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2/24/2017 Montreat (N.C.) H 9-8(10) W
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THE MIGHTY DRAKENSBERG
Bushmen Art
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Snow near Cathedral Peak
Rhino Horn at Dawn
Royal Natal Park
When Gondwanaland began to break up 200 million years ago, the resultant forces caused the extrusion of magma, known as Drakensberg lava, through fissures and cracks in the Earth's surface.
In the Drakensberg region it capped the sedimentary rock formations with layers of solid basalt up to 1400 m thick. Weathering reduced the range's size, and caused the plateau to recede.
In modern times, continued erosion has exposed some of the thick underlying sediment which can be seen in areas throughout the Drakensberg.
Black-Souldered Kite
Sky Tree
Mountain Stream
Berg Autumn
See the Drakensberg with Google Maps
Easy to navigate just read the instructions on the left.
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Some Interesting History
During the Pre-Cambrian Era, volcanic eruptions in the area resulted in lava covering large sections of the Southern African sub-continent. In the Palaeozoic Era, wind and water deposited thick layers of shale, mudstone and sandstone, now known as the Karoo Supergroup, over the ancient primary rock.
The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Dutch: Drakensbergen, "the Dragon Mountains") is the highest mountain range in Southern Africa, rising to 3,482 metres (11,424 ft) in height. In Zulu, it is referred to as uKhahlamba ("barrier of spears"), and in Sesotho as Maluti.
Its geological history lends it a distinctive character amongst the mountain ranges of the world. Geologically, the range resembles the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.
The range is located in southeastern Africa, running for some 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from south-west to north-east. The mountains are drained on the western slopes by the Orange and Vaal rivers, and on the east and south by a number of smaller rivers, the Tugela being the largest. Looming over the nearby coast of Natal the range covers the border between KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa and the Drakensberg mountain kingdom of Lesotho.
The Drakensberg escarpment parallels the south-eastern coast of South Africa extending from the Northern Province (KwaZulu-Natal) south and west to Eastern Cape Province. In the vicinity of Giant's Castle, the range turns south-west as it enters the Eastern Cape and splits into the separate ranges of Stormberg, Bamboes, Suurberg, Nieuveld and Komsberg.
Some Animals found in the Drakensberg
Naverone Lake
The Drakensberg has a diverse population of birds, mammals and reptiles. The more common larger mammals that can be found are mountain reedbuck, grey rhebuck, grey duiker, eland, klipspringer, bushbuck and oribi. The main predators in the Drakensberg are leopard (found in very small numbers)black-backed jackal, caracal, serval, clawless and spotted neck otter, various species of mongoose and genet. Troops of chacma baboons, porcupines and colonies of rock hyrax are also found throughout this mountain park. The Drakensberg is home to over 300 species of birds. Thirty two of the species are endemic to Southern Africa. Some of the specials that can be found are wattled crane, cape vulture, bearded vulture, orange breasted rockjumper and yellow breasted pipit. The Drakensberg is also home to 25 species of amphibians, 18 species of lizard (six of which are endemic) and 21 species of snakes.
Birding in the Drakensberg is a wonderful opportunity not only to see the birds of the Drakensberg but to also enjoy the beauty it has to offer.
Some Birds found in the Drakensberg
By - Lawrence Brennon
The Black Eagle, Lammergeier, Martial Eagle, Cape Vultures, Black Sparrowhawk and Jackal Buzzard are also to be seen. Cathedral Peak area. Many “garden” birds such as the Barratt’s Warbler, Forest and Cape Canary, Olive Bush Shrike, Black cuckoo Shrike, Christopher Robin and Redchested Cuckoo can ften be seen in the hedges bordering the individual camping sites. The protea savannah areas are the habitiat of the Sentinel Rock Thrush, Ground Woodpecker, and Bokmakirrie. Swee Waxbill and Bush Blackcap are to be seen in the local forests and in the Yellowwood canopies, Crowned Eagle and other raptors may be seen nesting.
The Helmeted Guineafowl, Hadeda Ibis, Groudscraper Thrush and the Olive Thrush are a common sight. The Malachite Sunbirds and the Gurney’s Sugarbirds are seen on the protea slopes, as well as the shy but noisy Redwing Francolin.
The Olive Woodpecker, the Greater Doublecollared Sunbird, the Christopher Robin, Redchested and Emerald Cuckoo prefer the cool evergreen forests.
The Giant Kingfisher and Longtailed Wagtail are usually seen near the Mahai River.
At Dragon Peaks Park a variety of waterbirds frequent the pond.The Resort also maintains a Vulture feeding area as the endangered Cape Vulture and Bearded Vulture have a nesting site in the cliffs of the escarpment known as the Vulture’s Retreat. All in all the Drakensberg is a bird lovers haven and you will be sure to catch a few of those unexpected snaps.
Eish SA would like to thank the above mentioned organisations for their information supplied to create the "Amazing Places" pages.
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MERCURY Prize winner Speech Debelle is heading to Scotland for one of her first gigs since scooping the prestigious music award.
Rapper Debelle, 26, who was the surprise winner of the Barclaycard-sponsored music event earlier this week, has just announced she will be performing at The Arches in Glasgow on October 1.
Her debut album, Speech Therapy, was just released in May this year, but the Londoner, who has already garnered a large cult following, beat off strong competition from Scots rockers Glasvegas, Kasabian and favourites for the award Florence and the Machine.
And following her triumphant performance at the award ceremony this week her album is now all set to go platinum and fire the female hip-hop artist into superstar status.
Mercury music prize judges described Debelle’s album as “a remarkable new voice in British hip-hop, tough, warm and reflective, wonderfully supple rhymes and beautifully subtle music”.
All about the album
After walking off with the Mercury prize and a cheque for £20,000 Debelle, real name Corynne Elliot, said: “If you believe in something and you think you can do it, you can
“I feel so good – it feels better than I imagined. It means a lot to me because it’s an award judges give solely on the strength of the album.
“There’s a lot of music that sounds the same, all day on the radio. Hopefully people will hear this album and realise they don’t have to make music that sounds the same – they can make music that sounds good.”
Debelle is the first female winner of the competition in seven years since Ms Dynamite picked up the trophy in 2002.
Her new single Spinnin is the fifth track to be released from her award-winning album and is being widely tipped to top the charts next week.
Speech Debelle is appearing at The Arches, Argyle Street, Glasgow on October 1, in what is her only performance north of the border this year.
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good tip. Will try and get tickets!
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Issue #9, 8/24/2006
A Meditation on Breasts
What Are They Good For?
By Glenn Campbell
Family Court Philosopher
Female breasts: What are they good for?
This question occurs to me as I am sitting in the courtroom of Judge Voy on the Wednesday afternoon Juvenile Sex Offenses (JSO) calendar. Some of these crimes involve "groping", where a young man deliberately touches the breasts of an attractive young lady without her permission. The technical charge is "Open and Gross Lewdness."
Nevada statute does not define what kind of touching is "lewd"; instead the nature of the crime is defined in case law. Touching the vagina could be lewd, but touching, say, the arms is not. I have not looked up the case law, but I assume that touching of the breasts, buttocks or groin could be a sex crime, while touching any other part of the female anatomy is, at worst, a simple battery.
Why is touching the breasts considered lewd? I am asking this from a näive and alien perspective. In an anatomical analysis, breasts are little more than localized fat deposits. They don't play any direct role in reproduction, apart from suckling the young. Why is touching this fat so offensive?
Furthermore, why is this fat such a focus of attention? Young men want to touch it, while young women want to dress it up and make it more prominent. Women, it turns out, want their breasts to be touched, but only under the right circumstances. Why all the politics? It is just fat.
Why is the fat even there at all? The logical answer is, the breasts are there to give milk to babies. Wrong!
Think of all the mammals on earth. Are there any others with breasts? All mammals have teats for suckling their young, and they become enlarged during lactation, but when the animal is not giving milk, these "breasts" shrivel away to almost nothing.
Relative to other mammals, human breasts are humongous. They are almost all fat, with only a tiny portion being lactating tissue. Breast size makes no difference in milk production. Small breasted woman produce just as much milk as voluptuous ones.
So why such breasts? What are they good for?
At the risk of offending the entire female race (as well as the male race, come to think of it), breasts seem to me like a pain in the ass. Barring an elaborate support system, they are always flopping around inconveniently, getting in the way and interfering in athletic activities. For early humans, they would seem to be a distinct survival disadvantage because they can slow a runner down when, say, fleeing from a predator. Pragmatically, they don't seem good for anything.
So why are they there?
I surmise that women have breasts for the same reason that casinos have big 8-story marquee signs out front: advertizing. Like the extravagant plumage of a peacock, which is also useless, the human female's breasts are a mating display that happens to be permanent.
Fact: Humans are the only mammal that regularly walks upright on two legs.
Fact: Humans are the only mammal with permanent breasts.
There is a connection between the two.
The female's job in the evolutionary mating game is to advertize her fertility. That is the reason for breasts. They put the message right out in front, almost at eye level.
Breasts send two subliminal messages to the slobbering male: (1) Lookie here, I am sexually mature and ready to mate, and (2) Lookie here, I have the fat reserves to produce offspring.
The male has built-in emotional responses to these messages, which could be approximately transcribed as....
Zowie!
Hubba-hubba!
Va-Va-Va-Voom!
I have always had great difficulty describing these responses to females I know. They see their breasts as merely sensuous, while the male reaction is much more earthy. There isn't necessarily an erection or any sensation in the groin, but there is an instant and instinctual attraction that is obviously hard-wired, not learned. Passing a shapely young lass with breasts half exposed, ones eyes are instantly drawn to the chest. Believe me, if there weren't societal restrictions against it, the hands would be drawn there, too.
Touching breasts doesn't produce any offspring or an orgasm. In itself it doesn't provide any reward to the male—apart from a slap across the face and maybe a JSO charge. I can report from my own investigations that breasts are indeed soft and flabby and not as firm and plump as visually advertized.
In fact, there is a great deal of false advertizing in this field. Beyond the prime teenage years (the traditional time of mating), most naked breasts are droopy and floppy—a finding I have confirmed by intensive clinical study at the topless beaches of France. Most real-world specimens are more like those seen in National Geographic rather than Playboy, and I realize now that toplessness is banned in most places for a reason.
Modern brassiere technology allows more women to achieve the perfect form by plumping the breasts and pushing them skyward, and men seem to fall for it. By the time the true naked form is revealed, it is already too late: mating has progressed to a point of no return and will almost certainly be consummated.
Like the big signs in front of casinos, breasts are pure neon. They don't provide any service to either the buyer or the seller except to initiate the transaction. They are ornamental plumage.
The human preoccupation with breasts seems rather silly to me, but it is very serious to young people. Compelling cleavage can easily draw a young man to his doom, while a young woman can just as easily fall prey to the display of her cleavage for profit (monetary or social). A woman who is unfortunate enough to be genetically gorgeous is tempted to rely on her body for an illusion of self-worth—instead of pursuing, say, ability or accomplishment.
One disadvantage of toplessness is not so much that it is illegal but that it takes away a woman's control over her sexual identity. If ones boobage is restrained, the relative magnetism of it can be turned on and off through the judicious use of attire. If one is naked, one loses this discretion and, paradoxically, one also loses a great deal of ones sexual attractiveness.
In this reporter's opinion, naked women are NOT as sexually appealing as provocatively dressed ones, where the tease is the thing. In the absence of Playboy-style lighting and staging, it quickly becomes clear that fat is just fat.
For the most part, women who often dress provocatively are masking low self-esteem. They are saying, "You see these melons here? They are who I am." The trouble is, the melons are eventually going to ripen and go soft. They'll draw in a man, but not necessarily the right one. They won't provide lasting self-esteem any more than make-up does. They are mainly a distraction, and sometimes a tragic one. By providing a crutch that some women can use to gain attention, they may inhibit emotional development.
Personally, I am in favor of a national breast reduction program where we feed hormones to young girls to assure that they develop only small "athletic" breasts that don't trigger the "Va-Va-Va-Voom" factor.
Every flat-chested girl longs to be well-endowed, but flat-chestedness also encourages the pursuit of non-sexual avenues to self-esteem. People tend to inhabit the roles that their bodies imply. Being given the body of a vixen tends to turn a woman into one, to the detriment of other roles. The body of a librarian may be more beneficial to society.
I would also consider supporting a national breast inspection program, which has a certain theoretical appeal to any red-blooded male. Given my disappointing experiences in France, however, I think I'll pass on applying for the job.
Also see: A Personal Breast Revelation
A discussion of the evolution of breast size (and many of our other traits) can be found in the very interesting anthropology book Our Kind by Marvin Harris.
Wikipedia entry on breasts
A Photo Gallery of Breast Variations, with commentary by their owners. (This site is militant in insisting that breasts are not sexual objects.)
A book called The Handicap Principle describes the ostentatious waste of resources as an essential element of human evolution, since it signals to a potential mate that the individual is strong enough to afford the handicap. Thus, large breasts and the obvious burden to their owner could be a way to advertize the owner's relative robustness. (By the same token, a male who wastes resources on an extravagant car my be expressing the same impulse.) [3/13/07]
“Women who don't wear a bra are much less likely to get breast cancer. I think human females have permanant breasts so that, as upright mammals, the weight and jiggle of the breasts can keep lymph and milk ducts flowing, cleansed and healthy. See more at HealthWaveInstitute.com under Free Articles” —Sharon Porter, SEP, RCST, RPP, practitioner trainer in Los Angeles CA. HealthWaveInstitute.com 11/9/07 (rating=3)
“so what if da women use their breast for attraction? it foesnt matter. if ur girls have tiny boobs, den its hard 4 dem to attract men............” — 4/14/08 (rating=0)
“USA” —kmozxpziel 1/25/11 (rating=2)
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Hemidesmus indicus - Sugandi, Sariva
Apocynaceae - Subtropical India -
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FAMILY: Apocynaceae (Dogbane Family)
GENUS: Hemidesmus
SPECIES: Indicus
COMMON NAMES: Ananta-mula, Anantmoola, Ananthamoola, Anantmula, Asclepias pseudosarsa, Country Sarasaparilla, Durivel, East Indian Sarsaparilla, Eternal root, False Sarsaparilla, Fragrant one, Gadisugandhi, Gopakanya, Hemidesmus pubescens, Hemidismus Indica-Radix, Kapuri, Karibandha, Magrabu, Muttavapulagamu, Naga-jihva, Naruninti, Nunnari, Nunnery root, Onontomulo, Periploca indica, Sariva, Smilax aspera, Sogade, Sugandhi-pala, Sugandi root, Upalasari, White Sariva.
Hemidesmus Indicus, also known in ancient Ayurveda medicine as Sugandi, has been revered for its medicinal properties for nearly a thousand years. Sugandi is a perennial, fast-growing thin creeper vine; that sends tendrils out at every node to cling to the surrounding vegetation for stability and support. The leaves are very slender, smooth, oval shaped, closely resembling blades of grass, and they maintain a uniform shiny dark green color throughout the year. The stems will stiffen and become woody over time, the bark will vary in color from dark red, rust to brown. In the right climate it will produce flowers almost all year round; the flowers are small, thin and elongated, light green with a purple hue inside. The seeds are white and covered in tiny silvery white hairs. The root system is sparse, linear and usually produces one main root with very few side branches. The roots are known to be very aromatic, emitting a sweet scent reminiscent of a combination of vanilla, cinnamon and almonds.
Sugandi is found growing indigenously all over southern Asia, but it originated in India where it is still primarily found growing wildly. It is also known to grow in Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. This ancient healing plant has been transported to all parts of the world and is prized by many horticulturists and practitioners of traditional medicine for its healing properties and aromatic qualities.
Hemidismus Indica is known to naturally produce a wide variety of beneficial compounds known for their healing and calmative effects. This plant has been the focus of many different scientific studies, and there are over a hundred unique compounds that have been isolated from the roots, stems, leaves and flowers. Some of the many compounds found in this plant include: 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy benzaldehyde, 2-hyroxy-4-methoxy benzenoid, alpha-amyrins triterpene, benzoic acid, beta-amyrins, beta-sitosterol, coumarin, delta-dehydro lupeol acetate, delta-dehydrolupanyl-3-beta-acetate, desmine, glucosides, hemidesmin-1, hemidesmin-2, hemidescine, hemidesmic acid, hemidesmine, hemidesmol, hemidesterol, hemidine, hemisine, hexa triconate acid, hyperoside, indicine, indicusin, lactone, lupanone, lupeol acetate, lupeol octacosonate, medidesmine, p-methoxy salicylic aldehyde, pregnane ester diglycoside desinine, sarsapogenin, sarsaponin, sitosterol, smilacin, smilgenin, stigmasterol, tannin, triterpenoid saponin, vanillin, as well as many other potentially psychoactive compounds.
TRADITIONAL USE: Traditional Ayurveda medicine practitioners have used Sariva for hundreds and hundreds of years; it was used as a healing herb as well as a magical-spiritual dream herb. They used it to treat stomach problems, cure rashes, ease the mind, quell the symptoms of syphilis, to help induce trance states and deep meditation, and to clarify and prepare the mind for the dream world. Ayurveda tradition holds that the roots of the Hemidesmus Indicus plant will transport the user to deeper states of sleep and through the four gates of dreaming, as written about by Carlos Castaneda, in The Art of Dreaming. It is used to help the experienced conscious dreamer achieve lucidity during the dream or REM phase of sleep. Ayurveda healers also prescribed it to men suffering from low libido and sexual impotence, it is believed that one of active compounds produced by roots improves male testosterone levels and therefore improves sexual desire, sperm count and overall sexual performance. In traditional Hindi folk wisdom, the healer or sages used the roots to cleanse the blood of toxins, soothe skin irritations and rashes, to reduce the burning sensations caused by urinary tract infections, to reduce fevers, as well as to heal moderate cases of acne. Women use Sugandi roots to promote a healthy pregnancy and to reduce the possibility of a miscarriage.
TRADITIONAL PREPARATION: Because so many different tribal communities in India utilize Hemidesmus Indicus for its healing properties, there are many different ways in which the plant is prepared. Most of the preparations call for the roots of the plant to be dried and ground into a fine powder, which is then either mixed with other medicinal herbs to make salves and balms, or the powder is steeped in warm water and then ingested as a tea. One popular recipe requires two ounces of the root to be boiled in water for an hour and the resulting liquid must then be consumed over the course of twenty-four hours. However, it is known that some of the active compounds are destroyed while the roots are boiling, so it may be wise to simmer the roots instead of allowing them to remain in boiling water. Tribes in India crush the roots and then pressing them to extract the vital juices which are then consumed immediately to minimize degradation of the active compounds and revitalize the body. Modern preparations merely encapsulate the dried root powder into gelatin capsules, and recommend consuming five grams per day for maximum health benefits. The native people living throughout the Himalayan highlands and elsewhere on the Indian subcontinent are known to grind dried Sugandi roots and leaves and mix them with Ocimum tenuiflorum (Holy Basil) seeds, Aegle marmelos (Bel Fruit), Nelumbo nucifera (Blue Lotus), Picrorhiza kurroa (Katuka), Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower) and then smoke the resulting blend, which induces visions and acts as a catalyst, launching the user into profound waking dream states.
MEDICINAL USES: Over the centuries, Ayurveda sages have developed myriad medicinal uses and a wide variety of traditional medicines made with Sariva roots, several of these traditional uses have been validated by modern science and continue to be prescribed to this day. The majority of traditional remedies and medicinal tonics are almost exclusively made from the plant’s roots; however there are several skin creams and digestive aids that utilize the whole plant. There are six major therapeutic uses that have been time tested and shown to be efficacious: Hemidesmus Indicus is effective as an anti-inflammatory, diuretic, vulnerary, anti-miscarriage, to improve fertility and treat syphilis. For hundreds of years Ayurveda shaman have used Sugandi root to promote a calm and tranquil state of mind, to maintain mental clarity while falling asleep and to achieve lucidity while dreaming. This is definitely a powerful dream herb that is used by many people to aide in meditation, trance, and to induce lucid dreams. There is also significant scientific evidence that Hemidesmus Indicus can be used effectively as a treatment for arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, epileptic seizures, high blood pressure, immune disorders, and to relieve stress.
TRADITIONAL EFFECTS: Sugandi root is a powerful Ayurveda Shamanic dream traveling plant and should be studied with great care. The most noteworthy effects are the calming, clarifying and tranquil feelings produced by consuming the root tea. After dinking the tea users describe an overall relaxing, calming sensation that envelopes them with feelings of euphoria and puts their mind at ease. Many avid dreamers drink the tea an hour before they go to bed, they report that the tea helps them maintain mental clarity and focus as they drift off to sleep. Later in the night they explain that they are able to recognize that they are dreaming and then they can easily achieve lucidity, often four or five times in one night. The roots are also known to help relieve stress by inducing overwhelming sensation of relaxation, euphoria, and tranquility.
Acharya, D; Sancheti, G; Shrivastava, A; et al. 2006. Rare Herb of Patalkot: Hemidesmus indicus. disabled-world.com
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On 06 and 07 November 2013 the 7th Joint EUFOR/Armed Force of Bosnia & Herzegovina Engineering Conference was conducted inside Camp BUTMIR, HQ EUFOR. The aim of the Conference was to establish and agree on the necessary foundations for the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AF BiH) to progress towards engineering inter-operability and a self-sustaining engineering training programme.
The conference was chaired by the Chief Training EUFOR, LtCol Johan E.C. BOUHUYS and attended by teams from EUFOR HQ’s Capacity Building & Training (CB&T) Division and representatives of the AF BiH including experts from the Joint Staff, Operational Command, Tactical Support Brigade, and the Engineering Battalion.
The conference was part of EUFOR’s wider CB&T activities and was aimed at establishing an appropriate and sustainable engineering force structure within the AF BiH by the end of 2014. The CB&T Division will provide the BiH authorities with military expertise and technical support through the Joint Military Affairs (JMA) Unit conducting training, mentoring, monitoring and advising for the MOD and AF BiH throughout the command structure and in close coordination with NATO.
The Conference also served to update next year’s training calendar that includes a wide range of specific engineering courses and to define the specific needs for all the engineering activities of the AF BiH. The specific training, mentoring and monitoring activities within the framework of the EUFOR CB&T program are supported by special teams from participating countries.
Several essential outputs from the previous conference held in March 2013 have already been achieved, including the creation of appropriate action plans and the setting of necessary timeframes. This time a mission statement outlining the requirements for engineering capabilities needed by the AF BiH and pointing out the specific engineering competencies required by AF BiH in the future, has been agreed. Furthermore, it has been recognized that a broad level of knowledge and skills will be required within these competencies in order to meet international inter-operability requirements as set out in the partnership program, which is considered a vitally important step on the path towards Euro-Atlantic integration.
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NES Remix 1 and 2 Getting a Retail Release as One Package This Holiday Season
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Today Nintendo officially confirmed that NES Remix 1 and 2 are coming as a physical version bound for retail later this year. Fans might remember that this was actually foreshadowed when it was announced that Japan would be getting a retail release earlier this year. The NES Remix games were previously only available on the Wii U eShop and featured remixed challenges from classic NES titles such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and more. NES Remix 2 added even more titles with the likes of Super Mario Bros. 3, Metroid, Kirby's Adventure, and others. No price has been announced for the collection just yet, but it seems likely that a budget price will be in effect ($20-30) given each games' $15 price tag on the Wii U eShop. Source: Twitter/Nintendo of America Are you interested in buying the retail release for NES Remix 1 and 2?
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One new title that came by surprise in today's Nintendo Direct was the announcement of NES Remix, a new Wii U title that takes 16 classic NES titles and remixes select parts of them for new challenges. You might be tasked with a level of Super Mario Bros. that has you running to the left instead of the right, or completing a level of Donkey Kong using Link, or certain restrictions might be imposed on other select segments in other games to create a challenge. By doing well in the different challenges, you'll earn white stars that will further unlock new levels and 100 stamps that you can use on Miiverse. NES Remix is available right now for $15 on the Wii U eShop. You can check out the announcement trailer for the game below. Are you interested in playing NES Remix?
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BUZZR "Prime Time Party" beg. February 6th
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Re: BUZZR "Prime Time Party" beg. February 6th
Quote from: Dan88 on August 01, 2019, 08:46:43 PM
Bit of a bump, but I think it's notable - tonight's Sale of the Century, #1434 (Josh/Kathy/Kelton, aired 8/16/88), is the first episode without the six-number Winner's Board, though the change wasn't mentioned on-air.
Nope. That’s tomorrows episode.
You might very well think that, of course I couldn't possibly comment…
We now live in a world of Dividing by Zero
Mind Wanderer
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The Game Show Forum: over 15 years of beating the **** out of the competition, and still going strong.
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MSTieScott
Well, it's been about two full months since there have been any new-to-Buzzr episodes of Supermarket Sweep. On August 12, the network corrects that by picking up where they left off in the 8:30 p.m. weekday slot. First, they'll show the remaining five season three episodes that they hadn't aired yet, then they'll start into season four.
Bryce L.
It'll be good to see just how short-lived those yellow scoreboards actually were (among other things).
ivoryman1986
Quote from: MSTieScott on August 02, 2019, 05:01:10 PM
I think you meant Season 4 MSTieScott. Season 3 of Supermarket Sweep still had all the fee plugs shown at the end of the episode. Season 5 witnesses the very short-lived yellow scoreboards and the very short-lived eye-soaring TV Mystery Product screens which that didn't activate properly, those episodes with them still had 3 inflatable bonuses in the Big Sweep.
Buzzr treats the 1990s reboot as its own series with its own season numbering; my post reflects that.
SRIV94
From the Rock of Chicago, almost live...
$otC goes back to 1985 syndication two weeks from today. They get as far as 1449 (9/6/88) on 8/23.
Also, TT reverts back to Xmas-ish 1974 on 9/2.
On the plus side, new-to-Buzzr SP eps begin on 8/19 (9/5/85, picking up where they left off).
"When you see the crawl at the end of the show you will see a group of talented people who will all be moving over to other shows...the cameramen aren't are on that list, but they're not talented people." John Davidson, TIME MACHINE (4/26/85)
Supermarket Sweep made the switch to blue scoreboards tonight. I thought the yellow ones looked fine and were perfectly readable, but perhaps that wasn't the case on an SD tube.
TLEberle
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I try to tamp down on the arguing over minutiae and stuff but man alive I hated the yellow and was glad to see them change to blue.
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Quote from: Sodboy13 on August 28, 2019, 11:39:32 PM
Supermarket Sweep made the switch to blue scoreboards tonight.
On the eighth episode of the season, which confuses me -- during prior seasons, they appeared to tape five episodes per day.
(Still waiting to see the extra ways to earn time and sweep bonus money that David keeps promising at the top of the show. Especially considering that the front game eliminated approximately three questions and the big sweep eliminated the $200 opportunity in the Manager's Special or Super Sandwich.)
Long live Jeopardy!
Quote from: MSTieScott on August 29, 2019, 01:03:42 AM
The first PAX season in 2000 had three episodes taped on the first taping day and four episodes taped on the second taping day, so I guess this 1993 season was the same way as well.
Also, the three (or so) questions were brought back later in the 1993 season (definitely by the last batch of taped shows of that season), and the Manager's Special and Super Sandwich bonuses were brought back in the 1994 season.
Tonight's episode brought back the $250 touchscreen product while keeping the four jumbo bonus items in play. Also, there was a weird "taste test" mini-game where a player could win $50 to go with their 10 seconds if they could tell whether a sample of ice cream was regular or light. So there's a little more money and gimmick variety in the game trickling in gradually.
Dbacksfan12
Quote from: Sodboy13 on September 03, 2019, 11:56:58 PM
Also, there was a weird "taste test" mini-game where a player could win $50 to go with their 10 seconds if they could tell whether a sample of ice cream was regular or light.
Was this after a series of questions about movies? If not, it will soon become a regular feature...the "Snack Attack Movie Game". If I remember correctly, one variant was asking a contestant to identify a product for $50. If they couldn't do so on the first go, the money was halved and the contestant then was offered a 50/50 option.
For no particular reason, an episode stands out in my mind with an incorrect guess of 7Up, and then a choice between Slice or Sprite.
Quote from: Dbacksfan12 on September 04, 2019, 12:25:55 AM
It was the Snack Attack Movie Game, except that the 50/50 choice was given up-front, and there was only one chance to get the money (someone played this game either last week or week before last and lost).
I wasn't able to record last Friday's 8:30 PM airing of the season 4 episode of Supermarket Sweep. Can anyone find out for me when will this episode re-air on buzzr? Thanks.
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Sexual Health And HIV/AIDS Prevention Instruction
The Governing Board desires to provide a well-planned, integrated sequence of medically accurate and inclusive instruction on comprehensive sexual health and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention. The district's educational program shall provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect them from sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy and to have healthy, positive, and safe relationships and behaviors. The district's educational program shall also promote understanding of sexuality as a normal part of human development and the development of healthy attitudes and behaviors concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family.
(cf. 5030 - Student Wellness)
Comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education shall be offered to all students in grades 7-12, including at least once in junior high or middle school and at least once in high school. (Education Code 51934)
The district's curriculum shall support the purposes of the California Healthy Youth Act as specified in Education Code 51930-51939, be unbiased and inclusive of all students in the classroom, and be aligned with the state's content standards. The district shall respect the rights of parents/guardians to supervise their children's education on these subjects and to impart values regarding human sexuality to their children.
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(cf. 5146 - Married/Pregnant/Parenting Students)
Parent/Guardian Consent
Annually, parents/guardians shall be notified, in the manner specified in the accompanying administrative regulation, that they may request in writing that their child be excused from participating in comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education. Students so excused by their parents/guardians shall be given an alternative educational activity. (Education Code 51240, 51938, 51939)
A student shall not be subject to disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction if the student's parent/guardian declines to permit the student to receive the instruction. (Education Code 51939)
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Promoting Healthy Relationships for Adolescents: Board Policy Considerations, Governance Brief, August 2014
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General and applied climatology: selected aspects
Magdalena Kuchcik, Krzysztof Błażejczyk
Magdalena Kuchcik [mkuchcik@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw: Poland
Relationships between cloudiness, precipitation and air temperature
Dorota Matuszko, Robert Twardosz, Katarzyna Piotrowicz
Geographia Polonica (2004) vol. 77, iss. 1, pp. 9-17 | Full text
The work described in this paper aimed at determining the relationship between air temperature, cloudiness and precipitation, based on the Cracow meteorological records. Meteorological data from the period 1901-2000 were used. The research was based on mean monthly temperature totals; the number of days with maximum temperatures above 10°C and above 25°C; annual and daily precipitation as well as the cloud cover and cloud type in three climatic observation terms. The mean yearly air temperature was found to show steady growth, induced by both natural and anthropogenic factors. Climatic warming in Cracow probably has resulted in the more frequent appearance of convective clouds, as well as intense showers, thunderstorms and hailstorms. On the other hand, the frequency of Stratus clouds and fog has been diminished which probably contributed to a reduction in the number of days with light precipitation. No overall trend has been detected in the long-term series for total annual precipitation, as periods of high and low precipitation balanced each other.
Keywords: cloudiness, precipitation, air temperature, Cracow, Poland
Robert Twardosz [r.twardosz@iphils.uj.edu.pl], Department of Climatology, Institute of Geography of the Jagellonian University ul. Grodzka 64, 31-044 Kraków, Poland
Katarzyna Piotrowicz [k.piotrowicz@iphils.uj.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University Grodzka 64, 31-044 Kraków, Poland
The distribution of fog frequency in the carpathians
Marek Błaś, Mieczysław Sobik
Altitude is one of the predominant factors which controls the annual number of days with fog (NDF). The second important factor influencing NDF is station location in regard to circulation patterns and distance from the sea. NDF depends also on terrain morphology at a given station site and in its wider neighbourhood, island-mountain of morphology or a position on the windward side of a larger massif. Special attention is paid to stations in convex landforms where orographic fog caused by the forced ascent of moist air occurs frequently. The large NDF (highest away from the Hercynian Mts) observed in the Carpathians suggest that this region is characterised by an important additional potential water flux in the form of horizontal precipitation. Depending on land use, this could play an important role in pollutant deposition, as it does in the Hercynian Mts.
Keywords: fog frequency, fog deposition, fog distribution, fog-annual variations, Carpathians, mountain climatology
Marek Błaś [blasm@meteo.uni.wroc.pl], Department of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Wrocław, Kosiby 8, 51-670 Wrocław, Poland
Mieczysław Sobik [sobik@meteo.uni.wroc.pl], Department of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Wrocław, Kosiby 8, 51-670 Wrocław, Poland
Energy exchange in an active layer in the Kocioł Kasprowy (Tatra Mountains)
Jarosław Baranowski
The studies were done between 8th and 20th August 1998, in an area extending between 1820 and 1880 m a.s.l. (located in the altitudinal zone of alpine vegetation). The study location named Kocioł Kasprowy is the corrie on the upper part of the slope. The magnitude of the heat flux in the active layer was measured with a heat flux sensor of diameter 5 cm, placed on special stands close to the soil surface. The research showed that factors other than incident solar radiation having a major influence on the size of the energy flux flowing through the active layer are site exposure and inclination. The work confirmed that the frequency of occurrence and amount of precipitation influences energy conductivity in soil markedly, and hence also the size of the heat flux.
Keywords: Tatra Mountains, heat flux, active layer
Jarosław Baranowski [j.bar@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Twarda 51/55, Poland
The main features of bioclimatic conditions at Polish health resorts
Teresa Kozłowska-Szczęsna, Barbara Krawczyk, Krzysztof Błażejczyk
Climate-related treatment is one form of therapy at health resorts that bases itself around the use of natural climatic attributes. In the light of this, the aim of the present studies has been to analyse the bioclimatic conditions at different Polish health resorts, with a view to the available curative resources of the climate being determined, along with the opportunities for the different forms of climatotherapy to be taken advantage of.
Keywords: bioclimate, climatotherapy, health resorts, Poland
Teresa Kozłowska-Szczęsna [klimat@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Twarda 51/55, Poland
Barbara Krawczyk [b.kraw@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Twarda 51/55, Poland
Radiation balance in man in various meteorological and geographical conditions
Solar radiation is a very important factor influencing human beings, in that it plays a significant role in the human heat balance. Bioclimatic and thermophysiological research makes use of various ways by which to assess absorbed solar radiation (ASR), as an essential part of the radiation balance in man (Q). Previous research based either on theoretical considerations or on experimental studies has used different analogue models of the human being as either a vertical cylinder or on ellipsoid. The present paper discusses the results of experimental studies on solar radiation absorption with absorbed fractions of solar radiation being measured on a mannequin. Depending on the kind of radiation data, three models were proposed for assessing ASR. The accuracy of the models was verified by direct measurements made on subjects.
Keywords: absorbed solar radiation, radiation balance of humans, skin temperature
Variation in active surface temperature in the Nara region of Japan
Anna Beata Adamczyk
A continuous variation of thermal energy, presented as air temperature, is registered by a ground-based network. However, an insufficient number of stations does not allow for the presentation of the spatial distribution of these values on the meso or micro scales. For this reason data recorded by a satellite sensor were used to analyse the variation in thermal energy on both spatial and temporal scales. Five satellite images were selected to represent seasons of the year and the thermal conditions of these days were validated. Apart from in August they presented typical thermal conditions for the month, thereby allowing the relation between different types of land cover and surface temperature in satellite acquisition time to be analysed.
Keywords: air temperature, surface temperature, satellite data, type of land cover
Anna Beata Adamczyk [a.badam@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Twarda 51/55, Poland
Thunderstorm seasons and regions in poland
Leszek Kolendowicz
Taking into consideration the similarity to annual courses characteristic of the number of days with thunderstorms at Polish synoptic stations, an attempt has been made to determine potential seasons of thunderstorm days per year. The stations were also capable of being grouped such that Poland could be divided into five thunderstorm regions. Differences in the thunderstorm activity characteristics of particular stations and thunderstorm regions are connected with both the circulation of the atmosphere and such local conditions, as relief, land cover or the influence of the Baltic Sea on the coast.
Keywords: thunderstorm seasons, thunderstorm regions
Leszek Kolendowicz [leszko@amu.edu.pl], Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland
Weather and transportation in Canada. Ed. J. Andrey, C. Knapper. Waterloo, 2003
Magdalena Kuchcik
Geographia Polonica (2004) vol. 77, iss. 1, pp. 97-100 | Full text
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Another anniversary post, this occasion being three decades ago that Public Enemy released their second LP, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’. This post isn’t entirely about that though but about their debut London gig as part of the 87 Def Jam Tour, supporting LL Cool J at the Hammersmith Odeon, the November before. Also on the bill were Eric B & Rakim (notice the spelling below – and the upcoming Bad News live show posters) and the whole thing was being recorded by the BBC for their ‘Fresh Start To The Week’ rap show.
Keen-eared listeners will of course know this from the opening lines of the album, MC’d by Fresh Start… host, Dave Pearce, “Hammersmith Odeon are you ready for the Def Jam Tour? Let me hear you make some noise!”. Parts of the gig were interspersed throughout ‘Nations…’ courtesy of The BBC who had already broadcast it by the time the album dropped the next year. Somewhere in among the hollering and whistling were my friends and I as well as many others I would later go on to meet along the way. But first some context:
This was PE’s first trip to the UK, their debut, ‘Yo, Bum Rush The Show’ had been out a while but they’d also released the iconic ‘Rebel Without A Pause’ on the B-side of their last single, ‘You Gonna Get Yours/Mi Uzi Weighs A Ton’. They were supporting LL Cool J on this trip alongside Eric B & Rakim (who were having their own hits like Paid In Full). PE rose up the ranks with incredible speed though. Their first single, ‘Time Bomb/Public Enemy No.1’ was a real oddity, the album dropped in February ’87 and was even weirder but was released on Def Jam so was given perhaps more time than an unknown. When they dropped ‘You Gonna Get Yours’ with the crazed Terminator X Getaway Mix and ‘Rebel…’ on the B side, it was a done deal.
‘Rebel’ was an instant classic – a summer anthem – and more of the same followed. In the autumn, ‘Bring the Noise’, (from the Less Than Zero soundtrack) proved they could do it again and once ‘Nation’ dropped to unanimous acclaim, they were premiere league. By the time they came back to the UK they were either headlining or co-headlining with Run DMC who were still riding off the back of their world-smashing ‘Raising Hell’ album and easily the biggest rap group in the world apart from the Beastie Boys, who still looked like a novelty at that point. But Run DMC’s star was fading and PE – arguably – replaced them.
Winding back to November ’87, they were still the new kids but they’d put quite a show together to make a good first impression. Before we even entered the venue, the unexpected happened, Chuck and Flav appeared outside – behind a barrier and escorted by S1Ws – and chatted with fans. At first they were hesitant but there was such a clamour that they embraced it for a bit, well, Flav did as you can see below.
That’s me above on the left in the black Kangol hat, what you can’t see is the black body warmer I had on over my leather jacket with a hand-painted Public Enemy stencil logo on the back. This was back before the band even had merch for sale. Chuck was impressed. Below is the concert ticket with a message from Flav scribbled on my train ticket. In hindsight, I think they were perhaps a little overwhelmed at how the UK embraced them on that first tour (remember, ‘Yo, Bum Rush the Show’ was their current record, hence the faded intro on the opening segment on ‘Nation…’). But once the second album dropped, with its BBC recordings and copious thanks to DJs and artists from the UK alongside PE’s US peers, it seems that we made as big an impression as they did.
Public Enemy were on first – the stage was packed, there were air raid sirens and the enormous PE logo. Terminator X flanked by two gun-toting, S1Ws on pedestals either side, Professor Griff stalking in the shadows with Chuck and Flav in bright white, bounding all over the place. It was a full on, high octane experience from start to very quick end (about half an hour I think), a scrappy, stop-start show that didn’t let up, and if it did then the whistle and foghorn posse just filled in the gaps as can be heard on the recording.
Above is the ‘Terminator X!’ moment from ‘Rebel Without A Pause’ which the crowd went absolutely nuts for.
You can see actual footage of the gig on the DVD, ‘The First London Invasion 1987’.
In the middle we had Eric B & Rakim who seemed dwarfed by the huge stage with Eric B largely static, high up on his DJ pedestal and no backdrop graphic, leaving only Rakim to prowl the stage for visual entertainment. I’ve actually cropped more off these photos but wanted to show the enormity of the space they occupied. The sound was poor and Rakim called for more volume a few times.
After this slightly underwhelming middle act it was LL’s turn and at this point he was the bonafide star of the show. At the top of his golden era hip hop peak with his second album, ‘Bigger & Deffer’, out and the forumla-breaking but uneven ‘Walking With a Panther’ yet to come. His intro blew nearly everything before it to pieces. Set in a mocked up Farmer’s Boulevard street scene (his home, referenced on countless numbers of his rhymes), bookended by two DJ booths, a huge, flashing mothership of a boom box descended from the ceiling to the theme tune of ‘2001’ as his DJs, Cut Creator and Bobcat, scratched over the Original Concept’s ‘Can You Feel It’ until the ‘legend in leather’ walked onstage.
Oozing youthful arrogance, you could see why there were a LOT of women in the audience there for him, here was your first young hip hop heartthrob, only just out of his teens. He was in amazing shape too (see bottom photo) and knew exactly how to work the crowd with a choreographed set involving both DJs (Bobcat even played hype man I seem to remember). His one misstep was to do ‘I Need Love’, the soppy, skip-it-please-ballad from the second album, and he was booed mercilessly for it by a large proportion of the crowd from where I was standing, eager to get back to the high-testosterone beats and cuts. At that point, love ballads had no place in hip hop such as this but the joke’s on all of us as LL and Def Jam had seen some sort of future where RnB would slowly blend with rap so as to become one. James Todd Smith can claim to be a pioneer of that scene, for good or bad, (he didn’t do too badly out of it).
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Hiya Kevin,
Im noseying through your wonderful photos of the 87 Def Jam Tour and sifting through a new donation of radio cassettes [I came up on about 90 cassettes in total very recently. They are mostly Capital Rap Show recordings, but there are quite a few Fresh Start tapes too].
I’ve really been enjoying a wonderfully chunky and crispy FM recording of the PE segment of the show you celebrated on the 30th Anniversary of Nation of Millions this afternoon. It’s the full original broadcast [well 90 minutes of it], with a young and Dangerous Dave in full, erm, effect. Thank you so much, these images from the night are wonderful, capturing the energy [and colourfully describing in detail the other performances], as well as the buzz before, down the side, in Academy alley.
Of all the gigs I traversed the Irish Sea for during that period, I missed this one. Regrettably, I didnt see PE until May the next year in Dublin. Regrettably, the cassette of that show sounds like it was recorded in a coal-shed.
Anyhoo, just wanted to fire over a quick thanks as the sounds that were used on the LP are inducing much horripilation as I listen to the original source, whilst flicking through your images, thanks again old chap.
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A number of former Doc's players are now seeing success at the college level, and while we're thrilled that they are playing lacrosse, we're even more excited about the educational experiences these young men and women are enjoying!
Jake Schneider, a former Doc's player who played his high school lacrosse at Fieldston, is starting on Middlebury's attack line. Midd is a Top 20 D3 team in 2017, and a fantastic school. Keep it up, Jake!
Jeffers Guthrie, a current college Freshman, formerly of the Hunter College HS (PSAL team), has made the Princeton D1 varsity team as a walk-on, following in the Ivy walk-on footsteps of former Doc's player, Jack Berney, at Yale now in his 4th year on the team.
Griffin Spolansky (played his HS lacrosse at Lawrenceville), as a sophomore, has walked onto the UVA team as an LSM. Beyond impressive and UVA is looking strong!
Nigel Andrews (Deerfield) scored two goals in his freshman year debut at Harvard against Holy Cross and is making an instant impact for the Crimson.
Patrick Coughlin, now a sophomore D/LSM at Kenyon, picked up 6 ground balls to help lead Kenyon to a win in their opening game of the season.
Dylan Moser (Westminster) is a sophomore goalie up at Wesleyan, a Top 20 D3 program playing in the ultra-competitive NESCAC.
Congrats to all, and keep up the great work on the field, and even more importantly, in the classroom!
Congratulations to Britt Brown for earning the starting spot for the women's D1 team at UPenn! The photo below is from a win over Delaware. Congrats to Britt, keep up the great work on the field, and in the classroom. A TRUE student-athlete if there ever was one! We are VERY proud of you, Brittany!
Another big shout out goes to Jack Berney, currently is in his 4th year on the Yale Lax team as a backup goalie (originally making the team as a walk on no less!). During his time on the team, Yale has won 2 ivy league championships, 2 NCAA playoff births, and was even Ranked #1 for several weeks last season. Preseason this year they are ranked #7, and looking to climb. Jack played Doc’s since the 2nd grade and is a shining example of what hard work, determination, and an amazing team first attitude can do!
Congratulations go to a couple of recent HS graduates from Doc's NYC! Arden Cohen is currently at the Gunnery School (CT) and played Doc's 5th-8th grade. Now he's headed to play D1 lacrosse at Notre Dame, in South Bend, IN! That's a big time leap on the field, we're impressed Arden!
We also want to congratulate Logan Geller on his acceptance to Wesleyan! Logan is currently a Senior at Columbia Prep in NYC and started playing lacrosse with Doc's as a 7th grader and worked his butt off to get better. Now he's headed to a top level NESCAC!
Good luck to both young men next year at their respective schools!
A big congrats goes out to Uno Wait, a former Doc's player, on his acceptance to Cornell University, where Uno will play D1 lacrosse. Uno has spoken to younger Doc's players on what it takes to play lacrosse in college, and continues his family's tradition of giving back to the game while heading off to play in the Ivy League. Another big shoutout goes to Logan Geller, who will be playing varsity college lacrosse for Wesleyan University in CT. Logan didn't start playing lacrosse until 7th grade, and he's a great example of what hard work, dedication, and the right attitude can do. Represent us well in the NESCAC, and good luck! Finally, a HUGE congrats goes to one of our women's coaches, Kaitlyn Billups, on making the Irish National Team! Way to go Kaitlyn, and we wish you the absolute best of luck this Summer at the FIL Rathbones World Championships with the Irish!
Congrats to Rob Pannell and Max Seibald on being recognized by the Cornell community (via the Cornell Sun) for their continued efforts to "Grow the Game" of lacrosse. You can read more about this dynamic duo, and their involvement with NYC's CityLax, HERE.
Congrats are due to Nigel Andrews, Noah Knopf and Isabella Di Pietro! All three are attending Harvard this fall as members of the class of 2020, and all three are playing D1 lacrosse for the school's teams. Good luck to all three former Doc's NYC Lacrosse players in the classroom, and, of course, on the field!
Congrats to Britt Brown on earning Honorable Mention ALL-IVY LEAGUE honors for 2016! Britt won the starting goalie position for the UPenn Women's Lacrosse team this year, and Britt is a former Doc's player and Berskshire School alum.
Great stuff, Britt Brown!!!!!
The 46-man roster has been announced for the Israel U19 Men's National Team, and two former Doc's NYC players have made the cut!
Noah Knopf, who is headed to Harvard next year, and Sam Dubner, a Junior at the Trinity School, were both selected to the 46-man squad. We wish both young men the best of luck as they try to make it through the next round of cuts! Thanks to many former Doc's coaches like Brad Settleman, Bill Cronin, and Jimmy Gabal for working with these young men during their early years!
Doc's at Deerfield
Jared Strauss (#41), Nigel Andrews (#18) and Uno Wait (#3) have been tearing it up for Deerfield Academy (MA) this year. DA is 2-0 as of 4/8/16 and a top 25 nationally ranked high school program. Good luck to our alumni as they continue on for the Big Green!
Doc's Alums in the PSAL Championships
A number of Doc's alumni and CityLax Winter Clinic participants played in the PSAL finals on both the boys and girls sides. Curtis (Staten Island) won the girls title, and Tottenville (Staten Island) took home the boys hardware. Brooklyn Tech made the final for the girls, and so did Hunter College High School of Manhattan on the boys side. Check out some videos from both games below!
PSAL Girls Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-ff07AqgA
PSAL Boys Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5KLOUnNpA
Doc's Alums Take Over - Deerfield Vs Hotchkiss
Jared Straus ’17. Carter Scott ’16, Uno Wait’17, Aidan Sheinberg ’16, Peter Grosscup ’17, Nigel Andres ’16, Will Pasik ’15 after the recent Deerfield Vs Hotchkiss game. Talk about a STRONG Doc's NYC Lacrosse presence!
CONGRATS To THREE Doc's Alums!
Westminster recently took down Deerfield for their first win over DA in a LONG time and Dylan Moser made 14 big saves in net to help Westie get the win. Dylan is a Doc's Alum headed to Wesleyan next year. His father, John, is the CEO of CityLax, Inc.
The game also featured a couple other Doc's alums in Nigel Andrews, and Uno Wait, both of whom have committed to Ivy League Schools in Harvard and Cornell, respectively!
Below, you can see Deerfield's Nigel Andrews shooting on Westminster's Dylan Moser:
Congrats to all three young men on getting into such great universities, and good luck in the classroom and out on the athletic fields!
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Posted on Jan 13th, 2020 By Mengci Shao and Matt Schulz
Categories: Employment, Government, Immigration, Immigration Services, United States, United States Immigration, Visa, Workforce
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The US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency announced on January 9, that the initial H-1B petition registration period will be from March 1 to March 20, 2020, and that USCIS expects to notify employers whose registrations have been selected no later than March 31, 2020. The agency also provided new information about the H-1B cap-subject petition registration process.
Petitioners must register using an online account. As of this writing, USCIS has not provided any details regarding the registration portal or ways to register an account, but has indicated that it will post the date employers may start setting up accounts on its website.
Petitioners must electronically submit a separate registration request for each individual it seeks to petition for a cap-subject H-1B. No more than one registration may be submitted for the same individual by the same petitioner, or all registrations for that individual will be disregarded.
USCIS will deliver lottery results by sending notices electronically and inform petitioners to file an H-1B cap-subject petition on behalf of the named individual within the filing period indicated on the notice. The notifications will be added to the registration accounts, and the account holders will receive notification via email or text message stating that an action has been added to their account.
Petitioners should start the preparation process now by evaluating potential H-1B candidates to make sure that they are qualified to receive the visa if selected. Please contact your Dentons lawyer if you have any questions.
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Verifying work authorization under USCIS’ OPT cap-gap rule
Posted on Jun 11th, 2019 By Mengci Shao and Matt Schulz
Categories: Employment, F-1, United States, United States Immigration, Visa
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There are special rules that act to automatically extend the US employment eligibility of qualified F-1 foreign student visa holders beyond the period initially authorized. The rule that relates to F-1 visa holders seeking to change to H-1B work visa status is referred to as “cap-gap” because it is intended to fill the gap between the date the OPT (optional practical training) period would otherwise expire and the date that the new H-1B employment authorization starts.
The H-1B allows employers to temporarily employ a foreign national in a specialty occupation. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) grants H-1B status. There is a limit, or “cap,” on the number of individuals who can receive H-1B status, and H-1B employment generally begins on October 1, the start of the federal government’s fiscal year.
OPT is an employment authorization for F-1 international students who have completed their studies. Typically, the OPT is granted for 12 months. STEM majors working for eligible employers may qualify for extensions totaling an additional 24 months. At the completion of the study program or the end of OPT, F-1 students have a 60-day grace period to take the steps necessary to either maintain their legal status or depart the US. For the non-STEM majors, that means their OPT status expires well before the October 1 start date of H-1B, hence the “cap-gap.”
To deal with this situation, USCIS’ OPT cap-gap rule automatically extends an eligible F-1 student’s status to bridge the gap between the end of F-1 status and start of H-1B status, thereby allowing the student to remain in the US during the “gap.”
The cap-gap extension applies if all three of the following conditions are met:
An employer timely files a Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker, with USCIS requesting a change of the student’s status to H-1B. Note: A petition requesting consular process does not qualify.
The H-1B petition asks for an October 1 start date.
The student’s status, including any applicable grace period, ends between April and September 30.
How the OPT cap-gap protection is triggered by different events during the H-1B process
When an H-1B petition on behalf of the student has been filed with USCIS but not yet receipted, the student’s employment authorization automatically extends to June 1. While the extension is automatic, students can request from their school’s office of international students office an updated Form I-20 to serve as proof of legal status.
While the H-1B is pending with USCIS for processing, the student’s employment authorization automatically extends to September 30. Again, the student may, but is not required to, obtain an updated Form I-20 from the international students’ office.
If USCIS denies the H-1B, or if the H-1B petition is returned as “not selected,” then there is no longer any cap-gap employment authorization. If the F-1 student’s OPT already expired, then the student has 60 days to depart the US or take other steps to maintain lawful status.
Employers are advised to request updated Form I-20s from their employees on OPT status as proof of valid work authorization, and to take note of the expiration dates.
Note that if the student’s OPT expires before April 1 and the student is already in the 60-day grace period when the H-1B is filed, the cap-gap only extends the F-1 status, not OPT employment authorization. The student may remain in the US, but without OPT work authorization.
Employers must verify the employment authorization for all employees in the US. Failure to do so may result in monetary penalties against the employer. Please contact Dentons for more information.
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Stricter unlawful presence rules for foreign students and exchange visitors
Posted on May 17th, 2018 By Loic Coutelier and Matt Schulz
Categories: F-1, United States, United States Immigration, Visa
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Individuals in the United States on F, J and M visas (including F-2, J-2 and M-2 dependents) who fail to maintain their status will start accruing unlawful presence earlier, potentially spelling trouble for future immigration benefits, according to new US rules.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday May 11, 2018, that the agency is changing the way it calculates the accrual of unlawful presence for nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors. The changes increase the likelihood that individuals in these two nonimmigrant visa categories will have problems on future immigration benefits.
Non-US citizens can be barred from obtaining visas, entering the US, and obtaining immigration benefits based on extended periods of unlawful presence in the US. If the individual accrues more than 180 days (but less than 1 year), he or she may be barred from re-entry for 3 years. Unlawful presence greater than 1 year can result in a 10-year bar.
The new policy, which becomes effective August 9, 2018, provides that nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors will start accruing unlawful presence either:
(1) the day after the visa holder no longer pursues the course of study or the authorized activity, or the day after they engage in an unauthorized activity; or
(2) the day after they complete the course of study or program, including any authorized practical training plus any authorized grace period.
In addition, visa holders start accruing unlawful presence on:
(3) the day after their I-94 expires; or
(4) the day after an immigration judge orders their deportation or removal of the individual.
Under the previous policy, an F, J or M visa holder would start accruing unlawful presence the day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified the visa holder that the individual violated his or her nonimmigrant status while adjudicating a request for another immigration benefit. Accruing unlawful presence under this criterion required notification by the USCIS to the visa holder of the violation.
This change is very important. There has always been a clear distinction between violating status and being unlawfully present, with only the latter situation having severe consequences for visa holders. A person could be in violation of status and not be unlawfully present. For instance, a foreign student on an F visa could drop out of school or perform unauthorized work and not accrue unlawful presence.
This situation is very specific to nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors because their Form I-94 and admission stamp usually list duration of status (or D/S) and not a specific date. Typically, F, J and M visa holders can maintain status as long as they remain enrolled or continue to participate in the activity for which they were admitted in the first place. The situation is different from other nonimmigrant visas, such as H-1B and L-1A visas, where unlawful presence generally starts accruing on the day after their visa stay permission on Form I-94 expires.
Under the new rule, even foreign students and exchange visitors who violate status unintentionally and without being aware of it, will start accruing unlawful presence—and may be in for an unpleasant surprise when they later apply for a new visa.
This announcement comes less than a month after USCIS updated its web page regarding the optional practical training (OPT) extension for international students with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). USCIS now specifically provides that the training experience of STEM OPT workers may not be conducted at the place of business or worksite of the employer’s clients or customers. Combined with last week’s policy change, such an arrangement could cause the visa holder to accrue unlawful presence and later trigger a re-entry ban and visa denial.
We encourage employers who currently employ workers on F, J or M visas or who plan to do so, to carefully review the applicable rules, especially if you intend to subsequently apply for a new visa (e.g., H-1B, EB1, EB2) on their behalf.
For more information, please contact your Dentons lawyer and see the USCIS website for additional information.
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US government immigration fee increase proposed
Posted on May 4th, 2016 By Matt Schulz
Categories: EB5, Employment, Government, Immigrant Investors, United States, United States Immigration, Visa, Workforce
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On May 4, 2016, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) published notice of a proposal to increase certain government filing fees and create a new fee. The average increase is 21 percent, but the highest increases are for the visas used by American businesses to bring skilled workers to the United States, immigrant investors creating jobs for Americans and immigrants acknowledged to have extraordinary ability.
A 42 percent increase is proposed for the Form I-129 used for the most common work visas, including H-1B professional, O-1 extraordinary ability, and L-1 intracompany transfer visas, as well as E-1 treaty trader, E-2 treaty investor and E-3/FTA H-1B1/TN treaty professional visas processed in the United States rather than at an American consular post or Preflight Inspection Unit abroad. A 42 percent increase is also proposed for the Form I-140 used for EB1, EB2 and EB3 employment-based immigrant visas.
If 42 percent seems outrageous, the increase proposed for the Form I-526 required for an EB5 immigrant investor creating at least 10 jobs for American workers is 145 percent.
Family-based immigration fares better, with only a 27 percent increase proposed for the Form I-130 used by United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor certain close relatives to immigrate. The Form I-485 required for immigrants who process through the USCIS instead of an American consular post abroad is proposed to increase only 16 percent.
The USCIS explains that the fee increases are required to recover costs for their services and to maintain adequate service. Current service is far from adequate. Although Congress mandated USCIS processing timelines in the American Competitiveness of the 21st Century Act of 2000 (AC21), almost 16 years later the agency continues to consistently fail to meet the standards set by law.
AC21 set 30-day processing times for most employer-sponsored nonimmigrant visas and 180-day processing times for most employer-sponsored immigration. Processing times tend to be at least twice as long or worse. Instead of 30 days, five months is the processing time currently reported for Form I-129 H-1B visa extensions, for example, and the USCIS California Service Center reported that as of February 29, 2016, the agency was currently processing Form I-485 immigrant applications received before May 17, 2014!
The agency has not increased fees in many years. Proposed fee increases usually become final fee increases without significant, if any, change—most likely later this summer.
There is a 60-day comment period. Guidance on how to submit comments is in the notice. The full text of the USCIS notice can be found online at the Federal Register.
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We need a long term plan for the Brighton Main Line
The long-awaited Department for Transport report into the future of the Brighton Mainline was finally published last month (ref 1). It rules out the idea of a new relief route – ‘BML2’.
Dated April 2016, long-suffering commuters may well conclude that a good deal of water has passed under the Balcombe Viaduct in the meantime.
The report addresses:
Network Rail’s planned upgrade package for the mainline
opportunities that re-opening Lewes-Uckfield and other missing links might offer for local connectivity and for an alternate ‘relief’ route north
the long-term potential of new, higher-speed opportunities for rail between London, Gatwick and Brighton.
The fundamental conclusion of the study, carried out for DfT by WSP, is that Network Rail’s upgrade plan for the Brighton Mainline should proceed without delay. In CP6 (2019-24) this focusses on relieving infrastructure bottlenecks in the Croydon area through grade separation of 3 key junctions and an additional 2 platforms at East Croydon. This would unlock an additional 2 tph into both London Bridge and Victoria.
Other constraints remain. Longer term, as yet uncosted rebuilds of Clapham Junction and Victoria would be more challenging to achieve, certainly whilst keeping these incredibly busy stations running during construction. How could these be achieved if some kind of alternative was not already in place? Incrementalism has its limits, perhaps.
The WSP work briefly considers proposals put forward by stakeholders for a new, high speed line that could reduce journey time between London and Brighton to less than 30 minutes, including a stop at Gatwick. This would have the advantage of bypassing the infrastructure constraints ‘down’ the line, namely the Balcombe and Clayton tunnels and the Grade 2* listed Balcombe Viaduct. WSP have little information on which to reach a firm conclusion on this suggestion. In particular, they make the assumption that the propensity to commute essentially remains fixed, as “both lines (would) compete for the same pool of commuters that were previously using the BML” (ref 2).
One flaw in investigating long-term rail investment options is the DfT’s cap on passenger growth assumptions beyond 20 years hence. This is standard protocol in managing forecasting uncertainty, but makes it very difficult to compare long-term options with different capacity objectives.
Some strategic thinking is needed here.
The long-term market for travel on the BML could respond very positively to a step change in connectivity that a new, high-speed line would unlock. For example, there is already evidence that Brighton acts as a satellite to the high-tech digital cluster around Farringdon/Old Street, in part due to the direct rail connection that exists. The agglomeration benefits of a much better link could be significant, and fit well with strategic economic policy and the productivity growth agenda. Furthermore, the traditional market segmentation between daily commuting and business travel is blurring, as the world of work evolves. This may encourage higher growth for more longer-distance travel to match high-worth work opportunities with high-value residential environments, such as Brighton and Hove. Although WSP considers housing growth projections as a basis for growth, what they fail to take into account is the change in propensity to use rail if service quality is transformed.
Connectivity gains alone are unlikely to justify a new fast line alone. What might do is the creation of a much higher capacity South London metro operation on existing lines (possibly based on high levels of automation (after all it’s been done with the DLR)). A new tunnelled higher-speed route could allow this to happen, and to avoid expensive central London terminal costs it could be cross-linked with an equivalent northside route. It’s too late for HS2, but this could be very relevant for future development, giving both north (say Stansted/Cambridge) access and south access to central London and/or Canary Wharf. Such concepts lie beyond the confines of individual route-based studies but they should not be ignored.
So yes, let’s press ahead with immediate improvements to the Brighton Mainline. But let’s not rule out more radical, higher speed options in the longer term. There may be very good strategic capacity and economic connectivity gains to be had.
Ref 1 – London & South Coast Rail Corridor Study. Department for Transport WSP/PB. April 2016.
Ref 2 – Op. cit section 7.3 p50.
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Home / School of Clinical Medicine / Department of Haematology / Staff / Principal Investigators / Professor Willem H Ouwehand
Professor Willem H Ouwehand
Positions: University of Cambridge Professor of Experimental Haematology, Honorary Faculty member Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Honorary NHSBT Consultant in Haematology.
Email: Lindsay Walker (PA to Prof Ouwehand) Ouwehand-pa@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1223 588183 (NHSBT feature net 48183)
The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) research group, led by Professor Willem Ouwehand, is embedded in the Department of Haematology at the University of Cambridge and collaborates with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The group’s program of research in megakaryocyte and platelet biology and genomics is one of the largest in Europe and focuses primarily on the relationship between sequence variation in genes transcribed in megakaryocytes and the volume, count and function of platelets. A multidisciplinary team of 60 with skills in molecular biology, protein biochemistry, antibody engineering, genomics, and bioinformatics work together on different aspects of human platelets.
Platelet Biology & Genomics
Platelets are the second most abundant cell in the blood and are produced by fragmentation of megakaryocytes that reside in the bone marrow. Platelets are pivotal to maintain integrity of the vessel wall, acting as a healthy source of factors to the endothelial cell layer that lines our blood vessels. Conversely, they are poised to respond to signals of vascular damage (e.g. extracellular nucleotides, metabolites, DNA or the collagenous subendothelial matrix) by aggregating and enhancing plasma coagulation.
Individuals with reduced platelet count or function have bleeding tendencies, whereas those with elevated values are at greater risk of heart attacks and stroke. Interindividual variation in platelet parameters like their function, count, and volume is to a large extent inherited and therefore stable over time. The principal aim of our research is to identify genetic sequence variants that regulate these parameters, thus highlighting genes required for platelet production and thereby linked to cardiovascular diseases.
To support this endeavour we have established the Cambridge Platelet Function Cohort (PFC) from the Cambridge BioResource. The platelet function of almost 1,000 volunteers in this cohort has been characterised following activation with adenosine 5′-diphosphate or the collagen mimetic CRP-XL.
The PFC has been used to study the production and signaling activity of glycoprotein VI (GPVI) an important platelet receptor for collagen, and for in silico association studies of other genes identified by the Genome Wide Association Scan for platelet count and volume. This revealed that common sequence variation at Chromosome 7q22.3 exerts not only an effect on the volume of platelets but also on their function.
Platelet RNA samples from donors representing the full range of functional responses have also been applied to whole-genome expression arrays, and analysis of this microarray data identified 63 transcript levels that correlated with variation in platelet functional response. In order to determine whether the corresponding genes were important regulators of thrombus formation. COMMD7 and LRRFIP1 were selected for further study based on the observation that common sequence variants in both loci seemed to be associated with the risk of heart attacks in 4235 cases of premature myocardial infarction compared with 6379 controls.
One bottleneck to understanding the genetic controls of platelet function is the development of suitable testing systems. We are developing new ways of measuring platelet activity by a combination of microfluidics and image processing technology.
Overall we believe that by studying sequence variation in human platelet genes, we will add to knowledge of megakaryopoiesis, platelet formation and the quality of platelet transfusions, as well as to pathways targeted by current or future antiplatelet therapy.
Recent publications:
1. Nurnberg ST, Rendon A, Smethurst PA, et al. A GWAS sequence variant for platelet volume marks an alternative DNM3 promoter in megakaryocytes near a MEIS1 binding site. Blood. 2012;120(24):4859-4868.
2. Goodall AH, Burns P, Salles I, et al. Transcription profiling in human platelets reveals LRRFIP1 as a novel protein regulating platelet function. Blood. 2010;116(22):4646-4656.
3. Jones CI, Bray S, Garner SF, et al. A functional genomics approach reveals novel quantitative trait loci associated with platelet signaling pathways. Blood. 2009;114(7):1405-1416.
4. Soranzo N, Rendon A, Gieger C, et al. A novel variant on chromosome 7q22.3 associated with mean platelet volume, counts, and function. Blood. 2009;113(16):3831-3837.
Clinical Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics and Genomics Team
Our team applies statistical and computational methods to discover new genes and molecular mechanisms that control platelet life and function in health and disease. We translate this knowledge into the clinic by developing comprehensive and cost effective DNA tests to improve the diagnosis of inherited bleeding and platelet disorders. Finally we integrate our findings from the gene discovery efforts and from various genome annotation assays (ChIPseq, RNAseq, Riboseq, 4C, HiC, among others) to define the networks of protein-protein interactions and of gene regulation that underpin the lineage commitment and maturation of blood progenitors along the platelet lineage.
Our main projects are:
Thrombogenomics: Streamlining the genetic diagnosis of inherited bleeding and thrombotic disorders under the umbrella of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis www.thrombogenomics.org.uk.
BRIDGE: Exome and whole genome sequencing to identify the genetic basis of rare diseases with emphasis on cardiovascular disorders bridgestudy.medschl.cam.ac.uk.
Genetics of haematological traits: Discovering new gene functions through genome wide association studies of blood indices and elucidating the molecular mechanisms by which sequence variation alters these traits. Nature 2011, Nature 2012, Blood 2012.
Functional genomics and BLUEPRINT: As part of the BLUEPRINT www.blueprint-epigenome.eu consortium we functionally annotate the genomes of all human blood cells and progenitors. Our group focuses on the platelet lineage and its progenitors.
Integration: This knowledge is integrated to improve our understanding of gene regulation and networks. Wang 2013, NAR; Paul et al 2013 Genome Research.
Gieger et al 2011, Nature
Nürnberg et al 2012, Blood
van der Harst et al 2012, Nature
Wang et al 2013, Nucleic Acid Research
Paul et al 2013, Genome Research
NIHR BioResource for Rare Disease
Our team is responsible for the enrolment of participants with a rare disease; to form a BioResource for Rare Diseases.
A Rare disease is defined as a condition which has an incidence of less than 5 in 10,000 individuals of the UK population, and thus affects ~3% of the population (http://www.raredisease.org.uk/about-rare-diseases.htm). The aims of the BioResource for Rare Diseases are:
(a) to reduce the delay in ascertaining a genetic diagnosis for inherited and acquired genetic disorders (including rare cancers), where the genotype causing phenotype is known, by developing NGST-based diagnostic tests covering NHS diagnostically-important genes; such projects can include translational projects on e.g. a subset of diagnostic genes;
(b) to determine the genetic basis of Inherited Rare Diseases, including rare cancers for which the causative locus has hitherto not been identified, but which have potential wider relevance for the common diseases that are the focus of Biomedical Research Centres/Units (BRC/BRU)-funded translational and experimental medicine research.
Recruitment is via participating BRC/BRU/hospitals with specialist interest in rare diseases, and currently the main focus of our study fall into the themes: infection and immunity, rare cancers, neuroscience and cardiovascular disease. Our active studies are:
Bleeding and Platelet Diseases (BPD) The immediate purpose of this study is to identify the genetic basis of hitherto unresolved bleeding and platelet disorders by exome-sequencing.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) The discovery of the range of genetic mutations underlying PAH will provide a more complete picture of the cause of this disease and identify rational targets for new drugs. It will also pave the way towards prevention strategies for this disease and of the prediction of prognosis based on a genetic classification of PAH.
Primary Immune Disorders (PID) This study focuses on genetic causes of severe immune disorders, also known as Primary ImmunoDeficiencies with the largest category being CVID, but it may also include the “extreme phenotype” of premature and severe autoimmunity.
Specialist Pathology: Evaluating Exomes in Diagnostics (SPEED) to develop more affordable DNA-based tests for the diagnosis of rare diseases for which the gene is known.
Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome (SRNS) This study will focus on genetic causes Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome.
The team spearhead the healthy samples collection for the European consortium, Blueprint (http://www.blueprint-epigenome.eu/) by making use of the NIHR Cambridge Bioresource (http://www.cambridgebioresource.org.uk/) volunteers. The aim of this consortium is to generate reference epigenomes for all the cell types present in the blood as part of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (http://ihec-epigenomes.org/).
Additionally, we apply next generation sequencing methods to further our understanding of megakaryocytes and platelet biology.
Comparative Transcription Network Biology: megakaryocyte and neuronal cells make shared usage of several transcription factors and we aim to dissect the mechanisms that lead to different developmental outcomes.
GWAS functional follow-up: recent genome wide association studies of blood indices has led to the discovery of several genes involved in megakaryopoiesis and erythropoiesis. We are using cellular biology and next generation sequencing based techniques to elucidate the function of these genes.
Nuclear Architecture and common variants: in collaboration we are using Hi-C and 4C techniques to map regulatory regions and their target genes in a variety of haemopoietic cell types.
The INTERVAL study is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in up to 50,000 NHS Blood and Transplant whole-blood donors recruited at the 25 donation centres across England (http://www.blood.co.uk/). Over a period of two years, participants will be randomised to give blood either at their usual donation intervals or more frequently. Current practice is to invite men and women to give whole blood every 12 and 16 weeks, respectively. During INTERVAL men will be randomised to donate every 12, 10 or 8 weeks and women every 16, 14 or 12 weeks. At the end of the study, we will compare the amount of blood donated and assessments of well-being between the different study groups.
