just based on reputation throughout the community over the years, but it needs to be handled civilly as it can easily get out of hand. Even if it's something that's eased in to. Don't do a separate leaderboard right away, but offer the option for the checkbox to be preemptive. If that's not received well or ends up being a failing disaster, we can call the whole thing off and just pretend it never happened, lol.
I don't know I think others would maybe be honest. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic. I didn't want to flat out delete my account off of here and I haven't broken leaderboard rules but I don't feel real great about being #6 in the US when I've admitted to having someone else work on my account.
So what I did was throw "team account" into my about me. Which I suppose is sort of what V is proposing here, just in a more official way.
I think it's worth, if nothing else a trial period.
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I think this would be the unfortunate outcome.
Regardless of people's honesty in ticking "Team Account" I feel it could end up like a dispute system where it would come down to moderators to analyse accounts, messages from users saying that an individual account is a team account based on certain trophy patterns, backlash for changing accounts over from one to another.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea for a leaderboard if something could be done to determine Team Accounts at Sony's end, but getting it to work on PSNP could prove to be more trouble than its worth.
1 minute ago, FawltyPowers said:
This is something I thought about as well. The last thing I want to do is make anyone's job more difficult than it has to be and it's easy to propose something like this, but it's just words. The hands on and dirty work will be done by other individuals who already do a lot around the site, so it's basically saying "hey girl, I heard you wanted more work to do, got good news for you!".
The initiation of it will be the, pardon my French, shittiest part. It's a massive change that involves everyone on the leaderboards and isn't a "snap of the finger" change that can happen. That's impossible. It'll basically go from "this is shit", "this is less shit", "this sucks", "this doesn't suck as much", "is everyone done yet?", "good enough", "dammit Bob where did you come from". It's not a days change, even a weeks change. It'd have to be implemented over a long enough period of time so everyone understands the rules and so everyone has a chance to make their decisions. Then a grace period after the cut off date for those who didn't get it the first time. After awhile, it'll start to mellow out and will end up being like Flagged games. Daily stinkers, but no where near the volume if this was attempted to be done in a short time frame.
I think everyone can agree it's a touchy subject for sure . And there would be things to work out. I honestly think it would be more positive than negative. Yes there will always be those that cry fowl, but most of the time those that do are hiding something to begin with .
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I don't see this going anywhere. It would ahve to be policed by the mods and what would the team leader board really look like. There's probably only a couple hundred teams. There's no way to definitively prove someone is or is not a team. So it would just be a bunch of drama as people are accused of actually being a team.
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1 hour ago, Velvet said:
This wouldn’t stop the “Player XYZ is really a team of people” accusations. Do we distinguish between teams of 2,3,4 etc to further level the playing field?
Just sounds like a nightmare for the mods and I’m not really seeing the upside.
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There is a theorical and immediate way to find out who's playing as a team or solo. The first thing to see is, obviously, what is their "trophies per day" percentage in their main profile. A number > 8-9 is a good starting point. But then things get complicates because there are 3 things to check:
1 - which kind of games they play
2 - if the team "takes turns like they would do in a factory -> 4 friends: A plays 2 hours, then stop - B plays 3 hours, then stop - C plays 6 hour, then stop - D plays 5 hours, then stop. This way they would cover 16 hours on 24 total (it's just an example, could be more or even less, but if less can be just 1 player with no job)
3 - if the team plays all together with undefined numbers of consoles all at the same time
Thus, if someone stays silent and doesn't voluntary mark the "team account checkbox", then a system bot or a mod should do for them at that point.
If they fall into the 1st case the whole team account thing will be wrong, because I've seen a lot of people that plays just visual novels and/or very easy games and platinuming 5 of those 1 hour plats in a day won't do them a team.
The 2nd case is a grey area. A guy with no job can play even 15 hours in a day
The 3rd case is the only way to find out who's playing as a team
Edited November 20, 2019 by X_Wizi_X
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Wouldn't work as it's basically an opt-in system that has a LOT of grey areas and the forums will just be flooded with 'disputes' of how to prove that you're working alone that I can't see even a big team of moderators willing to put up with. I like the spirit of the idea but in practice it's a non-starter.
dzstrpc 151
Another leaderboard idea? I respect that!
Sony should have made Cross-Play and Cross-Save mandatory when they released the Vita and PS4. 1 game = 1 trophylist
Now we have to accept it's broken. Forever!
There are so many ''ideas'' supposed to be implemented to this site, ribbons etc. so I can't see this leaderboard happening.
Why not a Stack Free Leaderboard, a No Multi Region Leaderboard etc. while we're at it.
Many people here have the mindset ''But I play hard games. I deserve to be world#1'' Sad news is that no matter how you tweak leaderboards
to your advantage the chance of you being even in the top 50's is slim to none.
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L_No 2017-11-22 11:03:37 UTC #21
I’ve just backed Session on Kickstarter, a skateboarding game in the vein of the Skate games - but mainly for pc this time (Skate was only released on consoles, to my great frustration). It hit 50% of the goal within 10 hours. Might be worth taking a look at if you’re into extreme sports games.
LarsWestergren 2017-11-22 12:43:07 UTC #22
@L_No nice. 60% funded now. Link.
K’Nossos made it by a hair.
Less pleasant news. Drama from 2013 Kickstarter project Project Phoenix, including accusations of embezzling. Like @alms said, with Early Access (or crowdfunding) you get to see the sausage made in all its glory. It has made me at least more understanding of why most publishers are highly risk averse.
Internet 2017-11-25 15:29:07 UTC #23
Project Phoenix was always fairly sketchy. They didn’t really have a team assembled around the project, and was a poster boy for put up a couple of assets in a forgotten genre and print money. Confederate Express had more finished art and more to show.
Luckily, crowdfunding as a whole has attracted few large video game scams, and as a whole seems to wind up better than quite a few publishers.
By the way, Homestuck Adventure released in September. Go figure.
EPICTHEFAIL 2017-11-25 16:07:07 UTC #25
Does it? I’ll take the “few scams” point, but it seems to have produced as many high-profile duds (Yooka-Laylee, Mighty No. 9, Broken Age, et cetera) as it has PoEs, Elites and Prison Architects. Plus there’s the fact that it seems to generate an awful lot of clones of games that came out twenty years ago and can be blamed for fuelling much of the current deluge of genre throwbacks, remakes, remasters and barely disguised do-overs.
The number of successes vastly outnumber the duds. If you wish to argue the point we can compare and criticise lists. IMO Broken Age was really good. Mighty No 9 did seem to be lacking a certain something. Yooka-Laylee got pretty mixed reviews I thought, some people really liked it? It’s on my backlog, I’m looking forward to trying it.
Clones, hmm, maybe. Define clone? Having the same mechanics or genres as games popular before doesn’t make a game a clone, in my opinion.
I absolutely don’t think Kickstarter is “to blame” for the popularity of remakes, remasters or do-overs. Those, like the proliferation of sequels, are another symptom of conservatism in taste. Humans tend to like the familiar, and be sceptical of the new. It helped us survive in a world of poisonous plants, and now it drives the advertising industry. Genre throwbacks Kickstrarter probably did help spread, but I don’t see that as a negative.
gordianblot 2017-11-26 22:08:12 UTC #27
I wasn’t crazy about Yooka-Laylee or Broken Age, but I wouldn’t call them duds. I mean, if I had put down my money early for a kickstarter then I wouldn’t want a refund for either. They both were what the developers promised, to a reasonable level of quality and seemingly done in earnest.
I definitely wouldn’t throw the blame for remasters on Kickstarter. More often than not, those don’t get put on Kickstarter because they’re easy sells and don’t cost a whole lot to make.
Conservativism on Kickstarter is probably a thing. People always get on big publishers for being conservative but I don’t see that as the reason we see a lot of same-y games from them. It’s ambition. It’s the monetary kind, but ambition nonetheless. They know the likelihood of an isometric realtime-with-pause RPG generating the revenue they want is really low. An online action game with RPG elements could potentially reach a much wider audience. The isometric game is a safer bet to make back the money you put in but the online game is a possible home run.
Kickstarter’s investors don’t have that monetary drive. It’s mostly just consumers, who are conservative, making a purchase decision early.
j_patton 2017-11-27 15:13:00 UTC #28
Hey, I’m the developer for Spinnortality! Thanks for posting about the game here. (I wondered where those rockpapershotgun.com pledges were coming from…)
I agree about the name. Any suggestions?
Hmm, tricky! I was trying to think up some combinations of singularity, humanity, eschatology, technology, corporatism etc but they all were already copyrighted by some book or movie, or they sounded like some ripoff of Deus Ex or Neuromancer.
What is the major tone of the game you are going for? Darkly humorous, philosophical sci-fi, political criticism/satire, or does it emphasize delightfully complex strategic game mechanics?
Thanks for the shout-out to Islands in the Net and Bruce Sterling in your update. Such a good book.
Aha, a fellow IitN fan! I’m so glad, that book deserves to be as well-known as Neuromancer.
Yeah, if I do change it I might go for a non-punny name.
The game can be darkly humorous, but I think at its core it’s about the creeping power of corporations and capitalism. So think more “Creeping power” or “Building a darker future” or “Selling the world”, less “Shadenfreude with cyberfriends”. I don’t think the mechanics should be highlighted, really: they’re there, and they’re complex, but that’s all in service to the wider theming and message.
icemann 2017-11-28 10:38:05 UTC #31
It has A LOT of similarities to the original Syndicate.
Cyberpunk setting - Check
Put together cyborg agents and augment them via researched tech - Check
Research technology - Check
Taking over the world - Check
Tax countries, but not too much otherwise they’ll revolt - Check
To me it’s Syndicate minus the action based missions. Beyond that, it’s nearly identical. Note also that I backed it, as I love anything along similar lines.
“Everything must go: a cyberpunk management sim”?
From the first episode of the Wild Palms series. And there is also a movie named Everything Must Go, but I’m not familiar with trademark law so I don’t know if it’s off limits.
alms 2017-12-01 07:02:24 UTC #33
Last 3 days for Du Lac & Fey, sadly looks like they won’t make it. Though considering how much work has already gone into it, it will probably get released anyway.
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/3056396/video-829305-h264_high.mp4
Not a lot of campaigns right now, but if it follows the last two years, there are going to be a bunch of them in January. But there are lots of interesting news about titles in progress. I’m slightly annoyed that Kickstarter forces currency conversions on you for pages. You can still see the original values if you click the little dollar sign, but it’s a pop-up so I have to type it and can’t copy-paste anymore.
Prehistoric Kingdoms - the Theme Park Tycoon style games meet the Jurassic Park the movies. $40 000 of $55 000 goal, 14 days to go.
Earth Romancer on Fig. A platform fighting-game a-la Smash Bros, with some furry/anime inspired characters. Destructable scenery and you can switch between two fighting styles for each character in play. Not my genre, but gameplay looks smooth in the videos. Seems to be fairly long into production - colorful graphics, nice are style and good sound effects. $23,607 of $100,000 goal, 33 days remain.
Not a PC game, but this looks cool - The Conjurer’s Almenaq. A puzzle book, but it’s not just soduko or crosswords.iI takes inspiration from escape room games. So the first challenge is to find the puzzles themselves. $8500 pledged of $18000 goal, 38 days to go.
Some end of year videos, some long running projects progressing.
Meriwether - an American Epic, the exploration of the new world RPG from 2012, the boom year of Kickstarters, is done enough to have reached Steam Early Access.
Hero-U, another 2012 survivor by the designers of the Quest for Glory classics finally have a tentative release date, around April-March next year.
Make Sail, the open world sailing exploration and crafting game from Fig is in beta.
Pillars of Eternity 2 has an end of year rewiew video.
Little Devil Inside devs are showing off their new build.
Psychonatus 2 has an update where they show off the design process of Raz’s family. The game will be delayed until 2019, but I’m totally fine with that. I want this to be all it can be and not rushed. Interesting as always to follow Double Fine, such great character design.
No end-of-year video from Battletech (yet) but they recently released a multiplayer beta, and a bunch of new screenshots from the campaign.
There are also an end of the year update from Underworld Ascendant. Jim Bonney who worked on the Bioshock games is their new audio director. Stepher Russel busy doing voice acting. Audio is a really important part of immersive worlds in my opinion, and it seems things are promising for this title.
And Bard’s Tale 4 also had an end of the year summary.
Aerothorn 2017-12-24 16:03:39 UTC #36
Weirdly, I’m a backer of every single one of the games in that update.
Genesis Noir campaign just launched. “An adventure game with an emphasis on exploration, tactile interactions, and generative art”. Previously mentioned on RPS. If the gameplay is as good as the artstyle and the story concept, this could be a spectacular indie game. $2400 of $40 000 goal, 29 days left.
Nightmarchers on Fig. A third-person open world action-adventure RPG mixing magic and technology in a post-apocalypic Hawaii. If you liked Crysis or Far Cry this might be for you. But don’t expect as fancy graphics on a crowdfunding budget. $22,295 of $100,000 goal, 30 days left.
A Song in the Void. An adventure game in a dreamlike (Myst-like?) world where you search mysterious island for pieces of its musical theme and combine them to change the island and restore harmony. Uncovering more and more of the theme changes the island in the different ways around the player. There are some platforming and dangers in the world, and also apparently something they call puzzle arenas, so it’s not only a peaceful puzzler/walker. By French studio Armogaste. €700 pledged of a modest € 3000 goal, 12 days remaining.
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, the Lovecraftean turn based RPG now has a Steam page and also a new trailer.
Genesis Noir looks quite impressive. I’ll probably back it.
Link91 2018-01-26 11:40:22 UTC #39
A song in the void looks pretty cool!
In Other Waters. “Guide a stranded xenobiologist as they explore and study the secrets of an alien ocean.” I’ve gotten quite far in Subnautica, and it’s one of my top games ever. More of this? Yes please. Not the same luscious aquatic 3D environments, but promises possibly deeper scientific research and branching plot. £2 300 pledged of £22 000 goal, 29 days to go.
Not computer games, but: The Wyrmwood Adventurer’s Arsenal. Personal storage for dice, miniatures and other boardgame and pen & paper RPG paraphernalia. $73 000 of of $10 000 goal, 29 days to go. Damn, I should have applied myself during my carpentry classes in school. I could have made millions making stuff for geeks.
Genesis Noir. This very promising looking noir adventure game could use a boost. $23 000 pledged of $40 000 goal. An alarming 9 (!) days remaning.
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A newly elected government provides a country with a rare opportunity for a fresh start�and President Uhuru Kenyatta�s nomination this week of Felix Kiptarus Kosgey to become Kenya�s next Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries offers my nation a remarkable opening to make a hard push for real food security.
Success, however, will require President Kenyatta, his deputy Ruto, Agriculture Secretary nominee Kosgey, and the rest of our new government to set aside the bad mistakes of the recent past and embrace the bright future of biotechnology.
There�s every reason to hope that they will. At the launch of the Jubilee Coalition manifesto in February, Kenyatta and Ruto promised to �put food and water on every Kenyan�s table.� At his inauguration on April 9, Kenyatta reaffirmed his government will implement the manifesto in total.
This is both a tall order and a worthy goal�and one of the surest ways to achieve it is by accepting the latest advances in agricultural biotechnology, recognizing that they have become conventional practices in many countries and should become so here as well.
Everywhere farmers have had the chance, they have adopted genetically modified crops. Last year, more than 17 million farmers around the world planted more than 170 million hectares of GM crops, according to a new report from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications.
This is an all-time high. Moreover, farmers in poor countries made it possible: For the first time, developing nations accounted for more than half of the world�s GM crop plantings.
Unfortunately, as much as Kenyan farmers have hailed the Green Revolution of the 20th century, they have not yet participated in this Gene Revolution of the 21st century.
Our scientists have made strides toward developing biotech crops that would flourish in our soil and climate, but a toxic mix of scientific illiteracy and political pressure has prevented the commercialization of these promising plants. To make matters even worse, the previous government banned the importation of GM foods into Kenya and ordered the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation to remove all GM foods from the shelves of grocery stores.
This tragic decision came last November, in the wake of a controversial French study that claimed to find a connection between GM food and tumors in rats. The results were immediately widely debunked by renowned scientists from around the world. Yet the political activists whose personal ideology opposes agricultural biotechnology�many of them wealthy Europeans who don�t have to wonder about their next meal�managed to smear a vital tool for fighting hunger.
Kenyatta�s cabinet, guided by Agriculture Secretary nominee Kosgey cannot move swiftly enough to overturn the previous government�s misbegotten ban on GM food. It may be the single most significant step they can take to improve our nation�s food security.
They should accept what respected organizations ranging from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Britain�s Royal Society have said for a long time: GM food is safe to grow and eat. We have nothing to fear from it�and so much to gain.
Sub-Saharan Africa lags the world in food production. While farmers in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the United States have jumped at the chance to take advantage of high-yielding GM crops, farmers in Kenya and its neighbors have been relegated to the sidelines.
Last year, Sudan became only the fourth African country to permit the planting of GM crops, following the leads of Burkina Faso, Egypt, and South Africa.
The boost in farm productivity alone is enough to justify Kenya�s adoption of crop biotechnology, because it would help us feed a growing population. But the benefits would not stop there. Improved access to GM seeds would create jobs by supplying the raw materials for our textile industries. Everyone would benefit.
It would be great to see Kenya join the global biotech movement. Even better, though, would be to watch a truly forward-looking Kenya not merely join, but lead.
Kenyatta and Kosgey should refuse to let our continent continue to fall behind the rest of the world. With the proper leadership, they can show Africa the way to a better tomorrow�and a future in which we enjoy true food security.
Gilbert Arap Bor grows corn (maize), vegetables and dairy cows on a small-scale farm of 25 acres in Kapseret, near Eldoret, Kenya.� He also teaches at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Eldoret campus.� Mr. Bor is the 2011 Kleckner Trade & Technology Advancement Award recipient and a member of the Truth About Trade & Technology Global Farmer Network (www.truthabouttrade.org).�Follow us: @TruthAboutTrade on Twitter | Truth About Trade & Technology on Facebook.
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have traded wide receiver Adarius Bowman to the Montreal Alouettes for a conditional eighth round pick in the 2019 CFL Draft.
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Bowman has struggled during his second stint with the Bombers, catching just nine passes for 95 yards in six games. He was held to zero receptions in three of those games. The three-time CFL All Star sat sixth among the team in receiving yards before being dealt.
“We know how productive he’s been, it just didn’t work out here,” Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea told 680 CJOB.
“Hopefully it’s a good opportunity for Adarius. It’s not easy. It’s business… it’s tough.”
Bowman returned to Winnipeg this past off-season following seven years with the Edmonton Eskimos. He previously spent two seasons with the Bombers early in his career.
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Cross-grained Lara seemed bent on self-destruction until two unlikely rescuers intervened
“Good luck, sweetie! I hope you’ll enjoy your first day at your new school,” Sylvia Wentworth said. She looked fondly at her 17-year-old daughter, attired in the gray skirt, white blouse, and navy-blue blazer with the Groveton Academy crest that constituted the school uniform. “And I hope you’ll do well.”
Lara did not respond but picked up her backpack and stowed her cell phone in her pocket. This accomplished, she turned to her mother. “I’m ready to leave when you are,” she said.
“All right. The house is locked up, so we’ll go now.”
Lara had her own car, a little runabout Sylvia had bought second-hand last year. Ten minutes into the drive to her job in a Chicago office park, Sylvia glanced at her rear-view mirror to see Lara’s car peeling off to the left. That was the route to her new school.
At dinner that night Sylvia asked, “So how did you like it? Was it what you expected?”
Lara shrugged, keeping her eyes on her plate. “It was okay, I guess.”
It had better be okay, Sylvia thought. Lara had begged so hard to attend Groveton that Sylvia took the $20,000 required for a year’s tuition out of Lara’s college fund and paid for both semesters in advance. “There’s a 10 percent discount if you pay the whole year in advance,” the principal told Sylvia.
It was disappointing that after agitating so much to attend private school, Lara had nothing more to say about her first day than “It’s okay.” Sylvia, knowing the cause of Lara’s surliness, was used to it by now, but it still bothered her from time to time.
However, after lunch the next day, Sylvia walked into her office and received a jolt. Lara was sitting in one of the visitor’s chairs in front of Sylvia’s desk.
“What’s the matter?” Sylvia asked in alarm. “Are you ill?”
She went over to Lara and put her arm around the girl’s shoulders.
Lara shook off her arm and stared into space. “I’m not going back to Groveton.”
“What? Why not?”
“I hate it. I’m not going back there.”
Lara shrugged. “I want to go back to my old school so I can be with people I know.”
Sylvia closed her eyes in frustration, knowing what lay ahead of her. A morning of telephone calls, apologies, requests for refunds, and late registration at the public high school, all of which could be achieved only by taking time off her job. She’d have to work late for the rest of the week to avoid getting behind on her current project. Sighing, she took out her phone.
For the next two weeks all went smoothly, except that Groveton Academy refused to issue a refund for the unused tuition.
“What?” Sylvia raised her voice. “She was only there for a day and a half! You’re telling me you won’t refund any of the $20,000?”
“It’s in the contract you signed,” the principal said on the other end of the telephone. “The fee is not refundable.”
“What if I have my lawyer call you?”
“He’ll get the same answer. Contracts are contracts.”
And that was that. Sylvia fumed as she disconnected from the call. What a mass of trouble Lara had caused! She could feel a headache coming on.
Her headache grew worse the next day when she received a call at her office from Fredericka Beale, one of Lara’s teachers at Lakeside High School.
“Mrs. Wentworth? How are you? This is Fredericka Beale. I’m Lara’s mathematics teacher.”
“Yes, Miss Beale? Is something wrong with Lara?”
“I wouldn’t know,” Miss Beale said pleasantly. “I was hoping you would. Lara hasn’t been to school at all for two weeks.”
The mystery was easily explained. When Sylvia confronted her daughter, Lara cheerfully admitted that she left the house in the mornings and drove around the corner until she saw her mother leaving the house in her own car. Then she drove back and stayed in the family room all day, watching TV and playing games on her laptop.
“My God,” Sylvia yelled. “How do you expect to get into college? Even if you go to classes and make good grades you’ll have to win a scholarship, now that 20,000 dollars of your college fund has gone down the toilet! What is wrong with you?”
Lara looked away and didn’t answer.
Sylvia went upstairs to her bedroom, locked the door, and dialed the personal cell phone number Fredericka Beale had given her. “I’m at my wit’s end, Miss Beale!”
“Call me Fred, it’s easier.” There was a pause, then Fred said, “Is Lara acting out? Has she suffered some kind of trauma in the past?”
“Yes, she has,” Sylvia said. She drew a long breath and with a catch in her voice said, “We’ve both suffered. Let me tell you about it.”
At the end of the conversation, Fred said, “I’m so sorry, Mrs. Wentworth. Let me discuss this with another of Lara’s teachers, Miss Buss, and get back to you.”
Fred and her partner Andrea, who taught French, German, and world geography at Lakeside High, discussed Lara’s situation over dinner.
“Lara’s father died of cancer three years ago, when she was fourteen,” Fred said, helping herself to sliced roast chicken. “Lara had always been his pet, so you can imagine what a blow that was. Then her older brother Harvey died in a tragic car crash a year ago. Apparently Lara worshipped Harvey. He was like the Norse god Baldur the Beautiful—handsome, lovable, brilliant. Just a real golden boy, a freshman in college.”
Andy paused with a forkful of mashed potato in mid-air and said, “How awful! Does that explain why Lara is so difficult? She’s what the Victorians would have called ‘cross-grained’—you know, stubborn and contrary.”
“It explains a good deal,” Fred said. She took a sip of her wine and thought for a minute. “Lara is like the Norse god Loki, the mischief-maker. Loki was a miserable son of a bitch and wanted everyone else to be just as unhappy as he was. He spent all his time playing mean tricks on the other gods and was responsible for Baldur’s death.”
“Born in the shadow of Loki,” Andy said. “That’s our Lara. She seems to delight in making her mother miserable and she’s sullen in class. Yet there’s good stuff in the girl, you know, cross-grained or not. She’s highly intelligent. She speaks French fluently—one would almost take her for a native, except for the accent.”
“Worth saving,” Fred agreed. “Look, I told her poor mother we’d come up with a plan, so let’s invoke Athena.”
“Athena! Why not our matron goddess, Artemis?”
“Artemis is great for us, but Athena is the goddess of wisdom. We need Her guidance for this.”
“We can do a ritual,” Andy said, rising from the table. “And we’ll make an offering. What does She like?”
“Let me consult the search engine,” Fred said. She flipped her laptop open, typed a few rapid keystrokes, and sat back to read the results. “H’mm. She likes olive oil, olives, and wine—that’s no surprise. She also likes textiles and pottery.”
