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Projection of intersection line
Thread starter kasse
Homework Statement
Find the projection of the intersection between the two surfaces
S1: z = 4-x^2 - y^2 and
S2: 4x^2y = 1 (x>0)
in the xy-plane
2. The attempt at a solution
4-x^2 - y^2 = 4x^2y -1
Is this all I need to do?
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Hurkyl
kasse said:
What is it that you did?
Equalised the equations, with z = 0.
Equaled the equations, with z = 0.
(You can't set two equations equal... but I think I know what you meant)
(And you were looking for a geometric object, not an equation... but I assume you meant to say the object described by that equation)
Does that process have anything to do with finding the intersection of the two surfaces? Or with projecting that intersection to the x-y plane? If so, then you're done. If not, then you're not.
The problem is:
How steep is the path C (the intersection between the curves) at the point S over the (1, 1/4)?
My plan is to find the directional derivative in the direction of the tangent of the projection of C in the xy-plane. What do I do next then?
HallsofIvy
What you did initially was replace z in the first equation by the left side of the second equation. But there is no "z" in the second equation- in particular, it was NOT z= 4x^2y
Since 1= 4x^2y, x^2= 1/(4y). Replacing x^2 by that in the first equation, z= 4- x^2- y^2= 4- 1/(4y)+ y^2. Now project by letting z= 0: y^2- 1/(4y)+ 4= 0.
However, there really is no reason to project to the xy-plane. What you want is the derivative of z= 4- x^2- y^2 in the direction of the tangent to the curve x^2y= 1 in the xy-plane. What is the tangent vector to that curve? What is the derivative of z in the direction of that vector?
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Beyond the Standard Model
Singular quantization in LQG
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I recently bought "A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity" by Pullin and Gambini. Partly, I was curious to see what, if anything, had changed in the pedagogy. I also got Bojowald's book a while back. In the final section of "A First Course ..." the authors discuss open problems and broad issues and I was struck once again by the fundamental weirdness, from my perspective, of the basic quantization scheme.
No doubt we all remember how old school LQG used a very singular "kinematic" Hilbert space for quantization. Indeed, it was pointed out that in a certain precise mathematical sense, this same quantization applied to a conventional harmonic oscillator leads to unconventional results. Although, like everything in physics, there is a way to (partially) hide this disagreement.
What I'm wondering is this: is such a singular/unusual quantization still necessary for LQG e.g. from the perspective of spin foam theory? I have to say that getting the harmonic oscillator "wrong" is really disconcerting and the very singular structure of the kinematic hilbert space has always struck me as unphysical. Pullin and Gambini emphasize that it is precisely this unusual quantization, even for systems with finite dof, which really lets LQG get different answers, say in the context of quantum cosmology (we came to the same conclusion in another thread of mine some time ago).
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The simple argument is this: standard quantization may result in an inconsistent theory of quantum gravity, therefore one has to change the quantization ;-)
I think the problem of the non-separable Hilbert space can be solved, but it's still true that the construction of the kinematical Hilbert space is singular in some sense.
There are some papers on the classical Poisson structure (w/o any quantization) which show that the derivation in the canonical formalism (which starts with an embedding) means that the emerging graphs (embdedded) carry singular curvature located either to vertices or to edges (these two possibilities are somehow dual to each other and show up in the canonical and spin foam models).
I think this can be interpreted such that it's not the quantizationm which introduces this singular structure but that it appears already at level of the classical Poisson structure when implementing the Gauss law constraint.
The question is whether this construction is relevant. There are people (Rovelli, marcus ;-) saying that the quantization itself is not to be taken too seriously but that it's the final theory which must be analyzed. There are many steps where the construction is not absolutely convincing (embdedding of cylinder functions - later we use non-embedded spin networks; reduction of spatial diffeomorphism constraints - later there are only finite ones - and in the spin network space there are none; reduction and regularization of the Hamiltonian constraint with many ambiguities; on-shell closure of the constraint algebra but no control on off-shell closure - which may be irrelevant in the physical Hilbert space b/c there are no off-shell constraints anymore; ...)
It seems to mne that in LQG we have serious difficulties simply b/c a quantization can never be unique b/c there are for sure infinitly many quantum theories with the same classical limit. So at some crossroads we need an educated guess. That's not very problematic, we do something like that in all quantization procedures.
But what is problematic is that we cannot "label" or "count" the different quantum theories. We have no control on the theory space. We do not know this "LQG landscape". And it seems that w/o such a construction we do not have enough indications for the elementary buildung blocks of the theorys (we need something like the above mentioned constructions to find a Hamiltonian, to find the SF vertices ...).
That's why I think that some people (Rovelli, marcus ;-) are not right when (partially) ignoring these issues at this state and focussing only on "physical results". That's why I am more with Thiemann, Alexandrov and other's focussing on these weak points.
Thanks for the reply. Interesting as always.
What would you say to the following: LQG with the singular quantization is unphysical because it cannot be simulated on a computer, classical or quantum? Or is this even true?
I know I've seen computer plots in the context of LQC, but how they can achieve this? Is it because they succesfully solve the constraint and obtain a countable or even finite dimensional Hilbert space? I think I used to know the answer to this ...
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Physics Monkey said:
I think LQC (for which they had the plots) is not really related to LQG. LQC seems to be a completely well controlled theory (eg. http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5147), but it's not background dependent, because of the homogeneity assumption.
The other place I've seen a plot is in spin foam cosmology. The background theory for spin foam cosmology is EPRL. In his Zakopane lectures, Rovelli says the Hilbert space of EPRL is related to SU(2) lattice gauge theory (Eq 22), and states the full Hilbert space in Eq 24 (Does the limit exist?), and says it is separable (!).
I think the difference is that this is the physical Hilbert space, as Rovelli says just before Eq 21, whereas the inseparable space is the kinematic Hilbert space. This would make sense since spin foams are hoped to solve the Hamiltonian constraint.
Formally the spin foams solve the Gaussion as well as the diffeomorphism constraint, but they are constructed via a procedure using a "singular representation of diff.-inv. equivalence classes" classically, a non-sep. Hilbert space quantum mechanically and a strange operator topology.
It's not clear whether they solve the Hamiltonian constraint as well b/c a) H is not known in the quantum theory (there are proposals, but no common agreement oin H) and b) it's not clear how spin foams are exactly related to the Hamiltonian.
Anyway - whereas people like Thiemann, Alexandrov and some others stress the fact that parts of the quantization approach are still purely understood, people like Rovelli stress the fact that via EPRL we have a well-defined quantum theory of gravity and that its construction via "quantization" is of minor importance.
This is partially acceptable b/c quantization can never be a rigorosuly defined procedure b/c it constructs and singles out one quantum theory as a member of a huge family of inequivalent quantum theories with a common classical limit. It's like building a house using nothing else but a set of drawings. In some sense there a many house compatible with the drawings and there is no reason why one house should be 'the correct one' whereas all others are incorrect'. Besides the drawing you need the discussion between the architect and the owner, i.e. between theory and the experiment ...
Rovelli comments on separable/inseparable spaces on p6 of his Zakopane lectures:
This is the "combinatorial H". An alternative studied in the literature is to consider embedded graphs ... This choice defi nes the "Diff H". A third alternative is to do the same but using extended diffeomorphisms [36]. .......... The space Diff H is non-separable, leading to a number of complications in the construction of the theory. The combinatorial H considered here and the extended-Di ff H are separable."
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Before i state the actual problem, here's a premise. In the case of a Spin 1 massive particle it's possible to demonstrate that $$\sum_{\lambda=0,\pm1}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{* \ \mu}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{\nu}=-g_{\mu\nu}+\frac{q^\mu q^\nu}{q^2}$$ for a massless particle it will be $$\sum_{\lambda=\pm1}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{* \ \mu}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{\nu}=-g_{\mu\nu}+\frac{q^\mu n^\nu+ q^\nu n^\mu}{q \cdot n}-\frac{q^\mu q^\nu}{(q\cdot n)^2}$$
where $n^\mu=(1,0,0,0)$ and $$n\cdot \epsilon=0\\
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q\cdot n=q^{0}$$
Ok, now to my understeanding in QED due to the gauge invariance of the theory under $U(1)$ follows the Ward identity: $$q_\mu \mathcal{M^\mu}=0$$ which implies that for all practical purposes we can drop all the terms except for $-g_{\mu\nu}$
My problem lies in the calculation of a QCD process (all particles are assumed massless ) $g \ (gluon)\rightarrow q \ \bar{q}$ needed to compute the splitting function $P_{qg}$ (the probability that a gluon converts into a quark wich carries a fraction of the impulse of the gluon) which is paramtrized in the following way $$K_A (gluon)=(p^0,0,p) \\ K_B(q)=(zp+\frac{p_{\perp}^2}{2 \ zp},p_{\perp},zp) \\
K_C(\bar{q})=((1-z)p+\frac{p_{\perp}^2}{2 \ (1-z)p},-p_{\perp},(1-z)p)$$ such that $$K_A=K_B+K_C$$ provided that $$p^0=p+\frac{p_{\perp}^2}{2 \ z(1-z)p}$$ which gives the gluon a small virtuality. Up to $O(p_{\perp}^4)$ the following identities are true: $$\tag 1 K_A\cdot K_B=\frac{K^2_A}{2}\\
K_A\cdot K_C=\frac{K^2_A}{2}\\
K_B\cdot K_C=\frac{K^2_A}{2}\\
K^2_A=\frac{p_{\perp}^2}{z(1-z)}$$now the authors of the article state that is important to consider: $$\sum_{\lambda=\pm1}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{* \mu}\epsilon_{\lambda}^{\nu}=-g_{\mu\nu}+\frac{K_A^\mu n^\nu+ K_A^\nu n^\mu}{q \cdot n}-\frac{K_A^\mu K_A^\nu}{(K_A\cdot n)^2}$$ because the middle term $$\frac{K_A^\mu n^\nu+ K_A^\nu n^\mu}{q \cdot n}$$ when plugged in the trace (which comes from the sum over polarizations of $\mathcal{ M}(g\rightarrow q \ \bar{q})$) $$ tr({K}\!\!\!/_C \gamma^\mu {K}\!\!\!/_B \gamma^\nu)$$ gives a non zero contribution.
I have two problems:
the first is a conceptual one, why in a QCD calculation i have to consider all the polarization sum terms unlike in QED? Is it due to the fact that QCD is non- abelian? If so, where it comes from mathematically speaking?
The second problem is a practical one: the product $$\frac{K_A^\mu n^\nu+ K_A^\nu n^\mu}{q \cdot n} \cdot tr({K}\!\!\!/_C \gamma^\mu {K}\!\!\!/_B \gamma^\nu)=-8 p_{\perp}^2+O(p_{\perp}^4)$$ but if i actually do the calculation it yelds me zero since $$tr(\gamma^\alpha \gamma^\mu \gamma^\beta \gamma^\nu)=4(g_{\alpha\mu}g_{\beta\nu}-g_{\alpha\beta}g_{\mu\nu}+g_{\alpha\nu}g_{\beta\mu})$$ then we have form the product : $$\frac{1}{K_A \cdot n}[tr(K\!\!\!/_C K\!\!\!/_A K\!\!\!/_B n\!\!\!/)]+tr(K\!\!\!/_C n\!\!\!/ K\!\!\!/_B K\!\!\!/_A)]$$ which should become $$\frac{8}{K_A \cdot n}[(K_C \cdot K_A)(K_B \cdot n)-(K_C \cdot K_B)(K_A \cdot n)+(K_B \cdot K_A)(K_C \cdot n)]$$ but from eq. $(1)$ we know that becomes: $$\frac{8}{K_A \cdot n }\cdot \left( \frac{K_A^2}{2} \right)[(K_B+K_C-K_A)\cdot n]$$ which should be zero for the conservation of energy! what i am doing wrong? thank you for any help.
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asked Sep 2, 2015 in Theoretical Physics by fra (155 points) [ revision history ]
edited Sep 4, 2015 by fra
For the practical problem: When i wrote the parametrization for the four momentums of the particles involved in the scattering i did wrongly assume that the gluon's momentum $K_A$ should have been corrected in order to account for it's virtuality. What did evade me was that the virtuality of the gluon was already codified in the quark and antiquark momentums $K_B$ and $K_C$ via the term $p^2_\perp$. Infact let's write $K_A=(p,0,0,p)$ (as if it was real) and the other two as in the question above. Then from conservation of energy and by taking the square we have: $$K^2_A=(K_B+K_C)^2=\frac{p^2_\perp}{2z(1-z)}+O(p^4_\perp)$$ so, since $K^2_A\neq0 $ we see that we have already accounted for the gluon having a small virtuality which comes from the parametrization of the quarks four momenta. There is no need then to further modify $K_A$ in order to account for it's vituality. Furthermore the substitution i made in the question effectively cancelled the virtuality of the gluon! (like i added it in $K_B$ and $K_C$ and subtracted it in $K_A$)
If we try to do the calculation of: (the prevoius relationships of the momenta are mostly false now!) $$\frac{8}{K_A \cdot n}[(K_C \cdot K_A)(K_B \cdot n)-(K_C \cdot K_B)(K_A \cdot n)+(K_B \cdot K_A)(K_C \cdot n)]$$
now we get, knowing that:
$$K_A \cdot n=p\\K_B \cdot n=zp+\frac{p^2_\perp}{2zp}\\K_C \cdot n=(1-z)p+\frac{p^2_\perp}{2(1-z)p}\\K_A \cdot K_B=\frac{p^2_\perp}{2z}\\K_A \cdot K_C=\frac{p^2_\perp}{2(1-z)}\\K_B \cdot K_C=p^2_\perp+\frac{z \ p^2_\perp}{2(1-z)}
+\frac{(1-z) \ p^2_\perp}{2z}$$
exactly the result it should have come: $$\frac{8}{K_A \cdot n}[(K_C \cdot K_A)(K_B \cdot n)-(K_C \cdot K_B)(K_A \cdot n)+(K_B \cdot K_A)(K_C \cdot n)]=-8p^2_\perp+O(p^4_\perp)$$
To the conceptual side: In non abelian gauge theory the non physical degrees of freedom of the gluon do not cancel themeselves when calculating scattering amplitudes as in QED. A way to say this is: it depends upon the fact that the underyling gauge symmetries are different and that causes a modification to the generating functional and so to the ward identities. Indeed that's why there are the ghost fields that have the exact role of eliminating the non physical degrees of freedom.
Now then in order to obtain the correct physical amplitude we should account for the ghost contributions to the process. This isn't very convenient when calculating such an easy process as a tree level amplitude, it's much much easier to manually cut the non physical degrees of freedom by replacing the full polarization sum with only the transverse one.
answered Sep 15, 2015 by fra (155 points) [ no revision ]
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After being snubbed by Latrell Mitchell, the Tigers are expected to take their time instead of letting their enormous cash freedom burn a hole in their pocket.
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The wait-and-see strategy highlights a reluctance from the club to repeat past mistakes of hastily signing players on long-term deals.
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Reports linking South Sydney utility Adam Doueihi to the club are understood to be wide of the mark.
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Brazil fights online misinformation during election season
October 05, 2018 · 12:00 PM EDT
By Catherine Osborn
Brazil's President Michel Temer leaves a seminar about fake news in Brasilia, Brazil, June 20, 2018.
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During presidential debates, the Rio offices of Brazilian fact-checking organization Aos Fatos, which translates to "To The Facts," turn into something akin to a war room. Different task forces swiftly transcribe, research and publish verifications on comments made by the larger-than-life candidates in one of the country’s most unpredictable elections in decades.
“He just invented 200 million Brazilians!” chuckled a fact-checker when candidate Cabo Daciolo, a firefighter-turned-Congressman, said 400 million Brazilians — around 200 million greater than the country’s population — live in extreme poverty. Other verifications were more difficult, sending checkers swimming through census and government health data.
Presidential candidate Cabo Daciolo talks with journalists as he arrives to attend a televised debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 26, 2018.
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This election, Aos Fatos’s work is being amplified by a new partner: Facebook. It is part of the social media giant’s push to assure users it is taking misinformation campaigns in elections seriously. In September, Facebook announced it was dedicating its own “War Room” in Menlo Park to preventing election interference in the US and Brazil — the latter, one of its five biggest markets.
In the past year alone, viral misinformation on Brazilian social media has included an anti-vaccination hoax about yellow fever, false instructions on when to vote and false claims that Brazilian authorities gave a Venezuelan company information that would allow it to defraud the election.
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Brazil’s elections have become a laboratory for big tech companies slowly taking responsibility for misinformation campaigns on their platforms. False information can spread on social media like wildfire in the country, where 66 percent of voters have WhatsApp accounts and 58 percent have Facebook accounts, according to an Oct. 2 study by polling group Datafolha. The study found supporters of extreme-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, the current leader in the polls, share political news on social media more than supporters of any other candidate. Bolsonaro has rallied supporters around an idea that traditional media are biased against him for what he calls his “politically incorrect” comments — praising Brazil’s dictatorship and supporting racist, sexist, and homophobic positions.
A worker watches an interview on television with presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro at a bar in São Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2018.
Facebook (WhatsApp's parent company), Google and Twitter have all announced measures to stop deceitful accounts and news during Brazil's elections — Facebook and Google even signing a memorandum with election authorities committing to “combat disinformation generated by third parties” — but some researchers say they could and should be doing more.
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“If they have this machine for boosting content, then they should be accountable for that,” said Yasodara Córdova, who studies misinformation at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
Facebook's work against election interference in Brazil focuses “on three main fronts," said Facebook Brazil public policy director Mônica Rosina. These include removing misinformation, reducing its reach and educating users, she said. In the last three months, Facebook has taken down over 200 pages in Brazil. That included “a network that was using fake accounts to sow division and share disinformation,” Rosina told press on a call last month.
To reduce false information’s reach, Facebook counts on denunciations from users and partnerships with third-party fact checkers certified by the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network. In Brazil, these are Aos Fatos, Lupa and Agence France-Presse. Once a fact-checker flags a link as false, Facebook says it ranks the information lower in its news feed and users who attempt to share it will first have to click past a message directing them to the fact-check. Globally, Rosina says this reduces the travel of links rated as false by 80 percent on average.
Facebook’s user education is done through initiatives like Messenger bots programmed by Aos Fatos and Lupa, where users receive advice about checking information they think may be false.
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Presidential candidates (left to right) Ciro Gomes, Guilherme Boulos, Geraldo Alckmin, Marina Silva and Fernando Haddad pose ahead of a televised debate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2018.
“I’m always looking things up on the fact-checking sites,” said Débora Pio, a 31-year-old researcher at a Rio nonprofit, “and I’ll check them on their chatbots, too. But I’m in the minority of voters.”
Pio says her mother and aunt, for example, do not seek out those tools. She says they frequently forward information, without checking it, on WhatsApp — Brazilians’ top method of sharing political news, according to Datafolha.
To tackle false information on WhatsApp and other social networks, Google and Facebook have funded Comprova, a partnership between 24 media organizations that checks viral information. It is also backed by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
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Córdova, a developer for Comprova, says that though WhatsApp is more difficult to monitor than other forms of social media, “As far as I’ve seen, WhatsApp is a place that circulates pieces of information that also circulate in one way or another on Facebook and Twitter.”
She said this makes it all the more important for sites where false information is visible — like Facebook and Twitter — to be transparent about their reasons for leaving something up versus taking it down.
Comprova just issued a fact-check on a hoax about sex education in public schools, a hot-button topic for Brazil’s right, that has been circulating on both Brazilian WhatsApp and Facebook for two years, Córdova said.
It’s a criticism also repeatedly levied by the International Fact-Checking Network’s Alexios Mantzarlis, who said in one tweet, “It’s great that Facebook is seeking to ground decisions on outside research and communicating it. Greater still would be if they let outside researchers look at their data and accept independent rigorous recommendations.”
Facebook recently announced that it would be sharing some data with academic researchers through a partnership called Social Science One, where researchers can apply to conduct studies for which results will not have to be pre-approved that will not be pre-reviewed by the company prior to publication.
On Twitter, fake and roboticized accounts have played a role in online debate about major Brazilian political events since 2014, according to Marco Ruediger, director of the Department of Public Policy Analysis at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Ruediger’s team detected over 3,000 robot accounts tweeting about Brazil’s election in the last week of September alone. Over 70 percent of their engagement, calculated the researchers, came from a network of bots supporting Bolsonaro.
Twitter has removed many bots named in FGV’s research, and on Oct. 1 published stricter rules against fake accounts, later saying in a statement, “we will continue to remain vigilant in the enforcement of our policies in Brazil.”
“I think the only way to deal with this is to widen transparency about it,” said Ruediger. Before Brazil’s presidential runoff vote on Oct. 28, he will meet with election authorities to evaluate efforts so far. Though much online misinformation constitutes a crime in Brazil, he says little has been litigated because regulators are still trying to understand the issue.
On Sunday, Brazilians go to the polls for the first round of voting. “More than any before, this is Brazil’s information bubble election,” said Pio. “I think we’ll be studying the results for years.
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Tearing Down the Pricing of Headspace and Calm
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Updated On: December 03, 2019
Finding time to step back from your hectic day isn't easy. With so many things to do, and so many different ways to do them, sitting down for even five minutes of mindfulness or relaxation seems out of the question—which is where Headspace and Calm come in.
These popular meditation apps base their products on helping users find the time to practice a more relaxed and stress-free lifestyle through guided meditation. But which company's pricing strategy has really found its center?
In this week's Pricing Page Teardown, Peter and I dig into the data to see how individual users' meditation practices affect their willingness to pay. We talk about how Headspace is in a position to start niching down and why Calm should consider adding freemium to their pricing strategy.
“Headspace is coming to play; they're offering a lot of options. Calm is really optimizing for lifetime value and retention.”
Forever pricing is an awesome way to guarantee LTV
Both companies have a package we're calling their Forever Price. This is a one-time payment of $299.99 for Calm and $399.99 for Headspace that more or less locks in customers at a set lifetime value (LTV). It's interesting to see that while both companies offer this option, Headspace is definitely going more premium than Calm.
Starting with Calm, we took a look at their home page and pricing options to see how each company was positioning their product.
They lean hard on the superiority angle in their value proposition, which is indeed a great achievement, but it's not really making us want to buy the product itself. Headspace does a much better job with their Meditation made simple tagline:
The focus on simplicity and the app being a user's first step to a more mindful meditation practice makes it all about the customer. That's what is selling their product for me at least—and who can deny their overall design aesthetic?
When it comes to pricing, Calm is much less robust. They offer a Forever price like we talked about and an annual package. There's no real mention of a monthly price at all.
They also offer a 7-day free trial for prospective customers.
Headspace offers up three package options on their pricing page:
This is where you see the premium coming in. With their Lifetime package coming in around 30% higher than Calm and their annual boosted almost 50%, Headspace is positioned a bit higher overall. They also feature a monthly package, which is a bit more enticing for some customers.
Where I think Headspace kicks it up a notch is with their freemium option. We've seen in the past that this packaging typically has a positive impact on customer acquisition costs (CAC), LTV, retention, and Net Promoter Scores (NPS) over the option of a free trial. Customers who start out on the freemium package end up being more valuable in the long run.
Meditation frequency and duration boost willingness to pay
The more often a user meditates, or the more time they spend doing so each day—the more they're willing to pay. That's not all that surprising, we saw this with Planet Fitness and Equinox as well, but the lift for habitual users is a huge opportunity for both companies.
Let's take a look at the monthly willingness to pay based on average meditation frequency.
We surveyed 5,391 current, former, or prospective customers of Headspace and Calm and found that both apps are pricing their product much higher than the average for an occasional user. For users that meditate less than once a week but at least once a month or less than once per day but at least once per week the willingness to pay is $4.90 and $5.90 respectively. There are even some survey respondents that fall even further down on the left side.
It's really the once per day and more than once per day users that are going to see the value in either app's subscription pricing. Calm is definitely in a position to own the less frequent users with their slightly lower price point. That said, their pricing is still a bit off—by only offering annual subscriptions, Calm makes it harder for potential customers to move forward with the purchase. The longer commitment is a potential blocker.
Headspace bypasses these issues with their freemium option, but it turns the competition into more of a conversions game.
We see a similar curve for willingness to pay based on average meditation duration—the longer the meditation, the higher the willingness to pay will be.
What's interesting about this data is the people who are meditating for just five or ten minutes. Their willingness to pay is objectively pretty high for such a short period of actual usage.
As I alluded to earlier, we're seeing a big lift in average willingness to pay for habitual users. Someone who is meditating at least 60 minutes is sitting at $21.95 but swings almost up to $35.00. The same goes for someone who is meditating more than once per day; they start out at $23.49 but are willing to go as high as around $41.00 a month. Both Headspace and Calm could easily start boosting their average revenue per user (ARPU) considerably by offering a premium tier for these customers.
Right now, each company only differentiates on length of subscription, which doesn't leverage the potential for expansion revenue that we found in the data.
Meditation goals give insight into how both apps could niche better
“A lot of these apps are all about managing stress, and that has the least willingness to pay. That's because they're going after the general meditation market. They're trying to appeal to the widest TAM from a logo or customer count perspective.”
When we take a look at the reasons why people meditate, it brought up some interesting questions about how Headspace and Calm position their value propositions and marketing copy. A users' goals tend much more towards optimizing their performance at work or in their personal life, as opposed to just finding a way to relax. It's those outcomes these apps should focus on moving forward.
Take a look at the monthly willingness to pay based on meditation goal.
“At first glance, I would have thought this graph would be flipped with people trying to use these apps for managing stress having a higher willingness to pay.” Peter Zotto, General Manager
We see that Athletic performance comes in with the highest willingness to pay at $18.39, but it could go as high as $27. Professional performance and a want to Improve overall health are just below that with $14.38 and $12.09. Once we move into Improve relationships, the average willingness to pay starts to dip below the $10 mark, with Managing stress coming in dead last with only $5.04.
Shifting their positioning to talk more about how meditation positively affects performance in a number of different aspects of the users' daily lives does a lot in terms of boosting the potential willingness to pay for both apps. Calm does this a bit with their Calm Body option, but it's not the central focus of their website copy at all.
We see this pattern reflected when we chart average willingness to pay in relation to relative feature preference as well.
A Stress Session lands squarely in the Core Features quadrant, meaning that customers really just expect that feature to be available. The Performance Sessions, Anxiety Sessions, and Focus Sessions are where Headspace and Calm could start boosting their expansion revenue. As Differentiable Features, users are more willing to pay for an additional tier or product offering.
When we get into the Add-Ons quadrant, it starts to get super niche in terms of what each app could potentially offer. Willingness to pay is lifted way up there for Emergency Sessions, but we don't think that would really be a good plan for either app. Neither app would get anything from charging extra for a session intended to curb or relieve a panic attack.
This data tells us that Headspace and Calm are really just going after the lowest common denominator right now. But as players in a new niche of the wellness market, it's not all that surprising. There's a lot of opportunity for growth and more specific targeting for both apps as they mature.
Which meditation app really helps you find your chi?
“What we're seeing here is the first wave of these apps; if the market continues to grow, there's going to be some niching down like we've seen in other markets.”
We saw some really interesting patterns in the data today and it's time for Peter and I to let you know which app we think comes out on top. As a previous Calm user, and current Headspace user, I'm a bit biased towards Headspace as their friendly marketing and design choices speak to me as the user.
That said, I can certainly see how a voice-guided meditation might not do it for everyone. Peter recognizes that there's a considerable amount of overlap in functionality, but the warm and welcoming feeling of Headspace appeals to him as a user.
As an investor, Peter thinks there's a definite possibility for both companies to win. I would go more for Headspace, because they're objectively in a better position right now based on where the market is. As both apps are essentially content companies, their best bet moving forward is figuring out different ways to differentiate based on the quality of their content.
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Rosalba, wife and mother of two children is also a talented entrepreneurial woman in the tourism sector. A success that took shape a few years ago, thanks to her intuition and the ability demonstrated in interpreting the most genuine tourist vocation of Valle d’Itria. Rosalba not only fully understood the great potential of this territory but also managed to put it into practice the most authentic way to manage a Trulli Resort together with a group of loyal and enthusiastic collaborators.
The family property has been beautifully restored, tastefully furnished, equipped with all the comforts and embellished with those small details that have made it a jewel set in a land dotted with olive trees, vines and orchards in the vicinity of Locorotondo.
Leonardo Trulli Resort, managed by Rosalba Cardone, remains open all year, winning independently the challenge of deseasonalising the tourist offer of Valle d’Itria. Former sailor, sportswoman, and runner, Rosalba immediately understood that a successful off-season tourist offer could only count on gastronomy and sports activity. But it was not only that. She was able to set up and manage the Resort in a passionately eco-friendly style. Another happy intuition of the young entrepreneur of Locorotondo that five years ago, from the time of its inauguration, spontaneously anticipated the concept of ecotourism that has become so popular today.
The gardens are perennially cultivated and their fruits and vegetables are used in the kitchen. Often the guests of the Resort enter the grounds in the morning to hand-pick from the plants what they would like to eat for lunch or dinner and bring them to the kitchen where they can speak directly with the chef, Francesco Cataldi, happy to interpret and fulfill their wishes. And he does so by taking inspiration from the authentic local recipes, those of the ancient traditional cuisine.
The guests are delighted by all this: the experience at the table is unique. A full involvement that starts early morning with the harvest of the products of the earth directly from the plant and ends at the table savouring the most authentic dishes of Valle d’Itria that literally leave wordless who is certainly not used to those flavours.
But the offer of Leonardo Trulli Resort is not only excellent in accommodation and satisfaction of the palate. Rosalba thought that it would have been a shame to let their guests go without revealing them those little wonderful recipes handed down from mother to daughter! And this idea turned into Cooking Class, always participated with great enthusiasm: a success that currently allows Rosalba to host groups of foreign tourists even during autumn and winter.
Everything that is cooked at the lessons obviously ends up on the table, a table that is animated not only by the colorful multilingual dissertations about food and ingredients but also thanks to the substantial contribution of the excellent local wine that perfectly matches the chicory with beans, cold meats and local dairy products.
The resort takes its name from the cousin of the father of Rosalba, Leonardo, returned to Locorotondo after having lived an impossible love story in Udine: he, the son of peasants, had fallen madly in love with a General’s daughter. Although she was attracted by that handsome man from the south, the beautiful young girl had to give up the idea of taking him as her spouse because of the veto imposed by her family who considered Leonardo’s peasant origins inappropriate for the daughter of a senior officer. So Leonardo, with his heart broken and still full of love for that beautiful woman from Udine, decided to return to his beautiful round and white village standing on the the hill of Valle d’Itria.
He poured all that love, that he did not have the opportunity to express to that girl, into his property consisting of some fields and gardens, and a group of trulli. Then he decided to build a beautiful house for himself in Art Nouveau style. And this love still lingers in the Resort, you can feel it in every corner, in the alcoves of the trulli so warm and welcoming, in the gardens and the fields so well taken cared of.
Each room has its own privacy and has a small private garden that overlooks the surrounding grounds dotted with olive trees and aromatic plants. The outdoor swimming pool, open all year and filled with salt water is surrounded by a beautiful rose garden and lavender plants. A paradise of perfumes, flavors and emotions that make the stay at the Leonardo Trulli Resort an engaging and unforgettable experience. Guests can also taste how the life in a Contrada goes, appreciating the quietness but also the chats within good neighbors. Even today, as it was once, it is not unusual to come across nearby friends who brings Rosalba few freshly baked taralli or some freshly squeezed olive oil coming straight from the mill and to taste on a fresh piece of bread: values of a past time that some areas of the Valle d ‘Itria have been able to maintain authentic.
Equally authentic is the Leonardo Trulli Resort, an admirable example of hotel management conceived and ran totally in a eco-friendly manner with a lot of passion and ability: a beautiful example of local successful entrepreneurship.
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RAI Amtrium's vertical greenhouse wins Vernufteling 2015 award
The vertical greenhouse city farming in the Amtrium, Amsterdam RAI’s new exhibition and convention building, was presented with the Vernufteling 2015 award by Ed Nijpels on Thursday 18 March 2015. The award is an initiative by the Dutch association for engineers and engineering students (KIVI) and the Dutch association of consulting engineers.
The jury was particularly impressed by the way the building reflects a new perspective on urban construction in the 21st century and the way that the RAI’s ideas are enabling abstract concepts to be translated into concrete form. The restaurant of the new building will shortly be serving meals containing fresh vegetables and herbs grown in its own greenhouse. The Amtrium will be taken into use in May.
The design team, which includes Amsterdam RAI, Benthem Crouwel Architects and Nelissen ingenieursbureau, have embraced this idea and translated it into an integrated design whole. According to the jury: “The societal value, the future-oriented vision and the fact that Amsterdam RAI has had the courage to be the first company to realise such a design, combined with technical features such as the humidification with rain water, controlled ventilation and plant growth, have led us to award the Amtrium the Vernufteling award.”
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The city farming greenhouse will contribute to the air quality in the building as part of a new form of urban agriculture which is unique in the Netherlands and gives visitors to the building and local vicinity a new way of identifying with food cultivation. In addition, this ingenious greenhouse will provide the restaurant with genuinely fresh products and a range of other practical benefits.
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SAM SYLVESTER CONYERS
Offender Number: 1032282
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Sentence Number: 01-001 Commitment Type: PROBATION/PAROLE
Conviction Date: 08/21/2007 County Of Conviction: WAKE
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NC DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION DIVISION OF PRISONS VISITATION RULES Visitor Applications A COMPLETED APPLICATION MUST BE APPROVED BY THE FACILITY STAFF BEFORE A VISIT CAN OCCUR. Inmates must obtain blank application forms from the facility. A maximum of 18 applications will be allowed per inmate. Inmates must mail the blank applications to those persons from whom they wish to receive a visit while incarcerated. An application for each adult and minor must be complete. Completed applications must be returned to the facility where the inmate is currently housed. Applications will not be accepted from inmates. Incomplete applications will not be approved. Each applicant age 16 and older, must choose 1 of the approved picture IDs and attach a copy to the application. Driver License ID and State issued ID’s must be issued by any State Division of Motor Vehicles. Minors under 16 must have a copy of their birth certificate attached to the application. It is the inmate’s responsibility to notify the visitor of their application status. It is the visitor’s responsibility to update their application information. (i.e. address, phone numbers, etc.) Incorrect application information could lead to an approved visitor becoming disapproved. A minor under the age of 16 must update their application upon reaching age 16 to include a copy of a photo ID. Clergy visitors must complete a DC-949P application and be approved prior to visiting with an inmate. They will not be counted as part of the 18. Disapproving Applications The following reasons MAY be grounds for disapproving a visitor application: Application form was copied and not an original. Application was not complete or did not include proper attachments. Application contained false information. The visitor has a prior criminal record. * The visitor was a participant in the criminal activity for which the inmate is incarcerated. * The visitor is an ex-offender that has not been release for a minimum of 12 months. * The visitor is on probation/parole or supervised release or has not been off probation or supervised release for a minimum of 6 months. * * There may be exceptions for these rules for immediate family members. Inmate Visitation List Each inmate is allowed 18 approved visitors (adults and minors). Legal, Law Enforcement, Consular Officials, Local and State Family Services and Juvenile Court officials must register with the facility prior to visiting with the inmate. They will not be counted in the maximum 18 approved visitors. Only immediate family members or those who have acted as immediate family, clergy, legal, law enforcement, family/juvenile services, or consular officials will be approved for visitation with more than one inmate. An inmate’s visitation list remains active when transferring to a new facility. When an inmate is released or paroled, the visitation list becomes inactive. If the inmate is re-admitted, the visitation process must start over. When an inmate reaches the maximum number of approved visitors (18), he/she will not be able to adjust their visitation list until their open enrollment period. An inmate’s open enrollment period will be every six months based on the date of admission to prison. (i.e. inmate’s admission date is January; open enrollment is July and January) If an inmate has 18 approved visitors and they want to add a new visitor during open enrollment they must first remove one of the current approved visitors from the list. An inmate may request that an approved visitor be removed at anytime. They may not add a replacement until his/her open enrollment. If a facility suspends an approved visitor, the inmate may not add a replacement until his/her open enrollment period. An application for a new visitor must be submitted, completed, returned, and approved BEFORE the new visitor can visit. It will be up to the inmate to inform the new visitor of their visitation status. Visits Under normal circumstances, inmates will be allowed no more than 1 visiting session per week not to exceed two hours. This does not include legal, law enforcement, or clergy visits. The normal maximum number of visitors per visiting session will not exceed three approved visitors. Facility superintendents have the discretion to modify the number of approved visitors during the visitation session based on operational and space considerations. Violations of visiting privileges may result in disciplinary action against the inmate and appropriate administrative or legal actions against the visitor. Inmates with serious or critical medical conditions will be allowed visits by their immediate family members as specified by the facility superintendent. Inmates on administrative or disciplinary segregation or inmates in control status, except for protective control, will be restricted to non-contact visits by appointment. A facility superintendent has the discretion to alter the visiting times, frequency of visits, duration and number of visits based on security and/or operational considerations. Inmates on administrative segregation may be allowed visiting privileges. Inmates in Disciplinary segregation will be allowed visits from attorneys, legal assistants, and clergy. Personal visitation privileges may be limited consistent with security requirements. Inmates validated as Security Threat Group level 2 will be allowed contact visits with approved immediate family members. Inmates validated as level 3 will be allowed non-contact visits with approved immediate family members. Inmates validated as security threat level 2 or 3 will not be allowed visits with individuals who are not immediate family members. Regular population inmates may be restricted to non-contact visits based on behavior detrimental to the security of the institution. (i.e. drug/alcohol disciplinary convictions, refusal to submit drug/alcohol test, disciplinary convictions or misconduct during visitation) Appropriate Dress for Visitors The following requirements are for visitors and apply at all facilities. The dress code will be strictly enforced. It will be the inmate’s responsibility to communicate these standards to his/her visitors. Shirts and shoes are mandatory. Halter tops, bare midriffs, strapless tops, tube tops, body suits, underwear-type tee-shirts, tank tops, sleeveless shirts or dresses that are inappropriately revealing (a sleeveless shirt or dress is considered inappropriately revealing when the female breast or lingerie can be seen), fish net shirts, or any type of shirt or pants made with see-though fabric are NOT allowed to be worn by any visitor (male or female). Visitors may wear Bermuda-length shorts provided they are not more than three (3”) inches above the kneecap. Females may wear dresses or skirts. Dresses or skirts may not be more than three (3”) inches above the kneecap. Slits in skirts and dresses may not be more than three (3”) inches above the kneecap. Dresses and skirts for pre-teens may be shorter than three (3”) inches above the kneecap. Any shirt or other articles of clothing with a picture or language that may be considered profane or offensive by current public standards or DOC standards, or considered STG (gang) related will not be allowed. Wave caps, doo rags, bandanas are not allowed. Slacks and pants are to be worn at or above the waist. Spandex clothing is prohibited. Questions concerning the information in this handout or the Division’s Visitation Policy/Procedure (D.0200), should be directed to the facility head.
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Sarah Jeong and the Media Alt-Left
Ever since the New York Times decided to hire racist blogger Sarah Jeong, despite her history of hateful tweets about white people, “the world could get by just fine with zero white ppl and the thing stopping POC (people of color) is…a disinclination toward genocide?”, white women, men, heterosexuals and Christians, and then refused to part ways with her (unlike its treatment of previous hire, Quinn Norton, whom the left had accused of homophobia based on a few tweets, despite her being gay), the debate has been about all the wrong things.
Jeong isn’t really the issue. Her racism is typical of an influential subset of the left.
Some of the pro and anti Jeong essays briefly circle around the actual problem before quickly zooming away. Andrew Sullivan writes in his anti-Jeong essay of the “extent to which loathing of and contempt for ‘white people’ is now background noise on the left”. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, wrote in his pro-Jeong essay that comments such as hers in the “the social justice left” about “white people” are typical.
But what part of the “social justice left” or “left” is really producing Sarah Jeongs?
To answer that question we have to talk about what no one really talks about, the alt-left. Unlike the alt-right, a subject of numerous essays, news reports and investigative pieces, the internet culture of racism, misandry and heterophobia that is the millennial alt-left is mostly undocumented.
The alt-left’s norms of discourse are defined by the same harsh contempt and winking racism that appear in Sarah Jeong’s tweets. It’s an internet culture where “white people” is an inherently derogatory term and new slurs, such as “caucasity”, are coined. Ironic racism is defined as “resistance” to whiteness. And what better way to resist whiteness than with racial slurs aimed at white people?
Sarah Jeong’s hateful tweets aren’t extraordinary examples of one woman’s bigotry. They’re variations on the typical memes and jokes on the alt-left. When we talk about Jeong’s racism, we’re really talking about the bigotry of an intersectional movement that is obsessed with punitively destroying the “privilege” of white people and other majority groups with racist memes, taunts and harassment.
The alt-left preceded the alt-right. The features of the alt-right that the media has attacked are mirror images of its origins counter-trolling the alt-left. When Sarah Jeong’s critics and defenders claim that she was “counter-trolling”, they hilariously get the origin of the internet culture species completely wrong.
Long before the alt-right (at least in internet years), the alt-left was weaponizing racist memes (“white tears” was a popular one) and harassing targets with online mobs (today’s social justice mobs are alt-left online harassment coordinated with alt-lefties in the media). The current trend of media stories that dox targets on the right almost all tend to come from media millennials aligned with the alt-left.
This isn’t the first time that the alt-left’s ironic racism has gotten its members in trouble. There was plenty of outrage when Drexel University’s George Ciccariello-Maher had tweeted, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide”. Just like Jeong, the defense was that Maher was just kidding.
The claims by Vox lefties that Sarah Jeong and the “social justice left” are being ironic in their racist remarks about white people, is not a defense, it’s an indictment. Ironic racism was prevalent on the alt-left before it was mirrored by the alt-right. It’s also a misuse of the term. Non-ironic irony is typical of millennial internet culture that uses humor as a distancing mechanism to normalize repellent views.