The study’s main objectives are to determine:
1. the optimum interval between donations, for men and women, that maximizes blood supply without unacceptably increasing iron deficiency/anaemia and its potential complications;
2. whether blood donation intervals can be tailored to donors on the basis of demographic, haematological, genetic and lifestyle factors.
During the course of the study, additional blood samples will be taken for a full blood count and storage of plasma, serum and DNA. These will be used to measure biomarkers as well as genetic factors. Online questionnaires regarding health, lifestyle and cognitive function will also be collected. A subset of participants will take part in a study of the impact of donation interval on physical activity levels.
The research in the Ouwehand group is funded by the British Heart Foundation, European Commission, The Evelyn Trust, National Institute of Health Research, NHS Blood and Transplant and the Wellcome Trust.
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Professor Brian Huntly
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Dr Simón Méndez-Ferrer
Professor Randy J Read
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Professor Nicole Soranzo
Professor George Vassiliou
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With her father’s inspiration, Haitian-born humanitarian and change agent, MarieYolaine Toms transitioned from her corporate career at American Express after the January 2010 earthquake in Haïti, to launch Community2Community (C2C), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The organization’s mission is to create self-sufficient communities by working with the community. The focus is health, education, economic development and environmental stabilization. The goals are to replicate the pilot project, offering the diaspora and those with a heart for Haïti an opportunity to be part of something greater than themselves.
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Our purpose is simple: to make people look good and feel great, everyday. Our stylish and comfy undies, bras and hosiery are staples in every Aussie underwear drawer. Our clothing and underwear is now even more accessible through our expansion of own retail stores across Australia and we’re starting to make waves across the globe.
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All parties in a lawsuit concerning allegations of hazing against former members of the University swim team have reached a settlement date.
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The Early History of Heilwood
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The Early History of Heilwood > Coal Mines > Possum Glory Coal & Coke Company
Possum Glory Coal & Coke Company
Possum Glory Mine, one of the two earliest mines in Heilwood, circa 1905. Penn Mary probably made the new designation over the opening when they later took over. Photograph courtesy of Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Penn State University Libraries.
Power Plant, No. 1 Mine, Possum Glory Coal & Coke Co.
Original mine map showing the location of the Possum Glory #1 Mine (labelled “No 1”), relative to the town of Heilwood. Click on the map to see a larger, extended version.
Possum Glory Coal & Coke Co. letterhead from 1906 (Courtesy of the Special Collections & University Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Closeup of the possum from the 1906 Possum Glory Letterhead
A companion company, the Possum Glory Coal & Coke Company, was chartered on April 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newly chartered company had a six-member board of directors and $100,000 worth of capital stock.
The June 19, 1901 issue of The Indiana Democrat reports that surveyor Robert Mullen was making a topographical survey of the area of the new town. This survey would determine the placement of the water works along with coke ovens. The water works were constructed at the designated site, but the coke ovens were never built. A possible reason is that Alfred Solvay, an original stockholder in the Possum Glory Coal Company, had just invented a new process to coke coal and was having 200 coke ovens constructed at Lebanon, Pa. Evidently, the stockholders were satisfied with shipping the Heilwood coal to Lebanon and having it coked in the newly constructed ovens at that location.
It wasn’t until three years later, in October 1904, that the board of directors, now headed by J.H. Weaver, made a visit to Heilwood to begin work on their initial construction contracts, totaling $100,000.
Miner Worker Identification Tag from “P.G.C.” (Possum Glory Coal)
In this initial phase, over 100 houses for workers and foremen were constructed, as well as a power house to supply electricity for the mines and homes. In addition, two coal mines opened in the spring of 1905. Within a year of these initial offerings, the Possum Glory Coal & Coke Company increased their capital stock to $300,000 to further develop the area.
At first, the production from the two mines opened in May 1905 was not to be sold on the open market. Instead, the coal was shipped by rail (Cherry Tree & Dixonville Railroad) to the Solvey Process Company of Syracuse, New York, and the Pennsylvania Steel Company of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Only after production had reached a million tons a year did the coal from these mines start to reach the open market. This arrangement was due in large part to the fact that prominent members of the board of directors had “significant” interests in these two companies.
Portions of the mines’ production were also used to provide steam-generated electricity for the mines, and to provide the town with lighting. House coal was also available (for a charge, naturally) to all mine employees.
According to records, many of the supplies for the mine were purchased locally. Elmer Haggens of nearby Spruce supplied either oak or chestnut motor ties and the Clymer Manufacturing Company of Indiana supplied mine cars.
Mr. James Starford, formerly of the Morrisdale Coal Company in Clearfield County, would become the General Superintendent. He maintained this position until 1906, at which time he was replaced by Harry Dowler.
The Possum Glory Coal & Coke Company franchise lasted until April 1909, at which time the board of directors (J.H. Weaver no longer visibly present) voted to “sell its franchise and all its property, real, personal and mixed, to the Penn Mary Coal Company for $275,000.” From that point on, the Penn Mary Coal Company had complete control of the Heilwood area coal fields.
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Light Sensitive System and Method for Attenuating the Effect of Ambient Light
There is provided a light-sensitive system responsive to light supplied by the system and less responsive to other light. The system includes a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination, and a light sensor having greater response to the time-modulated illumination than to light from sources not so modulated. The invention may be embodied as a camera sensitive to supplied light and relatively insensitive to ambient light, and is useful in providing images for automated image interpretation. A method for photographing an object is also provided.
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BENNETT, JENNIFER D
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1. A light-sensitive system responsive to light supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising: a) a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination, and b) a light sensor having greater response to said time-modulated illumination than to light from other sources.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of said light sensors.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein said plurality of light sensors is embodied as an array of pixels.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein said array of pixels is embodied as a digital camera.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein said light sensor comprises a capacitor and is so constructed that measurement of accumulated charge of said capacitor occurs periodically at a first rate, said light source is operable to be periodically switched on and off and a second rate, and said second rate is faster than said first rate.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein said light sensor comprises a capacitor, light-detection circuitry of said sensor is operable to charge said capacitor during first periods and to de-charge said capacitor during second periods, and said light source is operable to supply light during said first periods and to not supply light during said second periods.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein said sensor comprises a frequency bypass filter.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein said filter preferentially passes high frequencies and blocks low frequencies.
9. The system of claim 7, wherein said filter preferentially passes low frequencies and blocks high frequencies.
10. The system of claim 7, further comprising a frequency filter operable to preferentially pass to a charging apparatus of said light sensor harmonic frequencies generated in response to rapidly switched light from said light source, while at least partially restricting passage of currents having frequencies lower than said harmonic frequencies.
11. The system of claim 7, further comprising a frequency filter operable to ground currents induced by light switched at frequencies inferior to harmonic frequencies generated in response to rapidly switched light from said light source, thereby reducing influence of ambient light on said sensor.
12. A photography system responsive to light supplied by said system and relatively unresponsive to other light, comprising: a) a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination to a scene, and b) a camera having modulated sensitivity to light, said time-modulation of said supplied light being so coordinated with said modulated light sensitivity that said camera is relatively more sensitive to said time-modulated light than to other light not so modulated.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein said modulated sensitivity to light is time modulated.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein said modulated sensitivity to light is frequency modulated.
15. A method for photographing an object as illuminated by a controlled light source and at least partially ignoring ambient light illuminating said object, comprising: a) providing a time-modulated controlled light source and a camera comprising at least one light-sensor which comprises a capacitor; b) charging said capacitor during first periods and de-charging said capacitor during second periods, and c) providing light from said time-modulated controlled light source during said first periods and not providing light from said time-modulated controlled light source during said second periods.
16. A method for photographing an object as illuminated by a controlled light source and for at least partially ignoring ambient light illuminating said object, comprising: a) providing a time-modulated controlled light source modulated at a first frequency and a camera comprising at least one light-sensor having electronic circuitry which comprises a capacitor, said camera being operable at a frame rate slower than said first frequency, and b) utilizing a frequency filter to selectively facilitate charging of said capacitor by high frequencies and hinder charging of said capacitor by low frequencies, thereby facilitating charging of said capacitor by frequencies induced in said circuitry in response to light supplied by said time-modulated light source and hindering charging of said capacitor by frequencies not induced in said circuitry by light supplied by said time-modulated light source.
17. A photography system responsive to illumination supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising: a) a system-controlled light supply; b) a first pixel array of light sensors and a second pixel array of light sensors; c) an optical arrangement which comprises a partially silvered mirror and lens, said optical arrangement serving to focus an image of a scene on both said first pixel array and said second pixel array; d) a timing system serving to coordinate operation of said system such that during first phases of operation said first pixel array is charged and said second pixel array is not charged, and during second phases of operation said second pixel array is charged and said first pixel array is not charged, and said light supply supplies light during said first phases and does not supply light during said second phases, and e) a calculation module operable to calculate a pixilated image based on charge differences between said second array and said first array.
18. A photography system responsive to illumination supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising: a) an interleaved digital camera having a pixel array which comprises first and second sub-arrays of pixels; b) a light source; c) a timing mechanism operable to coordinate supply of light from said light source and frame rate of said interleaved camera in such manner that light is supplied by said light source during charging of said first sub-array of pixels and light is not supplied from said light source during charging of said second sub-array of pixels, and d) a calculation module operable to calculate a difference image based on differences between charges of pixels of said first sub-array and charges of pixels from said second sub-array.
19. A method for producing an photographic image of a scene as illuminated by a controlled light source, comprising focusing an image of said scene on a first pixel array and on a second pixel array, illuminating said scene by said controlled light source during charging of said first pixel array, not illuminating said scene during charging of said second pixel array, and calculating a difference image representing an array of differences between charges of said first array and charges of said second array.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising focusing said image of said scene on a first pixel array and on a second pixel array by utilizing a partially silvered mirror to direct some light of said image to said first pixel array by transparence through said mirror and to direct some light of said image to said second pixel array by reflection from said mirror.
21. The method of claim 19, wherein said first pixel array is a first pixel sub-array of a pixel array of an interleaved camera and said second pixel array is a second sub-array of a pixel array of said interleaved camera.
The present invention relates to system and method for photographing objects as they appear when illuminated by a controlled light source, while minimizing influence of ambient light on the resultant images. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system which comprises a camera or a similar device, a rapidly switchable controlled light source, and either a frequency filter or a timing coordinator coordinating operations of the light source with operations of camera light-detection circuitry, to produce an image of an object as illuminated by the controlled light source, which image is largely uninfluenced by ambient light also illuminating the object.
Because the invention described below enables light detection, object detection, and photography which is responsive to light from a controlled light source and is relatively insensitive to natural or artificial ambient light, the invention is particularly useful in the field of automated image interpretation. In images of scenes photographed in natural or other ambient light, the ambient light tends to cast unpredictable reflections and shadows which can seriously complicate image interpretation. The problem is particularly acute when ambient light emanates from moving light sources or when moving objects are illuminated by ambient light. Moreover, sunlight and strong artificial light sources often create strong local reflections (glare) which strongly influence the resultant images and which may erase image details, thereby partially or wholly preventing interpretation of the image. Thus, shadows and light reflections both may erase or confuse details, hide information, and distort forms of objects in an unpredictable manner, seriously complicating the process of image interpretation.
In contrast, when a scene is lit by light supplied by a controlled and constant light source, images of that scene are relatively simple, consistent, and easy to interpret algorithmically.
Another way in which natural ambient lighting can cause problems during forming of images intended for image interpretation is that natural ambient light typically creates large dynamic ranges of light intensities both within images and from image to image, which dynamic ranges extend from powerful reflections of direct sunlight to subtle differences in details nearly hidden in relatively dark shadows. A camera whose shutter speed and/or gain and/or aperture settings are adjusted to deal with light ranging from very bright to very dark (or a sensor similarly adjusted) cannot register fine distinctions in intensity, yet details important for image interpretation are often represented by fine distinctions in intensity. When an automatic camera adjusts to a large dynamic range of intensities, for example, in responding to glare present in part of an image, other portions of the image tend to be “washed out”. Fine details in washed-out portions become difficult or impossible to see, even for a human interpreter.
Even in the somewhat simplified case of image recognition algorithms searching an imaged scene for specific objects having known reflective characteristics when lighted with a known light source (an algorithm searching for license plate numbers on an image of a retro-reflective license-plate, for example), unpredictable strong ambient light can cause the searched object to be erased by superimposed ambient light reflections, or to be washed out, darkened and unrecognizable, when the camera's sensing system, confronted with strong ambient light, automatically changes shutter speed, gain or iris settings to adjust sensitivity (as automatic cameras do) to achieve an overall good image. Thus, the extreme and unpredictable dynamic range of light values presented by ambient-light images constitute yet another reason that images of scenes lit by a controlled artificial light source are typically easier to work with and to interpret than are images lit by unpredictable ambient light.
Thus, for most purposes of automated image interpretation and in many cases of human image interpretation, use of a controlled and consistent artificial light sources simplifies the interpretation process, when compared to the same interpretation processes applied to images created under randomly variable conditions of natural or artificial ambient lighting.
Supplying controlled and consistent lighting when photographing a scene is not difficult. The problem, of course, is that in most circumstances ambient light surrounds us, and existing sensors and cameras cannot ignore it. Thus, it would be highly valuable to have a photography system which not only supplies controlled and consistent lighting, but which is also able to avoid being influenced by natural and artificial ambient light which also illuminates objects being photographed. Light-based sensors similarly independent of influence by changes in ambient light, would similarly be useful to have.
The following description is of a system and method capable of sensing light and/or creating photographic images, which system and method provide a controlled light and are responsive to illumination by that controlled light, but partially or wholly unresponsive to illumination by ambient light. In particular, the system and method facilitate image interpretation by enabling controlled-light photography even in brightly lit ambient light conditions. The invention is applicable, inter alia, to CCD and CMOS cameras and the like devices and to individual light detection cells.
The invention also includes a method for photographing an object as illuminated by a controlled light source and for at least partially ignoring ambient light illuminating the object, comprising providing a time-modulated light source and a camera comprising at least one light-sensor which comprises a capacitor, charging the capacitor during first periods and de-charging the capacitor during second periods, and providing light from the controlled light source during the first periods and not providing light from the controlled light source during the second periods.
A further method for photographing an object as illuminated by a controlled light source and at least partially ignoring ambient light illuminating the object comprises providing a time-modulated own light source modulated at a first frequency and a camera comprising at least one light-sensor having electronic circuitry which comprises a capacitor; the camera designed to operate at a frame rate slower than the first frequency; and utilizing a frequency filter to selectively facilitate charging of the capacitor by high frequencies and hinder charging of the capacitor by low frequencies, thereby facilitating charging of the capacitor by frequencies induced in the circuitry in response to light supplied by the time-modulated own light source and hindering charging of the capacitor by frequencies not induced in the circuitry by light from the time-modulated light source.
There is further presented a light-sensitive system responsive to light supplied by the system and less responsive to other light, comprising a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination, and a light sensor having greater response to the time-modulated illumination than to light from other sources. Embodiments of the system comprise a plurality of light sensors, which may be organized as a pixel array and may be embodied as a digital camera.
Preferably, the light sensor comprises a capacitor and is so constructed that measurement of accumulated charge of the capacitor occurs periodically at a first rate, the light source being operable to be periodically switched on and off at a second rate, wherein the second rate is faster than the first rate.
In preferred embodiments, the light sensor comprises a capacitor and a frequency bypass filter operable to facilitate charging of the capacitor by high frequencies induced in the sensor circuitry, in response to rapidly switched light supplied by the system, and to inhibit charging of the capacitor by lower-frequency currents such as those induced by ambient light.
In particular, the frequency filter is operable to preferentially pass to the charging apparatus of the light sensor harmonic frequencies generated in response to rapidly switched light from the light source, while at least partially restricting passage of currents having frequencies lower than the harmonic frequencies. A frequency filter may be used to ground currents induced by light switched at frequencies inferior to harmonic frequencies generated in response to rapidly switched light from the light source, thereby reducing influence of ambient light on the sensor.
A preferred embodiment of sensor systems preferentially responsive to system-supplied light is a photography system responsive to light supplied by the system and relatively unresponsive to other light, comprising a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination to a scene, and a camera having time-modulated sensitivity to light, the time-modulation of the supplied light being so coordinated with the time modulation of light sensitivity in the camera that the camera is relatively more sensitive to the time-modulated light than to other light not so modulated.
An additional preferred embodiment of sensor systems preferentially responsive to system-supplied light is a photography system responsive to light supplied by the system and relatively unresponsive to other light, comprising a light source operable to supply rapidly switched time-modulated illumination to a scene, and a camera which comprises a frequency filter which serves to facilitate sensitivity to high frequency currents and to reduce sensitivity to low frequency currents, thereby enhancing sensitivity of the camera to light supplied by the system light source and reduce sensitivity to light from other sources.
The present invention successfully addresses the shortcomings of known configurations by providing a photography system which comprises a controlled light source operable to illuminate a scene with controlled light and a camera module which is responsive to controlled-light illumination yet which is relatively insensitive to ambient light.
Similarly, the present invention successfully addresses the shortcomings of presently known configurations by providing a light sensor sensitive to light from a controlled light source and relatively insensitive to ambient light.
In accordance with the invention there is therefore provided a light sensitive system responsive to light supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising, a) a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination, and b) a light sensor having greater response to said time-modulated illumination than to light from other sources.
The invention further provides a photography system responsive to light supplied by said system and relatively unresponsive to other light, comprising a) a light source operable to supply time-modulated illumination to a scene, and b) a camera having modulated sensitivity to light, said time-modulation of said supplied light being so coordinated with said modulated light sensitivity that said camera is relatively more sensitive to said time-modulated light than to other light not so modulated.
The invention also provides a photography system responsive to illumination supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising a) a system-controlled light supply, b) a first pixel array of light sensors and a second pixel array of light sensors, c) an optical arrangement which comprises a partially silvered mirror and lens, said optical arrangement serving to focus an image of a scene on both said first pixel array and said second pixel array, d) a timing system serving to coordinate operation of said system such that during first phases of operation said first pixel array is charged and said second pixel array is not charged, and during second phases of operation said second pixel array is charged and said first pixel array is not charged, and said light supply supplies light during said first phases and does not supply light during said second phases, and e) a calculation module operable to calculate a pixilated image based on charge differences between said second array and said first array.
The invention further provides a photography system responsive to illumination supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising a) an interleaved digital camera having a pixel array which comprises first and second sub-arrays of pixels, b) a light source, c) a timing mechanism operable to coordinate supply of light from said light source and frame rate of said interleaved camera in such manner that light is supplied by said light source during charging of said first sub-array of pixels and light is not supplied from said light source during charging of said second sub-array of pixels, and d) a calculation module operable to calculate a difference image based on differences between charges of pixels of said first sub-array and charges of pixels from said second sub-array.
The invention still further provides a method for photographing an object as illuminated by a controlled light source and at least partially ignoring ambient light illuminating said object, comprising a) providing a time-modulated controlled light source and a camera comprising at least one light-sensor which comprises a capacitor, b) charging said capacitor during first periods and de-charging said capacitor during second periods, and c) providing light from said time-modulated controlled light source during said first periods and not providing light from said time-modulated controlled light source during said second periods.
The invention yet further provides A method for producing an photographic image of a scene as illuminated by a controlled light source, comprising focusing an image of said scene on a first pixel array and on a second pixel array, illuminating said scene by said controlled light source during charging of said first pixel array, not illuminating said scene during charging of said second pixel array, and calculating a difference image representing an array of differences between charges of said first array and charges of said second array.
The invention will now be described in connection with certain preferred embodiments with reference to the following illustrative figures so that it may be more fully understood.
With specific reference now to the figures in detail, it is stressed that the particulars shown are by way of example and for purpose of illustrative discussion of the preferred embodiments of the present invention only and are presented in the cause of providing what is believed to be the most useful and readily understood description of the principles and conceptual aspects of the invention. In this regard, no attempt is made to show structural details of the invention in more detail than is necessary for a fundamental understanding of the invention, the description taken with the drawings making apparent to those skilled in the art how the several forms of the invention may be embodied in practice.
FIG. 1 is illustrates a photographic system, according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a simplified prior art schematic illustration of a light detection cell;
FIG. 3 illustrates a first embodiment of a light-detection cell operable to discharge a capacitor during second phase operation of the system illustrated in FIG. 1, according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 illustrates an alternative construction of a light-detection cell operable to discharge a capacitor during second phase operation of the system illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a timing diagram summarizing operation of embodiments of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4;
FIG. 6 is a schematic illustration of a light-sensitive system using frequency filtration to emphasize sensitivity to rapidly modulated own light and to de-emphasize sensitivity to ambient light, according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic illustration of an alternative construction of a of light-sensitive system using frequency filtration to emphasize sensitivity rapidly modulated own light and to de-emphasize sensitivity to ambient light, according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a timing and spectrum diagram illustrating aspects of functionality of prior art systems;
FIG. 9 is a timing and spectrum diagram similar to FIG. 8, illustrating aspects of functionality systems shown in FIGS. 6 and 7;
FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a system using a partially silvered mirror to produce photographs sensitive to system-supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of an alternative configuration of a system using a partially silvered mirror to produce photographs sensitive to system-supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to the present invention, and
FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a system using an interleaved camera to produce photographs sensitive to system-supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to the present invention.
The present invention relates to a system and method for photographing objects as they appear when illuminated by a controlled light source, while minimizing influence of ambient light on the resultant images. Specifically, the present invention relates to a system which comprises a camera and a rapidly switched controlled light source, and which uses frequency filtering and/or coordinated switching of supplied light and of light detection processes to render the camera's light-sensitive input circuitry responsive to light originating from the controlled light source, and relatively unresponsive to light originating from other light sources.
To enhance clarity of the following descriptions, the terms “own light” and “camera” will now be defined:
Embodiments of the present invention comprise a light source and a sensor or camera. The phrase “own light” is used hereinbelow to refer to light originating in such a light source. “Own light” may be supplied by a LED or any other controlled light source able to provide short light pulses of controlled length. Generally, light pulses of constant or nearly-constant strength will also be preferred. It is generally preferable that the own light source have a known and constant positional relationship to the sensor or camera. Although in most embodiments multiple periodically repeating light pulses will be used, few or even a single light flash may be “own light” within the meaning of that term, as referred to herein.
The term “camera” is to be understood to include any apparatus operable to create digital still or “motion picture” photographs. The term “camera” is also used herein to refer to any form of light-sensitive sensor. Cameras are, of course, different from light sensors, yet each pixel of a digital camera may be thought of as an individual light sensor. Hence, devices and methods disclosed herein may be applied to individual light-sensing cells, as well as to the array of such cells found in a digital camera. For simplicity of presentation, the term “camera” is used herein to refer both to digital cameras comprising an array of light-sensitive cells, and to light sensors comprising one or more individual light-sensitive cells. References herein to a “cell” may be read as referring to an individual sensor and/or as referring to one of an array of sensors, such as an array of camera pixels. A reader skilled in the art will easily extend design ideas presented herein with reference to such an array of cells to designs wherein few light-sensitive cells or only a single light-sensitive cell are involved. Thus, in the disclosure and in the claims hereinbelow, references to a “sensor” should be understood to apply also to a “camera” insofar as a digital camera comprises an array of individual sensors, and references to a “camera” should be understood to apply to a “sensor”, in that an electronic light sensor may be formed as the structural equivalent of a radically simplified camera.
In the discussion of the various figures described hereinbelow, like numbers refer to like parts.
The method and system presented herein comprise use of an own-light light source and a camera equipped with circuitry which reduces or cancels influence of ambient light on the camera, resulting in a photograph-based primarily on the own light supplied by the system.
Embodiments of the present invention comprise an own-light source and a camera or sensor. These embodiments temporally modulate own light supplied by the own-light light source, and also modulate light reception in the camera. Modulation of own-light sensitivity is coordinated with modulation of own-light supply in a manner which enhances light sensitivity to own-light and de-emphasizes light receptivity to other light not so modulated. Thus, in embodiments comprising a camera, modulation of camera sensitivity is coordinated with modulation in supplied own light in such a manner that the influence of own light reflected from a scene is emphasized in a photographic image produced by the camera, and light reflected from the scene originating from ambient sources and not so modulated, is de-emphasized in, or entirely eliminated from, the resultant photographic image.
Two general methods and systems are proposed. A first approach is referred to herein as “time based” or “time-domain” based. A second approach is referred to herein as “frequency based” or “frequency-domain” based.
In the “time-domain” approach, a timing modulation is introduced into the own light supply of light, and a corresponding timed modulation is introduced into the camera's receptivity to light. Coordination between timed supply of own light and timed changes in the receptivity of light receptors in the camera is used to distinguish between own light and ambient light, and in particular, to minimize sensitivity of light detection cells to ambient light while preserving sensitivity of those cells to own light.
In both time-domain and frequency-domain systems, own light is supplied in rapid timed pulses, preferably from rapidly switchable LEDs.
Light detection circuitry (e.g., in a video camera), typically comprises a voltage source and a frame-creating system comprising a shutter which delimits the exposure time (integration time), and sensor read out circuitry (typically CCD or CMOS circuitry), also responsive to a clock. In a typical interlaced camera, each frame comprises two fields, a first field presenting even-numbered pixels and a second field presenting odd-numbered pixels. For example, field time is 20 ms for the CCIR TV standard, and exposure time can vary automatically (or be fixed) from 20 ms down to 10 μs. For example, in the exemplary timing diagrams discussed below with reference to FIGS. 5, 8, and 9, a 20 ms field readout time and 10 ms exposure time (the equivalent of a 1/100 second shutter speed) are shown for the odd-pixel field.
As is well known in the art, exposure of a next field typically occurs during readout of a previous field. Exposure is typically accomplished by intermittently connecting and disconnecting a voltage source through a light-sensitive sensor, which sensor is typically a photo-detector whose resistance varies with the amount of light to which it is exposed. The resultant current through the photo-detector charges a capacitor associated therewith. Thus, the amount of charge accumulated by each cell capacitor per unit of time is proportional to the amount of light to which the associated cell photo-detector is exposed. Construction of such a prior art system is discussed below with reference to FIG. 2.
In time-domain embodiments of the invention discussed in detail hereinbelow, camera light-detection circuitry is rapidly switched, each exposure time being divided into at least one first phase and at least one second phase. During first phases of operation, a capacitor is charged according to standard practice, as described in the previous paragraph, so that the amount of charge accumulated by the capacitor during first phases is dependent on the amount of light impinging on the photo-detector.
According to time-domain embodiments of the present invention, during second phases of operation, light-detection capacitor charged during first-phase operation is discharged, preferably by a reversal of direction of a charging current. Discharging current, passing either through the same photo-detector as that which controlled the charging current or through a second similar photo-detector, is similarly dependent on the amount of light impinging on that photo-detector
Timing of first and second phases and other parameters of the system circuitry are preferably chosen such that for a given cell the amount of charging during first phrase operation approximately equals the amount of discharging during second phase operation under constant lighting conditions.
Under time-domain embodiments of the present invention, timing of pulsed own light supplied by a light source controlled by the system is coordinated with timing of phase switching of a camera's light-detection circuitry, such that own light is switched ON during first phases of camera detection, and own light is switched OFF during second phases of camera detection.
During an individual exposure, usually lasting only a small fraction of a second, ambient light typically changes only slowly, if at all. Consequently, charging of each cell capacitor due to ambient light during a first phase operation is substantially counteracted by discharging of that cell capacitor during a second phase operation, thereby partially or wholly canceling out the influence of ambient light on the charging of each cell capacitor.
Own light, however, is switched on during first phases and switched off during second phases. Consequently, charging due to own light during first phases is not counteracted by corresponding discharging during second phases. Own light reflected from a scene being photographed contributes to charging of camera cells (pixels) during first phases of operation, but does not contribute to discharging of cell capacitors during second phases of operation.
Thus, cell capacitor charging due to ambient light during first phases is largely canceled out during second phases, yet cell capacitor charging during first phases due to own light is not canceled out during second phases. Light detection circuitry thus detects an image of a photographed scene as seen illuminated by own light, and largely ignores light information derived from ambient light.
Image interpretation problems resulting from large dynamic ranges of light intensities, often produced by photography in ambient light, described in the background section hereinabove, may be solved by switching camera circuitry between first phases and second phases multiple times per each frame exposure. Switching camera circuitry multiple times per exposure causes ambient light to ‘cancel itself out’ many times per exposure, thereby avoiding buildup of a large charge (or charge overflow) due to reflected sunlight or other bright ambient lights reflecting from a photographed object. Consequently, camera circuitry and physical parameters (e.g. gain, exposure time, lens opening), can be adjusted to operate in the dynamic range provided by reflected own light. A camera so adjusted is far more sensitive to subtle distinctions in an own-light-illuminated image than is a camera adjusted and optimized to encompass the dynamic light-intensity range presented by ambient light.
Referring now to FIG. 1, illustrating a simplified view of a photographic system 100, according to of the present invention, there is seen a camera (or sensor) 102, an own-light source 104, and a timer 106 usable to coordinate switching of both camera 102 and own-light source 104. As described above, timer 106 provides a timing signal used to coordinate supply of own light during phase one operation of camera 102 and non-supply of own-light during phase two operation of camera 102. Any timing coordination method operable to switch between the first and second phase operation of camera 102 in coordination of supply and non-supply of own light by own-light source 104, may be used.
FIG. 2, illustrates for comparison purposes, a prior art configuration of a light-sensitive charging apparatus such as is used in a cell (pixel) of a digital camera. Seen is a positive voltage source 110, a shutter 120, a photo-detector 130, a charging capacitor 140, a reset switch 150, and ground. As may be seen by viewing FIG. 2, when shutter 120 closes, completing a circuit, positive voltage is applied to a first side of capacitor 140, charging capacitor 140. Strength of the resulting charge on capacitor 140 depends on voltage 110, speed of shutter 120, and amount of light impinging on photo-detector 130.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is seen a simplified view of a cell 108 operable to charge cell capacitor 140 during first phase operation of cell 108 and to discharge capacitor 140 during second phase operations of cell 108, according to the present invention. In addition to elements illustrated in FIG. 2, switches 160 and 170, are depicted in their phase-one positions. With switches 160 and 170 positioned as shown, FIG. 3 is equivalent to FIG. 2, if shutter 120 is in its ‘on’ position, completing the circuit and capacitor 140 charges in an amount dependent on the amount of light reaching photo-detector 130. Transition to phase two operation is accomplished by switching switches 160 and 170 to their alternative positions. As may be seen from FIG. 3, with switches 160 and 170 in their alternative positions and shutter 120 closed, positive voltage will be applied to a second side of capacitor 140, thereby counteracting charge accumulated during first phase operation. Timing of phase one and phase two may be adjusted so that under constant ambient illumination and no own light, charge accumulated during phase one operation is exactly or nearly exactly removed by de-charging during phase two operation. If own light is supplied during phase one and not supplied during phase two, charge induced in capacitor 140 due to own light supplied during phase one, will substantially not be neutralized in capacitor 140 during phase two. Thus, charging of capacitor 140 due to ambient light is substantially neutralized, yet charging of capacitor 140 due to own light, is substantially not neutralized. A resulting non-neutralized charge remains in capacitor 140 at the conclusion of phase 2, and can be read by the camera cell's standard output mechanisms. (Standard output mechanisms are not shown in the Figure).
FIG. 4, which is a simplified schematic presenting an alternative construction of a cell operable to charge cell capacitor 140 during first phase operation and to discharge capacitor 140 during second phase operations, according to the present invention, illustrates cell 109 having first and second shutters 122 and 124 and first and second photo-detectors 132 and 134. Phase switch 162 is shown in its phase one position. With shutter 122 set to ‘on’ and phase switch 162 positioned as shown, capacitor 140 is connected to positive voltage source 112. This configuration charges capacitor 140, amount of charge being governed by photo-detector 132, as determined by the amount of light reaching photo-detector 132. For phase two operation, phase switch 162 is set to its “discharge” position, shutter 124 is turned on (i.e., its circuit is completed) and shutter 122 is turned off (i.e., its circuit is broken). With shutter 124 on, capacitor 140 is connected through light-sensitive photo-detector 134 to negative voltage source 114. Thus, phase two configuration serves to drain from capacitor 140 charges accumulated during phase one operation, the amount of drain determined by amount of light impinging on photo-detector 134. As with the configuration of FIG. 3, various parameters of the system may preferably be adjusted so that under only ambient light, amount of charge accumulated during phase one operation is approximately equal to amount of charge eliminated during phase two operation.
Configurations of FIGS. 3 and 4 are exemplary in purpose and not intended to be limiting. Other similar arrangements may be made for charging capacitor 140 during first phase operation and de-charging capacitor 140 during second phase operation. For any given arrangement, timing of phases one and two, and/or changes in applied voltages during phases one and two, may be adjusted so as to enhance optimization of the desired effect, namely that influence of ambient light on charging of capacitor 140 during phase one operation be counteracted during phase two operation, while charging of capacitor 140 due to own light supplied during phase one operation not be de-charged during phase two operation.
FIG. 5, which illustrates a timing diagram summarizing operation of an embodiment of the invention as described above, and contrasting it to the operation of prior art systems, depicts approximately 10 own-light pulses and 10 repetitions of phase-one/phase-two operation are shown per field. For simplicity, only odd-field operations are shown. In an interlaced camera, odd-pixel capacitors are charged while even-pixel capacitors are read, and vice versa)
Line 200 of FIG. 5 indicates operation of a shutter such as shutter 120. Ambient light is shown in line 210. A reset pulse is shown on line 205. Own light as might be supplied by prior art, is shown in line 220. (Of course, own light as supplied by prior art would in general be continuous. Only own-light relevant to charging of odd-frame pixels is shown in the Figure.) Prior art charging, showing charging due to ambient light combined with charging due to own light, is shown in line 235. The resultant prior art readout is shown in line 240.
In contrast, own light as supplied according to the present invention is shown in line 230. A phase timing signal is shown in line 250. A charging signal (e.g., a voltage used to charge and discharge a capacitor 140 as described) is shown in line 260. The resultant readout of the system, reflecting influence of own light illumination and absent influence of ambient light illumination, is shown in line 270. In practice, it may be difficult or impossible to entirely eliminate influence of ambient light. For practical purposes, a major reduction in the influence of ambient light, and an emphasizing of the influence of own light in an image, will render such an image far easier to interpret by human or automatic means than would be the equivalent image produced by ambient light, even if reduction of ambient light influence to zero is not accomplished.
A second general method for producing a light sensor or camera which is sensitive to system-supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light is now described. This second method is generally referred to herein as “frequency based” or “frequency-domain” based. It is to be noted that words “frequency” and “spectrum” as used herein and in the claims below, refer not to the frequency of light (the light wavelength, the color) but rather to frequencies of electronic events within an electronic system, such as frequencies of electric currents induced by electronic switching, or frequencies of electric currents induced by system responses to electronically switched light pulses.
The frequency-domain approach takes advantage of the fact that rapidly switched signals, such as electronic currents generated in a light sensor system in response to rapidly pulsed light, generate high-frequency harmonics. Harmonic frequencies of currents induced by rhythmically pulsing a voltage source can be calculated as a function of the frequency and waveform of the pulsed voltages. Thus, harmonic frequencies of charging currents presented by a camera shutter system may be calculated, as may the harmonic frequencies created in the detection apparatus, as it responds to light originating in a rapidly pulsing own-light light source. When waveforms (typically square waves) and frequencies of shutter pulses and of own-light pulses are appropriately chosen, harmonic frequencies induced by shutter switching can be made to be substantially different from harmonic frequencies induced in the detection apparatus as responses to light from a pulsing own-light source. A great portion of the spectrum of photocell charging signals due to own light can be made well separated from the spectrum of charging signals caused by ambient light, for example, by providing a switching rate of own-light supply which is substantially faster than the switching rate of a camera shutter system. Modulations other than square-wave pulsing can be used. Any modulation of own-light that can provide good separation between ambient and own-light induced current spectrums, can be used.
By appropriate choice of waveforms and frequencies of shutter pulses and of own-light pulses, currents induced by own-light rendered distinguishable from currents induced by ambient light according the differences in the frequency spectrums they induce in the detection apparatus. Once these spectrums are distinct, an appropriately designed frequency filter can be used to cause photosensitive cells of the camera be charged primarily under the influence of own light, and to be uninfluenced or less influenced by ambient light. In one embodiment, a frequency filter is use to preferentially pass to the charging apparatus frequencies strongly influenced by own light, thereby emphasizing own light contributions to the resulting image. In another embodiment, a frequency filter is used to ground a charging current at frequencies substantially uninfluenced by own light, thereby reducing influence of ambient light on the resultant image.
Thus, according to methods of frequency-filtering here presented, temporally modulated (and preferably rapidly switched) own light is directed towards an object being photographed, and camera circuitry is provided which selectively filters electronic frequencies induced in the light-detection apparatus, minimizing charge accumulation resulting from ambient light and maximizing charge accumulation resulting from time-modulated own light. Rate and waveform of own light modulation is selected in such a way that a significant portion of the electronic spectrum of the charging signal induced in light-sensor circuitry in response to reflected and refracted own-light received by that sensor, is well separated from the spectrum of the charging signal produced by ambient light interrupted by the standard shutter circuitry of the camera. In general, an own-light switching frequency much higher than the camera shutter switching frequency will be selected, leading to multiple strong high-frequency harmonics induced in the sensor circuitry in response to own light.
In a preferred embodiment, an electronic filter is used to ground portions of signal spectrum primarily caused by ambient light, thereby relatively emphasizing detection of portions of signal spectrum primarily caused by own light. In an alternative preferred embodiment, high-frequency signals primarily induced in response to own light are passed to a charging capacitor, while lower frequency signals heavily influenced by ambient light are at least partially blocked from charging that capacitor, again resulting in a capacitor charge preferentially influenced by own light and relatively less influenced by light from other sources.
FIG. 6, which is a simplified schematic of light-sensitive system using frequency filtration to emphasize sensitivity rapidly modulated own light and to de-emphasize sensitivity to ambient light, according to an embodiment of the present invention, illustrates a light-sensitive system 111, e.g., a pixel cell of a digital camera, which is similar to the prior art cell presented in FIG. 2, except for presence of filter 190. Filter 190 filters cell 111's driving signal, blocking charge flow at frequencies induced by ambient light, and allowing charge flow to capacitor 140 at frequencies induced by own light. An important advantage of system 111 is that filter 190 may be used in common by a plurality of pixel cells connected in parallel to filter 190, vastly simplifying implementation of system 111 in a digital camera.
FIG. 7 is a simplified schematic of an alternative construction of a light-sensitive system, labeled system 113, using frequency filtration to emphasize sensitivity rapidly modulated own light and to de-emphasize sensitivity to ambient light, according to present invention. The photo-detector accumulation current is grounded through a frequency filter 192 during the accumulation time. Filter 192 has a pass spectrum which passes, to ground, relatively low-frequency current generated in response to ambient light. Filter 192 also tends to block high frequencies, particularly harmonics generated in system 113 in response to rapidly switched own light. As a result, at least a portion of charge signal based on ambient light is grounded, thereby causing capacitor 140 to accumulate charge primarily resulting from own light. An additional optional filter 193 may be provided between photo-detector 130 and capacitor 140, to further filter out frequencies of ambient light charging current, permitting passage of higher-frequency currents resulting from own light to charge capacitor 140. Diode 194 is provided to prevent leakage from capacitor 140, which must retain its charge until readout occurs.
In frequency filtration systems such as 111 and 113, coordination between on/off switching of own light supply 102 and on/off switching of phases of operation within camera/sensor 102 is not required, since own light, modulated at a high frequency, can be supplied continuously, frequency filtering within circuits of camera 102 serving to facilitate charging due to own light and to hamper charging due to ambient light. Thus, common timer 106 is not required for operation of systems 111 and 113 and similar systems.
Referring to FIG. 8, which is a timing and spectrum diagram presenting various aspects of functionality of systems of prior art, and to FIG. 9 which is a timing and spectrum diagram presenting various aspects of functionality of 111 and 113 and similar systems, according to the present invention, under prior art conditions, a charging current spectrum 300 created by switching of the charging current at shutter 120 is unfiltered, so that charge due to ambient light and charge due to own light are undifferentiated and collectively charge capacitor 140, as shown in line 310 of FIG. 8. When own light is switched on and off rapidly (as compared to the switching speed of shutter 120), an additional current spectrum is created, as shown at 320 of FIG. 9, which spectrum includes various high frequencies substantially induced by own-light-driven switched charging current.
Charging resulting from filtering by filter 190 of FIG. 6, blocking low frequencies, and thereby substantially blocking current not due to the high-frequency switching of the own-light-driven charging current, produces the charging current shown at line 330 of FIG. 9, where a component due to own light is proportionally greater because components not due to own light have been substantially blocked.
Charging resulting from filtering by filter 192 of FIG. 7 is shown in line 340 of FIG. 9, where low frequency charging currents are passed to ground through filter 192, leaving only higher frequencies, those frequencies induced by the higher frequency switching of own-light-driven charging current, to charge capacitor 140.
Filtering which distinguishes low from high frequencies in the detection circuit can be sufficient to distinguish ambient-light-induced currents from own-light-induced currents. While a rectangular pulse has a spectrum of a “sinc” function i.e., sin(x)/x (where x=πfT; T=pulse width. f=frequency), a repeating rectangular pulse has a spectrum of “sinc” but sampled at the frequency of the repetition frequency. Therefore, in the example shown in FIG. 8 (where no filter exists and the shutter is opened for 10 ms every 40 ms, a rectangular current pulse of 10 ms every 40 ms will be induced. This shutter-induced current has a spectrum of sin(πfx10 ms)/(πfx10 ms), sampled at sampling frequency Fs= 1/40 ms, that is, sin(πf/100 Hz)/(πf/100 Hz) sampled every 25 Hz. The own-light is shown in FIG. 9 with a pulse width of 10 ms/20=0.5 ms, and a repetition period of 1 mS. The current induced by own light will have a spectrum of sin(πf/2000 Hz)/(πf/2000 Hz) sampled every 1 kHz, convoluted with the spectrum of the shutter, since own light induces current only when the shutter is ON (multiplication of the two signals in the time domain implies convolution in the frequency domain). Of course, there is an overlapping of spectrums of own light and of ambient light, but as may be seen from FIG. 9 (comparing area 300 of FIG. 8 to area 320 of FIG. 9), the ambient light spectrum decreases about 20 times faster than the own-light spectrum, so a good separation exists in the frequency domain. Using a high-pass filter to filter out frequencies below, say, 300 Hz, will decrease the charging caused by the ambient light very significantly while influencing the own-light-induced current only slightly. Increasing the own light modulation frequency beyond that shown in FIG. 9 will enable even better separation.
FIG. 10, which is a simplified schematic of a system using a partially silvered mirror to produce photographs sensitive to system supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to the present invention, may be advantageously constructed using standard or nearly-standard parts, and hence can be implemented relatively easily and inexpensively. Illustrated in FIG. 10 is a system 500 in which a first pixel array 130 and a second pixel array 140 are exposed to focused image of a same scene 170. System 500 comprises a lens 110, a partially silvered mirror 120, a first pixel array 130 and a second pixel array 140. Module 135 represents the ensemble of electronic support for pixel array 130, and module 145 represents the ensemble of electronic support for pixel array 140. Modules 135 and 145 are not described in detail as they are intended to represent standard CCD and/or CMOS and/or similar photography technologies known in the art. Pixel array 130 with its supporting module 135 works just like a typical electronic camera, i.e., an image is focused by lens 110 through partially silvered mirror 120 onto pixel array 130, and module 135 provides shutter timing and image readout in the usual manner. In other words, lens 110, pixel array 130 and support module 135 constitute a first camera unit 150. First camera 150 sees scene 170 through partially silvered mirror 110 by transparence of mirror 110. Scene 170, focused by lens 110, is also reflected by mirror 110 onto second pixel array 140. Thus, lens 110, mirror 120, pixel array 140 and supporting module 145 constitute a second camera unit 160. Array 130 is positioned so that image 170, transmitted by mirror 110 is focused by lens 110 onto image 130, and array 140 is positioned so that image 170, reflected by mirror 120, is focused on array 140. Thus, with all elements positioned correctly, array 130 and array 140 are exposed to substantially a same image.
Following the general principles discussed above and in particular with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3 to 5, it may be noted that if first pixel array 130 is active in light detection during first periods and a second pixel array 140 is active in light detection during second periods, and illumination of scene 170 by own-light light source 104 is supplied during first periods and not supplied during second periods, then analog or preferably digital methods may be used to subtract the charge on capacitors of second pixel array 140 from capacitors of first pixel array 130 to produce a pixilated readout substantially reflecting own-light illumination only.
Such a solution is disadvantageous in that it does not solve the problem of large dynamic range input (the “wash out” problem discussed in the background section), but it is advantageous in that it may be implemented in a manner which does not necessitate modifications of intra-camera electronic hardware.
A timing signal source 106 provides a shutter timing signal to camera unit 150 through module 135, and to camera unit 160 through module 145. Timing signal source 106 also provides a timing signal to own-light provider 104, which provides own-light for illuminating scene 170. Timing signal source 106 may be any arrangement which provides coordinated timing among the two camera units and own-light source 104, such that the shutter of camera unit 150 is open, i.e., accumulating charge, during first phases times, when own-light is supplied, and closed during second phase times, and the shutter of camera unit 160 is open during second phase times when no own-light is supplied, and closed during first phase times. A readout system 195 is provided to subtract the charge readout from pixel array 130 of camera unit 160 from the charge readout of pixel array 140 of camera unit 150, and to report the difference, which difference, an array of pixel values, is the own-light image.
Thus, to summarize FIG. 10, a photography system is provided responsive to illumination supplied by said system and less responsive to other light, comprising:
(a) a system-controlled light supply;
(b) a first pixel array of light sensors and a second pixel array of light sensors;
(c) an optical arrangement which comprises a partially silvered mirror and lens, said optical arrangement serving to focus an image of a scene on both the first pixel array and the second pixel array;
(d) a timing system serving to coordinate operation of the system such that during first phases of operation the first pixel array is charged and the second pixel array is not charged, and during second phases of operation the second pixel array is charged and the first pixel array is not charged, and the light supply supplies light during said first phases and does not supply light during said second phases, and
(e) a calculation module operable to calculate a pixilated image based on the differences of charges between the second array and the first array.
FIG. 11, which is a simplified schematic of an alternative construction of a system using a partially silvered mirror to produce photographs sensitive to system supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to an embodiment of the present invention, provides a system 600 similar to system 500 with a slightly different configuration of components. System 600 comprises a first camera 210, a second camera 220, a partially silvered mirror 230, an own-light source 240, a timing coordinator 250, and a differencing and reporting module 260. System 600 functions as described above for system 500, with timing coordinator providing timing signals to cameras 210 and 220 and to own-light source 240 as timing signal source 106 provides timing signals to camera units 150 and 160 and to own-light source 190, and differencing and reporting module 260 subtracting pixel values reported from camera 220 from those reported from camera 210 and reporting the difference as an own-light image. A principle difference between system 500 and system 600 is that lens 110 is used in common by two camera units in system 500, whereas each of cameras 210 and 220 has its own lenses and focusing apparatus in system 600. System 500 is, of course, potentially more efficient in terms of costs of components. System 600 has the advantage that it can be implemented using standard “off the shelf” commercial cameras, requiring only a minor modification required to coordinate timing of the shutters of cameras 210 and 220 and of own-light source 240 as described. Differencing and reporting module 260 may be implemented as a hardware component, or may be embodied as software running on a computing unit such as a PC computer which receives standard output signals from cameras 210 and 220, and subtracts one pixel array from the other to report the difference, which is the own-light image provided by system 600. It may be noted that implementation of system 600 does not actually require exact line-up of cameras 210 and 220, though exact lineup is of course preferable. Alternatively, in an initial setup procedure system 600 may be directed to a target scene and a human operator or automatic system can be used to identify specific scene objects in images reported by cameras 210 and 220, thereby identifying which pixels in camera 220 are aligned with selected pixels of camera 210. That alignment, once established, can be the basis determining what pixel set of camera 220 is to be subtracted from a selected pixel set of camera 210 during system 600 operation.
FIG. 12, which is a simplified schematic of a system using an interleaved camera to produce photographs sensitive to system supplied light and relatively insensitive to other light, according to the present invention, provides an additional embodiment which is relatively easy to implement. In a typical interlaced digital camera in current use, each frame comprises two fields, a first field presenting even-numbered pixels and a second field presenting odd-numbered pixels. In a typical interlaced camera, readout of accumulated charge on even-field pixels occurs while odd-field pixels are accumulating charge, and then the accumulated charges of the odd-field pixels occurs while even-field pixels are accumulating charge. Thus, the even-field pixel array and the odd-field pixel array of a single standard interlaced camera present nearly-identical pixel arrays, whereon are focused, through a common lens, nearly identical images of a scene. FIG. 12 illustrates a system 300 which comprises an interlaced camera 310 wherein a common lens 318 focuses an image of scene 370 on a pixel array 320. Pixel array 320 comprises pixels of a first pixel field 330 interlaced with pixels of a second field 340. Typically, first field 330 will be even-numbered pixels and second field 340 will be odd-numbered pixels, or vice-versa. A timing coordinator 350 coordinates timing between electronic shutter mechanisms of camera 310 and an own-light source 380, such that own-light is supplied during charge accumulation of first field 330 and is not supplied during charge accumulation of second field 340. A differencing and reporting module 390 is provided to subtract second-field pixel values from first-field pixel values, thereby generating an own-light image.
Own-light being supplied during even-field pixel charge accumulation and not being supplied during odd-field pixel charge accumulation, it is possible to derive a nearly-exact own-light image by subtracting the pixel charge values of odd-field pixels from the charge values of adjacent even-field pixels from a same camera. Similarly, if own-light is supplied during odd-field pixel charge accumulation and own-light is not supplied during even-field pixel charge accumulation, it is possible to derive a nearly-exact own-light image by subtracting the pixel charge values of even-field pixels from the charge values of adjacent odd-field pixels from a same camera.
Of course, the image match between even and odd pixels will not be wholly exact. For one thing, adjacent even and odd pixels are slightly displaced, horizontally and often vertically as well. For another thing, there is a temporal, as well as a spatial displacement between the two fields, since one field accumulates charge while the other is being read out, and vice-versa, consequently the two arrays will present slightly different images if photographing a scene which includes a moving object, or if the camera system itself is moving. Nevertheless, for some applications, these minor displacements will not be significant, or may be rendered insignificant by appropriate software manipulation of the acquired data. Thus, module 390 may include algorithms for eliminating or reducing noise introduced by the displacements mentioned above. For example, edge effects will be created when subtracting second field pixels from first field pixels, when the photographed scene includes bright objects on dark backgrounds, or dark objects on bright backgrounds. However, these edge effects will typically be only one pixel wide, and module 390 can be programmed to ignore (i.e., to eliminate) sharp differences appearing in the own-light image, when those differences are only one pixel wide. Similarly, differences introduced by timing displacement may, for some applications, be predictable. In photographing, for example, slow moving objects in a regular setting, it may be possible to roughly predict amount and direction of displacement of a photographed object between a first-field image and a second-field image, and module 390 may be programmed to compensate by selecting an appropriate set of second-field pixels to subtract from a given set of first-field pixels when calculating an own-light image.
In any case, for a wide variety of applications, noise caused by the displacements mentioned in the preceding paragraph may be of minor importance and/or be able to be minimized by appropriate software or firmware manipulation of the acquired images. A typical example is in the photography of retro-reflective numbers and letters on license plates of non-moving or very slow-moving vehicles. Since the numbers and letters are retro-reflective, they provide a strong reflection into a camera when photographed by own light supplied from a position near that camera. The images of numbers and letters from the license plate when so photographed are typically at least several pixels wide, consequently programming module 390 to ignore narrow (e.g., single-pixel) edge effects in own-light images and will not damage the readability of the numbers and letters of the photographed license plates.
It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrated embodiments and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.
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The importance of the relationship between company and incubator for biotechnology development
Ana Paula Ferreira Alves, Gabriele Volkmer, Tania Nunes da Silva
The biotechnology activities development demands an intense academic and scientific basis, a productive sector capable of transforming academic research in scientific products and services, and the creation of an institutional environment to promote the sector’s development. Moreover, many biotechnology companies establish formal partnerships with Universities (by technological incubator) to expand innovative capacity coming into the market. The importance of biotechnology for developing countries is perceived by its ability to promote national development based on knowledge and innovation. In Brazil, the government establishes technological incubators to accelerate the company consolidation. In this way, it is important to study the relationship between the actors involved. In this context, this article aims to analyze the relationship between a technological incubator and a biotech company. To do so, the qualitative approach was adopted to reach the objective. Interviews with incubator’s employees of a Brazilian University and biotechnology company’s managers were conducted. The results show that the company-incubator interaction promoted projects approval which were able to support new researches development and to purchase production equipment. Incubated companies have higher chances of survival in the market from the interaction with University, through the technological incubator. The relationship between the incubator and the biotech company is considered a fundamental condition for biotechnology activities development.
biotechnology development; technological incubator; company-incubator relationship
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Miramont’s Ghost
Author: Elizabeth Hall
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Source: This book was given to me by TLC book tours in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis: Miramont Castle, built in 1897 and mysteriously abandoned three years later, is home to many secrets. Only one person knows the truth: Adrienne Beauvier, granddaughter of the Comte de Challembelles and cousin to the man who built the castle.
Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienne’s visions show her the secrets of those around her. When her visions begin to reveal dark mysteries of her own aristocratic French family, Adrienne is confronted by her formidable Aunt Marie, who is determined to keep the young woman silent at any cost. Marie wrenches Adrienne from her home in France and takes her to America, to Miramont Castle, where she keeps the girl isolated and imprisoned. Surrounded by eerie premonitions, Adrienne is locked in a life-or-death struggle to learn the truth and escape her torment.
Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, this hauntingly atmospheric tale is inspired by historical research into the real-life Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
My review: Miramont Castle, an American castle in Colorado that is not only known for its elegance and luxury, but also for its ghosts. Miramont’s Ghost by Elizabeth Hall tells of Adrienne, a clairvoyant from an aristocratic French family. Because of her visions, she learns dark secrets about her family. In order to keep her silent, her aunt sends her to America to live in Miramont Castle with her cousin and priest to keep her isolated and imprisoned. When she has premonitions about her own tragic fate, Adrienne tries to fight for her life.
This novel is NOT for the faint of heart. This is a dark story, and it is filled with no hope. There are a lot of disturbing scenes in this book along with adult content. The protagonist is abused and violated. I have to admit. I did not enjoy this book. I felt like I was in a horrible nightmare desperately wanting to escape. I kept wanting to read something lighter and more enjoyable, but I stuck with it wanting to know the ending.
I really did not like the protagonist. She is a sad figure. I felt creeped out knowing that she knew about her dark fate, yet she didn’t do anything to try to overcome it. She mostly let things be. She was a weak figure, and because of that, she was easily manipulated and trapped.
The author is a good writer. She paints a gorgeous depiction of France and the castle. It is so seductive that you feel trapped by the dark gothic atmosphere. The book is broken into two parts, when Adrienne is in France and then in America. Even though I didn’t like the book, it is obvious that the author has talent.
Overall, this is a dark, depressing tale. It is filled with visions, secrets, and ghosts. The characters are not likable, but they are very developed, and it has a good setting. The story is very well-written. It is just that I didn’t like the plot. I felt like this was more like a Stephen King’s novel than Rebecca. So if you are interested in a dark fiction about an American castle and ghosts, then this novel is for you.
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Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
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Danville, KY the per-capita Capital of Microbrewing
By DAVID BROCK dbrock@amnews.com 11:10 a.m. EDT, October 12, 2011
It hasn’t taken long for Danville, Kentucky to write some history since going wet last year.
In fact, the owners of the town’s second and newest brewing operation Lore Brewing Co. will tell you last month’s opening makes Danville, KY the per-capita capital of microbrewing.
“There is one brewery for every 7,500 people now,” Lee Rossman said Tuesday, with a smile, before wife and co-owner Ashley added that this moves Danville slightly ahead of Portland, Ore.
According to the state office of Alcoholic Beverage Control, there are currently 15 breweries of any size in Kentucky, with nine of those in either Lexington or Louisville and four in northern Kentucky. With the opening in August of Lore Brewing Co. on Whirlaway Drive, Danville now has the only other two in the state.
A total of two breweries may sound like a token distinction, but Ashley Rossman said it was not a big surprise that Danville has been the place outside of more metropolitan areas where craft beer has had success.
“When the law changed, I think the demand was there and there is an unusually high proportion of craft beer drinkers here,” Lee Rossman said. “You have a lot of people here who seek out that kind of product in stores and on tap in restaurants.”
Like fellow microbrewer Brian Holton of Beer Engine, the Rossmans honed their skills through several years of brewing beer themselves. About the time the town went wet, they came to Danville from Tampa, Fla., to be closer to family with hopes of starting a small business.
The Rossmans said doing what they enjoy is a coincidental benefit of the alcohol election. They saw the opportunity to not only manufacture beer, but also open a retail store for the growing number of people who appreciate the do-it-yourself process of making their own brew.
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Real-Time Flight Data - A First for Digital OOH - to Inform Dynamic Content Displayed on Billboards Around LAX
Baton Rouge, LA – July 2, 2018 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest out of home media companies in the world, is teaming up with Wieden+Kennedy, OMA, PHD, Clear Channel Outdoor and Wow Media as part of a dynamic digital billboard campaign using real-time flight data to encourage weary international travelers arriving at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to “sweat away” their jet lag.
Beginning June 28th, digital billboards in proximity to LAX are displaying messages intended specifically for passengers arriving on the most recently landed Delta red-eye flight from one of five international and three domestic cities. Using data from FlightAware, the billboard content will feature the flight number and city of origination, encouraging passengers to hit the gym and sweat their jet lag away. Billboard content will dynamically change shortly after the selected flights land, as dictated by the data, to reach passengers as they leave the airport. It is the first time real-time flight data is being used to dynamically trigger the creative content on a digital billboard.
Real-time flight data from FlightAware will populate the flight number and city of origin on digital billboard creative from eight international and domestic flights, reaching passengers as they leave the airport.
“In leveraging real-time data that will inform the creative seen on the billboards, we will be able to engage specific passengers as they depart LAX in a highly effective and memorable way,” said Ian Dallimore, Director of Digital Innovation and Sales Strategy for Lamar Advertising. “We are excited about the opportunity to work in conjunction with Delta, Equinox and our agency partners to bring a truly dynamic out of home campaign to life.”
The four-week campaign, utilizing a total of 10 digital billboards, will conclude on July 22.
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John Martin Fischer is best known for the idea of "semicompatibilism" - the idea that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism, whether free will is or is not compatible.
The concept is similar but not identical to Randolph Clarke's idea of a "narrow incompatibilist." A narrow incompatibilist is an incompatibilist on free will and a compatibilist on moral responsibility. Confusingly, this can include those who believe in free will and those who deny free will.
Semicompatibilists assert only their belief in moral responsibility. They are agnostic on free will and argue that moral responsibility exists whether determinism or indeterminism is "true."
A broad incompatibilist sees determinism as incompatible with both free will and moral responsibility. Broad incompatibilists thus include (very confusingly) both those who accept and those who deny free will and moral responsibility. Those who deny one or both are variously called "hard incompatibilists," "illusionists," or "impossibilists."
Here is a taxonomy of determinist and compatibilist positions showing where semicompatibilism fits.
Many of these philosophers reduce free will to the "control condition" for moral responsibility. This is to make freedom dependent on moral responsibility, which we call an ethical fallacy.
As Fischer says:
Some philosophers do not distinguish between freedom and moral responsibility. Put a bit more carefully, they tend to begin with the notion of moral responsibility, and "work back" to a notion of freedom; this notion of freedom is not given independent content (separate from the analysis of moral responsibility). For such philosophers, "freedom" refers to whatever conditions are involved in choosing or acting in such a way as to be morally responsible.5
Free will is of course a prerequisite for responsibility. Questions about free will are scientific questions about the physical nature of minds. The question of moral responsibility is a moral and ethical question, not a question for physical science. We must separate the problem of free will from the issue of moral responsibility.
Fischer has written three books on moral responsibility and compiled what is the largest anthology of articles on free will, determinism, and moral responsibility - his four-volume, 46-contributor, 72-entry, 1300+ pages, Free Will, a reference work in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Philosophy series.4
Although it is titled "Free Will," the material is mostly about moral responsibility.
Fischer describes the development of the idea of semicompatibilism:1
In ancient times — some fifteen years ago — I suggested that Frankfurt-type examples call into question the principle of transfer of nonresponsibility (which I then called, a bit too narrowly, the 'principle of transfer of blamelessness', following John Taurek's usage in his fascinating Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA in 1972). In the introductory essay to my anthology, Moral Responsibility, I presented a somewhat informal version of van Inwagen's modal principle (which he called principle 'B'), and (following van Inwagen) explained how it could be employed as part of a 'direct' argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility (i.e., an argument for the incompatibility claim that does not employ the claim that causal determinism rules out alternative possibilities):
... if you are not morally responsible for one thing, and you are not morally responsible for that thing's leading to another, you are not morally responsible for the other. [This, roughly speaking, is the principle of transfer of nonresponsibility.] Now, an argument ... can be generated to show that causal determinism rules out moral responsibility. Given that you are not morally responsible for the past, and you are not morally responsible for the laws of nature, and assuming the principle of transfer of blamelessness [the principle of transfer of nonresponsibility], causal determinism seems to rule out moral responsibility.2
Also, I told the following story:
... a man [Green] walks along a beach and, noting that there is a child drowning, dives into the water and rescues the child. Though Green has had a device implanted in his brain [by scientists in a research institute in California—one might now say 'craned neurophilosophers in La Jolla'], the device does not play any role in Green's decision to save Ow chill (and his subsequent action). That is, the device monitors Green's brain activity but does not actually intervene in it. Let us suppose that this is because the scientists can see that Green is about to decide to save the child and to act accordingly [they are morally good, albeit crazed, neurophilosophers]. But let's also suppose that the scientists would have intervened to bring about a decision to save the child if Green had shown an inclination to decide to refrain from saving the child. That is, were Green inclined to decide on his own not to save the child, the scientists would ensure electronically that he decide to save the child and also that he act to carry out this decision.3
Of course, this case contains the distinctive characteristics of a Frankfurt-type case: a fail-safe arrangement that plays no actual role but the presence of which nevertheless ensures the actual result.
I then suggested that the Frankfurt-type examples are plausible counterexamples to the principle of transfer of nonresponsibility, even though they would not be counterexamples to the parallel modal principle employed in the argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and alternative possibilities (the principle of the transfer of powerlessness):
... Green is not morally responsible for the fact that the scientists are ready to intervene, and he is not responsible for the fact that, if they are so ready, he will save the child. But he does seem to be morally responsible for saving the child.... So a compatibilist about determinism and moral responsibility might accept the fixity of the past ... the fixity of the laws . . ., and the principle of transfer of powerlessness but might reject the principle of transfer of blamelessness.4
Thus, semicompatibilism was born. Here I wish to defend the basic intuition, which I still believe is correct, that the principle of transfer of blamelessness (or, more broadly, nonresponsibility) is called into question by the Frankfurt-type cases, and that it cannot be employed in an uncontroversial, decisive argument against the compatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility.
Fischer's technical interests have been in the area of theological determinism (compatibilism of God's foreknowledge and free will), logical determinism (the idea that truths in the "fixed past" constrain present actions), and the recent work of Harry Frankfurt to deny the existence of alternative possibilities yet affirm moral responsibility.
The set of Free Will books reflects these interests strongly, with five entries from Fischer, Frankfurt, and Peter van Inwagen (a Frankfurt critic). There are four from libertarian Robert Kane, but only one about his free-will model, the rest are on responsibility and Frankfurt examples. Daniel Dennett appears only once, criticizing Kane's indeterministic decision-making model. Two excerpts from Laura Waddell Ekstrom's Free Will - Varieties of Libertarianism provide other incompatibilist models.
Volume III, Part 1 of Free Will is devoted to libertarian (incompatibilist) accounts of free will. Here is how Fischer describes it:
Given the appeal of the fundamental argument for incompatibilism about causal determinism and the sort of freedom that involves genuine access to alternative pathways into the future, one might be attracted to an indeterministic notion of freedom. The libertarian believes that causal determinism would rule out free will (this is incompatibilism), but that causal determinism is false. Further, the libertarian holds that we do in fact have free will. Just as with the compatibilist, it is not enough for the libertarian simply to assert our freedom — it is desirable to provide some sort of account of such freedom.
There are two basic strategies for coming up with an indeterministic analysis of freedom. The first is the "event-causal approach." On this approach, prior events do in fact cause our decisions and behavior, but via indeterministic sequences. The structure and nature of some of these sequences confers control and moral responsibility on agents. Kane offers a detailed and sophisticated event-causal account of indeterministic freedom ("Free will: New directions for an ancient problem"). It is important to Kane to render his libertarianism consistent with materialism about the mind, and, indeed, with contemporary neuroscience and physics. Some libertarian approaches, particularly in the past, have been committed to extravagant or unscientific excesses; Kane is at pains to avoid such implausible commitments. Dennett offers a critique of Kane's analysis of freedom.
Laura Ekstrom offers an alternative, event-causal model of freedom ("Excerpt from 'Varieties of libertarianism'"). O'Connor presents a critique of event-causal indeterministic models. A fundamental worry, according to O'Connor, is that the event causal approach does not confer control on the agent. Clarke ("Event-causal accounts and the problem of explanation"), and Kane ("Responsibility, luck, and chance: reflections on free will and indeterminism") discuss and respond to some such worries.
The following selections by Clarke ("Agent causation and event causation in the production of free action") and O'Connor ("Excerpt from 'The metaphysics of free will'") develop cutting-edge versions of agent-causal libertarianism. On this view, agents cause certain events (choices, decisions, actions), but they are not caused by prior events to cause these events. Further, when an agent causes such events, the causation by the agent is basic: the agent's causal role cannot be reduced to that of an event or set of events. Whereas this approach may seem attractive to those who are concerned that event-causal theories do not offer enough in the way of control, there are various problems with agent-causation, Some of these problems are explored in Ekstrom ("Excerpt from 'Varieties of libertarianism'") and Pereboom ("'Empirical objections to agent causal libertarianism'").6
Fischer's view of moral responsibility takes its basic starting point from Peter Strawson's 1962 essay Freedom and Resentment.
In his landmark essay, "Freedom and resentment," Peter Strawson argues that the concept of moral responsibility is analyzed in terms of a set of attitudes he termed the "reactive attitudes": indignation, resentment, hatred, respect, gratitude, and love. A morally responsible agent is the target (or perhaps appropriate target) of such attitudes. Practices such as punishment presuppose and express the reactive attitudes. Strawson suggests that human life without moral responsibility, so understood, would be extremely unattractive, if coherently conceivable at all. Further, he suggests that his analysis of moral responsibility can help to show that moral responsibility is compatible with causal determinism.7
That we apply the reactive attitudes toward ourselves and other persons signals something extremely important: we take a certain distinctive perspective toward persons (as opposed to nonpersons). We are engaged with persons. In contrast to the perspective from which we view other persons, our perspective toward nonpersons tends to be "objective." We treat nonpersons as objects to be used, exploited, manipulated, or perhaps just enjoyed. But we do not have attitudes such as resentment or love toward them; rather, we view them from a more detached and uninvolved - a more objective - perspective.8
How does Fischer make the case for "semicompatibilsm" appealing to reflective thinkers? In his 1998 book Responsibility and Control, written with Mark Ravizza, Fischer hopes to avoid the implications of strict causal determinism. Determinism is such a dark idea, one that "hard determinist" Ted Honderich calls a "black thing."9 And in any case, Fischer says, we don't really know whether determinism is true or false
Ordinarily, we simply assume that we and other human beings are persons and are at least sometimes morally responsible agents. Thus, we assume that we (most of us) at least sometimes have the kind of control that grounds moral responsibility and personhood. Typically, this assumption is deemed so obvious as not to command any attention or elicit even the slightest bit of controversy.
But imagine now that a certain doctrine turns out to be true: the doctrine of causal determinism. Roughly, causal determinism is the view that all events can in principle be fully explained by reference to past states of the world and the laws of nature. Slightly more carefully, "Causal determinism is the thesis that, for any given time, a complete statement of the facts about that time, together with a complete statement of the laws of nature, entails every truth as to what happens after that time."
We certainly do not know that this doctrine is true; indeed, many contemporary physicists would claim it is false. But then again we do not know that it is false. For all we know, contemporary physicists could announce that their previous theories were defective, and that the indeterminacies those theories posited were the result of inadequacies of information and analysis. They could in the future develop an entirely deterministic theory of the universe.
There is an additional reason to focus our attention on causal determinism. Although contemporary physicists tend to believe that causal determinism is false, they believe that something very much like it is true: a doctrine we shall call "almost causal determinism." On this view, macroscopic events are not, strictly speaking, causally determined, but they are very close to being determined. We would claim (although we will not develop the argument in this book) that the threat from almost causal determinism to moral responsibility is very similar to the threat from causal determinism. Agreeing with this point is Peter van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will.10
Our contention is that even if causal determinism were true, there is a strong impetus to think that human beings should still be properly considered persons, morally responsible, and at least sometimes in control of their behavior. That is, even if we discovered that causal determinism were true, there is a strong tendency to think that this sort of discovery should not make us abandon our view of ourselves as persons and morally responsible agents.10
Fischer separates an agent's control into two kinds he calls "legislative control" - the kind needed to choose between alternative possibilities, and "guidance control" - the kind of control needed to initiate or originate an action, by being "reasons responsive" and taking ownership of the action, meaning the agent can say the action was "up to me."
Fischer is convinced enough by Harry Frankfurt's arguments against the Principle of Alternate Possibilities to give up the need for legislative control. All Fischer says he needs for his "semicompatibilism" is guidance control in the "actual sequence" of events. Hypothetical alternate sequences are unimportant.
Incompatibilist critics attack the idea of guidance control with what they call "sourcehood" or "source incompatibilism," which requires that the source of an action be "internal" to the agent. Fischer notes that if causal determinism is true, then our behavior is the result of external causally deterministic sequences that began well before we were even born. Compare Peter van Inwagen's Consequence Argument.
