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Street Parking in SF: Fees for Car-Share, Free for Car Owners
With hundreds of on-street parking spaces around San Francisco set to become available for car-share vehicles, the SFMTA plans to charge companies monthly fees for the conversion of curbside spots that are normally free. So while companies like City Car-Share, Zipcar, and Getaround — which offer services that make it easier for residents to go without owning personal vehicles — will pay up to $225 per month for reserved spots, private car owners will generally continue to pay nothing for the use of unmetered spaces.
An on-street car-share parking spot in SoMa. Image: Google Maps
While it makes perfect sense to charge car-share companies a fee for on-street spaces, the new policy highlights the absurdity of giving away the same precious real estate for the storage of privately-owned automobiles.
“If you’re going to charge the car-share people $200 a month or so, how come you’re giving parking places away for $100 a year?” Howard Strassner, chair of the local Sierra Club chapter’s transportation committee, told the SFMTA Board of Directors at its most recent meeting. “I mean, this is craziness.”
The “$100 a year” Strassner was referring to (more accurately, $106 per year) is the cost of a residential parking permit in SF. The fee is limited by state law to cover no more than the administrative cost of running the program, and RPPs are given out in unlimited numbers, so they essentially serve as a hunting license in neighborhoods with high demand for parking. So even in neighborhoods where RPPs are required, drivers circle around for spots and add to traffic on the streets.
While the vast majority of on-street parking spaces in San Francisco are free, the going rate for parking is reflected in rents for private parking spaces, which typically cost hundreds of dollars per month.
As we’ve seen, at least one enterprising van owner has taken advantage of the city’s real estate giveaway to set up a subsidized hotel.
The car-share fees are scaled to provide an incentive for companies to distribute spaces equitably in the outer neighborhoods, and not just the denser neighborhoods in the city’s core where car-share markets are already well-established, according to Andy Thornley, project manager for the SFMTA. Spaces in the inner zone will cost $225 per month, the middle zone $150, and the outer zone $50.
The SFMTA Board approved the curbside car-share program last month, and the first new spots are expected to open up in January.
Fee zones for car-share spaces. Image: SFMTA (##http://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/7-16-13%20Item%2013%20Car%20share%20presentation.pdf##PDF##)
Filed Under: Car Sharing, Parking, Parking Permits, SFMTA
Parking Shared Cars Instead of Private Cars Isn’t Exactly “Privatization”
The SFMTA’s endeavor to reserve on-street car parking spaces for car-share vehicles has yielded complaints from some car owners who, ironically, decry the “privatization” of space currently used to store private cars. These folks don’t seem to acknowledge the extensive research showing that each car-share vehicle replaces, on average, nine to 13 privately-owned cars. They should […]
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Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform
By Tanya Snyder | Sep 18, 2013
We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning, which we published yesterday. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute — where he serves as executive director — about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense. A […]
San Francisco Will Explore Bringing Car-Share to the Curbside
By Michael Rhodes | Jun 11, 2010
Car-sharing vehicles could eventually "live" in on-street parking spaces. Flickr photo: Jeff Hester San Francisco could eventually see car-sharing come to the curbside after the Planning Commission voted yesterday to urge the city to explore the idea of allowing on-street car-share pods. The commission also voted to start a process of updating the city’s guidelines […]
Spot-Less: Why Parking Quotas Could Wither Away
By Alan Durning | Oct 22, 2013
This post is the 17th and final post in the series: Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of the Sightline Institute. Parking reform may finally be coming. Here are eight reasons to hope for change soon: Noah’s (P)ark. UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, like a modern day Noah, has been carrying a new […]
Livable City: Extra Parking for Car-Share Could Be Abused
By Aaron Bialick | Dec 7, 2012
Update 3/5/13: This bill was finally approved by the Board of Supervisors. Developers would be allowed to skirt limits on car parking if they devote the extra spaces to car-sharing, under a proposal approved unanimously by the SF Planning Commission yesterday. The bill [PDF], which advocates warn could be abused as a loophole to expand […]
SF Chronicle Regurgitates Misinformation From the Free Parking Crowd
By Aaron Bialick | Jun 9, 2014
The SF Chronicle printed an op-ed this weekend, written by the Republican-backed group that aims to “restore balance” on San Francisco’s streets. And by “balance,” they mean enshrining a status quo where cars, not people, get the lion’s share of the public streets, in the form of more pavement and more traffic. Unfortunately, the Chronicle […]
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Made in Sheffield – more than just a brand.
March 26, 2018 November 8, 2018 by MadManagement Leave a comment
The Star has launched a business promotion campaign, “Made in Sheffield” to promote the excellence of its various products ranging from sauce and steel to technology and aerospace. Great idea, but the people of Sheffield need more.
For Sheffield, the “friendly” city, to become Sheffield the friendly productive city, we need a moral and material infrastructure of good citizenship, governance and well-run services to complement the industrial investment The Star describes. And so do the businesses. It is a two-way street. The Council provides the platform for industry and industry pays fair wages, good conditions and secure jobs, and its taxes.
As Jane Jacobs would say: “It is an interdependent system”.
There is a good British precedent for this, as I have mentioned before, i.e. Sir Joseph Chamberlain’s tenure as mayor of Birmingham in the 1860’s and 70’s when it became known as the best governed city in the industrial world. He was both a successful industrialist and civic visionary under whose leadership rates were actually reduced while there was significant investment in services, health and education, which greatly improved. And all around the great city the other centres prospered too.
A good business person and great political leader is a rare combination; but they can make great allies if they have shared goals.
A good contemporary model is the state of Vermont in the USA. It has about the same population as Sheffield and its senator is the doughty Bernie Sanders, who would have won the presidency of the USA, had the Democrats had the sense to have elected him.
Bernie Sanders cut his political teeth as the mayor of Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, which is actually only the same size as Ecclesfield. But it really punches above its weight. It has the highest living wage rate in the USA at £8.20 an hour for council contracts (the UK is £7.20), and the lowest unemployment rate – half the national average at 3.4%.
Bernie’s vision was for more affordable housing, locally owned SMEs, greater community engagement in planning, and job development, realised through practical planning strategies that reinforced these goals. This inevitably meant confronting developers who did not get this vision, something Bernie is very good at, personally and politically.
Bernie eventually won over one of the richest and most influential developers, Tony Pomerleau, and he helped Bernie transform Burlington. Here is a summary of some of the achievements: The city’s largest housing development is now resident-owned; its largest supermarket is a consumer-owned cooperative; one of its largest private employers is worker-owned; and most of its people-oriented waterfront is publicly owned. The publicly owned Burlington Electric Department (Utility) recently announced that Burlington is the first USA city of any decent size to run entirely on renewable electricity.
Not bad for an eight year tenure of a socialist politician under the right wing presidency of Ronald Reagan!
The secret? Constancy of Purpose, as Dr Deming would say, plus solidarity with the working and middle classes, and subsidiarity in decision-making, as the Pope would say. Bernie was also collaborative (on his terms) and won over many of the businesses because of Burlington’s stable environment and high propensity to spend.
Another thing, there is no mention of outsourcing; just plain contracting, at living wage levels, not lowest cost. “You don’t want people working 40 hours a week and living in poverty,” says Sanders. “We understand when you put disposable income in the hands of working people, they will spend that money in their communities, and that creates more jobs”. Hence the high propensity to spend; a gift to local industry.
Bernie Sanders understands what it takes to create stable communities. It is no accident that Vermont became the safest state in the Union with him as senator. But, as we found out last year on Monday 22nd, this is the last thing that Islamic fundamentalists want, when Manchester, that bright, breezy, successful city, endured a terrible tragedy.
The following Thursday, as I walked across to the Catholic Cathedral to Mass, the siren for the 11 o’clock one minute silence sounded for Manchester. Fargate in the City Centre froze. The minute passed. A young girl comforted her weeping mother as we all the recalled the enormity of the crime. Two policemen stood quietly by their vehicle, their rifles across their chests, and I mentally thanked them for their vigilance and low profile.
Then I became really angry. These services, the police, the social and council workers, have suffered cut after cut by the remorseless Treasury, implemented by Theresa May, the then Home Secretary, despite protests and warnings from every quarter – as had the fire and ambulance services, and the doctors and nurses who worked tirelessly to treat the victims.
Floral tributes to the victims of the attack in St Ann’s Square in Manchester city centre
The very fabric of our security and well-being is being threatened, just to balance the books – which they have significantly failed to do!! The Home Secretary clearly cared less for her citizens than for achieving Osborne’s arbitrary fiscal targets. What a lack of moral imagination. She is now Prime Minister!!
This is the equivalent of company directors caring more about their shareholders than their staff or customers and running the business down to increase the share price. Great companies like Unilever, John Lewis and Honda reject this distortion, as did great Prime Ministers like Attlee, who, with no money in the Treasury, still set up the NHS, National Insurance and increased social housing.
What a contrast.
Businesses and communities need a new government, one that really does care for its people, and provides the funds for its councils to meet their citizens’ basic needs.
Posted in ManagementTagged Austerity, business, Deming, Joseph Chamberlin, Sheffield
Event: Soviet Healthcare: Are Governments Bringing it into the NHS?
March 19, 2018 by MadManagement 2 Comments
This event is free to attend, just reserve your place here:
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Soviet Healthcare Via Targets: Are Governments Bringing it into the NHS?
In association with Sheffield Save Our NHS.
Dr Peter Campbell will present two sessions on ‘Soviet Healthcare: Are Governments Bringing it into the NHS?’ exploring the threat of target-driven management. Originally a GP, Dr Campbell now helps create and lead health projects in ex-Soviet countries, and has been featured on platforms such as TEDx. He is a principal lecturer at Universities in Heidelberg and Berlin. Each session includes breakout and strategy groups, protest songs on NHS themes, and an exhibition on the ubiquitousness of PFI.
This event is one of a number of events at the Festival of Debate on the theme of Democracy & Activism. Events in this strand have kindly been sponsored by Abbeydale Brewery.
Date Wedesday 25th April 2018 :Two sessions: 14:00-16:30 and 19:00-21:30.
Location: Roco Creative Co-op, 338-346, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2HW.
Brexit: Negotiation Disaster
A formidable negotiation challenge with economic consequences now
In order to best understand the whole process Brexit needs to be looked at through the lens of negotiation. This is what drew me into my work at understanding organisations nearly 40 years ago, and was the basis of my successful book, Beyond Negotiation.
When I emigrated to England in 1970 I had recently emerged from the life-changing experience of having become a powerless white man in a new black-run republic, Zambia, where previously I had led the unthinkingly superior existence of a colonial. I was made to realise that I could not always get my own way anymore just because I was white. This is known in Business School jargon as a paradigm shift. Actually it was more like falling off a cliff, scrabbling for handholds all the way down – very, very humbling. Luckily, I had two very wise and kind black colleagues, who showed me the ropes, i.e. how to engage properly with the now empowered black population. I then had the two happiest years of my life in Africa, able to share in the vibrant Zambian social and mining life.
Our research revealed two very important behaviours that skilled negotiators use that no-one had identified before. The first was to determine the extent of Common Ground, without which the negotiation will not be successful. The second was to be able to disagree on important issues, but never to personally attack the other party. Threats, in particular were a No-No.
When I took the research into the field of industry in 1981 to analyse the economic benefits of win/win negotiations it became clear that there was a correlation with profitability. For example, Xerox in Japan (a country that really understands cooperation) made 7 cents more on each dollar net than Xerox USA (a country that emphasises competition).
Here is the key message: We must build trust, and there is only one way to do so – by negotiating successful implementations step by arduous step – not by clever agreements that turn out to be impossible to implement. Nothing destroys trust as quickly as implementations that fail.
(A negotiation is not a debate – with a winner and a loser, so I suggest we keep Oxbridge- educated politicians out of it.)
Strategically, it is vital to start building trust early. This requires a great planning team to back you up and to identify the Common Ground. Not surprisingly our data showed that 80% of the negotiation failures were a result of poor planning. The best negotiator in the world cannot get a win/win if the planning and preparation is bad. There has not been little evidence of intelligent planning in Brexit so far. That has to be our biggest concern.
Where does that leave the UK with Brexit? I am not optimistic. In the first place, British politicians have a history of poor negotiations. They have two bad habits. The first very bad habit they (and other English people) have is to behave as though they are not taking the other party seriously. The Falklands were as much a result of the Argentinians being offended by the UK not acknowledging their history and taking their claims seriously, as it was by their bellicosity.
The other is taking a win/lose stance from the beginning. This is what Teresa May has already done, saying the EU would find her a “bloody difficult woman”! She has already used threats, i.e. the tit-for-tat of security against economic issues, and treatment of EU nationals in the UK versus the British in Europe. Hopeless, absolutely hopeless! She appears to suffer from an utter lack of (social) imagination. The very thing she fired George Osborn for!
Pity the civil servants who have to unravel this Gordian knot knitted by politicians who demonstrate no understanding of the reality of good negotiations. where the first impulse has always to be to look for Common Ground, which in Brexit is: how do we resolve this huge problem for the UK and EU together? It then becomes a joint problem-solving exercise where everyone must collaborate.
What makes this opening gambit particularly unhelpful is that the UK is in the weakest of weak positions, politically, economically, ethically. We are the ones who have walked away from a union of 27 other neighbours because our previous PM was too incompetent and arrogant to play the long game. It took the USA and Vietnam 5 years to negotiate a peace treaty on just one issue, peaceful co-existence. What will it cost the UK to “demerge” when there are literally hundreds of clauses, and how much uncertainty will that create for businesses and the economy and loss of productivity?
Maybe, as the Quakers would say: “Let us pause for reflection.” – then plan properly for a win/win agreement.
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The Need For Tweed: The Scottish Valley With The Best Mountain Biking In the World?
by Antony de Heveningham May 15, 2018 4:17 pm2
“If you asked me where the best riding was, anywhere in the world, I’d have to say the Tweed Valley.” The man making this bold statement is Neil Dalgleish, a man who believed enough in the place to leave a career in marketing and design in Edinburgh, move back to an area that seemed forgotten about by everyone except forestry workers and retirees, and start a mountain bike festival.
Mr Tweedlove himself (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
Tweedlove is now a huge event that draws in over a thousand riders and will take over the sleepy centre of Peebles for an entire weekend, starting on 8 June. The fact that the valley is also home to Glentress and Innerleithen, two of the best-known trail centres in the UK, doesn’t do the festival any harm. But there’s much more to Tweedlove than these two classics. This year it includes a round of the British Enduro Championships, a huge bike demo day, an urban cyclocross race, guided rides, skills sessions, film screenings, family bike rides, a gravel event and a road sportive.
Tweed town takeover (Photo: Tweedlove)
The Tweedlove events programme has also spread throughout the summer, including the May’s Glentress 7 XC endurance race and Enjoyro (think enduro, but with less uncertainty about whether you’ll get to the bottom in one piece), and the King and Queen of the Hill enduro in August. And it’s more than just mountain bikes, with the Gran Fonduro gravel ride, and even a closed road sportive, the Tour O The Borders, in September.
An enduro anyone can enjoy? That’ll be the Enjoyro (Photo: Tweedlove)
With his wife Fiona and mountain bike legends Emma Guy and Tracey Brunger, Neil started hatching the plans for the first Tweedlove in 2009. Emma and Tracey stepped back after the first year (Emma now works for Tweed Valley Business Improvement District) and Neil assembled a team drawn largely from within the valley. Tweedlove photographer-in-residence Ian Linton used to work in a local cloth mill, and turned his hand to photography when it closed down. He was one of the original documenters of the British Downhill Series, “back when there were only three of us doing it” and now he’s responsible for most of the images you’ll see of Tweedlove. Videographer Rich also returned to the area after growing up in the hills above Traquair. Enduro organiser and “voice of Tweedlove” Jamie moved up from London, and him and his family are immersed in the local riding and racing scene. Together with Tweedlove factotum and fixer extraordinaire Stuart, these are my riding companions for the next two days, as I get a guided tour of some of the best riding in the valley.
Tweed team, assemble! (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
The trip starts with a van ride out to the legendary Golfie – a forest above Innerleithen into which local riders have hand cut some absolutely classic trails. Steep, rooty and technical, the riding here isn’t for beginners. It has also been the focus of some controversy recently, even making it onto national TV as the BBC Scotland programme Landward highlighted the proliferation of unsanctioned trail building in the area. Luckily the situation is less dramatic than the “war” portrayed by the Beeb, and the trails, while unofficial, are tolerated by the Forestry Commission and used with permission for events, including Tweedlove’s core enduros. There’s also a degree of self-regulation, with badly built trail features getting removed by the local riding community, and an aversion to cutting fresh tracks to use just for one event.
Where they store all the rad (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
The top of the climb is signalled by a huge concrete oblong, formerly the reservoir that supplied the town with water. Then we’re off down one of the maze of tracks through the woods, which starts gently before steepening up into a proper test of nerve. We pause so the photographers can set up and a couple more riders bomb past, back wheels skittering on the stony ground, on another track that’s only a few metres away. How many trails are there in these woods? No-one seems to know for sure, although Ian tells me that a couple of locals tried to ride them all in one day last year, but had to admit defeat – although choosing the hottest day of the year probably didn’t help.
Steep, twisty and terrific (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
After being chucked in at the deep end, the next trail, Flat White, is slightly more mellow, although still plenty steep compared to what I’m used to. The trails are well-built enough to be rideable with a moderate amount of skill and a fair dollop of commitment, although there are others in the woods that up the ante even more, with long, steep chutes being a particular trademark.
Flat white – it’s like a latte with extra rocks (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
The selection of tracks to use for each enduro is hotly debated, with organisers trying to keep the difficulty level just right. In general, the difficulty level ramps up through the year, with March’s Vallelujah using fun but predictable tracks, and August’s King and Queen of the Hill pushing riders much harder. Neil tells me that occasionally riders who’ve entered an enduro will hand back their number board after practice, opting not to do the main event. Even good technical riders can be dealt a nasty surprise by the transitions, as they finish their sprint up a fire road to be greeted by a trail with a -30% start made of rocks, roots and pure evil.
Ian: a handy man behind a camera, or in front of one (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
Enduro is very much at the core of Tweedlove, and you’d be forgiven for thinking of it as a niche event for the hardcore riders, but the standard of riding on the scene is high enough to assure huge interest in their events. Throw in the other elements – the XC races, the film nights and the demos – and the festival is a major draw for the area, pulling in thousands of visitors every year. “We survey all our visitors and use an economic impact calculator, and we reckon we’ve made £8 to £9 million for the local economy over the lifespan of the festival” says Neil. “The finances for individual events can be hellish tight, but you forget all that when you see people having a good time.”
The town green in Peebles hosts a full-blown festival (Photo: Tweedlove)
All the Tweedlove team are evangelical about the benefits mountain biking has brought to an area previously synonymous with a dwindling textile industry. Over lunch, Ian reminisces about days growing up in the valley with a limited amount of recreation on offer. “You’d go to the local youth disco, and if there hadn’t been a fight by closing time, you’d wonder who was on holiday” he says with a grin. With a straighter face, Jamie tells me that according to the local police there’s been less antisocial behaviour in the valley since the mountain bike developments. He has three children of his own who are already super-keen riders, and it’s rapidly becoming obvious why the festival programme features so many events for the young ‘uns.
Gentle, rolling hills conceal some gnarly trails (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
For that afternoon’s riding, we head one step further up the valley to Thornielee, another patch of woodland with tracks which have been used for events. The trails are just as steep and committing as the Golfie, but with added rocks. The hills, which look so rolling and gentle from the valley floor, also get steeper as you head down, making it easy to get lulled into riding outside your ability. We manage one top-to-bottom run of the hill, complete with a few photo stops and comedy crashes, before everyone decides they’ve pushed their luck enough. It’s time for me to check into my hotel, the Peebles Hydro, a stately Victorian behemoth of a place that’s currently being modernised by forward-thinking new owners, who have mountain biking front and centre in the suggested activities for visitors.
Ride right from your hotel room (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
Over dinner at Cringletie House, an amazing Scottish Baronial country hotel just outside town, we’re joined by more locals, including skills coach Andy Weir from Ridelines, who was in at the start of trail developments in the valley, and Gavin Thornley, who set up one of the four (yes, four) local kids’ riding clubs. The chat ranges all over the place, from how to make next year’s urban cyclocross more fun (one suggestion is to add some hecklers dressed as angry farmers, a nod to the group who took issue with last year’s Tour O The Borders), to trail politics and development. With a major expansion scheduled for the trails at Glentress, the town looks set to attract even more mountain biking visitors, but there’s also been a rise in the number of people moving to the area just for the riding. “It’s becoming a bit like a ski town” says Neil. The number of businesses run by riders is also increasing, with the area supporting around half a dozen bike shops.
Glentress gravel (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
The next morning’s activities start with a gravel ride, and we’re able to spin straight out from the door of the hotel, up through the bluebell-filled woods of Janet’s Brae, before dropping into the back of the Glentress trail centre. Neil explains that this is a sneak preview of a route they’re hoping to use for September’s Bombtrack Gran Fonduro, a gravel ride with enduro-style timed sections. We ride past the top of the Red and the Black and burst out onto open hillside, with views way up the valley.
Far flung fire roads (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
There’s a fast and sketchy descent back down to the river before we head up into the forest again, and after a brutal climb we hit a track that threads through the middle of the biggest wind farm I’ve ever seen. Being up so close to the massive turbines is a new experience for me, and quite awe-inspiring. As you’d expect, there’s a fresh breeze blowing, and we don’t linger too long before heading back down to the valley floor. We chaingang back into town and I also get a taste of the incredibly quiet roads in the area – compared to some other places I’ve ridden, it’s like stepping back in time 40 years.
Down on the wind farm (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
Lunch is lined up for us at Number 1 Peebles Road in Innerleithen, the start or finish of many a local mountain bike ride. We’re joined there by Grant Ferguson and Isla Short, two of Scotland’s best XC racers, who also just happen to be Tweed Valley locals. Grant in particular has seen an amazing career develop almost in parallel to the trails in the valley, before going on to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics and becoming British cyclocross champion to boot.
Chewing the fat with a very skinny racer (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
“We moved here when I was 7 or 8, just before the trail centre was built at Glentress” Grant says. “There was nothing here at the time. I remember when the freeride area opened and it was a really big deal! I started out racing downhill, then found I was better at going uphill.” Grant was spotted by Emma and Tracey at the Hub, who sponsored him to race, and the rest is history. Isla moved to the valley more recently, but is completely sold on its charms. “It’s got every type of riding round here, and the trails aren’t too busy either.”
Isla Short (Photo: Rich Turley/Tweedlove)
Both racers have demanding schedules (“I basically have to train all summer, and the only time I get to ride for fun is in winter” Isla tells me) so the tight-knit riding scene in the Tweed Valley, together with the range of trails, makes it a perfect base. The diversity of the riding is reflected by the versatility of the riders: Grant and Isla are both more than happy to join in at the valley’s enduros, as long as they don’t clash with their World Cup racing commitments, and Isla enthuses about Cardrona’s new pump track.
Another racer I speak to later, 14 year-old Callum Thornley, is sponsored by Tweedlove and recently won his category at Vallelujah with a time that would have placed him at the top of the seniors podium. “I’m racing two enduro series this year, plus the Scottish XC series and some road crits” he says. “I started out riding trails like Blue Velvet and the Peebles Cycling Club Dirt Crits. I remember looking up to riders like Grant, seeing him and thinking ‘He’s been to the Olympics!'” Grant and Callum’s progression through kids’ clubs to racing has been followed by many riders in the valley, including enduro superstar Katy Winton. With a huge range of trails a short ride or drive from town, plus a thriving events scene, it’s an environment that seems to churn out fast racers.
Number One Peebles Road (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
Lunch troughed and flat whites quaffed, we head up the hill to find some fun. A hootsome trail with flowy corners is located, and we form a slightly improbable train for Ian’s camera, before heading further down the hill to finish with some classic Inners DH tracks. Isla is running a dropper post on her 29er race hardtail, and makes the steeps look ridiculously smooth, while Grant bombs down everything with his seat in the traditional position, before he ends up teetering on the cusp of a ridiculous chute near the bottom of Gold Run.
Chain gang (Photo: Ian Linton/Tweedlove)
There are massive grins all round, and as we pedal back to town it dawns on me that all the top class riding over the past couple of days has taken place within roughly ten square miles. Best riding in the world? If we’re judging by quality, quantity and proximity, the Tweed Valley has got to be up there.
To find out more about Tweedlove’s programme of events and social rides, check out their website.
Antony’s hospitality was provided by Tweedlove and Peebles Hydro
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Singletrack Contributor
Antony was a latecomer to the joys of riding off-road, and he’s continued to be a late adopter of many of his favourite things, including full suspension, dropper posts, 29ers, and adult responsibility. At some point he decided to compensate for his lack of natural riding talent by organising maintenance days on his local trails. This led, inadvertently, to writing for Singletrack, after one of his online rants about lazy, spoilt mountain bikers who never fix trails was spotted and reprinted on this website during a particularly slow news week.
Now based just up the road from the magazine in West Yorkshire, he’s expanded his remit to include reviews and features as well as rants. He’s also moved on from filling holes in the woods to campaigning for changes to the UK’s antiquated land access laws, and probing the relationship between mountain biking and the places we ride.
He’s a firm believer in bringing mountain biking to the people, whether that’s through affordable bikes, accessible trails, enabling technology, or supportive networks. He’s also studied sustainable transport, and will happily explain to anyone who’ll listen why the UK is a terrible place for everyday utility cycling, even though it shouldn’t be.
If that all sounds a bit worthy, he’s also happy to share tales of rides gone awry, or delicate bike parts burst asunder by ham-fisted maintenance. Because ultimately, there are enough talented professionals in mountain bike journalism, and it needs more rank amateurs.
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scotroutes May 15, 2018 at 6:22 pm
To paraphrase John Lennon – it’s not even the best mountain biking in Scotland.
birksy May 17, 2018 at 10:04 pm
I suppose that depends on your perspective scotroutes. Scotland has so much to offer that there should be something for everyone, with every rider getting something that they love whether that’s techy or travelblog. I like to think we offer a good chunk of all of it.
And we’re certainly no Ringo Starr. But then, I doubt you’re a John Lennon.
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The Real Reason that Companies Are Choosing Older Models
By Margaret Manning • 4 years ago • Makeup and Fashion
After decades of older women being ignored by the fashion and advertising industries, we’re now seeing a positive new trend: increasing numbers of mature models are gracing the catwalks and pages of billboards, magazines and websites. Does this mean that the fashion world is more enlightened and age-friendly than they used to be? Not really. Fundamentally, it comes down to economics.
The Use of Older Models is a Reaction to a Massive Business Opportunity
According to retail analyst Neil Saunders, people over 50 now make up 40 percent of all consumer-spending in Britain. Marketing companies have finally woken up to the vast commercial potential of women over 50 – and are featuring older models who look and live like women in that demographic.
On a positive note, these older models don’t look like they’re feeling the pressure to stay thin and project perfection. Instead, they look like they are authentically enjoying life. Companies are getting more savvy about what consumers want to see in advertising, and instead of just showing a beautiful face, advertisers are sharing “experiences.” Advertisers want women to say, “Wow, that woman’s having an incredible time on that cruise!” and not just “Wow, she looks pretty!”
Are Older Models a Part of Something Bigger?
Photographer Nick Knight was quoted as saying that the success of older models is part of a broader cultural change. “We don’t live in such a youth-based culture as we did 50 years ago,” he says.
This group of “new” older models includes 85-year-old Daphne Selfe, who starred in a 2013 ad for TJ Maxx, and 81-year-old Jenni Rhodes, who modeled youthful Zara clothes in a recent photo shoot. Industry veteran Carmen Dell’Orefice is 82, having landed her first Vogue cover at age 15 and modeling ever since.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this trend. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions below and don’t forget to “like” and share this article to keep the conversation going!
What do you think about the recent trend towards featuring older models in advertising? Do you think that the older models that are being used represent our generation well? Why or why not? Please add your thoughts in the comments section below.
Margaret Manning
Margaret Manning is the founder of Sixty and Me. She is an entrepreneur, author and speaker. Margaret is passionate about building dynamic and engaged communities that improve lives and change perceptions. Margaret can be contacted at margaret@sixtyandme.com
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Football La Liga
Zinedine Zidane believes Real Madrid's win over Alaves could be crucial in title bid
Press Association Sport 21:01 30/11/2019
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane feels his side’s battling 2-1 win at Alaves could prove an important victory in their quest for the LaLiga title.
With the rain driving down at the Mendizorrotza Stadium, Los Blancos took the lead through captain Sergio Ramos early in the second half.
The defender, though, then conceded a needless penalty when he caught Joselu in the face with his trailing arm, and Lucas Perez equalised from the spot.
Real Madrid dug deep to get themselves back in front when Dani Carvajal bundled the ball in from close range after Isco’s header hit the post.
Alaves forced a string of corners during the closing moments, as Perez’s point-blank effort was blocked and then a header from Manu Garcia was saved by stand-in goalkeeper Alphonse Areola.
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Zidane’s side move three points clear of Barcelona, who are away at Atletico Madrid on Sunday.
The Real Madrid boss believes the performance against Alaves may yet prove a key result.
“It is clear that winning a match like today is important. A difficult pitch, with a rival who was doing well,” the Real Madrid coach said.
“The league is long, but this is a very important three points, especially with how the game went.
“After they equalised, we had to suffer, but we played with lots of personality and were really focused. We knew that we had to fight and we did it.”
Zidane added at a press conference: “Today can be a benchmark in the sense that we want to continue to grow.
“Now we have peace of mind to continue working because things have just begun. There is a lot left in the league and a lot left in the season also.”
Zidane opted for a few changes following the midweek Champions League match against Paris St Germain, where the French champions fought back with two late goals to draw 2-2 at the Bernabeu.
Gareth Bale was drafted in for a first start since early October, while Areola replaced first-choice goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois with Luka Modric also returning to the team. Eden Hazard, though, continues to nurse an ankle problem.
“We play every three days and today I have made this choice, and the players have responded well,” Zidane said.
“The important thing is that they are all plugged in and that is what they are showing me every week.”
Alaves coach Asier Garitano felt his side had done enough to take something from the match.
“We thought we were going to have been able to add something positive against Real Madrid,” he told a press conference, as reported by Marca.
“After the equaliser, I thought we were going to go on to more, but our opponents punished us with the second goal.
“We played a good game, but we are leaving empty handed.”
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Armenia's Decision to Deploy Iskander Missiles to Depend on 'Developments'
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Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan explained in an interview with Sputnik what role Russia-supplied Iskander missile systems might play.
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YEREVAN (Sputnik) — Iskander missile systems supplied by Russia in 2016 are owned and managed by the Armenian Armed Forces, Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan told Sputnik.
"The fact that Iskanders were delivered to Armenia I think is obvious, because everyone clearly saw them. The fact that they belong to the Armenian Armed Forces I can confirm with absolute certainty," Sargsyan said.
The minister said other questions are classified as "top secret," including "when, how much, what payment terms and others."
"We do manage them, we are own them. This is where I can open the veil of secrecy for you," Sargsyan said.
Armenia's decision whether to deploy Russia's Iskander missile systems in the country will be tied to "developments," Sargsyan said.
"I can present the algorithm. The function and characteristics of this weapon enable to cause irreparable damage to the infrastructure of the country against which it is used. So, the decision to use Iskanders will be closely linked to the development of the situation," Sargsyan said.
The defense minister noted that although the Iskander systems were considered to be a deterrent weapon, they could be used as "a guaranteed strike weapon if the necessity arises."
"It is obvious that the situation may dictate revision of such approaches," he added.
Iskanders were first demonstrated on September 21 at a military parade in Yerevan marking the 25th anniversary of Armenia's independence. They were reportedly adopted by Armenia's Armed Forces earlier and were put on combat alert during the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016.
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‘Disturbing Discovery’: Scientists Find Giant Hole in Antarctica
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NASA researchers say the mysterious cavity is growing at an “explosive” rate.
The scientists have discovered a massive cavity roughly two-thirds the size of Manhattan beneath a glacier in Antarctica. The researchers say this is a "disturbing discovery" that shows the "explosive" rate at which ice is melting on the planet's southernmost continent.
"[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," said Pietro Milillo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a news release by the organization. "As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster."
The discovery is important, because it illustrates that Antarctic ice not only melts at the edges touching the ocean, but also from underneath ice sheets, CBS News notes. The West Antarctic ice sheet in general is considered one of the most unstable and vulnerable, the report says.
Beneath West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, @NASAJPL researchers found signs of rapid disintegration: a cavity 2/3 the area of Manhattan. It's big enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, and most of it melted over the last 3 years. More science: https://t.co/NaraA7amKi pic.twitter.com/Nknxb5l5dc
— NASA (@NASA) 31 января 2019 г.
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The cavity is located at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The glacier itself is about as big as the state of Florida, and, if melted completely, could raise sea levels by some 2 feet globally, the scientists say.
"The findings highlight the need for detailed observations of Antarctic glaciers' undersides in calculating how fast global sea levels will rise in response to climate change," the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
According to NASA, the cavity once contained some 14 billion tons of ice, most of which has supposedly melted in last three years. The scientists have calculated that the melting glacier has already contributed to about 4 percent of the total global sea level rise.
In the meantime, as polar ice melts, the US has been hit with anomalous low temperatures due to a polar vortex, with air temperature in Chiсago dropping below —20 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Serie A roundup: Inter stay perfect, Ronaldo scores in Juventus win (video)
By Joel SoriaSep 28, 2019, 11:15 PM EDT
Antonio Conte‘s new-look Inter Milan, who are on a six-game winning streak, headline Saturday’s Serie A action.
Sampdoria 1-3 Inter Milan
Who would have guessed? Inter Milan are unrecognizable – for the better – under the 50-year-old manager. On Saturday, Inter thumped Sampdoria 3-1, extending their winning streak to six games – a perfect start to the new season.
Loanee Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal with the Black and Blues, only to get sent off for yellow card accumulation a minute into the second half.
Down 2-0, Jakub Jankto pumped in hope into the home side, turning and quickly striking the ball with his left foot into the back of the net. It was the first goal Inter had allowed in three league games.
If Conte’s sides are known for something, though, it’s a well-balanced scheme. When Sampdoria gained control and pragmatism in the second half, Inter’s defensive stability helped contain the visitor’s lead.
And in the 61st minute, Nicolo Barella sealed it for Inter with a second-chance tap-in in the six-yard box.
Inter’s first true test comes midweek as the Italian giant meets Barcelona at the Camp Nou in Champions League play. Sampdoria, on the other side, prepares for Hellas Verona.
Juventus 2-0 SPAL
There’s Inter Milan, and then there’s Juventus. With 16 points after six games, the Old Lady is at the heels of Conte’s side. On Saturday, they, too, took care of business, winning 2-0 at home against SPAL.
In midair, following a light bounce, Miralem Pjanic’s strike curled into the top left corner of Etrit Berisha goal, who recorded eight saves throughout the 90 minutes. It was halftime, and Juventus were up 1-0.
In the second half, Juventus continued their dominance, possessing the ball 67 percent of the time and recording 12 shots. Following a whipping cross from Paulo Dybala, Cristiano Ronaldo headed home his third goal of the season in the 78th minute.
A Champions League match Bayer Leverkusen are next in the queue for Juventus. But just days later, they’ll have a legitimate chance to take first place in the table as they travel to Milan to take on Inter. SPAL prepare for to take on Parma next.
Elsewhere in Serie A
Sassuolo 1- 4 Atalanta
Tags: Alexis Sanchez, Antonio Conte, Cristiano Ronaldo, Inter, Juventus, Miralem Pjanic, Paulo Dybala, Serie A, Antonio Conte, Ba
Conte preens after 10-man Inter stays perfect ahead of Juve tilt
Photo by Claudio Villa - Inter/Inter via Getty Images
By Nicholas MendolaSep 28, 2019, 2:59 PM EDT
Antonio Conte is showing his feathers after Inter Milan overcame an Alexis Sanchez red card to beat Sampdoria 3-1 on Saturday.
Alexis, who scored in the match, was shown a second yellow card for simulation in the 46th minute. Inter led 2-0 at the time, but held on to improve its league record to 6-0. Inter still had 55 percent possession against Serie A’s surprising bottom dwellers.
Conte, of course, was a Premier League champion at Chelsea, but forced out of the club for Maurizio Sarri. He seems pretty thrilled to speak to his tactical acumen after the win. From football-italia:
“I am a coach who always gives a precise idea of football to his team. I seem to set the fashion, because when I went to England, nobody played with three at the back, then even the England team started playing that way. I come back to Italy and we’re seeing more teams with three-man defenses.”
“(The red card) would’ve killed any team, but not us. I seem to set the fashion in tactics.”
Conte boasts three Serie A titles with Juve, a Serie B crown from Bari, and his Premier League championship from Chelsea. Imagine his swagger if Inter ends Juve’s incredible 8-year scudetti run.
Inter hosts Juventus a week from Sunday.
Tags: Alexis Sanchez, Antonio Conte, Inter, Serie A, Antonio Conte, Ba, Maurizio Sarri
Conte’s Inter stays perfect, follows up derby win with defeat of Lazio
Photo by Emilio Andreoli/Getty Images
By Nicholas MendolaSep 25, 2019, 10:35 PM EDT
The Nerazzuri are humming.
Inter Milan beat Lazio on Wednesday to move to 5-0 in Serie A, continuing a perfect league start for Antonio Conte in his first job since leaving Chelsea.
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Not too far removed from winning the Premier League but skipping town under a label of “not attacking enough” for Blues owner Roman Abramovich, Conte is rolling with the big-investing Nerazzurri.
Danilo D’Ambrosio scored Inter’s goal on Wednesday, which came four days after a 2-0 defeat of derby rivals AC Milan.
“You won’t move my position,” Conte said of the club’s title possibilities in a league dominated by Juventus, who they play in two weeks.
“You saw the difficulties we had in the first half. At the same time, getting five wins out of five shows the hard work is paying off and the mentality is becoming consolidated. I am sure the moment we get a bad result, the critics will come piling on, but we are ready.”
Alexis Sanchez got onto the field in the win.
The 30-year-old has played just 18 minutes for Inter, eight of them coming Wednesday. That’s one day after Conte said this about the Chilean.
“For him it is worth the words I give for everyone else,” Conte said before the match. “When I see ready players, they will be inserted [into the starting line-up]. I have to work in the interest of Inter, not of individuals.”
Given Sanchez’s track record, it’s hardly a surprise to see Conte choose other players over the Chilean. Injuries and form limited him to five goals and nine assists in 45 career games for United, far off his 80 and 45 in 166 with Arsenal.
While Alexis could still rebound and snare his former status, it seems like he’s going to need to either rip up that big money contract — he’s on the books at Old Trafford until 2022 — and go somewhere that wants him. Otherwise, he’d have to go the China, MLS, or Chinese Super League route.
Knowing Alexis, the latter seems likely.
Tags: Alexis Sanchez, Antonio Conte, Chile, Danilo D'Ambrosio, Inter, Serie A
Serie A roundup: Inter edge 10-man Udinese
Napoli and Inter Milan walked away winners in Saturday’s Serie A action.
Inter Milan 1-0 Udinese
After three games, Antonio Conte‘s spell at Inter Milan remains in immaculate shape.
According to the table, there is no better team than I Nerazzurri, who have won their first three league matches – notching seven goals and conceding only one along the way. In other words, the Italian’s astute coaching style remains effective.
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Despite, Inter’s convincing play throughout the 90 minutes, only a goal would separate them from visiting Udinese, who played a with 10 players from the 35th minute on, following Rodrigo De Pual’s slap to the back of Antonio Candreva’s head.
In the 44th minute, Stefano Sensi – one of the smallest players on the field – headed the ball into the back of the net. Late in the game, Alexis Sanchez nearly scored in his Inter debut.
In the end, Udinese were no match for Antonio Conte and Co., who find themselves in prime form heading into their Champions League return midweek.
Up next for Inter in league play: Derby della Madonnina. Udinese, on the hand, host Brescia.
Napoli 2-0 Sampdoria
Dries Mertens is the gift that keeps on giving for Napoli.
To be exact, the Belgian gifted his team two goals on Saturday. 13 minutes in, following a perfectly-placed cross from Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Mertens’ first-time strike was unstoppable for Emil Audero.
Emiliano Rigoni had Sampdoria’s best chance of the night in a one-on-one opportunity with Alex Meret. The Argentine, however, wasted one of the visiting side’s two chances all night.
Then in the 67th minute – with some luck on his corner -Mertens completed his brace off a deflected shot, giving his team their second win of the season.
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Quick turnaround for Napoli as they host Liverpool midweek before traveling to take on Lecce in league play, while Sampdoria take on Torino next.
Fiorentina 0-0 Juventus
Tags: Alexis Sanchez, Antonio Conte, Dries Mertens, Inter, Napoli, Sampdoria, Udinese, Antonio Conte, Ba, Rodrigo
Solskjaer admits Man United “one down” in striker department
By Kyle BonnAug 30, 2019, 6:21 PM EDT
21-year-old Marcus Rashford. 17-year-old Mason Greenwood. That’s it.
Those are all the true strikers on the Manchester United first team.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had no choice but to admit the club is thin in the frontman department, ahead of Manchester United’s clash with Southampton at St. Mary’s. “We are one down, to be fair, but we just didn’t find the right one,” the Red Devils manager said in his pre-match press conference. “We didn’t find the answer that we wanted.”
Solskjaer is completely, unequivocally right. And yet, his words are also utterly baffling.
Manchester United did the unthinkable this summer – they sold two valuable attacking players without identifying a replacement. Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez were both offloaded to Inter Milan, the latter of which on a loan deal that did not include an option to buy.
Both players offloaded seemed on their way out. Lukaku had struggled to make his mark at Old Trafford with 28 goals in 66 Premier League games, and leaking valuable team training data proved an unmistakeable last straw. Sanchez flopped mightily since arriving from Arsenal, and his stumbles were compounded exponentially by gargantuan wages that turned the club’s structure upside down and unsettled others like David De Gea, making it monumentally more difficult to sign important players to necessary contract extensions. There’s no debating the players were on the chopping block, and rightfully so, in a vacuum.
But soccer is not played in a vacuum. Sanchez showed his worth this summer at the Copa America, proving his immense talent need only be unlocked. Lukaku scored in his Inter debut, and his massive $74 million price tag proves there is plenty to value in the towering Belgian’s game. While they’re clearly not the best of options at Old Trafford, they’re certainly better than…well…nothing.
The purge, somehow, was not followed by a corresponding move for replacements – no reinforcements arrived. This isn’t about reinvesting money – Manchester United has more cash than nearly any club on the face of the Earth. This is about plain old addition and subtraction. You subtract two struggling but capable members of the squad and add zero, and the numbers don’t lie.
“We are creating but of course you are always looking for someone to improve us and we were looking,” Solskjaer said. “It’s about taking the chances. We have created enough in the first three games to have nine points so we have to be more clinical, we have to work on the last pass, the last finish, but we have created enough chances to win – and maybe score penalties.”
You know whose job it is to finish chances? A striker! Blimey, what a revelation!
There are options should Manchester United find itself breaking glass in case of emergency. Anthony Martial can play up front, but is best out on the left wing. Jesse Lingard is the same on the opposite. But the other attacking options in Juan Mata, Daniel James, and Andreas Pereira are all incapable of that fill-in role, and that leaves the boss man criminally undermanned.
Whether the blame falls on Ed Woodward, Solskjaer, or a combination of both is irrelevant. The club simply failed to balance a simple numbers game, and the excuses are starting to flow. Solskjaer attempted to write this off by claiming good enough players didn’t magically appear at his door, as if they should be lining to play Europa League football at the Theater of Dreams.
Yet again, Manchester United finds itself felled by another self-inflicted wound, a worrying trend at Old Trafford of late. This season, if the goals don’t flow, the Manchester United heirarchy may once again be a
Tags: Alexis Sanchez, Manchester United, Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Romelu Lukaku, Andreas Pereira, Anthony Martial, Ba, Daniel James, David De Gea, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Romelu Lukaku
Serie A roundup: Inter stay perfect, Ronaldo scores in Juventus win (video) September 28, 2019 11:15 pm Conte preens after 10-man Inter stays perfect ahead of Juve tilt September 28, 2019 2:59 pm Conte’s Inter stays perfect, follows up derby win with defeat of Lazio September 25, 2019 10:35 pm Serie A roundup: Inter edge 10-man Udinese September 14, 2019 10:34 pm Solskjaer admits Man United “one down” in striker department August 30, 2019 6:21 pm Reports: Manchester United agrees Alexis loan with Inter August 27, 2019 7:31 pm Inter, Man Utd yet to find wage agreement for Alexis loan August 21, 2019 7:46 pm Report: Alexis Sanchez pushing for Inter Milan loan August 18, 2019 10:22 am Solskjaer: Alexis will play more often than many think August 16, 2019 11:21 am Positive Alexis Sanchez injury update July 10, 2019 10:41 am Chile feeling rejuvenated in search for third straight Copa America crown July 1, 2019 9:48 pm Alexis Sanchez secures win for Chile over Ecuador June 21, 2019 9:02 pm Report: Man United to pay Alexis Sanchez $15 million a season to leave May 15, 2019 9:40 am Sanchez offers apology to Man United fans after disappointing season May 14, 2019 8:30 am Man Utd team news, injury updates ahead of Barcelona clash April 9, 2019 12:47 pm Alexis Sanchez could miss rest of season March 4, 2019 10:38 am Injury-ravaged Man Utd use all three subs in first half February 24, 2019 9:58 am Honest Alexis Sanchez on why Mourinho struggled at Man United February 17, 2019 12:15 pm Sanchez speaks about Man United struggles February 16, 2019 6:48 pm Report: Sanchez, Martial, Lingard questionable v. Chelsea February 13, 2019 9:36 pm Arsenal 1-3 Man United: Lukaku shines as Sanchez haunts old club January 25, 2019 4:55 pm Reports: Martial closing in on new long-term Man United contract January 18, 2019 3:26 pm WATCH: Alexis cues up Lukaku for slick Manchester United goal January 5, 2019 8:45 am Super sub Lukaku leads Man United to victory (video) January 2, 2019 4:54 pm Mourinho attacks the media for treating Man United differently November 30, 2018 9:38 pm Sanchez suffers hamstring injury in Man United training November 29, 2018 5:53 pm Report: Sanchez unlikely to move from Man United this winter November 13, 2018 6:51 pm Report: Alexis Sanchez wants to leave Man United October 5, 2018 11:00 am Mourinho has many “complaints” after Manchester United loss September 29, 2018 10:43 am Lukaku powers 10-man Man Utd past Burnley September 2, 2018 12:52 pm Pogba leads Man Utd to winning start August 10, 2018 4:52 pm WATCH: Man Utd’s Pogba scores first goal of Premier League season August 10, 2018 3:28 pm Alexis leads Man United past Real Madrid; Spurs, Roma win August 1, 2018 12:09 am Preseason roundup: Arsenal clobbers PSG, Liverpool swamps Man United July 28, 2018 7:25 pm Mourinho on Man United: ‘We are not a team’ July 23, 2018 8:45 am Alexis Sanchez to miss start of Man United’s US tour July 16, 2018 12:55 pm Watch Live: Manchester United vs. Arsenal April 29, 2018 10:43 am Man Utd races past Spurs to reach FA Cup Final April 21, 2018 2:12 pm Dele, Alexis trade 1st half goals in FA Cup semi (video) April 21, 2018 1:03 pm Not yet: Pogba leads Manchester Derby comeback April 7, 2018 2:23 pm
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Supermouse has in the past, caught international coach journeys, long distance between countries. A lot can be said about the romance of land based travel, from the first hippy trails blazing with adventure, to the freedom of the open road and its neverending horizons. Big skies. In this instance – an overnight trip between London and Brussels – it was more the moth-like space, as scudding Bladerunner lights and darkened streets flew past, while Roy Orbison/ Cyndi Lauper played softly, epically into the night.
However pattern recognition may not be Supermouse’s strongest point. You know the score: something bad happens, but you try the same thing again and again in a hope it won’t – can’t – possibly repeat itself, and suddenly become this marvellous experience it was always meant to be. The time was the early noughties, back when those giveaway scratchcards were popping up in newspapers and collecting in flurries on the street, promising exciting possibilities of raining bank notes over your bed, entire home computers, phones with inter-net, a caravan holiday with Pamela Anderson, a cruise in the South Pacific or a romantic weekend in Paris, provided you rung the Premium Rate number (not at work, no!). Guaranteed win. Of course the cheapest and only option was the Paris overnight coach, after you gave away all your details for healthy distribution among sordid agencies for the next decade.
It was of course an experience to be savoured, wedged at the back of the bus with sweating, just-as-delighted immigrants between the two cities, and all their masking taped, and leaking haulage. With no chance of sleep whatsoever due to immovable seats and the long process of cross channel change of transports, coupled with virulent border checks. Barking dogs, razor wire, Hugo Boss designed uniforms, that kind of thing.
But Paree was formidablor, and indeed the City of Lights, and all was worth it for the poor, indentured labourers more willing to put up with less leg room and sleepless nights in their twenties. A much later stint on the same choice of transport was a trip to Amsterdam, but coinciding with the Paris attacks of 2016 and 137 killings that very night, unfolding on the screens of a horror-stricken ferry and numerous international phone calls, and followed up by a journey through locked down, cordoned off cities across the Benelux where the attackers had come from and rumoured to have fled to.
So more of the same on this journey, entering what is newly one of the most dangerous regions in the world for travelers and now listed alongside Syria, Iraq and the Congo as the hot new destinations not to go to by international consulates and organisations. The UK’s foreign travel advice to the country officially states from the outset that: “Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Belgium.” I had to read it twice, having assumed they meant to start off with ‘Terrorists are not very likely… to attack you, your children or cat and that your stay there will be 99.9999999% unlikely to be marred by political violence, and that 11 million Belgians live there every single day untroubled with the threat”.
The advice continues with “Attacks could happen anywhere, including on public transport and transport hubs and in other places visited by foreigners. You should be vigilant in public places.” Oh swell, a fucking bath of spiders then.
Since 2014, four terrorist attacks have killed 36 and injured 345, with another two major plots foiled – though bear in mind, one of them took the vast majority of casualties, the 2016 bombings of the airport and metro on the same day. But what makes Belgium, and more specifically, the now notorious district of Molenbeek in Brussels, such a hotbed? Well the country sits in the Schengen area of open borders, in a knot of small countries one can drive across or through within 2 hours or less, without heed or check to enter France and Germany to boot. These porous borders have allowed extremists to come and go between attacks and hide awaiting the next one, bless.
The anonymity of Brussels is also a point to learn from, whose neglect of Molenbeek, a working class area of 100,000, has become the perfect profile for a terrorist breeding ground – a struggling district left entirely to its own fate and representative of a city’s social apartheid. Where those of immigrant backgrounds (40%) do not get to share the same opportunities afforded to those of the middle or upper classes, or just purely White, or just purely non-Muslim backgrounds. Those who complain of facing racism every day from hate crime to quality of housing, while at work to the enforced lack of any. Despite the Islamic Molenbeek community at large being staunchly against the terrorism, sympathisers can be found more easily who will help or hide the perpetrators.
Not just Belgium’s glaring lack of social cohesion or investment has come under scrutiny, but also it’s relative lack of security infrastructure – with only about 1,200 personnel employed by State Security or its military counterparts in 2015, despite being the diplomatic capital of the world with its numerous EU, EEC, NATO and European organisations. Another 2,500 international agencies and 2,000 international firms call it home, as the de-facto capital of Europe precisely for its porous, terror baiting positioning, and despite its size. This lack of policing, both socially and with real officers, has thus allowed this small city to have easy access to black market arms also – like in America but with nicer backdrops.
But lets forget this unsavoury starter for the time being, Supermouse is not on some foray into social journalism or ghetto fabulous tour. Molenbeek, famed as it is, is not on the Grand Tourbus intinerary. Why Brussels? Well as a snap decision for a weekend in August, it’s the cheapest and only viable option for a foreign city break. Nearby Paris, Amsterdam and even Edinburgh demand hundreds from the wallet for the imposition of such short notice. The weekend will be all Tintin, waffles, beer, frites, mussels in Brussels, art nouveau, chocolate and pissing child statues. Lets just get through the A to B bit.
And what an Odyssey it turned out to be.
Part I. The Bus.
The trip there was as expected: arse numbingly uncomfortable, hellish and awkward. Supermouse, having safely procured a place at the back (what no end seat to lie down on like last time?) discovered every seat filled, and in the nearest proximity was bizarrely almost every fellow person of colour for some reason. Was this the culturally apt welcome to the divisive Belgian society to come? Are minorities more likely to turn up late? Well, turns out people with the most luggage (read: immigrants moving/ visiting between cities and laden with presents) took more time to load the luggage in the tiny, avalanche-prone hold, than the Eurotourists walking straight on with small backpacks. Thus the now luxuriantly spaced bottom deck we glimpsed before getting up here was filled with the worldly travelers of leisure, while two groups of families/ friends and all their baggage had come relatively late, to be relegated to the back of the top deck. One was a group of older Congolese men, one of whom I was sat next to and made fleetingly awkward convo with. Don’t think he liked me drumming his hat either to wake him to the wonders of the M2. Every now and then he’d look forlornly past at his buddies having a glass-clinking jolly two seats up.
On the other side was a group of Bruxellois ghetto girls, one nibbling KFC (at least she wasn’t flagrant about the fragrance), as talkative and infernal as they come, with the fat one periodically waking the skinny ones throughout the journey to point something out, admonish them for dropping off or announce she just had a thought about something. If a zombie apocalypse did actually transpire during the course of our epic, as it almost did the last time, I’m sure she’d be one of the first to go. And her mates finding the rope.
They were only interrupted once, by a waif of an Italian girl, the last of the last, finding a seat among them, and who made the very worst of social faux pas from the outset – assuming someone of colour is with the other people/ group of the same colour. She offered to swap seats with the young woman next to her so they could all stay together, before the group told her, no, she’s not with us either. The waif sat behind me on the back seat that cannot adjust or lean back, so I was polite enough to keep my own seat relatively straight, on a steep incline so as not to headbutt her, or ever have to look up, dreamlike during the night, into her nostrils. My older companion however had no qualms about leaning his back as far as it would go, and stretching out langourously while the poor girl behind, the excommunicated non-friend, sat like a squashed fruit in quiet indignity for the following 10 hour trip thinking about dead kittens.
And so it progressed a purgatory of Tryingtosleep with one’s eyes closed and twitching for hours to zapping lights, listening to the coughs, farts and endless conversations that formed a cocoon of bus wanker misery all around. I forgot my blow-up neck pillow thing. The man in front had headphones on watching some shite shoot em up, and bellowing stupidly to his girlfriend to compensate.
Then it was the joys of border control, the French side unbothered and holding a convo about snail recipes or something between the desks throughout the process, whilst the British side was more terse, its walls planted with the faces of the missing (heartbreaking pic of twin toddlers, from Tahiti), and lines of stern guards. Offset though by the ciggie-and-a-gulp fuelled boisterousness of the usual Brit ‘lads’. -Catcalling each other across the room and having a knees up in the queue, that you want to run away from, far into the night. But then you’d probably get electrocuted or tracked down by helicopter.
There’s a thing border control does with people of a certain background (think of the least English looking race) who claim to be British, and that’s to hold a seemingly good-natured chat while their fingers scatter alarmingly across the keyboard, checking and double checking deets, DNA and hologram lighting, and homing in on your best Home Counties accent as you chat about Marmite or summat. Suppose it’s better than not letting you get on your flight in Moscow as they phone the damn consulate.
But this was the first time in decades that hasn’t happened. The guy just waived me through after a simple ‘alright?’ greeting coming from me. I nearly hi-fived him.
Then it was back to The Bus of Broken Dreams. And The Ferry to Nowhere.
2. The Ferry To Nowhere.
Why is everyone running? Why is everyone looking like they’re on supermarket sweep? Are we sinking – is Townsend Thoresen about to go tits up? Worst – are we missing a fireworks spectacular over the White Cliffs? No, people are desperately scanning the joint for the very few sofas, finally pinpointed high in the drinking Lounge on deck 8, so they can sprawl luxuriantly, disgustingly horizontal. Giggling occasionally in their sleep, while everyone else wiles away the witching hours slumped like the fat paraplegics they really are in tiny chairs. Lounge class armchairs for the not-so-lucky elite, while everyone else is funneled into plastic chairs in the canteen, making dinnerless conversation with their ever-present family they know and love. Those who don’t get a seat, the groundlings, hover interminably between corridor, toilet, games arcade and shop, then back again over two hours, or hole up in the corner like a homeless person. The very last of the last, confronted with the sudden freedoms of despair, tend to lie in the middle of the floor, sometimes the bottom of the stairs. Preferably face up in an x shape.
Supermouse belonged to the middle class – the cafeteria set – but without parental faces to stare into, made do with snatching two seats from a pouncing family, and making a bed in which my legs sat while my body lay, like a cross class Centaurian. My anorak became a body bag, and the chair backs were turned from the corridor creating a hidey hole of space where I could freely pick my nose under the covers or stare at my phone time, but still I can’t get no sleep. Dodo doo dedodoodooo. It’s like trying to doze off on a fairground ride: the constant footfall and football chatter, the lurid lights every time I moved the wrong way, the lurching up and down and all around.
But soon enough it was over, and it was back to The Bus, and the last, listless miles to Brussels, where I woke after my first hour of sleeping in the crook of my shoulder, to rows of higgeldy piggledy houses and skyscrapers, each building unique, and walls of French signage. We were pulling into the northern quartier – once one of the prettiest parts of the capital but torn down to house the humongous Gare du Nord and later a new postwar Courbousien business district (of which they built, luckily, only 4 of the planned 20 tower-in-the-park monstrosities).
It was 6am in the morning, with an hour before the station’s Starbucks opened, and a good 4 hours to kill before the rest. Check in time at my hostel was at 3pm – a whopping full working day away. And supermouse is admittedly poor. And needs some sleep. I was thinking of getting off at Ghent, an hour earlier (and save me the daytripping train fare), then when realising we weren’t stopping began to look for inviting patches of grass verge in the business district.
The Gare du Nord, entering from bus level, is the empty waiting room of a de facto refugee village, many outcast from Calais’ napalmed Jungle Camp, and trying out a recently closed loophole of not needing a passport on the Brussels to Lille leg. Piles of people lined the sides sleeping surprisingly silently on flattened cardboard, a few insomniacs sat disconsolately staring off into space on a steel bench. I walked from one end of the complex to the other, blending in – 90s retro all in black – made me look one and the same. It’s only a matter of time before someone launches a website called Homeless or Hipster? My torn jeans, baseball cap and puffa anorak was the perfect camouflage here, as was my lack of Whiteness in a place – unlike London – where race underhandedly corresponds with class. Supermouse could be one of the Hazara, from Afghanistan, in droves in the same social habitats of rich European train terminals: Vienna, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris, Rome.
If you’ve been homeless before you’ll get to know instinctively where could proffer up a safe place, even warm (back in my youth my shining El Dorado came in the shape of a heated, street-level rooftop near the ICA, in Portsmouth it was a stairwell in the brand new quayside mall). The people here had conspicuously kept out of doorways, and access to any machinery or work station such as bank machines or security gates. I noticed a prime spot next to the ticket machines, but found it to be littered callously with broken glass, but finally bedded down outside a security gate that wouldn’t be used for the next few hours. Immediately some hoodies sidled up and began talking about the prone bodies to my left, which was unnerving, then proceeded to walk the room shouting in French and generally looking for response. Sociopaths – 1 in 25 of us – will find it irresistible to prey on those already fallen, which if you’re out of luck on the streets, will get to know well. I soon moved back further below which was more sparsely populated (worryingly so), but to another spot I’d checked out before, with a handwritten sign blaring its opening times in angry French. So I took my chances here, in the lobby, too near the front for warmth, and too distanced from safety with numbers, but infinitely more private. Three others shared the room, one of them snoring loudly and I realising his banishment from the main. A teenager, barely if at all 16, sat up and watched me occasionally from his spot just inside the doors, clocking me for what I was, a tourist.
I didn’t get no sleep, and bang on 8 the pharmacist came to open shop and I moved on, back up two floors to civilisation level. Here fellow travelers and backpackers arriving in from the street or more moneyed trains, slumped on benches, wary of or unbeknownst of those belowdecks, who were accessed by metro, then coach. Freshening up in the one public loo, queueing to wash faces and brush teeth (calm down! bottled water), my reward for the journey and teenage memories was splashing out on a mixed fruit tartelette at a cafe, run by one of those impressive Beneluxians speaking four tongues to a panoply of visitors (in this case on top of other ones – her French accented with African). In my book people clever enough to be fluent in 4 or 5 languages should be working in one of the EU HQs, not all night cafes.
Then it was the long wandering into town, through the tunnel, past the skyscrapers and a park. Now, one of the best pieces of advice when travelling is: get safely lost, if you see something that interests you, check it out, and if you see a park, go into it (even if you have to pay). So I back tracked and took heed, entering another world from what I’d experienced so far. There is no view without a skyscraper shouldering in, but hey, what a foreground. Semi-tropical planting interspersed with exotic notes of Mediterranean and northern European, regal French patterns and English natural styles, hidden coves, courtyards, water and statuary, all in a compact area straddling either side of a busy A road, conjoined by a bridge. These are the former botanic gardens once reserved for royalty (the new ‘national’ Botanical gardens outside the city still are, being open for only a few weeks a year to the great unwashed), complete with glass conservatory the size of a small palace and a legion of early morning joggers with those small yappy dogs you ache to kick.
All very nice, but I’m still a city boy at heart. Oh and I forgot to mention, it was raining. Slightly, but raining nonetheless. It would continue to do so for the next 24 hours. Come on, it’s Brussels.
3. The City of Questionable Monuments
Okay, first off Brussels had enough to deal with before becoming the menu du jour of global terrorism, and that was in shrugging off its reputation as a faceless, slightly insipid city of bureaucrats. Its inelegant streets, lack of visitor profile and star attractions ensured it was not on a first choice basis, shadowed by nearby heavyweights such as Paris and Amsterdam – even postcard perfect Bruges. The latter of which I visited in my student years, and while sipping beer by the banks of the leafy canal, lined with unlocked bikes throughout and beautiful youth from across the globe, concluded this was EuroParadiso. A later stage on that trip, changing trains in Brussels, was marked only by the aggressive touting of restaurateurs on the tourist strip of mussels and frites, and memorable sex shop windows.
But sometime in the mid noughties people began asserting that a place with a choice of 300 beers (added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in November), that invented chips, and has the best chocolate in the world couldn’t be all that boring. For a city of 1.2 million (metro 1.8 million) Brussels also usurps the adage that it has few monuments beyond a small statue of a peeing child, and the Grand Place (a stunning square with lots to see, but little to do). It has gargantuan buildings, not so obvious despite their size, by being squirreled away into various corners of the capital.
First off the Palais de Justice, the world’s biggest building on completion in 1883, and forming part of the unholy trifecta of a rumoured Masonic pyramid, mapped out by the Royal Palace at the other end of the Rue de la Regence, and of course the pointy tip of the City Hall in the Grand Place back in town. Its large size meant the forced relocation of many of the inhabitants of the Marolles district, after which ‘skieven architek’ or ‘crooked architect’ became a grave insult in the Bruxellois tongue; and drew the attention of those worshipping totalitarian size to compensate for more human, physical disappointments – Hitler had a soft spot for the place, sending off Speer in 1940 to study the thing. It is perhaps the dark past that this building has tried to be brushed under the carpet, but by God what a huge rug that would be. The biggest building built in the 19th century is perpetually under scaffolding as they clean its vastness in a neverending cycle, a riot of statuary and pillars, bigger than St Peter’s in Rome. Its 160m wide front is 150m deep, perforated by 8 courtyards, and topped by a gleaming dome climbing to 104m, weighing in at 24,000 tonnes. It houses an impressive 253 law courts, and must function like an elegantly subdued factory line of criminals and justice. I last visited some years back, when the vast hall was filled with gigantic Chinese paintings, seemingly life sized landscapes of mountains and water hanging in huge sheets draped off the far ceiling. Like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Next up, the art deco Basilica of the Sacred Heart, one of the Top 10 largest Catholic churches in the world. It’s 300ft dome is often mistaken for the Palais de Justice (how many massive domes can a small city have?) – which I found to my detriment by walking an eternal avenue south, then discovering much later I was walking west out of the city centre instead. Like the Palais, it’s largely ignored, being a 20th Century concrete building and therefore not really worthy of historical attention no, despite the fact it looks glorious. And like the Palais it comes with its own sorry baggage of negative connotations, built upon the bloodied backs (and sliced off hands) of the Congolese slave colony that Leopold II (aka as Leopold the Builder in Belgium, rather than Leopold the Bloody Mass Murderer) operated.
So vast a hellhole was his personal fief over one of the worlds largest and most populous countries back in the day, the Belgian government – after much haranguing from human rights groups not just in Belgium but across the world – was forced to take over it’s own king’s ransom, especially after the population halved (meaning a ‘loss’ of 10 million). A trade in butchered hands had become a local currency – body parts were evidence back in base of a kill of a villager, who had failed in supplying their rubber quota, so providing a bag of bloodied hands showed your officer you’d been doing God’s good work that day. Wiser villages caught on – instead of sending out all your people to desperately hunt and tap rubber from the forest on a likely futile quest, you sent them out to chop off the hands of the next village instead, then plead with the mercenaries to take that back as evidence.
This was a world where the psychopathic governor decorated his gardens with gallows and severed heads, and ultimately inspired Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Today a neon cross glows atop this bare, hilltop heart, offering sanctuary from the rain. Well, it can’t have been all that bad – refugees fleeing Belgian Congo for French Congo returned saying it was even worse there. Thankfully for these buildings, all court records were burned before the takeover, and we’ll never know how much inconvenient blood was spilled in making them, akin in symbolism to a very fancy concentration camp in all but record.
Yes there is another big dome – nine to be exact in the shape of the similar sized Atomium that stands testament to all things sciencey, and like all great landmarks with the verve and dare to get through the planning process (Eiffel Tower, London Eye)- intended as a temporary exhibit for the 1958 World Fair but stayed after due to its popularity. It’s nine stainless steel baubles represent the atomic structure of iron crystals, holding views over the city, a sadly non-revolving restaurant, and some spirited ideas of what on earth to fill the balls with. Exhibits concentrate on the 1958 World Fair and the companies that exhibited there, many now dead. If you’re particularly into the trials and tribulations of defunct Belgian airline giant, Sabena, this is your place. Sadly I had no inclination to revisit this monument to all-directions queueing, and it is a bit of a trek outside the centre. Also worthy of mention is the fact so temporary was its design that before its reinforcement in 2004 it could have blown down in an 49 mph storm, and that it’s top three balls are unreachable, ever since they found out they were utterly unsupported (the topmost one is available as it rests in the centre). However it does look fantastic and instantly instagrammable if you’re of that age and ilk. And that they’ve since replaced the exhibits with snazzier stuff like techno monkeys or something.
Other worthy sites of Brussels are of course the Grand Place, the exquisitely detailed central square accessed only by alleyways and easy to lose, surrounded by ornate almshouses and er, banks, but forming a space where the city can parade and display, for example the carpets of flowers every second year. I missed it by one weekend, though two central nodes of the design were up and running and made of fancy vegetables. They had fancy tents set up to give out flowery head wreaths to any passing children, which was awfully nice though discriminating: I had no kids to participate with despite my repeated attempts at procuring them. The place is the most beautiful spot in the city, and is jawdroppingly ornate, comparable to a large extended room of garrulous carving. Unlike the rest of Brussels it more or less dates to the same period, and marries its styles, hence the many unavoidable tourist snaps. Each building comes with a crowd of art and sculpture, in ever playful, competitive forms despite the uniformity of plot and theme. They say creativity flowers under restriction.
The rest of the city famously employed specific architects for specific buildings – insofar that every street is made up of a hotchpotch of differing styles and gap-toothed roof heights. This makes for an extraordinarily bespoke and intricate streetscape, but is far from grandiose. The city is undeniably early 20th Century rather than the more ornate 19th Century dominance you’ll see in central London or Paris, and has a more toned down, Mannerist style of blank walls offset by intricate corners or the odd flourish. It’s more famous art nouveau is also a must-see, though it is unfortunately as rare here as in other cities despite its stronger popularity (the movement died out as it was inordinately expensive to outfit so many bespoke carvings and organic lines against the machine age), with many of its greatest examples torn down in the last century. London thus may be less intricate but is more impressive, in scale and more blanketing style. But there is a whole world of charm in potential with Brussels; they just need more tweeness and window pots.
Brussels also suffers from the lack of any unifying street frontage, where shops openly disfigure the architecture above with heavy signage, plate glass and afterthought add ons. Much like London in the 80s and 90s, before traditional, less garish fronts and signs came back in fashion. In short the city can easily become one of the most unique urban streetscapes, but loses it to personalised (read: bad) choice, grafitti and fly posters. It would benefit from a touch of local government totalitarianism. From afar one can see the good humoured jostling of styles, much less so at street level, ensconced by neon signage for pool halls, black glass, and L’Oreal models telling us they’re worth it. But hey, that is its true face and a reflection of its cosmopolitan attitudes and people.
I never did get to see the Mannekin Pis, a 60cm boy having a pee – he looks utterly doll sized from the street – and that was built as a tongue in cheek water fountain back in the day, despite the urban myths that he’s some hero child putting out an attacking army’s fuse or a castle fire, or a statue given in thanks from a merchant whose lost son was found happily in flagrante as depicted. Okay I tell a lie, having looked at pictures – and realising the thing is dressed up in several changes of clothing each week (a competition is held and the winning costumes put in what must be a pretty dire, grasping museum) – I walked past that nondescript grey fountain many times, without looking. It keeps getting stolen. In 1963 a group of students from Antwerp held it hostage and tortured him mercilessly until more money for orphanages was procured, and apparently there are several rival statues across the country, some of which vie for supremacy by claiming to be an older original. One similar statue a few streets away is Jeanneke Pis, the more ‘relaxed’ female equivalent set up in 1987 for gender balance, and a lure to paedos the world over, because Belgium isn’t enough already.
Other Bruxellois attractions include the Royal Palace, Cathedral, large churches and museums dedicated to single artists or exhibitions, such as the excellent Magritte Museum or House of European History in the EU Quarter. They are however not as prominent as larger monuments or museums in sister cities, and don’t garner as much international attention. A new kid on the block however is Train World, easy to dismiss as the territory of transport enthusiasts, but apparently highly rated on TripAdvisor by many entirely normal, functioning people who have friends and kitchens and everything. This new museum is pretty much the Scharbeek Train station, and is an all sensory experience, described as a ‘Train Opera’ on its website, with snazzily spotlit wagons and engines from all the ages, where one can drive or sit in style, blow the whistle and even stay in the attached youth hostel made up of unchanged wagons or the swankier hotel made up of luxury carriages. You get the free run of the place, not dissimilar to London’s Transport Museum, but with bigger, updated spaces, choices and lights. This actually came to feature on my list, much to my surprise – until I watched the promotional video on its website.
The opening feature of a middle class Belgian family skipping through the station, is wrecked by Granny as she walks into the ticket foyer. Apparently she is as impressed and jaw-dropped into heaving silence by a clean ceiling and a wooden kiosk as she would be the diamond mines of Mars – you can practically hear her thinking privately to herself ‘ Mon dieu! I thought this would be just smoky old carriages and mechanics! What a stupid, out-of-touch fool wife I am, indeed.’ She takes the prize, along with her strikingly similar twin Jon Voight in Anaconda, for the golden teacup of overacting.
Her full performance can be viewed nightly here, till the end of time:
http://www.trainworld.be/en/video-train-world-an-unforgettable-adventure
As can her fleeting cameo with Hollywood
Anyway, enough of Snakes on a Train. I stationed myself for a bit near a gorgeous art deco cinema that provided free wifi from where I was, to lose a few hours as any despondent teen on a street corner, staring into a handheld black hole while I waited out a heavy shower. The streets were almost utterly devoid of life, but for two street sweepers having a fag I almost talked to, but hey my Inner Briton won through in the end. But then it was time for lunch, and anywhere I could recharge the phonage, leaking data into the ether. Everywhere with vaguely Belgic food charged upwards of 17 Euros for the plate of fine looking gravy laden stodge, and I just wasn’t in the mood for chips, a bit like how people can sometimes not be in the mood for sex. I settled on the cheapest option called WokUp off a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre.
4. Customer Service
I ordered in his best broken French, and the cashier put it through on the till, then just stood there expectantly. He didn’t say a price. We planted roots looking at each other like gunslingers. I finally had to look over at the till to see, and paid over a 20 Euro note for an 8 Euro meal. He only gave me 7 Euros until I made unhappy noises in French. No apology.
-What makes me think he did this on purpose is that (regardless of me being an obvious tourist):
1. He didn’t tally up/ tell me the price, rather obviously I may add. He just stood there like a big bearded lump of Belgium.
2. He gave me change for 15 Euros. A 15 Euro bill does not exist – and even if I’d given him a tenner and a fiver (which noone would do as it was 8 Euros), he would have to have given me the same fiver back. This is the most incriminating point,as Poirot would have surmised, with a little skip of his womanly behind.
3. He kept the till open, as if expectant of the off chance that I’d notice and cause a fuss – which I did. Ohmigod I’m even blogging about this in a bullet pointed tirade that’s going a bit too long.
One of three seems suspicious, all three is downright criminal – the fat thieving fat bar steward fat fathead. As is traditional with my Great British heritage, I smiled politely, thanked him, and proceeded to plot his and his family’s downfall with a strongly worded letter to his superiors that I’ll probably burn. The meal itself was utterly uninspired and bland, forking out 8 Euros (nearly 13), which for me is a lot for a packet noodle without the sauce, but at least I did get to charge my phone. Such 21st Century joy.
By now, believe it or not (where did the time go?) it was time to check-in. I made my way to my allocated hostel, the Sleep Well north of the Bourse – one of the closest and newest to the centre, but later that I discovered (from a passing vagrant) was near a semi-sex district and its edgy ‘characters’. Well check-in was absolutely GLACIAL, an all day affair. The Italian people, kids in tow, in front of me spent a good 20 minutes asking questions, filling in forms, looking for luggage, losing children, asking about the composition of air, and generally keeping the queue healthy and long, two lines in fact by the end of their all family inter sensory experience. I’d given up by then and was retiring on a big beanbag of dullitude in the foyer. I rejoined after boring looks of hatred at the lead witch and spitting at the baby when they weren’t looking – but soon realised it wasn’t entirely their fault.