That’s not ironic. It’s cowardly and disingenuous.
The “ironic” alt-left humor of Sarah Jeong uses absurdity and winks to convey actual hatred for white people. But the same “ironic racism” that the media condemns when it appears on the Twitter accounts of the alt-right is somehow acceptable when it appears on alt-left accounts like Jeong’s. Even the argument that Jeong and the alt-left are just joking is the same “wrongfooting” defense that the media never accepted from the alt-right, even as it now tries to “wrongfoot” the right on Jeong’s racism.
Even the 1488ers, the Neo-Nazis who are the most noxious part of the alt-right, had their original counterparts in the tankies (Communists) in the internet culture of the alt-left. (You’re less likely to have read about them because the media loves writing about Neo-Nazis, but not its own Neo-Commies.)
When we talk about the alt-left, it’s often in terms of antifa, but Black Lives Matter owes as much to the alt-left as it does to the black nationalist thugs it adores and worships. And the violent activists are just a tiny portion of the larger internet culture that is the alt-left. But neither is the alt-left composed of minorities. Most of the alt-left, like the rest of the left, is white. Its racism isn’t the outcry of an oppressed minority, as the pro-Jeong pieces have contended, but of an ideological bigotry.
As John Perrazo notes in the Freedom Center’s pamphlet, “The War on Whiteness”, “The ultimate objective in stigmatizing whiteness is to intensify racial tension. But the anti-whiteness movement also intends to destroy whites’ comfortable assumption that their skin color is ‘normal’ or ‘neutral,’ without consequences, and to make them color-conscious and ultimately rub their noses in their whiteness.”
The left politicizes race. The alt-left’s war on whiteness is an overt rejection of post-racial neutrality and the grand bargain of civil rights. The stream of racist abuse aimed at white people is meant to politicize whiteness. And to force white people to align with racist movements on one side or the other.
What the alt-left fears above all else is post-racial coexistence. And so it fights tolerance with racism.
Why do we hear so little about the alt-left? For the same reason that the media throbs with defenses of Jeong’s ironic racism and the leftist internet culture that birthed it. The media’s millennial new guard is drawn heavily from the alt-left. It seeks out and destroys media millennials who are not alt-lefties.
The alt-left is the media. Gamergate, frequently referenced in the defenses of Sarah Jeong, was a clash between the alt-left entrenched in gaming journalism (tech journalism, and especially gaming journalism, were the parts of the media most likely to hire and quickly promote millennials) and gamer culture. But the alt-left now pervades the entire media from foreign affairs to sports journalism.
Jeong’s past tweets are just one of numerous examples of millennial media hires who had been caught spewing toxic alt-left rubbish. Jugal Patel and Fahim Abed kept their gigs with the New York Times after their old and ugly tweets came to life. There was no reason to think that Jeong would lose hers.
Sarah Jeong’s alt-left racism wouldn’t have dissuaded the New York Times. It was the reason she was hired. Being a vocal alt-lefty on social media while blogging about social justice issues has been part of the Tumblr-to-Times pipeline for a while now. The media looks for a social media background in its millennial hires. Broadcasting alt-left memes in those circles makes you more likely to be retweeted, recognized, quoted and hired to fail upward with more racism at major media orgs.
Gamergate used to be a debate about the alt-left’s takeover of journalism. Now that the alt-left controls journalism, period, it’s become a national debate about fake news.
Sarah Jeong’s racism isn’t an isolated incident. It’s a culture that is taking over newsrooms. The complete disregard for facts, the pervasive contempt for the political opposition, the impassioned victimhood, and the ravening hatred poorly disguised as comedy now defines the media.
And so we don’t talk about the alt-left, because when we talk about the alt-left, we’re talking about the media.
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The world's best BMW Cafe Racers
The German company BMW Motorrad built its first motorcycle, the R32, in 1923. Powered by a 494cc flat-twin boxer the R32's horizontally opposed engine configuration became an iconic feature of BMW motorcycles throughout their history. In later years they also developed the flat-four engine used in models like the K100. This engine was coined the 'flying brick' due to its bulky appearance. Despite its unfortunate nickname the flat-four still the level of performance that earned BMW their well-respected reputation.
Older BMW "airhead" boxer twins and R series models are popular choices for BMW cafe racer projects. With some models featuring bolt-on subframes and others sporting aluminum fuel tanks, choosing a BMW as the donor for your project has its benefits. In more recent years BMW has embraced the custom scene by creating the R Nine T. The BMW R9T was designed and built specifically with customization in mind.
In our archives, you'll find countless BMW cafe racer features that are a great source of inspiration and tips for anyone hoping to build their own.
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Perth’s Kaylan Galloway is a guy who likes to do things the hard way. Probably because he can. A welder by trade, he is a one-man band on a mission. Being a long time BMW K-series fan this bike, a BMW K100 based cafe racer, is his second. The first was a…
Chop Talk – Revival Cycles BMW R18
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Dynamite – Unikat BMW K1100LT
Mentioning Grand Tourer and cafe racer in the same sentence isn’t something you’ll see me do often. That’s because bikes that are inherently heavy, such as tourers, are generally deemed too big to be suitable donors for cafe racer builds. If you strip away the excess on most tourers you’re still left…
Chop Talk – Kott Motorcycles BMW R80
One of the many amazing bikes on display at this year’s Handbuilt show in Austin was Dustin Kott’s BMW R80. As part of the show experience, Dustin and a few other builders were interviewed about their builds. These ‘Chop Talk’ interviews were available to listen to at the show and now thanks…
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August 29, 2018 / 1:42 PM / a year ago
Tug of war for oil sector looking to feast after famine
Shadia Nasralla, Gwladys Fouche
STAVANGER, Norway (Reuters) - After years of restraint since crude prices slumped in 2014, oil services companies are now at loggerheads with producers as they battle for what they see as a fair share of the sector recovery.
A pump jack operates at sunset in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Oil industry suppliers say they have cut costs and prices to the bone and the recent rebound in crude justifies better rewards for anything from rigs to logistics and engineering services.
Their overtures have met with stubborn resistance from producers. But there are increasing signs that something has to give, including recent strikes at North Sea platforms.
“The cost savings that we have achieved over the past three years are not sustainable,” said Thierry Pilenko, Executive Chairman of TechnipFMC (FTI.N), one of the world’s biggest oil services groups.
“A rig that was once at $600,000 day is now at $150,000, which is not even cash breakeven,” he added, referring to rig rental rates. “Cost inflation will come back ... The drilling industry working below breakeven is not sustainable.”
The oil market is cyclical by nature — if crude prices fall, so does investment and then output, which in turn drives up prices — and oil services companies ride the rollercoaster by using the upturns to raise their prices to offset the downturns.
Global exploration and production spending shot up by a quarter in 2005, fell 8 percent in 2009, jumped by about 12 percent two years later and then tanked by more than a fifth in 2016, according to data from consultancy firm Rystad Energy.
GRAPHIC: Oil services sector's boom and bust cycles - tmsnrt.rs/2N4DlU0
‘FEAST OR FAMINE’
Consequently, average rig rates that were about $200,000 for a floating rig in 2005 more than doubled by 2012 and then fell to about $160,000 last year, Rystad said.
“It is still a feast or famine cycle,” the CEO of oilfield services group Baker Hughes BHGE.N, Lorenzo Simonelli, told an industry conference in the Norwegian oil capital of Stavanger.
After benchmark oil futures contracts LCOc1 slumped from more than $110 a barrel in 2014 to less than $30 in early 2016, oil producers cut spending drastically and promised shareholders that cost discipline was here to stay.
GRAPHIC - Boom and Bust Cycles of Oil Services Sector: tmsnrt.rs/2wppPke
Signs of rising rates have begun to emerge in the United States, but oil producers are loath to put the genie back in the bottle.
“There might be pressure on costs, but we will never forget what we have learned,” Equinor Chief Executive Eldar Saetre told the Stavanger conference.
Indeed, Equinor’s announcement on Tuesday that it plans to drill 3,000 production and exploration wells off Norway during the next two decades came with a caveat.
“There is no room for cost inflation in those plans,” said Arne Sigve Nylund, head of Equinor’s Norwegian operations.
“We need to deliver at the same level we are now ... I call on suppliers to work with us on how to deliver at the lowest possible cost.”
COLLABORATIVE APPROACH?
But with oil now trading around $75 a barrel, strikes at several of Total’s (TOTF.PA) North Sea offshore platforms are testimony to an industry wrestling with keeping efficiencies high and costs down.
The way contracts are structured between producers and services will be key to the future level of costs.
“There is a big dichotomy now. Some of the contractors are expecting to see price increases. They are almost saying ‘it’s my turn now’,” Luis Araujo, CEO of oil services company Aker Solutions (AKSOL.OL), said.
“I don’t buy into that. I think we should work together.”
Araujo pointed to clients such as Aker BP (AKERBP.OL) offering contracts more akin to “incentive schemes” than ways to squeeze margins.
“In the future, maybe suppliers are going to get paid by performance. So instead of getting paid by the daily rates, (you) will be paid by how many meters you can drill.”
Equinor’s Saetre put it even more succinctly at the Stavenger conference, with the words of U.S. rock star Bruce Springsteen emblazoned on the big screen: “Nobody wins unless everybody wins.”
But given oil producers’ own constraints, the message might not have trickled through quite yet.
“We have to be a bit cautious because the guys doing the presentations are the leaders. But then there is the next layer in line who are being educated to squeeze suppliers and not collaborate,” Araujo said.
Additional reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; Editing by David Goodman
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Complaint Review: Granger Whitelaw - Boynton Beach Florida
Submitted: Mon, October 17, 2011
Updated: Mon, October 17, 2011
Reported By: GrangerGotMe — Boynton Beach Florida United States of America
Granger Whitelaw 5105 N Ocean Blvd, Boynton Beach Florida Boynton Beach, Florida United States of America
Web: http://www.contentchopper.com/
Granger Whitelaw Content Chopper, Deal Chopper, The Music Factory Fraud, Scam, Thief, Bogus, Content Chopper ,Florida, The Music Factory, Red Bank, Boynton Beach , Florida
Its all true, and leaving unpaid bills in his wake, I researched him after he asked us to invest.
Looks like the Content Chopper is the latest Scam
See the EVP! Someone should warn their CEO, maybe he knows and thats what he hired him for.
Content Chopper www.contentchopper.com
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Associate Member Spotlight: Content Chopper
Content Chopper: a NEW source of revenue for your music and videos!
We have developed a digital marketplace for music, games, movies, TV, apps and ebooks, that is integrated into the supply chain of major loyalty and incentive programs allowing members to redeem their points and miles for digital content.
Content Chopper exists as a strictly business to business brand, partnering with loyalty and incentive brands of the major airlines, banks and hotel groups to reach a combined North American membership of 1.8 billion. We are seeking to provide a broad and current catalog that will appeal to the wide demographics of the major loyalty programs.
The marketplace will integrate seamlessly into the supply chain of the existing loyalty program where members redeem their points and miles for rewards. The marketplace will feature music, movies, apps, games and eBooks that will be available via a mix of streaming and download. All content will be priced in miles/points, but will be valued at the full retail price. Content Chopper will share the gross margin with the loyalty program partners. So, loyalty programs will be billed for the full retail value of the content, less any revenue sharing agreed amounts, and Content Chopper will pay content owners directly.
Stephen Humphreys, Founder & CEO - 16 years in the loyalty and incentives industry. Previously CEO of Grass Roots America, Inc. a $500 million revenue business.
Mario Cruz, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer Previously CTO of Grass Roots America, Inc. Over 12 years of direct experience in the airline frequent flyer space.
Granger Whitelaw, EVP Corp. Development Maintains a long history of excelling at creative business ventures including Whitelaw Racing, Inc. (Indianapolis 500), AMBER Alert, and the the Rocket Racing League
Bob Chiappardi, VP of Music - CEO of Concrete Marketing and 25 year music industry veteran, has been retained as a liaison between Content Chopper and the music industry.
For more information on Content Chopper, please contact:
Bob Chiappardi or Katie Gibson
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The Value of the Rotavirus Vaccine
Gastrointestinal calls after rotavirus vaccine introduction declined at medical center
(RxWiki News) The best reason to vaccinate your children is to protect them from disease. Comparing the time before a vaccine to the time afterward shows how effective those shots are.
A recent study found a decrease in phone calls related to stomach problems to a medical center occurred after the rotavirus vaccine was introduced.
"Give kids all of their vaccines."
The study, led by Derek J. Williams, MD, MPH, from the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program within the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, aimed to find out the possible effect of the rotavirus vaccine's introduction on calls to a medical service.
The researchers specifically looked at calls related to stomach problems or gastroenteritis in children. Rotavirus is a disease that causes severe diarrhea and often a fever, vomiting and stomach pain.
The researchers investigated all the phone calls that came in to the Vanderbilt Telephone Triage Program for children under 5 years old.
The time period they looked at included three years before the rotavirus vaccine was licensed by the FDA (from May 2004 to April 2007) and three years after it was licensed (from May 2007 to April 2010).
They also split their analysis into two so they could take into account the season when rotavirus usually occurs (February through April) and when it doesn't usually occur (May to January).
During the total time period of May 2004 to April 2010, a total of 156,362 calls came in, and 19,731 of these were related to stomach problems in the kids.
Comparing the period before the vaccine to the period after the vaccine, total calls during the year related to gastrointestinal issues dropped by 8 percent.
However, when the researchers looked specifically at rotavirus season before and after the vaccine, the decline in calls was more substantial.
Phone calls related to gastrointestinal problems in the three rotavirus seasons after the vaccine was licensed were 23 to 31 percent lower than they were in rotavirus seasons before the vaccine came out.
The researchers did not see significant declines during the non-rotavirus seasons in gastrointestinal calls.
The researchers also looked at the rate of rotavirus diagnosis in laboratories and found that the decline of these after the vaccine was introduced matched the decline in gastrointestinal-related phone calls.
Also, after the vaccine had been licensed, the highest number of gastrointestinal-related phone calls occurred at the peak of stomach flu season rather than during the peak of rotavirus season.
The stomach flu is not related to influenza, or the traditional flu.
The study's data provide good evidence for the effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine in preventing rotavirus and for additional gastrointestinal calls to be more related to the stomach flu.
The study was published September 10 in the journal Pediatrics. The research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New Vaccine Surveillance Network. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
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Zaylore Stout (he/him)
Originally from Southern California, Zaylore Stout moved to Minnesota to attend the University of St. Thomas School of Law in 2007. His law firm Zaylore Stout & Associates, LLC focused on employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and wage & hour matters. His local community activism has involved urging the St. Louis Park School Board to pass a Gender Inclusion Policy to protect transgender and gender nonconforming youth. He lives in the city of St. Louis park with his partner, Ore Lindenfeld, and dog, Lakota.
Addy Free, Chair (he/him)
RECLAIM is the kind of organization Addy says he wishes had been available to him as a young person. After becoming homeless due to a catastrophic coming out experience in rural Iowa in the 90s, Addy found community in the LGBT and allied community of Iowa City. His radical social worker took him to the first annual Conference on White Privilege at Cornell College, the institution Addy would graduate from a few years later.
Today, Addy is Associate Registrar for Technology at Macalester College and cherishes the vast potential of transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex, lesbian, bisexual and gay young people at Macalester and in the Twin Cities. He is a recognized expert on how technology systems handle name, gender and other biographic data, presenting and consulting extensively on the matter. Addy aims to contribute to his local community by sharing his talents for organization and analysis with RECLAIM as it continues its vital work.
Marcus Waterbury, Vice Chair (he/him)
Jackson Raynor, Secretary (they/them)
Jackson Raynor is a research technician at the University of Minnesota in the field of cancer immunology. Jackson has spent the majority of their life in or around the Twin Cities - growing up in St. Louis Park, moving to Northfield, MN to attend Carleton College, and returning to Minneapolis after graduation in 2017. Jackson believes in the healing power of community, and aims to be an active member of the Minneapolis queer and leather communities. They also believe in the importance of art as a healing practice for queers especially and are an avid supporter of queer performers. Jackson hopes to continue their education in the future by pursuing a Master's degree and a license to practice therapy focusing on queer community in their own practice.
Judy Branham (she/her)
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Felicia Washington-Sy (she/her)
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Maryrose Dolezal (she/her)
Maryrose serves as Co-Executive Director and leads RECLAIM's development work, applying her passion for cultural wellness, racial and economic justice, and strategic movement building at the organizational level. She joined RECLAIM’s staff in 2012 as the Director of Operations to help RECLAIM start up as a nonprofit and has focused on grassroots fundraising as a growth strategy that aligns with RECLAIM’s healing justice mission. Maryrose serves on the board of the Lionsgate Academy Foundation and has an active meditation and cultural healing practice.
Prior to her work at RECLAIM, Maryrose directed the national youth, nonviolence and anti-oppression training programs of the Fellowship of Reconciliation for eight years and served on the founding boards of directors for the Center for Story Based Strategy in CA and Common Fire Foundation in NY for a total of twelve years, including chairing each board. Her background also includes direct client care as a somatic movement therapist from 2010-2015 and teaching as an adjunct faculty at Hamline University, where she completed her M.A. in Nonprofit Management in 2007 with a thesis on critical multicultural change in nonprofit organizations. Maryrose lives in Minneapolis with her wife Roya, 11-year-old son Espen, and their cat Leo.
Laine Mohnkern (they/them)
Laine Mohnkern earned their Master's of Social Work from the University of Minnesota. They currently serve as the Mental Health Supervisor at Reclaim. They have been working on LGBT issues for over 15 years and have been therapy using trauma and play basted techniques. They have previously trained others on both a state and national level. Past trainings by this presenter have received positive feedback for energy, knowledge, and practical techniques. They are state trained in infant mental health, and trauma trained under multiple modalities, working from the idea that "our ability to heal and lead the life we want comes from our ability to connect with others in a safe and supportive relationship, which values and recognizes the needs of the individual". They strive to provide this in a playful, imaginative, connected, and out of the box approach. They have been passionate about diversity, social justice, healing and education. They believe that communication, continued practice and hope will continue to benefit areas they are committed to and they strive to bring these commitments and beliefs to their therapeutic work, advisory practices, training and writing.
Sara Pournoor (they/them, he/him)
Sara is a licensed graduate social worker and psychotherapist at Reclaim in St. Paul. They specialize in working with QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, and Black, Indigenous, People of Color), as well as others who have experienced trauma or marginalization as an individual or within their communities. They integrate their professional training and therapeutic skills with their lived experience as a queer and non-binary person of color and belong to the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network. In practice, Sara uses a post-modern, psychodynamic, relational approach, along with other modalities such as CBT/DBT principles, narrative, play therapy, and others when applicable. They have a background in youth work, social justice education, interfaith work, inpatient mental health, and crisis stabilization. Sara has a bachelors in social work from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with a focus on youth work, and a masters in social work from Augsburg College. In their free time they enjoy cooking, reading, being in nature, traveling, and going to concerts.
Leisha Suggs (they/them)
Leisha is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT). They received their graduate degree in Marriage and Family therapy at Saint Mary’s University, Twin Cities. Leisha has also completed the Beginning Level training in Somatic Experiencing and will be continuing their work toward becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Their therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, client-centered, and relational in nature. Leisha enjoys working with youth, families, parents of queer identified youth, couples, poly folks, kinky folks, and any and all nerdy/odd folk. Leisha is always up to discuss experiences of individual and systemic oppression, radical feminism, racial prejudice and heteronormativity in nerd culture, and Lord of the Rings trivia.
Personally, Leisha identifies as a non-binary Black nerd. When Leisha is not at work they spend their time reading, journaling, playing video games, replaying really old video games, petting their three cats, cooking with their wife, and gardening.
Quinn Rivenburgh (they/them)
Quinn Rivenburgh is a relational art therapist. Art therapy is a therapeutic modality that focuses on visual and metaphorical tools for healing emotional suffering. It is a way of attending to the poetry of our lives. Quinn practices from a trauma-informed perspective, prioritizing safety inside and outside of sessions while mitigating the effects of trauma on the mind, body and spirit. Quinn is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Masters of Art in Art Therapy and is also a 200RYT trauma-informed yoga teacher. Their experience ranges from community-based arts and healing practices, to folks with dementia, to youth and young adults, to survivors of trauma and violence. Quinn facilitates clients' ability to articulate their own visions of understanding, balance, and strength in their lives.
Abbie Shain (she/her)
Program Manager and Therapist
Abbie is a Program Manager and Therapist at RECLAIM. She received her BA from Macalester College and her MSW from the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. With Project CLEAR, Abbie leads a programmatic arm of RECLAIM in partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, the Sexual Violence Center, Ramsey County SOS, and an amazing team of high school Peer Educators. In this role she has the opportunity to work at the intersection of individual outpatient mental health and community programming. Her approach in therapy brings together feminist and anti-oppressive theories, contemporary relational psychodynamic principles and narrative therapy strategies. In other words, she believes in healing through relationships and, in so doing, retelling the story of who we are with more empathy, flexibility, and humor.
In 2017, Abbie trained in nonviolent direct action with Rev. William Barber at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee and helped lead the Minnesota Poor People's Campaign. When not at work, she is proud to serve on the board of Jewish Community Action and rejoices in sunsets, biking, reading, and cooking.
Mariya D. Mirzoyan (she/her)
Mariya is a therapist and former therapy fellow at Reclaim and she feels very fortunate and grateful to be part of such an important organization. Mariya is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology program at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Her theoretical approach is trauma-informed and rooted in Multicultural Feminist theory. Her areas of clinical focus include working with clients who face individual and systemic challenges that arise from living in a racist and heterosexist society. Mariya was born and raised in Armenia, though she has lived more than half of her life in the United States. In her personal life, Mariya navigates the complexity of holding both oppressed identities and passing privilege, and enjoys working with clients who also navigate the complex interplay of holding both privileged and oppressed identities. She is fluent in Russian and Armenian and takes great pride and pleasure in being able to work with immigrant and refugee communities, sometimes in their preferred languages. She recently completed an advanced complex trauma and dissociation training using the Adaptive Internal Relational (AIR) Network theoretical model and is looking forward to using this competency-based approach in her work with clients who present with complex trauma, PTSD, and dissociative abilities. In her free time, Mariya loves to spend time with her partner and their two dogs (Pheenie the Chihuahua and Maya the Rottweiler rescue), play and watch soccer, and engage in some quality time with family and friends.
grey doolin (they/them)
Community Outreach & Training Associate
grey doolin, M.Ed. (they/them) is a trans- and queer-identified artist, healer, and activist-educator. Their formal training and background is in community counseling where they researched and advocated for affirmative psychotherapeutic practices for LGBTQ+ communities. grey holds a master’s degree from Auburn University and completed 6 years of PhD-level coursework and practica at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before realizing that they wanted to put their skills and education to use outside of the systems of academia and traditional therapeutic settings. grey has been facilitating trainings on diversity and inclusion for 13 years in academic settings, through their own consulting practice, and now as RECLAIM's Community Outreach and Training Associate.
Samuel Doten (he/him, they/them)
Development & Communications Associate
Samuel is part of RECLAIM's development team and manages communications. He graduated from Macalester College in 2016 with a B.A. in American studies and political science. Sam joined the RECLAIM team in November 2018, having previously worked in development roles at NAMI Minnesota and Neighborhood Development Center. He has a background in LGBTQ community organizing and is passionate about electing LGBTQ people to public office. He serves as chair of Stonewall DFL and has been on the caucus' board of directors since 2017. He loves Minnesota's 12 months of natural beauty, biking, and caring for his many house plants. Sam currently lives in Minneapolis and grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Alicia Bauers (she/her)
Therapist (habla español)
Alicia identifies as a fierce, queer, bilingual clinical social worker with an invisible disability who has embraced her role as therapist at RECLAIM. Alicia graduated with her Master’s Degree in social work from St. Kate’s in 2018, and has been serving youth and families in Hennepin and St. Louis counties since 2004. She has worked across many settings over the years, including juvenile corrections, case management, residential treatment, foster care, emergency shelter, and home-based crisis stabilization services. For seven years of her career, Alicia worked with immigrant and refugee individuals and families, providing services to clients in both Spanish and English.
Alicia’s theoretical framework includes systems, empowerment, humanistic and postmodern theories. Her practice models are trauma-informed and client-centered; she incorporates narrative, psychodynamic, somatic and cognitive techniques when working with clients. Creativity in treatment is an important aspect of Alicia’s sessions, and she encourages clients to explore their strengths and talents in order to learn new skills to cope with symptoms and love themselves in a deep and meaningful way.
Before joining the team at RECLAIM, Alicia traveled through Mexico for a year and a half, engaging in radical self-care and further exploring her talent as a hand-poke tattoo artist. In her free time, you will most likely find her listening to music, making art or snacking.
Alicia (she/her/ella) identifica como una trabajadora social/terapeuta, una mujer feroz, queer y bilingüe con una discapacidad invisible. Alicia se graduó con su maestría en Trabajos Sociales de la Universidad de St. Kate’s en 2018. Ella ha estado trabajando con niños, adolescentes y familias en los condados de Hennepin y St. Louis desde el año 2004. Ella ha trabajado en muchas organizaciones en los últimos 15 años, incluso servicios del corte; coordinadora de casos; tratamiento residencial; y servicios comunitarios de crisis, basados en las casas de las familias. Por los últimos siete años de su carrera, ella trabajaba con adolescentes y familias inmigrantes con y/o sin papeles y también con familias buscando refugio en los Estados Unidos. Ella sería capaz de ofrecer terapia en inglés o español.
La esquema teórico de Alicia incluye: sistemas del individual y la familia; empoderamiento; humanismo; y teorías postmoderno. Sus modelos de práctica se incorpora terapia narrativa; psicodinamica; somático; terapia cognitiva y terapia enfocada en trauma. La creatividad es un aspecto muy importante y ella utiliza arte, poesía, etc. en las sesiones con clientes. Se anima a los clientes que exploren su propias fuerzas y sus talentos para que aprenden cómo manejar sus síntomas y quererse a sí mismos en una manera profundo y real.
Antes de trabajar en RECLAIM, Alicia estaba viajando por México por un año y medio, cuidándose y explorando su talento como tatuadora de tatuajes “handpoke.” En su tiempo libre, se encuentra a Alicia escuchando música, haciendo arte o comiendo snacks.
Kristy Gloe-Thordin (she/her)
Therapist and Supervisor
Maggie Druschel (they/them)
Project CLEAR Therapist
Maggie Druschel is a Therapist at RECLAIM in the Project CLEAR Program, a partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, The Sexual Violence Center, Ramsey County SOS, and a stellar team of high school Peer Educators. In this role, Maggie works at the intersection of individual/family outpatient mental health and community health programming. Maggie’s therapeutic approach evolves from a grounding in narrative therapy rooted in anti-oppressive and queer theories, with additional training in TF-CBT, motivational interviewing, attachment theory, and DBT. They believe in the healing powers of expression and creativity, that therapy can be more than just talking, and seek to incorporate art and creative expression into their work. They believe that healing occurs through relationships and retelling our stories with power, compassion, and laughter, discovering our strengths and talents in new ways that help to cope with symptoms and heal ourselves.
Maggie received their BA in Political Science and Community Development from the University of Vermont and their MSW from Salem State University. Their work experience includes complex care management; individual outpatient therapy; intensive in-home family therapy and care coordination for families in crisis; inpatient psychiatry; and managing refugee resettlement and refugee health programs.
Maggie identifies as a queer, non-binary woman+. They spend their free time devouring books, television, and podcasts related to all things queer, genderful, or radical community building; engaging in endless baking and cooking projects to feed to their friends; and pedaling or paddling around the Twin Cities.
Michele Matthew (they/them)
Michele is the Administrative Assistant at RECLAIM! having just joined the team as an LVCer (Lutheran Volunteer Corps). LVC is a service year program that places volunteers in full-time positions at social justice non-profits for one or two years. This program also focuses on intentional community, practicing simple and sustainable living, while exploring spirituality.
Michele received their BA at Pacific Lutheran University where they majored in Sociology with minors in Public Affairs and Social Work. During their first year, Michele lived in the First in the Family Wing which was reserved for first generation college students to build community and support. They have lived the majority of their life in Washington State while having studied away to the Caribbean and Scandinavia during their time at PLU. Back in Tacoma, WA and at PLU they were volunteers at the campus’ Center for Gender Equity and off campus at the Tacoma Rainbow Center. They’ve also done various research projects for representation for queer individuals in media and dress. Michele likes to spend their spare time exploring their new home, playing board games at coffee shops, and experimenting with baking vegan goods.
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Win2000 Deployment - Part I - Domain Planning
By ServerWatch Staff (Send Email)
by Marcin Policht
Microsoft stresses that planning for Windows 2000 deployment is critical. Take this advice seriously, since the implications of a bad design can be serious. Here is a couple of points to keep in mind:
1. There is no direct way to form a forest from two independently created Windows 2000 domains.
The process of joining a domain into an existing forest (or creating a new forest) is possible ONLY when promoting the first domain controller in this domain (which also establishes the domain). Once the domain is created, it is firmly placed in the forest hierarchy.
This introduces a problem during mergers or acquisitions (rather common these days) if both parties have already established Windows 2000 infrastructure. Having two or more separate forests prevents creation of transitive trust relationships between them; instead, NT 4.0-style, non-transitive ones have to be used.
This can serve as another argument for keeping number of domains small (it's recommended to use Organizational Units to replace NT 4.0 resource domains) since it might simplify maintaining inter-forest non-transitive trust relationships. A couple of Resource Kit utilities can be helpful - NetDom.exe for trust relationship management and ClonePrincipal.exe in case you feel adventurous enough to consider migration of accounts from one forest to another.
2. There is no support for direct move of domains between forests.
If there was, the dilemma from the previous item could be easily resolved. ClonePrincipal.exe from the Resource Kit provides some help, but still the migration process remains very painful. In addition, any domain with existing child domains can not be removed.
3. There is no support for renaming domains.
You can however create another domain in your Active Directory tree with the new name you intended, move users, groups, and computers (using Resource Kit Movetree.exe utility), and delete the old one (but ONLY if it has no child domains).
4. There is no support for removing transitive, two-way trust relationships between domains in a forest.
By design. Fortunately, the situations where this would be desired are relatively rare. If possible, you would be able to prevent possibility of assigning access to resources in one domain to an account in another domain.
5. There is no support for creating a new root domain in an existing forest.
By design. The first domain controller in the first domain in a forest becomes the root. Period.
6. There is no support for direct renaming of a domain controller.
This has to be done through demotion to a regular server, renaming, and subsequent promotion.
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One Day, One Place: Napa
Culture Desk // Travel
Deb Wandell Feb. 23, 2017 Updated: Jan. 9, 2019 11:08 a.m.
Robert Arneson’s “Brick Portrait” is on view at the di Rosa preserve in Napa.
Photo: James Tensuan, Special to The Chronicle
The city bearing the name of the world famous valley spent years as the less-popular sister of the more touristy towns of St. Helena, Calistoga and Yountville. But don’t cry for Napa. A renaissance has put it on the verge of being a destination of its own.
In the past decade, the city has added a revitalized riverfront (complete with a multimillion-dollar flood-control plan that keeps downtown dry), a gourmet food hall and a homegrown music festival, BottleRock, which debuted in 2013. Efforts briefly stalled after the 2014 earthquake. But the recovery brought with it more tasting rooms, restaurants, a respected jazz venue — the Blue Note — and, more recently, the opening of CIA at Copia.
Next up: the Archer, a five-story hotel with spa, rooftop garden and Charlie Palmer restaurant. It’s part of the First Street Napa development downtown, opening later this year.
All which means there are plenty of reasons to visit.
Strollers stroll through the Oxbow Commons, a city park that double as a bypass for the flood-prone Napa River. The park passed the test during recent storms.
Start in the Oxbow District, next to the Napa River and the Oxbow Preserve, a 13-acre riverside park named for its distinctive shape. The Oxbow Public Market and the newly opened CIA at Copia have turned this part of Napa into a magnet for the culinary-obsessed.
Join the queue at Model Bakery, an outpost of the St. Helena institution. It’s a local favorite for pastries and artisan breads, most notably English muffins that received the Oprah bump. They’re the foundation for the breakfast sandwiches — substantial enough to fuel the willpower you’ll need for your next stop: the market.
The specialty purveyors and restaurants in the 40,000-square-foot Oxbow Public Market are a draw for locals and tourists alike. Some two dozen merchants — from stalls to sit-down spots — sell everything from cookbooks to charcuterie.
At Oxbow Cheese and Wine Merchant, the staff will help you choose from more than 250 cheeses on offer. Drop by Whole Spice and pick up an exotic spice along with tips on how to use it. Sample bitters and shop the vintage bar ware at Napa Valley Distillery. It would be easy to spend the rest of your day here, but mind your time. There’s more to see.
Walk over to the CIA at Copia next door. The public face of the culinary academy includes a shop and restaurant and it offers workshops and demonstrations. Plan your visit to catch one of the classes. Coming up: “Pairing Basics,” a course on enhancing flavors in food and wine, from 10:30 to noon on Wednesday, March 1. (For more on CIA at Copia, see Page 2.)
Behind Copia, a trail along the river the leads back to the Oxbow Commons — a 10-acre city park planted with marsh grasses and native plants that doubles as a bypass for the flood-prone Napa River. Part of the $18.5 million flood control project completed in 2015, it passed the test during recent storms.
People enjoy beer outside Fieldwork at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa.
Continue your tour at the Historic Mill on the other side of the river. The 19th century brick complex once anchored Napa’s industrial center, and now houses an inn, restaurants and boutiques. Stroll the Riverfront Promenade, a paved path that starts at the Mill and hugs the edge of the Napa River for a few blocks. Completed in 2008, the path is lined by restaurants with patio dining and Victorian-inspired lampposts that light the way at night. Plaques along the promenade detail the city’s history. You’ll emerge just before First Street and just in time for lunch. Around the corner, Bounty Hunter serves up barbecue and an extensive wine list. Pair a Bounty Burger or an order of ribs with a flight of Zinfandel.
If you prefer to sample wine in a more traditional setting, several tasting rooms in town await. The Wine Thief, a collective tasting room staffed by vintners, represents eight boutique wineries. On a recent visit, Jarred Pearce of AJ Pearce Wines was behind the bar, pouring customized flights and dispensing information about the wines.
1of4The beer can chicken at the Bounty Hunter in Napa.Photo: James Tensuan, Special to The Chronicle
2of4Wallace Vietz samples the wares at the Wine Thief in Napa.Photo: James Tensuan, Special to The Chronicle
3of4Royal Jelly Jive performs at Napa’s Blue Note. The city of Napa has been the workaday cousin to the nearby tourist havens, but that’s changing.Photo: James Tensuan, Special to The Chronicle
4of4Michele and Brian Kraminitz look over the menu at the Bounty Hunter in Napa.Photo: James Tensuan, Special to The Chronicle
Just outside of town, in the Carneros region, the di Rosa is home to the most significant collection of contemporary work by Bay Area artists, including Robert Arneson and Roy De Forest. Art is displayed indoors and scattered throughout the 200-acre property, particularly pretty while the mustard is in bloom. Guided tours are offered daily and include a stop at the former residence of art patrons Rene and Veronica di Rosa. Drop-ins are welcome at the Gatehouse Gallery, where you’ll find “Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collection.”
Dinner options are plentiful in Napa. For French-inspired cuisine, there’s Ken Frank’s Michelin one-star restaurant La Toque. La Taberna and Zuzu are go-tos for tapas. If you’re craving Italian, make your way to Oenotri, a 2016 Chronicle Top 100 restaurant specializing in rustic dishes made with ingredients from the restaurant’s 4-acre garden. Salumi, handmade pasta and wood-fired pizza are standouts.
Cap the day by sampling the city’s up-and-coming entertainment scene. The Blue Note Napa is a spin-off of the famous New York venue that opened in 2016 in the Napa Valley Opera House. The intimate restaurant and jazz club venue hosts nightly acts, so you’re sure to find a show in progress. For an encore, order one of French Laundry alum Jessica Sedlacek’s desserts.
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Model Bakery, 644-B First St., Napa; (707) 259-1128. www.themodelbakery.com
Oxbow Public Market, 610 and 644 First St., Napa. www.oxbowpublicmarket.com
CIA at Copia, 500 First St., Napa; (707) 967-2500. www.ciaatcopia.com
Historic Mill, 500 Main St., Napa. www.historicnapamill.com
Bounty Hunter, 975 First St. Napa, (707) 226-3976. www.bountyhunterwinebar.com
Wine Thief, 708 First St. Napa; (707) 666-2650. www.thewinethiefnapa.com
Di Rosa, 5200 Sonoma Hwy., Napa; (707) 226-5991. www.dirosaart.org
Oenotri, 1425 First St., Napa; (707) 252-1022. www.oenotri.com
Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St., Napa; (707) 880-2300. www.bluenotenapa.com
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Deb Wandell is The Chronicle’s Magazine Editor, overseeing the creation of high-quality print publications, from core franchises including the Top 100 Restaurants to new one-offs such as the Arts and Entertainment crew’s recent Summer of Love magazine to the shelter magazine Habitat. A graduate of Humboldt State University and a 30-year Bay Area newspaper veteran, she joined The Chronicle in 1997. Before taking over as Magazine Editor, she was the paper’s Senior Travel Editor, Home & Garden Editor and a member of the award-winning Food & Wine team.
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The Smoky Mountain Hideout
At first sight, he didn’t believe what he could see, looking directly over the edge of the rim. “Colorado and then some,” the lone cowpoke said aloud to no one but himself. “Must be a whole corral of mysteries out there.” For a second and third time he looked over the edge of the rim and down on the spread of the foothills leading up to where he had found himself … surveyor of all the lands, the trails, the merging of two rivers, the passes up into the mountains as if they passed through the core of rock itself. In the far distance, like a thin flag, smoke rose from the town of Schoville, which he thought might be coming from the blacksmith’s fire. The blacksmith was about the biggest man he had ever seen.
This place was perfect, he thought, thinking of the layouts and hideouts where he had hidden from the law in the past, in other mountain ranges, in other states and territories. They had been good, but nothing like this place. He shook his head in partial disbelief: he had hid out with the Wayborne Kid in highest Utah and Lusty Jim Gregson down in Texas and even Kid Parmenter, in lower Colorado, who had escaped from the special school in Chicago, a school for thieves. “They’re too young to hang at the moment,” the headman would say if asked about the futures of his wards, and adding, “Too young to hang, but give them time. They know the way.”
In practically the same voice echo, he heard the words of the old man who worked the farm near his boyhood home. “Know your tools, son. Know what you got, how far they’ll go for you, what you can and can’t do without. That’ll tell you what it’s like down the road a ways.”
Claudon “Butch” Markov tested the weight of his two canteens, counted shells for his hand guns and his Sharps rifle, the one he had stolen from a ranch daughter’s father in the middle of the night, more than 100 miles behind him, more than three days ride, the father chasing him for the better part of two days before his horse went lame. The biscuits and the jerky and the chunk of bacon fat seemed attractive, but the bacon was already beginning to smell, as if it wanted to put his whereabouts on the air itself. He’d light a fire and cook it good enough to eat. “No sense wasting any possibles,” he uttered aloud, not waiting for any reply.
Markov, flat on the rim ledge, decided on this spot for setting up his first business venture. He envisioned a poster that would never be read but would be understood all across the territories with those that passed the news on the trail, in saloons, at lonely campfires: “Safe hideout for gents on the run, perfect location, long-range view (see the devils coming after you) and only two dollars a week; grub provided for a first day welcome meal. No lawmen allowed.”
It made him giggle. His father had said he’d never amount to much of anything, “and little of that because you’re nothin’ but your mother’s boy.” His father’s face did not come back in a hurried search; nothing but the fire in his eyes, and there’d been too much of that too long ago. He let the partial vision go its way. A song took its place, the rhythm coming back from wherever it had gone for three days in flight. “Better be gone than hangin’ on,” he sang. “The grass is greener on Jessie’s lawn.” The words came smooth in his throat, on his tongue.
Suddenly, out on the prairie, in the mix of sunlight slanting down and the glitter of waving grass, he saw a rider in a hurry, no dust, but a path in the high grass that parted as he passed through and then closed behind him, like the wind was chasing him and closing the ranks to anyone following. No doubt this rider was on the run.
“Fellow free-booter,” Markov said as more than a hunch, not knowing what it really meant, except he was watching a cowpoke in flight. The rider was pummeling his mount with his spurs; that much Markov could figure. “First customer,” he whispered over the ledge. “Hope he finds the way up here.”
In the morning, sunlight like a fire over the prairie, mountain birds full of music that really caught his ear like harmony is the purest of sounds, shadows finding ways to let go of the long night’s grasp, Markov heard the slow clatter of hooves hitting against one of the mountain’s high ledges, like an intelligent horse pawing its way, testing the ground. Instantly he came fully alert, the Sharps rifle in his hands, his eyes on the trail. Behind him, tied off on a wide part of the ledge, his horse held his head in the air, nostrils reaching, aware of something new.
The rider he had seen the night before appeared less than fifty feet away, walking his horse, holding the reins close at hand. The horse was a distinguished paint, looking like an odd map, and the cowboy was wearing his chaps as if he had fled a drive on the move. He wore a battered Stetson, a blue shirt under a black vest, trousers barely visible but looking like worm denim, and tall Texan boots with spurs in place. Occasionally he looked over his shoulder, as if he disbelieved anyone had followed him to this point, but wary enough to check.
Markov figured the strange rider would be hungry as a ghost.
“Hold there, friend,” he yelled, leveling his rifle across the crook of his arm. “Are you the law? We don’t allow any lawmen up here in Smoky Mountain Hideout. This is private property. I’m the proprietor of this hideout.” He noted the man’s outfit was raggy and worn; the shirt discolored from stains all along the arms, his hat wearing three bullet holes in it. But he was as pretty as a new colt.