Fischer says source incompatibilists call for some kind of "gaps" in the actual causal sequence to make room for free will. Fischer does not go into any detail on these gaps, bur they may be something like a causa sui. Fischer calls the kind of "total control" demanded "a total fantasy - metaphysical megalomania." 12
So total control is a chimaera. It is manifestly ludicrous to aspire to it or to regret its absence. The locus of control is not wholly within us. We do not exist in a protective bubble of control. Rather, we are thoroughly and pervasively subject to luck: actual causal factors entirely out of our control are such that, if they were not to occur, things at least might be very different. Quite apart from any special assumption about causal determinism, we can see that from a broader perspective, it is entirely a matter of luck or arbitrary that I behave as I do (or even that I developed into an agent at all — or have maintained that status). Although it is perfectly reasonable to wish to be the source of one's choices and behavior, it is not reasonable to interpret the relevant notion of sourcehood in terms of total control and internality.13
Nietzsche famously said, "the causa sui is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far; it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic." The quotation is from Twilight of the Idols, or: How to Philosophize with a Hammer, section 8, "The Four Great Errors." Now I am not sure that the causa sui would make my Top Ten List of Good (or perhaps Egregious) Self-Contradictions, but to be the cause of oneself (in a stringent way) is surely an unreasonable aspiration. Whereas some philosophers would claim (with Nietzsche) that being a causa sui is both ludicrous and part of commonsense, I would urge that we note that being the "initiator" or "source" of our choices and behavior is indeed part of commonsense, but that it is inchoate and undeveloped in commonsense. We should not be quick to attribute a ludicrous and obviously self-contradictory notion to commonsense. Rather, we should seek to capture the kernel of truth embedded in our ordinary conceptual scheme and articulate it in a more plausible, attractive way. (p.70)
Since taking responsibility is one of the components of guidance control, we need to argue that the conditions we have specified for taking responsibility are compatible with causal determinism. Clearly, causal determinism does not rule out an individual's believing that he is an agent (in our sense) and that the given social practices render him a fair target for the reactive attitudes in certain circumstances.14
Things get a bit more complicated when we turn to individuals who are philosophically sophisticated and have reflected on the relationship between causal determinism and the fairness of the application of the reactive attitudes. So, imagine that an individual has immersed himself in the debates about causal determinism, free will, and moral responsibility.
Presumably, most reflective individuals will not be confident about what to think here. That is, most reflective individuals will find considerable force in arguments on both sides. We believe that many (although not all) of these open-minded individuals can be brought to adopt a certain stance. More specifically, they can be brought to think that it is at least plausible that causal determinism does not rule out the aptness of the reactive attitudes. Further, they can be convinced – if they need to be convinced – that, for all practical purposes, they should "put aside" their doubts about the consistency of causal determinism with the aptness of the reactive attitudes. 15
Why should such an individual deem himself a prima facie plausible candidate for the reactive attitudes, and be willing to put aside metaphysical worries? We believe that the considerations developed thus far in this book can move a reflective individual in precisely this direction. First, we have sought to defend the idea that the sort of control that involves alternative possibilities is not required for moral responsibility. Thus, we have attempted to remove what is probably the most significant objection to the compatibility of causal determinism and the appropriateness of the reactive attitudes. This should move reflective, open-minded individuals toward adopting the stance we have specified.
Further, we have contended that moral responsibility is grounded in a kind of control – guidance control – with two components. The first component is moderate reasons-responsiveness of the mechanism leading to the behavior in question. And we have argued that this sort of responsiveness is entirely compatible with causal determinism. Of course, the second component remains – the ownership condition. But we would suggest that the Frankfurt-type examples are also illuminating here. 16
We concede that some individuals will not be convinced. For example, some individuals are "natural incompatibilists"; when they adopt the assumption of causal determinism, they might be dubbed "natural hard determinists." Such individuals will not deem themselves apt targets for the reactive attitudes, and thus they will not take responsibility for the kinds of mechanisms that lead to their behavior. Thus, on our account, they will not be morally responsible for their behavior. But we do not take this to be a defect of our theory. Indeed, it follows straightforwardly from the fact (noted earlier) that we agree with Galen Strawson in embracing a "subjectivist" approach to moral responsibility. Recall that this sort of approach requires that an agent have a certain kind of view of himself, in order to be morally responsible for his behavior. And this is precisely the case, on our account of taking responsibility (and moral responsibility). In order to be morally responsible, a person must see himself as an agent who is an appropriate candidate for the reactive attitudes.17
In their 2007 book Four Views on Free Will, Fischer, Robert Kane, Saul Smilansky, and Manuel Vargas, present their positions and comment on one another's views.
Fischer makes it clear that he is trying to develop a compatibilist position based on a priori metaphysical truths that will remain defensible even if causal determinism is found to be true. He says that a compatibilist need not flip-flop metaphysically and give up his assumption,
"even if he were to wake up to the headline, "Causal Determinism is True!" (and he were convinced of its truth). Nor need the compatibilist give up any of his basic metaphysical views — apparently apriori metaphysical truths that support his views about free will — simply because the theoretical physicists have established that the relevant probabilities are 100 percent rather than 99 percent. Wouldn't it be bizarre to give up a principle such as that the past is fixed and out of our control or that logical truths are fixed and out of our control, simply because one has been convinced that the probabilities in question are 100 percent rather than 99 percent. A compatibilist need not "flipflop" in this weird and unappealing way." 18
Since the time of Peter van Inwagen's 1983 classic Essay on Free Will which introduced the Consequence Argument, Fischer has been arguing the case for a compatibilism that focuses on moral responsibility and agent control rather than compatibilist free will per se.
Fischer also has been influenced by Harry Frankfurt's attack on what Frankfurt called the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP). Before Frankfurt, compatibilists and incompatibilists alike had argued that alternative possibilities seemed to be a condition not only for free will but for moral responsibility.
Frankfurt's clever examples changed the debate from compatibilism vs. incompatibilism to the very existence of alternative possibilities.
Although attacks and counterattacks continue, Frankfurt-style examples have become far too arcane and unlikely to win support outside a small number of compatibilists and incompatibilists.
Nevertheless, Fischer has tried to carve out a position called semicompatibilism, which de-emphasizes alternative possibilities and emphasizes agent control. Fischer hopes that semicompatibilism will be resistant to any discovery by science that strict causal determinism is true. He does this by dividing the needed agent control into two parts, "regulative control" and "guidance control."
Regulative control involves alternative possibilities, which lead to what Fischer calls "alternative sequences" of action. Fischer thinks he can simply deny that agents have regulative control, and bypass the question of alternative possibilities, based on Frankfurt-style examples. Although Fischer generally supports Frankfurt-style examples, he is the author of one of the cleverest counterattacks, the idea that the mere possibility that the agent might try an alternative gives rise to a "flicker of freedom." 19
Fischer wants to focus our attention on the more critical guidance control, which describes the "reasons-responsiveness" and "sourcehood" involved in the "actual sequence" of events leading up to the agent's action. For Fischer, no alternative sequences, however many and however they flicker with freedom, are as relevant as the actual sequence.
Being the source of our actions allows us to say that our actions are "up to us," that we can take ownership of our actions. This is what Fischer regards as the "freedom-relevant condition." It is what Robert Kane calls our "ultimate responsibility (UR)." And it is what Manuel Vargas calls the "self-governance condition" in his Revisionism.
Kane, Vargas, Derk Pereboom and Fischer co-authored the recent book Four Views on Free Will. Pereboom also focuses on moral responsibility like Fischer, but he disagrees with Fischer that moral desert justifies praise and blame, reward and punishment. At the most, says Pereboom, responsibility can justify that we can be "legitimately called to moral improvement." Desert implies retributivism. Pereboom says the most we can justify is moral rehabilitation, for its beneficial consequences to society.
Parallel to Fischer's guidance control (sourcehood in the actual sequence) and regulative control (alternative possibilities), Pereboom distinguishes source incompatibilism from leeway incompatibilism, the latter corresponding to Fischer's regulative control, which depends on the existence of alternative possibilities.
Although Fischer is officially agnostic on the ancient problem of free will versus determinism, he shows a strong commitment to causality and determinism over his years of defending compatibility with determinism.
Nevertheless, Fischer's dividing of agent control issues into regulative control (involving alternative possibilities) and guidance control (what happens in the actual sequence) is an excellent approach that allows us to situate the indeterminism that many thinkers feel is critical to any libertarian model. Fischer notes that indeterminism in the alternative possibilities might generate "flickers of freedom." And he says clearly (Four Views, p.74) that guidance control is not enhanced by positing indeterminism.
In his 1998 book Responsibility and Control, written with Mark Ravizza, Fischer describes what he calls the Direct and Indirect Arguments for incompatibilism. The Indirect Argument says that determinism rules out alternative possibilities. From his semicompatibilist view, that does not threaten moral responsibility. Only in the Direct Argument for incompatibilism does determinism rule out moral responsibility.
So might Fischer agree with a view that 1) allows the "freedom-relevant condition" (reasons responsiveness and ownership) in the actual sequence to be governed by what he calls "almost causal determinism" (Responsibility and Control, p.15n) and 2) allows indeterminism in the generation of the alternative possibilities (flickers of freedom)?
That is the view we offer in the I-Phi Cogito model. Although they do not endorse it themselves, Daniel Dennett and Alfred Mele have also offered this view as something libertarians should like.
Indeterminism is important only in microscopic structures, but that is enough to introduce noise and randomness into our thoughts, especially when we are rapidly generating alternatives for action by random combinations of past experiences. But our brain and our neurons can suppress microscopic noise when they need to, insuring what we call adequate determinism, what Fischer calls almost causal determinism, and what Ted Honderich calls near determinism - in our willed actions.
In Robert Kane's contribution to Four Views on Free Will, he correctly identifies noise in messages as generated indeterministically, but mistakenly thinks these are merely a "hindrance or obstacle" that raises our level of effort when making his rare but morally significant "self-forming actions."
The role of indeterminism in free will is better seen as simply generating Fischer's AP "flickers of freedom." These alternative possibilities are then the "free" part of "free will" (Fischer's regulative control).
The "will" part (Fischer's guidance control) is "almost causally" determined to be reasons responsive and to take ownership for the determination to act in a fashion consistent with the agent's character and values.
Event-causal libertarians like Kane, Mark Balaguer, and Laura Waddell Ekstrom think this kind of freedom is not enough. And agent-causal libertarians like Randolph Clarke and Timothy O'Connor want even more "metaphysical" freedom. They say that if the will is determined to act in a rational way consistent with its character and values, then the agent will make exactly the same decision in exactly the same circumstances.
Such consistency of action does not bother the common sense thinker or the compatibilist (even a hard incompatibilist?) philosopher.
Kane, Balaguer, Ekstrom, and others continue to invoke some indeterminism in the decision process itself. As Daniel Dennett recommended as early as 1978 (in Brainstorms) and Alfred Mele has been promoting as a "modest libertarianism" in his recent books (Autonomous Agency and Free Will and Luck), indeterminism is best kept in the early stage of a two-stage process.
We first need free (alternative possibilities) and then will (adequately determined actions) in a temporal sequence. First chance, then choice.
I think that John Martin Fischer's guidance control, perfectly compatible with his "almost causal determinism," validates not only his semicompatibilist view of moral responsibility, but also supports the common sense or popular view of free will that is found in the opinion surveys of experimental philosophers Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols.
While limited compared to "metaphysical" freedom, this view is consistent with a broadly scientific world view, a requirement for any systematic revisionism that Manuel Vargas calls "naturalistic plausibility." 20
Ironically perhaps, this view would be the very opposite of a revisionism, in the sense that the diagnostic (descriptive) analysis of common sense would agree remarkably well with what Vargas calls the prescriptive view for philosophers. Or perhaps it is the philosophers' views that need revision?
As an illustration of just how naturalistically plausible this new view of free will is, consider the case of biological evolution. The evidence is overwhelming that variations in the gene pool are driven by random mutations in the DNA. Many of these mutations are caused by indeterministic quantum mechanical events, cosmic ray collisions for the most part. Think of the mutations as alternative possibilities for new species. An adequately determined process of natural selection then weeds out those random variations that can reproduce themselves and compete with their ancestors. First chance, then selection.
Indeed, the story of life is maintaining some information stability (parts of our DNA have been the same for 2.8 billion years) in a chaotic environment - and not the pseudo-random deterministic chaos of the computer theorists, but real irreducible chaos.
Only a believer in metaphysical determinism would deny the evolutionary evidence for indeterminism and two stages, the first microscopic and random (chance) the second macroscopic and adequately determined (choice). Sadly, such a metaphysical belief is the intelligent design position of the creationists.
Of course we are discussing only science, not logical certainty.
So we can also ameliorate John Martin Fischer's nightmare of waking up one morning to a New York Times headline "Causal Determinism Is True." 21
Nothing in science is logically true, in the sense of true in all possible worlds, true by the principle of non-contradiction or the weaker law of the excluded middle. It is the excluded middle argument that leads us to the muddled standard argument against free will.
Our two-stage argument is quite old. We can trace it back to William James (1884 in The Dilemma of Determinism), Henri Poincaré (1906), Arthur Holly Compton (1935), and Karl Popper (1961).
What does Information Philosophy have to do with the two-stage model?
Information is the principal reason that biology is not reducible to chemistry and physics. Information is what makes an organism an individual, each with a different history. No atom or molecule has a history. Information is what makes us ourselves. Increasing information is involved in all "emergent" phenomena.
In information philosophy, the future is unpredictable for two basic reasons. First, quantum mechanics shows that some events are not predictable. The world is causal but not determined. Second, the early universe does not contain the information of later times, just as early primates do not contain the information structures for intelligence and verbal communication, and infants do not contain the knowledge and remembered experience they will have as adults.
The universe began in a state of minimal information nearly fourteen billion years ago. Information about the future is always missing, not present until it has been created, after which it is frozen.
John Martin Fischer calls this the "Principle of the Fixity of the Past." 22 It suggests that even divine foreknowledge is not present in our open expanding universe, lending support to the religious view called Open Theism.
Fischer's Two-Stage Model of Libertarian Free Will
In 1995, in a debate with David Widerker, Fischer proposed a variation on Daniel Dennett's "Valerian" model. Like Dennett , he had his doubts about whether the model could solve the control problem.
Fischer uses the Dennett idea - that the indeterminism comes at an early stage of the overall deliberation-decision process - to locate a Frankfurt-style "prior sign" needed by the hypothetical intervener at a place deterministically linked to the decision and subsequent action.
Fischer's main criticism of alternative possibilities for action is that it is implausible to suppose that one's moral responsibility is grounded on the possibility of forming a certain sort of judgment about what is best: a judgment on behalf of doing something there are no good reasons to do. The responsibility for doing good is not grounded in the possibility of doing bad. Note that freedom of action is completely independent of, and merely a prerequisite to, moral responsibility. Otherwise it would be the ethical fallacy.
Fischer hopes to develop "another sort of libertarianism." He says he does not have the space to lay out his "second family of libertarian accounts," and gives us very little on how it differs from Dennett. He says "Dennett argues that it is the only sort of libertarianism that is plausible, and I believe that it is at least minimally plausible. I also believe that it is libertarianism." It may simply be a libertarianism with a built-in place for the Frankfurt intervener, in order to support the absence of alternative possibilities and Fischer's semicompatibilism. Here is Fischer's sketch of his main idea.
I wish to develop (in an extremely sketchy way) another sort of libertarianism; on this kind of approach, the relationship between the relevant "sign" or "signal" and the subsequent choice is causally deterministic, but there is nevertheless a lack of causal determination along the sequence that issues in the decision (and action). And I shall point out that this approach also seems to lead to the view that an agent can be morally responsible for making a choice even though he could not have (at any relevant time) made a different choice.
I do not have the space here to lay out this second family of libertarian accounts fully or carefully. But I shall simply sketch the main ideas and hope that enough of the content of the approach will emerge to convince the reader that this family of views constitutes a minimally plausible, serious libertarian approach-worth further elaboration and evaluation in the context of the issues under discussion here. In his article, "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want," Daniel Dennett has presented this family of approaches; he does not necessarily endorse the view, but presents it as the most plausible and appealing version of libertarianism.7
What is crucial to Dennett's view is that indeterminacy be installed at the appropriate place, and Dennett argues that this is not between the judgment that a particular act is the best among one's alternatives and the subsequent choice. He says, "Clearly, what the libertarian has in mind is indeterminism at some earlier point, prior to the ultimate decision or formation of intention...."8 Rather, Dennett argues that there can be lack of causal determinism (of a certain sort) within the process of deliberation that leads to the agent's judgment as to what is the best option (under the circumstances). He attributes the following thought to the poet, Paul Valery, and claims that it nicely captures the basic idea of the approach he is suggesting on behalf of the libertarian:
It takes two to invent anything. The one makes up combinations; the other one chooses, recognizes what he wishes and what is important to him in the mass of the things which the former has imparted to him. What we call genius is much less the work of the first one than the readiness of the second one to grasp the value of what has been laid before him and to choose it.9
Dennett goes on to say:
When someone is faced with an important decision, something in him generates a variety of more or less relevant considerations bearing on the decision. Some of these considerations, we may suppose, are determined to be generated, but others may be non-deterministically generated....Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.10
So Dennett's picture suggested on behalf of the libertarian involves some lack of causal determination in the process of deliberation, but no such lack in the link between the judgment as to what is best and the formation of an intention (or the making of a decision). Let me emphasize that I am not in a position here fully to lay out this view (or set of views) or to defend it. Dennett argues that it is the only sort of libertarianism that is plausible, and I believe that it is at least minimally plausible. I also believe that it is libertarianism. Note that Widerker only considers those forms of libertarianism according to which no state of the world (including the judgment as to what is best) prior to the decision causally determines the decision. But this unduly restricts the options open to the libertarian, and it was not the understanding of libertarianism with which I operated in "Responsibility and Control"; there I spoke more broadly of a lack of determination in the actual sequence issuing in the decision and action:
Now if roughly the sort of libertarianism suggested by Dennett is correct, then we can take the prior sign to be the agent's judgment about what is best to do. By hypothesis this sign is deterministically related to the subsequent decision. Given the approach suggested by Dennett, the example of Jones and Black can be developed as follows. Prior to T, Jones engages in deliberation; some aspects of this deliberation - perhaps the precise considerations that emerge or the precise order of Jones' reflections - are not causally deterministic. At T Jones comes to judge that voting for Reagan is best. On the basis of this judgment, at T+i Jones decides to vote for Reagan. Given the libertarian view of the fixity of the past, Jones cannot at T+i refrain from deciding to vote for Reagan. And yet the actual sequence that issued in his decision was not causally deterministic. Further, given the presence of Black and his ability to intervene should Jones form the judgment at T that voting for Carter would be best, it is true in the example that Jones at no relevant time has the ability to decide to vote for Carter (or anyone else). And yet he may be deemed by the libertarian morally responsible for voting for Reagan.
But perhaps Widerker would here object that I have simply pushed the debate back to the issue of whether the relevant agent can make a different judgment as to what is best (and how this ability relates to moral responsibility). And I agree that in a full discussion of the relevance of alternative possibilities to moral responsibility one would need carefully to consider these matters.12 Let me say a few brief words here.
There obviously are cases (perhaps different from the Jones/Black case) in which it is absolutely clear what one should do - cases in which there are extremely strong reasons to do something and no good reasons not to. For example, a baby has fallen into a swimming pool in front of you and is in immediate danger of drowning. All you have to do is bend over and pick the baby up; this would be extremely easy for you, and we may suppose that there are no other morally relevant reasons. On the picture suggested by Dennett and given the presence of a counterfactual intervener such as Black, if you decide to save the baby, you may well be morally responsible for this decision even though you could not have made a different decision. And this is compatible with lack of causal determination in the sequence leading to the decision: the precise ordering of considerations in the (admittedly brief) deliberations that preceded your decision may have been indeterministic. (Thus far, the analysis implies that things are the same as in the Jones/Black case.)
Now is it plausible here to say that it is in virtue of the fact that you could have formed a different judgment as to what is best that you are morally responsible for your decision? That is, does the existence of this alternative possibility ground your moral responsibility for your decision? I do not deny that the alternative possibility exists, but I do very much doubt that it is what grounds your moral responsibility. For what would such an alternative possibility be like? It would be the possibility to judge best something for which there are no good reasons - failing to bend over and save the baby. And it does not seem to me plausible to say that this kind of possibility is what grounds your moral responsibility for your decision.13 Thus, I believe that this case is plausibly construed as a case in which the actual sequence exhibits the lack of causal determination, the agent does not have the ability to make a different decision, and the agent is morally responsible for making his decision; further, the ascription of moral responsibility is not based on the existence of any alternative possibility.
("Libertarianism and Avoidability: A Reply to Widerker," Faith and Philosophy 12: 122-25.
7. Daniel C. Dennett, "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want," in D. C. Dennett, Brainstorms (Montgomery, Vermont: Bradford Books, 1978), pp. 286-99.
8. Dennett, 1978, pp. 292-93.
9. Dennett, 1978, p. 293. 10. Dennett, 1978, pp. 293, 295.
11. Fischer, 1982, p. 33.
12. For a more detailed and systematic treatment of the relationship between alternative possibilities and moral responsibility, see John Martin Fischer, The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994).
13. In Chapter Seven of Fischer, 1994, I argue against various views which I call "Flicker of Freedom" views. These approaches identify alternative possibilities - flickers of freedom - even in the Frankfurt type cases. What I argue is that even if these flickers exist, they cannot plausibly be said to ground our moral responsibility attributions in such cases because they are (for various reasons) insufficiently robust. I would make a similar kind of argument with regard to the judgment of what is best in the case discussed in the text. The proper analysis of this sort of case melds considerations presented in Fischer, 1994 and those developed in Susan Wolf, Freedom Within Reason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). Wolf presents cases in which an agent performs a good act and in which it is implausible to suppose that his or her moral responsibility depends on the possibility of his behaving badly; my point here is related but slightly different. My point is that it is implausible to suppose that one's moral responsibility is grounded on the possibility of forming a certain sort of judgment about what is best: a judgment on behalf of doing something there are no good reasons to do.
Fischer was a founder and general advisor to the Garden of Forking Paths group blog on free will and moral responsibility, which was later replaced by the Flickers of Freedom blog.
Fischer's Objection to Indeterminism and Alternative Possibilities
In 1999, Fischer wrote a short review of Alfred Mele's 1995 book Autonomous Agents, which gives us a good idea of Fischer's attitude toward two-stage models like our Cogito.
Fischer cannot make sense of how indeterministic alternative possibilities could add control compared to an agent who is completely determined. For the determined agent, he says, what "comes to mind," one's prior states — desires, beliefs, values, general dispositions — determine the precise content and ordering of the subsequent doxastic states (that constitute deliberation). Having this all totally determined seems to Fischer to be more control than allowing anything new to enter for the agent to choose from.
On Mele's picture of libertarian agency and control, the precise sequence of doxastic states leading ultimately to a judgment as to what is best is undetermined, although the agent's standing desires, values, and general dispositions constrain the content and presumably the order (to some degree) of the states. Everything else in the sequence — the formation of a best judgment based on one's deliberations, the transitions to an intention, a proximal intention, and an action are all deterministic.
This would no doubt apply to Dennett's model as well?
Whereas Daniel Dennett has suggested a similar picture, a distinctive twist is added by Mele: he argues that indeterminism of the sort he posits — internal, doxastic indeterminacy — is no worse, in respect to control, than determination in this portion of the sequence leading ultimately to action. This is because the agent typically does not directly control the sequence of doxastic states he undergoes — this is generally a passive rather than an active process. Mele says:
...notice that we are not always in (proximal) control of which of our beliefs come to mind anyway, even if determinism is true. Assuming determinism, everything that happens on this front is causally determined, but the causal story often does not place the agent in the driver's seat. (p. 215)
So Mele's suggestion is that, even though installing indeterminacy may seem to erode genuine control, installing it at this particular place (at some points in the sequence of doxastic states which constitute deliberation) does not diminish control that otherwise would be present (under the assumption of determinism); a proponent of doxastic indeterminacy is thus not worse off than a proponent of doxastic determination, with respect to control.
Additionally, Mele contends that by installing indeterminacy in the sequence leading to action, one is able to preserve the crucial libertarian belief in alternative possibilities or freedom to choose and do otherwise. Of course, one has to be careful about the specification of the temporal index associated with the alternative possibility.
The agent can always have second thoughts and deliberate further
It will be true during the period of doxastic indeterminacy in the agent's deliberation that he has the power to form different best judgments and thus to pursue more than one path in the future; but after the period of doxastic indeterminacy (and just prior to the formation of the agent's best judgment), he will no longer have alternative possibilities, insofar as the process is now causally deterministic.
Genuine indeterministic alternative possibilities break the causal chain of determinism, allowing novelty and creativity as well as increasing control
My puzzle could be put as follows. How can adding arbitrariness of the sort envisaged — the lack of determination of the beliefs that come to mind during deliberation — to a causally deterministic process yield genuine control? A libertarian of course will contend that an entirely deterministic process does not contain genuine control by the relevant agent. How, then, can installing the sort of indeterminacy envisaged — indeterminacy as to which belief states will come to the agent's mind — transform the sequence from one of lack of control to one containing control? This smacks of alchemy. 13
Perhaps my point could be made in terms of a crucial distinction (of which Mele is certainly aware) between an agent's having control over what happens, and its being the case merely that something different might have occurred. If an agent has genuine control in the sense of possessing alternative possibilities, he can make it the case that one path is followed, or another path is followed, in accordance with what he judges best and chooses. He can deliberately pursue one course of action, or deliberately pursue another; what path the world takes (at least in certain respects) is "up to him." In contrast, when it is merely possible that something different have occurred, the path the world takes need not depend in the relevant way on the agent. In a genuinely random event, presumably there are various metaphysically open possibilities; but by definition no agent has control over what happens. Now it seems to me that, whereas it may well be possible that Mele's libertarian agent do something different from what he actually does, it is not clear that he has genuine control over what he does. Mele admits that the precise sequence of doxastic states can have an effect on what the agent judges best (and then does); given that the sequence is not (entirely) determined by prior states of the agent (although it is constrained by such states), it is not clear that what the agent judges best and then does is genuinely up to him.
Mele's point that even on a deterministic model, the agent is not "in the driver's seat" with respect to which considerations come to mind (and thus that the libertarian is here not losing anything with respect to control) is an intriguing and suggestive idea. But presumably the compatibilist will point out that, even though the agent does not directly control what belief-states come to mind (in the sense of choosing them or willing them), they are envisaged as strongly connected to the agent's prior states to the extent that they are a deterministic product of those past states.
Fischer shows he is much more comfortable with determinism
Under determinism, one's prior states — desires, beliefs, values, general dispositions — determine the precise content and ordering of the subsequent doxastic states (that constitute deliberation), even if the agent does not directly control what doxastic states he will be in (and thus is not in the "driver's seat," in this sense).
It may then be possible to argue that one does give up some measure of control, when one shifts from thinking of the doxastic sequence as deterministic to thinking of it as indeterministic: one gives up the notion that the states constituting one's deliberations are an "outflowing" of the agent's prior states in a strong sense. How one assesses Mele's libertarianism seems to me to hinge on whether one believes that the doxastic states that constitute one's deliberations can be a genuine "outflowing" of the agent's prior states, even though they are not causally determined by those prior states. I am not convinced, however, that from the mere fact that the agent is deemed passive in regard to his doxastic states even under determinism, it follows that one does not attenuate the agent's control in positing doxastic indeterminism. Thus, whereas Mele's suggestion on behalf of the libertarian is suggestive and argued with considerable resourcefulness, I am left with nagging doubts about the strategy.
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1. Fischer, 2004, p.189
2. Fischer 1986, p.60
4. Fischer 1986, p.60-1
5. Fischer, 2005, v.I, p.xxiii
6. Fischer, 2005 v.III, p.1
7. Fischer, 2005 v.I, p.1
8. Fischer and Ravizza, 1999, p.6
9. Honderich, 1998, p.12
10. Inwagen, 1983 pp. 197-198.
11. Fischer and Ravizza, p.14-15
12. Fischer et al., 2007, p.67
14. Fischer and Ravizza, p.225
16. Fischer and Ravizza, 1999, p.227
19. Fischer 1994, p.131-159
20. Fischer et al., 2007, p.153
22. Fischer and Ravizza, 1999, p.22 (Responsibility and Control, p.22).
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Introduction to Fischer, Free Will
The network of concepts associated with the traditional idea of Free Will has received a huge amount of attention by philosophers (as well as social scientists, legal theorists, and authors of fiction). This is certainly one of the most spectacularly active and vital areas of contemporary philosophical research. Although the topics are enticing, the sheer volume of the work can be daunting. A primary purpose of this collection is to present and organize much of the best contemporary work in philosophy on free will. Regrettably for the editor (but perhaps not all readers!), even four volumes are not nearly enough to include all of the very high quality work on this set of topics, and I have had to make some somewhat arbitrary decisions about topics and selections to exclude. I hope however to provide a kind of "roadmap" to the vast territory of recent work on this fascinating set of subjects.
"Free will" covers a large range of phenomena. The term is used differently by different philosophers, and I think that it is most helpful to think of it as an "umbrella-term" used to describe some sort of freedom that connects in important ways with moral responsibility, and, ultimately, person-hood. More specifically, the domain of free will includes various sorts of freedom (freedom of choice, of action, choosing and acting freely, and so forth), and the practices constitutive of moral responsibility (moral praise and blame, punishment and moral reward, and a set of distinctively moral attitudes, such as indignation, resentment, gratitude, respect, and so forth). The term, "free will" is often employed when it is not necessary to be more specific about which element in the domain of phenomena is being discussed; but in particular dialectical contexts it is important at least to keep in mind the various distinct notions.
Some philosophers do not distinguish between freedom and moral responsibility. Put a bit more carefully, they tend to begin with the notion of moral responsibility, and "work back" to a notion of freedom; this notion of freedom is not given independent content (separate from the analysis of moral responsibility). For such philosophers, "freedom" refers to whatever conditions are involved in choosing or acting in such a way as to be morally responsible. Most philosophers, however, would be inclined to seek to give separate accounts of freedom and moral responsibility. On this sort of approach, freedom (of a certain specific sort) may well be a necessary condition of moral responsibility, but freedom (of the relevant kind) is given a content apart from merely being whatever non-epistemic ingredient is necessary for moral responsibility. I believe that the latter approach has the virtue that it helps us to avoid conflation of different sorts of freedom, and thus helps us to see that there are importantly different threats to our possession of free will.
Putting aside Quinean skepticism about the distinction between analytic and synthetic truths, it is helpful to distinguish the concepts or notions involved in free will from their conditions of application. John Rawls makes a similar distinction in his work on distributive justice (Rawls 1971). Rawls separates what he calls the concept of justice from the conditions of application of this concept. For Rawls, the concept of justice includes the abstract notion of treating like cases alike. But then there are more specific accounts of what the relevant likenesses or dimensions of similarity are, which give rise to particular accounts of the conditions of application of the concept, "distributive justice." These theories include utilitarianism of various sorts, Marxism, and Rawls's own theory of justice, including the "Priority of Liberty" and the "Difference Principle." It is not surprising that there would be a similar analytical structure with respect to notions related to retributive justice (the free will family of phenomena).
In Volume I, the collection begins with a discussion of the major elements of the concepts of freedom and moral responsibility. Typically, human beings think of ourselves as both free and morally responsible (apart from specific contexts in which our freedom and moral responsibility are impaired or eliminated). One might distinguish a "forward-looking" and "backward-looking" perspective or viewpoint. From the forward-looking perspective, we engage in planning, deliberation, and practical reasoning concerning the future. Here we tend to presuppose that we are free to choose from among a range of options — that the future is, in Borges phrase, "a garden of forking paths". We are inclined to think of ourselves as having the capacity to select one path into the future, where there are (often at least) various paths extending into the future that are "really" or "genuinely" available to us. The presupposition that our freedom involves the capacity to select from among genuinely open possibilities implies that, although we make a particular choice on a particular occasion, we could have chosen otherwise (we had, at the relevant time, "alternative possibilities").
The assumption that we possess the sort of freedom that includes alternative possibilities is also a feature of the "backward-looking" perspective. This is the viewpoint we take when we evaluate our own and others' behavior. Typically, we assume that an agent is blameworthy or morally responsible for a bit of behavior (an action, an omission, an upshot, and so forth) only if he or she "could have done otherwise". Thus, the concept of a certain sort of freedom, a freedom that involves selection from among really available pathways or possibilities, is deeply ingrained in our conception of ourselves as agents.
Additionally, we see ourselves as deeply and importantly different from mere animals and inanimate beings (including sophisticated computers). We human beings (except for those who have specific impairments that exempt them) are morally responsible agents, and we can legitimately be held accountable (or morally responsible) for our behavior (and perhaps elements of our emotions and characters). Human beings are (normally) "persons" —we have a serious right to life and we are (or potentially are) morally responsible agents. The concept of personhood does not exclude the possibility that members of other species or different sorts of creatures (or entities) be considered persons, but it at least entails that (in the normal case) a fully developed human being is a person.
Although freedom and moral responsibility are encoded in our concepts of ourselves as agents and specifically as persons, there are different ways of understanding the relevant notions of freedom and moral responsibility. Part 1 of Volume I of the collection begins by charting this territory. In Part 2 we go on to consider a set of worries about whether our ordinary picture of ourselves as free and morally responsible agents is justified. Although we typically think of ourselves as free and morally responsible, we can be led to question the basis of these ordinary views. Of course, we do not have evidence that decisively establishes that we have the sort of freedom that involves alternative possibilities; whatever evidence we have is compatible with our sense of freedom being an illusion. And there are elements of our reflective views of ourselves and the world that can be organized into troubling arguments for skepticism about our freedom and moral responsibility.
The skeptical arguments about free will are in some respects parallel to skeptical arguments in epistemology. Although we typically take ourselves to know lots of things about the world, we can be made to worry that our phenomenological evidence issues in illusory beliefs. Perhaps we are dreaming, hallucinating, or in the hands of an evil neurophysiologist who is stimulating our brains electronically. Maybe I'm a "brain-in-a vat" or in a "Matrix-like" simulation, and my experiences do not point accurately to an external world of which they are faithful images. This sort of skepticism would not be troubling, if it did not latch onto important facts about our experiences and the relationship between those experiences and the world. Similarly, skepticism about free will engages important facts (or putative facts) about truth, the past, the laws of nature, and the relationships between these notions and our agency.
We begin by considering skeptical arguments that have been called versions of the doctrine of "fatalism." Ancient philosophers worried about fatalism. We shall move to a discussion of the Medieval concern that God's existence would rule out our free will. In a significant respect the skeptical arguments for fatalism and theological incompatibilism are similar: they both rest on the idea that the past is "fixed" and out of our control because it is "over-and-done-with". In Volume II, we continue by investigating the modern worry generated by science, that is, we consider the argument that full scientific predictability of our behavior would rule out freedom (in the sense that involves alternative possibilities). More specifically, in Part 1 we consider whether the doctrine of "causal determinism" is incompatible with human freedom. Again, the basic argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and human freedom employs the commonsense idea of the fixity of the past (among other ingredients).
Although the argument for incompatiblism about causal determinism and such doctrines as the existence of God or causal determinism is powerful, it is not decisive. The collection presents various ways of seeking to block the argument (and thus refute the skeptic about our free will). Consideration of the worries generated by the skeptical arguments from God's existence, and the possibility that the doctrine of causal determinism obtains, helps us to separate two elements of our concept of freedom: the idea that we select from a range of possibilities, and the idea that it is we who select — that we are the source of our behavior. The first is the alternative-possibilities element, and the second is the "source" element.
Given that the skeptical arguments are not decisive, it is illuminating to consider various compatibilist and incompatibilist accounts of the conditions of application of the concepts of freedom and moral responsibility. We begin Part 2 by looking at compatibilist accounts of alternative-possibilities freedom. Of course, if some version of the skeptical argument about our free will is correct, then no compatibilist account of the conditions of application of the concepts involved in free will can be acceptable. But we are here putting aside the skeptical argument (given that it is not uncontroversially decisive). Different compatibilist accounts of freedom are considered, as well as critiques of such accounts. These critiques focus on particular compatibilist theories of freedom apart from considerations arising from the general skeptical argument for incompatibilism; so even if one does not accept the skeptical argument (in any version), one can see that there are specific problems with compatibilist accounts of freedom (in the sense that involves alternative possibilities).
Given these problems (as well as the general problems presented by the basic argument for incompatibilism), one might try to develop an incompatibilistic account of our freedom (see Volume III). It is here helpful to separate "event—causal" and "agent—causal" approaches to giving an incompatibilistic account of the relevant sort of freedom. In Part I both sorts of approaches are presented, together with specific criticisms.
To take stock. We typically think of ourselves as having free will — as being free and morally responsible agents. Ordinarily we take ourselves to have the sort of freedom that involves selection from a range of genuinely available paths. But there are powerful reasons to worry that our ordinary conception of ourselves may be mistaken. These reasons can be combined into various argument-forms that have a similar basic structure. This structure involves such ideas premises as the fixity of the past and the fixity of the natural laws. Although the basic argument for incompatibilism is not decisive, it does have considerable force. It casts into doubt our view of ourselves as having the sort of freedom that involves real access to alternative possibilities. Additionally, both compatibilist and incompatibilist attempts to give accounts of this sort of freedom are problematic in certain ways (despite having thoughtful proponents).
It may then be promising to look more closely at the sort of freedom that is connected with moral responsibility (see Part 2). Historically, philosophers have distinguished between the "liberty of indifference" and the "liberty of spontaneity". Whereas the liberty of indifference is a sort of freedom that involves access to alternative possibilities, the liberty of spontaneity is not. The latter sort of freedom is exhibited when an individual freely manifests the distinctive human capacity for choice and action in an unimpaired fashion (roughly speaking). So, the liberty of spontaneity can be displayed even if the relevant agent lacks liberty of indifference, insofar as the barriers to access to alternative possibilities do not impair the agent's activity.
John Locke presented an example that begins to prize apart the two sorts of liberty or freedom. Locke discusses a man who is put into a room while he is asleep. Unbeknownst to him, the door to the room is locked, and he cannot leave the room. When the man awakens, he decides to stay in the room, and does so, for his own reasons; the locked door plays absolutely no role in the man's deliberations or behavior. According to Locke, the man stays in the room freely, although he could not have done otherwise. We might say that he freely stayed in the room, although he lacked the freedom to leave the room. In a sense, then, the man exhibited a kind of freedom (similar to liberty of spontaneity), even though he lacked another kind (similar to liberty of indifference).
Harry Frankfurt has recently developed more sophisticated versions of Locke's example that seek to address some obvious objections to the conclusions some draw from Locke's example (about the separability of the two sorts of freedom). Someone might point out that, although the man in Locke's example could not have left the room, he could have chosen to leave the room, tried to leave the room, tried to open the door, and so forth. Thus there appear to be some alternative possibilities in Locke's example, even if the man could not have left the room. Frankfurt's examples, involving a signature sort of fail-safe mechanism that can reach into the agent's very brain, seek to address these problems with Locke's version of the example. Frankfurt contends that there can be agents who choose and act freely, even though they lack freedom to choose and do otherwise. Further, Frankfurt suggests that the sort of freedom that involves alternative possibilities is not necessary for our status as morally responsible agents; choosing and acting freely is sufficient for moral responsibility.
The Frankfurt examples have produced a huge literature in contemporary philosophy. Some of the major papers in this literature are collected here. The authors discuss whether Frankfurt's cases really show that there can be agents who are morally responsible, even though they lack the sort of freedom that involves selection from a range of really available paths (alternative-possibilities freedom). Whereas some authors seek to defend Frankfurt, others remain unconvinced.
Philosophers who agree with Frankfurt disagree about the significance of this conclusion. Some argue that Frankfurt has helped to establish compatibilism about causal determinism (or God's existence) and moral responsibility. On their view, even if causal determinism rules out the sort of freedom that involves alternative possibilities, it does not thereby rule out moral responsibility. Further, there is no other reason to conclude that causal determinism rules out moral responsibility.
Recall, however, that above we noted that the ordinary concept of freedom includes selection from a range of paths into the future and also being the source of one's choices and behavior. Even if Frankfurt's examples show (to some degree of plausibility) that alternative possibilities are not required for moral responsibility, the examples do not thereby show that causal determinism is compatible with moral responsibility. Some philosophers are willing to accept Frankfurt's conclusion about the relationship between alternative possibilities and moral responsibility, while insisting that causal determinism would rule out an agent's being the source of his behavior and thus moral responsibility.
If indeed acting (choosing) freely is a separate kind of freedom from alternative-possibilities freedom, it would be helpful to have an account of it. After all, Frankfurt-examples merely show, if successful, that there is some sort of freedom that can be exhibited even in the absence of alternative-possibilities freedom. We still need a better understanding of this putative species of freedom. In Volume IV, Part 1, the collection includes various important analyses of acting freely.
We have seen that there are powerful skeptical worries about our ordinary, commonsense view of ourselves as free and morally responsible agents. After all, I cannot be certain that causal determinism is not true, and if it were true, there are good reasons to think that, despite my intuitive conception of myself, I lack access to alternative possibilities. Similar considerations apply to God's existence. Additionally, there are specific challenges to particular compatibilistic accounts of freedom and moral responsibility. Seeking refuge in indeterminism may not seem any more attractive, given the problems with specific indeterministic accounts of freedom. These problems can be seen to be quite general — they flow from the concern that indeterminism erodes control, and that control is required for the relevant kind of freedom and for moral responsibility.
James's dilemma was actually regret vs. determinism
this is the standard argument against free will
This dilemma was presented by William James in a particularly striking way. James's "dilemma of determinism" is as follows. Either causal determinism is true, or it is not. If it is true, then we would lack freedom (in the alternative-possibilities and source senses). If it is false, then we would lack freedom in that we would not select the path into the future — we would not be the source of our behavior. Indeterminism appears to entail that it is not the agent who is the locus of control.
Such concerns have prompted some philosophers to conclude that free will is a mystery or perhaps that our ordinary notion of free will is fundamentally incoherent (see Part 2). The "Mysterian" view about free will is parallel to such a view about consciousness and the nature of the mind (and its relationship to the brain). Philosophers who hold such a view about free will, or who think that our ordinary views about free will are fundamentally incoherent, disagree about "where to go from here". Some think that we ought to abandon the entire conceptual framework of free will and all of the practices associated with moral responsibility, and to replace them with what are allegedly more accurate, honest conceptualizations and more humane practices. These may simply involve positive and negative reinforcement of behavior with an eye to producing more desirable and socially acceptable behavior. Others believe that we can preserve much of what we care about in a sort of revised conceptualization and associated set of practices. Some such philosophers would prune out practices of what they take to be an unjustified "retributive" component. According to these philosophers, we can have much of what we care about in free will without supposing that we are free and morally responsible in a robust sense.
As I said at the beginning, there is much excellent work on the topics mentioned above that I have simply not had the space to include. Also, I have had to limit the topics. Some topics that could not be included due to constraints of space are: neuroscience and free will, "empirically-informed" philosophy and free will, and the connections between free will and distributive justice. Some excellent collections that include important contributions to these and other topics are O'Connor (1995), Pereboom (1997), Kane (2002a,b), Buss and Overton (2002), Widerker and McKenna (2003), and Watson (2003).
Fischer-inspired Blogs
Fischer's colleagues and students created two important blogs on Free Will and Moral Responsibility:
The Garden of Forking Paths and Flickers of Freedom
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Diving into Cisco's new SWITCH, ROUTE, and TSHOOT Exams with Cisco Press Authors
By Linda Leung, Denise Donohue, Jerold Swan, Kevin Wallace, Sean Wilkins
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Linda Leung interviews Cisco Press authors Denise Donohue, Jay Swan, Kevin Wallace and Sean Wilkins to get a detailed look at the new CCNP exams.
CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Cert Kit: Video, Flash Card, and Quick Reference Preparation Package
Last month, Cisco introduced the biggest overhaul to its CCNP certification since the program's last major rewrite in 2006. Cisco has reduced the number of exams for the certification from four to three: ROUTE #642-902, SWITCH #642-813, and TSHOOT #642-832. The changes are designed to better reflect a CCNA's real-life job activities, as well as focus on technologies that organizations are deploying today.
To help you prepare for the new exams, Cisco Press has published (or will soon publish, in some cases) a comprehensive portfolio of CCNP self-study resources. I spoke to Cisco Press authors Denise Donohue, Jay Swan, Kevin Wallace, and Sean Wilkins to get a deeper dive into the new exams, and ask why Cisco introduced the changes, and how the changes will affect CCNA students. Also, read my interview on the overall CCNA changes with Cisco Press author Wendell Odom.
Linda Leung: BCMSN 642-812 is replaced by SWITCH 642-813. What are the major differences between the two? What topics are new and what have been dropped?
Denise Donohue: Security isn't a bigger topic in the CCNP overall, but some of the security topics that were previously in ISCW have been moved to SWITCH, and a few things are now in ROUTE. Likewise, some topics from ONT, such as QoS for voice support, now appear in SWITCH.
The course designers concentrated on what engineers at a CCNP level are typically expected to do in their jobs, and tried to provide the information they would need to accomplish those tasks. So there is a greater emphasis on planning, implementation, documentation, and testing, with less emphasis on marketing (especially in the wireless section). A section on High Availability looks at network design and management, two completely new topics for this course, but important subjects for engineers to understand. IP SLA is also included in this section and its use is extended to HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol).
The VLAN, Spanning Tree, and Etherchannel topics are about the same, with a bit more emphasis on planning, verifying, and troubleshooting.
A change I particularly like is in the wireless and QoS sections. In the wireless section, the emphasis now is one you need to know to prepare your LAN to support wireless, and to actually set up a switch to connect to a wireless access point, as opposed to wireless theory. Similarly, the QoS section concentrates more on planning the switch-based quality of service settings to support voice and video, and to implement that.
Sean Wilkins: The majority of changes relate the planning, implementing and documenting a specific solution. This is something that has been overlooked in the past for technical knowledge but is required in most engineering/consulting positions. To replace the topics that have been removed, Cisco has added more depth on planning, troubleshooting, and Layer 3 path control features in IOS.
LL: How do you recommend students should study for this exam. Anything different that they should do for this exam than for previous Cisco exams? How does your new study guide reflect this?
DD: It will be hard to obtain the CCNP certification without a good amount of hands-on experience, either in a practice lab or on-the-job. The new study guide has a lot of configuration examples to help guide your studying, and refresh your memory during the pretest review. The addition of design, planning, and documentation mean that candidates must consider more than just the configuration commands. The study guide contains information on network design, and on implementation planning and documentation for each technology.
SW: There are really two paths to take for Cisco certifications in my opinion. One is based on little previous experience with Cisco equipment and the other is based on completing these certifications after obtaining significant on-the-job training.
If you have little experience the best solution really is to take the course and learn to understand all of the ins and outs of the solution. These courses, along with some of the official certification books, allow a smooth preparation path. This way, you are given a strong foundation which allows you to become an even better engineer/consultant.
The other path is for those who had previous Cisco equipment experience. For those, the best solution is to self-study using the various certification books and references. The big thing that this segment has to remember is to not underestimate the test or you will just be out the money. Take the time to read the materials and highlight those topics which are the least understood and then continue to study them in-depth. This way you will not only be prepared for the test but for real equipment.
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library
By Wendell Odom
CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide
By Bradley Edgeworth, Ramiro Garza Rios, David Hucaby, Jason Gooley
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2
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Manchester and Birmingham next in line for Dolby Cinema
posted on Tuesday, 18th June 2019 by Steve May
Dolby Cinema Dolby Atmos Dolby Vision
Two more Dolby Cinemas have been announced for the UK. Opening this autumn are the Odeon Manchester Trafford Centre and Odeon Luxe Birmingham Broadway Plaza.
The new theatres follow the opening of the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square last December (pictured) and Odeon Luxe Leeds Thorpe Park in April. All the seats in the Dolby Cinema in Odeon Manchester Trafford will be upgraded with 160 Luxe reclining seats.
In Odeon Luxe Birmingham Broadway Plaza, the Dolby Cinema will be in the largest auditorium, which will include 235 existing fully reclining Luxe seats.
Dolby Cinemas combine Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. The Dolby Vision laser projection system delivers high dynamic range with enhanced colour technology and a contrast ratio that exceeds that of any other image technology on the market today.
When it comes to Dolby Cinema, the tally is 235 movies in Vision and Atmos. Currently there are 4,870+ Dolby Atmos screens installed or committed, with over 1.370 movies mixed in the immersive sound format. There are more than 200 Dolby Atmos mixing facilities available.
“With moviegoers in London and Leeds already experiencing films in a spectacular Dolby Cinema, it’s now time for those in Manchester and Birmingham to get a taste of the magic,” says Julian Stanford, Senior Director of Dolby Cinema Europe. “Our collaboration with Odeon brings the film-maker’s vision to extraordinary life and puts the audience in the heart of the scene, resulting in an unrivalled cinematic experience.”
Inside CI Editor Steve May is a freelance technology journalist, who also writes for T3, TechRadar, Home Cinema Choice and Ideal Home (amongst others).
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'13 Reasons Why' Renewed For Season 3
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Mar 31, 2017 - Present
Clay - Dylan MinnetteHannah - Katherine LangfordJustin - Brandon FlynnTony - Christian NavarroJessica - Alisha BoeCourtney - Michelle Selene AngBryce - Justin PrenticeTyler - Devin DruidAlex - Miles HeizerZach - Ross ButlerSkye - Sosie BaconMrs. Baker - Kate WalshMr. Porter - Derek LukeAndy - Brian D'Arcy JamesBrad - Henry ZagaLainie - Amy HargreavesMarcus - Steven SilverRyan - Tommy Dorfman
The streaming drama will return in 2019.
Netflix announced this morning that 13 Reasons Why has been picked up for a third season. Coming just two weeks after the release of the show's sophomore run, the good news came in the form of a short teaser video released on social media.
The decision to renew is no surprise, as the teen drama is one of the streaming service's most-popular original shows. The series premiered last year with a lot of buzz due to its controversial subject matter and the involvement of Selena Gomez, who is involved as an executive producer.
The first season received a high amount of praise, with critics applauding the show's approach to its source material's dark subject matter as well the performances of its young cast. Season 2, however, was not met with such a warm reception; reviews have been mixed, with many noting that it feels like an unnecessary continuation that lost the spirit of the first season.
Adapted from the bestselling 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, the series is about the story behind a teenage girl named Hannah who takes her own life. In the weeks following her shocking death, one of her classmates finds a box on his porch that contains recordings Hannah made explaining the 13 reasons why she decided to commit suicide.
Look for Season 3 of 13 Reasons Why in 2019.
#13ReasonsWhy has been renewed for a third season. All 13 episodes will premiere in 2019. pic.twitter.com/UPtOWyIvJq
— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) June 6, 2018
'13 Reasons Why' Renewed For Final Season 4
Netflix Renews '13 Reasons Why'
06/15/18 at 04:26am
1 was good/innovative
2 I haven’t even completed because I try to watch and I feel like I have to force myself. That’s a sign to me that I need to stop
3 pretty sure I won’t try it as I bet I never finish 2
oh please keep hating nay sayers the show is great its not holding back at all not sure either where the story is heading but season 2 did great putting the two deaths of the characters from season 1 to rest.
sweetbabynrs
06/11/18 at 05:32pm
um... so exactly WHERE are they supposed to go with the story? how long will they beat it to death? smh..
Nothing like beating a story to death! Some shows should only have 1 or 2 seasons. It's all about the $$$
I loved Season 1 and Season 2 was okay. Season 2 did fill in some interesting details. Will watch Season 3. Really like the cast. Clay is my fav.
I'd be nihilistic if it mattered
so.. 39 reasons why???
13 reasons why this was even a question.Of course it was going to be picked up another round.
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34th Starz Denver Film Festival - Complete Review Round-Up!
I feel kind of empty today. I’ve been intensively watching and writing about film for twelve days straight, and now that the Starz Denver Film Festival is over, I don’t know what to do with myself! It was a really terrific festival though; of the fourteen films I saw, I really had a great time at twelve of them, a pretty impressive batting average. I would expect at least four of the festival’s films to appear on my year-end top ten list, and I’m anxious for general audiences to see most of these movies as they start hitting theatres over the next few months.
But things aren’t slowing down on www.jonathanlack.com - this week I’m releasing my “Twilight Challenge” article in five parts, a dissection of the world’s most inexplicably popular tween craze, and there will plenty more movie reviews over the next two months. For now, though, this post contains links to my reviews of all the films I reviewed during the festival, starting with those from Week 2:
“Shame” – Director Steve McQueen’s dark, brilliantly crafted look at sex addiction is an absolute masterpiece, interpretive, entertaining, and absolutely riveting from start to finish; Michael Fassbender’s performance is the best I’ve seen this year, brave, honest, and open to degrees few actors are willing to explore. Rating: A
“Coriolanus” – Ralph Fiennes’ modern-day update of one of Shakespeare’s lesser known works suffers from a number of issues, and is a failure as a whole, but contains great performances from Fiennes, Gerard Butler, and Vanessa Redgrave, and is easily the most cinematic Shakespeare film I’ve yet encountered.
“We Need To Talk About Kevin” – A brilliant look at the dark side of parenthood, with a searing lead performance by Tilda Swinton; it’s one of the year’s most challenging movies, and though masterful, is not recommended for the feint of heart. Rating: A
“The Artist” – Tied with “Melancholia” for the best film of 2011; it is a silent, black-and-white film, but so much more than an empty throwback. “The Artist” explores the power of cinema at its purest, and proves that all one needs to make a great film is a good story and lots and lots of heart; dialogue, sound effects, and color are unnecessary. Rating: A+
“Butter” – You won’t get to see this one until March of next year, but when it does finally come out, make sure to see it; “Butter” is my favorite comedy of 2011, an endlessly entertaining riff on Midwestern politics fueled by a fantastic ensemble cast. Rating: A–
“A Dangerous Method” – A disappointingly dull end to the festival; David Cronenberg’s look at the lives of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung doesn’t play like a film, but rather a long, drawn-out lecture on historical psychology. Great performances by Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender can’t save the film. Rating: C–
After the jump, links to the other eight films I saw at the festival:
“Like Crazy” – The rare film that takes romance 100 percent seriously; as in real life, it will lift you up and break your heart over and over again; landmark performances by Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones: Rating: A
“Melancholia” – The best film of 2011; a crushingly dark, viscerally powerful look at depression framed through an elaborate end-of-the-world metaphor; as gorgeous as it is haunting, with a career-redefining turn by Kirstin Dunst: Rating: A+
“Le Havre” – Pure, unfiltered entertainment; Marcel Marx is one of the best characters to hit screens this year, and he’s surrounded by a wonderfully rich cast; it’s a fun, inspiring romp through a world where good things happen to good people and evil has no place: Rating: A
“Outrage” – A fascinating if mechanical look into the lives of Yakuza gangsters by filmmaker Takeshi Kitano: Rating: B–
“Yukiko” – It’s probably a good thing Americans won’t have a chance to see this film outside of the festival, because “Yukiko” is almost unbearably dull. I would complain about the production values if it had any. Rating: D
“The Descendants” – A very good, just short of great, comedy/drama by “Sideways” director Alexander Payne, featuring what is arguably George Clooney’s best performance and augmented by a wonderful supporting cast: Rating: B+
“Wish Me Away” – An amazingly intimate portrait of country singer Chely Wright, you in 2010 became the first country star to come out as gay; candid, thoughtful, and moving, this is a must-see film: Rating: A–
“Tyrannosaur” – The more I think about it, the more I love this film; as writer, Paddy Considine has crafted a dark, challenging, and meaningful story; as director, he gets tremendous, devastating performances from Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman; absolutely excellent: Rating: A–
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Saga Pearl II in North Atlantic rescue drama
I watched cruise ship Saga Pearl II made a dramatic rescue in the middle of the North Atlantic last night (Saturday, Nov 22) to bring aboard a seriously injured French yachtsman.
Only a few passengers watched the action - most continued with their formal dinner, the ladies dressed in glamorous cocktail gowns and the men in dinner suits and bow ties.
On route to Cape Verde, Captain Wesley Dunlop answered a call for assistance from the Portuguese marine authorities and made a 90-mile diversion to meet the catamaran Coco Jet III.
Nicolas Hauzy, 36, needed 28 stitches after he lacerated his left leg on the drive shaft of his yacht’s engine while cruising from the Canary Islands to Martinique.
Within four hours from the distress call on Saturday afternoon, Saga Pearl II came in sight of the yacht. As darkness fell, Capt Dunlop manoeuvred the ship to allow the catamaran to come leeside, thereby cutting out the wind.
In two-metre swells the yacht drifted close to the ship and Mr Hauzy made a dramatic jump on board the 400-passenger cruise ship. Capt Dunlop had been expecting to put out a pontoon to allow the ship’s doctor to board the yacht and assess the patient.
Capt Dunlop said: “It was a most difficult operation because of the swell and the crew dealt with it very well.
“We had intended to get onto the yacht but when it came right alongside Mr Hauzy made the jump. In an emergency you always plan ahead but very often have to adjust those plans depending on the situation when you arrive on scene.
“Mr Hauzy is a very brave man.”
Mr Hauzy, who was part-way through a year’s sailing trip with his family, said he there had been a problem with the yacht’s hydraulic motor and as he was attempting to fix it his trouser leg got caught in the engine drive shaft.
He said: “I bandaged myself up and put a distress procedure in place because I was worried that I would not be able to take care of the yacht and my family.
“Captain Dunlop is the very best captain I have ever encountered. My worst fear was that I would not be able to board the ship. It was so impressive that a big ship came to my rescue and changed course to come to help a small vessel. I cannot thank the captain and medical team enough.”
The ship’s doctor David Townsend had been prepared to board the catamaran but instead attended the Parisian businessman in the ship’s medical centre. He said: “It was a severe laceration to the inside left of the ankle, needing 28 stitches.”
Mr Hauzy said: “I was surprised to see such a professional medical set-up on the ship. I did not realise there would be a doctor and nurses on board. I am again very thankful. They said that they had dealt with worse than this!”
The drama unfolded when Saga Pearl II was within 200 miles of Sao Vicente, in Cape Verde. Capt Dunlop made a public announcement to say he had received a message from the Portuguese Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) that a French yacht had reported one of its crew was injured and in need of urgent medical assistance.
As Saga Pearl II was the nearest vessel with a doctor on board, Capt Dunlop took the decision to change course to answer the call.
Passengers were kept informed throughout the operation with a further message from the captain at 6pm, stating he had received further information that the passenger had suffered a ‘very nasty gash’ on the leg. He explained that the plan of action was for two of his crew to board the yacht, exiting from a lower deck shell door, and put out a pontoon for the yacht to come alongside.
Capt Dunlop also gave passengers good notice that he would be turning the ship sideways and reducing speed, explaining that the stabilisers would therefore not be as effective.
Mr Hauzy is expected to rejoin his family, including his wife Adelaide and his four children, Tristan, 10, Hadrien, nine, Athenias, four, and Ignace, two, when Coco Jet III arrives in Porto Grande on Monday.
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Loss of Visual Reference: de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Vazar Turbine Otter, N3952B; accident occurred July 10, 2018 in Hydaburg, Alaska
Theodolite picture of accident airplane at accident site.
The National Transportation Safety Board did not travel to the scene of this accident.
Additional Participating Entities:
Juneau Flight Standards District Office (JNU FSDO)
Federal Aviation Administration; Fort Worth, Texas
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Fairbanks, Alaska
Taquan Air; Ketchikan, Alaska
Aviation Accident Factual Report - National Transportation Safety Board: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdf
Investigation Docket - National Transportation Safety Board: https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms
http://registry.faa.gov/N3952B
Accident airplane on Jumbo Mountain.
Location: Hydaburg, AK
Accident Number: ANC18FA053
Date & Time: 07/10/2018, 0835 AKD
Registration: N3952B
Aircraft: De Havilland DHC 3
Aircraft Damage: Substantial
Defining Event: Loss of visual reference
Injuries: 6 Serious, 4 Minor, 1 None
Flight Conducted Under: Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter - Non-scheduled
On July 10, 2018, about 0835 Alaska daylight time, a float-equipped de Havilland DHC3T Otter airplane, N3952B, sustained substantial damage during impact with rocky, mountainous, rising terrain about 9 miles east of Hydaburg, Alaska. Of the 11 occupants on board, the airline transport pilot was uninjured, four passengers sustained minor injuries, and six passengers sustained serious injuries. The airplane was registered to Blue Aircraft, LLC, and was operated by Taquan Air as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 on-demand commercial flight. Marginal visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the visual flight rules (VFR) flight, and company flight following procedures were in effect. The flight departed Steamboat Bay about 0747 destined for Ketchikan, Alaska.
The purpose of the flight was to transport guests that were staying at the Steamboat Bay Fishing Club on Noyes Island back to Ketchikan. The area between Noyes Island and Ketchikan consists of remote inland fjords, coastal waterways, and steep mountainous terrain. A review of GPS data extracted from the Chelton Integrated Display Unit (IDU) revealed that after departing Steamboat Bay the flight proceeded easterly towards the village of Klawock and to the northwest edge of Klawock Lake, prior to making about a 270° turn, it then continued on a southerly heading along the west coast of Prince of Wales Island towards Waterfall Seaplane Base (KWF) prior to turning easterly towards Hydaburg and an area known as Sulzer Portage.
Figure 1. Google Earth overlay of the entire accident flight on July 10, 2018. Indicated airspeed (IAS) values are shown.
For further information, see the Cockpit Displays – Recorded Flight Data Factual Report located in the public docket for this investigation.
According to the pilot, while in level cruise flight about 1,100 ft mean sea level (msl) as the flight progressed into an area known as Sulzer Portage, visibility decreased rapidly in heavy rain and clouds. In an attempt to turn around and return to VFR conditions, he initiated a climbing right turn. Before completing the 180° right turn, he saw what he believed to be a body of water, and he became momentarily disoriented so he leveled the wings. Shortly thereafter, he realized that the airplane was approaching an area of snow-covered mountainous terrain, so he applied full power and initiated a steep climb to avoid the rising terrain ahead. As the climb continued, the airspeed decayed, and the airplane subsequently collided with the mountain. During the initial impact, the airplane's floats partially separated from the fuselage. The airplane wreckage came to rest in an area known as Jumbo Mountain. When asked if he remembered any issues with the airplane, he replied "…the airplane was running great."
According to the passenger seated in the right front seat, after departure, the flight proceeded to Klawock and then made what he thought was a 180° turn. He said the flight made numerous course deviations as the pilot maneuvered around weather, and, at times, all forward visibility was lost as they briefly flew in and out of the clouds. He said he became uncomfortable and was thinking it would be prudent to just land on the water. Shortly thereafter, he observed a large mountain directly in front of the airplane; knowing they could not outclimb the mountain, he presumed there must be a pass through the area. The airplane then entered a cloud and the pilot added power and pitched up, but the airplane impacted the side of the mountain.
According to a second passenger, who was seated toward the back of the airplane, the weather at Steamboat Bay when they departed was rain and low clouds. During the flight, he could occasionally see the land and water below, but sometimes he could not. He said that there was "serious fog" all around. After they passed Waterfall Resort, he became very concerned that they were headed in the wrong direction. He texted the right front seat passenger (a friend) and asked him to ask the pilot to land and wait for the weather to improve. He said that he did not see the mountain until they were right on it, and observed the pilot add power right before impact.
At 0843, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Sector Juneau received a report from the Alaska State Troopers that a float plane had crashed near Sulzer Portage on Prince of Wales Island. Two USCG helicopters were launched, and the Alaska State Troopers dispatched five helicopters to the search area; a staging area was established near the accident site. One of the helicopter pilots stated that he was unable to search the upper levels of the mountainous area due to a low cloud ceiling and poor visibility. A "First Alert" was received from the accident airplane's onboard emergency locator transmitter (ELT) at 0911. About the same time, a 911 dispatcher in Ketchikan talked via cell phone to a passenger, who provided GPS position and elevation based on data from her iPhone. At 1047, both USCG helicopters arrived in the search area and one helicopter obtained a weak direction finding bearing from the ELT. The bearing and the survivor's description of the accident area were used to direct search assets near the accident site, so the passengers could hear the USCG helicopters. Two-way radio communications were established between the passengers and USCG by using the accident airplane's radio. The USCG located the accident site at 1156. At 1308, all 11 survivors had been hoisted into the USCG's rescue helicopter and transferred to the staging area for transport back to Ketchikan.
Aft facing view of accident airplane at accident site.
The pilot held an airline transport pilot certificate with airplane single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land and sea, and instrument ratings. A second-class airman medical certificate was issued on December 6, 2017, and contained limitations of must wear corrective lenses.
According to the operator's training records, the pilot was hired with 26,618 total hours of flight experience, including 2,700 hours of experience in Alaska. At the time of the accident, the pilot reported that he had accumulated about 306 hours in the accident airplane make and model. His most recent airman competency check, which was administered by a company check airman, was completed on May 13, 2018.
In June 2018, the pilot was on duty for 25 days and flew about 84 hours, with 5 days off. In July 2018, the pilot was on duty for 7 days, including the day of the accident, and flew about 28 hours, with 3 days off.
The de Havilland DHC-3 Otter is a single-engine, propeller-driven, single-pilot, high-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) airplane originally designed in the early 1950s. The original airplane was powered by a single reciprocating radial engine but could be converted to turbine engine power by supplemental type certificate (STC). The accident airplane was powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop engine in accordance with Vazar, Inc., STC SA3777NM and equipped with International Aeroproducts Model 8100 floats in accordance with Anew Sioux Enterprises, Ltd., STC SQ01825NY. The type certificate for the airplane is currently owned and maintained by Viking Air Limited, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.
The accident airplane was equipped with two Chelton Flight Systems FlightLogic electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) Integrated Display Units (IDU). The IDUs were identical part numbers and were configured to operate as primary flight displays (PFD) or multi-function displays (MFD). Using sensors, including solid-state air data and attitude heading reference system, the PFD displayed aircraft parameter data including altitude, airspeed, attitude, vertical speed, and heading. The MFD displayed navigational information through a moving map. Additionally, the units in the accident airplane included a terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) that provided color-coded warnings of terrain on the MFD and, when enabled, aural alerts. As part of the TAWS system, the PFD was capable of providing a profile view of terrain ahead of the aircraft (synthetic vision).
The FlightLogic EFIS IDU features integrated Class B TAWS or, optionally, Class A or C TAWS or Class A or B Helicopter TAWS (HTAWS). The IDU provides TSO-C151b TAWS functionality. Depending upon aircraft configuration settings and external sensors/switches, the system is configurable as a Class A, B or C TAWS or a Class A or B HTAWS.4. The accident airplane's TAWS functionality was set to Class B specifications as required by 14 CFR 135.154 and Technical Standard Order (TSO) – C151. 14 CFR 135.154 (b) (2) states, "No person may operate a turbine-powered airplane configured with 6 to 9 passenger seats, excluding any pilot seat, after March 29, 2005, unless that airplane is equipped with an approved terrain awareness and warning system that meets as a minimum the requirements for Class B equipment in Technical Standard Order (TSO)-C151."
Although Class B TAWS specifies 700 ft agl during cruise flight and 500 ft during descent (as specified in TSO C-151c), the float-equipped accident airplane was authorized, per 14 CFR 135.203(a)(1), to cruise as low as 500 ft agl, which is below the Class B TAWS design alerting threshold. As a result, Class B TAWS auditory and flag alerts would be triggered during normal operations.
A TAWS inhibit switch, which was directly connected to the EFIS IDU, could manually inhibit the TAWS alerting function. The TAWS inhibit switch was a toggle type that provided the pilot with an obvious indication of actuation. The TAWS inhibit switch was found in the "inhibit" mode following the accident.
All of the company pilots interviewed stated that the TAWS inhibit switch remained in the inhibit position unless a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) escape maneuver was being accomplished. However, the check airman who last administered the accident pilot's competency check in accordance with 14 CFR 135.293(b), when asked about enabling the TAWS switch during a CFIT escape maneuver, "No, it never gets moved."
TAWS inhibit switch in accident airplane in the inhibit mode.
The closest weather reporting facility was Hydaburg Seaplane Base (PAHY), Hydaburg, Alaska, about 9 miles west of the accident site. At 0847, a METAR from PAHY reported, in part: wind from 110° at 13 knots; 5 statute miles visibility in light rain and mist; few clouds at 900 ft, overcast clouds at 1,700 ft; temperature 57°F; dew point 55°F; and altimeter setting of 30.16 inches of mercury.
An area forecast that included the forecast for the accident location and AIRMET information was issued by the AAWU at 0410 Alaska daylight time. The forecast at the accident time included scattered clouds at 2,500 ft msl, overcast clouds at 5,000 ft msl with clouds tops to 14,000 ft and clouds layered above that to FL250, isolated broken clouds at 2,500 ft with light rain. No significant turbulence was expected. Moderate in-cloud icing was forecast between 12,000 ft and FL190. The freezing level was identified at 9,000 ft. AIRMET advisory SIERRA for "mountains obscured in clouds/precipitation" was issued at 0410 Alaska daylight time and was active for the accident site at the accident time. Conditions were expected to deteriorate.
For further information, see the Meteorology Factual Report located in the public docket for this investigation.
Accident airplane at wreckage layout.
The accident airplane was not equipped, nor was it required to be equipped with, a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder.
The accident site was located on a rock face on the east side of Jumbo Mountain at an elevation of about 2,557 ft msl. All the airplane major components were located at the accident site.
The cockpit and fuselage were largely intact but sustained impact damage. The power lever and propeller lever were found in the full forward position and the condition lever was in the idle cutoff position. The cockpit seats remained attached and secure with lap belts and shoulder harnesses available. The fuselage seats were equipped with lap belts only.
The right wing remained attached to its respective attach points but sustained leading edge impact damage about ¾ span outboard to the tip. The right aileron remained attached to its respective attach points and sustained impact damage about midspan.
The left wing remained attached to its respective attached points but sustained leading edge impact damage about midspan. The left aileron remained attached to its respective attach points and was relatively undamaged.
The left and right horizontal stabilizers, vertical stabilizer, and rudder, along with both left and right servo tabs and the rudder trim tab remained attached to their respective attach points and were relatively undamaged. The left and right elevators remained attached to their respective attach points but sustained impact damage. The stabilizer jackscrew remained attached to its attach points and no excessive inner movement was present in the jackscrew.
The engine remained attached to the airframe and engine control continuity was established from the engine to the cockpit. The three-blade Hartzell propeller separated from the engine at the reduction gearbox. All three propeller blades remained attached to the propeller hub and exhibited broken blade tips, torsional twisting, chordwise scratching and leading-edge gouging.
All the primary flight control surfaces remained attached to their respective attachment points, and flight control continuity was verified from all the primary flight control surfaces to the cockpit.