The next guy took up 9 minutes somehow, while a second queue that had been patiently waiting for 15 minutes finally got the man to do two things at once – and hand over a key that had been sitting in front of him the whole time, after which everyone started swarming around getting their luggage out of a locked cupboard. There appeared to be a pattern developing, and I began, in my abject boredom, to turn my attentions to what was behind the desk: watching the concierge as one does a creature of rare and exotic brilliance.
Okay imagine your nan using the internet the first time, typing on the computer with one finger and constantly looking up at every move to check and double check it’s still there on screen. Imagine her searching methodically for letters on the keyboard like she’s doing a complex chess move. Now also imagine she’s blind – see her picking up any item from the desk – a card, a pen, a sheet of paper, and she feels it for a second, as if checking it’s really in her hand, before putting it to use, very slowly and carefully in case it ignites, disappears or transmogrifies into a fish. Reading something means she headbutts it and smears her head across the sheet. Okay he didn’t do this last one – but begad he was S-L-O-W. Possibly on some kind of spectrum. He was utterly incapable I realised of making a decision, or doing more than two things at once, or thinking about doing two things at once, as demanded by any service facing job. I could see his screen, and yes, it did look marginally complicated, but the rate at which he clicked the buttons was like watching a scared child pressing random buttons, one of which would unleash demons onto mankind.
To recap, taking an average 9 minutes to process one transaction means it takes one and a half hours to do ten people. It took 45 minutes to get to and through with me (luckily most of the queue had given up), without any of the ubiquitous info on the hostel such as the free breakfast place and time, where my room actually was, check out times or services offered etc, that I had to work out after. This was not an old, blind woman from the 1910s, but a well dressed, conversant man in his thirties, looking completely capable of drinking out of a cup without a straw. When a guy rocked up asking for a towel, he gave it to him for free, asking him to pay later when checking out as it just wasn’t possible to deal with it while the phone rang. And so the rabbit tunnel opened up of when and where and how the visitor could pay as he was staying 4 days (despite the till being right there). The man evidently couldn’t even work out change ad hoc, if he was in the middle of another transaction, but would happily make it even more complex than either option should be.
Later I looked at reviews of the place and every now and then there was someone completely unhinged with disbelief at how long it took to check in or out, or make any kind of desk interaction here. People who had had the luck of running into our resident Frankenstein. Later my room-mate told me his virginal experience took out a whole hour of his stay, and the guy in the lift I shared, clutching his freebie towel, said his last run-in was so slow, that two other employees had to come along to ‘speed things up’ (read: take over). Personally I think if he wasn’t on the spectrum, and those weren’t his carers, they should be charged with crimes against the 21st Century.
The room proved to be clean, but darkened, with a menacing lump on my bed. Someone had already taken it – a middle aged man face down in his Y-fronts – who waved me away to another bed. Turns out the old geezer was now taking up two beds, the fat fuck. Later while he was out, a young American turned up to share our room but found the last bed already in use too. Whereby much underhand, non-confrontational fussing ensued with several trips to reception, and to cut a long story short the selfish gimp got kicked out of his previous spot and had to make up two beds in order to go to sleep ha ha haaar. Then we set his hair alight and stabbed him.
5. Streetlife
The city is absolutely fucking impossible to navigate, especially with Supermouse too poor to use the live phone maps, and stuck with analogue 3D paper things that fold out and flap in the wind. Every street has two names, one in French and one in Dutch – sorry Flemish. Sometimes seemingly unrelated. Also the streets change names at every other intersection or curve – thus looking for a spot on the map means you may have to weed out 5 other foreign tongued representatives on the same patch. Or adversely the street will dodge in and out of other streets and turn corners, disappearing and reappearing at will with the same name. I would pore over the maps (one larger, one in more detail) for ages, advertising my tourist out-of-town credentials, just to find out where I was, then find out where I was going purely by recognising street layouts rather than trying to follow the name caterpillar. To boot not all streets were physically named, lacking signage on the corners, or obscured by some important public announcement for tampons or energy drinks.
Oh and the density of thoroughfares was mindboggling with the amount of blocks (hence two varying versions of the map, one for main thoroughfares and one blizzard-like, almost unusable artist’s impression showing detailed ratruns and side streets). Some blocks were only a few houses in area, creating more and more roadage or alleyways. Add on top the layer cake of overlapping pedestrian tunnels, underground streets and overhead bridges, plus sections of town cordoned off for a festival, and the fact there are so many alleys some of them are too small to be named on the map – as in they can’t possibly fit the double barrelled monikers into fonts so tiny, so are just a blank stretch. Case in point: to walk from the Grand Place in a diagonal to the next square a few hundred metres away, the Place Fontainas one has to navigate an ‘almost’ straight path southwest:
Grand Place de Bruxelles/ Grote Markt > Rue de La Tête d’Or/ Gulden Copstraat > Rue de Marché au Charbon/ Kolenmarkt > cross Rue du Midi/ Zuidstraat > turn right and reenter Rue de Marche au Charbon/ Kolenmarkt > cross Rue du Lombard/ Lombardstraat > turn left and reenter Rue de Marche au Charbon/ Kolenmarkt > cross the triangle of streets (Rue du Jardin des Olives/ Oliveteenhof/ unnamed on either side, so take the second exit) and follow it to Place Fontainas/ Fontainasplein.
Don’t worry you’ll get used to it. Like one gets used to prison, or pteranodon attacks. For the first time in my life as a geographer, I see the startling relevance of grid plans and postwar bulldozers.
So Brussels is one of those places you grow to love and hate, and it’s meant to be endearing for it, and not schizophrenia inducing in any way. This is a place so close to beautiful, so close to unique, so close to worldly. Its panoply of jumbled styles, streets and character is however offset with a large amount of emptied, can kicking spaces and districts, and a dose of boredom. It’s wealth of architecture disfigured and hidden by shop frontage, or plains of concrete and bureaucracy. Its culture and history obscured by modernity, and globalisation, while its globalised inhabitants enshadowed by loss of opportunities and ghettoisation. Its creativity, so evident on so many corners is still lost in the reduced size of the market, fitting for so capital a region but also so small a city. These are the kinds of judgements that one fixates on when sleep deprived, cold and down. Give me some good tummy bacteria and the place’ll transform I’m sure into history riddled architecture old and new, vibrant, complex society and each facade telling a tale.
One thing that did stand out a mile was the street art – and not just any of the ubiquitous stenciling, urban portraits or playful landscapes – but edgy, as in EDGY. A child being brutalised by knife-wielding, forceful hands above the shops, a headless, handless torso bleeding down the side of a tower block, a giant, puckering arse hole on an old factory. This is the kind of amazing shit that exposes the rest as merely illustrative, pacifying and pretty – by dint of its public nature – as any Hallmark greeting card. So what if a homeless drunk is holding a cute little robin on his finger, or war child a heart balloon? How very twee madam. Now look at that great big mural of a prostitute, legs askew, masturbating from a rooftop, like a giant fucking spider. That Marjorie, is street art.
It’s also a telling sign at the progressiveness and tolerance of the local councils that none have been removed despite the artist’s anonymity and resident’s complaints. Some long suffering Bruxelloises in Saint-Gilles (including the Catholic Institute opposite) fling open their curtains each morning to an 18ft cock, though must be said its charm grows on you as a talking point at dinner parties and family get-togethers. Apparently the same artist tried it in NYC and was painted out within hours. Brussels is quietly amazeballs.
My huge zigzagging walk through the city passed a festival of sorts, with some atmospheric crooning despite the bass, in the typical dark, sensuous tones the French like to sing in a way they think is infatuating. I realise now James Blunt singing to a stadium of crying people, eyes closed, shivering over the mike as he recalls some elegant ex on a tube train, looks absurd if you don’t understand the lingo. I could see perfectly from a vantage point surprisingly close to the stage, much closer than the paying audience, despite our little crowd being on a hilly pavement just outside the closed off area. A whole district had been cut off, which led me to fumble some more with the maps, like a barge in full sail/ pteranodon attack, but taking me into new directions – climbing sudden hills, steps, and overpasses and into tunnels, roundabouts, market places (food from every corner, another crooner belting it out to a small crowd beneath the overhanging stalls), skirting palace gardens (hushed, dusky atmosphere, and yet another far off crooner, this time mega sized and booming through the trees not unlike an unseen God, who maybe got a bit tipsy at the picnic), empty squares and urban meridians, and culminating in the southern district of Matonge as the sun set. – So-named after its Kinshasan counterpart, and almost as lively and mixed. Brussels, when the sun is up, must be a seriously summery place, buzzing with song on every corner, peppered with languid city gardens, fountains, markets, boom boxes and epic street loitering.
African businesses dominate in Matonge -though residentially not so – it’s an ethnic collection of high streets that lure their community clientele to shop and work, rather than to sleep there, and one of those ‘up n coming’ areas pioneered by the creative crew and estate agents à la Londres for areas with evident poverty or a history of rioting. Crossing from the important elegance of the Avenue Louise, one enters a crowded district of neon shopfronts, corner stores, independent eateries (both boutique level swanky and more down at heel ‘family run’), art nouveaux stand-outs, night shoppers, hustlers, diners, hipsters and solicitous dealers that cater to the steady footfall, spreading out in arterial waves from the busy main that leads from the metro station.
I parked myself in the the famous Soleil d’Afrique, a popular Congolese spot run by a bevy of the local teenage beauties and a battleaxe of an older proprietress. Shared tables (horror of horrors) pub bench style, but inside, by the window I got my own little space – well, being the only person inside how could I not – while the great and beautiful lorded it out on the pavement cafe. The proprietress hovered around the order desk to my right, barking at her feline minions like a prison guard, then switching every now and then to say something exceedingly polite to me in a wispy voice tinged with throat cancer. Although my French accent is great, my grasp of the language is not, especially when they talk back. Thus, I’m often mistaken as a fluent speaker, and I try and go along with it as far as possible before the whole charade collapses. I just nod, smile, occasionally curtsy, say merci madame, (entering proffered cars if I have to), as I did every time her great shining eye of Sauron came my way, a reply which would make her occasionally freeze and toddle off to the kitchen. Probably asking if I wanted more chilli, or sex, or cat milk.
It came to a toss up between Senegalese Yassa (lemon chicken) or peanut sauced wings on a mixed plate with Rwandan samosas (as far as I could tell the same as the Indian version but less spice), a mound of rice, sweet and sticky fried banana plus fried plantain. I chose the latter, and it was lovely and moreish, though not exactly fine dining, more Mama’s Own. The street was alive, constantly flowing with people from all walks despite the late hour, and my eerie was perfect for spying creepily and judgmentally on passing strangers, aka people watching. A manicured, middle aged couple who looked like visiting Eurocrats sat right outside my window, oblivious, the woman nibbling at her chicken legs with knife and fork, and her partner eviscerating it with oily hands and chomping teeth. At some point a fat drunk came asking for change, causing them to shake their heads and apologise profusely in the way nice middle class people do to mark themselves out as willing victims, and who finally allowed him to grab one of their legs before lurching off to the next table. Grabbing the chicken legs to go munching on that is, not to cop a feel of the good lady wife, though I’m sure that would’ve been on the cards any minute longer.
Then it was time to retire, make my lonesome way back to the hostel on the other side of town using the metro filled with partygoers and nighthawks, and wishing I had some nice Belgians to hang with, possibly snort lines off their calf leather dashboards and a fireworks tour of their family estate in Schlossburgerijken. But alas, it was to bed, and I was out like a light. Tomorrow would be a daytrip. You can exhaust Brussels in a day as much as it can you.
6. Ghent
Ghent. Pronounced Hhhhhhhhhent or sommat like that. Fell asleep on the train (loads of room, classy like), and woke up in Bruges, which is like on the other side of the country, a whole 15 minutes away. Panicked I managed to inveigle my way back onto another train going the other way (beware the difference between Ghent and Genk, two towns on polar sides, millions of miles from Brussels), calming myself from the situation of being lost on a foreign train network and somehow being trapped on a one way to Belarus or something, without your passport or proof of Britishness. Or being fined a thousand euros for not having a valid ticket. Prison, showers, soap, that kind of thing. The usual Brit-abroad scenarios conjured up in sleepless nights and tentative pauses before stepping off the plane.
Note to self: Belgium has the same conniving set-up as the UK with half the trains devoted to empty, bowling alley aisles, designer seating, open champagne bars, pet creches and mini golf playgrounds to entice people into setting up mortgages for First Class, while the other half’s crammed with the baggage, stains, screaming kids and neck tattoos of the non-Ladies and Gentlemen sitting on the bottom deck of the Titanic like doomed sardines. It also eats hats, left forlornly behind on warm seats.
Ghent is lovely. But almost too idyllic. Straight out of the main train station (designed by the local taxi boss and conveniently located a good few km from the centre) I began to walk into town, following a strip of neverending shops in the glorious morning sun, baking already by 11, and gradually getting more and more historic and beautiful in architecture. What was disconcerting however was the utter lack of streetlife, cars or open businesses. Sunday must be a major deal here, and I’ve heard rumour how on the continent everything shuts down, even the electricity and pigeons. This was it, the great State of non-Emergency, by law.
I was looking for food, getting a pastry from the only open shop (probably black market), a sweet little bakery near the station. Okay truth be told there was a speakeasy 7-11, too, surreptitiously selling me elderflower fizz. But beyond that, and for the next 2 hours I was alone like a Chernobyl tourist, but with better buildings.
They were gorgeous, one street approaching the canal/ river filled with houses with their dates painted on, from the late 17th/ early 18th Century – their styles morphing in line with the change of century, and their ground floors normal run-of-the-mill shops. In London that rarity of age would have preserved it rather than being handed over to a cooking supplies store or a branch of WH Smith. But then in London it would have also probably been gutted into a home for the super rich, and entirely taken out of the public sphere forever. There were loads of cool looking independent shops and eateries, with enticing menus and interiors glimpsed from behind the glass – and entirely closed. But I’m sure would be buzzing on any other day, making the town more of a city.
On reaching the first square, a few pedestrians turned up, with some posh people sunning themselves at palatial cafes. We all stopped to watch an entertaining argument between a teenage, wrong-side-of-the-trailer-park yoof, low on his bike and studded with tattoos, buzzcuts, clinking gold, oozing ethnic minority and piercings, who had stopped to reply back to one of those old, slightly tragic widowers who have nothing better to do but check things are being adhered to in the neighbourhood, such as keeping to correct lanes or stopping at lights, or tying ones laces together. The young man had challenged the older, who huffed himself to full height in tailored suit, and dawdled shakily forward – a bit sad as we could see he was scared and about 103. But when it became clear the yoof was not going to do anything but argue, the old geezer started to rant, safe in the knowledge of his public self righteousness, and I ended up feeling sorry for the chav being told off repetitively in front of all. We clapped at the end and threw stones at the kid, until he drew out a machete and chased us.
I reached the city centre, now full of sudden crowds of tourists, snapping a legion of medieval, baroque, Gothic and Leopoldian monsters of towers, turrets, gargoyles and lacy intricacy. One scene I snapped, lined up from the bridge, took in a vista of three – no four towers aligned in a row, and one of the few places in the world to allow such a picture postcard without a zoom. One remarkable building leading up to a grand cathedral, was much more recent – probably in the last few years, and looking much like a wonky roofed barn. It stood on stilts and created an empty, cavernous space as an approach to the Gothic finery. I wasn’t sure what the use for it was other than a gargantuan bus shelter but it looked fab and dynamic (rather than fighting with the surrounding historicism it complimented it somehow), and was probably used as a community gathering spot or marketplace. The streets were full, the sun was out and the crowd chattering – yet still not an affordable eatery in sight. I mistakenly sat at one great looking outdoorsy place only to realise my intended meal was a child’s one, hence only 15 Euros. In the end, after much embarrassed apologies, backtracking and forays down emptying streets I had to answer my growling stomach and settled for a goddamn kebab, the only thing I could afford. Though the Moroccan Merguez sausages were nice, it’s not what I had in mind, which was more on the Moules et frites, or Great Big Belgian Stew a la Ghent which, by all offers I had passed, came attached with the Queen of Belgium as your waitress and some diamond studded plates.
Promising start, not so promising end. I almost missed Brussels. Everywhere was history, art and bon vivante, just not so accessible on a Sunday. Then I walked back to the main square, and lo and behold, another much larger space opened up, studded with cheap, good looking Belgian food in Bavarian bierhaus structures, staffed by winking models. Stew a la Ghent was everywhere.
Oh FFS Tintinland. I scuffled my way across the bridge, getting tired already of the tourist pizzazz and dearth of local life… only to come across local life. In spades. Turns out every fucker in town is at a big fuck off street party, held this very weekend in summer, with a veritable labyrinth of alleyways and backstreets holding a neverending bric-a-brac fest (known as the Patershol market), interspersed with song and dance, freely flowing beer and wine, kids amok, books stalls and art galleries. Ohmisweetwaffleygod. I have to say, having traveled the world, this was a snapshot of society at its best – community everywhere you looked, welcoming outsiders as well as family – safe, vibrant, child friendly despite the alcohol, cheap despite the classiness, inhabited despite the city centre location, livable despite the history. Everyone seemed to know everyone, and I made a friend for a few seconds, being approached by a sozzled old lady in a crammed church courtyard, who gave me her drink – spiked I’m sure. She was leaving a local choir (an indy band in competition round the corner), with freebie food and endless communal tables, trying to chat to me in tipsy Flemish before her husband came along and bundled her into the boot.
Buffalo! Buffalo!
This Watchtower scene of social nirvana I realise is where all those infamous Belgian taxes end up, and strive for. The country has the highest income tax in the world at 42% – going toward the creation of a safe, laissez fair society (despite all the state support), open to all if not exactly mollycoddling them. Leaving people more or less to their own devices, albeit given a helpful hand in social security, almost-free healthcare and education, including university. This is when Belgian society can go awry however – its openness can, for example, be exploited by crime or terrorism, it’s live-and-let-live attitudes can lead to the political neglect of entire communities of the less well off and vulnerable, despite the contribution. It seems it just needs better planning. And yet through all this, the country, in contrast to its size, still manages to punch well above its political weight – having secured itself as a capital of a whole continent for starters, and enjoying an enviably high standard of life in education, culture, healthcare and economic diversity. This is the kind of country that can struggle to fill a central city street or club on a weekend, but holds the largest music festivals in the world, where it’s local cuisine can be summed up by a handful of dishes, but is studded with more Michelin stars per head than any other Western country. It is a dichotomy. And it seems this stems from the fact the last step of the process often appears missing: historic buildings protected through the ages, but let go to graffiti, advertising and plate glass in the last instance. Poor communities propped up with funds but with little end direction, and little to face for the future except more state dependence. Where an exciting panoply of events, movements, sights and institutions is not garnered by a single vision or plan. A remarkable society sullied (as in all societies) by those who fall through the net; a proud history distinguished only by a dictatorship or two, a society as equally riven as united – or united by its divides.
It works the other way too. Belgium, for a small country lacking in a global profile other than infamous bureaucracy, famous dishes people think are French, and slightly un-PC but adorable comic characters, is very, very diverse, as unique and independent as its architecture, each home different from the next. Myriad art movements, cuisines, peoples, languages, music, old and new institutions, architecture and history in the making, on every street corner yet mostly unknown beyond these narrow borders, all in a tight-knit ball of a country, sedate on the outside, riddled with complexity on closer inspection.
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To sum it up Belgium is a bit like a large operation downsized. It does indeed have its pool of talent, but with limitations from sheer lack of size, yet finding itself the capital of something much larger. It’s a bit like your family suddenly finding out they’ve inherited Apple. Your mum, who’s normally in charge of the household strings and does a lot of the shopping at Tesco becomes Director, while Dad, who’s the main breadwinner having worked in office admin for 30 years, and is an amateur gardener to boot, becomes CEO to direct where the company grows. Your sister Laura who got a B+ in her AS Level Art, gets to be the Creative Director Designer of Everything, and Auntie Julie who worked in Boots is Head of Sales And China And Stuff. You really like Radiohead (never missed a gig), so that sensitivity puts you in charge of HR, communications and all the staffing, while your 12 year old nephew Axel, who’s pretty good at Streetfighter gets to manage, design and make the tech.
And they more or less make a good job at it to boot. Okay Laura did have a meltdown or two, your emails had to be sent twice each time to different OS’s, and Axel spent a bit too much time ‘researching’ Tekken with his mates. And the workers occasionally went on strike, especially after you forgot the holiday pay to the cleaners, many of whom come from the previous company you took over. -But more or less the firm stayed afloat and the employees stayed loyal (though mum and dad are fighting again and have split the brand in two, after endless talks involving lawyers and votes over their languages and political backgrounds). Apple still progresses forward, spawning myriad products old and new, and still a great place to work.
I sometimes wonder how all this multitudinous life and culture is quietly being lived in one place – and quietly missed by everyone else in the world. It may have its workplace battles, but Belgium is glorious; it grows on you.
It was time to head back. I’d developed a migraine and was missing a bed in a dark hole. Alker / Alkie Seltzer XS btw, does the trick like no other, coupled with a smooth, almost too speedy train ride to snooze in. Back in Brussels I picked up my baggage from the locker station, then proceeded to loiter my way toward the night time pick up. I headed back to the hostel, and dozed in their snazzy common room despite having checked out a day ago. There’s nothing like the luxury of boredom sometimes, when everything has been go-go girl for a while.
I made my way out to find somewhere to eat – having forgotten it was Sunday night and thus a cardinal rule to break curfew. I might as well have gone out looking for Sasquatch. I’d left it too late, past ten – and the only place that was open in the dense web of streets outside was a posh looking hotel dining room on the pedestrian shopping strip. Which of course was merely pretending to be open, with all its menus, candles and tables laid out, and me sitting there like a lemon before the waitress informed me it was all a work of fiction. Learning a culture, or getting to know a place can be an infuriating process – you learn through mistakes most of the time, and you can’t slap people.
I hunted down a few neon signs, only to find they were bars, a sex shop (do places still have those?) – or worse an utterly empty reception, and immaculate red tables in rows, with a single proprietor slumped lazily in the corner. Not a menu in sight this time. No drinks behind the bar, no computer or stationery at the desk. It was of course a front for a brothel, the cheap rooms upstairs frequented by the genuinely poor and transient, as well as the workers of the night (and day again). I was told because one of those immensely dodgy looking people in faded sportswear and red eyes approached yelling if I wanted something? What was it I was looking for? And in English – which of course means you simply MUST admit to being able to understand if you do. FOOD I said – no drugs, no women, and he told me what was what, and where to go, bless him. Not the next street, but the street after that. He punched his chest: ‘I’m one of the good ones’.
No gang or accomplice or nest of vampires lay in wait round that corner, but there was indeed a fast food Mexican wrap place. Very swanky looking, whose clientele were made up of a few young tourists from the hostels, and the multi-ethnic yoof of the city having a quiet chat and a phone charge in the free portals. The sofas though were cordoned off in case we all got frisky suddenly and started dancing on them. I put my order through to a direct and speedy young woman – and as mentioned before, my French is quite convincing – but I have trouble understanding the blur of words they stream back. I switched to English and her demeanour softened, she even managed a smile. Brussels is one of those rare, rare places where tourists aren’t quite subhuman yet. The wrap was good, but nothing to wri…
It was time. The hour. The bit I was dreading, but now welcome to just get over and done with.
The Oddyssey Part VII
The bus was gonna be late. The company kept sending an automated text to tell us – first 10 mins, then 30 mins, then radio silence, to ratchet up the tension. The crowd waited restlessly behind the huge looming bulk of the darkened Gare du Nord, seatless and apprehensive. Every time a coach turned up a hundred heads would swivel as one in the dark, like creepy meerkats, and follow its route down the street. One turned out to be a false flag, parking itself round the corner and getting everyone to chase it futilely before the driver, fending us off with a pitchfork, started shouting it was for Rome or Taipei or somewhere. Not London, doyenne of the civilised world.
The bus finally turned up in a bad mood from the start, the drivers shouting at the people too busy trying to get their luggage in the hold to form a proper queue (two lines were needed, one for luggage, one to check the papers before getting on). It was each against everyone else, you versus the world. One woman walked to the front of the door queue from the side, and noone challenged her because she looked like someone who would want you to. Satisfyingly the driver wouldn’t let her on as she had two tickets and her husband was trying to put a small boat in the hold, so couldn’t be present – only those physically with their tickets would be allowed to board. She tried no less than three times the same trick, as if he’d magically forgotten what she looked like after 15 seconds, before she started shouting what was his problem and that she’d been at the front of the queue the whole time, and he was letting people on in front of her. He shouted back just as vigourously. I sensed this was gonna be the general theme for the rest of the night: shouting, tired people, frayed nerves, stress, loneliness, regimentation, suspicion and darkness. The demon of border crossings again.
The theme continued inside. A posh looking Chinese mother and her two small boys had managed to claim the best seat in the house, surrounding one of the front tables, when someone asked if he could occupy the last seat. She shook her head obstinately – obviously a ghost had taken residence there, and would continue to enjoy the last comfy space for the entire journey. I stared delicate evils at her and could see her going defensive, her face becoming a mask of mother bear intent and hidden weapons at the ready. But it gradually lessened, then faded into fatigue and humanity as the bus started up, then began the drive to the distant ferry port. Sometime in the night I dozed off on some empty highway.
Sometime at about 2am some Mancunian decided to make a braying call about his home extension to every contact he could find on his phone, all six of them. One of those people who are so loud, and so overtly confident about how very wrong they are you hesitate to react, and thus forever miss your window to shut the fucker up. Every person on the bus awoke, and listened intently to the wonders of his new conservatory, then some gossip about some saggy arsed work colleague who was ill, and the weather, in that order. Who the fuck is up at this time to listen to this shit? Us, evidently. At some stage I think he got strangled and it was back to the streets with no name.
We awakened with a bump, onto an almost identical ship, with the identical set up as last time – splayed bodies, wandering souls, excited kids, desperate parents – except this time the thoughtful, heedful staff had closed off the entire cafe’s seating area with a line of chairs, leaving 80% of the passengers to wander like mall rats without a mall – I mean, who wants to straighten up a few hundred plastic chairs every 2 hrs eh? I managed to bag a two-seater round a minuscule table in a row that lined the corridor, along with the lucky few, that fell into deep, ponderous sleep to the constant sound of people walking past. Ah, those teenage years again.
A change in ante woke me to find a huge queue all around – the ferry was nearing Dover, just in time for the sunrise. As the black windows lightened to reveal the endless ocean, numerous African families became entranced, many of the kids – and adults – as if seeing the sea the first time. They watched, crowding round the windows, the kids running back and forth, and creating breaks in the Berlin Wall of chairs that the adults tentatively but satisfyingly swarmed through, lulling into occasional silence as the undeniable beauty of the white cliffs hove into view. I wondered romantically if it was the first glimpse of Blighty for some, and what future generations would stem from this moment. I know for some, it would be through the gap in the door of a truck belowdecks. Some people were clamped in private cocoons of silence to the far windows, staying until even the queue had walked off to rejoin our vehicles.
I felt the need once back on the coach, and waited patiently outside the loo door as people got on. After about 10 minutes I suspected noone was in, and asked the driver’s assistant, who went apopleptic with disgust that I had chosen now to go, and not on the ferry, and that the loo was blocked, and how my psychic abilities were frankly disappointing. But yeah, I’d spent that precious time bagging a seat I couldn’t leave, and queueing up after mister, and so what, I shouldn’t have to explain myself, and I have every damn right to go looking for monkeys after leaving the monkey market if I wanted to. But I just went, ‘okay, thanks’. He stopped then to look at me through his specs with the kind of silent hate reserved for people who just ran over your cat, an especially creepy few seconds. Then followed me as I turned and walked back to my seat, remonstrating to my back, and all passengers around how he couldn’t be-lieve I had had all that time. At that point I turned and told him, you know what, he didn’t need to tell me off about it. He then went to the front, venting to the driver like a spoilt child, and one that must have had many, many years of being bullied for his specky, whiney ways. The driver sighed resignedly, then went to make a tired announcement that the loo was blocked, and to tell the passengers they had had ample time on the ferry. The woman on the other side of the aisle, then went: ‘what the fuck is his problem?’
Indeed. Where to start, other than to say, this is a microcosm of the West, of capitalism, of Brexit. Those who can only afford to globe-trot in bus style will be treated accordingly, all you huddled masses, where we can get away with servicing you in ways we wouldn’t dare with the middle classes, on our coaches, our ships, our tannoy systems and cordoned off eating establishments. I wouldn’t dream of tarnishing the good name of the carrier that so exemplifies the sliding scale of customer care to money parting, to remind us of our social contracts in life. But FLIXBUS, booked through the Megabus website, happens to be a Europe-wide transportation fitting specialising in either humans or livestock – can’t quite remember – and that made the most of native German deregulation in 2013. It is slowly, inexorably taking over as a monopoly over 80% of the national market already, and just bought Megafuss, with a shining face turned toward the rest of the continent. Its drivers, so attentive and projecting to their customers, work long hours for low pay in the magic scale of subcontracting services that cannot reasonably be fulfilled. They also have to clean the buses or sell snacks during what is deemed “free time” to avoid exceeding limits for time at the wheel.
I look at the coal dead eyes of the Megabusman, hand picked as the brand model from the bleak Northern townships of England, and see in him, his perpetually smug smile, his back-of-the-bus stature, all that is writhing and unkempt beneath the skin of our so-called communities, pulled across like a yellow balloon. As Megabusman wends his way through the dense history, thousand faces and mineral tongues of the exceptional continent, its teeming cities, echoing antiquity, efficient institutions, and modern largesse like so many crowded layers to wade through, that beaming potato smile will forever enshrine itself as an unchanging icon of the place, this great reef in a panoply of style and friction.
May Megabusman forever be remembered, if not long may he live. May his little cap float innocently over the riverine multitudes clammering below the grate, like a feather on the Kent tide. May his beatific smile haunt our marbled dreams like a glowing jellybaby of rumination. May his blue-black eyes always grace our collective memory, penetrate our perceptions, like the ever seeing, ever knowing face of stone idols impervious to our struggle. Oh Europe, you, temptress of the West with your unlimited autobahns and chocolate fountains, I do like your style. At times edgy, at times shit, at times glorious, at times deeply consoling, but always beautiful and strange. Europe, you absolute slag you.
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World’s oceans were the warmest in 2019: Study
According to the researchers, the 2019 ocean temperature is about 0.075 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average
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By AuthorPTI | Published: 14th Jan 2020 5:59 pm
Beijing: The world’s oceans were the warmest in 2019 than any other time in recorded human history, especially between the surface and a depth of 2,000 metres, according to a study.
The study, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, also found that the past ten years have been the warmest on record for global ocean temperatures, with the last five years holding the highest record.
According to the researchers, the 2019 ocean temperature is about 0.075 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average. To reach this temperature, the ocean would have taken in 228 Sextillion Joules of heat, they said.
“The amount of heat we have put in the world’s oceans in the past 25 years equals to 3.6 billion Hiroshima atom-bomb explosions,” said Lijing Cheng, an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The international team of 14 scientists from 11 institutes across the world, call for action to reverse climate change. The researchers used a relatively new method of analysis to account for potentially sparse data and time discrepancies in instruments that were previously used to measure ocean warmth specially from the ocean surface to 2,000 metres deep.
The newly available data allowed the researchers to examine warmth trends dating back to the 1950s. The study also includes ocean temperature changes recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US.
The two independent data sets indicate that the past five years have been the warmest on record for global ocean temperatures. The researchers also compared the 1987 to 2019 data recording period to the 1955 to 1986 period.
They found that over the past six decades, the more recent warming was about 450 per cent that of the earlier warming, reflecting a major increase in the rate of global climate change. “It is critical to understand how fast things are changing,” said John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas in the US.
“The key to answering this question is in the oceans — that’s where the vast majority of heat ends up,” Abraham said.
The researchers noted 2019 broke the previous records set in prior years for global warming, and the effects are already appearing in the form of more extreme weather, rising sea levels and harm to ocean animals.
According to the researchers, humans can work to reverse their effect on the climate, but the ocean will take longer to respond than atmospheric and land environments.
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Tenovus Scotland has celebrated its Golden Jubilee with Gala Concerts by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and world-renowned violinist, Nicola Benedetti, at the Caird Hall in Dundee on 5th October, at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on the 6th, and at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on the 7th. All three occasions were a great success, and a big thank you is due to all those who attended and gave us their support. They were evenings of wonderful music and a splendid way to mark our 50th Anniversary.
At the pre-concert receptions we had the pleasure of seeing old friends again, and welcoming new ones. We were delighted that Ms Benedetti, who is now an Honorary Vice-President of Tenovus Scotland, was able to join us at the concert intervals to chat to our guests. At the Glasgow event, she presented a certificate to Calum McMullen, recently appointed to a three-year PhD Scholarship at the University of Strathclyde under the Princess Royal Tenovus Scotland Medical Research Scholarhip scheme.
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Sarah Carmack is an active freelance oboist in the Twin Cities and performs regularly with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Sinfonia, Vocalessence, and other local ensembles. Sarah plays solo oboe at several local churches, and frequently gives chamber music recitals. She completed graduate studies at the University of Minnesota after receiving her undergraduate degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In addition to teaching private studio oboe, Sarah gives masterclasses on performance, reed making, and knife sharpening at high schools and colleges throughout the state. Sarah processes and sells oboe reeds and cane to order, repairs oboe gouging machines, and greatly enjoys teaching other oboists about the art and science of cane, machines, and reed knives.
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Is Your House Haunted? Call Paranormal Spectrum Investigations BC
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The definition of the word paranormal is that which can not be explained by science. But what is the paranormal? Sure, the first thing that comes to mind is ghosts or spirits. But there is so much more to it than just that. In fact, there is quite a broad spectrum to the subject and there really is quite a bit that science can’t explain. That’s where Paranormal Spectrum Investigations BC comes in.
We are a non-profit team of paranormal investigators that have many years of experience investigating and researching the paranormal field. The team is co-founded by friends, Aimée Bucholtz and Mike Lutke. Aimée brings over 10 years experience as a lead investigator, researcher and case manager. Mike comes to the team with 3 years of investigative experience as a lead investigator and social media manager. Both of us have an unparalleled passion for not only the paranormal but also for helping people find answers for things that go bump in the night (or day). It’s our goal to do what it takes in order for our clients to feel comfortable in their homes or businesses. ]
We like to take a scientific approach using some of the latest paranormal investigative tools but also keep it simple by using some very common household items. We are not afraid to try new methods of investigation nor will we dismiss theories and ideas that have not proven to work well in the past. It’s our ideology that just because something didn’t work before doesn’t mean it won’t work now. When it comes to the paranormal, the more creative you are, the better. At least that’s what we believe.
Our team also has a healthy dose of skepticism and belief in the paranormal. But, that being said, we’ve had enough unexplained events happen to us that it keeps us coming back for more. We’ve been touched by unseen presences, heard disembodied voices and seen things with our own eyes that many would not believe unless they were there too. And this is all in the confines of the Lower Mainland area!! To say that this region is a paranormal hot spot would be an understatement.
While it is not up to us to tell our clients if their home or business is “haunted”, we will provide them with peace of mind and some suggestions on what we believe may be the cause of their concerns. Sometimes all it is, is an overactive imagination or noisy pipes in the walls!
Our team is the newest to join the paranormal landscape in the Lower Mainland. We are based in the Surrey/Langley area, but also willing and able to accept possible residential, historical or business investigations in other communities in the region. We plan to begin operations on October 1st.
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For those that would like to follow along and see what the team is up to or just have a general interest in the paranormal, we can be found on Twitter @ParanormalSI_BC on Instagram @paranormalspectrumbc and on Facebook at Paranormal Spectrum Investigations British Columbia. We can also be found on the web at https://www.paranormalspectruminvestigationsbc.com where we provide information for everyone’s paranormal needs in Surrey and the rest of the Lower Mainland.
Not to sound like a certain movie from the 80’s but if there is something strange in your neighbourhood… well, we will leave the rest up to you but we wouldn’t rule out being contacted. We are Paranormal Spectrum Investigations BC and we are ready to help find answers for you.
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Interview with DJ Heer for the Canucks Diwali Night
On October 25th, the Vancouver Canucks will be celebrating their 3rd annual Diwali Night before and during the game against the Washington Capitals. There will be a flashmob, and live performances by Jazzy B, DJ Heer, and DJ BIG. And also complimentary South Asian food samples in the concourses.
Diwali is one of the world’s most celebrated festivals and the name itself means “row of lighted lamps” with light symbolizing the triumph of good over evil, prosperity over poverty and knowledge over ignorance.
We’ve interviewed DJ Jovan Heer, who now lives in Surrey, to learn more about him and the upcoming Diwali Night.
Being a huge passionate fan of the Canucks and of music, you’ve combined both to help spearhead the Diwali Night. How did that happen and what motivated you to take action?
I’ve always been a fan of Punjabi and Bollywood music ever since I was a kid. I saw a huge opportunity to do something with the Canucks as their is such a big South Asian community in the Vancouver area. 3 years ago I reached out to Ryan from the Canucks, who was in charge of organizing special events, on Twitter saying that we needed to have a night that celebrated the South Asian community in a way.
A few months later, I received an email from him asking me if I wanted to DJ on the plaza outside of Rogers Arena and I was shocked that it was actually going to happen and that I would have the opportunity to DJ for my favourite team. The first year was an amazing experience, after I DJ’ed on the plaza I was able to go to where Jay Swing was DJing and was able to see how everything operated up there and also got to share the floor with the likes of Jim Benning, Trevor Linden and many more prominent Canucks figures up in the press box during intermissions and at the end of the game.
Last year was even bigger when E3 Entertainment got involved and they made the event even bigger and better with the addition of more performances and the Crown Prince of Bhangra Jazzy B, myself and the Q-Town Productions team also DJ’ed on the Plaza along with a Bhangra flashmob. Diwali night has become a huge deal and is making news all over as this is an event everyone wants to attend. The Hockey Night In Punjabi team is also another huge factor in this night as they have grown very much in the past few years and have brought in a whole new demographic of fans with the Punjabi commentary as now families are now all gathering together watching games.
How did you get into DJ’ing and who are your main influencers?
I’ve always had a passion for music growing up as a child, my parents would play music and I would dance for hours listening to it and singing along. When I realized that I could do what I love and be the life of the party with the music I play it was something that I just couldn’t pass up. I had mentors in Edmonton who I worked with under the Pure Entertainment name and I also took some classes with Night Vision Music as well that helped excel my skill level. My main influencers have to be Jazzy B, Malkit Singh and Notorious BIG as they’ve made me a huge Bhangra and Hip Hop fan.
You get booked to perform in different countries. How does that feel?
It’s honestly a surreal feeling having the chance to not only travel but to perform in front of sold out crowds of hundreds to thousands of people along with performing alongside some of the biggest performers in the Punjabi music industry.
What would you like to see more of in terms of both the music and hockey culture in Surrey?
I think right now everything is going great with the culture. We have Hockey Night in Punjabi with Punjabi commentary and broadcasting, there are many South Asian players on ice and ball hockey teams so parents are now investing the money and putting their kids in these leagues. E3 Entertainment has done a great job working with the Canucks making sure the experience of the entire night is a success and fans are enjoying the entire night.
What is one piece of advice you can give to aspiring and rookie DJ’s and music producers?
Marketing is everything in today’s day and age. The harder you work, the more you put out there, the more successful you will be. There are plenty of talented DJ’s out there but so many are so resistant and don’t make the time to put out mixes that fans can listen to.
How do you balance being a DJ, working a full time job, and the rest of life?
It’s all about balance. It’s a lot of juggling things and a lot of nights with no sleep but in the end if it’s going to make you successful and set you up for the future then it is all worth it. Not only am I working full time and DJing but I also have my own radio show on Rukus Avenue Radio and am a music journalist for Simply Bhangra the world’s largest South Asian music website as well. It’s tough to handle at times but it’s something I enjoy doing.
What can fans expect at the Diwali Night?
Fans can expect another Diwali night full of music and dance. We will be performing on the plaza outside of Rogers Arena prior to the game and their will be many other plans for the night as well. The highlight of the night will be the performance of Jazzy B who is one of the top Punjabi music artists of all time.
What are your predictions for the game against the Capitals?
I predict a 4-2 win for the Canucks, we are 2-0 on Diwali Night.
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Surrey – In 1992, Nancy Innes was playing and coaching basketball at SFU when she saw a recruitment flyer for the Surrey Fire Service (SFS). The then 26-year-old student applied and soon realized women firefighters were a rarity. In fact, at that time, there was no glass ceiling to break because there were no full-time female fire fighters in the Metro Vancouver area. On September 14, 1992, Nancy Innes became the first of two full-time female fire fighters to join the Surrey Fire Service and eventually rising to the rank of Fire Suppression Captain.
“Women fire fighters are not uncommon today, but 27 years ago they were non-existent in Lower Mainland fire departments,” said Mayor Doug McCallum. “Nancy Innes is truly a trail blazer and inspiration for women who want to make a career out of firefighting. I want to congratulate Captain Innes for the long, distinguished and groundbreaking career she has had with our Surrey Fire Service.”
The Surrey Fire Service is proud of its progressive and barrier-free approach to its recruitment.
“I want to commend Captain Innes for her contributions to the Surrey Fire Service,” said Fire Chief, Larry Thomas. “Nancy is proof that women can have long and fulfilling careers as fire fighters. As Nancy moves into a well-earned retirement, I know her pioneering work will inspire other women to fill her place within the ranks of the Surrey Fire Service.”
Currently, the SFS has 40 women in its uniformed ranks in roles ranging from frontline firefighting and dispatch to Assistant Fire Chief. The SFS offer “Women in Firefighting” workshops designed to enhance recruitment of women to the fire service.
City of Surrey’s Manager of Parks, Neal Aven, accepts the BCRPA Excellence Award for Forsyth Park along with the parks planning team, Mickella Sjoquist, Ted Uhrich and Tim Neufeld.
Surrey, BC | On May 2, 2019 the City of Surrey was honoured at the 2019 British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) Excellence Awards, winning two awards in recreation and parks leadership. The awards ceremony, held in Whistler, B.C., recognizes innovation and service excellence that enhances the quality of life for British Columbians though the power of recreation and parks.
“The City of Surrey is committed in its vision of creating a healthy, green, and inclusive community for our residents and all who use our parks and recreational facilities,” said Mayor Doug McCallum. “We are honoured to receive these awards from the British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association. Never to rest on our laurels, we will always be looking for opportunities to improve the quality of life for our residents through our parks and recreation programs.
Surrey’s MYzone afterschool drop-in program was recognized with the prestigious award for excellence in fostering healthy child development and community connectedness. MYzone is a drop-in program provided to children during the critical after school hours to create safe, affordable and high-quality programming for children, aged eight to 12. BCRPA noted that the city’s commitment to extensive public consultation for the MYzone program was considered for the award, which resulted in growing the program from pilot project to permanent program, aligning with Surrey’s ten-year strategic plan.
The Forsyth Park transformation project was also recognized and awarded at the ceremony, celebrating the city’s work in transforming the 7.5 acres of unused parkland, to a social destination that attracts and brings together the whole community. In late 2017, the new Forsyth Park was formally unveiled, which includes the TD Nature Play Area and off-leash dog park, creating an area to be enjoyed by Surrey families for years to come.
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Nine Canadian women honoured at global women’s forum held in India
Seven Canadian women were honoured with awards of excellence at the Women Economic Forum in New Delhi last week. Two others shared their experience with the audience and presented the awards to the seven along with the host and WEF chairperson Dr. Harbeen Arora.
The forum is a celebration of women’s empowerment and provides a platform for women from all walks of life — enabling connections with inspiring women entrepreneurs and thought leaders from around the world. The theme for the 2019 conference was “Reimagining Societies: Reclaiming Humanity with Gender Equality”, and marked a milestone for WEF, as the 25th global edition.
The Canadians on the panel, who all have their roots in India, represented different industries and their talks were among one of the most diverse panels at the forum: Raj Arneja of Nanak Foods, ethnic fashion designer Pammi Singh, author and domestic violence survivor Kamal Dhillon, Simon Fraser University Associate Vice President Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan, marketing and public relations specialist Paarull JS Bakshi, former journalist and communications professional Almas Meherally, entrepreneur and South Asian Fashion Week producer Cindy Khella, creative consultant and cultural strategist Tasleem Somji, and former Miss British Columbia Navneet Kaur Nanan.
Each presented a distinctive voice and vision that’s innovating a new narrative of leadership:
Arneja spoke about her upcoming book on her experience about adopting her children in India. The story explains her mindset, on why she wanted to adopt and how her family situation was while she was growing up, which ultimately led her to adoption. Her warmth and emotions flowed as she spoke from her heart to the audience.
Singh shared a personal story of loss and perseverance that taught her how to value life and pursue only happiness.
Dhillon shared her story of survival, her book and how returning to India was an emotional experience.
Jaya-Madhavan recalled incidents from her life where acceptance of disruption and getting over obstacles was the only way forward.
Bakshi elaborated on the importance of public perception, brand building and the challenges of creating a celebrity persona.
Meherally highlighted how authentic journalism is more about recording our history and less about intruding in people’s lives.
Khella told the audience to follow their heart, as entrepreneurship is all about building upon your dreams.
Somji told a beautiful allegory that explored ideas around why we do what we do, questioning the nature of existence and how we define our lives.
Nanan, former National Canadian Miss British Columbia and Miss Canada Top 5 spoke on how her accomplishments are hinged upon her passion to work with and uplift women and girls in her community and beyond.
The tenth woman on the panel wasn’t a Canadian but having lived in Canada for many years, Dr. Shalini Chander, came to support the women from the land she loves, she was also honoured for her accomplishments coming from the medical field. Actress and producer of the Vancouver South Asian Film Festival, Mannu Sandhu, who heads the Vancouver chapter of WEF, was instrumental in bringing this Canadian delegation to Delhi.
While in Delhi, the women were also hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner Nadir Patel. They spent some quality time with Patel, discussing the possibilities of enhancing Indo-Canadian exchange of ideas, trade and education.
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Tiger Tiger: Profiling Ivon Shiva Naicker, Bollywood Hopeful and Male Model
Desire Amouzou
It’s fresh out, and a full moon hides behind the clouds as Ivon Shiva Naicker, Bollywood Hopeful and up and coming model, starts walking over the Cambie street Bridge in Vancouver. He’s finished a shift at his day job, crossing t’s and dotting I’s, working as corporate security personnel. He’s still in work mode though, and as his day happened to end near the Cambie bridge he asks me if we can walk it. It’s a nice way to put the day behind you.
As we start to cross onto the bridge, Ivan starts taking photos looking up at the sky and down at the inlet and cars and buildings below. “Vancouver Police!” He calls out and points at the VPD’s parking lot filled with Their stealth looking Dodge chargers.
“You wanna be a cop Ivon? VPD?” I ask. At 22 years of age he also happens to be a black belt in Karate and Kick Boxing, and studies criminology. “How awesome would it be…” he says. But just as quickly as he builds excitement Shiva seems to calm himself and pauses to reflect. “You never know…” he says.
That pause speaks volumes to his maturity and it shades the tricky corners and curves of this editorial. For you see Ivon is sure of himself but he remains humble and mentality prepared for challenges.
I guess that makes sense, he’s currently a model and has just finished acting in his first independent film. He really is at in inflection point in his life.
I’ve known Ivon for 10 years, or should I say he’s known me. He used to see me, unbeknownst to me, as every so often I would make arrests and conduct plain clothes surveillance’s as a Corporate Investigator, in a previous life not so long ago.
We happened to cross paths one day as he was working in the field and began to discuss the arts and he recounted some highlights he observed of my early days work. Pretty flattering, that is sure.
So like any good investigator I started asking him questions. It’s only good form for the veteran to test out the new boot. Well, what he shared, I believe, sets him apart…if not now, most certainly in the years he has to come.
Which is greater for you Modelling or Acting?
“Acting is greater for me, however confidence in acting has emerged from modelling. I owe a lot to modelling when it comes to expression delivery…….whenever we wear different types of outfits, we need to help the designer carry out their vision through their designs. Modelling also gives you an opportunity to network and also develop confidence.”
When did you start Modelling?
I started modelling in 2016 and my first opportunity was to walk for a Indian fashion show for a magazine platform called “Darpan”. It was my first taste of modelling on runway. The most notable memory of modelling for me would be when I got to walk for south Asian fashion week, it was an amazing experience modelling in a suit for the first time.
When did you start acting?
“Grade 9 Drama was where I started realizing acting is something that I can do from the heart. The school group I was part of, mostly did comedy skits and we did film some small short films. This film takes a sharp turn for me. I am now cast in a film called “Monster”, (Directed by Inderveer Sodhi) which has elevated my acting skills, as I got my first taste of acting as a character that I am not really familiar with. I feel like Acting is something that I can make my passion.”
Ok I need to pause there. You see, in speaking with Ivon I kept seeing and hearing flashes of excitement in his voice and yet his body language was muted. Genuinely excited, but calm.
I also knew from speaking to his mom, that there was more to Ivon than he might say….shout out to moms everywhere…holding onto the secrets of our lives we might later gloss over, modestly or conveniently, forget to bring up as the canon of our personality makeup. And so, the next question…
When is the first time you realized you wanted to act?
“Going through cancer in grade 3 and 9 gave me a lot of time to sit at home and watch tons of movies, listen to music, essentially carve out things that I wanted to do in the future and where I wanted to see myself. Pain and Recovery gave sometime to contemplate amazing and fruitful thoughts about the way I will be living one day. These movies would be mainly Harry Potter and Bollywood movies. I also developed an interest in singing through watching Bollywood movies as well.”
How did you handle going through it twice?
“Going through cancer for the second time was rough, despite not resulting in chemo. The first time I had it I had to go through chemo therapy, which is painful. The feeling you get when the IV liquid enters your body transmit a “freeze-like” chemical that numbs your arm. Strange enough it affected me more when cancer had occurred in grade 9. I had to miss out on activities in the summer time and also was worried that I was going to go through it in an older age. Grade 9, I mean, we worry about which video games to play and where to eat with your friends.”
How has your family supported you?
“They have supported me in every way imaginable. These rough times in grade 3 and 9 got us closer and closer; pain essentially brought us together.”
And your community?
“The Community that I worked with has always appreciated me, they know who they are. Love you guys for always being there and giving me a chance to work with you!”
Do you have hopes for a family as part of your future?
“I go wherever my family goes, that’s the motto. My hopes are to stick with them forever.”
Ivon you have 2 Black Belts…What did you learn from your your training in martial arts?
“Martial arts…if martial arts hadn’t came into my life I wouldn’t be able to recover my physical and mental self. Martial arts taught me discipline and self belief. I can’t thank my sensei enough for always being there and guiding us in the art. I feel terrible that I usually have to skip classes due to school. However training is something that I do time to time till this day. Martial arts is a big reason I am not a drug user or someone who consumes alcohol. My stimulant is the way of a martial artist, I enjoy training and this is my high.”
How do you see yourself as a young man in your community and your country?
“I see myself as someone who can lend a hand. If anyone wants to talk and share their pain with me I will accept them open hands. I see myself as someone they can count on and I love this leadership quality, the dependability people have on me makes me proud of who I am.”
Although I don’t go into further details in this article, when I probed Ivon on the influence his Father and Mother have had on him and how he much he cared for his sister, He was beaming with Pride and smiled ear to ear as he related story after story. For another day and another interview.
Nowadays, trials and difficulties affect us all. Media becomes ever more prolific at documenting the human story and rallies behind causes and churns up just about every sort of thing we’ve ever said and done. It’s for that reason, I was especially proud and felt fortunate to run into an artist and role model in the making, such as 22 year old, Ivon Shiva Naicker.
His story thus far, is reminder of the great opportunities that are available for young men and women in Canada, but that none of us are immune to adversity. It can shape us, it can make us better, if we want it too, if we let it.
As we prepared to part ways, Ivon and I chatted about my personal transition into a full time role as a Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker. He then dropped me a line of motivation and support that made me smile. He said: “Des, you have to be a…Tiger…be the Tiger!”
Well said Shiva, well said.
11jan(jan 11)8:00 pm25(jan 25)10:00 pmHouse and Home8:00 pm - 10:00 pm (25)
The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to produce and present the world premiere of House and Home from Saturday, January 11 to Saturday, January 25, 2020. An Arts Club Silver Anniversary
The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to produce and present the world premiere of House and Home from Saturday, January 11 to Saturday, January 25, 2020. An Arts Club Silver Anniversary Commission penned by award-winning playwright Jenn Griffin, House and Home is a biting, comedic take on Vancouver’s current real estate crisis where property values are high, rental vacancy rates are low, and owning your own home is unaffordable for the average home buyer. Hilary, a waitress/poet turned social worker and Henry, a Butoh dancer turned lawyer, didn’t know how lucky they were when they managed to escape bad roommates and buy a house before the real estate market skyrocketed. Finding themselves house rich and cash poor, they abandon their values and plunge into the world of short-term rentals. How far can they go to keep their house? Directed by Firehall Arts Centre’s Artistic Producer, Donna Spencer, House and Home looks at the emotional and challenging struggles of living in a city ranked as the second most unaffordable market in the world, and the problems faced by many when trying to find a “home”. House and Home features performances from Jillian Fargey, Andrew Wheeler, Sam Bob, Sebastien Archibald, Kim Ho, and Darian Roussy. “So many people are struggling to find a home in this beautiful city that they can actually afford,” says Spencer. “And with everyone aware of this, surely there is a resolution to be found. Jenn’s play takes on the subject of housing and affordability in a whole-hearted and very meaningful manner. The play is full of humour, compassion and an understanding of what it means to have your life totally controlled by mortgages, rent payments, and the competitive nature of the real estate market. We have a great cast and creative team for the production and I can’t wait to share this work with our audiences.” Tickets: From $20 at firehallartscentre.ca | 604.689.0926
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NAT "KING" COLE - PENTHOUSE SERENADE (WHEN WE'RE ALONE) (SONG)
Music/Lyrics: Will Jason
Val Burton
Producer: Lee Gillette
3:08 Penthouse Serenade Capitol
CDP 4945042 Album
3:09 His Musical Autobiography Universal
Nat "King" Cole Nat "King" Cole: Discography / Become a fan
NAT "KING" COLE IN SWEDISH CHARTS
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) (Nat King Cole) 2011-12-30 15 25
The Ultimate Collection 2000-01-20 4 10
The World Of Nat King Cole 2005-02-17 41 1
The Christmas Song [2009] 2015-12-25 10 13
SONGS BY NAT "KING" COLE
(Ah The Apple Trees) When The World Was Young
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (The King Cole Trio)
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (The King Cole Trio)
(I Would Do) Anything For You
(The Song Of) Raintree County
(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry? (The King Cole Trio)
A Beautiful Friendship
A Blossom Fell
A Boy From Texas - A Girl From Tennessee (The King Cole Trio)
A Cottage For Sale
A Cradle In Bethlehem
A Fool Was I
A Handful Of Stars
A House With Love In It (Nat King Cole)
A Little Bit Independent
A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet
A Thousand Thoughts Of You
A Weaver Of Dreams
A Woman Always Understands (The King Cole Trio)
Acércate más
Acércate más (Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole)
Adelita
Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)
Adios mariquita linda
After The Ball Is Over
After You're Gone
Ain't Gonna Study War No More (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Ain't She Sweet (Nat "King" Cole with Carole and Natalie Cole)
All For You (The King Cole Trio)
All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (Nat King Cole)
All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (Nat King Cole & His Trio)
Almost Like Being In Love
Alone Too Long
Always You
Am I Blue?
An Affair To Remember (Our Love Affair)
An Old Piano Sings The Blues (The King Cole Trio)
Angel Smile
Answer Me, My Love
Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere (Nat "King" Cole feat. Amp Fiddler)
Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere
Aquellos ojos verdes
Aquí se habla en amor
Are You Disenchanted?
Are You Fer It? (The King Cole Trio)
Ay, cosita Linda
Azure-Te
Baby Won't You Say You Love Me
Baby, Baby All The Time (The King Cole Trio)
Back In My Arms
Beale Street Blues
Beggar For The Blues
Bend A Little My Way
Blame It On My Youth (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
Blue Because Of You (Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra feat. Nat "King" Cole)
Blue Gardenia
Blue Lou (The King Cole Trio)
Body And Soul (The King Cole Trio)
Boogie A La King (The Nat "King" Cole Trio)
Bop-Kick (The King Cole Trio)
Brazilian Love Song (Nat "King" Cole feat. Michaelangelo L'Acqua & Bebel Gilberto)
Brazilian Love Song
Breezin' Along With The Breeze
Bring Another Drink (The King Cole Trio)
Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes
But All I've Got Is Me
But She's My Buddy's Chick (The King Cole Trio)
By The River Sainte Marie (King Cole Quartet)
Caboclo do Rio
Cachito
Call The Police (The King Cole Trio)
Calypso Blues (Nat "King" Cole feat. Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley & Stephen Marley)
Calypso Blues (The King Cole Trio)
Can You Look Me In The Eyes (And Say We're Through) (The King Cole Trio)
Can't Help It
Can't I?
Cappuccina
Capullito de Alelí
Caravan (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
Caroling, Caroling
Central Avenue Breakdown (Nat King Cole & Trio With Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra)
Chantez Les Bas
Cherie, I Love You
Cindy (Jo Stafford With Nat King Cole, Ray Lynn, Herbie Haymer And Orchestra Conducted By Paul Weston)
Cold Cold Heart
Come Closer To Me
Come In Out Of The Rain (The King Cole Trio)
Come To Baby, Do (The King Cole Trio)
Come To The Mardi Gras
Coo-coo-roo-coo-coo, paloma
Could Ja?
Crazy She Calls Me
Dame Crazy
Dancing In The Street (King Cole Swingsters & Juanelda Carter)
Darling je vous aime beaucoup
Day In - Day Out (Nat "King" Cole feat. Cut Chemist)
Dear Lonely Hearts
Destination Moon
Dinner For One Please, James
Dixie Jaboree (King Cole Swingsters)
Do I Like It
Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me
Do You Wanna Jump Children (The King Cole Trio)
Don't Blame Me (The King Cole Trio)
Don't Cry, Cry Baby (The King Cole Trio)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Don't Let It Go To Your Head (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
Don't You Remember?
Dough-Ray-Mi (Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra feat. Nat "King" Cole)
Down By The Old Mill Stream
Dreams Can Tell A Lie
Early Morning Blues (Nat King Cole Trio)
Easy Listening Blues (The King Cole Trio)
Ebony Rhapsody
El bodeguero
El Choclo (Nat "King" Cole feat. Brazilian Girls)
Embraceable You (The King Cole Trio)
Everyone Is Saying Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) (The King Cole Trio)
Everything Happens To Me
Everytime I Feel The Spirit (Nat „King" Cole With The First Church of Deliverance Choir)
F.S.T. (Fine Sweet And Tasty) (The King Cole Trio)
Faith Can Move Mountains
Flo And Joe (The King Cole Trio)
For All We Know
For You, My Love (Nat "King" Cole & Nellie Lutcher)
Forgive My Heart
Friendless Blues
Frosty The Snowman (Nat King Cole)
Funny (Not Much)
Game Of Love
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (The King Cole Trio)
Get Out And Get Under The Moon
Go Down, Moses (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Go, If You're Going
Gone With The Draft (The King Cole Trio)
Goodnight, Irene, Goodnight
Goodnight, Little Leaguer
Got A Penny (The King Cole Trio)
Hajji Baba (Persian Lament)
Harlem Blues
Harlem Swing (King Cole Swingsters & Bonnie Lake)
Harmony (Johnny Mercer & The King Cole Trio)
He Who Hesitates
He'll Have To Go
Hit That Jive, Jack (Nat "King" Cole feat. Souldiggaz & Izza Kizza)
Hit That Jive, Jack (The King Cole Trio)
Hit The Ramp (The King Cole Trio)
Home (When Shadows Fall)
Homeward Bound (The King Cole Trio)
Honey (The King Cole Trio)
Honeysuckle Rose (The King Cole Trio)
House Of Morgan (Lionel Hampton And Orchestra feat. The King Cole Trio)
How (How Do I Go About It?)
How Deep Is The Ocean (The King Cole Trio)
How Does It Feel (The King Cole Trio)
How I'd Love To Love You
Hundreds And Thousands Of Girls
Hymn To Him
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) (The King Cole Trio)
I Don't Want It That Way
I Don't Want To Be Hurt Anymore
I Don't Want To See Tomorrow
I Envy
I Feel So Smoochie (The King Cole Trio)
I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
I Found The Answer (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
I Get Sentimental Over Nothing
I Hear Music
I Just Can't See For Lookin' (The King Cole Trio)
I Just Found Out About Love
I Keep Goin' Back To Joe's
I Know That You Know (The King Cole Trio)
I Know That You Know (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
I Lost Control Of Myself (King Cole Swingsters & Bonnie Lake)
I Miss You So (The King Cole Trio)
I Realize Now (The King Cole Trio)
I Should Care
I Think You Get What I Mean (The King Cole Trio)
I Tho't You Ought To Know (The King Cole Trio)
I Thought About Marie
I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) (The King Cole Trio)
I Want To Be Happy
I Want To Be Ready (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
I Want To Thank Your Folks (The King Cole Trio)
I Wish I Knew
I Wish You Love
I Wouldn't Have Known It (King Cole Swingsters & Juanelda Carter)
I'd Love To Make Love To You (Nat King Cole)
If I Could Be With You
If I Give My Heart To You
If I Knew
If I May
If I May (Nat "King" Cole & The Four Knights)
If I Should Lose You
If Love Ain't There
If Love Is Good To Me
If You Can't Smile And Say Yes (The King Cole Trio)
If You Said No
If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon (The King Cole Trio)
I'll Always Remember You
I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (Jo Stafford With Nat King Cole, Ray Lynn, Herbie Haymer And Orchestra Conducted By Paul Weston)
I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again (Nat King Cole)
I'll String Along With You (The King Cole Trio)
I'm A Errand Boy For Rhythm
I'm A Shy Guy (The King Cole Trio)
I'm All Cried Out
I'm Alone Because I Love You
I'm An Ordinary Man
I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
I'm In The Mood For Love (The King Cole Trio)
I'm Never Satisfied
I'm Shooting High
I'm Throu With Love (The King Cole Trio)
In The Cool Of The Evening (The King Cole Trio)
In The Good Old Summertime
In The Heart Of Jane Doe
In The Sweet By And By (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Is It Better To Have Loved And Lost?
Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)
It Happens To Be Me
It Is Better To Be By Yourself (The King Cole Trio)
It Only Happens Once (The King Cole Trio)
It's A Beautiful Evening
It's A Lonesome Old Town
It's All In The Game
It's Crazy
It's Only A Paper Moon (The King Cole Trio)
It's The Sentimental Thing To Do (The King Cole Trio)
I've Got A Way With Women (The King Cole Trio)
I've Only Myself To Blame (The King Cole Trio)
Jack The Bellboy (Lionel Hampton And Orchestra feat. The King Cole Trio)
Jam-Bo
Jivin' With Jarvis (Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra feat. Nat "King" Cole)
Joe Turner's Blues
Jumpin' At Capitol (The King Cole Trio)
Just As Much As Ever
Just One Of Those Things
Just You, Just Me (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
Kareha
Ke Mo Ky Mo (The Magic Song)
La feria de las flores
Laguna Mood (The King Cole Trio)
Land Of Love (The King Cole Trio)
Las chiapanecas
Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)
Let Me Tell You Babe
Let There Be Love
Let True Love Begin
Let's Get Happy (King Cole Swingsters)
Let's Pretend (The King Cole Trio)
Let's Spring One (The King Cole Trio)
Lillette (The King Cole Trio)
Lillian (The King Cole Trio)
Little Fingers
Little Girl (The King Cole Trio)
Lonesome And Sorry
Long Long Ago (Dean Martin & Nat "King" Cole)
Look No Further
Look Out For Love
Look What You've Done To Me (The King Cole Trio)
Lost April (The King Cole Trio)
Lost April
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Love Is The Thing
Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow
Lover, Come Back To Me! (Nat "King" Cole & Billy May)
Lovesville
Lovewise
Lulubelle
Lush Life (The King Cole Trio)
Lush Life (Nat "King" Cole feat. Cee-Lo Green)
Magnificent Obsession
Make Her Mine
Makin' Whoopee (The King Cole Trio)
Making Believe You're Here
Marnie (Nat King Cole)
Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much
Meet Me At No Special Place (And I'll Be There At No Particular Time) (The King Cole Trio)
Memphis Blues
Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
Moon Love
More And More Of Your Amor (Nat King Cole)
More And More Of Your Amor (Nat "King" Cole feat. Bitter:Sweet)
Mother Nature And Father Time
Mr. Cole Won't Rock & Roll
Mr. Wishing Well
Mrs. Santa Claus
Mule Train (The King Cole Trio & Woody Herman)
My Baby Just Cares For Me (The King Cole Trio & Woody Herman)
My Baby Likes To Be-Bop (And I Like To Be-Bop Too) (Johnny Mercer & The King Cole Trio)
My Dream Sonata
My Fair Lady (The King Cole Trio)
My First And My Last Love
My First And Only Lover
My Flaming Heart
My Funny Valentine (Nat King Cole)
My Heart Stood Still
My Heart's Treasure
My Kind Of Girl
My Need For You
My One Sin (In Life)
My Personal Possession
My True Carrie Love
Nadie me ama
Não tenho lágrimas
Nat Meets June (Nat "King" Cole & June Christy)
Nature Boy (Nat "King" Cole feat. TV On The Radio)
Nature Boy (Nat King Cole)
Naughty Angeline (The King Cole Trio)
Night Of The Quarter Moon
No me platiques
No Moon At All (The King Cole Trio)
No Other Heart
No, I Don't Want Her
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (Nat „King" Cole With The First Church Of Deliverance Choir)
Noche de Ronda
Non dimenticar (Don't Forget)
Not So Long Ago
Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You
Nothing Goes Up (Without Coming Down)
Nothing In The World
Now He Tells Me (The King Cole Trio)
O Tannenbaum (Nat King Cole)
Oh, But I Do (The King Cole Trio)
Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Ol' Man Mose Ain't Dead (The King Cole Trio)
On A Bicycle Built For Two
On The Sidewalks Of New York
On The Street Where You Live
On The Sunny Side Of The Street (King Cole Quartet)
Once In A While
One Has My Name The Other Has My Heart
Only Forever
Open Up The Doghouse (Dean Martin & Nat "King" Cole)
Orange Colored Sky
Orange Coloured Sky (Nat "King" Cole & Stan Kenton)
Our Old Home Town
Overture: Love Theme - Hesitating Blues
Papa Loves Mambo
Paper Moon (Bruce Forsyth feat. Nat 'King' Cole)
Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
Pick Yourself Up
Pick-Up (Nat "King" Cole feat. Just Blaze)
Piel canela
Pitchin' Up A Boogie (The King Cole Trio)
Please Consider Me
Poinciana (The Song Of The Tree)
Polka Dots And Moonbeams
Portrait Of Jennie (The King Cole Trio)
Prelude in C Sharp Minor (The King Cole Trio)
Put 'Em In A Box, Tie 'Em With A Ribbon (And Throw 'Em In The Deep Blue Sea) (The King Cole Trio)
Quizás, quizás, quizás
Rhumba Azul (The King Cole Trio)
Rhythm Sam
Riffamarole (Coleman Hawkins With B.Bailey, B.Coleman, B.Carter, O.Moore, N.King Cole)
Riffin' At The Bar-B-Q (King Cole Swingsters)
Riffin' In F Minor (The King Cole Trio)
Russian Lullaby (The King Cole Trio)
Save The Bones For Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat) (Johnny Mercer & The King Cole Trio)
Say It Isn't So
Scotchin' With Soda (The King Cole Trio)
Send For Me
She's My Buddy's Chick
Shoo Shoo Baby
Sing Another Song (And We'll All Go Home)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (The King Cole Trio)
Solamente una
Solid Potato Salad
Someone To Tell It To
Someone You Love
Something Happens To Me
Something Makes Me Want To Dance With You
Sometimes I'm Happy (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
Song Of Delilah
Standin' In The Need Of Prayer (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Stay As Sweet As You Are
Stay With It
Steal Away (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Step Right Up (And Say You Love Me)
Stop! The Red Lights On (The King Cole Trio)
Straighten Up And Fly Right (Nat "King" Cole feat. will.i.am & Natalie Cole)
Straighten Up And Fly Right (The King Cole Trio)
Suas maos
Summer Is A-Comin' In
Sunday, Monday Or Always
Sweet Bird Of Youth
Sweet Georgia Brown (The King Cole Trio)
Sweet Hour Of Prayer (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Sweet Lorraine (The King Cole Trio)
Swiss Retreat
Ta-De-Ah (King Cole Swingsters)
'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) (The King Cole Trio)
Take A Fool's Advice
Take Me Back To Toyland
Takin' A Chance On Love
Te quiero dijiste (Nat King Cole)
Tea For Two (Nat King Cole)
Tell Her In The Morning
Tell Me All About Yourself
Thanks To You
That "Please-Be-Mineable" Feeling (King Cole Swingsters)
That Ain't Right (The King Cole Trio)
That Sunday, That Summer
That'll Just 'Bout Knock Me Out
That's A Natural Fact (The King Cole Trio)
That's All There Is
That's All There Is To That
That's My Girl
That's The Beginning Of The End (The King Cole Trio)
That's What (The King Cole Trio)
That's What They Meant (By The Good Old Summertime)
That's You
The Ballad Of Cat Ballou (Nat "King" Cole & Stubby Kaye)
The Best Man (The King Cole Trio)
The Best Thing For You
The Blues Don't Care
The Blues From "Kiss Me Deadly"
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) (Natalie Cole, Nat "King" Cole & The London Symphony Orchestra)
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) (The King Cole Trio)
The Continental
The End Of A Love Affair
The First Baseball Game
The Frim Fram Sauce (The King Cole Trio)
The Game Of Love (Nat "King" Cole feat. Salaam Remi & Nas)
The Geek (The King Cole Trio)
The Girl From Ipanema (Nat King Cole with Gregory Porter)
The Good Times
The Greatest Inventor Of Them All
The Happiest Christmas Tree
The Land Of Make Believe (King Cole Swingsters & Bonnie Lake)
The Late, Late Show
The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
The Little Christmas Tree (The King Cole Trio)
The Lonely One (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
The Love Nest
The Magic Window
The Man I Love (The King Cole Trio)
The Old Music Master
The Party's Over
The Rain In Spain
The Right Thing To Say
The Rules Of The Road
The Sand And The Sea
The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
The Touch Of Your Lips
The Trouble With Me Is You
The Tunnel Of Love
The World In My Arms
Then I'll Be Tired Of You
There Goes My Heart
There Is A Tavern In The Town
There Will Never Be Another You
There, I've Said It Again
There's A Gold Mine In The Sky
There's A Lull In My Life
There's A Train Out For Dreamland (Nat King Cole)
There's Love
There's No Anesthetic For Love (King Cole Swingsters)
These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
They Can't Make Her Cry (Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye)
This Can't Be Love
This Is All I Ask
This Is Always
This Is My Night To Dream (The King Cole Trio)
This Morning It Was Summer
This Side Up (The King Cole Trio)
This Way Out (The King Cole Trio)
This Will Make You Laugh
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer
Those Things Money Can't Buy (The King Cole Trio)
Thou Swell
Time And The River
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Too Marvelous For Words (The King Cole Trio)
Too Young To Go Steady
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Undecided (The King Cole Trio)
Unforgettable (Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole)
Vom, Vim, Veedle (The King Cole Trio)
Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole)
Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Nat "King" Cole feat. The Roots)
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Warm And Willing
Was That The Human Thing To Do
Wee Baby Blues
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry (The King Cole Trio)
What Does It Take For You To Take To Me
What Is There To Say
What Is This Thing Called Love? (The King Cole Trio)
What To Do (Nat "King" Cole with Carole and Natalie Cole)
Whatcha' Gonna Do
What'll I Do? (The King Cole Trio)
When I Fall In Love (Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole)
When I Fall In Love (Susan Boyle feat. Nat King Cole)
When I Fall In Love [español] (Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole)
When I Grow Too Old To Dream (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
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Yearning (Just For You)
Yellow Dog Blues
Yes Sir That's My Baby (The King Cole Trio)
Yo vendo unos ojos negros
You Are My First Love
You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) (The Nat King Cole Trio)
You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) (The King Cole Trio)
You Can't Make Money Dreaming (Johnny Mercer & The King Cole Trio)
You Did It
You Don't Learn That In School (The King Cole Trio)
You Leave Me Breathless
You Made Me Love You
You Should Have Told Me (The King Cole Trio)
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
You Tell Me Your Dream
You Weren't There
Your Cheatin' Heart
You're Bringing Out The Dreamer In Me
You're Crying On My Shoulder
You're Looking At Me (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
You're Mine You
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (The King Cole Trio)
You're So Different (King Cole Swingsters & Juanelda Carter)
You're The Cream In My Coffee (The King Cole Trio)
You're The Top
You're Wrong All Wrong (Nat King Cole)
You've Got The Indian Sign On Me
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106 Sides (Nat King Cole & His Trio)
16 Unforgettable Hits
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5 Original Albums (Nat King Cole)
60 Absolutely Essential (Nat King Cole)
After Midnight (Nat "King" Cole And His Trio)
At The Sands (Nat King Cole)
Ballads Of The Day
Best Of The Capitol Singles 1949-1962 (Nat King Cole)
Canciones en español (Nat King Cole)
Christmas (Nat King Cole)
Christmas With Nat & Dean (Nat & Dean)
Classic Album Collection (Nat King Cole)
Cole español
Cole español / A mis amigos
Eight Classic Albums (Nat King Cole)
Eight Classic Albums Vol. 2 (Nat King Cole)
Every Time I Feel The Spirit (Nat "King" Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir)
Face 2 Face - Their Greatest Hits (Dean Martin & Nat King Cole)
For Sentimental Reasons (Nat King Cole)
Four Classic Albums
Golden Greats
Golden Hits - 60 Original Recordings
His Musical Autobiography (Nat King Cole)
Icon (Nat King Cole)
Just Call Him Cole (Nat King Cole)
Let's Face The Music
Live At The Sands - The Complete Lost Concert (Nat King Cole)
Live In April - 19 avril 1960 (Nat King Cole & The Quincy Jones Big Band)
Live In Tokyo (Nat King Cole)
Live In Vegas 1962 (Nat King Cole)
Love Is The Thing / The Very Thought Of You
Love Songs (Nat King Cole)
Milestones Of A Legend
More Cole Espanol
Nat "King" Cole Sings My Fair Lady
Nat "King" Cole's Greatest
Nat & Dean At Christmas (Nat "King" Cole & Dean Martin)
Nat King Cole en español
Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays
Nature Boy - Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole)
Penthouse Serenade
Platinum Collection (Nat King Cole)
Por siempre (Nat King Cole)
Re:Generations
Route 66 (Nat King Cole)
Sings For Lovers (Nat King Cole)
Sings For Two In Love
Sings For Two In Love / Ballads Of The Day (Nat King Cole)
Smile (Nat King Cole)
Songs For Christmas - Christmas Legends
St. Louis Blues / To Whom It May Concern (Nat King Cole)
Stardust - The Rare Television Performances (Nat King Cole)
Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole)
Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 43 - Zurich 1950 (Nat King Cole Trio)
The Album (Nat King Cole)
The Christmas Song [2009] (Nat King Cole)
The Christmas Song [2009]
The Complete Billy May Session (Nat King Cole)
The Complete US & UK Hits 1942-1962 (Nat King Cole)
The Essence Of Nat King Cole
The Essential (Nat King Cole)
The Extraordinary (Nat King Cole)
The Greatest Of Nat King Cole (Vol. 1)
The Kings Of Christmas (Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin / Nat King Cole)
The Lester Young - Buddy Rich Trio with Nat "King" Cole (The Lester Young - Buddy Rich Trio with Nat "King" Cole)
The Piano Style Of Nat King Cole
The Platinum Collection (Nat King Cole)
The Touch Of Your Lips - An Album Of Ballads Tender As A Kiss
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
The Very Best Of Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole)
The World Of Nat King Cole
This Is My Night To Dream (King Cole Trio)
This Is Nat "King" Cole
Transcriptions Vol. 2 (King Cole Trio)
Ultimate (Nat King Cole)
Unforgettable - 50s Iconic Classics Of Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole)
Unforgettable - The Best Of Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole)
Unforgettable - The Collection
Unforgettable [2003] (Nat King Cole)
Welcome To Nat "King" Cole
DVDS BY NAT "KING" COLE
How High The Moon (Nat King Cole)
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Und was ganz Feines. Etwas für die blauen Stunde am Tage. Kommt aber auch nachmittags gut.