“Hell, no,” came the answer. “My name’s Eddie Brickman, from Oklahoma way back. Some sweet thing’s daddy’s been chasin’ me for a couple of days and I’m plumb tuckered out and hungry as a stray doggie. What’s this Smoky Mountain Hideout all about? Is this it, here on the edge of the mountain? I’m tired. I need some rest, some good sleep, a meal under my belt. You provide any of that?”
“Two dollars a night and you got all of it. I’m standin’ guard for four hours. You want a job, like a lookout for Smoky Mountain Hideout, you got a job. Be the first one hired. But you work the second shift.”
“I’m your man. Where do we eat and bed down?”
Markov showed all to him, with meal thrown in, the bacon stretched one more time for a hungry meal. At finish he found a spot for sleep, pointing out a corner of a cave, with a promise to wake him for his shift as look-out. “If we keep our eyes open up here, Eddie, keep lawmen out of here, we might make somethin’ out of this place in the middle of nowhere. We could make it pay off and not even think about robbin’ any banks. Back yonder I got a small cabin a prospector left or run out on, with some promise for adding a few rooms. You can sleep there tomorrow night. If it works out for us, we’ll take turns until customers come calling. All we got to do is spread the word. That’s all.”
It really didn’t take that long to get the hideout enterprise off and running. The word, of course, moved out from Schoville, the nearest town to the Smoky Mountain Hideout, and a town on the edge of two states and two forces of the law.
Downriver in Somersby a chunk of that law enforcement rested with a wily veteran, Sheriff Lester Byrnes, who heard about the Smoky Mountain Hideout one night in Somersby’s lone saloon, The Trail’s End.
Byrnes lounged at the end of bar. His badge of a habit on such nights was tucked into his shirt pocket. He usually drank alone and always kept his ears open when drinking a few toppers at the end of a busy day. On this late Saturday night, two drunks already locked in his jail, the town itself drawing in to a close, he listened to a table of cowboys at the near end of the room, their talk consuming one pronounced subject, a hideout for outlaws.
A short but wiry fellow, his small face sitting under a huge Stetson brim, was doing most of the talking, filling up each pause with a shake of his hand, a fling of his arm, and nods that seemed to draw belief for each statement he was making about a hideout in the mountains. He carried himself and proposed himself as if he knew everything about everything.
On top of that, he was loud. His name was Squeeze Maxim.
“I heard two bucks a night, dirt cheap to begin with if you were to ask me, a safe place to sleep, no law allowed anyplace in the area, and lookouts posted to make sure it stays that way. They got a real organization up there. I heard Shamus Diglin is hiding out up there, too, him wanted all the way back to Oklahoma and every place in between. You all know what kind of booty follows him around like it was in his saddle bag, but nobody knows where he’s hid things, all that stuff he robbed over the years.”
He followed that pronouncement with, “We can guess all day what he’s made off with and might never come close enough to make it tickle.”
“No law ever been up there?” a table pard asked, shaking his head, not yet believing the description he had heard. “C’mon, Squeeze, that ain’t at all likely, is it? If you know, and now I know, the law must know too.”
Maxim said, “I don’t doubt it, but it’s like the law is saying we’ll keep hands off and won’t bother you or your territory, and you do the same. Like a bargain for the day. They say it’s been real quiet around here, and all the way up to Schoville, and that’s some kind of proof. I ain’t been in this town but today and I heard that already at the livery when I was getting my horse took care of. Two drovers talked about it waiting on their mounts.”
“What’s the weight on Diglin’s head? Maybe that’d be a better job to take on.”
“Oh, it’s heavy,” Maxim said, “probably as high as 10 grand or so, but that ain’t even so easy to think about. And ‘specially up there in that hideout country, living like Injuns in the wild, with the law keeping its distance.”
The bartender leveled his stare into Byrnes’ eyes as if a challenge was tossed into the air. No words passed between them. No nods either. Byrnes finished his drink and walked out into the night, his mind already kicked up a notch.
The next day, at the livery, Byrnes saw Squeeze Maxim ready to mount his horse.
“Say, Squeeze, I heard you talking in the saloon last night, about that hideout up there in Smoky Mountain. Well, I’m Sheriff Byrnes of Somersby here and you best make it your business to tell Shamus Diglin he better not come into my town even to see his momma, if she was to live here, else I’ll knock him down and put him in a cell for good.”
“That ain’t none of my business, Sheriff. I don’t gotta do that.”
“You made it your business last night in the saloon like you were advertising rooms up there on Smoky. That to me is breaking the law, Squeeze, so you got a choice … go up and tell him or get locked up for resisting the law. There’s no other way.” His eyes burned right under the brim of Maxim’s Stetson and made contact.
Maxim said, “What’ll Diglin do when I tell him?”
“Oh,” Byrnes said, “he’ll keep the deal he thinks is made with the law, but he won’t come in here, he’ll go to Schoville, do his thing, and run back into hiding like he’s doing forever. I can read crooks like him like I read the newspaper when it comes out, page 1 to page 4. Like eating pie right off the windowsill. Crooks like Diglin only have one way of thinking. He won’t miss the chance to make some noise so loud it’ll be heard on the other side of the mountains.”
“How’ll I get up there, Sheriff?”
“That’s easy, Squeeze, make like you’re on the run from the law … and you know what? … you are in a way.”
Squeeze Maxim rode out of Somersby, heading for Smoky Mountain. He thought about going right on past Smoky Mountain, forgetting the whole thing. It promised not to end if he did. It made him think about who might cause him more concern, Diglin or Sheriff Byrnes? The sheriff’s eyes won out.
Byrnes, in the saloon that afternoon, told the bartender about what he had done.
“So what are you going to do, Les?” the bartender said.
“Oh, like I told Squeeze Maxim. I’m going to Schoville and help the sheriff up there when Diglin tries to knock the town down a peg.” He nodded at the bartender when he left, and said, “You’re right on that challenge, Smitty, and you’re right on Diglin. He can’t resist it. But this is a hell of a lot easier than me going up there and walking in like a big target for the first shot. I’d be out of business in a hurry, that’s for damned sure.”
He left town at high noon and started up river to Schoville.
Two days later, when Diglin came out of the Smoky Mountain hideout, laughing most of the way into Somersby where he’d rob the bank without any law around, he never saw the horseman hidden in the grass outside town. His ego overshadowed his eyesight; his ego was bigger than his brain.
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Celebrating Georg Fülberth on his eightieth birthday
Ingar Solty,
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On 23 September 1939, Sigmund Freud died in London. Two days later, 80 years from today, Georg "Schorsch" Fülberth, prof. emeritus of political science, was born in Darmstadt. Coincidence? Well, yes, of course. Totally. In fact, to a certain extent Fülberth represents a kind of antithesis to Freud. And he is at least twice as funny.
When I went to the University of Marburg to study in the winter semester of 1999–2000, it was because Fülberth taught there. I was not one of a kind. There were plenty of us. During orientation week I bumped into two of my future co-authors, David Salomon and Stefan Schmalz.
"Why are you here?"
"Fülberth, Kühnl, Deppe. And you?"
"Fülberth, Kühnl, Deppe."
All three of them were Marxists. All three of us would become Marxists. At the time, the University of Marburg was Germany’s York University or SOAS.
Fülberth we knew mainly because of his lucid columns and articles in the monthly journal konkret, which one commentator once eloquently defined as "a bourgeois lefty journal in which, over time, the lefty part has become smaller and smaller and the bourgeois part bigger and bigger." Others said konkret was the journal where Der Spiegel journalists writing under pseudonyms used to rid themselves of pent-up anger and political dissatisfaction.
In any case, Fülberth was not only a strange creature in konkret, he was also a strange creature in academia. He was completely devoid of any kind of professorial pretentiousness and academic airs and graces. He also just didn't give a rat's ass about being cited by other scholars or being invited to write for the bourgeois media. It was the truth and the argument he cared about—quit your bullshit!
The first university course I ever attended was Georg Fülberth's "Political Economy of State Budgets from Adam Smith to Friedrich August Hayek". It started on Monday at 9:00. Fülberth revealed that he traditionally chose this time and day for one of his courses in order to ensure that people really wanted to attend it. The first thing Fülberth did when starting the semester was to turn on the light, remarking that "this is a service university now and this is my first service to you." The first time a student addressed him as "Professor Fülberth", he looked around bewildered (and man, can he look bewildered!), pulled out his wallet, passed around his German ID card, asked whether anyone saw the title "professor" or "doctor" next to his name, and explained that from now on any kind of undemocratic gestures of subordination were forbidden. From now on he was "Herr Fülberth", and later just "Schorsch".
But to come back to the reincarnation question: is Fülberth really not the humorous reincarnation of Sigmund Freud? Well, for me he was Freud's dialectical sublation. When I came to Marburg, I still had the Frankfurt School in my backpack—and a lot of Freud. It took me a long time to recognize the difference. For instance, in Frank Deppe's seminar's I gave presentations on Adorno (etc.) thrice. The first two times I was outraged that Deppe, whom I respected tremendously, suddenly said: "Yes, that's good etc., but weren't Horkheimer and Adorno the left wing of the organic intellectuals of the bourgeoisie?" How dare he! Fülberth, on the other hand, would just nod, smile, and say: "Ah, you're reading Adorno! Uh-uh!", surely thinking to himself: "He'll grow up eventually! (And if not, it doesn't matter because the working class will liberate itself and us! Not these types.)"
With regards to the healing process from culturalist (ultra-)leftism and esoteric theoretical abstractionism, Fülberth was our man. He took the "historical" in "historical materialism" just as seriously as the "materialism." Like very few—in the broadest sense—Marxist and Marxian theorists in Germany at the time, he focused on political economy and real-concrete socialist labour movement history. His numerous books include both histories of the German labour movement and the SPD, comparative analyses of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the German Communist Party (DKP), comparative historiographies of the two German states and of Germany after reunification, as well as several monographs on the political economy of capitalism and socialism. His love of history went so far that we not only cooperated with him on the new historical-critical Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe volume including the letters to and from Marx and Engels stretching from November 1888 to September 1889 (occasionally silly work which included visits to the New York Public Library in order to check whether the pen colour was really the one indicated by the first transcriber); we also conducted local history projects on various districts of the city of Marburg and things like that. In fact, Fülberth knows Marburg so well that his six-hour tours of the city are legendary.
While Fülberth has been tremendously serious and determined with regards to scholarly rigor, his sense of humour, oftentimes cynical, has always captured not only his friends but also the enemies of his open involvement with the DKP, for which he was a local councilmember for years. Despite his uncompromising stance—some would say precisely because of it—Fülberth has been endearing. The once social-democratic and increasingly social-liberal Frankfurter Rundschau at one point wrote that only three things were worth visiting in Marburg: The Deutsche Orden Elisabethkirche, the Castle, and Georg Fülberth.
Some of the best and timeless Fülberth stories are therefore of his public appearances. He was a leader of subversive communication guerrilla tactics long before the term was invented. Among my favourite memories are his Friedrich Engels shirt, which is the worst black-and-white, grainy silkscreen print imaginable with Engels sitting somewhere between the stomach and intestines; Fülberth participating in the demonstration against the closing of the local labour court, pushing his legendary bicycle with a small sign attached that reads: "Für eine heimatverbundene Klassenjustiz" (For a homeland-loving class justice system); and Fülberth as a great Roman centurion when we all dressed up as Romans sending a message at Marburg's employment agency after the late FDP party chairman Guido Westerwelle had called German welfare benefits "late-Roman decadence”.
In any case, Fülberth is just a great guy. As he once pointed out: the only reason why he could even become a professor was that, during the 1950s in South Hessia, "you could not cross the street without two Social Democrats coming from the left and from the right side, taking you by the hand and saying: 'You, kid, are gonna go to university!'" Needless to say, his sense of justice is tied to this particular socio-economic background. With the class segregation we have today, the upper class reproduces the upper class and academia (re-)presents upper class opinions. Professionalized academia undercuts the rigor, sincerity, Haltung, and disinterest in fame that intellectuals like Fülberth cultivated—especially during the high-period of his publishing activity, which clearly falls into the time period after 1989, a crucial year for him, of course.
Fülberth's oeuvre is still far too unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world, and still in need of translation. The history and political-theoretical legacy of the Marburg School to which Georg Fülberth belongs, is yet to be excavated. Fortunately, next month Lothar Peter's Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School will be published by Brill in the Historical Materialism Book Series, and later as a paperback through Haymarket Books. I was lucky enough to be able to write the introduction to the book which Loren Balhorn translated into English. I hope that this volume will provoke translations of key texts by Georg Fülberth and other protagonists of the Marburg School.
As a public intellectual, Fülberth has played a crucial role in German intellectual life. Very few people now are capable of the poignant and piercing style of writing which never ceases to point to contradictions within the Left, and even fewer know how to craft a text the way he does. This includes immortal puns, witticisms, puns, and nicknames. For instance: to me, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Germany's most influential historian, who started out as an eclectic Marxian Weberian and shifted to the right from there, is now forever the "Wechsel-Wehler", the "Swing Voter" (the name “Wehler” is pronounced exactly like the German term for voter). Or do you remember when Georg Fülberth called the new German Left Party, Die Linke, as the “Initiative Alte Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (Initiative Old Social Market Economy), which was a polemical pun referencing the neoliberal think tank Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Initiative New Social Market Economy)?
We must hope that Georg Fülberth will be around much longer. Even if we don't agree with him all of the time, we need voices like his. And we need characters like him.
Ingar Solty is an expert on peace and security policy at the Institute for Critical Social Analysis.
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Hundreds rally in support of Kevin Lunney
Updated / Friday, 20 Sep 2019 22:35
Large crowds attended a rally in support of Kevin Lunney after he had been brutally attacked earlier this week
By Sinéad Hussey
North-East Correspondent
Hundreds of people turned out at a rally in support of Kevin Lunney, the Quinn Director who was abducted, beaten and left on the side of the road in Co Cavan earlier this week.
The staff at Quinn Industrial Holdings have called for an end to the campaign of intimidation and attacks and have pleaded with anyone who has information to come forward.
Among those in attendance today were Kevin Lunney's brother Tony and his sister Liz.
The DUP Leader Arlene Foster also attended.
Fianna Fáil's Brendan Smith, the Chairman of Cavan County Council, Councillor Shane P O'Reilly, and former Independent MEP Marian Harkin were also in attendance.
A petition of 800 signatures was handed over to the Lunney family. It was signed by the workers of Quinn Industrial Holdings.
DUP leader Arlene Foster pictured with CEO of Quinn Industrial Holdings, Liam McCaffrey
Mr Lunney's sister-in-law Margaret Lunney said she was comforted by the number of people in the community who turned out in support of him.
"Words could not describe what has happened, we are all very upset. He is the kindest, nicest fella you could ever meet. He is loyal to everybody and such a gentleman. He's head of the family and the one who brings us altogether," she said.
His other sister-in-law Geraldine Lunney expressed her shock at the barbarity of the attack.
"How anyone could do something like that to someone - especially someone like Kevin? It is beyond belief. He is the kindest person you could ever meet," she said.
In a statement read out by Stephen Kelly, the CEO of Manufacturing Northern Ireland, the staff said their thoughts and prayers were with Kevin Lunney and his family.
They said they fully support the directors and senior management at the company, emphasising that those who are perpetrating these acts "do not represent us or our views and we plead with them to stop their campaign".
They have pleaded with anyone who has information to come forward and assist in bringing those responsible to justice.
They have called on politicians, the PSNI and gardaí to allocate whatever resources are needed to bring an end to "these brutal attacks so we can feel safe in our place of work and in our local communities".
Following the rally, Fr Gerry Comisky, Parish Priest of Drumlane, Co Cavan said he had known Mr Lunney for 25 years and always found him to be a "man of great personal integrity, hugely committed to family values, to his community".
Speaking on RTÉ Drivetime's, Fr Comisky said: "I spent a while with him the night before last.
"He recounted all of the various aspects of what had happened and of course he spoke of the mental anguish of never seeing Bronagh or the children again."
Fr Comisky reiterated how appalled he was at this "vile and a callous act".
"At points he thought he might not come out of the whole thing alive, as twilight came down upon him on a cold country road, as darkness came down and as he was fading into unconsciousness, without a doubt he had fears that he might not live through it," Fr Comisky
Meanwhile, gardaí say they have carried out a number of searches in Cavan in relation to the incident, which they said "are ongoing at this time".
Speaking in Cavan, Deputy Commissioner John Twomey said: "The local community and all normal people in a democratic society, and An Garda Síochána, are outraged at this savage and horrific attack on a businessman going about his normal business.
"An Garda Síochána will make every effort to bring these violent criminals to justice, but we need the support of the local community in order to do so."
Gardaí and the PSNI are appealing for anybody who may have seen a black saloon Audi being driven in the Derrylin, Fermanagh / Swanlinbar, Killeshandra Cavan areas to make contact.
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If musicals are your thing, you won’t want to miss West Side Story, put on by Handa Opera On The Harbour. Enjoy the sunset with dinner and drinks from one of the nearby restaurants or bars, then settle into the pop-up grandstand seating. Enjoy the high-energy production (with fireworks) with the breathtaking ocean backdrop.
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Eliot town manager lauds police chief
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Feb 27, 2015 at 5:06 PM Feb 27, 2015 at 5:06 PM
ELIOT, Maine – Eliot Town Manager Dana Lee this week lauded Police Chief Theodor Short, two weeks after a Superior Court judge cleared him of any wrongdoing pertaining to falsified police reports.
The court case, said Lee at a Board of Selectmen’s meeting on Thursday, cost the town $5,000 in legal expenses and put a strain on police officers in the department.
On Feb. 13, YorkCounty Superior Court Justice John O’Neil Jr. issued a four-page ruling in Short’s favor with regard to possible falsified patrol records for four officers dating back to 2009.
Former Lt. Kevin Cady testified he had compiled a report about the records and submitted it to Short, who did nothing with it. But Short in testimony said Cady never submitted a formal report. Short said he passed along information to the attorney general’s office, but an investigator there said he didn’t believe the allegations were supported.
The charges against Short were brought in connection with an Eliot kidnapping and rape case against Paul Olsen. Olsen's attorney introduced Cady’s testimony in an effort to question the credibility of the arresting officers -- among those who Cady charged falsified reports.
Lee said Thursday the case was in the public eye for more than a month, and applauded Short for his perseverance.
“I want to tell the chief I am proud of him,” he said.
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Anti-Government Protesters March to Islamabad's 'Red Zone' Political tensions are set to come to a head in Pakistan, where an opposition politician says his party's lawmakers will resign from parliament and he will lead thousands of protesters into the capital’s heavily fortified “Red Zone,” despite stern government warnings. Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has been leading an anti-government rally in the Pakistani capital, in a bid to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down over alleged vote fraud. The protesters are mostly activists of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party, parliament’s third-largest political bloc. They are camping out near a so-called high-security “Red Zone” in Islamabad that houses diplomatic missions,...
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University of Michigan students have created a new mobile and Web app to keep students safe.
Danny Freed, a senior business student at U-M, is one of five students who launched the app Companion -- a peer-to-peer safety monitoring service that lets people track your GPS location as you walk from place to place. "You can use the app with anyone in your contact book and they don't have to have the app. You punch in the address or place you're headed and notify one or several friends that you're headed to that place," Freed said.
"If you go off route too much or if you don't make it to your destination within the expected time, then it sends an alert to whoever you've checked off. The alerts will say something like 'He's off route, please check in with him,' and if you don't have the app there's a live link to the Web version so it sends the message through an SMS push notification. If everything does go well and you get to your destination, it'll automatically send a notification to the other person saying 'He arrived safely.'"
Jeffrey McDole, the senior technology officer at U-M's Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS), has met with Freed and colleagues to see how the university could best utilize the app.
The app recently won $25,000 in U-M's Michigan Business Challenge, an 80-team competition that puts business plans in front of investors for them to decide upon the best plans.
Judges concluded that Companion was the Best Overall Business, and the group also won $2,500 each for best undergraduate team and best marketing.
Freed said the money from the competition would help them work on some of the issues he felt he needed to address after meeting with DPSS.
The app is available for download through the App Store with iTunes.
Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/03/um_police_hope_to_use_new_stu.html
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LED stands for Light Emitting Diode and it’s a component you’ll already be familiar with from all sorts of everyday objects where they’ve been used for many years: they’re the numbers on your digital clock, the light on your remote control which transmits instructions to the TV and the power indicator lights on your appliances to name but a few.
In recent years, LED technology has advanced and LEDs are now increasingly being used to deliver an efficient and affordable lighting solution for everyday use. LED bulbs – more properly called luminaires – are assembled by clustering multiple LEDs together into various designs which we would recognise as replacements for standard bulbs, spotlights and various other lamps.
LEDs are a solid-state lighting (SSL) technology; they operate on a piece of solid matter, namely a semiconductor material. Electrons pass through that semiconductor to power the diodes and light is emitted in a process called electroluminescence. LEDs don’t need a filament like traditional light bulbs and they don’t rely on gases to generate light as fluorescent bulbs do. All of which means that they don’t burn out, they don’t lose most of their energy through heat, they don’t need to warm up and they have a lifespan which far outstrips the incandescent bulb and even its energy-saving CFL counterparts.
LED light, unlike incandescent and fluorescent lighting, does not radiate outwards in all directions, but emits a much narrower cone of light of just a few degrees. Clearly, this would not make for a satisfactory light source in the home or as any sort of task lighting, so it must be solved in the assembly of the bulbs. To achieve this, LEDs are put together in a set of angled facets. This gives them their distinctive appearance which is something like a cut jewel. The angles need to be just right – too narrow and they’ll appear as individual beams, too wide and the light will be reflected back into the semiconductor material rather than outwards. This perfectly angled surface is what creates the multi-directional light that is essential for use in our homes, offices and shops. Our LED AR111 bulbs are a great example of this.
There’s another notable difference between the way LED lights work compared to other lighting which is that they work from DC power. As our domestic electricity supply is of course AC, it must be converted. In order to do this, LED lighting is run via an electronic circuit known as an LED driver which transforms the mains power and enables the light source to function. This can be housed within the bulb itself, as is the case with most of our bulbs, or via a separate unit containing a transformer.
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The new mom returned from maternity leave last month.
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Tricia Goss · May 15, 2017
It is nothing out of the ordinary for the anchors of the TODAY show to host a special guest. However, Hoda Kotb had a very special surprise guest on-set the Friday before Mother’s Day.
For her very first Mother’s Day, Kotb’s mom brought her baby daughter, Haley Joy, to visit the show and meet her coworkers. Haley Joy’s visit to the set came not long after Kotb returned to work from maternity leave.
Host Savanna Guthrie held Haley Joy while telling her “You have the best mother in the world.” And Kotb’s Fourth Hour co-host Jenna Bush Hager had a sweet surprise in store: A video of celebrities such as Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson and Kotb’s own mother sending Mother’s Day greetings to the new mom. Awww.
Mother and daughter 💞 Swipe for more. (📷: @photonate) #HaleyJoy
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Kotb always wanted children at some point in her life. However, in 2007 when she was 43 years old, she discovered that she had breast cancer. Although she is now cancer-free, the treatment left her unable to conceive.
Her marriage ended shortly after she finished treatment. She has stated that she met her first husband on Valentine’s Day, the same day her divorce from him was finalized.
“Valentine’s Day, I’ll be honest with you, is not my favorite holiday of the year,” she said in 2013.
However, she did find love again. In 2016, Kotb and longtime boyfriend Joel Schiffman decided to move in together. While she was both happy and healthy, Today’s “fourth hour” host still felt as though something was missing in her life.
“One of the things in my life I’ve always wanted was to be a mom,” Kotb told People.
Hi nugget xoxo
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Even though she carried this longing, she kept it to herself. Even her co-anchor and close friend Kathie Lee Gifford had no idea.
“She never let on that it was something missing in her life,” Gifford revealed.
“Finally I said to myself one day, ‘Why can’t I? Why not me?’” Kotb shared. When she approached Schiffman about the idea of adoption, he was all for it.
Although the baby has Kotb’s last name, she and Schiffman are raising her together.
A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) on Mar 15, 2017 at 10:27am PDT
“Haley will call him Dad,” Kotb told People.
My girl 👶🏼❤️
A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) on Apr 18, 2017 at 10:45am PDT
Are you ready for a crazy coincidence? Haley Joy was born on Valentine’s Day.
It is a safe bet that Kotb is no longer sour on the holiday.
[h/t: Today]
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by Daniel Otway | Oct 12, 2018 | News
Another week brings another host of exciting digital news for you to sink your teeth into. Are you sitting comfortably? This week we’re talking all things Google with their recent data scandal and release of new products, as well as the future of popular media company UniLad, Snapchat’s new target demographic and a rather unusual Amazon AI… Let’s get cracking.
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Google+ data scandal
Google found itself in deep waters this week after it was revealed the company did not disclose a data leak which revealed the personal data of over 500,000 Google+ users. The leak, which is said to have occurred back in March, was caused by a bug in the social platform’s API. Similar to Facebook’s data leak earlier this year, it allowed third-party app developers to access the data of both users and their friends.
While Google has stated in a blog that they found “no evidence that any profile data was misused”, it’s almost certain the company will not be let off the hook that easily as any repercussions remain to be seen.
One thing is certain though – Google+ will soon cease to be. The company has said the social platform will be steadily shut down over the next 10 months, much to the dismay of its five users. Ok, maybe more than five, but its low amount of users and inability to take on the likes of Facebook and Twitter over the years have left it ultimately a failure in the eyes of both Google and its users. Google has even revealed themselves that 90% of Google+ sessions last less than 5 seconds. Ouch. Find out more at The Drum.
Google announce a host of new products
In a conveniently timed turn of events, this week also marked the Made With Google conference in New York, which gave Google the opportunity to reveal many new consumer products that we will soon be able to get our hands on.
Notable takeaways from the event included not one but two new Pixel-branded smartphones. While both sport similar specs, including a powerful Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip, the Pixel 3 is slightly smaller with a 5.5-inch screen, while the XL sports a larger 6.3-inch screen.
Google also announced a new tablet they hope to rival Microsoft’s Surface range. The Pixel Slate will run on Chrome OS and offer a number of different versions – each with a different processor and amount of SSD and RAM. The cheaper versions will cost around £450 but be prepared to fork out up to £1200 if you want one with the best specs.
Google Home also saw an upgrade with the introduction of the Google Home Hub. The biggest addition is that of a screen similar to that of the Amazon Echo Show, but with a far cheaper price of only £110. Check it out and the rest of the new products at Venture Beat.
Amazon AI biased against women
Definitely the weirdest story this week – it’s been revealed that Amazon has accidentally created an AI that taught itself to be biased against women.
The AI was created as an experimental hiring tool to help the company select and rate candidates from one to five, much like how the system works for products on Amazon itself. Created in 2015, the AI filtered through and analysed 1000’s of applications to better improve its efficiency, but the process had one nasty side effect.
Due to the majority of applications being from men, the AI began to associate male applications as being more preferable than those from women due to their higher number. Over time, the AI began to even penalise applications that contained phrases that included the term “women”, as well as applications from women who attended all-female colleges.
While Amazon attempted to fix the issue by forcing male and female terms to be read as neutral, the designers of the AI worried it might simply just find another way to discriminate against candidates, and so the project was disbanded at the end of last year. It seems machines won’t be taking any recruiting roles for the time being then. Read more at Venture Beat.
Snapchat targets older users
In a previous blog of ours, we discussed how Snapchat has become a hit with young people after overtaking Facebook as the most popular social media platform for 18-24-year-olds. It seems the popular messaging app isn’t content with just having a young audience though because it’s been revealed the company now wants to bring the older generation into the fold.
A leaked company memo written by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel expressed his belief that incremental growth will only come from “older users who generate higher average revenue per user.”
However, this may mean some major changes to the platform’s design may not be far away, as the memo also stated that “changing the design language of our product and improving our marketing and communications around Snapchat will help users understand our value…”
While Snapchat isn’t predominately used by the older generation, that’s not to say it hasn’t its fair share of users in the past. Famous examples include Hilary Clinton, who was an avid user of the platform during her presidential election run back in 2016, with limited success. Then again, maybe politicians should stay away from apps aimed at young people – remember the Pokemon Go fiasco?
Read more on the story at The Drum.
UNILAD’S future remains uncertain amidst buyout
UniLad has seen better days what with it going into administration last week with debts of over £6.5 million alongside 200 staff unsure of their future at the company. The issues have prompted the company to be open to a buyout of which The Drum reports 33 parties are interested in, including its direct competitor, LadBible.
Things don’t appear to be moving along smoothly, however, with missing documents preventing the buyout from proceeding for some potential buyers, as well as the seemingly rushed process in general. A source inside Unilad expressed his dismay with the process stating they believed that “there would be even more bidders if there wasn’t such a tight deadline, without a doubt.
“So you have to wonder why as an administrator you wouldn’t want to get the maximum value for the business.”
You can read the full story on The Drum.
The Giants are heading to IABUK!
The IAB conference is coming to London this November and our very own Giant Danny Windsor will be there delivering a talk all about how being honest on social media is the best approach to keeping your customers happy.
IAB isn’t your standard conference either – so much so that it’s actually called a ‘Nonference’. This Nonference takes a far more hands-on approach to sharing ideas, so if you’re fed up of sitting through hour-long powerpoint presentations then join us on the 1st of November for a conference that encourages learning through not just listening – but doing, You can find out more and sign up on the official website.
Whilst you’re at it, why not sign up to #GIANTtalks? Coming up in just two weeks time, we’ll be throwing it back to the 90s and a time before social media on the 25th October – learn from industry experts for free on how to improve your digital presence. Book your bum onto a seat by clicking here.
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Gently suggesting "World Peace through World Music", Eternal Music released Emam & Friends' Sacred Insanity. The only condition I sense is that Emam & Friends are (joyously) crazy about creating ecstatic and devotional music.
Classically trained tabla expert and percussionist Emam has augmented his original compositions with a worldly ensemble, including, among others, vocalist/guitarist Jillian Speer (who also penned several songs), pianist Tom Grant, cellist Moses Sedler, saxophonist George Brooks, and Gary Haggerty on Mandocello, oud, and violin.
Sacred Insanity is an uplifting, introspective fusion of jazz, rock and folk music with influences of Indian, Turkish, Spanish, and Eastern European cultures, and brings out many of the historical connections between them. There is nothing nuts about everyone getting along, if even only on a CD. - Dirty Linen Magazine - Aug/Sept 2000
"Sacred Insanity by Emam & Friends is an amazing stew of multi-ethnic instrumentalists and vocalists. The mandala on the cover is a visual indicator of the music - colorful, circular and in motion. Some great fusion drumming by Sivamani as well as Emam's tasty tabla and percussion." - David Licht - Modern Drummer (March 2000)
"Another fabulous fusion in world music comes from Emam & Friends on the new album Sacred Insanity, which blends contemporary acoustic music with styles from Iran, India, Europe and the U.S. using voice, percussion, acoustic guitar, cello, bansuri, oud, violin, drums, sax. Led by Emam on tabla, this outstanding group of musicians produces a set that can easily appeal to those weaned on pop music as world music aficionados.....the multilayered rhythms blend beautifully with the voice and melody instruments to form a satisfying whole that is far more than the sum of its parts. The music is thoroughly enjoyable as easy listening, yet offers the attentive person a wealth of subtle and richly embroidered sonic textures." - Dan Liss - Aquarius (Aug. 99)
"I really didn't know what to expect from Eternal Music's founder, Iranian composer Emam and a dozen of his friends on the World Beat album Sacred Insanity. If there was anything insane about the music, it was that I had never checked them out until now. I heard an incredible blend of World fusion, jazz, classical, Indian, and Turkish songs. Emam imported the mystery of the Mandala and combined prayers, dance music and chanting that revealed sadness, weakness, extraordinary strength and exultation in musical context. He also introduced a very talented young lady named Jillian Speers who sang and played her way into my heart.
All of the tracks featured traditional instruments of Eastern music such as the tabla, oud, flute and various percussion as well as piano, guitar, bass and sax. Speers plays nylon stringed guitar on most of the tracks and sings on several with a warm contralto and an experienced hand which is very surprising, as she is just twenty years young.
I enjoyed "Angels Among Us", a sweet New Age ballad dedicated to angels everywhere and another cut called "Gayatri" which uses an ancient Sanskrit prayer for structure. Both tracks feature Jillian Speers on vocals. I particularly liked a song called "The Rejected" which speaks about the plight of the underclass of India and how they are treated. It was melancholy to be sure, but it also gave insight into a world seldom seen by the West and reminded me that there are needy the world over.
The longest (14:48) and most impressive track is called "Dance of the Hermit" and caps off the album admirably centering on a character from the Tarot and sounds something like Dave Brubeck goes to India. Sacred Insanity was an emotional roller coaster ride for me and I absolutely reveled in it as it made my moods change. The myriad of genres that Emam put together made the CD sparkle." - Review by R.J. Lannan - Wind & Wire
"Spreading a message of world peace through world music, this and deliberately eclectic amalgam of people and musical heritages combines the most exciting elements from Indian, Turkish, Macedonian, Spanish and Eastern European folk idioms with jazz, rock and new age stylings.
The music ranges from traditional gypsy songs and ethereal musical mantras to swinging contemporary instrumentals and pop vocals.
What unites the selections on this unusual recording is the consummate artistry of the players who bring these exciting sounds to life. Many are familiar names, others will be new to you; but all add their own individual inspiration to some of the most listenable tracks available in a long time.
In brief, Emam is an Iranian percussionist/producer/composer who migrated to the States in 1974. He has trained and performed with the legendary Zakir Hussain, the Seattle Symphony and the original Frank Zappa musicians in addition to many tours with 'Emam & Friends'. Drummer Sivamani has shared the stage with Billy Cobham, Ustad Alla Rakha and others. Guitarist Matthew Montfort is leader of the legendary world fusion ensemble 'Ancient Future' and has recorded with Swampan Chaudhuri. Jillian Speer is a 20-year-old prodigy on classical guitar and sitar, as well as an acclaimed songwriter. Sax player George Brooks was a student of Pandit Pran Nath and has performed and recorded with Hariprasad Chaurasia as well as Zakir Hussain. Gary Haggerty is a superb oud, violin and mandocello player who has performed with ethnic ensembles in Ireland, France, Turkey and the Middle East for the last 20 years. Cellist Moses Sedler studied with Ali Akbar Khan and performed with East-West ensembles. Born in Nepal, 22-year old bansuri flute prodigy Manose has been teaching music for five years at Naropa Institute and in Kathmandu for U. of Wisconsin.
From this, you can tell that the musicianship is superlative and the players' dedication towards pushing back the boundaries of world fusion is complete. Simply put, when truly gifted performers gather together in the spirit of total creative freedom, magic happens. So forget the rules, forgot pop culture dictates, and simply groove to the divine madness that makes this music great." - PJ Birosik - nationally syndicated reviewer
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Iranian born tabla player, Emam, has just released two new compact discs on his world music label, Eternal Music. He uses the motto, 'World Peace through World Music' to describe the purpose of his label. Emam feels his mission in life is to create a bridge between the Moslem and Hindu religions and cultures through music. His first pilgrimage to India was in 1978 to meet his spiritual guru, Maha Avatar Babaji.
He began his tabla studies in 1977, and continued with Ustad Alla Rakha in 1979. Since 1982 he has been a student of Ustad Zakir Hussain. He says that he owes most of his musical possibilities to the relationship he has been fortunate to have with Zakir and Zakir's father. 'I have been blessed to not only study with Zakir but also to travel with him on his concert tours in India and the US'. This has given him a greater understanding of India's music and culture.
The two new compact discs released by Eternal Music, present two entirely different approaches to album production:
Instruments of Devotion is a collection of instrumental interpretations of devotional music from India, produced at the end of Emam's stay in India on an AIIS grant. The CD was recorded live in a studio in Delhi (April/93) direct to digital, with no overdubs. On this album he, and an ensemble of classically trained musicians (see ad for names) improvise on kirtan melodies in a light classical style. The recording draws on devotional melodies learned by Emam over the past seventeen years at the ashram of Babaji, in the Himalayan foothills. This ensemble will delight you with their unique instrumental presentation of vocal music. Absolutely refreshing and joyful!
Is This Real? represents an entirely different approach to music production: multi-tracking. This means the musicians, for the most part, did not perform together at the same time; a common practice for commercial music today. For example, the piece entitled, 'Brothers' features Zakir Hussain and his brother, Taufiq Qureshi. Zakir's tracks were recorded in Seattle in 1988. In 1992 Taufiq listened to those tracks in Bombay and played along with them. This musical collage presents recordings involving seventeen musicians, captured over an eight year period in six different cities (India & USA). The result is a fusion of time, space, as well as cultures.
'Is This Real' is a masterful tapestry of musical traditions woven together into an uplifting new sound. It creates a musical experience that transcends boundaries.
The wide variety of musicians as well as musical styles highlights this CD as an outstanding example of world fusion music. - India Currents - Dec/Jan 95
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Iranian born tabla player, composer, producer, Emam has been performing World Music since the early 80’s. He has been trained in North Indian Classical drumming by the grand masters of tabla: Ustad Alla Rakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain.
In 1991, Emam was awarded a scholarship for study of music in India by the American Institute of Indian Studies with funding from the Smithsonian Institute.
In performance and recording, Emam brings together world class musicians from around the globe. They present traditional music as well as original music inspired by their world travels.
Over the past twenty five years, Emam has performed with great artists from around the world, such as: Mickey Hart (drummer - USA), Zakir Hussain (tabla master - India), Habib Khan (sitar - India/USA), Michael Shrieve (original Santana drummer), Sikiru Adepoju (African drummer), Deepak Ram (South African bansuri player), Artur Dutkiewicz (Piano - Poland), Jahiar Azim Irani (santoor - Poland/Iran), Balkan Acoustic (Bulgarian music ensemble), Ancient Future (world fusion ensemble), Irina Mikhailova (singer - Russian), Rupak Kulkarni (bansuri - India), Manose (bansuri - Nepal), Piotr Baron (sax - Poland), Georges Lemmom (violin - the Middle East/USA), Tam Tam Project (world fusion ensemble - Poland), Tytus Wojnowicz (Oboe - Poland), Shabda Kahn (vocals - USA), Shafqat Ali Khan (Singer from Pakistan), George Brooks (sax - USA), Nina Hagen (Pop star - Germany), Latif Bolat (singer - Turkey/USA) and the Seattle Symphony with the original Frank Zappa Band.
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'Sarri deserves another chance at Chelsea' - Leboeuf backs second season for Blues boss
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Chelsea have, however, graced the final of the Carabao Cup and could be in contention for more major silverware at the end of a continental charge.
With Champions League qualification already secured for 2019-20, Leboeuf believes Sarri should be trusted to guide the Blues towards a brighter future.
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“Now it seems that after a year, if it is not good it’s, ‘Goodbye’.
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Encompassing a vast array of modern day frauds, the advance fee fraud requires skilful persuasion and effort in convincing investors to part with money, with the hope of securing future loans, contracts, deals or financial returns.
Advanced fee fraud is an offence that is based on a promise being issued to an investor, that they will receive a substantial payment of cash or other future rewards in exchange for making an advance payment or investment.
1 What type of actions are considered an Advance fee fraud?
2 What happens in an Advance fee fraud investigation?
3 You may have been falsely accused of advance fee fraud
4 Without a lawyer, you cannot find out more until the interview
5 Instruct a legal professional as soon as possible
6 What should you do if you get arrested or charged with advance fee fraud?
7 Can the police search my home?
8 Could you go to prison for Advance fee fraud?
9 What type of sentence could you get for Advance fee fraud?
10 What mitigating factors may be considered in sentencing?
11 Does a conviction for Advance fee fraud go on your criminal record?
12 How Can Stuart Miller Solicitors Help?
13 How can our Advance Fee Fraud Solicitors help?
14 What will our Advance Fee Fraud Solicitors do?
15 Want to discuss your case with an expert Advance Fee Fraud Solicitor?
16 What will happen when I instruct a Fraud Lawyer?
17 Would you like to discuss your case before instructing us?
It’s a fact that investors can often have unreasonable expectations. At the outset of an exciting project, they accept the risk of loss but often, when there is a loss, investors will always seek to blame the company or individuals undertaking the work.
If you’re part of an advance fee fraud investigation, there’s no doubt that you will find it to be upsetting and stressful. You’ll feel frightened about what might happen to you. Will you be given a large fine and a hefty prison sentence? How will you financially support your dependents without an income?
As soon as you find out that you’re being investigated or are being charged with this offence, it’s essential that you seek competent legal advice immediately. By working with skilled fraud solicitors, you may even be able to have your case dismissed before it reaches the court stage.
We’ve put the most commonly asked questions together with answers for you. We aim to provide you with support and guidance as you go through this difficult time. If you have a question that you cannot find the answer to here, don’t hesitate to contact us to ask. Alternatively, you can call us on 0208 888 5225 or 07980 000 076, the latter being a 24-hour emergency lawyer service.
What type of actions are considered an Advance fee fraud?
In advance fee fraud cases, a reward is offered in exchange for an investment, but then it is not delivered and the money paid by the investor is lost. An example of this is the ‘solar panel installation scam’. A promise is made to install solar panels for free, with a grant or award from the state. All the investor needs to do is pay a deposit in advance, which will then be returned when the state reimburses the contractor. The contractor simply takes the money and disappears with it, closes the company or transfers the money to a foreign account.
Here are some other examples of advance fee frauds:
Inheritance fraud – when a person is informed that a wealthy relative has added them to the will, or that they are the only surviving relative and due to receive a large sum of money. The person is required to send an advance payment to cover legal and administrative charges for the process to be completed
Sports tipster scams – when so-called experts or tipsters share their ‘knowledge’ to help a person to win horse racing or other sports bets.
