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Behavioral Finance, Osa 2
23.11.2010 | Kohti taloudellista riippumattomuutta
(Kuva: Anderson Mancini)
Tämä on toinen osa käyttäytymisperusteisen rahoituksen eli behavioral financen kirjoitussarjasta. Sen on kirjoittanut Oulun yliopiston rahoituksen professori Hannu Kahra ja teksti perustuu pitkälle John Nofsingerin kirjaan Psychology of Investing. Lue sarjan ensimmäinen osa tästä linkistä.
2.2 Long-Term Capital Management
Even Nobel Prize winners in the field of economics are prone to overestimating the precision of their knowledge. Consider the plight of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). The partners of the fund included John Meriwether, the famed bond trader from Salomon Brothers; David Mullins, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; and Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes and Robert Merton. The firm employed 24 people with Ph.D. degrees. The hedge fund began in 1994 and enjoyed stellar returns. In the beginning of 1998, LTCM had $4 billion in equity. It also had borrowed $100 billion to leverage its positions for higher returns. Its main strategy was to find arbitrage opportunities in the bond market.
In August 1998, Russia devalued its currency and defaulted on some of its debt. This action started a chain of events over the next four weeks that led to devaluation in many emerging countries. Bond and stock markets throughout the world declined. The prices of U.S. Treasury securities skyrocketed as investors fled to the safest investments.
The equity in the LTCM portfolio fell from $4 billion to $0.6 billion in one month. The Federal Reserve Bank feared that a margin call on LTCM would force it to liquidate its $100 billion worth of positions. Selling these positions during this precarious time might have precipitated a crisis that could endanger the financial system. By late September, a consortium of leading investment banks and commercial banks injected $3.5 billion into the fund in exchange for 90 percent of the equity.
How could a hedge fund with such brainpower lose 90 percent of its equity in one month? Apparently, in designing their models, the partners did not think so many things could go wrong at the same time. It appears that they set their range of possible outcomes too narrowly.
2.3 Behavioral finance
Even the smartest people are affected by psychological biases, but traditional finance has considered this irrelevant. Traditional finance assumes that people are "rational" and tells us how people should behave in order to maximize their wealth. These ideas have brought us arbitrage theory, portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, and option pricing theory.
Alternatively, behavioral finance studies how people actually behave in a financial setting. Specifically, it is the study of how psychology affects financial decisions, corporations, and the financial markets. We focuse on a subset of these issues how psychological biases affect investors. The investor who truly understands these biases also will appreciate more fully the tools traditional finance has provided.
2.4 Sources of cognitive errors
Many of the behaviors of investors are outcomes of prospect theory. This theory describes how people frame and value a decision involving uncertainty. First, investors frame the choices in terms of potential gains and losses relative to a specific reference point. Although investors seem to anchor on various reference points, the purchase price appears to be important. Second, investors value the gains/losses according to an S-shaped function as shown in Figure 2. Notice several things about the value function in the figure. First, the function is concave for gains. Investors feel good (i.e., have higher utility) when they make a $500 gain. They feel better when they make a $1,000 gain. However, they do not feel twice as good when they gain $1,000 as when they gain $500.
(Figure 2: Prospect theory)
Second, notice that the function is convex for taking a loss. This means that investors feel bad when they have a loss, but twice the loss does not make them feel twice as bad.
Third, the function is steeper for losses than for gains. This asymmetry between gains and losses leads to different reactions in dealing with winning and losing positions.
An additional aspect of prospect theory is that people segregate each investment in order to track gains and losses and periodically reexamine positions. These separate accounts are referred to as mental accounting. Viewing each investment separately rather than using a portfolio approach limits investors' ability to minimize risk and maximize return.
A different approach to the psychology of investing is to categorize behavioral biases by their source. Some cognitive errors result from self-deception, which occurs because people tend to think they are better than they really are. This self-deception helps them fool others and thus survive the natural selection process. Another source of bias comes from heuristic simplification. Simply stated, heuristic simplification exists because constraints on cognitive resources (like memory, attention, and processing power) force the brain to shortcut complex analyses. Prospect theory is considered an outcome of heuristic simplification. A third source of bias comes from a person's mood, which can overcome reason.
Human interaction and peer effects are also important in financial decision making. Human interactions are how people share information and communicate feelings about the information. The cues obtained about the opinions and emotions of others influence one's decisions.
2.5 Bias and wealth impact
Behavioral finance demonstrates how psychological biases, cognitive errors, and emotions affect investor decisions. It also shows the wealth ramifications of these biased decisions. In other words, not only do people make predictable errors, but those errors have financial costs. As an example, consider that people place too much emphasis on the few observations they have witnessed to make predictions about future outcomes. First consider the three outcomes of flipping a coin, Head, Head, and Head. We know that we should expect there to be equal numbers of Head and Tails in the long run. Observing an imbalance like three Heads leads people to behave as if there is a greater chance of a Tails on the next flip. Since we know the underlying distribution (50% chance of Heads, 50% chance of Tails), we tend to believe in a correction. This is known as the gambler's fallacy and is part of a larger misunderstanding referred to as the law of small numbers?
Consider how this behavior impacts those who play the lottery. In the long run, people know that each number in a lottery should be picked an equal number of times. So they tend to avoid numbers that have been recent picked because it seems less likely that they should be picked again so soon. So this fallacy biases people toward picking lottery numbers that have not been picked in a while. You might ask how this impacts their wealth; after all, the numbers they pick are as equally likely to be chosen as any others. Say that everyone who plays the lottery avoids the numbers that have recently been picked. Remember that lottery jackpots are split between all the winners. If I select the the recent numbers and if my numbers get chosen in the lottery, I am the only winner and get to keep the entire jackpot. If you are the winner, you are likely to split with others and thus receive only a small share of the jackpot. Our probabilities of winning are the same, but by following the crowd of people suffering from gambler's fallacy, you would have a smaller expected payoff. Notice that by understanding this bias, I am able to change my decisions to avoid it and position myself to make more money than those who suffer from it.
Belief in the law of small numbers causes people to behave a little differently in the stock market. With coins and lotteries we believe that we understand the underlying distribution of outcomes. But we don't know the underlying distribution of outcomes for different stocks and mutual funds. In fact, we believe that some stocks and mutual funds are better than others. Here we take the small number of observations we see as representative of what to expect in the future. Unusual success is believed to continue: we believe in "hot hands". When people believe they understand the underlying distribution of outcomes, they predict unusual occurrences to reverse. Alternatively, when they do not know the underlying distribution, they predict unusual performance to continue. We thus see investors "chase" last year's high performing mutual funds.
2.6 Biases
2.6.1 Overconfidence
Extensive evidence shows that people are overconfident in their judgments. This appears in two guises. First, the confidence intervals people assign to their estimates of quantities - the level of the Dow in a year, say - are far too narrow. Their 98% confidence intervals, for example, include the true quantity only about 60% of the time [Alpert and Raiffa (1982)]. Second, people are poorly calibrated when estimating probabilities: events they think are certain to occur actually occur only around 80% of the time, and events they deem impossible occur approximately 20% of the time [Fischhoff, Slovic and Lichtenstein (1977)].
Hence, people can be overconfident. Psychologists have determined that overconfidence causes people to overestimate their knowledge, underestimate risks, and exaggerate their ability to control events. Does overconfidence occur in investment decision making? Security selection is a diffcult task. It is precisely this type of task in which people exhibit the greatest degree of overconfidence. Are you overconfident?
Question: Are you a good driver? Compared with the drivers you encounter on the road, are you above average, average, or below average?
How did you answer this question? If overconfidence were not involved, approximately one-third of you would answer above average, one-third would say average, and one-third would say below average. However, people are overconfident in their abilities. In one published study, 82 percent of the sampled college students rated themselves above average in driving ability. Clearly, many of them are mistaken.
Consider this financially oriented example. Starting a business is a risky venture; in fact, most new businesses fail. When 2,994 new business owners were asked about their chances of success, they thought they had a 70 percent chance of success, but only 39 percent thought that any business like theirs would be as likely to succeed. Why do new business owners think they have nearly twice the chance of success as others? They are overconfident.
A Gallup/Paine Webber survey of individual investors conducted in early 2001 demonstrates this overconfidence. Of particular note is that many of those surveyed had recently experienced some negative outcomes after the technology stock bubble collapsed. When asked what they thought the stock market return would be during the next 12 months, the average answer was 10.3 percent. When asked what return they expected to earn on their portfolios, the average response was 11.7 percent. Typically, investors expect to earn an above-average return.
2.6.2 Optimism and wishful thinking
Most people display unrealistically rosy views of their abilities and prospects [Weinstein (1980)]. Typically, over 90% of those surveyed think they are above average in such domains as driving skill, ability to get along with people and sense of humor. They also display a systematic planning fallacy: they predict that tasks (such as writing survey papers) will be completed much sooner than they actually are [Buehler, Griffin and Ross (1994)].
2.6.3 Representativeness
Kahneman and Tversky (1974) show that when people try to determine the probability that a data set A was generated by a model B, or that an object A belongs to a class B, they often use the representativeness heuristic. This means that they evaluate the probability by the degree to which A reflects the essential characteristics of B.
Much of the time, representativeness is a helpful heuristic, but it can generate some severe biases. The first is base rate neglect. To illustrate, Kahneman and Tversky present this description of a person named Linda:
Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
When asked which of "Linda is a bank teller" (statement A) and "Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement" (statement B) is more likely, subjects typically assign greater probability to B. This is, of course, impossible. Representativeness provides a simple explanation. The description of Linda sounds like the description of a feminist - it is representative of a feminist - leading subjects to pick B.
Representativeness also leads to another bias, sample size neglect. When judging the likelihood that a data set was generated by a particular model, people often fail to take the size of the sample into account: after all, a small sample can be just as representative as a large one. Six tosses of a coin resulting in three heads and three tails are as representative of a fair coin as 500 heads and 500 tails are in a total of 1000 tosses. Representativeness implies that people will find the two sets of tosses equally informative about the fairness of the coin, even though the second set is much more so.
Sample size neglect means that in cases where people do not initially know the data-generating process, they will tend to infer it too quickly on the basis of too few data points. For instance, they will come to believe that a financial analyst with four good stock picks is talented because four successes are not representative of a bad or mediocre analyst. It also generates a "hot hand" phenomenon, whereby sports fans become convinced that a basketball player who has made three shots in a row is on a hot streak and will score again, even though there is no evidence of a hot hand in the data [Gilovich, Vallone and Tversky (1985)]. This belief that even small samples will reflect the properties of the parent population is sometimes known as the "law of small numbers" [Rabin (2002)].
In situations where people do know the data-generating process in advance, the law of small numbers leads to a gambler's fallacy effect. If a fair coin generates five heads in a row, people will say that "tails are due". Since they believe that even a short sample should be representative of the fair coin, there have to be more tails to balance out the large number of heads.
2.6.4 Conservatism
While representativeness leads to an underweighting of base rates, there are situations where base rates are over-emphasized relative to sample evidence. In an experiment run by Edwards (1968), there are two urns, one containing 3 blue balls and 7 red ones, and the other containing 7 blue balls and 3 red ones. A random draw of 12 balls, with replacement, from one of the urns yields 8 reds and 4 blues. What is the probability the draw was made from the first urn? While the correct answer is 0.97, most people estimate a number around 0.7, apparently overweighting the base rate of 0.5.
At first sight, the evidence of conservatism appears at odds with representativeness. However, there may be a natural way in which they fit together. It appears that if a data sample is representative of an underlying model, then people overweight the data. However, if the data is not representative of any salient model, people react too little to the data and rely too much on their priors. In Edwards' experiment, the draw of 8 red and 4 blue balls is not particularly representative of either urn, possibly leading to an overreliance on prior information.
2.6.5 Belief perseverance
There is much evidence that once people have formed an opinion, they cling to it too tightly and for too long [Lord, Ross and Lepper (1979)]. At least two effects appear to be at work. First, people are reluctant to search for evidence that contradicts their beliefs. Second, even if they find such evidence, they treat it with excessive skepticism. Some studies have found an even stronger effect, known as confirmation bias, whereby people misinterpret evidence that goes against their hypothesis as actually being in their favor. In the context of academic finance, belief perseverance predicts that if people start out believing in the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, they may continue to believe in it long after compelling evidence to the contrary has emerged.
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Tuosta LTCM:stä muistui mieleeni eräs erittäin hyvä kirja, jonka itsekin jo kaksi kertaa lukenut:
Lowenstein, Roger (2000). When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. Random House. ISBN 0-375-50317-X
PS. Jos saat(te) käsiinne niin katsokaa myös http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/midas.shtml
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North Texas Big-Band No. 1
A compilation of projects from the various lab bands of
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Myth of the “Flying Trot”
It’s not just the GSD, properly trained, short-legged dogs can achieve the suspended trot too.
Fred Lanting, All-Breed Judge, Sieger/Schutzhund, SAAB
Now, don’t get your hackles up—the myth of which I speak is that which is held primarily by German Shepherd fanciers; namely, that it is a trait peculiar to that breed.
It is not, as you will see when you study these stop-action photos. Even dwarf (short-legged) dogs can trot at sufficient speed such that twice in every full stride, all four feet will be off the ground, thus the term suspended trot. Mostly, it is a matter of training plus structure, although even dogs with unbalanced front-to-rear angulation can accomplish this eye-catching gait as shown in the photos of dogs in the flying trot. But note AKC-typical GSD and how much higher the “other” three feet are off the ground in this less-balanced dog.
The Flying Trot topic has become of more interest and attention recently in the United Kingdom, where The Kennel Club (note the capitalization of the word “the”) has decided to get tough on the excessive emphasis on this flashy gait that has long been practiced by handlers. But the flying trot controversy is not new. Several years ago, when Peter Messler was president and chief judge of the Shaferhund Verein (the original parent club for the GSD breed), he tried to deemphasize the practice, as well as require that the standing exam include a natural (not hand-set) pose.
Even earlier, many excellent judges made their decisions during more natural gaiting speeds, those more like what the sheep-tending shepherd dog would usually employ in circling or driving members of the flock.
I remember a very good GSD specialty judge in the late 1960s, Fraser Anderson, requiring that handlers walk instead of run during his final determination on placings. Fortunately, I have long legs and was handling a beautifully-balanced bitch and the combination of both of us more easily being able to cover much ground without running and galloping led to our winning the show.
So, why is the side gait practice of looking for suspended trot still seen? There is more than one reason. Firstly, there are many judges who have “not yet gotten the word” and are still under the impression that the flying trot is a necessary gait, to be used to make the final decision between one super dog and the next.
If you are exhibiting under one of these judges, I wish you luck. Plus long legs and a large ring.
Secondly, the concept of the flying trot is popular and what show chairman or judge wishes to be unpopular? Thirdly, some national show organizations, such as AKC, are more interested in what a judge wears or how he fills out the paperwork or how he follows other guidelines than whether he selects animals that are best for the breed.
Giving a nod to that second reason, we should acknowledge that dog shows are supposed to be not only educational and breed-serving, but also fun events. Otherwise, why bother? Only a small percentage of those involved in the game are going to break even or make money. Fun, plus possibly the accolades from our co-sportsmen, are why there are (a relatively) few of us still showing dogs.
At all-breed events, where rings and class entry sizes are smaller, there is no opportunity to show off the flashy flying trot. But at specialty shows, is there any harm in giving the ringside a spectacle? And the handler an excuse for earning his big fee? My solution (shared by several other specialist judges) is simple: I do my evaluating during the “stand for exam” and the normal gaiting speeds both individually and after placing the dogs in order of descending quality, and then bring the whole class together again for “once around at speed” to give the crowd and the handlers a chance to use up some of their adrenaline. My having already made up my mind, this part is for the crowd and handlers, not for the decision process.
Of course, when judging at “The Kennel Club” events, where the powers-that-be forbid the speeds that would show off the GSD’s flying trot, I have to bow to their recently strengthened rules. This spectacular gait can however still be seen in the smaller breeds that can accomplish it while the handler appears to be moving at a slow trot or fast walk.
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Ken Aylmer has created a warm but quirky holiday home for his family in the middle of the Cornish countryside
"On-trend slate grey walls and dark wood floors are teamed with exposed brick and ceiling beams; flea market finds provide talking points and fabrics are plush, colourful and expensive-looking."
These striking good looks can be accredited to Rye-based interior designer Marcus Crane, who was commissioned by owners Ken Aylmer and his wife Illona to work on the project. His brief was to create something that was smart, interesting and comfortable. ‘We bought the place as a holiday home with three generations of our family in mind and so it needed to be able to withstand wear and tear,’ says Ken. And, as Ken works as a property developer specialising in eco-builds, it also had to be green. ‘Ken wanted to put the character back into the buildings and keep everything as eco as possible by using old and upcycled furnishings,’ says Marcus, who co-owns McCully & Crane Interiors in Rye, which specialises in items that predate 1970. ‘I started by buying things I liked from auctions and large antiques fairs and the look grew from there – to start with I didn’t know exactly where a room was going but the feel gradually evolved.’ Within the space of six months, Marcus had collated, among other things, a mustard velvet sofa from Watson Auctioneers in East Sussex, a vintage cartographer’s ruler and, most bizarrely, a trio of fungus specimens from Sunbury Antiques Market.
Somewhat understandably, when the time came for his van to be unloaded for the first time at Tregulland, the reception wasn’t entirely positive. ‘There were some funny looks exchanged between the builders and I,’ admits Ken. ‘When the wheatsheaf light-fitting, now in the bedroom was first unpacked I remember thinking, “What on earth…?” But once everything was in situ, it surpassed all expectations. And since we’ve been living with it all, I’ve been put off buying new. Old things are so much more exciting.’ There’s a strong craft ethos too: mismatched chairs are by way of up-and-coming furniture designer Claire Danthois and quirky lampshades by British designer Laura Oakes hang in the dining room (which seats an impressive 24). ‘Laura’s lampshades are my absolute favourite things here,’ says Illona. ‘We asked her to create them using photos taken in the grounds here. They’re beautiful and utterly unique.’
Ken and Illona bought the cottage and barn seven years ago thinking that it would be the solution to their annual searches for a holiday rental for their extended family. ‘We spent so much time hunting for places that were big enough, near enough to the sea and with a swimming pool, that eventually I thought I could create something better,’ says Ken. ‘A holiday home that we could use but which we could also rent out.’ Tregulland took a year to find but when Ken first saw it, he had no hesitations. ‘It was the only property that I’d seen that I had butterflies about,’ he says. ‘It was walking up the outside steps to the barn, jumping over the rotten planks and standing in the semiderelict space that did it. Barns have character but they’re also essentially a blank slate and this one had a great atmosphere.’
Starting from scratch as they did, Ken could ensure that the buildings were as green as possible. ‘We began with the boring stuff: insulating the floors (where underfloor heating was fitted) an internal doors, fitting new windows and installing LED bulbs, which use 80-85 per cent less electricity than halogen,’ says Ken. Solar panels and a biomass boiler were also fitted and even the water is provided from an on-site borehole.
The building work was completed only last year, due to planning permission issues but the family – which consists of children Ella, 13, Scarlet, 10, and now Leo, 2 – have been spending weekends and school holidays here since 2005. ‘All the children were disappointed at first not to have slides from their rooms to the swimming pool but they love it now,’ says Ken. The atmosphere is certainly relaxed. This is not a home in which people down a coffee and dash off to work in the morning but one where if there is any dashing to be done, it’s with the aim of getting to the beach in time to catch the best waves. A place for spending as much time outdoors as possible or, if the weather isn’t cooperating, for nestling in the sun room keeping tabs on the local wildlife. ‘I was terrified that it could be a complete disaster but the results are jaw-droppingly beautiful,’ says Illona. ‘We travel from our home in Bristol on Friday evenings in great excitement – there’s always lots of bravado about who’s going to be the first in the sea. It’s a glorious lifestyle.’
"We bought the place as a holiday home with three generations of our family in mind and so it needed to be able to withstand wear and tear"
Stylist’s feature writer Amy Grier braves the wilds of the West Country to track down some fantastic food – and the biggest dining room in Cornwall
I can’t say I’ve ever really been a country person. Far more at home trudging the crowded pavements of London and negotiating the Tube armed with just an umbrella, I only invested in a pair of wellies because my flatmate insisted my Camper mock-walking boots wouldn’t make it through my first UK festival experience.
But when offered the chance to spend a weekend in a luxury self-catered property on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall – complete with indoor freshwater pool, cinema screen and optional in-house chef (of course) – the townie in me leapt at the chance to play the lady landowner for a couple of days.
We arrived at Tregulland, which comprises a converted barn and lovingly restored ‘cottage’ (although I should point out that this is no more a cottage than Buckingham Palace is a simple family home) in total darkness. We’d caught the 7pm train from London Paddington to Exeter and after a half hour taxi-ride, wound our way down the stone-walled lanes that conceal the buildings from the outside world. I started to panic as my mobile signal dropped, bar by bar. “We’re not in Kansas now, Toto,” I mumbled to my boyfriend, who was already lamenting the patchy Wi-Fi owners Illona and Ken had warned us about when we’d booked.
Luckily, it turns out that Tregulland is so comfortable, so expertly decorated, so genuinely fun to be in, the only reason you’d want mobile signal or the internet would be to tell your friends what a great time you’re having. But that’s another area where, again, Tregulland wins: it contains 11 bedrooms and can comfortably sleep 22 people over the two adjacent buildings. If you can’t call your friends, there’s a strong argument to bring them with you instead.
Room Service. After a bottle of pinot noir around the kitchen table, I was aching to see which room we’d get. I had spent the two-hour train journey looking at each of the rooms online and had set my heart on one in particular. As we walked down the upper corridor, I squealed with delight. Peregrine was empty.
Each of the rooms has its own unique character and name (such as the charming Meadowsweet or Barn Owl), but Peregrine was the one I had set my hopes on. Built into the roof of the barn, it has a high ceiling, a deep blue velvet headboard, and reclaimed antique sidetables. The bathroom is also a dramatic affair with grey slate tiling the wall and floors, and a blue roll-top bath. And from almost every aspect you can look out on the limitless, lush fields of the valley in which Tregulland is built. All around the house there are personal touches – antique alphabet cards in the Granary (which serves as the TV, games and cinema room), restored leather armchairs in the hall and a dining table made out of reclaimed telegraph polls that previously spoilt the view from Tregulland’s windows. I could write a thesis on how sympathetic the décor is, but I’ll summarise in this way instead: if I ever get the opportunity to deck out my own house, Marcus Crane, their interior designer, will be the first number I call.
After a leisurely dip in the indoor freshwater pool and a quick sauna, we decided to ‘go for a walk’. After all, that’s what proper country people do, isn’t it?
The map room in the barn has plenty of ideas for the more adventurous wanting to explore the nearby moor but it was sunny so, lured by the prospect of an ice cream and a cold pint of Cornish Rattler (cider), we hopped in the car and headed for the beach.
After a 20-minute drive we reached Trebarwith Strand, a tiny stretch of sandy beach in Tintagel that is a favoured spot for surfers and families – when the weather holds. Unfortunately, the sky had turned grey so we walked the rugged coastal path for the afternoon and finished at the Port William pub, which has great local ales and even better sea views.
Seafood Feast. Back at the cottage, there was just time for a dip in the wood-fired Swedish-style hot tub before we dressed for dinner. In the pale, elegant – and very long – central dining room of the cottage, Jack Stein, Rick Stein’s son and head of the test kitchen at Padstow’s now famous Seafood Restaurant, was preparing a six-course feast for our group complete with wine, canapés and champagne reception. I was giddy with excitement.
Stein Sr was the man who put this remote corner of England on the foodie map and exclusively at this cottage, you sometimes get to taste his team’s seasonal dishes before they even make it onto the restaurant menu.
We feasted on crab salad, a richly flavoured lobster bisque and scallops with Serrano ham. Then came the fish course, monkfish with a garlic crust followed by rack of lamb with fresh peas and flageolet beans. For pudding, Jack served the creamiest panna cotta I’ve ever tasted, with fresh, bright pink poached rhubarb on the side. The food was incredible and not having to drive home was an unspeakable bonus.
We woke up feeling utterly refreshed and it had only taken 48 hours away from the street lamps and sirens of the city to feel this way. It would seem even the most ardent city dweller could do with a dose of Tregulland life every once in a while.
The Sunday Times - Cornish Cream
Inside the most lavish rental property in Cornwall
Ken Aylmer has just invested £2.6m in a couple of holiday cottages in the middle of nowhere. It's possible that he has made an expensive mistake, but, equally, it could be a wise move. Perhaps there are enough people prepared to pay more than £1,000 a day to enjoy a life of hotel-style luxury bedrooms, swimming in fresh water and private Rick Stein dinners.The cottages are in Cornwall, a mile from a not-very-main road on the edge of Bodmin Moor. They have far-reaching views across wild terrain. There's not a house to be seen, nor a road, not even a wind turbine. This level of isolation is hard to find, especially when combined with what's on offer inside.
"We have leapfrogged everything in Cornwall in terms of style and facilities," says Aylmer, 41. "The county has been getting away with it for a long time. Despite smartening up over the past 10 years, it's still the only place in the country where the holiday accommodation is usually worse than your own home"
Not so at Tregulland — unless you are a multimillionaire. Even before you take into account the first indoor freshwater pool in the country (kitted out in elegant, ethically sourced slate — no turquoise tiles here), this is a property designed to take green to a vibrant new level. As well as all the standard eco stuff — underfloor heating, low-energy lighting, superefficient insulation, solar panels, a woodchip boiler and a heat-recovery system, the furnishings have a recycled element that has nothing to do with "make do and mend", and everything to do with wit and imagination.
Take the dining table, which seats 24. It's made of old floorboards, "upcycled" from a barn, with legs cut from a telegraph pole that once stood in the garden.
The chairs were salvaged from a village hall and re-covered in nostalgic prints by Claire Danthois, one of Kevin McCloud's "green heroes" of 2011. The huge lamp shades above the table were made to order by the printmaker Laura Oakes, using images from the grounds.
Yet it's the scale of Tregulland that impresses first. From the outside, it looks like a renovated cottage and barn, nicely done, with old rag slates on the roofs and carefully matched repointing, but nothing special for this part of the country. Inside, though, are two huge and luxurious homes — as well as that pool — that sleep 22 in 11 ensuite bedrooms (each has temperature control and a Hansgrohe Raindance Rainfall shower). There's plenty of space for privacy when needed: a hunting-lodge-style snug, a map room with a big old desk, a vaulted entertainment room, a giant conservatory and two dining rooms. Dotted about are little seating areas, with comfy old sofas and big armchairs in surprising colours.
The size is crucial. Aylmer designed Tregulland to plug what he believes is a gap in the market for extended-family holidays and big celebrations. For years, he and his wife, Illona, also 41, have holidayed for a week each year with their respective families. As time passed and more offspring were produced, it became increasingly difficult to find the sort of place they wanted: "Large enough, near the sea, with a pool and no duff bedrooms."
The pool is purified by plant roots. It was with this in mind that, in 2005, he spent £1m on an enclave of ruined barns and old cottages, with 16 acres and a lake full of gigantic carp.
Kingfishers and otters are regularly seen by the river, and Tregulland is on a starling migration path, creating dramatic autumn skies. Cornwall's twin peaks, Rough Tor and Brown Willy, can be seen from the house.
Aylmer has spent a further £1.6m on the restoration. Not only has he left no stone unturned, he has moved many of them elsewhere while he was at it. Slates found in the garden now serve as window ledges, as do hunks of old beams, and smooth new (but sustainably sourced) oak stairs are inlaid with tiny lights.
Everywhere, old and new are combined. Reclaimed floorboards are shaped into nifty shutters for narrow windows, Velux blinds are operated by remote control, and all the outside doors have keypad entry, for keyless holidays.
The attention to detail is impressive — but then Aylmer has been in property all his working life, first with the Notting Hill Housing Trust, then, after moving to Bristol in 2000, building up a small portfolio of rental flats. "I started to get into the eco side of things," he says. "Even when we bought this place, people weren't interested, but in the past five years it has become more attractive. It's no longer just about hippies and crusties and pooing in buckets. It's more about being 'energy smart' than ecofriendly."
In 2008, he started Footprint Building, which specialises in the energy-smart refurbishment of existing properties. "It was good timing in terms of the environmental movement taking off, but a bad time in terms of the economy falling off a cliff, " says Illona, who looks after their three children, Ella, 13, Scarlet, 9, and Leo, 2. She is planning to return to her job in marketing at Cherry D, the charity they set up to help community organisations in Bristol.
If the couple's skills dovetail neatly, so do their businesses. In 2005, when he acquired Tregulland, Aylmer also bought a share, with friends, in the George Hotel, in Rye, East Sussex. It has since been refurbished, winning rave reviews for its decor as well as its food. It was therefore an obvious move, when faced with decorating such a large property, to employ the man responsible — Marcus Crane, of McCully & Crane, in Rye — to help with the interiors in Cornwall.
"It was like asking a top chef for roast beef," Aylmer says. "Not only do you get the best roast beef, it comes with the perfect wine and the perfect starter. He just takes it that much further. His skill is jaw-dropping."
While the kitchen and bathroom have top-of-the-range fittings, much of the furniture is inspirationally second-hand. Crane has contacts who scour the markets of Paris and beyond, arriving on scooters at 5am to nab bargains. Other finds come from auctions and reclamation yards — and even TK Maxx, for fancy bedspreads. Everything bears his mark: a chaise longue is covered in hessian sacking, old London-Bodmin train tickets are blown up and framed, and the bean bags in the vaulted former granary are made of old grain sacks (all the more fun for watching HD television projected onto a cinema screen).
Some of Crane's finds have to be seen in situ to be appreciated. "He called to say he'd found the perfect sofa for the conservatory," Aylmer says. "He said it had the red of the bracken and the yellow of the sunshine, and looked like an old pub carpet. He really wasn't selling it to me." The sofa works a treat though, in a room kitted out like a slightly bonkers men's club, with plaster casts of animal prints in a case, including two labelled "The Beast", and glass walls on three sides to capture the wildness beyond.
The fourth wall leads to a kitchen as sleek and elegant as any in Chelsea, with a wine fridge, a pull-out freezer drawer and an induction hob. When Aylmer called Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant, not far away in Padstow, to see if his chefs would be interested in catering for house parties here, they were wary. That's not the sort of thing they do.
They changed their tune once they saw the place, though, and now private Stein dinners are just one of the added extras offered at this bizarre hideaway holiday home, along with massages, riding (they'll bring horses to the door), beauty treatments, concierge service and balloon rides. The pool is a big draw: the water starts pure, from Tregulland's own borehole, and is kept clean by the action of plant roots. It's like wild swimming without the cold — the biomass boiler takes care of that. There is also a separate children's pool, a steam room and an outdoor Dutch tub, heated by burning wood in a bucket.
It's taken Aylmer two and a half years to get Tregulland to a level where he feels he can charge £10,000 a week in peak season (£6,000 at this time of year), but it's been a labour of love. "I've been coming whenever I can get away, quietly picking things off — and suddenly, in September, it was done," he says.
Even Illona, who needed some persuading at the outset, says it has been worth it. "Apart from slight collywobbles about the price, it's been really good fun," she says. "Ken always had a dream of doing up a house environmentally and elegantly. Now he's done it."
Already, the signs are good: Tregulland has hosted 30th, 40th and 50th birthday celebrations, as well as Christmas and new year. If it really takes off, though, the family are going to be back where they started, with nowhere to go for their own holidays.
Aylmer has thought of that. His next project is a smaller conversion: he has just bought himself a VW camper van. At £2,000, it cost considerably less than Tregulland, but he plans to spend as much as £15,000 on fitting it out. The man who has just built one of the most luxurious holiday homes in the country likes nothing better than camping.
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Tregulland is a new holiday rental house (or rather two houses, side by side, with an indoor pool and steam room in a third timber-framed building, all boasting exemplary eco-credentials).
Our lot had a ball. The ancients occupied the five-bedroom converted stone barn, while the youth, all now in their twenties, occupied the six-bedroom farmhouse. We hardly saw one another, except to meet for ping pong or croquet, or in Britain's first freshwater indoor pool, or dressed as slugs on the surfing beaches (the youth standing elegantly on their boards to ride the waves, the ancients clinging horizontally to theirs for dear life).
On one memorable evening, the youth cooked for us all, superbly, and then did all the washing up. What a change: for years we couldn't even get them to clear their plates without a storm of protest. Another bonus: when the youth stayed in the hot tub until 4am, us ancients didn't hear a thing, such was the effectiveness of the window glazing.
Like many of the best things in life, Tregulland came into being out of necessity. Ken and Illona Aylmer couldn't find a property in Cornwall in which to take their extended family on holiday, so they built one themselves, letting it to others when they aren't using it.
Ken is co-owner of the excellent George in Rye; hence the hotel influence at Tregulland.
All in all, Tregulland, stylish, practical, homely and full of quirky personal touches, is made for fun. We had it, in spades.
Who goes?
It's not a hotel, but it can be if you want it to be. And if you do (want it to be), your fellow guests won't be a bunch of dodgy strangers; they'll be your nearest and dearest. Gather together a minimum of 10 of them, a maximum of 22, each paying far cheaper prices for their rooms than in a hotel equivalent, and head for Cornwall.
This Cornish barn and cottage complex is one of the UK's most luxurious holiday rentals
THINK SELF-CATERING COTTAGE, AND an image probably springs to mind of a cosy, slightly ramshackle property, maybe with a romantic 'Kate Winslet's place in The Holiday' feel about it. Lovely, yes. Five star, probably not. Well, you haven't stayed at Tregulland. This Cornish barn and cottage complex is one of the UK's most luxurious holiday rentals and it doesn't come cheap. Book the barn and cottage together in August, and you're looking at a whopping £10,000 for a week. It may sleep 22, but that's a lot of money. Wait until September, however, and you'll save yourself £2,500. Do the sums and it's less scary - £7,500 for 22 people, that's about £340 per person per week, or around £48 a night. Suddenly, five-star luxury is looking more achievable.
Tregulland is two renovated properties, set on 16 acres of wildly beautiful Cornish countryside. Bought as a derelict cow shed and cottage in 2005, both are now unrecognisable. With five double bedrooms in the barn and six in the cottage (all 11 with en-suites), it can be rented as a whole, or each building separately. Either way, it's the perfect getaway for a family holiday or big birthday celebration.
The interiors are gorgeous, a skilfully blended mix of shabby-chic buys and the latest gadgets and technology. And there's plenty of space for everyone to get away from each other - my prerequisite for a group holiday. In the cottage, a 10-seater table sits alongside a kitchen to keep even the fussiest of chefs happy (there's a second kitchen and dining room in the barn). And proof that it's chef-suitable, Tregulland has teamed up with Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in nearby Padstow. It's the only private house in the UK that enjoys Stein's home-catering service. For £170 a head (no September discounts, sadly), the chefs will come and prepare a pretty special meal, including champagne, canapes, tasting menu, wine, coffee and petits fours. Not cheap, but an amazing experience.
Elsewhere on the property, there's a huge granary-turned-living room, with a drop-down cinema screen (try getting the kids away from that), and a west-facing sun room complete with squashy sofa. Lie back and watch the weather roll in across the green hills - mesmerising. The owner, an eco-build specialist, has backed up the luxury with innovative eco technology: a state-of-the-art biomass boiler, low-energy lighting and Tregulland's own borehole are just a tip of the eco iceberg.
The final mention has to go to the star of the show - Tregulland boasts the UK's first indoor freshwater pool. With a steam room and outdoor hot tub, the 12-metre pool is a truly special place. As the sun sets and reflects off the pool water, it's clear that Tregulland really is a rental like no other. Absolute luxury self-catering for a large group holiday, and, in September, not scarily expensive. Now I just need to find 21 friends to make a return trip with me.
By SASKA GRAVILLE
Tregulland, Cornwall, England
A seriously smart, eco-friendly hideaway for the country home-less, with a reed-filtered freshwater indoor pool, a bright-orange outdoor hot tub and a private cinema with hessian bean bags and a reclaimed Philippe Starck sofa residing under a canopy of oak rafters. There are purring solar-powered skylights, shiny contemporary country kitchens (plural!) and one very long table that seats all 22 guests. It's an awesome, active, outdoorsy weekend waiting to happen, with hikes up Rough Tor, afternoon surfs and cliff walks from Boscastle to Tintagel. Those in the know call upon chef Jack Stein (son of Rick). He'll rustle up a feast of Cornish lobster salad and melt-in-your-mouth monkfish washed down with chilled Chablis from the EuroCave wine fridges.
Tregulland, on the edge of Bodmin Moor, took two years to perfect its components: a Dutch hot tub, dream kitchens, underfloor heating, steam room, cinema room, Britain's first indoor freshwater swimming pool. Sleeping 22, this is house-party territory, with a cottage, barn and pool house for hiving off generations (though the cottage and barn, for groups of 12 and 10 respectively, can be booked separately). Marcus Crane's reclaimed interiors are elegantly bohemian, and despite the size and sprawl, nothing but cosy. A bespoke concierge arranges fitness programs, chefs, yoga, massage, wine tastings,walks and more (tregullandblog.co.uk/archive; from £2057 for a three-night weekend in the barn to £10,000 for a high-season week in both properties).
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Cornwall: A 15 minute drive from the coast and set in 16 acres of private grounds on the edge of Bodmin moor, Tregulland is a luxury holiday rental with some very big ideas - namely the country's first indoor freshwater swimming pool, a Dutch tub and a cinema room. Rent the six bedroom Cottage or five bed Barn or both Tregulland sleeps 22 in total. Upto £7500 for a week in both properties in mid season
Cornwall Today
A smart holiday home in St Clether marries size with green principles (Cornwall Today April 2012)
Ken Aylmer sits at a handsome timber table in the renovated barn at Tregulland, Cornwall's latest and smartest eco-holiday home. With its top made from offcuts of oak flooring and its base fashioned from an old telegraph pole, it epitomises the green principles of the development. "We re-used everything we possibly could," says Ken, "even an old mangle found on the site, which we turned into a stand for the television."
Overlooking a steep and deeply rural valley on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Tregulland exists because Ken, a property developer who also runs a sustainable building and joinery firm in Bristol, noticed there was a shortage of large properties that could be hired out by large groups - we're talking around two dozen people at a time.
"In 2000, my wife and I started going away for long weekends with our extended family," says Ken, "and we found it hard to rent a house that would sleep everyone comfortably - especially one that was near the sea and had facilities such as a swimming pool. It was an obvious gap in the market.
After two years searching throughout Wales, Devon and Cornwall, Ken viewed a dilapidated cluster of farm buildings at Tregulland back in 2005. "It just felt right from the moment we looked round," he remembers. "And it was the only property of its kind that had given us that feeling. I was especially glad it was in Cornwall, though, as my father's family were Cornish."
It was perfectly placed, just two hours drive from Bristol and 15 minutes by car to remote north coast beaches such as Crackington Haven and Widemouth Bay. But the building itself was in a sorry state, with concrete floors, rotting beams, smashed windows, serious weather damage and a host of resident jackdaws.
Work began in 2008 to convert the old L-shaped cowshed and granary into one unit, now called The Barn, which sleeps 10, and to update and enlarge the old farm cottage to accommodate a further 12 people. Surprises lay round every corner: renovating The Cottage revealed a 15th century inglenook fireplace that had been hidden behind render for many years. It also uncovered a wealth of ancient building materials that Ken lovingly salvaged and re·used in other areas of the project; the window seats and the lintels in The Barn are fashioned from 200-year-old timber joists, and it is features like these that give the new structure copper-bottomed integrity.
The design was a collaboration between Ken and Trewin Design Partnership in Holsworthy, and the whole project was brought to life by Barkwills, a local building firm well known for their sympathetic barn conversions. "I had a clear vision for the whole place," says Ken. "I hope I am good at seeing the potential of a building, make it feel nice as well as function efficiently as a living space." This efficiency includes a number of green initiatives, including massive amounts of insulation, a heat recovery system and LED lighting. The plot also has its own bore hole, septic tank and reed bed, making it off-grid for water and sewerage. Heating and hot water are supplied via a wood·pellet boiler, wood burning stoves, and solar panels; an array of photo-voltaics, plus plans for hydro-electric installation and a wind turbine, mean the property should soon be carbon·neutral, too.
There's plenty by way of luxury at Tregulland, too, and the jewel in the crown is its heated freshwater swimming pool, which is filled by its own spring. The water is treated and filtered naturally, without the need for chlorine, and the pool is the first indoor one of its kind in Britain. "Swimming here is unbelievably refreshing," says Ken. "It is a whole new way to experience the water."
To help guests relax further, The Barn's sitting room which was once the granary and has a dramatic high-90 Cornwall Today gabled ceiling - accommodates all Tregulland's guests at once. Seating comes courtesy of designer sofas (by Philippe Starck and B&B Italia, no less) and there are numerous cosy corners in which to read, relax or play board games. There is also a huge HD cinema screen that descends from the ceiling to turn the whole room into a private cinema. "We felt it was important not just to be able to sleep large numbers, but also to provide the communal spaces in which people can socialise together," says Ken.
For this reason, he designed another table for The Cottage, even larger than the one in The Barn, which seats 22-plus for dinner. This is made from three giant planks of Douglas fir, providing hospitality on an enormous scale.
Another note of indulgence comes from the interiors, which are a mix of top-notch designer furniture and fascinating retro finds. Ken enlisted the help of Marcus Crane, owner of a beautifully quirky shop in the Sussex town of Rye, to dress all the rooms. "We had a two-day brainstorming session to establish what would work," says Ken. "Then Marcus went out to trade fairs and auctions and sourced everything; 90 per cent of the furniture and accessories are either vintage or upcycled."
Designer furniture is here, too, and includes a mix of vintage and new Bertoia chairs in The Barn's dining room, plus iconic seating by Charles Eames. The old-school dining chairs in The Cottage are upholstered by Claire Danthois, one of Kevin McC loud's Green Heroes, using fabrics that were left over from upholstering the headboards.
The first guests came to stay at Tregulland last summer, entertained not just by the house and the pool, but also by its 16 acres of grounds (not forgetting a fishing lake that is home to Doris the famous 23lb carp). Extra activities can be laid on, too, from massage and physiotherapy for the grown-ups to bushcraft and foraging workshops for the children.
New for 2012 is an exclusive private dining service courtesy of The Seafood Restaurant at Padstow; Rick and Jill Stein's son Jack will come to Tregulland and prepare your very own six-course taster menu with wine.
"We are going for a higher level of service here," reveals Ken. "While everything inside The Barn and The Cottage is pretty bombproof, it's also comfy and designer and it all fits in with our environmental remit."
Ken's favourite place is, he reveals, the sun-room. "It looks down over the valley towards the stream, and you can't see another house. On a hot day, you can open the doors and spill out on to the terrace and lawn. If the weather comes in, you can curl up with a hot chocolate and watch the weather. It's really hard to beat."
Tregulland sleeps 22 (12 in The Cottage and 10 in The Barn) is available to rent for short breaks in the off-season and for weekly rentals in high season (July, August, Christmas and new year). The Cottage and Barn can also be booked separately for smaller groups. For more information, call 01566 770880 or visit
Quintessentially
Cornish Magic at Tregulland
The name Tregulland rang bells from the start - it had a place, somewhere in the distant depths of the 22 years of my Cornish memory. As it turned out, I knew exactly where the place was. That rusting signpost, either half buried into the hedgerow or standing starkly on its own - depending on the time of year - on the lonely stretch of road between Launceston and the north coast.
In fact, I can't even count the number of times I've driven past that signpost, blissfully unaware of Tregulland's tiny hamlet - we're talking every Christmas, Easter and summer holidays forever. Totally unaware too, of the three year project undertaken by Ken and Illona Aylmer to transform derelict barns and a crumbling cottage into a state-of-the-art ecological haven, now managed perfectly by Bonny Shanks to make a true Cornish gem, nestled in a quiet corner of Bodmin Moor.
Tregulland is nothing but impressive, both in its size and its detail. Together, the barn and cottage now sleep 24, in a luxurious self-catering hotel, with big rooms and big views. So too, each tiny nook is uniquely attended too, with no wall untouched, no corner unconsidered. Curios are delicately placed throughout, creating a delicious mish-mash of antique shop crossed with a museum of natural history, painstakingly pieced together by vintage designer Marcus Crane.
Illona tells me stories of how Crane would disappear for weeks, hunting his way through vintage fairs, and Parisian flea markets, and antique auctions, and appear at Tregulland by the lorry-load, with every thing from armchairs and animal skulls to tapestries and tables. Looking totally mismatched, the team would question Marcus' logic, before watching him place pieces perfectly next to each other - each one part of his unique vision for the vintage luxury that defines the whole place, and unites each part of the buildings. "Tregulland makes history too: it is home to the UK's first indoor freshwater swimming pool which runs on water recycled by the eco-operation in place. The experience is sublime, with a steam room to match, and a Dutch tub just outside."
Back inside, the barn and cottage are both excellently equipped for big dinner parties and long evenings lingering over cheese platters and red wine. A custom made dining table is phenomenal in its size: big enough for twenty five, and made out of continuous lengths of oak - quite some tree went into the making of this in Ken's Bristol joinery workshop.
A table this large needs food to match, which is where Tregulland's biggest luxury strikes gold. This is the latest outpost for Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant - a partnership that means you can enjoy a sumptuous Stein feast without leaving the house. Led by Rick's son Jack, a seamless chef-waiter-sommelier team arrives for a sumptuous five courses, matched perfectly to smooth wines. We sipped local Camel Valley Champagne, and dined on lobster salad with Foie Gras, and sea bass accompanied by a chilled Pinot Noir, the table buzzing with every new course that appeared. "Hazy with too much food and solid sleeps amid the silence of Bodmin Moor, Tregulland defies the outside world - it is a dream destination regardless of time or weather."
In the winter, tucked deep into sofas under tartan blankets as a squall squirrels down the valley from Roughtor and out to shiver King Arthur at Tintagel, you are smugly safe from the elements - and time is plentiful for catching a movie on the big screen, enjoying a massage courtesy of a local therapist, or fighting over monopoly money. So too, Tregulland is made for living al-fresco in the Cornish summer, surrounded by fields and space and sky, and only fifteen minutes from sand and surf.
If you do manage to coax yourself from these luxury environs, you'll explore the Cornish coast with a knowing smile - a smile guarding the secret of Tregulland and all that you will retreat to come sundown.
Time For A Stylish Staycation? Introducing Cornwall's Most Luxurious Holiday Home
Cornwall is jam-packed with hotels, B&Bs and holiday homes, but until last year, if you were looking for a luxurious self-catering property that slept up to 22 people, you'd struggle to find one. Which is why, when Ken and Ilona Aylmer started renovating an abandoned barn and cottage on the outskirts of Bodmin Moor, they knew they had a one-of-a-kind project on their hands. Two and a half years later, the hard work paid off and the beautifully restored Tregulland opened its doors for the first time last Autumn.
The USP: Holiday homes don't get more stylish than this. The attention to detail during the restorations of both the Barn and the Cottage is visible everywhere you turn, from wooden telegraph pylons as table legs, flagstones as steps and carefully selected, original artwork all over the house. The use of light and space throughout the buildings is breathtaking, which means that uninterrupted views of the surrounding rolling hills can be admired from every nook and cranny. It's also energy-efficient with underfloor heating, LED lighting and recycled furniture. And did we mention the pool house? Britain's first freshwater pool just happens to be a 10-second walk from your bedroom.
Book it now if: You and a crowd want to escape Cornish paradise and relax in five-star luxury. Suitable for large families or groups of friends, the two properties can be booked together or separately, depending on party size (the Barn sleeps 10, the Cottage 12) and each comes with its own kitchen, as well as the perfect dinner party dining room.
Bedding down: Interior designers McCully & Crane are to thank for Tregulland's bedrooms. Each and every one is cosy, comfortable and quirky, with huge double beds, iPod docks and showertime goodies from the local St. Kitts Herbery in the bathrooms. It's hard to pick a favourite room but Valerian stands out in the Cottage (where the rooms are named after flowers), with its mirrored wall and beamed ceiling, while the beautiful blue Peregrine is the perfect bedtime retreat over in the Barn.
Feed me: Both kitchens are fully equipped to tip-top standard (a chef wouldn't feel out of place here), with Robert Welch knives in the draws, as well as a woodburning stove and a wine fridge in the Barn kitchen. However, if you fancy taking off the apron for a night or there's a special occasion to celebrate, Tregulland has teamed up with Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow to provide the ultimate in-house catering experience. Rick's son Jack will come and cook a six-course tasting menu, including seasonal treats such as seared scallops with Serrano ham and rack of lamb. The bespoke service also includes wine to accompany each course and staff to serve it up. Seafood heaven? Of course, and even better, it can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own dining room.
Easily bored: There are 16-acres to explore within the grounds. A pathway from the house will take guests down to the hidden, fairytale-like lake at the bottom of the lawn, where local birds and flowers can be spotted in abundance or if you fancy getting out and about, head to the Map Room in the Barn to study the nearby coastal walks and the best surfing spots (the nearest beach is a 15-minute car ride away). And if it's a rainy day? There's only one place to be: the Granary welcomes guests with an HD projection screen and plenty of DVDs, not to mention the Philippe Starck sofas, an extensive book collection and a fire to snuggle up next to.
Point me in the right direction: Tregulland is approximately a 45 minutes drive away from Exeter and Plymouth and 15 minutes away from the North Cornwall coast. Tregulland Cottage and Barns, St Clether, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 8QW, telephone: +44 (0)1566 770880,
Green Travel List
Tregulland Cottage and Barn make it onto the 2011 Guardian Green Travel List.
The 2011 Guardian Green Travel List, in association with greentraveller.co.uk, is a guide to companies worldwide that have shown evidence of commitment to community, place and the environment. The Green Travel List are looking for innovative projects, such as hotels that provide their own renewable energy, visitor centres and attractions that have significantly cut their carbon emissions, low emissions transport initiatives, and authentic community projects worldwide that genuinely contribute to the livelihoods of local people and contribute to biodiversity conservation.
This annual list is a guide to 25 travel and tourism initiatives worldwide that have shown evidence of commitment to community, place and the environment.
For more information on the kinds of projects that made it onto the list, see: Richard Hammond's introduction to this year's annual Green Travel List.
Tregulland appears in the Places to Stay category. To view the Tregulland Cottage and Barn entry on the Green Traveller website click here.
Tregulland, the impressive new luxury self-catering property on the edge of Bodmin Moor, has taken holiday home rental to a new level with the announcement of an exclusive partnership with Rick and Jill Stein's Seafood Restaurant. Guests staying at the property, which opened September 2011, will now be able to enjoy a taste of the world famous restaurant without leaving the comfort of their own (temporary) home. No nominated driver or late night taxis to organise when The Seafood Restaurant comes to Tregulland. Rick and Jill's son Jack Stein and his team will produce a tasting menu for guests exclusively designed to showcase the best local and seasonal produce, which will offer a unique gourmet dining experience for a special occasion – the best bits of dining at a top restaurant without the journeying, and the best bits of a self-catering holiday without the washing up.
The evening will start with a glass of champagne and selection of canapés followed by a six course tasting menu which will include dishes for spring such as Crab Salad with Asparagus and Samphire, Lobster Bisque and Monkfish with New Season Garlic - accompanied by a choice of Rick Stein wines. Wine pairings and cheese course are available at a supplement.
The product of an extensive renovation, Tregulland is a luxury property boasting first class eco credentials and a host of facilities including the UK's first indoor freshwater pool and a decadent outdoor wood-fired Dutch Tub.
The property comprises a cottage, barn and pool house and lake set in 16 acres and sleeps 22 + guests in eleven en-suite bedrooms. The Cottage and Barn are both stylishly furnished throughout, with contemporary influences alongside more eccentric, vintage touches and with each bedroom so individual and magical, you'll want to return again and again, just to try them all out.
The Seafood Restaurant at Tregulland experience is priced from £170 per person, including a glass of champagne, canapés, tasting menu, wine, coffee and petits fours. Prices at Tregulland start from £2,057 for a weekend in the Barn (sleeps 10) in low season, up to £10,000 for a week in the whole property (sleeps 22+) in high season.
www.hotbrandscoolplaces.com
Director Magazine
With luxurious sustainable accommodation, Tregulland in Cornwall offers the perfect guilt-free getaway for a gathering of friends or a family celebration
Finding somewhere that will sleep large numbers and also suit all requirements is sometimes hard. The luxurious Tregulland Cottage and Barn, just outside Launceston, should appeal to most. Ideal for a large gathering or a celebration with friends and family, it sleeps up to 24 people across two buildings.
Tregulland is set in 16 acres of private land in a valley on the edge of Bodmin Moor. You could hardly get further away from it all, yet it is no more than a 15-minute drive to the dramatic north Cornwall coast.
The owners, Ken and Illona Aylmer, spent two and a half years turning a cottage and barn into a luxurious and sustainable living space and the result is stunning. Both buildings have huge, airy kitchen and dining areas as well as lots of living space. The barn, decorated in a modern and contemporary design, has a vast gabled lounge with drop-down cinema projection screen while the cottage, rich with heritage features, has a sunroom where you can relax and take in stunning views across the valley.
This is a place that combines a homely feeling with luxury – each room is en-suite and equipped with high-quality fittings and furniture, the king-size beds have gorgeous linen, and toiletries are from St Kitts Herbery. Amenities in the living areas include LCD TVs, iPod docking stations and computers with internet access. The landscaped lawn and terrace are perfect for eating al fresco when the sunshine reappears.
Across the courtyard you can enjoy a refreshing swim in the freshwater pool, which uses natural filtration rather than chlorine and chemicals. There is also a children's pool, a steam room and a wood-fired hot tub.
There's plenty to keep everyone busy at Tregulland, but if you fancy venturing further afield property manager Bonny Shanks is on hand to give insider tips, ensuring you make the most of your stay. You might fancy a trip to historic harbour town Boscastle or enjoy a bracing coastal walk along the cliffs at Crackington Haven.
As a self-catering property, Tregulland is unusual as it offers a whole range of add-ons to make a bespoke break. If you don't want to cook or fancy something special to eat, a local restaurant can come in to do the catering. Tregulland has teamed up with several restaurants, including Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. Cooking and waiting staff are sent to take care of everything including preparing the menu, cooking the food and cleaning up afterwards.
Other options include picnic hampers, wine-tasting sessions as well as fishing lessons for children and yoga sessions in the house. Total relaxation.
Tina Nielsen
Red Online
Cornwall is the county for self-catering innovation and Tregulland, a new holiday rental near Tintagel, is no exception. It is the first in the UK to offer a freshwater indoor pool. No chemicals, just clear, sweet depths in an atmospheric pool house. Add in a wood-fired Dutch tub, and steam room and you have the sort of blessed out experience that should catch on else where, fast. Tregulland sleeps up to 22 in two separate houses.
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On this, our 68th episode, our returning guest is John Di Domenico.
You first John Di Domenico on Episode 42 and Episode 50. John Di Domenico is a professional actor, writer, performer, host, creative and celebrity impersonator. For the last 25-plus years he has been recognized as one of the busiest and most versatile corporate entertainers in the industry. He has worked all over the world for some of the largest production companies and their end clients by creating a unique form of infotainment.
John is originally from the Philadelphia area and now lives in Las Vegas. John attended East Stroudsburg University and graduated from Temple University with a BA in speech communications. John spent a year as PR Intern for U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. He overcame a severe speech impediment to become an actor, impersonator and performer.
John has written and performed at national and international sales meetings, product launches, trade shows and award shows around the globe for AT&T, SAP, SONY and SC Johnson, to name a few.
John’s specialty is seamlessly integrating his ever-expanding cast of celebrity and original characters into any meeting element by writing content-driven comedy that delivers and amplifies the key messages of the meeting.
John has appeared in the feature films “Meet the Spartans,” “Disaster Movie,” “30 Days of Paranormal Activity” and “Not Another Celebrity Movie” as Donald Trump, The Love Guru and Dr. Phil. John is the official Donald Trump on “Conan” (12 appearances),“Red Eye” on Fox News (21 appearances), “Trumpcast,” “Fox & Friends” and “Chelsea.” He has appeared on the “Today” show, “Inside Edition,” “Good Day New York,” and many more. John is the only Donald Trump impersonator in the world to appear on the “Today” show Australia, the “Today” show Ireland and “This Morning Britain.”
Di Domenico’s Trump has been profiled on ABC News Nightline, NBC News, Vice Media, CNN, CNN Money, CBC, USA Today, Yahoo News, BBC Business Matters, Channel 4 (Britain) and has been covered by several major print and online news outlets in the U.S. including New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Adweek, McClatchy, The Hill, Miami Herald, Philly.com, NJ.com, Star-Ledger and many more.
Di Domenico is the only Trump impersonator to appear in multiple segments of “Fox & Friends” for a cross promotion between “The Apprentice” and Embassy Suites with the approval of the Trump Organization. John's Austin Powers impression has been recognized as the best by People magazine and has been profiled on MSNBC.
John also sent me an extensive annotated list of his many media appearances as Donald Trump, which I'll be posting under this episode on the podcast homepage.
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John Di Domenico TV appearance, movies, news stories, podcast and print media as Donald Trump as of Dec. 23, 2016:
For this bullet list see links below:
20 appearances on “Conan”
22 appearance on“Red Eye”
Two appearance on “Chelsea Lately”
Three appearances on “Fox & Friends”
Two appearances on “Good Day New York” (two segments)
One appearance Fox 10 “Arizona Morning” (four segments)
Three appearances “This Morning Britain” (Only Donald Trump impersonator in the world to appear on their show.)
Two appearances “Today” show Australia. (Only Donald Trump impersonator in the world to appear on their show.)
One appearance “Today” show Ireland. (Only Donald Trump impersonator in the world to appear on their show._
Voice of Donald Trump for Slate's “Trumpcast,” with three to four shows a week since March.
ABC News' “Nightline,” NBC News, Vice Media, “Inside Edition,” CNN, CNN Money, “Today” show have profiled Di Domenico in video stories
People magazine: Only Donald Trump impersonator covered.
New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, Adweek, McClatchy, The Hill, Miami Herald, Philly.com, NJ.com, Star-Ledger and countless other print media outlets have interviewed and written stories about Di Domenico
Telegraph.co.uk, Caters U.K. News Service, Daily Mail U.K., Express U.K., The Mirror U.K., French News Service.
Yahoo News, USA Today, Channel 4 (Britain) Interviews
Voicing an animated series as Trump “Hell To The Chief”
Appeared as Donald Trump in three feature films.
Voice of Donald Trump for the toy “The Candidate”
Huffington Post's “The Best Donald Trump Impression” http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/563cc96ce4b0b24aee49f2e4
360 Fly Commercial, Original
https://youtu.be/CVvPPQ3SvAQ
360 Fly Commercial, with 20 million views
https://www.facebook.com/tennews/videos/1095279340542372/?pnref=story
July 20, 2016 - Conan Introducing Captain Make America Great Again
https://youtu.be/GeEbzNUtTc0
July 22, 2016 - Conan Captain Make America Great Again Returns
https://youtu.be/Yl5Kp675tDE
Nov. 30, 2016 - EXCLUSIVE Leaked Audio Of Obama & Trump's Phone Calls - CONAN on TBS
https://youtu.be/bW1XstE6tio?list=PLVL8S3lUHf0TSQ969YzlGNSHdXozUPP6l
Dec. 2, 2016 - Even More Leaked Phone Calls Between Donald Trump & Barack Obama - CONAN on TBS
https://youtu.be/Fe2456MZB5c
Dec. 14, 2016 - Trump Calls Obama To Discuss His Cabinet Picks - CONAN on TBS https://youtu.be/4HzT3Dy0Z4Q
First Segment:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5118147599001/donald-trump-joins-the-fox-amp-friends-on-the-curvy-couch/
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5118147599001/donald-trump-joins-the-fox-amp-friends-on-the-curvy-couch/?#sp=show-clips
Fox News Second Segment:
F&F After the Show Show:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5118095572001/after-the-show-show-donald-trump-/
Fox News panel show “Red Eye”:
First appearance: https://youtu.be/laZXnbqT-7A
Second appearance: https://youtu.be/2DUQJ87ircA
Third appearance: https://youtu.be/Fm00gv_945g
Fourth appearance Trump Tours New York: https://youtu.be/A16hzFjRGgY
Fifth appearance as a call in Trump reacts to GOP operative's attacks:
https://youtu.be/MuIsGXMyiyA
Sixth appearance, call as Trump’s doctors:
https://youtu.be/MCxJfZCrHP4
Seven “Red Eye” appearance, Year End Special
Part One, “Make America Great Again”: https://www.facebook.com/RedEye/videos/10153424926613237/?theater
Part Two, “Mexicans Love Me”:
https://www.facebook.com/RedEye/videos/10153428724168237/?theater
Part Three, “Hope: https://www.facebook.com/RedEye/videos/10153428723648237/?theater
Part Four, “Mistakes”
Seventh appearance. Carriage Rides and Horse in NYC
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4712312684001/nyc-strikes-deal-to-cut-number-of-horse-carriage-drivers/?#sp=show-clips
Eighth Appearance Part 1 'Donald Trump' feeling the love on 'Red Eye' after Iowa loss Part 1 https://youtu.be/fh2IvHpyxKs
Source video: https://youtu.be/u-w0GrpWKnc
Eighth Appearance Part 2 Donald Trump defends his “masculine” hands. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4736729336001/donald-trump-defends-his-masculine-hands/?playlist_id=930909817001#sp=show-clips
10th Appearance
https://www.facebook.com/RedEye/videos/10153550920168237/
12th Appearance: Trump talks fight for GOP nomination and riots
https://youtu.be/yBw-xi498b4
13th Appearance: Voice Only:
https://amp.twimg.com/v/ee7eb2d5-5062-4751-96dd-a80a239c7cc0
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4845905262001/did-trump-pose-as-his-own-spokesman-to-dish-gossip-to-press/?playlist_id=930909817001#sp=show-clips
14th Appearance, April 19, 2016
https://amp.twimg.com/v/5a31165f-306e-42bc-b973-6b514e998ab6
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4852317514001/donald-trump-previews-plans-to-liven-up-gop-convention/?playlist_id=930909817001#sp=show-clips
“Red Eye” behind the scenes, July 19, 2016
https://amp.twimg.com/v/8cdcd65c-b17a-4a1d-a9e2-20e365a64cd4
Trump talking about the convention on “Red Eye” - July 19, 2016 https://amp.twimg.com/v/7b514a12-6e08-4425-9e4a-9abd39966cba
“Red Eye” Johnny D Year in Review Nov. 19, 2016
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5206395394001/
“Conan” as Trump voice:
First Appearance: Trump Ovulation Kit: https://youtu.be/MZqBm-EgEVw?list=FLzQpFuWIqe0VkezvAOeki0Q
Second Appearance Trump Directing the Conan Show: https://youtu.be/PGAa92xUvBA
Third Appearance Trump Calling In: https://youtu.be/S8BtGkkwpYY
Fourth Appearance Trump Butt Dialing Conan https://youtu.be/5Ix5284o9MM
Fifth Appearance Anti-Muslim Commercial:
http://teamcoco.com/video/trump-anti-muslim-ad
Sixth Appearance Trump Post Iowa Call In To Conan
http://teamcoco.com/video/donald-trump-post-iowa-conan-call?playlist=featured-videos
July 28, 2016 - Conan Trump Call in about Putin
https://youtu.be/R1lKu0ueROY
Nov. 29, 2016 - Leaked Audio Of Obama & Trump's Phone Calls. http://teamcoco.com/video/obama-trump-phone-calls
Chelsea Handler: Trump POV 10.20.16:
https://youtu.be/H2MPgcL6SBs
https://youtu.be/6dx6GRis4T8 my link
Aug. 1, 2016 - Fox 5 Good Day New York
http://www.fox5ny.com/good-day/184020657-video
Animated Series Hell to the Chief:
Promo: https://youtu.be/gAlHa7dKB7Q
INTERNATIONAL TV APPEARANCES
ITV This Morning U.K. First appearance:
https://youtu.be/LZ88YvM-pKM
ITV This Morning U.K. Second appearance. Longer Interview:
https://youtu.be/M0_bBSzoCp8
ITV This Morning U.K. Third appearance. Trump/Hillary Debate Rosemary Watson
https://youtu.be/26xAhrne588
“Today” show Australia, First appearance:
https://youtu.be/FAPuEqfEMnA
“Today” show Australia, Second appearance w/ Rosemary:
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/11/10/10/12/donald-trump-and-hilary-clinton-have-their-final-say
“Today” show Australia, Third appearance Times Square w/ Holly Faris
“Today” extra show Australia, fourth appearance following up on the election:
https://youtu.be/SiezM2UywTI
“Today” show Ireland:
https://youtu.be/JUhWTN1Klq8
NATIONAL TV & NEWS APPEARANCES
“Today” show (NBC):
Teaser story: http://www.today.com/series/nailing-it/donald-trump-costume-halloween-tips-get-his-look-voice-t52446
Appeared at the 2016 Razzie Awards in LA
https://youtu.be/SQwSzRuvoYA
Trump (for Trump) on Fox & Friend for Cross promotion between Trump and Embassy Suites for the Apprentice: https://youtu.be/HKN-sqieY44
NBC News complete profile of me:
http://nbcnews.to/1WzjriZ
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trail-tapes-whats-life-donald-trump-impersonator-n458031
ABC News' “Nightline” Complete Story:
https://youtu.be/bBl67bYAJm8
“Inside Edition”:
http://ietv.co/1XhHsr1
Eyeopener Tribune shot WPIX 11
http://trb.tv/k8f2x
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2016/07/21/donald-trump-impersonator.cnnmoney/index.html
Vice Media:
http://www.vice.com/video/we-spend-the-day-with-a-donald-trump-impersonator-on-todays-daily-vice
The Insider:
https://www.facebook.com/insiderpeople/videos/510100292530941/?pnref=story
Las Vegas KTNV Story, Nov. 19, 2016
http://www.ktnv.com/news/voters-react-to-trump-impersonator
Fox 5 Good New York Direct Link Trump/Di Domenico on the couch:
Fox 5 Good New York Direct Link Trump/Clinton Debate Oct. 21, 2016
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/212853206-video
Fox 10 AZAM Arizona Morning Trump Intro and on the couch first segments: https://youtu.be/txUkK6lp-0Q
Fox 10 AZAM Arizona Morning Trump on the couch second segments: https://youtu.be/jgzMYaRNteo
Fox 10 AZAM Arizona Morning Trump Movie Review third segments:
https://youtu.be/9214e8-VYkI
Fox 10 News Now Interview with John Di Domenico dressed as Trump
https://youtu.be/n6hSmFD0ydM
ABC 7 WJLA “Let’s Talk Live”
http://wjla.com/news/lets-talk/donald-trump-impersonator-wows-us
CBS WUSA Interview with Bruce Johnson “Talkin’ Politics”
http://www.wusa9.com/mb/news/politics/talkin-politics-with-the-johnald-/333437236
Channel 4 Britain: Matt Frei brief interview (not full interview)
https://youtu.be/lHMd-JiSRVQ
People magazine:
http://people.com/politics/9-stars-who-have-dressed-up-as-the-donald/john-di-domenico/
USA Today Video Story
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/08/11/88569980/
Circa News:
http://circa.com/politics/we-asked-a-trump-impersonator-to-analyze-trumps-voice
http://nyti.ms/25600PB
New York Post:
http://nypost.com/2016/11/20/its-not-all-fun-and-games-for-donald-trump-impersonators/
Las Vegas Review Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/columns/kats/di-domenico-s-trump-even-trumps-trump
Las Vegas Review Journal 11.20.16
http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/columns/kats/stan-lee-s-own-super-power-promoting-respect-las-vegas
NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/national-enquirer-partied-trump-hotel-trump-impersonator-article-1.2813456
Narratively Article by Britta Lotking “A Day in the Life”
http://narrative.ly/the-hardest-working-trump-impersonator-in-showbiz/
Bucks County Courier Times:
http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/life-style/local-feature/no-ducking-this-donald-impression/article_06b87564-0b15-11e6-864a-d7bfd6ea6433.html
Caters U.K. News Service:
https://youtu.be/pvOn9QSI6PU
https://youtu.be/fPyYm5UYvMw
The Guardian U.K.: Pop goes Trump! The artists, comedians and meme-makers deflating the Donald
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/nov/05/donald-trump-franz-ferdinand-samantha-bee-peter-serafinowicz
Telegraph.co.uk Top 5 Trump Celebrity Trump Impersonators
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/five-celebrity-donald-trump-impersonators/
Daily Mail U.K.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3512278/It-feels-like-s-finally-paying-Donald-Trump-impersonator-makes-40-000-month-mastering-character-12-years-ago.html
Express U.K.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/656181/World-s-best-Donald-Trump-impersonator
The Mirror U.K.:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/donald-trump-impersonator-fools-morning-8922560
Daily Star U.K.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/551931/Donald-Trump-impersonator-earns-35-thousand-punds-month-gigs
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/america/111016/boom-in-business-for-man-who-impersonated-donald-trump-for-10-years.html
Information.dk
https://www.information.dk/kultur/2016/11/forskellen-manuskriptforfatter-fundet-paa-karakteren-trump
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/Ambler-native-John-Di-Domenico-impersonates-Donald-Trump-for-big-bucks.html
Phillyvoice.com
http://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-area-native-cashing-trump-impersonation/
French Press:
http://www.directmatin.fr/monde/2016-08-12/le-sosie-de-donald-trump-profite-de-la-campagne-de-son-modele-736282
French TV Mag “You Got Trumped”
http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/you-got-trumped-les-100-premiers-jours-de-la-presidence-de-donald-trump-deja-parodies_16e09646-a65c-11e6-9e31-ac0d491c80bb/
Election 2016's Best Donald Trump Impressions, Ranked @Thrillist
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-donald-trump-impressions-of-election-2016-ranked
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/donald-trumps-plan-build-border-wall-mercilessly-mocked-new-ad-172172
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trump-border-wall-360fly-commercial-20160622-snap-story.html
NJ.com & Star-Ledger
http://s.nj.com/CPj7PcY
Australian Morning Radio
http://www.2ue.com.au/news/professional-donald-trump-impersonator-talks-to-john--garry-20160531-gp8p2k.html
BernardGoldberg.com John Daly
http://bernardgoldberg.com/seizing-on-trumps-political-rise/#disqus_thread
Hollywood in Toto Interview Christian Toto
http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/trump-impersonator-john-di-domenico-interview/
KSAT Story on political impersonators
http://www.ksat.com/inside-edition/political-parodies-the-best-trump-and-clinton-impersonations-through-the-years
NJ Chamber Press Release post show
http://www.njchamber.com/index.php/nj-chamber-business-news/press-releases/1011-comic-relief-hillary-and-donald-impersonators-have-a-fourth-debate-at-new-jersey-chamber-of-commerce-s-forum-in-edison
Washington Post Video Story:
Direct Link: http://wapo.st/1JYngsL
Perma Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/as-long-as-trump-is-in-the-race-these-impersonators-will-have-jobs/2016/02/03/1798fe42-ca99-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_video.html
Washington Post Article:
http://wpo.st/Aa191
Huffington Post “The Best Donald Trump Impression” :
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/563cc96ce4b0b24aee49f2e4
Slate.com Story w/ video
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/11/12/john_di_domenico_donald_trump_impersonator_life_during_the_2016_election.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top
Slate.com Just the 5 Step to be coming Trump
https://youtu.be/XvNtU-jD-aw
Slate.com Second City Sketch Intervention
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2016/08/trumpcast_the_intervention_a_second_city_special.html
Slate.com Second City Sketch MILF Hunting
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2016/09/roger_ailes_is_prepping_donald_trump_for_his_first_debate_on_trumpcast.html
The Gist w/ Mike Pesca
https://soundcloud.com/thegist/youre-not-the-real-trump
Slate.com Trumpcast Reading Trump Tweets
First Episode: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2016/03/trumpcast_let_s_talk_to_a_shrink_about_donald_trump.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
Trumpcast Second Episode Reading Trump Tweets : https://soundcloud.com/panoply/trumpcast-a-contested-convention
Trumpcast Third Episode as President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense Trump :
https://soundcloud.com/panoply/trumpcast-life-on-the-trump-trail
Trumpcast Fourth Episode Donald visits his Doctor
https://soundcloud.com/panoply/the-gops-top-trump-buster
Trumpcast Fifth Episode The NEW Donald is Presidential
https://soundcloud.com/panoply/here-come-the-vichy-republicans
Trumpcast 6th Episode Second City Sketch
https://soundcloud.com/panoply/what-to-call-donald-trump?in=postpodernism/sets/trumpcast
Trumpcast seventh episode “A Theatre of Cruelty” Tweets
https://soundcloud.com/panoply/trumpcast160520-heffernan
Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article56810668.html
McClatchy Newspapers video story:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article56671713.html
Same McClatchy story on a different site:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article56731403.html
Soundcloud Interview with Jake Heller of NBC News
https://soundcloud.com/the-trail-tapes/the-donald-trump-impersonator
The Nigel Pierce Show – GOODHOPEFM Cape Town South Africa: http://www.goodhopefm.co.za/sabc/home/goodhopefm/shows/details?id=142b4501-bb2c-47c8-851a-
Andrew Carter Morning Show Canada second appearance
http://fw.to/QIION9C
Canadian Radio/CBC Interview
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-friday-december-11-2015-1.3359682/donald-trump-impersonator-on-the-new-weight-of-the-wig-1.3360530
CBC Radio Day 6 Trump’s Letter to Santa
http://www.cbc.ca/1.3904900
BBC Radio 5 Live (just a snippet of the interview)
https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/796380138103418880
Brian Oxman Show second appearance, July 5, 2016
http://brianoxman.com/we-have-some-fun-with-donald-trump-impersonator-john-di-domenico-2/
Brian Oxman Show third appearance, July 5, 2016
http://brianoxman.com/donald-trump-impersonator-john-di-domenico-joins-us/
“Doc Thompson Show”
https://soundcloud.com/docthompson/the-morning-blaze-121516-hour-3
“Ron & Craig Show”
https://soundcloud.com/ronandcraig/ron-craig-show-with-donald-trump
Politicon Promo
https://youtu.be/7IgjE96TjiE
Event TV News Profile
http://www.eventtvnews.com/eventprofiles-john-di-domenico/
Soundcloud Interview w/ KrisCruz
https://soundcloud.com/rc_kris/kris-cruz-wtrump
Radio Call ins:
Trump bashes Rosie on “Craig & Company”
https://youtu.be/kgE8IlVzaD8?list=FLzQpFuWIqe0VkezvAOeki0Q
Trump announces his run on “Craig & Company”
https://youtu.be/XW3Y1RKBewc?list=FLzQpFuWIqe0VkezvAOeki0Q
News, Articles, Stories and Blogs:
CNN Story: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/imitating-donald-trump-moos-pkg-erin.cnn/video/playlists/wacky-world-of-jeanne-moos/
The Week story
http://theweek.com/speedreads/587401/listen-trump-impersonator-share-what-like-play-donald
A&E’s “Who’s Donald Trump”
http://www.aetv.com/shows/who-is-donald-trump/season-1/episode-1
Getty Images:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/john-a-donald-trump-impersonator-and-embassy-suites-battery-news-photo/71001547
http://www.travelweekly.com/Media/Apple-Vacations-lampoons-Trump
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/250726-for-trump-impersonators-2016-bid-is-risky-business
TheHill.com Follow up Story a year Later
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/298367-demand-skyrocketing-for-donald-trump-impersonators
The Relaunch Show:
http://relaunchshow.com/overcame-learning-disabilities-john-di-domenico/
First Order Historians:
http://firstorderhistorians.com/2015/08/07/10-questions-with-john-di-domenico/
I appear at :18 seconds in
https://youtu.be/v9uXMb2S6fU
Documentaries:
http://www.bronxobamamovie.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-is-the-best-donald-trump-impression_563cc96ce4b0b24aee49f2e4#comments
I have also appearances in three feature films as Trump:
“Meet The Spartans,” 20th Century Fox/Regency. I come in at 0:16 on in the trailer https://youtu.be/t4x-EHPkKis
“Not Another Celebrity Movie,” I come in at 0:31 in the trailer and I'm throughout until the end https://youtu.be/dg9Qaury7sg
“30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” - 20th Century Fox: I come in at 0:30 in the trailer https://youtu.be/A32-APf-Iec
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Men's Rights Redditors flood Occidental College's online rape reporting form with false accusations
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Last night, a regular commenter in the Men’s Rights subreddit — inspired by a thread on 4chan — posted a link to an online form on r/mensrights under the headline “Feminists at Occidental College created an online form to anonymously report rape/sexual assault. You just fill out a form and the person is called into the office on a rape charge. The “victim” never has to prove anything or reveal their identity.”
This headline is not only inflammatory but untrue: Yes, Occidental College has an online form that allows victims of or witnesses to sexual assault to report the incidents to the school. But, as a statement at the top of the form makes clear, the point is to collect data on how much sexual violence there is at the school, who the victims are, and so on.
If the person reporting the crime names the alleged perpetrator,
a member of the Dean of Students Office will meet with that person to share that the person was named in an anonymous report, review the Sexual Misconduct Policy, and inform the person that if the allegations are true, the behavior needs to cease immediately. Information shared in this form alone will not result in anyone going through the grievance process.
I’ve put the last bit in bold to emphasize a point: No one will be charged with anything based only on information gathered using this form. As would be clear to anyone who thought about the matter for more than a few seconds, it’s rather difficult to investigate, much less prove, a rape if you don’t actually know who the victim is.
Somehow this rather elementary fact eluded the OP, and virtually all of those who left the hundreds of comments on the popular post.
Indeed, a host of Men’s Rights Redditors were so convinced of the innate evil of the online form they all had the same bright idea: let’s flood the school with false reports of rape and break the form. Here are some of their comments. (There are more in the thread.) Note the number of upvotes each of these suggestions got. (Click the images to see the comments in context on Reddit.)
While a few commenters stood up to point out that in fact the school will not charge anyone with anything as a result of anonymous information gathered by the form, they were outnumbered by Men’s Rightsers gleefully reporting that they in fact had reported false information. Among them:
It’s one thing to criticize an anonymous reporting system because of its potential for abuse; this is something else entirely.
The post has been up for 17 hours at this point, with more than 700 net upvotes, and some of the calls for “breaking” the form have been up for nearly as long. The moderators of Men’s Rights have done nothing to stop their subreddit being used to interfere with a school’s attempt to assist rape survivors — including men.
“Breaking” a school’s rape reporting mechanism is apparently a form of Men’s Rights activism.
Posted in: antifeminism, are these guys 12 years old?, evil women, false accusations, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, playing the victim, rape culture, reddit, slacktivism
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katz says:
I’m pretty much convinced that GWW uses long, obtuse formats (like webcam videos) to prevent anyone being able to easily quote her or respond to what she’s saying.
pecunium says:
Golly, that’s quaint…nobody does that anymore.
Yes, they do.
“This is an unlawful assembly, you must disperse”.
They did it to Occuppy on the Brooklyn Bridge, They “kettled” them, told them they were unlawful and arrested them because they had no place to go.
Why are we constantly providing them moral permission and various options to not officially report, when victims not reporting results in more future victims?
Because of shit like this:
The night she was sexually assaulted in September 2011, Barrett said she was asked by a Missoula police officer if she had a boyfriend.
“I said, ‘No, but why does that matter?'” recalled Barrett. “He responded, ‘Some girls cheat on their boyfriend and regret it and blame it on rape.'”
The years since that remark turned Barrett into an activist who brought national attention to the town, stirring the U.S. departments of Justice and Education to investigate the police and the university for mishandling sexual assault reports. And they spurred Muir to institute reforms. A civilian review panel has begun examining the department’s handling of sexual assault investigations, for example. Muir said the panel looked at nine cases this week…
Barrett said a Missoula detective later apologized to her for the officer’s comment. But then the detective warned that nothing was likely to come of an investigation, because it was a he-said, she-said situation.
Two months later, police interviewed the man Barrett had identified as her assailant. The detective later told Barrett that the man had cried and insisted the sex had been consensual.
Barrett said she learned in November 2011 that police considered her case inactive. She and a friend, who had similar experiences with Missoula police, met with Muir, who addressed his officers’ comments.
“I apologized for the fact that she felt that the detective was more sympathetic to the perpetrator,” Muir said. “That was simply a matter of her perception.”
The conversation was cordial, the chief and the women agreed, until the topic of false rape reports arose.
Barrett said that she insisted no more than 6 percent of rape reports are bogus, citing a 2009 study that originated with End Violence Against Women International. She and her friend, who asked not to be named, said Muir disagreed, saying that some studies show a majority of rape reports are false.
Muir said he “disputed that it’s not disputable” that a small number of reports are false.
“I explained to her I don’t believe those numbers that are on the high end,” Muir said. “But I just wanted to be perfectly clear that there are studies that have been done. Not everyone supports them, but that [false reports] may be as high as 40 to 50 percent.”
Makes me wonder what the “higher” numbers he doesn’t believe are.
Argenti Aertheri says:
I tried to comment and WP ate it, since glossary troll has me fuming, I’ll just retype this bit —
Don’t worry about it Kitteh, I figured you were poking fun at MRAs, not gaslighting (and I’m having a shit week)
We’ve had MRAs saying 90%+ haven’t we? (Or am I getting confused because the opposite is true?)
kittehserf says:
A police officer with an MRAish attitude to numbers (and to women).
And they dare ask why rape isn’t reported more.
Ally S says:
If I weren’t horribly sleep-deprived, I would have laughed out loud at this.
cloudiah says:
I am also sleep-deprived, and want to point out that the traditional MRA percentage is 99%. This dude hasn’t gotten the memo.
Arctic Ape says:
You can quote my poem anywhere. In case someone didn’t know, it’s ripped on the famous beginning of William Blake’s “The Tyger”:
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Apparently every line begins with a capital (just now checked). Also, perhaps the last line should be “Could match the fearful price you ‘got”. Some native speaker could consider optimizing word choices for dramatic effect. And maybe bastardize the whole poem…
Strewth, Arctic Ape, you did a better job of it than this native speaker ever could!
Auggz — that logic, cuz I’ve had my fair share of jerkbrain about it, goes like this — if the rapist is inclined to rape you, they might be inclined to rape someone else, if you get them put behind bars, then they can’t do that. Thus failure to get them sent to jail means not protecting their future victims.
Have fun parsing that onion of fail.
alternatesteve90 says:
@kittehserf:
This does seem to be quite a prevalent problem in many PDs here in the U.S., sadly. 🙁
Not just the US, either.
Robert Ramirez says:
Johnathan Taylor is now saying that he never condoned any form of spamming. Thank you for the screenshots, David. I will surely rub his nose in his own doo-doo
@Kitteh: Yep, sad but true as well. 🙁
tessietura says:
false accusations are only bad when females o it duh
not a chick says:
just another way for these irrational men’s right activist to prove they have no intention in protecting men from actual issues. They simply wamt to stick it to women any way they can. This is also proven by the way they treat men who try to stand up for women. If a man says “don’t disrespect your ladies,” theses mra types demand his man card or throw a homophobic term.
Its obvious that false rape isn’t what they have issue with: they (most mra I’ve come across) seem to think one of two things 1. Rape is a myth or 2. Rape should be treated as a myth so no man is wrongly accused.
It makes me sick. I am glad I didn’t have a daughter to grow up with so much of this thought. I will teach my son to respect you ladies and stand against these cowards. With my wife being his mom, it should not be difficult.
Goodluck to all. Please remember that we are not all like this. Most men aren’t woman haters, just as most women are man-haters.
miriyan says:
And they think women are illogical and react emotionally…
josorio300 says:
And no. I am not MRA or PUA.
No one cares, josorio, no one cares.
Cloudiah i had to be sure just in case someone screamed “misogyny!”
emilygoddess says:
I wasn’t aware only MRAs and PUAs could be misogynistic.
MRA/FRA are all useless and failures of the human species. God/Goddesses help our future generations from these stun humans!
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Security in developing nations found itself a new image yesterday, when Hipkins Cuti announced a new security in developing nations theory
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The security in developing nations school supervisory board will be comprised of 10 area leaders and 3 elected officials, said Mayor Jerlene Mckearin
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Many more average investors, like those saving for retirement, do not know about the benefits of investing in the security in developing nations market. “It’s a shame that our industry isn’t seen as more main stream,” bemoaned Alisha Emanuelson, CEO of Crowson Balazs INC, “if more main stream investors got involved through good brokerages, we’d see a higher division of risk across the board. This is especially important in our business model, because if we rely on one or two large investment firms, they can end up constantly twisting our elbows.” Indeed, over the past 10 years, the Joe-Regular investor has begun to see the strengths of putting money in the security in developing nations investment market. Ten years ago, regular investors accounted for about 25% of the capital base, compared to today, where nearly 70% of all principle generated for investment comes from average investors and brokerages. “This change has been for the best,” declared Lauretta Hubiak, a broker with Tessie Vallas and Brothers Ltd, “we’ve seen more people getting into investing, and more company executives doing more aggressive marketing and sales, with the knowledge that they are backed by a diverse number of share holders.” A great book on investing in the security in developing nations sector was written by Nena Hoffnagle, a prominent author and Professor of Economics at the University of Wauters Camaj, located down town. Wauters Camaj has written some ten different works, that all deal with risk management in a dynamic economy. “When putting your money on the table,” writes Wauters Camaj, “be prepared for a wait of, on average, 3 – 5 years before expecting any sort of return. That is the way the security in developing nations market works, and with patience, you can walk with big money.” “I’m thrilled to report record growth in the security in developing nations sector,” said Estrada Juncker, an independent auditor, “this signifies that anyone who invested their money more than three years ago saw a 25% return on their money – which is fabulous.” Such gains are not unhead of, particularly to security in developing nations related businesses, if investors can stick it out for 2-5 years. Investing money, particularly in a security in developing nations business, is always considered a risky move, but it can pay off dividends. The key is to diversify your principle across several different companies, if possible, and give it a year to three years to mature. “I always tell my security in developing nations clients to wait at minimum 18 months before evaluating the success of a particular investment,” says Krishna Riding, a broker with Bjorseth Tillie and Hiley Clavin Ltd, “that way, those who get jittery early on allow themselves a chance to see the investment through. In the end, only invest what you can afford. Be prepared for the reality that your venture into the security in developing nations field can result in significant financial loss. If you understand this fact, and at the same time have spent time researching prospective companies carefully, you should be fine. Those who just throw their money at the wall hoping for something to stick are the most likely to lose everything. “security in developing nations investing may seem daunting to some,” said Clelia Samo, a private investor, “but it’s really no different than the enigma of day-trading or forex. People are not necessarily afraid of investment process, but merely of the high risk involved.” Risk in the security in developing nations industry is certainly a factor, however, it can be mitigated by picking the right companies for your money. Picking the top company is easy, but not always the top earner. “Sometimes,” says Englehart Dienhart, “it’s better to look through the mid-range security in developing nations companies for ones with strong growth potential.” Saeli Barthlow CIO of Patlan Sharrett INC, a top security in developing nations firm, recently released the grand list of top investors. Among the top 3 were Shade Brofman, Sivret Weader, and the well known millionaire Borucki Lige, who alone comprise almost 70% ownership of the company. “This sort of leverage can cause problems,” said President Alexandra Hire, “but we have a strong relationship with our top investors, and they know the security in developing nations field very well. As a result, no one gets gun shy or cold feet.”
Others, including several noted scientists in the security in developing nations field, whill join English and writing majors at Hilst Peruzzi County College to produce a final work
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Canola Oil as a Kairomonal Attractant
Decreasing Economic and Environmental Costs
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Decreasing Economic and Environmental Costs Through Reduced Area and Agent Insecticide Treatments (RAATs) for the Control of Rangeland Grasshoppers: EMPIRICAL RESULTS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PEST MANAGEMENT
JEFFREY A. LOCKWOOD and SCOTT P. SCHELL
Entomology Section
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
Reduced area and agent treatments (RAATs) for management of rangeland grasshopper infestations were compared with blanket applications of 2 standard compounds at traditional rates (100% of infestations treated with carbaryl applied at 16 oz/ac or malathion applied at 8 oz/ac) in southeastern Wyoming during 1995-96. Two RAATs applications of carbaryl (12 oz/ac applied in alternating swaths to 66% of infestations [12-66] and 8 oz/ac applied in alternating swaths to 50% of infestations [8-50]) were essentially indistinguishable from the standard treatment, with 80 to 90% grasshopper mortality. A carbaryl 8-33 treatment resulted in only 40 to 60% control. Mortality following application of 4 oz/ac of malathion in alternating swaths to 80% of an infestation (4-80) was indistinguishable from the standard application, with 75 to 90% control. However, a malathion 4-50 treatment resulted in only 55 to 65% control. Fipronil (14 oz/ac) applied to 25% of an infestation resulted in 80 to 90% control, comparable to the highest rates of mortality with the other RAATs. The greatest benefit:cost ratios (>2.8:1) were seen with the carbaryl 8-50, malathion 4-80, and fipronil 14-25 treatments. The RAATs strategy appears to depend on movement of grasshoppers from untreated to treated swaths and on the conservation of natural biological control agents. Had RAATs methods been used during the 1986-88 outbreak in the western US, pest managers would have saved $38 million and used 34 million metric tons less insecticide. _________________________________________________________________________
Keywords: Acrididae, pest management, insecticide, barrier treatment
Grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera, Acrididae) annually consume 22% of rangeland forages in the western US at an estimated loss of $400 million (Hewitt and Onsager 1983). With legislation mandating federal participation in grasshopper control and the advent of aerial applications of insecticides, the foundation of our current grasshopper control strategy was established (Pfadt and Hardy 1987). Until 1996, the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) subsidized the full cost of control on federal lands, one-half of the cost on state lands, and one-third of the cost on private lands. Large-scale use of broad-spectrum insecticides had become virtually the sole approach to rangeland grasshopper control (Pfadt and Hardy 1987). During the 1986-88 outbreak, >8 million ha of rangeland were treated with 5 million liters of insecticide (primarily malathion) for grasshoppers in the western US at a cost of over $75 million (National Grasshopper Management Board 1995).