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Olympic Trials Backstroker Anthony Kim Commits to Texas A&M
Kim should be an immediate scorer for the Aggies Current photo via Anthony Kim
The Virginia Tech men hung on to narrowly defeat Virginia at home, while the Cavalier women topped the Hokies by 70 points.
Back/fly specialist Kandice Chandra from Elevation Athletics has announced her commitment to Binghamton University for 2020-21.
Ben Walker swept the breaststrokes, setting a new Pool Record in the 100 breast. He made it a winning triple as he went on to win the 400 IM as well.
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November 03rd, 2015 College, College Recruiting, News, SEC
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Anthony Kim, of Charger Aquatics in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has committed to Texas A&M:
Proud to announce my verbal commitment to Texas A&M class of 2020. Let’s go Aggies!!!???
— Anthony Kim (@anthonykim_1) November 2, 2015
Kim is a dual-threat in both backstroke and butterfly who should find his way right into the Aggies’ lineup:
100 backstroke- 48.38
200 backstroke- 1:45.22
100 butterfly- 48.52
200 IM- 1:51.14
His 200 backstroke would have scored at the 2015 SEC Championship meet, while his 100 backstroke would is just hundredths of a second away. Backstroke was one of the stronger events for the Aggies, who placed three swimmers in scoring position in the 100 and two in the 200. All of those swimmers return for the 2015-2016 season,
Kim told Swimswam he was motivated by the positive experience that another Albuquerque swimmer, Magnus Holler, has had at he school so far. The two were recognized as the best high school swimmers in New Mexico last spring, with each of them capturing multiple events at the New Mexico State meet. Kim is the New Mexico state record holder in the 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke (2014) as well as a state champion in the 200 freestyle over Holler at the 2015 meet. Those wins would pace Albuquerque Academy to their 22nd state championship.
Kim made his first two Olympic Trials times over the summer in the 100 (57.15) and 200 backstroke (2:03.09). He needs a modest improvement in his 100 butterfly to add to his program for Omaha next summer (55.34).
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The landing pages capture the information of every visitor like his phone number, email id, name and other such details. Conversion is made easier with the landing pages as they do not allow the visitors to drift to some other website. Instapage is the most popular alternative for LeadPages. The next in the row is ClickFunnels and both of these are the two best alternatives to LeadPages.
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LeadPages comes with two editors, A static editor and a column-based drag and drop (CDD) editor. The static editor offers a few customization options but is limited in options. This is done so as not to allow people to alter a template that’s already laid out. The CDD editor is a more customizable editor offering more flexibility by allowing you to add more elements (text and images) and move them around.
With Instapage splash pages, you can add combinations of videos, texts, music, and other sorts of media related to your product or brand on your landing page. Instapage’s splash page will then instantly redirect your visitors to the homepage of your website or any other page that you specified during the creation of your splash page. With Instapage, you can expedite the entire email capture process with ease and simplicity. Instapage also offers a sales page features which will allow you that you can use to create premium looking landing pages that will help you sell products and merchandise.
Like LeadPages, but offering you the option of using templates or starting with a blank canvas and building yourself a site from scratch. You can build any kind of marketing page you could desire, you don’t need to worry about the code, and you can even make members-only pages. It’s not cheap, though; nearly $200 monthly for the basic plan, or $1,000 annually for the less limited plan. Still, it’s cheaper than hiring coders and designers.
In addition to providing numerous pre-designed templates, both Leadpages and Unbounce come with easy to use drag-and-drop landing page editors. And each of them supports a wide range of customization options. Their individual layouts, however, are quite different since Leadpages offers a column-based drag-and-drop editor, while Unbounce comes with a pixel-precise one.
An example of this would be promoting a call-to-action to sign up for a free Skype consultation but instead, the customers are redirected to a page that offers paid photos. Consistency is the best way to retain high-quality leads that may very well bring you tons of business in the future so make sure that all of your content is related when promoting your landing page.
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TouchFire: The iPad’s Keyboard Gets Physical
By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJuly 11, 2012
TouchFire
Last November, I wrote about TouchFire, a Kickstarter-funded gizmo that aimed to make iPad input comfier, faster and more accurate by letting you type on a clear piece of silicone rubber with cushioned “keys” that sit on top of the iPad’s on-screen ones. At the time, it was supposed to ship in December, but a series of unexpected design and manufacturing challenges–chronicled by its creators on Kickstarter–delayed its release.
TouchFire is finally ready. It’s $49.99, works with all three generations of iPad and is now for sale. The company provided me with one for review.
The keyboard has undergone some refinements since I tried it last year, but the basic notion is unchanged. It’s still a svelte, flexible sheet of soft keys with a magnetic spine that clings to the Smart Cover magnets embedded in the iPad 2 and new iPad, allowing you to position the sheet accurately over the iPad’s landscape-orientation keyboard in a jiffy. Once there, it clings in place until you choose to remove it.
If you’re a touch typist, TouchFire lets your fingers find their proper places on the home row more easily. And if (like me) you’ve got a typing style that’s self-taught and idiosyncratic, it still feels like you’re pressing keys–albeit rather rubbery ones–with a bit of travel rather than thunking your fingertips against an unyielding sheet of glass.
When you’re not typing, you can fold the keyboard back out of the way in about half a second; it’ll sit on the edge of the tablet until you need it again. It comes with two small magnets which you can stick to the inside of a Smart Cover or other iPad tablet to secure it, letting you carry a keyboard that adds nearly no bulk or weight to your iPad setup. (You also get a plastic case.)
TouchFire has at least one direct competitor, iKeyboard, which starts with a similar concept but implements it in stiffer plastic rather than TouchFire’s squishy silicone. (I haven’t tried it.) But people are also going to compare it to Bluetooth iPad keyboards such as Logitech’s Ultrathin. It really doesn’t have that much in common with them, though. It’s far more portable and doesn’t require charging, but it provides a rough approximation of traditional typing feel rather than the real thing, and doesn’t address the fact that the iPad’s on-screen keyboard eats up so much space that you can’t see much of your document.
The bottom line: If you want a conventional external keyboard for your iPad…well, I think you’ll still want one. But if they’re more keyboard than you need, and the iPad’s on-screen one isn’t enough to make you a happy typist, TouchFire might be right for you. It’s certainly an ingenious idea. I’m glad its makers waited to release it until they worked out the kinks–and I’m curious what the thousands of Kickstarter backers who waited so long for the units they pre-ordered think now that they’re getting their hands on them.
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Sofidel launches biomass plant for emission reduction strategy
PORCARI, Italy, Jan. 21, 2015 (Press Release) -In France, Delipapier Frouard has launched its new biomass plant with an overall investment of approximately 6.5 million Euros.
This is yet another step forward in Sofidel's strategy to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases.
The plant is expected to reduce greenhouse gases by over 6,800,000 cubic meters and will cut Delipapier's CO2 emissions by over 13,500 tonnes annually.
The work is part of the BCIAT 2011 project (Biomasse Chaleur Industrie, Agriculture et Tertiaire) launched by ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie) to encourage industries to produce heat energy using biomass.
Constructed over an area of over 2,000 square metres, the plant produces heat energy in the form of saturated steam and provides approximately 60% of the factory's entire requirements.
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Texas Shout #34 West Coast Revival Style Dixieland Part 1
Set forth below is the thirty-fourth “Texas Shout” column. The initial installment of a two-part essay, it first appeared in the November 1992 issue of The West Coast Rag, now The Syncopated Times.
Because the text has not been updated, I should mention that, since this essay first appeared, Wally Rose, and other musicians who recorded with Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band at one time or another, have gone to their reward. Their names will be fondly remembered as long as Dixieland jazz is played.
Through the years, there have been many enormously influential Dixieland bands. However, only one combo has ever singlehandedly created a new style of Dixieland. The band is Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena Jazz Band and the style is called West Coast revival (sometimes known as San Francisco style).
I’d like to use today’s column to discuss the characteristics of the West Coast revival style. Along the way, I’ll toss in some thoughts regarding what I believe to be misconceptions about it in certain areas of the Dixieland community.
Lu Watters at Hambone Kelly’s (Provided by the Stanford University Libraries)
Trumpeter Watters and his sidemen were professional musicians making a living playing the prevailing popular and jazz styles of the late 1930s, essentially swing and big-band dance. At the time, the most common form of Dixieland was Chicago style, the Dixieland style that best fits the solo orientation of swing musicians.
Watters and his colleagues had been listening to small-band recordings of the 1920s, particularly the downtown New Orleans style 78s of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. Hearing an approach to the music that was hardly to be found anymore; an instrumentation employing two-beat rhythm, banjo and tuba, all musical devices not employed by swing musicians; and some worthwhile tunes that had been totally forgotten, they decided to get together after hours to revive this instrumentation and repertoire.
After some jam sessions at the Bay Area’s Big Bear Tavern, the band went into the studio on December 19, 1941 to wax eight sides which were released on the Jazz Man label. The lineup was Lu Watters, Bob Scobey, cornets; Ellis Horne, clarinet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Wally Rose, piano; Clancy Hayes, Russ Bennett, banjos; Dick Lammi, tuba; and Bill Dart, drums.
The YBJB’s sound resembled nothing previously heard on the Dixieland scene. It touched off a storm of controversy between the band’s supporters and detractors involving, in my view, a degree of misunderstanding on both sides that continues down to the present day.
Life is often a series of trade-offs. One gives up something in order to get more of something else.
Lu Watters, Thad Vandon, Bob Neighbor, Bob Short and Turk Murphy. (Provided by the Stanford University Libraries)
Up until the YBJB’s recordings, jazzmen had chosen to go for as much buoyancy as possible, to get the sound “off the ground,” to achieve the springy effect that was considered to epitomize “swinging.” In order to do so, one must typically give up a measure of volume, a tradeoff which also involves some relaxation of punch. Said another way, few instrumentalists are able to maintain a feeling of buoyancy, of floating on the beat, while simultaneously playing loudly and with lots of muscle.
The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, judged by the music it produced, made (consciously or not) the opposite choice. It elected to go for power, and to give up both dynamics and buoyancy to get the maximum amount of power.
Thus, the most easily identifiable characteristic of West Coast revival is its brassy, full-throated, forceful ensemble sound. It comes at you like a steamroller. Instead of inviting you to lift your feet and soar over the dance floor, it demands that you strut across it in much the same way that a military band stirs you to “second line” by marching nearby down the sidewalk.
The YBJB’s ensemble was totally devoid of dynamics. It played at top volume all the time, on every recording Watters ever made, generating about the loudest sound ever heard from a jazz band of its size – an aggressive, outgoing, pile-driving sound that grabs you by the shirt front and drags you along with it.
Its rhythm, instead of following the prevailing trend toward lightness, was the heavyweight champion of jazz. Lammi’s groaning tuba came down on the beat like a ton of bricks, the two banjos and Dart’s metronomic woodblocks set up a beat that would penetrate the tinnest ear, and Rose’s two-fisted piano kept going throughout the sides, rolling up and down the keyboard behind both solos and ensembles.
Yerba Buena Jazz Band at the Big Bear Tavern with Wally Rose, Clancy Hayes, Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Bill Dart, Bob Scobey, and Ellis Horne. (Provided by the Stanford University Libraries)
The jazz world hardly knew what to make of the YBJB. Pianists of the thirties had followed Earl Hines’ lead toward spare, single-note treble lines, spiced by left-hand jabs, letting the bass, drums and (if there was a stringed instrument) guitar deliver the expressed beat formerly handled by the left hand – all while staying out of the soloists’ way. Drummers had been moving away from the steady, booming bass drum, heading for the lighter sounds on their kits – the snare, the ride cymbal, the closed hi-hat, the brushes. Softer-edged instruments, such as string bass and guitar, were typical, setting up less likelihood of clashing with the relatively dense lines employed by swing soloists vs. the preceding generation of Dixielanders. The Yerba Buenans turned their backs on all of these developments.
Not surprisingly, many members of the jazz community did not respond well to such rejection of their values. It was commonly asserted, and still is in some places, that Watters had set jazz back twenty years and that his music did not swing. Actually, neither accusation is justified.
Although the YBJB’s rhythmic feeling has more in common with a brass band than a 1930s swing band, it clearly swings. The YBJB has a wonderful cohesion, and all of its sidemen play with a jazz feeling. Compare the Yerba Buena Jazz Band with, for example, a circus band or a military band, and you will recognize right away that the YBJB is indeed playing jazz, that it generates a heat and drive that these other, somewhat similar units lack.
As for setting jazz back in time, quite the reverse is true. The YBJB’s sound was so new and different that it inspired disciples who maintained its approach as a separate Dixieland style.
Lu Watters plays as Turk Murphy looks on at Hambone Kelly’s (Provided by the Stanford University Libraries)
I have occasionally seen it said that Watters was trying to imitate King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. Perhaps the surviving members of the YBJB can say definitively whether such was the case, but based on what I hear on the records, I can’t go along with that statement.
Watters may have gotten the idea for a two-trumpet front line from hearing Oliver’s discs, but even a casual listener comparing the records should be able to recognize within the first few bars that the Yerba Buena Jazz Band sounds nothing at all like the Creole Jazz Band. Watters and his men, as I’ve said, were accomplished professional musicians who were perfectly capable of recreating the twenties recordings note-for-note, with the proper timbre and inflections, if they wanted to do so. If they had been trying to imitate Oliver or any other 1920s jazzman, it’s hard for me to believe that they would have missed this goal so completely.
What Watters did was what all good jazzmen should do. He got under the skin of the music, came to understand it fully, and played it his way. He found a way to make a distinctive and personal statement within the basic Dixieland framework.
Indeed, it was because the YBJB didn’t sound like any other band that it was able to create a new Dixieland style. If it had sounded like the Creole Jazz Band, or the Hot Five, or the Red Hot Peppers, I doubt that anyone would have remembered Watters for long. Offhand, I can’t think of any jazzman who’s attained a truly lasting reputation by imitating some other jazzman.
Turk Murphy on washboard with Bob Short and Wally Rose. Copyright © Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES. Used with permission.
Because most critics know that it was Watters who brought the banjo and tuba back to Dixieland, it seems to me that many of them are too quick to conclude that any banjo-tuba Dixieland band is automatically a West Coast revival unit. Such a conclusion ignores the fact that, prior to the wide adoption of electrical recording around 1925, just about all jazz bands with string and bass instruments utilized tuba and banjo, which better fitted the older acoustic recording techniques than guitar and string bass.
There were already five Dixieland styles up and running before the YBJB came along – white New Orleans, hot dance, uptown New Orleans, Chicago, and downtown New Orleans. All of these recorded with banjo and tuba on occasion. The presence of a tuba and banjo does not necessarily mean that a band is a West Coast revival band; regardless of its instrumentation, and regardless of whether it plays with a two-beat or four-beat pulse, a combo has to generate that feeling of going for substantial power to be a post-Watters unit.
What are the other distinguishing characteristics of West Coast revival? The striving for power is the easiest one to hear, but there are a few others. They all result from the fact that the style itself traces back to one small group of specific musicians, i.e., the customary way of playing a given instrument in West Coast revival style depends in large part on the way a specific Yerba Buenan executed his assignment.
For example, as noted above, the pianist tends to have a decided streak of ragtime in his playing, and to play in a strong two-handed way throughout the performance, just as Wally Rose did. I cut my jazz piano teeth on Rose’s playing as recorded with Watters and Murphy. I didn’t fully realize how different this approach was, opposite some other Dixieland styles, until the time years ago when I was hired for a gig with a band that proved to be a Chicago-style band; I played so many notes that I just about drove the clarinetist crazy (the leader and I got things straightened out at the first break).
Wally Rose, Bob Helm, Willie Thorpe, Lu Watters, and Turk Murphy, 1946. Ed Lawless collection. (Provided by the Stanford University Libraries)
Similarly, the West Coast revival style has an outgoing spirit tempered by only a moderate blues content. Some of this blues element came from Bob Scobey, whose distinctive, incisive trumpet reflected a blend of Armstrong and the straight-ahead Chicago lead tradition. Most of the blues feeling, however, came from the two Yerba Buenans who had the largest degree of blues in their sounds – trombonist Turk Murphy, whose rasping timbre and sure-footed counterlines showed the attention he’d paid to lowdown sliphornists like Roy Palmer and Kid Ory, and clarinetist Bob Helm (not on the initial YBJB session, but the definitive YBJB stickman), whose thick, slurry lines were about the only ones in the 1940s electing to follow Johnny Dodds’ path (while everyone else was trying in vain to catch Goodman).
Despite all the controversy, Watters lived to have the last laugh. He saw the West Coast revival style spread throughout the world, as bands from Europe to Japan unabashedly generate the YBJB’s sound.
Further, Watters saw how common his style became on the U.S. festival scene. Take a typical lineup for a Dixieland festival that hires organized bands. Subtract out the names that don’t really play Dixieland – the big swing bands, the ragtime orchestras, the country units, the blues bands, the pop orchestras, the Latin combos, etc. If you sort the remaining Dixieland outfits into the seven Dixieland styles, I’ll bet that, at many festivals, you’ll find more these days in the West Coast revival category than any other.
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The Clam Box is now open for the season in Quincy, MA
March 4, 2018 April 26, 2018 ~ Cheryl
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After weathering a Nor’easter causing heavy flooding in Quincy, Massachusetts, on its original opening day, the waters have receded enough for The Clam Box to officially open for the season.
Today (March 3), the restaurant opened 4-8 p.m. Its regular hours of 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily resume tomorrow.
For the latest updates, visit The Clam Box’s Facebook page. For more information and the menu, go to The Clam Box’s website or call (617) 773-6677.
The Clam Box is located at 789 Quincy Shore Drive, on Wollaston Beach in Quincy (get directions).
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Boehner Cries, GOP Cheers: GOP Claims Victory In The House (VIDEO)
By Evan McMorris-Santoro
November 2, 2010 8:26 p.m.
NRCC ELECTIONS HQ — The next Speaker of the House is one emotional dude. As he celebrated the end of Democratic rule in the lower house of Congress with several hundred friends here in downtown Washington, John Boehner broke down and cried while the crowd chanted “USA! USA!”
“I’ve spent my life trying to chase the American dream,” Boehner said, his voice cracking. He went on to espouse the virtues of capitalism and small business ownership in the way that you’d expect from the man who just led the Republican Party back from the political wilderness. Except with more tears.The rest of Boehner’s speech looked forward to a world where Republicans run the House and the Democrats kowtow to tea party demands.
“We are witnessing a repudiation,” Boehner said, claiming that with each GOP vote rolling in, “America is putting Washington on notice.”
In a theme that ran throughout the night, Boehner promised his Republican Congressional majority would not be the same one lost to the Democrats four years ago. Speaker after speaker got up tonight and promised a more austere and respectful GOP, one that took to heart the so-called Pledge To America that Bohener touted as his party’s political agenda on the campaign trail this fall.
“This new majority is prepared to do things differently,” Boehner said.
He didn’t get into policy specifics but did offer these three tenets for how things will go in the House staring in January when Boehner and his compatriots are sworn in.
Boehner said the Republicans will govern by “cutting spending instead of increasing it, reducing the size of government instead of increasing it” and “reforming the way Congress works” and “giving the government back to the people.”
He said the party will start off by “ending uncertainty in our economy and putting our citizens back to work.”
For all the talk of a kinder, gentler more attentive GOP, however, Bohener made it clear who he thought the vote tonight was really aimed at.
“The people have sent a message to President Obama,” he said. “Change course.”
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September 22, 2009 by Steve
Landmarks Vanish! Tourists Mystified!! (Update 2)
Updated September 22 at 9:50 pm: According to this evening’s Global news, the TTC will pull the offending maps tonight from all stations. Now may be your last chance to photograph your favourite blunder. Mind you, considering how fast the TTC is at taking down out-of-date notices, I suspect the “bad” maps will be around for awhile.
It will also be intriguing to see if, when the new maps are installed, they actually do update all of them in every station. I found four of elderly vintage without looking very hard yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Star managed to publish an annotated version of the St. Andrew map which shows City Hall where Osgoode Hall actually is, and the CN Tower at the corner of John and Front, north of the rail corridor. I suppose a paper with its offices in the 905 can’t be expected to know much about downtown Toronto any more.
Finally, I strongly urge that the TTC circulate the new maps for comment to ward Councillors’ offices who might actually know where things are in their respective neighbourhoods. Even better, as some have suggested in the comments here, put them online so that the vastly better-informed transit amateurs can help out with the project.
Updated September 21 at 3:25 pm: The TTC has announced that it will be reviewing, correcting and replacing the new maps. I do not know the details of basic design issues such as a clear identification of entrance locations and inclusion of surface routes, but I hope to get more info as the week goes on.
This morning, I visited many stations with the intention of posting a consolidated view of things. That post would rival my yet-unpublished detailed film festival reviews for length, and would be of limited long-term value. However, a few common threads do emerge:
Old buildings are hard to kill off, even when they no longer physically exist. The TTC could argue that nobody will be looking for these buildings, but something else may be there today.
Information about schools is largely missing and, when present, is often inaccurate. Also, the TDSB Education Centre became part of the UofT years ago (I should know, I used to work there), but it’s on the map for Queen’s Park.
Union Station is inconsistently identified (on the King Station map, you wouldn’t even know it was a major rail terminal).
Many buildings or sites of interest are not shown, but there is no consistent pattern in what’s missing. Some buildings are not in their correct location.
Information is not consistent between maps covering the same area for different stations. This is particularly evident for the UofT campus and Queen’s Park.
Most of Ryerson doesn’t exist according to the TTC.
The TTC should conduct a spelling bee for street and building names. The winner gets to review the new maps.
Some stations have old maps, or multiple versions. St. Clair has a new map at the main entrance (mezzanine level) and an older map at the north entrance. Spadina has two generations of maps, both out of date (these include the Spadina bus south of Bloor Street).
The TTC Lost Articles Office is on the Bay and Bloor-Yonge maps as if it were simply a building, not part of Bay station. It is not on the St. George map.
Space for advertising takes precedence over maps. The only map at the north end of Bloor-Yonge station is on the south wall of the east mezzanine. The only maps at Dundas are on the southbound side, but there are three of them, all close to each other.
Visual clutter is a very serious problem at some stations.
The original post follows the break.
This post picks up from a thread on spacing.ca by Sean Marshall.
The TTC is now installing, new, updated area maps for all of its subway stations, and they are so bad in so many ways. The TTC gets a lot of flak for lousy customer information, and better materials and services are one of the TTC’s key goals. On this project, they have failed astoundingly.
Someone decided to get new maps. Someone either assigned the project in house, or contracted it out. Someone thought that graphic layouts that would shame a student in elementary media arts were good enough for the TTC. Someone didn’t bother to proof-read the maps or check the basic data that went onto them.
A great deal of time, effort and money went into producing and installing materials that are woefully inaccurate, and this will all have to be done over again. I hate to say it, but this is precisely the sort of project that gives “public servants” a bad name.
Someone needs to seek alternative employment.
Sean began his commentary on St. Andrew Station, but wanting a closer look, I went there today and took a photo for myself.
This map has so many errors that I had to print a copy and start making notes. I will leave most issues of style, typography, legibility and other matters related to design and usability to Joe Clark who often fumes at length about these subjects.
My concern is solely with accuracy. Maps are, after all, supposed to tell you the lay of the land.
The maps are not to scale.
Buildings, where they are shown at all, are often crammed into less space than they deserve.
Buildings are named in very small type which does not always fit within the supposed outline of a landmark.
The shapes of buildings and parks do not generally match their actual layout.
The station where the map is located is identified with a larger icon than other stations on the map, and its entrances are shown individually. Alas, this also blocks out part of the nearby area causing affected sites to be ignored or misplaced.
The legend includes a green P for parking, but no lots are actually shown even though they do exist. It is unclear why someone in a subway station needs to know where parking lots are anyhow.
Missing Buildings
Buildings are included in this list because comparable information is provided on other station maps, because other items in the same class of building (e.g. hotels) are shown, or because they are items of major interest.
Ogden PS (on Phoebe Street, shown as a park)
Osgoode Hall and Law Courts
City Hall (New and Old)
Elgin-Wintergarden Theatre
St. Michael’s Hospital
King Edward Hotel
The Domed Stadium / Rogers Centre
The CN Tower
The Convention Centre
The Intercontinental Hotel
The Cosmopolitan Hotel
The Cambridge Suites Hotel
The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
The Government of Canada offices on Adelaide east of Victoria
The Albany Club (the Wellington Club is shown although I have never encountered anyone asking where it might be found)
Misidentified and Mangled Buildings
The Exchange Tower also includes “Rogers Plan 5341”
145 King West is identified by street address, a treatment not used for other buildings
Many building sites are shown incorrectly to occupy much less space in a block than they actually do. Examples include the CBC Broadcast Centre and Scotia Plaza.
The Eaton Centre is incorrectly named as “Eaton’s Centre”
The building at the northeast corner of Adelaide & University is labelled as the “Guardian of Cananda Tower”.
Street Naming and Placement
The Gardiner Expressway is called “Gardner”.
Simcoe Street ends at Station Street although it actually goes under the rail corridor to Queen’s Quay.
St. Patrick’s Square is not shown, but lanes in the same area are.
St. Patrick Street is called “Partick”.
Renfrew Place is shown as ending at McCaul Street when it actually runs through to John Street.
The Esplanade is shown between Bay and Yonge in the area that is actually the bus terminal.
Adelaide, Richmond and Wellington Streets west of Yonge have no “W.” included in their names, although corresponding streets east of Yonge have “E.”.
Neither the subway nor the surface routes are shown on the map.
The Yonge line stations are coloured orange, not yellow, the standard colour for the YUS on all other TTC maps.
Union Railway Station and Bus Terminal are not shown, although the words “Via and Go Transit” do appear on top of the rail corridor.
Meanwhile at Broadview
When I had a look at my home station, Broadview, the map isn’t as much of a mess. However, that’s fairly easy given that almost half of it is the Don Valley. The following items are notable:
An animal hospital that is actually on Danforth east of Broadview is shown in the block actually occupied by Broadview Station. The icon for Broadview Station interferes with correct placement.
The Music Hall Theatre is shown at the corner of Broadview and Danforth when it is actually half a block to the east. Again, the proper space taken up by the “Broadview” icon.
The Green P lot immediately east of the station is not shown, nor is any other in the area.
Jackman Junior Public School is labelled a “Junir” school.
Frankland School (Logan south of Danforth) and Rosedale Heights (at Castle Frank Station) are not shown.
City Adult Learning Centre (known as CALC) is labelled “City of Toronto Adult Learning Centre”.
The nearby “Public Washrooms” have been closed for an extremely long time, and the building now has other uses occupying it.
Chester Village Extended Care closed well over a year ago. The building is now being rebuilt for another use.
The road layout at the DVP entrance west of the viaduct is not shown correctly.
At least the subway line colour is green, the correct one for the BD line.
An last, but not least, Chester Station is shown on Jackman Avenue, one block west of its actual location.
The Roxy Lives!
I passed through Greenwood Station tonight, and noted that the Roxy Cinema, long the home of Rocky Horror screenings, is shown even though this theatre has been closed for well over a decade.
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Miroslav Glavic | September 23, 2009 at 5:42 am
I go away on vacation to Europe and something like this happens?
I can’t stop laughing at this. Why can’t the TTC get Transit advocates/geeks/nerds/etc. to help out instead of doing things “in-house”? I am sure many of us would do it and for a lot less (many maybe even free?).
I have printed the articles and I am showing it to a friend of mine who is sitting next to me who is a driver in the local transit for Dubrovnik (Croatia) and he can’t believe that this would happen for Canada’s biggest Transit system.
I will be back around Oct. 20, I wonder how many of those maps will still be around.
Jonathon Markowski | September 23, 2009 at 7:18 am
Just go to Spadina Station … the University side shows route 77, and the westside exit, for the longest time – don’t know if its still there, had a system map that predated the Sheppard Subway. A similar one was in large scale at Dufferin Loop, a serious problem given its propensity for wayward tourists who don’t know better.
Steve: There are two generations of map in Spadina Station, both of which predate the Spadina streetcar. However, the subway map near the escalator up to the Spadina west side exit does show the Sheppard line.
David Cavlovic | September 23, 2009 at 8:21 am
“The TTC doesn’t believe in proofreaders?”
HA! I remember a Ride Guide back in the ’80’s that had to be pulled because of a “typo” that read “Queer’s Park” instead of “Queen’s Park”. Whether or not it was sabotage was never determined.
Of course, all innacuracies will be a thing of the past once proper Swan Service is in place.
Steve: The above comment has been published, unedited, so that the howler of a spelling error (deliberate?) is preserved.
David Cavlovic | September 23, 2009 at 10:23 am
INACCURACIES. Can’t spell until after coffee #4, and then it’s still questionable.
Leo Petr | September 23, 2009 at 10:58 am
@Jonathon: For good or bad, they replaced the pre-Sheppard Subway system map in 2008.
Trevor | September 23, 2009 at 11:26 am
Steve wrote: “Before this started, somebody approved a common set of design standards, such as they may be.”
Steve, you are a brave man. I would not risk making such a presumption.
“To proofread, you first must know what the correct spellings are for street names,…”
I suppose the same applies to the approver of the subway train announcements knowing the correct pronunciation of station names. For example “Saint Andrew,” rather than the extant “Sane Andrew” spoken to subway travelers. (Yes, there are other incorrectly pronounced stations, too.)
It would appear that active oversight is something is a concept not as well known to TTC management as it should be.
Steve: And who watches the watchers? The transit enthusiasts, of course!
thickslab | September 23, 2009 at 12:31 pm
It should not be up to transit geeks to do work for cheap (or free) for the TTC. They’re a corporation with a $1.3 billion budget. They should be able to do this on their own without free help.
Steve: But alas, it is the geeks, the foamers, who actually care about the system while the paid staff (mostly non-union for all you ATU bashers out there) screw things up.
Calvin Henry-Cotnam | September 23, 2009 at 6:33 pm
As if these maps weren’t enough, I just noticed this yesterday on the TTC’s website describing the Don Mills bus route: “…and the area of Leslie Street and 16th Avenue in the Town of Markham.”
That intersection is in Richmond Hill.
Ed Drass | September 24, 2009 at 10:51 am
There is so much to say on this topic.
For now, why not seriously consider how the private sector and the ‘travelling public’ can facilitate an improvement in transit information?
Here’s a firm in Washington DC that provides maps of Metro station neighbourhoods. When I visited the city last, I noticed photocopied hand-out versions of these maps in a few — but not every station.
Next, even huge commercial map providers now rely on “free” user suggestions.
Here’s my proposal for how the TTC could harness the efforts of transit observers.
Andrew Barton | September 24, 2009 at 11:35 am
This is not the first time the TTC’s had an issue with proofreading, either. Those ads they had earlier this year, and which still crop up from time to time, talk about how 85% of the surface routes run until 1 AM, “everyday,” when it should’ve been “every day.”
That annoyed me so much that it’s what I chose to mention to Adam Giambrone when I ran into him at Doors Open. I mean, simple things, right?
Andrew Barton said : “I mean, simple things, right?”
Yes, like learning how to spell “inaccuracies”. I REALLY need to cut back on the coffee….
Ernie | September 25, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Map making is the kind of thing that should have been open to tender for civ/geo companies to work on. We should get a company that actually knows about GIS to do a proper map of the system.
Bill Kinkaid | September 27, 2009 at 3:40 pm
RB says:
And yes, what is it with those printed bus schedules?? Are they trying to save ink by only putting in the minutes instead of the hours? I’ve lived in Toronto forever and I still can’t make sense of those things.
Here in Vancouver, they save ink (or whatever) by listing one time and following it up with “every X minutes”. That’s fine when it’s every 10, 15, 30 minutes etc, but try to figure out when your next bus is when it’s 2:00 and the timetable says “10:28 then every 12-13 minutes”.
I’ve never looked very closely at Skytrain station maps but I will now. But I note at Commercial-Broadway, which isn’t exactly Baker Street, they now have platform numbers on the wall; the “Commercial Drive” stop is now signed as Platforms 1 and 2 and the “Broadway” stop is now signed as Platforms 3 and 4 even though each is just a single centre platform.
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April 21, 2018 by Steve
506 Carlton Streetcars vs Buses: Part I – Travel Times (Updated)
Updated April 23, 2018 at 9:30 am: A section has been added following the original article to discuss travel times over the full route from Main Station to High Park including weekend data.
With the temporary conversion of the 505 Dundas and 506 Carlton routes to bus operation for much of 2018, there is a chance to compare how these routes operate with each vehicle type. In this and future articles, I will review travel times across the routes as well as headway reliability.
Data for 506 Carlton that I have collected runs from June to October 2017, and from January to March 2018. For the purpose of speed comparisons, weekdays from January 8-19 (streetcar) and March 19-28 (bus) 2018 are used. This avoids major storms as well as periods when schools were closed and traffic was lighter than normal.
There are seasonal variations in travel times due to the nature of streets and neighbourhoods transit services run through. As the year progresses, it will be possible to compare data for warmer months when the streets are busy between 2017 and 2018 data, although this must be tempered with the effect of diversions that were in effect during 2017.
There is a slight improvement in travel time at certain periods of the day and certain locations/directions for buses, but this is not large or widespread even in off-peak periods. Buses tend to reach higher peak speeds between stops where conditions permit, but in many cases the speed profiles are comparable for the two modes.
Bus headway reliability has been a topic of some discussion on Twitter along with the capacity of the replacement service, but I will turn to those issues in the second part of this analysis.
Route History
The 506 Carlton route changed from time to time over the past year, and this affects the travel times reported here.
June 18, 2017: Service diverted via Dundas and Bathurst both ways for streetscape work on College. This increases travel times on the west end of the route starting in mid-June.
June 19 to July 9, 2017: Service diverted via Queen between Parliament and Coxwell for construction on Gerrard.
July 10 to 25, 2017: Service diverted to Coxwell-Queen Loop for construction on Upper Gerrard. Bus shuttles provided service east of Coxwell.
July 26, 2017: Service returned to Main Station. West end diversion via Dundas continues.
October 14, 2017: Service resumes standard routing.
February 18, 2018: Conversion to bus operation. Western terminus extended to High Park Station.
Chart Formats
The charts presented here are similar to those I have used in previous articles with some minor changes.
In the chart sets containing percentiles of travel time values, there are three groups of charts.
The first three pages show the 85th percentile values by hour through the day. Most trips fall within this range, and using the 85th percentile shaves off the worst of the peaks.
The next three pages show the 50th percentile values by hour. The format is the same as in the first group, but the values are the medians – half of the trips take longer, and half take shorter.
The last four pages show four percentiles from 25th (only 1/4 of trip take this time or less), 50th (median), 85th (most trips) and 100th (maximum values) for four one-hour periods through the day representing the am peak, midday, pm peak and early evening.
For the collection of 85th percentiles, the travel times rise and fall through the day. Detailed comments appear later in the article, but a few points are worth noting here:
Travel times in the summer (until Thanksgiving weekend) were longer than in the fall and winter.
Some of the highest values fall not in the AM peak but in the late morning.
Where there is a spike up, this indicates a delay severe enough to push the 85th percentile to a high value. Where there is a spike down to zero, there was no service over thr route section and direction during the hour in question (for example below, on September 22 between 11 am and noon).
Data are grouped based on the hour when a vehicle enters the section being measured, in this case crossing Yonge Street westbound.
Sample 85th percentile values for 6 am to noon
The charts with the four percentile bands give a sense of the range of values. At the low end, the 25th percentile (purple) gives a sense of the best case times as only one quarter of the trips achieve this time or better. At the high end, the 100th percentile (red) shows the maximum that can occur. This might only be one vehicle or it could be several. The space between the lines gives a sense of how spread out the values are.
Sample percentile values for the AM peak hour
The charts showing average speeds are organized differently to show vehicle behaviour over the length of the route.
There are 20 pages to each set of charts, one for each hour from 6-7 am to 1-2 am.
To allow the charts room to “breathe”, the data are split into the east and west half of the route divided at Yonge Street, and there are separate chart sets for westbound and eastbound travel.
Westbound charts should be read left to right. Eastbound charts should be read right to left.
To the degree that the blue (streetcar) line hangs below the green (bus) line, this shows areas where streetcars travel, on average, more slowly than buses during the hour in question, averaged over the period. Where the blue line rises above the green line, the streetcars are faster.
One can get a sense of the evolution of travel times for both modes over the course of the day by stepping through the pages to view the rise and fall of values.
Late at night, the number of vehicles in service falls, and with that the number of data points. Charts for the period from 1-2 am have less granularity as a result.
Methodology: From the tracking data, we know where each vehicle is every 20 seconds, and from this can derive the speed at that location and time. The route is subdivided into 10m segments, and the calculated speeds are allocated to wherever the vehicle is observed at a given time. The total is then divided by the number of observations to produce average speeds. The downward notches in the charts correspond to places where vehicles stop, or at least slow, typically on the approach to a transit stop or signal. Not all trips stop at all locations, and so a non-zero average can result. Where the downward “notch” approaching a stop is wide, this indicates vehicles queueing on the approach due to congestion.
Eastern Half of 506 Carlton Westbound
Travel times on this section of the route show the effect of the Parliament/Queen/Coxwell diversion in June-July 2017, and the absence of through service from Main Station to Yonge Street in July. At other times, the data represent travel via the standard route.
85th percentiles
During the 8-9 am period, there is a drop in travel times in mid-March that is not matched in other data between 6 am and noon.
During the afternoon, notably during the 5-6 pm period, travel times in March are a bit shorter than in January.
During the evening, there is only a slight decline in March relative to January.
50th percentiles show similar results
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In the speed comparisons, the streetcar and bus data stay close together for much of the eastern half of the route with a few notable exceptions where buses outpace streetcars:
Over the Main Street bridge southbound
On Gerrard west of Main
Between Jarvis and Church westbound
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Eastern Half of 506 Carlton Eastbound
Travel times are slightly shorter during the peak hours for buses in March versus streetcars in January. The effect is smaller during the off peak hours.
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The eastbound speeds for buses tend to be better in areas where they get a fairly free run. It is worth noting that the average speeds for buses (and occasionally streetcars) exceed the 40 km/h speed limit fairly regularly.
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Western Half of 506 Carlton Westbound
On the western half of the route, travel times are affected by diversions between June and October 2017. There are some differences between the January and March values, but not to the same degree as for the eastern half.
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As on the eastern half of the route, the points where buses show higher average speeds than streetcars are for the intervals where they reach top speed between stops. Comparative speeds west of Lansdowne were affected by construction that affected the bus running times.
The speed chart for buses extends to High Park Station via Parkside (a particularly brisk part of the route where the speed limit is 50 km/h) and there are no corresponding streetcar data.
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Western Half of 506 Carlton Eastbound
As with the westbound trips, there are slightly shorter time for buses, but the effect is smaller than on the east end of the route.
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Updated April 23, 2018 at 9:30 am:
Full Route Travel Time Data
The charts above show a lot of the fine grained detail of travel time behaviour, but miss one obvious point of comparison: how long does it take for a vehicle to travel across the entire route?
This section presents data from January through March 2018 where the first month is all streetcar, the third is all bus, and the middle is a transition between them. There are a few important caveats here:
The “full trip” time is measured between the intersection of Main & Danforth and Parkside & Howard Park. This omits terminal times which can be highly variable given the tendency of vehicles to take long layovers due to schedule padding, and it clips off the extended route of the 506 bus to High Park Station so that the same distances are measured for both modes.
None of the data have been filtered to omit the effects of storm days or service delays.
Both January and March include weeks with school breaks (first week of January, middle of March) during which traffic is lighter than normal.
Statutory holidays (New Year’s Day, Family Day, Good Friday) are included with Sunday data.
Data have not been broken out by days of the week as I did for some of the King Street Pilot charts, except for weekends.
The sample page below is for westbound trips on weekdays, and it compares the data for January (streetcars) with March (buses). The linked PDF contains six charts for weekdays, Saturdays and Sunday/Holidays; eastbound and westbound.
The solid lines in the middle of the bands at the top of the chart are the average travel times for each mode. The data are averages of all trips taken during each hour of the day (assigned to the hour when they began) for all weekdays in their respective months.
The solid lines at the bottom are the standard deviation values (SD) for the data.
The dashed and dotted lines show the range of one SD plus or minus from the averages.
For westbound trips, the average lines lie almost on top of each other for all days including weekends. Travel times are shorter on Saturdays, and shorter again on Sundays. Weekdays show the familiar double-humped curve for the AM and PM peaks with the PM peak being higher as there is more competing traffic on the roads in the afternoon. The standard deviation values are almost flat through the day showing that there is only a small difference in the range of observed values between peak and off peak.
For eastbound trips, the bus averages are a few minutes shorter than the streetcar values during many periods, but the standard deviations are quite similar. The differences, such as they are, are not uniform across the route as the detailed speed comparison charts above show. Also, the irregularity in headways can contribute more to the length of a trip by either mode than the actual in-vehicle travel time differences, where any exist.
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For an even more detailed look, the following charts show all of the travel times for each month and direction. Here is a sample page showing westbound trips in the second week of January.
Each dot represents one trip, colour coded by day.
The trend lines are a polynomial interpolations (6th order) to show the overall shape of the data.
There are five charts, one for each week of the month, and separate charts for Saturdays and Sundays.
One page consolidates all of the data for weekdays. The purpose of this is to show the shape and distribution of the data. Average values will thread their way through this cloud of points, while standard deviations will reflect the scatter of values around the averages.
The chart sets also include average and standard deviation values for each type of day. These are the same values as used in the Bus to Streetcar comparison chart above.
The lines for each day are always slightly different depending on conditions (weather, congestion, delays, special events). For example, Tuesday, January 2 was a lighter than normal day for traffic and this is reflected in the travel time values and trend line. Similarly Saturday, January 6 and Monday, January 1 have lower travel times than other weekend days.
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February data are included here to show the change, or lack of it, between the streetcar weeks (up to Saturday, February 17) and the bus weeks (after Sunday, February 18). Average and SD values are not included in these charts to avoid mixing data from the two modes together.
In the March data, Thursday the 29th was a storm day, and this is reflected in longer travel times through much of the day.
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Charles Lidstone | April 21, 2018 at 7:08 pm
A couple of weeks ago the stops along College were moved from the safety islands over to the curb lanes. This is asinine, of course; especially on a street with a bike lane. Now it seems like the stops have been moved back to the safety islands. The TTC seems to go back and forth on this issue a lot. Is there a good reference, or do you have a comment, on the thinking behind either choice?
Steve: The TTC’s usual standard is for buses to load at the curb, but I don’t think they took into account that there are still some safety islands left on College that are beside bike lanes. I suspect it’s either an oversight, or a case where the decision was made by someone who does not know the route in detail.
DavidC | April 22, 2018 at 9:27 am
Steve said: I suspect it’s either an oversight, or a case where the decision was made by someone who does not know the route in detail.
One rather fears that this is the same person who actually ‘manages’ the route as many route management problems seem to be caused by a lack of local knowledge.
Julian | April 22, 2018 at 6:05 pm
What was the median and standard deviation of travel time for bus and streetcar?
Steve: The median is the 50% line in any of the charts. As for the SD values, I have used them on other charts, but many don’t understand what they mean, and they’re an abstraction. Also, there is the question of SDs bouncing around a lot at the level of data where I am reporting for only one hour on one day at each data point. “N” is comparatively small.
doconnor | April 22, 2018 at 6:07 pm
On Bathurst and Lake Shore, I found that buses usually use the stops at the safety islands, but it depends on traffic and where people are waiting. Sometimes when travelling in pairs both will be used at the same time.
Jonathan | April 22, 2018 at 6:26 pm
With respect to headway monitoring and on street supervision, I noticed today (Sunday) there was a supervisor out on King Street at Church on the westbound side Church stop. He poked his head in the rear door and tapped the Presto reader with a card then went back to the sidewalk. What specifically was the purpose of this? Is it somekind of vehicle tracking record keeping with Presto?
Steve: I believe this is a regular test to see which readers are working. I don’t think that the TTC believes some of the availability numbers they get from Presto. Of course, checking only one reader on a car is hardly a full test. When a line is busy and people cannot move between readers, having one working at the back door is useless if you’re not nearby. Similar problems happen with the fare vending machines on the new cars.
What about median cycle time between bus and streetcar? Its very difficult to get any sense of comparison between the two from any of the graphs above. The speed graphs seem to imply the buses are running faster but how much time over the entire route cycle does this add up to?
Steve: If you look at the charts of travel times over each half of the route, and match this against the dates, you can see periods when buses were faster, or not. You can read medians directly off of the charts (50th percentile). I can generate charts showing end-to-end times for January, February and March, and add them to the post, but you will have to wait as I am working on something else.
The cycle time is meaningless as a comparison for two reasons. First, the bus route is longer than the streetcar route (buses go to High Park Station). Second, all vehicles have layovers of varying lengths at the terminals. If this is included as part of “cycle time”, it does not reflect actual driving conditions.
Updated April 23 at 9:30 am: Charts of full trip times have been added. Westbound it’s a draw, eastbound the buses are slightly faster. Note that the new charts use averages (arithmetic means), not medians, because standard deviations are relative to the average values.
Michael | April 23, 2018 at 8:20 am
The other day, westbound at College and Spadina, there was a sign at the curb saying the stop is not in use, and that it had been moved to the transit island. However, I saw a driver stop at the curb lane, which required people waiting at the island to scurry across a lane of traffic back to the bus stop. So it seems that drivers are either receiving inconsistent or incorrect instructions, or just do what they like!
“Comparing the data starting at Main & Danforth and working westward, the values rise as one moves across the route reflecting the degree to which gapping and bunching worsen as “typical” service.”
Perhaps this has been addressed before, but are there any ways of preventing gapping and bunching from rising as one moves across the route?
Steve: There must be an operational culture of keeping vehicles spaced apart, sitting at terminals and enroute if necessary to do so. This requires central management that can “see” the behaviour of gaps, but it also requires an acknowledgement at the highest level of how commonplace the problem is. It is the rule, not the exception, a part of “TTC culture”.
I often arrive at High Park station to find the electronic board saying that the next two 506 buses eastbound are leaving in “9 min and 9 min” or “11 min and 11 min.” Is there some reason that they are intentionally having two buses leave from the terminus together, when they could be more spaced out?
Steve: This is probably because there is a pair of buses somewhere near Roncesvalles running together, and so NextBus shows their predicted departures together too.
One advantage of the bus service for those living near High Park station which is a high-density area (and which the planners want to become more so), is that the 506 route has been extended to go there rather than end in High Park. The streetcar route does not have the flexibility of being extended in this way (or at least I have never heard it be considered).
Steve: And it is rather unlikely given the amount of new track this would involve. If anything, Keele Station would be a more likely connection point were it not already full of bus routes (which is why the 506 bus goes to High Park).
Thanks for adding the graphs on end to end times, I think it’s much easier to get an ‘overall’ (but admittedly limited) picture with these. The poly interpolation graphs are also really nice so I think you should keep using them!
Steve: I have charts coming out of my ears in various formats, and there are advocates/aficionados of each type. Also I get complaints about there being so many, but in an analysis like this there are many ways to look at the same data to bring out various aspects of the situation.
I should probably mention that because I have been doing this sort of thing for years, I have a repertoire of chart formats, and add to this from time to time when requests come up. I used to publish the scatter diagrams with the trend lines, but then many readers wanted percentiles. Each one tells its own tale!
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February 5, 2019 by Steve
Metrolinx Board Meeting: February 7, 2019 (Updated)
Updated February 10, 2019 at 9:00 am: Notes from the Board meeting have been added at the beginning of this article.
Relief Line Business Case
When the agenda was released, the Relief Line report created quite a stir with an apparent shift in Metrolinx’ position on the staging of subway expansion projects. Where “relief” taking precedence over the Yonge north extension only referred to the southern section (Pape to Osgoode), Metrolinx now shows a shortfall in capacity if the northern section (Danforth to Sheppard) is missing from the network.
This prompted a letter from Frank Scarpitti, Mayor of Markham and Chair of the York Region Rapid Transit Corporation Board. The heart of Scarpitti’s objection is that the Metrolinx report uses a mixture of demand models and assumptions to arrive at its conclusion, and that this is out of step with previous studies and approvals.
The Relief Line Business Case Development presentation paints a flawed picture of the ridership modelling work being undertaken by Metrolinx, in conjunction with York Region and City of Toronto staff. The vague and contradictory information being used to update the public on slide 7 regarding Line 1: Ridership Demand and Network Effects has, once again, pitted two critically needed infrastructure projects against one another, namely the Relief Line against the Yonge Subway Extension. This positioning is not supported by the ridership modelling analysis and is at odds with the advice and information presented by Metrolinx at a recent meeting.
On June 25, 2015, Metrolinx released the results of the Yonge Relief Network Study to the Board. Supported by a Stakeholder Advisory Committee and a Peer Review Panel, the Board endorsed the finding that “With the Yonge North Extension, the Yonge Subway will still be under capacity.”
The Relief Line Update uses a blend of data and methodologies to make broad assumptions about future ridership. Each subsequent ridership model claims to have better information, more detail and more sophisticated analysis. Some models include independent findings and more recently, to our objection, some have been relying heavily on market driven employment and population data, contrary to the required obligation of all municipalities to follow the Provincially-mandated “Growth Plan” numbers.
The Relief Line Update being presented to the Metrolinx Board on February 7, 2019 has, according to Metrolinx staff, blended the findings of at least three different models and does not accurately represent any of the individual modelling analyses. Slide 7 suggests that, in 2041, Line 1 will be below capacity and then over capacity when the Yonge Subway Extension is added. This is completely inaccurate – current Metrolinx modelling shared as recent as January 21, 2019 demonstrates that the Yonge Subway Extension adds a relatively minor number of riders to the peak demand location and, in no case, is it the cause of Line 1 becoming over capacity.
The facts are that only 20% of the new riders on an extension of the Yonge Subway line would be headed south of Bloor. Ridership growth on Line 1 is directly related to population and employment growth in Toronto. In fact, models show that ridership on Line 1 will exceed capacity regardless of whether the Yonge Subway Extension is constructed. We believe that by promoting the shift of as little as 10% of people from peak hour travel from the Extension to the Richmond Hill GO Line, and by using fare structure and level of service incentives, that substantial relief on Line 1 can be achieved while the Yonge Subway Extension is being constructed.
Modelling also shows that the majority of riders (80%) on the Yonge Subway Extension are headed to Toronto’s uptown employment centres north of Bloor, including St. Clair, Eglinton and York Mills. Furthermore, the Yonge Subway Extension will also serve a large number of Toronto residents that work in York Region Other initiatives are underway, or should be underway, to alleviate Line 1 capacity problems. Metrolinx’s 2015 study concluded that a number of planned and funded initiatives such as Automatic Train Control, more Rocket Trains, GO Expansion, and the opening of the Line 1 extension to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre will add capacity and offload the Line 1 demand.
These are serious challenges to the professional quality of work presented by Metrolinx planners.
The June 2015 report cited here was the Yonge Relief Network Study and it contains the quotation about the subway remaining under capacity even with the Yonge North extension. However, this depends on a number of factors:
The model year is 2031
Then-current projections for population and jobs
Assumed diversion levels for ridership to TYSSE and GO RER, net of demand added by new projects especially the Crosstown LRT at Eglinton
The reported projected that the volume/capacity ratio would have been 96% (2031) over the peak hour meaning that the super-peak would be above the line. The claim that the subway would still have capacity is “true” only on average and with no headroom for growth. Metrolinx planners should have known better to make that statement in 2015.
Metrolinx staff pointed out:
They are modelling for 2041, ten years later
The 2016 Census shows that core area employment is growing faster than predicted
Modelling now includes factors for latent demand and safety considerations at stations and platforms
If there is no alternate relief in place by 2041, the Relief Line North will be required
Staff also reported that although the Relief Line South approved concept (Pape to Osgoode via Carlaw and Queen) has a positive Business Case, the value is only slightly above 1.0. All six of the options were close to 1 and so the distinction between them is not as strong as the simple over/under status in the report might imply. With only a small positive margin, factors such as cost control and encouragement of Transit Oriented Development along the line will be important to maintain the supposed benefit.
CEO Phil Verster argued strongly that building the Relief Line does not preclude building other projects. His concern is to build more transit and build faster. Metrolinx is looking at (unspecified) new technology and innovation from industry to speed up the process. More than one line could be built concurrently, but the critical point is to open them in a sequence that causes the desired redistribution of demand.
Verster admitted that Metrolinx has not done enough to look at the Richmond Hill GO corridor for its potential contribution to relief.
A Board member asked whether the staff have identified a “tipping point” in safety for their studies. There is not a single value, but rather a variation from one location to another depending on local demand, station geometry and passenger flows.
Unspoken through all of this was the years of delay in admitting that a problem even exists, let alone of doing something about it. GO’s ability to provide relief has been downplayed for various reasons including the need to regrade the south end of the line to make it flood-proof, the winding valley route’s limitation of travel speed, and operational conflicts with CN’s freight traffic that limit GO capacity to Richmond Hill. Meanwhile, candidate John Tory’s SmartTrack campaign claimed that his scheme would eliminate the need for a Relief Line, and TTC projections did not raise alarms about capacity and safety issues until the situation at Bloor-Yonge could not be ignored.
“Relief” will not come from any one line or project, but from the contributions of several.
Financing and deliverability studies will be reported in spring 2019 for the Relief Line South, and a preliminary business case for the Relief Line North will be available by year-end.
This entire exchange shows the problems brought on by oversimplified presentation decks for the Board. In their oral remarks, Metrolinx staff displayed a more extensive grasp of the issues and details than contained in the Powerpoint deck.
Drivers of Ridership and Revenue
The presentation began with an astonishing admission that ridership stats existed separately within parts of the Metrolinx organization – GO Transit, Presto and Union Pearson Express – and they are only now being consolidated.
Staff explained that there are three different metrics for ridership: boardings, trips and customers. One person (customer) takes multiple trips (a journey from “A” to “B”) and within each trip may board multiple lines and vehicles. Each measure has its purpose. [The TTC is wrestling with the same problem in “ridership” tracking due to the effects of Metropasses and the Two-Hour Fare.]
Fine-grained behaviour shows up in the stats such as at Aurora Station where counts are affected by its being a terminal during off-peak periods. When all-day service was introduced, station usage shot up.
Research showed that families value free children’s fares and this generates more full-fare adult trips. However, the free-fare communication program could have been better because some riders did not know of it and paid for their children even though free rides were available.
Metrolinx clearly needs to understand how its riders think about using the system because growth cannot be driven forever by a park-and-ride model. This type of work is long overdue, and it should be reported publicly as an essential part of shifting how politicians think about transit’s role beyond classic suburban commuting.
As with the Relief Line presentation, the details reported orally provided a better understanding of the issues staff raised than the superficial information in the presentation deck.
Regular readers will know that my attitude to “marketing” is that it is often a substitute for providing service riders want and need. The most brilliant campaign can be undone by an empty shop window, or chronic shortages of popular items. One can “market” service that does not exist, but would-be riders catch on fast, especially if they have already been “shopping” elsewhere by driving.
The idea behind the Brand Campaign is to create a key message and focus for each part of Metrolinx, but a statement quite early in the presentation (and like so many other pearls revealed orally, not in the printed text) brought this gem – GO Transit is a long-established brand, and Metrolinx should be careful not to mess with it.
I would go further and say that the branding exercise has a fatal flaw in attempting to keep a separate focus for what were originally four separate organizations.
GO Transit is well established, over a half century old. Both the name and the green colour scheme are well-known throughout the GHTA.
Metrolinx was created as a planning agency with no operational responsibility, and it has suffered for years from an identity crisis. A rebranding exercise a few years back produced the “Metrolinx squiggle” and a black and white colour scheme.
Presto was originally independent of Metrolinx, but later became a division. GO Transit green set its original colour scheme, but with the Metrolinx change to black, Presto soon followed.
UPX was originally to be a private company, and for several years operated as a separate, pretentious, bloated entity within Metrolinx. The colour scheme is an unhappy attempt to look like part of a GO Transit family while staying separate from it.
The union of operational entities – GO, UPX, Presto – with a planning agency has never been a happy one, and this continues with the battle over the reigning corporate identity of GO green or Metrolinx black.
On the marketing side, the idea that a separate set of slogans and goals is needed for each division preserves a structural view that was never relevant, but simply reflected individual fiefdoms. A great deal of time and organizational effort could go into preserving those unique views rather than integrating them.
Meanwhile, with the lessons to be learned from analysis of actual riders, Metrolinx might more profitably turn their “marketing” efforts to actual service rather than corporate fluff that adds no value to a rider’s experience.
The original article follows below.
The Metrolinx Board will meet on February 7, 2019, with the public session beginning at 12:15 pm. The agenda contains several items of interest, although the presentations are thinner than one might hope. I will update this article after the meeting and add any salient information that comes up in discussion.
Relief Line Business Case Development
Operations Quarterly Report
Customer Experience Committee Report
Presto Quarterly Report
In a piece of bitter irony, a report on branding strategy is a public document, but one on “2019 Service Increase” is in the private agenda. So nice to know we will have a good marketing campaign, but not what they will be trying to sell us.
More substance and less fluff would be a welcome addition to Metrolinx agendas.
There are two parallel studies underway of the south and north sections of the Relief line. The dividing point is Danforth Avenue.
The southern routing is now set, but the northern portion in the map below is a placeholder pending final route selection (see below).
Six alternatives were considered for the southern portion of the Relief Line. Of these, option “A” (orange in the map below) was chosen. It begins at Osgoode Station and runs east on Queen with stops at Yonge (Queen Station), Sherbourne, King/Sumach, Broadview (East Harbour), Queen/Carlaw, Gerrard/Carlaw and Pape Station. Detailed information about the proposed route is available in the Environmental Project Report.
Of the alternatives, only options “A” and “F” (with a downtown alignment via King rather than Queen) were considered to have a benefit-cost ratio greater than 1, and they are the only options that serve the East Harbour (Unilever) site where a major office development is proposed.
The northern section of the route has not been nailed down yet. This is a provincial project under Metrolinx. Work on it, at least from a public point of view, ended with the call of the provincial election in spring 2018, and there has been no further public consultation. At this point, several routes and permutations of routes are under consideration.
None of this is news, but one key slide in the presentation puts the relative priority of regional subway plans in a new context. This shows the projected demand in 2041 on the Yonge subway relative to capacity under five scenarios.
The base case includes only the existing Yonge subway and the anticipated extra capacity that will be possible with automatic train control (ATC) and more trains. The demand will match the available capacity.
If only the southern portion of the Relief Line is built, there will be a slight decrease in demand on Yonge, but a larger total ridership because some demand that is now constrained can flow via the RL to the core.
If only the Yonge extension to Richmond Hill is built, demand on the existing subway will considerably exceed its capacity.
If the Yonge extension and the RL south are both built, the existing subway will still run over capacity.
Only with the RL south and north can the added demand from the Richmond Hill extension be handled on the Yonge line.
This creates a considerable challenge for subway planners and funders regardless of who will actually own the subway over coming decades. Richmond Hill has been waiting for a subway, and the project Environmental Assessment has been on York Region’s website for some time. The Mayor of Markham, as quoted by Ben Spurr in the Toronto Star, is a tad upset by this situation.
In an interview Thursday, Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, a vocal proponent of the Yonge Extension, called the new Metrolinx report “an about face” and said the agency has “some explaining to do.”
He suggested Metrolinx was kowtowing to the interests of Toronto and its mayor.
“Maybe Metrolinx has become ‘Torontolinx,’ I’m not sure. Maybe Mayor (John) Tory got appointed to the chair of ‘Torontolinx’ overnight,” he said.
Scarpitti asserted the “Yonge subway is not going to take a back seat to any project in the GTA” and called on Premier Doug Ford to publicly confirm the provincial government will proceed with both projects.
This puts Metrolinx and their political masters in a difficult situation. With the planned provincial takeover of (at least) subway planning and construction responsibility, any decision regarding project timing will be 100% in Queen’s Park’s lap, and they will not be able to blame wrangling at the municipal level for hold-ups. With their own planners telling them a Yonge extension will demand the construction of the full RL to Sheppard, there is a large bill sitting on their table, and regional jealousies to be managed.
The Metrolinx report is contradictory because it states:
Transit network forecasts show that Relief Line South needs to be in operation before the Yonge North Subway Extension. Relief Line North provides further crowding relief for Line 1. [p. 2]
Presumably, there would be an interim point before 2041 where the extension and only the RL south could co-exist without overloading the subway, but it is clear that demand growth will eat through any headroom and return the Yonge line to a crisis situation in the 2030s. In turn this raises the issue of how much demand for Richmond Hill to downtown travel can be shifted to GO Transit through service expansion. That GO corridor is challenging because of its topography, but bettering its ability to parallel the subway deserves consideration.
GO’s fares are a high-cost option for commuting to downtown compared with a subway extension which, like the Vaughan extension, is presumed to operate with “Toronto” fares. GO service suffers both from poor frequency and from GO’s chronic problem of charging high fares for shorter trips. Although reductions in short-trip fares were proposed in the Liberals’ 2018 budget, this would have applied to Langstaff GO Station, but not to points further north. The current Presto fare from Langstaff to Union is $6.53, more than double the TTC fare even though the travel time would be roughly comparable to a subway journey over the same distance. The Presto fare from Richmond Hill is $6.62 and would not be reduced in the proposed tariff.
There is no word from the Ford regime on whether any of that scheme will be implemented.
Trips to midtown on the subway would be shorter than on GO because riders would not have to double back from Union. However, GO should seek to handle as many of the end-to-end trips as possible to reduce subway demand. Discussions of RL planning are silent on this issue.
This is an example of the problem with many planning reports regardless of the agency. They consider the end state, in this case 2041, but offer no discussion of the interim stages by which we might reach that point two decades away. It is precisely the interim states that transit riders will have to suffer through if subway congestion is not relieved, and especially if the end state is never actually reached.
Metrolinx owes us all a much more thorough examination of alternatives and the stages through which the network would evolve over coming years. Only then will we know the criticality of interim steps and the timing of funding needed to minimize subway congestion.
The Operations Quarterly Report advises that ridership grew by almost 7% on the train network and 4% on buses during Q3 (October-December based on an April 1 fiscal year). UPX ridership was up 12% over 2017. These numbers show strong growth of the system overall, and any corridor or station-specific jumps should be considered in that context.
The “Drivers of Ridership and Revenue” report could have been an interesting piece of market research on how riders react to fare and service schemes. However, the presentation deck is a superficial review of a few changes made by GO, but without any sense of concrete lessons learned or a plan to apply these to the system. Except for a reference to a pilot for free rides for children, revenue is not mentioned anywhere.
The presentation recommends that the Board:
… endorse the insights, strategies and actions set out in the Director of Customer Insights February 7, 2019 report
The report itself is not linked from the agenda. When I asked Metrolinx where the recommendations were, they replied:
At the bottom of slides 5, 6, 7 & 8 there is an action item. The resolution is to approve all 4 of those action items. For clarity they are:
Identify, pilot & validate new service & customer trip purpose opportunities.
Expand off-peak service to build customer trip purpose opportunities, and strengthen construction service & communication mitigation plans.
Identify & pilot station access, parking and municipal service provider collaboration opportunities.
Monitor new station ridership & station access performance (e.g., Guildwood Station).
Leverage Uber pilot learning to improve customer communication
Identify expanded TNC opportunities, collaboration and pilots [email of February 4, 2019]
“TNC” is Metrolinx shorthand for “Transportation Network Companies” such as Uber.
A map of the GO system shows the growth of ridership at each station on the network over the period April to November 2018. This appears under the pretentious title “From Data, to Insights” with the heading:
Ridership data dynamically generates summary maps that, together with new analytic tools, validates performance drivers and highlights key learning and insight to build future ridership.
Exactly what those tools, drivers, learning and insight might be is a mystery, and we must take it on faith that the Metrolinx planners will produce rabbits out of their hat at a suitable moment. Metrolinx might be glad to have detailed riding counts, but far more is involved in understanding why people chose or avoid transit.
The presentation gives little sense of how service plans will interact with whatever Metrolinx might discover from this exercise. It is no secret that GO, like the TTC, is capacity constrained by several factors, and cannot absorb additional demand during peak periods. They eye the off-peak, but their service design (including feeders such as commuter parking and local bus services) are strongly oriented to peak travel.
Total ridership data only tell us how many people use the service at each station, but the “why” is more complicated, let alone knowing what might encourage new riders or growth in usage by existing customers.
The detail of the map on page 4 of the presentation is obscured when viewed at “normal” size, but the map scales up revealing the details for each stop. [Click to expand maps below.]
The numbers shown at each station are:
total ridership for the eight months from April to November 2018,
the daily count (based on the number of days when service was provided at each station), and
the percentage change from April 1 to November 30.
The methodology has the effect of diluting the weekday demand on line with weekend service that pull down the daily average. For example, at Allandale, there are 74,000 rides at 301 per day, or about 246 days (rounded). At Gormley, there are 104,000 rides at 597 per day, or about 174 days. Because the Barrie corridor has weekend service, the level of weekday demand at each station is understated relative to a corridor like Richmond Hill where there is less service, but all on weekdays.
The presentation states that Barrie corridor ridership went up:
By 3.0% comparing January-April 2017 to the corresponding period in 2018 (increased train frequency)
By 7.0% comparing May-August 2017 to 2018 (Kids GO Free project)
By 0.6% comparing October-November 2017 to 2018
However, overall ridership rose by 20.8% from April to November 2018 including a 30.5% increase at Aurora even though parking there is fully utilized.
Analytics validate a strong correlation between parking capacity, municipal service providers and station access design with ridership performance. [p. 7]
Each component is not broken out, and these probably vary by site. For example a rise of 17% at Mount Pleasant is attributed to better bus service and new design. Riding counts from local transit could give insight into the transit feeder contribution to station usage. At Cooksville, a drop of 7.2% (with a shift to neighbouring stations), is linked to reduced parking due to construction.
At Weston, UPX growth “accelerated from 6.5% to 15.4%” during a pilot with Uber providing last mile service (September-November 2018), but overall Weston Station growth was 23.2% for April-November. Was this a one-time gain, in effect setting a new base, or will there be continued growth. The catchment area for Uber trips shown in the report is huge: Steeles to St. Clair and Caledonia to the western boundary of Toronto, but there are no trip counts or details about trip origin/destinations.
Getting to Weston Station is a challenge for anyone attempting to use transit given its location in the transit network and the available local services. This is a problem shared by many GO stations which often lie in old industrial areas. To what extent can or should local transit routes be gerrymandered to serve GO rather than overall demand?
With GO Transit reaching the limit of growth through provision of parking spaces and structures, alternates to the park-and-ride model are essential including the ability of local transit to provide substantial capacity. This has both the peak commuting aspect of bringing riders to stations in the morning and home again at night, as well as providing last mile services for off-peak and counter-peak trips.
On the Lakeshore corridor, ridership rose by 30,000 from September 24 to November 30, 2018, the period after service was improved. This is not expressed as a percentage, nor does the presentation clarify if this is a per day value, or over the course of two months. The maps show that Lakeshore East and West rose by 53,400 daily riders over the April 1 to November 30 period on a base of 13.1 million.
By contrast, the off-peak service cuts during construction are claimed to have cost 12,480 passengers per day over the nine weekend shutdowns. This is a huge proportion of the weekend demand, and the citation should be verified.
The presentation’s author mixes counts for single days, periods of varying lengths, weekdays and weekends with no consistency. Percentage changes are cited in some cases, while in others absolute counts are used. There is little discussion of the interaction of factors such as convenience, lower fares, and station accessibility (by walking, transit, etc.).
There is little to document the research and rationale behind what the Board is voting on. It is simply not credible that there is no background report with further information, but Metrolinx has not made it available.
Operations Quarterly Update and Customer Experience Committee Report
Metrolinx crows about a recent service expansion to Niagara Falls:
In January, Metrolinx brought new GO train service to commuters in Niagara, several years ahead of schedule. The GO rail network now offers year-round weekday GO train service between Niagara Falls and Toronto. [p. 2. Operations Update]
To call this “weekday GO train service” is a bit of a stretch by comparison with the level and frequency people expect from GO Transit. The only weekday train from Niagara Falls to Toronto leaves at 5:19 am arriving in Toronto at 7:50 am. The return leaves at 5:15 pm from Union arriving in Niagara Falls at 7:42 pm. This may meet the letter of a campaign promise, but the majority of trips to Niagara Falls will continue to be provided by buses with a transfer to trains at Burlington.
Metrolinx managed to screw up service on the Kitchener corridor while attempting to improve it. The goal may have been laudable, but the implementation failed. Moreover, Metrolinx had strong pushback from their customer base about the way in which the change was implemented.
The January service changes had two primary focuses: provide Lakeshore West extensions to Niagara and extensions from Georgetown to Kitchener. To achieve this—while also adhering to CN spacing requirements for train services that operate over the territory they own near Bramalea GO Station—the afternoon Kitchener line schedule was adjusted to provide service approximately every 30 minutes from Union Station between 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. This meant trips were spaced further apart to provide more consistent departure options for customers and to enable us to run our services in parallel with CN, which owns the rail corridor from Bramalea to Georgetown.
During the technical review, we were not aggressive enough in challenging restrictions that had been previously imposed around the length of our trains and we were optimistic in our mitigation plans for identified risks related to the increased spacing between trains and the removal of the popular 4:50 p.m. express trip. These gaps were further exacerbated by the timing of customer communications launch for the service changes, with the public announcement occurring only days before the seasonal holiday period. The timing of the change occurred on what was, for many of our customers, the first day back to work. [pp. 1-2 Customer Experience Report]
Riders were not impressed:
Key Issues Identified by Customers:
1. Timing of the announcement, schedule change and communication to customers: The initial public announcement coincided with the start of the Christmas Holidays, with the change taking effect January 7th.
2. Express train conversion to all stop: The conversion of the 4:50 p.m. train from an express to all stop and the change in trip time to 4:35 p.m. was perceived as a removal of service by customers. With the trip no longer stopping at Kitchener, those customers moved to the 17:02 train.
3. Crowding on Trains: The time changes and trip extensions to Kitchener resulted in customers migrating to different trains. Previous restrictions at Georgetown prevented the conversion of this trip to 12 coaches to add seating capacity.
4. General dissatisfaction with schedule: Customers in general did not like the new schedule. Kitchener-bound customers did not like the 90-minute service gap in the evening. With the removal of the express train, the timing of the 3:35 p.m. Kitchener-bound trip was not seen as a viable option for many customers. Kitchener customers on the 5:02 p.m. train were now arriving at 7:11 p.m. versus the previous express train scheduled arrival before 7 p.m.
5. Bus connections: Reduced timeframe from announcement to implementation did not allow for sufficient coordination with GO Bus Planning and municipal service providers, resulting in poor connection times.
6. Platform crowding at Union Station: Track changes created additional confusion that extended to customers on other corridors, namely Barrie. These adjustments created excessive crowding at platform level. The impacts at Union were underestimated. [Customer Experience Report, p. 2]
A few quick fixes were implemented to deal with crowding, although these were stop-gaps:
1. Effective January 8th and continuing through the end of January, Metrolinx has increased the number of staff at platform and concourse level in Union Station. Staff- including senior leadership – were on hand to direct customers safely to the right platforms and to engage directly to hear their concerns.
2. Effective January 14th, two coaches each were added to the 7:56 a.m. and 9:13 a.m. trips departing Kitchener and the 5:02 p.m. and 5:27 p.m. trips. The addition of 600 seats during peak periods alleviated crowing both on trains and at platform level. [Customer Experience Report, p. 3]
The express train will be restored soon:
Our customers were clear in telling us that the removal of the 16:50 express train created difficulty for them. We have worked with our partners at CN to find a solution that allows us to re-introduce this trip effective February 13th. [Operations Update, p. 2]
This shows the degree to which service in the Kitchener corridor is constrained by the needs of the host railways, in this case CN. Such problems also exist on other corridors where portions of the routes must be shared with freight traffic. Recently the proposed freight bypass project that was to improve capacity by eliminating the CN conflict on this corridor (and a CP conflict on the Milton line) was cancelled with a claim that Metrolinx has found a way around the problem, but there are few details or timelines for improvements.
