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Sixth ‘Mission Impossible’ Film In The Works
Leading star Tom Cruise told The Daily Show that he will be back as Ethan Hunt for a sixth instalment of the franchise.
by Ian Cullen July 31, 2015
Although ‘Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’ has only just hit cinemas it looks like plans for a sixth film is underway.
“We’re starting to work on it now. We’ll probably start shooting it next summer,” he explained to host Jon Stewart.
If Cruise and the production team behind the films remain on the same page ‘Mission Impossible Six’ could turn out to be the fasted made sequel in the franchises history. Until recently that has usually been a gap of at least four years between the films.
So far the franchise has grossed a combined $2 billion at the worldwide box office – which will only increase once Rogue Nation opens in over 40 countries.
Paramount is yet to officially announce the next Mission: Impossible movie.
Ethan HuntFeatureMission Impossible: Rogue NationParamountTom Cruise
‘Punisher’ Could Get His Own Netflix Series
by Ian Cullen - Jul 31, 2015
In Review: 12 MONKEYS – ORIGINAL TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK
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We Shall Overcome [electronic resource]: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
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Tax Incentives for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings: Property Owner Questionnaire
Book; Government Document
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View to the Past: A Driving Guide to World War II Buildings and Structures on Amaknak Island and Unalaska Island
United States (Issuing Body); Jacobs Engineering Group
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The National Register of Historic Places, 1972
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Advisory List to the National Register of Historic Places, 1969
United States. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation
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Historic American Buildings Survey
Book; Government Document; Broadside
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Shaker Built: A Catalog of Shaker Architectural Records From the Historic American Buildings Survey
Poppliers, John; Burns, Deborah Stephens; Historic American Buildings Survey; United States
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Proposed Extension and Expansion of the National Historic Preservation Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5743 and H.R. 7127, to Amend the Act of October 15, 1966 (80 STAT. 915), as Amended, Establishing a Program for the Preservation of Additional Historic Properties Throughout the Nation, and for Other Purposes, Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., May 3, 1973
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
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Public Buildings, 1960: Hearing Before the Public Buildings and Grounds Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3279, S. 3280, and S. 3403, Bills Providing for a Study as to the Best Location for the United States Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the Tax Court of the United States, and to Preserve Historic Buildings Near the White House, May 23, 1960
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Signers of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
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Tourist Traffic in Small Historic Cities: Analysis Strategies and Recommendations
Teal, Roger F.
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ST PAULS - Source and Summit - Giallanza, Joel
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Source and Summit
Six Great Spiritual Guides Talk about the Eucharist
By Giallanza, Joel (Author)
The Second Vatican Council speaks of the Eucharist as "the source and summit of the Christian life" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 11). The significance of this succint description is two-fold. First, it articulates the primary role of the Eucharist for uniting and nourishing the Christian community; and second, the Eucharist is also the source and summit of our individual lives as Christians. Our teachers and guides for these insightful reflections on this great mystery of our faith are six great saints, each of whom has been declared a Doctor of the Church. The six whom we meet in this book, three women and three men, are: Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of the Crosss, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. May we learn from their wisdom and their example so that our own daily life and work will reflect the fact that Jesus alone is the source and summit of all that we are and of all that we hope to become.
Giallanza, Joel
Alba House New York
Church Documents on Catholic Education
Byrnes, Michael
Catholic School on the Threshold of the 3rd Millennium, The
Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass
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SF Insider > neighborhood food > What Are Can’t-Miss Places in Rincon Hill for Dessert?
What Are Can’t-Miss Places in Rincon Hill for Dessert?
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Walking throughout Rincon Hill, one can find dessert in many forms, from frozen novelties and artisan ice cream sandwiches to handcrafted chocolate truffles and confections. In this neighborhood, the food scene is alive and well, and showcases the diversity of San Francisco’s diverse ethnic backgrounds. Those with a sweet tooth will be delighted to find authentic Japanese sweets in Rincon Hill, as well as traditional Italian desserts like biscotti, thumbprint cookies and creamy cannoli. Some bakeries and chocolatiers offer pastries too, including fresh muffins, filled croissants and cinnamon buns in the morning, which means that people who consider the sixth meal the most important meal of the day can get their fix.
Socola Chocolatier
From the morning to the evening, Socola Chocolatier covers the needs of everyone with a sweet tooth in this part of the city. Freshly brewed gourmet coffee gets the day off to a good start, and an espresso drink can provide a much needed pick-me-up in the afternoon. A handmade coffee drink is even better when paired with a freshly baked cookie served warm from the oven. Socola is perhaps best known for its award-winning chocolates, which come in a myriad of flavors like burnt caramel, cognac truffles and barks made with milk or dark chocolate and graham cracker pieces.
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream
Passersby seeking something new and exciting in the realm of frozen treats should stop in to Humphry Slocombe for a taste of the unusual. This famous ice cream shop has compiled a list of best-sellers and customer favorites over the years that people can choose from. Humphry’s also produces a seasonal selection of flavors, some of which make it to the list of its most popular choices. One such flavor is “Secret Breakfast,” which is a creamy vanilla ice cream batter that is infused with bourbon and has bits of Corn Flake cereal mixed in.
Serving two dozen flavors of ice cream daily plus several types of cookies baked from scratch throughout the day, Over the Moon is a one-stop shop for sugar fanatics. On a chilly day, nothing beats a chocolate chip, peanut butter chocolate chip or snickerdoodle cookie right from the oven. The bakery also has a build-your-own cookie sandwich station. Those wanting classic desserts can get a large root beer float, and customers can also order hand-packed pints of ice cream to go.
Stella Pastry
From rich butter cookies to anise, almond and fruit-filled biscotti, Stella Pastry brings the classic tastes and flavors of Italy to the city in the way of desserts. The pastry shop is famous for its cannoli, which are hard shells filled with cream and dusted with powered sugar. The rich coconut macarons are a hit too, as are the raspberry and apricot thumbprint cookies.
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Richard Parsons shares his respect and admiration for
Afghanistan's stoical people, who somehow, despite
political upheavals, forced resettlement, a harsh climate
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The Mom Manuals: Toddler
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Toddlers don't come in one-size-fits-all, and neither should a guidebook. Join us in sharing what worked (and didn't) as we explore the joys and challenges of raising toddlers in The Mom Manuals: Toddler. A collection of wise opinions and inspirational advice for moms of toddlers from 18 months to 3 years old.
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Taffy Massey, CrystallineVelvet
Open for Business: CrystallineVelvet
Posted online November 5, 2018 | 1:31 pm
CrystallineVelvet
For her second jewelry store venture, Taffy Massey opened CrystallineVelvet on July 5 at 210 E. Walnut St., Ste. 100. The shop sells artisan jewelry, much of it handmade by Massey, although she intends to add more local artists. Massey said she doesn’t do consignment but rents case space in the store to artists. “I want to support local artists serious about their jewelry making,” she said. With around $15,000 in startup costs, Massey is one of two employees at the roughly 2,500-square-foot shop, which is on a one-year lease for an undisclosed rate with Craig Wagoner of Ozcam LLC. T-shirt retailer Swagbot formerly occupied the space. Massey had operated a jewelry store of the same name for three years in Geneva, Illinois, before closing it in July 2015 to care for family health issues. She moved to Springfield in January 2016 and decided this year to reopen her jewelry store.
Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Wednesday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Web: CrystallineVelvet.com
Pitt Technology Group LLC
A year after forming Pitt Technology Group LLC, owners Doug Pitt and Kevin Waterland on Nov. 1 bought two technology firms: AVman & Associates Ltd. and ConceptiCode LLC. Financial terms were not disclosed. AVman, founded in 2001 by Jay Jones, provides audiovisual services to churches, missionaries, schools and businesses. ConceptiCode, a startup software development company, was formed in late 2017 by Will Vandergrift and Arik Griesse. Both AVman and ConceptiCode are moving to Pitt Technology’s Springfield Underground office, with operations slated to be fully merged by January 2019. Combined with its own growth, the acquisitions are expected to bring Pitt Technology’s revenue past $6 million in 2019. AVman is moving its five employees from 500 W. Battlefield Road, while ConceptiCode is relocating from its office in the efactory.
Web: PittTechnologyGroup.com
The Fat Cat Pizza Co.
Tom Muetzel, the former owner of Ophelia’s, Sequiota Bike Shop and Finnegan’s Wake, launched a new restaurant in Strafford with the Oct. 15 opening of The Fat Cat Pizza Co. He signed a 10-year lease at 204 S. Highway 125 for undisclosed terms near O’Bannon Bank and Hurricane Bay Car Wash. It was formerly a Fox’s Pizza Den. Fat Cat specialty pizzas range in price from $6.75 for a small five-cheese option to $22.75 for a large with smoked duck, with the menu also featuring pastas, sandwiches, salads, beer and wine. Muetzel declined to disclose startup costs for Fat Cat but said it’s by far the lowest out of any restaurant he’s started. Sequiota Bike Shop closed in March amid a landlord dispute, while Muetzel scrapped plans in December 2017 to reopen Ophelia’s on Commercial Street due to the need for a lengthy remodel to address the discovery of an underground cellar. Muetzel said he sold his share of Finnegan’s Wake to business partner Anne Baker a couple of months after starting to develop the Fat Cat venture.
Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. daily
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Chris Morris on Whodunnit? Finding the mystery 1080 testing lab
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Media reporting of subsequent findings
By Grant Jacobs • 14/09/2012 • 6
You know that thing where a media report splashes out about some new ‘discovery’ as if it’s the definitive thing, then a few months later when new research calls it into question there’s little more than a ripple or, more often than not, silence?
A group of French scientists decided to look into how media portrayed a topic as it developed, using ADHD as their case example, setting out to test if media reported later developments in a topic and if they did, did they report the context of the later research findings.[2] (Readers could tackle the paper for themselves—it’s not too hard to follow[1].)
One element to meaningful reporting of a topic, to my mind, is to report the ‘state of play’ of the topic. This should be particularly true for initial reports. Initial findings are tentative, an argument for a case put forward to their scientific community peer for consideration. How well did the media in their case examples do?
The study used,
“47 scientific publications reporting primary observations related to ADHD and echoed at least once by newspapers during the nine days following their publication date”
along with related research and later findings on the original topic. At points they contrast the findings for a “top ten” papers against the remainder of the 47 studies selected.
The researchers noted that most of the initial findings were subsequently not confirmed, altered or shown to be incorrect,
Among “top 10” publications only two studies passed the test of the years, three studies were fully refuted, four were substantially attenuated by subsequent articles and one was not confirmed or refuted though its main conclusion appears unlikely.
They put the lack of coverage of follow-up research in part down to a tendency to cover the major journals at the expense of ‘lesser’ journals and observed a correlation with university ranking: findings from prominent universities received more newspaper coverage,
We hypothesized that this much lower coverage of subsequent studies was related to the lower impact factor of the journals that published them. Our observations are strongly consistent with this prediction when we compared the coverage of “top 10” publications with that of their 67 related studies. However, regarding the newspaper coverage of the 47 scientific publications of our initial search, its amplitude is not significantly correlated with the impact factor, but rather with the ranking of the university where the study was performed. This suggests that the publication of a scientific study in a high impact factor journal is a prerequisite, but does not guarantee a strong media coverage. The prestige of the university seems to exert an additional influence. Indeed, famous universities have powerful press offices that may help their researchers obtain press coverage
The authors pointed to the lack of coverage of scientific debate,
Scientific knowledge always matures from initial and uncertain findings to validated findings. This process often results from the debate of conflicting opinions in the scientific literature. Accordingly, apart from Wolraich’s study, our “top 10” publications were involved in scientific debates. However, their press coverage never reflected these debates, apart from a notable, but restricted, exception
This might both reflect a lack of wider reading or investigation on the part of reporters along with a tendency to report single papers. (As, ironically, I am doing here…)
I like that this paper has a Limitations section. I’d like to see that done more widely.
Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Gonon F, Konsman J-P, Cohen D, Boraud T (2012)
PLoS ONE 7(9): e44275. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044275
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044275
1. If you’re disinclined to read read the whole thing, the first four paragraphs of the discussion will give the main points. The passages I’ve excerpted cover most of this.
2. In their words: “the devaluation trend of initial findings is largely ignored by the media”
Other articles in Code for life:
Media thought: Ask what is known, not the expert’s opinion
XMRV prompts media thought: ask for the ’state of play’
Note to science communicators–alleles not ’disease genes’
Banished from science writing. Words, that is.
When the abstract or conclusions aren’t accurate or enough
Do TED lectures need better vetting?
Science blogging in the New Zealand media
6 Responses to “Media reporting of subsequent findings”
Grant Jacobs says:
Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus*, has touched on a number of happening in science communication in recent months, including the paper covered in my piece above.
* Which I’ve now read and hope to offer you a review of some time.
If you’re looking for follow-up reading on the paper I’ve covered in my article, there is –
An article in The Economist, ‘Journalistic deficit disorder’: http://www.economist.com/node/21563275
This twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/noahWG/status/249223214079811585
Excerpt from The Economist: “A sensible prescription is hard. The matter goes beyond simply not believing what you read in the newspapers. Rather, it is a question of remembering that if you do not read subsequent confirmation, then the original conclusion may have fallen by the wayside.”
A similar thing happens in science – if there’s a suspicious lack of follow-on papers to a topic, there’s a fair chance it died because the field decided that thread of exploration was looking unlikely or wrong.
Andrew Revkin, writing at the New York Times Opinion Pages, has remarked on the same research paper, picking on the interpretation of abstracts.
I’ve also remarked on another study of abstracts, also covering ADHD papers, in an earlier blog post, an earlier paper by the same research team.
There now is further commentary in various forums with interests in science writing/journalism, including at Knight Science Tracker (which notes a few more sources):
http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/10/adhd-and-practice-science-journalism-def
The public and new research: peer review, initial reports and responses to extraordinary claims | Code for Life says:
[…] Because they present an argument for a case, initial reports are rarely ‘a done deal’. […]
About Code for life
Code for Life is the blog of Dr Grant Jacobs who has wide-ranging interests in science-related subjects, especially genetics, bioinformatics and science communication. To learn more about Code for Life (topics, copyright, comments, writing), see the introductory page Twitter: @BioinfoTools
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Breaking Boundaries review of public involvement in the NIHR – Update Ahead of #INVOLVE2014
So, as you can imagine, I am limbering up today and tomorrow in preparation for the INVOLVE Conference – ‘Changing Landscapes’ – which takes place in Birmingham later this week. That means sit-ups, press-ups, gargling water and mnemonics to remember the difference between participation, engagement and involvement and other useful stuff like that.
It should be an excellent meeting and, as always, I am looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones.
This year’s event has added spice because we will be talking about the strategic review of public involvement in NIHR and here’s a brief announcement about what people can expect. It is also on the NIHR website.
Breaking Boundaries review of public involvement in the NIHR – Update
Attendees at this year’s INVOLVE conference in Birmingham on 26/7 November entitled ‘Changing Landscapes,’ will hear the findings of the Breaking Boundaries strategic review of public involvement in the NIHR.
Simon Denegri, National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research and Chair, INVOLVE, said:
“This has been an ambitious project. We have had an amazing response from people and organisations to our call for views and ideas. We just need a bit more time to put it together and make sure it is visionary and actionable as a report. The good thing is that people at the conference will have an opportunity to shape our final approach, in particular how we address future priorities in a changing landscape.”
The Breaking Boundaries report is expected to be published before the end of the year.
Breaking Boundaries received over 500 responses from patients and the public, researchers and others, more than 80 submissions from organisations, as well as taking evidence from charities, industry and international organisations. It also held workshop sessions as part of events around the country. A number of key themes have emerged from this call including:
– The value of working with the public, and the difference it makes to the quality of research
– Inconsistencies in practice and implementation across NIHR and other funders
– Barriers to the public contributing to research including awareness, attitudes and support
– The importance of partnership and collaboration to future success
– The need to recognise and share good practice.
When asked about the future of public involvement over the next 10 years, contributors to the review have highlighted a number of priorities. These include:
– Greater public awareness of research and the NIHR’s role in making it happen
– Public involvement to be seen as normal and accepted practice
– Actionable evidence of the value of public involvement
– Locally relevant but strategically consistent implementation
– Clarity over quality and good practice in public involvement
– Agreed measures for how public involvement is making a difference
– Global partnership and better links with the NHS and other funders.
People can contribute their views on Breaking Boundaries and other public involvement issues this week using the INVOLVE Conference hashtag #INVOLVE2014
The Breaking Boundaries strategic review of public involvement was commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and announced on March 31st 2014. The review panel was asked to make a report and recommendations to the NIHR according to the following terms of reference:
A compelling vision and clear objectives for the NIHR’s leadership in public involvement.
Areas where the NIHR should be looking to maximise the public’s contribution to health, social care and public health research in the future.
Ways in which NIHR organisations should be thinking about, linking, planning and executing public involvement, participation and engagement activities.
Options for the future support and organisation of public involvement across the NIHR so that it is embedded in policy and practice.
How the NIHR can grow a diverse and inclusive public involvement community
Innovations and new thinking in public involvement in health, social care and public health research.
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A blacksmith is a person who works with iron and steel. The blacksmith hammers hot iron on an anvil to change its shape. Blacksmiths make iron and steel tools.
A smith is a person who works in metal. A blacksmith works with iron and steel. A thousand years ago, people only knew about seven metals (iron, gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, and mercury). By color: gold is yellow; copper is red; and silver, tin, lead, and mercury are different gray colors. Iron is also a gray color if you shine it, but usually its surface is covered with a black oxide, which is a kind of rust. This black color forms very fast in a blacksmith's fire. The other metals have light colors, but iron is a dark color, so it is called the black metal in English. A smith who works the black metal is a black-smith.
A farrier works with iron like a blacksmith. The only ironwork a farrier does is to make horseshoes.
1 Forge
2 Ways to hammer iron
3 Hard iron and steel
4 Tools and objects made by blacksmiths
Forge[change | change source]
Iron must be very hot to shape with a hammer. Hot iron becomes cold very soon. A blacksmith has only a few seconds to hammer a piece of iron, before it must be put back in the fire to become hot again.
A forge is a special oven for metalworking. It burns coal or charcoal in a very hot fire. A bellows pushes air into the forge, to make the fire burn hotter. The blacksmith puts pieces of iron in the fire to make them hot.
Ways to hammer iron[change | change source]
There are a few ways to change a piece of iron's shape with hammer and heat. Here are the most important ways that a blacksmith uses:
Bending: hammering a piece of hot iron, to make it curve or to make it have a corner.
Drawing: hammering on the sides of a piece of hot iron, to make it longer and thinner.
Upsetting: hammering on the end of a piece of hot iron, to make it shorter and fatter.
A punch is a tool like a short stick of iron. The end of the punch is flat.
Punching: A blacksmith hammers a punch through a piece of hot iron, to make a hole in the hot iron.
A chisel is a tool like a short stick of iron. The end of the chisel is sharp to cut.
Cutting: hammering a chisel through the side of a piece of hot iron, to make two shorter pieces.
Splitting: hammering a chisel into the end of a piece of hot iron, to make a stick of iron into a "Y" shape, to make a fork.
Rivetting: a rivet is like a machine bolt with a head at both ends. Rivets are used to make different pieces of iron stay together. The blacksmith makes a hole in each piece of iron, where he wants the pieces to come together. A rivet is then put in the holes, and the blacksmith hammers on the rivet to make the heads at each end of the rivet.
Welding: making different pieces of iron become one piece of iron. The blacksmith makes the pieces of iron so hot that they almost melt. Then he puts the pieces together and hammers on them so there is no line where they came together. Welding is the hardest thing for a blacksmith to learn and to do.
Hard iron and steel[change | change source]
Iron is one of the 92 natural elements.
Steel is iron with a little carbon in it (0.3% to 1.7% carbon by weight).
All metals get harder when a smith hammers or bends them. This is called "work-hardening". If a smith hammers or bends a piece of metal that is already work-hardened, it will crack and break. To make work-hardened metal soft again, so that a smith can hammer and bend it more, the smith anneals the metal.
To anneal iron or steel, a blacksmith heats the metal until it no longer pulls a magnet, and then makes the metal become cold very slowly. Blacksmiths can cover the hot metal with sand, so that it takes hours to become cold. This makes iron or steel very soft.
Steel acts just like iron, until a blacksmith "heat-treats" the steel. This is a special way to make the steel hot and then cold, so that the steel will become hard enough to keep a cutting edge (blade). A blade made from a piece of iron (instead of steel) will very soon become dull and will not cut. Good blades (for knives, chisels, axes, and other tools with cutting edges) are always made of steel, then heat-treated, and then sharpened.
To heat-treat steel, a blacksmith heats the steel until it no longer pulls a magnet, then makes the steel become cold very quickly. A blacksmith does this by putting the hot steel into a bucket of water and moving it around until it is cold. This is called "quenching". When this is finished, the steel will be as hard as it can be. This hardness can make it brittle, so if someone hits or drops it, it can break like glass.
The next step is to "draw the temper" or "temper" the steel, so that it will not break like glass. To temper steel, a blacksmith polishes a part of the steel so that it is smooth and shiny. The blacksmith then slowly heats the steel in the fire. When the steel is between 300 and 650 °F (149 and 343 °C), the polished steel will turn different colors. These colors do not glow in the dark; they look like dye on the polished steel. As the steel gets hotter from 300 to 650 degrees F, it will turn through the colors: yellow, then brown, then purple, then blue. Yellow means the steel will still be harder, blue means the steel will be softer (but still hard). When the steel turns the color that the blacksmith wants, he puts the steel into a bucket of water to stop the change. Different tools are tempered to different colors, but it also depends on how much carbon there is in the steel. Usually, stone chisels are tempered to yellow, and axes for trees are tempered to blue, but the blacksmith has to decide.
A blacksmith does not hammer a blade edge thin. A blacksmith hammers the steel so that the edge stays thick. After the "heat-treat" and "temper", stones are used to grind the blade edge to make it sharp.
If a blacksmith has a piece of iron or steel, but does not know which one it is, the blacksmith can heat-treat it like steel. If it does not become hard, then it is not steel. Iron will show the same temper colors as steel, but it will not be hard.
If a blacksmith has an old steel tool, and wants to hammer it into a new different tool, the blacksmith anneals the steel. The steel will then be very soft like iron. The blacksmith can then hammer it into a new tool, and heat-treat and temper it, to make a new, hard steel tool.
A blacksmith must be careful when hammering hardened steel or work-hardened iron, because small pieces can break off and fly, and these can hurt his or her eyes. Many blacksmiths wear plastic safety glasses to keep their eyes safe.
Tools and objects made by blacksmiths[change | change source]
Knife/knives and swords
Spear heads
Chain mail shirts
Suits of plate armor
Handles for doors and drawers
Hinges for doors
Hooks to hang things on
Nails for construction
Female blacksmith in England
The first blacksmiths were Hittites. They started working iron to make tools around 1500 BC. The ways that tools are made by blacksmiths have changed very little since then.
Around 1850, countries like the United States of America and the United Kingdom made new ways to make steel and tools in factories. Factories now make tools faster, and for less money than blacksmiths. There are now very few blacksmiths in countries that have a lot of factories.
The few blacksmiths that are still in countries with a lot of factories, make iron that is art. These blacksmiths make gates, stair rails, and chairs and tables for outdoors. People buy this iron as art, because each piece is different from the other pieces.
Books[change | change source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blacksmith.
Blandford, Percy W. (1988). Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking, Second Edition. TAB Books, a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-8306-2894-0.
Richardson, M.T. (1978 (orig.1889-1891)). Practical Blacksmithing. Crown Publishers, Inc. LOC 77-94507. Check date values in: |year= (help)
Weygers, Alexander G. (1997). The Complete Modern Blacksmith. Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-89815-896-6.
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E-Resources: Linking to E-books and Journal Articles
E-Resources:
Linking to E-Books and Journal Articles
Note to Faculty:
E-Book Collections which Can Be Used for Required Readings
General Rule for Making Links
Specific Resources
Books 24x7
eBooks Collection (EBSCOhost)
Project Muse
How to create a link using a DOI
When selecting E-Resources to assign as readings for your class, please note which e-book collections can be used and which cannot, due to limitations on the number of students that can simultaneously access them, or due to download limitations.
E-books which CAN be used
E-books which CANNOT be used
E-book collections that have unlimited use, are downloadable, and can be used are:
Ebook Central 1
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - ONLY if the Concurrent User Level says "Unlimited User Access." (See details.)
EBSCO databases - conference proceedings, book chapters, etc.
Gale eBooks (chapters or sections only)
Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books
SAGE (chapters or sections only)
These e-book collections cannot be used because there are limitations on the number of simultaneous users, or there are download limitations:
Books24x7
Oxford Reference Online
For a number of resources, simply cutting and pasting the link from the browser's address bar will not work.
You need to look and see if the resource indicates a specific link to use. It may be called a persistent URL, a stable URL, a permalink, a document URL, "link to this page," or something similar. See instructions for specific resources below.
How to get permanent links (for specific resources)
Resource vendor
How to get a permanent link when viewing the record of an e-book or journal article
Click the Share icon in the Tools section at the top.
Only titles from "Ebook Central 1: UMGC Collection" can be used for required readings. Titles from "Ebook Central 2: Various Collections" CANNOT be used.
Click "Share Link to Book" on the left.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Click on "Permalink" in the Tools sidebar on the right.
UMGC Faculty: Please use e-books in this database as assigned textbooks ONLY if the Concurrent User Level says "Unlimited User Access." (Books that say "Limited User Access" can be taken into consideration, but unlimited access must be purchased in advance of use in any course, and funding is limited. Please check with the Library to see if unlimited access purchase is an option for a title, and then with LDS to obtain approval.)
Click on "Get Link".
Look for the link on the left sidebar.
Click the Actions drop down menu and select Link to this page.
Copy the URL from the browser address bar.
Click on the Abstract/Details tab (or it may just say Details), then scroll down and look for the Document URL.
Copy the URL from the browser address bar and add ?ar to the end of it.
For example, if the browser URL is
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/the-routledge-companion/9781317655411
Make sure that it ends in ?ar
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/the-routledge-companion/9781317655411?ar
SAGE Knowledge: SAGE Reference eBook Collection
Need help with a resource not listed above?
Ask a Librarian.
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a permanent digital identifier given to an electronic document. In the database record for an article, you may see an element that looks like this:
In this case, you may get a permanent link by adding the following prefix to the DOI:
http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/
Example: http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.401
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By Dan Moren
May 1, 2018 6:00 AM PT
Review: Koss Porta Pro Wireless are the classic headphones plus Bluetooth
The removal of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 and later have presented a pretty significant change to the way many of us listen to audio on our smartphones. As someone who’s never been happy with Apple’s own earbuds, neither its Lightning-based headphones nor the AirPods have appealed. That left me as one of those hold-outs, using Apple’s Lightning-to-headphone adapter to connect to my venerable Koss Porta Pro headphones.
It wasn’t an ideal state of affairs: the adapter’s small and easy to lose, and every time I wanted to plug my headphones into something else—like my MacBook—I had to pull it off and find somewhere to put it. I’ve gradually switched much of my audio listening to Bluetooth: a cheap pair of Bluetooth behind-the-ear headphones for working out, the high-end Bose QC-35s when traveling, and a small pair of earbuds with a BlueAnt bluetooth adapter for when I can’t fall asleep at night.
But those were specific uses that failed to account for the time when I most used my headphones: walking around town, going to the coffee shop and back, and so on. For those I still turned to the Porta Pros, and I was starting to have a hard time imagining how I’d ever replace them.
The good news: I don’t have to. Mostly. As FCC filings last month suggested, Koss has readied a Bluetooth version of the Porta Pro, the aptly named Porta Pro Wireless, and the company generously sent me a pair to check out.
At first glance, the Porta Pro Wireless look, well, a lot like the set of Porta Pros I’ve been wearing for years now. 1 The only outward differences are a slightly different shade of blue on the earpiece, minor cosmetic changes on the outside of the earphones, and, well, the whole “wireless” part.
“Wireless” is a slight exaggeration here: there is a wire connecting the left and right earphones, a necessity given the metal headband construction. Two black pods on the wire contain between them the battery, Bluetooth hardware, and control unit. The last has switched sides from the Porta Pro, hanging off the right earphone instead the left, and it’s unsurprisingly a bit bigger, since it also contains the micro-USB port for charging the headphones. There have been some other changes to its functionality, which I’ll get to a bit below.
The most impressive thing about the Porta Pro Wireless is the fidelity with which Koss has reproduced the classic Porta Pro look and feel. The construction and fit are virtually identical, from the collapsible design to the adjustable fit on the temples. I’ve long preferred the over-the-head or behind-the-head style of headphone—which probably puts me in the minority in these days of ubiquitous earbuds—and the Porta Pro’s light weight was always a mark in its favor.
The thing I was most worried about was whether the pods on the wires would be uncomfortable, heavy, or get in the way. I was pleased to find that this wasn’t the case. Overall, the Porta Pro Wireless are still lighter than a heavy pair of big over-the-ear headphones like my Bose QC-35s, and I found the pods to be virtually unnoticeable unless I whipped my head to one side. (Personally, I probably wouldn’t wear them while working out, but I don’t wear my wired ones while working out either.) Do they look a little goofy? Sure. I’d obviously love a pair that were simply the headphones, with no wire or pods, but that would probably necessitate bulkier earphones and changing the design.
On the audio quality side, I found the Porta Pro Wireless to be virtually indistinguishable from the Porta Pro. Sound is hugely subjective, and I’ve always liked the Porta Pro’s balance of treble and bass. (This is hardly an exhaustive audio review—if you want that, try The Wirecutter.) I did set up a multi-output audio device on my Mac so I could listen to both simultaneously, switching between which I had on my left and right ears, and to my hearing, it sounded seamless.
The one exception to that is that I have occasionally had brief audio drop-outs when my iPhone X was in my back pocket while walking; moving it to my front jacket pocket seems to have fixed the problem, though, and it’s hard to say whether it’s an issue with the headphones, the iPhone, or iOS. I’ve seen similar issues with other Bluetooth headphones, but it’s hard to reproduce.
Bluetooth pairing was simple and fast and, unless I miss my guess, these use the same module as many of my other Bluetooth audio devices. The Porta Pro Wireless’s battery levels do show up in Batteries widget in iOS, and as with most Bluetooth headphones I found power consumption reasonable. When I got the headphones they were at around 90 percent charge; a few hours of listening only dropped them to about 80 percent. (I didn’t have time for an exhaustive battery test, but I saw no reason to worry.)
The other place that I noticed significant differences in the wireless model was in the control pod. It still has three buttons—volume up, play/pause, and volume down—but they’ve been redesigned with a soft rubberized covering rather than hard plastic, which makes them a little larger and easier to press than the wired model. On the wired model, double-clicking the play/pause button would go to the next track, triple-clicking it would go to the previous, and holding it down would invoke Siri. On the wireless model, long presses of the volume up and down buttons go forward or back a track, respectively. But a long press of the play/pause button is what turns the headphones on and off, so it took me a while to discover that double-clicking the play/pause button would bring up Siri. (The small manual spells out the other functions, but for some reason, not that one.)
The Porta Pro Wireless comes with a couple basic accessories: a micro-USB charging cable and a carrying case. The latter is much nicer than the drawstring pouch that accompanied the wired Porta Pro: it’s a small, round, semi-rigid zippered case. Perhaps a little large for a pocket, but easy enough to throw into a bag without too much in the way of concern.
Overall, it’s not hard for me to recommend the Porta Pro Wireless to fans of the wired version, especially if you’re as tired of managing dongles as I am. For those looking for a pair of light, compact, over-ear wireless headphones, they feel like a win as well. I’d love to see an even smaller set—hey, if Apple can cram wireless functionality into the AirPods, hopefully a smaller set of these are at least feasible. Perhaps somewhere down the road.
One note on support: I’ve had very good luck with Koss’s warranty support, but the Porta Pro Wireless feature a one-year limited warranty rather than the limited lifetime warranty I’ve had on the wired version of the Porta Pro and other Koss headphones. A company spokesperson told me that’s mainly because they can’t guarantee a battery for life—such is the way of these things.
The wired Koss Porta Pro go for $50—and the version with the mic and remote costs $10 more than that—but they’re often available online for cheaper. Wireless does add a premium: the Bluetooth model costs $80, though I imagine you’ll be able to get them for less. You can certainly find cheaper Bluetooth headphones on the market, but you’ll get commensurately less quality—both in terms of audio and build—than you will here.
I’m actually on my second pair, and one of them I got repaired once as well. So you could say I have a lot of history with these. ↩
[Dan Moren is a tech writer, novelist, podcaster, and the Official Dan of Six Colors. You can email him at dan@sixcolors.com or find him on Twitter at @dmoren.]
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WATCH LIVE: Women’s World Cup Day 8
By Jeff KassoufJun 13, 2015, 11:35 AM EDT
The final matches of the second round of group play will play out Saturday.
Let’s have a look at what’s in store in Canada:
Group F – France (1-0-0) vs Colombia (0-0-1)
Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT
Moncton Stadium, Moncton
WATCH LIVE ON NBCDEPORTES.COM (also on Telemundo)
France opened by beating England in what was supposed to be their most difficult group match. But where England spent much of that match sitting in, Colombia’s tactics were more physical and they committed several egregious fouls in their opening draw against Mexico. A funny thing happened in the second half, though. Colombia tried playing soccer and actually looked decent, eventually earning an equalizer for their first goal in four Women’s World Cup matches. Will they resort to hacking tactics if they fall too far behind or find themselves unable to keep up with France in midfield? As for the French, they took some heat for “only” winning 1-0 in a match they dominated. They’ll be looking for something a bit more comfortable here. A win will send them through.
[MORE: Complete coverage of 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup]
Group E – Brazil (1-0-0) vs Spain (0-0-1)
Olympic Stadium, Montreal
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Fans of technical soccer ought to pay attention to this one as two of the world’s best will square off. Marta’s penalty in Brazil’s win against Korea Republic made her the all-time leading World Cup scorer. Veronica Boquete’s performance in Spain’s 1-1 draw against Costa Rica was her World Cup debut. She has several moments of brilliance but Spain could not break through for a second goal after their opener was quickly countered. These teams play rather similar which does not usually bode well for the underdog, in this case Spain. If Brazil wins it books them a ticket to the knockout round and if it combines with a Costa Rica-Korea Republic draw it will clinch them the group.
Group F – England (0-1-0) vs Mexico (0-0-1)
England played passively against France and lost 1-0. Probably no big deal because they should win their next two matches, but now they have to go out and earn the points. At times Mexico looked quite good against Colombia but then they let go of the game plan and allowed their opponents to control too much of the second half. If England sits back again they could find themselves in trouble, but if they play it straight they should prove their superiority.
Group E – Korea Republic (0-1-0) vs Costa Rica (0-0-1)
South Korea will be looking to get Ji Soyun involved much earlier than they did against Brazil. When she was on the ball her team was dangerous against Brazil. And they could borrow some tactics from Spain who ran their offense through Boquete in a performance against Costa Rica that was dominant in every way besides the scoreboard. This is a pivotal match as both sides have eyes on the knockout stage but are scuffling for points after opening matches. Costa Rica, in particular, probably needs to win with Brazil looming in the final group match.
Tags: 2015 WC Group E, 2015 WC Group F, 2015 Women's World Cup, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, England, France, Korea Republic, Mexico, Spain
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Gay in Africa
Homosexual acts are illegal in 78 countries. Of these, 21 are small island nations, 20 are in the Islamic world, and 33 are in sub-Saharan Africa. In all three categories, almost all anti-gay laws are a vestige of European colonialism, and date back approximately 150 years. In several countries, the prohibition against “sodomy” is still known as Section 377, the old British code provision. Ironically, anti-gay leaders—politicians, clergy, journalists—in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone have all, within the last month, called gay rights, and homosexuality itself, a “Western” innovation that must be resisted in order to preserve “traditional African values”. It is ironic that cultures with rich traditions of sexual diversity now asserting that sexual diversity is Western, and that Western anti-gay bias is a traditional cultural value.
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma, said that “we have to take into consideration our culture, tradition, religious beliefs and all that… I think the country should be led by what it believes is right for the country and not what is necessarily right for the international community because of the variations in our traditions.’’
In fact, pre-colonial African traditions varied widely. Over 20 cultural varieties of indigenous African same-sex intimacy have been recorded by anthropologists. There are Bushmen paintings of men having sex with one another. There are countless examples of cross-dressing and cross-gender behavior. There are instances of female warriors marrying other female warriors, such as in the kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin—unsurprisingly, the Europeans called them ‘Amazons.’ There are even cases of male homosexuality being seen as possessing magical properties, such as the transmission of wealth from one person to another. And, like the hijras of India, there are examples in several ethnic groups of men who took on women’s roles and dress to have sex with men. These people were not “gay” or “homosexual.” Those are Western terms, laden with connotations of culture and medicalization. They had names of their own: Chibadi (Southern Africa), Mukodo Dako (Uganda), and many others.
Pre-colonial Africa was not some queer paradise. Many of the gender-variant male types were stigmatized; being regarded as women was hardly an elevation in social status. And some forms of African sexual diversity, such as pederasty, are hardly models for contemporary morality but the notion that homosexuality is un-African is not historically grounded.
“African” ideas about homosexuality are often those spread by American Evangelicals, out to colonize Africa spiritually rather than politically. Lou Engle, Scott Lively, Human Life International—these are not household names in the United States, and that’s precisely the point. Like has-been basketball players dunking baskets in Europe, the leftovers of the American Evangelical scene have found new life in Africa. These Westerners bring money and influence, and are gladly met by opportunistic African leaders. Each group is using the other: Evangelicals shift policy and are able to raise money back home, and their African collaborators can posture against Western imperialism and get rich.
At the same time, the notion of gay rights as Western is also reinforced by Western gay rights activists. By scolding countries like Uganda and Nigeria for getting gay rights wrong (even as the United States itself has only “gotten it right” for the last few years) American liberals reinforce the notion that LGBT equality is Western, and, even worse, remind many in Africa of the patriarchal colonialist attitude that we Westerners are advanced, and you Africans are backward. Each time Americans and Europeans threaten to cut off aid to an African country because of its anti-gay laws, another African leader can “stand up to the West” and look powerful for resisting the pressure. The notion that developing world countries should leapfrog 40 years of social history, and the corresponding one that Western sanctions should whip them if they don’t, only feeds the flames of anti-Western sentiment and bolsters the political position of anti-Western posturing.
Meanwhile, LGBT people on the ground become victims of the backlash.
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How do you solve and write the following in interval notation: # (x + 5)/(x + 9) < 3#?
George C.
#x in (-oo, -11) uu (-9, oo)#
#(x+5)/(x+9) < 3#
I would like first to note what you can't do, which is to simply multiply both sides by #(x+9)#. The problem is that if #x < -9# then #(x+9) < 0#, so you would have to reverse the inequality too, while if #x > -9# then you would leave the inequality as #<#. So you would need to split into cases - messy.
So what can we do?
Noting first that #x != -9#, we can multiply both sides of the inequality by #(x+9)^2# which is positive, to get:
#(x+5)(x+9) < 3(x+9)^2#
which multiplies out to:
#x^2+14x+45 < 3x^2+54x+243#
Then subtracting #x^2+14x+45# from both sides we get:
#0 < 2x^2+40x+198 = 2(x^2+20x+99) = 2(x+9)(x+11)#
The right hand side is a quadratic with positive leading coefficient, which intersects the #x# axis at #x=-11# and #x=-9#.
Therefore it is positive when:
#x < -11" "# or #" "x > -9#
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Where the *bleep* are we going to?
“We don’t live in an era of change, but in a change of era”, according to Jan Rotmans, professor of Transitions and Transition Management. How are large organisations and their executives coping and contributing? Who are showing Thought Leadership?
One of the persons studying this is Dr Mignon van Halderen, associate professor of Thought Leadership at Fontys University of Applied Sciences. She has recently published the detailed version of her inaugural speech, certainly a good read. She has observed a rise in CEOs and other executives embracing social and transformative purpose as part of their business values and strategies; CEOs of established companies such as Unilever’s Paul Polman and DSM’s Feike Sijbesma, and founders of new social enterprises like Tesla’s Elon Musk.
One common characteristic of these leaders and companies Van Halderen describes is that they are all fully recognising the fundamental changes in the fields of healthcare, work, climate and energy, that are shaking up our society, and can even threaten our very existence. And they are all embracing the fact that they do not have the answers to all of those issues, requiring us to shake loose old ways of thinking and acting. Forget about the famous dot on the horizon, navigate to something wider. As the Dutch designer and innovator Daan Roosegaarde describes it:
“We are searching for a new system, but we don’t know what that looks like yet. It doesn’t matter; this in fact characterises the ‘new thinking’. We search, we experiment.”
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing, as Socrates said :).
How do companies cope with this uncertain, messy and complex reality? How do they contribute to the ‘new thinking’? Van Halderen labels the front runners ‘thought leaders in a society of change’, organisations with the ability to translate their thought-provoking convictions and novel viewpoints on our society into real behaviour and results.
Front cover Dr Van Halderen’s book.
What can we learn from these thought leaders’ unique way of doing things? One point Van Halderen particularly focuses on is how they break down old worldviews and build new ones. She says this hasn’t been studied much before. And that this is remarkable, given that shifts in mindsets are a necessity for fundamental change. How do they share this shift journey with stakeholders? How do they get employees to see the bigger picture and how do they get them involved?
Those were exactly the questions Unilever Europe have asked us to help with. Our solution is featured in Dr Van Halderen’s inaugural publication as an engagement case. In a sense, the challenge was to spread Paul Polman’s ‘sustainable growth’ business philosophy and strategy internally. To make it tangible for every employee, so all are triggered to contribute in their daily work, in their part of the business. Nobody has the complete answers of what to do, our engagement programme co-creates the space for mindset and behaviour changes to emerge and spread. It equips employees to drive change themselves.
Anyway, you can download Van Halderen’s full inaugural publication—including our case—at dutchschoolofthought.com.
Maybe it helps you as an executive in finding some answers. Or comforts you to know that knowing nothing is true wisdom. Especially in this change of era. Which makes me think… maybe I should start a Council of Unwise, a circle of creative people to fuel leaders’ unwisdom and new thinking. What do you think? Would it help?
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Phil Spector Pretrial Hearing August 14th, 2008, Kazuhoshi Miura, Cameron Brown and Dominick Dunne
With so much going on in the Sprocket household these days, I decided to drive into downtown LA for Spector's pretrial hearing so I could get back home, faster. I was hoping that I might run into Dr. C. Carroll Adams for an update on what's happening in the Cameron Brown case and as luck would have it, Dr. Adams was in the hallway on the 9th floor, waiting for Judge Pastor's courtroom to open at 1:30. He is currently watching a retrial of a case he first started watching at the end of Spector 1. He could not talk about it above a whisper at all (I barely heard what he said), since jurors from that trial were in the hallway all around us.
Dr. Adams mentioned that Spector's defense team was at the courthouse yesterday, appearing before Judge Perry in Dept 104. This had to do with the double jeopardy issue and the motion for an "indefinite stay" in Spector's trial that the Associated Press reported on yesterday.
We talked a bit about this motion for an indefinite stay filed by Spector's defense team. I will explain it a bit here since I've received a few emails and comments on the blog about the "double jeopardy" motion filed by the defense and people are confused about it. First, you need to read the defense's motion , titled "DEFENDANT'S NOTICE OF MOTION IN LIMINE, BASED ON PLEA OF ONCE IN JEOPARDY, FOR ORDER PRECLUDING THE PROSECUTION FROM DISCUSSING IN ITS OPENING STATEMENT, INTRODUCING EVIDENCE OF, MAKING CLOSING ARGUMENTS ON, OR SEEKING INSTRUCTIONS ON ANY LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF THE CHARGED CRIMES OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER." It's available on the LA County Court's website, here. After that, I recommend reading the prosecution's response to that motion here, on T&T. I did not copy the entire document and the Court's website has not yet uploaded a copy of the document.
At the end of Spector 1, once both parties rested and the jury instructions were hammered out. (Do you remember that torturous process?) At that time, the Court ruled that since no party presented a theory that would support a lesser included charge (manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter), then the jury would not receive any instruction to consider lesser included. They were only given the option of second degree murder or not guilty. The defense is now trying to say that since the Court instructed that in the first trial, that amounts to an "acquittal" of a lesser charge of manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. Consequently, because of that ruling, the prosecution should be prohibited from being able to present any arguments for lesser included charges in their case in the retrial, because if they did, that would be "double jeopardy" for those lesser charges.
On July 29th, the motions mentioned above were argued before Judge Fidler. At that hearing, Fidler stated that he would not rule on the defense motion at this time because it's too early. The Court does not know what the evidence will show. He would not make a ruling. There is no decision on this yet because the trial evidence has not been presented to a jury. However, the defense went before another judge requesting an "indefinite stay" so they will have ample time to "appeal" this issue. The problem is, there is no ruling to appeal. Fidler hasn't ruled on their initial motion. My thoughts are (and one reporter I spoke to agreed with me) that this stay will fail because how can one appeal a nonexistent ruling? Here is what I think is happening: Spector is trying to delay the trial by any means possible and Riordan and Weinberg are just following Spector's marching orders. If Riordan is half the appellate attorney he thinks he is, he knows this latest stunt will not fly.
The Cameron Brown case, Dr. Adams tells me that the trial has been delayed until sometime in early October. He did not have an exact date for me in his notes. Geragos is off the case and Pat Harris has officially taken over as lead counsel. According to Dr. Adams, apparently, Geragos has not been paid and that appears to be the main reason he's no longer representing Brown. The next pretrial hearing in that case is scheduled for September 5th, and the count reset to 0-45 from that date. From what Dr. Adams told me, Harris is currently in trial on another case and that is delaying the Brown case. At the last hearing it was agreed by both parties and the Court that Harris doesn't have to appear on September 5th; someone can stand up for him. I won't be attending that hearing but thought I would report on the new dates for those who are interested.
While I'm talking to Dr. Adams, Allan Parachini arrived and so did the AP reporter and another reporter whom I don't know. They are chatting away about the Miura hearing tomorrow in Torrance. Almost at the same time, Ciaran shows up as well as Robin and Sherri. It's about 1:25 pm and Courtroom 106 isn't open yet. There is a cameraman talking to Allan, and for a moment I think he's going to cover the proceeding but then he says his goodbye's to Allan and the other reporter's and takes off. There will be no video coverage or photos of today's rulings. Two distinguished gentlemen arrive and stand near the end of the hall. I get the feeling they are from the DA's office because they are not carrying briefcases but I don't know for sure.
Weinberg arrives without Riordan. Spector has waived his right to appear which means Rachelle Short, the trial bride has missed another photo op. Weinberg comes up and shakes hands with the AP reporter and says hello to the group of reporters. A few minutes later the prosecution team arrives. It's Alan Jackson, Truc Do, Ric Ocampo and a few others I don't recognize. The team greets the reporters and walk past them to shake hands with the gentlemen who arrived earlier and are standing a bit behind the press. I didn't see Sandi Gibbons walk up but she's here. The courtroom is finally opened and everyone slowly files in. Once inside the courtroom a familiar face who was at the prosecution table operating the Elmo shows up and says hello to everyone. She takes a seat on the "defense" side of the room. If I'm recalling correctly, I believe her name is Sudi.
The man I don't recognize with the prosecution team sits directly in front of me beside Ric Ocampo. I'm in the second row, about two seats in, leaving plenty of room for the AP reporter who likes to sit on the end of that row. The reporter is right there ready to sit down and I think I mention to Sherri or Robin that this is where the AP reporter likes to sit. she smiles and I tell her, "That is your reserved seat." Sherri and Robin sit in the row behind me. The AP reporter is kind enough to update me on Dominick Dunne. I knew that the surgery was cancelled but I didn't know that the book he is currently working on is his memoirs. I thought he was still working on finishing his last Bailey book. The AP reporter said that he went to the Dominican Republic for stem cell treatments. While he was there, a big party was thrown for him. He may go back and get another round of treatments there. That's just like Dominick to have a great time in the midst of his health issues. I said to the reporter, "Dominick has so much to offer the world. It would be so sad if he's not with us much longer." Please go to Dominick's Diary page, and leave him some positive thoughts towards a swift recovery. You could also send him a card, care of Vanity Fair and it will get to him.
Jackson and Truc Do are at the prosecution table, and Jackson is speaking to the reporter I don't know, who is sitting beside Ciaran. Jackson and the reporter exchange a few words about the Miura hearing in Torrance tomorrow, where Jackson will be presenting arguments to continue the extradition of Miura to the US. Jackson then looks over at me and asks how I'm doing. I don't hear his question clearly, and I think he's asking about Mr. Sprocket (but I realize how could he know about his injured arm) and then I think I hear the words carpal tunnel. I don't know why but I'm embarrassed. He's asking about my writing at the keyboard. I'm a little befuddled because I'm now wondering if he is referring to all my typing of recreating the prosecution's motions for the blog, but I'm also wondering if he was referring to the fact that I don't have my laptop with me. I smile and say I'm fine.
As I look around the courtroom, I see Pat Dixon in the third row, way off to my left. He's busy studying a small section of newspaper. Jackson, Truc and Weinberg all go into Judge Fidler's chambers and are there for a few minutes and after they exit, court is called into session.
Fidler states that since the people have presented two motions they should go first. Jackson starts off by mentioning something about a filing that the defense made that ". . . purports to be a declaration, but it's not a declaration. It doesn't establish any evidence or facts...but it does state argument...." Since I don't know what document he is referring to, I'm immediately lost. I then regain my footing just a tad. It has something to do with the defense making a statement, something to the effect of, the Court has ruled the PBA witnesses could not testify. That didn't make any sense because they were admitted, but maybe the defense motion is about the one's who were excluded. I'm lost again.
Jackson then moves on to present the argument of his motion to admit all 12 PBA's, and his argument is the Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine of Corroboration.
AJ: "1101(b) doesn't require that level of recipe, that all 1101(b)'s are on a date . . . the defense said this is not consistent because it's not similar enough . . . they are relying on a civil case, Bowen, and not a criminal law case." Jackson explains the case, and says that the Court ruled correctly in that case to exclude all eight PBA's. "(In this case here) . . . in every one of our incidents, the exact same weapon was used . . . that distinguishes our case from Bowen . . . a single common marker . . . and in our case. . ."
Weinberg then stands up to interrupt Jackson. He's objecting to Jackson's motion. He's upset that Jackson is arguing a motion that they did not have time to respond to. That in the last hearing, time lines were agreed upon as to when motions would be filed. The prosecution was supposed to file by August 8th, and they filed this motion they are arguing on August 11th. And, the prosecution has not responded to their motions about the PBA's or Kemper. It's Weinber's understanding that this was all agreed to in the last hearing. You can tell he's quite perturbed that the prosecution has not followed the agreed upon filing dates, and has not made any formal response to their motions.
Weinberg is upset about the prosecution's latest motion to admit the PBA's under a new theory, the Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine of Corroboration. . . these are totally contrary to what where the Court ruled in the first trial, that the PBA's needed to be linked by motive. "What the Court said is motive. The Curt identified that as the basis . . . no way that this evidence flies as motive . . . they are trying to do exactly what you told them not to do.
Jackson steps away from the podium and sits down. Weinberg continues: "There's no response (from the prosecution) to the "motive" motion (they filed) . . . Riordan is not here today to brief it, and there are no motions in reply."
Judge Fidler then says, "This is a new trial. I'm not bound by any of that. I'm not bound by anything in the first trial." He goes onto explain that we are starting fresh here. If a new argument is presented, a new theory for admitting evidence, he's obligated to consider it.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Dixon motioning Ocampo in the first row to come over to where he is sitting.
Jackson gets up and explains to the Court that, "We didn't respond because our thought is, we didn't think it was necessary. We thought it was ridiculous. We felt we didn't need to (respond)."
Jackson goes onto explain that these arguments are all interconnected. We don't concede motive. We don't concede Kemper. We are seeking 12 witnesses.
Unfortunately it's not clear in my notes but I believe this next part is Weinberg speaking.
"They presented the Doctrine of Chances; the Doctrine of Corroboration . . . under that theory . . . our motion was to exclude this evidence on motive . . . our motive is that there simply is a misconstruction of motive of 1101(b). . . with Kemper . . . that was presented as a common scheme or plan, not motive."
Jackson leans over and whispers to Truc as Weinberg is speaking.
Weinberg goes onto say, "There are so many things wrong here. . . In order to add Kemper, they are suddenly changing their scheme . . ."
Jackson stands up and says, "Mr. Weinberg says he's not prepared . . . not prepared to argue Kemper. . . and then he argues Kemper . . . we could have saved several pages of Diane's transcription (the court reporter) . . . and the court's time . . ."
Judge Fidler finally says something to the effect of, that all these arguments should be addressed at one time and not in piecemeal. All parties agree to that and a new trial date is set for September 15th at 1:30 pm. The admissibility of Dr. Pena as a witness is brought up and whether or not that will be argued then but I believe the Court indicated that this would be held over until October 2-3, or right before trial starts.
And that's it. Court is over. The reporters are commenting a bit that there is no headline today. The AP reporter says that in a few days (I think next week) she's going to Vegas to cover the OJ trial, so she may or may not be here for the start of Spector. As we all slowly head toward the elevators, Weinberg answers a few questions off the record. As we wait for the elevator, I ask Mr. Weinberg if he is flying home this evening. Sherri, Robin and I ride the elevator down with him. He is polite to Sherri and Robin, asking who they are, what is their interest in the trial and making a correct guess that they are not here, "for" Spector. I had the devilish urge to introduce myself as, "the woman your client tried to get permanently removed from the courtroom in the first trial," but I censored myself and didn't say anything.
On the way back to the parking lot I gave donchais a call and tried to explain what happened today; basically nothing. I think both sides came to the hearing unprepared, but for different reasons. I have to say, it didn't appear to be a very good excuse that Jackson gave for not having filed any responses to Weinberg's motions. From what transpired, it looks like the prosecution is presenting an entirely different theory for Spector 2, as to why all the 12 1101(b) witnesses should be admitted into evidence. Whether Fidler will be swayed by their new arguments remains to be seen on September 15th.
Posted by Sprocket at 2:15 AM
Labels: Alan Jackson, Cameron Brown, Dominick Dunne, Doron Weinberg, Judge Fidler, Kazumi Miura, Kazuyoshi Miura, Lana Clarkson, Mark Geragos, Pat Harris, Phil Spector, Rachelle Short, Ricardo Ocampo, Truc Do
Found this when looking for something else
Appeals court: Phil Spector's retrial can proceed
http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=8850754&nav=menu612_9_6
so that didn't take very long!
Thank you Liz!
I heard the decision come in while waiting for the Miura hearing to start in Torrance.
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Cameron Brown Retrial: Day Thirteen
Prosecution Witnesses:
# Victor Rendon (American Airlines employee who presents Brown's employment records; testimony complete)
# Jane Ngo (DDA, CPA and financial forensic investigator who presents the financial data: testimony complete)
# Thomas Fortier (LA Co. Sheriff's Dept. HIgh Tech Task Force; examined the Brown's computers; testimony complete"
# Anke Raue (Coordinator of public walks in Rancho Palos Verdes; testimony complete)
# Dr. Ogbonna Chinwah (LA Co. Coroner's Office; performed Lauren's autopsy; testimony complete)
When I arrive in 107, Judge Pastor is advising a defendant on another case. Pastor is directly addressing the defendant, who is in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.
JP: ....to look at the big picture and what is facing you. Ultimately it's your decision. You've got two lawyers. They are committed to you. [...] Talk to your family; talk to your friends and consult with them. But no one ultimately makes the decision... it's you.
There are three clean cut young men sitting in the row behind me. I can tell immediately they are with the DA's office. Short hair, clean cut look, long-sleeve shirts, tie. (No jackets.) I turn around and ask if they are interns or clerks. Clerks, for the DA's office, they respond.
Pastor stays on the bench while the attorney's set up. Brown enters and starts to put on a tie. Ted was here when I arrived, sitting in the front row. The jury is called and we get started at 9:34 am.
The prosecution calls VICTOR RENDON.
Rendon is an American Airlines employee who is what is called a "lost time" manager covering all types of lost time such as injury, late/tardy, workman's compensation and family leave. When an employee calls in sick, upon their return they are interviewed by a lost time manager.
Rendon explains regular duty, transitional duty (coming off an injury such as workman's comp), restricted, return to work (can't lift over 20 lbs), and transitional from being off to full capacity. Rendon explains that employee personnel files are called "P" files and details all the types of documents that would be in the P file: work history, disciplinary actions and any type of injuries. For timekeeping, back in 2000 they had paper documents. Today, that's all computerized.
CH: Do you know the defendant?
VR: Yes I do. [...] He worked for American Airlines. I supervised on occasion.
Rendon reviewed Brown's personnel file. He started work for AA on August 28th, 1989. In November 2000, his job title was fleet service clerk. This is someone who loads/unloads luggage off to planes. He explains a "cut team" position where employees take luggage from "tail to tail." Hum asks about bags going from LAX to Hawaii, and Rendon agrees that's basically what the job entails. It also entails driving trams, physically moving the bags from point (plane) to point (plane). The job requires that employees are able to lift 75 pounds while bending over within a cramped space of an airliner (cargo hold).
In November of 2000, Rendon verifies that the defendant's days off were Tuesday and Wednesday and that he was listed as regular duty. He was not listed as injured or in transitional duty. A document is presented to Rendon who states he identifies it.
VR: It is an employee attendance record.
CH: Does it reference (the) work hours for the early days of November, 2nd, 200? [...] Did the defendant work?
VR: Yes he did.
CH: Regular duty, transitional or something else?
VR: Regular duty.
I'm not positive but I believe the document is put up on the overhead screen.
11/3 Regular duty
11/7 Day off
CH: Are you familiar with AA's policies when an employee has an injury on duty?
VR: First, the employee needs to let management know. Then the injury needs to be assessed and the employee sent to medical right away.
Then an injury counselor would advise the employee of his benefits.
CH: Was there an "injury counselor" back then? (2000)
VR: Yes there was. [...] Back then, the injury counselor would discuss with them what the employee's options were.
The employee would be given an document that explains all the options and benefits in regards to the employee injury policy.
CH: What was AA pay policy?
VR: Allotted 80 days off where they were paid their regular salary, then 50 days transitional.
Rendon clarifies that's 80 scheduled work days.
CH: Full salary base for 80 days?
VR: Yes.
This was 80 day per specific injury. Back then, (2000) the employee could be off 80 days from a back injury, come back to work injury the knee and get another 80 days paid. Rendon also clarifies that this generous injury policy AA had had changed since then. The witness states the employee is required to keep their doctor's appointments and they can check in with their injury counselor over the phone. They don't need to physically come into work to check in.
CH: Can a doctor at some point clear them for transitional duty then clear them for full duty?
VR: Yes, they can do that.
The next document is People's #43. It's an AA document from Brown's personnel file regarding an injury he claimed on 1-19-1999. The document is the employee on duty injury letter. It's signed by the defendant under the above statement:
"I have read and understand the information above."
Line #7 on the document. "Detail pay policy. AA will continue to pay your full salary for 80 days. If (you) are still injured beyond that (time0 you will receive workman's compensation.
The witness reviewed the personnel file of Brown and states there are 11 or 12 times in the file where the defendant claimed an injury while on duty.
People's #80 Another injury on duty letter dated 11-18-99. It's a repeat of People's #43. Brown signed the document that he read and understood the above. The same #7 paragraph reads the same AA policy of full pay for 80 days.
CH: Did the defendant return to full duty?
He returned to full duty on February 28th, 2000.
CH: Did the defendant claim any other injury on duty?
VR: No, he did not.
CH: Did I request that you review his pay stubs from the year 2000?
VR: Yes you did.
CH: Back in 1999-2000, how frequently were employees paid?
VR: Every two weeks.
The first pay stub that's presented is one dated 1-7-2000. The gross pay was 1599.20 for two weeks. There are various deductions on the check, including one for child support. The net pay was $433.42.
The next pay stub is reviewed, dated 1-21-2000. The gross pay was $1599.20 for two weeks. That was full, base salary. The net pay was $440.93 and the child support was $491.00
The next pay stub is reviewed, dated 2-4-2000. The gross pay was $1599.20 for two weeks. The child support was $491, and the net pay was $439.16.
The next pay stub is dated 2-18-2000. The gross pay was $1599.20. The child support deduction was $125.00. The net pay was $804.17.
The next stub is dated 3-03-2000. The gross pay was 1604.80. The child support deduction was 83.33. The net pay was $864.22.
The next stub is dated 3-15-2000. The gross pay was 1986.78 for two weeks. There was no child support deduction out of this check. The net paycheck was $1,110.01.
The next stub is dated 3-31-2000. The gross pay was $1619.85 for two weeks. The child support was 83.34 and the net paycheck was $892.42.
The next stub is dated 4-14-2000. The gross pay was $1610.42 for two weeks. I think I have the amount wrong for child support for this stub at only $125.00 with the net paycheck being $554.48.
The next stub is dated 4-28-2000. The gross pay was 1644.92 for two weeks. The child support was $491.00 and the net pay was $430.94
(And as I'm looking at this, I'm seeing that there have to be some other type of deductions coming out of his bi-weekly check that are pretty hefty because I can't understand how it could just be government taxes, SDI and withholding that are taking such a huge chunk of his gross pay.)
Hum asks the witness if overtime was available to the defendant back in 2000. In order for an employee to get overtime, they would have to sign up for it on their day off, or sign up at the beginning of the shift. Seniority did play a part on who was first awarded overtime. Overtime was paid at 1.5 the base pay. Rendon also explains "CS time" At the change of shift an employee can pick another employee's shift to work at regular base salary. CS time is "completely voluntary." The agreement to work a CS shift can be a verbal agreement between two employees or sometimes can require a management signature.
(This witness totally invalidates the defendant's claims in Family Court that he was on disability and not earning his full salary. It also invalidates the defendant's claims in Family court that he did not know who was paying him while he was injured.)
Harris gets up to cross the witness. Harris verifies that Mr. Hum subpoenaed the records and had this witness review them. He reviewed pay stub documents from 1-7-2000 to 12-31-2001.
Hum puts up a detail earnings statement on the overhead screen. Unfortunately, I can barely read what's there. He does have the witness explain the various areas and codes on the statement. Medical coverage, life insurance, dental, eye care are all before taxed deductions. After tax deductions would be credit union dues, child support long term disability, 401K. Those are all voluntary deductions.
Verifies again that Hum provided the witness with 2 years pay stubs. Every category that's listed on the earnings statement is gone over and the witness verifies if the category is a voluntary deduction or not. (The list is long, and I won't bother transcribing what I have.) There is also a category on the stub called NRSA. This is a category where, if an employee travels and takes someone with him via his benefit of free travel, there 's a fee for that. (I'm betting these are taxes that must be paid.) Or if there's someone on his list who travels on his benefits, the employee pays some sort of fees.
PH: If at any time, he could have decided not to have these voluntary deductions?
VR: Well, I'd debate that on the union dues. [...] Insurance can only be declined once a year in October.
PH: Other things, could he choose not to have deducted from his paycheck?
Now Harris goes over every pay stub from November 10th, 2000 to May 25th, 2001 and the child support payments that Brown made to the victim's mother, Sarah. I'm not sure if I have all the figures correct, so bear with me.
11-10-2000 412.85 child support; arrears: ??
11-24-2000 475.26 child support; arrears: no
12-06-2000 78.14 child support; arrears 25.00
12-08-2000 412.86 child support; arrears: 25.00
12-22-2000 491.00 child support
12-22-2000 nothing (is this possibly a bonus check?)
01-05-2001 491.00 child support; arrears 25.00
03-16-2001 no child support
(The big question I'm left with is, who initiated the termination of the child support payments? Was it the OC DA's office when the inter-office paperwork was finally got input into the system over six months later so that Brown didn't pay anymore? Was it Sarah? Or was it Brown? IF this question is answered via this witness or earlier witnesses I totally missed it.)
Harris now asks the witness about different job positions: baggage handler; cut team; expediter. An expediter is someone resolves luggage issues when a passenger gets on a plane but their luggage doesn't make it. The witness states there are 3-4 times a year where employees make bids for certain positions.
PH: At one point was he (Brown) an expediter?
The witness states that he would have to look through all the paperwork bids to determine that. He can't determine from the documents in his personnel file if Brown was an expediter or not.
Harris asks if the employee has a pre-designated doctor on file, if they can go to their own doctor.
VR: Initially, the employee still has to go to the AA doctor referral first, they then can treat with their own personal physician.
Harris now asks about those 11-12 injury report letter and if the witness looked at each individual one to determine what each one was.
VR: No, I just looked at the number of them.
PH: You can't tell if some of these were where he was back at work the same day?
VR: No. Just looked at the injury report letter (in the file).
Harris goes over the injury report letter dated 1-19-1999, and Brown's statement regarding the injury.
"I was bending down vacuuming when I bumped my head on an overhead bin latch."
PH: Can you tell if he missed any work?
VR: It doesn't look like he missed any work.
PH: Some of these were injuries where he missed work and some of those were where he didn't miss any work?
(I don't have the witness's answer.)
The witness states he doesn't remember when the pay went to direct deposit. He thinks that back then, the checks were either mailed or picked up by the employees.
The following codes are explained. SK= sick; PE= personal emergency; PV= paid vacation borrowed from next years.
There's no redirect of this witness and the next witness is called.
JANE NGO.
I note that the microphone at the witness box is not working right. If you touch or move it, it has a terrible noisy re verb to it. It doesn't help make the witness more understandable.