The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation, and the examination of the airframe and engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
Taquan Air was a 14 CFR Part 135 air carrier that held on-demand and commuter operations specifications. The air carrier was authorized to conduct business exclusively under the business names "Venture Capital, LLC" or "Taquan Air." The company headquarters was located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The company operated 15 airplanes of which 3 were DHC-3T Turbine Otters, and employed about 25 pilots, with most working on a seasonal basis. According to the DO, Venture Capital LLC was operating four trips per day per airplane, totaling about 60 operations per day.
The DO was hired as DO at Taquan in January 2016. In October 2017, he was hired as the chief pilot for Grant Aviation, a large scheduled Part 135 air carrier that also held commuter and on-demand operations specifications; he was promoted to DO at Grant Aviation in April 2018. Although this new position was based in Anchorage, Alaska, where he moved in October 2017, he continued to hold the DO position at Taquan. In addition, he was also a contract simulator instructor for Alaska Airlines.
According to numerous company personnel, the DO would visit Taquan's Ketchikan base about once a month but was available by phone, if necessary. The president of the company said that the chief pilot had taken over "officer of the deck" and "we're just basically using him [DO] for his recordkeeping, as … we need a DO."
Chief Pilot
The chief pilot was hired as chief pilot at Taquan in September 2014. Before that, he was a line pilot and company instructor at Promech Air, in Ketchikan, Alaska, from May 2010 until September 2014. He had about 16,000 total flight hours, of which about 5,000 hours were accumulated in Alaska. He resided in Ketchikan.
According to the chief pilot, due to the absence of the DO, he had assumed a large number of his responsibilities. He said both positions could be accomplished by one person during the wintertime, but it was more difficult during the summer months.
Operational Control
The Taquan General Operations Manual (GOM) does not explain the procedures used for the initiation or conduct of flight movements. The GOM did not list anyone by name as having operational control other than the DO, chief pilot, and president. The DO, chief pilot, flight coordinator, safety officer, and check airmen all stated that operational control could be and was routinely delegated to senior pilots in the absence of the chief pilot.
The GOM stated that "The Director of Operations routinely delegates the duty of Operational control to the Flight Coordinator on duty." However, the flight coordinator on duty at the time of the accident stated that she had no operational control as she was "the flight follower" (a term not defined by the GOM). She added that she did have the authority to cancel a flight for weather or profitability concerns, in addition to, arranging a flight "with concurrence with the person that's in operational control."
The president of the company described operational control as "having someone…that has the ability to check the weather." He stated that the person with operational control was there to assist the pilot and flight coordinator when trying to make a launch decision, whether for weight, pilot experience or weather concerns. When asked who had the ultimate authority for operational control, he said the DO did and added "but he's not here."
Flight Risk Assessment
The Taquan Flight Operations Manual, Operations Specifications, and Training Manual did not include mention of a risk assessment process. Details on the risk assessment process was found in a document titled "Medallion Operational Risk Management (ORM) Implementation Manual" and stated in part:
Taquan Air has provided a form to assess the total risk involved for each flight. Prior to any company flight dispatch, the risk assessment form must be filled out and include all pertinent signatures. The flight coordinator will gather information for each flight to fill out the risk assessment form. The flight coordinator and the PIC for that flight will each sign the form indicating that they are both aware of the information on the form and are equally responsible for the dispatching of that flight. In the event a flight will be made outside of normal business hours, the pilot shall gather all pertinent information, fill out a risk assessment form, sign it, and leave it in the dispatch office. If the risk number is above 10, he/she must contact management before proceeding with the flight…
Company pilots described the flight risk assessment form as highlighting areas of potential risk and then assigning a number and then the number corresponds with certain types of actions. One pilot viewed the form as "…just a piece of paper with some ink on it" and based go/no-go decisions on his experience and research instead.
According to a flight coordinator, the form is typically filled out in its entirety by flight coordinators. According to the DO, flight coordinators complete the first section of the form, and pilots complete the "Manpower" section.
Line pilots, management, and flight coordinators all stated that the pilot has the authority to change, add, or update information to the form. While dispatch and management believed that pilots provided feedback to the assessment often, line pilots stated that while they all had the authority to make changes, none could recall an instance where they had provided feedback to the risk assessment.
CFIT Training
The CFIT training, policies, and procedures were not contained, nor were they required to be, in the FAA-accepted GOM or the FAA-approved training program. Taquan had developed, in conjunction with their Medallion Foundation, a CFIT Avoidance Training Manual; however, there was no regulatory requirement for compliance with the policies contained in the manual.
Section IV of the manual contained the following guidance for inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC):
"In the advent of inadvertent flight into IMC the crewmember shall immediately initiate corrective action in the form of either a level 180 degree turn away from terrain, a level attitude descent straight ahead or when conditions will not safely allow for either of the preceding maneuvers a immediate climb straight ahead or in a holding pattern to a safe altitude that will allow for terrain clearance to be maintained, followed by a radio call to either flight service or center and request assistance for continued instrument flight until a safe let down can be accomplished, and a call to company to inform them of the situation."
During interviews, multiple pilots stated that the company CFIT escape maneuver was to complete a 180° turn, enable TAWS, descend to 300 ft and set up for a glassy water landing. The accident pilot said that after setting up for the landing, the procedure was to continue below 300ft "until you arrive at the water, or break out of the cloud, I assume." When asked if there was a different procedure for flights over land versus over water, he replied "Not really."
Federal Aviation Administration Oversight
The Juneau Flight Standards District Office (JNU FSDO) was assigned oversight of 102 commercial certificates at the time of the accident. The office manager stated in an interview that there were a total of 12 inspectors assigned to the JNU FSDO. Two of those 12 were principal operations inspectors (POIs); one was in JNU and the other was in Kenai. He said that the FSDO was allocated 5 POIs, but were unable to attract applicants for the position.
The POI for Taquan stated that his workload was "heavy" and he did not have time to complete all his oversight tasks. According to a work assignment letter, he was responsible for the oversight of 24 Part 135 certificates, seven Part 133 certificates and two Part 137 certificates.
Director of Operations Approval
Numerous interviews with FAA management personnel and inspectors responsible for the Grant Aviation and the Taquan air carrier certificates revealed that the FAA was made aware, on multiple occasions, that the DO for Taquan was serving as a management official for two Part 135 certificates; however, there was a belief by the FAA's inspectors and management personnel responsible for the certificates, that this was not contrary to the Federal Aviation Regulations or guidance contained in FAA Order 8900.1. In addition, little to no coordination or communication was established between the POIs responsible for the two certificates.
FAA Order 8900.1, Volume 2, Chapter 2, Section 3, 2-158D, Management Personnel Serving Multiple Certificate Holders, D, states, in part:
NOTE: Headquarters (HQ) will not approve part 135 commuter operations or part 121 operations to share part 119 management personnel, as provided for in this paragraph.
For further operations or human performance information, see the Operational Factors/Human Performance Factual Report located in the public docket for this investigation.
TAWS
Numerous Part 135 operators are authorized to conduct flights under VFR at altitudes below their respective TAWS class required terrain clearance (RTC), and the NTSB has investigated several other fatal CFIT accidents involving operations with TAWS alerts inhibited. As a result, the NTSB issued Safety Recommendation A-17-35, which asked the FAA to implement ways to provide effective TAWS protections while mitigating nuisance alerts for single-engine airplanes operated under Part 135 that frequently operate at altitudes below their respective TAWS class design alerting threshold.
Certificate: Airline Transport
Age: 71, Male
Airplane Rating(s): Multi-engine Land; Multi-engine Sea; Single-engine Land; Single-engine Sea
Seat Occupied: Left
Other Aircraft Rating(s): None
Restraint Used:
Instrument Rating(s): Airplane
Second Pilot Present: No
Instructor Rating(s): Airplane Single-engine
Toxicology Performed: No
Medical Certification: Class 2 With Waivers/Limitations
Last FAA Medical Exam: 12/06/2017
Occupational Pilot: Yes
Last Flight Review or Equivalent:
Flight Time: 27400 hours (Total, all aircraft), 306 hours (Total, this make and model), 16770 hours (Pilot In Command, all aircraft), 135 hours (Last 90 days, all aircraft), 84 hours (Last 30 days, all aircraft), 6 hours (Last 24 hours, all aircraft)
Aircraft and Owner/Operator Information
Aircraft Make: De Havilland
Model/Series: DHC 3 Undesignated
Aircraft Category: Airplane
Amateur Built: No
Airworthiness Certificate: Normal
Serial Number: 225
Landing Gear Type: Float
Date/Type of Last Inspection: 07/07/2018, AAIP
Certified Max Gross Wt.: 8367 lbs
Time Since Last Inspection: 10 Hours
Engines: 1 Turbo Prop
Airframe Total Time: 16918 Hours as of last inspection
Engine Manufacturer: Pratt & Whitney
ELT: C126 installed, activated, aided in locating accident
Engine Model/Series: PT6A-34
Registered Owner: Blue Aircraft LLC
Rated Power: 750 hp
Operator: Taquan Air
Operating Certificate(s) Held: On-demand Air Taxi (135)
Meteorological Information and Flight Plan
Conditions at Accident Site: Instrument Conditions
Condition of Light: Day
Observation Facility, Elevation: PAHY, 0 ft msl
Distance from Accident Site: 9 Nautical Miles
Observation Time: 0847 AKD
Direction from Accident Site: 90°
Lowest Cloud Condition: Few / 900 ft agl
Visibility: 5 Miles
Lowest Ceiling: Overcast / 1700 ft agl
Visibility (RVR):
Wind Speed/Gusts: 13 knots /
Turbulence Type Forecast/Actual:
Turbulence Severity Forecast/Actual:
Altimeter Setting: 30.16 inches Hg
Temperature/Dew Point: 14°C / 13°C
Precipitation and Obscuration: Light - Rain; Moderate - Mist
Departure Point: Klawock, AK
Type of Flight Plan Filed: Company VFR
Destination: Ketchikan, AK
Type of Clearance: None
Departure Time: 0747 AKD
Type of Airspace: Class G
Crew Injuries: 1 None
Passenger Injuries: 6 Serious, 4 Minor
Aircraft Fire: None
Ground Injuries: N/A
Aircraft Explosion: None
Total Injuries: 6 Serious, 4 Minor, 1 None
Latitude, Longitude: 55.257500, -132.603611 (est)
Posted by Kathryn on 11/08/2019 0 comments
Piper PA-34-200, N43690: Incident occurred November 07, 2019 at Glendale Municipal Airport (KGEU), Maricopa County, Arizona
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Scottsdale
During a maintenance test flight, the nose would not extend. Aircraft landed without nose gear extended.
Panoramic Investments LLC
https://registry.faa.gov/N43690
Date: 08-NOV-19
Time: 00:40:00Z
Regis#: N43690
Aircraft Make: PIPER
Aircraft Model: PA34
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: MINOR
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: GLENDALE
Bell 47G-2, N6746D: Accident occurred November 07, 2019 Groveland, Lake County, Florida
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Orlando
Cine Air Services Inc
https://registry.faa.gov/N6746D
NTSB Identification: GAA20CA062
Accident occurred Thursday, November 07, 2019 in Groveland, FL
Aircraft: Bell 47G, registration: N6746D
NTSB investigators will use data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator, and will not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
Aircraft experienced a hard landing.
Regis#: N6746D
Aircraft Make: BELL
Aircraft Model: 47G
Event Type: ACCIDENT
Highest Injury: MINOR
City: GROVELAND
Cessna 152, N84MK: Incident occurred November 07, 2019 near Goshen Municipal Airport (KGSH), Elkhart County, Indiana
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Grand Rapids
Aircraft lost power and made a forced landing in a field.
New Horizons Aviation Inc
https://registry.faa.gov/N84MK
Regis#: N84MK
Aircraft Make: CESSNA
Aircraft Model: C152
Flight Phase: UNKNOWN (UNK)
City: GOSHEN
GOSHEN — A pilot from LaGrange was on an instructor training flight when a mechanical issue in his airplane forced him to make an emergency night-time landing in a field near Goshen Thursday.
Nevin Hershberger, an instructor with Goshen airport-based New Horizons Aviation Inc., was flying the Cessna 152 with another instructor, Gary “Joe” Sample of Goshen, while working toward earning his instrument instructor’s rating, said Roger Yoder, co-owner of New Horizons.
The two felt engine vibrations in the Cessna 152, and then the power cut, according to Yoder. Unable to keep the plane aloft and return to the airport, Hershberger had to make an emergency landing around 7 p.m., according to a report by Elkhart County police.
The evening sky was dark at the time, but the moon was out. That helped provide visibility for Hershberger to land the plane in a recently harvested corn field along C.R. 17 near C.R. 42, about five or six miles west of the Goshen Municipal Airport, Yoder said.
“Which is exactly what they should have done,” Yoder said. “They did exactly what they were supposed to do.”
Hershberger and Sample did not report any injuries after they were examined by paramedics at the scene, police said. The report showed the plane’s fuel tank had minor damage after the landing.
Yoder said the plane’s engine will undergo repair work at a maintenance facility following the mechanical failure.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. The case will include interviews with Hershberger and Sample, as well as examinations of the aircraft, maintenance and fuel records, FAA regional spokesman Tony Molinaro said in an email.
Hershberger joined the New Horizons staff as a flight instructor in September, and had received his pilots ratings through the company over the past couple years, New Horizons posted on Facebook in September.
Original article can be found here ➤ https://www.goshennews.com
ELKHART COUNTY, Indiana — An aircraft attempting to land at Goshen Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in a nearby field on Thursday.
A 25-year-old pilot from LaGrange, Nevin Hershberger, and his 63-year-old co-pilot were conducting a test flight of a Cessna 152 just before 7 p.m., according to the Elkhart County Sheriff.
During the flight, the plane had a mechanical failure and lost power for an unknown reason, according to police.
The plane made an emergency landing in a field about five miles west of the Goshen Airport, in an area east of County Road 17 and north of County Road 42.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
Minor damage to the plane’s fuel tank was reported.
Story and video ➤ https://www.abc57.com
Posted by Kathryn on 11/08/2019
Bell 407, N64AE: Incident occurred November 07, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; St. Louis
While at 1000 ft, rotorcraft struck a bird and shattered the pilot side window.
Helicopters Inc
https://registry.faa.gov/N64AE
Regis#: N64AE
Aircraft Model: 407
Activity: AMBULANCE
Flight Phase: EN ROUTE (ENR)
Operation: 135
Flight Number: LIFETEAM 5
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Buckcherry Stay Strong With New Album Ahead of Their Show at Pop’s April 22
March 29, 2019 Sean Derrick 0 Main Page, Upcoming,
WHO: Buckcherry
WHEN: Monday, April 22 7:00 pm
WHERE: Pop’s Concert Venue
401 Monsanto Ave. Sauget, IL
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day-of-show $40 reserve balcony
Available now Online HERE
–By Jon Jackson
Hello Friends! When I heard that guitarist Keith Nelson left Buckcherry I was skeptical as to what the sound of the next album would be like, to say the least. Keith and lead vocalist Josh Todd started this group together. I have been following Buckcherry since its inception in 1999. I believed this was the band to bring Rock N Roll to the forefront again. Alas, we all know that has not happened. You see kids, back when I was a teenager, rock n roll reigned supreme on pop radio. I keep hoping for the second coming; we all need a dream. One of many for me.
Warpaint is album number eight for Buckcherry. I have had this in the mix since its release two weeks ago. That being said, I enjoy this album. The title cut starts off our journey. It’s a catchy tune with a sing along chorus and tasty guitar bits. I could not sit still as this song played.
Tribal drums and a groovy acoustic guitar kick off “Right Now”. This tune had me bouncing my head right along with it. Next, “Head Like a Hole” This is my favorite Nine Inch Nails song and to hear Buckcherry cover it so wonderfully was a certain home-run for me.
After this bit of excitement, the band slows things down a bit with “Radio Song”. True to its title, it is exactly that. Everything you would expect to hear when you put the dial on your favorite station. This song is so catchy that I challenge you not to sing along before it finishes. Bass lines and guitar licks consume the next couple tracks of “Vacuum” and “Bent”, and based on my taste in rock music there is nothing wrong with that!
The vocal harmonies that kick off “Back Down” get me all kinds of excited. Typical Josh Todd (Lead vocals) attitude that showcases a little swing in feel. This tune seems to lull in the verse but comes back strong to hook you with the harmonies during the Chorus. The slide guitar solo was also a welcomed surprise. “Back Down” might be my favorite song from this album.
“The Alarm” stomps a mud hole in your chest with its beginning and I, for one, can dig it! It is a definite party song to start any weekend. This selection had me singing along before the conclusion and yes, I am aware that I may sound like a broken record but this album is quite strong. “No Regrets” is yet another song that I just cannot sit still and listen to. You know its good when a song moves you and while this one may not move you emotionally, if you are tapping your foot, you are still being moved. That makes sense to me and I am sticking to it!
“The Hunger”, in my opinion, is a typical token ballad. I have spun this album four times as I write this and as much as I try I just cannot get excited about this one. With that said, “Closer” got me right back in my feels, not the lame cry in my beer feels, the “this band F-N rocks” feels. In good fashion Buckcherry finishes off Warpaint with a tight guitar and bass line combo, “The Devil is in the Details”. A crazy rant towards the end of the song and then back to the screaming power with both vocals and guitars. Well done! The Devil truly is in the details!
This is a great album that I can play all of without the urge to skip songs. Possibly one on the next spin. 😉 I was a fan of this band before reviewing Warpaint and will continue to be moving forward with strong offerings like this one. Buckcherry is coming to Pop’s in Sauget April 22. If you have not seen them live, do it! You will not regret it. If you collect albums, you should consider adding this one to your collection. If you don’t have any of their past albums, send me a message and I will let you know what to tackle next.
Warpaint track listing:
The Vacuum
The Devil’s in the Details
-Jon
WARPAINT TOUR DATES:
Mar 30 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s
Mar 31 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
April 2 – Newport News, VA @ Boathouse
April 4 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Arizona Bike Week – Westworld of Scottsdale
April 7 – Jacksonville, NC @ Tarheel
April 9 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
April 11 – Greenville, SC @ Firmament
April 12 – Knoxville, TN @ Cotton Eyed Joe
April 13 – Tampa, FL @ Fergs Live
April 14 – Jacksonville, FL @ Surfer Bar
April 16 – Pensacola. FL @ Vinyl
April 17 – Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
April 19 – Memphis, TN @ Graceland Soundstage
April 20 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
April 22 – St. Louis, IL @ Pops
April 23 – Springfield, MO @ The Complex
April 24 – Angola, IN @ The Eclectic Room
April 28 – Colony, TX @ Lava Cantina
April 30 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Studio
May 1 – Denver, CO @ Harry’s Hideaway
May 3 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Royal Bar
May 4 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
May 5 – Montclair, CA @ Canyon Club
Tags: album review, Buckcherry, Pop's Nightclub, Saint Louis concert announcement, Warpaint
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THIS IS A HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION OF A STREET_DANCE CALLED”LOCKING”
:as seen through the eyes of some of the original pioneers
NOTE: History is a compilation of historical events, most history is passed down legendary information, as seen from various perspectives, some are documented information passed down through writings or first hand eye witnesses. This information has been the results of first hand eye witnesses, and original creators and contributors from the ORIGINAL locking era. There are various historical accounts of various events in the 4 decades of Lockings existence. But there is only ONE Original era, which was seen through the many eyes that experienced it, which all came together to produce its foundation ..Read and Enjoy
Locking or Campbellocking is a dance art form with improvisational move called the lock. These were created by Don Campbell and put to a specific rhythm and style in the nightclubs of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
This dance and subculture quickly caught on and was soon the rage of a new television dance show called Soul Train. Individual dancers displayed quick locking and pointing movements along with hand slaps and splits.
Don Campbell along with dancers like Greg “Campbell Jr” Pope, Jimmy “Scooby doo” Foster, Fred “Mr. Penguin” Berry ( AKA Rerun),Damita Jo Freeman, The Go-Go- Brothers (Tony Lewis and Edwin “Buddy” Lombard),Kevin “YoYo”Lombard, James “Skeeter Rabbit” Higgins, Leo “Fluky Luke” Williamson, Johnny “Sambo Lock” McCloud,Damita Jo Freeman, Charles “Robot” Washington, Bill “Slim Robot” Williams, Alpha Anderson, Fredie Maxie, Guy “Shocklock” Evans, Tito Collins, Jeffery Daniels, Arnetta “Netta Bug” Johnson. Eugine “F & M Henderson and SEVERAL other old school originals would meet in nightclubs like, ” The Citadel” in Hollywood, The Summit on the Hill or Mavericks Flats and share steps and moves. after the initial years locking when began to grow, Dancers like Adolfo “Shabba doo” Quinones , Hayword “Tito Collins , Mike “Peek a boo” Frenke and Freddi Maxie and a few Others joined the original club scene
Don Campbell Himself created, initiated and emphasized the improvisational dance style of “Campbellocking.”
Don “Campbellock” Campbell early soul Train Line
Don and his partner, Damita Jo Freeman toured with the Soul Train Gang. Shortly after, Don comprised a group of improvisational solo style locking dancers (Each dancer would step out do his solo and step back in line) keeping time in the background was the only source of synchronized dancing this group of solo artist did. They were comprised of Don Campbell, Fred “Mr. Penguin” Berry, Charles Robot, Slim Robot and Sambo Lock. They were called The “ Campbellock Dancers“.
During that era & time, Greg Campbell Jr. Pope “Scooby doo” Foster, “, along with the GoGo ,YoYo CoCo brothers Family of Tony and Buddy Go-Go and Skeeter Rabbit, Arnetta Johnson . Kevin “yoYo” Lombard. sometimes partying with Leo “Fluky Luke” Williamson & Fred Berry at house parties, high schools , picniks and social events creating steps that were performed in unison. A movement towards group dancing was taking place in Watts,Compton & South Central, Los Angeles.and then continued interacting with other street dancers Like Greg “Captain Crunch” Dandridge & Steve “Sinbad Crane” This was evolution of the STREET MOVEMENT OF LOCKING
In 1972 The Go-Go brothers (Tony and Buddy along with the Original Skeeter Rabbitt & Kevin YoYo ) combined to form the first synchronized locking dance group; performing skits and routines in both large arenas as well as small high school functions.
In late 1972, early 1973 Scooby Doo and Greg Campbellock Jr. combined with the Go- Go Brothers (Tony & Buddy), Skeeter Rabbitt (OG) and with female lockers Arnetta Johnson, Lorna Dune & Shelly Cepeda formed the first unisex Locking group called, “Creative Generation“. This group studied dance, taught, performed and toured as members of the Legendary Watts Writers Workshop.
Later that summer,Is when Don Campbell along with Toni Basil organized and introduced the group, “THE LOCKERS”( originally named the campbellock dancers after Don Campbell’s first group). “The Lockers” was one of the most dynamic, influential groups in the history of the dance, comprising both improvisational dancers and synchronized dancers to form a group who could attract the culturally diverse ,COMMERCIAL audiences
Greg “Cambellock Jr” Pope , Had left the Watts writers first group “Creative Generation” and helped introduced to the group (The Lockers), synchronized locking choreography, which he had learned during his Creative Generation experience, at the Watts Writers Workshop. Him along with Don Campbell, “Slim Robot”, Fred “Rerun” Berry, Fluky Luke, Trained Ballerina & Chorographer Toni Basil, along with a young new talent, from Chicago Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quinones. The Dance style of Locking went from just a style to a performance artform, and was NOW revealed to the world.
During the Original groups existence, in the early 70’s. Other OG dancers such as Tony Go-Go and “The Original Skeeter Rabbit” (James Higgins)were members who were added and danced as OFFICIAL ALTERNATES with the Original Official Group The Lockers,
Many dancers have claimed original status ,some even taking pictures at events at mavericks today , or at Soul Train reunion Parties, and THEY ARE NOT. They may have danced on soul train or went to the clubs AFTER that original era , but they want you to think they were there right along with the REAL OG’s & they were not original. YES they may have been good, and may have done great commercial stuff ,but many of them were not back there on that original scene ,when locking FIRST developed. we have mentioned most who was & we clarified most who were around durng other time periods. if you were on the ORIGINAL scene and are not mentioned we would be happy to include you , If you want to know who was and who wasn’t just ask , we will post and clarify your confusion… ORIGINAL means ORIGINAL,
Please take note : All the way up into the 80s the group The LOCKERS was reconstructed many times with various dancers added or dropped as members.( see some of the later groups)As the group went through many personal & professional transitions, many of the dancers added in that time span , were not original era dancers and were not added on an OFFICIAL level, but they did dance with various original members under the assumption they were dancing with “THE ORIGINAL LOCKERS” BEWARE of all of those claiming to have been there !
Also, during the early to mid 70s period other urban groups such as 33RPM and the Ghetto Dancers were also formed (see acknowledgement page). These were comprised of various combinations of other old school locking (dancers) pioneers. Once the dance was introduced on National Television, It set off a dance phenomenon which now began spreading from the Los Angeles inner city, to the once segregated Suburbs, of Orange County the once segregated surrounding areas,( this is how other dancers of different generation came about) And eventually the style was seen and began to be imitated across the Country. Some of these newly found admirers of the style found themselves exposed to the ORIGINAL movement and Identified with the Original Foundation, Because the Dance style of Locking had ONLY been exposed through site.The Original Culture ,History and Foundation was only passed on to those that lived or sought the inner city experience.The discovery of the Newly discovered “Dance style” enticed supburban groups, promoters, dancers and managers, who were normally segregated to flood the scene . Some were driven by the love, facination and respect for the artform. Others simply ignored any foundatition and only disired to exploit an artform to a commercial market. Many of these dancers and groups, who bypassed the Foundation to simply imitate the moves as they thought they saw them, they were known by the real street sub-culture simply as “SLOP lockers”.
Note: Many of these groups and individules quickly clammered to exploit not just the artform of locking but it’s entire culture and roots. Many renamed steps and plagerized entire taped routines. Some never learned the internal rules of the sub-culture. They never learned or inquired about the brotherhood which made locking great. They only attemped to capitalize, exploit and alter the history of locking.
Many don’t understand what the History &; background has to do with the dance of Locking, Many wonder why it just can’t be a dance style, show or circus act..WATCH this video WATTS STAX and see what the inspiration was and still is for those that KEEP IT REAL
By 1973 there were an excess of pioneers known as lockers who made their name and reputations in the urban communities and night clubs. The few known as the Original members of “The Lockers Group” became the internationally famous. But ORIGINAL Dancers Like Guy “Shocklock” Evans, Jeffery “Cat Man” Macintire, Eugene “F&M” Henderson, Roy “Lie Lock”, “Sneaky T”, Enock “Elmer Fudd”, John “Okiedoke” Wilson “Elmer Fud’ Smith (RIP), , Steve “Sinbad” Crane, Arnetta “Nettabug” Johnson,Greg “Capt Crunch” Dandridge, Fredi Maxie and several others were some of the Street legends, who contributed.
By the mid 1970s locking had now been seen by many, and was now spreading. Southern California now had the Originating movement, but the dance now had migrated from the Inner city to suburban areas, such as Orange County California, where some of the originals were now accepted and shared the dance style with locals in that area, and to the Ventura Valley where those that seen an imitated the dance style open the doors to other eyes. But the Original style continued to develop in the Southern California Hoods of Watts, South Central , Compton and Inglewood, with Other 80s groups and Old School legends who bridged the gap between Locking and Popping
There were many who danced as members of the group “The Lockers” and many more who are refered to as Lockers by virtue of the dance of locking, which they have represented
In 1974 Jimmy “Scoobydoo Foster toured with a group called “Something Special’ introducing Locking along with various other dances internationally , into Japan,
By 1975 the artform had evolved both socially and professionally and in the late 1970’s, “The Original Lockers Group disbanded” and a third generation was formed in the mid 1980’s, adding old school pioneer “Alpha“Anderson,(who created the alpha floor move) along with old schoolers from the mid 70s, Lewis “Deputy” Green, Lionel “Big D” Douglas“and Anna “Lollipop” Sanchez, and 2nd generation GoGo brothers Manny “Loose Caboose” Tristin this formed the third generation “LOCKERS” Group. In the mid 1970’s Jimmy Scooby do Foster and a Group called “Something Special “was the first to internationally expose Asia to Locking along with other Cultural social dances. In the Late 70s Watts groups, such as the second generation of Kaptin Krunch (Charles Washington of the FBs) and his Funky Bunch followed the legacy of the Inner City Streets, by performing on Soul Train and in the 80s and as members of the Lockers in a 1984 performance, dancing both Locking & Popping. By the mid 1980’s, Tony Go-Go Lewis established a school re-introducing the locking dance art in Japan. Today, there is a wave of interest to know and understand the history and sub-culture of a true dance phenomenon all over the world.
By no means were these the only groups or contributors ( There are so many) to this dance and subculture that helped to form the multi style and cultures of today’s hip hop History of anything begans with an inspiration and an action, The inspiration of the artform came from a struggle of a people, the and action was put into place by Don Campbell, The early history stims from this one person through a group of early contributors to a specific area at a specific time in history,The innercity of South central Los Angeles, Watts & Compton California will always be that inception point in history, the issues surrounding those times will always be the inspiration.from there it insited a streetdance movement with purpose and pride. Today when one speaks of Locking history it can include many points of exposure to the style and all create an ever expanding chapter
Many thanks to Don Campbell and the many other Old and New School pioneers.
Many ask why can’t Locking just be an act like the circus, why can’t it just be entertainment , well it can be entertainment, but not like clowns, or minstril , it means much more check out the video below, soul and funk music linked to what the influences was that made this dance great
Any Questions.. please send us an email at info@lockerlegends.net .
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Eastern Departures
Ceramic Artists of Eastern Japan
November 11 – December 4, 2009
Matsui Kôsei (1927-2003)
Vessel with clay inlays and sand treated surface
Stoneware with colored clay inlays
Inv# 5696
Hamada Shoji (1894-1978)
Salt glazed tea bowl with combed design, ca. 1960
3 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Hamada Shôji (1894-1978)
Globular Flower Vase with curved design
Stoneware with salt-glaze
7 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches
Inv# 1JM01080
Eastern Departures Card
pictured on card
Wada Morihiro (1944 - 2008) Multifaceted columnar vase, 1998
11 3/4 x 5 inches
Ueda Tsuneji (1914-1980)
Set of six nerikomi sake cups with brown, black, beige abstract patterning on elevated foot, ca. 1968
Kamoda Shôji (1933-1983)
Hexagonal plate with upturned edges and matte glazes, 1968
2 x 11 1/2 x 13 inches
Matsui Kosei (1927-2003)
Neriage marbleized vase with spiraling striped banding in tan and dark brown clays, 1974 - 1975
Wada Morihiro (1944 - 2008)
Multifaceted columnar vase with red and green abstract pattern, 1998
So-un-ka-mon-sara; Large plate with layered abstracted designs of clouds and flowers, 1991
2 1/8 x 19 7/16 x 21 1/8 inches
Kawase Shinobu (b. 1950)
Low bowl with one inward and one outward point in rim, 2008
Porcelainous stoneware
3 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches
Koike Shoko (b. 1943)
Biomorphic sculpture with white glaze and etched surface
Ono Kotaro (b. 1953)
Globular pale yellow celadon-glazed water jar with a carved body and lacquer lid, 2009
Porcelain with koshi glaze and black lacquer lid
Tall pale yellow celadon-glazed bowl with a carved, undulating wave pattern, 2009
10 1/4 x 8 11/16 x 10 inches
Ogawa Machiko (b. 1946)
Vessel with metallic glaze, 2008
Stoneware with silver glazes
8 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Ogata Kamio (b. 1949)
Carved columnar neriage vase with blue, off-white and grey colored clay, 2007
15 x 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches
Rectangular carved neriage platter; "Vertigo," 2008
Maeda Masahiro (b. 1948)
Large hexagonal faceted bowl with abstract cacti, 2005
Stoneware with polychrome under and overglazing
Sakiyama Takayuki (b. 1958)
Globular vessel with diagonally incised cascading folds, 2009
Stoneware with sand glaze
15 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 18 7/8 inches
Sugiura Yasuyoshi (b. 1949)
Sculpture of a Camellia, 2008
Sculpture of Japanese Bayberry (Yama-momo), 2009
Takagaki Atsushi (b. 1946)
Vessel with vertical folds, 2008
11 x 7 1/2 x 13 inches
Water jar with curved fluted surface and lacquer lid
Porcelain with hakushi glaze and black lacquer lid
Hamada Shōji
Kamoda Shoji
Kawase Shinobu
Koike Shōko
Maeda Masahiro
Matsui Kōsei
Ogata Kamio
Ogawa Machiko
Ōno Kōtarō
Sakiyama Takayuki
Sugiura Yasuyoshi
Wada Morihiro
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd will present the work of several seminal modern and contemporary Japanese potters working from the Eastern regions of Japan. Through history, attention on traditional Japanese clay has been dominated by the ceramics of Western Japan, as represented by works from potters' studios throughout the Kyoto, Hagi, Bizen, Kanazawa, Tamba, Gifu, and Arita regions. It is only in the 20th century that ceramics have taken hold in Eastern Japan. This has given these ceramists far greater independence and artistic freedom than their counterparts in the tradition-bound West. Our exhibition focuses on artists who best represent this new direction and will include pioneering works by National Treasures Hamada Shôji and Matsui Kôsei, modern masters Kamoda Shôji and Wada Morihiro, and contemporary artists Itô Motohiko, Kawase Shinobu, Koike Shôko, Maeda Masahiro, Ogawa Machiko, Ogata Kamio, Ônô Kotarô, Sakiyama Takayuki, and Sugiura Yasuyoshi.
Our exhibition focuses on artists who best represent this new direction and will include pioneering works by masters:
HAMADA SHÔJI (1894-1977) attained unsurpassed recognition at home and abroad for his folk art style ceramics. Inspired by Okinawan and Korean ceramics in particular, Hamada became an important figure in the Japanese folk arts movement in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the Japan Folk Art Association with Bernard Leach, Kawai Kanjirô (1890-1966) and Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). Throughout his life, Hamada demonstrated an excellent glazing technique, using such trademark glazes as temmoku iron glaze, rice-husk ash glaze, and kaki persimmon glaze. Through his frequent visits and demonstrations abroad, Hamada influenced many European and American potters in later generations as well as those of his own.
Kamoda Shôji (1933-1983), long considered by many experts to be the greatest Japanese ceramic artist of the 20th century, was able to accomplish in half of a lifetime what other master artists struggle to ever even partially attain. In an unrivalled period of productivity from 1966-78, Kamoda transformed the aesthetic appreciation of modern ceramics. Always nominally functional, his stoneware "vessels" are ever imaginative in form, line, balance, glazing and decorative adornment. Today, after his premature death at age forty-nine, artists continue to copy and reinterpret his numerous inventive forms and designs.
Matsui Kôsei (1927-2003), designated a National Living Treasure in 1993, nearly single-handedly brought the refined art of colored-clay ware (neriage) back into use from classical Tang China ceramic ware. Neriage is a technique for creating patterns with various colored clays, which are marbleized to create abstract designs. He is best known for his unique rough-hewn surface texture developed in the late 1970s and 80s and later for wide ranges of colors and subtle tonalities with a smooth, marble-like surface.
Wada Morihiro (1944-2008) used a wide variety of decorative styles, such as black and white inlays, wax-resist, carving, under glaze, blue-and–white (sometsuke), and blown-on glaze. Moving from Kansai to Ibaraki Prefecture and into the ceramic town of Kasama enabled him to break free of more traditional aesthetics and develop his own repertoire of motifs and techniques more closely aligned to the work of Kamoda Shôji. For many decades he had been the most widely sought-after Japanese artist working with polychrome decorated surfaces. His sudden death last year has left an enormous hole in the world of contemporary Japanese ceramics,
and contemporary artists:
Kawase Shinobu (b. 1950) Born in Oiso in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawase Shinobu is regarded as Japan's most outstanding celadon artist working within the traditions of the Song dynasty. With his exquisite technique and immaculate glazing, he has developed a highly personal style that is simultaneously traditional and very modern. His works grace museum collections throughout the world. At this time several of Kawase's works are on view at both the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Koike Shoko (b. 1943) Koike takes nature as her point of departure, creating floral and shell-inspired forms in stoneware with irregular, undulating edges that protrude from her hand-built bodies. Made from Shigaraki clay, her wheel-thrown bodies are later shaped by hand and adorned with ruffled edges and projections and a creamy white, opaque glaze. Already a celebrated artist in the West with works in important museum collections throughout the U.S. and Europe, Koike reveals her passionate and intimate understanding of nature in her evocative sculptural forms.
Maeda Masahiro (b. 1948) specializes in Iroe kin-gin sai (painted gold and silver color decoration) technique, which was originally developed in Song China (10-12th century AD), and then imported into Japan in the seventeenth century. He uses subdued colors and abstract motifs to decorate his wares. They are wildly popular in Japan as table ware and are collected both in the US and Europe.
Ogata Kamio (b. 1949) a native of the remote island of Hokkaidô. Ogata is a self-taught artist who has chosen to specialize in the extremely difficult art of neriage, or marbleized clay. Despite his lack of professional connections, Ogata is rapidly becoming recognized throughout Japan for his unrivaled mastery, creating work with layerings of more than one hundred tonalities of subtly colored clay. One such vessel is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ogawa Machiko (b. 1946) Ogawa Machiko has been a vital force on the dialogue of contemporary clay since her arrival on the scene in 1985. After years of study at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, she drew inspiration from her travels which included living and studying in Paris at the École d'Arts et Métiers and then in Burkina Faso in West Africa. She won the Japan Ceramic Society Award as well as had solo exhibitions at major galleries and museums throughout Japan. Some of her work resembles cracked ice, while other vessels have a volcanic, scorched earth appearance. While Japanese in origin, Ogawa's work transcends national characterization, resonating with universal sensibility.
Ônô Kotarô (b. 1953) was born in Brazil and graduated from Gakushin University with a degree
Law before turning to ceramics. Studying first in Gifu and then in Madrid, Ônô settled and established his
studio on the northern island of Hokkaido, where he has specialized in wheel-thrown porcelain vessels that
are then carved with concentric, thick, undulating bands and covered in variety of celadon glazes ranging
from green to blue to yellow.
Sakiyama Takayuki (b. 1958) creates irresistible vessels that are carved with rippling surface patterns that reinforce their surging, spiraling nature yielding objects that are sensuous, bold and seamless. Some works appear as if made from sand on the beach, the surface simply decorated by the current of the receding water. Others appear to undulate and twist in space as if in perpetual motion. His work has been selected for the exhibition posters at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art (where there is also a work by him currently on exhibit) and the Musée National de Céramiques, Sèvres.
Sugiura Yasuyoshi (b. 1949), like several other artists in this exhibition, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. As a ceramist focusing on sculpture rather than vessel forms, he takes inspiration from botanical specimens, creating larger-than-life stylized, but accurate, versions of these flowers in tones of white, gold and brown. He is also celebrated for his large-scale installations both indoors and outdoors. Currently there is a work by him on view at the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Ironman Lake Tahoe 'will not be extended'
From The Union newspaper
TAHOE CITY — The future of Ironman Lake Tahoe (bike, swim, run) is in limbo as of Tuesday after a notice on the triathlon’s website changed several times, and local officials remain unclear of the event’s future.
An online statement on the Ironman Lake Tahoe later Tuesday stated, in part: “After careful consideration, Ironman Lake Tahoe will not be continued. We appreciate the efforts and support of the city, volunteers, sponsors, and everyone else involved in putting on this triathlon. ... We would also like to thank all of the athletes who have raced with us in Lake Tahoe.
“We appreciate your dedication and understand your disappointment with not being able to race in Lake Tahoe.”
Shortly afterward, the page appeared to be deleted, then updated to state: “Please stay tuned for more information.”
By 1 p.m. or so on Tuesday, it was again changed to indicate the North Lake Tahoe event “will not be extended.”
Amid this, JT Thompson, chief marketing officer for North Lake Tahoe Resort Association/Chamber of Commerce/CVB — which worked in previous years to ink Ironman to a five-year contract to hold an annual race at North Tahoe-Truckee — said the association is unclear.
“We’re just waiting for confirmation from corporate,” Thompson said, referring to World Triathlon Corporation, which organizes, promotes and licenses Ironman, at about 1 p.m. Tuesday. “Or maybe it could have been a mistake because (the notice) changed back. We don’t know.”
He said should World Triathlon Corporation notify NLTRA that the race will no longer be held, the North Tahoe association will issue a press release.
Inquiries to a World Trianthlon Corporation official seeking comment on this story were not immediately returned.
This past Sunday marked the triathlon’s third year at Lake Tahoe — although only its second running, as the race was canceled at the last minute in 2014 due to wildfire smoke.
‘COMES BACK IN DOLLARS’
Tuesday’s news came after representatives at several North Tahoe businesses praised Sunday’s event, expressing their desire for Ironman to continue in the region.
“It’s very important,” said Neil Patel, manager of Stevenson’s Holiday Inn in Kings Beach. “It helps a lot because a lot of the athletes and their families come more than two days, three days. ... Then they go to restaurant and spend money, so it helps everybody.”
The 21-room inn had about a 95 percent occupancy rate Friday through Sunday, with some athletes and supporters arriving a day earlier on Thursday, while others left on Monday.
The Village at Squaw Valley experienced a similar extended lodging trend, said Juli Hunter, front desk manager, with some visitors checking in Wednesday and Thursday, and others checking out Monday and Tuesday.
“Ordinarily we wouldn’t have been sold out on the mid-week nights, probably just the Friday and Saturday, if anything, so it did drive business for us mid-week, for sure,” Hunter said. “I think it’s fantastic.”
Meanwhile, other local establishments such as eateries and apparel and convenience stores saw more of an impact on weekend business.
Both Tahoe Central Market in Kings Beach and Parallel Mountain Sports in Squaw experienced more business on Saturday rather than Sunday.
“Saturday we were actually pretty busy,” said Brittany DeGroff, manager of Parallel. “(Sunday) we’re not as busy just because I feel like everybody’s outside cheering people on. ... It hard because we are a sports shop. Everybody who is competing or their families, they already have what they need, so they’re not really buying jerseys or water bottles; they already have all that.”
Yet, any uptick in business, especially before the shoulder season gets fully under way, is helpful, said Ellen Tobben, juice bar manager for Tahoe Central Market.
“We live in a tourist destination and it’s a highly seasonal economy, so the longer we can stretch out our season, the better that is for everyone,” she said.
Near the market is Brockway Bakery, which experienced a very busy Sunday morning, with business overall picking up 10 days prior to then, said John Wainscoat, who co-owns the bakery with his wife, Julie.
“(Ironman is) responsible for a 30 percent bump in September (business) ever since (it) started,” he said. “(Athletes’) families come, their supporters come, everybody comes. ... The little bit of disruption that happens, comes back in dollars.”
‘THE MORE, THE MERRIER’
Similar to pervious years, there were temporary closures in effect on highways 28, 267 and 89 and select town of Truckee roadways on race day to ensure the safety of the roughly 2,500 athletes.
Jason Borkert, of Sacramento, who was attending Ironman in support of his brother, said he didn’t encounter any traffic issues when traveling around the North Shore/Truckee region.
“I think there’s less people this year versus last year, and so it made it easier (to get around) inadvertently so,” he said. “You don’t run into as many people, so your wait time to get to places are a lot quicker.”
Also helping traffic flow were California Highway Patrol and Truckee Police officers at major intersections.
Jonathan Hennion, who lives in Tahoe City and had to travel to Squaw Valley for work on race day, said while he didn’t sit in traffic, it did take him awhile to get to work given the Highway 89 northbound closure from Fairway Drive in Tahoe City to the entrance of Squaw.
“(Sunday) I had to go from Tahoe City to Kings Beach, up to 267, and around through Truckee,” he explained. “It took me a little over an hour, so someone who isn’t involved in an Ironman, (it was) a little bit of a nuisance.
“… (Yet) it’s a good event. It brings a lot of people in, a lot of business in, so it’s a good thing. I can deal with the nuisance for one day.”
Meanwhile, others are not as understanding, Hunter relayed.
“I was actually just reading on Facebook some folks that were fussing about Ironman coming,” she said. “I was just thinking, ‘Come on now. We’re in the end of September, and you’re complaining that we still have active business ... (and) selling out property.’
“I think it’s great. They need to do more of (these large athletic events) in the fall, so we can all stay working year round. I say bring them on. The more, the merrier.”
Ironman is part of NLTRA’s strategy to secure human-powered sporting events for the region during the shoulder seasons of fall and spring.
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From Cameroon to Kuala Lumpur with a vision
In about a week’s time I’ll be in Asia. Not for a fun trip or a holiday or a chance to get a taste of Asian spicy cuisine (which is on my to do list anyways), but I’ll be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with about 5000 others to start some real talk about the way forward for women and girls’ health worldwide. The Women Deliver 3rd Global conference will bring together about 5000 activists, policy makers, donors, and grassroots organizers (like myself) to move the discussion further into action and set commitments towards advancing the health of women and girls.
But why girls’ health?
Because by virtue of her sex, she is the reproductive light of tomorrow with an entire generation depending largely on her. Because she is a girl, a mother, a first educator of the child, usually the bread winner. Because in a war zone, she’s more likely to get assaulted sexually. She is more vulnerable to unwanted pregnancies and abortions, and rape. Because the health of her children will depend on her health first. Because she is more vulnerable to disease and her access to health services/infrastructure has not been properly addressed.
Because failure to meet her health needs is exposing future generations to other countless risks. Because her future depends on her health.
I’ll be attending in the position of one of the 100 young leaders selected by Women Deliver to represent the voices of young people around the world who are committed to advancing the health and rights of women and girls. I’m attending because I see the realities each day and the huge sufferings that women have to endure just because they are women. I will be attending because I have watched a girl’s life turn around because she has been denied access to sexual and reproductive health services, and because she has been abused several times, she thinks it’s normal. Because she has been forced to live with HIV for the rest of her life but has no access to ARV because it is out of stock this month. I will be attending because I want to watch the policy-makers give explanations for this. I am attending because I want to see a global walk-the-talk movement post WD 2013.
But the question remains – how would my involvement in this conference improve the life of that woman in rural Cameroon with no access to health services nor the income to feed her family? Or that girl forced into motherhood and matrimony with no say in the decision whether or when to have a child? I say these are the problems I will personally be showcasing. These are the proposals I will be putting forward as a young person and these issues raised will form part of the baseline for advocacy at the international level and a start point to garner commitments towards making women’s health a reality.
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It is difficult to argue that Fleetwood Mac should not be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but what of their breakout star, Stevie Nicks? Certainly she had a successful solo career and her look was copied enough, but it is also easy to counter that her best work was in the band that first made her a star.
Just what is about Stevie Nicks that makes her so beloved? She is cited as a major influence by numerous female songwriters and she had that raspy voice that was so unique that rendered it impossible to imitate. What could help Nicks is that the Hall does strive for some type of gender equity and their really are few women rockers who could be ahead of her. If any member of Fleetwood Mac could get in twice it has to be Nicks.
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Why they will get in: Her solo work is solid enough and with her one time moniker as the “Queen of Rock and Roll” makes her seem to “fit”.
Why they won't get in: She is already inducted with Fleetwood Mac, so there will be no sense of urgency to induct her.
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+1 #4 Sara 2014-06-02 23:02
Quoting LaustCawz:
Who ever referred to Stevie Nicks
as "The Queen Of Rock"??
Was that her idea??
Rolling Stones deemed her The Queen of Rock in the late 70's! She was one of the only REAL rocker chicks during that time..In fact she shredded her vocal chords because of her singing. Watch her 70's performances and that will show you a real rock and roll singer.
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Thanks Bojan. We have corrected that typo!
+3 #1 bojanthebest -0001-11-30 00:00
that invincible song is from pat benatar not stevie
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Little Brick Pastoral celebrates story of Australian agriculture with Lego farmer minifig
PHOTO Like our farmers, no job is too big or too small for the Lego Farmer. SUPPLIED: LITTLE BRICK PASTORAL
A tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls is doing his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
He is the Lego Farmer, 4.5cm tall and becoming quite a national, if not international, celebrity as he sows the message of agriculture in schools and via social media.
The farmer spends his day working hard, fixing machinery, baling hay, checking the harvest, planting crops or hanging out with his working dog.
And his ‘home’ is with Little Brick Pastoral, a blog started by agribusiness graduate Aimee Snowden, who lives on her family’s irrigation farm at Tocumwal, in the southern Riverina in New South Wales.
The Lego Farmer busies himself bundling hay SUPPLIED: LITTLE BRICK PASTORAL
Born and raised on the land, Ms Snowden was keen to share her love of agriculture, and decided to combine it with her passion for photography and her sense of fun.
Like so many adults, the joy of playing with the colourful plastic bricks never really left her and, in September 2014, she decided to experiment with a minifigurine, or ‘minifig’, and her camera.
Ms Snowden first posed her farmer among a germinating crop and — like the crop — the Lego Farmer’s popularity has grown and grown.
“When I first started, I thought it would be a bit of fun,” she said.
“But after a little while, I realised it had a lot of potential as a way to start a conversation around production and farming in a different way.
“I don’t want farmers to be portrayed in a negative way. I want it to be positive. That is my main driver.”
The Lego Farmer’s first photoshoot
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Aimee Snowden launched the Lego Farmer in 2014 with this photo of the farmer in the sprouting clover.
Capturing new audiences and sharing farming message
Ms Snowden said using the toy enabled her to capture a wider audience — parents and their kids, city residents who may have grown up in the country, and people who loved Lego.
She said she first noticed how engaged children were with the little plastic farmer while attending an exhibition of the building blocks in Melbourne.
“We shared the story of oats with a tactile display and we found there was such an interest from kids, and even the adults,” Ms Snowden said.
“It creates interaction and a conversation with kids and their parents.”
Teaming up to teach
In September, during the Year of the Pulse, Little Brick Pastoral teamed up with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to create a teaching resource.
Ms Snowden developed 12 agricultural characters and together with the DPI, produced On the Pulse, a kit containing classroom activities designed for primary school-aged children.
Little Brick Pastoral is hoping to be involved in developing more educational resources for primary schools.
Its goal was to connect students with where their food comes from, teach them about careers in the industry, and increase their agricultural literacy using minifigs as a storytelling tool.
Included in the On the Pulse kit:
Minifigurine pieces to make various characters
Broad bean seeds to grow
Mung beans — for sprouting and eating
Chickpeas — for cooking
Career profile cards
Pulse information sheets
The initial rollout of 200 kits was very popular and Ms Snowden said while feedback on its success was still to come, she hoped there would be more opportunity to work with schools.
“It was very well received. The kits went quickly and we know there is a strong interest, and the DPI would like to continue working with us,” she said.
Ms Snowden would like to see characters like the Lego Farmer highlighting the various careers in agriculture — from paddock to plate — in classrooms around the country.
However, individual state curriculums mean liaising with various education boards.
“Because my background is not in education, I need to partner with people who can provide that input,” she explained.
Spreading the message and the photo love
In the meantime, Ms Snowden continues to use her blog to tell the story of farming in Australia.
Apart from increasing awareness and offering an insight into the Lego Farmer’s life, Little Brick Pastoral provides access to up-to-date information about agriculture in Australia.
It provides industry links to resources designed to help other farmers, students, teachers and representative groups.
But the farmer’s fame is not restricted to the blog — he has almost 8,000 followers on Facebook, uses Twitter, and shares photos on Instagram where other Lego photographers congregate.
And yes, there is a female Lego farmer too, although most of her time is spent behind the scenes.
“Women play an important role in all agriculture and in fact, they make up 43 per cent of the world’s agricultural labour force,” Ms Snowden said.
She said that quite often, due to ratio and perspective, two characters in the frame could “overcomplicate” the image — and then there were the sudden gusts of wind and other environmental factors.
Ms Snowden and the Lego Farmer are not affiliated with the famous toy maker, but were involved in the #BuildAustralia campaign.
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August was filled with long, hot days for the charity. What better way for our families to enjoy all the sunny weather than to head up to our charity caravan in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire?
Our charity caravan sits on beautiful grounds just a short bus ride outside of the seaside town of Mablethorpe. It boasts some lovely sandy beaches where the charity families can relax, take a swim, build sand castles and enjoy some quality time together away from the hospital.
The caravan, fondly dubbed The Beach Retreat by our charity founder Janet Walker-Smith, was purchased for the charity by the Birch family in 2018 after their annual Birchy Cup Golf Tournament in honour of Cpl Marc Birch. We have had many families make loving memories this summer at The Beach Retreat, so we would like to thank the Birch family again for their wonderful contribution to the wellbeing of the charity families.
The town of Mablethorpe has a seal sanctuary close by for families to visit and gorgeous walks both on the caravan grounds as well as beachside. There are also many good chippies and treats for families to indulge in that are a very long way from hospital food—an ice cream is definitely welcome in 30-degree heat!
There are many activities that families can take part in at the caravan. At the back there is a fishing pond where families can rent rods and tackle to fish and also a water park with lots of huge inflatables and other types of watercraft and games for families to enjoy; this is always a big hit with the charity children. The site also has a restaurant and nightly entertainment that is fun for the whole family. It really is a very special place for our families to have some respite from the ordeal they have to endure when their child has cancer.
Though many of our children need to be in hospital for chemotherapy and radiotherapy, operations, consultations, needles and so much more, it is important to us as a charity that they are seen as kids first, and all children just want to have fun. Our caravan gives our children and their families the chance to make the most of their summer holidays by providing a leisurely environment where they can be kids.
The NC TLC Trust has a few thank yous to acknowledge this month. We would like to thank Mr McCarthy from the Swan and Helmet for donating £200.00 towards the charity in memory of Teresa Hogan. We are very grateful for your donation.
We would also like to send out a big thank you to JPL Groundworks for £100.00 in memory of Teresa Hogan. It is thanks to wonderful supporters like you that we can continue our important work.
A massive thank you goes out to Semilong Services for a £350.00 donation to the charity, also in memory of Teresa Hogan. Your continued support over the years means the world to us.
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We also need to say a huge thank you to Amazon in Daventry and Sonia Marshall for the £1000.00 donation to the NC TLC Trust. We are so grateful for your donation—it really is going to make a big difference in the lives of many children.
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Re: Should SMU sever ties with the Methodist Church?
by ThisIsOurTime » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:51 pm
gostangs wrote:
ThisIsOurTime wrote:
gostangs wrote: We are not a religious school. Perkins is the smallest school at the university and also is the least productive to the whole. (Less donations, prestigege, students and alumni then any other school at SMU). It worked out ok for Duke and USC to separate from the church - we need to do the same. Let the church be the church and SMU be a university.
What is your faith? Why do you think the Methodists founded the school?
Not sure the reason the Methodist founded the school is relevant at this point. Theology is not a sustainable academic path for a university today - unless it is a total focus such as Dallas Baptist. Also not relevant - but my faith is active Presbyterian.
We all just need to admit this has been in name only for well over 50 years. Probably more. Separating is only acknowledging the reality. The Methodist church has no control over SMU, the Bishops on the board are figure heads and there is very little religious academic activity going on at SMU.
And the M can be for Middle. Or just leave it as Methodist but refer to us as just SMU (like TCU does now). That is not insulting to anyone - it just acknowledges that things change over time.
I asked whether you had a faith because many of the things you are saying are contrary to Christian principles. You are going on and on about money and prestige among men and other worldly things as being the most important. But those are far from Christian principles. And those weren't the principles used in starting and running the school.
From the Christian perspective, it is a terrible thing that one of its institutions is being stolen and turned into an outright atheistic institution. The fact that this has been going on for years doesn't make it better. This ultimately means less influence for Christians and worse will even be used as a tool to undermine the faith. I don't see how the founders of the school would be happy with this outcome.
ThisIsOurTime
by PK » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:53 pm
Or just change the name to SMU, previously known as Prince...er...Southern Methodist University.
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
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by horsemanx » Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:19 pm
Hopefully after the split the part of the church that is cool with gays will be the new default "Methodist" church and it will still be ok to be Southern Methodist.
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United Methodist Church To Split Over Whether Or Not To Be Christians
NASHVILLE, TN Leaders from the United Methodist Church have announced a tentative plan to split the church over differences on whether or not Methodists should be Christian or some sort of social group with a vague deist motif that makes up morality based on whatever it feels like.
"There was just no way to reconcile differences," said Rev. Lloyd Patrick, one of those dismayed by the recent push by traditionalists to follow the Bible instead of each person's own heart. "A lot of people still want to follow Jesus -- a person from 2000 years ago who made no statements about pronouns and thus has no relevance today -- which is just silly since we all know so much more now and have a better grasp on morality than a bunch of ancient people."
Rev. Patrick went on to describe how Christian beliefs put an unnecessary burden on people, as they can lead to ridicule or even being canceled. "I guess they don't have to worry about that in primitive places overseas," Rev. Patrick said, "but we can't be expected to deal with that in the U.S."
While most of the U.S. Methodist churches are moving in a more modern direction, away from outdated beliefs like Christianity, it's mainly in less developed nations in places like Africa that are still hung up on things like the Bible, necessitating the split. We got no statements from anyone there, though, as it didn't seem worth listening to such unenlightened views.
https://babylonbee.com/news/methodist-c ... christians
Do not click on the link above.
You will have to shut down to get out of it. Thanks "ThisIsOurTime" for wasting my time. So Christian of you.
PK wrote: Do not click on the link above.
Lol, you shouldn't have to click on the link. I posted the whole article but wanted to give them credit. Sorry if you had some trouble with it. I clicked on the link and didn't have any trouble. Regardless, Babylon Bee is satirical news site like the Onion if you weren't familiar with them.
by PK » Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:31 pm
I assumed it was an Onion type thing, but I swear when I got on the site I could not back out of it or close the internet connection. Started to worry about what else it might do to me if I clicked on anything so I bailed out by shutting down my computer.
by EastStang » Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:46 pm
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-reporter-gets-upset-that-babylon-bee-story-went-viral-bee-responds
CNN "fact checker" cited misinformation from Babylon Bee then backed off and said, he knew it was satirical all the time, but others might not.
Babylon Bee paid them back with this headline: "CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: 'The Internet Is Only Big Enough For One Fake News Site'"
Gotta love them.
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by ponyboy » Sat Jan 11, 2020 4:07 am
Babylon Bee is gold.
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by Dark Horse » Sun Jan 12, 2020 5:46 pm
ThisIsOurTime wrote: From the Christian perspective, it is a terrible thing that one of its institutions is being stolen and turned into an outright atheistic institution. The fact that this has been going on for years doesn't make it better. This ultimately means less influence for Christians and worse will even be used as a tool to undermine the faith. I don't see how the founders of the school would be happy with this outcome.
The goal is to educate, not teach christianity or any other faith. For years (decades), SMU has welcomed students from all states countries and faiths, and is better for it. If you want a church-based education, you can study theology at perkins or there are plenty of schools elsewhere that offer that.
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by gostangs » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:17 pm
Dark Horse wrote:
This is my point exactly. Also I am pretty sure the founders would want a university that continues to educate - not one that gets caught up in a meaningless denominational fight when said denomination already doesn't control anything. There is nothing un-Christian about that view - its just realistic. You want to study only theology - step right up to Perkins and be my guest.
gostangs
Location: Dallas, Texas USA
by ponyboy » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:22 am
IDEALISM: If Christianity is true -- and I think it is -- then education means in great part teaching Christianity. Veritas liberavit vos, our motto and the words of Jesus. Some of you seem to be advocating for vocational training. Sure, universities can be DeVry with brick and ivy, but let's not forget the core mission of universities: teaching one how to be a good human being.
(We're not doing a very good job of it, present company excepted. We pump out a good number of morons who think that life is about how many zeros are to the left of the period on their latest paycheck. Liberal education is supposed to help cure all that).
REALISM: What does any of this have to do with SMU severing ties with the Methodist church?
There are those in the media who have jumped on the internal struggle in the UMC and SMU's attempt to wrest control of property from the UMC, saying that SMU is in effect protesting against the decision of the UMC governance not to provide blanket endorsement of the homosexual lifestyle.
I don't believe this narrative to be true in the slightest, though when pressed SMU might do just cave to pressure to make such a statement. But they won't be pressed to do so since the latest news is that the progressive wing of the UMC will be retaining control of the UMC name -- traditionalists are about to go create their own denomination, the "Global Wesleyan Church", or some such thing.
But, again, this situation was never about making a statement -- it was about taking the opportunity during a time of internal UMC unrest to take ownership of SMU property and governance.
by Hoss » Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:03 pm
ponyboy wrote: IDEALISM: If Christianity is true -- and I think it is -- then education means in great part teaching Christianity. Veritas liberavit vos, our motto and the words of Jesus. Some of you seem to be advocating for vocational training. Sure, universities can be DeVry with brick and ivy, but let's not forget the core mission of universities: teaching one how to be a good human being.
If a university is going to teach one religion; teach about all faiths. And teaching to be a good human being is absolutely a part of a university's core mission. But so is teaching business, languages, science, law, music, engineering -- whatever someone needs to prepare for a career of choice.
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by Sarah Catalano October 21, 2019
With muscles afire and water reflecting glaring-hot sunlight into his eyes, time moves differently. Calloused hands chafe against the oars, and the world is reduced to a team in a boat, gliding across the water.
Often, dreams can be forgotten, set aside and given up on. But if Pine View alumnus and prospective Olympic rower Clark Dean knows anything, it’s hard work. With countless hours of training, years of practice, and the self-motivation to improve, Dean’s raw willpower has taken him to the 2019 World Championship, one step away from the status of an Olympian.
Dean was first introduced to the sport the summer before his sixth-grade year when he attended a camp at Sarasota Crew that he’d heard about from his friends — unaware that years later he would be vying for a seat in the Olympics.
“Rowing was the first sport I’d done on the water, outdoors and very team-oriented. You couldn’t just rely on yourself,” Dean said.
By eighth grade, he was already rowing on the freshmen team. From then on, he trained five to six days a week with the varsity program, volunteering himself for an intense schedule.
“{Rowing} forces you to manage your time, and that carries on to college,” Dean said. “It gives you a good sense of discipline and work ethic.”
According to Dean, the atmosphere in Sarasota Crew is one of teamwork and strong support from coaches and peers — Dean’s parents and friends in both the Sarasota Crew and Pine View communities were always supportive and provided a foundation for him to thrive. In return, Dean committed himself to the community, keeping the team-oriented values alive.
“He was always looking for ways to engage the guys. They would make up games, something different but inclusive. We’re a big squad, we have six eights worth of guys, but everyone would be included in the things he would bring to the program,” Caitlynn Crouch, high school boys’ varsity coach said. Crouch is in her eighth season coaching at Sarasota Crew.
Dean’s perseverance led him to reach a defining moment when he became a Junior World Champion in 2017.
“I didn’t think I would be able to win the single scull … I was less experienced than these other guys I would be racing, I was younger than these guys I would be racing, and I knew I wasn’t even the strongest guy in the field, physically,” Dean said. “About a quarter of the way through [the race], I was in fifth or sixth place, knowing that I had to get up two to advance, and then I just realized, ‘I think I can beat these guys.'”
Clark said that the experience gave him the confidence to continue, “It was definitely a great feeling, especially when you’re in a boat that’s just you … It takes away any doubt in your mind.”
After his senior year, Dean went on to set a record in a single boat, completing a 2,000-meter course in 6 minutes and 45 seconds.
He graduated in 2018 and continued his education at Harvard University, rowing on the heavyweight men’s team throughout his freshman year. Entering the 2019-2020 school year, he took a hiatus from school and dedicated his time to rowing. With seven years of hard work and skill under his belt, he placed his focus on reaching the rower’s grail: the Olympics.
“Even as a freshman, his goal was to one day be an Olympian,” Crouch said. “To watch an eighth-grader grow into the thing he wanted to be — I think it’s very rare. I think he always has been able to embody what hard work can get you, and his ability to commit to his goals. Not just the dream of what could happen but knowing and accepting the work that had to happen every day on that path.”
Dean and 19 other Americans were selected for the 2019 World Rowing Championship in Austria from August 19 to September 1. There, the top boats worldwide qualified their country for spots in the Olympics (the U.S. qualified for one eight-person sweeping boat and one four-person sweeping boat, leaving 12 U.S. seats for summer 2020. Dean was a part of the winning four-person boat). The rowers then underwent a meticulous selection process in which U.S. coaches observed them in different team combinations to select the fastest athletes who work well together and go on to fill the seats in the Olympics.
Dean’s contribution in the victorious four-person boat did not guarantee him a spot on the U.S. team — rowers have yet to be announced.
“This summer was definitely the most challenging of all,” Dean said. During his previous experiences in the Junior World Championships, he raced with rowers under 19. While in Austria, he raced both against and with true Olympians, some nearly double his age. Across the world and in a new environment, he had to adapt quickly to different training processes to succeed.
While his place in the Olympics is not yet secured, Dean has already accomplished much through realistic focus on his goals and the self-motivation needed to reach them. Outside of the realm of competition, harsh sun and shrill whistles, rowing is still a place where Dean can find peace.
“It’s always something I can escape to — get away from the crowd and school, and have something to resort back to, even if it’s just a 20-minute row,” he said. “Just myself out on the water … I’m always looking forward to it.”
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Kylie Jenner posted this photo on her Instagram of herself wearing Bleu's tights. Fashion Nova subsequently used the photo to sell its own cheaper version.
A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Dec 1, 2016 at 10:59pm PST
Bleu's issue with the photo is that using an image of Jenner wearing her tights to sell Fashion Nova's clothes creates obvious brand confusion. How does an indie designer solidify herself as a profitable brand when photos of her actual designs are used as Fashion Nova's marketing? The brand has since deleted the image of Jenner wearing the tights. However, you'll also find that Fashion Nova still sells a $12 version of Bleu's suspender Meteor Fishnets ($125, D.bleu.dazzled).
"I will never say I invented certain things, because I know that certain crystallized hosiery existed before," she explained to Revelist. "But the method and the way I’m doing it, and the amount of crystals [that I use], didn’t exist before because I would have f****** bought it before. I know what methods I started, so it’s easy to see what of mine they are being influenced by."
Since then, Fashion Nova has sold multiple d.bleu.dazzled imitations, according to Bleu.
It would be in your best interest to not @ me in Fashion Nova’s defense or telling me this is what happens in fashion. I will immediately block you. They’ve copied me and every single designer friend of mine and oversaturated the market with a cheap knock off.
— destiney bleu (@destineybleu) August 11, 2018
"It would be in your best interest to not @ me in Fashion Nova’s defense or telling me 'this is what happens in fashion,'" she tweeted out to people who criticize her for calling out the knockoffs. "I will immediately block you. They’ve copied me and every single designer friend of mine and oversaturated the market with a cheap knock off."
Bleu believes that Fashion Nova, in its current position, could be successful without dupes if the brand chose to ditch them entirely.
A post shared by destiney bleu (@destineybleu) on Aug 8, 2017 at 10:22pm PDT
"I understand them wanting to make things affordable, but there’s something to be said about making money off of other people’s designs," Bleu told Revelist. "I don’t really follow them, but I know they have like 100 styles or something new every week, [so] their constant copying is greed. It’s not that they are just trying to provide affordable things. They are being greedy because they are promoting overconsumption."
Like Wilden of Knots & Vibes, Bleu believes that a more ethical practice would be for larger brands to collaborate with the indie designers from whom they draw inspiration.
A post shared by destiney bleu (@destineybleu) on Sep 26, 2017 at 11:47am PDT
"It’s obvious that they don’t respect the creative process. If they did, they would collaborate with designers. They’ve been around a few years and they have yet to collaborate with anyone," Bleu said. "I feel like if they would, they could pay a designer fee and they would make their money back in an hour or two. Then they would have their usual shoppers, the designer’s fans, and anyone who wanted that designer’s stuff and couldn’t afford it. I think they could shift the entire narrative by collaborating and probably do even better."
Bleu emphasized that at this point, Fashion Nova has been so disrespectful to the indie designer community, and to her brand personally, that she would never work with the fast-fashion retailer. However, she does suggest that Fashion Nova seek collaboration with other indie designers.
Another indie designer who has been vocal about Fashion Nova ripping off her designs is Jai Nice, the boutique owner and designer of Kloset Envy.
A post shared by Jai Nice (@jai_nice) on Jan 1, 2019 at 12:04am PST
Jai Nice built her Kloset Envy boutique from the ground up by moving to LA and writing a business plan at age 18, according to an interview with Rolling Out magazine. The brand is now a booming online business, and its Instagram page has over 700K followers.
Nice called out Fashion Nova in 2018 for buying her Black Nadia hoodie, making a copy of the hoodie for the Fashion Nova x Cassie Collection, and then returning it back to her warehouse.
A post shared by Jai Nice (@jai_nice) on Jul 23, 2018 at 9:39am PDT
"Stop stealing from the African American community @fashionnova," she wrote on Instagram. "Richard, IDGAF how much y'all paying ppl to promo y’all cheap a** sh**. Did you forget y’all just had one of the managers buy from @klosetenvy under another name just to get the sample to remake it."
"Y’all [too] cheap to add the hood on it SMFH. Then y’all got sloppy and returned it back from the shipping department SMFH. The f****** nerve to buy and return," she continued.
photo: Fashion Nova
"I’m not refunding sh**. I’m sending it right back to y’all. Since y’all wanna play I’m gonna Post y’all [employee's] whole name and address y’all bought it under. Since y’all think it’s cool y’all wanna keep playing with ppl. This ain’t the first or the last time that he think [it's cool] to keep f****** with the community. They ain’t for Cassie Collection I have proof you bought 2 of the same exact items just to see how it was made. Payola @fashionnova culture vulture. I let you have my model wtf else do you want get off my d*** I’m sick of y’all."
Nice even had to defend herself against Fashion Nova fans who accused her of lying about designing the jacket and having her original design returned by Fashion Nova.
photo: Instagram/Jai Nice
"Don’t come talking no shit OK. This was designed last October before anyone had it. No one started making this hoodie until I released it. Let’s get that straight. This took four samples to get it right the perfect fit and to make sure the sleeve stay[s] puffy," Nice shared on Instagram.
"Like I said, @FashionNOva it would [have] been cool if you ain’t send ya employees to buy it then personal send it back from ya’ll shipping department but I guess ya’ll got sloppy. Fashion Nova you make enough money you culture vulture. You need to stop before I start dropping real tea [about] how you telling manufacturers to not work with certain companies because you don’t like them and how [they] want [to] put other companies outta business. Stop f****** with the black community. You ain’t gonna keep getting away with this shit. I’m not gonna even knock the ppl that’s promoting them cuz that’s where most of [their] money coming from is fashion nova Post. Without them posts a lot of people… let me hush."
According to Jai Nice, Fashion Nova responded to her allegations by blocking her on Instagram. Months later, this happened.