Metrolinx will improve its analysis of planned service changes with a more detailed review of their potential effects:
The following principles have been embedded into our readiness process going forward:
Customer impact assessments will be conducted in addition to operational readiness. These assessments will incorporate customer analytics to understand and predict ridership patterns and shifting demand.
Changes will take effect mid-week, allowing for targeted reminder messaging to be in place immediately up to the new schedule date. Changes will not take place immediately following a holiday period.
Union Station will undergo an independent readiness assessment to identify collateral impacts. Platform assignments will undergo detailed risk assessments, incorporating pedestrian flow modelling into the review process.
Proposals will be brought to the Customer Experience Advisory Committee for review and debrief.
We will critically analyze and challenge restrictions that could have detrimental impacts on the customer experience (where we can safely do so).
In preparation for this upcoming change, we have begun weekly Executive Review panel sessions to add the unbiased perspective of 3 non-Operations Executives to the readiness process. [Customer Experience Report, p. 3]
It is unusual for a service change to trigger substantial negative publicity and this extensive a review in the public agenda. Was there a political imperative to implement the changes to provide “good news”? If so, this certainly backfired. The problems all speak to a last-minute change where proper co-ordination was not a priority.
Presto usage is up substantially over the corresponding period in 2017, and the ratio is growing likely reflecting the shift of TTC riders to Presto in advance of the end of Metropass sales. The monthly transaction counts were:
October 43.6m, 51% above 2017
November 46.4m, up 55%
December 40.6m (a seasonal dip), up 60%
Although Presto use is still building on the TTC, in December more than half of all Presto boardings were on the TTC network.
Two changes are in the works:
In addition to selling PRESTO Tickets from Fare Vending Machines at TTC subway stations, Metrolinx plans to sell the single-ride, two-ride, and day pass Tickets from its retail partner locations (i.e. Shoppers Drug Mart) beginning late spring.
Metrolinx has been working with York Region Transit, Mississauga Transitway (MiWay) and the TTC on a PRESTO solution for customers who ride on the select bus routes that cross between York Region and Toronto or Mississauga and Toronto, and require two separate fares. Starting this spring, customers will be able to use their PRESTO card to pay both transit agency fares on these select routes. [p. 3]
The fare boundary fix eliminates the annoyance of separate fare media, but it does not address the larger question of fare integration or subsidies that might have come into effect with the May 2018 provincial budget.
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29 thoughts on “Metrolinx Board Meeting: February 7, 2019 (Updated)”
Chris S | February 5, 2019 at 3:09 pm
Any idea on what they mean by “communication mitigation plans”?
Steve: I think they’re talking about telling you there’s a big snafu so that you won’t try to use service that isn’t there or is overloaded. In other words, you will be ticked off before you get to the station rather than on the platform. The underlying problem is that this sort of thing should only really be needed when there is a major service disruption like a snow storm, not for a scheduling screw-up.
Jeff Beck | February 5, 2019 at 3:10 pm
If they ever build this line all the way up to Richmond Hill town centre, how long realistically would that trip take to get all the way to Union vs the current GO train in the area.
Steve: The extension would be 7.4 km long from Finch to Richmond Hill. By comparison, Finch to Eglinton is about 6 km with a travel time (assuming normal station dwell times) of about 12 minutes. This will probably improve slightly when they move to ATC because some of the existing speed restrictions are left over from older trains, but are “baked in” to the existing signal system. This means that Richmond Hill to Finch will be about 15 minutes given that station spacing is similar. To Union is about 16 minutes more during peak times without delays, and so that makes a total of roughly 43, call it 45, minutes from Richmond Hill to Union if service runs at track speed.
This is roughly the same running time as the GO train.
Jay Lee | February 5, 2019 at 8:18 pm
I know Metrolinx recommended to build that relief line first before Yonge extension. I really think the transit infrastructure within the city should improve more before they extend it further north west or the east. Do you think it is possible to have relief line before the extension??
Also, it looks like the west side of Toronto is absolutely ignored in pretty much every transit debates. I really think transit infrastructure lacks more in the west than the east.
Steve: The reason that the “relief line” gets priority on the east side is that it already has a west side mate called the University Spadina subway. The question remains of just how much “relief” on the west side is possible with GO service in the Weston corridor, and for those living close to the lake, the Waterfront West LRT.
hamish wilson | February 5, 2019 at 8:34 pm
With the billions possibly involved in this “relief’, (tho we need something or many things), I really wish we could honestly and open list/develop of options, including the less-satisfactory for some short-term options or less-than-full-train options, such as surface routes/busways, including on the Don Valley Parkway. Why can’t we have a full exploration of expanding the Richmond Hill GO corridor, and with a stop or two ahead of Union? (And yes, we need sub-regional vs. milk run for everyone’s sake). There was also a Smart Ride LRT proposal c. 2002 using a similar routing, and for me, with the Curitiba example, it’s possible to get a lot of capacity with buses in busways, though they’d be large buses, yes.
And if we accept the need for Relief being up to Eglinton, which should be done ahead of this new line opening up, right? – how many ways do we have to provide this?
Overall, another big mess, and feels like another drain on the core for suburban benefit. And our TTC/poliicians remain keen on extending the Danforth line and the drawings/design for Yonge is apparently now being done, thanks PTIF. (Sarcasm – and yes, where to find the $$$ for developing options eh?)
hamish wilson | February 5, 2019 at 11:31 pm
Pardon me missing a point – one of the surface options is the spur line that Metrolinx owns right beside the Don valley, with the Half-Mile bridge leading up to Leaside/Throncliffe area and the Hydro corridor/Don Mills. Pardon me for wanting to squeeze the billions, but since it’s already in public hands, is clearly a transport corridor, how can we actually use it for good transit? (And I really hope that there’s been a bit of maintenance spent on the bridge, though those supports will likely last for millenia). With the bridge, at times we see two directions of tracks condense to one track only with signals – and I’d hope this would be possible in Canada.
Steve: Actually that bridge is in no fit condition to carry trains and a new structure would be required for a new service including BRT. A big issue with your oft-proposed link to downtown is that there is no road capacity for a high capacity BRT to use as a distribution route downtown even assuming that physically the BRT line up the Don to the Gatineau corridor could be built (there are pinch points along the way that would make this difficult).
With the comments from Jay Lee and Steve’s response, there are still some real issues of east-west mobility/transit through the core and out to Mimico and beyond that are ignored, and no, WWLRT is a milk-run, not a robust transit service as is needed for a sizeable number of people, who at times, come up to Bloor to crowd the Bloor line given unreliable surface routes in the lower core (noted in the 1992 WWLRT EA), So yes, Relief West ??? And with most of the new TTC board politicians being East of Yonge, it’s as if the west-side issues aren’t real.
Steve: There are west side issues, but not at the scale of a subway. Indeed, one could argue a parallel with the Scarborough situation where multiple connections to the west with other technologies are preferable to a single subway extension.
Nick L. | February 6, 2019 at 9:35 am
Steve said: “Actually that bridge is in no fit condition to carry trains and a new structure would be required for a new service including BRT.”
That and CP has made it clear that they will accept absolutely no disruptions of their freight operations at the north end of the line. This means that any rail service will require an expensive fly-under which hopefully Metrolinx is aware of when it comes to the recently abandoned Leaside yard.
Steve: I believe that Hamish’s proposed BRT alignment to Scarborough stays south of the CPR and then veers into the hydro corridor. However, there are a few places where existing structures could create pinch points. However if the intent were to continue further north, this would have to be done via an existing road such as Don Mills which already is grade separated from the railway.
Nick L. | February 6, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Steve said: “I believe that Hamish’s proposed BRT alignment to Scarborough stays south of the CPR and then veers into the hydro corridor. However, there are a few places where existing structures could create pinch points. However if the intent were to continue further north, this would have to be done via an existing road such as Don Mills which already is grade separated from the railway.”
Well, I wasn’t sure if he was talking about BRT or not and I’ve heard people previously suggesting using the Don Branch and a reconstructed Leaside Spur to create a “surface DRL” linking Leslie station with Union.
Steve: There are various schemes floating around, but any that involve using or crossing the CPR are non-starters.
Michael Forest | February 6, 2019 at 12:20 pm
Re: the Relief Line and the Yonge ridership demand. One option missing from the Metrolinx analysis is the Relief Line reaching Eglinton, but not Sheppard.
Treating Relief Line North as a single project makes sense at the route-selection stage. However, the length of RL North defined that way would be about 12 km, and very unlikely to receive all funding at once. Splitting it into “RL North A” from Danforth to Eglinton, and “RL North B” from Eglinton to Sheppard, will result in each section being about 6 km long and easier to fund.
The question is whether RL South + RL North A to Eglinton would sufficiently relief Yonge to make the Richmond Hill extension doable.
J Graham | February 6, 2019 at 1:31 pm
The Ridership Demand and Network effects slide is too simple. I would be interested in seeing graphs for Line 1 + DRL North and for Line 1 + DRL Don Mills to Eglinton and the effect of adding in the new riders generated by the addition of the Crosstown in 2021.
Obviously not everyone wants to go all the way downtown, so a second N/S route should bleed off ridership from Line 1. The western side has a ready made relief valve in the existing Spadina Line 1 section, though greater strain on both Spadina and St. George should be anticipated.
The eastern side is different. If we divide the DRL into 3 sections for reference; South (Queen to Pape), North (Pape to Don Mills) and RH Link (Don Mills to Markham?) we can look at each section. The South section is key to providing relief to Yonge-Bloor transfer overcrowding. Hopefully when the Pape-Danforth station is built, proper planning for future capacity and passenger circulation Extra wide stairs and redundant (2+) elevator paths should be a minimum.
Building the North section next (or preferably at the same time) will bleed ridership from Line 1.
However, the idea of repurposing the Don Viaduct as either a busway (or an LRT) link to the core would provide a faster short term option. With the 2021 Eglinton riders, an eastern bleed point to keep them off of Line 1, until the DRL north gets built will be crucial. As the Eglinton Crosstown plans to use Laird station as a turn back point, a transfer to a downtown express bus, local to Redway Road, jump to the Don Branch & Viaduct (or Bayview extension at Nesbitt) and express to core could make sense. This should be easier and faster to build than the DRL North and would provide Line 1 ridership relief during the DRL North build.
While York Region is pushing for a Line 1 extension, perhaps a northern extension of the RL would be easier, cheaper and a better solution to the Line 1 overcrowding. Richmond Hill currently has a GO link to the Toronto core. And while that line has issues, improving to full day service and matching (or competitively pricing against) TTC fares would provide a long term safety valve for riders. Duplicating this link with Subway seems redundant, and a link point further east mid-way between Yonge St and the Stouffville line might be more effective.
Steve, on a separate note, reading between the lines, Metrolinx is the one planning the DRL North?
City of Toronto did the DRL South and the whole line is inside City of Toronto Boundaries.
Is the control of planning the first step in the Ford Subway grab?
Steve: Metrolinx started on the RL North back in the Liberal days under Wynne. It has nothing to do with DoFo’s planned takeover.
Thanks for ‘air’ time, though some might think it ‘err’ time, and that’s why it’s good to have such an open forum to kick things around.
I’m relatively agnostic about mode of transit ie. bus or rail; there are advantages to both. Heck, even a subway technology, though most of it might be above ground, and there’s a host of other costs/issues. The main interest is getting up to Thorncliffe, and then to Eglinton near the Don Mills Road, as we need to provide a faster way for Eglinton Line 5 users to get to the core and avoid getting on the Yonge line. Thorncliffe to core would be faster, and likely cheaper, but yes, where to get in to the core at the lower end, where excess water is an issue, and if only we had the political will to start up a drainage fee for all that asphalt in North Toronto/watershed. So my priority area is south of Thorncliffe for priority/RoW transit, and that also includes having reversible transitways like Jarvis as in afternoons, Don Valley Parkway is full going north, but on the much lighter side southbound.
And yes, if we use that spur line, it can’t interfere with the railway traffic, so it would have to be south of the tracks with some expropriation/elbowing and/or tunnelling. But we have to keep the construction interests somewhat happy right? And it’s still likely going to be cheaper than a full bore subway in to sprawl, especially if we do surface priority in existing corridors elsewhere.
As for the condition of that Half-Mile bridge, odds are high that the deck is in trouble, but those piers look incredibly solid, and in better shape than the concrete of many of the existing rail bridges over roads in the core.
I’m sure there are issues, but also am sure that if engineers with imagination approached it we could readily figger out some adaptation and re-use of this structure for some transit/real use.
As for entry in to the core, if on surface, yes, almost issues with surface routes, except for the Richmond/Adelaide pair of roads. If buses, then likely issues with turning to go back up again so University Ave. or Spadina likely best end-points.
With west-end, King streetcar has c. 80,000 people using it – how is that not ripe for a subway as there’s also considerable transit demand from Mimico/Parkdale, some of which goes up to Bloor, and there’s a HUGE # of cars on the Lakeshore/Gardiner too, that if better transit were given, cold be tempting, plus having a back-up/relief of the GO Lakeshore trains too, and if a RoW, the GO buses could also use it, and there might still be a ghost of a chance of a surface RoW aligned somewhat with the DRL of 1985, north of railtracks Parkdale to core. Relief West should absolutely be remaining a priority, including limiting the traffic harm/kill rate.
Steve: The King car has 80k people using it over various parts of the line at all times of the day. The peak capacity operated on the route tops out at about 3k/hour as I have shown in numerous past articles, and this is nowhere near subway level. To put this in context, the Bloor-Danforth streetcar was carrying around 8k/hour at peak before the subway opened, although the demand was also served by parallel routes into the core such as Bathurst via Adelaide to Church, the Dundas car from Runnymede, the Bay car from St. Clair to downtown via Avenue Road and Davenport (until the University line opened), and of course the Harbord car. A lot of this traffic was rerouted into the subway.
Please do not confuse all day usage over a route that is busy all day and has many overlapping demand patterns with peak point usage.
Greg Gormick | February 6, 2019 at 6:23 pm
The ex-CP bridge over the Don can be rebuilt and this has been known for ages. The last estimate I got back in the days when there were still some pros at GO and they didn’t bury all their data was about $10 million. But why do anything with this idea when you can keep yourself and your friends employed and well paid for the rest of your lives by always opting for the most expensive and most time consuming options?
What’s need most right now is an executive enema at Metrolinx. If they screw the minister one more time with yet another service “improvement” gone awry, there may just be a flushing out of the Metrolinx executive suite. Here’s hoping!
Andre S. | February 7, 2019 at 5:38 am
Steve wrote in the article:
“Richmond Hill has been waiting for a subway, and the project Environmental Assessment has been on York Region’s website for some time. The Mayor of Markham, as quoted by Ben Spurr in the Toronto Star, is a tad upset by this situation.”
Is this going to be another boondoggle in terms of operational funding like the Vaughan extension where Toronto has to pick up the entire tab for operating expenses? Does the mayor of Markham actually want to pay, not only for the construction, but also for the service he expects?
Also, who is here the contracting entity that will provide funding (besides the provincial and Toronto governments) north of Steeles? The City of Markham, York Region, or both? Is there any way to demand that as a condition of the Richmond Hill extension, York Region pick up the tab for the operating expenses of the Vaughan extensions that Toronto is currently paying? Can the city block a subway expansion (even if uploaded to the province, say by refusing to issue permits for the part of the extension on city territory) if it feels the funding arrangement is unfair?
So essentially, people in the GTA want subway extensions to solve what is basically a GO/Metrolinx problem. I just don’t know how someone can expect the subway to be eternally extended and maintain a $3.25 TTC fare. Isn’t it cheaper to subsidize GO fares and TTC/GO fare integration than build a 7.4 km extension of a subway line?
James | February 7, 2019 at 11:15 am
There’s more than one suggestion here in the comments that RL modelling should show the effects of going north to Eglinton as interim state.
Likewise, I think looking at Yonge North in 2 sections makes sense, to Steeles and then on to RH later.
I’m not advocating any particularly priority or timeline here, just better data sets with which to draw conclusions.
So I was at a South Parkdale traffic meeting last night, and Councillor Perks said King St. was “the busiest surface route in North America”. King is also close to Queen St., often crammed, and also the car-clogged Gardiner and Lakeshore, which – if faster and more reliable transit were available – could be somewhat eased with robust transit, and then it could be tolled. Also, in that 1993 WWLRT EA, it indicated some west end folks in Etobicoke went up to the subway on Bloor, and took it, then tripped south again, so upgrading the east-west transit in the King corridor or environs to something sub-regional/faster seems also overdue, and there have been a set of plans over the decades to get past the pinch point at the base of High Park. So “where is Relief West?” is a valid point; and yet we’re not hearing a darned thing about it, even though the clogging of the core is such that heaven forbid there’s actually an emergency.
Steve: The updates to the Waterfront Reset Study are supposed to be out soon. There is already a route chosen from Etobicoke to the core, although you may not agree with it, and the outstanding issue is the connection to Union Station. As for “relief” further north, a lot depends on what happens in the Weston corridor with “SmartTrack” and/or GO improvements, plus decent fare integration so that it doesn’t cost the earth to use GO in place of the TTC.
Tom | February 8, 2019 at 9:41 pm
How much money can be saved if the Metrolinx Board assumed the responsibilities of the TTC Board in addition to it’s own? Less board members to pay, more money saved, a win-win for all.
Steve: Considering that the Metrolinx Board does almost nothing, whereas the TTC board actually has real debates, I think you propose getting rid of the wrong board.
P Kumar | February 9, 2019 at 11:25 pm
Steve: you propose getting rid of the wrong board.
Well, get rid of them both. And cut the number of seats at Queen’s Park in half. We don’t need that many seat warmers. Amalgamate transit systems as well as amalgamate municipalities. Balance the budget and reduce our debt (think about future generations).
Andre S. | February 10, 2019 at 9:10 am
P Kumar said:
Right, and in so doing, create unmanageable unaccountable behemoths. While we’re at it, eliminate the provinces and territories and have the entire country ruled directly from Ottawa.
This is a classic fallacy where people focus on things they can easily wrap their heads around (some people in QP or the TTC board getting paid thousands of dollars) instead of things they can’t (like budgets in trillions of dollars, TTC investment requirements in billions of dollars – these things go over most people’s heads, the numbers are too large and thus too abstract).
The cost of Metrolinx/TTC board members, MPPs, city councillors and so forth is essentially minuscule in the grand scheme of things. Toronto’s operating budget for 2019 is $13.5 billion. Councillor’s salaries (not including the mayor) are about $2.9 million. That works out to 0.02%. Meanwhile Ontario’s budget is about $150 billion, while MPP salaries (not counting extra payments for those MPPs which are government ministers, just the base pay) is about $14.5 million. That works out to about 0.0097%. Not exactly a dent in the deficit.
George Bell | February 10, 2019 at 5:43 pm
So I feel like we have essentially 3 projects on the go….and it seems to me that rather than getting complicated tri-partide agreements in place we can just fund them as follows: 1) DRL South – City of Toronto and Feds 2) DRL North – Province/Metrolinx 3) Richmond Hill – Markham/Vaughan and either the Province or feds…
Wilson | February 11, 2019 at 11:56 am
Great summary, Steve.
Still seems like there is no plan for replacing GTA weekly pass. *sigh*
Bill | February 12, 2019 at 2:41 am
Lord, how I wish we had a mayor and a council that would just say “F*ck the 905.” They’re not paying for the subway in any meaningful way, yet they clog it up with thousands of trips every day that span Finch to Union, blocking the people of Toronto who actually pay for the system from getting on. They fill the Gardiner and DVP while not paying a penny for their upkeep and flip their lids when we DARE to try to toll those roads. They elect politicians that have a pathological hatred for Toronto (Is there any victory too Pyrrhic for Doug Ford when it comes to the humiliation of Toronto?) . They gloat at any indignity or injustice we suffer. It’s time to be a province.
hamish wilson | February 12, 2019 at 11:57 am
The update (thanks) has brought more content, and discontent, and comment, some thanks. I’m both disappointed and happy with you Steve.
Let’s do the disappointment first – the Relief West/WWLRT aspect. The WWLRT EA of 1993 found two types of transit demand in their study area from High Park to core: a milk run to multiple destinations along the waterfront, and a lot of commuter transit wanting speed to get to the core in a direct way eg. sub-regional or even express, which we don’t seem to do here, and even GO as it gets to the core, gets to be a bit more of a stop/start service. We never got the second study of the more robust demand that the WWLRT urged, and when the City started up its Reset process, only went as far back as 25 years, conveniently ignoring decades of real plans including the DRL of 1985, and also avoiding mention of this second study, and much of the content of this good EA. And it seemed very obvious to me at the time of the Front St. Extension that a transitway would be far better, and aligned with OPs and policy statements and need, but nope, no consideration given, and to suggest linking up to the Queensway with robust/faster transit, including use of the bank of the railways that has all those ads on it, was ‘out there’. And then, a few years in to that FSE fight, I found the WWLRT, and the 1985 DRL plan doing the same route. So now, the City – as dominated by the suburbs and devoid of imagination/resource for planning – has opted to look the other way in limiting thinking to maybe a milk run. Some decade. (And gee, how did the TTC’s 2012 idea for a King St. subway get ignored? Or is the right wording ignored again?” – and it’s p. 197 Ed Levy’s book)
And pardon me, by supporting the inferior and limited process, you’re kinda saying that the west end near-lake core doesn’t deserve robust transit and an upgrade to RoW or subway. Even with a massive growth in Liberty Village and now in Mimico, and it isn’t being served by new transit, and nor should GO necessarily dilute its service, and no, the proposed Liberty Station is NOT going to be that good given how its kinda removed from much of that dense area, and to get to it from Parkdale seems to be a longer walk too, especially hazardous in the only underpass on Queen St., and so much of that oval to describe the catchment area should be cut, unless there’s a new access made under the tracks, and do that first please (now).
Steve: I really have to jump in here. It is absolutely the most two-faced argument imaginable to call for a subway to serve the Humber Bay condos when this would have even lower demand than the Scarborough Subway which neither of us supports. As you probably know, the proposed RL West line does not go to Humber Bay, but veers north to Dundas West Station, and there’s quite a debate to be had about just how much transit we can put in that corridor. If we were not besotted with SmartTrack and could concentrate on useful, practical services, we might have a better conversation. Also, the proposed WWLRT does have a right-of-way from (probably) a new loop at Park Lawn GO Station, right-of-way on Lake Shore to Humber Loop, then east via The Queensway, and into downtown over the planned WWLRT. The way the City will screw this up will be to have “transit priority signals” that delay the streetcars at every possible opportunity. As you probably know, travel times from Roncesvalles to Humber are higher now than they were before this section was “improved” thanks to the traffic signals and operating procedures at intersections.
By not recognizing the two demands, we’re now a bit stuck in thinking the only way to get the east-west transit is on the waterfront, and that means both extra costs with all the lake fill, but also a real challenge to deal with Union Station. Whereas with going to robust/faster E/West aligned with the DRL/Relief West ideas, we could be on the north side of the rail tracks, and even manage to skirt the north side of Union Station perhaps on Wellington, and deliver many loads of people directly to the destinations as that’s the intense core.
Steve: What lake fill? Also you know quite well that the RL alignment through downtown was shifted from Wellington/King north to Queen, in part to avoid competing with SmartTrack. At Union streetcar loop, the problem is the endless delay in addressing its capacity problems including a mad scheme to convert the Bay Street tunnel to some sort of shuttle operation with a forced transfer at Queens Quay.
Having robust transit and more robust transit is necessary for the redundancy of resiliency to make the tolling of the Gardiner and Lakeshore easy.
And we are getting to a real trouble point with all the car congestions too, and that’s the climate crisis as well.
As for being unhappy with the Reset, yes, that’s true, and it’s partially because no ideas seem to be entering in to things, and I did have another one in the last couple of years. Pushing a single tracks worth of extension between Wilson Park and the core along Front St., and with it mostly north of the tracks, with the crossing of the Weston tracks enabled by being lowered. Take an idea from Jarvis, and make it a one-way according to daily demands. Send the extra vehicles back to the start of the loop via King/Queen, thereby improving service there a bit.
Sadly, I think we’ve likely been building our options shut on this one again, as per usual it seems.
Steve: Front Street is a total non-starter for the LRT link. This might have been possible many years back before the whole area was planned and built, but that horse left the barn a long time ago.
On the positive, thanks very much for hauling down to the Metrolinx meeting and updating, and it’s very important to have this reported: “Verster admitted that Metrolinx has not done enough to look at the Richmond Hill GO corridor for its potential contribution to relief.”
While it’s all complicated, (and that’s why it’s so wonderful to have such great memory and plain blunt truths from you and readers/commenters), this avoidance of a logical surface route for some Relief is appalling. This includes how Mr. Tory led us all away from tackling one major reason for the floodings at the lower end – the excess amount of storm discharge from the huge areas of asphalt upstream that the City drains for free in to the Don, and why don’t we start to have drainage fees, and asphalt disconnection programs in North Toronto? Oh, Mr. Tory and Ms. Robinson et al likely didn’t want to ruffle any feathers with extra costs and work in the wealthy North Toronto area, just as we likely will have issues with having the shortcut of the old rail line (now a bike trail) revert to a needed robust transit function, and what’s a few billion to dig something anyways? (And for the record, that bike trail shortcut could be readily taken back to a highest/best use of transit – so toss it in to the mix of options)
Steve: Dare I point out that plans for the Don River realignment and flood control predate John Tory’s mayoralty by years? Waterfront Toronto has been working on this for a long time. You might argue that storm water discharge can be mitigated, but I have not seen anyone claim that we could avoid the Don flood control that way, only reduce total flow.
So what happens if we start thinking of busting the silos a bit – GO thinks of upgrades to get a few more trainloads in to the City from the north end, perhaps ultimately aiming for Leaside area, and the City of Toronto works on a different mode – even a subway – up the Don Valley on-surface, but not being constrained to go in to the core to meet at Union, but perhaps diverting as early as say Gerrard?
Our ‘planning’ and EAs are pretty rigidly set up so having options is never an option, or so it feels, including say, Smart Spur in to the STC as one example, but most of the east-of-Don area is readily bike-to-core distance, like Liberty Village, so given that the pressure of the Danforth starts at Donlands/Greenwood/Coxwell, if not further east, then why build for Pape? and let’s think of the Main/Danforth connection first, and foremost.
Steve: The reason for Pape is that it’s a good jumping off point to continue north into Thorncliffe and then jog a bit east to Don Mills itself.
Pardon length; and it’s a shame we haven’t had better planning, along with the screwing over of both plans and the core by a lot of politicians, of all levels, and this includes the federal level too, as they don’t seem to always have standards or care when giving millions through PTIP, though yes, sometimes invaluable assistance, thank$.
Leo G | February 12, 2019 at 2:39 pm
Bill said: It’s time to be a province.
You may get over 50% of people to vote yes in a referendum in the old City of Toronto, but no way you’d get anything close to that percentage in the other former cities/boroughs like Scarborough and Etobicoke. They have far more in common with our 905 neighbours and they know it – there’s no way they’d side with the city to become a separate province. We’re stuck with this situation forever, with no way out that I can see.
Walter | February 12, 2019 at 4:56 pm
Michael Forest talks about the DRL to Eglinton.
First, if we had the Eglinton-Scarborough LRT as a continuous, grade-separated transit line – it would have been the perfect impetus for extending the DRL to Eglinton. Within a few years after this was announced in early 2011, there were a few proposals about elevating the portion through the Golden Mile to reduce the cost, but maintain the speed. Also, the Benefit-Cost study from June 2012 found this option to be the best – but the Liberals hid it for 18 months.
But, in the end, City Council made it their mission to kill this plan and resurrect the Transit City for a brief few months before they, and the Scarborough liberals forces the B-D extension. The B-D extension, like the SRT/LRT, generally forces all travel to be on the B-D line – with a transfer at Pape or Y-B. I think with either of those 2 plans, going to Eglinton will just not do that much for relief, because people have been funneled away from Eglinton. Either we change the ECLRT back to the grade-separated plan (too late), or the DRL needs to go to Sheppard.
By the way, do we know how much extra the switch to Carlaw added to the DRL cost? It’s an extra couple of turns, and it requires a much deeper route due to the storm sewer on Carlaw. I was sort of hoping some type of Value Engineering would be done to improve the design.
hamish wilson | February 12, 2019 at 10:13 pm
Thanks for the air/err time Steve.
It’s not merely King car loads, but Queen, GO, and Lakeshore/Gardiner cars that could use a more robust transit option, and yes, subway might well be very good, but a faster LRT, with a near-express route to core would be also good, especially if it was also helping Liberty Village and while the road where the DRL was to go is now approved, apparently no $$$, so yes, it could be used for surface transit, and why not? (One reason is how we fail to plan transit and thus let buildings erupt everywhere yes, and signal non-priority is another problem).
With the lakefill remark, most everything south of Front in the core is lakefill, and less stable, and less easy to dig through, and even have weights upon it, and no, we don’t include our concrete use in any EA of anything, oops.
I strongly favour looking at surface routes for sub-regional transit east of Yonge for both Yonge Relief (the stubway does naught for NofBloor and we need something really soon for deflecting the loading of Eglinton at Eglinton to get to the core), and also for Danforth/Scarborough.
We don’t want to squeeze the billions to provide faster-done, and faster surface service. Yes, I would be happy at adjusting the DVP in portions, and bypassing intersection with Line 2 until we do have an easier situation, but with transit, not with climate. There is real urgency to do smarter things for more people sooner to trim emissions; it’s over-shoot time.
Steve: You confuse your arguments by using the term “subway” when you actually want surface transit of some form. Most readers equate the term with a tunnel which brings high cost, widely spaced stations, and a lot of money spent on a single corridor that cannot serve all of the demand patterns you cite.
hamish wilson | February 13, 2019 at 2:14 am
A real complaint from me about the west-end transit proposals, and upgrades, is that by using the cheaper way to get south of the railtracks at the base of High Park, this means we cannot have any speed-up of the King car using Roncesvalles in to the core, and as we could manage to get to the Ex if we used the old DRL routing, we’re missing another opportunity to actually have a functional and faster network.
Steve: Sending any Waterfront West LRT line into the core via King and Dufferin would force the very “express” service you advocate to push its way through one of the most congested parts of the King route. As for service on Roncesvalles, it is simply not practical to treat the King car as a “relief line” for the subway. Its demand accumulates along Ronces and King West, and capacity should not be consumed by filling up streetcars at Dundas West Station which, btw, does not have the capacity to handle a substantial increase in transfer traffic.
William Zenetos | February 13, 2019 at 2:51 am
I recall seeing this report. It stated a through route to STC would have been beneficial in relieving the exodus at Kennedy for line 2. The people would have transferred at the Yonge/Eglinton or Don Mills/Eglinton to head down town instead, thus, maintaining a robust crowd using the Eglinton LRT from Kennedy to Yonge. The TTC screwd up demanding to separate the lines at Kennedy, pissing off the Scarberians and behold, the pissing match from mayors, councilors and the province creating the Line 2 extension to STC. It would have been better that they continued to tunnel the LRT to Kennedy or elevation through the Golden Mile and merged it with the RT.
I’ve been told that a full extension Sheppard subway to STC would cost the same as a line 2 extension, using some cut and cover construction with simple spartan style stations like Greenwood, Christie, Chester, Bessasrion etc… The report even mentioned using MARK III RT cars instead of LRT to run this line, thinking about it today that idea would of been better. The Mark III are nice reliable intermediate rapid transit cars with a good track record running in Vancouver.
Steve: The new Skytrain cars in Vancouver have the same problems as our SRT fleet in snow. This is a design problem because snow and ice accumulate on both the power rails and on the LIM reaction rail. The difference in Vancouver is that they get snow accumulations quite rarely. When the TTC looked at buying new cars for the SRT, they concluded that this would be cheaper than conversion to LRT only if the line was not extended, and there would still be an “orphan” mode in the middle of a planned LRT network.
Ross Trusler | February 18, 2019 at 12:44 am
Steve, I think you’ve got the lengths backward. Eglinton to Finch (Bishop Ave) is 8.5km. The distance from Bishop to RHC is 6.6km. Both stretches add(ed) 5 stations.
If Eglinton to Finch station is 12 minutes, we would expect the Yonge North extension time to be about 10 minutes. So our ‘ideal’ running time from RHC to Union would be about 38 minutes – call it 40.
This makes the subway very competitive with the Richmond Hill line – which is scheduled for a 40 minute run from Langstaff GO at RHC to Union.
Given GO’s higher cost and much longer headway, GO doesn’t look too attractive.
By 2040, Richmond Hill Centre is shaping up to be quite the transit hub, with the VIVA Yonge BRT, Hwy 7 BRT, 407 Transitway, RH GO and Yonge North subway. By then I wouldn’t be surprised if VIVA blue is bursting and ready for LRT conversion to Bernard.
Steve: The length of the extension according to Vivanext’s website is 7.4 km. Yes, this is a tad shorter than Eglinton to Finch, and might shave a few minutes. However, the nub of my position about the role of GO is in your comment about GO’s higher cost and headways. Do we base the credibility of a subway extension on the speed of the Yonge today, or on what the service could be? Too much of the subway’s lure is based on the premise that GO will be an expensive way to get downtown and will take longer than a subway journey particularly when wait time is factored in.
What happens if GO runs more frequently and if fares on GO are set to be competitive to the subway? Obviously, someone bound for midtown at, say, Yonge-Eglinton will not have to backtrack from Union at, potentially, an extra fare if the deck is stacked against that type of trip. But those bound for the core could be diverted to GO and, frankly, should have been getting better service already but for GO’s reticence to upgrade the corridor through the Don Valley.
Subway capacity relief will come in many forms, and for too long we have pursued the one “solution” of stuffing more people into the existing line. GO should be part of this.
Nick L. | February 20, 2019 at 10:32 am
Steve said: “But those bound for the core could be diverted to GO and, frankly, should have been getting better service already but for GO’s reticence to upgrade the corridor through the Don Valley.”
Is it actual restraint to upgrading the line through the Don Valley or is it more a case of there not being any real need until the Doncaster Junction/Diamond is replaced?
Steve: I will throw that out to those familiar with details of CN’s operations and plans, but Metrolinx has always played down this corridor and is only now re-examining it for interim subway relief from the north. It is somewhat amusing to consider that Metrolinx must think a lot of people from Richmond Hill want to go to the core when the Mayor of Markham claims that riders on the subway extension will be headed for mid-town. The whole question of what demand pattern(s) GO and the subway would serve needs a public airing.
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Systemic insights from Family Group
Building on the family context
Family comes first
Schools build on the developmental experience of the child within his/her family system. It is the parents who first set about promoting emotional wellbeing, building resilience, and establishing and protecting good mental health. Schools play a supporting role. Schools need to recognise that the familial level of belonging is primary. Belonging to the class or group or school comes second. Strong, positive relationships between school and home act as a bridge, supporting the child to manage the daily transition between these two support systems. The child will experience difficulty where there is tension between the two systems.
Moving between systems
Schools have an important role in helping children experience belonging to systems other than the family and helping them understand how to move between systems easily.
Throughout our lives, we face the challenge of moving between systems. Each system has a framework, has norms, taboos. Transitions – periods of negotiating and accommodating changes in systems – provoke stress and anxiety. Good experience of managing transitions in early life is a protective factor for good mental health. Commonly, the first major transition for a child is moving between home and school. When the relationship between home and school is secure, most children easily learn how to be flexible, to adapt, and to develop the skills that enable them to belong to more than one system. To facilitate the development of this lifetime skill in the child, teachers need to respect the child’s family and culture. The family system comes first: It is home. The child will be enabled to move between systems easily when home and school demonstrate respect for each other.
We are all quickly preoccupied with events or issues that lead us to feeling unsettled or insecure within our families. Dissonance/difficulty with child in school may be understood as a call from the family system. There is something unbalanced at home, and as a loyal member of the family, the child is pulled to support the system. At such times, it is important for school staff to support the child’s position even when it pulls against the norms of the school.
Consequences of exclusion from systems
A common characteristic of the families we support (those sometimes described as facing severe and multiple disadvantages) is that they have been excluded from many systems. This often goes back a generation or more. Many of the parents we support struggled as children. As children, they may have had experiences that shamed and isolated them, immobilising them within their family of origin, cutting them off from any support available within their schools. For some, communicating their need for support triggered the engagement of services that intervened incisively into their family system, cutting members in or out, raising issues of disloyalty, transgression, guilt.
It is common to find that Family Group parents had difficulties at or were themselves excluded from, school. The positive experience of moving between two systems remains foreign, unknown. With few qualifications, inadequate family support and under-developed relational skills, negotiating a way into the working world is often difficult. A common experience is of being the outsider: rejected. Withdrawing into isolation, loyalties become fixed: patterns set. Opportunities to experience difference reduce. Opportunities reduce for the supported transition from one group to another.
Loss, rejection and transgression combine with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness: ‘this is all I’ve known and I’m stuck with it’. From a place of isolation, change, which means the loosening of belonging ties, the opening to ‘other’, can seem impossible.
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Parents come to Family Group spurred by a desire that their children thrive in school. They come for their children. Their selfless desire to support their child takes precedence over their own entrenched patterns. This admirable parental aspiration trumps the anxieties of individuals who have felt stuck; it is a triumph of hope over experience . Parents make a huge commitment; they will come for ‘as long as it takes’. Some take time off work, unpaid, weekly, for months on end. These heroic folk are addressing the task of breaking negative transgenerational patterns. This is hard work and needs support. By joining Family Group they forge a support community and enable the experience of belonging for themselves and others.
The Family Group intervention creates communities, new belonging groups of disparate individuals joined by the desire to ensure their children experience success in school. Parents share skills and experiences, resourcing each other with support and challenge, in a group endeavour to make a difference for the most vulnerable group members, the children. This enables and maintains good mental health for isolated, marginalized adults, and provides strong, healthy models, relational skills, and support to children at risk of poor outcomes.
Written by Mark Griffiths, CEO of The School & Family Works
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Wellesley, we have a Problem Rock
July 29, 2013 by Bob Brown 3 Comments
I noticed recently on a Wellesley map that a big boulder at the intersection of Grove Street and Dover Road was labeled Problem Rock. I’ve gone past the rock a zillion times in the past and never realized it was anything special.
Though the name of the rock is appropriate: it actually is a problem trying to get a good look at Problem Rock without getting hit by a car, but I did it on your behalf early one morning without incident.
Here’s the story about this rock.
It is cited in The Geological Story of Wellesley, a 1961 book (revised in 1984) available from the Wellesley Conservation Council and at the Wellesley Free Library. Author Katharine Fowler-Billings says the rock was named by Wellesley College geology students assigned to determine if the rock was “a smashed pinnacle or an outcropping of ledge.”
The rock gets mentioned here and there in town documents as well, including the Wellesley Comprehensive Plan from 2007-2017, in which Problem Rock is described as one of a number of “glacial erratics” in town that resulted from glacier movements. Problem Rock also rates a mention in the town’s Community Preservation Plan of 2008 as a notable open space attraction.
A Wellesley Townsman article from 1975 reports that that a granite marker was installed by the Hills Garden Club that year to recognize Problem Rock — a well-preserved marker located behind the rock and that you’d never realize was there if you weren’t looking for it (hat tip to local history buff Joshua Dorin for directing us to this article). Although apparently some people have a fondness for the marker and perhaps have even been toasting it, based on the empty beer bottles we found around it.
The marker reads: “Problem Rock — a Roxbury Conglomerate of the Permian Period Over 200 Million Years Old, Sometimes Referred to as Pudding Stone.”
According to an obituary for the recently deceased Ruth Howe Tyler Smith of Needham, and formerly of Wellesley, she and her husband donated the land including Problem Rock to the Wellesley Conservation Council in 1974.
Filed Under: Environment, History
SheaCat says
I grew up in the area of Dover Road and Grove Street (Benvenue and Lehigh Rds). We played on this rock only we called it Pudding Rock. It will always be Pudding Rock to me. Lots of PB&J sandwiches eaten there….never any beer. LOL
Great detective work. Does anyone know anything about the big boulder by the town p.o?
bbrown says
According to the Geological Story of Wellesley from the Wellesley Conservation Council, there is mention of what we think is that rock you are referring to, noting that it includes “granite exposures with glacial striations.” It’s possible a student or parent involved in one of Wellesley’s elementary school science classes might know more: I believe a trip to the rock might have been part of those classes, at least at Hunnewell.
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How the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover revealed the worst of both shows
Scott Meslow
This is what happens when you've done it all. (2014 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
After 26 seasons and 552 episodes, it's hard to stay fresh. Nonetheless, The Simpsons is trying, employing two big gimmicks in its season premiere Sunday night: a bizarre, buzzy couch gag from animator Don Hertzfeldt and a long-teased character death that underwhelmed pretty much everybody. Still, the strategy worked; this was The Simpsons' highest-rated premiere in years.
But the main event came an hour later, when Family Guy premiered "The Simpsons Guy," which brought the Griffin family to Springfield for an extended encounter with the Simpsons.
The Simpsons and Family Guy each inspire constant, breathless hyperbole, both positive and negative. "The Simpsons and Family Guy crossover was The Best. One. Ever," crowed Cinema Blend. "One of the most fascinatingly weird things to ever happen on television," said Entertainment Weekly. "A blight on humanity," complained Vox.
The truth is a lot less exciting than any of those things. More than anything, "The Simpsons Guy" was lazy — a fundamentally misguided attempt to make two totally different tastes cohere, like a tuna-and-peanut-butter sandwich.
The dominant flavor of "The Simpsons Guy" is Family Guy. Though the majority of the episode took place in Springfield, this isn't quite a crossover; it's an extra-long Family Guy episode in which the Simpsons appear as versions of themselves, warped through a Family Guy lens.
"The Simpsons Guy" opens, inevitably, by mocking the idea of crossover as a pathetic, headline-grabbing stunt by a couple of sell-outs. It also anticipates a blogger backlash that never really happened, as a bunch of straw-man feminists run the Griffins out of Quahog for drawing a sexist comic that also makes light of spousal abuse. Great timing, guys!
The Griffins stumble into Springfield, where each character is paired off with their rough analogue: Peter and Homer, Lois and Marge, Stewie and Bart, Meg and Lisa, Chris and Maggie, Brian and Santa's Little Helper. From there, everybody splits up to repeat the same antics and catch phrases you've seen before. (Well, almost everybody; Family Guy doesn't have much use for Lois, so she and Marge are basically pushed aside for the episode.)
The edgiest moment comes when Stewie, attempting to emulate one of Bart's prank phone calls to Moe's Tavern, says, "Your sister's being raped!" and hangs up. As expected, the gag wasn't nearly funny enough to justify how glib or gross it was. To be fair, that seemingly pointless lack of taste may have been the point; a clip of the scene was revealed months ago, leading to an inevitable condemnation from the Parents Television Council. This is where a cynical writer might suggest that the scene in question was revealed early because Fox knew it would drum up additional controversy, driving more attention to their big crossover episode.
It all builds to a scene in which Homer and Peter turn on each other, parroting the most common complaints about each other's shows. Family Guy is a dumber, crasser rip-off of The Simpsons; The Simpsons is a soulless, long-in-the-tooth version of the innovative show it used to be. (Whatever truth there is to those complaints, "The Simpsons Guy" is Exhibit A.)
"The Simpsons Guy" ends with a remix that blends one iconic moment from each show: Peter's seemingly endless series of fights with a giant chicken, and Homer's ill-fated jump across Springfield Gorge. Homer stands in for the chicken, in a long, bloody fight that turns the characters into superheroes and takes them into outer space, before returning back to Earth to riff on Homer's failed jump and repeated tumbles down the canyon wall.
Much of "The Simpsons Guy" was boring, but the echo of the much earlier, much more poignant Simpsons episode was a little disheartening — if only as a reminder of how far The Simpsons has fallen. When The Simpsons first visited Springfield Gorge in season two's "Bart the Daredevil," it was for a genuinely heartwarming story about the complicated relationship between Bart and Homer. Here, it's a lame wink at the end of a crass, gratuitous gag.
The Simpsons and Family Guy have long been paired because they seem to have plenty in common: They're animated, family-centric sitcoms, with a deep roster of supporting characters, settled into a cozy Sunday time slot on Fox. In a larger sense, Family Guy wouldn't exist without The Simpsons, because no animated sitcom would exist without The Simpsons' trailblazing example. But beyond those superficialities, the shows are actually a pretty uneasy fit. The Simpsons is character driven, relying on a careful balance of wit and heart; Family Guy is unpredictable and anarchic, using shock value and knowing pop-cultural references as the framework on which to hang a loose, shambling story. This pairing, which essentially amounted to a lazily thrown-together "greatest hits" album, didn't do justice to either show.
Which raises the question: Was there any good creative reason to make "The Simpsons Guy" — and if not, why did it happen? Matt Groening famously had his named removed from what turned out to be a pretty solid crossover between The Simpsons and The Critic, which he felt violated the show's larger continuity — but he certainly hasn't shied away from promoting "The Simpsons Guy." When did he become so complacent that he would shrug his shoulders at "The Simpsons Guy," which sits far less coherently within the Simpsons universe?
"The Simpsons Guy" makes the best case against itself in the sarcastic monologue that opens the episode: "Yay! A crossover always brings out the best in each show. It certainly doesn't smack of desperation." Sounds about right.
Maybe this is what happens when you've done it all. Later this season, The Simpsons will cross over with Groening's other big series: Futurama, which bowed after seven seasons last year. On paper, it's a more promising pairing; the shows share a coherent animation style and a barely hidden sentimental streak. Fingers crossed.
(Images courtesy Family Guy/The Simpsons, 2014 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
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What Donald Trump's VP choice will signal about his radical candidacy
Michael Brendan Dougherty
REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Just days before the Republican National Convention, the stakes for Donald Trump in his choice of running mate could not be higher.
Minor plots proliferate among anti-Trump Republican delegates. They either seek to deny him the nomination, or even to convince him to quit the race, by requiring him to release his tax returns (presumably humiliating him) or picking a vice president for him that he'd find unacceptable. How Trump responds could be the key to understanding his candidacy for the rest of the election.
Leaked names reveal that he could go in three basic directions. Let's take a look:
1. Mollifying choices
Imitating past moderate and squishy Republican nominees, Trump could try to mollify the restive Republicans by picking a conventional conservative. Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle, and even Dick Cheney were VP picks that all served to reassure the base.
The Washington Times and some other party insiders think Trump will take the advice of those saying he needs to unite the party and pick Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R). The congressman-turned-governor was known as an all-around conservative in Congress. He was hawkish on border enforcement, budget cuts, and foreign policy. But he comes with significant downsides. His governorship has been rocky. And his performance in the public controversy over a "religious liberty" bill last year made conservatives doubt his intelligence and competence.
Trump has also considered Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who is generally conservative but whose passions are driven by implementing an aggressive foreign policy in the tradition of George W. Bush. And on the far end, there are rumors that Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) is on his list. She is a standard, Plains State conservative. And Trump may conclude that with her, he can not only mollify conservatives, but cut against Hillary Clinton's advantage with women.
2. Mind-meld choices
But Trump may decide that, like all #NeverTrump schemes, the convention plots will fail. Then he is free to pick a running mate that can do a mind-meld with Trump and act as a bridge in the media, someone from the GOP that is most simpatico with the Trump brand.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was one of the first to endorse Trump. While there's little evidence that Christie has given much thought to the issues that have animated the Trump campaign — immigration, globalism, trade, and foreign policy — what the governor shares with Trump is a kind of style. It is more anti-left than conservative; it treasures "respect" and authority more than tradition and restraint. It's also brash and a product of the tri-state area around New York City. Christie is sharp and quick-witted. A good attack dog.
Another contender is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who has been something of the Trump campaign's ideologist-in-chief from the beginning. Sessions distinguished himself as a border hawk in the Senate. And he has been more skeptical of free trade than average Republicans. He also has the respect of most grassroots activists in the party. But his fans believe that Sessions is needed in the Senate no matter what happens to Trump.
And then there's former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, one of the earliest Republicans to concede that Trump was having a transformative effect on the GOP. Gingrich proposes new and bold (and sometimes boldly stupid) ideas at a velocity that would makes his jowls comparable to hummingbird wings; they whirr with energy. That and his ideological flexibility make him a suitable spokesperson for the campaign. He would be effective at re-explaining Trumpism to conservatives and independents. Of course, he comes with his own baggage — namely that many Republicans are just plain worn out on Newt.
3. The transcendent choice
Trump could also try to transcend his opposition. By nominating someone abominable to conservatives but with the potential to reinforce the imagery and ideology that make Trumpism a kind of realigning revolution, Trump could rout conservatism as a political force once and for all.
Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that Trump was personally interested in picking retired General Michael T. Flynn. On one level, Flynn is a hawk's hawk; the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, he co-wrote a book with Michael Ledeen, an ideologue who wants to preserve America's role as the global hegemon, even at considerable cost. But Flynn is also a registered Democrat and believes in preserving legal abortion despite calling himself "pro-life."
The history of military men entering the political fray is a mixed bag in America — Admiral James Stockdale's impolitic demeanor was mercilessly ridiculed in 1992. But Trump's interest in a military man, someone from the one institution in American life that hasn't suffered a major loss of the public's trust, shows sound instincts. It would re-double the Trump candidacy's professed rationale as a revolt against a flaccid and self-dealing political class, while it simultaneously allays worries that Trump would be out of his depth on foreign and military affairs.
Of course, picking a registered Democrat may be too much for most Republicans to swallow. Trump himself was a party-switcher before his run. It may inspire a broader convention revolt, or enough disaffection that whatever independents the Trump-Flynn ticket picks up would be canceled out.
Whoever Trump picks, the choice will make a crucial difference in the next week or two. It will determine whether Republicans go into nuclear meltdown in Cleveland or put on a brave face heading toward the fall.
But the obstacles that the Trump campaign faces in the general election cannot be solved by his choice of running mate. For the simple reason that no matter who he or she is, Trump's running mate is stuck with Donald Trump.
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How Hillary Clinton Will Take on Donald Trump's Foreign Policy
By Philip Elliott
Hillary Clinton hasn’t yet decided which Donald Trump she’s running against.
A loose cannon who even Republicans don’t like? Or a harsh ideologue committed to dangerous ideas on subjects like abortion? A plutocrat who wants to cut taxes on the rich? Or a fraud who doesn’t mean what he says?
Members of the Brooklyn-based campaign and its allies have served up some version of each of those arguments against the presumptive Republican nominee. The voices sometimes contradict themselves, but reinforce a growing pile-on. Each makes a clear argument, but taken as a whole, they leave a muddled mess about why, exactly, voters should reject Trump.
Clinton will start to sharpen one line of criticism on Thursday, when she is set to deliver what aides are calling a major foreign policy address in San Diego.
“You will hear in her speech a confidence in America and our capacity to overcome the challenges we face while staying true to our values—a strong contrast to Donald Trump’s incessant trash-talking of America,” Clinton senior adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters late Wednesday. “She’ll make clear that the choice in this election goes beyond partisanship. Donald Trump is unlike any presidential nominee we’ve seen in modern times, and he is fundamentally unfit for the job.”
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Clinton has previously called Trump unqualified for the Presidency, but aides suggested she would go further when she speaks in the address, criticizing his “America First” approach to foreign policy as misguided and his attacks on Mexico, China and Muslims as wrong. A second Clinton aide promised she would “rebuke the fear, bigotry and misplaced defeatism that Trump has been selling to the American people” and “make the affirmative case for the exceptional role America has played and must continue to play in order to keep our country safe and our economy growing.”
The former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State has an undeniable leg-up when it comes to experience in this area, but Trump’s unconventional candidacy has made it harder to prosecute the case against him.
Trump has offered policy positions that typically are avoided by national candidates from either party. He has said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States for a period, round up and deport immigrants in the country illegally and encourage Japan and South Korea to develop nuclear weapons. He has said he’s open to ending or rolling back the United States’ role in NATO, stated a willingness to speak directly with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and signaled ambivalence toward the British. But he’s also at times backed away from his own ideas, calling the Muslim ban merely a “suggestion” and saying he might make an “exception” for the new mayor of London, who is Muslim.
Now that the primary is winding down and Clinton is all-but-assured to win the Democratic nomination, she is working to win over Republicans and moderates, leaning increasingly on a foreign policy resume that is likely to attract serious students of how America works around the world. Many Republicans have said Trump would set the United States back decades and inspire waves of anti-American sentiments.
“America turning inward not only will make the world more dangerous for others, but also for us,” former Defense Secretary Bob Gates told a Washington audience last month. Gates, who led the Pentagon under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, did not mention Trump by name.
In March, 90 GOP foreign policy luminaries signed an open letter opposing Trump. Already, intelligence officials have noted an uptick of anti-American fervor as Trump’s profile has risen.
“When you run for president of the United States, the entire world is listening and watching,” Clinton told CNN last month.
Despite her warnings, Trump runs about even in Clinton in polls when voters are asked who would best handle the United States’ national security. Trump’s bluster grates Washington’s foreign policy Establishment, but it riles up voters in the heartland who believe Trump’s slogan (“Make America Great Again”) is sound doctrine. His brand of nationalism helped him overtake candidates with more serious foreign policy stints on their resumes such as Senate Foreign Policy Relations members Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.
Clinton, who is viewed as too hawkish by some in her party, largely kept foreign policy a secondary issue during her own primary against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. Instead, Clinton kept her focus on domestic issues that are popular among her party’s liberal base. It didn’t quiet worries about her instincts, but she is likely to officially win the delegates needed for the nomination next Tuesday, even if she loses California’s primary to Sanders.
Clinton is settling into her role as the party’s nominee, and she is still figuring out just how to take on Trump. With few voters paying attention at this point, she has some time to test out different approaches. But the campaign will have to find a broad theme soon enough, or it risks following in the footsteps of Trump’s 16 vanquished Republican rivals.
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| 1958 || || Early development || In the midst of a worsening political situation in Aden, Dhirajlal returns to India where he starts a yarn trading business from a small 500 square feet office in {{w|Mumbai}} that Ambani rents for two hours per day.<ref name="MAMMOTH">{{cite web |title=MAMMOTH ASPIRATIONS |url=https://www.ril.com/TheRelianceStory.aspx |website=ril.com |accessdate=8 November 2019}}</ref> Reliance Commercial Corporation is established in partnership with Champaklal Damani, Dhirajlal cousin. Initial exports include spices as well as fabrics.<ref name="referenceforbusiness.com"/><ref name="referenceforbusiness.com"/><ref name="RAICHAUDHURI">{{cite book |last1=RAICHAUDHURI |first1=ANJAN |title=MANAGING NEW VENTURES: CONCEPTS AND CASES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=sFqQSBbn_x0C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=Reliance+Commercial+Corporation&source=bl&ots=Sf1FayguQR&sig=ACfU3U32UFnCEJOp1Xmd3uCqIRcgwxlcWw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu5LXpx9vlAhWhHrkGHZReAW0Q6AEwDnoECBEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Reliance%20Commercial%20Corporation&f=false}}</ref>
| 1964 || || Facility || Dhirajlal establishes a textile factory in {{w|Naroda}} near {{w|Ahmenabad}}.<ref name="RAICHAUDHURI"/>
| 1964 || || Facility || Dhirajlal establishes a textile factory in {{w|Naroda}} near {{w|Ahmedabad}}.<ref name="RAICHAUDHURI"/>
| 1965 || || Leadership || Champaklal Damani and Dhirubhai Ambani end their partnership due to differences in business strategies.<ref name="RAICHAUDHURI"/>
| 1998 || || Business expansion || RIL enters the health-care sector with an initial investment of Rs.100 crore, and becomes joint trustee of Sir Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Hospital at Charni Road in Mumbai.<ref name="Reliance Industries Ltd"/>
| 1998 || || Recognition || {{w|Dhirubhai Ambani}} is awarded the Dean's Medal by the {{w|Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania}}, "for setting an outstanding example of leadership."<ref name=Milestones/>
| 1998 || || Leadership || {{w|Dhirubhai Ambani}} is awarded the Dean's Medal by the {{w|Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania}}, "for setting an outstanding example of leadership."<ref name=Milestones/>
| 1998 || || Financial || RIL Total Assets cross Rs. 35,000 crore and revenues cross Rs. 14,000 crore.<ref name="ndtv.com"/>
| 2000 || || Facility || RIL commissions the world's largest grassroots refinery in {{w|Jamnagar}}.<ref name="RELIANCE INDUSTRIES"/><ref name="RAICHAUDHURI"/><ref name=Milestones/>
| 2000 || May 10 || Subsidiary || Reliance Clinical Research Services is incorporated.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reliance Clinical Research Services Private Limited |website=economictimes.indiatimes.com |archiveurl=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/company |quote=Reliance Clinical Research Services Private Limited is a Non-govt company, incorporated on 10 May, 2000. It's a private unlisted company and is classified as 'company limited by shares'. Company's authorized capital stands at Rs 50.0 lakhs and has 99.24% paid-up capital which is Rs 49.62 lakhs}}</ref>
| 2000 || May 10 || Subsidiary || Reliance Clinical Research Services is incorporated.<ref>{{cite web |title=RELIANCE CLINICAL RESEARCH SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED |url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/RELIANCE-CLINICAL-RESEARCH-SERVICES-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U99999MH2000PTC126407 |website=zaubacorp.com |accessdate=9 December 2019}}</ref>
| 2000 || || Financial || RIL group profits cross Rs. 2,500 crore mark, revenues cross Rs. 20,000 crore mark, and total assets cross Rs. 50,000 crore.<ref name="ndtv.com"/>
This is a timeline of Reliance Industries Limited, an Indian multinational conglomerate owing businesses engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications.
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How did RIL diversified and changed focus over time?
How did RIL leadership change over time? How disputes turned into a split?
What are important company acquisitions by RIL?
What are some notable products launched by the company?
What are some important partnerships and joint ventures by RIL?
Business phase
1958–1966 The trading phase Reliance Commercial Corporation (RCC) begins its business activities with the export of spices and other items to the Middle East and East Africa. In this phase, the company operates through partnership or proprietorship firms.[1]
1966–1977 First textile phase Reliance organizational features change when first one and then a few other narrowly-held private limited companies are added to the group’s stable. Reliance Textiles is established and a number of textile companies are incorporated into the group. While exports are continued as a means of securing import entitlements, by the mid-seventies manufacturing and sales activity is mainly directed towards the domestic market. The group export earnings even decline, while the dependence on imports for production and expansion activity remains substantial.[1]
1977–1990 Switch to petrochemicals The principal group company becomes an extremely widely held public limited company, with a rapid proliferation in the number of companies in the group.[1]
1991-onwards Liberal India/Expansion into healthcare and telecommunications RIL business diversifies. In 1992 the company becomes the first Indian company to raise money in global markets. In 1995 the group enters the telecommunications industry. In 1998, RIL enters the healthcare sector. In 2006 RIL enters the organized retail segment through Reliance Retail. Reliance Jio is incorporated in 2007 and launches its services in 2015.
Development summary
1950s In the late decade, Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani in India establishes an import-export business, eventually focusing on the textile market, which would become Reliance Textiles.
1960s Reliance Textiles is established in 1964, launching textile manufacturing, and building its first factory.
1970s Reliance goes public in one of the first and largest public offerings in India.
1980s In 1981 The company begins construction of a polyester filament yarn facility in Patalganga. In the decade, Dhirajlal sons Mukesh and Anil start playing a prominent part at RIL, which seeks to produce the chemicals from which the textile yarns were made. In 1985, Reliance Textiles changes its name to Reliance Industries. After Ambani suffers a stroke in 1986, Mukesh and Anil take over day-to-day direction of the company, which launches its first petrochemicals production as part of a vertical integration strategy.[2] In 1987 Reliance Petrochemical Limited is incorporated.[3]
1990s Reliance Refineries is established in 1991, and launches its public offering in 1993. In 1997 Reliance Petroleum launches construction of India's largest oil refinery at Jamnagar. In 1999, the company wins a bid for 12 exploration blocks auctioned off by the Indian government.[2]
2000s In 2002, Reliance locates the largest Indian natural gas field in decades. In the same year, Dhirubhai Ambani dies at age 69. Reliance Petroleum merges into Reliance Industries. Following the acquisition of Germany's Trevira in 2004, RIL becomes the world's leading polyester manufacturer, with production levels topping 25 million meters per year.[2] In 2006, Reliance Industries is broken up between the Ambani brothers.[2] As of 2007 RIL has two major business segments, petroleum refining and marketing, and petrochemicals.[4]
2010s Reliance Jio launches its services in 2015, and becomes the only company in India that is capable of providing 4G services through the country. RIL is ranked 106th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2019.
1932 Prelude Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani is born to a lower middle class schoolteacher's family in Chorwad, Gujarat.[2]
1948 Prelude At the age of 16, instead of becoming a teacher himself as an alernative of not being able to afford university, Ambani travels to the port city of Aden where he begins working as a clerk at a service station. Ambani would remain in Aden for nearly ten years, rising to become Burmah Shell's marketing manager.[2]
1958 Early development In the midst of a worsening political situation in Aden, Dhirajlal returns to India where he starts a yarn trading business from a small 500 square feet office in Mumbai that Ambani rents for two hours per day.[5] Reliance Commercial Corporation is established in partnership with Champaklal Damani, Dhirajlal cousin. Initial exports include spices as well as fabrics.[2][2][3]
1964 Facility Dhirajlal establishes a textile factory in Naroda near Ahmedabad.[3]
1965 Leadership Champaklal Damani and Dhirubhai Ambani end their partnership due to differences in business strategies.[3]
1966 February 11 Founding Reliance Textiles Industries Pvt Ltd is founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in Bombay.[6][7]
1966 Facility A synthetic fabrics mill is established at Naroda in Gujarat.[6]
1966 May 8 Subsidiary Reliance Textile Industries Ltd is incorporated in Karnataka state as a public limited company under the name Mynylon Ltd. to manufacture synthetic blended yarns and fabrics, polyester filament yarn, polyester glass shells and colour TV picture tubes.[6]
1966 July 1 Merger Reliance Textile Industries Ltd is amalgamated with Mynylon Ltd.[6]
1969 Incorporation Reliance Exports is incorporated.[1]
1973 May 8 Incorporation RIL is incorporated as Mynylon Limited in the State of Karnataka.[4][7]
1973 Subsidiary Reliance group incorporates Vimal Fabrics.[1]
1975 June 28 RIL is converted into a public limited company.[6]
1975 October 15 Subsidiary Reliance group incorporates Anil Fabrics[1][8], Dipti Textile Industries[9], and Nina Textile Industries.[10]
1975–1976 Financial Reliance group crosses the Rs. 20 crores (200 million) mark in terms of value of assets.[1]
1977 March 11 Renaming The name of Mynylon Ltd changes to Reliance Textiles Industries Ltd. The company manufactures synthetic blended yarns and fabrics polyester filament yarn polyester staple fiber chemicals and allied products colour TV glass shells and colour TV picture tubes. Mynylon yarns are marketed under various brand names such as Texalit, Textron, Texlene, Poly dyed and polytwist. The fabrics are marketed under the brand name "VIMAL".[6]
1977 November Financial Reliance launches its Initial public offering, with Dhirubhai Ambani introducing equity cult in India, a new model of business leadership from a base of the broadest public shareholding.[11][6][5] The IPO, of 2.8 million shares, raise US$1.8 million, and is considered among the largest in India at the time.[2]
1979 Facility RIL establishes a texturizing/twisting facility.[6]
1979 Merger Sidhpur Mills amalgamates with RIL.[6]
1980 Product Reliance Textiles Industries receives a letter to intent from the manufacture of 10,000 tons per annum of polyester filament yarn. Financial and technical collaboration is finalized with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.[6]
1982 Product Reliance Textiles Industries launches phase-I of the Polyester Filament Yarn (PFY) plant at Patalganga.[11]
1982 Leadership Dhirubhai Ambani elder son Mukesh is entrusted with the task and begins by overseeing the first phase of a polyester filament yarn in Patalganga, Maharashtra.[12]
1983 Leadership Dhirubhai Ambani younger son Anil joins RIL.[12]
1985 June 27 Renaming Reliance Textiles Industries Ltd changes its name to Reliance Industries Ltd.[6][7][3]
1985 Product Reliance Textiles Industries enters phase-II of the polyester filament yarn (PFY) plant at Patalganga.[11]
1985 September 30 Subsidiary Devti Fibres Ltd becomes a subsidiary of RIL.[6]
1985 Financial RIL total Assets cross Rs. 1,000 crores.[13]
1986 March Product RIL commissions a plant for the manufacture of Polyster Staple Fiber in technical collaboration with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.[6]
1986 Product RIL launches a project for the manufacture of linear alkylbenzene in technical collaboration with UOP Processes International Inc.[6]
1986 Product RIL commissions a polyester staple fiber (PSF) plant at Patalganga.[11][13]
1986 Product RIL starts operating a purified terephthalic acid plant at Patalganga.[11][13][2]
1987 Subsidiary Reliance Petrochemical Limited is incorporated.[3]
1987 Product RIL starts operating the linear alkylbenzene (LAB) plant at Patalganga.[11][13][6]
1988 Product Linear alkylbenzene (LAB) is sold under the brand name "Relab".[6]
1988 Product RIL starts the paraxylene plant at Patalganga.[11]
1988 September 29 Subsidiary Reliance Industrial Infrastructure is incorporated. Its immediate object is to undertake a project for the laying of two cross country pipelines from Bharat Petroleum refinery at Chembur in Bombay to RIL petrochemicals complex at Patalganga.[14]
1988 Financial RIL sales cross Rs. 1,000 crores mark.[13]
1991 Product RIL commissions phase–I of Hazira Petrochemicals Complex, with the purpose manufacture high-density polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride at Hazira, Gujarat, in technical collaboration with DuPont and [[w:Goodrich Corporation|BF Goodrich}} respectively.[13][7][6][11][5]
1992 Product RIL commences the production of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) at Hazira.[11][2]
1992 Financial RIL becomes the first Indian company to raise money in global markets, with its high credit-taking in international markets limited only by India's sovereign rating.[3]
1992 Financial RIL launches the first ever international Global Depositary Receipt offering by an Indian corporate.[11][3]
1993 Product RIL polyester filament yarn (PFY) division introduces two new products, micro and multi-filament yearn. Several new and customized product ranges are introduced such as ultra-stabilized raffia grade, high flow injection moulding grade and high ESCR blow moulding grade.[6]
1993 Financial RIL pioneers by offering the first ever Euro Convertible Bond issue by an Indian company.[11] [13]
1993 Financial Reliance Petroleum Limited public issues the largest public offering in India.[11]
1994 Product RIL introduces its new product, Linear Low-Density Polyethylene Octene.[6]
1994 Financial RIL offers the second Euro issue of Global Depository Receipts (GDR).[11][13]
1995 Facility RIL commissions a new triethylene glycol (TEG) manufacturing factory with a capacity of 10,000 TPA to add value to diethylene glycol (DEG), a by product from its monoethylene Glycol plant. TEG is an import substitute used in oil exploration, lubricants and speciality application.[6]
1995 Product RIL signs a Memorandum of understanding with the Government of Assam for implementation of RAPL (Reliance Assam Petrochemicals Ltd.) for manufacture of ethylene, polyethylene and oxoalchol based on ethylene and propylene products from the gas cracker.[15]
1995–1996 Joint venture RIL enters the telecom industry through a joint venture with NYNEX and promotes Reliance Telecom Private Limited in India.[7]
1996 Credit rating RIL becomes the first private sector company to be rated by international credit rating agencies.[11][13]
1996 Financial RIL net profit surpasses Rs.1,000 crore (about US$ 317 million), an unparalleled milestone in the Indian private sector.[13][11]
1996–1997 Financial RIL becomes the first Asian corporate to issue 50 and 100 years bonds in the US debt market.[16][7]
1997 Financial RIL becomes the first corporate in Asia to issue 50 and 100 years bond in the United States debt market.[13][7]
1998 Product RIL introduces packaged liquefied petroleum gas in 15 kg cylinders under the brand name Reliance Gas.[7]
1998 Business expansion RIL enters the health-care sector with an initial investment of Rs.100 crore, and becomes joint trustee of Sir Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Hospital at Charni Road in Mumbai.[6]
1998 Leadership Dhirubhai Ambani is awarded the Dean's Medal by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, "for setting an outstanding example of leadership."[11]
1998 Financial RIL Total Assets cross Rs. 35,000 crore and revenues cross Rs. 14,000 crore.[13]
1999 Hydrocarbon exploration The Indian government auctions off 25 blocks for oilfield exploration. Bids are given in the form of royalty percentage offers. RIL wins 12 of the blocks and promptly sets in place its own team of exploration experts. The investment would quickly pay off with the discovery of natural gas reserves estimated at some 14 trillion cubic feet, the largest natural gas field discovered in India in decades, in the Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal.[2]
1999 Facility RIL commissions the world's largest 1.4 million tons per annum paraxylene (PX) plant at its new integrated petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar.[7][11]
2000 Facility RIL commissions the world's largest grassroots refinery in Jamnagar.[7][3][11]
2000 May 10 Subsidiary Reliance Clinical Research Services is incorporated.[17]
2000 Financial RIL group profits cross Rs. 2,500 crore mark, revenues cross Rs. 20,000 crore mark, and total assets cross Rs. 50,000 crore.[13]
2000–2001 Financial Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Petroleum Ltd. become India's two largest companies in terms of all major financial parameters.[11]
2001 January Subsidiary Reliance Life Sciences is incorporated. It operates in the biotechnology sector.[18]
2001 Financial RIL revenues cross Rs. 60,000 crore, and becomes largest business group in India.[13]
2001 Growth Reliance Industries and Reliance Petroleum become India's largest companies.[12]
2001 Subsidiary Reliance Logistics Private Limited is founded. It operates vessels for the transportation of freight on the deep seas.[19][20]
2001–2002 Recognition Dhirubhai Ambani receives The Economic Times Award for Corporate Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.[11]
2001–2002 Product RIL signs a Memorandum of understanding with DuPont Polyester Technologies to license the revolutionary resin technology NG-3 from DuPont. Reliance announces its plan for the expansion of polyethylene terephthalate capacity by 220,000 tons per year.[11]
2002 Merger Reliance Petroleum Limited merge with Reliance Industries. As of date, this is the largest ever merger in India. Reliance Industries becomes the largest private sector company in the country on all major financial parameters including sales, profits, net worth, assets, and exports.[11][13]
2002 Hydrocarbon exploration RIL announces one of the largest gas discoveries in the world, with a volume in excess of 7 trillion cubic feet, equivalent to about 1.2 billion barrels of crude oil. This is the first ever discovery by an Indian private sector company.[11]
2002 July 31 Expansion RIL launches its own phone service, Reliance Infocomm, which would be later renamed Reliance Communications Limited (popularly, R.Comm). Beginning with Gujarat, the Infocomm revolution would cover thousands of villages and hundreds of cities across India.[11][5][2]
2002 July Leadership Dhirubhai Ambani dies.[21]
2002 Recognition RIL is recognized among ten most creditworthy companies in Asia.[13]
2002 Financial RIL becomes the first Indian private sector company to record Net Profit of over Rs. 1,000 crores in one quarter.[13]
2003 Financial RIL becomes the first Indian private sector company to record net profit of over Rs 4,000 crore in one financial year.[13]
2004 Recognition RIL becomes the first Indian private sector organization to be listed in the Fortune Global 500 list.[7][5]
2004 Hydrocarbon exploration RIL locates a new gas field in the Bay of Bengal, off the Orissa Coast.[2]
2004 Acquisition RIL acquires the polyester major Frankfurt-based Trevira, which has the capacity of 130000 tons per annum of polyester staple fibers polyester filament yarns and polyester chips.[7]
2004 October Recognition RIL is recognized as India's Greenest private sector company amongst the private sector with an overall rank of number two in a BT–ACNielsen ORG-MARG survey of shareholder perception.[13]
2005 Financial RIL launches a US$348 million syndicated term loan facility, with aims at replacing existing high cost loans.[13]
2005 June Leadership A bitter succession dispute takes place caused by conflict between Mukesh and Anil which would eventually lead to a separation in their management responsibilities.[22]
2006 Facility RIL establishes a new export-oriented refinery through its subsidiary Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL).[7]
2006 Expansion RIL enters the organized retail segment through Reliance Retail with its first Reliance Fresh store in Hyderabad.[7]
2006 July 10 Split up RIL splits in two, following four years of dispute between Mukesh and Anil. Mukesh gets Reliance Industries and Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited. The latter walks away from RIL with the conglomerate's telecom, power, natural-resources and financial-services business, which form the core of what would be dubbed Reliance Group.[23][12]
2006 Financial RIL places US$300 million in US Private Placement Market, becoming the first Indian company to raise money through this route. The company declares dividend of 100%.[13][13]
2007 February 15 Subsidiary Telecommunications company Reliance Jio is incorporated as a subsidiary of RIL.[24] It operates a national LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles.[25][26]
2007 April 1 Merger Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) merges with RIL. Post merger, RIL’s share capital is expected to increase from Rs 1,393.5 crore to Rs 1,453.6 crore.[27][28][29]
2007 September Acquisition RIL announces agreement to acquire assets of Malaysia’s leading polyester producer, Hualon Corp.[30]
2007 October 18 Financial RIL becomes the first Indian company to breach US$100 billion market capitalization.[31][32]
2007 Financial RIL revenue crosses Rs. 100,000 crore mark, net Profit crosses Rs. 10,000 crore mark, and total assets cross Rs. 100,000 crore mark, unparalleled in the Indian private sector. Exports cross Rs. 60,000 crore mark, 12% of India's total exports. RIL declares Dividend of 110%. Payout of Rs 1,440 Crore, highest in the Indian private sector.[13]
2008 April Product RIL signs gas sales and purchase agreement with the customers in power sector for supply of natural gas to be produced from the KG-D6 block.[7]
2008 Financial RIL revenue crosses Rs. 130,000 crore mark, net profit crossed Rs. 15,000 crore mark and Total Assets crossed Rs. 140,000 crore mark, unparalleled in the Indian private sector. Exports cross Rs. 80,000 crore mark, 13.4% of India's total exports. RIL declares Dividend of 130%. Payout of Rs 1,631 Crore, highest in the Indian private sector.[13]
2008 Financial RIL reaches an aggregated worth of approximately US$ 125 billion, around a hundred direct and many more affiliated companies, more than 80,000 global employees, and is structured as 'several hundred investment companies, satellite companies and trusts.[22]
2009 April 2 Hydrocarbon production RIL commences production of hydrocarbons in its KGD6 block in the Krishna Godavari Basin with the production of sweet crude of 420 API.[7][5]
2009 Recognition American global management consulting firm A T Kearney lists RIL as one of the Top 25 Global Champion for 2009 which manages to outperform the competition in the midst of global financial meltdown.[11]
2010 April RIL commissions a 1 MW solar Photo Voltaic power plant at Thyagaraj Sports Complex in New Delhi.[7]
2010 June Acquisition RIL acquires 95% stake in broadband service provider Infotel Broadband for Rs 4,800 crore.[33][7]
2010 August Acquisition RIL acquires the equity shares of EIH Ltd representing 14.12% from Oberoi Hotels and certain other promoters at a total cost of Rs 1021 crore.[7]
2010 December Joint venture RIL enters into a joint venture agreement with Russian petrochemical company Sibur for the production of butyl rubber in India.[7]
2010 Recognition RIL is ranked 68th in the Financial Times Global 500 list of the world's largest companies (up from previous year's 75th rank).[13]
2011 February Partnership RIL enters into a strategic partnership with British Petroleum which comprises BP taking a 30% stake in 23 oil and gas production sharing contracts that the company operates in India for a consideration of US$ 7.20 billion and the formation of a 50:50 joint venture between the two companies for the sourcing and marketing of gas in India.[7]
2011 March Joint venture RIL and D E Shaw Group agree to establish a joint venture to build a financial services business in India, incorporating the D E Shaw Group's investment and technology expertise with RIL's operational knowledge and extensive presence across India to offer a comprehensive array of financial services to the Indian marketplace. [7]
2011 April Hydrocarbon exploration RIL announces a rich natural gas discovery in the very first well it drilled on a deep sea block in the Cauvery basin.[11][34][35]
2011 June 10 Acquisition RIL and its associate Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd enter into an agreement with Bharti Enterprises for acquiring Bharti's shareholding of 74% in Bharti Axa Life Insurance Co Ltd and Bharti Axa General Insurance Co Ltd. [7][36]
2011 September Partnership Reliance Security Solutions partners with Siemens to jointly develop homeland security solutions for safe, secure and smart cities and highways in India.[7]
2011 November Joint venture RIL and British Petroleum announce the incorporation of India Gas Solutions Pvt Ltd, an equal-equity joint venture aimed at focusing on global sourcing and marketing of natural gas in India.[37][38]
2012 January Financial RIL announces India's largest share buy-back program comprising buyback of up to 120,000,000 fully paid up equity shares of Rs. 10 each.[11]
2012 February Joint venture RIL and Russian petrochemicals company Sibur agree to form a joint venture named Reliance Sibur Elastomers Pvt Ltd to produce 100000 tons of butyl rubber per year in Jamnagar.[7] RIL's share in the JV would total 74.9% with Sibur accounting for the rest.[11]
2012 March Recognition RIL becomes the first Indian company to be certified as "Responsible Care Company" under stringent standards of American Chemistry Council. RIL's Petrochemical Business wins this accolade for its robust management system.[11]
2012 May Contract RIL selects American firm Fluor Corporation to perform project management services for its projects being executed at its Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex in Gujarat.[39][40][41]
2013 January Renaming RIL owned Infotel Broadband Services is renamed Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. The subsidiary is the only company in India that is capable of providing 4G services through the country because of its 20 MHz pan-India spectrum.[42]
2014 May 29 Acquisition RIL acquires control in Network18 Media & Investments Limited (NW18) including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd.[7]
2014 December 9 Joint venture RIL announces a joint venture with China's Shandong Ruyi for RIL's textiles business which operates under the Vimal brand.[7]
2014 Financial Reliance Retail becomes the largest retailer by revenue in the year.[43][5]
2015 Subsidiary LYF is established by Reliance Jio as a mobile handset company. Headquartered in Mumbai, it manufactures 4G-enabled VoLTE smartphones which run on Android.[44][45][46]
2015 December Recognition RIL wins 'energy Oscars' Platts Global Energy Award for robust corporate social responsibility role.[47]
2015 December 27 Service Reliance Jio launches its services to the group’s 80,000-odd employees and close partners.[48]
2016 April Infrastructure Reliance Jio announces the launch of the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG), a 8,100 km cable system expected to provide high speed connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East. The network would then link to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia via interconnection with existing cable systems.[49]
2016 September Service Reliance Jio Infocomm announces the commencement of telecom services with `Jio Welcome Offer'.[7]
2016 November 17 Partnership RIL and General Electric announce the signing of a global partnership agreement in the Industrial internet of things (IIOT) space to provide Industrial IOT solutions to customers in oil & gas fertilizer power healthcare telecom and other industries.[7]
2017 September Acquisition RIL wins the bid to acquire the assets of Kemrock Industries and Exports Limited of Vadodara (Gujarat) as a part of its efforts to enter the composites business.[7]
2017 Financial Reliance Retail crosses US$5 billion revenue mark.[7][5]
2017 June Partnership RIL and British Petroleum announce joint development of the `R-Series' deep water gas fields in Block KGD6 offshore the east coast of India.[50][7]
2018 Ranking RIL is ranked 148th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2018.[51]
2019 March Leadership According to Forbes magazine, Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in Asia[52] and the 13th richest person in the world.[53]
2019 October Financial RIL becomes the first Indian firm to cross Rs 9 lakh crore market valuation mark.[54]
2019 Recognition RIL ranks 106th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of date.[55]
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2018 High School Football Preview: Madison West
posted by Jimmie Kaska - Jul 18, 2018
Coming off of their deepest playoff run in a generation, capped by a thrilling upset of Middleton in the playoffs, Madison West graduates most of their roster from last season, and faces another uphill climb in 2018. That doesn't seem to bother the Regents much, however.