“The comestibles are no problem,” Andy said. “We’ve got all those. But we don’t have any kind of woven fabric in the house other than that square your little niece made and gave you for Christmas.”
“Pottery, then. We can’t burn Jenny’s little sampler, can we?”
“Are we supposed to break the pottery after the ritual?”
“Of course,” Fred said. “All those shards archeologists dig up and gloat over are shards for a reason. People offered the whole objects at the altar and then broke them, so that neither they nor anyone else—anyone human, that is—could use them.” She grinned. “And I know the exact piece of pottery we can sacrifice!”
“Oh, no, you don’t!” Andy sprang up from the sofa and started walking backwards to the kitchen door. “You are not getting your hands on the coffee mug I bought on Mykonos last year!”
Fred grimaced. “All right, keep it. Ugh, those pink and brown and yellow stripes—oh, well, never mind. Let’s do the ritual, offer the comestibles to the Fey afterwards, break something, and go to bed.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Andy said.
“Good morning, Mrs. Wentworth, this is Fred Beale, calling you back with regard to Lara.”
“Yes?” Sylvia sounded hopeful. “Have you thought of something?”
“Indeed we have, with your cooperation and permission. Now, it’s going to involve some firmness on your part, Mrs. Wentworth. For the plan to succeed, you’re going to have to drive Lara’s car to a secret location somewhere and keep the keys to it yourself.”
“I can do that,” Sylvia said. “Lara knows she’s in big trouble.”
“Good. Now, this is what we propose to do…”
The next morning Fred knocked on the front door of the Wentworth house. Sylvia, by arrangement, had left for work an hour early.
“Good morning, Lara,” Fred said after the door opened.
“Miss Beale! What on earth are you doing here?”
“I’m going to give you a ride to school,” Fred said. “Grab your backpack and let’s go.”
Still looking stunned, Lara silently slipped the straps of her backpack over her shoulders, locked the door, and joined Fred on the porch. Fred reached down behind her and handed Lara a helmet.
“What’s this for?”
“It’s for you. I have one too. Put it on.”
Out in the driveway Andy, already wearing a helmet, started revving up her motorcycle. Fred went over to the nearest motorcycle, a gleaming black Yamaha, and got on. “Get on, Lara, put your arms around me, and hang on tight!”
Arriving home from work that evening, Sylvia was greeted by an outraged Lara.
“Mother! I was escorted to school this morning by dykes on bikes! I was so embarrassed!”
“Do not use that word in my house,” Sylvia said, grim-faced. For the first time in her life, she looked at her daughter as if she were someone else’s less than lovable child.
“But that’s what they are,” Lara said.
“And what do you imagine people call you behind your back? Think about that.”
“I don’t care what people call me. It’s too embarrassing, having to ride behind Miss Beale on her bike with Miss Buss following us all the way to school.”
“Get used to it,” Sylvia said as she prepared to go upstairs. “Miss Buss follows behind in case you get any cute ideas about jumping off at a stoplight. If I see perfect attendance for the rest of the year, and if I see top grades in your classes and top performance on your lacrosse team, you’ll get your car back.”
Sylvia continued up the stairs, only glancing back once at Lara’s outraged face below.
Eight months later
On graduation day Fred and Andy sat in the upper front row of the high school gymnasium, fanning themselves with paper programs while watching the graduates file into the open space below. Although all the female graduates wore the same gray robes and gray mortarboards, it was easy to pick out Lara: she was the only girl wearing combat boots.
Fred and Andy clapped enthusiastically each time a graduate received his or her diploma from the principal. As Lara clumped her way across the stage, Fred whispered to Andy, “At least we got her through, didn’t we?”
“We did,” Andy whispered back. “She wouldn’t have made it without us, Miss Beale and Miss Buss.”
“Lara is never going to win the ‘Miss Congeniality’ award,” Fred said later, after the ceremony ended and all personnel were released for the day. “But even Lara had to be pleased when the other girls elected her captain of the lacrosse team.”
“You bet,” Andy said. “And the lacrosse scholarship she won to her college will help her poor mother financially too.”
Four years later
“This is the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for us,” Fred said as she and Andy took their places beside Sylvia on graduation day at Lara’s college. “It was so kind of you to invite us to Lara’s graduation and pay all our expenses to fly up here to Montreal.”
The three sat under the awning of an enormous tent, waiting for the ceremony to begin. Sylvia smiled. “If it hadn’t been for the two of you, Lara would never have won a scholarship, let alone been accepted by a college.”
“What did she major in, Sylvia?” Andy asked.
“Life sciences,” Sylvia said. “She’s going to apply for a job as a clinical lab technologist.”
Fred grinned. Lara would be working in a situation that required very little interaction with others. It would suit her personality perfectly. She glanced at Andy, guessing from the expression on Andy’s face that she was thinking the same thing.
Andy squeezed Fred’s hand. “She’s no longer in the shadow of Loki,” she whispered. “We vanquished him!”
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The Looming of Bastet
Wolves Don’t Fly
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Behroze and Ruhi were insulted by Agha Jan when Behroze came back for apology, Agha Jan chose Suhaib and Arjumand over them, the two were banished forever, they left and decided to start a new life in Lahore whereas Arjumand and Suhaib decided not to grow more close. The telefilm received mixed reviews from critics, however Saeed’s performance was praised by both critics and viewers. The Valley of the Heart also known as Dayar-e-Dil [2] is a Pakistani television drama serial , that originally aired on the Hum TV from 17 March to 27 October , consisting of a total of 33 episodes. Directed by Mehreen Jabbar , Saeed played the role of Fiza a “selfish and arrogant girl” who develops feeling for her sister-in-law’s brother, which later become a burden for her. Retrieved 26 December Director Haseeb Hassan has done a fabulous job of weaving this inter-generational story together combining beautiful cinematography and a fast paced, well-edited narrative to make a highly entertaining serial thus far.
Faarah told her mother she did not want her inheritance, and that it was added to her divorce agreements without her choice, in which Ruhi left the house in anger and her daughter alone. She has also committed to feature alongside Mohib Mirza in Nasir Khan’s romantic thriller Bachaana , where she will portray the role of Aalia, an Indian girl. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 24 April Archived from the original on 18 November With the grief of her father’s death, and the constant persuasion of her maternal uncle and cousin, Faraah demanded for a divorce from Wali along with her inheritance, which further increased tension in the family and became the cause of Agha Jaan’s developing illness.
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North Korea fires projectiles: South’s military
Jihadists attack key aid facility in Borno
People watch a television news programme showing file footage of North Korea’s projectile weapons, at a railway station in Seoul on May 9, 2019. – North Korea welcomed a US envoy’s visit to Seoul by firing at least one projectile for the second time in just six days on May 9, the South’s military said, as Pyongyang seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
North Korea welcomed a US envoy’s visit to Seoul by firing at least one projectile for the second time in a week Thursday, the South’s military said, as Pyongyang seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington.
The launch came after North Korea carried out a military drill and fired multiple projectiles on Saturday, with at least one believed to be a short-range missile.
It was also hours after the US Special Representative on North Korea, Stephen Biegun, arrived in Seoul late Wednesday for talks with South Korean officials on the allies’ approach towards Pyongyang.
It is Biegun’s first visit to Seoul since the Hanoi summit between US President Donald Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un collapsed without agreement on rolling back Pyongyang’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
“We are still analysing whether it is a single or multiple projectiles,” Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Kim Joon-rak told AFP, adding the launch fired in an eastward direction appeared to originate from Sino-ri in North Pyongan province.
The decades-old Sino-ri operational missile base, 75 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of Pyongyang, is one of North Korea’s longest-running missile facilities and houses a regiment-sized unit equipped with Nodong-1 medium-range ballistic missiles, according to the Centre for Strategic & International Studies.
Anything fired from it in an easterly direction would have to cross the Korean peninsula before reaching the sea.
Biegun met his South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon for breakfast on Thursday but much of his schedule was not made public.
The US envoy is due to meet the South’s foreign and unification ministers Friday as the security allies — Washington stations 28,500 troops in the South to defend it from its neighbour — work on their approach towards Pyongyang.
With Thursday’s launch, said Hong Min, a senior researcher at the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification, “North Korea is sending a clear message that it will not be satisfied with humanitarian aid” being considered by Seoul.
“It is saying, ‘We want security guarantees in return for the denuclearisation process’,” he added.
“Kim could have felt he needed to show a strong military posture to ease complaints following a joint South-US military drill last month.”
‘Stop nonsense’
A summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s Kim Jong Un a year ago triggered a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula, paving the way for a historic first meeting between Kim and Trump.
But their second summit in Vietnam in February broke up without an agreement or even a joint statement, and the North has since blamed Seoul for siding with Washington, leaving inter-Korean relations in limbo.
But Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have all refrained from calling Saturday’s launch a missile, which could jeopardise the ongoing diplomacy by violating UN Security Council resolutions as well as Kim’s promise of a freeze on long-range missile tests.
The North has said Saturday’s drill involved multiple Pyongyang “long-range multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons”.
But experts say it launched at least one short-range missile during the exercise, with a report on the respected 38 North website suggesting that it was a “direct import” of a Russian-produced Iskander.
“The debris generated by the launch in North Korea is a virtual match of a launch of Iskander conducted by Russia,” it said.
If North Korea imported Iskanders from Russia, the report added, “it has an existing capacity to deliver warheads to targets in South Korea with great precision”.
Pyongyang insisted earlier Thursday that Saturday’s “routine drill” was conducted within its own waters and added the “flying objects” did not pose any threat to the US, South Korea and Japan.
“The firing of the intermediate- and long-range missile and the ICBM was not involved in it,” a spokesman for the North’s delegation for military talks with the South said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
He condemned Seoul’s criticism of the launch, with KCNA’s headline reading: “S. Korean military authorities urged to stop the nonsense”.
Visits fall
The number of South Koreans visiting the North has slumped this year with inter-Korean ties stalling, figures showed.
All civilian communication between the two countries — which remain technically at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice instead of a peace treaty — is banned and South Koreans need government approvals to travel north.
So far this year only 617 have been granted permission, the unification ministry said, little more than the monthly average during 2018 when a total of 6,689 Southern citizens went North to attend government meetings, sports games, cultural and reunions for families separated since the Korean War.
“Due to domestic and foreign political events since the US-North Korea summit in Hanoi, it has decreased somewhat since last year,” the ministry said in a statement.
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Gold Forex
1,248 students benefit from Dubai centre’s courses
Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture attracted 49 nationalities
Published: January 13, 2020 18:31 Staff Report
Dubai: The Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture of the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai has announced that 1,248 students from 49 nationalities across six continents have benefited from the courses organised by the Department of Students’ Affairs at the centre in 2019. The centre’s data indicated that the students were between nine and 72 years of age, which underscores the inclusive nature of its courses. The courses organised by the Department of Students’ Affairs last year included special courses for residents of the UAE, including Filipinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Singaporeans, French, Turkish and Ethiopian nationals. Furthermore, New Muslims courses, the Ramadan Forum, Children Summer courses, and Student’s Needs courses were also held. All the courses witnessed the interest of students from various cultural and religious backgrounds, seeking to learn more about the tolerance of Islam and Islamic culture. Hind Mohammed Lootah, Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture, stressed that the message of the centre is civilisational and humanitarian at its core. It seeks to promote tolerance and a moderate Islam, as well as to introduce residents to the richness of the Arabic and Islamic civilisation.
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Merkel Government Still in Denial
Police confer at the site of the December 19 car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Berlin. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
Islamic State took responsibility for the December 19 Berlin truck-ramming attack that killed 12 people, similar to the July 14 attack in the French city of Nice, and countless car-rammings in Israel. Now Europeans feel what Israelis live with every day.
This month, the police union in the German state of Thuringia issued an open letter to the state’s Interior Minister, describing the crumbling law-and-order situation amid the rising migrant crime: “[You] are abandoning us completely helpless to a superior force… But what changes? Nothing. One instead gets a sense of uninterest.”
Chancellor Merkel, Germany’s ruling elites and the media can continue putting a happy face on uncontrolled mass-migration from Arab and Muslim lands, or suppress news reporting on rising migrant crime, but they cannot wish away the country’s deteriorating law and order situation.
It should be evident to even a casual observer that her government still does not care about the victims of its own failed “refugee” policy.
Earlier this year, Germany was hit by a series of ISIS-inspired attacks and failed terror plots. Despite that almost all the perpetrators were recent Syrian or Afghan migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the middle of a re-election bid, has stuck to her claim that there is “no connection” between terror attacks in the country and uncontrolled mass migration from Arab and Muslim lands.
Ahead of an election year, Merkel and her coalition partners also want to avoid another mass sexual attack — in Cologne.
Of an estimated two thousand exclusively Muslim men who raped, assaulted and robbed more than 1200 women, almost all the attackers have managed to walk free. Ralf Jäger, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, admitted recently that “most of the cases will remain unsolved.”
An estimated 1,800 police officers will be on duty in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, compared to just 140 last year. Barricades have been erected in the city center to check the flow of the crowd. The city’s historic cathedral and adjoining area have been placed under a crush barrier. Police will man observation posts and fly helicopters to monitor the crowd, and deploy mounted police and six armoured vehicles for riot-control. “No expense will be spared,” assured the mayor. In an important election year, the government wants to defend the city to the last taxpayer dime.
Even before it can face any real onslaught, however, Merkel’s fortification is showing some serious cracks.
Just days ahead of the News Year’s Eve, the police union in the eastern German state of Thuringia has issued an open letter describing the crumbling law-and-order situation amid the rising migrant crime. “[You] are abandoning us completely helpless to a superior force,” says the desperate note addressed to the Interior Minister of Thuringia. The union claims that politicians have been repeatedly briefed on the deteriorating conditions under which police have been working. “But what changes? Nothing. One instead gets a sense of uninterest.”
Unwilling to acknowledge the breakdown of law and order in face of the rising migrant crime wave, the German media and politicians are going after the messenger.
Their latest target is the head of German Police Union, Rainer Wendt. Wendt’s crime, after a series of rape crimes this December, was to speak the obvious truth. “The criminals are using open borders,” he said.
Ralf Stegner, deputy leader of Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a fervent supporter of Merkel’s “Refugees Welcome” policy, denounced Wendt’s statement as “politically disgusting and stupid as one can get.”
Wendt has also been attacked for questioning the customary kid-glove treatment given to violent and criminal “refugees” by German courts. Sven Rebehn, Chairman of the German Association of Judges, called Wendt, “the Donald Trump of domestic politics” — apparently the biggest insult a German liberal can come up with these days.
The Merkel government can turn the center of Cologne into an impenetrable fortress for a day or two, but the threat is not going away. The problem lies in the Ruhr region that encircles Cologne. “Have foreign clans turned Ruhr region into a No-Go-Area?” asks the leading German newspaper, Die Welt, just days ahead of News Year’s Eve.
Meanwhile, representatives of Arab community were reported telling the police in Ruhr, “The police will not win a war with us because we are too many.”
As the desperate plea of the police union shows, the Merkel government has decided to ignore the plight of law enforcement, at least for now. It should be evident to even a casual observer that her government still does not care about the victims of its own failed “refugee” policy: Germany appears to be heading toward another rough year.
Full article: Merkel Government Still in Denial (Gatestone Institute)
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Iran to begin gas injection into new, advanced centrifuges
Aleppo, Mosul and the Hegemony
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Two-Way Tracker: Meet New Clippers Guard Amir Coffey
By Jake Winderman | August 1, 2019
Player: Amir Coffey
College: Minnesota (2016-2019)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-8, 210 pounds
NBA Team/NBA G League Affiliate: LA Clippers/Agua Caliente Clippers
College Breakdown: Coffey comes to the Clippers fresh off three seasons at Minnesota, where he was named to the All-Big 10 Third Team in 2019 and the Big Ten All-Freshman Team in 2017. Out of high school, Coffey was named Minnesota Mr. Basketball in 2016. The former Golden Gopher ranked third in the Big 10 during the 2018-19 season in minutes per game (35.2), sixth in points per game (16.6), seventh in field goals made (198) and tenth in assists per game (3.2). Coffey led Minnesota to two NCAA Tournaments in his three seasons in Minneapolis and started all 36 games during his final year in college.
Scouting Report: Coffey’s wide range of skills is perhaps his biggest upside at the next level. The 6-foot-8 guard with a near 7-foot wingspan can distribute in tight spaces off of pick-and-rolls, knock down corner 3-pointers and acrobatically finish at the rim with ease. He also has the size and prowess to defend point guards through power forwards on the other end of the floor. If Coffey can knock down shots at a slightly more consistent clip than he did in college and tighten up his dribble, he has one of the highest upsides of any second-round pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
Organizational Fit: Coffey joins a newly assembled Clippers squad featuring star wings in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George and effectively contrasting point guards in Patrick Beverley and Landry Shamet. While LA seems to be loaded with wings, Coffey’s versatility will help him become a plug-and-play type of player early in his career. He can step up as a ball-handler when needed, while at the same time having the ability to sink into a 3&D role with more effective floor generals on the court.
14.8 PPG | 5.8 RPG | 3 APG#2WayPlayer Amir Coffey (@coffeyshop_) SHOWED OUT at #NBASummer League in Las Vegas ☕️@GopherMBB ↗️ @ACClippers ↔️ @LAClippers pic.twitter.com/49MFSjtakW
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Hard Labour
Thinking Hard about UK Employment Law
Hard Labour Guide to UKEmplaw election pledges
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Is it possible to have a Business Secretary that is too flexible?
Last week, Vince Cable grabbed a few headlines with a notably insightful speech about labour market flexibility. In what looked suspiciously like a significant attempt to differentiate Cable’s Liberal Democrats from their Coalition partners, the Business Secretary quickly got to his point by posing an interesting set of questions:
“Is it possible to have labour markets that are too flexible? Are we in that position now in the UK? If so, how do we maintain the advantages of flexibility – for workers and firms – while reducing the costs?”
As is often the way with politicians, Cable had some ready answers to his own questions. Noting that, due to welfare reform and other Coalition policies, “the incentives to work, particularly in low skilled jobs, have never been sharper”, he suggested that “we need to ensure is that this doesn’t produce an entrenchment of low pay, low productivity jobs”.
Now, this may be the right time for me to advance my theory that Cable actually wrote this speech in 2010, but was never allowed to deliver it. So the speech languished at the bottom of his filing cabinet until last week, when he dusted it down and sneaked off to the Resolution Foundation without telling Dave, Nick or George. Had he delivered it in 2010, the speech might have enhanced his reputation as an avant-garde thinker on economic issues. Now, it just sounds rather too much like the rusty hinges of a dilapidated stable door swinging shut, several years after the horse has bolted.
Whatever, Cable had a number of specific ideas on how to prevent the entrenchment of low pay, low productivity jobs. You know, the entrenchment that hasn’t yet happened.
The most headline-grabbing of these was the suggestion that workers on a zero-hours contract should have a “right to request a fixed-hours contract, building on the model we already have for flexible working”. This is so left-field that I can’t decide whether it’s a stroke of brilliance or just plain daft. Perhaps some kindly #ukemplaw person could put me right on this.
Rather more mundanely, Cable suggested that, alongside “encouraging companies to invest in training their workforces”, the government should be ensuring “a strong structure to protect the minimum wage and strengthen [its] enforcement”.
Now it just so happens that Cable is the government minister in charge of protecting the minimum wage and strengthening its enforcement. So this is one area where he could really crack on with preventing the entrenchment of low pay, low productivity jobs.
And, to his credit, Cable has recently (if somewhat belatedly) increased the financial penalties for non-compliance. Furthermore, not only has the HMRC minimum wage enforcement division escaped the worst of the Coalition’s austerity cuts, but at 180 the number of NMW enforcement staff is actually some 20 per cent higher than when Labour left office in 2010 (though the number of compliance officers is much the same).
On the other hand, since Cable and his Coalition colleagues took office in 2010, not one employer has been prosecuted for criminal non-compliance with the minimum wage. And, since Cable introduced a process for ‘naming & shaming’ employers found by HMRC to have flouted the minimum wage in early 2011, just six employers have been so ‘named & shamed’ by Cable’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS).
As recently as October last year, that ‘naming & shaming’ scheme was revamped, with Cable’s then junior minister, Jo Swinson, boldly asserting that the new, streamlined process would “give a clear warning to rogue employers who ignore the rules, that they will face reputational consequences as well as a fine if they don’t pay the minimum wage”.
However, since that ministerial fanfare, just five (small) employers have been ‘named & shamed’ by BIS. Yet HMRC tell me (in response to a FoI request) that about 270 employers were issued with a Notice of Underpayment – the trigger for ‘naming & shaming’ under the revamped process – between 1 October and 28 February. Even allowing for the appeal process that Cable has indicated takes “roughly 150 days”, with the end of May approaching it is deeply puzzling why fewer than two per cent of those 270 “minimum wage rogues” have so far been ‘named & shamed’ by Cable’s department.
Has the process of ‘naming & shaming’ employers proved more difficult than Cable and Swinson envisaged? Or is their department simply being too flexible when it comes to tackling the entrenchment of low pay jobs?
Update (8 June): BIS has today named & shamed a further 25 (small) employers. But this still means that only 30 of the 270 minimum wage rogues caught by HMRC between 1 October and 28 February have been named & shamed under the new scheme. What about the other 240? How many have successfully appealed against being named & shamed? We really should be told. As the Independent notes, the 25 small employers named & shamed this week between them accounted for just £43,000, or less than one per cent, of the more than £4.6 million in underpayments identified by HMRC in 2013/14. And not one of the 25 firms will have paid anywhere near the current maximum penalty of £20,000, let alone the proposed new maximum of £20,000 per underpaid worker that Vince Cable seems to think is needed.
Update (16 June): Brilliant detective work by Michael Reed of the Free Representation Unit has uncovered the surprising fact that at least three of the 25 businesses named & shamed by BIS on 8 June were dissolved several years ago, in one case as long ago as 2009. Is BIS padding out its lists of those named & shamed with some ancient cases from the HMRC archives?
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Acas early conciliation and time limits: let the confusion begin
Nothing gets employment lawyers going like a vigorous argument over tribunal time limits, and the new system of mandatory Acas early conciliation (EC) has provided the ideal excuse for several arguments. Here’s just one of them.
Where a prospective claimant has filed an EC form with Acas, the time limit for bringing a tribunal claim is paused on ‘Day A’ (the date the claimant submits the form) and restarts on ‘Day B’ (the date they receive an EC certificate). However, if the original time limit would have expired less than a month after Day A, there is a further extension so that the last day for lodging a claim is extended to ‘one month after Day B’. In short, you should never have less than a month after you receive the EC certificate to get your claim in.
HM Courts and Tribunals Service states, in its information leaflet Making a claim to an Employment Tribunal, that if the EC certificate is sent by email on 5 June (and presumably received the same day), Day B is 5 June and the last day for bringing a claim (under the one month extension rule) would be 4 July. Acas are apparently in agreement, on the basis that this is how the ordinary time limits in tribunal cases work (e.g. an employee dismissed on 5 April would normally only have until 4 July to bring a claim: three months less one day).
But is the HMCTS leaflet right? It ignores the ‘corresponding date rule’, a rule of interpretation used for calculating the start and end point of notice periods and other periods of time expressed in months. Under that rule, one month after 5 June is the ‘corresponding date’ in July, i.e. 5 July. This is the approach adopted by Practical Law (OK, I have to declare an interest there), Lewis Silkin (according to the excellent time limits calculator they posted on Twitter a few days ago), and Camilla Palmer who has written an article in ELA Briefing this month about early conciliation. I’m also informed that lawyers at BIS support the corresponding date approach.
Acas are certainly right in their approach to the primary time limits (three months minus a day) according to the case law, and it would arguably make a lot of sense if there was a common approach to the one-month extension. However, there are good reasons, based on differences in the wording of the relevant statutory provisions, why tribunals should use the corresponding date rule.
The EC legislation requires the claim to be submitted within the period ‘ending one month after Day B’, whereas the primary limitation date in (let’s say) an unfair dismissal case is ‘before the end of the period of three months beginning with the effective date of termination’. The difference is that ‘one month after Day B’ means you start counting on the day after Day B (a rule of interpretation that, according to Lord Diplock in Dodds v Walker [1981] 2 All ER 609, has been ‘consistently applied by the courts since Lester v. Garland (1808) 15 Ves. Jun. 248’). On the other hand, ‘three months beginning with the effective date of termination’ means you start counting on the EDT. This crucial difference was explained by the EAT, in an admirably short judgment, in University of Cambridge v Murray [1993] ICR 460. It’s worth a read.
Acas have highlighted that it’s safer to adopt a cautious approach. That, of course, takes no account of the fact that some employees may, if they leave it until the last minute, believe they are one day out of time when they are in fact still within time, so cannot present a claim. An employment judge could conceivably, without the benefit of contrary legal argument (and who can afford legal advice these days?), be led down the same path by the HMCTS leaflet.