Throughout the western US, economic and environmental concerns virtually assure that massive grasshopper treatment programs will not be repeated (USDA-APHIS 1987, National Grasshopper Management Board 1995). Moreover, broad-spectrum insecticides may exacerbate grasshopper outbreaks by suppressing native biological control agents (Lockwood et al. 1988). Finally, due to federal budget reductions, APHIS recently announced that it will no longer conduct nymphal surveys or participate in treatments (Husnik 1995), effectively tripling the cost of grasshopper control to the private sector (based on land ownership patterns in the western US [Bureau of Land Management 1982-1986]). For the first time in >50 years, the responsibility for grasshopper control in the western US will be borne by the producer. Hence, there is a compelling need to develop strategies which reduce the amount of insecticides, sustain profits, and preserve nontarget and beneficial species (e.g., native biological control agents of grasshoppers and weeds [Lockwood et al. 1988, Joern and Gaines 1990]). The sense of urgency is enhanced by surveys in 1996, which show a dramatic upsurge in grasshopper population densities across the West (USDA-APHIS 1996).
A wide range of alternative management strategies were explored during the USDA-APHIS Grasshopper Integrated Pest Management Program (USDA-APHIS 1989-1994). While these approaches represent exciting directions for continued research, there are few applicable solutions to the urgent challenges of rangeland grasshopper management. Many of the developing approaches are quite sophisticated (e.g., grazing regimes and hot-spot suppression) and require extensive further development (e.g., biological control). There has been little investigation of simple and direct strategies to reduce insecticide use. Two such approaches to reducing the economic and environmental costs of suppressing grasshopper infestations are: using less insecticide per unit area and treating less area.
The application of insecticides in intermittent patterns to control relatively mobile pests has been investigated across a range of conditions. As the economic and environmental pressures on agriculture increase, this strategy will become increasingly viable. Given the mobility of acridids, the high cost of treating remote locations, and the relatively low value of immediately protected commodities (e.g., rangeland) it is not surprising that perhaps the greatest development of reduced area-agent treatments (RAATs) have occurred in the context of locust management. In Africa (USAID 1989, Krall et al. 1997), ex-USSR (Tsyplenkov 1978), and Australia (Australian Plague Locust Commission 1990) insecticides are applied in swaths that do not blanket an infestation but rely on the locust nymphs or adult to move into the treated areas.
Recently, extensive work on this method has been undertaken by PRIFAS (Research, Information and Training Program on Acridians of CIRAD, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement-- a French governmental organization) in studies which have demonstrated that as little as 1 to 2 g (active ingredient [ai]) of fipronil per ha, applied in strips perpendicular to the direction of hopper band movement, is sufficient to cause 99% locust mortality in 7 d (Anonymous 1996, Rachadi and Foucart 1996, Launois and Rachadi 1997). With hopper bands of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria Forskål, insecticide "barriers" may be separated by as much as 1 km (Rachadi and Foucart 1996). Similarly promising results have been achieved with new insect growth regulators, which also represent potentially viable replacements for dieldrin in barrier treatments for locusts in Africa (Dorn et al. 1997, Musuna and Mugisha 1997, Scherere and Célestin 1997, Wilps and DiopIt 1997). It appears that virtually all of the methods development with the RAATs approach in acridology has been in the context of locusts, which are characterized by extensive, directional movements. The application of this strategy for grasshopper populations, which are much more sedentary, unpredictable in the directionality of movement, and structurally complex (i.e., taxonomically and hence behaviorally, developmentally, etc.) has not been pursued. Blanket applications of insecticides to entire infestations, often exceeding 10,000 ha, is the standard method of rangeland grasshopper control on the North American Great Plains. The purpose of our work was to begin the development and assessment of RAATs strategies for rangeland grasshopper infestations in the western US.
Canal site. This site (Table 1 and Table 2) was divided into 4 plots, consisting of:
1) an untreated control of 39 ha,
2) the standard, programmatic (USDA-APHIS 1987) rate of carbaryl (Sevin 4-oil; 16 oz/ac [32 oz/ac total volume]; 1.1 l/ha; 610 g(ai)/ha treated) applied in a traditional blanket coverage to 39 ha (termed a 16-100 treatment [i.e., 16 oz/ac applied to 100% of the infestation]),
3) a reduced rate of carbaryl (12 oz/ac [24 oz/ac total volume]; 0.8 l/ha; 458 g(ai)/ha treated) applied in alternating swaths to two-thirds of a 78 ha plot (termed a 12-66 treatment, effectively 305 g(ai)/ha protected), and
4) a reduced rate of carbaryl (9 oz/ac [18 oz/ac total volume]; 0.6 l/ha; 343 g(ai)/ha treated) applied in alternating swaths to half of a 39 ha plot (termed a 9-50 treatment, effectively 172 g(ai)/ha protected) (Fig. 1).
The rates per ha protected refer to the amount of insecticide used in the treated swaths multiplied by the proportion of the untreated area (e.g., in the 9-50 treatment, carbaryl was applied at the rate of 343 g(ai)/ha to the treated swaths but since half of the infestation was untreated, the effective rate of application was 172 g(ai)/ha). All treatments were applied aerially on 7 July using a Grumman Agcat 450 B equipped with C-P nozzles (setting 062), flying at 10 m, with a 30 m swath width. Thus, for example, the 12-66 treatment involved 30-m wide treated swaths alternating with 15-m wide untreated buffers. Applications occurred between 04:30 and 08:00 when air temperatures were 16 to 22 oC and easterly winds were 0.5 to 4.5 m/sec (perpendicular to the direction of the swaths). Dye cards were not used to determine the actual or realized swath widths, but given the moderate cross breeze it is very likely that some insecticide drifted into the "untreated" swaths in this and subsequent applications.
Grasshopper densities within each plot were determined along 4 transects perpendicular to the direction of the swaths, separated by 50 m, and >30 m from an edge of the plot. Each transect consisted of 10, 930 cm2 (1 ft2) counts taken at 10 m intervals (Legg et al. 1993). Counts were recorded to maintain the sequence of observations for later analysis of spatial heterogeneity. Densities were determined 1 d before and 3, 7, 13, and 20 d after treatment. Percent mortalities were corrected for population dynamics in the untreated plots, using the method that Connin and Kuitert (1952) developed for grasshopper control trials [see Jech et al. (1993) for a recent application of this technique],
% mortality = 100 x (1 - ((Ta x Cb)/(Tb x Ca))),
where Ta and Tb are the grasshopper densities in the treated plot after and before treatment, respectively, and Ca and Cb are the grasshopper densities in the control plot after and before treatment. The developmental stages and species composition of the grasshopper assemblage were determined by taking 100 sweeps (50 high-fast and 50 low-slow) with a 35-cm diam sweep net to capture a sample of the acridids present.
66-Mountain site. This site (Table 1 and Table 2) was divided into 4, 33-ha plots which were treated and assessed as previously described, with an additional density estimate taken in 1996, 377 d after treatment.
Rutherford site. This site (Table 1 and Table 2) was divided into 7, 17-ha plots, consisting of:
1) an untreated control,
2) the standard rate of carbaryl (16-100; Sevin XLR 16 oz/ac [32 oz/ac total volume]; 1.1 l/ha; 561 g(ai)/ha treated) applied in a blanket coverage),
3) a half rate of carbaryl applied in alternating swaths to one-half of the plot (8-50, effectively 140 g(ai)/ha protected),
4) a half rate of carbaryl applied to one-third of the plot (8-33, effectively 92 g(ai)/ha protected),
5) the standard, programmatic (USDA-APHIS 1987) rate of malathion (8 oz/ac [8 oz/ac total volume]; 0.6 l/ha; 660 g(ai)/ha) applied in a traditional blanket coverage (8-100),
6) a half rate of malathion applied to four-fifths of the plot (termed a 4-80 treatment, effectively 264 g(ai)/ha protected), and
7) a half rate of malathion applied to and one-half of the plot (termed a 4-50 treatment, effectively 165 g(ai)/ha protected).
The treated swaths in the malathion plots were placed closer together than in the carbaryl plots because the half-life of malathion is about 2 d, compared to nearly 20 d for carbaryl (USDA-APHIS 1987). All treatments were applied aerially on 28 June, as previously described using 30 m swaths, between 05:00 and 07:30 when air temperatures were 18 to 23 oC and variable winds were <1.0 m/sec. Grasshopper densities and collections were made as previously described, but for purposes of efficiency while in the field the data were not collected so as to allow subsequent analyses of heterogeneity. Samples were taken at 2 d before and 1, 4, 6, 13, and 25 d after treatment. In addition to identifying the acridids, all other arthropods were identified to order.
Pollett site. This site (Table 1 and Table 2) was divided into 7, 16-ha plots which were treated and assessed as previously described for the Rutherford site. Treatments were applied on 24 July between 05:00 and 08:00 when air temperatures were 16 to 25 oC and shifting winds were <2.0 m/sec. Due to equipment malfunction, a portion of the carbaryl-treated plots did not receive the prescribed treatment. In our sampling, we omitted the areas (ca. 2 ha) to which insecticide was over-applied, but the application difficulties resulted in 10 to 20% lower rates of insecticide in the remaining portions of the plots. Grasshopper densities and collections were made as previously described at 1 d before and 1, 5, 9, and 16 d after treatment. In addition to identifying the acridids, a random subsample of 50 arthropods was identified to family.
Hubbs site. This site (Table 1 and Table 2) was divided into 8, 16-ha plots which were treated and assessed as previously described for the Rutherford site. Treatments were applied on 27 June between 05:00 and 08:00 when air temperatures were 13 to 18 oC and shifting winds were <1.0 m/sec. In addition to the treatments applied at the Pollett site, fipronil (Adonis 6 UL; 14 oz/ac [14 oz/ac total volume]; 1 l/ha; 6 g/ha ai) was applied to 25% of a plot (termed a 14-25 treatment). This compound is not registered for use in the US, so the total area of application was limited to 4 ha. The wide untreated intervals were chosen in light of the persistence of fipronil (ca. 34-d half-life [USEPA 1996]). Grasshopper densities and collections were made as previously described at 1 d before and 1, 4, 6, 13, 25, and 47 d after treatment. In addition to identifying the acridids, all other arthropods were identified to order and a random subsample of 50 specimens was identified to family.
Grasshopper density and population structure. All statistical tests were done with the software program MSUSTAT (Lund 1986). For assessment of treatment effects on grasshopper densities, differences in the populations at each sampling date were analyzed with a one-way analysis of variance and Fisher's protected least significant difference test. Frequencies of grasshopper species and developmental stages among plots, before and after treatments, were assessed using 2 analyses. For all statistical analyses, differences were considered significant at P<0.05.
Spatial heterogeneity.Three approaches were taken to assessing spatial heterogeneity of the grasshopper populations using the 1995 transect data. The variance-mean ratio (based on the number of grasshoppers in each sample [Southwood 1978]), the one-sample runs test (where each sample was classified as having no grasshoppers or >1 grasshoppers [Siegel 1956]), and Morisita's index of aggregration (Im; Southwood 1978) were used with the transect data from each sampling date to evaluate the degree of clumping within the plots. Morisita's index avoids some of the analytical problems of the variance-mean ratio (Hurlbert 1990) and is a better measure of departure from randomness and tendency to aggregation.
Nontarget effects.The effects of treatments on nontarget arthropods were assessed with 2 approaches using the 1996 data. Differences in the frequencies of the 4 most commonly collected orders (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Homoptera, comprising about 90% of the nontarget arthropod fauna) among the plots of the Hubbs site were assessed on each sampling date for carbaryl and malathion using 3x4 chi-square analyses. Too few non-target insects were collected at the Rutherford site to generate meaningful comparisons. It should be noted that an analysis of pretreatment samples revealed that with the ommission of 1 plot (malathion 4-50, with an exceptionally high frequency of Homoptera), there were no significant differences among plots. In addition to the frequency analyses, we examined the family richness across all insect orders based on subsamples taken on each sampling date in 1996, from each plot and site. Because of relatively low numbers of specimens, the samples were pooled across transects in a one-way analysis of variance with Fisher's protected lsd test.
Economic analyses. Analyses of the benefits and costs of the various treatments were conducted using the data from the Hubbs site because this area represented native grassland with rangeland grasshopper densities that are routinely treated and to which the most viable set of strategies were applied. The mortalities were based on those observed at 13 d after treatment. We used both CARMA (Hastings et al. 1996) and HOPPER (Berry et al. 1994) software with default settings. The former system uses case-, model-, and rule-based reasoning for Wyoming conditions to provide the user with a range of expected savings and management recommendations; the latter system uses primarily a modeling approach for the western US to provide the user with a benefit:cost ratio among other outputs.
Canal site. Although the grasshopper density in the control plot was significantly less than in 2 of the treated plots prior to the treatments, by 7 d after treatment, the densities in all of the treated plots were significantly less than in the control plot (Table 3). Perhaps most importantly, there were no significant differences among treated plots before treatment or 7 to 20 d after treatment. Hence, the results of the RAATs methods were indistinguishable from those of the traditional, blanket application strategy. From 7 to 20 d after treatment, mortality averaged 86% in the standard, 16-100 plot and 83 and 79% in the 12-66 and 8-50 plots, respectively (Fig 2).
66-Mountain site. Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among plots prior to treatment, but significant declines in all treated plots were found by 3 d after treatment (Table 3). Except for 20 d after treatment, when the 8-50 plot had significantly lower densities than the other treated plots, the treatments were statistically indistinguishable. From 7 to 20 d after treatment, mortality averaged 80% in the standard, 16-100 plot and 82 and 83% in the 12-66 and 8-50 plots, respectively (Fig 2). The grasshopper densities in all plots increased from 1995 to 1996, but densities in the plots treated in 1995 remained well below the regionalized economic threshold the next year (Davis et al. 1992), suggesting that sustained suppression with the RAATs method is possible.
Taxonomic and Developmental Effects. The frequency distributions of the grasshopper species and developmental stages in the untreated control and treated plots did not differ significantly prior to treatment or at days 1 and 3 after treatment. Thus, these treatments did not have any differentiating effect on rangeland grasshoppers shortly after treatment, with respect to the species or developmental stages present in typical infestations. The numbers of specimens collected in the treated plots thereafter were too small to allow reliable analysis.
Spatial heterogeneity. The one-sample runs test failed to reject the hypothesis of random distributions in the transects of all plots at both sites prior to treatments. In only 2 cases did the runs test reveal a significant deviation from randomness -- in the untreated plot at the Canal site 13 d after treatment and in the 8-50 plot at the 66-Mountain site 3 d after treatment.
The variance-mean ratio averaged 0.91+0.15 (sd) across all plots and sites prior to treatments, suggesting an essentially random distribution of grasshoppers (a value of 1.0 being expected for a random distribution, with lower values indicating a uniform distribution and higher values indicating an aggregated or clumped dispersion). One day after treatments, the RAATs plots had ratios ranging from 0.67 to 1.04 (mean+sd = 0.81+0.16) and the untreated and blanket treated plots had ratios ranging from 0.80 to 0.93 (mean = 0.86+0.06). Subsequently, ratios in the RAATs plots ranged from 0.67 to 1.37 (mean = 0.99+0.18). There was some indication of increasing heterogeneity with time; the maximum mean ratio occurring 20 d after treatment. The ratios in the other plots from 3 to 20 d after treatment ranged from 0.44 to 1.03 (mean = 0.85+0.21).
Morisita's index of aggregation (Im) is the increased probability of 2 randomly selected individuals occurring in the same sample compared with the probability of such an occurrence given a random distribution where Im =1 (e.g. a value of 2.4 for Im would mean that the probability of 2 individuals being from the same sample is 1.4 times greater than if the grasshoppers were randomly distributed). Hence, prior to treatment the mean Im for the plots was 0.92+0.22 (range = 0.42 to 1.14), suggesting an essentially random dispersion. One day after treatments, the RAATs plots had values ranging from 0.49 to 1.19 (mean+sd = 0.73+0.32), and the untreated and blanket treated plots had ratios ranging from 0.60 to 0.91 (mean = 0.77+0.14). Subsequently, indices in the RAATs plots ranged from 0.10 to 1.73 (mean = 0.74+0.64). As with the variance-mean ratio, the maximum index occurred 20 d after treatment. From 3 to 20 d after treatment the ratios in the blanket treated and untreated plots ranged from 0.58 to 2.14 (mean = 1.03+0.64).
Based on the results of these 3 analyses (one-sample runs test, variance-mean ratio, and Im) we conclude that there was no indication that the RAATs methods generated persistently aggregated spatial heterogeneity, clumping, or aggregation, as might be expected from a discontinuous application of insecticide. Thus, it appears that grasshoppers may readily move from untreated to treated swaths.
Hubbs site. Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among plots before treatment in the carbaryl trials (Table 4). Densities in the 16-100 plot were significantly lower than in the 8-50 plot at 1 and 4 d after treatment. From 6 to 46 d after treatment, these 2 plots did not differ significantly. The carbaryl 8-33 plot had significantly higher densities of grasshoppers than the other treated plots from 6 to 25 d after treatment. Thus, from 6 to 47 d after treatment the 16-100 and 8-50 plots averaged 93 and 90% mortality, respectively, while the 8-33 plot averaged 55% mortality (Fig. 2).
Grasshopper densities were significantly higher in the malathion 4-80 plot than in the 8-100 plot prior to treatment (Table 4). However, grasshopper densities in these 2 plots did not differ significantly from 6 to 47 d after treatment. These plots had significantly lower densities of grasshoppers than the 4-50 plot from 4 to 25 d after treatment. Thus, the 8-100 and 4-80 plots averaged 96 and 90% mortality from 6 to 47 d after treatment, while mortality in the 4-50 plot averaged only 49% (Fig. 3).
Comparing across insecticides suggests that malathion generated significant reductions in grasshopper densities faster than carbaryl, with fipronil (82% mortality from 6 to 47 d after treatment) being intermediate in this regard. However, the grasshopper densities in the carbaryl 8-50, malathion 4-80 and fipronil plots did not differ significantly from 6 to 47 d after treatment. These treatments yielded 82 to 90% mortality during this period of time, while the lowest application rates yielded 49 to 55% mortality.
Pollet site. Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among plots before treatment in the carbaryl trials (Table 4). Densities in the 16-100 plot were significantly lower than in the 8-50 plot only at 9 d after treatment. The carbaryl 8-33 plot had significantly higher densities of grasshoppers than the standard 16-100 treatment from 9 to 16 d after treatment. Thus, from 5 to 16 d after treatment the 16-100 and 8-50 plots averaged 79 and 70% mortality, respectively, while the 8-33 plot averaged 49% mortality (Fig. 2).
Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among the malathion plots prior to treatment (Table 4). Although, grasshopper densities in the 8-100 and 4-80 plots did not differ significantly in the 5 d following treatment, the densities in the former treatment were significantly lower than in the latter treatment from 9 to 16 d. These plots had significantly lower densities of grasshoppers than the 4-50 plot at 1, 5, and 16 d after treatment. Thus, the 8-100 and 4-80 plots averaged 79 and 61% mortality from 5 to 16 d after treatment, while mortality in the 4-50 plot averaged 60% (Fig. 3).
As with the observations at the Hubbs site, malathion generated reductions in grasshopper densities faster than carbaryl. However, the grasshopper densities in the carbaryl 8-50 and malathion 4-80 plots did not differ significantly from 5 to16 d after treatment but tended to be somewhat higher than in the plots treated with blanket applications.
Rutherford site. Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among plots before treatment in the carbaryl trials (Table 4). Densities in the 16-100 plot were significantly lower than in the 8-50 plot only at 1 and 6 d after treatment. Except for 13 d after treatment, the carbaryl 8-33 plot had significantly higher densities of grasshoppers than the standard 16-100 treatment, but the 8-33 plot had significantly higher densities than the 8-50 plot only 25 d after treatment. Thus, from 6 to 25 d after treatment the 16-100 and 8-50 plots averaged 55 and 64% mortality, respectively, while the 8-33 plot averaged 39% mortality.
Grasshopper densities did not differ significantly among the malathion plots prior to treatment (Table 4). Grasshopper densities in the 8-100 and 4-80 plots differed significantly only at 6 d after treatment. However, the densities in the 4-50 plot were significantly greater than in the standard, 8-100 plot at all post-treatment times except 13 d. The 4-50 plot also had significantly higher densities than the 4-80 plot at 1 to 6 d, but not 13 to 25 d, after treatment. Thus, the 8-100 and 4-80 plots averaged 77 and 73% mortality from 1 to 25 d after treatment, while mortality in the 4-50 plot averaged 61%.
As with the observations at the Hubbs site, malathion generated reductions in grasshopper densities faster than carbaryl. However, the grasshopper densities in the carbaryl 8-50 and malathion 4-80 plots did not differ significantly from 5 to 16 d after treatment but tended to be somewhat higher than in the plots treated with blanket applications. The lowest application rates (carbaryl 8-33 and malathion 4-50) yielded an average of 50% mortality, while the other RAATs and standard methods yielded averages of 68 and 66% mortality, respectively.
Taxonomic and Developmental Effects. The frequency distributions of the grasshopper species and developmental stages in the untreated control and treated plots did not differ significantly prior to treatment or at days 1 (malathion and carbaryl plots) and 4 (carbaryl plots) after treatment. Thus, these treatments did not have any differentiating effect on rangeland grasshoppers shortly after treatment, with respect to the species or developmental stages present in typical infestations. The numbers of specimens collected in the treated plots thereafter were too small to allow reliable analysis.
Non-target effects. Before treatment, the frequencies of the 4 major orders did not differ significantly among the malathion or carbaryl plots (Table 5). Significant differences among plots were found at 1 and 4 d after treatment with malathion and at all post-treatment dates with carbaryl. Hence, the standard and RAATs methods had more strongly differentiated effects in the carbaryl treatments than in the malathion treatments. These findings should be considered preliminary, as we do not have data concerning the actual densities (only the relative proportions) of non-target organisms.
Taxonomic richness before treatment averaged 9.8 + 4.1 families per plot, and there were no significant differences among plots. The only significant differences in family richness after treatment were found in malathion (8-100 and 4-50) treated plots, which had lower richness (3.5 + 1.5 and 2.0 + 0.0 families, respectively) than untreated and carbaryl (16-100 and 8-33) plots (8.0 + 2.8 and 8.5 + 0.7 families, respectively) at 6 d after treatment. Thus, there was little indication of significant reductions in nontarget diversity at the family level as a consequence of the treatments.
Economic Analysis. The economic analyses of the standard and RAATs methods demonstrated striking differences in terms of the return on investment (Table 6). The combination of reduced and 40 to 62% for malathion. Although the RAATs approach yielded lower mortality, the decline in control was disproportionately less than the reduction in costs for the carbaryl 8-50 and malathion 4-80 treatments. Hence, compared with the standard approach to grasshopper pest management in which high rates of insecticides were applied as a blanket, these RAATs strategies yielded substantially greater savings. Not only were the RAATs methods the only strategies with the possibility for profitable control (i.e., savings exceeding costs in absolute terms), the benefit:cost ratios of the higher RAATs applications were 45 to 133% greater than the standard approach. Carbaryl 8-50 yielded the greatest economic return, with malathion 4-80 and fipronil yielding substantially better returns than the standard applications of carbaryl or malathion. Clearly, the RAATs approach has economic limits, and the lowest rates of carbaryl and malathion (8-33 and 4-50, respectively) yielded lower returns than the standard methods.
Mechanisms of RAATs Efficacy
There are 2 plausible mechanisms that may account for the high rates of control in RAATs plots: grasshopper movement and preservation of biological control agents. Due to the relative small sizes of the plots and the lack of detailed information concerning grasshopper movements and survival of native predators and parasites, we do not have definitive data to support either of these factors as playing the essential role. However, there must be some process, other than direct intoxication upon application, that accounts for mortalities exceeding 90% in plots where insecticide is applied to only 50% of the infestation. Circumstantial evidence from our trials suggests that both movement and biological control may be important factors.
Movement.The high efficacy of RAATs strategies likely depends on grasshoppers moving from untreated to treated swaths. Certainly this mechanism is critical to the efficacy of RAATs applications for highly mobile locust hopper bands (Rachadi and Foucart 1996). Available evidence suggests that rangeland grasshoppers likely move 2 to 10 m/day (Riegert et al. 1954, Joern 1983, With 1994, Narisu and Lockwood, unpublished). Unfortunately, little is known concerning developmental or taxonomic differences, and the role of environmental factors is largely uninvestigated. If we assume that grasshoppers move 4 m/day then this behavior would put a substantial proportion of the population into contact with treated swaths when relatively persistent agents are used (i.e., fipronil and carbaryl). The lack of "patchiness" in the 1995 post-treatment surveys suggested that grasshopper dispersal, and hence homogenization of the population, was rapid. However, unless movement is highly directional, and there is no evidence of this, it fails to adequately account for the mortalities of >90% in RAATs plots treated with a short-lived insecticide such as malathion. Clearly, the role of movement in RAATs programs needs to be investigated in greater detail.
Conservation Biological Control. Order-level analyses of plots treated with blanket applications and RAATs suggest that the frequency of nontarget insects is affected differently depending on the treatment strategy, although we are unable to determine absolute changes in the density of nontargets. Family-level assessments showed greater richness in malathion RAATs plots than conventionally treated plots, but these differences were not persistent. Although nontarget population dynamics on rangeland are notoriously erratic (George et al. 1992, Quinn et al. 1993, Lockwood and Schell 1995), it appears that the RAATs approach provided refugia for at least that portion of the insect community having low rates of movement. Thus, predators and parasitoids may have higher survival rates following a RAATs program, compared to a traditional, blanket application.
The capability of native biological control agents to suppress or maintain low densities of grasshoppers (Joern and Gaines 1990) may account for the observation that grasshopper populations in RAATs plots were unable to reestablish high densities in the year following treatment. Indeed, it may even be preferable to allow a low density of grasshoppers to persist following treatment, as in the RAATs plots, in order to sustain a resource base for acridophagous organisms. Moderate densities of grasshoppers provide an adequate resource base for sustaining, but not saturating, native biological control agents. Given that suppression of natural biological control agents through large-scale, blanketing applications of broad-spectrum insecticides for grasshopper control appears to increase the severity of subsequent outbreaks (Lockwood et al. 1988), the RAATs approach may also generate long-term, large-scale benefits with regard to pest management.
Biological control in RAATs plots may also be a component of a broader and more poorly understood ecological phenomenon -- fragmentation (Skaf et al. 1990, Samways 1994, Primack 1995, Caughley 1996). The processes by which spatial fragmentation of a population destabilizes the dynamics and results in collapse are not fully understood, but exposure to predation may play a role. While instability due to fragmentation is basic to conservation biology (Primack 1995, Caughley 1996), the idea of using this phenomenon in pest management has been largely overlooked. It should also be noted that metapopulation models suggest fragmentation may be a source of stability, under some circumstances. Clearly, further work on the role of fragmentation and conservation biological control as mechanisms accounting for the efficacy of the RAATs method is necessary (particularly given our preliminary evidence that grasshopper populations may rapidly homogenize via movement) to ascertain the importance of preserving predators and parasitoids in the untreated swaths.
The final biological control implication of the RAATs method is the preservation of beneficial herbivores in the refugia between treated swaths. Throughout the western rangelands of the US, exotic weeds are a serious problem and biological control programs are the primary means of managing these pests (Bureau of Land Management 1996). Hence, it is possible that a widespread adoption of the RAATs approach will enhance biological control of weeds, relative to blanket treatments for grasshopper control.
Efficacy Assessment
Evidence from our studies indicates that the RAATs approach is a viable means of managing rangeland grasshopper infestations while substantially reducing environmental and economic costs. The fact that lower grasshopper population densities in the RAATs plots persisted into the year following treatment suggests that the grasshoppers that survive these applications are not sufficient to reestablish outbreak conditions. We now know that the acceptable levels of control can be achieved with RAATs across a range of grasshopper densities (4 to 40 grasshoppers/m2) and species, as well as a spectrum of environmental conditions at the time of treatment (0.5 to 4.5 m/sec winds, ambient temperatures 13 to 25oC, and plant canopies from 15 to 65 cm). However, a careful assessment of the mitigating and aggravating factors during our studies is necessary to provide an accurate context and set of constraints for extrapolation of these results to other conditions.
Mitigating Factors - Weather. The weather during the summer of 1995 was atypical, with conditions being much cooler and wetter than normal in June and July (Martner 1986). These conditions delayed development such that it was possible to time our treatment during the ideal (from a management perspective) developmental stage of grasshoppers in early July -- a time which normally would be well past the optimal target stage (DeBrey et al. 1993). The weather during the spring and summer of 1996 was rather typical, with conditions being somewhat cooler than normal in early June.
The conditions during treatment were nearly optimal. In 1995 an east wind perpendicular to the direction of the swaths presumably had the effect of "spreading" the insecticide thereby broadening the treated swaths and consequently narrowing the effectively untreated swaths (USAID 1989, Australian Plague Locust Commission 1990). Thus, the levels of control in the RAATs plots may have reflected higher mortalities than would occur under absolutely calm conditions.
Mitigating Factors - Insecticide Properties. In 1995, the grasshopper densities treated in this study were relatively low at the time of treatment (particularly at the Canal site), compared to those that might be treated during typical outbreaks. However, the fact that grasshopper densities increased to 28 per m2 in the untreated plot at the 66-Mountain site by the end of the study, while remaining at <4 per m2 in the treated plots, suggests that the RAATs method used early in grasshopper development (even during hatching) with a relatively persistent insecticide may be an effective means of preventing the development of an outbreak.
Our 1996 treatments at the Hubbs and Rutherford sites were timed relatively early in development (peak I-II instar), at a time prior to the traditional window of opportunity (peak III-IV instar; DeBrey et al. 1993). However, our "early" timing was not entirely unusual, as we found significant densities of some pest species in the 3rd and 4th instars (e.g., P. quadrimaculatum, A. deorum, and T. kiowa at the Rutherford site), which may well have triggered action under normal conditions. The treatment of the Pollet site was later than optimal, but a large portion of the population was still in the III-IV instar (40%). Given the predominant developmental stages, the extended residual effects of fipronil and carbaryl were probably beneficial in terms of sustaining mortality.
Mitigating Factors - Vegetation. Normal to dry conditions during the summer of 1996 resulted in sparse vegetation and a short plant canopy. This vegetation likely enhanced treatment efficacy in 2 ways. First, sparse and short vegetation allows penetration of the chemical into the canopy. Secondly, the condition of the vegetation likely increased the rate of movement of the grasshoppers. With limited food, the need and ability of grasshoppers to move within the habitat would have been increased. Hence, the dispersal of grasshoppers from the untreated swaths into the treated swaths would have occurred at a higher rate than would be expected with lush plant growth.
Mitigating Factors - Scale. It should be noted that our studies were conducted at small spatial scales (16 to 78 ha plots). At larger scales and with wider untreated intervals between swaths, grasshopper dispersal and population dynamics may be qualitatively different. For example, the 8-50 method applied by a plane capable of 65 m swaths could alter the outcome of the reduced area strategy if the untreated intervals were too large for a preponderance of the grasshoppers to move into the treated areas. However, the findings with fipronil (which had 90 m untreated swaths) suggest that the intervals can be very wide while maintaining adequate control, if the appropriate insecticide is used. Finally, at larger scales, treatment programs extend further into the day and higher temperatures may be expected to decrease the efficacy of very low volumes of insecticides (DeBrey et al. 1993).
Aggravating Factors - Weather. In 1996, the conditions during treatment were nearly optimal from a traditional perspective (DeBrey et al. 1993) but not in terms of a RAATs program. That is, there was virtually no wind on the mornings of treatment. The occasional, slight breeze which came from the south was parallel to the direction of application, so it would have had no effect of "spreading" the insecticide or broadening the treated swaths. Thus, the levels of control in these plots represent mortalities that are unassisted by drift -- a "worst case" scenario for a RAATs program. However, the calm conditions demonstrated that "wind assisted" programs are not essential to achieving acceptable results with RAATs.
Aggravating Factors - Grasshopper Ecology. In 1995, hatching occurred over a very wide period of time. Indeed, at both sites it appears that hatch occurred after the treatments were applied. In the absence of recruitment, grasshopper densities decrease with natural mortality over time (Onsager 1983). However, at the Canal site, densities in untreated plots remained effectively constant over the course of the study, and at the 66-Mountain site densities in untreated plots more than doubled. Differential hatching between sites may also account for the observation that the effective mortality decreased at the Canal site from 13 to 20 days after treatment, while mortality increased during this time period at the 66-Mountain site. The presence of early instars (and the continuing hatch) would have resulted in an unusually "young" grasshopper population, which would be expected to have relatively lower rates of movement than an "older" populations consisting of late nymphal instars and adults.
The grasshopper densities were high at the time of treatment in 1996. It might be expected that such populations would be difficult to manage. That is, higher levels of mortality are required to reduce populations below an economic threshold when the pest densities are high than when they are moderate (e.g., if the threshold is 8/m2, then only 70% mortality is needed if the infestation is initially 27/m2, but 90% mortality is required if the original density is 80/m2). However, it is possible that movement is increased under these conditions, which would enhance the probability of grasshoppers encountering treated swaths.
Aggravating Factors - Vegetation. The unusually moist conditions in early summer of 1995 resulted in abundant vegetation and a dense, tall plant canopy. This vegetation likely reduced treatment efficacy by intercepting the insecticide, thereby decreasing penetration of the chemical and by reducing movement of the grasshoppers. With plenty of food and a dense canopy, the need and ability of grasshoppers to move within the habitat would have been reduced. Hence, the dispersal of grasshoppers from the untreated swaths into the treated swaths would have occurred at a rate much lower than would be expected under normal conditions.
Economic and Environmental Assessments
The benefits of the RAATs approach are such that less insecticide may well generate greater economic returns. This sort of "win-win" environmental-economic scenario would seem to bode well for the continued development and widespread adoption of the RAATs methods for grasshopper management on western rangelands.
Economic Implications
Economic analyses revealed substantial benefits of the RAATs approach. For example, the carbaryl 8-50 treatment, which had no detectable reduction in efficacy, represented a 57% savings compared to the standard approach, considering only the cost of control. Indeed, several of the RAATs methods yielded benefit:cost ratios >1.0 (which include both the cost of control and the value of the forage preserved) and markedly higher than those of the standard application methods with malathion or carbaryl. Thus, the potential savings of using RAATs strategies may be substantial, and malathion, carbaryl and fipronil could all become valuable tools in this approach. Because of a lack of economic models for grasshopper management on crop and CRP lands the economic consequences of the RAATs approach can not be readily estimated, although evidence suggests that these methods may be effective even in intensive agricultural production systems such as alfalfa (M. McLead, pers. comm.).
Economic analysis using the CARMA software revealed that the grasshopper infestation at the Hubbs site was sufficient to potentially justify intervention (i.e., losses were expected without treatment). That is, for both carbaryl 8-50 and fipronil the worst economic outcome with treatment was superior to the best economic outcome without treatment. Malathion 4-50 was the only other approach with a chance of generating an absolute profit, although several of the strategies were economically superior to inaction (i.e., losses were diminished).
Clearly the greatest cost efficiency is found with the RAATs strategies, and these treatments may be the only strategies to yield a profit in many cases. If we conservatively assume that RAATs methods generate a 50% cost reduction relative to traditional methods with no marked difference in efficacy, and we then apply these savings to the 1986-88 control program (National Grasshopper Management Board 1995), we can estimate that adoption of the RAATs approach would have saved $38 million (e.g., the traditional 8-100 application of malathion cost $8.03 per protected ha and the carbaryl 8-50 treatment cost $3.48 per protected ha; both treatments yielded >90% control).
Environmental Implications. The preservation of nontarget species which are essential to nutrient cycling, pollination, and wildlife sustenance compounds the direct savings and the indirect economic benefits of protecting parasites and predators. These organisms are vital to suppressing grasshopper populations and beneficial herbivores which are critical to biological control of rangeland weeds. The reduction in total insecticide loading on the environment through the adoption of the RAATs method in the western US would be substantial. Had this approach been used for the 1986-88 outbreak which involved 8 million ha of treated land, the reduction in insecticide use would have been 3,100 to 3,700 metric tons of insecticides (assuming the use of malathion 4-80 and carbaryl 8-50, respectively, and the viability of RAATs applications with larger aircraft than those used in our trials).
Perhaps the greatest risk to the widespread adoption of RAATs methods is the "Danger of Success Paradox" (Loker 1996), in which we risk having more land treated with insecticides than if no such program was developed. However, in comparing the previously subsidized costs of grasshopper control with the costs forecasted with the RAATs approach, it would appear that there will be little economic incentive for dramatically increased frequencies of treatments. Even if the total area protected is unchanged, RAATs allow a 50-80% reduction in insecticide use. As end-users employ recently developed computer decision-support systems (Berry et al. 1994, Hastings et al. 1996) to exclude unprofitable treatments the frequency of blanket applications should decline.
The RAATs approach appears to be a viable means of managing rangeland grasshoppers. Current findings strongly suggest that existing and developing compounds can be effectively employed. Continued work is needed to discover optimal combinations of rates and intervals for different levels of infestation, but given the economic and environmental pressures in the western US, there can be little doubt that the RAATs approach represents an essential tactic in future grasshopper management. With respect to the labeled compounds, significant reductions in the amounts of carbaryl and malathion used to control infestations can be achieved in the immediate future.
Given the evidence that populations of grasshoppers are increasing in the western US (USDA-APHIS 1996), RAATs methods may be the most viable management strategy in most cases for the near future. Although any recommendations must be qualified in the context of available data, it appears that carbaryl 8-50 or malathion 4-80 treatments applied in 30-m swaths are viable options at this time. Extreme population densities (e.g., >40 grasshoppers/m2) may demand the modification of the RAATs method to provide higher rates and smaller untreated areas than the aforementioned. However, with continued study it is possible that even extreme densities may not require standard, large-scale blanket applications. Risk-averse pest managers may wish to "hedge" our results, using perhaps a carbaryl 12-50 or a malathion 6-90 strategy. Using our 1995-96 data, the choice of the most economically justifiable RAATs approach can be identified using CARMA or HOPPER.
It is imperative that we begin to understand the mechanisms through which RAATs effect mortality. The role of grasshopper movement, preservation of beneficial species (predators and parasitoids), and chemical dispersal (via wind and trophic transfer) must form the basis of future refinements in this approach. In addition, many important operational and ecological issues are as yet unresolved. These matters include evaluating the efficacy of RAATs across a range of environmental conditions, habitats, grasshopper species and developmental stages; optimizing the intervals between swaths, the rates of application, and the interaction of these 2 factors for various compounds and conditions; and assessing the actual preservation of nontarget organisms (including native biological control agents of grasshoppers and rangeland weeds) and the long-term benefits of this preservation.
As with any scientific venture, the origin of the concept is difficult to trace. However, there is no question that several extensive discussions with J. Larsen (USDA-APHIS) over a period of years were essential to laying the foundation for the development of this project as economic conditions made this approach increasingly viable. We should also recognize the valuable insights of D. Hunter (Australian Plague Locust Commission) and T. Rachadi and J.F. Duranton (CIRAD-PRIFAS) in further refining the application of this concept to US rangelands. In addition, we wish to thank S. Brill (Goshen County Weed and Pest District), R. Shoemaker (Platte County Weed and Pest District), J. Larsen and T. McNary (USDA-APHIS), and B. Harrop, Narisu, R. Rockwell, and K. VanDyke (University of Wyoming) for invaluable assistance in the field. Funds for this project were provided by Platte and Goshen County Weed and Pest Districts, Rhône-Poulenc, the University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, and USDA-APHIS.
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66-Mountain
3 km west of Torrington, WY
4 km east of Hawk Springs, WY
5 km west of Guernsey, WY
13 km west of Guernsey, WY
Elevation (m, asl)
Average Junea
total precipitation (mm)
daily temperature (oC)
Treatment Month
daily temperature
mixed grass
plant cover (%)
canopy height (cm)
size (ha)
density (No./m )
primary speciesc
A. deorum
A. femoratum
Melanoplus spp.
Amphitornus coloradus
M. bivittatus
O. obscura
% of assemblage
dominant instar
II-III
III-IV
I-II
V-adult
aData from Martner (1986)
bMixedgrass prairie is part of the Great Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain steppe (Bailey 1995). Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands are former croplands which are revegetated to conditions more similar to grasslands, with the vegetation consisting of sweet clover, Melilotus officinalis (canopy height 120-150 cm) with an understory of crested wheatgrass, Agropyron cristatum, and patches of cheatgrass brome, Bromus tectorum (canopy height 30 cm).
cSee Table 2 for complete description of species and stages. The "% of assemblage" refers to that percent of the grasshoppers represented by the listed species or stages.
Table 2. Grasshopper species and developmental stages (%) present at the time of treatment in the study sites of southeastern Wyoming (USA).
Species/Instar
66-Mtn.
Ageneotettix deorum (Scudder)
Amphitornus coloradus (Thomas)
Aulocara elliotti Thomas
Aulocara femoratum (Scudder)
Cordillacris crenulata (Bruner)
Hadrotettix trifasciatus (Say)
Melanoplus bivittatus (Say)
Melanoplus packardii Scudder
Melanoplus spp.a
Metator pardalinus (Saussure)
Opeia obscura (Thomas)
Phlibostroma quadrimaculatum (Thomas)
Phoetaliotes nebrascensis (Thomas)
Trachyrhachys kiowa Thomas
Instar I
Instar II
Instar III
Instar IV
Instar V
aBased on adult surveys, the majority of these nymphs were M. sanguinipes (F.) and M. infantilis Scudder.
Table 3. Mean rangeland grasshopper densities (No./m2) before and after treatments with standard and RAATs methods in southeastern Wyoming (USA) in 1995.
(16-100)
Carbaryl
Reduced-1a
Reduced-2
Canal 1 day before
3 days after
66-Mtn. 1 day before
11.9 A
22.1 B
377 days after
aFor each agent the numbers refer to the amount of product and the percentage of the infestation that was treated (e.g., carbaryl 8-50 refers to 8 oz of formulated material applied to 50% of an infestation). Means within a row followed by different letters differ significantly (P<0.05) according to Fishers' protected least significant difference test.
Table 4. Mean grasshopper densities (No./m2) before and after treatments with standard and RAATs methods in southeastern Wyoming (USA) in 1996.
Treatmenta
Carbaryl Malathion Fipronil
(8-100)
Hubbs 1 day before
21.4 AB
1 day after
25.0 E
7.0 BC
16.0 D
3.4 ABC
12.7 BC
Pollet 1 day before
Rutherford 1 day before
35.4 CD
43.9 DE
38.4 BCD
aFor each agent the number refer to the amount of product and the percentage of the infestation that was treated (e.g., carbaryl 8-50 refers to 8 oz of formulated material applied to 50% of an infestation). Means within a row followed by different letters differ significantly (P<0.05) according to Fishers' protected lsd test.
Table 5. Number of nontarget insects captured in 100 sweeps before and after treatments with standard and RAATs methods in southeastern Wyoming (USA) in 1996.
Time Treatment
Rate-Areaa
Homoptera
Otherb
1 day before control
malathion 8-100
carbaryl 16-100
1 day after control
4 days after control
13 days after control
aRate = oz/ac; Area = % of infestation treated
bOther major Order include Aranea, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera.
Table 6. Economic analyses of control program using standard and RAATs methods at the Hubbs site in southeastern Wyoming (USA) in 1996.
Range of Savings ($/ha)a
% mortality
$/ha protected
best-case
Benefit:costb
aBased on CARMA software (Hastings et al. 1996); the range of savings is based on all major ecological factors leading to high (worst-case) or low (best-case) grasshopper densities following treatment.
bBased on HOPPER software (Berry et al. 1994).
Fig. 1 Schematic (not to scale) representation of the application pattern used in the carbaryl 9-50 treatment, in which 9oz/ac of carbaryl was applied to 50% of a grasshopper infestation in Wyoming. The solid line indicates the flight path of the airplane, and the shaded zones show the idealized area receiving insecticide under absolutely windless conditions.
Fig. 2 Mean percent mortality (corrected for changes in the untreated population, see text) of grasshoppers using data pooled from 2 to 4 rangeland sites in southeastern Wyoming treated with carbaryl (Circles: 16 oz/ac applied to 100% of an infestation; Squares: 12 oz/ac applied to 66% of an infestation; Diamonds: 8 oz/ac applied to 50% of an infestation; Triangles: 8 oz/ac applied to 33% of an infestation).
Fig. 3 Mean percent mortality (corrected for changes in the untreated population, see text) of grasshoppers using data pooled from 2 rangeland sites in southeastern Wyoming treated with malathion (Circles: 8 oz/ac applied to 100% of an infestation; Diamonds: 4 oz/ac applied to 80% of an infestation; Triangles: 4 oz/ac applied to 50% of an infestation) and fipronil (1 site; Squares).
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What's New and Beneficial About Raspberries
One of the most fascinating new areas of raspberry research involves the potential for raspberries to improve management of obesity. Although this research is in its early stages, scientists now know that metabolism in our fat cells can be increased by phytonutrients found in raspberries, especially rheosmin (also called raspberry ketone). By increasing enzyme activity, oxygen consumption, and heat production in certain types of fat cells, raspberry phytonutrients like rheosmin may be able to decrease risk of obesity as well as risk of fatty liver. In addition to these benefits, rheosmin can decrease activity of a fat-digesting enzyme released by our pancreas called pancreatic lipase. This decrease in enzyme activity may result in less digestion and absorption of fat.
Recent research on organic raspberries has now shown organic raspberries to be significantly higher in total antioxidant capacity than non-organic raspberries. Raspberries in the study were grown on farms in Maryland that had been previously certified as organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A series of tests involving free radical scavenging all provided the same results: organic raspberries outperformed their non-organic counterparts in terms of their antioxidant activity. This greater antioxidant capacity was associated with the greater levels of total phenols and total anthocyanins found in organic versus non-organic raspberries. While there are many good reasons to purchase organic versus non-organic foods of all kinds, this study makes it clear that these reasons specifically hold true for raspberries in a profound way.
You'll get significantly more antioxidant support by purchasing raspberries that are fully ripe. Recent studies have measured the total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, and anthocyanin content of raspberries harvested at varying stages of ripeness (from 50% to 100% maturity) and greatest overall antioxidant benefits were associated with full ripeness of the berries. Although it's possible for raspberries to ripen after harvest, this fruit can be highly perishable and can mold quite easily at room temperature. So your most risk-free approach for getting optimal antioxidant benefits from raspberries is to purchase them at full maturity, keep them refrigerated at all times at temperatures between 35-39°F (2°-4°C), and consume them very quickly (within 1 to 2 days after purchase).
Anti-cancer benefits of raspberries have long been attributed to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients. In animal studies involving breast, cervical, colon, esophageal, and prostate cancers, raspberry phytonutrients have been shown to play an important role in lowering oxidative stress, reducing inflammation, and thereby altering the development or reproduction of cancer cells. But new research in this area has shown that the anti-cancer benefits of raspberries may extend beyond their basic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory aspects. Phytonutrients in raspberries may also be able to change the signals that are sent to potential or existing cancer cells. In the case of existing cancer cells, phytonutrients like ellagitannins in raspberries may be able to decrease cancer cell numbers by sending signals that encourage the cancer cells to being a cycle of programmed cell death (apoptosis). In the case of potentially but not yet cancerous cells, phytonutrients in raspberries may be able to trigger signals that encourage the non-cancerous cells to remain non-cancerous.
Raspberries, fresh
1.00 cup
GI: low
fiber29%
vitamin K11%
pantothenic acid8%
biotin8%
vitamin E7%
folate6%
magnesium6%
omega-3 fats6%
This chart graphically details the %DV that a serving of Raspberries provides for each of the nutrients of which it is a good, very good, or excellent source according to our Food Rating System. Additional information about the amount of these nutrients provided by Raspberries can be found in the Food Rating System Chart. A link that takes you to the In-Depth Nutritional Profile for Raspberries, featuring information over 80 nutrients, can be found under the Food Rating System Chart.
How to Select and Store
Tips for Preparing and Cooking
Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Benefits of Raspberries
The diversity of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients in raspberries is truly remarkable, and few commonly eaten fruits are able to provide us with greater diversity. From a research perspective, here is a partial list of phytonutrients in raspberries that provide us antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits:
anthocyanins (flavonol derivatives)
cyanidins
pelargonidins
delphinidins
malvidins
flavonols
flavan-3-ols
epicatechins
flavonoid glycosides
tiliroside
ellagitannins (including sanguiin,lambertianin, castalagin, corilagin, and pucalagin)
gallotannins
hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives
ellagic acid
vanillic acid
hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives
caffeic acid
chlorogenic acid
coumaric acid
ferulic acid
sinapic acid
stilbenoids
The vast majority of these phytonutrients are not only provided by raspberries, but provided in amounts that are significant in terms of protecting us against the dangers of oxidative stress and the dangers of excessive inflammation. By helping to scavenge free radical molecules, and by helping to regulate the activity of enzymes that could trigger unwanted inflammation, the phytonutrients in raspberries help lower our risk of chronic diseases that are associated with chronic oxidative stress and chronic inflammation. These chronic diseases include obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and atherosclerosis.
The ellagic acid found in raspberries deserves special mention as an anti-inflammatory compound. This phytonutrient has been shown to help prevent overactivity of certain pro-inflammatory enzymes (including cyclo-oxygenase 2, or COX-2) as well as their overproduction. In animal studies, intake of ellagic acid has been shown to reduce numerous aspects of unwanted and excessive inflammation, including aspects associated with Crohn's disease.
Obesity and Blood Sugar Benefits of Raspberries
Perhaps the most fascinating new areas of research on raspberries involve management of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the case of obesity, two compounds in raspberries have received special focus: raspberry ketone (also called rheosmin) and a type of flavonoid called tiliroside.
Raspberry ketone is a compound that naturally occurs in raspberries, but unlike its name suggests, it is by no means exclusive to this fruit. Raspberry ketone is contained in a wide variety of plants, although not usually in such sizable amounts as are found in raspberries. Turkish rhubarb is one such plant. Larch, yew, maple, and pine are trees that contain amounts of raspberry ketone, and in some studies, pine needles have been used as a source of this compound for experimental purposes.
The chemical name for raspberry ketone is 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl) butan-2-one. Researchers are equally familiar with raspberry ketone under the name of rheosmin, and since 1965, it's been included on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) list as an approved food additive. The primary use of rheosmin as a food additive has been for flavor and aroma.
The rheosmin found in raspberries can increase metabolism in our fat cells by increasing enzyme activity, oxygen consumption, and heat production in certain types of fat cells. By boosting fat metabolism in this way, we may be less likely to deposit fat in our fat cells, and we may be able to use up some of the fat that is stored there. By improving our fat cell metabolism, we may also be able to reduce the number of pro-inflammatory messaging molecules that are produced by our fat cells. As a result, we may be less likely to experience some of the inflammation-based problems that typically accompany obesity.
In addition to these benefits, rheosmin found in raspberries can also decrease activity of a fat-digesting enzyme called pancreatic lipase that is produced by our pancreas. By decreasing the activity of this enzyme, we may digest and absorb less fat—another potential plus when trying to deal with the consequences obesity.
In addition to the rheosmin found in raspberries, scientists have also focused on the obesity-related benefits of a second compound called tiliroside. Tiliroside is a type of flavonoid (called a glycosidic flavonoid) that is found in many plants of the rose family, including rose hips, strawberries, and raspberries. In preliminary studies, tiliroside has been show to activate a special hormone called adiponectin that is produced by our fat cells. (The "adipo" part of this word means "fat," which is also why our fat cells are also called "adipocytes.")
In obese persons with type 2 diabates, adiponectin is not produced in sufficient amounts or, if adequately produced, remains too inactive. This inadequacy of adiponectin in obese persons with type 2 diabetes is a key problem for regulation of their blood sugar and blood fats. By activating adiponectin, the tiliroside in raspberries can help improve insulin balance, blood sugar balance, and blood fat balance in obese persons with type 2 diabetes. In studies to date, there is no indication that raspberry tiliroside will stop weight gain or prevent fat accumulation. But it may be able to help prevent unwanted consequences of too much body fat and compromised regulation of blood sugar, blood insulin, and blood fats.
Within this context of obesity and blood sugar regulation, another aspect of raspberry phytonutrients has captured the attention of researchers involving the ability of raspberry extracts to block activity of an enzyme called alpha-glucosidase. Alpha-glucosidase is a starch-digesting enzyme, and when it becomes active in the digestive tract, it increases the breakdown of starches into sugars. These sugars get absorbed up into the bloodstream and can cause excessively high levels of blood sugar following a meal. (This process is called postprandial hyperglycemia.) By blocking activity of alpha-glucosidase, raspberry extracts may make it possible for persons with type 2 diabetes (or obese persons experiencing problems with blood sugar regulation) to better manage their blood sugar levels.
We've been asked about the exact glycemic idex (GI) value for raspberries, and unfortunately, have not been able to find food research substantiation for any exact value. We've seen estimates for many berries that fall into the 40-50 GI range, and for most researchers, that would place them in the low GI category. Since one cup of fresh raspberries provides about 15 grams of total carbohydrates and only 5-6 grams of sugar (compared with 8 grams of dietary fiber), a modest serving of fresh raspberries (for example, 1/2 cup) is likely to be a very good fit in most diets, even diets focused on stabilization of blood sugar.
Anti-Cancer Benefits
Given the rich antioxidant and anti-inflammatory phytonutrient mixture found in raspberries, it's not surprising to see studies showing raspberry benefits in cancer prevention. Chronic excessive oxidative stress and chronic excessive inflammation can combine to trigger the development of cancer cells in a variety of human tissue. By providing a rich supply of antioxidants, raspberries can help lower risk of oxidative stress, and providing a rich supply of anti-inflammatory nutrients, raspberries can help lower the risk of excessive inflammation. When combined, these results mean decreased risk of cancer formation. In animal studies to date, the cancer types most closely examined in relationship to raspberry intake are cancers of the breast, cervix, colon, esophagus, and prostate.
Recent studies suggest that the anti-cancer benefits of raspberries may extend beyond their basic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory aspects. Phytonutrients in raspberries may also be able to change the signals that are sent to potential or existing cancer cells. In the case of existing cancer cells, phytonutrients like ellagitannins in raspberries may be able to decrease cancer cell numbers by sending signals that encourage the cancer cells to being a cycle of programmed cell death (apoptosis). This signaling is likely to involve activity of the p53 protein that is typically classified as a tumor suppressor protein.
In the case of potentially but not yet cancerous cells, phytonutrients in raspberries may be able to trigger signals that encourage the non-cancerous cells to remain non-cancerous. The role of the a protein complex called nuclear factor kappa B (NFkB) is likely to be involved in this set of events.
Raspberries belong to the rose (Rosaceae) family of plants, which houses some of the world's most beloved fruits including apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, loquats, peaches, pears, plums, and strawberries. Almonds also belong to this diverse family of plants. Among U.S. consumers, raspberries are the third most popular berry and follow right after strawberries and blueberries.
There are over 200 species of raspberries, all belonging to the scientific genus called Rubus. Fortunately, however, many of the raspberry species that are grown commercially can be placed into one of three basic groups: red raspberries, black raspberries, and purple raspberries.
Like their name implies, mature red raspberries can typically be identified by the shade of red in their color, although this red may veer toward the pinkish side. Among all commercially cultivated raspberries, Rubus idaeus or European red raspberry is among the most common.
Black raspberries may actually be dark enough to be indistinguishable from blackberries in terms of color. Here one of the most common commercially grown species is Rubus occidentalis, also sometimes referred to as thimbleberry, scotch cap, or black cap.
The third category of raspberry—purple raspberry—is a category in which reds and blacks have been hybridized (naturally combined). Over time, when red raspberries or black raspberries underwent naturally genetic mutations, yellow raspberries also developed. Even though naturally yellow or golden in color, yellow raspberries are actually special forms of red or black raspberries.
In science terms, raspberries are referred to as "aggregate fruits." Aggregate fruits are actually composed of many small individual fruits that come from multiple ovaries in a single flower. In the case of a raspberry, those small individual fruits are the little juicy spheres that make up the structure of the raspberry. They are also called drupelets, and each one has its own seed.
The word "bramble" refers to the prickly or thorny nature of a plant, and raspberries are sometimes referred to by raspberry growers as "brambles" (even though some species do not have thorns). The bramble nature of the raspberry plant comes into play on a regular basis for raspberry growers. Although the root system of raspberry plants can last for many years, the canes themselves are typically pruned twice a year to allow for spring and fall fruiting.
Scientists aren't entirely sure about the origins of raspberries. Wild raspberries appear on at least five continents, and there is enormous species diversity for this fruit. Some arctic species of raspberry are native to Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and northern Asia; other species are native to eastern Asia and the Hawaiian islands; still others are native to Europe or to North America. In terms of their first cultivation, we have evidence dating back about 2,000 years in Europe, making raspberries one of the earliest berry crops. Natural trading and traveling may have been important in the spread of raspberries, for example, into North American from eastern Asia across the Bering Strait.
Interestingly, when cultivated raspberries are compared with wild raspberries, they turn out to be quite similar in terms of total phenols and total anthocyanin content. This similarity is especially true when the cultivated raspberries have also been organically grown. Although we might tend to think about a "wild" food as being more rich in nutrients than a cultivated food, this distinction does not hold true for raspberries when it comes to their phenol and anthocyanin antioxidants.
Today, raspberries rank high on the list of the world's most popular berries. Among the 400,000 metric tons of raspberries produced worldwide, Russia, the United States, Serbia, Poland, and Chile rank among the top producers. In the United States, it's the West Coast that is most active in raspberry production, although commercial producers can be found across the country. Interestingly, well over 500 organic farms in the U.S. are now certified for organic raspberry production, and raspberries rank as the third most popular fresh-use berry in the U.S. following strawberries and blueberries. The U.S. also imports about 15,000 metric tons of raspberries from Mexico to meet consumer demand for this fruit.
As raspberries are highly perishable, they should only be purchased one or two days prior to use. The goal when purchasing this fruit is to choose berries that are fully ripe without being overly so. Choose berries that are firm, plump, and deep in color, while avoiding those that are soft, mushy, or moldy. If you are buying berries prepackaged in a container, make sure that they are not packed too tightly, since this may cause them to become crushed and damaged, and that the container has no signs of stains or moisture, indications of possible spoilage. Within the U.S., raspberries are generally available from mid-summer through early fall.
At WHFoods, we encourage the purchase of certified organically grown foods, and raspberries are no exception. Repeated research studies on organic foods as a group show that your likelihood of exposure to contaminants such as pesticides and heavy metals can be greatly reduced through the purchased of certified organic foods, including raspberries. In many cases, you may be able to find a local organic grower who sells raspberries but has not applied for formal organic certification either through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) or through a state agency. (Examples of states offering state-certified organic foods include California, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.) However, if you are shopping in a large supermarket, your most reliable source of organically grown raspberries is very likely to be raspberries that display the USDA organic logo.
Raspberries are a highly perishable fruit, so extra care should be taken in their storage. If you do not plan to eat your raspberries upon arrival back at home, they should be stored in your refrigerator. Before storing in the refrigerator, remove any berries that are molded or spoiled so that they will not contaminate the others. Place the unwashed berries back in their original container or spread them out inside of a glass or plastic container that has a lid and can be sealed. Raspberries will keep fresh in the refrigerator for one or two days. When taking your raspberries out of the refrigerator for consumption, try not to leave them at room temperature any longer than necessary (one to two hours), and also try to avoid placing them directly in strong sunlight. These steps will help prevent spoilage.
Here is some more background on why we recommend refrigerating raspberries. Whenever food is stored, four basic factors affect its nutrient composition: exposure to air, exposure to light, exposure to heat, and length of time in storage. Vitamin C, vitamin B6, and carotenoids are good examples of nutrients highly susceptible to heat, and for this reason, their loss from food is very likely to be slowed down through refrigeration.
Raspberries freeze very well. Wash them gently using the low pressure of the sink sprayer so that they will maintain their delicate shape and then pat dry with a paper towel. Arrange them in a single layer on a flat pan or cookie sheet and place them in the freezer. Once frozen, transfer the berries to a heavy plastic freezer bag or plastic freezer container that can be sealed and return them to the freezer where they will keep for up to one year.
Within this context of How to Select and Store, we would like to point out the often dramatic differences we've seen between whole raspberries and products containing processed forms of raspberries. Unless provided with information from the manufacturer, it's difficult to be sure that you are getting substantial raspberry benefits from products that contain raspberries in processed forms. Processing in this case may include drying, juicing, fermenting into wine, straining, or filtering. For example, if the seeds of the raspberries have been removed during processing, many key phytonutrients may be lost or greatly reduced. Exposures to heat during processing may also result in substantial phytonutrient loss. We've seen studies that make us cautious about the preservation of nutrient richness in most processed forms of raspberry, including wines produced in the absence of seeds, baby foods produced with the use of heat and filtering, and commercial drying of raspberry for creation of an industrially versatile powdered form. While there are ways to make wine and baby food and other raspberry-containing products that avoid great damage to raspberry phytonutrients, it can be difficult to determine how careful manufacturers have been in their food production. For this reason, we recommend that you stick with whole raspberries in fresh or frozen form when purchasing them at the grocery and incorporate them into recipes using the minimal type of processing that you would be undertaking in your own kitchen.
Tips for Preparing Raspberries
As raspberries are very delicate, wash them very gently, using the light pressure of the sink sprayer if possible, and then patting them dry. They should be washed right before eating or recipe preparation so that they do not become water-soaked and are not left at room temperature for too long. Do not use any berries that are overly soft and mushy unless you will be puréeing them for a sauce or coulis.
A Few Quick Serving Ideas
Mix fresh raspberries in with creamy millet porridge for a sweet morning breakfast treat.
While at first glance it may seem unusual, the flavor combination created by sprinkling fresh raspberries with balsamic vinegar will send your palate to heaven.
Plain yogurt mixed with raspberries, honey, and freshly chopped mint is delicious eaten as is or used as a topping for waffles or pancakes.
Depending upon how much sweetener you use, homemade raspberry coulis can be used as a sauce for either savory poultry dishes or sweet desserts.
WHFoods Recipes That Feature Raspberries
Granola with Fresh Fruit
10 Minute Fresh Berry Dessert with Yogurt & Chocolate
5-Minute Raspberry Almond Parfait
Berries with Chocolate Sauce
For some of our favorite recipes, click Recipes.
If you'd like even more recipes and ways to prepare raspberries the Nutrient-Rich Way, you may want to explore The World's Healthiest Foods book.
Raspberries are an outstanding source of phytonutrients, and provide us with dozens of anthocyanins, flavonoids, stilbenoids, phenolic acids, tannins and lignans. They are an unusually concentrated source of ellagitannins (like ellagic acid), cyanidins and pelargonidins. Raspberries are an excellent source of vitamin C, manganese and dietary fiber. They are a very good source of copper and a good source of vitamin K, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin E, magnesium, folate, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Introduction to Food Rating System Chart
In order to better help you identify foods that feature a high concentration of nutrients for the calories they contain, we created a Food Rating System. This system allows us to highlight the foods that are especially rich in particular nutrients. The following chart shows the nutrients for which this food is either an excellent, very good, or good source (below the chart you will find a table that explains these qualifications). If a nutrient is not listed in the chart, it does not necessarily mean that the food doesn't contain it. It simply means that the nutrient is not provided in a sufficient amount or concentration to meet our rating criteria. (To view this food's in-depth nutritional profile that includes values for dozens of nutrients - not just the ones rated as excellent, very good, or good - please use the link below the chart.) To read this chart accurately, you'll need to glance up in the top left corner where you will find the name of the food and the serving size we used to calculate the food's nutrient composition. This serving size will tell you how much of the food you need to eat to obtain the amount of nutrients found in the chart. Now, returning to the chart itself, you can look next to the nutrient name in order to find the nutrient amount it offers, the percent Daily Value (DV%) that this amount represents, the nutrient density that we calculated for this food and nutrient, and the rating we established in our rating system. For most of our nutrient ratings, we adopted the government standards for food labeling that are found in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "Reference Values for Nutrition Labeling." Read more background information and details of our rating system.
vitamin C 32.23 mg 43 12.1 excellent
manganese 0.82 mg 36 10.0 excellent
fiber 7.99 g 29 8.0 excellent
vitamin K 9.59 mcg 11 3.0 good
pantothenic acid 0.40 mg 8 2.3 good
biotin 2.34 mcg 8 2.2 good
vitamin E 1.07 mg (ATE) 7 2.0 good
folate 25.83 mcg 6 1.8 good
magnesium 27.06 mg 6 1.8 good
omega-3 fats 0.15 g 6 1.8 good
In-Depth Nutritional Profile
In addition to the nutrients highlighted in our ratings chart, here is an in-depth nutritional profile for Raspberries. This profile includes information on a full array of nutrients, including carbohydrates, sugar, soluble and insoluble fiber, sodium, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids and more.
(Note: "--" indicates data unavailable)
(123.00 g) GI: low
BASIC MACRONUTRIENTS AND CALORIES
Protein 1.48 g 3
Carbohydrates 14.69 g 7
Fat - total 0.80 g 1
Dietary Fiber 7.99 g 29
Calories 63.96 4
MACRONUTRIENT AND CALORIE DETAIL
Carbohydrate:
Starch -- g
Total Sugars 5.44 g
Monosaccharides 5.18 g
Fructose 2.89 g
Glucose 2.29 g
Galactose 0.00 g
Disaccharides 0.25 g
Lactose 0.00 g
Maltose 0.00 g
Sucrose 0.25 g
Soluble Fiber -- g
Insoluble Fiber -- g
Other Carbohydrates 1.25 g
Fat:
Monounsaturated Fat 0.08 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.46 g
Saturated Fat 0.02 g
Trans Fat 0.00 g
Calories from Fat 7.20
Calories from Saturated Fat 0.21
Calories from Trans Fat 0.00
Cholesterol 0.00 mg
Water 105.47 g
Water-Soluble Vitamins
B-Complex Vitamins
Vitamin B1 0.04 mg 3
Vitamin B3 (Niacin Equivalents) 0.74 mg
Vitamin B12 0.00 mcg 0
Biotin 2.34 mcg 8
Choline 15.13 mg 4
Folate 25.83 mcg 6
Folate (DFE) 25.83 mcg
Folate (food) 25.83 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 0.40 mg 8
Vitamin C 32.23 mg 43
Fat-Soluble Vitamins
Vitamin A (Retinoids and Carotenoids)
Vitamin A International Units (IU) 40.59 IU
Vitamin A mcg Retinol Activity Equivalents (RAE) 2.03 mcg (RAE) 0
Vitamin A mcg Retinol Equivalents (RE) 4.06 mcg (RE)
Retinol mcg Retinol Equivalents (RE) 0.00 mcg (RE)
Carotenoid mcg Retinol Equivalents (RE) 4.06 mcg (RE)
Alpha-Carotene 19.68 mcg
Beta-Carotene 14.76 mcg
Beta-Carotene Equivalents 24.60 mcg
Cryptoxanthin 0.00 mcg
Lutein and Zeaxanthin 167.28 mcg
Lycopene 0.00 mcg
Vitamin D International Units (IU) 0.00 IU 0
Vitamin D mcg 0.00 mcg
Vitamin E mg Alpha-Tocopherol Equivalents (ATE) 1.07 mg (ATE) 7
Vitamin E International Units (IU) 1.59 IU
Vitamin E mg 1.07 mg
Vitamin K 9.59 mcg 11
Boron -- mcg
Calcium 30.75 mg 3
Chloride 27.06 mg
Chromium -- mcg --
Copper 0.11 mg 12
Fluoride -- mg --
Iodine -- mcg --
Iron 0.85 mg 5
Magnesium 27.06 mg 6
Manganese 0.82 mg 36
Molybdenum -- mcg --
Phosphorus 35.67 mg 5
Potassium 185.73 mg 4
Selenium 0.25 mcg 0
Sodium 1.23 mg 0
Zinc 0.52 mg 5
INDIVIDUAL FATTY ACIDS
Omega-3 Fatty Acids 0.15 g 6
Omega-6 Fatty Acids 0.31 g
14:1 Myristoleic 0.00 g
15:1 Pentadecenoic 0.00 g
16:1 Palmitol 0.00 g
17:1 Heptadecenoic 0.00 g
18:1 Oleic 0.07 g
20:1 Eicosenoic 0.01 g
22:1 Erucic 0.00 g
24:1 Nervonic 0.00 g
18:2 Linoleic 0.31 g
18:2 Conjugated Linoleic (CLA) -- g
18:3 Linolenic 0.15 g
18:4 Stearidonic 0.00 g
20:3 Eicosatrienoic 0.00 g
20:4 Arachidonic 0.00 g
20:5 Eicosapentaenoic (EPA) 0.00 g
22:5 Docosapentaenoic (DPA) 0.00 g
22:6 Docosahexaenoic (DHA) 0.00 g
Saturated Fatty Acids
4:0 Butyric 0.00 g
6:0 Caproic 0.00 g
8:0 Caprylic 0.00 g
10:0 Capric 0.00 g
12:0 Lauric 0.00 g
14:0 Myristic 0.00 g
15:0 Pentadecanoic 0.00 g
16:0 Palmitic 0.02 g
17:0 Margaric 0.00 g
18:0 Stearic 0.00 g
20:0 Arachidic 0.00 g
22:0 Behenate 0.00 g
24:0 Lignoceric 0.00 g
INDIVIDUAL AMINO ACIDS
Alanine -- g
Arginine -- g
Aspartic Acid -- g
Cysteine -- g
Glutamic Acid -- g
Glycine -- g
Histidine -- g
Isoleucine -- g
Leucine -- g
Lysine -- g
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CUP, n. [L., a little cup.]
1. A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as a silver cup; a tin cup. But the name is also given to vessels of like shape used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.
2. The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup, or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. See 1 Corinthians 11.
3. In a scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured.
O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matthew 26.
4. Good received; blessings and favors.
My cup runneth over. Psalm 23.
Take the cup of salvation, that is, receive the blessings of deliverance and redemption with joy and thanksgiving.
5. Any thing hollow like a cup; as the cup of an acorn. The bell of a flower, and a calyx is called a flower-cup.
6. A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification.
Cup and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated.
Cups, in the plural, social entertainment in drinking; merry bout.
Thence from cups to civil broils.
CUP, v.i.
1. In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body.
2. To supply with cups.
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CUP, n. [Sax. cop or cupp; D. kop; Dan. id.; Sw. kopp; Fr. coupe; Arm. coupen; It. coppa; Sp. copa; Ir. capa; or capan; W. cwb, cwpan; L. cupa, cuppa, whence cupella, a cupel, a little cup; Ch. כוב kub; Ar. كُوبٌ kubon. Class Gb, No. 48. See also No. 6. The primary sense may be, hollow, bending, Russ. kopayu, or containing; most probably the latter, and allied to L. capio. See No. 50, 52, 68, and Coop.]
A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as, a silver cup; a tin cup. But the name is also given to vessels of like shape, used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.
The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup, or that it may contain; as, a cup of beer. See 1 Cor. xi.
In a Scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. – Matth. xxvi.
Good received; blessings and favors. My cup runneth over. – Ps. xxiii. Take the cup of salvation, that is, receive the blessings of deliverance and redemption with joy and thanksgiving. – Cruden. Brown.
Any thing hollow like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn. The bell of a flower, and a calyx is called a flower-cup.
A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification. Cup and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated. – Swift. Cups, in the plural, social entertainment in drinking; merry bout. Thence from cups to civil broils. – Milton.
In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body. Encyc.
To supply with cups. [Obs.] – Shak.
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
To supply with cups of wine.
[R.]
Cup us, till the world go round.
Shak.
The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
Give me a cup of sack, boy.
To apply a cupping apparatus to] to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Matt. xxvi. 39.
Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
Shenstone.
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman. -- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk.
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CUP, noun [Latin , a little cup ]
1. A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as a silver cup; a tin cup But the name is also given to vessels of like shape used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.
2. The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. See 1 Corinthians 11:25.
O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matthew 26:27.
My cup runneth over. Psalms 23:5.
CUP, verb intransitive
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IMPORT'ANCE, n.
1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.
2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.
Thy own importance know.
Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.
3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.
He believes himself a man of importance.
4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]
ZEALOUS, a. Zelus. Warmly engaged or ardent in the pursuit of an object.
Being thus saved himself, he may be zealous in the salvation of souls.
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Russia’s first Boeing 737MAX delivered
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Country: Russian Federation Aircraft: Airplanes
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Deliveries of Boeing’s new 737MAX family of the re-engined narrow-body aircraft to Russia began. Today, October 13, the first Boeing 737MAX-8 aircraft with a tail number VQ-BGW, painted in a green livery of S7 Airlines, flew to the Novosibirsk’s Tolmachevo Airport.
The plans to acquire this modification by the S7 Group, parent of Sibir and Globus airlines (both fly under the S7 Airlines brand), became known two years ago. In total, nine such aircraft were ordered by the Siberian company, with the delivery of the second aircraft is planned for the end of this month. Globus will be the operator of the new aircraft, as the entity historically flies all of group’s Boeings, while S7 Airlines operates the A320 family as well as Embraer E170s.
The CFM International LEAP-1B engine, which powers Boeing’s new 737MAX family of aircraft, has been awarded Russian type certificate last month. Thanks to the improved fuel efficiency, the B737MAX will allow the carrier to fly longer direct flights, for example, from Novosibirsk to the countries of Southeast Asia. One of the first Asian routes for the S7’s Boeing 737MAX will be Vietnam.
Three other big Russian airlines – Utair, Ural Airlines and the country’s sole low-cost carrier Pobeda Airlines (part of Aeroflot Group) – are all confirmed customers for the type, with their deliveries expected to start in 2019. Several others, such as Yakutia and Izhavia, have also voiced an interest in the re-engined narrow-body.
Kazakh private airline SCAT is the first in the former Soviet Union territories to fly the MAX, after taking delivery of its first B737 MAX 8 aircraft in March. Other CIS customers anticipating deliveries of the aircraft next year are AZAL and Belavia, respectively the national carriers of Azerbaijan and Belarus.
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Saline and IV fluid shortage has hospitals on guard
Hurricane Maria cripples production at biggest suppliers, local hospitals running with 2-3 day supplies
UNIVERSITY CITY (WPVI) -- More than 2 months have passed since a pair of hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico, and the impact goes on.
Puerto Rico has more than 100 drug and medical device manufacturers, and produces $40 billion in healthcare products for the American market.
That's more than any state or other U.S. territory.
However, the electricity problems there means some essential supplies for hospitals here are in short supply.
With many factories still crippled on the island, hospitals here say supplies, especially of I-V fluids, are tight.
At most hospitals, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, many drugs are mixed into bags of intravenous saline or dextrose.
The infusion is then used to treat everything from infections to cancer.
"We actually compound around 2000 IV products a day.," says Rick Demers, R.P.H., the hospital's director of pharmacy.
Demers says supplies were slim before Hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed Puerto Rico.
But since then, they're even tighter.
"It seems to be the smaller dosage forms of these, the sizes between 50, 100, 250 ccs that are in the shortest supply," he notes.
Hurricane Maria temporarily knocked out 3 major plants for one saline manufacturer.
2 have since had power issues.
Demers says the HUP staff adjusts daily, changing dosage sizes, depending on what's available - sometimes using larger bags, or putting smaller mixtures into syringes.
Last month, the F-D-A took several steps to ease the shortages:
It gave approval to import saline from other countries, urged the expansion of production at existing facilities, and expedited the review of new product applications.
It also urged FEMA to make supplying or restoring power to plants owned by Baxter, the major saline maker, a priority.
Read FDA statement here.
But even so, the shortage continues.
"Sometimes our supplies are limited to having only 2 or 3 days on hand, which is very small for us," says Demers.
He hopes the situation will improve over the next several months, and that the problem is addressed, so it won't happen again in the future.
The FDA is also closely watching 30 other medical products made primarily, or ONLY, in Puerto Rico.
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Man arrested over cold case murder of Suzanne Poll to be extradited to Adelaide
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Saturday, 21 September 2019 1:54 pm
Man arrested over brutal stabbing of mother in 1993
Detectives have arrived in regional Victoria with plans to extradite a man over the decades-old cold case stabbing murder of a "completely innocent" Adelaide woman.
South Australian police travelled to Ballarat on Saturday after a DNA breakthrough led a long-awaited arrest concerning the 1993 murder of Suzanne Poll.
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A 46-year-old Ballarat man was arrested by Victoria Police on Friday afternoon and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at the Ballarat Magistrates Court on Monday for an extradition hearing.
Poll was stabbed to death while working at the Salisbury Sands & McDougall store during what police believe may have been a robbery-gone-wrong.
The lights were off and the shop was shut, but the door front door remained ajar while the the 36-year-old counted the day's takings.
A man entered the store and attacked Poll, who tried to escape via a back room but was stabbed to death in a "vicious and sustained" attack.
Police believe Poll was killed in a robbery gone wrong. Credit: 7NEWS
But the killer was cut during the attack, leaving a "considerable amount" of DNA all over the premises.
Despite the man's blood being spilled at the scene, the killer had no criminal history and his DNA could not be matched to the national database.
South Australian police repeatedly submitted the DNA for testing in a bid to find a family member related to the the killer, and even tried to match the sample with international databases.
They had no luck until they tried again this month.
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"We've checked that DNA constantly over the years and on each occasion it's been a negative result," Detective Superintendent Des Bray told reporters on Friday afternoon.
"Recently we again submitted the DNA for familial testing and we got a result that indicated the offender was likely to be related to someone who was on the database. From that we constructed a family tree."
On Thursday, investigators got written confirmation they'd struck a match, spending most of Friday trying to find the accused killer.
"(This) is a good example of the fact that we actually don't give up and we keep trying, no matter how many setbacks there may be," Det Sup Bray said.
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Part 1 – Australian Federal Politics 101: How the bloody hell did we get here?
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Well the Federal Election of 2013 hasn’t even been called yet and I am already over the angst that it is causing. Let’s face it, federal politics is a deadest snoozefest of late. Yeah there is a lot of talk and it’s tough to keep up with who is who (thanks to KRudd’s recent re-enactment of “The Red Wedding”), but nothing is actually happening. It doesn’t feel like Australia is on course for anything. Much like Sally Fletcher’s return on Home and Away – I ask why?
For me, politics used to be something I could freely ignore. It was such a happier time. Like a slipping fanbelt in your car, it let off a screech here and there and was sometimes embarrassing , but the old girl still fired up and got you to where you needed to go without too much drama. However in 2008 something changed… I…
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And So to Amed
It’s a great little place, and decidedly easier to access from South Bali since the splendidly named Prof. I.B. Mantra By-Pass was (finally, mostly) duplicated. We hadn’t been to Amed for nearly two years and were keen to see how the place had moved along since then.
On the trip up we logged a Bukit-Amed trip time of just over 3.5 hours including a stop in Candi Dasa – a sneak look in a realtor’s window, the obligatory distaff rummage through a handy boutique, and a drink and a bite in the sea breeze at Pondok Bambu – and traffic once past Sanur was easy. That is not to say the traffic was calm, far less that it was well behaved. Neither truck nor motorbike riders can yet read: they all ignore the “trucks and motorbikes keep left” signs. The unduplicated bridge over the Unda River is still a bottleneck. And the infantile desperation of Indonesian drivers (of anything from rattletrap carry-van to souped-up mob limo) to overtake a Bule on the road is as tedious as ever.
We’d planned to stay at a certain place in Amed but didn’t, since on arrival it looked decidedly derelict. The internet and the camera conspire to lie too often. Following a short reconnaissance, unmolested by anyone either visible or sentient at the premises, we drove on. We ended up booking in at Anda Amed Resort; a much sweeter deal.
Coming back from Amed – it was a Sunday – was more difficult since everyone who has access to a yellow truck seemed to have lent it to their cousins that weekend, and they clearly couldn’t drive, and the Unda River bridge was reduced to one lane. This was because a truck – a red one as it happens – had decided to overturn itself mid-span. Two harassed policemen were controlling the traffic (theoretically at least) while their more numerous colleagues enjoyed the facilities of one of those little roadside cafés further along.
Sailing On
While at Amed this time, we dined at Sails, the cliff-top establishment at Bunutan, on two occasions. We’d been there before. This trip, we had the apple, ginger, cinnamon and palm sugar dessert dish the first time. We had to go back for more.
The restaurant is a magic spot. It was a shame Patrick and Anik were unable to provide mahi-mahi for diners whose taste buds juiced at the thought of the pan-fried fish listed on the menu. Tuna is no substitute. But the place was packed both nights, so clearly business is booming. They’re playing some nice music too. A New Zealand-resident Chilean group has recorded songs from its NZ tour itinerary. Those Andean pipes are truly haunting. Patrick, who is from those other shaky isles, burned us two disks, at Rp20K a pop, money going to the staff fund.
We’ve finally made it to Three Monkeys Sanur, which we’ve been promising ourselves we’d do as soon as possible. It was a handy way-stop on our return from East Bali. Three Monkeys at Ubud has long been a favourite and we had deemed it essential to check out the Sanur operation.
It’s very good. The pizzas are delicious and the baklava is not to be missed.
On that late Sunday afternoon promotional material at the entrance indicated that the deliciously jazzy Edwina Blush was performing there that evening, on the latest of her regular visits to Bali from Sydney. We’ve missed her again! Clearly we have deeply distressed some spirit or other and it is determined to keep us apart.
Late Roast
A recent necessary outing to Kuta – it’s still a Napoleonic Retreat from Moscow job from the Bukit – brought us, on the way home, to the capricious delights of the Grocer & Grind outlet at Jimbaran Corner, where (killing time ahead of a date with masseuse Elvin at Island salon just up the road) we ordered a double macchiato and a slice of lemon and lime cake. The former was available. The latter was not (maaf, habis) so we elected to sample the lemon meringue tart instead. The macchiato arrived. The lemon meringue was a “wait moment” proposition.
We waited. Outside, where there’s what passes for fresh air and a relative absence of people idly fiddling with their smart phones, while our macchiato also cooled its heels. We had to tell them that part of the order was missing, but as a culturally sympathetic and patient acquaintance later reminded us, these things can happen anywhere; point taken.
The tart eventually arrived and was delicious. We had amused ourselves while further waiting for sustenance by speculating about the wondrous sign near a jumble of parked motorbikes that bore this legend: “Parking reserved for costumers.”
Given that most of the bikes there belonged to G&G staff, not customers, this prompted thought. As it was reserved for costumers, perhaps the odd wanita or two among the pretty little things who wait tables at that establishment might not be all they seem.
Next time we drop in, we’ll go in drag.
It Will Toll for Thee
Well, eventually. We refer to the new motorway that runs from Nusa Dua to the Port of Benoa road (not quite Sanur!) and will, so it is said, help reduce traffic congestion in the Kuta-Airport area. We hope it does, when it eventually opens for business, which on the latest reports will be mid-August. It won’t help reduce traffic chaos, of course. Only driver education, effective licensing and strict policing would ever do that.
Out of interest recently we consulted Google Earth which revealed that we had misnamed the thoroughfare (it’s still waiting for an official moniker, which in this cart-before-the-horse land is no surprise at all). On the basis of (1) the fuss about the mangroves and (2) the inaccessibility to the public of any definitive documentation detailing its construction – or route – we had informally designated it the Mangrove Motorway.
But Google Earth, courtesy of the latest satellite pass, shows that it runs straight up the guts of Benoa Bay, with a handy little traffic circle midway, about where aircraft on final approach reach go-around point, to take traffic to and from the airport. On this basis it is now known at The Cage as Wavebreak Way.
We were reasonably happy with the mangrove option – since it was a fait accompli and the builders of it assure us mangroves grow much better in a forest of concrete pylons – because a mangrove tree to cling on to might be handy should one’s transit be curtailed by some disaster. But now it looks as if we’ll have to pack water-wings.
A Different Leap of Faith
Pondok Santi, bungee king AJ Hackett’s former private retreat on Gili Trawangan (memo Aussie media: the Gilis are not “off Bali”; they’re off Lombok) that has converted to up-scale paying guest resort, has gone into the wedding business.
We learn this not from the operators or owners directly, but from its Facebook page. Thank goodness for FB. Without it you’d never know what was happening on certain little islands that are not off Bali. Pondok Santi’s page is apparently run from Hackett HQ in Cairns, Queensland, since it refers to “Gili Trawanagan”.
But be that as it may. Cheering news reported is that Pondok Santi has been awarded a certificate of excellence by the online globetrotter geeksite Trip Advisor, having rated number one out of 63 accommodation houses on Gili Trawangan.
Neil Carl Hempsey, the nautical chap, is deep into organizing the 6th Annual Super Yacht Charity RDV Event. It’s on Friday, August 2, at Vin+ Wine & Beyond, Winery Restaurant and Bar; it’s a new grazing place in Seminyak (Jl Kayu Jati No1, on the Jl Oberoi corner).
Hempsey says: “We hope that you all enjoyed last year’s event. This year’s event will take a different format with raffles and prizes to be won at the entrance, with the focus being an uninterrupted music and entertainment festival. This year will be bigger and better. So set your calendar for Bali’s biggest charity event of the year.”
It’s certainly all in a good cause, which makes it worthwhile turning up whether or not you’re into uninterrupted music and entertainment. It would certainly limit deeply meaningful conversation, which some may think might also be a good thing.
Email Hector at hector.mcsquawky@yahoo.com or tweet with him on Twitter @ scratchings
Why Do Parents Insist On Killing Their Kids In Bali?
Have a read of this. It might make YOU think.
Borborigmus in Bali
I don’t really understand why some Balinese parents are so hell-bent on killing their kids here. Oh, they don’t do it deliberately – in many ways they care for their children in a way that far surpasses child-raising practices in westernised countries.
But they allow them to ride motorbikes from a very young age – an age when common sense has not yet begun to develop, when risk-awareness is non-existent and understanding of consequences is totally absent. And ‘road rules’? Well, I doubt that many of the parents who allow their kids on the road have any idea themselves.
So I’m on the road, on the way to brunch, and the road is full of kids on bikes. Many are in elementary school uniforms, all look to be between 7 and 10 years old. They are skittish and impulsive, weaving all over the road, impulsively accelerating and braking without a…
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Posted on July 9, 2013 by 8 Degrees of Latitude · 5 Comments
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, July 10, 2013
Trafficking in Chaos
The Bali government deserves the wake-up call it got recently from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, which said continued improvements in public transport were needed to tackle traffic congestion and “not damage the image of tourism on the island”. The first part of the ministry’s primer is on the money, despite the embryonic success of the midget Sarbagita bus network. The second sounds rather more like a pointless shout after a whole herd of horses has bolted.
Bali is not Jakarta, though anyone looking at the development along Sunset Road would conclude that it’s trying to be. One Tuesday evening recently we had a wonderful experience on that gridlocked thoroughfare. We were heading to Seminyak (Samaya for dinner with friends) and were horrendously late reaching that destination. This was because after the new underpass, which works reasonably well despite the right-hand “straight ahead” lane suddenly becoming a U-turn lane and requiring the unwitting to make a dangerous veer to the left, everything falls off the cart.
The traffic lights on Sunset on the evening of our misfortune were red for 100 seconds or more and green for 30 or less. Motorbikes whose riders desired to turn right did so from wherever they had insinuated themselves into the lines of cars, and of course from the left-hand shoulder. They veered across vehicles trying to go straight ahead and totally gummed up the works. The result was that about three cars got through on each change of lights. Fabulous!
Further up the road, just when you thought the traffic might be clearing a bit and where among other wallet-emptying things there’s that huge new glitz-and-kitsch tourist trinket emporium erected by entrepreneurs with an interest in relieving travellers of the last of their petty cash, we saw evidence that this might be where all the tourist buses in Bali go to die. Oversized charabancs are parked in the left lane for ages. This thoughtless practice reduces the Kerobokan-bound Sunset Road carriageway to two lanes. These white lines are ignored, of course, as are all white lines in Bali, in favour of the standard let’s-play-dodgem-cars driving style. Shemozzle is too kind a term.
Back at the “new” airport turnoff, by the way, utter farce is the only term to apply. There is a traffic circle now to accommodate Mangrove Motorway traffic into and out of the airport which might work – it’s a moot point – if everyone, or even anyone, observed traffic circle rules. These are various and include the novel concept of staying in lane. They also, crucially, require traffic entering the traffic circle to give way to vehicles already on it.
High volume traffic circles need lights as well as law enforcement. Perhaps there are plans for traffic lights. But plans for effective policing? Hah!
The Diary’s trusty conveyance, a Suzuki SX-4, ran into another Bali road hazard the other day. Literally. Fortunately no significant damage was caused, just another little dent that saves us buying a sticker that says “Hello! I’m a Bali Car!”
The project is to lay something or other in a deep and wide trench along Jl Raya Uluwatu at Bukit Jimbaran. At a deeper level it seems to be something designed to create lifetime jobs for sturdy little chaps with shovels since progress is at escargot pace. Its chief effect has been to create further reasons for caution among careful drivers.