The witness is a Deputy District Attorney with LA County. She's a supervising investigator and auditor. Since 1997 she's worked on her own cases. Before that she was a corporate examiner for corporations and did regulatory audits. She supervises four staff members.
In 2004 she was an investigative auditor. She would transfer information for the DA and investigators onto spread sheets for analysis. She gives more of her CV. She's also a CPA and a forensic accountant, doing analysis for court purposes.
In March, 2004 the DA's office provided her with the finances for Cameron Brown and Patty Kaldis Brown. The witness states what bank records she received.
She received bank account records from May, 2000 to June, 2001. She also received payroll info from January 2000 to May, 2001. She also received credit card reports for Cameron Brown and Patty Brown from reporting agencies. Several agencies generated reports for as of May, 2000. She analyzed all this material and presented her findings to Hum.
She reviewed seventeen months of payroll information from Brown. January 7th, 2000 to May 25th, 2001. In that group, there was a 2 week period dated 5-26-2000 missing.
The witness states the defendant's gross pay (for this period?) was $64,187.56. That's what the employer agreed to pay him. Hum has the witness go over various deductions. One was child support and one was arrearages in child support. There was also a deduction into a savings (?) account $1,782.20 (total deduction).
CH: Did I ask you to calculate all the deductions excluding child support and arrearages, and taking into consideration the savings account? [...] With that, what was the net pay without those deductions?
JN: After: $40,002.61.
The witness also calculated his take home pay.
$15,320.11 TOTAL
Brown's child support was 38.3% of his net pay.
Hum asks her if there were any days where the paycheck information indicate the net pay was more than the child support.
JN: Out of 36 pay periods, there were 13 pay periods where child support was greater than net pay.
Hum asks the witness to calculate how much child support the defendant would have paid (at the current rate) if Lauren had lived to 18 years old.
JN: $148,132.84, if the amount remained the same.
The witness examined the records for four bank accounts for the defendant. (I believe one account was opened after the death of Lauren so it was not included in calculations.)
B of A Savings: Opened in 5-1-2000 with $6.00. The last statement she reviewed was 5-21-2001 and the account had a balance of $6.14. That's the highest amount that account ever had. The .14 cents was interest earned. On November 8th, 2000, the balance in that account was $6.07.
B of A Checking: On 5-1-2000, the balance was $424.44. ON May 31st, 2001 the balance was $304.87. The highest balance occurred on September 5th, 2000, at $1,937.53. On November 8th, 2000 there was a balance of $86.14.
CH: How many times was this account overdrawn?
JN: 31 times.
On 11-15-2000 there was a negative balance of $ -42.28.
The witness also received records for an American Airlines, Federal Credit Union account. With each paycheck, $50.92 was deposited directly into that account. There were withdrawals on that account.
Credit Union Acct: On 5-9-2000 the balance in the account was $59.91. On 6-22-2001 it was $74.10. The highest balance was on 3-2-2001: $123.25. On November 8th, 2000 the balance was $4.00
The witness states that on this account, there were a number of ATM transactions that were denied, for a total of 13 denied transactions.
The witness was asked to add up the balances in the three accounts in November 8th, 2000. That information is presented on People's #73.
$ 6.07 B of A Savings
$ 86.14 B of A Checking
$ 4.00 Credit Union Acct
$96.21 Total bank account assets on 11/8/2000
The morning break is called. During the break, Harris gives Judge pastor a document.
JP: I think he needs to give the "pace form."
Harris and Hum are still shuffling around in the well area during the break. As I get up from my seat to go get a snack, Harris has an impish grin on his face and says (I believe) in Hum's direction, "I don't know hat you're making such a big deal about. That's ($96.21) not much more than what I have." As I walk past that area of the well on my way out of the courtroom, I say to Harris, "Oh I doubt that."
11:06 am: Break is over.
The witness now testifies about several items that have been charged off that appear on the defendant's credit report. Some of the items don't have dates beside them as to when they became bad debts. These items appeared on a May 2001 credit report.
12/1995 $61.00 (B of A?)
08/2000 $148.00 (American Agency?)
07/1997 $52.00 (CWLTH)
?????? $167.00 (Metro Adjustment Bureau?)
04/30/2000 $561.00 (Area? Finance?)
2/1999 $53.00 (AFNI, Inc.?)
1/1999 $1,358 (? Agency)
There are some California tax liens also listed three items but I miss some of the information.
7/95 $61.
8/?? 57.
There was a repossession from Nissan Motors in August, 1996 for $12,974.00
The witness also reviewed a credit report for Patty Brown. There appeared to be two charge-offs by creditors.
$911. Macys
MBNA $13,676.
The debt for this individual reflects a mortgage with Countrywide on 3/20/2001 of $176,518.
There is some kind of past due debt with ABCO (?), a date of 2/99 of $5,000.
There is some kind of payment/charge off (?) in ?/2000 of $67.00 with NACC (?).
She reviewed the balances on (I believe?) credit cards.
AA (?) $24.00
Citibank $2,049.00
Union Bk $5,737.00
Discover $6,975.00
Robinsons-May $209.00
There is a document the witness reviewed that showed Mrs. Brown was fired from her Hermosa Beach job on February 22, 2000. When she was fired, she had already taken advance vacation days. She owed the city more than she had earned when fired.
Patty Brown's W2 forms:
1999 gross: $37,657.83
1999 net: $29,313.48
2000 gross: $7,926.45
2000 net: $6,2363.23
(I have some other figures listed but I can't figure out what my notes are trying to say.)
In June of 2006 she was asked to look at additional accounts by Patty Kaldis Brown.
CH: Were there any joint accounts?
JN: No.
Patty Brown also had real estate holdings. There were three properties she owned and two were sold. None of the properties had the defendant's name on them.
CH: Reviewing the additional documents your received in 2006, did that change the amount the money the defendant had in his account?
That's the end of direct and cross begins.
Harris starts with Brown's credit report. I have in my notes at this point that Ted left before the break. Then Harris moves onto Patty's credit report. He asks the witness about bad debuts and if the credit report tells you when the account (debt) was charged off. Some of the charge offs were in 1996, 1997. From 1995 to 1997, Brown wasn't paying child support.
JN: I was only provided (the information) from (the time frame indicated?).
There are a few questions about the child support that my notes are not clear on. Harris brings up the old tax liens. There were repossessions (?) all before Brown started paying child support.
PH: From you experience, (in reviewing the credit documents) that Mr. Brown was someone who cared about his finances?
CH: Objection!
JP: Sustained.
Harris asks the question a slightly different way and it's objected to and sustained also. Third time is the charm and the witness finally gets to answer.
Harris asks her about when she first started reviewing the documents, and when Mr. Hum sent her a memo, the prosecution was looking at the financial income. Harris asks her at what point she was asked to analyze this information.
PH: Were you aware that he had already been arrested?
JN: No, I was not aware of when he was arrested.
She was given documents and she generated a report. Mr. Hum allegedly requested a review to determine if financial gain was a motive, in March, 2004. She was requested to look at the finances of both Brown's because they were married.
Harris goes over with the witness what documents she was provided by Hum.
PH: They didn't provide you with payroll or bank account information for Mrs. Brown?
The witness states that they didn't do that until later.
PH: Based on just the information you had, you testified before the grand jury, all you had was her credit report, not her bank accounts?
Hum provided that information eventually in June, 2004.
PH: Did he tell you how he had gotten the information? [...] From the defense?
JN: I believe so.
PH: They filed with a joint tax return in 2001? [...] Provided a 2001 (tax return)? [...] They also provided a copy of 2000 joint tax return.
JN: I couldn't confirm. They (the documents) weren't signed.
Harris asks her why didn't she obtain the Federal tax returns.
JN: It's very difficult to get IRS records. I have not personally been able to get one for work (in the scope of doing her job).
Harris asks the witness if Mrs. Brown had three properties, and if she sold one on April 21, 2001. He asks her if Patty brown walked away with a profit of $73,000 from that sale.
ON November 8th, 2000, she owned the house (sold) at that point. Harris asks her about an equity line of credit. That's when the value of the property exceeds what you owe.
Harris mentions again that Patty Brown made $73,000 profit off of the sale of that home. Harris brings up that prior to that, she purchased a piece of property in Torrance, in 1996. She sold in in December, 1998 and pocketed nearly $70,000. Patty Brown also had a retirement account.
PH: You can access the funds if you wish?
JN: With a penalty.
The retirement account on November 8th, 2000 held $48,445.53.
PH: She also had checking accounts on November 8th, 2000?
JN: She had four bank accounts.
Added up? I have a figure of $14,553.84.
JN: I don't know if they were checking accounts. They were bank statements.
Harris goes over the charge offs of a couple of credit cards.
PH: Do you know of a procedure where you can pay off a credit card after it was charged off?
JN: I didn't get that far.
Harris then presents that Patty had credit cards with high "available" balance credit limits. I believe he mentions that on the MBNA card, she had an available line of $26,000 and on her Discover card, she had a $7,500 credit line with $3,760 available as a cash advance.
PH: And that's something she could instantly get cash out of?
Patty Brown also had a Credit Union account with, South Bay Credit Union. A deposit was made in June, 1999 of $9,000. That balance was still in that account on November 8th, 2000.
More of Patty's credit is gone over as well as the sums she pocketed free and clear from the sale of two properties.
PH: Did you see how much the mortgage was? [...] Do you know who was paying it?
PH: Did anyone as you to try to determine if they were living together?
PH: No one had you look at there (?) to see if they were paying (expenses) together?
JN: I didn't see it coming from his account.
PH: They had a mortgage?
JN: SHE had a mortgage.
PH: You saw Mr. Brown wasn't paying the mortgage? No one asked you to find out who was paying that?
JN: Correct.
PH: Do you have.... testified in prior proceeding?
JN: Yes.
PH: You had the case for five years?
PH: AT any point did anyone ask to find out if their finances were apart?
JN: She had her own bank accounts.
PH: Any information she was not providing help to the marriage financially?
I don't have the last answer.
Cross ends and redirect begins.
Hum brings out on redirect that the bank statements were separate and the mortgage was separate.
CH: Did any of Cameron Brown's accounts have his wife's name on them?
CH: Did any of her accounts have Cameron Brown's name on them?
There were no accounts or assets that showed joint ownership.
Redirect is over and recross begins.
Unfortunately, my note is not clear as to what Harris asks. He does get on the record that the Brown's were married in the Summer of 2000. I believe it's on recross that it's established that all of the bank accounts were opened before they were both married except for an "AA" account, (credit card?) that was opened in April, 2001.
PH: Did anyone ever ask you to go out and investigate that?
JN: I don't investigate.
PH: No one provided you with any information that they had joint accounts? [...] You have no way of knowing if they shared any expenses?
JN: But I received documents in 2004. The defense didn't provide me with any joint accounts.
I believe the witness agrees that she didn't know if Mrs. Brown was willing to pay for things for her husband.
The testimony of this witness is over and the afternoon break is called a bit early I think. Judge Pastor reminds the jurors that it's Thursday, Farmer's Market Day on the grounds of City Hall. Counsel are ordered back by 1:15 pm.
(The question I would ask is, why didn't they have joint accounts? Why? It doesn't matter if they did share in expenses like Harris suggested in his cross. What's clear is that their assets were separate and Patty controlled the major money in the marriage. I suspect that if there were any joint accounts, the defense would have presented them.
As I listened to the testimony about Patty Brown's finances, they don't appear that impressive. She had some investments and almost $50,000 in her retirement account but she wasn't overly wealthy. She didn't have "hundreds" of thousands of dollars. What I think of her finances doesn't matter though. Whatever she had at that time, it was significantly way more than Brown himself had, and a witness testified that Brown stated he married Patty for her money.)
At 1:12 pm, I'm back inside 107. Brown is getting his tie on. There's a bit of pleasant banter in the well. Patricia McNeal, (the other court reporter in 107) went to the Farmer's Market with Mrs. Benson and lucked upon getting a free sandwich there. Judge Pastor jokes with his reporter and clerk.
JP: So that's what you were doing, scrounging around?
Judge Pastor appears to have a good rapport with his staff.
1:17 pm: The jury files in. Judge Pastor asks his jury about their lunch.
The next witness is THOMAS FORTIER. I know this officer also testified in Spector.
Fortier is a Detective on the High Tech Task Force. He was trained by the Dept. of Justice. He gives his CV. He's been with the Sheriff's Office for 25 years.
On 1-3-2001, he was asked to review reports in the search warrant. On 1-22-2001, he did a forensic exam on two computers, a Dell Tower computer, and an PC clone, with no manufacturer's name. The Dell Tower computer model sits on the ground. It's about 1.5' tall.
CH: As opposed to the laptop?
TF: Yes.
The witness testifies that he removed the hard drives and made copies of the hard drives. He then puts the information from the hard drive on a secure server in the Sheriff's Office. He followed his standard procedures for that. The PC clone had two hard drives and the Dell Tower had one hard drive. He used a specific program called END CASE to copy the drives. END CASE is a specific program that just makes copies of information. It cannot write to the drives or make any changes. After making the copies, he put the hard drives back inside the respective computers.
He then did an analysis of the computer hard drives. He checked the internal clock of both computers and found them to be accurate. There is a little (lithium ion) batter that keeps the time and date accurate.
CH: Both computers time and date accurate?
The witness explains how data is stored on a hard drive. He explains how deleted emails are not really "deleted." It just means the area where that data is stored is now considered part of the unallocated area. Fortier states that 80% of unallocated area data is retrievable.
The witness reviewed the computer hard drives for their Internet viewing history.
CH: Did you find various documents on the computer?
TF: The resume of Patty K. Brown was on the PC clone computer.
This document is introduced as People's #51.
CH: Did you find any other documents?
TF: Some emails
The witness details the emails that he found on both computers and who they were to. Some of the names are of people who I've seen testify. David Banister; Jon and Lisa, and other's I've not heard of such as Tom Lovejoy and Joe Crennan. The witness made a printout of the Internet history of both computers. It's a 99 page document, People's #52. There is Internet search history there covering November 8th, November 9th and November 10th, 2000. There was nothing in the Internet history on the PC clone; it was all on the Dell Tower.
Hum introduces a 3 page, Internet history from the Dell, People #75. The witness verifies there was no Internet web site activity on November 9th. It was all on November 8th and November 10th.
CH: What information can you tell from the Internet history?
TF: The address of web site visited, for how long and when the last time it was visited.
CH: What is a "push" program?
TF: It's a program that you set it up if you want news sent to your computer. It pops up for you.
CH: There was no "push" program on the computer?
TF: Correct.
CH: Any viruses?
TF: On the Dell Tower, there was one virus.
CH: Can you tell if it was an active virus?
TF: Yes. [...] On a certain date it would turn the computer off and reboot.
Hum verifies with his witness that the only way for this computer to visit a web site was for someone to click on that web site and visit it. The witness explains what type of Internet access the computers had built in. The Dell Tower was using a modem. The PC clone had either a modem or a network card. The Dell Tower used a modem that used a phone line to connect to the Internet. (What some of us would call "dial-up.)
CH: The Dell had no USB, it had a modem dial-up?
The witness is asked to explain what "favorites" (or "bookmarks") are.
CH: Was one of the favorites on the Dell Tower "Surfline"?
Direct is finished and cross begins.
Harris starts off saying that he really loathes (?) "Because I'm computer illiterate."
(I hate it when attorneys say statements like this and then go onto to do competent job of cross examination of a subject they just said they know nothing about.)
Harris asks about the hard drive and how long it stores information, and there is a detained discussion about how that can vary. The witness states he wasn't the one who went and looked for Internet websites.
PH: Did they ever ask you if there was a place called Inspiration Point? [...] Or running website close to Ranch Palos Verdes Cliffs? [...] They never asked you?
TF: I was asked to get all the Internet histories.
The witness states that if you are using a modem on you phone line to access the Internet, it will ring busy, unless you have a third party device attached.
PH: Did you ever discuss with Detective Leslie or Smith what the charge was on the morning of the death?
It's stated that on the morning of Lauren's death, someone was on the Internet looking up surf reports.
Cross is finished and redirect begins.
Hum gets the witness to verify that on the morning of November 10th, someone was on the Dell Tower computer looking up surf reports.
Harris recrosses.
PH: Were you aware that Mr. Brown was actually home that morning?
TF: No.
And that's it for this witness. It's clear he was just put on the stand to get the Internet history print out introduced into evidence. I'm sure it will be used sometime later.
The next witness called is an older, slightly hard of hearing witness named ANKE RAUE.
Ms. Raue is a volunteer. She works for the Ranch Palos Verdes Land Conservancy, for the land of the Palos Verdes peninsula. She's volunteered since 1991. She's been the coordinator of public walks since 1996. She's also a member of the Land Conservancy board. There are a total of 15 board members. She coordinates and sets up walks in that area.
In 2000, there was approximately a walk a month set up for every second Saturday. That year, they still had a "Children's Walk."
CH: Are there more than 12 walks?
AR: I have a list of over 30 walks and I try to add more.
CH: Was there a walk to Sacred Cove?
She describes the walk to Sacred Cove. That it starts at the Abalone Cove parking lot, goes past the gate house and then there's a trail head. Walk goes along Palos Verdes South, then a trail head along and down to Sacred Cove. Part of the walks were called Y2K (that year).
There are other organizations that have walks in the area. The city docents conduct walks also. She is familiar with what that group does but basically it's pretty much what her group does.
AR: Some walk leaders that are with them, joined us.
She describes another walk from Abalone Cove to the beach and onto Portuguese Point.
CH: Did you ever sponsor a walk or hike onto Inspiration Point?
AR: No.
CH: Why never IP?
AR: I'm told it's too dangerous. [...] I've been told it's not safe for a public walk.
Harris has her view a document that she states is an "old version of our walk flyer's."
Harris asks her if they walk to Sacred Cove.
AR: Yes.
He then asks her to describe the route and the distances. The witness is not willing to give distances. She says she's terrible on distances. The brochure for the Y2K walks is gone over.
AR: It's a moderate to strenuous walk with a couple of steep sections but is a nice walk for children. (Sacred Cove).
Harris asks her about another walk, Bluff Cove.
AR: That's in Palos Verdes Estates.
Bluff Cove is up toward LAX. Harris asks her how far, and she takes a guess of 3 to 5 miles.
PH: Is this a nice area, Bluff Cove?
AR: Yes. [...] Surfer's spot.
Harris asks her about a children's walk to Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. She states it's a 1.5 hour walk. It includes a lot of standing around and talking about the interesting things to see on the walk.
CH: Taking that walk, 2 to 2.5 hours (Sacred Cove walk) would that (be 2.5 hours of solid walking)?
AR: (No.) That would include spending time at cove, talking all the time, stopping at specific spots on the trail and on Palos Verdes Drive. [...] So there's a lot of geology and we let people explore.
Redirect ends and recross begins.
PH: There's a lot of standing?
AR: Yes. [...] And a lot of talking.
This witness is finished and the coroner is the next witness up. I'm happy that I'm not missing the coroner, but that means that I will probably be missing Dale Falicon tomorrow morning.
I think the girl I met a few days ago who said her father is an attorney is back. She's a very slender young woman dressed much more casually.
DR. OGBONNA CHINWAH is called to the stand. He is a tall, slender black man and speaks with an accent. (As I'm typing out my notes, I search the Internet in vain trying to find something that will tell me the heritage of the name "Chinwah." I wonder if Dr. Chinwah is from Trinidad.)
Dr. Chinwah went to Loma Linda Medical School. I believe he did his residency at USC. He gives his CV. He's board certified in pathology and works for the LA Co. Coroner. He's also board certified in forensic pathology. He describes forensic pathology as the branch of medicine that deals with the medical sciences as related to legal issues. I've never heard forensic pathology described this way. Dr. Chinwah speaks very slowly to the jury. He was board certified in pathology in 1974. (So he's been around pathology a while.) He describes his continuing education, the seminars he lectures at and he has trained younger doctors as various hospitals. He's a clinical assistant professor and USC medical school. He's performed about 8,000 autopsies. He's testified as an expert witness in Federal, criminal and foreign courts.
He explains that the coroner's office assigns each case a unique number and that number appears on all documents. Lauren's death in the coroner's office is #2000-07890. Dr. Chinwah describes the five different MOD's (manner of death) classifications that are available to him. 1. Natural; 2. Homicide; 3. Suicide; 4. Accident; 5. Undetermined. He explains each category to the jury. Homicide is a death at the hands of another. Undetermined would be after the examination of the body, all toxicology microscopic exams, when all put together there's no clear cause of death.
Of the 8,000 autopsies he's performed, they have all fallen into one of those five categories. Dr. Chinwah classified Lauren's death as a homicide.
CH: And homicide is a death at the hands of another?
Dr.C: Yes.
His conclusions are recorded in an autopsy report. Dr. Chinwah explains an autopsy. Hum asks if he records into a microphone while performing an autopsy.
Dr. C: We don't have that luxury yet.
He takes notes throughout the exam and makes notations on diagrams. After the autopsy is finished he goes off to his office to dictate a report. The report is then sent in to be transcribed. It's reviewed and corrections are made until the report is correct.
Hum presents a 17 page autopsy report of Laren Key Marer, 2000-078900, People's #33.
CH: Is that the autopsy report (you prepared)? [...] Does that contain dictated portions?
Dr. C: Yes:
CH: Does that contain notes and diagrams?
Dr. C: Yes.
CH: Does it contain other doctor's findings as to cause of death?
CH: Were photos taken of Lauren's injuries?
CH: Were photos taken during the autopsy?
CH: Were specimens taken?
Dr. C: Yes, and preserved for a later time.
CH: Did you review the autopsy report prior to testifying?
Dr. C: Yes, I did.
CH: What was the cause of death (COD)?
Dr. C: Multiple injuries.
CH: Due to what?
Dr. C: Blunt force trauma.
The afternoon break is taken at 2:35 pm. At 2:50 we're back on the record but the jury isn't back in the courtroom.
JP: May I see counsel for just a moment? [...] Were the people in the courtroom aware of what's coming up?
There is a discussion about who will, will not get to remain in the courtroom. Hum wants the family to remain. Harris I think is arguing the opposite. The photos are going to be enlarged and mounted on foam board. They will be on the easel directly in front of the jury.
PH: I think they (the victim's family) could see them. The photos (are) extraordinarily graphic.
JP: If they want to remain they are entitled to. Motion to exclude is unfounded at this juncture.
During the break, Hum explains to his witness that they are not using the word "trial" only "prior proceeding." I sit where I can see the exhibits better.
Back on the stand Hum has the witness describe Lauren's injuries.
Dr. C: Multiple abrasions, contusions, lacerations on the head/skull area. [...] Blood in the chest cavity on the right. [...] Spleen is lacerated. (There are abrasions on the) chest and abdomen. [...] There's an extensive skull fracture. [..] The next is partly dislocated from the head.[...] There is a fracture and dislocation of the right wrist.
Hum has the witness explain the terms.
Dr. C: Abrasion: scrape on the surface of the skin. [...] Contusion: bleeding inside of soft tissue of the body, caused by a blow or impact; bruise. Laceration: tear. Where there is a break in the skin or tissue from a break or force.
Hum: That's not the same as an incision or cut?
Dr. C: No. (It's) not caused by the same thing. [...] A cut is by an instrument.
Dr. Chinwah details more of Lauren's injuries.
Dr. C: On the face and forehead extensive abrasion, laceration and contusions. Abrasions on chest, abdomen, and a few abrasions on the arms.
CH: Any other breaks or injuries to her face?
Dr. C: I felt some fracture of (the) cheekbone.
Dr. Chinwah looks at his notes to refresh his memory. Sarah has her eyes closed. I can't see Ted's face.
Dr. C: Left side of face. [...] The forehead injuries are more pronounced on the left side.
CH: (Was there) a dislocation of the neck?
Dr. C: That's correct. [...] The first cervical vertebrae and where it attached to the occipital bone, that attachment was loose.
CH: Where the skull meets the spinal cord?
CH: What would cause that?
Dr. C: Blunt trauma.
There were injuries to her lungs and other internal injuries. Contusion of the liner of the lungs. A bruise you can see on skin or internal tissue. There was bleeding into lunch and liver due to trauma. Her spleen was lacerated.
CH: What would case this blunt force trauma?
Dr. Chinwah details the skull fracture.
Dr. C: Massive, extensive skull fracture. ....forehead and extends to the left side towards the back of the head. [...] The right wrist had a fracture.
CH: Did you notice whether any water was in the lunch?
Dr. C: No, I did not.
CH: Any lacerations on the left side of the brain?
Dr. C: Yes, from the fracture. Laceration and trauma to the left brain.
Dr. Chinwah explains that internal lacerations would be from an external source transmitting force, inside the body. [...] Severe external force.
CH: Was it from more than one or two?
Dr. C: It was consistent with a single application of force.
CH: All injuries consistent with a single impact?
Another question and Dr. Chinwah states there were no broken ribs.
CH: Did you find that unusual?
Dr. C: Not unusual from my experience and from the age of the child.
Lauren's height at the time of her death was 42 inches and she weighed 44 pounds.
CH: Was Lauren breathing when she went into the water?
Dr. C: No.
The diagrams are presented to the jury. Ted gets up from his seat and goes over to the far right of the courtroom so he can see the enlarged coroner's diagrams from the autopsy report. Sarah is looking straight down at her lap.
The diagrams indicate there were red areas on her head and red areas on her upper chest. Dr. Chinwah explains what all his markings on the diagrams mean, and where the areas of abrasion occurred.
The forehead abrasion extend over her nose to chin and to the upper part of her chest. Left wrist abrasion. Minor abrasions on things and knees. Small abrasion on left side of her abdomen. There are other small injuries but it's hard to discern on the diagrams.
Now a diagram of the head is being shown, coroner's document #22; People's exhibit #54. There's red showing on her forehead, her face, showing areas of abrasions and contusion on the face. More towards the left than right side.
People's #54. These are black and white diagrams, blown up documenting the skull fractures. I recognize these diagrams from my anatomy books. The skull fractures are long. One goes more than half way around the skull. Dr. Chinwah explains to the jury the views of the skull that are on this diagram. One is as if the top of the skull came off and you were looking straight down inside. Another view is the bottom of the skull. All the dark lines are fracture lines, all around the edge of the skull. The large, main fracture starts from the top of the left eye socket, goes around the parietal to the occipital bone. That's huge. Ted returns to his seat.
There are more fracture lines on the skull but they are hard to describe. I have in my notes that the big fracture goes across the front of the frontal bone just above both eye sockets and continues around to about where the ear is and then to the back of the head. (Her head was almost cracked open like a walnut. That would not have happened with a slip down the cliff face.)
People's #57. These are the photos. There are four. Photo A: The entire left side of her face is very bloody. It's completely red. Photo B: On the left side of her head and upper chest there are abrasions. Dr. Chinwah explains what a specific mark is on the body that's circled in the photograph. That's where the liver temperature was taken. Photo C: On the back (of the?) left and and wrist, and left hip and thigh there are red abrasions. Photo D: This is of Lauren's legs and the small abrasions on her knees.
Juror #6 doesn't appear to look at the photos. Sarah keeps her head down. It takes all my resolve not to cry seeing these images. I have to commend the prosecution for keeping the images to a minimum. Alternate #3 covers her face.
Dr. Chinwah testifies that he did go to Inspiration Point and to the end of the point. He went on March 26th, 2001 with other people. He went with the chief ME from the office, Dr. Lakshmanan and a number of detectives and a consultant pediatrician, Dr. Berkowitz. He went with chief coroner. He went with Detective Leslie. He examined the top of Inspiration Point at the edge of the cliff.
Hum asks him to explain the terrain on Inspiration Point.
Dr. C: Pretty rough area. Rough plants all over the place. IT was just rough.
CH: The area over the edge, was it flat, sloped?
Dr. C: The edge was irregular; it was sloped and there were plants all over the place.
CH: Were those injuries consistent with a drop from a height? [...] They were not consistent with an accidental fall?
Dr. Chinwah explains that if anyone were to fall from there, they would be rolling down that area. I would expect to find scrapes on arms, legs, abdomen, and expect to find cuts from part of cuts, or there would be gravel, on parts of the body.
Dr. C: In my experience, the person would have abrasions, contusions all over the body.
Dr. Chinwah explains that the scrapes on Lauren's body are very minor scrapes. The injuries would be so extensive by rolling down edge of that point where we were. Dr. Chinwah states that he also examined her clothing.
Dr. C: You would expect to find that even on clothing, the rocks, on the pants. [...] She was wearing very flimsy, light material.
CH: You would expect to see those injuries through those clothing?
Dr. Chinwah inspected her hand and nails. There was nothing on hands or fingers. He states if she had rolled down, he would expect to see (scrapes, etc.) on her hands.
Dr. C: I would expect to see someone actually falling to try to stop their fall, that (they are trying to) grab things that are around that individual.
CH: You would expect to see that even in a four-year-old?
CH: Did anyone pressure you to make the death a homicide rather than an accident?
CH: Did you speak to Dr. Lakshmanan regarding this case? [...] Did you review with Dr. Lakshmanan?
Dr. C: Yes I did.
CH: Did you tell him your conclusion MOD was homicide.
CH: Did Dr. Lakshmanan agree with you?
Dr. C: Yes, he did.
It's noted that Dr. Berkowitz's opinion as a pediatric physician, her report is attached to the autopsy report.
CH: Would your conclusion still be a homicide regardless of what Dr. Berkowitz's (opinion?) is?
Hum asks Dr. Chinwah if he has performed other autopsies where someone has fallen from a great height. He states he's performed about 50.
CH: Have you ever seen these (type of) abrasions....this type of injury, that you would expect to see if she had fallen from a great height? [...] Lauren's injuries were discrete.
Dr. C: That they were limited to certain areas.
CH: Would discrete also mean localized?
Hum details all the injuries.
CH: Are those all consistent with a single impact?
Hum asks about Lauren's injuries and the difference between a multiple velocity impact set of injuries.
CH: Have you seen other cases someone who has injuries from multiple severe impacts, hitting more than once?
CH: Are those injuries different from what you observed on Lauren?
CH: Taking everything into account, the location Inspiration Point, her injuries, are her injuries consistent with an accidental fall?
CH: Are they consistent with being forcibly thrown from that location?
Direct is finished and Harris gets up to cross.
Harris immediately points out that the autopsy was performed on November 9th, 2000 and that Dr. Chinwah observed and knew about these injuries on that date.
PH: You looked at those injuries and whether she was thrown verses fall, and your manner of death, of that based on injuries?
Dr. C: It was based on all information.
PH: You didn't make a determination (MOD) until five months later?
I believe Dr. Chinwah states, "That's correct."
Harris goes over this again and again, that Dr. Chinwah knew her injuries the day of the autopsy. Dr. Chinwah explains that the case was not concluded on that date.
PH: Your testimony is with all your experience, you didn't make that determination on November 9th? [...] IN this particular case you had the ability to write a preort on November 11th... [...] And you wrote a report and left MOD blank.
PH: You went with Dr. Lakshmanan, Dr. Berkowita and Detective Leslie and you wrote in your report "appears to be child endangerment..."
Dr. C: It doesn't say that.
PH:: Conclusion after visiting the site. Child endangerment, therefore MOD is homicide.
Dr. C: You are quoting me out of context! [...] What that sentence means, "Further given the circumstances...
PH: IS there a reason you can't answer?
DR. C: I have answered!
(Harris won't let him explain the sentence in his report.)
Juror #3 takes no notes. Juror #6 doesn't appear to be watching the witness or Harris.
PH: What else referenced to child endangerment? [...] Upon what circumstance?
Dr. C: This was a child who was in school, had been crying.
CH: Objection! Non-responsive.
JP: Overruled!
Dr. C: There was information that the father was coming to take her. [...] She cried for a long time. [...] The child reluctantly went with the father. [...] There's supposed to be a picnic area at the bottom. [...] Then (they) proceeded to another place and then proceeded to (Inspiration Point). It was a difficult long journey. [...] Some of us couldn't do it. The pediatric (doctor) was a jogger. [...] It was not a place of fun. And finally ending up.... [...] It looked like a God forsaken place. [...] (It was) scary for me. [...] And that she had been playing... [...] Now four-year-old kind go through all that... [...] For child to go up there. [...] She was very tired, she was fatigued...
PH: Were you given that information (that) she didn't want to leave? [...] Were you given that information? [...] Were you also given the information from (DA?) child services that that was very normal? [...] That that was very normal?
(I miss the ruling.)
PH: These were all the circumstances that.... all that goes into your decision? Whether (she was crying or not)? [...] Were you given that information?
PH: You just said one of the factors you were given in this case.... [...] You knew Dr. Berkowitz. [...] Did anyone tell you they didn't know the path?
Dr. C: I know they didn't get there by helicopter!
PH: Did anyone give you that information that for part of the trip they were traveling along the road, Palos Verdes Drive South?
PH: Did anyone provide for you a point of departure, where Lauren fell off?
CH: Objection "fell off!"
JP: Point of departure (stays). Objection sustained.
PH: Did anyone tell you where Lauren went off? (general area) [...] A specific path?
Dr. CH: No.
PH: So these were the things that you were referring to in child endangerment?
Dr. C: Yes, because that was a dangerous place.
PH: Did anyone ever tell you that day that she was rolling down hill?
Dr. C: I didn't say anyone told me. That area. [...] They don't have to roll; there's likelihood of rolling, slipping.
PH: Mr. Hum asked you wouldn't there be major (?) (I "believe" Harris states the next sentence.) Based on the possibility that she may have rolled off?
Dr. C: In an accident, in that location, I would expect to see...
PH: If you didn't and tripped and fell over...
Dr. C: Fell over "what?"
In that area, there's no possibility that you could just "fall over cliff" [...] and we were shown where this incident [...] fell over this place...
There's more back and forth between Harris and Dr. Chinwah about if Lauren could have "fallen over" the edge of the cliff and Dr. Chinwah insists she couldn't have. Harris then moves onto the wrist fracture. He suggests that Lauren could have put her hand/arm out to try to break her fall and that could have broken the wrist. Dr. Chinwah insists that the break is "not that kind of break." Harris then confronts the witness that "he" didn't take the x-rays personally. (I don't know why defense attorney's do this. There are staff to do that; take x-rays and they "know" this.)
Dr. Chinwah stands his ground that the wrist fracture occurred from "landing on it" and not what Harris is suggesting.
Dr. C: If you're going by something, you're not landing on it! It's the type of fracture that someone lands on it.
Harris continues to argue that a four-year-old, the wrist was fractured from breaking the fall.
Dr. C: My expertise, the wrist fracture was not consistent with that.
PH: Did you also read reports of what the father said?
Dr. C: I don't remember if I did. [...] I believe I may have heard something like that.
PH: Do you remember talking to Mr. Brown's attorney, telling him that the injuries were consistent with an accident?
Dr. C: I don't remember that!
(I think I am going through Deja vu. I clearly remember Doron Weinberg in the Spector retrial, trying the exact same type of question of Dr. Pena...."Don't you remember telling (my associate) Ms. Mattros.....")
PH: When you did the autopsy, what detective was present? [...] It wasn't Detective Leslie?
Dr. C: Let me check my records. [...] He was not there. It was Detective Smith.
PH: You're saying someone who was thrown same as someone who jumped?
Dr. C: I believe so.
Ted has a coughing fit. There is a question as to whether or not Harris is finished. Hum asks to approach. Judge Pastor indicates we will go a bit longer. Harris and Veretsian whisper.
PH: In the autopsy report itself, you note there's a fracture on the right hand and there's not a fracture on the other hand?
I guess there is some discrepancy on which wrist she had the fracture!
Veretsian gets up to speak to Harris at the podium.
Harris now goes over every abrasion on every part of her body and asks Dr. Chinwah about them. With each question as to where there were abrasions or lacerations, Dr. Chinwah answers, "Yes."
Veretsian comes to the podium again. They have a bit of a long whispering session.
PH: And based on that, based on your looking at those injuries and and (?) on the back of the arm, they were still consistent with someone being thrown?
I believe Dr. Chinwah states "Yes." And that's the end of cross. Hum gets up to redirect.
CH: Was it important to you in making the determination as to MOD, to actually seeing the place where Lauren died?
CH: Just based on the injuries and no knowledge of the scene, would you have been able to make a determination, based on just that?
There's no recross and the jury is ordered back at 9:00 am tomorrow.
Posted by Sprocket at 10:23 PM
Labels: Cameron Brown, Lauren Sarene Key, Sarah Key-Marer, Trial Coverage
Summer's Mom said...
Wonder why there wasn't more follow-up on Rendon regarding AA policies on Cam committing what amounts to fraud (his continuing daily surfing when he should be home healing his "injured" back,on the company dime no less). I work for a delivery company, also physically-intensive labor- they would very much look askance if I were seen, say, water-skiing while on injury leave.
If your employee is going to his doctor, and the doctor's reports are that your employee is still "injured," how would AA know to follow the employee to see what his activities were?
I don't know "how" AA monitored their employees on a injury disability. Sometimes a company will hire independent detectives to tail individuals.
No,no, I wouldn't expect AA to know, either, but my point goes to the over-all credibility/reliability of the defendant- he himself was concerned he might be followed and video-recorded by someone for AA (not that that stopped him from surfing). Just more going to character (or lack thereof, in this case).
Jobeth66 said...
If he was on workers' compensation, they have investigators who do spot checks for exactly this type of activity. Even if AA was paying his wages, they would have had to report his claim to their WC carrier, and report on his return to work.
Having been involved with both sides of worker's comp (as an injured employee for the Department of Corrections and as a worker's comp case manager), someone would have had to voice suspicions about Brown's activities while on TTD. I had clients that I was suspicious about and they were surveilled ...
My own back doctor told me that it was dangerous for me to continue to ride horses, not only because of my back injury itself and how a fall could further damage my fused lower back, but because riding could call the extent of my injury into question. I'd ridden horses for nearly 25 years at the time of my injury. Not any more. I've not been on the back of a horse in 15 years.
The extent of the damage to Lauren was disgusting. She didn't just slip and fall ... Brown will be a very popular inmate while spending the rest of his life in the Department of Corrections' custody.
You are wise, caligirl, to avoid riding, although as a rider myself I can hugely commiserate!
I also know of a guy who had a huge WC claim, and a lawsuit, too (my hubby worked with him on a jobsite), got caught at a tall commercial construction project hopping around the scaffolding like a baboon on steroids- so much for his horrible chronic pain and "can barely get out of bed"! He had rooked WC for thousands already, and I believe he had to pay a big chunk of it back, it was all on tape!
Liars lie (and lie, and lie...). I hope they produce a big Power Point presentation at the end of this, with all the proven ones he's told right out there in a nice, long, list.
Caligirl - if Brown had as many WC claims as it appears he did in a short period of time, his case file should've been up for surveillance just as a matter of course for frequency. There's a distinct pattern, it doesn't look like he was ever out long enough to actually be forced over to carrier payments for TTD, and it doesn't appear he had any perm, either. He stayed out long enough that he got his full pay under his company benefits, then when those were up, he went back to work and got injured again.
I also handled WC claims for years. Had his file landed on my desk, you can bet I'd have had someone watching him.
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Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils
M. Mirzababaei, S. Yasrobi, A. Al-Rawas
This paper introduces new soil stabilisers for reducing the swelling potential of expansive soils. In this study three different polymers (furan, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(vinyl acetate) (PVA)) were utilised as soil stabilisers. For evaluating the effect of these polymers on swelling potential and microfabric of expansive soils, three soil samples of high plasticity index were selected. First the engineering, chemical and mineralogical characteristics of the untreated soils were determined, and three different pairs of dry density and water content (dry of optimum, optimum and wet of optimum) were chosen, from standard Proctor compaction curve. Treated soil specimens were prepared at 3, 5 and 10 of furan content and 1, 3 and 5 of polymethyl methacrylate and polyvinyl acetate content. The addition of polymethyl methacrylate and polyvinyl acetate can also diminish the swelling potential of soil specimens, but to a lesser degree. The addition of additives produced aggregations and clay-granular matrices within the fabric, which reduced the swelling potential of the soil samples.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement
https://doi.org/10.1680/grim.2009.162.3.111
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Mirzababaei, M., Yasrobi, S., & Al-Rawas, A. (2009). Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement, 162(3), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1680/grim.2009.162.3.111
Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils. / Mirzababaei, M.; Yasrobi, S.; Al-Rawas, A.
In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement, Vol. 162, No. 3, 08.2009, p. 111-119.
Mirzababaei, M, Yasrobi, S & Al-Rawas, A 2009, 'Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement, vol. 162, no. 3, pp. 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1680/grim.2009.162.3.111
Mirzababaei M, Yasrobi S, Al-Rawas A. Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement. 2009 Aug;162(3):111-119. https://doi.org/10.1680/grim.2009.162.3.111
Mirzababaei, M. ; Yasrobi, S. ; Al-Rawas, A. / Effect of polymers on swelling potential of expansive soils. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement. 2009 ; Vol. 162, No. 3. pp. 111-119.
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Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials: Experimental and numerical investigation
Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Maaz Akhtar, Moosa S M Al-Kharusi
In the last ten years, a new type of advanced polymer known as swelling elastomer has been extensively used as sealing element in the oil and gas industry. These elastomers have been instrumental in various new applications such as water shutoff, zonal isolation, sidetracking, etc. Though swell packers can significantly reduce costs and increase productivity, their failure can lead to serious losses. Integrity and reliability of swellingelastomer seals under different field conditions is therefore a major concern. Investigation of changes in material behavior over a specified swelling period is a necessary first step for performance evaluation of elastomer seals. Current study is based on experimental and numerical analysis of changes in compressive and bulk behavior of an elastomeric material due to swelling. Tests and simulations were carried out before and after various stages of swelling. Specimens were placed in saline water (0.6% and 12% concentration) at a temperature of 50°C, total swelling period being one month. Both compression and bulk tests were conducted using disc samples. A small test rig had to be designed and constructed for determination of bulk modulus. Young's modulus (under compression) and bulk modulus were determined for specimens subjected to different swelling periods. Shear modulus and Poisson's ratio were calculated using isotropic relations. Experiments were also simulated using the commercial finite element software ABAQUS. Different hyperelastic material models were examined. As Ogden model with second strain energy potential gave the closest results, it has been used for all simulations. The elastomer was a fast-swell type. There were drastic changes in material properties within one day of swelling, under both low and high salinity water. Values of elastic and shear modulus dropped by more than 90% in the first few days, and then remained almost constant during the rest of the one-month period. Poisson's ratio, as expected, showed a mirror behavior of a sharp increase in the first few days. Bulk modulus exhibited a fluctuating pattern; rapid initial decrease, then a slightly slower increase, followed by a much slower decrease. Salinity shows some notable effect in the first 5 or 6 days, but has almost no influence in the later days. Very interestingly, Poisson's ratio approaches the limiting value of 0.5 within the first 10 days of swelling, justifying the assumption of incompressibility used in most analytical and numerical models. In general, simulations results are in good agreement with experimental ones.
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-64344
ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2013 - San Diego, CA, United States
ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2013
Elastic moduli
Poisson ratio
Saline water
Strain energy
Analytical models
Qamar, S. Z., Akhtar, M., & Al-Kharusi, M. S. M. (2013). Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials: Experimental and numerical investigation. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE) (Vol. 9). American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-64344
Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials : Experimental and numerical investigation. / Qamar, Sayyad Zahid; Akhtar, Maaz; Al-Kharusi, Moosa S M.
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). Vol. 9 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013.
Qamar, SZ, Akhtar, M & Al-Kharusi, MSM 2013, Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials: Experimental and numerical investigation. in ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). vol. 9, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2013, San Diego, CA, United States, 11/15/13. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-64344
Qamar SZ, Akhtar M, Al-Kharusi MSM. Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials: Experimental and numerical investigation. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). Vol. 9. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 2013 https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-64344
Qamar, Sayyad Zahid ; Akhtar, Maaz ; Al-Kharusi, Moosa S M. / Effect of swelling behavior on elastomeric materials : Experimental and numerical investigation. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). Vol. 9 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013.
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19 Year Old Collapses & Almost Dies: Took SSRI Editor Antidepressants at Once
Paragraphs 11 and 12 read: "The court heard the lad, who is suffering from depression, had not had his medication for four days and tried to 'catch up' by taking four days worth in one go."
"Mr Parsons added: 'One of the side effects was that this young man collapsed on Mr Lane's floor. He was unconscious. There was a delay in the ambulance coming to the flat. Mr Lane was very distressed. He thought this young man who was in his care was dead'."
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Death-threat-paramedic-trying-save-teenager/article-1513118-detail/article.html
Death threat to paramedic trying to save teenager
Friday, November 13, 2009, 09:22
A MAN threatened to kill a paramedic who was trying to save the life of a teenager after he collapsed at his house with a heart attack, a court heard.
South Devon magistrates in Torquay were told Robert Lane became agitated and angry with ambulance staff who were trying to revive the 19-year-old man.
Following the case, a spokesman for the ambulance service said: "Any abuse, whether verbal or physical, will not be tolerated. The trust takes incidents of this nature very seriously."
The court heard on Saturday, October 24, the young man, who had been living with Lane at his Prospect Lane home in Brixham for the past two years, collapsed with suspected heart failure after ingesting four days' worth of anti-depressants in one go.
Lane, 48, called 999 but was angry with the paramedics when he claimed they turned up 35 minutes later.
Lyndsey Baker, prosecuting, said: "When ambulance staff arrived, the suspect became abusive. He grabbed one of the staff and tried to throw a punch at him. Another paramedic tried to intervene and he again tried to throw a punch at him."
In a statement, paramedic Martin Stone said: "I felt the male was going to assault me and was in fear of violence. It was completely unprovoked while we were treating someone for a serious condition."
In his statement, Mr Stone said: "He (Lane) said to me, 'If anything happens to him you're dead'. I was in fear for my safety and that of my colleagues."
The court heard on the day Lane had drunk two pints of lager, was in an agitated state and was angry at the situation. Lane yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing or hindering an emergency worker.
Lane's solicitor, Alan Parsons, said his client had been providing accommodation to the 19-year-old, a friend of his own 19-year-old son, for two and a half years after he fell out with his family. Mr Parsons said: "He treated him like a second son."
The court heard the lad, who is suffering from depression, had not had his medication for four days and tried to 'catch up' by taking four days worth in one go.
Mr Parsons added: "One of the side effects was that this young man collapsed on Mr Lane's floor. He was unconscious. There was a delay in the ambulance coming to the flat. Mr Lane was very distressed. He thought this young man who was in his care was dead."
Mr Parsons said the 19-year-old man was successfully resuscitated by paramedics.
He added: "Mr Lane panicked. He asked the paramedics why the ambulance took so long.
"He accepts he obstructed their activity but the last thing he wanted was to hinder anything which could stop them from saving this 19-year-old's life. It was a regrettable situation, but the young man has now made a full recovery."
Sentencing Lane to an 18-month conditional discharge, £100 compensation and an £85 fine, Torbay magistrates said: "We understand the stress you were under on the day, but public sector workers, especially paramedics deserve support not threats. This was a very serious offence."
The ambulance service spokesman said paramedics arrived on the scene within four minutes.
She said: "Every ambulance clinician should be able to fulfil their life-saving role without fear of abuse or assault. As this case demonstrates there will be consequences for people who believe it is acceptable to disrespect ambulance personnel."
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As UAW strike continues, dilemma grows for Trump
David Eggert and Sara Burnett, The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — Democrats were quick to back working-class United Auto Workers in their strike against General Motors, delivering doughnuts and holding picket signs outside factories to show solidarity. It's a union they long have aligned with politically.
There were no doughnuts from Republicans.
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Led by President Donald Trump, GOP officials have largely avoided taking sides in the strike that threatens to upend the economy in Michigan, an election battleground, a year before the 2020 vote. Both here and nationally, most Republicans said little about the substance of the dispute beyond hope for a speedy resolution.
The muted response reflects the tricky politics of labor for Republicans.
Trump has made inroads with members of some unions, due partly to promises to get tough on trade and keep manufacturing jobs in the United States. The message pulled key voters away from their Democratic union bosses, who Trump argues are corrupt.
But a strike prompted in part over GM's plan to close American plants highlights Trump's unfulfilled promises on manufacturing and gives Democrats a chance to play up their union credentials.
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren planned to show up on the picket line in Michigan on Sunday, with rival Bernie Sanders expected this coming week. Nearly all the candidates have tweeted support for the workers.
"Proud to stand with @UAW to demand fair wages and benefits for their members. America's workers deserve better," Joe Biden tweeted. The union says Biden will be at a picket line in at the Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, on Sunday.
Trump is in a bind.
Backing the union would undermine Trump's message that labor does not advocate for its workers and give a powerful Democratic force a boost before an election.
Siding with GM would call into question his promises to defend workers and he would risk getting blamed for economic woes in Rust Belt states he needs to win reelection.
His task gets tougher the longer the strike goes on.
"There is a history of this issue being treacherous in Michigan," said Michigan State University political scientist Matt Grossmann. He noted that Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign suffered in 2012 when Democrats pointed repeatedly to an opinion article he wrote opposing the auto bailout. The headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
"It is treacherous to be against the autoworkers," Grossmann said.
The president has appeared mindful of the dilemma, saying little about the strike. On Monday, the first day of the walkout, he told reporters at the White House the dispute was "sad" and he made a distinction between workers and their union leaders.
"I don't want General Motors to be building plants outside of this country," he said. "My relationship has been very powerful with the auto workers — not necessarily the top person or two, but the people that work doing automobiles."
The strike is playing out as a federal corruption investigation against top UAW officials widens. The FBI raided UAW President Gary Jones' suburban Detroit home last month and prosecutors have charged 11 people in the investigation so far, leading many of the 49,000 workers nationwide to question whether leaders have their backs .
Trump may be wise to try to separate union workers from their leaders.
Although union members have historically supported Democrats, Trump's promises to rewrite free trade agreements appeared to resonate with many in manufacturing areas. Nationally, union members were just slightly more likely than other voters to support Democrats in 2018, when the party gained control of the House. Six in 10 union voters supported Democratic candidates in House races, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters nationwide.
But Trump has struggled to make good on promises to stop companies from shipping jobs overseas.
From the first announcement in 2018, he was quick to criticize GM for wanting to close U.S. plants, an issue at the center of current fight. He met with CEO Mary Barra at the White House on Sept. 5, days after suggesting the company should move jobs from China to the U.S. GM has not been persuaded yet.
Trump's escalation of the trade war with China has hurt manufacturers, with factories in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania shedding workers since the end of 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
His administration's decision to stop California from setting its own emission standards for cars and trucks also has created uncertainty in the industry.
"If this strike goes into a second week, you're going to see parts of Michigan go into a recession," said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group, an East Lansing-based consulting firm whose work includes analyzing the auto industry. "Parts of Michigan are feeling it today. You're already seeing losses in income and people cutting back on their spending."
There is some expectation that Trump will intervene in an attempt to prevent that. But the White House denied a report this past week that it engaged in talks with the company and the union.
Michigan-based Republican strategist John Sellek said he believes Trump is on the side of the workers but is trying to "thread the needle" and not "blow up" GM's offer to save a plant or two.
"That fits his electoral victory path, and it fits his policy positions on trade," he said. "He's walking a more careful path rhetorically for now. But if he decides on any given day that it's time to jump in with both feet, we shouldn't be surprised that he does."
GM's proposal includes creating an electric vehicle battery assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, where the company is in the process of closing a small-car assembly plant. In addition, GM would pay for an electric pickup truck that would go into the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which the company also wants to close.
The Lordstown facility would offer lower wages, according to a person briefed on the matter who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. The union wants to add jobs that pay the top UAW wage.
GM workers who were picketing Friday outside the Grand River factory in Lansing — one that makes Cadillacs and Chevy Camaros — were mixed on whether Trump should weigh in. Many said their top priority is giving temporary workers a path to permanent jobs. Others also want commitments that vehicles would be made in the U.S.
Keith Cannon, 47, of Lansing, said Trump, whom he does not back, should engage. He interpreted Trump's remarks about the strike as being supportive of workers.
"It's important because it affects the country he's running," said Cannon, a 19-year GM worker who as a UAW district committeeman represents workers in disputes with management. "He should weigh in on it because ultimately we affect the community. You have restaurants, stores, businesses that rely on us to support them as much as they support us with their services."
Cannon said he cannot spend much locally while living on strike pay of only $250 per week.
Democratic presidential candidates are beginning to flock to the picket lines. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar went to Detroit on Thursday and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan met Monday with strikers in Lordstown, where GM halted production earlier this year, laying off 1,400 employees.
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Austin Wayne Self upbeat about Iowa Speedway return
13 Jun 2019 Speedway Digest Staff
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Continuing to showcase speed in his No. 22 AM Racing Chevrolet Silverado, NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Austin Wayne Self (@AustinWSelf) heads to Iowa Speedway hoping luck will prevail and his team can capture their second top-10 finish together in Saturday night’s M&M’s 200.
Last week at Texas Motor Speedway, Self’s No. 22 United Sorghum Checkoff Program Chevrolet battled all night for a top-10 finish – but an electrical failure late in the race derailed the team’s outing and left more to be desired approaching the halfway point of the 2019 season.
“I’m looking forward to getting back to some short track racing after a few weeks on big tracks,” said Self. “We’ve had a lot of speed in our Chevrolet Silverados over the last month or so, we just haven’t been able for one reason or another to have the finishes to showcase our ability.
“Hopefully, Saturday night everything will fall into place and we can have a good effort and give our team a much-welcomed boost.”
Self, 23, will make his fourth start at the 0.875-mile short track. In his three previous efforts, he has two top-16 finishes including a track-best of 15th earned last June after starting 19th.
For Iowa, AM Racing welcomes new associate partner, IceBox Helmet Coolers onboard.
The IceBox by AirBox represents an innovative Air-Cooling Solution for personal and confined environment where space, weight and power consumption are critical considerations. Design applications include Aviation, Aerospace and Performance Racing industries.
IceBox incorporates advanced semiconductor component and application technology to create a thermoelectric heat pump that requires no moving parts and a minimal amount of electrical current to effect cooling.
“Pretty stoked to have IceBox Helmet Coolers onboard for this weekend at Iowa,” added Self. “I’ve been fortunate enough to use the product and it’s one of the best helmet coolers I’ve ever had or seen. It’s going to come in handy this summer when the temperatures peak.”
Texas Department of Agriculture’s GO TEXAN program will support Self in his 71st career start.
GO TEXAN, celebrating its 20th Birthday this year, represents Texas agri-business on state, national and international levels by building recognition with the GO TEXAN mark.
Along with its signature mark in the shape of Texas, GO TEXAN celebrates, promotes and supports the business savvy and plainspoken grit Texas agriculture is known for throughout the world.
AM Technical Solutions, Don’t mess with Texas, CForce Bottling Company, Flying Circle and Kreuz Market will serve as associate partners in the 10th race of the year.
In 70 NGOTS races, the 2015 ARCA Menards Series Rookie of the Year has one top-five (second at Daytona 2017) and five top-10 finishes. The Texan maintains an average finish of 18.3 during his three years of competition.
The Austin, Texas native is nestled 17th in the championship standings with 14 races remaining.
For more on Austin Wayne Self, please visit awsracing.com, like his Facebook page (Austin Wayne Self) or follow him on Twitter @AustinWSelf.
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For more information on Don’t mess with Texas and how you can become involved in the program, visit dontmesswithtexas.org.
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The M&M’s 200 (200 laps|175 miles) is the 10th of 23 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races on the 2019 schedule. Practice begins on Sat., June 15 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. A final practice session is set for 10:30 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. Qualifying is set for later in the day beginning at 4:35 p.m. The 32-truck field will take the green flag shortly after 7:30 p.m. with live coverage on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), the Motor Racing Network (Radio) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Satellite Radio, Channel 90). All times are local (Central).
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What Happens to Local Data When Physical Stores Close?
June 23, 2017 by Stephanie Miles
More than 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores are expected to close this year, up from 2,056 in 2016 and 5,077 in 2015. But long after the doors have been shuttered for the final time, much of the local data for those stores remains online. For national chains with hundreds of storefronts spread across the country, outdated location data can lead to frustrated shoppers and missed opportunities for sales.
“Coming across incorrect information on Google is frustrating to customers who have chosen to go to a location over possible competitors only to find out it is closed at what should be their moment of purchase,” says Ryan Weisert, director of client success at MomentFeed, a firm that manages the mobile customer experience for multi-location brands.
Although it’s hard to determine exactly how many local listings are outdated or incorrect, it’s becoming a bigger problem as major retailers like Staples, JC Penney, Payless ShoeSource, and Bebe close physical store locations across the country. At the same time, the number of places where local listings can be found, and the number of ways that local data is being utilized, continues to grow. According to a report by the Local Search Association and YP, 43% of retail stores and 41% of restaurants in the U.S. have at least one incorrect or missing address listed online, leading to $10.3 billion worth of lost sales.
The frustration that consumers feel when inaccurate local data brings them to storefronts that have already shut down can damage a brand at the worst possible moment.
“Inaccurate information leaves a bad taste, and unless you’re the only business in town, consumers will immediately turn to a competitor,” says MomentFeed’s Weisert. “And if they’re really frustrated, they’ll leave a bad review and harm your online reputation. This experience is far more likely to remove a brand from that customer’s consideration set long term. And if a customer leaves a bad review—even on a page that represents a closed business—that hurts the overall brand.”
So what’s the solution? According to Weisert, brands should be pushing more resources toward location data management to leverage the content around specific business locations, not just on local listings sites, but also on social media, review sites, and mobile marketing platforms.
Local data doesn’t just disappear or update on its own when a physical store closes. It’s up to the brands themselves to make sure their citations don’t become out of date, and listings for locations that no longer exist are removed from digital world.
When Foursquare’s analysts looked at first-party foot traffic data at Kmart, in the aftermath of a wave of store closures last year, they found that loyal customers were willing to travel an additional 4.3 miles to visit the retailer’s next closest location after their local stores closed.
Weisert recommends that brands take advantage of their existing social channels to communicate store closures before they happen, and when possible, direct customers to the next closest location, as Kmart has done. A retail chain might notify customers about upcoming store closures by posting information on those stores’ local Facebook pages. Weisert says it’s a good idea include information about the next nearest location, either organically or with some paid advertising. He also recommends that local pages be unpublished or deleted after Facebook’s 14-day waiting period. This prevents people from stumbling on an old Facebook page and thinking the store location is still open, and it also helps to remove outdated location data from the web.
The tough part for businesses, and particularly larger brands closing multiple stores, is that each network has its own best practices and capabilities when it comes to closing locations. On Google My Business, for example, each location should be marked as “permanently closed.” On Bing and other search networks, listings are simply deleted.
Stephanie Miles is a senior editor at Street Fight.
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110-Year-Old British Woman Said That the Secret of Her Longevity - Whiskey
One of the oldest residents of the UK, which a few days ago celebrated her 110th anniversary, said that the secret of her long life - in the daily use of whiskey.
Grace Jones, who friends called "Amazing Grace”, is one of the ten centenarians British: last Friday she celebrated her 110 years. When she was asked how she managed to live up to that age, the woman said that the secret of a long life is a single malt whiskey The Famous Grouse. "Amazing Grace" is drinking it every night for 60 years.
Grace, who lives in Broadway, Worcestershire, got recommends by doctors when she was 50 years old. "My doctor told me to drink whiskey because it will be helpful to my heart. I still feel like 60 years! I feel great, and I'm full of energy " The daughter of "Amazing Grace" 78-year-old Deirdre, said that her mother is an unusual woman:" She is very extraordinary. She is glamorous, beautiful and intelligent. And we are glad that she is still with us. "
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June 4, 2019, update for Project 2016 (KB4464589)
Applies to: Project Standard 2016Project Professional 2016
This article describes update 4464589 for Microsoft Project 2016 that was released on June 4, 2019.
Be aware that the update in the Microsoft Download Center applies to the Microsoft Installer (.msi)-based edition of Office 2016. It doesn't apply to the Office 2016 Click-to-Run editions, such as Microsoft Office 365 Home (see What version of Office am I using?).
Improvements and fixes
This update fixes the following issues:
In projects that have many sub tasks under summary tasks andthe sub tasks have a lot of work, you may find that the % Complete and ActualDuration values on summary tasks are not displayed correctly. For example,a project summary task that should show 88% complete shows 94% instead.
When projects are opened from XML files, custom lookup fieldvalues may be read-only.
How to get and install the update
Microsoft Update
Use Microsoft Update to automatically download and install the update.
This update is also available for manual download and installation from the Microsoft Download Center.
Download update 4464589 for 32-bit version of Project 2016
If you're not sure which platform (32-bit or 64-bit) you're running, see Am I running 32-bit or 64-bit Office? Additionally, see more information about how to download Microsoft support files.
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To apply this update, you must have Microsoft Project 2016 installed.
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How to uninstall this update
Go to Start, enter View Installed Updates in the Search Windows box, and then press Enter.
In the list of updates, locate and select KB4464589, and then select Uninstall.
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Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then select Search. If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then select Search.
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Bollywood Celebs Freely Share About Their Parents’ Split In Public
Ankita Chetana |Nov 21, 2019
From Shahid Kapoor to Sara Ali Khan, these are some Bollywood celebs who opened up about their parents’ divorce. Deeds inside!
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At a very young age, Sara has proved that she is mature from words to behaviors. Experiencing her parents’ divorce, the actress didn’t dump it and in reverse, she accepted it graciously. Considering Kareena Kapoor as a friend and sharing her care for her little chitty Taimur, she has expressed the way she treated her family.
Sara is absolutely one of the best-spoken Bollywood celebs when she just entered the glam world a few years ago. She shared: “It is not nice to live in a home where people are not happy. They are both, happy, bindaas and cool people, but individually. Together, they are not. And I think they too realized that. Fortunately, now I have two happy and secure homes to myself instead of one.”
She continued: “I was more than okay with that arrangement. I think having two happy parents in different homes is much more preferable than two unhappy parents in the same home. I think I am the way that I am because my mother didn’t let me feel any kind of deprivation for even a second. I have a very hands-on mother. Once my brother and I were born, she did nothing but look after us.”
Since Malaika was eleven, her parents filed a divorce but years over years, they still poured their love to her and her sister. That’s why the actress, as well as Amrita, never experience the discomfort after their parents’ decision.
Sharing about his parents’ split, Ishaan said: “I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried. For six years, I stayed with my stepfather (Ustad Raza Ali Khan) and my mother. Then, they separated and I saw her go through two broken marriages and her struggle to keep things together.”
The actor came to open up about his parents’ decision of divorce: “I am sure I must have gone through anger, angst, vulnerability but I understood eventually. You have to make your peace with it. You can’t make that one decision that your father makes, dictate how you turn out as a human being. It can be a part of your journey but it can’t be the only thing – because my father did this, all my decisions will be based on it.
That’s not how life functions. And he’s been there for me in his capacity. Thankfully, my mother brought me up well enough to make my own choices and decisions in life… My mother never poisoned me against what he has done.”
Like what his brother Ishaan Khatter did experience, the Kabir Singh actor also went through his parents’ split. For the star, it is just one of the hardest things that life threw at him that he now doesn’t look forward to a good thing anymore.
Shahid Kapoor pointed out: “Life threw a lot at me very early in life. My parents got separated. I came to a new city. I had to learn to accept and make the most of it and that’s probably what’s made me the person I am today. I don’t expect any good or bad from life.”
These above Bollywood actors certainly suffered a lot after their parents’ divorce. However, they chose to face it and grow themselves instead of hiding from it. That’s the point of their present success!
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A to Z, Characters, Homeworld Gems,
Now the impurities you've encouraged in them are gone! Now they are brilliant; now, they are perfect; now, they are me!
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My Diamond (Followers)
Gem Control Beam (non-summoned)
Sexless
Gem Homeworld
The Great Diamond Authority (leader)
Crystal Gems (allied)
Pink Diamond (formerly)
"It Could've Been Great" (pictured)
"Your Mother and Mine" (flashback)
"Legs From Here to Homeworld" (debut)
"White Diamond"
White Diamond is a Homeworld Gem and the leader of the Great Diamond Authority that rules over the Gem race. She holds supreme authority over all Gems, including her fellow Diamonds, and is seen as a being beyond the rest of her kind. For eons, White Diamond remained on the Gem Homeworld, secluded inside her ship, until she finally left Homeworld to help Steven Universe heal the corrupted Gems. She made her debut in "Legs From Here to Homeworld".
White Diamond is shown to be about a head taller than her fellow Diamonds. She has white skin, white spiky hair in a shape similar to a star pentagon, diamond-shaped white pupils with large and full black eyelashes and black fingernails. Her body constantly radiates a bright light which, along with her ship's brightness, probably makes her gemstone barely visible while her other features are visible because they're either black or have black outlines. A drawing by Rebecca Sugar reveals the obscured details,[1] as does the Hot Topic T-shirt along with the episode "Change Your Mind" and onward. Her gemstone is located on her forehead and is a side view of a round-cut diamond.
White Diamond wears a long translucent white dress that reaches the floor and slit up both sides to her thighs, having shoulder pads. She also wears a cape with black and gray stripes that is lined with glimmering diamond and star designs, as well as a pair of intricately detailed dress sandals with high heels. A flashback in "Your Mother and Mine" shows that she had pointy fingers but no fingernails and there was no cape attached to her arms.
But I'm not supposed to be like this. I'm supposed to know better. I'm supposed to BE better. I'm supposed to make EVERYTHING better.