Online dating scams – this can happen when a person meets somebody they like on an online dating app or website. The person will work hard to gain trust and then ask the person to send them money for reasons that are full of emotion, promising to return a higher sum in the future
Lottery prize scams – when someone is informed that they’ve won a prize draw, or won a sweepstake / lottery and to secure the funds, and advance fee is required
Career opportunity scams – fake job opportunities are posted by false companies and a payment is required to access further information that does then not materialise.
There are many other examples. If you would like to know more about whether a crime that you’ve been linked to is classified as an advance fee fraud crime, you can always contact us for further information.
What happens in an Advance fee fraud investigation?
When an advance fee fraud investigation takes place and you are the person accused of being the scammer, you are likely to find it very stressful. You’re likely to be feeling anxious about the future well-being of your family. You will fear whether you will be released on bail or remanded into custody and whether you will have control over you own bank accounts or not.
Each case is different, but whatever your circumstances it’s crucial that you speak with a skilled fraud solicitor. Gaining access to somebody who can give you some legal advice, emotional support and guidance to help you to handle the investigation process will make all the difference.
You may have been falsely accused of advance fee fraud
There are many cases where people have been wrongly accused of being involved in an advance fee fraud case. In some cases, a person’s identification may have been used, but they won’t have known anything about it. Otherwise, their bank account may have been hacked or used to secure unlawful funds. If this is your situation, then a competent solicitor should be able to get your case dismissed.
There have been occasions where the prosecution has attempted to charge a person with advance fee fraud to find out the details of other people who may have been involved. A strong and experienced legal team would be able to recognise whether this is a case of the prosecution throwing mud to see what sticks.
Without a lawyer, you cannot find out more until the interview
Even if you are arrested, you’re quite unlikely to find out much about why you’re being accused or investigated until you attend your first police interview.
In a case such as this, it’s crucial to engage with a solicitor before you attend a police interview. The solicitor will be able to gain access to further information about the advance fee fraud investigation. In combination with information provided by yourself, the fraud solicitor can use this information to construct a defence for you.
Many people find it frustrating that the police gain permission to investigate all areas of your life to obtain evidence. This investigation may include your social media accounts to your bank account to your NHS records in addition to all your contacts and relationships.
Instruct a legal professional as soon as possible
We recommend that you do not attend any police interview without being supported by a proficient fraud solicitor.
The questions that are asked at the interview are typically very probing. You may be shown some of the evidence that the police have obtained to prove their case against you. However, you’re unlikely to see it all as they typically will be trying to trick you into incriminating yourself. The interview will be high pressure, and you may find it very upsetting.
At the end of the interview, you may be charged with the offence of advance fee fraud.
What should you do if you get arrested or charged with advance fee fraud?
Advance fee fraud is an area of the law that can be very complicated. Although you aren’t obliged to take legal representation, we recommend that you do so. English laws are always changing, and without being constantly on top of them, they are hard to keep up with and understand how they apply to your case.
What makes the difference in engaging a fraud solicitor is that they have in-depth knowledge of the law, and they have acquired relevant and valuable experience in similar cases. They will know how they may be able to get you off a charge of this nature. You are supported throughout the entire process so that you get the best possible outcome.
Hiring specialist knowledge will give you peace of mind. We advise that you get in touch with us as soon as you can so that we can assess your case before it develops further.
Can the police search my home?
The police will request the courts for a search warrant so that they can legally search your home and possibly your workplace for evidence. They will search for evidence on phone bill statements, money transfers and vakuable assets. They may put you and your family and your connections under police surveillance.
Could you go to prison for Advance fee fraud?
Advance fee fraud is considered a serious offence that comes with a hefty punishment if you are convicted. You may receive a term of imprisonment and a fine to pay. The police may try to recover any money that you gained access to by confiscating it or putting a freeze on your assets.
Of course, this is a very worrying time for both you and your family. It’s vitally important that you take the right steps to protect the well-being of all of you.
It’s imperative that you engage a fraud solicitor who handles advance fee fraud cases regularly.
What type of sentence could you get for Advance fee fraud?
An advance fee fraud case is usually heard at a crown court. If you are found guilty and convicted, you may be given up to ten years’ imprisonment, given a fine or even receive both. The maximum sentence of ten years is usually given to the most serious of cases.
What mitigating factors may be considered in sentencing?
The judge will examine the case to understand how dishonest you’ve been and what damage this has caused. He or she will make their judgement on sentencing based on that and whether you’ve been convicted for any crimes previously.
Your personal circumstances and historical credits and achievements will also be considered in addition to an array of issues your fraud lawyer will explore to bring before the court, in demand of a lenient sentence.
Does a conviction for Advance fee fraud go on your criminal record?
If your advance fee fraud case progresses to court and you are found guilty and convicted, your conviction will be noted on your CRB / police record. The period of the endorsement will depend on the type and length of your sentence. Your fraud solicitor will give you the exact details.
How Can Stuart Miller Solicitors Help?
We handle advance fee fraud cases regularly and have deep expertise in this field. We can help you by recommending the best course of action to take to mitigate the outcome. No matter what size your case is, get in touch.
Our specialist advance fee fraud solicitors have expertise and skill defending allegations of advance fee fraud. We have acted for clients suggested to have received millions of pounds advance payments in return for promises of securing goods and services. We understand the likelihood of police intervention destroying the business-plan and restricting the continuance of the proposed project.
One such case in which early intervention and effective advice led to a successful result is described in our notable case section and titled ‘advance fee fraud – RvK £126 million fraud case dropped’.
How can our Advance Fee Fraud Solicitors help?
Regardless of the allegation or the extent of the alleged fraud, you will find our fraud solicitors dedicated to achieving the best possible result in your case. We seek to engage very early and take any steps possible to prevent the investigation from reaching the court. If matters are prosecuted, we have the commercial awareness to understand the business concepts and proposals in the case. The key issue in an advance fee fraud case is often the intention and expectation of the parties. Whether the monies paid were spent on furthering the agreed objective or for some other purpose and whether in fact, there was a genuine intention to further the business proposal or investment scheme pitched.
What will our Advance Fee Fraud Solicitors do?
If promises are made, it is for the prosecution to prove by producing evidence of the promise. It is not for the defence to prove that the promise or unrealistic expectation wasn’t made! In doing so, the prosecution will inevitably rely on evidence extracted from mobile phones and computers. Our fraud solicitors have access to some of the best forensic experts, computer analysts and financial examiners in the UK who can be called in to provide supporting evidence.
A fundamental part of the case will be revealed from the records kept by you. We will not only analyse these records meticulously, but we will also continue to explore the evidence to collect, retain and present any materials which will support your defence case; including obtaining witness statements from witnesses in the UK or abroad.
We will instruct barristers and QCs whom we know have first-class experience and knowledge in defending fraud cases and those barristers who will deliver their best performance in and out of the court.
Our fraud solicitors have immense experience defending advance fee fraud cases. We are not only knowledgeable and experienced with the Fraud Act 2006 but also with the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 which will present money laundering, restraint order and then confiscation issues.
Want to discuss your case with an expert Advance Fee Fraud Solicitor?
Most clients who seek the advice of our expert fraud solicitors fail to understand that it is the prosecution who ‘must prove the case’ to convict you. It is for the prosecution to prove, so that the jury is no less than sure, beyond any reasonable doubt in their mind, that you were in an agreement with the others (conspiracy) and that you were intentionally dishonest in making or trying to make money or causing someone loss.
Whilst this is a high threshold for the prosecution to convict you, it is absolutely imperative that you are also defended by fraud solicitors who really do specialise in defending these prosecutions, who have a proven track record of success (see our fraud cases) and fraud solicitors who will go over and beyond the call of duty to try and win your case.
Especially when the stakes are so high, where there is the very real possibility of a lengthy term of imprisonment, where confiscation proceedings are more than certainly to follow the main case and where there is an unimaginable impact of your family members; you must be sure your fraud solicitors are creative problem solvers, are experienced and knowledgeable, are right by your side throughout the case and most of all, are absolutely committed to win.
Our fraud lawyers are experts at unravelling complex and substantial volumes of evidence often associated with advance fee fraud prosecutions. We have a solid and definite history in successfully defending advance fee fraud allegations and we stop at nothing to find valuable defence evidence to strengthen your defence. Whilst we usually adopt a worst-case scenario position, you can be sure that shortcuts have not been taken and we will go as far as possible to evaluate the likely defence strategies of others bring prosecuted in the same case.
One of the biggest fears of an experienced fraud solicitor defending these allegations is the uncertainty of what other accused in the case will say, whether they will blame you and whether they will produce evidence in their own defence which will adversely affect your case. Our fraud solicitors have defended advance fee fraud cases for decades and always start very early on to build the profile and the likely strategy of others accused from the beginning.
What will happen when I instruct a Fraud Lawyer?
We offer a dedicated solicitor, barrister and caseworker to each advance fee fraud case, which will ensure an outstanding level of customer service throughout. You can be sure that someone will always be available to assist you, and there is more than one legal mind being applied to the issues in your case.
Also, we use only the best mobile phone experts and only the most competent financial experts to study, analyse and evaluate the evidence to provide useful defence evidence or discredit the prosecution’s evidence.
We will offer you a free consultation for you to discuss your case with us. We can act for you at the police station free of charge, and then we can look at your financial situation in order to determine if you’re eligible for legal aid. We believe, no matter what your financial position, if you are prosecuted by the state, you must also be defended with funds by the state.
Would you like to discuss your case before instructing us?
If you’d like to have a no obligation chat with us before you instruct us to take your case, then call us today.
Please contact our fraud solicitors to arrange your meeting, whether face to face, online or by telephone. If you prefer, you can also send us a WhatsApp message using the link on this page.
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Reuters Misleads About Bush Saying ‘Mandela’s Dead’
Posted on September 26, 2007 in Wednesday's Example of Media Bias
Example of Media Bias:
Apparently Reuters doesn’t understand the concept of “context” because they’re…claiming that in his [Sept. 20] press conference [President] Bush said that Nelson Mandela is dead. Calling what Bush said “an embarrassing gaffe,” Reuters took Bush’s words out of context to make it seem as if Bush was talking about something he was not talking about. But any intelligent person can easily understand Bush’s context merely by listening to his whole sentence instead of shortening it to just two words.
With a headline that reads, Mandela Still Alive After Embarrassing Bush Remark, Reuters does its best to make a Bush “gaffe” where none exists.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader’s death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.
…here’s the problem. During the press conference, Bush was not talking about the actual Nelson Mandela. He was talking about people like Nelson Mandela and speaking metaphorically. And listening to Bush’s entire segment, while not artfully stated, makes it clear that he was not talking about the actual Nelson Mandela.
Here is Bush’s entire segment transcribed: (My bold emphasis)
“I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, ‘now where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead. Because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandela’s.
He was a brutal tyrant that divided people up and split families and people are recovering from this. So there’s a psychological recovery that is taking place and it’s hard work for them and I understand that it’s hard work for them.”
Could it be any more obvious that Bush is saying that there aren’t any Iraqis filling the same sort of role in Iraq that Nelson Mandela filled in South Africa? Could it be any more clear that Bush was saying that Saddam “killed all the Mandelas” of Iraq?
But even with that, Reuters seems to understand that their headline is a lie because they include this paragraph in their story:
In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Bush said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Middle Eastern nation.
OK, then if you KNOW what Bush meant, what he was actually talking about… then why this trumped up story? …
Go to NewsBusters.org for the original posting.
The Reuters website says of itself “Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. We have a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.”
Why do you think Reuters, which promotes itself as having a reputation for “accuracy and freedom from bias,” used a headline that mislead readers into thinking that President Bush is an unintelligent bumbler? Explain your answer.
Opinion question. Answers vary.
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Home | News Thursday 7 November 2013
Sudan’s VP Taha suggests Bashir could run for a new term
November 6, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha said that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) will ultimately decide whether president Omer Hassan al-Bashir would run for a new term in 2015 or not.
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha gestures as he speaks during a press conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 26, 2013 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
Bashir, who has been president since staging a coup in 1989, has repeatedly said that he plans to make this term his last. However, last June he appeared to back off from his earlier assertions and hinted that he could run again.
VP Taha said in an interview aired today on Doha-based al-Jazeera TV that Bashir genuinely does not want to apply for a new term.
"I know that he does not want to continue ruling, but the decision is up to the party and the people," he said.
He criticized the reformists within the party who submitted a memo to Bashir saying that they presented no solutions in lieu of lifting fuel subsidies which the government implemented in late September.
Taha went on to say that any respectable political party mandates that its members express their objections from within and not to the public.
The signatories to the petition which included lawmakers and retired army officers, called for reinstating the subsidies due to its "harsh" impact on ordinary Sudanese and demanded that the government prosecute those behind the use excessive violence against protestors.
The violent clashes erupted between demonstrators and security forces following government’s decision to remove fuel subsidies lead to about 84 deaths, according to official figures, although activists, rights groups and opposition parties put the death toll at more than 200.
The signatories also urged Bashir to form a mechanism for national reconciliation comprised of various political forces and assign the economic dossier to a professional national economic team.
"The legitimacy of your rule has never been at stake like it is today" they said in their letter to Bashir which was seen as a direct challenge to the president who is now the country’s longest serving leader.
An NCP commission of inquiry established by Bashir recommended the dismissal of the top reformist figure and ex-presidential adviser Ghazi Salah Al-Deen Al-Attabani along with two other members and the suspension of nine others for one calendar year.
The NCP leadership bureau afterwards endorsed the recommendations and referred the matter to the NCP Shura (consultative) Council to review and issue a binding decision.
Al-Attabani and other dismissed members announced afterwards their intention to form a new party which was downplayed by the NCP as having little significance.
VP Taha said that divergent views in any political body could generate debate and brainstorming but claimed that some do not respect institutional process.
"Our problem [as Sudanese] is that we have no patience on political practice in the framework of institutions. People cannot tolerate that the decision be with institutions and not individuals" he said.
He disclosed that a cabinet reshuffle will be announced within two weeks and that opposition parties may be given major ministerial posts depending on outcome of dialogue with them.
Taha said that Bashir is leading the reform process himself and that the reshuffle is part of that.
He denied that corruption is being protected by the state and stressed that anyone proven to be corrupt will be prosecuted.
Asked about Sudan’s position regarding the ouster of Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi, Taha reiterated that this is an internal matter.
However he warned that any attempt to exclude Islam or Islamists from the political life will "fail".
"Islam is the way out for the people in the region and we do not care about threats of any party," Taha responded when asked if Cairo could view his remarks as a threat to them.
Sudan’s Islamist government has appeared uncomfortable with the developments in Egypt given the common ideology they shared with Morsi and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) which brought him to power.
Khartoum insisted that it is neutral to the change in Egypt and that it an internal matter.
7 November 2013 08:55, by Jalaby
"I know that he does not want to continue ruling, but the decision is up to the party and the people
You guys are all liars and hypocrites, Osman Taha always dreams to succeed Bahsir and rules Sudan after him but he couldn’t show his real feeling because Bashir and his group will immediately remove him from power if he dares to show his real dream!!
You have to accept the ugly fact that you failed to rule Sudan and the country is divided under your regime,history won’t forget that,you did your coup in 1989 and toppled a democratic regime under the name of rescuing Sudan (Ingaz),saving the country from being divided,fighting poverty,corruption and bring harmony to Sudan
You failed to achieve any one of the above,go 2 hell
7 November 2013 09:24, by Monydit
Hahahahahahah Jalaby why are u refusing Ali osman to Role. sudan and you pple supporting this Nuer Call Dr Killer Riek Machar who kill. many south sudanese and he is say that he need to be president for south sudan Shamme on him south sudan cannt be rule by such person like Riek Machar .who kill many pple in 1991 with his Naisr Faction .Hhahahahhahah Riek Machar will end up like the Dog
8 November 2013 02:26, by dude
Monydit. Have you been drinking again. Drinking Alcohol is bad for your health. Please Stop drinking Alcoholic drinks because they will kill you. defaming Dr. Riek is not going to work this time. Now we have our own country you will see believe me.
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Aug. 31: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must reduce rosters to a maximum of 53 players on the Active/Inactive List. Simultaneously with the cut-down to 53, clubs that have players in the categories of Active/Physically Unable to Perform or Active/Non-Football Injury or Illness must select one of the following options: place player on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform or Reserve/Non- Football Injury or Illness, whichever is applicable; request waivers; terminate contract; trade contract; or continue to count the player on the Active List.
Sept. 1: Claiming period for players placed on waivers at the final roster reduction will expire at 12:00 noon, New York time.
Sept. 1: Upon receipt of the Personnel Notice at approximately 1:00 p.m., New York time, clubs may establish a practice squad of 10 players (clubs participating in the International Player Development Program may sign one additional international player to a Practice Player Contract.) No club, including the player’s prior club, will be permitted to sign a player to a practice player contract until all clubs have received simultaneous notification via the above Personnel Notice that such player’s prior NFL player contract has been terminated via the waiver system.
Sept. 5: At 12:00 a.m., New York time, the Top 51 Rule expires for all NFL clubs.
Sept. 5: 8-9 Regular Season Week 1.
actual important dates:
Scouting Combine - February 26
Franchise tags - March 5
"Legal Tampering" - March 11
Free Agency - March 13
Draft - April 25
Training Camp - Mid-July
Hall of Fame game - August 1
Regular Season - September 5
Will Hunting
WICKED PISSAH!!!!
Going to be a great year for free agents imo. Not a great free agent class and a lot of teams with more cap room than they know what to do with. There also aren't very teams up against cap issues so I don't think we see very many good players getting cut.
i just hope dat n*gga mike mayock still puts out a mock draft as a power move
Patriots hire Greg Schiano as DC.
I've never been a fan of the guy as a head coach but it's a good sign Belichick hired a semi-big name who's going to actually want to add value instead of be another Matt Patricia.
Originally Posted by Will Hunting
but patricia is a rocket scientist!
Killakobe81
Prescott expects the Cowboys to “pay what’s deserved” and makes it clear he expects to be paid more than Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who has a team-friendly deal that paid him $15 million in 2018.
“Nobody’s wife makes as much money as his wife does either,” Prescott told Trysta Krick of USA Today. “When Tom Brady isn’t the breadwinner in the home, then that’s a great problem to have.
“So, in that case, he can do that. He can do his contract however you want to do it.”
Brady’s wife, model Gisele Bundchen, earned $10 million in 2018 and $17.5 million in 2017, per reports.
Whodafuc Dak think he is?!
That’s a stupid comment for him to make. The discount Brady gives New England is basically the difference between a top tier QB and a 2nd tier QB. His cap hit next season is also $27mm and there’s no ing way Dak is worth that much of a cap hit.
Holden_Caulfield
you're a phony
as much as i dont want big nick on the jags, i hope they dont reach for a QB again like they did with bortles in 2014, i finally warmed up to him after the AFCCG last year and he goes on and falls off a cliff
Flacco traded to Denver.
Originally Posted by Robz4000
He’s only an above average QB at his best but still an upgrade over the trash Denver has had at QB.
Baltimore going all in on the dog Lamar Jackson offense. That got a exposed the minute a team played against it more than once.
SpursforSix
Besides that offense sucking, I don't think he's going to last if they're going to have him run 15-20 times per game.
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Truth, he’s got a frail build and wouldn’t hold up against a big hit. Russell Wilson has the stockier frame that a running QB needs for durability.
Exactly. And most "running" QB are getting their yards in scramble situations when a play breaks down. I don't remember the exact stat but it was something like 70% of Jackson's runs were designed plays.
I can't see this lasting.
And as you said, it doesn't matter anyway. Unless he can somehow develop as a passer, that offense is going to be terrible.
The Denver Fluccos
i dont think that's them "going all in". flacco is getting paid 20+ mil to be the backup. makes sense to trade him regardless, tho imo they should draft a QB as well until they are sure in what they have with lamar...
Darth_Pelican
We've got a job to do.
Millennial_Messiah
Originally Posted by mono
This is the best one tbh
So Gurley's been diagnosed with arthritis in his hurt knee.
Wow. Bad news. They didn’t say what specific kind. I guess osteoarthritis is the most likely. Probably facing amputation in the next 2 years.
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Ontario Cutting Red Tape to Support Growth in the Wine Industry
Changes Will Provide Small Wineries Easier Entry into the Wine Market and Offer Consumers More Choice
HURON-BRUCE — Minister of Government and Consumer Services, Lisa Thompson, was joined by representatives from the Ontario wine industry today to announce changes reducing regulatory burden to support growth in the industry.
Changes have been made to the rules under the Vintners Quality Alliance Act that reduces red tape and provides more flexibility to wineries across the province and expands wine choices for consumers. One of these changes includes adding the Marquette hybrid grape variety to the list of permitted grape varieties to be eligible for Vintners Quality Alliance Ontario approval.
"The addition of the Marquette hybrid grape variety will help small and new wineries experience easier entry into Ontario's VQA wine market," said Minister Thompson. "It particularly supports wineries located in emerging regions where cold winter temperatures are a challenge for traditional grape varieties, like Huron-Bruce."
Ontario wineries can also produce wines using grapes from different vintages, or harvest years, as it is now optional for them to label wines with the harvest year with the Ontario geographical indicator. This will increase the choice of table wines available to consumers.
"Our government is making Ontario Open for Business by removing obstacles in investment, growth and job creation sectors right across the economy - including the wine and grape industry," said Minister Thompson. "We're working hard every day to modernize government and make it simpler, faster and better to do business in Ontario. We're working to put Ontario back on track as the economic engine of Canada."
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WHAT I LEARNT
Episode 109 - Nick Phipps
Tristan K'Nell
My special guest is Nick Phipps. Nick is a scrum half for both the NSW Waratahs and Australian Wallabies which includes 97 Super Rugby Games and 68 tests for his country. He won a Super Rugby Tittle in 2014 for the Waratahs, a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and has been to two World Cups in 2011 and 2015.
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3:18 – Welcome Nick Phipps
3:51 – The Argentina comeback & what Michael Cheika really said
5:51 – A sense of trust and change of body language
6:50 – Coming from the bench and his role within the team
8:50 – Leadership & The Wallabies leadership group
11:35 – David Pocock
14:48 – The European tour
16:55 – Impact of playing 7’s
18:37 – Living at the King’s school
20:09 – Family history in the Wallabies
22:06 – Amazing back story of both his grand fathers being together in World War 2
26:10 – His parents meeting
28:40 – Finding footy at the North Rocks Kangaroo’s & Kings
30:48 – Playing for the love of the game & why he works so hard off the field
32:45 – Coming through Colts
33:36 – Shute Shield going gangbusters
34:00 – Shute Shield grand finals
35:16 – Sydney University
36:18 – North Sydney Oval & the suburban grounds
38:15 – Rugby League
39:10 – Getting approached to play seven’s
42:10 – Meeting Bernard Foley & forming a bond
43:47 – Commonwealth Games stories from India
47:20 – The point of wanting to become a professional
48:10 – Moving to Melbourne on a rookie contract
49:00 – Rising up the ranks to make the 2011 World Cup
51:35 – Keeping things simple and learning from the sidelines
52:46 – Coming home to Sydney and Waratahs
52:50 – 2014 season and having to beat the Crusaders to win the title
52:50 – Cheika’s golf club blow up
53:05 – Why they love Michael Chieka
58:15 – Being a valuable part of the squad at the World Cup in 2015
1:02:44 – Process after a bad game
1:04:10 – Unfinished business with the All Blacks
1:05:18 – Being the underdog
1:07:10 – Analysing a team performance
1:07:40 – Interests away from the game
1:08:00 – Little things to put a smile on a fan’s face
1:11:07 – Post footy interests
1:14:34 – Living in the Pentagon in Bondi
1:18:06 – Most underrated team mate
1:19:45 – Favourite ground in Australia & Overseas
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Miami and the Seige of Chicago.
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
By Norman Mailer
(New York Review Books)
We've all heard the remark used too often to describe an egocentric's prerogative to to be self-consumed and reticent to acknowledge the rights and opinions of fellow citizens: " It's his (her)world, we're just living in it..." There are infinite variations and elaborations , all headed for the same punchline no matter the navigation the teller chooses, with hardly an improvement on the insight. The phrase, in fact, is stale and in need of retirement.
The phase had been used recently in a chat I had recently with someone regarding the re-release of Norman Mailer's account of the 1968 Republican and Democratic Conventions, and the mention made me want reach for the imaginary lever for the equally imaginary trap door down which the utterer of petrified phrases would fall, the bottom chamber of which they would remain until they appreciate that cliches are no substitute for an original aside, a choice metaphor, a wild ride of associations that prove that one has been paying attention to the events about them. Paying attention is precisely what the literary journalist in his nonfiction writings, and what Miami and the Seige of Chicago (blessedly reissued by NYR Books)shows is that for all his self-obsession, Mailer was no mere narcissistic punk considering the world his realm and its inhabitants his subjects. What gives the narrative its tension is Mailer's knack for addressing the world as he thinks it used to be what it ought to become and then confronting blunt facts that won't bend to his wishes, give in to his whims, follow a script he might have written. Mailer is a counter puncher, to use his parlance, someone who reacts with a mind that brings details , thesis and counter thesis , call and response into spinning loops of image-saturated language. Miami/Seige , like a good amount of the nonfiction Mailer wrote during the sixties and seventies, is a richly nuanced , feverishly grandiloquent mid century reversal of Whitman's latter day desire to contain multitudes and find himself in each breath , phrase and circumstance of every American's story; Mailer, an early idealist who wanted to forge a revolution in the consciousness of the nation, as he announced in Advertisements for Myself, refuses bitterness and despair when his designs become moot and embraces ambivalence and irony instead. This makes for a desireable place from which to wrestle with the things that irritate his senses and insult his intelligence.
Labels: Norman Mailer
Shane Black, the screenwriter behind the Lethal Weapon franchise, comes up a decade later deciding he wants to give the buddy movie thing a new twist, like Tarantino. That is to say fatally hip, self-aware, deconstructive and distracted, fitfully amused by its own absurdity. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which Black wrote and directed, is that movie, with a premise worthy of Elmore Leonard (which I won't bother to summarize here) but which gets lost in cleverness, cute tricks, and smirking flashiness. Imagine Oliver Stone directing this mess, with as many gratuitous PoMo interruptions, witless edits and grandstand mugging for the camera. Leonard has all manner of convolutions and twists and bizarre bits of business, but his novels are little masterpieces of craft and, lest we forget, storytelling and his ability to create characters and dialogue make the strange world of the criminal mind a fascinating place to observe. There is that observation of craft for all of Leonard's weirdness, which at times can make for splendid film diversions, like Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, and Out of Sight.
But not always, with last year's adaptation of an earlier Leonard novel, The Big Bounce is the case in point; good crime novels require good scripts, as good looks and pretty locals alone won't create something we care about. The crucial flaw in The Big Bounce was fairly mindless, let us say the arbitrary shift of the novel's location from Leonard's native Detroit to Hawaii, which someone thought would be a better backdrop for turning the gritty novel into a romantic comedy. It was a rudderless enterprise in all, without rhythm or snap, highlighting Owen Wilson running low on whatever beach- bum charisma he'd trading on for the last half of the Nineties, and sadly the avuncular Morgan Freeman with little to do but look wise, bemused and entirely non-threatening. The best news from that effort, assumedly, is that the producer's checks cleared for Mr. Leonard. Kiss Kiss...is a sometimes amusing, visually busy effort that is graced by some good dialogue,but chokes by a sense that everyone is laughing at their own joke.
The punchline is never delivered. Which makes this movie a shaggy dog story, all without the zen "aha". Robert Downey is fine, though. Sober and confused, just what his part called for. Here's to seeing him in better movies. Val Kilmer is a homosexual private detective named Gay Perry, no kidding, and is wonderful in a slow boil performance; with all the flashy cuts and ragged edges to suggest a faint idea of self-referential ugliness (too much motion, not enough music) Kilmer has understated fun, and delivers the best line I've heard in a film in 2005. When asked by Downey's character if his Dad loved him, Perry replies that he didn't know but "...he used to beat me in Morse Code, so maybe I didn't missed it."Kilmer appears to have a developed a fondness for the weird character, and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
Pounding the Poetry Beat
By Ted Burke
Steve Gehrke is a wonderful poet, a fine lyric intelligence who is brave enough to investigate issues of art and aesthetics in ways that suggest that our vanity is more wrapped up (so to speak)in our creation of pretty images than we were led to believe on those grade school field trips to the county art museum. Chosen for for Slate by poetry editor Robert Pinsky in November of 2005, it is not something you could easily warm up to, which is Pinsky's style. Gehrke gets to the heart of the artist's obsession with the image as a hedge against aging, of forestalling any hint or sign of his or her inescapable death. Gehrke understands the outer edge of aesthetic fixation, and in his poem "Self Portrait; Masterbating (after Egon Schiele)" we understand how the up close examination of skin, it's folds, it's unexpected contours and deviations from the perfect moment of perception can become sticky.
Our painter, aged, flabby, slow to respond either with his art or his body to stimulations that formerly would have sent him raging with inspiration and the need to cast his vision into the world, now confronts himself wizened and not wiser) save for an idea that youth is wasted on the young)and finds his gaze turned from the world he sought to remake in his image , but upon himself, his body a failing range of fleshy, wrinkles, folds of old muscle, flaccidness itself. This is masturbation as a way of remembering when the gesture, the movement, the inspiration of youth was effortless, boundless, and the reward was an overload of sensation that was reward enough for the intensity.
This is not my favorite subject matter to read, but I admire Gehrke's skill to set this potentially tasteless scene in a kind of writing that is sympathetic without a miss step into bathos or apology. Personally, I'd rather re-read Dorianne Laux's poems about giving a blow job--the subject is a better fit, so to speak, for my view of myself in the world--but the present poem commands respect. That is a poem whose scenario I could see myself in. Truth told, I see myself in Gehrke's poem as well, and all the tangled issues one can imagine it knots up ever further. It's just that I prefer Laux's wonderful words of adoration for her man. Gehrke's rumbling has at least the benefit of being well done.
Labels: Poetry, Steve Gehrke
Dickinson, syntax, the poem that does not get written down
There's an intriguing discussion over on Slate's Poems Fray forum regarding Emily Dickinson's condensed visions and the use of syntax to achieve her odd and impressive effects. Poet and professor Paul Breslin argues that there 's an underappreciation of Dickinson's mastery , and rewrites the poem somewhat as if it were a single sentence, furnishing the missing words to make the poem a coherent example of her inner motions. I think that there might more to it.
Syntax is key in getting to the things Dickinson mused and murmured over, but I'm not inclined to think of a many of her poems as single sentences with the connecting articles and transitional qualifiers removed . I'd think that hers would be a poetry of longer sentences that had been scissored and had their parts arranged in abrupt, quizzical verbal eruptions. Her dependent clauses sometimes hit you in the head like a flying rock you didn't see coming, that shingle that conks you on the noggin when you're trying to repair the rain gutter.
The actually poetry for much of her work would be the unwritten empathy between her lines and cohering strategy a reader creates on the spot to translate, literally, her language into a diction that a contemporary fan can understand.
We have a situation that might not be dissimilar than that of Ezra Pound's translations of Chinese poetry, where he was not translating directly from the original language but rather modernizing, re-writing another translation. He had , in essence, not done a translation as much as written another, unique poem altogether, in pursuit of a verbal ideal.
Eliot, aware of Pound's habit of remaking literary ideas in his own image, referred to his editor as the creator of Chinese Poetry; it isn't a bad thing, of course, but the results are brilliant other than what's been claimed by Pound or his early champions. For Dickinson, her intriguing impressions, her conflated monologues, her faint but evocative traces of interior complexity, often times results in a brilliance that is exterior to her own writing, that is, the genius of the reader responding earnestly.
I don't disagree that Dickinson's poems are fragments and shards of what she might have been thinking about in lifetime seclusion; the habit of mind she displays in the poems is indicative of someone who's developed their own lexicon and signifiers that are sealed against obvious interpretations, a short hand that, in the context of the poems, are not elaborated upon. This enigma is a large part of the allure her work has , and a I think a great deal of her greatness resides in the legacy of interpretation that her small stanzas have provoked.
Whether we've written in done in essay for or have contemplated the consequences of the dashes and asides in private, we find ourselves so furiously "filling in the blanks" and providing end notes to suggest context to the poems that there exists, in fact, a secondary literature that rather seethes, flows and weaves brilliantly, sloppily, energetically through large portions of the Western Canon; rather much of Dickinson's poetry gets lost as comprehensible statements and are converted for, say, more recent generation of response that cannot help but leave Dickinson and her world behind and instead discuss her work against contemporary conditions and philosophical drift. She is not a little like Bloom's,Shakespeare, casting a shadow a younger writer cannot step wholly from under.
Labels: Emily Dickinson, Poetry
The Poet as Interior Decorator
"In Another Country" is a big , comfortable chair of a poem to write, a familiar and over upholstered seat in the middle of a crowded room where the poet can plop and sink into the cushions, gaze at the books and ephemera surrounding here, musing, or rather half musing, on a snail-paced account of the week that is more wistful than touching, brittle rather than robust. Mazur has written of being dislocated before and has done some interesting things with the idea of culture shock within the larger stretches of one's own culture meeting up with minor key alienation to produce a sense of fleeting anxiety.This, though, is a return too many to the same well.
The writing is shiftless, too cute--are we really supposed to think that her Houston students are such hicks that they shyly steal gazes at her mismatched shoes in the assumption that this is a fashion trend from the East Coast?-and smug. Not that Mazur is smug herself, but there is a tone and unapologetically disregard for thematic tightness where her comfort level for the details she is sifting through, highlighting and making half-formed asides about excludes the others in attendance, the readers. There's not a poet alive who hasn't written reams of poems one might consider "practice runs" or "finger exercises" that prepare one for a substantial bit of writing, and here Mazur suffers the embarrassing, albeit nonfatal indignity of mistaking her notes for a poem for the poem itself.She is a more interior designer here than poet, moving the furniture from one corner to the next, bringing in new pieces, refusing to toss anything out; someone might tell her that it's a bad habit to exhibit one's erudition in the form of formula name dropping
I sat at his oak desk trying to write,
ate at his table, holding his fork in my right hand,
turned the pages of one of the books,
then another, from his alphabetized shelves:
Mandelstam. Merwin. Milosz.
O'Hara. Petrarch. Pound.
It's fitting she ends the poem that she ends the poem with a paraphrase of an old joke relating to the mismatched shoes she stunned her Houston students with
—But those shoes, the maroon and the blue:
as the joke goes, I had another pair, just like it, at home.
Likewise, it's likely she has a dozen poems in her files just like this one, earnest gatherings of incidental autobiography and tidbits of wit and self-effacement, some of which make it out of the drawer and fulfill a reader's expectation. This isn't one of those lucky poems. This is dizzy, torn, and mumbled, and the associative leaps Mazur tries don't make it over that yawning abyss of self-reference and land in a terrain where her subject is less private and insulated, more animated, more full of life we can empathize with.without a mention of an idea, a notion, a metaphor any of these writers have written or said offhand, let alone conducting the work to expand on the paraphrase and produce a discourse . The addition of these names to the poem's length reaffirms the amateur interior decorator analogy, as they're treated like pillows and throw rugs one leaves about a space to brighten the place up.
Labels: Gail Mazur, Poetry
MANNY FARBER , 1917-2008
A friend of mine commented a couple of weeks ago that in a time when what we consume in popular culture is so prefabricated, formulated and test-marketed until all potential joy is legislated from its predictable husk, we tend to praise any movie, band, play, novel as "brilliant" that displays anything resembling a heart or half a wit about itself. Other superlatives come into play as well, like "great", "genius", "masterpiece" and all the rest, and the overrating of perfectly ordinary albeit respectable entertainment goes on. It's a sad and sorry cycle, especially in the case of the movies where the critic's assessments are most readily consumed by moviegoers and used to pick the flick to while away the dark with. It's a sad time for anyone who wanted to write about movies because those that influenced--Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, Manny Farber, James Agee--could think cogently about films in their essays. The shame of it all is that readers seem not to value critics who not only break with the reshuffled deck of platitudes and cliches that pass as criticism but who offered as well a coherent, tirelessly focused take on the art of movies. The late Manny Farber was no mere contrarian loudly blowing his nose into a dirty rag, he was a writer who spoke instead about what it was in a movie maker's art that interested him. Extracts from reviews in our current time are not pithy quotes from thoughtful and idiosyncratic points of view, of writers who actually did some heavy lifting when sussing through their responses to a movie. The cited remarks are "blurbs", concoctions of gutless verbs, lazy adjectives, and quizzical qualifiers that are more sound effects than meaningful statements. Pow, Zap, Pow!!! The passing of Manny Farber this week underscores the mediocrity of the scribblings that pass as film criticism these days. With newspapers dismissing their staff film reviewers in wholesale fashion, one pauses to consider if what Farber did exceedingly well and originally, think about movies, is headed for the dustbin of antiquated skill sets.
Painter and iconic film critic Manny Farber has passed away, and here I acknowledge a stylistic debt for my habits of critical mind. In both, his film lectures at the University of California, San Diego and in his groundbreaking collection of essays Negative Space, Farber, who nearly always appeared as if he'd been awakened prematurely from a long hibernation, insisted that movies were an art form of their own, not an ancillary product of other mediums. He broke with the mainstream habits of subjecting Hollywood films to literary criteria and instead developed a method of appreciating movies and movie makers as practitioners of recent and dynamic art that told stories visually. It was a painter's eye he brought to the classic black and white and technicolor masterpieces the old factory system produced like proverbial clockwork, and the good professor was influential in getting a generation of film critics to come to observe the framing of a film and making note of how editing between scenes advanced a particular narrative psychology. One admired as well his writing style, half of which seemed like a cross between blunt-but-friendly bar talk and aggressively packed care packages of ideas about how moving images, cut into particular sequences, lit in a certain manner and framed in arresting perspectives and odd, telling angles could convey a complexly weaved narrative line, stylized, compelling, confounding audience expectation. He better than anyone else I've read or have listened to seemed as well equipped to appreciate the stylistics of a Howard Hughes or a John Ford and describe the effects they could achieve in creating fictions that were sensual, sexy, dynamic. Perhaps because he was a painter, he seemed intrigued by the small details, the arrangement of objects in a frame, the juxtapositions between classes and interests coming into conflict. He noted the small things that made movies work and pleasurable.I took his classes back in the Seventies and early Eighties, and it was rather a treat to see this grumpy bear of an artist overcome his apparent discomfort at speaking in front of huge classrooms, rub his hand over his face, and point out the more salient, less conspicuous details of a director's visual art. More of a treat was when he would have other film professors and critics--Jean Pierre Gorin, Jonathan Rosenbaum-- suddenly have an exchange about the less obvious issues of film art. The topics weren't of particular interest to the general audience but to a student obsessed with intellectual mavericks whose critical apparatus transcended the ordinary BS and qualified as measures of genius, Manny Farber's film courses are among those moments one treasure and is thankful for having witnessed for a period.
Manny Farber, thank you.
Labels: criticism, Film, Manny Farber.
Poetry as on ramp
There's some chatter one hears that poetry is the safe space of ethical consistency and spiritual balance, something to be desired, attained, sought after. Poetry as some ideal garden to get to. Hardly the case, I think; literature is littered with geniuses who's best writing couldn't cure them of their demon summoning ills; they continued to be bedeviled.
Poetry is something to escape through, a tunnel from one place to another. Thinking that poetry is that place itself, the Lacanian "real" that is lost to all of us, is like stopping in the middle of the stairs as an end in itself. You get nowhere that's useful, unless you're sitting next to someone who thinks talking about stairs and their various qualities suffices for a day's subject matter.
The place to where poetry allows us to escape, however, has no geographic location an is namelesss; it is something akin to a heightened sense of extraordiarily weird life will seem if one insists on locating safe havens and resting places for the troubled , contradiction grasping intellect. Poetry is more process than psychic space or state; it's a rigor that enables you to come up against things, in themselves, that will not yield their essences and remain sane as you look for the parking space, fix lunch, return phone calls, check your bank balances. It keeps moving forward without thinking of straight lines.
UpdateSkyplumber ,in the comments, asks the pertinent question as to whether what I've said here might be construed as a arguement in favor of dismantling Fine Arts Programs. Geeze, I hope not.I suppose one can usurp my argument (a gripe , actually) to launch a campaign against fine arts in general in favor of some nativist tradition they would concoct. But that's not the aim, and those who would use anything I've said here for their agenda would have to go to cartoonish levels of distortion.
I aim not like John Dewy who regarded aesthetics more as "experience" a common person can learn to have rather than an end product. I believe in final art objects , "products" to risk the vulgarity. One needs, I think, something from which to start their processing. I just buy the idea that poetry, in itself, as collection of problematic writings trying to accommodate a corkscrewing reality, provides anything of an ideal realm where we get a hint of perfections and harmonies only God can know. The notion interests me not a bit, and the insistence that poets and their writings remain a priesthood deciphering invisible orders of things and offering up obscurantist clues creates a muddled thinking.
Poetry is not theology; I think more along the lines that poem is result of some period of intense inquiry on a set of experiences and conflicting ideas about them. The poem, though, isn't the end of it, in my view. The real success of a poem lies elsewhere, in the readers, among whom a writer would hope their work starts a conversation among voices that otherwise never have listened to one another.
No one here
This short missive might seem ironic to the few who are acquainted with my sticky objections to self-reflective writing. My objection remains, but there are exceptions to the rule, always, but there are those who are able to write with imagination and wit while obsessing over writer processes and perspectives without excluding the general readership. Paul Auster's style is so clear of superfluous adjectives, verbs and dead weight qualifiers that he gets across some of the mystery involved in composing a verse, a quality that eludes other writers. A novelist by trade, Auster's fiction often fashion themselves after mystery novels where every assumption and cover story is questioned, and in which action is moved forward by chance; whole chains of events and consequences in his best fiction-- The New York Trilogy, Book of Illusion, Leviathan-- that depend on the fickle choices of where one desires to place themselves, on impulse, on the spur of the moment.
No one here,
and the body says: whatever is said
is not to be said. But no one
is a body as well, and what the body says
is heard by no one
but you.