Don’t get caught out
In view of this very unfortunate difference of interpretation, claimants should really adopt the cautious line followed by Acas and lodge a claim no later than one month less one day after Day B (4 July in the example above) and not risk leaving it until 5 July. Ultimately it will be for the appellate courts to decide, although ending up in the EAT over this is probably not in anybody’s interests.
With many thanks to Camilla Palmer for our email correspondence over this issue, from which I’ve shamelessly borrowed some of the wording for this post.
Labour’s contract killing
Earlier this week, I was offered a contact. Which, sadly, doesn’t happen as often as my bank manager or my family would like. And, in any case, there wasn’t any money involved. At least, not for me.
On the plus side, the contract was offered to me by none other than the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband. Yes! Me and Ed, bound together by a contract signed in brotherly blood. Well, me, Ed and a few thousand other people. Maybe tens of thousands. Quite a lot of brotherly and sisterly blood, then. Ed might need a transfusion.
As contracts go, it’s quite short – just ten brief clauses, each one a policy pledge by Ed. And, being a workplace rights nerd, I was pleasantly surprised to find that no fewer than three of the pledges relate to workplace rights. However, the wording of those three clauses left me with both a sinking feeling in my stomach, and a strong desire to bash my head against the nearest wall. Let’s take each of the workplace rights pledges in turn.
Ban exploitative zero-hours contracts
Well, I’ve already written elsewhere about Labour’s fumbling towards a credible position on the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts, so I’m not going to add much here. Suffice to say, Ed and his team are going to have to wake up to the fact that, whilst it’s very easy to make speeches criticising the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts, in practice (and in law) it is not so easy to distinguish between the exploitative and the fair use of such contracts. The very same paper zero-hours contract could be used entirely differently by two separate employers – one in a way that benefits both the employer and the employee, and one in a way that benefits only the employer and simply exploits (and quite possibly brings severe hardship to) the employee. That’s a conundrum that won’t be solved by sloganeering.
Make work pay by strengthening the Minimum Wage
Well, yes, but what does ‘strengthening’ the NMW actually mean? In the hope that someone in Labour might provide an answer, earlier this week I put the question out on Twitter. And Antonia Bance – a former Labour parliamentary candidate – promptly responded by suggesting that it means “raising & enforcing [the NMW]”. Well, yes, but raise it by how much, and better enforce it how? To which Antonia’s response was: “I don’t think we ‘ll know the answers to questions of detail unless Labour get into government”, and “broad promises that show direction of travel & values are thought more effective than detailed pledges”.
So it would seem. But to my mind, the votes of the more than one million workers paid at or just above the NMW rate are much more likely to be captured by a specific promise of a new, higher rate than they are by a ‘broad promise showing direction of travel’. George Osborne is on record as saying he believes Britain can ‘afford’ a rate of £7.00 per hour, without any significant negative labour market consequences, and if George Osborne thinks that then it’s surely not too much to expect a Labour government elected in May 2015 to go at least that far. Furthermore, from £7.00 per hour it’s really not that far to the Living Wage rate (outside London) of £7.65 per hour. So why not make an explicit commitment to an immediate hike in the NMW rate to £7.00 or even £7.50, and to achieving parity with the Living Wage by 2020?
Yes, that would imply making the Low Pay Commission redundant. But perhaps the Commission’s budget would be better spent enforcing the NMW, rather than just talking about it and (mostly) recommending below inflation increases. Government ministers routinely make decisions with far greater economic implications than what the NMW rate should be, and the long-term future of the NMW rate could be secured by writing into legislation an annual uprating at least as great as inflation. It’s really not rocket science.
Tackle the abuse of migrant labour to undercut wages, by banning recruitment agencies that only hire foreign workers
This is the one that really made me want to bang my head against a brick wall. For, leaving aside (for Jonathan Portes and others) the question of whether migrant labour does actually ‘undercut wages’, the proposed ban is so patently nuts that this clause of Ed’s contract looks like nothing more than a shameful case of dog-whistle politics. Because, if hiring only foreign workers were to become illegal, what proportion of indigenous workers would a recruitment agency have to hire to be legal? One per cent? Ten per cent? Fifty per cent? Fifty-one per cent?
And, were any such arbitrary figure to be (foolishly) enshrined in law, who would police it? Under the Coalition, the BIS Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate has been reduced to a rump of just two inspector-level staff. Would Ed’s contract deliver any more human and other resources for enforcement of new (and the existing) rules?
Again, earlier this week I put these questions out on Twitter, in the hope that someone in Labour might be willing to provide some answers. When they didn’t, I put my questions direct to John McTernan, the fearsome Labour thinker and strategist with the self-appointed task of keeping Tony Blair’s halo shiny and bright. And, whilst first noting that he is “not my brother or sister’s keeper”, John was frank enough to say: “I think there are worse things than foreign workers. Like non-enforcement of [the] NMW”. Hear hear to that.
So, I will keep on posing these (and other) questions, in the hope that someone in Ed Miliband’s team might stop and think these silly contract promises through before they find their way into the manifesto for May 2015. Because, to my mind, that would be a serious mistake that might just blow up in some shadow minister’s face at some point during what is clearly going to be a tough and dirty election campaign. Or maybe Antonia is right when she says the party manifestos “will be meaningless this time because of possible coalition”.
Now that really is a depressing thought.
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From the Capitol to Cortez: Our quest for interviews
by Kathy Fang and Nicole Tian
Nicole Tian (10) writes a message on a Post-It note to add to the mural of Post-Its around Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) Cannon office door.
Kathy Fang
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The gleaming white dome of the Capitol towered above us, sparkling in the morning autumn light. Groups of visitors dotted the lawn opposite the seat of Congress and posed on its marble steps, their eager tourism unperturbed by the armed police patrolling every entrance and exit. Circling around the front of the building, each set of imposing doors were cordoned off, whether they be under construction or laced with a velvet rope railing kindly offering access to “Members Only.”
We were on a mission: Our eyes were set on obtaining the coveted congressional press credentials that would allow us access to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) press conference at 10:45 that morning, which closely followed U.S. ambassador Gordon Sondland’s pivotal testimony in the impeachment hearings on Wednesday. We wanted to be in the room where news happened, but for the time being, we were lost.
After circling the Capitol around and back again, we found the public entrance to the Capitol tucked away at the foot of a staircase. Briefly held back at security by unknowingly bringing along two water bottles, we finally pushed through two sets of glass doors and found ourselves standing above the Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center.
We cautiously approached the appointment desk to inquire after press credentials and were told to contact Pelosi’s office directly, which we did, but the office redirected us to the Capitol’s press gallery, who then rejected our request and instead redirected us back to Pelosi’s office. After a series of circuitous calls between offices and representatives in a chaotic game of phone tag, we decided to chase after our credentials in person and find the press officers themselves.
Rushing across the street to the Longworth House Office Building, home to the impeachment hearings and the location of one of Pelosi’s multiple offices, we were once again screened by a sensitive metal detector suspicious of a phone. Pushing through the hordes of tourists and vigilant guards, we strode as confidently as possible to Pelosi’s workroom, the last of offices on the second floor.
Rather than finding the Speaker at her desk, we had yet another conversation with a staffer, who offered another number—this time, the number of Pelosi’s press office—to call, which we did, although to no avail.
If journalism has taught us one lesson, it would be how to pivot when we run up against dead ends. Upon hearing Pelosi’s media representative Joe Costello’s answer that no, we would not be able to cover the press conference, we decided to turn next door and visit the Cannon Office Building, where we knew freshman representative and rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) housed her office.
We found her office immediately. It wasn’t hard: The walls around her office’s door and even the door itself was covered with bright Post-it notes that bore messages to the representative, many of love, support and gratitude. Five notes spelled out “Q-U-E-E-N,” another encouraged “BX represent” while others thanked her for inspiration or urged her to champion various causes.
Hopeful for the possibility of an interview with the staffers, we stepped inside the office and were met immediately with a small Lightbox that read “NY-14 Bronx,” paired with a map of Ocasio-Cortez’s district in New York, and a glass jar filled with packets of Starbursts and Skittles. A young staffer with curly shoulder-length hair and large glasses greeted us, and we informed her of our hopes. A wooden door set behind the front desk, following a common layout of previous offices, stood closed, and its golden doorknob caught the daylight.
Just as we spelled out the “q” in Harker Aquila for the staffer at the front desk, the door behind her opened, and Ocasio-Cortez herself casually stepped into the small waiting area. Dressed in a checkered tan suit, a smile graced her face as she eagerly walked over to us, preceding to shake our hands as we stumbled through our introductions, barely able to contain our astonishment. Letting ourselves slip for a moment from the viewpoint of a composed reporter, we put our hearts to words and voiced our admiration for the young congresswoman, who smiled and graciously laughed at our enthusiasm.
Nicole Tian
We had entered with the goal of interviewing a staff member and left in an astounded haze—unfortunately so much so that we had missed the opportunity of snapping a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez.
Despite the missed moment, we were inspired by the brief meeting to set our resolve on chasing the possibility of an interview with the congresswoman. In order to obtain interviews with the staffers, we were required to contact the office’s communications director, who was regrettably stranded on vacation. Over the next day, we relentlessly contacted the communications team from two different phone numbers and two different emails.
After exchanging interview requests and logistics for the House of Representatives, we were told by a staffer that the next open slots would be delayed until December, possibly at her district office in New York, since we had met her on the last day while Congress was still in session. And though we lost the chance for an interview on this trip, we will nevertheless continue chasing our goal with even the hint of a hope.
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Twenty Join Massey Ferguson Compact and Utility Dealer Network in 2016
Feb. 9, 2017 01:41 PM
Product line and dealership support attract variety of businesses
This item has been supplied by a forage marketer and has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hay & Forage Grower.
Massey Ferguson®, a global brand of AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), welcomed 20 dealerships to the Massey Ferguson compact and utility equipment (CUE) distribution network in 2016. The businesses will service and sell the full line of Massey Ferguson compact and utility tractors and attachments as well as conventional hay products.
The surge in new CUE dealerships is the largest one-year increase in recent Massey Ferguson history. Dealers are signing on for a variety of reasons, from the product line to brand reputation and dealership service, as well as programs geared for smaller businesses.
In the case of Low Country Machinery in Pooler, Ga., market demand and a life-long passion for Massey Ferguson fueled owners Chris and Jessica Shea’s decision to add the Massey Ferguson CUE line to their construction equipment business. They plan to locate Grid-Iron LLC, their Massey Ferguson dealership in Springfield, Ga., where there are many potential customers and strong brand loyalty for Massey Ferguson but no dealer currently.
“Growing up, I developed a passion for equipment of all types, and I loved going to the Springfield Massey Ferguson dealership with my dad,” remembers Chris Shea. “So many people in this area had similar experiences and remember the 135, 165 or 185 tractors that their granddad owned or that they grew up on. People here want to buy Massey Ferguson equipment. We’re excited about the market potential in this area and growing our business.
“It’s also been great to work with AGCO, because they’re as excited about the potential here as we are. They’ve been very responsive and great to work with through the entire process,” Shea adds.
Customer demand and brand reputation also were factors that drove Dustin Fussnecker to contact Massey Ferguson about dealership opportunities.
“Even though some of our customers think of us as only a lawnmower store, many were asking when we were going to start selling tractors again,” says Dustin Fussnecker. Dustin is the owner of the Fussnecker & Sons Tractor Sales in Ripley, Ohio, a six-year-old business which began as an FFA project. “We had a bad experience with a previous CUE tractor dealership, but were looking around for an opportunity. Earlier this year I made a half-hearted inquiry with Massey Ferguson, thinking there was no way they would consider us because of our size and scope.
“Little did I know, they actually have a program for dealers like us, geared toward smaller compact tractors,” Fussnecker explains. “It’s working out well. Customers got excited when the first tractors showed up in early November. The support to get us up and running has been overwhelming. We get the benefit of a legendary brand and quality products, and our dealership fills a void in this area because customers no longer have to drive two hours for AGCO parts.”
Just as businesses such as Fussnecker & Sons are cautious and selective about their choices for product lines, AGCO is looking for dealers with a track record of success, connection to their community and professionalism.
“AGCO is very strategic about the dealers we add,” says Dennis Heinecke, vice president of Dealer Network Optimization. “New dealers must have the desire to provide value to their customers. We don’t want a network of dealers every 20 miles. We want the best dealers, because we know our success is directly tied to our dealers’ success, and we have the tools and systems in place to fully support them.”
All new dealers benefit from Massey Ferguson’s comprehensive and competitively priced product lineup, along with AGCO’s strong offering of dealer support tools including parts sales; product service; sales and marketing materials; assistance with inventory management and ordering; distribution management; dealer systems support; staff training, and financing through AGCO Finance. Onboarding takes as little as 30 to 90 days, depending on the dealership’s preference. Each dealership also receives ongoing, on-site support from a Business Development specialist.
“The brand equity offered by Massey Ferguson, as well as the comprehensive line of tractors from 22.5 to 120 engine horsepower are very attractive for businesses who want to expand their current offering of lawn and garden or utility vehicles to attract more rural lifestyle customers,” says Anthony Burkes, director, Distribution Development and Strategy at AGCO. “These 20 businesses enhance our distribution coverage, and we’re pleased they have chosen Massey Ferguson.”
The businesses that became Massey Ferguson dealers in 2016 include:
Somerset Outdoor Equipment, Somerset, Pa.
WRI Tractors, Bryan, Texas
Gridiron, LLC, Pooler, Ga.
Bruno’s Powersports LLC, Cabot, Ark.
Crawford’s Equipment, Inc., Cambridge, Minn.
Southern Trailer Works, LLC, Thibodaux, La.
Aldrich Tractor, Inc., Verndale, Minn.
United Farmers’ Cooperative Farm Supply, Waconia, Minn.
Cecil C. Elliott Farm Equipment, Carleton, Pembroke, Ontario
Iron Horse Sales & Service, Eunice, La.
Powell Tractor, Inc., Westminster, S.C.
Maple Leaf Tractors and Equipment, Berry Hills, New Brunswick, Canada
Foster’s Work & Play, Livingston, Texas
Canary Outdoor Power Equipment, Crothersville, Ind.
Crossville Tractor, Crossville, Tenn.
Fussnecker & Sons Tractor Sales, LLC, Ripley, Ohio
Gene & Matt Tractor Sales, Inc., Winder, Ga.
Midwest Equipment Rental & Sales, LLC, Green Forrest, Ark.
Bobcat of Olean, Olean, New York
Belle Meade Garage, Belle Mead, N.J.
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Dean Heller on Budget & Economy
Control wasteful spending and shrink the size of government
Q: Economy: Support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
Dean Heller (R): No. "Control wasteful spending and shrink the size of government."
Jacky Rosen (D): Yes. "Invest in things that create jobs- like our energy and transportation infrastructure, public and technical schools, and high-tech research." Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Nevada Senate race , Oct 9, 2018
Voted YES on terminating the Home Affordable mortgage Program.
Congressional Summary: Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to terminate providing new mortgage modification assistance under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), except with respect to existing obligations on behalf of homeowners already extended an offer to participate in the program.
[Rep. Biggert, R-IL]: The HAMP Termination Act would put an end to the poster child for failed Federal foreclosure programs. The program has languished for 2 years, hurt hundreds of thousands of homeowners, and must come to an end. This bill would save $1.4 billion over 10 years. To date, the HAMP program has already consumed $840 million of the more than $30 billion of TARP funds that were set aside for the program. For this extraordinary investment, the administration predicted that 3 to 4 million homeowners would receive help. HAMP has hurt more homeowners than it has helped. The program has completed about 540,000 mortgage modifications. Another 740,000 unlucky homeowners had their modifications cancelled.
[Rep. Capuano, D-MA]: This is a program that I'm the first to admit has not lived up to what our hopes were. This program we had hoped would help several million people. Thus far we've only helped about 550,000 people. But to simply repeal all of these programs is to walk away from individual homeowners, walk away from neighborhoods. I'm not going to defend every single aspect of this program, and I am happy to work with anyone to make it better, to help more people to keep their homes, & keep their families together. To simply walk away without offering an alternative means we don't care; this Congress doesn't care if you lose your home, period. Now, I understand if that makes me a bleeding-heart liberal according to some people, so be it. Reference: The HAMP Termination Act; Bill H.839 ; vote number 11-HV198 on Mar 29, 2011
Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending.
$7 billion Increase in Fund balance appropriation (without fiscal year limitation).
With respect to the Unemployment Trust Fund and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund: Removes the FY2010 limitation as well as the specific dollar amount for such advances, replacing them with such appropriations as may be necessary.
Increases from $315 billion to $400 billion the maximum loan principal for FY2009 commitments to guarantee single family loans insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMIF).
Increases from $300 billion to $400 billion the limit on new Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae) commitments to issue guarantees under the Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. LEWIS (D, GA-5): This bipartisan bill will provide the necessary funds to keep important transportation projects operating in States around the country. The Highway Trust Fund will run out of funding by September. We must act, and we must act now.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. CAMP (R, MI-4): [This interim spending is] needed because the Democrats' economic policy has resulted in record job loss, record deficits, and none of the job creation they promised. Democrats predicted unemployment would top out at 8% if the stimulus passed; instead, it's 9.5% and rising. In Michigan, it's above 15%. The Nation's public debt and unemployment, combined, has risen by a shocking 40% [because of] literally trillions of dollars in additional spending under the Democrats' stimulus, energy, and health plans.
We had a choice when it came to the stimulus last February. We could have chosen a better policy of stimulating private-sector growth creating twice the jobs at half the price. That was the Republican plan. Instead, Democrats insisted on their government focus plan, which has produced no jobs and a mountain of debt. Reference: Omnibus Appropriations Act Amendment; Bill H.R. 3357 ; vote number 2009-H659 on Jul 29, 2009
Voted NO on modifying bankruptcy rules to avoid mortgage foreclosures.
Congressional Summary:Amends federal bankruptcy law to exclude debts secured by the debtor's principal residence that was either sold in foreclosure or surrendered to the creditor.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. PETER WELCH (D, VT-0): Citigroup supports this bill. Why? They're a huge lender. They understand that we have to stabilize home values in order to begin the recovery, and they need a tool to accomplish it. Mortgages that have been sliced and diced into 50 different sections make it impossible even for a mortgage company and a borrower to come together to resolve the problem that they share together.
Sen. DICK DURBIN (D, IL): 8.1 million homes face foreclosure in America today. Last year, I offered this amendment to change the bankruptcy law, and the banking community said: Totally unnecessary. In fact, the estimates were of only 2 million homes in foreclosure last year. America is facing a crisis.
Opponent's argument to vote No:
Sen. JON KYL (R, AZ): This amendment would allow bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages by lowering the principal and interest rate on the loan or extending the term of the loan. The concept in the trade is known as cram-down. It would apply to all borrowers who are 60 days or more delinquent. Many experts believe the cram-down provision would result in higher interest rates for all home mortgages. We could end up exacerbating this situation for all the people who would want to refinance or to take out loans in the future.
Rep. MICHELE BACHMANN (R, MN-6): Of the foundational policies of American exceptionalism, the concepts that have inspired our great Nation are the sanctity of private contracts and upholding the rule of law. This cramdown bill crassly undercuts both of these pillars of American exceptionalism. Why would a lender make a 30-year loan if they fear the powers of the Federal Government will violate the very terms of that loan? Reference: Helping Families Save Their Homes Act; Bill HR1106&S896 ; vote number 2009-H104 on Mar 5, 2009
Voted NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package.
Congressional Summary:Supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. DAVID OBEY (D, WI-7): This country is facing what most economists consider to be the most serious and the most dangerous economic situation in our lifetimes. This package today is an $825 billion package that does a variety of things to try to reinflate the economy:
creating or saving at least 4 million jobs
rebuilding our basic infrastructure
providing for job retraining for those workers who need to learn new skills
moving toward energy independence
improving our healthcare system so all Americans can have access to quality treatment
providing tax cuts to lessen the impact of this crisis on America's working families.
Rep. JERRY LEWIS (R, CA-51): Most of us would agree that the recent $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is an illustration of how good intentions don't always deliver desired results. When Congress spends too much too quickly, it doesn't think through the details and oversight becomes more difficult. The lesson learned from TARP was this: we cannot manage what we do not measure. We cannot afford to make the same mistake again.
Sen. THAD COCHRAN (R, MS): We are giving the executive branch immense latitude in the disbursement of the spending this bill contains. We are doing so without any documentation of how this spending will stimulate the economy. Normally, this kind of information would be contained in an administration budget. For items that have a short-term stimulative effect, most of us will feel comfortable debating their merits as an emergency measure. But there is a great deal of spending that is not immediately stimulative. Reference: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Bill H.R.1 ; vote number 2009-H046 on Jan 28, 2009
Voted NO on monitoring TARP funds to ensure more mortgage relief.
Congressional Summary:Requires specified depository institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to report periodically on their use of TARP assistance. Requires federal banking regulatory agencies to examine annually the use of TARP funds made by the deposit institutions.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. BARNEY FRANK (D, MA-4): Last year, after we responded to the urgent pleas of the Bush administration to authorize the $700 billion deployment of Federal funds to unstick the credit markets, many of us became very unhappy, [because Bush] repudiated commitments to use a significant part of the fund to diminish foreclosures. If we do not pass this bill today, we will make no progress in what is the single biggest economic problem we've been facing, namely, the foreclosure crisis.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. RON PAUL (R, TX-14): There has been a lot of money spent to try to bail out the financial industry, and nothing seems to be working. I think it's mainly because we haven't admitted that excessive spending can cause financial problems, & excessive debt and inflation can cause problems.
Actually, the recession is therapy for all of the mistakes, but the mistakes come, basically, from a Federal Reserve system that's causing too many people to make mistakes. Interest rates are lower than they should be, so they don't save. That contributes to what we call "moral hazard" as well as the system of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac system. With the assumption that we're all going to be bailed out, people say, "Well, no sweat because, if there is a mistake, the government will come to our rescue." A private FDIC would never permit this massive malinvestment. There would be regulations done in the marketplace, and there would not be this distortion that we've ended up with. Reference: TARP Reform and Accountability Act; Bill H.R.384 ; vote number 2009-H026 on Jan 21, 2009
Voted NO on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler.
Requires each automaker to submit a restructuring plan which includes:
the repayment of all government-provided financing
the domestic manufacturing of advanced technology vehicles
restructuring existing debt.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. BARNEY FRANK (D, MA-4): This economy is in the worst shape that it has been in since the Great Depression. This Congress voted 2 months ago to advance $25 billion to the auto industry to promote innovation. This $15 billion is an additional "bridge loan."
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. SPENCER BACHUS (R, AL-6): We all understand that the bankruptcy of either GM or Chrysler would have a cascading effect on other manufacturers. But I cannot support this plan because it spends taxpayer money without any real promise to return the industry to profitability. I see several glaring flaws. We are creating a new car czar to manage these companies from Washington; not a CEO, but a car czar. Second, this legislation actually imposes new and expensive mandates on our automobile companies. Third, this legislation imposes Federal Government management on the Big Three, the wisdom of Washington. It is clear that the management of these companies have made mistakes, many mistakes, but to set up a command and control Federal bureaucrat is exactly the wrong solution.
Rep. RON PAUL (R, TX-14): The problems that we are facing today date back to 1971. But we don't seem to want to go back and find out how financial bubbles form and why they burst. Instead, we just carry on doing the same old thing and never look back. We spend more money, we run up more debt, we print more money, and we think that is going to solve the problem that was created by spending too much money, running up debt, printing too much money. Today, we are talking about tinkering on the edges without dealing with the big problem. Reference: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act; Bill HR.7321 ; vote number 2008-H690 on Dec 10, 2008
Voted YES on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy.
Supplemental appropriations for:
Infrastructure Investments: Transportation: DOT, FAA, AMTRAK, and FTA
Clean Water (EPA)
Flood Control and Water Resources (ACE)
21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities (ED)
Energy Development (DOE)
Extension of Unemployment Compensation and Job Training
Temporary Increase in Medicaid Matching Rate
Temporary Increase in Food Assistance
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. DAVID OBEY (D, WI-7): Congress has tried to do a number of things that would alleviate the squeeze on the middle class. Meanwhile, this economy is sagging. Jobs, income, sales, and industrial production have all gone down. We have lost 600,000 jobs. We are trying to provide a major increase in investments to modernize our infrastructure and to provide well-paying construction jobs at the same time.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. JERRY LEWIS (R, CA-41): Just 2 days ago we were debating an $800 billion continuing resolution. Now in addition to being asked to pay for a bailout for Wall Street, taxpayers are being asked to swallow an additional $60 billion on a laundry list of items I saw for the first time just a few hours ago. The Democratic majority is describing this legislation as a "stimulus package" to help our national economy. But let's not fool ourselves. This is a political document pure and simple. If these priorities are so important, why hasn't this bill gone through the normal legislative process? We should have debated each of the items included in this package.