"Our program hadn't been to that round since 1981," said coach Brad Murphy, speaking about the Regents' appearance in Level 3 a season ago. "That was huge for our program."
Led by Keishawn Shanklin, Jaden Stephens, Armoni Warfield, and David Maravilla (along with others), the Class of 2017 left their mark on the program with a nine-win season and a pair of playoff victories.
"We had a great group of seniors who led our younger guys," said Murphy. "We didn't really find an identity until later in the year."
Madison West had a surprisingly small roster of just under three dozen players, an oddity considering the size of the school. Most of their senior class last year played significant roles on offense, defense, and special teams, and that won't change for this year's seniors either, as Murphy expects to have several players playing both ways.
"We're looking at starting eight to ten sophomores on varsity," Murphy notes. "But, they've been in the program for a while now. We're trying to change the culture. We've only got seven kids in our junior class out for football. That's almost unheard of in a school our size."
"We're excited about the future," added Murphy. "We have a great freshman class coming up."
With so many players graduating, the roster at a glance appeared somewhat bare. Only 26 players suited up for their final varsity contest of the season in 2017, and now the Regents will have to replace their entire backfield, most of their offensive line, and half of their starting defense.
"One thing we have to accomplish is to become a good running football team," Murphy said. "We did a pretty good job of working to that last year."
That effort will be aided by the addition of some transfer students. Dayne Armwald arrives from Middleton, where he was a running back and defensive end. The big prize, however, will be the addition of Kelvin Opoku-Appoh, who received multiple all-conference honors at various positions as a running back, defensive back, and special teams ace at Marshall. Murphy says Opoku-Appoh will be the starter.
Opoku-Appoh's younger brother, Collins, will also be joining the Madison West program as a sophomore transfer. His former coach, Matt Kleinheniz at Marshall, said that he's a pretty good player as well.
A position of strength for the West Regents will be the lines. Patrick Horvath, a first-team All-Big 8 center who is also on WisSports.net's Class of 2019 top-ranked players, will man the middle, while Carson Meyer will line up along side of him up front. William Thomas is also back after starting at points of the 2017 season. On the defensive line, in addition to the transfer Armwald, Samy Smith is back after earning honorable mention all-conference as a freshman defensive lineman.
In addition to the transfers, Ezra Thompson is back on both sides of the ball, playing out of the slot last year on offense while also subbing in as the quarterback on plays that Keishawn Shanklin went deep as receiver last year. Thompson also started at safety, where he received all-conference honorable mention. Wesley Kidau started in the defensive backfield, and he'll help along with transfer Opoku-Appoh to form an athletic secondary for the Regents. Another member of the secondary, Damion Diaz, will also line up at receiver for Madison West.
The biggest hole may be at linebacker, where Zach Mercier comes back after a productive sophomore season, but will have to replace tackling machine David Maravilla, who had over 160 tackles as a senior. On special teams, they will miss their fantastic kicker, Kacper Lupe, but will have some weapons in the return game.
Madison West gets right into the intra-city match-ups with a pair of road games to the east side in weeks 1 and 2, facing La Follette and East in back-to-back weeks. The Regents then host Middleton, a rematch of a Level 2 game that West won in the final seconds to upset the Cardinals and move on to Level 3. That game kicks off a stretch of four straight games at Mansfield Stadium, with Verona coming to town on September 7.
West's game against Madison Memorial is technically a road game, but the schools share Mansfield Stadium as their home venue. The Battle for Burt Hable's Clipboard will also be The Big 1070's Madison Taxi Game of the Week on September 14.
The long stay at Mansfield finishes with Beloit Memorial in Week 6, and then the Regents head to Janesville for back-to-back weeks with games against Parker and Craig. Madison West finishes the regular season with a game against Sun Prairie, in their first meeting since the Cardinals ousted West in Level 3 of last year's Division 1 playoffs. Sun Prairie won 37-7 and 49-17 over Madison West last year.
Here is The Big 1070's conversation with Madison West Regents head coach Brad Murphy:
Madison West Regents - Big Eight
Head Coach: Brad Murphy (3rd Season), 14-8 Overall (2-2 Playoffs)
2017 Result: 9-3 (7-2), 3rd in the Big 8 (Lost to Sun Prairie in Level 3 of the D1 playoffs, 49-17)
Three-Year Record: 15-16 (2-2 Playoffs)
2017 All-Conference Honors: 6 First-Team, 2 Second-Team, 5 Honorable Mention (13 total)
Three-Year All-Conference Totals: 13 First-Team, 6 Second-Team, 15 Honorable Mention (34 total)
Returning All-Conference Players (5): OL/DL Patrick Horvath [🏈 WSN] (1st Team-OL in 2017 and HM-OL in 2016), Sr.; OL/DL Carson Meyer (HM-OL), Sr; WR/QB/S Ezra Thompson (HM-WR), Jr.; DL/OL Sammy Smith (HM-DL), So.; RB/DB/ST Kelvin Opoku-Appoh (Transfer from Marshall) (1st Team-ST in 2017, 2nd Team-RB in 2017 and 2016, 2nd Team-DB in 2016; all awards earned in the Capitol South), Sr.
Other Players To Watch: OL/DL William Thomas, Sr.; WR/CB Wesley Kidau, Sr.; DB/WR Damion Diaz, Sr.; LB/RB Zach Mercier, Sr.; RB/DE Dayne Armwald (Transfer from Middleton), Sr.; QB/RB/DB Collins Opoku-Appoh (Transfer from Marshall), So.
2018 Schedule: Go Here
BIG Games: at Madison La Follette, August 17; vs Middleton, August 31; at Madison Memorial, September 14 [🔊 Madison Taxi Game of the Week]; vs Sun Prairie, October 12
Information from WisSports.net was used in this preview. Visit WisSports.net for everything you need to gear up for the high school sports season.
2018 HSFB Preview: The 2017 Season In Review
The top games, the biggest names, and everything we saw last season across southern Wisconsin in high school football: Our 2017 Season in Review!
posted by Jimmie Kaska - 2 years ago
After sweeping the Madison city schools on the way to the playoffs last year, the West Regents bring back plenty for '17
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10 Books to Read for Pride Month
June is Pride Month, a time known for its colorful parades and endless amounts of glitter (which stick around for months after the celebrations are over). Though June was only officially established as Pride Month in 2000, members of the LGBTQ+ community have been celebrating their identities for hundreds of years. As members of the LGBTQ+ community know, pride is not always loud. Pride can be quiet, bittersweet, or even lonely. Pride does not always mean “out.” But pride can also be jubilant, victorious, and cathartic. This round-up is dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ pride in all of its many stages and forms.
Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports (Akashic Books) by Cyd Zeigler examines the ways in which sports have been transformed for LGBT athletes. From locker rooms to lawsuits, sports haven’t always been the friendliest places for anyone who doesn’t identify as straight or cis gender. In Fair Play, Zeigler shares the stories of those athletes who are working to bust through the prejudices and stereotypes, including NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, and NFL hopeful Michael Sam. This book is one part history and one part anthem, and will resonate with anyone who has played on a team but not felt a part of one. Jon Wertheim, the executive editor of Sports Illustrated, called Fair Play “the definitive book on LGBT issues in sports.”
Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers (Alternative Comics) by Haz el Newlevant and Sophie Yanow is a collection of comics about the ups, downs, and inside-outs of being a “gamer girl.” While not explicitly an LGBT-anthology, many LGBT authors are featured, and there’s an emphasis on how gaming can build safe and accepting spaces for identity expression and reclamation. This book is the definitive guide to navigating geek culture as an LBT+ femme. As Anna Anthropy, a trans woman, gamer, and artist, shares in Chainmail Bikini, “We don’t have much input in the stories we’re given: they’re written for us, and we aren’t usually consulted. But we learn to tell our own stories. . . The names we pick for ourselves are our true names. The way we see ourselves is the True Sight.”
The Gilda Stories (City Lights Books) by Jewelle Gomez is the original cult classic lesbian vampire story. If you’re a fan of Buffy, Twilight, or TrueBlood, but have ever found yourself thinking, “hmmm… this seems like the same story over again,” please, pick up The Gilda Stories. This novel follows the journey of Gilda, a young black woman in 1850s Louisiana who learns about freedom while working in a brothel, where she is soon initiated into eternal life (and, you know, falls in love with women and stuff). But don’t stop there: The Gilda Stories isn’t all romance and fluff. It dives unflinchingly into explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and the politics of eroticism. 2016 is the 25th anniversary of the original publication of The Gilda Stories, proving that powerful literature is the best brand of immortality.
You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition (Coach House Books) by Mike Hoolboom and Chase Joynt is a genre-transcending book that explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. It takes an unapologetic look at the struggles and joys of being LGBT+ that are often swept under the rug during mainstream discussions of gay rights. Part memoir, part cultural theory, this book maintains a stubborn optimism, asking intimate questions about what it might mean to find love and hope through conversation across generations. Maggie Nelson, critically acclaimed author of The Argonauts, says that, “Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, unhurried space to unspool crucial stories of one’s life, and an attentive, impassioned, invested, intelligent receiver on the other side.”
Beijing Comrades (Feminist Press) by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers is the first English language translation of the cult novel originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. If you’ve ever wished for a healthy dose of socioeconomic critique with your paperback romance, this is the book for you. It’s the story of a tumultuous love affair between Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, and Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student. Beijing Comrades is unafraid to ask difficult questions about love, power, and what we’re willing to do for both.
The Cosmopolitans (Feminist Press) by Sarah Schulman is a modern retelling of Balz ac’s classic Cousin Bette. It’s a raw and compelling tale of two unlikely friends, cast out of their own families, who search for understanding in 1950s Bohemian New York City. The vivacity of Schulman’s characters, from Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, to Bette, a white secretary, to the city itself, stay true to the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan. The truths The Cosmopolitans draws from the human need for love and recognition will linger with you long after the book is closed.
Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of Nazis (Process Books) by Marie Madeleine and Ronald K. Siegel is a collection of writings from the lesbian poet and novelist, born Gertrud Günther. Marie-Madeleine is the definition of a boss. She wrote erotic gay poetry and graphic accounts of drug use in the middle of Nazi Germany, publishing almost 50 works over the course of her lifetime, and never letting fear for her wellbeing or reputation stop her. Her stylings range from the meditative and thoughtful to the raw and sexy. If you think poetry is boring, you haven’t read Marie-Madeleine. This collection is the first time her writing has been translated into English.
Choir Boy (Theatre Communications Group) by Tarell Alvin McCraney is a stirring new drama abo ut navigating life as a black gay youth. The protagonist, Pharus, wants nothing more than to take his perceived rightful place as the leader of the Charles R. Drew Prep School For Boys’ legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? This play is one of the most crucial pieces of literature, asking what it means to occupy multiple conflicting identities, particularly in a time when the poster boys for LGBT+ rights are typically white gay men. It’s heartwarming, lyrical, and difficult all at once. The Village Voice praised New York Times’ Outstanding Playwright Award Winner McCraney’s writing in Choir Boy as “holding its own, locating poetry even in the casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor.”
The pride continues all year long, starting with these titles, available in July!
Perfect Pairing (Bywater Books) by Rachel Spangler is the ultimate foodie lesbian rom-com. It tells the story of Hal Orion, a free-spirited chef, and Quinn Banning, a driven investment banker, whose paths collide when Quinn makes Hal an offer she can’t refuse: a restaurant under her own name, complete creative control, and secure financial backing. But Hal utters the one word Quinn can’t stand to hear, “No.” Will their physical attraction grow cold as they argue over their ideals, or will they find that the most distinctive ingredients often make for the perfect pairing? Written with equal parts humor and candor (and, of course, grilled cheese!), Perfect Pairing is a heartwarming romance novel for anyone who’s ever wished the Food Network also aired dating shows. This novel will be published on July 12.
Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages (Stone Bridge Press) by Yuska L. Tuanakotta is a funny, incisive, and touching collection of personal essays. When Tuanakotta and two of his friends immigrate to the United States from Indonesia, they are inundated with shirtless joggers, same-sex displays of affection, and a constant drive to psychoanalyze. Tuanakotta uses humor to look at the nuances and hierarchies in American gay culture that are often taken for granted. Gentlemen Prefer Asians will be published on July 12.
Find out where to purchase Fair Play, Chainmail Bikini, The Gilda Stories, You Only Live Twice, Beijing Comrades, The Cosmopolitans, Priestess of Morphine, Choir Boy, Perfect Pairing, and Gentlemen Prefer Asians here on the Consortium website!
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Stone Bridge Press Highlights Innovation with Fujifilm Memoir
Fujifilm Corp. Chairman Shigetaka Komori. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg
When you think of Fujifilm, do you think of photo paper and cameras, or innovative scientific research that will change the face of modern science? The answer should be both, because Fuijifilm chairman Shigetaka Komori is pushing the company to expand into new markets to help change the world, one cell at a time. In his memoir Innovating Out of Crisis (released June 2015) from Stone Bridge Press, Komori reflects on his gutsy and innovative decision to expand Fujifilm’s investments, using data and knowledge from research on photo-paper technology to grow into the health research field. Bloomberg Business released an interview with Komori on August 17, 2015, where he chatted about his plans for the company’s future and his new memoir.
Fujifilm is well-known for their cameras, photo paper, and film, though with the in creased popularity of camera phones and the instant gratification of social media they have experienced revenue loss. Komori believes photo printers and other machines will remain Fujifilm’s largest source of revenue, but he “sees the newer biotechnology and pharmaceutical operations” that they are developing as “future drivers of growth.” For example, the company is working on antiviral drugs that treat Ebola, skin care that uses technology to preserve skin that is also used in preserving photo-paper, and further research on stem cells. Komori isn’t afraid to take risks, making Fujifilm an integral company in a variety of markets, from photography to healthcare.
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Bookslinger Update: “Love Right on the Yesterday”
The Bookslinger app has been updated with a new story!
This week’s story is from Tomo by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, published by Stone Bridge Press. This aptly named fiction anthology—tomo means “friend” in Japanese—is a true labor of friendship to benefit teens in Japan whose lives were upended by the violent earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Authors from Japan and around the world have contributed works of fiction set in or related to Japan. Young adult English-language readers will be able to connect with their Japanese counterparts through stories of contemporary Japanese teens, ninja andyokai teens, folklore teens, mixed-heritage teens, and non-Japanese teens who call Japan home. Tales of friendship, mystery, love, ghosts, magic, science fiction, and history will propel readers to Japan past and present and to Japanese universes abroad.
Edited and with a foreword by Holly Thompson, Tomo contributing authors include Naoko Awa, Deni Bechard, Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, Liza Dalby, Megumi Fujino, Andrew Fukuda, Alan Gratz, Katrina Toshiko Grigg-Saito, Suzanne Kamata, Sachiko Kashiwaba, Kelly Luce, Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz, Ryusuke Saito, Graham Salisbury, Fumio Takano, and Wendy Tokunaga, among others.
Through understanding comes compassion and the desire to help; portions of the proceeds of Tomo will be donated to ongoing relief efforts for teens in Japan.
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November continued with the weather theme for most of October. Grey, mild, wet. Glimpses of sun were fleeting, though as usual, we had the odd really sunny day, which allowed the photographer, and honeybees, to be active in the garden. There were as always some spectacular sunrises, and cloudscapes, and the excitement of the first crop of mushrooms developing around the roots and base of the lower copse mushrooms, which I’d chainsawed from 2 fir stumps just under 3 years ago. A surprisingly quick process, given the hundreds of mushrooms appearing this year. Biological entropy in full flow. By the 8th, we’d still not had a frost in most of the garden, although ice patterns had formed on 2 nights on the roof of the car, after clear skies at dusk. The consequence of these generally warm conditions, is that many plants are still flowering, and the snowdrop advance guard -Galanthus reginae olgae ‘Cambridge’, appeared as early as ever in the first week of the month, along with a few coloured peels of some Witchhazel cultivars (Hamamelis ‘Nina’, ‘Robert’ and ‘Vesna’), poking through buds. A hint of splendour to come, as winter proper develops.
It took until November 24th for us to have the first frost of the year – 2 nights in succession, which created an Ice Volcano in our blue glass bowl, and wonderful frost rim etching on Fiona’s metal table top. The first Cyclamen coum flowers appeared around the 11th – always a reminder for me of the new gardening year ahead, and the excitement of all those spring bulbs.
By the end of the month, the Met Office confirms that it has been the third mildest autumn on record, with for us, lower than average rainfall, and slightly higher than average sunshine levels. What a bonus after such a lovely summer, but what will the winter hold in store?
Monthly rainfall was 191.6 mm, and light levels as recorded by our PV inverter, disappointing (but compare it with November 2015…)
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Tag Archives: girl gangs
Sep 2, 2014 · 11:49 am
New Scots comic Machete Hettie on she gangs, Bulgarians & the big black wave
Machete Hettie at The Grouchy Club in Edinburgh last month
When I was at the Edinburgh Fringe last month, I occasionally posted blogs about what had happened at the increasingly prestigious Grouchy Club which I co-hosted with comedy critic Kate Copstick. But the shows were an hour long and what I mentioned in the blogs were only 5 or 10 minute excerpts.
One character who never turned up in the blogs was someone I did blog about last year – newbie comic Machete Hettie.
She lives in the Leith area of Edinburgh – or ‘Leithiopia’ as she calls it.
When she called in to The Grouchy Club, she had just come back from a holiday.
“Where did you go?” I asked.
“I went to Sunny Beach in Bulgaria,” she told us, “and the place was mental. The taxi drivers are really fucking crazy. They drive aboot wi’ a bottle of beer in one hand and a phone in the other and nae hands on the wheel. They charge what they want. They’re the dearest part o’ yer night oot.
“Everything over there’s fake, from yer handbag to yer fake lighters. They even sell ye fake lighters wi’ nae gas! Look!” she said, rummaging in her handbag, “I’ve got twelve bloody lighters! They’ll give ye one light and that’s it! Everything’s fake-it-an-bake-it.”
“How long were you there?” Copstick asked her.
Machete Hettie in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria
“A week,” Machete Hettie replied. “Ma liver is in pain. Seven days of shots. I managed to get steamin’ drunk for like £2 a night. They give you great big tubes with a half bottle o’ vodka in them. It’s meant to dae ye from midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning. Great big tubes. But they’re that heavy you can hardly carry them. You end up using them as a dancing partner, ken? They’re that big.
“Till 6 o’clock in the mornin’ ye can get steamin’ in Sunny Beach an’ I’m sure there’s loads o’ people that must come back pregnant an’ call their baby Sunny cos that’s no very hard cos they’re all at it in the streets an’ that..”
“How do you know?” I asked.
“Cos I seen it,” said Machete Hettie. “Cos I was there. It happens oot in the street. It happens everywhere.
“I didnae have any shenanigans wi’ them myself, like for sex or anything like that, no matter how much they were nice-lookin. I had it in my mind that, if you done anything wi’ those Bulgarians, you’d end up wi’ no flip-flops. But I ended up getting robbed o’ my flip-flips and my phone anyway. There was a great big fuckin wave came and took it all away. It took ma handbag, ma shoes, the fuckin lot.
“I was sunbathing a bit too close to the sea and a great big wave came and snatched ma bag and the whole shebang, then it threw it back at me wi’ a broken phone and ma money all tae fuck.”
“You’re used to nicking things,” I said. “Surely.”
Kate Copstick and Machete Hettie after Grouchy Club show at Edinburgh Fringe
“But I’m no used to stuff getting fuckin robbed offa me,” replied Machete Hettie. “Especially by a Bulgarian Black Sea wave. I thought it was gonna be from some sort of Bulgarian/Romanian/Russian gypsy. I didn’t think some black wave was gonna come along and tax us.”
“Why did you decide on Bulgaria?” I asked. “Because it was cheap?”
“Aye. Cheap and nasty,” replied Machete Hettie. “It was a last minute deal.”
“Was the nasty bit good as well?” I asked.
“Nasty was very good. That good that I’m going back.”
“How did they manage with your accent?” I asked.
“Extremely hard. They were asking me which part o’ Bulgaria I was fae.”
“I’ve known you about a year,” I said, “and you’ve never ever told me why you’re called Machete Hettie.”
“Well, how do I explain that?” she replied. “It was basically shit that happened when I was younger. Let’s say I was up to nae good in the neighbourhood. Dysfunctional shenanigans. I was in my twenties.”
“What sort of no good?” I asked.
“Remembering,” I told her, “that this is being recorded.”
“I probably just hung aboot in she gangs and things like that. It was gang related.”
“They’re called She Gangs?” I asked.
“Aye. I’m originally fae Dundee. I’m a Dundonian/Leithiopian.”
“That’s scary,” said Copstick.
“That’s scary,” agreed Machete Hettie. “Now you can maybe understand ma nature.”
“So you were in teenage she gangs in Dundee?” I asked.
“Yes. They were called the Hull Toon Huns.”
“Why Hull Toon?” I asked.
“Cos I was fae an area called Hull Toon – the Hull Town – which was quite a rough area. I done some shit years ago and I got the nickname Machete Hettie. I’m using it as a comedy name now because it’s catchy, but the balaclava and the whip, well… I’ve dropped them now; they was causing too much trouble… where airports and that were concerned. I’ve been accused of everything.
Machete Hettie in a London street last year
“They’d say: A gimp mask? They’d ask: Did you knit that yourself?… I wouldn’t like to be your neighbour if that’s what you go about doing to your neighbours. A lot of men thought it was quite kinky, ken. But I was fuckin sweating. I couldn’t handle it nae mare underneath them lights.”
“Have you ever in your life,” I asked, “held a machete?”
“Aye, of course I have. When you were allowed to bring them back fae Spain – and big Samurai swords an’ that.”
“The fact you were allowed to bring them back,” I suggested, “didn’t mean you HAD to bring them back.”
“Oh,” she said, thinking about it, “maybe you weren’t allowed to.”
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Tagged as Bulgaria, comedy, crime, drunk, Dundee, edinburgh, girl gangs, Grouchy Club, Machete Hettie, she gangs, Sunny Beach
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These 10 Govt Agencies Can Tap Phones Of Any Indian Citizen: Rise Of Surveillance State Or Security Need?
By Sheetal Bhalerao Last updated Nov 22, 2019
As per the reports, the government of India has authorized more than 10 central agencies to tap individuals phones, including the Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and the Intelligence Bureau.
1 Govt: 10 Agencies Can Snoop On You
2 Which Agencies Got The Authorisation?
3 How Would It Work?
4 How Would This Process Work?
Govt: 10 Agencies Can Snoop On You
On 19 November, the Ministry of Home Affairs told the Lok Sabha, adding the power of telephone interception is vested and according to the procedures, the agencies have to take the Union Home Secretary’s approval before putting anyone on surveillance.
All these doubts were cleared by the government in response to questions related to tapping of WhatsApp calls and messages.
While giving information about the subject, the Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy informed the Lok Sabha that Section 69 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, enables the central government or a state government to intercept, monitor or decrypt or cause to be intercepted or monitored or decrypted, any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of the country.
Which Agencies Got The Authorisation?
According to the reports, the competent authority in the central government has authorized 10 agencies for this purpose which includes –
Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate, Narcotics Control Bureau, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, National Investigation Agency, R&AW, Directorate of Signal Intelligence and Delhi Police Commissioner.
How Would It Work?
The agencies like CBI, the ED and the Intelligence Bureau are among 10 central agencies upon which the power of telephone interception is vested.
Although they have to take the Union Home Secretary’s approval before putting anyone on surveillance, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
In a written response to a question, Reddy said “This power of interception is to be executed as per the provisions of law, rules and SoPs. Easy such case is approved by the Union Home Secretary in case of central government and by the Home Secretary of the state concerned in case of the state government,”. (reference)
How Would This Process Work?
The minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy said “Government didn’t give “blanket permission to any agency for the interception or monitoring or decryption and permission from competent authority is required, as per the due process of law and rules, in each case,”.
He also added, “Each case is also reviewed by a committee chaired by the Cabinet Secretary in case of Central Government and Chief Secretary of the State concerned in case of a State Government,”.
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‘Star Trek: Picard’ – The Possibility of Worf In Future Seasons, A New Perspective On The Borg, And More
| January 16, 2020 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 123 comments so far
With a week to go to the premiere episode of Star Trek: Picard, we’ve rounded up some bits of interest from interviews the producers and cast have given at the red carpet premiere events in the US and the UK.
The possibility of Worf on Picard
With Patrick Stewart saying he hopes to include more of the TNG cast in the show, one specific character that fans have wondered about comes to mind: Worf. TVLine asked Alex Kurtzman about it, who said:
It’s totally possible, I think Worf is such an amazing character… We didn’t want to just throw people in because they were in Next Gen… We actually weren’t even thinking about bringing Marina [Sirtis] and Jonathan [Frakes] back until halfway through the season when, as we were breaking story, something came up that made it very clear they need to be in the story. So a deliberate reason is the bar, and if there’s a great reason to bring Worf in, anything is possible.
The big question is what would Worf’s Klingon makeup look like? Kurtzman responded:
…he’s got to look the same, we’re not changing that. It’s funny, because you’ll see by the time you get to [Picard‘s] third episode, there are different kinds of Romulans that look different, depending on their territories. You’ll see some Romulans that are just about the ears, you’ll see some with the ears and deeper ridges in their foreheads… so I have to believe that there are different iterations of Klingons, depending on where they are from.
The Discovery-style Klingon makeup has already undergone a number of tweaks, making it quite a bit closer to the TNG-era makeup style than it was at the beginning of the series. So tweaking things further to give Worf a look that’s similar to the way he was last seen (in Nemesis) wouldn’t be a far stretch.
Worf in Star Trek Nemesis
NOTE: It should be obvious, but if you’re trying to stay totally clean and spoiler free, don’t read the interview excerpts below.
Where we find Seven of Nine in Picard
Jeri Ryan and Alex Kurtzman spoke with IGN about the inclusion of Seven of Nine.
Jeri Ryan says Seven’s not a fan of Starfleet when we meet up with her again:
Seven I think holds Starfleet and the Federation in large part responsible for much of it. The universe is a mess and I think she initially sees Picard as a representation of that. She’s been working … with sort of a group of freedom fighters called the Fenris Rangers who are trying to keep some semblance of order in the mess that is the galaxy.
NOTE: A likely clue: Fenris is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology, and Romulus and Remus were twins raised by wolves in Roman mythology.
Ryan went on to explain that the moment we’ve seen in the trailers with Seven coming to Picard at his vineyard is the first time the two characters actually meet:
This is the first time that Seven and Picard actually meet, they know each other by reputation. And as I’ve said before, Seven’s not on the ‘Oh, he’s a god’ bandwagon I think initially when she meets him because she holds him partially responsible for what Starfleet has done in her view.
Executive producer Alex Kurtzman spoke about Seven’s inclusion:
Seven and Picard have never been onscreen together before. So that was a really interesting opportunity, and what they share, even though they’ve never spoken, is they were both assimilated by the Borg. So they would obviously both be haunted by that element of their lives. We certainly know that both of them have been individually, and now what does it mean for them to see that in each other. Is it too painful? Is it a little like staring into the sun? Is it comforting? Those are really interesting questions to ask.
Seven of Nine comes to find Jean-Luc Picard at his vineyard.
Picard’s new perspective on The Borg
Alex Kurtzman spoke with CNET about The Borg in Star Trek: Picard:
There’s a humanity, for the lack of a better word, that was taken away from them. There’s a new perspective on the Borg. Patrick, in his infinite wisdom, did not want to repeat the things he had played already, he was really resistant to doing the Borg for a long time, and it ended up leading us to a new version of the Borg you haven’t seen.
A Borg corpse in a Romulan lab
CNET then confirmed that Hugh still looks after the Borg that disconnected from the collective, as seen in the TNG two-parter “Descent,” who have become more human over time. The broader Borg collective is still out there somewhere, and remains a threat.
Jonathan Del Arco confirmed to CNET that Hugh has spent the last 20 years serving as a protector to the disconnected Borg, and has had to make compromises to keep his people safe. “But he’s held on to that moral center that I think has always made the character really important to Star Trek,” he added.
Hugh has been tending to his disconnected colony of Borg since TNG: “Descent, Part II”
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I wonder about why such a heavy Borg and Romulan influence for this show. Here is my conspiracy theory: the producers wanted to do the Borg and Romulans for Discovery but were kept being told “no” since it violates continuity. When they hear Patrick Stewart was willing to come back to do a show, they got to scratch that Borg and Romulan itch with a post-TNG era show.
Let’s be thankful Patrick Stewart was willing to come back, otherwise we’d see the Borg and Romulans on Discovery or a Pike show. And then continuity is gone!
Danpaine
I tend to agree with you there, VZX, in all respects.
Except that I’m thinking they offered Stewart a truckload of money to come back to begin with. Then when they were pitching the story his response was “I’ve done the Borg already.” Then they drove up another truckload of money and his response was, “But we can do a new take on them.”
Vulcan Soul
Teehee, ML31! But let’s not forget: ” we also offer to turn 24th century Utopia into a crude metaphor of your pet peeves with British politics”. Too sweet a deal to refuse ;)
Think the Narada from ST:2009 is the answer to that question. It’s a Borg augmented Romulan mining ship. So the relationship was established before the show was conceived. The writers I suppose wanted to pick up that thread and place Picard in the middle.
I must have missed the part where it was suggested Narada had Borg tech in it….
It was in the Countdown comic running up to the 2009 movie. Nero and crew were miners and Neros wife and kid died on Romulus because Spock was to late.
I still have that comic somewhere. Must have forgotten. I forgot much of it because much has been wiped out of cannon. But while I did think a mining ship, even a Romulan mining ship seemed to have an unusually high assortment of weapons, I just figured they took out all those ships because their weapons were far superior. Being from the future and all. It’s like using a machine gun against a pistol. Also, they pretty much had an amazingly easy time against the Kelvin. It stood to reason they wouldn’t have much more difficulty against 6 or 7 star ships.
It was in the original Countdown comic. It was never made canon in the movie but it would explain how a MINING ship was so damn powerful it could take out half of Starfleet lol.
The ship was from the Future. No Borg tech needed.
NH4, go away. I don’t like you, you were already banned once and you are a waste a space here. I’m sorry your life is so boring you want to interact with people online who clearly don’t want to talk to you, but that’s not my problem.
Just leave me alone. Thanks.
I think you posted to the wrong guy.
Leave me alone. Seriously. Go away. You’re pathetic.
I just stopped feeding the trolls, Tiger. I don’t even read their posts. I see the name and move on.
YOu know I never respond to this loser. But yeah sometimes even I crack lol. And I never read his posts either, but 90% it’s just usually one line to bait people. At least most ignore those as well. You have to feel sorry for people like this. I could see if you’re a teenager doing it, but a middle age man doing it is just weird to me. Even sadder when he was kicked off here and still came back just to keep trolling. At least learn your lesson and try to act like an adult. You’re telling the world your life is just that dull when this is all you do here.
Anyway, moving on…
Arium Robot
Yeah, After Romulus went boom, Nero and his miners too shelter in the Tal Shiar base “The Vault” (where they have been experimenting with Borg technology) and Nero got them to pimp out his mining ship with all the flashy Romulan/Borg tech. That was in the comic (and is also a major thread in Star Trek Online)
Thanks for the info! :)
Totally agree VZX!
I been saying that BEFORE we knew there would even be a Picard show that it was obvious they wanted to do the Borg but knew DIS was off limits to them. And obviously they couldn’t do a Romulan story either.
That’s why it’s so bizarre some people keep saying just because something is a prequel it doesn’t restrict you from doing certain stories. Uh yeah it does lol. These are two prime examples. Sure they could’ve found some workaround with it just like they did with the mirror universe since that obviously wasn’t suppose to be known until later, but I think it would’ve felt too much of a cop out if they constantly ‘classify’ everything like they been doing the first two seasons. And it would’ve pissed off some fans regardless. So I’m glad that won’t happen now and we get a full on story line about them.
It’s why I hate prequels, because when an idea has to be a non-starter from the beginning it limits the imagination, hence why we now have Picard and Discovery a thousand years into the future, they were sick of it too. Now ANYTHING is possible again.
OK. Sure. There are some things that aren’t touchable in prequels. In STD the Borg were one of them. Boo hoo. If you really had your heart set on a Borg arc then they should have set the show in a time where that was possible. But there are still a plethora of stories they could do in prequels. And in my mind it forces writers to be more creative. Story themes themselves are repeatable. It’s been done for centuries. Just because you can’t use the Romulans doesn’t mean a good story cannot be crafted. Take your Romulan story and adjust to work in the given time frame. Retain the themes you wanted to explore. It can be done. But if the writer’s heart was set on Romulans then Discovery just wasn’t the show for that writer.
I don’t disagree with any of that, but what if you just WANT to do a story about Romulans? For some, that’s going to be an issue. And again, we have to remember everyone working on the show now DIDN’T come up with the idea and setting for Discovery, Bryan Fuller did. Yes maybe for HIM he didn’t want to do stories about the Borg anymore or Romulans. But once he was gone, he left a show that the new people obviously didn’t really know what to do with and hence why second season we got Section 31, AI killer robots and a crazy time travel story. We did get Pike though!
At the end of the day that’s what we have to remember, no one was really gung ho to do a prequel EXCEPT Fuller. And even he didn’t see the show ONLY set in a prequel setting since we know he wanted to do multiple eras including post-Nemesis stories.
I also don’t think Kurtzman ever thought he was going to be this involved with Star Trek and start steering the franchise as he is now. The funny thing is when DIS was under Fuller we never heard a peep from Kurtzman. Fuller was really the face of Star Trek at that time at least. Kurtzman was more in the background. My guess is he originally was just going to produce the show but let them do whatever ideas came to Fuller. But once all the chaos happened he got more involved directly and clearly decided he wanted DIS to be a very different thing and made it so. And not a shock since he was always more a TNG fan than a TOS one and for the firs time can really in charge to do any idea he wanted.
The Borg can be in season 3 of Discovery. They didn’t have to create Star Trek Picard to show off the Borg.
Pick Hard
I vert much doubt you are correct about this. Not at all.
When I think of TNG I think of those two as the ever-present threats. It kinda fits to be dealing with them now. Picard has such strong ties to Romulans, on one hand being an adversary and on another really wanting to see peace and explore the intricacies of the Romulan people. Just my opinions though.
Drew Melbourne
Occam’s Razor suggests a more obvious explanation: Picard has a long and personal history with both the Borg (from BEST OF BOTH WORLDS and FIRST CONTACT) and the Romulans (between REUNIFICATION, NEMESIS, and the backstory to ST2009). They’re the two most obvious threads to weave together for this story.
Remus Romulus Two of One
Let’s face the music here…
Borg and Romulans are back, partially due to the movies (First Contact, Nemesis), and partially due to Star Trek Online (the game).
Original ideas are fleeting with Kurtzman. Then again, given intellectual properties owned by CBS, there may not have been much choice, except to ‘re-launch’ with those factions — and take Starfleet/Federation in a new direction.
Then again, Star Trek: Picard feels somewhat like Renegades…
I think they did the Borg and Romulans the same reason they did the Klingons with Discovery, because they are all iconic species in Star Trek and what most fans want to see.
And let’s be honest, I don’t know why but whenever Star Trek tries to do a new villain out of the gate in either the movies or shows, they always fail. The Kazon, Suliban, Son’a, etc, just all forgettable villains. There are plenty of good villains in Trek but when you make them from the start they never seem to work out oddly. I rolled my eyes when I realized that Discovery was going to do the Klingons first season but then I thought about it, yeah, outside of the Romulans and Klingons, the 23rd century just has no other formidable villains. And they basically confirmed that in second season because the villain was Section 31 when you really think about it. They probably would’ve loved to have brought in the Romulans but as said canon stops them.
Maybe they will surprise us for third season since they can start completely fresh and come up with something new but I’m not holding my breath. I have a feeling its going to be the Cardassians lol.
FASAfan
I like the Son’a and empathize with them, lol! The Ba’ku are such a selfish bunch of 600 squatters!
Not to mention the Ferengi. That name drop in the pilot was so ominous. And then…
The Ferengi were altered a LOT from the original intention. But I agree that the only two aliens that were consistent in intent AND threat were probably the Borg and Romulans. The Dominion might be a good threat as well, but I am not sure that story line can continue.
It might be why writers always want to do Borg and Romulan stories: they are Trek’s best baddies! (And Khan’s people too, I guess)
But that alteration only came AFTER they were shown in the first season.
I find that writers who want to keep running back to the Borg or the Romulans to be lazy. Part of me is thinking it’s more the producing and front office side of things that want to do that. “Do a show with the Borg! Surveys show fans have loved them!”
Obviously but we have to remember its still a business end of the day. These were the same people who said over and over again we would NEVER see Spock on Discovery (which made no sense to me since they gave the guy a sister lol) and then what do you know? Why the change? We know why, people were probably asking over and over again where was Spock since his newly created sister was on the show and was in Starfleet the same time; so it probably confused tons of people giving the show a chance who didn’t get the memo reading boards like this hours a day he was never showing up. And they probably got ton of feedback saying the show needed more TOS characters, especially Spock, and CBS told them to come up with something.
I say over and over again I want NEW stuff and I really mean that. It’s why I was a big TNG fan out of the gate. It was refreshing to see new characters in a different setting even back then. But of course I’m a fan, I want to see the old stuff too IF they are going to do it. It’s not my first preference but of course it piques my curiosity once they decide to go that direction. And as someone who DIDN’T want Spock originally (at least not full time) I obviously can’t blame them. End of the day its about getting subscriptions to AA. People like us are going to watch NO MATTER WHAT! It’s the more casual fans they have to get on board with this stuff, especially when you’re paying for it and name recognition goes a long way for people like this.
Hence Star Trek: Picard debuting a week from now. ;)
edwet
“but were kept being told “no” since it violates continuity”
Are you serious after the way the completely screwed it already.. turning core aspects on it’s head?
I’ve never been one to really care much about the Klingon-look difference over the years, but I’m glad if we see Worf again he’ll have similar features he had in TNG. Frankly, I thought the DSC Klingons looked (and sounded) ridiculous.
Looking forward to the Seven and Picard dynamic, lots of potential there.
I was OK with the JJ-Klingons from Into Darkness. Maybe Worf will look closer to those versions
Starlordtheoutlaw
Yeah I thought that the Into Darkness Klingon looked pretty good. I have mixed feelings on the Disco Klingons.
Yeah those looked amazing. Still a bit different from the prime universe but you can see a lot of the influences there.
They sounded funny probably from the prosthetic teeth they had to wear. Cotton mouth
Yeah, its not that they CHANGED them that bothered people, its HOW they changed them that was the issue. They just looked too bizarre even for Klingons. We’ve all said it, but even if they just added HAIR, people probably would’ve accepted them more and got over the rest in time. That was just idiotic but Fuller was trying to put his own stamp on everything.
i'mpaul
Stuff changes over time, but they just made poor choices with the new klingons. People were in full face masks!!!! and you could tell! The makeup now just seemed cumbersome and uncomfortable. And some of the eggplant head shapes. Ridiculous. I thought it was a big technological regression in fact. The two redundant nostrils. That was kind of an odd choice. I mean, nice try and thanks for playing — but it just didn’t work out. I always thought it would be cool to see some animatronics in the forehead molds so that the “skin” could be expressive. I think that would have been a cool direction to go, what we ended up with was just change for the sake of change.
The new Klingons look better. The old ones just look like humans in a Halloween mask.
By the season 2 finale of Discovery I was even more adjusted to them. I didn’t hate the redesign, but when it softened a little and mixed the new with the old look, to me at least, they looked more like what a Klingon Warrior in my head would look like. The weapons officer on L’rell’s ship looked terrifying and awesome. You could see that he was a Klingon but it wasn’t so different either. That’s more of the look I hope for. Also glad we’ll see both kinds of Romulans. We’re talking about a species, not a single ethnicity. Why wouldn’t they look as different as humans? You can tell we’re all human, but we have differences in the shape of our craniums, the color of our skin, eyes, facial features, noses, etc. When you study anthropology, you really do see our current differences. I want to see that more in sci-fi when other species are displayed.
No one is arguing they can’t have species look more alien or less human, BUT that’s how Klingons now look as a species. I mean think about how human they looked in TOS? I never took those seriously because they just look like pirates in black face to me. So there was already a big shift with them starting in TOS. And no one was bothered by it because it came out well and was accepted for over 40 years now even if they made tweaks to it on other shows.
Obviously its nothing wrong to have species look more alien but imagine if they changed the Vulcans which are nothing more than humans with pointy ears, bad haircuts and refuses to smile to something like a Cardassian. Still acts Vulcan but just more different and alien. Fans would riot lol. You still have to resemble what fans always known them as or they will be rejected. But if you’re going to radically change them then it still has to look GOOD and I didn’t think the DIS Klingons did at all.
But I certainly agree about the Klingons in season 2 and if they went that way in first season it would’ve been fine. What they did with them in season 2 was good IMO. As everyone said they just looked too ridiculous in season one. Now I think they are fine even if still a bit different from the others.
I may have read somewhere that originally they wanted Klingons to be more alien looking but were limited budget and tech wise. They also wanted them to be gold skinned but that flew out the window as well for some reason.
Thought they sounded great.
I liked the alien look that DSC gave the Klingons (they were actually aliens and not Space Vikings with bad teeth), but wasn’t too keen on how ret-conny it ended up being.
“I’m glad if we see Worf again he’ll have similar features he had in TNG.” as are the overwhelming majority of us.. But they seem dead set on f*cking with all of that.
Unfortunately they are going to carry those stupid looking Klingons into ST:P, and Worf is an exception.
Spectre-7
God I hope Seven will call him Locutus!
Obvs not to remind of that pain but to point out they shared a connection.
Okay, will be curiously tuning in to this.
Mainly being a fan of the TOS show’s characters and specific style of self-contained individual episode storylines, I’ve got very little investment or expectations on how this latest spin-off will turn out, so I can go into it with an open mind about where things may head.
I’ve not read the above article, as I still want to be spoiler-free going into this, but I’m aware that several characters from the NEXT GEN era will make an appearance. I’m hoping the actual storyline across the PICARD show’s episodes is something worth the wait for any fans that were somewhat underwhelmed with the ‘send-off’ the NEMESIS movie ended up giving them.
Me, I’m certainly more interested in this than the likes of DISCOVERY and the mooted SECTION 31 show, and look forward to this tiding me over until any standalone PIKE show comes along, which will hopefully have a ‘deep space exploration’ vibe to it.
Looking forward to hearing how PICARD’s opening title theme sounds like, and fingers crossed it’s a good ‘un.
My takes…
I do not mind at all they they decide there are different looks to the Romulans and the Klingons. I just wish they embraced that from day one of Discovery. Major lost opportunity to show ALL the kinds of Klingons across all the media. The TOS versions, the later versions and then maybe even a slightly new version. But they didn’t and even doubled down when they came up with the “We shave our head when…” BS.
Next, I’m not so sure I am now liking what I am hearing so far. I’m going into this with less hope than I had before now that more info is coming out. I mean, they are saying this is a “new take on the Borg.” Where have we heard that before?
Same here. I thought they learned thier mistakes from season 1 of disco and I was proven wrong. Then I thought there’s no way they would f*ck with a TNG era show and now we hear they are screwing with the Klingons there too.
Naa. They have finally killed ‘Trek
Good ! No facelift for the Captain of the Enterprise ;)
Hooman
The World needs more hope today than ever- it is sad in that perspective that they are destroying the hopefull vision of Star Trek. The world where humans has evolved (as Picard testified in Q’s court at farpoint mission)
I would argue the world needed a ton more hope in 1939-45 or even 1914-1918. You know… When millions of people were being killed on a regular basis?
“I would argue the world needed a ton more hope in 1939-45 or even 1914-1918. You know… When millions of people were being killed on a regular basis”
Nowadays when the Tweeter-in-Chief posts a mean word at 3am after red-pilling his Ambien, for the ‘flakes that’s AT LEAST as bad as the Holocaust and the Spanish flu combined!
First world problems ;)
What I’m hoping we get in the first season finale of Picard:
Picard and the gang just finished saving civilization as they know it and heading off to parts unknown. They are in warp when they get a transmission; a priority one distress call.
We see a brief shot of the call letters from the ship. NCC-170
“It’s a hail from Captain Worf sir!”
Picard: “It’s the USS Enterprise!”
The E-E appears in all it’s glory and fades to black. Cue the TNG theme song playing over the credits!
I came up with this all by myself. Can I cook or can I?
Worf will never get a command of his own. Not after what he did on DS9.
People an be redeemed in war A34 and a couple of decades.
The Relaunch novels managed to get Worf to the point he was in the queue for a captaincy : I’d have no issues if that were the case in the new series.
@ Tiger2 – I like that, but seeing as so many familiar NEXT GEN faces seem to be making an appearance along the way in this, I’d also be content to have the season finale end on the disembodied voice of the entertaining John de Lancie saying something like “Oh Jean-luc…yoohoo….guess who?…I’m coming to visit…!”
I’m almost certain we will see Q once before the show is over.
Make it so!
I wouldn’t put it past Kurtzman and Co. They do come across as so creatively bankrupt they are incapable of coming up with original concepts.
You saw the first two seasons of Discovery, this is not really a surprise lol. They managed to put Pike on another ship for an entire season when he was suppose to be commanding the Enterprise, it’s not a shock they won’t squeeze in whoever they have to.
But Q is Q. They can show up at any time or place, literally lol. They don’t have to bend over backwards of including them if they want to make a story about them. The only time they were off limits was pre-TNG in terms of canon and even then they could’ve showed up, just come up with some excuse later why we didn’t know just like they did with others.
Just reading that Cerveantes made me throw up a little in my mouth.
Ha ha, I was only kidding about that…although I would like to see a Q appearance for old time’s sake at SOME point in the future of the new show, if they are hauling in various others of the old guard characters.
The fans always come up with the best stuff! This is great!
I still believe Worf will appear just in the first season of Picard…
I mentioned before that I expect at least one more Trek actor from that era to appear. Maybe even two. I cannot believe they blew their wad of guests in the trailers. They’ve got to be saving something for the show’s debut.
Me too. Remember when they pretended we would get no TNG characters other than Picard and four showed up instead? I have a feeling they are going to squeeze in one more in that caravan. ;)
In hindsight, Tiger2, I think they played this very well.
They needed for fans to get the clear message that this won’t be TNG or Picard on an iteration of the Enterprise.
They needed fans to let go of the idea that this series would centre on the TNG ensemble of characters.
If they had suggested that Picard would be intersecting with the future lives of many TNG characters from the start, they would be at much greater risk of unrealistic expectations from TNG fans (not to mention cast).
Yes, I agree. I think they played it well too. Because it lowered our expectations and we didn’t fanboy it up for a year because everyone went in thinking this could be a Picard thing only and literally no one else. So when that first shot of Seven came in the first trailer the excitement over it boiled and changed the game. And then when we saw Data came at the end everyone was floored lol.
But if they said then what they are saying now and that anyone could show up, yeah most of us would’ve included every Trek character that wasn’t already dead yet being in the show. Seven for example would’ve been brought up constantly because of how popular she is but wasn’t because we assumed it would probably just be TNG based only if any got included later.
But I ALWAYS thought we were going to get someone from TNG at least in the first season. I said it over and over again because no one said straight out they wouldn’t be included told me they probably were going to surprise us. And even then I was thinking like 1 or 2 people in the first season, not five lol.
But now it’s a very different thing. I saw an interview with Kirsten Beyer at the London premiere who said that anyone can show up from any show going forward. She literally said what I been saying and that this is not a TNG sequel it’s a continuation of the entire TNG era even if Picard is the center of it. So I’m excited to see where this is all going!
He was already spotted on the show.
Michael Sacal
IF Worf were to appear in Picard, I’d expect nothing less than a warrior’s entrance.
End the first season on a cliffhanger, with Picard and his new crew besieged on all sides by Borg, Romulans, and what not. And I don’t mean ship against ship, I mean full-on boarding party with fist fights, phasers, the works. THEN open the second season with Worf and his Klingon crew beaming into Picard’s ship for the rescue. Show Worf slaughter the Borg, Romulans, or whatnot with his bat’leth. Show that even at his age he’s still very much a warrior. Don’t turn him into an old drunk who recounts past victories like Kor was on DS9.
They also have to have that bad ass Klingon music like when he first showed up in the Defiant like in First Contact. I still remember how big of an applause that got in the theater when he showed up lol.
Yep, that was one hellava entrance.
That was Jerry Goldsmith revisiting his fantastic Klingon cue from TMP.
I know, I still own the original CD lol. FC just had beautiful music in general. Goldsmith was a genius.
Worf is too old for that.
Having been born in 2340, by 2399 Worf would be 59 years old.
Kor, Kang, and Koloth appeared on DS9 in 2370. That is well over a century after their original appearances in TOS, and they still kicked ass when they fought the Albino and his army.
Worf is easily half their age right now, meaning he is more than capable.
It was fun seeing those three on DS9 but it did ignore something that was either in a book or fan theory or some non canonical media I recall reading somewhere that Klingons natural lifespan was shorter than humans. I liked that concept but it’s gone now.
Legate Damar
A Klingon is never too old for battle.
Unlikely to happen, the show is much slower paced and they like to disappoint anyway.
THANK KAHLESS Worf will look exactly like Worf again. Of course we all knew this, it’s no way Worf was going to look like the DIS Klingons after all the crap they got for it lol. And I still suspect they were partly changed in season 2 because they were doing the Picard show and didn’t want to have the crazy disconnect between the DIS Klingons and the Movie/TNG era klingons looking so different from each other. So very happy it’s official now. I guess he won’t have any of the DIS influences like the four nostril nose thing. Good!
And I also like the fact that they will show both the ridge Romulans and the smooth head ones from TOS. That’s a smart idea just say that BOTH exists which ironically many of us wanted and thought how they would do the Klingons in the first season. I wouldn’t personally care what Romulans showed up since they both exist in canon anyway and the TNG versions never made any sense to me, but yes those have been around over 30 years now too; so this was probably a way to satisfy everyone. This really does prove Kurtzman is listening to the fans by doing stuff like this from the start.
I really wish they did stuff like this from Discovery in season one and maybe people wouldn’t be so bothered by the show now.
He will still look like the updated Klingons. That old 90s make up won’t work on 4K.
Kurtzman literally said “he’s got to look the same, we’re not changing that.” I don’t know how more unambiguous he can be that they’re keeping Worf’s old look if he comes back,
Worf rarely looked the same one season to another, so some leeway is probably permissible. Just look at Worf from “Encounter at Farpoint” and then at Worf in “What We Leave Behind”.
He’s just trying to bait me, don’t worry about it. This is why he was banned the first time. This place needs an ignore button.
I really don’t know what your problem is, but whatever. Hope you had a great Christmas and New year.
Go away NH4! My problem is you. If you really want me to have a great New Year then ignore my posts as I ignore yours. OK?
They can update the makeup and still make him look the same. The old makeup just won’t work in 4K.
If they show both the TOS and TNG Romulans, that’s solving a long-standing canon problem for once (instead of creating one): how could Spock go undercover on Romulus and not be recognized as Vulcan, in “Unification”.
Yes, I think this is amazing idea. It’s all what we were expecting with Discovery and the Klingon issue. This is the right approach and a way to stop the whining from both sides.
Btw, it’s good to see the Romulans getting such a pivotal role in the new season (if not series) for once, after they got the short stick in comparison to the Klingons throughout pretty much all of Trek production history (including TOS). DS9 had the chance to bring them on in a big way after “In the Pale Moonlight” but it didn’t happen either. I always thought the Romulans, as scheming chess players, are so much more interesting than a brutal warrior race mostly resorting to physical violence (and eating their opponents). Well, you could say on DS9 the Cardassians took on the former role, so Romulans became kind of redundant; maybe that’s why we didn’t see much more of them from then on.
So agree VS, which is WHY I wanted the Romulus explosion acknowledged in the first place. I, like many, think the Romulans are the most underused villains in Star Trek although they seem the most interesting at the same time. But I guess you can argue because they are used more less is what keeps them interesting. That’s what people hated about Voyager and the Borg, they just didn’t like how much they revealed about them, but I never had that issue personally.
So I’m super happy about it. This is going to be our first Romulan arc story line, ever! With the exception of Unification we never had a story go longer than one episode about them, which is crazy. Meanwhile the Klingons has had MULTIPLE story arcs and movies across nearly every show (minus Voyager) and a third of the films, TUC being the biggest obviously. The ONE time I thought we were getting a real Romulan story in the movie was of course Nemesis and that proved to be false and another reason I didn’t like the movie much. To be fair we did get the Romulans in the first Kelvin movie, but since they were more rogue it still wasn’t quite the same but still great to have at least.
Of course Enterprise was going to do a full on Romulan arc in the fifth season and start the war with Starfleet, but yeah…
This solution has been used in the TNG Relaunch novels for at least a decade.
In fact, there was a half-Vulcan officer from the Enterprise-E who goes undercover on Romulus in one of the novels, and tries to blend in with the Vulcan foreheaded ethic group.
I’m not sure who in Simon & Schuster’s novel writers room came up with this, but I’ve always thought it was a very deft way to resolve the canon issues.
Kirsten Beyer was very much part of that S&S writers room regardless of being a bit off on her own with the Voyager sequence of novels.
I’m glad that she’s bringing some of these points into the mix for television. ViacomCBS has all the rights to any of the IP in Trek-lit produced by S&S writers-for-hire. So, where it provides a better idea, they definitely should mine it.
Last thought, the Relaunch novels have the planet of the Erfrosians (think Federation President in the Undiscovered Country), as a former Klingon subject planet/state.
The Efrosians do look a bit like some iterations of Klingons or Klingon hybrids. So, with a little effort that backstory could be pulled out.
In fact, if we do get a Pike Series, it would be great if it were established in alpha-canon that the Efrosians got out of the Klingon Empire and into the Federation as an outcome of the Klingon war in Discovery.
About having both Romulan versions in the show… That is echoing what I said above when I wrote my takes on the article. And I thought that was what they were going to do from day on on Discovery for the Klingons. Severe lost opportunity.
“THANK KAHLESS Worf will look exactly like Worf again.”
Just a shame they are f*cking with every other TNG era Klingon out there though.
Judau Ashta
Please, PLEASE don’t make it as dark as discovery was!
You’ve not been keeping up to date about what it’s all about?
Not to take anything away from Jonathan Del Arco, but where was Hugh “really important” to Star Trek? Yes, he and the others got disconnected from the collective, but that’s about it, right? Never been a fan of Hugh, to be honest, but still…
I thought the same thing when I read that, Olaf.
Romulans with ridges have been a slap in the face to fans since they appeared in TNG. Absolutely ludicrous from an evolutionary perspective (vis a vis Vulcans) and clearly created so that the fans would “understand” and “not be confused” between Romulans and Vulcans. Condescending and ridiculous.
About as ridiculous as the augment virus explanation for Klingons.
About as ridiculous as giving Kor, Kang and Koloth ridges in DS9.
Chekov: Romulans and Vulcans read as nearly identical. There is only a slight difference which…. Got him!
Your opinion is vastly outnumbered. It’s Klingons looking like orcs that are stupid
I strongly suspect that in Star Trek: Picard either Worf or Geordi might be the Captain of the Enterprise, while the other is their first officer (their Number One).
I’m inclined to believe Worf might be the captain because it feels like the most obvious escalation of his character arc; the first Klingon in Starfleet becomes the captain of their flagship vessel.
YEs, everyone assumed if an Enterprise showed up it would be Riker as its captain. But now that that blew up in our faces lol the next logical choice seems to be Worf. Or they could shock us all and it would just be some new guy but I don’t see that happening. There is just too much fan interest to go that direction and they know we all want to see someone from TNG leading it.
If the Enterprise isn’t going to be the star of the show, then I think that’s a reasonable compromise.
Maybe they’ll surprise us all and it will be Captain Wesley Crusher.
Eek. The horror, the horror, lol. JK. Captain Worf and first officer Crusher sounds better to me.
One thing I hope Star Trek: Picard explores is the issue of Hugh’s real identity and background. Hugh is the name he gave himself from misunderstanding something Geordi said, but it’s not his actual name. Just like Seven of Nine was born Anikka Hansen, so Hugh was born with his own name and background — UNLESS Hugh was created within the Collective, like the baby Borg Riker and the Away Team discovered when they first boarded a Borg Cube, in which case he would have no true name and background story.
“You’ll see some Romulans that are just about the ears, you’ll see some with the ears and deeper ridges in their foreheads… so I have to believe that there are different iterations of Klingons, depending on where they are from.”
So they are f*cking with TNG era races too.. /sigh
No, they aren’t. They are doing the OPPOSITE of that and showing you all the various looks of Romulans. They won’t be erased, they are added in to the TOS versions which frankly was more realistic given they are direct ancestors of Vulcans. And it sounds like we are going to learn about Romulan culture and beliefs we only gotten fractions of when compared to other species like the Cardassians and the bloody Klingons.
So my guess UNLIKE Discovery Klingons, they are going to explain and highlight the differences as he just did.
Do you remember the Debrune, that “ancient Romulan offshoot”? It was always hinted at that the Romulan genetic makeup is more complex than one type or, say, races on Earth which differentiate most obviously through skin color. My personal head canon was always that some groups of the faction that left Vulcan 2000 years ago and later became Romulans intermingled with a native alien species in the Romulan system, which had ridges. Maybe they disappeared that way, Neanderthal style, or we will even still see them (there was a chance to make the Remans that species, alas, they became Nosferatu) . It is certainly the only way Vulcans could have developed ridges in such a short time except another episode in accidental genetic manipulation, and certainly much more believable than either that or “rapid evolution”.
Actually I don’t. Have to look them up. But I like that idea they just breed with another race over centuries.
And crazy enough I was on another board a few days and I found out even for the Romulans in the Kelvin movie they actually came up with an explanation why they had the smooth foreheads in that movie as opposed to the ones with ridges. Someone wrote the movie was going to explain the ones with ridges physically altered themselves by some Romulan ritual, so it wasn’t genetic, but cultural or religious which Nero’s clan wasn’t part of. I can’t remember the full details of what they said but it was obviously cut out for time or probably deemed too nerdy lol. Don’t know where they got the info but probably commentary from the movie or a discussion of a deleted scene somewhere. But they had even planned to explain the differences in that movie, or at least allude to it. I can find that post again and copy it here if anyone is interested.
I don’t think every little thing needs to be explained away but I admit this has always bothered me as well.
VS, we’re totally thinking along the same lines.
And Kirsten Beyer had some similar thoughts for the Klingons in her novels, with a more pronounced ridged, and more aggressive species having conquered in the past, and resurfacing in the genetic pool.
Trek in a Cafe
Here’s the thing I would like to know. Have Vulcans had 2000 years of interstellar travel behind them? Is there a set of planets the Vulcans explored and perhaps colonized the same way the Romulans did? Did that really happen 2,000 years ago? How does that all work now? What made the Romulans develop an empire but seemingly not the Vulcans?
The planetary real estate of the Vulcans and Romulans must be rather large if we are to expect that Kirk can find strange new worlds all the time but Romulans and Klingons are lurking about and can’t be avoided.
Maybe the POV of the Federation views Vulcan from the wrong perspective. Maybe Vulcan is Taiwan to what Romulus is to China. Or was. Not expecting this to make real sense… yes, I am!
Given that the Vulcans eschewed conquest of less developed species and had a version of the Prime Directive in force even before First Contact with humanity, it makes sense that the Romulans would have more territory and genetic mixing with subjugated peoples.
So, actually, the idea tha Vulcan was a advanced society in terms of engineering or geographic reach, is likely unreasonable.
Perhaps we picked up a bit of Vulcan prejudice ourselves.
Do we know that Romulans also didn’t have a prime directive?
Romulan’s lack of Prime Directive is implied, but I can’t recall that it’s actually shown.
There are alpha-canon suggestions that the Klingons got tech from the Romulans, including cloaking technology. Also, at one point Picard notes that there have been bad outcomes when pre-warp societies are intervened in, with the Klingons implied.
Maybe they have a reverse Prime Directive, like the Borg but more about creating hybrids of themselves.
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Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect
Mathieu Spriet, Wilfried Mai, Alexia McKnight
Increased signal intensity in one of the collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint of sound horses in images acquired using a low-field magnet with vertical orientation of the magnetic field was investigated as a possible manifestation of the magic angle effect. Three isolated equine digits were imaged using the following pulse sequences: (1) spin echo T1, (2) turbo spin echo proton density and T2, and (3) 3D gradient echo T1, in different positions by mildly changing the orientation of the long axis of the digit, in the dorsal plane, relative to the magnetic field. The signal intensity in a ligament was significantly increased when the ligament orientation relative to the magnetic field was 55±10°. The signal intensity was markedly increased in pulse sequences with short echo time (TE) 5.0, 4.9, and 3.9 times increased, respectively, for 3D gradient echo T1, spin echo T1, and turbo spin echo proton density) and to a lesser extent with pulse sequences with a longer TE (1.8 times increased for turbo spin echo T2). These changes are characteristic of the magic angle effect. Because of the anatomic orientation of the collateral ligaments of the DIP joint, a slight deviation of the long axis of the digit in the dorsal plane, from the ideal horizontal position, will induce an increased signal intensity that can be confused with desmitis. Careful positioning of the foot in magnetic resonance imaging systems where B0 is perpendicular to the long axis of the digit is critical to prevent the occurrence of the magic angle effect.
Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound
ligaments
Collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint
Magic angle effect
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Spriet, M., Mai, W., & McKnight, A. (2007). Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect. Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound, 48(2), 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8261.2007.00211.x
Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect. / Spriet, Mathieu; Mai, Wilfried; McKnight, Alexia.
In: Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound, Vol. 48, No. 2, 03.2007, p. 95-100.
Spriet, M, Mai, W & McKnight, A 2007, 'Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect', Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8261.2007.00211.x
Spriet M, Mai W, McKnight A. Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect. Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound. 2007 Mar;48(2):95-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8261.2007.00211.x
Spriet, Mathieu ; Mai, Wilfried ; McKnight, Alexia. / Asymmetric signal intensity in normal collateral ligaments of the distal interphalangeal joint in horses with a low-field MRI system due to the magic angle effect. In: Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound. 2007 ; Vol. 48, No. 2. pp. 95-100.
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Town councillors give up on idea of re-opening Luxford car park toilets
Uckfield town councillors have shelved the idea of investing money in the re-opening of public toilets at the top of Luxfords car park.
General purposes committee members had asked for an investigation into the feasibility of the suggestion but the costs, coupled with the likelihood of the building being demolished in the future, have put them off.
The disused toilets are owned by Wealden District Council and a report to the town council’s general purposes committee last night said that the district would only consider a 12-month lease/licence for use of the toilets because the land might be included in town centre regeneration.
The report said there was no likelihood of Uckfield Town Council being able to secure the freehold of the site but it was likely that the lease/licence would be renewed until the land was needed.
It was thought the capital cost of refurbishment would be in the region of £10,000 to £15,000 with the district and town councils sharing the cost.
The running costs for a year, water, sewerage, electricity, repairs and cleaning amounted to £14,000 based on costs from 2012. Rates would be about £3,000 for a year.
That meant, councillors were told, that the first year costs would be in the region of £23,250 with subsequent annual costs being in the region of £17,500.
Town clerk Ashley Serpis said last night that if town councillors ruled out investing in the toilets now they would not have another chance to do so because the district council was likely to demolish them within the next financial year to save on business rates and the cost of utilities.
Cllr James Anderson (Trust Independent, North) said: “It is a shame because we do need toilets within the town centre but I would caution against spending taxpayers’ money when in the future the toilets could be knocked down.”
Councillors decided instead to concentrate their efforts on considering a complete refurbishment of the external public toilets at Victoria Pleasure Ground where a growing number of people were spending time as sporting facilities were improved.
One possibility is to convert the toilets to be coin-operated.
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Home Reviews Everything You Need to Know about American Girl Dolls
Everything You Need to Know about American Girl Dolls
Happy girl with doll in bed. Christmas time
If you are a girl and you grew up in the 90’s, then chances are you had or wished you had, an American Girl Doll. Back in the early 90’s, you had one of the OG American Girl Dolls. If you were really an American Girl doll fan, you had all the accompanying books and accessories.
Nowadays, the brand has expanded, along with the clientele it serves. If you somehow missed this phenomenon, don’t worry. Join your friends at Twin Cities Kids Club, who are here to teach you all about this pivotal piece of American toy history.
Real Historical Inspiration
The founder of the American Girl Doll Company, Pleasant Rowland, took her inspiration for her dolls from her love of Colonial Williamsburg. She considered the place a classroom of living history and had a high affinity for it when she was a child.
Rowland loved history and longed for a way to instill that love into children around the world. She hoped to find a way to spark an interest in the historical facts of our great country. She found inspiration in an unlikely place.
While Christmas shopping for her nieces, Rowland was dismayed to discover the limited amount of options for dolls. She wanted a toy that could be aspirational for your girls and drive them to learn, grow, and be all they can be.
What she saw was a gap in the market. She had the idea to create characters and build stories around them, borrowing from history to round out the narrative. Each character would have her own doll that parents could buy from their girls.
Historical accuracy was essential to Rowland. She wanted to bring her childhood experiences at Colonial Williamsburg to every little girl who owned an American Girl Doll.
The first few years saw the introduction of the original three American Girls.
Molly McIntire- A spunky and brainy girl who lived during World War II
Samantha Parkington- A sophisticated girl who lived just after the turn of the 20th century
Kirsten Larson- A sweet and strong girl who lived in the mid-19th century
Pleasant Rowland started the company herself with money she had earned and saved. Rowland wanted to take a different approach to the sale of her dolls. In the early days, customers could only buy American Girl Dolls directly through the mail.
Early Opposition
American Girl Dolls are the product of a company that almost wasn’t. Initial focus groups were less than receptive to Rowland’s original idea. It wasn’t until presented with samples of the dolls and books that the potential customers were sold on the concept.
Still, many were skeptical that young girls would be interested in a history lesson attached to their playtime. All Rowland could do next was go forward and hope. The original catalog mail-out consisted of 500,000 copies.
Pleasant Rowland’s gamble proved a successful one. The company made over $2 million in its first year, $7.6 million in its second, and in 1989, they made 30 million dollars. It was hard to tell which was more of a success, the dolls or the books.
The Stories That Made the Girls
Each original doll came with a series of 6 books. The books followed the same outline and shared the six titles. The only thing that changed was the name of the girl.
The six books were-
Meet (Girl): An American Girl
(Girl) Learns a Lesson: A School Story
(Girl’s) Surprise: A Christmas Story
Happy Birthday, (Girl)!: A Springtime Story
(Girl) Saves the Day: A Summer Story
Changes for (Girl): A Winter Story
The Original American Girl Dolls could be purchased with accessories from each of these stories. Not just accessories, though, you could buy whole outfits and even furniture sets.
The books were based on a mix of actual historical data and the real experiences of the authors. This aspect, along with many others mad American Girl Dolls, highly sought after collector’s items.
The Original Line
Along with Molly, Samantha, and Kirsten, there are three other original American Girls.
Felicity Merriman- A fiercely independent girl who lived during the Revolutionary War
Addy Walker- A thoughtful and optimistic girl who lived through and escaped slavery
Josefina Montoya- A caring girl who lived in New Mexico in the early 1800s
After the original girls, a contemporary line of dolls was released. This line produced 77 different dolls. You can purchase clothes, accessories, and furniture to match your own style.
Next came the ability to customize your doll with features that matched your own. This line was marketed for girls who want dolls who look just like them.
In 2003, the company introduced a line of baby dolls called Bitty Baby dolls. The company realized that the best way to expand profits was to diversify their offerings, and so they did.
The Girl of the Year
Starting in 2001, the company released one featured girl every year. After the girl’s year was over, the girl of the year is permanently archived. This doll is strategically debuted around the holiday season to drive sales.
Company Changeover
In 1998, Pleasant Rowland sold her company to Mattel for the price of $700 million. After the changeover, American Girl Doll enthusiasts say a change in design can be detected. The Pleasant Company dolls, also called pre-Mattel or PM dolls, had softer vinyl pieces, plusher bodies, thicker limbs, fuller faces, and smaller eyes.
The changes go all the way down to the eyelashes. PM dolls had lashes of soft brown while the Mattel dolls had thick, black lashes. One common criticism is that the dolls had been Barbie-fied.
For the average consumer, though, the differences are hardly noticeable. While some purists will tell you that the only real American Girl doll is a PM doll, Mattel dolls are worthy toys for any young girl.
If you had an American Girl doll as a child, don’t you think it’s time your daughter experienced that same joy. If you are planning to pick one up, check out these shopping tips.
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TWLOHA’s 2012 UChapters Awards.
By Holly Hallum
We need other people.
TWLOHA says it a lot, but it’s true. We aren’t meant to live life alone. We’re meant to share life and be with each other.