Alexa play Mariah Carey why you so obsessed with me ????????♀️ y’all just going to keep it going huh. I really be trying to ignore this and looks past it. But honestly it’s getting ridiculous. Why do y’all continue to steal / rip off designers ? Is this the new thing or something ? Just because y’all paying the culture to promote y’all doesn’t make this shit right smh. If y’all think I’m not gonna speak up for everything I believe in and stand for y’all are crazy. This is my life and my passion. It’s ridiculous and to all the upcoming designers and young entrepreneurs don’t let things like this discourage you at all. Let’s this be the fuel and motivation to go harder.
A post shared by Jai Nice (@jai_nice) on Feb 27, 2019 at 8:40am PST
Yes. Fashion Nova started selling another design that looks mysteriously similar to a dress Jai Nice designed for Kloset Envy.
"Alexa play Mariah Carey why you so obsessed with me. Y’all just going to keep it going huh? I really be trying to ignore this and looks past it. But honestly it’s getting ridiculous. Why do y’all continue to steal / rip off designers?" Nice asked on Instagram. "Is this the new thing or something? Just because y’all paying the culture to promote y’all doesn’t make this sh** right smh."
To answer Nice's question: Copycat designs sadly aren't a "new thing" at all. Unfortunately, most aren't even illegal.
photo: VH1
CC: Diet Prada. And word to the infamous Canal Street in New York City where knockoff designer goods are openly sold on sidewalks in front of the police on a daily basis unless it's raining. Fashion Nova is just the new gentrifier on the block, but before it, fast-fashion brands like Forever 21, H&M, Primark, and Zara have all been (and are still regularly) accused and sued for theft of apparel designs. Among the most recent: Vans filed a lawsuit against Primark for selling a shoe that looks almost exactly like the brand's iconic skateboard sneaker with its signature single stripe.
If you're a former fashion student like me, then this is cold tea — but if you're not, then get a cup out. There are few laws that protect designers from having their creations ripped off.
LMAO @FashionNova ???? pic.twitter.com/vrwVEGjoHf
— Noorvana ???? (@n00rvana) February 4, 2019
The U.S. Copyright Office does not allow copyrights for any designs considered to be "functional." The catch? Nearly all clothing is considered functional by the office. Womp.
The strongest defense designers have is to get a trademark for an aspect of the design to avoid brand confusion, which isn't the easiest thing to do. You can't trademark an entire article of clothing, but you can trademark one defining detail that is not functional.
A popular example is the red sole of the Christian Louboutin pump, which is trademarked so that no other designer can legally sell shoes with red soles. Designers can also apply for a trade dress, or protection for a specific packaging style (like the curved red carton of the McDonald's fries or the curvy Coca-Cola bottle, which still gets knocked off by the way). This isn't always helpful because obviously, most clothes aren't even sold with packaging.
Even with those protections in place, going to court is still very costly, especially for indie designers.
U TRIED IT. RUN ME AND MY SISTER OUR MONEY LIKE NOWSIES @FashionNova pic.twitter.com/A2HBicrrgl
— aji neuroti (@ajifatouism) April 28, 2018
Indie designers often do not have huge budgets and expensive lawyers like the massive retailers do that they would be going up against. Because the legal protection territory is so narrow, this is how other brands are able to boldly and repeatedly copy fashion items with no threat of a legal clapback.
Because fashion designers are so unprotected, Briana Wilson, who founded the Matte Brand, has all but given up on preventing her designs from being ripped off and sold by Fashion Nova, PrettyLittleThing, or any other popular "Instagram boutique."
A post shared by Briana Shaneè Wilson (@eenahsanairb) on Apr 14, 2018 at 4:24pm PDT
You may recognize the Matte Brand as the clothing company responsible for those sexy neon catsuits that won summer 2018. Teyana Taylor wore one to Coachella. Amber Rose ordered a custom fit of the same design. Influencer and swimwear designer Draya Michele also slipped into one. That bright catsuit helped spike the neon resurgence that fashion girls are still sporting today.
Per usual, it was imitated left and right. Wilson told Revelist she noticed that PrettyLittleThing ripped off the jumpsuit first for its collection with model and influencer Nazanin Mandi. Fashion Nova followed soon after with a similar set called the Neon Lace Glow, which is still available for $45.
"I feel like anything I put out, they’re going to rip off… At this point, I’ve been doing this for five years. I expect it," Wilson said to Revelist. "I just try to work my way around it but I expect for them to do these kinds of things.”
But that doesn't mean Wilson refrains from calling Fashion Nova out for selling copycats of her creations.
A post shared by Briana Shaneè Wilson (@eenahsanairb) on Mar 2, 2019 at 9:01am PST
"I’m usually silent about this but *yawn* another day of @fashionnova ain’t sh**!!!!!!!! First off, this sh** looks trash," Wilson shared on her Instagram page. "I put so much quality time, money, tears [and] WORK into what I do & this has happened to me over and over again with almost EVERY major fashion business since I started. Thank you to everyone that supports me :) @fashionnova s*** my d***. I rather shop @ the alley or SLAUSON."
"I think they’re kind of bold at this point with what they do," Wilson told Revelist. "I feel more like I’m paying their bills. I’m the one with the ideas. I’m keeping their brand going."
Wilson confirmed that she hasn't taken legal action because she knows the fashion industry isn't really set up for her to have a successful case.
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"If there was a way to legally battle this, then I would 100% legally battle it," she said. "But because I’ve kind of already been through that process of being super mad, trying to find a way to solve it, and just coming up empty-handed, I’ve decided that it’s out of my control and that I don’t want to put that much energy into it."
Although the laws may not be in place (because they're antiquated AF), there is something so unsettling about a larger brand being able to take from indie brands that have less money and subsequently less power. It also says A LOT when the majority of indie designers getting knocked off are women of color.
There are certainly non-black designers who have addressed repeated knockoff issues with various brands, but it must be pointed out that the majority of the people who claim that Fashion Nova allegedly profits off of their creativity and hard work happen to be black women — even as Fashion Nova laces the pockets of thousands of influencers, many of whom are people of color.
Even though Fashion Nova aligns itself with names such as Cardi B (an Afro-Latina) and pays to have its brand name-dropped in rap songs and on the very black blog The Shaderoom, the brand is still slighting black women and then ignoring them (as with Briana Wilson and Destiney Bleu), dismissing them (as with Luci Wilden), and sometimes even blocking them (as with Jai Nice) when they stand up for themselves.
When Kim Kardashian called out fast-fashion brands for knocking off her designer clothes and threatening her precious relationships in the industry, Fashion Nova quickly fell on its sword with a public statement addressing the matter — and media outlets ate it up. For years indie designers have repeatedly claimed that this practice happens to them regularly and (for some) can affect their livelihoods and their ability to catapult their businesses forward.
Does "well, that's just fashion" truly have to be where the conversation ends? Perhaps legal precedents, higher accountability, and integrity are what Fashion Nova and really the entire fashion retail industry should consider "adding to cart."
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Innovation: the false idol of contemporary (and Baroque, and Classical, and Romantic...) music
"I'm interested in any crazy, creative idea beyond normal imagination," says conductor Long Yu in a New York Times article about the New York Philharmonic premiere of a concerto for violin, percussion and two ping-pong players by Andy Akiho. "Classical music needs more like this."
Does it, though? [Ron Howard voice-over: No, it doesn't]
For a long time, the dominant mindset in contemporary concert music has been one of heavy-handed and sometimes downright frivolous convention-breaking. This mindset ignores an obvious problem: once convention-breaking is common, it's not only aesthetically problematic, it's also its own convention, and therefore self-defeating as an artistic goal. Classical music doesn't need more of that, it needs less! Music should get back to drawing people in the way it traditionally did in the past, with depth of emotion, beauty and subtle ingenuity. It may not be as easy as adding ping pong to a concerto, but it's definitely worth the effort.
This post got kind of long, so here's a tl;dr summary for those who aren't ready to commit to a long read, or only have 30 seconds to spare:
1. The culture of contemporary classical music (or a highly influential subset within it) is obsessed with an often cheap, surface-level notion of innovation.
2. This modern version was not much a value to musicians and composers before the early-mid 20th century (not coincidentally, when contemporary music lost its way and became wildly unpopular). Nor is it the reason that we appreciate and love past composers' music. Today's musicians and historians betray their modern bias in trying to force a norm-breaking narrative into music history.
So do you do, like, classical, or...?
Whenever I tell people I'm a pianist or that I write music, I brace for the almost-inevitable follow-up: "So what kind of music do you write? Classical? Or...?"
Person I Just Met: So do you do, like, classical music?
Me: Well, that's a complicated question, really! I guess by classical music maybe you mean the distillation and crystallization of various musical traditions in Europe—Renaissance madrigals, Italian opera, Church counterpoint, among others—around 1820?
PIJM: Well really I just meant...
M: But of course those traditions have always fit together rather uncomfortably and meant different things to different people (I mean can you even believe that Bach and Bocherini get lumped together?? Ha! Me neither!), and then in the 20th century they seemed to split between people who think music peaked in the 18th or 19th century (the Traditionalists, one might call them) vs. people who think classical music should make a clean break with the past in order to keep up with the times (the Modernists).
PIJM: ...I'm not sure I follow...
M: You see on the one hand, I agree with the modernists that classical music has to be a living tradition, but generally disagree with them on where that tradition is heading. I also sympathize with the traditionalists in their desire to preserve this canon of great music from 18th and 19th centuries, though I think they're a little close-minded about the possibility for music to keep evolving and improving along similar lines.
PIJM: ...really I was just wondering if you can play "Pachelbel's Canon."
M: **Shudders in horror**
After hearing this question approximately a thousand times, you'd think I'd have a good answer by now, something short and sweet to describe, or at least give some idea, of what my music is like. And I'm well aware that most people asking it are probably just being polite, ready to move on with their lives and forget what I say (or go listen to Pachelbel's Canon). But the question of what writing "classical music" means today is pretty much the aesthetic battle of my professional life. So since you asked...
The problem is—and sorry-not-sorry for the cliche—what do you mean by classical, exactly? Is it music that stems out of a specific tradition? Is it music that's "relaxing"? (No, please don't ever say that again.) Is it music with a certain type of feel or musical characteristic? Is it music written for a specific purpose? For specific instruments? Is it music that exists primarily as a written document? Is it music you can only understand if you're well-educated? (No, no, no, no, and no.) Of course the actual answer is complicated, and most people are no doubt happy with an approximate answer that isn't terribly accurate or specific, a "you know it when you hear it" type situation.
Why do I care then? Because people hijack the good name of this pseudo-almost-tradition, and all sorts of stuff gets lumped into this category that people put me in, and I want no part of it! This lumping takes many forms, but the two main ones are:
1. Mediocre music by any dead white guy from Europe, 1600-1800 ("so pleasant!"):
This is the Pachelbel's canon, put-it-on-in-the-background-or-to-fall-asleep brand of "classical music." If it survived in written form for 200 years, then it must be good, right? Uh, wrong! Most of this music was tossed off to be played a single time for a king, duke, or duchess, and doesn't really deserve our attention today. It was written for light entertainment and most of it is extremely generic. Exercise some discretion, people. Music from the past should clear a higher, not lower, standard, than music from the present, in order to garner precious attention, resources, and time. Exhibit 1 (pulled from today's WETA playlist...despite the fact that either he stole the opening from third movement of Bach's Brandenburg no. 1 or vice versa, the rest of this piece is thoroughly forgettable.)
2. Experimental, incomprehensible, or otherwise "radical" avant-garde music from 1920 onward:
There's this naive, narrow-minded, and surprisingly durable belief that concert music has to be somehow outside the proverbial box in order to be sufficiently or authentically innovative, as if all of the traditionally melodic and harmonic music has been "used up" and there's "nothing left" to write with "conventional harmonies." This mindset ignores all the subtle gradations of style throughout the history of music and the infinite possibilities for new ones in the same conceptual universe. It would be like saying everything creative and expressive that could possibly be written in English already has been (I mean there's been so many books, how many more could there possibly be, right?), so all novels from now on should be in a new made-up language that no one understands. But of course the expressive power of English (or any language) lies almost entirely in how the words are combined and re-combined. (This analogy requires further teasing out, as I will make sure to do at a later date.)
Anyway, classical music's chucking out of its traditional, umbrella "language" leaves the niche for beautiful, communicative music to other genres like folk, pop, rock, and dare I say, country, relegating the past 50 years of "classical" or concert music composition to relative cultural obscurity. Example (this piece was part of a grant-winning application from New Music USA, a grant I've applied for unsuccessfully many times):
I don't mean to sound bitter about the success of this music (financial success, that is), but I certainly am annoyed. To be clear, my problem with the above is not that it's radical or different (since it's not radically different from lots of other new music), but that it's boring. It lacks elements that would command and hold my attention: melody, harmony, and coherent, recognizable rhythms. It could work in supplement to something else, but why would I devote all of my attention to it? What emotions is it supposed to effect in me? If "classical" music means anything, it should refer to music that somewhat requires and definitely rewards paying attention, and elicits some kind of emotional response. (Neither the composer nor the artistic director of the ensemble responded to my questions about the piece and my invitation to explain what it's about or the philosophy behind it.)
Of course, the two categories above are at extreme ends of two axes, whereas most everything exists between them on a spectrum (or various spectra...maybe just a multi-dimensional space). I have no problem with composers themselves who wrote not-so-great music in Europe in the 1700s (they can't all be geniuses, after all), and I have no problem with people writing experimental music today (if that's your thing and you really find meaning in it, then go for it, I guess). My beef is with how the music in each of those categories reflects on, takes attention from, or gets associated with what I do, which is very, very different.
(More on that next time)
#25: Improv with Carlos part 2: Embracing it
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Guest pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriguez joins me again to share his remarkable talent for and insights into improvisation, while I challenge him to make it more a part of his regular concert fare. He improvises an Ives-ian accompaniment to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (featuring tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs) and we take turns improvising over William Bolcom's Graceful Ghost Rag.
#24: Red River Valley and folk-modern classical
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Modern classical music has a reputation for atonality, that is, that it lacks the harmonic and melodic core that has shaped Western music for hundreds of years. In this episode we hear three of my very non-atonal piano pieces. They are rooted in a traditional harmonic and motivic system and draw on another tradition of classical music, borrowing from existing folk tunes. Can you figure out what the other two tunes are before I reveal? Listen in and see!
Some links from the episode:
Gene Autry: Red River Valley (youtube)
Pete Seeger: Red River Valley (Spotify)
And my proudest discovery, Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band on Spotify
#23: Intimate Chopin: Nocturne Op. 15, no.2
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This week, we listen to and get to know Chopin's Op. 15, no. 2, the beloved nocturne in F sharp major. Special guest Eli Luberoff joins me for a pianist-comparison listening challenge, including excerpts from my favorite Chopin pianist, Ivan Moravec. We talk about the oddities of the Internet and of one Spotify discovery in particular, and then I guide listeners through the piece and show how its subtle and delicate details make it what it is. In the end, of course, we listen to a complete performance (this one, not available anywhere else!)
Some follow-up links:
Ivan Moravec plays Chopin Nocturnes on Spotify
Pianist #2 plays Chopin Nocturnes on Spotify
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#22: Ari & Mia and me
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Special guest cellist/vocalist/composer/songwriter Ariel Friedman joins me to share a sublime song of hers and ruminate on genre distinctions and crossover in the classical and folk music realms. We talk about Kinhaven (see episode 20), how she got started with her sister duo band (Ari & Mia), and how they and she have influenced me as a composer and musician through the years.
#21: Bach's Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus V and different approaches to Bach
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I explain the careful structure behind Contrapunctus five from Bach's Art of Fugue, while looking at different ways to approach playing fugues on the piano. Finally, we hear it complete on the piano as well as the continuo organ.
#20: Kinhaven Sonata with Lauren Cook
Lauren Cook joins me to talk about chamber music and play my clarinet sonata that we premiered together, "Kinhaven Sonata."
19.5: Season 2 preview
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The new season/era of the Music Post has arrived, thanks to a successful Kickstarter! Check out the preview of what's coming up soon, from artists you may already know from past episodes (me, Carlos Rodriguez), to newcomers Ariel Friedman, Lauren Cook, Bernard Vallandingham and more!
#19: Improv with Carlos
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The first of a new segment featuring fellow Levine pianist and improviser-extraordinaire Carlos Rodriguez. He shares his incredible talent with us, and with me as he teaches me to improvise and we make music together on two pianos with no plan. Find Carlos on youtube!!
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{ NYC } 10 COZY DOWNTOWN SPOTS FOR THE COLD DAYS AHEAD...
{ Alas, this little boite came in a close #11 on my list... }
I don't have to tell you guys at this point how very much I love eating and drinking through this fair city. When it's warm and breezy, my friends and I seek out sidewalk tables and relatively uncrowded rooftops to set up camp and while away the hours. But when it starts getting dark at 4 p.m. and Panama hats give way to beanies, the perfect spiked cider becomes even more coveted than a patio table at The Butcher's Daughter.
Whether you're narrowing down options for an upcoming date or trying to figure out where to gather your brain trust for a Sunday brunch, it's nice to have a shorter list than, you know, every bar and restaurant in New York. For your benefit and mine, I rounded up a few of my favorite (downtown, obviously) locales to cozy up at with a big bowl of pasta, a brilliantly simple burger or a piping-hot toddy.
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This little spot on East 2rd Street is part of the Frank's restaurant empire, and my favorite of them all. If there's a wait for a table, try the tiny wine bar annex right next to the main restaurant. It's even cozier, and a great spot to settle in with a date for a bottle of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo—get the gnocchi and spaghetti al limone and live happily ever after.
LE FRENCH DINER
Again, this is a terrific date spot. It's also a great place to come with a girlfriend, sibling, parent—you name it. But, it's also a place best saved for parties of two due to it's size and shortage of 4-top tables. You can sit at the bar and watch the owner and chef prepare every single thing, and try not to let yourself drool too much if you are in fact on a date. The specials change frequently, so bring an adventurous appetite with a hankering for French food.
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CORNER BISTRO
Inexpensive burgers and beer that are delicious. A laid-back atmosphere and a friendly crowd. There's nothing more you could really ask for, and you get it all at Corner Bistro.
SHOOLBRED'S
It always sticks out in my mind that the last drink I had before Superstorm Sandy arrived in NYC, on my 28th birthday, was at Shoolbred's. Tully and I snagged the very VIP club chairs next to the fireplace and avoided going home before we were forced to take shelter. Even if you can't get the best seats in the house, anywhere you settle in at this Second Avenue staple is a great place to have a hot cocktail and quiet chat.
{ @gramercytavern }
If you're feeling fancy, and your idea of cozy comes with the crush of an upscale crowd jockeying for a prized seat at the bar, Gramercy Tavern is the spot. I have a longstanding tradition of having a holiday season drink (or three) here with my friend Alex every year. We snack on the bar nuts (they're ridiculously good) and take in the quintessentially New York scene.
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GRAPE & GRAIN
For its own sake, I wish this place were more popular than it is, but selfishly I love that it is relatively unknown. Tucked away between Avenues B and C on 6th Street, my friends and I come here for both brunch and dinner because the food is excellent, there's always a table available, the staff is awesome and they play great music.
FRIEND OF A FARMER
Irving Street, that little stretch just below Gramercy Park, is stuffed with cool little spots, from Bedford Cheese Shop to Pete's Tavern. Friend of a Farmer is amazing for brunch (if you're willing to wait) but also has a really intimate evening atmosphere. Grab a couple of stools by the window and watch the world go by—by candlelight.
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THE GARRET EAST
This swanky little outpost of The Garret just opened across the street from my apartment, serving up craft cocktails, excellent mood lighting and BYOV nights once a week. (That's bring your own vinyl, by the way.) The scene on the weekends is exactly that—a scene—but on weeknights you can pop in for a ridiculously good $7 cocktail before 7 p.m. and take your pick between a banquette booth near the bar or the cozy, dimly lit den in the back.
RUE B
Tiny tables, low lighting, live jazz. Need I say more? Oh, their cocktails are excellent, too. Rue B is one of those amazingly unpretentious little neighborhood spots that's so lovely you're sure you should even tell anyone about it. So if you go, you didn't hear about it from me...
{ @loisbarnyc }
If you like wine, low lighting and alcohol on tap, you will like Lois. It's a sister ship to neighboring spots ABC Beer Co and Alphabet Wine Co, and serves up a rotating array of wines on tap—which is a draw in and of itself, but the selections are also really good. The atmosphere is low-key but definitely stylish, and be sure to order whatever cheeses are available that night—they come with the most delicious rosemary jam and crostini. I know what you're thinking and yes, this is another great date spot.
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Delhi Comes Out in Full Support For Assam
New Delhi, Oct 22 : Delhi stood firmly behind the Music Fraternity yesterday and lent its earnest support for the concert titled #FORASSAM.
A packed Blue Frog witnessed the biggest names of the music industry as all the stars performed live to an enthralled audience. Spearheaded by Papon and Vishal Dadlani, the concert at Blue Frog in Delhi was held to help generate funds for the people who have been ravaged by the recent floods in the state of Assam.
Said Papon, “The intention was to generate awareness and attention about the flood situation in Assam and generate as much relief funds as possible towards the cause. We will collect the funds and hand it over to the chief minister’s fund soon”.
“This is probably the biggest concert in Indian music history where the music fraternity has come forward for a cause. Flood is an annual phenomenon in Assam, but due to some reasons, it doesn't get properly highlighted enough to be considered as a national calamity. ” said Vishal.
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Landlord/Representative: West Broadway Glass Company / Christopher Owles, Lisa Webb, Sinvin Realty, LLC
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Sinvin brings Clay Pot experience to second location
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Sinvin Realty has leased a new restaurant space to Alex Yip’s Clay Pot at 270 Bleecker Street.
The restaurateur — whose other eatery is at 58 St Marks Place — signed a 10-year lease for the space previously occupied by Diner and, before that, Risotteria for 15 years.
“After two successful years, and much acclaim at St Marks Place, Clay Pot was ready to expand westward in The Village,” said Sinvin’s Steve Rappaport. “The highly visible corner of Bleecker and Morton seemed a no brainer for both tenant and landlord.”
The space comprised 850 s/f on the ground and a 600 s/f basement. Rappaport represented both the tenant and the landlord in the deal. Asking rent was $240 psf.
The restaurant will feature an interactive food experience where visitors will be able to build their own claypot. There will be a wide variety of sauces and toppings.
Clay Pot ages their rice so that it readily absorbs all the flavor of the ingredients added to the dish. Yip also said the kitchen’s design will facilitate the cooking process.
It’ll be an open-style kitchen where the dishes will sit over specialized stoves that will cook the pots at just the right temperature to get this crispiness as well, You also get this great smokey flavor because of the ingredients and sauces being cooked in these porous clay pots.”
“It’s not your typical rice because it is cooked in this claypot, which has pores that allow it to breathe so that all the flavor of the aged rice and ingredients stay and marinate, instead of the flavor getting killed and evaporated, which usually happens when rice is prepared, say, in a rice cooker,” Yip added.
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Assessment of Atmospheric Circulation Regimes in the Atlantic-Eurasian and Arctic Regions Using Climate Indices. The Perspectives of Applications in the Seasonal Weather Forecasts
Mikhail M. Latonin
Department of Meteorology, Climatology and Environmental Protection, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Malookhtinsky prospect 98, 195196, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Ocean-atmosphere interaction is a very important chain when considering the elements of general circulation of the atmosphere, which essentially defines the everyday weather that we experience. And climate index is one of the tools used to describe the state of ocean-atmosphere interaction. Between the known climate indices, significantly characterizing weather in the Atlantic-Eurasian region, we can name the North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation indices.
Polar air outbreaks from the Arctic can be categorically considered as extreme weather events because monthly temperature anomalies both in the Arctic and middle latitudes may exceed 20 degrees. It was found out that both the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation indices are not sensitive to the two completely different types of polar air outbreaks in terms of distinguishing them. The physical origins of polar air outbreaks were highlighted, and the classification of them was carried out. Based on this classification, a conclusion about the existence of the North Siberian anomaly was made. And, according to many features, this anomaly can be treated as the one more action center of the atmosphere. This finding has allowed us to introduce a new climate index, which was called as the Atlantic Arctic Oscillation index. It is related to the normalized difference of sea level pressure anomalies between Reykjavik (Iceland) and Ostrov Dikson (Russia) weather stations. This index permits us to identify the two types of polar air outbreaks with the high level of recognition probability.
An interrelation between the new climate index and temperatures in the investigated (lat-lon) regions was analyzed. Summer season in the middle latitudes is becoming colder, while winter season in the Arctic is becoming warmer, and the Atlantic Arctic Oscillation index shows it.
One of the most important reasons of Arctic sea ice melting is related to the domination for the past 20 years of the second type of polar air outbreaks that cause high positive air temperature anomalies in the eastern sector of the Arctic. In contrast, during 1960s the first type of arctic air outbreaks prevailed.
Keywords: climate index, Arctic, sea ice, season, polar air outbreaks, sea level pressure, surface air temperature, Atlantic Arctic Oscillation, Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation.
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Every Sunday, Steeler fans gather around their TVs and eagerly watch the Black and Gold take the field. On the edge of your seat, nail biting tension, and at times having a “life or death” feel with each passing week. For some Steeler fans however, each week truly is a life or death battle. For this Spotlight, I was able to talk with David Ratliffe, who is currently battling brain cancer. A true Steeler die-hard, going through surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his brain and facing tough chemotherapy sessions couldn’t dampen his spirits or dim his Black and Gold aura. We”ve all known somebody that has had to face this challenge, so to David and all other cancer survivors, always remember that the full force of Steeler Nation is squarely behind you in this battle. Remember, the power of the Terrible Towel not only helps out the team, but also looks after those in Steeler Nation that faithfully wave it every Sunday!
How long have you been a Steeler fan, and what was your earliest Steeler memory?
Ratliffe: “I have been a Steeler fan for 25 years. My earliest Steeler memory was looking thru Luann’s childhood photos as she was wearing Steeler pajamas at age five (See, I married a good woman)! As far as Steeler football game memories, we went to the Georgia Dome to see the Steelers and Falcons play dressed in our beloved black and gold waving our Terrible Towels high in the air! That was our first experience looking at a sea of black and gold in a stadium! WOW!”
Do you have a favorite current player and/or all time favorite?
Ratliffe: “My favorite player is Troy Polamalu. He is the current day "Lynn Swann” because he is all over the field. "If a man needs to be tackled, Troy is there to get his man just like Lynn was there to catch that ball. My all-time favorite player is Lynn Swann. He was like an astronaut defying gravity when going after the ball. I also like Franco Harris, as he seems like an all around genuine guy and because Franco is Luann’s favorite player.”
Do you have any game day rituals, or do anything special for Steeler games?
Ratliffe: “I thoroughly enjoy going to Johnson City’s Fanatics Sports Bar, home of the Steel City Mafia to watch every game. I always wear my autographed Pittsburgh Steeler’s cap, signed by Carlton Hasselrig and Mike Merriweather. I always wear my Steel City Mafia t-shirt underneath my #43 jersey. We win most of the time when I wear this! I also wear my Pittsburgh Steeler socks that we bought in the Pittsburgh Airport and wave my Terrible Towel which was signed by all the SCM members in Johnson City before my brain surgery.”
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Ratliffe: “It means I am part of a family! Since my illness, this family has shown much love in many different ways. I appreciate their support and their concern since I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Boss Kennedy has been a great friend and has always shown genuine concern for us. Boss Hertzog has also been a good friend, as well as all of the Johnson City SCM. Even Steel City Crusade’s Marcello was very understanding and helpful once we found out our news (we had to cancel the Sit-Down Banquet Weekend in Pittsburgh that we had looked so forward to attending).”
How do you think Tomlin is doing as a “new” coach and is there anything you would change within the organization or the playing style?
Ratliffe: “I think Tomlin is a great coach. Although, I would run the ball up the middle less often.”
With the Steelers” “rocky” start this season, how do you think the rest of the year will play out?
Ratliffe: “It’s the Steelers! It will be fantastic and we are going to win our seventh Super Bowl and get a seventh ring (two for the other hand)!”
Any personal stories about the Steelers or anything else you would like add?
Ratliffe: “We actually flew into the Pittsburgh airport on our way to Las Vegas just to see the Franco Harris statue. We took lots of pictures to go into our “Steeler room” at home. We almost missed our flight due to shopping and buying a lot of Steeler merchandise, but it would have been worth it!”
Anything else you would like to share with the SCM Family?
Ratliffe: “On a personal note, I was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor on July 20, 2009 without having any symptoms. I had my surgery at MD Anderson, in Houston, Texas. The surgeon was able to remove 100 % of the tumor in what they call the "Brain Suite.” This is a new operating room with an MRI machine. Two days after surgery, I was walking 20 laps around the nurses” station wearing my SCM T-shirt and my Terrible Towel over my shoulder right in the middle of Houston Texans’ territory! I am now undergoing six weeks of radiation in Houston, Texas. Being away from home and the SCM isn’t easy. I miss all of my family and friends. We are going to try to locate a place to watch the games. We have had one of the SCM members offer hospitality while we are in Houston. The Steelers are our extended family. NO other fan base would ever do this or be like our family. The Steelers Fans are the GREATEST!
You can find me on Facebook under William David Ratliff, Kingsport, TN network. There are plenty of Steeler pictures while I was in the hospital and I would LOVE to welcome new friends and family. I also wanted to add something very special concerning my wife. About this time last year, she too had surgery. She had two total knee replacements and was in the hospital on Fan Appreciation Day when Carlton Hasselrig came to Johnson City to visit. I explained what she had gone through and how much she hated missing Fan Appreciation Day and meeting him. He was nice enough to agree to go see her in the hospital. Steelers are a very special team!
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Documenting the quest to track down everything written by (and written about) the poet, translator, critic, and radio dramatist, Henry Reed.
An obsessive, armchair attempt to assemble a comprehensive bibliography, not just for the work of a poet, but for his entire life.
Read "Naming of Parts."
Henry Reed, ca. 1960
Reeding:
I Capture the Castle: A girl and her family struggle to make ends meet in an old English castle.
Dusty Answer: Young, privileged, earnest Judith falls in love with the family next door.
The Heat of the Day: In wartime London, a woman finds herself caught between two men.
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Tim Kendall's War Poetry
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Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog
Manning Predicts
Here is the Guardian's Books of the Day column for July 31, 1946, "Recent Verse." Hugo Manning reviews Talking Bronco by Roy Campbell, The Garden by Vita Sackville-West, Peter Grimes and Other Poems by Montagu Slater, Isles of Scilly by Geoffrey Grigson, and finally A Map of Verona, by Henry Reed.
Manning devotes most of his space to Campbell, whose "inspired invective thunders against many things, including Left-wing poets, Jews, Tartuffes, and even the Beveridge Plan." Manning concludes, however, that "Perhaps Mr. Campbell's muse would become even more considerable if he had fewer bees in his bonnet."
Compared to Talking Bronco, The Garden "seems magnificently serene, and well-disposed to humanity," and acts as "a vehicle for [Sackville-West's] pleasant lyricism, and sustained craftmanship."
Manning has less time and fewer niceties for Slater and Grigson, or for Henry Reed:
The poetry in Henry Reed's A Map of Verona (Jonathan Cape, pp. 59, 3s. 6d.) reveals a slightly deeper poetic vision than either that of Mr. Slater or of Mr. Grigson, but one has the impressions that Mr. Reed has worn thin much of his genuine talent in this direction by too much self-inflicted censorship. Already his verse shows symptoms of fitting into an aesthetic strait-jacket which some literary arbiters may applaud but which may eventually neutralise his power as a poet.
Hugo Manning's career was as eccentric as his reputation. Born in 1913 to Jewish parents, he studied music, but ended up working as a journalist in London and Vienna, and then removed to Buenos Aires in the lead up to the Second World War. He served in North Africa with the British Intelligence Corps, was wounded, and then back in London spent nineteen years on the South American desk for Reuters. His poetry and prose were published privately and by small presses, before his death in 1977. Manning has been described as "a major poet with a minor reputation."
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1529. Sackville-West, Vita. "Seething Brain." Observer (London), 5 May 1946, 3.
Sackville-West speaks admirably of Reed's poetry, and was personally 'taken with the poem called "Lives," which seemed to express so admirably Mr. Reed's sense of the elusiveness as well as the continuity of life.'
At the Foot of the Grotto
My efforts to track the poet Henry Reed through his early decades of the 1930s and 40s are often frustrated by the constant manifestations of another semi-famous "Henry Reed": a popular British band leader who seems to have made nearly daily appearances on the radio during that time. This doppelgänger's career only begins to fade out in the mid- to late-1940s, just as our poet's begins to rise.
It was probably owing to the overwhelming multitude of the Pretender's radio appearances which led me to overlook this article from the Manchester Guardian, in September, 1937: a first-person report—narrative, really—from the annual Piedigrotta music festival in Naples.
For a brief moment I feared it had been written by the musician, but before I even finished the first paragraph I realized it must be the Literary Reed: the ghost of Leopardi materializes; a paraphrase of Baedeker's Italy is inserted; there is a struggle with Italian dialect; Pompeii; and lastly—the clincher—there is a repetition of "to-morrow. To-morrow. To-morrow...".
Reed sounds very close to his subject here. So very close, the music is still ringing in his ears; so I think we shall have to update his timeline/map to include a visit to Naples in the first week of September, 1937:
PIEDIGROTTA
The Piazza di Piedigrotta in Naples is never properly to be called quiet, except occasionally between two and four in the morning. In the first week of September, while people are restlessly waiting for the Popular Song Festival, even this intermission is ignored. On the night of the festival itself one is not especially conscious of enormous noise, for it seems by this time that one has never known silence. Not far away from the radiant tunnel of lights in which the musical competitions take place Virgil lies in his mythical tomb, and in another direction, Leopardi lies in his real one. Do they ever turn in them on this night, one wonders?
The festa once had a ceremony, a ritualistic splendour, but it is not to be supposed that its participants today know that, or bother much about it, though they are happily conscious that their revels are tolerantly presided over by Santa Maria di Piedigrotta in the near-by church. The cook at the pizzeria has never heard of Charles III. The old man who even at this time tries to sell you bootlaces cares nothing for Charles's victory at Velletri in 1744. The tenor who sings the new songs might perhaps be interested to hear that Charles commemorated Velletri by instituting the festival at which he earns whatever he eats instead of bread and butter, but more probably he would merely smile and murmur during the introduction of the second verse that it would have happened anyway. And the information that "this huge fair was held every year with considerable magnificence till the fall of the Bourbon dynasty in 1859" would be greeted with huge derision. Considerable magnificence? Has not M------, the singer, introduced a perfectly splendid and gratuitous high D into the song of the year, a note it was thought would not be heard from a man in our lifetime? Are not the fireworks louder and brighter and longer and cheaper than ever before? Have not more new combinations of instruments been evolved this year than it was ever believed possible? Did you ever think to hear a trumpet and harp duet before? Magnificence?
Every one of us has a Chinese lantern or an impossible nose or a paper hat. We all have those things that you blow out in other people's faces, or those things that you shake round in other people's ears. If you have unlimited money there is unlimited food. Over certain gelaterie there are still old-fashioned flaming gas-jets, but their noise cannot be separately heard as we feverishly lick huge slabs of ice-cream under them. For three singers are I passing in a cart, accompanied by a string octet. To me the words are unintelligible, though I am glad to hear the dialect word "Scetà," which comes in every Neapolitan song, I should think, and means "Wake up." I am deeply impressed and unnecessarily give the waiter a tip. As we hurry away I am severely rebuked for this extravagance by young Neapolitan friends. Arguing furiously, we all step with care over a happily sleeping tramp. I explain that I am not entirely penniless and that it is a season if not of peace on earth at least of goodwill to men. This is considered a silly remark, and after another debate shouted over the noise of bagpipes (bagpipes!) we go on. But the youngest of our party has disappeared. He comes panting up three minutes later, having, by what miracle of cajolery or menace I cannot find out, recovered my penny from the waiter. He gives it to his eldest brother to keep for me.
The tunnel cut through the hill of Posilipo is brightly lit, and one can dance in it, since no automobile will be allowed to pass through it until to-morrow. The wise will have, learned the words and tunes of the songs from the leaflets that have been going about for the last few weeks. Anyone would have taught you the tunes on the violin or the guitar (there is, it appears, no piano in Naples). Then you can join in when the carts containing their little bands come round to catch your approbation.
There is no doubt about which is the best song. Surely a finer librettist than Di Giacomo has arisen in—what is his name, did you say?—the poet who has been so inspired as to mention all the islands in the bay in the same song, and the ghosts of dead lovers at Pompeii as well. And even Tagliaferri could not produce phrases more yielding to the individual choice of vocal ornament than those that M------ is embellishing with his brilliant "mordenti" at the moment. (They say he really comes from Baia, but that is only just round the corner, and it is more than likely that his grandmother came from Naples.)
One must, of course, discriminate with care. The song of the year may be one of those that will not just circle the bay and die after a short excursion to Rome. It may be another "Funiculi, funicula," and go round the world for years and years. But even if nothing historic emerges the individual conscience need not worry. For it will all be a good racket while it lasts. The night will grow louder and louder, and we shall meet more and more new people, who Will remember you because you are English and odd, though you cut them to-morrow.
To-morrow. To-morrow everyone is a bit hoarse. The lights are kept up the next night, for there is a natural attempt to make a good party last as long as it can. But it is rather a hopeless one, and the piazza next day has rather the aspect of an untalking film. In the reaction from the unspeakable recklessness that has led you the night before to embark upon ices, melons of all kinds, lemonade, several "veri vini," and great late figs you have become cowardly, and sit with your companions under the tawny lights of the fountain chewing monkey-nuts. They have forgotten the festa and are reverting to a game of more permanent exhilaration, that of trying to teach you to say "Vedi Napoli e poi muori" in the dialect. "Vega Nabul' u puo' muo'" it sounds like. The last two words are especially hard, and you create much amusement by them.
Henry Reed.
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1528. Manning, Hugo. "Recent Verse." Books of the Day, Guardian (Manchester), 31 July 1946, 3.
Manning feels that 'Mr. Reed has worn thin much of his genuine talent in this direction by too much self-inflicted censorship.'
The Reeve's Tale
In 1971, the BBC issued two collections of Henry Reed's plays for radio: Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio, and The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. The Hilda Tablet volume collects the plays A Very Great Man Indeed (1953); The Private Life of Hilda Tablet (1954); A Hedge, Backwards (1956); and The Primal Scene, As It Were (1958), including restoration of some "indelicate" scenes which had been censored or changed for broadcast.
To mark the publication of the plays, Reed was interviewed by Christopher Ford for an article in the Guardian, "The Reeve's Tale" (Herbert Reeve was the bumbling biographer in the Tablet plays, you see). A retrospective of the plays and their broadcasts, the article features this wonderful photograph of Reed (poorly scanned, sadly), taken by staff photographer Peter Johns:
Reed's quotes for the article amount to just a few paragraphs. Prodded about rumored accusations of libel from (the unnamed) composer Elisabeth Lutyens for his Hilda Tablet character (voiced by Mary O'Farrell), Reed deflects:
As long as the characters are funny it doesn't matter who you're getting at.... In fact I'm not 'getting at' anyone, only myself—there's a good deal of aboriginal Hilda Tablet in me.
The big revelation in the article is that Reed was actually working on an eighth Hilda Tablet script as late as 1968 (in his dedication for Hilda Tablet and Others, Reed says "Altogether, they totalled seven. The number is sometimes given as nine; but people exaggerate"):
I was writing another, it was going to be called 'After a Certain Age'—I was writing it one night and the next morning Douglas Cleverdon, the producer, came round for some other reason and had to break the news that Mary O'Farrell was dead. She was a sine qua non. So it was never completed, but Hilda was going to be the reason why Skalkottas had suppressed his music all his life. We were going to be make out that this was on Hilda's advice.
Mary O'Farrell died on February 10, 1968, more than eight years after the last play in the Hilda Tablet saga, Musique Discrète.
The article closes with a hilarious anecdote of Reed still having trouble coming to terms with his place in the canon of literature and broadcasting, even at the age of 57:
I saw the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations in a shop. I remember thinking 'I've got 150 sleeping tablets at home, and if I'm not in that I'll take some of them with a large Pepsi-Cola.'
Ford reports more than three columns were devoted to Reed in the 1971 edition.
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1527. Rosenthal, M.L. "Experience and Poetry." Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (New York), 17 October 1948, 28.
Rosenthal says Reed shares with Laurie Lee 'that unhappy vice of young intellectuals—a certain blandness of which the ever-simple irony is a symptom.'
1st lesson:
Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.
Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, Bletchley Park, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980.
Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946)
The Novel Since 1939 (1946)
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947)
Lessons of the War (1970)
Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971)
The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971)
Collected Poems (1991, 2007)
The Auction Sale (2006)
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Posted on August 30, 2008 July 22, 2009 by Jen Hubert
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Thirteen-year-old Mau is devastated when a freak tsunami takes out his entire island village, leaving him with only shy tree octopi and the less than charming, projectile-vomiting Grandfather birds for company. But not for long. The same storm that destroyed his people also shipwrecked the Sweet Judy upon his island’s shore. The lone survivor is Daphne, a properly bred English lass who appears to be a “ghost girl” to the dusky-skinned Mau. Together they form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to rebuild Mau’s lost “Nation” with the straggling survivors from nearby islands who continue to wash up on the beach. While working to raise food, create laws, and build defenses against the local cannibals, each teen struggles to overcome their own personal demons. Daphne learns that manners don’t help when it comes the necessary murder of a charming, yet psychotic pirate, while Mau discovers that after the tragedy of the tsunami, he no longer believes in gods he grew up with, and refuses to accept that only the gods have the answers: “I want to know why. Why everything. I don’t know the answers, but a few days ago I didn’t know there were questions.” The only thing that’s certain is that one day Daphne’s father will come looking for her. But if he finds her, what will happen to the newly minted Nation? Will Mau and Daphne’s created community just end up as another British colony? Or will the two inventive teens find a way to send everyone home happy? Daphne reminds me of Pratchett’s other headstrong heroine, Tiffany Aching of Wee Free Men fame, while her bond with Mau is reminiscent of the relationship between two of my fav characters in recent YA literature, Matt and Kate from Kenneth Oppel’s awesome Airborn. Pratchett’s trademark humor comes through in the hilarious cultural misunderstandings between Daphne and Mau, especially in the birthing of babies and the making of beer. But he also leaves readers with plenty of food for thought in terms of the politics of nation building, the dubious comforts of religion, and the enduring tenacity of humankind. An unusually thought-provoking survival story of the first order, and winner of the 2009 Printz Honor medal for Best YA Novel of the Year.
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
2 thoughts on “Nation by Terry Pratchett”
TadMack says:
Another one I can’t wait to read. I’m so glad that he has written another YA-friendly novel!
Natalie Hatch says:
Terry Pratchett is my favourite author, he just has a knack about him at writing serious situations so that we all can understand, and laugh at ourselves. Can’t wait to read this.
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Lack of consistency a cause for concern
Was last week's series against Detroit a mirage? Or do the Sox just get really homesick whenever they're pulled away from the confines of friendly Fenway? After taking three of four from the Tigers, the Sox appeared to have solved their offensive woes, having scored six, seven, and eight runs respectively on consecutive nights. Getting shut out on Thursday afternoon was understandable, as Justin Verlander was clearly on top of his game. The dominant right hander had it goin on, routinely lighting up the radar gun with fastball in the upper 90's (his last pitch hit an eye popping 100 mph). No worries, workhorse Jon Lester would take the mound the next night. Lester showed up, tossing six solid innings with 11 strikeouts to boot. Another strong performance from the southpaw was almost wasted, however, as the hometown team was down to its last strike before Victor Martinez laced a two run double down the right field line to ignite a ninth inning rally that lifted the team to an 8-4 victory. There would be no late inning heroics over the rest of the weekend, however, as the Red Sox' bats combined for five runs over the final two games of the series. Mediocre starts by Brad Penny and Junichi Tazawa didn't help, obviously.
One reason why the offense has been so inconsistent lately could be the fact that there is never really a consistent lineup. At this stage in his career, Mike Lowell is probably much better at the plate than he is in the field, and you still can't play him everyday because of his hip. Jason Bay has been nagged on and off by a hamstring issue. Varitek is getting older and is almost an automatic out when he is in the lineup. The revolving door at shortstop continues, as journeyman Chris Woodward was cleared off the roster to make room for Alex Gonzalez, a great defensive shortstop but a terrible hitter. David Ortiz has had his hot streaks here and there, but has mostly had a very disappointing season. J.D. Drew is well, J.D. Drew. And to top everything off, Youkilis got slapped with a five game suspension for going berzerk during the Detroit series. I can understand having to stick up for yourself, but Youk could have picked a better time to let his emotions boil over. Could some of the past week's games ended differently had our best player been in the lineup? Possibly. But if the season were to end today the Sox would be out of the playoff picture, and if no consistency can be achieved in both the rotation and the lineup, New England may be in for a long off season.
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ReelDC offers the most complete coverage of Filmfest DC, with short reviews of more than 50 films.
TO APRIL 27
MAX OPHULS IN HOLLYWOOD Born in Germany but raised in France, Max Ophuls covered a lot of territory. He landed in Hollywood in 1941, where he worked until returning to Europe in 1950. This series presents his four most successful American pictures. See April 19 & 20.
HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA Four films by the Japanese director who was both avant-garde and grounded in tradition, mostly from the 1960s and including his best-known, Woman in the Dunes. (Alas, his little-seen 1989 masterpiece, Rikyu, is not included.) American Film Institute Silver Theater. See Repertory, April 12.
KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL DC 2008 This annual survey of mostly recent films includes a new romance by Park (Oldboy) Chan-wook, appearances by director Lee Chang-dong, and a Korean War movie from 1962. At the Freer/Sackler Galleries and American Film Institute Silver Theater. See Repertory, April 11 & 13.
BETTE DAVIS CENTENNIAL This survey of the imperious actress's work stretches from 1932 to 1962. American Film Institute Silver Theater. See Repertory, April 12 & 13.
JAZZ FILM SERIES
The Pickford's annual retrospective, mostly documentaries but including one fiction feature. Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress. See Repertory, April 16.
ROBERT MITCHUM RETROSPECTIVE Twelve films that feature the classic Hollywood tough guy, from the 1940s to the '70s. American Film Institute Silver Theater See Repertory, April 11.
THE COUNTERFEITERS
THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON
MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD
UNDER THE SAME MOON
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
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Music director BOB CILMAN and the singers of Young@Heart
Girls Rock co-director ARNE JOHNSON
The Hirshhorn Museum's CINEMA EFFECT: DREAMS
Asian film programmer and author TOM VICK
The Band's Visit director
ERAN KOLIRIN
TADANOBU ASANO, Japan's
star rebel, on screen and in Washington.
Harold, Kumar, and America
Fail to Escape from Guantanamo Bay
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Locked Down: Harold & Kumar meet an agency that's as oblivious as they are. (New Line)
Also this week: reviews of more than 50 films showing in FILMFEST DC.
TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE STRUCTURE is not a major concern of the Harold and Kumar franchise, so there's no point in griping that Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay's title event takes only moments, and occurs in the movie's first half hour. The second H&K flick (following, of course, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) is basically a road trip, stuffed with the usual ingredients of today's dumb-boy comedy: excrement, semen, nudity, abusable substances, ethnic slurs, and, of course, sexual panic. Korean-American business-major Harold Lee (John Cho) and Indian-American medical-student-in-waiting Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are almost as freaked by attractive naked women as by hillbilly prison guards demanding blowjobs.
The latter horror is experienced at Guantanamo Bay, where H&K arrive after weed-loving Kumar insists on inaugurating a new high-tech bong while on a flight to Amsterdam. The joke cuts both ways, as do many of writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg's racially profiled jibes: White Americans are so clueless that they can't tell an Indian slacker from an Arab fanatic, but Kumar is so stupid he can't wait a couple of hours to light up in the world capital of legal dope.
Grabbed by air marshals, the boys are sent to Camp X-Ray, where they barely have time to sweat the potential loss of their hetero credibility before they're out the door, and on their way to Miami. From there, the itinerary meanders — via a Klan rally and a whorehouse — to Texas, where Kumar intends to stop the wedding of ex-girlfriend Vanessa (Danneel Harris) to H&K's former college classmate Colton (Eric Winter), the sort of malevolent preppie who might as well be wearing an SS uniform.
Colton's politics are those of the crustless-white-bread villains from high-school and college comedies, stretching back at least as far as Animal House, but he's not H&K's only right-wing antagonist. As the guys head west, they're tracked by Department of Homeland Security nutcase Ron Fox (Rob Corddry), who embodies the paranoia of a government that would — well, create an agency called Department of Homeland Security.
Many of the gags have nothing to do with Guantanamo and DHS, of course. But any maker of wince-then-guffaw farces can contrive to have his heroes sprayed with urine, or seemingly threatened by very large African-American men. What distinguishes Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is its willingness to mock the national security state. Ron Fox is the guy who lied about Iraq's WMDs, who failed to catch Osama Bin Laden, and who makes your take off your shoes before boarding a plane — all rolled into one sitcom dimwit.
What can done about this major civic annoyance? That's where the movie punts. Having escaped Fox, H&K find themselves smoking dope — and bonding — with a top government official. (The joke isn't very funny, but I won't spoil it.) This laidback civil servant tells H&K how to tolerate the politically intolerable: Don't identify with the U.S. government, identify with American nation. Thus relieved of all responsibility for the system that sent them to Guantanamo Bay, the guys can scurry off to a happy ending. It's not unusual for Hollywood movies to dispel serious questions with cop-out resolutions, but this one's really a downer: Take another toke, man, because U.S. troops really will be in Iraq for another 100 years, and no American alive today will escape the mindset that created Camp X-Ray. (2008, 102 min; at local multiplexes)
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Violist Nadia Sirota is looking for brilliance regardless where she might find it.
Can you love music, but only listen to pieces from the past? Nadia Sirota certainly can't. To her, the notion of modernism has nothing to do with the typical polarities of academicism versus popular music, of serious art versus entertainment, of new music versus classical music, of uptown, downtown, conservative or left field. Simply, it is about living, feeling and creating in the here and now, of channelling an urgent artistic expression into its most relevant form. And so, although she hosts as monthly podcast of interviews with leading composers in a bid of working out their ideas and insights, the best form of education has always been to commission exciting new work, to pick up her violin and treat audiences to an experience that will have them gasping for air. After a ravingly received debut and successful tours with ensemble yMusic, Sirota is now back with her second solo full-length, Baroque, which may well present her aesthetics more clearly than ever. The album sees her performing six pieces written exclusively for her by composers of her own generation, including, among others, friend and long-time collaborators Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli. Released in March of last year, the release has already made it to several end-of-year-lists and firmly established Sirota's position. As much as it's entrenched in the present, meanwhile, the title harks back to another fascinating time in musical history, one which Sirota could never live without. As much as she gets turned on by the present, she could never feel content herself with excluding the incredible canon of pieces from the past from her listening diet.
You already mentioned that the title of the album wasn't related to the Baroque era as such. Do you have some kind of connection to it nonetheless?
Sure thing! I love Baroque music; I've been practicing Bach every day for years now. He's brilliant and satisfying -- the best. In fact, most classically-trained musicians spend as much or more time learning and performing the music of that era as any other, so its influence seeps out around everything. But the record title, as you have gathered, is more a reflection of the ornate process of creating a layered album.
How does recording such a layered album compare to the live experience?
Both performing and recording are extremely important to me, but they are wildly different animals. In some ways, the goals of each of these things are the same: to engage a listener in a visceral way, to communicate musical ideas legibly, and to present complete thoughts. How you go about realizing those goals, though, is very different, because the tools are so very different. Live performance, for the most part is weirdly temporal; it's there one minute and gone the next. Your job is making a piece comprehensible and also enjoyable in REAL TIME. You have your instrument and presence to make these things happen. It's exhilarating.
Recordings are there in a more permanent-ish way, so in some respect the burden of real-time comprehension's a bit lighter, but the added complication comes when you try to establish PRESENCE. Part of the way I experience music as a listener is by watching the musician-performer react to it, it's like tensing your muscles while watching a clutch moment in sports. We humans love to empathize. When we're solely listening, some of that mirror neuron stuff can be lost, so the tools of the studio become so so important. I adore the alchemy of trying to create recorded presence from timbre, resonance, space, and whatever else we can manipulate in the studio. It's a weird, wonderful process.
In a previous interview, you mentioned you wanted to do more them-y stuff with yMusic. In how far is Baroque, with it conceptual title, also a them-y solo album?
Baroque is not really that theme-y, except that I went about recording all those pieces with some concrete and uniform production goals. When you are generating a body of repertoire that you yourself are not composing, you kind of get what you get when you get it. I did record several more pieces that never made it on to the record -- I sort of saw what I had and then sculpted out an album from that material. I am very interested in trying out other ways of working, though. My next project is going to be a big thing by one person. After that, we'll see.
You have long-term personal relations to many of the composers on the album. In which way, do you feel, does friendship or at least a personal connection lead to better results?
The composers on this record are quite simply some of the voices I find most creative and compelling. They come from a variety of backgrounds, but each has offered me a way of thinking about music that is new to me. Being friends with a composer is a huge cheat with regards to understanding his music. If I'm a little confused about a figure I just kind of picture the composer making that noise and that usually does the trick. It also helps that if I really care for someone, I will really take care with their work to make it as good as possible. When I'm preparing work by a stranger, it's a little bit less attractive to work on, I guess? Which is not to say I don't put in the same amount of time and attention, it's just slightly less interesting, I suppose! I also love when people write music specifically to my playing; it makes the whole process even more delicious.
Some performers, when commissioning a piece, like to be involved in the writing process in some form; others prefer to stay out of it. What is your ideal of collaboration when working with a composer?
I really like working in both of these ways, and Baroque represents both and everything in between. Nico's étude was all totally written to begin with, but I had a lot of say and play in curating the electronic sounds in the piece. Same with Missy and Shara. Daníel's piece was pretty much play what I see, but we talked a lot about how electronic elements should exist on it, though he did all of that work without me. Paul Corley made a frame that I improvised a bunch on and then he took all of my tracks and cut and pasted something totally new. Judd pretty much handed me a score and I played it.
The beautiful thing about being an interpreter is that you get to dig deep and then communicate to an audience how YOU personally have made sense of the thing – how the composer's intent has crystallized for you. It's deeply communal and deeply personal and my favorite thing in the world.
You once said that "there are straight-up composers who went to conservatories for composition, there are straight up kind of singer-songwriter types of people that we made write concert music without any words whatsoever, and then there’s people who are kind of in the middle of those particular two things". Do you feel as though these aspects still make a difference in terms of the results?
This is an interesting question. I think probably the most tangible difference in between these two paradigms is in the process of constructing a piece. Most often, conservatory kids show up with a mostly finished score that we sort of polish up together. Most often, non-conservatory kids will come to me with a lot of materiel that we'll sort of mold and play with together. It's sort of the band model versus the orchestra model, or whatever. But these things are far from rigid! I tend to work with people who constantly play with their process. In terms of the result? I'm not sure I am objective enough to see if there's a marked difference between music made by these two types of people.
What, generally speaking, are some of the musical areas you currently find exciting and challenging?
First off, there have always been brilliant people making wonderful music! However, the cultural climate in New Classical Music in the 1960's-1980's was pretty aggressively and antagonistically fractured along stylistic lines. To over-simplify things: there were people making modernist, mostly atonal things in academic institutions and people making tonal and minimalist things elsewhere. The division between these camps was absolute and there was a lot of name-calling involved; the one camp thought the other heartless and the latter thought the formal infantile. Of course there were exceptions to this, but in reality things were pretty mean-spirited. One of the things I'm most impressed with now is this sort of rabid cross-pollinating of ideas and influences. I think people on a whole are respectful of brilliance wherever they find it; genres are less inflexible.
The album suggests there may be common threads and shared themes in the confusing plurality of these times. What's your own take of what these threads and themes could be?
Maybe this is cheesy, but he common thread on this album is probably some kind of emotional envelope; what these people have in common is they make music that resonates with me, if that's fair. So if I can see myself somewhere inside of their idea, I can speak it to others with some type of authority .
What's your own take on curation and concert programming - and what have been some of the most successful approaches so far in your opinion? How much space is there for truly taking risks in concert programs today, would you say?
There's tons of space to take risks in programming if you contextualize things in a way that allows the listener to really absorb the risky thing. Curation and programming are subtle, weird arts that require a lot of practice. I think that assembling tons of radio shows was actually a great crash course in organizing a listening experience that puts things in enough relief to really be heard. It's like planning a meal. Probably the best time to consume a subtle beef dish is not in between two other beef courses, but set off by any variety of salads and palette-cleansers.
You once asked your Facebook followers "what piece(s) of music do you consider most important/astonishing/taste-defining for you as a grown-up art person". What's your own response to that?
There are so many amazing things that changed my life when I first heard them. Too many to name, but here are some highlights.
Astonishing 20th century classical pieces: Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, Berio's Sinfonia, Boulez's Repons, Harry Partch's The Wayward, Ives' Three Quarter-tone Pieces, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Biggest viola performance influences: Brahms Viola Sonatas (check out Kim Kashkashian's performance), Antony Hegarty, close-mic'ed production of Valgeir Sigurdsson
First pieces I ever fell hard for: Beethoven string quartets. Op. 95. Op. 131, Op 59 #1.
Nadia Sirota interview by Tobias Fischer
Image by Samantha West
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China's New Threat
by JOHN THURSTON » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:21 pm
Hello all:
As you may have noted, the Chinese Air Force (known in China as the People's Liberation Army Air Force) demonstrated their new Strike Fighter. It is no surprise that with all the stuff they make for us, to the extent that that might be able to infiltrate successfully) the J-35. To the naked eye viewing from the outside it appears nearly identical to our F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and it is, just as the Russian Stealth Fighter is externally identical in fairly creepy detail to our F-22 Raptor.
The J-31 Falcon as it is called is different only in the salient fact that it has to (very smoke from reports) engines. The Air Show was the "Air defense show" at Zhuhai, Guangdong Province.
A "posted article" says: This show of force comes two days into a visit to China--------the J31 represents China's chief competitor for arms markets share against the U.S." F-35".
More deeply than that, the production and sale of such a fighter to those who can afford it and do not like the US, such as Iran, would deeply like to get their hand on such an aircraft. As previously noted, South Korea is under contract to supply advanced trainers to the Phillipines.
A quoted article says: " experts predict that the J-31 will make rapid inroads into the International market" soon.
No mention was made of the three version of the F-35 (Naval, Air Force, and VTOL, the latter for our Marines as also being 'selected for imitatation' by the PLAAF.
Cold War two seems well in progress, as if we did not learn and twice nearly destroy ourselves fighting same. The piece I viewed on TV, not meant to address a military matter was somewhat prophtetically named "Death by China".
The list of China's miscreant influences in the West even, can you believe in, down to the "Truffle Market" a French packaging company was chosen to can these Asian Truffles, which are reportedly not prorperly ripened or harvested, and the cans are marked "packaged in France" and in much smaller letter "Produit de le Chine".
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From the Gridiron to Between the Ropes: Amateur Owens Ready for First Hometown Fight
Football and boxing are two sports that involve plenty of contact for those participating.
The similarities between the two sports don't go much further than that and former Hubbard High School quarterback turned amateur boxer Ashton Owens will be the first to tell you that.
"I go from 11 on the field to one in the ring," Owens said when discussing the differnce of controlling a huddle compared to entering a boxing ring. "All that energy I put into other people I put into myself but when we got other guys around in the gym I'm constantly motivating them".
The one aspect that Owens has carried over from the football field is the switch that flips when the bright lights come on.
"It's one thing to get in the gym and you put all the groundwork in and you run and you talk to the trainers but come fight night and the lights come on it's time to shine and put everything you have on display".
And shining when the lights come on is what Owens, who trains at Southside Boxing Club with trainer Vinny O'Neill, has done so far.
Owens, 24, is currently 2-0 in his young amateur career fighting at the 178-pound weight limit with both his victories coming out of the Youngstown area having won his debut by decision in October in Toronto, OH and scoring another decision victory his last time out in Cleveland earlier this month.
This upcoming Saturday, Owens will finally get a chance to shine in front of his family and friends as he will be fighting at Palermo Center in Campbell as part of the of the Southside Boxing Club Pro-Am.
"It feels good," said Owens of finally getting the chance to fight in his own backyard. "I got a lot of supporters, I got a lot of people watching and I got a lot of people who are going to be coming to this fight so I feel backed by this city and by my family".
As if putting his skills on display in front of his family and friends is not enough, sharing the spotlight with Youngstown professional Alejandro Popo Salinas who will be fighting in the main event adds to the excitement for Owens.
"Fighting with Popo with a blessing. When I first started that is who I ran with, who I trained with and he showed me the ropes and is a real brother to me", Owens said of Salinas. "He's around the same age as me so I got to relate to someone from the same city, from the same side of town and we just connected".
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Today's Feature: Van G. Garrett
Bio: Van G. Garrett (also known as Fui Koshi) is an internationally celebrated artist and author. As a visual artist, Van’s/ Fui’s photography, videos, and paintings have been on display or utilized by the museum of Fine Arts Houston; the University of Rhode Island; Rice University; the International Film Channel (IFC); the Indie Black Film Festival; The Aurora Picture Show; HBO’s The Wire: Spoken Word Battle; The Source, and Capitol Records. As a literary artist, Van has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Book in a Day Fellowship (Italy); Dr. Kwame Nkrumah International Study Scholarship (Ghana); a Poets & Writers, Inc. Readings/ Workshops Grant; an Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship to attend a Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship; a Hurston/Wright Fellowship for poetry; two Callaloo Creative Writing Fellowships; and a Great River Arts Institute Fellowship. Additionally, he has served as a judge for the National Poetry Slam.
His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies based in the United States, Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and London. Van has served as a referee for the International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association (IJAPA), and his reviews and articles have appeared in African American Review, Film and History: The Documentary Tradition (CD-ROM); and the Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present; From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century, Oxford University Press. His debut collection of poetry, Songs in Blue Negritude, is published by Xavier Review Press (2008). His touring schedule and events can be found at www.vanggarrettpoet.com.
Van earned his MAIS from the University of Houston-Victoria and his B.A. from Houston Baptist University. He is the first student to receive a graduate certificate in African American Studies from the University of Houston.
porcelain: a love poem
(cinema paradiso by chris botti playing in the background)
i never thought i would write
the word seems reserved for beautiful poems
my hands have yet to write
flecked with brilliance
like markings on koi fish:
porcelain—evoking thoughts
of a saucer lined with watercolored blue flowers
holding hands like schoolchildren
playing at recess
should be composed in a special poem
uncommon and protected
safely nestled in a china cabinet
with elaborately carved lines
swirled like tuscan grapevines or calligraphy
a penned poem honoring my grandparents
who won me a pair of pajamas at a bingo game
gave me my first hundred dollar bill
when i graduated from high school
provided me with sheets
to cover my dorm bed in college
prayed for my
goings out and comings in
separately but equally fed me--
loved to see me devour heaps of food
piled unto plates that were only special
because we sat around them
like friends in playing circles at recess
or intricate flowers rounding a porcelain bowl
I’m inspired by music and “on the road” experiences. I enjoy traveling/touring. When I’m in a new city, state, or country I find inspiration in new places, new people, and new experiences.
Poetry doesn’t have to be threatening. The best way that I can answer that question is via a poem published in my first book, Songs in Blue Negritude:
a poem doesn’t have to be hard
or complicated
it can be soft
and easy
like a cloud or ripple
on a lake
it can be wonderful like a birthday
or a party--
as good as thick icing on a vanilla cake
it doesn’t need to say too much
but it should tell a story
it is a way to express your emotions:
the funny wonderful and scary
I sometimes buy coloring books and Crayons to help me relax (usually in a hotel) before a show or event. Van is also a certified USA Amateur Boxing Coach.
Where are you from / Where do you live?
I was born in Wharton, TX (south of Houston). I live in Houston, consider Austin my second home, and I try to get to the East Coast as often as possible. Usually in the summer and/or fall.
That is a trick question. I can’t choose one. There are too many to name. I consider songwriters and rappers poets. I like Nikki Giovanni, Adrian Matejika, A. Van Jordan, Terrance Hayes, John Mayer, Jay-Z, Eminem, and a host of others to be my “favorites”.
http://www.vanggarrettpoet.com/boxing-art-exhibit.html
Latest Published Poem: http://stepawaymagazine.com/
Workshops: http://www.vanggarrettpoet.com/events.html
Steph link
'Piled on plates that were only special because we sat around them'. BEAUTIFUL!
Jana link
I like your circular imagery, saucers and dinner plates, flower wreaths, children and circle games, and family around a table. Evoked times joy !
Thanks for your support Jana!!!
Thanks Steph!
Betsy Charlesworth link
I am so glad you think so Betsy!! Thanks for your support!
Rob link
I like how he relaxes and takes a step backwards in time and zones out everything until he has to go out and perform.
Thanks Rob!!! Rob is a cool guy!
Maria Fontaine link
Yes, I love Nikki Giovanni, I name my younger son after her, thank you for show us that poetry can be simply stated and nothing to fear!!
Deborah link
What a great poem. It's so true that the things we think are not special end up being the most special. It's because of the special people.
Carol Ann link
beautiful poetry!
Dani link
Thank you for sharing these poets and poems I would never had been exposed to.
Dov Shapira link
A true good poem. I like what you bring up here
teresa link
I love it when someone can put their emotions into words and are so good at it:) sometimes wish I could do that.
Lacy link
Great site, loved the video.
Meli link
A mutli talented man for sure.
Heather Petersen
Laurie Hagedorn link
Where do you find all of these incredible people. I love it!
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Jen @ Existential Evolution link
Great interview questions and I love the poem!
Growin' N Luvin' the BIZ! w.Norma Doiron link
Another great share! I'm getting used to these poems and liking them... tee-hee...!
Marilyn link
I love your writing style. Thank you for sharing this aweosme interview. I am sharing on my fb wall as well. I know tons of people in the music profession, many authors and I know many others that would enjoy reading this interview. Thanks
Van G. Garrett link
All, thank you for your kind words. I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks for taking the time to write.
Peace/Paz,
Ethel Garrett
"Porcelain" evokes memories that fill one's heart with joy and warmth. It captivates the special moments of life when you are embraced with genuine love that encompasses all.
I thoroughly enjoyed the poem.
I love how you inspire me to continue writing. Many of the things we think aren't important truly are. You are inspirational may god bless you
Out of many of the poets featured so far, I can relate to Van the most because of his appreciation for musicians. I greatly enjoyed the pieces above.
Great poet, only a true talent sees true talent just like how van sees and appreciate great muscians.
This one went a bit over my head but the fact that he likened what he was talking about to porcelain seemed interesting.
His words are very inspiring. I really liked both his poem and his advice.
I found the poem amazing and the advice is helpful especially with the poem. thank you
I love the passion that he has for music.
Great work, I like how you expressed it personally. And saw he was going along with the music. Keep up with the great work that you have for the rest of us! It does not matter the genders because everyone haves their way of expressing their love for something!
Ian H.
I really like how his poems are short and sweet. They express his feelings, but aren't absent of life. The poem about his Professor game me an idea as to who the man was. I really enjoy poets like this
The poem porcelain was beautiful. I think that is what the poem was about how the people we love are precious and beautiful like porcelain.
Shawntel Collins
I like that he used a lot of imagery in his poem
Van Garrett link
All, thanks for the support! Visit:www.vanggarrettpoet.com. There are some updates. The Iron Legs In The Trees, my new horror novella is out (available on AMAZON.com).There's a poetic love scene involving cannibals...
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A tragic Zimbabwean irony?
SW Radio News Africa on Zambia's bumber harvest:
While farms that were once highly productive lie idle under the new ownership of ZANU-PF officials and cronies, Zimbabwe is in the process of negotiating a deal to import maize from neighboring Zambia. The tragic irony is that the crops being sought after were grown by white farmers who were illegally booted off their land in Zimbabwe. Many wound up in neighboring countries, which are now benefiting from their expertise.
Zambia used to import maize and other food items from Zimbabwe, but with the influx of some of Zimbabwe’s best farmers, they’ve once again produced a surplus maize crop. Zimbabwe on the other hand has recorded a deficit of 500,000 tonnes of the daily food staple this year.
Chiredzi based farmer Gerry Whitehead described the whole situation as “disgusting”. He said: “Approximately 90% of these Zambian crops are coming from ex-Zimbabwean farmers who were forced off their land here.”
Two premises contained above. The major premise - Zambia has a bumper harvest is accurate. The minor premise that this is due to white farmers from Zimbabwe can only be assessed by this FSRP resource. The evidence in that pack is pretty emphatic that the increases are across the board and small holders have contributed significantly. I can only imagine SW Radio forgot to visit the FSRP website.
THEMES : agriculture, zimbabwe
Jeremy 8 July 2010 at 12:22
The contribution of "white farmers" to the growth of agriculture in Zambia in the last 5-8 years has much less to do with the fact that they are white than that they are farmers...and very importantly farmers who had already established credit with regional banks and who had the fortune of timing their arrival to Zambia with broader shifts in macroeconomic and policy-related fundamentals including increased domestic liquidity, HIPC forgiveness, dollar convertibility, reduction in private sector regulation, and the unprecedented commodity bubble created since the turn of the century of which Zambia has been a particular beneficiary.
Farmers of any colour might have done well in these circumstances and it is about time that the media and analysts stopped hanging on to the salacious hook of race relations to explain basic economics.
MrK 8 July 2010 at 13:16
Hi Cho,
It is a lie. SW Radio Africa is just there to continue the myth of white supremacy, and are shilling for corporate capital, and the return of whites to their estates (they're not 'farms'). The more Zimbabweans understand what the MDC really stands for, the less popular they become. They have resisted the indigenisation law for the same reasons.
These people are liars. They have been waging a grudge war based on lies for half a century even before ZANU and ZAPU started the new liberation war in 1965. They lied that 'Africans are bad farmers', a lie which they used to suppress African farm output by underpaying them for their maize, 'to save the environment'. (See Richard P. Vickery's "Black And White In Southern Zambia".)
'Approximately 90% of these Zambian crops are coming from ex-Zimbabwean farmers'.
As you have shown, almost twice (2/3) as much crops in Zambia are produced by land under 5 hectares in size as come from land of over 5 hectares in size.
So obviously again, they're lying. And they're lying for the benefit of their 'tribe'. Imagine if an Ngoni, Tonga, Bemba or Lozi made the same statement. Everyone would see it for what it was.