White is described as being difficult and has a temper that can take a while to cool down: She appeared both calm and understanding during her first meeting with Steven, greeting him (as Pink Diamond) warmly despite his appearance bearing no resemblance to how Pink Diamond actually looked. However, White is curt and dismissive, interrupting Steven whenever he tries to speak to her, and then immediately sends him away to another room without warning as soon as she is done. She treats the entire affair with the Earth, the Rebellion, Pink's faked shattering and absence for the last 6,000 years with a mixture of patronization and nonchalance, remarking it all being simply one of "Pink's games" and asks Steven (as Pink) if he "had fun" and "got it out of [his] system."
According to Yellow Diamond, White never leaves her ship and never lets anyone in a few cases or incidents (such as Pink/Steven's return to Homeworld), so it may be possible that she is a bit reclusive. According to Blue Diamond, she has no sense of humor, being furious with Pink for naming a batch of Pyrite "fool's gold". Despite this, White has a certain soft spot for Pink, joining the other Diamonds in Blue's Pool Chamber to play games such as guessing what song Pink was singing underwater.
It is displayed in "Change Your Mind" that White Diamond is an arrogant perfectionist, making the other gems better by generously "removing their flaws". When she took control of the Crystal Gems, she told Steven that "there is nothing to hinder [her] white light sparkling through them" and saying that they are now "perfect". White Diamond has strict expectations on the way other Gems should behave, causing an immense pressure that Yellow Diamond says could "crack a Gem." She takes this obsession so far that she breaks down after she becomes emotional, going as far as saying emotions are a flaw. This reveals her biggest flaw/fear: atelophobia.
Nothing is known about White Diamond's exact past, but she believed she existed to "make everything better" by imposing a strict system of hierarchies and castes upon the Homeworld empire. Her order persisted unchanged for many thousands of years. White Diamond owned the most colonies at the time of Earth's colonization. According to Blue Diamond, White was once closer to the other Diamonds, even taking part in games that Pink played with them. However, White was not open to the idea of Pink running a colony, believing she is unfit to run one, which set Pink off to the point of unleashing her destructive powers on Pink Pearl. Additionally, Pink would be locked away in a tower if she were to break one of Homeworld's rules, with White would always be furious with her. After Pink's alleged shattering on Earth, White grew distant from the other Diamonds to the point of never leaving her ship.
Around 4,500 Years Ago
When Pink Diamond was believed to have been shattered and Earth was no longer deemed to be a viable colony, White left Homeworld and she participated in the Corrupting Light attack that corrupted every Gem on Earth exposed to the attack. After that, she returned to Homeworld and stayed until the dawn of Era 3.
"Legs From Here to Homeworld"
Steven, the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds travel to Homeworld to ask White for assistance in healing the Corrupted Gems. Before they even arrived at Homeworld, White appeared to already know that they were coming and that "Pink" was still alive because when they do reach the planet, Homeworld is cheering for the return of Pink Diamond.
White controls White Pearl to retrieve Steven, and when she does, White speaks to Steven as if he is Pink. White tells Steven that everyone is so relieved that Pink is alive and that she is relieved that her little game is finally over. White then sends Steven to Pink Diamond's room.
"Familiar"
White Diamond is not seen in "Familiar", but she is mentioned several times. Steven relates to Pearl how he doesn't think she understands that he's not Pink Diamond and later tells Yellow Diamond about his conversation with her, to which she remarks that it's incredible to he managed to get in even a few words to her, but laments that she never allows anyone else to see her in spite of Yellow's success as a conqueror. When Steven talks to Blue Diamond, she recalls an incident where Pink named a batch of Pyrite "Fool's Gold", which apparently infuriated White.
In Pink Diamond's room, Pearl tells Steven that Pink Diamond used to throw parties for all the Diamonds and their courts to attend, including White. This prompts Steven to don Pink Diamond's outfit and throw a ball for all of the Diamonds, where he plans to persuade White to help heal the corrupted Gems.
"Together Alone"
White appears once in the episode and is mentioned several times. She appears in Steven's dream, still in her ship and smiling at him. Blue Diamond says that since White might be coming to the Era-3 Ball, everything will have to be perfect. Steven hopes that White will come to the ball, but she does not show up. Instead, White Pearl takes her Diamond's place in observing the event, though everyone is unaware that White Diamond is actually speaking and observing the ball through White Pearl. While smiling blankly for most of the event, she suddenly looks displeased when Steven and Connie fuse in front of the assembled Gems.
When Steven and Connie try to escape Homeworld with the help of Blue and Yellow, White Diamond (speaking through White Pearl) tells them that they aren't going anywhere. She then merges her ship with Pink's. However, both Blue and Yellow Diamond's ships, piloted by Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot attack her ship and manage to knock it over. Later, Steven, Yellow, and Blue try to convince White to stop her ways and help everybody. White, however, ignores this completely, attacking both Blue and Yellow and turning them into mindless, obedient servants, like her Pearl. White transports Blue and Yellow inside her ship (which merged with hers) and attacks the Crystal Gems. She knocks them off the platform, and Steven drops Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl's gemstones. While falling, Steven manages to fuse with Amethyst, who then throws him over to Pearl. Steven and Pearl fuse and save Ruby and Sapphire. Steven and Garnet then fuse into Sunstone, but White stomps on them with the leg ship. Sunstone lifts up the foot, however, and attacks the ships. White simply swats them away, and the gems decide they have to fuse into Obsidian. They fuse and attack White, along with Connie, Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot. They all start destroying the ship, with Obsidian managing to slice off both of the ship's hands. The Gems unfuse after being smashed against a pillar, and they enter White's ship through its eye.
White asks what Steven is doing and asks if he wants his legs and his planet back. Steven asks what White did to the other Diamonds, but White shushes him. She says that both Yellow and Blue are imperfect due to their light, but she is perfect, due to her having every light in the spectrum. She then says that Pink is the part of her that she has to repress. She then suddenly attacks the Gems, turning Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl into slaves like Blue and Yellow. White says that she removed their flaws and that her white light is sparkling through them. She states that they are brilliant and that the flaws Steven caused them to have are gone, and they are perfect as her. Steven tries to tell her that they are perfect the way they are, but White says that Pink likes to surround herself with inferior gems so she can be the best of the worst.
Steven says that it isn't true and that even if it was, she'd be talking about his mom and not about Steven. White laughs at this and says "your mom" in a mocking tone, but Connie arrives and White makes Pearl attack her. Steven tries to help but White makes Garnet and Amethyst grab him. Pearl disarms and grabs Connie. Steven tells her to let Connie go, but White says that it must feel good to surround himself with lower life forms, blaming everything on someone else. She says that that was why he became Rose in the first place, in order to deceive his friends. Steven disagrees, saying that he isn't Rose, but White points out that he knows things that he couldn't possibly know if he wasn't Pink. Steven says that he was just connecting with her, but White says that even though Pink took the form of Steven, her light is still shining through. She then picks Steven up, saying that it's time to come out. She then removes his gemstone, which appears to reform, but whilst it shows the shapes of both Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz, ultimately the gemstone generates a holographic, seemingly emotionless Steven. When White questions where Pink is, the Gem Steven shouts "She's gone!" with such force that White is forced backward, then walks back towards his human half, which is severely weakened. It appears that neither of the two Stevens is complete without the other one. White and the Gems under her control try to stop the reunion, but Gem Steven creates a featureless, multi-faceted shield which blocks all of White Diamonds' attacks, then "pops", creating a powerful shockwave which forces everyone back.
After Steven and the Gem Steven re-fuse, White Diamond angrily pounds her fists on the floor, stating that Steven should appear as Pink Diamond, that he is not half-human, and that he is acting like a child. Steven retorts that he is a child, and asks what White's excuse is. Her and her slaves' cheeks turn pink, confusing White, and all the gems previously under her control return to normal. Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot arrive with the intent to fight White but stop upon seeing the state that everyone is in. White asks herself what is happening, and she reaches out to Yellow and Blue. Both of them back away from her, saying that she is "off-colored" after seeing her pink cheeks. White is startled, questioning if she is actually flawed. Steven tells her to let people be who they are and tells her that she can be what she wants to be.
White says that she should know better, and that she should be better, and that she should make everything better. Steven says that she can, but she has to leave her own head. She then travels with Steven and the gems to Earth and witnesses the Off Colors arrive, meeting with the people of Beach City including Steven's father Greg Universe and Lion, and later helps cure all the Corrupted Gems. She then leaves Earth with Yellow and Blue as they go back to Homeworld.
White, along with Yellow and Blue, starts the film by singing "The Tale of Steven", which praises Steven and his contributions. Afterward, White tells "The Story of Steven", which explains the origins of Steven and how he dissolved the Gem Empire, as well as the backstory of Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz. White announces in a broadcast to Homeworld Gems throughout the universe that Steven will be taking the place of Pink Diamond as part of the Great Diamond Authority. However, Steven declines and explains his home is on Earth with his friends. White tells Yellow and Blue Pearl to end the broadcast, to which Yellow Pearl remarks her time is up anyway. Steven says he thought that went well, but White and the other Diamonds attempt to convince him to stay on Homeworld by singing "Let Us Adore You", as well as explaining their recent good deeds, but Steven still refuses and warps back to Earth. Sometime later, White and the rest of the Diamonds arrive on Earth and explain they want to live with Steven, which Steven is skeptical of. They are then introduced to Spinel and grow fond of her, and sing "Let Us Adore You (Reprise)". The Diamonds then leave Earth with Spinel, and return to Homeworld.
White Diamond possesses standard Gem abilities, but since she is a Diamond, her abilities are expected to be much greater than other Gems. Since both Yellow and Blue Diamond showed fear of her, it could be concluded that she is much more powerful than the other Diamonds and gems are.
White Diamond's mind controlling beam.
Aura Projection: The Diamonds can project an aura around them that they can control, either radiating it from their entire bodies or emitting it from specific parts of their bodies such as their hands. White's aura was shown around her hand as a solid white corona-like flare around it. Not much has been shown of her aura, but she used it during the Diamonds' final attack against the Crystal Gems.
Corruption Induction: Though the attack was meant to destroy the Crystal Gems, White, Yellow and Blue's collective powers instead corrupted every single remaining Gem on Earth.
Corruption Reversal: Along with Pink/Steven, Yellow and Blue, White has the ability to reverse the effects of the Corrupting Light on Gems. The four reversed the corruption using the water of Rose's Fountain in "Change Your Mind".
Mind Control: By zapping another Gem's gemstone with a white ray of light, White Diamond removes that Gem's color, turning it into a gray that then spreads out from the gemstone, controlling the affected Gem. Controlled Gems generally mimic her movements, speech, and possibly state (her blush spread to all under her control), though White can command them to perform specific actions or say certain things. Once released, Gems are disoriented and appear to have no memory of what happened or what they did whilst they were controlled: A controlled Pearl was still able to draw her (also colorless) Gem Weapon to fight Connie, but it is unclear if this is the Gem's individual weapon or a facsimile. A weakened emotional state may disrupt White's control, as it was undone when she realized a flaw in herself that Steven exposed and blushed in "Change Your Mind". It is unclear if this was a deliberate action on White's part or an unconscious reaction. White Diamond states that controlling other Gems involves "shining her light through them" and that she doesn't want to "spread [herself] too thin", implying a possible limit to the number of Gems she can control at any given time. The ray can be blocked by Pink Steven's Shield.
Power Bestowal: When White Diamond takes control of a Gem, they can gain access to new abilities, such as transportation via a white bubble/capsule, intangibility, and the projection of her controlling light from their eyes.
In the recent "Change Your Mind" The Steven Universe Podcast, it is stated that White Diamond has a motherly role among the Diamonds and serves as a mother figure to the other ones. She didn't hesitate to control them with her powers when she considered them "flawed", but showed certain regret after the events.
Yellow Diamond & Blue Diamond
Poor Yellow. Her impurities absorb all the blue in her light. She's so strong, but so weak when it comes to Blue. Ah, and Blue, her impurities soak up all of the warmth in her spectrum. She thinks she needs you, Pink.
—White Diamond describing Blue and Yellow. "Change Your Mind"
White having fun with Yellow and Blue.
Yellow and Blue Diamond respected and feared White Diamond, obeying her both because they believed her system was correct and in order to avoid her ire. Yellow displayed a desire for White's approval, telling Steven that White "never lets anyone in" these days and complaining how unfair it was that he got to see her despite having only one failed colony, while White never showed her any kind of recognition despite her hundreds of successful colonies. On the other hand, Blue expressed nostalgia for the fun all four Diamonds used to have together in the days when Pink was still with them, indicating that White used to be close to the other Diamonds and had grown distant since.
Over time, both Blue and Yellow have grown depressed and heavily stressed by White's expectations of perfection, describing her as difficult and temperamental to Steven. The two dreaded any kind of confrontation with her, though they were willing to stand together on "Pink Diamond's" behalf when they learned that she/Steven was still alive. Even when they decided White's order was unjust and had to be changed, it took Steven's encouragement for them to overcome that dread and speak their minds to White, expressing that they were sick of her standards and blaming them for the departure of Pink Diamond as well as the disappearance of their closeness to each other.
When White Diamond realized her own imperfection, Yellow and Blue were initially horrified by her loss of composure. Afterward, as they healed the Corrupted Gems together, the two of them still appeared wary of her but willing to make up.
If you're not Pink, then... who are you?!
Upon seeing Steven, White Diamond appears to believe he is Pink and calls to him endearingly with the nickname, "Starlight." He is frustrated by her unwillingness to listen, but Yellow tells him that this is normal behavior for White, so he tried to reach out to her again after making his way into her hand ship, but his efforts didn't pay off at first. When they meet face-to-face again though, White reveals herself to be the only Homeworld gem who sees Steven as distinct from his mother. She speaks to him as if he were merely a vessel and mouthpiece for Pink Diamond and not a true being at all, willing to forcibly remove his gemstone from his person in order to prove this. To her chagrin, White is wrong and tries to keep him and Pink's gem from reuniting with Steven. He later made her realize that she herself was flawed. She soon lets go of her obsession with perfection and accompanies Steven to Earth to heal all of the corrupted Gems.
As for me, I’m certain I don't need you. After all, I'm every color of the light. But you're a part of me. The part I always have to repress.
White Diamond has had a relationship with Pink Diamond like that of a mother, giving her the endearing nickname "Starlight". She frequently played games with her, Blue, and Yellow, and attending the "massive" balls she held. However, she doesn't take Pink seriously and treats her like a child, including her actions on Earth as one of her "games". In 'Change Your Mind', White claims that she sees Pink the one who brings out the worst in other Gems, whereas she sees herself as the one who makes them better, but still wants Pink to "be herself". Despite this, White does express anguish at the revelation that releasing Steven's gem would never return Pink to her.
Pink Pearl
Pink, White is very unhappy with you. If this keeps up, she's going to take away your Pearl.
—Blue Diamond, "Change Your Mind"
It was revealed that White Diamond took away Pink Diamond's Pearl because of Pink's behavior, controlling her in the process. White Diamond now owns her as her personal Pearl. The latter acts as her messenger, escorting Steven to her and then immediately left White's presence when she finishes her task. "White Pearl" attends the Era 3 Ball in "Together Alone" in place of her Diamond, suggesting that White Diamond may use her Pearl as her eyes and ears, later confirmed in "Change Your Mind". In "Volleyball", it is revealed that Pink Pearl no longer belongs to White.
Well, what have we here? It's another one of your pets.
Similarly with Steven, White Diamond is unwilling to let Connie leave Homeworld. When Connie enters White's ship, White remarks that Connie is another one of Steven's "pets" and mind controls Pearl to fight her. After Steven calls out White for being childish, Connie laughs at her. Once White has released her control on the Gems she had mind-controlled, Connie remarks to Amethyst that she thinks Steven got through to White.
1. "Full Disclosure": Absent 14. "Historical Friction": Absent
2. "Joy Ride": Absent 15. "Friend Ship": Absent
3. "Say Uncle": Absent 16. "Nightmare Hospital": Absent
4. "Love Letters": Absent 17. "Sadie's Song": Absent
5. "Reformed": Absent 18. "Catch and Release": Absent
6. "Sworn to the Sword": Absent 19. "When It Rains": Absent
7. "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies": Absent 20. "Back to the Barn": Absent
8. "Keeping It Together": Absent 21. "Too Far": Absent
9. "We Need to Talk": Absent 22. "The Answer": Absent
10. "Chille Tid": Absent 23. "Steven's Birthday": Absent
11. "Cry for Help": Absent 24. "It Could've Been Great": Pictured
12. "Keystone Motel": Absent 25. "Message Received": Absent
13. "Onion Friend": Absent 26. "Log Date 7 15 2": Absent
1. "Super Watermelon Island": Absent 13. "Kiki's Pizza Delivery Service": Absent
2. "Gem Drill": Absent 14. "Monster Reunion": Absent
3. "Same Old World": Absent 15. "Alone at Sea": Absent
4. "Barn Mates": Absent 16. "Greg the Babysitter": Absent
5. "Hit the Diamond": Absent 17. "Gem Hunt": Absent
6. "Steven Floats": Absent 18. "Crack the Whip": Absent
7. "Drop Beat Dad": Absent 19. "Steven vs. Amethyst": Absent
8. "Mr. Greg": Absent 20/21. "Bismuth": Absent
9. "Too Short to Ride": Absent 22. "Beta": Absent
10. "The New Lars": Absent 23. "Earthlings": Absent
11. "Beach City Drift": Absent 24. "Back to the Moon": Pictured
12. "Restaurant Wars": Absent 25. "Bubbled": Absent
2. "The Trial": Pictured 16. "Letters to Lars": Absent
3. "Off Colors": Pictured 17. "Can't Go Back": Absent
4. "Lars' Head": Pictured 18. "A Single Pale Rose": Absent
10. "Kevin Party": Absent 25. "Legs From Here to Homeworld": Debut
11. "Lars of the Stars": Absent 26. "Familiar": Pictured & Mentioned
12. "Jungle Moon": Absent 27. "Together Alone": Flashback
13. "Your Mother and Mine": Flashback 28. "Escapism": Pictured & Mentioned
14. "The Big Show": Absent 29-32. "Change Your Mind": Appears
Steven Universe: The Movie: Appears
1. "Little Homeschool": Pictured
2. "Guidance": Absent
3. "Rose Buds": Absent
4. "Volleyball": Mentioned
5. "Bluebird": Absent
6. "A Very Special Episode": Absent
7. "Snow Day": Absent
8. "Why So Blue?": Absent
9. "Little Graduation": Absent
10. "Prickly Pair": Absent
White has one of the most expressive faces in Steven Universe, due to her realistic mouth and highly pronounced eyebrows. Whereas most Gems lack eyebrows unless needed for an expression, White always has them, setting her apart from the other Gems.
White Diamond is drawn in the style of the show's background art. However, on a Hot Topic T-shirt and in "Change Your Mind", she is drawn the same way as any other character in the series.
White and Pink Diamonds' gemstones are similar in appearance, though the tips point in opposite directions.
According to Rebecca Sugar in Argentina Comic-Con, her personality is similar to her Pearl and has different problems than Yellow and Blue.
White Diamond's powers and personality may be symbolical of mental abuse or manipulative behavior; abusers of this kind make their victims question their mindset, using deceit and manipulative words or actions to make said victims believe that they are in the wrong, or generally making them too confused about their attacker's behavior and outward performance to try to leave in fear of hurting them for being innocent or being unable to recognize the fact that they are being abused. This is reflected in a lot of White's dialogue in "Change Your Mind", as well as her ability to control the actions of others through mind control.
Prior to being mentioned in the show, White Diamond's name was first seen alongside the names of the other three Diamonds along with their specific themes.[2]
The teaser released by the Steven Universe Booth
During San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Cartoon Network held a "3-D photo booth" for Steven Universe. When fans received their "3-D" image, a clip was attached at the end teasing White Diamond with a brief animation of her eyes blinking.[3]
Prior to White Diamond's debut, a fan had met Patti LuPone after a performance of War Paint, a musical she starred in that was running on Broadway at the time. After complimenting her on her voice work as Yellow Diamond, Patti told the fan that Christine Ebersole, her co-star in the musical, was the voice actress for White Diamond. While never confirmed, it eventually proved to be true.[4]
Rebecca Sugar took inspiration from the illustrations of Nell Brinkley when designing White Diamond.
White Diamond's gemstone is located on her forehead. It is in the shape of an upright five-sided diamond similar in appearance to the side view of a Round Brilliant Diamond Cut.
White Diamond.
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↑ White Diamond drawing by Rebecca Sugar to a fan at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
↑ Steven Universe: Art & Origins; page 159
↑ "#StevenUniverse 3-D Photobooth at San Diego Comic-Con. Fans also got a sneak peek of White Diamond’s eyes 👀" – Cartoon Network on Twitter
↑ "White Diamond VA" – r/steven universe on Reddit
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The truth about the great wind power fraud
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ABC’s “Ministry of Truth” – Media Watch – Cops Both Barrels from Graham Lloyd
February 27, 2015 by stopthesethings 10 Comments
And that’s just the first salvo ….
In response to the Media Watch report about The Australian’s coverage of wind farms
THE Media Watch report of February 16 (“Turbine torture: do wind farms make you sick?”) is littered with mistakes, omissions and misrepresentations from the opening scenes.
The program represents blatant advocacy for commercial interests over the widespread concerns of a genuine minority group who deserve thorough investigation of their complaints.
The Australian provided balanced, factual reporting of a national issue of public interest where Media Watch indulged in what amounts to little more than ad hominem, ideological propaganda.
The Media Watch program misrepresented the National Health and Medical Research Council position that the quality of existing research into the possible health impacts of wind turbines is poor and that it will fund more high quality research.
NHMRC chief executive Warwick Anderson said “it is important to say no consistent evidence does not necessarily mean no effect on human health.”
Media Watch selectively quoted Cape Bridgewater report author Steven Cooper to give the impression that he rejected certain things when in fact he was simply not professionally qualified to make comment on them.
Media Watch failed to acknowledge that Mr Cooper had said publicly that at all times The Australian’s reporting had been accurate and faithful to the contents of his Cape Bridgewater report. This fact has been confirmed to Media Watch by other suitably qualified acousticians.
Media Watch failed to report information it had received from US acoustics expert Dr Rob Rand that ran counter to its predetermined view.
The Australian published concerns raised by Pacific Hydro and wind industry groups about the Cooper report.
It also published praise for the robust nature of Cooper’s work and the significance of his findings from some of the most qualified and eminent acoustics experts in the world.
At no time did The Australian offer an opinion on the issue.
In contrast, Media Watch relied on wind industry advocates in academia including social scientists, political studies academics and a medical expert witness employed by wind developers to ascribe the symptoms to the now discredited “nocebo effect”.
Media Watch sought to mischievously discredit The Australian’s reporting with a series of factual inaccuracies and through sins of omission.
The Media Watch report failed to detail or report the existence of formal studies and inquiries which run counter to its pre-determined view and glossed over the peer review support the Cooper report received from some of the world’s most qualified acoustic experts..
It ignored the findings of the 2011 Federal Senate Inquiry chaired by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert, which found proper research into the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents should be undertaken as a matter of urgency.
Media Watch quoted studies that supported its case but failed to acknowledge the fact that the impact of low frequency noise generated by early model turbines had been linked to the exact same symptoms as those being reported today more than 30 years ago in research conducted for the renewable energy industry by NASA.
Media Watch failed to acknowledge any of the balancing quotes and arguments contained within The Australian’s reporting of the issue.
Media Watch did not bother to contact Channel 7.
Here is a line by line dissection of the Media Watch report.
MW transcript:
Presenter: Tonight, for the first time, hard evidence wind farms aren’t safe.
Today Tonight voiceover: They were told they were blowing in the wind, that it was all in their heads.
Interviewee: I’m not telling furphies, it’s real, we can feel it.
— Channel Seven, Today Tonight, 21st January, 2015
■ The Australian’s response
His name is David Mortimer, and he is a wind turbine host at Infigen Energy’s Lake Bonney Wind Farm in South Australia who says he become unwell with characteristic symptoms of “wind turbine syndrome” soon after getting the turbines but didn’t know until very recently what was causing the symptoms.
Paul Barry: Yes, as TT told us recently, those wind turbines are so bad that even the chickens get flustered.
No, animals become physiologically stressed when exposed to wind turbine noise (eg the Taiwanese goats who died, reported by the BBC, confirmed by the goat farmer and the Taiwanese Agricultural authorities. STRESSED chickens lay yolkless eggs — an observation also made in Britain by residents living near an airfield where bombers took off from — the excessive noise had the same impact on those chickens many years ago.
Today Tonight voiceover: Even the chooks appeared spooked by something.
Interviewee: “Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That’s not normal.”
Paul Barry: That TT footage on a wind farm in South Australia first got a run some two and a half years ago.
So why has it just popped up again?
Well, for much the same reason that radio hosts also went into a spin late last month:
ALAN JONES: “Now, it’s a headline today and it’s been called a world first study.”
— 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 21st January, 2015
TIM BENNETT: “Probably the biggest story today … is this front page on The Australian.”
— ABC 639 North and West SA, Mornings with Tim Bennett (fill in presenter), 21st January, 2015
ROSS STEVENSON: “Front page of The Australian has an exclusive story that people living near wind farms face a greater risk of suffering health complaints …”
— 3AW, Breakfast with Ross and John, 21st January, 2015
Paul Barry: Back in January The Australian headed its front page with an exclusive from Environment Editor Graham Lloyd, who told us excitedly in his opening paragraph:
“PEOPLE living near wind farms face a greater risk of suffering health complaints caused by the low-frequency noise generated by turbines, a groundbreaking study has found.”
— The Australian, 21st January, 2015
A statement issued by residents living near the Cape Bridgewater wind farm said; “Steven Cooper’s acoustic survey connects infrasound from wind turbines inside our homes with unacceptable health impacts.”
The Acoustic Group’s Principal, Mr Steven Cooper, was commissioned by wind developer Pacific Hydro to undertake an investigation into “noise” emitted from the wind farm as a result of our long unresolved complaints about the impact of Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater wind turbines on our health, on the habitability of our homes and on the quality of our lives. Symptoms we have experienced include severe nausea, headaches, ear pressure, inability to concentrate, and severe and debilitating sleep problems, which we have endured over the six years of operation of the Cape Bridgewater wind power facility.
The inclusion of complete shut-downs in the study clearly showed the wind farm generates specific infrasound frequencies that are directly related to the operation of the turbines.
Our diaries and the concurrent full spectrum acoustic measurements inside and outside our homes clearly demonstrate that it is the operation of the wind facility correlating with our symptoms.
The assertions made by others that our symptoms result from scaremongering (the nocebo effect) are untrue, and always have been. The inclusion of complete shut-down periods of the wind facility during the investigation reminded us of the general peace, serenity and wellbeing of our lives before the wind facility started operating.
The Cooper study was reviewed by well qualified acoustics experts.
Dr Bob Thorne, a psycho-acoustician who is also qualified to assess health impacts from noise and is considered an expert witness in court. Dr Thorne said in a written statement that the Cooper report was “ground breaking” and had made a “unique contribution to science”.
“At 235 pages for the report and six technical annexures (491 pages) the study cannot be matched by any previous wind farm study in Australia,” Dr Thorne said.
US acoustics expert Robert Rand said in a peer review of the Cooper Study;
“The correlation of sensation level to WTS tone level in the infrasonic and audible bands brings wind turbine acoustics right to the door of medical science. Medical tests in the homes, long overdue, can now be correlated directly to WTS.”
The study found that sensations including sleep disturbance were occurring with specific acoustic conditions. Those sensations included other symptoms such as nausea, headaches, and sensations of pressure. Sleep deprivation alone is an adverse health effect. Mr Cooper is not a medical practitioner and so cannot say it was a health study, but no medical practitioner would say that sleep deprivation or disturbance does not have adverse health effects if it is happening repeatedly …. so with the sleep deprivation alone there is going to be a greater risk of suffering health problems.
Paul Barry: Mr Lloyd has been worried about wind farms for some time — and those yolkless eggs — so was he right to claim he’d at last found evidence that they damage your health?
This is a significant issue of widespread public interest involving the duty of care towards a minority group of citizens. Some residents claim they have been forced to abandon their homes. In this case, The Australian was faithfully reporting the findings of a report released publicly by Pacific Hydro and Steven Cooper and accompanying statements by residents both verbally and in writing. Steven Cooper has confirmed The Australian’s report to be accurate in all respects with regard to his report. International acoustic experts have confirmed the study demonstrates a cause and effect exists between sensations experienced by residents and the operation of the wind turbines. The Australian report included comments from Pacific Hydro that it did not accept a cause and effect relationship had been established.
Paul Barry: Well, not according to several eminent scientists we talked to. And, remarkably, not according to Steven Cooper, the study’s author, who told Media Watch:
Steven Cooper: “No, it’s not correct … You can’t say that noise affects health from this study.”
— Steven Cooper, Acoustic Engineer, 28th January, 2015
Cooper can’t say that, but the residents had already said it as had their treating doctors — all of the residents have been told by treating health practitioners to leave their homes in order to regain their health. Mr Cooper has said he had been quoted faithfully and his report treated fairly by The Australian in all regards.
Paul Barry: So what did Mr Cooper think about Today Tonight’s claims that he had provided the first hard evidence that wind farms are unsafe?
Well, no again.
Steven Cooper: “Absolutely not, that’s incorrect.”
In fact, the first hard evidence was provided by Dr Neil Kelley and his team at NASA thirty years ago, who found that sleep disturbance and other symptoms and sensations were directly caused by wind turbine generated impulsive infrasound and low frequency noise. His finding led to a change in wind turbine design. More recently, British Acoustician and National Health and Medical Research Council Expert Reviewer for the 2011 NHMRC Rapid Review Professor Geoffrey Leventhall told the NHMRC workshop in 2011 that “annoyance symptoms’’ or “noise annoyance” symptoms were identical to “wind turbine syndrome” symptoms described by US Paediatric Specialist and researcher Dr Nina Pierpont. Media Watch’s academic commentator Simon Chapman was in the room when he said it.
Paul Barry: The company that commissioned the study, Pacific Hydro says it was not a scientific study, and not a health study, and does not show that wind farms are causing health complaints.
And asked on ABC Radio about this, Mr Cooper agreed.
Steven Cooper: “Pacific Hydro are correct that we don’t have a correlation in terms of medical and I agree with that 100 per cent.”
— ABC Ballarat, Mornings with Anne-Marie Middlemast, 21st January, 2015
Paul Barry: So how come The Australian and Today Tonight got it so wrong.
The head of medicine at Adelaide University, Professor Gary Wittert, told Media Watch:
Professor Gary Wittert: “The way The Australian reported this study was really the antithesis of good science reporting. I think a newspaper like The Australian should know better.”
— Professor Gary Wittert, Head of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, 6th February, 2015
Mr Cooper has said that Lloyd’s reporting was accurate. The residents were reporting sensations including sleep deprivation, nausea and headaches. Does Professor Wittert consider that these sensations are not adverse health effects? And that chronic sleep deprivation does not itself cause long term health problems? Has he actually read the acoustic investigation and does he understand what was found?
Paul Barry: And he’s by no means the only one to express that view.
Professor Wittert has repeatedly given expert evidence to court cases stating that the nocebo effect rather than infrasound and low frequency noise are directly causing the reported symptoms. Mr Cooper’s data from his acoustic investigation suggests Professor Wittert’s expert opinion is wrong.
Paul Barry: Writing in The Conversation, the Australian National University’s Jacqui Hoepner and Will Grant also condemned The Australian’s front page story and the study it was based on, branding it:
“… an exemplary case of what we consider to be bad science and bad science reporting.”
— The Conversation, 22nd January, 2015
And these two have no relevant qualifications. Grant has a PhD in politics, and Hoepner is a journalist. Neither has either medical or acoustical training or experience.
Paul Barry: And Sydney University’s professor of public health Simon Chapman was even more damning*, telling Media Watch:
Simon Chapman: “Scientifically, it’s an absolutely atrocious piece of research and is entirely unpublishable other than on the front page of The Australian.”**
— Professor Simon Chapman, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, 23rd January, 2015
*Simon Chapman is not a medical practitioner. He has previously told people his PhD is in sociology. It was on the topic of “Cigarette Advertising As Myth: A Re-Evaluation Of The Relationship Of Advertising To Smoking”. He has worked closely with the wind industry, and has declined to ever directly investigate or visit adversely impacted people. He has vilified them, he has called them “wind farm wingnuts” however he did admit in the senate inquiry in 2012 that sleep deprivation could be a problem if it was occurring.
In a statement to the federal Senate on June 17, 2014, John Madigan said of Professor Chapman:
“It is fair and reasonable to encourage people to look behind the blatant campaigning done by people like Professor Chapman of the University of Sydney. Professor Chapman has been an outspoken critic of those who have dared to question the wind farm orthodoxy. But is Professor Chapman a medical doctor? Is he legally entitled to examine and treat patients? Is he qualified in acoustics or any other aspect of audiology? Is he a sleep specialist? Does he hold any qualifications in bioacoustics or physiology or neuroscience? How many wind farm victims has he interviewed directly? How many wind farm impacted homes has he visited? Professor Chapman claims to receive no payment from the wind industry. How many wind industry conferences, seminars and events has he spoken at? How many wind industry events has he attended? Writing on the Crikey website in November 2011, Professor Chapman lamented how many conferences do not pay speaker’s fees, and, when one conference organiser refused to pay his hotel bill, he withdrew. This is the same Professor Chapman who was photographed at a campaign launch in Melbourne by the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas.
As a public health academic, Professor Chapman displays a lack of compassion for people who claim to be suffering debilitating effects from pervasive wind turbine noise. Professor Chapman’s undergraduate qualifications were in sociology. His PhD looked into the relationship between cigarette smoke and advertising. I question his expertise, I question his qualifications and I question his unbridled motivation to promote and support the wind industry at the cost of people’s lives, homes and communities. I question Professor Chapman’s lack of interest in speaking with wind industry victims. Professor Chapman has a record of public denigration of victims.’’
**This is in marked contrast to Mr Cooper’s REAL peers who have entirely the opposite opinions. Properly qualified acoustics experts in Australia and the United States have called it “groundbreaking” and a “unique contribution”.
Paul Barry: So what exactly is wrong with the study and why should it not have been headline news? Well, first, it was not published in an academic journal* or peer reviewed by independent experts**.
*Oh, if something is not published in a journal it is not good science? Well what about PhD’s??? They are not published in journals? Are they not “science”?
**The Cooper report has been extensively reviewed by independent experts. The reviewers have included the top environmental acoustics researcher in the world, Dr Paul Schomer, who has written acoustics standards in the US and internationally. It also included Mr George Hessler, who has worked as a consultant acoustician for the wind industry for years in the USA. It is highly significant that a wind industry preferred acoustician is coming out and endorsing Mr Cooper’s acoustic investigation so strongly.
Paul Barry: Second, it had a tiny sample.
Tiny samples are fine. Patients are a sample of one. Just one patient (or one black swan) is enough to prove a scientific point. In his peer review of the Cooper Research, Dr Paul Schomer said “One person affected is a lot more than none; the existence of just one cause-and-effect pathway is a lot more than none,” he said. “It only takes one example to prove that a broad assertion (that there are no impacts) is not true, and that is the case here.”
Paul Barry: Just three households and six respondents.
SIX BLACK SWANS. All of them experienced the symptoms when the turbines were turning …. But not when they were not exposed to operating turbines and there were no wind gusts.
Paul Barry:Third … there was what scientists call selection bias, because all those people already had health problems which they blamed on Pacific Hydro’s wind farm at Victoria’s Cape Bridgewater, 1.6 kilometres or less from their homes.
Selection bias is irrelevant when the study design is identical to a prospective case series with a cross over component, where people are their own controls, and what varies is their exposure to operating wind turbines. The Australian received written advice from a professor of epidemiology that this is precisely the design of the acoustic survey investigation proposed by Pacific Hydro and used by Steven Cooper. This study design is also used in pharmaceutical trials, to determine safety thresholds for medications, and to help establish whether or not a direct causal relationship exists. It is therefore a perfect study design for this sort of investigation.
Paul Barry: And fourth, all knew if the wind farm was operating because they could see the blades.
WRONG. They could NOT see the blades — especially when they were inside their homes, in their beds, and woken up from a sleep. That is just ridiculous. Besides the Cooper study says one resident had 100 per cent correlation with being able to tell then the turbines were operating without seeing them when he was there doing attended measurements. She could NOT SEE them — this is just FALSE reporting. Or perhaps Media Watch didn’t read the report very carefully…
Paul Barry: Now you can’t blame these on Steven Cooper because the parameters were set by Pacific Hydro who commissioned the research.
But scientifically, say the experts, it means the results can’t be trusted.
ABC experts are conflicted, Wittert and Chapman have a history of working closely with the wind industry to protect its commercial interests, either as expert witness in court cases or to push the now disproved nocebo effect as the cause for the resident’s “sensations” which in Cooper’s study correlated with specific acoustic emissions — powering up and powering down.
Paul Barry: Indeed, in Professor Chapman’s view:
Simon Chapman: “The media should have treated this with absolute contempt.”
Paul Barry: Now there’s no doubt that some people living close to wind farms have health problems.
And they believe that the wind farms are the cause.
But as The Conversation reminded us … a recent study in the British Medical Journal found they are not alone in having these health complaints.
“… almost 90% of the general population experienced many of the common symptoms associated with wind turbine syndrome within a given week.”
The BMJ article and Grant and Hoepner and Chapman and others ignore the cross over effect — when residents are exposed, they have symptoms and when they are not exposed, they do not have those symptoms and sensations. The Australian has written advice from a professor of epidemiology that the study could be classified as a small cross over trial.
Paul Barry: Much of the debate turns on whether there’s something special about the noise from wind farms that makes them harmful to health … even if the noise is below health limits.
Just what do Media Watch mean by “below health limits”? The Australian has been advised that Kelley established those health limits thirty years ago in the NASA trials and Cooper’s results were almost identical. Above 50 dB at 4 Hz people who are sensitised to the sound energy experience and report unpleasant sensations.
Paul Barry: The study’s author Steven Cooper has long believed there is … and that it’s called infrasound.
Cooper is not the only one. Broner, the only acoustic expert on the NHMRC committee also believed it on the basis of empirical evidence in a paper delivered to the 2007 International Acoustics Congress in Madrid, “The missing 16 Hz, Can We Live With It?”
“As the need for power increases, power utilities are resorting to the use of peaking plants incorporating Open Cycle Gas Turbines. OCGT manufacturers generally supply noise data for these down to the 31.5 Hz octave band. However, most of these units also generate significant energy in the 16 Hz octave band. Both of these bands need to be considered when assessing potential noise impact on neighbouring residential communities.”
Steven Cooper: “Infrasound is energy that appears in the spectrum below what the human ear can normally hear.”
— Channel Seven, Today Tonight, 4th June, 2012
Paul Barry: Infrasound, says Cooper, interferes with our sleep and our brain patterns.
And he says his latest study suggests … sensations people feel near wind farms … may be caused by the infrasound the turbines produce.
But so far mainstream experts have not been convinced.
NO, it is the ABC’s “experts” who are not acousticians who are connected with the wind industry who are not convinced.
Paul Barry: Cooper’s theories were dismissed by a senate inquiry into wind farm noise back in 2011.
Cooper didn’t give evidence in the 2011 inquiry. He gave evidence to the 2012 inquiry chaired by Senator Doug Cameron. That senate inquiry had two dissenting reports.
Paul Barry: And dismissed again in 2013 by South Australia’s Environmental Protection Agency.
Cooper’s work at Cape Bridgewater has shown that the SA EPA survey was wrong — indeed chapter 9 of his report is devoted to explaining why.
Paul Barry: And dismissed again by South Australia’s Land & Environment Court last year.
That court also found that a nocebo effect explained symptoms when the medical expert for the wind developer had admitted that there was no evidence of a nocebo effect in the witnesses who gave statements …. and at the time, Cooper’s research findings were only preliminary. His research and report is AFTER all of these events and is NEW knowledge, but consistent with the Kelley findings thirty years ago which the wind industry knew ALL about.
Paul Barry: Yet The Australian and Today Tonight omitted to tell us these important facts.
They also omitted to tell us that, as Professor Chapman puts it:
Simon Chapman: “There are 24 high-quality reviews about wind farms and health, and overwhelmingly they have been found to be safe.”
THIS IS NOT TRUE. Many of the reviews Chapman cites state that there is not a lot of scientific evidence. NONE of them say they are SAFE. The National Health and Medical Research Council recently reviewed 4000 pieces of literature and found only 13 were suitable for evaluation and none could be considered high quality. As a result it said the impact of wind turbines on health remained an open scientific question and that it would call for targeted, high quality research. A priority area is low frequency and infrasound.
Paul Barry: Indeed, last week, the government’s National Health and Medical Research Council published the results of its review of seven studies of wind farms and health.
And the NHMRC came to the conclusion that:
“There is no consistent* evidence that noise from wind turbines … is associated with self-reported human health effects.”**
— National Health and Medical Research Council, Systematic review of the human health effects of wind farms, 11 February, 2015
*The NHMRC cannot and did not say there is NO evidence of adverse health effects, because they know that is untrue. In other words, Professor Chapman’s assertions that wind turbines are safe is not supported by the NHMRC’s statement, or by the existing scientific evidence.
“Given the poor quality of current direct evidence and the concern expressed by some members of the community, high quality research into possible health effects of wind farm, particularly within 1500 metres is warranted,” the NHMRC statement said.
“From a scientific perspective I see the question as still open,” he said.
Professor Bruce Armstrong, chair of the NHMRC’s wind farm committee said “to not investigate would be negligent from a public health point of view.” Dr Armstrong said research into low frequency and infrasound was an important priority “because it is what people who are concerned about health impacts focus on and it is not something that has been done particularly well to date.”
**Self-reported adverse health effects are accepted as evidence by doctors for the purposes of accurate diagnosis on the basis of clinical history, and are accepted in courts as evidence. They are a crucial part of assessing human response to sound frequencies, just as Mr Cooper’s report demonstrated. The next step is to include physiological testing as well as the self-reported symptoms.
Paul Barry: But unlike the Cooper study that news did not make The Australian’s front page.
But, unlike Media Watch, it was reported accurately in the paper.
Paul Barry: And just three days after the NHMRC said there is no evidence that wind farms are harmful to health, Graham Lloyd came back to suggest there is.
Yes, because a peer review by one of the world’s leading acoustic experts said just that and was reported. The Cooper research was not included in the NHMRC review.
Unseen, unheard wind farms a blow to health
“GROUNDBREAKING Australian research has established a “cause and effect” existed between wind farms and health impacts on some nearby residents, a peer review by one of the world’s leading acoustic experts says.”
— The Weekend Australian, 14-15 February, 2015
Paul Barry: That so-called groundbreaking research was the Cooper study … again.
The one that Professor Chapman* describes as an atrocious piece of research and other experts** assure us is bad science.
*Chapman, the Tobacco Advertising Propaganda Expert, sociologist, and wind industry advocate.
**No, not EXPERTS. Hand selected advocates for the wind industry carefully chosen by the ABC, for the wind industry who do not have any research qualifications or experience in directly investigating the circumstances of the sick people. ANU PhD candidate and journalist, Jacqui Hoepner, and her supervisor, Will Grant, who describes himself as “a talker, writer, thinker and reader, based primarily at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. His talking / writing / thinking / reading has focused mostly on the intersection of science, politics and society, and how this is changing in response to new technologies.”
Paul Barry: And the expert quoted in this ‘peer’ review was an American scientist who has long agreed with Mr Cooper’s theories.
No, “the scientist” was two very eminent acousticians, one of whom has spent most of his life consulting to and for the WIND INDUSTRY (Hessler) and the other is the leading environmental acoustics researcher in the world — and DIRECTOR of ACOUSTICS Standards and chair of the American delegation to the International Standards Committee. Dr Schomer has not “long agreed with Mr Cooper’s theories” — he and four other acousticians including three who work almost exclusively for the wind industry (Bruce Walker, George and David Hessler) conducted the research at the Shirley Wind Farm reported in December 2012 which measured the full spectrum of sound inside and outside homes and came to the conclusion that infrasound and low frequency noise were an issue and that they could affect the future of the wind industry.
Peer reviewers Schomer and Hessler both completely understood the value of what Cooper had done and came out strongly because it is indeed Cause and Effect. People did NOT get the symptoms when the turbines were not turning but did get symptoms when they were turning. There was an exception for one resident who is extremely sensitised AND there were wind gusts which shook the towers, induced vibrations which she could feel, even though she could not see the towers.
Paul Barry: But let’s go back to what Cooper himself told the ABC about how groundbreaking this research is.
Asked about whether he has found a correlation between infrasound and headaches or other sensations of which people were complaining he said:
Steven Cooper: “I don’t have enough data to say a correlation. The study is limited, it’s a pilot study and there’s a trend line that’s very clear. Correlation needs a lot more scientific rigour with a larger population to come up with the answer.”
Cooper was being deliberately very conservative. In a written response to The Australian, prior to the Media Watch episode Mr Cooper said “The study does show a link between the operation of the wind farm and the disturbances reported by the residents. There is a trend not a correlation (because there is not enough data and that wasn’t the brief) However, one can take the reports of the residents who form the view there is a link to their health impacts.”
Lloyd has met and interviewed residents who have explained the “disturbances” they have experienced and are in no doubt that they consider them to be health impacts, some have even been advised by their medical practitioners to leave their homes as a result. Their concerns about health impacts and understanding of what Cooper had found were expressed in a media statement of which Media Watch was or should have been fully aware.
Paul Barry: Now … The Australian has sent us a long statement defending its original coverage which we’d encourage you to read on our website. But its key point is:
“… The Australian believes this is clearly an issue of significant public interest, worthy of presentation on page one and of extensive investigation and further reporting.”
— Clive Mathieson, Editor, The Australian, 8th February, 2015
Paul Barry: Well, we’d certainly agree that more work needs to be done.
But we believe The Australian needs to get its facts right, and to approach it in a more scientific and objective fashion.
No, the ABC needs to follow its own advice and “get its facts right, and approach it in a more scientific and objective fashion”. It Is also about time the ABC started accurately identifying conflicts of interest in its “experts” and stopped putting pre-recorded programs to air which refer to vulnerable and sick rural residents as “DICK BRAINS” — Annabel Crabb on the science show, aired by Robin Williams in January 2015.
Graham says: “we’ve only just begun”.
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Granny Smith says:
Thank you STT and the Australian for reporting the facts.
The ABC’s behaviour and journalistic standards are shameful.
Is there no end to the ABC cover up of big wind deceit and lies? Do what you say you do – report the truth please.
Jackie Rovenksy says:
Well done STT and The Australian. Exposing Media Watch and its reliance on people they refer to as ‘experts’, but who clearly are not.
Immense harm occurs if, after watching this program, an affected person elects not to seek true expert medical opinion.
Those so-called ‘experts’, who allow the continual misrepresentation of their qualifications, are also at fault. To allow someone to present them as experts in fields which they have no professional qualifications is inappropriate and undermines those who do have appropriate qualifications.
Simon Chapman does not have medical or acoustics qualifications and therefore cannot speak on either of these subjects. He has qualifications that are acceptable under the heading of the very broad area of Public Health. This qualification only gives him the ability to speak abstractly on any medical health subject. He cannot prescribe a medication to anyone; he is not qualified to do that.
To use the term ‘nocebo’ in relation to anyone, without clearly defined medical justification, is cause for serious concern.
Professor Wittert, is medically trained, but has spent most of his career conducting research with no reference to acoustics and or infra-sound relating reported adverse health effect and Industrial Wind Turbines, nor has he ever medically examined anyone reporting adverse health effects from the operation of IWT’s.
On the Adelaide Universities website his expertise is reported to be in the fields of:
“endocrinology; obesity; diabetes mellitus; weight loss; men’s health; androgens; erectile dysfunction; ageing.”
And on the Australian Society of Medical Research National Scientific Conference site for 2013, where he was a speaker, there’s a lot of emphasis on his work in the area of obesity.
So when he’s put forward and accepted as an expert in IWT court cases or by Media Watch, you have to wonder what relevance his expertise has other than maybe an indirect relationship in some minor part to his work as supervisor to higher degree students, if they are working in the field of acoustics and how ‘noise’ can affect human health.
Noel Dean. says:
Great work Graham. A really true reporter, telling things as they are. Unfortunately, the same can not be said for other reporters.
I was interviewed for the ABC Four corners program some time back, I repeatedly stated in an interveiw that the Waubra Wind Farm DID NOT have a noise contour Map. Such a map would have alerted us of the impending harm which we were to be subjected. This, I believe, is A VERY serious crime and yet not mentioned,
I also told the reporter for Four Corners that the the initial NHMRC review itemised the adverse health affects from the operation of the wind farm turbines. I showed the reporter the NHMRC review with the wording and he denied what was written.
In the end, the stupid fools put on the program claiming breakthrough research by Professor Wittert, saying that the pharmaceutical demand, that might be attributed to increased sickness from the operating turbines did not show up in a survey of pharmacies in affected areas with a population of about 23,000 people. He calls this research, for one we did not live in the area he surveyed and we get our Panamax without a script in the middle of Ballarat.
I highly suspect that Mr Malcolm Turnball has been active in the ABC’s conduct at a national level. The ABC stateline seemed fair in their approach, but when reporters use their own thoughts, I consider it an abuse of power when they do not present the facts.
Mr Turnball was Pro-Wind power when he lost the leadership to Mr Tony Abbott and I suspect the Wind Farm lobby is back at work trying to reverse this.
The Pro Wind attitude got to Mr Matthew Guy as early as 2014. I received confirmation that AECOM had been engaged by the Waubra Wind Farm opererator Acciona on the 7th March 2014, but when the time came, SLR was sprung by a Neighbour doing SACs and low frequency testing.
SLR are the Acoustic people who have done the independent review of the post construction report at Waubra. {How crooked is it is the same people doing the testing as who had done the review?} The turbines were not even operating in the overnight testing.
The next day on the road beside our property, my son confronted them for not doing the assessment to the New Zealand Standard. The SLR people acknowleged that it was not being done to the standard. Ms Melanie Robertson of Acciona interrupted and said it was done to the satisfaction of the Planning Minister. My son said, but that was Acciona’s plan and Melanie Robertson just grinned and the SLR just stood in acknowledgment. That was June last year and there is still no report available. What is going on, former Minister for Planning, Mr Guy?
Noel Dean
David Mortimer says:
It amazes me that an apparently astute academic mind can’t see that he is heading full pelt into becoming the disgraced wing nut professor with A Crabb-dick brain.
What a shame…..(not)
Bruce Gooderham says:
I liked the comment a week or two ago about if you are in the s#*t up to your neck, it is a good idea to keep your mouth shut. Well the dick brains of Media Watch have the s#*it up to their eye balls, and they can’t keep their mouth shut, so, guess what, they are full of the substance, as they do not get any facts at all.
I would rather read what STT has written on Stop These Things, then watch crap on the ABC media watch. STT writes FACT not CRAP.
Tony, cut the ABC budget and get rid of the grubs in it, and the ABC media watch might be worth while.
clive hoskin says:
Why is it that anything to do with the “Greenies and Left-wingers” is a total lie?” Global Warming” is, without a doubt, the biggest “Scam” the world has ever seen, and it’s brought to you by the UN.
Martin Hayles, Curramulka says:
A well made examination and rebuttal to the Media Watch program, which was nothing more than a thoroughly unprofessional and partisan attempt to besmirch the Cooper research and The Australian’s continued coverage and interest in the corrupt wind industry and it’s stinking trail to the many financial beneficiaries of Big Wind.
Please keep up the good work Mr Lloyd and STT.
One is left wondering if Paul Barry has done any research into the wind industry.
George Papadopoulos says:
The ABC has relied on gentle sophistry to sell us the cheap “nocebo liquor” of Simon Chapman – that hypothesis that is in want of any strong evidence to prove it. Simon Chapman sells himself as a “health expert”. Note that he avoids to call himself a medical expert, because a “health expert” means practically anything remotely related to health.
Dr Robert McMurty tells Senate: ‘Annoyance’ caused by Wind Turbine Noise includes ‘Sleep disturbance’ & is Adverse to Health says:
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Photo：Photo by Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden & Museum Kyoto
Hakusasonso Garden With a View
Alma Reyes
Japan is such an amazing country with over 5,600 museums from north to south—in Tokyo alone, comprising of over 130. While the stereotyped impression of a museum is narrowed down to a box with pictures flattened against the wall, or free-floating installations stuck to the ground or suspended from a ceiling perhaps, Japan proudly boasts of garden museums as well—art that extends circumferentially from indoors to outdoors, and vice versa. After all, the Japanese garden has always been omnipresent in Japanese culture for centuries.
Photo by: Alma Reyes
Apparently linked with Buddhist and Taoist ideologies from China since 7th century AD, Japanese gardens have been fundamental elements in temples and shrines, niches of peace and spiritual nourishment for the monks and worshippers. In The Tale of Genji, around 1000 gardens were depicted as symbols of aristocracy, and at the same time picturesque landscapes that seduce medieval romance.
Photo by Alma Reyes
In Kyoto, one particular garden museum located just a few steps from the quintessential Ginkakuji temple projects such a romantic aura of nature, tradition, and art as encapsulated in ancient times. The Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden Museum is often missed, in fact, by Kyoto visitors as the exterior appears more of a private residence than an actual museum. Kansetsu Hashimoto (1883-1945) was a Nihonga painter originally from Kobe, and appointed Imperial Household artist, whose father Kaikan Hashimoto was, likewise, a classic painter and Confucian scholar, and from whom he acquired the profound love for Chinese art and culture. As a young boy, Hashimoto was surrounded by Chinese poetry and trained in calligraphy, and at twelve years old, began to study the Shijo style of painting, which largely focused on realism from the Western point-of-view, but adopted the Japanese painting technique. Heavily influenced by Chinese themes, Hashimoto developed a deep association with the “New Nanga” movement during the 1910s, which followed the path of Chinese literati painting, and it is important to understand this significant mark in Hashimoto’s timeline to grasp the visual relation of his art and the garden landscaping of the museum.
Photo by Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden & Museum Kyoto
Hashimoto moved to the present Hakusasonso in about 1916, around the time when the land was merely covered by paddy fields. Today, it is a paradise oasis of beautiful cherry blossoms, pine, plum, and maple trees showing off an exuberant and colorful foliage, surrounding ponds filled with bright carps. The entrance to the museum grounds is itself a wooden gate with stone pillars, common in Japanese houses in the olden days. The stone slab pathway leads directly to another bamboo gate that opens to the sanctuary of plants, tall trees, lush green moss, ducks and birds. Japanese garden structures typical of those seen in temples and shrines also abound: stone lanterns, Buddhist statues, an Edo-styled stone bridge, wash basins with their bamboo water spouts, numerous pagodas (including a large one by the middle pond), and carefully laid out stepping stones in perfect harmony with the indulging scenery—all collections of Hashimoto traced back to the Heian, Momoyama and Kamakura periods.
Combined with the abundance of nature, the 10,000 square-meter site is also an outdoor architectural showcase of Japanese buildings, such as a small arbor hut, painting studio (where Hashimoto originally painted), temple, tea ceremony house, restaurant, the main residence and the museum.
The Hashimoto Kansetsu Museum was completed much later in 2014 as the family’s tribute to Hashimoto who passed away in 1945. The mix of modern concrete and wooden structure reflects the melodic flow of the present within the past. Apart from Hashimoto’s own personal artworks and collections displayed in the three museum showrooms, which evolve around Nihonga paintings, sketches, calligraphy, byobu folding screens, ceramics and glassware, there are also brush tools, ink stamps, and utensils. One of the cherished highlights of anyone’s visit to this garden museum is an ascend to the second floor of the main museum where a wooden veranda opens majestically to one of the most spectacular views of luscious Kyoto. The Higashiyama mountains with a direct perspective of the Daimonji tower over the enchanting garden setting of Hakusasonso. One can sit quietly on the benches, unmindful of the minutes that go by, and even steal the charming hums of birds hovering nearby.
Upon exiting the gates, the sudden hustle of tourists rushing their way to Ginkakuji temple or the Philosopher’s Path may arrive abruptly in rebellion of the encased tranquility just experienced before. However, the grandiosity of the garden’s beauty is too precious to be camouflaged, and surely remains without resistance, whether while continuing to stroll the rustic streets of Kyoto or heading back to the over-swamped city life.
Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden & Museum Kyoto
37 Jodojiishibashi Cho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto,
Kyoto Prefecture 606-8406, Japan
http://www.hakusasonso.jp/english/
Entry fee: Adults/ 1300 JPY; Kids/ 500 JPY
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Treasury Department Proposes New Regulations for Opportunity Zones
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John Buhl
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On Friday, the Treasury Department released new regulations on the Opportunity Zones program—an investment tool established by 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—that will allow investors to defer and eliminate capital gains taxes on gains from investments in economically-distressed localities.
The new rules provide some clarity on how investors can qualify for the tax break, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions and potential issues that could arise during implementation.
Between April and June of this year, the zones were designated by the Treasury Department based on census tract recommendations from the governors of all 50 states and many U.S. territories. The result: roughly 9,000 zones encompassing 35 million Americans.
When investing in opportunity zones, investors must roll unrealized capital gains from an outside investment into opportunity funds, the investment vehicles for the zones. Opportunity funds attract investors with three generous benefits related to capital gains taxation:
Capital gains tax on the rolled over investment is deferred until 2026 or upon withdrawal from the fund.
Capital gains tax on the rolled over investment can be reduced by up to 15 percent after seven years in an opportunity fund via a step-up in basis.
If the investment is held for at least 10 years, any new gains derived from the opportunity fund are permanently excluded from capital gains taxation.
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The new regulations cover some of the questions that investors had about the program and ask for input on further issues.
The original legislation dictates that an opportunity fund is required to have 90 percent of its assets in qualified opportunity zone property, and that the qualified opportunity zone business must have “substantially all” of its tangible property within an opportunity zone. The proposed regulations dictate the definition of “substantially all” as 70 percent.
Combining the 90 percent asset requirement for opportunity funds with the 70 percent tangible property requirement for qualifying businesses means that an opportunity fund may be as minimally invested in a zone as 63 percent.
Additionally, the proposed regulations clear up an ambiguity in the law about what happens if a census tract loses its opportunity zone designation after 10 years. If a taxpayer kept money in a zone that later loses its designation as an opportunity zone, would the taxpayer lose out on the full tax benefit? Alternatively, could investors hold assets in a fund indefinitely and receive the tax break at any point in the future?
As a compromise, the proposed regulations state that investors can keep their investments in funds through 2047 without losing any of the tax benefits, even if the zone loses its eligibility in the interim. This rule will likely be updated in the future and is simply to clarify that 10 years likely will not be a hard cut-off for benefits—meaning that investors don’t have to rush into investments right away—but that the tax preference would not last forever.
The proposed regulations also clarify that gains can be transferred from opportunity fund to opportunity fund until 2026 (at which point the deferred and reduced capital gains tax must be paid). More regulations on fund to fund transferring are still to come.
Many businesses which work with investments that take longer to get off the ground due to construction projects (like real-estate developers) were concerned about the 180-day time limit to roll over gains into an opportunity fund. The businesses feared being penalized for funds accumulated while still completing their investments. The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a 30-month extension for businesses in this situation to hold working capital, so long as they have plans for a qualified project that may be audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Treasury also said to expect more regulations by the end of the year on the treatment of business operations, because some business functions can occur outside of opportunity zones. For example, the treatment of a delivery truck operated by a qualified business inside a zone.
All in all, these regulations will do very little to fix the major problem with opportunity zones, which is their inherent lack of neutrality. Sound tax policy does not limit or distort investment by type or location. The benefits given to investors through opportunity funds are remarkably generous, and many of these regulations only increase and widen those benefits without regard to the results.
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Nissan expands its free charging promotion as electric car competition from Tesla and others heats up
Mark Lelinwalla 4 years
To say that Nissan is watching Tesla’s every move would be an understatement.
The Japanese automaker started this month with a splash, announcing it is expanding its No Charge to Charge promotion to include 11 new markets, such as Las Vegas, Cleveland and the car capital of Detroit to name a few. The program offers new Leaf drivers two years of free public charging with the purchase or lease of the all-electric vehicle.
Nissan’s announcement comes a month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk broke the disappointing news to prospective Model 3 owners during pre-registration hoopla that the impending electric sedan will not offer free supercharging with its $35,000 base sticker price. That’s opposed to Tesla’s pricier Model S and Model X vehicles, which do include complimentary use of the automaker’s sprawling supercharging network. So, the Leaf’s expanded promotion is directly mashing the dash against Tesla one could say.
The Leaf’s starting price of $26,700 — after the federal tax credit of $7,500 — and now an additional 11 markets following the No Charge to Charge program’s initial 10 cities in July 2014, make Nissan’s electric program all the more intriguing. The Leaf has already enjoyed quite a bit of success, after all, with Nissan citing its global sales of upwards of 224,000, including 94,000 in the U.S., claiming it’s the “world’s best-selling electric car.” Now that Nissan’s charging network is offering two free years, the Leaf’s sales could see additional growth.
“We know that public charging is a key element in providing additional range confidence for electric vehicle drivers, and free public charging is a great way to make Nissan Leaf an unrivaled value for the average American driver,” said Brian Maragno, director of Nissan’s electric vehicle sales and marketing in a press release statement.
That being said, Nissan and Tesla will have to combat the overall decline of EV sales due to a slide in gas prices. According to a number of reports, two years of declining gas prices has led to Americans reverting to buying bigger cars, straying away from EVs and hybrids. In fact, Kelly Blue Book reported this past March that sales of hybrids and alternative-energy vehicles in the U.S. slid 13.2 percent last year in comparison to figures from 2014. Even the Toyota Prius — a poster car for bang-for-your-buck efficiency — has suffered, with sales dipping nearly 11 percent last year.
Within that, popular EV options such as the Leaf and Chevrolet Volt dropped 42.8 percent and 18.1 percent in 2015, respectively. Tesla, too, has felt the effects due to cheaper pump prices as its shipments from the first quarter to second quarter, which ended last month, dropped by 450 vehicles.
Let’s see if this Leaf promotion could spark a boost in sales and furthermore make Tesla re-think its Model 3 supercharging strategy.
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Video games often get a bad rap.
Coming April 16, Digital Compass helps kids explore how the decisions they make in their digital lives can impact their relationships and futures. On the eve of launching Digital Compass, I spoke with Dr. Michael Carter, a cognitive development expert and gaming guru, on how an interactive like Digital Compass can be beneficial in the classroom.
What role can gaming play in a classroom or learning environment? Scholars and practitioners have for decades studied the use of games in classrooms and found that good games that foster learning prove to engage students, particularly disaffected students, in such a way as to improve their grasp and retention across a wide spectrum of subject matter.
Role-playing games and simulations particularly help learners develop skills and intuition because they invest in the decisions they make and persist to do. Learners in early adolescence are particularly sensitive to the presence of emotion in their activities, and active learning motivates them more than lectures or textbooks.
Digital Compass was created around the concept of Edward Packard's s Choose Your Own Adventure book series, where the reader -- "you" -- determines the main character's actions. Can you speak to the impact that the second person, "you," versus the first person, "I," can have on users?
Games where players are addressed as "you" have been in digital games for decades.
This increases their engagement since it is they who are making choices played out in the scenario. When they play through the person of an avatar, a representation of themselves, they usually behave in a fashion consistent with the character of their chosen surrogate.
Games allow people to adopt virtual identities. The appeal of games is due in part to their ability to provide players with novel experiences that let them "try on" ideal aspects of their selves that might not find expression in everyday life. How does playing through an avatar affect inquiry-based learning?
This carries over into real life: Kids who play the "good guy" in a game behave better when they're done. Playing a pro-social game increases interpersonal empathy and decreases the pleasure players take at others' misfortune.
Players acting in a manner that allows them to understand and to feel the emotions one would in a real-life situation are more prone to understand others' thoughts and feelings in such situations.
How can kids build empathy through perspective taking? Players who demonstrate empathy with their avatars' genders are able to form positive interpersonal relationships that allow them to accept others' expressed identities.
So players making choices for an avatar of a different gender become more likely to understand challenges from the point of view of someone of that gender and to behave more empathetically to their dilemma.
How does repetitive, exploratory play affect real-world decision-making? An inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning seeks to foster intellectual engagement and foster deep understanding. Playing games is a way of practicing real-world situations, a rehearsal for those very situations and the challenges they present.
How is playing with positive, neutral, and negative outcomes effective? Choice and the opportunity for self-direction appear to enhance intrinsic motivation, as they afford a greater sense of autonomy.
Play online for free at www.People who play video games regularly (15 hours weekly) scored better than those who don’t. The test included 17 people who played regularly and another 17 who don’t play much at all. The test included weather prediction task which was an example of learning probabilities.
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Cinco Ranch Aggie
In reply to MuckRaker96 • 3:48p, 5/20/19
MuckRaker96 said:
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
My main ambition aboard the Falcon is to located the smuggling secret compartment, sneak inside and hid until the park closes so I can spend all night playing "Muck is Captain of the Millenium Falcon"
You will break the internet if you are able to pull that off and show everyone video evidence of your feat. That is, right before the Disney po-po show up to haul you away.
Yeah, think my wife and kids might notice me missing, especially since i have to carry the backpack full of everything we've ever owned around the park.
In the 1990s I was on the Star Tours ride with my dad when he suggested we didn't wear the seatbelts to see how the flight simulator would feel without them on. When we took them back off after the Disney person left, a recording of C3P0 pops up saying "Oh my! It appears some of our passengers don't have their safety devices properly fastened. We can't take off!"
Pretty embarrassing for 21-year-old Muck and my 47-year-old dad, but we gave it a shot.