Nothing is marked with recognisable warning signs. No lights are shown at night. Diggings crumble at the edges and creep out into the already narrowed road surface.
None of this caused the Diary’s little mishap. What did was a trench extension outside Circle K at Bukit Jimbaran which, at night, in the rain and with motorbikes parked at the roadside to fool the eye, was purpose-made for a drive-in visit of quite the wrong kind.
In the space of only a few hours the trench had advanced by several metres, an astonishing rate of progress. We had been there earlier in the day and made a mental mud-map of the current obstacle course.
Why Circle K, a major convenience store chain, doesn’t think to provide its own warning signs (and even a modest night-light) is puzzling. Well, no it’s not; no one actually bothers to think much at all.
There was a silver lining however (there always is). A nice chap in a white sarong and a black peci appeared, organised a team of heavy lifters to get our little mobil out of the hole, sent some of them out into the road to stop the traffic – 10 of them who bravely formed a circle blocking both lanes – and would not accept any reward for his efforts or those of his scratch team. “Not necessary,” he said. We don’t know who he was, though he looked like a local imam. But it is necessary to say “thank you” publicly.
White Shoe Shuffle
Australian entrepreneur Tony Smith, who left the Queensland Gold Coast (ground zero of the country’s white-shoe brigade) four years ago when the GFC gobbled up his plans and his profits and moved to Bali, now has plans to redevelop the 3.54 hectare Canggu Club site at the northern end of the KLS conurbation as a luxury resort and sporting centre.
He bought the property – it’s on a 41 year lease he wants to extend – from a group of Australian expatriates after selling his 63-room Semara Resort & Spa complex at Seminyak to a Singaporean couple. (Semara at Ungasan remains a Smith property.)
It’s probably fair to say the Canggu Club as originally intended was always an unlikely starter. It had airs and graces, affecting a sort of cross between a toffee-nose country club and a (poor) facsimile of something that someone thought might look as if it belonged in the British Raj. The Raj, of course, is as seriously dead as Monty Python’s deceased parrot.
Moreover, Bali’s English-speaking expat community has an over-preponderance of the beer-swilling, bottom-pinching variety of person better suited to facsimiles of Australian drinking arenas and noisy English public houses. And non-English speaking expatriates have their own style of fun.
The Yak magazine, which is about style and has consistent substance, moved a little while ago from the Canggu Club to premises at Simpang Siur. Chief Yakker Sophie Digby told us at the time – we had gently inquired as to the genesis of the shift – this was because it was closer to business. And, she added, the Four Seasons.
Smith, by the way, is a former AFL player. He represents the established demography of Australia by being a Victorian who moved to Queensland. Though not many of them then come on to Bali with plans to reinvent the Canggu Club.
Here’s Cheers!
AYANA put on a good show on Friday, June 21, to launch its expanded meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions capacity. Everyone loves MICE these days. The occasion, held in the newly opened grand ballroom and on the lawns nearby, was an upbeat affair. It was also to introduce RIMBA, the new resort hotel now being completed – on AYANA’s land but inland, far from the rocky seafront cliffs – and which will open in mid-September. It emphasises the environment and its name means “forest”. Not that much of that commodity exists on the dry limestone Bukit, but never mind.
We went along and reacquainted ourselves with the effervescent Goestamar Ardibrata, GM of Bali & Beyond, who was at our table, and serious sheila Deborah Cassrels, the Aussie scribbler, who was not.
Highlight of the evening was the dessert service – performed with panache by 200 AYANA staff from accounting, engineering, human resources, sales, F&B (well, naturally) plus housekeeping and spa – and the Chefs’ Band, which entertained spectacularly, playing percussion on a variety of cooking implements.
Less of a highlight, from the Diary’s point of view, was the curious nightclub-style representation of Bali’s mystical, intensely expressive, dynamic and angular dance heritage presented by the troupe of dancers at the do. Legong on speed came to mind. Or choreography better associated with a dumbass Hollywood movie such as Krakatoa: East of Java.
Makes Sense
The south-west of Western Australia – that’s south of Bali’s biggest suburb, Perth – has a bracing climate that creates conditions favouring fine foods and beverages that already sell well in selected international markets. So it makes sense to promote its fine food and wine in Indonesia, as it has just done through a four-day marketing event in Jakarta.
Prime beef, olive oil, truffles and wine are being offered. The South-West is home to the globally known Margaret River wine region, but there are other wine growing areas where local micro-climates favour a wide variety of wines.
Earlier this year Governor Made Mangku Pastika said Bali’s international hotels should serve local produce in preference to imports. Fair enough. But it would be silly to shut out premium produce imports, especially by self-serving regulation.
Hector’s Diary appears in the Bali Advertiser’s fortnightly print edition. Hector tweets @ scratchings.
Posted on July 5, 2013 July 6, 2013 by 8 Degrees of Latitude · 2 Comments
Accent the Positive
TRIPWIRES
A Traveller’s Working Notes
In Anglospeak, it’s Marseilles, pronounced as if to claim that one’s dear old mum takes part in the Fastnet races, or the Sydney-Hobart. It is in fact Marseille, pronounced Mah-say. The city is as deserving of appropriate diction as Paris (Pah-ree), Lyon (Lee-ohn), Orleans (Aw-lay-ohn) and sundry other Francophone places. For that matter, it is possible to fly to Marseille from London or Edinburgh (not Londres or Edinbourg) so it’s fair to say the chaussure is firmly on the other pied too.
Neither is it genuinely a question of the difficulty foreigners are said to have with the etymologies of the places they are in. I was in Paris (Pah-ree) with a chap called Paris (Pa-ris) for a time, a while back, and no one thought his name was Pah-ree. (I should mention that I have never been to Paris, Texas, pronunciation unknown; though I did enjoy the movie.)
These random thoughts come to mind while we are beginning to absorb the unfamiliar culture and ambience of Provence. There is never much value in travelling if you’re going to pack your shibboleths, your cultural presumptions and your ignorance in with your smalls.
We are in the city for a month, domiciled in a fine beachfront apartment obtained via a house-swapping exercise. Without that defrayment of accommodation expense, we should not be able to be there at all, so we’re immensely grateful. The place turns out to be slap bang in front of La Grande Roue de Marseille, a huge Ferris wheel that at night lights up like a mad Cyclops, or a giant kaleidoscope, and flashes malevolent mixtures of light through one’s windows.
It does bring to mind the disturbing works of Stephen Donaldson. I briefly consider, at one point, silently calling the name “Nom”, just to see what might happen. But it’s not really a problem. Within a day or so we hardly notice it, unless we want to have a laugh or count the people on it. A ready supply of vin rouge (rooghz-uh in the local patois) is to hand to assist with the laughter and complicate the counting.
I have brought Plato along on the holiday. Now I have a Kindle he travels everywhere with me. And it seems rather fun to have brought him to Massilia, the ancient Greek city upon which the Romans, followed by assorted Goths, Vandals and other barbarians, then built their own facilities. Plato was an exploring Greek, after all.
Marseille has many attractive women. This is no surprise, since it is in France. Several such adornments are distracting in various ways at the luggage carousel at the airport after our plane arrives from Amsterdam. French women have a mysterious zest, éclat, élan, a deliciously promissory air. Possibly this is a fiction: the product of a diet of French films and French presidential reputations. The French girls I knew in the days when pursuit was permissible and dealing with the prey, were it willing, simply a matter of course, were all eminently sensible people. But this is why everyone I knew at school, whether or not they were a linguist, left that establishment able to ask: “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?”
Be that as it may. No woman from any other culture wears her Follow Me Home’s or flicks a hem to greater effect. A Frenchwoman can be old or young; she may be black, brown, brindle or of standard Frankish pallor; she may have blonde or red hair, dark hair, long hair, short hair or even no hair; she can be mucking out the stables or bathing in champagne; she can be short or tall, thin-line or broad-point, rich or poor, loud voiced or a whisperer, even – though this is admittedly, even with a French woman, at a very long pinch – either educated and erudite or the obverse. It doesn’t matter. Whatever their circumstances they seem to possess a level of allure that eludes others.
That is, I mean, in this context, to men. The heterosexual ones at least, which according to glossy magazines and the internet now form a disastrously declining cohort. One might say decimated, in the modern way, signifying near extinction; but since the word actually means reduced by 10 percent that might not be high enough.
The attractiveness of other women is, however, among the many things that are generally left unmentioned in discourse with distaff associates; even those who are French. This has more to do with self-preservation than with natural courtesy.
It is better, and far safer, to appreciate with the dispassionate, distant eye of the landscape artist than to seek to emulate Titian. Only the foolhardy would risk acquiring a black eye, for example, by citing the chief claim to fame of Tiziano Vecelli (or Tiziano Vecellio) in other than very familiar company:
While Titian was mixing rose madder
His model reclined on a ladder.
The position, to Titian, suggested coition;
So he ran up the ladder
And ’ad her.
Of course Titian was Italian, not French; he was a citizen of Venice, the Serenissima, which also has many attractions, not least among them being that it was the only Italian republic that was never an Italian republic.
On our drive from the airport to our temporary digs there is a signpost pointing the way to the French Foreign Legion recruiting office. Good lord, do they still do that, one thought. But the location was noted as a precaution, lest a criminal or social embarrassment, whether inadvertent or otherwise, cloud our stay and make a Beau gesture an option.
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Grim search for victims as wildfires grow to size of NYC
A helicopter flies through the smokey sky to drop a load of water on a wildfire Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Sonoma, Calif. (KGO-TV)
SONOMA, Calif. -- Teams with cadaver dogs began a grim search Thursday for more dead in parts of California wine country devastated by wildfires, resorting in some cases to serial numbers stamped on medical implants to identify remains that turned up in the charred ruins.
RELATED: California wildfires bring record 31 deaths
New deaths confirmed Thursday took the toll to 31, making this the deadliest week of wildfires in California history.
Many of the flames still burned out of control, and the fires grew to more than 300 square miles (777 square kilometers), an area as large as New York City.
Sonoma and Napa counties endured a fourth day of choking smoke while many residents fled to shelters or camped out on beaches to await word on their homes and loved ones.
A forecast for gusty winds and dry air threatened to fan the fires further.
Some of the state's most historic tourist sites, including Sonoma city and Calistoga in Napa Valley, were ghost towns populated only by fire crews trying to stop the advancing infernos.
Calistoga, known for wine tastings and hot springs, had dozens of firefighters staged at street corners. Ash rained down from the sky and a thick haze covered the ground. Mayor Chris Canning warned that the fires were drawing closer and all of the city's 5,000 residents needed to heed an evacuation order.
RELATED: 10 victims identified in deadly North Bay fires
"This is a mandatory evacuation. Your presence in Calistoga is not welcome if you are not a first responder," Canning said during a news briefing, explaining that firefighters needed to focus on the blazes and had no time to save people.
A few residents left behind cookies for fire crews with signs reading, "Please save our home!"
Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said officials were still investigating hundreds of reports of missing people and that recovery teams would begin conducting "targeted searches" for specific residents at their last known addresses.
"We have found bodies almost completely intact, and we have found bodies that were nothing more than ash and bones," the sheriff said.
Some remains have been identified using medical devices uncovered in the scorched heaps that were once homes. Metal implants, such as artificial hips, have ID numbers that helped put names to victims, he said.
The eight new deaths confirmed Thursday brought the total to 31. Most of the fires, and the deaths, were in the coastal region north of San Francisco that encompasses wine country. Four deaths came further inland in Yuba County.
LIST: North Bay fire evacuation orders, people, animal shelters
While the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 killed 25 people by itself and the Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles in 1933 killed 29, never in recorded state history have so many people been killed by a simultaneous series of fires, said Daniel Berlant, a deputy director with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Firefighters had reported modest gains against the blazes, but containment seemed nowhere in sight.
"We are not out of this emergency. We are not even close to being out of this emergency," Emergency Operations Director Mark Ghilarducci told a news conference.
More than 8,000 firefighters were battling the blazes, and more manpower and equipment was pouring in from around the country and from as far away as Australia, officials said.
Since igniting Sunday in spots across eight counties, the fires have transformed many neighborhoods into wastelands. At least 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed and an estimated 25,000 people forced to flee.
The wildfires continued to grow in size. A total count of 22 fires on Wednesday fell to 21 on Thursday because two large fires merged, said state Fire Chief Ken Pimlott.
The challenge of fighting the fires was compounded by the need for more help and the growing fatigue of firefighters who have been working for days.
"We have people that have been on that fire for three days who don't want to leave," said Cal Fire's deputy incident commander in Napa, Barry Biermann. "At some point, you hit a road block."
Fire officials were investigating whether downed power lines or other utility failures could have sparked the fires. It's unclear if downed lines and live wires resulted from the fires or started them, said Janet Upton, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire.
RELATED: How to help North Bay fire victims
Hundreds of evacuees fled to beaches far to the north of the fires, some sleeping on the sand on the first night of the blazes.
Since then, authorities have brought tents and sleeping bags and opened public buildings and restaurants to house people seeking refuge in the safety and clean air of the coastal community of Bodega Bay.
Local charities and residents went to Costco to buy supplies for the fleeing families. California Highway Patrol Officer Quintin Shawk took relatives and other evacuees into his home and office, as did many others.
"It's like a refugee camp," at his office, Shawk said.
Community members fed breakfast to some 200 people on the beach alone, and Patricia Ginochio, who owns a restaurant, opened the eatery for 300 more to sleep, she said. The evacuees' arrival was heralded by a long line of headlights heading to beaches.
"The kids were scared," Ginochio said, adding that temperatures by the beach drop dramatically at night. "They were shivering and freezing."
Some lucky evacuees returned to find what they least expected.
Anna Brooner was prepared to find rubble and ashes after fleeing Santa Rosa's devastated Coffey Park neighborhood.
Then she got a call from a friend: "You're not going to believe this." Her home was one of only a handful still standing.
"I swore when I left I was never coming back to this place," Brooner said. "I feel so bad for all the other people. All of us came back thinking we had nothing left."
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by Andre Madrid
MIAMI — The newest transport aircraft to join the Airbus fleet, the BelugaXL, received type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Wednesday. The certification opens the path for the transport aircraft to enter service in early 2020.
The BelugaXL, which will offer a 30% increase in storage, is expected to allow for increased production in the years to come, serving as an integral feature of the European manufacturer’s industrial complex.
PHOTO: Airbus.
The newly-certified freighter will replace the aging A300-600ST (Super Transporter), also known as the Beluga, which has been in service since the mid-1990s. The new BelugaXL is larger than its predecessor, measuring seven meters longer and one meter wider than the original Beluga.
The XL will also offer a greater payload capacity than the ST, with the capability to carry two A350 XWB wings as opposed to the ST’s capacity of one wing. The newer model has the largest cargo bay cross-section of any transport aircraft in service, permitting a 51-ton payload.
The new Beluga’s performance is also superior to its precursor, with a range of 4,000 km (2,200 mi) with a maximum payload. The aircraft operates with 2 Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines, the same power source of the A330 model it is developed from.
The new freighter’s design is based on the A330-200 transport aircraft, reusing many of the original model’s components and equipment. Features that are new to the BelugaXL include a lower cockpit, cargo bay structure, rear-end, and tail.
The certification comes after a lengthy process which included 2 aircraft operating 200 individual flight tests, amassing over 700 flight hours.
Six BelugaXL aircraft are expected to be produced through 2023, replacing five original Beluga transporters. The new model will operate from 11 destinations across Europe, further extending Airbus’ manufacturing capabilities across the continent.
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Road Much Travelled
Picking pebbles along the road much travelled.
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The Unforgettable Throttle Dutt and his Flying Machine
C-119 Fairchild Packet…
Legend has it that after the Korean War the Americans didn’t want to take that aircraft back to the US and offered it to India at a paltry Rs 5,000/- an aircraft; some say, the aircraft were passed on for a mere USD each. A number of them were certainly donated by the US, to address India’s dire need. Does that matter now? Not really!
Packet aircraft remained the mainstay of the IAF’s transport aircraft fleet from the mid-1950s (around the time when its production stopped) until the workhorse was finally given a place of honour in the Air Force Museum at Palam (March 31, 1986). Whether it was to serve the UN in Congo or to airlift relief supplies to Egypt and Hungary; whether it was to land guns and men at Chushul (India-China War, 1962) or to paradrop troops over Tangail (Liberation of Bangladesh, 1971); whether it was to ferry Prime Minister Nehru on a state visit across the Iron Curtain to Moscow or to ship Lieutenant General AAK Niazi from Dacca to Nagpur (1972)––Packet did it all, and did it in style and with élan. The Packet fleet also undertook air maintenance task and paratrooping training as a matter of routine.
Farewell to Packet
A look at that aircraft would make one marvel at its ability to defy the laws of gravity and the Principles of Flight. In appearance it was quite un-aircraft-like––its designers called it a Flying Boxcar. Others, less kind in their treatment of the workhorse, gave it the epithet of Flying Coffin. One wonders, “With not-so-appealing (streamlined) features, how a Packet aircraft used to (at all) get unstuck, let alone get airborne and stay afloat?” Well! Packet aircraft had a wingspan of 110 feet. Its engines were the most powerful engines ever built in piston engine era. They produced 3500 horsepower for a weight of 3350 pounds, that is, more than a horsepower per pound of weight. With that brute power, the aircraft could land at Daulat Beg Oldie, the highest airfield in the world. That was in the years 1962 to 1965––more than half a century before the first C-130J Super Hercules landed there. The great Indian Jugaad of installing a jetpack atop the fuselage gave Packet aircraft the added power needed to achieve marvellous feats. Interestingly, Packet was the only aircraft, which had both, piston engines and a jet engine to provide thrust.
My first acquaintance with the aircraft was in February 1982 when I flew for an air experience. And, before I could get the real feel I had boarded the aircraft a second time, for my first parachute descent. In the following 35 years, as a Parachute Jump Instructor (PJI) I have jumped from nearly a dozen different types of transport aircraft of the IAF––from the vintage Dakota and the Caribou to the state-of-the-art Special Operations aircraft, C-130J Super Hercules. But the memory of the jumps made from Packet aircraft is indelible.
As the mind perambulates between now and those days, I recall that it was the magnificent men who flew that machine that really made jumps and life so memorable. I feel that Packet used to fly not because of its overly powered engines, but because of the willpower of the men in blue. Volumes can be written about those memorable days and those heroes. Today I’ll recall just one.
They called him Throttle Dutt.
As the name suggests, he was indeed throttle-happy––ever eager to hop into the cockpit and fly off. Rex Raymond, his course-mate thought, that nickname suited SK Dutt also because of his resemblance to the thin (read, “slim”) shaft of the throttle of a Piper Cub aircraft, which they flew as youngsters. We, the Parachute Jump Instructors (PJIs) knew that if there was an airworthy aircraft on the tarmac and Throttle was around, we’d get our fill of jumps––he would stop only after the task was completed.
Throttle Dutt
Whenever Wing Commander SK Dutt dropped us, we would land in the Drop Zone, evenly scattered on either side of the centre; his name spelt confidence. He would often come to our crew room and, over a cup of tea discuss almost everything under the sun. He was a voracious reader. No wonder, some of his buddies called him Professor.
That day I was anxious about the jump; I had reasons to be in that state of mind. It was my first outstation jump as an independent spotter. Wing Commander GJ Gomes, our Chief Instructor at the Paratroopers Training School had detailed me to take charge of the Skydiving Demonstration at the ASC Centre at Gaya. It meant that I would be required to work out the release point depending on the prevailing winds and advise the pilot to drop the jumpers. To achieve that, I would be required to lean out of the open door of the aircraft in flight and advise the captain on the intercom to steer the desirable course, with last minute corrections. Skill of the skydivers apart, a good understanding between the pilot and the spotter was the key to pinpoint drops.
I had lined up the skydivers on the tarmac at Gaya Airport and had just completed the pre-jump briefing, when a smiling Throttle Dutt and Squadron Leader Venkiteswaran (the pilots) arrived and signalled us to emplane. They wished me good luck and were about to board the aircraft when Captain Anil Kumar, one of the jumpers walked up to Throttle Dutt and said, “Sir, Khajuraho will be on our way when we fly back to Agra after the demonstration jump…” Then, with wickedness swirling in his eyes, the young officer added, “How about flying a little low over the temples. May be we’ll get a glimpse of the beautiful statues.” He laid extra stress on ‘the beautiful statues’.
Throttle chuckled equally slyly and nudged him towards the aircraft ladder as if to say, “Son, first go and do a good jump.”
The demonstration went off very well. All the skydivers landed in the designated target area in front of the spectators. Wing Commander Gomes was pleased; the crew complimented me when we reached the tarmac after a lavish lunch and fanfare, which are synonymous with such demonstrations. Incidentally, with that jump I completed another century of safe landings. Very soon we were airborne again, heading for Agra. There would be a refuelling halt en route, at Allahabad.
Partly the fatigue, and partly the odd beer or a gin and lime cordial that people had downed at lunch, started taking its toll. Wickets fell one after the other. Within minutes of our departure from Gaya, more than half of us were asleep; the other half were fast asleep. None kept track of time. The chit-chit in the ears caused due to the aircraft’s descent and the mild thud associated with the landing, jostled people from their deep slumbers. Rubbing the eyes and trying to get the bearings right, someone asked, “Allahabad? How much time will we take to refuel?” That question went unanswered as more and more people got up and started looking out of the windows. Sleepiness and the fogging caused by their breaths on the cold Perspex conspired to keep them from getting their dead reckoning. It actually didn’t matter because: Throttle Dutt would ensure our return home by dinner.
As was customary, people waited for the Captain of the aircraft to come out of the cockpit and deplane first. Then, they would form a beeline to the nearest rest room. The fastest would get relief first. “Guys!” Throttle Dutt said as he clapped twice and drew the attention of the people still shuffling restlessly in their seats. “I am giving you exactly one hour and fifteen minutes,” he looked at his wristwatch and continued,” It is three now. Be back by four fifteen. We are in Khajuraho; the temples are not far. You can have a look as I get the aircraft refuelled.” He exchanged a meaningful glance with the young officer who had made the suggestion at Gaya Airport.
Throttle Dutt had chosen to refuel at Khajurao instead of Allahabad––it was his way of keeping the morale of the people around him high without, of course, compromising operations. Four thirty was the closing time for that less used civil airport. For the next ninety minutes Throttle would have a tough time handling the airport staff.
It took the greater part of a long minute for the import of Throttle’s communication to sink into the heads of the jumpers. And when it did make sense, they got into action; they couldn’t afford to waste another minute. It was precisely a three-minute, all male striptease inside the aircraft, at the end of which men were in smart casuals. They couldn’t have gone out in the streets in overalls and dungarees.
In the next few minutes two scores of crew cut men were out in the narrow streets invading the sleepy little town of Khajuraho. They caught hold of any means they could––cycle rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, tonga and some even jogged to reach the tourist attractions.
Meanwhile at the airport…
A worried air traffic controller begged Throttle Dutt to clear the tarmac. He said there wasn’t enough space to accommodate an Air India B 737 aircraft scheduled to land in a while. Throttle assured him that he would move his aircraft further back and create enough space on the tarmac for the incoming B 737. Then, Throttle got into the cockpit, started up the engines and used reverse to create manoeuvring space for the B 737 in full view of a spellbound Airport Staff. It was a sight, they had never seen––they had never seen any aircraft, let alone a massive one of the size of Packet, moving backwards under its own power.
And although that act of reversing the aircraft on that small manoeuvring surface impressed the controller, it did not allay his anxiety. He now urged the crew to get airborne by four thirty; that was when the watch hours at Khajuraho Airport would cease. Throttle assured them that we’d leave in time.
Back at the Temple site––they went; they saw; and they felt conquered! How the jumpers felt after their visit to the Temples could be the subject of another piece. Suffice it to say that they did not talk about it. Perhaps, how Throttle Dutt made it possible for the bunch of those curious men, and the effort it took to reach the heritage site, was more interesting and memorable than the beauty and the artwork people got to witness there. Period. The entire lot was back at the airport in time for the take off. They lined up and got into the aircraft hurriedly. Throttle Dutt gave an impish smile to a beaming Anil Kumar as he climbed the ladder to take off for Agra.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) Life, Military, Oh Uh Parachuting! 13 Comments 19th Aug 2019 19th Aug 2019 7 Minutes
Dead Men Tell No Tales. Do Dead Terrorists Do?
There was carnage in Sri Lanka last month on Easter Sunday. The Lankans had somehow missed out on (read “doubted”) the lead provided by the Indian intelligence agencies and paid a heavy price for it (Aftermath of Lanka Blasts: Of Open Stable Doors and Bolting Steeds). Perhaps some of the blasts could have been averted had they heeded the Indian warning. Oh really!? But then those very Indian agencies that provided a ‘clue’ to the Sri Lankans could not place a finger on the Pulwama terror attack in time. Was it a ‘lapse’ or ‘failure of intelligence’ as the media often dubs it? Can they be held responsible (squarely) for the terror strike? There are no straight answers to those rhetorical questions. There can’t really be. One can debate them, with no conclusion whatsoever, till the cows come home.
Needless to say, the job of the intelligence agencies is becoming tougher by the day. Sifting the mountains of information that they come across and zeroing on what matters, before the terrorists execute their missions, is not an enviable job. It is definitely more challenging than looking for a needle in the haystack.
Time to take stock
Dead men tell no tales but dead terrorists do. If one were to go by the media reports, the security forces have recovered a sketch from the body of a terrorist killed in an encounter in Shopian earlier this week. The sketch indicates that terror groups are planning suicide attacks at Indian Air Force bases at Srinagar and Awantipur.
How seriously, can such ‘sketches’ or any other clues be taken? Is another Pathankot, Uri or Pulwama brewing? May be; may not be. Could this ‘sketch’ just be a red herring; could the actual target be different––Delhi? Mumbai? Bengaluru? Hyderabad? Noida? Ghaziabad?
Read on, for a lesson from the past…
Target?
At a time when the World War II was peaking and the Germans and the Italians were wondering about the Allied plans in the Mediterranean, the British engineered a smart ruse. They got the body of a soldier, who had died of pneumonia and dressed him in the attire of a Royal Navy Courier and gave him the identity of one ‘Major Martin’. They secured a briefcase to his wrist, the way classified documents were carried in those days, and left his body floating at sea, off a Spanish Port. The briefcase contained ‘secret’ letters––addressed to British diplomats in Cairo indicating an Allied intention of landings in Greece. As expected, the dead Major Martin was found by some Spaniards and handed over to their Government officials. The Spaniards photographed the documents before handing over the body (and the briefcase) to the British Naval Attaché in Madrid. And again, as expected the Spaniards turned over the photographs of the documents to the Germans who took them to be genuine.
The ruse worked; the Germans were grossly misled. The British and the American airborne forces landed at Sicily and ‘surprised’ the Germans.
“Dead men (and may be, dead terrorists) can tell cooked up tales to cover their trails.”
That terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir are planning attacks in the Valley is a new normal. In this instance the intelligence agencies have logically concluded that Pakistan-based groups might carry out an attack on May 23, the day when counting of votes for Lok Sabha election 2019 will take place. Although, as per the reports, Indian Air Force bases in Srinagar and Awantipur are the likely targets, nothing prevents the terrorists from changing their mind. Or, do they already have a ‘different’ plan? Who knows? Therefore, a really tough time awaits the intelligence agencies and security forces.
Three simple things that a common man can do to strengthen their hands are:
Share information only if it is a must, after verifying the truthfulness.
Travel and congregate only if it is a must––roads clear of undue traffic, and less crowded public spaces, enhance the efficiency of the intelligence and security personnel.
Stay vigilant.
Not a tall order?!
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Military 8 Comments 18th May 2019 18th May 2019 3 Minutes
Jay, Veeru & India-China Relations
What if the world we live in was Utopia? And the countries of the world played golf (rather than rugby)?
Utopia is Utopia. To simplify the other analogy, golf is a game in which, ideally speaking, one plays with one’s own ball, as it lies. Emphasis added on ‘as it lies’. So, what if countries pursued their agenda without jeopardising the interests of others?
Or, at least, countries did not behave like the proverbial dog in the manger––doing little on their own but raising hue and cry when another one tried to do something in its best interest. Allusion here is to the countries of the world (including India) not doing their (enough) bit to gain from the trade and commerce that is available to them but envying (read ‘being jealous of ’) China. For example,countries not doing enough to woo the Dark Continent or Latin America but raising a hue and cry when China lands there and starts reaping benefits; and sending those benefits back home to Beijing.
Another example is the Chinese initiative on the connectivity of countries of the region––Xi’s ambitious OBOR Project. The countries that have joined the mega project know what is good for them and what is not. They have got on the bandwagon with conscious volition. Period.
Why should others (read India) bark?
Because in real life, this world is not Utopian, and the countries are not playing golf. And even those that appear to be playing golf are not playing the ball as it lies––honestly. At least one American President in the recent years has been notorious for(blatantly) improving the lie of the ball. Let’s spare the US and the US Presidents for the time being, since China and India are the subject matter of this post.
It was fine so long as China was pursuing its trade and commerce for its own good in the countries surrounding India; a little adverse effect also would have been an acceptable outcome. But then,China began pursuing its interests at the cost of India’s. The GMR issue in the Maldives, for example, was a setback for India.
India-China Relations
If that was not enough, China started establishing its military bases in return for the infrastructure it developed for the host countries. Acquisition of Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka and the islands leased to it by the Maldives are some of the many cases in point. Besides, the CPEC running through POK is a cause for great concern for India. China’s initiatives in Nepal and the Doklam standoff confirm that it is not Utopia; it is not golf either.
So, what could or should be India’s approach?
Those who occupy offices in the North and South Blocks and steer the destiny of this country know it best, but here is a simple suggestion for whatever it’s worth.
Jay-Veeru Relations
For a moment, recall the Jay (Amitabh Bachchan), the Veeru (Dharmendra) and the Mausi (Basanti’s Aunt) of the Bollywood classic, Sholay. Recall also, how Jay paints a (dark) picture of Veeru for Mausi: “…a good guy until he drinks. He drinks when he is sad. He is sad when he loses money… gambles, visits brothels, blah… blah… otherwise a good guy.”
Can India do to China what Jay did to Viru? Can India paint China’s character for its prospective host countries the Jay way: “China coming to your country would be a great thing. You’ll be able to boast about enviable infrastructure. Your country will progress in leaps and bounds. But of course, the Chinese will use their work force and machinery and building material. So what if your people don’t get employment, they’ll learn good things by being (sorry) spectators. Besides, there will be signs of prosperity, so what if you have to seek more loans to pay the interest on the Chinese debt…. After all being in perpetual debt is not all that bad a thing for a country. Things could be even worse. Haven’t Sri Lanka, the Maldives and even Pakistan benefitted from Chinese largesse?”
Two things need to be borne in mind while dealing with China…
One: For long India has been responding (reacting) to Chinese moves. Pre-empting China on known turfs will consume much less effort than dowsing the fires it lights for India in the future.
Two: Countries are run by people. By human beings who are made up of flesh and bones and blood. And they have a mind. And they have a mind that knows (learns) fear. The fear of notional (and national) loss and slavery is a fear. It can give nightmares, if not to (a corrupt) leadership, at least to the intelligentsia of a country. That fear is the key.
A conscientious three-pronged effort by the diplomatic corps, by those who pursue national interest on parallel tracks and by those who promote people to people contacts with other countries, can go some way in dealing with a less sporting neighbour.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Life, Military, Uncategorised 8 Comments 12th Mar 2019 12th Mar 2019 3 Minutes
MiG-21 Bison & F-16 in the Eyes of a Goof
A New Golf Set
My pride in my brand new Grand Slam Powerbilt golf set was blown to smithereens when I saw a caddie––in tattered trousers and oversized shoes––lob a golf ball beautifully over a bunker on to a practice green. The club he used was not a branded lob wedge but the branch of a tree, which resembled a walking stick. I was incapable of performing that feat.
Unbelievable, but true!
Although the golf set I was using was gifted to me by Mahesh, my nephew, that incident, more than a dozen years ago, made me wonder, “Was it worth it to invest a couple of thousand rupees in a costly golf set, when a similar result could be obtained with an ordinary old set (or a stick)?” The example of the caddie lobbing a ball with a stick was playing on my mind. Secretly, I envied that urchin to no end.
I’ll give a pause to golf for the time being for there’s a more pressing issue to discuss.
The Indomitable MiG-21 Bison
The other day, an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison downed a Pakistan Air Force F-16. That’s what they say, and that’s what my feeling of nationalism, which is overflowing at this moment, makes me believe. In the many debates that ensued on the prime time television and in the electronic and print media, I found some people suggesting that MiG-21 aircraft was a match for the F-16. In fact, it was the other way round. They said, “F-16 is no match for the MiG-21 aircraft.” Mind the subtle difference!
Some suggested that Indian fighter pilots––with their Su-30 Mk I, Mirage 2000, Tejas and MiG series of combat aircraft––were too good, and were capable of matching any adversary. Hesitantly though, some experts broached the subject of urgency to procure the Rafale fighter aircraft. They felt that it was important to remove the doubts about the kickbacks before procuring the aircraft.
In a vibrant democracy people are not only entitled to opinions, they’re free to air them too.
Returning to golf. In due course of time I realised that the youngster could do little more than lob the ball a few yards away with that stick. To strike the ball long, or putt it, he needed a proper club––a stick of any shape or size was no good. When I gave him a pair of better shoes and one of my golf clubs, he displayed even superior prowess.
I set aside my envy and focussed on my game with the new set. My spirit was high; and my game improved––a few more pars and an odd birdie on the whole. I started winning more games against my usual partners. Interestingly, the scores of some of my opponents dipped. “How can we match your superior new golf set?” said one.
To conclude: Ability of the man behind the machine (equipment) matters; it is of utmost importance. But good equipment not only improves his performance but also raises his morale and goes on to intimidate the adversary. It’s time to address the equipment needs of the Indian armed forces in the right earnest. Today, the morale of the adversary is at a low ebb. Delay in enhancing our capabilities will give time to the adversary to recoup and re-muster its strength.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Military, Uncategorised 17 Comments 5th Mar 2019 5th Mar 2019 2 Minutes
Balakot Airstrike & the Art of Drawing Lessons
A scientist placed a frog on a table and yelled, “Frog, jump!” The frog leapt forward two feet to the middle of the table. The scientist adjusted his spectacles, read the information flashing on the digital displays of the sophisticated equipment placed in the vicinity and scribbled some observations. He then picked up the amphibian and put it back at the starting point. Without any emotions, he removed (read “chopped”) its hind legs with surgical precision and yelled again, “Frog, jump!” The incapacitated being did not move an inch. “Eureka!” The heart of the jubilant scientist took a leap; he flipped open his notepad and wrote this inference: “The amputation of the hind limbs of an amphibian at an ambient temperature of 27ºC affects its tympanic membranes so that there is a hundred per cent loss of hearing (at 100 db, 25,000 Hz).
Drawing conclusions, inferences and lessons is an art.
Imran surrenders to a moustache
It is inappropriate to talk of a scientist and a frog when the flavour of the day is the airstrike by the IAF across the border at Balakot in Pakistan.
An expert with a TV channel has made an observation that Wing Commander Abhinandan took a hundred and thirty two steps in seven minutes to cross the Attari-Wagah border. Another one has concluded that Imran (Pakistan) surrendered to a moustache (that of Abhinandan).
That was for dark humour.
MiG-21 outwits F-16
On a serious note, a conclusion that some are drawing is that an F-16 aircraft is no match for a MiG 21 Bison. Perhaps it is a conclusion that has been reached a little too early by “experts” sitting in the cosy comforts of their drawing rooms. The fog of war has not cleared yet. Abhinandan’s version of the story is yet to become public.
This is a time for restraint; time to hold the horses and to avoid jumping to conclusions. Drawing inferences, conclusions and lessons is an art, a rare art. It better be left to the real experts.
For now, the question is:
Would the availability of a state of the art fifth generation fighter aircraft in IAF inventory have deterred Pakistan from daring to enter Indian airspace?
An expert is not needed to answer that question.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Military, Uncategorised 6 Comments 3rd Mar 2019 4th Mar 2019 2 Minutes
Pakistan, India & the Art of War
Dictionaries left by the British in the government offices at the time of India’s Independence were torn apart so that a country could take the pages with the alphabet from A-L and the other could own those with M-Z. That was the level of mutual antagonism between India and Pakistan on the eve of partition in 1947 as per Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The hostility has compounded over the years. While Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sought to wage a war for a thousand years, General Zia ul Haq was determined to bleed India through a thousand cuts.
The two neighbours have pursued different Arts of War over the years. Pakistan has bled India for over three decades through covert operations. India has borne the brunt of acts of terrorism sponsored by Pakistan without retaliating decisively against that country, or against those orchestrating the attacks from its soil. The terror strike at Uri, and the one at Pulwama that left over 40 CRPF men dead, has changed the status quo. It has made India deviate from a path of reconciliation and take the path of retaliation.
The Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi gave the armed forces a “free hand in choosing the time, place and the nature” of the response to Pulwama Terror attack. He added that each drop of tear of the families of the martyrs would be avenged. The Rubicon had been crossed. The pre-emptive airstrike by IAF fighters on the terrorist training camps at Balakot (Pakistan) twelve days after the Pulwama terror attack, left Pakistan stunned, as if struck by an earthquake.
In effect, the aftershocks have been no less spectacular. India withdrew the “Most Favoured Nation” status accorded to Pakistan, and raised the excise duty to 200%. India’s action to re-commence work on the dams on the Indus and other rivers has jolted Pakistan. Although indirect, the withdrawal of security to the separatist leaders in J&K has also been a setback to Pak interests. To the detriment of Pakistan, all the opposition parties in the Indian Parliament have also pledged support to the government. Through conscientious diplomatic effort, India has managed to get Pakistan isolated on the world stage. Even China, its all-weather friend has since maintained graveyard silence. The US called on Pakistan to immediately end the support and dismantle the safe haven provided to the terrorist groups operating from its soil. The invitation to India as the ‘Guest of Honour’ to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Meeting in Abu Dhabi has been the proverbial last straw that has broken the camel’s (read Pakistan’s) back.
Pakistan released Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, the IAF pilot who had landed up in Pak custody after ejecting from his fighter aircraft. Although, Imran Khan said that it was a goodwill gesture to promote peace, the fact is that an isolated Pakistan has succumbed to the cumulative pressure created by India.
With its economy in shambles, Pakistan cannot afford to wage a full-scale war. Besides, a full-scale war can lead to its dismemberment; trouble is brewing in the country’s northwest. Pakistan now knows well the consequences of waging a proxy war against India. In one of his televised addresses recently, Imran Khan had spoken of possible ‘miscalculation’ by either side. If he was obliquely hinting at the possible use of nukes, he is also aware of India’s ability to absorb the first strike and India’s capability of a second strike. For sure, he is well aware of the asymmetry, too.
Sun Tzu says: “When you surround an army (read enemy), leave an outlet free. This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair.”
Has India left a road to safety for Pakistan? What’s it?
India has left an option for Pakistan. Pakistan’s road to safety (and peace for its people) is through handing over the likes of Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim to India, and to dismantle the terror training camps flourishing in its backyard.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Military, Uncategorised 6 Comments 2nd Mar 2019 3 Minutes
A Black Swan at Balakot
Black Swan: Rarity, impact & predictability
A Black Swan event has three attributes. First, it is (most) unexpected; cognition excludes any likelihood (at all) of its occurrence. Second, its outcome is spectacular. And the third, despite its unexpectedness, people get down to concocting explanations to justify its occurrence. These can be summed as rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective predictability. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book, The Black Swan explains the concept.
Air raid on the terror camps in Balakot (Pakistan) by IAF fighters in the wee hours of February 26, 2019 displays these three attributes of a Black Swan event. The event was unexpected, keeping the feeble Indian response to similar provocations in the past: the Parliament Attack (2001), the Mumbai Terror Attack (2008), and the Pathankot Terror Strike (2016)… the list is long. And, even after the recent terror attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama, there was a view that India lacked the will to respond to such provocations. On that occasion, as always, whether India had a Strategic Culture to respond to provocations became a point of intellectual debate. I too had contributed my anna bit to the discourse (Read Rummaging Pulwama for India’s Strategic Culture).
The Balakot Air Strike
Let alone the outcome, which is being questioned by Pakistan, the very act of the IAF fighters crossing the border and releasing ordnance over the terror camps is a spectacular act. It was unimaginable until it happened; how it stunned everyone needs no further elucidation.
Volumes can be written on the third attribute––on the retrospective predictability. People attribute the happening of Balakot Air Strike to so many reasons: The political will, the pressure from the people, the moral high ground, the economic and military power that India wields today, and its recent diplomatic achievement in isolating Pakistan…. There are as many explanations as the number of armchair strategists.
In retrospect, the surgical strike by the Indian Army after the Uri Attack was a Black Swan event too.
In the immediate present and now, Uri and Balakot are a thing of the past. The success of those raids/ attacks has raised the bar for India––several notches in one go. Now, a stage has been reached when perhaps even a Neptune Spear type raid (killing of Osama Bin Laden) by the Indian Special Forces to eliminate any of the terror leaders hiding in Pakistan will not come as a surprise, not even for the Pakistan’s military. Thus, even if it were to come to pass, a raid to eliminate the terror leaders, it would not qualify to be a Black Swan event. By implication, its success might be iffy.
For sure, Uri and Balakot are a thing of the past. The return gift from Pakistan for India’s Black Swan––another Black Swan––is a much anticipated and awaited thing. And, for sure, no amount of preparedness would be enough to fully absorb a true Black Swan event.
Let the political and the military leadership and the diplomatic corps of the day have their way. They have pulled it this far; they definitely have plans for the future. While they are doing their bit to restore some semblance of normalcy in the region, they are also prepared, to the extent possible, to meet the retaliation on all fronts. The noise and din in the streets and in the media can only distract them.
Prudence demands that they be allowed to concentrate.
Group Captain Ashok K Chordia (Re-attired) & More!, Military, Uncategorised 6 Comments 28th Feb 2019 2 Minutes
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HomeNewsBenidorm hotel chain ban mobility scooters
Fury as Benidorm hotel chain slaps ban on mobility scooters with no warning
The measure affects nine hotels in the resort
Holiday-makers are fuming after one of Benidorm’s biggest hotel chain groups unexpectedly banned mobility scooters.
Travellers took to social media and travel forums as old and disabled guests who have already booked at the company’s nine hotels in the Spanish resort worried about what to do, the Sunday People reports.
The scooters, made famous by Madge in hit ITV series Benidorm, are a common site at hotels.
Servigroup initiated the ban due to complaints from other guests that scooters were “clogging hallways and causing accidents”.
But disabled user Katherine Airson, 66, who stays at the Hotel Pueblo five times a year, says she is “absolutely disgusted”.
The scooter is famously used by Madge in TV’s Benidorm
She said: “There is an allocated place at the Pueblo to park scooters as they’re not allowed inside. It’s never been a problem in the past at the hotel.
“This is about the able-bodied hiring scooters when they shouldn’t be using them.”
Ms Airson, from Sunderland, added: “I have had arguments with able-bodied people blocking the parking bays and charging up their scooters.
“It’s unfair that they’re allowed to hire scooters. They have spoilt it for the disabled.
“There will be more accidents. I saw two teenage girls yesterday racing along the seafront shouting at people to, ‘Get out of the way’.”
Servigroup’s operations director said: “Part of the problem is mobility scooters are used by people for fun, drunken antics or out of sheer laziness and the needful majority of users may now have to suffer due to the selfishness of a few.”
Local radio show host David Rowland said: “They started off as a fantastic idea that allowed the more elderly and less able to enjoy their holiday, but now they are like a cheap taxi for the lazy, drunk and too-fat-to-move Brits.”
One social media user said: There’s a huge section of their guests alienated in one daft move.
“Can fully understand a justifiable ban on all these morons who hire them without need, but not genuine people.”
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fydhws ~ The Sound (four movements in the key of D)
By postrockcafe / September 27, 2014 / Rock, Post-Rock, Folk and Jazz / Leave a comment
It’s been a long time since we’ve reviewed the work of Kristijan Petreski, the multi-guised Macedonian composer. At that time, he was also known as Sferi. Sound of the Spheres was a grand experimental work addressing the eight planets of the solar system (no Pluto). In the past couple years he’s also released a work of modern composition as Теми и Идеи, an ambient collaboration with Endless Melancholy as Moonshine Blues, and another concept album as fydhws. That work, 9, was a dronelike investigation of symbolism and numerology; the new album is simpler in concept, but denser in atmosphere, bordering on oppressive, Grails-esque doom.
Little light is apparent on The Sound, despite the fact that the first part of the movement is “Light Wave”. A more proper title might be “Light’s End”, as the track opens its maw like a cave. The thick timbres of doom metal abound; one may think of early Earth, before they met Sunn O))). The bass rumbles like a subterranean quake; the drum rolls and tips offer imitations of a shaking ground. As the track grows blacker, one looks back, but the entrance is no longer visible. Further into the darkness we go.
The majestic 18-minute “Ocean’s Deep” is the heart of the set. Dark bells sound the fathoms, while waves of feedback churn like chum. One imagines a bathysphere beginning to buckle. Melodic wisps remind us of the people inside. Within minutes, the sounds have grown as dark as the impenetrable depths. For vast stretches, drones sweep the ocean floor. When the melodic lines seep back through the cracks, they offer little solace. In this case, the key of D is darkness, desolation, death. But the music holds the same allure as the deep; one wants to push, push, until the point of no return.
Next, one encounters “The Mountain”, and imagines a brighter piece. But this mountain is simply the flip side of the ocean deep: a place in which oxygen is scarce and blood vessels are at risk. Doom waits here as well. There is no escape in the extremes. By reflecting these dangerous environments, fydhws seems to have pushed himself to extremes. This time out, we need no entry point, no clever concept; the music speaks for itself, operating best at very high volume. (Richard Allen)
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Samsung Galaxy A90 5G phone may be announced soon
The Samsung Galaxy A90 is perhaps the first-ever mid-range 5G phone we know. There is no official announcement yet but a recent leak includes some information and images of what is believed to be the Galaxy A90 5G. The image above clearly shows the ‘5G A90’ written on the box so there is no question about its authenticity. It’s only a matter of waiting for the official launch. The regular Galaxy A90 version was first leaked and said to feature a sliding-rotating camera system and thought to be an ‘Ultimate Gaming Device’.
The phone was set to launch with a notchless Infinity display, Snapdragon 855 processor, ToF sensor, and a new camera system as shown off by some renders that surfaced online. And then we learned it may no longer come with a sliding camera.
Today, we’re learning the Samsung Galaxy A90 may be the first-ever commercially available mid-range phone with 5G. It’s a first for any mid-ranger because usually, 5G connectivity is only available for premium phones like the Galaxy S10+ and Note 10+.
Similar information was shared by Evan Blass (@evleaks). The phone is said to come with a triple rear camera system (48MP + 5MP+ 8MP) plus a teardrop display. Other features may include a large 6.7-inch full HD+ AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 855 octa-core chipset, 32MP selfie camera, 128GB onboard storage, and 6GB of RAM. Battery size is unknown but it could feature high-speed wired charging technology.
It’s clear the Galaxy A series is a mid-range category although some Galaxy A phones can be considered as almost premium. It can be assumed Samsung will still slap an affordable price tag despite the 5G and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. The phone will be secured by Knox and powered by Android 9 Pie with One UI. Android 10 should be available for the Galaxy A90 someday.
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By Jane Meggitt
Before the Europeans settled the area east of the Mississippi River, the eastern puma (Puma concolor) roamed throughout this vast expanse. Listed as an endangered species for many years by the federal government, the eastern puma is now believed extinct. However, unverified sightings of this now almost mythic cat continue in its ancestral range.
Hunting and Eating
The eastern puma primarily consumes deer. Killing an average-sized deer each week feeds the average puma. This large cat also hunts and kills smaller mammals and domestic livestock -- one reason farmers and hunters were eager to eradicate the puma. Each puma hunts in his own territory. He marks the boundary of his range with feces and urine. While a male puma's hunting range might include those of female pumas, it does not include that of another male. As nocturnal creatures, pumas hunt their prey at night.
Solitary Cats
Male pumas live on their own once they leave their mothers. They might spend a short amount of time with other young males who have recently left the nest, but once they reach sexual maturity they live a solitary lifestyle. Other than annual mating rituals, they don't bother with others of their species. Female pumas are also solitary except for mating, but do spend a great deal of time raising their cubs.
Puma Reproduction
Male pumas reach sexual maturity at age 3, while females experience their initial heat cycle at about the age of 2.5 years. Puma females in heat behave in a way similar to domestic felines. They yowl and rub against objects. Their estrous cycle, which can occur any time during the year, lasts approximately nine days. In North America, the puma primarily becomes pregnant in early to late winter, giving birth to cubs in the spring after a three-month gestation. The average litter consists of three or four offspring. While the cubs are weaned after about 6 weeks, they stay with their mother for over a year. While males breed annually, females only do so every two years.
Are They Gone?
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that the eastern puma was extinct in 2011, the New York Times' headline read, "Eastern Cougar is Declared Extinct, With an Asterisk." That asterisk results from the possibility there is no real difference between the eastern puma, or cougar, and the western variety. The article reported that cougars living in the West were beginning to head east, following in the footsteps of the coyote. That animal was once extirpated in the east, but has now rebounded.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Eastern Puma (Puma (=Felis) Concolor Cougar)
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Eastern Cougar Fact Sheet
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web: Puma Concolor Cougar
New York Times: Eastern Cougar Is Declared Extinct, With an Asterisk
Jane Meggitt has been a writer for more than 20 years. In addition to reporting for a major newspaper chain, she has been published in "Horse News," "Suburban Classic," "Hoof Beats," "Equine Journal" and other publications. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University and an Associate of Arts from the American Academy of Dramatics Arts, New York City.
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Versailles is Not for All, But Indeed All for One
A spoiler-free review of the 40-episode fall 1979 (wow!) anime “The Rose of Versailles,” produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, based on the manga by Riyoko Ikeda.
History is Timeless
It should come across as no surprise to you when I say that “History is timeless.” It also shouldn’t be very startling to hear that we as humans have made more mistakes than triumphs, and that the stories we craft are centered on correcting these mistakes, righting wrong, to reach a triumphant end.
But what happens when history IS the story being told, in that no matter the effort that goes into the rising action, the resolution is that repetitive, burning, regrettable end we try to avoid in stories? Tragedy is born, my dear reader, and “tragic” is indeed the word which encompasses the French Revolution. This single period in history will eventually spawn thousands of tales of its own, one particular rendition brilliantly capturing the many ugly and beautiful faces of this rebellion – The Rose of Versailles.
A Rose of Red & White
So I partially lied above when I claimed that history itself was acted out directly for this work. From the incredible mind of its creator Riyoko Ikeda, Oscar François de Jarjayes is the main character brought to life by the story. Historically, “he” is a man who will, for this story, be a blend of many other significant figures in the revolution. Born to a noble house in need of a male heir, Oscar, a woman, is raised to be a man of valor, vigilance, and vitality, a new kind of “character trope” which will eventually be coined as the “strong woman.” A loyal knight and dear friend of Marie Antoinette’s, Oscar serves her beloved France like a hearth for a mansion, neither wavering in spirit nor charisma in front of the rich and poor alike. Like the scrolls call for, however, Antoinette, a redeemably innocent girl at first, will eventually lead the throne into further corruption, to which Oscar must take a stand for the glory of France – the people – or for her beloved crown in the palace Versailles.
Want to know how to spoil the anime for yourself? You cannot. Versailles is unique because knowing how it ends works in its favor, similar to adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” or “Animal Farm.” It’ll start with Antoinette’s arrival to the pristine palace and end with her untimely beheading, just how we know it. Even if you knew each of the dirty bits surrounding the revolt, such as the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace” and the terrible folks that manipulated and crushed others to secure a cushy seat in the palace, this anime, though still about the revolution and its events, has another objective: Oscar. She alone is worth watching this series for.
A rose of many thorns, Oscar is cast with a terrible fate from the get-go. Jarjayes needs a male to succeed his place, so BAM, Oscar, you are now his son. Also, buddy, you’ll have to struggle against being a man for the public yet a woman for yourself. Your heart will be torn to pieces by your own prickly thorns as you choose between a fellow knight of honor from a foreign land, or your childhood mate who has always had your back, but never both. Your highness, whom you cherish like a baby sister, will learn from evil influences, and it’ll become impossible to manage both her and your own image. Finally, your homeland will succumb to the invincible flames of the revolution – Flames which burned you for many years beforehand because Versailles – the place you call home – is ultimately a royal hell on this cruel Earth. Yet, you knew all of this, and you still must choose: Be red, or fade to white.
“Ching.” That’s what a sword sounds like.
This is the technical part of this review, introducing features like animation, sound, and voice acting. On the animation front, 1979 sure does hurt! The over-effective glitter during these original shoujo moments is quite much, and the ridiculous, lackluster sword fights do not do much to help the cause. Some awfully cringey facial expressions and spoon-fed symbolism also are a drag. As I said, 1979 hurts, but maybe that is where part of the magic stems from. The aging quality Versailles carries brings in strange emotions like disgust and lust alike, and while I still push for a four-part film series remastering the entire series by Ufotable, I could just as well endure this and admire one of anime’s earliest masterpieces. It is one of those, “Laugh now? Hah, you’ll be on your knees begging for mercy later.”
In the sound department, I sigh internally. You can practically make out a man exclaiming “Ching!” with every sword clash. The over-dramatic echoing effects of shattering glass and collapsing bodies also gave me annoyed shivers. It helps, however, when Versailles walks home with one of the musical soundtracks ever. The OP “Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru” drawing the comparison between Oscar and a rose, the ED “Ai no Hikari to Kage” depicting her struggles with romance and feminine life, and all of the fantastic tracks in between set a strong stage and leave a solid impression on what true shoujo drama should sound like.
The show was also never given an English dub – Good thing it will never need one. I am not one to nitpick with Japanese acting, as I sadly do not speak the language, but by God, when Oscar asks for a leave of absence you damn well give her one! Where the visuals could not lift the show, the acting brings all of Versailles’s drama to life.
Why bother reliving the past?
It is arguable the French Revolution started because human beings are inherently evil people, and that all people are born equal. Those who oppose drink their half-full glasses knowing that humans are beings which can reflect on their mistakes to better themselves and the world. The Rose of Versailles masterfully captions both of these viewpoints and reiterates them in a powerful soap opera for anime fans. Portrayal of the female spirit in the ladies of Versailles and of the slums adds additional gold foil to a solid foundation. Melodrama is an enhanced asset that the show flaunts gloriously, and its execution is impactful on a very deep emotional level, given the short time it takes to adjust to the production quality. Just, DO NOT LET THE ANIMATION FOOL YOU, PLEASE.
Lastly, the cast of this historical “story” is just us living in another time, a barbaric fantasy which seems eons ago. The only difference is that this current humanity does not need fancy balls and lavish candelabras to vent its frustration. The Rose of Versailles is not for all, but all for one. In other words, with its age, shoujo background, cheesy moments, and 40-episode run, it is clearly not for everyone; however, it is more than willing to fight for the good of the cause, and for justice everywhere. Its realistic quality and well-researched plot should also give most history buffs a run for their money. Heartwarming and heartbreaking, this is a classic for a reason, and as such should be adorned at your nearest convenience.
“Love can lead to two things: the complete happiness, or a slow and sad agony.”
“No, no, Oscar. For all I know, love only leads to a slow and sad agony.”
– Oscar to Fersen
Nozomi Entertainment’s two LTD ED boxsets sit with poise and elegance on my shelves, awaiting my return to a dark period in human history just so I can re-emerge enlightened and exhausted. I thank you for spending the time to read through my thoughts, and I do hope you feel the urge to suddenly dip into this classic! I’m not sure if you will pick up on this, but this review was once again done in a different fashion. One change is trying to put a piece of fan art that took out of the experience. Do you prefer this new format over the old one? How about your own thoughts on The Rose of Versailles? Was the masterpiece story enough to sideline the iffy visuals for you, or not? As always, let me know in the comments, waltz on over to that like button if you enjoyed the review, and until next time, this has been
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Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You Theatrical Review
Demelza • 11th November 2017
If you’re a Pokémon fan then you’ll no doubt be aware of the very first episode of the anime series: Pokémon, I Choose You! This is the episode where the unbreakable bond between Ash and Pikachu began. Now, 20 years later, the story has been remade for the 20th movie of this huge franchise. Does this new take on a classic story capture the wonder of the Pokémon world?
This movie acts as an alternative universe retelling of Ash and Pikachu’s classic encounter. Like in the original anime episode, the movie starts off with Ash oversleeping and getting to Professor Oak’s lab late – dashing his chances to choose one of the three typical Kanto starter Pokémon, Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle. Thankfully, the professor has just one Pokémon left: an electric mouse known as Pikachu. While Ash and Pikachu don’t get on well to begin with, Ash eventually saves the small Pokémon’s life from a flock of Spearow and then the two form an unbreakable bond. As the sun rises after their life-threatening encounter, Ash sees a rainbow form in the distance and a mysterious Pokémon flies overhead which drops a rainbow-coloured feather. With the feather in hand, Ash and Pikachu vow to one day meet this Pokémon together.
After this event, the movie breaks into a montage showcasing some of Ash and Pikachu’s achievements until eventually picking back up just after Ash earns his third Gym Badge at the Celadon City Gym (yes, I know this isn’t where you earn it in-game). After a brief stop at a nearby Pokémon Center, Ash overhears some Pokémon Trainers talking about a recent sighting of Entei in the area. Ash and Pikachu rush out hoping to catch a glimpse of this legendary beast and along the way, run into two other trainers, Verity and Sorrel. Not long after, the three become friends and Sorrel explains the mysterious legend behind Ash’s Rainbow Feather…
It turns out that chosen trainers are given a Rainbow Feather by the legendary bird Pokémon Ho-Oh in order to guide them to its location. The one who follows the feather will become the “Rainbow Hero” and be able to challenge Ho-Oh to a battle. With this in mind, Ash and Pikachu set out on what could be their greatest adventure yet.
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You brings this tale back to a much simpler plot than those we’ve seen in the Pokémon movies recently, and rebooting the series in an alternate universe means you remove many of the hurdles the movies would normally have. For example, rather than Ash travelling with companions from the TV series, Verity and Sorrel are completely new characters for the movie. Ash also doesn’t have a lot of Pokémon within the movie, and this works much better in terms of developing his relationship with Pikachu.
The drawback in introducing new characters, of course, is that a movie simply doesn’t always have time to develop everyone. This is true for Verity and Sorrel. Both of them were given what could have been interesting backstories but they’re never elaborated on and, for the most part, pushed aside. It’s a huge shame because although the two aren’t bad characters, they feel like bystanders to Ash and Pikachu’s adventure. It’s one of the biggest issues I have with this movie – but that’s not the only one.
On top of Verity and Sorrel’s situation, I also have to point out that one of the movie’s lead Pokémon, Marshadow, really doesn’t feel like it needed to be included. Within the context of the story it’s said that Marshadow watches over those chosen by Ho-Oh and puts them through a test to see if they’re really worthy of meeting the legendary Pokémon. The problem is that Marshadow’s role could have been handled by Ho-Oh or the other Pokémon featured in the movie. The truth of the matter is that Marshadow is shoehorned in because it’s the latest special Pokémon to be given away for the current games, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Its inclusion just reminds me that the Pokémon films on a whole are just glorified adverts for the games, and without Marshadow, Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You probably would have held together better.
That’s not to say that the 20th Pokémon movie is a bad film though – because it’s not. In fact, I’d go as far to say that this is the best Pokémon movie in a very long time and a real return to form. The relationship between Ash and Pikachu is emotional and the overall plot does a good job of tugging at the viewer’s heartstrings. This really does feel like a fitting tribute to the original series and I came away really happy with what I’d watched. It’s instantly a Pokémon movie that I’d watch again and I haven’t had this feeling toward a Pokémon adventure in a long time.
Where animation is concerned, the movie has been handled by OLM, the studio that usually works on Pokémon. The movie is bright and colourful, filled with some fantastic scenes of Ash and Pikachu running through lush forests and flower-filled fields. The only real complaint is some clunky CGI used earlier on in the movie. It’s a bit weird, as the CGI is terrible to begin with but blends in much better later on, so I wonder why they didn’t go back and fix it for the beginning.
As is traditional for the Pokémon anime and movies, the majority of the original Japanese soundtrack has been removed for the dub. This leaves me unable to talk about the composer to great length as I’m not sure what is left intact and what has been replaced. What is here serves as a decent soundtrack, made up of mostly jaunty piano pieces. However, there is also a new rendition of the original opening theme, “Pokémon Theme (Gotta Catch ‘Em All)”, which will no doubt have veteran fans singing along.
The voice actors do a good job overall, especially Sarah Natochenny (Stephanie in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s) who plays Ash for the movie. She plays the role with a lot of emotion for Ash, which is critical considering how much of the movie hinges on the bond between Ash and Pikachu. Although no one else in the dub really stands out (owing mostly to a lack of characters) it certainly isn’t bad and I’d happily watch the movie dubbed again.
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You was released in cinemas for a single day on the 5th of November (the same day I was attending the Leeds International Film Festival). If you missed its limited run then you’ll be glad to know the movie is also coming to Blu-ray and DVD thanks to Manga Entertainment early next year. You can find out more about that here.
Overall I think Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You is a real treat for fans of the series. While there are certainly issues that bring it down somewhat, these can be overlooked. I think both new and old fans of Ash and Pikachu’s adventures will have a blast here. Undoubtedly this is one of the best Pokémon movies in quite some time.
Demelza
When she's not watching anime, reading manga or reviewing, Demelza can generally be found exploring some kind of fantasy world and chasing her dreams of being a hero.
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About a month ago (at the time of writing) I was given the chance to review the latest Pokémon movie,Pokémon Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, and in doing so it reminded me of how much I enjoyed some of the very first movies in the series. Luckily for me, I’ve been given the chance … Continued
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Pokémon Movie: Diamond & Pearl Collection Review
While still being within the period of ‘good’ Pokémon films, this set is worth every Pokémon fan having in their collections. Both new and old fans alike should find something to enjoy among the stories on offer. It’s just a shame that they’re all so similar overall.
Demelza • 18th May 2018
Pokemon Movie 14-16 Collection: Black & White Review
Overall Pokémon Black & White Movie Collection is a mixed bag. Older Pokémon fans like me will be left wanting for much better content and days gone by when Pokémon movies were actively good, but the younger/newer audience are more likely to get a kick out of Ash’s latest adventures.
Demelza • 10th July 2018
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At the Diogenes Café...
... enjoy today's sandwich.
The painting of Diogenes is by Jean-Léon Gérôme.
You know, Diogenes "destroyed the single wooden bowl he possessed on seeing a peasant boy drink from the hollow of his hands. He then exclaimed: 'Fool that I am, to have been carrying superfluous baggage all this time!'" But you might, nevertheless want or feel you need some things, and if you're buying them through Amazon, please go in through The Althouse Portal. You can get a simple wooden bowl or a lantern.
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Mitch H. said...
He didn't give the boy his bowl instead? What a perverse, narcissistic jackass.
Meade said...
By the picture I'd say old Diogenes found at least 4 honest men.
Etienne said...
Hoarding Amazon goods is called a Diogenes Disorder.
Freeman Hunt said...
Try getting rid of that bowl now, and you'll have the court taking over your whole life.
gerry said...
If he had that many dogs sitting around him, he must have been giving away sandwiches.
Bad Lieutenant said...
I guess he wasn't into hot food.
Was Diogenes the first person to be famous for being famous?
Apparently Diogenes liked his soup cold.
Snark said...
Speaking of paintings, I was unrelatedly browsing the photorealistic paintings of Paul Roberts of Sniff'n the Tears this morning, admiring his work. He painted all the band's album covers and has gotten even better over the years. I came upon one that immediately made me think of this blog. There's a woman in the painting that I think looks like a longer-haired Althouse at some unknown point in her past. And Althouse might put mustard on a minute steak, just because nobody else does that.
http://www.paulrobertspaintings.co.uk/05%20-%2009/Noon.html
Aunty Trump said...
I haven't watched Fox News in a long time, but I have been down with a "stomach flu" for a few days, and, well, when did it become of a network of leftie pretty boys pushing long discredited talking points?
HoodlumDoodlum said...
I criticize NPR a lot and they typically merit all my criticism and more, but I have to give them credit for 2 big things:
1.) Their reporters have been pretty careful in how they're discussing the LV shooting (making clear to use the correct terms, stating repeatedly when they're just speculating/the facts aren't known, and adopting the ATF spokesperson's description of slide fire stocks as a device that "simulates automatic fire.") You can tell they'e going out of their way to avoid having people knowledgeable about firearms gunsplain or otherwise mock them. They're managing to to a much better job on that front than the Media average.
2.) It seems like they're deliberately avoiding saying the guy's name (just using "gunman") and every time they do a story on the shooting they immediately do a story on one of the victims. They've going a little heavy on reporting the social media info of people killed, but I guess that's all they have for some of them right now and doing victim profiles/stories right after any update on the shooting or the investigation really keeps the focus on the victims and the crime itself (in a way that doesn't at all glamorize it).
So: good job so far, NPR.
Well, now I understand why there are dogs in the painting. Cynic = dogs.
Althouse - a learning experience and a Blog!
buwaya said...
"If he had that many dogs sitting around him, he must have been giving away sandwiches"
No, these are really misogynistic symbols for the horde of groupies that followed him around.
Once you figure out the wiles of the patriarchy you can never be fooled again.
Fernandistein said...
"We got there. We visited the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes. They spread robes for us. We delivered presents, we received presents. We ate, we smoked. We were all one.
"Now this is what happened. Me one night they took into a teepee. They sat me on a robe. With them I ate a certain plant, a strange herb of mystery and power. They beat their drums and sang their songs and made their prayers. My turn came to me with the drum. I sane my songs and made my prayer. And we ate again of this certain plant, this strange herb of mystery and power. And this we did all night. ...
[My spirit] saw war and the long hunger, peace and plenty of fat meat, and behind them both the things that makes all men brothers. It saw money. They all were as dreams, and yet were not dreams. It was this certain plant, this strange herb we ate that gave me this mystery.
The sun came up. We walked out of the tepee. You have drunk whiskey all night, felt the taste of its scum on your tongue, the fire which has scorched your insides? This herb but left my body clean and my mind whole. Would you know how my spirit felt? Look at this little silver pin fastened to my shirt."
-- "The Man Who Killed The Deer: A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life" 1942
"But this deer’s permission was not obtained."
"simulates automatic fire."
Yeah, because the semantics of the description are the most important thing, to, well gun <strike>nuts</strike> aficionados anyway. They are "simulated machine guns" I guess, so they shouldn't be covered by the same laws that actual machine guns are covered by because of "reasons."
Wilbur said...
I think they're waiting for him to croak. Dibs on the drumstick!
Mike Sylwester said...
Below is a very interesting comment that I read this morning at The Conservative Treehouse.
M. Mueller says:
I found this an interesting theory. It was posted on Facebook by Leigh Scott.
This guy has zero online presence. Very few photos. He owns multiple homes in several way out places and owns a couple of planes. He’s a pilot.
This dude is a trafficker. That’s where his money comes from. Selling illegal stuff. Guns, drugs, people. Probably all of it.
Yeah, it probably was ISIS. They set up a meeting to buy a bunch of guns to do a mass shooting. But rather than pay for them, they said “hey, no time like the present!” and killed the “shooter” in the process. The cops won’t say anything about this because, as I’ve said before, this ties into a much larger network of terrorists in the US and they know that the shooter’s Asian girlfriend was his partner on this stuff and probably knows who he was meeting.
Why would he put up cameras if he was not going to engage the police? That makes more sense if you’re doing an illegal deal and you want to make sure housekeeping isn’t going to bust in. Or to make sure that it’s just the two guys you agreed to meet and not a third etc.
It also bothered me that he was known to be a big country music fan. I think he picked that weekend so he could go to the show.
As for “false flags” folks, the problem is that these types of events have not lead to any policy changes in a long time. Probably since 9/11.It’s diminishing returns to keep staging these events and nothing happens. And anything about “security devices” being mandated etc. makes no sense from an economic standpoint.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/03/curiouser-and-curiouser-vegas-shooters-girlfriend-used-multiple-ids-multiple-ss-numbers-and-married-two-men-simultaneously/comment-page-1/#comment-4452905
That theory would be fine if he didn't send his girlfriend abroad during the intense preparation phase and send her money.
'Fool that I am, to have been carrying superfluous baggage all this time!'
Wow. He makes Marie Kondo look like a hoarder.
Gordon Scott said...
Well, Tim, semantics do matter in law. Remember the great "Assault Weapon" ban? It banned certain weapons that looked "bad." But you could have a weapon that lacked the cosmetic features, but functioned exactly the same.
People are endlessly innovative. If you ban bump stocks, someone will devise a modification that produces the same result, but will not involve the stock.
The outspokenly liberal Alec Baldwin admitted to Sen. Bernard Sanders recently that he fears his impression of Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” may have backfired, Entertainment Weekly reported Wednesday. Mr. Baldwin made the admission in an interview with the former Democratic presidential candidate on the Oct. 3 edition of his “Here’s the Thing” podcast, a production of WNYC Studios. “In terms of Trump, do you think we’re making him a little too cuddly, a little too funny, and we’re taking people’s minds off stuff that’s a little more serious?”
Archie Bunker, Alex Keaton, they will never learn. Plus, I hate to tell you Alec, but nobody but the dedicated Trump haters, you know, like LLR Chuck, watch your show anymore.
Of course, there is always the possibility that many Americans find Trump sort of cuddly on his own. Might not want to share an apartment with him, but still.
A rich guy buying a bunch of guns is not at all strange. A guy getting rich through real estate is not at all strange. A rich guy, especially a real estate rich guy, owning a bunch of properties is not at all strange.
The investigation and legal proceedings following the Charlottesville incident are being conducted like a kangaroo court.
http://www.unz.com/article/anarcho-tyranny-update/
Since Trump's election victory, two American institutions -- our judiciary and our intelligence community -- have been in a race to show which will disgrace itself the worst.
I thought that the appointment of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court put some breaks on the judiciary's race to disgrace itself.
The Charlottesville legal proceedings indicate, however, that much of our judiciary still is running on track to disgrace itself.
Very interesting story via Instapundit this am.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/donors-anti-trump-resistance-group-revealed/
An analysis for the funding of one partisan political foundation, the Center for Community Change. There are dozens of these things, this is just one, and the article does not try to list all of them much less untangle their finances.
Not that this stuff was not known from other published info, but its good intelligence.
Who are your (conservative partisans, Trump voters, etc.) actual political enemies?
This is a rather shadowy lot, deliberately so I think. The "faces" of the opposition are not the directors of the opposition, that much is clear.
Well, here is one layer of them - the Center for Community Change received the bulk of its funds from the directors of W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the The Open Society Foundation (Soros, but I suspect he himself, or his son, are just fronts). Every Citizen Counts - a sort-of PAC for Hillary Clinton. And a bunch of other usual suspects.
Money flowed through Center for Community Change to a very wide range of other activist operations including BLM-affiliated groups. The complexity of donors-to-donors-to-donors and besides that interlocking membership in various boards tells me that the whole system is designed mainly for three purposes -
- To disguise sources of funds, at least for political/PR reasons
- To make what amounts to unmonitored and unrestricted political contributions.
- And as I have noted before, to maintain a permanently embodied army of professional political operatives in the field, a "jobs for the lads" political industry.
So if you were in the market with a powder that if you just added water, turned into a "simulated machine gun" that can send dozens of bullets down range in a short time that were more than real enough to be deadly, it wouldn't bother you?
Maybe the barrels need to be modified so that they overheat at high fire rates more quickly, IDK, not a gun expert, but the guns have a design flaw, and trying to get everybody to hew to the language of your little cult isn't going to get you anywhere.
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...
Let's see: into minimalist décor and small houses. Ate raw octopus.
Yep. Diogenes was the First Hipster.
Bill R said...
Good post. Well done.
"but the guns have a design flaw"
The design flaw is human ingenuity. There is really no way out of this (the occasional outrage, in a country this large and diverse) without a general ban on firearms. This has been done, elsewhere. Its had some interesting consequences, and if you want to geek out on historical trivia we can go there.
But your real problem is not details of laws or technology, but a set of cultural values that will not permit a restriction. And if you change those cultural values in order to establish those restrictions, you will not be yourselves, anymore, perhaps in directions that would be a real loss.
Wow Mike, I guess we will never hear if he was being chased by that crowd swinging the clubs, either.
Charlottesville has worked out perfectly for the Dems, so they have no interest in looking into the details of what actually happened, and they control the process. What is Sessions doing? Wasn't he supposed to be investigating this? I don't know what happened, but based on what we have so far, it looks like the narrative doesn't cover all of the facts.
The design flaw is human ingenuity.
Sure, but make it harder, and a serious crime to do it. All I'm asking. If you can turn a semi-automatic into an automatic by any number of simple methods, then the design of the semi-automatic is the problem. Maybe the firing needs to be controlled by electronics, and if you get caught with a weapon where this as been altered, you go to prison. I don't know, but this is not an insoluble problem.
"Since Trump's election victory, two American institutions -- our judiciary and our intelligence community -- have been in a race to show which will disgrace itself the worst."
They were always corrupt and completely political, the only thing that's changed is that now you are seeing them more accurately.
Maybe it has a clock mechanism that meters out the rounds. You get caught without one, you go to prison.
Fool that I am, to have been carrying superfluous baggage all this time!
...said the guy carrying around a lantern in the daylight.
"then the design of the semi-automatic is the problem"
Then the next smart psycho will work with that restriction and find some scenario that works within those limits. Or makes use of them. The Orlando terrorist used an unmodified semi-auto, he simply selected a venue where this was more of an asset than a liability. This would not have worked so well with the crowd in Las Vegas, so some psycho found a quirk that works better in that specific environment. The next psycho will find some other and probably very different opportunity.
Like the creative fellow that used a semi-truck in Nice.
You can start following up behind the psychos, restricting fertiliser, semi-trucks, magazines, ammunition, and etc. and etc. one after another, and in the end what is going to be left? Not safety. And, I suspect, not any actual Americans.
Ray - SoCal said...
Agree with Buwaya on the importance of the story.
Amazing how Left many of these non profits have become.
And the big salaries they pay..
to maintain a permanently embodied army of professional political operatives in the field, a "jobs for the lads" political industry.
Yes and they are arming themselves.
They are following and stalking college Republicans at UC, Berkeley.
I expect this will grow as they add more affiliates around the country, especially at universities that accumulate hangers on who pretend they were students there. Berkeley and Seattle are two venues where this is common. There are lots of hangers on at both places who work in restaurants and pretend they are or were students.
I'm sure there are similar colonies of malcontents at other places in the east.
It's amusing that Paddock graduated from Cal State Northridge where Paul Gigot of the WSJ also is an alum.
"Amazing how Left many of these non profits have become."
Conquest's second law.
Per daily mail Las Vegas gunman was on anti anxiety. Seems common feature of non Islamic massacres in us.
- columbine
- naval shipyard
- sandy hill elementary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4947276/Stephen-Paddock-prescribed-Valium-Vegas-massacre.html
The fellow in this case, who apparently owned two small aircraft.
An alternative way out, in his case, could simply have been to take one of those, gas up, load it with additional gas tanks to its weight limit, and simply crash into the concert crowd kamikaze-style. There was nothing at all to stop him. He would probably have killed many more this way.
If you try thinking like a creative terrorist there is no end of opportunities to do massive damage. A little research will yield plenty of worse horrors open to the thinking villain. Finding and preventing them all is not merely impossible, but the attempt to prevent all these possibilities is profoundly socially destructive.
If those dogs were expecting treats from Diogenes, they were disappointed.
"jobs for the lads" political industry.
I think they spend their days trolling too.
"Money flowed through Center for Community Change to a very wide range of other activist operations including BLM-affiliated groups. The complexity of donors-to-donors-to-donors and besides that interlocking membership in various boards tells me that the whole system is designed mainly for three purposes...."
That's why I don't agree with people who laugh at the campus SJWs and say these Womyn's Studies majors are going to be making mocha lattes for the rest of their lives. A few will. The more motivated will go to work for the government or for organizations like Center for Community Change.
Then the next smart psycho will work with that restriction and find some scenario that works within those limits.
Yeah, but every one of these style attacks is essentially an attack on the second amendment, and if 2A absolutists are going to remain uncompromising, they are going to end up with a deal they really don't like.
Surrounded by dogs.
Looking for the honest man!
Just this past weekend we had a knife attack in Edmonton by a "refugee" that killed a police officer and wounded several others. If this shooter is radicalized, as it seems he might have been, there is another obvious mitigation technique.
Didn't Huck Finn sleep in a hogshead too?
Mike Sylvester's comment at 12.28 brings up some very interesting thoughts.
My husbands thoughts were. There must have been more than one shooter based on the distance between the two windows and that the firing sounds didn't have a break for a single shooter to go back or forth.
His initial thought was that the 'suspect' was probably already dead before the event.
The larger than necessary stock of arms and ammo at the hotel AND at his various residences, does tend to make one think that he was not just hoarding these expensive items, but was more likely trafficking in illegal arms. This would also explain the ability of someone with no discernible current source of income, other than some gambling, to become a very secretive millionaire.
It would be very interesting to see what the note on the table has written on it.
There is much more that we are not being told or probably will ever be told.
The other thing that I have gleaned from all of this is that the decor of the Mandalay Bay Casino is just Gawd awful.
mockturtle said...
Freeman, I didn't read the entire article but was there any mention that a Power of Attorney document was ever made by either of these two?
I wonder if that was a reference by Twain to this picture? Huck Finn was the "honest man" in the story, at least among the whites in it, even if he did use the 'n word' a lot.
tcrosse said...
"Lassie and Her Pals Discover Timmy Stuck Down the Sewer", by Théodore Géricault
"if 2A absolutists are going to remain uncompromising, they are going to end up with a deal they really don't like."
The choice is stand firm, or death by a thousand cuts. And if they lose, I think its not just they (the absolutists) who will lose. Even their opponents will lose, and perhaps lose worst of all.
There are bigger things here at stake than a few dozen people. I am not American, you are. You have a certain personality type that makes you American. I will never be that, I am something else. But one thing that makes you American is a certain ferocity. If you let them beat it out of you, you will be something else.
Yes, DBQ. It is clear, from the photo, that it was placed to be seen and secured to the table. The fact that we haven't heard anything about it from the MSM or LEO officials makes me highly suspicious that:
--it contains something they don't want us to know
--we may never know what's on the note
--a fake 'note' may be produced at some point in lieu of the original
If it sounds as though I don't trust the FBI it's because I don't. Totally.
http://www.stuffyoushouldread.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/HuckInSugarHogshead.jpg
I think Americans should be allowed to own guns.
I've never had an use for large clips, and automatic fire. As a matter of fact, the larger the caliber, the less likely I am to waste it, due to expense.
I had a friend who goes through crates of large caliber rounds, and the sad thing is, his kids have all dropped out of high school, and his wife left him.
I think at a certain point, guns become just another drug. If this guy didn't associate with other gun nuts, and his meth-like gun needs, he could have been a valuable member of society.
As it is, I no longer associate with him, because I don't want to be on the nut radar. I don't see it ending well for him, because all he talks about is the government and his constitutional rights.
My plan would be to exterminate these people in gas chambers, and use the heat from disposal to generate electricity.
"I had a friend who goes through crates of large caliber rounds, and the sad thing is, his kids have all dropped out of high school, and his wife left him."
Kids drop out and wife leaves due to daddy's expensive hobby? Then those golfers better check their kids report cards more closely!
You have something else going on here.
I think Americans should be allowed to own guns
100% agreed. The liberals somehow think that they are going to wave a magic wand and confiscate the millions of guns that in the hands of non criminal, normal citizens. They think that this will be a peaceful surrendering. Good luck with that.
I think at a certain point, guns become just another drug.
Because some people have no self control or are mentally ill is no reason to ban a substance or item from everyone. Everything at some point can become a "drug" or obsession. Watch the TV show Hoarders sometime. Tin cans and garbage can become just another drug.
Guns are a tool and the various types of guns are used for various purposes. You can responsibly use your tools or you can become unhinged and do damage. Hatchets are tools. You can chop kindling or go all Lizzie Borden and kill your family. You can also accidentally chop off your own finger. Either way, hatchets are not illegal because Miss Borden decided to kill. Guns should not be either.
Bilwick said...
It's a little known fact that Diogenes' neighbor, the buttinsky proto-"liberal" Statefuckedes, used to go Diogenes one better by stealing everyone else's bowls and redistributing them to the bowl-less. This was the first known example of what modern "liberals" would come to be called (with a straight face, yet!) "compassion."
Swear to Zeus.
Because some people have no self control or are mentally ill is no reason to ban a substance or item from everyone.
The problem is, since the mentally ill are drugged and released to free-range, there is no way to keep the public from massacre.
One solution would be to create Asylums, and move the insane inmates out of the penitentiaries to the nuthouses, and not allow them to free-range.
Congress can't have both. You can't have the insane walking free, when the means to massacre society is also available.
Truth be told, 60 people killed is not a big number. I bet 60 people died last week on the Freeways. How many would have lived if the insane didn't have texting devices as they massacred the other drivers.
Actually, Statefuckedes stole everyone's bowls, kept the best for himself, sold 1/3 of the rest and kept the money, broke or lost a third of the bowls, and gave a third of the bowls to the bowl-less...most of whom were bowl-less because Statefuckedes took their bowls in the first place.
He then demanded that everyone praise him for his actions.
Oh..you mean the system we had before the Left fucked things up?
n.n said...
In America alone, around one million people... human lives are aborted within three trimesters of a sexual relationship. Most of the lives are terminated by scalpel, vacuum, forceps-wielding mass abortionists. In fact, sexual relationships are the leading proximate cause for an unprecedented anthropogenic loss of human life.
I don't know, but this is not an insoluble problem.
All problems that involve human evil are insoluble. All solutions to human evil eventually produce more human evil than the original problem.
The Sandy Hook abortionist first aborted his mother, stole her arms, then ran amuck in a mass abortion field. If he didn't get his arms from his aborted mother, then he could have acquired them from government distributed arms in Mexico. Where there is a will, there is a way.
That said, the Sandy Hook abortionist was a known lunatic. It seems that the Las Vegas abortionist was also a known quantity. Then there is Planned Republican in Virginia, who seems to have been triggered by Democratic tales of "throwing grandma of the cliff", and the press's collusion to spread the partisan propaganda for political progress.
As Gahrie says. The system we used to have before the left decided to be "compassionate" and throw the mentally ill out onto the streets. Amazingly the rise in "homeless" coincided with this mass release of sick, incompetent, ill people. Co-inkydink as the Stooges would say.
HT said...
Chances of dying by:
http://www.nsc.org/learn/safety-knowledge/Pages/injury-facts-chart.aspx
"Freeman, I didn't read the entire article but was there any mention that a Power of Attorney document was ever made by either of these two?"
No. For profit guardian swooped in with an ex parte court order. Horrifying.
Alas, Quaestor is right.
"Blogger tim in vermont said...
Just this past weekend we had a knife attack in Edmonton by a "refugee" that killed a police officer and wounded several others."
Nobody died, and only the cop was attacked with a knife. The rest were run down a U Haul. Luckily, this particular stabby refugee was fairly incompetent.
"was fairly incompetent."
Incompetent criminals are the best kind.
SDaly said...
Diogenes sounds like he was jackass.
I know someone who once had something like a dozen guns in his hotel room. He wasn't even a "gun guy," just a guy with a lot of disposable income who bought guns occasionally and was moving. I asked if he was worried that the maid might find them and be frightened. He said he didn't want to leave them in his car, "What if someone breaks into the car and finds all these guns? I will have given a dozen guns to a criminal!" Don't remember what happened after that. Probably nothing.
His depiction is not unlike that of a mentally ill person...
You would think all that planning and foresight would be subordinated to some higher religious or political purpose than simply killing people. It's such a stupid act. Why didn't he behave in a stupid way?
walter said...
Maybe the alleged note will shed light on that.
Apart from all the carnage, Paddock stole attention away from Hillary's book tour.
Char Char Binks said...
It's okay to own things as long as they don't own you. And if Diogenes was a philosopher, I guess homeless shelters must be full of deep thinkers.
The Constitution leaves the method of election of Congressmen to the state.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for [deleted by Amendment Senators and] Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof
It reserves the right of the federal government to change this rule.
but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations
Nowhere in the document does it mention the courts. Obviously if the states did something un-Constitutional, then the courts could step in.
But by doing exactly what the Constitution says "states rights exercised" then I don't see where they can intervene.
Now, the fact that all states do it the same way, maybe these states have been coerced by a criminal conspiracy, and must be federalized. But that would require an amendment in my book.
Not only is there no solution, there is no problem.
Do you understand that, with existing CNC technology, never mind 3D printing soon to be in every home, if every M-16 and AK-47 in existence were melted down and made into bowls for Diogenes, one can make them afresh from raw metal without the involvement of another human being besides the Amazon delivery boy?
You can rent this stuff too, needn't be rich. You could make bigger - a .50 caliber machine gun, a grenade launcher, a cannon.
Look at prisons - what more restrictive environment - would you want to live in a prison? Yet phones, drugs, weapons are smuggled into prisons, and used, daily.
No, I get that you want a technological solution, but you can't have one. Can you create a unicorn by longing?
Think of it as a structural problem. "Impossible? Nothing is impossible!" Yes...except when it's structurally impossible, like rolling thirteen on one pair of dice.
If people do tech talk that makes you feel bad, well, I dunno what to say. No offense, but you're not really competent to understand the issue. People with great knowledge and experience (and others without it) have tried to deal with issues like this before. And here we are. You're not bringing anything to the table but a fresh, doubtless sincere cup of Instant Outrage, in Classic Something-Must-Be-Done Flavor.
It's like trying to stop 9/11s by banning airplanes and boxcutters.
Roughcoat said...
No. No, he's not right. All solutions to human evil do *not* necessarily produce more human evil than the original problem.
"His initial thought was that the 'suspect' was probably already dead before the event."
Can they tell by the angle of the shot whether it was self-inflicted or not?
I thought they could. I might have watched too many 70's cop shows.
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...
Regarding something Althouse said back in the Tom Petty thread:
'When I heard ‘American Girl’ for the first time I said, ‘when did I record that?’ - Roger McGuinn
Jupiter said...
tim in vermont said...
"Maybe it has a clock mechanism that meters out the rounds. You get caught without one, you go to prison."
Yeah, good idea. If Steve Paddock had only had one of those, he'd be safely in prison now. Or no, I guess he'd have had to not have one, wouldn't he.
buwaya,
You seem to have met some seriously pissed-off people when you were in the NRA. That kind of surprises me. Firstly, I've been an NRA member for decades, and I have not met anyone as a result. It's not like there's a clubhouse. They just send you a magazine, and endless fund-raising letters. But I have met people at the local range, and they have all -- every one -- been polite, well-mannered and easy-going. Nobody seems particularly pissed-off, although we are all pretty sick of the gun-grabbers and their endless lies. Maybe down there in the Bay Area, they feel more threatened or something. But it is a fact that people with concealed carry permits have a lower arrest rate than police officers. Ferocious we may be, but violent we are not.
"But I have met people at the local range, and they have all -- every one -- been polite, well-mannered and easy-going. "
Indeed, these are all gentlemen. Also self-organizing, inner-directed, and very far from being in sync with the local authorities. There is an undercurrent of rebellion, in spite of being genial. Maybe it is more of a California thing.
Yes, I joined @20 years ago at the urging of several friends who used to take me to the shooting ranges here (I don't own a gun). And yes, they were quite political on the issue.
I was surprised one day, in 2015-ish, when while touring an industrial plant I went for lunch with a shift/control room crew (@12 persons), and it turned out every one had an "assault rifle", and decided opinions on the matter.
Static Ping said...
So which of the dogs is Ruth?
The bump-fire rifle modification is legal because your hand becomes the spring, and thus the person remains in control.
An automatic weapon can be fired one handed. The person is not in control of the firing rate.
If the person adds a spring (somehow) to the contraption, then that would be an illegal/criminal modification.
So the hand being a spring is what stands before us as a nation.
The old Bitch.
I love all of these distinctions without differences.
My wife, your wife...what difference does it make, anyway?
What you ask, Tim, cannot be done.
roughcoat: No. No, he's not right. All solutions to human evil do *not* necessarily produce more human evil than the original problem.
Quaestor: I came here for an argument.
roughcoat: No, you didn't.
tim in vermont said...If you can turn a semi-automatic into an automatic by any number of simple methods, then the design of the semi-automatic is the problem. Maybe the firing needs to be controlled by electronics, and if you get caught with a weapon where this as been altered, you go to prison. I don't know, but this is not an insoluble problem.
Ok, but it's not just semantics when your misunderstanding/lack of care about the details of the thing make you put forward mechanically silly ideas related to regulation.
Bump fire and slide fire stocks don't "turn" a semi into an auto. They use a method to greatly increase the rate of fire of a semi...possibly approximating the rate of fire an actual auto has (using, of course, completely different means).
That may sound like splitting hairs, but it's not: if you want to make a thing illegal you have to understand with some precision what your law will accomplish/can accomplish. So when you say "we can't make it illegal to create these things but we should make it illegal to possess or use them" you're mirroring the argument for fully automatic weapons! There exist some (mostly crappy) semiautomatic weapons that are relatively easy to modify to actually function fully automatically--no stocks, no tricks, just mechanical modification that changes the way the weapon operates. What I mean is: that's possible today! It's also highly illegal--the current NFA laws prohibit that action. So, at best, you're just saying that slide fire & bump fire stocks should be added to the list of already-illegal devices. Fine, you know: if enough people agree then that'll be the law. It would be silly, though, to pretend that your new law would have actually done much to actually prevent something like this from happening. To take it to an absurd level: there are already laws against mass murder.