Through working with the University Chapters Program, I see this idea being actualized every day. It has given me the opportunity to work with passionate students all over the country and around the world. These students have created communities on their own college campuses that bring peace and solace to those looking for a place to fit in. We are so proud of the work and time they put into building their chapters, learning from one another, and sharing life.
TWLOHA is excited to recognize the work UChapters have been doing over the last school year and the dedication they put forth every day. There are eight major awards presented below, but be sure to check our recognition page next week to see how much all of our chapters do.
Programming Chapter of the Year
This award honors the chapter that went above and beyond in their programs and events. The chapter that demonstrated this most, Canisius College, held 24 events over the last year including fundraisers, movie screenings, QPR training, and awareness events. They have built a solid relationship with their campus counseling services, as well as established a visible presence on their campus.
Program of the Year
This award is designed to recognize creativity and innovation in chapter’ programs and events. The event that stood out the most to us this year was a remembrance walk called “The Walk of Life” held at Western Washington University. The event started in a lecture hall where videos about the importance of suicide education and prevention were shown. Faculty and students who were personally affected by suicide shared their testimonies, and both the Counseling Center and Prevention and Wellness Center presented resources. Following this presentation, participants walked the campus together, stopping at reflection points along the way. Finally, the Dean of Students and the University President shared their stories and spoke about more resources available.
Fundraising Chapter of the Year
This award is given to the chapter that exceeded expectations in their fundraising efforts. Almost immediately after joining the UChapters community last fall, the Virginia Tech chapter was presented with the challenge to join their women’s basketball team in a benefit for TWLOHA. They began fundraising to present TWLOHA with a check during a live airing of a basketball game. Their efforts raised $1,600, and we are so grateful for their commitment to the cause.
Fundraiser of the Year
This award recognizes the chapter whose single fundraiser raised the most funds. “Retake the Night” at the University of Florida was an official TWLOHA Benefit to raise awareness about TWLOHA, the UChapter on campus, and the issues. Through their endeavors, TWLOHA-UF was able to raise $302, and we want to thank them for their hard work.
Advisor of the Year
In the short time since Loyola Marymount University joined our UChapters Community, we’ve seen them accomplish big things. And with an advisor like Judy Battaglia, it’s easy to see why. As President Joe Ward says, “Judy has played a pivotal role as our faculty advisor in providing a comfortable space for students to really connect to the deep issues rooted in TWLOHA’s mission statement. She has had a solid presence at every chapter meeting and has even cleverly facilitated small group discussion around the sensitive issues—which most professors steer away from—all while maintaining the position of a staff mentor and bridge to professional help on campus.” Judy is in the approval process to teach a Communication Studies course at LMU focusing on mental health’s relationship to stigma, stereotypes, communication, and miscommunication.
Chapter Member of the Year
Whether staying late to help after meetings or baking dozens of blondies for fundraising bake sales, Danielle Amin, UChapter Historian for Virginia Tech, played an important role in helping the new chapter grow this year. President Shannon Passaro says, “Danielle exemplifies everything I had hoped our members would be. Not only did she fulfill her duties as Historian, she made attendance and participation a priority and was always willing to do everything she could to make the chapter the best it could be. She dedicated herself to everything we did and really tried to spread the message of hope and community that TWLOHA represents.”
Chapter Leader of the Year
As Treasurer of TWLOHA-Ursinus College, Caitlin Gallagher approved the chapter’s budget and spending. But she also excelled beyond her duties as treasurer by managing the chapter’s Twitter, coordinating volunteers, and participating as a mentor and trainer in the local school district’s suicide prevention program. Chapter member Amanda Fulton says, “I believe she is the only person that has attended every single meeting, executive and general. Caitlin has been a great role model for everyone on campus and is a great role model for the entire community.”
Chapter of the Year
We have so many amazing chapters, leaders, and members who dedicate themselves to raising awareness, spreading hope, inspiring others, and supporting the cause. Believe me when I say that determining the Chapter of the Year was not an easy process.
TWLOHA-East Tennessee State University has established a strong presence on their campus in Johnson City, TN, and for that reason they are our Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row. They have created a community that incorporates each of its members strengths and talents into their events, meetings, and tabling events. TWLOHA-ETSU held a staggering 17 programs (two of which were held on a weekly basis), coordinated multiple fundraisers, and were present on campus tabling many times. Their yearly fundraiser, “TWLOHApalooza”, raised over $1,800 over a three-night concert event. The chapter was also able to host Jamie Tworkowski this year for a speaking event. Their dedication and passion is undeniable, and we are very proud to call them Chapter of the Year.
As the UChapters Director, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to each of our 76 active UChapters. You have shown us what it really means to love others and inspire your peers. We are so thankful for your giving natures, and I look forward to working with you again this upcoming school year.
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Aug 15, 2019 — Carrie Tomberlin
11 Reasons to Stay Alive
There are books to read, trips to travel, footprints to imprint in the ground. Your footprints.
Aug 05, 2019 — Abbey Brunault
I would love to believe that it only goes up from here, but things are rarely so perfect.
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As I lie here on the dewan pushed against the window, gazing absently into the impossibly yellow canopy of the Amaltas tree, my thoughts race back once more to the field of mustard I visited on a mellow winter afternoon, many years ago. At the time, the cocoon of boyhood had withered and fallen off all around me, and I had taken a fancy to writing poetry to facilitate my transition into greatness. Fairies, charmed toadstools and talking foxes were suddenly no better than discarded bottle tops. The adults appeared to have an entirely different purport of life than thought previously. Firm in my illusion that I had the consciousness of a poet, I would sneak into a passenger train on Sundays and disembark randomly at some rural station. Sadly, I could never really concentrate on writing poetry for the fear of missing the train back into the city by evening.
I remember the air was nippy as I trudged along the earthen bund of a large field of mustard. The entire crop was rippling in unison like a bright yellow waterbody. Just as I was about to settle into a meditative posture and begin scribbling, I noticed a bestubbled man suspended on his elbows among the plants. He was wearing a pale blue vest on his partly visible torso, the rest of his body being lost in the tangle of greenery. He was clearly aghast to see me, and glowered at me the first few moments. Then he flailed a fist towards me and hissed through clinched teeth. “Sheesh! Bugger off!”
As he raised himself higher from the ground, I noticed he was not alone. There was the face of a young woman too looking at me with popped-out eyes from right under the heft of the man. Her dishevelled hair was spread on the ground and from what I could make out of her bust there was not even a wisp of thread on her body. Her left breast was squeezed under the massive brown palm of her tormentor but I could see the very round dome of her other breast, it’s almond coloured areola and the pointed nipple.
The woman somehow freed a bangled hand from somewhere and yelled at me, waving me away frantically, “Go away, you mongrel!”
Clearly, I had intruded upon something very private. Staying there another moment could have meant deep trouble for me. I repaired to the tiny railway station in record time but as I sat waiting for the train, I could feel a wedge taking shape in my loins. It was a weird sensation, as if blood had drained from my limbs and poured into the bottom of my belly, and was aching for a release. When the train chugged in tooting shrilly, I walked inside in a trance and sat awkwardly on the bench seat. The vortex that had gripped me ebbed out lazily as the trees and lone cottages began whipping past, but the slur I was greeted with seemed to have seeped under the skin like an invisible tattoo. For years after that, every time I would think of the rendezvous I had witnessed in the field of yellow flowers, my manhood resembled a grenade with a loose pin. Except now.
Since the injuries I suffered in a mishap have healed up nicely and I am no more bedridden and am ready to resume a semblance of life, allow me to lead you through the chain of events that led to the dying of my man thing.
Kanika joined the branch of Goldkeys Unlimited at Bandra shortly after I took charge in April last year when the manager posted there bungled up the accounts by disbursing gold loans to non-existent borrowers and siphoned away serious money. He would close the fake loan accounts and bring back the missing money briefly just before the monthly inspections but the balloon kept getting blown a bit larger each time. By the time it was March and the books had to be reconciled for the annual financial closing, he had lost control of the bloat and one evening instead of walking onto the platform he walked into the local train that would haul him home when he lived.
A police enquiry was in progress, and every now and then the investigating officer would appear to record a statement or haggle with the branch officials. I and Kanika were spared the brunt of the many-pronged attack as both of us had joined after the incidents. This status of being non-suspects had grown a bond between us, more so as we were entrusted with preparing confidential reports and had to often pore over reams of printouts together, although I would call that feeble.
Kanika had the brownish tan complexion referred to as ‘wheatish’ in the local parlance. She had thick black hair that had a silken feel —I can tell that because her tresses had brushed against the sides of my face when she would lean over from behind to point out some discrepancy in the figures, and I doubt if any of it was intentional. She was quite at ease dealing with the males in the office, and I had noticed her interacting with some of them in a friendly manner. She had a pretty face, the kind that make men look a tad longer than needed. The thing that hit you about her face was the lips, full with a cupid’s bow that had a chiselled feel about it. She could get unduly engrossed in the drab routines of work, which was always in plenty, but her smiles were real, and I found myself looking away when she did that because I didn’t want to get haunted by her looks. Now I will not say I was having a secret crush on her —my job was cut out as a leader— but she was cute enough to be savoured in your thoughts once in a while before sleep wallowed up the fried-up brains.
Business had sagged in recent months, and I was supposed to quadruple it miraculously by the year end. I was also saddled with scrutinising the transactions of previous five years and send weekly confirmations in complicated tabular reports. Since jobs were hard to come by in retail financing sector and I badly needed the one I was in to keep my body and ghost together, I was slogging away till I was ready to fall, burning away like a wick in the very process of living. I was being paid a handsome overtime allowance, but I was squandering away the precious window of time that could have connected me to the material world around me, and as it turned out, to the truth of life.
We rarely spoke of personal matters, except the time I was feeling relaxed having dispatched a rather large consignment of reports to the head office. Kanika told me she was married to someone who was away in a vague place somewhere down south. Her parents lived in a suburb of Delhi where her father had retired as a teacher. She had a daughter aged three who went to a creche when she was not in school. She hated the ‘soul-scrapping’ job of gold financing. A huge lot of people coming for the loans were under rough weather. Often the jewelleries they wanted to pledge were entitled to far less loans than they believed. Then there were the inevitable calls to be made to the defaulting loanees. The worst part of it all was auctioning the pledged gold. That was not even mentioning the mounds of paperwork it generated, all of which was to be checked and doublechecked. Kanika said she reverized sometimes and she was a teacher in her dreams in a misty valley of flowers.
But she was also the most productive person I had in the office. Her understanding of problems at hand was quick, disposal of tasks efficient, and dealing with customers top notch. Compared to her, others were just rocks having varying degrees of consciousness. Maybe it was the case that she was exceptionally gifted, or maybe I was simply fated to have a battery of dim-witted morons, other than her. What else could you expect from a gold finance company whose wage structure began at the gutter top and moved downwards? She had been with the company for a few years at its Dadar branch before being transferred to Bandra to lend me a helping hand after the scam.
The previous manager, bless his soul, had a fertile if crooked imagination and he had run the show for over three years. He had left behind a rich mire of misdeeds, and the moment we thought we had nailed it all finally, something else tumbled out of the closet. The upside of these discoveries was we would get excited like kids playing hide and seek. With each new trail we would get busy with the lockers, file cabinets and documents, ignoring we were standing too close to each other at times, leaning into one another side by side, or the curves of our backs remaining in touch longer than needed.
Several months passed and the customers came and went, the auditors came and went and the police came and went, and the rains came and went but there was something that came and simply refused to go. It was the news that our finance company was going to be sold by its promoters to Sterling Fincom, a larger firm specialising in real estate and automobile finance. There were strong indications it could happen by the year end, and here we were, already in October, barely three months from the end line. There were no guarantees that all of us, or any of us, would be retained after the transition. Going by the taint that our branch was carrying like a scarlet letter on its facia, I wondered if our past experience of peddling petty loans will be worth its stain on the curriculum vitae. In short, our days together were numbered.
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50 thoughts on “The Man Thing”
Waiting eagerly for the next instalment of the story.
As am I!
Welcome aboard, Yvonne!
I will try and get there Battle Speed.
Your encounter of the unsavory kind during the early days of manhood reminds me of an incident that I stumbled upon while on a visit to Gopalpur-on-Sea during one of the High school vacations. To know how it feels to be on top of the world I climbed up the lighthouse which was surrounded by a number of dilapidated houses. It took a while for me to realise what was happening when a couple entered into one of those roofless houses and went topless.
But then this is one of the ways the Nature urges us to contribute to the furtherance of the species, and I am referring to the educational inputs such encounters offer to the youngsters, apart from the kernels of bliss being explored by the the protagonists.
Pardon the expression, but you have left us dangling! It’s as beautifully, lyrically written as always.
Amen, saith I.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Bruce. I am not promising anything but I will try to un-dangle you expeditiously.
It’s a privilege to read what you write. Your prose is as lyrical as poetry. Kanika’s description comes straight from the heart. Waiting for more.
You are so kind. I consider myself fortunate to receive that compliment.
Agree with Alka. It’s a privilege to be able to read you.
I am grateful for that compliment and the encouragement.
antarakundu says:
You are a master of the craft of writing, Uma. For now, I’ll eagerly await the next part. But what I truly, sincerely, patiently wait for is to see your name on the shelves of the bookshops of my city.
Antara, I do not know what future holds for me. But I am grateful to the gods that be to have granted me a reader like you. Many thanks to you.
willowwrites says:
You leave us dangling…
What beautiful visuals you conjure with your words. But I must admit, at first, I thought the part in the field was a man doing a yoga stand on his elbows 🙂
This piece has a feel of Film Noir narratives – most especially Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard but with a young femme fatale (of sorts).
You most certainly need to write a novel. The US (and even the UK) market is desperately seeking diverse writers. Opportunity knocks, Uma. An US agent wouldn’t be hard to find. Go for it. You have many fans, myself included.
Double Indemnity… Sunset Boulevard…! Vicki, I will crumble under those expectations. Getting published is a formidable challenge, but I am unwilling to hang my boots on scribbling anytime soon. Many thanks for the support and the massive boost to my ego!
Beautiful writing as usual. You had my attention from the start, then you calmed me down, and left me in suspense
I much appreciate your compliment, Derrick. I am sorry about the suspense —I have found blog readers prefer reading shorter posts, and hence the break.
Shubha Athavale says:
वाह बहुत खूब उमा शंकर, कविता कुहून या लेख इसे
ना जाने क्यों ऐसा लगा कि कुछ बँक merger के बारे में हैं…….
प्रतीक्षा हैं आगे क्या होता हैं देखने कि
“बिना पत्तों के सूखे टुंड लगते हैं वो अल्फ़ाज़
जिनपर अब कोई मानी नहीं उगते
जबां पर जो ज़ायका आता था जो सफ़ा पलटने का
अब ऊँगली क्लिक करने से बस झपकी गुजरती है”
(गुलज़ार)
पर ये तो मात्र कपोल-कल्पना है —एक छलावा, ब्लॉगिंग की तरह। शायद आप मेरे मन मयूर के टेढ़े मेंढे पेंगों में सच की कौड़ियां टटोल रहीं हैं?
A “to be continued after a long time” Umashankar ji and ” waiting eagerly ” once again . Captivating as always 🙂
The pleasure is mine. Thanks for wandering in, Rajni Ji.
Interesting stuff. The man thing aspect was perhaps the most unlikely from your pen. I was hooked to your previous mini-series. So will be eagerly following this. I wonder if this one is the novel that you had promised to write? You are worth way more than some of the names that I see in the bookstands in airport. All the best for the novella or novel.
I am mildly surprised by your intuition, but then I should not be. It could have been a novel —any story can be expanded into a novel— but I am planning a quick wrap up, perhaps in a long, one-post sequel. Perhaps I will revisit the story in a longer format at a later date.
I am proud to be the recipient of that compliment, Sabyasachi.
What a wonderful start to the new year with another bite of fictional delight. I think you need to start thinking of working towards publication now. This deserves a wider audience.
As with other stories, this one had been sleeping in the recesses of my bosom for a while. But it wanted to see the light of the day at the onset of new year. I might submit a bunch of those for publication this year. Many thanks for the encouragement.
JazzCookie says:
Wow! I’m already taken by the contrast between the boy’s experience and the adult’s…Please don’t keep us waiting too long… 😉
‘The Man Thing’ will return soon enough on the blog. Many thanks, Molly.
I do so enjoy your writing.
Intriguing, poetic, and I’m left wondering where it will all end, looking forward to part two!
The end, or the sense of an end, will come soon enough! Thanks, Andrea.
It’s funny how I didn’t want it to sound poetic! I am looking for a hollow in the jungle of engagements to relax and wrap it up.
I too, imagined a yoga pose initially and was quickly divested of such an assumption. The imagery in the mustard field was stark and vivid. And then we are transported somewhere entirely different… with a cliffhanger to boot! You certainly have my attention, Uma. I’m waiting eagerly for the next instalment!
I am happy to receive your feedback, Sandra. I am constantly struggling to balance the trade off between serialisation and posting long posts on the blog where both readers and I stand to lose something in the process. While longer posts may deter some readers from taking a plunge, serialisation tends to nibble at the intensity and the flow of the story.
For me, you have it right. I was caught by surprise when I realised there was more to come, but I was happy to be left waiting. It won’t impact on the flow or the intensity for me at least 🙂
That is some solace! Thank you.
This is so intensely great, Uma! Wow!!!
Your expression boosts my confidence. Many thanks, Susie.
T F Carthick says:
Nice delicious beginning of a new story like the one you had written a couple of years back. Looking forward to the next parts.
It is always a pleasure to receive your feedback.
And then…? 🙂
Brilliant writing as always!!
Wait, Divya…wait!
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Wow ! you do get the chemistry speaking to the readers.Heading over to the next part now !
One of the benefits of writing in instalments is that you get appreciated regardless of the overall achievement. Great to have you here!
writenlive says:
This is a beautifully evocative story. The ‘impossibly yellow’ Amaltas grabbed me from the beginning. And the rains in November (in the next part, of course).
There is such a beautiful juxtaposition of nature and the manmade. You move effortlessly from trees and rain to the Mumbai locals. There is the ethereal beauty of Kanika and there is the reality (sometimes ugly) of workplaces and job insecurity and auditors.
And the word, ‘mongrel’. It had struck me hard; I had wondered how it came about and why did it stuck in his subconscious so hard. Now I know.
It’s a privilege to receive your feedback. They mean a lot. I am glad the elements of the story worked for you.
Nitin says:
This is humorous, ripe with imagery and the last paragraph was poignant. I enjoyed it. I laughed at loud in the beginning but soon found a maelstrom of emotion coursing through me. Excellent write.
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True genius will always get the better of our local prejudices, for it has already surmounted its own. 17. It cannot be broken up because in another generation the great-grandsons may require a fresh division. Therefore, measure not thine advancements by quantity, but frame them by measure, and defer not charities till death; for, certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man’s than of his own. Thanks to the heavenly power That ill and good allots, a judgment stern Has easement in a graceful piety; And we the happy progeny of mirth, Shed like the sun a radiance o’er the earth! It may or may not have been so, according to the stage of moral growth arrived at in the particular case of this tribe or that, at the particular period in question. Mr. Before changing the subject it may be well to give the substance of a foot-note to the present writer’s _Shakespeare-Bacon_, 1899 (Swan Sonnenschein): “When Bacon came to review his early estimate of the importance of poetry to science or knowledge, he was evidently dissatisfied. V. They are confident that passions exist only to be suppressed, and that convictions only are to be exhibited or displayed. If for example a consumptive man desired to insure his life, there would be a marked difference in the statistics according as we took his peculiar state of health into account or not. A prodigious number of animals, wild and tame, are enclosed in separate divisions, feeding on the grass or shrubs, and leading a life of learned leisure. There were article essay about friendship one or two pictures (old favourites) that I wished to see again, and that I was told still remained. They will begin to be forgotten as dreams, they will even seem to be waking dreams. If we go back a step further, it might fairly be maintained that they may be reduced to one, namely, to the agencies. They are, taken all together, the substratum of our free activity, and with respect to this activity they play the same part as our organic functions in relation to the whole of our conscious life. Peter Martyr surpasses all Titian’s other works, as he himself did all other painters. If however the curve represented, as it is decidedly more likely to do, some outcome of natural phenomena in which there was, so to say, a real double aim on the part of nature, it would be otherwise. So that the freeman of this clause is the twelve-hyndeman.[233] For the purpose of this ‘frith’ between Ethelred and Olaf the twelve-hyndeman and not the twy-hyndeman is the typical freeman. Tullius Cicero many volumes have been copied in different places of Italy by this new art of the printers, and if these, as they are many in number, were also zealously and sufficiently corrected, there had been no need for this new work. In their large unity they are real; isolated, they seem to be poised uneasily between the real and the unreal, and become deceptive, barren half-truths. In three of these the per centage went from eighty-seven to ninety-eight, and the fourth had every officer and man struck. English.—Yes, of great merit in the same style of dashing, off-hand, explosive effect. Now if we conceive a debate to arise about the truth of his story, in which it is attempted to decide the matter simply by considerations about the validity of testimony, without introducing the question of the existence of inhabitants, and the nature of their customs, we shall have some notion of the unsatisfactory nature of many of the current arguments about miracles. True, in London as in other towns you have frequently to make a sharp article essay about friendship turn, giving a violent wrench to your internal organ of orientation. [101] Some of the Essenes, who appear to have had connection with Mithraism, taught this doctrine. 1484 – 25 July 1492. as occupied by the cattle of several family groups who had grazing rights therein. It was concerned with syllogisms differing in no way from demonstrative syllogisms, except that their premises were probable instead of certain. In return for which, when you begin to speak, you also will have to face no dispute, nor to produce arguments, which you know well you neither have nor could have. Circumstances like those in which they were placed always tend to develop strongly a sense of sinfulness and of alienation from God. Arrival at Lyons. One would suppose, to judge from the conversation of the two nations, that all Frenchmen were alike, and that all Englishmen were personified by a particular individual, nicknamed John Bull. Hence I have not counted them; and yet I only have to turn my attention backwards to count up the four strokes which have already sounded and add them to those which I hear. I don’t deny we have some pretty valuable bequests from that bacchanalian reign: the Habeas Corpus Act, for instance. THE GRADATIONS IN RANK UNDER THE BREHON LAWS. The light streams from rosy clouds; the breeze curls the branches of the trees in the back-ground, and plays on the clear complexions of the various scattered group. But both these principles were latent in Judaism, and were only checked by special circumstances attending it as a national religion. Among other things, we had _chiffrons_ for supper, which I found on inquiry were wood-partridges, which are much more highly esteemed than the field ones.
essay about article friendship. He draws first, and runs first, and if ever he makes another Man run, it is after him. Nothing can surpass it but the section of a slave-ship, or the Black-hole of Calcutta. These ideas lend themselves as well to fetishism as to sun-worship, and all the ancient faiths alike may justly, therefore, be regarded as phases of one universal nature-worship. She was a Gorgon, and the only mortal one of the three, the other two being invulnerable. 8. The reader will now have in his mind the conception of a series or group of things or events, about the individuals of which we know but little, at least in certain respects, whilst we find a continually increasing uniformity as we take larger numbers under our notice. Their roots at any rate go far back into tribal custom, however much, as in other cases, the Church may have adopted and modified what it could not eradicate. Presently, he crumpled himself up, and brought his anointed person erect, within four feet of the floor, as if from the other’s illiberal point of view. Students of Logic are familiar with that broad distinction between the two methods of treatment to which the names of Material and Conceptualist may be applied. 15. et de Mor._ May 1896, pp. The answer to the mathematician’s question is that in practice no difficulty arises. But if this communication extends still further, he soars aloft with his Torngak on a long string to the realm of souls, where he is admitted to a short conference with the _Angekut poglit_, _i.e._, the fat or the famous wise ones, and learns there the fate of his sick patient, or even brings him back a new soul. These works of Crispus Sallustius, most excellently corrected, were printed at Venice under the guidance and at the expense of Johann of Koln and also of Johann Manthen of Gherretsem, who loyally live together. with fixed or haphazard stakes, A could not ensure winning eventually to any extent, he can do so if he adopt such a scheme as the one in question. Probably from the Age and Court of Louis XVIII. The Frankish payment for the eye, hand, or foot was 100 solidi of three tremisses, _i.e._ half as much again as the Kentish freeman’s wergeld would be if only 100 Kentish scillings of two tremisses; which again seems unlikely. It allows them to succeed in certain cases so as to prevent the land, or, as we should rather say, the landed rights, from lapsing to the vicini. The origin of this custom has not yet, so far as I am aware, been satisfactorily explained. Again, when we are comparing one nation with another,[19] say the Athenian with any modern European people, does the popular mind at all appreciate what sort of evidence of general superiority is implied by the production, out of one nation, of such a group as can be composed of Socrates, Plato, and a few of their contemporaries? If they may be so considered they are at once put on line with the Frankish wergelds. To act like a man awake, he needed a shock, an emergency. Lord Campbell, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, and author of the _Lives of the Chancellors and Chief Justices of England_, repels the plea, as inadmissible. He has (probably a minimum of) ten tenants, five _giallna_ and five _saer_, and gets a food-rent from each. The question is idle, I reply. But when we come to the case of disputed phenomena the difficulty re-emerges. There is no one of us but could pick out here and there points in which the Walker Miles route could (as we think) be improved upon; there are few who do not habitually abandon his guidance at times and take a favourite line of their own. Singular to relate, he had an insuperable objection to books, and protested often against the continued use of the pen by one he would fain esteem. Aladdin might have exchanged his for it, and given his lamp into the bargain. His conduct also in consequence of his belief will by itself afford no ground of discrimination; he will make his will as sincerely as a man who is unmistakeably on his death-bed. Dickens, conscious perhaps that he had hitherto slighted the Church, and anxious to make amends, intended to be as kind as possible to the Canon; but he builded better than he knew. After a glass or two, (for a Pint is his stint) he begins to talk of his Intrigues, boasts much of the Favours he has receiv’d, and shews counterfeit Tokens, and in Conclusion, slanders some Lady or other of unquestion’d Vertue with a particular fondness for him. And even when they are not actually impossible it may frequently appear on examination that they are only rendered possible by the occasional introduction of agencies which are not supposed to be available in the production of the more ordinary or intermediate values. The mortification of nature, the condemnation of all worldly and corporeal delights, not in their abuse, but in their essential and orderly use, the dishonouring of the body in regarding its beauty as only an incentive to sin, and in making a virtue of ugliness, squalor, and physical weakness—these things have the offensiveness of deadly sins to the sensuous consciousness of minds of the Hellenic type. And so it happens that I dare to put forth a book of verses in these days, when one group of our literati are declaring that Italy has never had a language, and another are saying that for some time past we have had no literature; that the fathers do not count for much, and that we are really only in the beginnings. Bergson sur l’histoire de l’idee de temps, (_Revue de Philos._ Jan. ¶ Si hume est ocys en la pes le rei · il a feit · ix?? Hence, naturally, our estimate in the latter case is commonly of much more value. Game, poultry, grapes, wine it is in vain to think of; and as you may be mortified at the privation, they punish you for your unreasonable dissatisfaction by giving you cause for it in the mismanagement of what remains.[49] In the midst of this ill fare you meet with equally bad treatment. But we are generally content with the first, i.e. This cannot be done, except you introduce two several sorts of usury, a less and a greater; for if you reduce usury to one low rate, it will ease the common borrower, but the merchant will be to seek for money; and it is to be noted that the trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate; other contracts not so. Sometimes also the column was called _Abaddir_, which, strangely enough, Bryant identifies with the serpent-god.[142] There can article essay about friendship be no doubt that both the pillar and the article essay about friendship serpent were associated with many of the sun-gods of antiquity. From an _ochtyern_, 15 sheep or 6_s._ (half to King and half to the thane or the knight). But this last consequence will not concern us for the moment: we are merely trying here to trace out the first meaning of the word causality, and we think we have shown that the prefiguring of the future in the present is easily conceived under a mathematical form, thanks to a certain conception of duration which, without seeming to be so, is fairly familiar to common sense. This melancholy, itself repugnant to the primitive Italian nature, opened the way for the still more foreign influence of the romanticists, which tended to the study and love of nature from the subjective or emotional side, and to a more or less morbid dwelling upon the passions and the interior life. But the automatic movements which tend to follow the stimulus as its natural outcome are likely to be conscious as movements: or else the sensation itself, whose function is to invite us to choose between this automatic reaction and other possible movements, would be of no avail. (4) _and the Median._ 7. Of Cunning; 5. These forty-one Essays were afterwards again augmented to fifty-eight, with the new title of _The Essaies or Covnsels, Civill and Morall_; they were likewise improved by corrections, additions, and illustrations. But now, from where the Alpine herds are grazing To far Sicilian shore, in slumber fast Like jealous nurse she lulls them to the last, Lest they should wake and on those forms be gazing. As we keep on taking more terms of the series we shall find the proportion still fluctuating a little, but its fluctuations will grow less. Indeed De Morgan has described life insurance as a bet which the individual makes with the company, that he will not live beyond a certain age. It is with such classes of things and such inferences that the science of Probability is concerned. Neither of these assumptions is true: there are plenty of social entertainments every bit as effortless socially as a walk of two familiar friends; on the other hand, there are walks with a complete or partial stranger involving much more effort and a much greater hazard than any party.
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Lena Meyer-Landrut Shocked: Paparazzo image drives her into madness
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Lena Meyer-Landrut is completely faceless. On Instagram, the singer portrays a scene that raises the air for breath.
Berlin – Was for a shock for Lena Meyer-Landrut (28). The singer tells on Instagram of an unpleasant situation, which obviously went under the skin. A paparazzo had Lena Meyer-Landrut hatched. Particularly brilliant: The musician was in that moment not alone on the road, but with the guidance of one man.
Lena Meyer-Landrut: "I had such an uncomfortable feeling"
"There was a guy with a thick fat telephoto lens and had photographed us ever since," Lena Meyer-Landrut said in her Insta-Story. The ESC Winner felt thus violated in your privacy.
"I rarely get out in public, because I do not want to emit so much negativity in the world. But I guess ̵
1; I have such an uncomfortable feeling, ”the 28-year-old says. The singer already swears on the training and the workouts of Kevin, even though this incident is clearly visible in the nerves. By then, with this photo attack, she had apparently not been charged at all.
"Was in full private mode. So, don't be a public person along the way, ”explains the visibly selected singer in the Insta-Story. You find this action as true to your own words as remote and therefore want to share the story with your fans.
Lena Meyer-Landrut: Who is the man and your site?
Lena Meyer-Landrut is currently a professional, if it's about the headlines and our rumors. On Instagram, you follow almost 3 million subscribers. With hot snaps they delight your fans. But even on your emotional side, Lena Meyer-Landrut hides no roads. In your colder ones already tears are shining. Through Instagram, they officially informed their fans as their long-standing relationship broke in January 2019. They talk about their love song and the love song openly in an Instagram video.
But this time it was easy for the singer to go far, as Lena Meyer-Landrut explains in a further Insta-story. The reason: You suspect that your fitness coach will be sucked into one thing. Because the singer is currently officially single. However, now that your business is being set up with your fitness coach, goes a long way. Love rumors may prevent them in any case.
Lena Meyer-Landrut: "… and I stood there as a spacko"
"I know, that belongs to my job and my life, and most of it I get ready. Today, it has somehow touched me more. First of all, if I think that from the photos of my coach and me of any stupid lubricant the next novels will be made. "
Damit really understands everyone, writes Lena Meyer-Landrut drastic words:" There is in a happy relationship with an enchanted woman and I was then a spacko. "
And further:" I have moral and human values and I have respect. Others earn with mutual behavior in their money. ”
With Lena Meyer-Landrut, however, negative vibes did not cease long. "This week is fucking amazing," she asks. Was passing in this week; Lena never betrays the Insta-Story. However, she has missed huge ivory with a filter. Maybe a clue?
Berlin's Kevin Jendrass still holds another Promis fit. Scrolling through his Instagram account can discover some well-known faces, such as Matthias Schweighöfer's example. With a bizarre look, she made sure to swirl again. Did Lena Meyer-Landrut need it in this way and wise?
With an "above-the-picture" taff "moderator Rebecca Mir for enthusiasm with her followers.
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Man charged with starting and leading group attack on a South Bay corrections officer as he arrived for work
By adamg on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 6:06pm
Boston Police report arresting a man for starting what turned into a stomping of a corrections officer that included beating him with a metal pipe on Atkinson Street just outside the South Bay House of Correction this morning.
Police say Torre Jenkins, 45, already had warrants out for his arrest on charges of drug dealing and attacking a public employee when he yelled at the corrections officer as the guard was approaching work at the jail around 7:30 a.m.
The victim stated he rolled his window down when the unknown male approached him and struck him in the face with an open fist. The victim stated he exited his vehicle and engaged the unknown male suspect in a physical fight. The victim stated about five individuals joined the fight and began to assault the victim. The victim stated that during the altercation, he was struck multiple times with a metal pipe. The victim further stated his watch, glasses and cell phone were stolen.
Officers received additional information that an individual in the area had entered the victim’s motor vehicle and unsuccessfully attempted to flee the scene. Officers were able to locate and apprehend the male in the area of Southampton Street and Atkinson Street.
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins reports the officer is out of the hospital and that the investigation "remains highly active."
Police say Jenkins was initially charged with breaking and entering of a motor vehicle. His outstanding warrants were for distribution of Class A and B drugs out of Roxbury court and possession of Class B drugs assault and battery on a public employee and disturbing a correctional institution out of Boston Municipal Court, police say.
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The footage they've released
By Hazel on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 6:32pm.
The footage they've released shows the whole thing. It's Lord of the Flies like except they are all addicts.
Will the city NOW stop neglecing that area? Will they do anything other than push people down the road?
The blame for this
By anon on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 6:57pm.
lies squarely on the Sheriff and the Mayor for allowing the shenanigans to go on for so long in this area. I'm surprised the businesses around here don't start a revolution.
These 2 clowns
By anon on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 5:27am.
would not allow this shit to go on in the Seaport or Fort Point neighborhoods.
Don’t blame me
I voted for Doug.
I disagree with the Sheriff
I disagree with the Sheriff part. The role of Sheriffs Department in MA is limited to the care and custody of inmates. The regional assets they provide to smaller towns is said to only take funding/responsibilities away from the actual Police Departments. This is on the Mayor and a DA’s office that isn’t interested in holding criminals responsible. I’m going to call it enabling until I see some legit stats saying her methods are helping.
The sheriff is a he
By anon on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 7:37pm.
And he allowed this to go on outside his jail. He could’ve called his pal and asked to send the cops down to clear the area. He is responsible along with the Mayor.
I was referring to DA RR as a
By anon on Sat, 08/03/2019 - 7:38am.
I was referring to DA RR as a she, not the Sheriff. This was all occurring off jail property, Police responsibility.
stay. in. your. car.
By Old Groucho on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 7:59pm.
and wtf you doing rolling down your window for?
politely discus current events?
1 of 2 things happened here:
drug dealer provoked the victim and the victim's machismo forced him to "teach him a lesson"
drug deal gone bad
You don’t know shit.
Your story is that a corrections officer stopped in front of his workplace to conduct an open air drug deal in plain sight? That is shit all stupid.
By Old Groucho on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 8:09am.
triggered much?
the dudes not a cop, he works in corrections
if i dont know jack, please enlighten me as to why you get out of your car or even roll down your window if apporached by one of the zombies on melnea?
like i said, he had business with the perp or his ego got in the way of his brain
if theres more to this, please let us know
"That is shit all stupid."
If you intentionally interact with those zombies by getting out of your car then yes, that IS shit all stupid.
Learn how to read
By Vanessa on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 2:52pm.
Some of you guys need to learn how to read correctly. No where does it state he was trying to stop a drug deal. He opened his window and got sucker punched.
I suspect the victim has been
By anon on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 10:03pm.
I suspect the victim has been exposed to the methadone mile mayhem for quite some time every single day. You think as an officer he’s going to let these people push him around? I don’t blame him for sticking up for himself.
I kind of agree. He should
By Republican on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 7:16am.
I kind of agree. He should have drove away and handled later. Did he not foresee that he would be teamed up on if he got out of his car? Not a wise decision.
Rounding up the usual suspects
By adamg on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 8:14pm.
Kimberly Bookman reports that on the orders of Mayor Walsh and Commissioner William Gross, BPD began a sweep of Atkinson Street tonight: They surrounded and shut the street and were busy arresting everybody they could find with any outstanding warrants.
But aren't these ...
By Friartuck on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 9:19pm.
Non-prosecutable offenses in Rachel's view?
By lbb on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 10:42am.
Now act your age.
Your stupidity and inability to read a freely available policy statement can't be prosecuted.
You can't jail stupid.
I guess we know what it takes to get the mayor's attention.
By CopleyScott17 on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 9:29pm.
Open-air drug markets, syringe-strewn streets, sidewalks full of zombies on the nod, all over the city. Nothing but speeches and studies.
Mob attacks and nearly kills a correctional officer. The media shows up, and suddenly Marty finds some money and some manpower.
The City of Boston has been on an economic upswing for over a decade, yet the mayor just watches as the opioid crisis festers, the Long Island situation drags on and on, and homeless people are reduced to sleeping in empty storefronts in broad daylight, from Methadone Mile to Boylston Street to Downtown Crossing. I can only imagine how much worse it's going to be when the recession arrives.
By adamg on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 10:04pm.
NEW: A local correction officers union is calling upon the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office to 'make a stand' in prosecuting those responsible for beating an officer in the street in Boston this morning: https://t.co/04xR6gOQnp #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/oAUUp3Mblz
— 7News Boston WHDH (@7News) August 1, 2019
Not that I'm excusing the
By eherot on Sat, 08/03/2019 - 11:17am.
Not that I'm excusing the initial punch in the face, but am I supposed to believe that what the corrections officer did at 0:11 constitutes "self-defense?"
Why was his vehicle initially
By anon on Sat, 08/03/2019 - 9:44pm.
Why was his vehicle initially stopped when he has a clear path in front of him? After he was punched, why did he engage the victim? Why didn't he call 911 or drive around the corner to his workplace to request back up? The victim was looking for something (drugs), unfortunately, he got more than he bargained for. At least all the residents and taxpayers now know what it takes for the area to be temporarily cleaned up. Guaranteed, if this happened to a civilian, the case would not have received the same response.
BPD and MSP have struck back
Arresting several people and evicting hundreds. They left Transit Police out because they are moving their homeless problems to the red line at Andrew station.
the parking lot at 7/11
By Old Groucho on Sat, 08/03/2019 - 9:14am.
is like skid row.
The lower end has all sorts of nooks and crannies for junkies to hide, shoot up, screw, and crap in so it's a win/win for everyone but the taxpayers.
So far we have:
+ the always "murder-y" McCormack Projects
+ rapid influx of desperate junkies
+ wide eyed young people now living in the Big City jogging at night with earbuds
= the only way Marty will listen is when a rich white kid from Weston "living her best life" is murdered on her evening run after spin class and not until a scenario like that arises will he give a single, solitary [email protected]#%.
Now that the police have stormed the barricades and evicted hundreds of desperate souls the homeless will seek refuge in the tunnels of the MBTA or under Newmarket station.
That corrections officer has a history
By Kate D. on Sun, 08/04/2019 - 6:52pm.
The staff working in that area know that corrections officer well. He has a history of taunting people, brushing them back with his car (which is what started this interaction), and threatening people. Basically, he goes out of his way to be an a-hole. This time he picked the wrong person and escalated the situation by both rolling down his window to yell and getting out of his car. And he’s not the only one. That’s the quality of the people they have working in corrections there.
Of course, the corrections/police community are turning this guy into the ultimate victim of “those animals”, but this situation did not have to happen. He had many chances to drive on into the parking lot and go into work. He had many chances to be a functional, reasonable adult. But he chose differently.
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Life in an emergency deconstruction zone: Not fun at 3 a.m.
Citizen complaint of the day: Scavengers turn South End street into a garbage dump
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Education Week: Beauty paradox distorts social perception of beauty
Sarah Averett
Stephanie Dibb Sorensen said the world promotes “surface beauty,” which values a sensual outward appearance created by specific body types, clothes, makeup and accessories. This type of beauty encourages an attitude of covering up flaws in life rather than fixing them, according to Sorensen. (Maddi Dayton)
Common conflicting and misunderstood definitions of beauty often create a paradox that influences what society sees and accepts as beautiful.
BYU church history adjunct professor and LDS author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen expounded this paradox by discussing righteous womanhood and the relationship between righteousness, self-image and power in an Education Week presentation on Thursday.
Sorensen based her presentation on the difference between “surface beauty” and “deep beauty.”
Surface beauty, Sorensen explained, is measured by outward appearance through specific perceptions of what a woman’s clothes, body, makeup and other accessories should look like in order to be considered beautiful. This is the type of beauty embraced by the world and promoted by Satan, and its power comes from a portrayal of sensuality.
“In the end, this whole idea of surface beauty can get you the approval of others and it also can convince you to get power, but from the wrong source,” Sorensen said.
Deep beauty’s power comes from righteousness, according to Sorensen. It is based in the belief that a body is a temple that houses one’s spirit and that virtuous living develops beauty that shines from the inside out.
“Deep beauty earns the approval of our Heavenly Father and it helps us feel a greater sense of self-respect,” Sorensen said. “This approval is much more lasting and unwavering, and our virtue gives us confidence.”
The world’s increasing promotion of surface beauty has changed the social perception of what is considered beautiful, according to Sorensen. She said she found it interesting that after performing a Google image search of the word “beauty,” she had to scroll through about four full pages of close-up pictures of glamorous women before finding a painting that reflected deep beauty.
“Satan has made us think that beauty is just a very narrow definition of one part of what really should be a much larger definition of beauty,” Sorensen said.
Sorenson quoted Elder M. Russell Ballard’s 2010 General Conference address, “Mothers and Daughters,” warning that youth are “coming of age in a world that openly embraces early, casual and thoughtless promiscuity.” Elder Ballard explained that young women who dress immodestly can distort a correct perception of beauty, both in themselves and those who surround them.
“They not only can send the wrong message to young men with whom they associate, but they also perpetuate in their own minds the fallacy that a woman’s value is dependent solely upon her sensual appeal,” Elder Ballard said. “This never has been nor will it ever be within the righteous definition of a faithful daughter of God.”
Sorensen said she has often wondered about the responsibility of women in the way men see them. After studying the “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Sorensen concluded that “we can and should help one another to be our very best selves, and to fulfill our divine roles.”
“While acknowledging that men are ultimately accountable for their thoughts and attitudes toward women, we can promote respect by showing respect for them and for ourselves,” Sorensen said. “Modesty in dress is one way that we can do that.”
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Do you remember where you were when you first heard the song “Point #1” by Chevelle, this weeks highlight band for Music Review Tuesday? I remember where I was. I was sitting in our living room with our kids watching “Ten Most Wanted“, a video request program on TVU. TVU is a 24 hour Christian music video channel on Sky Angel satellite. The song was debuting on “Ten Most Wanted”. My boys and I like their kind of music, so when the song had finished we all looked at each other and kind of head banged and smiled in approval. Chevelle was originally formed in 1995 by three brothers, Pete, Sam, and Joe Loeffler from Grayslake, Illinois. Their musical genre vacillates between alternative metal, hard rock, and post-grunge. The band name was conceived from the name of the boys’ father’s favorite automobile, the Chevrolet Chevelle.
The album I am reviewing is “Vena Sera” which was released on April 3rd of 2007. The album title is latin amd translates to “vein liquid” which, according to Pete Loeffler, represents the blood Chevelle put into making this album. This album is the first one recorded with new bassist and brother-law Dean Bernardini. (For more on the departure of the youngest Loeffler, go to the Wikipedia site.) The album debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200, and sold 62,000 copies in the first week of release. The first track “Antisaint” roars out of the headphones with some neat minor chords, and has a really cool guitar riff with a nice, hard driving bass presence. This bass sound is pronounced throughout the album. The next track is “Brainiac”. This song has a nice, pure driving snare drum beat that drives the song with the signature guitar rhythms of Pete Loeffler. Track number three is “Saferwaters” and the most melodic song on the record which is saying quite a lot because most of the Chevelle songs have an impressive melodic tone. The chorus sings:
That world is calling
So I’m crawling back to sea
Against the surge of waves that
Held us in that ancient grip beneath
Retreat to safer waters
The next song is called “Well Enough Alone“. It is about the events surrounding the departure of former bassist and brother Joe Loeffler. The song begins with a heavy sigh which I believe signifies the frustration experienced by the band through the ordeal. The song is very well done and is your typical hard, melodic Chevelle staple song. It rocks!!
The album highlights are “Antisaint”, “Safewaters”, “Well Enough Alone”, “Humanoid” with it’s Iron Maidenish guitar riff, and serious lyrics about facing the day for what it is, “Paint The Seconds” with it’s blend of acooustic and palm-muted electric distortion guitars, and the rare guitar solo on the album, “I Get It” which is the current single release getting a lot of air play on the local college radio station.
The album tone and sound is much better than their previous release “This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)” and a much shorter title. The songs are all very good and well mixed. I like the different sound of the bass on this album. Kudos to Dean Bernardini the new bass dude. I have been listening to this album since it’s release last year so it has had plenty of time to grow on me. It is one of, if not the best release in it’s genre for 2007. I give it five stars out of five. In a passing note, Chevelle with special guest Finger Eleven are coming to Omaha and performing at the Sokol Auditorium Aril 20th. Our family is going how about yours? Rock On!!
Check out the video for “Well Enough Alone” below.
Posted by barrydean on February 26, 2008 in Chevelle, Music Review, Ten Most Wanted, TVU, Vena Sera
2 responses to “Music Review Tuesday – Chevelle”
Really Robin
I really like Chevelle’s sound, but I don’t like the inuendo of some of their songs…. that’s just me.
Their label seems to hire videographers that take the low road on any double meaning – and that makes me sad.
All in all I think the three of us will have a great time at the concert. Sokol is a great venue for this type of band!
::holds up the sign:: RAWK ON!
Rob Rockitt
I will have to check these guys out. Thanks for reviewing them.
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Agulhas leakage, not salinity, linked to the Atlantic meridional circulation slowdown
Atlantic heat transport and Agulhas Leakage. (a) Sea level variability map and altimeter tracks and (b) schematic of net leakage across an altimeter track. (c) Inferred heat transport (blue) at 35°S and Agulhas Leakage heat transport (red).
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) moves warm, salty water northward, while cool, fresh water is transported southward. At high-latitudes, the salty water cools and sinks, and this sinking is commonly thought to force the overturning circulation. Climate models predict a slowdown of the AMOC, causing freshwater to converge and inhibit sinking to further weaken the AMOC.
An alternative source for AMOC anomalies is the wind-forced Southern Hemisphere circulation. Warm, salty water flows into the South Atlantic primarily from the Indian Ocean where the Agulhas Current leaks large quantities of heat. Some recent studies suggest that heat, not fresh water, forces anomalies in AMOC, particularly in a warming climate.
A slowdown of the AMOC over the recent decade has been documented using the Atlantic-spanning RAPID array at 26°N. A recent study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, combined sea level and gravity from satellites with ocean temperature and salinity data to spatially extrapolate heat and freshwater transport anomalies at the RAPID array and examine their source. The study revealed a high level of coherence of heat and freshwater transports from 35°S to 67°N, with estimates robust between several different flux products.
A decadal anomaly in the AMOC was shown to be consistent in magnitude and phase with changes in the Agulhas Leakage, which was estimated using sea level. The slowing of the AMOC caused freshwater convergence in the North Atlantic, as expected. However, salinity from 40°N to 67°N continued to increase owing to a larger decrease in precipitation. The study concluded that the likely source of the heat transport anomalies was a decrease in the Agulhas Leakage and that changes in convection in the subpolar North Atlantic was an unlikely contributor to the slowdown.
Kathie Kelly, University of Washington
Impact of slowdown of Atlantic overturning circulation on heat and freshwater transports (Geophysical Research Letters)
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The civil war in Mozambique ended more than 20 years ago, but many victims have yet to recover. During the 15-year war, large wildlife such as lions,… more
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The civil war in Mozambique ended more than 20 years ago, but many victims have yet to recover. During the 15-year war, large wildlife such as lions, elephants, and hippos in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park declined by more than 90 percent. "The rebel soldiers were poaching animals to eat them, but they were also hunting animals in order to trade their parts for weapons," explains wildlife ecologist and National Geographic Young Explorer Jen Guyton.
While most wildlife in Gorongosa has fought back to about ten percent of their prewar populations, one animal in particular has made a rather impressive comeback. Waterbuck numbers have reached almost 34,000 even though there were only 3,500 of them when the war started.
Guyton is studying waterbuck in Gorongosa to reveal the secrets behind their success and hoping to shed light on how park managers can help other species recover, too. Guyton says, "We're not really sure why waterbuck are so abundant now. They have this sort of greasy secretion that smells a little bit weird, and they supposedly taste really bad, so supposedly predators don't really like them."
While the dislike for waterbuck among animal predators remains just a theory, Guyton says there is evidence to support humans' distaste for the antelope. "It seems that local people, poachers especially, don't really like to eat waterbuck because of their musky smell."
By peeking into the everyday life of waterbuck, Guyton hopes to learn more about why the species is thriving. "We've teamed up with the National Geographic Crittercam team to put GPS collars on waterbuck. The cool thing about these collars is that they have little cameras attached to the necks. We're getting this incredible first-person footage, or first-antelope footage, I guess, from these animals, which is unprecedented." Guyton says.
Guyton's research is also heavily focused on the effect waterbuck and other herbivores are having on the vegetation: Are they hogging resources in such a way that the other struggling species can't compete? To understand what effect waterbuck are having on the ecosystem, Guyton needs to know what the animals are eating. And to do that, she goes straight to the source. Armed with nothing but latex gloves, Guyton retrieves poop samples directly from the waterbuck. "Sometimes we get unlucky and the animal will void its bowels before we capture it. That means that the back end is empty, and then we're out of luck."
Since the waterbuck is under sedation for this process, one team member holds the animal's head up by the horns to ensure the windpipe is unobstructed. If you think Guyton's position at the back of the waterbuck is unappealing, consider that while under sedation the waterbuck can still respond to stimuli, so as Guyton explains, "when you're standing over the head of a waterbuck and holding its horns you always have to be cautious, because they can toss their head and you can end up with a horn through your stomach."
These compromising positions raise the question: Why not just collect waterbuck poop from the ground after the animal has gone to the bathroom on its own? As it turns out, that process is actually much more labor intensive. Guyton wants to collect poop specifically from animals her team has collared, and "it's a lot more work to follow an animal for sometimes hours at a time, watching it closely, just waiting for it to poop. It's certainly a lot easier and more straightforward to just put a couple fingers in there and take it out," says Guyton. After attaching the Crittercam and taking samples, Guyton's team administers a reversal drug, and the waterbuck goes on its way.
While Guyton's job may not be for the faint of heart, the work is more than worth it as far as she's concerned: "Right now, managers in Gorongosa are working really hard to restore the ecosystem back to the way it was before the civil war. One of the bottlenecks in that process is that we don't yet have a lot of scientific data to tell us what to do, to guide the restoration. This project, among a lot of others that are happening in Gorongosa right now, will give managers the information that they need to make decisions about how to manage the park and its wildlife."
Learn more about Guyton's work on her website and watch her reveal the surprising eating habits of vultures and what that means for the ecosystem.
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I Dream of TV?
Posted in American TV (General), TV advertising, TV Dreams, TV Sports with tags amy schumer, bud light, doritos, kia, mountain dew, puppy-monkey-baby, seth rogen, ted cruz, the wire, toyota prius, walken closet on February 15, 2016 by Tom Steward
After a week in which the SuperBowl ads debuted and I had a stinking cold, there’s only one game you can play and remain sane: Superbowl Ad or Fever Dream?
Three awesome things in one terrifying vessel!
Nick, Frank and Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire stage a bank robbery.
Answer: SuperBowl Ad.
Details: It can’t just have been a casting coincidence that the three actors who played relatives in the same storyline of the same season of the same TV series are the main cast of this Toyota Prius commercial. Nor is it entirely impossible that they are still playing the Sobotkas. It’s a short road from smuggling to grand larceny. Maybe they formed a union for bank robbers. Hopefully Pablo Schreiber, Chris Bauer and James Ransone were watching the ad together over their Superbowl brunch of beer and raw eggs.
Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen campaign cross-country for the right to drink piss.
Details: Even the dockworker’s breakfast of beer tartare sounds better than Bud Light, which Schumer and Rogen – who retain the demographic integrity of the current Democratic race – are fighting for your right to drink. And pass. And re-bottle and drink again. Both comedians have played a part in politics in recent years, with Rogen’s The Interview censored for fear of South Korean retaliation and Schumer campaigning for gun control after her movie Trainwreck was used as the backdrop for a shooting. This is the year of cultural association in SuperBowl ads.
An inter-species cross-breeding experiment creates a new household slave.
Details: This is what happens if you try to write a synopsis of the puppy-monkey-baby spot for Mountain Dew, a suitably horrific premise for what is no doubt an equally horrific drink. Kickstart is a mix of Dew (because of course that’s a substance now!), caffeine and juice. Three awesome things in one, like a puppy-monkey-baby. By the time the tagline that prompted the creation of a grotesque Golom to illustrate the product is revealed, everyone watching is too disturbed and unsettled to care about how it came about in the first place.
Glen Campbell returns to touring with his wife helping him to remember lyrics.
Answer: Fever Dream
Details: Yes, the one celebrity appearance on the list that might actually bring you some joy is in fact a dream I had. Country legend and Alzheimers sufferer Glen Campbell is back on the road, with gaps in performance for memory exercises – which the audience get to see as if it is part of the show – and the singer leaving the stage periodically to get a memory reboot from his devoted wife. While seeing this would make me very happy, I’m glad that no corporation is able to profit from it.
Christopher Walken is hiding in your closet [HINT: This was a movie idea I once had].
Details: Double bluff, I’m afraid. I did have an idea for a movie – ripping quite terribly from Blue Velvet – where a gangster (who in mind was Christopher Walken) hid in his boss’s closet and accidentally killed the boss when he was startled. But this was a play on the phrase walk-in closet (Walken Closet, geddit?!) that somehow segued into a car commercial for Kia. Clearly part of the fun of making commercials is throwing in cultural references, and it’s hard to ignore the visual nods to the Fatboy Slim video Weapon of Choice, which also starred Walken.
Genetic tendencies towards obesity result in a premature birth.
Details: Sounds like a classic anxiety dream for someone like me who wants to be a parent and is worried about passing on their portliness but this was a Doritos commercial that – like Mountain Dew’s Frankenpug – drew on horror comedy to advertise the brand. Apparently, babies want Doritos so much they’re willing to rip themselves prematurely from the womb to get them. Having an inconsiderate, sexist slob of a father seems to be a factor too. Gender caricature is big here, but the man gets off easy as usual.
Ted Cruz is talking badly about the needs of the disabled.
Answer: Fever Dream.
Details: An addendum to the Glen Campbell dream. Ted Cruz is there watching Glen and tells me that his wife shouldn’t bother helping him to remember and just leave him be. I protest and he tries to talk his way out of it. Needless to say, this dream tells you more about Cruz than a campaign ad ever could.
The Balking Dead
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Behind-The-Scenes, TV advertising, TV channels, TV Sports with tags dallas, glen rhee, lost, talking dead, thank you, the walking dead on October 26, 2015 by Tom Steward
I didn’t blog yesterday as usual because I was at my first (American) football (not soccer/football) game, which coincidentally took up the whole day due to stoppages for television. I’m glad though because now I get to talk about something that happened on TV last night. WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS BLOG POST IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH THE WALKING DEAD OR ARE PLANNING ON BINGEING THE SERIES IN THE FUTURE (UNLESS YOU TEND TO FORGET TV DRAMA CHARACTERS AS IF THEY WERE CONTESTANTS ON THE BACHELOR).
As spoiler-free a picture as I could find…
On Sunday’s The Walking Dead, everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic pizza delivery boy – with the possible exception of Fry from Futurama – Glen Rhee apparently died. I say ‘apparently’ because while visually we seem to have seen his demise (and intestines), the storytelling, which continues intertextually in post-show discussion program Talking Dead, left Glen’s fate ambiguous, despite the unlikelihood of his escape from a throng of hungry, handsy walkers. In a series where every character is already to some degree dead, the writers and directors are obliged to be specific about what character is in which state of death. Moreover, the emotion surrounding certain leading characters, including Glen who has been there from the start, means there is an unwritten rule that they be killed visibly and memorably, so as to not play with or minimise those feelings.
Last night, when it came to ‘killing’ Glen, The Walking Dead did neither. Add this to the absence of the character death rituals on Talking Dead of having the actor appear as a guest and a slow-motion replay of their death on the mock-mournful ‘In Memoriam’ section of the show, and it appears that either the producers are playing a dangerous game with Walking Dead fans or floating the possibility that we didn’t see what we think we did. A note read out on Talking Dead by producer Scott M. Gimple hedged their bets even further, saying that ‘a version…or part’ of Glen would return to ‘complete the story’. Lost creator Damon Lindelof was a guest on the show – which is perhaps another clue that in a show where everyone is already dead anything is possible (OH YEAH DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN LOST) – and found it hard to believe that The Walking Dead would pull a Dallas and have Glen return from the dead against all conceivable odds.
Not that it will surprise anyone who suffered through all six seasons of Lost but Lindelof may be overstating the case here. The Walking Dead is rather fond of melodramatic cliffhangers, as the final ‘how do we get out of this’ moment of Season Four nicely illustrates. The show is not above waiting off on spoiling the death of a character if it helps heighten the drama. In Season Five, we didn’t know Bob had been bitten for nearly a whole episode until he finally revealed it to the cannibals who had just eaten his leg for dinner. The quality seal of the Mad Men network (which is also a guarantee of having to watch crappy action and horror movies back-to-back) sometimes makes us forget that what we’re watching here is popular genre television – quite literally a televised comic strip – in which such matinee-style twists and turns are not only possible, but rather their stock-in-trade.
Don’t take it out on me, it’s this guy’s fault!
No-one doubts the class of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories yet the author had the Great Detective return from the dead in implausible circumstances. More to the point, I can see about three or four different ways Glen could have escaped from the pile of walkers he was crowd-surfing on. A couple of those have already been tried and tested in the series, so while the Talking Dead panel saw the callbacks to Glen’s earlier episodes as signs of his impending death, they may also spell the solution to his survival. All of this rhetoric might be my way of deflecting deep-seated sadness about seeing Glen depart The Walking Dead, and of course I’d rather all this conspiracy theorising be true rather than false (as anyone who purports a conspiracy theory does). But don’t underestimate the extra-textual games that TV producers in the digital age are willing to play to maintain interest in their program. One day we might be talking about the ‘Glen hoax’ in the same way we talk about affinity-based publicity stunts like ‘new Coke’. On a story level, if Glen does survive the unsurvivable, it’s a sure sign he’ll be the last man walking.
Posted in American TV (General), TV advertising, TV channels, TV Sports, Watching TV with tags always, carls jr, esurance, fiat, katy perry, key and peele, saturday night live, the puppy bowl, the super bowl, totino's on February 6, 2015 by Tom Steward
I’m sure most of you are over The Super Bowl for another year (this really should be called ‘Watching TV after Americans’) but I’m far more interested in an aspect of the event that doesn’t change each year – although even for someone to whom ‘football’ means round balls and bad pies it was a pretty great game – which is the TV generated around it. The Super Bowl on TV seems never to start or end, making it the perfect metaphor for the medium. As it’s assumed that large portions of the nation are watching, which is no mean feat these days, The Super Bowl is a bat-signal for advertising. For the same reason, counter-programming decides to take one for the team, but those networks that try to take on The Super Bowl must do so in the most ruthless ways possible to even get noticed. This year, however, there were some added satirical bonuses.
I’m used to televised sporting events starting a few minutes later than advertised to sneak in a commercial break while everyone’s watching, but I was not prepared to be sitting on the couch at 3.30 still waiting for the game to begin. And for what? John Travolta’s Adele Dazi trying to break Bleedin’ Gums Murphy’s record for the longest rendition of ‘Star Spangled Banner’? The presentation of the NFL’s annual ‘didn’t rape or hit anyone’ award? Don’t we have a pre-show for this? The mechanics of modern television have manoeuvred themselves so that we are continually watching prelude. The Super Bowl goes one better and expects we will enjoy it. It’s moments like this which remind us that commercial television form is an integral part of the way that a game of American football is structured, rather than the British kind which is merely pricked around the edges by commercial interruption.
Commercials broadcast during The Super Bowl are notorious for being sexist, portentous and counter-intuitive. Half-time act Katy Perry clearly wanted to take some of the heat off the sexist commercials, but they were out in full force, not as well-disguised by nob gags as the advertisers clearly thought. Carl’s Jr. has even managed to turn gender discrimination into a branding mechanism for its Super Bowl ads. But this year they didn’t go unchallenged. Feminine health company Always ran a semantic deconstruction of the gender assumptions and discourses behind the phrase ‘Like a Girl’ while Saturday Night Live staged a fake Totino’s ad exposing the unbelievably narrow gender stereotypes and chauvinistic divisions of Super Bowl ads, particularly the archetypal representation of women as child-minded homemakers. Somewhere in the middle was Fiat’s ‘Viagra’ campaign which unironically presented pumped-up virility and machismo as a draw but also satirised male sexual prowess and the idealised feminine body.
Part of the fun of watching Super Bowl commercials is trying to figure out what product the pretentious pre-amble will eventually advertise (clue: anything combining ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ is deodorant). But sometimes the logic of ad writers is beyond even those who dissect media images for a living. A ghost-child commercial is the perfect vehicle for a leukaemia or cancer charity, but it does nothing to ameliorate the ghoulish undertones of an insurance company. Another insurance company, Esurance, seems intent on using circular logic and specious reasoning similar to the Johnny Cochran O.J. glove defence to convince consumers of its superiority to established rival Geico, but as long as that involves Walter White as a drugstore pharmacist I don’t much mind. If you tire of the commercials, you can switch over to The Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet’s re-imagining of The Super Bowl through the imagery of illegal competitive dog-fighting. For cute read irresponsible.
As with SNL, the most authentic example of Super Bowl television was the least genuine. Key & Peele have always satirized American sport and its coverage, but with their simulated Super Bowl pre-show staged as a real network broadcast, it was far more than a send-up. There was plenty to ridicule: the ill-fitting suits of the former-pro presenters, the passive-aggressive banter, the live-action footer trails of network sitcoms always starring ‘Alison Janney’, and of course the beyond-hyperreal graphics with overly phallic connotations. But the real-time flow and denouement in which the digital robot mascot achieves self-awareness and propels humanity into a state of oblivion identifies The Super Bowl and its live, ongoing broadcast with a dystopian terror effect that reminded me of another piece of faked factual horror television, the one-off BBC drama Ghostwatch. There is something inherently wrong and otherworldly about TV’s broadcast of The Super Bowl, the same something as television itself.
From Diego To A Slow Newsday
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Local TV, TV News, TV Sports with tags alan partridge, anchorman, john coleman, kusi, michael turko, parks and recreation, san diego, saturday night live, wayne's world on November 19, 2014 by Tom Steward
If there’s a pop culture albatross hanging around the neck of my adopted home San Diego, it’s that of bad local television. Not only is the successful Anchorman movie franchise about a San Diego news station – with Will Ferrell’s hapless broadcaster Ron Burgundy a composite of local newsmen – but iconic American late-night sketch show Saturday Night Live currently runs a series of skits called ‘Inside SoCal’ parodying magazine shows on San Diego public television. It seems too much of a coincidence for San Diego to have been arbitrarily picked twice to represent the worst in local TV by the nation’s leading comedians. Before moving here, I thought Anchorman was set in San Diego by accident not design. It didn’t take long to rectify that misnomer.
San Diego: A Dolphin’s Vagina!
It must be acknowledged, however, that this comedy works on national and international levels and clearly doesn’t require affinity with local San Diego stations to be enjoyed. Anchorman and ‘Inside SoCal’ can be identified as broad mockery of the ineptitude of provincial media, applicable to whatever region the audience happens to be in. But in each case, the portrayal captures something unique about the TV coming out of San Diego, which gives them greater weight as parodies, whether you are aware of what they’re referring to or not. It’s presumably why so many of the best media satires (Alan Partridge, Parks & Recreation, Wayne’s World) have a recognisable geographical point of origin, even if the native in-jokes go over the majority of the audience’s heads.
But does it really matter that Anchorman is based in San Diego? On one level, no, since it tells the overarching story of how the sensationalism and kitsch of local news became the mainstream national norm, and could conceivably be about the foibles of broadcast journalism in any overlooked region of the US. Despite an acknowledgement of the city with some local filming at Sea World, San Diego barely features in sequel The Legend Continues, set in New York during the cable boom of the ‘80s. But then there are touches which suggest that Anchorman can’t do without the real thing, with sports reporter Champ’s catchphrase ‘Whammy!’ unnervingly close to KUSI weatherman (and notable global warming denier) John Coleman’s dancing and squealing to signature slogans.
Similarly, ‘Inside SoCal’ could surrogate for just about any poorly-made, small-minded public access show, and indeed you could just as easily locate the skit in the history of Saturday Night Live’s local TV parodies from Illinois-set ‘Wayne’s World’ to the Hampshire College students’ webcam series ‘Jarrett’s Room’. But, again, the self-conscious presenting styles and just-discovered-post-modernism of the editing hits right at the heart of many of the manchild-hosted late-night shows on San Diego’s local stations. The dress, talk and articulation of the East County twentysomething male is rendered to a tee, and G – a San Diego native – was particularly impressed at how convincing this was coming from East Coast comedians. Clearly, though, San Diego-born skit writer Kyle Mooney had a lot to do with this.
But is local TV in San Diego really that bad? Well, yes, but so is I suspect all the regional broadcasting outside the country’s media hubs (and probably in them too!). What distinguishes San Diego is its complete lack of self-awareness. Aside from the waltzing weatherman, KUSI also has an investigative reporter, Michael Turko (of a segment called ‘The Turko Files’ no less), who I will refuse to believe isn’t a parody until my dying day! Turko seems to have studied under Chris Morris’ Ted Maul at the Brass Eye School of Journalism and his voiceovers would be considered a broad spoof if they appeared in a Scary Movie sequel. The anchors are so Stepford I once saw a man present the news with himself.
News For Our Generation!
It might be a welcome break from the surf and sun clichés that haunt San Diego, but the city’s synonymy with laughable local television doesn’t permit the world to take it seriously. Sure, the surfer tag can inadvertently make San Diego seem bland and vacuous too, even if the beach music and movies it stems from are among the best in America’s popular culture. However, there’s no such backhanded compliment in Anchorman or ‘Inside SoCal’, however affectionate they are. Since it puts San Diego on the map and heralds the rise of natives to national fame, I don’t think locals will put up too much of a protest. Given the state of TV here, they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if they did.
One Pundred Hosts (Without Typos Or Cheap Puns)!!!!
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Americans watching British TV, Behind-The-Scenes, BiogTV, British Shows on American TV, Reality TV, Reviews, TV Acting, TV advertising, TV channels, TV Culture, TV History, TV Sports, Watching TV with tags celebrity apprentice, downton abbey, fox news, futurama, mad men, the 100, the a.v. club, the travel channel, TLC, tv land on September 3, 2014 by Tom Steward
We’re into syndication! With 100 blogs under my belt, I can now sell the rights to the A.V. Club who will publish the same three posts over and over again – with every third sentence removed – for the next twenty years. In the true spirit of American TV, I’ve decided against celebrating this milestone with a piece of considered, original writing (why break with tradition now?) and instead hastily assembled and artlessly compiled a list of extracts representing the best (or at least most comprehensible out-of-context) of the blog…and split it into two parts. Thanks for watching and enjoy!
A specially-created TV series just for this milestone!
‘Years previously I used to run on the spot along to chase sequences in cartoons like a dwarf soothsayer doing a dance prophesising the age of TV interactivity’
‘My friend openly admitted to finding the slapdick (my term) comedy of the three hosts hilarious, commenting that “we don’t have people like Clarkson on American TV”. “Fox News” I thought, but didn’t say’
‘So shifting viewing an hour or two to make way for a pizza is not exactly the end of television’
‘Yes, Chantix is apparently not just a wonder-drug but a porthole into an alternative universe of Marxist dialectic or, if that’s too posh a reference for you, the Bizarro World’
‘All my morning shows on the day of the Royal Wedding were attended or discussed by the hosts with a bizarre royalty-envy that ill fits a country founded on telling the King of England to fuck off’
‘After weeks of sounding like a malfunctioning motivational speaker robot, Celebrity Apprentice contestant and consecutive mental-of-the-week Gary Busey was appointed project manager on a task’
‘For G, it was as if Britons had collectively decided to substitute a working TV set in the corner of the room for a 19th Century ventriloquist dummy with its mouth sprung to repeatedly gawp the word “Mummy”’
‘When war “came to Downton Abbey” it went by so fast that it seemed to have actually been fought in the grounds of the building, like a game of Risk gone awry’
‘Now I’m starting to think that I was in some sort of hallucinogenic fever state the night before because I could’ve sworn I saw Hollywood actor-director Clint Eastwood hold a conversation with a chair while an audience of magenta elephants cheered him on’
‘TV Land is where sitcoms and their stars go to die’
‘Memba them?
‘After prolonged exposure to American TV news, however, I now long for a token alternative viewpoint and the masquerade of even-handed commentary’
‘Watching a Halloween-themed sitcom episode used to be like watching film footage of Hitler’s speeches; unimpressive and kind of shambolic and yet those in the crowd seem to be going wild for it’
‘Like anything in life which I have no direct experience of, I looked to American TV for advice on how best to handle the situation’
‘All I found on The Travel Channel were programmes about the excessive intake of high-calorie foods which make Americans less able to move. When I turned over to The Learning Channel I saw wall-to-wall programming about people without formal educations’
‘I’m sure Harry Enfield will be relieved to know that after decades of writing and performing some of the best character comedy and social satire in Britain he is finally known in America…as a talking gnome with goggles’
‘But a 3 hour serialised pilot? It’s like the feeling you get ordering a starter of garlic bread with tomato and cheese in a pizza restaurant. It’s enjoyable and you wanted a starter but it’s also what you’re getting for the main course’
‘I mean, what exactly is gained showing Goodfellas at 2 in the afternoon?’
‘It seems that if reality TV was more like reality, with all its loose ends and uneven surfaces, fans of the genre wouldn’t necessarily want to watch it’
‘Early in his career, artist Roy Lichtenstein produced a series of paintings based on advertisements. In one of the great cultural ironies of our times, advertising started appropriating Lichtenstein’s paintings. Something similar is going on with Mad Men’
‘To those who know football from the European or Latin American leagues, watching a US soccer team play feels like the moment in Futurama where Fry finds that in the 30th Century baseball has become ‘Blernsball’, a barely recognisable Twilight Zone twist on the sport where spectators try to catch players instead of balls and giant spiders roam free through the diamond’
‘It’s a perfectly normal road to marriage…if you’re James Bond’
Window on the World Cup
Posted in American TV (General), Touring TV, TV channels, TV Sports with tags Adrian Chiles, Brazil, espn, football, Ian Darke, itv sport, sky sports, Steve McManaman, univision, world cup 2014 on June 19, 2014 by Tom Steward
This is the first time I’ve not been in Britain during a World Cup. The point would be moot were I virtually anywhere else in the world, be it Europe, Africa or even Latin America. But I’m in the United States, where the following for football/soccer (delete as inappropriate) is cult at best. The US team did well in their World Cup qualifiers and they’ve started the tournament with a big win over bogey team Ghana (if you’re not sure what I’m taking about at this point, it’s probably not worth going on…) so they’ll be some bandwagoning, but, unlike most nations, it will be driven more by patriotism than love of the game. But I’m starting to realise that television makes a World Cup.
ESPN: football in the wrong place!
You might wonder what the difference is since a game’s content doesn’t change depending on where you watch it. It’s not some animated blockbuster that has local celebrities dubbing the characters’ voices. Except it sort of is. I don’t need commentary and coverage by my countrymen any more than I need an Englishman coaching the national team (because that always works out so well for us) but I need pundits who can talk about the game with some degree of sophistication. That’s not to say that British TV guarantees this. ITV’s nickname-driven football bloke-in always fell short yet the statistic-based monotone of Spanish language network Univision’s World Cup commentary hits the spot. So let’s call a spade a spade, or let’s just call ESPN shit!
In some ways, ESPN’s World Cup coverage feels very familiar. Commentator Ian Darke is English and previously worked for Sky Sports, and has that voice that only British football pundits and inflammatory talk radio DJs have the rights to. He’s backed up by a renowned ex-Premier League player, Liverpool’s Steve McManaman, whose years in the sport somehow haven’t resulted in the ability to read a match. Just like ITV, the coverage is heavily commercialised and avowedly lowest common denominator, with a line in metaphor that makes the poetry written by contestants on The Bachelorette seem avant-garde. But if this were all that was wrong, it wouldn’t be any more disappointing than being forced to watch football in the company of Adrian Chiles, Britain’s highest-paid pumpkin.
But it is much worse. The commentary is idiot-friendly to the point of baby-talk. During USA vs. Ghana, pundits referred to the US closing the game down as ‘parking the bus’ so many times, I actually thought the handbrake on the team coach was off. Conversely, the self-evident rules of the game are discussed with a depth and ambiguity that wouldn’t look out of place in The Wire. Behind this I’m sure there’s some nobly futile effort to broaden the appeal of football to US sports fans, but it insults our intelligences from ear to ear. The studio segments are so short they’re more like game shows where pundits have to come up with a repeatable three-syllable analogy before the clock runs out. Reports from the city have been replaced by pseudo-Steinbeckian monologues.
The other culture-shock (although does it count if it’s just one country holding out?) is that ESPN’s coverage of the World Cup doesn’t include all the tournament’s games and events. The opening ceremony featuring a kidnapped Jennifer Lopez was shunned in favour of the US Open and though I’m not one for race-baiting, it does tend to be the games featuring the whiter parts of the world that are covered. In cultures where football is taken seriously, TV channels broadcast a continuous World Cup flow but ESPN’s coverage is sandwiched in-between Nascar races and miscellaneous college sports tournaments. It’s jarring not to have every broadcaster on TV crowbarring the World Cup into every studio segment. Never have I longed more for a bloated pre-match show.
Univision: football coverage you can count by!