If you want a detailed, non-propagandistic understanding of the impact of land reform, I suggest this is the 'must read' article on the issue:
A new start for Zimbabwe? by Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones, Challenges the myths about Zimbabwean agriculture and land reform
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training and has worked in rural Zimbabwe since 1985. His PhD thesis was entitled Livestock Populations and Household Economy: A Case Study from Southern Zimbabwe (University of London, 1990). He is the author of numerous articles, chapters and reports on rural Zimbabwe, including the 1996 book “Hazards and Opportunities: Farming Livelihoods in Dryland Zimbabwe” (Zed Press). He is a member of the Livelihoods after Land Reform project team. All views presented in this article are personal ones.
Also check out: Lessons of Zimbabwe
Mahmood Mamdani
But that would defeat the propaganda message of SW Radio Africa. You see, in SWRA's vision, the only 'proper' farm is a large estate run by a single white farmer, with hundreds of African 'farm workers'.
SW Radio Africa is a propaganda outfit, funded by the US government. According to Sourcewatch.org, they are directly funded by the Office of Transition Initiatives of USAID.
The OTI: " "The USAID Office of Transition Initiatives supports U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance peace and democracy in priority countries in crisis. Seizing critical windows of opportunity, OTI works on the ground to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs." [1] "
Former CIA agent on the OTI's 'regime change' activities in Venezuela:
In 2005, Philip Agee described how the OTI operated to "promote democracy":
"In Venezuela the administration of George W. Bush is intervening in the political process with a combination of activities very similar to those the U.S. carried out in Nicaragua in the 1980s, but without a terrorist war on the scale of the Contras, and 'at least until mid-2005' without an economic embargo. These activities, with a 2005 budget approaching $10 million, masquerade as 'civic education', 'support for the electoral process,' and 'strengthening the democratic system.' In reality, all these programs, carried out almost silently, support the opposition against President Chavez and his coalition.
"The action agencies of this 'open support for democracy in Venezuela' are the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) with its four associated foundations. The largest amount of money, some $7 million in 2005, is channeled by AID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) through a private contractor, Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), a consulting firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, next to Washington D.C. Additionally the CIA, as always, has its role in supplying secret funds and providing clandestine support." [2]
Welcome to the war.
Cho,
I can only imagine SW Radio forgot to visit the FSRP website.
Why don't you check their integrity by sending them an e-mail and requesting a correction of their piece?
My bet is they aren't going to do it, because this fits right into their narrative - that African lands should be in the hands of whites because 'they know what to do'.
This story from ZimbabweSituation first appeared here on SW Radio Africa:
http://www.swradioafrica.com/News010710/Maize010710.htm
They have a general feedback page here:
http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/feedback.php
The writer of this article was:
Tererai Karimakwenda
Indigenisation and land reform cannot be left in the hands of government alone
by Tanonoka Joseph Whande
http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/heart080710.htm
tano@swradioafrica.com
Now, with the influx of some of Zimbabwe’s best farmers, “Zambia is now producing a surplus maize crop at a time Zimbabwe has recorded a deficit of 500,000 tonnes of the daily food staple this year”.
Zambia’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Sipula Kabanje, confirmed reports that negotiations with Zimbabwe were going on through Zambia’s maize agent, the Food Reserve Agency.
Frank 9 July 2010 at 07:32
I have tried at 3 times to respond to their website. Unfortunately, it seems they dont entertain counterarguments to their propaganda. All I pointed out was that it is the small holders who are responsible for 90% of Zambian maize production. I also pointed out that Zambians have always produced at least 1m tonnes of Maize so it was difficult to understand how Zambians would fail to produce more than 400 000 tonnes of a 2.7m tonne bumper harvest on the back of fertiliser subsidies from the govt unless of course all the fertiliser was given to these very special white Zimbabwean farmers. In Zambia so called commercial farmers (inclusive of the gifted white Zimbabweans) usually engage in high value products such as Tobacco and Wheat and not Maize. The reason for this is govt's heavy involvement in pricing and marketing in the Maize sector.
I have sent the following letter to SW Radio Africa and Tanonoka Joseph Whande, who wrote the July 8th article.
In a recent article, a certain white farmer named Gerry Whitehead made the idle boast that “Approximately 90% of these Zambian crops are coming from ex-Zimbabwean farmers who were forced off their land here.”
You did not bother to back this claim with any references. In fact, the claim that the boom in maize production in Zambia can be attributed to an influx of white farmers, and that a slump in maize production in Zimbabwe can be attributed to an outflow of white farmers, can only be attributed to a sense of racial superiority, which seems to prevalent among you white countrymen.
It is an impugning of the capacity of Zambian farmers, let alone Black Zimbabwean farmers, to claim that any increase (or decrease) in their productivity must be attributed to Whites, instead of the usual causes, such as government support or increased rains.
On top of that, 82% (2008) of Zambian maize is grown by small and medium scale farmers (1.1 million of them) - not commercial farmers (1), while the increase in production per hectare is very evenly distributed over all farm categories - up 30.8% to 34.6% per hectare, as the following chart shows.
So how Gerry Whitehead can claim that '90%' of Zambian maize is grown by white farmers, let alone white Zimbabwean farmers, needs clarification.
This graph, from the report "What's Behind Zambia's Record Maize Crop?" from the Zambia Food Security Research Project (FSRP) shows a very even growth in productivity from 2009/2010 across all farm sizes .
As you may know, maize is a staple crop, and commercial farmers mainly grow the much higher priced commercial export crops - tobacco, tea, coffee, etc. Maize, even in Zambia where it is the national staple, sells for over $200 per tonne which is high, but much lower than the per tonne prices for tobacco, tea, etc.
It would not be the first time of course that white Zimbabweans would lay blame on Africans when it is unwarranted, or take credit for achievements that are not theirs.
I am awaiting your response, or rectification.
MrK, blogger
(1) (Source: Table 1a. Zambian Maize Production by Smallholder (Small- & Medium-Scale Holding Combined) and Commercial Farmers 2003/04 - 2007/08)
MrK 10 July 2010 at 12:57
A week after the July 1st article, appeared, one Tanonoka Joseph Whande regurgitated in another article on SW Radio Africa:
So, here I sit, wondering which and what should be more important than the other: giving land to people, even if they do not have agricultural inclination, just to satisfy the expectations of land indigenisation or letting only those who can productively use the land for the benefit of the nation be given the land.
He means white farmers. You know, the ones who are responsible for Zambia's bumper crop.
I hope people now start to see through the propaganda that is being poured on Zimbabwe, and now Zambia, by the powers that want to keep Africa's mines in western hands, and Africa's land in the hands of former colonists.
And of course, Zambia has another big plus: it isn't under economic sanctions, or has it's lines of credit with the World Bank, IMF other banking institutions frozen because of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001.
And it is not only Zimbabwe which is under sanctions. Anyone who will stand with Zimbabwe is at risk at having donor aid suspended. (1,2)
Zimbabwe didn't fail 'because of Mugabe's mismanagement', or 'just because' without the white man, 'things fall apart', but it was made to fail, by illegal means, in a relentless campaign of economic disenfranchisement, media propaganda, and disinformation.
In the end, the currency failed, but the country has not, the ZANU-PF has not, and the President has not. But know what the MDC is all about, why there are so many Rhodesians in it, and why it is so relentlessly neoliberal in economic policy.
(1) EU petitioned to suspend aid to Malawi over bankrolling Mugabe
By Nyasa Times
“Why, for instance, should Malawi get £70 million in balance of payments support this year from the UK alone when its people face starvation because of a reckless loan to Mugabe, which predictably has not been repaid? “ reads the petition.
The words of Brigadier General Geoffrey van Orden (Military Intelligence), MEP. This 'petition' was followed 2 months later with this actual withholding of 'donor aid':
(2) World Bank faults Malawi on aid absorption as EU withholds budgetary support
The report comes in the wake of the European Union’s decision to withhold budgetary support to Malawi.
The EU is withholding about K6 billion because of concerns with the “macro-economic framework” in Malawi.
It seems fairly clear that the increases in productivity were across the board; however commercial farmers (white, black, coloured, Indian) will be the ones exporting and seeing as these are large contracts my guess is political elites will have their fingers in the pie-so corruption all round, sounds equitable to me with people of all races getting a chance to squeeze the poor labourers for a few more Ngwee. Without having to refer to race it is clear that more intensive farmers in Zambia would result in increased production, they just happened to be Africans of a certain complexion but I'm sure we'd complain if they were Chinese, Egyptian or Nigerian. And though most Zimbabweans of the pink complexion do not have savoury racial attitudes they employ their workers and are so scared of the same thing happening all over again (some getting killed) that they pay and treat their workers better than we would expect. The workers are also free to go whenever they want(Zambia not being feudal), they can go to Lusaka to join the compounds so kindly maintained by the government for the enjoyment of its citizens. Who actually cares what colour people are if they pay their workers and provide some money and food for the country; and we must also remember that racism goes both ways so we cannot say that the racial ideas of Zimbabweans are the only problem as some Zambians seem to have problems with race too. Perhaps we should go take a look at some ideals from independence: a non-racial society. It now seems we have to deal with class interests dressing up their defence of privilege with racial language to divert attention from the nefarious activities and exploitation of the poor(not very Christian is it?) undertaken by the elite.
Reuben Mbewe
R. Henson 10 July 2010 at 19:04
The radio report displayed a serious ignorance of the facts. Maize yields in Zambia depend on:
1.Good rainfall (for which govt always takes the credit)
2. Availability of subsidized inputs
3. Whether last years price was profitable.
Few commercial farmers grow maize except for sale fresh or off season. Most commercial farmers can do a costing and work out whether something is profitable or not. Their labour costs are higher than small scale farmers who don't comply with minimum wage laws. Therefore most maize is grown by the small scale sector. Most former Zimbabwean farmers are presumably commercial rather than small scale and would probably only grow maize for their employees or livestock.
Nobody who made a loss is in a hurry to repeat the experience even if they can afford to. (Maize consumers had better buy enough maize this year to carry through the inevitable shortage next year.)
On the price side, a commercial farmer is more likely to export, is closer to a main road, and more likely to have a forward contract with a buyer. He is also more likely to be able to wait for the seasonal price rise though that may not happen this year. Either way, he will get a better price than a small scale producer.
R. Henson,
I hope for some integrity from SW Radio Africa, and hope that they will respond to my email. However, I doubt it, as their mission seems to be to make propaganda against Zimbabwe. I would love to be pleasantly surprised though.
General 12 July 2010 at 12:17
Very unfortunate comments. Also very unfortunate that even black intellectuals can't seem to see through this white propaganda. A visit to any white owned farm in Zambia will show that these farmers mostly grow tobacco, cut flowers and other high value export crops. To suggest that white farmers are responsible for maize production in Zambia is a serious insult to our small scale farmers. Please gentlemen, let us see through this propaganda.
I wouldn't characterize the employees of SW Radio Africa as intellectuals. Pundits, propagandists, jobbers, perhaps.
What they do, is push a political agenda. Anti land reform, anti indigenisation, pro MDC, pro neoliberalism, etc.
By the way, they haven't returned my e-mail yet. :)
As of this writing SW Radio Africa have not responded to my e-mail, or retracted their stories about the cause of Zambia's maize surplus.
I guess that shows their level of integrity. They are a London based propaganda arm, they are paid by the US and UK governments to make propaganda against Zimbabwe, the ZANU-PF, and President Mugabe.
They are not interested in the truth, professional reporting, or anything else.
Philbert Muzungaire 19 July 2010 at 21:54
For those Africans, or Westerners, or others, who argue the incapacity of Black Africans as farmers, some perspective (in last sentence):
“As cattle and sheep farmers the colonists are very successful. Large quantities of wool are produced every year. But this system requires a rapid extension of ground, and farmers are gradually spreading to the north. The movement proves prejudicial to the country behind by drawing off labour which would otherwise be directed to the improvement of the territory already occupied. Encroachment upon the interior actually diminishes cultivation for less land is put under the plough than was before subjected to the native hoe. The Basutos and Zulus or Caffres of Natal undersell our farmers wherever they have a fair field and no favour.”
Source (google books): Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, By David Livingstone, Frederick Stanley Arnot, Chapter V - page 64., new edition 1899.
By the way, I sent them another e-mail, this tim to Lance Guma, Violet Gonda and more too.
Still no reply.
Philbert Muzungaire,
So this kind of propaganda has a long history. The old argument was that Africans were 'destructive farmers', which became popularized with the term 'slash and burn' agriculture, and therefore should be 'discouraged' from farming. The real reason is quoted in this paragraph, namely "maintenance of the European farmer at the expense of the natives.".
Quoting from David P. Vickery's excellent Black And White In Southern Zambia - The Tonga Plateau Economy and British Colonialism, 1890-1939, on the introduction of the Maize Control Ordinance (page 206):
C.S. Knight, who had replaced Murray as the member for Southern Province, had no hesitation in supporting the bill. Without such a measure "it will mean the elimination of the European farmer in the country, and I think we all, if not openly, have at heart the necessity for the European colonisation of this country."
At the Colonial Office, meanwhile, officials reacted with raised eyebrows to the draft legislation. One termed the plan "one of the most extraordinary schemes I have ever seen." J.A. Calder of the C.O. branded it "ostensibly... but not really fair" because its basic object was "maintenance of the European farmer at the expense of the natives." But the Northern Rhodesian Government permitted LegCo to consider and pass the bill before hearing the Colonial Office reaction. In informing the C.O. of this fact, C.R. Dundas, the Chief Secretary again raised the paternalist argument that even one-quarter of the market was "much above what they [the Africans] should supply if they are to conserve their land." Moreover said Dundas, the idea that Africans might supply one-half the supply was "quite impossible" and flatly predicted that their share would fall short of even the mandated 25 percent.
A Whitehall pointed out the absurdity of Dundas last argument, with its implication that the division was "completely unnecessary and put in presumably for ornamental purposes".
"Just before deliveries commenced in May, the Board decided, ostensibly for the sake of convenience, to fix in advance the pay-out for African maize. Since it was unclear what the Board's final revenue would be, the price was pegged at "safe", low level.
Thus Africans who delivered directly to the Board's depots received 5s. per bag the first year and 6s. the next two... These prices fell considerably short (by about one-third in the first three years of the average value of African maize after sales, even given the market division. The difference was paid into a fund set side for price stabilisation and, eventually, African farming improvement.
On the basis of the calculations upon which the control was introduced, African deliveries for an average year were expected to be 25% of the total, around 58,000 bags. Final figures for the 1936 crop, however, the first under Control, told a radically different story. African deliveries amounted to 234,000 bags, 42% of the total. Probably 75% or more of African production came from the Tonga Plateau. These results produced some red faces in government, to say the least.
Source: Black And White In Southern Zambia, by David P. Vickery
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Zonnewal Oostwold
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Zonnewal-plan enters final phase
By Arnaud on 7 December 2017 in Zonnewal
Dear people of Oostwold and neighbours! The last time we could give you a big update about the Zonnewal-project was in May, when we had a gathering in the Gaveborg.
We told you about the progress up to that point. How the idea for the Zonnewal had taken its pretty much definitive shape, how students studied the support in and around the village, how you can switch to ECO as your energy supplier and that Oostwold (and therefore, the Zonnewal) was chosen by the Groningen province as one of the six ‘example villages’ to serve as a blueprint for other villages and towns that want to become energy neutral. Also, a short film about the Zonnewal had its premiere that evening – a film in which we explain what the Zonnewal is all about in two minutes.
Radio silence?
It’s December already, and you haven’t heard from us for a while now. But that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. We meet almost weekly as a project group, attend almost all relevant meetings and events (regarding energy transition) in the region – as long as time permits, because we all do this project next to a full time job and/or company.
While we make progress almost every week, sadly, we cannot inform you every time. We are continuously talking to many parties, such as Provincie Groningen (Groningen Province), gemeente Leek (Leek municipality), Rijkswaterstaat, Waterschap Noorderzijlvest, Enexis, solar panel suppliers, our Zonnewal building partner Enviso/DBG and other parties such as the owners of some pieces of land near the A7 highway, where the Zonnewal will be built.
In order to not interfere with decisionmaking it is important for all government parties to agree, before we make anything public.
Gigantic boost
We are proud and happy to announce that this is now the case! Parties such as Provincie Groningen and Gemeente Leek had a very positive attitude towards the Zonnewal, but it has taken a long before everyone was at the same table AND reached an agreement about a thorough and purposeful approach. Provincie Groningen and Gemeente Leek are now in the forward mode which means that they are convinced of the plans and willing to cooperate. We are now working with them to prepare the necessary permit/licence application.
Impression of (a part of) the new Ringweg Groningen
Apart from this, we have a new partner: the consortium of companies that carries out the reshaping of the Zuidelijke Ringweg in Groningen. This project provides a huge amount of dirt – and what place is better to bring it to than the Zonnewal, which is not even 10 Kilometers away from the Julianaplein? We hope that we can start a great cooperation with them.
These to factors have given the project a gigantic boost, and therefore we are confident to announce that we are now in the final phase of planning.
We are now working out various details with the government partes, but are also still in talks with land owners. The lots next to the A7 are propery of some government parties (Gemeente, Waterschap) but also owned by a few private owners.
Most of them are very enthusiastic about the plan and they have given their cooperation by signing a statement of intent. This statement says that they are willing to sell a piece of their land that adjecents the A7. With some parties we are still negotiating to reach an agreement.
As soon as we reach an agreement with all land owners, we can finalize everything with the order parties. We will then proceed to apply for the necessary licences and permits and as soon as they are approved – building can start! Of course, we will notify you right away when this happens!
Results of research among Oostwold inhabitants are released!
By Arnaud on 3 February 2017 in Zonnewal
On Februari 2nd, a group of Communication students of the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen have presented the results of their research. This research was conducted in november in Oostwold. They have gone door to door and asked as many households as possible about their knowledge of the Zonnewal-project and their opinion on the matter.
The spectacular conclusion they could draw is that not a single person asked, indicated not to be enthusiastic about the project. On the contrary: of the 67 respondents, 53 were familiar with the project and were enthusiastic about it (79%!). 13 people indicated that they would need a little more information to form their opinion. Of course, in the next few months, we will do just that.
Response to the research
Given the number of households in Oostwold, a response of 67 people is relatively high. These are the households where, at the moment the research was conducted, someone was home and willing to answer a short survey of five questions. So, this survey provides enough data to draw reprentative results. Almost anywhere where someone was home, the person at the door took part in the survey. We are thankful that you took the time to participate in this and even more happy about the remarkably positive results.
These good results are on par with the positive reactions we got at the information evening in the Gaveborg in march 2016. This overwhelming support is strenghthens our conviction that the Zonnewal will offer something beautiful for everyone in the village: from sustainable energy production, highway noise reduction or the fact that attractive walk-, bike- and bridleways will be built – the Zonnewal makes living in Oostwold even more attractive than before.
The survey results (research questions and outcome) can be downloaded here: uitkomsten onderzoek Oostwold november 2016
We would like to thank Frank Westerveld, Maaike Wouda, Marc Boonstra, Fyline Weijermars en Daphne van Grevenhof for their hard work. Not only have they conducted this research, but they also devised a communications plan and some other stuff that you will see very shortly!
Interview RTVnoord about the Zonnewal
Jannie and Sip van Energie Coöperatie Oostwold have just been interviewed by RTVnoord (local Dutch radio) about the Zonnewal (Solar Wall). Listen to the interview below (in Dutch):
Zonnewal selected by Province as one of the energy-neutral villages!
Yesterday, we received the wonderful news that the Groningen Province has selected Oostwold and its Zonnewal Project as one of the energy-neutral “example villages”.
The Province gave 27 local projects the opportunity to present their project and be given the chance to call themselves “example village”.
On behalf of the Zonnewal Project Group, Kees, Sip, Geartsje and Jannie have given a presentation in the Provinciehuis on November 28th, 2016. Yesterday, the Province announced that not five, but a total of six projects have been selected – and the Zonnewal in Oostwold is one of them!
What does this mean for us?
Not only does this mean that we have the Province’s support for the Zonnewal, but also their active support in making it happen. The Province strives to make the energy production 100% sustainable by 2050 (and by doing so, make Groningen the first energy-neutral province in The Netherlands). To achieve this goal, the Province will actively support local initiatives that improve sustainability in order to increase the speed of the energy transition.
The programma energietransitie 2016-2019 (energy transition program 2016-2019, Dutch) is meant to play an important part by appointing six projects as ‘pilot projects’. The Province offers their network of experts in order to make realising these projects easier and to be able to use them as a ‘blueprint’ for other, future projects.
You can image that building the Zonnewal is a vast and complex project and the Province’s help is very welkcome.
The Province’s plans are explained in the video below (in Dutch)
DVHN.nl – RTVnoord.nl – Press release Provincie Groningen
Be the first to know the lastest news about the Zonnewal – click here!
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ChoralWiki:Downloadable tools
(Redirected from NoteWorthy Composer Viewer)
CW:DT redirects here
You don't need any special software to browse or search the CPDL site itself. If you can read this, you can use CPDL. However, to view and download individual scores, you'll need to install some other software on your computer. Almost all scores on CPDL are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) ( ), which means you can open and print them using a free program called Adobe Reader (see below).
MIDI files are computer-generated audio files, not scores. Most Windows and Mac computers can play MIDI files without any additional software, using a built-in sound card and speakers. Simply click on any MIDI link ( ) to open and playback the MIDI file. Some composers and editors provide MP3 files ( ) which are larger than MIDI files but which usually provide a much better representation of what a score should sound like. Occasionally, performances of works by choirs are available, though these may not be uploaded to CPDL server. MP3 files can usually be opened with the same software that opens MIDI files, such as Windows Media Player.
1.1 Acrobat Reader
1.2 7-Zip Unzipper
1.3 MuseScore
1.4 Finale Reader
1.5 FinaleViewer
1.6 Encore (demo version)
1.7 NoteWorthy Composer Viewer
1.8 Sibelius Scorch
1.9 Ghostscript
1.10 Lilypond
1.11 Capella Reader
1.12 Melody Player
1.13 VLC
1.14 MUP
1.15 MCMusiceditor
1.16 ABC
Below are downloadable tools (free unless noted) for viewing sheet music and notation files. See also further information that may be available about individual Music notation programs.
File Ext.
Most sheet music files are in this format, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X and for Linux.
7-Zip Unzipper
.ARJ
.MXL
Some source and MIDI files are "zipped", that is, archived into a zip file to reduce the file size, or to combine many files (eg. multiple MIDI files) into a single file for convenience. MusicXML files, which tend to be rather large, are sometimes saved as a zip file with the extension MXL. These can be safely renamed to ZIP if necessary. 7-Zip is open source software for archiving and expanding zipped files. Only available for Windows, though users of Windows XP and above already have the ability to unzip such files - simply double click on the file and follow the instruction. Mac users should use the Archive Utility.app that comes with OSX.
.MSCZ
.CAP
.OVE
.KAR
Create, play back, and print sheet music for free. MuseScore is cross-platform, multi-lingual, open source music notation software. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. MuseScore is translated in 45 languages, and run on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can get help in the online handbook or by asking your question to the community in the MuseScore forum. MuseScore core developers team also runs a sheet music sharing website : MuseScore.com
Finale Reader
.MUS
.ETF
Finale Reader is a free program that enables one to view, play and print music files created by Finale, Finale Allegro, Finale PrintMusic, Finale SongWriter and Finale NotePad.
FinaleViewer
FinaleViewer was originally designed by Coda Music to make Finale scores viewable within a web browser, and was previously called "SmartMusic Viewer"; however development on the web browser plug-in was abandoned by Finale. The free version of Finale Reader (above) is sufficient to open Finale scores and play them back. However some web sites affiliated with CPDL do not offer the Finale files directly, requiring the FinaleViewer plug-in.
Note: There are two software items which have been named "FinaleViewer".
The earlier one was the browser plug-in with this name in 2003, which replaced a previous similar plug-in called "SmartMusic Viewer", both of which were deprecated in 2004 in favor of Finale Notepad (now replaced by Finale Reader). It is this plug-in that some websites affiliated with CPDL require.
More recently, beginning in late 2006 or early 2007, the name "Finale Viewer" was given to a user side component to a suite of server software developed by MakeMusic! for use in selling sheet music through e-commerce. The current version probably will not work as a substitute for the earlier one.
Encore (demo version)
.ENC
.MTS
Encore (demo version) enables one to view music files created by Encore notation software. Available for Windows and Macintosh. Note: Save and Print are disabled in all demo versions.
NoteWorthy Composer Viewer
.NWC
NoteWorthy Composer Viewer enables one to view music files created by NoteWorthy Composer notation software. Only available for Windows.
Sibelius Scorch
.SIB
.SCO
The Scorch viewer enables one to view files created with Sibelius notation software.
Ghostscript enables one to open files created with PostScript software. After installing it, one will need a previewer based on Ghostscript. For Windows platform this might be GSview; for Linux platform, ggv (gnome) or kghostview (KDE).
Lilypond is a free software from the GNU project and allows to edit, print PDF files, and generate MIDI files from the LY scores written.
A LY score is basically a plain text file. A LY score can be written with any text editor, or with the help of software like Denemo or Rosegarden, and can then be compiled to pdf or midi.
Lilypond is a very powerful tool, it requires a bit of skill and curiosity about computer science matters, and a bit of time to become a learned user, but in the end you will be amazed by the results you can achieve. It can be installed for free on almost any platform including Windows and Linux of course. Tutorials and examples can be found on the official website.
Capella Reader allows one to view, play and print Capella files. Only available for Windows.
Melody Player
.MYR
Melody Player allows one to view files created by Melody Assistant and Harmony Assistant.
.VLC
The VLC Software for Mac allows one to play MIDI files (.MID), RIFF files (.RMI), Karaoke files (.KAR) and extended MIDI files (.XMI) files via software synthesis with a sound font file (*.SF2).
.MUP
MUP is a shareware program that allows one to view, edit and create scores and MIDI files. A demo version is available at no cost, but indicates across the printed score that it was printed using a demo or unregistered version of the software. Available for Windows, Linux, Mac and other operating systems. Includes a GUI but can be operated without using the GUI. As of 20090221, the cost is $29, which includes free upgrades and support from the developers and also knowledgeable users over a user mailing list.
MCMusiceditor
.MCM
MCMusiceditor is a free program that runs on Windows. Its creators indicates that it runs fast and aims to be easier to use than Lilypond, Sibelius or Finale, while producing high-quality PDF. A helpfile and snippets can be found here.
.ABC
The ABC notation is a simple code for music notation originally develloped by Chris Walshaw. Popular free and multi platform programs for processing ABC files are abcm2ps, abc2midi, and abctab2ps. The free ABC editor flabc combines these three programs under a simple graphical user interface and is available for MacOS X, Linux, and Windows.
This page is part of the CPDL Help system.
View main help index
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I'm glad to intorduce an old town, Jinaimachi, Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan as a national historic district and heritage site.
It takes 30 minutes from Osaka city to Tondabayashi station by Kintetsu railways. A 10-minutes walk will take you to the historic town.
2. Map・Walking model course
3 .Visitor information center
1. Historic preservation district
3. Old residences and temples
Event/Shop
1. Former Sugiyama residence
2. Shops & Restaurants
3. Event Information
2. Travelogues by Author
3. Essay by Author
welcome to jinaimachi town, tondabayashi, a historic district, japan
【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan 】
Viewing the contrast of beautiful white mortar and cedar panels on the walls, wooden slatted lattices in a row, a miniature second story, black roof tiles with decorative designs and an overtopped small roof for smoke ventilation and as such, there are a lot of tourists' attractions here in the traditional village and streetscapes of old merchants' shop cum town houses with heavy earthen-walled warehouses as well as Buddhist temples of the period of Edo era (from the 17th century through the middle of 19th century). As the times of each building construction differ from each other, so many buildings have shown so many varieties of architectural structures and unique designs.
Jinaimachi town in Tondabayashi city, a historic preservation district and heritage site, which is located in the south-eastern part of Osaka prefecture, Japan, remains, as it were, an outdoors museum of old wooden cultural properties. Why don't you go out for sightseeing journey at the invaluable heritage site in Jinaimachi Town, outscourts of Osaka when you will visit Osaka, Kyoko and Nara, the western part of Japan?
I would like to introduce to you, through the web site, my hometown, Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi city. In the historic district of Jinaimachi town, there remain as many as 40 old town houses built from the Edo period, 17th century through the early Showa era, the early 20th century, as it looks like a location site of samurai movies and here you can enjoy a time-slipping journey. The original village and streetscapes in the town with calm environment of historic sceneries are well preserved even through the modernization of Japan. The Jinaimachi town has been designated as one of the important national preservation districts for groups of historic buildings in Japan. Would you like to drop in another kind of theme park than the Universal Studio Japan?
Thirty minutes' train ride from the downtown of Osaka (Tennoji, or Abenobashi terminal station of Kintetsu Railways) will take you to the heritage site of Jinaimachi town. You may enjoy a lot of new findings about the tourists' attractions of Japanese history, culture and architectural prpperties by walking around the town. You might also come across an idea how important to inherit and preserve an invaluable heritage site forever.
The introduction of Jinaimachi town through the web site is guided by Mr. Naoya Okutani , a government-licensed English tour guide on July 22, 2012.
[Event information] "A happy New Year Hot Pot Food Festival 2020" on January 11, 2020
In Tondabayashi Jinaimachi historic district and its neighborhood, the annual food event called “ A Happy New Year Hot Pot Food Festival” as a winter part of Jinaimachi four seasons story is held on the second Saturday in January. As the eighth anniversary, it is to be held from 11:00 to 15:00 on Saturday, January 11 in 2020, rain or shine.
[Event information] "Nochi-no-Hina-Dolls Festival 2019" on October 12, 2019
“Nochi no Hina Matsuri”, which literally means "The Autumn Doll's Festival" that was carried out around Kansai region in the days of a Festival of the Chrysanthemum Festival (on September 9 of the old lunar calendar) in the Edo era.
The festival whose alias was Kiku Hina, deriving from what has been decorated with chrysanthemum and dolls, has been reproduced in Jinaimachi town in Todabayashi with the many historic merchants’ houses in a row of the Edo period. You can enjoy the streetscape of white walls, lattices, chrysanthemum and doll decoration of the old elegant manners and customs. The autumn Doll's Festival is scheduled from 10:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, 2019. The festival will be carried out even if it rains. The festival celebrates the 13th anniversary this year.
Since 2007, this annual event has been planned and organized as autumn tradition of “Jinaimachi four season story autumn 2019” by both the Jinaimachi four seasons story executive committee and the general incorporated association of Tondabayashi Jinaimachi Cultural Trust in the Tondabayashi Jinaimachi historic district which has been solely designated in Osaka prefecture as one of the Important Preservation Districts for Historic Buildings in Group of the country.
【Event Information】 Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Guide tour for foreign visitors in English
The Tondabayashi Jinaimachi volunteer tour guide association will have a special program to offer sightseeing tours in English free of charge by guiding Japanese and foreign visitors during the national holidays of April 28-30, 2018. You can enjoy tourists' attractions by town watching in the historic district of Tondabayashi Jinaimachi, Osaka prefecture in Japan.
Date & Time October 12, 2019, Saturday
As the Typhoon No.19 will be approaching, the guide tours on Oct.12 have been cancelled.
① 10:00~12:00
Cancelled.
② 13:30~15:30
October 13, 2019, Sunday
As the Typhoon No.19 will be approaching, the guide tours on Oct.13 have been cancelled. ③ 10:00~12:00
④ 13:30~15:30
October 14, 2019, Monday (Nataional Holiday) ⑤ 10:00~12:00
⑥ 13:30~15:30
Assemble Place Jinaimachi Visitor Centor (Jinaimachi Kouryukan) located in 10 minutes walk from Tondabayashi station on Kintetsu Railways Nagano Lines.
Please come to assemble there 5 minites prior to each start time.
(120 minutes) ① lecture & presentation at the meeting room of Jinaimachi Visitor Centor (Jinaimachi Kouryukan) in about 30minutes.
②guided tour in the historic district in 90 minutes.The tour will finish at the former residence of Sugiyama family, an important national cultural property.
Participation fee Free of charge
Seats availablibity We will stop accepting applications once all the places are taken upto 15 participants each tour.
Advanced booking or inquiry By telefax to Tondabayashi Jinaimachi Kouryuukan (Visitror Center) （☎+81-721-26-0110）
① your name（the representative in case of group）、②number of participants、③nationality（travellers or residents）④phone number ⑤e-mail address
Tour organization Tonadabayashi Jinaimachi Volunteer Guide Association
【Event Information】 Jinaimachi street lantern festival
The summer tradition of annual Jinaimachi street lantern festival will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2019. (17:00 to 21:00 hrs) as a part of Jinaimachi four seasons story special events .(in case of rain or shower, it may possibly be postponed to the following day.)
On both sides of streets, about 1,000 decorative paper lanterns with elaborate pictures, characters, people's wishes are simultaneousaly ignited when it becomes dark at 18:30.
The local association for preservation and development of the town is welcome to visitors to have a fun to produce original personal lanterns and ignite their own lantern on the street in order to make the summer memory together with local residents.
There are variety of event programs and we welcome you to join the festival on this occasion. Please see the leaflets and website of Tondabayashi Tourism Association for more information on the program of the day.
The 16th street lantern festival (leaflet)
The 16th street lantern festival (leaflet reverse side)
designed by Mr.Akasaki of Kirameki factory
Koushouji Buddhist Temple
【update】Travelogues by Author - Series No. 66 Tondabayashi Jinaiamchi bilingual guided tour - on May 1-5,2019
Tourrists' attractions (Part 1/2)
Mail & inquiry to Author
Jinaimachi in Tondabayashi（Jyounomon-suji street）
Photo: provided by Tondabayashi Municipality, unauthorized copying and replication are strictly prohibited.
National conservation district of valuable traditional buildings
Jinaimachi town, a part of Tondabayashi-cho located in Tonadabayashi city has been chosen as a national conservation district of valuable traditional buildings since 1997, which is only selected in Osaka Prefecture. Among approximately 500 buildings in the town, 181 buildings built during the period from the Edo era to the early Showa era have been identified as traditional buildings.
An application for prior approval to the section of cultural properties in board of education of Tondabayashi city is required when any change of current exterior appearances viewed from a street in the conservation district such as enlargement, renovation, repair, redecoration, change of the color, new construction and demolition of any buildings is to be made. After repairing works for the conservation of the exterior appearances, the reconstruction and face-lifting in consideration of landscaping, a white wall, a board fence, and a lattice door of traditional house remain as used to be, and rustic and calm atmosphere has been kept as people still live in those houses.
The signpost is provided with main traditional residences to explain each origin and history, and those guiding signposts cum street lights have been placed along the streets of stone-pavement.
In addition, the appearances of newly built buildings are also harmonized with the neighboring historic district in consideration for the traditional townscape in Jinaimachi town.
Koushouji Betsuin Temple (Tondabayashi Gobo)
Koushouji Betsuin Temple is a temple of Jodo Shinshu School (Ikkoushuu School), which became the center of the development and establishment of Jinaimachi town in Tondabayashi . It has been popular as Mr. Gobo (Tondabayashi Gobo) among the local residents.
During the Ouei period (1394-1412years) , theincipient temple was opened in Ebitani village. In 1560, Shoushuu Shonin, the 16th head priest of Koushouji Sect. in Kyoto dismantled the building and reconstructedit to the present location, adjacent to Ebitani village.
The temple gate looks toward the east and the Jyounomon-suji street. Those buildings such as the bell tower, the drum tower, the main hall, the reception hall and priest's quarters are set up and arranged.
The main gate has refined style and it became clear in a recent investigation that the gate was further relocated from Koushouji temple in Kyoto, which was originally said to be dismantled and reconstructed from one of the gates at Fushimi castle in Kyoto.
Koushouji Betsuin Temple was designated as an important cultural property of the country in 2014.
The former residence of the Sugiyama family, an important cultural property of the country
Sugiyama family was one of the old family who was involved in the founding of Jinaimachi town and the family flourished as a sake brewer throughout the Edo period.
The former Sugiyama family residence is the oldest building among those merchants’ houses in Jinaimachi and it is the remains of a large merchant house of the mid-Edo period.
The residence is the birthplace of Ms. Tsuyuko Isonokami, a female poet of Myojo school (Her autonym was Takako Sugiyama, 1882ー1959).
The property was designated as an important cultural property of the country on October 26, 1983 as a typical architecture of merchant’s house which was originated from farmer's house in Minami-Kawachi region.
Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi city, a national historic preservation district and heritage site of Japan, which is located in the south-eastern part of Osaka prefecture, the western part of Japan
Directions to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi
It is a 10-minute walk from Tondabayashi Staion or Tondabayashi Nishiguchi Station of Kintetsu Nagano line.
From Kansai International Airport
Airport Limousine Bus service available bound for Kawachi Nagano Station. (60 minutes) Please take Kintetsu railways from Kawachi Nagano to Tondabayashi.(15 minutes)
From Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport)
Airport Limousine Bus service available bound for Abenobashi Station. (30 minutes) Please take Kintetsu railways from Abenobashi terminal to Tondabayashi.(30 munites)
From JR Shinkasen Shin-Osaka station or
Osaka (Umeda) station
Please take Subway Midousuji line from Shin-Osaka station or Osaka (Umeda) station to Tennoji Station. (20~30 minutes) Please change trains at Tennoji and take Kintetsu railways from Abenobashi terminal to Tondabayashi. (30 minutes)
It is a 10-minute walk from the Tondabayashi Staion or the Tondabayashi Nishiguchi Station of Kintetsu Nagano line.
The site-seeing map available in English
Please stop by to the Tourist Information Cetnter or Jinaimachi Visitor Center. You can get the visitor map.
(Jinaimachi Kouryuukan,
Town Community Center)
9-29, Tondabayashi-cho, Tondabayashi city, Osaka, 584-0033, Japan
TEL.+81-(0)721-26-0110
FAX.+81-(0)721-26-0110
open 10a.m. until 5 p.m.
Available at Jinaimachi Visitor Center (Jinaimachi Kouryuukan), Jinaimachi Center and Jinaimachi Tenbou Hiroba (Viewing Terrace)
Road width is very narrow in Jinaimachi town. If traveling by car, please use Tondabayashi Municipal east parking newly opened in February 2014 (Toll parking).
You can park the minibus for groups and passenger cars for general use. Only one parking lot available for minibus, you must book it in advance with Tondabayashi City Hall. A 15-minute walk to the Jinaimachi Visitor Center and 5 minute walk up to the former Sugiyama family house, an important national cultural property.
You will note that the large tourist bus for groups is requested to be parked at the Tondabayashi City Hall No. 2 parking lot alongside the old Route 170 (It must be booked in advance to City Hall). 20-minute walk to the Jinaimachi Visitor Center and 10 minute walk up to the former Sugiyama family house, an important national cultural property. Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.
Tourists' attractions (part 1/2)
Jyounomonsuji street "the 100 selections of roads in Japan"
Koushouji Betsuin Buddhist Temple
Former Sugiyama residence
Nakamura residence
Former Tanaka residence
Architecture Vol. 1/2
Roof ・Roof tiles
Mushikomado
Koushimado
Storehouse（Kura）
Kemuridashi
Shokisan
Sodeudatsu
Jinaimachi cookies
New Year Hot Pot Festival
Spring Hina Meguri Dolls Festival
Summer Street Lantern Festival
Autumn Nochino Hina Matsuri Doll Festival
B&B (Tomari-Ya Guetshouse)
Travelogues by Author
Ichiriyama-cho street
Tomiyama-cho street
Kita-Kaisho-cho street
Minami-Kaisho-cho street
Sakai-cho street
Gobo-cho street
Hayashi-cho street
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Carrie Underwood's Husband Celebrates Anniversary With Rare Wedding Photo
posted by Paris Close - Jul 11, 2019
Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher are nine years strong!
This Wednesday (July 10) celebrated the couple's latest marriage milestone, as the retired hockey player took to Instagram to honor his wife on the ninth anniversary of their wedding day. “9 years feels like 9 minutes!!!! Grateful to be on this journey with you @carrieunderwood!!" Fisher wrote alongside a sweet picture of him and the country star cuddled up together. "Time sure does fly #datenight#happyanniversary.”
The 39-year-old athlete also shared a never-before-seen memory from the lovebirds' nuptials, a Kodak moment taken of the newlyweds seemingly having their first dance. “She used to think I was funny,” Fisher quipped in the caption with laughing-face emojis.
Underwood started dating the NHL star after the pair met after one of her concerts in 2008 and carried on a long-distance relationship before the duo sealed their love with a kiss on New Year's Eve that year. Fisher eventually proposed to the "Cry Pretty" superstar in December 2009, and the pair tied the knot in front of more than 250 guests in July 2010 at The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia.
The married twosome also shares two children: 3-year-old Isaiah (born February 2015) and six-month-old Jacob (born January 2019).
In a previous interview with PEOPLE last month, Underwood described her husband as her soulmate. “I feel like he is the person I was meant to be with,” the artist told the publication. “I had dated guys and kind of knew, like, ‘No.’ Nothing was ever really wrong, but nothing was really right either. With him, it was like a good partnership. It was an easy relationship to be in.”
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The Basketball Junkie
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NBA Consensus Power Rankings, Week 9
With the NBA All-Star Weekend now behind us, the top three teams in the NBA going into the second half are separated by only one-half game in the standings.
Based on NBA futures (from Sportsbook.com), however, the Miami Heat are the clear favorites to win it all.
Here are the odds to win the NBA Championship: Heat 6/5, Thunder 4/1 and Bulls 5/1. Coincidentally, that is the order of our top three teams in our Consensus NBA Power Rankings.
The No. 4 team in this week's rankings, San Antonio, has 15/1 odds to win it all while the Clippers (8/1), Lakers (10/1), Knicks (10/1) and Mavs (12/1) all have better odds.
Interestingly enough, the Knicks have a losing record (17-18) through the first half, but the surprising emergence of Jeremy Lin has the enthusiasm of Knicks' fans at Linsane levels. It's hard to imagine tickets for a regular-season game involving a team with a losing record going for more than tickets for the NBA Finals in the previous year, but that is what happened with Thursday's matchup between the Heat and Knicks.
When it comes to the Atlantic Division, the Sixers were the feel-good story at the beginning of the year as a surprise team. With a five-game losing streak to end the first half, they are getting little respect from oddsmakers.
Sportsbook has the 76ers at 50/1 to win it all.
While nobody should expect them to win it all, they have much higher odds than division foes with losing records: the Knicks (as noted above) and the Celtics (25/1).
Here are some more stats about this week's NBA Consensus Power Rankings:
- Biggest jump from last week: Portland Trail Blazers (+2.50)
- Biggest drop from last week: Memphis Grizzlies (-2.50)
- Team with widest difference between high and low ranker: Memphis Grizzlies and Philadelphia 76ers (5)
[See our full NBA Consensus Power Rankings.]
Each week, we respond to one roundtable question and here's this week's question: Out of the Knicks' remaining 31 games, how many will they win? (Over-Under: 18.5 games)
John (follow on Twitter):
In looking at the Knicks final 31 games, I'm going to take the under on 18.5 wins. I actually think it's reasonable to think they might get close, even 18 wins, but I'm not taking them to win more than that down the stretch. Jeremy Lin is coming back down to earth a bit, but he's not going to be facing the freak athleticism that Miami has every game. I think Lin will settle in to being a good point guard, which will help the Knicks stay firmly in playoff contention. Depending on how they gel after getting back some key players from injury, most notably Carmelo Anthony, I think the Knicks have the potential to make some noise in the playoffs. I'd also give them a 60-percent chance or so of jumping Philadelphia and winning the division.
Sean (follow on Twitter):
I'm gonna go with under 18.5 games. I think the Knicks will finish 16-15. The Knicks definitely have the pieces to be a good team, but I am selling because of one thing ... Defense. Amar'e/Melo have yet to "buy in" defensively, and that will be costly down the stretch. Mike D'Antoni looks like a deer in headlights too often. The Knicks will need a major shake up to contend with either Chicago or Miami.
Kevin (follow on Twitter):
Their first game after the break may not be so tough: Cleveland at home on February 29th. That said, the first half of March will likely dictate whether they go over or under that total. Six of their first nine games in March are on the road. Only two of those nine games are against teams with losing records (but both are on the road): Boston and Milwaukee. If they go 5-5 to start the second half, they will have a realistic shot to finish 19-12 (or .613). However, they do have a challenging start to April (at Indiana, at Orlando, vs. Chicago and at Chicago) as well. I think the Knicks, who were 17-18 in the first half, finish the season above .500 but will win 18 games or less in the second half.
[Note: Dan will return from a cruise through Central America today and won't participate in our consensus rankings this week, but it will be business as usual next week.]
To see where all 30 teams fall in our power rankings going through Week 9, click here.
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Rangers Roar Past Jets in 2-1 Scramble | NYR 2 WIN 1
In meeting the second NHL team within a week to leave Atlanta by visiting Winnipeg, Monday night’s victory was exactly what the Blueshirts needed. It was messy and gritty in some places, with some serious domination issues in our zone at one point, but in the end, the Rangers came out with two points thanks to two power play goals including a late one from Ryan Callahan that ought to carry them to their Home Opener on Thursday night.
Considering everything, not bad for a week’s run in Canada (3-1 overall and 3-2-2 for this 7 game road trip). Needless to say, there’s always room for improvement. Here’s hoping they carry this momentum home to NYC. The official recap can be found here.
With 28 saves, Marty Biron had a fantastic effort between the pipes, proving that even without Lundqvist (for a game or two), we still have some great goaltending talent on the ice.
Lundqvist was out after cramping up during the previous game and reports explain that the new skates he’s using tend to hurt his foot now and then. We can be pretty sure that he’ll be back for the home opener.
The first period was pretty back and forth, with good movement, but again, we seemed to have problems with penalties and being totally outshot by the opposition. Throughout the first 7 games of the season, the Rangers on average are being outshot 31-22. Against the Jets, the Rangers were outshot 28-17. This is simply not good. It is definitely a result of missing Marc Staal and Matt Sauer from the defense.
It is no help that the Rangers lead the NHL with average penalty minutes of more than 20 per game and there own power play, even helped by the 2 goals in this game is clicking at an anemic 10.7%. Finally, being outshot also is an indictment of the offense generally. Coach Tortorella noticed as serious bench time was liberally handed out to Brad Richards, Marian Gaborik and Artie Anisimov during the 3rd period.
An early fight between Brandon Prust and Tanner Glass ended up with them being in the box for a five minute major, but this, along with another Ranger penalty in the same period led to no damage as Biron and the Ranger defense were able to keep the game scoreless.
The second period had a great goal on a Ranger power play with Dan Girardi firing hard from the blue line. Ruslan Fedotenko (who overall had a tremendous game) was in the right place for a sweet deflection past Jet goalie Chris Mason. Unfortunately, the Jets came back near the end of the period thanks to a crisp quick-look shot by former Ranger Nik Andropov to tie the game going into the 3rd period.
About 5 minutes into the 3rd, the ice slanted in favor of the Jets. The Rangers simply could not clear the puck out of their zone. Every time they tried to clear the puck, a Jet was ready to capture it at the point and send it right back in. The activity in the defensive end was intense and the partisan Jet crowd was roaring with the action. This seemed like a make or break moment of the game as the Ranger defenders could not even get a change. The shots for the 3rd period showed total domination with the Jets having a 12-1 edge.
Jets to the left of me, Jets to the right of me. The Jets unleashed a barrage of
shots early in the 3rd period. The Rangers withstood the attack and
turned a rush into a power play opportunity that Callahan converted.
While Biron was unable to freeze the puck after making several eye-opening saves to keep the game tied, the Rangers came to his defense with sliding blocks and stick sweeps. I had hoped that some of the passing wouldn’t be along the boards too much, but it seemed like our passes were getting picked off a little too easily. However, the Rangers did not panic and maintained their positions in pretty good order despite being exhausted from the onslaught.
The Goal Scoring Trio. Fedetenko fed Callahan
who deflected a shot off Bogosian for the game winning
goal. Why isn't Bogosian celebrating?
The defensive effort was commendable, but also scary when you realize for that amount of time, the Jets had so much control of the situation. Incredibly, when the Rangers did take control of the puck, they made a strong rush to the Jets end where Fedetenko drew a penalty on a strong move toward the net.
From there, the winning goal was scored during the first minute of ensuing power play on what looked like a simple lateral pass just in front of the crease by Cally that bounced off of a Jet’s skate right into the net.
I’m of the belief that you really should just pepper the net with shots. Not all of them will go in, but there has to be at least one of them that does. It was an interesting chance taken, that really worked out for the Rangers. As for the Jets, I’m pretty sure that has to be an deflating way to lose a game.
The Rangers, energized by the lead, simply locked down on the Jets with a great forechecking effort for the final 8 minutes of the contest. During the final 3 minutes, the Rangers grounded the Jets as the Jets could not get out of their own zone thanks to the swarming Rangers.
The next game will be finally on home ice at the Garden against the Toronto Maple Leafs this Thursday. The pregame ceremonies should be interesting with a tribute to Derek Boogaard and the welcoming of Ryan Callahan as captain and the arrival of Brad Richards.
--- Cav
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Talon #0! So what are you waiting for, read what I thought!
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Rant-Reviews--Three #0 Issues, Daredevil, and...Tarot: Witch Of The Black Rose? Hoo Boy...
Let's get into some reviews by looking over a few of the DC zero issues that have been coming out, then we'll check in with the as-always stellar Daredevil, which is on its 18th issue. Plus we'll give a gander to Tarot: Witch Of The Black Rose because when you need something to giggle at the absurdity of, this is the comic to buy.
DC Universe Presents #0
This honestly should be called, "Cancelled Comics Cavalcade" as most of the stories in here are from books that got cancelled before they could reach a zero issue. Oh, and a Deadman story that somewhat satisfactorily sets up his few issues that were originally at the start of this series. Seriously though, is there much of any point to that, "Hawk and Dove," tale written by the now-officially-insane Rob Liefeld? I may not have bought this book if I had noticed his involvement as I'm avoiding his work now. The Mister Terrific story isn't bad, but at this point it would make more sense to have it in the, "Earth 2," comic where he is apparently popping up. The OMAC bit begs to be considered important with a title, "Origins Matter After Cancellation," and the Blackhawks tale was so inconsequential I can't even remember it. Yeah, what was the goal of this issue, really?
To give credit where it's due, this did make me a little curious about the OMAC comic that I believe you can now (or soon) get the whole short-series of in trade. It has Maxwell Lord whom I've always found to be an interesting character. Perhaps that was the goal of this, to make people want to go and get the trade paperbacks of these cancelled series, and grab the first trade paperback of, "DC Universe Presents," to read more about Deadman. As an actual single comic though, meh.
2.5 out of 5 stars.
Batman #0
This isn't so much an origin of Batman as it is two stories. One is a tale of how Bruce Wayne first got a start in fighting crime and the other segment is about how the Bat-Signal came into being, with various future Robin's noticing it up in the sky. It's a good issue of Batman and actually sets out to tell an origin as I believe was the point of the zero issues. One problem with this however is how it throws a huge kink in trying to figure out Batman's continuity in this new 52 universe.
There was the idea that Batman was operating in secret for years before the whole Justice League came together 5 years ago from our present. However, in this comic it shows a Bruce Wayne who isn't even Batman yet, "Six years ago," and one who doesn't have a Robin by his side, "Five years ago." This means Batman went through three Robins before having his son, Damian, take the mantle within five-ish years. Oh, and his son is 10 with, "Batman and Robin #0," apparently stacking on additional continuity glitches...I give up trying to figure it out. This is still a fun comic at least.
Resurrection Man #0
Let's be honest and just say this is, "Resurrection Man #13," instead of the #0 DC is giving all its books this month. This does have a flashback to explain how there could be two Mitch Shelly's, but most of the book takes place in the present, right where issue #12 ended. Plus the book sets up future stories too for the character despite his series being cancelled. The whole idea of giving this a zero for its number is really a mess...but at least the story was pretty good.
Yes, I was concerned with the whole, "There's two Mitch Shelly's," plot, but the twist that (SPOILER) the Mitch Shelly who grew out of the first one's lost arm is actually a nice guy and the original Mitch Shelly is a huge, evil jerk was kind of a fun idea. The "clone" of Mitch Shelly has been the man we're rooting for and who continues to exist after the "real" Mitch Shelly has his soul taken for...some reason--it was never really clear to me how Heaven and Hell were involved in this story. Still, I had fun, and I can't hold the whole numbering snafu against this book when it's DC editorial crew who chose to do that. I wonder where the Resurrection Man will show up next--I'll probably pick up the comic showing where he does.
Daredevil #18
This series was giving us a bright and happy Daredevil with the understanding that he had that darkness lurking around in him. Matthew Murdock hoped he could just try and forget it, living a nice life. Well, it seems that ol' madness is slowly coming back to strike Daredevil if the events of the last few issues and especially this one are anything to go by. Sure, we'll probably have it revealed some villain is making Murdock look crazy and be seeing impossible things, but as the series is seeming to point out, it really wouldn't be that much of a stretch for Daredevil to genuinely be going crazy. Mark Waid is an expert writer and this book continues to reflect that. The art by Chris Samnee ain't too shabby either. If you have been following this series definitely pick up this book. If you haven't been Daredevil, what are you waiting for? Get those earlier issues and catch-up!
Tarot: Witch of The Black Rose #75
The next issue comes out this Wednesday, and waiting for it with bated breath has been so hard! With its intricate plot and complex storytelling the two months between every issue are difficult to bear....okay, if we're honest this book is about Tarot fighting a naked fairy-woman who has a weird thing for repeatedly spanking Tarot. Yeah. As always Jim Balent is a pretty talented man who for some reason has chosen to spend his time writing and drawing a comic about a witch who has trouble keeping her clothes on...who fights other magical beings that also have trouble staying clothed (or just skip wearing anything). It's a silly book, but considering Balent has so many people who buy it--with a fair amount being female readers who are into the whole Wicca-magic stuff--I imagine Balent is the one who is really doing the laughing. All the way to the bank.
For what this book is, it's perfectly decent, and it's a cheesecake-art comic with magic and jokes thrown in. Nothing more and nothing less. If that's what you want, here you go. Those of your looking for deep stories or females with realistically-proportioned bodies look elsewhere.
5 out of 5 stars for accomplishing what it sets out to do.
2 out of 5 stars if we're judging it as we judge other, actually good comics.
There are the comics of late I felt like reviewing. The good thing about comics is not matter how many good or bad ones you read there is always a fresh batch Wednesday.
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The Unnecessary Return Of Daken.
If you've been reading my blog, you know I feel Daken's series became amazing when Rob Williams took over. You also know the series ended with Daken dying in the best possible way to tell his story. I discuss all this here.
Now then, if you've been reading Uncanny X-Force you know that a new Evil Brotherhood of mutants has emerged recently, and who is there helping lead it? Daken. God-damn it Marvel, you couldn't even let him stay dead for a year?
"I was dead? Little ol' me? You don't say!"
I know his death was slightly mysterious, the story said he made it that way on purpose so people would always wonder, "What if?" Now you just go and show him alive and kicking. Why? We've gotten a few interesting moments between he and Evan/Genesis/The Possible New Apocalypse. In the latest issue we have a neat scene where Sabertooth basically says he wants to be Daken's adoptive father in a sense...it's all well and good, but Daken was better off dead. I'm disappointed in Marvel and writer Rick Remender. That's all I've really got to say on the matter.
It's still a really good comic though.
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The Idea Of The Post-Hero Era and Its Religious Symbolism As Demonstrated by Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1
What Is A Hero In A World That Doesn't Need Them?
I've just recently read, "Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1," from Dynamite comics. I quite liked it, and while it has gotten some positive press it also has received some utterly scathing reviews. I'll admit it definitely has flaws, the bad guys come off as way too over-the-top evil, the dialogue at times is a bit stilted, and the art varies from being pretty to kind of ugly--but enough of the comic is enjoyable and especially fascinating that I would say this is worth a read. It also made me think about why there aren't more stories about the logical end-game of when heroes show up and save the day.
You know what I mean, the big bad guy is defeated, the world is safe, now what? Few comics have explored this. Avengers Versus X-Men hinted at the idea with some folk pointing out in the story that the Avengers were maybe just afraid of the Phoenix-powered X-Men because a world was being made that didn't need heroes such as the Avengers. This kind of fell to the wayside in favor of it being clear the super-powered Phoenix Five were slowly going--as I believe the clinical term to be--batshit insane.
"We rule the world, and we're utterly bonkers."
Alan Moore has explored this idea of a post-hero era at least twice. There is Marvelman/Miracleman which has a bit of the idea of a hero who has saved the world going to the logical end of taking over it. Then there is of course Watchmen--which for those not in the know is actually in a way quite linked to this.
History Lesson Time
Okay, many know the story of how Alan Moore was going to use Charlton-comic's characters that DC had acquired for an epic story but instead he created characters loosely based on the brand for his story. This gave birth to Watchmen. The Rorschach grew out of The Question, Dr. Manhattan was born from Captain Atom, and Ozymandias? Yeah, he came from Peter Cannon, Mr. Thunderbolt himself.
Now, you may be asking if Peter Cannon was part of the Charlton comics that were acquired by DC, how can he appearing in a comic published by Dynamite? Well, his creator, Pete Morisi was quite the forward-thinker and actually owned rights to the character, letting Charlton use him. If you want more details Mark Waid himself talks about the interesting history of the character in some of the books back-matter, but doesn't go into the whole Ozymandias-link.
There certainly is a resemblance between the characters and this version of Peter Cannon arguably draws as much from Ozymandias as it does from the hero's original incarnation for reasons I will go into toward the end of the article--first let us get back to that question of what happens in a world with heroes when they've already done what they were needed for.
The Idea Of A Post-Hero Era
I wasn't necessarily going to read, "Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt," at first. That cover by Jae Lee (the best of the various ones they made) was really pretty, but solicits for the story didn't get my heart beating. I'd never heard of Steve Darnall. I had heard of his co-writer Alex Ross but Ross's art is an acquired taste, and I don't usually love it too much--plus Ross was just co-writing instead of even contributing art, so...okay? Then I saw the interior artist was Jonathan Lau and I had faint memories of maybe seeing his stuff before and not being horrified--but lacking in being at all impressed. Yeah, there wasn't much selling this book to me. Then I read a short review of it on Bleeding Cool.
In one of it's short capsule reviews with a bunch of others, Bleeding Cool pointed out how this was about a world already saved by a hero, and all that comes after. That got my attention.
Basically the story is that as nations kept testing their nuclear weapons some kind of mythical dragon appeared in the aftermath--much to everyone's amazement. In this world that I think is modern day and which lacks much in the way of superpowers something as magical as a dragon was big news story. Then the day came that it attacked the UN and he showed up, the mysterious Thunderbolt.
He saved the day, scared off the dragon, revealed his true identity as Peter Cannon, and two years later is a big celebrity spreading his teachings of martial-arts and otherwise wanting to be low-key but now is obsessed over by a society that has those who both practically worship him and others who fear him.
Those in power hate the idea of less military power, or less press from the world falling apart, so a plan is hatched to take him down, and it seems someone in Japan who appears to be a friend of Cannon will later be revealed to in fact be far from that. The whole bad-guys-hate-the-hero thing isn't of much interest to me in this though, no it's the fascinating way how a man is lifted to something of an idol.
The Religious Symbolism Of The "Ultimate Hero"
In our world someone who saved the planet would most likely be thought of as something of a savior to society, a near-religious icon. To say that, "Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt," is exploring this idea is not reading too much into the comic. This is an idea which this comic is not shying away from as one of the covers to the later-coming-out issue #3 illustrates:
Ignore the bad-guy slicing the poster, just observe the idea it imparts.
The reluctant Messiah is nothing new to literature, be it religious or secular. Moses didn't necessarily want to be a hero and Harry Potter just wanted to be a normal boy but due to his natural gifts couldn't be. Hell, if Superman could do it without feeling guilty for sitting around ignoring his powers ol' Clark Kent probably would have just stayed on the farm with his adopted mother and father enjoying their company and otherwise relaxing instead of fighting Lex Luthor and scolding Batman.
This comic has a world not unlike ours where someone who actually had superpowers and saved the day would be viewed as if a God (Jesus showed some super-powers and now there is a whole religion based around the guy). The sad thing we see about Peter Cannon, is that he actually just wants to live a somewhat-normal life, further researching the ancient texts that give him his power and otherwise not being a mega-celebrity. He himself says how he just revealed his real identity after that day he fought the dragon so the people being hounded because they were suspected of being The Thunderbolt would be left alone. Now he's miserable with the never-ending attention.
The thing that sets other heroes apart from Peter Cannon is that this is a story where the hero's job has already been done. We don't get that with Moses because he dies right before the Jews reach the promised land. Harry Potter gives us a brief epilogue at the end of book seven to let us know how things went after Harry turned Voldermort into a bunny (I only read up through the fourth book and skimmed the rest, so that may be a bit wrong). Superman will never truly save the day because there will always be new challenges--if for no reason other than DC editorial demands it so we keep buying their monthly books. Plus the Christian bible probably wouldn't read the same if Christ hadn't died and been reborn, instead living to a ripe old age and opening a coffee shop or something for other people to come and discuss philosophical ideas.
I'm going to digress a lot here, but wouldn't the idea of a coffee shop run be Jesus make for a great story? Imagine that as a television show, where every episode we have a special guest, like the aforementioned Moses, one of the Hindu Gods like Vishnu, Budda could show up, and maybe Mohammed could stop by. Actually, some people might be pissed if that last one happens, riot, and cause murders like some religious-nuts currently are doing, but you follow my idea. Someone needs to get on this and pay me royalties for the idea. Anyways, back to the main idea of a post-hero era and the religious imagery within it.
A story that continues to explore what happens to our hero him or herself after they save the day is not common--also in great rarity are stories that start at that usual end point. Plus, in the ultimate twist what if the savior and the evil monster were one being? You know, what if Peter Cannon were actually the very evil he fought to save the day? Yeah, have a final-page reveal all up in your face:
The Hero As Ruler
I mentioned earlier how this comic seemed to be drawing from the character of Ozymandias as much as the original Peter Cannon. I say this because just as at the end of, "Watchmen," when Ozymandias tricks the world into uniting against an evil alien force that doesn't even really exist, Peter Cannon has the world agreeing to nuclear disarmament talks in the hopes of stopping an evil dragon...that he actually controls/is.
This is Alan Moore's hero as the (benevolent?) ruler. Making society a better place through trickery and subterfuge. Whilst Marvelman/Miracleman ruled by force, Ozymandias fooled everyone and thought his means justified the ends of a safer and happier world. Peter Cannon has something of a mixture of these two methods going on. It's hinted he will be using violence in this comic against future threats to defend his perfect world--something Ozymandia's wouldn't need to do in the newly-united planet. Marvelman/Miracleman didn't have to tell a lie to rule people, he just had unfathomable power, whereas Cannon will be working to keep his trickery going. That's why I think of this new Peter Cannon as being a mixture of inspired by Moore's work, and of course drawing from the original Peter Cannon for his powers (with another piece of back-matter in the comic illustrating how the ability to have a dragon appear is nothing new to Peter Cannon's power-set).
So, Where Does This All Lead?
The hero is also the villian in a way, with his lying being in humanity's best interest. The messiah is both a prophet and a false idol, too. If the stories I've read (and read about) that do talk about a hero in a post-hero era are anything to go by, this can only end badly. There will undoubtedly be blood spilled in an effort to keep Cannon's lie going, and before this is over his secret of being the dragon may very well get out and more lives will be lost than he ever saved with his lies.
We shall see--because I know I'm continuing to pick this book up if the genuinely great stuff continues to over-ride the somewhat annoying and sub-par bits. Yes, we shall see where things go.
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Batman: Death By Design Versus Batman and Robin: Born to Kill
Two Bats From Different Worlds
Let's discuss two books and compare them a bit despite their having not that much in common besides having a Batman in them. I say a Batman because one story is very clearly not in continuity with a somewhat strange Batman and the other tale is very in continuity--the new 52 continuity where some things are different and some are the same, but continuity nonetheless. Let's talk about the book that's a bit more exotic first.
Batman: Death by Design
This book is more experimental than the other one I'm going to discuss, but in its effort to be different it can be a bit messy. First things first, the art by Dave Taylor is utterly gorgeous. Black and White with various bits of color for important aspects of the story or to provide more atmosphere, this art is just a beauty to look at. The story is a bit jumbled however. It's got the Joker, a new mysterious man known as Exacto, architectural discussion, and various twists that are supposed to be clever but instead come off as either predictably trite or just nonsensical.
The bits of color mixed with the black-and-white artwork is delightful
As a result, we get a Batman book with breath-taking ideas such as a nightclub that is a large slab of glass hanging in the sky or unique Batman gadgets that absorb kinetic force, but we get a story that is a bit muddled with too many characters fighting for screen time--be it Batman, the Joker, Exacto, a romantic interest for Bruce Wayne, a bad-guy union boss, the snobby architect, the sad architect, his father, and so forth.
That's another odd thing about the book, it takes a really anti-union tone--which I'm not alone in noticing as this less-that-positive review points out too. The union boss (Bart Loar being his name) is a horrible person who tries to construct stuff of a low quality so it doesn't last long and he can get his men to do the replacement building in decade or two. Our villain also has people killed, threatens the children of decent men, and otherwise behaves in a mustache-twirling fashion, but I guess for the purposes of this story unions are evil and we should rely on a nice rich person like Bruce Wayne to fund our buildings without any nasty unions, because of course the super-rich are looking out for everyone's best interest!
The story may be jumbled, and have the aforementioned oddly conservative tone when it comes to worker-rights, but the crazy ideas and the art make up for plot's general weakness.
Batman and Robin: Born To Kill
This, in comparison to, "Batman Death By Design," has art which is perfectly presentable by Patrick Gleason but nothing special. The story, meanwhile, is focused on Bruce Wayne and his difficult relationship with his son (and the newest Robin), Damian.
Basically, we have a story where someone from Bruce Wayne's past we have never before heard of (to my knowledge) comes back for revenge due to something our hero did long ago. In this case its a fellow named Morgan Ducart (with his villain persona being called simply, "Nobody"). I won't spoil too much about how Wayne knows Morgan and how Morgan knows Wayne is Batman, but basically it all boils down to Wayne making Morgan look bad in front of Morgan's daddy. You see what the plot is doing there? We have Wayne having trouble being a father against a man who is mad at Wayne for embarrassing him in front of his father.
Morgan Ducart AKA "Nobody"
Anyways, the thing that sells the story is Bruce and Damian's interactions. It's hard being a father to a boy who's been trained since birth to be a killer, and that's the one thing you don't ever do. In the back-matter writer Peter Tomasi himself says that the relationship between Bruce and his son is the main, "A story," with Morgan and the trouble he presents being the, "B story," that exists more to help develop the complicated life of Batman and son.
I enjoyed this a fair amount mainly because Tomasi really sells us on the interaction's between Bruce and his offspring. It is interesting and done well enough that I may check out the regular comic of this or at least definitely try out the next trade.
Comparing Despite the Contrasts
Each of these books were enjoyable, although I do think the, "Batman and Robin: Born to Kill," book was slightly better overall. Still, in regards to art, "Batman: Death by Design," cannot be beat--even if its story is best described as, "meh." Meanwhile, "Batman and Robin: Born to Kill," was a good story with presentable artwork. I'd recommend checking both of these out as one is a feast for the eyes, and the other is an overall solid read.
Labels: Batman, Chip Kidd, comics, Dave Taylor, Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi, politics, rant-reviews
An Anniversary of Tupac's Passing
Last year on this day I had a long post that went over everything from Flashpoint's end and the birth of the new DC Universe, to Cable/Solider X, and the anniversary of the death of Tupac. Now that I think about it, it's odd how I combined the starting of the New 52 with the ending of a life. It's that time again, marking the untimely death of a genius music artist. He's still one of my favorites, and I would recommend you read my post from last year if you want my thoughts, or check out this new post from David Brothers that also marks the occasion. Maybe I should start celebrating Tupac's birthday instead of being sad on the day he died. We should celebrate life, after all.
Labels: internet, music, news, Tupac
The New Issue of AVX Apparently Kills Off Someone and Acts Like This Character Dying Is a Big Deal
I've pretty much quit using, "Read More" cuts on my page so that when you come to my site you can just scroll down through everything. I think I should use one in this case though as its a major spoiler for a comic that is out today--and it is earlier in the day so the odds are good you haven't read this yet. Basically, someone is killed off in, "Avengers Versus X-Men," and the fact it is this person is little surprise, and makes me think it won't stick.
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Labels: Avengers, AVX, comics, Cyclops, internet, Marvel, Marvel NOW, news, x-men
Exciting Announcement, I'm Joining Ninepanel!
I have a quick bit of exciting news! I will be joining the website Nine Panel and writing for them a bunch! Check out their tumblr and podcasts and get excited for their impending full-website launch!
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Flashback Friday--Looking Back Over "Brightest Day" and It's Swamp-Thing Epilogue Mini-Series
The More Things Change...The More They Surprisingly Actually Change
Remember "Brightest Day?" Arguably a quite good mini-series done by Geoff Johns (whose work can be spotty) and Peter Tomasi (a pretty talented person) this basically was what came after the sometimes good and sometimes dreadful, "Blackest Night," event. I've re-read the event in a trade (the 1st one) and my old comics as when it first came out I just kind of skimmed it instead of reading closely. I zoned out a bit around the 7th issue which finally sort-of explained what the point of the series was. Things did pick-up however.
A weekly series (Like the great "52") that didn't actually have the events take place every week (unlike "52"), "Brightest Day," followed some of the characters who seemingly were inexplicably brought back to life at the end of, "Blackest Night," whilst a few other characters who were resurrected kind of did their own thing in separate comics and mini-series. Some of the resurrections were obviously going to happen (Aquaman, Martian Manhunter) a few were out of left-field(Reverse-Flash, Maxwell Lord) and by far the most clever was Deadman, whose whole point of being a character is that he's....well, dead.
One of the most interesting things about reading, "Brightest Day," now is seeing what aspects of the continuity "stuck" in the New 52 and what was changed or essentially dropped. Deadman was still dating Dove (as appears to have ended badly in "Hawk and Dove" and "Justice League Dark", Blackest Night still apparently happened (as shown in, "Green Lantern)," and the Swamp Thing came back from the dead (as shown in "Swamp Thing").
However, Firestorm was completely rebooted along with Hawkman, Martian Manhunter is a quite different person with a vastly altered history with the Justice League, and as for Aquaman...well, this sort of gently started the, "He's a no-nonsense guy who is pretty pissed," style of the character we have in the New 52. Yeah, the New 52 is still a bit of a mess continuity-wise because it chose to keep some things going but re-started most. Also, "Brightest Day," introduced the neat Aqualad!
This was a fun series that somewhat made sense as inevitably a fair amount of the characters turned out to not matter much to the main series even if they had their moments in the Big, "Brightest Day #0," issue which kicked things off. Maxwell Lord basically just was important to the Generation Lost mini-series, I have no idea what purpose Jade or Osiris served, and that guy who throws the boomerang really wasn't in the comic at all until at the end when he was needed to move the plot along.