Anyway having a "clock mechanism" that regulates the number of rounds fired (or the method or speed with which they can be fired) is in a way what the firearm laws already do.
That's why it's important to be specific when suggesting what you want to change. Without doing that you're likely to be arguing for either something that's already illegal or for something that's not mechanically possible.
"I love all of these distinctions without differences."
There is another, more interesting perhaps -
Training and skill.
A fellow like Jerry Miculek can achieve near-automatic firing rates with his extremely well educated trigger finger (or whatever it is he does).
5 a second (300 rpm), which is not far from the lower end of automatic fire rates; many machineguns run at 400-500 rpm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gf_5MR4tE
Both women. My only point is that if you are going to be absolutist in the light of new information, to me anyway, and I suspect to most Americans outside of the world of gun aficionados, there is no "bright line" between a machine gun and a semi automatic rigged up with some simple, easily obtainable patch.
Nobody had any problem with extremely tight restrictions on machine guns, sure, part of the problem was Prohibition, but part of the problem was the Tommy Guns. Now we just get "deny deny deny."
Surely you have been reading this blog long enough to recognize that what you are writing is just persiflage. I know you want to drag me into the weeds so that we can lose site of the real issues, but no. You guys have proposed bright lines, but they are at best smudgy lines, distinctions that make no real difference, to me anyway.
It's possible, by the way, to bump fire a semi without the use of any kind of stock or external device. I can't link it now but do a search for "belt loop bump fire" or "bump fire from shoulder no stock" and you'll see videos of people demonstrating the technique. It takes a little practice and with most methods you can't aim effectively at all, but it's possible to just use your hand and body positioning to fire a semi very very quickly.
So banning the slide fire and bump fire stocks won't eliminate the ability of a person to fire a standard semi at an accelerated rate if they so desire.
My favorite so far is "simulated automatic fire," this is sort of like "simulating sex, but with penetration." "It was harder to make her cum, I could only use have my dick!" Please.
Quaestor @ 5:33 PM:
My damn browser Safari, keeps completing words halfway through. Yeesh!
So here again:
So the problem is the semi automatic rifles. That's what you guys keep telling me. And I am a voter who takes the NRA seriously, since I look at it as a precursor for other freedom restrictions.
It seems like "bump stocks" could be made illegal under current laws governing machine guns.
tim in vermont:
What happened to your Labrador? Did he get eaten by the lizard? :)
"there is no "bright line" between a machine gun and a semi automatic rigged up with some simple, easily obtainable patch."
Given some skill and some motivation, no there isn't much of a distinction.
If you want a machinegun of sorts, there are any number of legal and illegal ways to get one.
Its not particularly difficult to make one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA&t=1s
And that was in Britain, where this was highly illegal, with no expert advice or re-purposing of existing and easily obtained parts.
Granted, its an obstacle, leaving this sort of thing to the more clever and motivated.
If the US had a greater degree of motivation you would see a lot more of this I think. Though I wonder whether there isn't a great deal of this sort of homebrew work going on, as guns are very much a US cottage industry, a folk art.
Perhaps, in the US, the vast majority of sort of person with the skill and character to make such illegal objects has better things to do; but again the more this class of person are hit over the head the more likely they are to rebel, along the grain of their abilities.
tim in vermont said...You guys have proposed bright lines, but they are at best smudgy lines, distinctions that make no real difference, to me anyway
Ok tim. You want to write a law or have the government take some action to do something, right? What would you like that law to say? "Bump fire stocks are now illegal." Good; very good. The law is going to have to define what a bump fire stock is, though...it can't just say "stuff tim doesn't like." The current NFA regulations are pretty specific. Bump fire stocks are today legal because they don't meet the current law's criteria for automatic weapons.
You could, certainly, change that law! The ATF publishes findings all the time changing what is and is not permissible around the margins. I'm not saying you can't ban something, tim, I'm just saying you have to actually know what you're banning, and if what you're banning won't solve the problem you're trying to solve then the ban itself doesn't seem very useful.
If what you want to accomplish is "ban anything that allows a person to fire a semi auto over X rate" then you're going to have a very tough time, tim. There are a large number of firearm designs (operating mechanisms, etc) and since before the first semi-auto was invented people have been working on the problem of how to fire more quickly.
An automatic is a bright line because it's a mechanical definition--that means something and a law recognizing/distinguishing that meaning can be useful. A vague feeling, or knowing what's bad when you see it isn't really useful when we're talking about physical mechanisms.
Just as an example: I sometimes hear people say that since almost all semi-autos are capable of being fired quickly we should ban them all and people could just have revolvers.
Here is a video of Jerry Miculek shooting 16 rounds in 4 seconds (on target) from a revolver
Now he's a world champion & speed world record holder, but he's done plenty of videos with stock or close to stock revolvers showing that they are mechanically capable of being fired very quickly indeed.
Short of banning all firearms, what law would you pass that would slow Jerry down?
tim in vermont said...My favorite so far is "simulated automatic fire," this is sort of like "simulating sex, but with penetration." "It was harder to make her cum, I could only use have my dick!" Please.
Please what? It's a fucking quote from the ATF spokeswoman.
NPR: ATF Says Gunman Had 'Bump-Fire' Stocks
"The classification of these devices depends on whether they mechanically alter the function of the firearm to fire fully automatic," said Jill Snyder, ATF Special Agent in Charge. "Bump-fire stocks, while simulating automatic fire, do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal under current federal law. It is still being determined which firearms were used in the shooting."
Gee, the AFT Agent in Charge sure is talking about a smudgy line, huh? She's too much of a gun-nut to get it, I guess. She probably LOVES letting people break gun laws.
"I know you want to drag me into the weeds so that we can lose site of the real issues, but no. You guys have proposed bright lines, but they are at best smudgy lines, distinctions that make no real difference, to me anyway."
What I hear you saying, is that this guy could not have killed 50 people if he had not had the weapons he had, and so you want to make it impossible for people like him to have weapons like that. That is a superficially logical argument. But what the people arguing with you are saying is that "weapons like that" is not as clear-cut as you think it is.
I will go a step farther. I don't care how you chop it, I am opposed to ANY additional restrictions on the 2nd Amendment. And I want to see the ones that are there rolled back. And I do not trust people who say they only wants to make a few reasonable modifications. They only want to make a few reasonable modifications *today*. If we have learned anything from the last 50 years, it is that all slopes are slippery.
tim in vermont said...It seems like "bump stocks" could be made illegal under current laws governing machine guns.
No, they're not illegal under the current law, tim. The ATF would love to say they are, but based on the law they can't.
It would certainly be possible to pass a law making bump fire stocks illegal. I don't think anyone is disputing that.
It would be very difficult to pass a law that would actually prevent someone from using a bump fire technique (even without a stock) to achieve a high rate of fire. If what you actually want to do is make that impossible or illegal, banning bump fire stocks will not accomplish your goal.
If your goal is just to ban those specific items it will not be difficult to accomplish that goal.
Personally, I'm not interested in owning (or, God forbid, using) a machine gun. Anything I want to do in terms of self defense I can do just as well with a semi-auto . . . only, of course, slower. But not too much slower.
What would slow most people down is magazine size limits and design limitations like non-interchangeable magazines, as in California or Canada.
You could, for instance, require semiauto weapons to have fixed magazines and at best reload individual rounds or from stripper clips -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY19tDMDvr4
OK, Miculek or his students can fire six or ten very fast, but that does not make a machinegun. You can bump-fire likewise, but for just a few shots.
The US problem here though is that there are an immense number of unconstrained weapons and large magazines already out there. Making these illegal would be a huge logistical problem, and extremely unpopular among the affected people and their sympathisers. And these things are not that difficult to make or modify either. Again, this just adds motivation to defy the authorities and will not impede the especially motivated evil genius.
What you really have here is not a technical problem, but a cultural-political problem. The people (not the techo-gadgets) that need to be controlled do not want to be controlled, they are hostile to the authorities and entities that want to control them. You must convince them, and in the modern state of cultural conflict and distrust this is impossible.
So the problem is the semi automatic rifles.
Horse power alterations in automobile engines and other modifications can be illegally done to make the vehicle not street legal. Cams, lifters, nitro enhanced engines. Etc etc.
None of these alterations are an indication that there is something wrong with the original vehicle or the intent of the original manufacturer. We don't go apeshit to ban all vehicles because someone suped up their car and caused a wreck because the were being hot shots.
The problem is not with the tool, the car, the rifle. It is with the use that the moron using it has put it to. (I know preposition end, bad)
Actually, many of those modifications are NOT illegal. The resulting frankencar might be :-)
It's sort of like the illicit drug trade.
A nation can ban these drugs, but it is not under any expectation that it will solve the problem. Mental illness and brain damage will keep this activity high, even with laws.
The same for automatic weapons, and virtual automatic weapons. Many mental and brain damaged people will keep these conversion parts flowing, even if made illicit.
The point is, that as rule of law, it would be illegal to sell them, and thus makes owning them more difficult. It proclaims that as a nation, we don't want automatic weapons to be classed as just another gun.
The markup on bump stocks is almost 50%, so gun dealers are getting rich on these things. I drove over to my local gun shop, and he had a waiting list at $300 each.
I found the same one on the Internet for $99.99 on sale. So, it's like the gun dealers are having a field day with the local insane.
I saw them at a gun show this summer. The markup there was 50% as well.
None of these alterations are an indication that there is something wrong with the original vehicle or the intent of the original manufacturer.
Have you guys been studying how to beg a question?
Some people hold up the Australian model for gun control.
I know Australia and Australians. I used to work for an Australian company.
Half my living relatives are now in Australia.
Australians, in spite of their reputation, compared to Americans, are meticulous rule-followers. They also have a massively different attitude to government. They, mostly, actually trust their government. And this all was and is especially so among the people who owned guns, solid citizens.
Americans of that class, whether outright gun nuts or the sort who would for any reason be inclined to own an AR-15, solid citizens, are very different from Australians.
If what you actually want to do is make that impossible or illegal, banning bump fire stocks will not accomplish your goal.
I think that the best we can hope for is to make it difficult to have a machine gun, "simulated" or actual. What that means for "just add water" type machine guns, by that, I mean semi-automatics, is open to debate, as far as. I am concerned.
What if you had a castle tower, and it had a lever, and if you pulled the lever, the whole castle collapsed, and everybody was on the honor system to not pull the lever, and it was a design feature of the castle, and it was built according to the specification and worked as designed, would you call that a design defect? I would.
Same as if you had a big red button on the front door of your house that if anybody pressed it, they would be killed. Worked according to design, just don't press it and there won't be any problems! is that a design problem?
It sounds like what you want is an extremely watered-down version of the laws that prevented the Bataclan Massacre in France.
@ Tim in Vermont
My response was to your statement So the problem is the semi automatic rifles. That's what you guys keep telling me
Firstly. Us guys and gals have not said that the problem is with the original product, the semi automatic rifle. The problem is with the user of the weapon.
As others have pointed out you can ban 'bump stocks'. Fine. Then the next modification will have to be banned as it is invented. Then the next. Plus you can't ban people having skills.
Because some people misuse and abuse their tool, weapon, car, hammer....we should ban or make it difficult to own hammers, cars etc?
What if you do ban hammers? How do you plan to get them out of the hands of people. Next think about guns and forcing people to give them up to who? The GOVERNMENT? Good luck with that.
The best thing for the country, is to allow unlimited sales of bolt-action long guns, and to declare everything else contraband. Shotgun shell rifles would also be exempt.
We could give the 3 years to turn in their non-bolt action long guns, and these would be given to the rebels in foreign countries who are fighting dictators.
Those who refuse or are caught with non-bolt action rifles will have their citizenship revoked and deported to Honduras.
Simple. Mental health reform requires one step at a time. It won't hurt Hondurus, because they are all insane anyway.
"Same as if you had a big red button on the front door of your house that if anybody pressed it, they would be killed. Worked according to design, just don't press it and there won't be any problems! is that a design problem?"
Well, no, that's something more than a design problem. That is, at the very least, a bad attitude.
Now who's begging the question? And BTW, thanks for using the phrase correctly.
There are so, so many ways to skin a cat -
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I.e., a small drop-in device without special tools also emulates full auto.
And all sorts of other ways. Its not a difficult problem.
I am thinking of a wind-up coil-spring mechanism to drop into the trigger guard.
Or something like a friction-toy mechanism. All you need is to make something reciprocate fairly rapidly.
tim in vermont said...I think that the best we can hope for is to make it difficult to have a machine gun, "simulated" or actual.
Ok, that's your goal, make it difficult to have a machine gun or a semi with a bump-fire stock. I agree "we" could ban bump fire stocks quite easily. We would probably not even have to grandfather existing devices in--ban them all, make possession a federal NFA violation (which is a mandatory big felony). Done.
Now, though. I can approximate the function of a bump fire stock with a couple of pieces of 2x4, a long screw or bolt, and a spring (alternately I'd need a couple of nails and some thick rubber bands). Putting those on a standard semi auto would be highly illegal under your law (it would be "building" an unregistered machine gun, in fact), but I could put that together with Home Depot parts in a few minutes. Someone could use such a contraption to increase the rate of fire on a standard semiauto pretty easily...so we're right back to your ban not preventing people from doing that thing you want to prevent.
If you want to effectively stop people from potentially firing a semi auto quickly you have to listen to buwaya and pass CA or MA-style restrictions: fixed mags (without the now-common "bullet button" bypasses), low mag counts, etc. Ignoring the fact that even those restrictions are relatively easy to get around, passing a law to make CA's restrictions apply nationwide would accomplish the goal of making it much more difficult for individuals to fire weapons very quickly.
At that point, though, you're all but banning semis altogether. Most of the people calling for more restrictions today are explicitly saying they DON'T want to ban all semis. Maybe you do--and that ban would in fact accomplish the goal I think you want to accomplish.
The point of trying to pin down precisely what you want to pass a law against is to clarify exactly what that law will actually do. A ban on bump stocks will probably prevent people from using bump stocks and will make it marginally more difficult for some people to fire quickly using that method, but will not prevent people's ability to fire quickly using another method. In order to prevent any method from being useful you will need to ban most semis, and that's politically a much, much tougher task.
It's not bad faith when I ask for specifics and insist on clear definitions here--it's important to determine what we're actually talking about.
"What if you had a castle tower, and it had a lever, and if you pulled the lever, the whole castle collapsed, and everybody was on the honor system to not pull the lever, and it was a design feature of the castle, and it was built according to the specification and worked as designed, would you call that a design defect?"
If you think about it, and you know something about what makes so many modern systems work, that's exactly what you've got right now. In this respect guns are a trivial problem. There are a great number of people sitting by as many of these red buttons, and at any time one of them could indeed hit the button. You exist by trusting a great number of people.
buwaya said...I am thinking of a wind-up coil-spring mechanism to drop into the trigger guard.
Something similar exists using a crank and a cam--I've only seem them on Ruger 10/22s but the principle should be valid for larger weapons.
There was one ridiculous one I saw recently, the "AutoGlove." It used a servo and a cam on a glove that you held in the triggerguard. The ATF ruled that one an actual machine gun, though, which looking at it the first time I assumed had to be correct. I think their idea was that if you used it on a weapon with enough room inside the triggerguard the cam would nto actuate the trigger unless you physically moved your finger and that'd be enough to count as your finger doing the action (and thus the weapon functioning as a semiauto). Since I'm pretty sure you COULD use it on something with a smaller space and thereby not have to move your hand at all to allow the cam to crank the trigger back and forth quickly...anyway I understand they got a bad ruling from the ATF and had to shut down.
Mechanically, though, there're all sorts of things you can do to speed up firing if you don't care about accuracy, wear, or jams/breakage.
Blogger buwaya said...
Then the next smart psycho will work with that restriction and find some scenario that works within those limits
A guy like him with no record to draw attention and a lot of money could likely have acquired a far more efficient killing device.
The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. - Huckleberry Finn
In which he discards his wooden bowl.
There are a great number of people sitting by as many of these red buttons, and at any time one of them could indeed hit the button.
That was basically the plot of Dr Strangelove.
Now who's begging the question?
Hoodlum, as you made very clear, it's almost impossible to prevent people from turning a semi-automatic weapon into what is, close enough for jazz, an automatic weapon, maybe not one of those helicopter Gatling guns from Viet Nam, but close enough. So yeah, I think that is a serious problem and I think that much stricter laws regarding these weapons are in order, given the new, to me, information about them. I was sort of fine with semi-automatics, didn't like them, but was sort of fine with them. that's because I was ignorant about them. I doubt I am the only one who had their eyes open this week.
The above is my opinion, which has changed since last week. I am unlikely to change it again. Doesn't mean I am for "long gun" registries, or anything like that, bans on handguns or shotguns, nope. I even think that you guys should try to extract concealed carry reciprocity for any concessions, but these "semi, not so semi-automatics," you guys should understand, are your biggest threat to 2A.
"A guy like him with no record to draw attention and a lot of money could likely have acquired a far more efficient killing device."
He already had airplanes. The guns were used for reasons not entirely determined by a body-count. Perhaps he wanted to see, to some extent, what evil he was doing.
Yeah..one of many at this point that feel the need to document their deeds. Though..it seems like a slightly new twist to train a camera solely on themselves.
Strange gift for his mom..
tim in vermont said...Hoodlum, as you made very clear, it's almost impossible to prevent people from turning a semi-automatic weapon into what is, close enough for jazz, an automatic weapon, maybe not one of those helicopter Gatling guns from Viet Nam, but close enough. So yeah, I think that is a serious problem and I think that much stricter laws regarding these weapons are in order, given the new, to me, information about them. I was sort of fine with semi-automatics, didn't like them, but was sort of fine with them. that's because I was ignorant about them. I doubt I am the only one who had their eyes open this week.
See, if you'd just substitute "something that can fire almost as fast as an automatic" in for "what is, close enough for jazz, an automatic" you'd be fine. You don't care about the mechanism, you care about the potential ability to fire a lot of rounds very quickly. Incorrectly describing the mechanism doesn't get anyone anywhere and in fact obscures your actual concern.
The best thing right now for Mandalay Resort and Casino is to declare bankruptcy and change ownership before the lawyers surround them.
Prediction: Stephen Paddock was not a gun enthusiast who killed other gun enthusiasts to make a political point about guns. - Scott Adams. He thinks the man had underlying psychopathy but then went on antidepressants and/or other medicines and then lost the usual thrill feelings from gambling, so he shot a lot of people in order to feel again.
Priority for his fortune is paying to the extent possible the lifetime medical bills of the survivors. Gunshot victims can easily incur over $1 million in lifetime expenses, depending on location and severity.
@tim, I don't own and don't desire to own an AR-type of rifle, but if you want to reinstitute the Bill Clinton ban on "assault rifles" then I'm against you all the way. This is fifty year old technology, damn it! We aren't talking laser cannons or rail guns.
"This is fifty year old technology, damn it! We aren't talking laser cannons or rail guns."
I don't want any sort of regular gun at all, but I would really, really like to have a laser cannon!
EMyrt said...
Gerome's Diogenes looks ridiculously well groomed.
Alma-Tedema's looks much more likely, although it's very unlikely young Athenian girls would be out unsupervised to mock him.
The thing is that guns are already optimized for their purpose. Anything added it subtracted will likely reduce its function, accuracy, power, reliability, handleability, IOW its safety and effectiveness.
Morally, in an engineering sense, this is wrong and can have no good effect.
Let's explain another reason why your plan is counter effective or counterproductive. Rapid advances made in Firearms technology largely trickled off after World War II. Another generation of refinement since you've been in, and everybody's using World War II or Vietnam era technology. Who is the next US small arms genius after Stoner or maybe Ingram? What, some 1911 tweaker?
But much of the reason for that is increasing regulatory pressure on small arms enthusiasts, collectors and scholars, sport and practical users, and members generally of what might be called the gun culture, the vast majority of whom are some of the most law-abiding, safe, responsible and productive members of society.
In particular since 1934 and probably before that in municipalities such as New York City, viz., the Sullivan Law, governments at all levels have been quite happy to chip away at this as with so many of our rights.
But what really takes the cake, is the impact of the regulatory choke-hold on the innovation and Improvement in the field. No or few young boys or girls are going to grow up with basement Workshop with maybe a lathe in it, compressor, drill press, mig welder, punches and chisels and a'that, and fewer and fewer at school. In general I do feel that America is poorer in mechanisms than when I was young. Objective data refutes this given my Suburban, but even so the Toyota truck is probably just as good. Choice of terrs everywhere. Like to backtrack that credit card...
Anyhoo...
Of this diminishing resource base there is exceedingly little acceptance of young firearms tinkerers, very much so to full grown ones. It's not as easy to innovate at a deep level when the enterprise is so deprecated? May as well turn your clockwork concepts to better electromechanical dildos. Or sideswipe STEM altogether and go into finance. Or maybe you're an artisan who turns the Magic in your hands towards union labor or massage or goes into graphic design, God forbid.
Anyway, let's just go science fiction, Let's ignore material constraints and suppose that the 300 million firearms in American private hands, and I presume all police and military and everyone else is well because this is the technology of the future and it will be so much better.
What features and design parameters precisely do you, Tim of Vermont, think the new generation of small arms should have? Do you have any strong opinions? If you feel a certain kind of way about 9 millimeter versus 45, or the 556 and 762 versus some new intermediate caliber? You think maybe angry people should have smaller rifles and pistols, or slower operating ones, than those with inner peace?
Maybe instead of a mechanical trigger you touch with your finger there should be a Bluetooth link to an implant in your skull and you just think bang and it shoots?
Where do you think you put the agency so that everyone can be safe?
___ or Trump fires Tillerson for calling him a moron.
Tell me Tim, would you feel better if the shooter had simply had one rifle and he pulled the trigger one of the time? Or even would you like it better if he had a bolt action World War II or World War 1 rifle? Or hunting rifle? He had over an hour. If he got off five or ten shots a minute he still could have killed a hundred people.
With a $50 Dremel toolkit. Or less.
narciso said...
Plasma rifle in a forty watt range, railguns were only demonstrated in eraser, and the second transformer.
Typo alert. I meant to say:
Ignore material constraints and suppose that the 300 million firearms in American private hands, and I presume all police and military and everyone else is well because this is the technology of the future and it will be so much better, will be replaced on a one-for-one exchange basis with equivalent firearms of the new safe type, anonymously without registration, tracing, or other threat to our civil rights.
Sadly, yes, criminals will also get their firearms exchanged for new ones, but after all, they're the ones you most want to reach, right? This was awful, completely awful, as would have been a dozen or three or one, but number one I wonder where they're there will be copycats or others who adopt this technique, and two, most shooting is by ordinary criminals in ordinary crimes, and much harm may be reduced if drive-bys are reduced in their propensity to claim innocent bystanders. It would be interesting to see Hoodrats hooking sawed-off Mauser rifles out the car window. Perhaps and then they would learn the virtue of aiming.
ceowens said...
@ Tim in VT
If you are not a gun expert and live in rural Vermont you are surrounded by such experts.
Also, let's ban fingers and belt loops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD213VW6WjY
But whatever new weapon you invented science fiction, and for me that's groovy, you still got the old ones cold dead hands over their owners this is going to happen. Put it this way. You're trusting the government. Who trusts both Obama and Trump, not to mention their judge picks, let alone the next President? Or this or any Congress? How does science fiction remedies political poison in our real life atmosphere? Who trusts the new weapons not to have a GPS chip in them so they can all be hunted down and seized? Then I guess Tim you want to make it a pound me in the ass federal prison crime to take out the chip. Then, same to put on the internet a how-to video or PDF instructions.
It is easier to banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge. -H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Although no one can confirm Yamamoto's quote, I prefer to keep the illusion.
Plasma rifle in a forty watt range...
Unimpressive compared to a 5.56x45 rated around 1,800 Joules.
Insty is now linking to a story that he was shooting at General Aviation fuel tanks next to the concert. Had one exploded, there would be a thousand dead instead of 59.
Paddock, a 64-year-old Mesquite resident, had broken two windows in his 32nd-floor suite — one in line with the concert site and the other with a direct view of the fuel tanks, one source said. The bases of private aircraft operators are close to the tanks.
And he had an airplane and knew about the tanks.
Two shooters ?
Jim S. said...
Diogenes would urinate in public in order to prove that human beings are merely animals. But animals don't urinate in public in order to make a point.
Michael K said...Two shooters ?
Two windows, pointing in two different directions.
Darrell said...
Nah. At least two different distances. And not an echo. The far away sound after a long pause--quickly followed by loud close fire is the giveaway.
This is fifty year old technology
More like one hundred year old, isn't it?
Lets just outlaw evil.
The president is a career killer, the ultimate survivor champion in that he doesn't just win, he potentially ruins the lives of anyone he boots from the island. Why in the world would anyone take a position in the administration knowing you can be fired, and lose two jobs, the one you had and the one you just lost. It was just chairman of Exxon though. No biggie.
Why you guys think that persuading me that semi-autmotics are defective in design helps your cause, I don't know. Maybe you should take the Scott Adams posts more seriously, because that's what you guys are doing, pointing out the problems with semi-automatics. One after the other you guys do it.
The first one to come along and say "look, I know that they are machine guns in all but name, but so what?" would get more respect from me.
Tell me Tim, would you feel better if the shooter had simply had one rifle and he pulled the trigger one of the time? Or even would you like it better if he had a bolt action World War II or World War 1 rifle? Or hunting rifle? He had over an hour.
The things machine guns do is make the responders, or "attackers" I guess, approach very slowly, heads down, always under cover, so yeah, I would rather the guy had a bolt action rifle to a machine gun. Yeesh! He probably would have had less than 72 minutes.
What the gun nuts want is a precise definition of helper parts to a semi-automatic to make it an automatic to be banned so that they can have a workaround to it up on YouTube within a day. It's a fool's game and there is no reason to play it.
And anybody who tries to make a point about a "coming civil war" just turns me away more. For one thing, do any of you know any soldiers win the US Army, I mean personally, I know a couple, and I don't really think that these guys are going to carry out orders to kill Americans. In Iran, what they did was bring in people from different tribes who had been whipped up into a frenzy of tribal blood lust. That's what China did too. It ain't happening here.
Safari substituted "win" for "within" It's so smart!
Zorfwaddle said...
I was stationed in Sinop, Turkey in the early 90's. Great place. The unit coin was for "Diogenes Station." Still have it somewhere.
According to the police he shot for 10 minutes. He didn't have 72 minutes. A bolt action rifle would've reduced the casualty list by at least 50%.
Any semi-automatic can be converted to automatic with a little technology and skill.
@ tim in vermont believes that a semi-automatic rifle that functions as intended (one trigger pull, one shot) is "defective in design". He and I will just have to disagree on that.
Now for a little Alinsky.
"Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
You know that kid next door, the 16 year old with the backwards baseball hat and pants half way down his ass? If he is not a felon and can scrape together $200 he can have a pistol in his pocket. At least in Vermont.
The guys at Mogadishu would have liked that.
The bad guys, I mean.
Rosa Marie Yoder said...
Speaking of swamps and swamp creatures... Somebody should take one of the cantina scenes from Star Wars and photoshop the heads of some of the monsters from DC onto it. Hillary. Podesta. Maxine. Michelle. McCain. Reid. The possibilities are endless...
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Stuart Sharpe started his 2018 competition campaign in style by winning GOLD at the first English Championships Qualifier in Gillingham!
It was Stuart’s first national event since failing to finish a routine in the Spring Series competitions last year, and he quickly banished all memories of that with some controlled routines. Ranked in first place after his initial two routines, Stuart managed to still improve, and received his highest score in the Final to secure first place. This puts him in a strong position to qualify for the English Championships later in the year, while also demonstrating why he recently retained his spot in the National Disability Squad.
Philip Sharpe, Stuart’s Dad, was proud of his son’s “great performance”.
Well done to Stuart, and best of luck to him for the rest of the season!
Full results are available at https://www.british-gymnastics.org/event/9063/trampoline-and-double-mini-tramp-english-championships-qualification-series-1-2018.
by Mike Wakely
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Prizes.
Volume 2, 1891/92, pg. 320
Awards.--Miss Morse awards her prize as follows:--
(1) Buttonholes, Miss Mildred Winthrop, Half-a-guinea; her work could hardly be excelled.
(2) Smocking, Mrs. Leader, Half-a-guinea. The specimen sent in by Mrs. Lucius Smith is almost as beautiful a piece of work.
Mr. E.P. Arnold-Forster awards his prize for--
(3) Model Engine to Richard Jefferson, aged sixteen. One Guinea. An ingenious work.
Lady Aberdeen awards her prize for a list of--
(4) Twelve Hymns, to be committed to memory by children under twelve, to Hon. Mrs. Cropper, Half-a-guinea.
(5) For Twelve Poems, do., to Mrs. Russell Grenville, Half-a-guinea.
(6) Miss Behrens awards her prize for Translation of Passages from the German to Miss Maud Lloyd, One Guinea, who deserves high praise, not only for her rendering, but for her clever reproduction of the original meter. Miss Tomas's prose translation is very good, and Miss Picton-Warlow's blank verse is excellent.
Competitions.--
(1) The Competitors for "Twelve Rules for the Nursery" are requested to add a short article on "The Management of a Nursery, giving arrangement of hours for rising, toilettes, meals, airings, for a family of little children; including the amount of needlework done by nurse and nurserymaid for a family of six under ten years of age." If competitors will be good enough to send in by June 15, we shall still be able to announce the award in the July number. Rules and Article.
(2) Mrs. W.D. Hall offers a prize of One Guinea for "The best paper on Living English Musicians." To be sent in by the last day of June.
Both competitions to be sent to Editor, care of Publishers.
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REVIEW: Peter Holsapple’s “Game Day” is His Getting Back in the Album Game After 21 Years
July 26, 2018 July 27, 2018 Martin Besa0
You may have heard of Peter Holsapple, one of the founders of power pop cult favorites the dB’s, but chances are you’re more familiar with one of the other bands he’s worked with (R.E.M, Hootie & the Blowfish, and the Continental Drifters, to name a few). Now, twenty-one years since his last solo record, Holsapple pushes himself to the forefront with Game Day (Omnivore). [Read our interview with him by clicking one of these bolded words.]
A coiner of the phrase “omnicana music,” Holsapple also jokes that he played and sang on “99 44/100ths of the notes on this record,” and produced and engineered it himself. This is highlighted not only by the slick wit and melody of the lyrics but also by his nimble guitar prowess. There’s the bluesy swagger of “In Too Deep,” his solo filled with sharp, stinging bends. “Tuff Day” combines a hint of proto-punk with a surfed-out outro, and he puts his stamp on “Them Changes,” written by Buddy Miles and often played when he was drumming with Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys.
This is far from a strictly guitar-centric album, however. The title track may be indicative of Holsapple’s current mindset (“If you put me in the game I’ll play / I won’t just fade away”), which is a a lyrical adventure through adulthood. Meanwhile lead single “Commonplace” serves as a message to a decades old girlfriend. “Don’t Mention The War” reflects on an uncle that is utterly shattered after coming back from the war, one that is “Over-thinking til half his mind is gone / Too sad and too mad to tell jokes anymore / And he takes lots of trips to the liquor store.”
Almost 50 years into his career, Holsapple isn’t afraid to take chances, and it’s apparent through the songs that he’s having fun in his craft. As Amanda Shires recently told Rolling Stone, people expect Americana musicians to “play acoustic instruments and be fucking sad all the time.” Thankfully, Holsapple does not adhere to this either, and it’s a refreshing and worthy illustration of what Holsapple is capable of. Musically, this is uptempo from your standard Americana fare, but we like our definition of Americana to be broad and inclusive. Get your copy here. https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/peter-holsapple-game-day/
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Dwayne Haskins
Redskins’ Haskins out for Cowboys game with ankle injury
By STEPHEN WHYNODecember 23, 2019 GMT
Washington Redskins quarterback Dwayne Haskins walks with trainers to a cart while being taken off the field after being sacked by New York Giants linebacker Lorenzo Carter during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Dwayne Haskins’ rookie season is over because of an ankle injury.
Haskins will not play for the Washington Redskins in their season finale Sunday at the Dallas Cowboys. The first-rounddraft pick sprained his left ankle on the first play of the second half during an overtime loss to the New York Giants.
Interim coach Bill Callahan ruled out Haskins on Monday and confirmed the quarterback has a high ankle sprain.
“It’s going to take a couple weeks, from my understanding,” Callahan said of Haskins’ recovery. “I think those things always change as more evaluation and more information they get on it. I think it’ll take some time no matter what.”
The Redskins are 3-11 and would clinch the second overall draft spot with a loss. Dallas can win the NFC East with a victory and a Philadelphia Eagles loss at the Giants.
Veteran Case Keenum is expected to start for Washington. Keenum relieved Haskins and led a 99-yard tying drive late in regulation before the Giants won it 41-35 on the first possession of overtime.
“I hated seeing Dwayne go down like that because he was absolutely dealing it,” Keenum said. “It was impressive to see him and how he’s progressed. But it was a blast to get out there. I wanted the ball one more time at the end, that’s for sure.”
Keenum hasn’t started since Oct. 24 at Minnesota when he was concussed and Haskins entered in relief.
WHAT’S WORKING
It didn’t matter who’s playing quarterback because the Giants game showed the Redskins have four exciting young receivers who should be around next season. Third-rounder Terry McLaurin, fifth-rounder Kelvin Harmon, undrafted free agent Steven Sims and second-year Alabama product Cam Sims could be great future building blocks along with Haskins and injured running back Derrius Guice.
“We have a young nucleus of guys just hungry for their opportunity to help this organization,” McLaurin said. “There’s a lot of us to count, but we’ve all had opportunities to make plays. ... We have a young nucleus of guys to keep building on and it’s just the beginning for us.”
Basically everything on defense.
The clock is ticking toward the end of Greg Manusky’s tenure as defensive coordinator and probably on cornerback Josh Norman’s time with Washington. There are pieces to work with particularly along the defensive line, but the secondary and linebacking corps are a mess and will need an overhaul.
Giving up so many points to New York was just the latest example of defensive incompetence.
“We didn’t make the plays we needed to make on defense against them,” Callahan said. “We made some plays, but we weren’t consistent enough throughout the duration of the game.”
It keeps going up for Steven Sims, who had six catches for 64 yards and another couple of carries to mix things up. The versatile receiver is arguably more of a steal than McLaurin because he can return kicks and punts and didn’t even cost a draft pick.
“He’s just somebody who is so electric,” Haskins said. “Any possible way to get him the ball, we were trying to give it to him.”
Norman got zero snaps while cornerbacks Danny Johnson, Kayvon Webster and Coty Sensabaugh were lit up by Daniel Jones. Unless Ron Rivera is somehow the next Redskins coach, Norman is as good as gone.
Right tackle Morgan Moses could go on injured reserve with a knee injury, opening a spot for Geron Christian against the Cowboys.
Two of the Redskins’ six penalties against the Giants came against the offensive line: a false start on tackle Donald Penn and holding on guard Ereck Flowers. It has been a constant issue for the unit Callahan used to oversee and worth considering because each is a candidate to return.
The Redskins opened as a 14-point underdog against the Cowboys and are a loss away from clinching the No. 2 draft pick. They’ll try hard and probably drop to 3-13 because Dallas still has a chance to win the NFC East.
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July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019 mlynxqualey Palestine, speculative fiction
Launching Today: ‘Palestine +100’
The collection isn’t available until July 25, but the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival will hold a launch event for Palestine + 100 today at 6:30 p.m.:
Stories will be read by two of the contributors: British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh and Palestinian-Hungarian author Anwar Hamed. The reading and discussion will be followed, organizers say, by Q&A with the anthology’s editor, Basma Ghalayini.
Those who are in London will be able to see Dabbagh, Hamed, and Ghalayini in September, at an event at the British Library.
The other contributors to the English PEN Award-winning collection are Talal Abu Shawish, Tasnim Abutabikh, Emad El-Din Aysha, Samir El-Youssef, Saleem Haddad, Majd Kayyal, Mazen Maarouf, Abdalmuti Maqboul, Ahmed Masoud, and Rawan Yaghi, with translations by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale, and Jonathan Wright.
The collection ends with a story by Almultaqa Prize-winning and Man Booker International longlisted Mazen Maarouf — “The Curse of the Mud Ball Kid” — which is translated by Jonathan Wright. This story has the queasy combination of childlike naïveté, historical surrealism, and intense violence that can be found in much of Maarouf’s work.
Like all the stories in the Palestine + 100 collection, “The Curse of the Mud Ball Kid” is set 100 years after the Nakba, or the 1948 mass expulsion of Palestinians. In this story, on the first Tuesday of every month throughout 2048, a bullet is fired into the protagonist’s eye. He is the only remaining “Falasti” — or Palestinian — although he absorbed the energy of all of those who died, and must now be kept in a glass cube as the ghosts of Palestinians he absorbed flow out of him in fits and starts.
The story — despite its surreal futurity — has many elements common with other contemporary Palestinian stories: sneaking past the Wall; the keeping of memory; performativity; the removal of Palestinian names; being cut off from one’s land and produce; and secret love.
Like Ibtisam Azem’s Book of Disappearance, recently translated by Sinan Antoon, the story asks: What happens if the Palestinians disappear? One answer, from Maarouf’s story, is that Israeli factions start fighting one another. The story has echoes of Mohamed Rabie’s hellscape Otared, which is set in a future Egypt, and — in its bacterial robots’ blood tests — of Hassan Blasim’s “blood-analysis robot.”
It’s also reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow’s The Waterworks, in that Falasta children’s imaginations are extracted, sent up into a satellite, and from there the best material is “inserted into the minds of children in Greater Israel as and when they need it.” Other material is there to help them achieve immortality.
In the story, we learn the narrator is wheeled out for a regular performance:
Every week we go to a primary school in a kibbutz or a town we haven’t visited before. Ze’ev puts me on display in front of the schoolkids in the playground for half an hour. None of them have ever seen a Palestinian before. They look at me, walk around the cube and touch it. Some of the kids ask, ‘Are you the last Palestinian?’ or ‘Are you the guy who killed Ezer Banana?’ But I don’t respond.
Even before the deaths of the Palestinians, our narrator was put on display, albeit for different reasons:
…an NGO van arrived to take me to film the advert for the toothpaste, which was called ‘Hope’. The aim wasn’t to promote the toothpaste so much as to inspire people with the knowledge that there was at least one Palestinian child out there who was still in good health.
There are a lot of subplots in “The Curse of the Mud Ball Kid” — the grandmother and her guava tree are probably my favorite. Perhaps this story, the longest in the Palestine + 100 collection, should have been developed into its own book. In any case, it’s a wild read.
Coverage of the PEN award on Arab Lit
One of the 50 Books to Watch in 2019 by the Irish Times.
One of TranslatedLit’s Most Anticipated Books for July 2019.
Read the editor’s introduction to the collection on the Comma Press blog.
Maarouf:
“DNA,” translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Six Poems, translated by Jasim Mohamed
“The Boxes,” in Beirut Noir, translated by Michelle Hartman.
“Portion of Jam,” translated by Jonathan Wright
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Cattle Raids and the Mysterious Giant Bull
I am afraid of cows.
This is because I was once chased by a stampeding herd of cows who took an instant dislike to the (very small) dog I was walking at the time, even though she was completely minding her own business.
I believe I am only here today due to the astonishingly athletic vault I made at full speed over a gate into the next field, a feat I’ve never since been able to replicate.
Bulls scare me even more. Yet you can’t go far in Ireland without encountering them.
I met this bunch (first picture) at Grainne’s grave at Shee Beag. They were unnecessarily and unnervingly attentive, in my opinion.
I met this one (second picture) just up the road from my house. You can’t tell from this picture just how big and powerful he is. And terrifying. And yes, that really is just one string of barbed wire separating him from me.
And this one (third picture) was witness to my recent visit to St Brigid’s Well at Lisnabantry. I didn’t see him until I was leaving, and had just turned around to pay my final respects. There he was, glaring at me, supremely confident in his might and splendour, with Manannán’s cloak drifting eerily behind him.
Today, cattle are big business in Ireland. As of 2012, there were 139,000 farms in Ireland, 110,000 farming 6.6 million cattle.
In ancient Ireland, although the numbers may have been smaller, cattle were just as important. In pre-Christian days, a person’s wealth was measured not in currency (they had none), or in land, but in the number of cattle one owned. Interestingly, the unit used to measure the value of cattle was known as cumal, the same word used for a female slave.
Cattle raiding was a way of life to the early Irish people. It was seen as sport, an opportunity to show off one’s prowess, acquire wealth, and dominate one’s enemies. A newly appointed King was expected to lead his men in a raid following his inauguration as a celebration.
The Black Pig’s Dyke, so called because in folklore its creation was attributed to the rooting of an enormous black pig, is a huge earthwork stretching between Ulster and Connacht (which passes right through my very own co Cavan). It is thought to have been constructed around 390-370BC in an attempt to counter these increasing waves of cattle raiding.
In Medieval times, the Christian church turned a blind eye to the raids, so long as they received a fair share of the raided cattle.
Cattle tribute was often paid to the High King. According to mythology, when Bres assumed the throne following Nuada of the Tuatha de Denann’s injury, he demanded a very high tribute from them in favour of his Formori heritage. The Denann were famous for their beautiful milk-white cattle, which were greatly coveted by other tribes. However, in order to avoid paying such heavy tribute, the Dagda tricked Bres by driving the herds between the Bealtaine fires so that the smoke stained their coats black.
Brian Boru’s full name, Brian Boruma, actually means ‘Brian of the Cattle Tributes’ because he received such great quantities of cattle in tribute from the lesser kings, thus making him the wealthiest and most powerful man in the land.
The river Goddess, Boann, from whom the River Boyne is named, is associated with a white cow called Bó Bhán. Boann was the daughter of Delbáeth of the Tuatha de Danann. One day, she went against her husband’s will (for shame!) to the source of the Boyne which was known as the Well of Segais (Connla’s Well) where the enchanted Hazels of Knowledge grew. In outrage at her audacity, the water rose up and spilled out of the well in a torrent, carrying her out to sea where she drowned. It is thought that she connects the Way of the White Cow (the Milky Way) to Newgrange (Brú na Boinne).
Another famous cow in mythology was Glas Gaibhnenn, the magical ‘Grey Cow of the Smith’. She was said to have belonged to Goibniu, the master Smith of the Tuatha de Denann. It was said of her that she had milk for all, and that all you had to do was place a vessel beneath her, and she milked herself into it.
In ancient Ireland, women were just as likely to own cattle as men. A fine example of this is recounted in the Táin Bó Cúailnge, a story of Irish mythology more famously known as ‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’.
Queen Medb and her husband, Ailill, were discussing which of them was the wealthier. They compared all their fine possessions, slaves, livestock, and found that they were quite equal except in one regard; Ailill owned the magnificent milk-white bull, Finnbhennach, which means ‘white-horned’.
Big brown bull of Cooley or giant aurochs?
Medb was somewhat peeved by this, so she approached Dáire mac Fiachna of Ulster for the loan of his brown bull, Donn Cuailnge. Although he agreed, Medb’s men boasted how they would have taken the bull by force, and furious, he reneged on the deal.
As a consequence, the determined Medb assembled her armies and marched against Fiachna. Eventually, after a long drawn out military campaign, she succeeded in capturing the bull, but when she brought him home, he and Finnbhennach took immediate exception to each other.
The two mighty creatures clashed in a battle which raged up and down the land. Ailill’s white bull was killed, and Donn Cuailnge returned to Ulster, where he died of his wounds and exhaustion.
There is also an interesting story about the origins of these two bulls. According to mythology, two pig-herders belonging to Bodb Dearg (son of the Dagda, and High King of the Denann after they were forced to retreat into their hollow hills) got into an argument, which quickly turned to blows.
As descendants of the magical folk, they were able to fight their battle in many animal forms, as each sought to press their advantage over the other. Finally, they unwisely took the shape of two worms (do worms fight each other? Who knew! Perhaps the translation should have been ‘snakes’, although there were none in Ireland), which were promptly eaten up by two grazing cows.
Thus, Finnbhennach was born into Ailill’s cattle herd, and Donn Cuaillnge born into Fiachna’s herd, and the hatred which had arisen in their previous incarnation continued into the next.
I wonder what was so special about these bulls. All we know, is that they were huge and mighty, and worth going to battle over. There must have been many other bulls in the land, so why were these particular ones so highly prized that Medb and Ailill would risk so many lives over them?
I have a theory. (Yes, of course I do!)
Perhaps these bulls weren’t bulls at all, but aurochs.
The auroch is an extinct ancient ancestor of today’s cow, which roamed across Europe, Asia and Africa. It is not thought to have been native to Ireland; no bones have been found, but lack of evidence proves only that they have not yet been discovered.
Last year, the remains of an auroch were unearthed at the Ness of Brodgar complex on the Scottish island of Orkney. If it managed to reach this remote location, I see no reason why it couldn’t have found its way to Ireland, either through the machinations of man, or under its own steam.
During Neolithic times, the auroch was hunted for its meat, hide and horns, and there is evidence to suggest that this was also when attempts at domestication first began.
Caesar in his De Bello Gallico claimed that aurochs were swift and fast, and very aggressive… no doubt he managed to capture a few and send them back home for the battle games in the arena.
It was one of the largest herbivores in Europe, the bulls standing on average, up to 180 cm (71 in) tall at the shoulders. The horns could reach 80 cm (31 in) in length and and 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter. These great cattle were longer, thinner and more athletic than the creatures we know today, with longer legs. The males were dark brown, or black in colour with a distinctive lighter ‘eel-stripe’ running down their spines, and lighter muzzles, whereas the females were a softer, chestnut brown.
This large specimen dates from 7500 BC and is on display at The National Museum of Denmark. The circles indicate where the animal was wounded by arrows. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
We know all this, because they continued to survive in small numbers into the early modern era; the last one, a female, was said to have died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, from natural causes.
Sadly, it is thought that unrestricted hunting, the development of farming in their natural habitat, and diseases transmitted by domestic cattle, all contributed to their extinction. However, many characteristics of the auroch live on in certain breeds of modern cattle, and there are breeding programmes in place with the aim of reintroducing them into the wild.
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Posted on 10th Mar 2015 by Ali Isaac
Category: Irish Mythology
Tags: Ailill, aurochs, Boann, cattle, cattle raid, cows, Donn Cuailnge, Finnbhennach, giant bull, Glas Gaibhnenn, Ireland, irish archaeology, Irish Mythology, Queen Medb, the cattle raid of Cooley, the Tain, Tuatha de Denann
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jazzfeathers
Fantastic read. I was particularly fascinated by the auroch. Didn’t know it excisted here in Europe. Was it more like an American bison?
Mishka Jenkins
Aurochs were pretty darn impressive! Well, of course, until the Romans came along and thought killing everything was such great sport… Ugh.
Anyway! 😀 Another brilliant post. It amazes me the different things you can come up with to post about. I love watching documentaries about this kind of stuff on TV, but they only seem to do it on the same subjects over and over.
I am always excited to get notified of a new post from you as you always post about something different an unexpected 🙂
Thank you Mishka! I think that must be one of the best compliments I’ve ever had! 😃
Roy McCarthy
This brought me back memories of the late, great Pete McCarthy’s hilarious description of his encounter with cows in one of his books 🙂 Ali I’m enjoying your Gra Mo Chroi collaboration with Jane.
Lol! It wasnt funny at the time… it was actually terrifying! Cows always seem such passive gentle creatures, but these were intent on murder! 😁 I dont know about Pete McCarthy’s experience, but its amazing what feats of physical prowess one can achieve through fear lol! I was only about 20 then, too, which helps of course! Thanks for reading GMC, I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
Éilis Niamh
Awesome theory, Ali! And I totally understand why you could be scared of cows, I like something between me and them also, especially the bulls.
I think its the sheer power and size of them! Lol!
Jack Eason
You are scared of cows, and yet you would like to see an Aurochs? Get up close and personal with a bison Ali, especially a bull. Thats more than enough beef on the hoof for most people. 😉
Only from a distance Jack lol!
And yet again Old Ireland of fable (?) comes to life via your keyboard.
Thanks David! Huge hugs back at ya! ☺
Anne Theodore
That was very interesting Ali. I am creating a series of links of blog posts that teach readers more about Ireland and her people. I am doing it because I am trying to develop a character who is an American but very proud of her Irish heritage.
I believe in doing my homework when it comes to character development. I hope you don’t mind if I add this link to the one Jane already directed me too 🙂
I would be honoured! Thank you Anne!
I’ve written about auroch before. There were wild ones in TCOS. They were so cool. Did you know that the Nazis tried to reverse engineer them as a symbol of their might. They selectively bred similar cattle, but we’re never completely successful. The breed they developed lives on, but is considerably smaller and not crazy wild.
Yes I did hear about that but dont know much about it. They certainly were crazy! None of the reverse engineering programmes seem to have been very sucessful. They’re all too small. Imagine being the last of your kind… poor cow! She probably died of loneliness and a broken heart!
It’s a tragic story. Many creatures lived into more modern times like the cave lion and auroch. I’d like to see one today.
Me too. 😢
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“Let Your Hair Down” For An Adventure Waiting
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“Let Your Down”, gal and #RubyGoesRogue, is just the beginning of an adventure for Ruby, away from the confines of a loving family, her forever friends and beating an illness that had her down for a while. And an illness that had her life mapped into organizing, spreadsheets, charts and itineraries. But it’s time to let her hair down and live her life. With an adventure calling, Ruby takes the first steps to freedom, new experiences and Flynn Bowen.
Helping run his family business is what Flynn Bowen does, but his heart and soul seem to have a different calling; for an identity of his own, making his own markings and maybe a dose of fate that brings him his destiny, Ruby.
With an entertaining story, engaging camaraderie among friends, an utterly charming romance between Flynn and Ruby, Rachel Lacey gives us another worthwhile read from her Almost Royal Series.
Received an ARC from the author for an honest review.
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A Highlander Walks Into A Bar – Q&A With Author, Laura Trentham
Buy-book link: https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125031502
The timeless romance, soaring passion—and gorgeous men—of Scotland comes to modern-day America. And the rules of love will never be the same…
Isabel Buchanan is fiery, funny, and never at a loss for words. But she is struck speechless when her mother returns from a trip to Scotland with a six-foot-tall, very handsome souvenir. Izzy’s mother is so infatuated by the fellow that Izzy has to plan their annual Highland Games all by herself. Well, not completely by herself. The Highlander’s strapping young nephew has come looking for his uncle…
Alasdair Blackmoor has never seen a place as friendly as this small Georgia town—or a girl as brilliant and beguiling as Izzy. Instead of saving his uncle, who seems to be having a lovely time, Alasdair decides he’d rather help Izzy with the Highland Games. Show her how to dance like a Highlander. Drink like a Highlander. And maybe, just maybe, fall in love with a Highlander. But when the games are over, where do they go from here?
Laura Trentham is an award-winning author of contemporary and historical romance, including Then He Kissed Me and The Military Wife. She is a member of RWA, and has been a finalist multiple times in the Golden Heart competition. A chemical engineer by training and a lover of books by nature, she lives in South Carolina.
Laura Trentham Blog Tour Q&A A HIGHLANDER WALKS INTO A BAR
What inspired you to write A Highlander Walks into a Bar?
It was actually a Buick car commercial from a couple of years ago where a grandson picks his grandmother up from the airport and she says saucily, “I did a lot of shopping in Italy.” From behind her luggage steps an Italian gentleman. Of course, my writer brain kept picturing what happened after the three of drove off and twisted it into an entire story but had to make up a town for them to return to!
Another big inspiration is a real-life place: Helen, Georgia, is a town that has transformed itself into a German village. It’s picturesque and they celebrate Octoberfest every year. I twisted that concept and made my little town of Highland, Georgia, into a Scottish village including an annual Highland Games that the Buchanan ladies put on every summer which is an important aspect of the book.
2. Introduce us to your main characters!
Isabel Buchanan is the daughter who picks her mother up from the airport only to be surprised by the appearance of Gareth Blackmoor, who happens to be keeping his title of Earl of Cairndow a secret from everyone in Highland, Georgia, including Rose Buchanan, Isabel’s mother.
Alasdair Blackmoor is Gareth’s nephew and heir to the title and castle in Scotland. He’s been sent to round up his wandering uncle and to make sure he isn’t being taken advantage of by some pushy American women. Complications ensue, including love (of course!)
3. Lots of aspiring authors out there. Any advice for them?
To become a better writer, you must write. Sounds simple, but I know so many aspiring authors who get stuck in their own head. They plot and make inspiration boards and talk about writing, but when the fingers hit the keyboard, they get mired in doubts. Just get the words down. They don’t have to be perfect; they don’t even have to be good, but you can’t fix a blank page!
4. How is A Highlander Walks into a Bar different from your other books?
While it’s still a Southern small town romance, it has a definite rom-com vibe. Expect low angst and lots of laughs! I love to read reviews where they reader has literally laughed out loud at several points.
5. I know asking someone’s all-time favorite book is a loaded question so what’s your current favorite read?
Two series I have loved lately are Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy (a fantasy retelling weaving medieval Russian history and folklore) and Deanna Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell’s mysteries (a Victorian butterfly hunter teams up with a taxidermist to solve mysteries. I mean, seriously, how can you beat that combo?!)
6. Alright, the ultimate question: why should we read your book?
If you need a pick-me-up, good-time, laugh-out-loud book, then read A Highlander Walks into a Bar!
7. Favorite quote or scene you wrote in A Highlander Walks into a Bar?
As the woman continued to stare at him as if he were the bearer of the bubonic plague, his smile faltered. He stuck out a hand. “I’m Alasdair Blackmoor.”
Although he registered a split-second hesitation on her part, she took his hand. “Isabel Buchanan.”
Her handshake was firm and no-nonsense, but her palm was soft and her hand small in his. On closer inspection, her eyes striated into all different shades of brown and amber, and freckles dusted her cheeks. He hung on to her hand for too long, but couldn’t seem to pry himself away.
Breaking the spell, she wrested her hand from his, pulling it into a fist. Was she planning on throat-punching him? He rubbed his neck and took a step back, out of the radius of her magnetic energy, and her reach. On her approach, she’d seemed birdlike, insignificant even, but up close, he was having a hard time not staring like a first-class prat.
He was punch-drunk with exhaustion. It was the only logical explanation.
She stuck her hands into the back pockets of her jeans, stretching her red V-neck T-shirt tight. His gaze dipped instinctively and then stuck around to read the print on the pocket over the soft curve of her left breast: Highland. The Heart of Scotland in the Blue Ridge.
She cleared her throat. His gaze shot to hers, and he blinked to try to refocus his thoughts. “I was admiring . . . I mean, reading your shirt.”
“It’s not a novel.”
His face heated. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d blushed this hot and fierce.
8. What inspired you to become a writer?
I’ve always been (and still am) a huge reader. My youngest child started preschool and I wasn’t ready to go back to work in what I’m trained for (chemical engineering) so I sat down one morning and started writing a book. I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing until I was around halfway done and loving every minute! That book became a Golden Heart finalist, got me an agent, and is published as An Indecent Invitation, a Regency historical.
9. What is a typical writing day like?
During the school year, I work while the kids are in school. I love the flexibility of being there to pick my kids up and drive them to soccer or gymnastics or chaperoning field trips, etc.
10. Do you have any interesting writing quirks or habits?
My only habit is a bad one in that I drink *way* too much coffee while I’m writing! It’s become a ritual, I suppose.
11. What has been one of the most surprising things you’ve learned as a published author?
How slow the industry can move, but also how quickly changes have come because of indie publishing.
12. Can you tell us about what’s coming up next after this for you writing wise?
For my contemporary fans, I have my second women’s fiction releasing early February 2020, An Everyday Hero. The second book in the Highland, Georgia, series, A Highlander in a Pickup, releases late February 2020.
For my historical romance fans, look out for A Wicked Wedding in the Once Upon a Christmas Wedding anthology releasing in October 2019. And two more full length books in the Spies and Lovers series, A Sinful Surrender and A Daring Deception, coming sometimes in mid to late 2020!
13. How can readers connect with you online?
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLauraTrentham
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“I brought home a surprise!” Rose Buchanan threw her arms out wide as if embracing the world. From the stories she told to the way she entered the room, Rose was exuberant and entertaining and enjoyed being the center of attention.
Isabel Buchanan, who was perfectly content on the fringes, pushed her wavy hair off her sticky forehead with hands that trembled from the nightmare drive through Atlanta to the airport to pick up her mom. Her mom’s trip to Scotland had doubled as both research and vacation. The jammed stop-and-go traffic had left Izzy flustered and already dreading their exit from the airport.
Rolling her stiff shoulders, Izzy stepped around the bumper of the car, popping the trunk open on the way. Her mom had a beautiful plaid scarf of greens and browns and blues tossed over her shoulder and what appeared to be new earrings. Either purchase might inspire her mother to gush, and she would expect reciprocal gushing from Izzy. Making an educated guess, Izzy asked, “Are those earrings your surprise?”
Without waiting for an answer, she hauled one of her mom’s giant wheeled suitcases closer and prepared to heave it into the back. The sooner they got out of Atlanta, the sooner she could get back to work planning the Highland festival. Or she might pour an extra-large glass of wine and escape into a book. A guilty pleasure, considering how much she still had to get in order in three scant weeks.
“Allow me, please.” A bearded man who had been rolling cases to the curb stepped forward with a grin and an accent Izzy couldn’t place.
She checked her pockets and winced. No cash to tip the man, and no hope her mom had thought of something so inconsequential.
“Do you like them? They’re hammered silver.” Her mom flipped her bobbed matching silver hair to the side and displayed one earring with her fingers. “And as a matter of fact, I did buy them from a lovely shop in Edinburgh, but I brought something bigger home. Something more exciting.”
“Your scarf? It’s lovely.” Izzy gave her mom limited attention while she watched the man load suitcase after suitcase into her trunk, fitting them together like a puzzle. More luggage than her mom had left with. She waved to catch the man’s attention. “Hang on. That’s not all my mom’s stuff.”
For the first time, Izzy really looked at the man. He was close to her mom in age, and good-looking in a bear-like way with a gleaming white smile highlighted by a salt-and-pepper beard. His full head of hair was a shade darker, but graying heavily at the temples. The expression on the man’s face when he looked in her mom’s direction—a mix of adoration and amusement—cleared the fog of confusion.
Lord have mercy, her mother had brought back a six- foot, two-hundred-pound-plus souvenir from Scotland.
The Me I Used To Be – Finding The Young Woman Lost
Jennifer Ryan has always been and always be one of my favorite writers; not only have I read every single one of her books, but they hold a special place in personal library.
And it is no surprise that her latest “The Me I Used To Be”, is just as brilliant (and in my personal library), and yet it surprises you at so many levels. The first few pages of Evangeline Austen’s life is a tear jerker, yet you can feel the strength and faith in her thoughts, courage and determination in her actions.
Chris Chambers has a goal – to do right by Evangeline. As Evangeline’s capturer and then her releaser, he’s yet to redeem himself in is own eyes. Nothing short of loving Evangeline with his heart and soul, and bringing down the person behind her prison stay, would give Chris peace of mind and a life with Evangeline.
“The Me I Used To Be” is a brilliant narration of a young women’s fight to find a way to “the way she used to be” and make a place for herself in the judgmental society. A great read of family dynamics and the consequences of a single act that throws the entire family into a roller coaster ride of pain, betrayal and death. An exceptional story of love and hope, as faith leads to friendship and support in the most unlikely of places.
Jennifer Ryan always had an exceptional writing and narrating talent of portraying emotions of her characters unsurpassed as well as give equal importance to supporting characters as she weaves them into the main storyline with great mastery. Her stories of women overcoming adverse situations with strength and courage are always a reading pleasure. And when, I as an avid reader cry reading a book, that is the ultimate mastery of writing!
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Making Up By Helena Hunting – Excerpt Reveal!
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A new standalone, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting.
Cosy Felton is great at her job—she knows just how to handle the awkwardness that comes with working at an adult toy store. So when the hottest guy she’s ever seen walks into the shop looking completely overwhelmed, she’s more than happy to turn on the charm and help him purchase all of the items on his list.
Griffin Mills is using his business trip in Las Vegas as a chance to escape the broken pieces of his life in New York City. The last thing he wants is to be put in charge of buying gag gifts for his friend’s bachelor party. Despite being totally out of his element, and mortified by the whole experience, Griffin is pleasantly surprised when he finds himself attracted to the sales girl that helped him.
As skeptical as Cosy may be of Griffin’s motivations, there’s something about him that intrigues her. But sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas and when real life gets in the way, all bets are off. Filled with hilariously awkward situations and enough sexual chemistry to power Sin City, Making Up is the next standalone in the Shacking Up world.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of PUCKED, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She’s writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.
Buy-Book Link: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250253378
We’re a couple of minutes away from my apartment, which also means we’re almost at the end of our date. End-of-date protocol often means a goodnight kiss.
And I’ve eaten onions. Lots of them. What the hell was I thinking? I feel around in my shorts pocket, hoping I have a random stick of gum. I find a tiny square packet and pull it out, along with an old tissue. I shove that back in my pocket and sigh with relief as I carefully open the Listerine Pocketpak. There’s one strip left. I pop it in my mouth, wishing I had water since my mouth is dry and I’m suddenly super nervous.
Griffin pulls up in front of my apartment building. I swallow a bunch of times, trying to get the strip to dissolve on my tongue and glance out the tinted window, seeing it from his perspective. I don’t live in a bad part of town, but I sure as hell wouldn’t leave this car sitting out here for any length of time unless I wanted it keyed or stripped down.
Griffin shifts into park and turns to me, one hand resting on the back of my seat near the headrest. “I had a great time, Cosy.”
“Me too, thanks for dinner.” I tried to fork over my share, but he was quick on the credit card draw.
“It was my pleasure.” He leans in the tiniest bit, a nonverbal cue that he’s going in for a kiss.
I mirror the movement, giving him the go ahead. My stomach flutters in anticipation. I exhale slowly through my nose. Even though the Listerine strip should be doing its job to mask the onions, I don’t want to ruin the moment by breathing that in his face.
His fingertips skim my jaw, and I close my eyes. And then his lips brush my cheek. I wait for them to move a couple of inches to the right, but after what feels like a lot of seconds—and is probably only a few—I crack a lid.
Griffin is still close, a wry smile on his lips and a smolder in his eyes.
“Seriously, that’s it? A kiss on the cheek?”
His smile widens, making his eyes crinkle at the corners. He’s nothing like the guys I usually end up on dates with. College boys don’t take things slow. If I were out with one of the guys from school, I’d be sitting in a beat-up Civic with some stupid music playing, and he’d be all over me with his tongue halfway down my throat, copping a feel.
“I thought all the onions you ate were the equivalent to garlic for vampires.” Griffin fingers my hair near my shoulder. I’d really like him to finger something else. Wait. I mean I’d like to feel his hands on me. Not in my pants. Okay, maybe I’d like them in my pants, but not after date number one.
“I wasn’t thinking, and I really like onions. A lot. In hindsight, it’s not a great date food. I feel kinda dumb. And I guess at first I wasn’t so sure about you. How was I supposed to know you’d actually be kind of normalish?”
“Normalish?”
“Well, you drink club soda on purpose, so you can’t be all there.” I tap his temple.
Griffin circles my wrist with his fingers and drops his head, lips brushing over my knuckle. “We can’t all be perfect, now, can we?”
“I suppose not, and perfect is boring.”
“That it is.” He hums against my skin, and I feel it through my entire body. “I would like to try that kiss again, if you’re still interested.”
From MAKING UP. Copyright © 2019 by Helena Hunting and reprinted with permission from St. Martin’s Paperbacks.
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Jackson By Emily March – Blog Tour
From New York Times bestselling author Emily March comes Jackson, the newest novel in the critically acclaimed Eternity Springs series.
Sometimes it takes a new beginning
Caroline Carruthers thinks she buried her dreams along with the love of her life…until a stranger named Celeste dares her to chase a dream all on her own. Moving to Redemption, Texas, is chapter one in Caroline’s new life story. Opening a bookstore is the next. Finding love is the last thing on her mind as she settles into this new place called home. But when she meets a handsome, soulful man who’s also starting over, all bets are off.
to reach a happily-ever-after
Jackson McBride came to Redemption looking only to find himself, not someone to love. Ever since his marriage ended, he’s been bitter. Sure, he used to believe in love—he even has the old song lyrics to prove it—but the Jackson of today is all business. That is, until a beautiful young widow who’s moved to town inspires a change of heart. Could it be that the myth of Redemption’s healing magic is true…and Jackson and Caroline can find a second chance at a happy ending after all?
Emily March is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the heartwarming Eternity Springs series. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Emily is an avid fan of Aggie sports and her recipe for jalapeño relish has made her a tailgating legend.
Buy-Book Link:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250314918
Another great story from Emily March!!! Check out the Q&A from Emily March and enjoy an excerpt from her upcoming “Jackson” from the Eternity Springs Series.
You wrote a book! That’s pretty awesome. Why don’t you tell us a bit about what inspired Jackson and the rest of the books in the Eternity Springs world?
The saying “Write what you know” says it all in my case. I’m a small-town girl and my family and friendships are center to my world. I write about love and family and friendships. I have roots in both the Colorado Rockies and the Texas Hill Country, so it was natural for me to set Eternity Springs and Redemption there. The idea for JACKSON grew out of my interest in the music currently being written and performed in Texas. I’ve always thought singer/songwriters are romantic figures so I was excited to create a hero with this background. Unfortunately, I’m not a musician and I’m definitely not a singer, but I am creative so it was fun for me to explore that aspect of a character.
Introduce us to your main character!
Okay. Well, Americana singer/songwriter Jackson McBride is a bit damaged when the book begins. His famous, talented and wealthy ex has won a custody battle that severely limits his access to his six-year-old daughter, so Jackson goes home to the Texas Hill Country to nurse his broken heart. He finds solace in Enchanted Canyon hiking the trails with the dog he rescues and working to bring a historic dance hall back to life. The last thing he expects is to find love again with a woman whose heart is as battered as his own.
Walk us through a day in the life of Emily March.
Ready to be bored? Now that my daughter’s and niece’s weddings are behind me—they consumed me for months—I’m boring and happy about it. I split my time between Fort Worth where we have a condo downtown in a 1930’s passenger train station and our lake house in the Texas Hill Country. I recently gave up my office in town because I’m spending more and more time at the lake. My husband also offices out of our condo, so on days when we are both working in town, I’ve started riding the new TexRail train that runs from our building to DFW airport. It’s quiet and comfortable and I don’t have Internet to distract me. And at $5 a day, it’s much cheaper than office rent. 🙂 When I’m at the lake I’m either working or doing yard work. My new favorite toy is my power washer.
Lots of aspiring authors out there. Any advice for them?
I’ve always thought that one of the most important things you can do for your writing is to read. And read. And read some more. Read across genres. You absorb so much about pacing and plotting and character development when you read. Plus, you get to READ! 🙂
How is the Jackson trilogy different than your other series?
I don’t think it’s necessarily different from the rest of the Eternity Springs series. I write about love and family and friendship—that doesn’t change. Readers will still see old friends from Eternity Springs and a few scenes in JACKSON are set in Colorado. What’s new is we get to spend some time in the Texas Hill Country and meet a few new characters—Celeste’s cousin, Angelica, for example.
I know asking someone’s all-time favorite book is a loaded question so what’s your current favorite read?
I’m a big fan of Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series and I’m reading her latest right now, STORM CURSED.
Alright, the ultimate question: why should we read your book?
My goals as a writer are to touch a reader’s heart, to entertain her and make her laugh, to maybe cry a little and sigh with satisfaction upon reaching the end. With JACKSON, I believe I’ve achieved those goals.
Family. Family. Family. 🙂
What is your most embarrassing memory?
Walking out of the junior high school cafeteria in seventh grade, not realizing that my very short dress—it was the 70’s—had gotten hung up in my underwear and I inadvertently flashed my rear end to the entire cafeteria—including the tables where the football players sat. Thinking about it even today gives me the hives.
Favorite quote or scene you wrote in JACKSON?
I love the ending. Jackson is a songwriter who has lost his music and when he finds it again…the song he sings to Caroline…just makes me melt.
What is one piece of advice you would tell everyone?
Call your mother.
What inspired you to become a writer?
I’ve always loved to read, so that is part of it, but my father was my primary inspiration. He was a fabulous storyteller. I grew up sitting at his feet and listening to him tell stories about his youth and his experiences in Europe during World War II. Listening to him tell his stories was my favorite thing to do. I didn’t inherit his talent for verbal storytelling, but I think I learned from him how to tell a good story on the page.
Do you have any interesting writing quirks or habits?
Like I mentioned before, I’m pretty boring. My perks and habits are always evolving. The train writing thing is new for me. I usually write on a laptop and edit on a desktop. I listen to movie soundtracks when I write and always finish a book with The Last of the Mohicans.
What has been one of the most surprising things you’ve learned as a published author
I’m always a little surprised and honored that readers are excited to meet me. Like I said…I’m a boring person.
What is your favorite state to visit?
Colorado, of course, because I must keep returning to Eternity Springs. 🙂
What are hobbies or interests do you have?
We are lake people, so I love waterskiing and boating and fishing. As I write this we’ve just finished Memorial Day weekend at the lake, so I sort of feel like chief cook and sheet-and-towel washer, too. I love, love, love hosting big holiday gatherings of family and friends at the lake house, but I will admit I do tire of the mountain of laundry in the aftermath.
Can you tell us about what’s coming up next after this for you writing wise?
I’m writing Tucker’s story. Fun fact for this—as part of my research I attended a survivalist training school for a weekend. I searched long and hard to find one where I could return to town to spend the night in a comfy hotel rather than sleep on the ground—I’m only willing to go so far for my art. I did learn to start a friction fire, though, something I’me VERY proud of. 🙂
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Bang. The judge’s gavel fell and officially crushed Jackson McBride’s heart. He closed his eyes. Bleak despair washed over him. Up until this very moment, he hadn’t believed she’d take it this far.
He’d thought she’d come to her senses. He’d thought she would recognize that this proposal was not only nonsense, but truly insane. He’d believed that somewhere deep inside of her, she still had a spark of humanity. That she wouldn’t do this to him. To them. He’d been wrong.
Damn her. Damn her and the yes-men she surrounded herself with. Damn them all to hell and back.
The enormity of what had just happened washed over him. Oh, God, how will
I survive this?
On the heels of his anguish came the rage. It erupted hot as lava, and it fired his blood and blurred his vision with a red haze of fury. He’d never hit a woman in his life. Never come close, despite plenty of provocation from her direction. In that moment had she been within reach, he might have lived up her accusations.
It scared the crap out of him. That’s what she’s brought me to.
Abruptly, he shoved back his chair so hard that it teetered, almost falling over. He strode toward the courtroom exit. “Jackson? Jackson, wait!” his attorney called, hurrying after him.
Jackson waved her off and didn’t stop. There was nothing left to be said. Nothing left to be done. No place left to go.
No little girl waiting at home to hug and cuddle and kiss good night.
The tap on the toes of Jackson’s boots clacked against the tile floor of the courthouse as his long-legged strides ate up the hallway. He shunned the elevator for the stairs and descended three flights at a rapid pace, then headed for the building’s exit. In a foolish bit of positive thinking, he’d driven his SUV to the courthouse this morning. Now the sight of the safety booster seat in the back seat made him want to kick a rock into next week.
He didn’t want to go home to a quiet, empty house. He shouldn’t go to a bar. Alcohol on top of his current mood could be a dangerous combination. Somebody probably would get hurt.
He got into the car and started the engine. For a long moment he sat unmoving, staring blindly through the windshield, his hands squeezing the steering wheel so hard that it should have cracked. When his phone rang, he ignored it.
A couple of minutes later, it rang a second time. Again, he ignored it. When it happened a third time, he finally glanced at the display to see who was calling. His cousin. Okay, maybe he would answer it.
“Hello, Boone.”
“How did the hearing go?”
Jackson couldn’t speak past the lump in his throat, so he said nothing.
Following a moment’s silence, Boone got the message. He muttered a curse, and then said, “I’m sorry, man. So damn sorry.”
“Well, it is what it is.”
“You can take another run at it.”
“Yeah.” In three years. Three years. Might as well be three decades. He cleared his throat and changed the subject. “So, how are things in Eternity Springs?”
“Good. They’re good. My friend Celeste Blessing visited my office a few minutes ago and spoke of her granite-headed cousin. Naturally, I thought of you.”
“Naturally,” Jackson dryly replied. But he felt a little less alone.
“Do you have plans this weekend? I could use your help with something.”
Pretty convenient timing. Knowing Boone, he had a spy in the courtroom. But Jackson wasn’t in the position to ignore the bone he’d been thrown. “I’m free. Whatcha got?”
“I’d like you to meet me at home.”
Jackson straightened in surprise. “You’re going back to the ranch?”
“No. Not there. I’m never going back there. However, I am talking about Texas. The Hill Country in particular. A little town west of Austin called Redemption.”
“Redemption, Texas?” Jackson repeated. For some weird reason, his heart gave a little skip. “Why there?”
“It’s a long story. Too long for a phone call. I’ll give you the entire skinny when I see you. When can you get there?”
After today’s debacle, Jackson had absolutely no reason to remain in Nashville. “When do you want me there?”
“I’ll be in later today. I’m in Austin now. I’ve been helping a friend with a project. I have a flight back to Colorado Sunday evening. The earlier you can get here the better, but I’ll make anything work.”
Jackson figured the distance and the drive time. “I’ll meet you tomorrow afternoon. Where?”
“Great. I’ll text you the info when we hang up. Bring camping gear.”
When a sound behind him had Jackson glancing up into the rearview mirror and the booster seat caught his notice, he made an instant decision. “Can’t. I’ll be on my bike.”
“You’re gonna ride your motorcycle all the way from Nashville?”
“Yes, I think I am.”
“Okay. I’ll bring stuff for both of us.” Boone hesitated a moment and added, “Hang in there,
Jackson. It’ll get better.”
No, I don’t think it will. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Jackson ended the call and finally put his SUV in gear and backed out of the parking place. With the distraction of the call behind him, fury returned, and by the time he reached home, he felt like a volcano about to explode.
He threw a handful of things into his tail bag, filled his wallet with cash from his stash, and ten minutes after his arrival, he fired up his bike and took his broken heart and headed out of Nashville. He left behind his home, his work, and his one reason for living, his six-year-old daughter, Haley.
From Jackson. Copyright © 2019 by Emily March and reprinted with permission from St. Martin’s Paperbacks.
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Taking subtitles for granted: In memoriam John Minchinton: born 22.11.1926 - died Christmas Day 2016
John Minchinton operating an Editola machine, made in London by the Photographic Electrical Company.
It is all too easy to take for granted that films not originally shot with dialogue in English will be subtitled. Could this be out of respect respect for the language skills of audiences, some of whom may want to hear the original dialogue? Most of Europe dubs, but in the UK we subtitle.
And we take it for granted that foreign language films will have been sensitively, accurately translated, and that the subtitles will be cued delicately and precisely around cuts and camera moves. We assume that if something (like a song) is not translated that is because it doesn’t matter. We assume that these are decisions have been taken taken by thoughtful, informed people who grasp about just what the makers of often complex and multilayered works have in mind.
Of course standards have varied greatly. Watching Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublyov on 35mm in the late 70s and 80s was once an ordeal: subtitles on the only print available were mistimed, placed almost randomly, and worst of all mixed up between reels so that the audience had to memorise the gist and wait for a later reel when the translation would be helpful.
Screening Notes, 'Empyrean Heights: Napoléon' by Keifer Taylor
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There’s always a difficulty in separating art from its creator. Mainstream examples are Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, sparking petitions to boycott their work. Elusive personalities like Michael Haneke’s and Jacques Rivette’s still inform their filmographies, despite little biographical knowledge. And if there were further details on the Pre-Raphaelite members I’m sure we could find connections to their mythical figures who inhabit those inflamed canvasses.
A less difficult task seems to be separating content from form. Both must compliment one another to forge the desired dialogue. In Abel Gance’s Napoléon (1927) the director enshrines France’s legendary Emperor, projecting shameless hagiography. The motif for this is found in gilded rims of light beaming forth from Albert Dieudonné’s raptorial stare. Upholding French revolutionary ideals of equal rights; welding nationalist sentiments and a borderless Europe (such a vision saturates our current geopolitical affairs with a forlorn hue), here is an honourable leader.
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Dis-Mois: First Impressions of New and Expanded Interests by Keifer Taylor
Dis-Moi: First Impressions of New and Expanded Interests
Slipping into 1980, Chantal Akerman widened and polished her scope of interests with Dis-moi (aka, Aujour’dui dis-moi). While Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978) hauntingly alluded to the Holocaust, this short performative documentary engages with its harsh remnants. Commissioned for French television, focusing on grandmothers, the 30-year-old Belgian filmmaker decided to interview numerous survivors. Including her mother, whose hushed voice is spread across the film’s narrative, the four testimonials tend to dwell on their family lives before the Ashkenazi Jews’ insufferable avalanche of systematic murders.
The performative qualities can be discerned by the director’s own presence. By constructing sequences with reverse angle shots, presenting her and the speakers, there lies a clear wish for personalisation. After the first two visits, a camera peers up onto the elderly women’s balconies. Cutting down to ground level, outside the apartments, a solemn Akerman stares up with fascination and respect for her subjects. Being the daughter of a lady sent to Auschwitz as a child, its ceremonial nature is unsurprising. As an unspoken fifth member of this story, she comes from a disparate generation of European children who will never truly understand the Nazis Final Solution, but lug its solidly traumatic load.
An obvious comparison to Dis-moi is Claude Lanzmann’s towering 1985 investigative piece, Shoah. Brimming with the faces and voices of witnesses, survivors and perpetrators, archival footage is discarded, rendered an inadequate form of expression. Akerman’s obscure study is a concise precedent of this apparently singular approach, relying on us to imagine the unimaginable. Curiously, though mass trauma looms over the film’s entirety, it’s a thinly strung topic of discussion. The hospitable interviewees offer cake, tea, and vodka and speak of a period before genocide. Two accounts are brief, ending with “I have nothing else to say” With slim knowledge of their misfortune, it’s an odd (yet understandable) ending to their verbal memoirs, leaving us no less informed than before. Effusing a radiant humility, Chantal listens without forcibly raking in historical details of morbid intrigue.
Unlike this terse pair, the third and final elderly lady asserts to having 10 days worth of material. I wouldn’t doubt her one bit. One tale of young love, set in the early 1900s, involves an infatuated man proposing to her grandmother, only to be rejected. A true romantic, he exclaims, (though I can’t remember word-for-word) “if I can’t be with you I will die tomorrow” The very next day, he is killed. From here, fate becomes a cruel force, whose heft is increased when the woman recalls her grandmother claiming the Jewish people must suffer.
All of this irremovable dread never tramples over the hearty humour. Entranced by these experiences, food is not a priority for the filmmaker. It clearly bugs this particular woman, pushing her timid guest to eat at every pause. Hilariously, she even threatens to discontinue speaking. In a final shot of this rather merry survivor’s coarsely wrinkled face, nothing is said. She just stares into an off screen space. Almost still, like a rough-hewn sculpture of a foggy era, her later years into the 1940s are left to ponder.
Chantal Akerman evolves with each screening. Here, domestic oppression is put aside, expanding on her research into migration and displacement. If anything operates as a source of oppression, it would be the past bleeding into present consciousness. Its visual absence asks, what else can be said or shown of our ancestors’ horrid times? What took place needs no elaborate divulgence. Just be aware of its unfading stain.
Akerman 2 by Keifer Taylor
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As we tread deeper into the Promethean vault of Chantal Akerman’s vast filmic corpus the director’s personal vision seems to be taking shape. Already six films into the retrospective we are miles away from the brisk energy of Saute Ma Ville as Akerman tenaciously grips to a more emotionally restrained, pared down approach with numerous stylistic ventures.
In the article before this I referred to Hotel Monterey as an experimental film. At this point, however, it is clear that Akerman’s stylistic choices weren’t tentative exercises in cinematic expression. La Chambre, Le 15/8 and Je, Tu, Il, Elle all retain the themes and aesthetic principles of the previously screened films: lonely, anxious figures who yearn for excitement beyond the tedium of their confined spaces, loneliness and, of course, broken barriers where documentary and fiction conflate in a series of precisely framed shots governed by a uniquely hypnotic rhythm.
Made the same year as Hotel Monterey (1972), La Chambre is a continuation of Akerman’s interest in space and spectatorship. The mute short (accompanied by the whirling 16mm projector and warm crackle of the film print) consists of one 360-degree pan around a cramped New York bedsit of typical household items and the lone director herself wrapped in a white dressing gown on an unkempt bed. Akerman’s stare possesses something haunting and growingly charming with each languid spin. During the second sight of her she seems restless, rocking about under the covers, indicating to us her anxiety and longing for more. This image alone could be a touch of irony, mocking our own search for action. Midway through the third rotation, drifting past Akerman now eating an apple, the camera abruptly decides to return to the lonesome subject. Subsequently, the camera begins to shift back and forth between the mahogany chest of drawers flanked to the right and the cluttered desk on the left. After being lulled by the film’s leisurely orbit around the small dwelling one is caught within its stirring pot of indecision and agitation until it’s blunt ending of ceaseless movement. Seamlessly, as images of worn celluloid and grain travelled across the screen, the second film began.
After returning back to Europe the Belgian nomad co-directed Le 15/8 (1973) with her compatriot filmmaker Samy Szlingerbaum. A poetic documentary of displacement that observes a young Finnish woman named Chris who is staying in a sparse Parisian apartment (apparently owned by Szlingerbaum himself). Chris’ banal activities are shown with a delicate eye for detail through flat, black-and-white images of her smoking, eating, sitting in the kitchen, pensively staring out onto the unseen streets and reclining on the floor against the crisp shadow of a railing pattern. Parallel to these scenes Chris’ high-pitched voice-over rapidly flows through the narrative, imparting a stream of both trivial and personal thoughts.
The narration gradually dissects the warmth of Chris’ enchanting smile and marbled eyes that stare back at the audience, revealing the aimless Nordic wanderer’s fragility. After the amusing reiteration of “I’m sitting in the kitchen,” other seemingly mundane descriptions seem to convey an unspoken sorrow. For example, the self-conscious critique of her dirty blonde hair alludes to the subject’s inner conflict.
Chris’ doleful situation deepens as she briefly recounts her experiences in London and Paris. As the film never escapes the confines of the apartment, imagining the timid Finn roaming the glitzy districts and parched gullies of both capital cities like a lost Whooper swan amongst thousands brings us closer to her possible desire for an emotional connection. Despite preferring the city of love and light (after expressing how “cold” the stares are in London) her encounter with a man grabbing her arm only accentuates this hankering. Even the natural sounds of off-screen cars roaring a long the streets amplify Chris’ predicament with the stuffy air of melancholy trumping all romantic associations of the city.
Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974) blends elements of Akerman’s preceding films, solidifying them into a boldly austere debut narrative feature. After a break-up with her boyfriend a young woman played by Akerman (named Julie in the closing credits) lives an ascetic lifestyle – involving a cloying diet of coarse sugar - inside her one-room flat until heading out to experience the thrills of the outside world. Photographed in steely black-and-white, images carry the same eeriness and peculiar beauty found in the filmmaker’s other works.
Presumably “Tu” refers to the audience members themselves. Akerman even gives us the odd glance to acknowledge our presence. Through a bulk of static, uninterrupted takes and occasional movements we observe and absorb the process of Julie’s immurement. During her brief fling with a truck driver (played by a young Niels Arestrup) the camera almost becomes an autonomous entity. While the soft-faced protagonist stares at the trucker shaving, he then decides to urinate before returning to the mirror. Rather than following Julie’s gaze, the delayed camera pans to the right seconds later, focusing on the trucker’s reflection.
The languorous first half is accompanied by Akerman’s voiceover in which she describes her day-to-day activities inside the room. Interestingly, the narration is never in sync with the onscreen action as the latter takes place some moments after. Each description creates a sense of anticipation with the impeccable execution of the scene offsetting the minor delay: a prime example being the deadpan incident where Julie robotically scoffs the bag of coarse sugar; caught in a daze, nearly gagging, the contents fall out onto the letters.
Once again, the domestic space is framed as a suffocating symbol, signifying the character’s malaise. Eventually, the compulsive rearrangement of furniture leads to only a mattress and a messy assortment of written letters remaining inside the glum outcast’s stripped down chamber. As time slips by Julie’s hermetic existence begins to wane, producing symptoms of discomfort and sexual desire.
After viewing her naked body through the faint reflection of a windowpane the ravenous Julie leaves her self-imposed prison in search of sexual gratification. She then hitches a ride on a misty highway with the aforesaid truck driver. This second portion becomes a road movie of sorts, travelling to multiple public establishments. Sporadic shakiness even begins to appear, although the dominantly stationary camera pushes the segment forward. Stasis aside, the truck – however much a tight squeeze – is a mobile force, granting a loose sense of freedom a long the boundless landscape.
The pair’s journey involves a silent meal together at an empty diner and drinking beer at smoky bars. The prevailing silence of their romance drives the sexual tension between them. After channelling their libidinal energies (more so the male’s) with a hand job the trucker provides a monologue on his morally complex background.
The rambling speech becomes a great insight into male discontentment. The driver reflects on his empty marriage of bland, obligatory sex with a wife who no longer arouses him, his occasional hook-ups with other hitchhikers, familial duties and the repressed attraction towards his eldest daughter. Many parallels spring to mind: both characters stem from enclosed environments; the driver’s escape from the numbing home of matrimonial commitments onto the open road equates Julie’s own dissatisfaction. In the end, regardless of gender, all people share an inner craving beyond the prosaic.
Perhaps still unfulfilled, Julie arrives at her female ex-lover’s home. A sandwich and speechless flirtations leads to the women stripping and embracing in a lengthy sex sequence. The camera remains clinical, omitting the erotic intensity found in other films (comparisons have already been made with Abdellatif Kechiche’s controversial Blue Is The Warmest Colour). Nonetheless, the scene bleeds passion as the feral bodies clasp with an irrepressible amatory.
The differences between Julie’s sexual encounters are clear. For the trucker, sex is considered a frivolous activity, merely feeding his carnal appetites while the feminine duo display a tender and searing love. On a cynical level, there are similarities in both cases. When Julie leaves her lover in the morning the coldness of their relationship is exposed, rendering the night’s events as nothing more than an untamed attraction.
Chantal Akerman’s work remains challenging yet strikingly hits close to home. By now, attendees should be able to acclimatise to the weight of her filmmaking. Though undeniably arduous at times these films are acute accounts of instinctual pleasures and human frailties with cracks of humour to shed light on these dim realities. We can only brace ourselves for the upcoming screening of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
Keifer Taylor is a BA Graduate in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Hotel Monterey: New Forms by Keifer Taylor
Hotel Monterey: New Forms
The initial screening of A Nos Amours’ Chantal Akerman retrospective marked my first venture into the prolific Belgian film director’s work. Having only seen La Chambre (1972) and caught glimpses of the venerated 1975 feature Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles I have remained a novice with only vague ideas of her aesthetic and thematic concerns. My preconceptions were affirmed by the freewheeling shorts on the female psyche, Saute Ma Ville (1968) and - the less compelling - L’enfant aimé ou je joue á être une femme mariée (1971). The third was the austere Hotel Monterey (1972).
Whilst digesting each film the standout piece was Hotel Monterey. Influenced by prominent avant-garde filmmakers of the period: from Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol to structuralist Michael Snow, Akerman’s audacious debut feature is an undermined addition to experimental cinema. Like La Chambre, Hotel Monterey is a silent mantra of extended takes that plays on spectatorial expectations, allowing us to imprint our own meaning onto the film. By rhythmically cutting from the ghoulish dwellings of the stiffly seated elderly man and pregnant woman, to unpopulated corridors, the film eschews conventional narrative. Instead, this beguiling documentary explores architectural space and film form.
The emphasis on space displays Akerman’s ability to transform reality. The opening shot of a mirror reflecting numerous occupants, hooked to a sparse wall, denotes her intentions to reconfigure the mundane setting. As if it were an unformed lump of clay, the hotel’s drab interior gradually becomes a rigorously composed sculpture (shot by Babette Mangolte) of doorframes, decaying walls and dimly lit hallways, radiating an unexpected beauty. Even the apparent simplicity of an empty bedroom, with its lurid colour scheme of red spreadsheets and sickly orange-green flower-patterned curtains, emits a surreal glow. In this case, nuance is essential in sparking an emotional flare.
The firm utilisation of long takes becomes a strategic component in coercing one to acknowledge this sentiment. These static shots cause a suspension in time in which the spectator is forced to absorb the space, soaking up each miniscule detail. In doing so, an unnerving sense of anticipation surfaces. Shifting from ruminative shots expressing the mere emptiness and spatial precision to the spectral charm of a moving door, tension lurks within the prosaic. Besides injecting life into the inanimate, these protracted scenes also contain a self-reflexive touch.
Judging from L’enfant aimé Akerman was already dabbling with self-reflexive techniques. The director herself is a silent character that listens to the lonely protagonist as she divulges her past experiences in love. Often, the camera remains static with the occasional zoom used to close in on the subject. This detachment and intimacy of the camera relates to Akerman’s on-screen presence, encouraging the audience to engage and become tacit observers.