Snowfall and night. The repetition
of a murder
among the trees. The pen
moves across the earth: it no longer knows
what will happen, and the hand that holds it
has disappeared.
Nevertheless, it writes.
It writes: in the beginning,
among the trees, a body came walking
from the night. It writes:
the body's whiteness
is the color of earth. It is earth,
and the earth writes: everything
is the color of silence.
I am no longer here. I have never said
I have said. And yet, the body is a place
where nothing dies. And each night,
from the silence of the trees, you know
that my voice
comes walking toward you.
White Nights likewise comes across as a detective novel, combined with a ghost story; within in it are the themes of someone writing something in isolation wondering if anyone will read, how anything will change if a readership is found, how the writing lives on in the writer's words haunting a stranger years later, in another part of the world. This would the poetry Don DeLillo would write, I think if he were more attuned to the associating residue the covers a landscape or neighborhood that was once familiar but is now estranged by time. There is a novelist's precision in declarative statements like " The pen moves across the earth: it no longer knows what will happen, and the hand that holds it has disappeared " that mimics perception itself, how something beheld can seem so clear and self-contained to its purpose, place, and use and yet morph from the particular to a swirling ambiguity with the slightest alteration of mood.
It comes, finally, to that flashing recognition a reader experiences when the words of another voice confirm some trace of feeling one has felt in their travels through an amorphous existence. I think the poem is lovely, compelling, finally undecidable to final meaning. But that is the whole point, I would think.
No more poems about poetry
I've posted this elsewhere a year ago and would have been happy to let the archive swallow it whole until retrieved, but the subject is an arguement that cannot be settled, and it seems that I'm not yet done thinking about it. The immodest musings on meta-poetics are posted here where new readers might find something to either cheer for or sneer at. I am assuming , of course, that there are those who are interested in my half wit opinions and can stand my careening sentence structures. -tb
April, hardly cruel with its longer days and constant sunshine, does not seem so cruel in Southern California these days. T.S.Eliot, author of the fateful phrase that would be oft-cited sans context or coherent application, would doubtlessly agree with that assessment had he come through months of rain, gloom, mudslides and general grayness. The burgeoning of spring, the blossom of flowers, a quadrillion butterflies taking to the air, with all this you couldn't help smile and think life in April was worth waiting for, that this is a month worth savoring every sunny nanosecond of daylight for.
Grim facts do emerge in the month in spite the manic-cheer leading of the previous paragraph, the sorry and necessary fact that Federal Income Taxes are due by April 15, though one can absorb this philosophically however much it hurts to pay out what's due; death and taxes and all that. It is such an inevitability that it's pointless, you'd think, to have anxiety attacks over the fact. It is part of the texture of the day, a constant recurring weave in the tapestry of life. And all that.
A worse occurrence , a worse sin of existence, is National Poetry Month, where we will have the usual suspects , those few poets whose names are known by the mainstream reading public, engage in all sorts of self-congratulation and puffery , all in a grandiloquent attempt to sell poets and their work to a larger crowd of book buyers. Besides the fact that it doesn't work--those who don't buy poetry books, or care not to read poems at all are not likely to start the enterprise merely because Robert Pinsky or Billy Collins provide soothing assurance that poems are good for the digestion--what irritates me is the oncoming onslaught of poems about poetry. Readers are invited to observe poets attempt to make love to themselves in any number of verses where poetry is the subject.
Poetry against poetry is an amusing theme the first time you do it, but the contrarian stance can't mitigate the general obnoxiousness that it remains poetry about poetry all the same. Beyond the fact that it's usually a self-congratulatory clustering of poets praising themselves on being the "antennae of the race "(Pound's dreadful hubris-choked flourish), it illustrates a grating, even willful failure of imagination. "Failure" is perhaps too dramatic a word. "Laziness" would be a better fit.
Poets, regardless of their politics, religious beliefs, spiritual nuance or circumstance of gender, race, or even intelligence, have an over all need to deal with the world around them, to grasp experience as something raw and full , and then compose a poem about it all when there is something on the mind worth recording and revealing to a curious audience; it ought not carry the reminder that the author is a poet having the experience and who wrote the poem the reader currently holds, presumably reading.
It detracts from the job at hand, it dilutes, and it practically demands that the reader be grateful for the privilege to be in the presence of a soul more sensitive and attuned to life's nuance than him or herself. The promise of self-reflective art, brought to us in the Sixties by Godard and the sleeping sickness called Structuralism, was that once we understand the mechanisms and devices that form our ideas of meaning beyond the conventional, we will then be free to address social relations in words that would empower the reader to change society—to make a better world, to coin an odd idea.
Not much of that has happened in four plus decades, but the habit remained in poetry beyond the flesh-eating foisted on the art by those who misunderstood , I think, what L=A=N=G=U=A =G= E Poets were up to and centered their career making verse their subject matter. The Language Poets, one should remember, considered language as their starting point , with the work of Rae Armentrout, Barret Watten, Ron Silliman, Bob Perleman and others , in various ways and strategies, interrogating, contesting and disassembling entrenched assumptions and conventional wisdoms about tongue we define and hang our perceptions on. Theirs was a project to witness contradiction, paradox and ambiguity, to take up the modernist task of fashioning a rhetoric that vibrates and gives way to the unpredictability of events and experience and perception. Not to everyone's taste or thinking , but Language poets, I'd say, are interested in maintaining poetic dictions as a resource the writer and reader can take themselves beyond the increasingly inane pronouncements of the publisher's preferred vocal style.
What's happened in the wake of these writers is a fungus that's seeped into the marrow of the Body Poetic and given a generation of poets a way to write without having to make some greater sense of their experience. Less disguised, this means that many poets are seduced but the surface sex and sizzle of an antifoundationalist theory and are with pages of alleged verse that hasn't a single communicable notion in them. There is in all this maze traipsing a lack of ideas; nothing seems to be said about being in the world in details or nuance that makes the prospect convincing . Craft and style are essential to honing emotional content into something greater than mere confession or less appealing forms of monomania--I'm not wholly enthralled with the idea of poetry being a substitute for therapy or group-groping apologetics--but the continual emphasis on poets and poetry as subject matter represents a flight from the standard practice of poetry as an extraordinary way to fathom that unexplainable condition of being human. Carpenters who talk about hammers and nails only don't get houses built. Poets writing poems about poetry aren't being poets at all, but is rather being dime store Hamlets practicing meditative poses in the perfume counter mirror, so much erudition impaled with the spike of their own cleverness, afraid to wander through the door and perhaps have an experience.
Marianne Moore's "Poetry" is widely anthologized and often cited, and it shouldn't be a mystery as to why this poem among the hundreds she wrote is the one that an otherwise indifferent audience remembers: IT'S A POEM ABOUT POETRY!! She rather handily summarizes an array of cliches, stereotypes and received misgivings about poetry a literalistic readership might have ,feigns empathy with the complaints, and then introduces one crafty oh-by-the-way after another until the opposite is better presented than the resolution under discussion.
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in
it, after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician—
nor is it valid
to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
Moore is a shrewd rhetorician as well as gracefully subtle poet.Clever, witty, sharp and acidic when she needs me, Moore is clever at playing the Devil's Advocate in nominally negative guise, saying she dislikes it but mounting one exception to the rule after another until we have an overwhelming tide of reasons about why we as citizens can't exist without it's application.
It works as polemic, indeed, crafted as she alone knows how, and it adds yet another well-phrased set of stanzas that want to turn poets into more than mortal artists, but into a priesthood, a race of scribes attuned to secret meanings of invisible movements within human existence. It sort of stops being a poet after the first jagged stanza, not unlike all those pledge breaks on PBS that tirelessly affirm that network's quality programming while showing little of it during their pleas for viewer money. It's not that I would argue too dramatically against the notion that poets and artists in general are those who've the sensitivity and the skills to turn perception at an instinctual level into a material form through which what was formally unaddressable can now find a shared vocabulary in the world-- egalitarian though I am, there are geniuses in the world , and those who are smarter and more adept than others in various occupations and callings--but I do argue against the self-flattery that poems like Moore's promotes and propagates.
Novelists, playwrights , and journalists have had their mediums rightly demystified over time so that the title itself--novelist, playwright, ET AL--does not by association inoculate a writer against proper judgement; criticism, as such, deals with these scribes as craftsman , and the larger issue, literary wars and preferences aside, is how well an author writes, with how well they are doing their job.
The mystique remains,somewhat, for the poet and it is one that a good number of poets, good, bad and resoundingly mediocre, seem to want perpetuate. Moore, I think, had whimsy in mind when she wrote her piece, but the impulse to have poetry as the subject matter of new work keeps the medium unapproachable for many for no real advantage other than what appears to be vanity and status. There's a tendency to keep the edges of poetry blurry, smudged, indistinct as to the terms one is given to talk about poets and their work. One in this area doesn't want to give the whole game away.
Enough. Enough. If a poet has something besides themselves and their gift to share with us, please, let's read it, let's hear it, let's compare notes about life in this world. What poetry has lost in large portion is the capacity to evoke a sense of invisible structures behind the details of everyday life that , given the occasional hunch or flash of inspiration, could be sensed however momentarily and provide the reader with some extra energy to live fully another few hours on this plain in the attempt to make the world yield more beauty and fairness, and in it's place has come, in equally large portion, a self-consciousness that brings attention back to the poet as-arbiter-of-meaning, a broker of slippery signs who is so conceited (knowingly or not) about their nominal privilege and power that they can well dispense stanza after stanza of mirror-gazing narcissism without risking their standing over the minuscule dominion they lord their constructed value over.
Labels: Marianne Moore, Poetry
Whiteness ll
Stuff White People Like is a blog dedicated to mocking the ways of white folks, the class that is cursed with white skin and too much education and money, and as I've remarked elsewhere, white European Americans are the only ethnic assortment someone can make fun of with impunity; it's now beyond whatever value it as irony or poetic justice and now exists as a bad habit for taking cheap shots. Now we have a piece in the NY Times about the site's principle author talking about another white person's groupsyncratic curse, poetry readings.A laugh and a good wicked snort can be had making fun of the habits of poets, but limiting the odd ways to white folks alone amounts to taking the easy way out no less than some of the poems that appear on Slate. Everyone is in a hurry to get to an easy punchline, not in the interest of having an audience see their own foilbes but rather so the motor mouthing wise guying can jet through another batch of sarcasms so lame that one wouldn't even dare utter them at 1am on a Comedy Store Amatuer Night. Is someone brave enough to investigate the wierdness that besets ethnic groups in particular once they become infected by the poetry flu? Not really, it seems, and white people remain the easy target one may mock with out the slightest fear of being called to the carpet for the stereotyping disrespect. It's a sorry, lame ass practice
Labels: White People
Stuff White People Like is a blog dedicated to mocking the ways of white folks, the class that is cursed with white skin and too much education and money, and I've remarked elsewhere, white European Americans are the only ethnic assortment someone can make fun of with impunity; it's now beyond whatever value it as irony or poetic justice and now exists as a bad habit for taking cheap shots. Now we have a piece in the NY Times about the site's p
A laugh and a good wicked snort can be had making fun of the habits of poets, but limiting the odd ways to white folks alone amounts to taking the easy way out no less than some of the poems that appear on Slate. Everyone is in a hurry to get to an easy punchline, not in the interest of having an audience see their own foilbes but rather so the motor mouthing wise guying can jet through another batch of sarcasms so lame that one wouldn't even dare utter them at 1am on a Comedy Store Amatuer Night.
Is someone brave enough to investigate the wierdness that besets ethnic groups in particular once they become infected by the poetry flu? Not really, it seems, and white people remain the easy target one may mock with out the slightest fear of being called to the carpet for the stereotyping disrespect. It's a sorry, lame ass practice
Dullness of Intentions
This week's poem has been compared to Wallace Stevens and his regimented wonderings of what it must be like to permeate the membrane separating our existence of mere representation and enter into the realm of Platonic ideas, where the real things actually exist. Heady stuff for a poem to plough its way through, but there is at least an elegance in Stevens' ruminations on these fixed landscapes, things-in-themselves-unsullied or spoiled by human vanities.
I had concluded some years ago that Stevens had stopped his search for intrinsic and immutable meaning in the nature of things and concluded that his imagination and his gift for scrupulous composition would be put to better use re-framing the texture and position of things among those palm lined shores abutting the fabulous terraces and columned cabanas, thus investing his language with a further power to evoke the mystery of things that seem, to him, to collude amongst themselves to keep us guessing to what end our days serves. For most of us this results in periodic bouts of being dumbfounded , a chronic state of WTF; the pratfalls we have at the point when we assume we've discovered our path results in arguments with the results. Stevens fairly much admits that he'd be baffled if he thought he could define anything in this world of appearances, and realized he would be guessing. Fortunate for us the guesses were inspirations in themselves and that he had the genius to transform his speculative method into poems that would inspire the intrigued reader to ask better questions.
Ferry, though, hasn't the elegance or eloquence Stevens, and his poem The Intention of Things is a rudderless mess. One might have fun chasing pronouns and such things as they try to follow these elliptical couplets, but this reminds not so much as a poem of phenomenological speculation linked with the secret purpose of objects than it resembles a stoned rap a group of dopers would wander into once the smoke took hold and the world around them became an unreal cartoon they'd been dropped into. The worse part of it is that it reads further as if one of the zonked participants actually remembered the disparate topics of the ganja fueled rap and wrote it all down, trying attempting to make it a serious inquiry into the sequestered nature of things and events. It is humorless, it is over done, it is sophomore metaphysics, it is dull and very pretentious ; the narrator seems to think he's Hamlet , standing apart and on high, ruminating on human folly , the inevitability of death dispite all in-genius plots. But that's a speech that's already been delivered, an unsurpassable achievement. David Ferry's dry verse here seems more a typing exercise committed while he paraphrased a seeming half dozen ideas already infinitely paraphrased .
Labels: David Ferry, Poetry, Wallace Stevens
A new kind of Barbaric Yawp:David Lehman
David Lehman’s poem “November 18”, from his collection Evening News, was the subject of a dispute among some fellow poetry readers, half of whom liked the poet’s disjointed connections, and others who thought the poem was dated because of a seeming lack of unity and the use of the names of dead American musicians The conversation became rather steamy. All the same, the poem is hardly dated. Leham writes as though he's a radio recieving transmissions from across the decades, playing the music and the voices on bandwidths that bleed together. This is channeling indeed; what makes the poem enjoyable is Lehman's playful into a single communication, a voice ramped up to talk about several pleasures at the same time. The intrigue is not just makes into the excited stanza, but also those things that are left out, the segues and tranistions that are this speaker's connecting tissue. That tissue, I suspect, would make a poem as intriguing as this ode to hastily discoursed artistry.
Because it mentions people, places and things that are equated with the '50's? An arbitrary habit of thinking, I think. Lehman essentially creates a medley of voices, different streams of language that melt into one another, and with he balances the texture of associations the references bring; this is very much in the modernist mode, especially as practiced by The New York School, who, through the work of O'Hara and Ron Padgett, made a city poetry from an every day language of the noise of the city, it's billboards, magazine stands, grand hotels, loud radios and sports extravaganzas.
By David Lehman
It's Johnny Mercer's birthday
from Natchez to Mobile
in the cool cool cool of the evening
very cool with Barbara Lee
singing Marian McPartland playing
the greatest revenge songs of all time
hooray and hallelujah
you had it comin' to ya
and a bottle of Rodenbach
Alexander red ale from Belgium
with cherries and "Tangerine" in
the background in Double Indemnity
he had a feel for the lingo, "Jeepers Creepers"
as Bing Crosby sang it on my birthday
in 1956 I just played it three straight times
and an all-American sense of humor what does
Jonah say in the belly of the whale he says man
we better accentuate the positive that's it
happy birthday and thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind my bending your ear
Lehman lays claim to to a particularly American sound here, starting with Whitman's barbaric yawp, coming up through William Carlos Williams, and finding itself resting next to other high art forms that found much to use, exploit and find glory in from popular culture. It had been mentioned that Langston Hughes did this sort of thing” infinitely better”, but that’s an assertion meant to distract. Hughes never did anything remotely like what Lehman succeeds in doing here, I'm afraid. He sought a blues cadence, a gospel resonance, and a voice based on an idealized African American idiom, but what his brilliance is a separate set of accomplishments. They are simpatico on a number of points, but to weigh over the other on the merits of a fictitious objective standard is spurious.The terrains are different -- Hughes rural and black, Lehman white and urban -- and the motivations behind the experiments vary dramatically. Lehman is an inspired heir to the mood and tact of the New York poets, and what he is able to do he does cogently, with humor and a genuine love of making language behave in ways that are poetic for the sheer ingenuity that cogent barbarism can bring.
Hughes was quite a different case. the poem can't make up it's mind as to whether it wants to be urban jazz or rural blues. The poem is about, among other things, the thriving, buzzing, and churning diversity of noise and music and tempos that one finds spread out across the American landscape, and what happens is a nice medley of musical emulations. If you've driven across country with the radio on all the way, you'll have an idea what the poem manages, the layering of music, voices, references all on top of one another, some fading to the background, others picking up as you near the transmitters, everyone in competition to be heard on the limited band width. You pick up this curious, adventurous, experimental verve in his brilliant music. Lehman is in much the same grain grain, an artist filling up the space of the American Vastness.
Belgian ale? Why not Belgian Ale? We have choices in this Big Country, and the use of this sort of potable enhances that ours is a place comprised of ideas from many other places. It's a nice, fleeting detail that emphasizes the idea of constant surprise. Is it fun? Big fun. It may be to people familiar with Johnny Mercer and his lyrics. That's millions of people, so I don't think you can accuse Lehman of obscurantist tendencies. One needn't know classical Greek to read "The Waste Land". It's the language and the tone that carries you through to the feeling that's being created. A poem ought not mean but be. Now it's a tired old baby-boomer of a poem . This is a poem where the speaker is happy to be alive, is happy for the life he's had, and demonstrates an eagerness for what is yet to come. Lehman concisely, entertainingly and skillfully has written a poem that tells us to enjoy this noisy existence while we may, because the time we have is finite.
Natchez to Mobile certainly gives us a rich slice, but few would say that it's a particularly urban slice,the poem is about creating a feeling of the vastness of America , and also the sorts of loud and hopped up sounds that are made up to fill up what is largely space between the coastlies; part of the way you create that feeling is with place names, time honored and effective. One has the feeling of pointing at a map, seeing an odd sounding name that has native-sounding exotica, and telling your traveling companion "let's go there." It's texture, and it adds this pieces city/country/city layout. This is a poem with names that travel well through the decades; they travel far better than Pound's name dropping of long deceased Chinese poets lyricism in any guise that effectively makes a reader forgo reason and engage emotional, more "felt" associations from what the language highlights cannot be said to be antiquated; it is always timeless. This poem is perfectly comprehensible to anyone who cares to read it with open ears.
Mercer is the starting point, but the poem moves on, along the roads, through the towns, the meals, the intriguing place names. Lehman addresses Mercer's lyrical, vagabond spirit. In doing so, the poem, like travel itself, moves from where it starts, and becomes about something much larger, and harder to define. Final definition is impossible, more than likely, but what we have is the realization of one of my favorite clichés, it's about the journey, not the destination.
Labels: David Lehman, Poetry
Swimming from two shorelines
I was asked what a poet was talking about when I showed a friend a copy of John Ashbery's Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and I was, of course, stuck for a fast answer. "Everything in the room" I said," and nothing in particular". An unsatisfactory response, she said. "I know" I replied,concluding "that's why he's fun to read." She made a sound and arched her eyebrows, annoyed , maybe, by the implication that poetry should have an entertainment value
The question ought to be not if the Emperor is naked but rather if the observer is blind. My take is that if one thinks there is nothing to John Ashbery's poems, they are bringing nothing to their readings.There is,I'm convinced, such as a thing as Author's Intent , an element literary critics have been trying to beat to death for four decades or so, but even so the reader is obliged to fill in the blanks and to stop complaining the poems are , alternately, too direct or too complicated. Willingness is the key; something of oneself needs to be invested in reading the poems in order to find pursuable verse.
But nothing ventured, nothing gained.He was more the walker than Ashbery, I suppose, or at least he wrote more about the going to and coming from of his strolls. unlike Ashbery, O'Hara loved being an obvious tourist in his own environment, and didn't want for a minute for his poetry to leave the streets, cafes and galleries where he treaded. Ashbery is more the stroller who gets lost in his associations triggered by what he beheld. Ever more the aesthete than his fellow New York Poets, he was interested in things a little more metaphysical, that being that the reality that exists in the inter-relations being the act of perception and the thoughts that are linked to it, which branch off from the perception and link again with another set of ideas, themselves connected to material things observed and remembered.
O'Hara was immediate, like the city he loved, while Ashbery allowed his senses the authority to enlarge his perception, to explore the simultaneity of sight and introspection. In a strange way, Ashbery is the more sensual of the two, willing to examine that even the sacrifice of immediate coherence. I'm not a fan of difficulty for the sake of being difficult, but I do think it unreasonable to expect poets to be always unambiguous or easily grasped. Not every dense piece of writing is worthy by default, of course, and the burden falls on the individual talent. Ashbery's writing, for me, has sufficient allure, resonance and tangible bits of the recognizable world he sees to make the effort to maneuver through his diffuse stanzas worth the work.
Poetry, to distinguish itself from the precise mapping capacity of prose, ought to be written in a manner so ambiguity and multiplicity of possible readings thrive. .Otherwise, what would the point be? What matters for me as a tempered reader is not how well a writer coheres with a party line but rather how well they accomplish the goals of a craft that , by rights, should engage with a way of thinking of a confounding existence in a language that seeks to purify itself, continually,of easy attained tropes taken from a gallery of responses and generate instead some new ideas. Even the most conservative of poets in form and content do this very thing if they happen to be interesting writers at all; Poetry tradition is not a parsimonious use of language, but rather a deliberate expansion of what words pieced can do, what meanings they can evoke, and what sensations they can create.
Prose is the form that is, by default, is required to have the discourse it carries be clear and has precise as possible. Poetry and poets are interesting because they are not addressing their experiences or their ideas as linear matters subject to the usual linguistic cause and effect; poetry is interesting because it's a form that gives the inclined writer to interrogate their perceptions in unexpected ways. The poetic styles and approaches and aesthetics one may use vary widely in relative degrees of clarity, difficulty, and tone, but the unifying element is that poetry isn't prose, and serves a purpose other than the mere message delivering that is, at heart, the basic function of competent prose composition. I paraphrase the pragmatist’s credo: the validity of an idea is in how it works. It’s more interesting and fruitful, I think, to debate why individual poems work and why others just stay on the page, unlovable and flat, instead of holding the literary equivalent of Stalin Trials as to how well or badly a poet adheres to an approved party line. Quietude vs. Incomprehensible Quandaries? I reserve the right to swim from both shorelines.
Two concert DVDs from NetFlix
Miles Davis: Around Midnight (1967)
Filmed near the end of 1967 for the most part in Stockholm, Sweden, we have here a choice document that dispenses with the Davis mystique and allows us to hear the music , free and clear. Miles Davis didn't say much, as a rule, to his audiences, but with a band this good playing jazz this brilliant, it was wise for the band leader to allow the improvisation get the message across. Davis' trumpet work is all that is legend, crisp, curt, cool, muted, full of spatially lyric melodic forms and bursts of striking tones and angular phrasing. You anticipate the trumpeter's every solo, wondering what he'll think of next. Wayne Shorter on saxophone is Davis' perfect foil, an original voice who could provide you a sense of fully conceived and executed composition with each of his solos. The rhythm section of Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums is wonderful as well, especially Williams, who provided a malleable pulse that linked the instrumentalist’s dialogue.
Jimi Hendrix: Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight
We who grew up with Jimi and were saddened by his early death need to face facts and admit that he was an underdeveloped as a guitarist. In concert, anyway. While there is an oh-wow factor to consider in the man’s playing , the context is historical only, and an out of tune guitarist who sounds bored with the songs , the riffs and the stage antics he’s paid to perform does not travel well into the 21st century. For all the genius he demonstrated in the studio, he was a messy, out of tune, mistake-prone improvisor live, and this DVD shows him at his most exhausted. This is not experimentations in dissonance, as some would suggest, it's just inferior guitar work. Sorry, Jimi, but I do wish you had lived and gotten your act together, but at least you left us with "Electric Ladyland". I wish we had another ten years worth of music that amazing.
Labels: DVDs, Music
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Lipscomb is one game from NCAA Division I era win streak record
Bisons aim to stay unbeaten in conference play when they visit North Florida on Wednesday
Lipscomb is one game from NCAA Division I era win streak record Bisons aim to stay unbeaten in conference play when they visit North Florida on Wednesday Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2019/02/03/lipscomb-one-game-away-ncaa-era-win-streak-record-north-florida-casey-alexander/2759741002/
Mike Organ, Nashville Tennessean Published 11:00 a.m. CT Feb. 3, 2019 | Updated 2:58 p.m. CT Feb. 3, 2019
Lipscomb has the chance Wednesday to establish its longest win streak in the program's NCAA Division I era.
The Bisons (18-4, 9-0), who visit North Florida (9-15, 3-6) Wednesday (6 p.m.), stretched their win streak to nine games on Saturday by beating North Alabama 102-80 at Allen Arena.
That matched Lipscomb’s longest win streak in 10 years. The 2008-09 also won nine straight.
The last 10-game win streak was in 2000-01. But that came against a mix of NAIA opponents including Fisk, Cumberland, Montevallo and Indiana Southwest, and NCAA Division I opponents.
Kenny Cooper helped Lipscomb pick up its ninth consecutive win Saturday by scoring 16 points in a 102-80 win over North Alabama. The Bisons will go for a program record 10 straight wins Wednesday at North Florida. (Photo: JAMIE GILLIAM / LIPSCOMB ATHLETICS)
Lipscomb did not become a full-fledged NCAA Division I program until the following year.
Lipscomb is 32nd in the NCAA's new NET ranking, which replaced the RPI, in games played through Saturday. The only team in the state ranked higher is Tennessee at fourth.
The Bisons are ranked 10th national in scoring (86.4 points). The win over North Alabama was the third time they have scored 100 points this season. It was the most points Lipscomb has ever scored against an A-Sun opponent in Allen Arena.
But coach Casey Alexander said his team’s play on defense has been just as critical during the streak.
The Bisons have held their conference opponents to an average of 67.2 points per game and 40.4 percent shooting from the field.
“Offense is a little bit more of what we’re known for; we’ve always scored a lot of points," Alexander said. "But it really has been the defense that’s been the difference. The experience we have is the reason we're better defensively. It's a lot of the same guys; we're not doing anything different. We've just got guys who have been here for a long time playing without thinking and executing game plans. It's been a good formula..”
North Florida is on a losing streak. The Ospreys have lost their last five games.
Lipscomb beat North Florida 81-66 on Jan. 9 at Allen Arena.
The Ospreys are, however, ranked second in scoring offense (77.4 points) in conference play.
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Week 6: Libertarianism—Revisiting Hayek
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Patrick J. Deneen
In the final segment of the first half of this semester’s course, we focus on a relatively more contemporary (if not current) libertarian author, F.A. Hayek. While best known for his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, we will instead be exploring a few chapters from what is arguably his most philosophically accomplished book, The Constitution of Liberty. In particular, I want to explore the interesting confluence and tension that exists in this work between Hayek as both a “traditional” and a “progressive” thinker.
In stark contrast to Mill—who we discussed last week as a key figure in the articulation of libertarianism—Hayek does not begin his analysis with a condemnation of the “tyranny” of tradition and custom. Rather, “tradition” receives strong praise from Hayek, who regards the vibrancy and strength of traditional practices to be essential to a healthy and functioning society. No society can long subsist without inherited moral frameworks. Only the prevalence of a great number of habits permit people to make long-term plans with the assumption of relative stability between present and future. “A successful free society will almost always be a tradition-bound society,” he argues.
Hayek contrasts two understandings of liberty, one of which leads him to endorse the role of tradition. One understanding of liberty comes down through the British and Scottish tradition, and includes thinkers like Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and Edmund Burke. The other is the French tradition inspired by the thought of Descartes, Rousseau, Condorcet, and Comte. The former accepts freedom bounded by the practices of tradition, but thereby is generative of healthy progress. The latter seeks to “make men free” through the imposition of revolutionary reform, and hence generates forms of political tyranny in the name of freedom.
According to Hayek, “British” freedom arose because of an embrace of organic and gradualist change that welled up from broadly-accepted changes amid the people. As developed in the British tradition, change and progress are generated through trial and error, adaptation, evolutionary and cumulative growth. “Tradition” is just another way of saying “practices that people and society develop over time,” the form that “spontaneous order” takes when it is allowed to develop organically and nonhierarchically.
By contrast, Hayek condemns “French” liberty that engages in deracinated, abstract “rationalism.” Such purported efforts to advance liberty are the result of prideful and overweening belief in the ability of a few people to “design” social reform, and to impose it upon a people in spite of their particular situation or native inclination for change.
In the British tradition, change arises organically out of established social patterns and the mores of a society, and thus, well up from “the bottom up.” In the French tradition, reform is conceived as a full-blown plan that is abstracted from the life and patterns of society, and hence is imposed from “the top down.” The two worldviews are motivated by radically different views of human nature. Hayek writes:
The rationalistic design theories were necessarily based on the individual man’s propensity for rational action and goodness. The evolutionary theory, on the contrary, showed how certain institutional arrangements would induce man to use his intelligence to the best effect and how institutions could be framed so that bad people could do the least harm. The anti-rationalist tradition is here closer to the Christian tradition of the fallibility and sinfulness of man, while the perfectionism of the rationalist is in irreconcilable conflict with it. (120)
While these chapters at first blush would seem to exist in contradiction with Mill’s criticisms of “Custom” and would seem to merit placing Hayek—and perhaps liberatarianism—in the “conservative” camp, there are good grounds to understand Hayek’s defense of tradition as a preferred ground for progress. Unlike the times when Mill was writing, for Hayek the greatest threat to liberty no longer seemed to be the tradition-bound opinions that demanded conformity—particularly instantiated in “custom”—but rather the threat to liberty through directives of governmental central planning, empowered by the intervening philosophical developments of Progressive liberalism. While for Mill, government power should be used on occasion to restrain public opinion and protect transgressive individuals, for Hayek, progressive innovation was more likely to arise from the countless decisions of individuals in the ongoing development of ways of life, while government power increasingly seemed designed to thwart such developments. For Hayek, “tradition” was actually a constantly changing and shifting body of views and beliefs, largely accepted on a loose and voluntary basis in a way that did not bind individuals as firmly as he feared was the case of centralized government diktat. Indeed, eschewing Millian arguments to achieve Millian ends, Hayek held that tradition and custom were flexible enough to allow for considerable innovation:
It is this flexibility of voluntary rules which in the field of moral makes gradual evolution and spontaneous growth possible, which allows further experience to lead to modifications and improvements. Such an evolution is possible only with rules which are neither coercive nor deliberately imposed—rules which, though observing them is regarded as merit and though they will be observed by a majority, can be broken by individuals who feel that they have strong enough reasons to brave the censure of their fellows. (124)
Hayek’s “tradition” was thus defended for the end of progress and change—indeed, change that he argued ought to be considerably more rapid and transformative than his arguments in defense of tradition would initially seem to suggest. Progress is the inevitable result of unpredictable developments that are the product of the inquiring and innovating human mind. It can’t be said in advance whether any experiment or idea will turn out well, but Hayek has faith in the human capacity always to turn potentially baleful developments into unexpected forms of progress. As such, his arguments are not “traditional,” hewing closely to ways of ancestors: “It is not the fruits of past success but the living in and for the future in which human intelligence proves itself.” Change has no particular object but change: “progress is movement for movement’s sake” (95).
That said, Hayek is aware that a society that is in fact no longer “traditional”—relatively stable and very slowly-changing—in fact demands not only change, but rapid change as a matter of social necessity. Absent stability, the only option is rapid progress. This is because a changing society will foster relatively high degrees of inequality, and thus, potentially destabilizing dissatisfaction. Only rapid progress can ensure that the greater inequality of dynamic societies is acceptable to those who are “left behind.” “Progress at such a fast rate cannot proceed on a uniform front but must take place in echelon fashion, with some far ahead of the rest.” If such inequality is allowed to become stabilized, political and social dislocation is the likely result. As a matter of political exigency, Hayek argues, “in order that the great majority should in their individual lives participate in the advance, it is necessary that it proceed at a considerable speed” (96; emphasis mine).
“Tradition” thus exists to supply the venue for speedy progress. The speed of progress is needed to allay social discontent. And progress itself exists for the sake of progress. While opposed to “Progressive” fondness for central power and government planning, one is finally struck by the similar commendation of progress as an inevitable feature of modern society by libertarians, as much as by progressives. We are “captives of progress,” Hayek states—a curious formulation by a proponent of liberty, but perhaps finally understandable for one who equates the persistence of political liberty as hinging on constant and accelerating progress, lest society consume itself amid the realization that always only a few are the fullest beneficiaries of that “speedy progress.”
**Our course now takes a week hiatus for Spring Break; we will begin the second half of the course on Conservatism, starting with Natural Rights Conservatism and selections from Leo Strauss, beginning the week of March 23rd.
Patrick J. Deneen is David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Read Patrick Deneen’s seminar introduction and syllabus here.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Run-DNC
The ghosts of 2016 haunt the Democratic National Committee as it gears up for two nights of debates. Plus: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is out as White House press secretary.
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What We’re Following Today
It’s Thursday, June 13.
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‣ President Trump announced in a tweet that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving her job as White House press secretary to return to her home state of Arkansas, and encouraged Sanders to run for governor. Her three-and-a-half year tenure has been rocky, to say the least.
‣ The House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas for Rick Gates and Michael Flynn.
‣ The Office of Special Counsel, a federal-oversight agency, said that senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act repeatedly and should be dismissed.
Here’s what else we’re watching:
(Handout / Reuters)
Tensions, Tankers, Soldier, Spy: Ships burned off the Gulf of Oman today, the latest in a series of escalating hostilities in the region. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed the most recent attacks on Iran, but tensions between the U.S. and Iran have started to suck in bystander countries who rely on these waterways to ferry, say, sailors or regular commuters. From there, it’s a black hole.
Get Ready to Rumble: As the Democratic National Committee prepares to announce the slate of 20 Democratic presidential candidates who ended up qualifying for the first primary debates, the ghosts of 2016 still haunt the committee’s every move. Last cycle, the DNC apologized to Bernie Sanders after leaked emails revealed that some committee leaders favored Hillary Clinton. This time, Chairman Tom Perez has a clear message for 2020 candidates: If you don’t like the fundraising and polling thresholds, too bad. Here’s Russell Berman’s look inside the DNC’s two-year struggle to fix the presidential debate.
No Lessons Learned: President Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos, in an interview that aired last night, that if a foreign country offered him dirt on his 2020 opponent, he might take it. That shows how little he’s learned from 2016, writes Peter Nicholas. “His quest for an edge over a political opponent risks upending the rule of law.”
+ “Trump’s declaration, though, is neither especially surprising nor especially irrational,” argues David A. Graham. “Every indication is that the president’s electoral behavior will be worse in 2020, and there will be fewer constraints on him.”
Mayor Pete On Prosecution: The presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told The Atlantic that he would back a future criminal investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice. But he didn’t go as far as his Democratic primary opponent Kamala Harris, who said, if elected, she would direct her attorney general to pursue charges against Trump. “You don’t have to go out of the DOJ. And the less it’s done out of the DOJ, the better, because the further away it is from the political body, the better,” Buttigieg said.
‘A Voter-Turnout Tsunami’: Experts on both sides of the political aisle predict a huge swell of voter turnout in the 2020 election—likely the highest levels in decades, if not the past century. But paradoxically, the surge still might not dislodge the electoral importance of white working-class Americans, writes Ronald Brownstein. If you read just one story about 2020 turnout, make it this one.
— Madeleine Carlisle and Olivia Paschal
During her weekly news conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to a chart of legislation she says the Senate is refusing to take up. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
Ideas From The Atlantic
Kellyanne Conway Broke the Law—And Is Going to Get Away With It (David A. Graham)
“There’s no question of Conway’s guilt here ... The report’s conclusion is clear, as is the recommended punishment. And yet the only person who can punish Conway is the president—the very man on whose electoral behalf she broke the law, and who has made clear, as recently as Thursday, his willingness to break the law in order to win elections.” → Read on.
Sanders’s Speech About Socialism Was Deeply Unserious (Yascha Mounk)
“After years of using the term about as imprecisely as many of his followers, I hoped that Sanders would finally set out why it holds such importance to him, what role the market would play in the socialist system he promises to build, and how he can protect his political project against the Soviet risk. I can’t say he met my expectations.” → Read on.
Welfare Money Is Paying for a Lot of Things Besides Welfare (Zach Parolin)
“What do a Christian overnight camp, abstinence-only sex education, and pro-marriage advertisements all have in common? They’ve all been funded with money that used to provide cash assistance to low-income families.” → Read on.