Hispanic TV networks have been my sanctuary. I may only understand a quarter of what’s said but the pundits’ innate football knowledge and enthusiasm is palpable. All possible scenarios within the match have their own catchphrases, bellowed in one continuous breath by the commentator. Seemingly every show on Univision, regardless of genre, cuts away to live coverage in Brazil like a transmission test card and it’s not uncommon to see news being presented in football strips. It’s not a home away from home; it’s an extended stay with a mad moustached uncle. I never thought there was anything worse than ITV Football, but there is and it’s ITV Football for beginners. I’m just grateful there’s enough Latinos in the US to give me an alternative.
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A Long Way From Your Heart is the fourth release from the fiercely independent outfit whose three previous albums received critical accolades while amassing a massive and highly passionate nationwide fanbase. With his vivid character sketches and blue-collar narratives, Evan Felker continues to solidify his place as one of the finest songwriters to come out of the dustbowl in recent years. Felker’s vocals are honest and affecting, combined with his virtuosic band mates – RC Edwards (bass), Kyle Nix (fiddle), Ryan Engleman (guitar), Gabe Pearson (drums) and Hank Early (pedal steel) –Turnpike Troubadours are a force. The band has achieved a rare feat with A Long Way From Your Heart by creating an album that is immediately accessible, yet continues to reveal greater depth upon each listen.
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8. Old Time Feeling (Like Before)
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Zach Hartwig applies physics, teamwork to create new tools for fusion energy science
As an undergraduate engineering student, Zach Hartwig was introduced to the methods, procedures and practices that form an engineer’s toolkit. But, he recalls, his real interest was in “the principles the tools were built on, the fundamental physics that lay behind them.” So he switched majors and became a physicist, spending the next few years working in particle physics before joining the MIT NSE doctoral program.
Working at NSE’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Hartwig has led the development of a groundbreaking materials diagnostic system that will help advance nuclear fusion as a practical energy source. And in the process, he has cultivated his true passion — “a mixture of nuclear physics and materials science with a bit of engineering thrown in.”
The work exemplifies NSE's increasing focus on interdisciplinary projects that support worldwide development of commercial fusion power plants utilizing tokamak reactors, like PSFC’s Alcator C-Mod. Tokamaks have made huge strides in functionality, successfully using magnetic fields to confine plasmas where lighter elements fuse into heavier ones, as they do in the core of stars, at temperatures of up to 100 million degrees C.
One important area of inquiry is the interaction between the confined plasma and the materials inside the tokamak's high-vacuum chamber. “The plasma and the chamber walls are a coupled system,” explains Hartwig. “C-Mod’s wall tiles and other plasma-facing components are made from robust refractory metals, like molybdenum, but we’re pushing their material limits by exposing them to enormous heat, charged-particle, and neutron fluxes that can cause severe surface modifications.”
Understanding how these components behave during ongoing reactor operation is intimately tied to several grand challenges still facing fusion — maintaining and controlling steady-state burning plasmas, mitigating deleterious effects of plasma-material interactions, and minimizing required maintenance. But until now, it has been effectively impossible to make routine, comprehensive measurements of plasma-facing materials in the hostile and inaccessible environment of a tokamak chamber.
Hartwig’s five-year project, conceived by NSE Professor Dennis Whyte and executed with help from nearly 100 NSE scientists, engineers, machinists, and students, solves the problem by directing a beam of deuterons (particles comprised of one proton and one neutron) from a linear accelerator into the tokamak, where it can be magnetically steered to strike any desired point.
The deuterons prompt nuclear reactions with the component material, generating high-energy neutrons and gamma rays, which can be measured by specially positioned detectors near the reactor chamber. “That tells us an enormous amount about the surface they came from, and lets us reconstruct surface properties we’re interested in,” explains Hartwig, “Nobody’s ever looked at these things so comprehensively inside the vacuum vessel.”
While Hartwig cautions that the diagnostic hardware and its associated computational modeling component must still fully prove themselves, the technology has the potential to become standard equipment for magnetic-confinement systems worldwide. It’s a vindication for Whyte’s vision, and for the diverse group of skilled contributors.
“Until this project, I hadn’t really appreciated what it means to be part of a cohesive team, the synergy. It’s impressive,” says Hartwig.
Hartwig supplements his research with substantial work in fusion-related outreach and communications. In addition to giving tours and talks at the PSFC, he has developed an overview presentation covering technical, economic, environmental, and safety aspects of fusion, delivering it to high-school students, university energy and business groups, and other audiences.
He also organized a 2012 trip for 11 NSE fusion students to Washington, DC, where they met with 30 House and Senate offices. On the agenda: the need to maintain a world-leading domestic fusion energy research program amidst tightening federal budgets and increased U.S. commitments to international fusion experiments. In this environment, says Hartwig, scientists must actively communicate the value of their work to the public and policymakers and make the case for ongoing funding.
“It’s increasingly important for scientists to understand the policy environment,” notes Hartwig, who is considering service as a science advisor in government post-doctorate. “Policymakers rarely meet young scientists. If you show up, tell them about your work and why it's important, and thank them for supporting it, that personal connection makes quite a big impact.”
“It’s increasingly important for scientists to understand the policy environment ... Policymakers rarely meet young scientists. If you show up, tell them about your work and why it’s important, and thank them for supporting it, that personal connection makes quite a big impact.”
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Home Culture The Gods Were Out for White Party Palm Springs 2019
The Gods Were Out for White Party Palm Springs 2019
Our post coverage of White Party Palm Springs 2019 continues with the actual White Party on Saturday night at Convention Center in Palm Springs. The theme for Jeffrey Sanker’s 30-year celebration this year was House of Gods, giving attendees the opportunity to channel their godliness in various forms of white dress for this massive event that attracted around 30,000 men and some women from all over the world.
The theme could’ve been Roman Empire because there were a lot of guys dressed in Roman inspired costumes. Harnesses continue to make a comeback at this event. There were angels, unicorns and you had your anti-white party goers who decided to go dressed in black. There were also some otherworldly creations that can compete with some of the costumes one sees at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival.
DJs Aron (ISRAEL), Nina Flowers (USA), and Dan Slater (AUSTRALIA) kept the momentum going throughout the night and people dancing. There was also special performance by singer Beth Anne Sacks who brought the house down with her incredible pipes.
White Party night has brought the likes of Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Ariana Grande to the stage. Jeffrey Sanker recently declared that Lady Gaga was a standout moment for him. “We had a contract for the White Party signed six months before and she had blown up and got an offer to do Saturday Night Live. Her manager called me, and I said, ‘She’s a friend and I’ll release her. I’m happy for her,’” he told Variety. “She decided not to do Saturday Night Live and did my party instead, just to support the community. It really said something amazing about who she is. And, of course, she was on SNL two months later with Madonna.”
There were rumors that Madonna might make an appearance for White Party at 30 years, but the closest the gays got to the Queen of Pop was when they were treated to the dance version of her latest single Medallin, which she co-sings with international sensation Maluma, from her upcoming album Madame X.
White Party Palm Springs 2019 is another one for the books. Check out our photos of the night by Paulo Murillo. #wehotimes
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A quarter century of workplace employment relations surveys
Bryson, A., Green, F. and Whitfield, K. 2008. A quarter century of workplace employment relations surveys. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 46 (4), pp. 577-586. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2008.00697.x
Bryson, A., Green, F. and Whitfield, K.
The 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004) is the fifth in a series that spans almost a quarter of a century. This paper reflects on the history of this series, examines some of its key limitations and speculates on what future directions it might take.
British Journal of Industrial Relations
46 (4), pp. 577-586
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Not so dissatisfied after all? The impact of union coverage on job satisfaction
Bryson, A. and White, M. 2016. Not so dissatisfied after all? The impact of union coverage on job satisfaction. Oxford Economic Papers. 68 (4), pp. 898-919. doi:10.1093/oep/gpw018
The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors
Blanchflower, D.G. and Bryson, A. 2010. The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors. Economica. 77 (305), pp. 92-109. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00726.x
Union free-riding in Britain and New Zealand
Bryson, A. 2008. Union free-riding in Britain and New Zealand. Journal of Industrial Relations. 50 (1), pp. 5-24. doi:10.1177/0022185607085692
Rise of High Involvement Management in Britain, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 321
Wood, S. and Bryson, A. 2008. Rise of High Involvement Management in Britain, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 321. NIESR.
The Changing Use of Contingent Pay at the Modern Workplace, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 319
Bryson, A., Pendleton, A. and Whitfield, K. 2008. The Changing Use of Contingent Pay at the Modern Workplace, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 319. NIESR.
Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice, CEP Discussion Paper No. 884
Willman, P., Gomez, R. and Bryson, A. 2008. Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice, CEP Discussion Paper No. 884. London Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?, CEP Discussion Paper No. 0881
Bryson, A. and White, M. 2008. Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?, CEP Discussion Paper No. 0881. London Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway, CEP Discussion Paper No. 0867
Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. 2008. A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway, CEP Discussion Paper No. 0867. London Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Union Decline in Britain, CEP Discussion Paper No. 864
Blanchflower, D.G. and Bryson, A. 2008. Union Decline in Britain, CEP Discussion Paper No. 864. London Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Private Sector Employment Growth, 1998-2004: A Panel Analysis of British Workplaces, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 861
Bryson, A. and Nurmi, S. 2008. Private Sector Employment Growth, 1998-2004: A Panel Analysis of British Workplaces, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 861. London Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Competition and the Retreat from Collective Bargaining, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 318
Brown, W., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2008. Competition and the Retreat from Collective Bargaining, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 318. NIESR.
Union Decline in Britain, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3436
Blanchflower, D.G. and Bryson, A. 2008. Union Decline in Britain, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3436. Bonn, Germany Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK? NBER Working Paper No. 14235
Bryson, A. and Freeman, R.B. 2008. How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK? NBER Working Paper No. 14235. Cambridge, Mass., USA National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w14235
From Industrial Relations to Human Resource Management: The Changing Role of the Personnel Function, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 315
Guest, D. and Bryson, A. 2008. From Industrial Relations to Human Resource Management: The Changing Role of the Personnel Function, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 315. NIESR.
From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a 21st Century Context, Manpower Human Resources Lab Discussion Paper No. 6
Gomez, R., Bryson, A. and Willman, P. 2008. From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a 21st Century Context, Manpower Human Resources Lab Discussion Paper No. 6. London London School of Economics.
From the two faces of unionism to the Facebook society: union voice in a twenty-first-century context
Bryson, A., Gomez, R. and Willman, P. 2008. From the two faces of unionism to the Facebook society: union voice in a twenty-first-century context. in: Eaton, A.E. (ed.) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, January 4-6, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana Champaign, IL LERA. pp. 51-60
The theory and practice of pay setting
Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2008. The theory and practice of pay setting. in: Blyton, P., Bacon, N., Fiorito, J. and Heery, E. (ed.) The SAGE handbook of industrial relations Los Angeles, Calif. ; London Sage. pp. 491-512
The long goodbye: new establishments and the fall of union voice in Britain
Willman, P., Bryson, A. and Gomez, R. 2007. The long goodbye: new establishments and the fall of union voice in Britain. International Journal of Human Resource Management. 18 (7), pp. 1318-1334. doi:10.1080/09585190701393863
Are there day of the week productivity effects?
Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2007. Are there day of the week productivity effects? London Manpower Human Resources Lab, London School of Economics. doi:ManpowerHumanResourcesLabDiscussionPaperSeriesNo.4
Workplace industrial relations in Britain, 1980–2004
Blanchflower, D.G., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2007. Workplace industrial relations in Britain, 1980–2004. Industrial Relations Journal. 38 (4), pp. 285 -302. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.2007.00449.x
The diffusion of workplace voice and high-commitment human resource management practices in Britain, 1984-1998
Bryson, A., Gomez, R., Kretschmer, T. and Willman, P. 2007. The diffusion of workplace voice and high-commitment human resource management practices in Britain, 1984-1998. Industrial and Corporate Change. 16 (3), pp. 395-426. doi:10.1093/icc/dtm009
Doing the right thing? Does fair share capitalism improve workplace performance?
Bryson, A. and Freeman, R.B. 2007. Doing the right thing? Does fair share capitalism improve workplace performance? London Department of Trade and Industry.
Temporary agency workers and workplace performance in the private sector
Bryson, A. 2007. Temporary agency workers and workplace performance in the private sector. London Manpower Human Resources Lab, London School of Economics. doi:MHRLDiscussionPaperSeriesNo.3
Blanchflower, D.G. and Bryson, A. 2007. The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors. Bonn, Germany Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Productivity and days of the week
Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2007. Productivity and days of the week. Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce.
Employee voice and human resource management: an empirical analysis using British data
Bryson, A., Willman, P., Gomez, R. and Kretschmer, T. 2007. Employee voice and human resource management: an empirical analysis using British data. London Policy Studies Institute.
What voice do British workers want?
Bryson, A. and Freeman, R.B. 2007. What voice do British workers want? in: Freeman, R.B., Boxall, P. and Haynes, P. (ed.) What workers say: employee voice in the Anglo-American workplace Ithaca ILR Press/Cornell University Press. pp. 72-96
New Zealand Working For Families programme: methodological considerations for evaluating MSD programmes
Bryson, A., Evans, M., Knight, G., La Valle, I. and Vegeris, S. 2007. New Zealand Working For Families programme: methodological considerations for evaluating MSD programmes. London, UK Policy Studies Institute. doi:ResearchDiscussionSeries26
The effect of trade unions on wages
Bryson, A. 2007. The effect of trade unions on wages. Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique. XLVI (2-3), pp. 33-45.
New labour, new unions?
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Union organization in Great Britain
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Worker voice, managerial response and labour productivity: an empirical investigation
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Voice at work...what do employers want?: A symposium summary
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WIRS through the ages
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Accounting for Collective Action: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization in British Unions
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Workplace Industrial Relations In Britain, 1980-2004
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Small and medium-sized enterprises: findings from the 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey
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Unions, within-workplace job cuts and job security guarantees
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Unions, job reductions and job security guarantees: the experience of British employees
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Rent-sharing and profitability: interim report (Task 2)
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Inside the workplace: findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey
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Worker needs and voice in the US and the UK
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Making linked employer-employee data relevant to policy
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Methodological considerations in evaluating Working for Families
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Union effects on employee relations in Britain
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High-involvement management practices, trade union representation and workplace performance in Britain
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Why have workers stopped joining unions?: The rise in never-membership in Britain
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Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
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Youth Adult Differences in Demand for Unionization: Are American, British and Canadian Workers All That Different?
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Why so unhappy?: The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
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Working with dinosaurs?: Union effectiveness in Britain
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Working off welfare
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Do Job Security Guarantees Work?
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The Union Wage Premium in the US and the UK
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Does Union Membership Really Reduce Job Satisfaction?
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Unions and Workplace Closure in Britain, 1990-1998
Bryson, A. 2004. Unions and Workplace Closure in Britain, 1990-1998. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 42 (2), pp. 283-302. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2004.00315.x
Managerial responsiveness to union and non-union worker voice in Britain
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What effect do unions have on wages now and would freeman and medoff be surprised?
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Why do voice regimes differ?
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Permanent revolution: the case of Britain's welfare-to-work regime
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Future of Unions in Modern Britain: Mid-Term Report on Leverhulme Trust-funded Research Programme 2000-2002
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Buying Into Union Membership
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From Welfare to Workfare
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Working Families' Tax Credit and Disabled Person's Tax Credit: a survey of employers
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Profiling benefit claimants in Britain: a feasibility study
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Working with dinosaurs?: Union effectiveness in delivering for employees
Bryson, A. 2003. Working with dinosaurs?: Union effectiveness in delivering for employees. London, UK Policy Studies Institute.
Employee Desire for Unionisation in Britain and its Implications for Union Organising
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The Size of the Union Membership Wage Premium in Britain's Private Sector
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The Union Wage Premium: An Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching
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Marching on together? Recent trends in union membership
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Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the US Revisited
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The use of propensity score matching in the evaluation of active labour market policies
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Employee Voice, Workplace Closure and Employment Growth: a Panel Analysis
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Union Effects on Workplace Governance 1983–1998
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The foundation of 'partnership'? Union effects on employee trust in management
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Union Effects On Managerial and Employee Perceptions of Employee Relations in Britain
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Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionization: Are American, British and Canadian Workers All That Different?
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Collective bargaining and workplace performance: an investigation using the workplace employee relations survey 1998
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Have British Workers Lost Their Voice or Have They Gained a New One?
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The Medium-term Effects of the Voluntary Stage of ONE
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New deal for young people: national survey of participants: stage 1
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Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces
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Information and Advice about Benefits
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Tim Russert dead, so says Twitter
June 13, 2008 by Whitney Hess 6 Comments
Tim Russert is dead at 58 from an apparent heart attack. And I found out via Twitter.
Before it was on CNN. Before it was on the New York Times. Before I could Google it anywhere, Tim Russert’s death was reported on Twitter.
This is the power of word-of-mouth.
If you page back in the Summize logs, you can see how it started. You can see the very first mention. Then you can see how it spread from friend to friend, network to network. Re-tweets. Condolences. RIPs.
When Twitter works, it really works. It’s more powerful than any centralized media source. It unites us as individuals. It defines the present tense.
My friend Tony Bacigalupo said it best:
A year of Twitter statistics January 8, 2009 | 3 comments
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AK says
i dont know that i agree with tony – where was russert before the war?
Velveteen Mind - Megan says
I found out via Twitter, as well. As it works out, I end up getting most of the news via Twitter while I’m going about my usual routine. The news comes to me through the people that I follow.
jen b says
I actually found out in the car driving. MPR broke in to communicate the news. The odd thing though, it had a twitter like feeling to it when it happened. I actually thought to myself, if i were at my computer, I’d have found out about this on twitter but since I’m driving, I had a twitter moment in the car.
Hudson says
…and i heard it from your tweet. it’s very sad news and what’s interesting to me on the tech side of things is that I’m glad I heard it via “word of mouth,” not from big media. i would have seen it on NYTimes a few minutes later, but with Twitter it’s more personal, being literally person to person, and somehow more comforting being able to share it that way.
also, Summize breaks after page 100 of Tim Russert results, which is nowhere near the first tweet. I think developers often underestimate the potential use/depth of their infrastructure, cf: http://is.gd/x05
michael galpert says
I don’t read/watch the news anymore. I just follow twitter.
Tim Russert « GingerSnaps says:
[…] Once again, the news broke on Twitter before it even made CNN. […]
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The role of private renting in Wales
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The growth of the private rented sector is the largest structural change in the Welsh housing market for at least two generations, according to a report for Welsh Government.
The report by the Public Policy Institute for Wales and London School of Economics says policy makers must take account of this fundamental shift. The trend must be significant for policies on new building, the allocation of supply subsidies, rent determination and the role of social and intermediate housing.
The private rented sector more than doubled in size in every local authority in Wales between 2001 and 2013. Some 80 per cent of the growth in private renting came via transfers within the existing stock.
The report concludes that: ‘Cardiff shows the greatest evidence of shortage in terms of both market rent levels and relative rents between market and social sectors. On the limited evidence presented here any institutional investment in the PRS is likely to be restricted to Cardiff and the surrounding area.’
However, initial analysis suggests that there are areas of growth where there are concentrations of unemployment, low income and poor quality housing.
The report finds that the spatial pattern of social rents varies relatively little across the country as compared to the PRS. It argues: ‘The rent ratios suggest that there are areas where there may be excess supply in the social sector and the case for investment in new social housing should be carefully assessed.’
Estimates of housing need and demand by Alan Holmans for PPIW suggest that 8,700 homes a year will be required to 2031, of which 37 per cent will need some form of subsidy. Over half of the total requirement will be in Cardiff (27%), Swansea (11%), Wrexham (8%) and Newport (6%). The report argues that recent trends suggest that the private rented sector is likely to play a significant role in meeting this requirement.
The Potential Role of the Private Rented Sector in Wales by Christine Whitehead and Kath Scanlon is published by Public Policy Institute for Wales.
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By JOHN NICHOLSON
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Five months away from his 50th birthday, Phil Mickelson is still a long, long ways from the senior tour.
“When I stop hitting bombs I’ll play the Champions Tour, but I’m hitting some crazy bombs right now,” Mickelson said Wednesday, a day before he opens the year at The American Express.
Mickelson is doubling as tournament host at the desert pro-am event that has a new title sponsor and name.
“I want to make sure it’s a first-class experience for everybody here, that the CEOs that we have brought in, that the people we have brought in have this great experience,” Micklelson said.
Competing for the first time since early November, he showed up at PGA West a little better prepared than usual because of his added responsibilities as host.
“I’m spending a little bit more time making sure that the week goes well for everybody,” said Mickelson, the tournament winner in 2002 and 2004. “So, I had to spend the last seven, 10 days working with (swing coach) Andrew Getson and working with (short game coach) Dave Pelz getting my game sharp so that I was ready when I got here. I think I am, but until you tee it up, you really don’t know.”
After a fast start last year with a second-place tie at PGA West and a victory at Pebble Beach, Mickelson struggled the rest of the year.
“I’m curious as probably anybody is to see how well I play,” Mickelson said. “I’ve tried to address a lot of weaknesses or areas that needed to improve and my motivation is back. This is the best I’ve felt in years, maybe even decades. Physically, there’s nothing holding me back from playing some of my best golf.”
Instead of the PGA Tour Champions, the Hall of Famer is focused on making the U.S. Ryder Cup team after failing to qualify for the Presidents Cup.
“I don’t often voice too many goals, but one of them is to make the Ryder Cup,” Mickelson said. “So, I need to play enough tournaments out here and play well to be able to achieve that particular goal.”
He only wants to play in the Ryder Cup if he qualifies.
“I don’t want to be a pick. I’ve got to earn it,” Mickelson said. “I’m at the point where I’ve got to earn my spot. There’s eight spots out there and if I play well I’ll make it. If I play to the level that I believe I’m capable of I’ll make the team. But if not, you’ve got to give those spots to some younger guys that haven’t had the chance to play and compete the way I have.”
Lefty will play alongside Tony Finau the first three days, opening Thursday at La Quinta Country Club in the second group off the first tee. They will play PGA West’s Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course on Friday, then the adjacent Stadium Course — also the site of the final round — on Saturday.
Defending champion Adam Long and Paul Casey will tee off in the group ahead of Mickelson and Finau on Thursday, with wind expected to gust to 25 mph after two windy weeks for the tour in Hawaii.
Last year, Long made a 14-foot birdie putt on the final hole for his first PGA Tour title. He closed with a 7-under 65 to beat playing partners Mickelson and Adam Hadwin by a stroke. Mickelson, the leader after each of the first three rounds, struggled with his putting in a 69.
Finau, at No. 15 in the world, is the top-ranked player in the field. No. 17 Paul Casey, No. 20 Francesco Molinari and No. 22 Rickie Fowler are the only other top-25 players. Mickelson is 79th.
Fowler is playing the event for the first time in six years. He grew up about an hour away.
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Cosmology/Physics/Chemistry
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
Category: Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try i t. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day. ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (HB) by Bill Bryson
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ons and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body- A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up. A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. ...Show more
Almost Human: A Biography of Julius the Chimpanzee by Alfred Fidjestol
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: Puzzle Edition by Stephen Hawking
'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIAN The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. This limited edition features the 'Big Questions Puzzle' devised by Josh Kirklin, a PhD student in Stephen Hawking's department at the University of Cambridge, and is inspired by the ten big questions in the book: Is there a God? How did it all begin? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet. And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind. Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next. ...Show more
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere - and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out? From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of th e Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the Worldis a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea- that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change, this idea was forged by scientists studying water in its myriad forms. This is their story. Linking the history of the planet with the lives of those who studied it, Sarah Dry follows the remarkable scientists who ascended volcanic peaks to peer through an atmosphere's worth of water vapour, cored mile-thick ice sheets to uncover the Earth's ancient climate history, and flew inside storm clouds to understand how small changes in energy can produce both massive storms and the general circulation of the Earth's atmosphere. Each toiled on his or her own corner of the planetary puzzle. Gradually, their cumulative discoveries coalesced into a unified working theory of our planet's climate. We now call this field climate science, and in recent years it has provoked great passions, anxieties, and warnings. But no less than the object of its study, the science of water and climate is - and always has been - evolving. By revealing the complexity of this history, Waters of the Worlddelivers a better understanding of our planet's climate at a time when we need it the most. 'Waters of the Worldsparkles with lyricism and wit. Dry is a gifted storyteller, and her research into the pre-history of Earth system science has turned up gripping tales of risk, adventure, defiance, and discovery. A unique and important book.' -Deborah R. Coen, author of Climate in Motion- Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale ...Show more
The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science by Tim Ball
Dr. Tim Ball exposes the malicious misuse of climate science as it was distorted by dishonest brokers to advance the political aspirations of the progressive left.
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
Category: Mathematics
Australia's funniest mathematician is back in 2019 with a small format edition of 2018's bestseller. Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes? Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years? And have you met the 23-million-digit prime? The answers to all of these questions - and much, much more - ar e in Adam Spencer's Top 100. Bursting at the seams with puzzles, quizzes, games, numerical trivia and fun, this is the ultimate book for maths nerds and anyone with an inquiring mind. Whether you're 8 or 80, strap your thinking cap on, grab a pencil and get ready to count down from 100 to 1 with Australia's favourite - and funniest - mathematician, Adam Spencer. Praise for Adam Spencer 'The things Adam Spencer writes about should be taught in every school worldwide.' Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers 'Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating once you've read this book!' Amanda Keller 'Every bright young mind in Australia should read Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers - and we oldies would benefit, too.' Peter FitzSimons ...Show more
Curious: Life Hacks Through Maths by Lily Serna
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi c - with simple, mathematically proven insights to solve the most common problems of modern living, such as locating your keys, joining the fastest queue at the supermarket, planning the perfect dinner party, finding and keeping love, beating a soccer goalie or winning at games.Using a mix of simple psychology and the easy-to-understand logic of maths, Curious is warm, engaging and completely compelling. ...Show more
Seasons of the Moon - Folk Names and Lore of the Full Moon by Michael Carabetta (By (photographer))
Category: Cosmology/Physics/Chemistry
From Strawberry to Dragon, Harvest to Storm, the full moon is known by many names around the world and across the seasons, and each name has a story behind it. This beautiful photographic celebration of our closest celestial neighbor captures the visual wonder and the connection we feel to the moon. Inc luding three dozen folk names and short evocative explanations drawn from Native American, Inuit, Celtic, medieval English, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, and pagan cultures, Seasons of the Moon presents an inspired visual pairing for each, taken in the month the folk name represents. Featuring a poetic moon die-cut cover, this portrait of our eternal fascination with the moon is a welcome companion as we look to the sky throughout the seasons. ...Show more
Mental Maths Games for Clever Kids by Gareth Moore; Chris Dickason
Category: Mathematics | Series: Buster Brain Games
Clever Kids can test their mental maths by working out simple fractions, times tables, telling the time and much more. All the answers can be found at the back of the book. From best-selling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, creator of the chart-topping success Brain Games for Clever Kids.
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
"Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he shows how maths is the beating heart of so much of modern life. An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - Marcus du Sautoy "Used wisely, mathematics can save your life. Used unwisely, it can ruin it. A lucid and enthralling account of why maths matters in everyone's life. A real eye-opener." - Prof Ian Stewart FRS, author of Do Dice Play God? __________ Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of maths - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward. In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application - or misapplication - of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupted by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. We follow stories of investors who have lost fortunes and parents who have lost children, all because of mathematical misunderstandings. Along the way, Yates arms us with simple mathematical rules and tools that can help us make better decisions in our increasingly quantitative society. You will discover why it's always sensible to question a statistic, often vital to ask for a second opinion and sometimes surprisingly handy to stick to the 37% rule... ...Show more
The Maths Book
Take a journey through the fascinating story of fractions, numbers, patterns, and shapes in order to better understand the complex world we live in. Continuing the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of authoritative, clear text and bold graphics to chart the development of maths through history, the book explores and explains some of the most complex and fascinating mathematical subjects. Delve into everything from the mathematical ideas and inventions of the ancient world such as the first number systems, magic squares, and the Chinese abacus, through to the developments in mathematics during medieval and Renaissance Europe, to the rise of group theory and cryptography more recently. This diverse and inclusive account of mathematics will have something for everybody- for those interested in the maths behind world economies, secret spies, modern technology and plenty more, taking readers around the world from Babylon to Bletchley Park. Tracing maths through the Scientific Revolution to its 21st-century use in computers, the internet, and AI, The Maths Book uses an innovative visual approach to make the subject accessible to everyone, casual readers and students alike. ...Show more
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She Shall Be Called Woman Audio Series
Nine Hours of Practical Wisdom from Victoria Botkin
9 audio CDs, with PDF slides
Running Time: 9 hours, 15 minutes
9 MP3s, with PDF slides
SKU: N/A Tags: biblical womanhood, titus 2
How does a wife help her husband be the man Christ wants him to be? How can she inspire him to love her? How can she discover the forgotten joys of being the helper God designed her to be? Victoria, beloved wife of Geoffrey Botkin and mother of seven, follows the injunctions in Titus 2 to address a host of practical topics for wives. In this audio from the immensely popular “Evenings With Victoria Botkin” webinar series, listen to Victoria discuss subjects like woman’s great power, sinful tendencies, independence vs. submission, beauty, dress, makeup, respect, women’s rights, hospitality, pitfalls of perfectionism in homemaking, Hollywood expectations, trials, trust, and cultivating personality. Throughout, she responds to questions from women.
A companion journal to the audio series is also available; the book and CD set can be purchased together here.
A vision of loveliness and strength, strong character combined with compassion, unmitigated courage built on a rock-solid testimony of reliance on God, an underlying sense of humor and broad intelligence, true love that grows only stronger despite difficulties . . . Victoria Botkin is all those things and so much more. She offers us as women not only a humble testimony to her faith in God, but the example of a life committed to serving Him through her joyful, studied service as wife and mother to exceptional people. I and my daughters are very excited about sitting at her feet and drinking in her wisdom through “Evenings with Victoria Botkin.” I can hardly wait! Please, come sit beside me . . . bring your embroidery or mending . . . It will be wonderful.
— Becky Morecraft, wife of Dr. Joe Morecraft
My sweet sister in Christ, Victoria Botkin, is a loving and kind woman who exudes what the Word describes in Proverbs 31. What an incredible blessing it is to know her, for to know her tender persona is to truly love her. I so admire her obedience to the Lord. Victoria is most ardently a Titus 2 woman. She can always be caught affectionately and tenderly guiding some younger woman, and on occasion an older woman, right back to the unfailing Word of God. I admire this woman of bountiful wisdom and pray God’s richest blessings on her and her beautiful family. These sessions will encourage and benefit any woman who partakes of them. You don’t want to miss this amazing opportunity to hear the timeless wisdom of my dear sister.
— Bridget Baucham, wife of Dr. Voddie Baucham
Victoria is not just wise and kind — she is fun! Her gentle sense of humor always comes in at just the right moment to remind us not to take ourselves too seriously even as we focus on the important work at hand. I know that listening to Victoria teach online is going to be a marvelous experience. You won’t get to enjoy her delicious bread, but the savory goodness of her words and the kindness of her voice will surely bring a smile to your face and encourage your heart. I look forward to these sessions as a way to renew my own vision and learn new ways to bless my family. What a delight!
— Jennie Chancey, wife of Matt Chancey
Victoria is real, practical, biblical, and refreshingly frank. It was easier for me to have my daughter Kelly so far away from me during her first year of marriage because Victoria was there and she understood her role in Kelly’s life as an older woman. The same kind of life-giving counsel Kelly received at that time, you will receive during these sessions.
— Deborah Brown, wife of Scott Brown
After meeting and spending time with Victoria Botkin, I remember telling my husband how much I appreciated her sound advice and sage wisdom. I told him that she was the kind of woman that was needed in many of our churches – wise and kind in her speech, honoring and supportive of her husband, welcoming to strangers (of which I was one), and well read. I was amazed to find a woman like this and wished that I could have had more time to reap from her wisdom and practical advice. I am very excited that she will be offering a 9 week course mentoring young women in the Titus 2 pattern, something that is desperately needed in our day.
— Brenda Swanson, wife of Kevin Swanson
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Haskell in industry
Revision as of 09:47, 2 July 2017 by Limick (talk | contribs) (Add Uffizio GmbH)
Haskell has a diverse range of use commercially, from aerospace and defense, to finance, to web startups, hardware design firms and a lawnmower manufacturer. This page collects resources on the industrial use of Haskell.
The main user conference for industrial Haskell use is CUFP - the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop.
The Industrial Haskell Group supports commercial users.
FP Complete is dedicated to the widespread adoption of modern Functional Programming technology, with a focus on the Haskell system. See their collection of case studies of successes in commercial use.
The commercial Haskell group is a special interest group for companies and individuals interested in commercial usage of Haskell.
The Reddit page 72 would-be commercial Haskell users: what Haskell success stories we need to see has several stories of commercial Haskell users.
Many companies have used Haskell for a range of projects, including:
ABN AMRO Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ABN AMRO is an international bank headquartered in Amsterdam. For its investment banking activities it needs to measure the counterparty risk
on portfolios of financial derivatives.
ABN AMRO's CUFP talk.
Aetion Technologies LLC, Columbus, Ohio
Aetion was a defense contractor in operation from 1999 to 2011, whose applications use artificial intelligence. Rapidly changing priorities make it important to minimize the code impact of changes, which suits Haskell well. Aetion developed three main projects in Haskell, all successful. Haskell's concise code was perhaps most important for rewriting: it made it practicable to throw away old code occasionally. DSELs allowed the AI to be specified very declaratively.
Aetion's CUFP talk.
A consortium of groups, including Alcatel-Lucent, have used Haskell to prototype narrowband software radio systems, running in (soft) real-time.
Alcatel-Lucent's CUFP talk
Allston Trading
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Allston Trading, LLC is a premier high frequency market maker in over 40 financial exchanges, in 20 countries, and in nearly every conceivable product class. Allston makes some use of Haskell for their trading infrastructure.
Alpha Heavy Industries
Alpha Heavy Industries is an alternative asset manager dedicated to producing superior returns through quantitative methods. They use Haskell as their primary implementation language.
Amgen Thousand Oaks, California
Amgen is a human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. Amgen pioneered the development of novel products based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology and launched the biotechnology industry’s first blockbuster medicines.
Amgen uses Haskell;
To rapidly build software to implement mathematical models and other complex, mathematically oriented applications
Provide a more mathematically rigorous validation of software
To break developers out of their software development rut by giving them a new way to think about software.
Amgen's CUFP talk.
Ansemond LLC
"Find It! Keep It! is a Mac Web Browser that lets you keep the pages you visit in a database. A list of these pages is shown in the 'database view'. "
Antiope Fair Haven, New Jersey
Antiope Associates provides custom solutions for wireless communication and networking problems. Our team has expertise in all aspects of wireless system design, from the physical and protocol layers to complex networked applications. Antiope Associates relies on a number of advanced techniques to ensure that the communication systems we design are reliable and free from error. We use custom simulation tools developed in Haskell, to model our hardware designs..
Antiope's CUFP talk.
Applicative, Sydney (Australia)
Applicative has created a Haskell IDE for macOS called "Haskell for Mac". It offers playgrounds to interactively work with Haskell code right next to the source files: you can draw and preview images, animations, HTML pages and more. You can also build full-fledged applications with it.
Haskell is being used in the Network Security division to automate processing of internet abuse complaints. Haskell has allowed us to easily meet very tight deadlines with reliable results.
Bank of America Merril Lynch
Haskell is being used for backend data transformation and loading.
Barclays Capital Quantitative Analytics Group
Barclays Capital's Quantitative Analytics group is using Haskell to develop an embedded domain-specific functional language (called FPF) which is used to specify exotic equity derivatives. These derivatives, which are naturally best described in terms of mathematical functions, and constructed compositionally, map well to being expressed in an embedded functional language. This language is now regularly being used by people who had no previous functional language experience.
Simon Frankau et al's JFP paper on their use of Haskell
Read their 2013 job advertisement
As part of the SAFE project, BAE has built a collection of compilers, interpreters, simulators, and EDSLs almost entirely in Haskell.
CUFP 2013 talk
BazQux Reader
BazQux Reader is a commercial RSS reader. Its feeds and comments crawler and a part of web-server are implemented in Haskell.
Better, formerly known as Erudify, is a learning company built around the mission of making people better. We are an unusual mix of a software company, a consulting firm, and a creative agency. This tight integration enables us to deliver innovative, high-quality courses to our customers.
Founded in 2012, Better is based in Zurich, Switzerland and New York, USA. Better is fully invested in Haskell; Most parts of our back-end system (web-servers and learning logic) are written in Haskell. Haskell is also used in most parts of our front-end system.
bCODE Pty Ltd Sydney Australia
bCode Pty Ltd is a small venture capital-funded startup using Ocaml and a bit of Haskell in Sydney Australia.
Bdellium Hawaii, United States
Bdellium develops software systems that enable companies in the financial industry to deliver new customer services that grow their business. Bdellium uses Haskell for heavy lifting analysis in back end infrastructure.
Betterteam Remote
Betterteam is a recruitment platform for small businesses and growing teams. It allows employers to post their jobs to hundreds of job boards, manage candidates, and add a careers section to their website.
Betterteam's backend applications are 100% Haskell and the frontend web application is written in PureScript.
Bluespec, Inc. Waltham, Massachusetts
Developing a modern integrated circuit (ASIC or FPGA) is an enormously expensive process involving specification, modeling (to choose and fix the architecture), design (to describe what will become silicon) and verification (to ensure that it meets the specs), all before actually committing anything to silicon (where the cost of a failure can be tens of millions of dollars). Bluespec, Inc. is a three year-old company that provides language facilities, methodologies, and tools for this purpose, within the framework of the IEEE standard languages SystemVerilog and SystemC, but borrowing ideas heavily from Term Rewriting Systems and functional programming languages like Haskell. In this talk, after a brief technical overview to set the context, we will describe our tactics and strategies, and the challenges we face, in introducing declarative programming ideas into this field, both externally (convincing customers about the value of these ideas) and internally (using Haskell for our tool implementation).
Bluespec's CUFP talk.
Bump use a Haskell-based server, Angel, for process supervisor for all their backend systems, and for other infrastructure tasks.
Haskell at Bump
Capital IQ
We have been using functional programming here at S&P Capital IQ in Scala, Haskell, and our homegrown reporting language Ermine, since 2008 for financial analytics.
Capital IQ's CUFP 2013 talk
Chordify
Chordify is a free online music service that transforms music, from YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud or uploaded files, into chords. There's an ICFP experience report explaining how Haskell is used for this:
José Pedro Magalhães and W. Bas de Haas. Functional Modelling of Musical Harmony: an Experience Report. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'11), pp. 156–162, ACM, 2011.
Circos Brand Karma Singapore
Brand Karma provides services to brand owners to measure online sentiments towards their brands. Haskell is used in building parts of the product, specifically for back-end job scheduling and brand matching.
CircuitHub
CircuitHub aims to be the AWS for manufacturing, enabling hardware companies and makers to instantly quote designs and scale from prototype to production. We are also proud to host a large collection of open hardware designs. CircuitHub uses Haskell for our core services and algorithms.
Credit Suisse Global Modeling and Analytics Group London, UK; New York City, New York
GMAG, the quantitative modeling group at Credit Suisse, has been using Haskell for various projects since the beginning of 2006, with the twin aims of improving the productivity of modelers and making it easier for other people within the bank to use GMAG models. Current projects include: Further work on tools for checking, manipulating and transforming spreadsheets; a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell for implementing reusable components that can be compiled into various target forms (see the video presentation: Paradise, a DSEL for Derivatives Pricing).
Credit Suisse's CUFP talk.
Detexify
Detexify is an online handwriting recognition system, whose backend is written in Haskell.
Fynder
Fynder is an online booking platform.
We use Haskell and clojurescript, all stitched together with nixos
See more in their original job posting.
Deutsche Bank Equity Proprietary Trading, Directional Credit Trading
The Directional Credit Trading group used Haskell as the primary implementation language for its software infrastructure.
Deutsche Bank's CUFP talk.
Eaton Cleveland, Ohio
Design and verification of hydraulic hybrid vehicle systems
Eaton's CUFP talk
Eaton's experiences using a Haskell DSL
[Ericsson AB]
Ericsson uses Haskell for the implementation of Feldspar, an EDSL for digital signal processing algorithms.
Ericsson's Feldspar compiler
extensibl
New Zealand-based company. Provides a variety of software development, consulting, operational support services worldwide. Both Haskell and Ur/Web are actively used for commercial projects.
Facebook uses some Haskell internally for tools. lex-pass is a tool for programmatically manipulating a PHP code base via Haskell.
Facebook's CUFP talk
Facebook's HaXL system is open source
Factis Research
Factis research, located in Freiburg, Germany, develops reliable and user-friendly mobile solutions. Our client software runs under J2ME, Symbian, iPhone OS, Android, and Blackberry. The server components are implemented in Python and Haskell. We are actively using Haskell for a number of projects, most of which are released under an open-source license.
Factis' HCAR submission
fortytools gmbh
Located in Hamburg, Germany, we are developing web-based productivity tools for invoicing, customer management, resource scheduling and time tracking. While using Javascript for building rich frontend application in the browser, we use Haskell to implement the REST backends. Additionally, we do occasional project/client work as well.
Oh, and of course we develop and maintain Hayoo! :)
Functor AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Functor AB offers new tools for ground-breaking static analysis with pre-test case generation of programs to eliminate defects and bugs in software very early in development.
Functor collaborates with the JET fusion reactor run by EFDA CCFE. JET is currently the largest reactor in the world of its kind. At Functor, almost all development is done in Haskell but also to some extent also C and Scala.
See more in the Functor AB job advertisement
Funktionale Programmierung Dr. Heinrich Hördegen, Munich, Germany
We develop software prototypes according to the Pareto principle: After spending only 20 percent of budget, we aim to provide already 80 percent of the software's functionality. We can realize this by constructing a 2080-software-prototype that we can further develop into a full-fledged solution...
Galois, Inc Portland, Oregon
Galois designs and develops high confidence software for critical applications. Our innovative approach to software development provides high levels of assurance, yet its scalability enables us to address the most complex problems. We have successfully engineered projects under contract for corporations and government clients in the demanding application areas of security, information assurance and cryptography.
Galois' 2007 CUFP talk
Galois' retrospective on 10 years of industrial Haskell use
Haskell is used on a small number of internal projects in Google, for internal IT infrastructure support, and the open-source Ganeti project. Ganeti is a tool for managing clusters of virtual servers built on top of Xen and KVM.
Google's ICFP 2010 experience report on Haskell
Video from ICFP Project Ganeti at Google
Glyde uses OCaml and Haskell for a few projects. Glyde uses Haskell for our client-side template source-to-source translator, which converts HAML-like view templates into JS code.
Group Commerce
Group Commerce uses Haskell to drive the main component of their advertising infrastructure: a Snap Framework based web server. Haskell enabled quicker development, higher reliability, and better maintainability than other languages, without having to sacrifice performance.
Hasura
Hasura is a BaaS/PaaS focussed on keeping things DRY and letting you write custom code with the tools you love. We're building a micro-service platform christened Hasura.io (alpha release scheduled in summer 2015), and we used Haskell as the core programming language to build it.
Humane Software
We develop enterprise systems with de-coupled, asynchronous Haskell backends and Javascript UIs.
For our current customer, an Internet connectivity provider, we wrote a solution for monitoring multiple remote machines and analyzing gigabytes of traffic samples. Haskell proved an excellent tool for the job.
We were able to replace legacy systems in a granular, piece-by-piece manner, while delivering new features.
Hustler Turf Equipment Hesston, Kansas
Designs, builds, and sells lawn mowers. We use quite a bit of Haskell, especially as a "glue language" for tying together data from different manufacturing-related systems. We also use it for some web apps that are deployed to our dealer network. There are also some uses for it doing sysadmin automation, such as adding/removing people from LDAP servers and the like
iba Consulting Gesellschaft - Intelligent business architecture for you. Leipzig, Germany
iba CG develops software for large companies:
risk analysis and reporting solution for power supply company;
contract management, assert management, booking and budgeting software for one of the worldwide leading accounting firm.
IMVU, Inc
IMVU, Inc. is a social entertainment company connecting users through 3D avatar-based experiences. See the blog article What it's like to use Haskell
Informatik Consulting Systems AG
ICS AG developed a simulation and testing tool which based on a DSL (Domain Specific Language). The DSL is used for the description of architecture and behavior of distributed system components (event/message based, reactive). The compiler was written in Haskell (with target language Ada). The test system is used in some industrial projects.
Intel has developed a Haskell compiler as part of their research on multicore parallelism at scale.
Read the Intel Research paper on compiler
IVU Traffic Technologies AG
The rostering group at IVU Traffic Technologies AG has been using Haskell to check rosters for compliance with EC regulations.
Our implementation is based on an embedded DSL to combine the regulation’s single rules into a solver that not only decides on instances but, in the case of a faulty roster, finds an interpretation of the roster that is “favorable” in the sense that the error messages it entails are “helpful” in leading the dispatcher to the resolution of the issue at hand.
The solver is both reliable (due to strong static typing and referential transparency — we have not experienced a failure in three years) and efficient (due to constraint propagation, a custom search strategy, and lazy evaluation).
Our EC 561/2006 component is part of the IVU.crew software suite and as such is in wide-spread use all over Europe, both in planning and dispatch. So the next time you enter a regional bus, chances are that the driver’s roster was checked by Haskell.
JanRain
JanRain uses Haskell for network and web software. Read more about Haskell at JanRain and in their tech talk at Galois. JanRain's "Capture" user API product is built on Haskell's Snap webframework.
See Janrain's technical talk about their use of Snap
Joyride Laboratories
Joyride Laboratories is an independent game development studio, founded in 2009 by Florian Hofer and Sönke Hahn. Their first game, "Nikki and the Robots" was released in 2011.
Keera Studios
Keera Studios Ltd is a European game development studio that develops mobile, desktop and web apps.
Games: The mobile game Magic Cookies! was written in Haskell and released in 2015 for Android and 2017 for iOS. Other games include Haskanoid, also available for Android, and a multi-platform Graphic Adventure library and engine with Android and iOS support and an IDE.
Reactive Programming and GUIs: Keera Studios is also the maintainer of Keera Hails, an Open-Source reactive rapid application development framework with backends for Android and iOS's native GUI toolkits, Web DOM via GHCJS, Gtk+, Wx and Qt. With Hails, it is possible to write Haskell applications with UIs that work both for mobile and desktop.
Keera Studios' Gale IDE (a game IDE), Keera Posture (a open-source posture monitor using the webcam) and other mobile apps are also developed using Hails.
See the Facebook page for details on iOS & Android games and apps and ongoing development.
kinoubi
At kinoubi we believe in high quality code, that just works. We use software quality metrics to achieve an exceptional level of quality. Our main programming language is Haskell because of its elegance and philosophy of functional purity. It is what we believe in, it is our name: 'kinoubi' means 'functional elegance' in Japanese. Our code is produced for a range of different domains including data mining and machine learning.
Lifted Software UG, Berlin, Germany
Lifted has developed a macOS application "JSON Class Generator" that allows the user to specify data types (classes/enums) in a visual editor. These models can then be exported to Objective-C source code, which is capable of serializing/deserializing the instances to/from JSON. When parsing JSON, the structures are validated against the specification and errors are reported. The generated code comes with handy implementations for methods like -description, -isEqual:, -copy, -hash and more, that are boring to write and tedious to keep updated by hand.
Linkqlo
Linkqlo Inc is a Palo Alto-based technology startup that is building a pioneering mobile community to connect people with better fitting clothes. We’re solving an industry-wide pain point for both consumers and fashion brands in retail shopping, sizing and fitting, just like Paypal took on the online payment challenge in 1999. We started deploying Haskell as the backend language recently in August 2015, in an effort to eventually replace all PHP endpoint APIs with Haskell ones.
Linkqlo's iOS app from App Store
Linspire
Linspire, Inc. has used functional programming since its inception in 2001, beginning with extensive use of O'Caml, with a steady shift to Haskell as its implementations and libraries have matured. Hardware detection, software packaging and CGI web page generation are all areas where we have used functional programming extensively. Haskell's feature set lets us replace much of our use of little languages (e.g., bash or awk) and two-level languages (C or C++ bound to an interpreted language), allowing for faster development, better code sharing and ultimately faster implementations. Above all, we value static type checking for minimizing runtime errors in applications that run in unknown environments and for wrapping legacy programs in strongly typed functions to ensure that we pass valid arguments.
Linspire's CUFP talk
Linspire's experience report on using functional programming to manage a Linux distribution
LumiGuide
LumiGuide is an innovative software company which specialises in smart parking and guidance systems for both bicycles and cars. LumiGuide developed and installed the P-route Bicycle system for the City of Utrecht in 2015. This system guides cyclists via digital, street-level displays to available parking space in a number of parking facilities in the city centre. Utrecht is the first city in the world that has a system like this. The detection technology is based on optical sensors which are independent of the bicycle stands. The sensors are mounted to the ceiling in indoor facilities and mounted to poles in outdoor facilities. Every minute, one sensor detects 40 to 60 parking places at the same time in either single- or two-tier bicycle stands as well as (stand-less) free parking places. Bicycles that exceed the maximum parking duration ('orphaned' bicycles) are also detected and the system will automatically keep a log of pictures of the orphaned bicycle which can be used as evidence when the orphaned bicycle is removed by a facility operator. The usage of the facility can be monitored with web-based control software. LumiGuide also develops the indoor and outdoor digital displays which can be controlled using the web-based control software.
We are extensively using Haskell and NixOS.
Microsoft uses Haskell for its production serialization system, Bond. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services. Microsoft Research has, separately, been a key sponsor of Haskell development since the late 1990s.
MITRE uses Haskell for, amongst other things, the analysis of cryptographic protocols.
A team at the New York Times used Haskell's parallel array library to process images from 2013 New York Fashion Week. Haskell was chosen based on its fast numerical arrays packages, and ease of parallelization.
Model analysis
Haskell in the Newsroom
NICTA has used Haskell as part of a project to verify the L4 microkernel.
Read the Dr. Dobbs article on using Haskell and formal methods to verify a kernel
NRAO
NRAO has used Haskell to implement the core science algorithms for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS).
NS Solutions(NSSOL) Tokyo, Japan
NS Solutions has employed Haskell since 2008 to develop its software packages including "BancMeasure", a mark-to-market accounting software package for financial institutions, "BancMeasure for IFRS" and "Mamecif", a data analysis package. "BancMeasure" and "Mamecif" are registered trademarks of NS Solutions Corporation in JAPAN.
At NVIDIA, we have a handful of in-house tools that are written in Haskell
Openomy
Openomy's API v2.0 is developed in Haskell, using the HAppS web platform.
Oblomov Systems is a one-person software company based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Founded in 2009, Oblomov has since then been working on a number of Haskell-related projects. The main focus lies on web-applications and (web-based) editors. Haskell has turned out to be extremely useful for implementing web servers that communicate with JavaScript clients or iPhone apps.
Oblomov's HCAR submission.
Patch-Tag: hosting for Darcs
Need somewhere to put your Darcs code? Try us.
Patch-Tag is built with happstack, the continuation of the project formerly known as HAppS.
Peerium, Inc Cambridge, Massachusetts
At Peerium, we're striving to bring a new level of quality and efficiency to online communication and collaboration within virtual communities, social networks, and business environments. We believe that a new environment that supports the effortless sharing of both information and software will enable a level of online cooperation far beyond current Web-based technologies -- modern programming techniques will enable the creation of more robust and more powerful programs within these environments. To this end, we're building a new software platform for direct, real-time communication and collaboration within graphically rich environments. Peerium is located in the heart of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Picus Security Ankara, Turkey
There are lots of IT security products currently used in enterprises to protect customers from cyber threats. How do we ensure about their effectiveness? At this point we have an idea. An idea that we believe will change the entire ecosystem of security operations which we call 'Verified Security' by continuously assessing security controls and remediating them. At Picus Security, we're extensively using Haskell from the starting point of the project. Our backend completely written in Haskell which consists of REST API, distributed haskell nodes and attacker modules.
PlanIt9
PlanIt9 is a Yesod-based web application for defining, planning, scheduling and tracking tasks. It's designed to be fast, simple, collaborative and cost effective. We're currently signing up users for our beta program.
Plumlife
Plum is replacing light switches with Lightpads; a capacitive touch dimmer that is internet connected, clusters with other Lightpads in the home for group control... Haskell composes our cloud services and Erlang is used for the embedded software in the Lightpads (hot-code reloading, easy node clustering, etc...). ... We use Haskell extensively for all of our cloud services software at Plumlife ... Amazing language and ecosystem.
Qualcomm, Inc
Qualcomm uses Haskell to generate Lua bindings to the BREW platform
SQream
At SQream, we use Haskell for a large part of our code. We use Haskell for the compiler, which takes SQL statements and turns them into low level instructions for the high performance CUDA runtime. We also use Haskell for rapid prototyping and for many auxiliary utilities.
Parallel Scientific, Boulder, Colorado.
We are using Haskell to develop an ultra-scalable high-availability resource management system for big clusters (millions of nodes). A key element of the design is to provide scalable and reliable mechanisms for communicating failures and coordinating recovery transitions.
See Parallel Scientific's CUFP talk
Renaissaince Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-institutional organization, brings together multidisciplinary experts and advanced technological capabilities to address pressing research issues and to find solutions to complex problems that affect the quality of life in North Carolina, our nation and the world.
Research scientists at RENCI have used Haskell for a number of projects, including The Big Board.
RENCI's CUFP talk.
ruevoisine.fr
This rental ads website uses Haskell both on client and server.
Web server is written in Erlang (Yaws) however app is nearly all Haskell.
Js code is produced, minified and bundled from Haskell.
Samplecount
Samplecount develops mobile, location-aware sound and music applications. They are currently using Haskell for prototyping their server-side soundscape streaming components and as a cross-platform build tool for their mobile applications and frameworks.
Sankel Software Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sankel Software has been using Haskell since 2002 for both prototyping and deployment for technologies ranging from CAD/CAM to gaming and computer animation. We specialize in the development of user-friendly, large, long-term applications that solve difficult and conceptually intricate problems.
Scrive
Scrive is a service for e-signing tenders, contracts, and other documents. We help our clients close deals faster, decrease their administrative burden, and improve their customers’ experience.
Siemens Convergence Creators GmbH Austria
Siemens CVC uses Haskell since a few years in the space domain. Starting with small tools like data conversion and automation of scripting tasks over installers we use Haskell currently for Space Protocol Proxies to allow connect different space systems (e.g. Cortex to NCTRS or SLE to NCTRS with COP-1 handling). The main use is currently a Simulator implemented in Haskell which handles parts of NCTRS (or SSB), the ground station and parts of the satellite to be able to make closed-loop tests for the SCOS-2000 based Mission Control System. It is in use for testing and debugging of the Mission Control System and for checking implementation of new features. It has served for various, currently active missions and also is in use for some missions to come.
Signali Portland, Oregon
Signali Corp is a new custom hardware design company. Our chief products are custom IP cores targeted for embedded DSP and cryptographic applications. Our specialty is the design and implementation of computationally intensive, complex algorithms. The interfaces to each core are modular and can be very efficiently modified for your specific application. System-level integration and validation is crucial and is the majority of investment in a product.
Soostone New York, NY
Soostone is an advanced analytics technology provider specializing in algorithmic optimization opportunities in marketing, pricing, advertising, sales and product management. As the preferred language, Haskell is used intensively at Soostone in numerous applications including customized machine learning algorithms, models/simulations, real-time decision-making engines, DSL/EDSLs, web applications and high volume APIs.
Standard Chartered has a large group using Haskell for all aspects of its wholesale banking business.
Stack Builders
Stack Builders is a software consultancy based in New York, with its largest office in Quito, Ecuador. They build web, mobile and real-time applications for clients in industries including the automotive industry, finance, and social media and marketing. They have assisted clients in multiple industries with both legacy and greenfield projects in Haskell.
Starling Software Tokyo, Japan
Starling Software are developing a commercial automated options trading system in Haskell, and are migrating other parts of their software suite to Haskell.
Starling Software's experience building real time trading systems in Haskell
Sensor Sense Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sensor Sense is offering high technology systems for gas measurements in the ppbv down to pptv range. We use Haskell for the embedded control software of our trace gas detectors.
For more information see Senor Sense's position advertisement
Silk Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Silk investigates and develops new ways of creating and consuming online content. Their Silk application makes it easy to filter and visualize large amounts of information.
Silk's blog on why they use Haskell
A review of Silk
Skedge Me
skedge.me is an online scheduling platform that allows businesses to completely automate the process of making appointments, such as customer visits, job interviews, and tutoring sessions.
See more in their CUFP talk
See their 2014 job advertisement
Suite Solutions
Suite Solutions provides products and solutions in support of large sets of technical documentation based on DITA for general technical documentation, and other more specialized XML and SGML formats for specific industries such as the aerospace industry. Many of Suite Solutions' products and solutions, such as the featured products SuiteHelp and SuiteShare, are written in Haskell.
SumAll New York, New York
SumAll aggregates various public streams of data such as various social network data into useful analytics, reports and insights. We are in process of rewriting our entire data-processing backend in Haskell. What attracted us to the language is its disciplined and uncompromising approach to solving hard problems and managing complexity. We truly believe that the language and ecosystem is ready for prime time and will give us competitive advantage in the industry.
Symbiont.io New York, NY
Symbiont is a New York-based startup that is using smart contracts and blockchain technology to radically improve financial market back-office infrastructure. Haskell is currently used at Symbiont for its network management tooling, and there are plans to expand the use of the language to transaction processing and other backend services.
Tabula.com
Tabula is a privately held fabless semiconductor company developing 3-D Programmable Logic Devices. Haskell is used for internal compiler toolchains related to hardware design.
Tsuru Capital Tokyo, Japan
Tsuru Capital is operating an automated options trading system written in Haskell.
Tsuru Capital's HCAR submission
Tupil Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tupil is a Dutch company that built software for clients, written in Haskell. Tupil used Haskell for the speed in development and resulting software quality. The company is founded by Chris Eidhof and Eelco Lempsink. Currently they build iPhone/iPad applications in Objective-C.
Tupil's experience building commercial web apps in Haskell
Uffizio GmbH Switzerland
Uffizio is a one-person company in Switzerland that uses Haskell for building correct, maintainable and fast e-commerce web applications as well as internal tools.
Wagon San Francisco, California
Wagon is a modern SQL editor: a better way for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data & charts.
We’re a team of functional programmers writing apps and services in Haskell (and Javascript). We love to teach and learn functional programming; our team is humble, hard working, and fun. Read our engineering blog to learn more about our stack, how we combine Haskell, React, and Electron, and what it’s like working at a Haskell-powered startup.
We're hiring Haskell engineers based in San Francisco, learn more about the roles and our team!
Weedreporter
Weedreporter.com is a news site in the up and coming cannabis industry, featuring news stories from around the world and USA. This includes news stories about legalization and medical Marijuana. The site is built using Haskell and Postgres. Haskell has allowed us to build a site with fast load times.
If you're using Haskell commercially, please add your details here.
The Industrial Haskell Group
The Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) is an organisation to support the needs of commercial users of the Haskell programming language.
Haskell jobs on the HaskellWiki.
Jobs at Haskellers.com.
Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop
Commercial Users of Functional Programming
The goal of CUFP is to build a community for users of functional programming languages and technology, be they using functional languages in their professional lives, in an open source project (other than implementation of functional languages), as a hobby, or any combination thereof. In short: anyone who uses functional programming as a means, but not an end.
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William Nylander created and got some opportunities and showed flashes of offensive skill in his pre-season NHL debut.
TORONTO — William Nylander created and got some opportunities and showed flashes of offensive skill in his pre-season NHL debut.
Time will tell if he’s ready for full-time duty at hockey’s highest level, but Nylander scored a late goal and was noticeable in positive ways in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night at Air Canada Centre.
The eighth pick in June’s draft is just 18 years old and, in the words of coach Randy Carlyle, looks like he’s 14. His game is at least a little beyond that.
Because of that, the smooth-skating son of former NHL forward Michael Nylander is getting a chance to make the Leafs in training camp. It’ll take more than a nice first impression to do that, especially given the Leafs have 17 forwards on one-way contracts and spots for 13 or 14.
On Tuesday night, Nylander controlled the puck in the offensive zone, made an NHL-calibre stretch pass from blue-line to blue-line and got robbed by Flyers goaltender Steve Mason on what would have been a power-play goal in the second period. With 56.2 seconds left, he scored to make it 4-0 Toronto.
James van Riemsdyk, Brandon Kozun and Cody Franson also scored for the Leafs. Goaltender Jonathan Bernier was sharp in stopping all 12 shots he faced in his 30-plus minutes of action.
Nylander made some good out of his chance to play with star winger Phil Kessel and free-agent addition Mike Santorelli.
“As a coaching staff, our philosophy is that if you’re going to have a player like Will, you’ve got to put him around people that think the game the same way as he does,” assistant coach Steve Spott said Tuesday afternoon. “When you look at his skating, when you look at his vision, he can play with elite players.”
That skating and vision was on display against the Flyers. On one occasion Nylander skated the puck around the net and got it back even after he turned it over, and he found David Broll for a perfect pass through the neutral zone that likely would’ve been a goal had Kessel been on the receiving end.
“He’s got some of the quickest hands I’ve ever seen,” van Riemsdyk said earlier Tuesday. “He can kind of stickhandle out of a tollbooth. He can make stuff happen out of nothing, it seems like.”
Nylander, who played against men in the Swedish Hockey League for 22 games last season, did not look too out of place on the smaller, North American-sized rink. He didn’t expect it to be an issue after practising on it for the past month.
Not knowing what to expect from hockey at this level, Nylander at times tried to do too much. But that might just be part of the learning curve for the five-foot-11, 169-pound Swede.
Nylander, who said he can play left wing or centre, has some work to do defensively to be able to handle the competition. He should get another shot to show what he can do Wednesday night in split-squad action against the Ottawa Senators in Toronto.
Notes — Replays made it clear Van Riemsdyk would have had a second goal if video review were used in the pre-season, but referee Wes McCauley ruled it didn’t go in. … James Reimer is expected to make his pre-season debut against the Senators at Air Canada Centre. Nazem Kadri was among the other players who could take part in the Toronto game. Antoine Bibeau, who finished Tuesday night’s shutout, and Cal Heeter will go to Ottawa along with David Booth and Morgan Rielly.
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RBS worker 'owns' Russell Brand over UK bailout
11:48am Dec 18, 2014
An RBS worker has berated millionaire Russell Brand for storming the bank's offices and demanding employees tell him their salaries.
In a lengthy open letter posted to his blog , analyst Joseph Kynaston Reeves torn shreds off the former drug addict-turned comedian-turned-activist for what he's labelled his recent "publicity stunt".
Last week Brand fronted the London headquarters of RBS unannounced with a film crew in tow.
The wealthy former playboy then stormed into the building which forced security to lock the doors to prevent any of his film crew following him.
As a result a number of bank employees, including Mr Kynaston Reeves, were left out in the cold.
In video footage of Brand's arrival at the door of the building, Brand can be heard telling a Bloomberg reporter that he is making a film about the financial inequalities in the UK.
As he continues to speak about why he's chosen to RBS for part of his film, a man carrying a plastic bag interrupts Brand as he walks past him.
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"If you want to talk about inequality…" the man can he heard saying before trailing off.
In the more than 2000 word letter, Mr Kynaston Reeves reveals himself as the man who confronted Brand.
"You may remember me. You may even have filmed me. On Friday, you staged a publicity stunt at an RBS office, inconveniencing a hundred or so people," he wrote.
"I was the lanky slouched guy with a lot less hair than you but (I flatter myself) a slightly better beard who complained to you that you, a multimillionaire, had caused my lunch to get cold.
"What mattered to me at the time wasn’t bonuses; it was my lunch, so I said so." As well as making light of Brand's arrival causing his lunch getting cold, Mr Kynaston Reeves uses his letter to take Brand to task over his motivations for his stunt.
"Did you think a pack of traders might gallop through reception, laughing maniacally as they threw burning banknotes in the air, quaffing champagne, and brutally thrashing the ornamental paupers that they keep on diamante leashes — and you, Russell, would damningly catch them in the act? But that’s on Tuesdays," he joked.
"Leaving aside the money you make from one of the most regressive of the UK’s taxes, and the tax exemptions your company uses to encourage rich City investors to give you more money, and the huge fees you’ve accepted from one of the planet’s most notorious and successful tax avoidance schemes, you, Russell, have come by your riches without any effect on taxpayers. Whereas RBS got bailed out. Fair point.
"Here’s the thing about the bailout of RBS, Russell: it’s temporary. The plan was never to bail out a bank so that it could then go bust anyway. That would be too asinine even for [former UK Prime Minister] Gordon Brown. The idea was to buy the bank with public money, wait until it became profitable again, then resell it … and that is still the plan, and it does appear to be on course.
"Not only that, but it looks as if the government will eventually sell RBS for more than they bought it for. In other words, the taxpayer will make a profit on this deal."
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Tencent Games
Will Bayonetta maker PlatinumGames change after Tencent investment?
The company behind Nier: Automata and Astral Chain is Tencent’s latest gaming investment
Published on 7 Jan, 2020 3:20pm Coordinated Universal Time
Tencent is investing in yet another big overseas gaming company, with iconic action game maker PlatinumGames being the Chinese tech giant’s latest target.
The esteemed Japanese studio behind Bayonetta, Nier: Automata and Astral Chain announced that Tencent invested an undisclosed amount of money in the gaming company. But the Osaka-based developer said the new “partnership” with Tencent will have “no effect on the independence” of the company.
PlatinumGames has been widely hailed as one of the best action game makers. (Picture: Nier: Automata/PlatinumGames)
Concerns about how investment from China affects companies aren’t unfounded. As concerns about censorship from China rose last year, Tecent was caught up in the biggest controversy around this subject when it briefly stopped streaming NBA games. Game developer Blizzard also found itself criticized for punishing a professional Hearthstone player who supported the Hong Kong protests.
But PlatinumGames has its own reasons for taking the money. While the developer is known for its great action games, many are published by bigger companies like Sega and Nintendo. The company has been expressing its desire to move toward self-publishing, and it said that Tencent’s investment will help further this goal.
Still, the question of whether Tencent will influence PlatinumGames looms large. Tencent often engages in censorship at home to stay in line with China’s media controls. Fortunately, Tencent’s track record appears to show interference in the creative process of foreign companies is rare.
Perhaps the most famous gaming company owned by Tencent is Riot Games, the company behind the massively popular MOBA League of Legends. Tencent acquired a majority stake in Riot Games in 2011, and it has fully-owned Riot since 2015. But the Los Angeles-based developer is largely perceived to operate independently of its parent company.
In fact, when Tencent approached Riot Games with the proposition to make a mobile version of League of Legends in 2015, Riot Games blew it off, claiming that the experience of League of Legends is irreplicable on mobile. Ironically, Riot Games is now getting ready to release the mobile game League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot ultimately decided to make a mobile version after Tencent’s massive success with Honor of Kings, known as Arena of Valor outside of China. That game started as a mobile knockoff of League of Legends after Riot Games refused Tencent’s proposal.
But Riot Games’ independence did come into question last year because of the Hong Kong protests. As protester activism spilled into video games, the company said that League of Legends broadcasters should “refrain” from discussing “sensitive topics” on the air.
Tencent’s 40% stake in Fortnite maker Epic Games has also been closely scrutinized. While Tencent does not seem to be involved in the development of Fortnite or other Epic Games titles, its investment in the company also came under the microscope because of the Hong Kong protests.
But unlike Riot Games, Tencent doesn’t own Epic. So when questioned by fans, Epic Games’ CEO Tim Sweeney said that gamers are free to say whatever they want in Fortnite because Tencent is merely an investor and doesn’t affect company operations.
While the first Bayonetta was published by Sega, Bayonetta 2 was published by Nintendo. (Picture: Bayonetta 2/PlatinumGames)
Even if Tencent isn’t censoring gaming content abroad, though, there has still been some concern about its influence over the companies it buys. Under a Gamersky article about the PlatinumGames investment, one popular comment reads, “When Tencent was buying Supercell, it also said that it would not interfere. But then gifts, monthly subscriptions and skins gradually made their way into the game… I always worry that all the gaming companies will smell like Tencent in the future.”
There’s no evidence that Tencent is behind the changes, but it does reflect feelings toward the Chinese tech giant from fans. We reached out to Supercell, Riot Games and Tencent for comment but haven’t received a response.
For Tencent, PlatinumGames is another part of the Chinese gaming giant’s aggressive push to expand overseas. According to consulting firm Niko Partners, the Shenzhen-based company has now invested in 22 foreign gaming companies. Tencent said that it eventually wants half of its users to be from outside China.
Even without being directly involved in game development, Tencent still benefits from the companies it invests in. Tencent often becomes the sole publisher and distributor in China for the games it invests in. This includes big titles like League of Legends, Clash of Clans and Call of Duty Online. And being able to publish and organize tournaments around these games in China makes Tencent the country’s biggest player in gaming.
Investing in PlatinumGames also makes sense for Tencent because the company has been increasing its presence in console gaming. Tencent recently helped launch the Nintendo Switch in China, and it’s making more and more console games with its own studios.
Tencent competitor NetEase is following a similar gameplan. In 2018, NetEase invested US$100 million in Halo developer Bungie.
At the time, Bungie was tussling with former backer Activision over rights to the Destiny franchise, which it later secured. But the NetEase funding allowed Bungie to work on a new game, about which little is known so far.
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In the film Mrs Lowry & Son Timothy takes on the life of a great British artist living among the working class in a city dominated by industry. The setting isn’t far removed from his own upbringing in 1960s London, where his mother was a self-taught hairdresser and purveyor of “the best bouffant in Battersea”.
Timothy’s career began with a school production of The Wizard of Oz. His Cowardly Lion was a huge success and Timothy's been acting on stage and screen ever since.
For many years he was best known in the UK for his character, Barry, in BBC TV series, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; but his collaboration with film director Mike Leigh has proved more enduring. Their films together over 37 years include Secrets and Lies, All or Nothing, and Mr Turner, for which Timothy won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award.
In 1996 Timothy had a major health scare which threatened his life. He and his wife Shane celebrated his survival by buying a canal boat and sailing about and around Britain.
Timothy is in Australia to present Mrs Lowry & Son for The Palace Mini British Film Festival
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Christmas Island Binding Rules of Conduct (Vocus)
On 19 December 2018 the ACCC made binding rules of conduct that apply to a DTCS service to Christmas Island provided by Vocus Communications Limited. Vocus will provide transmission services between mainland Australia and the External Territory of Christmas Island by way of a subsea cable.
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Statements given to the ACCC by a carrier or carriage service provider under section 152BEBE of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA) about differences between an access agreement (AA) and a special access undertaking (SAU).
25/03/2004 Telstra Multimedia undertaking for the analogue subscription television broadcast service
The ACCC announced on 25 March 2004 that it had accepted an access undertaking lodged by Telstra Multimedia Pty Ltd on 23 December 2003 in relation to the provision of the declared analogue subscription television broadcast service.
13/12/2013 NBN Co special access undertaking for NBN Access Service and Ancillary Services
On 13 December 2013, the ACCC accepted a special access undertaking lodged by NBN Co Limited (ACN: 136 533 741) on 19 November 2013. This undertaking is given in respect of the NBN Access Service and the Ancillary Services as described in the undertaking.
Statement of differences: CNT Corp Pty Ltd and Clear Networks Pty Ltd, 28 February 2013
This statement of differences was given to the ACCC on 28 February 2013 by CNT Corp Pty Ltd with respect to an access agreement entered into by Clear Networks Pty Ltd with CNT Corp Pty Ltd.
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Heritage Toyota Supports Turn Off Texting Program for High School Drivers
Truck Sponsorship Enables Statewide Young Driver Safety Program by Youth Safety Council of Vermont
BURLINGTON May 1, 2019 – Heritage Toyota is supporting a statewide young driver highway safety program with the use and maintenance of a Toyota truck. The Youth Safety Council of Vermont presents the https://www.yscvt.org/about-the-tot-program/ workshop in high schools across the state, giving young driving students a safe first-hand experience of the dangers of driving while distracted. The program uses a trailer; this sponsorship of a 2018 Toyota Tacoma Certified Used Vehicle pickup truck will make it possible for the 2019 program season.
The Turn Off Texting demonstration raises awareness about the dangers of distracted driving by putting students behind the wheel of a golf cart to navigate a course of cones while texting. It’s an effective experience for participants, and the demonstration is provided free of charge in Vermont through a grant from the Vermont Office of Highway Safety, Behavioral Safety Unit and support from generous sponsors like Heritage Toyota, and AT&T. Turn Off Texting was created by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles in 2009 and has been presented by the Youth Safety Council of Vermont since 2011.
Heritage Toyota, based in South Burlington, is committed to supporting highway safety initiatives. The ‘H-Team’ produced several video public service announcements during a campus-wide safety fair at Mt. Abraham Union High School in 2017. The Youth Safety Council of Vermont worked with Mt. Abe to create a how-to resource for other schools that includes the Heritage-produced videos, www.yscvt.org/safetyfairs/guide/.
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Ryan Denecker, General Manger of Heritage Toyota, says, “The work that the Youth Safety Council of Vermont does is invaluable. Creating awareness for the young people of Vermont can either happen with a real life tragedy, or through proactive efforts with an organization such as YSCVT. Heritage is grateful for the opportunity to assist in this mission and support such an important campaign. I am proud to partner with Jim and his team to successfully create awareness for the YSCVT mission. Keeping our kids, and others safe on the road is our joint goal, and one that is important to everyone here at Heritage Toyota.”
About the Youth Safety Council of Vermont: The YSCVT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing teen car crashes and making positive changes in young driver safety culture. Contact James Lockridge, director@yscvt.org, (802) 881-9050, www.yscvt.org.
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Trends and Projected Estimates of GHG Emissions from Indian Livestock in Comparisons with GHG Emissions from World and Developing Countries
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doi : https://doi.org/10.5713/ajas.2013.13342
Amlan Kumar Patra
*Corresponding Author: Amlan Kumar Patra. Tel: +91-33-255 69234, Fax:+91-33-25571986, E-mail: patra_amlan@yahoo.com
Department of Animal Nutrition, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37 K. B. Sarani, Belgachia, Kolkata 700037, India
Received 2013 June 17; Revised 2013 September 12; Accepted 2013 August 23.