In Hotel Monterey the presence of the camera itself holds a dual-purpose, characterising the filmmaker and spectator. At an early stage in the film the mounted camera travels inside the elevator, coming across various occupants. Men and women fill the frame, with many disregarding the company of the camera. After a small number of cuts the elevator accelerates downward. Reminiscent of a scene from Kafka’s nightmarish tales, the elevator doors open, revealing numerous residents in the lobby, staring unflinchingly into the lens. A mutual acknowledgement is forged between Akerman and her subjects, inviting the audience a long for a journey through the eerie establishment.
Notwithstanding our implication, Akerman playfully manipulates our position. Down a long corridor, in four consecutive takes, the camera gently dollies forward towards an open window. Fully aware of our need to escape this claustrophobic labyrinth of muted tableaux, Akerman impedes this desire, moving back down the tight passage. By gruellingly tracking back and forth, we are reminded of the control she holds over the audience and her own position. Moreover, through the formal rigour of stasis, movement and decisive cuts, the director establishes herself as a faceless character, probing the geometric intricacies of architectural space.
Having only seen Hotel Monterey once I’m sure it is rewarding with multiple viewings. Nonetheless, the film remains a visually stimulating storage of rigid shapes and textures with a vast collection of latent subplots to whet our thoughts. Attempting to pinpoint it’s meaning would be a misunderstanding. Exhibiting the exactitude and diligence of a pre-Raphaelite painting, Chantal Akerman produces an unclassifiable feature where documentary and fiction blur. With a positive first impression, the retrospective looks set to be a rare chance to see the thematic progression and formal refinement of the filmmaker’s underexposed output.
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White Epilepsy - Everything/Everything by John Bradburn
White Epilepsy – Everything / Everything
There has been much written about slow cinema. Possibly too much. It’s a taste thing certainly. There is apparent within small factions of the cineaste community a type of extreme sport mentality or you could even compare them to a group of drunk alpha males in a curry house. Bring me the slowest thing you’ve got! They then force down something that is just slow with out any concerns for the millions of flavours and textures than duration can allow for.
This is a sort of messy preamble into my discussion of Phillippe Grandrieux’s new work – White Eplilepsy – and the fact that it takes the notions of slow to a new extreme as well as being the kind of wonderfully and willfully experimental cinema we see all too little off (and outside of the Edinburgh Film Festival and the DVD I was sent by the production company the chance of seeing it is very slim indeed). This is a film of a single evolving event. Two naked figures, one male and one female, are involved in an interaction in some deep woodland. I say event because this moment is never clearly described. It seems violent so it may be a fight but it seems so stylized it may be a dance. The act seems to have some importance so it may be ritual. Both figures are intimately close so is this some strange foreplay? What can be said for certain is it is slow in every sense of the word. This event is all the content of the film and it is presented in a very slowed down image – every gesture has literally been stretched to breaking point. Even the sounds of breath, shouts and contact have been so elongated as to become almost inhuman. This film may have little narrative but what this film gives me is a wonderful space to explore elements of collective and personal unconscious. This may be the slowest most minimal work I have ever seen but it is also one of the most beautifully crafted and considered films I have seen in a very long time. To continue the probably misguided analogy in the first paragraph – this is a film full of the flavours, textures scents possible through durational cinema. It is not just slow.
The space the film opens up is for a viewing of the very known and the very unknown. It allows for collision of the basest of ideas and primal archetypes. Grandrieux’s films - from his deconstructed liminal serial killer flick Sombre (1998) through to the almost folk tale simplicity of Un Lac (2004) - have been obsessed with physicality – never has the body been felt more than in a Grandrieux film. The killings in Sombre are terribly physical – bodies are thrown around, hands enter mouths and flesh is gripped. This is made all the more disturbing by the manic humanity of the cinematography – figures are too dark, out of focus and the camera careers around in wild hand held motions – not the angelic cinematography of Hollywood. In La Vie Nouvelle (2002) we end with an elongated sequence filmed in night vision – blackened noses and white hot genitals fill the screen. Here the presence and real being of the images is in the forefront of the narrative – these are stories about the death, lusts and endurances of bodies. But they still possess a narrative. What White Epilepsy does is to remove all of the necessary of cinema and boil down Grandrieux’s film to an essence. That essence is a physical wordless communication. Sure there is no dialogue but what I mean here is that the ideas being communicated here are a pure cinema – they cannot be fully described in language. Something I will now foolishly attempt with varying degrees of success.
To return to the ‘event’ of the film for a moment as I feel this is the center of the films mode of wordless communication. What is set up is a neither / neither situation. Not fight / not fuck. Both and neither exist clearly on screen. What this allows is for an audience to be given a space to negotiate. When I watched the film my thoughts became over run with a plethora of different ideas. How ambivalent human relationships can be, how we all feel a return to the primal forest every now and then, how violent sex can be, how human sounds are only so few steps away from the animal. What I think you may be thinking at this point is that surely this is just another open text – reader makes the meaning and all that. True – but what I am attempting to communicate is the masterful double negation of ‘narrative’ apparent here. Over time it allows for a fully engrossing experience and allows myself as an audience member to sink deeper and deeper into more primordial levels of experience and thought.
In “You are Not a Gadget” by Jarod Lenier – a book about changing social interaction in the face of new technologies - he discusses at great length the problems of deeply embedded errors. For example there may be some mistake made in the very earliest versions of DOS that means everything from Window 3 through to Windows 8 will be affected. It is is now impossible to fix this primal problem without rewriting everything from that point onwards. The foundations are faulty. Strangely I thought of this when sinking into that primordial space in my mind viewing White Epilepsy – here I am given an experience so simple (maybe read pure or original but neither actually express the nature of the film), shorn of storytelling and character that I have been given permission to work on these primordial elements of my consciousness. To really think how these problematics of humanity bubble up through relationships, families, wars etc. In many ways I feels this is a very Jungian film – it deals in rich archetypes. These archetypes are presented in a mystery play and turn on to the audience for analysis but not resolution. To continue with the psychoanalytic discussion it strikes me now that White Epilepsy is constructed from that neither/neither notion found in the Rorsach Ink Blot Test. What do you see in these images? What does this tell you about yourself rather than the fictional characters on the screen?
It is impossible to continue any discussion where I have so liberally used the term neither/neither without referring to Austin Osman Spear – London’s lost occult painter of the early 1900s. Spare was renown for his strange images of part plant, part human figures as gates to meditative states – the neither/neither state. It is in this act of contemplation of a double not-being that a middle ground can be found where space can be held negating both strict definitions of an image. In this vacuous space – similar to a Yogic or tantric meditation – the subconscious can be unleashed and explored. It is very interesting that in Marcus M. Jungkurth’s essay – Neither-Neither; Austin Osman Spare and the Underworld he references the writer and psychologist James Hillman who “has even gone further claiming that each individual appears to be re-living some archetypal drama from ancient mythologies prevailing as a main theme underlying individual life.” Certainly while this is not something we are consciously aware of in everyday life White Eplilesy allows this idea to be investigated. The negation of plot and character allows for a deeper submerging into the mythic level as an audience we are not distracted by a concreting reality.
So is this cinema? Certainly it is based on a video art piece with its inherently different modes of spectatorship. While watching the film I was overcome by how deeply it is cinema. The effects I have detailed above could only happen in an experience where I was seated (admittedly slumped in my living room). The cinematic experience is one of bodily death – the warm comfortable seats, the dark with the lack of movement etc. The video art spectatorship is entirely different – it is about the body. People stand, walk around, enter a space and then leave it. To view White Epilepsy in this space would be to see it more akin to a very slow moving painting and would result in a very different reading. My reveries were only possible because my body was becalmed. Through my many experiences of sitting watching video art on hard floors as people block my view or standing with tired legs as people fall over each other in the dark I can say that this is a cinematic film. The body needs to be ‘laid to rest’ for the work to have it’s full effect.
Grandrieux’s film is quietly amazing. While this piece may be highly personal – not in the content from the author but in the experience it stirs in the viewer. I feel the work cannot really be approached with the usual tools of textual analysis and I do hope you forgive me my digressions but few films have stirred up so much in me. I implore you to go and see the film or more correctly to enter it’s space. And once you have left that space you could always spend time considering it over a curry.
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Independent online (SA)
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Find Scholarly Works
Type Language Publication Year Top Authors Concepts Research Units Collaborators Open Access
Ronald Adrian
Space-time formation of very-large-scale motions in turbulent pipe flow
Lee, J. H., Sung, H. J. & Adrian, R. J., Dec 25 2019, In : JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS. 881, p. 1010-1047 38 p.
pipe flow
Direct numerical simulation
Structure, memory and splitting of turbulent spots in transitional pipe flow without axially periodic boundary condition
Wu, X., Moin, P. & Adrian, R. J., Jan 1 2019.
boundary condition
Vorticity statistics and distributions in drag reduced turbulent pipe flow with transverse wall oscillations
Coxe, D., Peet, Y. & Adrian, R., Jan 1 2019.
Vorticity
turbulent flow
A new method to calculate unsteady particle kinematics and drag coefficient in a subsonic post-shock flow
Bordoloi, A. D., Ding, L., Martinez, A. A., Prestridge, K. & Adrian, R., May 17 2018, In : Measurement Science and Technology. 29, 7, 074001.
Drag Coefficient
drag coefficients
Dynamic Equation
Amplitude correlation and direct spectral analysis of low photon rate LDV signals.
Adrian, R., Jan 1 2017, In : [No source information available].
Laser-Doppler Flowmetry
Applications of laser Doppler anemometry.
Adrian, R. & Fingerson, L. M., Jan 1 2017, In : [No source information available].
Rotating machinery
Fundamental principles of optics.
Geometrical optics
Laser velocimetry
Adrian, R., Jan 1 2017, Fluid Mechanics Measurements, Second edition. CRC Press, p. 175-300 126 p.
Velocity measurement
Brownian movement
LDA data processing.
Adrian, R. & Fingerson, R. M., Jan 1 2017, In : [No source information available].
Flow fields
Light scattering effects in laser anemometers.
Light scattering
Measurement potential of laser speckle velocimetry.
Bragg cells
Velocimeters
Speckle
N-pulse particle image velocimetry-accelerometry for unsteady flow-structure interaction
Ding, L. & Adrian, R., Jan 1 2017, In : Measurement Science and Technology. 28, 1, 014001.
unsteady flow
Flow structure
particle image velocimetry
Reynolds decomposition of turbulence containing super-coherent states
Adrian, R., Sakievich, P. J. & Peet, Y., 2017, 10th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2017. International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP10, Vol. 1.
Statistical characteristics of the Doppler photo current.
Wave theory of laser anemometers.
A High Performance Pulsatile Pump for Aortic Flow Experiments in 3-Dimensional Models
Chaudhury, R. A., Atlasman, V., Pathangey, G., Pracht, N., Adrian, R. & Frakes, D., Jun 1 2016, In : Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology. 7, 2, p. 148-158 11 p.
Pulsatile Flow
Analysis of velocity structures in a transitionally rough turbulent boundary layer
Doosttalab, A., Dharmarathne, S., Tutkun, M., Adrian, R. & Castillo, L., Aug 30 2016, Whither Turbulence and Big Data in the 21st Century?. Springer International Publishing, p. 77-92 16 p.
Boundary layers
Light-induced energy conversion in liquid nanoparticle suspensions
Phelan, P., Taylor, R., Adrian, R., Prasher, R. S. & Otanicar, T. P., Apr 19 2016, Nanoparticle Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. CRC Press, p. 123-142 20 p.
Effect of small roughness elements on thermal statistics of a turbulent boundary layer at moderate Reynolds number
Doosttalab, A., Araya, G., Newman, J., Adrian, R., Jansen, K. & Castillo, L., Dec 8 2015, In : Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 787, p. 84-115 32 p.
turbulent boundary layer
Reynolds number
Effects of Bileaflet mechanical mitral valve rotational orientation on left ventricular flow conditions
Westerdale, J. C., Adrian, R., Squires, K., Chaliki, H. & Belohlavek, M., Jul 1 2015, In : Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal. 9, p. 62-68 7 p.
Heart Ventricles
Heart Valves
Large-scale, coherent structures in wide-aspect-ratio, turbulent, Rayleigh-benard convection
Sakievich, P. J., Peet, Y. & Adrian, R., Jan 1 2015, 9th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2015. TSFP-9, Vol. 2.
Prandtl number
Large-scale thermal motions of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a wide aspect-ratio cylindrical domain
Sakievich, P. J., Peet, Y. & Adrian, R., Nov 9 2015, (Accepted/In press) In : International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow.
Length and time for development of laminar flow in tubes following a step increase of volume flux
Chaudhury, R. A., Herrmann, M., Frakes, D. & Adrian, R., Nov 22 2015, In : Experiments in Fluids. 56, 1
Steady flow
Osborne Reynolds pipe flow: Direct simulation from laminar through gradual transition to fully developed turbulence
Wu, X., Moin, P., Adrian, R. & Baltzer, J. R., Jun 30 2015, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112, 26, p. 7920-7924 5 p.
horseshoe vortices
Rise dynamics of unsteady laboratory jets with implications for volcanic plumes
Chojnicki, K. N., Clarke, A., Phillips, J. C. & Adrian, R., Feb 5 2015, In : Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 412, p. 186-196 11 p.
The evolution of volcanic plume morphology in short-lived eruptions
Chojnicki, K. N., Clarke, A., Phillips, J. C. & Adrian, R., 2015, In : Geology. 43, 8, p. 707-710 4 p.
temporal evolution
Analytic solutions for three dimensional swirling strength in compressible and incompressible flows
Chen, H., Adrian, R., Zhong, Q. & Wang, X., Aug 20 2014, In : Physics of Fluids. 26, 8, 1.4893343.
compressible flow
swirling
Experimental study on the role of spanwise vorticity and vortex filaments in the outer region of open-channel flow
Chen, Q., Adrian, R., Zhong, Q., Li, D. & Wang, X., 2014, In : Journal of Hydraulic Research. 52, 4, p. 476-489 14 p.
Open channel flow
The flow structure of jets from transient sources and implications for modeling short-duration explosive volcanic eruptions
Chojnicki, K. N., Clarke, A., Adrian, R. & Phillips, J. C., 2014, In : Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 15, 12, p. 4831-4845 15 p.
Osborne reynolds' pipe flow: Direct computation from laminar through transition to fully-developed turbulence
Wu, X., Moin, P., Adrian, R., Baltzer, J. B. & Hickey, J. P., Jan 1 2013, International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2013. TSFP-8, Vol. 3.
Particle image velocimetry for complex and turbulent flows
Westerweel, J., Elsinga, G. E. & Adrian, R., Jan 2013, In : Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 45, p. 409-436 28 p.
PIV measurements of anisotropy and inhomogeneity in decaying fractal generated turbulence
Discetti, S., Ziskin, I. B., Astarita, T., Adrian, R. & Prestridge, K. P., Dec 2013, In : Fluid Dynamics Research. 45, 6, 061401.
inhomogeneity
Structural organization of large and very large scales in turbulent pipe flow simulation
Baltzer, J. R., Adrian, R. & Wu, X., Apr 2013, In : Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 720, p. 236-279 44 p.
Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers
Adrian, R., Jan 1 2013, Coherent Flow Structures at Earth's Surface. wiley, p. 17-24 8 p.
Characterization of light-induced, volumetric steam generation in nanofluids
Taylor, R. A., Phelan, P., Adrian, R., Gunawan, A. & Otanicar, T. P., Jun 2012, In : International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 56, p. 1-11 11 p.
Coherent structures in flow over hydraulic engineering surfaces
Adrian, R. & Marusic, I., Oct 1 2012, In : Journal of Hydraulic Research. 50, 5, p. 451-464 14 p.
hydraulic phenomena
Direct numerical simulation of a 30R long turbulent pipe flow at R + = 685: Large-and very large-scale motions
Wu, X., Baltzer, J. R. & Adrian, R., May 10 2012, In : Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 698, p. 235-281 47 p.
High accuracy measurement of magnification for monocular PIV
Discetti, S. & Adrian, R., Nov 2012, In : Measurement Science and Technology. 23, 11, 117001.
Vortex organization in a turbulent boundary layer overlying sparse roughness elements
Guala, M., Tomkins, C. D., Christensen, K. T. & Adrian, R., Oct 1 2012, In : Journal of Hydraulic Research. 50, 5, p. 465-481 17 p.
Vortex flow
Characterization of a nanofluid volumetric solar absorber / steam generator
Taylor, R. A., Phelan, P., Adrian, R., Gunawan, A. & Otanicar, T., 2011, ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2011. PARTS A, B, AND C ed. p. 1927-1936 10 p.
Solar absorbers
Nanofluid extinction coefficients for photothermal energy conversion
Taylor, R. A., Phelan, P., Adrian, R., Prasher, R. & Otanicar, T. P., 2011, ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011.
Optical testing
Nanofluid optical property characterization: towards efficient direct absorption solar collectors
Taylor, R. A., Phelan, P., Otanicar, T. P., Adrian, R. & Prasher, R., Jan 2011, In : Nanoscale Research Letters. 6, 1
PIV through moving shocks with refracting curvature
Murphy, M. J. & Adrian, R., Apr 2011, In : Experiments in Fluids. 50, 4, p. 847-862 16 p.
Structure, scaling, and synthesis of proper orthogonal decomposition modes of inhomogeneous turbulence
Baltzer, J. R. & Adrian, R., Jan 3 2011, In : Physics of Fluids. 23, 1, 015107.
A particle-image velocimeter for measuring the output of high-energy detonators
Murphy, M. J., Adrian, R. & Clarke, S. A., 2010, Proceedings - 14th International Detonation Symposium, IDS 2010. p. 482-488 7 p.
Closing in on models of wall turbulence
Adrian, R., Jul 9 2010, In : Science. 329, 5988, p. 155-156 2 p.
Photothermal energy conversion in liquid nanoparticle suspensions
Phelan, P., Taylor, R., Adrian, R., Prasher, R. S. & Otanicar, T., 2010, ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010. PARTS A AND B ed. p. 781-787 7 p.
PIV space-time resolution of flow behind blast waves
Murphy, M. J. & Adrian, R., Jul 2010, In : Experiments in Fluids. 49, 1, p. 193-202 10 p.
detonators
The eddies and scales of wall turbulence
Marusic, I. & Adrian, R., Jan 1 2010, Ten Chapters in Turbulence. Cambridge University Press, p. 176-220 45 p.
Length Scale
Flow Visualization
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The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate
Michael Lynch, Martin O'Hely, Bruce Walsh, Allan Force
Newly emerging data from genome sequencing projects suggest that gene duplication, often accompanied by genetic map changes, is a common and ongoing feature of all genomes. This raises the possibility that differential expansion/contraction of various genomic sequences may be just as important a mechanism of phenotypic evolution as changes at the nucleotide level. However, the population-genetic mechanisms responsible for the success vs. failure of newly arisen gene duplicates are poorly understood. We examine the influence of various aspects of gene structure, mutation rates, degree of linkage, and population size (N) on the joint fate of a newly arisen duplicate gene and its ancestral locus. Unless there is active selection against duplicate genes, the probability of permanent establishment of such genes is usually no less than 1/(4N) (half of the neutral expectation), and it can be orders of magnitude greater if neofunctionalizing mutations are common. The probability of a map change (reassignment of a key function of an ancestral locus to a new chromosomal location) induced by a newly arisen duplicate is also generally >1/(4N) for unlinked duplicates, suggesting that recurrent gene duplication and alternative silencing may be a common mechanism for generating microchromosomal rearrangements responsible for postreproductive isolating barriers among species. Relative to subfunctionalization, neofunctionalization is expected to become a progressively more important mechanism of duplicate-gene preservation in populations with increasing size. However, even in large populations, the probability of neofunctionalization scales only with the square of the selective advantage. Tight linkage also influences the probability of duplicate-gene preservation, increasing the probability of subfunctionalization but decreasing the probability of neofunctionalization.
Duplicate Genes
Gene Duplication
Mutation Rate
Lynch, M., O'Hely, M., Walsh, B., & Force, A. (2001). The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate. Genetics, 159(4), 1789-1804.
The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate. / Lynch, Michael; O'Hely, Martin; Walsh, Bruce; Force, Allan.
In: Genetics, Vol. 159, No. 4, 01.12.2001, p. 1789-1804.
Lynch, M, O'Hely, M, Walsh, B & Force, A 2001, 'The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate', Genetics, vol. 159, no. 4, pp. 1789-1804.
Lynch M, O'Hely M, Walsh B, Force A. The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate. Genetics. 2001 Dec 1;159(4):1789-1804.
Lynch, Michael ; O'Hely, Martin ; Walsh, Bruce ; Force, Allan. / The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate. In: Genetics. 2001 ; Vol. 159, No. 4. pp. 1789-1804.
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AB - Newly emerging data from genome sequencing projects suggest that gene duplication, often accompanied by genetic map changes, is a common and ongoing feature of all genomes. This raises the possibility that differential expansion/contraction of various genomic sequences may be just as important a mechanism of phenotypic evolution as changes at the nucleotide level. However, the population-genetic mechanisms responsible for the success vs. failure of newly arisen gene duplicates are poorly understood. We examine the influence of various aspects of gene structure, mutation rates, degree of linkage, and population size (N) on the joint fate of a newly arisen duplicate gene and its ancestral locus. Unless there is active selection against duplicate genes, the probability of permanent establishment of such genes is usually no less than 1/(4N) (half of the neutral expectation), and it can be orders of magnitude greater if neofunctionalizing mutations are common. The probability of a map change (reassignment of a key function of an ancestral locus to a new chromosomal location) induced by a newly arisen duplicate is also generally >1/(4N) for unlinked duplicates, suggesting that recurrent gene duplication and alternative silencing may be a common mechanism for generating microchromosomal rearrangements responsible for postreproductive isolating barriers among species. Relative to subfunctionalization, neofunctionalization is expected to become a progressively more important mechanism of duplicate-gene preservation in populations with increasing size. However, even in large populations, the probability of neofunctionalization scales only with the square of the selective advantage. Tight linkage also influences the probability of duplicate-gene preservation, increasing the probability of subfunctionalization but decreasing the probability of neofunctionalization.
JO - Genetics
JF - Genetics
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'Oh my god': Jaw-dropping new photo in female footy furore
Yahoo Sport Australia 17 September 2019
Move over Tayla Harris?
Another female footy player has stolen the spotlight after an incredible photo went viral over the weekend.
Erin Wardrop was in action for the St George Dragons in the Sydney women’s division three grand final against Holroyd Parramatta when she was snapped in a jaw-dropping moment.
Wardrop jumped for a spoil and managed to do the splits in mid-air, knocking the ball away from opponent Michala Ford.
“Omggg Ahahahhaha how did I manage that,” Wardrop commented when the photo by Nigel Owen was posted to the AFL NSW/ACT Instagram account.
Wardrop, who is also an elite cheerleader, also performed a brilliant forward flip while trying to avoid an opposition player in the same game, before making a crunching tackle.
There were so many great moment in @StGeorgeWomens Div 3 Grand Final win in our first season on the weekend, but this one is amazing.
I've never seen this on a footy field before!@aflwomens @outersanctum01 @womeninsportau @AFLSydney pic.twitter.com/0w0MSOHh6n
— Warren Tegg (@WarrenTegg) September 16, 2019
Controversy over Tayla Harris statue
Last week Malcolm Blight added his voice to the criticism of the decision to honour Harris’ iconic kick with a statue.
A photograph of the kick became a viral sensation earlier this year after sparking a spirited defence of women in sport when Harris was targeted by online trolls posting offensive comments.
The 22-year-old AFLW player said she was humbled by the 3.3m tall statue, which was unveiled at Federation Square but does not yet have a permanent home.
"It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, young or old - everyone has a right to do what they love," Harris said.
"That's what I want people to see when they look at this."
However the statue has sparked some controversy, with debate raging about whether Harris actually deserves it.
Tayla Harris' kick has been immortalised in statue form. Image: Getty
On Thursday, AFL legend Blight described it as “ludicrous” and “mystifying”.
“She is getting a statue for being trolled online. Mystifying to me,” Blight said on Sportsday SA Radio.
“One of the most mystifying things I have ever heard of. I am not happy about it.
“We have Sam our producer, Ben another producer and Will our panel operator they have all been trolled online — I want a statue of one of these three to go alongside Tayla Harris because that’s how ludicrous and silly the whole thing is.
“What’s the difference between a male and a female in that environment?
“What about all the AFL players, all the SANFL players, all the WAFL players, all those players around Australia being trolled by d***heads, on a medium that I know very little about? Why aren’t they getting a statue? That’s how stupid the whole thing is.”
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Middlebury Police Log: Whiting man cited for petit larceny from Midd store
Thu, 07/18/2019 - 2:17pm admin
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited David Oleson, 35, of Whiting, for petit larceny. The citation followed an investigation into the alleged July 14 theft of money from the Middlebury Short Stop on Court Street Extension.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
• Responded on July 8 to a two-car accident on Court St. outside Dunkin' Donuts. Police said one vehicle rear-ended another vehicle. Police said one person was taken to Porter Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Middlebury fire officials responded to clean up coolant from a punctured radiator from one of the vehicles.
• Responded to a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Main Street on July 8.
• Investigated a possible case of credit card fraud involving a South Pleasant Street resident on July 8.
• Investigated a report of gunshots in the South Street Extension area on July 9. Police said they were unable to find anything.
• Helped Middlebury Regional EMS officials get through a locked door to aid an elderly resident who had fallen on July 9.
• Cited Craig Sayles, 38, of Middlebury, for driving under the influence of alcohol following a crash investigation at the intersection of Case and East Main streets on July 9. Police said Sales refused a breathalyzer test.
• Responded to reports of a loud argument between people in the Maple Street area on July 9. Police determined nothing physical had taken place.
• Received a report of alleged inappropriate sexual activity involving two juveniles at a Jackson Lane location on July 9. Police said the case remains under investigation.
• Investigated a fraud case on July 9 involving the transfer of funds to Nigeria.
• Received a report from the South Street area about an adult allegedly striking a child on July 9. Police said they elected not to make an arrest after an investigation.
• Investigated a dog-bite report in the Water Street neighborhood on July 10.
• Responded to a reported domestic disturbance at a Case Street home on July 10. The case remains under investigation.
• Checked on a July 10 report of a man allegedly trying to get into a locked excavator near the intersection of Seminary and Washington street extensions. Police found no one.
• Responded to a report of loose cows on East Main Street on July 10.
• Assisted an East Middlebury resident on July 10 who had been the victim in an online fraud case.
• Helped MREMS on July 11 with a patient who allegedly had a tendency to be violent.
• Helped Vermont State Police search for a runaway juvenile in the North Pleasant Street area on July 11. Authorities couldn’t find the youth.
• Received a report about a woman allegedly flagging down vehicles on Route 7 south at 10 p.m. on July 11. Police said they found the woman to be drunk, but not incapacitated.
• Served a no-stalking order on a man in the Court Street area on July 11.
• Arrested Benjamin Emmons, 29, of Middlebury, on an outstanding warrant out of Addison County on July 12.
• Helped MREMS get into a locked home on Deer Meadow Lane on July 12. Police said first responders entered through a window and discovered no one home.
• Helped a person who was having mental health issues at a Lindale Circle home on July 12.
• Served a no-stalking order on a man in the Seymour Street area on July 12.
• Searched in vain for a tractor-trailer truck that was reportedly being driven erratically on Route 7 north on July 12.
• Helped a Kings Row resident who had been tricked into sending several hundred dollars to an out-of-state man via Western Union on July 12. Police said Western Union refunded the money to the victim.
• Responded to a report of three drunken people being loud and possibly confrontational outside the Otter Creek Bakery at around 1 a.m. on July 12. Police said the three people left the area without incident.
• Assisted MREMS in helping a man who had overdosed on medication in the Route 7 south area on July 13.
• Cited Sylvie Choiniere, 25, of Middlebury for DUI following a traffic stop on Court Street Extension on July 13. Police said they measured Choiniere’s blood-alcohol content at 0.15 percent.
• Responded to a report of a drunken man in the town park gazebo on July 14.
• Checked on a water main break on Lower Foote Street on July 14.
• Served a no-trespass order on July 14 on a woman not wanted at a Court Street residence.
• Served a no-trespass order on July 15 on a woman who was not wanted at the Maplefields store on North Pleasant Street.
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IPG Media Research Team Discusses Display, The Big Ads' Ad Network And More
by AdExchanger // Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 – 4:02 pm
Tim McAtee, Research Director, IPG Media Labs, and Brian Monahan, Managing Partner, MAGNA Global Intelligence Practice, recently worked on research for the IAB Rising Stars ad units and the expansion of the IAB's standard ad unit portfolio. Read the release, and see the units.
Monahan and McAtee discussed large format, display advertising with AdExchanger including the Portrait ad unit that they helped develop with Aol.
AdExchanger: Regarding the development of the Portrait ad, any surprises when you look back to the research and development of that display ad unit?
Tim McAtee: The surprise for me was something really simple - people read from top to bottom and left to right, which is one of the thing's that's so obvious that you shouldn't need research to figure it out. Yet, it took a bunch of eye tracking to actually come to that conclusion and start thinking about the interplay of content and ad space on the screen - in the context of a linear consumption pattern and not a static square.
Brian Monahan: The other thing that was a surprise is that the ad product can bring you the eye. It can hold the eye. The more functionality you offer the users, the more it draws users into the ad. But at the end of the day, when it comes to moving lower funnel metrics, it's really up to the creative.
We’re starting to realize how far the ad product can push the value of that impression, and then where the hand‑off with the creative execution needs to take over to maximize the value of that instance so that the unit can get to the eye. The functionality can get people involved, but the unit can't make up for bad creative.
Can you talk a little bit about the creative - as in the creative person - and the opportunity for them with these larger ad formats?
Brian Monahan: The most talented digital creatives we see coming up through our ranks usually start as developers - because there's this sort of marriage between functionality and storytelling. With Portrait ad we've seen a very compelling feature that draws eyes and interaction. It’s called the “carousel” feature, where you can essentially swipe pictures horizontally. How you thread that into a narrative or a story in that unit is the challenge that the next great generation of creatives are going to be very good at - blending functionality with story.
Tim McAtee: Also to Brian's point, one of the things that we've found is functionality that appears trustworthy is often more likely to get interacted with. A a lot of consumers have been burned by bad ads and misleading ads, or ads that basically blow up their computer. We have to retrain both the ad industry and the consumer market to trust online ads. Some of these newer ads that focus on mouse over interaction as opposed to click interaction will help enable that transition back into a place where people trust ads and they're willing to interact with it, and aren't afraid that they're going to get hijacked.
How do you think Facebook's sponsored stories relates to these larger ad units?
Brian Monahan: Though it wasn't related to the research we did for IAB, we have seen, in past experiments, that ads that are "of the moment" and populated with dynamic updates like you see in the Facebook Sponsored Stories, do lift interaction and recall rates. Whether it's Facebook Sponsored Stories, or stuff that Spongecell and Flite are producing, these rich media ads that are populated with dynamic data which could be social feeds, traffic conditions, weather, anything that's "of the moment." With this move to new, bigger ad units, it seems clear that the industry's going that way and that when you put some bigger ad units on your page you don't piss off your users or necessarily drive them away. It's clear that you're adding more value to the ad inventory. A year from now, I'd be amazed if we don't see significant adoption of newer, larger units.
Tim, do you want to add anything to that?
Tim McAtee: Social advertising, when manipulated by advertisers in a pure social form often backfires because consumers aren't dumb. They can see that somebody's trying to manipulate them. But when you add in a social layer and advertisers are obvious about where they're getting the data and quotes from and they use sources, the consumer understands they're fair game. For example, Twitter is totally fair game. Everyone understands that anything you post on Twitter goes to the universe. Whereas, Facebook, for the most part, people feel is private. I don't know. I'm a little more skeptical about Facebook posts being used for sponsored stories compared to Twitter comments being used to sell products.
The social layer is going to be important, both from an algorithmic aspect in terms of targeting and finding the friends of people who like a product. It can also play a very interesting role as one more color in the creative developer's palette. But as a standalone, it often does not pass the creepy test.
Do you guys have any sense of how a “large format ads” ad network is going to play out?
Brian Monahan: It’s all about scale. There are going to be buyers in the market looking to buy these big, functional ad units. They're going to want to buy from people who can clear significant volume. So really, the question's going to come down to how quickly publishers adopt the Rising Star ad unit. If adoption is spotty overall, things like the AOL Devil ad network (or portrait unit network) are going to benefit because they're going to be one of the relatively few places you can go to buy significant scale. If everybody quickly flips over and everybody selling portrait units, then I don't know why the AOL portrait network would have an unusual advantage relative to what's currently on the market with the network dynamics.
The evidence coming in about the enhanced value of these larger units, combined with what I would suggest is an iPad-inspired design aesthetic to digital media, and we're going to see rapid adoption of these larger ad formats. There's a near term opportunity for aggregators like AOL to provide a real service. But, brands are going to demand it. Creative is going to demand it. Once we turn our algorithms loose on these things, the results are going to demand it. It seems inevitable to me.
Tim McAtee: Sometimes you just have to sit back and let economics take over and just see how it falls out. The value of these things is dependent and tied to privacy laws, tied to scarcity and all these larger issues that somebody like AOL doesn't necessarily have any control over. If Congress bans tracking suddenly, there goes a bunch of your targeting right there and all of a sudden we're back to bulk tonnage and eyeballs instead of talking to the right person at the right time.
The other thing that makes me nervous about these big ads is if publishers just add these big ads to pages that already are cluttered and just increase the clutter. That’s not going to help anybody and further alienate consumers.
The ad units, in and of themselves, are absolutely a step in the right direction. But the whole environment needs to change to a point where you're giving somebody one or two impressions that really move the needle rather than 50 impressions that get ignored and, if anything, move the needle to a negative place -which happens all the time.
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In 2017, AFCC produced the following publications:
CindeRilla
CindeRilla is delighted when a new neighbour invites her to a potluck party. But there is a problem: she cannot cook! Determined to bring her favourite dish, CindeRilla asks her stepmother for help and heads to the market. Will she be able to get all she needs and make her dish in time for the party? And just what is this mysterious dish? Find out in CindeRilla’s hilarious—and tasty—adventure!
By Rilla Melati
Illustrations by Maria Christania
Translation by Wikan Satriati
Sayur! Sayur! Vegetables for Sale
Ani lives with her mother and aunt in Jakarta. Every day, they push and pull a wooden cart all the way to the big market to buy vegetables, then push and pull it all the way back to sell the vegetables. But one day, Ani’s aunt falls ill. Who will help her mother now? In this heartwarming story, Ani learns what it takes to be a vegetable seller and what being strong really means.
By Renny Yaniar
Illustrations by Joey Ng
Translations by John H McGlynn
The original English edition of Water was published at AFCC 2013, in celebration of the International Year of Water Cooperation. This beautiful poem with lavish illustrations has since been translated and published in Chinese, Tamil, Hindi, and now Bahasa Indonesia, ensuring that it’s meaningful message can reach children far across Asia. Special thanks to Afterhours Books for translation and redesign.
By Christopher Cheng
Illustrations by Susanna Goho-Quek
Translation by Rahma Adriani
Painting Landscapes: Children’s Literature About and Beyond Asia
This is an edited collection of essays and presentations, based on the highlights of, and key ideas shared during the Asian Festival of Children’s Content in 2016, with a regional focus on Japan. Scholars and practitioners, writers, and publishers share their unique experiences and reflections on children’s literature in and about Asia and beyond its shores, and how it relates to global reading and literacy initiatives. Contributing authors are educationalists, publishers, literary arts managers, translators, illustrators and authors including Adan Jimenez (Singapore), Avery Fischer Udagawa (Japan), Eliza Teoh (Singapore), Janet Evans (USA), Kazuo Iwamura (Japan), Kyoko Sakai (Japan), Yuko Takesako (Japan) and Yumiko Sakuma (Japan).
Edited by Asst Prof Myra Garces-Bacsal, PhD
To Japan, With Love: A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by a Visit to Japan
NBDCS staff and 23 writing/illustration students from Hwa Chong Institution, LASALLE College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore Polytechnic, School of the Arts, Singapore, and Temasek Polytechnic visited Tokyo and Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture in Japan from 13 – 20 December 2016.
The JENESYS2016 programme was organised by the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) and fully sponsored by the Japanese government. The Singaporean students learnt about the culture of Japan, interacted with Japanese students and people and developed picture book story ideas on the theme of ‘Best friends and culture’. The students also visited the Chihiro Art Museum, Hakuba Village Office, Hakuba High School, National Diet Library and spent two nights at homestays in Hakuba Village.
NBDCS Director Kenneth Quek and a JICE coordinator facilitated a three-hour workshop for the Japanese and Singapore students. The students shared about children’s stories which were popular in their respective countries and created new story ideas. The Singaporean students wrote and illustrated storyboards and began work on their picture books which they would complete in Singapore.
This book is the culmination of their work and is available online for download.
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Part Seven
The Nobel Prize for Mendacity
A blurred line of headlights made a tunnel in the mist, as we filtered off the Hutchinson River Parkway South, at Boston Post Rd, toward towards Co-op City, a massive development of 35 monolithic, Le Corbusier styled, somber, authoritarian red-brick high-rise apartment blocks and 236 townhouses, lit at ground level by a worn carpet of orange lights.
With 47,000 mostly African and Latino-American inmates, incarcerated in 15,372 homes, the brute is so big that if it were a municipality it would be the 10th largest city in New York State and it is the largest cooperative housing development in the world.
It had been constructed on a swamp connecting the Hutchinson River and Westchester Creek that had been, for four loss making years, home to Freedomland U.S.A., an amusement park in the shape of the United States, with 50-foot Rocky Mountains, ersatz Great Lakes, late-1800s New York streetscapes, and swarms of mosquitoes, that along with the parks’ remote location, and an opening day stagecoach accident that injured ten people, conspired to keep visitors away, and the park went bust in 1964.
We’d moved into to our Co-op City town house quite suddenly in early 1973, by which time the entire shoddily built complex, had started to sink back into the swamp, and the residents were at war with the Directors over who would foot the bill for the resulting cracks, leaks, and pest invasions — a conflict that culminated in the longest rent strike in the history of the United States and led to the removal of the entire board.
Every townhouse except ours was split into two apartments, a one-bedroom on ground level, which has a small yard and a three-bedroom duplex on the second and third floors, which has a terrace on the second floor. We had the entire townhouse to ourselves and I had never asked why, or how we’d jumped a waiting list that can stretch into future lifetimes.[i]
We slid off the “Hutch” and onto the service road travelling north and turned in to Erskine Place where streetlights flickered off her rock and tumbled around the cab goading me:
“Husband, ex-husband, boy-friend, ex-boyfriend, or a treat from a passing fancy?” I snarled at the ring, taking offense.
She found her outrage quietly: “Now you know me enough to call me a whore?”
“We all make mistakes when we get excited. I thought that he might be one of yours?”
“It was a gift from Papi.”
“The fruit of a poisonous tree!” I snapped back from the depths of a poisonous forest, as we turned left onto De Reimer Avenue and cozied up to the right curb at 2212.
“I didn’t ask where it came from Degas. Some things are so extraordinary that you just say gracias al Señor.”
The night slapped me a second time as I opened my door into a gusting wind and walked around the cab to open hers.
I rounded up the $30 fare to $50 on account of Jay-B’s fast and furious maneuvers to lose the X5, asked him to stick around for a return journey, and led Monica up the garden path to Mami’s front door.
I used my own key to open the latch.
Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, was there to greet us. Her deep-throated contralto massaging Johnny Pacheco’s, ‘La Dicha Miá;’
The song tells the tale of Celia’s trek from Cuba to New York City, but it could have been written for Mami, who joined in — singing ‘I thank God and the saints every day for my luck,’ along with Celia without a trace of irony, certain that faith could turn her shit around.
Music was the one passion my parents shared. On cold winter evenings, we’d sit in front of the walnut-veneered music-center like some families sit around a fire, listening to his Gods, — Parker, Miles, Mingus, Monk, Trane, and hers —- Cruz, Pacheco, Colon, Puente and Lavoe, warming our souls.
Mami, topped by a blue and white, beehive, wig and clad in an orange silk and white lace, José Arteaga designed, Rumba dress, was singing to her clenched fist as we entered the living room, which was lit like a supper-club by a chandelier designed to grace a far higher ceiling and a cluster of flickering candles that Monica’s rock multiplied.
She shrieked when she saw us, Salsa’d over to the music center, pulled the stylus off the vinyl roughly, causing a scratch to yell like nails down a chalkboard, and planted kiss-kisses as she wrapped us in a hug that tied us together more closely than felt comfortable.
”Monica, I want you to be happy, happy, happy here. My message is always felicidad,” she said in a clarion voice.
It was a big welcome from a tiny lady with a huge capacity for adoration. Perhaps because she used so little love on herself. Perhaps to get some love in return. She had gotten more extrovert with time — suggesting it was borrowed.
They were clues I had somehow missed.
She wrapped an arm around Monica and dragged her over to a plastic-wrapped gold velour, Chesterfield-style, couch. So, I perched myself on the back of a gold-steel faux-bamboo Chiavari party chair.
A pot of tea and a circular arrangement of Goya Maria Tea biscuits on an oval FLAG OF CUBA PORCELAIN SERVING PLATE, sat on a polished chrome and smoked glass coffee table that squatted at the center of things. The couch, the Chiavari chairs, the coffee table and the sideboard were all a part of a living room set that retailed for $1,500, but that cost Mami $4,158 over two years. Rent-to-own being the latest and greatest post-subprime scam around New York City’s usury laws.
Mami poured the tea and passed the biscuits, which Monica politely declined. I supposed she didn’t want to accept anything from Mami and then break her heart.
“You’re a pretty girl,” Mami gushed from her bottomless well of compliments. “What are you doing with Degas?”
Monica, hesitated. She had something to big to say but didn’t quite know how to frame it to minimize the hurt. She chose simple and to the point.“Beatriz. I’m not the kind of person who visits people she doesn’t know and makes small talk. I’m here to work and not to make friends. I’m a periodista --- I went to see Degas with your story.”
Mami winced at that and turned around to face me wearing an appeal.
I shook it off, and tag-teamed: “Is Abraham Katz my Papi?”
She winced again — 51 years after the fact, she was still unprepared for that question. So, she bought a little time by splitting hairs.
“He loved you very much Degas.”
“Mi padre biológico? I pressed. “Because Monica has papers that suggest that he isn’t, which makes sense, as it explains why it was so easy for him to leave and never turn back.”
Monica brushed me with a smile to steer me away from my 47-year-old hurt. I blundered on regardless: “Mami, do you need to see the papers or are you going to tell us what happened, from the beginning — straight no chaser?”
A lone tear ran down Mami’s cheek. It was quickly joined by a congregation — their tracks glistening as cars passed by, strafing the living room window with headlight. Monica dipped back into her tote for Joe Kunt’s Will and a pocket pack of tissues, which she passed to Mami, who dropped the Will on her lap, but the tissues came in handy.
Mami’s voice when it came was unsteady and broke with irregularity as she struggled to find words she had hoped to never use.
“Monica, my parents were both teachers at the University of Havana. In September 1961, one week after my 10th birthday, they sent me on a boat to the United States — alone. They were afraid that if I stayed in Cuba, I’d be sent to school in the Soviet bloc.”
A sip of tea caused a pause, which Monica used to set her phone on the coffee table and ask for permission to record. Mami’s nod caused her wig to lean sadly to one side.
“A Sister from ST. JOSEPH VILLA met me in Key West. She was working with OPERACION PEDRO PAN, a society of Catholic Charities that helped displaced Pañales like me.”[ii]
She popped a bright smile, which clouded over as her tale became twisted. “The Sister took me to Union City, New Jersey, to live with a blind, distant Aunt and her thug husband, Shangó, who touched me when he drank. So, he touched me all the time.”
She shuddered as if the touch still hurt. “I begged him stop, but he wouldn’t leave me alone; él no me dejaría ser.”
She carried her pain over to the sideboard and picked up a black & white photo in a CUBA FLAG LICENSE PLATE FRAME. The couple in the photograph were standing face to face, arms resting on each other’s shoulders under a Royal Palm tree, very much in love.
“Mis padres died in late October 1965, in the Camarioca Boat Lift.[iii] They’d spent the month before building a sailboat from scraps of driftwood in an abandoned tobacco-drying barn owned by my gran tío, Manuel Quesada Sr. He sold tobacco to Alonso Menendez and Pepe Garcia at H. Upmann to make Montecristo’s, to Ramón Cifuentes to make Partagas, and to Fernando Palicio to make Punch’s and Belinda’s. But he kept the best leaves for himself and hand-rolled them into long Panetelas that spiced the air around us with nutmeg, cedar, coffee and the sweetness of raisins[iv] in 1957 Manuel gave Fidel 100,000 pesos — – which was worth $100,000 at the time — to finance for his rebellion against Fulgencio Batista, a Dictator who had in 3 decades turned Cuba into a playground for US mobsters like “Lucky” Luciano and Meyer Lansky and into his personal piggy bank. So, when the rebels won Manuel thought he’d be ok, because Fidel would return the favor,” She said chuckling at the naivety of the faithless.
“But Fidel wasn’t wired that way. He didn’t play favorites and he snatched Manuel’s business was along with everyone else’s when his Movimiento 26 de Julio nationalized the tobacco industry on September 14, 1960. The only difference was that Fidel came to take the keys to Manuel’s warehouses himself, grabbing a few boxes of Manuel’s best 1949 Panetelas as he left, and forced Manuel to stay in Cuba for a year to teach his new dogs the old tricks. Manuel’s escaped to the Dominican Republic eighteen months later and built a new empire in the Yaque Valley, where he produced hand-rolled Panetelas, Fonsecas, and Double Robustos each with a red and gold band. His grandson Manolo runs the business now with his two daughters, Patricia and Raquel. His cigars are distributed exclusively in the USA by Shangó and his gang of Santeros.”
Mami kissed the photo and poured: “Papi’s boat, ‘the Beatriz’ was built to carry six people, but they sailed for the US with fifteen. 8 hours out of Havana the boat sunk when a storm made a giant wave out of a US Destroyer’s wake. I got sick after that. I wasn’t producing enough white blood cells and the doctors said I might die. Shangó wouldn’t hear it. He said he could cure me. He made a small broom from branches of the Escoba plant, chained me naked to a chair, and beat me seven times with the broom. That night, I was a little better. A week of beatings later I was cured. A few months later I found a stash of Clozapine, along with fat rolls of $100 bills, two loaded pistols and ammunition, bags of coke and a set of scales, in the false ceiling over the bathroom, and I worked out I’d been poisoned and that the cure was to make me forever grateful, forever his.”
She chuckled, but there was no joy in it, just life; over-cooked, refried reheated. She’d been suckered once or twice --- she won’t get fooled again.
“I spent the next 4-years planning my escape from Havana by the Hudson to Money Making Manhattan with its streets of gold. At nights, I learned to type faster than anyone else; take shorthand more quickly and accurately than anyone else, and I waitressed at the weekends to earn the money I needed to get the clothes I needed to play the part of secretary on her way up. Monica, I was fabulous!”
Monica giggled: “Sí es usted Beatriz, yes you are!” Then she picked up Beatriz’ story and spun it like a top. “On graduating high school in the early summer 1968, you registered with Kelly Services Inc., on Lexington Avenue by Grand Central Station. They almost immediately placed you with the Kunt Organization in Queens. You were 18 years old. Joseph Patrick Kunt had built and operated an empire of more than 2,700 low-income apartments and row houses in in Brooklyn and Queens that generated a mountain of mostly unreported cash. Your job was to prepare letters to late and delinquent tenants and schedule evictions — to lick ‘em, stick ‘em and send them on their way! Occasionally you got to make the deposits. Joe’s son James Alexander joined the Kunt organization a few weeks after you. Now the fucker is President elect. My question is, what are the Kunt’s to you.?”
It was a question I assumed she’d already answered and that she was only waiting on Mami out of respect and because a true confession is the rarest and most valuable gusher of all.
“I liked the job. I had responsibility. And it was better paid than most because I got to share in the eviction bonuses. After a while the Grillo gave me more responsibility y un poco mas de dinero when he made me the secretary of Countywide Building Supply & Maintenance, which did nothing except mark-up purchases the Kunt Organization had already made to justify rent increases and to ‘fuck the taxman.’ She said mimicking Joseph by rolling out Archie Bunker’s slow Queens drawl amid hollow giggles that quickly caught a chill.
“But, sometimes Joseph asked me to work late, and when I did his hands wandered onto me. I laughed it off at first, because it felt good to be appreciated by a rich powerful man. Even if he was old enough to be my abuelo. But it got worse --- paws on ass, paws on breasts and then paws up my skirt. It got so freaking bad that I started layering granny panties under two pairs of tights at work.“So, you battened down the hatches and hoped to ride out the storm,” snorted Monica. who had been there done that and recognized the long hard road between containment and cure.
Mami’s head shook but her eyes were locked on Monica.
“On James Alexander’s first day at work, Elizabeth-Anne, who is Joseph’s wife, visited. She took one look at me, said something to Joseph, and the touching stopped.”
“I’m sure you weren’t the first pretty, young, Latina he’d molested, and she recognized the signs,” snarled Monica whose face was clenched around her lips and I knew that if I looked down to her fists they’d be clenched too as Mami’s story had become shared.
“But not forever!” Monica prodded.
“No, not forever. On his birthday, October 11, 1969, Joseph asked if I would stay late to help him identify ‘all the niggers’ renting in Kunt Village, our development in Coney Island, as he’d decided, once and for always, to clear them out. As I had no legal way of identifying the race of the tenants, I went to his office to ask for help, and found the old man with his pants rolled down his ankles, masturbating.
When I turned to leave, James Alexander blocked the doorway, stretching out his cheek with his tongue grotesquely. Laughing, he told Joe to put his toadstool dick away, and then he asked me what I was going to give his Pops for his birthday? I started to cry, which was exactly the wrong thing to do, because it made them feel more entitled, mas poderoso. And the monstruo pushed me down to the floor tearing at my dress, ripping a string of imitation pearls off my neck, that fell underneath me printing a rash of circular bruises on my back.
“I cried out Ayuda, auxilio! Estoy siendo violada so many times I lost my voice along with my virginity,” she said in a hoarse whisper made of mad laughter and screams.
“He was so heavy on me. So greedy. So disgusting,” She whispered shaking her head to and fro and to and fro.
“Tienes un bajo a podrido encima! I yelled at them.” She growled with all of the little she had left of her voice.
“But nobody came! And to silence me and for kicks the old man put his hand over my mouth. Me hizo daño!!! Yes, the fucking Kunt’s hurt me! And they would not stop — ¡No se detendría!” She said bitterly.
"No más Prince Charming dreams. Only the lingering tormenting memory of pain, then blood, then more pain and the everlasting shame of being violently penetrated for the very first time by a stranger. Contra mi voluntad, mi voluntad, mi voluntad --- Elia you were born 9 months later.”
I closed my eyes on a truth that would never leave me. I was the son of the rape of my Mami, who had all eyes on me, measuring my shock, my disapproval, my embarrassment, my disappointment and my hurt.
So, I made damn sure she saw only my admiration and my love.
Monica had the jugular and clung on: “And a few months later you met up with Ray Cohn and traded your silence for $20,000 and a leap up the waiting list for this Co-op city palace.”
Mami nodded and turned back to me to wrap-up, fraught but she would not weep: “Elia, you are my everything and I did what I did to protect you, but in doing so I lost myself. And I wasted what remained of my dreams and my pride by marrying the first man that would have me, who turned out to be already married.”
She turned from us both and went back to the music center, tucked Celia back in her sleeve, and reached for The Montuno Sessions; a bootleg live album from Studio ‘A’, 99.5 FM, in New York City, which she placed on the turntable.
She placed the stylus at Henry Fiol‘s churning, swaying, pleading, romantic salsa tinged Son remake of Cheo Marquetti’s classic “Oriente,.” a ten-minute journey made of guiro, delicate melodic piano, heartbreak horns and a mysterious otherworldly croon: “Yo me voy a morir / Caramba, me voy a matar.”
It was our song for tough times. So much so that it was difficult to imagine anyone else being lifted, moved, possessed by the song in the same way. Mami didn’t need my forgiveness, she needed her own, which by the sound of things was going to take time.
As for me? Born of extreme violence. Robbed of my birthright. I was the bastard that was going to take the President down and save us from ourselves. By any means necessary.
I took Mami in my arms and we danced saddest song of all round and round the room until she handed me to Monica, who pulled away — a deer in the lights.
“Mami, Degas isn’t my type.”
[i] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/realestate/co-op-city-for-affordability-and-open-spaces.html
[ii] http://www.pedropan.org/forum/
[iii] https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/camarioca-boat-lift
[iv] https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/old-havanas-7789
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The sheer mastery demonstrated in the retro-futurisitic style of Belgium illustrator/designer Laurent Durieux is hard to ignore. It’s not just the novelty of bucking recent design trends and appearing to be from another era (think 1960s pop culture) that makes Durieux’s work so special, but also the level of detail in his work. Durieux’s eye for composition, typography and color only enhance his brilliant work, which (no surprise) has been commissioned by none other than Mondo (see related posts here and here and here).
Via laurentdurieux.com
Tags 1960s pop culture, Back to the Future, cinema, composition, detail, Die Hard, film, film poster, Jaws, King Kong, Laurent Durieux, Mondo, nostalgia, nostalgic, retro-futurisitic, Spider-Man, The Iron Giant, The Wizard of Oz
Categories Advertising, Color, Design, For Sale, illustration, Inspiration, Marketing, Movie Poster, Posters, Prints, Retro, Series, Typography
Limited Edition Iron Man 3 Posters
As the summer movie season ramps up so does the barrage of movie posters. Most are not great (or even good), but these limited-edition Iron Man 3 posters by Uruguayan illustrator/designer Martin Ansin set the bar really high. Though these posters went on sale (and quickly sold out) at Mondo earlier this month, we can’t help but ogle at these superior specimens of cinematic posters, which feature metallic inks. These standard and color variant prints feature not only Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, but also Don Cheadle as Iron Patriot, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin and scenes from the movie. Mondo really is the go-to spot for prints and memorabilia (here and here and here), and this is a fantastic addition.
Via martinansin.com
Tags Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, film, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man 3, Iron Patriot, Mandarin, Martin Ansin, Marvel Comics, memorabilia, Mondo, movie, Pepper Potts, Robert Downey Jr, Tony Stark
Categories Advertising, Color, Design, For Sale, illustration, Inspiration, Marketing, Movie Poster, Posters, Prints, Series
Posters by Laz Marquez
We always appreciate well executed reinterpretations of movie and TV posters (think Olly Moss and Mondo). We recently came across some work of New York-based designer/art director Laz Marquez, and he certainly falls into that category. Marquez’s ability to mix up his style seems to be a strength here; He does not employ one particular style for all of these works, but rather adjusts his style based on the subject matter.
Via lazmarquez.com
Tags A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hitchcock, Laz Marquez, Mondo, Ollie Moss, reinterpretation, Stephen King, The Walking Dead, tv posters
Categories Advertising, Color, Design, illustration, Inspiration, Marketing, Movie Poster, Posters, Prints, Retro, Series, Typography
Movie Poster Masters
Movie poster design can be a true art, and Austin, TX-based studio Mondo are masters. We actually love the official poster for the sci-fi thriller Looper. But Sony Pictures also teamed with Mondo (and specifically illustrator/designer Martin Ansin) to create limited edition posters for the film (one in gold, one in silver, which apparently has some significance in the film). We’re sure these photos don’t even do them justice (both versions printed in metallic inks), but they are fantastic nonetheless. And we hear the movie is just as good.
Via blog.mondotees.com and martinansin.com
Tags Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, entertainment, film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, limited edition, Looper, Martin Ansin, Mondo, sci-fi, sci-fi thriller
Categories Advertising, Campaign, Color, Design, For Sale, illustration, Inspiration, Marketing, Movie Poster, Posters, Prints, Series
Marveling at Mondo
Since reading about Texas-based Mondo in the New York Times late last year, we’ve been really taken with their work. This offshoot of theater chain Alamo Drafthouse commissions artists to design alternate versions of movie posters. Quite fittingly, they recently released a series of posters tied into and coinciding with Marvel’s blockbuster The Avengers. They are all brilliant, particularly the glow in the dark edition of Thor.
Via mondoarchive.com
Tags Alamo Drafthouse, Black Widow, Captain America, entertainment, film, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, Mondo, The Avengers, Thor
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Retro Recreations of Recognizable Logos
We can all agree that the 1980s had a very specific aesthetic that proliferated into all areas of our culture, from fashion to music to graphic design and everything in between. So when digital artist/musician/internet persona Future Punk recently took some, ahem, very recognizable brands and gave them an 80s-styled retro makeover, we swooned. Future Punk (we’ve unsuccessfully scoured the internet for any clues as to his/her true identity) employs an arsenal of 1980s mainstays, including neon, chrome and Memphis-style elements to take current brand logos back to the future. Future Punk could honestly continue this great series for quite sometime… here’s to hoping!
Via future-punk.com
Tags 1980s, 80s-styled, aesthetic, Amazon, chrome, culture, eBay, Facebook, Future Punk, Google, graphic design, Instagram, makeover, Memphis-style, neon, Netflix, recognizable, Reddit, Sound Cloud, Twitter, YouTube
Categories Advertising, Branding, Color, Design, Identity, Inspiration, Logos, Marketing, Retro, Series, Typography
Pixelated Pantone Paintings
British artist Nick Smith speaks the visual language of a true contemporary artist. His work is thoughtful, compelling and current. Seemingly inspired by 8-bit graphics of his youth, Smith recreates recognizable paintings from a variety of famous artists using little more than a brilliant sense of color and some custom Pantone Color Chips. Though the work he’s recreating employs broad ranges of color and is often very detailed, his pixelated reinterpretations are still remarkably recognizable. True to Smith’s attention to detail, he does not use standard Pantone chips, but rather customizes them with specific names that relate to the artwork they comprise, adding another layer of dimension to these already impressive works.
More pixelated work here and here and here.
Via smithandstuff.com and Instagram
Tags 8-bit, 8-bit artwork, Andy Warhol, attention to detail, brilliant, Campbells Soup Can, compelling, contemporary art, contemporary artist, current, custom, da Vinci, detailed, Edvard Munch, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe, modern art, Mona Lisa, Nick Smith, Pantone color chips, pixelated, pop art, recognizable, recreate, reinterpretation, Rembrandt, René Magritte, Ruff Ryder, Son of Man, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Scream, thoughtful, Van Gogh, Vermeer, visual language
Categories Color, Design, For Sale, illustration, Inspiration, Painting, Pixels, Portrait, Prints, Retro, Series
Chopsticks Portrait
We’ve seen the work of Malaysian artist/architect “Red” Hong Yi before (here), but we had to revisit her work again because it’s just so good. This time, in keeping with her penchant for food-related art, Hong Yi created a portrait of international action star Jackie Chan’s face from chopsticks… 64,000 chopsticks to be exact. Suspended in bundles of various sizes from a steel frame and when viewed from a distance, the chopsticks bear an unmistakable likeness to the instantly recognizable famous face of Chan. We really admire out-of-the-box thinking like Hong Yi’s here. We have a hard time even gauging the amount of time and planning that went into this… such a creative expression of a brilliantly inspired thinker.
Via redhongyi.com
Tags actor, “Red” Hong Yi, brilliant, bundles, celebrity, celebrity portraiture, chopsticks, creative, creative expression, famous, famous face, frame, hanging, Hong Yi, inspired, international action star, Jackie Chan, likeness, Malaysia, out-of-the-box, planning, recognizable, steel, suspended, thoughtful, Time, unmistakable, wire, wood, wooden
Categories Design, Food, Inspiration, Installation, Portrait, Sculpture, Video
EveryHey: Daily Pop Culture Illustrations
Barcelona design firm Hey Studio has a thing for pop culture and illustration. They married these two loves into a fruitful serial project (others here and here and here) that has boosted their social media presence to over 50K Instagram followers. Though the project, called EveryHey, seems to have since ceased, Hey Studio posted over 400 minimalist illustrations of a very wide variety of pop culture figures, from Prince to Parker Lewis, to Baywatch babes to Beyoncé. We love Hey Studio’s bold, colorful style, and their smart choice of details to make each illustration just recognizable. This is a very small sampling, so be sure to check out the entire collection online or in their EveryHey book (available here).
Tags 2Pac, 365 project, Amy Winehouse, athlete, Audrey Hepburn, badabing, Barack Obama, Barcelona, Baywatch, Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, bold, Brad Pitt, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bruce Lee, Chicago Bulls, collection, colorful, David Bowie, details, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Elvis, Elvis Presley, EveryHey, Family Matters, Fight Club, film, Fresh Prince, geometrical, golf, Harry Potter, HBO, heavy metal, Hey Studio, Instagram, James Dean, James Gandolfini, Jumpman, mafia, Mary Poppins, Michael Jordan, minimalist, mob boss, movie, Mrs. Doubtfire, music, NBA, Ozzy Osbourne, Parker Lewis, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, pop culture, popular culture, POTUS, President, Prince, rap, rapper, recognizable, Robin Williams, rock and roll, serial project, sitcom, smart, snoop dogg, snoop lion, social media, Steve Urkel, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The King, The Sopranos, Tiger Woods, Tony Soprano, Tupac Shakur, Tyler Durden, variety, west coast, Will Smith, wizard, Ziggy Stardust
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Misshapen VW Masterpieces
Few automotive designs are as iconic as the Volkswagen Beetle. Dubbed the “people’s car”, Volkswagen has gone on to produce some 22 million units, making the Beetle the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single platform in history. Indonesian sculptor Ichwan Noor capitalizes on the Beetle’s recognizability with his striking Beetle Sphere and Beetle Box sculptures. Noor’s body of work is comprised of a good deal of pieces that focus on man-made transportation, so it’s really no surprise that he chose to morph the unmistakable VW for these particular works. Though these sculptures are not simply warped car bodies, Noor certainly creates that illusion. Instead, he relies on authentic and fabricated parts… crafting cast metal components, and thoughtfully displaying some of the car’s most recognizable features. Quite a feat, considering these are not computer generated (like these), but physical objects. Wow. The result is really something to behold.
Via ichwannoor.com and Wikipedia
Tags authentic, automobile, automotive, automotive sculpture, Beetle, Beetle Box, Beetle Sphere, car, cast metal, cube, Ichwan Noor, iconic, illusion, Indonesia, metal, morph, people’s car, recognizability, recognizable, round, sphere, transportation, twisted, vintage, Volkswagen, VW, warped
Categories Color, Inspiration, Installation, Sculpture, Series, Video
Mind Blowing Celebrity Composites
April 7, 2016 //
Prepare to have your mind blown as we dive into a sea of celebrity mashups. German digital artist and Photoshop whiz simply known as Gesichtermix is a master of photo manipulation. We’re not talking Franken-celebrities here. His careful attention to detail, and keen eye for creating very believable composites of two highly recognizable faces is impressive, to say the least. As a viewer, part of the fun is instantly recognizing one of the celebrities, as the features of the second begin to emerge. We must admit, we could stare at these all day. Try it for yourself… can you guess the pairings? Answers below, but no cheating!
Robin Williams and Brendan Fraser
Javier Bardem and Keanu Reeves
Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio
Pierce Brosnan and Kiefer Sutherland
Pharrell Williams and Channing Tatum
Rihanna and Katy Perry
Tom Cruise and John Travolta
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian
Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber
Shaquille O’Neal and 50 Cent
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Adam Driver
Emily Blunt and Christina Ricci
Charlie Sheen and Ashton Kutcher
Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill
Idris Elba and Jay Z
Anthony Hopkins and Bill Murray
Ed Harris and Kevin Costner
Marco Rubio and John Kasich
Jack Black and Jason Bateman
Oprah and Beyoncé
Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift
Richard Chamberlain and George Takei
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone
George Clooney and Tom Hanks
Tags 50 Cent, Adam Driver, Anthony Hopkins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ashton Kutcher, attention to detail, Ben Affleck, Beyoncé, Bill Murray, Brendan Fraser, careful, celebrity, celebrity culture, celebrity mashups, celebrity photography, celebrity portraits, celebrity portraiture, Channing Tatum, Charlie Sheen, Christina Ricci, composite, composite portrait, composites, detail, digital art, digital artist, Ed Harris, emerge, Emily Blunt, face, faces, familiar, fun, George Clooney, George Takei, German, Gesichtermix, guess, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, impressive, Jack Black, Jason Bateman, Javier Bardem, Jay-Z, John Kasich, John Travolta, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marco Rubio, mashups, Oprah, Paris Hilton, Pharrell Williams, photo-manipulation, Photoshop, Pierce Brosnan, Prince William, Princess Kate, recognizable, Richard Chamberlain, Rihanna, Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Shaquille O'Neal, Sylvester Stallone, Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks
Categories Inspiration, Photography, Portrait, Series
Logo-Recreating Calligraphy King Seb Lester
So, we stumbled upon this viral video recently, and were in complete awe. You will be too, if you haven’t seen it already, guaranteed. It made us ponder the irony of being so taken with corporate logos carefully drawn by hand, even though that’s exactly how they were developed in the not so distant past. It’s no wonder this video has circulated so rapidly… we live and design in a time when doing things without the use of a computer is such a novelty. Armed with little more than some calligraphy pens, London-based Seb Lester, a trained graphic designer with a penchant for calligraphy, miraculously recreates distinct and recognizable complex letterforms with complete ease and surprising accuracy. Sit back snd marvel, as these logos seem to just emerge from his steady hand. We bow down to Lester and his tremendous talents.
Compilation video below, plus a few of our other favorites follow. Can you guess what’s about to materialize as he starts each logo?
Keep up with Lester and all of his hand drawn logos on his various social media channels: Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter
Via seblester.com and Vimeo
More doodling.
A post shared by Seb Lester (@seblester) on Mar 2, 2015 at 8:36am PST
A post shared by Seb Lester (@seblester) on Jan 18, 2015 at 8:58am PST
I doodle a lot.
A post shared by Seb Lester (@seblester) on Mar 8, 2015 at 6:59am PDT
Latest doodle
A post shared by Seb Lester (@seblester) on Mar 19, 2015 at 6:18am PDT
News doodle
A post shared by Seb Lester (@seblester) on Apr 20, 2015 at 11:14am PDT
Tags accuracy, Adidas, Audi, awe, calligraphy, calligraphy pens, Coca-Cola, complex, Converse, corporate logos, ease, Ferrari, hand-drawn, hand-lettering, handmade, Honda, Led Zeppelin, letterforms, London, Marvel, novelty, recognizable, recreate, Seb Lester, social media, steady hand, Supreme, talent, talented, The New York Times, tremendous, Vans, viral video
Categories Advertising, Branding, Color, Design, Drawing, handlettering, Identity, illustration, Inspiration, Instructional, Logos, Marketing, Series, Typography, Video
Artists Mark DB7 Turning the Big 4-0
Few athletes are as globally recognizable as icon David Beckham. Even here in the U.S. where soccer is not nearly the sports juggernaught that it is just about everywhere else on the planet, Beckham is a mainstay in the fabric of our vast celebrity culture. So it was fitting that the Bleacher Report recently commissioned artists to create unique illustrations of the soccer superstar to mark his 40th birthday. We really love the diversity of styles here. We won’t mention our favorites, but it’s safe to say that they are all pretty fantastic in their own way. These assorted artists, whose backgrounds and influences are as distinct as their artistic styles, include Steve Welsh (UK); Alexis Marcou (New York City), previous post here; Sebastián Domenech (Buenos Aires); Dave Merrell (UK), previous post here; Brandon Spahn (Bloomington, Indiana); Bram Vanhaeren (Belgium); Nikkolas Smith (Los Angeles); Melvin Rodas (Philippines); Rory Martin (San Francisco); Gabriel De Los Rios (New York City); James White (Nova Scotia).
Via Bleacher Report
Tags #beckham40, 40th, 40th birthday, Alexis Marcou, assorted, athlete, backgrounds, Belgium, birthday, Bleacher Report, Bram Vanhaeren, Brandon Spahn, Buenos Aires, Canada, celebrity, celebrity culture, commission, Dave Merrell, David Beckham, DB7, distinct, diversity, fame, famous, fantastic, Gabriel De Los Rios, global, Indiana, influences, James White, LA Galaxy, Los Angeles, Manchester United, Melvin Rodas, Milan, New York City, Nikkolas Smith, Nova Scotia, NYC, Paris Saint-Germain, Philippines, Preston North End, Real Madrid, recognizable, Rory Martin, San Francisco, Sebastián Domenech, soccer, sports icon, Steve Welsh, style, styles, superstar, UK, unique
Categories Color, Design, illustration, Inspiration, Portrait, Posters, Series, Sports
Slick Schick Iconography
There’s an old adage that states “less is more.” And that maxim certainly holds true for this minimalist icon set developed for Schick. There was a notion in the Philippines that Schick was a female brand because of their popular line of lady razors, so the Manila branch of marketing and advertising giant J. Walter Thompson developed this slick set of graphic posters to combat that misperception. These fantastically bold graphics, by the team at JWT Manila, feature recognizable historical and pop culture figures with distinct facial hair (Mr. T from The A-Team, V from V for Vendetta, Salvador Dali, Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin) that one can achieve using Schick razors. We love how the product is seamlessly integrated into the designs. There’s certainly market research and number crunching that goes into how and where to market with visuals like these, but we don’t see why a campaign like this wouldn’t be effective here in the US. There seems to be a sort of facial hair renaissance happening right now, and aggressively bold visuals like these would be hard to miss.
Via jwt.com
Tags beard, black and white, bold, bold graphics, Charlie Chaplin, facial hair, graphic, Groucho Marx, historical, historical figures, iconography, J. Walter Thompson, JWT Manila, less is more, minimalist, Mr. T, mustache, Philippines, pop culture, razors, recognizable, Salvador Dalí, Schick, Schick razors, slick, V for Vendetta
Categories Advertising, Campaign, Design, Icons, illustration, Inspiration, Marketing, Portrait, Posters, Retail, Series
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Authentic Web Announces Kim Von Arx as Vice President, EMEA
TORONTO: October 13, 2014: Authentic Web, a platform and services company addressing the needs of enterprises to deploy Brand Registry ecosystems and manage corporate domain portfolios, is pleased to announce the addition of Kim von Arx as Vice President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Kim will head up business development and operations, focused on the European market and extending into the Middle East and Africa. Kim is an industry veteran of the domain name space, having served as a member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA) Executive Team as head of the legal, compliance, policy, project management and governance. He was also an advisory member of the ICANN WHOIS Review Team, Executive Board of CENTR and is a guest lecturer at industry events such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the UN. In recent years, Kim has served as a virtual General Counsel for a number of Fortune1000 companies.
“Over the past year, I have had the pleasure to get to know Kim. His industry knowledge is first-class as is the man himself. Ethical, honest, hardworking and tremendously insightful and passionate about the space. He brings significant legal, policy and operational strengths to our team. We also share a vision and passion for the future evolution of the domain space. We are really pleased to have Kim onboard as we work to enable our clients to innovate and lead in their respective markets.” says Peter LaMantia, CEO. “We are very pleased to also announce Mike Schwarzbach joining Kim’s team as Business Development, Manager, Europe. Mike is another experienced jurist, fantastic gent and believes in our mission. As an experienced IP lawyer he brings tremendous strength and leadership to the team. Welcome aboard guys!”
Authentic Web Inc. is a platform and service company based in Toronto, Canada serving the emerging Brand Registry market, providing CONTROL, VISIBILITY and AUTOMATION technology toolsets that makes it easy to launch, manage, innovate on and scale authentic Brand Registry ecosystems. Authentic Web is and ICANN Accredited Registrar.
Peter LaMantia, Authentic Web Inc.
North America: 1- 855-436-8853
International: 1- 416-821-3225
www.authenticweb.com
05/24/2018 ICANN’s Global Domains Domains Division Update
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Crampton looking to press for GT4 title at Sandown
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During Rd 2 Australian GT Endurance Championship at The Bend Motorsport Park, Tailem Bend, Australia on 13July2019, Russell Puckeridge (Pureart Creative Images)
Rnd#3 [FINAL] 2019 CAMS Australian Endurance Championship
After two seasons in the mighty KTM X-Bow GT4, Sydney’s David Crampton is smiling wider than ever, and on the eve of an Australian Championship battle in which he and team-mate Trent Harrison are right in the title fight, it’s understandable that the duo are upbeat despite heading into Melbourne’s uncertain Spring weather..
As one of two cars capable of taking out the 2019 CAMS Australian Endurance Championship crown in GT4, Crampton knows he needs a perfect weekend as he tackles title rivals Justin McMillan and Glen Wood in an identical 2-litre turbo Audi-powered X-Bow, the M-Motorsport team-mates though whilst taking the fight seriously, will extract as many laughs as possible across what will be a challenging weekend.
“You can never say never, and whilst Justin and Glen are well clear in the points race after our early exit at Phillip Island [technical fault], if they suffer any setbacks, we’re right in the battle for the title,” Crampton explained.
Joining the Melbourne-based M-Motorsport operation to kick off the 2018 Bathurst 12-Hour, Crampton has been on a steep learning curve ever since, admitting that coming into Australian GT alongside a string of faster GT3 cars, has really forced him to tackle the issue head-on.
“Bathurst was a setback with me striking drama at Forrest’s Elbow early in my stint under pressure from some of the faster GT3 cars, and that was a real lesson,” Crampton continued.
“That showed me I should have been better prepared, and with Justin’s [McMillan] help, and guidance from Trent [Harrison] and Glen [Wood] I’ve taken every opportunity I can to be behind the wheel of the car to learn.
“I’m pretty happy with how things have evolved since then, and technical issues aside [Crampton was comfortably under Justin McMillan’s rear wing early at Phillip Island before a technical issue saw him in the barriers early during the opening round of the Endurance season], I think I’ve improved to the point where I can pump out the lap times we need to keep us in contention.”
Testament to that was Crampton’s epic effort in challenging wet and dry conditions at The Bend Motorsport Park, where they emerged with their first GT4 outright victory.
“That was incredible! We fought all day in both wet and dry conditions and into the setting sun to emerge as the leading GT4 car and take back valuable points we’d lost after the retirement at Phillip Island. We have to continue that form though and push the #48 car at Sandown so that we can put ourselves back into the title equation and be there at the end.”
With the addition of more cars into the GT4 field, Crampton’s other issue will be ensuring they maximise their result in relation to their title rivals, but as a fan of the challenging 3.1-kilometre, 13-turn Sandown layout, he isn’t too phased.
“I have to say that when I knew we were going to come to Sandown twice this year for Australian GT I was pretty happy,” Crampton continued. “It’s one of my favourite venues, and I’d seen a fair bit of success with my Radical SR3 there in the past with a string of podium finishes, so I do like it. That said, I need to make it through qualifying this time after battling a bit too hard with GT4 champion-elect Jeremy Gray at Sandown last year at turn one. I was perhaps a bit forceful in pushing my line and we both ended up out of the session, whilst I learnt a hard lesson again about attacking when it’s not vital, as we had to sit out both races having damaged the car enough to force a lengthy repair back at the workshop..”
Whilst this weekend will represent Crampton’s first chance to fight for a title in season 2019, he will get a second chance – again at Sandown – when the CAMS Australian GT Championship comes to its conclusion at the venue in early November.
“The seven round season has provided significant mileage and I’m improving with every run, so whilst there’s some chance we might miss the endurance title this weekend, we’re still in the fight for the GT4 Championship title with the two Sprint rounds at the Gold Coast and back at Sandown still on the program.
“We’ll be ready.. Our only issue is just how reliable the KTMs have been, and that our title rival is racing an identical car within the same team!
“Regardless, I’m having a blast racing in AGT alongside Justin, Glen and Trent. They are great guys, as are the crew, it’s more like a dysfunctional family than a team and we enjoy the racing – for me that’s what it’s all about.
“Yes we’re frustrated that there aren’t more teams in GT4 this year, but the signs are there that 2020 might see that change, and I for one certainly hope so. These cars are fantastic, budget-wise they are affordable and with a good field of GT4s the racing is fantastic. Look we’re [KTM] not the fastest car in a straight line, but boy do these things corner well. They’re a very physical car to drive, but they are just the most fun you can have behind the wheel – it’s the best decision I ever made coming into the X-Bow.”
And the feeling has been mutual.. Recently Crampton was in Europe on vacation and offered an opportunity to test drive the all new KTM GTX at the Salzburgring in Austria by Reiter Engineering with whom M-Motorsport have a fantastic relationship. A concept GT car that won its class on debut at the recent Barcelona 24-Hours, the car campaigns a 2.5-litre, 5-cylinder Audi engine capable of some impressive lap times.
“Wow, was all I could say afterwards,” Crampton admitted. “It was much faster than the highly restricted GT4 car, but so easy to drive. I did something like 70-kilometres and it felt like 15, and it was so comfortable to drive. I was honoured to have had the experience.”
For Crampton and team-mate Trent Harrison though, focus for now turns to Sandown where track action begins on Friday (20 September) with a solitary practice session at 10:10am, ahead of qualifying at midday on Saturday and the opening one-hour leg of the endurance championship at 3:30pm. The remaining two one-hour legs will come on Sunday at 10:35am and 4:50pm respectively, the top point scorer for each of the legs classified as the round winner in both the GT3 and GT4 categories.
All the qualifying and race action will be covered LIVE on the Shannons Nationals LIVE streaming page – http://www.thenationals.com.au/live/ whilst a post-race highlight will be broadcast on Fox Sports Australia in coming weeks (details will be revealed online).
Further information and details from across the event will also be available on the Australian GT website and social media platforms.
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Friday, 20 September, 2019
10:10am – Practice (40-minutes)
11:40am – Qualifying#1 (20-minutes)
12:30pm – Qualifying#2 (20-minutes)
03:30pm – Race (Leg#1 – 60-minutes)
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10:35am – Race (Leg#2 – 60-minutes)
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Sony, Paul, and the Sgt Pepper Cover
I love this sort of incidental trivia that you can accidentally stumble across on the web. Even 43 years after the fact you can still learn something new about a Beatles album cover that’s been seen millions and millions of times….
I bet like me you’ve stared at the “Sgt Pepper” cover wondering about who was who and what was what, asking yourself why the Beatles and artist Peter Blake had chosen and placed all the items they did for their legendary and ground-breaking cover.
Now another small piece of the mystery has been revealed – and it comes from an unlikely source.
See that little portable TV set that is just above the “S” in the word “Beatles” (spelled out in red flowers), and behind the little doll figurine dressed in green:
Well, check out this article in the Japan Times.
Turns out “it’s a Sony”. It’s not that this connection hasn’t been noticed before. A year ago Sony itself posted this message on its own blog site, which confirmed it was a in fact a Sony television set (a model TV9-306UB in fact, which would have been fairly state-of-the-art as far as TV’s go back in the day).
It’s just confirmation now that it was actually Paul McCartney’s very own TV set.
From the articles and posts I also learned that the small Japanese figurine at the feet of the wax Beatles from Madame Tussauds is a Japanese fukusuke fortune doll owned by John Lennon. Who would have thought?
Just another bit of Beatles trivia…
(Wikipedia has a list of the people and items in the picture).
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8 thoughts on “Sony, Paul, and the Sgt Pepper Cover”
Wogew on September 28, 2010 at 8:50 pm said:
I wrote a little bit about this TV last October in WogBlog, and my searches found that it had been John Lennon’s.
beatlesblogger on September 29, 2010 at 5:12 pm said:
Thanks for the info from your Blog (which I admire and read every day). I really don’t have any other sources for the story from the Japan Times stating it was Paul’s TV. They say that the Okazaki City Mindscape Museum (which I looked up on the web – it exists) will be displaying the invoice and the same model Sony TV at a “Swingin’ London” exhibit next January. I guess we can only wait until then when they may publish something more about the exhibition. Until then I have utmost faith in your contacts and research which show it to be John Lennon’s TV – you’ve certainly got credibility in my book! (A recent example I remember is when you had all the information about the forthcoming “Come and Get It” Apple Best-Of CD literally months ahead of everyone else). All the best.
beatlesblogger on March 6, 2011 at 9:29 am said:
Hi again Roger,
Just happened upon this post again and decided to look and see if the Okazaki City Mindscape Museum in fact has that “Swingin’ London” exhipit on. It does!
http://www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp/museum/bihaku/exhibition/exhibition.html
My Japanese is non-existent so I put some text from the site into Google Translate and it came back with: “Famous Beatles record jacket ・ (・ サージェント・ペパーズ・ロンリー・ハーツ Club Band) that was captured on television unravel the mystery of the “bill signed by Paul McCartney (invoice),” and so I reckon we are still working out the mystery of the who owned the TV set!
Chuck Norris on March 19, 2011 at 2:25 am said:
I research many awing subjects that in which the truth is hidden, the death of Paul, hidden messages in disney, bloody gir, but I believe Paul never died and it is foolish of fans and reporters to believe such nonsense, I still love to look deep into the subjects and find strange clues that are mind boggling,
beatlesblogger on December 30, 2011 at 10:58 pm said:
I have received an email from artist Jann Howarth (who worked with Peter Blake on the “Sgt Pepper” cover) in relation to this post. She says:
“The figurine circled on your website photos is of a British Girl scout and was owned by Peter Blake and me [Jann Haworth] just thought you might like to know. Also I still have the Old Lady on who’s lap the Shirley Temple doll is sitting….it was a figure made in 1962 when I was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art. More trivia for you. JH”
I will post an article about Jann and her work soon.
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love2travel on September 3, 2014 at 3:44 am said:
Sorry but you have the wrong doll circled. The Japanese Fukusuke fortune doll is more on the left side by the hooka and the flugelhorn!
beatlesblogger on September 3, 2014 at 2:14 pm said:
Hi, the circle is around the TV set, not the Japanese doll mentioned in the text. For info on the little green girl figurine in the circle see the replies beneath the main article. We actually got one from the artist Jann Howarth (who worked with Peter Blake on the “Sgt Pepper” cover) who says she and Blake were the owners of that figurine. She also says that she was the creator of the old lady who can be seen holding the Shirley Temple doll (it is on the far right of the cover). She says she still has it!
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Home News Apple Patent Could Allow iPhones To Replace ID Proof, Passports in Future
Apple Patent Could Allow iPhones To Replace ID Proof, Passports in Future
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Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, as they let us do almost everything a computer does from the palm of our hands. And in fact our smartphones have become an extension of our identity and now according to a recent patent, Apple wants to make iPhones your IDs in the future. The company sees iPhones acting as a proof of identity and potentially replace passports.
A patent application submitted by Apple before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) on March 30 describes a system which imports identity credentials by employing a short-range radio and stores them on a secure element.
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Titled ‘Document importation into secure element’, Apple’s patent application describes the implementation of a secure onboard storage system which works in tandem with Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to store credentials verified by the government and allow the smartphone to act as an identity proof, e-passport or any other form of a verifiable government-issued document.
“In one embodiment, a computing device includes a short-range radio and a secure element. The computing device reads via the short-range radio, a portion of the credential information stored in a circuit embedded in an identification document issued by an authority to a user for establishing an identity of the user”, read a section of the patent application.
The idea behind iPhones acting as an identity proof or a passport is quite similar to how modern passports with an embedded RFID chip work. The electronic RFID chip in a passport contains information such as the holder’s name, date of birth, nationality, etc., which is checked by security officers when the passport is passed through an RFID chip reader to verify the person’s identification data stored in an internal database.
As per the patent application, Apple wants to implement a similar technology by employing RFID chips to facilitate verification and storing the credentials on a ‘secure element’. But before you get too excited and worried about the security aspects, do keep in mind that this is just a patent application, which means one can’t be certain whether the technology will become available on the upcoming generation of iPhones.
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Themes in Exodus 31:2
Art » Primitive » Carpentry
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Bezalel » Master » Workman » Built » Tabernacle
Carpentry » Tabernacle, and furniture of
Genius » Mechanical, a divine inspiration
God's Call » Examples of Leadership » moses
Hur » A son of caleb
Laver of brass » Wisdom given to bezaleel to make
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Mercy-seat » Bezaleel given wisdom to make
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Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, read more.
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, the finely worked garments -- the holy garments for Aaron the priest -- the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do." Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass, read more.
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits. He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass. He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass. read more.
He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles. He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
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"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
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"Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
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Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
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and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, the finely worked garments -- the holy garments for Aaron the priest -- the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
"Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
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Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
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Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
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Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
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the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
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"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, read more.
to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, the finely worked garments -- the holy garments for Aaron the priest -- the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
Bezaleel
called behold name son tribe
Word Count of 21 Translations in Exodus 31:2
Tribe (15)
Name (12)
Called (11)
Behold (1)
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Scientists successfully reanimate the brains of decapitated pigs
The reanimation of decapitated pigs raises complex ethical questions about the future of life-extension research.
Zombie pig. (Photo: Pexels–Commons)
A team of scientists has successfully reanimated the brains of dead pigs, a move that’s raising tough ethical questions about the future of neuroscience research.
At a meeting at the National Institutes of Health on March 28, neuroscientist Nenad Sestan announced how he and his team at Yale University used a system of heaters, pumps, and artificial blood to restore partial function to the brains of more than 100 recently decapitated pigs, according to a report from MIT Technology Review.
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The system, dubbed BrainEx, doesn’t quite restore consciousness but it could mark the beginning of a new stage in life-extension technology.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) on the pig brains showed flat waves, suggesting the pigs were reanimated into a comatose-like state rather than something like consciousness—though, at first, the EEG showed complex activity that indicated thoughts and sensations. The team was excited, alarmed, but the signals turned out to be noise caused by nearby equipment.
Still, billions of individual brain cells appeared normal and healthy, in what Sestan called a “mind boggling” and “unexpected” result.
A creative depiction of wandering brain waves. (Image: GollyGforce/Flickr)
Sestan told the National Institute of Health, which his team is seeking funding from, that steps could be taken to keep brains alive indefinitely and make attempts at restoring consciousness.
“That animal brain is not aware of anything, I am very confident of that,” Sestan said, going on to speculate how the technology might be used in the future. “Hypothetically, somebody takes this technology, makes it better, and restores someone’s [brain] activity. That is restoring a human being. If that person has memory, I would be freaking out completely.”
These possibilities could lead to questionable research practices down the road.
“There are going to be a lot of weird questions even if it isn’t a brain in a box,” said an advisor to the NIH who didn’t wish to speak on the record. “I think a lot of people are going to start going to slaughterhouses to get heads and figure it out.”
Scientists are already setting up guardrails in anticipation of those “weird questions”.
On April 25, Sestan and 16 colleagues published a paper in Nature titled 'The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue' in which they lay out some ethical concerns and questions: What protections should be granted to brain organoids (brain tissue grown from stem cells in a lab)? How should scientists dispose of brain organoids at the end of experiments? In research where human organs are transplanted into animals, should the test subject be considered human or animal—where is the line?
The scientists acknowledge that many of the hypothetical situations listed in the paper, such as relatively simple brain organoids gaining consciousness, are “highly remote”.
“But to ensure the success and social acceptance of this research long term, an ethical framework must be forged now, while brain surrogates remain in the early stages of development.”
Sestan expressed a similar cautiousness.
“People are fascinated. We have to be careful how fascinated.”
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Walsh Products gallops into new markets
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Walsh Products Inc.
2735 N. Calhoun Road, Brookfield
Industry: Horse equipment
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Brookfield-based Walsh Products Inc. made a name for itself in 1914 with its innovative no-buckle horse harness. It replaced a buckling system with snaps to more easily hitch a draft horse to a cart.
The company is still known for its harnesses, though they’re no longer made for plowing. It manufactures harnesses, halters, bridles and other accessories used in competition in the Standardbred, Thoroughbred, Show Horse and Equestrian markets.
“The Standardbred industry will always be our bread and butter,” said Thea Treiber, vice president and co-owner of Walsh. She and her husband, Paul, president and chief executive officer, purchased it in 2002.
But Walsh has also been growing in newer markets. Six months ago, the company started a division called Euro Equine, which has the sole North American right to import and distribute six European products.
LeeSeng Her sews a halter at Walsh Products.
The company has also started making pet collars and leashes, marketed to horse owners who want their pets to have matching collars.
“The pet area is actually what could double our company in a two- to three-year time frame,” Paul said.
Walsh manufacturers its products by hand, often using hand-stitching on joined pieces of leather. The company uses mostly cranks and has little automation at its 36,000-square-foot plant.
Gov. Scott Walker (with president/CEO Paul Treiber and CFO/COO Kevin Mleziva) recently visited Walsh to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
To make a halter, for example, employees cut leather hides into strips, which are then skived down to be the right shape for sewing. Strips are tacked to create a fold in preparation for sewing. The sewing machines are built to Walsh’s specific needs – sewing together thick strips of leather that can be as small as ½-inch across using very small lock stitches.
“These machines are what set us apart,” Thea said. “They give us a stitch that no one else can make.”
Solid brass or stainless steel buckles and rings are added to halters during assembly. It takes about 24 hours to make a leather halter with the wet-dry process involved.
Leather products are made in black, tan, havana and chestnut colors. The chestnut color is created by dipping the tan leather in a special oil mixture Walsh gets from Fiebing, an oil dye maker in Milwaukee.
“It’s a chestnut that no one else would be able to copy due to the hides of our leather and our proprietary Fiebing oil,” Thea said.
Walsh also makes plastic-coated nylon products, which simulate the look and feel of leather.
“All you have to do is rinse it off with water, much lower maintenance,” Thea said.