What Else We’re Reading
‣ Why Does Ted Cruz Want to Team Up With AOC on Birth Control Access? (Christina Cauterucci, Slate)
‣ Bernie’s Red Vermont (Matthew Zeitlin, The New Republic)
‣ Punishing Kids With Years of Debt (Eli Hager, The Marshall Project)
‣ Why the Trump Campaign Won’t Pay Police Bills (Dave Levinthal, The Center for Public Integrity)
‣ The Scarcity Scam (George Will, National Review)
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Belzoni jam bands
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Top Jam Bands Near Belzoni, MS
Allen Tolbert Unit
Bluegrass Band from Birmingham, AL (213 miles from Belzoni, MS)
With decades of professional experience, The Allen Tolbert Unit is an acoustic band with influences ranging from the Bluegrass sounds of Alison Krauss, Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Del McCoury and Bill Monroe to the Jazz sounds of John Coltrane, David Grisman and Miles Davis to the newer sounds of The Avett Brothers, Nickel Creek, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Punch Brothers. Having opened for acts such as The John Cowan Band, Dread Clampitt, Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer, The Allen Tolbert Unit... (more)
Variety Band from Baton Rouge, LA (193 miles from Belzoni, MS)
"The bar has been set! 'ABOUT LAST NIGHT' is arguably THE best party/variety band we've seen in this region in years!" -quote from a native Louisiana newspaper, Feb. 2019 This entertainment critic went on to say, "...'ABOUT LAST NIGHT' has tons of talent & charisma, but what sets them apart from bands is the infectious FUN-FACTOR!" The formula really is that simple: FUN! About Last Night's goal is that everyone at your event (wedding, festival, corporate event, etc.) will have a... (more)
Just A Few Cats
Cover Band from Birmingham, AL (213 miles from Belzoni, MS)
If you're looking for a band that's FUN, PROFESSIONAL, and EXPERIENCED, Just A Few Cats is the perfect choice for you. Just A Few Cats was founded in April 2000 by Samford University Business School graduate and now Grammy-Nominated Songwriter, Alvin Garrett. Since inception, this band has performed for weddings, corporate events, festivals, concerts, and more. They are well-known for being interactive, energetic, and versatile while covering genres ranging from Motown, Funk, Pop, R&B, Jazz,... (more)
LOCAL w/ U-Jean
Top 40 Band from Birmingham, AL (213 miles from Belzoni, MS)
International Platinum-Selling Artist, U-Jean has joined forces with LOCAL to bring his career, originally launched in Germany, to the United States. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, U-Jean fuses Pop, R&B, and Dance music while being an electric entertainer. I've attached his interactive EPK, live performance links from the biggest festivals in Europe, and a promo video of his party band show as well if that interests you. U-Jean is able to be booked solo or with any combination of band up to 15... (more)
The Southpaw Preachers
Soul Band from Dallas, TX (366 miles from Belzoni, MS)
The Southpaw Preachers are a high-energy, highly funky act who draw their inspiration from an eclectic mix of soul, funk blues, jazz, hip hop, R&B, and hard-hitting rock n' roll. Their mission is to update and honor classic and contemporary soul music, incorporating their own unique and deeply groovin' flare. Offering band sizes ranging from three to eight members, their versatility and flexibility can't be beat! The Southpaw Preachers are comprised of dazzlingly skilled musicians from all... (more)
The Keeshea Pratt Band
Blues Band from Houston, TX (373 miles from Belzoni, MS)
The Houston based, International award winning Keeshea Pratt Band possesses the skill and artistry reminiscent of Blues and old school Motown; a rarity among bands of any genre today. The 9 piece musical collective, lends its energy and passion to traditional blues, contemporary blues and offers a preview of the future of blues. The musical artistry and dexterity of The Keeshea Pratt Band allows it to journey, unapologetically, across the genres of classical, jazz, Southern rock, soul,... (more)
Flying Balalaika Brothers
Polka Band from Austin, TX (469 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Want to throw a event that everyone will remember? The punk-steeped, folk-rock fused band Flying Balalaika Brothers formed almost twenty years ago and has been performing their over-the-top act for audiences across the country ever since. This band have entranced audiences with their unique blend of Gypsy folk, electric rock n' roll and eye-catching, interactive performances featuring instruments like the behemoth contra-bass balalaika, a triangle-shaped stringed instrument from Russia. The... (more)
Classic Rock Band from Dallas, TX (364 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Fable is a 4 piece band with guitar, bass, drums and keyboards and plays songs primarily spanning the 50s through the 90s but don't be surprised to hear some more contemporary songs mixed in as well. Fable is fortunate to have Mike's keyboard wizardry which allows the band to perform songs that require anything from a flute, a choir, an orchestra, synthesizer... let your imagination run wild! Come on out and have a good time with us! Be sure to check the "Offers" section on our profile... (more)
Dave Anderson band
Cover Band from Gainesville, GA (390 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Always unique and genuine, this band caters to music lovers with a diverse set of original songs as well as countless classics. Drawing from a deep well of inspiration and influence, the Dave Anderson Band and his Shade Tree Smugglers have steadily built a very loyal following over the years. Whether its Memphis Soul, Nashville chicken pick'n, smooth R&B, Motown, or classic Southern Rock right out of Macon, these guys have it covered featuring some of the best musicians in North Georgia.... (more)
MarquiAntoné
Jazz Band from Atlanta, GA (353 miles from Belzoni, MS)
MarquiAntoné (Mar·key/An·toe·nay) is a one-stop shop for your musical needs. Founder and Atlanta-based musician, Marquis Hardy, has an enthusiasm for performance and a passion to connect talented musicians. The umbrella that is MarquiAntoné encompasses three unique groups and a spectrum of music genres. They are The Marquis Hardy Jazz Band, a jazz ensemble; Mark II, a duo; and Marquis Hardy as a solo saxophone performer. The Marquis Hardy Jazz Band is a three to five member jazz... (more)
Steel Betty
Acoustic Band from Austin, TX (469 miles from Belzoni, MS)
When you book Steel Betty you are ensuring the finest old-timey bluegrass and acoustic music for your event, and a smooth and stress-free booking process for your sanity. The band delivers to your event a mix of traditional covers and original music with a hip look that has consistently delighted guests at private and corporate events across Texas. Just check out the many testimonials from happy brides, corporate event planners, and a slew of others thrilled clients from their two years in... (more)
Brookwood Split & The 17th Street Horns
Cover Band from Atlanta, GA (353 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Return to the heyday of the 1970s as Brookwood Split & The 17th Street Horns delivers a wide range of high energy dance music including rock, funk, soul, pop, and R&B songs from the 60s to today. With the sounds of Chicago, Steely Dan, Blood Sweat and Tears, Stevie Wonder, The Doobie Brothers, Average White Band, Earth Wind and Fire, Motown and more, this music will take you back to the best of what was and make it a part of you special event. We are always excited to play contemporary... (more)
Danny Johnson Band
Cover Band from Sanger, TX (386 miles from Belzoni, MS)
My name is Danny Johnson and I am in a family band with my brother and father. We play a wide variety of music. I try to focus in on Guitar Virtuoso Artists like Joe Satriani, Santana, Eric Johnson, and even Buckethead. But we also play great classic rock music from Ozzy, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, etc. We also cover newer bands like Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, Bullet for my Valentine, Tenacious D, etc. We will learn any number... (more)
Christian Rock Band from Atlanta, GA (355 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Dr. Zog Band
Variety Band from Austin, TX (472 miles from Belzoni, MS)
ZYDECO, CAJUN, FUNK, BLUES, MARDI GRAS. SPICE UP YOUR PARTY!!! THE AUDIENCE WILL BE DANCING AND PARTICIPATING TO THE HIGH-ENERGY SHOW. The Dr. Zog band has over 30 years experience in performing at festivals, weddings, corporate events and private parties. The band always provides a consistent performance with top notch musicianship and professional attire. The Dr. Zog Band will include a large scale concert sound system or a smaller sound system with "no" additional fee. We... (more)
Jonathan Moody Band
Cover Band from Dallas, TX (366 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Opened for VINCE GILL, MARK CHESNUTT, ROBERT EARL KEEN, and even played for LADY GAGA's Super Bowl halftime show rehearsal, among many more! Some of the most notable clients are HALLMARK CARDS, MICROSOFT, MONSTER JAM, LEATHERMAN TOOLS, TEXAS RANGERS, HYATT RESORTS, MARRIOTT RESORTS, WESTIN RESORTS, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, DR HORTON, HEB, TESORO, SUPER BOWL, PEPSI and the list goes on! Jonathan has been fortunate to grace prominent stages such as the HOUSE OF BLUES... (more)
Fresh Rain
Top 40 Band from Saint Louis, MO (381 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Fresh Rain does Top 40, Pop, Rock, Country, R & B, Motown & classics at corporate functions, weddings, private parties and restaurants. We have singers & musicians for all occasions. We know how to accommodate & customize your event with tasteful music that is professionally executed. EvErYbOdY LoVeS FReSh RAiN??? MuSiC Here is why!!!! FReSh RAiN is a premier Cover band & brand that specializes in weddings, receptions, corporate events, proms, wineries, birthdays & bar mitzvahs with... (more)
The Downtown Band
Voted “BEST LIVE BAND in TENNESSEE” and “TOP 10 BEST LIVE BANDS in UNITED STATES” by The Wedding Industry Expert Awards! The Downtown Band is a high-energy, dance-driven cover band, which delivers top quality live music entertainment. Tailoring each show to their client's needs, this five to ten-piece group can play everything from your elegant cocktail hour to the full blown after-party. With repertoire from all the classic eras (Jazz, Motown, Disco, Big Hair 80's, and today's hit... (more)
Atlanta Pleasure Band
Motown Band from Columbus, GA (327 miles from Belzoni, MS)
The Atlanta Pleasure Band managed by, East American Entertainment, offering many years of musical experience. An energetic, innovative, and talented band providing excellent entertainment to make your special event a success. The Atlanta Pleasure Band has experience in weddings, parties, corporate events, and bar-mitzvahs. The smooth sound and extreme pleasure of this band will leave you wanting more. From Motown to downtown, The Atlanta Pleasure Band creates memories. (more)
Underground Social Club
Dance Band from Montgomery, AL (258 miles from Belzoni, MS)
From the makers of Atlanta Party Band come a new sensation in Corporate Music. Performing everything from country club standards to night club anthems, USC will take any party to the next level. How do you become a member? It's easy! Just book Underground Social Club for your next special event. We play the perfect mix of today's dance hits, yesterday's favorites, throw in professional choreography, outstanding customer service, dedication to detail and guarantee your guests a great... (more)
OC SOUL AND THE SOUL PATROL BAND
R&B Band from Lithonia, GA (365 miles from Belzoni, MS)
OC Soul and the Soul Patrol Band is a soulful R&B band that includes Blues, Southern Soul, Funk and Pop. We provide a Las Vegas / Motown style show that engages the audience with a main focus on entertainment. We are versatile in our repertoire and music selection, based on our audience. We always have a great presence and a professional demeanor suitable for any party or event. We are a premiere band that does wonderful cover music that also has original, recorded music. We are among the... (more)
Garuda Blue
Jazz Band from San Francisco, CA (1813 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Garuda Blue is the hip and premier jazz and party band of the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in authentic, high-quality jazz and party music for weddings, corporate functions, events, etc. Composed of the finest young jazz musicians around, the band prides itself in delivering high-quality, sophisticated, and authentic jazz and party music for any occasion. With slick original arrangements of well-known jazz tunes, burning solos, foot-stomping party music, as well as a youthful, fun,... (more)
Robert Mabe Band
Bluegrass Band from Winchester, VA (801 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Robert Mabe provides entertainment for dozens of weddings and private/corporate events each year. Services include: Duets to five piece bands Sound/PA operation/setup Musical planning and special requests Announcements/DJ In addition to exceptional music/entertainment, Robert brings experience and service that is unmatched. Please check Roberts client reviews. Hundreds of clients are very happy for selecting Robert Mabe and you will be too! Robert Mabe is a stellar banjo... (more)
The Hot Sun Quartet
World Music Band from Tampa, FL (595 miles from Belzoni, MS)
The Hot Sun Quartet (Quarteto Sol Caliente) is a World jazz ensemble formed in 2000 and primarly consists of two flamenco guitars, congas/various percussion and a stand-up bass. Our music ranges from Swing and Latin Jazz to Brazilian Samba, Salsa and Flamenco. We cover the musical globe drawing inspiration from all cultures. This makes our ensemble unique with a large listening pallette. The Hot Sun Quartet is not limited to the instrumentation listed above. We can incorporate violin,... (more)
Variety Band from Boulder, CO (941 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Looking for outstanding musicianship? The Fever delivers with top caliber pros, impressive diversity, various band sizes & configurations, event planning, management assistance, & full customization, The Fever is hot! Our sound is full, hip, authentic, & supremely polished. Whether you want jazz for a refined Cocktail party, enticing funky beats & dance hits for your celebration—or anything in between— we'll create the perfect vibe for your entire event. The Fever's musicians are top... (more)
Jordan Sherman Band
Cover Band from Long Beach, CA (1591 miles from Belzoni, MS)
Jordan Sherman Band - Long Beach Top 40 Band, Corporate Band, Wedding Band, Party Band Jordan Sherman is a multi-instrumentalist who brings many different styles and elements to his live performance. Sherman has been working as a professional musician for 8 years in cities all over North America. With a repertoire of nearly 800 tunes, Sherman has been performing 5 nights a week continuing to evolve as a performer. He gives clientele an interactive experience--taking requests and... (more)
SitaraSon Cuban/Latin Band
Latin Band from Los Angeles, CA (1594 miles from Belzoni, MS)
***Your Salsa search stops here! This group of accomplished musicians plays traditional and more modern cuban music as well as Flamenco and popular Spanish music Hot n Spicy, Instrumental, Vocal, Dance or background music, SitaraSon will create the atmosphere based on your particular event needs. The group can be as small as a duo, or a full on 10 piece band. Whatever ensemble is right for your event, the group will bring an unforgettable energy and performance. SitaraSon has one... (more)
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Bringing trusted businesses and the community together
Launch of Dragon's Den competition for Haverhill
Robin Pilley, Director of CXG Property Services explains the Haverhill Dragons Den initiative.
"As we know during these difficult economic times there is a need to encourage the creation of new businesses whose growth can generate employment opportunities in the local community. The Dragons Den Haverhill panel wish to provide the benefit of their experience and demonstrate that even in times such as these a business can still prosper if the key fundamentals are in place from the start. This was the reasoning which led to the Haverhill Dragon's Den initiative.
We have secured the backing of our local MP Matthew Hancock and the panel will also include Howard Lay, the Principal of Samuel Ward Upper School, Paul Sullivan, the local Lloyds Senior Commercial Business Manager, Steve Catchpole, Director of Coach Me, Darren Waddup of Waddup Windows, and finally, the three Directors of CXG: Elaine Grubb, Robin Pilley and Daniel Pilley.
The competition will be divided into two but the key areas the judges will be considering include:
Is the idea put forward commercially viable?
The approach of the applicant - have they shown determination and commitment when facing challenges?
Is their business scalable?
Is the idea they present investable?
What entrepreneurial initiative have they shown in the past?
What market research have they done to demonstrate their product or idea can be turned into a profit making business?
How much passion do they demonstrate for starting their own business?
How well have they presented their idea?
What are the financial requirements of their business and how will the prize money be utilised?
What vision do they have for their business over the first 3 years of its development?
How focused and driven are they as individuals?
How robust is their business plan?
The process will be the same for both competitions and the criteria for each is as follows:
Competition One:
Entrants must be aged 18 and above.
It must be a start up business.
Competition Two:
Entrants must be up to the age of 21.
We have raised a £10,000 prize pot and the winner of each category will receive £5,000 to assist in the establishment of their business. The entrants have until the Thursday 31st May to submit their ideas. We will be paring these entries down to a short list of 6 for each competition. The 6 chosen by the judging panel will be presented in the Haverhill Weekly News and the readers will vote for their 3 finalists in each category. The final judging will take place in early June at CXG’s head office at 12a High Street, Haverhill.
If you know anyone who would be interested in entering then send off your submission to Robin Pilley, Private and Confidential, Dragon’s Den Competition, c/o CXG Property Services, 12a High Street, Haverhill, CB9 8AR."
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SMPTE Grants Fellow Status to 15 Industry Leaders
Class will be celebrated at SMPTE 2015 conference
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has announced that it will grant 15 current industry leaders the status of SMPTE Fellow. Individuals are granted Fellow status after attaining an outstanding rank among members of the Society through their proficiency and contributions to the industry.
The 2015 Class of SMPTE Fellows are:
Annie Chang, vice president of post-production technology at The Walt Disney Studios
Paul R. Chapman, senior vice president of technology at FotoKem
Peter Fasciano, executive director at Franklin TV and WFPR-FM
Simon Fell, director of technology and innovation at European Broadcasting Union
William T. Hayes, director of engineering and technology at Iowa Public Television
Larry J. Hornbeck, TI Fellow Emeritus at Texas Instruments
Jim Houston, principal at Starwatcher Digital
Toshiaki Kojima, senior standard manager at Sony Corporation
Sara J. Kudrle, product marketing manager at Grass Valley
Karl Joseph Kuhn, senior video applications engineer at Tektronix
Kenneth Michel, vice president of content systems engineering at Disney/ABC (retired)
Delbert R. Parks III, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Sinclair Television Group
Michael Strein, director of technology and workflow at ABC-TV
Giles Wilson, head of TV compression business at Ericsson
Peter A. Wilson, founder and managing director at High Definition & Digital Cinema Ltd.
The new members will be officially elevated during the Fellow Luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 28, held in conjunction with the SMPTE 2015 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles.
For more information, visit www.smpte2015.org.
SMPTEawardsFellows
SMPTE Bumps Up 12 to Fellow Status
There will be a dozen new industry professionals joining the ranks of SMPTE’s Fellows, according to a press release from the organization.
SMPTE(R) Elevates 15 Motion-Imaging Technology Industry Leaders to Fellow Status
Achievements of the Society's Newest Class of Fellows Will Be Celebrated at SMPTE 2015
SMPTE Announces 2015 Award Recipients
SMPTE revealed the awards for individual industry members whose contributions will be recognized at the SMPTE 2015 Awards Ceremony.
SMPTE Elevates 16 Members to Fellow Status
This honor is conferred on individuals who have, through their proficiency and contributions to the industry, attained an outstanding rank among members of the Society.
SMPTE Honored by AMPAS
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers was honored over the weekend with a special award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
SMPTE Unveils 2017 Awards Recipients
SMPTE will roll out the red carpet for the newly announced SMPTE 2017 Award recipients.
SMPTE Elevates 16 Motion-Imaging Technology Industry Leaders to Fellow Status
SMPTE 2016 Will Pay Tribute to Achievements of the Society's Newest Class of Fellows and Celebrate 100 Years of SMPTE Leadership and Innovation
SMPTE 2017 Will Pay Tribute to Achievements of Newest Class of Fellows as Society Enters Next Century of Leadership and Innovation
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Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs'
"Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, an advocacy group for people with HIV which works with injecting drug users (IDUs). "Russian prisons are terrible places full of HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases. Drugs are often even more accessible there than anywhere else." She added: "What we need instead of this harsh drug control rhetoric is greater emphasis on rehabilitation, substitution treatment, case management for drug users and protection from HIV."
Congress on Speed
Eric E. Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by preventing overdose, reducing the spread of HIV, and lessening violence, preventing crime, and saving money. With a commitment to governing, instead of grandstanding, Congress could make a careful analysis and weigh the alternatives.
Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work
The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct national drug control policies and the future of the global drug control regime. As diplomats sit down to rethink international and domestic drug policy, they would do well to recall the mandate of the United Nations, not least to ensure security, human rights and development.
Global Commission on Drug Policy Report
The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed.
Global Commission Report(pdf, 152.21 KB)
The development of international drug control
Martin Jelsma
The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug control regime.
The development of international drug control(pdf, 508.78 KB)
Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories
The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policies and criminal sanctions. Mounting evidence, however, suggests this approach has failed, primarily because it does not acknowledge the realities of drug use and dependence. While drugs may have a pernicious effect on individual lives and society, this excessively punitive regime has not achieved its stated public health goals, and has resulted in countless human rights violations.
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UN expert calls for a fundamental shift in global drug control policy
At a press conference in New York on Tuesday 26 October, 2010, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN’s key human rights experts will call for a fundamental rethink of international drug policy. Anand Grover, from India, is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, whose mandate is derived from the UN Human Rights Council.
Human Rights and Drug Policy
In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, denial of essential medicines and basic health services. Drug control policies, and accompanying enforcement practices, often entrench and exacerbate systematic discrimination against people who use drugs, and impede access to controlled essential medicines for those who need them for therapeutic purposes.
Human Rights and Drug Policy - Overview 2010(pdf, 697.92 KB)
2016: The UN's year to take on drugs
Global disagreement over drug policies provides an important opportunity to reconsider the effectiveness of existing counternarcotics policies, address their problematic side effects, and propose evidence-based alternative strategies. Because of the differences in attitudes on drug policy around the world, a substantial revision of existing counternarcotics treaties is unlikely at UNGASS 2016. (See also: Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016)
The Road to UNGASS 2016
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug policy. The General Assembly is the highest policy making and representative organ of the United Nations (UN), and its infrequent Special Sessions focus on pertinent topics at the request of member states. The UNGASS on drugs has the potential to be a ground-breaking, open debate about the international drug control system – but there is much work to be done to ensure that it fulfils that potential.
The Road to UNGASS 2016: Process and Policy Asks from the IDPC(pdf, 288.07 KB)
IDPC Drug Policy Guide
This is the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide aimed at national government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a number of members of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and partners, and brings together global evidence and best practices on the design and implementation of drug policies and programmes at national level.
idpc-drug-policy-guide_2nd-edition.pdf(pdf, 2.94 MB)
Drug Policy Reform in Practice
Martin Jelsma, Tom Blickman
The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the paper "Drug policy reform in practice: Experiences with alternatives in Europe and the US".
Drug Policy Reform in Practice: Experiences with alternatives in Europe and the US(pdf, 141.28 KB)
The current state of drug policy debate
Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug policy situation in the European Union and the current state of debate in the United Nations agenda. The commission is an initiative born of former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, from Brazil, César Gaviria, from Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo, from Mexico, to respond to concerns related to the problems of drug consumption and traffic in Latin America. The idea to constitute a commission capable of consolidating a debate concerning this problematic also responds to the necessity of reviewing the world drug policies in the scope of the United Nations, which began in March 2008.
Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs
Evan Wood, Moira McKinnon, Robert Strang, Perry R. Kendall
The use of illegal drugs remains a serious threat to community health. However, despite the substantial social costs attributable to illegal drugs, a well-described discordance between scientific evidence and policy exists in this area, such that most resources go to drug law enforcement activities that have not been well evaluated. When the Office of the Auditor General of Canada last reviewed the country’s drug strategy, in 2001, it estimated that of the $454 million spent annually on efforts to control illicit drugs, $426 million (93.8%) was devoted to law enforcement.
improving-community-health.pdf(pdf, 515.7 KB)
The 9th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue
In December 2017, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ), in collaboration with the Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage (MFLF), jointly organised the 9th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue (IDPD) in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
9th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue Chiang Rai 2017 Report(pdf, 397.01 KB)
The 10th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue
From 15 to 18 November 2018, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) jointly organised the 10th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue (IDPD). It was organised in collaboration with the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) of Myanmar and held at Inle Lake, Southern Shan State, Myanmar.
The 10th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue Report(pdf, 414.49 KB)
‘Found in the Dark’
Ernestien Jensema, Nang Pann Ei Kham
To address its serious drug use problems, Myanmar should change its drug policy towards a harm reduction approach. Instead of a repressive approach, voluntary and evidence-based treatment and public health services, including harm reduction, should be made available and become generally accepted by enforcement officials and by the community at large.
'Found in the dark' The Impact of Drug Law Enforcement Practices in Myanmar(pdf, 362.1 KB)
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Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Manfred Nowak
The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment submits his third report to the Human Rights Council. The Special Rapporteur focuses on the compatibility of the death penalty with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment discusses a human rights-based approach to drug policies.
a-hrc-7-5.doc(doc, 131 KB)
Drug experts plead for a better way
In an Alternative Drugs and Addiction Report, experts have warned politicians that current laws on dangerous drugs are doing more harm than good in Germany.
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Troxel Helmets Home News Troxel Releases Top 10 Helmet Safety Facts & Myths for International Helmet Awareness Day 2011
Troxel Releases Top 10 Helmet Safety Facts & Myths for International Helmet Awareness Day 2011
San Diego, CA – Troxel LLC, the worldwide leader in ASTM/SEI-certified equestrian helmets, is delighted to announce their continued support and participation in the second annual Riders4Helmets International Helmet Awareness Day 2011, to be held on Saturday, June 11th, 2011. In Troxel’s ongoing effort to educate riders of the importance of wearing a safety helmet “every ride, every time,” Troxel has released the “Top 10 Helmet Facts and Myths.”
“Equestrian athletes are overcoming a traditional resistance to wearing protective helmets on every ride", said Shay Timms, CEO of Troxel. “International Helmet Awareness Day is a significant step toward helmet acceptance, and Troxel is proud to support Riders4Helmets in its efforts to increase awareness.”
In 2009, Troxel implemented its online Safety Center to raise helmet safety awareness. “Many riders we talk to are shocked to learn that horseback riding carries a higher injury rate than motorcycle riding," said Timms. “Troxel has made it a goal to keep educating riders about the importance of helmet usage by offering them the latest helmet information through engaging media such as the Top 10 Helmet Facts and Myths.”
Troxel’s Safety Center is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of equestrian helmet safety information available online. Organized into categories for adults, kids, and educators, the Safety Center provides an assortment of resources designed to engage equestrian riders, promote safe helmet practices, and ultimately reduce the occurrences and severity of head injuries.
Individuals or organizations wishing to hold an event to recognize International Helmet Awareness Day may email admin@riders4helmets.com for helmet awareness graphics and other support materials. People can participate and show their support just by wearing a helmet on June 11th, regardless of their discipline. Riders4Helmets logo wear is available for purchase at www.equestriancollections.com for equestrians who wish to show their support for the campaign.
The Rider4Helmets campaign has received the official endorsement of the USEF, USEA, USDF, USHJA, AETA, ARIA, EAF, CHA, PRO, EMSA and many leading equestrians. For more information on the Riders4Helmets campaign, visit www.riders4helmets.com
For more helmet safety information please visit Troxel’s online Safety Center: http://www.troxelhelmets.com/safety
About Troxel
Troxel is the world's leading provider of ASTM / SEI certified equestrian helmets for competitive, schooling and recreational riding. Established in 1898, Troxel is recognized for its innovative design and research leadership in helmetry. Based in San Diego, California, Troxel now dedicates all its resources to equestrian helmets and related accessories, and has provided over three million helmets to the equestrian market.
About Riders4Helmets
Riders4Helmets was founded in early 2010 after Olympic dressage rider Courtney King Dye was seriously injured in a riding accident. King Dye, who remained in a coma for a month following her accident, was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. Jeri Bryant donated her helmet campaign t-shirts (featuring the slogan “Strap One On–Everyone’s Doing it”) to an eBay store set up to raise funds for King Dye, and a partnership was formed, resulting in the Riders4Helmets campaign.
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Blog Posts on Famous Types
7 INTP Famous People Outside of STEM Fields
09 December 2019 / By Lily Yuan
Picture a typical INTP. What comes to mind? The spunky mad scientist who hasn’t seen daylight in the last three months? How about the mathematician with zero social skills? These images couldn’t be further from the truth. INTPs can and do excel in a variety of fields outside of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, with their own offbeat and individualistic flair.
Categories: Famous Types, INTP
What Was Jesus’ Personality Type?
06 December 2016 / By Gayle Weinraub
Do you ever wonder what Jesus Christ’s personality was like? Have you felt curious at times about what he was like as a son, neighbor, friend, student, teacher? What kind of experience do you suppose it was to interact with him?
Category: Famous Types
The Personality Types of the Presidential Candidates
16 February 2016 / By Molly Owens
Can your personality type predict how you would run the country? Sure it can! Based on extensive probing into each candidate's personality traits as revealed through their words and deeds, as well as entirely subjective judgment calls, here's how each of the 11 remaining Presidential hopefuls might fall among the sixteen personality types created by Myers and Briggs...
Categories: Famous Types, Types & Society
5 Super Successful Introverts, and What They Did Right
18 August 2015 / By Kara Foran
We’re living in the era of the introvert. The introspective professional is reaching paramount success over and over again.
Where Are All the Female (Fictional) INTJs?
11 August 2015 / By Rachel Suppok
Not long ago, I was trying to think of fictional female INTJs, because that’s what one does when one is a nonfictional female INTJ with too much time to think. It’s a glamorous life.
I then realized that I could not think of a single fictional counterpart for myself. A friend helpfully pointed out that both main characters in Silence of the Lambs—Hannibal Lecter (male) and Clarice Starling (female)—are INTJs.
So my list increased from zero to one.
Categories: Famous Types, Types & Society, INTJ
Personality Typing: The Superhero Edition
23 October 2008 / By Truity
Okay, analyzing presidential candidates' personality types is interesting and instructive, but perhaps it's time for something a little more lighthearted? After sifting through the superhero movie deluge this summer, I started thinking about our iconic heroes and their personality styles. Some are more apparent than others, but here are my guesses.
The Much-Disputed Personality Types of the Presidential Candidates
23 September 2008 / By Truity
Everyone's doing it--from Slate to Keirsey, journalists and type professionals are all weighing in on the personality types of John McCain and Barack Obama. The writers at Keirsey.com, including Dr. Keirsey himself, argue that personality type has exerted a powerful force in presidential elections over the history of our nation. He makes a case for the idea that Sensors have an advantage when communicating with their constituents because they tend to be more concrete and factual.
Summer Movie Personality Typing
23 June 2008 / By Truity
If you're a true personality nerd (as I'm afraid I am) you find yourself trying to type people wherever you go--and that includes in the movie theater! Here are my thoughts on the type of some of our most famous summer movie heroes.
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Apple’s New iPhones Unaffected By Throttling Due To ‘Hardware Updates’
Right now users of Apple’s older iPhone models are experiencing throttling due to a software update that attempts to manage the power the phone uses and the battery. Basically as the battery degrades, power management becomes unstable and can lead to unexpected shutdowns, which is why Apple introduced the throttling feature in the first place.
So what does that mean for future iPhones? Do iPhone 8, 8 Plus, or iPhone X users need to worry about throttling in the future? Perhaps not because in a letter Apple sent to Senator John Thune, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, they revealed that the newer iPhones (and presumably future iPhones) come with “hardware updates” that does away with the need for throttling.
The letter reads in part, “iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models include hardware updates that allow a more advanced performance management system that more precisely allows iOS to anticipate and avoid an unexpected shutdown.” Apple does not dive into details as to what exactly these “hardware updates” constitute, but presumably it is something that they will be applying to future iPhones as well.
Right now Apple is facing a ton of probes by various government bodies and consumer watchdogs around the world. They are also dealing with a bunch of class-action lawsuits from disgruntled customers, so we can imagine that the whole “batterygate” scandal probably won’t be dying down anytime soon.
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Attack on South Sudan Bus Convoy Kills 6
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN Police say the death toll from Wednesday's attack on two buses traveling to Juba from the border town of Nimule has risen. Daniel Justin Achuor, spokesperson for the South Sudan National Police Service, said Thursday 10 people were wounded and nine people were killed.
Two of them are soldiers and seven are civilians. All those who were wounded are taken to Nimule [civil hospital] and now the situation is calm, Achuor told South Sudan in Focus.
Achuor said commercial buses from Juba traveled to Nimule Thursday without incident.
The Juba-Nimule road is a major lifeline linking the South Sudanese capital with the East Africa region, via Uganda. The road carries most goods that South Sudanese traders import from Uganda.
Wednesday's incident was the fifth deadly attack this year along the 200-kilometer stretch of road between Nimule, on the banks of the Nile River, and Juba.
Ambush attack
The SPLA spokesman, Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang, said one of the buses was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, and that the attackers also had heavy weapons. He blamed rebels loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar for the raid, but a spokesman for Machar's SPLA-In Opposition group denied any involvement.
The attackers were repulsed, Koang said. He indicated government forces inflicted an equal number of casualties on the raiders who opened fire on the buses, but details were unclear.
A passenger aboard one of the two buses heading for Juba said a very serious ambush broke out after the convoy passed Moli town in Eastern Equatoria province, less than halfway along the route to Juba.
The passenger said he saw three people who had been shot to death, one woman and two men, before the buses turned around and headed back to Moli. Several people with gunshot wounds were taken for treatment to Nimule.
Each side blames the other
Koang told VOA he was convinced that rebels loyal to Machar were responsible for the attack. However, the deputy military spokesman for Machar's SPLA-IO, Colonel Lam Paul Gabriel, was equally certain that his fighters were not involved.
We do not know exactly who is responsible for that, but we have sent an MI [military intelligence] team in search for the culprit, Gabriel told South Sudan in Focus. We are advising our civilians to be careful while traveling on this road.
He said SPLA-IO forces had received strict orders from Machar, making it very clear that civilian vehicles should not be attacked.
Before Wednesday's ambush, the most recent attack on the Nimule-Juba road was in June, when 10 people including two senior army officers were killed in a raid on another convoy. That assault was believed to have been carried out by Machar loyalists.
South Sudan has been mired in civil war since the young nation's first president, Salva Kiir, dismissed his deputy Riek Machar four years ago. After a peace accord was signed in April 2016 and backed by the United States and other Western nations, Machar returned to the capital to share power with Kiir, but the deal fell apart less than three months later, and Machar and his supporters left Juba.
Nearly 2 million residents have fled South Sudan since 2013, in Africa's largest cross-border flood of refugees since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The exodus from South Sudan has become one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, according to aid groups.
Source: Voice of America
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Information published on 1 June 2011 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 240.
Successful 9th World Congress on Railway Research organised by SNCF in Lille
Over 800 participants representing 35 nationalities participated in this congress which constitutes a global benchmark in rail research. The theme of the congress was “Meeting the challenges for future mobility”
WCRR 2011, the 9th World Congress on Railway Research, was held in Lille (Grand-Palais Conference and Exhibition Centre), France, from 22 to 26 May 2011. This congress, hosted in the capital of France’s northern region by French Railways (SNCF), and organised in close cooperation with WCRR’s founding partners –TTCI (USA), DB, RTRI (JR), RSSB (UK), Trenitalia (FS), SNCF and UIC - was attended by over 800 participants from research institutes, the supply industry, as well as railways and institutions working to promote the development of rail transport.
The overall theme of WCRR 2011 was “Meeting the challenges for future mobility.” The theme’s three main sub-topics (respecting the environment and eco-mobility, new services for customers, an efficient railway system) were further broken down into eight major unifying and innovative challenges:
A more energy-efficient railway
An environmentally-friendly railway
Increasing freight capacity and services
A world of services for passengers
Bringing the territories closer together at higher speeds
Even more trains even more on time
An even more competitive and cost efficient railway
For an even safer and more secure railway
The WCRR opening session took place on 23 May with the participation of Mr Guillaume Pepy, SNCF President, Mr Yoshio Ishida, EJRC, UIC Chairman, Mr Zoltan Kazatsay, Deputy Director-General for Mobility and Transport at the European Commission, Mr Daniel Percheron, President of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, and Dominique Riquet, Mayor of Valenciennes, Vice-Chairman of the Transport and Tourism Committee at the European Parliament.
SNCF President Guillaume Pepy recalled that railways were an extremely complex system composed of complicated interfaces, both with regard to rolling stock and infrastructure and human factors. The priorities for innovation and research were to ensure the availability of the rail system and smooth, seamless and connected operations. Progress has notably been made concerning services for customers, predictive maintenance for infrastructure and rolling stock, energy use and sustainable development, and optimising the global railway system.
The speech delivered by Mr Yoshio Ishida, UIC Chairman, was very well received by participants. Mr Ishida highlighted the importance of research in the railway sector to make the train the preferred mode of transport. In his view, the priorities were to optimise the operation and maintenance of the railway system, to make it more user-friendly for the customer, to help bring costs down and become more sustainable. He also underlined the importance of research activities on risk prevention in the sector, making his point with reference to the devastating event that has recently hit Japan.
10 prizes awarded during the WCRR closing ceremony
Facts and figures: WCRR 2011 also featured three round table sessions during the plenary session at the start of each day, 49 sessions, 220 oral communications and 85 posters.
The official closing ceremony of WCRR 2011 in Lille consisted of a prizegiving ceremony, where 10 prizes were awarded: one for each of the eight challenges, plus a prize for the best young researcher and for the best poster.
The prizes for the eight challenges were awarded to:
Marina Thiuonn-Guermeur, SNCF Innovation and Research (More energy-efficient trains)
Arnold Miller, Vehicle Projects, USA (Greener trains)
Luca Pugi, University of Florence (Increase freight and freight services)
Corinne Talotte, SNCF Innovation and Research (A world of services for passengers)
Hua Chen, RTRI, Japan (Bringing the territories closer together at higher speeds)
Dennis Huismann, Netherlands Railways (Even more trains even more on time),
Björn Paulsson, UIC, and Anders Ekberg, Chalmers University/UIC for Innotrack (An even more competitive and cost efficient railway)
Selim Bellaj, SNCF Railway Test Agency (For an even safer and more secure railway),
Kate Bonsall, RSSB, UK (Best young researcher)
Taehoon Koh, KRRI, Korea (Best poster)
10th WCRR in Sydney, Australia
It was announced at the end of the congress in Lille that the 10th world congress on railway research, WCRR 2013, would be held from 25 to 27 November in Sydney (Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre), Australia. The Chairman of the WCRR 2013 Organising Committee is David George, CEO of CRC for Rail Innovation, Australia.
For more information please contact: WCRR 2011 (Lille): Marie.Cauty@sncf.fr
WCRR 2013 (Sydney): WCRR2013@informa.com.au (to inform us of your interest until the congress website becomes operational).
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International Railway Research Board meeting (Lille,France, 26 May) Successful 2011 edition of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig (25-27 May 2011) 1st South East Environment Workshop, Belgrade 29 – 30 September UIC Safety Platform Steering Group meeting Results of the international children’s drawing contest on safety at level crossings 20 years of high speed in Germany 20 new Pendolino high speed trains for PKP Intercity UIC Policy and Management course Russia: Russian Railways Construction Projects in Support of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi are Progressing at Full Steam
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Last opportunity to participate in the UIC Global Rail Research & Innovation Awards 2018 (25 September 2018) Register now for the “Global Debate on Mobility Challenges for Future Society” from 15 – 16 November 2018 in Warsaw (25 September 2018) IRRB Plenary Meeting held on 18 September 2018 in Berlin (25 September 2018) Reminder: SAFER-LC Mid-Term Conference on 10 October 2018 at FFE HQ, Madrid, Spain (18 September 2018) Last opportunity to participate in the UIC Global Rail Research & Innovation awards 2018 (4 September 2018)
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WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
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The Weirdest Pets That Have Flown on an Airplane
By Erika Owen
Rob Phelps
Traveling with a pet is hard enough, given the added fees and in-flight cajoling. There are a lot of bizzare animals who have (legally) sat in an airplane at some point. While many airlines allow out-of-the-ordinary pets to fly in the cargo hold (where the atmosphere is unpressurized and temperatures are often unregulated) or in container in the cabin, there are a few that have made headlines as traveling emotional support animals. In an interview with NBC, Laura Glading—president of the American Airlines flight attendants union, shared a few words on the support animal influx on airplanes: "Just about any animal but a snake is welcome."
This has become a bit of an issue for airlines, though, given that the only real documentation needed for bringing your pet turkey on a flight with you is a note from a doctor. It's up to the airlines to ask for documentation and decide which pets do and don't get a spot on the plane. Ahead, a few out-of-the-ordinary flyers passengers have found themselves seated next to.
Last month, the image above took the Internet by storm. A flight attendant shared the photo of a "therapy pet" that was flying with his owner. The best part? It's a festive turkey, judging by the seasonal ribbon or wrapping paper draped around its neck.
In November 2014, one passenger brought her pet pig along for her flight from Connecticut's Bradley International Airport to Washington the day before Thanksgiving. Passengers were surely baffled and all was going well until the pig defecated in the aisle and began howling one his owner attempted to clean up the mess. Needless to say, pet and passenger were removed and the flight was hopelessly delayed. Further proof that you never know what kinds of wrenches will be thrown into your holiday travel.
Last year, an NBC producer investigated the prevelance of support animals on airplanes and successfully brought Xena—a 15 lb. Sulcata Tortoise—aboard two different flights. One flight attendant even shared a story about the time she spotted a turtle attached to an airplane window via tiny suction cups on the four socks he was wearing (made special by its owner, of course).
Miniature Horses
In 2003, a blind man and his service animal were traveling from Boston to Chicago for a live taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." His travel partner was far from the expected dog you'd expect to see as a service animal, instead he brought his miniature horse Cuddles with him. And since Cuddles didn't fit in the main cabin, they were both upgraded to first class on their American Airlines flight. Read the full story over on the Wall Street Journal.
Considering you won't find many kangaroos outside of a zoo or Australia, this is a rare case. But there has been at least one photo taken of an adorable kangaroo buckled into an airplane seat (proof) on American Airlines. One can only hope to be seated next to an adorable animal such as this.
Erika Owen is the Audience Engagement Editor at Travel + Leisure. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @erikaraeowen.
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About Lebanon
Lebanon is a feast for the senses. Gaze onto ancient ruins or lose yourself in sultry Middle Eastern energy while the Mediterranean purrs gently into your ear. Lebanon is the smallest country on mainland Asia and home to 6 million people. Attractions include the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Jeita Grotto in Jeita and the town of Byblos.
Get ready to experience the unique rhythm of this glittering metropolis with cheap flights to Lebanon. Beirut is the capital and home to Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY), which is a 35-minute drive from the city centre.
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Ancient Cities
Lebanon abounds with ancient cities. Byblos is one of the oldest cities in the world and Baalbek was once home to the Roman Empire. Both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The culture of Lebanon is an enchanting fusion of cultures and traditions. Dabke is a spirited Arab folk dance, while Lebanese cuisine is celebrated for its freshness and flavours.
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Lebanon experiences a Mediterranean climate, with decadently hot summers and cool to cold winters. Winters along the coast are generally rainy. The best time to visit Lebanon is during spring (April to May) and autumn (October to November). These months offer blooming landscapes and great weather for sight-seeing and hiking. If you are planning a beach holiday and want to experience the vibrant nightlife, the best time to visit is during summer (June to September). The winter months (December to March) offer excellent winter sports. For cheap flights to Lebanon, the best time to visit is between December and March.
Weather & Climate in Lebanon (Beirut)
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Situated at the crossroads of the mystical Arabian hinterland and glittering Mediterranean Basin, Lebanon is a country with an irresistible cultural identity.
From the snowy tips of Mount Lebanon and the ancient Roman cities in the Biqa Valley, to the cosmopolitan energy of Beruit and mysterious Mediterranean charm of Byblos, the curious juxtapositions of this country are not restricted to culture.
Lebanon invites you to venture off the beaten track and lose yourself in its enchanting tapestry of cinnamon and mint hues and unique Middle Eastern charm. Spend your days schussing down the snowy slopes of Mzaar Kfardebian, exploring the historical cities of Baalbek, delving into the underground world of Jeita Grotto, or basking on the beaches of Tyre.
For a taste of Lebanese culture, visit the Souk Al-Harajb in Tripoli, surrender to the decadent nightlife of Beruit, get lost in a museum, and try local dishes such as kibbe nayeh. The Sidon Soap Museum and Baatara Gorge Waterfall are also must-see attractions.
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Due to the conflict in the neighbouring countries of Syria and Israel, there are certain risks when travelling to Lebanon. Research should be done beforehand on which areas to avoid, and it is recommended that you stay up-to-date with the security situation throughout your stay. Travel insurance to cover theft and medical expenses is also recommended.
Avoid all travel to the areas bordering Syria and Israel. Steer clear of large gatherings and public demonstrations. Avoid carrying large sums of cash and valuables, as pick-pocketing and robberies do happen. Only reputable taxi services should be used. Stick to well-used roads and paths in the southern regions, as unexploded landmines are common. You should familiarise yourself with the local laws and customs before arriving. Lebanese law requires that you carry an ID at all times.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been reported in Lebanon, so precautions should be taken to avoid contact with infected people and animals. Proof of yellow fever vaccination is required if you are travelling from an infected area. Precautions should be taken to avoid insect bites. Immunisation against hepatitis A & B, typhoid and rabies is recommended. Other recommended vaccinations include MMR, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, varicella and polio. Stick to bottled water.
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Trelleborg launches new TPC dealer program in the UK
Trelleborg has officially launched its Trelleborg Professional Centre (TPC) program in the UK and Ireland. Comprising 28 key agricultural tire specialists, the TPC program will provide a specialised network of dealers supplying the agricultural tire market Trelleborg’s complete range of agricultural tires, as well as exclusive training and comprehensive sales support.
Bruce Lauder, Marketing Manager at Trelleborg Wheel Systems in the UK, says: “Following a stringent process, we selected 28 of our strong UK customer base to become official TPC partners, based on their technical and service capabilities and commitment to providing the agricultural industry with solutions which truly add value for the customer.”
Trelleborg’s new TPC program ensures customers have access to dedicated services, from advice on tire size and type, to free customised load pressure charts. In addition, the new TPC partners will not only provide free tire pressure assessments, but promises to extend customers’ tire warranties by up to seven years in return for operating data records to aid research and development.
“We are delighted that so many of our valued customers have opted to take up the challenge of becoming a TPC partner. We want to help our customers run their farming operations more efficiently and productively. We believe the launch of the TPC program will further strengthen our ability to do just that,” Lauder continued.
In addition to the launch of the TPC program, Trelleborg has extended its digital offering with the launch of its new Dealer Locator app. Available for download from the Apple store, Google Play and the Trelleborg Wheel Systems website, the new app allows tire customers to find their nearest Trelleborg tire dealer:
www.trelleborg.com/en/wheelsystems/UK/Technical-area/Trelleborg-Dealer-Locator/
For more information on Trelleborg’s new Trelleborg Professional Centre program, visit:
www.trelleborg.com/en/wheelsystems/UK/Products-and-Solutions/Trelleborg-Professional-Centre/
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Timothy Bradley, leans back as Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, throws a punch during their WBO welterweight title boxing fight Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Manny Pacquiao Next Fight: Chris Algieri Reportedly Could be Next Opponent
By Zachary Stieber
July 9, 2014 Updated: July 18, 2015
Chris Algieri has reportedly received an offer to be Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent.