As I've stated, this was all mainly an excuse to bring back Swamp Thing as a guardian of the world (or something) who got rid of the last of Nekron's evil left over from the, "Blackest Night," comics. Also, it brought John Constantine back into the main DC Universe whilst he continued to exist in a Vertigo comic, so kudos to, "Brightest Day," for that.
Of course, this was a bit of a false-start for ol' John as even though he is doing a great job as a character in, "Justice League Dark," he was in the terrible mini-series about Swamp Thing that came after this and was--as I stated--just dreadful. Titled, "The Search For Swamp Thing," the plot was thin, the ending was both rushed and stupid, and the whole three-issues just seemed completely pointless other than slightly helping to establish the Swamp Thing and John Constatine in the DC Universe (and drop some hints about "The Green" and "The Rot" that would actually turn out to be important in the New 52's, "Swamp Thing," and "Animal Man," but even that doesn't make this stinker worth a gander). Yeah, this was bad, but, "Brightest Day," was still pretty good even with the nasty aftertaste of, "The Search for Swamp Thing."
As I said, "Brightest Day," was enjoyable. So much happens its hard to describe. From events on Hawkworld that somehow involve the Lanterns who control love, to Aquaman temporarily only being able to control dead sea-life in a disturbing twist, to some actually quite sweet moments between the now-living Deadman and his grandfather--yeah, a lot happens, with some of it being more useful to the overall story than other parts.
So, the series started out slow, but actually did speed-up, was pretty fun even if at times it did not make sense, and introduced Aqualad, who was pretty interesting considering he was the evil Black Manta's son but worked with Aquaman. One major problem of the story can be expressed though with the character of Black Manta--sometimes the series would have a character appear and then they wouldn't pop up for a bunch of issues. Manta was in the zero issue and I don't think we saw him again until around the ninth issue. Hawkman and Hawkgirl would get most of an issue and then disappear (same with Firestorm), Martian Manhunter has essentially his own cool issue where he's tricked into thinking he's living in a perfect world but isn't...and after that issue his story really just fizzles out.
Besides my complaints, I really did have a fun time, which--with some of the comics coming out these days from DC--is a bit harder to do now (some of the New 52 is leaving quite cold while other parts are fun). I'd give this series a read--although you really need to ingest, "Blackest Night," first to fully understand it.
Brightest Day #0-#24--3.5 out of 5 stars.
The Search For Swamp Thing #1-#3--1 out of 5 stars.
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Labels: Aqualad, Aquaman, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, comics, DC, Deadman, flashback friday, Geoff Johns, Hawkman, JL Generation Lost, John Constantine, Martian Manhunter, Maxwell Lord, Peter J. Tomasi, Swamp Thing
Bits O' The News
Let's share what is happening in the world of comics and beyond, shall we?
Another week, another mysterious Marvel NOW promo.
I like Archaia and their work so it is good things are starting to work out better for them.
Jim Carrey in the movie version of Kick-Ass 2? I didn't like the first comic and haven't bothered with any others or seen the movie. However, I do like Carrey when he's doing a good job so maybe this is news worth following?
I can have my face be in the next CD Projekt game? They do make that good, "The Witcher," series, and that sounds fun...but I'm not sure I want people punching this gorgeous mug--even if it isn't for real. Okay, maybe not gorgeous, but presentable.
West Nile Virus is back with force. That's just great news....sigh.
Top Cow wants an unpublished writer or artist to come work for them. I have no strong feelings about this either way as long as said writer or artist is treated fairly and not screwed over like so many folk in comics.
Radioactive Man (the Marvel version, not the Simpsons) may be appearing in Iron Man 3? Interesting.
So it isn't just junk food making us sick, but junk DNA?
More Metal Gear games, this time in an "open-world" environment? Yes Please!
Remember the Republican National Convention? Remember how weird it was to see Clint Eastwood arguing with an empty chair? Sean T. Collins remembers, and he wrote about it in his guest spot on, "Stoner Alien".
Speaking of Conventions, the Democrats are having issues agreeing on their own party platform? I'd say this is quite bad, but Mitt Romney himself has said he doesn't fully agree with the Republican Platform,so both parties are having some issues.
So Judas (of the Christian bible) is the character "The Stranger" in DC Comic's New 52? I would think DC's editor-in-cheif Dan DiDio would have been nervous approving this, but he wrote the comic!
Let's end on a piece of, "Well that's no surprise," news. Apparently, in a market dominated by the iPhone with Android fighting hard for a solid 2nd place, Windows phones just don't perform that admirably. How shocking!
Thar be the news that I found interesting. Enjoy it, treasure it, love it.
Labels: Archaia, comics, Dan DiDio, DC, funny, internet, Iron Man, Metal Gear, news, politics, The Stranger, The Witcher, Top Cow, video-games
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Director: John Sturges
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton, Ziva Rodann, Bing Russell, Val Avery, Walter Sande
Rating: 8 (from 1 vote)
Review: U.S. Marshal Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) finds his Indian wife raped and murdered. The only clue to her assailant's identity is an abandoned silver saddle. He instantly realizes one of the two men responsible is Rick Belden (Earl Holliman) who so happens to be the son of powerful cattle baron Craig Beldon (Anthony Quinn), a man who was not only Matt's best friend but once saved his life. Arriving in the town of Gun Hill where Craig has an iron grip around everyone and everything, Matt finds his former friend unsurprisingly reluctant to hand over his only son. But Matt refuses to back down. Instead he holds Rick hostage in his hotel room and even as Craig whips up an armed mob, holds his ground waiting for the nine o'clock train out of Gun Hill.
Reuniting Kirk Douglas and Earl Holliman with their Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) director John Sturges, Last Train from Gun Hill is a relatively unsung yet excellent suspense western. While scripted by James Poe, the writer behind Oscar-winning classics like Lilies of the Field (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), the story was devised by Les Crutchfield, veteran of numerous television westerns. Indeed the 'lawman guards a prisoner' plot was something of a western staple, serving such exemplary works as 3:10 to Yuma (1957) to Rio Bravo (1959), and lay the template for modern action films like Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and more recently 16 Blocks (2006).
One imagines Poe's contribution was to amp up the psychological dimensions as the film becomes as much a conflict over whose anguish weighs more heavily, Matt's righteous anger over his wife's rape and murder versus Craig's burning need to protect his son, as it is about right and wrong. Poe's meaty script is well served by the powerhouse performances of two of Hollywood's most masculine stars. Kirk Douglas has a charming intro where he enthralls some little boys with a tall tale about facing an outlaw gang single-handed (which, in light of what ensues, is probably not so exaggerated after all) then turns on a dime conveying palpable rage and anguish for his slain wife. Few actors could go toe-to-toe with Douglas when he was firing on all cylinders but Anthony Quinn was certainly one of them. Quinn's puffed-up patriarch is a swaggering macho who puts pride above morality and arguably even family. In an early scene he instructs Rick to punch out anyone who insults a Beldon. Poe's script neatly interweaves a theme of fathers and sons as Matt's worry that his son has been psychologically damaged on witnessing his mother's fate dovetails with Craig's slow realization he has raised his own motherless boy to be a reprobate.
If Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn are moral opposites, albeit of psychological complexity, then bridging the gap is the lovely Carolyn Jones as a character driven to do the right thing in spite of herself. She plays Linda, Craig's ostensible girlfriend, a real hard-boiled dame able to scare off an unwanted admirer with a harsh stare, yet who nonetheless suffers under the thumb of a man who believes who can sweet-talk or brutalize her as he pleases. While Jones' role as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family gave her TV immortality, she remains one of the most underrated actresses in cinema. For further proof check out her multifaceted turn as the tragic 'bad girl' opposite Elvis Presley in his finest film outing King Creole (1958). Here she brings a welcome feminine counterpoint to all that testosterone-fueled posturing and arguably has the most affecting character arc. Also among the supporting players are a moustachioed Brad Dexter, who went on to confound generations of pub quiz pundits as that-one-you-can't-remember in Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Brian G. Hutton future ace director of among others Where Eagles Dare (1969).
A terrific action director, Sturges imbues Last Train from Gun Hill with the same dramatic punch and machine-gun pace of his better known classics. As in his earlier Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), the plot strands a lone representative of justice in a town where the adversary is all powerful and includes an anti-racist element. Throughout the film several characters maintain they cannot see why Matt is so worked up about a dead Indian squaw, even if she was his wife. To which he responds with a hearty and richly deserved punch in the face. Once Matt is holed up in his hotel room with Rick as his hostage the suspense remains taut yet Sturges never loses sight of the film's moral dimension right through a finale both exciting and achingly sad.
Reviewer: Andrew Pragasam
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The people who know no war: Afghanistan’s most isolated corner
February 9, 2018 Asia, WorldSharif Nouman
KABUL (AFP) – “Taliban — what’s that?” asks Sultan Begium shyly from her freezing home in Afghanistan’s mountainous Wakhan Corridor, a region so remote that its residents are untouched by the decades of conflict that have devastated their country.
The frail-looking grandmother whose harsh life has etched deep lines in her face, is a woman of the Wakhi, a tribe of roughly 12,000 nomadic people who populate the area.
Known to those who live there by its Persian name Bam-e-Dunya, or “roof of the world”, it is a narrow strip of inhospitable and barely accessible land in Afghanistan bordered by the mountains of what is now Tajikistan and Pakistan, and extending all the way to China.
Few venture out, even fewer venture in — but this isolation has kept the Wakhi sheltered from almost forty years of the near constant fighting that has ravaged their fellow Afghans.
“War, what war? There has never been a war,” Begium says, poking at a dying fire of yak dung, though she remembers people speaking of Russian soldiers dispensing cigarettes on the border at the other end of the corridor.
Such decades-old anecdotes are all the tribe really know of the Soviet invasion and US-funded mujahideen fightback, a brutal nine-year conflict that may have left as many as one million civilians dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced.
The subsequent civil war, in which tens of thousands more people were killed and uprooted, and the rise of the extremist Taliban regime seem to them like folklore.
“Taliban are very bad people from some other country who rape sheep and slaughter humans,” says Askar Shah, Begium’s eldest son, who has heard stories about them from Pakistani traders.
There is little knowledge of the US invasion or the bloody resurgence of the Taliban, and more recently the emergence of the Islamic State group, that have killed or injured hundreds of thousands across the nation.
“Foreigners invaded our country?” Askar Shah asks incredulously after being told how America and its allies went to war with the Taliban regime in 2001.
“No, they can’t do that. They are good people,” he says.
– ‘Everyone is addicted’ –
Created in the 19th century as a Great Game buffer zone between tsarist Russia and British India, the corridor has since remained untouched by any kind of government.
It can be reached from surrounding countries, but only via treacherous journeys by horse, yak or on foot through the “Pamir Knot”, where three of the highest mountain ranges in the world converge.
Known in Afghanistan itself as Pamiris, the Wakhi form the bulk of the corridor’s population — the nomadic Kyrgyz tribe, which numbers just 1,100 people, live separately at its northern end.
The Wakhi are moderate Ismaili Muslims, followers of the Aga Khan. The burka — which is ubiquitous elsewhere in Afghanistan and is regarded by critics as a symbol of women’s oppression — is unknown.
Their life, largely free from crime and violence, revolves around yaks and cattle, which they barter for food and clothes from the few traders who visit the remote region.
Without electricity they have no internet or mobile phone service, often communicating with one another across the vast terrain by walkie-talkie.
Occasionally they have access to radios, listening to Russian broadcasts or Afghan news — Iranian music is also popular — however such opportunities are rare, and once the batteries run down they fall silent until the traders arrive again.
But with temperatures below freezing for more than 300 days a year, this is no rural idyll.
Even minor flu can kill, and childbirth means death nearly as often as it means life. The endless grief helps fuel use of the only drug freely available in Wakhan: opium.
Opium is “the only Afghan identity we have”, says Nazar, a Wakhi who goes by one name, adding: “The whole population is addicted to it.”
But change may be coming: The Afghan government says it’s conducting aerial surveys to assess potential routes to connect Wakhan to the rest of Badakhshan province by road.
The Chinese are also in talks with Kabul to help build a military base at the northern end of the corridor, according to Afghan officials.
If it all comes to fruition, it could bring more trade, tourism, and much-needed medical facilities.
It could also spell the end of the Wakhi’s protection from the brutality of war.
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Featured Author: Dennis Hart
I am happy to have Dennis Hart back to A Blue Million Books today, to talk about his new novel, Gulf Boulevard, a humorous mystery, published by The Permanent Press. I’ve known Dennis since our days of reviewing each other’s work on an online writer’s site. (Fun fact: there are lines in both Murder & Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction and Gulf Boulevard that refer to each other.) I loved his work then, and I love it now. I’m thrilled that he has been published, and I’m excited to share his latest book with you.
Every night, Jason Najarian dreams of a secluded tropical island where he fantasizes about living the good life as a hermit. No more rat-race. No more people. When a long-odds occurrence compels him to buy a lottery ticket, the resultant $63 million jackpot sets in motion a series of events that allows him to depart snowy Boston forever and begin living out his dream in comfort and style. But as Jason soon discovers, not even financial security can rid a man of life's little annoyances.
Having settled in to his new gulf-front home on Sand Key, a barrier island off the west coast of Florida with turquoise water, gentle breezes, and spectacular sunsets, Jason quickly learns that his idyllic life of solitude will require more effort than he anticipated. From the opposite end of the island comes a rotund and frustratingly nosy neighbor, Salvatore Scalise, who turns out to be a contract killer and a marked man. The unlikely friendship between the two leads to a madcap caper involving an unbearably clingy ex-wife seeking a share of Jason's windfall, an expletive spewing parrot, a revenge-seeking mafia family, two mysterious men dressed in black, and a gorgeous young woman called Running Bush who catches Jason's eye.
If Jason hopes to escape unharmed with the woman of his dreams, he must determine how to safely extract Sal from his life. But in this hilarious tale of misplaced intentions and mistaken identity, no one is quite who they seem.
Just a taste of Gulf Boulevard:
My name is Jason Najarian. I live on a barrier island off the west coast of Florida, under lazy palm trees and salt-laden air. Warm breezes sway my hammock. Dolphins play in turquoise water just beyond my reach. Sandpipers dance along the shoreline. There's not a person in sight. I live here until I wake up each morning just north of Boston. This is why Ambien is my best friend as well as my travel agent.
Interview with Dennis Hart
Dennis, tell us about your work.
My current work, Gulf Boulevard, is a mystery with a lot of humor, because we could all use more laughter in our lives. It tells the story, in first person, of Jason, a burned-out accountant, who moves to a barrier island on the gulf side of Florida in an attempt to live the life of a hermit. But he soon meets his neighbor Sal, a hitman in hiding, and that’s where the trouble begins. There is a lot of Jason in me. I know if I was a hermit on a secluded beach, I’d write a bestseller.
Tell us about Jason Najarian.
Jason is a twenty-eight-year-old burned-out accountant. He hates his job, the cold New England weather, and his cheating ex-wife. So when head meets pillow, he escapes to a place where the palms trees sway, the sun shines bright, and the water is warm. He wishes for this, but as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.
How much is Jason like you?
We travel along similar paths of the mind and spirit.
So basically, Jason’s a younger you. Got it. What would he say about you?
He’s an idiot. Get me another writer.
What is Jason's best quality?
His sense of humor.
What's his worst quality?
Assuming tomatoes can be used as weapons.
It may not be much of a stretch of imagination, but let’s pretend Jason has decided to kill you for...putting him through all that you put him through... How would he do it?
He’d fix me up with his ex-wife, Megan O’Mally.
Ooh, a slow, painful death. I like it. Who would play Running Bush in the Gulf Boulevard movie?
Selma Hayek.
Where do you get your plot ideas?
I collect different personalities from real-life test dummies, meld it with easy to describe environments, and then let my characters make something happen.
Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? Ever won anything?
Hmm...a writer who's a man of few words. How many M&M's do you consume in an average day?
In the book, Jason hates it when people ask, "Is it cold enough for ya?" So, I have to ask...Is it cold enough for ya? (I’m smiling a cheesy grin.)
I’m rolling my eyes.
Let's pretend The Permanent Press will send you on a book tour and you get to pick the cities. Where would you go?
Louisville of course. After that, I’d Google the cities that laugh the most and go there.
When you're a best seller, what will you do with your riches?
Before I answer that, I need to take my dream weaver Ambien. Once in a dream state I suppose I’d do something unusual like quit my day job and move to an island.
Not unlike Jason. Do you consider yourself an author yet?
No. You must write a book and have the masses like it before you can even entertain the thought of adding author as your occupation.
You’re always changing the rules. You have a book published by a traditional publisher. A book with your name on it is in bookstores. You’re an author, buddy. Get used to it. Who is your favorite author? I mean besides me.
Besides you, a distant second is Nelson DeMille, followed by Grisham, Hiaasen, Crichton, Flynn, Child, Brown, Lehane, and McCarthy, just to name a few.
Why green M&Ms? Why not red, orange, green, or blue?
Because if you blindly pick out a handful of just green M&M’s from a 64 ounce bag of assorted colors and then go play the lottery, you will win. That’s why.
Murder & Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction quiz: what line in the book refers to Gulf Boulevard?
Easy. Page 156—“A buddy of mine once told me he got lucky with green M&M’s.” If that’s not it, I want it to be.
Correct. But that was a trick question. There are actually two lines. Ha! What are you reading right now?
This interview.
Cheater! You know what I mean. What book are you reading now?
Sycamore Row, by John Grisham.
Kindle or paperback?
MAC Pro.
Cheater, cheater. I have my mean face on now. Plain or peanut?
Duh! Plain.
Boat or truck?
Both thank you.
Okay, I’m officially changing your name to Cheater. Paper or plastic, Cheater?
I use paper . . . Sal uses plastic.
You did what very few authors ever accomplish--you got an agent and a publishing deal. Tell us about your road to publication, and do you have any advice for newbies?
My first bit of advice is to find an agent that drinks heavily. No matter what I send her, she loves it. Then have your agent find a desperate publisher and if he/she also drinks heavily, all the better. Then sell all your hard work for a pittance and pretend you like it. My advice for emerging authors is to perfect your craft and then move in with Stephen King.
Where did you get the idea for the expletive spewing parrot in Gulf Boulevard?
That fell out of the nowhere. Originally the parrot was going to stay within Jason’s imagination, but then I watched Scarface and thought . . . why not?
I’ve read most of the reviews for Gulf Boulevard, and they are quite favorable. However, one reviewer really made me mad. What would you say to a reviewer who complained about your portrayal of Florida summers?
I’d say, “I went to Disney World for a week back in 1986. So there.” Actually I vacationed on Don Pedro Island off the coast of Englewood for many years and ended up buying a condo there.
What would you say to a reviewer who said Phyllis the real-estate agent wasn't believable?
I’d say, welcome to the world of fiction. But a wealthy and retired woman I met, who was a real estate agent for the barrier islands, was the inspiration for Phyllis. I remember her sharp tongue and endless wit.
How did you obtain your setting details?
Every detail from Gulf Boulevard comes from my actual experience in Florida.
How do you feel about reviews?
Humor is subjective. Constructive criticism is priceless. People who abuse the power should be killed.
I'm going to add that to my list of favorite quotes. Besides Jason, who was your favorite character to write?
Sal Santini, the mafia hitman in hiding.
What was your favorite scene to write?
When Jason spikes his phone in the sand and screams, “Freedom!” prompting Sal to say— well . . . you have to read the book to find out.
Do you laugh at your own dialogue?
Only when I hear Megan talk.
You've also written a memoir and an action/detective story. Do you like writing humor or action better?
That’s a tie. I’ll let the reader decide. If the Gulf Boulevard series sells better than the Harrison Gamble series, I’ll get the message.
I’m betting they’ll both sell equally well, and I’ll be able to say “I knew Dennis Hart when...”
Excerpt from Gulf Boulevard
Ah, New England weather.
It is the time of year when most people verbalize their contempt for the elements.
“It’s too friggin’ cold.”
Or my favorite: “Is it cold enough for ya?” Who answers no to that inquiry?
Six months from now, when winter is a distant memory, those same amateur meteorologists will ask: “Is it hot enough for ya?”
Who answers no to that inquiry? Me.
I’d rather be toasting my buns on a tropical sugar-white sand beach, under the fronds of a palm tree, surrounded by the scent of multihued flora seducing my senses, than trudging through knee-deep powder with air so cold it shrink-wraps my testicles.
I despise winter so much that my final wish clearly states the following: Cremate me; urn me; carry me to a warm, deserted shoreline; buy a beach chair and position it facing the setting sun; gently pour me out on the seat and leave me alone.
Screw off.
I will disperse of myself when the first sea breeze embraces me.
Dennis Hart lives in Massachusetts where he dreams of winning the lottery someday and moving to a secluded tropical island...without hitmen. Gulf Boulevard is his first published novel. He is currently working on the sequel to Gulf Boulevard, titled Gulf Boulevard: Postcards from the World.
Connect with Dennis:
Website | Facebook | Facebook author page | Goodreads
Labels: Dennis Hart, Florida, Gulf Boulevard, hermit, humor, mafia, mystery
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Stop SOPA Ireland
I’ve written some posts before on Irish developments in the music industry’s new approach to copyright infringement (targeting ISPs). A ministerial order which would provide the courts with wide, unspecified powers to control internet companies seems to be on its way. It has spurred an impressive grassroots protest movement into action, taking its name from the similar, recently-stalled US proposals.
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The huge Government majority means that any such debate would almost inevitably result in the law being passed by the Oireachtas anyway. Nevertheless, the issue should be publicly debated by the Government as it pits the interests of a small industry (Irish record companies) against those of an industry that is hugely significant for the “smart economy” (Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc).
It’s also worth bearing in mind the quality of evidence often advanced by the record industry when seeking in junctions, as indicated by this post by Justin Mason.
Why does all of this matter? I again quote Cory Doctorow.
… I don’t care if you want to attempt to stop people from copying your work over the internet, or if you plan on building a business around this idea. I mean, it sounds daft to me, but I’ve been surprised before.
But here’s what I do care about. I care if your plan involves using “digital rights management” technologies that prohibit people from opening up and improving their own property; if your plan requires that online services censor their user submissions; if your plan involves disconnecting whole families from the internet because they are accused of infringement; if your plan involves bulk surveillance of the internet to catch infringers, if your plan requires extraordinarily complex legislation to be shoved through parliament without democratic debate; if your plan prohibits me from keeping online videos of my personal life private because you won’t be able to catch infringers if you can’t spy on every video.
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The Daily Business Post has published some of my thoughts on the Irish perspective to the PhoneDog v. Kravitz case, in which a company is suing a former employee for his use of what was a corporate twitter account. PhoneDog primarily seeks a number of injunctions and damages but has raised the issue of ownership in twitter accounts.
In summary, while the issue is somewhat untested in Ireland, employment contracts and policies are likely to be crucial in cases of this nature. There may be something of a split between ownership of a twitter account and ownership of tweets.
Some more views are available in the Irish Independent and WardBlawg.
Battle of the Bakers: Round 2 (and an interesting update re Round 1)
Exhibit A: McCambridge bread
I had assumed that the McCambridge v. Brennan brown bread case was solely one of intellectual property infringement but the judgment of Mr Justice Peart, which has now been published, shows that there is more to it (an Irish Times report of the case is here).
Indeed, Peart J notes that McCambridge do not “have any proprietary rights as such over that type of re-sealable bag, its shape or indeed the shape and size of the loaf of bread inside.” The company itself accepted that it does have such proprietary rights, nor rights over the shape and colour or ingredients of the bread itself.
Notwithstanding that, Peart J agreed that the overall impression on consumers satisfied the conditions for passing off (a form of action used to protect unregistered intellectual property rights).
[I]t would take more care and attention that I believe it is reasonable to attribute to the average shopper for him or her not to avoid confusion between the two packages when observed on the shelf, especially when these are placed adjacently or even proximately so.
Peart J indicated that an injunction should be granted to prevent further passing off. However, the interesting element of the case comes next: he also considered whether McCambridge are entitled to an injunction under section 71 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 on the basis that Brennans were engaging in a misleading commercial practice.
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation recently announced a planned overhaul of consumer legislation, arguably ignoring that the 2007 Act was supposed to be just that (I wrote about it here in April 2011). The 2007 Act was quite significant, but appears to have been barely used, particularly by the National Consumer Agency. Indeed, Peart J states that they held a watching brief in McCambridge v. Brennan but, strangely, adopted “a neutral position”.
(The failure of the Agency to adopt a position is reminiscent of the refusal of the Data Protection Commissioner to involve his office in the EMI v. eircom case. Ironically, he recently went on to order eircom to halt the three-strikes system which resulted from that case.)
Exhibit B: Wot, no McCambridge?
Peart J decided that McCambridge were not entitled to an injunction under section 71, apparently (my interpretation) on the basis that the design of its packaging was not a commercial practice involving marketing or advertising.
Peart J was to hear the parties in relation to the exact terms of his proposed injunction, but the decision to grant an injunction has since been appealed to the Supreme Court by Brennans.
As stated, my interpretation of Peart J’s comments (at paragraph 45) is that an injunction was not available because packaging was not “marketing or advertising”. I would have thought that the European Communities (Misleading and Comparative Marketing Communications) Regulations 2007 were aimed at preventing misleading advertising and that the (quite similar) provisions of the 2007 Act were of broader application such as would capture packaging. The 2007 Act is the Irish implementation of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive which, in the UK, was implemented by statutory instrument. Guidance from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading gives the following example of a prohibited practice:
A trader designs the packaging of shampoo A so that it very closely resembles that of shampoo B, an established brand of a competitor. If the similarity was introduced to deliberately mislead consumers into believing that shampoo A is made by the competitor (who makes shampoo B) – this would breach the [Regulations].
Of course, Peart J had decided that Brennans’ passing off was not deliberate, and so could not have found them to have intended to “deliberately mislead consumers”. Nevertheless, it appears to be a case where the views of the Consumer Protection Agency would have been of use.
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ACOLA receives ARC funding to undertake two new Horizon Scanning projects on AI and IoT
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The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) has been awarded two project grants through the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects (LASP) program Supporting Responses to Commonwealth Science Council Priorities.
The projects are looking at how digital technologies benefit Australia and will bring top scholars and practitioners together from across the academic spectrum. The two projects, Deployment of Artificial Intelligence and what it presents for Australia and The Internet of Things: Maximising the benefit of deployment in Australia will examine the social, cultural, legal, ethical, economic and environmental implications of deployment in Australia. They will each provide an evidence base to support government decision making and will help ensure the safe and responsible implementation of these transformative technologies alongside the development of research and industry capabilities to maximise the benefits across our economy.
Delivered over the next twelve months, the two projects will bring together Fellows from Australia’s Learned Academies to consider the full spectrum of issues and opportunity, and present Key Findings to inform complete policy responses to the anticipated scientific and technological change.
ACOLA President, Professor Glenn Withers said that “ACOLA is grateful to Ministers Birmingham and Cash, and the ARC for their support to deliver projects on artificial intelligence and the internet of things. Working in close partnership with the Chief Scientist and government departments, ACOLA is ideally placed to bring together Australia’s best minds, from many disciplines, to provide timely evidence on priority issues for Australia”.
These studies are part of ACOLA’s Horizon Scanning Program that has been requested by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, on behalf of the Commonwealth Science Council. Following topics of energy storage, precision medicine and synthetic biology, these studies on artificial intelligence and the internet of things have also received generous support from the Commonwealth Government Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Further information about ACOLA’s Horizon Scanning Program can be found at: https://acola.org.au/
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Posted by ACRN Media on December 19, 2017 December 20, 2017
2017 was great and all, but let’s not forget that we also had some high hopes and let-downs. Here’s our verdict:
1. Arcade Fire – Everything Now, [Columbia; 2017]
By Adomas Fabin, Contributor
Arcade Fire unexpectedly stepped back onto the stage last summer with their newest album Everything Now, produced by Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk (the way cooler silver robot if you’re wondering), creating a wave of excitement for fans craving a follow up to the 2013 hit album Reflektor. Unfortunately, what could have been their greatest album yet will forever hang on the bottom rung of Arcade Fire album rankings. Everything Now isn’t a bad album, it is, however, a bland and disappointing direction for the band to take after years of critical success. A few of the tracks are great jams to belt out in the car, but the album also contains one of their arguably worst songs yet, with the track “Chemistry” being aggressively cheesy and just flat out weird (in a bad way). At best Everything Now will make whatever Arcade Fire releases next seem (hopefully) way better.
Listen for yourself: Arcade Fire – Everything Now
2. Turnover – Good Nature, [Run For Cover; 2017]
By Devon Hannan, Editorial Director
After the unexpected and wildly successful release of Peripheral Vision, Turnover’s latest falls flatter than B.o.B’s understanding of planet Earth. While its predecessor has been described as having shoegaze elements, Good Nature is just plain old boring. In fact, this album isn’t shoegaze at all – it just makes you want to fall asleep. Every single hollow chord progression sounds the same, there are no changes in tempo or energy and the lyrics sound like they are coming straight out of the mouth of a dude-bro surfer.
The most disappointing part of this record is that it was destined to be really great. Peripheral Vision was an absolute banger of an album that literally led an army of other pop-punk and hardcore bands to change up their sound – and Turnover was one of the only ones to really pull it off. After Peripheral Vision, their 2016 double-sided single, Humblest of Pleasures, had a constant driving force, promissory that the band still good material to come. Even Good Nature had potential right up through its FIRST TRACK, “Super Natural”. Unfortunately, that’s where it ends. After such a knockout release, it’s hard to come to terms with the fact that Turnover may just be out of ideas.
Listen for yourself: Turnover – Good Nature
3. Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog, [Captured Tracks; 2017]
WARNING: INCREDIBLY UNPOPULAR OPINION AHEAD
This Old Dog is the incredibly disappointing follow-up to the moderately okay mini-LP Another One–that’s right kids, Mac DeMarco is just okay, get the nails and crucifix ready for me. A 13-track album with 12 boring songs, may cause the listener to wonder if they left Spotify accidentally on repeat. “A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes” has the workings to be a great song in the style of Bob Dylan, but instead sounds like a cheap imitation of the man. And if not already forgotten, there is the lazy filler track “Baby You’re Out”. No thanks. The rest of the tracks on This Old Dog fall exceptionally short except the yearning and keenly creative “Moonlight on the River”. In the end, DeMarco gave us a monotonous album and got a disinterested response. Hopefully, album #4 will be more rewarding.
Listen for yourself: Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
4. Migos – Culture, [Quality Control / Atlantic; 2017]
By Eli Schoop, Copy Editor
Migos could do nothing wrong following the release of “Bad and Boujee”. They were the impossible kind of cool, the status where everyone knows your name and no one talks shit lest they look like a complete lame in the presence of gods. It felt like it would be an effortless task to release an album in the wake of this untouchability. Unfortunately, Culture turned out to be a re-hash of the weakest qualities known to the group, namely, a reliance on hit singles and a lack of variety. The usual charisma is there, but it isn’t the same as on No Label 2 and Young Rich Niggas, where the trio cockily and easily asserted themselves as the best group in rap. For the culture’s sake, let’s hope they get back to their assured dominance real soon.
Listen for yourself: Migos – Culture
5. Foster the People – Sacred Hearts Club, [Columbia; 2017]
By Justin Cudahy, Columns Editor
Foster The People, many will remember, is an L.A. indie pop group who found mainstream success back in 2010 with their hit, “Pumped Up Kicks”. It was the kind of a song that people would annoyingly brag to their friends about, believing that knowing all the lyrics was enough to be considered “hipster.” Sorry, I’ve been wanting to say that for seven years now.
Sacred Hearts Club is Foster The People’s third full-length album which at the time was looking to improve off their mediocre sophomore LP, Supermodel from 2014. For years now, the band has suffered from what seems like an identity crisis. With SHC, Foster The People go for a ’60s psychedelia approach, resulting in a mishmash of easily forgettable and underwhelming tracks that felt like a sucker punch to fans expecting to hear something more in line to their previous works. Not many songs stand out from the album, except maybe the annoyingly catchy “I Love My Friends” and “Loyal Like Sid & Nancy” which has potential, but even then, these songs emit mediocrity all around. It’s an exceptional album at best, but knowing the kind of potential Foster The People has, they could have done better.
Listen for yourself: Foster the People – Sacred Hearts Club
6. 21 Savage – Issa Album, [Epic / Slaughter Gang; 2017]
By Jon Fuchs, Music Director
Issa Album was a special kind of disappointing. Riding off the hype of previous successful mixtapes (like last year’s Metro Boomin collaboration, Savage Mode), an authentic album from 21 Savage was being anticipated from anyone who heard “No Heart” and realized we had a genius on our hands. But his debut album ended up being a collection of sleepy, underwhelming tracks that barely had anything to say. Sure, there are a few gems on the album, such as the incredibly depressing “Thug Life”, the ultra-hit “Bank Account” and the pop-rap banger “FaceTime”, but the amount of bland (and at times homophobic) lyrics all over the record do nothing to make the Atlanta rapper interesting in the slightest. Even the production credits from the likes of Metro Boomin, Zaytoven, Southside, Pi’erre Bourne and DJ Mustard remain mainly hollow, contributing very little to improve 21’s flow. Also, no one wanted to hear a god-awful 7-minute-long freestyle from this guy. No one.
Listen for yourself: 21 Savage – Issa Savage
7. Weezer – Pacific Daydream, [Crush; 2017]
By Maria Lubanovic, Staff Writer
There are many albums by seasoned artists that were terrible this year, but not many lived up to the disappointment of Weezer’s Pacific Daydream. Long story short, the album is lame. It fails to produce any sort of high point in its mess of fuzz and overproduction. The songs lack substance, and overall, it’s boring. Like I’ve said before, Weezer is supposed to be fun and goofy and lighthearted, but the quirk is totally missing from every track. It was also released in November, so it was hard to get on board with the summer-meets-back-to-school feeling that every track tries to nudge at. It makes for an album that is so forgettable that I had to re-listen to it. RIP me. I really like Weezer, which is kinda in bad taste in the first place, but at this point, after so many lackluster albums, it’s starting to make me look really bad. They used to be a defining voice of a generation, even if the voice was coming out of nerdy ass dudes who clearly enjoy memes. Pacific Daydream didn’t produce a single track with a strong voice and fails to throwback to a time where they had one.
Listen for yourself: Weezer – Pacific Daydream
8. Gorillaz – Humanz, [Warner; 2017]
By Sam Tornow, General Manager
The Gorillaz announce their first album in seven years
A ruthless PR campaign makes new fans flock to old fandom, making old fans let everyone else know that Demon Days was their first album.
An anti-Trump teaser track is released on the eve of the inauguration.
Collaborators include Vince Staples, Danny Brown, Kelela, Grace Jones, DRAM, Mavis Staples, Pusha T, Benjamin Clementine, Anthony Hamilton, etc.
Five singles, all with accompanying music videos, are put out prior to the release of the album.
A world tour is announced featuring a free record with every ticket.
Humanz is released on April 28, 2017.
Tracks on the album: 20.
Full tracks on the album with no guests: 1.
Publications fear the wrath of fandom and give the album high praise.
Everyone puts one or two songs on a playlist and Humanz is never listened to in full again.
The world patiently waits for the Gorillaz to release their comeback album.
Listen for yourself: Gorillaz – Humanz
9. Beck – Colors, [Capitol; 2017]
By Hunter Bych, Contributor
If the music from commercials were able to reproduce, this entire album would be within that litter of commercialized-bullshit. Most of the tracks tend to sound overproduced yet underdeveloped making the listener think, “Was this made to play during a Target ad?”. Nothing truly memorable comes from Colors apart from a couple of earworm choruses that may stick in your head. Even then, those get forgotten quickly.
What makes this truly disappointing is the fact that Beck is behind this. The 13th album from the 30-year music veteran does fit with his style of experimentation, but it plays with none of his strengths or even seems that comfortable for him. Having a few songs that are different from the norm or follow the mainstream is justifiable, especially for a tenured artist. It is extremely risky to focus an entire album on these concepts. As when the album blows up in your face, it really messes up your image people have of you.
Listen for yourself: Beck – Colors
10. Lil Yachty – Teenage Emotions, [Quality Control / Capitol / Motown; 2017]
It’s one thing to claim yourself as the King of the Teens. It’s another to actually lay claim to that throne. Lil Yachty has had a meteoric come-up recently, with hit singles culminating in a Sprite endorsement. But when it came to his major-label debut, the 21-year-old ran out of steam too quickly regarding the actual music. Credit where credit is due, his vision and ambition is boundless–hip-hop stands next to synth-pop and pop-punk as genre experiments. Yet, Yachty’s creativity cannot match the actuality, and Teenage Emotions results in a hodgepodge of loose ends with no climax in sight.
Listen for yourself: Lil Yachty – Teenage Emotions
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Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall
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Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse for this international hit with the under fives AND their parents/carers. Expect bouncing, bopping, beautiful, bonkers fun with retro hits, pop favourites and thumping nursery rhymes. Get glam and put your disco-dancing-booties on!
Nominated 2019: Best Family Entertainment Hoop Awards (Edinburgh & Berkshire)
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'In minutes, there wasn't a mummy, daddy, baby, toddler or child in the house that wasn't busting some moves... We had a (glitter)ball.' Primary Times
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Monski Mouse started performing in 1992 as an on-camera reporter for art school community TV group, SCAT in Adelaide, Australia. Born in Adelaide, Australia, Monski lived in Sydney for 7 years and in London, UK, for 8 years, recently returning to her hometown of Adelaide Australia. Monski Mouse performed as a DJ for arts festivals in Australia and the UK for ten years before launching her signature parents and children’s dance event, Baby Disco Dance Hall in 2012 at the Adelaide Fringe in a sold-out debut season. The show has gone on to tour 20 cities across the UK, Middle East and Australia. Monski Mouse has a Degree in Visual Art from Uni SA and studied performance at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Monski Mouse added a new live music show, Baby Cabaret to her body of work in 2018.
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2012-13Last 16Round 6
Uxue Bilbao Basket 76
VEF Riga 65
February 19, 2013 CET: 20:00
Local time: 20:00 BILBAO ARENA
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Uxue Bilbao Basket used a game-ending 16-2 run to rally past visiting VEF Riga 76-65 and into the quarterfinals with a first-place finish in Group J on Tuesday. The victory was the fourth straight for Bilbao, which finished the Last 16 with 4-2 record. Bilbao topped the group standings by virtue of two victories over second-place Valencia Basket, which also finished 4-2. In the quarterfinals, Bilbao will play ratiopharm Ulm of Germany. Riga was eliminated with 3-3 record even though it used some sharp shooting and tough defense to build a 13-27 lead midway through the second quarter. Triples from Alex Mumbru and Raul Lopez highlighted Bilbao's comeback as the hosts made a 12-2 run to grab a 37-36 halftime advantage. The teams traded leads for most of the second half, but after a three-pointer from Kristpas Janicenoks gave Riga a 53-58 lead, Lopez sparked Bilbao's comeback and Nikos Zisis hit a deal-sealing triple at 71-65 with 28 seconds left. Mumbru and Lopez each finished with 15 points for the winners. Adrien Moerman scored 14 and Lamont Hamilton chipped in with 12. Antanas Kavaliauskas led Riga with 12 points plus 8 rebounds, Kaspars Berzins had 11 points, while Janicenoks and Earl Rowland scored 10 apiece.
Will Daniels hit couple of jumpers to give Riga a lead in the early going, while Axel Hervelle put Bilbao in the scoring column. After Rowland and Kristaps Janicenoks added to the visitors' tally with jump shots, Daniels buried a three-pointer, and Berzins hit a couple of jumpers of his own for a 10-17 Riga advantage. In addition to hitting shots, Riga's defense held Bilbao without a field goal for more than 6 minutes. Meanwhile, the visitors scored 10 unanswered points, including a triple from the left corner by Dairis Bertans and one from Donatas Zavackas to bridge the first and second quarters for a high lead of 13-27. Mumbru snapped Bilbao's drought with a shot from downtown, sparking a 9-2 spurt, before Lopez hit his own to draw Bilbao within 30-33. Before the half ended, Roger Grimau dunked and Mumbru scored basket-plus-free throw to give Bilbao its first lead of the game, 37-36 at the break.
A fastbreak three-point play from Janicenoks got things going in the third quarter as teams started trading leads. Lopez nailed a triple for the hosts, and Bertans scored one for Riga at 41-44. Bilbao responded with a 6-0 run after a couple of baskets from Hamilton, but Riga answered right back with 7 unanswered points. Zavackas hit a triple, and Riga players made 6 of 8 free throws for 51-53 going into the fourth quarter. Kavaliauskas hit a jumper and Janicenoks sunk a triple to extend Riga's lead to 5 points before Hamilton and Moerman scored back-to-back inside baskets for Bilbao. After Mumbru nailed a triple for a 60-60 tie, the hosts took the lead for good with Lopez stringing together 4 points and dishing out an assist for Mumbru's layup at 66-63. After Kavaliauskas brought Riga within a single point, Hamilton downed a jumper and Zisis hit his triple as the hosts finished the game on a 10-0 run, starting a big celebration in Bilbao Arena.
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Referees: CMIKIEWICZ, MAREK; OBRADOVIC, PETAR; LAURINAVICIUS, JURGIS
Attendance: 9101 (Tentative)
Uxue Bilbao Basket 13 24 14 25
VEF Riga 22 14 17 12
Uxue Bilbao Basket
6 ZISIS, NIKOS 23:58 7 1/3 1/4 2/2 3 3 2 1 3 1 4
7 RAKOVIC, MILOVAN 10:53 4 2/2 3 3 2 4 1
8 PILEPIC, FRAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 HAMILTON, LAMONT 29:02 12 5/11 0/1 2/2 5 5 1 2 1 1 2 2 9
15 MUMBRU, ALEX 34:47 15 2/3 2/5 5/5 5 5 3 2 3 3 6 21
17 HERVELLE, AXEL 9:32 2 1/3 2 2 1 1 2 2 2
18 MOERMAN, ADRIEN 30:28 14 2/5 0/2 10/12 2 7 9 1 2 2 1 2 6 22
24 SANCHEZ PEREZ, SERGIO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
31 LOPEZ, RAUL 24:12 15 2/3 2/6 5/6 4 4 5 4 1 1 1 2 5 24
33 SAMB, MAMADOU DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
34 VASILEIADIS, KOSTAS 22:19 3 0/3 3/4 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 5
44 GRIMAU, ROGER 14:49 4 1/5 0/2 2/2 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 -1
Team 2 2 2
Totals 200:00 76 16/35 5/23 29/33 2 35 37 13 13 13 4 3 22 25 89
Head coach: KATSIKARIS, FOTIS
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
VEF Riga
4 ROWLAND, EARL 29:22 10 5/10 0/2 2 2 5 2 3 1 3 5 12
9 JAHOVICS, GATIS 16:03 0/2 0/3 1 1 2 1 1 2 -3
11 STRELNIEKS, ARTURS 0:27
12 JANICENOKS, KRISTAPS 33:08 10 2/6 1/7 3/3 1 4 5 1 1 3 1 3 3 3
14 BERZINS, KASPARS 22:55 11 4/7 0/3 3/5 1 7 8 1 3 1 4 4 8
15 DANIELS, WILL 23:57 8 2/5 1/3 1/2 3 3 1 3 3 1 1
20 BLAUS, LAURIS 0:50 1 1 -2
21 KAVALIAUSKAS, ANTANAS 29:26 12 4/6 4/4 8 8 1 2 2 2 4 5 18
41 ZAVACKAS, DONATAS 26:49 6 0/1 2/4 7 7 2 3 4 3 8
45 BERTANS, DAIRIS 17:03 8 0/1 2/2 2/2 2 2 2 1 1 9
Team 2 3 5 1 4
Totals 200:00 65 17/38 6/24 13/16 5 35 40 14 6 20 3 4 26 22 58
44.7% 25% 81.3%
Head coach: BUTAUTAS, RAMUNAS
KATSIKARIS, FOTIS
"From the defense, controlling the rebounds and looking for the best options in attack, we managed win against a great team. I congratulate the players for the effort and the public for their support. After losing in Riga, we seemed to have very few options. We have won four straight and are among the quarterfinalists. Our public knows how the team has to push through the tough times. We thank you and your team is still in the competition."
BUTAUTAS, RAMUNAS
"Bilbao is one of the best teams in Spain, very strong and with a very experienced coach. Bilbao was better at the end of the game and showed a higher level than ours."
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Golden Bears get some home cooking against Ducks
Monty facing uphill battle
Gray-Lawson leads Cal past Washington State
Cal overcomes cold start
Tedford finds an answer for special teams
Patrick Christopher scored all 21 of his points in the first half, but it was the 14 straight that catapulted the Golden Bears to their fourth win of the Pac-10 season Thursday night.
Christopher’s 14-point run for Cal blew the doors off of a 17-13 game with 7:30 left before halftime. By the time the break’s buzzer sounded, the Golden Bears (12-6, 4-2 Pac-10) had built a 48-21 lead on their way to a 89-57 victory over Oregon (10-8, 2-4 Pac-10) at Haas Pavilion in front of 8,535 happy Cal fans.
“I think I was just–let’s see, I made my first shot, then it got away from me for a little bit,” said Christopher when explaining his hot hand at the end of the first half. “So, the next time I touched it, I got a little more aggressive. And then things just got rolling from there, my teammates started finding me, and we were playing good basketball.“
The Golden Bears’ defense held Oregon to 38.1% field goal shooting and also forced them into a horrid 1-18 shooting from three-point range. Cal was so good defensively, that even when they shot 43.3% from the field in the second half, they outscored the Ducks 41-36.
“To not let them come back in the second half, like we’ve allowed a lot of teams to, this probably was our most complete game defensively,” said Jamal Boykin after the game.
The game got so out of hand that nine of Cal’s players played 10 minutes or more in the game and five players scored in double-digits. Along with Christopher’s 21 points, Theo Robertson scored 18, Jerome Randle and D.J. Seeley scored 11, and Boykin scored 10. Omondi Amoke led all players with 11 rebounds on the night.
Cal’s hot streak will be put to the test on Saturday when they face an Oregon State team at 11am at Haas Pavilion. The Beavers swept Cal last season and have every intention of doing it again this year.
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Dogan, Fulani groups in Central Mali sign accord during PM’s visit
Armed groups of the rival Fulani and Dogan ethnic communities in central Mali have signed accords to “cease hostilities”, during a visit by the country’s prime minister, official sources said Monday.
The accords signed by a dozen armed groups were reached in the Mopti and Segou regions which have seen a surge in tit-for-tat violence between the nomadic Fulani cattle herders and the sedentary Dogon farmers and hunters, according to an official document seen by AFP.
Since 2015 a jihadist group, recruiting mainly from the Fulani (or Peul) people, has clashed with the ethnic Dogon and also Bambara communities who in turn have created self-defence militias.
The intercommunal conflict has claimed hundreds of lives. In an explosion of violence on March 23, about 160 Fulani villagers were slaughtered at Ogossagou, near the border with Burkina Faso, by suspected Dogon hunters.
The groups “have agreed to immediately and definitively cease hostilities, to enable the free movement of people, goods and humanitarian agencies, ” according to the document signed in the presence of Mali’s premier, Boubou Cisse.
“Our actions have to reflect our wishes. If we want peace, our actions must show it,” Cisse told journalists. He began last Thursday his second visit to troubled central Mali since July. Several ceasefires signed in the past proved ineffective at halting the violence.
Despite military help from France and the United Nations, Mali’s government has struggled to calm violence that began in the north of the country in 2012, sparked by radical Islamist and Tuareg militias, and has spread to the centre in deadly attacks between ethnic groups.
Between May 2018 and May 2019, the number of people fleeing violent attacks almost quadrupled in the central Mopti and Segou regions, rising from 18,000 to 70,000, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (OCHA) said last month.
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Sales of Distressed Properties Hit New Low
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently released their latest Existing Home Sales Report revealing that distressed property sales accounted for 4% of sales in September. This is down from 7% in 2015, and is the lowest figure since NAR began tracking distressed sales in October 2008.
Below is a graph that shows just how far the market has come since January 2012 when distressed sales accounted for 35% of all sales.
Existing Home Sales Hit 2nd Highest Figure Since June
Mortgage interest rates remained well below 4% in September at 3.46%, prompting existing home sales to stay at a healthy annual pace of 5.47 million. Month-over-month sales were up 3.2%.
Inventory of homes for sale remains below the 6-month supply that is necessary for a normal market, as it fell 2.2% to a 4.5-month supply. The shortage in inventory has contributed to the median home price rising an additional 5.6% to $234,200.
NAR’s Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun had this to say about the lack of inventory:
"Inventory has been extremely tight all year and is unlikely to improve now that the seasonal decline in listings is about to kick in."
There is good news though, as Yun went on to say:
"There's hope the leap in sales to first-time buyers can stick through the rest of the year and into next spring. The market fundamentals — primarily consistent job gains and affordable mortgage rates — are there for the steady rise in first-timers needed to finally reverse the decline in the homeownership rate."
If you are debating putting your home on the market this year, now may be the time. Buyers are still out there looking for their dream home. Let’s get together to determine your best plan.
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48 hours in a MASH unit at Ground Zero
On September 15, 2001, Dr. Karch wrote to friends and colleagues reporting what he experienced and learned as a physician at Ground Zero, including 27 practical tips for future mass civilian casualty...
Reflections on Medicine
Kimberly Henderson (C'91, L'95, M'00)
Fall/Winter 2016: Extreme Medicine
Georgetown Student Takes Seat on AMA Board
“I am honored to be elected a trustee of an organization that has been tirelessly striving to improve the lives of physicians and patients for over 150 years” — Omar Z. Maniya (C’11, M’17)
Pursuing a PhD for the Love of Science
How does someone with a degree in electrical engineering spend a career in finance, retire, and then head to Georgetown for a master’s in biotechnology, eventually pursuing a PhD in...
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No matter the path they were on, the 196 students that make up the Georgetown University School of Medicine Class of 2020 are now moving forward on the same journey, with cura personalis at the core.
Better Bystanders
“The mission of our organization is to empower and better equip communities around the world to be prepared to safely and efficiently act in any situation in which CPR is required.”...
The Doctor Is Out
When they first dissect a frog, or maybe first peer through a microscope, many doctors- to-be begin to dream about a career in medicine, long before they ever apply to medical school. Not Matt Wilson.
Sister Dede Answers the Call
The life and career of surgeon Sister Deirdre Byrne, MD (M’82, R’97), has included the political tensions of war and conflict, as well as deep inner peace.
Reflections on 9/11 - Medical Care in the Chaos
Something fundamentally changed in all of us. On that day, we realized both individually and as a nation that we were vulnerable. — Michael M. Karch, MD (M’95, R’02)...
Emergency and Disaster Management at Georgetown
When disaster strikes, people turn to emergency management leaders.
Not for Oneself but for All
When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in the spring of 2015, survivors faced shock and fear in isolated villages throughout the Himalayas.
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Community > World > North America > United States > New York > New York
Secure Parking outside New York City
about 7 years ago about New York, New York, United States
I don't want to drive into or park in New York City. So I want to park my camper van in a very secure place while I go to New York City for a 10 day holiday. I will be coming from South Dakota and going to Montreal afterwards. I don't mind taking a train or bus to NY. But I'm concerned that my van won't be safe as it has all my possessions in it.
Asked by Jane via WorldNomads.com
Jane depending on the size of your camper, I would consider parking at one of the hotels close to any of the major airports, including Newark, Kennedy, or LaGuardia. Most hotels have security and the pricing is not so bad. Also, all of the area airports; especially Newark have direct access via public transportation into NYC. about 7 years ago
Answered by Kalon via Ask a Nomad iPad app
You should park near a Metro North train station and take the train in. I recommend a station East of the Hudson River, as it's easy to get to/from Grand Central Station from there and convenient for driving towards Montreal afterwards. about 7 years ago
Answered by Adam Sherlip via Travellr.com
3 day parking in brooklyn
almost 8 years ago about Brooklyn, New York, United States
I would like to rent bicycles for half a day near central park, what are your best adresses?
over 8 years ago about New York, New York, United States
Can i rent bicycles in central park? How much is it?
What are the best central park walking tours in New York?
What is a must do in Manhattan?
almost 11 years ago about Manhattan, New York, United States
Map of New York
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Sharp leaning towards Foxconn takeover, but with no exclusive negotiations, CEO says
Thursday, February 04, 2016, 07:36 am PT (10:36 am ET)
Sharp is indeed leaning towards a takeover by Apple's main manufactuing partner, Foxconn, but no exclusive negotiating rights have been offered, the company's CEO announced at a Thursday press conference.
"We are putting more resources on studying the Hon Hai [Foxconn] offer," said Kozo Takahashi, according to the New York Times. "We are considering the offers from the point of view of all of Sharp's stakeholders, its employees and shareholders."
Takahashi denied an NHK report that Sharp is giving Foxconn exclusive negotiating rights, however. That at least leaves open the possibility of a deal with Innovation Network Corp., a state-backed Japanese fund that would fold Sharp's display business into Japan Display, itself formed from units spun off of Hitachi, Sony, and Toshiba.
Foxconn's offer is believed to be worth at least 600 billion yen (about $5 billion), technically twice as much money as Innovation. The offers are structually different though, and Innovation's deal might be more likely to be approved by Japanese regulators, as well as garner support from various parties worried about a foreign firm swallowing a Japanese icon and weakening local industry. Foxconn has promised not to cut any jobs, but Japanese display suppliers are already fighting to keep up with Chinese and Korean rivals.
Takahashi noted that Sharp will make a decision within the next month.
Whether Foxconn or Innovation wins, Apple orders will be one of the chief prizes of a takeover. Foxconn would be able to provide displays to Apple as well as manufacturing lines, while Japan Display would be able to increase its existing Apple display production.
GoPro works to stem losses with 'connected and convenient' Hero5
iTunes, App Store, & Apple TV services hit by new outage [u]
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Mostar Old Town Conservation
Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1986.
By the 1960s, the 16th-century historical core of the town of Mostar was physically deteriorated and commercially stagnant. It has since become revitalised and reactivated as a thriving business centre. Stari-Grad, the agency in charge of this restoration project, is a semi-autonomous organisation approved and subsidised by the Ministry for the Protection of Monuments and Nature of the Republic of Herzegovina in Sarajevo. Beginning in 1977, Stari-Grad spent three years documenting the historic centre. Subsequently it has undertaken the restoration of the river embankments, a 16th century Ottoman tower and bridge, a 17th-century clock tower, two mosques, a madrasa, private houses, a tannery and shops that date back to the 18th-and-19th centuries. The jury noted that the rehabilitation of this wide variety of building types "has been handled in an exemplary manner. All the restorations fit well into the general atmosphere of the old town and its homogeneous appearance is not disturbed; nothing is overdone or touristic."
Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Commenced 1978
Style period
Stari Grad Mostar (architect)
Mostar (place)
Community of Mostar (client)
Site comprises
Karadjoz Beg Mosque
Ottoman Houses of Mostar
Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque
urban design and development
area conservation
742,000 m²
Associated collections
3rd Cycle: 1984-1986
Aga Khan Award Recipients (Sites)
Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winner, World Heritage Sites
The Stari Grad Mostar office building with a view to the Kujundziluk commercial area
Courtesy of architect
IAA18567
Conservation and Revitalisation of Historic Mostar
Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme (formerly Historic Cities Support Programme)
Conservation of Mostar Old Town
Ismaïl Serageldin
The Preservation of the Built Heritage of Mostar, Yugoslavia
Dzihad Paçic
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Shanti Jayawardene
Mostar Old Town Conservation Drawings
Mostar Old Town Conservation Project Summary
Mostar Old Town Conservation On-site Review Report
Selma al-Radi
Graphic Panel of Award Winning Projects from the Third Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1986)
Conservation in the Islamic World
Azim Nanji, Ronald Lewcock
Photographs of Mostar Old Town Conservation
Reflections on the 1986 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Brian Brace Taylor
A Search for Excellence
Space for Freedom (Arabic)
Ismaïl Serageldin, Ismaïl Serageldin
Space for Freedom
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2020 Dems: Party Establishment Worries About 2020 As Two New Candidates Jump In
Panic is apparently beginning to set in with establishment Democrats over the state of the 2020 presidential primary, as they worry none of the candidates currently running will be able to defeat President Trump next year.
Adding to their woes, two new candidates are apparently jumping into the fight. Last week, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced his candidacy. The announcement comes as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making moves to appear on the primary ballot in some early states as well.
Going into Wednesday’s debate, the established 2020 field has begun taking not-so-subtle shots at the two would-be candidates. And while it is unlikely either individual will come out on top, their entrance could throw off the balance of what is already a nerve-wracking primary process for Democrats.
Catch up on the last week’s biggest developments from the 2020 primary with our latest 2020 Dem recap.
Fmr. Vice President Joe Biden
New Infrastructure Plan: Per Bloomberg, last Thursday Biden “released a $1.3 trillion proposal to make major investments in transportation with the dual goals of modernizing U.S. infrastructure and moving toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
Town Hall Disinterest: Biden’s featured town hall last week on CNN delivered 1.15 million viewers to finish third in a cable news race against Fox News and MSNBC.
BIG Endorsement: Biden received the endorsement of former Democratic presidential candidate and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
4 Million: This week, Sanders’ campaign announced that it has received contributions from 4 million donors.
AOC In The Administration: Sanders told ABC News on Sunday that if he is elected, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would be given a “very important role” in his administration and could even be tapped for a cabinet-level position.
“Green New Deal For Public Housing”: Last week, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez also unveiled legislation to invest up to $172 billion over the next decade to drastically upgrade the nation’s 1.2 million public housing units as part of a Green New Deal.
Major Union Endorsement: Last week, Sanders edged out Warren for the support of the pro-single payer National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Phasing In Medicare For All: In a tacit acknowledgement that her Medicare for All proposal would be difficult to implement (let alone pass Congress), Warren released a transition plan that would get the country to a single payer system. Warren said that during her first term, she would “pass legislation to offer new Medicare benefits to everyone first and then follow up with legislation to end existing employer plans by her third year in office, once the new system has a foothold.” Following the release of her plan, Bernie Sanders announced he would introduce his Medicare for All bill in the first week of his tenure if he is elected next year.
Blasting Billionaires: In a new ad centered on her wealth tax proposal, Warren took aim at Leon Cooperman, Joe Ricketts, Lloyd Blankfein, and Peter Thiel, four billionaires who have criticized her campaign.
Three Pinocchios: Warren’s aforementioned ad was given “Three Pinocchios” by The Washington Post’s fact checker for misleading how much billionaires would pay under her wealth tax.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Iowa Surge: Buttigieg is seeing his poll numbers continue to rise in the Hawkeye state as the Iowa caucuses draw closer. A new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers shows Buttigieg climbing to 25%, marking a 16-point increase in support since September. Behind Buttigieg, there is a close three-way battle for second with Warren at 16%, and Biden and Sanders each at 15%.
Sen. Kamala Harris
No Strategy: Harris’ campaign continues to tailspin out of control. Last week, a senior official for the California Senator’s campaign told Politico that her team has “No discipline. No plan. No strategy.” It’s a tough look for Harris, who also saw supporters suggest that she should hang it up last week.
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London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle – Genesis Suite & Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Posted on January 14, 2018 by arcanafm
Simon Callow, Rodney Earl Clarke, Sara Kestelman, Helen McCrory (narrators), Gerard McBurney (creative director), Mike Tutaj (projection design), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
Various composers The Genesis Suite (1945)
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra (1943)
Barbican Hall, London; Saturday 13 January 2018
Written by Ben Hogwood
Collaboration in classical music is rare. Pop music is full of it – many of the best songs and albums are co-written – but for composers to work together on a single work is nigh on unthinkable. Full marks, then, to Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra for reminding us of an instance when that did in fact happen – no fewer than SEVEN classical composers coming together in 1945, at the end of World War II, to write the Genesis Suite. The project was held together by Nathanial Shilkret, masterminding the project from Hollywood.
The Suite, of course, has nothing to do with the rock band. Yet it is fully progressive, telling the story of the first book of the Bible from creation through to the construction of the Tower of Babylon in the space of an hour, working its way from Schoenberg to Stravinsky via Shilkret himself, Alexandre Tansman, Darius Milhaud, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ernst Toch.
Rattle and creative director Gerard McBurney collaborated on a series of moving images and audio clips to put the Genesis Suite in modern perspective. These were thought provoking and occasionally daring. The story of Cain and Abel (with surprisingly upbeat music from Milhaud) was played out to a Middle Eastern backdrop, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were prominent during the story of The Flood (Noah and the Ark), while the construction of the Shard against Stravinsky’s music for Babel was a powerful allegory.
Unfortunately the music was overshadowed somewhat by the wordy text, taken directly from the King James Bible, and read as written. Nor was it helped by a lack of ensemble between the starry quartet of narrators. Simon Callow and Helen McCrory stood far left, Sara Kestelman and Rodney Earl Clarke far right – which meant for the audience it was a strain to hear two of the four speakers unless sat directly in the middle, despite the amplification. Some speakers were better versed than others in their delivery, too – and maybe because of my own seated position Kestelman and Clarke appeared to have greater emotional involvement.
The London Symphony Chorus, however, were as one in their powerful contributions, dressed in white to maximise their dramatic delivery. When the men came out into the stalls for the Stravinsky finale the Suite’s tension between creation and what man has done with it reached its ultimate, tense conclusion.
Musically the Suite was inconsistent. Schoenberg’s Prelude stood out for inventive orchestration and far reaching harmonic language, while in a dramatic sense Toch’s dramatic setting of The Rainbow (The Covenant) was a notable high. Creation itself, Shilkret’s contribution, felt hurried, the seven days of creation crammed into ten minutes.
Despite these reservations Genesis Suite made a lasting impression, especially following Rattle’s assertion that all composers except one wrote in exile. After the interval another such composer, the Hungarian Béla Bartók writing in America in 1943, was to light up the concert.
It is very easy to take the LSO’s virtuosity for granted, but in a performance like this they shone from every corner. Rattle challenged them to dig deep technically and emotionally and they delivered on every level, particularly in the work’s deeply felt heart, the Elegia. Rattle and McBurney opted to continue with images, which were slow moving or static this time, depicting the forests Bartók looked on during composition. However the gauze on which the images were shown did on occasion muffle the projection of the brass musicians sat under or behind the screen.
Ultimately this did not spoil a terrific performance, where sinewy strings and percussive outbursts were complemented by outstanding, colourful woodwind playing. The first of the two scherzos brought this out, with pairs of bassoons, flutes, clarinets and oboes outstanding in their delivery, balanced by the trumpets. The finale danced energetically, bathed in a luminous glow which proceeded to leave its spell on the audience.
You can see Sir Simon Rattle talking about the Genesis Suite below:
The music from this concert, including Rattle’s own recording of the Concerto for Orchestra, can be heard on this Spotify playlist:
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Volume 64, Number 3July/August 2013
Reconnecting Cultures In The Balkans
Interpreter of Treasures
The Majlis Painters
Voices of Afghanistan
Polo Game of Kings
For students: We hope this guide will help sharpen your reading skills and deepen your understanding of this issue’s articles.
For teachers: We encourage reproduction and adaptation of these ideas, freely and without further permission from Saudi Aramco World, by teachers at any level, whether working in a classroom or through home study.
— THE EDITORS
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Jump to McRel Standards
This edition of Saudi Aramco World includes several articles about the arts—from the works of Arab artists collected and exhibited in galleries and museums, to the traditional Afghan music of a group of expatriates, to the paintings by ‘Asiri women that once decorated the walls of their homes and now fill large canvases. All of the activities in this Classroom Guide, including the Visual Analysis activity, revolve around one theme: Defining Art.
Theme: Defining Art
1. How do different people define art?
Although lots of people make art and talk about art and show art, if you asked three of them what art is, you’d probably get three different answers. “Big deal,” you might think. “Why does that matter?” After all, as the old saying goes, “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.” If you like it, who cares whether you call it art or something else? But it can matter a lot. As you’ll see, how different people define art reflects what they value, and shapes what they do and why they do it. In these activities, you’re going to look closely at how three different women think about art, what they do with it, and why.
Take out three pieces of paper. At the top of each, write the name of one of these three women: Ustad Farida Mahwash, Rose Issa, or Um Abdullah. As you work through the following questions about each woman, make notes on the appropriate piece of paper. This will help you organize the relevant points from the articles as well as your thoughts about them.
In “Voices of Afghanistan,” vocalist Ustad Farida Mahwash states very clearly her definition of art. She says, “Art generally, and singing especially: it’s all love.” Write her words on your Mahwash page. Then think about what she means. To be sure, she is a little less direct in explaining that, but both she and writer Banning Eyre make statements from which you can infer her meaning. Read the article, and make notes on your page to help you clarify what Mahwash means about art being love.
Next, read “The Catalyst.” Rose Issa, the woman interviewed in that article, doesn’t create art, but she “represents” it—specifically the work of young Arab artists. That means that she shows their work, and encourages galleries and museums in the West to collect and exhibit it. You can get a sense of how she might define art by reading between the lines of her story. Here are a few questions to help you. What was the theme of Issa’s first film festival? What inspired her to put it together? What does her reference to “loophole language” reveal about how she thinks of art’s purpose? When you put together the answers to these questions, how do you think Issa would define art? You can also gain insight into how Issa defines art by looking at her actions. What does she do and expect others to do with the artwork she represents? What do those actions reveal about how she defines art? How does she explain the importance of the work she has done during her career? What value do you see in the work she does, and in the art she represents?
“The Majlis Painters” presents yet another view of what constitutes art. It describes the traditional designs that women of ‘Asir painted on the walls in their homes. Um Abdullah, who used to watch her mother paint, decided to revive this type of painting. The following questions will help you tease out how Um Abdullah might define art, based on the type of painting she’s reviving. Why did her predecessors paint? On what type of surface did they paint? Why did they do so? What did their painting express? Who are the majlis painters today? Why are they painting the traditional designs? On what types of surfaces are they painting them? Why are they painting on those surfaces? How do you think women in the past would have defined their art? How do you think Um Abdullah and her peers today would define it?
Imagine someone reading Saudi Aramco World, and that reader gets to page 38. She looks at the top image and notes to herself, “There’s a photograph of a polo match. The photo gives me some information about what polo playing looks like.” She then looks at the image below it and thinks, “Here’s a work of art. I wonder if it’s an accurate depiction of a polo match. Polo must be pretty interesting to look at if artists make paintings of it.” Thinking about what you’ve read about Rose Issa and the majlis painters, write a response to that reader. Here are a few questions to get you started: Do you agree with how she has identified the two images? If so, why? If not, how would you identify them? Cite evidence from each of the two articles you read to support your response.
2. Analyze similarities and differences in how different people define art.
Ustad Farida Mahwash, Rose Issa and Um Abdullah are dedicated to the arts from their native lands. Now that you’ve read and thought about the artwork that each of the three women is committed to, think about what they have in common and how they differ. Divide the class into groups of three for a role-play activity. Have one person in each trio take the role of Rose Issa, while the others take on the roles of Um Abdullah and Ustad Farida Mahwash. Use the notes you have made about the woman you will represent to have a conversation among the three women. Start by having each woman explain to the others the type of creative work that interests her, and why. Go on to discuss the ways in which these artistic works are similar to each other and how they differ. What do you imagine Rose Issa would think about the ‘Asiri paintings? What makes you think so? What do you imagine Um Abdullah would think about the work in Issa’s gallery? What makes you think so? What would each think about Mahwash’s music? And what might she think about the art they create or champion? In a similar vein, talk about how each woman wants to share the work, with whom, and why and how she wants to do so. In what ways are their aims similar? In what ways are they different? See if the women have suggestions for each other.
3. What is necessary to create art?
At the end of her interview with Rose Issa, Juliet Highet asks, “If you had three wishes for the future of Arab art, what would they be?” Issa answers with four wishes, which really express what she believes is necessary in order for art to exist. Add the four wishes to your Issa page. Then have the person playing Issa in the conversation explain to the other two women how each wish contributes to the future development and preservation of art. For the two people playing the other two women: You have learned a fair amount about what the woman you represent thinks about art. Based on what you know, how do you think she would respond to Issa’s four wishes? Which, if any, would she agree with? Why? Which, if any, would she disagree with or de-emphasize? Why? What might she add? How would her addition reflect her own values and beliefs about art? Share your thinking in the role play.
4. What do you like?
Finally, think about the examples of art associated with each woman, including the forms of that art and the ways in which it is shared with others. Does one art form move you more than the others? Do you feel more connected to one? If so, why? If, on your next vacation, you could visit Rose Issa’s gallery, or Abha, or hear Voices of Afghanistan perform—only one of the three—which would you choose and why? (Of course, you can always see/hear the other on a later holiday!) Write your thoughts in a journal entry.
IF YOU ONLY HAVE 15 MINUTES...
Read “The Catalyst,” an interview with Rose Issa, whom interviewer Juliet Highet describes as the “doyenne of the London and global Arab contemporary arts scene.” In it, Issa explains how she began her career and some of its high points. Write a résumé for Rose Issa, following these steps. First, list Issa’s professional activities and achievements, in chronological order as much as possible. Then study the list. What themes or patterns emerge? Use those themes as the organizing categories for the résumé. Under each theme, list the achievements or activities that show what Issa has done. When you’ve done that, step back. Write a headline for Rose Issa—a phrase or sentence to put under her name that sums up for a reader what makes her unique. Here’s an example of what a journalist’s résumé might say at the top: “Path-breaking, prize-winning reporter, writer, and editor with more than 20 years’ experience; author of five best-selling books.” Compare your résumé and headline with other students’ work.
MA13 Standards Alignment
McRel Standards
Reweaving Culture’s Threads in the Balkans, Byte by Byte
Standard 6. Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Standard 10. Understands the nature and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics
Standard 13. Understands the forces of cooperation and conflict that shape the divisions of Earth's surface
Standard 43. Understands how post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up
Standard 44. Understands the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
Standard 45. Understands major global trends since World War II
Standard 4. Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
Interpreter of Treasures, Part 4
Standard 25. Understands major global trends from 1000 to 1500 CE
Standard 31. Understands major global trends from 1450 to 1770
Standard 17. Understands how geography is used to interpret the past
Standard 7. Understands the relationship between music and history and culture
Standard 9. Understands the nature, distribution and migration of human populations on Earth's surface
Polo: Game of Kings
Standard 11. Understands major global trends from 1000 BCE to 300 CE
Standard 19. Understands the maturation of an interregional system of communication, trade, and cultural exchange during a period of Chinese economic power and Islamic expansion
Standard 28. Understands how large territorial empires dominated much of Eurasia between the 16th and 18th centuries
Standard 35. Understands patterns of nationalism, state-building, and social reform in Europe and the Americas from 1830 to 1914
Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
These standards are correlated to activities in the Classroom Guide, rather than to articles in the magazine, because they emphasize skills, rather than content.