I remember that happening when I went on that ride once. Wasn't you, as I didn't start going to WDW as an adult until the year 2000.
So f-ing cool.
MuckRaker96
In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 5:39p, 5/20/19
My wife and kids and I went last November and the First Order stormtroopers saluted me because I had a T-shirt with the imperial logo on it. My daughters (then 6) were like OMG Daddy knows so much about Star Wars that the STORMTROOPERS KNOW WHO HE IS. I perpetuated that thought the rest of the trip.
YouBet
I'm riding on the Millennium Falcon in 23 days.
Someone just elevated themself to nemesis status on my spreadsheet.
Awesome, can't wait to pull this
here's a first look at how crowded it will be on the slowest day.
9:47a, 5/21/19
AGGies0311
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2019/05/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-exclusive-photos
In reply to AGGies0311 • 7:59p, 5/22/19
AGGies0311 said:
IMO, there are minor spoilers in this.
Jason Ag
I had two troopers threating to take me in for questioning. My daughter (5) was genuinely worried they were going to take me, we had explain it was pretend after they left. You get saluted, I get threatened.
I bet you look like rebel scum
In reply to Jason Ag • 9:36p, 5/22/19
Jason Ag said:
That sh** is the best. In 2013 we were at the ticket gate at Hollywood Studios before they opened and had to wait about 10 minutes. I had a Boba Fett t-shirt on (my wife made us all tees for that trip) and the two Stormtroopers on top of the roof that covers the tickets checkers gave me sh** for probably 10 minutes. Whole crowd was laughing.
Fett? We don't need his scum.
Totally overrated. Seriously sir, get a better t-shirt.
Dude got killed by a blind guy who got a lucky shot off. And you bought the t-shirt. LOL.
Mam, mam, yes up here. Mam, this is what a real man looks like (then does "call me" )
Sir, is that your youngling? Yeah the one with the Lord Vader shirt. Yeah that kid has it together unlike you. He get's it.
Some of the peeps that work there are so great.
In reply to Urban Ag • 10:10p, 5/22/19
Last time I went, I had a shirt with a NES controller on it. A stormtrooper came up to me and starting pressing the buttons on my shirt.
This is pretty cool. This is the first depiction of Anakin and Padme, drawn in 1993. (Originaly done for a trading card game before Lucas pulled it.)
Story here: http://brianashmore.blogspot.com/search/label/Padme
This artist could've very well been the inspiration behind the original TPM teaser poster, with Anakin's shadow in the shape of Vader.
In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 8:23a, 5/23/19
That Anakin looks better...
This Padme looks better:
In reply to Flashdiaz • 8:24a, 5/23/19
Agreed on Padme.
That Anakin looks more like Dexter though.
Belton Ag
Who is the kid supposed to be, Luke?
In reply to Belton Ag • 8:39a, 5/23/19
My concept was to depict a younger, pre-Vader Anakin Skywalker brooding over the shoulder of his wife and the mother of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. Presumably, only Leia had been hidden from Anakin and that is why this image is sans baby Leia.
But the interesting thing is that Leia mentions remembering her real mother in ROTJ.
So even though that's no longer accurate, at that point in time it would've made more sense to assume that Leia was the one they kept, while Luke was hidden on Tatooine.
I didn't think Anakin knew he had a son until Empire (or end of ANH at the earliest)....
did she plop out the baby and keep it hidden like a kid hiding candy?
Then again, that's also in conflict with Vader not knowing Luke had a sister...
Either one seems to contradict what was known from the OT.
The only storyline that would've made sense and not contradicted the OT would've been something like this:
Vader thinks Padme is dead, just like we see in ROTS.
Padme pops out the twins. (Vader didn't know it was twins.)
Luke is taken to Tatooine. (Maybe the excuse is they don't want Vader to find both babies.)
Padme is still alive/healthy, and keeps Leia for a few years on Naboo.
She eventually dies from unknown causes. (Maybe suicide?)
Then Leia is adopted by the Organas, who were close friends of Padme's.
Makes me wonder why Lucas didn't just do that and not have to worry about contradicting himself.
I guess he really just wanted to have everything perfectly wrapped up in ROTS without any time jumps.
PatAg
Flashdiaz said:
Furlock Bones said:
cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?
they crashed and burned in the final season without source material to write from.
yikes. I hope Kathleen Kennedy and the story group is a bit more involved with this trilogy to map out a structure before any filming takes place.
What makes you think she has any idea how to map out a trilogy?
BuzzFeed claiming the new trilogy is BASED on KOTOR is BS, right?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kateaurthur/new-star-wars-movie-knights-of-the-old-republic
In reply to PatAg • 9:09p, 5/23/19
PatAg said:
She doesn't map out anything, and neither does the Story Group. That's not any of their job, though Kennedy is responsible for assembling the team that will map it out.
Fallen empire would be good
Is there a difference between Knights of the Old Republic and the Old Republic? Rather, if true, does this rule out Benioff & Weiss doing Old Republic stuff? Or is KOTOR the Old Republic? I'm not familiar with anything outside of the movies.
Duncan Idaho
Kotor is a video game... correction...it is the greatest star wars video game
In reply to Duncan Idaho • 9:33p, 5/23/19
Episode I Podracer would like a word.
Yeah, I realize that. But is it the only Old Republic content out there? Like, when everyone talks about the Old Republic, are they talking about this game? Or are there multiple Old Republic books as well? And B&W can still be diving into all that?
There are multiple books and games. I think KOTOR kicked it all off. Most of the books are now legends. The Old Republic is a mmo that I think technically would exist before KOTOR. The main character of KOTOR visits the ancient sith world.
Edit, I might be wrong on the order, but it's something like 10000 years before Palps
Saxsoon
Cannot wait for my trip to Disney World in November.
Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2012
Gotcha. Thanks.
In reply to TCTTS • 10:29p, 5/23/19
I think it's safe to say that D&D will be making an Old Republic trilogy. I also think it's safe to say from their history that we will get something that is largely adaptation. I think the story has taken those two points and inferred that they will be adapting KOTOR.
For one, there are not three movies in KOTOR. Second, the game itself revolves around a twist that really makes it work, which everyone already knows.
I think it's most likely that we'll get a story based in the general era of KOTOR, about 4000 years before the classic trilogy. In this era you have:
- no Rule of Two
- a Sith Empire, so one or more Sith Lord's and lots of Dark Force Users, plus plenty of non-Force using soldiers, fleets, etc.
- The Old Republic, as opposed to the prequel trilogy's Galactic Republic. That change happens after the Jedi and the Jedi-Sith War. The movies will likely take place long before that.
- Old Republic with a standing military
- Jedi arguably at the height of their power
I think a trilogy that essentially takes place just before the events of the now non-canon KOTOR makes sense. This story can feature some characters beloved by fans like Bastilla Shan, HK-47, and Jolee Bindo. Probably involving the wars with the Mandalorians that led to the fall of Revan and Malak and the ultimate destruction of the Sith Empire.
There are a lot of wars back to back in that era that could serve as the basis for a series of films, probably mashed up into something fresh.
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Runequest 6th Edition
The sixth edition of Runequest is a comprehensive successor to previous editions, and for me, comes the closest to capturing the look and feel of the second edition that was one of my favourite roleplaying games. As well as looking at this new edition, I will also present my thoughts about the supplements and supporting material released so far. I have played and run games with the second and third editions, looked at the fourth edition drafts that never went anywhere, and had the Mongoose edition – but for some reason I just never liked the they way they put the game together so I did not run any games with it.
Runequest VI is a hefty 456 page all-in-one tome. Its available as a softcover & pdf bundle from http://www.glorantha.com/product/runequest-6th-edition/ or http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/products.php ($62), and in pdf format from http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?&manufacturers_id=4057 ($25).
A hardcover version has been funded through Indiegogo and should be out soon for backers and direct sales. Runequest VI is primarily a set of rules, but provides examples of game mechanics through a backstory set in the bronze age city state of Meeros and the aspiring female warrior Anathaym. This is kept in the sidebars, and I found the story entertaining, like Rurik’s story in RQ II, but not too distracting from the main text. Apart from the cover, which is a colourful homage to the RQ II cover, the interior art is black and white illustrations, and largely complements the overall mood and themes of the text. More setting specific supplements are due for publication in the future, including:
Luther Arkwright (based on a time travelling secret agent character, apparently a big UK comic in the 1970s-80s)
Mythic Briton (after the Romans have left)
Shores of Korantia (based on Age of Treason, a fantasy setting that tries to capture the feel of a rising new Empire, where internal threats may outweigh external threats).
A number of free pdf downloads are available for Runequest VI at the Design Mechanism website, including:
A supplement for Firearms (and futuristic weapons)
A GM pack
Character sheets.
Two generic, setting free, game supplements are already available:
Monster Island (a “sandpit” jungle island)
Book of Quests (seven loosely connected scenarios).
Organisation and Layout
There are sixteen chapters, plus reference sheets and an index. While the material is in a logical order, there will be a bit of page turning in character creation as people start with the process in chapter one, but may need to dive into the skills, equipment and magic chapters to figure out what they want their character to be like. I had some confusion on first reading the rules, in that while skills are mostly explained in chapter four, some specific parts of skill use, such as haggling, are dealt with more thoroughly elsewhere in the text. If I were running a game, I would want prepared material for the players with example combat styles, magic traditions, cults and brotherhoods for them to join.
Chapters 1-3, character creation, culture, community, careers and development
Chapters 4-7, skills, economics & equipment, game mechanics, combat
Chapters 8-13, magic systems
Chapter 14, cults and brotherhoods
Chapter 15, creatures
Chapter 16, games master.
Basic character creation involves the seven traditional characteristics: Strength, Constitution, Size, Dexterity, Intelligence, Power, and Charisma. These can be rolled for randomly, or purchased with a point buy system. Secondary attributes are calculated based on the characteristics: Action Points (number of actions per combat round), Damage Modifier, Experience Modifier (bonus improvement rolls, based on Charisma not intelligence, as you smile sweetly at your instructor…), Healing Rate, Height & Weight, Hit Points, Luck Points (one use per game session), Magic Points, Movement Rate and Strike Rank (initiative in combat). There are some fairly significant break points in these attributes, for example your Action Points are determined by combining Intelligence and Dexterity, 12 or less is one action, 13-24 two actions, 25-36 three actions. If using a point buy system, I suspect the temptation for players to have intelligence and dexterity summing to 25 will be strong.
Standard skills are available to all characters, most are self-explanatory (Dance, Perception) but Customs (of your community), Evade, Influence (persuasion) and Insight (into motives) will need a look at the rules to figure out what they are about. Evade is not quite the old Dodge skill, its more a throw yourself to the ground that leaves you prone to vulnerable to whatever happens next.
Combat styles represent a major design choice for the individual game master. For a combat light campaign you could decide to just have two styles, one for melee weapons and one for ranged weapons. For a detail rich gladiators in the arena campaign, you might have a dozen or more combat styles (spear and net, spear and shield, etc). Deeper in the book (page 135) its explained how combat styles can have special traits, such as Formation Fighting, where a group of soldiers work together to reduce their opponents action points by one. Quite nifty, and an obvious place for house rules for campaign specific chrome.
Four generic human cultures are presented: Barbarian, Civilised, Nomadic and Primitive. Each culture comes with a set of standard skills, combat styles, and professional skills. Of these, I think the primitives are the weakest, but I just don’t find the stone age all that interesting.
A 1d100 random background event table is included. If choosing an older character, its suggested that you roll more than once. I quite like 13 “You believe yourself to be suffering a divine or magical curse. Moan, groan and whinge at every opportunity, or remain completely stoic at every misfortune that befalls you in the future.”
Social class is an option, with as usual, the lucky nobles getting wealth, land, horses, weapons and armour. Personally, I like the idea of starting a campaign where the nobles start with equipment and hideously huge piles of debt. One can keep rolling randomly for family, but for contacts, allies and adversaries you’re expected to use your brain and think of something. The rules do provide a major incentive for the players to come up with a reason for hanging out together – Group Luck Points (tucked away on page 124) a pool of shared luck points anyone in the group can use, and you get one per player who has a good reason for being in the party.
The last section of culture and community is the most important from a roleplaying perspective: passions. Passions are cool! Passions represent:
loyalties and allegiances
strongly held beliefs or ideals
emotion felt towards someone or something.
Passions are rated 1-100, can change over time, and be created or discarded in play. Passions are described by a verb such as: comfort, desire, despise, destroy, espouse, fear, flee, forswear, hate, love, loyalty, protect, repudiate, respect, seek, subvert, torment, or uphold.
Over 20 generic careers are provided, offering a package of standard and professional skills for the player to spend points on for their character. The careers are fairly broad, the Agent for example, is intended to include Agitators, Assassins, Detectives, Informers, and Spies.
An older character gets more skill points, and can spend them to a higher starting level. Age penalties don’t kick in until 40+, so I see players being strongly incentivised to choose middle aged (200 bonus points) over young (100 bonus points).
Its the old 1d100, roll against skill level system, but with some developments:
01-05 always succeeds
96-00 always fails
A roll of 1/10 of skill is a critical success
A roll of 99-00 is a fumble.
Rather than providing an exhaustive list of modifiers to skill checks, the approach taken in Runequest VI is to adjust the skill level by fractions, e.g. for an Easy task, add half again to the skill value, for a Formidable task, reduce the skill by half. Characters can augment a skill with one other skill, e.g. using local area knowledge to improve drive skill checks, equal to twice the critical success value of the augmenting skill.
For contested rolls, critical beats normal beats failure, but if two people have the same result, e.g. critical perception versus critical stealth, the character with the highest roll on the dice wins (i.e. a 13 beats a 7). Pro tip: because of the need to compare rolls you need to train your players to leave their dice on the table, untouched, until the roll is fully resolved.
After that mechanic introduction the rules take off on a tangent for equipment, before going back for more mechanics. Mostly familiar stuff with the traditional kitchen sink lists of ancient to renaissance era armour and weaponry. What I noted here was the armour penalty to Strike Rank (the average of Dexterity & Intelligence), which is determined by total armour encumbrance value divided by 5. For a full set of plate mail this works out to a hefty -9 penalty. This is also applied to the the characters movement. I grumble about this, a custom fit set of plate armour can be easier to run in than a maille hauberk, but I can put aside the stickler for accuracy and recognise it for a game balance device that ensures some niche protection for those leather clad (or skyclad) character concepts out there.
Weapons have a list of combat effects they can do, for example the Glaive can inflict Bleed and Sunder (smash armour) effects, while the Rapier can Impale.
More Game Mechanics
Specific rules are given to handle: Acid, Ageing, Asphyxiation, Blood loss, Character improvement, disease, poison, encumbrance, falling, fatigue, fires, healing, luck, passions, wilderness survival, traps, visibility and weather. Phew!
Skill increase is familar, roll 1d100 and add 2-5% if you roll equal or greater than the skill, or 1% if not. As a freebie, if you fumble, you get to add 1% as well. Increasing characteristics is not easy at all, essentially you sacrifice experience rolls, both now and in the future, to boost a characteristic. Stop making the sacrifice, and your characteristic goes back down to its natural level. I think this is fine with a point buy system, but if using 3d6 rolls in the old school style, its very hard on the unlucky player. An optional rule is provided for people like me who prefer something a bit more like RQ II. FOr those with time and money, training is an option, allowing skill increases of anywhere from 1-2% to 5-10% depending on how much better than you your trainer is. You can’t stay at school forever though, you have to spend an experience roll on a skill before you can work with a trainer again.
Encumbrance remains the rule most likely to be ignored by both players and game masters.
Healing serious/major wounds takes a very long time unless you have magic.
Luck points can be used to:
reroll dice
gain an Action Point
downgrade a Major wound to a Serious Wound (this is how player characters survive the brutal, gritty, Runequest combat system).
This is comprehensive enough for my re-enactor background, and complex enough to be intimidating – there is even an Android App for helping sort out combat effects!
Actions can be spent on proactive actions or reactive actions. When you run out of actions you just have to suck up whatever hurt the bad guys are throwing your way. You probably want some tokens/counters to track this around the game table (and that might help with luck points as well).
Proactive actions include:
cast magic
change range (moving in closer or further away)
hold magic
outmaneuver (make an opposed Evade check against a group of foes, those who fail cannot attack you)
ready weapon
regain footing
struggle.
Reactive actions include:
counter spell
evade (dive or roll clear, ending up prone – this is not the dodge of RQ II)
parry (combining parrying, blocking, leaning and footwork to avoid the blow)
The detail about evade/parry is included as that seems to be one of the most common misapprehensions about how the combat system is supposed to work. How effective your parry is depends on the size of the weapons/shields involved. Equal or greater size mitigates all damage, one size less mitigates half damage. Two sizes down mitigates nothing. So if the giant is swinging a tree trunk at you, throw the buckler shield away and evade!
In addition to damage, you get special effects, potentially as many as three, if one side fumbles when the other criticals. There are a LOT of special effects, too many to sum up, but I think its likely that players will choose things like Select Target (head) and Maximise Damage (instead of rolling one of the damage dice its treated as being at full value, so a 2d6 weapon becomes 6+1d6). For those who want it though, you can do a lot more to your opponents than “whack, and I whack it again” which is where RQ II was it in 1980.
Shields are a passive block, not an active block, so you need to pick the locations being warded. A bigger shield can ward more locations. As in past editions, weapon damage minus armour = hit points lost to a body location. Damage and wounds are pretty horrific:
minor wound: location has HP left
serious wound: location has zero or less HP (this will put most people out of the fight very quickly)
major wound: location reduced to negative starting HP (this will kill most people without first aid or healing magic).
It is a joy to see all of the magic traditions in one rule book. Each of them is quite different, and a game world might not have all of them present. We get a primer on the runes too, as this is Runequest. What I would really like is a set of the runequest runes on some small tokens I could draw randomly from a bag for oracle type stuff in game sessions. A quick web search did not find anyone with something like this for sale. Maybe I’ll track something down later on.
Folk Magic – this is what we called Battle Magic or Spirit Magic back in RQ II, its fairly low power community magic.
Animism – dealing with the spirit world and its monsters, Shamanistic traditions.
Mysticism – warrior monk/Jedi enlightenment aiming for transcendence. Potentially the most overpowered of the magic traditions as a skilled mystic can be very hard to kill and very dangerous in combat, not at all the glass cannon of your traditional RPG mage. Beware of little old men with brooms!
Sorcery – a complex system, potentially powerful but often very narrow in focus and difficult to use (but good for villains who need long rituals to be interrupted)
Theism – religious cult based magic and power.
Off-hand, not too different from past editions, but the GM should decide for the campaign how common magic is, how long it takes to cast a magic spell or ritual, and how quickly magic points can be regenerated and by what means. A world where you only regenerate magic on the night of the full moon is very different from one where you get new magic points every sunrise.
The Rest of the Sixth Edition
The creatures, cults and brotherhoods and game master sections are all fairly straightforward stuff for world and adventure building. On a second reading of the GM advice, it was better than the first time, and gives some good tips for using the preceding material.
How does it play?
This is not a convention friendly game, its just too rich and complex for people unfamiliar with the rules to get a lot done with it on the three-four hours you get. The combat and magic systems, while powerful tools, are likely to confuse people at first. It is much more a game system for running a long campaign with, and for people who love detailed world building … because you can always write up one more cult! I am very much looking forward to running a campaign with it when my Dragon Age game wraps up.
The GM Pack
This 78 page free supplement contains two scenarios and charts and reference sheets for use with Runequest games. Meeros Falling is a “prove the hero is innocent” scenario, and involves finding the conspirators/evidence and bringing this back to the authorities, with a potential earthquake to complicate things. Has a deceased NPC called Mysoginistes! The Exodus Matrix involves more action, monsters and magic and the plot involves stopping the bad gal from activating the matrix to do bad things in a temple in some post-apocalyptic post elder god intervention Earth.
The Firearms Supplement
Short, to the point, and free. A few notes on myths about firearms accuracy and lethality, it has the tables you need for primitive and mdoern firearms, as well as blasters, flamethrowers, laser weapons and other far future oddities. Does the job well.
The Star Wars Supplement
This free 47 page supplement was only available online for a short period of time before it was pulled. If you search carefully, you may find it online somewhere. The skills, equipment, vehicle combat, and homeworlds sections would be useful for any science fiction setting. I quite liked the rule whereby the number of “magic points” spent in a session by a Jedi was the chance of the Emperor detecting them and sending off some assassins to hunt them down. A useful mechanic for any setting with a Dark Lord and player characters who have special secret powers that can get them killed.
The Book of Quests
I found this a bit disappointing. Its generic and flavourless, which is not like the epic RQ supplements of yore. In particular the opening scenario Caravan is weak, in that at its conclusion the players may feel like they have failed, as the merchant they are escorting will most likely scarper for safety rather than see their caravan through to its intended destination. I also think players would struggle with the monster, which prior to their arrival had essentially acted as brute force deliver of a massacre, but now the players are present becomes a sneaky skulduggery murder in the dark. The Curse of the Contessa is the diamond that makes this book worthwhile, an excellent city intrigue game with multiple factions, including a well portrayed demon. Most of the other scenarios just felt a bit too linear, but this is one you could have a lot of chaos and fun with as the outcome is very open.
Wow. After the Book of the Quests, this is the sandbox pack to make you want more from the Design Mechanism!
The main supplement is 298 pages, plus another 17 pages of companion material and maps. It details a huge volcanic/jungle island, with mountains, ocean, highlands and ancient ruins and tombs. It has a strong pulp theme, with shades of Mu, Lemuria, Skull Island, E. R. Burroughs, R. E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H. P. Lovecraft coming through. The main protagonists on the island are the serpent folk, found in both degenerate lowland villages, and the vestigial remnants of the sorcerous priest-kings who once ruled the island. Other foes can be found in the bestiary. The rationale for packing lots of apex predators into the island is that there are magic gates which drag them here from other dimensions. So you can mix dinosaurs, werewolves and tentacled aliens in powered armour if you wish. Humans have a colony struggling to establish itself on the island, with the natives preferring the obsidian weapons over the rusty iron the traders have. Everything is detailed to the level you would expect from the great RQ adventure supplements of the past, a good bestiary, some magic and cults, ancient gods and lore, some nice tombs and traps and a world with shades of grey that leaves the players free to decide who they will ally with and who they will work against. While this is not something I will run out of the book anytime soon, I will be pillaging its pages for a lot of its ideas in a future campaign setting.
I am very happy to have these game books sitting on my shelf and in my hard drive. While there are some bits I disagree with here and there, on the whole the Runequest Sixth Edition rules are clear and comprehensive and I look forward to sharing them with a gaming group in the not too distant future. I’m torn between some kind of Star Wars/Lovecraft mash up, or a Byzantium/Spider Oracle fantasy setting. Its good when a set of game rules unlocks my imagination like this.
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A week without computer games
Day 6, my fingers twitch, but as much as I’d like to play some computer games I’m going to be good and follow my GPs advice on dealing with the tennis elbow in my left arm. I did log into World of Tanks to take advantage of the VE day specials, and to take a look at how my Soviet heavy tanks had been rejigged, but I successfully resisted the x5 experience bonus and logged out of the game afterwards. For a right hander, getting tennis elbow in the left hand is rare, I suspect its the dominance of WASD keys in modern gaming that has done it to me (that and playing computer games 4+ hours a night).
This does leave me with a lot of time for reading and thinking, so a good chunk of today was spent working on the Sun & Starship rules for Buckets of Dice 2012. Most of this was spent trying to nail down control of tokens, so people will always know who controls what in the game, or how control changes between players. I’m deliberately forcing players to keep ships concentrated in no more than three stacks, so as to encourage raiding tactics and to make it difficult to build solid defence lines.
The Senate Bills have also been fleshed out. Each of the five committees gets one to four Bills each turn. The exact number is determined by the Treasury Committee, which can increase or reduce the Bills other committees get. After the first draft I did a second pass for balance, prompted by realising that one committee had a power worth +/- 10 victory points, so I made sure the other committees had something comparable. I then did a second pass to increase the horse trading options so that most bills gave out boosts to more than one player at a time.
Planning ahead for 2013 I would like to design a railway building game. This would include options I wish were included in most published railway building games, to whit, the option to say “Screw this, mobilise the army” when someone else pips you to the next rail hub.
I am following the development of the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons over at http://community.wizards.com/dndnext without a lot of enthusiasm. While I purchased the core 4th edition books, I found that the game had gone too much towards a fully blown miniatures wargame and away from the narrative combat (“theatre of the mind”) that I use in resolving a lot of tabletop conflict. As a GM I simply couldn’t fit the options available to the players into my own mind, making the game too complicated for me to design scenarios for. That said, the actual written advice on running/designing campaigns was solid.
I am much more looking forward to The Design Mechanism’s sixth edition of Runequest, especially after the PDF preview was put up at: http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/resources/RQ%20Preview%201.pdf. I like the clean, uncluttered layout, and the style of artwork. I’m intrigued by the inclusion of cultural passions (e.g. loyalty, love, hate) and how they might influence the mechanics. It’s also good to see that mysticism will be a valid magic system in the main rules.
In part because of the upcoming RQVI I took a look at the Stafford Library’s Arcane Lore, which is essentially a 129 pages of GM/design notes on hero questing. One of the big frustrations of RQ was that there never seemed to be enough information about the hero quests of Glorantha to actually run players through, unless you were willing to hunt through obscure mail order fanzines. I suspect my next campaign game will use Runequest rules, although it may not be a Glorantha setting – there are hints that a new edition of roleplaying rules for the Artesia setting will be a D20/RQ ruelset.
Grabbing a few other PDF’s to read this week, I was disappointed by Monte Cook’s Ruins of Intrigue. While its only 98 pages long, I was hoping for a bit more in the way of interesting crumbled ruins and a lot less overland/wilderness terrain. While the alternate secrets for major NPCs and foes was nice, with competing explorer factions for Casablanca intrigue, it would have been nice for a range of lost artefacts and other lootable stuff to have been detailed rather than leaving the GM to make up all the loot themselves.
In an old school kick again, I picked up the D&D 3.5 edition of Blackmoor, in part because I read that the map in the 4th edition version was less than helpful. That’s next on the reading list.
Gaming Recap
Skyrim – still have not resumed play of this.
World of Warcraft – 3/8 hard modes, expansion is definitely winding down, have BETA invite not using it yet as I have no interest in the levelling content (I do want to see how the Paladin heals 5 mans and raids). Guild finished the Rogue legendary dagger two weeks back, so we may go back and finish the Firelands legendary staff next. Have been trying to clear off some grindy achievements in the down time – still have not found a useful BOE in archeaology.
TERA MMORPG – not going to touch this one, can we please have real armour for females in games?
Secret World MMORPG – looks interesting, modern day occult horror, but dear god where would I find the time!
World of Tanks – upgraded to a premium account, changed play away from acquiring new tanks to focusing on the ones I have that are fun to play – trying to get crew skills to 100%. So while I have researched the SU-14 for example, I’m still happy playing the SU-8 as my artillery piece. Patch 7.3 has rejigged the Soviet tree, so I’m going to have to relearn how to play the KVs – the 152mm “derp” howitzer has been shifted from the KV 1 to the KV2.
Guild Wars 2 – still looking forward to this after reading more beta info, as a non-subscription MMORPG its one that will be easy to play for just a few hours every now and then.
SWTOR – got bounty hunter healer to L40, enjoying healing much more than tanking, deep down I still prefer WoW.
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Featured Match Article What We Learnt
What We Learnt: Liverpool 2, Leicester City 1
December 31, 2017 Ronan O'Rourke 0 Comments Claude Puel, Jurgen Klopp, LCFC, Leicester City, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Loris Karius, Simon Mignolet
It was a win of the gargantuan variety for the Reds to finish off 2017 on a positive note as they came back from an early deficit to defeat Leicester 2-1 at Anfield yesterday. It was just what the doctor ordered in what was a potentially very tricky fixture. Two second half goals by the man of the hour Mo Salah powered Liverpool to victory after falling behind to an early Jamie Vardy strike. What did we learn though from this highly stress inducing game?
Liverpool FC Displaying Character
Brendan Rodgers would have been proud of some of his former players yesterday. After all Liverpool displayed all sorts of character to win a match which easily could have slipped by the wayside. There’s been two major concerns in the team’s general play this season. The first of which was letting late leads go to waste, and the other was not taking control of games in the second half. Neither problem reared it’s ugly head yesterday. Instead, we were treated to a rock solid demonstration of winning ugly. Jurgen Klopp alluded to it in his post match interview when he stated that aside from Joel Matip’s bizarrely wayward early pass, the team was rarely troubled defensively against a talented Leicester group.
It could be a huge turning point for this squad.
Mané Showing Signs of Life
I am still firmly of the belief that Sadio Mané is a more devastating player on top form than Mo Salah but even I can admit that he has been a long way off that form of late. However, I was surprised that so many seemed to think that he had another poor game yesterday. He wasn’t his brilliantly menacing self but his impact on the game cannot be understated. Not only did he provide a wonderful moment of ingenuity to unlock the Leicester defensive backline for the equalizer but he easily could have had another assist in the first half but for a wasteful effort from Salah.
Mané also had two goals correctly ruled out for offside but we are talking split second timing here. Mané is still lacking the confidence to take on all comers at the moment but to be honest he may also just be feeling that he doesn’t need to right now. The attack is no longer solely dependent on Mané magic to win games which is a great thing.
It also completely plausible that Jurgen Klopp is still wary of the hamstring injury Mané picked up while on Senegal duty. Perhaps he is under instructions to simplify his game until the sports scientists give him the green light to play in his natural manner again. This option seems completely plausible when considering how much rest Mané has been given compared to the other members of the Fab Four. I am not worried about Sadio Mané and I think yesterday was a great sign of things to come for the player.
Virgil’s Partner Not Yet Obvious
Take away all the fairly irrelevant stats such as “Aerial Duels Percentage”, or “Errors Leading to Goals” and you are left with the simple fact that sometimes just watching players can help provide a better evaluation. Many supporters seem to feel strongly that Joel Matip should partner Virgil van Dijk most frequently but I am most certainly not convinced. Matip’s loose pass early on yesterday was pounced on clinically by the former champions as Jamie Vardy gave the visitors the early lead.
I can only imagine the scenes if Lovren had played the same pass, or even Mignolet and Karius from the back. I simply just don’t trust Matip. To the contrary Lovren had another rock solid performance while Ragnar Klavan off the bench arguably had the most important defensive intervention of the match late on winning a crucial header in his own box.
We have spent a massive sum on van Dijk so we can only assume that once he has settled in, he will start. Maybe it’ll be Joe Gomez eventually partnering the Dutchman but for the next 5 months the answer isn’t as obvious. As it stands though in my eyes the answer is categorically not Joel Matip, at least not in his current form.
Can He Karius To Victory?
This may seem like an obvious question based on the result yesterday but looking at the bigger picture did the German do enough to prove he may be the man moving forward? Not quite just yet for me. Loris Karius has often been unfairly criticized by supporters (that’s nothing new) but genuinely we have to wonder if there a top class keeper in there somewhere. For a keeper supposedly renowned for his distribution he was comfortably outperformed in this regard by his opposite number Kaspar Schmeichel yesterday. There were some great moments yes but still not enough to change the fact that Simon Mignolet still appears to be a much better pure goalkeeper.
Even so it seems now they both know the score. Neither keeper is guaranteed playing time and both need to prove that a goalie is not top of Jurgen’s summer shopping list. Karius and Mignolet both seem like good guys so I am happy to keep on pledging my support to one and/or both of them but it is now or never time for our duo, let’s see what happens.
We still aren’t really sure who is the starter…
So overall it was a fantastic way to end 2017. Not only did we have a hard fought victory but our rivals again dropped points. With the arrival of Virgil van Dijk and the full time return of Adam Lallana still to come, our prospects look good for the New Year. A tough start in Burnley tomorrow but of course there’s no such thing as easy games at this time of year.
Happy New Year Reds!
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T h e A r a b W e e k l y The Arab Weekly
Algeria’s Africa Cup triumph deepens patriotic spirit
Stephen Quillen
Algeria defeated top-ranked Senegal, 1-0, to claim its first African Cup of Nations trophy in 29 years.
Algerian fans celebrate after their team won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) Final football match between Senegal and Algeria, in Algiers on July 19, 2019. (AFP)
TUNIS - The Algerian national football team won the Africa Cup of Nations finals, leading to countrywide jubilation and briefly uniting a protest-hit country that has been rocked by political turbulence.
Algeria defeated top-ranked Senegal, 1-0, to claim its first African Cup of Nations trophy in 29 years, sparking impassioned celebrations throughout Algeria as well as in Paris, London and Tunis.
“I’m very happy. Our whole nation‚ our people were waiting for this second star for a long time‚” said Algeria’s Manager Djamel Belmadi‚ who took over and revamped Algeria’s struggling squad last August. “To do what we’ve been able to do‚ and to put ourselves on the top of Africa in 10 months‚ is extraordinary.”
The victory seemed to reinforce Algeria’s patriotic spirit as protesters enter the fifth month of a movement seeking lasting political change. With tears rolling from the eyes of players and staff and emotions running high among fans throughout the tournament, it was clear the stakes for Algerians were much higher than football.
Fittingly, the closing match was played on a Friday, the day each week that tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Algeria to raise their voice for change. This time, however, the scene was different: There were fewer angry chants and more jubilant cheers. To many, the national team’s success was a moment of vindication.
The exciting run was not devoid of politics, however. The Algerian government made every effort to capitalise on the Desert Foxes’ success, organising charter flights for fans to attend matches in Egypt and putting embattled Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah centre stage in Cairo at the closing match July 19.
Not all the coverage was positive for Algeria’s leaders because fans took the political protest to an international audience, displaying signs and chanting slogans critical of the government.
Some fans reportedly chanted “La Casa del Mouradia,” a reference to the presidential palace, that was heard in chants by Friday protesters during the dramatic semi-final match against Nigeria.
A fan who held up a sign with the popular anti-government phrase “So they all go” during Algeria’s opening match against Kenya was sent home and imprisoned.
Overall, the focus of Algeria’s football triumph was the national squad’s heart and resilience — and how it reflects a nation that has and continues to struggle through challenge and adversity.
“For me, the national team and the country are the same,” Belmadi told New Frame. “We represent a country with a glorious past... Our revolution and independence, it’s not something you find anywhere. They are anchored in all of us as Algerians, sometimes even unconsciously. In sport, the notion of sacrifice and solidarity are essential.”
Written By Stephen Quillen
Stephen Quillen is an Arab Weekly correspondent in Tunis.
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How the 14,000 Migrant Children in Federal Custody Will Spend Christmas
A boy from Honduras watches a movie at a detention facility run by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Tex. on Sept. 8, 2014.
John Moore—Getty Images
By Gina Martinez
More than 14,000 migrant toddlers, children and teens will spend the Christmas in U.S. government detention and processing centers across the country.
About 5,400 detained migrant children in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters that house more than 1,000 other children, while 9,800 detained migrant children are in facilities with more than 100 other children, according to federal data published by the Associated Press earlier this month.
Some children detained by the federal government will be spending their first Christmas away from home and thousands of unaccompanied children will spend the holidays without families, migrant rights groups say.
A young girl receives a toy at a toy drive held outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Mirimar, Florida.
Photo courtesy Maria Asuncion Bilbao
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials told TIME that they will accommodate families and children over the holidays with traditional celebrations and religious services.
However, rigid visitor restrictions make the actual conditions inside government facilities difficult to independently verify. Some advocates question the rosy picture of holiday cheer that the government agencies say they are providing to children.
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In addition to federal agencies plans’ for the holidays, many advocacy groups are working – often under heavy restrictions – to give gifts, Christmas cards and messages of hope to the migrant children and families in federal custody.
ICE spokesperson Danielle Bennett told TIME that the agency regularly provides religious services for families with children. ICE facilities do not house unaccompanied children. Bennett said that over this Christmas holiday, ICE will have special Christmas-themed events for families in their “family residential centers.”
“To celebrate Christmas, ICE Family Residential Centers (FRCs) have incorporated a number of special events, extra religious services, and treats for children that are currently housed in family residential centers,” Bennett said in a statement. “Each family residential center has been adorned with Christmas decorations, especially in housing and medical units, the cafeteria and in common spaces. Each facility has a Christmas tree. One facility’s school put on a Christmas performance. Facilities have increased arts and crafts times, so children can make paper ornaments, cards and Christmas gifts.”
The Office Refugee Resettlement, which is overseen by HHS, is responsible for sheltering unaccompanied minors in detention centers across the country. HHS officials tell TIME that for the holidays, unaccompanied migrant children shelters will provide “age-appropriate activities, including holiday-themed arts and crafts and Christmas TV specials and movies.”
HHS shared the Christmas schedule line up at the West Texas Detention Facility in Tornillo, Texas, which started on Dec. 16 and will continue on until Christmas Day. HHS said workers are providing the children, the vast majority of whom are of Latin American decent, with traditional food and celebrations from their culture. HHS said the treats include bunuelos and torrejas; Guatemalan Christmas deserts, and champurrado, calientitos, Mexican hot chocolate and warm punch.
For Christmas Day, HHS said the West Texas Detention Facility will host a “Special Christmas Brunch and Gifts” event where children will be served a special meal followed by a Christmas prayer by a “Spiritual Team.” The children are scheduled to receive gifts and a card and HHS officials said there will be a parade.
ICE told TIME that further details about festivities were not available as nearly all public affairs employees in the department were furloughed by the partial government shutdown.
The number of arrests at the border has increased exponentially, with more than 25,000 arrests of people who crossed the border as a family unit in November alone. According to Customs and Border Protection, that is nearly four times more arrests than the the same period last year. The people crossing the border are primarily families and children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras seeking asylum or protection.
Additionally, as the number of migrant minors has increased, so has the amount of time they have spent in the 137 shelters across the U.S. According to federal data, the average time in unaccompanied minors spent in shelters was 40 days in 2016. In 2018, the average is 59 days.
Here are what some charities, churches and officials are doing for the detained kids this Christmas:
Miramar Field Office
On Wednesday, Circle of Protection, a Miami-based immigrant advocacy group, held a toy giveaway outside of the Miramar ICE field office in Florida. The group raised nearly $2,500 for grocery gift cards and toys for the children.
ICE’s Miramar field office is one of dozens around the country, where ICE conducts investigative and enforcement activities. It is also where ICE holds monthly check-in sessions for immigrants who have open asylum cases. Throughout the year, Circle of Protection offers food and water to immigrants waiting outside in the Florida heat for their scheduled appointments – sometimes for hours.
Maria Asuncion Bilbao, a volunteer with Circle of Protection, says the group decided to spread holiday cheer to show immigrants that they are cared for.
“What we want to do is help those most vulnerable,” she said. “We said it’s almost Christmas and it’s the right time to do something sweet for these people, who we have seen be treated like animals. These people left their countries looking for a better life, to escape poverty. We wanted to show them that we care, and that not everyone’s sentiments align with the Trump Administration’s.”
Bilbao says there were at least 70 children who showed up on Wednesday to receive toys and over 100 gift cards for parents.
“It was nice seeing kids who just crossed the border,” she says. “And they were so grateful! they didn’t care which toy they got. The parents were telling us it was the first toy they had in months, because they left everything behind.”
Bilbao says the facility has been a source of frustration for advocates.
“We have seen bad treatment towards the people,” she says. “Every day there are tons of appointments they have people wait outside for hours, in the rain or in the heat. I’ve seen people pass out from the heat or get nosebleeds.”
Stewart Detention Center
Non-profit advocacy group “El Refugio” helps immigrants detained at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, which currently houses up to 1,800 detainees, stay in contact with their loved ones. The group opened a hospitality house offering meals and lodging at no cost to families as well, as helping transport individuals to the ICE detention center to see their loved ones inside.
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Loyda Paz Perez, a member of the group’s Board of Directors, says over the holidays, El Refugio is doing all it can to keep spirits up for migrant children and families – despite limited contact with detained immigrants. According to Perez, members of the group are not allowed to have physical contact with families. They are limited to speaking to detained immigrants through a glass on a phone for an hour. She says one way to keep Christmas spirits high is by sending families letters written by volunteers.
“They are able to receive letters, so one thing we are doing for the holidays is sending Christmas-related letters,” Perez says. “The letters contain messages of hope. For some people this is their first Christmas detained, and we know there are some spending their second year in Stewart.”
Perez is skeptical about whether operators are holding Christmas festivities for the children inside – though she cannot actually enter the holding areas to verify the ICE’s assertions.
“Usually there is nothing there,” she says. “This time of the year can be really hard. Most of these families are used to celebrating the holiday together at home and now we’re helping loved ones visit them in the facility – and so they can be tense trips. We know it’s frustrating and we will stick with them and encourage them and in any way we can.”
Tent Camps at Tornillo, Texas
Just outside of El, Paso, 2,800 minors are staying in a tent shelter in Tornillo, Texas. For the holidays, state Sen. José Rodríguez organized a “Gift for Good” drive, which collected nearly 3,000 soccer balls and thousands of handwritten cards for detained children.
Rodríguez says the drive was coordinated with camp operator, BCSF. After getting some traction through social media, the drive drew attention from people across the country, who wished to donate as well.
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According to Rodríguez, until the soccer ball drive children in the tent shelter had not been allowed visitors, gifts of any kind or even hugs. He says he was even able to get permission to collect handmade holiday cards, which was more difficult because each card had to be checked to make sure it complied with guidelines. In total, Rodríguez says students from across El Paso County submitted more than 4,000 cards for the detained children.
The Democrat says his office and volunteers will distribute the soccer balls and holiday cards on Christmas Day. Rodriguez says he hopes the gift can ease the burden of being “separated from family and friends and without appropriate educational and mental health services.”
“I’m grateful for the overwhelming support that we received. It reflects the spirit and generosity of our border community and our country,” Rodríguez said in a statement. “I hope these gifts give them a little something to smile about during the holidays and let them know they are not alone.”
Correction, Dec. 27
The original version of this story misstated the name of the facility which Danielle Bennett referenced. They are Family Residential Centers (FRCs), not Family Restoration Centers.
Write to Gina Martinez at gina.martinez@time.com.
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Rajiv Shukla to be Pipavav CEO
this story is from May 30, 2013
Reeba Zachariah| TNN | Updated: May 30, 2013, 07:09 IST
India’s largest shipbuilder by value, Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company, is set to name private equity veteran Rajiv Shukla as its CEO, filling in the top post that has been lying vacant for nearly two years.
MUMBAI: India’s largest shipbuilder by value, Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company, is set to name private equity veteran Rajiv Shukla as its CEO, filling in the top post that has been lying vacant for nearly two years. The appointment of Shukla , a partner with Citigroup’s private equity arm, is expected to be ratified by Pipavav board soon, said a person familiar with the matter.
Pipavav is the flagship company of entrepreneur Nikhil Gandhi, who has built an infrastructure-to-education enterprise from scratch. The company, with an enterprise value of $1.5 billion, has been without a CEO ever since M Jitendra moved on to a different role within the group. Post the shuffle, Pipavav’s operations were being overseen by Gandhi’s brother, Bhavesh, who is also the vice-chairman of the company.
The infusion of new blood in Pipavav comes close on the heels of the company attracting a Rs 200-crore investment from Swedish defence firm Saab. Nikhil Gandhi declined to comment on Shukla’s appointment. A Harvard graduate, Shukla has had stints with Pfizer and Morgan Stanley, before moving to Citi Venture Capital International in 2011.
Pipavav has presence in defence and offshore oil & gas sectors and have orders worth about $2 billion on its books. Pipavav recently formed a joint venture with government-owned Mazagon Dock for defence ship building, but the partnership has come under the scrutiny of the defence ministry for alleged non-compliance of procedures.
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Tag: Glamour
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Spoiler Free Review
Published on November 16, 2018 November 14, 2018 by timetravellingreader10 Comments
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Length: 400 pages (UK Paperback Edition)
“Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself.
Determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s – and, of course, the seven husbands along the way – Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. But as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.”
-Goodreads
I absolutely adored the characters in this book. Reid has created a diverse group of characters with complex characterisations and real struggles and discriminations. There was so much character development throughout the story in both the past and the present and I loved it.
I loved Evelyn Hugo as the protagonist because she presents a person with a perfect outward image, but a far from perfect reality.
Harry was my favourite character in the novel because he was so sweet and such a good friend. Harry is the kind of person that most people would want in their life.
There was a sense of mystery throughout the plot which made the book so gripping that I was physically unable to put the book down. I just needed to know why Evelyn Hugo hired Monique! My favourite part had to be the big reveal towards the end of the novel. It was dramatic and satisfying.
I felt that there was a great dynamic between the past and the present throughout this book and I loved reading about the contrasting settings of old Hollywood and present-day New York. I also really enjoyed reading about the very different, but still a bit similar, lifestyles of Evelyn and Monique.
This story made me feel so many emotions. It made me laugh, it made me sad and it made me frustrated. A sign of a truly good book.
Anything I Didn’t Like?
There wasn’t anything huge that I didn’t like, maybe just the way that Celia could be rather manipulative at times but I also think that this character trait was quite necessary for the plot and character development.
This is by far my favourite book that I have read so far this year. I think that this is the perfect book for people who read YA but want to dip their toes into adult fiction.
Let me know what your favourite historical fiction reads are on the comments. Thanks for reading!
Categories Review•Tags Books, Fiction, Glamour, Historical Fiction, Hollywood, Reading, Romance
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Turtle power is coming to Blackburn
Published Tuesday 28 October 2014 at 15:57
Turtle power is set to take over Blackburn town centre next month.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello will be performing at the lights switch on Thursday, November 20.
The heroes in a half-shell will be part of the festive cheer at the King William Street event, which includes an array of performers including X Factor superstar twins Jedward.
Otherwise known as John and Edward Grimes, the duo will be flicking the switch outside the town hall at 7pm.
Rock FM will once again be hosting an evening of music and madness starting at 4.45pm.
Britain’s Got Talent winner Jai McDowall will be lighting up Darwen on Saturday, November 22 at 6.30pm. The fun starts at 4pm.
The line-up at Blackburn also includes Janet Devlin and Harry Mondryk, while James Smith and Harry will also be entertaining the crowds at Darwen.
Councillor Maureen Bateson, Executive Member for Regeneration, said:
“The lights switch on this year is going to be a fantastic event. I am sure the Turtles will be a huge attraction for children and families.”
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Pastor faces 5 counts of theft after defrauding congregant
A PASTOR was on Monday hauled before the courts on allegations of defrauding a congregant of property and money on five different occasions.
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Isheanopa Mafuve (27) of House Number 2478 Chikanga 2 appeared before Mutare magistrate, Ms Perseverance Makala, for contravening Section 113(2)(d) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23.
He denied the charges saying the complainant, Patience Katuruza, a Zimra employee, freely gave him the money and property as church offerings.
Public prosecutor, Mr Mathew Chimutunga, told the court that the pastor stole the money and property from the congregate sometime last year.
“The complainant and the accused are related in that the complainant was a member of the Christian Gathering church which is led by the accused. Sometime in May 2017, the accused borrowed a Hewlett-Packard laptop from the complainant solely for the purposes of doing his assignments.
“The complainant gave the accused her laptop with trust that the accused would return it after completing his assignments. After a while the complainant requested back her laptop but the accused failed to give a satisfactory answer concerning the whereabouts of the laptop,” said Mr Mutunga.
As result, he said, complainant was prejudiced of her laptop valued at $600.
In the second count the court heard that the pastor stole $220 from the same complainant.
“Again in May 2017, the complainant told the accused person that she wanted to open a shop at Chikanga 2 shopping centre. During that period, the two agreed that the accused would be responsible for doing stock purchases from wholesalers and deliver them to them to the shop. He was also responsible for the day-to-day running of the shop, which included the collection of daily takings and handing them to the complainant.
“On September 22, the accused was given a CBZ ATM card solely for the purposes of purchasing stock from N Richards. The accused bought stock valued at $417 and delivered it to the shop. The shop only operated for two weeks from the date of the purchase. The accused during that time collected daily takings amounting to $220.40. Instead of remitting the daily sales to the complainant, the accused person converted the money to his personal use and nothing was recovered,” said Mr Chimutunga.
The offence only came to light after the complainant requested for the daily takings from the accused person and the pastor did not give a satisfactory answer to the complainant. A police report was then made. In count three, the pastor allegedly stole $700 from the same complainant.
“Sometime in May 2017, the accused withdrew $900 from the complainant’s CBZ account using the ATM card he was given by the complainant. The money was supposed to boost stock in the complainant’s business. The pastor only gave the complainant $200 and put the reminder $700 to his own use,” said Mr Chimutumga.
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Catch The Dark Crystal at the World Theatre Tonight!
The Dark Crystal – PG – The World Theatre
Saturday, June 10th, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Jen (Stephen Garlick), raised by the noble race called the Mystics, has been told that he is the last survivor of his own race, the Gelflings. He sets out to try to find a shard of the dark crystal, a powerful gem that once provided balance to the universe. After the crystal was broken, the evil Skeksis used sinister means to gain control. Jen believes that he can repair the dark crystal and bring peace back to the world, if he can only find the remaining shard.
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The World Theatre Presents “Being There”
On January 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm, The World Theatre presents “Being There.”
Based on Jerzy Kosinski’s satirical novel about an illiterate gardener who has lived his entire life behind the walls of a Washington, D.C., house, his only knowledge of the world coming from the TV programs he watches. When his employer and protector dies, he is catapulted into the fast lane of political power.
Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine
PG 1979 ‧ Comedy/Drama ‧ 2h 10m
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FREE Showing of The Blacklist & live video Q&A with The Blacklist creator, Jon Bokenkamp!
On January 5, 2017 @ 6:45 pm come support The World Theatre and watch the newest episode of The Blacklist, commercial free and on the big screen. Free will donations to support The World Theatre are accepted as admission. The screening will be followed with a live video Q&A with The Blacklist creator, Jon Bokenkamp. Only at The World Theatre!
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Live Comedy w/ Dustin Diamond & Gary Menke NEW YEAR’S EVE @ The World Theatre
Join locals New Year’s Eve for an evening of stand-up comedy with Gary Menke and Dustin Diamond! Advanced tickets $17 ($22 day of the show), VIP tickets $22 in advance.
He played the bad guy on Celebrity Fit Club and has been hailed as the “Dark Prince of Comedy”. Dustin Diamond is a pop culture icon, and is best known for his role as Screech on Saved by the Bell. Dustin played Screech through all 10 seasons of the show, and to this day, Saved by the Bell is still seen in syndication 16 times per week in 105 countries.
For the past 17 years, Dustin has toured the world as a stand-up comedian. His act is suitable for the now grown-up fans of Saved by the Bell. It is adult-oriented, hilarious, and definitely not the same squeaky-clean, Saturday morning comedy that he spent 10 years doing as Screech. In his act, Dustin touches on life’s most important topics – grandma porn, farts, and the secrets of the female sex.
In addition to stand-up comedy, Dustin has been involved in reality television, indie movies, and numerous other projects. Most recently, he played himself in Better Reach Screech, The Nerdist’s parody of Breaking Bad. He appeared on the British reality series Big Brother, and was also seen on Oprah’s Where Are They Now?, in which he touched upon topics such as his tell-all book Behind the Bell, and other previous media stunts.
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Free Showing of It’s a Wonderful Life @ the World Theatre
Join Kearney locals for a FREE shocking of It’s a Wonderful Life on December 23, 2016 @ 7:30 pm at The World Theatre.
After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George’s wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be different if he was never there.
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White Christmas (1954) at The World Theatre
On December 16, 2016 @ 7:30 pm at The World Theatre [2318 Central Ave Kearney, NE 68847] Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing. So what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black.
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Songs from the Movies at The World Theatre
On September 23-24 • 7:30 pm and September 25 • 2 pm there will be a concert featuring live performances of classic songs from all your favorite films!
Tickets: $10 General Admission
Tickets available at The World Theatre Box Office, http://www.CraneRiverTheater.org, or by calling (308) 627-5796.
The World Theatre: 2318 Central Avenue • Kearney, NE 68847
Crane River Theater is excited to reprise our fall Destination Series at the World Theatre with Songs from the Movies. This high-spirited concert production will feature live performances of timeless songs from all of your favorite films of the past seven decades. Crane River Theater alumni Corbin Williams, Rutheah Rodehorst, Levi Lawson, Ashley West and Brian Botsford will take the stage singing Eye of the Tiger, Purple Rain, Ghostbusters, I Will Always Love You, Stand By Me, The Wind Beneath My Wings, Skyfall and many others. It is sure to be an evening that will bring back many memories.
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Here's what Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders said to each other after Tuesday's debate
House Democrats argue for Trump's conviction in Senate impeachment trial
Hong Kong protesters tear gassed by police after alleged attack on officer
Biden demands apology from Sanders over 'doctored' video
Hot mic
CNN couldn't get Tom Steyer to spill the tea on what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were talking about in a tense-looking conversation after Tuesday night's debate in Des Moines. But after a day of digging, they found it themselves.
In the exchange, Warren accused Sanders of calling her a liar during the debate, and Sanders accused Warren of calling him a liar, tied to what might conceivably be a misunderstanding about what the two of them discussed about the viability of female candidates more than a year earlier.
CNN's Jeff Zeleny explained to Anderson Cooper how they did it. "My colleagues here at CNN spent the day looking through backup audio — it was not recorded from the primary audio system, it was a backup, separate system, and they found it late today," he said on Wednesday's AC360. The Warren and Sanders campaigns declined CNN's many requests for comment. Peter Weber
House Democrats filed a 111-page legal brief ahead of President Trump's impeachment trial, arguing he threatens national security.
The House prosecutors laid out the argument against Trump that led to his impeachment last month on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The legal brief says "evidence overwhelmingly establishes" Trump's guilt and says the Senate "must eliminate the threat" he poses.
The White House defense team, meanwhile, has not filed its official brief, but rejected the impeachment managers' arguments as "highly partisan." Without directly addressing allegations Trump abused his power by withholding Ukrainian aid to push for a politically-motivated investigation of his rivals, the White House castigated the "lawless process" that led to his impeachment.
Read more at The Washington Post. Summer Meza
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Hong Kong protesters were hit with tear gas and pepper spray after demonstrators allegedly attacked a plainclothes police officer during a mass protest, reports The Washington Post.
Demonstrations have been ongoing for months, and have recently erupted in occasional violence as pro-democracy residents continue to protest the local government. Several protesters were arrested on Sunday after tens of thousands participated in a rally in Hong Kong's central district, the largest demonstration since New Year's Day when over a million people gathered.
A plainclothes officer reportedly refused to show a rally organizer his identification card, which led to an altercation. At least three people were injured. Read more at The Washington Post. Summer Meza
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday claimed Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) campaign had released a "doctored" video that appeared to show Biden agreeing with Republican proposals regarding Social Security.
"It's simply a lie, that video is a lie," Biden told supporters of his presidential campaign in Iowa, per NBC News. He said "Bernie's people" had circulated the video, and he's "looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it, but they haven't done it yet." Politico reported the video "was not doctored by Sanders."
The video showed Biden agreeing with former House Speaker Paul Ryan's proposal to privatize Social Security, but Biden's campaign said he called the plan "correct" sarcastically, reports Bloomberg.
Sanders' campaign said Biden should "stop dodging questions about his record" and pointed to Biden's numerous other comments on the program. Read more at NBC News and Bloomberg. Summer Meza
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Wallabies snap Bledisloe losing streak
Vince RugariAAP
Saturday, 21 October 2017 8:23PM
Camera IconAustralia ended their seven-match Bledisloe Cup losing streak with a 23-18 win over the All Blacks.
The Wallabies have finally snapped their Bledisloe Cup losing streak, toppling the All Blacks 23-18 in a thriller at a rain-drenched Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
The third Test of the series might have been a dead rubber but Michael Cheika's men had a point to prove on Saturday night to their trans-Tasman enemies - and they did it, ending a run of seven straight defeats to score their first win over New Zealand since August 2015.
Australia scored three tries to two, showing new-found grit to close out the match as New Zealand mounted a late rally in front of 45,107 supporters who braved constant rain.
Two crunch second-half penalties from Reece Hodge - in the 64th and 78th minutes, both from beyond the halfway line - iced it for the Wallabies.
The All Blacks could could have levelled the scores in the 73rd minute after Rieko Ioane's try but Damien McKenzie couldn't land a difficult conversion attempt from out wide.
It was sweet relief for Bernard Foley, whose own wayward goalkicking nearly cost the Wallabies yet again after he missed three of his four shots at goal.
Cheika said it was an enjoyable result but it didn't erase the pain of losing the series 2-1.
"Unfortunately I've always got it in the back of my mind that our duty is to bring home the trophy," he said.
"As happy as I am... the end game is to bring home the cup and we come up short there this year.
"It's something we've got to try our best and hardest at next year because we know New Zealand are going to be better."
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen admitted the Wallabies were the better side and deserved the win.
"They took their opportunities. They didn't blow any," Hansen said.
"They worked hard and put us under pressure. They'll be happy with themselves."
Foley kicked two from six in the second Bledisloe Test, when New Zealand prevailed in the dying minutes in Dunedin - but the world champions couldn't conjure up the same magic this time around.
Just like that clash, this one also started with an early intercept try to the Wallabies.
Will Genia's pressure and tackle on Lima Sopoaga created the opportunity, forcing him to cough the ball up right in the path of Hodge, who galloped 70m to score next to the posts.
But Australia's 7-0 lead lasted only seven minutes. New Zealand replied quickly through Waisake Naholo, who went over untouched out wide.
Sopoaga converted and then nailed back-to-back penalties to extend the visitors' lead to 13-7, with Australia struggling to keep the ball in the slippery conditions.
Eventually they strung some passes together and it worked.
Israel Folau darted between Naholo and Liam Squire to cap off a well-worked crossfield move in the dying embers of the first-half.
Foley missed another penalty attempt in the 51st minute and could have had one more shot in the 56th from right in front, after an offside penalty.
But they opted for an attacking line-out - a decision that paid off handsomely.
It led to Marika Koroibete crossing on the other side of the field for his fourth try in three Tests, steamrolling McKenzie to make it 17-13. It was a lead they didn't surrender.
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Sean Hannity Has 'Full Support' of Fox News in Wake of Michael Cohen Reveal
By Matt Webb Mitovich / April 17 2018, 12:07 PM PDT
Courtesy of Fox News
In the face of calls for Sean Hannity to be benched if not terminated for a seemingly unethical association with President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Fox News instead has offered the host/self-described “advocacy journalist” its “full support.”
Earlier this week, Hannity was revealed to be a client of Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, immediately calling into question his and Fox News’ coverage of the FBI’s April 9th raid of Cohen’s office (among other things). Prior to that, Hannity never indicated that he and the embattled POTUS shared the headline-grabbing lawyer.
Hannity on Twitter countered, “Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter …. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective. I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party.”
Hannity further detailed his association with Cohen in this video here.
Vanity Fair, meanwhile, reported that Hannity’s alleged dealings with Cohen included pursuing legal countermeasures when advertisers began boycotting Fox News after Roger Ailes’ ouster; Hannity promptly denied that claim.
On Tuesday, Fox News issued a statement saying that while the cable news organization “was unaware of Sean Hannity’s informal relationship with Michael Cohen and was surprised by the announcement in court yesterday, we have reviewed the matter and spoken to Sean and he continues to have our full support.”
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Are You There, Chelsea?: Cancelled, No Season Two
by Trevor Kimball, May 12, 2012
It’s closing time for Chelsea and her pals. NBC has decided to cancel the low-rated sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? after 12 episodes and one season.
Based on a book by Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Chelsea? follows the life of an opinionated and unapologetic young woman (Laura Prepon) who lives life to the fullest as a cocktail waitress. She’s many things to many people — friend, daughter, sister, and sexually dynamic “advanced drinker.” Others in the cast include Lenny Clarke, Lauren Lapkus, Jake McDorman, Mark Povinelli, Ali Wong, and (occasionally) Chelsea Handler.
The sitcom had a decent start — registering a 2.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.18 million viewers — but things went downhill from there.
Was Chelsea? better than what the ratings indicated?
Yes. I liked it.
It was okay.
No, I thought it was bad.
Subsequent episodes of Chelsea saw big drops in the ratings and, over the course of the season, went as low as a 1.1 rating in the demo and 2.88 million. It aired opposite American Idol on FOX but these were numbers were poor even if you take the stiff competition into consideration.
The season ended up averaging a 1.5 rating in the demo with 3.76 million. Had the season gone on longer, the averages would have dropped further. On our NBC Ratings Report Card, which measures the relative demo success of shows on the network, the show has a “B-” grade.
To no real surprise, NBC has cancelled Chelsea. The last episode aired on March 28th. The peacock network has ordered several new sitcoms for 2012-13, hoping they’ll last longer than Chelsea did.
What do you think? Are you sorry that NBC has cancelled Chelsea? Do you think the show was better than what the ratings indicated? What would you liked to have seen happen in season two?
Image courtesy NBC.
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Martina Gesierich-Kunze
I love it. Its verry sad you stopped it. I want to know -what will happen with Rick and Chelsea??!!!
Seson 2???
German. Sorry bad english
Are you there, Chelsea? Was an awesome show! I cant believe they canceled it…
Laura Prepon is very good actress and seeing her in this show was awesome… she is so funny!.
they should bring back this show and cancel Bad Judge ( that show really sucks!)
Amanda Saunders
I don’t know why so many of the good sitcoms that air on television are always cancelled. There was so many I enjoyed and was looking forward to seeing more of that we’re taken off the air. I, personally love laura Prepon as an actress. She makes any show I watch more worth seeing, and I think this show should’ve continued !!
karri bradshaw
i loved this show
so disappointed that it was cancelled
Daaaaamn I started to watch R U there Chelsea right after Orange is the new black. I want a second season. This show is so cool!
ritsa
Are you there Chelsea was one of the best new comedies i think to hit TV, i have watched it over and over again and dont understand as to why it got cancelled all i can say is that reality tv has taken over and good shows are getting cancelled cause of it or some vampire movie or some ridiculous show like fear factor gets to stay on tv. That within itself shows what tv is doing to people. In one year i have watched a few good shows and only to find out they are cancelled. Last resort, cancelled… Read more »
I loved this show…I waited all season for Chelsea and rick to hook up and you finish it with them kissing in the car. Bring out a second season…I want to know what happens with there relationship.
Moeni
I watched are you there chelsea on german tv and i really like it!! I really want to see more!!
Meike Ina
Well I am from Germany and I really really like Chelsea! It is the only show I always watch on TV and I watch the Episodes in English because the German translation is to slow :/
Please bring it back…!
How come all the shows i enjoy watching get canceled… it’s like tv is punishing me by bringing out shows that i actually think are funny and then cancelling them
Chelsea FC News
This is my first time go to see at here and i am genuinely pleassant to read all at
REALLY sad this show has ended. I thought it was hilarious. I looked forward to it every week! Please bring it back! It was really a great show!
OMG!!! I LOVED CHELSEA!! Come on, i cant believe, it is much better than these stupid series about wolfs and vampire or whatever
I really liked this show and am REALLY disappointed that its cancelled 🙁 …
I would like it to come back please!!!!!1
i loved this show </3
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Consumer Electronics | Smart Home | Thermostats | Review
Nest Learning Thermostat (3rd Generation)
byJohn R. Delaney and More » Dec 15, 2016
Editor Rating: Excellent (4.5)
Sleek design. Easy to install. Loaded with features. Interacts with other Nest and third-party devices. Support for Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT.
Lacks remote room sensors. Pricey.
The third-generation Nest Learning Thermostat has all the smarts of its predecessors and adds some new features including a larger display, geofencing support, a furnace monitor, and a few more sensors.
Back in 2012, the original Nest Learning Thermostat took the nascent smart home market by storm and earned our Editors' Choice award for its ease of use, elegant design, and learning capabilities. Since then Nest has been bought by Google and the thermostat is now on its third generation. This latest iteration ($249) offers all of the cool learning and auto-scheduling features that made the earlier models so popular, and brings a few nice improvements, including a slimmer design, a larger LCD, Bluetooth support, and geofencing technology. It still doesn't offer remote room sensors, but it works with numerous third-party devices and supports voice commands via Google Home and Amazon's Alexa voice service. That makes it our new Editors' Choice for smart thermostats.
Measuring 1.2 inches thick and 3.3 inches in diameter, the third-generation Nest is only slightly thinner and larger than the orginal model (1.3 by 3.2 inches), and still maintains the same sleek puck-shaped design. This time around the thermostat is available with a black, white, stainless steel, or copper finish, and sports a larger display (2.1 inches vs. 1.8) with a higher resolution (480 by 480 vs. 320 by 320). It still uses the outer ring to enter information; just press the edge of the ring to launch the onboard menu screens, turn the ring left or right to find an item, and press it again to select the item. Entering passwords and other settings is easy using the dial method, but I find the Ecobee3's touch-screen approach to be even easier.
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Inside the thermostat are ten temperature sensors (seven more than the original Nest), as well as humidity, ambient light, and activity sensors. New to this model is a Farsight feature that wakes up the display when you enter a room (earlier models required you to be right in front of the device).
The thermostat is also equipped with 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) and 802.11a/n (5GHz) Wi-Fi circuitry, a Bluetooth radio, and 512MB of memory. It works with most 24V heating and cooling systems. It supports three-stage heating, two-stage cooling, three-speed fans, and humidifier and dehumidifier add-ons.
What sets the Nest apart from other smart thermostats like the Ecobee 3, the Honeywell Lyric, and the Lux/Geo is its Auto-Schedule feature that learns your daily heating and cooling temperatures and times during the first week of use and creates a schedule based on your preferences. You can make adjustments along the way or create your own schedule, but it's a nice option for those who don't want to be bothered to program their thermostat.