It doesn't take an economist to tell you that the economy needs our help. But what does this Congress do? It proposes to spend billions more without any offsets in spending. The failure to adhere to PAYGO means that this new spending will be financed through additional borrowing, which will prove a further drag on our struggling economy. Reference: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act; Bill S.3604&HR7110 ; vote number 2008-H660 on Sep 26, 2008
Voted YES on defining "energy emergency" on federal gas prices.
Makes it unlawful, during a period proclaimed by the President as an energy emergency, to sell gasoline at a price that:
is unconscionably excessive; or
indicates the seller is taking unfair advantage of the circumstances to increase prices unreasonably.
Authorizes the President to issue an energy emergency proclamation of up to 30 days, with renewals allowed.
Proponents argument for voting YEA: Rep. STUPAK. Vote YES to stand up for consumers who are paying outrageous gas prices at the pump, or vote NO to allow oil companies to go on setting them unchecked. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.07. The high cost of energy produces more opportunities to have price gouging and price manipulation. Everyone is shocked to learn that there is no Federal law against gas price gouging. Unscrupulous wholesalers, retailers and refiners operate without the Federal oversight to ensure prices are fair and justified. A vote against my bill is a vote against consumers and a vote for Big Oil.
Opponents argument for voting NAY: Rep. BARTON of Texas: [My first issue the bill is that by the bill's own definition], we don't have price gouging in the US today. We do have high prices. But the reason we have that price is not because of price gouging at retail. I am not aware of any pending State action on price gouging, and almost every State has State law to go after price gougers.
The second issue with the bill, it requires the declaration of a Presidential energy emergency. The bill doesn't give any definition as to why the President should declare an energy emergency; it doesn't define "unconscionably excessive"; it doesn't define when a "seller is taking unfair advantage."
I know there is a lot of pressure on the Congress doing something. I would state we would be better served to look at the underlying fundamentals that address the supply situation. Reference: Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act; Bill H R 6346 ; vote number 2008-448 on Jun 24, 2008
Voted NO on revitalizing severely distressed public housing.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2008:
Makes promoting housing choice among low-income families one of the purposes of the HOPE VI grant program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing.
Prohibits the award of demolition-only grants
Specifies requirements for revitalization plans including:
involvement of public housing residents;
a program for relocation;
one-for-one replacement of demolished dwelling units; and
green developments.
SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES:Rep. WATERS: This bill preserves public housing. The administration eliminated the one-for-one replacement requirement in 1996, effectively triggering a national sloughing off of our Nation's public housing inventory. Housing authorities have consistently built back fewer units than they have torn down and, as a result, over 30,000 units have been lost. I urge you to support our Nation's low-income families and to preserve our housing stock.
OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO:Rep. HENSARLING: President Reagan once said that the nearest thing to eternal life on Earth is a Federal program, and I don't think there is any better case study than perhaps the HOPE VI program. If there was ever a program that cried out for termination, it's this one.
This program began in 1992 with a very noble purpose of taking 86,000 units of severely distressed public housing and replacing them, demolishing them. Well, it achieved its mission. But somewhere along the line we had this thing in Washington known as mission creep.
We already have 80-plus Federal housing programs, and the budget for Federal housing programs has almost doubled in the last 10 years, from $15.4 billion to more than $30 billion now. So it's very hard to argue that somehow Federal housing programs have been shortchanged.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Bill passed House, 271-130 Reference: HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act; Bill H.R.3524 ; vote number 08-HR3524 on Jan 17, 2008
Voted YES on regulating the subprime mortgage industry.
H.R.3915: To reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to establish licensing and registration requirements for residential mortgage originators. Prohibits certain creditor practices with respect to high-cost mortgages, including:
recommending default on an existing loan in connection with closing of a high-cost mortgage
steering incentives to mortgage originators
exercising sole discretion to accelerate indebtedness
single premium credit insurance and
negative amortization mortgages.
Rep. FRANK: This legislation seeks to prevent a repetition of events that caused one of the most serious financial crises in recent times. We have a worldwide problem economically, with a terrible shortage of credit. Innovations in the mortgage industry, in themselves good and useful, but conducted in such a completely unregulated manner as to have led to this crisis. The fundamental principle of the bill is not to put remedies into place, but to stop future problems from occurring in the first place. We have had two groups of mortgage originators: banks subject to the regulation of the bank regulators; and then mortgage loans made by brokers who were subject to no regulation. The secondary market has been on the whole useful but, having been unregulated, has caused some problems.
Rep. HENSARLING: This is a bad bill for homeowners in America. There is no doubt that this Nation faces a great challenge in the subprime market, but this piece of legislation is going to make the situation worse. Clearly, there has to be enforcement against fraud in the subprime market. But what Congress should not do is essentially outlaw the American Dream for many struggling families who may be of low income, who may have checkered credit pasts, for whom a subprime mortgage is the only means to purchase a home. Reference: Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act; Bill HR3915 ; vote number 2007-1118 on Nov 15, 2007
Balanced Budget Amendment with 3/5 vote to override.
Heller signed H.J.RES.1& S.J.RES.22
Constitutional Amendment to prohibit outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts.
Requires a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber to increase the public debt limit.
Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress annually.
Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of each chamber by rollcall vote.
Authorizes waivers of these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict.
Amendment to the Constitution shall be valid when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification
Source: Joint Resolution for Amendment to the Constitution 09-HJR1 on Jan 6, 2009
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
Heller signed Balanced Budget Amendment
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a 3/5ths rollcall vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts.
Requires a 3/5ths rollcall vote of each chamber to increase the public debt limit.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (2/3rds of each House concurring therein), That the article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of 3/4ths of the several States within 7 years after the date of its submission for ratification.
This article shall take effect beginning with the later of the second fiscal year beginning after its ratification or the first fiscal year beginning after December 31, 2016. Source: H.J.Res.2 11-HJRES2 on Jan 5, 2011
Supports the Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge.
Heller signed the Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge to limit government
[The Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge is sponsored by a coalition of several hundred Tea Party, limited-government, and conservative organizations].
Despite our nation's staggering $14.4 trillion debt, there are many Members of the U.S. House and Senate who want to raise our nation's debt limit without making permanent reforms in our fiscal policies. We believe that this is a fiscally irresponsible position that would place America on the Road to Ruin. At the same time, we believe that the current debate over raising the debt limit provides a historic opportunity to focus public attention, and then public policy, on a path to a balanced budget and paying down our debt.
We believe that the "Cut, Cap, Balance" plan for substantial spending cuts in FY 2012, a statutory spending cap, and Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution is the minimum necessary precondition to raising the debt limit. The ultimate goal is to get us back to a point where increases in the debt limit are no longer necessary. If you agree, take the Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge!
I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to oppose any debt limit increase unless all three of the following conditions have been met:
Cut: Substantial cuts in spending that will reduce the deficit next year and thereafter.
Cap: Enforceable spending caps that will put federal spending on a path to a balanced budget.
Balance: Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- but only if it includes both a spending limitation and a super-majority for raising taxes, in addition to balancing revenues and expenses.
Source: Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge 12-CCB on Jan 1, 2012
Audit the Federal Reserve & its actions on mortgage loans.
Heller co-sponsored Federal Reserve Transparency Act
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act directs:
the completion, within 12 months, the audit of the Federal Reserve System and of the Federal Reserve Banks; with a detailed report of audit findings and conclusions.
Audit and report on the loan files of homeowners in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, required as part of the enforcement actions taken by the Federal Reserve against supervised financial institutions.
Prescribes audit contents, including:
the guidance given by the Federal Reserve to independent consultants retained by the supervised financial institutions regarding procedures to be followed in conducting the file reviews,
the factors considered by independent consultants when evaluating loan files and the results obtained pursuant to those reviews, and
the determinations made by such consultants regarding the nature and extent of financial injury sustained by each homeowner as well as the level and type of remediation offered.
Source: H.R.24&S.209 13-S0209 on Feb 4, 2013
CC:Balanced Budget Consitutional Amendment.
Heller supports the CC survey question on Balanced Budget Amendment
The Christian Coalition Voter Guide inferred whether candidates agree or disagree with the statement, 'Passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution' Christian Coalition's self-description: "Christian Voter Guide is a clearing-house for traditional, pro-family voter guides. We do not create voter guides, nor do we interview or endorse candidates." Source: Christian Coalition Surve 18CC-20 on Jul 1, 2018
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Was Mid-Night always considered the transition point between two days in Gregorian/Julian Calendars?
Was the transition point between calendar days (in the gregorian\julian calendar), always been at midnight?
If not, when did the midnight rule begin?
And what was the determining time before that? The sunrise?
NSNoob
doviddovid
In Islamic calendar, Sunset is considered to be the transition point. E.g. If it's 1st of Shawal 2 minutes before sunset, on sunset it would be 2nd of Shawal. Since Calendars vary in rules, It would help if you were to limit this question to one Calendar. I take it you are most interested in Gregorian or Julian Calendars? – NSNoob Jul 12 '17 at 14:17
It is said in places like historicnavalfiction.com/general-hnf-info/naval-facts/… that in the Royal Navy in days of yore, the day officially began at noon. Some even less well sourced memory of mine says this practice was switched over in the late 1800's. – kimchi lover Jul 12 '17 at 14:37
@NSNoob, Indeed, I will make my question, I am most interested in the gregorian/julian calendar – dovid Jul 12 '17 at 14:45
It wasn't simple to track time at night until the invention of mechanical clocks. Before that the breakpoint between days was sunrise (early Roman), solar midnight (later Roman), or sunset (Athenians, Jews) depending on the area and period.
Also worth noting is that until mechanical clocks the length of hours would also vary from a day to the next, and time at night wasn't always counted the same way as during the day. The Roman time table that follows, for instance, highlights how days were split in 12 like today, while nights were split in 4 segments in practice - the latter corresponding to guard shifts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_timekeeping
Denis de BernardyDenis de Bernardy
sunrise (early Roman), solar midnight (later Roman), or sunset (Athenians, Jews) That's what I'm looking for. Do you have a source? – dovid Jul 13 '17 at 9:05
@lomed: Everything well explained in OP's link, except the reference to the Jewish day beginning at (local) sunset which I would take to be common knowledge in Western cultures. – Pieter Geerkens Jul 15 '17 at 21:24
There are things called Nautical time and astronomical day, with Wikipedia entries describing them, where the day begins at noon. Presumably this was useful in specialized trades (ship driving, star gazing) at various times in history. The Nautical time entry in Wikipedia has this funny bit:
Up to late 1805 the Royal Navy used three days: nautical, civil (or "natural"), and astronomical. A nautical day entered in a ship's log as 10 July, for example, in fact commenced at noon on 9 July civil reckoning, PM therefore coming before AM. The astronomical day of 10 July, on the other hand, commenced at noon of 10 July civil reckoning, and ended at noon on 11 July. The astronomical day was brought into use following the introduction of the Nautical Almanac in 1767, and the British Admiralty issued an order ending the use of the nautical day on 11 October 1805. The US did not follow suit until 1848, while many foreign vessels carried on using it until the 1880s.
The US Navy Observatory's History of the Nautical Almanac says that in 1925 the astronomical day was redefined to begin at midnight. According to this professional astronomical journal article the switch-over was scheduled for 1 Jan 1925.
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I think this is pretty definite, if ships and observatories count as "certain places". – kimchi lover Jul 15 '17 at 21:55
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Bill Jack – ParentingGreg Hahner2018-10-31T00:46:24-05:00
Oct. 27th, 2:00 PM CST
How to Prepare Your Young Adult to Engage the Culture with a Biblical Worldview
Diagnosing the reason why so many Christian young people are leaving the faith
How the enemy’s attack on Christian young people has changed during the last generation
The importance of a biblical foundation for every area of life
How to prepare young people to engage, not hibernate
About Bill Jack
Bill Jack is married and has three children. He is the cofounder and faculty advisor of Worldview Academy, an academic leadership program that seeks to train Christian students to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview so that they will serve Christ and lead the culture.
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The Girl with the Leica
Author(s): Helena Janeczek
WINNER The Strega Prize
Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield.
August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro's twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann, who would henceforth assume the moniker Robert Capa alone, leads the procession. He taught Taro to use a Leica. Together, they left for the Spanish Civil War to bear witness to fascist war crimes. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, in the procession: Ruth Cerf, Taro's old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure who is being mourned by the multitudes.
Gerda Taro is at the heart of this kaleidoscopic novel but another of its main characters is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century's ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age's quintessential art form.
The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women's lives.
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Historical Horizons
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Ancestral Journeys
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by Will Katerberg
My blood is about 2.5 percent Neanderthal and 1.8 percent Denisovan. My colleagues and wife say they’re not surprised. The evidence indicates, however, that all non-Africans are about 2 percent Neanderthal and just under 2 percent Denisovan. These discoveries are fascinating stories, and they have been a challenge for scientists and theologians. They’re also very personal.
The arrows on the map above represent the migratory paths of successive groups that eventually coalesced to form a branch of my maternal family tree. It starts with my oldest female ancestor, going forward to more recent times, showing at each step where my genetic ancestors migrated.
On my mother’s side, my maternal ancestors had migrated out of Africa by about 55,000 years ago and lived in West Asia. My father’s side of the family made a similar journey about 65,000 years ago, my paternal ancestors leaving the Rift Valley in East Africa, probably crossing at the southern end of the Red Sea into the Arabian Peninsula.
Those ancient Katerbergs seem to have migrated west from a refuge near the Balkans across Europe about 20,000 years ago, when the last glacial maximum ended. My ancestors on my mother side of the family, the ancient Visschers, arrived in Europe from West Asia sometime later, probably traveling into Eastern Europe and then Western Europe.
The migratory paths of successive groups that eventually coalesced to form a branch of my paternal family tree.
My story of ancestral journeys continues into the present. My mother’s family migrated from the Netherlands to Canada in the late 1940s, my father’s family in the mid 1950s, both looking for farmland for their sons. One of my aunts gave me digital copies of some documents related to my mother’s family’s immigration experience. This added recent sources to the ancient evidence I received from DNA tests.
More recent and ancient patterns in my DNA indicate that my genetic ancestry is found in a high percentage in northern Europe, about 45 percent. This likely points back to early hunter-gatherers Europe. I also share a significant component of DNA with people from the Mediterranean region, about 35 percent. Finally I have a notable portion of shared DNA with people from India and Central Asia, about 18 percent.
More specifically, the two closest reference populations for me, where my DNA looks most similar, are Danish and German. That evidence fits with what my father has told me about his family’s background. The Katerbergs migrated to the Netherlands from Germany in the 18th century, if I remember right. In the more distant past they migrated from Denmark to Germany, perhaps during the Thirty Years War of early to mid 1600s.
I did these DNA tests, and traced my ancestry back to the earliest humans who came out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, through the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project. The story I’ve recounted here will continue to evolve as more people participate in the genographic project and National Geographic gets new information that allows them to chart my family’s journey more precisely. I can keep going back to the website for updates.
My motivation was partly personal, as a matter of simple curiosity. I also took the test because I am teaching a section of my department’s core course on world history before 1500 (History 151) in the spring of 2015.
The course starts with our early human ancestors, the emergence of our own species, and their migration out of Africa and around the world by about 13,000 years ago. It’s a fascinating story for some students and disconcerting for others, even stressful, because of the religious questions it raises about biblical accounts of human origins. My hope is that, whatever their view of religion, science, and evolution, seeing the story of my ancestors will remind them that this evolutionary history is not an impersonal matter of academic research or intellectual controversy but part of our personal stories.
Our stories, even our creation stories, are not only about cosmic matters, or even familiar human history on a grand scale. They’re also as ordinary as ordinary gets, tracing back our family lines, from mother to mother, father to father, through the generations, thousands of them. The story told here is my family heritage, not mere fodder for debates between advocates of science vs. advocates of religious traditions.
My grather father, Frank VIsscher, and his family in 1949. My mother is in the second row on the left.
The genotype project of National Geographic suggests that even the results of technical scientific scholarship can be personal and mythic. The science can trace back my ancestry through mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes and Haplogroups. But I find genuine truth in imagining ancient Katerbergs and Visschers traveling from Africa to West Asia, and into Europe, and from there to North America six and seven decades ago. The first among them were hunter-gatherers. They eventually became farmers, like my grandfathers who migrated to Canada with their families looking for land for their sons.
My students and I will not ignore cosmic questions in History 151 next February, nor the relationship between religion, science, and critical history. They will have opportunities to explore these issues and come to their own conclusions about them. But it’s useful for us to set aside big questions, for a time, so we don’t forget to notice generation upon generation of our unnamed ancestors on their journeys.
This post is part of a series on Critical History and Sacred Tradition.
William Katerberg’s areas of focus are the history of ideas, the North American West, environmental history, and world history. He is the chairperson of the History Department at Calvin College.
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Challenging the “Evolutionary Psychology” of PUA and MGTOW: the absurd Alpha-Beta paradigm
Dean Esmay
I’ve spent the last few years trying to be nice to people spreading what I consider pernicious anti-male attitudes about sex and reproduction throughout the “manosphere.” As feminism is increasingly culturally on the defensive, and even conservatives are starting to notice men need to have reasons other than “duty” to want to be with women, and as the concept of “Men’s Rights” becomes increasingly mainstream despite the screams of our cultural elites, it’s probably a good time to start looking at the issue of Manospherian Misinformation more closely; giving men, young men in particular, bad information about human psychology and sexuality can’t be good for anyone.
Most of the misinformation I speak of is around a notion derived from what certain people call “evolutionary psychology.” Those who produce bad “evopsych” nonsense work from a small handful of studies that in isolation suggest that humans are somehow tournament maters, with “Alpha” and “Beta” males competing for access to females. This is wrong on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin–and the ramifications of getting this issue wrong are huge long-term, so we really should talk about it.
I spent a lot of time over the last few years gathering references for various points on bogus “evopsych,” but every time I would offer them in the spirit of intellectual discussion or scholarly debate and discussion, I was attacked instead, mostly by “manospherians,” and accused of having an ideological agenda. So what I’m going to do is brain dump a few dozen paragraphs on human mating, reproduction, and parenting behavior. And then if people want references for specific points, I will upon polite request provide references. If you’re going to snark and sneer I will respond with same; if you want to talk about this like a civilized adult, I will also respond with same.
As you read the below model of how human mating and reproduction and parenting works, notice how much it flies in the face of the ideological “women just use men/men just want pussy” model that seems to be so pervasive among some (not all) MRA, PUA, and MGTOW thinkers. The misinformation looks something like this:
Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap. Males are therefore disposable. The female brain has evolved to where it pretends to love males, but really does not; females will happily throw their men overboard once the male is no longer perceived as useful, because hypergamy drives her to always find males who can give her more resources and more status, and if another male will give her these things she will leave. She will never be grateful for anything any man really did for her, in any tangible way, except by mouthing platitudes. Ultimately, meanwhile, men are consumed by an illusion that women are capable of love the way men love women. In reality, men’s biological nature drives them to simply sleep with as many women as they can until they die.
Yes, the above is really the way some guys think. And with one or two exceptions, most of it is garbage. And even the parts that may be true are being used to draw irresponsible conclusions that the scientific record (and common sense) do not support.
One of the dumber things running around, which I’ve heard from multiple supposedly “rational” sources, is that women don’t really love men because, after all, if a man is not perceived as useful to women they do not find him attractive for long.
What’s wrong with this assertion is that anyone, male or female, needs reasons to love someone. Furthermore, what makes a woman love a man and what makes a man love a woman is not fundamentally different, because both men and women look for pretty much the same exact things. Men and women almost always have the same list of priorities they seek in a mate, they just rank them differently in importance: Money, power, status, stability, good looks, a good sex life, physical security, emotional security, affection, nurturing, raising children: men and women both look for all these things, consciously and unconsciously. Men tend to prioritize the physical a bit higher than women, women things like the financial, but in the end, everybody looks at all these things, especially when looking for more than a casual fling.
Women may be a bit more pragmatic and utilitarian about love; there’s evidence that most romantics are men not women. But saying women value men only for utility is exactly like saying men truly only value tits and ass. It’s a bullshit statement in both cases. Do women recover from widowhood or breakups quicker? Maybe. Do they prioritize the practical in relationships somewhat more than men? Probably. But if you look at what men and women really find attractive in the opposite sex, you almost invariably find that their lists are identical, just prioritized differently.
Males exhibit hypergamy just as females do by the way, which is why the man who dumps his spouse for a younger hotter chick is a real thing—although that’s less common in this society, which has jiggered divorce laws to ridiculously lopsided female-favoring circumstances. But the reality is some men’s pathological hypergamy does lead them to being wildly unfaithful boyfriends or spouses. Just as it does in women.
Pathological hypergamy–that’s a good term. Because hypergamy is a normal, natural, healthy trait that both (yes both) sexes possess. It’s pathological when it starts to cause major problems.
The world is full of women who were so wounded after their men left or died that they could never even think of being with anyone else again, and never do. So don’t tell me about women not loving because a part of them values utilitarianism in a mate a little more than men. I have seen women sacrifice for men my entire life, although I admit that those women tend to be older and the behavior seems rarer these days than when I was a child.
Furthermore, males value utility in a mate. They always have. Just look at centuries of literature advising men on how to pick a good wife. Look at what women actually had to do that was hard work back centuries ago, work so hard few reading this would be willing to do it daily. Unless you’re an exercise freak or one of those idiots playing with hormonal supplements, what women of history had to do was often backbreakingly difficult even if it didn’t require massive muscle strength, just endurance–being able to lift more weight doesn’t really make you a better cotton picker except certain specific contexts, now does it?
On to our mating strategies and what some PUA and MGTOW get dead wrong: We evolved away from being tournament maters and became pairbonders upwards of a million years ago, or at least a few hundred thousand. Paternal investment in children started around that time, and it was paternal investment in their own children not the pack’s children. This changed everything; indeed, this appears to be the primary thing that set us apart from all other primates. And by the way, it’s much harder to fool a man into thinking he’s the father when he isn’t than most people think–if you’re in a small community with people who see each other daily and know each other very well. The modern world has changed that, with women now able to use tricks that wouldn’t have been so easy centuries ago; this is not to say paternity fraud hasn’t been a problem forever–it’s a challenge faced by males of all pairbonding species–but the modern world has made it easier to get away with. Only genetic testing helps men avoid the fraud (and even now the laws are frequently horrifically unfair to men in this area).
We furthermore now know the biochemical tale that we did not know just a decade or two ago: men change physically when they learn they’ve impregnated a female. The ramifications of that are enormous: it means that before we were even really human, we had already evolved away from the tournament mating model. We retain traits of it. But we are pairbonders through and through, and the key is to see what fathers actually are: a biochoemical, physical reality, not an idea or an ideology.
Fatherhood isn’t an idea. It’s a biological state. One that alters your brain forever. The history of war suggests pair bonding is the best survival strategy for both men and women – women have a man willing to protect them at all costs, and men have something to live for and yes, someone to take care of them and meet their emotional and physical needs. Take away their women and kids and except for a few who go berzerk most will lose all will to fight and pretty much all will to live. He is bonded to that woman and those children, and they to him. And if he dies, their odds of dying goes up dramatically. If you doubt it, look to the laws through countless civilizations for thousands of years: that woman and her kids were fucked if no family would take them in, most of the time. Beggars or dead on the street was–and still is, in much of the world–the most frequent result.
Who do you think was in those orphanages portrayed by Charles Dickens in tales like Oliver Twist? Mostly, it as fatherless children whose mothers could or would not care for them. Now ask yourself: what were the average odds of survival of the kids in those orphanages?
Love of fathers is at the heart of some of the very most popular (and reviled) religions in the world. I don’t care if you like those religions or what they did or not; just don’t buy the feminist bullshit that Christianity imposed the idea of fatherhood. Christianity TOOK the idea of fatherhood and OFFERED it to people who YEARNED for it. Call it a false promise if you want, but it was always one of its biggest selling points. The religions weren’t teaching fatherhood. They were offering us a love most people instinctively crave our entire lives: the love of a father.
Even if you’re an atheist you should recognize that the father figure is wildly important in the biggest religions in the world, and it should give you pause: why would that be so if the father does not loom large in the subconscious of most people in most cultures?
You can call that love of the father an illusion, but if so it’s an illusion deeply craved as a near universal human experience and yearning–and no, you don’t get to scream “but I hate my father!” as a rebuttal. No one said everybody has the same exact feelings, just as nobody said that every guy loves titties in the same way (some like them a little, some a lot, some hardly at all). What few tournament mating traits homo sapiens have are leftovers from literally about a million years ago, although sure, just like all pairbonding species (ALL OF THEM) we cheat, and yes there’s funny things in our anatomy that reflect that, like penis size and whatnot.