Nylon halters and harnesses are also becoming increasingly popular because they are easier to care for and can be customized in a variety of colors and embroidered with the stable or horse name. Some owners prefer brightly colored nylon for easily spotting a horse on the track during a race.
Walsh’s revenue is less than $10 million, Paul said. The company has seen a lot of growth in the Equestrian and Show jumping markets, and its exports have increased 30 percent in the past two years, Thea said.
Walsh makes a wide range of horse accessories, including leg protection, bridles, hopples, leads and whips. It has more than 4,000 SKUs, and can make an even more custom product if the raw materials are available.
Walsh’s products are sold mostly through boutique horse supply stores, including Le Cheval Supply in Oconomowoc.
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Can I Wear My Watch While Playing Tennis?
Celebrities, Sports, Watch 101
The Truth About Playing Tennis With Your Watch
Summer and the sport of tennis go together like backyards and barbeques – they’re the perfect match (pun intended). Whether you enjoy a friendly neighborhood game or watching the grand slam tournaments, summer is the season for tennis. As Wimbledon ends and we gear up for the U.S. Open, we can’t help but notice the watches worn by the top players. Roger Federer always sports a classic Rolex. You can spot Serena Williams boasting a bold Audemars Piguet. And, of course, there’s Rafael Nadal flaunting his famous Richard Mille. Often, we see these star athletes wearing their models both on and off the court. But for the average Joe, is it safe to wear a watch while playing tennis? Or, is it best to leave to it the pros?
Serena Williams wearing Audemars Piguet watch Wimbledon 2015
The biggest factor to consider when deciding if you should wear your watch on the court is the force of your swing. In a high-impact sport like tennis, there’s always a risk of shock to the watch’s movement or delicate parts. However, some watches have optimization to endure shock better than others. In tennis, there’s also the risk of a stray ball making contact with your watch. In this case, the force or impact of the ball could damage the watch crystal or other parts. Last but not least, there’s the potential impact on your game. The weight of a watch, particularly a bulkier one, could affect your swing if you don’t usually wear it. Plus, if you prefer your band to be a bit looser, the watch may move around. At the very least, you might find it’s a pesky distraction.
As we touched on previously, some watches are designed to withstand shock more than others. For instance, Richard Mille specifically develops Nadal’s legendary models to tolerate the 10000’s of G’s of force behind the king of clay’s swing. So, if you decide to take your watch in tow to the court and you have that kind of budget, consider the model. Stay away from dress watches. Their movements are more sensitive to impact. You should also avoid wearing a gold watch, as it’s a softer metal than stainless steel or titanium. Finally, leave the leather strap at home. When you break a sweat on the court, it can damage the supple leather.
Richard Mille and Rafael Nadal at Paris Conference wearing the RM 27-02
Recommended Tennis Watches
As the name suggests, sports watches are a safer bet if you want to wear a watch while playing a sport like tennis but there are still the aforementioned risks. However, if you feel like you really want and/or need to wear a watch there are a couple we would lean towards. For instance, a dive watch is a great option because it’s made to stand up to intense underwater pressure. Quartz watches are actually another smart choice for the court. They’re both durable and lightweight. In general, choose a model in stainless steel or titanium with either a bracelet or a rubber strap.
Wearing a Watch While Playing Tennis
Bottom line: you can in fact wear a watch while playing tennis. However, be sure to choose wisely when it comes to the model you sport on the court. You should also know that even with the best sport model, there’s still some risk involved.
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CLEVELAND, Feb. 20, 2019 -- RecruitIQ Staffing, a Cleveland based IT staffing company, announced today they are changing their name to GHR Technology. Along with a complete rebranding, the move is meant to provide a more immediate understanding of the company's emphasis while better aligning with their parent company structure to form a comprehensive healthcare staffing company with divisions focused on clinical, allied, professional, and IT.
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A blog about tabletop RPGs–mostly Savage Worlds–and home to an ongoing Savage Worlds adaptation of Eberron
Savage Worlds or Shaken Worlds?
This weekend, Pinnacle Entertainment Group dropped a pretty amazing rules change on the forums.
At the beginning of their action, a Shaken character makes a Spirit roll to recover. On a failure, he remains Shaken. On a success, the character removes their Shaken condition and may take their action normally.
Clint Black, Savage Worlds Core Rules Brand Manager
As you can see on that thread, as well as on the Savage Worlds Google+ Community, there's a lot of disagreement on whether or not this is a good change. A small amount of that disagreement is based on misunderstanding both the intent and the effect of the rules, while others' points of argument are based the actual effects of the rules.
To summarize, the majority of those opposed feel this diminishes the value of Test of Wills and Taunts among other tactics used to prevent the opponent from being able to take actions. On the side of those who agree with the new rule, and according to Clint, the intent of Shaken was never to prevent action and keep the target in a perpetual stunned state.
I'll go on the record as saying that I agree with the new rule for a number of reason.
Defining the Argument
I think it's important to focus on what this rule is doing. It's not making it harder to make an opponent Shaken nor is it making it easier for a defender to remove the Shaken status. It's simply allowing a character to act if they recover from being Shaken with the a successful Spirit roll. The character can still become Shaken again, and just as easily as before.
Tricks and Test of Wills
Tricks and Test of Wills have an added benefit of making the target Shaken if either earned a raise.
Here's what the core rulebook actually says about Test of Wills.
A success means the attacker gets a +2 bonus to his next action against the defender during this combat. A raise on the roll gives the attacker the bonus and makes the defender Shaken as well. This can be a great setup for an attack, a trick, or even a second Test of Wills if the first one didn’t get a Shaken result. [emphasis mine]
The primary function of Test of Wills is for the attacker to gain a +2 bonus on his next action. The Shaken condition is a bonus effect on a raise. Apparently, however, there seem to be those who use it specifically to not only cause the defender to be Shaken, but to also hope that they lost their actions even if they recover.
And here's what the core rules say about Tricks.
If the character is successful, his opponent is distracted and suffers –2 to his Parry until his next action. With a raise, the foe is distracted and Shaken as well. [emphasis mine]
Again, Shaken is a secondary effect, not the focus of the effect.
Referring back to our definition of the new rule above, these combat options don't change at all. Players and GMs can still use these tactics, including to inflict a Shaken status on the defender, but it's not about keeping them from acting round after round.
With all of the arguments for preventing actions as a form of combat tactics, or tactics and character options to employ to avoid becoming Shaken, I get the impression that I've been playing the wrong game all these years. I thought I was playing Savage Worlds, a game in which characters do really awesome things, but apparently the game is Shaken Worlds, a game in which characters don't get to do anything other than game the game to avoid not acting or just simply not act.
I've also heard a lot of arguments about combat tactics and character options to avoid being Shaken, to which I argue that the game shouldn't be so heavily focused on avoiding being Shaken; it should be about doing cool stuff. We can't forget about the "Fun!" part of the game's tagline!
In my personal opinion, if I'm playing in a game in which the opponents aren't doing anything but standing around in a perpetual loop of being stunned while my party wails on them, I'm bored. That's not interesting, exciting, or even inspirational. I want dynamics, action, movement, etc. Could you imagine watching a movie or reading a book that played out like that? Heck, it reminds me of the trip monkeys in the D&D v3.5 rules. Improved Trip, chain, Attacks of Opportunity for movement and standing up from prone, and Combat Reflexes. Boring!
Exploitation of the Mechanics
I think what most of those who are opposed to the change are complaining about is the inability to exploit an added effect of the mechanics rather than understanding and agreeing with the intent of the primary effects of the mechanics. A few have said that this is specifically how and why they use those tactics, but I think they are a vocal minority rather than the norm.
Rant Off!
And now my rant is over. I have some other nuances I could argue, but quite honestly, I'm spent. I'm going to play the game I'd like, and you're going to play the game you'd like. No one is going to take our GM/player's licenses away if we don't use the rules in either way.
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Posted on July 8, 2010 by Janar Wasito
This article about Internet firms in Russia and China has some important ideas for emerging markets technology/ internet firms.
Internet investment’s new champions
The emerging online giants
DST, Naspers and Tencent have made promising internet investments in many emerging markets. Now even Western internet financiers are emulating them
Jul 8th 2010
THEY may not have the name recognition of a Google or a Yahoo!, but they can claim to belong in the same league. The websites of Digital Sky Technologies (DST) account for more than 70% of page-views on the Russian-language internet. Naspers is Africa’s biggest media group, both offline and online. And Tencent is China’s largest internet company by market capitalisation—and the third-largest in the world.
Now these firms are increasingly making their presence felt beyond their home markets. Between them they have invested in dozens of internet firms around the globe. The most adventurous of the three, DST, has already moved west—and paid top dollar for stakes in fast-growing American companies, notably Facebook, the world’s biggest social network.
At first glance the three firms could not look more different. DST was created in 2005 when two Russian internet investors, Yuri Milner and Gregory Finger, pooled their interests in mail.ru, a Russian web portal. Today the firm controls many of the country’s leading websites and boasts an interesting mix of owners, including Goldman Sachs and Alisher Usmanov, a Russian billionaire, who holds 27%.
Based in Cape Town, Naspers is nearly 100 years old and is the publisher of the Daily Sun, South Africa’s biggest newspaper. But it is one of the most ambitious old-media companies anywhere in its move online. It still makes most of its sales—28 billion rand ($3.6 billion) in the year to March—from print and pay-television, but it uses the cash to buy online firms.
Tencent hails from Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. Founded in 1998, it had revenues of $1.8 billion in 2009. Although best known for QQ, a popular instant-messaging service with 567m users, much of its profits come from online games and a virtual currency, called Q coins. Users purchase this with real money and use it to buy digital wares, such as virtual weapons to increase the powers of their avatars.
Despite their differences, the three firms can be seen as a block. For one thing, they are financially intertwined. Naspers owns part of mail.ru and was an early investor in Tencent, of which it now holds 35%. In April Tencent invested $300m in DST, giving it a stake of more than 10% and DST a valuation of about $3 billion. Tencent also has an interest in the Indian arm of MIH, Naspers’s internet division.
What is more, the firms are on the same mission: finding promising internet companies in countries where Western investors rarely dare to go. DST’s territories are Russia and its neighbours, most of which are home to one of its collection of companies; these include social networks such as VKontakte.ru and Nasza-Klasa.pl. Naspers has the largest portfolio of internet firms in developing countries, for instance in Brazil (BuscaPé, a comparison-shopping site), India (ibibo, a social network) and at home in South Africa (24.com, a portal). Tencent has so far been the most cautious of the three. Besides its recent investment in DST it has some minority stakes in games companies, such as VinaGame in Vietnam.
This international presence allows the firms to apply lessons they have learned in one country to another. “We spend an enormous amount of time on sharing knowledge,” says Antoine Roux, the boss of MIH. For its part, DST knows which web businesses work and how much room for growth they still have, given a country’s GDP and internet penetration. Alexander Tamas, a partner at DST, calls this “geographical arbitrage”.
In Russia DST has seen how quickly social networks can grow: latecomers to the internet, many Russians skipped e-mail and went right to social networks to communicate online. With advertising roubles in short supply, DST’s companies also experimented early with other ways of making money from social networks and online games, such as charging for services and selling virtual goods. In December it merged mail.ru with Astrum Online, a gaming firm—in effect forming a Russian Tencent. Free communication tools such as instant messaging create the audience that then pays for other services and virtual goods, Mr Tamas explains.
Tomorrow, the world
It was only a question of time before one of the three firms tried to apply these emerging-market lessons in the West. DST has been the pioneer, for several reasons. Its partners learned their trade in America. It intends to go public one day. And it saw an opportunity: after the financial crisis, conventional investors were cautious and did not fully realise how fast social networks, for instance, would grow.
One further factor was essential in helping DST to gatecrash the party of the handful of private-equity funds, such as Elevation Partners, TCV and Silver Lake Partners, which typically provide successful American internet firms with additional cash. DST’s corporate structure allows it to act quickly, and to make offers that are hard to refuse. In the case of Facebook, it agreed to what at the time seemed a high valuation, waived any right to special treatment should things go wrong and was willing to buy stock from employees. That is especially popular with young internet firms. It allows founders and key employees to make money without having to sell the company or go public prematurely. “This is an IPO substitute,” explains Mr Milner, adding that DST’s investments give firms more time to focus on their product rather than thinking about a flotation.
Will DST’s strategy work? Buying into Facebook certainly looks like a smart move. DST has spent an estimated $800m for a stake of about 10%. When Elevation Partners recently invested $120m in Facebook, that deal put the company’s value at $23 billion, implying that DST’s investment has almost trebled.
In contrast, analysts say, DST may have overpaid for Zynga, the world’s largest online-gaming service, and for Groupon, a website that aggregates buyers and gets them special deals. Yet sceptics may again underestimate how quickly both can grow and what Zynga, for instance, is worth in combination with Facebook: taken together they look much like Tencent. In May, after lengthy negotiations, both firms agreed that Facebook Credits, the social network’s currency, would be accepted in Zynga’s games.
A bigger problem for DST may be that some see it as Russian—and thus “murky”. To counter this the firm has gone to great lengths to be open, inviting executives from firms in which it wanted to invest to Moscow to look at its books. The success of this strategy is demonstrated by the quality of its recent deals and its co-investors, which include such noted venture-capital firms as Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. Even so, DST’s national origin could still matter as the firm makes further investments. Authorities in Washington, dc, are reportedly worried about DST’s latest acquisition: ICQ, an instant-messaging service previously owned by AOL.
However DST fares, it seems to attract copycats. Before Elevation Partners invested in Facebook, it had already cut what is now called a “DST deal” with Yelp, a fast-growing user-review site for local businesses. And although Naspers does not intend to make any investments in Western countries, Tencent may follow DST in doing so. Martin Lau, Tencent’s president, recently said it would step up its forays abroad—which has led to talk that it may be interested in buying Yahoo!.
Conversely, the apparent success of the three emerging-market internet pioneers may prompt Western venture firms to take more interest in developing countries. Tiger Global Management, a New York hedge fund that is also a shareholder in DST, has already specialised in investing in start-ups beyond the West’s well-known technology clusters. Clearly, internet investing is going global and the West is losing its monopoly, not just in thinking up clever ideas for web businesses but in financing them.
About Janar Wasito
Janar Wasito is the manager of Magis Capital in San Diego, CA. He is a graduate of Harvard and Stanford Law School, and a former Marine Officer.
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Clockwise, top left: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Peoples Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet.File Photos
QUEBEC FIRST
Only in Canada, eh! What a mixed up country. Can you imagine the U.S. or any other civilized country inviting the leader of a separatist party to a leaders debate? Their sole purpose is to milk us dry and they do not seem to care about the rest of Canada! Their leader even stated that the Canadian constitution is not theirs and he thinks they are a nation, not a province! Maybe it’s time to say au revoir to La Belle Province, but we’ll keep the poutine. Thank you very much!
DON HONEYCHURCH
(Absolutely ludicrous.)
NICE SALARY
Please, someone explain to the average taxpayer how is it possible that some public servants earn close to a million a year? Head of the Workers Compensation Board (that is a government agency) earned last year $907,000 in compensation? That is over $75,000 per month, plus benefits, plus pension plan most of us can’t even dream about, and many more perks. That is obscene.
MIKE SOCH
(Good question. Ask your MLA.)
WHAT A JOKE
Another moment of unbridled hypocrisy by our PM for refusing to oust Jaime Battiste as a Liberal candidate after his prior racist and sexist comments were made public. Interesting that prior to the PM’s blackface scandal, our PM was throwing these kind of people out of his party left and right and basically crucifying other parties for not doing the same thing. He claims his reason for not acting is an unreserved apology from Battiste. Hmm, that sounds like a political move to justify and buttress the PM’s “unreserved” apology as an excuse for his own behaviour.
GEORGE EWERT
(Sorry bunch.)
ALBERTA FIRST
The idea of Alberta as an independent entity is intriguing. Canada just isn’t working anymore. In the event of a Liberal win, I hope that some serious ‘independent Alberta’ players emerge, with more than just bluster. I’ll be helping as much as a retired man with a bad hip can. Alberta first!
R.B. ROTHWELL
(A Liberal win will ramp up the rhetoric.)
SUCH BIAS
The dear old CBC is running a poll called the Voter Compass, and from the questions being asked, the script appears to be written by the Liberal Party. Yes, it’s a Liberal poll in disguise. One question caught my attention and read, “should Quebec become a separate nation?” With this I had to strongly agree with one condition and that is Justin Trudeau becomes its premier!
J.D. ROUND
(Sounds like a plan.)
BETTER SPENT
Rather than Justin Trudeau spending $525 million so Canadians can go camping, wouldn’t it be better to spend the money on affordable housing so those currently living in tents won’t have to?
S.I. PETERSEN
(Stop making sense.)
So some Liberals (and I’m sure others) are raising a fuss over Andrew Scheer having dual citizenship. Can’t blame him, after all, if the Liberals get in again, at least he has an out, unlike the rest of us.
DOUG HAND
(Ha. Yup!)
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Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition
Okay, it’s go time. A few seasonal stats for your perusal:
For Georgia’s defense, it’s déjà vu all over again. Missouri and Mississippi are one and two in the conference in offensive pass yardage. Missouri and Mississippi are the SEC’s twelfth and thirteenth ranked teams in offensive rushing yardage. These are both pass first and ask questions later offenses. Missouri got off to a quick start last week throwing the ball all over creation and it’s reasonable to expect Ole Miss to do the same. How Georgia deploys its safeties in the first half could be a big deal; Lock had a much rougher go of things after Tucker gave Briscoe safety help on his side of the field in the game’s second half.
Yeah, it would be nice indeed if Georgia’s defense racked up a few sacks today. They’re next to last in the SEC in that department. What I’m really curious to see, though, is how the inside linebackers hold up. Between Kelly’s threat to run and Evan Engram, they’ll really be challenged.
One thing’s pretty certain: if either team gets in the red zone, look for a score. The Rebels defense is 14 of 14 there; Georgia isn’t doing much better at nine of ten. (It’s worth noting that Ole Miss’ offense is a little better at converting than Georgia’s.)
For Georgia’s offense, at first glance, things look tougher this week, as Mississippi is fourth in the SEC in defensive passing yards, compared to Missouri at thirteenth. But when you scratch the surface and look at defensive passer rating, it’s a different story: Missouri is fourth and Ole Miss is twelfth. Ole Miss is the only team in the conference without an interception. Neither team’s run defense has been stellar so far, although Mississippi’s has had it tougher. That being said, Missouri did pretty well loading the box last week. It’s not unreasonable to expect Ole Miss to come out the same way. Chaney and Eason have to make them pay for that, or it’s gonna be a long day.
In other words, expect this game to look a lot like last week’s, with one big difference. Ole Miss’ offense has a lot more experience in its offensive system than Missouri’s did. It’s hard to see how Georgia’s defense doesn’t face some of the same struggles it had in the first half in Columbia. If we can expect the Rebels’ defense to sell out against Chubb and Company, is it reasonable to think Georgia’s defense makes a similar decision with regard to Kelly?
You’ll notice one thing I haven’t mentioned is special teams. If I don’t mention them in tomorrow’s Observations post, it will have been a good day. Unfortunately, I expect them to merit a bullet point or two.
I wrote yesterday that I don’t have a good feeling about this game. I don’t think Georgia is going to be able to maintain the time of possession advantage that’s help power it through its three wins and without doing so, I think Ole Miss, with its more dynamic offense, wins and covers. Call it a ten-point difference. Sure hope I’m wrong.
Consider this your game day comment thread home.
414 responses to “Game day thoughts, Georgia-Ole Miss edition”
I don’t understand all the angst. This is Old Missy. Nothing to see here. Dawgs win, as usual. Let’s look ahead to UT.
Hey, that worked against Nicholls. Barely.
But we did win, amirite?! Look, the staff knows they have to get Chubb going in this one. He’ll have 55 touches if necessary. The upgrade to our coaching staff is on D who know OM well. Take the crowd out early and Eason will be fine. Early stops on D and first score by Dawgs and OM will lay down.
Surprise star of the game…Reggie Davis who has been open deep but underthrown. I expect Chaney sees some misdirection with IMac that will get Davis in single coverage with no safety help for our first TD.
“I’ve got a feeling about this.” /wagging finger.
As my mom used to say, from your lips to Gawd’s ear.
…or we get stomped. Sighhhhhhhhhhh……
Are you watching the game???
From OC to dreadlock Jones in the defensive backfield…we look like ASS
You just pissed off ASS
By the way, reports are that Brice Ramsey didn’t make the trip. PAWWWLLL, who’s the back up punter?
Biggest thing I’m looking for is a general question on offense.
Will we see some significant wrinkles in our offense to throw Ole Miss off and especially to give Chubb some room to work? Or is Smart’s/Cheney’s plan just to show what’s already been done and count on us being more physical and executing better?
Man, Ramsey must be an interesting kid to coach.
He is hurt.
I don’t think Dolly meant it as mean as it sounded. 😉
I took an extra dose of Glucosamine sulphate this morning…I expect to spend a lot of time on my knees.
Because, yes, Aus, it IS ole Missy.
This may be the most important game in the history of Georgia history.
Hang on to yer hats.
Bah. The Ole Miss ship gonna get sunk in the wake of the turning battleship.
I hope.
It’s too quiet in here.
If CMR was our coach no way we win today….
Sure, and Kirby is gonna make Georgia great again…aight?
RIght on the money. The halftime score is proof we will win a NC soon.
Hunker down!
Pretty good defensive series down there…hard to get to the keyboard from this position.
fooled him.
That was a freshman mistake.
Need to quit the damn false starts.
Going to be long 3.5 hours
Stay calm and Chubb…
we’re starting to move em a little.
We are but that 3rd down call was atrocious.
Again the 3rd down fall is awful.
Dont you dare quit on them Goddammit!!!
I’ll quit when I die. Until then all Dawg!!! 24/7/365.25
I’ll never quit on em’, but what we are seeing today is piss poor management of a top tier program by an administration that was given the benefit of the doubt for far too long.
I hope those that put us here lose every fucking game they ever play,that includes Georgia tech and whatever the Colorado equivalent of that is and fuck you karma Bitchez.
Eason is a gamer, they are out classed and playing with heart. I may drive to Athens tomorrow and buy a Kirby Smart jersey even if I have to have it custom made.
Peace brothers, I’m out.
Lines of scrimmage.
We can not run block. We can not rush the passer. We are toast.
I’m sticking with 8-4. Not changing my mind, no sir.
WarD Eagle
Just turned the game on and you guys are down 17-0.
Based on what I’ve seen this year, you’ve got ’em right where you want ’em.
I expect UGA to hammer UM in the second half.
You’re very generous..but I ain’t holding my breath.
Totally dominated in 1st qtr. Unable to convert 3rd and short woes continue.
Fire Bobo
Smart called Nicky for advice. “Let’em get a big lead, then they’ll fold.”
Then Nicky laughed after he hung up. “That’s for Maurice, kid”.
Also good to see the D arm flapping again. Sort of missed that.
That’s a pretty good tournament they got going on at East Lake. There’s so many commercials during this game I’m catching a lot of golf..
That, and the game isn’t that good.
Chaney needs to quit trying to be cute. We start leaning on them and we start chucking it again instead. Punch them in the mouth and get back in this.
Cute is all he has. We have no running game.
I saw running game on the last drive. We started moving moving them.
We are 3-8 field goals…jesus How can this fucking be?
3 and 5 with no kicker in scoring territory and we throw? WTF!!!
May as well forget FG’s. Inside opponents 40 is 4 down territory, on the upside Blankenship had good form.
lostdawg3
Gawd do we need a kicker! Lord have mercy on the Dawgs right now!!
I don’t think we ought to attempt another field goal all season.
Glad to see the days of not showing up for important games are gone. And who needs a scholarship kicker anyway.
Eason 3-10
With a pick 6.
Best D he has seen to date and of course no OL
Oh well. Wait until next year…to try a FG.
Eason seems to be overthrowing. Too high and/or too hard.
Off his back foot because rushers are in his face.
a 35 yard punt.
Wasted possession. If we’re gonna chuck n duck throw it long. Please
I wish I could say I am shocked.
Yep want and expect to win but not the least bit shocked
if that’s the kinda day it’s going to be
3rdandGrantham
Welp, I’m outta here. Might as well enjoyed the nice day outside.
This is worse than FSU’s performance st Louisville.
A LOT worse.
Oh boy. This could get ugly. Buckle up.
Could?!
We need new coaches.
That wedding is looking better and better.
Hillbilly Dawg
Ironically, I am at a wedding in Cornelia. Watching this fluster cluck on a 20″ motel room TV and contemplating cracking open this bottle of Buffalo Trace now.
Briscoe gets beat once again and 7 can’t tackle with a wide open chance for a sack. Guess that cost him a cool million on his contract
This has been coming for three games. We have so many problems its almost laughable.
There’s the deep throw I was worried about. So far this is pretty much the definition of us failing in every facet of the game. Let’s see if we can regroup and make a game of it.
Not today I am afraid. Hope I eat those words later but with those big Ole Miss wr’s and getting whipped on both los’s not going to happen.
Athens has a very good Harley dealer. 😀
Punter has the longest completion of the game
D as in Dawg
Here’s where we stand. We are as good as a very good mid major team. Weaker than decent opponents in almost every aspect of the game. Way overachieving at 3-0. Light years from being competitive in big games.
3 perfect throws. 3 drops. Pitiful….
Two of which would have scored.
RedHotChiliDawg
How the fuck do we drop three passes in a row!
Some days are just like this. At halftime, this team will have to ask themselves, “is this who we are?”. Young team. young QB and the roof caving in. The faked punt might help. Oh well, dropped TD pass.
Just dropped 3rd and 8. Just dropped another one. Imac is trying to catch the ball with his body instead of his hands..the ball he caught to beat Mizzo was with his body and he was lucky to hang on to it. A receiver coach should not let a player use his body first to catch the ball. Gotta use those hands.
SONS OF BITCHES! CATCH THE MF FOOTBALL.
I’ve never, ever seen worse receiving.
Nice really nice. We’ll see if we keep fighting here. Show some character guys!
The wide receiver coach sucks.
He needs to tell them to catch it right? Cause coachin’.
Your right the whole receiving corp sucks.
We do miss Ball and BMac.
Ok…here is where we score a quick 21 before the half….
It is imperative that McElroy quit saying “imperative”.
A sack would of been nice instead we start at the 3
Two sweeps, two big gains. This is not rocket science.
Came into today not expecting a win, which is fine. Even imagined it could get ugly, which is has. The only thing worth watching for the rest of the day is what halftime adjustments are made, what type of fire is brought, who asks themselves if they’re going to finish of the 60 minutes. I mean really, what else do we have to look for in the 2H?
Well, we COULD make a field goal.
i thought about that. even texted a friend saying we could work on our kicking game perhaps but..
no. no i don’t think so.
Chubb just tweaked something.
ankle I think
Left ankle or foot
Looks like an ankle for Chubb and looked pretty painful.
muckbeast
My god……. I didn’t expect us to win this game, but this is already looking far worse and far uglier than I feared. 😦
Still don’t understand how Long got the punting job over Ramsey.
Long is more accurate throwing the football.
Read that Ramsey is hurt. Good to see the fake worked without him.
Let’s just work on blocking for the rest of the game. We can’t even seem to get players into blocking lanes.
‘Tis a Charley Foxtrot. We’ve left at least 10 to 17 points on the field, though.
Possibly the worst 1st half of UGA football in history.
counterpoint. bama 08
Not any more.
retracted
Maybe. That one was at home, which hurt..but this looks particularly disturbing.
It was 31-0 at the half that game too. If we can get the same final of 41-30, I would take it.
No way this offense scores 30 in one half
Almost feels like no way they can score 30 in a game … Oh, yeah, they haven’t done it the last 2 games including one against a bad FCS opponent.
I thought Nickels was the worst have seen in 50 years of watching Ga football.
and…they get the ball to start the second half.
Will we able to kick into the the end zone?
the way it’s going, this will likely be our only shot
If CMR were the coach it would be 62-0.
(Sorry. Had to do it.)
Dawgfan Will
You beat me to it.
Nah…I doubt we would be that far ahead. (Sorry. Had to do it.)
Oh well. I have yard work to do.
And I have moonshine to drink
31-0 we got em just where we want em 🙂
Long for QB!!!! He’s 1/1 for 35 or so yards.
Shameful. Just shameful.
At least we expected this
I expected to lose, not be completely uncompetitive
really. I was sure we were done looking like we were totally unprepared for a big game. We look like a bunch of guys who never saw a football before.
Dude, we were closer to ole miss record of 1-2 than 3-0. How could you not see this coming?
Well, most of us did. Pretty sure Derek predicted an upset. Because, apparently, he didn’t see the first three games.
I did….. Dropped passes, shitty 3rd down calls, sprained ankle oh my.
This looks like a pickup game between a college and a high school.
Wayne the
Man! That was a great little princess birthday party! What’d I miss?
Was this the lay an egg look totally unprepared complete no show? It’s the Georgia way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad to say, our boys look ready to pack it in.
We actually are this bad.
I think I’ll go play in a tennis tournament. I’m glad I didn’t fork out $95 for this……………….Ugh!
Glad I sold my tickets to my neighbor 🙂
Your neighbor will be blowing his leaves in your yard for a while now.
That’s awesome. We continue to be a laughing stock. Our receivers and db’s are as bad as I’ve ever seen. Ever! I’ve defended Chaney but I’m starting to think he’s an idiot. OL new verse, same as the first. I don’t see how this can be repaired.
Oh it can be repaired just 2-3 years of recruiting the right players and maybe in year 4 we may win the East.
That’s what it would take … unless we went after a mini-Saban and got a Mus°##%#mp. God forbid.
What was that old complaint about not being able to beat a good team. Kirby hasn’t got Bama guys anymore and we won’t have them for at least two more years. Enjoy the 2nd half wish I could still drink.
Now Chubb is probably out for Tennessee
How would you compare this to the Bama ’08 first half? Worse? Better? Same? There’s a lot of variables that are different from one to the next, obviously.
About the same, in my opinion. Except for this one difference: Bama ’08 was a surprise. This is not.
Worse. Bama was a national championship team, not a team that was under .500 after blowing two massive leads. This OM team is decent, not a championship caliber team. Prior to today, couldn’t run the ball. Couldn’t stop the run. Turned it over like crazy. If you saw their first half today, they look like world beaters…but they aren’t. They will be lucky to finish 3rd in the west.
But 3rd in the West would still win the East by a long shot. Ole Miss may not contend for a national title, but they’re a lot better than people are inclined to give them credit for.
Don’t bother explaining that Turd. Its time for all of the shouldn’t have fired Richt guys to beat their chest about how Kirby is such a massive failure after 4 games.
That explanation is irrelevant to whether Alabama was better or worse than Ole Miss 2016.
It’s not who got fired. It’s who we have, and what we were told he would bring to the table. As in: Not this kind of woeful, completely outclassed performance
That wasn’t 81’s point. The comparison was between Ole Miss 2016 and Alabama 2008. Might as well respond by saying the 2015 Golden State Warriors would be second to the 1972 Lakers.
Not worse. You can’t judge the game on what Alabama had and ignore our team. In 2008, we had Stafford, Green, and Moreno. We had way more talent on the OL, as well. So sure, Ole Miss isn’t as good as Alabama ’08, but we had a hell of a lot more talent then than we do now. So yeah, this loss is not worse than the blackout funeral.
About the same, all things considered. We were preseason no. 1 in ’08 and had serious national-championship aspirations going into the Bama game, so the disappointment was greater in that game, especially since we were at home.
However, that Bama team was a lot better than this Ole Miss team, and we look shockingly uncompetitive.
playmakers in space
I’d say Bama ’08 was worse. Our team started the year #1, had the #1 overall draft pick in his junior year, played at home in a night game in an intense environment, and Saban Bama wasn’t quite the machine it is today.
That Georgia team was a helluva lot more talented than this Georgia team.
This^^^
I honestly do not understand how anyone thought something different was going to happen today. If you’d paid any attention during the first 3 games, you could see this coming from a mile away.
We’re a good football team … everywhere except where it matters most: at the line of scrimmage. So we’ll eek out wins against mediocre teams, and lose handily to anyone even remotely competent.
And don’t look now, but we may have just lost Chubb for a little while. Hope everyone’s looking forward to basketball season.
Well there is always Douglas because I don’t see Holyfield playing
Holyfield played as well as Herrien. Our RBs were a bright spot today.
We are not good at receiver or DB. Not even close. Otherwise, right on.
In terms of talent, those groups really aren’t that bad. Especially when you throw in this ridiculous group of TEs. We shouldn’t have any trouble passing the ball. But they can’t get any separation, which I attribute more to coaching than anything else. And Eason’s only got about a half-second to throw the ball because of our shit-stain of an OL. With a great OL, I don’t think anyone would be complaining about our receivers. We need more size, sure, but Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars.
And our DB group isn’t bad either. Sanders, Parrish, Davis, and Smith have all played very well. And let’s not forget that Sanders, Parrish, and Davis were all part of the best passing defense in the SEC last year. But here, too, they’ve looked worse than they really are because our DL has yet to get any pressure on an opposing QB. Even the best DB group in the country will look mediocre when they’ve got to defend for 5+ seconds every single play. Lorenzo Carter is one of the biggest disappointments in recent memory.
Good points. But Ole Miss receivers look head and shoulders and another man on his shoulders above ours. Briscoe is getting abused and perhaps that’s skewing my take. Up front is where it all begins and we are late for the party.
There is nothing wrong with our talent–I don’t care what any of the TV talking heads say. It’s bad coaching that is the problem.
I think a lot of people expected our clear shortcomings to get fully exposed today. Personally, i was hoping that one of those shortcomings would have a good day, like the run blocking…
Either way, i think most reasonable fans were waiting for the other shoe to drop. it’s just disappointing that it’s happening in such an exaggerated fashion.
Turd, I disagree. We are bad in the kicking game, we lack separation receivers, in addition to the LOS problems. Plus it is obvious to me we are still dealing with the new staff and new system, etc.
I am hard pressed to say this is a good football team.
I’ll give you that the kicking game is garbage. But on offense and defense, we’re actually a very talented football team.
We’ve got more talent at TE than just about any team in the country. Our receivers aren’t getting any separation (which I attribute more to coaching), and we could use a little more size at that position. But Godwin was a 5-star, and McKenzie and Davis were both highly recruited 4-stars. Of course, we’ve got loads of talent at RB as well. And he may be a freshman, but Eason’s got all the potential in the world. So I’m not saying we’re great, but we are a good team on offense … just not on the offensive line. This offensive line is the worst I’ve seen in a long, long time.
We had one of the best defenses in the SEC last season, and the #1 passing defense in the conference. The secondary is good. Again, not great, but certainly good. But as I explain above, they’ve looked worse than they really are because the DL isn’t putting any pressure whatsoever on opposing QBs.
If we were better on either side of the line, we’d immediately be better everywhere else.
This. No defensive backfield can hold up when there is zero pressure on QB. Do we even have a sack as a team this year? Honest question.
The #1 Pass Defense in the nation is why we have the phrase, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics”. Our pass defense was not great last year. I have written about this several times. Georgia Southern and tech are triple-option teams. Auburn is basically an option team. USCe, Mizzou, Vandy, and Kentucky were horrible offenses. Florida had lost their QB by the time they played us.
The best passing team we played was Bama at #62. Number 2 was Kentucky at #79. We played 5 of the bottom 20 passing teams. Look at our opponents offensive numbers. Last years secondary, like this years, was above average but not great.
Ok, we’re going to play this silly game of “proving our manhood” by shoving Chubb into the line until it works. Had a feeling Davis could be the key WR, but Eason has no time to set and throw. Mental mistakes everywhere, so feel free to blame that on ( insert coach’s name here ). The D looks as lost as ever. Somebody get Briscoe a Southwest Airlines ticket…”Wanna get away?” Rodrigo should give his eyewear to Hamm..maybe that will work.
Please, for f’s sake, treat the 2nd half as a new game. Work on things that need help and don’t get Eason killed or Chubb banged up. Find out who is buying in to the process. Come away with something. No reason at all to let this be our first steps of wandering into the desert.
Where’s the wedding? Open bar??
“Georgia has to get to the 15 to be in field goal range”.
Now the TV guys are getting in on the fun.
thats generous. didn’t we miss a 23 yarder last week?
The frustrating thing is that we had two chances to get into this. On one the play calling on 3rd down was awful. The second 16 and 2 went all butterfingers.
7 needs to finish on Kelly btw.
im not sure any one or two plays really would have changed the outcome of this half. i think it was predestined for us to get beat down, even if we did make some catches or tackles. this was and is going to happen
Ok. I’m going to say that getting to 17-7 changes things but you have whatever reality you want.
we’re getting beat on both lines. burned at corner. zero kicking game. can’t make the open tackles on CK. you get it to 17-7 and those impurities are still there and sink us throughout the rest of the game.
Like I said earlier. I thought at 17-0 we started to open up the running game and then they put Chubb at FB and on another third down tried to throw instead of trying to make it 4th and short.
Then we decided not to catch the ball at 24-0. I think TDs in either spot helps.
agreed. helps. but doesn’t alter this game.
In infinite parallel realities with infinite variations of outcomes on plays this game is getting played out and we’re still losing 99% of them
Calm down Derek. He wasn’t insulting you.
At my bac level I can do whatever I want!!!!
heh. i don’t disagree with that general sentiment of a few plays here and there could alter the game cadence and momentum and who knows from there – i just disagree with that today. i don’t think there’s anything we’re doing right with the sole exceptions of executing a fake punt and that one drive where we got the run game going. so what are we supposed to do? feed the rock down 17? down 24? down 31? down 38?… fake punts on first down?
7 has blown his chances today along with a couple of million on his contract
The first chance we had to be in this game came to an end the first week in December when The J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics refused tomloomfor an experienced head coach.
Carter is turning into a colossal disappointment. I guess he was taking advantage of Floyd and Jenkins.
Nowhere to go but up or out for these coaches and players. Play the second half with class.
TOUCHBACK!!!
They are who we thought they were.
Nice, lol
Talk about o linemen being downfield on a throw….I thought they were going to call it this year.
Second half is on and our colander of a defense is on the field.
Briscoe needs to sit the rest of the game
Whatever we are, we’re clearly not a team yet. Coaches or players.The cupboard wasn’t THIS bare.
Good God he kicked it 46 yards…..
I think its time to get online and buy something. Retail therapy.
Chaney is a terrible OC.
Hard to single out anyone. Everyone seems terrible at the moment. Hard to believe we don’t have a single O-lineman capable of executing a block.
I need to learn to listen when the Senator says he had a bad feeling about a game.
Now it’s just a matter of whether Hugh wants to embarrass us totally. I doubt we score given our kicking.
Hugh is going to get all he can because the lights are going out when the NCAA finishes with them. He’ll want a good resume when he flees Oxford for another school.
More than discouraging, just looks like we were clueless today as to what Miss would do on both sides of ball.
Lemme see, I am sure recruiting is going great….we got how many commits?
Maybe Richt wasn’t the problem, and maybe Kirby isn’t the answer. But that’s far too incendiary for this blog, so let’s be cool and just shift the topic to something that won’t create so much vitriol.
How about “A vote for Trump is worth it just to piss off liberals.”?
would it be fair to say it’s too early to make that call? at what point can we make that call? honest question.
It serves no purpose to look backwards. The question is now whether Kirby can diagnose the problems and be given the resources to correct them. That’s 2 – 3 seasons at a minimum.
Our Bowl team v Penn State looked better and our offense had more creativity
I guess we can safely say now we’re playing for next year. I said two weeks ago was either an aberration or the canary in the coal mine. Today officially gave us the answer. Other than possibly ULL, I don’t see a sure win left on the schedule and that includes USCe, UK and Vandy. The tech game may be a pillow fight for the Governor’s Cup.
12 players on field the second time. Guess that was Mark Richt’s fault.
I’ve never seen people take such pride in being right about how bad we are. The Georgia Way is alive and well
The pride is in your mind…nowhere else.
Remember what you said about FSU and Louisville?…that’s what we are looking at.
Well Hugh has spoken the humiliation will continue.
Hugh needs to make himself look great…He’s gone from OMs when the NCAA finishes with them.
I guess this may be the year to take my young grandkids on their first visit to Athens. Anybody want to sell four home tickets for a good cause and avoid some heartache?
It’s just bad. There is really not much else to be said. Everyone shares in the responsibility. But I must add that Chaney is an idiot. We are screwed with him running the O. I really believe that.
It figures he would get smart and run the ball when I said that. Of course, I doubt it’s Ole Miss 1st team out there.
Your are a fucking dope.
And you’re 13.
We just caught a pass!!! We just caught a pass!! Man-alive!
AND the refs threw their second penalty flag of the day against OM!!
We are to Ole Miss what Kent State is to Alabama, I guess.
Not in an absolute and irrevocable sense. But this week we are.
Well Hugh let us have one.
WE SCORED! AND WE MADE THE EP!
And kicked the KO into the endzone for a touchback!
TD against 2nd string. We are cookin now
bryanandrewmartin
I mean, we’re pretty good except for offense, defense, and special teams
Good point. If we can just fix those aspects well be pretty good.
We can’t stop their second-team offense either. Defense has problems beyond lack of talent.
Who are we for in the FL/TN game? Aub/LSU?
I’m personally for Fl and LSU..I hate FL but I hate TN more. for personal reasons.
I always root for the stadium to wash out into the river
I could care less
Old Miss’s miss on a 55 yard fg attempt was closer than our chip shots.
good lord its just the start of the 4th? will the game not END?
I’ll tune back in Monday for all the stories about our lack of talent.
Poor Eason. This is hard to watch.
Bet he wishes he had gone with Mark to the U. He’s got no line and no receivers.
In a couple of years, Miami’s line will suck just like this one
So much for halftime adjustments.
I thought we had a head coach now that yelled at players and showed emotion and stuff. That didn’t help?
Good thing MR and co. put so much emphasis on recruiting WRs and OL before he left.
So how does a coach like Kirby deal with this type of loss? Sure Alabama lost some games while he was there, but never like this. Does he know how to deal with a team that’s been brutally owned? Did he learn that from Nick?
Stay tuned, story at 11.
Next few minutes are pretty important. See if this new coaching staff can get some life back into the team…long season.
I guess Rocky did show up…
Roterhals
Snitker should manage the Braves next year, he’s earned it.
Did you see where Kevin Garnett retired?
I want to hear him explain why he’s kept the starters in, long after Ole Miss pulled theirs.
I’m sure that will go over well at a CKS press conference
So the assholes on this blog won’t be able to bitch about getting shut out.
Because the starters need as much work as the reserves?
vectordawg
We should nickname the offensive line the “Peter Principal” because they have reached their level of incompetency.
Onside kick, score. Repeat 5 times.
KIRBY’S A QUITTER!!!
Good drive. Glad Holyfield got in game.
Only time I got excited all day! He looked tough too…happy for the kid as he has worked very hard to get on the field.
Now we’ve done it. I fear Ga. Tech.
I’d take one of our shittiest defenders(it would be tough to choose) and have him knock Kelly out of the game with a late hit. Cheating POS. That or just have Carter “accidentally” nail Sleaze on the sideline. Cut of the head of the snake. Unfortunately you’d need a sniper to hit the bagmen up in the skyboxes.
Meds generally don’t work if you don’t take them regularly.
Nick Chubb, you’re the man. You deserve much better than this as a final season.
Reality is a bitch…. Out.
Yep…sho nuff.
ended the game on a 14-0 run. not bad, dawgs. not bad at all
Last year MR was mugging on Hugh Freese. This year Kirby got mugged.
I could not stomach the second half, but if our coach did not send #12 to go sit on the bus and cut his damn hair, I quit…
“cut his damn hair” Must be tough, you an out of work barber?
He didn’t and you won’t.
Point is the kid can’t tackle or look back for a ball in the air on coverage. He shows too much “softness”….needs to be benched for anyone that can fog a mirror…..surely we have someone that can compete
Congratulations fire-Richters. Good job. Your insecurities have manifested to an unproven “process” coach. Put your crayons away, Bobo is the next coach for UGA. Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
Hunkering Hank
You are a fucking moron
You are a dipshit
Which is it, a moron or a dipshit?
Thank you for that. Good to laugh.
Thank you, your feedback is invaluable to our institution. Please don’t stop being you.
It’s both!
Go hate somebody else!
Try to get and stay behind GEORGIA no matter the coach!
Hate? You are the one that called me a “fucking moron” and a “dipshit”. I propose you are the one with anger management issues. I assume we both love the Dawgs.
How ’bout em? Nothing sucks like big orange.
Just because I was not sure if you were changing your mind about him being a moron doesn’t mean I don’t support Georgia.
I said back in January that it’d only take one loss for the Richtophiles to pull some shit like this. Right on cue.
Remember the last time Richt went down 45-0?. Me neither.
It’s so good, I can’t even tell if you’re being serious, or if you’re just parodying those folks.
Richt would’ve lost today by 60+.
Congrats on predicting the hypothetical future. You’re so special.
W.T.F… You are literally predicting something as a fact. This is the world we live in…
Go buy some U gear and move on. Most of us have. Richtolytes who needs em. Old news history gone finished what part of that do you not understand.
As for Bobo he cannot win at CSU
I’m def rooting for CMR. If they aren’t playing UGA, I don’t see why any UGA fan wouldn’t.
I would love to see Eason with a CMR/Bobo influence. I think you think thsts an insult? Correct me if so.
Yeah …we’ll wouldn’t take one loss like this for the Richtophobes to start blaming CMC.
…see what I did there? 😉
You mean make yourself sound like a fucking idiot? Then yes, I see what you did there.
It took most of us several years (and in my case, more than a dozen years) to turn on Richt. But Chris here? One loss.
Do you even try to breathe out of your nose? I have a good ear and throat doctor if you want a reference.
Ok, I can say it…with feeling….Gooooooo Gators!!!!!!!
Now we know for sure what we all thought before. We do not have a lot of SEC level competitors. Is Kirby the answer? I hope so. We need big recruits and we need them everywhere… except maybe TE and RB. Let’s make the best of what’s left. Go Dawgs! Beat UT… Chattanooga. 🙊
I have to wonder — how did they all disappear in one year? Weren’t we still having ranked recruiting classes? That what we were hearing in the hinterlands.
Don’t know. I’m just trying to be positive and I’m new at it. We were pretty bad last year, too.
Gotta recruit along the lines. MR was enamored with the shiny, pretty toys.
And averaged 10 wins each season with them!
Yep but really ain’t got shit to show for it but an ongoing argument about whether we should have spiked the ball in the 2012 SECCG.
Sorry, we’ve been out-physicaled plenty in years past, but I can’t remember it like this. Something else is at play. Just not sure what.
“I hope so”
I can’t help but read that with the heavy mouth breathing associated with the fire CMR crowd.
I’m one of them. I stuck with Richt for a long time before jumping ship. CKS has his work cut out for him. No doubt about that.
Congrats on jumping from the winningest coach in UGA history to an unproven Sabah disciple. If most people displayed 10% of the expectations they have for “their” football coach, this would be a better world, free of trailer parks and mouth breathing hypocrites.
Richt would’ve started Faton Bauta today, and lost by 60+.
Faton was playing for CSU today.
45-0. Any other anti Richt talking points you want to throw out to address this direct fact?
Final score was 45-14. I remember a 49-10 defeat at the hands of Florida in 2008. And we had Stafford, Moreno, and Green at that point, so the talent gap was a lot closer in that game. I’d say your wait is over.
Good for you. Note to self: Check with Chris before developing expectations. Also, Chris frowns on trailer park people and is intolerant of differing opinions. We would have whipped Ole Miss with CMR. Keep telling yourself that.
TN Dawg
something, something, something…..annual bed-shitting…..can’t win big games….don’t show up ready to play…..something, something, something…
That was a shit show, y’all. Ole Miss should NEVER be that far ahead of UGA in football.
^ :youknowhesrightmorganfreemanmeme:
Did I just walk to Hell with a broke back, or watch another UGA football game……
This may be the (I sure hope) the lowpoint of Kirby’s time at Georgia. It’s certainly an opportune time to turn the corner, because I don’t see how it could get any worse. Georgia will still lose some (maybe a lot) of games this year, but not in this awful fashion.
How “The Most Georgia Thing Ever”, that this team would be this inept in the one year where everyone was pointing to how favorable the schedule is for it. Shit. All we had to do was field a pretty good team to take the East. Now it looks like we could finish 4th or 5th.
When Nicholls pushed us around, we shoulda seen the bad moon rising.
WE may need to stop and remember the old saying….
“Things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem”.
They almost couldn’t be.
We fired Mark Richt to get this crud?
I know, right? At least Richt would’ve had the good sense to start Faton Bauta today.
Couldn’t because he was playing for Co St. today.
Wonder if he was prepped for that game or just got tossed in.
Exactly. 10 wins a year in the SEC is a given. Any idiot can do it. Thank God Richt is gone and ruining Miami as we speak. They’ve looked awful this year.
Gosh, why limit that comment to one post when you can use it forever!
Welcome to America 2016. Look at our self elected politicians. FYI, Panama subsidies many ex-pat living expenses and have internet that can handle watch ESPN.
It may get crowded down there soon. Hot’er than hell, though.
Nahhhh…Poas. Costa Rica. This time of year you would be lighting a small fire in the fireplace at night. Tomorrow you’d be catching trout with a hand line and banana slice and eating them with eggs,and black beans.
Get in the mountains and you’ll never need A/C again. I was shocked the b&b we stayed at this year had high speed internet.
Diversify you investmens and never worry about US elections again.
Yea buddy….oh oh oh ok den
The Lord tells me he can get me out of my mess, but he’s pretty sure Bulldog Football is fucked!
I hope you all show up next week ready to back our team. They need their fans behind them. I loved Mark Richt but he is gone and neither those of us whous supported Richt or those wanted him fired know what the score would have been. I know the team will be working on catching the ball this week. Come ready to be loud next week and if you are negative give your tickets to someone who can be positive.
No no, the coaches are morons and the players have ling hair!!!
Great post Debby
Mad Mike
Amen, all the bickering between the different coaching factions has gotten motherf@$#%€g ridiculous. Everyone needs to shut the hell up, take a deep breath, and quite being a bunch of whining babies. Was what happened to Richt right? Not Really. Is Kirby the answer? Too early to tell. Are we lacking in talent in a lot of areas? Oh hell yeah. Everyone needs to put their stupid agenda aside, and remember we all started reading this blog because we’re Dawg fans dammit! Remember that and let’s quit being assholes for a little bit huh?
Well there is at least one Richt fan
Who me? Nope, he lost me, for good, after Alabama last year. While I wasn’t screameing “Fire Richt!” all day, every day. I wasn’t sad to see him go. I was more in favor of hiring someone with HC experience though, but I will support Kirby until he’s had time enough to have fully implemented his system, with his players.
Me too. If things are this bad in 2018, then it’ll be time to cut ties. But I believe he deserves a chance to get his own guys in the program.
No not you lol
I agree. I was in favor of getting rid of MR and probably got a little salty about it on here. I didn’t like what I saw today but it’s one game. And Ole Miss is honestly more talented on both lines and at WR. We all know that they pay players so why shouldn’t they be? Add in some questionable coaching decisions and you end up with a shit sandwich like we saw today. Who knows? Maybe we’ll beat the Vowels next week. Stranger things have happened.
I will be there and will loudly cheere for my team to win.
I’m growing a beard
PatinDC
Well. That did not go well.
Next week is another game.
Like I stated yesterday Senator. Kinda silly speculating about the ” intangibles” when you don’t have the tangibles covered.
Late to the party, but my $0.02: Chubb and Trent would have started for Ole Miss today. That’s it. 2 out of 22 players.
I get it, no one wants to hear or believe that it is a talent issue. But the gap between us and Ole Miss was staggering. OL, WR, and DBs are as bad as they’ve been since the 90s.
It’s time to reset expectations. This rebuild is going to be longer than most people thought, and that was going to be the case regardless of who the coach is.
We are on our 3rd OC and 3rd DC in four years, and were going to be no matter who the coach is.
The talent level will be up again, but it’s simply going to take time and require patience.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/2/4/10914710/college-football-recruiting-improvement-tcu-baylor
Means nothing. Look at the distribution. Look at the 2013 class. Look at the talent that has just left the program. Plus, we were wrong on evaluation on a ton of those players. We have an OL that is atrocious, WR than can’t get separation, can’t block, can’t catch, and undersized, slow DBs that have lucked out by not facing a passing team in 2 years.
You can throw out those rankings, but I know what I saw. Aside from Chubb and Trent, who did you see that was better than their Ole Miss counterpart?
Good point. Bill Connelly is an idiot. Sure, he has his fancy statistics, but we’ve got the eye test. Everybody knows that Richt just used walk-ons for all of his teams. Thank God Smart brought in the greatest lineman in the country in Catalina. If we just had a few more like him, we would be sitting pretty.
Ok, we’ll see, won’t we? We see who all on this roster gets drafted.
Georgia has fared well in putting players in the NFL.
Yes, I’m aware. We’re talking about this particular team.
The DBs are fine. It is the same guys as last year. They are playing as well as they did last year. They are good but not great. When a QB makes a great throw into double coverage and the WR makes a great play, there isn’t much you can expect them to do. We will not see a group of WR like that for the rest of the season.
Yeah, our WRs are WAY too small. They can’t get separation. When they do, they keep dropping the ball. We have 3 commits: 6’2″, 6’3″, and 6’5″. We have probably 2 more slots open. Looking forward to Ridley being healthy. We need Wims to step up.
The OL is where the big problem is. We have an FCS LT, 3 Guards and a 3rd string DT as an OL. Pike is a quality Guard, but is a liability at RT. If we had a natural Center, we could make the line from left to right: Wynn, Kublanow, New Center, Pike, Catalina. That would be better but still less than good. It would be easier to get Catalina some TE help on the right side. We need to find a way to get Sims and Galliard the hell off of the field. Will one of the freshmen step up at Guard? Doesn’t look like it.
“You are never as good as they say you are when you win and never as bad as they say you are when you lose.” That old saying is still true. I am still hopeful that the Dawgs will salvage a respectable season and maybe even win a bowl. That said, I feel the worst I have ever felt about the UGA coaching staff since I started following Georgia football in 1964, This team wasn’t ready to play today–and that falls squarely on the coaching staff. Other than Schotty and CMR I thought our coaching staff last year was pretty damn good. So the powers that be fire CMR after a 10 win season because Kirby Smart (a “son of Georgia”) is about to get hired by South Carolina and we sure as hell don’t want that–the Gamecocks to get our Georgia Boy!! A helluva reason to make a coaching change. I was ready for CMR to be gone, too, but only if the suits hired a coach that would be an improvement. Instead of interviewing Gary Patterson, Tom Herman, or any other proven HC with an excellent track record we hired another Mark Richt–a career coordinator with no HC experience. Well guys, get ready for a couple of years of OJT for our vaunted new HC and his miserable staff of assistants. This staff is terrible. If someone had said to CKS that he can have the HC job but he would have to keep the old staff intact except for Schotty that would have been one thing. But to hire CKS and an entire staff of retreads is a little much to take. Get ready for Johnny Griffith redux. I hope not but it is looking more that way each game. Last season the Senator said that he didn’t want to fire CMR because he was afraid that B-M would f*ck up the hire for his replacement. I felt the same way and said so repeatedly. Boy, those B-M people sure are predictable.
Dude, today’s outcome would have been identical with no coaching change.
The talent difference jumped off the tv from the first 5 minutes. The outcome was inevitable.
Best team $$$ can buy outside of at RB.
Even schotty put Chubb and Sony on the field together. Marinate on that for a sec.
Could UT and Arky fans been right about Chaney?
Chaney is an empty size XXXXL parka.
Lol. +1
Sale was awful but your point is taken
Wow, it took 4 games for the split in the fan base to open back up. We got our @$$3$ handed to us today. I don’t know if it’s talent, coaching, culture or a mixture of all 3 into a witch’s brew of horrific proportions. I had this game as a loss because of home field and an edge at the most important on the field, quarterback. What this game spiraled into was the result of a mixture of coaching and remnants of culture. The coaches appear to be bull-headed about running between the tackles on early downs on offense and refusing to give the line help with rushing the passer (Senator, 3rd and Tucker is coming) in obvious passing situations. The culture of collapsing when things don’t go your way reared its ugly head in the 1st half. I don’t know what the fixes are, but I don’t get paid $3,750,000 a year to figure it out.
I honestly can’t imagine a scenario where the fanbase will be united again.
It’s a bloody mess.
The Richt faction needs to let it go and move on but they just have to say I told you so. Only thing that will shut them up is an SEC title.
I’d like to think so, but I just don’t know. I’m really afraid it’s going to be a split forever. Nothing short of an NC will ever reunite the fanbase.
I thought we had, but it’s as bad as it’s ever been.
Tri, if B-M had hired A first rate HC with experience who could bring a winning staff with him the fan base would be united. B-M choked on the hire. That is what you get when idiots grt to make the decisions. We’ll have to live with this for 2-3 more years then maybe those dopes will hire a real HC next time. What I saw today was Ray Goof all over again.
It is too soon to make those type of calls.
And you’ve determined this 4 games in?
No on BM hired would’ve united the fanbase-I think that’s pretty obvious. We still can’t agree on whether it was necessary or not.
93,000 people didn’t come to G-Day to see Ludicris. They came to watch a scrimmage and excited to see what was going to be different. The fan base including those referred to as Richtophiles or Richtophants wanted to see if this staff was going to move the needle. If you don’t think the fan base had come together, you wouldn’t have seen the dome field advantage we saw on Labor Day weekend.
Many people including the Mayor and myself wanted a true search for an EXPERIENCED head coach. I wasn’t a Tom Herman fan because I hadn’t thought he was at it long enough (I was wrong – the guy can flat coach). I wanted us to make David Shaw turn us and our Brinks trucks down.
I decided to give Kirby a chance when he was hired. He won the opening press conference. He kept together a really good recruiting class and improved it. He’s putting together a wonderful class for this year. He’s trying to instill a toughness into the team that has been lacking in that department for some time. He’s trying to balance winning now with developing a young QB that can be the cornerstone of the future. He has also talked down the talent on this team publicly to the point where I believe he has killed some of these guys’ confidence. He made some changes that I believe are a slap at the tradition here before him (the “dressy” DawgWalk and the elimination of bones as helmet stickers). He doesn’t appear to like interacting with the common folk and seems to take a “I don’t have time for this s—” approach with the Dawg Nation. Some of that works when you come to a place with a record of success. Some of that can blow up in your face if you aren’t successful.
It’s 4 games in. I don’t disagree about preferring an experienced coach, but it is what it is.
Have you seen Shaw and Stanford play? If you think the OL looks bad now, imagine what it would look like in Stanford’s offense.
It is what it is. Kirby is going to improve the overall talent level on the roster over the next 3-4 years. I have no doubt about that. Whether he can translate it to wins is going to play out over time.
But I do believe he’s going to have a much more complete, more talented roster going forward.
I know how Stanford plays. They also do it without 4 and 5 star players at every position but with guys who play hard, fundamentally sound, and limit mistakes. You don’t see Stanford’s classes at the top of recruiting rankings.
I agree … It’s 4 games in, and Kirby is going to get his fair shot. Most reasonable people weren’t expecting a championship this year even with Nick Chubb back. I’m willing to wait and see what happens, but if we see more performances like yesterday, Kirby is going to find his honeymoon to be over quickly. Once you’re on the hot seat, you never get off just the temperature changes.
Hey–the honeymoon is already over. The performance in Oxford did that.
Comments like this are exactly what I’m talking about.
I know some of these richtophants, and they are quite bizzare with quixotic at best thinking.
Kirby could win 3 nattys and they would still make excuses….hell they would probably say he did it with CMR’s roster.
Did Richt ever get behind 45-0? If not, then please don’t “compare” UGA factions. Thank you very much.
31-0 at home w preseason #1 team, #1 overall draft 3 first round draft picks.
35-0 USC 2012 with probably his most complete team
So no?
go buy some Miami stuff. That’s clearly where your loyalties are.
So you have no response. Please just articulate that ahead of time.
PS I’ll still donate to the Hartman Fund despite your recommendation
Richt got fired before he had to play with this shitstrom of a roster he created.
Today was an awful loss, I’m not arguing this. But, given the talent on this roster, to suggest it was worse than either of the games I mentioned is a stretch. Not to mention 2008 UF or 2011 LSU.
We’re not going to agree on it, it’s fine.
Go Dawgs! We may disagree on circumstances, but I’ll always buy a round for a fellow Dawg. I think Kirby can turn it around, but as he says, 6’7″ OTs don’t grow on trees.
Yup, Go Dawgs!
I hope things get better, and I think they can. I just don’t know if the fractured fanbase will let it happened. It’s just so divided.
I don’t think the fanbase is as fractured as you may think it is. As a “Richtophile” who associates with my own kind, I can gaurentee you I’ve never met anyone rooting against Smart.
We all want UGA to succeed, just see things in different ways.
God, I sincerely hope you’re right. I just have been completely disheartened the past 3 weeks.
I totally underestimated the amount of people ready to pounce as soon as things got rough.
85 players on scholly, 10 of those recruited by Kirby. U gear cheaper than Dawg gear so go get ya some.
Dude, Richt lost worse two time I can think of 49-10 to the Gators in 2008 and 41-10 to LSU in 2011. Kirby might never be worth a damn, but stop acting like today was the worst loss in program history.
Do you think today was a good day for the program? I’ll hang up and listen.
Did I say it was? Nope. Just pointing out the fact that we’ve gotten blown out worse.
I’d say it was about equal to trying to fight Bama in the tunnel and then losing by 28.
It was an awful day for the program, but guess what. I think UNC and Missouri are both better than a single team we beat last year.
Now it’s the “no championships, no peace” crowd on one side and the “why don’t you go cheer for the U” crowd on the other.
You’re right, gatriguy, it’s a mess, and the problem is there’s no one who is a leader that has time for this $#!+ to fix it. I’m officially worried Kirby is going to be so wedded to the Process that he’s going to waste every bit of goodwill with the fan base.
Truly the only thing that will fix it now is a CFP berth.
Unfortunately, ee, the guy who should be leading all factions is Greg McGarity. He damn sure isn’t the second coming of Joel Eaves.
It’s a mess. I thought we’d be better than this and all row in the same direction. I was wrong.
I can. A national title.
Derek Ross
Juwuan Briscoe looks way too much like Bryan Evans. Always getting beat, never targeting the ball, and not even making it a fight when the receiver catches it. Do we not have anyone that will at least win some lose some?
Briscoe/Parrish reminded me of Evans/Miller defensive backfield….awful!
I find it quite ironic that some of you who refused to be critical of CMR after years 5, 10, and 15 suddenly are impugning CKS to no end after a mere 4 games….with CMR’s roster to boot.
CMR utterly castrated this program, yet the Richtophants out there want to cast blame elsewhere in a shameless attempt to salvage the rep of their failed leader.
Want me to list some of CMR’s eggs after many years as HC? Give me a break.
Feel free. Just highlighting the fact that UGA hasn’t been boat raced like today since… before Richt.
Once upon a time, Richt was revered for his road game performance. Oh how that gets forgotten.
That was always a little bit of fool’s gold since he never had to play Florida on the road and they were his white whale.
But yeah, those days were awesome.
Richt certainly made mistakes as the UGa coach.
For the last 5 years I was told I liked mediocrity if I wanted Richt to be our coach. What I saw today in Oxford was not even mediocre.
It’s also ironic that the people who constantly trashed Richt after every loss now say “But you have to get behind Smart.”
Well, 15 years and 4 games are pretty comparable sample sizes.
Right. Funny how people conveniently keep forgetting this. If Smart is losing like this in ’18, I’ll be all for a coaching change wand will admit his time as a failure. But to do it after 4 games with CMR’s roster is so pathetic it’s laughable.
You know if you could just shut up awhile about CMR others wouldn’t be so quick to come to his to his defense.
No one is calling for a coaching change after 4 games and I am not calling his time as HC a failure. I am saying he stunk today, he stunk on his own and he deserves to be criticized for it. That does not mean he cannot learn from his mistakes and I hope he does.
I wish we had hired an experienced head coach. Wish we had tried to get Tom Herman, but we didn’t. That means Smart is the coach of my team and I want him to win every damn game.
Blame someone who spent the week 700 miles away from Butts-Mehre for our lack of preparation if you want, but I am not.
Good point. Richt played the long con. He spent 15 years ruining the team. Now, he could have done it in three, but frankly, the SEC is too easy of a conference for that. Even with awful coaching and recruiting, 10 wins is nearly guaranteed. Instead, Richt bided his time and was finally able to build a team of top ten recruiting classes that sucks so much that not even Smart and McGarity may be capable of winning 10 games. And we all know how easy that is!
Well played. Wish I could insert the Citizen Kane clapping gif.
You are a really smart guy, a business success. You know that it is appropriate to evaluate Smart for what he does, not for what someone else did.
Smart is not entitled to immunity just because you did not like his predecessor. We stunk today. We were not mentally focused and our strategy was odd, considering the match ups. Richt has nothing to do with that.
My perspective wasn’t that we lost. It was the manner in which we lost. We spit the bit, soiled the bed, laid an egg, face planted or any other term you want to use. That’s about being resilient & focused and really is what cost the previous guy his job. If we had fought like mad and lost, hey, you tip your cap to the other guy and tell him good luck the rest of the season. When your team plays like it doesn’t have a pulse, it is the coaching staff’s fault. The roster isn’t where anyone wants it to be especially along the lines of scrimmage, but playing hard, physical and fundamentally sound is a choice. This team decided not to do it today.
That’s fair, and very concerning. I don’t know how you change that.
I had hoped those days were over. I’m just not sure from a mental toughness perspective what is missing.
Sadly, old habits die hard.
Boy, That Pittman hire as O line coach is really working out well…
One of two things must be the case. Either (a) he really is the “best in the business” OL coach that everyone says he is, or (b) he’s overrated as all hell. For now, I’m inclined to trust his reputation. But think about what that implies. If the best OL coach in the country can’t keep our OL from looking like a bunch of turnstiles, then perhaps the talent (and strength) at that position is even worse than we all suspected. (Maybe the rumors are true, and the last coaching regime couldn’t evaluate OL talent for shit.) Either way, we’re going to have to be patient and let Pittman rebuild this OL from the ground up.
Ramguy
The Mark Richt crowd must have forgotten the loses to Vandy, a very crappy SC a couple of years ago….the trashing by the hands of Fla the past two years, one with Faton as the starter, the bonehead kick off call against Tech. The trashing by Tenn in 2007(?) when the Dawgs had the players for a title run. The I don’t give a crap expressions on his face.
These Richt people make me pull against UM every game.
What does Richt 2006, or Richt 20013 have to do with whether we were well coached today? Why does the 2007 UT game give Smart immunity from criticism for his performance?
A couple years from now I hope we can all look back on this as an aberration.
But if you don’t understand its going to be a long couple years you probably need to renew your symphony tickets, cause for better or worse we changed coaches, and that’s almost a guarantee of a couple of years in the doldrums.
Yes, you can sit back and say, hmmm Mark Richt won 10 games last year with a team that was slightly less talented than this one, but that would be a pointless exercise.
We changed coaches, whether that made you happy or sad, deal with the consequences.
Yeah. We’re gonna have to let it play out for a few years.
Remember, Scorpio, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
The problem is that the Bulldog Nation has been in the hope stage for 36 years now as 5 of our fellow conference members have won crystal footballs (3 of those including our bloodlust rival have won multiple). In some cases, that hope has turned to frustration and now downright anger.
I can’t take credit for that … Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in one of my favorite all-time movies 🙂
Today go 💩
This one is over and in the books. Bootch Please is coming to town and will be wearing that shit eating grin of his when he arrives. We’re gonna need a privet specialist when they leave I think they take half the hedges home with them.
Oh and Florida ain’t gonna be in a good mood when we play .
Gus got a new bus.
Does Tech play here this year?
AHD, when you look at the remaining games in light of what happened yesterday every single game remaining on the Dawgs’ schedule is in play–including U La La. I’m not sure the team I saw yesterday in Oxford can beat UK and Vandy, much less Auburn, UT and FU. Tech, too.
I agree. 4 games in and this season is already on the brink. A woodshed loss in Athens this weekend at the hands of a Tennessee team that will be smelling blood in the water would be disastrous. I’m not even talking about winning a division … I’m talking about respectability. Why do I feel like this is potentially 1989-1990 all over again? I lived that as a student … I never want to go back there again.
Man. Just got in and read this thread. Can’t we all just get along?
When I lurk on the UT message boards and still see people, today, arguing over Phil Fulmer. Is that where we want to be years from now, arguing over woulda, coulda, shoulda?
Does getting along mean ignoring the shortfalls of the program in a game that was supposed to be an early measuring stick? I guess we’re all supposed to give the staff credit for all of the wins this year and the previous staff the blame for all of the losses. That’s not the way it works, and I haven’t seen anyone say the previous staff would have won this game. I’ve seen a team that hasn’t played well the last 3 weeks on either side of the ball but especially on offense. It’s not all players and execution, and it’s not all coaching and preparation. There’s a lot of blame to go around.
If we end up wandering in the wilderness like UT did, I guarantee you we’ll still be arguing about the decisions made in November and December 2015.
Except McGarity and the others who made the bad decisions will be long gone and WE will be the ones left holding the bag.
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let me give the “Can’t we all just get along crowd” something to chew on. I don’t care if we as dawg fans can or can not agree on a particular “issue”. I care about who is right/correct and who is wrong/incorrect.. If 60%-75% of the fan base is certain that changing Coaches was the right thing to do , the mere fact that they were a majority did not make them correct ….it merely made them whiny trolls who just KNEW that change would be for the better. Those of us who correctly pointed out that all change is NOT good and pointing out that firing the winning-est (% wise ) Coach we ever had would historically(Phil Fulmer and L , Carr) and statistically be unlikely to produce a superior result were dismissed as Richt lovers . What the powers that be at Butts-Mehre need to be is right…. not popular. What most people with a brain intuitively understood was that the B-M crowd already had a significant track record of not being right about damn near anything. I don’t want to be understood,agreed with, respected or even right. What I want is to win. Our brain trust and whiners have in all probability doomed us to wandering in the Michigan/Tenn wilderness for the next decade. Thank you McGarity. I am officially changing my trivia team name from “Micheal Adams must Die” to “Greg McGarity must Die “. How much can I get for my 25 yard line lower level tickets with seat backs and parking pass to the UT game ? I do not need to watch this exercise in futility.
Ten wins are great and all, but really we’ve kind of been wandering in the wilderness since 2005.
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The Mel Pearson show is already posted for those that missed it. Wes and crew are getting a lot better at posting it pretty quickly.
Edit: I see of course we dropped out of the Top 20, basically down to 27th
Notes from Mel Pearson show:
Haven't practiced 5x3 much, but did this past week and looked good, maybe relaxed too much in game
Both PP units have different systems
Still need to learn to win close games
Need to manage the puck better in the 3rd period
Maybe a little fatigue in the 3rd on Saturday
Kicked in goal - Fri was frustrating, word was that he did kick it, but kicked it into Josh, and Josh's arm knocked the puck in
Mel felt it hit Josh and it just went it
The initial call was waived off, there needs to be substatial evidence to change, Mel didnt' like the interpretation
How is the team compared to where you thought we'd be at this time:
Have to get better in some areas, experience and learning how to win is still a big issue
Mel would like a few more wins
Keven Pates of Duluth Tribune pointed out to Mel, last time after 14 games Tech was above .500 was '84-85
Will Chad Pietila be available for GLI:
yes, may not be in game shape
He'll add some offense and experience to our team
Dirk - Will he play in GLI? Hard to say, depends how team does in next three games
Is rivalry with NMU the same as when Mel played?
More intense now, as it was a new rivalry at that time, NMU started in '76.
Why more penalties overall this weekend?
Hard play, for the most part happy with our team, did get a little undisciplined Sat.
Should Jimmy Davis have played juniors?
No, he's doing well, Mel probably should've played him Sat this weekend.
We're bringing him along slower than maybe we should.
Hard to adjust to playign D in college hockey.
Minnesota up next:
Probably more talent on team than Duluth
Looking forward to playing another good team
Mariucci is a great college rink
UMD/Min very similar, talented good skating forwards, good goaltending
Tommy Brown eligable to play, so he'll be back, hard decisions on who to take with us
Reminder Sat game is 9PM ET
Great opportunity to show we can go on road and beat a good hockey team
There is a rivalry between NMU and MTU? :rolleyes: Pretty sure the last time this series was relevant (from the Northern side) was 2006. I know as a fan I tried to keep the rivalry alive longer, but there just isn't anything there. NMU looks as it as a crappy NC matchup where we want to leave with a W and no one injured. MTU pays a little extra to have the ambulance circle the arena with the siren because "there will be blood inside."
I refuse to give any respect to a program who's top player award is given to whoever "maimes" a player of a nearby university who isn't in the same conference.
MTU pays a little extra to have the ambulance circle the arena with the siren because "there will be blood inside."
The only things I can recall being "maimed" in the last five years are Teslak's knee, Jordan Foote's dignity, and Brian Stewart's credibility.
You may want to run a fact checker over that statement.
Besides, how can you be down on MTU? We got you back into the WCHA and saved you from going independant like UAH. You've seen how well that worked out for them...
What is this all about? Are we still angry about getting beat last year? And who maimed a player or drew blood in the arena or whatever?
The award has nothing to do with maiming anybody. It's an award for the top player for Tech from the year's series.
2003-04—Colin Murphy
2005-06—Jake Wilkens
2006-07—Mike Batovanja
2007-08—Jimmy Kerr
2008-09—Josh Robinson
2009-10—Brett Olson
2010-11—Deron Cousens
It's also hardly the 'top' or 'most prestigious' award, as evidenced by the fact that Jimmy Kerr won it the year we went 0-2-1 against NMU.
I refuse to give any respect to a program who's top player award is given to whoever "maimes" a player of a nearby university who isn't in the same conference.While this entire post is probably a joke and is just complete crap, I do look forward to the days when this series has some teeth to it with conference points on the line.
While this entire post is probably a joke and is just complete crap, I do look forward to the days when this series has some teeth to it with conference points on the line.
Just about sums it up.
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That weekend never happened. That weekend never happened. That weekend never happened.
Guess I'll have to up my dosage.
What do you care? You have the power of Angry Birds now, you never need to pay attention to Michigan Tech again. ;)
As if the wreck that college hockey has become wasn't enough for this year, now the NHL announced its new alignment with FOUR CONFERENCES. (No that's not a typo). Four CONFERENCES with either 7 or 8 teams. You play all teams in the other three conferences twice (one home and one road) and then every other team in your conference 5 or 6 times depending on how many teams you have. That part I can almost buy. You get to see every team at least once at home. But here is the kicker...
The top four teams in every conference make the playoff regardless of how many points you have compared to other conferences AND you play IN conference for the first two round of the Stanley Cup. Gary Bettman needs to be fitted with some cement shoes and dumped of the end of a short pier. How much does he have to tweak hockey???
:mad: :mad: :mad:
First, the vote was 26-4, so clearly the plan was not being rammed down the owner's throats by Herr Bettman.
Second, to their credit, this does keep the first two rounds of the playoffs within a fair traveling/time zone distance for pretty much everyone. No more early visits to Phoenix, Anaheim, and San Jose for the Wings.
Third, the schedule is finally balanced. Everyone will play each other at least twice every season, which is an improvement for the Original Six teams.
I'm all for giving Herr Bettman some healthy verbal abuse, but I don't believe this is quite as awful as everyone thinks. Yes, you're going to get cases where the #5 team in the Norris Conference is half a dozen points ahead of the #4 team in the Adams Conference, but that's just tough ****; #5 Norris should've won more games. If it turns out to be a major problem, they can always tweak the playoff selection format again.
I just have a prob with the playoff format/four conferences. 2 Conf, 2 Div each. Keep the "same" playoff format as now. Done. Easy as apple pie. Nope. Gotta mess it up.
I can get behind Brent's idea. Rather than straight 1-4 from each division though, I'd send division champions & runners-up plus 4 wild cards from each conference. Still 16 teams in playoffs, just a bit more excitement at the end.
I actually think we'll be seeing that eventually, once enough owners have whined about their traditional market team getting screwed by some sub.-500 sunbelt turd who sneaks in as a 4-seed in another, weaker conference.
Meanwhile, Hammer just brought up the "opposite of contraction" word in the Board of Governors thread. Say hello to the Hamilton Moneygrab?
I don't have a problem with a team in Hamilton, as long as it gets moved in from somewhere else - not a new franchise.
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Some Lucia/Pearson info from the StarTribune blog.
Gophers coach Don Lucia said new Michigan Tech coach Mel Pearson was a good hire with a good understanding of the school in Houghton, Mich., because he played for the Huskies
"Mel and I go way back," said Lucia on his weekly radio show Monday on 1500ESPN. "We graduated from high school the same year. He was at Edina, I was at Grand Rapids, so we played each other every year in high school."
Pearson was born in Vancouver, but his family moved to Edina when he was a youth.
"[After high school,] he went to Tech and I was at Notre Dame," Lucia said, "so we played every year through my four years of college. And, obviously, butted heads many times when he was [coaching] at Michigan and I was at CC [Colorado College] and then here. Mel is a good guy. It was a great hire on their part.
"Mel had been waiting -- I told Mel if he was waiting for Red [Berenson] to retire [at Michigan], you are going to retire before Red does. You better take a head job if that is what you want to do."
Pearson played for Michigan Tech from 1977-81. He was a forward. He was a Huskies assistant before joining Berenson's staff at Michigan in 1988. In 1999-2000, he became the Wolverines' associate head coach.
Lucia said Pearson has a good situation at Tech.
"The [Huskies] were absolutely devastated by injuries last year. ... Mel is playing a bit more high tempo," Lucia said. "They are much more skilled. ... Last year they were minus-25 in specialty teams, that is almost a goal a game and that is a big difference. And now they are a plus-1. So that is a major turnaround."
The Huskies have scored 15 power plays goals and given up 14.
"They are scoring a lot more goals," Lucia said. "They have two returning goaltenders from last year's team and they are off to a great start. ... They've got three balanced lines. They have some incoming freshman that are scoring and helping them."
Lucia said when he was in the WCHA, one of his favorite road trips was to Michigan Tech.
"The [hockey] community was a little more active back then," Lucia said. "Their rink was packed. It was a very difficult place to play. But it was a fun weekend of hockey when you went up there. They had it going, obviously [in] the '70s. They played the 'U' for three straight national titles in '75, '75, '76. And even up to 1981, they were in the Frozen Four that year as well."
Lucia said things will change for Michigan Tech in the WCHA in two years when the conference is re-shaped: "What you will see with the WCHA in a few years is how competitive it is going to be from top to bottom. Some of those teams, whether it be Ferris State or Northern Michigan, and Lake Superior State, some of those teams which will be coming into the league are having great years.
"You will see real good balance in the league in a few years. And there is no reason that Michigan Tech can't look at itself and say, 'We are like everybody else. ]They are all pretty much Division II schools.] We should be able to compete with anybody in this new league.' "
* Lucia said the Gophers have been remarkably healthy so far except for forward Christian Isackson being out because of an infection (he played in two of the past three games) and defenseman Blake Thompson being out with mononucleosis.
Isackson has played in only four of 16 games, Thompson in two
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‘American Idol’ notes: Haley Reinhart, Kris Allen, James Durbin, and more
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We are right in the middle of a rather busy weekend, and with that we actually have quite a bit to cover at the moment when it comes to “American Idol” notes.
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Speaking to PopCrush, she explained how this collaboration came about without ever even meeting the the man:
“I actually haven’t met him yet, but we put down that track and we were looking at what we might want and filled him in on it and he was all about it. It sounds great! I love it, it has a very rompy kind of Motown sound again. And I just needed somebody so cool and slick to fill that little spot, and he did such a great job.”
National Anthems from James Durbin and David Cook; “God Bless America” from Erika Van Pelt – With baseball season kicking off and with the NHL and the NBA still playing games, we are really getting the opportunity to hear plenty of “Idol” stars singing at various events. The good news? All of them are currently nailing it.
In the videos below, you can see James Durbin singing the National Anthem at a San Jose Sharks game, David Cook doing the same thing for the Angels in Anaheim, and recently-eliminated contestant Erika Van Pelt singing “God Bless America” for her local minor-league team the Pawtucket Red Sox.
Kris Allen explains “Thank You Camellia” meaning – For those of you wondering why exactly Kris named his sophomore release “Thank You Camellia,” we now have an answer for you — it’s a tribute to the house in Los Angeles that he relaxed in following some recording sessions for the album.
The always-charismatic Kris sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s “Idol Hangover” show, and talked about this along with such other topics as the dog on the cover — and of course his music in general.
For those of you looking forward to the weekly “Idol” rankings, stay tuned — they’ll be up a little later in the day.
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Wow – James Durbin sounds absolutely fantastic in this video! Great job.
Well then Haley also sang the National Anthem, for opening day at Detroit Tigers game. The video unfortunately got taken down inmediately and I think it can only be seen at MLB website. There was a brief interview too before the game. There was another at the end that I think I haven’t even seen yet. Hopefully enough people get to Listen Up! and enjoy it. Cool music :) Oh yeah, and I hope that B o B track becomes a single and brings her some ww recognition.
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Love Kris Allen add James Durbin. Like David Cook and Haley Reinhart. So this blog hit all of the right notes for me.
Love Kris and as for the fan wars I think Shirley is a trouble maker why bring this up to Kris at all. I feel like she tried to tell Daddy on us .When she knows that when you throw the two groups together it brings nothing but fighting from both sides. Maybe we should all stand for The Vision Of Love and you reporters should be trying to bring us together in a more positive way. LOVE LOVE LOVE KRIS NEW VIDEO
Wow, congrats to Haley! Thanks for posting the Kris Allen interview, love that guy and love the song. I can’t wait for the album!
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Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Friday said the U.S. central bank should look into controlling the yield curve as a potential tool for monetary policy, similar to an approach used by the Bank of Japan.
Kashkari echoed an idea mentioned by Fed Chair Jerome Powell earlier this week that policymakers may want to consider short-term yield curve control.
“It’s worth analyzing the potential of yield curve control as yet another policy tool,” Kashkari said in New York during an event at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He said the U.S. central bank may not want to target yields on 10-year notes the way the Bank of Japan does. “Even if we tried to control the first couple of years of the yield curve that could be another tool in the Fed’s arsenal,” Kashkari said. “It’s complicated, it’s not without risk but I think it’s interesting and worth studying.”
Kashkari was not as open to the idea of negative interest rates, another monetary policy tool used by the Bank of Japan. He said the Fed would turn to rate cuts and quantitative easing to stimulate the economy before it turned to negative rates.
Kashkari repeated his views that U.S. interest rates should be lower to bolster the economy and help bring more people into the labor market and lift wages. He said he would support higher interest rates if wage growth accelerated to 3.5% or 4.0%, a level he believes could lead to higher inflation.
Fed officials are divided on whether the U.S. central bank should continue to reduce rates. The September rate cut, which brought the benchmark overnight lending rate to a range of 1.75% to 2.00% was passed with a 7-3 vote.
Investors widely expect the Fed to cut interest rates again when it meets on Oct. 29-30. Kashkari said that he would probably support another rate cut in October but that any further reductions should be based on economic data and developments in the trade war with China.
He does not vote on policy this year, but he will become a voting member next year.
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“The louder the noise gets, the harder the rhetoric, the more all of us hug data,” he said. “We hug analysis, and it’s our true north.” (Reporting by Jonnelle Marte; Editing by Chris Reese; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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Up Close and Personal: Getting to Know Thomas Sanchez, Founder and CEO of Social Driver, Washington, D.C.
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Capitol Communicator is running a series featuring in-depth profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this “Up Close and Personal” profile, we feature Thomas Sanchez. Photography for Capitol Communicator’s profile series is by Cade Martin. Wardrobe styling by Pascale Lemaire for THE Artist Agency; and hair and makeup was by Patti D Nelson and Janice Kinigopoulos for THE Artist Agency.
Thomas, please provide us a short bio and your current title.
I am the founder and CEO of Social Driver, and am an innovator and entrepreneur focused on the intersection of marketing and technology. Under my leadership, Social Driver was named the seventh-fastest growing agency in the United States (The Agency 100) and one of “DC’s Coolest Companies” (DCInno). I’m an advocate for innovation in education, diversity in business, and inclusion in technology. I was named a Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal and appointed by the mayor of Washington, D.C., as an advisor to the district government.
Are you involved in any other organizations?
I serve on the boards of The Trevor Project (the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people ages 13-24), and my alma mater, Northwest Missouri State University. I also have made financial contributions and provided support to LearnServe, which identifies high school students with the passion to make a difference and equip them with the knowledge, business tools, and relationships they need; and I also support the Capital Area Food Bank. In addition, Vincent Gray, former mayor of Washington, D.C., appointed me to the innovation and technology inclusion council in 2014, and I took an active role in meetings with civic leaders and the Metropolitan Police Department’s LGBT Liaison Unit after the shooting in Orlando in June.
What are the things you are most proud of?
I am most proud of how my colleagues and I have built Social Driver on values and relationships. We believe the future is bright, all progress is social and the drivers make history.
Who are your personal role models and why?
I look up to figures such as Robert Kennedy; I love his quote “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” In business, I look up to figures like Dave Ramsey, Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin. These are all leaders that believe in sharing their values and perspective with others. I also always remembers the quote from Walt Disney: “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.”
Did these role models offer advice that helped you in your career?
Noted financial commentator Dave Ramsey advised me to never take out debt, a mandate I have followed; entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck passed along the wisdom to give more to your customers than anyone else; and, author Seth Godin’s advice was to “be remarkable.”
What advice do you have for others?
My best advice is to feel good at the end of the day in terms of what one has personally accomplished, achieved for clients and secured for the business.
What’s appropriate attire for Social Driver?
The business’ dress code is called “Social Driver Casual.” It means they need to be professional, but keep in mind they’re the social media folks, not the accountants.
Where do you buy most of the clothes you wear to the office?
I mix and match higher-end items with disposable or fast fashion. For instance, an Eton shirt is often mixed with an H&M blazer—it’s a great look!
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The Response of Captive Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) to Agonistic Howl Recordings
Abstract: Gray wolves (Canis lupus) are a highly social carnivore that communicates through olfactory and acoustic signals, maintaining their social bonds and hierarchy with body language and touch. Long distance (i.e. howling) and olfactory communication are important in maintaining territory boundaries and mitigating interpack conflict or strife. The study area is a private, not-for-profit wolf conservation and education center in southern New York in the northeast United States. The goal of this study was to determine the overall change in behavior of wolves when faced with a long distance form of communication conveying an aggressive message. I hypothesized that wolves will respond with more activity during and after the howl recordings. An ethogram was adapted from Quandt, but upon personal observation, was altered as additional behaviors were observed. Instantaneous focal sampling was used during data collection at an interval of 15 seconds to sample two gray wolf siblings. The behaviors between wolves were not significantly different from each other (chi square = 0.86, critical value = 14.07, df = 6). This information has many management implications such as determining home range of packs, pack size, and could serve as a possible tool for deterring predation on livestock.
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Authors: Erin Brinton
Perception of the Color Blue in North American River Otters, Lontra canadensis
Abstract: Color vision is essential to many animal species, playing major roles in activities such as foraging and mate selection. Most animal phyla have 4 cones that aid in color vision, while mammals typically only have 2. This study aimed to provide evidence of the blue-range color vision in North American river otters, Lontra canadensis, by behavioral testing 4 captive otters. The subjects (2 male and 2 female adults) were tested individually over a period of 42 weeks. Each otter was presented with 3 cards, with choices between 2 white control cards and a blue test card (n = 1213). In later tests, all subjects were presented with 1 white control card, 1 blue test card, and 1 gray card (n = 417). All subjects distinguished the blue test card from the white control cards but only 1 subject differentiated the color blue from a grayscale correspondent (One-proportion z-test, p = 0.011). A bias based on card location was present only in 1 subject in the blue-white phase of testing (One-proportion z-test, p = 0.201) and in 3 subjects in the blue-grey phase of testing. The cause of this bias was unknown. The ability of 1 subject to reliably select the test card (One-proportion z-test, p = 0.011), provided some evidence that L. canadensis perceive the color blue.
File Attachments: CLaFountain_CapstoneFall2013.doc
Authors: Chelsie LaFountain
Changes in aquatic communities resulting from interactions between climate change and invasive aquatic plants in the Adirondacks.
Abstract: Global climate change can act synergistically with invasive species leading to shifts in ecosystem structure and function. We assessed how a rise in water temperature influenced the potential competitive advantage of an invasive aquatic plant, Eurasian watermilfoil, (Myriophyllum spicatum) over a co-occurring native species northern watermilfoil (M. sibiricum). We also examined the interrelationship between water temperature, watermilfoil, and the aquatic ecosystem including periphyton growth and zooplankton abundance. The study was conducted using replicated mesocosms (3785-liter), with water heaters used to provide a range of temperatures. We found that increasing water temperature promoted the likely competitive advantage of the invasive species, M. spicatum: Survival of M. sibiricum plants was lower than that of M. spicatum across all temperature treatments with a mean survival rate of 24% and 96% respectively. M. sibiricum also showed significantly slower rates of plant growth (mean growth of 3.3 cm compared to 7.6 cm for M. spicatum) and reduced vigor compared to M. spicatum, with an average of less than half the number of growing meristems. Zooplankton densities averaged over 20 times higher in mesocosms with M. sibiricum compared to those with the invasive M. spicatum. Periphyton biomass was best explained by water temperature with an increase in growth in warmer water. Our study confirms that in the face of global climate change, the invasive M. spicatum will continue to exert dominance over its native counterpart. Our results also provide compelling evidence that the combined effects of climate change and invasive aquatic plants can dramatically alter aquatic ecosystems.