Pacman’s next bout is scheduled for November 22 in Macao, China, but his opponent has been up in the air for a while.
Algieri became a viable option after beating Ruslan Provodnikov at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in June.
Before that fight, Provodnikov was considered a potential opponent for Pacquiao, who defeated Timothy Bradley earlier this year.
“We have a Pacquiao offer on the table and we are negotiating that actually as we speak,” Algieri’s promoter Joe DeGuardia told the New York Daily News.
He said that the offer includes seven figures (over $1 million) for Algieri (20-0, 8KOs).
The news comes after it appeared that Amir Khan might become the opponent after publicly lobbying to face Pacquiao.
Bob Arum, promoter for Top Rank, which has a contract with Pacquiao, said that he hops to finalize the deal soon.
“We’re talking serious now with the idea of making the fight. It’s not (bull). Now, whether it gets made or not I don’t know.”
Neither promoter would disclose whether anyone else, such as Khan, has received an offer to face Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs).
“It’s the best possible fight out there for Chris,” DeGuardia said. “He did great in the Ruslan fight and he did great there, but fighting Pacquiao puts him on a completely different level and a win against Pacquiao makes him a star, a legitimate and true star.”
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Review: Men in Black: International
Andrew Parker June 13, 2019 7:58 am June 13, 2019
Andrew Parker
Men in Black: International isn’t good by any real stretch of the imagination, but it’s not the kind of bad movie that’s worth getting worked up over. It’s not even the kind of lacklustre Hollywood blockbuster sequel or spin-off that can pitch critics and audiences into fits over its cynical production and construction. No, Men in Black: International is just another forgettable entry in a franchise that hasn’t been memorable, novel, or good for over two decades. Despite a new cast and director, it’s the same old MIB, and no one thought to make anything punchier, wittier, or more inspired. I would say that I don’t know why anyone would bother making something like Men in Black: International, but that would be a lie. The three previous entries have earned over a billion dollars combined, despite none of them being particularly well received outside of the original. It’s clear that I can’t dissuade anyone at this point from seeing Men in Black: International, so I’m not even really going to try, which is a perfect reflection of the film itself.
After she witnessed her parents getting their memories erased by the Men in Black following a run in with an extraterrestrial, science nerd Molly (Tessa Thompson) spends most of her adult life trying to track down the highly classified intergalactic police force. She’s eventually successful in infiltrating one of their headquarters and is offered a job on a probationary basis for her troubles. Bureau chief Agent O (Emma Thompson) sends the newly christened and suited Agent M to assist with a situation in London. M strikes up a professional partnership with the dashing, arrogant, and dimwitted Agent H (Chris Hemsworth), and the two are thrust into the middle of a battle with various baddies and a mole planted within the Men in Black for control of a superweapon that can wipe out entire galaxies with a single pull of the trigger.
Watching Men in Black: International is flabbergasting, but not in ways one might not think when talking about bad movies. I had a lot of questions throughout Men in Black: International’s plot packed, but substance free two hour running time (which somehow feels three times as long). After the last two sequels failed to recapture the magic of Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1997 original (and the second entry nearly killed the prospects of any sequels at all), who was really excited to dip back into the well? Despite trying to give the franchise a new look, new cast, new director, and a globetrotting storyline, why does Men in Black: International have no distinct personality of its own to set itself apart from its predecessors? Everything here looks good and the performances aren’t bad, so why isn’t any of this funny, whimsical, suspenseful, or even generally entertaining? Why does the entirety of Men in Black: International feel like it can’t justify its own existence even on a commercial level?
Director F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious, Straight Outta Compton, Friday) takes the reins from previous franchise steward Sonnenfeld (who remains on as a producer), but one would be hard pressed to see a difference in style. It’s all a bunch of slick looking visual effects, snappily dressed heroes firing off futuristic guns, a plethora of lovingly crafted aliens to act as background colour, and a handful of effective, if highly illogical and mostly forgettable set pieces. He’s doing what he can to make it look important and keep it all in constant motion, but it’s not enough to overcome the material.
If the script from Matt Holloway and Art Marcum (Iron Man, Punisher: War Zone, Transformers: The Last Knight) isn’t dumping a bunch of plot twists that only exist to keep the movie going from scene to scene, Gray has to fill the void with an action sequence. The action isn’t bad, the plot is serviceable enough (minus the grating throughline of sussing out the MIB mole, which causes the entire cast to overact in a bid to sell it at all), and there’s some energy and effort on display, but all parties involved behind the camera have crucially forgotten to give the viewer a reason to care about any of this in the slightest. Characters can be summed up in single words and phrases, and none of them are particularly likable, sympathetic, or interesting except for a diminutive warrior alien dubbed Pawny, voiced by Kumail Nanjiani, who’s handily the film’s biggest standout in terms of entertainment value (but be prepared to wait almost a full hour to do anything noteworthy). After pledging his loyalty to Agent M after the death of his queen, Pawny makes it his mission to serve his new master in her quest to save the universe and, by extension, the film that’s built around them.
Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are a fine pair, and their chemistry and comedic timing constantly lifts Men in Black: International into a higher bracket of respectability than it would’ve achieved without them. Hemsworth continues to poke fun at his pretty boy image as the once great agent who fell off in competency following a legendary brush with an alien horde alongside his former partner and current boss (Liam Neeson). Tessa Thompson does a fine job conveying M’s strength and eagerness in good balance. It’s a shame that they don’t have better material to work with. The script to Men in Black: International is so laboured and exhausting (right down to its forced cracks about male and female equality, which are the most hollow and useless in any film this year thus far) that it forgets to give either of them anything genuinely funny to say. Any chuckles Men in Black: International ekes out – and believe me, I wouldn’t call them laughs – are purely a result of the fact that Thompson and Hemsworth make this look easy. Men in Black: International owes most of its success to them and Nanjiani, but it’s so unengaging and passive to watch that I couldn’t care less if they all get a crack at the franchise again in the future.
Men in Black: International builds to an unsatisfying, somewhat head scratching finale where the film suddenly realizes that, outside of the “who’s the mole?” plot, it forgot to introduce an actual villain to fight (represented by a woefully underused Rebecca Ferguson as a ruthless alien arms dealer). The film starts to give up in its final twenty minutes, but that would mean more if Men in Black: International was trying all that hard to begin with. Lots of obvious thought was put into the look and casting of Men in Black: International, but everything else about this unnecessary sequel is entirely perfunctory. It’s the kind of film that exists solely to fill a programming slot with a valuable intellectual property. People will go see it, but none of them in this or any other galaxy will ever say that Men in Black: International is their favourite movie. If they do, they might be an alien.
Men in Black: International opens in theatres everywhere on Friday, June 14, 2019.
Check out the trailer for Men in Black: International:
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Andrew Parker fell in love with film growing up across the street from a movie theatre. He began writing professionally about film at the age of fourteen, and has been following his passions ever since. His writing has been showcased at various online outlets, as well as in The Globe and Mail, BeatRoute, and NOW Magazine. If he's not watching something or reading something, he's probably sleeping.
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Is the FCC killing the internet? Iowans watching closely
The net neutrality debate has been oversimplified by advocates on both sides
File Photo: Ajit Pai speaks at a FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington February 26, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Federal regulators are looking to reverse net neutrality, and people are taking notice.
Iowans’ Google searches about net neutrality surged to an all-time high last month, and dozens of Iowa users are using related hashtags on Twitter. The advocacy group Fight for the Future, which backs the Obama-era internet regulations, boldly warns, “The FCC is trying to kill the Internet again. This time, it’s even worse.”
That might make a good tagline for another Terminator sequel, but it’s poor public policy discourse. Nobody is trying to kill the internet.
Regulating the internet is a vital public policy question, but the technical and legal complexities don’t mix well with our hasty politics and clickbait media environment.
Advocates on both sides sometimes oversimplify what net neutrality even means. They say they support free speech, and throw around vague phrases like “free and open.” The actual impacts of the policy are clearly secondary to the catchphrases.
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission published a 400-page declaratory ruling, which made internet service providers subject to the federal government’s Title II regulations. Title II is 100-page portion of the Communications Act of 1934, updated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which were designed to rein in telephone monopolies.
Supporters of the net neutrality movement claim they’re protecting Americans from internet providers’ bad behavior. Without the rules, advocates warn corporations will block or slow some content, while prioritizing other traffic.
Those concerns are largely imaginary, but in other cases, net neutrality’s regulatory principles actively hurt consumers. The regulations have slowed the pace of infrastructure improvements, and they make it difficult for companies to offer free information and media on mobile networks.
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I discussed the issue recently with Nicholas Johnson, an Iowa City legal scholar who served on the FCC and as an advisor to the Carter White House. He expects corporations will eventually abuse the system, as long as the opportunity exists.
“In every industry I’ve ever dealt with, it’s a problem everywhere. It’s the most natural thing in the world. If you’ve got power to take advantage, you will,” Johnson said
Johnson also pointed out the internet is different than other marketplaces, so it may require heavier regulation. New firms can’t easily or quickly enter the market to compete, which limits consumer choice.
“If you want to open up a grocery store, you just open up the grocery store and that may result in other grocery stores not doing as well or it may result in you’re not making it, but all you have to do is put up the brick and mortar and see if you can sell,” Johnson told me.
I recognize net neutrality advocates have some reasonable concerns. I’m not so naive to think the telecom giants are corporate angels, but I’m also skeptical that archaic federal regulations will achieve their stated goals.
Even if the goals of net neutrality are desirable, it’s not clear the FCC’s outdated rules are the best way to achieve them. To the contrary, the regulations could ignite a series of unintended consequences which make the internet less competitive.
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Who's appeared at The Glider?
There is no doubt the period between November 19th 1964 and April 28th 1973 was the ‘Golden Era’.
This was the time when all the top pop stars of the day appeared at the Starlight Room. The Malkinson brothers, Ernest and Sydney, took a huge gamble in deciding to have the starlight room built - but there is no doubt that gamble paid off. For in that period of almost nine years near enough every big name in the pop world appeared in Boston; on many occasions unknown ‘names’ were booked in for a month's time, and, lo and behold, by the time those ‘names’ had appeared on Top of the Pops with their new No.1 they were appearing at the Starlight Room the same weekend!
Almost all the Mersey Sound groups have appeared, along with British stars such as Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Chris Farlowe, P.J.Proby, The Yardbirds, the Small Faces, T Rex, Elton John, Roy Wood, Billy Fury, The Who, Manfred Mann, Amen Corner (who played their last gig at the venue), Status Quo, Slade; and from the States were Brenda Lee, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, Lee Dorsey, Ben E King, Edwin Starr, Duane Eddy, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner Show, The Platters, Inez and Charlie Foxx - and the list goes on!
Star names and groups of the Sixties and Seventies
1960 - Shane Fenton (later Alvin Stardust), Craig Douglas (first recognised 'pop' star to visit)
1961 - Joe Brown
1962 - John Barry Seven, Emile Ford, The Tornados (Telstar)
1963 - Marty Wilde (first visit), Freddie and the Dreamers, Johnny Burnette (first American star to visit)
1964 - Georgie Fame and the Blue flames (first visit), Tony Orlando, Starlight Room opened November 19
The Animals, Brenda Lee, The Merseybeats
1965 - Billy J. Kramer, The Searchers, The Merseybeats, The Kinks, The Barron Knights, Tom Jones, P J Proby, The Fourmost, The Walker Brothers (first visit), The Yardbirds, Them, Lulu (and The Luvvers), Donovan, Alan Price Set, The Nashville Teens, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders,
Billy Fury, The Small Faces, Tom Jones, Sandie Shaw, The Rockin Berries, Herman's Hermits
1966 - Dusty Springfield, The Fortunes, The Who, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Manfred Mann, Solomon Burke, The Move, Otis Redding/Chris Farlowe (on same bill), Lee Dorsey
1967 - Spencer Davis Group, Jimi Hendrix Experience, P P Arnold, Jeff Beck Group, Duane Eddy Show, Stevie Wonder, Traffic
1968 - The Tremeloes, Procol Harum, Amen Corner, The Herd, Ike and Tina Turner Show, The Platters, The Ronettes, The Nice, Love Affair, Status Quo
1969 - The Platters, The Marmalade, Amen Corner (final appearance before breaking up), Lovin' Spoonful, Inez and Charlie Foxx and Band
1970 - Carla Thomas, Edison Lighthouse/Fontella Bass (on same bill), Love Affair, Jimmy Ruffin, Free, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Ginger Baker's Airforce, Yes
1971 - Lindisfarne, T Rex (first visit), The Sweet, Hot Chocolate, Slade
1972 - T Rex (second visit), Yes, Steeleye Span, Mac and Katie Kissoon
1973 - Thin Lizzy, Elton John, Roy Wood's Wizzard, Electric Light Orchestra, Curved Air
The last dance was on April 28th 1973.
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11 nightmare-inducing bugs you’ll find right here in Canada
The worst thing about these creepy critters? They’re lurking right in your back yard… and in your house.
Jumping spiders “are among the most beautiful and delightful of all arthropods,” write these (possibly insane) biologists at the University of Alberta . For the rest of us, the scary thing about these creatures can be summed in two words: jumping spiders.Thinkstock
Forget Scarlett Johansson’s sexy superhero, here in Canada you’re much more likely to encounter an actual black widow spider. Although the female spider’s bite is deadly to small children, pets and the infirm, they’re unlikely to kill healthy adults. Furthermore, black widow spiders only bite humans when provoked.Thinkstock
Sure, bedbugs won’t kill you, they’ll just destroy your spirit. Once these persistent little bloodsuckers get into your home, it will take fumigators and dozens of laundry loads before you’re rid them. Luckily, the Government of Canada keeps track of some of them on this website. Thinkstock
Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture warns that stink bugs are invading. Both a pest to crops and an insult to humans’ olfactory senses, stink bugs eat fruit and vegetable crops and release a foul odour when handled or disturbed. Thinkstock
Marbled orbweavers
Marbled orbweavers are your typical outdoor spiders – they hang around wooded areas and riverbanks. They don’t do anything that could be classified as dangerous to humans, except looking like a snake-spider hybrid that’s about to explode mutant bugs all over the place.Thinkstock
They won’t hurt you, but carpenter ants will do enough damage to your home to make it feel personal. They chew through wooden structures and live in tightly organized communities that operate with military precision. Worst of all, they thrive in damp environments, so ants can also be an indication of a moisture problem.Thinkstock
Deer are nice and flies aren’t so bad, but deer flies are nasty — something you already know if you’ve ever been camping in Canada. These knife-jawed bloodsuckers will saw through your skin, drink your blood and leave you nothing but pain and a potential allergic reaction for your trouble. Nice.Thinkstock
Giant water bugs
Canadian species of giant water bugs can grow nearly 4cm long, and have been known to take down entire fish, snakes and frogs. Also known as toe-biters, they can give a pretty mean nip, although reported bites are rare.Thinkstock
Asian long-horned beetles
Its name says it all: the Asian long-horned beetle is not a native Canadian bug. Rather, it has hitchhiked its way here on shipping crates. The beetle, which poses a considerable threat to Canadian trees, has been the subject of public eradication efforts.Getty/New York Daily News Archive
These dirty bloodsuckers are known to ruin most of your camping trips and outdoor summer adventures. While most of them are just itchy nuisances, some carry rare diseases like the West Nile virus. Always smack these bad boys on sight! Thinkstock
Let’s be serious for a moment, because Lyme disease — the bacterial infection spread by black legged ticks — is nasty and on the rise. Luckily it’s preventable, so do wear long-sleeved clothing whenever you hike and always have a buddy check for ticks.ThinkStock
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X-amining Excalibur #20
"The Eye of the Beholder"
Excalibur battles Demon Druid.
Guest Writer: Michael Higgins
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At Arthur's Seat in Scotland, a portal suddenly opens, from which Demon Druid emerges. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler tries to console Meggan, who is upset with the way Brian has been treating her. She flies away to London, where she spots Brian on a date with Courtney Ross, but is distracted by Demon Druid, who is constructing a replica of Stonehenge out of energy. The two fight one another, drawing the attention of a barhopping Rachel and Kitty, who join the fight as well. When Kitty phases through Demon Druid, she senses his true goal before the effect causes him to disappear. Later, at Excalibur's lighthouse, Kitty is working on a device when Brian returns from his date, but he's rude to Meggan and storms off before helping Kitty.
The next morning though, Brian helps finish the device, just as the news reports on Demon Druid creating another facsimile of Stonehenge atop the Darkmoor Nuclear Research Facility. Brian rushes off on his own to battle Demon Druid, leaving the rest of the team to teleport there through a combination of Phoenix and Nightcrawler's powers. Once they arrive, Kitty begins interfacing Widget with her new device, while Captain Britain attacks Demon Druid, forcing Phoenix to intervene, worried their battle will endanger the surrounding areas. But Kitty and Widget manage to open a portal that will return Demon Druid to his own people, his goal all along, and he departs, leaving Excalibur to admonish Captain Britain for acting so foolhardy and to marvel that they saved the day despite themselves.
Firsts and Other Notables
This is a fill-in issue by Michael Higgins and Ron Lim, completely unrelated to the "Cross-Time Caper". Placing the story chronologically is tricky; it seems like it should take place between issues #5 (when Courtney Ross is replaced by Sat0yr-9) and #6 (when the "Inferno" tie-in starts), yet Widget is on hand, with Kitty having developed enough of a rapport that she can call on Widget for reliable help, which didn't really happen until after "Cross-Time" began.
The villain of the story is Demon Druid,a one-off Thor villain who will eventually be revealed to be a Kree Eternal named Ultimus and join the Kree Starforce during "Operation: Galactic Storm".
Demon Druid performs his ritual at the Darkmoor Nuclear Research facility, which is where Brian first attained his Captain Britain powers.
With Phoenix boosting his power, Nightcrawler is able to teleport the entire team from the lighthouse to Darkmoor, despite his usual limitations on distance and his current "teleporting is a strain" limitation, making one wonder why Phoenix doesn't just boost his power all the time.
The Reference Section
Meggan transforms into Godzilla during her initial attack on Demon Druid.
Brian is still two-timing Meggan at this point, stringing her along while also dating Fake Courtney Ross.
Nightcrawler remains flummoxed by the situation, fighting his own feelings for Meggan and his disbelief at how Brian is her treating her.
Teebore's Take
You know what the "Cross-Time Caper" doesn't need? An unrelated fill-in issue that does nothing but prolong an already interminably long story. This issue on its own is fine; the characters' voices are way off model to the point that it's clear Claremont didn't write the dialogue even without looking at the credits (Brian, in particular, is written as being very rude, petulant and brash to the point where it seemed liked his attitude was going to be a plot point), but the art is serviceable enough, and the "Cross-Time Caper" has dragged on so long now and advanced the series' narrative so little that even though this story is set in the past, things like Meggan's frustration at Brian's philandering and Nightcrawler's conflicted feelings about Meggan are still as relevant now as they would have been if this story was published closer to when it takes place, which keeps it from feeling like a complete waste of time. But it's still just a fill-in issue interrupting a long-running storyline, one which, at this point, seems like it may never end.
Tomorrow, more fun with Spore-laden cocaine in Wolverine #22. Next week, Uncanny X-Men #260 and New Mutants #88.
Posted by Austin Gorton at 12:00 PM
Labels: Comic Book reviews, comics, Excalibur, X-aminations
Matt April 9, 2015 at 12:59 PM
"(Brian, in particular, is written as being very rude, petulant and brash to the point where it seemed liked his attitude was going to be a plot point)"
Somehow this tended to be every guest-writer's version of the poor guy. It's like everybody automatically equated "British upper crust" with "dick".
(And yes, Cap can be a dick sometimes, but there's much more to him than that!)
Anyway, this issue is eminently skippable. I'm actually not sure I've ever read it in full, skimming over it even the first time I read EXCALIBUR.
Excalibur 26 featured a fill-in issue also written by Higgins and in it, Brian is acting uncharacteristically jerky and it turns out Masterind is impersonating Captain Britain. I have to wonder if the idea was that Mastermind was impersonating Brian in Excalibur 20 too.
Teemu April 9, 2015 at 10:12 PM
Yeah I don't know. I got this and the next one of EXCALIBUR on my stack of original issues that I mail-ordered randomly from interesting-to-me titles, and of the two this one was actually the more approachable if not a very memorable one. "Demon Druid" is so Silver Age-y it hurts, but nice that for once they parted amiably... expect that in the first pages he cocooned two innocent tourists and our heroes here are smiling and waving him through the portal.
But as fill-in artists go, you could do worse than Ron Lim, suspiciously non-90's for a 90's guy.
Blam April 11, 2015 at 11:55 PM
It's Agustin, not Augustin, Mas. His lettering is as terrible as ever. I'm not the Ron Lim fan some here are, to say the least, but neither he nor Higgins deserve to have their work defaced by that stuff.
// Meggan transforms into Godzilla during her initial attack on Demon Druid. //
Also: The squabbling tourists are named Sonny and Cherilyn.
wwk5d April 12, 2015 at 3:03 AM
This reads like a really bad parody/pastiche of early Excaliber. Even if it were printed earlier, it would have still felt a bit "off".
Austin Gorton April 13, 2015 at 5:41 PM
@Matt: Somehow this tended to be every guest-writer's version of the poor guy. It's like everybody automatically equated "British upper crust" with "dick".
Yay. I guess I have that to look forward to...
@Anonymous: I have to wonder if the idea was that Mastermind was impersonating Brian in Excalibur 20 too.
That would at least explain the attitude.
@Teemu: expect that in the first pages he cocooned two innocent tourists and our heroes here are smiling and waving him through the portal.
Yeah, I probably should have pointed that out. Sure, all Demon Druid wants is to go home, but he murdered at least two people trying, so, maybe not so much with the smiles and congratulations?
This is true. Lim is one of those artists whose work I never really sought out, but I didn't mind when he turned up as a fill-in artist.
@Blam: It's Agustin, not Augustin, Mas.
Hm. Not sure if that was my error, or auto-corrects. Anyways, I've updated it. Thanks!
...and, I somehow missed that, completely. At least they've got each other, babe.
@wwk5d: This reads like a really bad parody/pastiche of early Excaliber.
Teemu April 14, 2015 at 10:26 AM
@Teebore, got me thinking though: did our heroes actually know of the tourists? I'd hate to feel like a Comics Code proponent for whom the story itself would have to be morally upstanding and evil generally to be punished, even if the good people of Excalibur here are doing their best within the knowledge they're in possession of. Well, except for the squappling and two-timing.
If they're going after the British thing, there's few things more British than Doctor Who (homaged a plenty on the book) and on the show they're always disturbingly magnamious and lenient over the ordinary civilian extras ending up as collateral damage.
Austin Gorton April 14, 2015 at 10:32 AM
@Teemu: did our heroes actually know of the tourists?
I don't believe so. Which makes the ending a little less egregious, but still troubling given that the readers still know about the couple.
Teemore, Teemu, I think you're missing the obvious explanation- Meggan was put in a cocoon and she was freed when Kitty drove the Druid away, so probably the tourists were too.
Teemu April 15, 2015 at 12:24 PM
@Anonymous, that's... actually plausible, but, darn it, if there is a young couple of extras pickering with each other around a curious geographic site, and then things get sinister and then take a sudden ill turn, and eldritch fires strike around and we see nasty thing happening to the folks and next someone steps forth, raises his both fists in the air and announces "That'n'that lives again!", I'm really not open for a "Psyke!, they're fine after all" resolution as the extras go.
You get a flat tire and it's Proteus who stops for you, or you're stealing a Christmas tree with your young wife from the Xavier mansion lands hoping to find one before the bastards get them all rooted, and a N'garai pops up, sorry, but we'll expect to see you only as a corpse afterwards. That's canon, like baseball. The basketball era is not upon us yet!
Teebore- does anything in the art suggest that the couple were freed?
Ok, I found a copy of Excalibur 20. When the cocoons disappear and Meggan is freed, we see the couple falling unconscious in the background. Then Kitty thinks to herself "Got to make sure Meggan and the others--whoever they are-- are okay. Thank goodness! They're all right!" So it looks like the tourists WERE unharmed. So if all he did was cocoon them for a couple of hours, that's arguably no different than the many times when a hero has knocked a civilian unconscious.
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Sex robot forum venue 'encrypted in a poem'
All Greek Orthodox church halls to me
By Rebecca Hill 19 Dec 2017 at 16:19
Bizarre happenings are heaping extra controversy on a conference that will discuss the pros, cons and ethical conundrums of sex with robots.
One could be forgiven for thinking the topic of the third annual Love and Sex with Robots event alone would be enough to get tongues wagging, but it seems the organisation of the forum – held in London, England – is cause for greater intrigue.
First up, before anyone can register for the conference – which costs up to £500 – they are told, by way of an “important notice”, that they must “download and read this document (PDF) in full”.
So what is the mysterious document? Something to do with the ethics of robot sex? Guidance on how to avoid sensationalising the topic?
Nope. It’s Transport for London’s Poems on the Underground. El Reg has scoured it for hidden meaning, but has come up with nothing. Do let us know if you find anything.
Attendees who read the doc and register successfully will obviously want to know where to go. But not so fast! Don’t think they’ll do something as simple as telling you.
Instead, on clicking the Venue page, users are told that “due to police advice, and because of security concerns, the venue will be emailed close to the date of the event”.
OK, fine – it is a controversial subject. But wait...
“We will send a poem with the location encrypted in it. Please read the poem carefully to decode the location,” the notice says.
Reg readers won’t need us to tell them that, er, that’s not how encryption works.
Sadly, we haven’t seen the poem that attendees get (despite repeat attempts to bag a press pass) but we do know where the conference is being held: the hall of the Greek Orthodox Church in Golders Green.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Back in October, Kate Devlin, a Goldsmiths academic who co-organised the conference last year, said on Twitter that she had been unceremoniously booted off this year’s panel.
In response, conference organiser and Malaysian academic Adrian Cheok claimed the venue had to be switched from Goldsmiths because of “very credible threats against participants and chairs and Goldsmiths by Muslim extremists”.
Dear Kate, sudden venue change due to some very credible threats against participants and chairs and Goldmsmiths by Muslim extremists.
— Adrian David Cheok (@adriancheok) October 5, 2017
But The Reg understands the university itself was never alerted to any specific security issues. It also hosted its annual Sex Tech Hack at the end of last month, which went off without a hitch.
A spokesperson for Goldsmiths, University of London said: “While we are disappointed that, due to circumstances outside our control, this conference is not being held at Goldsmiths this year we fully support this important area of research and continue to host events on this topic.”
Devlin, meanwhile, confirmed she was no longer involved in the conference this year.
She added that, although the subject “is very much prone to sensationalism, there are legitimate topics to be debated in an area that is already prototyping the development of intimate technologies”.
None of the organisers have responded to our messages on email, LinkedIn or Twitter. ®
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WHY IS BULGARIA AN ATTRACTIVE OUTSOURCING DESTINATION? MODIS BULGARIA'S EXPERTS ANSWER
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When we want to know how Bulgaria's outsourcing industry is developing, Modis Bulgaria is one of the places where we look for expert opinion. Modis is a global leader in professional solutions for IT, Engineering and Life Sciences. Modis Bulgaria delivers agile end-to-end solutions, including professional staffing and consulting, project services, managed services, customized solutions, and outsourcing projects to more than 90 multinational companies. The company has over 5,000 employees worldwide. 1,400 of them work in Bulgaria – and their number continues to grow.
So, what makes Bulgaria an attractive outsourcing destination?
"In the recent years Bulgaria has confirmed its position as one of the most attractive outsourcing destinations in Europe thanks to the resources available and the favorable economic environment and stability. The high-level of education and foreign language fluency together with the well-developed infrastructure and communications enable attractive conditions for outsourcing of business activities. Our clients value the expertise found on the Bulgarian market in delivering ITO and BPO solutions and the ease at which we upgrade skills and competences we have established," says Stela Tocheva, EMEA Sales Director, Modis.
Stela Tocheva, EMEA Sales Director, Modis
"In 2015, Bulgaria ranked the third most attractive outsourcing location in the world in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Shared Service Location Index of the global consultancy Cushman & Wakefield. Global corporations establish their Shared Service Centers (SSC) in Bulgaria mainly for administrative, finance, HR, logistics, legal and IT support activities," adds Rumen Manev, Director Solutions and Presales, Modis. "The IT outsourcing segment, together with the consolidated BPO segment, form the Bulgarian outsourcing industry, which in 2017 reported 2.1 billion euro in revenues and 4.8% of Bulgaria's GDP that aims to double figures by 2021. Key success factor for the outsourcing industry in Bulgaria is the high qualification of the people working in the sector. It is worth mentioning that our country ranks third worldwide in number of certified IT specialists available and first in number of such per capita in Europe."
Rumen Manev, Director Solutions and Presales, Modis
What changes does the industry undergo and how do companies in Bulgaria adapt to them?
"When outsourcing business activities companies are now looking for long-term partnerships instead of short-term cost savings," elaborates Stela Tocheva. "We can notice the transition from input-based to output-based business models that organizations look for. They expect from companies like ours to get to understand their processes, to refine them and to implement new technologies. Using workflow automation we achieve cost optimization and high quality of the managed services and solutions we deliver which differentiates us from low-cost outsourcing destinations worldwide."
Are there any new outsourcing services that are emerging in the country?
"I would rather say that the services and solutions which have been delivered are getting more complex and bring higher value to our clients. This contributes to the image of Bulgaria as a top outsourcing destination on a global scale," shares Stela Tocheva.
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Modis Bulgaria was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Awards in the Company of the Year – Business or Professional Services category in the 16th Annual International Business Awards®.
The International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. The 2019 IBAs received a record of 4,000 nominations for organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry from 74 nations and territories. The nominees competed in categories like Company of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Startup of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year.
"We are honored to receive this prestigious award which is the proof of our colleagues' commitment and business accomplishments over the past years. Thanks to our professionalism and hard work Modis Bulgaria is recognized for a second time this year as a leader in the outsourcing industry. In May we were honored with the Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year 2019 award at the Southeast European Innovation, Technology and Sourcing Summit. I cannot be prouder of our team and all the people who are committed to the Modis mission!," said Philippe Rouvrais, SVP, Global Head of Delivery and Solutions at Modis IT Managed Services & Solutions and General Manager at Modis Bulgaria.
The statuette will be awarded during an official ceremony in Vienna, Austria, this October.
Philippe Rouvrais, SVP, Global Head of Delivery and Solutions at Modis IT Managed Services & Solutions and General Manager at Modis Bulgaria
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March 21st, 2018- Versique announced today the launch of its seventh annual professional clothing drive in support of local non-profit, Dress for Success Twin Cities and Simon Says Give. The clothing drive will run April 16th-May 3rd and will conclude with a celebratory happy hour to be held at The Metropolitan Ballroom on Thursday, May 3rd from 4:00pm-8:00pm. The evening is open to the public and includes hors d’oeuvres, networking, live music, and a variety of activities including a silent auction, raffle items, entertainment by Kat Perkins, and more!
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Silent auction and raffle prizes include: Salon and spa gift baskets, rounds of golf, theater tickets, professional sports tickets and merchandise, food and brewery gift cards from some of the best in the Twin Cities, and much more!
Women’s professional clothing donations for the drive will be accepted at Versique’s offices from April 16th through May 3rd. The office is located at 6465 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 800, Minneapolis MN 55426, and is open from 8am – 5pm every weekday. Clothing is also typically brought to the celebratory happy hour at The Metropolitan on May 3rd.
Dress for Success accepts donations of professional women’s attire from the current season including: blazers, blouses, skirts, slacks, dresses, sweaters, shoes, handbags, accessories, jewelry, coats, new/unused undergarments, and new/unused cosmetics. Regrettably, the following donations cannot be accepted: non-interview appropriate attire, sportswear or causal clothes, evening wear, used undergarments, cosmetics, dress socks, and pantyhose.
Financial donations are welcomed either online at our event fundraiser page (Donate Here) or by check. Checks can be made out to “Dress for Success Twin Cities” and can be sent to Versique’s office or delivered the evening of the Dress for Success Happy Hour.
Last year’s drive resulted in guests generously donating more than 200 bags of clothing and had nearly 200 guests in attendance. In addition to clothing donations, the event raised just over $14,000 in financial donations from the silent action, raffle, and other events held at the happy hour.
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Edition No. 267 August 24 – 30, 2019
Snake Island
Snake Island’s tone is established in the opening pages when a pelican gasping on the mudf lats is decapitated out of mercy. This uncompromising stance is sustained throughout as Ben Hobson delivers a novel drenched in blood. Darkly lit as though it were a chiaroscuro study of crime and punishment, Hobson’s second book explores generational abuse and retributive action. Violence indeed begets violence, spilling across the path of every unfortunate character.
When Caleb Moore’s assault on his wife finally lands him a prison term, his parents are determined not to visit him – to allow their damnation to be felt through their keen negligence. After two years of Caleb’s incarceration, however, his father, Vernon, comes to the understanding that his son’s miscreant behaviour may be partly his fault and it’s his job to set it right.
Belated paternal regret leads Vernon to take on the Cahills, the reigning family of terror in their small Victorian town, who’ve been paying off the prison governor and the local cops while running a marijuana business. The elder Cahill son, Brendan, has been bashing up Caleb in prison with impunity, in a misguided attempt to avenge Caleb’s ex-wife. Vernon’s attempt to stop Brendan’s abuse leads to protracted warfare.
Hobson’s narrative is shared among the compact cast; Vernon and Caleb are the protagonists, but the other players also have a voice, including the crooked police officer Sharon Wornkin, whose probity is compromised under the Cahills’ domination, and the younger Cahill brother, Sidney, whose moral compass is not as bent as the rest of his clan but who nonetheless has no choice but to defend their honour.
There is little tenderness in this book about power wrangles fuelled by machismo; it’s a tragic tableau that becomes progressively more ragged and desperate, with only chinks of light allowed through. At times the relentless violence feels a bit overdone, and committed more for shock value than credibility. Hobson is non-discriminatory in this regard: men, women and animals are all brutalised. But his spare, muscular writing is captivating; and in the end, the scales are evenly weighted: corruption, rage and revenge are counterbalanced by loyalty, faith and redemption.
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Indian-held Kashmir erupts in deadly violence, killing seven
By Aijaz HussainThe Associated Press
Sat., May 5, 2018timer3 min. read
SRINAGAR, India—Indian troops killed three suspected rebels during a gun battle Saturday in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, while police blamed insurgents for killing three other men during a day of violence and protests in the disputed region.
Counter-insurgency police and paramilitary soldiers staged a morning raid on a cluster of homes in a densely populated neighbourhood of Srinagar after getting a tip that militants were hiding there, police said. Troops asked the trapped militants to surrender but they instead started shooting and sparked a gun battle, police said.
As the militants and government troops exchanged gunfire, anti-India protests and clashes erupted in several places. Hundreds of demonstrators tried to reach the site of the standoff and threw rocks at troops in a bid to help the rebels escape.
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Police and paramilitary soldiers fired shotgun pellets and tear gas to stop the protesters, and at least one protester was run over and killed by a police armoured vehicle. As the anti-India protests and clashes spiralled, shops in the city shuttered and authorities switched off mobile internet services to make organizing protests more difficult.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan each administer part of Kashmir, but both claim it in its entirety. Rebels have been fighting Indian rule since 1989, demanding Indian-controlled Kashmir be made part of Pakistan or become an independent country.
Most Kashmiris support the rebels’ cause while also participating in civilian street protests against Indian control. In recent years, mainly young Kashmiris have displayed open solidarity with rebels and sought to protect them by engaging troops in street clashes during military operations. Last year, at least 29 civilians were killed and hundreds were wounded during such clashes.
During Saturday’s fierce confrontation, demonstrators chanted pro-rebel slogans such as “Go India, go back” and “We want freedom.” Police said they were investigating the death of the man killed in what they called a “road accident.”
Top separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called the young man’s death a murder and he and others called for a general strike on Sunday in protest of the day’s killings.
“How a murder was committed by the forces today and then brazenly denied! Is there no sense of humanity left in India?” Farooq wrote on Twitter, as he also uploaded a video that shows an armoured vehicle knocking down a youth.
Injuries were reported to at least two protesters, three journalists, three soldiers and a police officer.
S.P. Vaid, police director-general, told reporters that Saturday’s operation that killed the three militants was a “clean” one. The armed confrontation was the first this year in the heart of Srinagar.
Later Saturday, thousands in Srinagar participated in the funerals of a slain rebel and the civilian. While the civilian was buried in his neighbourhood graveyard, thousands marched while carrying the rebel’s body to Srinagar’s main martyr’s graveyard, where hundreds of Kashmiri militants and civilians killed in decades of fighting have been buried.
Meanwhile, gunmen abducted two men from their homes in northern Hajin town late Friday. Their bodies, riddled with bullets, were recovered early Saturday.
Gunmen also entered a civilian home in Sopore area and sprayed bullets at the residents, police said, leading to death of a young man. His wife was critically wounded.
Police accused militants for carrying out these killings, though no rebel group has claimed responsibility.
Kashmiris make no secret of their fury at killings by government forces, which regularly trigger bloody protests and demands for freedom from Indian rule. But the reactions are far more complicated, tangled in fear and loyalty, when residents accused of being informers are targeted.
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Goldman Sachs Reports Profits, Revenue Decline
By Liz HoffmanWSJ
Tues., July 16, 2019timer3 min. read
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s quarterly profit fell 6% as the cost of the Wall Street bank’s pivot toward Main Street began to weigh.
Goldman earned $2.42 billion, or $5.81 a share, on revenue of $9.46 billion. Both were lower than a year ago but beat muted expectations from Wall Street analysts.
Revenue fell but expenses didn’t as Goldman continued to spend heavily on new initiatives such as retail banking and corporate-cash management. The bank on Tuesday tallied up the cost of those investments so far: a $1.3 billion pretax loss. That is equal to about 15% of the bank’s annual profits and has lowered by 0.6 percentage points Goldman’s 2019 return on equity, a closely watched measure of how wisely it spends shareholders’ money.
Still, the stock rose as much as 2% Tuesday afternoon, trading for the first time since January at what the bank says is the value of everything it owns minus what it owes. Investors also got a commitment from Chief Executive David Solomon to give meatier, more transparent updates about the business, a break with Goldman’s trademark secrecy.
Mr. Solomon, an investment banker who took over last fall from the long-serving trader Lloyd Blankfein, is changing the firm in other ways. Goldman is hoovering up consumer deposits, launching a joint credit card with Apple Inc., building out wealth-management capabilities and opening up the firm’s private-investing funds to outside money. The goal is to turn Goldman from a trading and dealmaking powerhouse into a more well-rounded firm like JPMorgan Chase & Co. or Citigroup Inc., which both reported higher quarterly profits on the backs of their giant consumer and commercial-lending businesses.
The going is slow. Chief Financial Officer Stephen Scherr said some of those new businesses will take up to five years to start turning a profit. For now, the firm still relies heavily on its traders and investment bankers, which leaves it more exposed than rivals to uncooperative markets like those of the second quarter, when trade tensions escalated and the Federal Reserve surprised markets by signaling it could cut, rather than continue to raise, interest rates.
Banks’ trading desks do well when clients are confident enough about the direction of stock prices, interest rates and other assets to place big bets. Uncertain investors tend to hunker down rather than risk a loss.
Goldman’s quarterly trading revenue fell 3% from a year ago, driven by a 13% decline in fixed-income trading, which includes bonds, currencies and other products tied to interest rates and global economic indicators. Those traders made $1.5 billion in quarterly revenue, compared with as much as $6 billion a decade ago.
Things held up better in stock trading, a steadier business in which banks can eke out fixed commissions regardless of which way prices are heading. Revenue rose 6% to $2 billion, versus a 12% drop at JPMorgan and a 9% decline at Citigroup.
Goldman has been investing heavily in its equities business since it was eclipsed as No. 1 in that segment by Morgan Stanley five years ago. It is building better algorithms and technology that lets it match trades internally rather than routing to an exchange, which saves money. Exchange and brokerage fees rose only 1% in the quarter, more slowly than equities revenue.
Morgan Stanley will report quarterly earnings on Thursday, the last major U.S. bank to do so.
Goldman’s investment bankers, who broker mergers and help companies raise money through securities offerings, posted a 9% drop in revenue. Underwriting fees were down 12%, in line with JPMorgan and driven by a decline in debt underwriting. Companies may be holding off on new borrowings, expecting interest rates to fall later this year.
Merger advisory fees were 3% lower than a year ago, but they remain up 20% so far this year. The bank earned a $35 million payday on the largest deal completed in the quarter, the tie-up of defense contractors L3 Technologies Inc. and Harris Corp.
Revenue in Goldman’s money-management arm, its smallest division, fell 14% from a year ago, when it pocketed a higher-than-usual share of profits from private-equity and hedge-fund investments it oversees.
Goldman is aiming to grow asset management, a steadier, fee-generating business that has benefited from the decadelong bull market. On Tuesday Goldman closed a deal, struck in May, to acquire United Capital, a network of financial advisers who manage about $24 billion for affluent individuals.
Write to Liz Hoffman at liz.hoffman@wsj.com
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Huawei Honor Note 10 with 5,000 mAh battery and Kirin 970
TheTechTeaAugust 1, 2018August 18, 2018 PHONES 0
The Huawei Honor Note 10 was teased for such a long time, it almost feels like a relief to finally see it go official. Many of the rumored specs turned out to be true, but the company managed to surprise us with some fresh and unexpected features.
The Honor Note 10 is built around a 6.95-inch Full HD+ (1080 x 2220 pixels) AMOLED display with thin side bezels and no notch. The display supports the HDR10 standard and has 115% NTSC color gamut coverage.
The Honor Note 10 comes with Huawei’s in-house Kirin 970 chipset paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM. The internal storage variants of the 6GB model are 64GB or 128GB, while the 8GB version comes with 128GB exclusively. microSD cards are also supported but in a hybrid slot affair, so you will be giving up the dual SIM functionality.