Indeed, Homo Sapiens almost certainly “cheat” far more more than tournament maters do. This should be self-evident in fact. By comparison to the tournament mating primates, Homo Sapiens only rarely kill male competitors, and not because civilization tells them not to. Human males have a strong instinctive built-in aversion to killing other males except in very specific circumstances. That’s part of our biological heritage. That aversion to killing each other has to be trained out of us; killing other males is not natural to us except in very specific circumstances. Indeed, most human males are so averse to seriously harming another male that military studies in the 20th Century showed most soldiers would not shoot enemy soldiers unless strongly driven to do so by various psychological training methodologies.
Furthermore, it is universal in human experience, with only the occasional odd duck sociopath, for human males to be psychologically tormented and sometimes even destroyed just from the experience of killing another man, even if it was 100% justified in his mind–and never mind what it will do to him if he has even a sliver of doubt that it was the right thing to do. That’s not because religion or society taught him that. That’s because it’s his built-in biology. Indeed, he will probably keep that sliver of doubt as a point of pain for the rest of his life, unless he is driven to near (or total) psychopathy by a brutal environment.
Indeed, human males are so deeply averse to killing or even grievously wounding another male, every society has sports and rules for honorable combat. And what the idiots think is, “Aha, see, men are violent!” Bah. That’s getting it completely backwards, exactly (and I do mean exactly) like a feminist. Societies universally set up rules which lessen the odds of serious injury or death among men who are fighting because at least in this one area they want their men safe. When you see that in practically every culture, either shunning or outright forbidding males to kill or seriously wound, you have to think: wait, if every civilization feels that way, that must be a natural instinct in most humans, with a need to punish those oddball rarities who don’t understand the rules and just waste other men. This is also why every society punishes murderers, by the way. Fuck, it’s the reason every society even has a concept of murder; if men were naturally prone to crippling or killing each other, why the fuck would men ever support laws to limit their ability to destroy their fellow men and then rape those men’s women and kill those other men’s children, just like tournament maters typically do?
And indeed, pre-civilizationally, if you look at hunter/gatherers what’s most remarkable is how seldom the men kill each other compared to how tournament maters operate. Human males appear to have a natural in-built sportsmanship in even the most primitive cultures, a certain “off” button that says “OK you’ve made your point, stop hitting now.” Human males also have that magnificent, “OK, argument over” instinct, which only a few women seem to possess, wherein they can frequently have screaming matches, even occasionally exchanging blows, then when it’s over, go work on a project together or get drunk together. It’s traits like that which built civilization, not hypercompetitive bullshit “Alpha Male” posing. (Which is all that Alpha/Beta crap is anyway: posing.)
Universally it may well be that human males preferentially kill each other rather than women or children if they must kill, but it’s also universally true that most men never kill other men even during the most brutal mating competitions—the old phrase “All’s fair in love and war” almost never counted murdering as “fair,” it was always a sardonic joke. Even in societies where men who kill over women are more accepted, men who kill during mating competitions are universally marked as different and someone everyone–men women and children–is a little afraid of. At best. More likely he’ll be killed or driven away for being a dangerous lunatic, in most human tribes.
And by the way, human females kill each other in the mating game too. I have no idea how often females kill each other over a man by comparison to men, but it’s not relevant: as usual, when males have a trait, so do females, and vice versa, usually just varying in extremes. Females killing for their mates is a thing, and guess what? It’s another trait of the pairbonder, not a trait of the tournament mater, where females compete far less; females in tournament mating systems mostly only compete over who gets to have sex with the victorious male first.
War is brutal on children because children are biochemically harmed by the absence of the father. Male disposability to the extent that it exists is an emergency escape hatch for the worst possible circumstances, not the default of how we work as a species. Accelerated male disposability is pretty new, something that only started happening the last few thousand years in most of the world and steadily accelerated in the 19th and 20th centuries due to social and technological factors primarily.
The wrenching changes of civilization were most costly to our men. And these guys, these MGTOW and PUA and even a few MRAs who should know better, who keep looking at mating, mating, mating, mating, mating, mating, and trying to apply their primitive mating lessons to life in general: they are getting it so wrong because they’re seeing how we choose mates when we’re young and are defining our entire existence that way when, biologically we’re all pretty much supposed to be parents in a more or less stable pairbond by our early 20s. Not because religion taught us this but because it is the near-universal pattern in most of humanity, and the anthropological record strongly suggests it has been the basis of the human family for at least one hundred thousand years and more likely at least 250 thousand years and very possibly as much as a million years.
Let me get this clear: “Game,” when it works, is an effective form of flirting and, occasionally, seduction, although you can rarely seduce someone who doesn’t want to be. But what they’re doing is playing with some of our most primitive wetware, and ignoring a lot of other wetware in the process, which is probably why “Game” only works sometimes, and why it’s really silly to try to spin these tricks for getting a girl’s attention and getting her to think you may be sexy after all are no more than a small slice of who we are as Homo Sapiens.
Those who insist that the family unit is a creation of civilization using what they call “evolutionary psychology” are oblivious to the reality of the human family for the MUCH longer span of human history than this tiny little blink of an eye we call civilization; “civilization” as we understand it is only 10,000 years old, and in some parts of the world it’s a lot less old than that.
So let’s get something straight: Fatherhood and the family precede civilization by tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.
Let me say it one more time: Fatherhood. And the family. Precede. Civilization. By tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.
This is why broken homes are so fucked up pretty much everywhere you go in the world and look pretty much the same with only minor variations on things like their level of violence or drug addiction or crime or just how entrenched the financial problems are. Yes some come out of broken homes to do fantastic and some come from the best of families and wind up dead after trying to rob a liquor store, but unless you are really unschooled you know exactly where the odds lie and it is not with the kids from broken families.
Because fatherhood. Precedes. Civilization. By tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.
And fathers are as biochemically tied to their children as mothers are, which is why when a man is certain he has impregnated a female he biochemically changes, and when he is uncertain he generally does not.
This documented scientific reality that men change biochemically when their mate becomes pregnant appears to have been something Western scientists discarded decades ago, ignoring it when primitive peoples would talk to them about it. The primitives knew it but our scientists thought until recently that it was just primitive superstition. Only recently did researchers get interested in it again as they found that yes, all that stuff about “sympathetic pregnancy” that many males experience? Yeah: it’s biochemical, not just them being cute or silly. Indeed, mocking men for having “sympathetic pregnancy” is pretty juvenile, since it’s a natural biological state for men. It’s like mocking them for going into puberty. Fathers-to-be change hormonally and in brain structure, in ways that can’t be undone (not that we know of anyway), and those changes are even greater after the child is born.
Many primitive societies have always known about this. Men really do become pregnant, and if paternity was in question it was usually because a man was not showing the signs: in his heart, he didn’t believe, and he didn’t change either physically or in attitude.
The actual mating pattern for pre-civilizational humans is for youngsters to find mates somewhere in their mid-teens, and have a child together with the help of extended family. Then when that child is weaned, usually around the age of 4 to 7 or so (yes, pre-civilizational humans breastfed WAY longer than is now the norm), then maybe the couple goes off to find other mates or maybe they decide to stick together because they still get along and liked each other and seem to make great kids together.
You might want to circle that last paragraph because what I just described is both the most common pattern among primitive hunter/gatherers still putting bones through their noses and probably most other intact couples you know who have kids. Because that’s our evolved pattern, you numbskulls who keep talking about this nebulous thing in your head you call “evopsych” without ever seeing that your obsession on courtship behavior is blinding you to countless evolutionary realities.
Some men are obsessed with the 5% of us that’s still got that ancient tournament mating drive in us. They are sadly ignoring upwards of a million years of evolution taking us away from that model. Further, what leads up to courtship and mating is one thing, what happens afterwards is quite another, and most of these “women just want men’s resources/men just want pussy pussy pussy!” people seem to have forgotten that pregnancy was non-optional for most sexually active people only half a century ago. And pregnancy is the biological purpose of mating, and most males do not discard their children after fucking the mother; if they learn the female is pregnant the vast majority automatically, instinctively stay around. You can hardly stop them from doing so, they’ll do it even if the female throws things at them and tries driving them away.
As always, there are exceptions. You don’t get to scream that you’re different so there’s no truth in what I’m saying here. We’re all different in some way or another.
Let me stop here and point something else out: what I describe as the natural, biologically evolved human family for at least a hundred thousand years before civilization and possibly more than a million years before civilization? Let’s say you think I made that all up. I didn’t, but just pretend I did, because of my religion or my ideology or my secret agenda or whatever. Did it sound at least scientifically plausible? If so, you just identified the main problem with what manospherians sometimes call “Evolutionary Psychology”: working in a vacuum, or with only limited data, you can make huge generalizations about any species, including Homo Sapiens, that sound both utterly plausible and also turn out to be complete bullshit. If I describe humans as routinely walking on their hands, I can make up a million “EvoPsych” reasons for that as an evolved trait that conveys significant reproductive advantage, regardless of the fact that humans don’t actually do that most of the time.
So please, for the love of God, please stop declaring something is “Evopsych” as if that makes your argument automatically correct. For that matter, please stop pretending that if an evolutionary psychologist says something, that is to be taken as true Ex Cathedra. Hell, there are even feminist Evolutionary Psychologists applying “EvoPsych” principles to the completely fictional Patriarchy for fuck’s sake. Calling something Evolutionary Psychology at this point is like calling something British: it may be right or may be wrong but calling it British, Buddhist, or EvoPsych will not automatically make it right.
Now, going back to the mating game: Of course human females slightly value utility more than males do, but males value utility in their mates as workers and partners in crime and have for all of human history and, indeed, from what I’ve seen of the evolutionary record, for about a million plus years now, since before we were even strictly human. Indeed, I put it to you that most men find ballsy brassy women who can take care of themselves an absolute treasure. They admire them–at least most men do. If our natural instinct was to view females mostly just as cuddle-and-fuck toys and baby breeders, why have men admired female warriors and badass female characters in fiction for so long? Why does virtually every polytheist religion include female warrior goddesses for that matter?
Men have always admired tough, ballsy broads, always. I put it to you that this is because whatever they think of physical beauty–it probably is more important to males than it is to most females–a useless wife is fucking useless, and one who won’t at least try to have your back when you’re in a fight is probably an outright hazard not just to you but also to your children. Which means guess what? Men are utilitarian in their choice of mates too. Seriously, what man would want to stay with a woman who gave him nothing but sex and babies? Yes yes, there’s the occasional man who talks that way, but even that’s mostly bravado in my experience, and a pretty fucking miserable life most likely, unless you’re the rare independently wealthy sociopath.
Sometimes, like most pairbonding species, humans mate for life. Sometimes, like most pairbonding species, they do not mate for life. Much of the “controversy” over humans’ incontestable status as pairbonders is the stupid notion that pairbonding means “lifelong monogamy.” It does not mean that in any species anywhere on the planet that I can detect, with humans no exception. Pairbonders frequently just stay around long enough for the infants to be able to walk talk and eat on their own. Once again, that is not the pattern just for humans, it’s the pairbonder pattern in general.
At least that was the standard pattern for humans before we started making laws to stop fathers from being with their children. But even then, most people recognize that it is innately wrong–in most cases–to keep fathers from their children. It’s taken a vast industry worth billions to hide the reality of the Family Court system from most people until they’re trapped in it.
In any case, as regards to fathers and for that matter stepfathers: Speaking anthropologically, stepfathers and fathers sometimes hate each other but just as commonly find friendship together instead, since they live in close proximity and there was no massive fight in the breakup—oh by the way did I just describe hunter/gatherers or something pretty close to what an awful lot of families look like now, at least the ones who have kept their sanity and stayed near each other to form something semi-functional? Yeah, I just described the human family of people living in jungles who’ve never worn shoes and quite a few people I know in the United States too.
And that extended family structure includes things like grandparents, aunts, uncles. The Arabs still adhere most closely to this model (more than others I know of anyway) but if you look around the world this is actually the pattern for most of humanity outside of comfortable American suburbia or certain upper class areas around the world. Or where government pays for women to throw their men out.
The whole Alpha Male/Beta Male thing? It’s bullshit on so many levels. It was invented decades ago to describe wolf behavior. It was later found to be totally insufficient for wolves, only really describing wolves in captivity, i.e. wolves in prison forced together and more or less driven crazy.
Comparisons between wolves and humans are not out of line, however, because primates have evolved wildly different mating patterns from each other, including tournament mater, promiscuous mating, and of course that unusual trait of Homo Sapiens: the pair-bond, which is actually how canines work too. It appears that one of the reasons humans and dogs have an affinity for each other is because the canine pack structure in reality in most cases is this: Mama wolf, Papa wolf, brother sister wolves, aunt and uncle wolves, and so on.
And by the way, there’s a common myth that the “alpha” male and “alpha” female in canines do not allow the other males and females to mate. It is based again on early misunderstandings of wolf behavior, particularly in captivity. What appears to be more typical is that Mama and Papa wolf try to dictate when and with whom the youngsters may mate, and try to stop them fooling with sex before they seem ready to be parents. Yes I just described both wolves and the old fashioned human family. Like I said: canine pack structure and human pack structure are startlingly similar. We’re more like wolves in our mating habits than we are like other primates, and dogs and wolves are more like homo sapiens than they are other canidae.
And by the way, again, please don’t be a juvenile and say “I don’t like dogs!” In point of fact, for the most part, I don’t like them either. That’s not the point. Dogs have been universally the one of the most popular work animals, as well as companion animals, in human history and indeed far longer than history, pretty much globally, with rare exception. Even societies that don’t view dogs as suitable pets still use them for work, because they’re easier for humans to train and understand than most other animals.
Whether partly co-evolution or partly happy circumstance, human and wolf pack structure are remarkably similar, and neither has an “Alpha Male” mating model. We are both pairbonders, which sets us aside from other primates and also most other canines. What that pairbonding nature means is that our males and our females do compete, differently but just as fiercely, then when we’ve done all that and we’ve mated we settle down and try to work together with the other males and females form a safe stable community where we live together for mutual protection and companionship–what is otherwise known as forming a pack. Pack formation is what homo sapiens do, along with certain other primates but unlike other primates.
That’s not communism, although I suppose you could call it some sort of communitarianism. No matter, it’s not an “ism.” It’s the human pack structure, i.e. our tribal structure, at its most fundamental and most prevalent form around the world and throughout what appears to be everything we know going back to before we were even Homo Sapiens.
By the way, one of a dozen reasons why people are psychologically biochemically fucked up these days is not just the environment we live in, it’s the fact that literally we, male and female alike, change biochemically when we become parents, in permanent, inalterable ways, and biologically we are all supposed to be doing that somewhere around the age of 16 or 17, plus or minus a few years, and if we do not, we inevitably are different, not just in how we live but at a deep psychological level.
Furthermore, until recently in our evolutionary heritage, females rarely got pregnant while lactating. That appears to have been something that happened to us when we became “civilized.” Agriculturalists appear to have overrun Hunter/Gatherers not because they were more successful or more warlike, but because they reproduced like jackrabbits compared to the Hunter/Gatherers, who were otherwise demonstrably stronger, taller, faster, healthier, and longer-lived than the agriculturalists. They just didn’t make babies as fast. When we became civilized, our women became a lot more fertile, did so earlier in life, and began to commonly get pregnant only a year or two after their last one, even if still lactating. Lactation used to be terrific birth control for most women, and now no longer is very reliable for most. When we started farming, it stopped working so well. The strongest theory on why that is in my view is the dietary change, but even if that theory is wrong, everything else I just said in this paragraph is demonstrable fact, and very important so I again suggest circling it.
Add the aforementioned biochemical changes humans underwent about 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture to the fact that in the last 100-200 years we’ve changed even more. Then we invented birth control a half-century or so ago and that didn’t just change the game, it upended the fucking table and threw all the pieces in the air; we’re still trying to come to grips with how much that’s changed us.
The fact that we aren’t reproducing the way we were evolved to reproduce, and are waiting so late in life to reproduce, or choosing not to reproduce in greater numbers than ever before, may even make us less mature in many ways than our ancestors. Even if that Alpha/Beta Male bullshit were true–and it isn’t–it’s all supposed to be mostly done with by the time we’re entering our second decade and surely by the time we’re approaching our third. With only occasional fights breaking out–usually because someone got caught cheating.
Yes of course there’s cheating: pairbonders cheat. In fact, it should not take a whole lot of brainpower to realize that pairbonders will cheat more than tournament maters. This would be a natural thing: in tournament mating species, cheaters often get murdered, male or female. Whereas among pairbonders, who generally don’t fight to the death just to mate (i.e. that happens only occasionally), more opportunities to cheat will present, and cheating will be safer and there will be more opportunities to do it than in a pack with a giant male ready to cripple or murder any males caught sniffing around their harem.
I cannot find a single example anywhere of a pairbonding species that does not cheat. If you can find one, I’d like to read more about it, because I suspect that the only non-cheating pairbonders in the world are unicorns and elves. Concentrating on cheating misses the forest for the trees: every society in every era from the most modern to the most primitive recognizes what cuckolding is. And if cuckolding is universally recognized as a thing, and is subject to scorn and ridicule if not outright shunning and ostracizing, in almost every society with only rare exception? That means my dear fellows that BIOLOGICALLY we have a bad reaction to it when we spot it. Because men know who their own children are, instinctively, most of the time, and when they aren’t sure they feel massively insecure. Grandparents tend to feel the same way.
Also by the way, most of the evidence suggests women cheat as much as men, they just lie more about it. Sorry you guys who so wrongly that men naturally cheat and women don’t. Jeez, don’t you science?
Also by the way, human males mate-guard for each other, as do human females, which is yet again another feature of the pack-oriented pairbonder, not the tournament mater. Also, if we were tournament maters, the “wing man” would not even be a thing. As opposed to the reality of the “wing man”: he’s in practically every civilization, with only rare exception.
Indeed, human males, far from constantly competing, tend to crave each other’s company and enjoy working on shared projects and goals together. And the pedagogical role of older more mature males? Not just in every fucking civilization that respects males, but appears also to be the pattern that marked fatherhood starting about a million or so years ago.
Pedagogy: an actual patriarchal thing. And a beautiful thing. Feminists helped destroy that too by the way, and look how fucked up the education system is as a result.
I love my son. Not because he is my “genetic progeny” but because he is my blood, my kin, I was bonded to him before he was born, while he was still inside his mother, who I am divorced from but who is my friend still, as is her new husband. Which by the way isn’t a “cool arrangement,” it’s a natural one, or was until civilization came along and told us that was a bad idea.
Oh, and for the last fucking time, those of you who keep repeating the myth that mitochondrial DNA indicates an 80:40 reproductive advantage to females over males over the last couple of hundred thousand years? Debunked. Myth. Not true. Wrong. False to fact. Scientifically demolished. Invalid. If you are repeating the claim that female humans have a 2:1 reproductive advantage over male humans, you are repeating something as blatantly untrue as phrenology. It is false, no matter how provocative or interesting you find the concept.
The actual reproductive difference between females and males is real but small, and appears to be easily explained by the simple fact that a universal human pattern is that males tend to reproduce later in life than females on average.
There may also be something to the fact that exclusive same-sex attraction leaves males less likely to reproduce than females who are exclusively same-sex attracted. In any case the reproductive advantage females possess among humans is quite minor and not the outlandish 2:1 female advantage that has been scientifically debunked but which still has common currency in the manosphere. Those “thinkers” who continue to spout and repeat this myth of the 2:1 female reproductive advantage are often even people who’ve been given the documentation debunking it, and in my personal experience a few of them actually grow angry and start name-calling and other childish, feministlike responses. Why? Because they can’t refute it. There is no 2:1 reproductive advantage for females, and anyone who tells you otherwise today, in 2015, is full of shit. We can make excuses for the original researchers’ findings, as they were cautious and did not extrapolate too much from the data–and thus those researchers were in no way embarrassed when subsequent findings showed that they had wildly overestimated.
But look out, those of you following “MGTOW” (and also many PUAs): many “thinkers” in those arenas are selling you a toxic message about how men just want to fuck beautiful women and women just want to suck men’s resources dry. That’s misandrist garbage, and it’s pseudoscience no better than astrology.
Given the long history of antagonism between MGTOW and PUA, how ironic is it that they both share a “red pill” that’s laced with ideological poison. Alpha Male/Beta male is pseudoscientific bunk, period. The notion that we’re tournament maters is also ideological bunk. The notion that pairbonding means lifelong monagamy or just a psychological trick of civilization or religion? Laughable bunk.
Yes, the PUAs have some neat tricks that work in the mating game, a “game” that is supposed to encompass a very brief period biologically in anyone’s life (possibly something you do only once and then you’re mated for life, sometimes something you have to do a few times due to death or tragedy or a wandering lust, but that’s about it). Our natural mating and living pattern has been artificially changed by many factors in the last few centuries, of which feminism is but one.
Yes, MGTOW are right, society is so gynocentric it’s pretty much ruined marriage or almost any form of mating as extremely dangerous for males, and males are well-advised to avoid it. But that doesn’t excuse the pseudoscience some of them peddle while drawing that conclusion.
And yes, some of the more dim views of females are right, women can be a little more cold and a little more pragmatic and utilitarian, and can be cold and calculating by instinct in certain areas that can make men very uncomfortable. But men can be cold calculating and utilitarian in ways women find uncomfortable too. So, blowing up those sometimes uncomfortable realities to a psychotic extreme, using this weird thing you call “evopsych” which doesn’t actually match the evolutionary record? Stop it. You don’t need such phony pseudoscience to notice that society still treats its males like disposable commodities whose needs and feelings must always take a back seat to women’s.
Fair disclosure: If I believed what some of these “manospherian” thinkers believe, I would kill myself. I just would. And I’d hate myself for having brought male children into this world. Fortunately, they’re not correct. They’re spouting distorted science that the actual scientific record frequently does not support, and they turn into screaming babies or snarky children when challenged on their claims rather than addressing those challenges like mature men.
I seriously put it to you: the very idea that human society could fool men into wanting a mate and children, when hundreds of things in biology and evolution point to the fact that this is what most men want about as much as most women do, is self-evidently stupid. It’s what pairbonders do, and it is our evolutionary heritage. It’s not just about who gets to squirt what into whom – it really is about who gets to be a father and a mother to build a family and a tribe together because we don’t want “genetic legacy,” we want children and we want family and we want tribe. That’s our actual evolutionary heritage. We are not solitary animals who only get together occasionally to mate like bears or badgers. We’re pairbonders, with all that goes with pairbonding, whether we’re avian or mammalian, primate or canine. And we’re pack animals, which is what allowed men working in cooperation with each other to build the civilization we have today.
We love our children, and are programmed to want them and love them just like women. Ask a father who’s lost his kids what he’s so upset about. His genes were passed on, right? Why does he care if his kids are now being taken care of by someone else, isn’t that a big relief for him? No, it isn’t, not most of the time. It’s a wrenching pain in most fathers’ souls, so damaging to him that it could well kill him, and it damages his children. That’s why sane people increasingly recognize that Parental Alienation is an insidious and disgusting form of child abuse.
Richard Dawkins’ “Selfish Gene” hypothesis is Kindergarten simple on human biology. Lynn Margulis was right: evolution is as much about synergy and cooperation as it is about competition, and both of those are found in wonderful abundance in humans. BOTH competition and cooperation. Both between men and women, and between men and men, and between women and women. In. Various. Contexts.
All that, my friends, is not a neat idea. It’s the norm in human packs, tribes, and civilizations, most places, throughout most of history, and pretty much for the last million years or so I think.
I will entertain requests for specific references where you can go do some reading on various points but I’m not compiling a bibliography. This is grownup stuff and Google isn’t going to give you your answers. This is about the model of how human families, packs, tribes, and most civilizations works. It IS our evolutionary heritage, mostly, in broad terms. You guys off on the Alpha/Beta bullshit and the phony-baloney “Briffault’s Law” and garbage about how women don’t really love men and fatherhood is just a trick of the mind: Christ, your view isn’t just nihilistic. It’s childish pseudoscience no better than phrenology.
The manosphere, and the status of males in our culture in general, cannot be strengthened with pseudoscientific lies and bunk. Human beings are pairbonding pack animals, and have been since long before we had this thing called “civilization.” The human family, far from being a neat idea, is in reality our most important evolutionary legacy. Men are not well-served by teaching them dodgy pseudoscience and outright misinformation.
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You don’t know what MGTOW is, do you? MGTOW’s have, by and large, foregone mating. It’s just not important. Maybe a one night stand here and there, but overall, not worth it. Especially not on a regular basis.