The thermostat interacts with other Nest devices, including the Nest Protect smoke/CO alarm and the Nest Cam Indoor and Outdoor security cameras, and you can control it using Google Home and Amazon Alexa voice commands, as well as If This Then That (IFTTT) recipes. Moreover, it works with numerous third-party devices that are part of the Works With Nest program, including WeMo switches, Haiku fans, the Wink Hub, LIFX lighting, and more.
In addition to Auto-Schedule, the third-gen Nest offers the same Home/Away feature found on earlier models. It uses motion sensors to detect your presence and will switch to ECO (energy conservation) mode if it thinks you are not home. One of my main gripes with the original thermostat was that it would switch to Away mode when I was in another part of the house, out of range of the sensors. The addition of a Home/Away Assist geofencing feature in this version resolves that issue; if you are home with your phone, the thermostat will remain in Home mode, and when you leave it will switch over to Away mode.
Other new features include Furnace Heads-Up, which monitors your furnace's power cycles. If it senses abnormalities, such as turning on in the middle of the night, it will let you know that you may have a system issue. The Sunblock feature uses the light sensor to prevent the thermostat from turning on or off due to exposure to direct sunlight, and the Time-to-Temp feature lets you know how long it will take for your system to reach your desired room temperature.
You can have the screen display the current or target temperature, an analog or digital clock, the weather, or nothing at all (off). The onboard menus include a schedule option that allows you to create a heating/cooling schedule or adjust the one that Nest created, an Energy History option that displays a 10-day history of heating/cooling activity, an Away option that forces the thermostat into Away mode to conserve energy, and a Settings menu. Here you can configure network configurations, enable things like Home/Away Assist, set ECO thresholds, change the time and date, set air filter replacement reminders, and edit your home's location information.
Once the thermostat is set up using the outer ring, you can control it using the same Android, iOS, or Web-based app used for Nest's other devices. Tapping the thermostat icon brings you to a screen that shows the heat set point, the indoor humidity level, and the outside temperature. A green leaf is displayed when the thermostat is set to an energy-saving temperature. The screen's background is black when the thermostat is idle, orange when it is heating, and blue when it is cooling. You can change the set point by rotating the dial with a swipe or with the up and down arrows. At the bottom of the screen are Heat, Schedule, and History buttons. The Heat button lets you enable normal scheduled heat mode, switch to ECO mode, or completely turn off the heat, and the Schedule button displays the current schedule and allows you to make adjustments to daily and weekly settings. The History button launches a 10-day Energy History log with heating and cooling times and reasons (schedule, Auto-Away, weather). The gear icon in the top right corner takes you to a settings screen where you can enable things like the Home/Away Assist, Sunblock, and Time-to Temp, and edit heat source and heat type settings.
Installation and Performance
As with the original, the third-generation thermostat is very easy to install. It comes with everything you need, including a screwdriver and mounting screws, installation and welcome guides, and a mounting base. Before removing my old thermostat I took a picture of the wiring and used the included tags to label them. I screwed the base onto the wall using the built-in level to ensure that it was straight, and connected the red and green wires to the Rh and Rc (power) terminals, the white wire to the W1 (heat) terminal, and the blue wire to the C (common) terminal. I snapped the thermostat onto the base and it fired up right away. Following the on-screen instructions, I selected the type of dwelling (single or multi-family, condo, business) and heating system (electric, oil, propane, geothermal), configured the Wi-Fi settings, connected to the Internet, and performed a quick test to see if the heating kicked in, which it did. I then let the thermostat do its thing for a week as it learned my routine.
The Nest performed flawlessly. It responded instantly whenever I raised or lowered the heat both manually and with my iPhone. The Auto-Schedule feature did a great job of creating a schedule that followed my daily routine, and the thermostat followed that schedule to a tee. It responded to my Alexa voice commands to raise and lower the heat without fail, and the Farsight feature and large display made it easy to check the thermostat from across a large room. The Home/Away Assist feature prevented the thermostat from entering ECO mode while I was in another part of the house, and it always switched from Home to Away and back as I left and returned home.
If you liked the earlier versions of the Nest Learning Thermostat, you'll love the third-generation model. It offers all of the smarts of its predecessors, including Auto Scheduling and Auto-Away features, energy usage reporting, remote management via a mobile app, and a quick and easy installation procedure, and it boasts a few major improvements, including a larger screen with a sharper resolution that you can see across the room. It also supports geofencing to ensure it doesn't go into Away mode while you or a family member are at home. Although it lacks remote room sensors, it does works with a variety of smart home devices and the IFTTT Internet service, not to mention other Nest products. All this earns it our Editors' Choice for smart thermostats.
If remote room sensors are a must-have feature, consider another of our favorite smart thermostats, the Ecobee 3. It's the same price as the Nest and offers many of the same features, including geofencing capabilities, energy reporting, third-party support, and voice commands via the Amazon Echo (Alexa) and Apple Homekit (Siri). It also offers plenty of scheduling options, but it's not smart enough to create a schedule based on your comings and goings like the Nest can.
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John R. Delaney Contributing Editor, Monitors and HDTVs
As a Contributing Editor for PC Magazine, John Delaney has been testing and reviewing monitors, HDTVs, PCs, servers, and other assorted hardware and peripherals for more than 14 years. A 13-year veteran of PC Magazine's Labs (most recently as Director of Operations), John was responsible for the recruitment, training and management of the Labs technical staff, as well as evaluating and maintaining the integrity of the Labs testing machines and procedures.
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Geraint's Wheel of Fortune Competition
by SiteAdmin1 | Apr 26, 2016
Geraint Thomas MBE has been the Protect Your Bubble bike and gadget insurance ambassador since 2015. We work with him to provide you, ours fans and followers with exclusive updates, blogs and amazing giveaway prizes such as authentic kit worn by G himself. Make sure you keep following @PYB_Bike.
Those who follow Geraint Thomas will know he got the new season off to a flying start with back to back wins! Geraint has been extremely generous and has donated a signed race number and jersey from one of the races. We’re very excited to announce we have set up a competition for one lucky person to win this fabulous prize!
If you fancy fancy winning this one of kind piece of memorabilia worn by Geraint Thomas, simply watch the vine on our Twitter profile take a screenshot when the wheel of fortune is on the last race Geraint won and send us a screenshot to @PYB_Bike with #PYBG
You can enter on Twitter HERE
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3. The promotion begins at 12.00 on 26th April 2016 and closes at 11.59 on Saturday 30th April 2016 Daylight Saving Time (DST). Any entry received after the closing date and time will not be valid. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt.
6. Watch the video vine posted on the PYB_Bike Twitter feed entitled “Geraint’s Wheel of Fortune”,take a screenshot and reply when you see the name of the last race Geraint Thomas won on the rotating wheel. Your comment must contain the #PYBG hashtag.
12. There is one winner. The prize is a signed winning race number worn by Geraint Thomas
15. The winner will be randomly selected on 30th April 2016 by the Promoter from all of the valid entries submitted during the promotional period in accordance with these rules.
16. The Promoter will contact the winner within one week of 30th April 2016 via private message on, Facebook or Twitter. In all matters, the random selection made by the Promoter shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
22. The Twitter handle full name and county of residence of the prize winner will be available upon request by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to; Geraint Wheel of Fortune, Assurant House, 6-12 Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1EN after 30th April 2016
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July 11, 2017 / 7:36 AM / 3 years ago
UK market regulator raises competition concerns in FirstGroup, MTR contract
(Reuters) - UK market regulator Competition and Markets Authority raised concerns on Tuesday about the lack of competition on one train route, between London and Exeter, which is part of the new South Western franchise awarded to FirstGroup and Hong Kong’s MTR.
The CMA said there could be fare hikes, or worsening of services due to a lack of competition on the route as FirstGroup already operates the Great Western Railway franchise, which runs the only other train service between London and Exeter.
“The CMA believes that without its intervention, FirstGroup may be able to increase fares for passengers between London and Exeter, as it will be the only rail operator running all services on this route,” the regulator said in a statement.
FirstGroup and MTR will have to submit proposals to address these concerns to the regulator, whose approval would enable the companies to avoid an in-depth phase-2 investigation.
Reporting by Sanjeeban Sarkar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair
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48 Hour Film Project: NYC
Posted on June 3, 2013 by libs012
I am staring at the clock. It’s 3:23 AM. Traffic is moving in a very specific rhythm outside. I watch as lights cast shadows through my friend’s living room, and I restlessly try to catch some shut eye. I close my eyes, but like a kid waiting for her birthday, I can’t fall asleep. I’m too anxious. I’m too excited for what’s ahead. We are only eight hours into the 48 Hour Film Project (NYC), a competition that asks groups of filmmakers to create a 4-7 minute short film in under 48 hours. Filmmaking. THIS is the HOBBY and CAREER I moved to New York City for. And while I’ve done much of my own filmmaking and video work–I’ve never ever taken part in a film competition. This is what we call: Awesome. As I open my eyes again and stare at the ceiling, I can feel my excitement only growing with each echo of each car that passes under the bridge outside. We’ve finished our our script, we’ve plotted our shot list, and in three hours we are going to wake up to shoot a movie. And all I am thinking in my head is “Hell. Freaking. Yah.”
It can be very lonely in New York City–especially when you first move here.
I moved to New York City in January of 2010, and I can remember, very vividly, two months into my move, walking out of my internship, calling my best friend on the phone, and crying to her for an hour about how lonely I was–how I didn’t know if I could make it here–how I wanted desperately to be able to make friends who were creative, who were ready to collaborate, who were passionate, who were looking to make things happen–BIG things–earth shaking things-friends who were ready to take on the world as if it were Mount Everest and fight hard earned battles to make it to the top.
What I’ve learned from that loneliness is a lesson in persistence, and in patience, and in passion.
I realized that I couldn’t make these friends that I was seemingly struggling to find if I didn’t put myself out there, if I didn’t take an initiative to start and to create myself. This city is comprised of 8 million people–I can’t break down the stats for you on where they are all from–or how they all got here, but I can safely say that many of these people are searching for a light in a tunnel that leads to success–a light in a tunnel that may perhaps lead to a Broadway Stage, or a credit on a feature film; a light in a tunnel that may lead to a sold out concert at SummerStage or a part in Shakespeare in the Park; a light in a tunnel that leads to a metaphorical pot of gold symbolizing that all dreams did indeed come true.
I knew that within those eight million people, amidst all of the skyscrapers, all of the Broadway shows, and all of the chaos of the city that these people were out there. I just had to be very clear that I too was one of these dreamers.
I made a good friend through my internship, who could see my passion and my drive as I shared my latest projects and or films with her. She could also see my willingness to put myself out there and to openly express my interest in “making it” in order, not to be famous, but rather to make an impact on another person’s life. And so she introduced me to many of her friends in the Big Apple.
She, herself, was a young makeup artist who was working on TV shows and movies. And her friends? Young cooks, young chefs, young musicians, young actors, young filmmakers, young producers, young directors, young writers, younger performers, young singers. Most of them worked shifts at Ruby Tuesdays to pay the bills. But what stood out more than anything to me, was that like me–they were all dreamers. And they still are.
Since that first year of living in New York City, I have maintained many of the friendships I have made with these friends. And I am proud of that. I have seen each of them do amazing work. I’ve seen dreams transition to realities–and I’ve seen passion and persistence and patience, all the things I needed in order to make these friends, play out in extremely rewarding ways.
Our conversations extend from general “How are yous?” to endless banter, debates and smiles over all things creative.
“You liked that movie? But it didn’t have this, this or this….” and “But his acting in this was far superior to his acting in…” “I just think he should have never made that film.”
I always wondered when I’d get the chance to sit down and work with some of the people I connected with when I first moved here.
That answer was this weekend, for the 48 Hour Film Project, in which a team of 14 of us, organized by my good friend Kim, took on the aforementioned challenge to create a 4-7 minute film in just 48 hours.
On that team were 6 individuals from that initial group of friends that I forged friendships with founded on a common love of film, television, and theatre. On that team were also 7 individuals that I had never had the pleasure to meet before–but who I can’t imagine not surrounding myself with again.
Each team must enter with a team name, and when the festival kicks off each team must select at random a genre. After the genre is chosen, EVERY team must then make sure that they include three specific details within their film: a specific character, a prop, and a line (Genres differ but specific details remain consistent for all teams). All of this is noted here.
Our Team: Ruby Squared Productions
Our Genre: Dark Comedy
Character: Cat or Cam Dean–an ad executive
Prop: Trophy
Line: When do you expect her?
In less than 48 hours, we scripted, we crafted, we envisioned, we executed, we edited, we composed, we exported, and we delivered a 6:30 minute dark comic film; a 6:30 minute film that gave us all a little reminder why we came to New York, why that patience and persistence in pursuing our passions mattered and what we are truly capable of when we take on a challenge and attack it together, and lastly a little reminder what happens when the talking stops and the making of films starts: Magic.
In his book, Here is New York, E.B White writes: “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something…Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.”
Here’s to the settlers that I had the brilliant opportunity to work with this past weekend:
Alex Zingaro, Brandon Jacobs, Brandon Opel, Brandon Pro, Chris Grady, Kimberly DiPersia, MaryLynn Suchan, Matt Van Vorst, Megan Magee, Nate Smith, Robert DeSanti, Sean Gallagher, and Shannon Kendall.
And here’s to being patient, persistent, and passionate.
Here are some stills of the production process:
Photo Credit Megan Magee
Photo Credit MaryLynn Suchan
AND basically how we all felt after:
Photo Credit Shannon Kendall
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Abusive American Cops: a bigger problem than most admit
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Let’s stop saying bad police officers are rare. They’re plentiful from coast to coast.
1. The ugliness knows no geographical or political boundaries. It’s truly nationwide.
2. Corrupt, racist, violent, sexist police officers aren’t just low-level newbies, but chiefs and captains.
“These problems aren’t rare, they aren’t isolated, and they are taking an enormous human and financial toll on our country. If we are to ever properly address this problem, we cannot do so if we do not honestly admit its expansive size, scope and depth.
A rare problem will get a tiny solution. That’s what we’re getting right now, but the United States is facing a true moral human rights crisis with police brutality and corruption in our country. The United Nations just sharply criticized our country for our police brutality crisis. For the first time in its history, Amnesty International is sending human rights monitors to the United States to monitor American police and is issuing scathing reports on what it is finding.
For millions of Americans, this issue is the most important issue in our nation. It’s time we act like it.”
Mugshots of the Baltimore Police Officers who killed Freddie Gray.
rest of the story at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/15/1384993/-Let-s-stop-saying-bad-police-officers-are-rare-Fact-is-they-re-plentiful-from-coast-to-coast#
Just How Many Bad Cops are There and What’s Their Impact?
9,000 bad cops in the US is a massive problem. 90,000 bad cops in the US is total disaster. People are dying. Unarmed people, often in front of witnesses, sometimes even on camera. We as a nation are simply accepting the process by which justice is meant to be be served. We are accepting that 90,000 (or even 9,000) bad cops on our streets with our children is somehow acceptable.
So, this is the state of the nation. What can we do?
Imagine how much it would improve if every man, woman and child who witnessed a police interaction took out their phones and cameras and captured video of it. Someone gets pulled over, 10 people begin filming. A cop approaches a teenager in the mall, 20 people start filming. Every time. Imagine if every cop knew that every time he was in public WE would be there to hold him accountable. Imagine…
more at: http://www.copblock.org/99550/how-many-bad-cops-what-impact/
above by Kelly W. Patterson
a lifelong resident of Las Vegas, who’s been very active in local grassroots activism, as well as on a national level during his extensive travels. He’s also the founder/main contributor of Nevada CopBlock, Editor/contributor at CopBlock.org and designed the Official CopBlock Press Passes.
The following report was generated from data gathered in the months of April 2009 through September 2009. In the those 6 months there were:
2,568 – Alleged victims of reported police misconduct.
2,854 – Law enforcement officers alleged to have engaged in misconduct.
207 – Law enforcement leaders (police chiefs or sheriffs) that were cited in those reports.
215 – Fatalities reported in connection with alleged instances of misconduct.
14.7 – Reported incidents of misconduct tracked per day on average or a report of misconduct every 98 minutes.
1 out of every 116.4 – Estimated number of officers who will be involved in a reported act of misconduct this year.
$128,906,406 – Reported costs in police misconduct related civil litigation, not counting legal fees or court costs.
When examining misconduct reports by type, non-firearm related excessive force complaints were most common at 21.3% (652) of all reports, followed by sexual misconduct complaints at 13.0% (397), and then fraud/theft reports at 9.8% (300).
When examining reports by last reported status, 32.8% had resulted in some sort of adverse outcome for the officers involved (25.7%) or their representative employers (7.1%). 215 (7.0%) officers were disciplined, 138 (4.5%) were fired, and of the 1018 who were criminally charged, 317 were convicted of a criminal offense for a 31.1% conviction rate.
State Statistics
The following statistics only count state, city, and county law enforcement agencies since current federal law enforcement employment rates were not available for calculation. The statistical rates are based on the NPMSRP statistics and employment data provided by the 2008 US DOJ/FBI UCR.
The average national police misconduct rate is estimated to be 834.69 per 100,000 police officers. In 2008 there were an estimated 712,360 state and local law enforcement officers employed in the US for an average of 1 officer for every 231.5 people.
the above info from: http://www.policemisconduct.net/2009-npmsrp-semi-annual-police-misconduct-statistics-report-updated/
How do corrupt police officers get away with crimes?
An Alabama police officer reportedly wanted to murder a local resident and make it look like a case of self-defense. The murder didn’t happen, but the officer wasn’t charged.
By Sanya Mansoor, Christian Science Monitor Staff AUGUST 4, 2015
A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defense, the Guardian reported, Tuesday.
Officer Troy Middlebrooks of the Alexander City Police Department kept his job after authorities there paid the resident, Vincent Bias, $35,000 to avoid being publicly sued over the incident, according to The Guardian.…
rest of story: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0804/How-do-corrupt-police-officers-get-away-with-crimes
What we need is accountability.
In Portland, Oregon:
“The murders of Aaron Campbell, Keaton Otis, and James Chasse, Jr. have never been resolved. None of the officers who broke the law and violated Police Department Procedures have been charged, tried,or prosecuted for these crimes. We, the citizens of Portland, Oregon have paid millions for the crimes committed by PDX police officers, yet none of these officers have been disciplined. They continue to serve in spite of their crimes. The shootings of James Jahar Perez and Kendra James may have been forgotten by some, but we have yet to see accountability or justice. This must change. … We deserve an explanation from our council and some discipline and more responsible leadership in our Police Bureau. ”
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Thats-a-fact. American police forces have been given a license to profile and kill unarmed civilians, at the discretion of each officer, without any trial. A slippery slope. https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/101-unarmed-people-killed-by-police-in-2014/
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Office Depot Plaza in Thousand Oaks sells for $14M
Buyer plans to upgrade the shopping center
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Agora Realty CEO Cary Lefton (Credit: Google Maps)
Agora Realty & Management has purchased a 33,700 square-foot shopping center in fire-ravaged Thousand Oaks for $14.4 million.
The property, located at 11-25 E. Hillcrest Drive in Ventura County, belonged to Randy J. Krause with Krause-Gusky Properties LLC, records show. The San Fernando Valley Business Journal first reported the deal, which closed last month.
The shopping center, which is called Office Depot Plaza, has five tenants anchored by Office Depot, and it’s 96 percent occupied. Other tenants include AT&T, Bank of the West, The Habit restaurant and Wescom Credit Union.
The shopping center, built in 1995, includes 19,700 square feet of retail space, more than 7,900 square feet of office space, and 4,750 square feet of storage space.
Cary Lefton, CEO for Agora Realty, said the firm is planning to upgrade the site.
Thousand Oaks was one of the cities forced to evacuate during the Woolsey Fire. Some three-quarters of its population was forced to flee. Homeowners recently filed lawsuits against Southern California Edison, claiming the fire was started by electrical equipment, which sent sparks behind the homes along Roadrunner Avenue in Thousand Oaks.
Some mixed-use projects are in the city’s pipeline, including one by The Latigo Group at 299 E. Thousand Oaks Boulevard, which will feature 152,000 square feet of residential space, and 11,000 square feet of commercial space.
Another project from DalyGroup Inc. will include 5,000 square feet of retail space and 36 apartments. [SFVBJ] — Gregory Cornfield
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HomeAircraft CarriersCockpit video shows U.S. Navy C-2 COD trap land and launch from French aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf
Cockpit video shows U.S. Navy C-2 COD trap land and launch from French aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf
March 12, 2015 David Cenciotti Aircraft Carriers, Troubled Areas, War on ISIS 0
VRC-30 DET 1 made a video of a trap/cat shot onboard the Charles de Gaulle.
Not only did French combat planes operate from the flight of USS Carl Vinson and were refueled by VFA-81 F/A-18E Super Hornets over the Arabian/Persian Gulf.
C-2A COD (Carrier On Board Delivery) planes flying from Manama, Bahrain, are conducting daily flights to supply the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle with logistics, a really rare opportunity for COD aircrews and U.S. Naval Aviators in general.
VRC-30 Det 1 pilots took the following video which shows the break, approach, arrested landing, and catapult shot of a US Navy Greyhound onboard the Charles de Gaulle which is currently operating in support of coalition air strikes on ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
A Big “Thank you” to the VRC-30 for sharing the video with us
U.S. Navy Super Hornet refuels French Rafale and Super Etendard jets over USS Carl Vinson
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Rafale and Super Etendard jets Launched and Recovered from French Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
This crazy video shows flight ops aboard French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in slow motion!
[Photo] U.S. F/A-18E Hornet operates from French Aircraft Carrier
Fantastic video brings you aboard low-level flying French Navy warplanes
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Carrier On board Delivery
Watch a B-2 Spirit bomber refuel and then rotate dorsal fuel receptacle to achieve full stealthiness
First ever F-35 assembled internationally destined to Italy rolled out of Cameri facility
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Agatha Gothe-Snape - Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair, 2019 | with the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art | curated by Charlotte Hickson and Gemma Weston | Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
If a collection could dream
In December 2018, Agatha Gothe-Snape spent a week at The University of Western Australia’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery immersing herself in the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. Agatha is in another sense already immersed in this collection, which includes her installation Certain Situations/EXPRESSION CURTAIN, 2013; the large-scale performance document and drawing Every Artist Remembered with Elizabeth Pulie, 2009; and a subscription to her ongoing series of PowerPoint animations begun in 2008 and updated at irregular intervals, currently numbering around 50. The tension Agatha (1) feels between her lived experience as an artist and the disembodiment and discomfort produced by her work being acquired forms part of this exhibition’s emotional core.
I had previously sent Agatha the available resources on the collection, two books (2) and a link to a PDF listing catalogue details for the nearly 700 works that comprise it. Our task was to put the flesh of an exhibition onto the bones of that information. This week became so densely packed with symbols and stories I remember it now as though it was a dream, everything resonant and meaningful. Each object we looked at became a wormhole.
The exhibition Agatha has produced from this intensive period operates too with a kind of dream logic. In part this is because the parameters of its making create so many loops, shifts and compressions of time and space. Originally initiated by former PICA Senior Curator Eugenio Viola, the project was intended to acknowledge, in PICA’s 30th anniversary year, the significant moment in which these two Western Australian art institutions intersected. In 1995, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Joan Kerr and Jo Holder’s National Women’s Art Exhibition saw galleries around Australia present exhibitions showcasing women’s art. For PICA’s contribution then-director Sarah Miller invited Sir James and Lady Shelia Cruthers, who had been collecting art since roughly the inauguration of International Women’s Day, to exhibit their ‘women’s works’ – then numbering around 120 – at the gallery. The critical attention garnered by this exhibition, In The Company Of Women: 100 Years Of Art From The Cruthers Collection, crystallised the family’s vision for a permanent public home for the collection they had been building, which they subsequently focussed entirely on women’s art. Just over a decade later a Deed of Gift was signed with the University of Western Australia, forming the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art – or CCWA – in its current form.
Agatha is most frequently described as a performance artist, or an artist whose varied material outcomes are informed by the discipline of performance. In the spirit of performance, Agatha’s work does describe art as an experience rather than a discrete object, finding it in embodied encounters between participants, collaborators, audiences or objects. But I think of her true medium, her singular discipline, as something else. It’s generosity. Performance is the right verb, but generosity is what sets the verb in motion and determines its direction.
Each of Agatha’s projects is shaped by a desire to share: the moment, the platform, the resources or opportunities. It explains the frequency with which she collaborates. The visual sparseness of her works reveals something often misunderstood about generosity; that it is not synonymous with abundance. To be generous does not require an excess of means, and sometimes being generous involves withholding or withdrawing. To offer breathing room, the space to think through. An escape.
A recurring motif in her work is the doorway. It has appeared in drawings and paintings as a simple geometric abstraction suggesting a door held ajar or as text: PHYSICAL DOORWAY. This phrase Agatha encountered by chance on a business-card-shaped piece of ephemera found on the street in the midst of her pregnancy, whilst she was contemplating her body becoming its own kind of doorway (3). The open door also appears as a gesture, whereby either literally or by the disarming openness with which Agatha operates, an invitation is extended to cross some literal or metaphoric threshold and to immerse yourself in an idea.
Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair has opened its doors to a multitude of others. Conversations, interviews and chance encounters have been woven into – in Agatha’s perfect phrasing – the ‘meshwork of the exhibition’. A new PowerPoint animation creates a revealing poem from the titles of collection artworks, many of them referring to native and introduced flowers. It is itself titled after a famous Ann Newmarch print from 1975, also part of the collection – We must Risk Unlearning – in which the artist uses her own image to expose how ‘naturalised’ attitudes towards women’s bodies are in fact violent inventions. The exhibition includes a number of artworks loaned from the CCWA chosen by Agatha, many of which formally reference holes, negative spaces or movement through or beyond the artwork. These are placed in dialogue with a frame removed from a 1937 self portrait by modernist Elise Blumann, the subject of many apocryphal stories and speculations, from which mesh-covered holes have been cut in the backing board, presumably to ventilate the work. Letters to a number of artists or their estates with work included in the collection have also requested the loan of a significant chair or a ‘chair like object’ that has played a role in their creative practice. This gesture gives the exhibition its title.
Where the process of exhibiting or of being ‘acquired’ might for an artist produce a complex bouquet of emotions – pride, relief, shame, empowerment, discomfort – the chair provides silent witness and support for creative practice disengaged from the requirement, until now, to perform that labour for a public. These borrowed chairs circumvent expectations of two of the collection’s most recognised thematic areas, self portraiture and the domestic environment. The former implies an ‘essence’ expressed through visibility, and the latter – even when the subject of critique – weds women’s labour to the home. As a functional support, the form of the chair conjures the body through its absence. They become a cypher for the artist, in their place of work. Shifted from being an object in which contemplation, takes place to an object for contemplation, these chairs work like abstraction, providing concrete forms onto which experiential and symbolic readings can be projected whilst also strategically concealing something of their source.
But, the process of explaining what these chairs ‘do’ in the gallery feels like to me like whittling, a process of streamlining their unwieldly power, when what they actually do is the opposite. They open, each of them, onto a lifeworld richer and deeper than I can express. There are so many stories condensed into this exhibition, so many competing or complementary or contradictory experiences, that it wobbles any idea of a clean narrative arc into a dark-matter jelly of sensation.
This density and wobble, to me, is what gives the exhibition its particular dream-like quality. I think of Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair as a dream the Cruther Collection of Women’s Art itself might have, if it were able to. Agatha has produced a contemplative space in which something of the collection’s ‘inner life’ is expressed through symbol, archetype, chance, coincidence and unexpected juxtaposition. The exhibition expresses the combined subjectivities and subconsciousness of each of the artists it represents, of each member of the Cruthers family – Lady Sheila and Sir James, their children John and Sue – of Agatha’s, and of mine. And, like a fresh dream described to a partner over breakfast, it also reveals without our realising our own biases and vulnerabilities. The things that in the light of day we take for granted, or endeavour to keep secret.
Gemma Weston
(then) Curator, Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art
1. The choice to use Agatha’s first name in this essay rather than her surname is intended to acknowledge the spirit of camaraderie that has characterised this process, and to acknowledge that Agatha, myself and PICA Curator Charlotte Hickson are, in the complicated blur of the social and professional that comprises the art industry, friends (I hope) as well as colleagues. I’m aware that the informality of this gesture – particularly applied to a ‘woman artist’ – carries its own politics and could be interpreted as a professional diminishment, but the use of ‘Gothe-Snape’ feels like an authoritative performance I can’t bring myself to do.
2. In the Company of Women exhibition catalogue, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995 and Into the Light: The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, UWA Publishing Custom, 2012.
3. Recounted to Tai Snaith in the episode ‘Agatha in Puzzling World’ from the podcast series Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own, 2018/19.
(This text in illustrated pdf form may be found at the + button below.)
» Trying to Find Comfort in An Uncomfortable Chair: Agatha Gothe-Snape with the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, exh. room sheet, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2019
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Sins Of Our Masonic Fathers
American Freemasonry expanded so rapidly that it gave birth to a flawed, long- standing, counterfactual and false standard: the belief that the Freemasonry in America can be found and measured by the number of names on its membership rosters. As a result, the fraternity abandoned the source of its real strength: fewness.
Sins of Our Masonic Fathers offers a broad but thorough analysis of various historical aspects of Freemasonry as it unfolded in the United States. This look at the evolution of American Freemasonry identifies the misplaced, misdirected, and misspent energy in the past that challenges today the essential labors required to successfully re-evaluate the understanding of the real aim and purpose of the Fraternity to its members.
This book does not merely list what is called sins of our Masonic Fathers but undertakes the difficult task of examining and framing the reasons why and how and these errors in action and miscalculations occurred. Insight into why the Fraternity today is where it finds itself is illustrated in a persuasive manner and makes clear how its perpetuity will now, more than ever, depend on the quality of its leadership, administration, and practices in the delivery of its intended promise.
The question for this and future generations is whether the fraternity will stop playing host to the miscalculations and errors in action deeply embedded in its history.
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Best Things To See And Do In Krakow's Podgorze, Poland
Characterized by a powerful cinematic atmosphere and filled by artistic projects, Podgorze is an up-and-coming neighborhood in Krakow, Poland. Check out the best things to see and do in the area.
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Fort Benedict
If you’re looking for adventure on the streets of Podgorze, Fort Benedict is an enchanting and mysterious place to visit. Known for its military use in the 19th century, the brick citadel served the city’s defense against the Russians for more than three decades. It was a part of a 32 fort ring outside the historic city. The parts that the Austrians built were ruined during WWI. However, St Benedict survived the horrors of war. It now has become a tourist attraction.
Fort Benedict, ul. Rękawka, Krakow, Poland
Cricoteka
One of the most striking buildings in the neighborhood of Podgorze, Cricoteka challenges the urban and cultural landscape under the avant-garde signature of Tadeusz Kantor. Opposed to the conservative historical town in terms of form and concept, Cricoteka covers a classic building with a modern industrial structure inspired by Kantor’s drawings. The building is representative of what Kantor tried to achieve during his lifetime: to expand the boundaries of thinking in terms of art, theater, poetics and design in the world’s urban stage.
Cricoteka, Nadwiślańska 2-4, Kraków, Poland, +48 12 421 69 75
Cricoteka © Zygmunt Put/WikiCommons
Krakus Mound
Some visitors come to Krakus Mound just for the panoramic view over the entire city. Some others are interested in the mythical legend of Krakow’s founder, King Krakus. Others hope to find archaeological proof of the mystery that has surrounded the tumulus for centuries. Whatever the reason is behind the visit, the mound is worth visiting. It provides great views over Kazimierz, Płaszów or the Old Town.
Krakus Mound, Wielicka, 30-962 Kraków, Poland
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Cafe Cinema Paradiso
An alluring place, Cafe Cinema Paradiso is a kaleidoscope for social gatherings, culinary endeavors and cinematic experiences. They host delicious food bazaars of international cuisines hosted by Erasmus students or local Latin ex-pats. Dishes such as nachos, burritos or habanero chili can be found, all are mouthwatering. Showing independent pictures, from Jim Jarmusch’s noir Vignette to Filipino nonconformist Cannes-awarded films, this cafe is a marker of Podgorze’s progressive spirit.
Cafe Cinema Paradiso, ul. Kalwaryjska 9-15 Kraków, Poland, +48 536998476
Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Ciggarettes © Maureen Didde/Flickr
Manggha Museum
Manggha Museum is an example of artistic triumph which breathes inspiration from all its corners. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology hosts exhibitions of Japanese graphic art. This art includes watercolors, paintings, prints and photographs. Other exhibitions show behind-the-shadow theater productions, an exquisite collection of kimonos, nō masks, costumes and other decorative pieces. All of the efforts put in to turning this former public cultural wing into this internationally acclaimed Kyoto–Kraków foundation have been a success. The efforts were led by Andrzej Wajda and Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda, its founders.
Manggha Museum, ul. Konopnickiej 26, Krakow, Poland, +48 122672703
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By Dan Kimpel - Song Biz Editor Music Connection Magazine
She rocks and rolls, mesmerizes and inspires: Tomasina blows audiences away.
Loyal fans know her from Disneyland, where she regularly commands the elevated stage as it rises in futuristic Tomorrowland. On New Years Eve 2015, in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, she rocked a massive gathering of 20,000+ celebrants. “There is a vibrant scene there,” says Tomasina of the fabled theme park. “It is like Disneyland has become my Sunset Strip, my Haight-Ashbury, my Woodstock.”
Onstage, Tomasina reinvents classic rock anthems with her female point of view. Guns ‘n’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and White Stripes: Tomasina flips the script to reveal new facets in these machismo-fueled songs as she makes them her own. “This arch-type makes me powerful,” she says. And it carries a message for her young female fans as she adds, “You don’t need some dude to tell you that you’re great.”
Tomasina’s own songs project similar attributes; soaring melodic lines that stretch her prodigious vocal range, rhythmic intensity, and compelling choruses. “Hell for the Queen,” a savvy observation on celebrity worship, and the inevitable crucifixions that follow, and “Open Up,” a declaration of setting oneself free, are representative of these crowd-moving anthems.
Originally from Long Beach, California, Tomasina has rocked venues from Tokyo to Monte Carlo and back to Hollywood. As a student of her craft, she has studied music theory and recording technology. A shift into musical theater enhanced her performance skills as she brought colorful characters to life: the decadently whimsical Sally Bowles in Cabaret, the sassy Sheila Bryant in Chorus Line and the murderous Velma Kelly in Chicago. And while the notices were acclamatory and audiences appreciative, Tomasina realized that the character whom she was most comfortable being was herself.
The power of social media connects Tomasina to her loyal audience. Through her regular headline shows at Disneyland, she has enlisted a devoted group of followers who pack clubs and concerts at Southern California locales like House of Blues, The Gaslamp, and Bar Lubitsch. And it is a multitude that is expanding every time that she performs.
“I do see the whole big crowd, but I connect with individuals, especially the kids. I might ask, ‘Hey how are your dreams going? You’ve got to follow them. I’m up here following mine,” or “Look at me -- I’m weird too.’ To let them know that it’s ok to be silly and strong.”
Fierce, fabulous and endearing, Tomasina is an artist on an ever-ascending musical journey. Beneath the makeup, the glamor, the towering wigs and outrageous costumes -- at the center of Tomasina’s music -- glows immense heart and intense empathy. “I asked a little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she answered ‘a person like you,’ she says. “That is one of the nicest moments ever. Helping someone to be herself simply by being Tomasina.”
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human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, unemployment
(not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!)
Neither of these photographs has been photoshopped:
Fritz Sauckel – Nazi Work Minister Iain Duncan Smith – UK Work Minister
Sauckel, Fritz
Hitler’s Chief of Slave Labour Recruitment, March 1942 – May 1945
Soon after taking office, Sauckel established compulsory labour service in Germany. His program resulted in the forced slave labour of 5 million people, many of whom had to endure cruel working conditions.
At the Nuremberg war crime trials, historian Joseph Persico described Sauckel as “….a little man with a shining dome, sad brown eyes, and a silly moustache patterned after the Fuhrer’s.”
Sauckel was hanged in the early morning hours of October 16, 1946 for crimes against humanity.
As far as I know – to date – there are no plans yet in place to hang Mr Iain Duncan Smith.
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“Back to work” scheme prevents unemployed from …. getting back to work!
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61 thoughts on “The remarkable similarities between Fritz Sauckel and Iain Duncan Smith”
Andy Griffin said:
#EconomicEugenics #DeathCampUK nice one
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Its true enough. there are no official plans to hang Herr smitte, but i believe there is a queue to give im a send off party. Pitchfork diplomacy could save the day.
Chic Dailly said:
Definite similarity!
I’ve already written a piece pointing out that workfare – compulsory voluntary work – was initiated by the Third Reich as the Reichsarbeitsdienst, a policy designed to show that the Reich had solved the problem of unemployment. Here Tom Pride shows the striking similarity between Ian Duncan Smith and Fritz Sauckel, the Nazi director of forced labour in the occupied countries. And just like Ian Duncan Smith, and now the Salvation Army, Sauckel denied that the Arbeiteinsatz, the Nazi term for forced labour, was a slavery. As this piece shows, it didn’t stop him from being hanged though.
Dick Clark said:
You reckon?
rrwholloway said:
You should be ashamed of yourself.
The first place to hang IDS would be in the wanted gallery of criminals, along with the rest of the ministers in the con/dem party.
Phil Else said:
Looks like Hitlers eugenics program works after all
Kizza said:
Not really. People who ignore the vicious and nasty things this government are responsible for should be ashamed of themselves.
This is the beginning of a dark period of social history, if you don’t see it your part of the problem…
Velvet Rose said:
Most probably related, perhaps it is his father or uncle too much of an identical resemblance not to be related in some way .. we only have his word that his father was a Scot ..
On another blog, a person left the comment that contacts in the arms industry say the Tories are getting the police tooled up with guns.They apparently have already understood the depth of feeling about the deaths they are responsible for, and they have already worked out the solution.
Seems the goon squad with IDS at the Committee this week was a glimpse of how the Austerians are going to “win” a second term.
manonclaphamomnibus (@DopeyJim) said:
With some humility, I would like to add to your excellent and well-thought out comparison, tho’ I fear it puts Suckel in a rather better light.
Sauckel, Fritz Hitler’s Chief of Slave Labour Recruitment, March 1942 – May 1945
Motto: Arbeit Macht Frei
Duncan-Smith, Iain Britain’s Minister of Works & Pensions May 2010 – present
Motto: Make Work Pay
Sauckel: Soon after taking office, Sauckel established compulsory labour service in Germany. His program resulted in the forced slave labour of 5 million people, many of whom had to endure cruel working conditions.
Duncan-Smith: Soon after taking office, Duncan-Smith established plans to stop “under-employed” people “topping up” their wages with hand-outs when they are capable of working for longer. They must earn a minimum amount each week from their jobs and will face being stripped of their housing benefit and tax credits if they fall short. One Charity reported “seeing children in Lancashire with pot bellies, sunken cheeks and sallow complexions like youngsters found in famine-ravaged countries” He also put in place plans to narrow disability criteria so more sick and disabled would be eligible for work.
At the 3013 tory party conference, Duncan-Smith was allegedly described as “not clever enough” by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. And in October 2003, he lost a Vote of No Confidence as tory party leader
As far as I know – to date – there are no plans yet in place to hang Mr Iain Duncan Smith
charlesdickens said:
No Richard, you should be ashamed of yourself as Chairman of Westminster Conservative Futures and Thatcherite. Do John Lewis know who they employ or are the management there complicit in your views? Funny thing is, I watched a programme all about psychopaths last night, and I could see IDS, Cameron, Osborne et al all the way through the programme. They are all psychopathic fascists.
nollyprott said:
http://nollyprott.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/green-holocaust-2/
suckitup. said:
3013 tory party conference ? Do we have to suffer this idiot for another 1000 yrs. ?
hindle-a said:
I will inform you who really should be ashamed of themselves.IDS bemoaned the existence of watersure a scheme that caps the bills of people due to an increased need for water-home haemodialysis as but one obvious example and described BY DEFINITION recipients as “dysfunctional”;-on record;his reaction to people dying whilst fighting the State against being deemed fit to work was not as any decent person would by expressing sympathy but arguing his case rather than a redfaced finger wagging rage of being determined to get people of benefits.Just two examples and the more moderate ones at that
nazi war crimanal said:
how dare you tom pride you should be ashamed of yourself.
how dare you campare us with ian duncan smith.
this is an outrage.
he looks more like an a-scot entrant to me the way he jockey’s for position.
jefffrey davies said:
Colin M. Taylor said:
Sauckel was under the influence of a powerful and charismatic Leader…
…What’s IDS’ excuse?
Knowing, as we all do, that Vox Political is monitored by the DWP on a regular basis, it would be totally irresponsible of me to give them the opportunity to laugh at their slave-driver, wouldn’t it?
Fun is where you find it…
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They both have the same ideas, they both have the sadistic nature of a narcissist and they both look extremely alike.
I can only hope that IDS gets the same treatment as Sauckel did – but I know he won’t. However, he should be in court for the same reasons, crimes against humanity, along with the rest of the coalition cabinet and Lord Fraud! A proper court, a proper jury and a proper prison sentence – as well as all monies belonging to him/them to be taken from them!
Why? For telling the truth – oh hang on, the tories hate the truth as it upsets them to know that people have their own thoughts!!!!
You, you tory pillock, will never, ever be able to take the thoughts from people no matter what you do.
Here’s to 2015 and an end to the evil tory party, who get more and more sadistic with each term they get in. But you didn’t get in did you? The vote for you was so low that unless you persuaded the, now dead, Lib/Dems to join you, that you wouldn’t be able to take control.
The Lib/Dems have destroyed themselves and it will be decades before they can get any kind of trust with the people, and I do believe it will be the same with the Tories.
As for trying to make it harder for people to vote due to the way you are changing the registration process, try again, the word will reach everyone as your party is so despised that you will make it all the easier for us to get you out!
That comment was meant for the R-sole rrwholloway
sandra bowes-rennox said:
jaypot2012….i could not agree more….they could be twins…it takes a sick bastard like nazi duncan smith to describe a later day sadistic son of a bitch…but did you know his life is built on a pack of lies and he got close to groups in the USA with nazi ideals…well its the 1930s all over again…but every creature like him gets his day..just wait what goes around comes around…it always does…THE FIGHT GOES ON…regards…sandra.
Nice one Colin !
Paul Wells said:
do you believe in reincarnation?
hugosmum70 said:
paul wells. i hope not in this case.God forbid its him come back more vindictive than ever……..
its getting scarier by the minute now. and when /if he does get his just desserts (right spelling anyone?) along with the rest of the posh bully boys who have caused so much grief, how much more grief,hurt, deaths, etc will have been caused by them. millions who will never get their lives back on track. who have lost everything they ever strive’d for,(strove?) lost children to starvation. they cant get lives back when they have died. the whole country is in despair right now except for those with money top jobs or born with silver spoons who know nothing of the real world n their struggles.and the only thing that’s keeping most people going is the election of 2015 and the hope that we can get the coalition out and Labour in and that Labour will stick to their promises and stop this evil boil that is harming our country and its people. GREAT Britain???? like hell it is right now. but hopefully Labour can put that word GREAT back where it belongs so we can once again be proud of our flag and our country. cos right now,its hard to be proud of it at all.
The majority of “Middle England” are not going to be happy to be caught in the cross fire of Armed Police, for all the fear and anti terrorist rhetoric.
Britain is NOT the USA.
The Riots that punctuate the various terms of Conservative office are an easy reminder of Tory ineptitude in understanding the mood of the British public.
Sure Lynton Crosby and his gang will do their best to stir up tension and fear with his colaborators in the right wing press.
The trouble is, the UK works well, because we don’t tolerate bull shit for too long.
Sure, some people will always vote Tory because that’s their personality.
I can deal with that. But Being hostile, nasty and hateful is not the British way.
You can import some PR spin, bun it will soon run out of steam Mr Cameron, it always does.
My local Labour Concillor is a former Police Chief.
He knows the mood of ordinary people. They want criminal locked up, working street lamps and for the police to tackle anti social behaviour.
He also realises you need to give young people jobs with opportunities, something positive to do and engage them with the community and employers.
Not hang them out to dry.
Community lead projects, by real people, with relevent and appropriate support for the needs of our communities.
At work and at leisure. That’s what people want from Politicians.
On a National level, we want to look after the needy, welcome the working, and support people to live meaningful, fulfilling lives and make a contribution.
Those who can no longer work or are in search of work, need practical and spiritual support, not a kick in the eye.
Above all, people want to build our communities together and feel proud of ourselves.
On an international level, we don’t want to alienate people and recruit terrorists by engaging in futile wars based upon lies.
There has to be an environment that looks to provide social justice.
Tax cuts for millionaires and tax avoidance by corporations are not about making our country “competative” any more than starving people on low wages, the disabled or unemployed is going to prompt employers to find them a job.
The Police have a role to play, but it’s still Policing by consent.
There are not enough Police in this Country to prevent a few pockets of rioting in 2011.
It was the community who got together to sort that mess out, whilst politicians talked tough and did NOTHING.
I remember where Cameron was in the Summer of 2011….
Something we should all remind ourselves of, the next time the Police shoot someone like Mark Duggan, Jean Charles De Menezez or point guns at petiitioners who bring the plight of the poor to the Minister for Work & Pensions….
It was hard to be proud of it when New Labour came to power either.
chess said:
Gruesome, I knew reincarnation was true.
Hindle-a, try allowing correct punctuation and grammar into your life, then we might all understand what on earth you are talking about.
V for Vendetta said:
i cant understand why these policies and their consequences have not been challenged in the court of european rights. how bad does it have to get?
Tommaz said:
These word deserve to have the monarchs signature at runnymed.
Tommaz Jay
Once proud to but now ashamed to be a subject in a land thats drowning in its own political shit.
i agree guy, never liked nor trusted Blair, and with reason if what ive read about him is right.though didnt know those things at the time. Brown was ok but a bit of a wimp in a way.
labour now though is not new labour. To me, and i may be wrong ill admit as i’m no politician,they are trying to change their image back to how labour used to be. a more caring party for those who are vulnerable etc. i myself was always better off under labour. although i do know that what any politician says doesn’t necessarily mean that they mean it and once in power can change from a cuddly teddy bear to a big fat grizzly bear and just as mean/evil as this lot we have now. we can only hope that in trusting them to do as they say they will do, if we elect them in in 2015 that they dont sell us down the river as Clegg did.
a lot worse yet i think though some are being challenged in the court of human rights already. kat riley and a man ,forgot his name, won their case re workfare and was told they should get their money back that was stopped as a sanction. only for camerons lot to have emergency meeting to pass a retrospective law which meant they didnt have to pay kat and all the rest who had been sanctioned for similar reasons.the UN have told cameron the bedroom tax is illegal. but it still goes on.(law ubnto themselves this lot are…they think but give a man enough rope……..and the UN are still looking into that plus the austerity measures and their affects on the people of Great Britain. .slowly things are happening and i believe and hope that like a train going downhill it will gather momentum till finally it will sound the death knell for this coalition party. what happens to the leaders after that we can only hope for,, i wont say pray cos what i have in my mind God would never do and i wouldnt ask him.
Unfortunately these psychopathic sadistic knobs will have set themselves up quite nicely, thank you very much. Having privatised everything, guess who all the directors, management and shareholders are who benefit from it all? Whilst the public purse tries to pick up all the pieces and the next govt struggles to hold a massively fragmented and tortured society together…this lot know exactly what they’re doing, who they’re doing it for (themselves, the rich elite of this country), and at what expense (the rest of us) and don’t give a flying f*ck about anything except themselves getting richer and more powerful. History does go in cycles though, and there is such a thing as comeuppance….
agree with every word you say. though comeuppance seems a very mild phrase… but its 4.20am.i’m finally tired enough to go to bed, my typos are getting worse and taking longer to correct so ill accept that for now till i’m fully awake again and can. maybe, think of a better one.(there must be one.lol)
NMac said:
Sauckel and Duncan-Smith – like two extremely nasty peas in a very nasty pod.
der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm Father like son …
To Rob ,a needless comment.I wasn’t aware I was taking an examination.The meaning is clear to all those willing to make the slightest attempt at understanding.You score 1/10.
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Whilst there is certainly a marked similarity in methods, Herr Sauckel does not resemble Herr Schmidt nearly as much as he looks like Will-liam Ha-ha-gue.
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We got to get rid of these B——- this year
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johndeee said:
Photoshopped and sent to Private Eye for look-alike submission…
Principle said:
Nazism was Wrong then and is Wrong Now
No to Forced Slave Labour Degradation and Deprivation
Yes to Social Justice and a Functioning Welfare State
Dillan said:
Iain Duncan Smith Will Burn in Hell , he will have no court of appeal , no Party to back him , no change of Law to save him , he can smirk and grin all he likes in this life and he can make people suffer , But it is in the next life he will pay , for some no forgiveness , He will suffer in the next life in pain for all of Eternity, you should be worried Iain Duncan Smith [Eternity = endless infinite time OF PAIN ] = Iain Duncan Smiths After-life. = Dinner for the Devil.
Catherine Hester said:
You make a good comparison, they are like two Demons in a pod. His evil Sanctions have been in place since 1985 and both the Tories and New Labour imposed these Sanctions on the Working class. I myself experienced them after falling into unemployment in 2005 after working full-time for over 20 years. I was given a healthy doze for 6 months in November 2005 and I was ready to be given another healthy doze in 2009, until I was put onto sick benefit. What he and his untermensche criminal confederates deserve is the Firecracker up the Arse of the year award, then to be rounded up, put in a field and then for the Bastards to be bombed 🙂
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ To Premiere in September – First Season To Be Split
| June 19, 2017 | By: John Duchak 208 comments so far
CBS announced today that Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on Sunday, September 24th at 8:30pm ET/PT (7:30 CT) on CBS. The first episode of Discovery will be broadcast on the CBS Television Network in the U.S. The series premiere will also be available on-demand on CBS All Access and the second episode of the series will be available on the service that same night immediately following the broadcast premiere.
CBS announced the news in an official tweet:
Discovery begins September 24. #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/F0h18l5H1g
— Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) June 19, 2017
In Canada Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on Bell Media’s CTV and the Space Channel on the same night and time as CBS in the U.S. (Sunday, September 24 at 8:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. CT). The second episode will follow immediately afterwards, only on Space. Episodes will also be available on the fairly new Space GO app, as well as Space.ca and participating On Demand channels. Discovery will also stream in Canada on CraveTV, Bell’s streaming service, with full scheduling details to be released in the coming weeks.
Netflix will launch Star Trek: Discovery on Monday, September 25 to countries outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Netflix also had their own animated announcement.
Discover the unknown. Episodes 1 & 2 of #StarTrekDiscovery available 25th of September, voyages continue weekly. pic.twitter.com/UGBMofjIO9
— Star Trek: Discovery (@StarTrekNetflix) June 19, 2017
Season 1 to be split
The first eight episodes of Discovery’s 15-episode first season will be available on CBS All Access (and Space in Canada) every Sunday between September 24th and November 5th, and on Mondays between September 25th and November 6th on Netflix outside the U.S. and Canada. The season will then resume on CBS All Access, Space and Netflix beginning in January 2018.
Note that, as the broadcast premiere on CBS falls on a Sunday, Discovery could be pushed back slightly due to NFL coverage. Viewers are advised to set their DVRs to record a few hours after Discovery’s premiere is set to finish at 9:30pm to ensure that you record the entire episode.
Updated show description focuses on one Starfleet officer’s journey
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Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself. The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
The “one Starfleet officer” referred to in the blurb is presumably Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa Martin-Green, reiterating that even though she isn’t the captain, she still is the lead character.
Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham in the Star Trek: Discovery trailer
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Star Trek: Discovery premiere poster.
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Arathorn
So they’re going with that ship design, eh?
Yes, they’re going with the design they’ve been showing off for the past year. A big surprise, I know.
All of the previous images you refer to were early teasers/concepts. Since today’s image is associated with official air-date announcement, it seems to confirm the design choice. Now go get your shine box.
Certainly looks a lot better than that horrific and ill-advised “teaser” they released last year.
Agreed – I personally think it’s still too much of a leap from the Federation aesthetic.
From what we’ve seen, but what about ships we haven’t seen from any era? Take First Contact, so many new ships introduced, and most of them vastly different from each other, the only commonalities they share design wise are primary hull, secondary hull, and nacelles. Who’s to say TOS era only had dull grey coloured ships simply because that all we were shown?
Looks slightly Egyptian and since I love ancient Egypt I’m sold on the way it looks in the promo.
And most of the new ships introduced in First Contact looked like garbage (in my opinion). Steamrunner Class? Ugh. Akira was the only exception.
John Castle
Who’s to say? Common sense. Tell me all about the last saucer shaped bright red U.S. Navy ship you saw.
Please tell me how it is a big leap from the various Federation aesthetics we’ve seen. It has a big saucer, a secondary hull, and two nacelles. That’s consistent with the Trek/Federation design aesthetic, if you ask me.
The delta wing assembly makes it look like an airplane. I think they are trying to make the ship more accessible to the masses, which I get. I just don’t care for it.
Honestly, I bet it was a matter of Trek-fan Fuller wanting to use a design with some history to it. I doubt it was about a ship more appealing to the masses. Because what could be more assessable to a mass audience than a TOS-era Enterprise?
Bob Tompkins
The design was one of the original designs for the Enterprise by Ralph McQuarrie
No they were early teasers and concepts in the sense that they wouldn’t change much which had been said by Fuller other producers on several occasions lol. Do you not keep up with Discovery news. They said it would be tweaked here, a minor change there, but the overall shape wasn’t really going to change.
To be fair, Chad, we’re actually seeing less than half the ship here, only the top view. So much we’re NOT seeing, the nacelles could very well be quite different.
But like the producers said about some changes, I don’t see why anyone would have expected any major redesign. I always took their comments to mean there might be some tweaks, some new lines, a couple of changes, contour, color, and fine detailing.
Generally I’ve been surprised by the dislike of the McQuarrie design. When the teaser was first shown my mouth dropped– I thought it was REALLY cool how they went back into Trek’s past to find this design. I thought it was a GREAT idea, and I really anticipated fans being impressed.
Goes to show you can’t predict fandom.
Not everyone likes this design. Just like not everyone liked the reboot design. People have their opinions, and always will. But it is possible to have an open conversation about it without being snarky and defensive.
Your initial comment was oozing with snark, so maybe you should take your own advice. The condescending “oh they’re going with THAT design, after all?”
But it wasn’t directed at YOU. Apparently you chose to take it personally.
Personally? Did not take it that way. Just trying to point out the ridiculousness of your initial comment, and responded with the same tone as yours.
All the previous teasers and concepts had the same basic design. They said they’d be “tweaking” it, so is it really a surprise that they are going with this basic design?
No, it sounds to me like you didn’t like it and were holding out hope they’d change it.
I don’t get your reference to a shine box. I’m guessing a condescending insult. Good for you.
Stow it, Ensign.
My god, a trekkie pissing match. Can you guys cool your egos for a nanosecond and pretend to be fans of the same universe?
There, I gave it a nanosecond– can I get back to my pissing match please?
Watch Goodfellas
Meurik
The ship they showed in the teaser, was confirmed to be a RUSH JOB. The supposed redesign had new nacelles among other things. The above poster looks identical to the one from the teaser.
I don’t know guys my guess this is the ship. I mean the show now officially premieres in 3 months. When they showed the original ship it was almost a year ago now. How can you go nearly a full year and in its big publicity shots show practically the same ship before premiere?
There are probably some differences of course but it does look like the same basic design.
Identical? That claim is laughable, considering we can barely see anything outside of the basic overall shape.
Denny C
There was no guarantee that the initial design was the design that they were ultimately going to run with. Not sure why you had to get snarky with Arathorn.
It was clear from day one that was going to be the ship– maybe with some minor tweaks. I’m not sure why anyone would expect anything drastically different, and to be surprised by what’s shown is just silly.
I wasn’t surprised, just disappointed. You’re a real piece of work aren’t you?
Disappointed despite seeing the same design in the poster three weeks ago?
Your admission of being disappointed says it all really. It has more to do with your dislike of design and hoping unreasonably that the producers would scrap a design simply to make you happy.
You’re a real piece of work, aren’t you?
Ha! Why does my disappointment with a design (that you personally had no hand in creating) upset you so much? I’m just stating an opinion. I never expected anyone to change anything based on my preference. Why would I? That’s psychotic.
John Duchak
As this is just a promo image, I wouldn’t put money on that being the final design.
It’s getting pretty late in the game though. I was holding out hope they’d get away from that delta-wing look.
With the show debuting in just three months I’m guessing that this is it. I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting for the final design but I was hoping for something a bit different.
I think that the marketing folks are working with the most up-to-date version of a Discovery model that has apparently been undergoing numerous tweaks since last Summer.
CaptJWAmick
Ya know… I didn’t like the Galaxy class design, but it grew on me. Now it’s my favorite design of all the starships that have been designed by Trek artists.
I hope so. Never liked the Stage II design influence though. Looks like a delta wing air liner combined with a TOS Klingon battlecruiser.
Corinthian7
And maybe there’s significance in that. Everything we’ve seen suggests that there will be a persistent Klingon presence on the show, we know that the pilot episodes involves a major discovery involving ancient Klingons and we’ve not (as far as I recall) seen any interior shots from the Discovery. I still think that the design will be explained by it being a hybrid ship created for an off book clandestine mission co-funded by both the Federation and the Klingon empire. The top secret nature of such a premise would also allow the Romulan problem to bypassed.
Interesting idea, but given established canon (which may be irrelevant at this point), I find such a project far-fetched. That would be like the USSR and the US building a ship together during the Cold War.
Again, all we know of the TOS era is what we have been told/shown. Is there no leap of faith with people like you? With an organization as vast as the UFP and Starfleet which makes USSR and US looks like microbes, who’s to say Discovery isn’t some kind of Fed/Klingon hybrid? You?
Yes, me. Based on common sense and established history. I’m not against what you are saying, I just find it unlikely. Relax.
I totally get your point but Klingon society is based on houses so it’s not inconceivable that the Federation could have forged an alliance with a progressive house. It’s a stretch I’ll grant you but the complex nature of Klingon politics and the fragile nature of Federation-Klingon peace in subsequent generations could provide a plausible explanation of why such an initiative remained classified.
Perhaps – we shall see :)
The River Temarc
Well, we *did* have Apollo-Soyuz. And during the Sino-Soviet conflict, the US licensed civilian B-707 production to China. That’s perhaps the more relevant comparison, since cooperation between the US and China was inspired by common opposition to the USSR.
USSR and US space program cooperation occurred throughout the Cold War:
https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/coldWarCoOp.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle–Mir_Program
I agree– I remember someone telling me it looked like a melted version of the TOS ship (I as a kid didn’t really care).
Personally, I can take or leave the ship designs. They’re fun, and cool for toys and such, but as an adult now, my focus is on a good show.
But if I’m pushed, I’ll say the design of the Discovery is cool; good not great. I like that they’ve harkened back to something from Trek’s roots, in the McQuarrie design. Shows a certain respect for the source material and history of the franchise.
I hope there is a reasonable explanation for all that extra space in the body of the ship.
CaptainSheridan
I like the USS Grissom-ish saucer design.
Finally! I can’t wait…. super excited to see what the first new trek series in decades is like. I have a good feeling about the show though, the only question left for me is whether it will debut on Netflix at three same time…
allister gourlay
Netflix in the UK next day!
Pitt Trekkie
Glad to finally have a date! Really getting excited!
Glad to finally have a date! Really getting excited about the show!
I’m excited about it too. At this point I’m interested in the big picture not the little details like ship and set design, I’m sure it’ll be great…
Curious Cadet
Split first season is good. That suggests enough confidence that viewers will want to return after the holidays. It also give the series a chance to gain good word of mouth, and allow new viewers to binge the first 8 episodes during the holidays when they have more free time to devote to it, maybe even with some free All Access passes during the holidays as a way to attract new customers to sign up in the new year for the rest of the season.
I was under the impression that the episodes will air (actually, stream) weekly, which would not allow for binging.
After early November, the first eight episodes of the season will be on CBS All Access/Netflix to binge.
A note to anyone complaining about the cost of CBS AA: there’s a 7-day free trial, and you can binge the first eight episodes on November 6th.
And thats exactly why its important for CBS to create a really good series. this isnt just rushing cheap Trek to cable and enjoying advertising dollars by targeting the small but desirable Trek audience.
They need to attract subs who dont care about advertising to each other. They care about liking a show or not liking a show. The pressure is on CBS to create a great show. Im not saying they will but I think they really want to.
I think thats why Fuller was pushed out. I think Moonves wanted more oversight. Better effects, more money spent, more episodes commissioned. Those are all good signs.
@TUP
I do agree that CBS likely was shocked at what they were getting into with Fuller. When you look at American Gods, or even Hannibal, you can tell that he’s a very visual storyteller, and that creates a large financial burden on things like sets, costumes, props, and the overall pace of the production. Fuller has been tweeting BTS tidbits during each episode of American Gods, and I’m astounded at the amount of detail that can go into the simplest scene.
Equally as important, I think, was Fuller’s commitment to American Gods. Discovery was originally supposed to start shooting last September, but Fuller was involved in show running and writing for American Gods until they wrapped the first season in late October. I’m sure Fuller loved the idea of doing both shows, but practically it wasn’t going to work if CBS wanted to meet their January release date. CBS had announced Discovery and they weren’t going to keep pushing it back to accommodate Fuller. The transition after Fuller left pushed production back even more, and May was always an optimistic date to premiere the show.
As it appears they’re only shooting episode six now, there’s absolutely no way they could finish all 15 episodes by September, or even November. They seem to be running at a pace of one episode per month, whereas most shows that run 10-13 episodes usually finish two per month.
Yeah it interesting. id like to more about the Fuller split. Because there was speculation that Moonves didnt like the quality coming out and actually changed SFX providers to a better group.
Yes it will STREAM weekly but like every streaming site once the episode streams it will be left up there so if people want to wait until November they can join then and just watch the first eight episodes.
I fully plan to do just that– on 11/6, get my 1-week trial. If the show is good, I’ll gladly spend $10 a month come January. I’ll probably cancel after Discovery ends, but who knows, maybe I like the rest of their content.
Originally, I got Netflix back in 2010 I think so I could binge-watch LOST before the final season (had never seen the show). Ended up really enjoying the service and content and figured for $7 a month it was worth it to entertain my family, kids, etc.
Exactly, thats what they want you to do….and then get you hooked lol.
For example I actually signed up for Netflix 3 times lol. I watched the site the first two times for free and then cancelled (had two different credit cards). Then Daredevil came on and I decided to stop being a cheap skate and subscribed paying for that month BUT with the intent I would just cancel it after DD again. Only this time I didn’t and that was over 2 years ago now. Before I would just watch the shows I signed up to watch and never bothered after that. But then once I just got use to having it full time I really loved it because I searched out movies and shows I normally wouldn’t watch without it.
But there is nothing wrong if people want to just binge watch Discovery and cancel. Thats the contract, CBS knows this. They ALL know this, but notice they all make it super easy to sign up again even after you cancel. I was sure that Netflix would at least charge me for reactivating but nope. Its like I had never left and it was about a year since I used it.
This is why there are more and more chord cutters today. Streaming just makes everything easier and more in control. I don’t have to talk to someone over the phone trying to convince me why cancelling a movie channel is wrong and will be a curse on my kids. Streaming is just more ease and if the service isn’t up to your liking, cancel it and move on.
Thats what I can’t get about all this whining? They give you a FREE week to try it out. NO ONE is even being forced to pay to watch it from the beginning. If you try it for free and its not working, you still got to see the show for free and not paid a dime for it, so relax.
The free week is worthless. (Not sure this needs to be said but… from my perspective) Not sure what you can learn from having the service for a week. Most should know what they are getting when they sign up. Why do you need a week to determine it? Usually those freebies require you to actively cancel your account else it automatically starts charging. I’ve always felt it should be the other way around. Automatically cut it off. If the service is a great as they think it is, customers will WANT to make the effort to start being charged.
There are cord cutters because cable rates have gone up and up. Many people realize they probably watch the over the air channels more than the cable channels. If there are things on cable they want to watch (perhaps The Americans or Fargo) iand they are patient they can catch it on Netflix in the form of discs or streaming. Which is all fine. Everyone has their breaking point. I have friends who have cut their cords. I still haven’t as I still think I get a far better deal from cable. It’s subjective. But cable providers have indeed felt it. I haven’t cut the cord because I still find cable to be easier and I get more control. Plus, there are still things I enjoy that can only be found through cable. That may change in the future however. But it’s how it is now.
What you learn in a week is whether you want to keep it for another week…or two weeks…or month…etc.
I mean, that’s pretty obvious…
Also, here we have a guy who complains repeatedly about how streaming technology is crap and there has never been a good stream for anything. Claims he would only consider watching All Access if a group of friends go in for a $9 membership and share it. And now saying the FREE week preview is “worthless”.
Well it’s free. Do you now want CBS to PAY you to watch it?
For crying out loud, this is getting ridiculous with some people.
Dude… Why are you taking this off topic? You really want to go down THAT road again? Where you look like someone who just can’t let things go? Really?
Why would you know that AFTER you sign up for the service? Don’t you know what you are getting into BEFORE you sign up?
I follow WWE pretty closely (as I am in the same industry) and the retention thing is really fascinating. They have a lot of success with the free trial period in retaining X amount of subscribers. The number swing wildly but if you offer free trial quarterly and at the end, you retain any of those people, you’re slowly expanding your subscriber base.