The chipset uses a liquid cooling solution that the maker calls “the nine” as it consists of 8 layers of dissipation and a ninth one that’s basically a PC-grade liquid-cooled pipe promising 41% better heat management, which in turn means 10 °C lower temperatures under load. That’s not too shabby if these numbers are correct.
Of course, the handset supports the GPU Turbo tech but it also introduces a new CPU Turbo feature as well. Both software enhancements work together to form the Double Turbo mode, which can be launched with a press of the dedicated hardware button on the bottom.
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The Honor Note 10 packs a 24MP (f/1.8) main camera on the back aided by a 16MP (f/1.8) secondary unit, while its front-facing shooter is 13MP with f/2.0 aperture. The usual AI software for scene recognition and other AI features are at hand. The hardware button for the Double Turbo feature can be used as a shutter when using the camera app.
The phone comes with Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box with EMUI 8.2 on top and it’s powered by a massive 5,000 mAh battery. Luckily it also supports Super Charge so the huge battery can be topped up much faster.
When it comes to pricing, the Honor Note 10 doesn’t disappoint – the 6GB/64GB model goes for CNY 2,799 ($409), the 6GB/128GB model costs CNY 3,199 ($468) while the most powerful variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage is priced at CNY 3,599 ($527).
The Note 10 is available in Midnight Black and Phantom Blue colors and it’s already on for pre-order in China. The actual shipments will begin on August 1.
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Greener Grounds captured a hot set in Colorado before northeast run
By: Logan Podbielski
There's a band out there that not only us here at The Untz, but the nation as a whole, is taking note of more and more with each subsequent set. Greener Grounds is the name of the group and let me just say, they jam.
The Denver-based five-piece is comprised of Joe Shur (lead guitar), Mathew Buelt (rhythm guitar), Roland Hansen (keys/synth), Jay Rieder (bass), and AJ Gillman (drums). They have taken on a number of influences which include, but are not limited to, Lotus, STS9, Umphrey’s McGee, String Cheese Incident, and Phish, amongst others. Their similarities do not just revolve around those sounds, though. The way these guys perform and produce their music also correlates with what is to be expected of a jam band these days, as they not only have studio albums but also live show recordings that are aurally mastered and provided to the public.
Their draw, just like many of their fellow jam bands, is not necessarily with how many songs they produce, but rather how many original variations they have of each song available through the aforementioned live recordings. Alongside that appeal comes a mastery of each instrument by each member that allows them to play not only their own songs, but others as well that really adds an improvisational touch to their shows.
This is most dominantly portrayed in their Resonance Music and Arts Festival recording from September that they released this past fall. Their most recent release, though, is yet another live recording from their show opening up for SCI member Kyle Hollingsworth at the Aggie Theater in Fort Collins, CO on January 23rd, and one listen will validate all that I have claimed above.
The first five songs are from their most recent studio EP, Photosynthesis. "Resonate" kicks off the show and immediately (and continually from that point) the listener is absorbed by the guitar as Shur slays almost the entire track. The other most notable aspect of not only this song but all of their music is the synthesizer work by Roland Hansen. As he twists and turns the nobs on the Nord the audience gets immersed in the psychedelic sound that has become the staple of jam band concerts over the years, bridging the gap between heavy instrumentals of age old rock n roll and the captivating aesthetic of the modern electronic music scene. After listening to the second track "Neptune," I would be wrong to say that there is a dominant instrument. Although guided by a hypnotic piano and guitar riff, every member offers something to this song resulting in an explosion of sound sure to engulf any crowd in pure energy.
The next two offerings, "Pulsar" and "Anaglyph" really showcase Hansen’s skill as a pianist. "Pulsar" is almost entirely an entrancing synthesizer solo that’ll send the listener straight out of their shoes and into space as the beat hops, skips, and jumps all over the scales. This song specifically is where I hear the most similarities between Greener Grounds and synth kings STS9. "Anaglyph" focuses more on the wonderful marriage Greener Grounds has between keyboard and guitar. The guitar takes the lead but is soon accompanied by all members and instruments. I would best describe this song as a layer of solos, each time one is introduced it fades into a hypnotic beat and a new instrument enters your ears. This is best heard around the one-minute mark where a high-note organ solo gets overpowered by a guitar solo yet you can still hear Hansen’s beat in the background. Somehow all the aspects of this song come but do not go. They simply trade who is in charge of the groove.
"Clairvoyance" is the last song off of their Photosynthesis EP they play at this particular show. This is a song that I believe encompasses Greener Ground’s vision of creating an uplifting and adventurous sound that will not only have the listener on a journey, but will also have them never wanting it to end. The track features insane keyboard and guitar work as usual but damn do they really go in on this one. Each solo respectively had me head banging and dancing all around the room.
The last three selections, "Sun Tan Snow Day," "Brainwash," and "Golden Years" have not been mastered in the studio and released as official songs, but they have been playing these three jams live for just under a year now based on their released live recordings. "Sun Tan Snow Day" is an 11-minute journey fueled by several instruments that really helps one see how far these guys can take their sound if they continue these trends. This is a truly epic song that will have you playing air guitar, shadow drums, and dancing around all at the same time. "Brainwash" is an interesting song that starts off with low octave notes from all instruments before spending the back half of the song on the lower end of Shur’s guitar neck.
The final song, "Golden Years" is a David Bowie tribute featuring Matty Buelt on lead vocals. They definitely do the recently departed legend justice with an impressive keyboard solo and a not too shabby vocal rendition of Bowie’s tune by “Matty Bee.” Given the timing of this show and Bowie’s death I am sure this was an epic, if not bittersweet, way to end the show.
After listening to this album I could not be more eager to catch these guys live, as I have been for awhile, and I can almost guarantee the same will happen to you. If this is the case, they have scheduled shows all over the US until mid May before closing out their scheduled performances in Mariposa, CA in early June at our very own The Untz Festival and we could not be prouder or more excited to say that. In fact, last night the crew was in Brooklyn at the Knitting Factory, and tonight hits Pacific Standard in New Haven, Connecticut before heading to Bridgeport for the show tomorrow night at The Acoustic. Then it's onto The Spot Underground in Providence, RI and Electric Haze in Worcester, MA on Saturday and Sunday. So again if you need some crazy good live instruments in your life check out these festival gods as soon as you can.
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Michael Des Barres: 50 Years of Jack Flashers, Midnight Ramblers, Devil Sympathizers
Guest Blog: Everyone loved the Beatles … everyone. But it was the Rolling Stones that we feared
Michael Des Barres | September 18, 2012 @ 9:28 AM Last Updated: September 18, 2012 @ 9:40 AM
I remember the day that I realized Mick Jagger was older than the President of the United States, Bill Clinton. I marveled at this compact, Dionysian figure of lean, confident sexuality who without question was still the world's greatest rock ‘n’ roll frontman.
It was the night I saw 100 Keith Richardses at the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard, wearing their girlfriends’ mascara on their Oxycontin eyes — bandanas self-consciously buried in jet-black bangs, shuffling en masse to the bar in vintage high-heeled boots, squeezed into the tightest trousers ever made while nonchalantly knocking back another shot of Jack Daniels with skull rings flashing a beacon for all to see.
At the clubs, "Brown Sugar" was played by innumerable musicians, eyes closed in a Babylonian trance. It was a Rolling Stone reverie, both making love to Marianne Faithfull and smoking a spliff with Keef in his Jamaican getaway whilst carousing with Ronnie Wood and some Eastern European green-eyed teenage model/waitress in Paris — playing guitar and kneeling in front of Charlie Watts’ bass drum as Mick's sweat flew over the first few lucky rows.
Midnight Ramblers.
Devil Sympathizers.
Jack Flashers, French Chateaus, decadence beyond comprehension, scarves flying, reggae music blasting from Keith's custom-made mammoth speakers as naked girls danced like Salomé for the kings of the underworld whilst private jets cruised silently above the mundane world.
Altamont carved into their psyches. Hyde Park's butterflies and the specter of Brian Jones casting a shadow over this rock ‘n’ roll world that the band invented 50 years ago.
Yes, 50 years.
The grainy black-and-white YouTube artifacts show a herky-jerky Jagger twitching his way into the panties of teenage girls all over the world. Soon, Keith's bouncy enthusiasm would mutate into dark, knife wielding suspicion — his eyes penetrating or glazed, his frail body draped in a Tibetan prayer shawl.
Everyone loved the Beatles … everyone. But it was the Rolling Stones that we feared: danger and satisfaction hand in hand. Riffs from the deepest part of the Delta by way of post-WWII England. Simple, pure, carnal. A groove never heard before or since.
A band of marauding gypsies with the infamous tongue poised to lick you to death or ecstasy.
An R&B cover band born in London's seediest clubs in 1963 now playing the anthems of generations to the largest audiences ever assembled in the history of entertainment. The house band of Caligula's last party. The soundtrack of the Apocalypse and Paradise.
Ladies and gentlemen … the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world! The Rolling Stones!!
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Michael Des Barres is no stranger to a Fender Telecaster, or a Hollywood soundstage. Born in England, Des Barres is probably most famous in the annals of rock history as frontman for bands like Detective, Silverhead and Power Station. Today he may be known best to this generation as Murdoc, the sinister assassin of MacGyver fame. Returning to rock ‘n' roll seemed to be a natural, and successful, progression from playing the heavy to delivering heavy, hard-hitting music again. His latest album, "Carnaby Street," is a collection of unabashed, hip-shakin’, bluesy rock ‘n' roll, available from Amazon, iTunes, and his label, Gonzo Multimedia.
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New National Collaborative Effort: The Center for Healthy Food Access
Check out the new national collaborative effort that is ensuring every child in the US has access to nutritious, affordable food.
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By The Food Trust
The Food Trust, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is launching a national collaborative effort – the Center for Healthy Food Access – that will work to ensure that every child in the United States has access to nutritious, affordable food.
Serving as a catalyst to test groundbreaking ideas and share lessons learned, as well as to secure the progress that has been made over recent years, the Center focuses on the following efforts:
Strengthening federal nutrition programs including SNAP, WIC and SNAP-Ed.
Improving the food and water quality in schools.
Creating jobs and economic development by bringing grocery stores and other healthy food businesses to underserved areas.
Working with hospitals and healthcare systems to prevent diet related disease in low-income communities.
Partnering with businesses to focus marketing efforts on healthier choices.
Expanding SNAP Incentive programs that provide support to make healthier food more affordable for those on food stamps.
Promoting healthyfoodaccess.org so organizations and businesses can share successes with one another.
Providing $1 million in grants to more than 15 organizations across the country. For a full list of partners, go to centerforhealthyfoodaccess.org.
“Through our 25 years of working on these issues, we know that accessing healthy food is still a challenge, particularly for children and families in low-income neighborhoods, communities of color and rural areas,” says Yael Lehmann, executive director of The Food Trust. “Now more than ever, it’s important for diverse stakeholders to come together to demonstrate our support for programs and policies that can make the healthy choice the easy choice in every neighborhood.”
For more information about the Center for Healthy Food Access, visit centerforhealthyfoodaccess.org.
To read the full press release, look here.
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As 2019 comes to a close, we want to express our sincere gratitude for your commitment to improving the health of millions of children and their families. Thanks to you, Healthier Generation is building healthy bodies and minds everywhere kids live, learn and play.
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EmPOWERED to Serve Is Offering Scholarships for Students Making a Health Impact
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Do you know a college freshman, sophomore or junior that could benefit from a $10,000 scholarship? Share this EmPOWERED to Serve Scholar opportunity with them!
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CityHealth Announces New 2019 City Policy Ratings
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CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, just announced their new 2019 city policy ratings for the 40 largest U.S. cities. See where your city ranks!
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize Winners!
Congratulations to the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize winners! These five communities have been selected from a group of nearly 200 applicants for their innovative efforts to provide all residents with the opportunity to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. Read on to learn more about the winning communities!
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VR Education’s Latest Informative Experience Shuttle Commander Heading to PlayStation VR
A date has now been set for December.
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VR Education, the British developer focused on virtual reality (VR) experiences that not only entertain but also help teach players is well known for projects like Apollo 11 VR, Titanic VR and 1943: Berlin Blitz. The company revealed its latest project Shuttle Commander: Hubble Space Telescope Missions back in October, today confirming that the PlayStation VR version will be arriving next week.
In Shuttle Commander you can be part of those historic missions to not only deploy the Hubble Space Telescope but also service and repair the telescope.
So there’s a physics-based flight simulator experience where you can take the controls of NASA’s Discovery space shuttle and land it at a number of real-world landing sites, such as Kennedy Space Centre, White Sands Air Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base.
You’ll be able to experience the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope from the cockpit of the Discovery space shuttle using original NASA cockpit audio and mission data. Once in space, you’ll then be able to deploy the telescope. There will be a variety of missions to tackle, including the famous one undertaken back in 1993 to correct a flaw in Hubble’s main mirror.
“Following on from our highly popular and award-winning experiences Apollo 11 VR, Titanic VR and 1943: Berlin Blitz, we are delighted to announce the release of our latest showcase title, Shuttle Commander, for PlayStation,” said David Whelan, CEO of VR Education, in a statement. This new space title will provide significantly expanded and differentiated content while building on the enthusiasm generated by our Apollo 11 title, which to date has sold over 215,000 copies and continues to show strong sales each month. The launch of Shuttle Commander further increases assets and content for our ENGAGE platform where educators and corporate trainers can create their own learning content.”
Alongside all the interactive missions you’ll also be able to view some of the amazing images the Hubble Space Telescope has captured of the solar system. Shuttle Commander: Hubble Space Telescope Missions will be available for PlayStation VR on 3rd December, retailing for £21.99 GBP/$24.99 USD/€24.99 EUR.
VR Education has previously said Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus Quest will support the title in the future. When that happens VRFocus will let you know.
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A new Finnish invention for detecting black ice, launched last year, has been taken into use. A recently started two-year project by EEE Innovations Oy, Finnish Transport Agency and Trafi is harnessing 1000 heavy traffic vehicles into a data collecting system for enhancing traffic safety. The number includes buses and trucks to produce real-time slipperiness data through software installed in them, for the benefit of drivers, operators and other road users. The method, developed in cooperation with VTT, allows for slippery road conditions to be detected accurately and even in real time, far more extensively than by methods currently in use.
— We offer the slipperiness data collected by the vehicles to be used by all parties in the project. In addition to that, also other information can be derived from the vehicles through the system, such as location and temperature data and information on sudden braking situations, says Jarmo Leino of EEE Innovations Oy, the company that developed the service. — We welcome all interested transport operators to join the project, there is room still, Leino continues.
The patented technology is initially offered for heavy traffic, but the invention can be applied for private vehicles as well in the future.
— The software that is now being implemented can also guide drivers to drive more economically. In addition to the driver of the vehicle, a warning of slipperiness detected can be forwarded in real time to the whole fleet and other operators, for example through map applications. The data can be be utilized for other purposes as well, such as targeting road maintenance measures, states Raine Hautala, principal scientist at VTT.
Joining the system does not in most cases require installing any additional equipment, as it can be implemented by a software update to read the data from the CAN-bus of the vehicle's computer. The driver guidance system can be installed as part of the software already existing in the vehicle, or it can be installed as a separate entity, including both the driver guidance and slipperiness detection systems.
— The project enables slipperiness data to be observed far more extensively than before. Benefits can be expected for road users as well as for road maintenance operators, says Otto Kärki, maintenance and digitalization expert at Liikennevirasto, Finnish Transport Agency.
— Real-time slipperiness data is considered a prerequisite for automatic driving to become more common in winter conditions in a larger scale. The solution tested in the project could provide a solution to this problem, says Eetu Pilli-Sihvola, a leading expert at Trafi.
The invention originates from VTT's heavy traffic research projects, and it has been piloted in one EU-level project, as well as in Finland. The pilot projects indicate considerable savings in fuel costs, in addition to improved traffic safety.
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March 06, 2007 - Sysmex America Signs Agreement with Premier
WEBWIRE – Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Mundelein, Illinois, March 2, 2007 – Sysmex America, Inc., a world leader in clinical laboratory design, systemization and solutions announced today that the company has signed a three-year contract agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, LLP. The contract, PP-LA-203, provides Premier member-hospitals and healthcare sites access to Sysmex hematology analyzers, automation, reagents, consumables and services. The contract is effective April 1, 2007. Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to serving 1,700 hospitals and 44,000 other healthcare sites. The Sysmex portfolio of products and services has been a vendor service offering for Premier customers since 1998.
“We are very pleased that the quality and reliability of our Sysmex products and services offerings have been acknowledged by the signing of our second contract with Premier, a company that has received the Malcolm Baldrige Award, the nation’s highest honor for quality. We look forward to serving Premier member-hospitals and allied healthcare facilities as they continue to face the challenges of a changing healthcare environment,” said John Kershaw, President, Sysmex America, Inc. Sysmex America, recipient of the 2006 Pinnacle Award for supplier performance that meets and exceeds the expectations of Premier and its members, is the first hematology vendor to be bestowed this honor.
“Sysmex products and services have been found to meet the quality and pricing standards that Premier has set forth on behalf of its members, who seek to improve their patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of their care,”said John Biggers, Group VP, Sourcing, Premier.
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Saddleworth is a lovely, picturesque, quiet district; a collection of villages. It is a place to where one can escape from the busy towns and cities, and although it is not a place for late night clubs, there is plenty of entertainment to be found during the evenings. Check out our Transport page for details of train, bus and taxi services in case you wish to leave the car.
Live Music/Plays
Great music scenes at The Railway, Greenfield and The Church Inn, Uppermill, famous for its home brewed beer, and the cheapest pint in England. The Railway is only approximately ten minutes walk from Well'i'hole Farm and really is well worth the visit for those who appreciate live music. There's an artist of a high standard on most Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Saddleworth has its share of talented singer songwriters, and many solo artists and bands can be caught performing at The Church Inn, Uppermill, or The Railway, Greenfield either as a main act or on Unplugged/Open Mic nights. The Diggle Hotel holds an Open Mic Drop In Acoustic Night on Monday evenings.
There are many local cabaret acts to watch out for, performing cover versions quite often in pubs around Saddleworth, but arguably the best and most popular is Morgan. He always gives an outstanding performance, and if you're lucky enough to catch one of his gigs, a great night's entertainment is guaranteed.
Other pubs in the area also occasionally include live performances, such as The Farrars Arms and The Wellington, and a monthly Friday night Drop-In Acoustic Night at The Cross keys Inn, Uppermill.
For country music lovers checkout Chew Valley Country Music Club, the second Saturday in the month at Greenfield Conservative Club.
Also, The Civic Hall, Uppermill and Saddleworth Players at Millgate Arts Centre, Delph are worth checking out. Greenfield Methodist Players on Chew Valley Road, Greenfield put some great plays and pantos on. Then there's The George Lawton Hall in Mossley for plays and concerts.
Just over the hill in Holmfirth you can catch some great concerts at the Picturedrome, one of the finest intimate music venues in The North of England.
The very best in live stand up comedy is brought to you regularly by Off The Rails Comedy Club, at the Royal George on Manchester Road, Greenfield. Tickets can be purchased behind the bar or from the Off the Rails website, and it is often possible to pay on the door, though it is advisable to phone beforehand.
Those who appreciate brass bands will probably be aware of the wealth of activity there is in the Saddleworth area, and nearby Mossley area. Every year there are the Whit Friday Band Contests, but throughout the year there are concerts and other performances taking place. In particular, check out the websites of the three bands in Greenfield, namely Boarshurst Band, Greenfield Band, and Friezland Band, and also check out Mossley Band, Dobcross, and Uppermill.
There are many Cricket Clubs to be found in Saddleworth, which has its own cricket league. Saddleworth Cricket Club with tennis courts can be found to the side of Well'i'hole Farm, access is off Manchester Road, opposite The Royal George. Greenfield Cricket Club is off Ladhill Lane behind King William IV in the centre of the village. Greenfield also has a Rugby club, approximately ten minutes walk from Well'i'hole Farm. Then there's Saddleworth Golf Club, a pitch and putt at Grain's Bar in Denshaw, and there's tennis, squash and bowls in Greenfield, behind Boarshurst Band Club off Greenbridge Lane.
There are currently no cinemas or bingo halls in Saddleworth, but Ashton has a large cinema, and Stalybridge, Ashton and Oldham have bingo halls. They are only about twenty minutes drive away. Check our Transport page for bus, train and taxi details.
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Early evidence from existing models of geriatric emergency care—ones that promote best clinical practices for older adults and create a more positive and sensitive physical environment, for example—shows they have the potential to improve health outcomes, better coordinate care, and reduce costs.
Improving emergency care for seniors across the United States is a key area of focus for West Health. In 2016, we launched the Gary and Mary West Senior Emergency Care Unit at UC San Diego Health, where care tailored to the unique needs of seniors is being delivered for the first time in California, making it a cornerstone of philanthropists Gary and Mary West’s $40 million commitment to expanding the use of senior-appropriate care in emergency departments around the country.
We are identifying best practices in senior emergency care, building the evidence for geriatric emergency care protocols, connecting clinical and social resources to provide home and community-based care and addressing the training needs of a multidisciplinary workforce to ensure seniors across the country get the care they need when they are in the emergency department.
We are expanding our research portfolio to build evidence in support of a new vision for unplanned acute care, which fundamentally drives the majority of healthcare costs for our nation’s vulnerable seniors. We envision more proactive, opportunistic care that is delivered in place, whenever possible.
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We recently announced a collaboration between regional healthcare systems, West Health and County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Dianne Jacob to have a majority of San Diego’s emergency departments accredited as senior-friendly by 2021.
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10 reasons why the writing for the Derry Girls pilot was so good
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If you're an aspiring comedy writer you NEED to see the pilot for All 4's Derry Girls. Here's 10 reasons why...
Writing comedy is hard. Writing a sitcom? Doubly so. And as if that wasn't enough, pilots are arguably the hardest episodes to write given the need to build a world, introduce new characters, have a full plotline AND be really funny... not to mention it can be the first time you've properly your met characters. And quite frankly you're often still discovering who they are and exactly what the show's about...
But, for my money, Lisa McGee has absolutely nailed it with Derry Girls and, given All 4 have recommissioned it for a second series after just one episode was aired, I rather suspect other people feel the same.
There are SO MANY good things about the show, from the excellent directing and photography, to the spot-on use of music and sound and the, frankly incredible, performances from the cast.
But what I really want to talk about here is the writing. Here's 10 reasons why...
1) The premise (young girls trying to discover themselves in a world of family/school/politics/culture that constrains, confines and tries to define them) and characters are quickly setup and reinforced throughout the episode.
2) EVERY character was sharp and well defined, even those on-screen for only a few seconds e.g. Dennis the shopkeeper and Erin’s grandfather. James, as the boy forced to go to an all-girls school, is such a strong concept he could form the basis for a sitcom in his own right. Yet here he’s just one of 6 main characters…
3) ...the 6th being the setting itself, beautifully shown through visuals and music and with its own plot thread - the closed road.
4) Each character’s thread was used to help the audience better understand them. Erin doing anything to be popular, Clare wanting to help others but mostly helping herself, Michelle wanting to be top dog but actually just being a top gob…
5) ...and each of these threads came together in a beautifully farcical end scene in classic sitcom tradition, brilliantly built and played out.
6) The dialogue and actions were SUPERB. What characters thought of themselves and what others thought of them was both shown in spades and capped off with lovely bits of ‘tell’ to make sure we got it. Michelle: “I’m a beacon of truth” / Erin: “You’re a mouth, that’s what you are”.
7) The bookending of the show using the same device each time was a really nice example of how exposition can be handled with elegance and humour.
8) Actually, since it was a pilot, it naturally had LOADS of exposition BUT it was all dealt with beautifully - Orla: “what’s a pair of knickers between cousins?” Orla was the clown who could safely say tell us things and James was the ‘new kid’ who could safely ask questions.
9) Crucially the humour (and there was bags of it) flowed naturally from the characters, the setting and the conflict. All the gags made sense and felt right for the show (plus there were very funny!)
10) And it was all done in just 23 minutes without feeling rushed. Extraordinary!
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New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act
Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans and—with Miranda's help—he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle soon forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma.
In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart—or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.
IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.
“A sharply intelligent novel of ideas. McEwan’s writing about the creation of a robot’s personality allows him to speculate on the nature of personality, and thus humanity, in general . . . Beguiling.”
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"[A] sharp, unsettling read . . . about love, family, jealousy and deceit. Ultimately, it asks a surprisingly mournful question: If we built a machine that could look into our hearts, could we really expect it to like what it sees?"
—Jeff Giles, The New York Times Book Review
“[McEwan] is not only one of the most elegant writers alive, he is one of the most astute at crafting moral dilemmas within the drama of everyday life. Half a century ago, Philip K. Dick asked, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,’ and now McEwan is sure those androids are pulling the wool over our eyes. McEwan’s special contribution is not to articulate the challenge of robots but to cleverly embed that challenge in the lives of two people trying to find a way to exist with purpose. That human drama makes Machines Like Me strikingly relevant even though it’s set in a world that never happened almost 40 years ago.”
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Witty and humane . . . a retrofuturist family drama that doubles as a cautionary fable about artificial intelligence, consent, and justice.”
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker
“[A] densely allusive, mind-bending novel of ideas that plays to our acute sense of foreboding about where technology is leading us. In Machines Like Me, British literary fiction master Ian McEwan posits an alternative history . . . [it has] the feel of an intricate literary machine situated squarely on the fault lines of contemporary debates about technology.”
“A thought-provoking, well-oiled literary machine . . . [It] manages to flesh out—literally and grippingly—questions about what constitutes a person, and the troubling future of humans if the smart machines we create can overtake us."
—Heller McAlpin, NPR
“A searching, sharply intelligent, and often deeply discomfiting pass through the Black Mirror looking glass—and all the promise and peril of machine dreams.”
—Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
“A ruminative mix of science fiction, romance and alternate history set in 1980s London….thought-provoking…[A] cautionary tale based on McEwan’s sharp observations of our flawed human nature.”
“Enormous fun . . . McEwan has engaged with science before [and] his world of artificial intelligence is chilly, clever and utterly credible. This bold and brilliant novel tells a consistently compelling tale but it also provides regular food for thought regarding who we are, what we feel, what we construct, and what we might become.”
“Reminds you of [McEwan’s] mastery of the underrated craft of storytelling. The narrative is propulsive, thanks to our uncertainties about the characters’ motives, the turning points that suddenly reconfigure our understanding of the plot, and the figure of Adam, whose ambiguous energy is both mysteriously human and mysteriously not . . . Morally complex and very disturbing, animated by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief that feels unique to its author.”
—Marcel Theroux, The Guardian
"Thought provoking . . . consistently surprising . . . an intriguing novel about humans, machines, and what constitutes a self."
"McEwan brings humor and considerable ethical rumination to a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence."
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AFTAs 2018: Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months (Trading and Risk)—SS&C Eze
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Buy-side firms have spent decades trying to consolidate and streamline their front-to-back office operations. The value of such an achievement enables hedge funds and traditional asset managers to develop complete visibility of performance, risk and regulatory compliance through the adoption of unified platforms. SS&C Eze, formerly Eze Software, has taken this concept one step further with the development of its Eze Eclipse platform, tailored to meet the needs of startup hedge funds focused on equity and event-driven markets.
In the year-and-a-half since its launch in June 2017, the offering has garnered attention for its growing risk and investment management capabilities, and this year its hard work has paid off as it takes home the award for best new technology introduced over the last 12 months (trading and risk) at the 2018 AFTAs.
Built on cloud-native technology, Eclipse supports the full investment lifecycle, viewable through a single web browser interface. Designed with a holistic approach in mind and aimed at minimizing total cost of ownership, the platform can be configured and customized to fit clients’ needs at various stages in their growth. Portfolio managers can tailor investment strategies by adjusting portfolio, custodial and strategy-level allocations and leveraging Eclipse’s order-routing capabilities. Supplemented by ICE Data Services, clients have access to built-in analytics on performance measurements, execution and real-time market insights, including valuations, profit and loss (P&L), and position-level exposure.
Eze Eclipse sits on an internal investment book of record platform that allows for complete visibility and management of risk and regulatory compliance. It provides configurable pre- and post-trade compliance checks and enables clients to monitor positions throughout the transaction lifecycle.
Eric Christofferson, managing director of product and engineering at SS&C Eze, explains that the firm works closely with clients to consistently improve the platform’s functionality and uses an Agile approach to bring those solutions to market quickly. In one example, he highlights the fact that the provider dedicated a large amount of time to developing the front-end of the platform based on users’ specific requirements. “We have focused pretty heavily on the user experience and tailoring workflows so that clients have all the data they require at their fingertips,” he says. “We have focused heavily on how to navigate through the application to find what you need as easily as possible and implement an action very quickly.”
Looking to 2019, SS&C Eze expects to roll out the offering across the EMEA and APAC markets, and continue to expand its asset class coverage, including support for credit instruments and futures.
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County executive padding her paycheck
Wage study brings big increases to ‘fat cats,’ pennies for other county workers
County executive padding her paycheck Wage study brings big increases to ‘fat cats,’ pennies for other county workers Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: http://wdhne.ws/1MQLCWq
Wisconsin Published 2:54 p.m. CT April 5, 2016 | Updated 3:53 p.m. CT April 5, 2016
Patty Dreier(Photo: File photo)
EDITOR: Portage County, at the recommendation of the county executive, recently engaged the services of a consultant to conduct a salary study for Portage County employees. The goal is to improve the wages of county employees and make county wages more competitive in the marketplace.
The consultant was to determine the wages of comparable positions and prepare a new wage plan for county employees. The study’s recommended wage plan was released earlier this year.
If implemented, the new wage plan will bring huge wage increases to many higher-up county employees and pennies to others.
For example, the county executive would receive an $18,000 increase, her assistant $10,000. This is all very scientific and based on comparables. Ask yourself, who are the comparables? In the case of the county executive position, it’s much bigger and wealthier counties, for example, Waukesha County. Should Portage County’s executive make the same as the Waukesha County executive? I think not.
I was told that at several county leaders meetings, the county executive boasted of the $500,000 she carved out of the budget process to bring fairer, family-sustaining wages to county employees. But the proposed wage plan gives a majority of the wage increases to already highly paid county employees. If there was any real interest in bringing a better living wage to the rank and file, the majority of the $500,000 would be going to them, not the county’s fat cats.
One more question: Where did the $500,000 that the county executive boasted about come from? The simple answer is from cutting county department budgets, thereby reducing service to county residents.
Patty Dreier and her accomplices should be ashamed.
Thomas Smith-Jacobson
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Boot Camps For Troubled Teens OFallon, MO
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Boot Camps For Teens from OFallon, MO
WinGate Wilderness Therapy is a premier Outdoor Therapeutic Adventure Program, chosen by parents as an alternative to Boot Camps For Teens from OFallon, MO. With a combined history of over eighty years of wilderness therapy experience, the treatment counselors here at WinGate recognize the complexities of how to properly administer treatment for troubled teens.
Fixed among the magnificent and world famous red mountains of Southern Utah, WinGate is recognized nationally as a model "therapeutic transitional living" wilderness program. Although not a Boot Camp, WinGate is a "parent-preferred" alternative to these programs.
No research-based conclusions have been found that "favor" the boot camp experience. These results are especially true when taking into consideration the boot camps' fundamental purpose of "rehabilitation." When compared to former prison inmates, the "recidivism rates" for boot camp participants (referring to a person's "chance of relapse" back into criminal behavior) are roughly the same.
Most parents don't know that the "boot camp program" began years ago as an adult-only, "shock incarceration" program designed for "first-time" offenders. The purpose of this boot camp experience was to make the "time served" so shocking and abhorrent, the offender would be "scared straight" into model behavior, to avoid another sentence.
Consequently, more mental health specialists are pointing their sharp criticism toward Boot Camps for being "too harsh while not addressing the adolescent's real underlying psychological problems through proper counseling and therapy."
Wilderness adventure programs, such as ours, are considerably more productive when teen "transformation and restoration" is the goal. At WinGate, we teach both independent living skills and individual accountability, which is the framework upon which to construct a life of lasting health and balance.
WinGate's "research-validated" approach to wilderness-based treatment causes our work to WORK! The peaceful, distraction-free atmosphere of our wilderness area benefits even the most "treatment-resistant" and "rebellious" adolescents. You can reach us immediately at (800) 560-1599.
Boot Camps For Kids From OFallon, MO
Out of sheer desperation, some parents will turn to teen boot camps in an attempt to protect their teen from incarceration or even the possibility of death. However, before sending a teenager to a boot camp facility, one should do their homework on boot camps vs. wilderness therapy or residential treatment. Like most facilities and programs, not all boot camps are created equal. You should know that there have been numerous incidents of death among the "less than adequate" boot camps. The tragic combination of corporal punishment administered by poorly trained staff, sadly, has led to the deaths of several teens while attending a boot camp.
You can feel comfortable and confident that Wingate, as a premier Adventure Therapy Program, licensed by the State of Utah, is a long-time member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP). This accreditation and affiliation is a resource and beacon to both parents and professionals that WinGate provides the highest quality services to the students and families we serve.
In essence, our hope and goal is to help shape a "heart of peace," which replaces the "heart of war." Wilderness Therapy for troubled teens is unique in that there are consistent and continual opportunities for observation and intervention. These moments are uninterrupted by the usual day-to-day disruptions and distractions found at a traditional residential treatment program setting.
The wilderness atmosphere produces for our counselors, twenty-four hours a day, the epitome of experiential treatment blended with both individual and group therapy sessions conducted by our staff of therapists.
Teen Boot Camps
In "military training camp" fashion, teen boot camps are created to teach both structure and discipline to "wayward" young people. This "instruction" is generally performed through the application of "military-style" control which includes strenuous physical activity. The objective of boot camp staffers is to "challenge the camper" with the "hope" of instilling confidence and self-reliance.
However, it's critical for parents to recognize that boot camps have recently come under severe criticism, by mental health authorities and practitioners, for being "too harsh while not addressing the juvenile's underlying psychological issues via proper counseling and therapy."
We have come to know that participants in "wilderness treatment" possess a greater capacity for attention, thus enabling a more focused and thriving process for healing. We witness our students growing closer to their peers while developing a stronger bond with the counselors as well.
The peaceful environment of the outdoors enables the students to gain more quickly an insight into their previous, unhealthy behaviors, allowing them to make proper and adequate changes. These nurturing, yet challenging conditions, allows our students to gain perspective, grow up, and achieve an improved level of maturity all while addressing behavioral obstacles and issues.
Juvenile Boot Camps
In the past, a few private boot camps and military academies have offered "scholarship" or "grant" programs for families in need of financial assistance. However, these "grant" programs usually turn out to be "loans," disguised as "financial aid," to be paid back in monthly installments. What's more, most of these boot camp programs are extinct and are therefore hard to find.
In short, free boot camps for troubled teens typically do not exist. However, there are state-funded boot camps that can be utilized only if your teen has been or is in the state juvenile system. Although state-funded boot camps may be the only financially viable option for some families, this option causes serious drawbacks worth considering.
Therapeutic healing and counseling are certainly not emphasized at Juvenile Boot Camps. The boot camp staffers are not licensed nor are they trained to administer guidance for the "emotional issues" and "psychological disorders" that are normally at the root of all behavioral problems in adolescents. These boot camps offer only discipline and authoritarian control. In the end, boot camps resemble "jails" more than "therapeutic interventions."
At WinGate Wilderness Therapy, we include the parents and family in your struggling teen's progress and therapy. Over the years, we have served thousands of boys and girls from OFallon, MO and from all over the country. Our track record has demonstrated to cause results that are life changing.
We know that troubled teens can become healthy, independent adults, and can develop as strong people motivated for success. Call WinGate Wilderness Therapy today at (800) 560-1599.
Mental Health National Institution for Parents of Teens from OFallon, MO
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Learn how SAMHSA helps people access treatments and services. SAMHSA is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leading public health efforts for the purposes of advancing the behavioral health of the country.
National Council for Behavioral Health: The NCBH is the unifying voice of America's addictions treatment and mental health institutions. With over 750,000 staff members, and their 2,000 plus member organizations, NCBH serves more than 8 million of our country's most vulnerable citizens.
We Help Your Teen Who With Emotional Problems FromOFallon, MO
Emotional and behavioral problems can occur in OFallon, MO just like any other city. Those problems, along with addictive behavior leading to drug or alcohol abuse can create disruptive family situations. You may be watching your teen destroy their lives right before your eyes.
Your troubled teen might be able to be helped at Mental Health Treatment Facility, but that might not be the best answer for your son or daughter.
Located in the inspiring beauty of Utah, WinGate Wilderness Therapy can help your troubled teen from OFallon, MO. In a relatively short period, your teen can be on the road to full recovery and restoration.
Unfortunately, OFallon, MO is no different from many other cities in the growing plague of drug abuse and the other events that often follow the increase in drug use. At WinGate we understand, and can help you in these difficult times. Give WinGate Wilderness Therapy a call to get help for your troubled teen at (800) 560-1599.
We Help Troubled Teens Who Have Family Problems FromOFallon, MO
The WinGate Wilderness Therapy program is well-established in the behavorial therapy world. We have an outstanding success rate in restoring teenagers to a productive and rewarding life. WinGate helps teens from OFallon, MO regain a strong sense of worth and restore the positive relationships with family
WinGate Wilderness Therapy is not located in OFallon, MO, but we certainly can help your trouble teen escape from the depression and stress caused by serious problems. You might not have the resources needed to help your struggling teenager, but we can provide the help you are so desperately seeking.
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Men’s ODI spells of the decade, No.5: Trent Boult runs riot against Australia
by Rishad D'Souza December 10, 2019 - 4:02am 4 minute read
Trent Boult was unstoppable against Australia at Eden Park during the 2015 World Cup, and his 5-27 meant New Zealand trumped their trans-Tasman rivals at the big stage. Rishad D’Souza revisits a thriller.
Trent Boult 5-27
New Zealand v Australia
Group stage, ICC World Cup 2015
The spell
It was at home, in front of a vociferous Eden Park. It was a World Cup game. It was against their overachieving neighbours Australia. And to add to the sense of occasion, the boards declared the winner of the match would be awarded the prestigious Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. This was, to put it mildly, an important clash.
Australia had opted to bat first on the oddly shaped ground, possibly with hopes of capitalising on some of the smaller boundaries to put up a huge score. Only, there was swing on offer and New Zealand had in their side two of the best movers of the white ball in Tim Southee, who only a week ago had decimated England with 7-33, and Boult.
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Boult’s first spell reaped no rewards though, his five overs going for 24 runs and Australia sitting pretty at 68-1 after 10 overs. But Daniel Vettori would soon take a couple of wickets, and sensing an opportunity to go for the kill, Brendon McCullum reintroduced Boult after just a seven-over break.
This time, Boult found his radar, and made the inswinger to the right-handers his ally; he had Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh both chopping on in quick succession, and then, steaming in from round the wicket, he forced a false shot from Australia captain Michael Clarke, and removed the two Mitchells, Johnson and Starc, with full deliveries.
His second spell produced incredulous figures of 5-3-3-5, and reduced Australia to 124-9 from 96-4.
Player of the Match is Trent Boult for his brilliant 5 for 27 & doesn't the Eden Park crowd love it!! #cwc15 #AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/vK913Rzz85
— ICC (@ICC) February 28, 2015
Boult went on to finish the tournament as the joint highest wicket-taker alongside Starc, his 22 wickets coming at just 16.86 apiece.
The ball
21.6, Mitchell Starc b Trent Boult, 0 (2)
In a spell where he also accounted for Maxwell and Clarke, Starc’s certainly wasn’t Boult’s most important wicket. But there’s a case to be made for this to be his best delivery of the spell. It was a fast, searing yorker, seemingly aimed at the leg stump. Starc tried to flick it, but failed to account for the very late away movement that took the ball past his outside edge to uproot his middle stump.
That delivery also represented a passing of the baton of sorts; a left-arm fast bowler himself, Starc made a note of what he had to do if Australia were to try and defend a very low total. Starc went on to knock over six batsmen, executing that yorker to perfection, but still couldn’t prevent the hosts from winning the thriller by a wicket.
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New Book Examines Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence
ATLANTA, GA. — The implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) by companies, governments, universities and more grows every day. The legal and regulatory risks and implications of AI, however, remains largely unknown. “The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines,” a new book from the ABA Business Law Section, provides a comprehensive overview of how this new technology has evolved, how it will affect the legal profession and how the law will be reformed to meet the new realities created by AI.
Womble Bond Dickinson technology attorney and AI thought leader, Ted Claypoole, edited the book, which features insight from numerous industry leaders including Womble Bond Dickinson attorney Malcolm Dowden and Bill Koch, the firm’s Chief Knowledge Officer. Each contributor explores the unique legal challenges and opportunities AI is creating, including issues such as intellectual property development and labor replacement. Other topics discussed are:
Regulations managing autonomous flying drones, biologically-base robots and other thinking machines that operate in our streets and companies
AI’s impact on healthcare, workplace procedures and basic business management
AI and intellectual property, cybersecurity and consumer privacy
The transactional law practice and AI
International privacy laws and global regulations and their effect on development of AI
The future of AI and mapping the law
Unique traits of AI decision-making that already conflict with laws and regulations
Included are charts, graphs, glossary of terms, framework for trustworthy AI and an appendix with examples of opportunities and critical concerns raised by artificial intelligence.
Claypoole leads the Womble Bond Dickinson IP Transaction Team, its FinTech Team and its Privacy and Cyber Security Team. He serves clients in managing risk and making money with data, internet and electronic technologies. Claypoole is immediate past chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee and serves on the section’s Leadership Council. He has co-authored two books with Theresa Payton published by Rowman & Littlefield titled, “Privacy in the Age of Big Data” and “Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?”
Theodore F. Claypoole
ted.claypoole@wbd-us.com
Malcolm Dowden
Legal Director, UK
malcolm.dowden@wbd-uk.com
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