Dean Esmay says:
I know a damn sight more than you do, obviously. In any case, why not address the topic? This isn’t about your special version of MGTOW, whatever it is, just as is clearly specified, certain well-known MGTOW thinkers, who are more like PUA thinkers than most would suspect, and missing the same multiple points. If you are not one of those MGTOW, then either sit and read something or move along as an uninterested party.
I’ve been MGTOW for the past decade. Then again, I’m not the one who thinks you can be married and MGTOW. That alone tells me all I need to know about your knowledge on the topic.
fidelbogen says:
So, apparently you still think of MGTOW as a social clique or tribe, rather than an impersonal force of history?
He’s lying about being MGTOW for 10 years. There are also people MGTOW longer than that who will call bullshit on his shenanigans.
PigTOW like this can’t help themselves, they have to come in and crap all over any conversation that mentions their weird religion if the mention in any way deviates from their personal definitions and litmus tests so all heretics will be silenced or every conversation ruined with their purity tests.
You can tell this particular PigTOW liar wants nothing more than to proselytize since even when asked to go back to subject he goes back to talking about his Holy Dogma. That’s always the PigTOW giveaway.
Your opinion’s merits aside, thank you so much for deraiilng the conversation to make it about your religion instead of the subject the article is actually about, PigTOW.
Insults now? Sinking to Manhood Academy levels are we?
You already did that, sport. Now why don’t you stop seagulling and talk about the topic at hand?
Sorry sport, I haven’t sunk to insults.
Do you get paid to run around pretending to be MGTOW, or do you just lie about people for free?
That’s a laugh coming from you. But with you we know the answer, you lie to people for free.
I’ve lived my life as MGTOW for the past decade, believe what you will, doesn’t change the facts. And now I’m done with you. I’ll even let you get the last word that you desire so much.
NewMHRA says:
You get to define why each individual MGTOW has chosen to be MGTOW?
It’s not mating that prompted the evolution of men to go MGTOW, but the implications of marriage. I come across a lot of men saying things like, “I’d love to have children, but marriage is too much of a threat.”
The problem with all these social trends is that people tend to champion their own reasons for doing something so it appears they’re “the smart one” or “the sophisticated one” and that distorts the initial impetus to make any life choice from something simple to something very convoluted that varies from person to person.
That’s where all the level 3 MGTOW bullshit comes in, as well as Patriarchy Theory from feminists, and PUA’s bitching and scoffing at MRA’s.
You see the same thing with religious MRA’s whose focus is the nebulous concept of “traditionalism.”
I see all this as a way for weak people who aren’t comfortable with themselves and their decisions to make themselves more satisfied, and also to place themselves above others that would naturally be in their social group.
Does it really matter who approaches their life in your way? Does it even matter what your way is to others? Should others reach the exact same understanding as you and make the choices you have?
It’s amusing how often MGTOW criticize other men for not being like them, and those MGTOW that place themselves on their little high-horse above other men because they’ve found “The True Way” which makes them righteous and supremely intelligent.
Who the fuck asked you to define anything for anyone but yourself, and why is it so necessary for some MGTOW to place other MGTOW into their box?
I’m married myself, but when the divorce rolls around I’ll be MGTOW for the rest of my life because marriage has been the most exhausting and erratic experience of my life and I’d rather live calmly without perpetual chaos, judgments, and threats.
I do love my child though, and I’d love to have more children. This is the saddest part of MGTOW because kids are wonderful to have. The evolution of MGTOW makes sense within this culture and I consider them brothers, but it’d be great if they’d stop trying to define everything for other men who’ve had experiences that caused their blinders to be lifted.
Before we’re men or women, we’re individuals, and we shouldn’t have to endure cultural shaming from group after group after group simply because it’s become so important for many of us to feel more important or wiser than the next guy/girl.
I didn’t say that it was mating that prompted men to go MGTOW, just that MGTOW’s have chosen not to mate.
I don’t criticize men who choose not to be MGTOW, their life, their choice. My closest male friend is married (I’m good friends with his wife as well), he even invited me to the wedding, which I was unable to attend due to being out of state. Their life, their choice. But the thing is, he doesn’t identify as MGTOW.
While you say you will be MGTOW when the divorce rolls around, Dean says he’s MGTOW WHILE being (presumably happily) married. Other than Dean’s little definition of MGTOW, the whole of it does not marry once going/while being MGTOW.
As for children, that’s an individual choice, and by no means one everyone is going to share. I for one am child-free by choice, having no desire to have children. If it was in the budget, I would take every available method to ensure that it doesn’t occur. But I won’t criticize people who choose to have them.
You are saying men can only be MGTOW if they think like you.
Two things are mentioned in the MGTOW camp most often:
1. No (or very limited and non-entangling) relationships with women
2. Non-participation in society
The choice of one MGTOW may be prompted more by one aspect than the other, but they’re both MGTOW drivers and they both make sense in this cultural climate. You also seem to feel that arriving at certain conclusions means one must suddenly distance themselves from those they love. Not everyone was MGTOW before they were in a relationship, and if that relationship adds something positive to ones life there’s no reason one cannot maintain it.
It’s like some MGTOW are trying to cultivate MGTOW Scriptures so all the True MGTOW can nod together knowingly and be pleased with themselves.
How is it MGTOW to exclude other men who are living their life in their own way?
I see the MGTOW movement as being prompted by a light bulb that goes off above a man’s head, and the insights he’s gained from that illumination affects his choices from that point on. His path is now the path of a MGTOW because he has chosen to do things that benefit him and keep him free, and it’s up to him to make those choices, not up to other MGTOW.
I see having that realization and taking steps to progress through life according to your own individual needs and desires without regard to how you’re pressured and prodded as what makes a man MGTOW.
He has realigned his approach to his own life because he’s seen how he’s being used and abused. This is why most MGTOW have a sort of strength of conviction. They’ve actively chosen a new life outside of certain entanglements and judgements, and it’s up to him to weigh the pros and cons of whichever choices he makes.
There’s no reason to say one MGTOW is more MGTOW than another, or to criticize someone for not being MGTOW enough to be in the club.
It’s not a club, but a new level of awareness and an active engagement in how one lives (and who they spend their time with.)
I would guess that the drive to separate others from a specific brand of MGTOW is due to those who align themselves with that brand feeling that their brand is being cheapened in some way, so they lay claim to it and exclude all other variations of the brand. I prefer to think of it as a variety of MGTOW flavors and we all have our preference.
These types of assignations of “true” thought and “approved” goals happen so often in the modern world and they’re nothing more than ways to dictate what others do and think. To me, throwing that at men who’ve arrived at a similar understanding is the opposite of MGTOW and I believe men are treated with enough disrespect these days to warrant giving them a little leeway.
We don’t need any more groups that shame us into conforming or exclude us because we’re not perfectly aligned with the exact rules they live by.
Aside from all that, one doesn’t have to live as a MGTOW to understand it.
Between the two main ideas behind MGTOW, one is very specific, and the other includes the first as a part of it.
In no way do I feel that. Loved ones, be they family or friends is not a part of widespread MGTOW. For instance, I’m still quite close to my mothers side of the family, always have been, always will be. I wasn’t MGTOW before I was in a relationship, in fact, I had a number before doing so. What’s more, my last relationship was my longest, after which I decided to “just do me”, as this was before “MGTOW” was really a wider known thing.
I do not distinguish between different “types” of MGTOW, just that marriage and long term/committed relationships are not a part of it. A man going his own way with no one to tell him he’s wrong, like say a wife or significant other.
“A man going his own way with no one to tell him he’s wrong, like say a wife or significant other.”
What if that significant other doesn’t impose upon him?
You cannot know the ins and outs of everyone’s relationships and you’re assuming that he’s incapable of weighing his options and determining valuations himself.
It does come across as you dictating how he should live and who/what he is or what he aligns himself with based upon your assumptions.
Many of the True MGTOW seem to take this approach, and I find very strong similarities to how feminists use their ideological stance.
What it comes down to is that it’s nobody’s business how a man goes his own way except that man and anyone he chooses to include in his life.
To do otherwise flies in the face of MGTOW because it becomes a matter of True MGTOW telling “lesser” MGTOW (non-believers) how to behave.
It’s fine to have a viewpoint and use that to guide you, but creating more rules to follow and expecting others to follow them the way you do is rather insulting.
I mean… really now… (sigh…)
Just like to add that it may be the case that MGTOW who cling to the no dating/marriage limitation do so because it provides them with the strength to stay “off the plantation.”
I have no problem with that as we all do what’s necessary to maintain our lives, and women and companionship are powerful forces that attract men.
I’m sure there are TFL guys in the MGTOW camp that feel bad about it and see MGTOW as a way to feel better about their lives. Again, I have no problem with that because it helps them grow and remain strong.
There are probably closeted gay men that call themselves MGTOW as well. I see that as dishonest because there is a reasonable assumption that MGTOW are straight males, but what’s a closeted gay dude to do if he craves male companionship?
The problem I have is the assertion that all MGTOW must live in the same way, and that a movement which claims to be about individual pursuits is trying to become an exclusive group with tenets and excommunications.
Bewildered says:
What it comes down to is that it’s nobody’s business how a man goes his
own way except that man and anyone he chooses to include in his life.
This is a CLINCHER !
Haven’t we had enough of the true muslim,true Christian,true feminist, true…..(fill in the blank).nonsense ?
The bottom line is that at the end of the day any deviance from the status quo ante is an ill omen for the official rule book/playbook.Even rebellion needs to be creative and individualistic. When it’s not monolithic and there’s no set pattern in the madness it can be a pretty terrifying force and almost impossible to handle.
Heck ! the name says it all Men going their own way.
Assuming that men are not zombies it’s not unreasonable to expect there would be many ways.
Graham Strouse says:
I’m reminded of something Gloria Steinem once said–“The personal is political.” It isn’t really, but people tend to universalize from their own experiences, particularly powerful experiences, be they positive or negative. It can be difficult to disentangle the two.
That’s an extremely good point.
“The personal is political.”
Only a woman could have got away with this BS.By this reasoning kids have shitloads of legitimate political issues. Who would have thought !
It can be difficult to disentangle the two.
If and only if your feelz have gone so wild that your reasoning has become dysfunctional.
It’s a rhetorical fallacy, I know, but it works on an awful lot of people. A lot of folks have trouble grasping the nature of faulty causation and the fact that correlation is not causation.
Chad_Nine says:
I really liked this one, Dean. I do think that certain aspects of human behavior have been exaggerated in order to make points. One quibble though-
“Fair disclosure: If I believed what some of these “manospherian” thinkers believe, I would kill myself. I just would. And I’d hate myself for having brought male children into this world”
Over the top, emotional argument. Something may make you feel a certain way, but that’s not relevant to how true or not it is.
Possibly so, but this article is here in part to challenge thinkers who peddle ersatz pseudoscience they call “evopsych” and they often justify it by claiming that young men who find them tell them “I was thinking about killing myself before I found you.” That is a non-argument along multiple axes, but as a necessary counter, it did indeed make me deeply despondent and really did make me regret fathering sons when I first heard this bad evopscyh stuff, because I thought they might be right and I felt like I’d committed a moral crime to even allow my sons to come into this horrible world.
This is the flip side of that: how many guys kill themselves AFTER learning the false, phony pseudoscience?
Eric Hamell says:
I can’t see why anyone would. Or, if they did, it would be because of what it says about women, not what it says about men.
TheSharpeful says:
Dean, you magnificent bastard!!! I’ve been waiting for an article like this for months! 🙂
I’ll have to finish reading it tomorrow, or I wont be able to get up for work. The half that I read already makes it an instant classic though.
Thanks man, great work.
The family did precede civilization. At the same time, civilization could not exist without the family.
Throughout my life I’ve had a lot of female friends and I’ve always been cool with that, but when I’d date one of the women I knew I’d always lose a female friend or two.
It’s like the ones that no longer wanted to be my friend had wanted more than just a friendship, but their “leaving” was the first indication of that. Choosing another woman seemed to insult them on some level, but if the friendship was good I saw no reason to end it just because I was dating someone else. The women I dated limited my contact with other women as well.
I’ve always found that offensive because it’s as though they felt justified dictating who I can relate to, and I was expected to go along with it.
They laid claim to me and made it known.
It’s one thing to experience that with a girlfriend or wife because by being in such a relationship you’re accepting an exclusive commitment, but to have female friends disappointed in me because I chose someone else is selfish on their part.
There’s also the fact that having someone I’m dating limit my friendships is an imposition that shows a lack of trust which makes them unappealing to me.
Very interesting Dean. I once read a paper about the effectiveness of riflemen. There was one very interesting point. After the battle of Gettysburg It was found that many union soldiers did not shoot, they pretended to and then reloaded. Up to nine reloads all jammed on top of one another without a shot fired. Military training now is designed to physiologically break down that abhorrence to killing other humans.
You mention 100,000 thousand years often and the patterns of wolves and humans. Science has now proved the association of man and dog(wolf) goes back for not 10,000 thousand years but 100,000 thousand years. When the results came out it was retested a number of times as the scientist had difficulty accepting their own data. Some say it is almost a symbiotic relationship. The most common reason given is the hunting skills of wolf and human complimented each other. Perhaps it was more as they recognized similar traits in each other.
Yeah we’ve been with dogs at least a hundred thousand years. Possibly longer. The interesting thing about this is that the number can only increase; a few years ago I was amused when they discovered what was clearly a stone oven that was several hundred thousand years old. It blew away a lot of assumptions about how long humans have been cooking. 😉
anyhowtown prufrock says:
http://www.newhistorian.com/stone-age-oven-found-croatia/1096/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/mans_first_friend.html
I think it unlikely that humans have been domesticating dogs for over One Hundred Thousand years. The oldest known domestication of animals by humans can so far be dated to about 31,000 BP.
Humans and dogs do make for remarkably effective hunting companions. We’re both social creatures, we tend to establish hierarchies & we’re both highly carnivorous and quite intelligent. Humans are ambush hunters and tool users and we can kill from a distance. We’re slow movers but we can navigate a number of different kind of terrain. Dogs are superb pursuit predators with superior senses and they’re strategy is general to wear down and herd prey. It’s a pretty natural partnership, really.
Phil McCracken says:
Humans are also great pursuit hunters. A wildebeest can run faster initially, but not a marathon. Humans and canines are long distance runners.
Actually, we really aren’t. Human anaerobic endurance is really quite poor. We’re effective stalkers and we’re good at navigating difficult terrain. And because we’re generally brighter than our prey and can recognize pattern recognition we can stalk herds of prey animals for a great length of time until we can set up an attack. But throughout our species history, we’ve never relied on long distance pursuit running. The cost-benefit ratio doesn’t work for us. If you try to run after a wildebeest for 10 or 15 miles you’ll burn so many calories and be so winded that if you don’t prosecute the kill you’ll be in far worse shape than when you started. That’s why dogs/wolves make such good hunting campions. They can maintain a high speed chase for days.
Humans tend to hunt in groups like wolves. Wolves tend to take turns chasing down prey until the animal tires and they then pile on. It seems very likely humans in the distant past would also try to tire out much larger prey before going in for the kill or driving them into a trap or ambush point. It’s like a team sport with the teammates able to intuit each others minds. Mix men and dogs together and they do the same and I’m talking from experience.
Jonathan Watson says:
First: good to see you are still finding time to wright Dean. Second: both you and this piece are bloody f-ing brilliant!!!
B_Rex says:
I dont suppose you will be re-starting your show with Erin Pizzey any time soon?
Man Alive says:
I think Dean is minimizing the prioritizing the amount of emphasis midern day women place on using men as atm. Also he’s totally glosed over how women in modern feminist cultures can so easily at the same time treat individual male ‘mates’ as disposable because they can instead easily ‘pairbond’ with society at large. It’s interesting that he describes pairbonding in evolutiony terms, yet totally decries what some MGTOW are saying about men’s disposability as not having any evolutionary basis. That seems very odd, even reactionary to me. I would rather think that ALL human behaviour has some basis in evolution.
I think Dean is minimizing the prioritizing the amount of emphasis modern day women place on using men as atms. Also he’s totally glosed over how women in modern feminist cultures can so easily at the same time treat individual male ‘mates’ as disposable because they can instead easily ‘pairbond’ with society at large. It’s interesting that he describes pairbonding in evolutiony terms, yet totally decries what some MGTOW are saying about men’s disposability as not having any evolutionary basis. That seems very odd, even reactionary to me. I would rather think that ALL human behaviour has some basis in evolution.
Well that’s a clusterfuck of assumptions I barely know what to do with. I’m talking about a million years of evolution, you’re talking about today. I can talk about today in other articles, but in the meantime, it is not possible to pairbond with society as a whole, although we do bond with various individuals and not just mates, and this is a straight up lie:
“It’s interesting that he describes pairbonding in evolutiony terms, yet
totally decries what some MGTOW are saying about men’s disposability as
not having any evolutionary basis.”
I would appreciate a retraction of that before I say anything further. Otherwise I’ll assume you’re just another PigTOW cultist who outright lies about anyone who questions his religious garbage.
After umpteen paragraphs of Deansay it’s good to see in his reply to previous comment some clarification on the issue of current day male disposability having it’s roots in evolution over whatever period of time (pick a number, I care not).
The charge of making a false allegation is hilarious though. If the piece had been clearer from the start, the ‘assumption’ wouldn’t have arisen.
Ho hum….another acerbic offended MRA bandying about PIGtow ad hominems in place of arguments and expecting respect.
Another day, another reason to be an MGHOW.
At least we’re on the same page that male disposability has it’s roots in human evolution.
That’s a start I guess.
OK, so basically you’re a sock puppet or troll. You’re outright lying about what I’ve said, as anyone reading this can see.
So typical of MRA at avfm. Use a bit of logic and they’re reduced to throwing around ad hominems – PIGtow, troll, sock puppet.
Oh well. ….
sputnik says:
7 years of breastfeeding? My goodness! My info was about 4.
And also that, yes, this steady drain on a female’s fat stores worked surprisingly well to counter conception during breastfeeding. The interesting new hypothesis here for me is that agribiz humanoids overran the hunter/gatherers by populating right over ’em. “Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot…” Or something like that. Something drily amusing there, even as birth rates around the world are falling off, everywhere except sub-saharan regions. And everybody thinks the world is turning Chinese, in the long run? Hah!
Incidentally, I very much enjoyed the informal presentation here.
I prefer to call it “evolpsych,” with that little, suggestive “give ’em L, Harry” in there.
Thing is, things can evolve as a matter of purely social expedients, on a perfectly rational basis, with some awareness of what then amounts to conscious evolution. That’s the only way that I can grant evolpsych any credence. I am something more than a mess o’chemicals, frankly. Bet you are, too. (Personally, I did not get pseudo-pregnant when she did. “That would have been simply irrational, Mr. McCoy,” he said, characteristically cocking one eyebrow. 🙂
And with the ascendance of atheism among the pseudo-intellectuals of skeptic scientism — even as this becomes an insufferable, hidebound dogma unto itself — and with the invariably accompanying “scientific” materialism, much important evidence for spiritual modalities of human development — evidence both remarkably abundant and ubiquitous — remains conveniently ignored by most.
With you, Dean, of all people, I would most like to have that discussion. You and Señor King.
I’m skeptical that the loss of body fat can sustain 4-6 years of non-ovolation (and yes, it’s more like 4-6 years, maybe I should fix that). The fact that hunter/gatherer women are naturally lean also would make that idea problematic. A better explanation seems to be diet; H/G diets are much higher in protein, much lower in carbs, moderate in fat. It appears that a high-carb diet signals the body that times of plenty are here, so it’s not just time to get fat, it’s time to make babies.
I have an entire book around here by anthropologists examining the dietary patterns of everything from sub-Saharan black Africans to the Inuit and many in between, and all eat a diet wildly different from ours which is both high in protein (very high, 30-50% seems normal) and with almost no refined carbs.
Well, now that you mention it, I was skeptical about that, too. But it was there, and I coughed it up. Too much “science” goes on that way.
I noted, while reading Adele Davis in the early ’80s, that she would repeat the establishment line on saturated fats and cholesterol, and then turn right around and praise ancestral diets which happened to be very high in animal fats, diets as radically different as those of the Maasai — high in beef and milk — the Inuit — very high in various animal fats — and the south sea islanders — who put away prodigious amounts of coconut loaded with coconut oil which is about 85% saturated.
Lo and behold, some 33 years later, I discovered that the original study finding detrimental effects from these substances, dating from 1956 or thereabouts, conducted by one Ancel Keys, was a perfect example of cherry picked data.
…a major criticism is that Ancel Keys had chosen to study only those countries where both saturated fats consumption and heart disease were high. He ignored other countries that ate similar diet but had low rates of heart disease.
http://stop-trans-fat.com/ancel-keys.html
And this may be a tangent to your piece here, but it’s very important. People be DYIN’ from this bad reseach, that’s how WRONG it is.
Bad science kills. It can. Literally. Yes, literally, folks. I’ve never eschewed the fat. Always chewed it. All my adult life. About a decade ago, I came up “perfect” on a blood chemistry. Not my choice of adjective, the doctor’s. And there are days I’ll go through 2/3 of a stick o’butter.
Incidentally, I’ve always theorized that a high carb intake signals a body that it’s NOT times of plenty, so STORE FAT, STORE FAT. Who knows…? The complicating factor is that the human body needs to get the excess carb out of circulation to avoid insulin overload, but then a body wouldn’t necessarily need to store it.
High carb diets don’t make much sense unless it’s either the only thing available or you’re a serious endurance athlete. The body can utilize carbohydrates pretty effectively if you’re consistently involved in intense anaerobic exercise. If you’re not, it basically just turns into fat.
Guestronomy says:
One small correction Dean.
High card availability is less a sign of plenty, and more a sign of imminent shortage of food, as most of the card staples are storage bits of plants,
and they developed to see the plant through drought, annual floods, winter or other lean period, and we are tied to that preexisting pattern.
(not that it actually changes your argument, just thought it may interest you)
I find it interesting that most remains of Pleistocene-era humans suggests that they were about the same height as modern humans, generally as if not more robust and even had larger brains. Early “civilized” humans who subsisted on heavily grain-based diets were much smaller. Not sure about their relative brain size.
I should add, that 7 year average between kids is basically from birth to birth. So there’s about a year of being pregnant in there.
Andy C says:
Its good to be reminded from time to time that were not so different. That women do love etc. After that though got a bit tl/dr for me. Sorry.
Robert Brockway says:
Dean, typo: “dos not”.
Steve Denheyer says:
Hi Dean – could I see your source(s) for the 80:40 mitochondrial DNA claim being debunked, please & thanks?
The (now proven incorrect) 80:40 reproductive advantage for females came from Baumeister. And let’s be clear: he was not in any way being deceptive, this was just the science available at the time he published.
More recent science has superceded Baumeister’s numbers. His estimates on historic
male/female population sizes are based on The Most Recent Common
Ancestor for both males and females. At the time the 80:40/ claim floated, TMRCA for males had been found to be between 50-100
thousand years ago, and the TMRCA for females was 200,000 years ago. This led to a belief in a 2 to 1 split favoring female ancestors.
Revised genetic studies have found that TMRCA for males is ~142,000
thousand years ago and the TMRCA for females is ~177,000 years ago.
means that the conclusion that there’s a 2:1 advantage for females is void. It’s doubtful Dutton, Baumeister, or any of the other sources (some of whom I’ve spoken to by the way) would refute that.
There is a slight skew towards
female ancestors but this is easily accounted for by the fact that females tend to reproduce earlier in life. The small difference can also be contributed to by the fact that it looks like Exclusive Same Sex Attraction in males may make reproduction somewhat less likely than it does for Exclusively Same Sex Attracted females. In any case, the best numbers I have so far (these are a couple years old) can only converge, they can’t diverge. Which means there’s only a small difference based on what we know, and the difference can likely only get smaller if new information crops up.
Here are some references to spend time with:
Duttons:
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/11/2047.long
TMRCA for females estimate:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/copernican-reassessment-of-human.html
TMRCA for males estimate:
Interesting background stuff to look at:
While I’m quite certain–I can practically see it being written now–that someone will claim I said there’s no reproductive advantage for females, just like some are out there even now suggesting I dispute that Male Disposability is a thing (in fact I think one wag here already did that). It’s bunk. There’s a small advantage to females, it exists. It’s just been grossly exaggerated by certain “manospherians” who appear to be in the habit of grabbing the first bit of scientific data that seems to match conclusions they’ve already reached in their heads, and then just stop there.
Thanks – great response. There’s some stuff to chew on there but since Wilder is involved in the revised science, that’s strong evidence that the recent stuff is more accurate. Consider me updated.
bittergubben says:
Your link under “Duttons” goes to “Genetic Evidence for Unequal Effective Population Sizes of Human Females and Males”, reaches conclusions that you compare to phrenology. (I don’t see why you call it Duttons, did you mean to link to something else?)