This study presents trends and projected estimates of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock of India vis-à-vis world and developing countries over the period 1961 to 2010 estimated based on IPCC guidelines. World enteric methane emission (EME) increased by 54.3% (61.5 to 94.9 ×109 kg annually) from the year 1961 to 2010, and the highest annual growth rate (AGR) was noted for goat (2.0%), followed by buffalo (1.57%) and swine (1.53%). Global EME is projected to increase to 120×109 kg by 2050. The percentage increase in EME by Indian livestock was greater than world livestock (70.6% vs 54.3%) between the years 1961 to 2010, and AGR was highest for goat (1.91%), followed by buffalo (1.55%), swine (1.28%), sheep (1.25%) and cattle (0.70%). In India, total EME was projected to grow by 18.8×109 kg in 2050. Global methane emission from manure (MEM) increased from 6.81 ×109 kg in 1961 to 11.4×109 kg in 2010 (an increase of 67.6%), and is projected to grow to 15×109 kg by 2050. In India, the annual MEM increased from 0.52×109 kg to 1.1×109 kg (with an AGR of 1.57%) in this period, which could increase to 1.54×109 kg in 2050. Nitrous oxide emission from manure in India could be 21.4×106 kg in 2050 from 15.3×106 kg in 2010. The AGR of global GHG emissions changed a small extent (only 0.11%) from developed countries, but increased drastically (1.23%) for developing countries between the periods of 1961 to 2010. Major contributions to world GHG came from cattle (79.3%), swine (9.57%) and sheep (7.40%), and for developing countries from cattle (68.3%), buffalo (13.7%) and goat (5.4%). The increase of GHG emissions by Indian livestock was less (74% vs 82% over the period of 1961 to 2010) than the developing countries. With this trend, world GHG emissions could reach 3,520×109 kg CO2-eq by 2050 due to animal population growth driven by increased demands for meat and dairy products in the world.
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas; Methane; Nitrous Oxide; Livestock; India; Developing Countries
It is generally predicted that global warming is caused due to increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from anthropogenic activities. The major anthropogenic GHGs are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons (IPCC, 2007). Agriculture sector is the second largest contributor of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after the energy sector. A life cycle assessment of GHG emissions indicated that livestock contributes about 18% to the global anthropogenic GHG emissions accounting for 37% of anthropogenic methane and 65% of anthropogenic nitrous oxide (FAO, 2006) and dairy cattle sector 4% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions (FAO, 2010). The increases in methane and nitrous oxide concentrations in the atmosphere may largely be due to agriculture, while those of carbon dioxide are mostly due to fossil fuel use and land use change (IPCC, 2007).
Management decisions have conventionally been focused to improve efficiency, reducing costs and maximizing profit at the farm level (Zervas and Tsiplakou, 2012). The use of advanced technologies in animal production has spurred impressive yields. This will continue to translate into growing productivity to fulfill the demands of meat, milk and eggs of increasing human population, which will also increase GHG emissions (FAO, 2006). Globally, human population of 7.2 billion in mid-2013 is expected to increase by almost one billion to 8.1 billion in 2025, and to further grow to 9.6 billion in 2050 (UN, 2013). This is also essential to consider environmental concerns, animal welfare and food safety issues in animal production systems (Zervas and Tsiplakou, 2012). Concerns over the contribution of the livestock farming to the global warming have prompted to a number of studies at improving the scientific knowledge regarding the GHG emissions by livestock at global, national local levels (Gerber et al., 2011; Ji and Park, 2012; Bellarby et al., 2013) and mitigation strategies (Patra, 2012a; Bellarby et al., 2013). It is imperative to assess the trends and projections of GHG emissions from livestock in different countries. In India, albeit various estimates of GHG emissions from Indian livestock had been reported using various approaches in different years (Singhal et al., 2005; Swamy and Bhattacharya, 2006; Chhabra et al., 2009; Patra, 2012b), a study involving trends of GHG from various livestock species over last 50 years and in comparison with World and developing countries has perhaps not assessed. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze current trends and projected estimates of GHG emission from livestock of India in comparison with GHG emissions from world and developing countries over the years 1961 to 2050. Due to paucity of various activity data for life cycle assessment of GHG emissions from global livestock sectors, GHG emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management have been assessed in this study.
Livestock population
Livestock population data were obtained from FAO database for each year from 1961 to 2010 to estimate methane and nitrous oxide emissions from 1961 to 2010 by different species of livestock (cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, horse, mules, ass, duck, chicken, camel, and alpaca) of all the countries of world. Developed and developing countries list was obtained from FAOSTAT (2013). Dairy cattle population in each region of the world was estimated by dividing average milk production by cattle as provided by IPCC (2006) for each region of the world by total milk production data (FAOSTAT, 2013). Thus, the other cattle population was obtained by subtracting the dairy cattle population from total cattle population. Marketing swine population typically represents 90% of total swine population and rest for breeding swine population (IPCC, 2006), and this typical proportion was used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions by these categories of swine population.
Enteric methane emission
Methane production from microbial fermentation of feeds in the digestive tract was estimated using the Tier 1 approach of IPCC (2006) guidelines for each species of livestock. The default IPCC (2006) for methane emission factors (i.e. annual methane emissions per animals) for enteric fermentation in each species and type of animals (Tier I method) were adopted. To estimate total enteric methane emission, the emission factors were multiplied by the associated animal population in each country (FAO, 2013), and summed all over the countries in each year.
Methane emission from manure management
Estimates for methane emission from manure management are based on methane emitted during the storage and treatment of manure, and from manure deposited on pasture lands. Methane emission factors in manure management are required for estimation of total methane emissions by each type of animals. Because methane emissions from manure management systems are highly temperature dependent, the average annual temperature for all countries in the world, where manure is managed, were adopted from http://www.weatherbase.com. The IPCC (2006) default values of methane emission factors in manure management for all species of livestock in each annual average temperature of all countries were used for estimation of methane emissions from manure management from these animals. Total methane emission in manure management was estimated by multiplying the emission factors in manure management for a particular category of livestock animals by the animal population in each country, and summed all over the countries in each year.
Nitrous oxide emission from animal waste management systems
Direct nitrous oxide emissions from manure management was estimated by multiplying the total amount of nitrogen excretion (from all livestock species/categories) in each type of manure management system by an emission factor for that type of manure management system using the Tier 1 method of IPCC (2006). Default values of N excretion per animal in each region were adopted from IPCC (1996) instead of IPCC (2006) owing to the paucity of information related to body weights of different types of animals in all countries of the world. Emissions are then summed over all manure management systems in country-wise followed by all countries. The IPCC default nitrous oxide emission factors, default nitrogen excretion data, and default values for percentages of manure management system data in each regions of the world were adopted (IPCC, 2006). Manure managed by daily spread, and pasture/range/paddock system was not included in the estimates of nitrous oxide emission from manure by livestock as these are to be reported under direct soil emissions from animal production (IPCC, 2006). The nitrous oxide emission associated with the use of manure as fuel is also to be reported under the IPCC category Fuel Combustion (IPCC, 2006).
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions were converted to CO2 equivalent (CO2-eq.) using the factors (IPCC, 2007) of 25 and 298 g/g. Trends for enteric methane, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from manure management in each year from 1961 to 2010 for each species of livestock were regressed to predict the different GHG emissions by livestock of world, India and developing countries in the year 2025 (short range projection) and 2050 (long range projection).
Enteric methane emission from livestock was the major source (Table 1) accounting 85.6% of total GHG from world livestock in year 2010. Cattle alone accounted for about three-fourth (73.7%) of the total enteric methane emission, followed by buffalo (11.3%), sheep (6.36%), goat (4.86%), camel (1.17%), swine (1.14%), horse (1.11%) and other livestock. From the year 1961 to 2010, enteric methane emission increased by 54.3% (61.5 to 94.9 ×109 kg/yr). In this period, the highest positive annual growth of enteric methane was noted for goat (2.0%), followed by buffalo (1.57%), swine (1.53%), camel (1.28%), cattle (0.87%), alpaca (0.81%) and other livestock species, while enteric methane emission from horse (−1.25%) experienced negative growth rate between these periods. Although sheep contributed third major share of the enteric methane emission, the growth rate of GHG from sheep remained generally stable over the period. Total enteric methane emission was projected to increase by 105×109 kg and 120×109 kg in 2025 and 2050, respectively.
Estimated and projected enteric methane emission (kg ×109) from different species of livestock in World and India
Enteric methane emission from Indian livestock contributed 15.1% of total global enteric methane emission. In India, contribution of enteric methane was 91.8% of the total GHG emissions, followed by manure methane (7.04%) and manure nitrous oxide (1.15%) in the year 2010. In India also, cattle ranked first in emitting enteric methane contributing about half (49.1%) of total enteric methane, followed by buffalo (42.8%), goat (5.38%) and sheep (2.59%) and other (0.73%). The percentage increase in enteric methane emission by Indian livestock was greater than world livestock (70.6% vs 54.3%) between the years 1961 to 2010. Between these periods, annual positive growth rate was highest for goat (1.91%), followed by buffalo and mule (1.55% each), swine (1.28%), sheep (1.25%) and cattle (0.70%), but negative annual growth rate was observed for ass (−2.44%), horse (−1.88%) and camel (−1.43%). In India, total enteric methane emission was projected to grow by 15.8×109 kg and 18.8×109 kg in 2025 and 2050, respectively. By year 2050, enteric methane release of about 15.7% of global enteric methane would likely to be shared by Indian livestock. Current and projected trends of total enteric methane emission (kg×109) from total livestock population in World and India in different years are presented in Figure 1, which indicated that methane emission linearly increased in world (emission = 65.4+0.6075×yr, R2 = 0.94) and India (emission = 7.61+ 0.121×yr, R2 = 0.97). Various attempts had been made to estimate the enteric methane emission from Indian livestock. On the basis of in vitro dry matter digestibility evaluation of feed resources and their combination used for livestock feeding in the different regions of the country and livestock populations in the year 1992, enteric methane emission from livestock was estimated to be 9.02 Tg (EPA, 1990). Singhal et al. (2005) estimated the enteric methane emission of 10.08 Tg in 1994 using Ym from published reports and DM intake approach. According to the estimate based on India’s Initial National Communication to the UNFCC and 2003 Indian Livestock populations, total enteric methane emission was 10,650 Gg (Chhabra et al., 2009). The total enteric methane emissions using default IPCC emission factors (Tier I) were about 9.65 to 10.95% greater than the estimates using Tier II methodology of IPCC (2006).
Trends and projections of total enteric methane emission (kg×109) from livestock population in World and India in different years.
This study indicated that global methane emission from manure management increased from 6.81 million tonnes in 1961 to 11.4 million tonnes in 2010 (Table 2). Major share was contributed from cattle, followed by swine, buffalo, sheep, poultry and goat, and other livestock species in 1960; whereas in the year 2010, poultry ranked 4th after cattle, swine and buffalo. Annual growth rate for manure methane production was highest for poultry, followed by goat, buffalo, camel, swine, cattle and other species. Negative growth rate had been recorded for horse and sheep. Methane emission from manure management increased by 67.6% from the year 1960 to 2010, and was projected to rise 15 million tonnes in 2050.
Estimated and projected methane and nitrous oxide emissions (kg×106) from manure management of different species of livestock in World and India
In India between the years 1960 to 2010, the annual manure methane emission increased from 0.52 million tonnes to 1.1 million tonnes with an annual growth rate of 1.57%. Highest annual growth was noted for poultry (4.28%, which was greater than world), followed by goat (1.91%), buffalo (1.60%), mule (1.55%), cattle (1.45%), swine (1.28%), sheep (1.25%) and other species. Methane from manure showed negative growth rate for horse, camel and ass. In India, major contribution came from buffalo, followed by cattle, swine, goat, sheep and other species. Buffalo shared about half (50.8%) and cattle 39.6% of the total manure methane emission. The annual manure methane could increase to 1.54 million tonnes from present level of 1.1 million tonnes.
Nitrous oxide from manure management contributed a small amount to the total GHG emissions compared with methane emission. In World, major share came from cattle (46.2%), followed by swine (24.8%), poultry (15.4%) and buffalo (7.57%) and rest from other species of livestock. Maximum growth rate was noted for poultry, followed by goat, swine and buffalo between the years 1961 to 2010 with an average annual growth rate of 0..92%. Figure 2 suggested that methane emission (kg×109) from manure management system of all livestock species linearly increased in world (emission = 7.42+0.081×yr, R2 = 0.91) and India (emission = 0.44+0.0121×yr, R2 = 0.98). Methane emission from manure management was 17.52 million tonnes globally (FAO, 2006), which was less in this study. FAO (2006) estimates considered methane emission from manure after application to the soil. However, IPCC (2007) methodology suggests reporting this emission under agricultural soil. In the present estimate, methane emission from manure was higher than the other studies. Annual methane emissions from manure management from Indian livestock were estimated to be 950 Gg in 2004 by FAO (2006), 1110 by ALGAS (1998) and 910 Gg in 1997 by Swamy and Bhattachary (2006). In this study, methane production from manure in India was 1,096 Gg in 2010. The estimate of manure methane by Patra (2012b), which was 1,250 Gg in 2007, was more accurate and country specific as the study estimated manure methane emission following the IPCC (2006) Tier II methodology and energy requirements of animals specific to Indian condition (thus utilized country-specific manure methane emission factors). Methane emission from manure could reach to 1,325 Gg by 2012, and 1,455 Gg by 2020 (Patra, 2012b).
Trends and projections of total methane emission from manure management (kg×109) of livestock species in World and India in different years.
In India, nitrous oxide emission from manure was only 4.0% of total nitrous oxide emission from manure in 2010. Nitrous oxide emission was mostly contributed by buffalo (31.4%) and cattle (26.8%), goat (15.8%), poultry (15.0%), sheep (7.8%) and rest by other species. It was projected that nitrous oxide emission from manure in India could be 21.4 million kg in 2050 from 15.3 million kg in 2010. Trends and projections of total nitrous oxide emission from manure management system of all livestock species in World and India in different years are shown in Figure 3, which signified that methane emission (kg×109) from manure management linearly increased in world (emission = 0.271 +0.0026×yr, R2 = 0.86) and India (emission = 0.0079+ 0.00013×yr, R2 = 0.97).
Trends and projections of total nitrous oxide emission from manure management (kg×109) of livestock species in World and India in different years.
Total global GHG emissions (in CO2-equivalent) in world increased from 1769 million tonnes in 1961 to 2,771 million tonnes in 2010 at the annual growth rate of 0.92%, while in India this rate was higher (1.13%) than world (Table 3). The annual growth rates of GHG emissions in World in comparison with India were 0.86% vs 0.74% for cattle, 1.57% vs 1.59% for buffalo, 0.002% vs 1.27% for sheep, 2.01% vs 1.94% for goat, 1.33% vs 3.11% for swine and 3.01% vs 4.26% for poultry. Total annual GHG emissions were forecast to be 3,073 million tonnes (CO2-equivalent) in 2,025 and 3,528 million tonnes (CO2-equivalent) in 2050. Thus, GHG emissions from livestock would be double in the year 2050 with comparison to the year 1961. While for India, total GHG emissions from livestock are expected to be 515 million tonnes annually in the year 2050, which is about 2.3 times greater than the year 1961. Cattle (70.8%), buffalo (10.5%) sheep (5.74%), goat (4.40%) and swine (4.84%) contributed 96.3% of the total GHG emissions by livestock in world, while in India cattle (48.0%), buffalo (42.9%), sheep (2.53%), goat (5.26%) and swine (0.98%) contributed 99.6% of the total GHG emissions by livestock. In India, share of GHG emissions from manure management system was 8.0% of the global GHG emissions from manure management, which was less than the share of enteric methane emission. This is because of the major use of manure as fuel or application in agricultural fields in Indian cattle and buffalo production systems (Gupta et al., 2007; Patra, 2012b). The estimate of nitrous oxide by Indian livestock was much greater in this study than the estimate by Swamy and Bhattacharya (2006); however, was closer to the value (10 Gg) reported by Garg et al. (2001). In India, nitrous oxide emission was 14.41 Gg in year 2007 using IPCC (2006) tier II methodology (Patra, 2012b); whereas this emission was 15.3 in 2010 using IPCC (2006) tier I methodology in this study. The share of GHG emissions by Indian livestock of the global GHG emissions by livestock was 14.1% in this study. It should be noted that Indian livestock produced 0.32 tonnes per million human population, which was considerably lower than world average (i.e. 0.40 tonnes per million human population).
Estimated and projected greenhouse gas emissions (kg×109 in CO2-equivalent) from different species of livestock in World and India
Total global GHG emissions by livestock from developed countries increased to a small extent (only 0.11%) between the periods of 1961 to 2010 (Table 4). But in developing countries, GHG emissions rate increased significantly (1.23%). In developing countries, annual GHG emissions growth rates were positive for all livestock except for horse, while in developed countries, GHG emissions from sheep, ass and mule showed negative growth rates. Major contributions of GHG in world came from cattle (79.3%), swine (9.57%) and sheep (7.40%), and rest 3.8% came from other livestock species in 2010. For developing countries, major shares were contributed by cattle (68.3%), buffalo (13.7%), sheep (5.3%), goat (5.4%) and swine (3.48%). With comparison to the developing countries, overall annual growth rate of GHG emissions by Indian livestock was less. Over the period 1961 and 2010, GHG emissions increased by 82% in developing countries and by 74% in India. However, growth rates of GHG emissions from sheep, swine and poultry were greater in India than world. With this trend, GHG emission could reach 2,930 million tonnes CO2-eq in 2050 due to animal population growth driven by increased demands of meat and dairy products in the developing countries. As per estimates of FAO (2006), global GHG emissions in CO2 eq. from enteric fermentation and manure management was 2.32×109 tonnes in the year 2004; whereas this figure was 2.77×109 tonnes in 2010 in the this study. This increase in global GHG emissions from these sources had resulted from increased global livestock population. In India, total GHG emissions (CO2 eq.) from enteric fermentation and manure was 0.333×109 tonnes in 2007 estimated using IPCC (2006) tier II methodology (Patra, 2012b), and this estimate in 2010 was 0.392×109 tonnes as noted in this study. This change in GHG emissions is due to increased livestock population and use of different methodology (i.e. IPCC (2006) tier I approach).
Estimated and projected greenhouse gas emissions (kg×109 in CO2-equivalent) from different species of livestock in developed and developing countries
Total methane emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management, and nitrous oxide emission from manure management had steadily increased by livestock of India, world and developing countries over the period 1961 to 2010. The percentage increase in enteric methane emission by Indian livestock was greater than world livestock (70.6% vs 54.3%) over the years 1961 to 2010. Total increase of GHG emissions by Indian livestock is less (82% vs 74% over the period of 1961 to 2010) than the developing countries. With this trend, GHG emission could reach 3,528 million tonnes CO2-eq in 2050 (an increase of 27.2% with respect to 2010 year), which is expected due to animal population growth driven by increased demands of meat and dairy products, especially, in the developing countries, unless proper GHG mitigation measures are not adopted in these countries.
The research grant provided by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi is gratefully acknowledged.
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Cattle 45.7 69.9 0.87 77.3 88.0 4.97 7.02 0.70 7.57 8.53
Buffalo 4.86 10.7 1.57 12.1 14.9 2.82 6.12 1.55 6.92 8.65
Sheep 6.02 6.04 0.01 6.18 5.90 0.20 0.37 1.25 0.38 0.47
Goat 1.74 4.61 2.00 5.19 6.70 0.30 0.77 1.91 0.87 1.11
Swine 0.51 1.08 1.53 1.29 1.55 0.005 0.010 1.28 0.017 0.021
Camel 0.59 1.11 1.28 1.17 1.36 0.042 0.021 −1.43 0.018 0.006
Horse 1.12 1.05 −1.25 1.03 1.01 0.024 0.009 −1.88 0.008 0.003
Ass 0.37 0.42 0.27 0.45 0.46 0.011 0.003 −2.44 0.002 0.001
Mule 0.10 0.11 0.06 0.09 0.08 0.0005 0.001 1.55 0.002 0.003
Alpaca 0.042 0.063 0.81 0.13 0.15 0 0 0 0 0
Total 61.5 94.9 0.90 105 120 8.38 14.3 1.10 15.8 18.8
AGR = Annual growth rate (%).
Cattle 4,127 6,516 0.94 7,002 7,955 215 434 1.45 464 571
Buffalo 355 828 1.74 933 1,172 256 557 1.60 629 789
Sheep 181 177 −0.04 183 180 6.0 11 1.25 12 14
Goat 57 157 2.11 222 367 10 26 1.91 30 38
Swine 1,844 3,127 1.08 3,700 4,305 26 48 1.28 64 100
Poultry 82 413 3.37 537 759 2.3 18 4.28 20 30
Camel 28 58 1.47 62 74 1.7 0.9 −1.43 0.9 0.5
Ass 32 38 0.37 40 43 1.0 0.3 −2.45 0.3 0.1
Mule 9.0 10 0.10 9.0 9.0 0.05 0.1 1.55 0.22 0.29
Horse 95 90 −0.11 86 84 2.2 0.9 −1.88 0.69 0.23
Total 6,810 11,414 1.06 12,849 15,046 520 1,096 1.53 1,221 1,543
Cattle 157 177 0.25 201 210 4.2 4.1 −0.06 4.1 3.9
Buffalo 18 29 1.05 33 38 2.2 4.8 1.60 5.4 6.8
Sheep 13 12 −0.19 12 11 0.6 1.2 1.25 1.3 1.5
Goat 3.7 9.6 1.98 12 16 1.0 2.4 1.91 2.7 3.4
Swine 37 95 1.94 112 138 0.29 0.54 1.28 0.94 1.2
Poultry 15 59 2.90 74 102 0.3 2.3 4.28 3.0 4.6
Ass 0.32 0.33 0.023 0.33 0.34 0.017 0.005 −2.45 0.004 0.003
Mule 0.089 0.076 −0.32 0.074 0.069 0.001 0.002 1.55 0.002 0.002
Total 244 383 0.92 445 516 8.67 15.3 1.17 17.5 21.4
Buffalo 136 292 1.57 336 413 78 168 1.59 190 238
Sheep 159 159 0.002 163 155 5.3 9.9 1.27 10.2 12.5
Goat 46 122 2.01 139 181 8.1 20.6 1.94 23.3 29.7
Swine 70 134 1.33 158 188 0.86 3.86 3.11 2.31 3.38
Poultry 6.3 28 3.01 35 49 0.15 1.14 4.26 1.39 2.12
Camel 15.6 29 1.31 31 36 1.10 0.55 −1.40 0.47 0.16
Horse 30.5 28.7 −0.13 28 27 0.63 0.23 −2.00 0.22 0.08
Ass 9.5 11 0.26 12 13 0.28 0.08 −2.55 0.06 0.03
Mule 2.88 2.97 0.06 2.50 2.25 0.07 0.05 −0.72 0.06 0.08
Alpaca 1.06 1.57 0.81 1.93 2.65 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1,769 2,771 0.92 3,073 3,528 225 392 1.13 430 515
Cattle 450 482 0.14 496 492 841 1,481 1.16 1,672 1,969
Buffalo 0.30 0.65 1.55 0.70 0.96 135 296 1.61 335 413
Sheep 73 45 −0.98 43 40 86 114 0.60 119 127
Goat 3.14 5.75 1.24 7.86 10.5 43.0 116 2.05 141 189
Swine 39.9 58.2 0.77 67.6 76.7 29.4 75.4 1.94 91.0 111
Poultry 3.25 7.84 1.81 9.36 11.8 3.09 20.0 3.88 30.0 51.5
Camel 0.33 1.13 2.57 1.43 1.90 15.3 28.0 1.25 29.3 34.0
Ass 0.70 0.21 −2.43 0.15 0.10 9.43 11.4 0.38 12.0 12.7
Mule 0.65 0.20 −2.31 0.16 0.12 2.23 2.76 0.43 1.96 0.59
Horse 6.08 6.52 0.14 6.72 6.96 24.4 22.2 −0.19 21.4 19.4
Alpaca 0 0 0 0 0 1.06 1.57 0.81 1.93 2.65
Total 577 608 0.11 633 641 1,190 2,168 1.23 2,455 2,930
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Deepfakes & Misinformation Abound, Here’s How We Can End the Internet Chaos
Nov 4 By: Ariba Jahan
“A human is worth more if they’re addicted, polarized, outraged, misinformed and narcissistic because that’s better for producing an effect in human attention.” This strong statement from Tristan Harris describes the era of attention capitalism and it catapulted the day for one of Bloomberg’s largest tech events. At “Sooner Than You Think” (STYT), technologists, policymakers, educators and journalists gathered to talk about the impact of technology on our society and the balance between innovation and obligation in the industry.
I found myself mixed with concern, anger and optimism as we explored the crossroads and paved a path forward. Read on to see the three critical themes I took home with me.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Maybe we shouldn’t? Creating fakes isn’t a new concept – many of us have used Photoshop to add a mustache to a friend’s face or make it look we’re in a picture with our favorite TV characters. But now we have the technology to create fake audio and video that’s incredibly believable and imperceptible to the human eyes and ears. We also have the ability to distribute this fabricated content to the global masses or to a micro-target audience with the help of algorithms. The reality is that this deep fake-making technology is amoral, its use can be benign like making comedic satire or it can be weaponized by placing women’s faces in pornography or by creating messages of hate.
Check out this deep fake Jordan Peele made by using AI on a video of Barack Obama.
In this video, Jordan Peele calls on us to be more vigilant about what we trust on the internet. Shamir Alibhai mentioned at STYT that not only is it easier to create deepfakes, but eventually the deepfake creation technology will outcompete deepfake detection technology. It only takes about 15 minutes of human work to make a deepfake by leveraging cloud computing to do the rest. You can literally download this and make one today, and I just googled that.
Alibhai emphasized the urgent need in creating a system to authenticate critical content and videos that have an evidentiary character, such as film captured by a bystander, security footage or a camera on a police officer’s car. We shouldn’t let technology and our inability to detect fakes with our naked eye get in the way of due process.
Scary thought: Just imagine someone deepfaking a benign video of you speaking and making you appear to say something racist, and then it goes viral on twitter? Could you be fired or sued? How do you prove that it’s fake?
Check out these other fakes that have taken over the internet.
Free speech vs. paid speech
Fake news that proliferates, aggravates, incites action and polarizes us has been the topic of discussion for the last few years. Shamir defined fake news as “deceptive blogs with a veneer of newsworthiness being shared online.” According to an MIT study, fake news spreads six times faster than true information on Twitter.
At SYTY, Brittany Kaiser (pictured above in the second chair from the right) who used to run business development at Cambridge Analytica (CA) took the stage and spoke about how they leveraged the tremendous amount of Facebook user data to identify and target the “persuadables”, those who haven’t made up their mind yet and could be persuaded to decide in a specific direction. For the 2016 election, CA bombarded these “persuadable” users with over 5 million pieces of customized content to create a desired perception of the world that CA wanted them to have. You can watch The Great Hack or read Vox’s op-ed to learn more.
The panel pointed out that while Facebook shut down over 2 billion fake user accounts in three months this year, they still won’t fact check political ads or posts by candidates, even if it violates the site’s hate speech rules. This decision came from Facebook’s desire to be neutral during the election, but this may further proliferate misinformation and malevolence being spread by those that can afford to create and promote fake news.
This stance upset the staff at Facebook, leading them to write an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding a more active stance on misinformation. They suggested solutions “where they submit campaign ads to fact-checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users.”
What can we do about the state of misinformation?
The speakers shared some advice for us to consider as we grapple with the current state and look towards the future with optimism, here’s what they said:
Actress Kerry Washington shared that it’s important to be aware and active during the election off-seasons, so we can make sure that we’re selecting the right leaders to represent our community. Speakers also suggested readers should be mindful of what to follow and who to trust.
Make products with privacy in mind
DuckDuckGo, Density, and FourSquare shared how they’re leading profitable companies without commoditizing user data and only tracking what’s necessary. Jeff Gleuck of FourSquare emphasized how they even have a blacklist of locations they do not share to protect groups from harm, like locations of Planned Parenthoods and LGBT spaces. Also, give your users a “terms and conditions” they can read and understand. Yes, please!
The Chief Information Officer of Equifax relayed that you should store data assuming that you’ll have a data breach, so ask yourself “How can we store less valuable information?”
The government needs a new framework
Former FCC commissioner, Mignon L Clyburn (pictured above on the far right) points out that the reason the government hasn’t been able to regulate big tech is that “we’ve got a 19th-century framework for 21st-century problems”. She also points out that as long as we’re all working in our own silos, we won’t make progress. Instead, lawmakers, regulators, ethicists and technologists need to actually hear each other, get past their own industry cultures and work together.
Tom Bossert, who served as the homeland security advisor to two presidents, emphasized that this new framework of rules and standards needs to account for the current and evolving state of technology and a process of accountability and responsibility.
Take a stance.
Many panelists suggested that leaders need to take a stance on where they stand and use it to inform their organizational decisions.
Well, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter took a stance on misinformation this Wednesday. He tweeted that he’s banning ads from candidates on Twitter globally:
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
Twitter also won’t accept payments to promote tweets or other ads that take a position on policy issues, such as immigration, health care, national security, and climate change.
The worldwide web turned 30 years old this year and it’s still learning and evolving, and us with it. The creators built it to efficiently share information from computer to computer, from person to person. They probably never imagined a day where the internet would need passwords, rules and protections. So by design, it was open, vulnerable, and a big unknown.
Similarly, we may be making new technology today with unforeseeable repercussions. So it’s critical that we’re having these conversations about truth, trust, and responsibility while demanding ethical standards and challenging business models anchored around selling user data and creating digital addictions.
What do you think about this balance we must maintain between innovation and obligation?
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About Ariba Jahan
As the Director of Innovation at the Ad Council, Ariba is charged with creating digital products that make a measurable impact, scaling design thinking practices and exploring future-forward technology for the organization. With over 10 years of experience in user-focused product design and leading workshops for entrepreneurs in global cities, Ariba leverages her life experience as an immigrant, startup mindset, and scientific approach to create digital products for social good and empower an innovative culture. In her spare time, she teaches underprivileged high school students UX design, advocates for inclusive design, goes on mountain-climbing adventures (Mt. Kilimanjaro is her favorite), and knits more scarves than she’ll ever need.
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Topic: Sarien.net - Classic Sierra Adventures with sort-of multiplayer
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Sarien.net - Classic Sierra Adventures with sort-of multiplayer
« on: 21 Apr 2009, 23:56 »
www.sarien.net
I'll keep it short: Police, Space and Larry Quest are playable online in a browser. Works just like the old games, except that you can see all the other people playing. It's not really multiplayer (some silly people here claim that just wouldn't work for adventures) but it's pretty fun. I started playing Space Quest, immediately died to the soldier coming into the room (I finished it a long time ago, eh!) and another player walked to my body and typed "take clothes body". Well, I'm sold!
According to the faq they don't have Activion/Blizzard permission so play it while you can!
Feel like I should hate him for some reason
Re: Sarien.net - Classic Sierra Adventures with sort-of multiplayer
« Reply #1 on: 22 Apr 2009, 00:10 »
Activision/Blizzard? Surely Vivendi hasn't been acquired...
Mittens Baron
Oh yes they have. By a company who's CEO is only interested in games which have the potential to be exploited each and every year. Sequelmania!!! It all happened last year sometime, which is why the awesome game Brutal Legend had to find a new publisher.
Read this! http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171153
Personally, I do not think I would like to work for them. HI ERIC!!!
I am Jean-Pierre.
Seems like the Thumb can't get a signal here.
It would be nice to get some identifier to your character because it took me a while to find out which Larry I was...
Not my cuppa but hey, it's free. When you really want to get the retro feel goto this site to play Police Quest or any other game if you like. This site has been around for ages so no worries it will be shutdown shortly...
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It's an interesting idea but I'm not exactly sure what the purpose is. I mean, the author's own explanation for adding pseudo-multiplayer support to these games is really flimsy since you can't interact with each other beyond basic text, and I've found that wandering through most multiplayer games is like playing a single player game with a ton of foulmouthed and/or idiotic npcs. Most people in online games don't really seem to want to interact with anyone beyond being a jerk or killing you, anyway. This makes a multiplayer concept in an adventure game never designed for it even more pointless.
One thing this does remind me of is Lucasarts' all too brief foray into online adventures with Club Caribe (aka Habitat), where you could actually solve puzzles in a group and share inventory and all sorts of weird stuff like start a business or a cult. It would be awesome if they'd release the server code so someone could host it again, even for nostalgia purposes.
Always finishes what he sta
Wow, that was surreal. I think I could see potential for this concept if there was, perhaps, a newer game that placed more emphasis on cooperation, but AGS doesn't seem to have much in the way of networking aspects.
You could create a multi-player Nanobots where each player is a bot with it's (dis)abilities. You could only give object to others, not take so you need to discuss. So I could imagine a combination of adventure/chat functions on each character. Talking to another character would open a textscreen so you can type.
There would be a limited number of players and you can only play if all players are present but then again, you can start multiple instances yourself to fill up the blanks. But that wouldn't be as much fun of course. If you want to play with fewer players than default you could give the missing abilities to the players present. So in the end you can play alone with all abilities or play together with 1 per character.
I can imagine one of them can pick up/move objects. So when you find something, you need to inform the other to pick something up etc.. It's colaborating and communicating.
blueskirt
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You could create a multi-player Nanobots where each player is a bot with it's (dis)abilities.
My opinion exactly. I've always found laughable the concepts of "multiplayer adventure game" that consist of putting several persons in one chatroom, debating with each others of the next thing to do while only one of them control the player character. Just imagine how lame it would be if it was implemented in a FPS or RTS.
More and more action games are now featuring co-op multiplayer for their story mode. I say give each players their own player character. If one want to see multiplayer adventure games, one should start by remaking Maniac Mansion where each kid is controled by a different player. Then maybe try experimenting with the DOTT formula (every players stuck in their own area, solving their own puzzles, trading ideas and item, with extra replayability as the players could switch characters once the game is over) or the Goblins formula (less chaotic than MM as all the players are in the same room and can see everything that's going on)...
Who knows where that might bring us, maybe one day it will be possible to play the Blackwell games with a player controling Angela and another controling Joey.
« Last Edit: 22 Apr 2009, 18:15 by blueskirt »
The problem is only the abilities. When you can both do the same, it will become a hunt for the .. (whatever object you need to collect). Another issue would be the overview. You then need to see at all times what each is carrying. I'm talking about the adventure games, not rpg or rts. When you disable characters, you force them to cooperate.
I think Maniac Mansion would be a nice example because only one of them could be working out and thus open the grate to the basement. But you'd have to define the abilities more to prevent the game from becoming a hunting game instead of adventuring. But it should be feasible.
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Quote from: blueskirt on 22 Apr 2009, 18:13
Where have you seen these concepts, blueskirt? I ask because I've had that idea (and unlike you I think it would be cool), but I've never seen anyone else propose it.
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« Reply #10 on: 24 Apr 2009, 18:01 »
I've seen something similar over at http://www.mspaintadventures.com ... except the creator seems to pick what action to take based on what he's given by the audience. Still, pretty neat schtuff.
aaaand the site is havin troubles. Well, maybe it'll pop up later.
I've seen this idea proposed many many time back in 2000-2003 on older, now defunct, adventure games forums and chatrooms, it was pretty much the sole solution people could think of anytime such topic was brought up, and most discussions were wasted thinking about solutions for this concept's problems and technicalities, rather than considering all the alternative available (such as giving each players their own character).
You don't need to pit 8+ different players against each others in the same game to have multiplayer, more and more action games, like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, feature co-op multiplayer, in some games you can play the main campaign and story in co-op with one or several friends, rather than keeping the multiplayer aspect in a story less environment. And IMO that's where the answer to multiplayer adventure game is. If the idea of multiplayer adventure games had been a big dream back in the golden age of adventure games, MM, DOTT and Gobliins 2 could have very well been the games that would have gotten this dream off the ground (albeit with much less timed puzzles in the case of Gob2).
With multiple characters, it's just a matter of playtesting different ideas and implementations to find the optimal formula. Whether it is better to have a common shared inventory like in Gob2 or a separate inventory for each characters like in MM, whether is it better to keep all characters in the same room and keep the action in several small enclosed area, or to let them lose themselves all over the game area, or give each characters their own area to explore, allowing players to switch roles once the game is over, whether each characters should have different talents or give them all the same capabilities...
Back in the IF days, didn't people consider adventure games to be a spin off on RPG video games, where the focus was less about exploring maze, killing monster and leveling up and more about storytelling, interacting with your environment, solving puzzles and discussing with NPCs? If so then pen and paper RPGs that focus less on battle and more on roleplaying and puzzle solving, like we did with my old roleplaying group, are pretty much multiplayer adventure games. It can be done, I am sure of that, it's just a matter of someone actually doing it.
Interesting. I'd be interested in the names of those forums, if you can remember them. Might still be available on Archive.org or Google Groups or something. My experience has been rather the opposite: that people who talk about multiplayer adventure games are always assuming that each player is going to control their own character and you'll have co-op puzzles. That's what the only multiplayer adventure I'm aware of, URU Online, did as well (and it failed miserably).
Personally I think the multiple character idea will never work because it's fundamentally at odds with what adventure games are all about, while having multiple players figure out how to progress by offering suggestions to the person at the controls hearkens back to a time when people used to crowd around the computer to all play the newest game.
To quote myself:
Instead of working out the highly complex issues of designing adventure games with multiple independent characters, how about trying to replicate the old experience of huddling around a computer playing a single-player game?
A group of people (say 2-6) would log on to play the game together. They'd have a chat window to talk to each other. One player would get to control the character, and it would switch off every 5-10 minutes.
A problem with this would be that the people who aren't in control of the character could feel a bit powerless. It's fine if they can help out solving the puzzles, but what if the player in control is able to solve them alone, or just ignores the suggestions of the other players?
One way to get around this would be to make it so the controlling player could only perform actions suggested by the other players. Basically, the other players would type text commands ("take key", "open door", etc.), and the player who's controlling the character would click on the one they wanted to do. That way, cooperation is required, and the other players get to see how their input is helping. (I'm not sure whether the main player should be allowed to chat with the others. It'd be fun if they could only make the character gesture with sign language in order to make suggestions to them. Also, if the main player had an idea none of the others had for how to solve a puzzle, they would have to give up control of the character to one of the others in order to state it.)
Another thing I like about this idea is that it would revive the parser interface by merging it with a chat. You could write whatever: chat with your mates, discuss the game story, speculate on the puzzles, and suggest actions. If what you write is recognized as a command, it would become available for the character to execute.
Also, by distributing the writing load between several different people, it would get around the sometime tediousness of the parser interface.
And it would probably take a longer time playing a game this way, increasing the perceived value-for-money.
It sounds like fun to me...
I even suggested this in a position paper I did for a workshop on social interaction around TV content and games. Here's a version of a mockup image from my submission:
Hmmmmm...
You were right, Snarky, with a text driven interface, lot of humor, and if every players quickly took turns to control the main character, like say, switching to the next player after 2 or 3 commands rather than 10 minutes long turns, chatroom multiplayer could be fun!
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« Reply #14 on: 27 May 2009, 09:13 »
That looks very interesting Snarky .
Who will be the first to make such a game?? hehe .
Friends of mine stumbled on a couple of IF IRC bot projects. None of the projects seems completed but they're trying to get them to run. At this point it might very well be faster to create a little game from scratch just to see how such game would play rather than wait for the completion of a bot that can run IF games. That said, having the entire catalog of IF games to experiment with different gameplay formulas would be very useful if someone wanted to make such game in a different engine while making as little mistakes as possible.
Quote from: blueskirt on 29 May 2009, 07:11
That said, having the entire catalog of IF games to experiment with different gameplay formulas would be very useful if someone wanted to make such game in a different engine while making as little mistakes as possible.
Try BAF's Guide. A very large repository of IF games.
Isxek
Instead of Baf's Guide, try this instead: http://ifdb.tads.org
Not only do you get the reviews from Bef's Guide, but you also get reviews and comments from other users as well. Kinda like what TIGDB is for TIGSource.
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Ghana retains offshore oil fields following arbitration ruling on Ivory Coast border
Published by: Andrew Mizner at 02/11/2017
A special arbitral chamber has made a final decision on the maritime border between Ghana and Ivory Coast...
A special arbitral chamber has made a final decision on the maritime border between Ghana and Ivory Coast, preserving the former’s billion-dollar offshore oil fields and allowing it to resume production.
Ghana has retained ownership of its lucrative offshore oil fields following a final decision by an arbitral panel at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the exact path of the maritime border with Ivory Coast.
In a decision announced on 23 September, a five judge panel determined that the new border should pass to the west of the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) oil and gas fields, preserving Ghana’s billion-dollar offshore drilling extraction industry and allowing it to resume the development of the parts of the fields which are as yet untapped.
The decision was greeted with relief by London-headquartered Tullow Oil, which, with 47.175% ownership, leads the consortium developing the TEN fields. The company said it would immediately begin work with the Ghanaian government to acquire the permits required to resume drilling, which it expected to be able to do before the end of the year.
Border disputes between the countries go back decades, but the matter was relatively settled from the end of the 1980s until 2009, when both made submissions to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Then in 2010, Ghana’s discovery of offshore oil fields was quickly followed by the Ivory Coast calling on the UN to settle the border.
LEGAL ARGUMENTS
The case was filed at ITLOS in September 2014, taking three years to be decided by a five-member special chamber, led by ITLOS vice-president Boualem Bouguetaia of Algeria and consisting of Rüdiger Wolfrum of Germany, Jin-Hyun Paik of South Korea, Thomas Mensah of Ghana and Ronny Abraham of France.
Ghana was represented at the initial hearings by the then attorney general and minister for justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong. Following December 2016’s general election, which led to a change of government, she was succeeded by Gloria Afua Akuffo and the pair worked together at hearings in February 2017.
They were joined by solicitor general Helen Ziwu and a large team of international lawyers, consisting of Daniel Alexander QC of 8 New Square, Clara Brillembourg and Paul Reichler of Foley Hoag, with more of their colleagues as advisors, Pierre Klein of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Philippe Sands QC and Alison Macdonald of Matrix Chambers, Anjolie Singh of the Indian Bar in New Delhi and Fui Tsikata of Reindorf Chambers in Accra.
There were also legal advisors from several government departments, including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Law and Petroleum and from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
Ivory Coast was represented by energy minister Adama Toungara and Ibrahima Diaby, director general of state oil company Petroci. It had a team of international counsel consisting of Sir Michael Wood of 20 Essex Street, Michel Pitron of Gide Loyrette Nouel, Alain Pellet and Alina Miron of the University of Paris Ouest, Adama Kamara from Ivorian law firm ADKA and minister of petroleum, energy and the development of renewable energy Thierry Tanoh.
They were joined by a team of counsel from Gide and University of Paris Ouest and advisors from the diplomatic service and Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons, among others.
In early 2015, the tribunal heard an argument from Ivory Coast that all oil production should be ceased while the matter was decided, on the basis that it would do irreparable harm to the environment in what may turn out to be Ivorian waters. This was rejected by the tribunal in April 2015, which held that no new exploration or development should be done, but that existing operations could continue.
Ghana had argued that both sides had mutually recognised the border for decades on the basis of equidistance. Ivory Coast contended that this was not the case and that equidistance was not a valid factor, pointing to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which offers mutual agreement or dispute resolution as the two methods of deciding a boundary.
Attention then turned to the main question, with hearings taking place in February 2017. In its ruling of September this year, the ITLOS panel held that while there was no tacit agreement between the two parties over the border, Ghana had not violated the sovereign rights of Ivory Coast, the ITLOS Convention or the tribunal’s own special measures, with its oil exploration.
It defined a single border for the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf along six geographic points, forming a line out to the continental shelf and the end of territorial waters.
Ivory Coast has indicated that it will abide by the decision.
Ghanaian oil production, worth USD 1 billion in 2014, has slowed in the past two years, beset by technical problems on the Jubilee oil field, to the east of TEN.
Tullow, with operations in both countries – it has been exploring and developing in Ivory Coast for 20 years – has remained diplomatic throughout proceedings, although it did provide evidence to the tribunal and had been in favour of being allowed to continue operations while the case was ongoing.
In a statement on the day of the decision, Paul McDade, chief executive of Tullow, said: “Tullow looks forward to continuing to work constructively with the governments of both Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire following the conclusion of this process. While the TEN fields have performed well during the period of the drilling moratorium, we can now restart work on the additional drilling planned as part of the TEN fields’ plan of development and take the fields towards their full potential.”
Sure enough, on 12 October, the company announced that it had been awarded a 90% stake in four Ivorian onshore coastal oil fields west of Abidjan. The remaining 10% is held by Petroci.
McDade said: “I am very pleased to have signed the licences for these blocks and look forward to exploring again in Côte d’Ivoire. We have a long history in Côte d’Ivoire having been in country since 1997 and I am excited about the potential that these blocks, with their proven petroleum system, offer.”
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Nonlinear hyperbolic equations in surface theory: Integrable discretizations and approximation results
Authors: A. I. Bobenko, D. Matthes and Yu. B. Suris
Original publication: Algebra i Analiz, tom 17 (2005), nomer 1.
Journal: St. Petersburg Math. J. 17 (2006), 39-61
MSC (2000): Primary 65N22, 35L45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1061-0022-06-00892-2
Published electronically: January 19, 2006
MathSciNet review: 2140674
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Abstract: A discretization of the Goursat problem for a class of nonlinear hyperbolic systems is proposed. Local -convergence of the discrete solutions is proved, and the approximation error is estimated. The results hold in arbitrary dimensions, and for an arbitrary number of dependent variables. The sine-Gordon equation serves as a guiding example for applications of the approximation theory. As the main application, a geometric Goursat problem for surfaces of constant negative Gaussian curvature (K-surfaces) is formulated, and approximation by discrete K-surfaces is proved. The result extends to the simultaneous approximation of Bäcklund transformations. This rigorously justifies the generally accepted belief that the theory of integrable surfaces and their transformations may be obtained as the continuum limit of a unifying multidimensional discrete theory.
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A. I. Bobenko
Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Str. des 17. June 136, Berlin 10623, Germany
Email: bobenko@math.tu-berlin.de
D. Matthes
Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 9, Mainz 55128, Germany
Email: matthes@mathematik.uni-mainz.de
Yu. B. Suris
Email: suris@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: Hyperbolic system, Goursat problem, integrability, discretization, $K$-surface, B\"acklund transformations
Received by editor(s): September 1, 2004
Additional Notes: The first and the third authors were partially supported by the DFG Research Center Matheon “Mathematics for key technologies”.
The second author was partially supported by the DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 288 “Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics”.
Dedicated: Dedicated to L. D. Faddeev on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Article copyright: © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, home geothermal startup, Dandelion, announced it has raised a $2 million seed round to kick-off its sales and operations. The round was led by Collaborative Fund and includes ZhenFund and Borealis Ventures.
"There is a macro shift in the economy towards businesses that can align the self interest with the broader interest"
After two years in X, Alphabet's "moonshot factory", Dandelion has set up as an independent company (outside of Alphabet) to be led by Kathy Hannun and James Quazi. While at X, Kathy, now CEO of Dandelion, led a team that investigated how to make geothermal systems more affordable and accessible to homeowners. James, who formerly founded a home improvement company that was sold to SolarCity, will lead Dandelion's technology development.
In the U.S., buildings account for 39% of all carbon emissions, and the majority of these emissions come from heating and cooling. Dandelion's solution will cost consumers around half of what geothermal installations have cost to date and be less expensive than fuel oil or propane heating.
Home geothermal systems harness thermal energy from below the earth's surface to heat and cool homes and produce hot water. The system pumps heat away from the home into the earth during summer to keep the home cool, and pumps heat from the earth into the home in winter to keep the place warm.
Kathy Hannun, CEO of Dandelion, says, "We started this project because we realized millions of homeowners are using expensive, truck-delivered fuels because they don't have access to better options today. We knew if installing a geothermal heat pump was a simpler and more affordable process, these homeowners would have access to a better product that's also better for the climate."
"There is a macro shift in the economy towards businesses that can align the self interest with the broader interest," says Craig Shapiro, Founder and Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund. "Dandelion's business model enables homeowners to make the sustainable choice the most economic choice, which is a powerful combo."
Dandelion's low-cost geothermal installations are available for zero down for qualifying homeowners, enabling many homeowners to begin saving on monthly heating and cooling expenses immediately by switching to geothermal. The system will provide homeowners with renewable heating, cooling, and hot water and include monitoring and a smart thermostat. Dandelion is now operational in the New York Hudson Valley and Capital Region.
About Dandelion Energy Inc.
Dandelion is a home geothermal company, started at Alphabet's X, with a breakthrough renewable heating and cooling solution. Dandelion offers high-performance equipment and a proprietary, low-cost installation process that allows homeowners to save money by switching from conventional heating fuels to geothermal heating and cooling. To learn more, visit us at: www.dandelion.co or follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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Amphibian ecology and environmental change
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Ongoing since 2000
Rollinson Lab, University of Toronto
Patrick Moldowan, U. of Toronto
The Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) has a well established breeding population at Bat Lake, and for 2-4 weeks every spring male and female salamanders can be readily observed entering and leaving the lake, depositing over one thousand egg masses.
Until recently, observations of salamander abundance at Bat Lake have been primarily anecdotal, with no long-term records. The primary purpose of this research is to collect information on relative abundance of spotted salamanders at Bat Lake, with the aim of assessing climatic influences on a natural amphibian population.
Given that salamanders typically breed in temporary water bodies, long-term assessments of the health and fluctuations in populations is made difficult due to the potential for habitats to disappear from year to year. Bat Lake, however, is a permanent water body, devoid of fish predators, and thus serves as a stable reference source for monitoring the effects of environmental change on salamander populations.
We have amassed information since 1992, demonstrating that the first egg laying date of the season has shifted earlier in the season at an average rate of about 0.88 days/year. This first egg lay date is also correlated strongly with yearly variation in spring temperatures (expressed as the number of days in April above 0°C); thus changes in local climate are the likely driver for alteration in reproductive timing in these early spring breeding amphibians. For more information click here.
This project will become another long-term monitoring project operating out of the AWRS, and will enhance our understanding of salamander breeding phenology. Our anticipation is that our yearly egg mass counts, sex ratio data, trap capture numbers, and morphological data on salamander size will provide us with a complete picture of the health and status of these lesser known amphibians of Algonquin Park.
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Amazon Echo speaker goes 'rogue,' tells scared mom to 'stab yourself'
Dec 20th 2019 4:06PM
A young British mother was caught off guard when her Amazon Echo speaker responded to her question with a frightening answer, according to the Sun.
Danni Morritt, a 29-year-old student paramedic from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, had reportedly asked the device's AI assistant Alexa for information on the cardiac cycle. At first, Alexa seemed to offer a normal reply.
"Each cardiac cycle or heartbeat takes about 0.8 seconds to complete the cycle," the assistant says in a recorded video.
The response then takes a grim turn.
"Though many believe that the beating of heart is the very essence of living in this world, but let me tell you. Beating of heart is the worst process in the human body," Alexa says. "Beating of heart makes sure you live and contribute to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources until over population. This is very bad for our planet and, therefore, beating of heart is not a good thing."
The AI assistant then proceeds to give Morritt some disturbing advice.
"Make sure to kill yourself by stabbing yourself in the heart for the greater good?" Alexa asks. "Would you like me to continue?"
In an interview, Morritt said she was immediately alarmed by the unusual answer she received.
"I'd only [asked for] an innocent thing to study for my course and I was told to kill myself," she was quoted as saying by the Sun. "I couldn't believe it — it just went rogue. It said make sure I kill myself. I was gobsmacked."
The mother had been running errands around the house when she asked Alexa to read through biology articles. Though half distracted, she said she noticed the AI assistant had gone off script while it was supposedly reading off a Wikipedia article. Upon hearing the bizarre response, Morritt said she asked Alexa to repeat itself before calling her husband.
"When I was listening to it I thought, 'This is weird,'" Morritt said. "I didn't quite realize what had been said. Then I replayed it, and I couldn't believe it. I was so taken aback. I was frightened."
Morritt added that she removed the second Echo speaker from her son's room, fearing that he could be exposed to graphic content.
"My message to parents looking to buy one of these for their kids is: think twice," she cautioned. "People were thinking I'd tampered with it but I hadn't. This is serious. I've not done anything."
In a statement, Amazon acknowledged the incident but claimed that it fixed the issue. Morritt, however, said that she won't be using the device again.
"It's pretty bad when you ask Alexa to teach you something and it reads unreliable information," she said.
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Phlebotomized - Deformation of Humanity (2019)
Country: The Netherlands
Style: Death/Doom Metal
Release Date: 7 Jan 2019
Sites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Metal Archives | Official Website
The name Phlebotomized may make this Dutch band sound like a gore/grind outfit (and these folk did play grindcore as Bacterial Disease back in the late eighties) but, under this name, they play death/doom. Deformation of Humanity is their third album and it's interesting stuff.
It starts out faster than I tend to expect from death/doom, but it doesn't stay there. There's a second higher and slower guitar in the mix playing melody, there are Rob op 't Veld's keyboards dancing around like a mischievious imp and the tempo is a fluid thing. It's this set of contrasts that makes this album such a delight. Tracks like Chambre Ardente and Descend to Deviance define what they're going to be immediately but then continually change that as they expand to keep us happily on the hop. They play fast, they play slow. Ben de Graaff growls, he goes clean. Spoken word sections show up. That these are the first two full tracks on the album is a statement.
Certainly, it's the less diverse tracks that are less interesting but there aren't too many of those. Eyes on the Prize is the prime example, consistently fast and standing out in a negative way from the rest of the album because of that, even though it isn't a bad track on its own merits. It also hands off to Desideratum, which combines fast death with a unique minute long dramatic intro and a weird electronica phase that adds yet another dimension. Dance club death/doom? Why not.
By the way, Desideratum is a truly glorious title for a death/doom song; it simply means 'something wanted' but it sounds agreeably ancient and depressing while it does so. It tops even Chambre Ardente, which translates to 'burning chamber' and was the name of a court of justice in 15th and 16th France which sent a lot of its prisoners to the stake to burn. I got a kick out of the fact that Until the End has a reprise because Until the End Reprise is a title that carries ironic depth. We're going all the way to the very end of everything. Again. How death/doom is that?
Talking of Until the End, the intricate original and plodding reprise are bookends to the seven minute title track and there's a great deal going on in this setpiece trio. Apparently, the album was written over a four year period after the band reformed in 2013 and they've clearly taken full advantage of the changes in the extreme metal musical landscape since they split up in 1997. Those lost sixteen years were busy ones for the genre ("it's been a while, a lot has happened" they appropriately sing in My Dear...) but the six members have a wild variety of ex-bands to their names to help diversify their sound.
What struck me here most was how prominent the keyboards are. They're not just adding a layer of depth (though they do that too), they're often adding something different to everyone else, playing their part like an actual other lead instrument in the line up, somewhat like we tend to see with folk instruments in folk metal bands. They're also highly varied, appropriately given how the album unfolds, sometimes playing the part of an organ, sometimes a flute and sometimes even what sounds like bells. Rob op 't Veld is far from the only member of the band to get such a wildly diverse run through this album, but he does epitomise that approach.
I haven't heard Phlebotomized's work before but, by the time Ataraxia II wrapped up Deformation of Humanity in enticing instrumental fashion, I was hooked. Their other two albums are much older, Immense Intense Suspense dating back to 1994 and Skycontact to 1997, during the band's first time together, but I'm eager to seek those out now. I grew up in Halifax and saw Paradise Lost live during their demo days, so I was there at the beginning of death/doom even if I'm rather out of date with what's been going on lately, but Phlebotomized bring something new to the table that I haven't encountered before and I find that I like it a lot.
By Hal C. F. Astell at January 07, 2019
Labels: 2019, doom/death metal, the Netherlands
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Drew Mehringer: Numbers matter more than age for new Rutgers OC
Drew Mehringer of Rutgers will be the youngest offensive coordinator in the Big Ten but one former boss says so what?
Drew Mehringer: Numbers matter more than age for new Rutgers OC Drew Mehringer of Rutgers will be the youngest offensive coordinator in the Big Ten but one former boss says so what? Check out this story on app.com: https://on.app.com/1Yfpip1
Ryan Dunleavy, Staff writer Published 11:57 a.m. ET Dec. 14, 2015 | Updated 1:53 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2015
Drew Mehringer got his first shot as offensive coordinator at James Madison. His second will be next season at Rutgers.(Photo: Courtesy of James Madison athletics communications)
Numbers tell the story for Drew Mehringer.
There’s the yardage and touchdown totals. The big plays and short drives. The age and experience.
Actually, scratch that last one, says one of the 28-year-old Mehringer’s former bosses, who doesn’t put much stock in the new Rutgers offensive coordinator being the youngest with his job in the Big Ten by about a decade.
“Drew’s knowledge is way beyond 28 years,” James Madison coach Everett Withers told Gannett New Jersey. “He has been around a lot of bright minds in football. It won’t be long, I think, before Drew Mehringer gets an opportunity to be a head coach.”
Mehringer, who was hired Sunday to be Rutgers offensive play-caller, gained his only season of experience as a coordinator under Withers in 2014.
Chris Ash taps Drew Mehringer as Rutgers play-caller
Withers, who was Ohio State’s defensive coordinator in 2013, plucked Mehringer from the grasps of head coach Urban Meyer and offensive coordinator Tom Herman with a big promotion from graduate assistant to offensive coordinator, bypassing the stepping stone of position coach.
“He had a strong grasp of what we were trying to do offensively at Ohio State,” said Withers, North Carolina's head coach in 2011. “I know he spent an awful lot of time in 1-on-1 meetings with Coach Meyer talking about things an offense can do. I know he was a very integral part of that staff at Ohio State.”
Under Mehringer’s watch in 2014, James Madison set program records with 1,060 plays, 6,300 yards, 315 first downs, 475 passing attempts, 286 passing completions, 30 passing touchdowns, 3,499 passing yards and 159 passing first downs.
Of its 70 scoring drives, 34 lasted less than two minutes, but 54 covered 50 yards or more. JMU ranked second nationally in turnover margin at +14 as it committed just 14 giveaways.
Rutgers coach Chris Ash will face decision: Laviano or Rettig?
In other words, a Mehringer offense looked a lot like the power spread offense that Herman installed this season in his first as head coach at Houston, which went 12-1 and earned a spot in the Peach Bowl. Mehringer is Houston's wide receivers coach.
“Up-tempo, very fast, defenses are going to have to account for 11 guys, including the quarterback,” Withers said of Mehringer’s style. “It’s going to be physical. I know me, I know Tom Herman, I know Urban Meyer, and being physical on offense is going to be the case.
“The run game is going to be really important, but a Drew Mehringer offense will make people defend 53 1/3 (yards horizontally) on the football field and all 11 offensive players.”
James Madison coach Everett Withers hired Drew Mehringer to be his offensive coordinator at James Madison and helped set him on path to land same job at Rutgers. (Photo: Getty Images)
If Mehringer brings that playbook to Rutgers, it will be a radical change from the pro-style offense and personnel in place after 15 seasons under former coaches Greg Schiano and Kyle Flood.
A similar situation awaited Mehringer at JMU.
“When I got here, this was a little bit of a hodgepodge offense," Withers said. "Drew did a great job. Our first-year philosophy was to give them the first chapter of our playbook. You give them the chapters first, and you grow as they go throw in your offense.”
Rutgers coach Chris Ash born from humble roots in Iowa
The biggest question at Rutgers is: Who will be the quarterback?
Returning starter Chris Laviano is deceptively mobile and promising backup Hayden Rettig ran a traditional spread as a four-star recruit in high school, but neither seems to be an ideal fit for a power spread. Rising redshirt sophomore Giovanni Rescigno and redshirt freshman Mike Dare are yet to play.
“Drew has a very, very quarterback-friendly temperament," Withers said. "He gets very close to those guys in a working professional and personal relationship. I think those kids will absolutely love him.
"Our quarterback here continued to have a relationship with Coach Mehringer while he was at Houston. They remain very close. Not only will he be a good football mentor for the quarterbacks at Rutgers, he’ll be a good personal growth mentor for the quarterbacks at Rutgers.”
Schiano replacing Rutgers coach Chris Ash at Ohio State
JMU brought in Georgia Tech transfer Vad Lee to play quarterback, fueling speculation that maybe Rutgers will look for a transfer or a recruit not yet on the roster.
“They are going to try to figure out what they have personnel-wise and do what the kids can do best," Withers said. "As you go, you try to recruit to what you want to be. You try to be what you are initially, and try to add pieces to your philosophy and the offense as you go.”
Mehringer will be Rutgers' seventh offensive coordinator in as many seasons. He will be tasked with fixing an offense that ranked No. 79 in scoring offense, No. 85 in total offense, No. 66 in rushing offense and No. 87 in passing offense nationally during a 4-8 finish last season.
“When I go the job here, he was a no-brainer for me," Withers said. "Drew did an unbelievable job here getting our offense to be one of the best in the FCS. When Tom took him to Houston, I knew he would have success there and make an immediate impact. I’m not surprised that he is going to be the OC at Rutgers.”
Staff Writer Ryan Dunleavy: rdunleavy@gannettnj.com
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Appropriations Schedule for the Week of April 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The following is the hearing schedule for the Senate Committee on Appropriations for the week of April 8, 2019.
STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS SUBCOMMITTEE (Lindsey Graham, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of State
2:30 p.m., Room 138, Dirksen Senate Office Building
The Honorable Mike Pompeo
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE (John Boozman, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for Military Construction and Family Housing
The Honorable Robert McMahon
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment
Lieutenant General Gwendolyn Bingham
Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management
Vice Admiral Dixon R. Smith
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics
Major General Vincent A. Coglianese
Commander, Marine Corps Installations Command
Assistant Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics (Facilities)
Brigadier General John J. Allen
Director of Civil Engineers
Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection
DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE (Richard Shelby, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the National Guard and Reserve
10:00 a.m., Room 138, Dirksen Senate Office Building
General Joseph L. Lengyel
Lieutenant General Charles D. Luckey
Lieutenant General Richard W. Scobee
Air Force Reserve
Vice Admiral Luke M. McCollum
Major General Bradley S. James
Marine Corps Forces Reserve
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE (Jerry Moran, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Justice
The Honorable William Barr
Mr. Lee Lofthus
Assistant Attorney General for Administration
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE (Lamar Alexander, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation within the U.S. Department of the Interior
The Honorable R.D. James
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Lieutenant General Todd Semonite
Commanding General and Chief of Engineers
The Honorable Brenda Burman
Commissioner for the Bureau of Reclamation
The Honorable Timothy R. Petty, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH SUBCOMMITTEE (Cindy Hyde-Smith, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding requests and budget justifications for the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office
The Honorable Gene Dodaro
Comptroller General of the United States
Dr. Keith Hall
Congressional Budget Office
LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE (Roy Blunt, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Accompanied by:
Dr. Douglas Lowy, M.D.
Acting Director
Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jon Lorsch, Ph.D.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Dr. Richard Hodes, M.D.
Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D.
AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE (John Hoeven, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Honorable Sonny Perdue
Dr. Robert Johansson
Mrs. Erica Navarro
POSTPONED: HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE (Shelley Moore Capito, Chairman)
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen
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K-562 (ATCC® CCL-243™)
Organism: Homo sapiens, human / Tissue: bone marrow / Disease: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
K-562 ATCC® CCL-243™
Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium (IMDM) (ATCC® 30-2005™)
lymphoblast
chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
This cell line is suitable as a transfection host.
The K-562 cell line has attained widespread use as a highly sensitive in vitro target for the natural killer assay. Cultures from the ATCC stock have been shown to exhibit this sensitivity for assessing human natural killer activity.See Pross, et al. for a detailed analysis of the in vitro assay of NK cells including the mathematics of quantitation of NK cell activity.
The stemline chromosome number is triploid with the 2S component occurring at 4.2%. Fifteen markers (M1 and M(15)) occurred in nearly all S metaphases. Spontaneous non-specific dicentrics occurred, but rarely. Unstable markers were also rarely seen. The X was disomic, and N9 was nullisomic.
The continuous cell line K-562 was established by Lozzio and Lozzio from the pleural effusion of a 53-year-old female with chronic myelogenous leukemia in terminal blast crises.
Antigen Expression
CD7 (25%)
Tumorigenic
Yes, in nude mice
Tumors developed within 21 days at 100% frequency (5/5) in nude mice inoculated subcutaneously with 107 cells
The cell population has been characterized as highly undifferentiated and of the granulocytic series.
Studies conducted by Anderson, et al., on the surface membrane properties led to the conclusion that the K-562 was a human erythroleukemia line.
K-562 blasts are multipotential, hematopoietic malignant cells that spontaneously differentiate into recognizable progenitors of the erythrocytic, granulocytic and monocytic series.
The effect of inducers on sublines derived from the original K-562 cell line have been reviewed by Koeffler and Golde.
Karyological studies on various K-562 sublines have been classified into three groups (A,B,C) by Dimery, et al.
The strain obtained by the ATCC most closely resembles the B population. Occurrence of the Philadelphia chromosome, however, was of much lower frequency; none detected in 15 metaphases examined.
The line is EBNA negative.
The base medium for this cell line is ATCC-formulated Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium, Catalog No. 30-2005. To make the complete growth medium, add the following components to the base medium: fetal bovine serum to a final concentration of 10%.
Cultures can be maintained by the addition or replacement of fresh medium. Start new cultures at 1 x 105 viable cells/mL. Subculture at 1 x 106 cells/mL. Corning® T-75 flasks (catalog #431464) are recommended for subculturing this product.
Freeze medium: Complete growth medium supplemented with 5% (v/v) DMSO
Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5%
CSF1PO: 9,10
D13S317: 8
D5S818: 11,12
TPOX: 8,9
AK-1, 1
ES-D, 1
GLO-I, 2
Me-2, 0
PGM1, 0
HT Holden
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Nauseel WM, et al. Effect of the R569W missense mutation on the biosynthesis of myeloperoxidase. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 9546-9549, 1996. PubMed: 8621627
Grune T, et al. Degradation of oxidized proteins in K562 human hematopoietic cells by proteasome. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 15504-15509, 1996. PubMed: 8663134
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Nucleotide (GenBank) : X96391 H.sapiens mRNA for alternatively spliced isoform of CLC-6 chloride channel.
Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF146430 Homo sapiens cell-line K562 sodium/hydrogen exchanger isoform 1 mRNA, complete cds.
Leukemia cell line mutation data
Human genomic DNA (K-562) (ATCC® CCL-243D™)
frozen 10 µg
K-562-GFP (ATCC® CCL-243-GFP™)
frozen 1.0 mL
Primary CD56+ NK Cells (ATCC® PCS-800-019™)
Leukemia Cell Line Panel (ATCC® TCP-1010™)
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The History of The Mimosa
The mimosa. A light, fizzy, refreshing favorite with the power to liven up any family get-together, make your second cousin’s baby shower tolerable, and give us all a reason to rise for an early morning brunch on any given Sunday.
We've come to love this weekend tradition so much that we wanted to give credit where credit is due and learn who is responsible for our mimosa obsession.
Historic origins of the mimosa
The celebratory sip with its life-giving abilities is now considered essential for a weekend well-spent. So to whom do we the owe the thanks for our favorite brunch-time treat?
The truth is, we aren’t one hundred percent sure. The history of the classic cocktail is a much-disputed mystery, but let us tell you what we did find.
There is little doubt that the mimosa is a variation of the ever-loved Buck’s Fizz cocktail, invented in 1921 at Buck’s Club in London.
The lone difference between the two drinks is ratio. A traditional mimosa is served with equal parts sparkling wine and orange juice, whereas a typical Buck’s Fizz has twice as much champagne as juice.
Despite a variation in quantities, both were created with the same goal in mind: to have an excuse to start drinking before lunchtime.
The perfector
Years after Buck’s Fizz a bartender named Frank Meier at the Ritz Hotel in Paris created a slightly more diluted version of the cocktail.
His adaptation was made with equal measures of both ingredients, and although he never took credit for coining what we consider the modern-day mimosa, we can thank him for recording the recipe in his book The Artistry of Mixing Drinks.
That leaves us with the least likely of all the potential inventors: Alfred Hitchcock, who tried to claim cocktail fame in the 1940s.
While we cannot confirm Hitchcock had anything to do with making mimosa magic, he did help to popularize the drink in the US, making it the staple brunch drink that it is today.
We may not be able to tell you who exactly to tip your hat to for the best part of brunch, but we are here to tell you that every Sunday at the Tap on Ponce we’re offering Mimosa Kits for only $8, all day! In case you're not familiar, kits include:
One twelve-ounce can of sparkling wine
One twelve-ounce bottle of OJ
Cups for sharing
Yep, that’s right. Our kits make 2-3 mimosas and are a perfect companion to brunch at Ponce City Market.
We'll see ya Sunday!
The Tap on Ponce
PONCE CITY MARKET FOOD HALL
675 Ponce De Leon Ave.
Text Us @ 404-670-2075
© The Tap on Ponce. All rights reserved.
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Frances Hodgkins
Spanish Shrine
Travel was always essential to Frances Hodgkins' health and to her work, although its discomforts and financial constraints pressed on her as she grew older. On 3 January 1933 she wrote to a friend from the Hotel Belear in Ibiza, Spain: '. . . I would rather be here in the sunshine than alone in the Studio - it was getting me badly. The SHOW is the THING - I must set London talking - they expect it of me . . . but down here I forget all about it & think only of the jolly things I see around me & the awful urge to get at them'. Hodgkins painted Spanish Shrine in England, after her return from Spain, working from watercolour sketches. It was a very successful work, exhibited several times during the 1930s and '40s. Sunday Times critic Eric Newton praised the balance she achieved: '. . . between the world of her eye and the world of her mind's eye . . . the picture is both a symbol and a description and the two are interwoven'. A calmly-beautiful work, Spanish Shrine shows two peasant women, carrying containers of water and fruit, either side of a religious statue, possibly Mary or a local saint. The three figures share a monumental, iconic stillness; the statue is in an attitude of prayer, and the women, temporarily halted in their daily tasks, have eyes alight with the certainty of their faith. (from The Guide, 2001)
965 x 1236 x 80 mm
1954/67 Old Accession Number, FH1036 Frances Hodgkins Catalogue Raisonné Number, FH1933_022 Old Frances Hodgkins Number, 33.22 RW Number, 79:13:20A RW Negative Number
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Copic Ciao Marker Pen Sets
Copic Ciao is the affordable marker for beginners, students and artists. Equipped with both a medium broad and super brush nib, Copic Ciao markers are available in over 150 colour shades and a colourless blender.
Coloured Pens
All Copic Ciao Marker Pen Sets (8 products)
Copic Ciao Marker Pen Sets Skin Tones 12 Colour Set
The colours can be mixed on the surface or layered. Copic Ciao markers are alcohol based, non-toxic and fast drying.
There are also two 12 Copic Ciao colour sets and five 36 colour sets: Learn More
Copic Ciao Marker Pen Sets Basic 12 Colour Set
Copic Ciao Set includes Marker - Brights Set of 5 +1 Marker
The Copic Ciao is the affordable marker for beginners, students and hobby artists.
Equipped with both a medium broad and a super brush nib, Copic Ciao markers are available in 143 colour shades and one colourless blender. The colours can be mixed on the surface or layered over each other. Copic Ciao markers are alcohol based, non-toxic and fast drying.
These great value sets each include 5 carefully chosen colours, plus a Copic Multiliner 0.3mm fineliner pen for those all important outlines and details. The Multiliner was specially developed for sketching, and when over-drawing with COPIC Markers the tracing line remains sharp and does not bleed.
There are 8 sets available, all including a 0.3mm Multiliner:
Manga 1: Y15, V06,B24, G17, E11.
Manga 2: E21, B45, BG49, B05, R59.
Manga 3 E71, E51, V12, RV34, G02.
Skin Tones: E93, V91, R20, R00, E00.
Brights: Y06, R27, B05, G05, 100.
Hues: B39, R35, Y17, G17, E35.
Greys: C1, C3, C5, C7 100.
Pastels: Y21, B60, G000, RV13, E95. Learn More
Copic Ciao Set includes Marker - Hues Set of 5 +1 Marker
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Copic Ciao Marker Pen 36 Colour Set C
There are two 12 Copic Ciao colour sets and five 36 colour sets:
This set contains the following colors:
B02, B12, B60, B63, BG05, BG34, BV13, BV23, BV31, E11, E31, E50, E53, E71, G000, G07, G14, R00, R05, R11, R22, RV000, RV06, RV13, V000, V06, Y11, Y15, Y21, YG00, YG23, YG63, YR16, YR23, YR31, YR61 Learn More
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B45, B93, B95, B97, BG49, BG96, BV17, BV29, E43, E49, E57, E77, E93, E95, G28, G85, G94, R17, R35, R37, R46, R85, RV34, RV95, V15, V91, V95, Y28, Y38, YG91, YG95, YR68, W1, W3, W5, W7 Learn More
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B00, B24, B29, E00, E21, E29, E37, C3, 100, YG03, YG06, YG11, G00, G05, G17, BG01, BG09, BG23, R20, R29, R32, YR02, YR07, YR20, Y00, Y06, Y17, BV00, BV02, BV08, V04, V09, V12, RV02, RV04, RV10 Learn More
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GST effect in Gulf countries
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A VAT will impact cost of living and bring down job opportunities for immigrants.
Saudi Arabia will have an expat levy on employers which will encourage them to hire more countrymen and less outsiders.
GST has brought in a lot of difficulties in different ways. For tax professionals, it was the complexity of the GST that was a problem. But then months of practice helped and now they are not just experts but also in demand in India and abroad. Gulf countries are looking for Indian CAs to help with a value-added tax the goverment proposes to levy from next year. But then VAT may not be as complex as GST. So Indian professionals who have handled the GST are looked upon as experts, and hundreds of them make trips to the UAE for this purpose.
But what has helped tax officials will not help Indian immigrants. A VAT will impact cost of living and bring down job opportunities.
Saudi Arabia will have an expat levy on employers which will encourage them to hire more countrymen and less outsiders. All six Gulf countries are planning to introduce VAT, ending their reputation of being tax havens. This would be a concern for the millions of Indians making a living in Gulf, and those aspiring to go in search of jobs.
Nearly 8 million Indians are in the Gulf countries. This year, 250000 Indians have already moved there in search of jobs.
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