One of the things that made Netflix explode was the free trial included in purchase of new TV’s. That was a HUGE HUGE thing/
I suggest people read Netflixed (especially ML31).
Dude… We know why they do the free trial with automatic starting after. Because most people will just not make the effort to unsubscribe. That is why they will NEVER automatically cut the service off and have the people actively subscribe to keep it going. You retain more subscribers that way.
I think a lot of people already know that. You come across less arrogant when you give people the benefit of the doubt.
I could swear I read that CBS has said you wouldn’t be able to do that. You can only binge if you were a subscriber for the period in which the episodes originally streamed.
I’d be curious to read that statement, because frankly, I’ve never heard of any kind of restriction like that on any service, and wonder what kind of coding that would require to implement in the UI.
Exactly, Torch. Its hilarious hearing the people talk about how terrible this is and how worthless it is etc.
I remember when no one got HBO (unless you loved boxing) and then Sopranos hit and people would get it for 13 weeks and cancel. And then other shows came out…
When the content is there to make it worth keeping, people will keep it. If its not, they wont. People are failing to see that this set up is the best chance for long term Trek on TV since probably TNG was syndicated. Its really really good for Star Trek.
The fact people want high quality Trek and complain about $7 a month is hilarious.
That’s an odd time for a “one hour” drama.
So it is a 60 minute premiere followed by a second 60 minute episode (give or take a few minutes with it being made for streaming)?
And would that mean Netflix and us Canadians will get two episodes that very night?
The 8:30 pm start time is because it’s falling an NFL football double header, which usually creates some overrun into the primetime hours.
@TUP,
Per the official Trek site viewers in Canada will get two episodes on September 24 on Space Channel, after that one episode every week.
@Ahmed – excellent. Thank you!
I think its a bit silly to air the first episode on TV in America but then the second episode on AA the same night. I guess its smart in a way it will force people to watch AA that night but at least we don’t have to wait a week for the second episode. And its still cool it will be a 2 hour premiere for everyone! And then we get 13 episodes after that. Not bad.
I suspect the first episode airs on a major cliffhangar with information to immediately subscribe to AA to see the conclusion.
Imagine if this existed for Best of Both Worlds. Riker orders “fire” and the screen fades to black with instructions to watch the conclusion online. It will be something like that, probably the Shenzhou blowing up.
Yeah you’re probably right. Its just crazy its being done this way. Again smart. And actually now that I think about it, no one is being forced to pay for the second hour since the firs week is free anyway.
But I think it would annoy people if it was a cliffhanger and THEN they are forced to watch the second half.
I meant pay to watch the second half.
Netflix viewers outside the US and Canada will get the first two episodes on September 25th.
I worry the problem with this show will not be it’s quality but distribution. Sunday premiere during the NFL Season followed by episodes streamed on CBS Access in the United States.
Sundays where CBS has the late NFL games are always nights where it has higher ratings and viewership.
So, no two-hours pilot?
Only if you have All Access. Only the first episode will be broadcast on CBS.
@John Duchak
“Only if you have All Access.”
Or live in Canada!
What is this ‘Canada’ you speak of? :P
DIGINON
@ Ahmed: Or live in the rest of the world and have NetFlix.
General Kael
I live in Canada and I don’t have cable.
@General Kael
Then you need to subscribe to Bell’s CraveTV streaming service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CraveTV
http://www.lfpress.com/2016/01/14/cravetv-now-available-to-all-canadians
Unless you have Space in Canada then its not automatic you can watch the show either.
I hope they rethink the 1 episode per week idea going forward after season 1. Let your viewers binge. It’s part of the main appeal of most streaming services.
That’s primarily a Netflix/Amazon practice. Hulu, for example, releases episodes of their original series on a weekly basis. I’d argue that the main appeal of streaming services are premium original content.
“I’d argue that the main appeal of streaming services are premium original content.”
Not sure why are you discounting binge-watching, it’s basically the main reason why people watch shows on streaming services like Netflix.
I do find the idea that CBS not only will release ‘Discovery’ episodes on weekly basis but also split the season is rather ridiculous.
I would suspect binging is the minority. Certainly, Id agree most people would watch a series quicker than one episode a week. But the people who sit down on premiere day and watch 12-15 episodes have to be in the minority.
I like having the option. I think we took three days to watch OITNB a couple weeks ago. Im still working my way through House of Cards.
As a Trek fan, I’d “Binge” Discovery but not 15 straight episodes. Probably over a long weekend. But you’d still have people who’d watch it over the course of a couple weeks, couple months.
I’ve been a Netflix subscriber for a long time and rarely binge watch. Even with a relentlessly suspenseful show like “Breaking Bad” I managed to limit my intake to one episode per week, on the theory that if I’m really enjoying something, why not spread that enjoyment out?
Or, maybe I’m just getting old.
I’m not completely discounting binge-watching. I think the ability to watch or catch up on a show that a viewer missed during its original broadcast is huge. However, the competing services have realized for years that retaining subscriptions isn’t only about the depth of their catalogs, but also the amount of exclusive content they can deliver.
I feel I like I can remember a lot more of the show, and to some degree enjoy it more when stretched across day or even a couple weeks.
The biggest factor though is whether the show is a single story across the entire season or individual stand-alone stories. Stand-alone stories are just fine spread across a few months, but I’ve really grown to despise the single season story when it’s artificially split into weekly episodes. I still blame LOST for making that popular. Once all the episodes are available though it’s not bad if you can watch them across a week or two max.
Also, the binging thing works for Netflix because that was one of the big appeals of their service. They use it as a hook. HBO doesnt let you binge and never has. Works for them.
I think CBSAA might go the binge route eventually. But in the early going they need to spread out their fans. Until they build up their library of original content, anyway.
And for us Canadians who get it on cable, I imagine BELL would not want it fully released online while they were doing a one per week release.
HBO Now certainly does let you binge.
True, but HBO would never drop a season of one of its currently-running shows all at once.
I think there is a gap over the definition of binging. What TUP means is that not all episodes are released at once. But ALL streaming sites allow binging once the episodes are up. We are really talking about the release schedule of weekly vs a season all at once.
Actually, not ALL streaming sites allow binging once the episodes are up. Where I live, The Leftovers is shown on Sky Ticket. However, they only allow streaming of new episodes for 1 month after initial broadcast. Since the season has 8 episodes in total (one every other week) you cannot wait until all episodes are up because by that time the first half of the season will be gone. I think they will do something similar for Game of Thrones when it airs in July.
I get you but again thats a bit different because Sky doesn’t own The Leftovers. I’m really talking about the pay sites and/or where the shows are licensed to run for a long time if not outright owned.
Thats why you PAY for those sites in the first place. But I understand your point, not everyone automatically does it but yes it probably gets trickier with sites that license shows vs the ones that owns them.
Yes, exactly what I meant.
Anthony Thompson
Who has the time to binge-watch? An out of work Trumpkin?
Binge watching isn’t exclusively watching an entire season in one go. When Daredevil was first released I watch 3-4 episodes after work that Friday night, and the rest over the next week. Consider a normal show would be one episode a week, i’d say that still qualifies as bing watching.
I watched season one of LEGION on Hulu over the course of about two weeks.
I have never watched a show in its entirety in one sitting. I dont think most people have unless we are talking one season. I think most people just mean they watch a few episodes a day until they are done. That could be a week or a few weeks but my guess is that is what the average person does.
The first show I ever ‘binged watched’ was BSG a few years ago. I saw the first episode and was hooked lol. I watched it every hour of the day I could. I stayed up late every night to watch it. The entire weekend I did nothing but watch it. And even then it took me a little over 2 weeks to watch it all and that was only a four season show.
Trek in a Cafe
What is that sound! :)
Tapered pylons instead of a solid triangle. Better. Now, just take the roulette slots off the saucer section.
I should say, the pylons look more tapered or streamlined, not as bulky as the teaser video and not the Aztecs in Space look of the 70’s design.
endeavourcrew
Although if u look u can clearly see the “Aztec designs” all over the ship similar to other ST ships. I would fall out of my chair if they put a ball-shaped laser cannon in the middle of the roulette and it slid around the saucer to shoot at targets……lol
SpiderBat
I like the overall silhouette. Surface aztecing is a bit much, but this is still an “artist interpretation.” Very interesting…
Corylea
Woo hoo! I’m very psyched for the new show!
The announcement on the Star Trek home page says that Star Trek Discovery will include a “Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.” I gotta say, that sounds as if it could be the thoughtful Trek I’ve been hoping for!
Snugglepuffxlz
I’m curious about the show so I’ll fork out for the CBS All Access on this one but that ship is still ugly.
‘Discovery’ schedule for Canadians:
Space Channel will launch the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery on Sunday, September 24 at 8:30 PM ET. The first eight episodes will run from Sunday, September 24 through Sunday, November 5. The season will then resume with the second chapter in January 2018.
Every episode will also be available to Space subscribers on the newly launched Space GO app, in addition to being available on Space.ca and participating On Demand channels. Star Trek: Discovery will also stream exclusively in Canada on CraveTV, with full scheduling details to be released in the coming weeks.
http://www.startrek.com/article/star-trek-discovery-sets-premiere-date
Yay! I use CraveTV. Actually all I use is Netflix and CraveTV and iTunes. Who needs cable?
@General Kael,
How’s your experience with CraveTV? I was planning to get it because of ‘Discovery’ but heard some complaints about their service, UI and limited library content.
John in Canada, eh?
I haven’t signed up for it yet, but I have friends who use Crave more than Netflix. Their app works with Chromecast, so that’s their primary UI. Library content is actually impressive, if you accept their focus is ‘TV shows’ & not movies. 9 seasons of Doctor Who, all Trek, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Smallville, Dead Like Me, Agents of SHIELD, The Expanse, Orphan Black, Class… and that’s just from their Sci Fi section.
The only complaints I’ve heard is that they make it hard to cancel the service after the free trial.
With subscriptions to Netlfix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime I’m not willing to pay for CBS All Access just to watch a new Star Trek series – – and I’m a huge Star Trek fan. After waiting this long for a new series I can wait another year until it starts streaming elsewhere in the U.S. on a service I’m already subscribing to.
Yah. Let’s see you maintaining that resolve after the first few episodes air and the reviews turn out to be fantastic! :)
I’d just like to point out that CBS AA offers a seven-day free trial, so you can binge the first eight episodes on November 6th for free, and likely the whole season in 2018.
Let’s say you purchase a subscription to CBS AA…let’s see how much that’ll cost you for the whole season:
Standard Subscription: $5.99/mo. If you start it on September 24th and cancel on November 6th, and do the same in 2018 for the remaining seven episodes, you’ll end up paying $23.96 for four months of service. That’s about $1.60 per episode.
Commercial-free: $10.99/mo. Same deal as above. Four months would cost $39.96. About $2.66 per episode.
Let’s hope they don’t expire the episodes after 5 weeks (until just before season 2)
or something the way CW and other cable channels do.
Jeff thats apples and oranges. The ENTIRE reason for AA is the idea that their content will be up all the time forever. Thats reason why you pay in the first place. CBS is trying to keep a domain where ALL their shows can be viewed all in one place at any time, ala Netflix and Amazon.
The issue with CW for example is they have a deal with Netflix (and maybe others) in place and where most of their shows run after the season ends. Thats why so many of those expire because they have deals with other streaming companies to run those reruns. And you don’t pay for those streaming sites like you do AA, they are included free if you already have the channel and obviously everyone access to CW site if they live in America.
In Discovery’s case there will be nowhere else to watch it BUT All Access. Thats the point, it will be exclusive to that site only so it will have to be available to viewers all year, especially if you want to get new viewers throughout the year.
And just for reference, all episodes of The Good Fight have all 10 episodes up to watch anytime.
It is a Streaming service. CBS could easily flag your account that you can only watch one previously unviewed episode each week unless you were already a subscriber at the time the episode was released. I suspect they’ll do exactly that.
Based on what?? WHo does that now? Why are people so concerned CBS is trying to screw everyboday lol. Unless Netflix, Amazon or Hulu does anything like that, I have no idea why CBS would? Especially in tough competition. You want them to have all the access to all the shows. That is the ENTIRE point of paying. Who would subscribe to a streaming site but then have limits of how many times you can watch an episode? Whats the point?
Id be surprised if they did that. Its the same for other services. You can take the Netflix free month and binge your favorite shows and cancel.
You can get WWE Network for free for 3 months and watch WrestleMania and then cancel. But the numbers show that while X amount always cancel, they always retain some of the freebies so their over-all subscriber base slowly increases over time.
I think a lot of people who watch Netflix occasionally end up keeping it just because the price point is such that its easier to keep it then to cancel and re-subscribe over and over again.
I understand the people who say they already pay for 2 or 3 services. In that respect Streaming is becoming an expense rather then a way to save money by cable cutting. But this is the way its going.
It will all be delivered this way eventually and the prices will eventually work themselves out.
A lot of the regular cable channels were Pay TV channels when they launches years ago and eventually got transitioned into regular packages. Perhaps one day, an Internet Provider can offer a “streaming package” where for one fee, you get access to various streaming services.
This business model is the best chance Trek has had since TNG was syndicated. It has the opportunity to create a strongly budgeted, strongly supported premium-style TV show that lasts years and years.
” Perhaps one day, an Internet Provider can offer a “streaming package” where for one fee, you get access to various streaming services.”
Color me stunned. You’ve just displayed the ability to understand something I’ve already said. I’ve been saying that for years now. For many months on this site in various threads. And here you are parroting back my concept.
I highly doubt they’ll make Discovery available on Hulu or Netflix or Amazon. It’ll surely be on DVD/BR, but I unless it flops I don’t see them flipping it onto another service.
But all three of those services, btw, are just $30/m. That’s still less than a quarter of the average cable bill!
Adam E
Once an episode arrives on All Access does it stay there? Or… Can I wait until the entire season is there, pay for one month (or free trial) and binge it?
Yes. Once an episode airs, you can rewatch previously aired episodes (or catch up on those you missed). It’s just like Hulu…weekly releases, but you can binge anything you haven’t watched.
Scott Tiberius
I can’t wait. All access or not. Just happy to have Trek back.
So basically, they passed on the opportunity to air the first episode on the 6th of September?
I guess that after the lacklustre celebration of the 50th anniversary last year, I shouldn’t be surprised. Still, it’s a shame.
BringBackKirkPrime
It’s a shame. I do want to watch this show, but I’m not getting a streaming service for it. I have enough of them.
I’d wager your attitude, Bringback, is not unique. I’ve encountered a number of people who feel the same way. In my humble opinion, cbs is making a mistake with the streaming ONLY aspect of the show. The more I hear about this the more it reminds me of the DIVX fiasco from 20 years ago. But time will tell….
They should just give it away for free. If they really want lots of people to see it, give it away. Sure, it would be cancelled after one episode because it made no money, but hey, thats not important.
I’d be interested to find out how many hundreds and thousands of dollars some of these people have tied up in memorabilia, yet are unwilling to pay $6/month to watch the actual namesake show.
My lunch cost me $8-10 a day. Its amazing how much whining over a site that’s A. The price of a Starbucks frap B. Don’t have to sign up all year for and B. Can cancel any time.
And again, first world problems because if you are THAT bothered then just cancel Netflix, Amazon, Hulu or whatever you have for a month and sign up to AA. If your budget is THAT tight, this isn’t rocket science. I laugh at people who treats these streaming sites like its cable as if you have a 2 year contract with these channels. Its a month long agreement, thats IT!
And yet people act like they are suddenly taking on a whole new responsibility over it. This is probably the best way to put it. With cable, you are leasing to watch those channels. With streaming, you are renting it. Thats the difference. One requires a longer term contract, the other gives you more options how long you want to keep it but its a lot more temporary.
I’m sure they could get commercial advertisers to pay if the show is good and drew numbers on the broadcast side. That would still be free in as much as Scorpion and MacGyver are free.
Jeff there are now over 70 shows that are exclusively streaming shows and that number naturally gets higher every year. Probably within the next 5 years that number will double. This is the future. Actually its the present.
And sure they could do that, the issue isn’t JUST about commercial advertisers, its the way people watch the shows today and sadly most ads make the most of their money when a show is aired live but time delay viewing is becoming a bigger issue meaning that shows are making less and less money on networks….thanks to streaming. They are trying to think ahead of the curve. Network TV is not going away but in another decade it will look different than today.
@Jeff then why do Netflix and Amazon bother with their original shows? If they’re good and draw viewers, couldn’t they get advertisers and put them on broadcast TV?
Apples and oranges torch. Netflix is a streaming service. Not a broadcast network. The only way they can get their programming out there is on their own stream. CBS, on the other hand, has not only other cable channels that are readily available, but they have an over the air network in place. They have many options to get this thing out there and still turn a profit.
@ML31 and CBSAA is a streaming service, not a broadcast network.
Im flabbergasted that so many people fail to comprehend this. You just want a Trek TV show delivered in the way that is cheapest and easiest for you. Think!
AND… It’s part of the Columbia Broadcasting System. They have arms in a lot of media. Including Showtime networks as previously mentioned. CBSAA is not a standalone company not affiliated with anything else. I’m stunned anyone still thinks that.
(Notice I am not adding some childish put down here crying about what someone wants when the reality is I have no idea)
@Jeff – that’s not the business model. Im sure Netflix could get advertisers for OITNB too but thats not their model.
The future is streaming. CBS is trying to get on that train before its too late. This is a great thing for Star Trek
No one said anything about free, Henny Penny.
Same difference. Also, good work with the rhyming. You’re evolving.
So… Claiming they should give it away for free is the same thing as no one saying they should give it away for free….
OhhhhKaaaaayyyyy……
We should probably remember: CBS didn’t commit to a Star Trek show, and then decide to air it on their streaming service. CBS committed to their streaming service, and then decided a Star Trek show would be a good way to induce a huge existing fan base to subscribe.
Not surprising at all that they will split the season. Never considered that tactic on CBS’s part.
How is it a tactic? Its pretty common. Especially if the series airs on Sundays, they will be taking the football season off.
I realise you assume CBS is always out to get you but geez
‘How is it a tactic? Its pretty common.”
Nope. Neither Netflix nor Amazon split their original show. They didn’t do it with ‘House of Cards’ the Marvel shows or ‘The Man in the High Castle’. CBS is treating ‘Discovery’ as it is still a network TV, which it’s not.
Yes but all those shows are released at once so it is very different. CBS is treating this show more of a network show airing it weekly but I guess because it is a network. So in that sense it IS pretty common for CBS but that said The Good Fight and Big Brother were all released weekly without any breaks so it is odd.
Trek fan 67
AMC and HBO have split their seasons. Just because Netflix doesn’t, doesn’t mean it isn’t common.
@Trek fan 67,
Apples and oranges. Unlike Netflix and Amazon, AMC and HBO are TV cable channels and not streaming services.
Doesnt really matter. its common within the TV industry. They want the focus on their show not Football, not the Holidays. It creates hype (The Walking Dead really creates a sense of anticipation for both the season premier and mid season premier).
nscates
You all realize that if they didn’t split the season then we’d likely have to wait until January for them to release it in full, right?
Personally, I’d rather be watching in September…
Exactly nscartes!
I think what CBS isn’t telling us is that all the episodes simply won’t be ready in time so this what they are doing instead. Now that may not be the case but since we all know at this point this production has been pretty chaotic to say the least they might be afraid not everything will be ready or just give themselves some breathing room to finish up the remainder episodes.
But no at this point I wouldn’t be surprised. The show has already been delayed 9 months and its clear they didn’t want to delay a third time no matter what.
It also gives them the opportunity to milk a few more subscriptions. Most will not stop subscribing for the break. Fairly clever on their end.
It kinda does matter. Streaming product has always been treated differently than the over the air product. It’s quite common for there to be breaks in a season over the air. They also have 20-24 episodes a season. The cable series’ and streaming shows have much less and the streaming shows (as far as I can see among those few that have been released weekly) do not have in season breaks. Most cable series’ will not have in season breaks. There have been rare exceptions but it has not been the norm. In the cases I have seen they have officially said it was the 2nd half of a season but the break was so long it pretty much felt like the next season to the viewer. So in that respect, there is little difference I guess…
It’s pretty common for broadcast tv. Not for steaming shows. It is a tactic designed to minimize subscribers from joining just for Trek, then canceling. Most will probably not go through the hassle of canceling during the break only to join up again later.
You don’t realize anything of the sort. No one is saying cbs is out to get anyone. Only that this is a move designed to keep subscribers for a little longer. It suggests a fear that they will not have enough content or content of worth for the Trek subscribers to stick around. It’s really pretty obvious. Even for those who do not follow the industry that closely.
Exactly, its pretty common.
This is a CBS project and they likely see the benefit to not showing new episodes during a heavy TV period like Football season or a down period like the holidays. Makes sense.
People are free to cancel whenever they want so its not some nefarious plot to trick you into subscribing longer. You might fall for it, others wont. And yet even more might not get so antsy about the few bucks a month and keep the sub.
It is not indicative of fear at all. if they dont have content after 15 weeks to keep a sub, they dont have content after 8 weeks either. Whats the difference?
You really dont understand.
Did you even read what you were responding to?
“Exactly, its pretty common. ”
No, I said it was NOT common for streaming.
“This is a CBS project and they likely see the benefit to not showing new episodes during a heavy TV period like Football season ”
And yet the first batch of episodes will do exactly that.
“People are free to cancel whenever they want so its not some nefarious plot to trick you into subscribing longer.”
I wouldn’t call it nefarious. But it is a business tactic designed to retain more subscribers than they would have. It’s because most people are lazy. They won’t unsubscribe for the break. Some will. CBS know this. Go back to the days of over the air programming… They would schedule a show to premiere after a very popular one. Why? Because back then people were too lazy to change channels. There was an audience retention in doing so. Similar concept here. It’s the same reason companies offer freebies that automatically start charging. They get more money that way.
If you still don’t understand I can try to explain it in a different way…
This is common. Practically every TV show on the broadcast side takes the Christmas season off and returns in January. This probably also gives them more time to complete the final few episodes of the season.
@Jeff,
‘Discovery’ is NOT a broadcast show, it’s streaming show therefore it is not common at all to split a streaming show.
Hauke Fischer
Netflix split The Getdown into two chunks.
‘The Get Down’ was an outlier and Netflix canceled it after just one season.
Really? Did not know that. And thats odd for Netflix since all their shows are released at once. So do they release one half of the season in one swoop and the other half later?
I’m not sure cancelling The Get Down can be attributed to splitting the season. The split also had a narrative reason, as the second half took place more than a year later within the story.
According to Deadline, one of the primary reasons for the cancelation was director Baz Lurhman’s unwillingness to commit to being full-time director on a second season, something both Netflix and Sony were adamant about.
@Ahmed,
AMC & HBO have split seasons too. Just because netflix doesn’t split their season doesn’t mean it isn’t common place.
Personally, I hate split seasons. On television it feels to me like a manufactured way to create buzz, as season premieres and finales tend to draw more viewers. So hey, create and market a “mid season finale” and “mid season premiere” and now we get FOUR instead of two!
For streaming, you might think that might not matter, but considering a LOT of people show up on day one to binge watch, the split season for Trek provides TWO opportunities (at the end of the 8th week, and end of the season) to pay for one month and binge watch the half seasons.
I think it’s more to avoid traditional downturn in TV viewership over the Holidays.
Or to combat the issue of diminishing returns when you inevitably play repeats. Its a new way to do that…by building to a mid season finale and then going away and coming back with hype.
Its always been this way, even when a season was 24+ episodes. They’d air a few, then repeats, then a few more, then pre-empted for something, then repeats, then a few more.
I have no issue with it.
There are series that are barely 8 or nine episodes long, especially in the world of premium series’. So in a way we’re almost getting two season’s in one.
It’s streaming. That sort of thing is not really an issue. I guess there is less watching over the holidays but people can still watch when convenient for them. Wasn’t that part of the beauty of streaming? So there is no reason to break the season for holidays or the NFL or whatever. Just keep ’em coming. Subscribers will watch when and where they like. The main reason for the break is to retain subscribers for a bit longer. There are other reasons sure. But that is certainly an important reason.
BTw.. Just because you are incapable of explaining your twisted views doesn’t mean other people aren’t capable of explaining how they think to me. Most of the time, I get where the other person is coming from. If not, I ask questions. And am civil to them.
Dont try to explain anything to ML31. He doesnt get it.
It’s not a broadcast show, but it’s being released on a weekly basis like one, instead of all at once. It’s common for weekly released shows to take the Christmas season off when they are following the Fall premiere schedule. Unless of course they actually run out of episodes or fail.
The thing that nobody has mentioned is that splitting a season allows the production to ‘get ahead’ of the broadcast schedule.
It’s been widely covered that they only have about 6 shows in the can at the moment. If they didn’t break in November, they would run out of finished episodes to show. The break gives them time to finish post on the remaining batch of shows. The Netflix model would require them to complete the whole thing before anything is seen.
Plus, I doubt CBS wants to wait that long to see if they have a hot property or a dud on their hands. If it’s an abysmal failure, they could scale back the remaining episodes, cutting post budgets, etc, so that they could get out as cheaply as possible. Hopefully that’s not how this plays out, but I’m sure the CBS board of directors would like that option.
Also lets not forget they added two additional episodes that weren’t planned until later. They are clearly taking their time with this show and thats a GOOD thing people. CBS wants it done right because they know if they blow this both AA and the future of Trek in general could be in trouble. Let’s just be happy that they are trying to turn out the best product they can and based on the trailer for ME anyway it looks like they are headed in the right direction even if I don’t love it all.
Darrell Rice
I like how they incorporated tiny delta shields in the gold inset at the sides of the uniform top (Kind of like the tiny deltas included on the uniform tunics on the
Kelvin timeline reboot). Not crazy about rank “pips” on the actual delta badge worn on the uniform – probably better to denote rank on the sleeve if this is a TOS prequel …
“… learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.”
Okay… OKAY! Now we’re cooking. That line is Star Trek in a nutshell.
Can’t friggin wait.
Excited for the show. The skin of the ship looks cool, but that shape. Good night that’s fugly.
Yeah its sadly still very ugly. I guess we’re stuck with it.
Enterprise D is one ugly ship. Always has been. Too top heavy. Hated the design when it came out, so did a lot of people.
OK? That still doesn’t change the fact many think this ship is ugly as sin.
Yea I dislike the silly triangle too. At least its similar to traditional designs with the saucer and nacelles. Maybe it will grow on us.
It brings perspective, though, I’ll admit. While many (like me) love the Enterprise D, this goes to show that many ships throughout Trek are not beloved.
And to me this says “get over it, it’s not some travesty and doesn’t mean the show will be bad.”
At best it could also be interpreted as “even the worst designs will grow on you.”
I was not a fan of the Enterprise D. I thought the rounded nacelles looked like the back end of an ’87 Ford Taurus. Not a good aesthetic.
This ship looks a little better IMO, but is no where near as pretty as the Enterprise Refit/Enterprise A. That ship was gorgeous!
Probably no need to set the DVR or pay attention to the broadcast premiere if it’s streaming online also.
I mean there’s really only two view points I can think of:
1. you are fine paying their monthly fee for streaming, in which case why bother with the commercial filled recording.
2. you do mind paying, in which case why get interested in the first episode if you aren’t going to watch the rest.
People still use DVR?
Yeah. For OTA and some live shows.
Yeah. The DVR is awesome. The only thing I ever watch “live” anymore are sporting events. All non sporting events are recorded. It’s great zipping past commercials and watching stuff when it’s easy and convenient for me.
So wait? CBS might delay the first new Star Trek episode in over a decade to show a football game? Football’s on all the time. Football fans can miss one game for the premiere of Discovery.
The right s to air football games costs more than making Discovery
Their football ratings are huge though. And this is a tactic networks do all the time, air their big football premieres with a new high profile show in the hope the audience who watches football stay for the show. They do that with the Superbowl every year. So this is CBS way of trying to get huge viewership, especially when Sundays are generally a big night of TV watching in general. If they aired it Friday at 9, that wouldn’t be a great sign lol.
Yeah, but they could end the game early for Star Trek.
LOL I don’t think you work in TV. ;)
Them airing it after a big nationally televised game on a Sunday is a big deal, and shows they have confidence in the show– or at least they are placing a lot of importance on it being seen. It’s a highly coveted prime time spot, so devoting it to Trek is actually pretty cool if you ask me.
Exactly! This is a big positive not a negative. It shows CBS is pulling out all the stops. And lets not forget they are going to advertise this thing to death. Star Trek and football, two great American institutions. ;)
DataMat
A lot of younger people like myself tend to watch shows on catch up or record for later. I myself quite rarely watch tv live anymore. I hate the adverts as much as anything else!
JNewman79
the ship looks more like a pizza cutter lol
I hope that’s not the final design because it’s awful. Doesn’t fit with other ships in that era.
And that’s a good thing!
For f***’s sake, couldn’t they just NOT? The whole “promise them a prequel and then totally shaft them on that” thing wasn’t enough when they did it with Enterprise? Wasn’t enough when they did it with JJTrek? They’re gonna do it AGAIN?
Can’t wait 😊 I was a teenager when Srar Trek first came on TV never missed it . And all the shows that came in between now I am going to be watching a new show with my Grandkids how cool is that. Always a Fan!!!
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ELKAE Release New Single “Conflictus”
Conflictus is a sassy electronic pop song that captures the inner conflict at the crossover point in which the dreamer in you dies and you become a realist in relationship expectations and love. ELKAE explores a heavier side to her electronic soul sound and vocals with this powerful pop track. Conflictus rounds off the story of ELKAEs two previous releases: SOLD the first date, I FEEL – the progression and now Conflictus, the exploration of the mindset as the relationship comes to an end.
ELKAE is a Dublin based emerging electronic soul artist, songwriter and producer. Bass and synth driven beats run parallel to her powerful soulful voice to consume the listener and immerse them in her world. Her music can’t be put in a box or refined to any one genre, it’s a blend of electronic, soul, pop with a funky edge. ELKAE has been noted for her high energy entertaining live performances with her 5 piece band.
After launching in Summer 2018, electronic soul pop sensation ELKAE went on to play Electric Picnic and release her debut single, ‘Sold’, which made to the Spotify playlist “A Breath of Fresh Eire” that has accumulated over 20k streams on Spotify. ELKAE played to a sold out crowd at The Sound House in her debut headline, she was SPIN103.8’s “One To Watch” on Plan B and received national and international radio play. She has been featured on the likes of Hot Press, Nialler9, The Irish Times, Remy, IMRO, The Last Mixed Tape, and was a top 10 finalist in the IMRO Christy Hennessy Songwriting competition 2018.
ELKAE then went onto release her second single “I Feel” on the 24th of April 2019. “I Feel” was featured on the above music blogs and also got her first International coverage in the USA (TrippleX music blog) and the UK (DiscoverNu) & was shared by La Belle Musique (France 2.2m total followers). “I Feel” was also added to new Irish radio stations “PLAY IRISH” ‘A List’ and named 1 of 10 must listen to tracks among artists such as The Cranberries, Gavin James, Le Boom, AE MAK, Loah and Mango x MathMan.
Over the Summer ELKAE has been featured in 2 issues of both The Irish Times and Hot Press Magazine, and named “an exciting new force in Irish Music.”. ELKAE also secured festival slots at Bloom, Indiependence and We’ve only just begun in which she played just before Wyvern Lingo on Whelans Main Stage.
ELKAE has been announced as one of the 50 acts to play at Ireland Music Weeks showcase in October 2019
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The marginalization, polarization etc. Most of these problems facing
primary objective of this paper is to explore and find an answer to the
question of whether the commons is the most optimal property arrangement to
protect scarce resources and make underused resources available for use and
innovation. It will analyze the common property regime whether it can
potentially be used as the optimal property model or not. Central to this discussion is the term ‘optimal’
because it will serve as the baseline and focal point for analyzing the commons
as a property arrangement vis-à-vis other forms property arrangements in the
context stated above. For the purposes and scope of this essay the term
‘optimal’ would be conceptualized as the equitable distribution of, and access
to resources. Here optimality of a property regime would be assessed on the
potentiality and ability of such property regime to provide and support a
broader participation of people in terms of access and distribution of
Hardin’s infamous article “The Tragedy of the Commons” in 1968 has tremendously
impacted global thinking on how resources should be managed and exploited. It has greatly informed the rationale behind
policy formulations and development guideline in most countries thereby
initiating policies to prioritize private or state control over resources
rather than leaving them open for the community to use. The article has enjoyed
considerable influence on resource policy framework around the globe. The
international community and influential global institutions such as the World
Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) etc. have favoured and supported privatization as the best resource regime to
accelerate global economic growth and development. These institutions have
initiated and developed policies around this model to better the lives of
inhabitants on the planet. Despite the efforts made by these powerful
institutions over years to achieve and sustain economic growth and development
around the globe, many communities in the world especially developing countries
are still faced with serious predicaments such as poverty, hunger,
malnutrition, diseases, illiteracy, marginalization, polarization etc. Most of
these problems facing the world are directly or indirectly rooted in the
inequitable distribution and access to basic resources. If the world is still
faced with these challenges despite the supposed prospects of private property
arrangement, then one emphatically say that the regime has failed dramatically
or it has not yielded the expected results. Hence there is a great need to find
a more comprehensive and pragmatic policy framework which will find a better
solution to the problem of inequity in the distribution and access to most
basic resources. It is for this reason that, there is a need to understand the
role property regimes play in distribution and access to resources and how the
dominant forms of property arrangement have been principally unsympathetic and
in many cases catalysts for aggravating the problem of inequity in the
distribution and access to basic resources. Revelations from recent studies
according to Tucker shows that common property can provide greater benefits to
the rural poor that it can provide, especially by ensuring equitable access to
basic resources (Tucker, 1999). An
effort would be made in this essay to argue that the commons is the most
optimal mode of property arrangement as it has the ability to provide pragmatic
solutions for reducing the problem of inequity in the distribution of and
access to basic resources in societies.
2. Also, after the 2008 financial crisis, monetary policy
American around gender inequality are flourishing in reaction to
The Intellectual Property” and “Protecting Indigenous People’s Intellectual Property
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♡ Book Tour & Review + #Giveaway ♡ Until June (Until Her #2) by Aurora Rose Reynolds @auroraroseR @RSofRomance #Live #OneClick #Review
The Boom is real!
Meet June & Evan in Until June!
Until June
Until Her #2
Release Date: May 24th 2016
June Mayson and Evan Barrister's whirlwind courtship resulted in a secret marriage right before he left for boot camp. Evan knows deep in his gut that June is too good for him, but after getting a taste of the beautiful life they can have together, he's unwilling to let her go. June promises to wait for him, knowing neither time or distance will ever change her feelings for Evan — that is until she's served with divorce papers while he's overseas and she's forced to let him go.
Her marriage and divorce a well-kept secret, the last person June expects to run into when she moves back to her hometown is Evan. Angry over the past, she does everything within her power to ignore the pull she feels whenever he is near. But how can she ignore the pain she sees every time their eyes meet? How can she fight the need to soothe him even if she knows she's liable to get hurt once again?
Is it possible for June and Evan to find their way back to each other again? Or will they be stopped by an outside force before they ever have a shot?
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Until June is book two in the Until Her series, a spinoff of the Until series. Although it can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading Until July (Until Her #1) and Until Jax (Until Him #1) first.
June Mayson and Evan Barrister felt a connection from the moment they met. Right before Evan leaves for boot camp, they get married and exchange promises of forever. That is, June is served with divorce papers while Evan is overseas.
Years later, June is still trying to move on from Evan but when her latest ex-boyfriend lands her in trouble, June comes face to face with Evan. And he wants to June back.
Will June give Evan and their love a second chance?
I loved Until June! The story is amazing and kept me hooked from the first page, taking me in a rollercoaster ride of emotions. I couldn't stop reading! You'll laugh, cry, swoon and fall in love. It is a second-chance love story you'll not want to miss.
I loved June! She is sassy, sweet and strong. Although she is still heartbroken because of Evan, she tries to move on but there is something missing in her life: her boom.
Evan is another amazing Alpha Male! He regrets leaving June and will do anything for a second chance. He had a troubled childhood and believed he wasn't good enough for her. But he can't live without her, so he'll fight for her.
Once again, Aurora Rose Reynolds gives us a phenomenal book with an amazing story and awesome characters. I love Aurora's writing style! She can make the reader connect with the characters and the story, making us fall in love with her wonderful Alpha Males.
Can't wait to read the rest of the Until Her and Until Him series, especially Until Ashlyn!
Seeing Evan again is taking a toll on me, I can't sleep and my mind is in a constant state of turmoil. I wake up in the middle of the night from dreams of us. The memories of him, of us are too much. Some memories have the ability to heal. The ability to light up the dark because the beauty of the memory is so bright you're still able to bask in it.
But the memories of us are killing me slowly. They remind me that for one moment I had everything while reminding me it's gone. It's the realization that we're done that's killing me. The realization that I can see him but can't touch him that he exist but he's not mine is agonizing.
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Den of Mercenaries #1
London Miller
Genres: Adult, Contemporary Romance, Organized Crime
Welcome to the Den...
Seven years ago, Niklaus "Red" Volkov was offered an opportunity, one that would give him the ability to even the score with the Albanian mobsters that had tortured him for days and took the life of the only girl he'd loved.
But that gift came with strings...
Molded into the perfect soldier, Niklaus joined an elite group of mercenaries, loyal to a mysterious man known only as The Kingmaker. He willingly paid the price for means to fulfill the vendetta that plagued him each day.
Vengeance was all he knew...
And death was all he lived for...
Until it wasn't...
Until her...
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While he slept, he didn't look as defiant, as dangerous as he did when he was awake and able to use words to his advantage. She had seen him asleep before, if only briefly, and during that time, he had looked like the weight of the world was finally off his shoulders, and he could breathe again.
Now? Well, now he looked like that weight was back on and it was crushing him.
Without thinking, Reagan reached for him, smoothing her fingers over his shoulders, hoping to ease the tension that seemed to be bundled there, but her touch had just skipped over the scarred tattoo when he suddenly bolted up, grabbing hold of her wrists as he went.
In seconds she was underneath him in the bed, her hands gripped so tightly that even if she wanted to get free, she couldn't.
"Niklaus," she whispered, careful to keep her voice down with the frenzy she could see in his gaze. "It's me."
He didn't let up, not immediately. Niklaus just looked down at her as if he didn't recognize her, as though whatever he was seeing was meshing with the nightmare that had kept him under.
Blinking slowly, the fog seemed to clear, and he gradually released his hold on her, but didn't move off her. Not yet.
"Sorry, I—"
"It's fine. You didn't really hurt me." But she didn't try and touch his scar again.
Gradually, he sat up, rubbing at his eyes as he sighed heavily. All too quickly he went from one extreme to a look of sadness that made her ache for him.
What did he dream about that put that expression on his face?
They didn't ask a lot of personal questions when they were together, though she had learned a few more things about him this time around as opposed to the last.
But this... this she hoped he would share, if only so she could ease that storm she saw behind his eyes.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
He didn't respond for at least a minute, but he turned back towards her, the emotions she had seen replaced with darker ones. At least she was more familiar with the way he was looking at her now.
"Help me forget," he said as he pushed off the headboard, pulling her into him.
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♡ Cover Reveal ♡ Carter (The Harlow Brothers #1) by Brie Paisley @author_brie @SaintNSinBooks #ComingSoon #PreOrder #OneClick
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Brie Paisley
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Cover Designer: Rebecca Pau from The Final Wrap
Release Date: July 22nd 2016
She was the one for me.
The one that I knew would be mine forever until I made the biggest mistake. I pushed her away and I've regretted that decision ever since. I've tried to move on, tried to put the memory of her behind me, but she's always consuming my thoughts. Now, she's back in our hometown, trying to rebuild a new life. I know she's keeping secrets. She tries to hide them from me, and I will do whatever it takes to prove that I'm the one she needs. Because Shelby Ross is the other part of me that I can't live without and I refuse to let her go again.
He broke my heart.
I never thought I would be able to pick of the pieces he left behind. When he let me go, I ran away from it all, thinking it was the easiest thing to do. But, running has a price and I've paid it in full for years. Now, I'm back where it all began, back to putting my life together and starting over. It should've been easy, but Carter Harlow is reawakening long buried emotions that I thought were gone. He wants to make me his again. I can't let that happen. He ruined me, broke me, and I'm afraid I'll never survive it a second time around.
Brie Paisley is a small town gal from Mississippi. She always wanted to write at a young age and was always filling journals with her thoughts and short stories. Brie started with the idea of Worshipped a year ago and with the encouragement of her husband and sister in law, she was able to write her first book. When she is not writing, you can find her reading a good book, painting, scrapbooking, or watching a good movie with her husband and her boxer.
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Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1983), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Dr.-Ing. (1988), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Employee at Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research (1988-1994); since 1994: Professor at Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Science, Germany; Interests: Automotive Electronics, Chassis Control, Vehicle Dynamics Systems, Electronically Controlled Braking Systems, Safety and Reliability of Electronic Control Units Field expertise:
Taught courses:
BA Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang
BSc in English Linguistics, 2012, Ho Chi Minh University of Social Science and Humanity. Field expertise:
Dr. Luu Tran Le
Lecturer cum Academic Coordinator
Bachelor (2006) in Chemistry, Ho Chi Minh University of Science;
Master (2010) in Organic Chemistry, Ho Chi Minh University of Science, PhD. (2015) in Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.
Teaching in Environmental Process Technology, Physical Chemistry, Physic, Sensor Fabrication. Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment technology, Water and gas sensors, Environmental Monitoring, Energy production by renewable energies, esp photovoltaics, biofuel.
Email: luu.tl@vgu.edu.vn Field expertise:
Electrochemical water treatment (kinetic and system design for electrooxidation, electrocoagulation, electroflotation…): using BDD, PbO2, SnO2, RuO2, IrO2, TiO2, Al, Fe electrodes…
• Electrocatalyst for oxygen and chlorine evolution (chlor-alkali process): thin film deposition by thermal decomposition, sol-gel, electrodeposition, chemical bath deposition with the assistance of green chemistry (microwave, sonication).
• Advance oxidation process (O3/H2O2, Fenton, Electro-fenton…).
• Absorption for water and gas treatment: clay, active carbon, iron oxide, zeolite, MOF, polymer…
• Nanoparticle for environmental toxicity and photocatalyst (AgNP, TiO2, Cu…).
• Nanostructure material for environment and energy application (porous, nanorod, nanosheet…).
• Catalyst for biomass conversion to renewable energy (biofuel).
• Membrane technology: RO, MF, UF, FO…
• Redox flow battery and sensor.
Email: luu.tl@vgu.edu.vn
Lecturer in Simulation Technology Binh Nguyen Thien
Full-time Lecturer in Simulation Technology
My research focuses on numerical methods and analysis for hyperbolic partial differential equations for conservation laws and their implementation on high-performance computing supercomputers. I am also interested in applications of PDEs in science and engineering, in particular, numerical fluid dynamics. Field expertise:
High-order numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs: WENO, CENO finite differce/finite volume methods
High-order explicit/implicit time-stepping methods: RK, IF, ETD, BDF, SDIRK, Rosenbrock
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) methods and applications
Numerical solvers for fractional differential equations
Stiff problems with singular perturbation analysis
School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Computational Linear Algebra (Course tutor)
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
- Numerical Analysis (Teaching assistant)
- Introduction to Partial Differential Equations (Teaching assistant)
- Calculus I and II (Teaching assistant)
UNIST Education Center for Gifted Students, Ulsanl National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
- Research and Education Program (Instructor)
Email: binh.nt@vgu.edu.vn
Can Le Duy
Senior Lab Engineer cum Teaching Assistant
Name: Le Duy Can
Email: can@vgu.edu.vn
Received diploma mathematics from at University Dalat Vietnam in applied mathematics.
Studied at University of Applied Sciences Munich
(Bayern/Germany) in electrical engineering, data and information
technology. Graduation: Electrical Engineer.
Studied at University Kassel (Hessen/Germany) in Information Technology Field expertise:
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
Sensor and Automation application in industry and research.
FPGA hardware design
Algorithms for machine learning, reinforcement learning.
Hans-Werner Dorschner
Diploma (1976) in Electrical Engineering, University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Dr.-Ing. (1980) in Electrical Engineering (mathematic modelling and automation), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Senior (1983-2003) in different national and international companies (Wireline Schlumberger: "petroleum exploration" (4 years), Siemens Karlsruhe: Managing Director "imaging technology" (10 years), WIKA Klingenberg/Main: Managing Director "process automation" (6 years), BMG Bad Urach: Managing Director "Mechatronics" (3 years)); since 2003: Professor for Automation, Electrical Engineering and Software Engineering at Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Science, Germany Interests: Modern methods of automation, neural networks, fuzzy logic Field expertise:
Email: hans-werner.dorschner@hs-karlsruhe.de
Helmut Scherf
Prof. Helmut E. Scherf
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (1988), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; 8 years of industrial experience in the fields of digital signal processing, automation and control engineering; since 1996: Professor for control systems at Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Science, Germany Interests: Modelling and simulation of dynamic systems, controller design, real time controller application, current research project: HSI (hot surface ignition): replacing the spark plug by a glow plug in a combined heat and power plant requires a real time ignition timing control system Field expertise:
Email: vorname.nachname@hs-karlsruhe.de
Hien Tong Duy
Lecturer in Materials Science and Technology of Sensors
Ph.D in Materials Science, Sensor Technology, Micro/nano fabrication at MESA Research Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands; June 2004.
Postdoc at BIOS - Lab-on - a - Chip Group, MESA Research Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2007-2009.
Co-founder and CTO of Nanosens Research B.V, The Netherlands, 2005-2017.
Vice Director of Institute for Nanotechnology, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh, 2008-2013.
Researcher at Institute for computational science (INCOS), Ton Duc Thang University, 2017-2019.
Lecturer in Materials Science and Technology of Sensors, Coordinator of Materials Science program at Vietnamese German University since April, 2019.
https://scholar.google.com.vn/citations?user=Q5cZFVcAAAAJ Field expertise:
Combination of Materials Science, Computation and Micro-Nanotechnology for solving problems in Healthcare, Energy, and Environment:
Health care: New materials, Micro-nanowies, Micro-Nanomechanics ,Micro-nanomembrane , and Nanoparticle based systems for early diagnosing of diseases.
Environment: New forms of materials like Nanowire, Micro-nanomembranes and Nanoparticles for toxic detection in water and clean water purification.
Energy Starvation: High efficient solar and electrochemical cells.
Micro-nanotechnology in general
Materials Science in General
Specific micro/nano fabrication for sensors
Specific micro/nano fabrication and utilization of integrated devices and systems
Email: hien.td@vgu.edu.vn
Dr. Ho Xuan Thinh
- BSc in Chemical Engineering, Bach Khoa University, Hochiminh City, Vietnam, 1994-1998;
- MSc in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, INPG, Grenoble, France, 2001-2002;
- PhD in Applied Physics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2005-2009;
- Lecturer in Process Engineering;
- Reviewer for journals of Physics of Fluids, Communications in Computational Physics, Applied Energy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Power Sources, Energy Conversion and Management, etc.;
- Doing research in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics. Field expertise:
- Fluid flows involving chemical reactions (solid oxide fuel cells, hydrogen storage)
- Multiphase flows (gas-liquid flows, transport of polydisperse particles)
- Particle-based numerical method (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)) for fluid flows
- Modeling and simulation of complex fluids (Yield stress and/or thixotropic fluids, e.g. mud, sediment, fresh concrete)
Physics, Heat and Mass Transfer (WT2019), Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering (WT2019), Meshfree Particle Method (for CompEng)
Formerly at Bach-Khoa Uni:
Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer
Email: thinh.hx@vgu.edu.vn
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hung Nguyen Quoc
Assoc. Professor, Dean, Department Head
- B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1997) Polytechnic University of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam;
- European M.Sc. in Mechanics of Construction (2001), University of Liege, Belgium;
- PhD in Solid Mechanics and Manufacturing Engineering (2009), Inha University, South Korea. Field expertise:
Smart materials and structures, Fluid Mechanics, Structure Optimization, Vibration control, Intelligent Control Systems, High frequency jetting dispenser.
1) Vector mechanics (Statics, Dynamics)
2) Fluid mechanics
3) Automatic control systems
4) Modern control systems
5) System dynamics
6) Structural dynamics and vibration
7) Technical English
8) Strength of materials
9) Industrial robots
10) Linear algebra
11) Digital engineering
12) CNC machining
13) CAD/CAM technology
14) Machinery mechanics
15) Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
16) Advanced Engineering Maths
17) Manufacturing Process
18) Hydraulics and Pneumatics systems
Email: hung.nq@vgu.edu.vn
Ing Karl-Robert Graf
Diploma in Industrial Engeneering (1981), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Graduation Dr.-Ing. in Mecanical Engeneering (1994), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany - Startegic Simulation Studies in Operations Management; 8 years consultant with main focus on international business, financal and strategic operations management; 5 years professor in production- and material management, Hochschule Heilbronn, Technik-Wirtschaft-Informatik; since 1999 Professor in process- and production management; Hochschule Karlsruhe, University of Applied Science, Germany, Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems. Interests: Design and develpopment of discrete event evaluation simulation software and models Field expertise:
Email: karl-robert.graf@hs-karlsruhe.de
Jan Hoinkis
Prof. Dr. Jan Hoinkis conducted a doctorate in thermodynamics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in 1989. After completion of his thesis he moved to the Swiss company Ciba-Geigy, where he was working as head of a R Field expertise:
water treatment and reuse, sensor
Basic Chemistry
Environmental Process Technology
Email: jan.hoinkis@vgu.edu.vn
Dr. Loc Khieu Huu
Lecturer in Scientific Computing
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI, US): PhD '12, MSE '07
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Vietnam): BE '04
. Field expertise:
• Rarefied Gas Dynamics
• Compressible Flows
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Finite Elements in Fluid Mechanics
• Engineering Mathematics I–IV (Mechanical Engineering)
Email: loc.kh@vgu.edu.vn
Peter Giesecke
Study of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Promotion in the field of Nuclear Reaktor Materials, 15 years practical experience as head of the department for mechanical design and sensor development at Schenck company in Darmstadt, three years experience as freelancer for the projecting of special equipment for the development of airplanes (windtunnels, turbine testing facilitys, fatigue testing of wings etc.) all over the world, but mostly in Indonesia. Twenty years lecturing at the University for applied sciences in Frankfurt (Germany): Industrial measuring technic, sensor application, mechatronic philosophy, sensors and actuators, development of smart sensors. Now retired but not tired, teaching at the German Jordan University in Amman, at two Universities in Äthiopia (Addis Abeba and Mekele, and at the Vietnamese German University in Ho Chi Minh City.
Teaching in Vietnam, Jordan, Shanghai, Äthiopien, Oman. Field expertise:
Advanced sensortechnology
Email: p.giesecke@gmx.de
Dr. Phu Do Xuan
Do Xuan Phu received the B.S and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology (BKU), Vietnam, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. He received the Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Inha University, South of Korea, in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design-MIT from 2015 to 2016.
Dr. Phu joined the Department of Mechatronics and Sensor Systems Technology at Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam, in 2017. He is also a lecturer of Hochshule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Science, Germany. His research areas include intelligent control, mechanism and actuators, smart materials and structures for robotics, medical robotics and devices.
Dr. Phu is founding director of MediRobotics Laboratory at Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam.
My citations are listed here: https://scholar.google.com.vn/citations?user=GMmGI5kAAAAJ Field expertise:
Intelligent control, mechanism and actuators, smart materials and structures for robotics, medical robotics and devices
1. Automation Control (GPEM - VGU)
2. Control Lab (MSST - VGU)
2. Control Theory (MSST - VGU)
3. Modern Intelligent Control Technology (MSST - VGU)
4. System Identification (MSST - VGU)
5. Matlab
Email: phu.dx@vgu.edu.vn
PhysRalf Herwig
Prof. Dr. Ing. Dipl. Phys Ralf Herwig
University Diploma in Physics (1971), Phillips University, Marburg, Germany; Dr. –Ing in Electrotechnics (1984), University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Since 1993: Professor for physics, microcomputers and microsystems at Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Science, Germany; Interests: Microelectronics, soil moisture sensors, self organizing networks Field expertise:
Stefan Bleiweis
Dr. Stefan Bleiweis
Professor for Corporate Management
Faculty of Management Science and Engineering
- Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
- Flying Faculty of VGU (Mechatronics and Sensor Systems Technology, M.Sc.)
- Guest Lecturer/Visiting Professor in Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, USA and GB
- International Consulting Projects with Corporations
- CFO at Freudenberg SpA, Milan, Italy
- Freudenberg Headquarters, Weinheim, Germany
- PhD in International Business Economics from Nuremberg University
- Siemens International Acounting (Germany, France, Australia, Singapore)
- Master in Business Management, Nuremberg University, Germany
- Undergraduate Studies of Business Economics and Philosophy, Universities in Würzburg, Germany, and New York, USA" Field expertise:
Email: stefan.bleiweis@vgu.edu.vn,stefan.bleiweis@hs-karlsruhe.de
Senior lecturer in Materials Sciences Thanh Nguyen Xuan
NAME: NGUYEN XUAN THANH
778 K/21 Nguyen Kiem Street, 4th Ward,
Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Email: thanh.nx@vgu.edu.au
DATE OF BIRTH : 06th February 1970
NATIONALITY : VIETNAM, AUSTRALIA
LANGUAGES : VIETNAM AND ENGLISH
• BSc: Chemical Engineering
Technological University of Ho Chi Minh City
• MSc, PhD: Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland, Australia
• Fortran and C programming
• Unix operating system
Working as Chemical Engineer at Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI), PetroVietnam. Holding several Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions at the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Oklahoma, USA; National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
The main research focuses on
1. Molecular modeling and simulation (density functional theory, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods) of nanoporous materials, equilibrium and dynamics of adsorption and separation processes, and nanoparticle based drug delivery systems.
2. Synthesis of lightweight materials (cellulose aerogels and aerogel composites etc).
3.Geochemical evaluation of source rocks and source rock-oil correlations for petroleum exploration and production. Identity of oil-spill source. Field expertise:
1. Petroleum geochemistry
Application of biomarker fingerprint for oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations; Wax and asphaltene-deposition problems.
2. Molecular sieving separation
The use and/or modification of commercial micro- and meso- porous adsorbents (zeolites, activated carbons etc.) to separate diamondoids and biomarkers for compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA).
3. Molecular Modeling and simulations
Application of density functional theory, Monte Carlo, and molecular dynamics simulations to model microstructure of nanomaterials for predicting properties and behaviors of the materials in engineering systems and processes; heat transfer modelling of ligand-capped metallic nanoparticles to cellular environments to maximize photothermal enhancement of chemotherapy in cancer treatment.
Basics of Materials Module I
Basics of Materials Module II
Email: thanh.nx@vgu.edu.vn
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Formula 1 / Japanese GP / Breaking news
Arrivabene says "unacceptable" tyre call lacked "common sense"
Roberto Chinchero
Co-author: Jonathan Noble
Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene labelled his team’s tyre choice blunder in qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix as "unacceptable", as he blasted a lack of "common sense" on the pitwall.
Sebastian Vettel's world championship hopes suffered a fresh blow in qualifying at Suzuka after Ferrari picked intermediates for a relatively dry track – believing that heavy rain was coming.
By the time the team had realised it had made a mistake and swapped Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen to slicks, the rain finally arrived and both drivers made errors on the damp track in their attempts to set a time.
Raikkonen lost out the least to end up qualifying fourth, while Vettel set the ninth fastest time – but will start eighth – after he ran off the track at Spoon.
Although afterwards Vettel refused to blame the team for its errors, Arrivabene was less charitable.
"From the way things were done, I do not think that pole position was within our reach, but what happened today is unacceptable," he told Motorsport.com
"I am very angry. It is not the first time that these mistakes have occurred. I do not feel like pointing my fingers at someone in particular, but I'm very disappointed."
Although refusing to single out individual errors, Arrivabene was clear that the decision-making process on the pi wall was not good enough – and that perhaps the team was lacking some guidance from staff with enough experience.
"Unlike on other occasions, it was easy to understand what was happening on the track, as all our opponents left the pits with slicks," he added.
"Sometimes it is more useful to take your eyes off computers and watch the track, using common sense.
"It is true that we are a young team, and we are probably missing an 'old hand', an experienced person capable of reading situations correctly and quickly."
Vettel himself believes that in the wake of recent errors that it was important the team learned what it could do better.
"I don't think there was that much missing," he said. "It's correct that maybe we've been on the wrong side a couple of times, but I don't think there was an awful big gap or an awful lot to get wrong.
"It's not been going in our favour, which of course we need to understand why if others did something better."
While the team will focus for now on how best to respond to the mistake it made here, Arrivabene has not ruled out the ongoing incidents leading to a wider organisational changes over the winter.
"The calculations are done at the end of the year, and we will intervene if necessary," he said.
Maurizio Arrivabene, Ferrari Team Principal with Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari
Photo by: Mark Sutton / Sutton Images
Grosjean came "very close" to following Ferrari tyre gamble
McLaren got "deliberate" tyre choice "wrong"
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Teams Ferrari Shop Now
Author Roberto Chinchero
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C – Ryan January – 19 yo
3.37/.808 – PAG/APPA – (Rookie Missoula)
2016 stats: .273/.386/.470; .846 OPS; 6 doubles, 10 home runs
From a fantasy point of view, the minor league catcher landscape of the Arizona Diamondbacks left a LOT to be desired in 2016. Using my P/A score as a quick reference, there were 32 individual line scores to scan, several of which were the same players at multiple levels. This helped narrow the field a bit, but the writing was on the wall. Only three catchers emerged as UTR OAS candidates, and ironically, they all served all of 2016 at Rookie Missoula: 2015 – 8th rounder Kal Simmons, 19-year-old Venezuelan signee Jose Herrera and this year’s UTR OAS, another 8th rounder (this time in 2016), Ryan January. There were several reasons I chose the 6’2″- 195 lb. lefty out of junior college juggernaut San Jacinto College, North (Houston, TX). One was his power. January batted .339 and led the 2016 Gators squad in home runs (10), doubles (24) and slugging percentage (.655). This carried over once January transitioned to pro ball, as he equalled his home run total (10) from that in his final season as a collegian. Another thing that has me very excited about January moving forward is he’s hitting at this level, while carrying a deep passion for catching. He caught (+/-) 50 percent of Missoula’s games, and if a 19-year-old without any real superior standout tool can debut like this, playing a position he loves so much, what can we expect from him if he’s given the lion’s share of reps? We can only wait and see. The vast majority of the Diamondback catching love is aimed toward York Mills Collegiate Institute (Toronto, ON) draftee Andy Yerzy. Yet, after an absolute dismal 2016, January still “ranks” below Yerzy in several mainstream publications? Ok. This will be a fun catching race to see take shape. I predict January take his game to Short Season Hillsboro. It’s evident by his debut that Yerzy needs some seasoning with another stint in Rookie ball.
1B – Kyle Smith – 22 yo
3.37/.808 combined: – PAG/APPA – (AZL – 5.00/1.098; Rookie Missoula – 3.42/.850)
2016 stats combined: .283/.368/.572; .940 OPS; 11 doubles, 9 home runs
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last five seasons, Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is pretty good. Of course I’m tapping into my sarcasm here because the 2009 – 8th round draft choice out of Texas State University has etched himself into the stone of major league baseballs top overall players. He’s finished 2nd in MVP voting two out of the last four years and has four consecutive All-Star appearances on his resume. The 6’3″- 225 lb. righty is heading into the third year of a 5 year- $32M contract with an option year in 2019. Usually I can observe a situation and loosely predict how things could take shape, but here, I’m in a bit of flux because simply put, so are the Diamondbacks and the state of their minor leagues. Could the Diamondbacks view “Goldy’s” extremely friendly contract and try dealing him in hopes of bringing in a near king’s ransom? Or do they stand pat and hope the team makes a playoff run in same division that houses the Dodgers and Giants? From a UTR standpoint, I’d deal. Strike while the iron is hot because first base in the minors is just good, not great. However, this year’s OAS choice Kyle Smith is the perfect UTR. The 6’4″- 220 lb. lefty spent four years at the University of Vanderbilt and in 97 games batted a paltry .202 with seven home runs, 35 RBi’s and 39 runs scored. So, statistically speaking, it’s plain to see why Smith went un-drafted. But there was a bigger reason why. In his freshman year with the Commodores, while attempting to make a catch in foul territory, Smith collided with a padded brick wall. As a result of the impact, Smith suffered a misalignment of his left eye leaving him partially blind. He slumped, regained the ability to hit through re-hab, but suffered an injured foot and lingering effects from the collision. The Diamondbacks liked his size, power potential and his leadership skills and took a chance signing him to a deal shortly after the 2016 draft. Smith lead all D-back first basemen HiA down in home runs, slugging percentage, OPS and extra-base percentage. I won’t go on on the record and say that Smith will surpass former UTR One to Watch choice Kevin Cron (2015) on the minor league depth chart. Cron blasted 26 home runs and drove in 88 for Double-A Mobile this past season. But I believe Smith has the chance to make a lot of noise in the system; and if Goldschmidt does in fact pack his bags and leave town, Smith could suddenly find himself in a very favorable position.
2B – Henry Castillo – 21 yo
3.02/.717: – PAG/APPA – (HiA Visalia)
2016 stats: .258/.311/.417; .728 OPS; 38 doubles, 12 home runs
In the inaugural Under the Radar Organizational All-Star series in 2014, 2010 – 13th round draft pick Brandon Drury was the Diamondbacks OAS third baseman of choice after batting .299, ripping 42 doubles, 23 home runs and driving in 95 for both HiA Visalia and Double-A that season. He posted a 3.71/.851 P/A score and was less than a year removed from making his major league debut. In his short time as a major leaguer, Drury has played all over the diamond with catcher being the only exception. Now, Drury spent most of his time in the the outfield corners in 2016 while spending only 16 games at second base. So, it’s rather intriguing heading into the 2017 season, not to see Drury projected as one of the Diamondbacks starting eight, but slotted in as the Opening Day starter at second base. I can see why, however, because Drury has thunder in his bat and third baseman, 2012 – 6th rounder out of the University of Washington, Jake Lamb carries a quite a potent game of his own. So, what does this have to do with this year’s OAS choice Henry Castillo? A lot in my opinion because if Drury wasn’t necessarily pinched into playing second base, I believe Castillo would be on the doorstep to a major league promotion sooner rather than later. Despite 2016 being Castillo’s first ever taste of full-season ball, he’s been a near picture of consistency since his debut back in 2013. He posted a two-level P/A of 3.05/.714 for the DSL/AZL in 2013. The following year he began the year back in the AZL, but after a month of action, was sent to Rookie Missoula. Again, consistency reigned supreme as the 5’11”- 190 lb. switch-hitter registered a 52-game P/A of 3.08/.731. The organization was rightfully aggressive with Castillo’s assignment in 2015 as he played all year with LoA Kane County. As expected, his production dipped a bit (2.58/.671) and the strikeout/walk ratio climbed (55:7), but the Dominican native posted his best batting average as a pro (.315). This season Castillo lead all organizational second basemen HiA down with 38 doubles and extra-base percentage (.409). I expect Castillo to spend all year with Double-A Jackson, but I’ll be keeping an eye on him regardless. A season parallel to that of 2016 should put him firmly on the Diamondbacks prospect map.
3B – Eudy Ramos – 20 yo
4.06/.959: – PAG/APPA – (Rookie Missoula)
Much like the second base situation with Brandon Drury, third base offers a similar circumstance: A young stud player in aforementioned Jake Lamb playing at a very under-the-radar level. In several current fantasy baseball ADP rankings, Lamb comes in at the high teens in mixed leagues, while in N.L.-only leagues, he ranks in the 5-10 range. That’s right where I, personally, would put him. But for a player yet to reach his prime, I’d be a definite buyer in a keeper/dynasty league, as I don’t think we’ve seen the best of him yet. So, this brings me to Eudy Ramos, this year’s UTR OAS, who I believe, when it’s all said and done, could be the diamond (no pun intended) in the rough player that every organization desperately needs. Arizona signed Ramos and assigned him to his first taste of pro ball with the 2013 DSL squad. He faired, well, fair to say it politely batting .191 with 10 doubles, 2 home runs and 15 runs batted in. However, he drew an eye-opening 23 walks in 35 games. Ramos didn’t see game action in 2014, which prompted the Diamondbacks to moderately, yet aggressively assign him stateside to the Arizona League in 2015. The results weren’t what the organization hoped for. Ramos scored a putrid 2.00/.544 P/A, batted .194 with only seven extra base hits and posted 38 strikeouts to three walks in 28 games. So, you’d think Ramos would be destined for a repeat of a level where he struggled mightily. Not the case. This season, based on his previous two, was like an out-of -body experience. The 6’1″- 195 lb. righty led the Rookie Missoula squad in doubles, home runs. RBi’s (43) and total bases (120). My gut tells me that if the Diamondbacks were willing to challenge Ramos to a Pioneer League assignment after he registered dismal numbers in 2015, there’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t be aggressive again. I expect Ramos to see Short Season Hillsboro or quite possibly LoA Kane County in 2017.