The forth link is interesting. It does refer to Keinan et al, finding a male bias instead of a female one; but it is not rejecting the idea of a larger variability in male reproductive success and different effective population sizes, on the contrary, it says that if it was predominantly males that migrated out of Africa, then that would be compatible both with the previous finds of a larger female effective population size, and with Keinans findings. So it does not rule out the stuff that you compare to phrenology.
I was not aware about such findings about TMRCA. The study linked below has estimates that go even further, with a marginally older estimate for males than females:“We estimate the Y chromosome TMRCA to be 138 ky (120–156 ky) and the mtDNA TMRCA to be 124 ky (99–148 ky”
However, that is not the issue for which you invoked phrenology – that statement is about effective population sizes. While TMRCA was seen as an indicator of that when the 2:1 claim was first made, it was never the main argument. There are at least 2 methods used for estimating effective population sizes – neither one of which I get, they are technical – but the TMRCA was just something that fitted nicely and thus gets mentioned.
“Our observation that the TMRCA of the Y chromosome is similar to that of the mtDNA does not imply that the effective population sizes of males and females are similar. In fact, we observe a larger Ne in females than in males”, “Sequencing Y Chromosomes Resolves Discrepancy in Time to Common Ancestor of Males versus Females”, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032117/
Their estimate for effective population size is also twice as large for females as males (but they provide no bounds, so they are not formal about that estimate).
I am not a PUA, do not share in their priorities. If you want to advocate norms that promote pair bonding, norms that are beneficial to children and society at large, and claim that most of PUAs are at odds with those norms, then I agree.
But I perceive what you are doing here as strawmanning. People in all parts of the manosphere are subjected to enough strawmanning from feminists, there is no need to pile it on.
While PUAs got the term “alpha” from its earlier use for wolves, that does not provide its meaning. The basic idea is that what women in general find attractive (1) for a no strings attached one night stand, differs from what they find attractive (2) relationship wise. An alpha male is someone who is attractive in the first sense (regardless if he would be in the second), and a beta male is someone who is attractive in the second sense, but not in the first. If someone is very interested in what women are attracted to, as PUAs are, then that is a relevant distinction.
“Alpha Male/Beta male is pseudoscientific bunk, period.”
To go that far, you would need to show that there is no substantial difference in what women are attracted to when it comes to purely carnal pleasures, and what they are attracted to when it comes to long term relationships. Good luck with that.
You seem to be attacking parties that think we are a tournament species, without pair bonding. Who says that? What I usually hear is either that we are an in between, or that “we are pairbonders through and through”. While many PUAs emphasize the competition and do not interest themselves in the pair bonding, they do not deny that it is a trait of the species?
In a pure tournament species, there is massive sexual dimorphism (males larger and stronger than females), there is huge variability in reproductive success among males, it is combat-capable aggressive males that are successful, there is no paternal investment in offspring, large sexual difference in lifespan.
In a pure pair bonding species, there is very little sexual dimorphism, there is low variability in reproductive success among males, parental capability is important for male reproductive success, but aggression is not, there is high paternal investment in offspring, no gender difference in lifespan.
So were do humans fit in? We have moderate sexual dimorphism, variability in reproductive success is substansialy higher among men then women, both parenting capability and combat capability matters for male attractiveness, there is usually high paternal investment in children, and moderate difference in lifespan. We are an in between, a blend between tournament and pair bonding.
(for more of the same, see Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on the biology of behavioral evolution, at about 1h19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Oa4Lp5fLE)
Well, you clearly disagree about the variability of male reproductive success: “If you are repeating the claim that female humans have a 2:1 reproductive advantage over male humans, you are repeating something as blatantly untrue as phrenology.”
Have heard such claims before, but never seen any sources. When I searched myself 2 years ago, I found three studies, all of which are roughly consistent with 2:1 – one of them has that as low end, one as high end, but they more or less go there. This is not my field, so perhaps I miss important studies?
Study 1: “… our results indicate that the [non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY)] tends to have an approximately twofold smaller [effective population size] and TMRCA than [mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)] within human populations. There is no indication from our data that this difference is caused by different forms or intensities of natural selection acting on mtDNA and the NRY. Instead, we favor a hypothesis whereby sex-specific demographic processes act to reduce the male breeding population size. … Shen at al. (2000) observed an approximately 5:1 ratio of autosomal to NRY variability in their global survey of nucleotide variation. This observation differs significantly from neutral expectations based on a one-to-one breeding ratio but is extremely close to the expected results given a breeding ratio of two females per male”, ”Genetic Evidence for Unequal Effective Population Sizes of Human Females and Males” http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/11/2047.full
Study 2, Hammer at al, instead analyzing the X-chromosome: ”… we estimate the range of the breeding sex ratio to be 2.4–8.7”, ”Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538571/
Study 3: ”Our updated estimates are at the low end of the estimates obtained by Hammer et al., which ranged from 1.8 to 14,2 and thus do not strongly support the results and conclusions discussed by these authors.”, “Response to Lohmueller et al.” http://www.cell.com/AJHG/retrieve/pii/S0002929710002612
So what is your basis for comparing the 2:1 belief to phrenology?
Plenty more I would disagree with, but is to long already …
I’m not talking smack. I’m challenging pseudoscience already floating around MGTOW and PUA spheres regularly. There is NO strawmanning of any kind. I’m answering what’s already out there.
And it is on the purveyors of concepts like “alpha male” to defend their bullshit. It’s already known pseudoscience, so if they’re admitting that they never meant there was anything scientific about it, well, then they should say so.
Actually, as I was about to say before before disqus cut me on the the second part of my post, I don’t have a problem with anyone who wants to call themselves MGTOW. I just find it kind of puzzling sometimes. firstly, because it sounds like an acronym for an anti-tank missile, but mostly because if you’re going to go your own way, why to you need a club with membership criteria? I totally get that a lot of guys who identify as MGTOW have been severely fucked over by women and by gynocentric court systems. I understand that they’re wounded and angry and maybe seeking a new identity to help heal their wounds and validate themselves. But if you’re going to go your own way isn’t it easier to just, y’know, do it? I’m an atheist but I’ve never felt the slightest urge to, say, attend an atheism+ convention. That’s the nice thing about atheism. You can take your weekends off and eat whatever the hell you. There aren’t any membership requirements.
Graham – We have been having a long-running discussion on many of these very same topics in the AVFM Forum lounge. I would like to invite you and anyone else to come and join us:
Chivalry in Modern Times
http://forums.avoiceformen.com…
The thread got spun up in the middle of a conversation here in the Disqus comments, so we moved it over to the forum so we could keep it going. Bear that in mind a little if you come to visit. It may take a few pages to really get what we’re talking about, and of course we ramble quite a bit off and on the subject.
But overall, the gist of it is pretty simple, we’re discussing what can be the basis of a “new deal” between men and women. We are talking about a lot of the very same things you bring up in your article.
We would *love* to have your experience and viewpoint come join us. Feel free to tell us that everything we’ve said is shit– if that’s what you think. The point is we’re having a great conversation about it and you’re invited!!
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Danke! I think I’m registered in the forums but I’ll have to check. Sounds like a good conversation!
We’ve been having a good time with it. We’re up to 60 pages of stuff so far. Either we’re really long-winded (a very distinct possibility there) or there have been some good points bandied about. Either way, we’d love to have you and your POV come join us!
Pajaul says:
Hello, just like to politely ask for your sources- not for any use of argument, just because I’d like to learn more. Specifically the research into wolves, early human pair bonding, and all related material, if you please. Thank you for your time.
“But the reality is some men’s pathological hypergamy does lead them to being wildly unfaithful boyfriends or spouses. Just as it does in women.”
I assume you mean some WOMEN’S pathological hypergamy.
Hypergamy is as much a male trait as a female one. The only real difference here, besides how exactly it tends to express, is that society is now more inclined to punish men for being hypergamous and reward women for it. But both sexes have hypergamous traits and both can take their hypergamy to pathological levels. It’s just easier for the woman to get away with today.
Fair enough. That’s why we need you in our conversation! Come join us.
http://forums.avoiceformen.com/showthread.php?16588-Chivalry-in-Modern-Times-2-0
Dean – We have been having a long-running discussion on many of these very same topics in the AVFM Forum lounge. I would like to invite you and anyone else to come and join us:
The thread got spun up in the middle of a conversation here in the Disqus comments, so we moved it over to the forum so we could keep it going. Bear that in mind a little if you come to visit. It may take a few pages to really get what we’re talking about, and of course we ramble quite a bit off and on the subject. But overall, the gist of it is pretty simple, we’re discussing what can be the basis of a “new deal” can be between men and women. We are talking about a lot of the very same things you bring up in your article. We would *love* to have your experience and viewpoint come join us. Feel free to tell us that everything we’ve said is shit– if that’s what you think. The point is we’re having a great conversation about it and you’re invited!!
“Women may be a bit more pragmatic and utilitarian about love; there’s evidence that most romantics are men not women. But saying women value men only for utility is exactly like saying men truly only value tits and ass. It’s a bullshit statement in both cases.”
It’s not a bullshit statement, rather it’s an over-simplification which ignores the emotional component. However, I think there is a *very* good case to be made that emotional attachments are simply “pre-judgements” of someone based on their perceived value.
From my post in “Chivalry For Modern Times” just this morning, located here: http://forums.avoiceformen.com/showthread.php?16588-Chivalry-in-Modern-Times-2-0&p=148452&viewfull=1#post148452
Suppose you have two people, a woman and a man, standing at each end of a field. They can see each other across the way and never have the slightest inkling that someday they will “discover” that they are “soulmates” and “destined” to be together always.
Or they could pass by each other a hundred times on the same busy city street. Never glancing over. Never saying “Hello”. Never even knowing the other exists at all– and yet be destined to meet some night in a pub, or at a concert, or wherever and become helplessly, hopelessly head-over-heels madly “in love” with each other forever.
The point is that neither of them *starts out* in love, it is something they acquire through interaction with each other. Little tiny moments and gestures which add up to an understanding of shared interests and common goals. When you have a few, you have “friends”. Add a couple more and you have “friends with benefits”. Toss in an ooopsie or two, and now you have “Married with Children”. When you have enough of them together in a pile, you have “soulmates”.
Conversely it is also possible for the relationship to turn sour. A little selfish indulgence here, a thoughtless word there, and before you know it, you have two people who can’t stand each other who are held together by– what? What is the glue? Inertia? Easier to continue than to change? Mutual obligations? I think it’s that last bit, more than we admit, which is the true glue for many relationships. Even the best of relationships are really more friendships of convenience until the serious obligations come along.
And what is a “friendship” but a form of shared obligation– an alliance of sorts between two people with shared interests and common goals. We’ve talked about this a bit before– for most people friendships come with tally sheets. Perhaps not overt ones but a sort of unstated tit-for-tat / quid-pro-quo relationship, where I help you now in return for you helping me out later. Very few friendships are completely one-sided 100% of the time. A friendship which is exceptionally one-sided is a relationship where one of the participants feels like the other participant is “too needy” or “too clingy” or “emotionally draining”– or any of a dozen other soul-sapping maladies which can befall a friendship. So, when you think about it, even friendships are typically built on more than simple “emotions” and are more along the lines of informal “deals” / alliances between mutually-interested people.
iggy says:
Dean you had a lot to get off your chest, glad you did. I have no formal training in this subject but have been poking around enough for the past few years to see the truth in your statements about humans as pairbonders. For me MGTOW has always been a reaction to bad laws, which incentivize women to legally weaponize marriage contracts, dramatically increasing the negative consequences of the man’s bad decision if he pairbonds with a messed up women. The gun in the room, which only women are able to use, and many do. Women, as voters, are definitely accountable for their actions (or inaction towards bad feminist ideology) for creating the negative incentives that are part of the marriage contract… and ultimately destroying the family and pair-bonded unit. Men, as voters, are also accountable, but we seem so damned pre-disposed to defer to women’s preferences that few of us seem to have the political will to try to remove the bad laws and incentives.
So we end up with MGTOW… men who recognize the bad deal and see that not enough other men are willing to do anything about it, so they withdraw for self-preservation.
Which sucks… because it eliminates the best tools for having kids and raising healthy kids. But it doesn’t change the fact that (in general) men are pre-disposed to be fathers.
MGTOW is a symptom, a short tern solution… and yes in some cases an excuse (even if it’s for valid reasons) to resist marriage… but that also seems to lead to men resisting pair-bonding and child-raising, and that is not good news for mankind in the long show.
If Feminism can change culture… so can men human rights… even if its hard and the odds are stacked against us right now. History of civilization is full of really bad ideas that get replace by better ideas (ending slavery, stop infantilizing women). Its just a very slow process and I would theorize that mankind has grown too impatient to think long term (assuming we ever have).
MGTOW will diminish only once marriage laws (particularly divorce courts) become less abusive towards men. Our kids are paying the price for all this bullshit, because even if a few kids escape the horrific statistical consequences of no family structure… they still have to live in a world filled with kids that didn’t escape those horrific statistical consequences.
As a father, I don’t have the luxury of backing away and handing this pile of shit to my son and daughter without at least trying to affect a change on bad ideas and bad laws. I’m not MGTOW because I am still engaged, and will always be engaged, till my last breath.
As a Father of two boys, I have the same responsibility.
- TheFinn - says:
Agree with a lot of what you’re saying here, yeah. Good insight for someone not MGTOW 🙂
artiefischel says:
This is very interesting and has the ring of truth to it. One argument against the whole alpha/beta paradigm that has occurred to me is that those who fancy themselves as alpha males and tournament maters into their 20’s and 30’s or even later must be colossally inept at it. Because…where are the babies? There’s no evolutionary gain simply from rubbing your bits together with some woman. That doesn’t spread your genes. It only makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint if you’re leaving a string of pregnant women in your wake, and that doesn’t seem to be the case or even a desired outcome with these guys. I know guys who’ve only had sex with one woman in their life, but have 5 or 6 kids and so are wildly more successful in the replicating genes department. As you say, it’s a pose, and a somewhat sad one at that.
The only thing in the article I would question is this statement:
“I will entertain requests for specific references where you can go do
some reading on various points but I’m not compiling a bibliography.
This is grownup stuff and Google isn’t going to give you your answers. ”
Huh? This is exactly why you compile a bibliography and use footnotes. Even the best work becomes unsupported assertions without a basis of supporting documents. That’s why scholarly articles are written in a way that doesn’t substantially deviate from one discipline to the next. It’s a good article, but please, show your work.
boganus says:
or maybe they just used protection? ridiculously blinkered comment.
If only your parents had.
ahh, personal attacks. the refuge of those without actual arguments.
Says the man who provided no refutation of the point I made, or I suspect even understood the point.
I have an argument for people like Dean that has yet to be overcome. Sir, please tell me about your experience in the family/divorce court system. If you have none then you have no idea what you are talking about. I am a veteran of it and know more about it than your attorney who cannot be trusted. When all the ideologies crash upon the reality of the family/divorce court system the only thing left standing is the family/divorce court system where she gets the gold and the man gets the shaft. Please, I beg you, prove me wrong.
The Spooky Ghost says:
I don’t think that Dean really tried to say otherwise (or I misinterpreted it when he did). IIRC, he barely touched on laws and so on. It’s not what he was trying to do. But even when he did touch upon these things, he didn’t say that things were fair to men;
“the laws are often horrifically unfair to men” (in fairness, this one was in regards to parenthood, but still).
“society is so gynocentric that it’s ruined marriage or almost any form of mating as extremely dangerous for men”
(forgive me if they aren’t verbatim, I cbf trying to find them again).
Hey dude, or dudette, thanks for the interest. The point I was trying to make is that reality, and I know that most reality is subjective, eventually crashes upon a reality that is not subjective. The gender debate in the West is totally subjective. The steel of Isis is anything but subjective. Historically, in any debate between subjectivity and steel, the steel always wins. It is like the first Terminator movie. The terminator cannot be reasoned with and it will not stop. The future of Europe is Isis. The future of America is the future of Europe. Please convince me I am wrong.
That was a very interesting read, Dean. A lot of stuff I’ve known, and been trying to tell people, for quite a long time. But also a lot of new and very interesting information I was not aware of.
In regards to MGTOW… call my outlook naive, but to me, MGTOW has always seemed more of a counter reaction to the heavily biased laws and prejudices surrounding marriage and parenthood and so on. Then again, I often steer clear of much of these things, especially reddit, so it’s quite possible I have not seen a lot of what these movements entail.
I have always felt a certain degree of resonance with the notion of “going your own way”, in fact, I am sure many of us feel a strong resonance with the notion of having free will and making our own choices, and I suppose this is exactly the process by which most twisted ideologies find traction in society. (Before anyone says anything about decisions and free will; I do a lot of work in AI and Decision Theory, so I am somewhat aware of how constrained and artificial most of our decisions are).
Anyway, very interesting read, Dean, thank you for taking the time to write this up 🙂
Evolutionary psychology is a pretty fascinating subject but you can’t cherry pick data. I agree that humans are primarily pair bonders but it’s also true that men will tend to use money/status to gain sex and women will use sex to get money. That’s an over-simplification but not entirely untrue. A few points:
1) Although it is often overlooked, the 200 plus years of the industrial revolution and the seven decades since the end of WWII have had a profoundly distorting effect on the way men and women work together. Ours is an extremely dimorphic species, a fact that SJWs and feminists tend to simultaneously deny and try to exploit. Technology has made (some) of the gender roles we’ve had wired into our species less relevant, a fact that we might intellectually recognize but creates a lot of cognitive dissonance in our hardwiring. It’s not the first major event that’s forced us to scramble for change faster than our nature could handle. The Black Death, the advent of agricultural society, the great dying at the end of the Pleistocene, and if you go back a lot farther, to around 70-75,000 years ago when the Toba eruption nearly wiped out our species, events occur which precipitate change faster than we can process it. Those who can adapt rapidly live & those who can’t die.
(Cont.) Sorry about that, didn’t mean to hit post…anyhoodle…
What I was getting it is that for most of our species history, we tended to value females over females for some very rational reasons. Human females have a pretty short breeding window–15-20 years for the most part. Human babies take a long time to develop, take a long time to mature relative to other primates and require a lot more care. Moreover, childbirth was until recently, a very dangerous activity for both mother and child. Maximizing breeding opportunities and protecting breeders was critical to species survival. This isn’t so much of an issue for the most part now. And that brings me to a second (tangential) point.
2) The main reason that most families in the first world have been having fewer children is mostly a survival instinct. Since WWII the population of the earth has tripled. Since I was born in 1973 it has increased by a little over 80 percent. And most of that growth has occurred in the ME, Asia and parts of Africa. The reason we’re having fewer kids in the west is less the result of a social construct and more of a recognition that we simply don’t have the resources to support a geometric population increase in a world with finite resources.
3) I don’t really care if someone calls themselves a MGTOW or a PUA or a even a feminist. I’m more concerned by how people behave. Although I grant I’m likely to be skeptical of anyone who self-identifies as an SJW. 😉
FlightlessBird says:
Dean, first of all, thankyou, some common sense finally. The arguments I’ve heard do a serious disservice to myths about men, imo.
One question, you think its about 7years of investment, my thoughts are that its longer than that, I think fathers are invested in their children’s future success (I believe this is evidenced today too) and that takes us more into teenage years.
Particularly for sons, being their legacy as you rightly point out, and what we see in more primitive cultures today (or in the near past) where fathers are an important part of rite of passage events, and making decisions about their children’s marriages. Have you thought about that? Do you think fathers had quit that pair bond by then yet still maintained involvement with family?
CeterisParibus says:
Thanks Dean for a clarifying narrative. I’ve always felt that a true understanding of history is important to the membership of a given society. In current discussions of male/female roles and relations there is a terrific amount of poison. Some of it comes from ideologues, some of its purchase on today’s society comes from bad history factual error (eg. the Horst Wessel Song). On the issue of evopsyche there is a pre-history that can also be important if understood. Poorly understood concepts and their application confuse rather than clarify and even become the tools of propaganda (eg. the monkey trial by Clarence Darrow). In the end everyone takes the information and filters it through the lens of their own experience whether done well or ill. It can only be hoped that facts and theories are stated most clearly and most correctly. I think your applications here do that pretty well.
Don Saxton says:
Human Sexual Selection
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1500189X
How dimorphic are we.
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Conroy-Beam
BeijaFlor says:
Thanks, Dean – this was a sorely-needed dose of reality and biology.
I posted some of the high points, for discussion, on GoingYourOwnWay.com – I would not be surprised if some of our readers will have a hissy-fit, but I also understand that the aberrations we see today are not truly representative of Desmond Morris’ “Naked Ape.”
Dean Esmay might have set the BS gender war on a whole new course — real science. It is rough and may spark honest debate, but it is completely refreshing and novel approach to the feminist fantasy.
Hippiefreak says:
It really would have helped for the author to include a bibliography and quote sources. Otherwise, just because this article stands out for its length, forcefulness and thoughtful effort does not mean it’s carries more truth than any other opinion piece. I like some of his comments, though, pointing out some of what we already know that contradicts the conclusions we draw. Here is one reference to support what the author says about changes to a man’s body once he knows he will be a father:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brains-of-our-fathers/
A quote from the article you cite makes it clear that the biological changes occur after birth, not after conception. The changes are brought on by social circumstances, not biological conditions.
“A recent wave of studies are starting to bear fruit: We are now learning that in the first few days after birth, changes occur in the brains of both the dad and the baby, depending on whether the father is around or not. Perhaps neuroscientists have finally cornered the elusive father-child bond, and found the b iological hook that makes sure a father sticks around after birth.”
Tend to agree, there’s a lot of vast oversimplification and wishful thinking.
Dawolf says:
While I immensely enjoyed this article, this: “I will entertain requests for specific references where you can go do some reading on various points but I’m not compiling a bibliography.” seriously undermines its credibility. I abstolutely agree that there is way too much pseudo-science going, but simply throwing around more assertions in return isn’t exactly going to help the situation.
Had you taken the time to actually document your sources for the things you say here, this article could have been immensely useful against the corrupt ideologies that are causing so much trouble, not to say a very interesting research summary. Could you at the very least give some references, if only as a starting point for someone who wants to research the subject?
Thank you very much for a very interesting article. I do have a few questions about it.
1) You say that men and women look for the same features in a partner, but just rank them slightly differently. If you had 10 attributes of Baseball Players and you had to rank them 1 to 10 in order of importance for each player. Say that 1 to 5 make an ideal hitter and 6 to 10 make an ideal pitcher: the ideal batter will be ranked 1 to 10 in order, but the ideal pitcher will be ranked 10 to 1 in reverse order. Are you saying the roles are interchangeable because all are playing the same game – Baseball?
2) You say the Alpha, Beta talk is nonsense,and I tend to agree. However, you say Men and women look for similar attributes in each other, unless it is for a casual fling. Are you saying that people look for one partner for a long term relationship, and another type of partner for a fling? This suggests that you may be, and surely the long term partner is the Beta and the Casual Fling is the Alpha? Maybe I have misunderstood you. I certainly think that both sexes are equally guilty of the Alpha/Beta divide and having flings.
3) You say we evolved away from Tournament Mating a million years ago, then you modify your statement to hundreds of thousands of years ago. I have never seen any evidence of the social structure of any human society that existed hundreds of thousands of years ago, let alone a million. I know there were anatomically modern humans in Ethiopia a million years ago, but that is because of isolated skeletal discoveries that have been made – Societal structure is totally unknown. I do not know of any details of Social Structure from hundreds of thousands of years ago. I would be very interested in your references for this. Thank you.
4) The evidence I have seen consists of Anthropological Studies of Modern World Hunter-Gatherer Societies. These studies suggest that Paternal Parental care is greater among hunter gatherers than among more primitively organised Agricultural Societies. In fact many hunter gatherer groups exhibit “paritable parenting” – Which is when more than one male claims fathership and parental responsibility for children. Some societies of this type have communal Paternity, where all children are cared for by all the males equally. In fact, studies suggest that human sperm is peculiar in that only 40% is designed to fertilise ova, the rest is designed to attack rival sperm, or form barriers to access of rival sperm. This suggests that past history did not exhibit any Tournament mating or Pair-Bonding, but actually suggests a social structure in which everyone mated with everyone else, and that the battle for supremacy was within the womb, not for access.
You say that we pair-bonded way back in history – What genuine evidence do you have for this? Thank you.
5) You say you have evidence that knowledge of impregnating a woman changes the male hormonal balance. I need a couple of points clarifying here, please. Do you mean the male changes when he knows he has impregnated a woman, or that his hormones change when he knows he has fertilised a woman? Are you sure you have understood the evidence correctly – What evidence I have seen says that child care involvement changes the hormones of a man, not the knowledge of fertilisation. This means, along with the paritable parenting information about Hunter-Gatherers, that men become hormonally more fatherly when there are children around for them to be involved in the care of. These children do not have to be their biological children at all. I am interested in the evidence you have that says it is definitely only biological children that causes biological changes.