Major: Environmental Sciences, Fisheries and Wildlife Science, Forestry, Natural Resources Management and Policy
File Attachments: Climate change and milfoil draft FINAL.doc
Authors: Nicholas Boudreau, Zachary Bozic, Geoffrey S. Carpenter, David M. Langdon, Spencer R. LeMay, Shaun M. Martin, Reid M. Mourse, Sarah L. Prince, Kelli M. Quinn, David A. Patrick
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CES 2017: HP announces redesigned Sprout Pro, 4K PCs and curved gaming display
By Mollie Ruiz-Hopper / Editor-in-Chief, Windows Blog
Ahead of CES 2017, HP announced exciting new PC innovations built for Windows 10 that will change the way people interact with their PCs, including the next-generation Sprout Pro by HP that boasts a new sleek and streamlined design with new hardware and software such as Windows 10 Pro to power 3D experiences. In addition, HP’s latest updates to its premium portfolio celebrates ingenuity and power in beautifully crafted designs, while a new curved gaming display takes game play to the next level. These new devices will start to become available for pre-order as early as today.
Here’s a closer look at what HP announced:
The new Sprout Pro by HP powered by Windows 10
The new Sprout Pro by HP, the second-generation, immersive all-in-one PC now incorporates advanced technologies and new features that empower you to create highly visual content and interactive experiences by blending the physical and digital worlds. HP has evolved Sprout Pro’s software to make it easy to interact between Windows 10 Pro and Sprout’s unique HD resolution projector, touch mat and 2D/3D cameras. The touch mat is a secondary horizontal display and enables a more natural interaction with the Sprout system. HP has made it easier to interact with Windows 10 Pro and developed streamlined software that gives easy access to Sprout’s key features, including faster 2D scanning and — for the first time — high-precision 3D scanning. You can simply hold and rotate a physical object beneath the camera for a much more intuitive experience. HP also added more powerful graphics capabilities to drive visualization apps for interactive 3D, making creations come to life.
Sprout Pro now features a hefty Intel Core i7 processor, 1TB of SSHD storage, up to 16GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics for faster 3D scanning and Windows 10 Pro with its innovative and secure experience.
Pricing and availability: Sprout Pro by HP pricing and availability for commercial consumers is expected in March 2017 in select countries.
Redesigned premium PCs powered by Windows 10
For work, home or on the go, HP premium PCs raise the bar to exceed expectations for what can be done on a PC. New premium products debuting today include:
HP EliteBook x360 is an extremely thin business convertible at just 14.9mm thin. It combines HP Spectre’s powerful thin and light design, HP EliteBook Folio’s collaboration capabilities and HP Elite enterprise security and durability with Windows 10 Pro. It features an incredibly long battery life for a convertible, at up to 16 hours and 30 minutes. Its integrated collaboration capabilities enhance productivity and bring new life to meetings with dedicated conferencing keys, powerful audio and an optional 13.3” diagonal 4K UHD display. Its IR camera enables easy and secure login with Windows Hello and the touchscreen with pen support is perfect for Windows Ink. It also protects the office of the future with HP WorkWise, the most advanced Smartphone App for PC Management and first to offer Tamper Protection.
Pricing and Availability: The HP Elitebook x360 is expected to be available at the end of January 2017 in the US.
HP Spectre x360, following the global success of HP’s 13.3” diagonal model, the second generation of HP’s 15.6” diagonal revolutionary x360 is the most powerful in the Spectre portfolio. A bigger battery allows for up to 12 hours while powering a micro-edge 4K display, maintaining close to the same battery life compared to last year’s Full HD model. It features the latest Intel Core processors, high performance NVIDIA GeForce 940MX graphics, adds two new front facing speakers expertly tuned by Bang & Olufsen for a great audio experience and an IR camera that enables fast and secure login with Windows Hello.
Pricing and Availability: The HP Spectre x360 15.6” is expected to be available for pre-order in the US starting on Jan. 3, 2017 and purchase on Jan. 15, 2017 via BestBuy.com starting at $1,499. The HP Spectre x360 15.6” is expected to be available via HP.com in the US on February 26, 2017 starting at $1,279.99.
HP ENVY Curve AIO 34 the next edition of HP’s award winning and wide curved all-in-one, now adds more computing power for immersive media experiences. The new curved all-in-one features a 34” diagonal Technicolor Color Certified Ultra WQHD micro-edge display that floats over an integrated four speaker sound bar tuned by Bang & Olufsen. For evening use, the display can easily switch to a low blue light mode for improved eye comfort and a better night’s sleep.
This device also includes 7th Generation Intel CoreTM i5 and i7 desktop processors, the HP Privacy Camera with IR support for Windows Hello and a microphone that is hidden when not in use. It offers wireless charging support for mobile devices and optional NVIDIA GFX discrete graphics and storage options up to 256GB SSD + 2TB HDD.
Pricing and Availability: The HP ENVY Curved All-In-One 34 is expected to be available on HP.com on January 11, 2017 and select retailers on February 26, 2017 starting at $1,729.99
The new OMEN X 35 Curved Display
First launched in August, OMEN X by HP is now bringing gamers closer to their respective virtual worlds with the immersive experience of the new OMEN X 35 Curved Display. As the first OMEN display with NVIDIA G-Sync technology, you don’t need to worry about stutter and lag when paired with a NVIDIA compatible GPU, providing higher refresh rates that result in a more natural, realistic, true-to-life gaming experience. HP continues to expand the OMEN by HP portfolio to meet the need of gamers everywhere. The latest addition of a 35-inch diagonal curved display to the OMEN lineup adds a whole new level of immersion for gamers engaging enemies on the battlefield or maneuvering against the competition on the racetrack.
Pricing and Availability: The OMEN X 35 Display is expected to be available on HP.com and select retailers in March 2017 starting at $1,299.99.
It’s exciting to see HP deliver these incredible new devices that will unlock new innovations and experiences powered by Windows 10. Be sure to keep it right here on the Windows Blog for all the hardware news coming out of CES, and head over here to learn more about HP’s news.
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Class of 2018 Lab Loves Stats & Facts Nominations for 2019 Class of 2017 Class of 2016 Class of 2015
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Darryl Boyd
Polymer pioneer
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Stargazing scientist
Connor Coley
Machine-learning maestro
Pedro García Barrantes
Medicinal chemistry mastermind
Nicole Gaudelli
Genome fixer
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Intermediates interrogator
Jose Rodriguez
Structural savant
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Tissue tailor
Connor Coley Research at a glance Three key papers
Machine-learning maestro is reprogramming the way chemists design drugs
by Bethany Halford
August 20, 2018 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 96, ISSUE 33
For Connor Coley, figuring out why things work the way they do is only half of science's allure. The other half, he says, is figuring out how he can make them work better. His drive and curiosity led him to work on problems in structural biology, renewable processes for converting carbon dioxide to methanol, and fracking—all before he could legally buy beer. "I couldn't figure out what I wasn't interested in," he jokes.
These days Coley's interests still vary—so much so that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student divides his time between William H. Green's molecular simulation lab and Klavs F. Jensen's drug discovery lab. In just four years, he's spearheaded a project in the white-hot field of machine learning, which Coley hopes to apply to chemical synthesis for drug discovery and development.
Machine learning aims to create artificial intelligence systems that make decisions with little intervention from people. Coley's efforts in this arena have blossomed into a collaboration between MIT and eight drug industry partners, known as the Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical Discovery & Synthesis Consortium. While most other chemists working in the field of machine learning and chemical synthesis use rules devised by experts to guide their systems, Coley relies on reactions in databases, such as those in U.S. patent filings, to teach the computer what transformations will and won't take place without being influenced by human bias.
Before Coley had even finished his second year of graduate school, he was using machine learning to predict the major products of many different types of chemical reactions, with the computer accurately predicting the correct reaction product 72% of the time. "Many smart chemists had worked on and thought about this problem for decades," Green says. "Several other groups had been trying to solve it using machine learning for years before Connor even entered graduate school. But Connor almost immediately saw the way forward and implemented it."
"Connor is the main force behind MIT's efforts in the area of machine learning and chemistry," adds MIT computer science professor Regina Barzilay, who is involved with the consortium. "He deeply understands both fields and comes up with creative ideas in their intersection."
Watch Coley speak at the American Chemical Society national meeting on Aug. 20 in Boston.
Credit: C&EN/ACS Productions
Current affiliation: MIT
Undergrad alma mater: Caltech
If I weren't a chemist, I would be: A lawyer. I was planning on going into law until partway through high school. I still like a good argument.
Hobby: Coley's one-bedroom apartment houses a "disproportionately large" indoor garden. "Along two walls we have a grow-light setup where we can grow a dozen heads of lettuce at a time. We have rosemary, sage, and a Meyer lemon tree."
Latest TV show binge-watched: "Westworld"
Walk-up song: "Loud Pipes" by Ratatat
Credit: Yang H. Ku/C&EN/Shutterstock
Coley uses chemical transformations in databases, such as Reaxys and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), to teach reactions to artificial intelligence systems. These intelligent machines can then suggest new molecules and how to make them.
Three key papers
"Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning"
(Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00087)
"Prediction of Organic Reaction Outcomes Using Machine Learning"
(ACS Cent. Sci. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00064)
"Material-Efficient Microfluidic Platform for Exploratory Studies of Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis"
(Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201705148)
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If I weren’t a chemist, I would be: A lawyer. I was planning on going into law until partway through high school. I still like a good argument.
Hobby: Coley’s one-bedroom apartment houses a “disproportionately large” indoor garden. “Along two walls we have a grow-light setup where we can grow a dozen heads of lettuce at a time. We have rosemary, sage, and a Meyer lemon tree.”
Latest TV show binge-watched: “Westworld”
Walk-up song: “Loud Pipes” by Ratatat
“Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning” (Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00087)
“Prediction of Organic Reaction Outcomes Using Machine Learning” (ACS Cent. Sci. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00064)
“Material-Efficient Microfluidic Platform for Exploratory Studies of Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis” (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2017, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201705148)
For Connor Coley, figuring out why things work the way they do is only half of science’s allure. The other half, he says, is figuring out how he can make them work better. His drive and curiosity led him to work on problems in structural biology, renewable processes for converting carbon dioxide to methanol, and fracking—all before he could legally buy beer. “I couldn’t figure out what I wasn’t interested in,” he jokes.
These days Coley’s interests still vary—so much so that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student divides his time between William H. Green’s molecular simulation lab and Klavs F. Jensen’s drug discovery lab. In just four years, he’s spearheaded a project in the white-hot field of machine learning, which Coley hopes to apply to chemical synthesis for drug discovery and development.
Machine learning aims to create artificial intelligence systems that make decisions with little intervention from people. Coley’s efforts in this arena have blossomed into a collaboration between MIT and eight drug industry partners, known as the Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical Discovery & Synthesis Consortium. While most other chemists working in the field of machine learning and chemical synthesis use rules devised by experts to guide their systems, Coley relies on reactions in databases, such as those in U.S. patent filings, to teach the computer what transformations will and won’t take place without being influenced by human bias.
Before Coley had even finished his second year of graduate school, he was using machine learning to predict the major products of many different types of chemical reactions, with the computer accurately predicting the correct reaction product 72% of the time. “Many smart chemists had worked on and thought about this problem for decades,” Green says. “Several other groups had been trying to solve it using machine learning for years before Connor even entered graduate school. But Connor almost immediately saw the way forward and implemented it.”
“Connor is the main force behind MIT’s efforts in the area of machine learning and chemistry,” adds MIT computer science professor Regina Barzilay, who is involved with the consortium. “He deeply understands both fields and comes up with creative ideas in their intersection.”
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Title: Connor Coley
Author: Bethany Halford
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At right, Archangel Attic volunteer Kathy Jacoby assists a customer at the parish thrift store next to St. Benedict Church in Anchorage April 8, 2019. (CNS photo/Ron Nicholl, Catholic Anchor)
By Rashae Ophus Johnson
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNS) — Of all the designer clothes, quirky conversation pieces and valuable antiques that have rotated through the thrift shop, Archangel Attic, maybe the greatest treasure to come from this modest Anchorage shop is the $1 million it has made for Lumen Christi High School in Anchorage.
Store manager Mary Manes initially was dubious last fall when her husband speculated that they’d probably raised over $1 million via the thrift shop, which along with the school is a ministry of St. Benedict Church in Anchorage.
“I said, ‘Nah, no way!’ So we looked into it and asked in the (parish) office, and realized how close we were to that goal,” Manes said. “It’s just amazing how much that little store generates.”
“They projected that they would achieve $1 million in February, and they were right on target,” said St. Benedict pastor Father Tom Lilly. “I was stunned. We get the cash bag each day with the proceeds of the day and lock it up to be deposited and that just quietly goes on without much notice.”
Operated entirely by a cadre of devoted volunteers, including many retired grandmas, the nonprofit has no overhead except utilities and thus gives 100 percent of income to the school. Father Lilly recognized 30-some past and present volunteers at a special banquet in April to celebrate the $1 million milestone and extraordinary contribution to the parish school.
The small plain building belies the curiosities inside. It originated as St. Juliana Church in Spenard, which in the 1960s was transported to its current location, where it was renamed and served as St. Benedict Church until the parish outgrew it. When the new St. Benedict Church opened on the same property in 1979, the old church building was utilized for religious education and youth gatherings and eventually was converted to the Rummage Room, a thrift store that was eventually abandoned until the Manes looked into reviving it around 2006.
“Whatever was donated was put out for sale; you couldn’t even move in there, it was so jam-packed,” Manes said, adding that there were bins of clothes and dressers and baskets everywhere.
Manes, an experienced thrift store volunteer, disposed of damaged items, donated much of the clutter, acquired new flooring and shelving sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and started merchandising.
The former church’s cry room is now the donation intake area; the old confessional is the business office; the sacristy stores out-of-season holiday items; and where the altar once stood is a display of assorted knickknacks. Customers occasionally point out the spot where they were married or their children were baptized.
For six years, Manes sustained Archangel Attic with limited volunteers and business hours, raising about $30,000 a year for the parish school.
Colleen Larson, then acting principal of Lumen Christi, said she could see the place was a gold mine, especially when the school’s parents were constantly fundraising.
“I thought if I could just get in there and help out, what we could do with it,” she said.
After filling in three years as Lumen Christi principal, Larson retired again and seized the opportunity to step up as Archangel Attic’s volunteer coordinator and co-manager. With additional volunteers, they extended the hours to include more evenings and Saturdays. The annual proceeds surged accordingly, reaching over six figures in recent years.
“I really liked the parish, and it was something to do. I wanted to make money for the school and make some friends,” she said. “It turned out to be a lot stronger mission.”
Larson and Manes, like their core volunteer staff, are motivated to serve the marginalized of society whether to provide affordable clothing and household goods or lend a compassionate ear during trying times. For clothing, which always is in high demand, they offer an ongoing deal to fill an eight-gallon bag to the limit for $20. Specific needs are mysteriously fulfilled though a phenomenon the volunteers refer to as “declaring it” — which is when customers say they are seeking a particular item that isn’t in stock and it is inexplicably donated within about a week.
“Our volunteers just seem to have the spiritual side of this down,” Larson reflected. “This ministry is like part of a divine plan; it always works out; it’s just blessed.”
Johnson writes for the Catholic Anchor, archdiocesan newspaper of Anchorage.
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Elements of criticism. The sixth edition. With the author’s last corrections and additions. ...
Transcribed: Element of Criticism Lord Henry Home Kames Volume 1 1/28/1792 2/1/1792
Letters on the manners of the French, and on the follies and extravagancies of the times. Written by an Indian at Paris.
Transcribed: Manners french Marquis Louis Antoine Caraccioli 2/1/1792 2/6/1792
The effusions of friendship and fancy, letters by J. Langhorne.
Transcribed: Effussions fancy John Langhorne Volume 1 2/6/1792 2/11/1792
The amicable Quixote; or, the enthusiasm of friendship. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Amicable Quixote Volume 1 2/11/1792 2/13/1792
Transcribed: " Volume 2 2/13/1792 2/14/1792
Ladys Library
Transcribed: Lady Library 2/14/1792 2/16/1792
Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late envoy extraordinary to the Court of Dresden ...
Transcribed: Chesterfield Letters Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield Volume 1 2/16/1792 2/21/1792
Transcribed: Cecilia Fanny Burney 2/21/1792 2/27/1792
The works of Henry Fielding, Esq;
Transcribed: Fielding Henry Fielding Volume 1 3/5/1792 3/8/1792
Transcribed: " Henry Fielding Volume 2 3/8/1792 3/10/1792
Transcribed: " Henry Fielding Volume 3 3/10/1792 3/13/1792
Transcribed: " Henry Fielding Volume 10 3/21/1792 3/31/1792
Transcribed: " Henry Fielding Volume 11 4/2/1792 4/7/1792
Transcribed: " Henry Fielding Volume 12 4/7/1792 4/16/1792
Transcribed: Field Henry Fielding Volume 8 4/18/1792 4/19/1792
The fair Syrian. A novel. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Fair Syrian Robert Bage 4/23/1792 5/4/1792
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By: Micah L. Sifry Jan 22, 2018
According to the research site Countlove.com, which scrapes news sites for reports of protests, in at least 105 cities across America, a thousand or more people turned out for a Women’s March this past weekend. Half a million came out in Los Angeles, roughly one of eight residents. As Matthew Yglesias of Vox noted, this is “the largest sustained mobilizations the country’s seen in decades,” and yet there’s been almost no coverage of how organizers have managed to create this juggernaut. Unfortunately, the mainstream media doesn’t (know how to) cover organizing.
The always-perceptive Henry Farrell has a big piece in Foreign Policy looking past the issues raised by Russia’s effort to influence the 2016 election, arguing that policymakers have to “start thinking about strengthening the system of democracy itself.” Along the way, he also shows how Facebook and Twitter’s refusal to explain how their systems actually work has made it harder for us to understand how much (or little) their systems were actually compromised by fake accounts—leading many Americans to further distrust everything they disagree with online.
Speaking of the threats to democracy in America, Twitter is emailing the 677,775 people in the United States that it says followed, liked, or retweeted an account that is has identified as a Russian troll connected to the Internet Research Agency. So far the company has identified more than 50,000 Russian linked accounts overall.
Related: A new academic study of political conversation on Twitter in 2016 finds a substantial proportion of both right- and left-leaning accounts were actually “paid trolls sitting side by side somewhere in St. Petersburg hate-quoting each other’s troll account, helping to shape divisive attitudes in the U.S. among actual Americans who think of the other side as a caricature of itself,” as Kate Starbird, one of the study’s authors, put it. The study specifically looked at nearly 3,000 accounts identified by Twitter as Russian trolls, and focused on how they participated in the conversations around the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter.
Over the weekend, the hashtag #SchumerShutdown became the top trending hashtag promoted by Russian bots monitored by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, #ReleasetheMemo, another hashtag that is associated with the claim that a secret memo written by Republican congressional officials proves bias in the Mueller investigation, was the second-highest.
Life in Facebookistan: Company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “asked our product teams to make sure we prioritize news that is trustworthy, informative, and local.” As usual, he’s refusing to admit that Facebook has editorial power and responsibilities, and thus have the company spend what it would take to pay humans to make those judgments, and instead says it will ask users whether they are familiar with and trust particular sources, and use that data to adjust the News Feed algorithm accordingly. “This update will not change the amount of news you see on Facebook, he writes. “It will only shift the balance of news you see towards sources that are determined to be trusted by the community.”
What is this mysterious “community,” you may ask? Scan this accompanying statement from Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s head of News Feed, and you will never see a definition of the term, even though he uses four times in less than 500 words.
“When Facebook first came to Cambodia, many hoped it would help to usher in a new period of free speech, amplifying voices that countered the narrative of the government-friendly traditional press. Instead, the opposite has happened,” Megha Rajagopalan reports for BuzzFeed. “Prime Minister Hun Sen is now using the platform to promote his message while jailing his critics, and his staff is doing its best to exploit Facebook’s own rules to shut down criticism—all through a direct relationship with the company’s staff.”
Future, forward: Don’t miss Steven Johnson’s long feature on the potential of blockchain tech in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. IMHO, he does a great job explaining what has gone wrong with the once-open web, but doesn’t quite prove that blockchain is the solution. Along the way, though, he points to some intriguing experiments in blockchain-based payment systems that may not replace state-fiat currencies but could usefully supplement them.
Here’s a good explainer on why mining Bitcoin and other blockchain-based currencies uses so much energy, from Nathaniel Popper in The New York Times.
This is civic tech: Former government technologists Hana Schank and Sara Hudson, now both at New America, explain in the Washington Post how and why tech fails so often in government.
Here’s an updated 2018 version of Microsoft Chicago’s guide to civic tech in the Windy City.
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The five cooperating cities in TRENDSETTER — Graz (Austria), Lille (France), Pecs (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic) and Stockholm (Sweden) — worked together to ameliorate urban air quality and reduce noise levels and congestion while supporting sustainable mobility and improving quality of life. By establishing examples of good practice, the five participating cities were able to show other cities the way towards sustainable mobility solutions.
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stimulating the use of public transportation through packages of measures that included new pricing strategies, bus priority systems, innovative information technologies, improved intermodal interchanges and transport demand systems;
improving efficiency in urban freight transportation through logistics and information provision;
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Stockholm’s environmental zone was enlarged and other cities were provided with best practice strategies to develop environmental zones; decrease emissions, noise and energy consumption; and increase acceptance of clean vehicles.
In Prague, access restriction zones for heavy vehicles of over 6 tonnes were enlarged and optimised. As a result, the emissions and noise decreased in the city, the energy consumption was reduced due to a shift of vehicle fleets towards cleaner and more efficient vehicles. Besides reducing emissions, noise and energy consumption, the expansion of access restriction zones contributed to making the city centre more attractive.
Four pedestrian zones were established in central Graz, improving quality of life in the city. Sustainable alternatives to the private car were promoted, including walking and cycling, and other cities were provided with best practice examples. This measure was complemented by an extensive marketing campaign.
A new car-free zone was established in Pecs, and the existing pedestrian area was extended. Plans for a bicycle route in the city centre were also prepared. These activities led to a reduction in the volume of traffic in the historical city centre, thereby reducing air pollution and noise.
A second measure implemented in Pecs focused on obtaining information about existing traffic conditions and the status of public transportation in the city centre. Based on this information, a new integrated strategy was prepared, covering parking management, traffic planning and the development of the public transportation system.
The city of Stockholm was helped to prepare its congestion-charging scheme and to demonstrate its potential to reduce the volume of traffic on the most frequented roads during peak hours. Besides reducing congestion and increasing accessibility, the measure promoted the use of public transportation and provided other cities with best practice strategies. Research and studies were carried out on the design of the congestion charge zone and possible technical systems.
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In terms of quantitative results, the reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide was calculated as approximately 57,000 tonnes a year as a result of the project. The reduction in emissions of nitrogen oxide was calculated as 315 tonnes a year. In terms of indirect effects, the actual reduction is likely to be far bigger, at around 900 tonnes a year. The reduction in emissions of particulate matter was calculated at 50 tonnes a year, and energy savings in TRENDSETTER cities totalled over 250 TJ a year.
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US Freezes Maduro Gov’t Assets as P2P Bitcoin Volume Soars in Venezuela
In a major escalation against socialist president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets.
In a major escalation against socialist president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets
The United States’ hawkish move has been reflected in a new all-time-high for peer-to-peer trading volume on LocalBitcoins in the country.
Trump takes on the “usurper”
As the Associated Press (AP) reported on August 5, the U.S. administration’s action took immediate effect this Monday, with President Trump citing Maduro’s ongoing “usurpation” of power — as well as human rights abuses by his supporters — as the grounds for the decision.
Even ahead of yesterday’s strident move, Venezuela has been weathering ruinous economic turmoil sparked by its political crisis. Multiple countries — including the U.S. — consider Maduro’s last election victory to have been fraudulent and support Venezuela’s opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido’s attempts to dislodge him from power.
While the administration’s decision has stopped short of a full trade embargo, the restrictions resemble the U.S.’ actions against staunch opponents such as Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea, as AP reports.
Trump’s executive order prohibits U.S. citizens from engaging in transactions with any Maduro or government supporters and also prohibits the latter from travelling to the U.S.
The order excludes most private sector transactions as well as the delivery of essential humanitarian aid. Previous sanctions had targeted Venezuela’s oil industry as well as high-level government insiders.
Bitcoin in turbulent times
Amid the stand-off, Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will notably today represent the U.S. at the International Conference for Democracy in Venezuela, hosted in the Peruvian capital, Lima.
At this unprecedented fraught moment in U.S.-Venezuelan relations, weekly trading volume for Bitcoin (BTC) against the Venezuelan Bolivar on peer-to-peer site LocalBitcoins has posted a new all-time high, as Coin Dance data reveals.
Weekly volume for Bitcoin against the Venezuelan Bolivar. Source: coin.dance
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David Holmes said : "The first thing I heard is her screaming, I could see the shark's tail thrashing in the water and knew it was biting her”. Sources have told Australia’s 9 News that the same shark was behind a second attack three weeks ago. Miah Holmes was on North West Island in Australia when she was bitten three times on the leg (Image: 9 News) Read More Related Articles Read More Related Articles The victim has reportedly been barred from the island for provoking the beast. Mr Holmes added: "
dailystar Friday, January 17, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "The first thing I heard is her screaming, I could see the shark's tail thrashing in the water and knew it was biting her,"
9news Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:44:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "The actions of people and doing what they do there has impacted on our seven-year-old daughter,"
David Holmes said : “Research from the CSIRO shows the storm tracks that used to come from the Southern Ocean aren't reaching as far and this could be impacting the Sydney region,”
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David Holmes said : “President Zelensky had received a letter — congratulatory letter from the president saying he’d be pleased to meet him following his inauguration in May and we hadn’t been able to get that meeting and then the security hold came up with no explanation,”
WashingtonPost Monday, December 23, 2019 10:16:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "The official said the order had come from the president and had been conveyed to OMB by Mr Mulvaney with no further explanation,"
ClassFMGhana Friday, December 20, 2019 8:17:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "When the president came on, [Sondland] sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear like this,"
David Holmes said : "I became aware that Mr Giuliani, a private lawyer, was taking a direct role in Ukrainian diplomacy,"
David Holmes said : “It is a more complex than usual case. We have to carry on through our own forensic examiner in relation to the properties”
thecourier Sunday, December 15, 2019 2:45:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “Ambassador Sondland advised the president to ‘let him get sentenced, play the racism card, give him a ticker tape [parade] when he comes home,'”
ChinaPost Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:43:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “Ambassador Sondland said he loves your ass,”
usaToday Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:21:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "will do 'anything you ask him to,'"
news-yahoo Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:59:00 PM EAT
usaToday Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:38:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “Zelensky had received a letter, a congratulatory letter from the president saying he would be pleased to meet him following his inauguration in May,”
WashingtonPost Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:06:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “Although the hold on the security assistance may have been lifted, there were still things they wanted that they weren’t getting, including a meeting with the president in the Oval Office,”
news-yahoo Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:02:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "over the following months, it became apparent that Mr. Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the three amigos were executing on the ground in Ukraine"
messenger-inquirer Monday, December 2, 2019 10:21:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "over the following months, it became apparent that Mr Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the three amigos were executing on the ground in Ukraine"
nzherald Sunday, December 1, 2019 10:27:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : “over the following months, it became apparent that Mr. Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the three amigos were executing on the ground in Ukraine”
oregonlive Sunday, December 1, 2019 9:19:00 PM EAT
seattletimes Sunday, December 1, 2019 6:14:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : ”over the following months, it became apparent that Mr. Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the three amigos were executing on the ground in Presidents have often used back channels to facilitate foreign policy and leverage U.S. resources to achieve their policy goals, experts say. The difference is that Trump’s approach, as outlined in the impeachment inquiry, appears to be mobilizing U.S. policy and resource for personal political gain. The Ukrainian matter is but one way the foreign policy landscape has shifted dramatically in the Trump era. As the White House pursues an “America First”
washtimes Sunday, December 1, 2019 5:24:00 PM EAT
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David Holmes testified : “I heard President Trump ask, ‘So, he’s going to do the investigation?’ Ambassador Sondland replied that ‘he’s going to do it,’ adding that President Zelensky will do ‘anything you ask him to,’”
news-yahoo Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:45:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : "I've never seen anything like this, someone calling the President from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language,"
news-yahoo Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:22:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : "Although the hold on the security assistance may have been lifted, there were still things they wanted that they weren't getting, including a meeting with the president in the Oval Office,"
news-yahoo Monday, November 25, 2019 3:34:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Marie Yovanovitch ) : "in retaliation, Mr. Lutsenko made a series of unsupported allegations against Ambassador Yovanovitch,"
ABCnews Monday, November 25, 2019 1:16:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : “I then heard President Trump ask, so, he is going to do the investigation? Ambassador Sondland replied that he is going to do it, adding that President Zelensky will do anything you ask him to do,”
fox59 Sunday, November 24, 2019 11:42:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "Frankly, he withstood a lot of pressure for a very long time, and he didn't give that interview,"
news-yahoo Sunday, November 24, 2019 4:07:00 AM EAT
news-yahoo Saturday, November 23, 2019 4:54:00 PM EAT
David Holmes added ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : “Specifically, the three priorities of security, economy and justice and our support for Ukrainian democratic resistance to Russian aggression became overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a discreet channel to the White House,” “That change began with the emergence of press reports critical of Yovanovitch”
David Holmes : “At first, the lunch was largely social. Ambassador Sondland selected a bottle of wine that we shared among the four of us, and we discussed topics such as marketing strategies for his hotel business. During the lunch, Ambassador Sondland said that he was going to call President Trump to give him an update. Ambassador Sondland placed a call on his mobile phone, and I heard him announce himself several times”
David Holmes : “When the president came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear, like this. And he did that for the first couple of exchanges. I don't know if he then turned the volume down, if he got used to it, if the president moderated his volume, I don't know. But that's how I was able to hear it”
David Holmes ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “Ambassador Sondland replied, yes, he was in Ukraine and went on to state that President Zelenskiy, quote, unquote, loves your ass”
David Holmes : “I then heard President Trump ask, quote, ‘So he’s going to do the investigation?’ unquote. Ambassador Sondland replied that, ‘He’s going to do it,’ adding that President Zelenskiy will, quote ‘do anything you ask him to.’”
David Holmes : “Ambassador Sondland stated that the president only cares about ‘big stuff.’ I noted that there was big stuff going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia. And Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president, like the Biden investigation that Mr. Giuliani was pushing”
David Holmes ( about Mike Mulvaney ) : “An Office of Management and Budget staff member surprisingly announced the hold on Ukraine security assistance near the end of a two-hour meeting. The official said that the order had come from the president and had been conveyed to OMB by Mr. Mulvaney without further explanation”
thedailybeast Saturday, November 23, 2019 8:00:00 AM EAT
CBSnews Saturday, November 23, 2019 2:14:00 AM EAT
news-yahoo Saturday, November 23, 2019 1:43:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified : “I came to realize I had firsthand knowledge regarding the events on July 26 that had not otherwise been reported,”
David Holmes said ( about Sir ) : “Sir, we’ve been hearing about the investigations since March — months before [the July 25 call] — and President Zelensky had received a congratulatory letter from the president saying he would be pleased to meet him following his inauguration in May,”
David Holmes said : “They still need us now, going forward,”
WashingtonPost Friday, November 22, 2019 11:39:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "They still need us now, going forward,"
beaumontenterprise Friday, November 22, 2019 9:24:00 PM EAT
WashingtonPost Friday, November 22, 2019 9:21:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “President Zelensky had received a congratulatory letter from the president saying he would be pleased to meet him following his inauguration in May,” “And we had been unable to get that meeting. And then the security hold came up with no explanation”
David Holmes said : "A White House visit was critical to President Zelensky (because he) needed to show U.S. support at the highest levels in order to demonstrate to Russian President (Vladimir) Putin that he had U.S. backing, as well as to advance his ambitious anti-corruption reforms at home," "We at the embassy also believed that a meeting was critical ... and we worked hard to get it arranged"
news-yahoo Friday, November 22, 2019 9:07:00 PM EAT
David Holmes told : "was not prepared to show the level of support for the Zelensky administration that we had originally anticipated,"
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "Over the following months, it became apparent that Mr. Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda ... in Ukraine,"
David Holmes said ( about President Putin ) : “President Zelensky needed to show U.S. support at the highest levels in order to demonstrate to Russian President Putin that he had U.S. backing, as well as to advance his ambitious anticorruption reform agenda at home,”
msn-uk Friday, November 22, 2019 12:36:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "He [Sondland] said he really doesn’t care about Ukraine... he says he cares about big stuff. I asked him what kind of big stuff...war with Russia? He said no, big stuff like the Biden investigation that Mr Giuliani’s pushing,"
mid-day Friday, November 22, 2019 8:54:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Joseph Biden ) : "This was a very distinctive experience... someone at a lunch... making a call on his cell phone to the president of the United States... they were directly addressing something that I had been working on for weeks and months... here he is actually having that contact. Hearing the president’s voice and hearing them talk about this Biden investigation issue that I’d been hearing about,"
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : "went on to state that President Zelensky 'loves your ass.' I then heard President Trump ask, 'So, he's gonna do the investigation?'"
abs-cbnnews Friday, November 22, 2019 6:59:00 AM EAT
David Holmes ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : “Specifically, the three priorities of security, economy, and justice, and our support for Ukrainian democratic resistance to Russian aggression, became overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the White House”
nytimes Friday, November 22, 2019 6:13:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "I became aware Mr Giuliani, a private lawyer, was taking a direct role in Ukrainian diplomacy,"
theage Friday, November 22, 2019 5:55:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : “When the president came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear,”
latimes Friday, November 22, 2019 4:31:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : “I think they’re being very careful. They still need us now,”
news-yahoo Friday, November 22, 2019 4:25:00 AM EAT
fox59 Friday, November 22, 2019 4:21:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Hunter Biden ) : "Ambassador Sondland stated the president only cares about big stuff. I noted there was big stuff going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia, and Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president, like the Biden investigation that Mr. Guiliani was pushing,"
koaa Friday, November 22, 2019 3:51:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : "Our support for Ukrainian democratic resistance to Russian aggression became overshadowed by a political agenda being promoted by former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani,"
wftv Friday, November 22, 2019 3:26:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : "I then heard President Trump say, ‘so he's gonna do the investigation?'" "My clear impression was that the security assistance hold was likely intended by the president either as an expression of dissatisfaction that the Ukrainians had not yet agreed to the Burisma/Biden investigation or as an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so"
David Holmes said : “That’s how I was able to hear,”
thehill Friday, November 22, 2019 3:00:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Hunter Biden ) : “was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition for an Oval Office meeting,”
nbcnews Friday, November 22, 2019 2:17:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Hunter Biden ) : "by this point, however, my clear impression was that the security assistance hold was likely intended by the president either as an expression of dissatisfaction that the Ukrainians had not yet agreed to the Burisma/Biden investigation or as an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so"
David Holmes testified : “Yermak did not answer, but shrugged in resignation as if to indicate they had no choice. In short, everyone thought there was going to be an interview, and that the Ukrainians believed they had to do it,”
David Holmes testified : "September 13, an Embassy colleague received a phone call from a colleague who worked for Ambassador Sondland," "My Embassy colleague texted me regarding the call that, 'Sondland said the [Zelenskiy] interview is supposed to be today or Monday [Sept 16] and they plan to announce that a certain investigation that was 'on hold' will progress"
David Holmes testified ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : “My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, 'Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and f---s everything up.'”
france24-en Friday, November 22, 2019 2:07:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : “Although the hold on the security assistance may have been lifted, there were still things they wanted that they weren’t getting, including a meeting with the President in the Oval Office,” “Whether the security assistance hold continued or not, the Ukrainians understood that that’s something the President wanted, and they still wanted important things from the President”
fox5sandiego Friday, November 22, 2019 2:06:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : “I came to realize I had first-hand knowledge regarding certain events on July 26 that had not otherwise been reported, and that those events potentially bore on the question of whether the President did, in fact, have knowledge that those senior officials were using the levers of our diplomatic power to induce the new Ukrainian President to announce the opening of a criminal investigation against President Trump’s political opponent,”
David Holmes said : “I heard President Trump then clarify that Ambassador Sondland was in Ukraine,”
David Holmes added : “Ambassador Sondland replied, yes, he was in Ukraine, and went on to state that President Zelensky ‘loves your ass.’ I then heard President Trump ask, ‘So, he’s gonna do the investigation?’ Ambassador Sondland replied that ‘he’s gonna do it,’ adding that President Zelensky will do ‘anything you ask him to.’”
David Holmes said : “In particular, I asked Ambassador Sondland if it was true that the president did not give an expletive about Ukraine,” “Ambassador Sondland agreed that the president did not give an expletive about Ukraine. I asked, ‘Why not?’ Ambassador Sondland stated that the president only cares about big stuff. I noted there was big stuff going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia. Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president, like the Biden investigation that Mr. Giuliani was pushing”
David Holmes said : “Zelensky had received a letter, a congratulatory letter from the president saying he would be pleased to meet him following his inauguration in May,” “We hadn’t been to able to get that meeting — and then the security hold came up with no explanation. And I’d be surprised if any of the Ukrainians — you said earlier, we discussed earlier, you know, sophisticated people — when they received no explanation for why that hold was in place, they wouldn’t have drawn that conclusion”
David Holmes testified : “I think the Ukrainians gradually came to understand that they were being asked to do something in exchange for the meeting and the security assistance hold being lifted,”
David Holmes told ( about Donald Trump ) : "The president did, in fact, have knowledge that those senior officials were using the levers of our diplomatic power to induce the new Ukranian president to announce the opening of a criminal investigation against Trump's political opponent,"
aljazeera-en Friday, November 22, 2019 1:48:00 AM EAT
David Holmes told ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "Ambassador Sondland and Mr Yermak had insisted that the meeting be one-on-one, with no note-taker,"
David Holmes testified : "So, he's gonna do the investigation?"
David Holmes testified ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "said 'yes,' I'm here in Ukraine and then Ambassador Sondland said 'he loves your ass. He'll do anything you want. He's going to do the investigation,'"
ABCnews Friday, November 22, 2019 1:35:00 AM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Rick Perry ) : "Embassy personnel were excluded from these later meetings by Secretary Perry's staff,"
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : "The President's voice was loud and recognizable,"
David Holmes added : “Ambassador Sondland replied, 'he's going to do it,'”
David Holmes recalled ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "the president's voice was very loud and recognisable, and Ambassador Sondland held the phone away from his ear for a period of time, presumably because of the loud volume"
heart Friday, November 22, 2019 1:24:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "I asked why not, and Ambassador Sondland stated the president only cares about 'big stuff'"
David Holmes said : "I am an apolitical foreign policy professional, and my job is to focus on the politics of the country in which I serve so that we can better understand the local landscape and better advance U.S. national interests there,"
CBSnews Friday, November 22, 2019 1:14:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : "In fact, at one point during a preliminary meeting of the inauguration delegation, someone wondered aloud about why Mr. Giuliani was so active in the media with respect to Ukraine,"
David Holmes said : "My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, 'Damn it, Rudy. Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and f---s everything up.'"
David Holmes testified ( about President Trump ) : "During the meeting, President Zelensky stated that during the July 25 call, President Trump had 'three times' raised 'some very sensitive issues,' and that he would have to follow up on those issues when he and President Trump met 'in person,'" "Not having received a readout of the July 25 call, I did not know what those sensitive issues were"
David Holmes said : "I then heard President Trump ask, 'So, he's gonna do the investigation?' Ambassador Sondland replied that 'he's gonna do it,' adding that President Zelensky will do 'anything you ask him to,'"
David Holmes said : "When the president came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear,"
David Holmes said : "When they received no explanation for why that hold was in place, they would have drawn that conclusion,"
David Holmes said : "Sir, I think it was Gordon Sondland who showed indiscretion by having that conversation over a public phone line,"
kiro7 Friday, November 22, 2019 1:08:00 AM EAT
David Holmes said : "I've never seen anything like this, someone calling the President from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language,"
David Holmes said : “It was quite loud. The person who came on was quite distinctive,”
David Holmes said : “I’ve never seen anything like this in my foreign service career,”
actionnewsjax Friday, November 22, 2019 12:59:00 AM EAT
wsoctv Friday, November 22, 2019 12:45:00 AM EAT
skynews Friday, November 22, 2019 12:30:00 AM EAT
news-yahoo Friday, November 22, 2019 12:23:00 AM EAT
nytimes Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:47:00 PM EAT
David Holmes testified ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "It became apparent that Mr. Giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the three amigos were executing on the ground in Ukraine,"
news-yahoo Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:28:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "They still need us now going forward ... He needs our support,"
CBSnews Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:28:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : "I came to realize I had first-hand knowledge regarding certain events on July 26 that had not otherwise been reported, and that those events potentially bore on the question of whether the president did, in fact, have knowledge that those senior officials were using the levers of our diplomatic power to induce the new Ukrainian president to announce the opening of a criminal investigation against President Trump's political opponent,"
David Holmes said : "My clear impression was that the security assistance hold was likely intended by the president either as an expression of dissatisfaction that the Ukrainians had not yet agreed to the Burisma/Biden investigation or as an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so,"
David Holmes said : "after significant press coverage and bipartisan congressional expressions of concern about the withholding of security assistance,"
David Holmes noted ( about Danny Cowart ) : "Although we knew the hold was lifted, we were still concerned that President Zelensky had committed, in exchange for the lifting, to give the requested CNN interview," "We had several indications that the interview would occur"
David Holmes testified : "Ambassador Taylor again stressed the importance of staying out of U.S. politics and said he hoped no interview was planned. Mr. Yermak did not answer, but shrugged in resignation as if to indicate they had no choice. In short, everyone thought there was going to be an interview, and that the Ukrainians believed they had to do it. The interview ultimately did not occur,"
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "In particular, I asked Ambassador Sondland if it was true that the president did not 'give a s--t about Ukraine.' Ambassador Sondland agreed that the president did not 'give a s--t about Ukraine.' I asked why not, and Ambassador Sondland stated that the President only cares about 'big stuff,'"
David Holmes said : "So, he's gonna do the investigation?"
nbcnews Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:21:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "Did I go through every single word in the call?" "No, because everyone by that point agreed. It was obvious what the president was pressing for"
thehill Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:09:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "Over the following months, it became apparent that Mr. Giuliani had a direct influence on the policy that the three amigos (Sondland, Rick Perry, and Kirk Volker) were executing on the ground in Ukraine,"
actionnewsjax Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:45:00 PM EAT
David Holmes ( about Bob Mueller ) : "I'm not aware that Bob Mueller did not find it credible,"
David Holmes stated ( about President Trump ) : "I then heard President Trump ask, 'So he's going to do the investigation?'"
timesofindia Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:15:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "I heard Ambassador Sondland greet the President and explain that he was calling from Kyiv. I heard President Trump then clarify that Ambassador Sondland was in Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland replied, yes, he was in Ukraine, and went on to state that President Zelenskyy “loves your ass”. I then heard President Trump ask, “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” Ambassador Sondland replied that “he’s gonna do it,” adding that President Zelenskyy will do “anything you ask him to”. Even though I did not take notes of these statements, I have a clear recollection that these statements were made. I believe that my colleagues who were sitting at the table also knew that Ambassador Sondland was speaking with the President"
nbcdfw Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:03:00 PM EAT
dailyadvertiser Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:58:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the White House,”
aa-en Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:58:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "I heard him announce himself several times, along the lines of 'Gordan Sondland holding for the president,'"
foxnews Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:55:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : "I heard President Trump then clarify that Ambassador Sondland was in Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland replied, yes, he was in Ukraine, and went on to state that President Zelensky 'loves your ass.' I then heard President Trump ask, 'So, he’s gonna do the investigation?' Ambassador Sondland replied that 'he’s gonna do it,' adding that President Zelensky will do 'anything you ask him to do.'"
David Holmes testified ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "The conversation then shifted to Ambassador Sondland’s efforts, on behalf of the president, to assist a rapper who was jailed in Sweden, and I could only hear Ambassador Sondland’s side of the conversation,"
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : "In particular, I asked Ambassador Sondland if it was true that the president did not 'give an expletive about Ukraine.' Ambassador Sondland agreed that the president did not 'give an expletive about Ukraine.' I asked why not, and Ambassador Sondland stated that the president only cares about 'big stuff.' I noted that there was 'big stuff' going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia, and Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant 'big stuff' that benefits the president, like the 'Biden investigation' that Mr. Giuliani was pushing"
illawarramercury Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:44:00 PM EAT
nbcbayarea Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:34:00 PM EAT
David Holmes added : "Giuliani and others made a number of public statements critical of Ambassador Yovanovitch, questioning her integrity and calling for her removal," "Giuliani was also making frequent public statements pushing for Ukraine to investigate interference in the 2016 election and issues related to Burisma and the Bidens"
upi Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:17:00 PM EAT
nytimes Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:09:00 PM EAT
yahoo-au Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:03:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “I could hear the president's voice through the earpiece of the phone. The president's voice was very loud and recognizable, and Ambassador Sondland held the phone away from his ear for a period of time, presumably because of the loud volume,”
ibtimes Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:02:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Marie Yovanovitch ) : "The barrage of allegations directed at Ambassador Yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything I have seen in my professional career,"
David Holmes said ( about Rudolph Giuliani ) : "I became aware that Mr. Giuliani, a private lawyer, was taking a direct role in Ukrainian diplomacy,"
iol Thursday, November 21, 2019 8:19:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “Ambassador Sondland told the president that the rapper was ‘kind of f—ed there’ and ‘should have pled guilty,'” “He recommended that the president ‘wait until after the sentencing, or it will only make it worse,’ and he added that the president should let him get sentenced, play the racism card, give him a ticker tape when he comes home”
nypost Thursday, November 21, 2019 8:16:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “Although Ambassador Sondland’s phone was not on speakerphone, I could hear the president’s voice through the earpiece of the phone,”
David Holmes said : “In mid-March 2019, an embassy colleague learned that Mr. Lutsenko had complained that Ambassador Yovanovitch had, quote, ‘destroyed him’ with her refusal to support him until he followed through with his reform commitments and ceased using his position for personal gain,” “In retaliation, Mr. Lutsenko made a series of allegations, mostly suggesting that Ambassador Yovanovitch improperly used the embassy to advance the political interests of the Democratic Party”
trust Thursday, November 21, 2019 8:06:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Mick Mulvaney ) : "The official said the order had come from the president and had been conveyed to OMB by Mr. Mulvaney with no further explanation,"
David Holmes told : “I came to realize I had firsthand knowledge regarding certain events on July 26 that had not otherwise been reported,”
news-yahoo Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:56:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about Gordon Sondland ) : “The president’s voice was very loud and recognizable, and Ambassador Sondland held the phone away from his ear for a period of time, presumably because of the loud volume,”
David Holmes said : “Ambassador Sondland agreed that the President did not ‘give a s--t about Ukraine.’ I asked why not, and Ambassador Sondland stated that the President only cares about ‘big stuff,’” “Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant ‘big stuff’ that benefits the president, like the ‘Biden investigation’ that [Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy] Giuliani was pushing”
David Holmes said ( about President Trump ) : “While we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that President Zelensky personally commit, on a cable news channel, to a specific investigation of President Trump’s political rival,”
actionnewsjax Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:39:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “This was an extremely distinctive experience in my Foreign Service career,”
fox2now Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:30:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said ( about President Putin ) : “President Zelensky needed to show U.S. support at the highest levels in order to demonstrate to Russian President Putin that he had U.S. backing, as well as to advance his ambitious anti-corruption reforms at home,”
thehill Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:17:00 PM EAT
David Holmes said : “Even though I did not take notes of these statements, I have a clear recollection that these statements were made,”
David Holmes testified : “This was a very distinctive experience. I’ve never seen anything like this in my foreign service career. Someone at a lunch in a restaurant making a call on a cellphone to the president of the United States,”
David Holmes said : “Very colorful language was used. They were directly addressing something I had been wondering about, working on for weeks and even months, a topic that had led to the recall of my former boss, the former ambassador,”
David Holmes raconté : "J'ai entendu le président Trump demander: 'alors, il va lancer l'enquête?'. L'ambassadeur Sondland a répondu: 'il va le faire', ajoutant que le président Zelensky ferait 'tout ce que vous lui demandez'"
lexpress Wednesday, November 20, 2019 2:54:00 PM EAT
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William Taylor 1.53%
Mitch McConnell 1.53%
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Jennifer Williams 1.33%
George Kent 1.33%
Laura Cooper 1.33%
Catherine Croft 1.33%
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Christopher Andersen 1.23%
Philip Reeker 1.23%
Michael McKinley 1.23%
Rudolph Giuliani 1.23%
Nancy Pelosi 1.12%
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John Roberts 0.92%
John Bolton 0.82%
Charles Schumer 0.82%
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Eric Swalwell said ( about David Holmes ) : "In that (Holmes) statement that was released there was a lot to be concerned about, particularly that more witnesses described the president's obsession with investigating his political opponents,"
trust2 Thursday, December 12, 2019 7:18:00 AM EAT
Gordon Sondland ( about David Holmes ) : “The only part of Mr. Holmes' recounting that I take exception with is I do not recall mentioning the Bidens. That did not enter my mind. It was Burisma and 2016 elections”
Jim Jordan said ( about David Holmes ) : "Maybe Mr. Holmes, the takeaway was he thought it was no big deal because he already knew!"
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Author: Hon A/Prof Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1999. Updated by Dr Amanda Oakley; Hon A/Prof Marius Rademaker, February 2016.
Isotretinoin — codes and concepts
13-cis-retinoic acid, Accutane, Roaccutane
Treatment or procedure
Use of isotretinoin in dermatology, Mechanism of action of isotretinoin, Side effects and monitoring of isotretinoin, Isotretinoin fetal syndrome
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LD2F.0Y
SNOMED CT:
387208003, 38314008, 428131004, 723947007, 292669009, 4294646002
What is isotretinoin?
Isotretinoin (13-cis retinoic acid) is a vitamin-A derivative (retinoid). The liver naturally makes small quantities of isotretinoin from vitamin-A, but the drug we prescribe is made synthetically.
Isotretinoin was developed in the 1950s, but only started being used in the mid 1970s. The original brand names were Accutane® and Roaccutane®, but there are now many generic versions on the market, of varying potency. In New Zealand, oral isotretinoin is available as 5 mg, 10 mg and 20 mg capsules (Oratane® brand). It is funded by PHARMAC on Special Authority application.
What is isotretinoin used for?
Isotretinoin is a very effective medication for the treatment of acne. Originally licensed for use in severe disease, it is increasingly prescribed for all grades of acne.
Isotretinoin is also useful for other follicular conditions, such as:
Seborrhoea
Scalp folliculitis.
It is also prescribed off-label for many other skin diseases. Examples include:
Discoid lupus erythematosus
Grover disease
Extensive actinic keratoses
Prevention of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
It has also been used as an adjuvant in neuroblastoma.
Contraindications to isotretinoin
Isotretinoin must not be taken in pregnancy, or if there is a significant risk of pregnancy.
Blood donation by males and females on isotretinoin is not allowed in case the blood is used for a pregnant woman.
Precautions when taking isotretinoin
Isotretinoin should be used with caution during breastfeeding.
Commercial pilots may be subject to flying restrictions if they take isotretinoin.
High dose isotretinoin in very young children has been associated with premature epiphyseal closure, leading to shorter stature (this is not seen in the low dose used for the treatment of acne).
How does isotretinoin work?
In acne, isotretinoin:
Reduces sebum production
Shrinks the sebaceous glands
Reduces follicular occlusion
Inhibits the growth of bacteria
Has anti-inflammatory properties.
What is the usual dose of isotretinoin?
The range of doses used each day for acne is less than 0.1 to over 1 mg/kg body weight. Some patients may only need a small dose once or twice a week. A course of treatment may be completed in a few months or continue for several years. For acne, some prescribers have targeted a total cumulative dose of 120–140 mg/kg, in the hope of reducing relapse, but the evidence for this remains controversial. The general trend has been to use lower dosages, unrelated to body weight (eg, 10 mg/day).
The individual dose prescribed by the dermatologist depends on:
Prescriber preference
Patient body weight
The specific condition being treated
The severity of the skin condition
Response to treatment
Other treatment used at the same time
Side effects experienced.
Isotretinoin is better taken with water or milk after food to help with its absorption. It may be taken on an empty stomach, but absorption may be halved. There is no particular advantage in splitting the dose over the day. A newer formulation (isotretinoin-lidose) can be taken without food.
For how long is isotretinoin taken?
Most patients should be treated until their skin condition clears and then for a further few months. However, courses have often been restricted to 16–30 weeks (4–7 months) to minimise the risk of teratogenicity (risk of congenital abnormalities), and to comply with local regulatory authorities. Isotretinoin may be prescribed for years, usually in low dose or intermittently.
Drug interactions with isotretinoin
Care should be taken with the following medications:
Vitamin-A (retinoic acid): side effects are cumulative and could be severe. Beta-carotene (provitamin-A) is permitted.
Tetracyclines (including doxycycline, minocycline): these could increase the risk of headaches and blurred vision due to raised intracranial pressure.
Warfarin: monitor INR carefully.
What are the side effects and risks of isotretinoin?
The side effects of isotretinoin are dose dependent; at 1 mg/kg/day, nearly all patients will have some side effects, whereas, at 0.1 mg/kg/day, most patients will not. The range and severity of the side effects also depend on personal factors and the disease being treated.
Patients with significant liver or kidney disease, high blood fats, diabetes and depression may be advised not to take isotretinoin or to be on a lower dose than usual and to have regular follow-up visits.
Cutaneous and mucocutaneous side effects
Most of the side effects due to isotretinoin are cutaneous or mucocutaneous and relate to the mode of action of the drug. The most common are listed here. When side effects are troublesome, isotretinoin may need to be withheld or the dose reduced.
Acne flare-up (particularly if starting dose is > 0.5 mg/kg/day)
Dry lips, cheilitis (sore, cracked or scaly lips) (100% of patients on 1 mg/kg/day)
Dry skin, fragile skin, eczema/dermatitis (itchy, red patches of skin). Note: atopic eczema may improve.
Dry nostrils, epistaxis (nose bleeds)
Dry, watery or irritable eyes (especially in contact lens wearers), conjunctivitis, keratitis
Dry anal mucosa, bleeding at the time of a bowel motion
Dry genitals, dyspareunia (discomfort during intercourse)
Facial erythema
Sunburn on exposure to the sun
Temporary hair loss
Pyogenic granuloma
Skin infections: impetigo, acute paronychia
Cutaneous adverse effects of isotretinoin
Acne flare
Granulomas
Cheilitis
Treatment of mucocutaneous side effects
Reduce the dosage (eg, to 5–10 mg/day)
Emollients, lip balm, petroleum jelly, sunscreen, eye drops and lubricants should be applied frequently and liberally when needed
Dermatitis can be treated with topical steroids
Take short, cool showers without using soap
Use mild or diluted shampoo
Do not start wearing contact lenses for the first time
Do not have elective eye surgery while on isotretinoin or for 6 months afterwards.
Do not have mechanical dermabrasion or ablative laser treatments (eg, CO2 resurfacing) while on isotretinoin or for 6 months afterwards. Other laser and light treatments may be performed with care
Shave rather than wax
Topical and/or oral antibiotics may be prescribed for impetigo
Other dose-related side effects of isotretinoin
Myalgia (muscle aches) and arthralgia (joint aches), especially after exercise
Tiredness (lethargy and drowsiness)
Disturbed night vision and slow adaptation to the dark. Drivers may experience increased glare from car headlights at night
Hypertriglyceridaemia (high levels of triglyceride in the blood), usually of no clinical relevance
Irregular or heavy menstrual periods
Rare side effects of isotretinoin
The causality of the listed side effects may not have been confirmed.
Severe headache with blurred vision due to raised intracranial pressure
Mood changes and depression. Note: depression is more often related to the skin condition being treated or other health or psychosocial problems. Antidepressant medications may be helpful
Corneal opacities and cataracts
High-tone deafness
Accelerated diffuse interstitial skeletal hyperostosis (bony change)
Abnormal liver function tests or symptomatic hepatitis
Diarrhoea or bleeding from the bowel
Allergy to isotretinoin causing liver disease and a febrile illness
Treatment of systemic side effects
Drink minimal alcohol
Take paracetamol for headache and for mild aches and pains
Seek medical attention early, if unwell
Monitoring isotretinoin
Pregnancy must be excluded before and during treatment with isotretinoin
In an otherwise healthy individual, blood tests are generally not needed, but monitoring may be a variable prescribing requirement in some countries. If using high dose isotretinoin (1 mg/kg/day), a prolonged course (> 12 months), or if a patient has specific risk factors (eg, family history of dyslipidaemia, viral hepatitis, or high alcohol intake), these tests are indicated prior to treatment and at intervals.
Cholesterol and triglyceride levels
Blood count.
Contraception in females considering isotretinoin
Isotretinoin must not be taken in pregnancy because of a very high risk of serious congenital abnormalities in the baby. Caution needs to be used during breast-feeding as it enters the breast milk and might affect the baby.
All females who could biologically have a child should take the following precautions during treatment with isotretinoin and for four weeks after the medication has been discontinued:
Abstinence. The most reliable method of avoiding pregnancy is not to have sex. No method of contraception is completely reliable. "Natural" family planning is particularly risky.
If sexually active, two reliable methods of contraception should be used. Discuss contraception with your doctor (general practitioner, family planning specialist, gynaecologist or dermatologist). The combined oral contraceptive, IUD (intrauterine device), a progesterone implant, or medroxyprogesterone injection may be suitable.
The low-dose progesterone mini-pill on its own is not recommended.
A prescription for emergency contraception may be available from a medical practitioner (GP or family planning clinic) or accredited pharmacy. It prevents 85% of pregnancies if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sexual intercourse.
If contraception fails, termination of pregnancy (an abortion) may be advised if pregnancy arises during treatment with isotretinoin or within a month of discontinuing it.
What happens if a pregnant woman takes isotretinoin?
Isotretinoin has a very high chance of resulting in a spontaneous miscarriage or a severe birth deformity if a fetus is exposed to it during the first half of pregnancy. The deformities affect the growth of tissues developing at the time of exposure to the drug:
Cranium (skull and brain)
Cardiac (heart)
Eye, ear
Limbs.
No contraceptive precautions are necessary for men
Isotretinoin has no effect on sperm or male fertility and has not been shown to cause birth defects in children fathered by men taking it.
Does acne ever fail to clear on isotretinoin?
Although isotretinoin is usually very effective for acne, occasionally it responds unexpectedly slowly and incompletely. Poor response is associated with:
Macrocomedones (large whiteheads)
Nodules (large, deep inflammatory lesions)
Secondary infection
Younger age (< 14 years).
Options available to slow responders include:
Electrocautery of comedones
A prolonged course of isotretinoin
Additional treatment with oral antibiotics and oral steroids.
Can isotretinoin be used again if acne recurs?
At least fifty per cent of patients with acne have a long-lasting response after a single adequate course of isotretinoin. In others, acne may recur a few months to a few years after the medication has been discontinued. Relapse is more common in females than in males, and in patients > 25 years of age. These patients may receive further courses of isotretinoin.
Long-term treatment (> 1 year) is often used for patients with:
Persistent acne
Scalp folliculitis
Skin cancer.
Special precautions for pilots considering isotretinoin
Good night vision is important for airline pilots and those flying after dark. Night vision may be affected by isotretinoin. Pilots taking isotretinoin or considering a course of isotretinoin must report to their national aviation authority to discuss how this treatment affects their flying privileges.
In New Zealand, this is the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand. Civil aviation licence holders, including Air Traffic Controllers, have an obligation under section 27 C of the Civil Aviation Act to ground self and report to CAA in case of any change in medical condition that may affect flight safety. CAA considers the use of isotretinoin to be a change in medical condition.
New Zealand approved datasheets are the official source of information for these prescription medicines, including approved uses and risk information. Check the individual New Zealand datasheet on the Medsafe website.
Advice on the safe introduction and continued use of isotretinoin in acne in the UK 2010 – MJD Goodfield, NH Cox, A Bowser, JC McMillan, LG Millard, NB Simpson, AD Ormerod, BJD, Vol. 162, No. 5, June 2010 (p1172-1179)
Mollan SP, Woodcock M, Siddiqi R, Huntbach J, Good P, Scott RA. Does use of isotretinoin rule out a career in flying? Br J Ophthalmol. 2006 Aug;90(8):957-9. PubMed.
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Consumer medicine information and data sheets – Medsafe
Drugs, Herbs and Supplements – MedlinePlus
Isotretinoin (female) – British Association of Dermatologists
Isotretinoin (male) – British Association of Dermatologists
Isotretinoin: Patient Handouts – The Society for Pediatric Dermatology
Isotretinoin – SafeRx
Isotretinoin - American Academy of Dermatology
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Clinton calls Trump too unsteady to be president
By FORMER STAFF May 19, 2016 November 9, 2016 142
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton pivoted to a general election matchup against Republican candidate Donald Trump on Thursday, saying he is dangerously unpredictable and not qualified to be president.
Confident that she is finally close to defeating US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the Democratic nomination, Clinton turned heavy fire on Trump, who has been running about even with her in national polls of voters looking ahead to the Nov 8 presidential election.
On the Republican side, Trump promoted top aide Paul Manafort to serve as campaign manager and chief strategist, the Trump campaign said. Corey Lewandowski, the trusted Trump aide who has had the title of campaign manager, will continue overseeing day-to-day operations, the campaign said.
In a CNN interview, Clinton used the example of the apparent downing of an EgyptAir plane from Paris to Cairo to say that Trump would lack the skills to bring together US allies to respond to global threats.
“I know hard this job is and I know we need steadiness, as well as strength and smarts in it, and I have concluded that he is not qualified to be president of the United States,” Clinton said.
Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, has been intensifying his criticism of Clinton by lobbing personal attacks at her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton, a former US secretary of state, said she would resolutely refuse to respond to Trump’s goading. “He can say whatever he wants,” she said.
But she said the EgyptAir crash reinforces the need for American leadership and that Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States has sent the wrong signal to countries that Washington will need to work with in the fight against Islamic militants.
“He says a lot of things that are provocative, that actually make the important task of building this coalition, bringing everybody to the table and defeating terrorism more difficult,” she said. “It sends a message of disrespect and it sends a message that makes the situation inside those countries more difficult.”
Trump stepped up efforts to rally Republican loyalists behind his campaign after winning a divisive primary fight that left the party ruptured.
On Capitol Hill, Manafort and other Trump aides met with conservatives in the House of Representatives who are members of the Freedom Caucus group and canvassed them for policy ideas.
“Manafort was reaching out for ideas” on policy, and several Freedom Caucus members made suggestions, said Republican Representative Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee.
“It went very well, it was encouraging. I think the Trump team recognizes the relevance of the Freedom Caucus, and the influence they have. I think actually, despite some early skepticism by some members, I think the (Freedom Caucus) board received Manafort and his representation of Trump very well,” DesJarlais said.
US House Speaker Paul Ryan, who met Trump a week ago to try to resolve differences over their approaches to key issues, said he thought a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees, a group of conservative jurists announced by Trump on Wednesday, “was a very good step in the right direction.”
Ryan told reporters that “our teams are meeting” to talk policy, and “we’re making progress, but that’s all I’ve got to say at this point.”
The highest-ranking House Republican woman, Representative Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, said she had cast an absentee ballot for Trump in Washington state’s primary next week, leaving Ryan as the only top Republican in Congress who has not backed Trump.
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Audrey Hepburn is famous for her memorable movie roles in the 1950s and 60s. But Hepburn was not only an accomplished actress, she was also a humanitarian who spent the latter part of her life helping underprivileged children and mothers across the globe through UNICEF. We have collected some of the best Most Inspirational Audrey Hepburn Quotes. We also have a great collection of Greatest Inspiring Muhammad Ali Quotes & Michael Jordan Quotes.
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“When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I’ve always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn’t bother me one bit. I’m my own company.”
“I may not always be offered work, but I’ll always have my family.”
“Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you – and they give you a lot – however much your parents irritate you – it doesn’t matter because you love them.”
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“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.”
“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”
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“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
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Trump cites law to justify his mandate that companies to leave China, but he’s absolutely wrong
First Amendment / Daily Kos (08/24/2019)
Donald Trump incorrectly referenced a federal law Saturday, to argue that he has the power to order private businesses to leave China—and the New York Times correctly fact-checked his lie.
As he arrived in France for the annual meeting of the Group of 7 powers, Mr. Trump posted a message on Twitter citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, a law originally meant to enable a president to isolate criminal regimes, not sever economic ties with a major trading partner over a tariff dispute.
“For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Case closed!”
Case open, actually, The IEEPA clearly states it must be “an extraordinary threat,” and that the president must “declare a national emergency” to be granted such authority. It’s ludicrous to think that disagreements with our trading partners over tariffs fall under this law.
SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the “International Emergency Economic Powers Act”.
SITUATIONS IN WHICH AUTHORITIES MAY BE EXERCISED
SEC. 202. (a) Any authority granted to the President by section 203 may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.
(b) The authorities granted to the President by section 203 may only be exercised to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared for pur- poses of this title and may not be exercised for any other purpose. Any exercise of such authorities to deal with any new threat shall be based on a new declaration of national emergency which must be with respect to such threat.
(Emphasis added)
And as expected, not a word from the GOP with regards to Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab. Only crickets interrupt the Republican silence that enables this “president.” Sadly, former Republican congressman and vocal Trump critic Joe Walsh, who I don’t agree with 99.9% of the time, was one of the few on the right to make a good, obvious point.
I’m going to retweet this every single day:
If Barack Obama had “hereby ordered” private companies to do anything, every Republican & Conservative in America would have completely lost their shit.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 24, 2019
By citing laws that have absolutely nothing to do with the demand that American businesses exit China, Trump is once again testing the boundaries of our laws. Why? To justify yet another authoritarian attempt by this “president” to bypass them.
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LOCK THIS DISGRACE UP !!!
This line in this law wholly negates his “case closed” comment. Notice it says “which has its SOURCE in whole or substantial part OUTSIDE the United States” So him starting this economic crisis with China completely negates his theory that he has a right to make this command. SHEESH!!!! Will someone PLEASE remove this power-hungry delusional lunatic from our White House!!!!!
Won’t happen. We are a nation of cowards lost in facebook, instagram, etc.
Dick Panico
Are you saying you wish Trump ,to take the LONG WAY OUT ?
As in HUEY LONG ?
…The problem is, and has always been that congress has allowed Trump to get away with that crap , from day one . Now like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, Trump has gotten out of control . ..And he’s killing his (creators) . There are a lot of subtle lessons in our old black and white movies. ….This is one of them . ..The Congress, the Pope , all heads of state, the Evangelicals, even the KKK, ALLOWED Trump , to get away with this shit . …Now they can’t stop him without( DISSECTING ) him , by his roots …As in… Read more »
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Lock Up? Just go ahead and deport him.
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General Wireless Operations Inc. is an American chain of wireless and electronics stores, founded in 1921 and since 2015 owned by the Standard General affiliate General Wireless. It is partnered with Sprint, and most stores are co-branded as "Sprint at RadioShack" though also selling RadioShack brand items.
At its peak in 1999 it operated stores in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. On February 5, 2015, the company filed for Chapter 11 protection under United States bankruptcy law after 11 consecutive quarterly losses. By then it was operating only in the United States and Mexico. On March 31, 2015, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas approved a $160 million offer by General Wireless, which gained ownership of the "RadioShack" brand and its remaining locations; it filed for bankruptcy in March 2017 after claiming its Sprint partnership was not as profitable as expected.
Quick facts about RadioShack
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What is Net Promoter Score?
NPS is a customer loyalty metric that measures customers’ willingness to not only return for another purchase or service but also make a recommendation to their family, friends or colleagues.
It is a powerful and effective technique, which can greatly increase a company's revenue if used properly.
The main advantages of NPS are close correlation with a company's growth and easy collection, interpretation and communication of the data.
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Is RadioShack's estimated NPS of 4 considered to be good?
Net Promoter Score is a number from -100 from 100.
Scores higher than 0 are typically considered to be good and scores above 50 are considered to be excellent.
The industry average for Specialty Retailers: Other is 0.
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The final Net Promoter Score of a company strongly depends on a context in which the satisfaction is measured.
Consider an example: If RadioShack sends out NPS surveys immediately after purchase, they are tracking their customers' initial excitement and the checkout experience.
On the other hand, if they survey their customers a few weeks after the purchase they are also tracking how satisfied their customers are with their products and services over time.
Therefore, comparing the NPS score of RadioShack with your own without any further context is not that useful.
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Coast Guard HSWL App
Genevieve Contey
Are you active or retired Coast Guard — or related to someone who is? If so, you’ll want to spread the word about the United States Coast Guard’s Health, Safety and Work Life (HSWL) app from USCG’s Office of Work-Life Programs.
The app, available for iPhone and Android phones, is a one-stop information portal for many of the support services Coasties and their dependents might need. Among its broad offerings, the app helps users:
• Access health and medical services information and online resources;
• Connect to housing, childcare and legal assistance;
• Find a chaplain nearby;
• Learn all about morale, well-being and recreation (MWR) services, including a rundown of fitness programs;
• Contact an ombudsman; and
• Access the latest Coast Guard blogs and popular Facebook page.
Not in the Coast Guard but wish you were? This app puts an impressive list of the Coast Guard’s action-packed YouTube videos in the palm of your hand:
• Looking for that footage of the U.S. Airways jet that landed in the Hudson River? It’s in there.
• Want to see what 40,000 pounds of seized cocaine look like? Well, that’s in there too.
• Or simply watch the agency’s “Top 10 Rescue Videos” to get your adrenaline pumping. (And be sure to use WIFI when you do for better video streaming.)
You can find other government created apps like this on the USA.gov Apps Gallery.
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Putting the Grand in Grand
Thu, 03/28/2019 - 16:54 -- Nick Dager
This past February, DTS and CJ 4DPlex announced a strategic alliance to bring DTS:X immersive audio technology to ScreenX theatres worldwide. What the companies didn’t announce at the time was that their first joint project together was already up and running in Liberty, Kansas. B&B Theatres brands their premium large format offerings as Grand Screens, which counts as typical Midwestern understatement because, at four stories tall and seven stories wide, the new B&B Theatres Liberty 12 currently features the largest ScreenX auditorium in the world.
When the DTS-CJ 4DPlex alliance was announced, Bill Neighbors, senior vice president and general manager, cinema, home, digital media and streaming solutions, at DTS parent company Xperi said, “DTS:X immersive audio technology complements CJ 4DPlex’s ScreenX immersive visual presentation, offering an amazing end-to-end product for exhibitors. Additionally, our global presence brings additional resources that will help grow our combined offering in 2019. I am confident that moviegoers will love the experience.”
Brock Bagby, executive vice president, of family-owned and operated B&B Theatres, would be the first to agree with that statement. He said that since the new theatre opened last July people have driven from as far as one hundred miles away to enjoy the experience. Bagby said a typical customer response has been “Absolutely fantastic.”
To date, customers have not been dissuaded by the extra eight dollars that B&B charges for ScreenX; in its first nine months the theatre has received only one complaint about the higher ticket price. Part of that success, is undoubtedly, the uniqueness of the experience. B&B has the only ScreenX theatre in the state of Kansas and when it opened last July it was the only one in the United States. (At last count there are now four.)
At 56,000 square feet and with twelve auditoriums, Bagby said this is the largest theatre B&B, the nation’s seventh largest theatre chain, has ever built from the ground up. Talking with Bagby, it soon becomes clear that the new theatre was a labor of love. Reflected in that is the fact that the theater’s Lyric auditorium is a tribute to B&B’s first theater, built in Salisbury, Missouri in 1924. The wall sconces outside came from that theatre.
All of the auditoriums feature heated electric leather recliners and moviegoers can bring in food and drinks from the full-service jazz restaurant. The complex also features an MX4D theatre from Mediamation.
In Grand Screen 1, the ScreenX format envelopes moviegoers inside a 270-degree panorama of screens. In all, said Bagby, there are more than 250 feet of screen.
“Since this was a new build we were able to accomplish a lot more,” said Bagby. He believes that adding ScreenX as a retrofit would have been much more difficult. “We fit the room around the screen.” As an example, because this was a new build there are no exit signs on the sidewalls to interfere with the ScreenX images. There are speakers on the sidewalls, which B&B is in the process of changing but he said so far no patrons have complained about them. It seems that once the movie starts, people just don’t notice the speakers.
Grand Screen 2 is identical to Grand Screen 1, except that it does not have ScreenX. But Bagby said it was designed with ScreenX in mind, should B&B decide to add a second theatre in the at Liberty 12. There is a four-dollar upcharge for Grand Screen 2.
Once the decision was made to install ScreenX, Bagby said the company focused on the technology to support it. “We did tons of work” assessing all the available sound options before building the new theatre. Bagby says he and his team chose DTS:X because it was “the most modular option available and could work in all types of rooms. We’re very happy.”
There are two Christie Digital Cinema projectors for the main Harkness screen and five Christie projectors for each sidewall. The rest of the technology in B&B’s Grand Screen concept includes:
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Bagby said B&B currently has eleven DTS:X auditoriums and that there are at least seven more in the planning stages. As for ScreenX, he said, “We have a second one coming,” although he didn’t want to announce where it is as yet. Several more ScreenX theatres are also in the works.
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I’m Starting a New Business – Should I Use an LLC (Taxed as a Partnership) or an S Corporation?
Entrepreneurship has been called the new American dream. Hanging a shingle starts with an idea that develops into a business plan, but not without careful financial and legal considerations. Among the decisions that new business owners grapple with is whether to form a limited liability company taxed as a partnership (LLC) or a corporation making an S election (S corp).* There are similarities and differences between LLCs and S corps that business owners should understand before choosing between the two.
Both entities are created by filing the paperwork with the state. Unlike a sole proprietorship or a general partnership, LLCs and corporations are not recognized under state law until the filing has been made. Besides state filings required to form the corporation, a special filing on Form 2553 is required for the state-law corporation to choose S status for federal tax purposes.
Both entities provide owners with limited liability, meaning the owner’s personal assets are protected from any business creditors’ claims.
Assuming an LLC does not choose to be taxed as a corporation, both LLCs and S corps are pass-through tax entities, allowing business profits and losses to flow through and be reported on the owners’ personal tax returns.
Unlike LLCs, which can have an unlimited number and type of owners, S corps are subject to strict ownership rules. S corps can have no more than 100 shareholders, may not have non-U.S. citizens as shareholders, and cannot be owned by corporations, LLCs, partnerships, or many types of trusts.
As opposed to LLCs, which have flexibility in structuring the economic arrangement among its owners, S corps cannot issue classes of stock with different economic rights. However, an S corp can issue voting and non-voting classes of stock.
S corps are subject to mandatory requirements as to how the entity is managed. For example, S corps are often required to adopt bylaws, issue stock, hold regular meetings, and maintain meeting minutes within its corporate records. LLCs are not subject to these requirements.
Owners of S corps, unlike LLCs, may cut or eliminate the need to pay self-employment tax. An S corp owner can be treated as an employee and paid a reasonable salary. Employment taxes are withheld from the reasonable salary, while corporate earnings over that salary may be distributed to the owners as unearned income, free of self-employment tax.
S corp owners must share profits equally based on their percentage of ownership, while LLC owners have wide latitude to split profits and losses in any manner that is agreed upon.
LLCs are generally cheaper to form and operate.
S corps generally provide enhanced asset protection, as the structure creates more separation between the owners and the company.
*For simplicity, this overview is based on the assumption that (i) any reference to “LLC” is to an LLC taxed as a partnership, and (ii) any reference to “S corp” is to a corporation taxed as an S corporation. These entities are easily confused, in part because an LLC can make an S election. There, you have a state law LLC taxed as an S corporation under federal law. Why would anyone do that? Often, it is the business owner’s desire to avoid strict state law corporate compliance coupled with the desire for favorable S corp taxation.
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Dimension Line Charts: a (slight) variation on arrow charts
April 18, 2014, By Ben Jones | 5 Comments
Arrow charts are an effective way of showing how values changed from one point in time to another (like slopegraphs), and they have been touted by Naomi Robbins of NBR Graphs. They have also been created using Tableau before by zen master Joe Mako. I really like arrow charts – as a mechanical engineer, I understand the language that they’re speaking.
But there’s a way that they can speak even more clearly to me. It’s more of an accent, really.
Here’s a version of what I’ll call a “dimension line chart” (“dimension” as in GD&T, not Tableau’s dimensions and measures) that I made to show which NBA players improved the most over last season, and which players’ performance regressed the most:
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How is it different from traditional arrow charts?
It’s a very subtle change that has four parts to it:
There are “extension lines” added via reference lines to show the starting and stopping points of each line
The arrowheads are custom shapes with tips that end at the reference line instead of just beyond it
The direction (+ or -) and the magnitude of the change is shown as a dimension in the middle of the line
I added a light row banding to make it easier to see which arrow applies to which player
That’s pretty much it. It’s a slight dialect of the language of arrow charts, really. Translation: it’s just a fancy arrow chart.
Here’s what the traditional arrow chart version looks like:
How do the changes help?
I always felt that traditional arrow charts seemed to imply movement beyond the end of the arrow, like a flow diagram (showing direction of wind, magnetic field, or water flow) or a traffic sign telling me which way to go, not where to stop. But, literally speaking, the data stops at the very end of the arrow. And with Tableau, if you use a default filled shape for the arrowhead, the data technically stops in the middle of the arrowhead, since that’s the center of the shape (more a detail about Tableau, not arrow charts themselves):
Using arrowhead shapes that end in the middle rather than the edges of the file corrects this small inaccuracy:
Nitpicky? A little, maybe. Click here to get the four centered arrowhead png files I created for this project.
What inspired this variation?
I enjoyed my drafting class in high school, and I went on to study mechanical engineering in college. Drafters and mechanical engineers draw diagrams of physical objects and indicate their dimensions so that machinists can make them in the real world.
There’s a correlation to what we’re attempting to do with data visualizations: we’re communicating the relative sizes of measurable quantities. Instead of feet or inches, the units can be dollars or population or whatever.
We’re giving a “blue print” to our audience and asking them to build an understanding in their mind.
Here’s an example of a technical drawing that the dimension line chart draws from:
Issues and Opportunities for Improvement
One weakness of this variation is that it doesn’t handle slight deltas very well. If the reference lines are very close together, the arrow doesn’t look very much like an arrow at all. If we remove the rank filter and look farther down the list, here’s what we get:
Let me know what you think, I’d like to hear your opinion. If you can think of a way to improve dimension line charts, leave a comment. Some ideas I have are to give the numerical values a white box background to break up the dimension lines and to change the styling of the arrowheads to be in line with GD&T standards. Also, I’ll be doing a “how-to” write-up on the Tableau Public blog as part of #TableauTipsMonth, so be on the lookout for that in the next few days.
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Hi Ben — Nice idea to try to improve on the arrow charts. I had never realized that the arrow tends to suggest that the data goes beyond the end of the arrow, but now I see it.
I’ve no grand idea to judge both models, but a few observations. I’ve to admit that I find the redesign busy visually, so I’m thinking of ways to clear it up a little. Usually, I avoid labelling the data into the graph, since the visual is supposed to convey the gist and the table, the details. Perhaps this dimension would do better in a separate column, rather than on top of the arrows. Also, how would it be to make the two ends of the arrow narrower, say only 40% of the row height? Then, the pointing end could be made even more obtuse, at around 140°, to only remind of the direction and likely reducing the visual momentum.
By the way, you ran into an interesting problem with the colours: red both means bad and hot! It took me a second to realize that the good players were in the red section.
Hope this helps your thinking. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for commenting, Francis. I can see your points. This version incorporates a few of your recommendations – see what you think.
Steve Wexler
Ben, I like this a lot.
I agree with Francis that I would like the labeling to appear is a separate column (just turn put it on rows and make it discrete). It will also be easy for people to see the sort as the numbers will all be in one column.
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The work of many people, my first real project, many lessons learned and things to share.
Qualia Games was founded by Mark Kern, and I came onboard with him to realize our high school dream to create our own game company. While this venture wasn’t successful, it did become the springboard to later opportunities. Based on this game, the entire team was invited to join Blizzard Entertainment after we closed operation, but only Mark took them up on the offer. I went to Tiburon to work as Art Manager on their Playstation version of NCAA Football ’99. I think Mark and I needed a break from each other :-)
This was a real education, fraught with stress and learning-on-the-job. I learned that technical smarts is the least important factor in the success of a group endeavor. I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with some of the finest individuals I have ever met:
Alen Yen: Visual Design, Level Design
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Jeremy Biddle: Programmer
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Crixa – The Last 2D Shooter
Crixa was originally designed as an in-house test game for the team to get their feet wet. We were fully funded for two years, so we wanted to push out a quick game that would help develop our graphics libraries and smooth out the creative process. However, about a month after hiring our first three employees and signing two-year leases, our funding crashed and disappeared. Holy shit. The year was 1995.
We had to convert Crixa into a product that could land a development deal or die. The web had yet to evolve into a viable marketplace, so Mark put his efforts into contacting possible publishers. We got some interest from (I think) Bungie (then located in Cambridge, Massachussetts if I remember correctly) and Blizzard Entertainment, who had just released WarCraft II, the sequel to their modestly-successful Real-Time Strategy game WarCraft. WarCraft II was their first huge success, and flush with cash they were looking to expand their portfolio with some smaller, quicker-to-develop games. We landed a 10-month development deal, and began to develop Crixa into a more fleshed-out game.
Crixa, as it was originally conceived before all this drama ensued, was a 2D top-down shooter borrowing elements from some of my favorite games: Star Maze on the Apple II was a notable influence. The open-play mechanics of games like Rescue Raiders and Castle Wolfenstein (the original 2D one from Silas Warner) were also a strong influence. We also wanted the smoothness of classic vector games like Rip Off, but with nicer graphics. We dedicated a whole 32 rotations for each ship graphic, which consumed a lot of memory. Remember, at the time there was no hardware sprite scaling in Direct X. I don’t think Direct3D was even around then, 3D acceleration not becoming widespread until 1997 or 1998.
The Expanded Game added mission elements, a “base” you could move around to support your position. Various parts of the levels were connected by a power transfer and switch system, which could be controlled through a “state manager” in our level file.
We created our levels using, of all things, Aldus Freehand. This was artist-accessible, and the exported PostScript output could be parsed into a form that Crixa could load. It was an inspired, if somewhat ungainly, hack. But we didn’t have to create an in-game level editor.
Our last delivery was a 3-level game demonstrating the graphics/physics engine (sweetly done by Bretton, who’s gone on to accomplish great things). We’ll probably put it online again…Jeremy (now in SF) has it almost working on modern systems for both Mac and PC.
Alas, Crixa was deemed not competitive in the marketplace any longer, especially because another game with similar play mechanics had come out. The numbers of the game were not promising, so we were cancelled. Qualia lingered on for a few more months subsisting on contract work, but at the end the company could no longer afford to maintain payroll and we closed. Stressful times. It took years for me to get over it, but it’s a testament to the character of the team that we’re still all friends.
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Ha, it’s awesome! I love the art style, the idea and the work put in. Really, it’s awesome to see such work done.
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Thanks! It was a tough experience that after 20-something years has become something I’m glad I experienced. Am a little wistful about it. Mark’s resurrected the name in his upcoming tabletop game, so that’s exciting to see!
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Want an electric vehicle? Here’s why it can be so hard to get one
What’s affecting production, and why automakers send their limited supply to certain provinces first
Ford’s North American president, Kumar Galhotra, stands in front of the new all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV as it is revealed to employees in Dearborn, Mich. (Jill English/CBC)
It says something about a vehicle when it isn’t yet in production, but it’s already sold out.
Within 10 days of launching the first-ever Ford Mustang SUV, the Mach-E, the coveted First Edition model had already met its order maximum. It’s also the first Mustang in the muscle car’s 55-year history to be all-electric.
“Zero-to-60 is going to be under four seconds,” Ford’s North American president, Kumar Galhotra, was quick to brag during an interview at the manufacturer’s Michigan headquarters.
“There’s a huge market segment of Mustang enthusiasts who want a vehicle like this, because it’s more versatile. It gives them room for family, for friends, for cargo.”
The high-speed sell-out is only partly explained by the Mustang brand’s popularity, and the roomier new design. The Mach-E is facing the same supply crunch being experienced by most other automakers entering the battery-only electric vehicle (BEV) fray.
Canadian roads are filled with 25 million vehicles, and right now only about 136,000 of them are electric. But EVs could be on the verge of a breakthrough.
In a report by Clean Energy Canada, 54 per cent of Canadians polled in March said they’re inclined to buy electric for their next vehicle. One in 10 are certain they will.
Getting one is a challenge, though.
With the notable exception of the Tesla Model 3, the world’s best selling BEV, orders for electric vehicles can take months to fill — and sometimes as long as a year, depending where you live.
Interested in a Hyundai Kona EV in Halifax, for example? You could be looking at a six-month delay.
“It’s tough as a consumer to walk in and say ‘hey do you have one of these? Can I test drive it?,’ says salesman John Yeadon of Steele Hyundai in Halifax. “That’s not really easy right now.”
Often, he says, the only way he can show potential buyers what the car looks like is to hand them a brochure.
Some dealers can’t even do that. They just don’t sell EVs.
And don’t want to.
“It’s a business risk,” explains Mike Currie of Atlantic Canada’s Steele Auto Group. “I think a lot of other dealers are just waiting until it all comes, but we want to be ahead of it. We want to be the leaders in offering electric vehicles.”
Currie’s group sells EVs at all 40 dealerships it owns across Atlantic Canada. But that costs money: to install chargers, and to train sales staff and mechanics.
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And, with fewer moving parts, EVs don’t break as often as gasoline-powered vehicles, so they generally don’t require as much service. That presents a challenge to dealerships that tend to make more money in their garage than on their sales floor.
“We just have to find new ways of making money,” Currie says.
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Boosting availability
While the number of EVs on the road in Canada is increasing, they are not evenly distributed.
Only 0.2 per cent of Canada’s electric vehicles are in Nova Scotia. Quebec, meanwhile, has 43 per cent of the national total. That disparity is not just about differences in population.
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Some provinces have used laws and incentives to boost availability.
For one, Quebec offers up to an $8,000 rebate on the purchase of a new EV. That’s in addition to the $5,000 federal rebate. Together, these incentives have helped drive sales.
Simon Fraser University’s Jonn Axsen studies transitions to sustainable energy systems. He says government policy is critical to getting EVs onto Canadian roads. (Glen Kugelstadt/CBC)
But Jonn Axsen of Simon Fraser University gives most of the credit to Quebec’s ZEV mandate, a law requiring automakers to sell a minimum number of zero-emission electric vehicles if they want to sell gas-powered vehicles in the province.
When automakers are looking at where to put their limited supply of EVs, they start with areas where selling a minimum number is the law. British Columbia just introduced its own ZEV mandate, as have about a dozen U.S. states, including California.
“It is a policy meant to stimulate innovation,” says Axsen. “It’s a hard-sell for companies to make a huge investment into a brand new technology that’s very different than what they know, without having some certainty.”
The ZEV mandate, says Axsen, is that certainty. It’s a signal to automakers and their suppliers that EVs have a clear and imminent future, and that they’d better get moving on building up their EV supply chains to meet demand for things like batteries.
Battery availability
Sourcing EV components is something the industry is still grappling with. Automakers spend years, even decades, establishing elaborate supply chains. And some have only recently begun to add lithium ion batteries, the core of an electric vehicle, to those complex chains.
“It’s an industry that’s quite comfortable with the gasoline-powered vehicles that it has been selling,” says Axsen.
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Even so, manufacturers are boosting production. Ford plans to have 40 EV models worldwide by 2022.
The increased interest in EVs is creating unprecedented demand and competition between automakers to get access to things like batteries in a timely fashion.
General Motors, for instance, is partnering with LG Chem to build a $3 billion battery plant in Ohio.
Even so, like the dealerships, the car companies themselves are in the early stages of figuring out how to make money from EVs. And that means that when they launch a new EV model, it’s still often a limited production run to ensure their evolving supply chains can feed the factories — and until they are certain of demand.
Ford, for example, won’t say how many Mustang Mach-Es it will build when production gets under way. Though the company has said there will be more the following model year — a trend seen throughout the industry as EVs continue to creep into automakers’ offerings.
“The entire industry is going to go through this transition,” Ford’s Golhotra says.
“This is the first high-volume [EV] product we’re going to do. And our competitors are doing the same thing. So availability is going to grow.”
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How Los Angeles plans to get hundreds of thousands of people out of cars
The city has a new road map to drastically cut emissions by 2028. The key: finding alternatives to private cars.
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L.A. has a reputation as a car-dependent city. But the city also now has the country’s most ambitious plan for cutting emissions from transportation. In less than a decade, it wants the majority of new cars to be electric and all city buses to be electric—and it wants 20% of trips that currently happen in single-occupancy cars to shift to public transportation or active transportation like biking.
Today, a set of partners released the Zero Emissions 2028 Roadmap 2.0, a plan that outlines how the region can drastically cut transit emissions by 2028 to address both climate change and the health impacts of smog. Convincing Angelenos to drive less is a key part of the plan.