SS – Jose King – 17 yo
3.59/.799: – PAG/APPA – (DSL)
2016 stats: .350/.402/.413; .815 OPS; 7 doubles, 4 triples; 21 stolen bases
Before the Diamondbacks traded 2014 – 2nd round draft choice Isan Diaz to the Milwaukee Brewers for Jean Segura back in January 2016, Diaz was THE quintessential middle infield prospect in the system. In 2015, he played 68 games for Rookie Missoula (64 at shortstop) and led the Pioneer League with 25 doubles, 174 total bases, ranked second with 13 home runs and logged an eye-popping 4.84/1.054 P/A score. So, for Arizona to trade that away, there must be something on the horizon that won’t necessarily make us forget Diaz’ production, but help ease the pain of trading it away. Well, Arizona’s minor league infield depth is no greater than at the shortstop position. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that 2015 international free-agent signee out of Nassau, Bahamas Jasrado Chisholm is a star in the making. With a nickname like “Jazz” how can’t the 19-year-old lefty be? The defensive marvel led all Osprey batters in hits (70), runs scored (42), stolen bases (13) and ranked second in total bases (111). But remember, this is UTR. Despite the love for kids like Chisholm, we spread out our love much wider; and this leads me to October 2015 free-agent signee Jose King. The 5’0″ (yes, you read that right), 5’0″- 160 lb. lefty debuted with the Dominican Summer League and the pint-sized Dominican native led the DSL1 squad in hits (84), runs scored (51), ranked third with 21 steals and second in total bases with 99. Now, I don’t want to come across as crass, but no matter how hard this kid plays moving forward and how productive he is, prognosticators will always use his size as a reason not to talk about him; unless his size is the topic of the conversation. And there’s nothing that boils the the UTRMinors blood more than waiving off stellar production because it isn’t something someone “should” be doing. King has earned a promotion to either the AZL or Rookie Missoula for 2017. And I cannot wait to track this kid’s progress. Because no matter what you do Jose, you’ll always be considered too small. Well, take your big 2016, and show them again in 2017 how production doesn’t give a shit how big or small you are.
LF – Jason Morozowski – 22 yo
3.01/.733 combined: – PAG/APPA – (LoA Kane – 2.30/.556; Short Season Hillsboro – 4.08/1.006; Rookie Missoula – 4.00/.923; AZL – 3.00/.750)
2016 stats combined: .247/.331/.424; .755 OPS; 15 doubles, 6 triples; 13 home runs; 10 stolen bases
With the fantasy baseball drafting season well into it’s peak, it’s very common for Jim and I to field regular questions about whether this UTR pitcher is good, that UTR hitter is worth a late dynasty league draft pick, or general questions about overall major league player ADPs. Lately I’ve taken on sleeper questions and after sifting through several top outfielder questions and suggestions, it dawned on me how little attention is given to the Diamondbacks Yasmany Tomas. The late-December 2014 signee out of Havana, Cuba was inked to a 6-year contract and the 6’2″- 250 lb. slugger didn’t supply the immediate jolt the organization was looking for. But hand it to 2015 being his freshman year in the league. Then 2016 came, and suddenly Arizona saw what they invested $58.5 million in. Tomas batted .272, clubbed a team-leading 31 home runs and scored a 3.26/.812 P/A, which ranked directly below Paul Goldschmidt, Jean Segura and Jake Lamb. Tomas could be that un-discussed mid round outfield gem that could boldly, yet semi-secretly help bring home a fantasy baseball title. However, you know how we work things here. With Tomas signed through the 2020 season, there’s plenty of time to decipher if anyone in the minors could supplant Tomas. Right now, I’m not sure about that. This season, I’d say a good word to describe the Diamondbacks left field vector would be mediocre. That’s not to say that this year’s OAS choice Jason Morozowski didn’t have a good overall season. Arizona drafted the 6’2″- 190 lb. righty out of Mount Olive College (NC) in the 13th round in 2015 and immediately assigned him to Rookie Missoula of the Pioneer League. He ranked behind only Isan Diaz in hits (98) that season with 70 and ranked third overall in extra-base percentage (.386) behind only first baseman Austin Byler (.618) and Diaz (.449). This season Morozowski slowed down a bit and never really got his footing having spanned the 2016 season across four levels. But he did post respectable numbers across the board. I like what Morozowski did this season, but posting better numbers after a mid-June demotion from LoA to Short Season ball isn’t necessarily a trend that screams progression.
CF – Eduardo Diaz – 18 yo
3.01/.733 combined: – PAG/APPA – (DSL – 4.58/1.027; AZL – 2.08/.486; Rookie Missoula – 0.00/.000 *3 games)
2016 stats combined: .299/.388/.394; .781 OPS; 8 doubles, 2 triples, 3 home runs; 23 stolen bases
I have to admit, choosing this year’s UTR OAS center fielder for the Diamondbacks was a difficult process. Not because there weren’t a lot of good candidates, but because there were several worthy ones. Top rated prospect Anfernee Grier had a dismal season posting a 2.50/.638 P/A in only 24 games with Short Season Hillsboro and Rookie Missoula. Fellow top prospect Marcus Wilson I really like. As a 19-year-old playing in the Rookie Pioneer League, then for LoA Kane County of the Midwest League, the 2014 – 2nd rounder out of Junipero Serra (CA) logged a very impressive two-level 3.07/.726 P/A. But, just like a broken record you’ve heard many times before, this is UTR, and we bring you those other kids who performed at a high level in the shadow of those receiving all the pub. Arizona signed this year’s center field UTR OAS Eduardo Diaz to a free-agent contract in September 2015, and he debuted last season in the Dominican Summer League. The 6’2″- 175 lb. Venezuelan batted .358, stroked 10 extra-bases, registered a perfect 19:19 BB:K rate and stole 19 bases. After 33 games, Diaz received a promotion to the AZL and in rather blunt terms, hit a brick wall. His batting average plummeted 129 points, he logged only three extra-base hits and saw 10 walks to 24 strikeouts. However, we must be reminded that Diaz is under-the-rader, he’s a teenager and will suffer his struggles. After all, the aforementioned Grier currently ranks near the top of several major publication prospect lists and look at the debut he had. So, the opposite can also exist. And such is the case for Diaz. I believe he would benefit from a full season in either the AZL or challenged with an assignment to Rookie Missoula. I’d like to see if Diaz can separate himself from the heavy pack of teenagers currently sitting in the low minors for the Diamondbacks.
RF – Jesus Marriaga – 17 yo
3.01/.733 combined: – PAG/APPA – (DSL1 – ; DSL2 – 2.08/.486)
The Diamondbacks right field vector adds another unique situation to the UTR OAS mix. If readers go back to our inaugural Under the Radar Organizational All-Star series back in 2014, Socrates Brito was my right field choice after posting a sweet 3.44/.784 P/A score for HiA Visalia that season. Brito worked his way into the major league lineup in 2015. Brito currently sits inside Baseball America’s Arizona Diamondbacks top 5 prospects list heading into the 2017 season; and the kid directly below him? 6’3″- 170 lb. Venezuelan Victor Reyes, whom Arizona received in an April 2015 trade with the Atlanta Braves. This season, Reyes led all Diamondbacks right fielders in triples (12), batting (.303), slugging percentage (.416) and OPS (.765). However, this is UTR. Brito and Reyes are great, and aside from the others trolling the upper minors like Orlando Arcia, Zach Borenstein and Kelly Dugan (who all are disqualified from UTR criteria due to age), there are several fresh youngsters combing the lower depths of the system. This sets up the perfect UTR scenario for this year’s UTR OAS choice, Colombian native Jesus Marriaga. The 6’0″- 170 lb. righty could have been a my UTR OAS centerfield choice, but this is one of those situations where I had two part-time centerfield/right field players and wanted to find a way to place to put both on this year’s list. Eduardo Diaz deserved the CF spot, which placed Marriaga in right despite playing 37 of his 63 games this season in center and left field. Marriaga began his debut season with the DSL1 squad and after logging only 10 at-bats and the P/A score you see above, the organization shipped him to DSL2. All he did was lead DSL2 in hits (66), runs scored (40), stolen bases (24), walks (31) and total bases (81). Power is nearly extinct from Marriaga’s game which tells me he’s destined to play centerfield full-time in the very near future, which he should, as he committed zero errors in 2016. I love peripheral stats because it’s the law of averages that help determine future success. I’m not saying that Marriaga is the next great centerfielder in the game, but in an organization like the Diamondbacks, they sure could use one; and who knows, maybe it could be him. If he registers another season like he did in 2016, possibly for the AZL or even Rookie Missoula, he could be well on his way.
Probably no organization within the UTR realm has been as bland as the Arizona Diamondbacks. Since tracking minor league pitchers back from 2009, the D-Backs have provided me plenty of misses. Going back through my archives, the only UTR pitcher, thus far, to see any type of success was Ryan Cook. Cook was my pre-season pick heading into the 2010 season and made his MLB debut the following season. He was then traded to the Oakland Athletics where he became an All-Star. The rest of my picks from 2010 never panned out, nor any of the homegrown products from within the system, for that matter. Patrick Corbin is the only name that’s appeared within my writings who made it to Arizona. The former top round pick came to the D-Backs via the Los Angeles Angels in the Dan Haren trade in 2010 and is slated to be the #5 starter this coming season. A hard study of the Arizona depth charts shows that the organization has worked hard to beef up on arms. Well maybe, if you still have a sore spot with Aaron Blair being sent to the Braves during the Dansby Swanson pillage. The cupboard is now being shored by top prospects Archie Bradley, Braden Shipley, and Anthony Banda. So where does this leave us when it comes to UTR’s?
The 2014 UTR-OAS roster didn’t provide any possible future marquee names, besides Aaron Blair. One promising arm could have been Merkis Montero, who made his U.S. debut that year, after only one season in the DSL. He spent 2015 in the AZL and had continued success despite being moved into the bullpen full-time. The D-Backs made a strange move by sending the 20-year old right-hander back the DSL in 2016. Blake Perry also made the 2014 roster and then repeated in 2015. The California League wasn’t too kind to him in 2015, but he still posted a 9.9 K/9 rate in 119.1 innings. He repeated HiA Visalia in 2016 where he made 18 relief appearances.
The quality of the 2015 UTR-OAS showed some improvement. Anthony Banda appeared along with 2014 – 2nd round pick Cody Reed. A couple of intriguing arms are Carlos Hernandez and Jared Miller. Hernandez struggled with his control in 2016 and Miller throws a deceptive low 90’s fastball, but may project as a LOOGY. Zac Curtis was only D-Backs pitcher to earn any tag over the last two seasons. I named him as a “Legit UTR” after last year and he made 14 MLB appearances in 2016, but was traded to Seattle back in November. To wrap-up the Diamondbacks, they basically haven’t developed any homegrown pitchers, other than top picks over the last few years. If your a D-Backs fan, keep checking back to our site to see if any surprising arms appear in 2017.
Top 5 Starting Pitchers – Factor Score / TPS
1. RHP Justin Donatella – 21 / .118
21 years old – (LoA Kane County / HiA Visalia)
15th round – 2015
During the season (at the end of each month), I post a review of the top UTR pitchers across each level. At the LoA/HiA levels, Donatella almost made a clean sweep being named the top pitcher. He was bumped out in June by the #2 UTR-OAS Joel Payamps, only because Donatella had a horrible month. He got everything back on track and led all Diamondback minor league pitchers with 13 wins. This was his sophomore season after only pitching 26.2 innings in the rookie leagues in 2015.
2. RHP Joel Payamps – 17 / .096
International Free Agent (Colorado) – 2010
Payamps was released by Rockies on May 2015 and signed by D-Backs the following November. If he would have performed well during the Winter League, the Diamondback risked losing him during the Rule 5 draft this past December. He only pitched 2.2 innings (3 appearances) with Estellas of the Dominican Winter League, surrendering seven runs on 9 hits, facing only facing 16 batters. This will benefit Arizona who won’t leave the young righty unprotected in the future. Payamps struck out almost a quarter of the batters he faced in 2016, a percentage that didn’t dip with a promotion to HiA Visalia. Look for him to make waves in 2017.
3. LHP Alex Young – 10 / .116 *Take a Flyer*
2nd round – 2015
Young is a top draft pick that came out of NCAA powerhouse TCU, where he pitched mainly from the bullpen, but was outstanding as a starter in his final season. That junior season workload didn’t allow the D-Backs to utilize the left-hander in his pro debut, limiting him to only seven innings in seven games. He had an inconsistent 2016 and stumbled a bit after his HiA promotion. The D-Backs should push Young through the higher levels in 2017, and he could quite possibly see his MLB debut in 2018.
4. LHP Brad Keller – 10 / .129 *Legit UTR*
21 years old – (HiA Visalia)
8th round – 2013
Keller is a very intriguing UTR, making a repeat appearance as an OAS. He possesses size (6’5″- 23o lbs), a mid-90’s fastball with cut & sink that creates a ton of ground balls. To bring this whole package together and advance Keller into the Arizona rotation, is for the lefty to improve his command. Keller doesnt turn 22 until late July, so continue to watch his progress in 2017 with Double-A Mobile.
5. RHP Juan Hernandez – 9 / .102
16 years old – (DSL Diamondbacks)
International Free Agent – 2016
Outstanding debut for the teenager who led all D-Backs pitchers in the DSL.
Top 3 Relief Pitchers – Factor Score / TPS
1. RHP Bud Jeter – 13 / .071
2. LHP Gabriel Moya – 12 / .062
3. LHP Jared Miller – 10 / .064 *Legit UTR*
22 years old – (HiA Visalia / Double-A Mobile / Triple-A Reno)
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How I Accidentally Built a Fantasy World
By: Justin A Lauer
In a universe far far away, or rather, in a university basement not more than a brisk jog from my desk, my life was utterly changed when a book was opened a piece of paper with a bunch of words, numbers, and blank lines topped with a logo that read “Pathfinder” was passed to me. I had become a role-player, and not just the “pretending not to stare at the hot guys playing frisbee shirtless outside the school because I am like super damn straight and shit” kind of role-player that I used to be, but the silly-voice using, spell-slinging, number-crunching, king of the Holy Realm of Nerdom kind of role-player. Little did I know that jumping into a random car in my first week as a freshman at the University of Montana and going on a city-wide scavenger hunt, which ended up being a disguised university Christian group recruitment trap, would team me up with a group of nerds who shared my love for the fantasy genre and no plan to ever go to that church again and invite me to join their budding Pathfinder RPG group.
After falling in love with the game, and making some absolutely horrid characters who accidentally set their friends ablaze more often than their enemies, my freshman year came to a close and I had to return to my hometown for the summer. So I said summer, but it ended up being more than three years before I returned to furthering my education. In that time, my love for Pathfinder did not diminish and decided to rally my friends together and start our own group.
So, fun thing about dropping out of school and moving into your parents basement, it is not very lucrative, and purchasing Pathfinder materials: rule-books, game mats, maps, the story modules, and such, is not that economically cooperative to that diminutive, burger-selling cash-flow. So I decided to save me and my friends some undesirable budgeting by drawing a crappy map on some notebook paper and throwing together some story about pirates, hidden artifacts, and a bacon-flipping gnome bard with a penchant for fortuitously showing up whenever things were getting pretty dicey. This group was a learning experience for everyone, some realizing they were not the biggest fans of the game, some falling in love with it, some realizing that the game is not a ticket straight to hell like their father told them all their lives (and in during our game session), and others realizing that design and running a game (know as GMing, or Game Mastering) is far more fun to them then just playing a character. That’s me, I am talking about me with that latter realization.
My maps were the absolute definition of rudimentary at the beginning. I am very sorry that you are witnessing this.
Sadly, as many people who play pen and paper role-playing games can relate to, my group fell apart and I was once again alone with a passion that, whether I like it or not, requires other people. This became very temporary, because got some of the same friends and a few new ones to start a new group trying to stop a staff possessed by the vengeful spirit of a past king that was turning regional leaders into the worst versions of themselves. This group did not last long but thankfully one of my friends and previous player’s parents made a bold and ultimately extremely foolish, for them not me, decision to purchase a coffee shop and hold events in the dining are to try to get sales. My friend had the idea of hosting a nerdy game-night and asked me to run a game of Pathfinder. I happily accepted and created a new area in my previous game-world that was a beautiful plains-filled, ocean side nation that was ran by a council of religious leaders from almost all religions in the area, but that was suffering from attacks by demons coming from the southern hills.
The my first and last attempt at making a hand-drawn world map for my first world, Trystial.
This group was a major success for me, less so for the coffee shop that closed down in record speed and my friend who freaked out when her character died and through a chair and was kicked out of the group, but I truly had a blast developing all of this. Eventually, though, this group came to an end and I found myself creatively homeless again. I had worked on expanding my game-world to an entire continent at some point along that timeline, but I felt that I had failed it, and so, as we do with all the things we put years into lovingly create, I discarded it like it was worthless Pidgey that I can’t even make useful candy out of in Pokemon Go and started work on my newest world, Altrysta.
With Altrysta, I made an early design choice by starting small, a large collection of islands, and building out the rest of the world slowly. With the Annar Isles in place, and their dwarves, cat-people, and an invading roman-inspired empire at the ready, I started my first group in this world and my first group living back in the town with the University of Montana and where I first caught the Pathfinder bug. The group was comprised of mostly people from my hometown, who had also moved here and had been some of my early converts from our time at the coffee shop, mixed in with a few friends new friends. The rise and fall of a few kingdoms and cultures later over only a matter months, I had very prolific magic-using catfolk who should have been classified as a cataclysmic natural disaster, and this group ended as half of the group moved to Seattle. Though I was narratively homeless, I continued to develop the world and possible future stories.
The Annar Isles: Before
The Annar Isles: After
… This is where you applaud 😉
Sometime during late 2017, I got caught up in the online discord community made by the people who had created the same-named Facebook group: Gay Geeks. This group was diverse and crazy and an absolute blast to game with. After a few months, they were asking for people to host virtual events with the already large and growing online community and my friends who knew of my Pathfinder past floated the idea that I start a group with people of the group. I agreed and after deciding to write a direct follow-up to the story that I had done in-person, started my first online-only group, and learned about the magnificence that is the Roll20 virtual gaming platform. This group was the first for me to use the great map-making service Inkarnate instead of my shameful handmade maps.
A map of the city of Tinali Vera, a refuge for gnomes that rests on an island that is floating above the center of the central island in the Annar Isles. My Fave.
We are now approaching our one-year anniversary, and though the player group is almost entirely different than the one it was back then, we still have a blast every Monday, with me crafting hundreds of pages of unique lands, memorable characters, and detailed narratives and them finding every way possible to ruin all my plans like a pack of crazed squirrels armed with nuclear bombs and FAR TOO MANY DAD JOKES (f.y.i. none of them are dads)!
CategoriesFunny Tags5E, d20, fantasy, Geek, Inkarnate, Nerd, Pathfinder, RPG
3 Replies to “How I Accidentally Built a Fantasy World”
Kalima says:
Technically Kalima is a dad
The Kid says:
What was the most difficult step in world building for you? Macro or micro?
14ideas says:
I would say micro. I love macro since I am at home designing the politics and history and how the people and nations blend together, whereas micro is fun and I definitely enjoy that part, but the little details take a lot of work and it is hard to not fall into the same tropes to fill out the rosters.
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Dig-It Underground Inc. (Pink Sheets: DIGX) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Get Down Art has inked a deal with Collectors Editions, Inc., publishers of Disney Fine Art to publish a series of Stephen Fishwick Disneyinterpretive artwork
Get Down Art’s Artist Stephen Fishwick has submitted 18 new original paintings for approval for fine art distribution. Collectors Editions distributes Disney Fine Art limited editions, plus mixed-media and original artwork to art galleries and cruise ships worldwide. www.disneyfineart.com.
Get Down Art has agreements in place with Elvis Presley Enterprises, and Marley and Co., the official Bob Marley Estate, with artist Stephen Fishwick to publish artwork with these iconic stars.
Brandon Donofrio, President of Dig-It Underground Inc. stated, “This is great for the Fishwick art brand. Disney is one of the largest consumer product companies in the world and I believe this relationship will add to the value and success to Stephen Fishwick’s Artwork. It will be a win/win relationship for everyone.”
“We are thrilled to add Stephen Fishwick to our portfolio of Disney Fine Artists,” said Michael Young, President of Collectors Editions. “Stephen is one of the most unique, creative and exciting artists of our time, in addition to being an incredible human being.”
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by Glenn Erickson Apr 08, 2016
Alfred Hitchcock assembles all the right elements for this respected mystery thriller. Joan Fontaine is concerned that her new hubby Cary Grant plans to murder her. But Hitch wasn’t able to use the twist ending that attracted him to the story in the first place!
1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 99 min. / Street Date , 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Auriol Lee, Leo G. Carroll
Cinematography Harry Stradling
Art Direction Van Nest Polglase
Film Editor William Hamilton
Original Music Franz Waxman
Written by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville from the novel Before the Fact by Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley)
Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Some movies don’t get better as time goes on. Alfred Hitchcock got himself painted into a corner on this one, perhaps not realizing that in America, directors had to clear their storylines through a phalanx of censors content advisors. Suspicion is another RKO loan-out film for Hitchcock, made during his first couple of years in America. If it wasn’t personally produced by Hitchcock one would think RKO was forcing him to deliver more of the same after his best-picture winner Rebecca of the previous year. It’s a smart career move for Hitchcock, consolidating his Hollywood beachhead with a safe, high profile picture. When Joan Fontaine got the Best Actress Oscar denied her for Rebecca, Hitch further established his brand as a front rank director.
This is another ‘ladies film’ with Joan Fontaine playing an insecure bride worrying about her new husband. It’s touted as a breakthrough dramatic picture for Cary Grant, as he was previously cast almost exclusively in comedies. For my money, his dramatic chops are exercised to much better effect in the same year’s Penny Serenade. Suspicion has its moments but is a lumpy mess of romance novel clichés and thriller plotting with one of the least satisfactory payoffs of any domestic-set murder thriller.
Open a women’s magazine from the early ’40s, and you’ll find storylines similar to this one. In the cozy English countryside, potential spinster Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) is pigeonholed and ignored by her well-to-do parents (Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whitty) and considered out of the running by the local available females, all of whom are smitten by playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). But Lina is the pigeon that strikes Johnnie’s fancy. He sweeps her off her feet and to the wedding altar before she can even form an opinion about his behavior. Is it as erratic as it seems? Will he calm down? Soon after the marriage Lina is hit by a flood of doubt, as Johnnie is revealed to be a petty thief and a liar. He may only be interested in Lina’s potential inheritance. Lina suspects Johnnie may have murdered their best friend Beaky Thwaite (Nigel Bruce) and may also be planning to poison her. But she still loves him deeply. What’s a dignified country girl to do?
Besides rounding up every loose English actor in Hollywood (even big names like Roger Livesey (I Know Where I’m Going!) appear in tiny roles), Suspicion’s stuffy screenplay is full of landed-gentry nonsense, with the locals going on fox hunts, taking long walks to church and curling up in huge libraries to read murder mysteries. Tea and cookies! The heroine Lina worries about her lack of success with men, but she also says disparaging things about her friends. This isn’t Pride and Prejudice and Wanderley, but a provincial backwater.
Joan Fontaine plays the insecure Lina with almost embarrassing humility. She overhears her parents and the locals dismiss her as a wallflower, and seems to shrivel. The first act is a predictable Cinderella story in which she blooms from wearing tweed suits and librarian’s glasses to being the belle of the ball. As this is indeed what sometimes happens when men as attractive as Cary Grant come calling, no complaints.
Cary Grant’s dramatic work as Johnnie requires him to continue his charming playboy act even as the film casts dark shadows across his honesty and motivations. Most everything is seen from Lina’s POV. The script forces her to behave like a prize dumb bunny, assuming the best about Johnnie despite evidence that would try anyone’s patience. Cary is charming one moment, and the next moment Hitchcock’s visual shorthand — angles, lighting, furtive looks — tell us that Johnnie might be Jack the Ripper. As Hitchcock’s style is to reveal the truth beneath appearances, there’s no real feeling of ambiguity — we’ve got the ‘good’ Johnnie’ and the wife murdering Johnnie, and they don’t mix. The same goes for Lina. Her feminine competitors don’t have to make snide remarks about her virginity — Hitchcock slips in a quick insert of Lina snapping her purse shut, in response to a forward remark from Johnny. There’s no ambiguity in that — Hitch’s semaphore signal says she’s a little repressed. Give Lina a big yellow purse with a huge wrinkled fold, and she might be super-frigid, like the later Marnie.
As in Rebecca this show is a serious female fulfillment fantasy. Lina gets her fancy house, and a maid that doesn’t even try to seduce Johnnie. When the locals gossip about Johnnie’s dishonest ways, Lina weathers their veiled insults in good form. But she’s also the good wife of the era, the fantasy creature that allows what looks like hard evidence of dishonesty pass without throwing a fit. Lina she never calls Johnnie to account for himself.
Feminists should find plenty of political ammunition in a story about a wife who marries an image. Lina doesn’t know the first thing about her catch-of-a-lifetime husband. Johnnie has no money and doesn’t intend to earn any. He pushes the two of them deep into debt, lies about his gambling, and lies about being fired from his job for embezzlement. He even lies about the source of the lavish gifts he rains down on Lina to silence her objections. Johnnie is either a raving sociopath or a badly written character. He’s probably the latter, for Suspicion repeatedly reinforces the notion that the wife is responsible for all problems in a marriage, even if her husband keeps his entire life outside the house secret from her and deceives her every step of the way. A good wife endures and understands. Is Lina perhaps not too bright? Or is it that Johnnie is just very good in bed?
The latter two-thirds of Suspicion dig a grave of bad mystery thriller plotting. Everything points to Johnnie being a lying killer, including his attitude toward Lina and the director’s insistent sinister touches, the most famous being the glowing glass of moo-juice he carries to her room, presumably to poison her. Perhaps it’s full of ‘luminous poison’ from D.O.A.? The problem is that Hitchcock has painted himself into an amateur’s corner, plot-wise. The inability to use the book’s twist ending really pulls the rug out from under this show.
(spoilers from here to the end)
If Cary/Johnnie is innocent, then the whole movie is an inconsequential cheat. It is Lina who must be deranged, fantasizing all of her husband’s sinister motives. He has problems, but is basically good-hearted, and Lina is a grade- A ninny.
If Cary/Johnnie is guilty, then the story is a belabored exercise in the obvious. The likely killer turns out to be the real killer. This twist ending from the book is clearly what appealed to Hitchcock. (spoiler spoiler) Lina is the perfect amour fou character. She’s so in love and so loyal that she submits to his will and drinks his poisoned milk. Before she does, she gives him a letter she has written and asks him to mail it. He cheerfully does just that, not realizing that it’s a ‘Johnnie did it’ statement that will implicate him from beyond the grave That’s the kind of stinger ending that Hitchcock would favor time and again in his 1950s television show: a wife thinks her husband has murderous plans, only to find out she was mistaken.
Did Alfred Hitchcock get to shoot the book’s ending? If he thought he could, he didn’t yet understand Hollywood’s labyrinthine Production Code. Lina can’t allow herself to be poisoned, because the Code prohibited suicide. Johnnie can’t be seen getting away with murder, as that would leave the guilty unpunished. At this time crooks had to be seen to be punished. When Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler breached this taboo three years later in Double Indemnity, they had to shoot a gas chamber scene, which ended up not being used.
There may have been another reason the ‘diabolical’ ending wasn’t used. Cary Crant was an extreme worrywart when it came to the parts he chose. Throughout his career he enthusiastically signed up to play extreme and unusual characters, and then pulled out to do a more conventional role, one safer for his image. He was even to play the Phantom of the Opera, once, seriously. Cary probably liked Hitchcock and the general production, and maybe he was the kind of guy who says yes to five concurrent jobs and then turns four of them down. But glamourous psycho killers hadn’t been invented yet, and major stars just didn’t play such roles. What would the fans think?
Suspicion tries to have it both ways. Lina doesn’t let on to Johnnie that she knows/thinks he’s put poison in her milk. But she doesn’t drink the milk either. Instead, the show concludes in a feeble “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” scene that ends with both of them explaining away everything we’ve been watching. They basically do some of the talking they should have done in their first week of marriage. It’s a really miserable story windup. It even ends with some jolly, ‘Hey, I’m going to jail’ nonsense that’s supposed to make Cary seem like an okay guy after all.
Perhaps these issues aren’t that objectionable on a first viewing, and in 1941 average viewers didn’t see movies multiple times. But on my second go-round, the show could have been titled not Suspicion, but “Inconsistency”. Its commercial aspects and star power were more than enough to save the day, as audiences likely preferred Cary Grant as Johnnie to Laurence Olivier in Rebecca. Deliver the right fantasy, and they will come. Because it was a different era, many of the great ‘auteur’ directors had the luxury of limping, failing and flopping a lot more than do modern film directors. Directors today either score big at the box office, or have to find another line of work.
Of course, the acting is fine; Joan Fontaine suffers in a somewhat different way than she did as Mrs. de Winter. Sherlock Holmes fans enjoy Nigel Bruce’s contribution as Cary’s dotty pal. One interesting scene has a sadistic touch that might be a direct reflection of Hitchcock’s warped sense of humor. Lina is upset over her husband’s perfidy, just as he shows up with a bunch of gifts intended to deflect any inquiry into his shady money deals. Bruce and Cary see Lina about to break down in tears. Instead of changing their tune, they cruelly mock her, making faces and treating her like she’s a silly goose. There’s something unique and honest — and unpleasant — about that moment that stands out in a script composed mostly of stock situations.
The Warner Archive Collection Blu-ray of Suspicion is a good choice to remaster in HD, as the original DVD was not a thing of beauty. This particular RKO picture must have been well preserved because it looks fantastic, richly textured and sharp enough to see things we never saw before. Given top-quality RKO production values Lina lives in a manse almost as impressive as Mrs. de Winter’s. Many of the outdoor settings are reproduced on vast interior sets. With this subtle stylization, an early shot of Johnnie tussling with Lina atop a sand hill is far more convincing than a later similar setup in Hitchcock’s The Birds. When you can’t decide whether your boyfriend is trying to steal a kiss, or kill you, does that serve as a substitute for sex? It seems to be the case for Lina.
The older DVD docu is still engaging, with good input from Peter Bogdanovich and others. But it doesn’t have the answer as to whether or not Hitch seriously thought he could have the ending his way, with the whistling-at-the-mailbox scene. I’d think that the bad news came late in the game, or he would have abandoned the film.I don’t envy Joan Harrison and Alma Reville having to rework the script. A trailer is included as well. To me, the image of Joan Fontaine from the original poster used for the disc cover, looks like anybody but Joan Fontaine. Alexis Smith? Frances Farmer?
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Suspicion Blu-ray rates:
Movie: Good –
Supplements: Featurette Before the Fact, Suspicious Hitchcock, trailer
Deaf and Hearing Impaired Friendly? YES; Subtitles: English
Reviewed: April 1, 2016
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===Info===
This tab is for tracking meta information about a character. Input fields exist to enter a character's age, gender, personal item, party role, image color/appearance, hometown/reason for travel, and additional notes. These all directly reflect fields provided in the official Ryuutama character sheet. None of these fields influence any character attributes so they are purely at the discretion of the player to fill in. It is worth noting that the notes section is a potential location for a player whom has been tasked with being the Journal Keeper to chronicle events that occur during the game.
* '''Current strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit''' - The current values for these attributes are usually the same as their base values. They may be affected by condition and/or conditional status effects such as injury or shock. These attributes are automatically recalculated when there is a change to the base stats, condition, or status effects to the character. The attributes may be manually overridden, but you will have to override them again if an attribute changes that would cause these values to be recalculated.
* '''Condition''' - This value usually changes once per day in-game but may shift due to events during play. In addition to tracking the character's current condition score, the player may choose an attribute to temporarily raise if the current condition score is at or above ten. This bonus is automatically applied. If the box containing this attribute value is light red, it signifies that the character may be unconscious. If this attribute value equals two due to a daily Condition check, the player suffers a conditional status effect that is not automatically applied (see the rulebook for details about this penalty). If this attribute value is reduced to two or less due to an in-game event, the character is knocked unconscious. If the box is dark red, it signifies that the character is dead by standard Ryuutama rules.
** Characters with the Navigator class assigned to one or both classes have an exception to this rule. The character is eligible for the attribute bonus if their condition is equal to nine (or eight if the character has the Navigator class twice). There is a condition related to the character's beverage consumption in which the character will be unable to gain the benefits of having a high condition score. This mechanic is not included in the character sheet because the mechanics for going without food or water are not included in the character sheet either. If your character has the Navigator class and is ineligible for the bonus despite having a high condition score, then the player should change the chosen attribute to receive the bonus to the blank (empty) selection.
* '''Injury, poison, sickness, exhaustion, muddled, and shock''' - Events throughout play may cause characters to gain points in these conditional status effects. If one or more of these values exceeds the current condition (signified by the box turning red), one or more of the character's current attributes is negatively affected. This penalty is automatically applied.
====Optional modifiers====
* '''Current season''' - Ryuutama plays out in seasons, so the player has the option of tracking the current season here. This may have mechanical effects if certain conditions are met.
* '''Current terrain''' - If the player selects a terrain from that list, all rolls will be made under the assumption that the selected terrain is the current terrain for purposes of factoring terrain modifiers into checks. Along with the select box there is a checkbox ("Apply terrain bonuses/penalties") that can be used to tell the sheet whether or not to factor the terrain modifiers into rolls. The player may need to select and unselect this checkbox multiple times throughout play since whether terrain modifiers should be applied to any individual check is up to the GM.
* '''Current weather''' - If the player selects a weather type from that list, all rolls will be made under the assumption that the selected weather is the current weather for purposes of factoring weather modifiers into checks. Along with the select box there is a checkbox ("Apply weather bonuses/penalties") that can be used to tell the sheet whether or not to factor the weather modifiers into rolls. The player may need to select and unselect this checkbox multiple times throughout play since whether weather modifiers should be applied to any individual check is up to the GM.
====Common Skill Checks====
These checks are always visible on the character sheet because they are available to any character regardless of their chosen class(es). All of these checks are potentially influenced by overburden penalties and terrain and weather modifiers, but some have additional static bonuses automatically applied to them when the roll button is clicked depending on the character's chosen class(es) and type(s).
* '''Minstrel class:''' +1 to Travel, Direction, and Camp checks
* '''Merchant class:''' +1 to Negotiation checks
* '''Navigator class:''' +2 to Travel checks
* '''Technical type:''' +1 to Initiative checks
* '''Koneko Goblin species:''' +1 to Initiative checks and Condition checks, but only if the current season is set to spring.
Characters are only capable of carrying so much before they begin to become overburdened. The maximum volume of items the character can carry is automatically calculated as the character's item capacity (also referred to as maximum load). The current volume of items the character is carrying is automatically calculated as the character's current load. If the current load is greater than the maximum load, the character suffers penalties to all checks made until the load is reduced. It is important to watch this because the character's maximum load is influenced by the character's current Strength attribute. If the character's current Strength has been reduced by adverse effects, the character may also become overburdened!
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Earth : Europe : Britain and Ireland : United Kingdom : Wales : North Wales : Gwynedd : Llanberis
Llanberis [4] is in North Wales, 7 miles away from Caernarfon.
Llanberis is easily reachable by bus. Sherpa busses (prefixed S) from Betws-y-Coed is the most reliable possibility, but Sherpa bus from Porthmadog or local busses from Caernarfon are other alternatives.
Bangor is the closest station to Llanberis. Hiring a cab from there costs around £20. Caernarfon is closer, but the only train to Caernarfon is the narrow-gauge heritage railway Welsh Highland Railway from Porthmadog - and if in Porthmadog it is easier to catch a direct bus to Llanberis.
Llanberis is on the A4086 Caernarfon to Betwys-y-Coed road. The B4547 branches off just west of town for Bangor, Conwy and the A55.
There are large car parks all along the A4086 road inside Llanberis, with the price rising steadily as you get closer to the Snowdon Mountain Railway. The closest car park costs £6 per day (and no discount for shorter stay), 100m up the road it is £4 per day and further west beyond the Electric Mountain Visitor Center it is £2 per day.
On foot easily. You may also want to take a ride on Llanberis Lake Railway [5] (£6.00)
Dolbadarn castle ruins [6] - one of the finest of the Welsh castles
The Welsh Slate Museum
Hike up Snowdon [7] or take Snowdonia Mountain Railway [8] to the summit and walk back down.
Visit the Electric Mountain [9], a tourist attraction built around Dinorwig Hydroelectric Powerstation. Built inside a mountain, Dinorwig's turbines are housed in the largest cavern in Europe. Good fun trip.
Visit the Welsh Slate Museum and the Llanberis Lake Railway
Enjoy Padarn Country Park and Padarn Walk, walking through the slate history.
Llanberis Art and Craft a select choice of arts, crafts, souvenirs and Welsh confectionary and preserves. Full parking and disabled access.
The Coffee Pot at Llanberis Art and Craft a wide choice of food from breakfasts to a variety of lunches and snacks. Ideally located for Snowdon Mountain Railway and the Electric Mountain. Full parking and disabled access.
Pete's Eats (renowned climbers café), 40 High Street, Llanberis LL55 4EU, ☎ +44 1286 870117, [1]. 8am to 8pm (9pm in high summer). A mecca for walkers and climbers since 1978. Serves a wide range of food from traditional breakfasts to modern european dishes, all prepared fresh on the premises. The café also has a resource centre for climbers and walkers. filled baguette or baked potato from £3.30, main meals from £6.30, full breakfast £4.80. edit
There are several B&Bs and hotels in Llanberis.
Lake View Hotel & Restaurant, Tan y Pant, Llanberis LL55 4EL, Gwynedd, Wales (just outside Llanberis on the A4086 road to Caernarfon), ☎ +44 1286 870422, [2]. checkin: 2.00 p.m.; checkout: 10.00 a.m. Rustic hotel & restaurant overlooking Lake Padarn outside Llanberis from £35. edit
Lodge Dinorwig, Dinorwig, LL55 3EY, ☎ 01286871632, [3]. checkin: 15:00; checkout: 11:00. 4 Star Hostel with 14 bed bunk room overlooking Llyn Padarn and the village of Llanberis. edit
Caernarfon - Bus number 88 goes directly to Caernarfon city center. Can be caught from Llanberis Maes Padarn
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William Clarence Education Nominated ‘Pathway Company of the Year’ 2019 by Education Investor
Stephen Spriggs
William Clarence Education is proud to have been nominated in the ‘Pathway Company of the Year’ category for the third year running at the Education Investor Awards 2019, after another year of hard work, new opportunities, and rapid growth.
In 2019 we have worked with and supported students from 18 different countries, all wanting advice and access to the UK school and University systems, from medical school applications, engineering, law, Oxbridge applications to Masters placements. Our school placement consultants have also been busy with families moving to the UK from around the world at all the major school entry points.
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We feel that resources such as this could become invaluable to the industry in months and years ahead, as we approach a period of unprecedented change. Our hard work and input from everyone in our team has made this possible. We have a number of exciting projects coming to the market in January, building on our initiatives to ensure we maintain the momentum surrounding school engagement and leadership around student recruitment and non-teaching staff career development over the next 12 months.
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Born Under Crossed Stars (悪太郎伝 悪い星の下でも, Seijun Suzuki, 1965)
February 25, 2018 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
Following his 1963 breakthrough, The Incorrigible, Seijun Suzuki returns to the work of Toko Kon for another tale of rural adolescent confusion in Born Under Crossed Stars (悪太郎伝 悪い星の下でも, Akutaro-den: Warui Hoshi no Shita demo). The Japanese title ties the film more closely to the earlier Kon adaptation by adding the preface “Stories of Bastards”, and once again stars Ken Yamauchi and Masako Izumi in leading roles though this time the setting is early Showa, swapping the promise and openness of Taisho for the rapidly closing doors of militarism. Much more obviously comedic than The Incorrigible, Born Under Crossed Stars is another anarchic coming of age tale in which an “incorrigible” youngster learns to find himself but is neatly undercut by the times in which he lives, his final triumph both a victory and a symbol of incoming tragedy.
Farmboy Jukichi (Ken Yamauchi) dreams of a way out of his lowly Osakan roots by getting into a prestigious local school, though his drunken father hardly sees the point of education and would prefer his son go out and earn some money. Jukichi is earning quite a bit working as a milkman for a local “cowboy” dairy farmer who’s recently returned from America but his sights are firmly set on university and a move into the city. Meanwhile, he experiences some personal turbulence thanks to his old friend, Yoshio (Jushiro Hirata). Yoshio gets himself into trouble with the Public Morals committee at school when he’s spotted out with a young lady – something which is against school regulations, but that’s not why he was stopped. Another boy, Oka (Keisuke Noro), wrote a letter to the girl Yoshio was with (who happens to be his cousin) but was rejected. Oka is abusing his position for personal point scoring. Jukichi can’t let it go and takes Oka to task, but his actions have serious repercussions when the humiliated Oka suddenly quits the school altogether.
Jukichi thinks Oka’s actions are very “manly”. Manliness is certainly something important to the boys at the school which has a noticeably militarist song along with various rituals involving fire and taiko drums, not to mention the shiny cap badges and weapons drills they seem to perform. As in Fighting Elegy released the following year, “manliness” precludes fraternising with women – sex has been placed off limits as the ultimate frivolity and a kind of theft of the zest of life which should be going towards more “productive” causes. Jukichi however, like The Incorrigible’s Konno has a taste for the ladies even if he reacts somewhat harshly to discovering Yoshio in flagrante with a girl in a park which turns out to be some kind of mass makeout spot behind a shrine. Uncovering the hypocrisy in his friend sets the two at odds and eventually turns them into enemies with disastrous consequences.
Jukichi finds himself caught between two lovers – the elegant, shy sister of Yoshio, Suzuko (Masako Izumi), and the liberated, provocative Taneko (Yumiko Nogawa). Though resistant, Jukichi eventually succumbs to seduction and forever ruins his dreams in the process. Overcome with youthful frustrations, he channels his need for justice in a dangerous and destructive direction when he decides to start something with a bunch of local gangsters in a misguided attempt to avenge a wrong done to the father that has never supported him. Later seeing off an attack from the gangsters (tipped off by a remorseful Yoshio) Jukichi seals his fate, gives up on the “decent” life promised by a place at the prestigious middle school and commits himself to wandering, taking to the sea as one of many young men raised on nationalist myths finding their place in the military.
Another programme picture, Born Under Crossed Stars provides ample opportunity for Suzuki to embrace his taste for the strange – notably in his milk patter opening with its literal baby monkey, but also finding room for beetles on strings, “poisoned” manju buns, and illusionary visions. Sticking mainly to static camera, Suzuki nevertheless showcases his taste for unusual composition and editing, making use of rapid focus pulls, side wipes and dissolves to convey the passage of time. He closes with a voice over mimicking the one at the end of The Incorrigible only this time with a much more defiant (but in hindsight only tragic) declaration that Jukichi will continue living under his self made philosophy, vowing to do what ever it takes to survive and scale any wall which places itself in his path towards the achievement of his freedom.
Born Under Crossed Stars is the fifth of five films included in Arrow’s Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies box set.
Original trailer (English Subtitles)
Posted in JapanTagged 1960s, 1965, Chieko Mishima, Hajime Okumura, Hiroshi Cho, Japan, Japanese, Jun Tatara, Jushiro Hirata, Kazue Nagatsuka, Kazuhiko Kasai, Keisuke Noro, Keisuke Yukioka, Ken Yamauchi, Kotoe Hatsui, Masahiko Tanimura, Masako Izumi, Masao Mishima, Michi Azuma, Nikkatsu, Ryozo Kasahara, Ryuichi Fujiyama, Seijun Suzuki, Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies, Shiro Yanase, Toko Kon, Yoko Benisawa, Yoko Yokota, Yumiko Nogawa, Zeko Nakamura
The Incorrigible (悪太郎, AKA The Bastard, Seijun Suzuki, 1963)
February 24, 2018 by Hayley Scanlon 1 Comment
Seijun Suzuki often credits 1963’s Youth of the Beast as the real turning point in his directorial career, believing that it marked the first time he was ever really able to indulge his taste for the surreal to the extent that he truly wanted. The Incorrigible (悪太郎, Akutato, AKA Bastard), completed directly after Youth of the Beast, is another turning point of a kind in that it marks Suzuki’s first collaboration with set designer Takeo Kimura who would accompany him through his ‘60s masterpieces contributing to the uniquely theatrical aesthetic which came to be the director’s trademark.
Inspired by an autobiographical novel by Toko Kon, The Incorrigible of the title, Togo Konno (Ken Yamauchi), is a young man coming of age in the early Taisho era. He’s of noble birth and enjoys both wealth and privilege – something of which he is well aware, but is also of a rebellious, individualist character believing himself above the normal rules of civil society. Expelled from his posh Kyoto school after getting into a dalliance with a teacher’s daughter (she’s been sent off to a convent), Konno is then abruptly abandoned by his mother who has tricked him into travelling to a remote rural town where a friend of a family friend has promised to reform him at his military middle school. Konno thinks he’s too clever for this, he makes a point of deliberately failing his entrance exam in the mistaken belief that failing to get in would make him free to travel to Tokyo and start life on his own. He’s wrong, and failure to pass the exam would only entail being held back a year. Konno capitulates and agrees to start his new life as one among many in a backward little village in Southern Japan.
Though set in the Taisho era, Konno’s youth seems to suffer from the same problems that would plague the young men of 30 years later. His school is proto-militarist and hot on discipline. The boys are trained to be strong rather than smart and have inherited all the petty prejudices of their parents which they hone to the point of weaponry. The “Public Morals” department operates almost like a mini military police for students – making routine inspections of students’ home lives and keeping an eye out for “illicit” activities round and about town. Konno sees himself as grown man with a rebellious heart – he smokes openly, keeps a picture of the girl who got him into this mess in his room, and tells bawdy, probably made up stories about how he lost his virginity to a geisha (for free). He will not bow to the morality police, or any authority but his own.
Authority is something Konno seems to be good at. Picked on for his continuing preference for Japanese dress, Konno neatly deflects the attentions of the Public Morals division and comes out on top. When they raid his room and complain about his novel reading habit, he shouts them all down and gets them to sit on the floor while he “educates” them about foreign literature. Militarism has not yet arrived, but anti-intellectualism is already on the up and up. Konno’s love of literature is one of his many “deficient” qualities as teachers and students alike bemoan his “frivolous” hobbies, seeing his sensitivity and disregard for the commonly accepted ideals as signs of his unwelcome “unmanliness”.
Konno’s other big problem is, as might be expected, girls. Having been in town only moments Konno takes a fancy to doctor’s daughter Emiko (Masako Izumi) – his desire is only further inflamed after catching sight of her in the book shop and realising she too has bought a copy of Strindberg’s Red Room. She doesn’t care for Strindberg’s misanthropy, but a bond is quickly forged between the two sensitive souls trapped in this “traditional” small town where feelings are forbidden and youth constrained by social stricture.
It is, however, a love doomed to fail. The majority of Suzuki’s early work for Nikkatsu had been contemporary youth dramas, yet the artfully composed black and white photography of the Taisho setting is a melancholic affair which rejects both the rage of the modern action dramas and Suzuki’s trademark detached irony. Using frequent dissolves, The Incorrigible conjures a strong air of nostalgia and regret, a sad love story without end. Yet at its conclusion it makes sure to inject a note of uplifting inspiration as our hero wanders off into a fog of confusion, filled with a passion for pursuing truth and vowing to live without losing hope.
The Incorrigible is the fourth of five films included in Arrow’s Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies box set.
Posted in JapanTagged 1960s, 1963, Akio Fujii, Akio Sawai, Akira Hisamatsu, Akira Takahashi, arrow, Arrow Video, Asao Sano, Chiharu Kuri, Eiichi Kitamura, Emiko Azuma, Gen Mihama, Hajime Okumura, Hajime Sugiyama, Hiroshi Cho, Hiroshi Imoto, Hiroshi Takao, Hisako Tateishi, Japan, Japanese, Kazuo Kojima, Keisuke Noro, Ken Yamauchi, Masaaki Yamamoto, Masahiro Kinoshita, Masako Izumi, Masanobu Sawai, Midori Tashiro, Mieko Takamine, Milton D. Swan, Minoru Uezu, Naofumi Kosuga, Nikkatsu, Ryozo Kasahara, Seijun Suzuki, Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies, Setsuko Watanabe, Shigeyoshi Mine, Shinsuke Ashida, Shiro Tonami, Shiro Yanase, Takashi Koshiba, Toko Kon, Tomio Aoki, Yoko Benisawa, Yoko Ozono, Yoko Yokota, Yoshimichi Matsumoto
A Woman’s Story (女の歴史, Mikio Naruse, 1963)
June 17, 2016 December 1, 2016 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
Mikio Naruse made the lives of everyday women the central focus of his entire body of work but his 1963 film, A Woman’s Story (女の歴史, Onna no Rekishi), proves one of his less subtle attempts to chart the trials and tribulations of post-war generation. Told largely through extended flashbacks and voice over from Naruse’s frequent leading actress, Hideko Takamine, the film paints a bleak vision of the endless suffering inherent in being a woman at this point in history but does at least offer a glimmer of hope and understanding as the curtains falls.
We meet Nobuko Shimizu (Hideko Takamine) in the contemporary era where she is a successful proprietor of a beauty salon in bustling ‘60s Tokyo. She has a grown up son who works as a car salesman though he’s often kept out late entertaining clients and has less and less time for the mother who gave up so much on his behalf. Her life is about to change when Kohei (Tsutomu Yamazaki) suddenly announces that he wants to get married – his lady love is a bar hostess to whom he’s become a knight in shining armour after saving her from a violent and persistent stalker. Needless to say, Nobuko does not approve both for the selfish reason that she isn’t ready to “lose” her son, and because of the social stigma of adding a woman who’s been employed in that line of work to the family.
All of this is about to become (almost) irrelevant as tragedy strikes leaving Nobuko to reflect on all the long years of suffering she’s endured up to this point only to have been struck by such a cruel and unexpected blow. An arranged marriage, her husband’s infidelity, the war which cost her home, possessions and also the entirely of her family, and finally the inescapable pain of lost love as the man who offers her salvation is quickly removed from her life only to resurface years later with the kind of pleasantries one might offer a casual acquaintance made at party some years ago. Life has dealt Nobuko a series of hard knocks and now she’s become hard too, but perhaps if she allows herself to soften there might be something worth living for after all.
Women of a similar age in 1963 would doubtless find a lot to identify with in Nobuko’s all too common set of personal tragedies. They too were expected to consent to an arranged marriage with its awkward wedding night and sudden plunge into an unfamiliar household. Nobuko has been lucky in that her husband is a nice enough man who actually had quite a crush on her though there is discord within the household and Nobuko also has to put up with the unwelcome attentions of her father-in-law. This familial tension later implodes though fails to resolve itself just as Japan’s military endeavours mount up and Nobuko gives birth to her little boy, Kohei. Husband Kouichi becomes increasingly cold towards her before being drafted into the army leaving her all alone with a young child.
All these troubles only get worse when the war ends. Though Kouichi’s former company had been paying his salary while he was at the front, they care little for his widow now. Left with nothing to do but traffic rice, Nobuko comes back into contact with her husband’s old friend, Akimoto (Tatsuya Nakadai), who wants to help her but is himself involved in a series of illegal enterprises. Nobuko is molested twice by a loud and drunken man who accosts her firstly on a crowded train (no one even tries to help her) and then again at a cafe where she is only saved by the intervention of Akimoto, arriving just in the nick of time. Nobuko sacrifices her chances at happiness to care for Kohei, caring about nothing else except his survival and eventual success.
Of course, Kohei isn’t particularly grateful and feels trapped by his mother’s overwhelming love for him. Nobuko’s sacrifices have also made her a little bit selfish and afraid of being eclipsed in the life of her son. It’s easy to understand the way that she later behaves towards Kohei’s new bride, but if she wants to maintain any kind of connection to the son that’s become her entire world, she will need to learn to allow another woman to share it with her.
Naruse is a master at capturing the deep seated, hidden longings that women of his era were often incapable of realising but A Woman’s Story flirts with melodrama whilst refusing to engage. The awkward flashback structure lends the film a degree of incoherence which frustrates any attempt to build investment in Nobuko’s mounting sorrows, and the voiceover also adds an additional layer of bitterness which makes it doubly hard to swallow. This is in no way helped by the frequently melodramatic music which conspires to ruin any attempts at subtlety in favour of maudlin sentimentality. The endless suffering of mid-twentieth century women is all too well drawn as grief gives way to heartbreak and self sacrifice, though Naruse does at least offer the chance to begin again with the hope of a brighter and warmer future of three women and a baby building the world of tomorrow free of bombs and war and sorrow.
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Tigers slugger Cabrera makes progress
Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera is making good progress in his rehabilitation program following off-season surgery for a groin tear.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera is making good progress in his rehabilitation program following off-season surgery for a groin tear.
“All the reports are good,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said at baseball’s winter meetings. “I’ve talked to our head trainer a number of times about it and he said he’s getting his rehab in and as far as reports go, everything is going well. Knock on wood.”
Cabrera could be ready for the start of spring training. He missed several games last season after the break because of a bad back, a sore left hip flexor, a strained lower abdomen, shin trouble and the groin tear.
The AL Central champion Tigers are planning to move Cabrera from third base to first next season after trading Prince Fielder to Texas for Ian Kinsler.
Cabrera won his second straight American League Most Valuable Player award this past season. One year after winning baseball’s first Triple Crown in 45 years, the slugger came back to lead the majors in hitting at .348 and finish second with 44 home runs and 137 RBIs.
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Flying High with Gifted Authors Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple
December 18, 2018 kirsticall Interviews - Authors & Illustrators 6 comments
I just returned from a picture book boot camp with Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple. Not only are they a powerful teaching and mentoring team, but they also write beautiful books together. Within the last couple of months they released 3 bird books for all types of readers. I’m thrilled to interview them for Writers’ Rumpus, just in time for holiday shopping!
Kirsti Call: Everything about FLY WITH ME is stunning: the photographs, the text, the concept. What inspired you to write it?
Jane Yolen: Two different answers: It was a lifetime book, as in it summed up a lot of our lifetimes. But actually Nat Geo, for whom the four of us had done an earlier book, asked us to do it. It seemed made for us.
Heidi Stemple: We are a family who loves birds. We were all taught birdwatching by my dad David Stemple (you may know him as Pa in Owl Moon). This is the sort of book that you WISH you could write. NatGeoKids gave us the opportunity. We jumped at it!
KC: How did the collaboration process work?
JY: I came up with an initial outline which got changed, enlarged, en-smalled, then enlarged again. Everyone had input–the family and the editorial staff. Heidi and I chose sections we really wanted to work on. The boys chose the ones they wanted. No one argued. Extra pieces got doled out when need arrived. Heidi did almost all of the liasing with the editor. In the end, she and I wrote more sections of the book simply because we were faster, had more discrete writing time, and were here together to discuss things on a daily basis. The boys polished their own sections to a high shine. Though in the end I have to admit Heidi worked on the book a lot more than any of us by a good deal.
HS: Yes, I played point on the overall work, but the entire book was a real family effort. My brothers stood at the ready and wrote and revised any and everything I asked—they were troopers (though, they probably rolled their eyes at their bossy big sister a lot). There was a lot of email back and forth between all of us as we came up with new ideas to round out a section or when our editors decided something needed to be longer or shorter. Many times, while I was fleshing out a section, I would send a piece I originally wrote to one of my brothers and said, “Help! Can you make this 100 words longer?” Or to my mom saying, “Here is the research I did, but I’m too busy with another part to write the section, can you do it?” At the end, I took the entire thing and made sure it worked as a whole. I’m really proud of the way we all worked together.
KC: What do you hope people will learn and feel as they read this book?
JY: That birds are a treasure but always under threat from climate and territory changes. That we need to protect our environments. That learning about birds from the dinosaurs forward is one way of beginning to help protect them.
HS: Pretty much what she said. But, also, I really love the kids who come up and grab the book at book festivals or bookstores and just delve into the facts. There is just so much to look at and discover in this book, I want it to also be a treasure trove of new bird facts.
KC: CROW NOT CROW does an incredible job of engaging the reader, while teaching them a birdwatching technique for young children. What inspired you to write this story?
JY: When Adam–who had invented the method to teach his city-bred wife how to bird watch–declared (after much nudging from me) that he could not write a picture book, I pointed that as a published novelist, he already understood plot, arc, character, setting. As a published poet and lyricist, he already understood compression and the need for the absolutely right word. But I would write it with him, I said. Now he’s hooked.
JY: I began the book, threw it to him, he added stuff, I carved it into page-sized pieces, taught him how to dummy it, let him do a bit of research for the book that I was too tired to do.
JY: That there is great joy in bird watching plus a fail-safe way to learn how to look for and at then–if you are willing to have the patience to try.
KC: I can’t tell you how much I love this COUNTING BIRDS: THE IDEA THAT HELPED SAVE OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS! The words and illustrations enhance each other, creating a true work of art.
HS: Clover Robin, who illustrated the book, is amazing! I told her so. She loves birds, too, and you can tell in the art. She told me that the spread with the dead birds was difficult to illustrate but she really made a thought-provoking page. The dead birds are flat and almost un-birdlike shadows while the live birds sitting in the tops of the trees are filled with life and color and joy. The difference really drives home what an impact [bird scientist] Frank Chapman made when he proposed switching from counting with guns to counting with eyes and ears only.
KC: What inspired you to write this story?
HS: I participate in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count every year. My dad and I did it together until his death. At that point, I didn’t know a lot about the Count’s history. I had always wanted to write a story about the Count, but had no idea how to tell it. I thought it was a fiction story about a family going out to take part in the count, but when I started reading about its history, I knew there was a story there. It took me a LONG time to figure out how to write the story.
KC: How did you decide how to approach the story?
HS: Oops, I kind of answered that above. I tried to write it from a Mom’s point of view—tucking her kid into bed then going out owling (which is exactly what I would do). That failed pretty miserably. Once I realized MY story had already been told (in Owl Moon by my mom), I kind of realized that this was Frank Chapman’s turn to have his story told. As soon as I figured that out (it took about 3 years), I was free to tell the story the way it wanted to be told—as a nonfiction.
KC: What do you hope people will learn and feel as they read this story?
HS: I really wanted kids (and adults, too) to see how one small idea can grow and have a lasting impact on the world. That they can all be citizen scientists. That the earth is still in need of saving and we can all help.
KC: Thank you for visiting Writers’ Rumpus, Jane and Heidi! And I know from personal experience, that anyone who reads these bird books will be flying high!
Jane Yolen, often called the “Hans Christian Andersen of America,” is a poet, storyteller, writer, lyricist for her band.She is also a widow, mom, Nana to six, and mentor to hundreds of writers and illustrators over the years. Along the way,
she has published over 376 books out, with 29 more under contract, almost all with traditional publishers. Besides books, she writes a poem every day which she sends out to almost 1000 subscribers and if you want to join her poetry list (mostly adult poems) join here: http://eepurl.com/bs28ab
You can follow her on twitter at janeyolen. Her website is www.JaneYolen.com
Heidi E. Y Stemple didn’t want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn’t until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories. The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published about 25 books including Counting Birds, Fly With Me, You Nest Here With Me, Not All Princesses Dress In Pink, and two Fairy Tale Feasts cookbooks, as well as numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children.
Heidi lives on an old tobacco farm in western Massachusetts where she writes, reads, cooks, sews, and once a year, calls and counts owls for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.
You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at heidieys. Her website is www.HeidiEYStemple.com .
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Almost missed this wonderful interview with Jane and Heidi. Their new bird books are absolutely gorgeous–congratulations to the whole family!
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Wonderful interview! Love birding myself, so these books are now getting requested. Thanks for sharing with us!
Carol Gordon Ekster says:
Jane and Heidi, your books and inner spirits are all beautiful. Kirsti, thanks for this awesome interview!
Kim Chaffee says:
Amazing interview! I love how Jane and Heidi can take one topic and write about it in so many different ways…from so many different angles. It keeps things fresh and engaging. Can’t wait to read these!
Laura Fineberg Cooper says:
What a beautiful picture of three talented women! Kirsti, this is such a personal and heartwarming interview, and I thank you for sharing. As part of a bird-loving family ourselves, I’m over-the-moon thrilled about these gorgeous books.
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Paris wants Olympic debut for breakdance
The proposal is being hailed by breakdancers as a major milestone.
Author: Associated Press, John Leicester
Published: 12:30 PM EST February 21, 2019
Updated: 12:30 PM EST February 21, 2019
From the streets of New York to the Olympic podium: Breakdancing's conquest of the globe seemingly knows no bounds.
Getting hip to breakdancing's appeal with young audiences, organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want the dance sport that spread from New York in the 1970s to become a medal event at the games.
The final decision on which events make the cut will be made by the International Olympic Committee after the 2020 Tokyo Games. But simply being proposed on Thursday by Paris for an Olympic debut in 2024 was hailed by breakers as a milestone that will boost breakdancing's global footprint and its acceptance as a bona fide competitive sport.
"It's a victory for us. Even if it goes no further, we'll still have won," said Mounir Biba, one of the foremost breakdancers in France, which is a stronghold of the sport.
Also on Paris' wish-list are climbing , surfing and skateboarding — which will all make their Olympic debuts at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The head of the Paris organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, announced the selection, disappointing other sports that lobbied for a spot, including karate and squash.
Paris' proposal is the four sports together enter 248 athletes, evenly split between men and women. Room would have to be made elsewhere in the program to stay within the IOC's ceiling of 10,500 Olympians in total.
In competitive breakdancing, also called breaking, breakers — alone or in teams — face off against each other in "battles," taking turns to show off an array of imaginative, acrobatic and improvised moves to a DJ's beats, watched by a judging panel that picks the winner. Breaking featured at the Youth Olympic Games last year.
Credit: AP Photo/Jens Meyer
In this picture taken with a long time exposure participants perform during the German Breakdance Championships in Magdeburg, Germany, Sunday, March 12, 2017.
"There's simply no doubt about the athletic aspects of the discipline," said Biba, fielding numerous questions at the Paris announcement about how breaking qualifies as a sport.
"I defy Cristiano Ronaldo to do just one of my movements," he said.
Estanguet said the 2024 organizing committee wants "to connect the games to their era."
Organizers noted the proposed sports have broad appeal to young people, large and active audiences on social media and, with skateboarding and breaking in particular, an urban base. Another advantage for Paris as it seeks to satisfy IOC efforts for less wasteful games is the four sports shouldn't need large and complex new venues.
Estanguet said Paris organizers are also aiming to make the 2024 Games more participative than ever, by allowing members of the public to test themselves against the performances of Olympic athletes, in the real world or virtually.
That could include organizing a public marathon on the same route the Olympians run on, and on the same day. Organizers also are exploring connected technology that might allow spectators to virtually compete against Olympians. That could include riding a stationary bike at home and comparing that performance against those of cyclists in the Olympic races.
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Indicadores del comercio Malta
Indicador del comercio
Definición Datos sobre el número de países de los que un país en particular importa mercancías en un determinado año.
Fuente WITS - Comtrade de UNSD
Clasificación del producto Sistema Armonizado 1988/1992, documento CUCI, Revisión 2
Notas sobre los datos 1) Se da a la UE el trato propio de un solo país; 2) En el cálculo se consideran los productos comercializados cuyo valor supere los US$100 000.
Última actualización Jan-03-2020
Número de asociados importadores: 158
Definición Número total de productos importados por un país a nivel de 6 dígitos del Sistema Armonizado (SA) en un determinado año.
Notas sobre los datos 1) En el cálculo se consideran los productos comercializados cuyo valor supere los US$100 000.
Número de productos importados: 3,724
Definición Se calcula como el número de países a los que el declarante exporta cierto producto, dividido por el número de países que declaren haber importado el producto en ese año.
Valoración Exportación - Valor FOB; Importación - Valor CIF
Notas sobre los datos 1) Se consideran datos "espejo" para los datos de exportación; 2) Se consideran todos los productos a nivel de 6 dígitos del SA; 3) El cálculo se realiza a nivel de país-producto y se agrega al nivel del país.
Índice de penetración en el mercado de exportación: 3.01
Definición Datos sobre el número de países a los que un país en particular exporta mercancías en un determinado año.
Notas sobre los datos 1) Se consideran exportaciones "espejo" para los datos de exportación; 2) En el cálculo se consideran los productos comercializados cuyo valor supere los US$100 000.
Número de asociados exportadores: 176
Definición Número total de productos exportados por un país a nivel de 6 dígitos del Sistema Armonizado 1998 (SA 2) en un determinado año.
Número de productos exportados: 1,700
Definición El índice de Herfindahl e Hirschman (HH) es una medida de la dispersión del valor del comercio entre los asociados de un exportador. Un país cuyo comercio (exportaciones o importaciones) esté concentrado en muy pocos mercados tendrá un índice de un valor próximo a 1. Análogamente, un país con una cartera comercial altamente diversificada tendrá un índice próximo a 0.
Notas sobre los datos 1) Se consideran datos "espejo" para los datos de exportación; 2) Todos los países, salvo "Mundo" y "UE", se consideran como grupo de asociados; 3) En este cálculo se utiliza el "Total" del producto; 4) El indicador se calcula a nivel del asociado del declarante y se agrega al nivel del declarante.
Índice de HH sobre concentración económica de un mercado: 0.08
Indicador del desarrollo - Comercio de mercaderías
Definición Import value indexes are the current value of imports (c.i.f.) converted to U.S. dollars and expressed as a percentage of the average for the base period (2000). UNCTAD's import value indexes are reported for most economies. For selected economies for which UNCTAD does not publish data, the import value indexes are derived from import volume indexes (line 73) and corresponding unit value indexes of imports (line 75) in the IMF's International Financial Statistics.