Sorry if this is a bit long. I hope you understand that I am trying to be constructive rather than destructive. Thanks again for a very interesting article. I may say more or modify my opinion after reading your paper again.
Some more thoughts on the article.
1) “Because hypergamy is a normal, natural, healthy trait that both (yes both) sexes possess. It’s pathological when it starts to cause major problems.”
Hypergamy – “marrying-up” for social status or for money is normal, natural and healthy. What leads you to this consclusion? At what point in history did money enter the human social cycle, and what forms did social status take in the earliest human social communities? To be sure something is natural or normal you have to be able to prove that hypergamy has always been a possibility, caused by the structure of social relations. When you have no idea of what these social relations were One Hundred Thousand Years ago, then you can have no clue as to when hypergamy became possible, let alone “natural”. To call any form of Hypergamy “natural” or “normal” is to make a value-judgement that no scientific study can afford to do while maintaining any credibility.
2) “anyone, male or female, needs reasons to love someone.”
I am not sure what you understand here by the use of the word, “love”, and I am unsure of the “reasons” people need to love someone. I assume you are speaking of agape – Romantic love, as opposed to love of children, or love of parents. Is there any
relationship at all between the concept of “love”, referred to here, and the rather ‘utilitarian’ list of traits used in studies for ranking qualities sought in a partner. How can you be sure that love is the right word for the collection of sought-after-traits people
seek in a partner.
Also, is this partner that the traits are used to select, the same partner sought to ‘make-love’ with, or do people seek these traits for a long term partner, and use a different set of traits for other types of partnership?
3) “The history of war suggests pair bonding is the best survival strategy for both men and women”
This is a very confident assertion. At what point to War enter into human Partner choice determination? The first war was the mythical Cain and Abel in about 4000 BCE, if you could call that a War. Humanity has been reproducing for much longer than warfare has
been around. Has Warfare modified biology significantly in the past 6000 years. If you turn to pre-historic conflicts then you find hill forts etc., built following the advent of agriculture – so back to 9000 BCE maximum – even if new discoveries push agriculture and cities back to 20,000 BCE, then that is still very recent in terms of human reproductive choice.
Again, I do not think you have any evidence to support any such supposition. In history most pair-bonding seems to be related to the practicalities of economic management of property, and that childbirth is a key point in the establishment of property rights and wealth transfer over time. Such bonding is Economic, not romantic, and not concerned so much with child care, as with wealth manipulation and entitlement. It is interesting that modern marriage and divorce are State-overseen contracts concerning wealth distribution after marriage, the children being treated as gyno-tropic assets of the marriage. Love has nothing to do with any of this quantifiable relationship history. The reasons for “love” can only be a utilitarian list, but other factors are qualitative, not quantitative.
franco-american says:
Enjoyeable read! Nice to see some straightforward rationality!!
Radium says:
The inner cities are interesting experiments in female mate selection when there is no need for provisioning. When young women require provisions, they select mates who can provide, and men compete to become the best providers.
When the government provisions young women, something interesting happens. Just about the only young men who become baby daddies are also D/F students with the associated antisocial behaviors of a D/F student. To be fair, D/F student girls are also more likely to become baby mommies, but they are not the only baby mommies. Even A student girls become baby mommies. In other words, most women and some men are becoming baby mommies and daddies in the inner cities.
As for there being nearly equal numbers of female and male ancestors, other modern experiences would say otherwise. Crazy Horse’ band was one of the last native American groups to leave the plains. If I remember correctly, there were something like 899 in his group when they entered the reservation with something like a third being men. Few of the missing men were killed by the soldiers. Most were killed in the relentless intertribal warfare that was a constant part of the plains. Warfare was birth control. The warriors who survived into old age talked about going to war to impress young women, which gave them mating opportunities.
The deaths of the men at the time you are speaking of were killed by soldiers. It is true that warfare among native Americans grew from the advent of arable agriculture onwards, getting steadily worse from 1350CE onwards. Warfare was endemic in the 1700’s, but, most of the warfare is guaged to have been the destruction of settlements by fire, with accompanying skeletal remains showing death by violence. Because these deaths in warfare are associated with destroyed settlements then there is a strong possibility that many of the associated with the deaths of women and children as much as men.
Not true. The plains Indians were in nearly constant conflict with each other over scarce food resources. There are many accounts of intertribal warfare that preceded conflicts with those of European decent.
Nearly all people from the beginning of our species had a scarcity of resources. This is the basis of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. EO Wilson’s “multilevel selection” theory of social evolution is based on the idea that humans became social and developed very large brains when there were campsites with resources worth defending. Those groups who could cooperate to either defend their resources or rub out others with resources passed their genes onto the next generation.
Humans don’t fight mono e. mono for resources. We band together, and the men defend the groups resources or attempt to take resources from others. The women are far to valuable to potentially lose in a conflict. However, women are not passive bystanders. There are many accounts of women shaming young men to fight in the native American cultures as well as in the world wars.
Just like any other species, humans have nearly always reproduced faster than the resources supply could be expanded. Nearly perpetual conflict has always been the norm, and with the addition of about a billion people per dozen years, will likely become the norm again in the near future. Men will always be the ones most likely to be killed because women are far to valuable to risk in conflict.
Yes, radium, true. Please read what I wrote. I said the deaths at the time you spoke of (the surrender) were caused by soldiers. I said warfare was endemic before that. Darwin’s theory of evolution was nothing to do with resources, but the accidental fittedness for survival of a chance mutation. Social Evolution is another matter altogether and should not be mentioned in the same paragraph as Darwin who hated the attempts of Spenser and others to produce a Social Evolution Theory based on the works of himself and Wallace.
Humans do fight each other for resources – your mone e. mono statement is wayward because the Social make-up of a group varies over time. At certain times people claim to be allies, at other times enemies, and at other times groups split and civil wars occur.
David Wishart (http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.023) makes it clear that wars between native americans occured a lot and that village burning and destruction is the main evidence of these wars.
I am unsure why you talk about the value of women in conflict. Rarely has any conflict occured in history when the Women, Children and elderly were not the main casualties, truth always being the first. Shaming occurs in all societies as a means of maintaining social control.
It is a fact, rarely acknowledged, that in every war since the 30 years war (1618-1648) that civilian casualties far outnumbered combatant casualties. What archaeological evidence exists suggests the same is true of most Native American Wars.
During the Indian Wars in the America’s, the Murder of Native Americans was the first recorded “genocide” in History – A Genocide being a calculated attempt to kill an entire Socially proscribed group of people, echoed in the statement, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”. Previous mass killings were arbitrary and accidental or hubris. The wiping out of Native Americans was a matter of policy, and at the surrender, the dead were killed by soldiers of the USA.
Not sure what you mean when you say that Darwin’s theory of evolution has nothing to do with resources. Isn’t that what competition is all about? Well, at least half about. Sexual selection is the other part of competition.
Of course group membership is dynamic and ever changing. That doesn’t change the fact that humans compete at least on one level as a group. This is why we have tribes, nations, and even Apple products. We identify with ever changing groups, which provides fiction authors with an endless supply of material.
I mention women in conflict only because the demographics of primitive peoples who had the most intense warfare had a disproportionate number of women. There is no doubt that women and children were killed in the relentless warfare of primitive people. However, in every example I know, the demographics indicated the highest casualty rates among young men. This was always the group in shortest supply.
Don’t forget, we live in a time when food production doubles every 20 years. At no time has this ever happened in the past. We will be confronted at some time in the near future with what people and all other species has always known, and that is more people will be born than the planet can support.
Thank you for your responses, and the general discussion, it is good to chew things over at a site like this. But…
The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution is a theory about fittedness for survival following a random mutation in a creatures structure. It has nothing to do with resources. Survival is dependent, not on competition, but on whether or not a random mutation makes life untenable. In nature competition rarely exists, specialisation of food source is far more common. Creatures that can only eat specialised foods will go extinct when their food source is wiped out. They eat one food source only because a varied diet makes accidental poisoning possible. Human survival and dominance is probably due to the fact that they eat a varied diet of fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood etc. No other creature is as varied in it’s diet, and no other creature is able to poulate all areas of the planet as well as homo sapien sapien have done.
Food production doubling every twenty years is happening now, and probably occured for a short period following the advent of agriculture. In fact, the wide availability of many foods after the start of agriculture also lead to the development of many diseases and conditions that acted as a check on population growth. Skeletal analysis has shown that general health and longevity declined after the advent of agriculture, and did not recover for many centuries. Intense civilization (moving into cities) also caused declines in health and longevity for many years. The “competition” has been against the elements and disease far more than against people.
Only when agriculture was well established was it possible for any societal grouping to develop a “Warrior” caste – a product of a dividion of labour.
Do we have Tribes for purposes of Competition? There is evidence suggesting that Tribes are for co-operation. You are turning socialisation into a team game. Quite what the dynamics of such a social life would involve needs proper detailing. All you are doing is suggesting a Social Narrative.
Where do you get the idea that “Primitive Peoples” have the “most intense warfare”? You actually have no details at all of the death rates in the warfare of Primitive peoples from centuries ago. The only details you have for sure are those of the survivors of native americans after surrender to an invasive colonial authority at the close of the 19th century.
You might want to check out EO Wilson and his book called “the social conquest of the earth” for more information on the evolution of human groups or you can google “multilevel selection”. Of course tribes are for both cooperation within the group and competition between other groups.
You might also want to check out Jared Diamond’s book called “the world before yesterday” for more information on the high death rates that primitive people experience due to constant low grade warfare. Few primitive people die from starvation in spite of the fact that most women can produce one child about every four years. It is through disease and warfare that populations remain stable. The scarcity of food increases the risk of both.
As for evolution not being related to competition, I’m not sure what to say about that. Of course most genetic mutations lead to immediate death. Very few will have a benefit in a particular niche. However, there is always competition for resources and mates. OK, there might be a very short period with low competition directly after a mutation opens up a new niche, but because of the power of exponential growth, that time period would be very small.
Absolutely bogus article. You merely assert many positions of Pua/MGTOW are wrong or misleading without justifying, offering studies or data, etc. One could be excused for thinking you are one of the feminists these groups frequently complain about.
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The IAF statement comes days after a report in the Foreign Policy magazine cited US government officials saying that Pakistan’s F-16 combat jets “have all been accounted for”.
Written by Rahul Tripathi | New Delhi | Updated: April 9, 2019 12:21:10 pm
The IAF on Monday released radar images to show Pakistan’s F-16 fighter jet was shot down during the aerial combat on February 27. The red circle spots the Pak jet, which is seen missing in the image below.
Going public with radar images of the February 27 aerial engagement for the first time, the Indian Air Force (IAF) Monday said it had “irrefutable evidence” of a Pakistan Air Force F-16 being downed by an IAF MiG-21 Bison. It also cited radio intercepts, Indian Army sightings and statements by the Pakistan ISPR to underline that the PAF lost an F-16.
Air Vice Marshal R G K Kapoor told reporters: “IAF has irrefutable evidence of not only the fact that F-16 was used by PAF on February 27, 2019 but also that an IAF MiG 21 Bison shot down a PAF F-16… I have more credible evidence that is clearly indicative of the fact that Pakistan has lost one F-16. However, due to security and confidentiality concerns, we are restricting the information being shared in the public domain.” Read in Bangla
Read | ‘Repetitions don’t make the truth of a lie’: Pakistan rejects India’s proof of downed F-16
Detailing the sequence of events following the IAF air strike at Balakot, AVM Kapoor said: “As a repost, PAF aircraft attempted to target military installations in India. However, their attempts were thwarted by IAF aircraft. PAF bombs fell in various Indian Army formation compounds, and they were unable to cause any damage to our military installations. As a result of the interception, the primary objective of PAF strike was not achieved. They were intercepted by IAF Su30 MKI, Mirage 2000 and MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft, guided by ground radars and AWACS. All PAF aircraft were identified by their electronic signature. The IAF aircraft were vectored to shoot down PAF aircraft.”
“PAF aircraft fired multiple AMRAAM missiles which were defeated by use of counter-measures and tactical manoeuvres. In the aerial combat that followed, one Mig-21 Bison of the lAF, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan, shot down one F-16 of PAF. As shown in the radar image on the slide, the F-16 crashed and fell across-the LOC in Pakistan-occupied J&K. The IAF lost one MiG-21 in the aerial engagement and the pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan, ejected safely but his parachute drifted into PoJK where he was taken into custody by Pakistan Army,” he said.
“The analysis of electronic emission have shown that the aircraft picked up by the ELINT intercepts from AWACS and radio transcripts indicated F-16s in the area directly in front of Wing Commander Abhinandan’s aircraft,” AVM Kapoor said.
The image shows the Pak F-16 fighter plane (encircled in red in pic 1) gone missing.
According to the IAF, Indian Army posts in the vicinity of the LoC in the Jhangar sector visually sighted two separate parachutes. The first sightings was due west, in general area Sabzkot, and the second was southwest, general area Tandar.
“The two sightings were at places separated by at least 8-10 km. Electronic signatures gathered by us indicate that PAF aircraft was an F-16. The two parachutes were seen from places at a vantage point,” the IAF said, showing the actual locations on a map.
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{{/if}} Technology of the future: Low Pressure 4.0 – KAESER COMPRESSORS (India) Pvt. Ltd
Technology of the future: Low Pressure 4.0
Intelligent and straightforward blower control: the Sigma Air Manager 4.0 is the solution for blower station automation. This sophisticated controller delivers maximum energy efficiency and cost savings whilst making the station ready for Industrie 4.0 applications.
The Sigma Air Manager 4.0 is the core component of a blower station and the key technology needed in order to take advantage of the Industrie 4.0 services of the future. It acts as the central mastermind and controls the individual machines with maximum efficiency whilst perfectly adjusting the flow capacity to match flow rate demand. All it needs from the process control system is the desired differential pressure value – the SAM 4.0 then ensures optimal control of all blowers. Partial-load bridging and individual solutions are therefore things of the past, along with complicated setups. Now, all applications are supplied by one central blower station with master a controller that analyses operating data in seconds and simulates various scenarios in order to select the most efficient solution. The result? Previously unimaginable energy efficiency.
All components within the station are optimally matched and controlled to meet the customer’s specific needs. Real-time process monitoring provides valuable operating data, which are forwarded for detailed evaluation. The analysis results help to predict potential faults as early as possible and prevent them by taking timely action.
The SAM 4.0 offers communication in 30 languages whilst the easy-to-operate 12-inch colour touchscreen display shows at a glance whether the station is operating in the “green zone” for optimal energy performance. It’s incredibly easy to display and analyse a wealth of data, such as operating status, pressure curve, flow rate and power, as well as maintenance and any fault messages. And, thanks to a network connection, this can be done not only at the machine itself, but also conveniently from a PC at the office or elsewhere. This powerful capability therefore provides peace of mind and lays the foundation for predictive maintenance; it also enables sophisticated energy management per ISO 50001.
The master controller also makes it possible to take advantage of new options for predictive maintenance of blowers. Previously, maintenance could only be performed on the basis of a regular scheduled service date and repairs would be made only after a fault message had occurred. The SAM 4.0 now makes it possible to initiate maintenance before a fault occurs, thereby avoiding costly downtime and consequential damage.
The sensors and Sigma Control 2 controller integrated into the machine collect process data, which are immediately forwarded to the Sigma Air Manager 4.0. Specialised software is then used to transfer the information to the Kaeser Data Center for real-time analysis. The Kaeser Data Center performs central monitoring and processing of operating messages. Required predictive maintenance measures are then initiated as needed based on this information.
Ultimately this enables maintenance and necessary repairs to be performed at the precise moment they are actually needed. This saves time, minimises costs and ensures reliable blower availability, which in turn benefits all associated downstream processes.
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Moderator, June 19, 2014 June 19, 2014 , Voice of Inclusion Blog, 0
A few years ago, the Science Museum of Virginia hosted an exhibit titled “RACE: Are We So Different?” The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities was pleased to train Science Museum employees and work with student groups and educators who visited the exhibit. One of the biggest take-aways for visitors was that racial categories have no scientific basis. New analysis of U.S. Census categories and changing responses from different social groups further reinforces that point.
A recent report from the Pew Research Center notes that “millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms…” While there is no single explanation for why these changes, possibilities include changing self-identification, evolving social understandings of racial groups, or confusion with the questions on the census form.
At the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, we see youth and adults alike grapple with the increasingly complicated and fluid nature of racial categories. This struggle has likely existed throughout our 79-year history. For as Gene Denby noted in a recent NPR article, “We tend to think of a race as a static thing, but it’s always been much more slippery. American history has seen lots of immigrant groups that were the targets of suspicion and even racial violence — Jews, the Irish, Germans, Italians — gradually subsumed into the big, amorphous category of whiteness.”
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Each year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation publishes the “Kids Count” survey, a look at data and statistics on the...
Supporter Spotlight: Qasim Rashid
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A series introducing the individuals who promote and lead the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities’ work. Q asim Rashid’s...
Religious Diversity In Workplace Shows Need For Awareness
Moderator, September 6, 2013 September 6, 2013 , Voice of Inclusion Blog, 0
Religion. It is an ever-important topic here in the United States, whether within communities or the workplace. However, increasing...
A Swelled Sense of Empathy
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On the last night of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities’ recent Allies Institute college retreat program, a student participant...
Summer “Voices of Inclusion” Newsletter
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Our print newsletter just hit homes and you can find your copy online here. In this season’s “Voices of...
The Consequences of Racial Discrimination… and an Intervention
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“When a person’s sense of human dignity is violated, there are physiological consequences.” That’s what Dr. David R. Williams, Florence...
Supporter Spotlight: Carmen Foster
A series introducing the individuals who promote and lead the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities’ work. Carmen Foster’s relationship...
Supporter Spotlight: Eric Luu
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Eric Luu, a 2012 Connections Institute graduate and rising senior at Glen Allen High School, is completing his required...
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China lowers expectations for U.S. trade talks after blacklist - officials
By Jing Xu and Echo Wang
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surprised and upset by the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies, China has lowered expectations for significant progress from this week's trade talks with the United States, Chinese government officials told Reuters, even as President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh optimism.
While Beijing theoretically wants to end the trade war, Chinese Communist Party officials are not optimistic about the size or scope of any agreement with Washington in the short-term, the Chinese officials said.
Top U.S. and Chinese trade and economic officials will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday to try to end a 15-month-old trade war that is slowing the global economy and threatens to upend decades-old trade systems. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are due to take part.
Without significant progress, Trump is set to hike the tariff rate on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to 30% from 25% next Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Trump said: "If we can make a deal, we're going to make a deal, there's a really good chance."
"In my opinion China wants to make a deal more than I do," Trump added.
Based on the current situation, there is a possibility that this week's talks between the world's two largest economies could end in a deadlock, according to a Chinese official briefed on preparations for the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity. Asked about the probability of reaching an agreement, the official said, "This is not an easy task. It requires a lot of preparation work and consensus on both sides."
For trade relations or overall ties between the two countries to improve, more time is needed, Chinese officials said.
While previous lower-level talks between U.S. and Chinese officials aimed to create a good atmosphere for the upcoming meeting, the U.S. blacklisting of 28 Chinese companies has generated a negative atmosphere instead, Chinese officials said.
The U.S. Department of Commerce on Monday blacklisted video surveillance firm Hikvision <002415.SZ> and 27 others, days ahead of the talks. The Commerce Department barred the technology and artificial intelligence companies from doing business with U.S. firms, citing human rights violations of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. Chinese officials said the action interfered with China's sovereignty.
Both sides should not escalate disputes or they will drift apart, said a second Beijing-based Chinese official briefed on the talks this week.
The trade talks come in the wake of tit-for-tat bans on certain visas for each other's officials and a controversy sparked by a Twitter post by an executive with the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets supporting anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
"We can add the Diplomatic war to the Financial war, Currency war and Technology war, that we already have," John Browning, managing director at brokerage BANDS Financial in Shanghai, said in a note to investors.
While there is a huge contingent of high-level Chinese officials traveling to Washington, "to my jaded perception it looks less than a delegation rather a funeral cortege," Browning wrote.
The U.S. demand that the Chinese Communist Party fundamentally change how it directs China's massive economy to shift to a more Western model of free-market capitalism is irrational and misguided, a Chinese diplomat in the United States said.
"What we achieved during the past few decades shows that our system is good for development in China," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
China would not ask the United States to shift to an economy that relies heavily on state-owned enterprises, or ask it to start fully funding education, as China's does, he said, so why should Washington expect the same from Beijing?
"We hope to strike an agreement but also accept the differences," the diplomat added.
Western governments' treatment of China in the past, including welcoming the country into multilateral organizations such as the World Trade Organization, has been predicated on the assumption that this ultimately would lead to Beijing's liberalization and gradual embrace of democratic norms.
Washington is expected to press new demands for Beijing to protect U.S. intellectual property this week, but both sides have very different views of that topic as well.
Chinese officials contend that China did not steal intellectual property in the past, saying Western companies gave it up willingly and reaped the benefits.
"Many decisions were made based on entrepreneurial partnerships," the U.S.-based Chinese official said, adding that they have mostly benefited Western companies.
For example, for every $1,000 iPhone, China's share of production is just $70, the official said.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo, Jing Xu, Echo Wang, Shivani Singh Writing by Heather Timmons and David Lawder; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)
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Make holiday shopping better(er), buy your loved ones cool stuff created by Jacknife. We’ve got something for everyone on your list…. Already blessed with the ultimate gift, all this lucky dude needs is a few Jacknife essentials to make his hectic life a little bit easier. Give him a quiet Sunday morning on the ice…
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Tag: JD Wetherspoons
Plain Jane 220416: I might give Wetherspoon another chance
Celebratory times! Manchester City make the last four in the Champions League, the Queen – longest serving British Monarch – hits 90 (Happy Birthday Your Maj.); the Turner Contemporary marks its five year anniversary, and both Albion House in Ramsgate and Sands Hotel in Margate make the The Times list of Best Places by the Sea.
And I, dear reader, in a rare double departure – what you football fans might like to see as my own personal Blue Moon Rising – find myself simultaneously agreeing with my curmudgeonly colleague Mike Pearce and expressing praise for the cabinet members of Thanet District Council. Excuse me while I take a small lie-down.
I have always been rather sniffy about J D Wetherspoon, mainly because back in 2003 I offered to open their latest acquisition in Hertford – rumoured to be about to be named The Last Witch (who, those up on their 18th century history will know, was one Jane Wenham) – and they turned me down and called it something else. Mike, however, is a fan – expressing his approval in this paper three weeks back; my son thinks highly of them – citing good ale and cheap burgers – and I’ve now discovered that Tim Martin, founder and Chairman, has an entire business plan based on an essay by George Orwell.
This may be a slight exaggeration – it was a journalist who first made the comparison between a Wetherspoon establishment and the fictional and idealised The Moon Under Water hostelry that Mr Orwell dreamt of, and Mr Martin then gave over a dozen of his own drinking holes the same name. But I still feel it shows a certain level of taste and discernment (so sadly lacking 13 years ago) and has caused me to rethink the whole Wetherspoon in the Royal Pavilion, Ramsgate debate.
The great George O listed ten attributes he considered essential for his perfect pub – some of which don’t seem entirely necessary (the selling of stamps and aspirin) or even desirable (the serving of boiled jam roll) (urgh) but do which include the laudable requirements that it should boast regulars and the barmaid should know customers by name. He also wished the place to be quiet enough for conversation (remember that?) and to have a garden. The Moon Under Water , wrote Orwell wistfully, was “only two minutes from a bus stop but…. drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights.” I think we’ll be lucky to achieve that one on Ramsgate seafront but as one who considers the demise of the British “Local” as the biggest single contribution to the breakdown of the fabric of society (along with libraries being full of DVDs instead of books and the sub post offices being squeezed out) I am all for anyone even vaguely bent on recreating some of its qualities. I would also like to see the historic Pavilion properly preserved (I still have fond memories of the faded glamour of the casino Tiberius) and a chain like J D Wetherspoon will at least have the dosh to do it. Better this than it fall into further disrepair.
So the recent decision taken by councillors to continue with negotiations between Rank (holders of lease) and Wetherspoon’s, with a view to the latter taking on the building “to contribute to the regeneration of the area” is probably on balance, and as Mike Pearce himself expounded, good news. Especially if paired with a commitment to upholding Orwell’s vision. For the ideal barmaids, according to the late author, are all middle-aged woman with “their hair dyed in quite surprising shades.”
If Tim Martin’s that keen, he can hire me after all…
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