“In the modeling, we looked extensively at different scenarios for the number of electric cars and zero-emission trucks that would need to be on the road, and chargers to serve those vehicles,” says Matt Petersen, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, which convened a group of partners last year to set initial targets, now spelled out in more detail. “And we recognize that one of the key ways we’re going to achieve the reduction goal for greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution is mode shift: How do we get people out of their cars into public transit or active transit?”
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If they do drive, the city wants them using electric vehicles. To help make the shift easier, the city, county, and other partners plan to blanket the area in 84,000 public and workplace charging stations and add chargers where they’re particularly critical, like at apartment buildings. It will also use incentives to help consumers, especially low-income drivers, afford electric cars. By 2028, 30% of cars on the road will be electric, and 80% of new cars sold will be electric. Larger trucks will also move to electric power, a major road from the port will become the first “zero-emissions goods movement corridor” in the country, and the city will test zero-emissions delivery zones for packages. But to stay on track to cut emissions, the biggest change the city will have to manage is making it easier not to drive at all.
Part of that means improving public transportation, both in the routes that are available and the quality of the experience. The shift to electric buses—which are quieter than rattling diesel or natural gas buses, and often come with amenities such as Wi-Fi and charging—can help. “Those are the kinds of things that are going to make discretionary riders more interested and eager and willing to get out of their cars,” says Petersen.
Expanding micromobility can also help; a recent report in Santa Monica found that 49% of the trips that people were taking on electric scooters and shared bikes were replacing short trips that otherwise would have happened in cars. Some projects now are working to expand access to micromobility in neighborhoods that don’t have many options. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, for example, is running a pilot with a nonprofit building a solar-powered e-bike share project in the community of Huntington Park. (Other pilot projects are expanding access to electric car sharing in low-income neighborhoods; if residents use that option instead of owning cars themselves, they also may be likely to drive less.) Designing streets to make it safer to ride a bike—such as a two-way protected bike lane that was installed in downtown L.A. earlier this year—is also a key part of helping people shift away from cars. MORE
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Todd Smith, Let the tourists know that we are not as stupid as they think we are
Holding the provincial government accountable, Jen Ackerman suggests a solid plan to do some good for the planet and our future in Prince Edward County. Have you written your letter?
For 200 years, Prince Edward County has been an agricultural community protected from industrial and urban development. Photo: Court Noxon
Mr. Smith,
Last week the County declared a climate emergency, like many other cities and Counties throughout Ontario. What do you suppose would be a good start to proving that we, the residents of the County, actually care about climate change and the fate of the planet? Will you and Mr, Ford simply brush it off and turn a blind eye to the fact that we are strongly pushing to have changes made?
We are telling you loud and clear that we do not want to see any more slashes and devastating decisions that favour only rich developers and not the environment.
Do you have a solid plan to do some good for the planet and our future, or are you going to continue with the wrecking ball theme that you have so clearly been using ?
Some suggestions for you to act on in order to work with the County residents that strongly spoke up for the Climate Emergency Declaration are,
First, let the White Pines Wind Farm start creating clean green energy, since they are standing idle and doing no good for anyone.
Let the tourists know that we in the County are not as stupid as they think we are. Many dozens of tourists have come into my shop, in total disbelief that a government could do such a wasteful , backwards move , as to cancel this project. When I tell them the whole story, they get quite angry at you and Mr. Ford for doing more harm to our already suffering planet.
These visible symbols of hope, standing so gracefully,for all to see,need to be working, as part of our action to try to reverse the effects of climate change.
That is why the County has declared an emergency, because there is one, and it is getting more obvious each and every day.
While our beneficial wind project is being completed (which will only take a few weeks ) and the turbines are getting ready to spin, we need to focus on plastic use, and pushing people to stop the careless and unnecessary use of one time use plastics.
Grocery stores need to do away with plastic bags, plastic packaging and plastic products such as straws, so consumers get in the habit of using reusable bags and containers.
Another idea is to put the rebate back in place for electric car buyers, so that more people will stop using gas guzzling vehicles and go clean.
Another thought is to start replacing each tree taken down by the County along roadsides, with two new ones. Better yet, stop killing all the trees, when they are mainly sugar maples with no health issues. Get someone from Trees for Life because they know trees and are best to asses the health/safety of these trees.
As well as that the clearing of hedge rows must be stopped. Farmers always left them for a reason, now money and greed once again rule and killing the habitat and occupants of the hedgerows has become another reckless and nearsited decision.
Another suggestion to show the County recognizes that we are in a climate emergency,is to stop clear cutting for housing developments, build on non agricultural and non forested/ water habitat areas.
Stop putting money ahead of the health and the well being of all who are living here,
The suggestions are many, but it takes action to put the ideas into motion.So , Mr. Smith and all other politicians, what is YOUR plan to help with this emergency ?
Jen Ackerman Milford
livelaugheatmilford@gmail.com
Author gaianicityPosted on June 4, 2019 June 4, 2019 Tags electric cars, hedgerows, Jen Ackerman, plastic bags, tourism, trees, White Pines Wind farmLeave a comment on Todd Smith, Let the tourists know that we are not as stupid as they think we are
Canada needs a Green New Deal
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…Today, Canadian politicians still pander to large corporations instead of pursuing meaningful industrial policy. Trudeau’s Liberals imagine that they have managed to negotiate the binary between economy and environment but that binary only exists because they continue in their well-trod rut. They are putting off the transition from the inevitable end of fossil fuel extraction, letting the manufacturing sector erode rather than retool, and are foreclosing public sector expansions that could be leading the way to a new economy.
Is this the model of industrial development that Canada should follow into the 21st century?
The alternative for Canada is a Green New Deal, a program of economic and social transformation commensurate to the twin crises of inequality and climate change facing the country.
It is a cruel joke that investment in a pipeline – ultimately a relatively small sum – is a major policy move, while other far larger, far more necessary investments are not being made on the scale required. Imagine energy workers in Alberta’s north setting up wind farms rather than mining bitumen. Imagine manufacturing workers in southwest Ontario mass producing new electric public transit vehicles. Both would be integral to a Green New Deal; both prioritize people over profit.
Beyond energy and transport, imagine investments in universal child care (and the good, green child-care jobs they create), in truly affordable, dense public housing, and in public pharmaceutical companies that build on the public funds already going into basic research. A just transition should not just foster new technology, it should redistribute social power and increase living standards for the many – these are the common interests between nurses and autoworkers, and energy workers and early childhood educators.
…a Green New Deal could greatly expand the scope of collective decision making – heralding democratic planning and marshalling of social resources on a large scale. With every passing year and with every new decision to support fossil fuel infrastructure and corporate restructuring in the name of profit, the scale of the alternative plan to counter these actions needs to become more ambitious and far-reaching. A Green New Deal can put workers and the environment at the centre of economic policy and ensure that the necessary transformation reaches all areas of people’s lives. Unlike pipelines and plant closures, an expansive, just transition could unite workers and communities all over Canada in a broad common task. MORE
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Author gaianicityPosted on May 2, 2019 May 2, 2019 Tags child-care jobs, electric cars, Green New Deal, increased living standards, just transition, people over profit, public sector expansions, renewable energyLeave a comment on Canada needs a Green New Deal
Phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to end UK contribution to global warming
“Policies will have to ramp up significantly for a ‘net-zero’ emissions target to be credible, given that most sectors of the economy will need to cut their emissions to zero by 2050.”
There is one atmosphere. Cutting emissions must be an overriding Canadian priority as well, are achievable with known technologies, and result in improvements in people’s lives.
The UK can end its contribution to global warming within 30 years by setting an ambitious new target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, the Committee on Climate Change
The Committee’s report, requested by the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments in light of the Paris Agreement and the IPCC’s Special Report in 2018, finds that:
The foundations are in place throughout the UK and the policies required to deliver key pillars of a net-zero economy are already active or in development. These include: a supply of low-carbon electricity (which will need to quadruple by 2050), efficient buildings and low-carbon heating (required throughout the UK’s building stock), electric vehicles (which should be the only option from 2035 or earlier), developing low-carbon electricity and low-carbon hydrogen (which are a necessity not an option), stopping biodegradable waste going to landfill, phasing-out potent fluorinated gases, increasing tree planting, and measures to reduce emissions on farms. However, these policies must be urgently strengthened and must deliver tangible emissions reductions – current policy is not enough even for existing targets.
Policies will have to ramp up significantly for a ‘net-zero’ emissions target to be credible, given that most sectors of the economy will need to cut their emissions to zero by 2050. The Committee’s conclusion that the UK can achieve a net-zero GHG target by 2050 and at acceptable cost is entirely contingent on the introduction without delay of clear, stable and well-designed policies across the emitting sectors of the economy. Government must set the direction and provide the urgency. The public will need to be engaged if the transition is to succeed. Serious plans are needed to clean up the UK’s heating systems, to deliver the infrastructure for carbon capture and storage technology and to drive transformational change in how we use our land.
The overall costs of the transition to a net-zero economy are manageable but they must be fairly distributed. Rapid cost reductions in essential technologies such as offshore wind and batteries for electric vehicles mean that a net-zero greenhouse gas target can be met at an annual cost of up to 1-2% of GDP to 2050. However, the costs of the transition must be fair, and must be perceived as such by workers and energy bill payers. The Committee recommends that the Treasury reviews how the remaining costs of achieving net- zero can be managed in a fair way for consumers and businesses.
There are multiple benefits of the transition to a zero-carbon economy, the Committee’s report shows. These include benefits to people’s health from better air quality, less noise thanks to quieter vehicles, more active travel thanks to increased rates of cycling and walking, healthier diets, and increased recreational benefits from changes to land use. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on May 2, 2019 May 2, 2019 Tags efficient buildings, electric cars, elimination of landfill wastes, farm emissions, low carbon heating, low-carbon electricity, low-carbon hdrogen, phasing-out potent fluorinated gases, tree plantingLeave a comment on Phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to end UK contribution to global warming
100% Clean Energy & Cars In 20 Years Is Viable (But Unlikely)
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The two biggest hitters causing global warming are electrical
generation using fossil fuels and transportation using fossil fuels. If we made all electricity carbon neutral, most of which would come from wind and solar generation, that would be about a third of the problem. If we made all vehicles run off of carbon-neutral electricity (or biofuels where electricity just won’t cut it, an increasingly small niche), that would deal with another third of the problem or so.
This action would have a huge impact on global warming targets. Could we do it in 20 years globally in a crash plan? Let’s start with what it looks like today, or at least in 2016 per the IEA. Globally, we generated about 25,000 TWH of electricity (reminder on units: KWH, MWH, GWH then TWH, each 1000 of the previous unit).
Could we replace 16,250 TWH of electrical generation with wind and solar in 20 years? Well, it’s not actually that hard to generate a TWH of electricity.
A single 2.5 MWH wind turbine running for a year with a mediocre capacity factor of 35% will generate 7,665 MWH. To get a TWH, you’d need 130 of them, a reasonably sized wind farm of 325 MW capacity. For context, the Gansu Wind Farm in China is already at 8,000 MW capacity and is expected to reach 20,000 MW capacity by 2020, 60 times larger.
A solar farm is a bit different and has a typically lower capacity factor. Let’s go with a middling 20%. To get a TWH you’d need a solar farm with a capacity of around 570 MW. For context, a couple of solar farms in India are 1,000 MW and 2,000 MW capacity 2-4 times the capacity. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on February 27, 2019 Tags 100% clean energy, electric cars, nuclear energy, solar energy, wind farmsLeave a comment on 100% Clean Energy & Cars In 20 Years Is Viable (But Unlikely)
Why Electric Vehicles Are Great Winter Cars
The reality is, electric vehicles are great winter cars.
Winter is not the easiest season for getting around. Electric cars, like cars with internal combustion engines, function less efficiently in the cold. But while we accept and ignore the limitations of traditional vehicles, reports from groups like AAA misrepresent cold weather concerns about electric vehicles, fueling anxiety about vehicle range.
Cold weather range is becoming less of an issue with the rapid advancement of battery technologies. Every year, electric vehicle ranges get longer.
Take my family’s experience as an example. Our first 2012 Nissan LEAF had only 73 miles of driving range. This year the same vehicle has a battery that offers a 151-mile range and in a couple of months you will be able to get a LEAF with an even bigger battery and a range of well over 200 miles. So, range is becoming less of an issue and truthfully we never had any issues with it. My wife has a 35-mile round trip commute so she could manage it even with the 2012 LEAF, but nowadays with longer range electric vehicles, things are really easy. Battery electric vehicles available in Minnesota this year have ranges between 151 to 335 miles and people who want even more flexibility in their daily driving range should choose one of the plug-in hybrids that can take you up to 640 miles. See all plug-in EV models available in Minnesota here.
Many reasons to love electric vehicles in the winter
The best part of electric vehicles for me in the wintertime is the fast heating system. Many electric cars have a heat pump heating system that works like the traditional AC, but in reverse. This system is incredibly fast in heating up the car. I tried it the first time with our 2016 Nissan LEAF. It was a typical 16 degree Minnesota winter day. I went into our cold garage and reversed the car outside to the alley. While I waited for the garage door to close I wondered why the automatic fan was already running and to my surprise it was already pushing lukewarm air from the heating ducts. I drove less than a block and the air coming out was already hot. I had never experienced this kind of heating performance from any car before. MORE
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Destined to Serve My Country: How One Wounded Warrior Finds a New Mission on the Farm
I met Craig last year at the Veteran Employment session of the Clinton Global Initiative. I was representing the Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC), a group I started after 40 years of organic farming. We help create both viable jobs and places for returning veterans to heal on America’s farms.
I knew about Craig’s commitment to helping veterans, but I did not know about his love of birds until we became friends on Facebook. So when a young friend, Alix Blair, sent me the trailer about a powerful movie she and her friends are making about how one seriously injured veteran is finding healing through the loving care of hundreds of rare breeds of egg-producing birds, I wanted to share it with Craig.
photo credit: Jeremy Lange
Alex Sutton served six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He went back to the front repeatedly – until his luck ran out and an improvised explosive device (IED) ended his military career.
The movie that Alix Blair, Jeremy Lange, and their partners are making tells one very compelling story about one amazing young man’s journey. It’s Alex Sutton’s story.
Alex was FVC’s first Bob Woodruff Farming Fellow. Bob Woodruff is the ABC reporter who also suffered a tremendous injury from an IED while embedded with the troops in Iraq. Ironically, Alex was scheduled to go out and protect Bob the night of his injury. The award he received allowed us to buy Alex his incubating and hatching equipment, but it was also a profound honor for him.
Alex is one of over thirty veterans, most, but not all, combat injured – who have now received similar grants through our Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund. The Bob Woodruff Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, Bon Appétit Management Company, and others have made this possible.
Many of the more seriously injured veterans prefer privacy to help them heal; others like Alex, find healing in sharing their stories. We do not just award money, either. Our team of seasoned food and farming leaders work with each veteran until they come up with a business plan that will create long-term support for the veteran and his or her family.
Besides the Fellowship Fund, FVC offers an array of support for beginning veteran farmers. This year alone we are co-sponsoring educational farming retreats and workshops for veterans in fifteen states. In July we will host the first ever national conference for women veterans and agriculture. We have helped support the inclusion of numerous programs in the Senate passed Farm Bill that will be helpful to all veterans transitioning into agriculture, as well as a critical new micro-lending program that will create a source of hard to get capital for all small farmers.
The veterans we work with are not looking for a handout, but instead, a new way to serve their country. They have found it – in farming
To learn more about the Farmer Veteran Coalition and how you can help us visit our website at www.farmvetco.org or become our friend on Facebook or Twitter.
Michael O’Gorman was one of the country’s pioneering organic farmers. In 2008 he founded the Farmer Veteran Coalition and now helps men and women transition from war to farming.
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I am so happy and proud for these extraordinary people. I am the daughter of military parents and many aunts and uncles. I will be learning more now about your mission with the hope of seeing how I can offer any assistance.
I am grateful for all of you.
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UK DARK TOURIST VISITOR ATTRACTION HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN , GLOUCESTERSHIRE. INFAMOUS “GODMOTHER OF BRITISH CRIME ” LINDA CALVEY aka …”THE BLACK WIDOW”… A NOTORIOUS FORMER ARMED ROBBER, GANGSTER & ALLEGED MURDERER WHO SERVED 18 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME SHE HAS ALWAYS DENIED COMMITTING … YOU AS VISITORS TO THE JAIL DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES ???
COMING SOON !!!!
ABOVE: FRONT COVER LINDA’S SOON TO BE RELEASED NEW BOOK, PUBLISHED AND RELEASED BY MIRROR BOOKS ON THURSDAY 11 JULY. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER THROUGH AMAZON & WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL GOOD BOOKSHOPS THEREAFTER .
ABOVE AND BELOW : Here’s a couple of pics of Linda Calvey during one of her private visits to view her exhibition here on display at Littledean Jail .
BELOW: ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING BY GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST PAUL BRIDGMAN DEPICTICING INFAMOUS “GODMOTHER OF BRITISH CRIME ” aka THE BLACK WIDOW, LINDA CALVEY , ALONG WITH HER FORMER HUSBANDS MICKEY CALVEY AND DANNY REECE, ALSO FORMER LOVER RONNIE COOK . THIS PAINTING IS ON DISPLAY IN AND AMONGST THE DARK TOURIST ART GALLERY HERE AT THE JAIL.
BELOW: SIGNED COLLAGE PRINT OF LINDA CALVEY, BLACK WIDOW, PERSONALLY SIGNED BY HER. THIS BEING A PRINT OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY PAUL BRIDGMAN , GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST WHICH IS HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL .
ABOVE: ORIGINAL PERSONALLY SIGNED OIL PAINTING ENTITLED ‘TRANQUILITY’ BY LINDA CALVEY. THIS WAS PAINTED FOR LINDA’S MOTHER WHILST INCARCERATED IN HIGHPOINT PRISON, SUFFOLK IN NOVEMBER 2002 AS CAN BE SEEN ABOVE.
Above : “DEADLY WOMEN” … Here is an intriguing short American produced documentary based on the UK’s infamous Linda Calvey- “The Black Widow”
ABOVE: A PERSONALISED HANDWRITTED AND SIGNED DOODLE SKETCH FROM LINDA INCLUDING HER PRISON NUMBER, HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL.
Linda Calvey is a Londoner with stunning good looks and an attraction to gangsters . Her first husband, gangster Mickey Calvey, died in a Police shoot out after a botched armed robbery, and her second husband, Ronnie Cook, received a 16-year prison sentence for armed robbery in 1981.
While Ronnie is incarcerated, Linda fritters away his stash. Fearing her lover’s reaction on his release, she pays a hitman £10,000 to take care of Cook, but “allegedly ” ends up firing the fatal shot herself ???
Linda Calvey has always vehemently denied this claim !!!!!
ABOVE: A RATHER STRIKINGLY PERSONALLY HAND SIGNED SEXY IMAGE OF LINDA CALVEY. PICTURED HERE IN HER PRIME AGED 22 AND PRIOR TO HER ARREST . WOW WHAT A STUNNER !!!(AND STILL A REAL STUNNER TODAY )
ABOVE & BELOW … LINDA CALVEY -THE BLACK WIDOW LEAVES COURT IN A HIGH SECURITY POLICE VEHICLE DURING HER TRIAL AT THE OLD BAILEY , LONDON IN NOVEMBER 1991 . SHE SERVED 18 YEARS IN VARIOUS WOMEN’S HIGH SECURITY PRISONS FOR A MURDER THAT SHE HAS CONSISTENTLY DENIED COMMITTING
SHE WAS OFFERED A LESSER PRISON SENTENCE BY THE HOME OFFICE IF SHE CONFESSED TO THE MURDER AFTER BEING GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE. .SHE SUBSEQUENTLY REFUSED THIS OFFER OUTRIGHT AS SHE HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED HER INNOCENCE AND THAT SHE HAD BEEN SET-UP ….. HENCE AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE SERVED THE FULL 18 YEAR PRISON TERM .
Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman for and on display here at Littledean Jail
ABOVE: LINDA’S WEDDING DAY WORN BASQUE, WHICH SHE WORE WHEN MARRYING CO-ACCUSED MURDERER – DANNY REECE. THE WEDDING TOOK PLACE AT HMP DURHAM, AS CONFIRMED WITH HER HANDWRITTEN LETTER ABOVE, WHICH IS ON DISPLAY HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL
BELOW: TABLOID SENSATIONALISM…. THE SUNDAY PEOPLE IN DECEMBER 2006 AIM TO RIDICULE LINDA CALVEY WHILST SHE IS STILL IN PRISON .
BELOW : LINDA CALVEY (THE BLACK WIDOW) …BRITAIN’S NOTORIOUS FORMER FEMALE ARMED ROBBER, GANGSTER AND ALLEGED MURDERESS….WHO SERVED OVER 20 YEARS IN PRISON (18 YEARS OF THESE FOR A MURDER SHE STILL VEHEMENTLY CLAIMS TO THIS DAY SHE DID NOT COMMIT ) ….. SEEN FILMED HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL HAVING A HEAD AND HANDS CAST FOR DISPLAY ( FOR THE LINDA CALVEY – BLACK WIDOW EXHIBITION ) NOW ON PERMANENT DISPLAY AS PART OF THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION .
THESE CASTS HAVING BEEN MADE BY NICK REYNOLDS , SON OF THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY MASTERMIND – BRUCE REYNOLDS
BELOW: LINDA CALVEY WITH ANDY JONES OF THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION PRESENTING A HANDMADE CUSHION ACQUIRED FROM NOTORIOUS BRITISH SERIAL KILLER ROSE WEST WHILST IMPRISONED TOGETHER AT HMP DURHAM IN 1994 …. NOW ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL ALONG WITH VARIOUS OTHER MEMORABILIA ITEMS KINDLY DONATED FOR HISTORICAL DISPLAY AT THE JAIL .
ABOVE & BELOW : IMAGES OF BOTH SIDES OF THIS CARD AS PERSONALLY DISCRIBED BY LINDA HERSELF IN THE HANDWRITEN AND SIGNED PIECE BELOW
ABOVE AND BELOW : A CHRISTMAS CARD FROM MYRA HINDLEY TO LINDA CALVEY WHILST THEY WERE BOTH IN PRISON, ALONG WITH A HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED LETTER FROM LINDA CONFIRMING THE ABOVE.
BELOW: A FEW IMAGES TAKEN IN FEBRUARY 2018, OF A RECENT CATCH UP WITH LINDA CALVEY AND ANDY JONES OF THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION DURING A PRIVATE VISIT TO HER HOME. WHEREUPON SHE ALSO KINDLY ADDED SOME PERSONALLY HAND SIGNED ANNOTATIONS TO VARIOUS EXHIBIT FEATURES FOR DISPLAY IN HER EXHIBITION AREA HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL .
NEWSPAPER FEATURE ON LINDA CALVEY’S MARRIAGE TO GEORGE CEASAR IN 2009 .
SHE VEHEMENTLY DENIES KILLING HER FORMER LOVER RON COOK WHO WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK RANGE WITH A SHOTGUN AT THE HOME OF LINDA CALVEY, THE CRIME FOR WHICH SHE SERVED A TOTAL OF 18 YEARS IN PRISON .
SHE CLAIMS SHE WAS AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY BY THE HOME OFFICE AUTHORITIES TO SERVE A LESSER SENTENCE OF 7 YEARS IF SHE CONFESSED TO THIS CRIME .
SHE REFUSED THIS OFFER CLAIMING THAT…. WHY SHOULD SHE CONFESS TO A CRIME SHE NEVER COMMITTED?
INSTEAD THE HOME OFFICE INCREASED THE TARIFF ON TWO OCCASIONS TO A TOTAL 18 YEAR LIFE SENTENCE WHICH SHE SERVED IN FULL AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE .
COME VISIT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES WHAT LINDA CALVEY HAS TO SAY IN HER OWN WORDS …
Linda Calvey
Linda Calvey is a female murderer and armed robber jailed for killing her lover Ronnie Cook in 1990. She was known as the “Black Widow” because all of her lovers ended up either dead or in prison.[1]
Previous criminal career
Calvey began her criminal career as a lookout, later becoming a getaway driver and eventually wielding guns herself during robberies.[2]
Murder of Cook
She paid a hitman Daniel Reece £10,000 to kill Cook. However he lost his nerve at the last minute and Calvey picked up the gun herself shooting the victim at point blank range whilst he kneeled in front of her.[3]
At the time of her release Calvey was Britain‘s longest serving female prisoner. She spent 18 and a half years in prison for the murder of Cook and had also previously served three and a half years for an earlier robbery.[4]
In 2002 a book by Kate Kray detailing Calvey’s life and crimes was published
BELOW ARE A NUMBER OF IMAGES OF SOME OF THE PERSONAL EXHIBIT ITEMS BELONGING TO LINDA CALVEY ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , IMAGES OF LINDA PICTURED HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL AND AT VARIOUS EVENTS ETC ETC
Black Widow in freedom bid
ABOVE: Linda Calvey pictured here during a private visit to The Crime Through Time Collection at Littledean Jail in the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire.
A woman known as the Black Widow who was jailed for life for shooting dead her lover at point-blank range launched a new High Court bid for freedom today.
Lawyers for Linda Calvey asked a judge for permission to challenge Home Secretary David Blunkett’s failure to refer her case to the Parole Board.
Her counsel Alan Newman QC accused Mr Blunkett of acting unlawfully and in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Calvey, 53, who was in court to hear her case argued, has served 12 years of her life sentence and is currently held at Highpoint Prison, Suffolk.
She was convicted in November 1991 of the murder of Ronald Cook.
At her Old Bailey trial the jury was told that Calvey originally hired a hit man, Daniel Reece, for £10,000 to carry out the murder in November 1990.
But he had lost his nerve at the last minute, and she forced Cook to kneel in front of her before carrying out the killing.
Both Calvey and Reece, who was also jailed for life, denied murdering Cook at Calvey’s home in Plaistow, east London, in November 1990.
The trial jury was told Calvey was nicknamed the Black Widow because of her habit of dressing in black after her husband Mickey was shot dead by police in 1978 as he was carrying out an armed robbery.
Today Mr Newman told the court that the trial judge set the minimum period she must serve for retribution and deterrence at seven years – but the then Home Secretary more than doubled the tariff to 15 years in 1993. The tariff was reviewed and reset in 1998.
In November last year, the House of Lords ruled in the case of Anderson that it was incompatible with human rights laws for the Home Secretary to set tariffs for mandatory lifers.
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights required minimum periods in custody to be set by “an independent and impartial tribunal”.
Following that ruling Ms Calvey asked the Home Office to refer her case to the Parole Board as a matter of urgency, but her request was turned down.
Mr Newman told Mr Justice Jackson, sitting in London, that the Home Secretary’s failure to do so was unreasonable and breached Article 5 of the convention, which guaranteed a prisoner’s right to have their case reassessed if the basis for his or her detention changed.
He said it was “irrelevant” that the Lord Chief Justice had also concluded that the tariff should be 15 years.
Mr Blunkett had taken the view that Ms Calvey would have to wait until she could take advantage of new legislation passing through Parliament dealing with the position of lifers’ tariffs.
But by then she would probably have served the full 15-year tariff, and this would amount to a “cruel punishment” contrary to the 1688 Bill of Rights, said Mr Newman.
He told the judge that the case could affect many other murderers serving life sentences.
Seeking leave to apply for judicial review, he said: “The present application raises important and difficult points of law. Whatever may be the eventual outcome, even if at the end of the day the Secretary of State’s view prevails, this case clearly should be allowed to proceed to a full hearing.”
Would you marry the black widow? Ex-gangster Linda Calvey finds a new fiance
She’s a notorious gangster’s moll and every man who’s fallen for her has ended up dead or in jail. Now she’s finished a 28-year stretch for murder – and found a rich fiance. Has he got more money than sense?
Potentially lethal things, cars. Linda Calvey had a close call with an exploding spark
plug the other day. It left her a little shaken.
‘Afterwards, the guy in the garage told me that I was very lucky the engine did not go up, because I’d have been a gonner,’ she explains, breezy as you like.
Taking a chance: Linda Calvey and husband-to-be George Ceasar, who trusts her implicitly
‘I was telling my friend and she said: “Oh goodness, Linda. It could have been even worse. What if George had been driving and he’d been blown to pieces? You’d have been back inside in no time.” She was right, too. I can see the headlines now: The Black Widow Strikes Again.’
For some reason she seems to find this funny. Even more curiously, George, the man she will marry next year, is rocking with laughter too, tears collecting in his eyes.
Why the hilarity? Surely no sane person — or, at the very least, no lawabiding person — would regard it as funny to be so closely associated with Linda Calvey, behind the wheel or not.
Linda is the stuff of legends
For Linda is the stuff of legends — East End gangster legends, mostly.
In notoriety terms, she is up there with the Krays (indeed, Reggie Kray once proposed to her, which kind of says it all). So did ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser. In glamour terms, she is in a league of her own.
For most of her adult life she has gone by the name of the Black Widow, dubbed so ever since one police officer with whom she’d had dealings pondered the fact that ‘every man she has ever been involved with is either in prison or dead’.
When Myra Hindley died a few years back, Linda — her prison hairdresser, oddly enough — assumed the title of the longest-serving female prisoner in the country.
That 18-year stint was for blasting a former lover to death with a shotgun. Another lover was her co-defendant in the case, and was sent down, too.
They later married behind bars, although — as is so often the way with Linda — it didn’t last.
Her first husband Micky (the one who taught her to be a career criminal — armed robbery to be precise) met a violent end, too, although this was at the hands of the police, who confronted him mid hold-up. That is quite some history to be trailing up the aisle with poor George, who seems like ever such a nice man.
George’s past is squeaky clean
They will marry in the spring with seven — count them! — bridesmaids in tow. Isn’t that a tad excessive for a 60-year-old grandmother getting hitched for the third time? Perhaps.
But then nothing about Linda Calvey was ever understated.
Four months ago, she was released from prison and into the arms of her new love, whom she met while she was on day release.
George Ceasar is a businessman and a part-time ski instructor, and ‘the farthest thing in the world from a gangster’, according to his future wife, who seems almost surprised by this. He drives a red Rolls-Royce (‘bought rather than nicked,’ she grins). His past is squeaky clean, literally. He used to run a successful bleach factory.
‘We were the first people to put bleach in bottles,’ he tells me, proudly.
He should really be the sort of man who would run a mile from Linda Calvey and the criminal underworld she epitomises.
So why, then, is he gazing adoringly at her and bemoaning the peculiarities of the British parole system, in the way that most men of his background would tut-tut at how you can never find a Post Office when you need one.
Gangster Reggie Kray and “Mad” Frankie Fraser both proposed to Linda Calvey
‘Can’t you poison someone in daylight hours?’
George simply cannot believe that his bride-to-be is still subject to ‘barmy’ parole conditions, which mean she cannot spend the night at his — or their, as it is now — home.
‘They have this mad idea that I am in some danger because of her,’ he says, appalled.
‘The prison officers took me aside when I went to visit her, saying: “Be careful.”
‘They implied she might try to kill me, which is nonsense. Even if it were true, do the authorities really think that they are protecting me by allowing her to be here with me only during the day. Can’t you poison someone in daylight hours?
‘It’s just ludicrous, from all angles. Does she seem dangerous to you?’
Erm, well, no. But then, didn’t Harold Shipman’s patients think he was a darling? I pitch up at George’s sprawling 13-room period house in the Kent countryside, hoping to talk to Britain’s most notorious female gangster, and am taken aback by what I find.
Her demeanour — warm, sparky, surprisingly vulnerable, endlessly entertaining — sets the tone for what will be a truly surreal interview.
‘It is the first time I’ve had a Christmas tree in 18 years. Every year I had Christmas
inside, all I could think of was: “I want my own tree.” George wanted to get an artificial one. I said: “No, George — it has to be real. That’s what I’ve dreamed of.” He said: “Well, whatever you want, my dear, you will have.”’
George was smitten from the start
While I try to get the interview under way — remember that the subject matter is murder, armed robbery and organised crime — they bicker about who will make the tea and whether they are going to see Barry Manilow that evening. She wants to go, but he doesn’t.
I feel as though I have stepped into a rather uneasy cross between a Guy Ritchie film and an Ealing comedy. So, how clever is the woman who has been billed as Britain’s most notorious female gangster? On this evidence, extremely. The other inmates called her Ma in prison, and you can see why.
She is attractive. A little brassy, yes — the lead character in Lynda La Plante’s Widows was apparently based on her — but not overly so. She is tactile, engaging and endearing.
George was smitten from the very start. They met in a Medway town when she was on day release from prison two years ago.
‘I was in a restaurant and it was very busy, so she and her friend shared the table with me. We got chatting, and I thought to myself: “Well, this is a lovely lady here”,’ says George.
‘She said she was on a day out. I said: “Oh, an outing?”
‘She said: “No, a day out from prison.”
‘I said: “Blimey. What did you do? It obviously wasn’t something that bad if you’re in an
open prison.”
‘She said: “The thing I went down for was bad, but the point is I didn’t do it. I am innocent.”’
‘She said she didn’t do it, and I believe her’
George — in his mid-Seventies — has had troubles of his own. He tells me that he, too, has been married twice and that his second wife ‘robbed him blind’.
‘You don’t have to be murdered by a woman to be done over by her,’ he says at one
point. He has grown-up children who he never sees. It sounds as though he was lonely when this captivating creature came into his life. Despite the horrific charge list, he brushes over the gangster stuff — even the bits Linda has admitted to.
‘Yes, she was a naughty girl, but haven’t you done anything wrong?’ he asks disingenuously.
He also claims she is the kindest person he has ever met. They decide between themselves that she’s a much nicer person than he is on the grounds that she once gave a cold stranger her own gloves, while such a thing would never occur to George.
Linda was the longest serving female prisoner in the country
It almost seems churlish to bring up more bloody matters and he sighs when I do so.
‘We’ve talked about it all,’ says George. ‘She’s told me what she did do and what she didn’t do. Yes, she did make mistakes, but she told me that on the big one — killing Ron — she didn’t do it, and I believe her. She was stitched up.
‘She has been completely honest with me. After we’d been out on our first date, I sat her down in the living room and said: “I want the truth. I don’t care whether you did
it or not, but I want to know the truth.” She swore she didn’t, and I believe her.’
Linda has always maintained that she did not kill Ronald Cook. She points out that had she professed some guilt she would have been out of jail years ago.
‘They kept me in because I refused to say I did it. But I’ve always held my hands up to what I’ve done. Armed robbery, yes. I’ve done terrible things, things so bad I can hardly believe it myself. But I did not kill Ron, and I will go to my grave saying it.’
‘Men close to me end up dead or in prison… it’s not my fault’
However, in November 1991, a jury decided that she did, and the evidence presented in court was as chilling as Linda’s current set-up is cosy.
Ron had been her lover for several years, but when he went to prison, she turned to several of his friends — also gangsters — for comfort.
Things got complicated, in the sexual and financial sense.
The court heard that, on Ron’s release, Linda was terrified that he would discover she had been unfaithful and had spent the heist money he had stashed away. She allegedly asked another lover, Daniel Reece, to kill him.
An agreement was put in place. Linda collected Ron from prison and drove him to the home they shared. Reece was waiting, but lost his nerve at the crucial moment, leaving Linda to take the shotgun off him and finish the task herself.
Surreally enough, we find ourselves in George’s kitchen when this horrific chapter is broached.
Both are standing as Linda tells her version, effectively re-enacting aspects of that day as she describes how she cowered in a corner as a gunman — the real killer, she says — fired at pointblank range.
The pair of them talk, quite matter-of-factly, about it as Linda puts the kettle on, saying that the Black Widow tag is quite unfair.
‘OK, men close to me came a cropper, but that’s because I associated with gangsters. They end up dead or in prison. That’s life. It’s not my fault.’
‘I liked the lifestyle’
What she fails to do, however, is convey any real sense of remorse — even for the fact that a man she professed to love died in such a manner. Cold-blooded? Barking mad? Or has she just been removed from law-abiding society for so long that she finds such complete moral detachment easy?
What’s interesting is that the only man she talks about with genuine affection is her first husband, Micky — shot dead by armed officers in a botched robbery.
‘I was from a respectable family, no hint of trouble there,’ she says of their meeting.
‘Micky was trouble, but oh so charming with it. Even my mother said: “I can see why you have fallen for him.” He worshipped me, my Micky. He gave me the world. I
didn’t know — honest I didn’t — that most of it was nicked.’
Micky robbed at gunpoint. His team’s jobs were mostly planned in their kitchen, with her making tea and sandwiches, listening in. Learning. She maintains that she got involved in the hard stuff only when Micky died.
‘I kind of just slid in. I started doing some of the driving, then getting more involved. I had children to feed. I liked the lifestyle. Yes. I wasn’t evil, though. I wasn’t.’
She even insists, after a moment’s hesitation, that the guns she carried weren’t even loaded.
Linda Calvey poses for a photo at a Holloway prison party
She clearly hates the police and blames The Establishment, whatever that is, for the death of Micky. But she isn’t nearly as bitter as you might expect about her time in prison.
Again she talks dispassionately about how she survived: it seems to have boiled down to being tougher than all the rest, but never appearing to be tough. Black humour stalks every sentence.
‘When I went to Durham, I said I wouldn’t talk to anyone who had killed a child. The wardens said: “Well, you’ll not be talking to many people here then. They are all
murderers.” ’
She struck up a bizarre relationship with Myra Hindley. She says they weren’t friends, but they were close enough that Linda dyed Hindley’s hair regularly. She clearly
doesn’t put herself in the same criminal, morally deficient class, though.
‘Myra never regretted what she had done. I was often shocked by her. I remember when I was working in the prison library she came in and asked to order a book, but she wanted me to put it in the name of another girl, who never came into the library. I asked what book. It was The Devil And His Works. She got it, too.
George looks on — fascinated rather than horrified — as she chats away about somehow finding herself in the same prison wing as one of the most notorious female killers of our time.
‘I missed seeing my grandchildren grow up’
Is there remorse on her part? Yes, undoubtedly so — although mostly for herself and her loved ones.
‘I did not kill Ron and should not have done that sentence, but I know full well that it was my lifestyle that put me in prison for that murder, and that is a terrible thing to live with.
‘All my grandchildren were born when I was inside. I haven’t seen any of them grow up, and they never had a granny.
‘One day, one of them had to write in school about what they did at the weekend. My granddaughter wrote: “We went to see Granny and I got tickled by the policeman and
then we went swimming.” She meant she’d been frisked coming to the prison to see me. That floors you, you know.’
‘Mate, she saw you coming’
She seems close to tears. George pats her arm and talks about how they could put another Christmas tree in the hallway, if she wants.
I wonder if her realizes that most people will look at him and conclude that George, with his red Rolls-Royce, his big empty house and his ability to see the best in people and conclude: ‘Mate, she saw you coming.’
Have they considered a prenuptial agreement?
‘I’ve said I would sign one,’ Linda says sharply, but George shakes his head in distaste.
‘You can’t go into a marriage thinking like that. You have to trust people. Life’s a gamble, but if you lose trust, what have you got? So, she might kill me. Well, hell, I’ll
take the chance.’
Next spring — “If I last that long,” quips George — those wedding bells will ring. Linda is already thinking about flowers and cakes.
As I leave, she skips off to fetch me some of the cake decorations she learned to make in prison.
They are truly remarkable: tiny flowers, berries and leaves, made out of icing, but impossible to tell from the real thing, even up close.
The woman has a rare, impressive — and deeply disturbing — talent for leaving you wondering what is real and what is fake.
DAILY MAIL NEWS REPORT 6 SEPTEMBER 2016 ….
Has the curse of the Black Widow struck again? Notorious gangster’s moll Linda Calvey is single once more after third husband, 84, dies in Spanish hospital
George Ceasar passed away over the weekend, leaving Calvey a widow
Policeman once mused all Calvey’s husbands end up dead or behind bars
But Ceasar was confident his younger wife was not going to ‘bump him off’
Friend says Calvey is concerned people may not think she is a gold-digger
A killer known as the Black Widow is single again following the death of her third husband – but a close friend has insisted it has nothing to do with her infamous track record for losing spouses.
Linda Calvey – who was given her nickname after after one police officer mused ‘every man she has ever been involved with is either in prison or dead’ – is mourning the passing of Goerge Ceasar, 84, in a Spanish hospital this weekend.
The couple had been married five years and, despite Ceasar’s advanced age and ill-health, Calvey is said to be bracing herself for an adverse reaction from critics
PICTURED HERE ABOVE IS LINDA’S FIRST HUSBAND MICKY WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY A POLICE MARKSMAN
The friend said: ‘She dreads imagining the wrong conclusions people will now leap to, especially as cynics warned when she married him it was for his money, which wasn’t true.
‘The reality is that despite being a tough old boy, George simply passed away from a combination of illness and old age. Linda had nothing to do with his death.
‘It’s sad but that’s life.’
Calvey’s first husband was shot dead by police marksman, and the second, who she divorced, is serving life for murder, see below
Above: Second husband : marrying Danny Reece in Durham’s prison chapel in 1995 . He is still serving a life sentence
She served 18-and-a-half years in jail – the longest time behind bars by any woman in Britain – after shooting a former lover dead.
But Ceasar, who was 17 years her senior, seemed unworried by her reputation.
At his and Calvey’s lavish white wedding five years ago, the law abiding tycoon joked of his willingness to take a chance on ‘Linda not bumping me off’.
However, it is said he recently told friends that ‘marrying Linda was the worst mistake of my life’ – while Calvey hinted at a possible divorce.
‘Unlike George she wasn’t prepared to sit around at home in God’s waiting room day in day out. She spent a third of her life locked-up and when she was released she needed to be out and about,’ said the friend.
Ceasar, who left the UK to live in Spain for health reasons last winter, had spent a month in hospital near Benidorm, Costa Blanca, surrounded by Calvey’s family and friends.
The former ski instructor – who was given the last rites by a priest last week – left instructions for his ashes to be scattered on his favourite mountainside in Switzerland.
But Calvey was not at his side when he passed away as she is still subject to parole orders including travel restrictions, lives in Basildon, Essex.
Calvey, who rejected marriage proposals from villains Reggie Kray and ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser between husbands, was immortalised in the hit TV series, apltly named ‘Widows,’ by Lynda La Plante but she scoffed at claims she had made £1million from her crimes.
Her first husband Micky was shot dead by the Flying Squad in a bungled raid on a London supermarket in 1978.
She later wed hitman Danny Reece, who helped her kill her then boyfriend, Ronnie Cook in 1990.
Then, while Reece was still in jail for the murder, she asked him for a divorce to wed George.
They had first met by chance in a crowded pub in Canterbury, Kent, close to the prison where she was being prepared for release.
Ceaser asked her if she was enjoying a shopping trip in town, to which she replied: ‘Yes, but I’m from the jail down the road.’
Above: Linda with her boyfriend Ronnie Cook who she was alleged to have shot dead in cold blood .
As their friendship blossomed, he regularly visited her at HMP East Sutton Park and she confessed to him hat while she had ‘done many bad things in life’ she was not a murderer – despite the Old Bailey’s damning verdict.
Calvey has always maintained she was innocent, but jurors heard how she snatched the shotgun from Reece after he had bungled Cook’s killing, and finished him off herself.
On jail visit before her release in 2008, a concerned prison officer took besotted George aside and warned him: ‘Beware, she kills her men, you know..’
But the friend said this week: ‘Okay, the men close to Linda always came croppers but that’s because she associates with gangsters. Yes, they end up dead or in jail but it isn’t her fault.’
The friend said that she was braced for a backlash over George’s death from doubters who claimed she had only wed him for his bank balance.
Calvey had spent so long in jail that when she left her cell, her State pension amounted to only 11p a week.
‘Despite their differences, Linda greatly respected George, who was the kindest man she had ever known. She will miss him but she was never a gold digger.
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NETFLIX UK DARK TOURIST ATTRACTION HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GL14 3NL. AFTER SOME 48 YEARS IN PRISON, INFAMOUS BRITISH COP KILLER HARRY ROBERTS EXHIBITION FEATURED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON PUBLIC DISPLAY, WHICH INCLUDES PERSONALLY SIGNED MEMORABILIA, PRISON WORN CLOTHING AND OTHER PERSONAL ITEMS.
TRUE CRIME, MURDERABILIA, MAIMERABILIA AND DISMALABILIA ….IT’S ALL HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL
HERE’S A BRIEF INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF INFAMOUS 1966 COP KILLER HARRY ROBERTS . THE EXHIBITION INCLUDES PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CORRESPONDENCE FROM HIM , PERSONAL BELONGINGS AND PRISON WORN CLOTHING ….ALL OF WHICH CAN NOW BE SEEN ON PUBLIC DISPLAY AT THE JAIL IN AND AMONGST ALL THE TABLOID STORIES FROM OVER THE YEARS
ABOVE: Original painting of Harry Roberts by local Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman
SUNDAY PEOPLE STORY 24 APRIL 2016 ……NOT TOO SURE WHO TOOK THIS PHOTOGRAPH OR WHERE IT WAS TAKEN OF HARRY ROBERTS SIGNING PHOTOGRAPHS, OR WHO SOLD THE STORY TO THE PRESS ?? (CERTAINLY NOT US) . FOR THE RECORD , WHILST HARRY HAS PRIVATELY VISITED THE JAIL. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS DEFINITELY NOT TAKEN HERE , NEITHER DID HE ASK OR RECEIVE ANY PAYMENTS FOR THE PERSONAL ITEMS HE DONATED FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY ALL OF WHICH ARE FEATURED IN AND AMONGST THE TABLOID STORIES ABOUT HIM AND THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED .
ONE OF THE MANY AND CONTINUALLY UPDATED COLLAGE DISPLAYS FEATURING HARRY ROBERTS WHICH INCLUDES SENSATIONALISED TABLOID FEATURES …. ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE A CRIME MUSEUM AND IN NO SHAPE OR FORM DO WE GLORIFY OR GLAMOURISE ALL THOSE THAT WE FEATURE HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL.
FOR THE RECORD, NEITHER DO ANY OF THE ALLEGED OR CONVICTED PERSONS WHO HAVE PERSONALLY CONTRIBUTED DISPLAY ITEMS HERE ( NO MONIES OR PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY US TO ANY OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED MEMORABILIA FOR DISPLAY )
ALL CRIMES, SLEAZE, SCANDALS AND TRAGEDIES THAT WE FEATURE HERE ARE IN THE MAIN UNPLEASANT SUBJECT MATTERS TO COVER …. AND AS SUCH ARE NOT PRESENTED IN A PLEASANT WAY EITHER …
ABOVE : HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED BY COP KILLER HARRY ROBERTS
AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED BY HARRY ROBERTS
VICTIMS FROM LEFT PS CHRISTOPHER HEAD , DC DAVID WOMBWELL AND PC GEOFFREY FOX
Harry Maurice Roberts (born 21 July 1936) is an English career criminal who in 1966 instigated the Shepherd’s Bush murders , in which three police officers were shot dead. The killings happened after the plain-clothes officers approached the van in which Roberts and two other men were sitting in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. Roberts opened fire on the officers when he feared they would discover the firearms his gang were planning to use in an armed robbery. He shot dead two of the officers, while one of his accomplices fatally shot the third.
After Roberts had spent nearly 48 years in jail, in 2014 the Parole Board for England and Wales approved his release, at the age of 78. Having exceeded by far his minimum term of 30 years imprisonment, Roberts was one of the United Kingdom’s longest-serving prisoners, remaining in custody from 1966 until his 2014 release
PLEASE DO BE AWARE THAT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL DOES NOT IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM CONDONE THE HEINOUS MURDERS COMMITTED BY HARRY ROBERTS OR HIS ACCOMPLICES …..
WE ARE SIMPLY A CRIME MUSEUM AND AS SUCH TOUCH UPON AND FEATURE A VAST ARRAY OF HISTORIC AND PRESENT DAY TRUE CRIMES AND EVENTS THAT HAVE SHOOK THE WORLD IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ….. HENCE PROVIDING A SAD , DISTURBING AND INSIGHT INTO THESE EVIL CRIMES .
ALL IN ALL FORMING A HOPEFULLY HISTORICAL ARCHIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TOO .
SO PLEASE , PLEASE , PLEASE … IF EASILY OFFENDED , DISTURBED OR OF A SENSITIVE NATURE, DO AVOID VISITING LITTLEDEAN JAIL .
BELOW IS A GALLERY OF VARIOUS PERSONALLY SIGNED PIECES AND PRISON WORN CLOTHING FROM HARRY ROBERTS ….
Roberts’ name has been used for many years to antagonise the police, with chants like “Harry Roberts is our friend, is our friend, is our friend. Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers. Let him out to kill some more, kill some more, kill some more, let him out to kill some more, Harry Roberts” as well as “He shot three down in Shepherd’s Bush, Shepherd’s Bush, Shepherd’s Bush. He shot three down in Shepherd’s Bush, our mate Harry” (to the tune of “London Bridge Is Falling Down“) which originated with groups of young people outside Shepherd’s Bush police station after Roberts had been arrested
There have been artistic representations of Roberts. The character of Billy Porter in the 2001 novel He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott, and the 2008 TV adaptation, is based on Harry Roberts.
BELOW: SCENE OF THE TRIPLE COP KILLING
BELOW: HARRY ROBERTS INSPIRED TV SERIES AND BOOK … “HE KILLS COPPERS”
HARRY ROBERTS , POLICE KILLER RELEASED FROM PRISON ARTICLE IN DAILY MAIL ON 11 NOVEMBER 2014, ALSO SOME VIDEO ARCHIVE FOOTAGE … SEE HERE
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THE LAST WOMAN TO BE HANGED IN BRITAIN – RUTH ELLIS 13 JULY 1955
Posted on January 4, 2016 by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION
Ruth Ellis (9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely.
Original oil painting of Ruth Ellis by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman , on display at The Crime Through Time Collection , Littledean Jail , Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire , UK
BELOW IS A BRIEF ORIGINAL NEWSREEL FOOTAGE SURROUNDING THE CONTROVERSIAL EXECUTION OF RUTH ELLIS ON THE 13TH JULY 1955 BELOW IS AN ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED LETTER FROM RUTH ELLIS TO A PREVIOUS VISITING LADY FROM CHELTENHAM AND SENT FROM HER CONDEMNED CELL AT HMP HOLLOWAY 2 MONTHS PROIR TO HER EXECUTIONNOW HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL , FOREST OF DEAN , GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK
THIS IMAGE (BELOW ) IS TAKEN FROM THE FILM – PIERREPOINT DEPICTING THE SCENE OF THE EXECUTION OF RUTH ELLIS. A FILM TRAILER FOR THE FILM- PIERREPOINT THAT TOUCHES UPON THE EXECUTIONER WHO HANGED RUTH ELLIS …… ALBERT PIERREPOINT
From a humble background, Ellis was soon drawn into the world of London nightclub hostessing, which led to a chaotic life of brief relationships, some of them with upper-class nightclubbers and celebrities. Two of these were David Blakely, a racing-driver already engaged to another woman, and Desmond Cussen, a retail company director, who gave her a gun, apparently to attack the violent Blakely.
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ellis shot Blakely dead outside a public house in Hampstead, and immediately gave herself up to the police. At her trial, she took full responsibility for the murder, shielding Cussen from blame, and her courtesy and composure, both in court and in the cells, was much noted in the press. She was hanged at Holloway Prison, London, by Albert Pierrepoint.[2]
The case attracted great controversy, since the anti-hanging debate was already in full cry, and she might have won a reprieve had she taken her solicitors’ advice. The picture of the attractive blonde murderess remains one of the iconic images of 1950’s London.
Ellis was born in the Welsh seaside town of Rhyl, the third of six children. During her childhood her family moved to Basingstoke. Her mother, Elisaberta (Bertha) Cothals, was a Belgian refugee; her father, Arthur Hornby, was a cellist from Manchester who spent much of his time playing on Atlantic cruise liners. Arthur changed his surname to Neilson after the birth of Ruth’s elder sister Muriel.
Ellis attended Fairfields Senior Girls’ School in Basingstoke,[1] leaving when she was 14 to work as a waitress. Shortly afterwards, in 1941 at the height of the Blitz, the Neilsons moved to London. In 1944, 17-year-old Ruth became pregnant by a married Canadian soldier and gave birth to a son,Clare Andrea Neilson,[1] known as “Andy”.[3] The father sent money for about a year, then stopped. The child eventually went to live with Ellis’s mother.[4]
Ellis became a nightclub hostess through nude modelling work, which paid significantly more than the various factory and clerical jobs she had held since leaving school. Morris Conley, the manager of the Court Club in Duke Street, where she worked, blackmailed his hostess employees into sleeping with him. Early in 1950 she became pregnant by one of her regular customers, having taken up prostitution.[4] She had this pregnancy terminated (illegally) in the third month and returned to work as soon as she could.
On 8 November 1950, she married 41-year-old George Ellis, a divorced dentist with two sons, at the register office in Tonbridge, Kent.[5] He had been a customer at the Court Club. He was a violent alcoholic, jealous and possessive, and the marriage deteriorated rapidly because he was convinced she was having an affair. Ruth left him several times but always returned.
In 1951, while four months pregnant, Ruth appeared, uncredited, as a beauty queen in the Rank film Lady Godiva Rides Again. She subsequently gave birth to a daughter Georgina, but George refused to acknowledge paternity and they separated shortly afterwards. Ruth and her daughter moved in with her parents and she went back to hostessing to make ends meet.[4]
Murder of David Blakely
In 1953, Ruth Ellis became the manager of a nightclub. At this time, she was lavished with expensive gifts by admirers, and had a number of celebrity friends.[4] She met David Blakely, three years her junior, through racing driver Mike Hawthorn. Blakely was a well-mannered former public school boy, but also a hard-drinking racer. Within weeks he moved into her flat above the club, despite being engaged to another woman, Mary Dawson. Ellis became pregnant for the fourth time but aborted the child, feeling she could not reciprocate the level of commitment shown by Blakely towards their relationship.[6]
She then began seeing Desmond Cussen. Born in 1921 in Surrey he had been an RAF pilot, flying Lancaster bombers during the Second World War, leaving the RAF in 1946, when he took up accountancy. He was appointed a director of the family business Cussen & Co., a wholesale and retail tobacconists with outlets in London and South Wales. When Ruth was sacked as manager of the Carroll Club, she moved in with Cussen at 20 Goodward Court, Devonshire Street, north of Oxford Street, becoming his mistress.
The relationship with Blakely continued, however, and became increasingly violent and embittered as Ellis and Blakely continued to see other people.[6] Blakely offered to marry Ellis, to which she consented, but she lost another child in January 1955, after a miscarriage induced by a punch to the stomach in an argument with Blakely.[6]
The Magdala today
On Easter Sunday, 10 April 1955,[7] Ellis took a taxi from Cussen’s home to a second floor flat at 29 Tanza Road, Hampstead, the home of Anthony and Carole Findlater and where she suspected Blakely might be. As she arrived, Blakely’s car drove off, so she paid off the taxi and walked the quarter mile to The Magdala,[8] a four-storey public house in South Hill Park, Hampstead, where she found Blakely’s car parked outside.
At around 9:30 pm David Blakely and his friend Clive Gunnell emerged. Blakely passed Ellis waiting on the pavement when she stepped out of Henshaws Doorway, a newsagent next to The Magdala. He ignored her when she said “Hello, David,” then shouted “David!”
As Blakely searched for the keys to his car,[9] Ellis took a .38 calibre Smith & Wesson Victory model revolver from her handbag and fired five shots at Blakely. The first shot missed and he started to run, pursued by Ellis round the car, where she fired a second, which caused him to collapse onto the pavement. She then stood over him and fired three more bullets into him. One bullet was fired less than half an inch from Blakely’s back and left powder burns on his skin.
Ellis was seen to stand mesmerised over the body and witnesses reported hearing several distinct clicks as she tried to fire the revolver’s sixth and final shot, before finally firing into the ground. This bullet ricocheted off the road and injured Gladys Kensington Yule, 53, in the base of her thumb, as she walked to The Magdala.
Ellis, in a state of shock, asked Gunnell, “Will you call the police, Clive?” She was arrested immediately by an off-duty policeman, Alan Thompson (PC 389), who took the still-smoking gun from her, put it in his coat pocket, and heard her say, “I am guilty, I’m a little confused.” She was taken to Hampstead police station where she appeared to be calm and not obviously under the influence of drink or drugs. She made a detailed confession to the police and was charged with murder. Blakely’s body was taken to hospital with multiple bullet wounds to the intestines, liver, lung, aorta and windpipe.
No solicitor was present during Ellis’s interrogation or during the taking of her statement at Hampstead police station, although three police officers were present that night at 11:30 pm: Detective Inspector Gill, Detective Inspector Crawford and Detective Chief Inspector Davies. Ellis was still without legal representation when she made her first appearance at the magistrates’ court on 11 April 1955 and held on remand.
She was twice examined by principal Medical Officer, M. R. Penry Williams, who failed to find evidence of mental illness and she undertook an electroencephalography examination on 3 May that failed to find any abnormality. While on remand in Holloway, she was examined by psychiatrist Dr D. Whittaker for the defence, and by Dr A. Dalzell on behalf of the Home Office. Neither found evidence of insanity.
Trial and execution
On 20 June 1955, Ellis appeared in the Number One Court at the Old Bailey, London, before Mr Justice Havers. She was dressed in a black suit and white silk blouse with freshly bleached and coiffured blonde hair. Her lawyers had wanted her to play down her appearance, but she was determined to have her moment. To many in the courthouse, her fixation with being the brassy blonde was at least partially responsible for the poor impression she made when giving evidence.
It’s obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him.[10]
—Ruth Ellis, in the witness box at the Old Bailey, 20 June 1955.
This was her answer to the only question put to her by Christmas Humphreys, counsel for the Prosecution, who asked, “When you fired the revolver at close range into the body of David Blakely, what did you intend to do?”[10] The defending counsel, Aubrey Melford Stevenson supported by Sebag Shaw and Peter Rawlinson, would have advised Ellis of this possible question before the trial began, because it is standard legal practice to do so. Her reply to Humphreys’s question in open court guaranteed a guilty verdict and therefore the mandatory death sentence which followed. The jury took 14 minutes to convict her.[10] She received the sentence, and was taken to the condemned cell at Holloway.
In a 2010 television interview Mr Justice Havers’s grandson, actor Nigel Havers, said his grandfather had written to the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George recommending a reprieve as he regarded it as a crime passionnel, but received a curt refusal, which was still held by the family. It has been suggested that the final nail in her coffin was that an innocent passer-by had been injured.
Reluctantly, at midday on 12 July 1955, the day before her execution, Ellis, having dismissed Bickford, the solicitor chosen for her by her friend Desmond Cussen, made a statement to the solicitor Victor Mishcon (whose law firm had previously represented her in her divorce proceedings but not in the murder trial) and his clerk, Leon Simmons. She revealed more evidence about the shooting and said that the gun had been provided by Cussen, and that he had driven her to the murder scene. Following their 90-minute interview in the condemned cell, Mishcon and Simmons went to the Home Office, where they spoke to a senior civil servant about Ellis’s revelations. The authorities made no effort to follow this up and there was no reprieve.
In a final letter to David Blakely’s parents from her prison cell, she wrote “I have always loved your son, and I shall die still loving him.”[11]
Ever since Edith Thompson‘s execution in 1923, condemned female prisoners had been required to wear thick padded calico knickers, so just prior to the allotted time, Warder Evelyn Galilee, who had guarded Ellis for the previous three weeks, took her to the lavatory. Warder Galilee said, “I’m sorry Ruth but I’ve got to do this.” They had tapes back and front to pull. Ellis said “Is that all right?” and “Would you pull these tapes, Evelyn? I’ll pull the others.” On re-entering the condemned cell, she took off her glasses, placed them on the table and said “I won’t be needing these anymore.”[12]
Thirty seconds before 9 am on Wednesday 13 July, the official hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, and his assistant, Royston Rickard, entered the condemned cell and escorted Ruth the 15 feet (4.6 m) to the execution room next door.[13] She had been weighed at 103 pounds (47 kg) the previous day and a drop of 8 ft 4in was set. Pierrepoint carried out the execution in just 12 seconds and her body was left hanging for an hour. Her autopsy report, by the pathologist Dr Keith Simpson, was made public.[14]
The Bishop of Stepney, Joost de Blank, visited Ellis just before her death, and she told him, “It is quite clear to me that I was not the person who shot him. When I saw myself with the revolver I knew I was another person.” These comments were made in a London evening paper of the time, The Star.
[edit]Public reaction
The case caused widespread controversy at the time, evoking exceptionally intense press and public interest to the point that it was discussed by the Cabinet.[15]
On the day of her execution the Daily Mirror columnist Cassandra wrote a column attacking the sentence, writing “The one thing that brings stature and dignity to mankind and raises us above the beasts will have been denied her—pity and the hope of ultimate redemption.”[16] A petition to the Home Office asking for clemency was signed by 50,000 people, but the Conservative Home Secretary Major Gwilym Lloyd George rejected it.[16]
The novelist Raymond Chandler, then living in Britain, wrote a scathing letter to the Evening Standard, referring to what he described as “the medieval savagery of the law”.[17]
The hanging helped strengthen public support for the abolition of the death penalty, which was halted in practice for murder in Britain 10 years later (the last execution in the UK occurred in 1964). Reprieve was by then commonplace. According to one statistical account, between 1926 and 1954, 677 men and 60 women had been sentenced to death in England and Wales, but only 375 men and seven women had been executed.[18]
In the early 1970s, John Bickford, Ellis’s solicitor, made a statement to Scotland Yard from his home in Malta. He was recalling what Desmond Cussen had told him in 1955: how Ellis lied at the trial and how he (Bickford) had hidden that information. After Bickford’s confession a police investigation followed but no further action regarding Cussen was taken.
Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister at the time, made no reference to the Ruth Ellis case in his memoirs, nor is there anything in his papers. He accepted that the decision was the responsibility of the Home Secretary, but there are indications that he was troubled by it.[19]
Foreign newspapers observed that the concept of the crime passionnel seemed alien to the British.
[edit]Family aftermath
In 1969 Ellis’s mother, Berta Neilson, was found unconscious in a gas-filled room in her flat in Hemel Hempstead. She never fully recovered and did not speak coherently again. Ellis’s husband, George Ellis, descended into alcoholism and hanged himself in 1958. Her son, Andy, who was 10 at the time of his mother’s hanging, suffered irreparable psychological damage and committed suicide in a bedsit in 1982. The trial judge, Sir Cecil Havers, had sent money every year for Andy’s upkeep, and Christmas Humphreys, the prosecution counsel at Ellis’s trial, paid for his funeral.[3] Ellis’s daughter, Georgina, who was three when her mother was executed, was adopted when her father hanged himself three years later. She died of cancer aged 50.[20]
[edit]Pardon campaign
The case continues to have a strong grip on the British imagination and in 2003 was referred back to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The Court firmly rejected the appeal, although it made clear that it could rule only on the conviction based on the law as it stood in 1955, and not on whether she should have been executed.[21]
The court was critical of the fact that it had been obliged to consider the appeal:
We would wish to make one further observation. We have to question whether this exercise of considering an appeal so long after the event when Mrs Ellis herself had consciously and deliberately chosen not to appeal at the time is a sensible use of the limited resources of the Court of Appeal. On any view, Mrs Ellis had committed a serious criminal offence. This case is, therefore, quite different from a case like Hanratty [2002] 2 Cr App R 30 where the issue was whether a wholly innocent person had been convicted of murder. A wrong on that scale, if it had occurred, might even today be a matter for general public concern, but in this case there was no question that Mrs Ellis was other than the killer and the only issue was the precise crime of which she was guilty. If we had not been obliged to consider her case we would perhaps in the time available have dealt with 8 to 12 other cases, the majority of which would have involved people who were said to be wrongly in custody.[22]
In July 2007 a petition was published on the 10 Downing Street website asking Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reconsider the Ruth Ellis case and grant her a pardon in the light of new evidence that the Old Bailey jury in 1955 was not asked to consider. It expired on 4 July 2008.[23]
[edit]Burials
Ellis was buried in an unmarked grave within the walls of Holloway Prison, as was customary for executed prisoners. In the early 1970s the prison underwent an extensive programme of rebuilding, during which the bodies of all the executed women were exhumed for reburial elsewhere. Ellis’s body was reburied in the churchyard extension of St Mary’s Church in Amersham,Buckinghamshire. The headstone in the churchyard was inscribed “Ruth Hornby 1926–1955”. Her son, Andy, destroyed the headstone shortly before he committed suicide in 1982. The family later reportedly removed her remains and reburied them at a secret location because of the attention that the plot at St Mary’s was receiving.
The remains of the four other women executed at Holloway, Styllou Christofi, Edith Thompson, Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, were reburied in a single grave at Brookwood Cemetery.
Coincidentally, Styllou Christofi, who was executed in December 1954, lived at 11 South Hill Park in Hampstead,[24] with her son and daughter-in-law, a few yards from The Magdala public house at number 2a, where David Blakely was shot four months later.
Film, TV and theatrical adaptations
In 1980, the third episode of the first series of the ITV drama series Lady Killers recreated the court case, with Ellis played by Georgina Hale.
The first cinema portrayal of Ellis came with the release of the 1985 movie Dance with a Stranger (directed by Mike Newell), featuring Miranda Richardson as Ellis.
Both Ellis’s story and the story of Albert Pierrepoint are retold in the stage play Follow Me, written by Ross Gurney-Randall and Dave Mounfield and directed by Guy Masterson. It premièred at theAssembly Rooms as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In the film Pierrepoint (2006), Ellis was portrayed by Mary Stockley.
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Rush Limbaugh Melts Down On Fox News Sunday
Apparently Rush Limbaugh isn't so confidant away from his microphone because when Chris Wallace tried to question him on his wacky beliefs, he melted down on air from the softball questions.
Media critics like myself often write about the D.C. beltway bubble and how those residing there are only really cognizant of what others in their bubble say and believe, but in their minds they believe that those beliefs typify average Americans across the country. Digby coined the term 'Villagers," and I think that sums them up quite well.
The term "The Village" does stem from the notorious Sally Quinn article about the Clintons. But it's more than that. It's shorthand for the permanent DC ruling class who have managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth...read on
This has caused journalism in general to suffer greatly as well as the public it is supposed to serve. There is also the type of bubble that conservatives also occupy where they believe their entire belief systems are being attacked and persecuted by the liberal elites at every turn. A typical response to that is to say Obama is Muslim terrorist who hates America and Eric Holder is a member of Hamas. One of its major grand poobahs is Rush Limbaugh and there's a reason why he doesn't do interviews all that often. He can't handle interacting outside of his bubble.
His appearance on Fox News Sunday was very weird and very illuminating on this point. Chris Wallace interviewed Rush and when he attempted to ask Limbaugh to justify some of his insane theories Limbaugh literally fell apart and amped up his conspiracy theorism. And just as weird was Chris Wallace blowing kisses and love letters at Limbaugh in attempt to bow down to his altar while trying to engage in the interview. He said things like this:
WALLACE: I want to switch subjects, I hate to move you along because I love listening to you, but I do want to move on to another subject.
Why did Wallace say he loves listening to him? Bias much? Anyway, I've never seen a host of a supposed serious political talk show pander so much to one of its guests. Anyway, watch the video clip and you'll understand why PoliticusUSA: says, Limbaugh falls apart when confronted with reality.
Wallace triggered a meltdown from Limbaugh by pointing out that Republicans won in 2014 despite shutting down the government. Limbaugh quickly went from anger at being challenged to full blown conspiracy theorist. Limbaugh said,
Does that not matter? You keep talking polls to me, and I’ve got the. The essence of a poll is an election, and I’ve got two of them. And we would have won the White House in 2012 if four million Republicans hadn’t have stayed home.
What does it matter? They won. The point is that this is a trick. I think the shutdown is a trick. Here is what it really means, Chris. The Republicans want what Obama wants on immigration, and they are using the government shutdown as an excuse to not stop him. Because the truth of the matter is they agree with it. Romney agrees with it. Jeb Bush agrees with it. Chamber of Commerce agrees with it. Obviously, the Republican establishment doesn’t want to stop Obama on comprehensive immigration reform….And very conveniently, here’s this government shutdown. Oh, we can’t act. We can’t act because they’ll blame us for shutting down the government. They’ll blame us for shutting down the government.
I think it’s absurd. I think it’s ridiculous, and the American people are being let down here. They’re voting. They’re expressing their desires. They want this stuff stopped, and the Republican Party’s not listening.
The Fox News interview, which was as gentle as it gets, revealed why Limbaugh doesn’t do television interviews outside of the right-wing bubble. The man can’t handle reality in any way, shape or form. He went on a conspiracy bender as soon as Chris Wallace pointed out that last year’s Republican caused government shutdown was a bad thing.
Limbaugh has taken the Fox News brand of paranoia and unleashed on the Republican Party. In Rush Limbaugh’s warped view, the Republican Party is working with Obama.
To anyone outside of the Republican media bubble, Rush Limbaugh sounded crazy. The only factual statement in the entire segment was that Republicans won the 2014 election. Everything else that came out of Limbaugh’s mouth was combination of borderline mental illness and fantasy.
Rush Limbaugh couldn’t handle the softballs that Fox News tossed to him without falling apart. Rush Limbaugh isn’t strong icon. He is the dying voice of an aging white male conservative movement that is fading away.
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Republicans Warn Trump: 'Putin Is Not Our Friend'
For all the good it will do, several Republicans this weekend warned Donald Trump that he should not cozy up to Vladimir Putin.
3 years ago by Frances Langum
Donald Trump is highly unlikely to listen to national security and intelligence experts about Vladimir Putin. After all, Putin has said nice things about Trump, and Trump knows he himself has a "very good brain" from which to get advice about such things.
That isn't stopping them from trying.
First up is Michael Morell, former acting director and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Vickers was the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Both are Republicans. Both have served in the Obama administration. And both have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Wonder why?
The Washington Post published their open letter to Trump this morning, which includes these words, emphasis added:
Mr. Trump, with all due respect to you as the presidential nominee of the Republican Party, you cannot credibly serve as commander in chief if you embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader has repeatedly shown himself to be an adversary of the United States. Putin, during his long tenure, has repeatedly pursued policies that undermine U.S. interests and those of our allies and partners. He has steadily but systematically moved Russia from a fledgling democratic state to an authoritarian one. He is the last foreign leader you should be praising.
At the Commander-in-Chief Forum on Sept. 7, you said that as long as Putin says nice things about you, you will say nice things about him. That is not a standard by which a president should make policy decisions. That should not even enter your calculus. Your only question should be “What is in the best interests of the United States?”
So, here is our challenge: Demand that Putin stop his aggressive behavior overseas. Demand that he stop his dictatorial moves at home. Tell him that you will live up to our NATO commitments and defend the Baltics if need be. Tell him that you want to work with him on solving the problems in the world — but that he must behave in order to do so. That is what a true commander in chief would do.
This open letter was covered on this morning's Morning Joe, and Congressman Michael McCaul, a Republican, from Texas of all places, relates that he has talked to Trump about Putin -- "Once KGB, always KGB" -- and that Putin is clearly trying to mess with our own democratic election.
Here is the full rush transcript via Morning Joe:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC HOST: Joining us now, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Republican Congressman Michael McCaul of Texas. Good to have you on.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC HOST: Mr. Chairman, great to have you here.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R), TEXAS: It's good to be here.
SCARBOROUGH: Before we talk about anything, let's talk about the remembrance yesterday at Ground Zero. Talk about how moving that was, what you saw.
MCCAUL: Well, very moving psalm as always. Very good turnout. It's the first time I've seen both presidential candidates show up to something like this. Every New York police chief was there. And when they read the names and at that takes, as you know, about four hours to read 3,000 names, you get the gravity of that moment 15 years ago.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes. Let's talk about Syria. Right now, obviously what's been going on in Syria and Aleppo has just been a nightmare and we have not responded quickly enough through the years. What should we do? What else can we do as a nation to bring peace to that region?
MCCAUL: Well, I think we've been put in a bad position. I think four years of not making a decision is a decision in and of itself. The Russians are in there now. And so how do we deal with a very complex foreign policy civil war situation? The Russian interests are very different from ours in terms of propping up Assad, stability of Syria from their point of view, and an alliance from Iran. On the other hand, we do have one thing we share, and that is going against ISIS. The problem is they haven't demonstrated that capability.
SCARBOROUGH: They just haven't done that, have they?
MCCAUL: They just haven't done --
SCARBOROUGH: They've been doing Assad's bidding.
MCCAUL: They've gone really against the rebel forces to help Assad.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
MCCAUL: And they haven't targeted ISIS. Now, if they would join us in targeting ISIS, that would be a very positive step. But I don't really trust the Russians and I think, you know, peace through strength is what Reagan talked about and trust but verify.
You know, look, in theory it would be a great step forward but we're still a little bit cautious about it.
SCARBOROUGH: Is Vladimir Putin one of the most dangerous men on the world stage when it comes to opposing American interests?
MCCAUL: I think he's one of the -- in terms of naked aggression. I think he sees weakness and weakness invites aggression. I think that Mr. Putin has taken over Crimea. He wants to take back the Baltic statse and Ukraine. He's very aggressive in cyber attacks, including potentially on our election system going into November. So I think he's a very dangerous man. Once KGB, always KGB. Question is who do you want to stare him down in a diplomatic negotiation?
BRZEZINSKI: So do you think that the Republican nominee fully understands that, what you just said?
MCCAUL: I spoke with him yesterday. I urged caution when it comes to this man. He respects him in terms of his strength, being a strong man. I think Mr. Trump envisions himself in that light as well. But urged caution to not think that we can embrace him.
Mr. Putin is not our friend. Your father knows this very well.
SCARBOROUGH: He does.
BRZEZINSKI: Does Donald -- I mean it with all due respect, does Donald Trump understand that?
MCCAUL: Well, his advisers do. And I think that's important to note. He's being advised by people like myself and others that this is not -- look, if you can work with him to take out ISIS --
BRZEZINSKI: So are you saying that he doesn't but advisers do so that' will be a circle of safety around someone who doesn't get it?
MCCAUL: I think he has a respect for the man. But -- respect that he thinks he's in a better position than Hillary Clinton to sit in a room with him and stare him down.
MARK HALPERIN, BLOOMBERG POLITICS: Based on what you know, the talk of the Russians trying to interfere with our election, what would they do?
MCCAUL: I can't -- I'm not at liberty to go into much of this. It's in the classified space. There are the allegations out there that they are attempting to undermine our democracy, hitting not just Democratic Party but the Republican Party.
HALPERIN: Is it a threat that they try to, for instance, change the result by giving more -- faking more votes to one side? How would that actually interfere with the --
MCCAUL: It's unclear at this point in time what their motive is. We have seen Russia in the past demonstrate a capability to influence and mess with elections in Europe, and so we're very concerned about these latest allegations of cyber interference.
HALPERIN: And what do you think of the allegation that Vladimir Putin is somehow playing Donald Trump and manipulating him by flattering him?
MCCAUL: The response to that would be they've hit both parties. It's not like they've singled out the Democrats. They've also singled out Republicans as well. So we're not quite sure what the motivation is other than potentially to undermine our way of life, our democratic system and elections.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. Chairman Mike McCaul, thank you very much. I appreciate your candor.
SCARBOROUGH: We really appreciate you coming on.
BRZEZINSKI: Thanks for coming on.
MCCAUL: Thanks, Mika.
I don't know what is more frightening, that a vicious foreign leader is trying to undermine our election process, or that one of the candidates is so stupid and vain that he welcomes our new Russian overlord.
Donald Trump, intelligence community, Republicans, vladimir putin
GOP Rep Tells CNN Russians Hacked The RNC -- But They Didn't
During an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Mike McCaul made the claim that Russian hackers also breached the Republican National Committee.
By Red Painter
Claire McCaskill: 'Todd Akin Would Be Perfect' As Trump's VP
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MoJo ashamed of his Republican brethren,claimed he warned Trump about the dangers of ignoring history. Should we forget all that phone-in-interview for months noise?
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It has to be a horse race.
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John Kerry: GOP Presidential Primary 'Is Embarrassing Our Country Abroad'
SOS John Kerry told the Morning Joe Crew that people from around the world are wondering what we're doing to ourselves.
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WHO: Swine Flu Virus Travels Deep Into Lungs, More Likely To Cause Pneumonia
I don't know why people are so determined to ignore this. As someone who's had pneumonia, trust me, it's not an experience you want to have. I was luc
By Susie Madrak on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 7:00am
Studies: No In-Between With Swine Flu. It's Either Mild -- Or Critical.
Either you get a mild case - or it almost kills you, and they still don't know why: Swine flu is mild for most people, but some become so gravely ill
By Susie Madrak on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:00am
Preview Of Things To Come? ICU Admissions For H1N1 Skyrocket In Australia
If this mutates into a more virulent flu, we're in trouble - because we just don't have enough ventilators to treat a major pandemic: A new governm
By Susie Madrak on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 9:00am
Most Parts Of America Report Flu. Meanwhile, China Finds Negligible Side Effects From Vaccine.
Widespread? Yeah, I think I'm coming down with it myself. (I drove my son to the doctor the other day and had to sit in a tiny room with a flu vic
By Susie Madrak on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 12:00pm
I Have An American That Died For CNN's Alex Castellanos
CNN's conservative pundit named Alex Castellanos tried his best to undermine Alan Grayson's charge that republicans have a non existent health care
By John Amato on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 10:00am
Jessica Yellin Debunks The Attacks On Kevin Jennings
As Media Matters has documented, the right wing has been after Kevin Jennings for some time now. Conservative media unleash anti-gay rhetoric in attac
By Heather on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 3:00pm
R.I.P. Kimi Young, 22, Another Casualty Of Our For-Profit Deathcare System.
Another bright young life snuffed out because of our crappy health care system. And, if history's any indication, no one in Congress will care until i
By Susie Madrak on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 12:00pm
A Scathingly Brilliant Idea On How To Get Real Healthcare Reform
I have this idea. It's pretty simple and I think it will appeal to a lot of people. Here it is. I want every uninsured man and woman who comes dow
By Susie Madrak on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 4:00pm
Rachel Maddow On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Rachel Maddow visited the set of the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and talked about her bout with the swine flu, the tea baggers and going to a shootin
By Heather on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:00pm
Air Force Academy Quarantines 250 Cadets For Swine Flu
August 27, 2009 News Corp
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Contact Form 7 4.9.1
October 31, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.9.1 is now available. This release includes several fixes and improvements and has been confirmed to be compatible with WordPress 4.9.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 4.9.1 →
Contact Form 7 4.9
August 18, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.9 is now available. If you have contact forms for logged-in users, the newly introduced Subscribers-Only Mode will be a great improvement. 4.9 adds new filter hooks and a custom DOM event that allows you to control your contact forms more flexibly. Fixes for several bugs seen in the previous versions are also included. I strongly recommend upgrading to 4.9 now.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 4.9 →
July 24, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.8.1 is now available. This release fixes several bugs found in Contact Form 7 4.8.
on_sent_ok Is Deprecated
June 7, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
The Additional Setting “on_sent_ok” is used to assign a JavaScript code that will be executed when a form submission completes and mail has been sent successfully. It is often used for the purpose of tracking form submissions with web analytics services or redirecting to another page after a form submission.
The “on_sent_ok” and its sibling setting “on_submit” are deprecated and scheduled to be abolished by the end of 2017. It’s not that using those settings is unsafe, but it’s possible that enabling them will increase risk in case there are vulnerabilities in this plugin or in other components of your site. It’s time to replace them with a safer alternative.
Update: on_sent_ok and on_submit have been officially removed from Contact Form 7 5.0.
Continue reading on_sent_ok Is Deprecated →
Contact Form 7 4.8 is now available. Continuing from the previous update, the main focus is placed on internal refinements for future evolution.
March 3, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.7 is now available. This release is mainly aimed at several internal refinements that are going to be important in the future evolution. Although it doesn’t include fixes for security issues or critical bugs, I recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.
January 23, 2017 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.6.1 is now available. This release includes several bug fixes.
December 3, 2016 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.6 is available. This release has been confirmed as compatible with the upcoming WordPress 4.7, and includes a lot of new features and improvements I’m sure you have been looking for.
September 27, 2016 Takayuki Miyoshi
Contact Form 7 4.5.1 is now available. This release includes several fixes and improvements.
August 8, 2016 Takayuki Miyoshi
The default contact form template has been modified for the first time in 8 years. The major change is the addition of label elements.
Using a label element to label a form control is recommended in accessibility guidelines. In earlier versions, the default template didn’t use label elements, so you had to add them on your own if you wanted to make your form accessible.
In the early versions released before 2008, label elements were used in their default template, but they were abandoned for a reason.
Heads-up About Spreadsheet Vulnerabilities
Customizing Mail-Tag Replacement
Troubleshooting: Why you are advised to deactivate plugins and switch to the default theme.
Preventing Multiple Submissions — Why This Is a Terrible Idea.
About Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin for WordPress. Simple but flexible.
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Seppelt Wines Flashback
The Seppelt Great Western winery was founded in 1865 by Joseph Best, when he commissioned miners to tunnel underground cellars, known as the “Drives” In 1888, following Joseph Best’s passing, Ballarat businessman Hans Irvine purchased Great Western. In 1890, Irvine hired Frenchman Charles Pierlot to produce the first methode
Great Western - A Wine Village with 23 Hotels
From very early gold mining days, the little village of Great Western has had an extensive association with hotels and wineries. Even though Great Western is known as the wine village, evidence exists in the newspapers that date as far back as 1868, that 23 hotels have existed in Great
Did you know that Great Western almost lost its name?
The amazing volunteers at the Stawell Historical Society have stumbled across a very interesting article, dated the 7th July 1904 that was published in the Stawell News. This amazing piece of history explain that Great Western may have been renamed to 'Irvine"Mr. Hans Irvine first arrived in Great Western
Seppelt Underground Cellars
Beneath the surface of Seppelt Wines in Great Western is over 3km of hand dug cellars that are between 6 - 8 metres in depth. Underground, behind this locked gate is the McKenzie Museum, that was named after one of Seppelt Wines past winemakers, Ian McKenzie. Some of the wines
Destination Great Western
Great Western is the wine and food village of the Grampians. This charming township is located on the Western Highway between Melbourne and Adelaide. First settled in the 1840s by sheep graziers, Great Western rapidly developed through the discovery of gold and then the planting of grapevines. Today, it remains the focal point of one of Australia's internationally renowned wine-growing regions and one of Australia's most awarded wine villages.
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@TheRantingFather
“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." - Julia Child
Shocking Number Of Young Americans Say Other Countries Are Better | Zero Hedge
Over a third of young Americans do not believe that the United States is the greatest country in the world...
Ship em out.
California couple baited, beat bike thieves, posted videos to YouTube
A California couple was arrested for luring in thieves with an unguarded bicycle and then beating them with baseball bats when they tried to steal it.
"lured thieves" L-O-L
I guess we can now say bakers are "luring fat people".
They weren't beating people that looked at the bike and walked by, they were beating thieves. I'm okay with this.
Maybe the cops in the area should stop trying to write tickets (generate income) and actually serve and protect.
Do these folks have a go-fund-me yet? I've never paid into one...but I mightcould.
"lured thieves" L-O-L I guess we can now say bakers are "luring fat people". They weren't beating people that looked at the bike and walked by, they were beating thieves. I'm okay with this. Maybe the cops in the area should stop trying to write tickets (generate income) and actually serve and protect. Do these folks have a go-fund-me yet? I've never paid into one...but I mightcould.
‘Homeland' Star Mandy Patinkin: Trump a 'Cancer That Affects the World'
Showtime's Homeland star Mandy Patinkin launched a tirade against President Trump over his attitude toward the U.S. intelligence services, describing his administration as a "cancer that affects the world globally."
Goddamn it Inigio! you lost YOUR FATHER to cancer, why would you cheapen the memory and loss of your father for a cheap (and inaccurate) shot at a man that has literally done nothing to you?
You haven't lost a dime or a loved one to Trump. He's done nothing that provokes this level of hyperbole and venom. You're an embarrassment to yourself and to the whatever legacy your father left you.
Goddamn it Inigio! you lost YOUR FATHER to cancer, why would you cheapen the memory and loss of your father for a cheap (and inaccurate) shot at a man that has literally done nothing to you? You haven't lost a dime or a loved one to Trump. He's done nothing that provokes this level of hyperbole and venom. You're an embarrassment to yourself and to the whatever legacy your father left you.
How Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's finances will be impacted by abrupt royal exit | Fox News
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stunned the world and their own kin with their major announcement that they will be stepping down as "senior members" of the royal family.
Narrator: They'll be fine.
Meghan Markle and Harry are stepping back as ‘senior’ members of Royal Family - Mirror Online
www.mirror.co.uk
The Duke and Duchess have tonight revealed the news in a statement on their Instagram page - saying they plan to make a move to North America this year
"We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen. ...and... Before she married into the family Meghan, who had a successful acting career, had a personal fortune of around £3.8m, according to The Independent. Prince Harry's fortune is thought to stand at around £30m, much of which he inherited from his mother Princess Diana and the Queen Mother.
...gosh, I hope these crazy kids can make it.
"We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen. ...and... Before she married into the family Meghan, who had a successful acting career, had a personal fortune of around £3.8m, according to The Independent. Prince Harry's fortune is thought to stand at around £30m, much of which he inherited from his mother Princess Diana and the Queen Mother. ...gosh, I hope these crazy kids can make it.
Graham Warns Iran: ‘I Just Got Off the Phone With the President. Your Fate Is in Your Own Hands’
www.theepochtimes.com
Lindsey Graham warned Iran after missiles hit multiple Iraqi military bases that were hosting U.S. troops, saying he'd just spoken with President Trump.
when do we start calling him "Cocaine Lindsey"?
Marijuana sales in Illinois top $3M on first day of legal recreational cannabis in the state - ABC News
abcnews.go.com
The first day of legal marijuana sales in Illinois boasted over 77,000 transactions across the state.
So, apparently, a 1/4 oz of weed costs around $300 in the Land of Lincoln. I admit no real knowledge on the subject, I've never done drugs. But that seems really exorbitant to me. If I was a user, I'd be looking for a cheaper alternative. Like, perhaps, my local dealer.
'Unafraid' General Salami Cautions U.S. to Respect Iran
Iran was not seeking war but remains unafraid of any potential future conflict, Iran's General Salami cautioned on Thursday.
Generals Pancetta and Capocollo could not be reached for comment.
Marvel to get first transgender superhero - BBC News
There's a trans character in a film that's currently being shot, according to Marvel's boss.
Oh thank God! I know that when I think of powerful super-beings that save the human race form evil...it DEFINITELY has more impact to know said super-beings are men that think they are women, or women that like to sleep with other women, or men that think they are women that like to sleep with other women.
So bold and brave...bold...and brave.
rolls eyes so hard, goes blind
Oh thank God! I know that when I think of powerful super-beings that save the human race form evil...it DEFINITELY has more impact to know said super-beings are men that think they are women, or women that like to sleep with other women, or men that think they are women that like to sleep with other women. So bold and brave...bold...and brave. *rolls eyes so hard, goes blind*
Homeland Security Chief Orders Review Of State Laws Allowing Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Aliens | The Daily Caller
dailycaller.com
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of DHS, has ordered a review of state laws that allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses and restrict data with ICE.
People are always saying "we can't deport 20+ millions of illegals". They often cite the prohibitive cost of such an endeavor.
When you look at the costs of issuing licenses to illegals, paying for healthcare, schooling, police work to solve crimes committed by illegals, I'm pretty sure that if you added all that up, we could hire a TON of folks to track down, capture and deport these people.
Or...here's a fun alternative. Track 'em down, capture, put em all on a plane to the Vatican or some other group that is always telling US to take in illegals.
People are always saying "we can't deport 20+ millions of illegals". They often cite the prohibitive cost of such an endeavor. When you look at the costs of issuing licenses to illegals, paying for healthcare, schooling, police work to solve crimes committed by illegals, I'm pretty sure that if you added all that up, we could hire a TON of folks to track down, capture and deport these people. Or...here's a fun alternative. Track 'em down, capture, put em all on a plane to the Vatican or some other group that is always telling US to take in illegals.
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free download: Elemental Zazen f. Canibus, “Hollow Heart” | forthcoming album features Fashawn, Jean Grae
on Soundcloud | Zazen on Facebook
Boston-bred emcee and born survivor Elemental Zazen presents the first single from his forthcoming album Nothing To Lose But Change, also featuring Fashawn and Jean Grae. In 2007, a month after losing a close family member in an accident and his home in a five-alarm fire, The Weekly Dig voted him one of ’10 To Watch In 2007′. Shortly after undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor – a procedure which left him with permanent sight damage – and learning how to walk again, The Boston Globe voted Zazen as one of their ‘5 Locals On The Verge’ in 2008 for The Glass Should Be Full, the astonishing album he penned through those dark times. Of the album, the Boston Phoenix wrote: “given the pain that moved his pen at such agonizing angst-addled angles, his sophomore release is as hardcore an opus as Tupac’s Me Against The World… it certifies that honesty, vulnerability, and introspection make for better hip-hop than masked insecurity and bullshit every single time.”
Zazen says of working with Canibus:
“To this day, Canibus remains the only emcee in the game that consistently makes me hit rewind in order to figure out exactly what he said. His versatility is unbelievable; he can kill it with battle raps or spit an existential verse without blinking. Working with a legend like him is both humbling and inspiring. I’ve heard a bunch of collaborations where the emcees just ride their reputations. In this case, that’s not true. I think we both brought it, and this track speaks for itself.”
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