Fuente WDI
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Trade indexes
Índice del valor de las importaciones (2000 = 100): 187.88
Definición Import volume indexes are derived from UNCTAD's volume index series and are the ratio of the import value indexes to the corresponding unit value indexes. Unit value indexes are based on data reported by countries that demonstrate consistency under UNCTAD quality controls, supplemented by UNCTAD’s estimates using the previous year’s trade values at the Standard International Trade Classification three-digit level as weights. To improve data coverage, especially for the latest periods, UNCTAD constructs a set of average prices indexes at the three-digit product classification of the Standard International Trade Classification revision 3 using UNCTAD’s Commodity Price Statistics, international and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates and calculates unit value indexes at the country level using the current year’s trade values as weights. For economies for which UNCTAD does not publish data, the import volume indexes (lines 73) in the IMF's International Financial Statistics are used.
Índice del volumen de las importaciones (2000 = 100): 203.31
Definición Goods imports refer to all movable goods (including nonmonetary gold) involved in a change of ownership from nonresidents to residents. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Goods, services & income
Importaciones de bienes (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 5,036,561,534.30
Definición Cost measures the fees levied on a 20-foot container in U.S. dollars. All the fees associated with completing the procedures to export or import the goods are included. These include costs for documents, administrative fees for customs clearance and technical control, customs broker fees, terminal handling charges and inland transport. The cost measure does not include tariffs or trade taxes. Only official costs are recorded.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Business environment
Última actualización Feb-11-2019
Costo de importaciones (US$ por contenedor): ...
Definición All documents required per shipment to import goods are recorded. It is assumed that the contract has already been agreed upon and signed by both parties. Documents required for clearance by government ministries, customs authorities, port and container terminal authorities, health and technical control agencies and banks are taken into account. Since payment is by letter of credit, all documents required by banks for the issuance or securing of a letter of credit are also taken into account. Documents that are renewed annually and that do not require renewal per shipment (for example, an annual tax clearance certificate) are not included.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Trade facilitation
Documentos exigidos para poder importar (número): ...
Definición Time to import is the time necessary to comply with all procedures required to import goods. Time is recorded in calendar days. The time calculation for a procedure starts from the moment it is initiated and runs until it is completed. If a procedure can be accelerated for an additional cost, the fastest legal procedure is chosen. It is assumed that neither the exporter nor the importer wastes time and that each commits to completing each remaining procedure without delay. Procedures that can be completed in parallel are measured as simultaneous. The waiting time between procedures--for example, during unloading of the cargo--is included in the measure.
Tiempo para importar (días): ...
Definición Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services measured as a share of gross domestic product.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: Shares of GDP & other
Comercio (% del PIB): 290.03
Definición Net trade in goods is the difference between exports and imports of goods. Trade in services is not included. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Balances
Comercio neto de bienes (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): -2,182,260,729.98
Definición Export values are the current value of exports (f.o.b.) converted to U.S. dollars and expressed as a percentage of the average for the base period (2000). UNCTAD's export value indexes are reported for most economies. For selected economies for which UNCTAD does not publish data, the export value indexes are derived from export volume indexes (line 72) and corresponding unit value indexes of exports (line 74) in the IMF's International Financial Statistics.
Índice de valor de exportación (2000 = 100): 128.25
Definición Export volume indexes are derived from UNCTAD's volume index series and are the ratio of the export value indexes to the corresponding unit value indexes. Unit value indexes are based on data reported by countries that demonstrate consistency under UNCTAD quality controls, supplemented by UNCTAD’s estimates using the previous year’s trade values at the Standard International Trade Classification three-digit level as weights. To improve data coverage, especially for the latest periods, UNCTAD constructs a set of average prices indexes at the three-digit product classification of the Standard International Trade Classification revision 3 using UNCTAD’s Commodity Price Statistics, international and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates and calculates unit value indexes at the country level using the current year’s trade values as weights. For economies for which UNCTAD does not publish data, the export volume indexes (lines 72) in the IMF's International Financial Statistics are used.
Índice del volumen de exportaciones (2000 = 100): 81.76
Definición Goods exports refer to all movable goods (including nonmonetary gold and net exports of goods under merchanting) involved in a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Exportaciones de bienes (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 2,854,300,804.32
Definición Cost measures the fees levied on a 20-foot container in U.S. dollars. All the fees associated with completing the procedures to export or import the goods are included. These include costs for documents, administrative fees for customs clearance and technical control, customs broker fees, terminal handling charges and inland transport. The cost measure does not include tariffs or trade taxes. Only official costs are recorded. Several assumptions are made for the business surveyed: Has 60 or more employees; Is located in the country's most populous city; Is a private, limited liability company. It does not operate within an export processing zone or an industrial estate with special export or import privileges; Is domestically owned with no foreign ownership; Exports more than 10% of its sales. Assumptions about the traded goods: The traded product travels in a dry-cargo, 20-foot, full container load. The product: Is not hazardous nor does it include military items; Does not require refrigeration or any other special environment; Does not require any special phytosanitary or environmental safety standards other than accepted international standards.
Costo de exportaciones (US$ por contenedor): ...
Definición All documents required per shipment to export goods are recorded. It is assumed that the contract has already been agreed upon and signed by both parties. Documents required for clearance by government ministries, customs authorities, port and container terminal authorities, health and technical control agencies and banks are taken into account. Since payment is by letter of credit, all documents required by banks for the issuance or securing of a letter of credit are also taken into account. Documents that are renewed annually and that do not require renewal per shipment (for example, an annual tax clearance certificate) are not included.
Documentos exigidos para poder exportar (número): ...
Definición Time to export is the time necessary to comply with all procedures required to export goods. Time is recorded in calendar days. The time calculation for a procedure starts from the moment it is initiated and runs until it is completed. If a procedure can be accelerated for an additional cost, the fastest legal procedure is chosen. It is assumed that neither the exporter nor the importer wastes time and that each commits to completing each remaining procedure without delay. Procedures that can be completed in parallel are measured as simultaneous. The waiting time between procedures--for example, during unloading of the cargo--is included in the measure.
Tiempo para exportar (días): ...
Definición Merchandise trade as a share of GDP is the sum of merchandise exports and imports divided by the value of GDP, all in current U.S. dollars.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Total merchandise trade
Comercio de mercaderías (% del PIB): 83.46
Definición Net barter terms of trade index is calculated as the percentage ratio of the export unit value indexes to the import unit value indexes, measured relative to the base year 2000. Unit value indexes are based on data reported by countries that demonstrate consistency under UNCTAD quality controls, supplemented by UNCTAD's estimates using the previous year’s trade values at the Standard International Trade Classification three-digit level as weights. To improve data coverage, especially for the latest periods, UNCTAD constructs a set of average prices indexes at the three-digit product classification of the Standard International Trade Classification revision 3 using UNCTAD’s Commodity Price Statistics, international and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates and calculates unit value indexes at the country level using the current year's trade values as weights.
Índice de términos netos de intercambio (2000 = 100): 169.74
Indicador del desarrollo - Comercio de servicios
Definición Services refer to economic output of intangible commodities that may be produced, transferred, and consumed at the same time. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Importaciones de servicios (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 10,774,292,148.50
Definición Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments.
Importaciones de bienes y servicios (% del PIB): 138.13
Definición Annual growth rate of imports of goods and services based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: Growth rates
Importaciones de bienes y servicios (% del crecimiento anual): 1.57
Definición Imports of goods and services comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from nonresidents to residents of general merchandise, nonmonetary gold, and services. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Importaciones de bienes y servicios (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 15,810,853,682.80
Definición Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: US$ at constant 2010 prices: Expenditure on GDP
Importaciones de bienes y servicios (US$ a precios constantes de 2010) : 16,942,658,429.75
Definición Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: US$ at current prices: Expenditure on GDP
Importaciones de bienes y servicios (US$ a precios actuales): 15,820,314,269.70
Definición Imports of goods, services and primary income is the sum of goods imports, service imports and primary income payments. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Importaciones de bienes, servicios e ingresos primario (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 27,854,006,542.81
Definición International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries, including payments to foreign carriers for international transport. These expenditures may include those by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include expenditures for passenger transport items. Their share in imports is calculated as a ratio to imports of goods and services, which comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from nonresidents to residents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Travel & tourism
Turismo internacional, gastos (% del total de importaciones): 2.58
Definición Commercial service imports are total service imports minus imports of government services not included elsewhere. International transactions in services are defined by the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (1993) as the economic output of intangible commodities that may be produced, transferred, and consumed at the same time. Definitions may vary among reporting economies.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Imports
Importaciones de servicios comerciales (US$ a precios actuales): 10,762,412,324.90
Definición Transport services (% of commercial service imports) covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Excluded are freight insurance, which is included in insurance services; goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers and repairs of transport equipment, which are included in goods; repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities, which are included in construction services; and rental of carriers without crew, which is included in other services.
Servicios de transporte (% de las importaciones de servicios comerciales): 5.98
Definición Insurance and financial services cover freight insurance on goods imported and other direct insurance such as life insurance; financial intermediation services such as commissions, foreign exchange transactions, and brokerage services; and auxiliary services such as financial market operational and regulatory services.
Seguro y servicios financieros (% de las importaciones de servicios comerciales): 26.10
Definición Travel services (% of commercial service imports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging, meals, and transport (within the economy visited).
Servicios de viaje (% de las importaciones de servicios comerciales): 3.79
Definición Travel covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers for their own use during visits of less than one year in that economy for either business or personal purposes. Travel includes local transport (i.e., transport within the economy being visited and provided by a resident of that economy), but excludes international transport (which is included in passenger transport. Travel also excludes goods for resale, which are included in general merchandise.
Servicios de viaje (% de las importaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 3.79
Definición Transport covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, pipeline, space and electricity transmission) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, the movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. Excluded are freight insurance (included in insurance services); goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers (included in goods); maintenance and repairs on transport equipment (included in maintenance and repair services n.i.e.); and repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities (included in construction).
Servicios de transporte (% de las importaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 5.98
Definición Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions). Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Tema Infrastructure: Communications
Exportaciones de servicios de TIC (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 97,432,373.28
Definición Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service exports) include such activities as international telecommunications, and postal and courier services; computer data; news-related service transactions between residents and nonresidents; construction services; royalties and license fees; miscellaneous business, professional, and technical services; and personal, cultural, and recreational services.
Tema Private Sector & Trade: Exports
Computación, comunicaciones y otros servicios (% de las exportaciones de servicios comerciales): 60.80
Definición Net energy imports are estimated as energy use less production, both measured in oil equivalents. A negative value indicates that the country is a net exporter. Energy use refers to use of primary energy before transformation to other end-use fuels, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport.
Tema Environment: Energy production & use
Importaciones de energía, valor neto (% del uso de energía): ...
Definición Trade in services is the sum of service exports and imports divided by the value of GDP, all in current U.S. dollars.
Comercio de servicios (% del PIB): 221.00
Exportaciones de servicios (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 14,536,183,465.98
Definición Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments.
Exportaciones de bienes y servicios (% del PIB): 151.90
Definición Annual growth rate of exports of goods and services based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments.
Exportaciones de bienes y servicios (% del crecimiento anual): 4.54
Definición Exports of goods and services comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, net exports of goods under merchanting, nonmonetary gold, and services. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Exportaciones de bienes y servicios (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 17,390,484,270.30
Definición Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
Exportaciones de bienes y servicios (US$ a precios constantes de 2010): 18,470,702,925.85
Definición Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Exportaciones de bienes y servicios (US$ a precios actuales): 17,396,921,701.77
Definición Exports of goods, services and primary income is the sum of goods exports, service exports and primary income receipts. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Exportaciones de bienes, servicios e ingresos primario (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 28,415,731,825.23
Definición International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Their share in exports is calculated as a ratio to exports of goods and services, which comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.
Turismo internacional, recibos (% del total de exportaciones): 8.34
Definición Commercial service exports are total service exports minus exports of government services not included elsewhere. International transactions in services are defined by the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (1993) as the economic output of intangible commodities that may be produced, transferred, and consumed at the same time. Definitions may vary among reporting economies.
Exportaciones de servicios comerciales (US$ a precios actuales): 14,501,337,577.48
Definición Transport services (% of commercial service exports) covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Excluded are freight insurance, which is included in insurance services; goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers and repairs of transport equipment, which are included in goods; repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities, which are included in construction services; and rental of carriers without crew, which is included in other services.
Servicios de transporte (% de las exportaciones de servicios comerciales): 6.24
Definición Insurance and financial services cover freight insurance on goods exported and other direct insurance such as life insurance; financial intermediation services such as commissions, foreign exchange transactions, and brokerage services; and auxiliary services such as financial market operational and regulatory services.
Seguro y servicios financieros (% de las exportaciones de servicios comerciales): 22.96
Definición Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).
Servicios de viaje (% de las exportaciones de servicios comerciales): 10.00
Servicios de viaje (% de las exportaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 9.98
Servicios de transporte (% de las exportaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 6.23
Definición Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions).
Exportaciones de servicios de TIC (% de exportaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 0.67
Definición Communications, computer, information, and other services cover international telecommunications; computer data; news-related service transactions between residents and nonresidents; construction services; royalties and license fees; miscellaneous business, professional, and technical services; personal, cultural, and recreational services; manufacturing services on physical inputs owned by others; and maintenance and repair services and government services not included elsewhere.
Comunicaciones, computadoras, etc. (% de importaciones de servicios, balanza de pagos): 53.52
Definición Net trade in goods and services is derived by offsetting imports of goods and services against exports of goods and services. Exports and imports of goods and services comprise all transactions involving a change of ownership of goods and services between residents of one country and the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Comercio neto de bienes y servicios (balanza de pagos, US$ a precios actuales): 1,579,630,587.51
Definición Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service imports) include such activities as international telecommunications, and postal and courier services; computer data; news-related service transactions between residents and nonresidents; construction services; royalties and license fees; miscellaneous business, professional, and technical services; and personal, cultural, and recreational services.
Computadoras, comunicaciones y otros servicios (% de importaciones de servicios comerciales): 64.13
Indicador del desarrollo - Impuestos relacionados con el comercio
Definición Taxes on exports are all levies on goods being transported out of the country or services being delivered to nonresidents by residents. Rebates on exported goods that are repayments of previously paid general consumption taxes, excise taxes, or import duties are deducted from the gross amounts receivable from these taxes, not from amounts receivable from export taxes.
Tema Public Sector: Government finance: Revenue
Impuestos a las exportaciones (% de la recaudación impositiva): ...
Definición Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.
Impuestos sobre bienes y servicios (% de la recaudación): 34.20
Impuestos sobre bienes y servicios (UMN a precios actuales): 1,312,070,000.00
Definición Taxes on international trade include import duties, export duties, profits of export or import monopolies, exchange profits, and exchange taxes.
Impuestos al comercio internacional (UMN a precios actuales): ...
Impuestos a las exportaciones (UMN a precios actuales): ...
Impuestos sobre bienes y servicios (% del valor agregado de industria y servicios): 14.52
Impuestos al comercio internacional (% de la recaudación): ...
Definición Customs and other import duties are all levies collected on goods that are entering the country or services delivered by nonresidents to residents. They include levies imposed for revenue or protection purposes and determined on a specific or ad valorem basis as long as they are restricted to imported goods or services.
Aduana y otros impuestos a las importaciones (% de la recaudación impositiva): ...
Indicador del desarrollo - PIB, INB y otros
Definición GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using 2010 official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: US$ at constant 2010 prices: Aggregate indicators
PIB (US$ a precios constantes de 2010): 12,133,351,045.04
Definición GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using single year official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: US$ at current prices: Aggregate indicators
PIB (US$ a precios actuales): 11,452,895,366.67
Definición Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at market prices based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources.
Crecimiento del PIB (% anual): 5.68
Definición GDP per capita is gross domestic product divided by midyear population. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
PIB per cápita (US$ a precios constantes de 2010): 26,645.86
Definición GDP per capita is gross domestic product divided by midyear population. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
PIB per cápita (US$ a precios actuales): 25,151.52
Definición Annual percentage growth rate of GDP per capita based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. GDP per capita is gross domestic product divided by midyear population. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources.
Crecimiento del PIB per cápita (% anual): 3.28
Definición GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2011 international dollars.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: Purchasing power parity
PIB per cápita, PPA ($ a precios internacionales constantes de 2011) : 35,772.26
Definición GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current international dollars based on the 2011 ICP round.
PIB per cápita, PPA ($ a precios internacionales actuales): 38,347.87
Definición PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2011 international dollars.
PIB, PPA ($ a precios internacionales constantes de 2011): 16,289,112,238.32
Definición PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current international dollars. For most economies PPP figures are extrapolated from the 2011 International Comparison Program (ICP) benchmark estimates or imputed using a statistical model based on the 2011 ICP. For 47 high- and upper middle-income economies conversion factors are provided by Eurostat and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
PIB, PPA ($ a precios internacionales actuales): 17,461,932,042.67
Definición GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
INB (US$ constantes del año 2010): 11,114,068,822.45
Definición GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Ingreso nacional bruto (ING) (US$): 10,496,778,586.80
Definición GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.
Crecimiento del INB (% anual): 2.24
Definición GNI per capita is gross national income divided by midyear population. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.
INB per cápita (US$ constantes del año 2010): 24,407.43
Definición GNI per capita (formerly GNP per capita) is the gross national income, converted to U.S. dollars using the World Bank Atlas method, divided by the midyear population. GNI is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. GNI, calculated in national currency, is usually converted to U.S. dollars at official exchange rates for comparisons across economies, although an alternative rate is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate actually applied in international transactions. To smooth fluctuations in prices and exchange rates, a special Atlas method of conversion is used by the World Bank. This applies a conversion factor that averages the exchange rate for a given year and the two preceding years, adjusted for differences in rates of inflation between the country, and through 2000, the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). From 2001, these countries include the Euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Tema Economic Policy & Debt: National accounts: Atlas GNI & GNI per capita
INB per cápita, método Atlas (US$ a precios actuales): 23,590.00
Definición Annual percentage growth rate of GNI per capita based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. GNI per capita is gross national income divided by midyear population. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.
Crecimiento per cápita del INB (% anual): -0.07
Definición GNI per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GNI is gross national income (GNI) converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GNI as a U.S. dollar has in the United States. GNI is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in constant 2011 international dollars.
GNI per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $): 32,767.56
Definición GNI per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GNI is gross national income (GNI) converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GNI as a U.S. dollar has in the United States. GNI is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in current international dollars based on the 2011 ICP round.
INB per cápita, PPA (a $ internacionales actuales): 35,150.00
Definición PPP GNI (formerly PPP GNP) is gross national income (GNI) converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GNI as a U.S. dollar has in the United States. Gross national income is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in constant 2011 international dollars.
GNI, PPP (constant 2011 international $): 14,920,905,605.80
Definición PPP GNI (formerly PPP GNP) is gross national income (GNI) converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GNI as a U.S. dollar has in the United States. Gross national income is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in current international dollars. For most economies PPP figures are extrapolated from the 2011 International Comparison Program (ICP) benchmark estimates or imputed using a statistical model based on the 2011 ICP. For 47 high- and upper middle-income economies conversion factors are provided by Eurostat and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
INB, PPA (a $ internacionales actuales): 16,004,165,626.38
Series Trade Balance (% of GDP): (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS)
Indicator Name Benefit incidence of social insurance programs to poorest quintile (% of total social insurance benefits)
Long definition Benefit incidence of social insurance programs to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total social insurance benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Social insurance programs include old age contributory pensions (including survivors and disability) and social security and health insurance benefits (including occupational injury benefits, paid sick leave, maternity and other social insurance). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
Source International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.
Topic Public Sector: Government finance: Trade
Periodicity Annual
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Clayburn, Abbotsford
Clayburn is a small historic village now located with the City of Abbotsford, in the Central Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Largely surrounded by farmland and green fields, at the western base of Sumas Mountain, the historic centre is situated immediately north and east of the city of Abbotsford's urban sprawl.
The settlement is known locally for its early twentieth-century brickworks and brick worker's cottages which line its main street.
The name "Clayburn" is used because in the late 1920s Clayburn was a large producer of clay bricks, and had various factories, some of which still exist today. Clay-mining and brick-making operations were started by John Morton, one of the so-called "Three Greenhorns", whose "Brickmaker's Claim" is now the West End of Vancouver and was thought originally to have been commercially viable for porcelain clay.
Kilgard, British Columbia
BC Names entry "Clayburn (community)"
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Clayburn,_Abbotsford
'Clayburn' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Riverman (1983)
Actors: Christopher Cazenove (actor), Robin Dolton (actor), Ken Gampu (actor), Alan Granville (actor), Kenneth Hendel (actor), John Lesley (actor), Ken Marshall (actor), Neville Nash (actor), Sam Ntsinyi (actor), Michael Parks (actor), Hugh Rouse (actor), Len Sparrowhawk (actor), Larry Taylor (actor), Barry Trengove (actor), Stan Wrigley (actor),
Cleo Brown, Cleo Brown
When, Cleo Brown
You're My Fever, Cleo Brown
You're A Heavenly Thing, Cleo Brown
When Hollywood Goes Black And Tan, Cleo Brown
The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow, Cleo Brown
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Cleo Brown
Never Too Tired For Love, Cleo Brown
My Gal Mezzanine, Cleo Brown
Me And My Wonderful One, Cleo Brown
Love In The First Degree, Cleo Brown
Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie, Cleo Brown
Latch On, Cleo Brown
I'll Take The South, Cleo Brown
Give A Broken Heart A Break, Cleo Brown
Breakin' In A Pair Of Shoes, Cleo Brown
My Heart Wants To Be Where You Are, Kelle Bryan
Cleo Brown
Creole babies from Manhattan,
Will be leaving Harlem if htey can,
Yeah, man! Oh, yeah, man!
When Hollywood goes black and tan!
Louis Armstrong with his trumpet
Will be heading westward with his band,
Harlem crooners with a swing will be singing at the studio,
Makes no difference if you can't sing, just say, "he-de-he-de-hi-de-ho!"
When they start to swing that rhythm
I'll be heading for that promised land,
You won't find them wing and bucking,
Everybody will be truckin'
It's gonna be grand,
The mayor of Harlem says he'll be there
To give those boys a helping hand,
Old Bob Howard made a promise
To latch on to that baby grand,
Steppin Fetchit's gonna sing and dance like Fred Astaire,
Nina May don't have to sing 'cause she can be petit like Ina Claire.
Water's gonna do a fan dance
And shake the feathers off her fan,
Here's good news and it's the newest,
Braddock's going to meet Joe Louis,
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Action Man Jesus?
Posted by wonderingpilgrim in Personal, refugees, Spirituality, theology
faith, persecution, trust
One can feel quite exhausted following a reading of the Gospel of Mark’s account of a day in the life of Jesus – today’s text Mark1: 29-39. There is a lot packed into the day so described. It is typical of Mark’s story-telling style – rapid, clipped, urgent, sparing of detail.
It gives a picture of a Jesus who is in total command. For Mark’s original community under heavy persecution and the threat of annihilation under Nero, it was strengthening to know that, even as they felt the breath of the hungry arena lion or the heat of the first flicker of flames at the stake, that the One in whom they had invested their total trust would hold them tight.
Recent times have seen an increase in awareness of many who still suffer religious persecution as Christians and other minority groups flee the Middle East and also the current Rohingya crisis bridging Myanmar and Bangladesh. One almost wishes for an Action Man or superhero to descend and sort it all out. The big picture in Mark’s Gospel, however, is focused on the urge for Jesus’ followers to exercise perseverance and focus on the message to which they are called, no matter what threatens to destroy them. I have often been inspired by stories of such faith emerging from the witness of the Coptic and Syrian Orthodox communities here in Perth
Mark tells us of no easy fix, no plastic action figure to save the day, but the trustworthy authority of Jesus who is also the Christ.
We think we’re in charge…
Posted by wonderingpilgrim in local politics, Personal, Spirituality, theology
aid, arms, Isaiah, peace
Sure we have agency for good or ill, wise or foolish. Some will think it a great idea for the Australian government to invest heavily in the military industrial complex and become one of the world’s major exporters of military equipment. As a strategy for long-term economic growth and employment, it is a winner!
For those who believe the world is already over-militarized and under-resourced in health, education and strategic peace resolution, yesterday’s announcement is disastrous. They do not buy the argot of “defensive weapons only” and “careful vetting of clients.” They know that wealthy arms manufacturers have a lot more clout when lobbying politicians than do aid agencies such as World Vision and Act for Peace. Cartoonists are wised up to the tension, as was George Bernard Shaw when he wrote the hard-hitting Major Barbara.
Today’s text from Isaiah 40:21-31 puts all in perspective, especially for those who believe they are ultimately in charge, but also for those who grow weary striving for peace in its many manifestations.
Not much to inspire here!
Posted by wonderingpilgrim in Personal, Spirituality, theology
depression, inspiration, patiece, vianegativa
I open the sacred text in anticipation of inspiring insight.
Today the set passage is Job 7:1-7.
It lands us right in the midst of Job’s despair and he is giving full vent. He has lost everything – home, wealth, health. He has every right to his pity party and who could grudge him that.
So why is my first impulse impatience? Is it that my expectation of this daily time set aside to meditate and contemplate my tradition’s sacred text falls short? Does it remind me too much of my own stresses and challenges for which these short oasis times should offer relief? Is this text too depressing to be of any value?
Yet promise is present.
In the Hebrew context of confidence in G-d’s provision and Job’s experience of its total absence, Job is still free to express himself. And here’s the rub. Job is still addressing his complaint to the G-d that seems to be not there. He is still oriented to the Author and Completer of his faith.
The Via Negativa is a strong strand in Christian tradition and experience, forging hope and life and service out of things that “are not.” Once everything we believe we have and are stripped away, what is left?
So this passage that has nothing within itself to inspire can lead to a deeper place with a stronger foundation.
Is dispossession biblically sanctioned?
Posted by wonderingpilgrim in Personal, reconciliation, Spirituality, theology
dispossession, multiculturalism
The conqueror will always say “Yes!” and, for support, misappropriate passages like the one set for today (Deuteronomy 18:9-14).
There is a big difference, however, between the cultural and historical context of nation-forging from a horde of liberated Hebrew slaves preserving their fragile identity and colonial expansionism.
It is ironic that such a text emerges on a contentious day that Australia commemorates and celebrates the day the Union Jack was planted on the beach at Botany Bay (oops! Sydney Cove, actually) signalling the commencement of Britain’s new penal settlement. The overseers and convicts arriving on the First Fleet possibly did not see themselves as conquerors – neither did the unrecognised original inhabitants and stewards of the land. The language, attitudes and conflicts of conquest emerged as the needs of the settlement and its economy grew.
Back to Deuteronomy, the need to protect Hebrew identity and possession of land. Here also is a seed of wisdom for multicultural co-existence. The burden of the text is that the Hebrews do not adopt practices that are alien to their identity. The Deuteronomic code continues at length to describe the duty of hospitality and receptivity to those who are “other.” Multiculturalism is not about “making us like them” or “assimilating” the other to be like us. We are to be as comfortable and as confident in our own skin to know that our identity is uniquely formed. From such a base, there is no need for anxiety or defensiveness when faced with the other. We can move beyond tolerance to receptivity, differences and all.
Australia’s new six classes
Aussies have long said, “Jack is as good as his master” – we are the land where equal status is championed and where we eschew the class consciousness that separated the lower convict class and their gentrified overseers at the outset of European settlement.
Sociologist Jill Sheppard, in a recent report, suggests there are six identifiable classes in Australian society. Jettisoning the usual single streamed occupation marker exploring working, management and executive roles and, nodding to generational changes that have taken place, Sheppard adds social, recreational and aspirational factors that separate distinct groupings and their perceived standing in the community.
There are probably no surprises here. It has long been established that Western society fueled by a Christian Reformation work ethic has been inherently upwardly mobile and that the goal in life has been perceived as reaching the next rung on the ladder. The transported convict aspired to become the freeman who aspired to lease an allotment who then aspired to outright ownership and some measure of control over those following behind.
It is an ancient phenomenon. In a kind of a coach’s pep talk, G-d tells the Israelites who have benefited from resettlement in their promised land not to forget the core values upon which their nation is being built. Deuteronomy 6:10-18. Their forebears were freed from tyranny to forge a new society that would be an attractive model for all nations. How easy it is to forget!
Presenting one’s credentials …
authority, Gospel of Mark, healing
First impressions are paramount, our life coaches tell us. Suit up, look confident and practice that opening line if you want to succeed in love, finance and influence.
What if your goal is to begin a process that transforms the world from one beholden to despotic violence to one that exhibits the wholesome fullness of a paradise based on selfless care for the environment, one another and relationship with the Ground of all Being? How does one present one’s credentials?
Jesus went to his community’s regular gathering place to teach and expand a collective vision of shalom – a marination in the peace of the reign of G-d. (Mark 1:21-28) On cue, the darkest manifestation of the tyranny that opposes this vision arises in a troubled villager and challenges him. Jesus summarily dismisses the demon and the man is healed. The crowd is amazed and Jesus has established his bona fide before the end of the first chapter in Mark’s story.
Contemporary commentary on this story tends to focus on the phenomenon of “demon possession” and “mental illness.” This misses the point. Mark’s gospel sets the stage for understanding the nature of our engagement in a conflict of cosmic proportions. Jesus is presented as the one anointed with the influence and authority to overcome all that threatens to overwhelm and destroy.
In things non-essential, liberty… a caveat!
charity, Corinthians, liberty, love, St Paul, unity
“In things essential, unity; in things non-essential, liberty; in all things, charity.”
This eirenic phrase is attributed to St Augustine and has been taken up by various reformers, including the Moravians and the space within the spectrum of the Christian family to which I belong.
There’s a rub, however, when it comes down to deciding what things are essential. Any community that gathers for a common cause is on shaky ground here. We claim unity in Christ as our polar star, but it’s the navigation equipment that we debate. What is essential and what is not essential?
The Apostle Paul pleads a solution in 1 Corinthians 8:7-13. In summary, he says those who are on the stronger ground must accommodate the more fragile and vulnerable members of the community, even if it means laying personal freedom to the side. Sacrifice a little bit of liberty for the sake of unity under the umbrella of charity (which for Paul and all who follow the way of Christ is supreme.) In a society where each is out for one’s own, this is countercultural. Communities like mine must model it if its wisdom and life-giving energy are to be visible.
As my church secretary says with just a hint of irony, “Just as well we aren’t doing something hard!”
One man’s meat …
Corinthians, meat, unity, vegetarian
There’s an app I’ve discovered on my phone that can break down the nutritional value of my daily meals. It seems like I have a healthy balance in the meat department. My vegetarian and vegan friends might be appalled at such a notion, however, and point to many other sources of protein. We remain friends.
I have observed, however, that the kind of debate that erupts around diet can divide families and sever friendships. The Apostle Paul seems to mediate a similar dietary issue in the new and troubled Corinthian church. (See 1Corintians 8:1-6)
It seems those who could afford to eat meat were scandalising their siblings in Christ by consuming temple burgers that had been dedicated to the Roman gods. “We all know these idols are false – that there’s only one G-d. It’s good meat – why waste it?”
Paul diplomatically agrees but says there is a more important question at steak (sorry – stake!) – that is “What drives how I decide an action in a community where we strive to be one by looking out for each other in such a way that the world is transformed?”
Now that’s a meaty question!
To what extent do the sensitivities of a wider community impinge on something as personal as what I eat? Tho what extent do my personal decisions affect the overall harmony of a close community? Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the point that Paul concedes: “yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
When we focus on what unites rather than what divides (without ignoring or discounting such), there is progress.
Chilling out as agents of change…
change, freedom, justice, peace, transformation
How does one address ill-fitting and unjust systems in family, church and community while maintaining a calm disposition? Isn’t there a necessity for the passion of a prophet, the zest of a zealot, the tenacity of a teacher, the resilience of a reformer to effect change?
When the Apostle Paul counsels the household slaves in the troubled church of Corinth to “remain in the condition you were called?” is he suggesting that they should not rock the boat? (See 1 Corinthians 7:17-24)
Change is constantly necessary if human society is to function as it ought. Paul seems to be addressing where it begins – deep in each human soul. Unless we are free within ourselves, even under the direst circumstances, we are unable to connect sufficiently with others in order to bring about external change.
Immediately – right now, if not sooner!
discipleship, Mark, politics, procrastination
I’m a born procrastinator. I need time to think things through. “Immediately” is not a word that appears often in my working vocabulary.
It occurs twice and insistently in the text from today’s reading in Mark’s gospel.
Four men instantly drop their work to go around with one who has just taken up the baton of his politically assassinated cousin. Critical moments call for instant decisions, I suppose. And let’s not de-politicise what was at stake here – it was the proclamation of an alternative empire to that of Rome. ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ· is more correctly translated as “empire of God” than “kingdom of God.”
I would like to think that as one who is absolutely sold on the “empire of God” as proclaimed by Jesus that I would be as immediate in my response to claims by alternative empires, especially the dominant western one that claims my allegiance now and whose political masters brand many like me unloyal and unpatriotic when we measure their claims against his.
There was nothing rash or immediate about Jesus’ proclamation, however. It was 40 days in the making and rejected easy fixes to get to the nub of what mattered. Perhaps that’s why it evoked such an immediate response.
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Itchy Red Rash On Genital Area and How to Treat It?
Rash in the genital area. More from Body
Nagisa A.
Intertrigo in-tur-TRY-go is inflammation caused by skin-to-skin friction, most often in warm, moist areas of the body, such as the groin, between folds of skin on the abdomen, under the breasts, under the arms or between toes. The affected skin may be sensitive or painful, and severe cases can result in oozing sores, cracked skin or bleeding. Intertrigo usually clears up if you find a way to keep the affected areas as clean and dry as possible. Try wearing loosefitting clothing and using powder to reduce skin-to-skin friction in affected areas. Weight loss may be helpful as well.
If your child develops scabies, everyone in your household will need treatment. Find out how to tell whether you have tye or herpes here. Yeast infection. The affected skin may be sensitive or painful, and severe cases can result in oozing sores, cracked skin or bleeding. Pain in children under 3 years. Do you feel anything bulging into your vagina or feel pelvic pressure when you move? The baby may kick, make fists, or grimace. If it is evening, watch the symptoms and seek care in the morning. Molluscum contagiosum is a common viral Rash in the genital area that affects the skin. They may be able to identify the cause by looking at your rash.
Rash in the genital area. Can Shingles Affect Genital Area?
Vaginitis in a young girl may be caused Rash in the genital area A ball of toilet paper in her vagina. You can get pinworms when you touch a surface infected with pinworms, their eggs, or both, and then touch your mouth. Call your doctor now to discuss the symptoms and arrange for care. Make an appointment. If you practice good genital hygiene, you can also Teen scavenger hunt game ideas prevent infection:. Do you feel anything bulging into your vagina or feel pelvic pressure when you move? Do not douche unless your doctor tells you to. Because the genital area is sensitive, treatment for the genitals often differs from the psoriasis treatment that you apply to other parts of your body.
Genital rash is always a subject of worry for women.
A genital rash is a skin symptom that can be caused by a number of health issue and can happen on any part of the male genital area.
A rash in your vaginal area can have many different causes, including contact dermatitis, an infection or autoimmune condition, and parasites. Treatment varies, depending on the cause of the rash.
Home arez may also relieve the symptoms. Usually, a vaginal rash will feel uncomfortable and itchy. Your symptoms may get worse if you scratch the area. But sometimes an underlying condition is serious or incurable. Contact dermatitis is the most common cause of vaginal rash. It also can affect children.
Usually, contact dermatitis caused by a reaction to a skin allergen such as cleaning or skin products, or clothes. Topical steroids are used to treat inflammation. These include low-dose hydrocortisone or higher dose triamcinolone acetonide.
In severe cases, a healthcare provider may give you these drugs as an injection. In some cases, antidepressant or anticonvulsant drugs may be prescribed for pain. Vaginitis is also called vulvovaginitis when the vulva is involved. The vulva is the external part of the genitals surrounding the opening to the vagina. Trichomoniasis is treated with antibiotics, such as metronidazole Flagyl or tinidazole Tindamax.
Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition affecting the skin, including the gennital. Psoriasis lesions on the vulva are more common in children than adults. A review reported that women with psoriasis commonly had vaginal itching. The National Psoriasis Foundation estimates that between one-third and two-thirds of people with psoriasis will at some point have genital psoriasis.
In addition Raeh itching, there are symmetrical red plaques in the vulva area, with no scaling. These can also be present in the anal area. Psoriasis is usually treated topically with low-strength corticosteroids. You can also try light therapy. Molluscum contagiosum is a common viral infection that affects the skin.
Symptoms include bumps between 2 and 5 millimeters mm in diameter that have these characteristics:. For most healthy people, the Rsh disappear over time without treatment. When this happens, Rash in the genital area infection is no longer contagious. A scabies rash is caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows into the top layer of your skin to lay its eggs. The mites are easily Rash in the genital area person to person, including via sexual intercourse.
You can also pick up mites from infected clothing, towels, or bedding. The main symptom of scabies is severe itchiness, especially at night. Scratching can open the skin to bacterial infection. Gehital usual treatment for scabies is prescription scabicide. Pubic lice are tiny parasitic insects that infest pubic hair in the genital area.
They ih on human blood. They are transmitted by areea contact. You can also catch them from contact with the bedding, towels, or clothing of someone who has lice. The crab-like insects may be visible, ib you may see their eggs nits. Pubic lice are usually treated with OTC medicationsuch as permethrin Nix. Genital herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus, usually type 2 HSV Recurrent outbreaks are usually less severe and shorter.
Symptoms appear four to seven days after sexual transmission. They include small, painful, un burning blisters and lesions around the vagina, buttocks, and anus that last up to three weeks. These lesions may rupture, ooze pus, and crust over. Your vulva may then become inflamed, swollen, and painful.
Syphilis is an STI caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum. In the primary stage of syphilis, a small sore called a chancre develops at the infection site. It usually appears three to four weeks after the initial transmission of the bacteria. The chancre is painless but highly contagious.
The chancre resolves after about three weeks, but the bacteria continue to spread through your body. In the secondary stage of syphilis, a rash appears, including on your vagina. Other symptoms include:. Syphilis is treated with penicillin or Rash in the genital area antibiotics for people allergic to penicillin.
Highly contagious genital warts are caused by some types of Lancaster sc nightlife human papillomavirus HPV. They usually appear in clusters, but Teen agers free may be only one. They can also appear in your mouth, throat, or anal area. They have a range of traits:. Often, genital warts will go away on their own within a year, so you may want to wait.
Treating the warts can shrink them, but the virus will still be present. Prescription drugs used to treat the warts include:. Neurodermatitis is an itchy skin condition also called lichen simplex chronicus. It can develop anywhere on your body. In the genital area, it often affects the vulva. It also may occur secondary to another condition, such as contact dermatitis or diabetic neuropathy.
Vulvar ulcers are sores that appear in this area. They can be either extremely painful or painless. The most common causes are STIs, as well as bacterial or fungal infections.
Noninfectious causes include:. Vulvar ulcers might start out looking like bumps, a rash, or broken skin. The cyst fills with fluid when the gland is injured or infected. The cyst may become infected and filled with pus, forming an abscess.
But there may be swelling and redness near the hhe opening, and discomfort during sex or other activities. Treatment may include OTC pain relievers or an outpatient procedure to remove the cyst. Lichen planus results from your immune system attacking your skin cells or the cells of your mucous membranes, including the vagina.
Lichen planus is treated with topical steroids. Lichen sclerosus is rare and usually affects only the vulva. It occurs mostly in genitak girls and postmenopausal women.
In children, it sometimes resolves on its own. But its symptoms can be treated with topical corticosteroids or immune-modulating medications like pimecrolimus Elidel. If your rash is contagious, talk with a doctor about when you can safely have sexual intercourse. Also discuss how to prevent other kinds of transmission. You might also want to consult a skin doctor dermatologist or an infectious disease specialist who may have more experience with a range of conditions, including STIs.
Once the cause of your rash is identified and you have a successful remedy, you may be able to treat a recurrence of the rash yourself.
A doctor will examine you and take a medical history. They may be able to identify the cause by looking at your rash. The doctor may take a swab from the area if there is vaginal discharge, or a skin scrape or biopsy to look at the Celebrities with disbility under a microscope. A blood test may be used to identify herpes simplex or syphilis. You may be referred to a gynecologistdermatologist, or an infectious disease specialist for treatment.
Practicing good hygiene is important. So is maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. Being in good shape can help you ward off infections. Vaginal rashes are treatable, and symptoms can be alleviated with medication and home Adda a-bag luggage strap. In some cases, the underlying disease such as herpes or psoriasis has no Rssh, but the symptoms can be managed with medication.
Sometimes you may have to work with a doctor over time to find the right treatment plan for you and to prevent the rash from recurring. Some of the most common causes of genital rashes are infections and autoimmune disorders. This includes such conditions as jock itch and psoriasis…. Psoriasis and herpes can both cause genital pain, itching, and soreness. Find out how to tell whether Erotica sex text have psoriasis Violent video games good herpes here.
Aug 20, · A genital rash is a skin symptom that can be caused by a number of health issue and can happen on any part of the male genital area. Rashes are generally reddish in color, may hurt or itchy, and might include bumps or sores. Aug 14, · Human papillomavirus causes a rash in the genital area known as genital warts. More than 40 strains of this virus exist, some of which can lead to cervical cancer, according to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bacterial Infection. Sweating and itching in the genital area can lead to several different problems when the causes of the symptoms are unknown. Rash and itching on the private parts. Itching and rash can be caused by a variety of causes, some of which are more common than others.
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Join a hike and you can make a significant impact on skin cancer. Do You Live with Anxiety? Legal Conditions and Terms Any use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy linked below. Other symptoms include:. These burrow track are made up of irregular bumps and can look similar to a rash. Do you have a new sex partner? Other symptoms include feeling feverish, fatigued, and irritable, and seeing dark spots on the skin. How old are you? But there may be swelling and redness near the vaginal opening, and discomfort during sex or other activities. In some cases, antidepressant or anticonvulsant drugs may be prescribed for pain. Consult with your doctor before using a yeast-fighting medicine if you take warfarin. What does your vaginal discharge look and smell like? Regardless of the cause, however, the itchiness of a rash can be treated with over-the-counter OTC creams such as hydrocortisone.
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Itchy and reddish rash in the genitals can be accompanied by other symptoms, as the underlying cause can also affect other body parts or the entire system. Occasional occurrence of rash in the genital area can be caused by non-infectious health conditions like allergy. However, several genital rashes are caused by sexually transmitted diseases. The condition can be characterized by redness with sores and blisters. Some rashes can retain the normal skin tone but there are obvious small bumps on the skin. Rashes on the genitals can also be accompanied by itching, burning sensation when urinating, pain, and presence of discharges.
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World’s Fourth Largest Cargo Company Bans Shark Fin Shipments
HONG KONG (July 24, 2016) — China COSCO Shipping Corporation Ltd., one of the world’s largest cargo carriers, has announced that it will ban all shark fin shipments, joining a growing number of transport and logistics companies standing up against a brutal trade that kills millions of sharks annually.
In a July 21 letter released today, Wan Min, Director and President of COSCO Shipping, announced that his company “will make sure that no shark fin-related products are carried by our vessels through stricter monitoring and regulation. We also pledge to implement the ‘No Shark Fin’ carriage policies as other global container lines.”
COSCO Shipping’s commitment follows concerns raised by WildAid and other wildlife conservation groups after Hong Kong Customs officials seized nearly 1 ton of fins from endangered hammerhead sharks, found inside a COSCO shipping container on board a COSCO vessel earlier this month.
“By acting responsibly and with great stewardship of our oceans, COSCO Shipping has joined the ranks of all the other major global container shipping lines by banning shark fin from their vessels with immediate effect,” said Alex Hofford, Wildlife Campaigner for WildAid Hong Kong.
The commitments of 17 container shipping lines and 34 airlines have intensified scrutiny of American multinational courier FedEx, which has yet to commit to a “No Shark Fin” carriage policy despite intense pressure. UPS, FedEx’s chief industry rival, banned shark fin shipments nearly a year ago.
“COSCO Shipping, a mainland Chinese conglomerate, has shown FedEx how quickly a shark fin ban can be implemented, if the will to do so is there at management level,” Hofford said.
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Fins from up to 73 million sharks every year are used in shark fin soup, a luxury dish and wedding banquet staple that has led to overfishing of many shark species. After their fins are sliced off, sharks are frequently dumped back into the water, where they often sink to the bottom and suffocate or are eaten by other predators.
WildAid and its partners continue to encourage other important players in the global shark fin supply chain, such as Hong Kong’s major restaurant groups, to follow the example of leading transport and logistics companies by quickly phasing out shark fin from their set menus.
Data released from the Hong Kong government Census and Statistics Department earlier this year revealed that imports of shark fin into Hong Kong dropped by 42% between 2010 and 2015, from nearly 11,000 tons to about 6,300 tons, respectively. In addition, the period between 2013 and 2015 saw a massive 43% drop in imports of fins carried by air after WildAid launched a campaign that secured commitments from around 30 airlines to discontinue the shipping of shark fins. By comparison, WildAid estimates that COSCO Shipping’s new policy could have the effect of as many as around 10 or more airline commitments given the container line’s near 8% market share of the global container shipping trade.
Shark advocates protest FedEx in Hong Kong (Alex Hofford)
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This is Christie’s moment to shine in LA.
Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, announces a major exhibition to celebrate the opening of its new Los Angeles flagship in Beverly Hills. The goal is to welcome in both new and established collectors to acquaint themselves with all that Christie’s has to offer the LA community — whether it is expertise,education, or simply engagement with the beautiful objects Christie’s has been entrusted with.
From April 20-28, Christie’s will open the doors of its new West Coast arts space with a special exhibition of more than 60 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper, as well as a selection of jewels,watches and private sale items. The exhibition was curated from the auction house’s signature May sales of Impressionist, Modern, Post-War, Contemporary and Latin American art, which take place in New York.
The new two-story, 5,400 square foot flagship building has been completely renovated and reconstructed from its previous retail space. For the design and construction of this unique space, Christie’s engaged wHY, the interdisciplinary design team known for its work on the Marciano Art Foundation, CalArts, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Swinerton Builders. The gallery has a grand yet flexible layout for hosting exhibitions, social events, and educational programs.
“This is Christie’s moment to shine in LA and we are delighted to have assembled such a stellar exhibition of fine art, jewelry, watches and private sale items to celebrate our grand opening in Beverly Hills,” said Sonya Roth, Managing Director, Christie’s LA.
Among the highlights of the exhibition are masterpieces by the titans of 20th century art, including Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1962), the first triptych Francis Bacon painted of his great muse (estimate on request – exceeding $50 million); Leda and the Swan (1962) by Cy Twombly ($35-55 million), a celebrated tour-de-force by the artist that is emerging from a private collection after nearly 30 years unseen by the public (estimate $35-55 million); and Femme assise dans un fauteuil (1917-1920) by Pablo Picasso, a Cubist portrait of the artist’s first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova (estimate $20-30 million).
Femme assise dans un fauteuil (1917-1920) by Pablo Picasso
Christie’s previously announced the expansion of its presence on the West Coast in response to growing demand among LA-area collectors for greater access to buying and selling opportunities as well as fine art advisory and appraisal services. The move mirrors Christie’s recent expansion in Shanghai and Beijing, where the auction house has been steadily increasing access to online and saleroom collecting opportunities, arts engagement, and educational partnerships. Together, mainland China and the West Coast region of the United States account for the largest influx of new buyers at Christie’s in recent years.
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We Don’t Have Financial Power To Meet Your Demands Now – FG Begs ASUU
The federal government of Nigeria on Monday night disclosed that it did not have the financial power now to meet the demands of the Academy Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who said this at a press conference in Abuja, also appealed to the striking ASUU members to exercise restraint in their demands from the government, adding that their problems with the government began during the Umaru Yar’Adua administration in 2009.
The minister said the Federal Government would have fulfilled its obligations to ASUU if international oil prices had not crashed after 2009.
Adamu said previous administrations made promises to the union when the economy was buoyant.
He said the Federal Government provided an agreement in 2009 for funding of universities to the tune of N1.3tn over a period of six years.
Adamu said, “Let me begin by saying that the issues necessitating this strike date back to 2009 when the then government of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua signed an agreement with ASUU on the funding of federal universities. The agreement provided for funding of universities to the tune of N1.3tn over a period of six years. It is instructive to know that Nigeria was experiencing oil boom at that time. It was therefore expected that government would meet the terms of agreement.
“However, international oil prices crashed in subsequent years, thereby throwing the country into an economic hardship. At the inception of this administration, the country’s economic fortunes worsened, nose-diving into a recession, with dire consequences on all sectors of the economy, including education.
“We exited recession not too long ago, and we are just beginning to recover from the consequences of low oil prices, which are happily beginning to pick up. If this trend continues, definitely, the education sector will also improve.
“Against this background, I want to appeal to all parents, students and in particular ASUU women and men to continue to exercise restraint in terms of their response to the plight of the education sector. We must also be mindful that there are other sectors with similar competing needs.”
ASUU, on Monday, embarked on an indefinite strike after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Akure, Ondo State, on Sunday.
ASUU’s current strike is hinged on delays in implementing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the government agreed to in 2017, including to compel government to conclude the renegotiation of other agreements also collectively reached in 2009.
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Three of Singapore’s ‘big brothers’ — Mark Lee, Christopher Lee and Li Nanxing — come together for the first time in a new slapstick comedy
What’s Chinese New Year without some feel-good, light-hearted comedy? Gathering a crew of renowned household names, The Fortune Handbook is set to capture the hearts of Singaporeans thanks to a recipe of topics that range from food, family, gambling, getting promoted and, of course, the God of Fortune.
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The story follows the owner of a famous bakery, Ren Haoxing (played by Li Nanxing), and his no-good gambling brother-in-law, Su Fu (Christopher Lee). The latter, drowning in debt, has been scheming to pawn off Haoxing’s secret recipe and line his own pockets.
As fortune would have it, ‘intern’ Huat God (Mark Lee) is smiling upon this part of town. In hopes of getting promoted, he’s been indiscriminately granting everyone’s wishes — and he bestows Su Fu with the power of mind control.
Chaos and confusion ensue, until Heaven steps in to prevent a total catastrophe. What will happen to Haoxing’s bakery? And can the Huat God redeem himself and secure that sweet promotion?
Gathering the three Lees
Interestingly, The Fortune Handbook began as a challenge to gather the three Lees in entertainment. Director Kevin Sng (Taxi! Taxi!) says, “It started out as a joke, but all three of them actually agreed to do it.”
Christopher Lee shares his side of the story, quipping, “I was forced into it. They told me, ‘The other two Lees have said yes. If you don’t say yes, you’ll be letting the two of them down.’”
Showing off the chemistry between them, Mark Lee ribbed, “I wanted to work with Chris again because he’s always flying around and going to Malaysia to film with other women. I had to ‘save’ him, otherwise he’d be stuck amongst Malaysian girls and might let Fann down.” (Christopher Lee is married to actress Fann Wong, and they have a two-year-old son.)
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In a stroke of luck, gathering this trio of Lees was like hitting jackpot — so much that the actors are already talking about their next project together. Mark Lee muses, “We can consider making ‘the three Lees’ a brand name. We can act in police dramas with Nanxing and idol dramas with Christopher — and I can play his dad.”
In response, Li says with a deadpan expression, “Before we came into the room earlier, Mark asked us not to worry [about being funny], saying that he’d take care of everything.”
The Fortune Handbook [TBA]
Director: Kevin Sng
Starring: Mark Lee, Christopher Lee, Li Nanxing & Vivian Lai
Run length: TBA
Release: 26 Jan
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of Weekender, Issue 169, January 6 - January 5, 2017, with the headline 'Wheel of Fortune'.
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French Quarter in New Orleans
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, an early governor of French Louisiana, founded Vieux Carré in 1718. The City of New Orleans later developed around the district of Vieux Carré. The Great New Orleans Fire on March 21, 1788 and a second significant fire in 1794 destroyed most of the district’s original French colonial architecture. The Great Fire of 1788 began when a candle ignited the lace draperies of an altar in the home of the colony’s military treasurer, Vincente Jose Nunez, on Chartres Street. The Church of St. Louis, the priests’ residence, and the Casa Principal, which housed the Cabildo, were among the buildings destroyed by fire.
Father Antonio de Sedella, who was pastor of the church, wrote of the rapidity of the fire. Father de Sedella wrote in a letter on March 28, 1788, that he had sent several church records to the home of the tobacco director, “distant from the Presbytére about two rifle shots,” but they were lost when that house caught fire. By early 1789, the charred remains of the church were removed and construction of a new church began, which was completed five years later in December 1794.
The Spanish overlords of the late eighteenth century rebuilt Vieux Carré in the Spanish Colonial style. Many of the ornate buildings date from 1803, when New Orleans was acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.
The old French peaked roofs were replaced with flat tiled roofs, and wooden siding was banned in favor of fire-resistant stucco that was painted in pastel hues. As a result, the colorful walls and roofs and elaborately decorated ironwork balconies and galleries from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries gives the French Quarter its unique architectural style.
After the fire in 1794, strict fire codes were mandated to ensure that all structures were physically adjacent and close to the curb to create a firewall. The Cornstalk Hotel at 915 Royal Street was exempt from the new fire codes. The hotel is listed on the National Historical Register, and is the most photographed hotel in the French Quarter.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Anglophone Americans began to build on available land upriver, across modern-day Canal Street. This thoroughfare became the meeting place of two cultures, one Francophone Creole and the other Anglophone American. Local landowners retained Barthelemy Lafon to subdivide their property to create an American suburb. The median of Canal Street became a place where the two cultures could meet and do business in French and English. The median on Canal Street became known as the neutral ground.
Prior to the Civil War, French Creoles had become a minority in the French Quarter, and in the late nineteenth century the French Quarter became a less fashionable part of town, after immigrants from southern Italy and Ireland settled in the neighbourhood. In 1905, the Italian consul estimated that one-third to one-half of the Quarter’s population were Italian-born or second generation Italian-American. Irish immigrants also settled heavily in the Esplanade area, which was called the Irish Channel.
In 1917, many French Creole families began to move uptown when vice and prostitution activities from the Storyville neighbourhood moved into the French Quarter. Two years later, the French Opera House was destroyed by fire, marking an end to the era of French Creole culture in the French Quarter.
In the early twentieth century, cheap rents attracted a bohemian artistic community to the area. In the 1920s, many of those new inhabitants became active in the first preservation efforts of the French Quarter. As a result, the Vieux Carré Commission (VCC) was established in 1925. The VCC was an advisory body until a 1936 referendum to amend the Louisiana constitution gave it a measure of regulatory power, and it began to exercise more power in the 1940s to preserve and protect the district.
Since the 1920s the historic buildings in the French Quarter have been protected by law and cannot be demolished. Building renovations and new construction must be made in accordance with city regulations to preserve its historic architectural style. On December 21, 1965, the “Vieux Carré Historic District” was designated a National Historic Landmark.
The site where the Cabildo now stands was set aside for government use in the plan for the new town of New Orleans, as laid out in 1721 by the French military engineer, Adrien de Pauger. The first building to occupy the site was a corps de garde built in 1729. It was one of the first all brick structures in New Orleans, and was replaced after thirty years of use due to decay.
Architect Louis H Pilié built New Orleans’ most famous landmark, Place d’Armes, in 1721. Pilié based his design on the seventeenth century Place des Vosges in Paris, France. Clark Mills‘ statue of Battle of New Orleans hero and future US President Andrew Jackson, for whom the square was renamed in 1815, was erected in 1856.
Life in the French Quarter centers on Jackson Square with its collection of artists, musicians, and tarot card readers. Formal concerts and the French Quarter Festival are held annually in Jackson Square. The St. Louis Cathedral, the Presbytère, the Cabildo and the Pontalba Apartments overlook Jackson square.
The Pontalba Apartments
Built in the 1840s at a cost of more than $300,000, the Pontalba Apartments are two matching four-story red brick buildings that overlook two sides of Jackson Square. The French, Creole and Greek revival style buildings are named for Baroness Micaela Almonester Pontalba, the only child of Don Andres Almonaster y Rojas, a leader of one of the oldest Creole families in New Orleans. The Pontalba Apartments were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
Today, the ground floors house shops and restaurants, and the upper floors contain apartments that are the oldest continuously rented apartments in the United States. Prominent residents and guests of the apartments include William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Edna St Vincent Millay, Sherwood Anderson, Thornton Wilder, Booth Tarkington, and Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind.
The Presbytère is an important historical building in the French Quarter along Jackson Square, adjacent to the St. Louis Cathedral. The Presbytère and the Cabildo, with their impressive Spanish Colonial architecture, are prominent features in one of the most important architectural plazas in the United States. Today, the Presbytère is a state museum with exhibits from Hurricane Katrina and the Mardi Gras.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France with its three towering steeples, is one of New Orleans‘ most notable landmarks. Today, it is more commonly known as the St. Louis Cathedral. New Orleanians have worshipped in Roman Catholic churches on the site of the Cathedral since 1718.
The French Quarter remained substantially dry due to its distance from areas where levees were breached during Hurricane Katrina. Although the neighbourhood is five feet above sea level, some streets had minor flooding and several buildings suffered significant wind damage. Fortunately, most of the major landmarks suffered minor damage, and nearly all of the antique shops and art galleries escaped the looting and violence that occurred after the storm. On September 26, 2005, Mayor Ray Nagin officially reopened the French Quarter to business owners so that they could inspect and repair their property. Within a month, a large number of businesses had re-opened.
The French Quarter is approximately 78 square blocks and includes all of the land along the Mississippi River from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue and inland to North Rampart Street.
Millions of tourists visit its bars, boutique shops, hotels, restaurants, and music venues annually.
The most popular areas are Bourbon Street, Chartres Street, Royal Street, Jackson Square, and the historic French Market.
Street musicians have performed on the streets of the French Quarter for more than a century.
The Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone is the perfect venue to see the fabulous Lena Prima perform with her band.
Free concerts are held in Jackson Square during the French Quarter Jazz Festival.
The Café du Monde serves its famous beignets and café au lait 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
The French Quarter is one of a few places in the United States where possession and consumption of alcohol in open containers is allowed on the street.
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Victoria Park high-rise development gets green light
By WI Reporters on April 21, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
TYRONE KENNEDY
TWO newly approved 18 storey high-rise buildings will be the catalysts for a whole new “causeway precinct” in Victoria Park.
The buildings were “green lighted” recently after pressure from Planning Minister John Day forced the council to approve height amendments, allowing the 18-storey construction.
A new causeway precinct was announced around 2005, but originally would only cater for a 12-storey height limit.
Planners for Victoria Park had initially proposed the 18 storey buildings but were rebuffed in 2006, in accordance with original height restraints.
Victoria Park planning services manager Robert Cruickshank said they put forward an amendment option to Mr Day and he outranked council’s decision.
“We forwarded on our recommendation which was for 12 storeys to the minister’s office, they obviously received a whole heap of documents and would have seen our original proposal,” Mr Cruickshank said.
“They weighed up all the arguments and obviously considered the 18-storey as the way to go.”
It has taken six years for building plans to start, since 2006, when Campion Design Group first applied for permission to build the multi-purpose buildings.
“The hardest part was getting through the stage where the minister signed off on the 18 storeys, the concern from the public and also the councillors who were anti-height,” Mr Cruickshank said.
“Because the minister had already decided 18 storeys were permissible, the council wasn’t able to further debate.”
Each site is in close proximity to parks and the Swan River, lying on Hawthorne Place and Burswood Road respectively.
The Printing Industries Association of Australia, who owns an adjacent building, said they wouldn’t support the developments.
“We have it on good authority that this development and the long list of changes are now having an impact on the value of our property,” the association spokesperson said.
Other complaints from neighbouring sites included the height, setback requirements, overshadowing, possible damage to the environment and more.
Councillors were originally concerned the new precinct would turn into a new “Gold Coast” like area and were wary of the height implications.
“There’s probably an incorrect perception that, historically, people in tall buildings are of a low socio-economic standing,” Mr Cruickshank said.
Victoria Park hopes the new precinct and accompanying buildings will help accommodate Perth’s growing population.
“One of the key advantages is we can accommodate that growth in an area that won’t affect the character of the town,” Mr Cruickshank said.
Burswood resident Julie Street said she supported the development provided it was well planned, with the views and lifestyles of the affected residents taken into account.
Victoria Park council intend construction on the Burswood Road site to begin in October or November.
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A solution for food waste in schools: Give it to the pigs
Posted 5:09 PM, October 13, 2019, by Associated Press
Pigs are pictured at Poetterhof, a species-appropriate pig farm in Brueggen, western Germany, on August 19, 2019. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine has decided that eating like a pig could be a good thing, especially for schools looking to cut down on food waste.
A law saying schools can give food scraps away to pig farmers is now on the books in the state.
The practice of feeding human food waste to pigs goes back millennia, but some school districts in Maine have expressed confusion in recent years about the rules around the practice. So the Maine Legislature passed a clarifying bill that took effect Sept. 19.
The new standards will help school districts find a use for spoiled food that might otherwise end up in landfills, say supporters, including Republican sponsor state Sen. Stacey Guerin, of Glenburn.
“In Maine, that was a common practice when I was growing up. Hog farmers would come to the back door and take the waste at the end of the day,” Guerin said. “I’m glad school administrators can do that with confidence now, without fear of breaking the law.”
The new rules state that any individual or institution, including a school, can donate garbage to a swine producer for use as feed even if they’re unaware of the producer’s licensure status. Guerin said the rule change made sense because the schools aren’t responsible for monitoring the license status of hog farms.
Donations to hog farmers will also help school districts reduce the cost of waste disposal, said Ryan Parker, a Newport resident and farmer who advocated for the bill. Parker has raised pigs of his own and said his hogs were happy to indulge on old milk.
“It’s one less thing they have to pay for — get the food waste out of the trash. And if you don’t have food waste in your trash, it doesn’t smell,” Parker said.
Unlike most kinds of livestock, pigs can digest human food waste fairly easily, said Bobby Acord, a consultant with the National Pork Producers Council.
“And pigs have a voracious appetite,” he said. “They eat whatever you put in front of them.”
The National Conference of State Legislatures said it’s unclear how many other states have laws like the one in Maine. The rules about feeding refuse to swine vary by jurisdiction. More than half the states allow garbage feeding, Acord said.
The hog farmers in Maine are required to have a license to feed pigs food waste, and the waste has to be cooked. Those rules, which exist to prevent the spread of diseases such as salmonella poisoning, remain in effect, state officials said.
Not all hog farmers in the state would be able to use the food waste because of the difficulty of collecting and cooking it, but it could still become a way for schools to reduce the amount of unused food they throw out, said Clark Souther, the president of Maine Pork Producers Association.
“Schools have an awful lot of scrap waste from the kitchen and from the tables. So it would add up,” Souther said.
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Australian diver Taneka Kovchenko forced to retire ahead of Commonwealth Games
Updated April 04, 2018 10:42:53
Photo: Kovchenko said pulling out had been one of the hardest decisions of her career. (AAP: Ben Rushton)
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Australian diver Taneka Kovchenko has been forced to retire from the sport, just days before the start of the Commonwealth Games.
External Link: Taneka Kovchenko announces retirement on Instagram
Kovchenko has been experiencing headaches and neck pain since late last year.
Scans revealed her C-1 and C-2 vertebrae have compressed her spinal cord.
Kovchenko's doctor and neurologist warned she could become a quadriplegic if a dive went wrong.
"This was a super scary moment," Kovchenko said in a statement on Instagram.
"I thought of every scenario to try and continue diving till at least the end of this season however the risks highly outweighed the options of continuing to dive and sadly [I] had to make the heart breaking decision to stop diving."
"I have had an amazing 14 years diving chasing my dream of representing Australia."
"I am grateful for every experience and opportunity I have been given."
"I am leaving the sport as an athlete proud of my accomplishments and with so many life skills."
Kovchenko had been due to compete in the 10 metre individual event and the 10 metre synchronised platform events at the Commonwealth Games.
She has been replaced by Teju Williamson in the 10 metre individual event but a decision is yet to be made on who will partner Melissa Wu in the 10 metre synchronised platform.
Wu paid tribute to her diving partner and said she would miss Kovchenko on the platform.
"I'm so proud of you and everything you've achieved," Wu said.
"This is only the beginning of what you will continue to achieve in life. Thanks for being such a great team-mate and for always inspiring me to get the best out of myself."
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Bar graph showing the daily revenue for the domain.
Demographics Tab
Pie Chart of the domain demographics.
Max Bids and Automated Bidding
The Max Bid value is the maximum amount that you are willing to pay for each domain.
Note: No other bidder will be able to see your Max Bid.
An automated bidding system will place bids for you up to your maximum.
The system will bid the MINIMUM amount needed for you to win the domain name.
If the auction has a reserve price, an automatic bid will be placed up to the value of the reserve or the value of your max bid, whichever is lower.
Frank places a $15 max bid on a domain name with a $10 reserve price.
An automatic bid will be placed on the domain for $10 and Frank will be the highest bidder.
Rick enters the auction and places a $20 max bid. The system will bid $16 for Rick, which is the minimum amount needed for Rick to win the auction. If Frank does not increase his Max Bid, Rick wins the auction for $16.
Extending Auction Times
If the Max Bid of the highest bidder is beaten in the last few minutes of an auction, the auction will be extended by a few minutes. If the last bid is higher than the current bid, but does not beat the Max Bid of the current highest bidder, the auction time will not be extended.
All bids 10% above the current bid, or over $500, placed in the closing minutes of an auction will always extend the auction time.
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