Common Core: College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
RL/RI.1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL/RI.7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RL/RI.9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
W.1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
W.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening
SL.1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
If you only have 15 minutes:
RL/RI.2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
W.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
W.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Julie Weiss ([email protected]) is an education consultant based in Eliot, Maine. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies. Her company, Unlimited Horizons, develops social studies, media literacy, and English as a Second Language curricula, and produces textbook materials.
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Galerie Anhava
Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Anne Koskinen and Elina Merenmies at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
Works by Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Anne Koskinen and Elina Merenmies are on view at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (the Nordic Watercolour Museum) in Skärhamn, Sweden, from 22 September 2019 to 5 January 2020. The What is Growing exhibition presents works from the museum’s collection by artists who have been inspired by nature’s rich flora.
Image: Elina Merenmies, Hands, 2004, ink on paper, 19 x 23 cm
Gallery Talks: Anne Koskinen
Anne Koskinen will present the She/He/They exhibition and talk about her artistic practise on Sunday 15 December at 2pm. Please notice that the event will be in Finnish. Welcome!
The Finnish Critic’s Association: discussion about texts in the exhibition space
Art section of The Finnish Critics’ Association organizes a discussion about texts in the exhibition space at Galerie Anhava on Friday 22 November at 4pm. What kind of texts are there in exhibitions? To whom are these texts written and who writes them? What is the meaning of text in the exhibition space?
The participants of the panel discussion are the curator of the Pro Artibus Foundation PhD Juha-Heikki Tihinen, artist Anna Estarriola and the Senior Planning Officer from the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Sanna Hirvonen. The discussion will be moderated by Sanna Lipponen from EDIT media.
The discussion will be held in Finnish and English.
Gallery Talks: Anna Estarriola
Join us on Sunday 17 November at 2pm for the Gallery Talks event. Anna Estarriola will give a talk about her work and the Hideouts exhibition at the gallery. Please notice that the event will be in English. Warmly welcome!
Heini Aho wins the Finnish State Art Commission competition
The Finnish State Art Commission organised an art competition inviting five Finnish artists and one artist duo to give proposals for works of art to be placed in the new building of the Finnish-Russian School in Helsinki. Heini Aho’s proposal Meditatiivinen kello (Meditative Clock) was selected as the winner of the competition.
The artwork explores and expands the traditional idea of time and its essence in a poetic manner. In addition, Aho’s delicate kinetic work is both thematically and pedagogically suitable in the school environment.
The project will be finished in 2020–2021.
Heini Aho and Santeri Tuori at WAM
Heini Aho and Santeri Tuori take part in the When is now? exhibition at WAM, the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku. The exhibition explores the concept of time, how time is experienced and manifested, featuring works by 14 artists.
When is now? opens on 11 October 2019 and is on view until 19 January 2020.
Image: Heini Aho, Day Inside, 2013/2019, photo Ville Mäkilä
Two installations by Grönlund-Nisunen on view in Rijeka, Croatia
The artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen showcases two installations as part of the Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture project, organised by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia. The installations Time Slip and Imminence have been created in collaboration with Croatian artist Ivana Franke, and will open to the public on 11 October 2019.
Situated underneath the Titov Trg, the site-specific light installation Time Slip examines the topics of water, memory, and continuity of time, modifying the stream of the Rjecina river. Imminence, exploring the elements of water, light and sound, is on view on the ground floor of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Imminence is open until March 2020 and Time Slip will be on view throughout 2020.
Jani Ruscica’s new public video art work at the Central Library Oodi
Jani Ruscica’s new public video art work, Hope is the thing with feathers, commissioned by HAM Helsinki Art Museum for the Central Library Oodi will be unveiled on Saturday 5 October 2019. The work focuses on four bird species – a coal tit, song thrush, hazel grouse and common teal – on their visit to Oodi. The animated birds move around the architectural interior of the library and offer an alternative experience of the space. The featured bird species are known to have nested in the Töölönlahti area, but have moved a few kilometres further north.
The work comprises nine short videos that pop up on the library’s information displays between notifications and event information. The delicate soundscape of the work consists of song and sounds of the birds. The name of the piece originates from Emily Dickinson’s poem from 1862 and this choice of name refers to the cultural content of the library and also examines how language resonates in time, even across hundreds of years.
Jani Ruscica’s artist talk will be held at the Oodi library at noon on Saturday 5 October. Ruscica will discuss his new public work of art and his solo exhibition Human Flesh with Hanna Huitu, Director of Galerie Anhava, and Kristiina Ljokkoi, Curator of Public Art at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. The Human Flesh exhibition will be on view at Galerie Anhava 3–27 October. The artist talk is arranged in association with HAM Helsinki Art Museum and the Central Library Oodi. Please notice that the discussion will be in Finnish. Welcome!
Kari Cavén, Matti Kujasalo and Anna Tuori at the Busan Museum of Art
Works by Kari Cavén, Matti Kujasalo and Anna Tuori are on view at the Busan Museum of Art in South-Korea from 12 June to 17 November 2019. The Finnish Aalto exhibition presents Finnish design and contemporary art. The contemporary art section features works by 11 prominent Finnish contemporary artists, ranging from paintings, photographs and media art to installations and crafts.
Image: Anna Tuori, Me, Myself and I, 2012, oil on board, 120 x 130 cm
Gallery Talks: Noora Schroderus
Noora Schroderus will discuss her artistic practice and current solo exhibition DIY at the gallery on Sunday 29 September at 2pm. Please notice that the event will be in Finnish. Welcome!
Karoliina Hellberg in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts
As part of the current Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Academy has invited Karoliina Hellberg to collaborate on the RA Editions programme. Hellberg’s limited edition print Lökar (Onions) was specially commissioned by the RA Editions, and is available at the Royal Academy of Arts and Galerie Anhava. A selection of references to Schjerbeck’s works which Hellberg finds most personally meaningful can be found throughout the composition:
“Schjerfbeck had a way of making versions of her own work and of others. I do that too in my own way, pictures inside pictures, for example an older work on paper might be found as a picture in a bigger interior painting. It felt natural to use this method to make references and versions of her works inside this interior as she was using methods of ’reworking’ and ‘repetition’ as well.” – Karoliina Hellberg
Lökar (Onions), 2019, limited edition of 25 Silk-screen prints on 330gsm Somerset Velvet mould-made cotton rag paper with hand-finished edges, 42 x 29.7 cm, each print is hand-numbered and in a portfolio.
Jacob Dahlgren at Copenhagen Contemporary
The Art is Life exhibition by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren is on view at Copenhagen Contemporary from 25 August 2019 to 1 June 2020. The exhibition showcases large-scale sculptural installations. Visitors are invited to become co-creators of the artworks and take active part in the art experience.
Observing everyday life is at the core of Dahlgren’s artistic practice. He finds the material for the artworks from DIY stores, supermarkets, or ironmonger shops – and turns them into colourful geometric and abstract artworks.
Photo: Copenhagen Contemporary/Anders Sune Berg
Gallery Talks: Elina Merenmies, Hanna Saarikoski
Welcome to the Gallery Talks event on Saturday 31 August. Elina Merenmies and Hanna Saarikoski will both present their current solo exhibitions and talk about artistic practice. The event will be in Finnish.
2pm, Elina Merenmies, Bourgeons & Cracks
2.30pm, Anhava Underground: Hanna Saarikoski
Image: Hanna Saarikoski, C, 2019
Heli Hiltunen and Jorma Puranen at the Mänttä Art Festival
The Mänttä Art Festival 2019 features an installation by Heli Hiltunen and Jorma Puranen. The artwork is based on photographs of Werner Holmberg’s classic landscape paintings: “Combining the faded photographs, metallic serigraphy surfaces and old engravings, Hiltunen and Puranen take the viewer to some unusual and menacing scenes.”
More than 50 artists exhibit their works in the largest summer exhibition of Finnish contemporary art, curated by Marja Helander.
The festival in Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland, is open from 16 June until 1 September 2019.
Anne-Karin Furunes at Ryan Lee Gallery
The Together but Apart exhibition at Ryan Lee Gallery presents new works by Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes. The exhibition includes a selection of portraits, landscapes, and monumental paintings which Furunes has created with her signature technique: she perforates a painted canvas with thousands of holes.
The exhibition calls attention to the urgent threat of climate change and to the mistreatment of the indigenous inhabitants of Fennoscandia, the Sámi people. The Sámi are facing the threat of climate change after living harmoniously in the Arctic for centuries.
Together but Apart is on view at Ryan Lee Gallery in New York from 19 June to 9 August 2019.
A K Dolven at Trondheim Kunstmuseum
A K Dolven is one of Norway’s most well-known contemporary artists with an extensive international career. Her current exhibition, titled hitting a mountain with snow on my right and left shoulder, is on view at Trondheim Kunstmuseum / TKM Gråmølna from 15 June to 15 September 2019. The exhibition consists of paintings, photographies, video and sound installations, including four new works. Dolven takes up general human themes in her artistic practice. In her works the viewer will often be faced with a raw simplicity, but can also see traces of the work process.
Heini Aho, Jacob Dalhgren and Jani Ruscica at OpenART Örebro
OpenART is Scandinavia’s largest biennial for contemporary art. In 2019 OpenART focuses on the Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Heini Aho, Jacob Dahlgren and Jani Ruscica participate in OpenART among 60 artists, representing 19 different nationalities. The biennial takes place in Örebro, Sweden, from 8 June to 1 September 2019.
Image: Jani Ruscica, Flatlands, 2018
Antti Laitinen invited to exhibit his works in Brussels
Antti Laitinen has been invited by the European Space for Sculpture association to exhibit his works in Brussels in summer 2019. The exhibition is a part of the cultural programme of Finland’s presidency of the Council of the EU.Laitinen’s exhibition, Fused with Nature, in Tournay-Solvay Park includes two site-specific artworks and a video installation, and is open from 4 July to 29 September. In addition, Laitinen’s photography and video works are on view at La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach on 6–27 July.
Gallery Talks: Karoliina Hellberg
Karoliina Hellberg will discuss her artistic practice and current solo exhibition Knot at the gallery on Thursday 27 June 2019 at 3 pm. Please notice that the event will be in Finnish. Welcome!
Public sculpture by Jacob Dahlgren unveiled in Helsinki
Early One Morning, Eternity Sculpture by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren brings colour and playfulness to the Kalasatama residential district in Helsinki. The pink steel sculpture is located at Capellanaukio in Kalasatama and is unveiled on Helsinki Day 12 June 2019.
Dahlgren wants to create urban spaces that provide an opportunity for relaxation and play. “Its appearance changes depending on which direction you look at it from. It is like a phrase written in longhand and in a completely new language,” he describes.
Photo: HAM/Maija Toivanen
Salla Tykkä at MOMENTUM10
MOMENTUM, The Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, celebrates its 10th edition with a program that presents 29 international artists. It also rediscovers iconic works of art that have been shown in previous editions. Salla Tykkä participates in the biennial with her work Victoria (2008).
“From the late summer until the end of the year 2007, I observed the giant water lily during the nights in the botanical garden in Helsinki. I wanted to see how this photosensitive plant would open its tight bulb in the darkness—but I never witnessed this happening. The bulb remained closed the night of filming and in the morning, after turning the lights off and switching off cameras, it had opened alone. In the film, one sees only the closing of the flower played in reverse.”
– Salla Tykkä
MOMENTUM10: The Emotional Exhibition is on view at the Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway, from 8 June to 9 October 2019.
Kari Vehosalo and Antti Laitinen at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin
Kari Vehosalo and Antti Laitinen take part in Mostly Happy – Finnish Art Today group show at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin. The show, curated by Marc Wellmann, presents ten artists who allow an insight into the diversity and the quality of Finnish contemporary art. On one hand, their works are connected to the codes and discourses of the global art world. On the other hand, one can identifiy country-specific references to the history, society and most of all to the nature of the country.
The exhibition opens on 7 June and will be on view until 11 August 2019.
Image: Kari Vehosalo, Wanderers IV, 2019.
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s exhibition Limbo at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte opened on Friday 31 May.
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s two artworks at the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte are based on intermediate states of uncertainty, isolation, and endless expectations. Both the video installation Limbo, built in the gallery space, and the animated drawing Multi-faith Prayer Room, projected on the gallery wall, are associative, party-personal peregrinations—mixing artificial structures of culture with nature-related imagery. The works outline the boundary that emerges when a constructed fictional reality meets an aspiration for an authentic experience.
The exhibition is on view until 28 June.
Antti Laitinen and Jacob Dahlgren at Riverside Art Museum in Beijing
Antti Laitinen and Jacob Dahlgren take part in the group show Continuous Refle(a)ction at Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. The exhibition concentrates on environmental sustainability and includes collaborations between 34 artists from 18 countries.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 25 May and is on view until 28 August 2019.
Gallery Talks: Päivikki Alaräihä
Päivikki Alaräihä will discuss her artistic practice and current solo exhibition May at the gallery on Saturday 18 May 2019 at 2 pm. Please notice that the event will be in Finnish. Welcome!
Antti Laitinen at Lusto – The Finnish Forest Museum
Antti Laitinen takes part in the group show The Storm Station at Lusto – The Finnish Forest Museum in Punkaharju, Finland. The exhibition opened on 26 April 2019 and is on view until 12 January 2020.
“The Storm Station is an interpretation of storms and related experiences through different art forms, science and cultural research. The works in the Storm Station project highlight features such as the history and interpretation of storms from folklore to the present day, the birth of storms, and people’s experiences and memories of storms.”
Image: The Storm Station, Antti Laitinen © Timo Kilpeläinen.
Hanna Huitu appointed new CEO of Galerie Anhava – Ilona Anhava will continue as the gallery’s Senior Advisor
Hanna Huitu, 41, Master of Political Sciences and Master of Fine Arts, has been appointed CEO of Galerie Anhava. She has worked at Galerie Anhava since 2003 as a coordinator and assistant director and has served in various expert capacities in the arts.
During the past three years, Hanna Huitu has worked alongside Ilona Anhava, the founder of Galerie Anhava and its previous CEO, in planning the programme and strategy of the gallery, being responsible for contacts with artists, financial administration and international art-fair and development projects.
“My new role as CEO feels inspiring and challenging at the same time. A solid and interesting programme of exhibitions is, of course, at the core of our activities. Alongside it, our main tasks consist of international projects, serving artists and clientele and the marketing of art. As CEO, I also want to work to help new audiences and generations of art collectors discover Galerie Anhava and our fine artists”, Huitu describes her aims.
Ilona Anhava, who founded the gallery in 1991, is retiring and moving on from her position as CEO to serve in an advisory capacity. Anhava will still be on the board of the gallery and serve as its senior advisor.
“I have worked with Hanna for well over a decade and I’ve come to know her not only as someone who is widely read, but also as a highly reliable and conscientious person with intuition. We hold similar views of the values of the gallery, its procedures and mission and the future that we want it to have. Furthermore, Hanna may also be slightly more diplomatic than me, which might not necessarily be a disadvantage. I am very grateful that she has chosen to accept this challenge”, says Anhava.
Jussi Niva joins Galerie Anhava
Galerie Anhava is delighted to announce the representation of Finnish artist Jussi Niva (born 1966 in Pello).
The spatial experience of Jussi Niva’s painting cannot be fixed to any single cognitive or experiential point. Instead, the works are loaded with elements that lead to fracture, such as acute angles where the surface of the painting takes a surprising turn.
“I am currently painting two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional objects in parallel, because I want to detach the experience of three-dimensionality from the ‘modelled form’ and link it instead to the surface of the painting. The three-dimensional works are interventions of sorts, they thrust into the space but conversely they also project space.”
Jussi Niva graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. In recent years, he has participated in various exhibitions, including “Offspace, Zsófi Barabás – Jussi Niva”, Gallery Faur Zsófi in Budapest (2018); “Ich bin ein Riss, ich will durch Wände gehen”, Salon Dahlmann in Berlin (2018); “Two-Way Ahead, Jussi Niva – Juri Markkula”, Hanaholmen Gallery in Espoo (2018); “Killing Me Softly, Works from the Miettinen Collection”, Salon Dahlmann in Berlin (2018); “Imaginary Meeting”, Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi in Rovaniemi (2018) and “Dreamaholic – Art from Finland”, Miettinen Collection, Weseburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen (2017).
In 2009, Niva was awarded the William Thuring Prize. His works are included in Finnish and Swedish public collections, among others, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, the Saastamoinen Foundation, the Finnish State Art Collection, Malmö Art Museum and the Swedish National Public Art Council, as well as in numerous private collections in Finland and abroad.
Jussi Niva’s solo exhibition will be held in Galerie Anhava in January 2020.
Galerie Anhava’s new website
Galerie Anhava is pleased to present its new website.
We aimed for a fresh look and easy navigation to artist profiles, exhibitions, news and art fairs – and that is what Tsto designed for us. Thank you!
The renewal process of our website has been supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Kari Vehosalo at Hyvinkää Art Museum
Kari Vehosalo takes part in the group show Fragile at Hyvinkää Art Museum. The exhibition, compiled by Mika Karhu, presents paintings, sculpture, and drawings from 13 artists. The works displayed in the Fragile exhibition present the vulnerability of our social life and life in general.
The exhibition opened on 15 March 2019 and is on view until 12 May 2019.
Antti Laitinen at Savina Museum of Contemporary Art
Antti Laitinen takes part in the group show Na Na Land – It’s My World at Savina Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. The exhibition is curated by Lucida Kyungmin Lee.
The exhibition opened on 14 March 2019 and is on view until 7 July 2019.
A K Dolven at Quebec City Biennial
A K Dolven takes part in the Quebec City Biennial: Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky. A K Dolven’s work titled her voice 1599-1672 is installed in an entrance of the Édifice Marie-Guyart.
The biennial is curated by Jonathan Watkins. It opened on 16 February and is on view until 21 April 2019.
Anne Koskinen’s commissioned portrait of Timo Viherkenttä
Anne Koskinen’s commissioned portrait of CEO Timo Viherkenttä Revelation – Timo Viherkenttä was revealed at The Finnish Cultural Foundation in Helsinki on 11 February 2019.
Koskinen’s Revelation portrait series is a nod toward traditions of artistic manifestos, as each piece moves through past, present, and future moments by containing emerging elements. In Viherkenttä’s portrait Koskinen employed old painting techniques and painted with gold and silver, which empahasize the effect of light and shadow. In this portrait there is also a hidden message that will reveal itself in time.
The portrait was commissioned by The Finnish Cultural Foundation of which Timo Viherkenttä was the chairman of the board from 2012 to 2014.
Salla Tykkä’s solo exhibition at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Salla Tykkä’s extensive solo exhibition at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku presents photography and video art works of Salla Tykkä from the 1990’s to present day.
The pervasive themes of the display are gaze, power and gender. Who is looking and how? Who is the object of the gaze? In her earliest works, Tykkä has dealt with the gendered gaze, whereas in her recent works, she has reflected on the Western and colonialist gaze and its problematic nature.
Tykkä’s most recent work Untitled (White – Alps) shifts the perspective from the personal to a broader perspective, to cultural meanings related to landscapes and culture-specific concepts of the universe. The travelogue, shot on analogue film, moves along with the currents of air in a hot air balloon with a view over the Alps, bathing in the light of the dawn.
The exhibition opened on 8 February 2019 and will be on view until 19 May 2019.
Jacob Dahlgren and Antti Laitinen at HEIMAT The 2018 Guang’an Field Art Biennale
Jacob Dahlgren and Antti Laitinen take part in HEIMAT The 2018 Guang’an Art Biennale in China. The exhibition area is located out in the open and includes exhibits at the Baozhen, a traditional residential complex, Duanjia Yard and its surrounding pools.
In his installation Grid Garden, Antti Laitinen plays with the elements of two and three-dimensionality. Branches gathered from the local environment are curved and attached to metal netting, forced on a two-dimensional surface. The sheets of branches form a multi-layered, silhouette-like thicket of branches.
Jacob Dahlgren exhibits an interactive installation titled The Wonderful World of Abstraction. Stepping in to the cylinder-shaped structure filled with a sea of multicoloured satin strips causes a sense of loosing one’s direction.
The biennale opened on 16 December 2018 and is on view until 10 May 2019.
Heini Aho’s public work in Turku
Heini Aho has been selected as one of the artists to create a public art work in Turku University Hospital. Aho’s artwork titled Treehouse is an aerial three-dimensional sculpture in which the doors and windows function as projection surfaces for videos.
The artwork will create a changing view in the great lobby of the Turku University Hospital and will be installed in 2021. It is commissioned from Aho by the The Hospital District of Southwest Finland.
Karoliina Hellberg’s Pro Arte- exhibition at Didrichsen Art Museum
Karoliina Hellberg is Didrichsen Art Museum’s 2019 Pro Arte artist. The Didrichsen Pro Arte award is issued every few years to a young, promising artist. Hellberg´s award includes a stipend, an exhibition at Didrichsen Art Museum, a publication and the acquisition of a painting to the museum’s collection.
Works on paper and canvas are at the centre of Hellberg’s production. Works completed in other techniques often emerge from ideas and figures born during the painting process. Memories, secrets and personal experiences have their own visual interpretations in Hellberg’s imagery. Hellberg builds her exhibitions in an installation form. Together with the exhibition space and its atmosphere, the works on paper and canvas as well as the glass objects create a unity.
The exhibition opened on 25 January 2019 and will be on view until 5 May 2019.
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Essential Lessons on Wellness, Learned from the Dying
2/15/2017 | BY Sarah Kolman
I can’t entirely explain it, but I have always been drawn to hospice work. I worked as a Registered Nurse in hospice care for twelve years before my work evolved into health coaching. My time working in hospice care has always informed my view of a patient’s whole health — and recently, I was reminded of some of the beautiful and challenging moments this work can bring when helping to take care of a cousin who recently died.
Though counterintuitive, it is not uncommon for patients who enter hospice care to see their health improve. But when you consider the holistic approach of hospice care, it makes more sense: all of a sudden, a person has a team of people caring for them with their complete health in mind. This team can include social workers, nurses, and chaplains to address spiritual and mental health needs beyond bodily ailments. I saw countless people thrive in hospice as they experienced the physical benefits of emotional healing and mental health.
How simple and yet profound: when our emotional and spiritual needs are met, our bodies are naturally more well. So often in the autoimmune community, we focus on physical symptoms and diet concerns — but they’re only part of the picture of whole health. We know that connecting with others reduces inflammation and cortisol and that a soul-centered approach to self-care can help combat stress, both key for folks with autoimmune disease. Dying stirred insights and wisdom in my cousin Jim that are directly connected to whole health — in accompanying him, I felt like I learned how to live more fully. At this time of year when perhaps we are trying nit-picky resolutions on for size, I’d like to pass along some of the gems that Jim was inspired to share.
Define what matters most for you.
After receiving his terminal diagnosis, my cousin became very clear that family and love were by far the most important things in life to him. His business success and career drive had nothing on the love that he had for his family and people who were important to him. He deeply mourned the countless times that he prioritized work, career, and success over the ones he loved. Connection to people is very important to me too. It might be different for you — but unless we define it, we have nothing to go on.
My take away: Whatever matters most for you, view it with urgency and act accordingly.
Live now.
Jim broke my heart when he said, “I just learned how I want to live my life, and now I don’t get to live.” That remark was a huge moment for me. It made me want to figure out what living well means for me right now so that when I eventually get my prognosis of death, I won’t feel like I missed the opportunity to really live. What does your bucket list look like? For me, it looks more like sitting and playing with my kids than, say, jumping out of a plane. It’s about reconciling thoughtfully when I have a fight with my husband rather than letting it turn into unspoken resentment. Strong family connection is the most important thing to me, and so I need to shape my days around that. This realization didn’t happen overnight, though — I had to hire a life coach to realize that I needed to prioritize my family over work, and I needed help to make that change step by step.
My take away: Once you know your priorities, make your days reflect them.
It’s really, really tough to slow down and do less when we’re living in a culture that is constantly telling us that we don’t do or have enough. Think of how many things you do in a given day that really don’t matter in the grand scheme of things — is there room to cut some of them out to make room for the other things you crave? I want to spend time with my family doing simple things like chatting, reading a book together, or hanging out on the couch. All these things help me feel more connected with my spirit.
My take away: Even though it’s not easy to slow down, it’s one of the best ways to ensure that you’re living in a way that’s true to you.
Connect to something greater.
As my cousin was dying he felt really scared, alone, isolated, nervous and scared to die. In his case, he was able to connect to a relationship with God, which helped him feel supported and okay. He sometimes saw angels in the room. This connection helped him to feel like he didn’t need to run away or use avoidance. When we are connected to something greater, whether it’s a higher power or universal goodness or whatever, we are guided into comfort.
My take away: A spiritual practice can be a great source of reassurance. I shouldn’t shy away from developing that connection during good times.
All of these practices have helped me find a greater sense of contentment on a daily basis and helped me to tune into what’s important while tuning out what’s not. I hope they help you, too, as emotional resilience is such a key component of combatting autoimmune disease. Let me know other ways that you support your whole health — I’d love to hear.
About Sarah Kolman
Sarah Kolman RN, MA, CHPN, INHC is an AIP Certified Coach, Registered Nurse, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and Contemplative Psychotherapist. Sarah’s unique one-on-one health coaching practice blends her nursing and psychotherapy experience with holistic and nutrition-based health concepts. A passionate student in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, she helps her clients heal by focusing on the brain-body connection and its profound impact on wellness. With Sarah’s support and guidance, clients learn to manage stubborn symptoms that have persisted through countless traditional treatments. Learn more about Sarah’s coaching services by visiting her website, www.this-one-life.com. Her book Full Plate: Nourishing Your Family’s Whole Health in a Busy World is available on Amazon. You can follow Sarah on Facebook.
Such beautifully shared wisdom from Jim to you and you to us. May he rest easy. And may his wisdom touch many through your work, Sarah. So sorry for your family’s loss.
Very touching post and some great reminders. I have come to realize all of these things more recently and am making changes to not waste the precious time we have here on earth. Thank you for sharing!
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Why Does My Car Vibrate or Make Noises?
Updated on January 18, 2019
Dan Ferrell
Dan Ferrell writes about do-it-yourself car maintenance and repair. He has certifications in automation and control technology.
Speed can be used as a diagnostic tool to solve car vibration or noise problems. | Source
Car vibrations and noises are not only irritating but can be the sign of possible serious engine, suspension, or driveline problems, making it hard to pinpoint the exact source. Still, some common problems in these areas show up time and again, making them easier to diagnose.
To help in your diagnostic, try to get as much information about the symptoms. This can help you locate the source of the vibration or noise faster. For example, ask yourself these questions:
Is it a vibration or noise?
Is it a vibration that can be felt or just heard?
Can I tell from what part of the vehicle the noise or vibration is coming from?
Does the noise or vibration happens at a certain vehicle or engine speed?
Does the noise or vibration happen only during acceleration?
Pay attention to the tachometer, speedometer on the dashboard, and how the accelerator affect the symptoms, if at all. Use these devices as diagnostic tools during the next test.
Following the test, you'll find listed some of the most common noises and vibrations you can hear or feel along with their potential sources. These vibrations and noises are categorized in relation to engine speed, acceleration, or vehicle speed to make the problem easier to diagnose and fix. These categories may relate to the results of your test or the information you've gathered from the symptoms.
1. A Test to Help You Isolate a Vibration or Noise Source
2. I Can Hear a Noise or Feel a Vibration at Certain Engine Speeds
3. I Can Hear a Noise or Feel a Vibration When Accelerating
4. I Can Hear a Noise or Feel a Vibration at Certain Vehicle Speeds
Are There More Vehicle Vibration and Noise Sources?
Use your tachometer and speedometer as a diagnostic tool. | Source
Vibrations are usually hard to isolate to a particular area or system of the vehicle. But here's a common test you can do yourself that might help you locate the potential source.
Let's say that you've noticed a vibration that occurs when your vehicle reaches a speed of 40 mph.
Chose a road with low traffic and bring your vehicle up to a speed of 50 mph.
Shift the transmission to neutral and let the vehicle coast down to 40 mph.
If the vibration is still there, more likely the source of the problem is one or more of the wheel-tire assemblies.
If the vibration is gone, continue with the test.
Notice the engine rpms when your vehicle reaches a speed of 40 mph.
Go back to your garage and let the engine idle.
With the transmission in Neutral or Park, bring up the engine to the same speed it reached while driving at 40 mph.
If the vibration is not felt, then the problem is in a driveline component (drive shaft, rear differential, rear or front axles, CV joints, wheel bearings).
If you still can feel the vibration, the source is in the engine itself or one of the engine accessories. Among the possible sources of vibration or noise are engine mounts, accessories, drive belts, and harmonic balancer condition.
Engine mounts, drive belts and alternators can also be the source of vibration or noises. | Source
Within the engine compartment, engine accessories, engine mounts, hoses and other devices can become noisy or even be the source of vibrations when loose, worn or broken.
1. Engine accessories
An engine accessory that becomes loose from its mounting bolts or a mounting bracket that breaks can produced a noise at any engine speed, especially when the device is driven by a belt like the alternator, steering pump, or air conditioning compressor.
2. Engine Drive Belt
Engine drive belts can also become noisy when worn or loose. Unlike engine accessories, a drive or serpentine belt can become loud at engine speeds ranging between 20 and 40 mph. However, a noisy belt can become quiet at engine speeds above 40 mph.
3. Engine Mounts
A grinding noise or vibration while the vehicle is moving at a steady speed (usually at engine speeds up to 30 mph) may come from a loose or broken engine mount, depending on its exact location and how close it is to engine accessories.
Often, problems with an engine mount can produce a jerky movement of the engine upon starting. You may even see the engine moving. Other times, you may actually feel the movement or vibration from behind the wheel.
4. Vacuum Hoses
A problem that may cause an engine to vibrate or make noises hard to hear is a loose, disconnected or torn vacuum hose. Vacuum leaks can easily disrupt the proper air fuel ratio the engine needs and lead to noticeable engine vibrations.
Most vacuum leaks are felt as a vibration during idle and tend to disappear at higher engine speeds, but can lead to driveability problems you may identify and use them to isolate the source of the problem.
If you can feel the engine vibrating at idle, check that all vacuum hoses are properly connected and in good condition.
5. Valve Tapping
Valve tapping is not as common as other engine sounds but it can happen when a valve or a valve train component is in need of adjustment or replacement. The noise may also occur after doing some engine repairs.
You may hear a clicking sound from behind the wheel that increases or goes away at higher engine speeds. The source of the problem can be a push rod, rocker arm, sticking valve or collapsed valve lifter.
Chassis, axles, and joints are a frequent source of noise and vibration. | Source
Whatever the source of the noise or vibration your vehicle may be experiencing, though, remember to take note of the conditions under which the problem occurs.
Just like engine speed, other noises or vibrations can be heard or felt when depressing the accelerator and stop when vehicle speed becomes steady. You may be dealing with bad universal joints, axles, CV joints or chassis problems.
1. Universal Joints
Universal joints can be a source of noise and vibration when they develop problems or wear out. This problem affects large rear-wheel drive, 4WD and AWD vehicles using a drive shaft assembly.
Depending on the severity of the problem, worn universal joints can become noisy when accelerating at speed ranges above 30 mph; a driver can also feel a vibration during acceleration at any driving speed. When a problem can cause a shift in the proper angle of a universal joint, a vibration may be felt at low speeds.
2. Rear and Front Axles
Front axles transfer rotating power from the differential to the front wheels, while rear axle assemblies transfer rotating power to the rear wheels.
Axle gears and, more commonly, bearings and CV joints are a common source of noises when worn or damaged. Usually, you'll hear a noise or vibration during acceleration at speeds above 20 mph. Sometimes at even high speeds. Watch the next video for an example of a CV Joint going bad and causing vibration at high speeds.
3. Chassis
Chassis components, specially around the rear of the vehicle, can be a source of noise and vibration when worn or loose. Sometimes, they can be heard during acceleration at relatively low speeds, usually above 20 mph.
4. Constant Velocity Joints
Front drive axles connect to the front wheel hubs and wheels through constant velocity (CV) joints (ball joints) to transfer rotating power to the wheels.
Ball joints also allow an axle to move at angles while still transferring rotating power as the vehicle travels over road imperfections and bumps and rounds corners.
This constant movement of the joints can eventually wear them after years of operation. This can lead to audible noises or vibrations.
If a CV joint is worn or damaged, you may hear them as you accelerate.
5. Automatic Transmission Noise
An automatic transmission can produce various types of sounds coming from an equal number of problems. You may hear grinding, whirring, or whining noises from bad gears, torque converter, bearings, and, sometimes, because of low oil level.
However, a worn bushing, located at the end of the extension housing can produce a noise during acceleration or deceleration at speeds above 30 mph.
Wheel and tires are one of the most common sources of vehicle vibration and noise. | Source
Tires, wheel bearings, CV joints and drive shafts can become sensitive to vehicle speeds when certain problems arise.
1. Wheel and Tires
Many tire problems can show up as noises or vibrations. Here are the ones you are more likely to encounter:
Lack of proper balance: This is perhaps the most common vibration issue coming from a wheel and tire assembly. An unbalanced wheel translates into more weight on one side than the other. The vibration may be felt at vehicles speeds of 20 mph and above.
Uneven wear: When they develop uneven wear, tires can also produce vibration at vehicle speeds above 30 mph.
Radial runout: Also, a tire or wheel with radial runout can produced the same effect. Radial runout refers to a tire rotating in an inaccurate circle due to an unequal distance from the center axis of rotation to the edge of the wheel or tire. Radial run out can produce a vibration at about 20 mph and above.
Lateral runout: Similar to the previous issue is lateral runout, the side-to-side movement of the tire. However, the vibration is usually felt at 60 mph and above.
Bad tire body: Faults in the tire body can also lead to vibration issues. For example, separation of the internal strands, a damaged belt, or road impacts that may damage the tread or sidewall.
Bad alignment: Also, wheels out of alignment and worn tires can produce a whining noise.
Usually, front tire vibration is felt on the steering wheel, while rear tire vibration can be felt around the center and rear of the vehicle.
2. Wheel Bearings
Worn, dried or damaged wheel bearings can also become noisy. A wheel bearing allows the wheel and tire assembly to turn freely around the wheel hub assembly.
A bad wheel bearing can produce a whining noise at any vehicle speed.
3. Drive Shaft
On models with rear-wheel drive, AWD or 4WD, the drive shaft and universal joints that help transfer rotating power from the transmission can also be a source of noise or vibration due to runout, imbalance or wear issues.
A drive shaft spins faster than the wheels and, at high gears, it equals engine speed. So a drive shaft should be perfectly balance and straight.
Manufacturers may use balancing weights, just like they do in wheels, to balance a drive shaft. If one or more of the balancing weights is lost or road impact distorts the drive shaft, audible and physical vibration can result, usually at vehicle speeds above 40 mph.
However, a grinding noise coming from under the vehicle can point to worn out or damaged universal joints, located at either end of the drive shaft.
An unbalanced drive shaft can cause a vehicle to vibrate. | Source
There are many more vehicle vibrations and noise sources not touched upon here. For example, when problems arise in specific areas like the brake system (rotor runout), transmission issues (torque converter problems, chattering clutch, low fluid level), or the engine (misfires). Those outlined here are some of the most common and hard to diagnose, but now you can get to the source faster and, hopefully, will help you decide to make the repair rather sooner than later, specially on those situations where safety may be an issue. Whatever the source of the noise or vibration your vehicle may be experiencing, though, remember to take note of the conditions under which the problem occurs: vehicle, engine, and acceleration speed. This will help you diagnose the problem faster. And making a repair sooner rather than later will prevent the vibration or noise from turning into an unsafe driving condition and costly repair.
This article is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.
I have a 2008 Subaru Forester and I am hearing a vibrating sound or pinging sound which sounds like its coming from the engine. I can hear it when idling or increasing speeds. What could it be?
The problem could be in the fuel or ignition system. This post may be able to help you:
https://hubpages.com/auto-repair/Engine-Rough-Idle...
I hear a vibrating sound when accelerating at around 2 rpm, and then after it stops. The car feels normal. I have a 2014 Chevy crude with about 47000 miles. It did the same thing a few years ago, and the dealer said it was a loose bolt on the engine mount. What do you think?
Check for worn or loose parts attached to the rear of the chassis.
I have a Lexus RX300, and I am hearing a noise coming from my wheels on speed. What could be the cause?
Have the wheel bearings checked. When they start to wear out, they become noisy.
I have a 2015 Hyundai Elantra with less than around 65,000 miles. The car battery died in December and then last month it started making horrific scraping sounds (like when you run over a hard snow pile). I went in and got new rotors and brake pads. The car is now making a what I can best describe as a vibration sound. Do you think it could be something with the rotors? The sound seems to be coming from the front tires.
Make sure the brake shields or something in the brake assembly is not bent, loose or damage. The sound may also come from a bad wheel bearing. Rotors may produce a vibration sound when warped. A loose component in the brake assembly like the calipers can also lead to vibration. If the sound is consistent throughout any speed range, there could be a bad motor mount that is making the engine vibrate. Hope this helps.
I have a 2001 Acura MDX. 240,000 miles. I'm beginning to hear a loud hum from the front Steering? Axle? It usually begins as you slow down and decelerate.
This could be the lock up clutch sticking. It may be bad, but it may also come from low transmission fluid. If you haven't changed the fluid in the last three years, you may want to try that first.
I have a 2011 Chevy Cobalt, and it's started to make a faint vibrating/humming sound when in motion. No specific speed, just any time the car is moving. It's coming from the front but I don't know if it has something to do with the front tires or engine. I know nothing about cars, any ideas?
If you only hear or feel the noise when the car is moving, the problem can be either on the tires, wheel assembly or the transmission.
Check the tires for signs of uneven wear (faulty alignment); then check rotors and brake pads for signs of grease or oil contamination.
Raise one of the front tires and grasp the top and bottom of the tire; then try wobbling the wheel and tire back and forth; you should notice very little wobble or nothing; otherwise, the wheel bearings are worn or damaged. Repeat the test on the other front tire.
If the problem just started and you can't find the source of the problem, you might want to have the alignment checked before it gets worst and you need to replace the tires.
My '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee vibrates when it's idling and when it accelerates, especially after 20 and 50 mph and when it goes uphill. I did your tests, and it didn't vibrate in neutral, and nothing changed since it's already vibrating it's idling. What could be the issue?
I'm assuming this is an audible vibration that you can hear when your Jeep is idling and when it goes at 20 and 50mph. Loose or broken engine mounts can cause vibrations, and this can also affect other components. Check the mounts and other accessories when your idling. The source of the vibration may be difficult to determine because any of the front end components can be a source.
I have a 2014 RWD Auto BMW 328i with 72000 miles (115,872.77 km). On P/N between 1200-1400rpm, the car has a slight vibration which can be felt through the steering wheel. During driving, once I get up to speed to between 35-50mph, the rpm is between 1200-1400 range. When I try to accelerate without downshifting, the entire steering wheel buzz/vibrate badly. What do you think could be wrong?
This can be a tire balance or out of round issue. If you've swapped tires, check how much different they are from the factory set. Try rotating the tires and see if this changes anything. Other problems include sticky brake calipers, especially on vehicles with about 75,000 miles (120,700.8 km); also, a drive shaft with brinnelled universal joints may also cause this issue.
I have a 2005 Toyota Sequoia. When I go over 55 mph, it starts roaring and vibrating. As soon as my foot lets off the gas, even if I’m not accelerating, the roaring stops immediately. Any thoughts?
Usually, a vibration at...
I have a 2013 Durango that makes a vibration noise under the hood only after 50 mph?
Check the tires. This is the most common issue at this vehicle speed, along with suspension components.
My 2012 Lincoln MKS with 163,000 miles has developed a scraping/grinding/vibrating noise coming from the left front. Initially most noticeable at low speeds while turning left. It now can be felt and heard while driving straight and accelerating until up to speed, then no noise or vibration. The brakes, left wheel hub, and strut assembly are all new. Any ideas?
Since you replaced the wheel hub, I'm assuming there's a new wheel bearing as well, if not check that. Check the CV joints for damaged; if the boot is torn, make sure to check the wheel bearing as well.
I have a 2015 Chevy Silverado. I have a rattle vibration that seems to be coming from the right passenger side under the hood. I took the truck to a local Chevy dealer. Two hours later they said they can't find the problem. Keep an eye on it if gets worse come back. It doesn't happen in neutral at any speed. But it's most noticeable when lightly pressing the gas pedal and keeping a constant speed. Disappears after accelerating. What could be the problem?
Check the motor and transmission mounts. Look for cracked, loose mounts or with rough edges that may indicate damage.
My 2000 Chrysler Cirrus makes a loud and constant whining or screeching noise when I get the car speed above 40 mph. Any thoughts on what the problem could be?
Try to duplicate the symptom. With the engine at idle, increase engine speed to about 2000. If you hear the whining, it could be the steering pump or assembly. Otherwise the noise may come from the transmission. Hope this helps.
So I am getting vibration from the front end that starts around 25 mph, and the steering wheel gets a little shaky around 50 mph. I don't feel a grinding but more of a straight consistent vibration. I know that the struts need to be replaced and I figure that it could also be the ball joints. And when hitting any bumps, it kind of feels like it is jarring the front end a little. Would you have any other ideas of what my vibrating struts could be?
The jarring may come from the...
I have a 2009 Mustang V6 automatic with a noise at exactly 80mph, and then it goes away at about 83mph; this is consistent, and only upon acceleration through that speed. Now the diff/gears have been changed; a full rear-end rebuild kit, and new carbon fiber DS. The noise appears to come from the front of the driveline, not the rear. None of these changes has eliminated this noise, which sounds more like a vibration/grinding rather than anything broken or squealing. Any thoughts?
The only thing that comes to mind is a drive shaft runout.
I have a 2010 Holden Barina hatchback. And my car gets loud and can feel vibration at speeds between 55 and 70 km. What might be some potential problems?
Usually this is related to out of balance tires, or in need of alignment. But sometimes problems with the suspension can also lead to this issue, like control arm bushings.
Hey there, I have a 2007 Toyota RAV4, manual, AWD. My car vibrates and there’s a noise at the lower speeds of each gear when accelerating for the first 5mph or so. Once I get to a higher speed on each gear the vibration and sound go away. What do you think this could be?
There could be several possibilities. Engine or transmission mounts faulty. If the noise is coming from the transmission (no noise when revving the engine with the clutch disengage), the problem might be low fluid, worn (counter gear) bearings, bad speedometer drive gears. the noise may come from the engine or clutch as well. If the noise happens when revving the engine in neutral, pop the hood open and see if you can locate the area or part of the engine making the noise.
I have a 2004 chevy Tahoe and I'm getting a shuttering/vibrating sound when I brake and go over dips in the road. I cant find the source... Any ideas?
Usually, this is caused by uneven wear of brake pads, rotor, or dried caliper bolts. Visually check the assembly; manually turn the wheels and check for any odd sound.
Does anybody know why my car is shuddering under acceleration? I have a 2005 Ford Focus, a front-wheel-drive car that has a shuddering upon acceleration in a straight line in every gear (manual). I’ve put a brand new axel/CV joint in, yet it seems to have gotten a little worse even. Does anyone have any ideas?
Check the motor mounts too. Sometimes a slipping transmission may cause this problem as well.
My Volvo v50 started making a low humming noise at all speeds really but louder on different rougher road surfaces. I could feel a vibration through the front passenger footwell only at first. Now the noise has gotten louder and I can feel the vibration through the driver side floor and steering wheel. Why would my Volvo emit a low humming noise?
If you can feel the vibration at all speeds (when the vehicle is moving), check for tire or wheel radial runout, or a bad wheel bearing.
If you can feel the feel or hear the noise increase with the car's engine speed (car not moving) when you accelerate or decelerate, check for a loose or broken engine accessory. Pop the hood open and idle the engine and take a look at all the accessories that run with the drive belt.
If you can feel the vibration on the road (car moving) during acceleration or deceleration, check for a bad CV-joint and faulty bearings.
My truck has a loud, grinding vibration that starts around 35-40 mph but will go away if I put the vehicle in neutral. What could this be?
It's possible the problem is with the output shaft bearing. If you have been able to hear the noise while engaging the clutch from neutral the problem may be in the input shaft bearing. Have the problem properly diagnosed before doing any repairs, though.
I have a Mazda 5 MPV. When accelerating on low, it has a vibration sound like gas can't get through and loses power. I step harder and the vibration is gone. Would you have any idea what the problem is?
It sounds like not enough fuel is getting to the injectors. Make sure the fuel filter is not clogged. Also, you may want to try checking for fuel pressure. This other post may help you:
https://axleaddict.com/auto-repair/How-to-Test-a-F...
But it’s a good idea if you have the repair manual for your model. It’ll tell you how to hook a pressure gauge and the specs.
I just got a 2010 Mazda, used, and didn't hear this when I was test driving. But when I accelerate, my car makes a noise (not too loud but I'm still worried), and it sounds tinny, like metal, shaking or vibrating when I accelerate. I think it's coming from the front. My steering doesn't shake. They said they replaced belts and other stuff. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? It's mostly in the 25 -40 mph range.
This may be a loose belt or...
Regarding the DS runout, I did consider that originally, as this noise started with the Ford OE 2-piece DS, then continued when I changed to a 1-piece aluminum shaft, and continued when I just switched to a 1-piece carbon fiber shaft with a new flange adapter plate. That's why I'm so 'lost' in solving this. Are there other possibilities?
I wouldn’t discard a possible issue with a torque converter; a trans mount problem, maybe not. Have you considered a problem with airflow as the source of the problem at that speed?
I have a 2011 VW Jetta automatic, and it was making this vibration. I can feel it in my pedal. But I got an oil change, and it isn’t as loud or frequent. And it’s now sounding like it happens when I slow down from 50 mph to come to a stop. It has 102380 miles. What could be the problem?
Have the CV joints, half shaft and tire balance checked. Any of these could be causing trouble.
I have a 2013 Subaru XV, and I am hearing a knocking sound from the front and a little vibration from underneath the car while decelerating to a speed below 20KM/H and RPM 1000-1200. No sound while idling or at a higher speed of 20KM/H. It happens usually in the morning or after the car is stopped for more than 3 or 4 hours. The knocking sound seems to disappear after driving for around 30 minutes. What could it be?
It seems like the engine has a piston slap sound. This happens on a cold engine because of too much clearance between the piston skirt and the cylinder wall. Similar to this is carbon buildup on top of the piston or top of the combustion chamber, making these two areas to make physical contact, which usually produces a click sound.
You may be able to locate the area of the sound using a length of rubber hose. Put one end against your ear and the other at the side of the engine. Even if the sound doesn’t seem to be there when idling, you may be able to hear it with the hose. Hope this helps.
I have a 2014 Ford Escape 2.0L Ecoboost and I have a vibration. I first went to get the wheels balanced, but they were passed the wear bar, so I got 4 new tires. I still have a vibration. I mostly notice it when maintaining speeds between 40-45 mph uphill. Usually when accelerating. But I don’t get a vibration all the time. Is it something other than tires?
Usually, this is caused by bad universal joints (faulty angles). Have both checked if necessary.
I have a 2011 Tucson SUV with 150,000 km. In the last few weeks, when driving above 100 km/hr (62 mph), a loud sound is heard, including some shaking. This happens intermittently. And when I brake or stop and then head back on the highway, it appears to correct itself. Any ideas as to what this loud sound in my 2011 Tuscon could be?
The problem could be coming from one of the tires or wheels. Check everyone for a loose component or something similar in the assembly that might be throwing the wheel off balance. Usually, this happens on a tire or wheel with lateral runout.
I have a 2007 Ford Edge, I am getting a thumping noise coming from the center console when accelerating between 20 mph and 40 mph. Should I be looking at the wheels or drive axles?
Seem like there's some wear in the drive axles.
I have a 2009 Honda CRV. I hear a vibration sort of noise while accelerating almost every time between 1.4-1.6 RPM. Does not happen while my foot is off the gas. I have new tires and just replaced the spark plugs. Could it be an issue with the transmission or something else?
Perform the test described in the first section of the post. That'll help you isolate the problem to a narrower section of the vehicle, and help you locate the source of the noise-vibration.
I hit the curb at 50 mph on the motorway. My tire blew out and I replaced it with a new tire. Ever since the incident, I can hear a slow whirling noise; it only happens at 50 mph then disappears at 60 mph and above. Any clues to what this might be?
There could be problem with a wheel bearing.
I have a 2007 Bentley flying spur. There is a clicking sound like a spring releasing only when in a curve over 30 mph. Noise is heard from behind the break and gas pedals area and can be felt in both pedals. The mechanic made me change all upper and lower control arms, and noise is still there. No noise when driving straight. Only in curves and winding roads. It started a month ago and is getting worse. Sometimes ESP light comes on when noise appears. What could be the problem?
This is a wild guess. There could be a problem related to one of the front wheel sensors – possibly a mechanical fault affecting the operation of the sensors themselves (and ABS assembly), hence the ESP light. You may want to visit a service shop that specializes in Bentley for a proper diagnostic.
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Usually, this type of vibration is caused by problems with the universal joint angles. Have the joints and drive shaft checked, if necessary.
ryandefrancia
i have a isuzu mux 2017 MT... i feel vibration when my speed reach up to 80kph and howling sound at 90khp. the vibration will be lessen at the sound disapper at 100kph above..any inputs for this one...thanks
It may come from the hub bearing. Lift the tire off the ground and grab it top and bottom; shake it. Then grab each side and shake it; if you feel any play, most likely the bearing needs to be replaced.
JimmyP
Hey, I have a 2017 Camry with 75k miles. Whenever I start going 80mph it starts making a buzzing/humming noise at the rear right. It gets louder the faster I go from there. Any idea as to what’s what it is?
The noise may come from the drive axle. If the noise doesn't happen when revving the engine at the speed the noise occurs, this could be the problem; otherwise, take a look at the accessory pulleys. Hope this helps.
i have an 06 ford focus. it makes an incredibly loud noise when i go over 35-40 mph. it’s not my wheel bearings and my tire tread is wearing evenly. any ideas?
If it happens when revving the engine in neutral with the vehicle not moving, look for a loose accessory or broken component. If it only happens when the car is moving, something might be scrapping against the wheel assembly.
I have 2004 Honda Accord 2.2 diesel - Manual with 260.000 km, I have a scraping/grinding/vibrating noise when going from 20 to 50 km/h from my left wheel. Brakes were all changed (disks and pads), wheel bearing changed and the problem is still there. It happens when It happens when I accelerate when its on neutral and when I motor brake it doesn't matter it always happen when driving from 20kmh till 50kmh then it stops. Thanks for your advise.
Check for worn or loose chassis component.
N. Harrison
I have an 2001 Auto BMW 325i. At a speed of around 40km there is sometimes a booming sound from what I think is the back left wheel area. what could this be
Probably the outer CV joint is worn or damaged. Try driving in a circle in reverse in an empty parking lot. If you can hear the noise louder, most likely there's where the problem is. Hope this helps.
dean geoffrey wilson
Noise on front passenger side wheel and steering affected when accelerating corners and especially with Wright added to car more weight then a constant and louder noise any ideas pleasee
If the noise seems to be related to tire rotation and speed, check the wheel assembly, including the brake caliper and pads. There could be something loose. Also, check the control arm and axle. You may need a steel bar to push things up and down to see if they wobble. Hope this helps.
Edian marrero
I have a 2007 Chevy impala n it’s making a loud noise on the front passage tired we checked n nothing it’s touching there no rocks inside we took the tired out n check everything but it looks fine any thoughts on what’s the problem?
Usually, high speed noised come from excessive runout on a drive shaft; worn CV joints, or worn universal joints. You might want to do the test in section 1 to help you isolate the noise source. Hope this helps.
My Honda City 2007 make noise when am on a high speed from the front what is really the problem?
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Olympic Swimmer Mark Foster Comes Out as Gay
Six-time world champion and Olympic champion Mark Foster comes out at the age of 47, but wishes he would have come out earlier
The Bristish athlete opened up in an interview with The Guardian.
“It’s not like I’ve been pushed to come out. I’ve just swerved and swerved. Telling half-truths and not being my true self is only hurting me.
“I’m 47, a middle-aged man, and I’m no longer competing. And I’m not the first gay sportsman to come out. Gareth Thomas and Tom Daley led the way.
“I tiptoed around the issue for so long. I got really good at the dance of telling half-truths. I’ve supported the Terence Higgins Trust, Stonewall, Ben Cohen’s Stand Up to Bullying campaign. But I’ve always done it under the radar.”
Related: World Champion Athlete Shawn Barber Comes Out as Gay
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Foster believes his late coming out may have hurt his carreer.
“A mate of mine, who swam for Australia, said: ‘The reason you never won Olympic gold is that you were afraid of the spotlight. You never wanted to show the real you.’ I don’t know if that’s true but when you’ve spent your whole life shying away from scrutiny it must have some impact. I’ve lost races and broken world records by 100ths of seconds. I’m not saying I would’ve won the Olympics but, if I wasn’t subconsciously processing all this stuff, I would have achieved more.”
Foster says he now feels he can talk about his private life on his own terms.
“When I was younger, I thought my feelings were just a phase. I had girlfriends. I never had a boyfriend. But I had sexual experiences with boys. At swimming competitions I would go with women to divert attention from the real me. It’s not like I didn’t enjoy the act – I just preferred boys. But I accepted I was gay when I fell in love with my first partner, Vincent.”
About Mark Foster
Mark Foster was born in Billericay, Essex, UK on 05/12/1970.
What is he famous for?
Mark Foster is an athlete and TV personality. He is best known as a former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and world championships. He is a world champion and won numerous medals in international competition during his long career. He competed primarily in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres.
Foster is also a frequent expert analyst at swim championships for BBC Sport.
Is Mark Foster gay?
Mark Foster came out as gay in November, 2017.
“It’s not like I’ve been pushed to come out,” the former world champion swimmer said in an interview with The Guardian. “I’ve just swerved and swerved. Telling half-truths and not being my true self is only hurting me. I’m 47, a middle-aged man, and I’m no longer competing. And I’m not the first gay sportsman to come out. Gareth Thomas and Tom Daley led the way.”
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Melee/Wizard, Traveller, Champions, Toon, Justice, Inc., Mazes and Minotaurs. Wrote "At Rapier's Point" Rolemaster supplement for ICE, contributed to "Pirates!" Published scenarios and game-related articles in GDW's "Challenge Magazine" and Legendary Game Studios' "Minotaur." Developed material for Torchlight Games and Gold Rush Games which remained unpublished when they went under. Wrote "Rocket Rangers!" mini-campaign for Mini Six. Contributed adventures to "The River Terror" and "Blood and Badges."
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WeAreAllUs: download 'The Lightless Beacon' for Call of Cthulhu, in remembrance of Greg Stafford
seneschal replied to MOB's topic in Call of Cthulhu
Now, if the Beacon was Mavis, eVerything would be neatly typed in a reasonably sized font and we could read it easily:
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seneschal replied to Bill the barbarian's topic in Alastor's Skull Inn
Nah, the satanic panic was ancient history long before the Internet was even invented. (I'm an old fart. I was there for both events.) And it is ardent young liberal secularists that write the algorithms at Google and YouTube. The folks who worried about D&D back in the 1970s and early '80s have either passed away or are much more concerned about video games these days. Something as archaic and passé as in-person tabletop pen-and-paper roleplaying just isn't on their radar anymore. 😉
It is. The string of comments criticizing the PM is endless.
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seneschal replied to seneschal's topic in Basic Roleplaying
Just like Galaxy Quest was the best recent StarTrek movie. You gotta love and respect the genre you're trying to emulate for your efforts to succeed.
I've noticed YouTube creating "playlists" for me of the same 5-10 items I most recently watched. If I let them pick, I'd never hear or learn anything new ever again. Meanwhile, their selections on search topics can be pretty wonky. A list of videos about the West End Games d6 Star Wars rpg included one on recovering from demonic possession. Because Emperor Palpatine was planning to take over Rey's body, I guess? Maybe?
Downloaded random free Star Wars paper minis and noticed they were close enough in scale to work alongside the usual Call of Cthulhu silhouettes. That's ... unsettling. The galaxy suddenly got much more dangerous! 😳
As Obi-Wan Kenobi might say, Take your first step into a larger world – with a computer-generated Alec Guiness reading H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu":
Um, why do their eyes and foreheads look alike? 😳
I chimed in to contribute sympathy as someone who also dwells where fires sometimes present a danger. I apparently wasted my breath. Found fire coverage only when I specifically searched for it. No mention of it popped up in my usual news channels over the holidays, although other.stories did. Since Ian objects to everything I post on any conceivable subject, I've learned to discount his opinion.
I'd go for a film version of "Splinter of the Mind's Eye." Does it fit continuity and canon? No, but then neither do the sequels. 😉
It doesn't fit the tone and morality of the rest of the series. The Rebels were the good guys, resisting the ruthless Evil Empire. Our Heroes didn't slaughter Imperial minions for sport, but the latter were clearly on the wrong side of the moral scale. The heroes could defend themselves without remorse. Just like Legolas could pick off cannibalistic orcs without shame or James Bond could eliminate SPECTRE agents that were trying to kill him anyway (not that he had qualms in the first place). If you humanize and make sympathetic the heartless foot soldiers that casually murdered Luke Skywalker's family, an entire clan of Jawas, and the unresisting population of the planet Alderan, you've changed the dynamic and inner logic of the whole saga. And, as I mentioned, that's exactly what happened in the last three movies. The bloodthirsty troopers are now victims and the self-sacrificing Resistance fighters are ruthless killers. With competent plotting and characterization (not in evidence in the sequels) that sort of thing might make an interesting story -- but it wouldn't be Star Wars. FN-0000 is a missed opportunity, and as a character he never gets a break. He refuses to participate in a massacre (good) but strips off his gear and runs away from Captain Phasma rather than fighting her and attempting to thwart her evil plans (is he a coward?). He never gets to be the hero but is consistently depicted as incompetent comic relief (but we already have C3P0 for that). In fact, the first thing that happens to him after his escape is that he gets beat up by a a girl half his size with no military training (Rey). Later, it is implied that he is falling in love with Rey -- but since she is the Messiah-ess she's above such things even if FN wasn't merely the hired help. Except she heals and kisses Kylo Ren, the emo villain wannabe who has only been trying to kill her for three movies. Women! Poor FN eventually meets a nubile former Stormtrooper with a life story similar to his own -- but the relationship goes nowhere and he STILL doesn't get the girl. No fair!
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seneschal replied to Dethstrok9's topic in Call of Cthulhu
Must be the hot chocolate and ski babes. Oh wait, that was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Darn! Why can't Delta Green have as much fun as George Lazenby?
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seneschal replied to seneschal's topic in Call of Cthulhu
Well, Matango involves spore infection and the other two long distance mind control. If your creature can psychically lure victims to it and/or give them orders, it doesn't need to roam around and hunt. Or it can ride its prey as it consumes them, exercising its powers on the hoof to infect as many people as possible. It can spore-blast would-be rescuers even if they aren't under its domination -- and they'll still turn into a fungus brain even if they retain their personalities to the last. Transformation could be as slow and horrible as you want to make it. Or a proto-fungus could go on a murderous rampage before collapsing into a mycelium heap, with each corpse supporting a new brain growth. Your fungus brains are not mindless zombies. They can read a target's thoughts, call to him or her with the images or voices of loved ones, lie in wait where they know the potential victim is going to hole up. They don't even have to be violent. Perhaps contact with a victim's skin or breathing/swallowing passages is enough. They explode in a cloud of choking spores or a sticky tangle of mycelium as soon as prey gets within range. Yuck! No combat occurs, and the host is toast unless he is encased in a hazmat suit. Its only a matter of time.
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Matango meets Donovan's Brain meets Beast With One Million Eyes. I like! But you consider it a minor threat??? It's like three or more B movies in one!
Stormy About Imperial Stormtroopers WARNING! Possible Minor Spoilers! Not That They Matter At This Point. After listening to various YouTube reviews I had decided to skip "The Rise of Skywalker." "The Force Awakens" needed to go back to sleep, and "Rogue One" -- while well done -- was simply depressing, quite unlike the energetic, hopeful tone of the original trilogy. However, when we went to the movies as a family during Christmas, RoS (in IMAX 3-D!!!) was the only thing available. "Spies In Disguise" was full, and we decided to let "Frozen 2" go. In addition, my wife bought me the 30th Anniversary reprint of the WEG Star Wars d6 RPG (30% discount!), and I later spent a whopping $1.10 to print out an army of Star Wars paper minis at the public library (why are Stormtroopers easier to find for free than generic fantasy goblins?). And all this got me thinking again about those ubiquitous Stormtroopers. In "Star Wars" you weren't sure at first whether the skeleton-looking armored things were alive or not. They might have been as robotic as R2D2. Mid-film it seemed that they might be human since Our Heroes could slip into their armor -- but that wasn't a sure thing since stealthy sci-fi good guys had been hiding in robot outer shells at least since "The Phantom Empire" (1935). Much later, the prequels established that Stormtroopers were mass-produced clones designed to mindlessly follow orders, which helped explain why they were such indifferent soldiers. Suddenly in "Force Awakens" FN-whatever peels off his gear during combat and flees rather than participate in a massacre. He later claims he was kidnapped and forced into First Order military service as a child, a nasty real-world practice that the former Empire never found necessary. Now, in "Rise of Skywalker" we have whole contingents of forced-labor Stormtroopers-of-color risking instant death to lay down their arms out of conscience in the middle of battle -- and despite everything we've seen in eight movies about the martial competence of Stormtroopers they managed to defeat their officers and escape sans weapons, armor and powered vehicles. Remember, they simultaneously all laid down their arms. And their officers presumably didn't. Hmmmm. Since when do Stormtroopers possess cowardice (lookin' at you, FN) or morals or a reasonable sense of self-preservation? Why make any of them sympathetic, or a member of a supposedly abused group, when they're the Bad Guys? See, you can mow down hordes of Stormtroopers without guilt as long as they're faceless white male clones with conservative political leanings. But their deaths seem much more plentiful and personal in RoS than in previous Star Wars films I've seen, multiple exploding Death Stars notwithstanding. Since "Force Awakens," they're now innocent victims of Imperial ambition -- yet the alleged heroes of the tale murder them more aggressively, nay, eagerly than Luke, Han, et.al., ever did. What next? Lord of the Rings orcs and the White Witch's Narnian monsters are sympathetic victims, too? Sure, and Count Dracula will retire to run a quiet resort and care for his children. Next ya'll will want to, I don't know, run Cthulhu for president or something!
Haven't heard a peep about these in the U.S. news. Sorry you're having to go through it. Our reporters are too busy trying to un-elect a president to let Americans know what is going on overseas. Worked as a reporter in rural Oklahoma where small volunteer fire departments and dry conditions are the norm. I sympathize.
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Sony Working on a "PlayStation 4.5"
Matt Birchler | 18 Mar 2016 | 3 min read
Kotaku is reporting that Sony is working on what is essentially a PlayStation 4.5. From what developers are saying, it looks like it will be a PS4 with some upgraded internals.
Based on conversations with developers who have spoken with Sony, this ‘PS4.5’ will include an upgraded GPU both to support high-end 4K resolution for games and add more processing power that can enhance the games supported by PlayStation VR, the headset Sony will launch this fall. It’s unclear if ‘PS4.5’ is an official name or just a nickname that developers have been using. One developer jokingly called it the ‘PS4K’ while telling me about the device.
This makes a lot of sense from a tech perspective. The PS4 was originally launched in November 2013, and while it is still able to output some of the most impressive visuals you'll see anywhere, tech has advanced since then. Even as a gamer, it's not unusual to have a new version of a console come out a few years into it's lifecycle. The PS2 and PS3 has "slim" models come out after a few years that had the same specs as the original models, but were much smaller and more energy efficient. The Xbox 360 had 3 different variants as the years went on, but they too shared the same internal specs and played the same games just as well and no better than the original.
It's very unusual for there to be a revision of a console that actually changes the tech specs in ways that could mean that it plays games that simply aren't possible on the existing model. The most recent example of this would be the New 3DS from Nintendo, which is a 3DS with some better specs, and a few games that are only playable on it and not the regular 3DS. But besides that example, you'd probably have to go back to the early 90s to late 80s to find another console that did this. Segmenting their PlayStation 4 base like this would be a very rare move.
But you can see why Sony would want to do this. The PlayStation VR is coming out this October and it is pushing the PS4 to its limits. Remember that the PS4 is essentially a $350 PC, so think about how many $350 Windows computers are going to be able to do VR...none. And when I posted my original article about the PlayStation VR, I got pushback from some saying that the PS4 couldn't possibly keep up with the high end GPUs on the gaming rigs that will be running the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
https://twitter.com/stevenharms/status/709878888105713664
The games Sony has shown look very good, but games like Star Citizen running on a high end PC do look better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzqhBIlL5XI
A PS4 with bumped specs could get Sony's VR rig closer to the fidelity we're seeing on even the highest end PCs. As a gamer, I love the idea of getting the best games possible, but this is also a very concerning prospect. Segregating your PS4 customer's into two camps brings tons of complications that do not exist today.
Your 40 million current PS4 owners feel like their still relatively new console is old news. Losing good will in the gaming community is poison (ask Microsoft)
Do games built for the PS4.5 also run on the PS4 but with lower visual fidelity? The whole advantage of consoles is the specs are locked and you can develop to a specific benchmark, and this would complicate that.
Do we now have games that work on PS4.5 only and other games that work on the PS4 and 4.5? Now you're splitting your user base.
Do you still sell the original PS4, or does the PS4.5 take its place? How do you price them?
There are surely other concerns, but those are the ones that hit me right away.
Segmenting your market in the middle of a gaming generation has never gone well. Sony would be making a pretty unprecedented move if they end up selling the PS4 and 4.5 side by side this year (even Nintendo discontinued the original 3DS as soon as the "New 3DS" was released), and I think they'd anger a lot of their fans if they decided to retire the PS4 after less than 3 years on the market.
On the other hand, I do see the appeal of getting a little more power in Sony's console. It would help make their next big thing (PlayStation VR) better, give developers tools to create better games, and it would push them way ahead of their main competitor (Xbox One) in terms of what games and experiences are possible. This report came out of nowhere, but there already seems to be a good deal of smoke associated with it. Let's see how bold Sony is feeling1.
My position: I'd 100% would up my PS4 up on eBay as soon as they announced this thing. ↩
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In vitro amoebacidal activity of photodynamic therapy on Acanthamoeba
Z Chen,
S Xuguang,
W Zhiqun,
L Ran
Department of Ocular Microbiology, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, China
Dr S Xuguang, Department of Ocular Microbiology, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Science, 17 Hou Gou Lane, Chong Nei Street, Beijing 100005, China; sunxuguang{at}yahoo.com
Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of Hypocrellins B (HB) photodynamic therapy (PDT) on Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts, and its cytotoxic potential on the corneal epithelial cells and stromal cells in vitro.
Methods: Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts (5×104/ml) were incubated with various concentrations of HB, followed by exposure to light (>470 nm) for 30 min at a fluence rate of 50 mW/cm2. Survival rate was assessed using the live/dead viability/cytotoxicity assay and non-nutrient agar–Escherichia coli culture assay. Rabbit corneal epithelial cells and stromal cells were incubated with various concentrations of HB, followed by exposure to the same light fluence rate as above. The corneal cell survival rate was assessed using the live/dead viability/cytotoxicity assay.
Results: HB-PDT showed a dose-dependent inhibition on the trophozoites and cysts. The 100% inhibitory concentration (IC100) of HB was 1 μg/ml for the trophozoites and 20 μg/ml for the cysts. The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of HB for the cysts was 3.8 μg/ml and for the trophozoites 0.23 μg/ml. The inhibition of the HB-PDT on the rabbit corneal cells and stromal cells was observed, but HB without irradiation had no inhibition on the corneal cells.
Conclusion: HB-PDT had amoebacidal properties in vitro and showed a better effectiveness on the trophozoites than the cysts. Meanwhile, HB-PDT demonstrated cytotoxicity on the corneal epithelial cells and stromal cells, but HB exhibited no appreciable cytotoxicity in the dark to the corneal cells.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjo.2007.134288
Competing interests: None.
Ethics approval: Ethics approval was provided by the ethics committee of Beijing Tong Ren Hospital, China.
Patient consent:Obtained.
2008 BMJ Publishing Group
Harminder S Dua Arun D Singh
British Journal of Ophthalmology 2008; 92 1161-1161 Published Online First: 22 Aug 2008.
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High-stakes testing and student achievement: Does accountability pressure increase student learning?
Sharon L. Nichols, Gene V. Glass, David Berliner
Teachers College, Mary Lou Fulton (MLFTC)
MLFTC: Educational Leadership and Innovation, Division of
This study examined the relationship between high-stakes testing pressure and student achievement across 25 states. Standardized portfolios were created for each study state. Each portfolio contained a range of documents that told the "story" of accountability implementation and impact in that state. Using the "law of comparative judgments," over 300 graduate-level education students reviewed one pair of portfolios and made independent evaluations as to which of the two states' portfolios reflected a greater degree of accountability pressure. Participants' judgments yielded a matrix that was converted into a single rating system that arranged all 25 states on a continuum of accountability "pressure" from high to low. Using this accountability pressure rating we conducted a series of regression and correlation analyses. We found no relationship between earlier pressure and later cohort achievement for math at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests. Further, no relationship was found between testing pressure and reading achievement on the National Assessment of Education Progress tests at any grade level or for any ethnic student subgroup. Data do suggest, however, that a case could be made for a causal relationship between high-stakes testing pressure and subsequent achievement on the national assessment tests - but only for fourth grade, non-cohort achievement and for some ethnic subgroups. Implications and directions for future studies are discussed.
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Nichols, S. L., Glass, G. V., & Berliner, D. (2006). High-stakes testing and student achievement: Does accountability pressure increase student learning? Education Policy Analysis Archives, 14, 1-172.
High-stakes testing and student achievement : Does accountability pressure increase student learning? / Nichols, Sharon L.; Glass, Gene V.; Berliner, David.
In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol. 14, 13.01.2006, p. 1-172.
Nichols, SL, Glass, GV & Berliner, D 2006, 'High-stakes testing and student achievement: Does accountability pressure increase student learning?', Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 14, pp. 1-172.
Nichols SL, Glass GV, Berliner D. High-stakes testing and student achievement: Does accountability pressure increase student learning? Education Policy Analysis Archives. 2006 Jan 13;14:1-172.
Nichols, Sharon L. ; Glass, Gene V. ; Berliner, David. / High-stakes testing and student achievement : Does accountability pressure increase student learning?. In: Education Policy Analysis Archives. 2006 ; Vol. 14. pp. 1-172.
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